ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
SELECTED WORKS 2018 - 2020
Architecture
This is Not A Party Wall UCLA AUD 142 / Spring 2019
Space & Mutation UCLA AUD 142 / Spring 2019
Core House UCLA AUD 142 / Spring 2019
Redefıning Furniture UCLA AUD 142 / Spring 2019
Big Dumb Building UCLA AUD 123 / Spring 2020
Personal Work
UCLA AUD 122 / Fall 2019 Instructor: Katy Barkan
This project explores the idea of “2 in 1â€? House where two families co-exist in a single domestic space with an articulation of party wall and circulation to divide and connect both families. The building accommodates two families with distinctive quantitative and qualitative needs for the disposition and character of their living. House 1 is a family of fÄąlm-makers with an extensive fÄąlm library and home cinema. House 2 is for a family of foodies, who grow their own ingredients and host tastings and dinner parties. Their division is articulated through the projection of the corridor. Here, the corridor encompasses as the tight and constrictive space that connects the house, and as a gap that separates the two houses. The sets of corridors then produces the effect of a doubling of two walls that shows as a gap on the facade, which acts as a party wall that divides the 2 houses together. The gap creates tension where one wall belongs to 2 houses, fÄąghting for ownership. The tension further arises through the collapse of the stairs with the corridor, activating the gap as a circulation armature. The gap are also identifÄąed as a slit that creates moment where you can see another’s house for a split moment before being visually isolated again.
Study Models (1/16� = 1’) Iterations of possible 3-Dimensional translation of the given plan. Showcases different forms of corridors, gap, or parallel planes from a orthogonal and oblique direction.
1. Spatial Program Diagram The diagram shows the 60-40 spatial distribution of the two houses. Their division is articulated through the projection of the corridor/doubling of the wall armature. 2. Circulation Diagram Shows division of two houses set by the doubling of the wall. Stairs are laminated in between, creating tension of ownership of the tertiary space. Here, the corridor encompasses as the tight and constrictive space that connects the house, and as a gap that separates the two houses.
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Floor Plans (1/16� = 1’) Shows the construction of spaces that aims on moving residents from a corridor that is tight and constrictive space and dramatically meets a large open space.
Sections (1/8� = 1’) Shows the placement of the stairs that are embedded in the doubling of the wall, which acts as a circulation armature
Vignettes Photography of Model White & plywood distinct plane implies the different ownership of the space. Moment of spillage occurs though the gaps as two families connected visually for a split moment, further activates the imaginary tertiary space.
Plywood Model (1/4’ = 1’) White & plywood distinct plane implies the different ownership of the space. Moment of spillage occurs though the gaps as two families connected visually for a split moment, further activates the imaginary tertiary space.
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UCLA AUD 121 / Winter 2019 Instructor: Jenny Meakins
“Space & Mutationâ€? explores spatial characteristics of a geometry by using mutation and translating it from a 2D plan geometry to a 3D form. More specifÄącally, the project explores the tension between spatial stability and instability using 2 platonic solids; dodecahedron and octahedron. In 2D, insertion and deletion of points and lines are operated in the existing geometry, which translated in 3D as a form of shifting and rotational reciprocation. Spatial tension arises when an element of the geometry shifted in response towards the mutation, while the vertical and horizontal axis of the mutant geometry tries to retain a constant element from the platonic solid. The two mutated solid are combined to achieve stability by interlocking two mutants that have a reciprocating character and grounding it in relationship to the ground plane. The combined mutant produces a unifying form that retains each character of the geometry while producing a new reciprocating form. In response to the collision, instability is produced through the circulation of humans between ground level and the interior.
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DODECAHEDRON Point Insertion
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Line Deletion
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| Individual Mutant Study: Family Tree Two-dimensional exploration of octahedron and dodecahedron in sectional view. Iterations of forms are produced through insertion and deletion of points
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ROTATIONAL TWIST
FLAT PLANE RECIPROCATE
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ROTATIONAL TWIST ORIGINAL OCTAGON POINTS
| Individual Mutant Study: 3-Dimension Diagram A series of diagrams implies the translation from 2-dimension to a 3-dimensional form and analyzes the spatial qualities of its exterior and interior characteristics.
1. Combined Mutant Study Two individual mutant are combined in its reciprocating element and grounded with the site to produce stability. 2. Circulation Diagram Circulation diagram implies possible connection between exterior and interior site.
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1. Plan (1/4” = 1’) Plan showcased spatial qualities produced from the intersectionality of the octahedron and dodecahedron mutants 2. Sectional Elevation(1/4” = 1’) Showcased possible connection between interior and exterior, as well as a public and private spaces.
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INTERSECTION OF TWO GEOMETRIES
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Physical Model: Sectional View (1’ = 1/4”) Displaying physical interior and exterior attributes.
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UCLA AUD 141 / Fall 2018 Instructor: Mohammed Sharif
The points and lines that describe the plans of Mies van der Rohe’s trio of self-initiated, unrealized ‘Core House’ projects serve as inspiration for this project. By re-evaluating and re-interpreting the 2D organization arrangements, compositions, and notations of grids expressed, the project evolves to the creative possibilities of a cabinet and tower. The eccentric arrangement of the initial stacked cores continues to be further elaborated in the cabinet and tower. This projects centralizes on the notion of symmetry as the foundation of the cabinet and the tower. Using the center quadrant of the Miesien nesting, rotation and elimination of planes are applied to create the cabinet design that emphasize the prominence of the egg crate and the cores. Then, by splitting the cabinet, notion of symmetry is produced as well as creating a double notion of monolithicity and transparency. The cabinet design then was stacked concentrically with a reduction in scale as it penetrates upwards to show continuation of the elevation to create the tower. The cabinet is nested inside the tower at the center of each flooor, representing its original function as a book shelf.
