Ngoc Le
Selected Works 2014-2018
LOOP3: RIVER DETOX
Project type: Urban Design Location: South Loop, Chicago Year: Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 Team: Julia Mosqueda, Denis Serdyukov
The project ponders the possibility of a new way of living and working in Chicago that never detaches itself from the vibrant life of the city’s streets and riverfront. The site becomes a turning point of a newly imagined pedestrian loop that connects the existing riverwalk and lake front trail. This new pedestrian loop ties together important civic spaces along the existing riverwalk and lakefront. Stages of water filtration are incorporated throughout the site, within both its landscape and buildings, activating a multitude of different civic functions throughout the year while filtering the water, at the end bringing back clean water to the Chicago River.
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Stages of water filtration are incorporated throughout the site, within both its landscape and buildings, activating a multitude of different civic functions throughout the year while filtering the water, at the end bringing back clean water to the Chicago River.
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Insulating Glass
Open Air Terrace
Residential Interior
Wide Flange Steel Beam
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LONG WALLS
Project type: Landscape architecture, objects in field Location: South Chicago Year: Fall 2016 Independent project
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Music class Wedding Community garden
Music class Exhibition
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Within the area adjacent to Steel Workers’ Park, there stand unintended monuments to the past - the once powerful steel industry in Chicago: nearly-half-a-mile long walls, 40 feet in height which used to function as giant ore bins. After the decimation of the steel industry, the vast site was abandoned. The project aims to reclaim and reactivate the neighborhood by creating a vibrant public realm that could serve a multitude of civic functions throughout different times.
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Auditorium Exhibition Swimming
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Swimming
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Fitness gym Meditation
Volleyball
Daycare Center Music class Event space/ Forum Social services Concession
Rock climbing
Running
Cooking class
Picnic/Camping Library
Community garden Auditorium
Wedding
Mini golf
Exhibition
Basketball
Concert
Playground Public Pin-up
Volleyball Tennis
Swimming
Boating
Beach
Cooking class
Skate park
Ice skating
Fitness gym Meditation
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Upon experiencing the site, the realization that the presence of nature that has taken over the site is just as sublime as the walls themselves dawned on me. The journey throughout the site is a series of discovery of the walls within the dense foliage. Keeping this characteristic of the site became vital, by weaving together and blurring the lines between topography and structures. The experience is therefore intended as at first seeing only the vast uninterrupted landscape, but then gradually discovering inhabitable pavilions by chance.
THE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM Project type: Design | Build Location: Hermann Hall Garden at IIT Year: Spring 2017 - Summer 2017 Team of 10 students
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The studio was faced with the task of creating a new type of learning space that has not existed on campus in the space of the garden South of Hermann Hall. Noticing that the space, although sunken, lacked in depth of experience, we thus designed a boardwalk/deck between the two stairs creating a new, slightly raised gathering space. The now lower area of the garden was leveled with mojave gravel and moveable benches. The space can be used in multiple ways as an outdoor meeting space or classroom.
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Kathleen Birk Layalee Elzahdan Wesam Karaja Fatimah Khaledi Carlos Landa Ngoc Le Anida Phetchanpheng Abigail Searles Charles Webster Khaleela Zaman
1x5.5 TREX GROOVED-EDGE BOARD TYP. Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture 3360 S. State Street Chicago, IL 60616
2x4 BOARD PT. TYP. 1x4 LEVELING PT. TYP.
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2x8 JOISTS PT. TYP.
Hermann Garden 3241 S. Federal Street Chicago, IL 60616
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Drawing Team:
Kathleen Birk Ngoc Le Abigail Searles
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1x5.5 TREX GROOVED-EDGE BOARD TYP. 4x4 BEAM PT. TYP. 1/4 x 4” STEEL PLATE TYP.
Illinois In College 3360 S. Chicago
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4x8 BEAM PT. TYP.
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CURIOUS-CITY
Project type: Montessori School and Coummunity Center Location: West Loop, Chicago Year: Spring 2016 Independent project
Exploring the in-between spaces created by an interwoven skin
The spatial experience aims to translate the ideals of the Montessori education of independence, self-learning and peer-learning into an architecture that evokes curiousity, discovery and naiveness.The building offers spaces that encourages either individual learning or gathering in groups. The circular spaces with informal seating encourages peer learning. The perforated skin interweaves within the space, creating the in-between spaces that have a sense of neither being indoor or outdoor. The gradual vertical perforation within the skin allows for more open view of the surrounding as the child moves up the building - the building unfolds itself to learning more about the surrounding world.
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