Tran Van Anh Tu (Johnny) - Architecture Portfolio (2018) by Johnny Tran

TU (JOHNNY) TRAN ARCHITECTURE AND GRAPHIC DESIGN STUDENT INFO

EDUCATION Name Tran Van Anh Tu

Address 250 Congress Avenue Apt 35, Chelsea, MA, 02150

Phone +1 (857) 320-9356

Email tutran.johnny@gmail.com

09/2016 - Present Northeastern University, Boston, MA Candidate for Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture Minor in Graphic Design Present - 12/2018 IE University, Segovia, Spain Study Abroad •Studying about the history of architecture in Segovia •Studying about various ways of making models

RELATED EXPERIENCE 06/2016 - 08/2016 Pitago Architecture Company, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Intern •Sketched and drew simple plans, sec ons and eleva ons •Developed fundamental design strategies •Learned basic free-hand sketch

SOCIAL Skype JohnnyTuTran1

LinkedIn h ps://www.linkedin.com/in/tu-tran-56b838 16b/

LANGUAGE

OTHER EXPERIENCE 10/2015 - 01/2016 Li le Brothers - Friends of the Elderly, Boston, MA Volunteer •Provided companionship to elderly clients 02/2016 - 04/2016 Digital Grandparents, Boston, MA Tutor

Vietnamese

•Tutored elderly clients in technology

Na ve Language

English Full Professional Proﬁciency

REFERENCE Adam Lee Murﬁeld Maryann Thompson Architects alee.murﬁeld@gmail.com

SKILLS AND SOFTWARE Windows Mac OS Word Oﬃce Powerpoint Illustrator Adobe Photoshop InDesign AutoCAD SketchUp 2D Drawings Rhinoceros Sketching OS

AutoCAD SketchUp Rhinoceros Hand Model AutoCAD 3D SketchUp Render V-Ray Rhinoceros 3D Model

CONTENTS

ARCHITECTURE 01 Performance Art Center & School

Blackstone, South End, Boston

Recrea on Facility & Pool South Boston

Boston Public Library South End, Boston

ARCHITECTONIC SYSTEMS 15 Structure, Skin

D E

& Experience

Steel Frame with Wood Cladding

Watchtower Light Wood Framing

A PERFORMANCE ART CENTERS AND SCHOOL – Blackstone Site Category – Urban Ins tu ons 2nd Year Studio Loca on: Blackstone Site, South End, Boston, MA Spring 2018 The city seeks proposals for a school that is specialized for students of the performing arts. The school is planning to arrange the class from grades 9-12, and the enrolment of 220 students will come from all parts of the city. The auditorium of the school will also func on as a public Performing Arts Center. The site is mainly designed to make the middle part of it to becomes more public with welcoming atmosphere. Therefore, the main reason that the corners of the site are being made as a con nuous connec on from the street intersec on back to the site. Addi onally, there are also retail shops on the bo om ﬂoor, along with the row house commercial on the top that both circulated around the site. The main aim of this building is to turned the auditorium into the central core and makes everything inside to orbit. Addionally, the auditorium is classiﬁed as a private space, which is surrounded by a circula on space, with the public spaces are being allocated on the two ends of the building. Furthermore, the two balconies on two sides act as a bridge that connect the building and the outside of urban context. For the South Façade balcony, it connects the building to the main street, which is the Washington Street. For the North Façade balcony, it connects the buildings to the inside park of the site, which is publicly opening.

SITE PLAN

BUILDING TYPE DIAGRAM

STREET CONNECTION DIAGRAM

PARK ANALYSIS

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECTION A 03

SECOND

D FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

SECTION B

SOUTH FACADE ELEVATION

MASTER PLAN DIAGRAM

FIGURE-GROUND DIAGRAM

SITE AND ABSTRACT BUILDING PHOTO

VISUALIZATION OF SPACES AROUND THE AUDITORIUM

EXPLODED AXON DIAGRAM

B RECREATION FACILITY & POOL – South Boston, Boston Category – Site, Space & Program 2nd Year Studio Loca on: South Boston, Boston, MA Fall 2017 A group of designers are seeking to propose diﬀerent plans for recrea on facility in South Boston that will be adjacent to several of their condominium projects. The proposed site is on Dorchester Avenue and Foundry Street, near the Broadway T sta on. This area has seen as an extensive residen al region over the past decade, and several projects are ac vely under construc on or in other phases of development. The design building has divided into the program that included both hot and cold factors in terms of the humidity levels of the programs. To further expand this idea to other parts of the building, the hallways has been treated diﬀerently for hot and cold purposes. For example, hot hallways would be narrow and small, which gives visitors the feeling of being compressed and warm. Cold hallways would be big and wide, which gives visitor the feeling of solitary and cool. Addi onally, the design follows a grid structure that helps organizing the programs and the structural system.

This site analysis analyse the hot and cold factors around the site and it serves as a tool for oganizing the hot and cold programs within the design.

