Ryan Nguyen - Portfolio 2024

01. Garden of Informality

Sake Brewery and Geothermal Power Plant, with a landscape on Inujima Island, Japan.

Arc503 - M.Arch Studio, Fall 2023

Advisor: Jesse Reiser

Academic Work - Princeton SOA

The project is located on Inujima Island. The studio premise asks us to explore a part of a geothermal power plant to incorporate with the secondary program. As an interest to explore the architecture of slowness, I chose to design a sake brewery along with the mandatory geothermal powerplant. The complex sits on the Southeast end of the island, where the boats cross daily before arriving at the port on the Northeast end. Hence, two grids are deployed onto the site: the North-South one, and the 30-degree-rotated one so that the project has a dialogue with the boats sailing parallelly to that part of the island daily.

Sake assumption has been declining among Japanese youth since they are perceived as too traditional and formal. Consequently, I decided to introduce the Vietnamese culture of drinking outside the landscape to help familiarize sake and casualize the act of enjoying sake. After the field trip with the studio to the site and especially Katsura Villa in Kyoto, I was inspired to merge the different pavements of Japanese traditional garden into a figure and ground exercise on the site, to provide various dynamics and moments to enjoy sake seasonally. The figures are designed based on the existing contexts: the two hills, the lake and the coastline. They become larger as they go outside of the brewery.

The sake brewing process then, is pulled apart into 8 pavilions to stretch out the process, creating opportunities to locally incorporate into the energy making process of the power plant. The pavilions have the scale of teahouses and are connected using a bridge system so that the visitors can observe the workers moving back and forth. The movement along the brewery showcases the interaction between the ingredients and the brewers. A young sake master once said in an interview that she enjoys most the sense of suspense and curiosity while making sake, since she must wait for months to know if her daily adjustments to each badge of sake were good or bad.

The design aims to heighten this notion of elongation of space and time, in making and enjoying sake. I wish to create a project that people keep wanting to visit again.

Site Plan Oblique

Based on the two grids and the surrounding nature, the shapes were made individually so as to control the scale, the compress - release dynamics, and the interlocking shapes. The shapes are the semi-formal landscape: stone stepping terraces to sit or artificial hills. The interlocking shapes created between them are the formal landscape: Zen gravel gardens or water bodies such as rainwater collectors or onsens. The left-over shapes are the informal landscape: natural soil of Inujima with plants and trees.

The sake pavilions and voids of the geothermal powerplant are located onto the landscape, following the direction of reaching down to the ocean, both in gestures and in functionality. Each of the pavilion also sits on the landscape differently, depending on their programs. Altogether the project creates a system in which nature, production, consumption and energy are interconnected and integrated. Through time, I hope the lines between them will be blurred by nature and the sunlight’s particles hitting them differently every season.

1. Storing Pavilion

2. Polishing Pavilion

3. Washing and Streaming Pavilions

4. Ko-ji Pavilion

5. Fermenting Pavilion

6. Exhibiting Pavilion

1. Contexts and Programs

Each of the sake pavilion was designed with an integrated function with the geothermal power plant.

For example, the Ko-ji room, which is the most enclosed room in the sake brewing process, is made into a crossflow heat exchanger. I view both steps the hearts of the two programs, hence this volume sits at the center of the project’s parti. The other sake volumes are two wings running outwards from this one. The underground powerplant is formed around this volume. The volume is cantilevered off a retaining wall into a thickened floor where the hot water pumped from the ground will go through the working fluid. This working fluid then, is heated up into steam to feed the turbines underground and produce electricity.

The crossflow heat exchanger requires the water to have changingdirectional flows, so the floor of the volumes become undulated to create flow’s disturbance. This floor also works with how the Ko-ji process room could be designed: there are multiple levels of surfaces between the floor and tables, where the brewers can dry and interact with the freshly steamed rice flexibly, instead of having to move the rice like in traditional Ko-ji rooms. Water pipes were installed below the floor to heat the space, and below the tables to collect heat from the steamed rice out to the goat barn. The geothermal water, then, is directed into heaating pipes underneath other volumes’ floor plates. Moreover, the gutters on the volume’s direct rainwater into the ponds below, offering various forms to supply water to the complex.

