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Introduction I am enamored with architecture that has the functionality and form which can influence the phenomenology of spaces. The possible activities in a space are infinite and in a way, the architect will be limiting the possibilities and curtailing unwanted activities. However, this is not to say that the user's freedom will be usurped; architects will guide the user's action by the design of space. Furthermore, this type of spatial design may unconsciously affect the user. Each type of program will have different purposes and design possibilities, and must be tested and developed to achieve design that can meet the standards of both the architect and the user. This portfolio is a showcase of my investigations from my studies, professional experiences, and design competitions.
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Contents
Studio Works Digital Microcosm | Fall 2014
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No-Stop Green-Housing | Fall 2015
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Stacked Garden Complex | Fall 2013
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Shifting Dimensions | Spring 2015
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Terraced Ramp | Spring 2013
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Culinary Prison | Fall 2012
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Two Face | Spring 2011
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Kinetic Nexus | Spring 2014
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Arctic Encounter | Spring 2014
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Other Works | Fall 2010 - Spring 2015
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Reading Viaduct Philadelphia
Digital Microcosm
UPenn Fall Studio 2014 Professor Scott Erdy
NSA Housing
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Society has been influenced by the sudden influx of technology, thus creating a plethora of ways to socialize without contact. Although it is common knowledge that our actions online are often being monitored, we still use the internet as our social platform either way. The NSA housing seeks to obtain information from residents for research purposes and the betterment of society. The other purpose is to also create public awareness of the digital world, by creating a community that functions like the digital in that the people within the "Digital Microcosm" will know that they are under surveillance.
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Locate Super Wifi
Frame the view on the viaduct and containing the Wifi
Public Researchers Private
Program Diagram
Create access points and sharpen form
Adjust facade to create triangulated surfaces which accentuate the form
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Physically every single person will be able to see the NSA researchers, as a kind to inform the public about the current state of our digital world
Digitally NSA has visual control of everyone on the building complex
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Design Hierarchy
Digital Microcosm 02-03
Units 15'-3"
The units are located above the Super Highspeed wifi below, where they use the same internet as the public. The load bearing walls also act as an internet underminer, which would ideally decrease residential internet access within the building and increase residents to congregate in public or semi public areas. All units are double loaded, and have views of both East and West.
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Residential Housing The Super High Speed WIFI is located underneath the two residential bars which collide to frame the view of the Viaduct and internet access
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[Aluminum Panel Wrapping] The Aluminum Panels are designed to create a seamless transition between window mullions and the roof top
[Steel Tube Structure] Steel Tube structures are in tension behind the triangulated facades. They are concealed by the aluminum panel wrappings as glazing transitions to rooftop
Retail will be located within the tunnel to illuinate the tunnel and celebrate the vestige of the once in use viaduct
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The WIFI from the public area will be the strongest in this area, which would be used to increase resident interaction
[Residential Entrance] Residents enter from the ground floor beside the retail tunnel
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Fresnel Zone = 17.32*√(d/4f) The Frequency of WIFI will increase if the distance decreases
[Load Bearing Wall] The concrete load bearing wall in compression, and also blocks off someWIFI signal for the residents within, which would encourage residents to interact with the Public
The Cafe provides shelter for the Public during the winter, and also caters the needs of the public
[Core] There are three cores within this building, mainly containing egress and circulatory programs
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Public access to the Super WIFI
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The underground theater uses the space created by the ramp
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Battersea London
No-Stop Green-Housing
UPenn Fall Studio 2015 Professor Homa Farjadi Partner : Szu-an Yao
No-Stop City
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The conceptual premise of this project takes on the Archizoom agenda for an imageless, inexpressive design of housing for London. When Archizoom presented their project for "No-Stop City" in 1970's their research on environment, mass culture and city posed new questions that subverted the straight laced modernist agenda of technological optimism of social agenda of housing provision based on existence minimum. They were after a non hierarchized space of continuity. Residential car park configuration of buildings swimming in a "Catatonic space" of inexpressive, imageless undifferentiated repetition.
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Studies show that by the year of 2050, cities will become over crowded as more than 80% of the population will migrate to the cities. With rising pollution problems and decrease in the quality of air, it is important to think of a new way to design for living. This project’s interpretation on Branzi's "No-Stop City" is to create a catatonic space composed of "No-Stop Greenery" to cleanse the air and also create new ways of vertical farming, whil also connecting people back to nature again.
