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PAVILION OVER A VALLEY
Architecture is about forming spaces and directing movement. This project addresses these two important issues by using columns, walls, and ramps. The Pavilion is an open air structure located in a valley which opens up to a beach. The purpose of the Pavilion is to connect the two sides of the valley with the water body, and provide spaces for leisure and a place to view the sea.
The three models are to study the terrain of the valley and experimet possible connections between the valley and connection to the beach and the water body. The ďŹ rst model uses vertical and horizontal planes to suggest direction between the valleh and a oating podium to access the sea. The second model experiments the spaces and shading that are fromed between an arch or slanted walls and the natural landscape. The last model uses a series of simple rectangular ramps, that varies in sizes and slopes, to connect the highest point of the site with the lowest.
The project proceeds to forming spaces using walls in different shapes and heights. There are more private spaces and more open spaces that are formed by walls ranging from 1.5 ft to 20 ft. The lowest 1.5ft walls can be used as seating, and forming partitions within a space. They can also direct the ow of the users. There are L-shaped and U-shaped walls, which suggests different level of privacy by the way that they are arranged - some facing each other while some do not. There are a few 5 ft walls that provide semi-enclosed spaces. This height does not obstruct the view of a standing adult, yet they cannot see what is immediately below that wall. These walls form pockets of spaces that are open and close at the same time, which can be used as gathering spaces for barbecue or picnic. Also used in this program are some 11 ft and 20 ft walls. Eventhough there is no ceiling in this Pavilion, these spaces are able to provide enough enclosure for personal uses such as bathrooms, shower room, or changing room.
A grove of trees, a flight of stairs, three series of three columns, and a ramp are also added to the requirements. The trees are located on the west end of the site to provide the users with necessary shading. They also help blending the new structure with the natural landscape. The stairs provide a faster and closer connection from the pavillion to the bottom of the valley, while the ramp provides a path that steadily leads to the water front. The columns are located along the side of the main path. They help directing the flow of users across the valley on the pavillion. In the final scheme, roofs are included in areas of the pavillion, closing off spaces that are already planned to be more private.
BUILDING FROM COLLAGE
The project is started by creating a collage, that tells a story, out of materials such as duct tape, dictionary, atlas, sanding paper, etc. The collage is then used as a traverse section to built a card board model. A set of drawings are produced for this model. Then focusing on a section of the plan, new models and made to explore different materials. And finally, a context is put into the model and a museum is implemented.
From the maps that I am given, there is the Carribean Sea. Having a coastal and tropical distination, I decide to tell a story about traveling - the sand, the water, the music, the party, and the aftermath.
To tie in pieces of sections in the collage, I use black duct tape in shapes of squares to indicate footsteps and the experiences during the journey. The squares flow swiftly over the beach, the music, up to the map.
I first create the scene of a beach. I use sanding paper to represent the coast, crumbled newspaper as the water, and curled wire to symbolize waves.
At the end, I pick out “overdosage” from a pharmacology dictionary. I isolate this section using a black background and geometric shapes. I am trying to poke fun at how much one can have at the Carribeans in a humorous and extreme way.
Then, I use some music scores to represent the music that is present there. The section that I pick was loud and joyeous. And from the dictionary pages, I pick one that begins with “free on board,” idicating the feeling of being at the Carribeans. It is at ease, passionate, and delightful..
The collage is then use as a transverse section, and a model is made by either pulling closer, or pushing further pieces on the collage. Instead of simply extruding the design elements perpendicularly, I try to address it in different directions. As the black squares symbolize foot prints, I connect them with a zig-zag shape coming in and out of the cross section, which looks like a path connecting the whole model. The black squares are very prominent and are directing the viewers’ eyes across the whole collage. Similarly, in the model, they are expressed as a very long and visible piece.
