THIEN NGUYEN A PORTFOLIO OF ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
Thien Nguyen
Thien.arcspace@gmail.com (626)-831-8747 Objective: To become full time intern and to acquire professional and architectural understandings of different phrases in architectural projects.
personal statement
education background
Architecture was vital for me to understand the living conditions during the time in Vietnam before becoming a U.S. citizen. In the late 1990s, as a kid, the experience of building a mud house with my mom, through vernacular materials mixture of mud and straws, and calling it my home has informed me the necessity of architecture and construction in modern world. With that being said, I think the right architecture is an essential intervention when the existing environment or paradigm can’t support the social agenda, thus the translation of an architectural design should inform the people, culture, and the community.
2010-2013 Pasadena City College AA Degree
Pasadena, CA
2013-2016 Woodbury University
Burbank, CA May of 20016: Bachelor of Architecture
work experience
skills
Amercan Financial House Lariba
Teaspot
Bath and Body Works
Pasadena, California 06/09-09/09
Pasadena, California 06/13-09/13
Pasadena, California 05/15-04/16
-Filing -Data input -Keyboarding -Cutsomer Service
-Cook -Customer Service
-Filing -Organizing -Saling -Cutsomer Service
Left due to school.
Left due to school.
Left due to school.
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Rhino + Grasshopper+ Plugs-in
Adobe Illustrator Hand Drafting references
Indesign
Maxwell
Photoshop + After Effects
Physical Modeling
V-Ray
Revit- learning
Microsoft Office
Laser Cutting + Formatting
Lumion - learning
Excel
CNC + Formatting
Sony Vegas 3d-Printing + Formatting
Le Nguyen
Yi-Hsiu Yeh
Catherine Garrison
Deborah Richmond
(213)-215-1536 Ltnguyen@tcco.com
(213)-399-6506 yihsiu@yehdesignlab.com
(213)-926-4392 catherinegarrison@yahoo.com
deborah@Deborah-richmond.com
Turner Construction
Yeh Design Lab
Catherine Garrison Architect
Deborah Richmond Architects
selected work
Liminal Housing
architecture | housing professor: Jame Bucknam fall 2013
CONCEPT SKETCH
Liminal Housing
architecture | housing professor: Jame Bucknam fall 2013
Century City Retail Mall
architecture | retail professor: Coleman Griffith fall 2012
2020 Olympic Masterplan
architecture | multi-purposes professor: Qasem spring 2011
BRISE SOLEIL SYSTEM ACCLIMATE CIVIC CENTER 4TH ST & PIC BLVD SANTA MONICA, CA
The site for the new civic center, next to the historical Santa Monica Auditorium, offers existing contextual conditions and opens up opportunities to coexisting and enchance the community gathering. The old Santa Monica Auditorium, by Welton Becket, provided the initial precedent study of the brise soleil on its facade. The idea was to seemingly manipulate its rectangular form into diagrid structural units. The uniqueness of the Acclimate Civic Center is it tectonic system, is not its underlying structural behaviors, but the baffle components. The brise soleil’s baffe components change its angle depending on its orientation to the site, while still intact to its structure. The brise soleil wraps around the building glass glazing allowing certain sunlight to penetrate or not; thus, certain spaces inside are expressed with different quality of light. The material of the brise soleil is made out of glass fibered reinforced concrete for lightness and thermal heat capacity. As for programs and circulation, the programs are set in a way where different levels of ramps and main elevator core are main principle of transitioning form one space into another allowing continuity of movement.
SOUTH BRISE SOLEIL MOCK UP
WEST
EAST
Different brise soleil allow either block or allow direct or indirect sunlight depending on the sun orientation at the given time. The GFRC material of the brise soleil is thermal heat to a certain extent.
