THIEN NGUYEN
PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
Thien Nguyen
Thien.arcspace@gmail.com (626)-831-8747 OBJECTIVE: Transfer as a 3rd year student
education background
2006-2010 Marshall Fundamental Secondary School Highschool Diplomat
2010-2013 Pasadena City College AA Degree
skills
AutoCad | Rhino + Grass | Maxwell Adobe Illustrator | Indesign | Photoshop + After Effects | Microsoft Office | Sony Vegas Hand Drafting and Modeling | Laser cutting
contents
Century City Retail Mall
architecture | retail professor: Coleman Griffith fall 2012
2020 Olympic Masterplan
architecture | multi-purposes professor: Qasem spring 2011
Expo Bicycle Station architecture | parametric professor: Qasem spring 2011
Thirst Pavillion
architecture | public professor: Debrah Bird fall 2011
Interlocking Space model professor: Qasem spring 2011
Skin and Bone
parametric professor: Andy Ku spring 2011
Century City Retail Mall
architecture | retail professor: Coleman Griffith fall 2012
CENTURY CITY RETAIL Century City is a commercial and residential district on the Westside city of Los Angeles. It is bounded by Westwood on the west, Rancho Park on the southwest, Cheviot Hills, Beverly wood on the southeast, and the city of Beverly Hills on the northeast. Its major thoroughfares are Santa Monica, Olympic, and Pico boulevards (its northern boundary, century artery, and southern boundary, respectively), as well as Avenue of the stars and Century Park East and West.
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Objective: Design the north east portion of Century City Westfield Shopping Center to create a more experiential space that attracts various social statuses of the city. Concept: Convolution; vortex in a rotating behavior. The concept is the undermine of the architecture design that focus dominantly on the user’s experience through shifting each level to enchance visual site line at each storefront. The relationship from one retail level to another.
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NEW GRID VS OLD GRID
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PUSH VS PULL CURRENTS
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SHI T SITE LINE
E ISTING RET ILS
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INTERSECTION SITE LINE
EDGE SITE LINE
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN SECOND FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SMALL SCALE RETAILS
MEDIUM SCALE RETAILS
BIG SCALE RETAILS FOOD COUR GREEN SPACE
BLOOMINGDALE’S
GROUND FLOOR PROGRAM
FIRST FLOOR PROGRAM
SECOND FLOOR PROGRAM
CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
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SECTION 1 1’=1/32” SCALE
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AXON VOID
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SECTION B
2020 Olympic Masterplan
architecture | multi-purposes professor: Qasem spring 2011
2020 OLYMPIC MASTER PLAN EXPOSITION PARK
Located just beyond Downtown Los Angeles, Exposition Park is transformed to reunite the world for the 32nd Olympic games in 2020. The project aims to address existing paradigm at a global scale, currently prohibiting the city. Rich with history, Exposition Park will be the home of the Olympic games for the third time. Objective: Establish and declare the identity of the 2020 Los Angeles Olympic Games. Design a masterplan that facilitates the athletes, the spectators, and the world. Concept: Illuminate. Renewing the identity of Los Angeles. The age of technology has taken over LA at the expence of the environment. Through sustainability the project aims to use the advances in technology to reintroduce the values of nature from the past. As a message to the world, and to is own residents, the city of Los Angeles is taking an active step toward the future by enforcing the importance of bicycles and public transportation.
SITE PLAN
PROGRAMS
GREENSPACE
CIRCULATION
Expo Bicycle Station architecture | parametric professor: Qasem spring 2011
BICYCLE TRANSIT STATION EXPOSITION PARK LOS ANGELES, CA
Objective: Build a bicycle hub on Exposition Park that can contain 100 bicycles within 1,800 sq. ft. parameter. The private facilities is staffed by employees everyday from 8am to 5pm. The bicycle storage is accessible to its members 24/7 in addition to private changing rooms, restooms, showers, and personal lockers. The facilities from 8am to 5pm consist of bike repairs, rentals, retail sales, and information about the station and membership. The location of the bicycle hub interacts with the existing environment and allows commuters, who take public transportation from the Expo Line Metro, to store their bikes or rent one out. Location: The northern border of Exposition Park and neighboring the Expo Line Metro which is located at south of USC campus. Adjacent to the west residential neighborhood and the freeway on the left. Theme: Build a bicycle hub on Exposition Park that can contain 100 bicycles within 1,800 sq. ft. parameter. The private facilities is staffed by employees everyday from 8am to 5pm. The bicycle storage is accessible to its members 24/7 in addition to private changing rooms, restooms, showers, and personal lockers. The facilities from 8am to 5pm consist of bike repairs, rentals, retail sales, and information about the station and membership. The location of the bicycle hub interacts with the existing environment and allows commuters, who take public transportation from the Expo Line Metro, to store their bikes or rent one out. Concept: Correlation; Interdependence of variable quantities. The concept development is seen through the relationship of the Exposition park to Exposition Metro Line. The bikcycle hub is the correspondence to the Exposition Metro Line.
TRAFFIC DENSITY
CYCLIST ROUTES
BUS ROUTES
FLOOR PLAN
BIKE ROUTE DATUM
SHORT SECTION
PUBLIC & PRIVATE PROGRAMS
CIRCULATION
LONG SECTION
EXPOSITION PARK SURFACE SITE PLAN
EXPOSITION PARK SURFACE ELEVATION
Thirst Pavillion
architecture | public professor: Debrah Bird fall 2011
THIRST PAVILLION
The site is located adjacent to Memorial Metro Station up north. The existing space is open for parking but the idea to build the Thirst Pavillion here is due to the fact lack of water in Pasadena. Thirst Pavillion aims to educate and provides clean water for people that are in need. Ojbective: Create an open pavillion while maintain certain zones of privacy for work. Create a pavillion that is multi-functional in terms of consisting programs such as art gallery, water cleansing processes, and open green space. Concept: Filtration ; porosity, permeable, layering. The concept idea is developed through the case study of how water get clean in the city, which is through layers of filtration system that at each stage take way bacterias and other harmful factor in dirtying the water way.
SITE PLAN
DATUMS
IMPORTANT DATUMS
BOUNDING BOX
CIRCULATIONS
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION A
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECTION B
Interlocking Space model professor: Qasem spring 2011
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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CC HOUSE INTERLOCKING SPACE CC House by Longhi Architects.
The project is about a house case study emcomposes fundamental architecture principles. At the end of the project, the students are focused in finding the relationship between interlocking spaces and how the circulation correlates to from one space to another. Materials Usage: Maple wood, bass wood, and arcylic.
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Skin and Bone
parametric professor: Andy Ku spring 2011
SKIN AND BONE
The approach of the project is through paneling tool of different parameric geometries and units. Each units are arrayed through its current form of a simpler shape. The objective of this excerise was through layering and exploring different parameters of paneling tool. The idea is evident in its porosity and different textures and scales.
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