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ARCHITECTURE
OBJECTS
ANALYSIS
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PERSONAL WORK
EXPANDING HORIZONS 08 CARROL STREET BRIDGE
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WELCOME CENTER
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LIVE / WORK SPACE
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QUARRY SHELTER
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TIDAL POOL
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SECTIONAL HOUSE
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BALANCING ACT
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NINE SQUARE GRID
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PAPER LAMP SHADE
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OITA LIBRARY
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DUBAI STUDY
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STREET FIGHTER - FILM
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SAS HALF MOON
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MARIST CAMPUS GATES
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LEBOW COLLEGE
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HIGH SCHOOL ART
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CAMEROON SOCCER
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SINGAPORE SKETCHES
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EXPANDING HORIZONS Senior Project Design Studio: Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial Competition Professor: Steven Harris
This project memorialized the enormity of the loss of 11.5 million lives exterminated in the Holocaust and paid tribute to the survivors. Six vertical slots, one for each extermination camp, were cut into the layers, their height indexing their respective death toll. These slots contained paths ascending from the boardwalk to an elevated chamber suspended within the structure. The chamber provided a contemplative resting place along the bustling Atlantic City boardwalk. The view to the ocean reminds visitors that even amidst extreme suffering, there is always the possibility of life.
Atlantic City boardwalk showing site.
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Each square inch of the memorial’s thirtythree stacked layers represents one Holocaust victim. 09
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Several study models develop the density and distribution of the horizontal planes.
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Layered steel and plexiglass model showing voided slots and resting chamber.
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Exploded steel plate model, expressing the memorial’s inherent porosity.
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As visitors ascend, their step height increases, while their view of the horizon expands - symbolically re-enacting the struggle for life by victims. 12
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Survivors’ names, engraved on the edge surfaces of the bronze plates adjacent the ascending paths shine from contact with visitors’ touch. 13
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CARROLL STREET BRIDGE THEATRE Senior Studio: Theatre in Brooklyn Professor: Turner Brooks Adam Hopfner
Falconworks Artists Group, a theatre for social change in Red Hook Brooklyn, called for a radical re-visioning of theatre along the Gowanas Canal. The site I chose was adjacent to the Carroll Street Bridge, which is the oldest of only four retractable bridges in the United States. The building is activated when the bridge rolls back to deliver the audience to the theatre. The steel rails that the bridge rolls along initiate the arrangement of structural concrete fins, which are hollowed out to enclose the performance and auxiliary spaces. Sliding backdrops, which mediate between public (external) and private (internal) space transform the theatre in response to performance requirements.
View west across the Carroll Street Bridge towards the theatre site on the left.
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Floor plans reveal the parallel fins and the relationship between the three levels.
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The theatre is articulated as a contained volume that sits on the water’s edge.
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Several sketch models develop the idea of hollowing out parallel fins in relation to the original steel rails. 16
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A lattice of steel frames span the entire site and encloses the theatre and its auxiliary spaces.
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Concrete fins run the length of the site and drop down to the canal to allow access to the water.
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The series of parallel concrete fins which originate from the steel rails of the retractable bridge. 18
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The building envelope negotiates the conditions between inside and outside.
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The sectional model reveals the sliding backdrops which move between public and private space. 19
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WELCOME CENTER Junior Studio: Methods and Form in Architecture II Kampong Welcome Center, Miami, FL Jointly designed with Adrian Latortue Professor: Dean Sakamoto Joyce Hsiang
This Welcome Center for a botanical garden in Miami FL, was conceptualized as a landscape of mangrove roots lifting out of the ground to shelter visitors and contain program. The material strategy made use of local timber, and addressed the tropical climate. The open pavilion was oriented to allow coastal winds to ventilate the sheltered areas. The welcome center straddled the boundary wall, connecting the two sides of the Kampong, and elevated the visitors to a 360 degree view of the garden. The design allowed for planting and natural growth in openings integrated into the structure.
The site plan shows the location of the boundary wall as bridged by the welcome pavilion. 20
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Physical model showing ramp over boundary wall as well as openings in decking for plant growth. 21
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LIVE/WORK SPACE Junior Studio: Methods and Form in Architecture II Film Director’s Home/Studio, West 15th Street, New York Professor: Dean Sakamoto Joyce Hsiang
The design began with the expression of program within individual extruded volumes, cut by incisions that marked the change in angle of the Manhattan grid. The film studio was suspended in the center, surrounded and protected by adjacent residential functions. Interior volumes were punctured to frame views across space, evoking the narrative sequence of a film.
Sketch of visual relationship between individual towers.
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Site model showing relationship between existing façades and proposed design.
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Diagram depicting the evolution of the design from an angled-grid, through vertical extrusion to spatial hollowing.
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Several study models examine envelope and structure of the space.
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The design maintains distinct volumes connected by bridges and landings on multiple levels. 27
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QUARRY SHELTER Senior Studio: Shelter at Stoney Creek Quarry, CT Professor: Turner Brooks Adam Hopfner LEVEL 4
This project explored the experience of the ‘intimate’ and the ‘immense’ at Stony Creek Quarry. The structure provided a contemplative space for one or two people nested within the fragmented rock face. Both natural and artificial surfaces combined to produce a double volume space contained by an overhead mass of protruding granite.