The roof of the pavilion follows the rhythm of the floor into gables, with one bay rising higher for the input water to flow down faster. The overall shapes and assemblies of the pavilions are inspired by the pattern, tectonics language and iconography of industrial architecture, yet follow the programs inside. They are also reduced to the smallest footprint for the sake brewing process. Therefore, their pavilion-like scale becomes the mediation between the massive geothermal powerplant below ground and the localized landscape. They are self-similar yet different once seen from upclose, enhancing circulations through while informing the Inujima’s industrial construction methods.

2. Shapes and Fields

3. Architecture and Landscape

Physical Model

02. Buy, Staying, L.A.

Food Market + Housings for low in-come widows and singles moms in L.A.

Arc502

- Senior Project, Spring 2020

Advisor: Sarah Lorenzen

Academic Work - Cal Poly Pomona

The project explores the relationship between objects (or building components) and their placement within a field (or grain). These relationships are defined as being either “well-fitted” or “free-floating.” Each strategy produces very different qualities and environments. The objects in this project are governed by three fields (or grains) taken from a variety of sources (or contexts): 1. The urban grain--based on the 90-degree L.A. city grid--influences the building components that gesture towards the city. 2. The programmatic grain--a rotated 45-degree grid--designed to create free public movement through the market and the housings’ buffer spaces. 3. The experiential grain--based on the radial geometry of the central atrium--it pertains to tenants’ movement within the project. The project also explores the spatial quality generated by the intersections of these grains, which are most evident in the vaulted ceiling-scape in the project.

Programmatically the project merges two very different environments into one urban buildings: the calmness of housings and activeness of the food market. The targeted users are single moms and widows who make up more than a quarter of Los Angeles’ low-income population. The priority for this demography is a safe environment for their children. Thus, the housing portion is designed as a series of well-fitted objects that intertwine living spaces with private courtyards. Social spaces surround the central courtyard so that children can play and still be watched by the adults. On the ground floor, the bustling environment of the food market is organized as a free plan with structural columns, circulation cores, mobile food vendors and customers acting as free-floating objects. The market is an extension of the sidewalk, welcoming the newly legalized food vendors to form a loose network with each other along the programmatic grain.

The friction between the two programs lies in the opposite environments between them: the market is public, busy and flexible, and the housing is private, peaceful and stable. The massing strategy is to stack them vertically into one volumetric building to explore the mixed-use typology’s frictions, while maximizing the area and functionality of both programs. The atrium continues the void lifted from the mass. It helps cross ventilation and invites sunlight deep into the market below. The vertical separation creates a soft threshold so that the two programs are conceptually and environmentally separated yet visually and spatially connected. Both programs are also beneficial through their interactions with the city: the lower market is an extended sidewalk while the housings, thanks to the market on the ground floor acting as a buffer zone, is fairly detached from the city.

The project won Exceptional Honor of the Team20 Global Architecture Price.

Unrolled Plans as Activated Shapes Collection

Programs Tabulation

Concept Physical Model

The floor plans was modeled into physical forms. Rather then modeling the walls, I modeled the objects as the spaces’ geometries, leaving the voids in the middle of the objects as walls. The Urban grain is rendered in dark gray, the Programmatic grain is white and the Experience grain is rendered in light gray.

The objects are generated by these 3 grains and the exploration of the formal as well as spatial adjacencies between them. The grain vaults of the market ceiling represents the rhythms and hiearchy. The highly compacted housings’ floors represent the desired balance between interior and exterior for this typology.

Free-floating Objects

The free-floating objects of the market also includes the sitting pit and built-in planters, which arranged along the Programmatic grain. The residue spaces are for the nomadic food vendors and customer to occupy daily. The Mezzanine level offers an above perspective to the bustling market and L.A. city. The field maximizes the visual exposure for the vendors towards the customers. The field merges the immediate functionality of the market and the chronological flexibility of the dinners.

