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Made in L.A., 2040 Future Manufacturing Districts in Downtown L.A. ADVANCED STUDIO V Fall 2010

The Orsini 5F, 297 units

Residential Real Estate Developments in Downtown Los Angeles

Lucia Tower 31F, 200 units

(past decade, built+proposed)

Union Station Apartments

Critic: Site:

Laurie Hawkinson + Christian Uhl Los Angeles, CA

Lengends:

Adaptive Reuse

1027 Wilshire

The Piero

48F, 402 units

7F, 116 units

27F

27F x 2, 627 units

The Met Lofts 8F, 264 units

12F, 80 units

With the emergence of new manufacturing trends (clean, small scale, data-driven hyper-customization, service oriented), factories and spaces of material production could once again take advantage of the urban environment - not only as source of labor, but also for its connectivity, accessibility and proximity to markets, intelligence, and exchange.

Evo South

Olive St Lofts

23F, 311 units

17F, 105 units

Elleven

13F, 176 units

1100 Grand Lofts

40F x 2, 400 units

12F, 143 units 12F, 84 units

Main Mercantile Bldg

Barker Bros. Convertion

6F, 40 units

8F, 82 units

19F, 236 units

City Lights on Fig

SCI-ARC Towers 6F, 128 units

Shybarry Bldg

13F, 168 units

Reserve Lofts East Columbia Lofts 7F, 60 units City House and The Olympic 13F, 147 units Broadway Plaza

5F, 230 units

Santee Court Phase II

Molino Street Lofts

4bldgs, 165 units

Santee Court Phase III

60F & 50F

Luma

5F, 100 units

12F, 139 units

Chapman Building

34F, 324 units

Bridge Lofts 2F, 8 units

Alexan Savoy Phase II+III 18F & 25F, 497 units

Hikari

Mercantile Arcade Bldg

10F, 90 units

18F, 200 units

Figueroa South/East Tower 34F, 324 units

4F, 303 units

22F+6F x 3, 750 units

Teramachi Senior Housing 8F, 127 units

12F, 65 units

Bartlett Building

Union Bank Bldg

Hope Condos

El Dorado Lofts

12F, 84 units

Brockman Bldg

Alexan Savoy Apartments

Block 8 Little Tokyo

11F x 2, 370 units

12F, 153 units

Shybarry Tower

28F, 156 units

Concerto

Figueroa South/West Tower

40F, 300 units

The Medallion

Security Bldg

12F, 55 units

12-22F, 132 units

Higgins Bldg Rowan Bldg 10F, 135 units 12F, 200 units

Mandell Bldg

Sky Lofts

4 phases, 1190 units

717 Olympic

Vibiana Lofts

10F, 60 units

13F, 99 units

FIDM Tower South Village 19F

53F, 548 units

Trinity Towers 34F

5F, 38 units

Rives Bldg

Library Court The Milano 6F, 90 units

Packard Lofts Hanover Tower

Victor Clothing Lofts

Title Guarantee Bldg 12F

16F, 222 units

37F, 214 units 47F, 288 units

5F, 40 units

50F, 302 units

655 Hope St. 17F

Roosevelt Building

9th and Flower St.

UNION STATION

Pan American Lofts

Zen Tower

8F, 225 units

1010 Wilshire 17F, 240 units

The Medici

6F x 6, 632 units

Metropolis Phase II Metropolis Phase I

3F, 91 units

9bldgs, 445 units

Santee Court Phase I 12F, 64 units

308 E9th St.

Sixth Street Lofts

5F, 38 units

2F, 63 units

8F, 66 units

Glass Tower 25F

Biscuit Company Lofts 7F, 104 units

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California Market Center

Custom Fabrication District

Jewelry District

Farming District

Fashion District 2040

Santee Alley

Tissue & Organ District

City Market of Los Angeles

Gamification Devices District

Fancy Packaging District

Personal Mobility District

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Custom Electronics District

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Downtown Los Angeles provides a prime opportunity for a new center of future manufacturing with its existing and proposed infrastructural connections, its leading and growing importance in logistical flows and cultural production. A relatively under-developed and under-defined area, it is a site to experiment and exploit the new relationships between the city and the spaces of production and consumption, and call for new infrastructural strategies, building interventions, and urban experiences.

