Jia Joy Hu | Design Portfolio 2023 | Architecture + Landscape

Design Portfolio

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Selected Architecture Scale:

Learning Amidst the Scent of Wood

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects | Institutional Building - Singapore | 100% SD, 100% DD

Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium Competition

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects | Sports Architecure - Kagawa, Japan | Competition

Winery for the People

Harvard GSD Fall 2016 Option Studio | Architecture - Omishima, Japan | Professor Toyo Ito

Sanwa Showroom

Keiji Ashizawa Design Co. Ltd | Retail Interior Fit-out - Hangzhou, China | SD to 100% Construction

Shinjuku Tokyu Milano Hotel

Keiji Ashizawa Design Co. Ltd | Luxury Hotel Interior | SD, DD

Liberty Olonia Office and Atelier

Keiji Ashizawa Design Co. Ltd | Adapted Re-use - Milan, Italy | 1st Prize Competition

Selected Urban + Landscape Scale:

The Soul of Nørrebro : Climate Adaption Copenhagen

SLA Architects | 1st Prize Competition, Nordic Built Cities Challenge

Engaging Ecotones: Laguna Gloria Sculpture Park

Reed Hilderbrand LLC | 1st Prize Competition + Subsequent Masterplan

The Urban Sieve

Harvard GSD Spring 2017 Option Studio | Urban Design - India | Professor Christopher C.M. Lee

Land[scape] Banking

Harvard GSD Spring 2015 Core Studio | Landscape Urbanism | Professors: David Mah + Chris Reed

LEARNING AMIDST THE SCENT OF WOOD

Location: Nanyang Technical University Business School , Singapore

Project Type: All Timber Construction Business School

Phase: 100% Schematic Design / 100% Design Development

Role: Project Team Member at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Area: 40,000 sq meters

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects won the international competition to design a new, all-timber business school in Singapore for Nanyang Technical University. With a gross floor area of 40,000 sqm, this new business school is a single-building solution that promotes harmony and interaction between faculty, undergraduate and post-graduate students.

The design is centered around the central, collaborative axis. This N-S linear axis becomes the new third space, a place for unexpected encounters and exchanges away from structured and programmed classrooms and offices. The entire building is laid on a radius so that its slightly curved form embraces visitors, creating a welcoming gateway to the rest of the campus and the nearby Yunnan Garden.

This was my main project during my two years working at Toyo Ito & Associates. As part of a 4 person team on the design architects side, we collaborated with executive architects in Singapore, RSP Architects in order to develop the plans and details from schematic design through design development. This required constant communication between the Japanese side and the Singaporean teams.

EMPHASIZING THE TIMBER STRUCTURE

The building structure employs a modular timber post and beam system, its uniform, non-hierarchical deep structure allows program to be flexibly fit within the modules, and also allows for adaptability. This post-and-beam structure extends visibly on the facade as horizontal and vertical fins, reinforcing the timber structure of the building while creating a deep coffered facade, which diffuses exposure to direct sunlight during hot Singapore summers. The entire building is laid on a radius so that its slightly curved form embraces visitors, creating a welcoming gateway to the rest of the campus and the nearby Yunnan Garden.

Overall 1:300 Model

Entry Drive at Pedestrian Level

SectionalStudyofModelCentralCollaborativeAxis

Central A trium Skylight

CONNECTIVE SOCIAL SPACES

The program of the building is clearly divided between floors, with teaching seminar spaces on the 1-3F, research centers on the 4F and faculty offices on the 5-6F. The undergraduate wing extends to the north and the graduate wing to the south, but both are connected at the center by a large, social atrium, creating a strong sense of a larger community. Double-height “green social spaces” are intermittently placed on the facade to enourage social and academic mixing. The classrooms flanks the two sides of the central axis, where the “continuous assembly” is placed. Here, double-height, flexible, social and learning lounges are placed, turning the main N-S axis into a central place of gathering.

Central Collaborative Axis

Central Collaborative Axis

DETAIL DESIGN OF CENTRAL ATRIUM SPACE

The central atrium and main event space are at the core of our building. Situated on the main transverse axis that passes through the building (E-W) these two spaces invite visitors in together to mingle, collaborate and relax. Some of the main features of this event space is the front entrance canopy and the grand staircase and the cascade water amphitheater at the back side of the building. The entrance canopy is meant to showcase structural timber and CLT in the same way the building does, welcoming in people with its curved form. The grand staircase is a stage and a collaborative platform. It reinforces the wooden nature of the building by showcasing CLT as the main structural element.

