2019 Selected Works - Joanne Chen

2016 - 2019

columbia gsapp

selected works

joanne chen

Columbia University GSAPP Master of Architecture

01 Pottery Vault House Potter’s Residency 02 The Strand Art Museum & Incubator 03 School as Home Juvenile Delinquent Center 04 Towers of In, Towers of Out Housing in South Bronx 05 Surface Bricks Library 06 Water Dancers Pier & Playground 07 Perforate & Interlock Curtain Wall

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The house today is conceptually destabilized under the increasing stresses of contemporary society—economy, identity, belonging and convenience, while work and productivity have entered into the realm of domesticity. Competing desires to split or merge the two result in an architectural uncertainty. How can we reposition the house of the future in relation to the realm of production?

My house for pottery residency explores a way of living and working built on a community where labor over a creative productivity is shared. The house uses barrel vaults as an architectural language to build together live and work spaces under one roof. Clay as the predominant building material generates microclimates suitable for human habitation, allowing humans to domesticate the vault. By bringing the vault close to the scale of the individual and by creating rooms through the use of precise openings, the vault, which has been historically institutional or even sacred, can be domesticated.

POTTERY VAULT HOUSE

On the human scale, through their convergences and divergences, the vaults create spaces of varied openness and privacy between co-residents. On the building scale, the architectural form orchestrates the flow of natural elements—water, heat, sun—and the human interaction with these natural resources.

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Title: Pottery Vault House Studio: Spring 2019 Advanced VI Instructor: Jing Liu Program: House Site: Garrison, Upstate NY

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Study Models

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Interior Lighting Studies

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2 / BAMBOO WOVEN LATTICE

3 / MUD PACKING

4 / BRICK LAYING

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1 / CONCRETE FOOTING

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Left: Plan Aove: Final Model

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Precedent Study Section: Can Lis, Jørn Utzon

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Precedent Study Model: Can Lis, Jørn Utzon

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The Cultural Containers studio looks at the contemporary art institution and its role as a technology of civic enlightenment in the American city. The brief called for a new contemporary art museum that re-defines the boundary of the institution relative to the city.

My museum is situated on the edge between West Harlem and Morningside Heights, activating a cultural and commercial corridor that connects the educational communities of Columbia’s Manhattanville campus to the retail and entertainment oriented 125th Street.

Resonating with Harlem 125th Street’s history of incubating local businesses, The Strand is dedicated to empowering local artists and helping them develop the skill sets to run and manage their own business.

THE STRAND

The two primary programs of the institution—cultural educator and the business incubator—are interwoven through the entire building. Exhibition space is organized as an art walk, running along shared production space and storefronts run by individual artists as their own curated galleries.

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Title: Studio: Instructors: Program: Site:

The Strand Fall 2018 Advanced V Dominic Leong & Chris Leong Art Museum & Incubator Harlem, NY

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Proto-model

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Material Study

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Gallery Atrium

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Night Life

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Final Model

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The studio examined the relationship between the architecture of education and the city. Exploring the possibility of a new typology of the public campus, the investigation challenged familiar formats of knowledge production and their spaces while utilizing the potentials in the school typology to generate new configurations for collectivity in the city.

Inspired by the scales of intimacy in combining learning and living, this project explores a network of vocational schools in South Bronx, in partnership with NYC’s juvenile delinquent system. It addresses the significant and negative impact confinement has on youth development and education. Vocational training, over detainment and punishment, has shown more lasting effects on recidivism reduction.

SCHOOL AS HOME

Each of the eight prototypical sites explores possibilities to engage with the existing neighborhood infrastructure and amenities. The vocational campus explores different scales of collectivity, with each facility providing vocational training and housing for 20 students, as well as programming geared towards the needs of the immediate neighbourhood.

