ryan maruyama works |
2013 - 2020
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anthropocene
research based design / urban design / academic / imperial
dreams
01.2019-06.2019 terminal studio - an industrial park instructor: Mark Donofrio in collaboration with: Kai Miyajima location: Tillamook, OR Today we design for the needs of the now. Constantly in search for the latest technology, the sexiest of products, and ease of consumerism. In this search for having it all we forget about the stresses we place on this precious earth. With rising Green House Gases coupled with a growing population we find there might not be enough room nor resources for us all. To operate in a world with scarce resources, and to speculate on the local needs of Tillamook, we focused on three main boundaries for this project: major loss of local flora and fauna, increase in climate refugees, and limited energy resources. Using the IPCC climate projections, we could design under the umbrella of projected ambient temperatures and air quality. The design responses were simple: Repurpose relics. Design for local ecologies. Use “sustainable energy.�
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no more petroleum?!
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an industrial park dealing with polluted grounds in times of flooding and sea level rise
2 billionclimate refugees
10’ rise in sea level will result in priorities will
change.
30%mass
extinction in 100 years
fossil fuels depleted by 2088. how will we build?
_current sea level
_10’ sea level rise
_landscape buffer _displaced communi_10’ el.
tillamook, OR 97401
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silos repurposed 30%
flora extinction by 2120. Cultivar research centers focus on replenishing landscape buffers, the most vulnerable ecosystems near coastal cities.
+repurpose agriculture silos and water towers
r+d
new refinery
ruins and relics
fractionation
6axis arm
tanks cultivar research center
flume terraformers
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condensate removal regasification terminal
new refinery
NEW ORDER
old refinery
REFINERY
PRODUCT
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CULTIVATION grapple grabber
acres agriculture to support spool production.
sorting mech.
+ harvest: mycelium, bamboo + produce 3D print spools made from local natural products
pulverizer
molder former
factory
ellet maker substrate mixer
extruder
TION
inoculation chamber
CULTIVATION
flood planes terraformers
mycoremediation landscape interventions to help revive polluted brownfields
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Tillamook, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Eugene, Oregon
Kuala
Between two rivers, the Willamette and the Columbia, and under the shadows of Mt. Hood. Portland is home to many bridges, one of which is the Broadside Bridge.
1911 -
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minimal surface
research based design
recursive
radaptive reuse
design / typology
Construction begins. 1913, First bascule bridge in Oregon.
Textures from the ground and overhead The sit canopy dominated the site. The response Footing was somewhere in the middle of the two. walls n care to building
anarchitecture
Repurposing the existing structures for research centers to provide better fitness of the landscape ecology.
human based context
design type / response / category / units
contents
site Context: textures, form, depth of plumb, a history, % sky
06./ 33-35
a Lumpur, Malaysia
Bangsar, Malaysia
Eugene, Oregon
Buffalo, New York
te used to house an old factory. gs forgotten within the ground, and now turned to rubble. It took special o ensure settlement of the new g was not effected by the old.
Walls ended in mid air, proposed column dimensions were too slender, and the soil was made of silt. The design response had to have a thick core and heavy shear wall to respond to the site conditions.
hidden roof./
The hospital is a doctor’s greatest asset. In the late 1800’s asylums were rummored to heal mental illness.
Japanese horror
arts + crafts
there is a second roof under the main roof so the eaves can pitch at a steeper angle.
competition
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structural design
04./ 21-26
project management
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wip
Flood_Buddy
concept based design / architectural design / academic / imperial
warming
TOTAL FLOAT INC.
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wip #1 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
flood buddy swarm
daily dose diagrams
cocktail
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marrow
research based design / urban design / academic / imperial
after form
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08.2018-12.2018 advanced studio - urban design instructors: Marziah Rajabzadeh & Mohsen Marizad in collaboration with: Betty Lou Poston & Rachel Rimmer location: Portland, OR Form follows force and force follows form. This is the basis of the minimal surface. Where the elasticity of the material is in delicate balance with strength and geometric proportions. In this studio we studied the applications of minimal surfaces. From wearable architecture to urban design planning, the minimal surface was very efficient at encapsulating maximum volume with minimal material. It was important to our group that we apply the geometry on a variety of scales. Never fixing the minimal surface to a single application. Beginning with primitives, we found a balance between space and void, and continued to apply these proportions to prototyping.
