KAREN SHIUE U N D E R G R A D U AT E ARCHITECTURE WORK SAMPLE CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY SAN LUIS OBISPO 2 0 0 8 - 2 0 1 3
KAREN SHIUE [E] KSHIUE@CALPOLY.EDU KSHIUE118@YAHOO.COM [T] 510. 368. 4958
EDUCATION 06/2013
CAL POLY STATE UNIVERSITY | San Luis Obispo, CA Bachelor of Architecture Sustainable Environments Minor
08/2011 05/2012
DANISH INSTITUTE FOR STUDY ABROAD | Copenhagen, DK Architecture & Design Program
WORK EXPERIENCE INTERN 03/2013
ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE | New York City, NY
INTERN 07/2012 09/2012
STEINBERG ARCHITECTS | San Jose, CA
INTERN 01/2012 05/2012
WE ARCHITECTURE | Copenhagen, DK
T.A. 09/2010 06/2011
CAL POLY ARCHITECTURE DEPT. | San Luis Obispo, CA
INTERN 07/2009 08/2009
BCA ARCHITECTS | San Jose, CA
Changsha Masterplan Competition: Design work in Rhino 3D articulating soft and hardscape park for masterplan proposal.
Student Health & Counseling Center at SJSU campus. Design team member: tasks included site analysis, schematic design, consultant meetings, competition submittal material.
Farum Urban Development Competition: submittal model. Oasen Cancer Center: facade and material studies, form study models, spatial organization, competition submittal material.
Organized lecture material for Architecture History course, held office hours for students, proctored and graded exams.
Material research, product specification, LEED documentation, graphic design, and brochure design for grand opening of new San Jose headquarters.
HONORS Dean’s List, 2008-2013 Herbert E. Collins Scholarship Recipient, 2011 Best of Second Year Award, Nominated Best of Third Year Award, Nominated Selected to exhibit work at Cal Poly Open House, 2013
SKILLS Rhino 3D, Vray, Revit, AutoCAD, Google Sketchup, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Model making, hand-sketching, Laser Cutter
PUBLICATIONS WEB: ArchDaily, designboom, +M00D PRINT: ADD XII Annual Publication for Student Work at Cal Poly, Editor-in-Chief of 2013 Chumash Show Publication Montage
LANGUAGES Mandarin Chinese (fluent in oral, written, comprehension)
EMANCIPATING URBAN VOIDS BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE THESIS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 2012 - 2013
THESIS CRITIQUE Our public realm in today’s contemporary cities are in a state of crisis, caught between privatizing and commodifying tendencies and social polarization. As the public, in-between space of the city became robbed of its value as a space of social and spatial relationships and encounter, it became recharacterized as a generic non-space of circulation and transit, further perpetuating the dislocation of the social sphere from the physical fabric of the city. As blind spots that have escaped the otherwise unilateral planning vision of the city, these highly productive spaces have the potential to resist the mainstream urban condition driven by gentrification, globalization, and commercialization of the city. This thesis proposes a series of urban interventions that provocates the production and amplification of local, counterculture activity in the contemporary city. These interventions seeks to reassert the local space of the city by harnessing the city’s spontaneous and idiosyncratic activity and providing a space within which such activity is monumentalized and celebrated.
PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLIC SPACE
OPEN PUBLIC SPACE
CIRCULATION & TRANSIT
COMMERCIAL / BUSINESS
PUBLIC URBAN SPACE EXPERIENCE PHYSICAL FABRIC OF THE CITY
integrated SOCIAL SPACES
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ADVENT OF ADVANCED COMMUNICATION MEDIA
PHYSICAL FABRIC OF THE CITY
dislocation
SOCIAL SPACES
LACK OF PUBLIC URBAN SPACE
WHO DOES THE CITY BELONG TO?
