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PROJECTS Solidity Flow Contrast
ANNEX Museum as a Sculpture
Expanding The Box
PreFAB From The Werehouse To Any Location Housing Prototypes
Suspend
URBAN PLOT City Market as a Community Garden
Inside Out
INTERIOR DESIGN Undergraduate Sample Projects
Skin To Structure
DIGITAL FABRICATION Tectonics
SOLIDITY FLOW CONTRAST
Museum as a Sculpture
ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York
ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York
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Museum as a sculpture… Annex means to attach, append, or add, especially to something larger or more important. Our site, located on 10th Avenue New York City, is known as the meat-packing district. The High Line elevated freight line was authorized in 1929 as part of the “West Side Improvement Plan”, and the New York Central Railroad completed construction. Due to the elevated railroad line that were added through the neighborhood along Ninth Avenue and Greenwich Street, industrialization increased. Annex is a Kusthal Museum designed to incorporate the industrial history of the site by celebrating materials such as concrete, metal, and glass. The solidity of the form of the museum serves as a crown monument of New York City. The skin of the building resembles shards of rocks to represent the historical aesthetics of New York in American society. The Plinth was design to connect the street level of the museum to the High Line thirty feet above ground. It serves as an artificially natural circulation for pedestrians to move about the site and on to the sculptural garden, which circulates around the museum. The Plinth also functions as a stand, in which the museum as a sculpture sits on. The galleries of the museum are stacked into three concrete towers. The skin is made of glass, steel, and perforated metal. From the outside, the structure invokes a sense of sublimity with its rigid and rough exterior; in contrast, when entering the museum, the skin and the gallery are two different entities. The skin engulfs the interior structure, providing an exterior atrium. To enrich the space, the perforated metal allows light to be filtered into the space and enhances the sculptures that it houses.
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ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York
ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York
EXPANDING THE BOX
Housing Prototypes
PreFAB
From The Werehouse To Any Location
PreFab Prototype: L-House
Breaking up the box into modular units to be reassemble into many configuration.
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Open Space Private Space
North Elevation
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Moveable Wall Options
East Elevation
FLEXIBILTY
First Floor Plan
South Elevation
Second Floor Plan
West Elevation
PreFab Prototype: L-House
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Roof
Drain Scuppers
Open Space to Allow Water Flow
RoofEdge Paver Pedestal
Prevegetated LiveRoof Modules Slip Sheet Waterproofing Roof Deck
Roof/ Planter Detail 2nd Floor Exterior Walls
2nd Floor Interior Walls
Section B B 2nd Floor Exterior Walls
1St Floor Interior Walls
Assembly Diagram
Section A A
PreFab Prototype: H-House
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West Elevation
East Elevation
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OUTDOOR CONNECTION Sustainable Features - Daylight - Natural Ventilation - Wall Paneling System are (6’x10’) or (8’x10’) - SIP or CLT walls are used - Modular systems allow homes to be custom and affordable - Prefab construction saves time, building material, and cost - Modular Planters help shade roof without the structure of having a green roof - Water collection system stores and reduce water waste - Solar Water Heating ready.
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Handicap Accessible Floor Plan 2% Slope
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PreFab Prototype: H-House
View From Courtyard
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Modular Wall Panel System SIP Wall Detail
Optional Addition B
Optional Addition A Main Modular Unit
Expansion Diagram
Floor Connection
SUSPEND Food is essential to life. The more we know about food, the better we are about what we put into our bodies. What better place to learn and obtain fresh food than a market? Asheville, North Carolina is an urbanizing city with a population of eighty three thousand people. Last month, the City Council passed a Food Action Plan in Asheville. Among other efforts, the plan calls for focusing on existing landscaping budgets to include more edible plants and community gardens. It also calls for using the city’s Unified Development Ordinance to prioritize urban agriculture. And it aims to give people without reliable transportation safe walkways and public transportation to emergency food providers, grocery stores and farmers markets. Regulations for farmers markets in neighborhoods would be streamlined. Proposal I purpose Urban Plot as a centralized urban garden and market located in the heart of downtown Asheville. Urban Plot will be where farmers, consumers, food enthusiasts are united to promote education, health, participation, and experimentation with the freshest of foods.
