Tai Shaw Portfolio Architecture and Design Selected Works 2013-2015
Rhode Island School of Design
Table of Contents Computing Drawing: Convolving Corner (USPS)
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Urban Design Principles: Live/Work Hybrid Housing
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Architectural Design: Providence Exchange Station Prospect and Refuge
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Making of Design Principles: Improvisational Theater
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Architectural Analysis: Richards Medical Center Architecture of Air
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Computing Drawing The Convolving Corner (USPS) Spring 2015 This Studio explores computer programming as a drawing and design medium. Through iterative drawings I examined the formation and aggregation of lines to form surfaces, and eventually defining a corner. The program is a 195,000 square foot storage facility for the US Postal Service, with a 1000 square foot post office embedded within its protruding corner. The Corner is defined by intersecting,non-parallel trajectories embodied by small wooden members pointing out from the long, continuous East facade. As the geometric focus of the building, where linear structural members intersect and converge, the Corner houses the main public program, including the retail space, mailboxes, and info kiosk. Clockwise from top to bottom: Planometric diagram, Facade Rendering, Initial Studies- Surfaces rendered in Cyclical Lines Repeated by Chance, Study of Corner made from Collapsing Lines.
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“The corner is a seam where two non-parallel surfaces converge to intersect, yet begin to diverge as the paths continue.�
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SECTION A 20 FT
section B
section A
Clockwise from top to bottom: Initial Corner and transparent facade Study, Section A (EW), Structural and Tectonic Model Studies, Ground Floor Plan. FLOOR 1
20 FT
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SECTION BSECTION B
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20 FT
Left to Righ Top to Bottom: Section B (NS), Interior Renderings, Corner Tectonic Study, Corner Collage Rendering. 6
Shared Corridors N
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Spaulding Rehabilitational Hospital + Largest Standing Rehabilitational Hospital in the US. + Home to 139 patients. + Home to Havard Medical PM&R Residecy Program with more than 400 students a year. Proposed- Hybrid Work/Live Library Housing + Public access Library
Ground Plan
+Extension of Spaulding Campus with Work/Live units for medical students and docors.
Urban Design Principles
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Live/Work Hybrid Housing Fall 2014 This project hybridizes medical research space, a Library, with residentail units in a complex targeting medical students and researchers at the Spaulding Rehabilitational Hospital in Charlestown, Boston. Modular units derived from local typology are aggregated to create intersecting shared spaces between the units, and enables intersection between residential and public programs.
Clockwise from top to bottom: Site Analysis with facade rendering, Mapping views, Ground Floor Plan (Library), Typical Floor Plan.
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Typical Pla Floors 5-6,
1”:40’ Residential
9.5th Floor
10th Floor 9th Floor 8th Floor 7th Floor Modular Units One Bedrooms Studio
Built-in Circulation Volume 20’
20’ 20’
Duplex
Two Bedrooms
Four Bedrooms
Three Bedrooms
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45’ 45’
40’
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8.5th Floor Work-Live Library
7.5th Floor 6.5th Floor
Residential
Section B 1”=16’
5- 9th Floors Research spaces, classrooms, work-live units
2-4th Floors (North): Lecture Hall and Reading Rooms
2-4th Floors (South): Communal spaces spersed among units.
Ground Floor: Public Library
Clockwise from Top to Bottom: Typical Floor Plan, Perspectile sketch, Unit Logic, Exploded Programmatic Axon, Section A(EW), Section B(NS), Massing model on Site, Unit Plans. 10
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Architectural Design Providence Exchange Station Prospect/Refuge Spring 2014 This design of a train station in Providence seeks to define a public space for exchange as well as repose through the study of elements embodying prospect (entrance, kiosk, exhibition space) and refuge (seating, enclosure), and how they may guide a traveler. The most crucial part of the work is the initial establishment of the generative matrix, an aparatus for making and understanding space. Here the woven matrix is created from points of intersection and turning of pedestrians on the site. Clockwise from Top to Bottom: View ascending from platform. , Model, Generative Drawing, Plan of intersecting trajectories, Section A (NS), View from Matrix outward.
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Clockwise from Top to Bottom: Axonometric of Matrix on site, Floor Plan 1 and 2, Tectonics Study, Matrix Model, Close up of Model (Roof), Section B (EW).
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The Making of Design Principles Improvisational Theatre Fall 2013 This first arcitecture studio focuses on the designing methods and rules for shaping space through drawing and making. In this current construct there are two forces at play and join at the performance cube, representing the two different parties that occupy different spaces of the theatre but unite for the experience of a performance in the black box. The triangular modules are derived from the planar materials in the first phase of the project that traced diagonals of the six sides of the mesh cube to define its inner cube. The topography is designed through merging the force of the diagonal geometry and observations of the undulating landscape.
Clockwise from Top to Bottom: Axonometric of Structure and Circulation, Ground Plan, View from Entrance, 4 Iterative models of cube and Invented Landscape, Final Construct, View of Threashold to cube, Section A and B.
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Architecture Analysis Richards Medical Center Spring 2014
The twelve-week course was in depth analysis of Louis Khan’s Richards Medical Research center from 1975. The iterationsof drawing examine the relationship between the strict geometric order of a 3x3 grid system and the linear, strand like HVAC system.
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Clockwise from Top to Bottom: Drafted X-tal Axonometric, Exploded Axonometric, Structure and Air Ducts, Axonometric and Volume of Separated Air Ducks, Combined Air Ducks. 18