Entry Canopy and Fountain at East Facade

CLT Grand Staircase

Constructed CLT Grand Staircase

DETAIL DESIGN OF CENTRAL ATRIUM SPACE

Elevation C-C

Planted Atrium Elevator

1:10021-09-2018 A423

VARIOUS SLAB EDGE DETAILS

FACADE - C1Y-3 (EXT TUBE 4-6F - OFFICE )

BALUSTRADE - B2 (WOOD HANDRAIL W/ PLANTER ON 2F)

Central Axis Staggered Outdoor Terraces

Collaborative Double-Height Space

GATEWAYS FOR KAGAWA

Location: Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan

Project Type: Kagawa Prefectural Competition

Phase: Competition

Role: Competition Team Member at Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects

Area: 30,000 sq meters

Projected Budget: 19 million USD (1.9 billion JPY)

“Gateway to the Land, Gateway to the Sea”

Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects participated in the competition to design a gymnasium complex in Takamatsu that could become the new emblem of Kagawa Prefecture. After WWII, Takamatsu City became the foundation of contemporary Japanese Architecture, founding a spirit of creation based upon tradition.

The design of Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium pays homage to this spirit of tradition to create a sacred and innovative contemporary space for sports by creating new gateways to the city. The site of Takamatsu lies at the interface between land (mountains) and water. We deliberately play upon this intersection, creating gateways for both land and water.

Basketball Game (8800 Capacity)

Concert (8000 Capacity)

Reception (4500 Capacity )

Possible Configurations of the Main Arena

Gateway to the Land : Sub Arena

Structural Concept for Observatory Roof

Watching Fireworks on Observatory Plaza

Bon Odori Dance Weekend Farmer’s Market Summertime Mist Jets

WINERY FOR THE PEOPLE

Location: Omishima Island , Japan

Studio: Harvard GSD Option Studio - Fall 2016 - Architecture/Landscape Design

Professors: Toyo Ito, Jun Yanagisawa, Julia Li

Area: 4000 sq m site / 665 sq m building

Award: Featured in LIXIL Gallery + 2016 Japanese Junction Exhibition

This winery is conceived of as an educational winery where people can live short-term to learn the art of wine-making on Omishima Island. It is meant to be a teaching winery where locals and visitors can come to partake in the wine-making process to learn from those living and working on the winery.

Inspired by the landscape, the design tries to incorporate two contrasting systems within the design: the naturally undulating cliff carved away by the ocean tides and the rigid, ordered geometry typical of productive vineyard plantings.

The architecture is derived from the two types of vine structures, the traditionally Japanese Tanaishiki-Saibai overhead structure and the traditional European linear vineyard rows. The architecture emerges from these two structures as roof planes. The roof planes have dips in certain zones to allow for light, depending on the programmatic need of the space.

DESIGNING A TEACHING VINEYARD FOR ALL SEASONS

Interior View of Teaching Kitchen and Outdoor Vineyard Tanaishiki-Saibai Teaching Vineyard

Elevation approaching from Road

Elevation from Ocean

Elevation from Ocean

Perspective of Shared Learning Space

1:200 Site Model of Site Concept

Interior View of Shared Learning Space

Curvatures of Roof Structure

SANWA SHOWROOM

Location: Hangzhou, China

Project Type: Interior Retail Fit-out

Phase: SD, DD CA, Built - Accelerated Timeline 6 Months

Total

Role: Project Manager at Keiji Ashizawa Design Co. Ltd

Area: 500 sq meters

This showroom is based on the concept of a frame within frame. This frame system creates flexible modules which can be reconfigured to show different scenes that showcase the whole range of Sanwa Company’s kitchen and bath products. The intention was to create a showroom that not only displays the products, but showcases new lifestyle possibilities to the Chinese market by introducing Japanese simplicity.

