Martin He Architecture Portfolio
Table of Contents 01. Resume
02. The Whelk Individual Project Used Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, and Enscape
03. Mellon College of Science Individual Project Used Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, and Enscape
04. Six Mile Island Housing Individual Project Used Rhino, Grasshopper, Adobe Suite, and Vray
05. Gensler CLT Project In collaboration with my intern class, Kevin Turner, Sam Graham, Samantha Strotter, Tuyen Lemai, and Mitchell Apple. Used Revit, Rhino, Adobe Suite, and Enscape in the process
06. Design Process Illustrate how I approach a design problem Used pen, pencil, crayon, color pencil, and different BIM software
01. Resume 7706885928 https://kunzeh.myportfolio.com/
kunzeh@andrew.cmu.edu
Education CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY Pittsburgh, PA| Bachelor of Architecture, Expected, May 2021 GPA 3.34/4.0 DEAN’S LIST CORNELL UNIVERSITY Ithaca, NY | Architecture Summer College GPA 4.0/4.0 (6 Units)
Skills Aug 2016 - Present Fall 2017, Spring 2018, Fall 2018 Summer 2015
Work Experience Internship at Gensler
Digital: Revit Rhinoceros 5 Photoshop Autocad InDesign Illustrator Grasshopper V-Ray Bluebeam
Analog: Perspective Drawing Rendering Drafting Model Building Wood Making
Language (Fluent): English Mandarin Chinese Cantonese Chinese
Additional Skill (High-Level): Oil Painting Watercolor Painting
Related Awards Dean’s List
Fall 2017 - Fall 2018
Dallas, Texas | Internship under Lifestyle Flex 3
Scholastic Art and Writing National Gold Award
Dec 2015
Staffed on the AT&T Headquarter in downtown Dallas. Worked on various phases of different parts of the project. Mainly used Revit, Rhino and Grasshopper during the internship. Worked on the CLT intern project.
Scholastic Art and Writing State Gold Award
Dec 2015
Scholastic Art and Writing State Siler Award (4x)
Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
Oil painting exhibited at Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building and the President’s Committee on the Art and the Humanities in Washington, DC
Spring 2015 Spring 2017
Internship at Wakefield Beasley & Associates, A Nelson Company Atlanta, Georgia | Internship under Institution Group
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Used Revit and Autocad for the documentation phase and conceptual design phase of several projects, including Passion City Church, Westland Cove Aparments, Yourlife Senior Living. Internship at RSP Architects, Planners & Engineers Singapore, Singapore | Internship under City Planning Department Used Autocad, Excel, PowerPoint for master planning and conceptual planning in Yunan Province and Shandong Province in China. Mainly involved in documentation phase and material preparation.
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
02. The Whelk
Project Site: South Bank Center, London Instructor: Hal Hayes
South Bank Center is a historical site for British Cultural Renaissance after WWII. The South Bank Center currently consists of the Royal Festival Hall, the National Theater, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Hayward Gallery. With the increasing demand for more performance space, the British government had asked for proposal to build new performance space on this historical site. Architectural firms, Richard Rogers’ and Feilden Clegg Bradley, had won competitions to renovate and make new addition to the site in separate occasions. However, their schemes were not built due to various reasons. This studio project is based on the real potential need to the site. The program requires a 500 people capacity flexible performance chamber with supporting front of house and back of house space.
Flexible Chamber Proposal
Conceptual Diagram
In 1951, the South Bank Center started with the construction of Royal Festival Hall. The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery were added to the sit ein the late ‘60s. Conceived to celebrate post-war England’s cultural Renaissance, the South Bank Center is now a major cultural hub in London. The music halls and gallery space are the beating heart of the buildings they are encased in. Morphologically, they are boxes encased within their building shells. My concept, dubbed the whelk, is a shell encased in a box. The chamber reinforces the central axis of the South Bank Center, and it focuses on Cleopatra’s Needle Across the Thames The unique shape on this culturally significant site celebrates the cultural and technological advancement of the 21st century.
Freight and Circulation Flow
Basic Structural Diagram
Programs
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1. Front of House 2. Back of House and HVAC 3. Loading 4. Informal Courtyard Performance Space 5. House
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Site Condition
Pedestrian Night View
The northern side of the building is facing river Thames. The Queen Elizabeth Walkway on the North side is a heavy-traffic walkway full of trees and retails. As a result, I decided to make the northern side the main entrance of my performance hall.
First Floor Plan - 4.5 m Level
Atrium & Sculptural Escalator
Mezzanine Plan - 8.2 m Level
Day & Night Informal Performances
Night Performance
Chamber Plan - 12.7 m Level
Viewing Platform & Chamber View
Chamber Balcony Plan
Night Performance
First Floor Plan - 0 m Level
East West Section
Informal Day Performance
Night Life within the Proposal Chamber
03. Mellon College of Science
Project Site: Carnegie Mellon University Campus Instructor: Hal Hayes
The Mellon College of Science is currently situated in a Beaux-Arts building far from the Carnegie Mellon main campus. Dean of the Mellon College, Rebecca, campus architect, Bob, had worked with several architecture firms, including BCJ, to design a new building for the College for the past couple of year. The new building is going to be on an empty lot, owned by CMU, adjacent to Carnegie Museum of Arts and Natural History. The new building will include a 10-story lab tower, a small, two hundred ninty nine people opera hall, and various other programs that need relocation from CMU main campus. They are the IDeATe classroom and studio, Miller Gallery, Luna Gala Studio, Heines Architecture Center, and Mellon College Dean Suite. For this project, we collaborated with Dean of Mellon College, Dean of School of Music, Campus Architect, professors from Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture and School of Music. Music chamber consultant and professionals from the various programs. The scale, complexity of the project, and the dedication of the many professionals involved enable me to make a bold proposal that not only accommodates all these programs but also acts as a gateway into the campus. It uses the same sensibility as the other campus building, but its unconventional form and functionality signifies that this is a 21st century addition to Carnegie Mellon.