The diptichs on the right illustrates the duality of the ground level’s atmospheres and functions. The ground-scape, acts as an extension of the sidewalk during the day and as a gathering plaza for selling, eating and meeting at night. The frosted glass ceiling assumes the abstract monilith of the floating mass during the day and lights up to expose the realistic character of construction as well as activate the function of the food market.

Well-fitted Objects

The housings portion is supported by the 4 circulation cores. Each only support from 1 to 3 units each floor. Tenants need to go up their designated core, into their units, then through their private courtyards to the common courtyards. The multiple layers of privacy or in reverse, sharing, offers a safe unrolled playground around the atrium for the children. All the living spaces face the interior courtyards and all the bedrooms face outwards.

The bedrooms have rotated orientation with the façade, giving back privacy as well as creating buffer planters to block noise and pollutants from the city. The courtyards contain different functions vertically based on sunlight and noise. Every atrium shape of the floor above clips the program of the one below geometrically to provide lighting and visual connections between the tenants. The higher the floor, the greener and more porous it is.

Every mini-neighborhood is mixed with 3 types of units:

Studios - around 400 sq.ft. - for the widows.

One-beds - around 800 sq.ft. - for low-income moms and their child.

And Townhouses - around 1200 sq.ft. - for low-income moms and their children.

Uunit Axon - Townhouse

Unit Axon - 2-bed

Unit Axon - Studio

Wall Section

The building is constructed with four circulation cores at 4 corners of the mass. The concrete plinth supports the housings on top, while the vaulted ceiling of the market creates a continuous surface over shading the market below. The vaults are made from polycarbonate panels, which completes the floating mass during the day and lights up the activities at night. The light-vaulted ceilings of the housings echo the geometry of the market. They are rather uniform, yet the dynamic floor plans create very different spatial quality within every single room. The housings portion is stacked on top of the plinth with typical Californian balloon framing, with a low undulating vaulted ceiling.

Structural Diagram

Enlarged

Section Perspective A-A

Section Perspective B-B

The Visitors

The Residents

Share the unit with their loved-ones

Share the environment with some neighbors

Share the neighborhood with some friends

Share the rooftop with the nature

And

03. housEMOJI

Single residence with ADU in Venice Beach, L.A.

Arc4011 - Topic studio, Spring 2020

Advisor: Sarah Lorenzen

Academic Work - Cal Poly Pomona

The project is about the house as a sequence of different gable spaces underneath a single gable roof. As an iconic element of residential houses, the gable roof has been explored throughout architectural history as a space holder and boundary. In the effort to compose a typology for 2020 Los Angeles residential houses, the continuous lineage of the gable roof shall be further explored.

Being located on an elongated site on Venice Beach, the house’s gable shape familiarizes it to the neighborhood. The house is, then, programmatically divided into five latitudinal sections. Within each, a variety of spaces are carved out, connected or interlocked to emphasize the gable shapes and curate the experience underneath them. The continuous internal gables echo the overall simplified shape of the house in order to institute the house’ totality, integrity and to enhance movement. In addition, the openings, as cut-outs of the roofs’ geometries, occur high above as skylights or clerestories.

By filtering natural light in and extending views beyond to the sky, they “sacredly” shine and complete the shapes of the private interior spaces, or as Adolf Loos called “theater boxes,” where daily intimate activities take place. The architecture of the house exists in the push and pull relationship between the exterior imagery of the “house” and the experience of various abrupt interior spaces. This contradictory conveys the modern way of living, where the exterior is about perceiving through imagery and the interior is about space and life.

The project won Honor Prize for the AIALA 2x8 2019 Competition: Exchange.

Inspired by Aires Mateus’ thinking a space as a carved volume from a mass, the projects went through a variety of study models to explore the different shapes of gables and their interactions. I attemtpted many model-making strategies such as folding, puzzles fitting and carving from a single plaster mass. Each attempt informs a new way to view the volumes as well as how spaces can be made from the act of carving. The house becomes more and more introverted, yet more and more opened.

