To My Father, A dedication of knowledge and inspiration.
Contained Works Written Works 01 An Analysis on Clairetow Theater 02 Un-determined
Studio Projects 03 A Study In Pedagogy 04 A Study in Les Tubes
Electives 05 Data Driven 06 A Study In Geometry 07 A Study In The Etherial Ultrareal
Extra-curricular Activities 08 A Study In The Visionary 09 The Final Frontier 10 A Study In Literature
AN ANALYSIS ON CLARETOW
Located between west 65th and 66th street. The exuberant style of the series of monumental buildings places my mind into in a world of glamour and suspended disbelief. Following the signs towards the Claire Tow Theater and the Vivian Beaumont Theater, it is to my surprise that one of the theaters ‘is placed in a desolate location in the northeast corner of the Lincoln center. The inclusion of a plaza and a water surface that holds an organic sculpture in front of the building almost pushes this theater to the degree of having a separate character and entity than the other halls of performance. As Eero Saarinen’s Building comes into full view, I can not help but wonder, where is the Claire Tow Theater? Being honest, during my visit I was completely lost to the true location of the theater, what I knew is that it was an addition to the Eero Saarinen Vivian
Beaumont Theater. It took me two other visits to understand that the theater crowns the Beaumont theater and does not present itself like the many other performance halls at the Lincoln Center. Ambiguous and hidden, to a degree that the only hint that allows one to realize that the where path to the Claire Tow happens in an extruded channel glass box that hints at the possibility of vertical movement due to the moving ghosts inside the box. Upon entering the Vivian Beaumont theater, the west side of the building harbors an implanted, three chaffers wide channel glass wall that creates such a strong material dissonance that my complete attention is pulled away from the Eero Saarinen Theater’s Lobby and lock on the three elevators that ascend to the Claire Tow Theater. The elevators unlike many of the modern equivalents offers no translucency in its carts’ envelope, thus creating a contrasting spatial experience to the bare and translucent lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Upon arriving at our destination, I placed immediately
into the lobby of the building first rather than the typical theater where the start is from the outside. The pure white and transparent walls allow no proper way to judge the purpose or function of the building. It remains an entity of questioning and unsureness. The spatial organization and the congestion of the interior spaces in an L shape configuration, changes our proximity to people and the walls so vastly different from the Saarinen Building that our perception is skewed and even to a degree create a sense of distortion. The terrace, which engages us by the shift of material from the all white colored walls and gray floors to the warm wooden plain that works as an open area for social gathering space which sits elevated above a green roof. The terrace that sets the building back works as a stage to the city, and the visitors as the performers. In that, regards it almost seems that H3HC’s building aim to reflect on the city and also allow the visitors to reflect on the performers. In this reflection, they try to create the need to question the function and the reasoning, even
to a degree as a result to question ourselves in the process. Re-introducing us to the city, is a new step towards establishing a new gathering plaza in which could be harbored between two buildings in either a vertical, horizontal or diagonal relationship. A relationship as such allowed to be able to view the Lincoln center a bit differently. The same as I the spectator who arrive to experience a temporal theatrical play that manifests itself usually with a set characters, the stage I am on, not only allows me to reflect on the city but also, and in a concentrated manner the Plaza in front of the Vivian Beaumont theater and the plaza in between the three main performance halls at the Lincoln Center. It almost seems that the theater is viewing the city as a space of experiment. In that regards the Claire Tow Theater that currently works as an experimental performance space, perfectly sets up the stage for myself to experience something that is still in the process rather in than the thing that is already a result.
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it to mask its function in relationship to people who visit. But, what is far more interesting in its placement is the establishment of a new ground, a plane in which the city can continue to grow vertically rather than horizontally. Rem Koolhaas mentions in his book Delirious New York: a retrospective Manifesto for Manhattan, that the “Vertical-ism” of the building allows for acceptance of its deliberate instable sense of organization and harbors a bigger sense to create a better cultural ground. The island in the sky type ordeal is almost reaching out to create a city within a city, a ground above a ground, and the method in which it connects, the elevators, is perhaps the best method in which a transition into a new form of “unknowable urbanism”. Bernardo Secchi talks about this notion of a new urban scale as the proximity of a building to another could be seen as an urban territorial exploration that seeks to find a co-existing individualized rhythm of spatial proximity to existing structures. This perhaps is a new path towards paving a new multilayered city, and a new understanding of building typology.
