MICHELLE TANG 2020-2022 PORTFOLIO

MICHELLE TANG

ARCH 205 INUJIMA ARTISANSHIP GALLERIES & INN

INUJIMA ISLAND, JAPAN INFORMATION pg. 3

INUJIMA ISLAND WITH ARTISANSHIP GALLERIES & INN SITE PLAN pg. 4

FLOOR PLANS pg. 5

SECTIONS & ELEVATIONS pg. 6

RENDERS & MODELS pg. 7

ARCH 206 BLOCK PARTI MENIL HOUSING COMMUNITY

MENIL NEIGHBORHOOD, HOUSTON, TEXAS INFORMATION pg. 9

MR & RY FLOOR PLANS, UNROLL ELEVATIONS, AND OBLIQUES pg. 10-12

RY SECTIONS pg. 13

RY PERSPECTIVES pg. 14

ARCH 206 IMAGE & DRAWING PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

VICTORIA TOWER, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM PERSPECTIVE pg. 16

SLENDER HOUSE, SHIGA, JAPAN UNROLLED ELEVATION pg. 17

CASA HILO, COQUIMATLÁN, MEXICO OBLIQUE pg. 18

ARCH 205 HIGH MUSEUM OF ART PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA, GEORGIA INFORMATION pg. 20

DIAGRAMS pg. 21

ARCH 205 RHINO BOOLEAN MODULES

RHINO BOOLEAN MODULES SPREAD pg. 23

ENDS 108 HOUSE VI PRECEDENT ANALYSIS

HOUSE VI, CORNWALL, CONNECTICUT INFORMATION & SITE PLAN pg. 25

FLOOR PLANS pg. 26

ELEVATION & SECTIONS pg. 27

DIAGRAMS 28-29

ENDS 115 TONAL VALUE & CONTOUR DRAWINGS

STILL-LIFE PART ONE & TWO FINAL SKETCH pg. 31

Located off the coast of Okayama in the Seto Inland Sea is Inujima Island with an area of roughly 148 acres was a part of the copper smelting and quarry industries in the early 1800s to 1900s from the Meiji to Taisho period. As the years have gone by, the already small village population started to decrease as more residents decided to move to mainland Japan so the island is now at around 50 people, with many making up elderly residents. Although the island seemed to further decline, new projects have been brought in to breathe life back into this historic place. To acknowledge and celebrate art and architecture, projects like the Art House Project, museums, sculptures, and more can be seen throughout the island that detail history and embrace the roots of the island. The island has now turned into a tourism scene and a landmark of contemporary art that can be accessed by ferries that travel to and from this island.

ART RENDEZVOUS LIFE GARDEN SEIRENSHO ART MUSEUM ART HOUSE PROJECT

“Inujima "Art House Project" was launched with the objective of inspiring the local community of Inujima, allowing them to experience the beautiful landscapes of everyday life and the familiar natural environments that extend beyond the artworks. Three galleries, F-Art House, S-Art House, and I-Art House, designed for special displays, and Nakanotani Gazebo (a rest area) were first opened on the island in 2010.”

“Breathing new life into the ruins of a former copper refinery, Inujima Seirensho Art Museum was built around the idea of "using what exists to create what is to be". Exhibited here are works created by Yukinori Yanagi who used Yukio Mishima as a motif, a vocal critique of Japan's modernization, together with the remodeled architecture designed by Hiroshi Sambuichi. By using the existing smokestacks and karami bricks from the refinery as well as solar, geothermal, and other natural energies, the architectural design minimizes the construction's environmental impact.”

DESIGN CHALLENGE

Design a potential area of an Art Gallery / Memorial that could be in a range of 50ft by 50ft max

“Roughly 4,500 square meters of land has been used to create a botanical garden reflecting the natural environment and culture of Inujima, with a long-abandoned glass greenhouse as a centerpiece. It is not a conventional botanical garden, professionally landscaped so that people can visit and observe plant life, but rather a place where island residents and visitors can join in the process of reviving the land, and enjoy self-reliance in areas from food to energy while experiencing the joy of living within the cycles of nature.”

