2010 - 2015
Pearl k. Bryant
ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
TABLE OF CONTENT
The Arctic Seed Link
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The Navigation Center
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Stitchlink Ningbo
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Eco-Den
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Urban Ecology
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Cubescape
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Personal Work
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An Expansion of Longyearbyen | 2015
Temporary Homeless Shelter | 2015
The Ningbo Institute of Eco-Design | 2014
Multi-Family Housing | 2012
Highline Highrise | 2012
Modular Furniture System | 2014
Mixed Media | 2010-2015
THE ARCTIC SEED LINK
An Expansion of Longyearbyen In Collaboration with Nhat Vo
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The Seed Vault, while is a global effort and an icon in the town of Longyearbyen, hides the activities that happen within itself. In order to bring more awareness to the process and the contribution of the Vault towards global issues, we intend to turn our lab into an educational center.
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The Crop Trust funds most of the gene banks around the world to safeguard crop diversity. To ensure food security, adapting to climate change, safeguarding biodiversity, protecting nutritional security, reducing poverty, and ensuring sustainable agriculture are six reasons to why conserving crop diversity matters. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault carries a duplicate of seeds from almost every
country around the world. There are a range of varieties from African and Asian food staples such as maize, rice, wheat, cowpea, and sorghum to European and South American varieties of eggplant, lettuce, barley, and potato. The vault carries 839,804 crop varieties and is able to store 4.5 million varieties of crops. Each variety contains an average of 500 seeds, which allows for 2.5 billion seeds to be strode in the Vault.
NEW LAB
Exposed Activities
SEED TESTING
HYDROPONIC PLANTING
GREEN EXHIBITING
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault carries a duplicate of seeds from almost every country around the world.
Seeds are tested for further research through the process of hydroponic planting.
Exposure to the hidden activities of the scientist’s labs is showcased in the green exhibition for the public.
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Residential spaces are distributed to the two sides of the building so that the whole entire structure can be occupied, especially during the times of low public activities.
Lab & Lecture Social Space
Dormitory Exhibition Greens
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Scientists (private) activities are connected using a main circulation path created by the space between the Southern facade and the truss system. Public circulation is connected from the roof down into the Northern side of the bridge. The circulation inside corresponds with the process of testing and planting seeds.
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Scientists (private) activities are connected using a main circulation path created by the space between the Southern facade and the truss system. Public circulation is connected from the roof down into the Northern side of the bridge. The circulation inside corresponds with the process of testing and planting seeds.
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Rather than acting just as a pathway, the bridge’s roof has pockets of spaces, such as the raised floor that corresponds to the mountains’ elevations, and the declined floor that corresponds to the lower valley where the town’s center is located.
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Rather than acting just as a pathway, the bridge’s roof has pockets of spaces, such as the raised floor that corresponds to the mountains’ elevations, and the declined floor that corresponds to the lower valley where the town’s center is located.
Radiant Floor Heating It might make sense to place the new lab near the Vault, but we want to argue that placing it near the town is more sensible since it’s also a living space. The site that we propose is near the existing university, where the lab acts as an extension for educational purposes. However, looking at the distribution of existing infrastructures, we noticed that there is no connection at the town’s end sides, while it holds many notable programs such as the university, the gallery, art center, and guest houses. It will be a great opportunity for this lab to act not only as an educational center, but also a bridge that connects the two sides of the land’s ends.
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Arctic Seed Link
DESIGNERS Pearl J. Kim Nhat Q. Vo
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INSTRUCTORS Mauricio Soto California College of The Arts 1111 Eighth Street San Francisco CA 94107
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THE NAVIGATION CENTER
Temporary Homeless Shelter In Collaboration with BuildLab at CCA, Anderson Anderson Architecture, and the Department of Public Works
The Navigation Center is a new facility on 1950 Mission Street dedicated to individuals who are unable to access a shelter due to possessions, partners, pets, or prior negative experiences. The Navigation Center is a temporary pilot program that is ran by the city in collaboration with the nonprofit San Francisco Interfaith Council. People are able to stay for 3-10 days to rest, stabilize, and engage in an intensive case management and identify a path whether it be housing, personal treatment, or homeward bound, etc.