WEST SIDE BRISE SOLEIL
SOUTH SIDE BRISE SOLEIL
EAST SIDE BRISE SOLEIL
BRISE SOLEIL
GLASS GLAZING
SPACE FRAMING
INTERIOR GLASS GLAZING CONCRETE STEEL COLUMNS DIAGRID GLASS GLAZING BRISE SOLEIL AND GLASS STRUCTURE
N BRISE SOLEIL ORIENTATION LAY OUT
FACADE ENVELOPE
FOUNDATION
ROOF ENVELOPE
ROOF CONNECTION
COMPOSITE CONCRETE SLAB
SPACE FRAMING
PARAPET CONNECTION
F
E
D
C
B A D
2
1
GLASS MULLION
4
3
STEEL JOIST
G
DOUBLE GLAZING
H
I GLASS FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE BRISE SOLEIL
J
13
K
14
15 L 16 STEEL TUBE
17
AA
METAL SHEET STEEL BEAM
18 STEEL JOIST FRAMING
19
M 20
COMPOSITE CONCRETE SLAB
21
N
V
O
REINFORCED STEEL BEAM
OPERABLE GLASS WINDOW
U P
T Q
R
SLOPE GRADING
S
CONCRETE FOUNDATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SECTION AA BUILDING ENVIRONEMENT
DETAIL BUILDING SECTION
LIMINALITY
VETERAN HOUSING WHITNALL HIGHWAY BURBANK, CA
The Whitnall Highway is a historical highway that aligned in a different grid from the rest of the city. Along side of this highway consists of commercials, apartments, and parks. The site of the project is at one end of Whitnall Highway strip, opening up to an intersection. There is an existing creational park on this location. As of result, the concept behind implimenting a veteran housing is based on the idea of liminality or threshold the Whitehall Highway has created in the urban context. The concept is to develope an intermediate space for housing while maintaining the publc space where the commnity can still gather. This symbiotic of architecture to landscape also allow the veterans to open up and reinform with the communal lifestyle. At a housing scale, the concept repeats where there is a common space between two housing units, providing non-public space, yet allowing veterans another layer of intersaction with each other. Note: The three detail drawings are done in a group consisting of Carlos Holmes, Oliver Young, and I.
SITE PLAN
NEW
EXISTING
NEW
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION
TRANVERSE SECTION
HOUSING
SPLIT
PUBLIC ZONES
CONCEPT SKETCH
WOOD RAFTERS WOOD CROSS BEAM 2 X 6" HEAVY TIMBER 8" X 8" CYPRESS WALL SLATS
"I" BEAM WATER PROOFING MEMBRANE GYPSUM BOARD PLYWOOD
HOUSING CIRCULATION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
LINE OF FLOOR BEHIND CONCRETE WALL R-19 INSULATION
GYPSUM PANEL CEILING
GROUTED CMU WALL
COMMON SPACE
SOFT EARTH
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
CMU WALL CONCRETE SLAB ON GRADE COMPACTED SUBGRADE
41'-9 3/4"
DOWN
CONTINUOUS WALL FOOTING
DETAIL SITE PLAN
RAMP
DETAIL FLOOR PLAN
DETAIL SECTION
CONCATENATION
EXPO LINE CONFERENCE CENTER COLORADO AVE & 4TH ST SANTA MONICA, CA
Santa Monica is not only high in tourism but studied datas inform that there is also high influx of workers. The high density is due to pulic spaces, such as restaurant, shops, and entertainment, aligning on the main streets. The City of Santa Monica is planning to develop the extension of Expo Line Metro Station to the site on Colorado Ave & 4th St. Along the line, the project proposes a conference center and mixed used programs as a local stop destination to diffrent demographic within Santa Monica and outsiders. The formal lanuage of the project traces back to the central open space concept from Santa Monica Planning Development. The building is elevated above the metro station to highlight the anchor point and allowing the visitor quick access into the building above and open space gathering below. In order for the elevated building, the focus is on the load transfer and connections through different structural components. The assembly consists of paneling glass glazing strucure, columns, diagrid frame envelope, and plinth framing.
SITE PLAN
FORM
GLASS GLAZING STRUCTURE
SITE PLAN
SECONDARY STRUCTURE
PRIMARY STRUCTURE
FLOOR PLATES
METRO STATION
PHYSICAL MODEL
AXON BUILDING SYSTEM
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
MASSING VOLUME
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
SUBTRACTED ENTRANCE ZONES
DETAIL FACADE ENVELOPE
FLOOR PLATES AND VOID
FLOOR PLATES AND CORE
DETAIL STRUCTURAL CONNECTION
PLATFORM SECTION
PUBLIC TERRACES AND COURTYARDS
DETAIL STRUCTURAL CONNECTION
HYDROLOGY RESEARCH
UNINFORMED INFILTRATIONS SAN FERNANDO VALLEY BASIN SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA
Up to 80% of Southern California water is imported from other regions. Southern California is experiencing drought and lack of better management in recollecting the rain water. The hydology research, led by Peter Arnold from Aridlands Institute, is a studio based collaboration and research intensive environment. The students use ArcGis, CityEngine, and ther resources to study the hydrology classification in San Fernando Valley Basin. The first objective is to locate all the watersheds and its delineated zones by looking at the flow acumulation of water from north to south of San Fernando Valley. This part of research also look at the urban fabric of streets and sewer system as well. The second part of the research is to find certain suitable infiltration reservoir underneath the ground surface. The goal is to redirect the rain water to these suitable sites by implimenting Best Management Practices (BMPs) on the existing locations where the water is needed to be relocated.