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Approaching on water, the visitor becomes aware of the secluded shelter which screens the sun’s rays and mimics the angular facets of the bedrock surface. LEVEL 2
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Added platforms and screens transform the immense rock face into a zone of intimacy. 28
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Bird’s-eye and worm’s-eye views.
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TIDAL POOL University of Cape Town Design & Theory Studio I Professor: Sonja Petrus Spamer
This project required the design of a tidal pool on the beach in Kommetjie, Cape Town. It was necessary to make use of the De Stijl style and concrete slabs of given proportions. A prominent rock provided the pivot for two linear walkways. Inhabitable walls stretched into the ocean and allowed swimmers to descend into the water at various depths.
Hand drawn site plan showing water levels and changing rooms.
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SECTIONAL HOUSE Junior Studio: Methods and Form in Architecture I House Interpretation Professor: Bimal Mendis Peggy Deamer
This project imaginatively reconstructed a given house section in depth both vertically and horizontally. It negated orthogonal conventions by introducing an oblique volume behind the plane of vision. The given section was taken as public, while the imagined was private. The house was sunk into the ground to achieve greater sectional tension.
Hand drawings showing given section cut and subsequent interpreted plan.
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Exploded axonometric hand drawing. Several laminated pieces compose the chair-like structure. 34
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BALANCING ACT Junior Studio: Methods and Form in Architecture II Jointly designed with Kristin Notwehr Professor: Dean Sakamoto Joyce Hsiang
This project required the design of a structure from a single sheet of 8’x 4’ commercial plywood, that withstood the weight of a human body. The project drew its inspiration from a wine bottle holder that balanced the weight of the bottle against gravity.
Vertical human weight horizontal load of plywood.
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Various positions are possible according to the distribution of weight.
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NINE SQUARE GRID Junior Studio: Methods and Form in Architecture I Professor: Bimal Mendis Peggy Deamer
This 4 week long exercise developed an understanding of gridding as design strategy. Successive iterations worked with point, surface, volume and color. Careful attention was given to model craft and line drawing.
Week 4 model explored color as a means of visual circulation in and around the 9 square grid. 36
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PAPER LAMPSHADE Introduction to Architecture Professor: Alexander Purves
The design of a self supportive lampshade for a wall-mounted light fixture, made entirely out of paper. A single sheet is scored and held by a laminated paper arch.
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OITA LIBRARY ANALYSIS Junior Studio: The Analytic Model Professor: Ariane Lourie Harrison
An analysis of the Oita Prefecture Library by Arata Isozaki (1966) explored tectonic, massing, circulation, and program. The tectonic model studied the building according to the logic of traditional Japanese wood framing construction. The massing analysis explored the organization of solid and void through a sequence of sectional cuts. The investigation into circulation documented foot traffic, translating it into wall thickness. The program model explored view and privacy as experienced by a user of the library.
The tectonic model interpreted as a system of hanging elements.
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The massing model is assembled like a pack of playing cards. Section cuts are taken at decisive moments along the east west axis of the building. 41
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A diagrammatic interpretation of the library’s structural walls according to foot traffic. 42
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Blue and orange signify zones of view and privacey respectively.
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Blue nodes indicate locations of privacy for study, overlooking the reading rooms and library stacks. 43
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DUBAI STUDY Envisioning Cities Jointly produced with Benjamin Sachs Professor: Joyce Hsiang
For the Dubai real estate developer, the city, desert and ocean are treated as tabula rasa for the proliferation of resorts whose master plans resemble horizontal billboards. As seen from satellite images on the internet and upon approach in an airplane these islands simultaneously advertise themselves in a city of ultimate transience. This phenomenon erases the stability of Dubai’s coastline, creating a dystopia of autonomous master plans, each devouring its neighboring iconographic resort in a lagoon of billboards.
Each one mile square grid of Dubai’s coastline is extruded up or down according to the length of coastline in 2006 as compared to the length in 1973. 44
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An imagined map of the future Dubai presenting numerous commercial islands designed in plan according to a company logo or popular icon. 45
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Day and night footage reveals the disparate levels of traffic and the kind of activity within the parking garage. 46
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STREET FIGHTER FILM Envisioning Cities Film featuring the Temple Street Garage by Paul Rudolph. Professor: Joyce Hsiang
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Through a series of still images, animated sequences and motion videos, this short film examined the daily cycles of the Temple Street Parking Garage in central New Haven. The quantity of traffic around the periphery of the building and cars parked inside the garage vary according to the time of day. The film explores the anthropomorphic idea that garages live and breathe in relation to their surroundings and frequency of use. http://vimeo.com/33103726
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LEKKER DESIGN SAS-HALF MOON Partners in charge:
Joshua Comaroff Ong Ker-Shing
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Assistant Designer
This project was a competition entry for an extension to the Singapore American School. The design of the façade sought to develop a unique architectural language for the campus while adhering to Singapore’s tropical climate. A louvered system surrounded the existing semicircular classrooms and took the form of two unequal arches, with the major arch addressing the campus entry. A sense of place was amplified by wrapping images of local flora around the façade.