The puzzles model on the left are made from from wood and white board pieces. The wood pieces are the carvedout volumes as inhabitable spaces, while the white ones are the left-over mass as sevant spaces. I studied them as a collection of interesting individual shapes, as well their endless possibilities of interlocking to compose an unexpected spatial sequence.

They end up fitting together back into the overall gable house.

This plaster model was casted from a single mass, with a curration of gable shapes as different rooms in the house. Each room is lit by the most appropriate strategy from above. The harsh yet warm sunlight of Southern California goes through each skylight volume and is diffused carefully into the space, shining the daily activities of the tenants.

The wallpaper wrapping was the last exercise to further activate the individual rooms. I chose to use the wallpapers to highlight the stage-like character of the spaces. The folded 3D black space below each volume acts as the stages, the fold above help to complete the room’s shape, and the white left-overs high above are the skylights’ volumes. Stacking all these volumes in a single directional gable mass, we have the housEMOJI.

Exploded Section Oblique

Front Terrace

04. Promenade of Enlightenment

Buddhist Monastery on Elephant Mountain, overlooking Taipei, Taiwan.

Arc402 - Exchange Semester, Spring 2019

Advisor: Tiago Costa

Academic Work - NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan

The project is an effort to reflect the necessity of Taipei citizens’ religious practice and urban density. This urban Buddhist Monastery is located on the foot of Xiangshan Mountain, facing downtown Taipei city.

The building has two entrances: one from ground level as, which connects to a park and the newly developed housings towers; and one from the roof level, which connects to the infamous Xiangshan hiking trail. The building acts as a connection between the mountain and the city, suburban and urban, tourism and religious culture; and human and nature. The concept is to orchestrate a serene and poetic promenade throughout the building so that the users can enjoy the interchanging views between the nature and the city, as well as to reflect and calm themselves.

The first architectural concept is the false symmetry. Traditionally, the symmetry of temples is merely a symbol because the people do not experience them as a symmetrical building: as a religious belief, for good luck, people enter the temples from the right and exit to the left. The project takes advantage of this notion to compose a more exciting experience for the visitors. An East-West axis cuts through the site, the spaces are, then, organized in reverse on two sides of this axis: the North side consists more private spaces, such as bedrooms for the monks. Meanwhile, public spaces faces the South side, for instance a vertical public farming garden.

The destination of the project is the grand worship space in the middle, overlooking the city of Taipei.

The project was selected to be exhibited in the End of the Year Exhibition of NTUST, Taipei, Taiwan, Summer 2019.

Massings

There are four courtyards governing the building: water, fire, earth, and air. They are arranged around the floor area and is visible from cut-outs on each floor plate. As a result, the residue spaces around them house the programs.

-The water courtyards is located at the entrance. It guides the people from outside into the building seamlessly, giving them the opportunity to reflect the city, and highlight the monumental of the monastery cantilevered grand worship volume.

-The fire courtyard houses the paper-burner whose smoke easily escapes the building without being trapped by the mountain’s geometry.

-The earth courtyard contains the stupas, symbolizing the relationship between ephemeral human spirit with the solidity of earth and rocks. It also leads into a room carved out from the mountain, which houses passed-away-people ashes.

-The air courtyard is the grandest one and is located in the middle of the building. It houses the air that is compressed between the artifice and nature. The mountain slices into the air courtyard and have a dialogue with the visitors. Surrounding the courtyard is a system of vertical fins, which not only shade but also creates sockets on each level for the people to have a detached moment for themselves.

Architecturally, the Monastery explores one of the primary elements of Buddhist temples: the column. Not only being used as structural components, they also guide the promenade on the free floor plans, as well as interact with the folder surfaces to create a variety of spaces. The columns’ decoration in traditional structures represents the wealth of the temples. Here, that notion is represented by de-laminating the columns, showing the multiple layers of them: copper, wood and concrete. These de-laminations are located strategically at different eye-levels to guide the action of a person relating to each column.

