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Arch 100D|Spring 2 Instructor: J
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Arch 100B|Spring 2 Instructor: Lin
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Arch 100C|Fall 20 Instructor: Ke
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2019 Partner: Ca
05 Micro Hous
2020 Partner: E L A
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2022|UC Berkeley Jennifer Ly
Education
Art Depot
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9/07 asey Wong
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0/10 Eric Chen LouiseVillalta Anbin Liu
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PUBLIC ART DEPOT UC Berkeley Instructor: Jennifer Ly Total area: 60,000 sqft Site: San Francisco
Purpose:
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The Depot’s primary mission is to provide greater public access to artwork from Bay Area institutions through open archives, exhibitions, and educational programming. The Depot will serve as a central hub for Bay Area museums such as SFMoMA, de Young Museum, BAMPFA, Oakland Museum of Art, among others. The Depot will also support a rotating artist-in-residence program providing studio spaces and accommodations.
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06 Concept plan diagram: Study the relationship between the archive and the gallery space. Starting with the idea intersect/intertwining archive and gallery to each other while not breaking the connection between each other.
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Concept: The site is Situated in the Dogpatch neighborhood, which is bounded on the east-west by 3rd Street and Tennessee Street, and bounded on the north-south between 23rd and 24th Street. Looking at the map diagram, since the art gallery and the museum are located on the right up and left down of our site, I push the form of my building toward two opposite sides to create the outdoor plaza for people to get in and habitat. In addition, the shift of the volume creates the gesture that naturally leads people to get into the building.
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Lecture hall representation
10 Latitudinal section: Shows the idea of the intersecting circulation that the private pathway and the public corridor are able to have a visual connection that allows people to look into the archive and artwork.
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Interior gallery rendering: The natural light coming from the skylight uses the idea of using a semi-transparent membrane, bridging the interior and exterior space by matters of light. The roof skylight actually can serve as a light filtration device, bringing indirect, filtered natural light into the galleries in a controlled way and protecting artwork from damaging light.
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Longitudinal section: Taking the approach of showing the sense of spatial quality that has the double-height space in the gallery space and the hall. In addition, it shows that the entire public circulation is enclosed, which has a visual connection with the private spac without any pathway connected to the private circulation.
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Urban Institute UC Berkeley Project Type: Academic Instructor: Lingxiu Chong Lot area: 3400 sqft Site: San Francisco
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Project Breif: The urban institute is a conjunction of different programs with a common set of interests: improving architecture and urban design in the Bay Area. Through interwoven tracks of research, education, and advocacy, the premise of THE URBAN INSTITUTE is that a better quality of urban life can be supported through design. The institute relies on an economic model that is an increasingly popular and necessary tool to support non-profit ventures, which is to use various parts of the building as flexible rental space for social events and business purposes, both creating and celebrating an urban tableau of continually varied users, constituencies, needs, and expectations.
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Site condition: The site is an existing parking lot near the corner of Gough and Market St. in downtown San Francisco, a short walk from the Civic Center BART station. There are existing buildings on both sides of the site, and the site connects at the rear to a short section of Stevenson Street. The site slopes 3’ downwards to Stevenson Street, and the maximum height of the project is limited to 60’. The urban analysis is focusing on static vs. movement. The map is serving as the data collection that captures human static activities vs. the classical movement that represents the intensity of the possible human encounters. It shows the external space uses of the environment and shapes my building concept of creating the shortcut cut through the middle of two buildings, which brings the connection that explores the sensation of moving through the city.
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1. Bike Room 2. Information Desk 3. Workshop 4. Flexibile street front exhibition space 5-1. Restroom 6. Building Service
While allowing people to move through the building, I applied the cleaving strategy as my programmatic organization, in which there is a dominant program on each floor.
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To my expanded cut drawing, I intend to show more of the organization strategy that each space is receiving the expectation of continuously unfolding as well as concealing. The cleaving strategy gives the expression of forcing people to walk around the space to explore the spatial quality and pass through the entire building freely.
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Fire, Architecture, Concrete UC Berkeley Instructor: Keith Plymale Site: Pescadero
EMERGENT PARADIGM : EARTHWORK VS. FIRE Changes in the environment, the landscape, and the construction industry are pushing architectural ideas and building technology to profoundly change. An ’earthwork’, a form of land art, are a logical response to increasingly harsh natural disasters. Hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and fires have become seasonal elements in our daily lives. In Northern California fire is the primary nemesis. An earthwork is also a functional composition that
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structure. The earthwork is to be developed as a carefully choreographed series of geometrical points of contact between humans, construction machines, fire resistant forms, vegetation, walls, and pools. Fabricated ‘surface’ models of the earthwork [the new ground] will be made to receive the architectural models.