CONCENTRATION OF COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OCCUPY THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN WHILE DEDICATED PUBLIC PARKS AND URBAN SPACE IS FAR AND FEW IN BETWEEN
CONCENTRATION OF COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE BUSINESS OCCUPY THE HEART OF DOWNTOWN WHILE DEDICATED PUBLIC PARKS AND URBAN SPACE IS FAR AND FEW IN BETWEEN
Freeway infrastructure creates many of our urban voids. The billboard appears mundane from afar but its architectural monumentalizzation attempts to counteract the negative aspects of the existing fabric by taking the potentials of these spaces to introduce localized heterotopic activity.
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The screen introduces the chance for spontaneous recreation that is not readily apparent throughout existing urban spaces. The billboard also has the potential for social media where the public can create a dialogue with the rest of the city.
GUERILLA ART
The billboard can also be used as a temporary and constantly changing gallery of work by local artists, guerillas, graffiti artists, and even exhibit actual sculptures or objects in the flip down panels on the screen.
IMMERSIVE VIEW OF BILLBOARD
HYPER BILLBOARD // GUERILLA FILM
BILLBOARD MODEL PHOTOS
The structure provides unrestricted and truly local use for protests, demonstrations, and civic gatherings. Quite literally, the structure elevates citizens above the city to stand up to the homogenous, top-down, generic, and planned nature of the city.
SITE 2: THE TEMPORAL MONUMENT TOWER The urban tower, nestled in an forgotten void of an alleyway, provides a structure that seeks to become a temporal monument of local, idiosyncratic, and even illicit activity. Each space is treated with a different facade and elevates one above the city, changing the way the city is viewed to generate criticality and provocate new attitude and discussions on current urban conditions. The tower’s scale attempts to reintegrate the void space into the physical fabric of the city and conscience of the urban citizen by harnessing the temporal nature of spontaneous and idiosyncratic local activity.
ROLLER PANEL FACADE MANIPULATES LIGHT IN SPACE AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INSIDE AND OUTSIDE
SMART GLASS THAT IS PROGRAMMED TO TURN TRANSPARENT DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE GATHERED IN ONE AREA
FROSTED GLASS BLURS VIEW OF THE CITY BUT ALLOWS LIGHT TO PASS THROUGH
C-CHANNEL WITH GROOVE METAL PANEL THREADED ROD
MOUNTING BRACKET 3” O.D CONCAVE ROLLER STEEL C-CHANNEL STEEL Z-PURLIN
ROLLER PANEL FACADE MECHANISM DETAIL
STEEL I-BEAM
GROUND SWELL OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY EXPANSION
PORTLAND, OREGON PHASE 2
PARTNER: CADENCE BAYLEY SPRING 2011
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The new expansion to the OMSI campus is set to include a neurobiological research center and a new public transit station. With the transit station located on the site to bring the public directly into the campus, OMSI conveys the message that working in science is working for the advancement of society. Through shared spaces and shared circulatory paths, boundaries between disciplines and the public are broken down and becomes a catalyst for the breeding of new relationships to envision new technologies for the benefit of human kind.
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Public Transit Center Urban Ecology Center OMSI Expansion Math & Science Center
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WETLANDS AND BUILT RELATIONSHIP
SECTION THROUGH LOBBY ATRIUM
Laboratories Cafe OMSI Expansion Library
LOBBY
SECTION MODEL
STRATA CULTURE FREDERIKSBERG CULTURE HOUSE
FREDERIKSBERG, DENMARK DANISH INSTITUTE FOR STUDY ABROAD SPRING 2012
ASSISTE NS CEMETER Y
The Culture House will be a new vital building in the city. A wide range of activities that will make it a lively building during the day and evening to create a unified polycultural community center. The organization of the building maintains an exchange between fixed program and the new active void that reintroduces open and recreational space into the urbanized city block - an urban space that the city currently lacks becoming a beacon for the entire surrounding area of the greater Copenhagen area.