Columns and Surfaces

Purifying in between the Air and Earth Courtyards

Wandering

Reflecting in the Water Courtyard

Pausing in Between the Air Courtyard’s Fins

Contemplating in the Meditation Space

Praying to the Great Buddha

Decending from Xiangshan Mountain

05. Over the Crevice

Visitor Center and Observation Tower for the Grjótagjá Caves, Iceland

Professional - SchneiderLuescher

Teamates: Anton Schneider, Andri Luescher and Ted Zhang.

Entry for Beebreeders’ Iceland Cave Tower Competition, 2020.

The Beautiful, according to Edmund Burke, is what is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is what has the power to compel and destroy us.

In Grjótagjá, procession in the landscape was the driving force of the building strategy. Subdividing the program as a set of follies in the landscape allows visitors to meander the site, discovering the structures while walking along volcanic gravel paths allows visitors to take in the views of nearby landmarks, Hverfjall Volcano, Krafla Volcano & Leirhnjukur Volcano. Beautifully crafted structures with subtle reflectivity, mirror the surrounding Icelandic landscape and react to the colors of the sky, the structures share their formal iconography of a farmhouse, the familiar unfamiliar.

While the Bridge/Tower is visible from afar, upon arrival visitors would gather at the Parking Pavilion. The Parking Pavilion acts as the gateway were visitors would leave the world behind to enter into this mystical landscape. The Tower placed near the Karlagjá cave entires would have a near 360 degree panorama extending as far as lake Mývatn. In the Bridge visitors walk over the sublimity of the crevice dividing the North American & Eurasian plates. The Cafe, sits on the North American plate, furthest removed, from the rest of the structures & road, proving an uninterrupted view of the landscape beyond, placing emphasis in the contemplative aspects the site offers.

Proximity Plan site has views of Hverfjall volcano to the South, and Krafla & Leirhnjúkur volcanoes to the North. With potential views of lake Mývatn towards the West.

TOWER/BRIDGE

CAFE

LEIRHNJÚKUR GRJÓTAGJÁ CAVE 1 848

HEATING/COOLING POWER

Geothermal Energy Strategy

PARKING PAVILION

Proximity Plan site has views of Hverfjall volcano to the South, and Krafla & Leirhnjúkur volcanoes to the North. With potential views of lake Mývatn towards the West.

TOWER/BRIDGE

Geothermal wells placed under the new parking area. The ParkPavilion’s mechanical room would house a Binary Cycle Power System generating Electricity. Additionally a Close Loop Heat Pump System would generate heating and cooling year round. The Bridge/ Tower would act as the catalyst for the mechanical piping to traverse crevice.

PARKING PAVILION

proposed structures minimize their impact on the landscape by being up on stilts, greatly reducing the foundation system, while navigating the natural topography of the site.

HEATING/COOLING POWER

Geothermal Energy Strategy

DEGREE VIEWS

Geothermal wells placed under the new parking area. The ParkPavilion’s mechanical room would house a Binary Cycle Power System generating Electricity. Additionally a Close Loop Heat Pump System would generate heating and cooling year round. The Bridge/ would act as the catalyst for the mechanical piping to traverse crevice.

Look Out , Look Down

VIEW OF KARLAGJÁ CAVES

View Strategy

Assembly Strategy Site Strategy Village Strategy

2m 5m

Tower/Bridge structure linking the American plate and the Eurasian plate, offers a near 360 degree view at the Tower. The Bridge the crevice, provides the ability to look down and into the Karlagcave. Parking Pavilion

Stilts

proposed structures minimize their impact on the landscape by up on stilts, greatly reducing the foundation system, while navi-

CAFE

Cafe

1m 2m 5m Path Strategy Volcanic gravel paths would subdivide the site into formal & informal zones, while protecting the natural landscape. Zone 1 @ Karlagjá (public zone) would link all 3 structures. Zone 2 @ Kvennagjá would have a smaller walking path. Zone 3 @ Vogagjá would be an informal path hidden in the landscape giving visitors a sense of discovery. smaller & a site from structures buildings. VOGAGJÁ KARLAGJÁ KVENNAGJÁ (860) 1 (FORMAL) 2 3 (INFORMAL)

Pavilion Exterior Cafe Exterior

of the three system and and comfort corrugated panels. landscape perception of the conditions. The landscape and at objects.

structure system. The amount of

Assembles

The main structure can be handled and assembled on site with minimal construction equipment. The timber posts can easily adjust to the varied elevations of the natural terrain. All parts can be prefabricated in a factory using sustainable harvested timber, allowing for a building with an excellent energy balance and a mostly carbon neutral footprint.