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Each of the units are situated in different climate zones, with a center chimney space which connects the airflow from unit to unit. Since hot Air rises and cold year condenses, the upper zones have hotter climates, and the lower zones have colder climates. In a sense, The whole project is a large green house, facilitating the air condition throughout the whole building. Units are arranged based on different climate and planting logics of each floor; colder climates will have units that are more packed together, while hotter climates will have units that are more wide spread.
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Palm House Waterlily House
COLD & ARID ZONE Flower Market COLD ZONE Library
No-Stop Green-Housing 10-11
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There are three types of units in this building, which are all stacked on to each other to create the air chimney effect within the center of each unit. The rotation and the movement in the center of each of the units, create unique spatial organizations and programmatic strategies.
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Typical Floor Plan Each of these units are placed strategically according to different attractors of the floor. For instance, this floor is a temperate zone, where plants need larger areas and spaces to grow. Therefore units on this floor were located closer to the edge of this floor, leaving more space for plants to grow.
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The first floor is included in one of the two larger greenhouse spaces in the whole building. The main program here is a public library, which is ;ocated in a colder climate zone. The library is two stories high, and will connect to the flower market level above this floor.
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Elmwood Buffalo
Stacked Garden Complex
UB Design Studio Senior Fall 2013
Professor Jin Young Song Partner: Cody Cot
Residential Complex
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Stacked Garden Complex is designed based on two simple concepts: an inviting public program and the stacking of residential programs. The public program for Stacked Garden Complex is a public library, because public libraries are inviting to the public, which fits well with the form design concept. Public libraries also act as a communal center for neighborhoods which help people without access to computers find jobs and governmental benefits. Furthermore, the residential complex is strategically stacked on the library to create a continuous roof garden connection for the residents.
Typical street view
Proposed apartment buildings
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Program and Garden Typology Diagram
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The public library is designed with the initial proposed form to be more inviting to the public. The facade system of the public library utilizes clear transparent glass. The Library also contains a bookstore and cafe to serve the public and the private residents living in the Stacked Garden Complex.
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Facade System Stacked Garden Complex utilizes different facade systems to express the three different programs within the building. Library Facades are designed to be clear and inviting with maximized blue toned transparent glass. The private club house and residential housing corridor are defined with similar glass but different fin types. The residential facade system is designed to be unique and more opaque compared with other facades, utilizing a mix between wooden panels and metal panels with full span glass and small bedroom glasses.
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New York Highline
Shifting Dimensions
UPenn Spring Studio 2015 Professor Hina Jamelle Partner : Yidi Xu
Chelsea Auction house an Galleries
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Situated at the lower west Manhattan, this project is developed based on site driven strategies, which aim to create transitions between small sized spaces in relation to highly diversified spaces to the east side of the highline park, to lager spaces existing on the west side of the highline park. The transformation of various balconies creates smaller scale spaces reflecting the east side, to larger scale auction rooms on the west side. The building was designed in a pentagonal shape in order to take advantage of various views on the site. The structure of this building also transforms with the facade, moving inwards when the facade is flatter to provide more unobstructed views in larger spaces, while on the 3D part of the building the structure is closer to the facade to support the balconies.
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Insulation Motorized Solar Control Shades
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The concept of this building is based on previous transformation studies of graphite to diamond. Through this transformation the carbon molecules in graphite break and start rejoining into 3D structures which form condensed diamonds. The organization of the building is also designed on this concept of shifting dimensions, where the smaller highly divided spaces are conference rooms with balconies, the larger spaces are auction rooms which provide holistic views of the Hudson River. There are also galleries on the upper levels, with slits of skylights from the roof, which create an optimal ambient for exhibitions and events.
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A series of smaller spaces have been created on these parts of the building, which represent the diamond stage of the transformation study. These spaces are designed to be more private, and conference room related spaces, so a balcony optimal for people to relax in between meetings. These balconies also serve as corridors where interaction between people will be more eminent, making the facade more active with interactions between people on the highline, and staff working in the office.
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Larger spaces such as auction rooms have been placed in these spaces, which represent the more planar graphite stage of the transformation study. In these parts of the building, the facade becomes flat with thinner glass and walls to create larger spaces within, and also provide fantastic views of the outside without leaving the building. The structure also shifts inside, leaving space between the structure and the facade, so views will be unobstructed by the structure.
