PennDesign
“True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.� -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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-University of Pennsylvania-
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ATSncy’s gallery spaces flow along the entire site in a seamless manner, connecting its urban adjacencies and facilitating, ensuring the ease of human movements. Dissolving the harsh urban corners, ATSnyc create an unique urban experience in the heart of NYC.
A 400-seat auditorium located in the center of the building, where the transition between horizontal to vertical takes place. The design of the auditorium enhances and reflects the movement of the building, acoustic and lighting panels grow from the center stage.
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Four sets of three dimensional box-truss system were individually designed to weave through the entire building. Two major cores on both the horizontal and vertical ends of the building, serving both as circulation anchor points as well as for structural stability. Structural analysis was also conducted to ensure structural integrity. Light weight liquid metal mesh then stretches over the structure to be the building skin.
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Egress RIVER BATHHOUSE East Bank of Schuylkill River, JFK Blvd
502 design studio | Supervisors: Julie Beckman -24-
The River Bathhouse, located on the east bank of Schuylkill River below the JFK Blvd, where multiples of types of transportation system collide, one critical question that needs to be answered
if mitigating and negotiating the different types of travel patterns, speeds and directions. Conducting the experiments of the flow of dry-ice vapor, rules were extracted thereafter
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applied to the study of the transformative gradient from urban to natural waterfront, merging movements and flows. At the same time, Egress focuses on a Specific Bathing Ritual experience to
create a journey of cleansing and becoming part of a bigger body. The city of Philadelphia itself is also experiencing this process of cleansing.
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Exterior infinity pools situated right alongside green area and wetland. Contrasting one another, the pools and the wetlands are pierced and connected by the bike-loop that intertwines through out the perimeter and the inside of the
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building. Along its path numerous entrances and stopping points also reinforce the idea of blurring the inside and the outside, creating a journey of bathing ritual that strips away one’s urban identity and reintroduces oneself into nature by arrival to the waterfront.
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-Selected Competitions-
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.� -Vincent Van Gogh
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-KSESTUDIO-Tom Wiscombe Architecture-PennDesign-
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Seaholm Intake Design Idea Competition Proposal for the adaptive reuse of the Seaholm Intake facility and the surrounding park.
KSESTUDIO - New York Principals - Sofia Krimizi | Kyriakos Kyriakou
SHORTLISTED | TOP 10 The City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, in partnership with the Austin Parks Foundation, The Trail Foundation, and AIA Austin, launched a Design Ideas Competition for the iconic Art Deco Seaholm Intake building, a former power plant intake facility along Lady Bird Lake.
2013 design idea competition | Team: Kyriakos Kyriakou, Sofia Krimizi (KSESTUDIO), Avra Tomara, Jiarui Su, Jen Endozo, Yubi Park -54-
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The interaction of buildings is specifically lived in terms of an exchange of crystalline massing features, as well as through the blocky cross-grain of the housing typology which pushed out from the inside. The result is a crossing-over of features which ties the complex together without literally fusing things. This is a new model of coherence, where difference is the default condition and local continuities are teased out, contra to the ubiquitous disciplinary idea that difference should arise from a smooth baseline condition.
Buildings contain nested figures in order to create interiority. These spaces enable vertical communication between levels, interrupting repetitive floor plates and unit subdivisions in favor of internal mass effects. Where figures do not fit entirely within outer shells, figural apertures are carved out, opening the interior up to daylight and allowing views of neighboring buildings and the city beyond. These spaces are semi-public and choreograph a spatial transition from outside to inside.
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Our approach in these three prototypes was to consider ways of joining that come from older traditions of Japanese wood joinery and figural seaming from traditional textile stitching. Japanese joinery is based on friction-fit connections which are not assembled with hardware but rather through the complex figuration of the edge
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or end of a piece of material. The imperative there, as in these prototypes, is to eliminate mineral materiality (nails) while still creating structural continuity. In stitch work, while the goal is to join two pieces of fabric together functionally, as important is the figuration of the seam itself, where it can become a distinct thing-in-itself.
Professional Experience
“A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.� -Louis I. Kahn
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-Mix StudioWorks-Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-
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“...AN ORGANIC WORLD CROSSING...” Nanjing World Trade Center will play a leading role in establishing and anchoring the core of Hexi, the new CBD of Nanjing, China. The initial master plan and its towers, designed by others, were challenged by straddling two parcels with a common street dividing them. MIX was retained to create more natural connectivity between the project’s two parcels, towers, the adjacent sunken plaza, and to the larger Hexi context beyond. The resulting horizontal expression and spatial choreography of the podium encourages a lateral pedestrian flow optimizing its retail vitality. The project is scheduled to open in 2015.
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Currently NWTC is under construction. My responsibilities as a design team member was to redesign the facade stone cladding, revise the facade transitions between the towers and retail podium both in BIM and
3D Max. At the same time producing design diagrams for newly revised information. Also, I was part of the contract negotiation process and prepared design contracts in both English and Chinese.
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Wuhan Aqua City Mix StudioWorks Los Angeles, California
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Long Island Women’s Hospital Indoor Garden Skidmore, Owings & Merrill New York, New York
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Portland State
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.� -Albert Einstein
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Intra-section ENCOUNTERS Tri-met Transit Center
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