City Market as a Community Garden
URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC
URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC
GreenLife Grocery
Pack Square
SITE
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Grocery Stores in Asheville
Market Goals · promote education and health · promote participation, recreation, and relaxation · contribute to food security · contribute to food safety · decrease food desert
Pritchard Park
SITE
Public Parks Access
Site Map
URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC
Restaurants Cafe
Aditorium Circulation
Second Floor Pla
Market Floor Plan
Lexington Street Section
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Glass
Walls
Framing
Mullions
Administrative Offices Auditorium and Class Rooms
Hyroponic Farms
Third Floor Plan
Steel Frames
Flooring
Site
URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC
This model is constructed at an 1/8”=1.0’ scale. All the columns and beans are connected with a figure joint and cable were attached to hang the floors below before it was erected.
LOAD DIAGRAM
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS
Girders were added to support the structure and roof. The structure was stable but the floor were swaying and need bracing to react to lateral forces.
URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC
ANALYSIS
The structure seemed stable but the floor were swayed from side to side when horizontal force was directly applied. Lateral bracing is needed to react to lateral forces. After further
analysis, lateral support was needed to make the structure static. Holes were drilled and cables were added diagonally along sides of the building connecting the structural frame and the floors to strengthen the structure. Diagonal cables were also added in the interior structure connecting the floors.
After adding the diagonal cables for bracing, the structure was more static. The top floor was very stable while the bottom floor was less static. Because the cables were imperfectly hand stretch and tied, caused the study model to be not as tight as it should have been. There is not enough tension for the model to be static. If machines were used to build the structure, the structure would be static. This structure could be static and functional if it was built is real scale.
Undergraduate Sample Projects
Interior Design
INTERIOR DESIGN
Using the footprint o five star hotel with 40
Conceptional Models
1st Floor Plan
Design Concept: The tea. Different floors r the color palette, lev ect is to blur the lin cosmopolitan space this metropolis daily.
HOTEL DESIGN
of the building, conceptualize and design the interiors of a 0 floors.
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Contributed to: 1st Floor: Lobby, Reception, Restaurant, and Back of House 3rd Floor: Retail, Offices, Meeting Rooms, Conference Rooms, and Cafeteria 6th- 36th Floor: Deluxe Rooms 39thth Floor: Premier Suites
INTERIOR DESIGN
HOTEL DESIGN The design of the restaurant brings forth the element of water. The different levels and concentric rings radiating out from the bar echo the rippling affect of water.
Restaurant & Mezzanine Floor Plan
Restaurant Elevation
INTERIOR DESIGN
39th Floor Plan
Premier Suite Floor Plan Premier Suite Perspective
Premier Suite Elevation
HOTEL DESIGN
6th - 36th Floor Plan
Deluxe A & B Perspective
Deluxe A & B Floor Plan
Deluxe A & B RCP
Deluxe A & B Elevation
INTERIOR DESIGN Objective: With the community of Athens in mind, design an alternate facility that will enhance the exercise experience by creating a warm and relaxing atmosphere for people who enjoy. Design Features: Inspired by Japanese architecture, multi-purpose classroom studios, a therapeutic pool, sauna and steam rooms, hourly day care, and a Zen garden and coy pond.
CafĂŠ and Juice Bar
Therapeutic Pool
Hospitality Design
Site Plan
South Elevation
Section A.2
Floor Plan
Skin to Structure
DIGITAL FABRICATION
DIGITAL FABRICATION The objective to this project was to design a digital model using various tools in Rhino creating a structure. First, many conceptual digital models were made to analyze the solids and voids of the sculpture. Using the “pipe� command, curves were extruded into a wire frame structure. Then columns and floors were designed in the model to create a standing building. Finally, a scaled model was fabricated to illustrate the skin and the structure of the building.
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Skin To Structure ITERATIONS II MARY TRAN
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DIGITAL FABRICATION Skin to Structure
Fabrication The base is a massing made out of chipboards. The structure consist of columns made with chip and basswood. The windows are framed in wood and layered with plexiglass. Thick basswood make up the floors of the structure. The voids and curded glass were fabricated using a 3-D printer.