Possible Program: Exhibition room, Exhibition room 2, Admins Office, Storage, Toilet, and small Café/Bar area.

“INUJIMA Art Rendezvous is a project involving works of art and events to encourage people to interact with each other on the island of Inujima. Artist Ellie Omiya's works are being gradually appeared around the island. Visitors can "rendezvous" (meet up) with these works of art and take a break from time to time while strolling around the island. We hope to create a park-like environment over Inujima, where people of all ages, from children to the elderly, can enjoy their time together.”

-https://benesse-artsite.jp/en/about/inujima.html

OKITSUZUMI ISLAND

INUNO ISLAND

JITAKENOKO ISLAND

OKITAKENOKO ISLAND

INUJIMA ISLAND

To create a design that best suited not only the program and the island, the goal of the Inujima Artisanship Galleries & Inn was to showcase craftsmanship art and Japanese courtyard-style architecture while also serving as a communal spot for residents and visitors to utilize public spaces, community amenities, and as a place to stay in. The courtyard layout makes this building distinguishable from above and is one of the largest structures roughly 50 feet by 50 feet in area. The chosen location for this museum was to be in a spot of reasonable walking distance inbetween other art landmarks and public services. A fisherman’s house is located at this exact spot and would be renovated with also landscaping the garden right across in order to become an addition to the developing art island theme while providing lodging.

Concrete masonry walls with a perforated pattern to establish the clear grounded perimeter for the building while also allowing fluid permeability for travelers to come and go. The slits also provide daylighting within and visibility in the main galleries and public kitchen.

Lattice windows called mushiko-mado are a common aperture of traditional Japanese architecture that allow natural light, prevent unwanted insects, and allow for natural-air ventilation to allow the building to be low maintenance in terms of energy and electricity.

Paper screen doors called shoji are another common element of Japanese architecture that serve multi-functional purposes such as dividing rooms, doorways, and windows. The translucent paper over the wooden frame allows for privacy but sheer enough to permit lighting as well.

Aerial view overlooking the courtyard

Eastside entrance that allows for seating, gardening, and outdoor cooking opportunities

One of the rentable guest bedrooms where travelers can stay for a night

of 3D model

Views of 3D-printed model

On the edge of downtown Houston, Texas is a quiet neighborhood of early 20th century-style suburban bunaglows. A growing complex of art and architecture has developed, with one of the most important buildings: The Menil Collection, which houses contemporary and ancient civilization art and relics. Located south of the Menil campus is a balance of nature, domestic tranquility, and a cultural treasure trove inside an urban environment, which includes the neighborhoing homes and the Menil Park. The complex hopes to engage with the residents by installing outdoor sculptures in the green spaces and other smaller art museums within walking distance.

THE CY TWOMBLY GALLERY THE MENIL DRAWING INSTITUTE THE MENIL COLLECTION

“The Menil Collection main building features galleries of the museum’s permanent collection and changing exhibitions. The Menil is known for displays that allow the objects and works of art to speak for themselves—there are no “didactics” on the wall or media in the galleries—the Menil philosophy is to foster each individual’s direct, personal encounter with works of art.”

MENIL PARK & NEIGHBORHOOD

“The Menil Drawing Institute was established in 2008 in recognition of drawing’s centrality in the lives of artists and its crucial role in modern and contemporary artistic culture. The Drawing Institute has since developed a national profile for exhibitions, scholarship, and collaboration.”

DESIGN CHALLENGE

“Adjacent to the main museum, the Cy Twombly Gallery is a single artist installation featuring the work of Cy Twombly (1928–2011). The artist was intimately involved in both the building—the plan has its roots in a sketch he made—and the selection and placement of artworks.”

“The neighborhood of the Menil Collection is punctuated by major works of outdoor sculpture. The outdoor expanse includes Menil Park, along Mulberry Street; McGovern Green, in front of the Cy Twombly Gallery; and across from the entrance to the Menil Drawing Institute.”