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Vertical Intersection Multiple Openings
Horizontal Intersection Two Openings Per Side
3 Side Intersection
Vertical Intersection
Horizontal Intersection
Basic Arrangement Two Openings
Basic Arrangement
increase aperture size
increase intersections
Primitives | Catalog of Form Start Small
Using a simple frame, we explored various combinations of the minimal surface intersections. Cross referencing these with an increase of aperture sizes, a multitude of forms could be explored. Our findings were that certain ratios of the aperture sizes to frame size provided a good balance between solid and void. During our explorations we found the application of the mesh itself could be applied to a variety of scales, from the size of a hand to the urban level.
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3 Side Intersection Multiple Openings
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view from confluence
event space gallery retail
transit
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aerial view
offices gallery + event workshop + gallery
public thruway
urban research lab
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Microbial Landscapes
concept based design / architectural design / academic / imperial
academic 03.2020-04.2020 opencall instructor: none location: PNW region
As parts per million rise and newfound airborne diseases flourish, we find ourselves within an evolution of privatized air. It begins with the pocket-size air purifier with an effective radius of six feet. Providing invisible subdivisions within a room where ownership can be cast over a floor area just beyond arm’s reach. Other systems with higher horsepower and integrated whisper fans boost this privatized threshold to the scale of a room. Whole-House Ventilation systems come airtight, allergenfree, and guaranteed to purify any hazardous composition. With SMART systems automated levels of isolation provide barriers of hygienic boundaries, nested within nests. In the post-pandemic wake our spatial response to threat and uncertainty will be the development of a purified territory. A vacuumized warranty where the public realm becomes blighted by privilege. The systems we wrap ourselves within begin to deny us any benefits of the great outdoors. We lose exposure to bacteria bacillus, a spore that helps boost the immune system. We filter out phytoncides, a chemical compound derived from certain plant species responsible for the increase of white blood cells. Guided by fear, we allow our children to grow up in vitro. As privatized air evolves so should our filtration systems. Plasma, a fourth state of matter, could hold the solution to a selective filtration process. Cold plasma, or non-thermal plasma, is a treatment where exposed ionized air molecules render the pathogen inert. If such technology could filter just pathogens with a flip of a switch, perhaps tailored microbial landscapes could reside within our private space. Maybe then our neurotic tendencies of cleanliness could become more relaxed, knowing our territories of private space could benefit from microbiomes found in the public domain.
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wip #2 Portland, Oregon
bldg 04
bldg 03
bldg 01
wip #2 Portland, Oregon
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project management / structural design / professional / metric
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mgmt
01.2015-07.2015 project management location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Use: Public / Commercial Owner: Thriven Bhd. Design Architect: RT+Q Architects C&S: TY LIN International Sdn. Bhd.* Builder: TNH Construction Sdn. Bhd. Role: RC Design and Civil + Structure Coordinator.
Design + Build
Bringing buildings to life takes patience. Working on the Lumi Sales Gallery has been my favorite experience as a design engineer. This opportunity provided me a lens into the complex world of building. Not only did we work with the builders, we coordinated with consultants, cost cut with clients, and sought approval from the authorities. Every drawing, every line, carefully drawn, then adjusted, to satisfy the project’s need to be completed. Bringing the building to life took patience.
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professional / metric
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breaking ground, testing 12345 1 excavation 2 wall forming 3 steel truss install 4 rc mock ups 5 slab casting
structure + cmu
6 7 8 9 10 6 -10 structure completed, architecture traits commence
final touches 11 12 13 14 11-14 architecture and mechanical completed 18
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high rise
engineering / strucutral design / professional / metric
structural engineering
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03.2013-02.2016 company: TY LIN International location: Kuala, Lumpur collaborators: Cheng Fan Chuen, Alivn Ang, Zichen Yeong, Wan Ting Shing, Alvin Luo My career began as a contractor. Constructing buildings of different shapes and sizes was great, for awhile. But there was something missing during my time as a builder. I didn’t just want to make things. I wanted to know how to make things. Fortunately, I was employed by TY Lin and worked in the high-rise division. Not only did I learn how buildings went together, but how to design them from beginning to end of the project. Having a formal education in engineering and architecture, I hope to meld the disciplines together in my career. As both are subject to the same forces. Gravity and wind.