5F, 278 units

Grand Ave Plan

Mixed use development, 2600 units

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Stephen Chou

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

Diversification

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3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138

stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com


Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate Housing for Entrepreneurship CORE STUDIO III: HOUSING Fall 2010 Critic: Team: Site:

Michael Bell Stephen Chou Allison Rozwat Hoboken, NJ

The focus of “Circulate, Delaminate, Incubate� is exploring how architecture and spatial form may influence social interactions - a topic that has a long history in architecture discourse. We proposed to create a mixed-use development specifically for harboring startup companies and entrepreneurs in the master planning phase. As the scope concentrates onto housing, we seek to create a new spatial form - different from the existing hallway model - that not only adequately regulates public/private in an entrepreneurial, extrovert environment, but also respond more to the richness of human interactions.

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Stephen Chou

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138

stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com


Janette Kim The High Line Chelsea, NYC

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Wet Lab Ad-Hoc Dry Lab Stationary Dry Lab Administrative Offices Principal Offices

Conference Room

Library Stacks Reading Room Outdoor Observation Area

Scientists + Staff

Generator Room Materials Storage Hub Photography Work Station Data Storage

Tourists

Kitchen Lab Toilets Common Room Deck

Elevator

Visitors

Vehicle Garage

Public Toilet Public Elevator

Neighbors

Observation Deck

Auditorium Auditorium Toilets

VIP 24hr Public Cafe Convenience Store

Rest Areas Nighttime Public Open Space

Monitoring Station

The Museum of Diaspora

An Exhibition of Atmospheric Environments CORE STUDIO II: Museum of Diaspora Spring 2010

The Museum of Diaspora provides curators an opportunity for an extra dimension of sensory experiences - the atmospheric environment - an experience that has long been neutralized with the wide-spread of air-conditioning technologies and notions of “modern� comfort. The project then seeks to disintegrate conventional air-conditioning technologies and building envelops to create and contain diverse atmospheric environments in the museum.

Critic: Mark Wasiuta Site: Chinatown, New York, NY AHU AHU

Exterior Exterior

Full Control Full Control

No Control No Control

Interior

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Filter Filter

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Cooler Cooler

Active Control Humidity Control Humidity Control

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Passive Control Passive Control Rain Screen/ Filter Rain Screen/ Filter

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Polyurethane/ Insulation 2 Polyurethane/ Insulation 2

Vapor Barrier Vapor Barrier

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Interior/ Full Control Interior/ Full Control

Exterior

Full Control Full Control

No Control No Control

Interior Interior

Stephen Chou

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138

stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com

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The Airlab aims to respond to the urban conditions of the site - as a science research institution, how to benefit from the high density of audiences on site; as a building, how to strategically share spaces to the public, while taking advantage of the surrounding opportunities.

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CORE STUDIO I: Degrees of Uncertainty Fall 2009

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The Urban Science Research Institution

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Re-circulating 60 Broad St. Retrofit Strategy for New York Glass Towers C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Strategy Phase Spring 2011 Critic: Laura Kurgan Team: Stephen Chou, Collin Anderson Alexis Burson Related skills: Parametric design in CATIA and schematic environmental analysis

Through double-skin cladding that houses perimeter stairwells and programmatic breakout nodes, the retrofit strategy for 60 Broad Street pairs new methods of inhabitant connectivity with passive ventilation and natural daylighting to recirculate people and recirculate air. The goal of the retrofit strategy is to positively alter the internal life of the building, drive down energy costs and decrease carbon emissions. RECIRCULATING 60 BROAD STREET RECIRCULATING AIR AHU

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HEAT HARVESTED FROM CAVITY AIR VIA HEAT EXCHANGER

KNEE WALLS HOUSE DUCTS TO AHU

circulation efficiency

circulation efficiency

circulation efficiency

circulation efficiency adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

WINTER CONDITIONS

SPRING/FALL CONDITIONS

SUMMER CONDITIONS

HEATING DRIVEN VENTILATION

OPTIMAL CROSS-VENTILATION

COOLING DRIVEN VENTILATION

Climatrium

Optimized Plug-in Sunrooms

programmatic qualities

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

structural efficiency

programmatic qualities

circulation efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

circulation efficiency

circulation efficiency

structural efficiency

adaptability to existing floor plans

structural efficiency

aesthetic

programmatic qualities

aesthetic

adaptability to existing floor plans

aesthetic

PRARMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS INPUT PARAMETERS Orientation_Angle SRF_Ratio