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Our earthwork is located at Pescadero California, which is lodged between the Santa Cruz Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. The Pescadero watershed is a uniquely contained system that feeds agricultural lands producing and serving artichoke farming, Garlic farming, and fishing. The project looked into the Wildland-Urban Interface, which leads me to think about Architecture + Geography The form of the ground is to be remade by the architecture and to be geometrically organized to be consistent with the idea of the The inspiration for my earthwork is coming from Darwin's book, The Origin of the Species. It shows the evidence that nature and animal in different species changed their form to adopt the particular condition of each environment, which sees nature is constantly changing and adapting. The ideology of my earthwork is coming from human-nature dualism that there is an interdependency between natural and man-made objects. My design looks into the urban-wildland interface that the interface between landscape and architecture is a mixing nature that constantly changing.
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The building embedded in the earthwork is shifting attention from nature's forms to nature's performance. The design approach of the building is carrying the quality of the surroundings, which manipulate the landscape into the habitable landform and create a flowing transition with the landscape and building.
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Plastic Monument Competition Site: San Francisco Partner: Casey Wong
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The Upside-Down World This project aims to illustrate the “invisible crisis” of plastic pollution; it is time to take off our blindfolds and leave the plastic world we are literally drowing in. Propagated by our ignorance, plastics do not only wash out on our coats in obvious and clearly visible form, it blatantly blights the marine organism and destorys their lives. Since the beginning of the plastic history, sea creatures have continuously undergone persecution by plastics which have consistently make up around 60% ~ 90% of the marine debris. This plastic debris can potentially cause danger to marine organism through ingestion and entanglement.
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The monument is to demonstrate the plastic pollution in the ocean, revealing the unseen and aggressive spectacle below the land, exposing the hidden tragedy on the marine community. To deliver the message that human beings have also been trapped in the plastic world, we sync and turn over the ocean environment into human society. Byshowing the negative effects of plastic waste, we wanted to bring up theawareness to the world that everyone has the responsibility to take care of the environment.
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Micro House Competition Site: Treasure Island Partner: Eric Chen LouiseVillalta Anbin Liu
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Credit to: Eric Chen
The Bay Area has become one of the most expensive cities to live in the nation. The average rent ranges from $2,000 to $3,700 a month. Alongside San Francisco’s high cost comes a large homlessness population. In 2019, San Francisco reported 8,011 people who’ve met the federal definition of homelessness, an increase of 17% from 2017; San Francisco alone is the highest in the Bay Area totaling 9,784 homeless people. To tackle the issue of displacement and expensive housing, our goal is to design an affordable and sustainable tiny home while incorporating the surrounding elements of the environment We designed a tiny home that is not only multi functional but also incorporates the natural surroundings of our site to our advantage, creating a sustainable living situation. Our site, Treasure Island, located just East of San Francisco and West of Oakland is between two major cities; an easy access to both metropolitan areas. Treasure Island is 577 acres, a partially undeveloped land with a population of about 2,500 serving a wide avenue for progressive sustainable development. Our tiny home design will be constructed with local resources. It will also gather most of its energy from the surrounding envinroment.
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Functionality: The tiny home will contain a bathroom, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a multi-purpose room. Storage can be found alongside the walls and under the bed. The storage will help contain the furniture and equipment needed to furnish the multi-purpose room for any purpose including dining and relaxation. Agriculture: The Mediterranean climate allows regenerative small local gardens for vegetation to grow alongside our tiny homes. Aquaponics will be used to mimic the natural ecosystem by using fish and their significant qualities to fertilize and grow more crops. The tiny home gardens will be shared within the community, creating a farm-to-table environment. Energy: Fog is a staple within San Francisco. Our fog catcher will harness and collect moisture throughout the day, adding it into a recycled water system for irrigation and maintenance. With the abundant amount of sunlight and wind at our site, we can harness that energy through our rotating solar panels following the sun and wind turbines on the roof. Materiality: The materials for the tiny home will be locally sourced. As the Oakland port is right next door, shipping containers can be easily obtained. Recycled wood will be the main competitor of our flooring. Easily accessible objects such as PVC and cloth will be used to set up a garden wall and a fog catcher.
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Long section: The section cut shows the idea of how the light going inside the building and the human scale in
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