KATHY TENG
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO ACADEMIC WORK | SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SOA BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2016
KATHY TENG
BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2016 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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| 01 thesis synopsis
“because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...” -- Jack Kerouac, On the Road
thesis advisor: anne munly | thesis may 2016
“private room on the wheel”
creating a new form of transient lifestyles
The cross-country highway and road trip are deeply rooted in the American psyche, establishing a sense of freedom and leisure in their mobile lifestyles. However, other highway users have less control and freedom over their daily routine. The time long-haul truck drivers are away from home is prolonged, with the end of each day spent sleeping in fixed truck cabins and eating at banal truck stops. This thesis reconsiders the truck stop along the freeway, by studying the transport network at multiple scales, including the truck drivers’ daily routines and their live-work practices. By proposing a new truck stop prototype, it functions as a core infrastructure of the future mobile metropolis and transient lifestyle. The speculative prototypes transform into a new American landscape along the freeways, seeking to offer transitory community to those on the road, including their families, in the near future. The truck stop’s narrow focus on providing limited and costly services to truck drivers, constitutes a missed opportunity to re-conceive of such infrastructure, as well as the truck cabin itself as flexible and transitory. Responding to existing technical and hauling criteria, “the private room on the wheel” seeks to optimize the truck cabin and plug into a new docking mechanism. Connected by the existing American highway network, this new infrastructure will better address truck drivers’ needs, and also promote a transient lifestyle based on radical mobility.
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| 03 binary mode of living
INTERNATIONAL TRUCK CAB
binary mode of living 04 |
OVER-THE-ENGINE TRUCK CAB
| 05 locating the truck driver
MANUFACTURER
DISTRIBUTOR
shanghai China
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10 miami
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new york
90
7,0
14 - 30
days
China
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CUSTOMER
syracuse, ny
syracuse, ny
2,5
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0S
F
SF
SF
4 hours
1 hour
20 mins
the United States
30
SELLER
rome, ny
3am - truck stop 0 mph
6am - on freeway 65 mph
age: 54 yrs old height: 6’ weight: 260 lbs
2pm - 2:30pm truck stop 0 mph
6pm - on freeway 65 mph
married 9pm - shower room 0 mph
dog companion
truck drivers’ daily routines
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over-the-engine truck cab 13’00”
Passenger’s seat slides front and back to provides maximized leg room for the passenger, while on the road. The lower bed bunk rests on storage cabinets and passenger seat is released and pushed to the front while in use
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7’6
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international truck cab
This type of truck cab is widely used in the United States. The upper bed bunk could be flipped upwards for bigger head space. The interior space is crowed with four 2’ deep cabinets for storage, located between the sleeping and driving areas.
over-the-engine truck cab
international truck cab
visibility diagram truck drivers could only see objects 20ft away
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| 07 circle as the “core” Learning from the technology of a yacht mast, a mast is designed to be light and multi-purposed. It extends and telescopes outwards with the fabric material.
Historically, tribes on the trail gathers in a circle and use their wagons as a line of barrier around them. The central fire pit provided warmth.
The form, function, and structure of an umbrella is reconsidered in the design of the deployable tent behind the truck. It depends on a mast which serves as the “core” for enclosure.
private room on the wheel 08 | this proposed truck cab tends not to completely change the existing truck cab; but to voice out a possibility to change the lifestyle of the truck drivers, to give a potential hint of what a future truck cab could be.
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The roof canopy stretches and is structured by several “masts�. This fabric canopy is giant, yet lightweight. At night, the truck docking station is a glowing under this canopy.
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design process sketches
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instructor: randall korman
irish consulate a f a c a d e i n v e s t i g at i o n boston, massachusetts i n c o l l a b o r at i o n w i t h e r i k y e p e z This project explores the identity of Ireland through a facade design, and furthermore investigates in the relationship between public and private spaces in a consulate building. The struggle in this project is to allow light into the offices and at the same time diverts the southern light. An auditorium is situated as an object intruding the atrium, which allows as much light in as possible. Curvilinear panels are hung from the glass roof, responding to the object below. The object is visually floating from street level.
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| 23 irish consulate
irish consulate 24 |
south facade
south facade detail
| 25 crafting the digital
crafting the digital 26 |
instructor: julie larsen
cra fting the digital i n c o l l a b o r at i o n w i t h n o l a n A joint is design for this model to flexibly change the angle of rotation derived from the digital model. The joint is 3d printed for mass production and assembly. Each wood arms are CNC milled for precise measurements.
arm modules
transformation of digital surface rhino paneling tool
| 27 crafting the digital
Joints are inspired from compasses where two arms are open and closed with a pivot at one end. 3D printed joints are massively produced for flexible and manual maneuver to the wood arms’ angles.