The idea utilizes the structural rhythm of the architectural shell in order tocreate a secondary structural system. This secondary frame system uses a simple dark steel frame and louvre system to create different types of rooms ranging from: compact hotel rooms to luxury kitchen and bath and luxury hotel. The timeline for this project was extremely accelerated, with me and my colleague having to go through schematic design through finished construction in only 6 months.

Showroom Plan 1:200

TOKYU MILAN HOTEL

Location: Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Project Type: Luxury Hotel

Phase: SD and DD

Role: Designer at Keiji Ashizawa Design Co. Ltd

Area: 3000 sq meters

Inspired by the grand architecture of Milan and the restrained, simple and timeless aesthetics of the old Tokyo, Tokyu Milan is a hotel that is conceptually a fusion of the two metropolises. Both cities carry a strong architectural tradition characterized by their columns, rhythms, layers of spaces and a richness of materials.

The ambition is to create a united space with a new expression grounded in the two strong legacies of these two cultures. Implementing colonnades, wooden panels and marble walls washed with light will be of main focus. An evolving change of materials throughout the space will define the different areas and bring out the most delicate details of good craftmanship.

Skygarden

Sunset Lounge

Room E LDK

Room D Bedroom

THE SOUL OF NØRREBRO

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Award: 1st Prize - Competition Winner, Nordic Built Cities Challenge Winner

Project Type: Landscape Climate Adaption Masterplan

Role: Competition Team Member at SLA Architects

Area: 85,000 sq meters

Projected Budget: 18 million Euro

Water, whether the increase of it, the pollution of it or the lack of it will be one of the main urban challenges of the 21st Century. SLA’s project The Soul of Nørrebro addresses this issue through a new Nordic Model for city development. It is a highly scalable model based on co-creation, dialogue and humanistic nature-based design solutions., which seek to simultaneously solves both physical, social and cultural challenges in our cities.

The Hydrological Circuit

Copenhagen’s city nature needs the utility and amenity values of its rain water – as well as its poetic value. In The Hydrological Circuit both small and large scale rain is seen as a resource where the rain water is collected, cleansed and reused to irrigate the city nature, and to enrich the everyday life in the city with a new poetic and sensuous experiences of life-giving rain.

The Biological Circuit

Nature’s biological circuits are vitalizing, dynamic and constantly evolving. By strengthening The Biological Circuit of Inner Nørrebro, Hans Tavsens Park will become the birthplace of a biological diversity and variety that will spread from the area to the rest of Nørrebro and Copenhagen.

The Social Circuit

Nørrebro is the most diverse neighbourhood in Copenhagen. The purpose of The Social Circuit is to strengthen commitment to – as well as the co-creation of – the residents’ shared well-being. The Social Ciruit is anchored in the neighbourhoods’ institutions – including Copenhagen’s first Fablab for City Nature.

CIty Nature.

INTEGRATED CLOUDBURST SOLUTION + NEIGHBORHOOD AMENITY

Multi-layered Rainwater Catchment System

When the project is complete, Hans Tavsens Park will act as a natural rainwater catchment basin during cloud-bursts for Inner Nørrebro capable of handling up to 18.000 m3 of water at one time. The excess rainwater will be led via Korsgade out into the Copenhagen Lakes. On the way, the water will be purified biologically by the specifically designed city nature biotopes that are established along Korsgade.

After everyday rainwater event After Major cloudburst situation

After everyday rainwater event

After Major cloudburst situation

COMBINING THE THREE CIRCUITS

Nørrebro Park School + Hans Tavsens Park

Blågård School + FABLAB for City Nature

Korsgade Cleansing Bioswale on Peblinge Lake

ENGAGING ECOTONES : LAGUNA GLORIA

Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Award: 1st Prize - Competition Winner, Consequent Masterplan, Schematic Design

Project Type: Landscape Masterplan Competition

Role: Designer at Reed Hilderbrand LLC

Area: 18 acres / 72,000 sq m

Laguna Gloria is a historic riverside estate in Austin, Texas that was acquired by “The Contemporary Austin” to be the future site for an outdoor sculpture park. Out of four shortlisted landscape architecture firms, Reed Hilderbrand’s competition entry was selected to continue on to the design of the masterplan proposal for the 12-acre site. The waterfront site will be reconceived as a coherent and welcoming landscape that inspires site-responsive permanent and temporary art installations.