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SITE PUBLIC GREEN SPACE
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SUBTRACT LAYERS
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INSERT ACTIVE VOID
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LIFT EDGE FOR GROUND PLAZA
LIFT BACK CORNER FOR DAYLIGHT
6 DIALOGUE BETWEEN CULTURE HOUSE AND CITY
LEVEL 1
LEVEL 2
LEVEL 3
FOYER EXHIBITION LIBRARY
MIXING BAR ACTIVITY
CAFE THEATER SUPPORT
UNINTERRUPTED VIEWS FRONT ELEVATION
SIDE ELEVATION
REVIVED RECIPROCITY OREGON MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY EXPANSION
PORTLAND, OREGON PHASE 1: INDIVIDUAL WINTER 2011
LANDSCAPE & FLOWS Wetlands are created by water retention flows to cleanse rainwater as it empties into the river. Initial program studies are directed toward the river while public (red) and private (blue) circulation flows cross over each other to promote interaction and dialogue.
PROGRAM OMSI EXPANSION URBAN ECOLOGY CENTER SCIENCE & MATH CENTER LABORATORIES CAFE
CLADDING SYSTEM PRIMARY STRUCTURE SECONDARY STRUCTURE GLASS STRUCTURE GLASS MULLIONS GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD/FOURTH FLOORS
Science & Math Museum Expansion Scientists
Center for Urban Ecology
Laboratories
PERFORATED METAL SCREEN
HOLEY SIT! VELLUM FURNITURE COMPETITION SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA ACADEMIC: INDIVIDUAL FALL 2012 Holey Sit! contains an offset grid of 77 tubes that fill up the box face to allow for maximum variance, giving the user complete creative control. However, I have also provided the least possible framework without preetermined conditions for play to be meaningful. Through its interactive qualities, Holey Sit! depends on the users to give it form and negotiate with the person on the opposite side for their own and collective meaning of the piece.
Holey Sit! uses cabinet grade pine 3/4” plywood for the center box and 2” diameter polyvinyl chloride pipes. Shelf bracket angles were used to resist moment as well as steel and concrete weights to keep it structurally stable. 3’-0”
MATERIALS USED
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OD = 2.4”
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE
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Join wood pieces with miter joints with wood glue. Drill bracket angeles into place on interior edges to hold pieces together while the glue dries.
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Cut 10’ PVC pipes down to 3’ sections with a chop saw or hacksaw.
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Sand PVC pipes down with 320 grit or finer to get them to a smooth matte eggshell finish. Slide tubes into the holes and begin playing!
STEINBERG ARCHITECTS SJSU STUDENT HEALTH AND COUNSELING CENTER INTERNSHIP TYPE: Summer DURATION: July 2012 - September 2012 TEAM: Brigitte Williams, AIA Roxanne Levy Karen Shiue Design team member for a competition completed in two months from beginning to submittal. With only 3 members on the team, I actively contributed to conceptual development and formal schematic design as well as completed all diagrammatic drawings for the competition proposal book submittal. I also prepared digital model to send to rendering firm, Atchain, based in China.
CONCEPT & SITE DIAGRAMS FOR SUBMITTAL
CAMPUS ELEVATIONS
WE ARCHITECTURE OASEN CANCER COUNSELING CENTER INTERNSHIP TYPE: Outside of Academic DURATION: January 2012 - May 2012 TEAM: Karen Shiue, Marc Jay, Julie Nielsen, Justin Cua, Rasmus Noesgaard, Nora Fossum, Kristian Hindsberg, Casper Berntsen I took responsibility for the submittal model and designed techniques to best represent the concepts in the model. I oversaw the process from start to finish. Materials include foam, plastic, wood, and perforated metal sheets.
HAND SKETCHING EVERYWHERE & ANYWHERE 2008-2013
Sketching is my most powerful tool. I enjoy exploring all mediums, drawing all subjects still life or analytical drawing. I can always shift mediums and revert to hand sketching to try to resolve an issue in the design.