I use different bundles of bars varying in heights to illustrate the wave and music. The shape of the bundle resembles wave of the ocean. It is also similar to the notes in the music score. Then I express the islands in the map with a couple series of arches, with the zig zag path going above and under it. At the end, I make a big arch to represent the large black square. As it originally suggests “overdosage,� I use a broken piece of the path hanging inside it; representing a lost of memory after partying, or the feelings of the ground. The entire model is built with true connection, without any adhesive. They are either tied together or cut into grooves.
A 1:3 section on the plan of the model is picked out randomly and reinterpreted. Simply looking at this plan, and build anything of any height from it. A series of new models are made from different materials. The wood model is the last of the series. The V-shaped section at the end is made with a piece of leminated wood, which is made from different types of wood. It is to immitate the texture of one of the previous model, which is made of layers of wax.
A program is then implemented, and the previous models are now an inspiration to this new Aviation Museum. It is located along side of an old runway. Each student is assigned with a segment of it and each segment needs to connect with the one before and the one after. The traffic of my site enters from the top floor via a board exibition area, then down to a tower which hosts a screen room, and finally to the ground where the plane is. Besides exibition and video areas, the building has to provide two sets of stairs, one for the visitors, and one for staff, exibits, and emergency. There are also seating on the lowest floor.
The aviation museum is consisted of three floors, including exhibition space for old photographs of the plane, an indoor screening room, and also an outdoor projection screen. The main exhibition building is formed by a series of parallel frames, it is a combination of the frames in the wooden model and the shape of the laminated block. The pillar shape is turned into a screen room where visitors pass through when stepping down from the third floor to the second. An outdoor staircase connect the second level to the first. It opens to the bottom of the plane. There are indoor and outdoor seatings for the appreciation of the vintage plane.
ANALYSIS OF A HOUSE
In this project, I was assigned with the Kim House by Waro Kishi. Kishi was educated at Kyoto University. His buildings are more delicate and subtle, and his designs are less driven by form. The small house is located in one of Osaka’s downtown areas, where row houses are very common. The frontage is very narrow, 2.58m, but with a depth of three bays of 5.4 m. Due to the nature of the site, the house was built with a minimum of on-site work.
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WALK THROUGH ANALYSIS The walk through analysis is mapping out all the possible ways going from one room to the other in this house. The cross sections represent the rooms that are pass through in every trip. The darkest cross section is the courtyard. It indicates that the court yard is the place that is passed through most often in the house. It reects how important the courtyard is, and the architect addresses that by making the court yard the most interesting space in the entire house. The rhythem analysis shows the pattern that the building is planned. Each section is planned with similar diamension. It shows the possible breaking points of the prefabricated structures. It also demonstrates an effective way to plan off-site construction when a place is so narrow and deep. Finally, the ow diagram is a reinterpretation of the walk through analysis. Using colors, from yellow to red, it shows the part of the house that is the busiest. With an exploded axonometric drawing, it can easily relate the movements within the house to the real scenario
ENCLOSURE
RHYTHM
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MONDRIAN BATH HOUSE
Through analyzing a Mondrian painting, Broadway Boogie Woogie, a couple study models are developed. From zoning out the geometry and color from the painting, a system of parrallel walls. They give interesting openings and enclosure for the purpose of a bath house.
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The painting is consisted of squares and rectangles of different sizes. There are vertical and horizontal lines that bound rectagles, just like streets that bound city blocks. Most of the rectagles are primarily white with smaller squares or rectagles of Mondrian’s signature red, yellow, and blue. I literally sqaure out rectangles that are purely white, without any color inside. Next, white rectangles that include some color. Lastly, any white rectangles, I also mapped out rectangles of colored, red, yellow, and blue.
Simplifying the outlines of the diagrams, a simple extruded model is made. The main body is casted and poured with pieces of woods going either direction.
Further examining the first three analysis, the third diagram is actually the combination of the first and second. At the same time, the first two share no common opening, as the definition is exclusive to one another. When they overlap, it is entirely solid. Base of these characteristics, I placed the third diagram in the middle and connecting the opens with the first two diagram on either side. Keeping the same dimension as the depth, a perfect cube is formed. When viewing the model from the front or the back, all the openings are blocked by other pieces. But from the sides, it is very open.