TYPICAL SECONDARY STREET BMP
TYPICAL LOCAL STREET BMP ONE OF THE WATERSHEDS LOCATING AREAS OF DIFFERENT INFILTRATION AREAS FOR CERTAIN BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IMPLICATION
WET SWALES
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICE TAXONOMIES
WET LAND CHANNELS
RIPARIAN CONNECTORS
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY INFILTRATION MAP
CURB EXTENSIONS
SEDIMENT TRAPS
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR HIGH PRIORITY INFILTRATION SITES INFILTRATION BMP
OPERATION
SLOPE
SCALE OF SITE
+
LAND USE
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR THE SITE
CONTRIBUTING AREA / QUANTITY OF WATER COMING TO THE SITE
LARGE | STEEP
LARGE
PARKS & OPEN-SPACE
Dry Ponds| Infiltration Basins | Urban Forests
EDUCATION
Dry Ponds | Infiltration Basins | Urban Forests | Dry Wells max 20%
INDUSTRIAL
Dry Ponds | Infiltration Basins
LARGE | STEEP
TRANSPORTATION
Dry Ponds | Infiltration Basins | Urban Forests
Dry Ponds
MIXED URBAN
Infiltration Basins | Urban Forests | Dry Wells max 20%
Infiltration Basins
COMMERCIAL
Urban Forests | Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20%
Urban Forests
RESIDENTIAL
Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20%
Bioretention Cells Dry Wells max 20%
Cut | Sculpt | Plant Cut | Sculpt | Fill Plant Trees
Dry Ponds
Porous Pavements max 10% Swales longitudinal slope max 4%
Infiltration Basins
LARGE | FLAT
Urban Forests
Cut | Sculpt | Fill | Plant
Bioretention Cells
Cut | Sculpt | Fill | Plant
Swales
Deep Cut | Fill
Dry Wells
LARGE | FLAT PARKS & OPEN-SPACE
Dry Ponds| Urban Forests | Infiltration Basins | Swales | Porous Pavements
EDUCATION
Dry Ponds| Urban Forests | Infiltration Basins | Swales | Porous Pavements
INDUSTRIAL
Dry Ponds | Infiltration Basins | Swales
TRANSPORTATION
Infiltration Basins | Urban Forests | Bioretention Cells | Swales
MIXED URBAN
Urban Forests | Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells | Swales | Porous Pavements
COMMERCIAL
Urban Forests | Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells | Swales | Porous Pavements
RESIDENTIAL
Bioretention Cell | Dry Wells | Swales | Porous Pavements
SMALL | STEEP
Construct Chamber | Plant Tree Resurface in Layers
PARKS & OPEN-SPACE
Bioretention Cells | Tree Box Filters
EDUCATION
Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20% | Tree Box Filters
INDUSTRIAL
Bioretention Cells | Tree Box Filters
SMALL | STEEP
TRANSPORTATION
Bioretention Cells | Tree Box Filters
Bioretention Cells
MIXED URBAN
Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20% | Tree Box Filters
Tree Box Filters
COMMERCIAL
Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20% | Tree Box Filters
Dry Wells max 20%
RESIDENTIAL
Bioretention Cells | Dry Wells max 20% | Tree Box Filters
Tree Box Filters Porous Pavements
SMALL
Porous Pavements max 10% Swales longitudinal slope max 4%
SMALL | FLAT
SMALL | FLAT PARKS & OPEN-SPACE
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
EDUCATION
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
INDUSTRIAL
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Tree Box Filters
TRANSPORTATION
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
MIXED URBAN
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Dry Wells | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
COMMERCIAL
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Dry Wells | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
RESIDENTIAL
Bioretention Cells | Swales | Dry Wells | Tree Box Filters | Porous Pavements
Note: Some filtration BMPs also provide infiltration. The BMPs in this taxonomy are chosen because their primary function is infiltration
BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES FOR HIGH PRIORITY INFILTRATION SITES
SILT FENCE
GRASS SWALES
VEGETATED BUFFERS
VEGETATED SWALES
BIORETENTION CELL
URBAN FORESTS