-https://www.menil.org/visit/campus

The challenges the housing community has to face involve: identifying the relationship between the pedestrian and the automobile, harmony with the community in regards to the urban context, and assessing density of buildings with landscape.The neighborhood should reflect what the community needs and should offer a variety of opportunities that the people can utilize to benefit their living. To encourage healthy living, outdoor activities such as parks, small playgrounds, and open-air pavilions/meeting spaces should be available for the residents to congregate around. While these outdoor areas are designed with intent, the indoor spaces are also taken into consideration and the idea of balancing private, semi-public, and public spaces through apertures are important as well. Creating the relationship between the indoor and outdoor, the large windows that span from the floor to the ceiling allow for permeability of natural light and the view outside. Developing this inviting picture of the scenic imagery outside inspires one to be in the room and whenever one needs privacy, they can retire back to their bedrooms. Overall, this project strives to understand the conditions of the site and the house in order to create harmony and cohesion towards the city context.

Both houses feature a plumbing/structural wall with 5-ply thickness

The Block Parti project study involves developing a community with another classmate in the studio, me and my partner Miriam Gallegos worked together to develop our ideas of family housing program and community design strategies. To develop the family housing project, the house forms start off with a series of font studies, when experimenting with font intersections it will leave a unique form that creates the conditions for developing design and experimenting with structural systems. The housing community will utilize two different structures, MR a large family home with focus on developing the interior for public and private living and RY a smaller-two story dwelling which serves as the structural logic study.

CLT wood panels allow for flexible design and structural capabilities. 5-ply for exterior or structural walls and 3-ply for interior walls.

Both houses feature herb gardens, the choice of landscaping engages and reflects with the house’s form.

RY house features glass wall moments to allow for outside to inside engagement, scenery opportunities, and a way to keep the enhance the form and facades of the house

MR has outdoor opportunities for gardening, grilling, and seating area for conversation that the residents can utilize.

Revolving-hinged patio doors allow for full glass wall moments throughout the house without needing allocating space for sliding doors. Reinforces permeability for the public spaces.

MR HOUSE FIRST FLOOR

MR HOUSE SECOND FLOOR

RY HOUSE FIRST FLOOR

RY HOUSE SECOND FLOOR

The curved walls are created using studs that are strategically spaced and sized to document the form instead of using CLT.

Since MR is a much larger house than RY, the wall height is at 11 feet and RY has a height of 9 feet per floor.

This aspect of the house form serves as a transition from the outside to the private since it is a narrow aperture. Full floor to ceiling frosted matte glass allows for daylighting but concealed privacy as well.

In contrast to the large glass wall windows, in the more private spaces of the houses like bedrooms and bathrooms have a much smaller aperture to note where these rooms lie in relation to the house.

RY engages with MR with this intimate moment of the house to allow for further public to private procession with the same frosted matte glass. RY has a sloped roof to allow for water run-off and a gutter system would be placed at the junction as well for stormwater drainage.

Roof panels would be made of fiber cement board that would have wood engravings to relate to the full CLT wall panels of the exterior and the overall wood finish.

Miriam Gallegos & Michelle Tang,

MR also has a herb garden for the residents to utilize by accessing the back patio of the house.

Large curve to MR is at this moment as suggested by the shadow overhang on the glass aperture. The dining room and communal kitchen can be viewed from the outside.

The window apertures are organized based on the edges of the house’s base form serving as the anchor points for interior room design and divisions.

The curves of RY’s house base form is documented by the curved shadow overhang on the facade.

Balcony on the second floor also has extended CLT wood panel as the balcony railing.

1 Fiber Cement Roof Panels (wood engraved surface)

2 Metal Bracket Plate for CLT Connections

3 Metal Rods and Screws for CLT Bolt Connections

4 Window Sill and Stool

5 Triple-Paned Glass

6 Window Encasement

7 Cellulose Insulation

8 Wood Plank Floors

9 CLT 5-ply serving as structural interior walls and ceiling

10 Furring Strips

11 Vapor Membrane Barrier

12 Concrete Footing

13 Foundational Concrete Slab

This is the first of three studio projects which will emphasize on domestic room, house form and agglomerations through drawing and image search. This project will highlight different scales that make up a ‘home’, a place where one lives. This assignment is meant to rigorously interpreting the image of a view of a room, object, and neighborhood as distinct from documenting a case study.