This is a further study of the second model. Putting the cut out from the opening on to pieces of plexis. the change is more gradual. The place and distance between the verticle members also come from the vertical lines in the Mondrian drawing.
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HYDROTHERAPY FACILITY OF RAMPS
EXISTING BIULDING
EXISTING TRACK The project is located by a running track at Claremont Cayon Regional Preserve in Berkeley, Ca. The site is of the southwest quardrant of the track. The facility is to provide atheletes a place to recuperate. It includes individual therapy rooms, group therapy rooms, and other utilities. After learning the site, I decided to make use of the building as a connection between the track and the drive way, providing the user an easier access.
EXISTING DRIVE WAY
Since there is a steep slope between the track and the drive way, i would like to make use of the building and offer an easier and more direct connection between the two, instead of the exsisting outdoor stairway. Therefore, I focused the analysis on 3 slopes: the steepest (vertical), 50% (stair), and 15% (ramp), to explore possibilities where the connection starts and ďŹ nishes.
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The building is oriented in the same direction as the other exisiting building, and sits on a steep slope between the track and the driveway. As providing a connection between the ďŹ eld and the road is one of the features that the building provides, there two means of connection available - through stairs and ramps. Stairs address the steeper east-west slope, while the ramps serve the gentler north-south slope. The larger rooms are arranged closer to the stairs, as it is a faster and more direct access. The individual rooms are located along the ramps for slower and more private access. The skin of the building is made up of two series of C-shaped structures. The thicker one provides vertical enclosure, while the thinner one encloses the space.
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DIGITAL ART
HAT SERIES HARD HAT
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Architecture and graphics are very closely related. Digital art provide visual interest and help present a design concept. These is a collection of some of the work I made for a visual studies class.
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The Hat Series starts off as picking an object that can represent me and develop a set of twenty cards from it. I wore hats a lot and want to take a spin and play with the name of different types of hats. The Word projects are made up of 2 parts, The ďŹ rst part is to come up with a visual interpretation with the spelling of the words. The second part is creating images that convey the meaning of the words. The Self Series is to tell a personal story. I was inpired by a board game that I played during a long hospital stay. The red rectangle is obstructed by other rectangles. The idea is to move the obstacles and free the red block from left to right. The Stamp projects is to come up with ideas that can made to actual stamps. The ďŹ rst set, like many existing stamp collection, which has a theme and show a collection of chairs. The second set is made up of alphabets for the users to spell personal messages
TRANSLATE DENIM BAR
This is one of my freelance project for establishing a new company’s identity. The client and I envisioned a retail store called “Translate.” It is to translate the concept of a demin bar literally into a boutique that sells denim with a bar for drinks. The store is a combination of two very different atmosphere. The denim suggests an industrial and casual element, while the bar is more classy and playful. The end result is a space that collaborate both characteristics and equally display them in front of customers.
These images are the style that the denim company requests. The style has a sense of industrial, minimalistic, metalic, and contemporary. The space is dark yetcozy. To incorporate the bar, we decide on adding a classy and playful character to space. I contiue the contemporary and and geometric quality but introduce different color and lighting.
During the design process, we experiment a few conďŹ gurations and looked at existing stores which combine retail with a drinking area - bookstore with a cafe. Both the retail portion and the cafe portion are visible from outside, evenly dividing the window spaces. A large rectangular area is reserved between the bar and the retail and is served as a ďŹ&#x201A;exible area, either for displaying, for manequin, or for runway show.
By sharing equal window space, customers will not be confused and know that the store is a combination of retail and a bar. To convey the industrial quality of denim, there are exposed bricks, chrome metal and plastic/resin. To achieve the classiness of a bar, there is classic furniture like chandeliers, but the ďŹ nish is current and contemporary.