Parametric façade studies developed a system of louvers representing Vana Miss Joaquim orchids, which wrapped around a semi-circle. 50
Series of procedural models showing the derivation of the half-cylinder’s form.
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View of the roof garden beneath the arching louvers above the classrooms.
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View of the major arch which provides a memorable landmark at the campus entry.
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RAMSA MARIST COLLEGE CAMPUS GATES While at Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York, I worked on the construction documentation of the new Campus Gates at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. This project required technical drawing work and three-dimensional renderings to satisfy both client and contractor. I worked closely with architect Kevin Smith to finalize design details in the model and in the issued drawings.
LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS (Far Right)
At Robert A.M. Stern Architects I was also involved in the design development of the Le Bow College of Business at Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Through a series of half-scale working models, I helped study the school’s interior atrium and staircase. South and Main Gate elevations and sections. 3-D vignette detailing chamfered brickwork surrounding guardhouse window. 52
Scanned copy of Main Gate in-progress rendering describing collaboration with architect.
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Foam core model built at ½” = 1’ 0”. Design development focused on the interior façades and main staircase. 53
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SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ART Paintings addressed issues of contemporary living by critically examining the meanings of iconic images and mundane objects through their humorous juxtaposition. Works used a multi medium of acrylic paint, charcoal and calligraphy pen on stretched canvas measuring roughly 40” x 60”.
LIGHT ENERGY This piece responds to the words “Light emissions and mechanical tensions.”
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SKREWED Produced during the peak of the Iraq war, this piece examines an American mind-set.
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ART MOVEMENT This work explores the kinetic elements of stationary art and art making.
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BREAKING THE CODE This work comments on the discrepancies of contemporary South African living.
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KING KONG An examination of consumer culture led to this tongue-and-cheek identification of “the real bad wolf”. 57
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CAMEROON SOCCER
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VICTORS CELEBRATION - KUMBA
In the summer of 2009, co-captain Alfredo Molinas and I organized a youth soccer tournament in Kumba, a small rural town in Cameroon. Over a period of three weeks, ten under-fourteen soccer teams competed on Kumba’s central field adjacent it’s local brewery. It was incredible to see the attention that the matches generated both on the sidelines and in the local media. The tournament attracted crowds of up to 400 people who came together to support their favorite team. Following the tournament, I practiced with a soccer team on a dusty field called ‘Omni-Sport’ opposite the National Stadium in Yaoundé. Every day this field not only attracted players and spectators but also food vendors and commuters queuing for taxis. In witnessing firsthand, the powerful gathering force that this sport offers I became interested in multiuse public recreational space in an African context. I found the ‘Omni-Sport’ intersection particularly vibrant and have since reflected on its potential as a site for a multipurpose community center, taxi interchange and soccer facility. Alongside are images taken in Kumba and Yaoundé.
NATIONAL STADIUM - YAOUNDE
PENALTY SHOOT-OUT - KUMBA
PRE-FINAL CEREMONY - KUMBA
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OMNI-SPORT SPECTATORS - YAOUNDE
OMNI-SPORT FIELD - YAOUNDE
OMNI-SPORT INTERCHANGE - YAOUNDE
OMNI-SPORT VENDOR - YAOUNDE
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SINGAPORE SKETCHES Since arriving in Singapore in mid July 2011, I have been interested in the Housing & Development Board’s public housing projects. Housing complexes, locally named HDB’s, are built primarily to provide affordable housing and are home to more than 80% of Singaporeans. These developments also include schools, supermarkets, clinics, food courts as well as sports and recreational facilities aimed at facilitating comprehensive community life. As such, public housing in Singapore does not generally have the same stigma associated with poverty or lower standards of living as in other countries. While the HDB is steadily building new and more sophisticated communities, the Land Transport Authority is trying to alleviate traffic load on heavily utilized expressways. The proposed NorthSouth Expressway will serve the increasing travel demand between the islands north and northeastern sectors. While this expressway is expected to reduce travel time by 30% it will require demolishing
Rochor Centre; a 30 year old HDB complex. Although residents at Rochor Centre will be offered relocation benefits, their sense of neighborhood and community will undoubtedly be lost. For Singaporeans and foreigners who prefer and can afford a higher standard of accommodation, a plethora of privately owned condominiums are available for rent. One such condominium that greatly inspires me, is the Colonnade by Paul Rudolph built in 1984. This building, which resembles a stack of shipping containers, reflects Rudolph’s interest in Archigram’s proposed megastructures and the Japanese metabolist movement of the 1960’s. While the design of the Colonnade is centered on the use of prefabricated, modular units, the actual construction was carried out using traditional cast-in-place concrete, which serves the fluidity of the buildings expression. Alongside are sketches of The Colonnade and the soon to be demolished Rochor Centre. Sketch of the plaza at Rochor Centre
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Sketch of the Colonnade depicting the building’s modular concrete form.
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Sketch of the duplex units showing the selfshading nature of the solid void design. 61