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Project Overview According to the topic of Buddhist economics by E. F. Schumacher, 19111977, work is viewed as threefold: “to give a man a chance to utilize and develop his faculties; to enable him to overcome his ego-centredness by joining with other people in a common task; and to bring forth the goods and services needed for a becoming existence.�
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NE Alberta The site is located on Northeast Portland area where population and business is increasing every years due the popularity in the theme of Art District Community.
Dining Table “Not only food is being shared, but stories are also told over dinning table� Dining table is one of the most important place where family will have time to meet and share their experience during the day.
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3 Folds Concepts Buddhist economics’ concept refers to the living small community that people can live and work together locally with others. People will help and interact each other in provided public space where ones can develop themselves by producing art works on wood panels and planting food in vertical farming tower in the garden. People can produce many kinds of products and services in work spaces underneath their living spaces and fulfill other’s needs and happiness.
Thai Architecture Thai traditional houses were built on stilt not only because the awareness of flood, but it also helped separating activities in the building. The residencial spaces were built up on stiltcreate public space underneath for visitors and work tasks. Thai people usually lived with big family which creating small community in the house. Bedroms were separated in different parts of the house. Then the main meeting space was built in the hearth of the house. Weaving is one of treaditional Thai craftmanships to produce Cloths or Tools.
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Experience The design contains the intention of interactive experience. Besides living and working on site, people can do local farming at farming tower in the middle for their food and have the same dinning space in the main dinning courtyard in the front.
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Living Units Each units are designed to be as compact as possible. It leaves with only main componants that are important to people’s lives: such as bedroom, bathroom, livingroom, and small kitchen. The circulation is designed to make the view of living room and courtyard to be seen since entering the space. All units have beadroom as lofts to keep units space compact. In addition, all of big units have one more beadroom on the floor level.
Performance The project contains 34 residencial units. An unit obtains average daylight quality of 2 percent where illuminance is at least 28 footcandles.
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Project Overview Ecological nature and urbanism nowadays are separated and disconnected. As these two worlds have developed, they have collided because the demand of the land. The collision has caused issues and created unlivable spaces. People in cities are disconnected from nature often because they are scared of nature. However, people don’t like to adapt, so an adjustment in architectural form by developing new culture and artificial nature, so people can experience and approach nature without fear. This design will create connectivity between two worlds: nature and urbanism. This system will also create artificial habitats on the land and in the marine to improve quality of environment and lives. Finally, healthier urbanism will create physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
Willamette River “When water dies, man dies. That is why I am calling for a reform of complete water. Instead of H2O, it is water of a living ecosystem. Complete water is not about purity; it is about interconnection land and organisms, about continuities, about life� - Kong Jian Yu Portland is the place where its Willamette River is very important to the city, especially its business due to a lot of marine transportation. However, river itself is also causing problems by the result of many human innovations, and one of them is flooding. The design is intended to be a first model of floating river park for Portland to become a living city. It created more space for water mass in river by removing some land at the shoreline. It will also create connections between downtown and uptown. Then, further more floating park will be developed along the Willamette River.
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Project Overview My intention is to adapt this unused fire station building to gather people in the community by using an idea of dining table as center. In a single house scale, “dining table is a place where family gather and pass information.� - Barry Berkus. I would like to propose a building that has a courtyard in the middle, including sitting space and food carts.
Concepts “Through this fire, the hearth is the enduring ground and dermintative middle - the site of all sites, as it were, the homestead pure and simple, toward which everything presences alongside and together with everything else and thus first is.� - Martin Heidegger, Philosopher
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Project Overview This restaurant is located in downtown Portland, Oregon, to be a main gathering spot for people to spend an evening having dinner. This restaurant provides luxury space with a bar and large party room. Design concept of this restaurant uses idea of illusion which people will experience an incomprehensible space inside the building since entering from the building.
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Concept The main idea is to make customer have an excitement from the reflective interior surface and a trick when servers come out from the wall serving food. The wall illutes customer’s vision by having series of a glass panel and reflective black panels in between kitchen and dining area.
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Project Overview This building is designed to fullfill the need of an existing program expansion; such as storage and activities. The site is located on the Luscher farm in Lake Oswego. Also, This building is designed to be a center of activities for the surrounding communities. Trees are used as the design concept because trees are part of the nature and give a sense of farm. Trees are notable for sustainability. Also, parts of tree are providing benefits as my building would do. For example, a tree itself is a shelter. Branches give a sense of connection, and root is providing and storing food for a tree and habitants.
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Thai New Year The 12’ by 4’ rendered image shows and tributes to the Thai tradition new year culture which Thai people are doing every new year’s days in Thailand. This image is printed out to decorate at the event space and be a part of photobooth’s activity.
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Bike Portland Gentrification is a topic that has been studied for many gentrification and yet there is no concrete answer on how to solve it. One of major answers is to develop transportation. By making a bike route from the west side there will be easier accessto downtown. There for people have more the opportunity and choice of works and living. By having easy access to downtown, there would be less need to drive downtown, decreasing the number of automobiles which results the less parking spaces. Then parking spaces would be used as other more efficient ways.
Thai Music Event Thai music event is an event set by Thai Student Organization club with the main theme being Thai Funk music. Seating space is designed to be occupied by 150 people. The space and decoration are designed to be fun and traditionally Thai funk environment.
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Foodcart Signs Foodcart’s signs and manu are made by using my photography, computer graphic, and craftmanship skills. The foodcart is located in front of the engineering building on 4th street.
To Be Continued
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