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0deg 0.6

15deg 0.8

30deg 0.4

30deg 0.8-0.6-0.4

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C-BIP Integrated Design Studio: Building Element Design Spring 2011 Critic:

Laura Kurgan

Related skills: Parametric design in CATIA

The Climatarium adds to the building envelope an inhabitable buffer space between interior and exterior climates. Environmental parameters (sun angle, orientation, building level, context, etc.), building parameters (window spacinigs, dimensions, etc.) and aggregation patterns were integral in the parametric design of these building units to suit different building conditions and effects.

Stephen Chou

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

Element_Depth Top_Panel_Depth_Ratio Offset_TOP Offset_BTM Offset_LEFT Offset_RIGHT

OUTPUT PARAMETERS / EFFECTS Output_Area Output_Volume

2.942 m2 9.583 m3

3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138

The buffer air space can either be inhabitable, or reduced in depth to form a double skin facade.

Change in overhang to introduce more sun exposure into element.

The width and height of the element are user-definable to create a variety of spaces for different uses and performances.

The percentage glazing can be controlled to meet desired conditions.

stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com


Crinkle! SURFACE, SCREEN, STRUCTURE Fall 2011 Instructor: Joseph Vidich Team: Stephen Chou Kelsey Lents Allison Rozwat Related skills: Modeling and shop drawing production in Solidworks. Construction of physical prototypes. Design developed through physical modeling and Rhino + grasshopper.

Crinkle! is a sunscreen panel system developed for the Adidas Sports Performance Store on 610 Broadway. It consists of lasercut stainless steel sheet metal units that aggregate into a 3-dimensional, undulating, porous system that not only dissolves the severity of the original gridded facade, but also wraps around the building to accentuate the top levels of the street corner. 8

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Filtro-Kiosk is a specially developed brick system to construct a wall that is able to carry the flow of water through cascading levels and multiple filtration units. These filtration kiosks are sited in a school in Malawi, where water infrastructure is under-developed and main access to water are through water kiosks. The goal is not only to provide for useable water, but to also visualize the filtration process, and create a visually and ambiently compelling space.

Related skills: Rhino modeling + MasterCAM (CNC), material experimentation and concrete casting.

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Stephen Chou

Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

3 Bender Ct., Dix Hills, New York, NY 11746 631-241-8138

stephen0816@gmail.com www.stephenchou.com


Overheard

Input

VISUAL STUDIES: LIVING ARCHITECTURE Fall 2009 Instructor: David Benjamin + Soo-In Yang Team: Stephen Chou Momo Araki Kyle Hovenkotter

Elevator mood change

mic 1. Speech Recognizer

“fantastic!”

“ewww!”

“awesome!”

“dammit!”

” wow!

Related skills: Programming in processing, building interactive installation with Arduino

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2. Determination Script

(count good or bad exclamation)

3. Deliver data to Pachube

“fascinating!”

“bad!”

4. Data Retrieval

Through the integration of speech recognition technology, internet live feed services, and responsive architectural outputs, the “Overheard” project seeks to transform qualities of our physical space - such as mood and atmosphere - according to our spoken words, creating an environment that would actively respond and participate with the conversations of its inhabitants.

5. Process to change output lighting pattern / color / intensity

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What drives urban motion, post Web 2.5?

Ippudo NY

Count: 3,383 Rating: 4

Joe’s Shanghai Count: 1,646 Rating: 4

STUDIO RESEARCH Spring 2012 Instructor:

Output

Processing

Spoken words

Pommes Frites Lombardi's Pizza Count: 2,075 Rating: 4

Count: 1,942 Rating: 4

Katz's Delicatessen Count: 2,370 Rating: 4

Juergen Mayer + Marc Kushner

Related skills: Programming in processing to retreive and manipulate data from web APIs; Rhino + Grasshopper; GIS

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Master of Architecture GSAPP, Columbia University

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With abundant (and growing) amounts of publically shared experiences, accumulated opinions hybridized into pseudo-factual information, and the proliferation of hand held devices - this map starts to graph a data that starts to influence why we travel to a place in the city, how we get there, and what we plan to do there...

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