professional / metric
The higher the building the more susceptible it is to wind dynamics. For high rise buildings, it is critical for the building to design with wind loads (assumed from standards) and counter checked by a wind tunnel test Diagram adopted from Zane Mcfarlane 22
core
shear wall
NOVUM
Bangsar, Malaysia Use: residential / commercial 40 floors Role: RC design and analysis model
150m
125m
100m 75m
50m
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25m
core wall
shear wall
int. transfer beam primary beam
transfer beam
Shear Wall System
The Core
Meant to resist wind forces, the shear wall duals as unit separation between the apartments. A transfer beam is introduced to reallocate loads to the soil below.
If the structure is the bones of the building, the core would certainly be its spine. Its main purpose though is to carry the majority of the lateral and gravitation loads.
column
axial beams
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residential above
transfer beam Typical high-rise structures are composed of residential above and commercial below. The transition between the two spaces is cold and dense. This mass is called the transfer beam. Above loads from the ordered residential enclosure must be redirected to the commercial spaces below. (photo above
Under Pressure Layers of Form work
commercial below
Medium grade concrete* takes about an hour to set. When casting a beam with considerable depth, the hydrostatics of uncured concrete takes precedence. Form ties, strut spacing, vertical and horizontal supports, plywood thickness as well as their respective material properties all must work together to ensure the form work does not burst under the pressures of the cast. G15 G25 G30* G35 G40 grades of concrete
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Heavy Lifting
Milestone Reached The transfer beam, marks the transition period between the above and below. It marks the pivot point in the project where the type of construction changes. Commercial on bottom, residential above. The shear mass of the transfer beam requires several levels of back propping. 450 450 450 900 900 1800 cc scaffolding
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broadside poetry
arts + crafts / broadside poetry / leisure / no units
assassin and the moon
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12.2016-01.2017 leisure activity - arts and crafts in collaboration with: Reid Maruyama location: Whitaker Community, Oregon Exiled Moons These days / the world is full / of abandoned meanings / and country sides / where the rain / falls ceaselessly / into the past. I stand inside where / it is warm and watch / the hummingbirds fight / each other / for the last / drink of nectar. Out of the fog / and primordial waters / I construct memory / around me / like four walls- / language, shape, color, prayer,/ I study the shadows / genealogies / growing on the walls / the phantom aches / and shall desolation / of forgotten lilies and iris. The samurai’s armor / inhabited by air. Crumpled water, slender river. What follows is always wind. Then snow. The rippled pages / of an old book / go scattering along / the streets, as the full moon rises / and we carry / one another / into oblivion.
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leisure / no units
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version2 | on social self-isolation
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fairy tales
Kirkbride Asylum
competition / leisure / no units
06.2019-12.2019 location: Buffalo, New York
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“The Kirkbride Asylum was Doctor’s most impressive asset. Its high Victorian core was flanked with shallow V pavilions resembling bat wings. The gothic entry décor was meant to dazzle new patients upon arrival, to their dismay the wards were more like prisons than clinics. Its basement was reserved for corrections of the most archaic therapy. Doctor was more obsessed with buttresses and doubleloaded corridors than a cure. He employed crows to perform the rounds as he tinkered away with his latest expansion, large enough to house all the abandoned in the underworld.” In the late 1800’s the Kirkbride Plans were a widely adopted typology for psychiatric hospitals. Typically they were sited upon vast English enlightenment gardens secluded from nearby towns. Housed within the Kirkbride walls were the patients, also known as the incurables. Doctors would refer to the patients as their family, the hospital as home, and themselves as fathers. The patients were subject to horrific therapy including electroshock and hydro bath methods. Several patients were wrongfully diagnosed and subject to a lifetime within the asylum walls. This competition entry was written and designed around those individuals who have been abandoned by their families and cast away by society.
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the well
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the maze
Kirkbride Asylum
ruins
The Seam
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