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Downtown Buffalo
Terraced Ramp
UB Design Studio Junior Spring 2013 Professor Brian Carter
Architectural Office
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Terraced ramp is designed as an architectural office based on the concept of a sloped circulation path. The sloped ramp creates interesting and dynamic workspaces accompanied with flat mixed use areas . The location of the site is currently used as a parking lot, but the site itself once had a historical theater. There is a small alley way located on the West side of the site which leads to a metro station. The creation of the ramp connects the sidewalk along the street to the West alley behind the office.
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Design Concept The design concept of Terraced ramp was based on the circulation of a continuous sloped path that produced across unique workspaces. The challenge was to create workspaces which would encourage group working. Workspaces were placed alongside the sloped circulation of the office, also creating terraces along the ramp. All ramps in this project are 1:12 and comply with basic accessibility codes. Meeting Space 1:12 Ramp
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Cut out public exit to metro station
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Facade and Sunlight Analysis The facade system for Terraced Ramp was investigated and tested in Ecotect and Grasshopper. The final facade design responses to basic sun and shadow analysis in Ecotect. Concrete, translucent glass, and clear glass were installed on the facade based on the amount of shading required in specific areas. The facade of the building is free standing and not load bearing. Each piece of the facade is treated as an individual.
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Lovejoy Buffalo
Culinary Prison Person caught with immigration issues
UB Design Studio Junior Fall 2012 Professor Joyce Hwang
Inmate sent to Culinary Prison
Buffalo Immigration Correctional Facility
( Icons from thenounproject.com )
Inmates will grow, cook, and serve free food to the public. Occasionally inmates will also give cultral presentations.
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Culinary Prison is designed as a Minimum Security prison for inmates who have been sent to prison because of immigration issues and no other law violations. Prisoners will learn or teach how to cook different cultural cuisines in order to serve free food to the public. They will also have to grow their own food and give cultral presentations as part of the regime in Culinary Prison.
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The current law states that if a foreigner with no valid visa is caught, he or she will be sent to prison at max of 6 months; if he or she tries to escape then the sentence will increase to 2 years. If there are any sort of fake IDs the sentence will then increase to 4 years. The public interface will be accessible to prisoners, where they are allowed to present their cultural traditions to the public. These cultural events seek to increase public awareness and understanding of United States immigration policies .
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The main conceptual focus of Culinary Prison is to create an inviting architectural space that would attract public visitors to free food. The iteration diagram on top represents the investigations of public interactions for each program. The circumferences are oriented to optimal directions with different ratios of public exposure. Public programs such as dining rooms and cultural representation rooms are organized to be more visible and accesible to the public.
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There are three different levels in Culinary Prison: lower level for security programs, mid level for public programs, and upper level for inmate programs. The programmatic organization forms a hierarchy of spaces which the public can conceive but cannot access. Public programs will be cantilevered over ramps designed to invite the public into the prison. The public can see the interior of the public programs as they walk towards the smell of food. Kitchens will be located on lower level so the smell of cuisines will travel upward to attract public interest. The inmate circulation branches out from prison dorms towards the public programs where they can interact with the public. The main goal of this prison is to give a chance for these inmates to interact and feel accorded to the nearby community.
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Griffis Sculpture Park Buffalo
Two Face
UB Design Studio Freshmen Spring 2011 Professor Nick Bruscia Partners: Austin Tylec, Ashley Tinker, Brian Fentzke, Brian Mullaney Brett Doster, Eddie Damiani
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Two Face is a full scale living wall structures located at Griffis Park. After performing a single cut and shift, the volume were programmed to be occupied by 7 students. The concept of Two Face was to create a structure with unique front and back facades. The entrance of Two Face is located at the corner in the front faรงade; as people crawl through the circulation they can experience two different views from a floating module that connects the two main modules. The sleeping areas are located on the top and lower level of the largest module. The design achieves two unique views looking through two unique facades.
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Madrid Spain
Kinetic Nexus
Winter 2013 Cebada Community Centre Competition Partners: Patrick Feng, Xingjian Liao
La Cebada
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Historically, sports has played an important role in all societies, whether in the competitive aspect, physical health, or personal leisure. By its very nature, sport has a unique power to unite people, and strengthen a sense of cultural or national identity. “Kinetic Nexus" embodies the concept of sports, seeking to strengthen social bonds, and personal health of the surrounding community.
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The program includes a civic center, sports hall, and a market place; it also features a fully accessible roof, of which wide varieties of outdoor recreation and informal activities can take place. In response to the subtropical climate of Madrid, the designed facade is coated with an eco-friendly natural shading system. By utilizing the evaporation process of plants, the cooling and electricity cost is greatly reduced, creating a salubrious and sustainable environment.