SITE PLAN

PARTI DIA

SECTION A

SECTION B

AGRAM

SECTION C

SECTION D

FRONT FACADE ELEVATION

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

This program and circulation diagrams represent how all the programs are allocated in the center of the buildings, and all the circulation or pathways are pushed to the two sides. Additionally, the hot and cold programs are identified as different shades of red while cold programs are identified as different shades of blue color.

PROGRAM DIAGRAM

South Facade of the Building

A View to the Diving Well

Entrance to the Lobby

A View from the Lobby to the Climbing Wall

A View Looking at the Climbing Wall

A View looking at the Pool and the Fitness Area

These visualizations show how the hot and cold concept is being apply to the hallways. For example, the narrow hallways (pict 3 and 5) give the visitors the feeling of being suppressed and tight; which represent the hotness. The expansive hallways (pict 4) shows how the space is very wide and tall; which gives visitors the feeling of being alone and coldness.

C BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY – South End, Boston Category: Site, Space & Program 2nd Year Studio Loca on: South End, Boston Fall 2017 The BPL and the city of Boston are seeking to create a larger facility, which is planning to eﬀec vely assist the South End community and become more appealing to the city. This new branch library will have a larger collec on of volumes and associate reading spaces. At the same me, the project will provide more opening spaces that are the typical of the contemporary library program. Computer facili es and wireless networking are both important to the new project, and BPL has promised to expand its technology to provide more beneﬁts to the residents. The main aim of the building design is to have the corridor in the middle and all the secondary programs are pushed to the two sides (East and West), with main programs are being allocated on the two ends of the building (North and South) near the facades, so they can have a connecon with the outside environment. Addi onally, the design has a very open façade on the back, while it has a quite close façade at the front.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOO

R PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

SITE PLAN

These pictures show the inside spaces and structures of the building through sectional model; from east to west side and then the main stair. 20

18"

9'-10"

METAL PANEL CONNECTIONS

LIGHT WOOD CLADDING SYSTEM

4" 4"

12"

2' 4”x 4” STRUCTURAL STEEL

3/4” DIA. BOLTS 1/2'

1' RIGID INSULATION

WINDOW PANEL

CAVITY INSULATION

PLYWOOD

1/2” OSB SHEATHING WATERPROOFING MAMBRANE

5'-10"

PLAN

STRUCTURE, SKIN, AND EXPERIENCE Category – Architectonic Systems 2nd Year Studio Fall 2017 This project gives the student the freedom of choice on the structural and skin system to see how those materials are expressing their inherent quali es. In addi on, this design will conform to the dimensions and constraints of the a ached drawing. In assuming, the roof, slab, and columns to be an unnamed material. An achievement of at least 35% minimum open area for the wall is required. For this project, we chose steel for the structural system because we are interested in its characteris c – the lightness. We would like to test out and play around with steel; to help us to develop the knowledge on organizing a stable structure without using a lot of steel columns. By doing this, it will further support the idea of lightness and openness in steel. Addi onally, for this project, we chose wood for the cladding system because we are interested in combining two diﬀerent materials together. Furthermore, steel is bad with insula on and wood, which have a be er insula on system that might help out steel weakness. For the windows system, we want to have openings which will tell a story of what happen inside the structural system. Therefore, our openings in the cladding system is open and enclosed in some areas which tell how the steel was structured on the interior.

1/2” PLYWOOD SHEATHING

10"

1' RIGID INSULATION CAVITY INSULATION

METAL PANEL CONNECTION

1/2” OSB SHEATHING 1 2"

3 41"

WATER PROOFING MEMBRANE 2x6 WOOD FRAMING

I BEAM

1/2” GYPSUM BOARD AS INTERIOR FINISH

EXTERIOR TRIM

KNIFE PLATE

PLYWOOD CLADDING WINDOW PANEL

SILL TRIM

4”x 4” STRUCTURAL STEEL

18"

5'-10" 3/4” DIA. BOLTS

METAL PIN CONNECTION

5 1'-3 16 "

SECTION

10"

1' 2"

3" 4

15'-8"

KNIFE PLATE

1" 4

1'-3 34"

ELEVATION WITHOUT THE CLADDING SYSTEM

LIGHT WOOD CLADDING

OPENINGS

ELEVATION WITH THE CLADDING SYSTEM

OPENINGS

E WATCHTOWER Category – Architectonic Systems 2nd Year Studio Fall 2017 This project will inves gate wood light frame construc on and its expressive poten al. It will be a mini design project for a ‘watchtower’ on two levels. The loca on will be non-speciﬁc and ﬂat. The structure itself shall reveal, exploit, and drama ze the nature of wood frame construc on including its lightweight standardized elements, modular planning, simple assembly, and plethora of formal possibili es

GROUND FLOOR WALL FRAMING

FIRST FLOOR WALL FRAMING

ROOF WALL FRAMING

GROUND FLOOR FLOOR FRAMING

FIRST FLOOR FLOOR FRAMING

ROOF FLOOR FRAMING

SECTION CUT