Kathy Teng Architecture Portfolio 2016

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.

thesis synopsis 02 |

| 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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F

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

private room on the wheel 06 |

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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10’

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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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145o

100o

wood arms in CNC Milling plate - 2’ x 2’ x 1.75” oak plywood

crafting the digital 28 |

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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

0 ft

The Plains Highways and I-90 Railroad

Topography

| 31 i-90 road house Plan

start- rainfalls

s from the n the roof to to be part of

Dentritic Drainage Pattern start- rainfalls

water ows

60 year

water creates patterns on ground

30 year

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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i-90 road house 32 |

| 33 instructor: angie co

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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hydro-gym 34 |

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