Kelvin Ng Architecture Portfolio
Architecture 20A Department of Engineering & Technology Pasadena City College Instructor: C. Coleman Criffith Student: Kelvin Ng Fall 2010
Project Description: What is the role and scope of today’s orchestras in the community? How does it relate or reflect your community. How could it? My task is to reinvent the relationship between the orchestra and the community. o o
What is a Chamber music ensemble? How big is it?
Site:
Bunker Hill (near Angels Flight Railway 351 S Hill St Los Angeles, CA90013) Cross St: W 4th st Site Photo
Concept: Harmony of Violin o o
Natural Harmonics Artifical Harmonics
Air Vibration between plates (Skin)
Violin Transformation
3.0 2.8 2.6 2.5
2.8 3.5
2.8 3.5 3.0
2.8
2.5
Soundpost
4.6
3.0 2.5
2.5
2.8
3.8
3.0 3.2
3.5
Bass Bar
2.5
Soundpost fibers
2.8
2.8
Sound wave between plates (Bone)
60’
185’ 11 7/16”
Section A
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35 0
60’ 28
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B
345
199’-8 1/16”
Section B 5 33
C
Contour interval - .2 dB Base line 59 dB
60’
5 32 330
5 31
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249’-9 1/8”
Section C
295
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D 285
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60’ 5 32
Grand Central Market Metro California Plaza Car Resident Bus
310’-1”
Section D Datum
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74
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Car circulation Pedestrain circulation
680’
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800’ 355’
320’
64 80’
Existing Buildings
55’ 40’ 15’ 0’
Site / Bunker hill Noise Quiet
66 metro entrance 65 halfway down escalator 58 ticket entrance 60 platform 70 train arriving 80 announcements
research completed 10-16-10 between 1pm-2p
3rd st tunnel
Highest point 66
94
AMBIENT
TRAFFIC
Lowest point
Axon
Site Plan
Plan X Scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
Plan Y Scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
Plan Z Scale: 1/4” = 1’-0”
Architecture 12B Department of Engineering & Technology Pasadena City College Instructor: Neiel Norheim Student: Kelvin Ng Spring 2010
Minimal Surfaces: Surface and Forms
As architects, we look for inspiration with regard to where our design ideas begin and use this inspiration as a reference throughout the development of a given project. This becomes the concept of the project. In your studio experiences so far you have used inspiration from the several places to begin a project: site influences, abstract relationships, external references, etc. In this project, you will use your minimal surface construction rule set as a “conceptual framework” for the design of a pavilion. Your constructions will be used as a loose reference only to get you started. Architectural implications such as Program, Site, and Space will require you to deviate or alter your rule set as you work though the project. Your design should respect both the sensitive approach to the site as well as the efficiency of surface construction that the original house displayed. In other words, you will have to pay close attention to the slope of the landscape, the curvature of your surfaces, and the relationship between them.
Concept Diagram
Create a curve
Copy one more time & make a distance 14’-5 1/2”
Loft them together
Copy and place together
Reflect the upper piece and attach to the lower piece
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A 6 4
First Floor Plan 1/8” =1’ -0”
1 Entry & Reception Area 2 Gallery Display 3 Archive Storage 4 Single Bathroom 5 Lounge 6 Refreshment Bar
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A 5
Second Floor Plan 1/8” =1’ -0”
Section A 1/8” =1’ -0”
Long Elevation 1/8” =1’ -0”
N Site Plan 1/16” =1’ -0”
Short Elevation 1/8” =1’ -0”