Colorado River

Lake Austin

Laguna Gloria Hydrology

Landform / Microtopography Steep Slope Analysis

Existing Vistas

Existing Canopy

Existing Edges: Static Proposed Dendritic Edges: Dynamic

Proposed Ecological Zones

CREATING SPACES FOR ENGAGEMENT

By increasing ecological edges, we seek to create unique pockets of space that make Laguna Glorai a distinct destination for visitors. One key part of hte design was toreconnect the land and water, By creating a unique boardwalk system throughout the site, we wanted to give visitors the opportunity to walk through the various ecological zones to engage with both the landscape and art.

Circulation Typologies:

Boardwalk Over Hummocky Wooded Ground

Meandering Emergent Edge Boardwalk

On Grade Meadow Walk

LOWLAND / EMERGENT EDGE

MEADOW / SAVANNAH

DENSE WOODLAND

THE URBAN SIEVE

Location: Palava City, Mumbai, India

Studio: Harvard GSD Option Studio - Spring 2017 - Urban/Landscape Design

Professors: Christopher C.M. Lee + Simon Whittle

Area: 35.3 Hectacres

Award: Featured in Harvard GSD Platform 10 exhibit

The Palava development seeks to create a world-class “developmental city” – which can create its own self-sufficient digital and immaterial economy away from the messiness of the material-based economy of Mumbai.

To encourage a new type of knowledge-based live and work urban environment, we are proposing the concept of an urban sieve. This urban sieve’s deep structure functions in a bilateral manner to organize movement. The deep structure that divides the space of economics (the housing units) imprints itself on the ground floor as a flexible, colonnaded corridor. The openness of the ground plane allows people and landscape to filter through. This creates programmatic clarity and continuity in the east-west direction while allowing for a diversity of landscape experiences moving east to west.

Our “urban sieve” intends to be an intentionally low-rise scheme that disperses the campus across the city within three strips of program on the ground floor: incubator, social/commercial and classroom. Ultimately, the open ground floor plan is meant to encourage the metropolitan condition of chance encounters and unpredictable convergences, conditions necessary for innovation and creativity to occur.

Continuity of Program E-W

Variation of Landscape E-W

Detailed Ground Floor Plan Centered around Nala Hydrotype

Massing around a Large Event Space

Model of Overall Urban Masterplan Massing E-W Section showing Variation of Landscape Experiences

N-S Section Showing Relationship of Strips of Program

Section showing Deep Stepwell Hydrotype

LAND[SCAPE] BANKING

Location: Coney Island, New York, NY

Studio: Harvard GSD Landscape Architecture Core Studio IV - Spring 2015 - Landscape Urbanism

Professors: David Mah + Chris Reed ; Collaborator: Linh Kim Pham

Area: 33,000 sq m

Award: Featured in Harvard GSD Platform 8 Exhibition

Land[scape] banking puts forth a development initiative that acknowledges the desire to build alongside concerns of coastal vulnerability with an unpredictable building market. With increasingly occurring climatic events such as Hurricane Sandy, this project seeks to create a hydrologic ground work that will guarantee public accessibility in future private development.

Initial Topography Study of Hydrological Ground

Neighborhood Plan of Urban Bioswale Strategy

Vulnerable Coastal Conditions near Coney Island

The pilot site was developed in 3 phases. The initial stage establishes a hydrologically performing ground-plane and main bermed path based on the desire lines of water flow and pedestrian movement. This initial ground plane contains landforms that both buffer against storm surge and allow for water to infiltrate the site at certain points.The second phase establishes small scale modular units on the ground floor that will become public retail storefronts. With future predictions of sea-level rise, this public space can become transformed into sacrificial ground for various flood scenarios. The Final phase integrates private development to densify on top of this initial ground floor, first with adapted floorplates and then regularized plates for maximum economic expediency for future developers.

Planting Palette of Hydrological Ground

PHASE B low rise retail + bermed topography A

PHASE A Hydrologic landform + urban street network B C

lowland/dune planting upland planting street trees

Phase C

Phase B

Phase A

PHASED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Hydrologically functioning ground typologies

CNC Routed Hi-Density Foam Model of Phased Development Strategy

Solar Carving

Model depicting elevated boardwalk + breakwaters