Assessing the definition of equipment, which is a tool that is used to fulfill a certain process to achieve something. In this regard, the Claire Tow Theater, if assessed as a piece of equipment or even a holder of equipment, can be understood in fact as a building that functions and expresses its self clearly. A building for that holds the process of experimental theatrical productions that aim to create the next generation of performers and producers, while also serving as the process in which new urban scales and relationships could manifest. In this regards, in its complete ambiguity, it express itself rather very clearly, and perhaps our knowledge and definition of non-buildings have not been assessed and re-searched enough. Perhaps the establishment of a new ground in wake of an ambiguous building is a step towards defining new types of architecture of the 21st century. Ones that do not deal unnecessary directness, but ones that bask in allowing the sensation of discovery and exploration to be harbored again. To me that is the greatest thing about the city, and with rise of categorization of buildings and designating their boundaries, that sensation is slowly being diminished. The Claire Tow Theater
is rather a very delightful discovery that allowed me to wonder and question every single towards and away from the building. In those steps I have come question how do we proximate buildings to people and how do we communicate what the buildings is trying without the addition of Signage and decoration. However, in many regards it is rather difficult to assess the building without an actual visit. The theater rather remains an obscure entity to major performance halls at the Lincoln Center; it is hidden from public eyes and implies that it masks its identity beyond the comprehension of the people. This creates a problematic approach to public proximity in relationship to building and function. This play of function and its proximity to people who are either visitors and or mere spectators to the Lincoln center, the Claire tow theater seems to be playing on a low-key note of invisibility. Hiding most its self from the eyes of those who wander on the ground, the building presents itself as a mere box that spirits itself as a holder of equipment. It is an actor that performs in silence on top of the given stage without clear motive and announced identity. This works to great extent and upon leaving the building, my mind is now in tune with the buildings presence, and my self-consciousness, is
In Historian of the Immediate Future, Nigel Whiteley introduces the effects of having equipment from household essentials to air conditioners by assessing Reyner Banham’s analysis that buildings have come to embrace equipment both passive and active, and eventually became shaped by them. When I return to look at the Beaumont Theater, what I find is that the building shapes itself by integrating all the mechanical systems into the ceilings, the floors and the roof. The heart of these equipment in the Beaumont Theater are withheld in a non-building box structure at the northern side of the roof far beyond having any visual connection to the ground. Saarinen perhaps was aiming to create and maintain the monumentality of the theater in a puristic manner and without having any elements show other than the entablature and the recessed columns it arrives at a clear proximity of its intention to the visitors and the people who circulate through the Lincoln center. Unlike the Saarinen Theater, the Claire tow theater seems that it wants to speak to both the Beaumont Theater and the non-building equipment
box. By asserting itself in between the two, the Claire Tow tries to question the nature to what functions as a nonbuilding (Places that hold occupants for a temporary period) and what some consider a building. The theater starts the endeavor of questioning by its placing it self, south of the equipment box on the roof of the Beaumont Theater and connects itself the Beaumont theater via two designated elevators located on the west side of the theater. By adding rather than repurposing, it has extended the equipment box from hidden to subtly presenting itself to the people on the ground without clearly giving out its functionality. Claire Tow Theater studies materiality in relationship to both the equipment box and the Beaumont Theater, the equipment box enclosed within a cold grey concrete envelope while the Beaumont Theater releases itself by asserting large curtain walls that adds transparency to the sequence of actions inside the building. By assessment the Claire Tow Theater, is a very transparent building but it is usually hard to notice due to the aluminum louvers that wrap the building.
A STUDY IN PEDAGOGY
Group Project with Abdullah Edrees
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Elements Knowledge Quality Experience Periodic
Elements Experience Period based social engagement
Elements of Manifestation
The wall + Living & Working
THE Living
HOSTEL AS DOMESTIC GROUND
Working
Wall Leveling System
ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL AS WORKING
Wall Openings
WALL AS LIVING SPACE STUDIO STUDIO
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THE SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS / GSAPP 2014/ ERIC BUNGE & MIMI HOANG
Public area: Library Administration Fab and Print Shop
Work Area: Classes Studios Review spaces Modelling areas
Living Area: Sleeping Washing machines Kitchenettes Storage
The program wonders into the realm of integerating both living of the hostel experience and the excessive work hours of the school of architecture. If we spend most of our time in studio, reaching a degree of almost then what stops us from actually living inside the school? sleeping, washing or cleaning here? The combination of these two creates a new pedagogy in how we approach a totally open architectural education, albeit an intimate one.
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Beds
THE LOWE
Seating
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THE LOWE Each 10 meter covers the required amenities and equipments for 18 students such as classes studios and lockers.