Design Concept
Ground Plan for Final Proposal
This concept divides the project into three parts, each with a symbolic significance. The east side is the laboratory tower, the left brain of the complex; it is scientific, methodical, rigorous, precise, and inventive. The west side is the opera house, the “right brain� of the complex; it is musical, imaginative, metaphorical or abstract, and perhaps even fanciful. The center is a large winter garden that acts as a sort of corpus callosum, connecting the right and left sides of this brain, with a large variety of different types of spaces and pathways for collaboration and happenstance interaction that pass information back and forth. This lively interdisciplinary space weaves through both sides. It bridges the two distinctive pedagogical types, research and conservatory education, and creates a unique amalgam that binds the two together. These three parts’ convergence is similar to that of the urban patterns of Pittsburgh, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, which determine the diverse morphology of the city fabric, creating a lively, thriving place at the intersections of these two grids. Concept Diagram
Ariel View for Final Proposal
Pittsburgh City Grid Resulting from 2 Rivers
Proposal Plans and Section
0’ Ground Plan
15‘ Scott Bridge Entry & Dean Suite Floor Plan
30’ Ideate Classroom Plan
45’ - 150’ Typical Lab Plan
Plans and Guests Sequence
Winter Garden Sequence
52’ plan
37’ plan
Serpentine and Central Walkway
22’ plan
Music Winter Garden Science
7’ plan
Mellon College Lab Tower Looking into Garden
Winter Garden Section
Science Hall Sequence
Roof Top Spaces of Various Rooms
Forbes Avenue Looking into Lab Tower
Music Hall Looking into Garden and Lab Tower
Atrium of Science
Typical Lab Floor
Atrium of Music
Music Hall Sequence
Forbes Avenue Looking into Music Hall
Opera Hall
Opera Hall and Opera Back of House Section
04. Six Mile Island Housing
Project Site:
This project is located at Six Mile Island, Pittsburgh.
Six Mile Island, Pittsburgh, PA
We were challenged to design 10-15 housing units and surrounding landscapes on this small island. The biggest obstacle of the project was to prevent flooding at this barely elevated site.
Instructor: Heather Bizon
We started with rigorous mapping and then studied EcoMachine for flood prevention. Through the process of Eco-Morphology, both scientific and artistic aspects of architecture are exploited.
Mapping on Six Mile Island
Resulting architecture Based on Maping Study
Changing the scale, I then zoomed into the island and do the intense mapping again.
The resulting architecture is these hill-like structures that blend into existing typography. With its special form and landscape integration, residents can go in and out of their houses and wander around the entire island in one continuous path.
The finding and visual eventually helped me answer various essential questions, such as, where to place architecture or flooding control? What kind of form to pick to adjust the changing in elevation? How best to make transportation to the island?
Drainage
Flow
Wind
Prone to Flood Area
Various public space and landscaping retain, drain, or distribute flooding. With the various seasonal precipitation and water level changes, the architecture brings in different architectural perceptions to the residents.
Diagrams of Various Zones
Fin System and Unit Plan The fins are designed parametrically based on the privacy and lighting needed for specific rooms.
Roof Plan
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Second Floor
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A. Public Space (Flooding Zone)
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B. Landscaping Based on Contour (Distribute Flooding)
C. Unit
Ground Floor
Parametric Fins
Unit Detailed Section
Unit Detailed Section: Views to East, South, West Mountains
The architecture offers inhabitants to have the opportunity to be in different elevations. The feeling of being above the tree line, being surrounding by trees above ground, or walking at the same level as trees all bring inhabitants different views and sensation.
Roof Top View
Flooding Season View
Long Section: Water Retaining Wall vs. Glass Wall Views to Surrounding Mountains
Long Section: Architecture Folding into Landscape
Approaching Island View
Conclusion
The final interior design engages in plenty of sunlight and gorgeous views to the surrounding. Starting out with mapping and studying eco-machine, the final project includes many design parameters, such as flooding, topography, and others. The most interesting part of this project is the usage of wetland and bioswale technique for flood prevention. It not only helps with flooding, but also bring in a seasonal difference to the architecture.
Interior View of the Unit
Model
05. Gensler CLT Intern Project
Project Site: N/A Instructor: Group of Gensler designers oversee the development
Gensler Dallas is the first Gensler office in North America to use CLT when they worked on the First United Bank. The mission of our intern project is to inform the whole firm what is CLT and how to use CLT as a new, sustainable material. We made comprehensive research and desgined a prototype, modular house to demonstrate the capability of CLT. By the end, we made website, brochure, and construction video ready to be delivered to the firm as presentation materials. In collaboration with Kevin Turner, Sam Graham, Samantha Strotter, Tuyen Lemai, and Mitchell Apple. We collaborate with the First United Bank team every Wednesday and Friday. I participated in design phase, made physical model, drew all sections and made the exterior render with Rhino, Revit, Enscape, and Photoshop. We presented to the entire Dallas office at the end of the 10-week internship.
CLT Construction Saving
What is CLT
Paneling System
CLT Construction Timeline (Shots from Video)
Sections of Prototype House
Renders of Prototype House
06. Desgin Process I always start my design by drawing a lot. I draw out big ideas without scale. I draw out site limitations and my interpretation. I gradually move into drawing with different scales. I usually do not touch computer at all for a decent amount of time when I start designing. Once I have a good direction to go, I will use computer to make precise decision. I also use different BIM software to test out forms and shadows. I gradually perfect my design in BIM.