SAMPLE OF WORK 2011 - 2013
Hien Minh Vuong
Master of Architecture 2013 UC Berkeley
hien.m.vuong@berkeley.edu
CONTENTS GRADUATE STUDIO WORKS FLOW OFFICE [office renovation] POROUS CENTER FOR ECOLOGY EDUCATION [education center] WOVEN APARTMENTS [housing] LAMELLA-TRUSSED DOMES [museum] PROJECT + COMPETITION WORKS HURRICANE-PROOF KIT HOUSE [affordable housing] CENTRAL GLASS [townhall] PARTICIPLACE [culture center]
THE FLOW OFFICE [office renovation] FALL 2011 Instructor: JILL STONER Location: 400 Oyster Boulevard, South San Francisco
The project attempts to reactivate an existing office building in creating a dynamic office space: highly flexible and ever-changing. The new building becomes more porous with new connections established between floors through transparency and shared “floating” volumes. Changing ceiling heights eliminates typical office’s static condition, offering various spatial options for occupants to choose. Shared conference rooms and facilities between the new and the old parts allow for an active intellectual mixing and exchange.
Existing site condition Proposed modifications CONFERENCE ROOM - increased floor-to-ceiling height to encourage creative spirit
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BREAK-OUT AREA/ LOUNGE - high ceiling to encourage creative spirit, also serving as visual connector between floors
CAFETERIA - serving every two floors, a physical connection between floors
CONCENTRATING AREA - low ceiling for works requiring high focus
HANGING GARDEN - bringing natural light deeper in the space and facilitating crossventilation
PRIVATE OFFICES - separated from open plan area by a garden but visually connected
Existing structure
Subtract volumes to increase - Visual connection - Daylight access - Natural ventilation
Insert volumes to create - Circulation - Communal space
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Private Offices Conference Rooms Lounge Area Cafeteria
POROUS CENTER FOR ECOLOGY EDUCATION [education center] FALL 2012 Instructor: KOJI TSUTSUI Location: Blackie’s Pasture, Tiburon
The design of the Bamboo Center for Ecology Education reinforces its mission of a public institution: one that is open to everyone and accessible from all directions. Defining space with roof instead of with walls, the Center opens up and invites pedestrians to meander through its wall-less structure, learning about salt marsh habitat and its restoration while exploring the beautiful adjacent natural site. The continuous structure, where roof and walls are one and the same, undulates and touches ground to enclose private programs or provide structural support.
CONVENTIONAL BUILDING ACCESS
PROPOSED BUILDING ACCESS
PRIVATE PUBLIC
PRIVATE
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
CONVENTIONAL CIRCULATION PATTERN
PRIVATE PRIVATE PRIVATE
PROPOSED CIRCULATION PATTERN
EXISTING TREE ON SITE
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MASS
STORM-WATER COLLECTOR GREEN ROOF
SOLAR WATER HEATER
HYDRONIC RADIANT HEATING SYSTEM
PRIVATE/ PUBLIC SPACES
THE WOVEN APARTMENTS [housing] SPRING 2011 Instructor: RAVEEVARN CHOKSOMBATCHAI Location: Hayes Valley, San Francisco
This project proposes a new strategy for neighboring apartments in densely populated area. The apartments are interlocking to ensure equal access to air and natural light while still maintaining privacy. The same strategy is employed for the placement of public and private programs of the complex, one that allows the residences access to a public park without letting the public interrupt the residents’ privacy.