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THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE WALL “FLEXIBLE DESKS”
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THE LOWER LEVEL OF THE WALL “PIN UP’S”
Pin up space that cover the need of the student in 10 meter radios
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Heat box for Solar Chimney Solar Panels Algae Biophotoreceptor
Algae Biophotoreceptor Solar Panels
Water Purification
Algae Extractor
Heat Exchanger
Energy Generation Platform
Les Tubes Individual Project
Apartments social areas/ col-de-sacs Elevated Urban Platforms rentable zone for commercial usage
The process of delivering the building occurs as an environmental processy that engages wind and solar movement in order to create an environmentally conscious building that would allow for the only minor application to be sculpted and updated to maximum efficiency and generate solutions that would allow opportunities to generate electricity, a higher grade of insulation and a new prompted allowance of public grounds in which we can have elevated gardens, shops and even offices.
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The site analysis of the Baruch Houses, shows that the median income of 15-45 thousand dollars in the area. Which allows certain opportunities that the a work live scenario could exist to provide jobs and also lower down rent.
Water Tank
Heating Cooling Hybrid Tank
CO2 Pump
Energy Converter
Algae Seed
CO2
Boiler / Generator
Water Purification
O2
Biomass
Algae Extractor
Heat Exchanger
Heated Floors/ water tubes In/Out flow tubes DryWall
Air Insulation Algae Panels Insulation Solar Panels
Weathering Membrane Seed Provider Tie Heated Floors/ water tubes
The detailing is aimed to create a light weight add-on for affordable housing units that could be plugged in as need be and allows for the process and execution of energy generation and insulation for the building.
Heat box for Solar Chimney Solar Panels Algae Biophotoreceptor
Algae Biophotoreceptor Solar Panels
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Energy Generation Platform Apartments social areas/ col-de-sacs Elevated Urban Platforms rentable zone for commercial usage
DATA DRIVEN
Group Project with Xiao Gu, Zhehui Zhang, Shendao Li
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this study we incurred that we research and analyze trump tower in order to engage all the controversy about the buildings two tower configuration and its effects on central park and such. We analyzed it first occurding to its obstruction to central park, it gross floor area ratio, daylighting, efficiency, its provision of unobstructed views for the sorrounding buildings.
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GROSS FLOOR AREA
CLIENT OBJECTIVES
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ENVIRONMENTAL DATA
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DAYLIGT
COMPACTNESS
EFFICIENCY
CITY OBJECTIVES
After doing some data analysis on the efficiency scale of the buildings original scale, configuration, obstructed views, floor to site ration, etc.. We have concluded that the only way to measure the actuallity of the claim that the building’s efficiency ratio could be increased if re calibrate the initial inputs of the building, from height, rotation, location, we could possibly re-orient the buildings and gain a different result of the Two Tower Scenario that blocks the sun less and allows for a better distribution of the floor to area ration.
In this scenario, we decided to explore the possiblity that the two towers become one. This scenario pits the same criteria of judgement as the two tower scenario, and ask the Algorthimic software to run an evolutionary code in order to see if this scenario allows for better daylighting, gross floor area and allowance of solar movement all the way to central park.
The results we found suggests that the one tower scenarios are substantially at a higher efficiency rate due to the higher gross floor area ration and higher percentage of natural daylight making it to central park. we suspect however that the reason for this result is that the analysis put a rough estimation on elevator cores and fire escapes. The cores for the single tower in reality have to be much larger and substantial compared to two smaller cores in the two tower scenario. This offset, creates a discrepency in the analysis, which causes such a huge difference in between the one and two tower scenario.
A STUDY IN GEOMETRY
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
` The project places it self into the context of the Affordable houses of Baruch, Located near Franklin bridge at lower South east side of Manhattan. A shady gray area where both affordability and crime and deterioration exists. The Proposal is aid the sustainability movement and support these relics to become viable and sustainble. This Project will explore taking the buildings down and creating a new “Animal� that sits within the site, one that looks into the parametric ways of the future and into the what can an algorithm generates to term it self with the environment.
The Search yielded that The components rather than complex would take life in a much puristic manner, simple, eleagant and elemental. The triangle is labelled many times through out history as the perfect shape, one that can create all other shapes. Beyond the Davinci-an thought, the components through many iterations migrated from a triangle to a hexagon and a rectangle (multiples of triangles), but eventually returned to this form, as you will see in the next page. Set of selected created components that were tested, during many phases of the design. the three pointers eventually worked in unison to achieve the final building and the others fell into dismay and left out at the end.
A STUDY IN THE ETHERIAL ULTRAREAL
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
STUDIES IN THE VISIONARY
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
THE FINAL FRONTIER
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
A STUDY IN LITERATURE
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.
In this experiment, we engaged the opportunity to create hyper realiztis archtiectural renderings for made up rural or urban settings of our choosing. My partner and I, agreed early on that we should do ultra realistic rendering of a post-utopian urban setting, one which humanity is scarce and urbanity abandoned and have returned back to its dessimal existence. If one man survived what would be his condition? and how would we he come to peace with his existence? These images are the productions of that endeavorand the result of two highly imaginative minds come together.