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Bering Strait
Arctic Encounter
Spring 2014 AISC Border Crossing Competition
A Global Rail System
Partner : Xingjian Liao
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Arctic Encounter is a border crossing between US and Russia. Located between the Diomede Islands in Bering Strait, Arctic Encounter not only provides a border rail exchange station, but also creates a tourist destination including hotels, shopping streets and other cultural and educational venues. Circulating through Arctic Encounter is a unique experience: venturing in a space that belongs to neither of the countries. The self-sustaining structure marks the international time line, making traveling to the "future� possible by walking.The design of Arctic Encounter creates a dynamic architectural monument located between two continents. Stepping off the high speed rail into the exchange station more than 300 feet underground. The atrium creates microclimate within the building, allowing shelter from the harsh perennial weather conditions, while also providing fresh water throughout the structure.
Structure Diagram
Steel Tube Clamp
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Arctic Encounter is designed not only to be a border station, but a life hub which could also be a vacation destination. The additional programs include : Commercial spaces, Storage spaces, Office spaces, Residential spaces, Hotel and leisure spaces, and Museum and Educational facilities. Arctic Encounter provides residential units of different sizes for indigenous residents of the Diomede islands, Hotels and Commercial spaces for tourists, and also includes Museums to display it's historical significance. Arctic Encounter has all the necessities for a comfortable lifestyle, and also celebrates a monumental location on the surface of Earth
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Lattice Frame made with Steel and Glass
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Diagonally Braced Frame made with Steel Tubes
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Site-cast Concrete made with Steel Mesh
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Burchfield Penney Art Center
Triangle Trapezoid
Small Build Works Fall 2012 Professor Brad Wales Partners: Trenton Van Epps, You-Chiang Feng
Cycles 2
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Cycles2 is a three-screen architectural video installation created by videographer/filmmaker Brian Milbrand and architect/videographer Brad Wales with the UB Department of Architecture Small Built Works Program. The Triangle-Trapezoid Scheme is created by Ian Liu, Trenton Van Epps, and (Patrick) Youchiang Feng. The primary conceptual ideas of the Triangle-Trapezoid Scheme is to transform two shapes to emphasizes slenderness on two sides of the structure while maintaining the required measurements for the program. The form tranforms from a trangle to trapezoid and back to triangle at the top. The two glass panels on the two sides are generated from the triangle, maximizing the vision of the facade and projected images.
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Loftworks Japan
Rubik’s Bulb11 New Lightbulb Designn Competition Summer 2013 Personal Project
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The nature of LED lights allows users to be able to touch the light bulb and not get burnt. This opens up more design opportunities and for interactions. The main concept of the "Rubik's Bulb" is to allow users to be able to interact and choose what lighting conditions they want for certain activities by interacting with "the Rubik's Bulb". The unique concept to control lighting conditions is achieved through the design of "Rubik's Bulb".
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DESIGN The concept of the "Rubik's Bulb" was originally inspired by the " Nakagin Capsule Tower" which was an innovative architectural design because of its flexibility and metabolism. The precedential idea was transformed into the form of a Rubik's cube, with the ability to remove each piece and stack on other pieces thus controlling lighting conditions. The "Rubik's Bulb" is interactive but also retains its aesthetics through the clear transparent core which emits light. The combination of Nakagin Capsule Tower's flexibility and Rubik's Cube algorithms create the current form of the "Rubik's Bulb".
The "Rubik's Bulb" is suitable in all sorts of environments because of its malleability. Lighting control really comes in handy when reading books or using indirect downward lights to create soothing environments. MATERIALS Using the 3D printing technology provided by Loftworks, the central core will be made of Clear Acrylic incasing the LED light bulb (E-17 base). The outer fitting pieces will be printed in Creamy White Acrylic to block light from escaping the center. This creates distinctive usages for these 2 materials!
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Design By Numbers Spring 2013 Professor Michael Rogers
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Construction Technology Spring 2013 Professor Annette Lecuyer
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Construction Technology Axonometric peal back drawings were drawn and line weighted to study different tectonics of building materials and processes. The aggregation of brick units and different bond types were studied through the “Croffead House”: a conventional brick masonry house. Servicing and insulation layering were studied through the “Conibear Shellhouse”: a large building built with site cast concrete. Other Works 42-43
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