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Title: Studio: Instructor: Partner: Program: Site:

School as Home Spring 2018 Advanced IV Nahyun Hwang Don Chen Juvenile Delinquent Center South Bronx, NY

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Site Oblique Collage

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Precedent Study: The Island School Extending Notions of Home to Education

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Homeless Youth: A Day in the Life

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Precedent Study: CIEP (Integrated School of Public Education) School as a Distributed System

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Kit of Parts: School-specific Customizations

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Rikers Island Decentralization

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Pilot Site Plan (Precinct 40)

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Youth Hostel and Market: Hospitality Management & Food Distribution Education

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Arrangement of Bedroom Pods for Intimacy at Various Scales

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Edible Schoolyard: Urban Agricultural Training

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The studio questions if we can reframe relationships between density and light to create new models for housing. While the terms conjure metrics and efficiency, they also concern mass and void, interiority and exteriority, lightness and darkness. The two terms are approached from concept to organizational strategies, from experience to representation.

Our housing typology gives equal value to the interior and the exterior, weaving together housing and nature in a game of checkers. Living quality shouldn’t be compromised by living density. Breathing space is as important as square footage. Towers are oriented so that only one or two towers open out to each courtyard, giving residents privacy and a sense of ownership of outdoor space.

TOWERS OF IN, TOWERS OF OUT

The towers range from 3 to 8 stories to ensure no units get drowned in shadows.

With a span of 20’ by 20’ towers, cross laminated timber can be used as building envelope, structure, and interior finish.

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Title: Towers of In, Towers of Out Studio: Fall 2017 Core III Instructor: Eric Bunge Partner: Kyungmin Cho Program: Housing Site: Bronx, NY

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Final Model

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Ground Floor Plan

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Exterior Perspective from Street

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Section Detail

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Studio Interior

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Precedent Study Model: Habitat Marocain, Jean Hentsch & Andre Studer

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The library happens to be one of the most flexible programmatic packages. The studio asked us to design an infrastructural building capable of housing activities that change over time, without sacrificing its architectural qualities. As a three dimensional organization, it is a material structure that transcends any specificity of form to program.

SURFACE BRICKS

My library is built up by a modular system characterized by two independently continuous sets of space, one of which runs horizontally and the other diagonally.

Each module is prefabricated with a timber waffle. The modules are bolted in place to create a continous gridshell, then backed on one side by a contiunous plastered surface. The timber waffle system performs seamlessly as the structure, raised floor, envelope, interior finish and furniture.

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Title: Surface Bricks Studio: Spring 2017 Core II Instructor: JosĂŠ AragĂźez Program: Library Site: Brooklyn, NY

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Module Diagram

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Stacking Diagram

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Axonometric

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Circulation Diagram

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Left: Detail Model and Module Structure Model Above: Full Model

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The 4-week exercise focused on a new ecological ground as an activated body, the calibrated intersection between land and water; Architecture as a thickened edge. Ground was no longer accepted as the default abstract horizontal plane, but as a conditional, relational, aesthetic and contextual space.

WATER DANCERS

The Water Dancers take a traditionally horizontal pier and turn it vertical to become a series of light towers and an urban playground. A typically linear horizontal waterfront experience expands with two additional dimensions: upwards-downwards and outwards-inwards. In contrast to the typology and function of a traditional lighthouse, these light towers glow through their light-transmitting concrete structure to draw people to the waterfront, engaging the community with the underutilized Eastern edge of Manhattan.

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Title: Studio: Instructor: Program: Site:

Water Dancers Fall 2016 Core I (4 weeks) Christoph a. Kumpusch Pier & Playground East River, NY

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Left: Resin Model Above: Plan

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Cast Conrete Model

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Node Detail

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PERFORATE & INTERLOCK

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1 ELEVATION

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8 INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Color oxidized aluminum panels are perforated in a vertical gradient of porosity to control the amount of direct daylight entering the building. The shift in panel widths create a rhythm emphasizing the horizontal stratum.

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Title: Elective: Instructor: Program: Site:

Perforate & Interlock Spring 2019 Adv Curtain Wall Robert Heintges Archive & Library Lower East Side, NY

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The curtain wall is made up of a double skin, unitized system. Each unit is made up of an aluminum panel and a glass unit, separated with metal grating for the maintenance platform. From floor to floor, each unit is supported by being offsetted off but interlocked with the units below and above.

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