Stage 1: Re-Interpretation of Core House Worm’s Eye View Quadrant exploration of core arrangement and composition on an egg-crate organization using co-centric arrangement.
Stage 2: Cabinet 1. Cabinet Transformation Diagram that highlights the process of approaching symmetry towards the cabinet from the investigated quadrant.
Stage 2: Cabinet 2. Cabinet Bird’s Eye View The split emphasizes the nature of symmetry of the cabinet, while creating a double notion of monolithicity and transparency.
Stage 3: Tower The elevation further represents the double notion of monoliticithy vs transparency, two contrasting nature represented differently depending on the viewer’s perspective,
UCLA AUD 142 / Spring 2019 Instructor: Georgina Hulijich Partners: Michika Watanabe, Kelvin Yeoh
“RedefÄąning Furniture: Facts Beyond Imageâ€? involves the curration of narratives through images which undergo constant re-adaptation of subjective reading and interpretation from a range of audiences. Ultimately, it promotes the inception of new and uncontrolled narratives beyond the domain of physical element of architecture. The project intensively surveyed Royce Hall’s Donors Lounge through the fÄąctional narrative lens. Thus, we produced a series of three fÄąctional narratives that explores and elaborates the possible proliferation of common furniture element that redefÄąne the existing furniture. Through combination of images and physical models as technical and conceptual devices, we alter the understanding and perception of architectural spaces and objects.
Exhibited at RUMBLE 2019, CicLAvia, Royce Hall Donor’s Lounge (Permanent)
| Physical Model of Surveyed Donor Lounge (1/4� = 1’)
Part 1: Survey
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1. Unfolded Elevation (1/2’ = 1’) 2. Physical Model of Surveyed Donor Lounge (1/4” = 1’) Exhaustive survey of the Donor’s Lounge by recreating furniture and material elements through 2-D and 3-D copy of representation. 3. Material Lamination Study Showcasing different material textures and pattern combination. 4. Material Catalog Isolating specifıc material from each furniture present at the Donor’s Lounge 5. Survey of Furniture Types in Donor’s Lounge Isolating each elements of furniture and categorizing it based on its historical type.
Narrative 3: Style Style of the furniture becomes dominant in the room, Existing styles of furnitures are being extracted to affect and influence the surrounding environment. `
Narrative 2: Objectness The wall extends to the furniture and becomes one. This integration preserves the furniture outline which emphasizes the sense of furniture’s permanence.
Part 2: Image Narratives
Narrative 1: Materiality Exhausting the texture and material of the furniture into the walls and floors, further intensifying the objectness of the furniture.
UCLA AUD 123/ Spring 2020 Instructor: Ramiro Diaz-Granados
This project explores urbanism through the examination and development of single buildings that, owing to their size, form, or urban impact, become in themselves urbanism. SpecifĹcally, the focus of the agenda combines typology and topology to produce large interior urban voids. The project sets itself as a very large mixed use building in the Chicago Loop to replace Helmut Jahn’s James R. Thompson Center, and is to be conceived in relation to the recent controversy surrounding the proposed sale of the building. The studio’s focus is on disciplinary questions of the relationships amongst typology, function, and form in urbanism. These questions will be considered as they relate to current issues of urban politics and policy, infrastructure and large-scale buildings. Looking into the nature of the building, this project is about two distinct the monumental void and solid expression, in which it relish on the asymmetrical axis of the void form. In relationship to the solid, the void acts as a band that loops and ties the solid together, equally distributed across the mass, and using directionality of patterns delaminates the binary effect of the solid and mass thus conforming into one object. In response to the urban fabric, the highly acute angles of the building attempt to break the stability of the high verticality of the building surrounding it. The nature of the form that naturally wraps around itself with distinct angles expresses a sense of mobility, rejecting the seemingly static nature of the surrounding buildings. Combining the unstable nature of the building that is off-axis from the urban site with the building form that seems forced into place as it crumpled and contorted into itself, here it latches itself as a monument within the site, constantly in conversation with the urban site.
Typology Study: Transformation Using a Ledoux study precedent, a series of typology transformation is produced through extension, interlocking, and reciprocation qualities to form a topological form of void.
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Typology Study: Solid and Void In relationship to the solid, the void acts as a band that loops and ties the solid together, equally distributed across the mass, In looking at the program distribution, the building reflects the nature of wrapping and banning, where the offÄące space, govt space, and hotel space interlocks with each other,
Void & Solid
Void & Circulation Cores
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1. Building Axonometric Using directionality of patterns delaminates the binary effect of the solid and mass thus conforming into one object. Surface articulation demands expression of void that is entrapped inside. 2. Site Axonometric Shows the position of the building in the urban fabric. The highly acute angles of the building attempt to break the stability of the high verticality of the building surrounding it.
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1. Site Plan This site plan re-enforces the unstable nature of the building that is off-axis from the urban site. 2. Section While tension occurred externally, the moment of integration between the urban context and the building occurred in the interconnection between the subway and the El Train with the void (which we can see here in the section down below). 3. Plan In looking at the program distribution, the building reflects the nature of wrapping and banning, where the offÄące space, govt space, and hotel space interlocks with each other, producing moments where different programs co-exist in each level while being visually connected by the void.
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Street View Perspective Presence of tension between the building and the urban fabric, in which it is seemingly being pushed and constantly shifted by the buildings surrounding it, thus forced into place as it crumpled and contorted into itself.
Elevation Rendering Show the highly acute angle of the building, in which it attempts to break the stability of the high verticality of the building surrounding it.
Site Axonometric The proposed building situated in the Chicago Loop urban context.
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