The structural and the cladding follow the principle of separated systems, allowing for easy maintenance and replacement of parts, thus guarantying a serviceable building with a long lifespan.

Site Section

1:350

View From Bridge

View From Cafe

Tower / Bridge Section

Pavilion Section

Cafe Section

Inside the Bridge

06. Loc Chau Retreat

Spa, Garden Cafe and Residence on a hill

Loc Chau, Lam Dong, Vietnam

Professional - G+ Architects

Teamates: Giang Doan (Founder), Quang Tran, Hieu Nguyen, Thy Tran, Xuan Tran.

Role: Masterplan and the Residence Lead Architect. Under Construction, 2023 - 2024.

The project locates on a long plot on a hill on Loc Chau, a Vietnamese highland province. The masterplan has the over-arching concept of modularity: platonic geometries, localized tectonics assemblies, and the dynamic spatial qualities between horizontal planes and solid masses: Each of the three volume echoes the circle, square and triangle shapes with interesting purposes and spatial indications. Each of them consists of a heavy, local stone base and a light, elongated roof plane. Since the owner has the ambition to develop the neighbor empty lots, the masterplan was designed so that they could continue this set-of-rules into the new volumes for unity and minimal environmental impacts.

The project includes a spa on the hill foot, a garden cafe along the slope of the site, and the villa on top of the hill. The spa is an enclosed rounded solid mass with a square water pond on the roof. The visitors’ entrance cut through the mass, being compressed and then released into the ever-open cafe above. The round shape and the topo’s slope provide privacy for the guests inside, even though it is the first volume one sees entering the site.

The cafe is designed with a figure and ground exercise, ensuring various spatial conditions between wood decks, roofs and different kinds of landscape. The context of Loc Chau provides breath-taking downhill views, along with seasonal vegetation that we incorporated in designing the cafe’s garden.

The villa is a take on Vietnamese traditional “three-space” house. It is a triangle of three bars stacking on top of each other. The massing minimizes the footprint of this massive 5-bedroom house, because we only must carve out the bottom bar and the three main supporting cores. The bottom bar is the outdoor spaces and guests’ bedrooms. The second bar that runs across the site is the living bar. The third one--the master bedroom bar--runs back inside the hill to provide privacy and view towards the other side of the hill. The design was inspired by the Case Study House series in California, since it has similar climate, visibility, as well as the local and light construction ideology.

Cafe Garden Plan Snips

2nd Floor Plan

Roof Plan

House Interior Perspective - Living Bar

6 Axis Elevation

Y Axis Elevation

Folded Longitudinal Section

Cross Section

07. 3 Thang 2 Residence

Alley Townhouse

Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Professional - G+ Architects

Teamates: Giang Doan (Founder), Hieu Nguyen. Role: Lead Architect. Underconstruction, 2023.

Alleyway townhouse is a typical typology in Southeast Asian cities. The programmatical tabulation of those houses usually includes public floors on the ground levels and private on top. Another typical approach to these 3mx11m lots is the raumplan with the central circulation void massing. This project aims to utilize these familiar vernacular approaches to alleyway houses in Saigon, yet introduces surprising architectural language of the process-driven folding white planes to connect spaces throughout the house, and celebrate the dynamic relationships between the residences--a single mom with two children--with each other and the city.

A trilogy of folding is deployed: the Urban L-scale fold to connect the lower facade, through the living room mezzanine. The Mother M-scale fold from the laundry space on the 3rd floor, down the children’s bathroom and the mother’s bathroom and to her bedroom. The Children’s S-Scale fold from the upper facade, around the older daughter bedroom on the 3rd floor, and down to the younger son bedroom. All three folding operations merge as the soffit of the kitchen--the hearth of the house where the client prepares meals for her children daily.