LILY STREET summer solstice sun summer solstice sun
Lobby
winter solstice sun
Originally available surface to receive sunlight Originally available surface to receive sunlight Performance Space
Cafe
Lobby
Gallery
deeper sunlight penetration on site deeper sunlight penetration on site
New available surfaces to receive sunlight New available surfaces to receive sunlight
PAGE STREET
PUBLIC PROGRAM RESIDENCES
UNIT ONE
UNIT TWO
Program placement strategy
Public circulation diagram
LONG SECTION AA
FRANKLIN STREET
winter solstice sun
DN
UP UP
DN
Kitchen 16'-3" X 10'
STUDIO UNIT
Living Rm 18'-9" X 10'-1"
Master Bedroom 11'-7" X 16'
1-BEDROOM UNIT
Great Room 23'-10" X 16'-9"
Kitchen 11'-6" X 20'-11"
Living Rm 18'-9" X 9'-11"
2-BEDROOM UNIT
Kitchen 11'-6" X 20'-11"
Great Room 23'-11" X 16'-9" Master Bedroom 11'-10" X 16'-9"
Kitchen 16'-3" X 10' UP
W/D
DN
DN
UP
Great Room 14'-8" x 22'-10"
W/D
W/D
Great Room 20' x 17'
Living Room 16'-9" X 20'
Great Room 16'-6"' x 22'-11"
UP
UP Master Bedroom 12'-8" X 15'8"
Master Bedroom 12'-8" x 15'-8"
DN
DN
W/D
W/D
W/D
Master Bedroom 16'-6" X 19'-6" Master Bedroom 16'-6" X 13'-10" UP
TYPICAL LOWER FLOOR
DN
Bedroom 2 8'-3" X 16'-8"
DN
Bedroom 2 8'-3" X 16'-8"
UP
TYPICAL UPPER FLOOR
First two interlocking units
Second two interlocking units
SECTION BB
SECTION CC
Combined four units
LAMELLA-TRUSSED DOMES [museum] SPRING 2012 Instructor: LISA IWAMOTO Location: Hayes Valley, San Francisco
The project explores the lamella-trussed system as a structural system for the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco. Consisting of short members, the system allows for long span without columns which provides the Museum with unobstructed exhibition space. The project plays with layering structural domes to accommodate the many different public and private programs required by the Museum. The facade is also careful designed to be consistent with the structure’s aesthetics while being able to facilitate day-lighting and natural ventilation.
OCTAVIA
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JUNE SUN PATH
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JUNE SUNSET
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VI
SIBI
LITY
SP AC
JUNE SUNRISE
500
MARCH SUNSET
MARCH SUN PATH
HAYES STREET
PU BL IC
400
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600 700 800
MARCH SUNRISE
ITY
IBIL
VIS
LINDEN STREET
DECEMBER SUNSET
VIS IBIL ITY
DECEMBER SUNRISE
DECEMBER SUN PATH
FELL STREET
OCTAVIA
PUBLIC
SUN PATH ANALYSIS ON SITE
STUDIES OF LAMELLA SYSTEM
SEMI-PUBLIC
PRIVATE
Event
Entrance Entrance
Restroom
Retail
Entrance
Exhibition
Exhibition Event
Public Ed
Public Ed
Exhibition Event
Restroom
Admin
Storage
PROGRAM ANALYSIS
Retail
Restroom
Exhibition Event
Public Ed
Storage Admin
Entrance
Public Ed
Admin Retail
Restroom
Admin Storage
CIRCULATION ANALYSIS
Retail
Storage
MOOREA, FRENCH POLYNESIA [RESEARCH + SIMULATION PROJECT]
HURRICANE-PROOF AFFORDABLE KIT HOUSE SUMMER 2012 Sponsored by UC Berkeley Gump Pacific Research Station TEAM: Madelaine Fava, Alessandra Mecchia, Rebekah Shirley, Moana Reynau, Neil Davies, Hien Vuong
This is a comfort and design study of the most recent affordable and hurricane-proof kit house produced by the Office of French Polynesian Housing. A team of 6 architects, engineers, and building scientists work together to analyze and understand the shortcomings of the current design and propose improvements to the next-generation kit house. As part of the simulation group, I worked with a mechanical engineer from Buro Happold to analyze temperature, solar radiation, and air flow levels in different areas of the house, using IES VE as the simulation tool.
SIMULATION RESULTS (with IES. VE)
PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS
SHEN YANG, CHINA [COMPETITION]
PLAN
TOWN HALLS : A NEW DESIGN TO BETTER SERVE YOU
EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTER
SUMMER 2011 Central Glass International Design Competition Sponsored by Central Glass Co., Ltd, JAPAN Team: Sam Holtzman, Sophy Shi, Peter Suen, Hien Vuong
SECTION
existing new
RENOVATION 1
WE ARE RE-USING EXISTING COMMUNITY CENTERS AS TOWN HALLS Shen Yang has a distributed system of community centers. However, they provide too many services at the expense of quality. Existing site condition
EACH TOWN HALL HAS A SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR YOU
1st Floor
Rather than spreading resources thin and providing every service at every location, each town hall will have core functions and a few specialized programs.
