ACADEMIC WORKSAMPLES COLUMBIA GSAPP 2016-2018
Sudoku East River Traverser For the Wanderer Catching the Light Organic Split Greenpoint Theater Knowledge City
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FIONA HO
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Fiona Ho
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Fiona Ho
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Sudoku
New York City’s housing market is no longer the traditional residential home. The need for a new microurbanism newly defines the combination of activities and residential purposes. The contraction and expansion of space and domestic program reconfigures the density and diversity of the Bronx community. A reconfiguration of adjacent surfaces and services combine and multiply uses, transitions, and experiences. The combination of a series of modular ‘program-volumes’ allows for an infinite flexibility as units aggregate to accommodate new types of residents and numbers of members within a residential unit.
Columbia University Fall 2017
Bronx, New York
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Micro-Housing + Commercial 6 weeks Jinhee Park Wenjing Zhang
The architectural necessity for micro-housing repositions the role of basic amenities as adjacency allows for a multitude of users and uses. Sudoku looks to minimize the unused space by contracting public and private circulation with the presence of the unit.
Fiona Ho
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Fiona Ho
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Fiona Ho
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Private Circulation
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Private Terrace
Public Circulation
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Unit T-1 Unit T-1 Aggregation Core + Amenity Aggregation Core Circulation
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Unit F1-A Unit F1-B Unit F2 Aggregation of Horizontal Units Vertical Aggregation Core Circulation
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Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
East River Traverser Columbia University GSAPP Fall 2016
Corlear’s Hook Manhattan to Brooklyn Navy Yard
Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 3 weeks Erica Goetz
The unique site has some of the fastest current speeds of the entire river, where commercial and smaller boats often have difficulty pushing against the flow of the currents. The study of the topographical shifts below the water level at this location initiated an exploration of topographical erosion and its relationship with manmade erosion as they relate to level changes and movement. The fluctuating level changes of the pier respond to the natural height shifts of the tide, as the tubes move up and down allowing for walkways and bridges that are revealed and disappear during tidal changes. The pier acts as a docking area and passageway for commercial boats and leisure boating crafts, and is a main commute path for those traveling between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Its mounds are oriented on the shallowest parts of the topography, and surrounded by the main paths of travel of boats on the East River. The series of mounds are accessible at certain entryways, where individuals are able to climb atop them for spectacular views of New York. The correlation between topographical changes and elevation shifts is explored through a central circulatory tube that makes it way, entering and dipping underwater, portraying the roles of tunnel, room, bridge, path across the East River.
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
For the Wanderer Columbia University Spring 2017 Brooklyn, New York Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 5 weeks Stella Betts
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The exploration of the Brooklyn library began with the study of the Musashino Library by Sou Fujimoto, where the act of frames dictated the structure and placement of program. The quality of space led to a proto-building that was based on the act of meandering, where the perception of space is distorted based on a number of intersections, and the ability to wander. The interstitial spaces that are placed in between larger, more open ones. The library is structured by a jagged portion of light that inspired the weaving of a series of inhabitable and programmed bridges that act as the in between space between the sides of the street, as well as a nest between the central program of the library. This breaks up the geometry/grid of the site. The library takes these material studies into an inhabitable scale, and incorporates the changes in perception from the possibilities of moving in around and on top of these bridged structures.
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
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Catching the Light Columbia University GSAPP Fall 2016 14th St. + Avenue A Manhattan New York Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 2.5 weeks Erica Goetz
The new L Train station began as an interest in the relationships between different sources of light as it affects the users of a train station. I studied the correlation and locations of points of lighting underground and above ground during the day and night time. The station draws in people from the East and West sides, with entrances that come from both directions that directly relate to the directions that the cars above ground approach the station and that of the subways below. The station excavates from both sides of 14th Street, creating two paths of light and user movement, sculpting a form that intersects at a mezzanine level above the train.
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
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Organic Split Columbia University GSAPP Fall 2016 14th St. + Avenue A Manhattan New York Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 2.5 weeks Erica Goetz
The Organic Split takes place at the intersection between 14th and 7th Avenue. The project initially looked at the presence of movement through the public and private realms within the site’s subway station, commercial site, and residential program. The project and its analyses aim to break apart the strict horizontal movement of the site by looking at the site as vertical volumes that each contain a specific direction and location of movement. The corner creates a central axis that initiates a different movement and connection at different hours of the day by opening and closing, allowing for either larger or smaller nodes of activity. The bottom circulatory system is able to swing around to pick up users from the subway station in order to bring them up throughout the corner.
Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
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Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
818 448 5852
Greenpoint Theater Columbia University GSAPP Fall 2017 Brooklyn, New York Type Duration Partners Programs
Technology III Course 8 weeks Sunghoon Lee, Emily Po,+ Cynthia Wang Revit + Rhino
Fiona Ho
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Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
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Fiona Ho
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
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Fiona Ho
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Knowledge City Columbia University GSAPP Spring 2018
Type Partner Instructor
In Progress Kevin Pham Nahyun Hwang
This research based studio premised on ideals of education as seen through the context of Potteries Thinkbelt by Cedric Price, reframing knowledge mechanisms and spatial production. The architecture of education plays an important role in sites of indeterminacy of environmental and social precarity as drivers for a new ‘knowledge city’. The research challenges ideals of interior urbanism as it relates to new values of collectivity and knowledge production for the sake of education today. The studio engages rising sea levels, political unrest, and sites of inventive agendas as a way to address the need for a new type of campus and reprogramming for the collective of New York City as a whole.