TBSA CVA Portfolio

FOR CINEMATIC AND VIDEOGAME ARCHITECTURE

THE BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

CONTENTS

1. AGOS

2. ICE HUTS

3. FUTURE STUDENT HOUSING

4. MEAT MEETS MEAT

5. VISUAL EXPLORATIONS

AGOS

Cinema 4D, Cinestill 800T film, plexi glass, gauze on resin and gel-transfered linen, photograms Autumn 2022

https://youtu.be/9iWOXvYAqYw

Agos is an ongoing undergraduate thesis project that enters the imaginative and dystopian realm of queer bodies. They are analog and digital explorations on queer East Asian diaspora and a dive into my own personal psychic world. Anxiety, discomfort, disgust, and soiled feelings from within are seeping through and oozing out. Additionally, long lingering periods of melancholy — the rot from within, a decomposing fever dream. There are queer cyborgs, where a carving of the depersonalized exterior metal shell reveals a rupture of queer feelings. These themes are further applied to the real physical body through film, photography, and projection.

community housing

Lake Myvatn, Iceland

Spring 2021

in collaboration with Seung Hyo Chang advised by Hannibal Newsom of Mago Architecture

shortlisted for Iceland Lake Myvatn Community House International Architecture Competition

Ice Huts mimics the volcanic forms and fluid landscapes of Iceland through the use of interlocking roof planes. Multiple hut-like volumes come together to create community space that is oriented around the greenhouse. The profile of the community house is designed in harmony with the small hills, so static viewing from each side reveals a unique landscape and building form. The goal is to create a warm and inviting atmosphere that centers around plants. Copper colored aluminum panels are remnants of Iceland’s history of corrugated iron panels. Paired with channel glass, our project gives a soft glow and warm appearance. Skylights are a response to the act of ‘looking up’ towards the northern lights.

Derivng the idea of introvert and extrovert from topography lines helps inform the gentle nesting of our project into the hills and its interior program. Everything is interconnected and relies on each other. The controlled amount of channel and transparent glass gives people a soft and lightly diffused space, privacy, and good thermal insulation. Since this is a landscape project, we want visitors to engage with the immediate site. Stemming from our building there are pathways that both lead people in and guide them out into the landscape.

The three main elements for the exterior envelope are channel glass, aluminum panels, which are supported by timber structural frames and concrete on the lower part of the massing. Overlapped volumes are divided into two parts: the lower part that is supported by concrete and the upper part that is supported by wood frames.

Visitors enter at the heart of the building into a large open space dominated by the greenhouse’s precense. Double height spaces occur throughout the building in the lobby, greenhouse, resource exchange, bath, and event space area.

FUTURE OF STUDENT HOUSING

student housing

Syracuse, New York

Autumn 2021

in collaboration with Andrea Hoe advised by Gary

Bates of SPACEGROUP https://youtu.be/DX_EwXT8mQQ

Over the past several decades, there have been more conversations challenging the white maledominated heterocentric culture. Society has long been organized around a binary opposition of “masculine” and “feminine” spaces, where the “masculine” is privileged and the “feminine” is disprivileged. This category of space needs to be deconstructed for us to imagine new ways of structuring society and reclaiming the value of women and non-heteronormative roles.

The Office of Student Living at Syracuse University states that their student housing is a safe place for students to grow as a community. The reality of the dorms, however, suggests otherwise. The university dorm disregards the safe spaces for people outside the male heteronormative agenda; issues linked to the relationship between gender identity, sexual orientation, and the built environment, remain largely ignored and understudied in academic spaces.

We propose a student housing complex that centers around women and the queer community. Our project addresses how boundaries of the existing university housing are limited by the normative majority. It considers the fragmented roles of gender and sexuality in the built environment — the solution is one that involves intersectionality — race, class, gender, and sexuality are considered together, rather than individual elements.

Heteonormative spaces have been the source of mental health problems in many female and queer youths. To combat this issue, our project places an emphasis on the five senses. This incorporation will help students feel more at peace and less stressful. Our project is a healing space that allows its residents to choose what to bring to the surface, whether it is expressing themselves fluidly, acknowledging their identity, or being supportive. By tying feminist and queer visions of safety in architecture, our project acts as a catalyst for future student housing across the United States.

MEAT MEETS MEAT

countryside, landscape

Castiglione d’Orcia, Italy

Spring 2021

in collaboration with Liam Baker advised by Luca Ponsi of Studio Ponsi https://www.borgo-digitale.com/sp21-project-1

Due to 1990s livestock epidemics like the classical swine fever and avian flu, it is now almost impossible for humans to continue slaughtering animals at a small and humane scale. Europe has one of the highest meat consumptions compared to the global average. Once considered a luxury, meat is now very affordable. With this new accessibility comes many risks to our bodies and the environment: high risk of cardiovascular diseases, type two diabetes and colon cancer; the negative impact of the cattle’s ecological footprint on the global landscape. With the perpetual increase in meat consumption, large scale slaughterhouses or kill factories appear to continue to rise with no plans of stopping.

Meat Meets Meat proposes a cellular agriculture lab and humane slaughterhouse on the Castiglione d’Orcia site. Cellular agriculture is a solution that reduces both the violent meat consumption and release of cow waste (methane) in the air. This project aims to be the first initiative of clean meat production in Italy while simultaneously preserving old traditions. Meat consumption is deeply rooted into Italian culture, however, and it is very difficult for them to abandon their tastes. Thus, this project continues to produce meat the traditional way from real animal flesh while also offering a cleaner, more innovative option. With cellular farming and the slaughterhouse, we are able to maximize all the animal resources, which include the meat, internal organs, and cells.

VISUAL EXPLORATIONS

Rhino, V-ray, photogammetry, Processing 2 Spring 2021 - Autumn 202121

These visuals are an exploration of post digital powers and realms beyond the physical. Vernacular and religious typologies are considered through collaging and rendering. I wanted to represent landmark buildings in Istanbul and Syracuse respectively in exhibition-like renderings. The top visual is of the Mosque of Hagia Sophia. During the installation development, golden tones were used to evoke feelings of warmth and create a sunset, along with the integration of architectural and historical elements from the Ottoman Empire. The bottom visual is of Haven Hall at Syracuse University. Campus issues and social elements were brought into the scene to evoke school spirit.