SAMPLE PARTI DIAGRAM
GET INVOLVED IN YOUR LOCAL COMMUNITY POLITICS EXISTING SAMPLE 2
EXISTING SAMPLE 1
The traditional town hall blended community programming with politics and speech. Town halls would hold government meetings and debates alongside social dinners and other community events. Our system inserts this overlap into an existing network of community centers. This concept seeks to bring community and political function back under one roof.
2nd Floor
RENOVATION 2
RENOVATED TOWN HALLS ARE EASY TO SPOT AND USE Current community centers are hidden in existing buildings. This system shifts and opens the town halls to better engage the urban environment and provide space for the new functions.
CONCEPTUALLY DIVIDE SPACE
CORE CATEGORY
SERVICE & PROGRAM
TYPICAL TOWN HALL
DISTRIBUTED TOWN HALL SAMPLES TOWN HALL 1
LOCAL REPRESENTATIVES
POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT
SHIFT SPACE
RESIDENCE REGISTRATION DRIVERS LICENSE & ID BIRTH CERTIFICATES VOTING YOUTH CENTER GROUP KITCHEN MARKETS
NEW SPACE TYPOLOGIES
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY GARDEN COMPUTERS NEWSPAPERS
operable
PROGRAM SPACE new interior space
BULLETIN FORUM
new and adaptable exterior space covered
SELECT AND SPECIALIZE enclosed
TOWN HALL 2
TOWN HALL 3
TOWN HALL 4
Indian warrior Bulrush Pogogyne
Dogbane Tule
Sage
Cattail
Gray willow Angelica
Nettle Swamp onion Wormwood
Medicinal garden
Native wetland plantings
Yerba santa Yerba buena
Ornamental garden
Milkweed
Tarweed Indian potatoes
Educational garden (edible & craft plantings)
Ground iris Fawn lily Buttercup
Bracken Fern
Sunflower
Sedge Soaproot Clover
Wild strawberry
Manzanita grove in meditation space Huckleberry Wild blackberry Wild grape
GREEN ROOF
ROOF STRUCTURE Short member system (lamella or lattice) for the hut-shaped roof allows for long span with short lumbers.
CANTILEVERING COLUMNS Cantilevering columns eliminate the need for structural walls which allow for large openings to the outdoor environment which promotes a visual connection to the beautiful nature on site
STRAW BALE WALLS Straw bales are structural themselves although wood studs might be required to help with framing
RAMMED EARTH FOUNDATION
UKIAH, CALIFORNIA [COMPETITION] SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING INNOVATION WINNER
THE POMO NATION’S LIVING CULTURE CENTER SUMMER 2012 Sustainable and Socially Sensitive International Design Competition Sponsored by UC Berkeley and Pinoleville Pomo Nation TEAM: Gwen Fuertes, Emily Kwok, Hien Vuong The Living Culture Center promotes the four main programs (art studio, history & preservation, performance, and nutrition center) via a chain of interconnecting structures, each of which aims to bridge the exterior natural elements with a protected interior setting.
Green roof Soil
The structures are situated to maximize passive heating and cooling techniques and incorporate a strawbale construction method. The green roofs provide shelter and each structure is topped with a diffuse skylight to reduce the artificial lighting load in the space. The choice of structure of the Center is carefully selected to mimic the woven pattern of the Pomo baskets and at the same time, allow for large unobstructed spaces flexible for any type of communal activities.
Drainage NATURAL VENTILATION tall roof facilitates stack effect ventilation which naturally draws in cool air and removes extra heat gain through the roof opening
Rain water collector Wooden roof structure
RAIN WATER COLLECTOR rainwater runoff is retained and stored for re-use in toilet flush or irrigation
Stakes to pin straw bales 3 stringer straw bales
THERMAL MASS 2 feet thick strawbale walls and in some cases, surrounding earth of up to 8 feet depth, store unwanted heat during the day and release it at night to keep the space warm
Breathable lime plaster
SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES
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Summer Sun
GREEN ROOF planted rooftop garden adds a layer of insulation and helps reduce overheating in summer
Operable double glazed window
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SUN SHADING 3 feet overhang effectively blocks out summer sun but lets in winter sun
Winter Sun