51N4E tackled this project by focusing on adaptive re-use, keeping a majority of the structural form of the building to focus on developing residential and office spaces. The perspective drawing hopes to capture the idea of creating space by interior design, the arrangement of furniture hopes to create rooms and space without relying on walls as partitions.

https://www.51n4e.com/projects/victoria

51N4E, Victoria Tower, 2020

Michelle Tang, Project 1.1

Most cities in Japan face the issue of land-use and overcrowding, therefore the suburban neighborhoods must be planned strategically. Kimura focuses on developing the house exterior and facade through carefully proportioned volumes. The house makes use of every square footage and provides accessibility with entrances on both sides of the house.

https://www.form-kimura.com/works/034/

Developing the unroll for this house reveals the playful facade through overhangs of the volumes and choice of materiality to enhance privacy but also the coziness of the interior. The house form aims to be flexible for the residents to develop the spaces however they need it for their daily lives.

Kouichi Kimura, Slender House, 2019

Michelle Tang, Slender House Unrolled

“Casa Hilo is a housing prototype for the rural area of Coquimatlán, Colima in Mexico. The adaptable housing scheme is based on the analysis of the traditions, social activities, and the local weather conditions; translating them into a contemporary arrangement of solid structures combined with local materials such as adobe blocks and bamboo.”

https://zellermoye.com/projects/casa-hilo

The oblique drawing aims to portray the indoor and outdoor areas with daily activities expanding onto terraces and open garden areas allowing the residents to benefit from the refreshing microclimate that the plants provide even during high peak temperatures. Roofed terraces to the street allow for social interaction and commercial activities within the village.

Michelle Tang, Casa Hilo Oblique

Zeller Moye, Casa Hilo, 2019

“Located in the heart of Atlanta, the High Museum of Art connects with audiences from across the Southeast and around the world through its distinguished collection, dynamic schedule of special exhibitions and engaging community-focused programs. Housed within facilities designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architects Richard Meier and Renzo Piano, the High features a collection of more than 18,000 works of art, including an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American fine and decorative arts; major holdings of photography and folk and self-taught work, a growing collection of African art, with work dating from prehistory through the present; and significant holdings of European paintings and works on paper. The High is dedicated to reflecting the diversity of its communities and offering a variety of exhibitions and educational programs that engage visitors with the world of art, the lives of artists and the creative process.”

ANNE COX CHAMBERS WING WIELAND PAVILION STENT FAMILY WING

“The Anne Cox Chambers Wing opened in 2005 as part of the High’s “village for the arts” expansion. The structure is clad in aluminum panels and has a specially designed roof system that fills the space with natural light.” Designed by Renzo Piano.

“Renowned Italian architect Renzo Piano designed the coffered ceilings on the Wieland Pavilion Skyway Level with funnel-shaped skylights. These special rooftop scoops—called velas, or “sails”—illuminate the Skyway galleries with northern light, favored by artists for its soft effect. Northern light also has the benefit of being indirect, which protects the artwork from deterioration.” Designed by Renzo Piano.

“Opened in 1983, thanks in part to a grant from Coca-Cola magnate Robert W. Woodruff, the Stent Family Wing was named one of the ten best works of American architecture of the 1980s by the American Institute of Architects.” Designed by Richard Meier.

“House VI is both an object and a kind of cinematic manifestation of the transformational process. Thus the object not only is the end result of its own generative history but also retains this history, serving as a complete record of it, process and product beginning to become interchangeable. House VI is not an object in the traditional sense – that is, the result of a process – but more accurately a record of a process. Like the set of diagrammed transformations on which its design is based, the house is a series of film stills compressed in time and space. Thus, the process itself becomes an object; not an object as an esthetic experience or a series of iconic meanings but an exploration into the range of potential manipulations latent in the nature of architecture, unavailable to us because they are obscured by cultural preconceptions. ”

https://eisenmanarchitects.com/House-VI-1975

CIRCULATION STRUCTURE

FIRST FLOOR SITE STRUCTURE

BUILDING FOOTPRINT

LONGITUDINAL AXIS

TRANSVERSE AXIS

OVERLAP + CARVE + EXTRUDE