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wood arms in CNC Milling plate - 2’ x 2’ x 1.75” oak plywood
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instructor: roger hubeli
road house on i-90 interstate-90 montana what will happen to the landscape in 50 years? Interstate 90 runs across the United States, linking from Seattle , Washington to New York State. The site of this project is located along I-90 in Montana State where two contrast types of land textures and systems are met: the irrigation fields and the rocky mountains. One is a human made system, forming large clusters of circles on the land; and the latter is resulted from natural transformation of the site, where water travels down from the mountain ultimately forming the dendritic patterns on the landscape. The road house performs as a rest stop on the highway that responds to the landscape. The program of the road house consists of gas stations, convenient stores, and parking spaces for trucks and cars.
This project explores the duality of the landscapes of the site and acts as a water collecting and draining structure. The structure is constructed in various combination of the modules. The design of the module is a combination of both the irrigation and dendritic patterns. The module also has slopes and slots that allow water to flow down into the ground. Finally, What patterns would this proposed structure create to the land?
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Dendritic Drainage Pattern Water flow meets at one
Irrigations textures Water Pumps up to ground
irrigation
water flows
Center Pivot Irrigation System
underground water flow water water travels up to the from Jefferson River storage center pivot
Irrigations Systems
Whitehall
5000 ft
Rocky Mountains
3000 ft
Some Mounts
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The Plains Highways and I-90 Railroad
Topography
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start- rainfalls
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Dentritic Drainage Pattern start- rainfalls
water ows
60 year
water creates patterns on ground
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ge Pattern 0 years water ows
30 years 60 years future- water forms dendritic pattern
terns on ground
0 years 30 years 60 years future- water forms dendritic pattern
rain water channeling diagram
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hydro-gym WEST CHELSEA DEVELOPMENT | NEW YORK CITY in collaboration with ahren jeffries
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retail gym
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The form has edges of extrusion that emerge/ meet at one line and the other side where the edges are rotated and diverged. this form performs as a module that is repeated, rotated and stacked together. Then three squared extrusions are cut and subtracted off the overall form in different orientation. These squared cuts become voids that performs as the aquatic elements in the building.
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With the high line park being converted from train rails and people coming to exercise on the train tracks; hydro-gym is a multi-leveled sport facility surrounding with an giant aquatic volume penetrating through the building.
leisure
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This project investigates the spatial hybrids that defy traditional programmatic disciplinary typologies in the built urban environment. The West Chelsea area in NYC is a special zoning district with the High Line is next to the site. We (as private developers) propose am entertainment complex combining two major components: sport and aqua.
acquire from City of NY | 179,400 SF acquire from WCCT | 41,400 SF
FAR 6.0
land acquisition | 36,800 SF
ZONING C6-2
W 20 TH STREET
11TH AVE
W 19 TH STREET
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1/4 scaled interior model set | interior view of volleyball court and pool above
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Flat
Mild Slope
Steep Slope
Vertical
Team Sports
Track
Exercise Platforms
Climbing Wall
Retail
Dining
Park
Projector
Hygiene
Shallows
Pool
Aquarium
hydro-gym 36 | 5th Floor 1
Aquarium
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Restaurant
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Nightclub
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Kitchen
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Aquarium
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Pool
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Adidas
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Workout Platforms
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Changing Rooms
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4th Floor
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3rd Floor
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Aquarium
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Adidas
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Volleyball
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Yoga
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Aquarium
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Adidas
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Retail Floor
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Park
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Adidas
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2nd Floor
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Ground Floor
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Retail
Leisure
Gym
Aqua
| 37 onondaga lake boat house
Perspective Section 50 years in the future: stone breaks and bigger craccks, plants started to grow
water drips from the slanted roof and down through the curved surface
30 years in the future: stone starts to get little cracked and weathered
presence: shale is cut into paneled and stacked up
see through steel mesh
“shifting� concept model for 38 | american folk art museum
| 39 spatial investigation through lines
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instructor: ted brown
drawing in the field Historical architectural structures in various Italian cities are analytically drawn in the field.
| 41 massing study model with material textures model with 3D printed facade and frames summer internship at STUDIOS Architecture
images rendered in Revit and edited in Adobe Photoshop summer internship at KSS Architects
summer internships
p r o fes s io n al wor k
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THANK YOU. KATHY TENG BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE 2016 SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SOA (510) 456 5783 kx.teng@hotmail.com kteng01@syr.edu