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Plan Overview
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STITCHLINK NINGBO
The Ningbo Institute of Eco-Design
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In Collaboration with Hanting Jin
Ground Floor Plan
The city of Ningbo is a seaport city located in the northeast portion of Zhejiang province, China. Ningbo is situated between the ocean and low-lying mountains to the south-west, with coastal plains and valleys in between. The Siming Mountains run north from Mount Tiantai and within Ningbo City, where bamboo is grown. Ningbo has a humid subtropical climate with four distinctive seasons, with hot, humid summers, and chilly, dry winters and with occasional snow. With the harsh climate conditions of Ningbo, this design proposes strategies that take into consideration of the urban context, solar orientation, use of local and natural materials, and ecological strategies. The analysis of the urban context provided useful information such
as the importance of solar gain. The longer side of buildings are oriented toward the sun for solar gain during the cold winters. Ningbo’s climate can either be extremely hot during the summers and cold during the winters. With that in mind, this design takes advantage of the sun’s heat, but also provides a shading system that is operable by the occupants of a space. The facade is a folding skin made of local bamboo that changes in elevation throughout the day, but also throughout the year depending on the orientation of the sun. This height of the building provides extra shading for the carved out courtyards during the summer, but also has a winter courtyard that has direct exposure to the sun for most of the winter season.
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Pin-Up Exhibition Space
ECO DEN
Multi-Family Housing
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Studio 4 - Housing Studio
The city of San Francisco comprises of a variety of inhabitants with an increasingly diverse life styles. As the city continues to transform, there must be an establishment of a model of the city that is able to harmonize with the changing city, but simultaneously take in account of the existing building fabric of San Francisco. In today’s economy, the concept of densification for housing is crucial. Eco Den gathers the adjacent existing building fabric to the project to allow for density. This relationship between the urban
and suburban conditions can offer connections between the indoor and outdoor spaces which creates a key component for this project. Although density may seem to create compactness, intensity and pressure for the inhabitants, the idea of ecological densification can potentially create possible livability of the city. These green spaces can be used for recreation use, gardening, and social gatherings. These concepts of creating density provides sustainability that help benefit the environment.
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URBAN ECOLOGY
Highline Highrise Studio 3: Highrises
SEP 2012 -DEC 2012
As the city of Manhattan continues to grow with its soaring skyscrapers and endless amount of urban development, green and open spaces become limited. The limited amount of green spaces in the city creates issues for animals that live within the city, because most of the parks are intended mainly for human use. Animals such as birds use pockets or small openings in skyscrapers to nest their eggs. Birds are forced to use architecture intended for humans as a
source of habitat. The question is, “how can we create architecture that allows for a more ecological and sustainable approach to bring both humans and animals of sort together?� Urban Ecology is a high-rise that proposes a prototype for the future of New York City. Situated adjacent to the Highline, this project starts to act as a parasite, to push the boundaries of typical New York City highrises.
Site Analysis
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CUBESCAPE
Modular Furniture System
SEP 2014 -DEC 2014
Active Urbanism Studio
Module 1 Module 1 can be used as a chair for children. When subdividing the cube into thirds, it can create two different levels for seating. One at 7� tall and when the cube is flipped, the height is at 14�. Not only can this cube be used as seating for smaller children, it can be flipped so that the top is flat can be used as a stool/chair for adults. Module 2 Module 2 is similar to Module 1. The top piece is transparent and can be adjusted by sliding through the slot to create different levels of table heights. One at the lower level is fixed, where as the top level has an adjustable feature.
Module 3 Module 3 is a longer stool that can also be used as a connector piece or a table. When flipped, it can stand at 42� tall, which is the equivalent to a bar table height. The top piece is also the same transparent piece used in module 2, but it can only slide into the block.
PERSONAL WORK
Mixed Media Metal Arts & Furniture
M AY 2 0 1 1 - M AY 2 0 1 5
Plum Blossoms, 2011. Patina on Copper
Home, 2011. Patina on Copper
Cantilever, 2015. Poplar Wood