Moreover, each bedroom has a window extruded into the central atrium, turning it into an interior vertical alleyway where communications between the characters’ bedrooms are fostered.

The Urban Fold - L Scale

The Mother Fold - M Scale

The Children Fold - S Scale

Exterior Perspective

Sectional Iso

Interior Perspective

08. Xuan Loc Residence

Countryside Retirement House

Xuan Loc, Vietnam

Professional - G+ Architects

Teamates: Giang Doan (Founder).

Role: Lead Architect. Unbuilt, 2023.

The house was inspired by a traditional Vietnamese long house, with 3 main living spaces flanked by 2 sleeping ones on the 2 ends.

The first gable roof covers the elongated form of the house. Then, the owner asked for a retirement home on a large suburban plot which also includes an art studio to spend her days. Hence, a second long roof was added with studio detached from the main house, yet still under the same roof system. The skylights are cut where the two roofs meet, and the diagonal one creates a gable-shape entrance to the house. A hill was placed in front to give some privacy and highlight the horizontality of the house. A lake was placed behind the house to create thermal remedies, frame the mountain afar, and inspire meditation as well as art for the studio cantilevering above. The chimney volume rises up through where the two roof meets, filtering light deep inside the kitchen and secure the solar-heated water tank.

As a result, the house is infused the duality of the living gable and working gable, interiority and exteriorirty, slow afternoons and excitineg mornings, familiarity and unfamiliarity.

Section Perspective through Kitchen - Garden - Art Studio.

Living Space Entrance

Art Studio

09. Miscellaneous: Representation

Professional - SchneiderLuescher

After effects for the renders of SchneiderLusecher LLC’s Shenzhen Children Pavilion project, in collaboration with Found Objects Architecture. The drawings were inspired by historical Chinese paintings as well as the greenery and atmosphere around the site.

The project was built and published on multiple platforms and websites.

School with Views

Detached Unrolled Elevations

Porch with Shade

August 2023 - May 2025...................................................Princeton SOA | New Jersey, U.S.A. Master of Architecture II

Hung V. (Ryan) Nguyen

vn2641@princeton.edu +84 838345061

Permanent: 167/31D Ly Thai To, Ward 9, District 10, Hochiminh city, Vietnam.

Currently: 167 Linden Lane, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., 08540.

Korean - Beginner

Skills

Work Experience

November 2022 - August 2023.................................G+ Architects | Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

10 months full-time position.

I led the design 4 of different houses in Vietnam: 1 rowhouse, 1 suburban house, 1 countryside house and 1 hill house with a masterplan. Two house were included in the Portfolio: Project #06 and #07. Especially I led the team to finish the construction document for the under-counstruction Loc Chau Retreat.

November 2021 - October 2022................................BCHO & Partners architects | Seoul, Korea.

1 year full-time position.

I designed, built physical and 3D models, did after effect graphics for multiple projects, ranging from residential housings to commercials interior and especially exhibitions. I participated in the office’s proposal for urban planning for the Seoul Biennale 2023, which was also curated by BCHO and Partners.

September 2020 - August 2021................................SchneiderLuescher architects | Los Angeles, C.A., U.S.A.

1 year full-time position.

I designed, built physical and 3D models, worked on construction documents and did after effect graphics for multiple additionals, ADUs and competitions (project #06); along with graphics for the office’s previous projects (#09 Miscellaneous).

June - August 2018...................................................HsuMcCullough architects | Los Angeles, C.A., U.S.A.

3 months full-time summer internship

I designed, built 3D models, worked on construction documents and did after effect graphics for multiple additionals and luxury residences.

June - August 2017...................................................Hop Luc Constructions | Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

3 months full-time summer internship

I designed, built 3D models, worked on construction documents and did after effect graphics for multiple residences and large-scale commercial buildings.

June - August 2016...................................................Design Concepts | Chino, C.A., U.S.A.

3 months full-time summer internship

I worked on construction documents for multiple residences and commercial buildings.

Languages

Dean’s Award - For Most Outstanding Architecture Student class of 2020

Thank you