Har var d GS D 2016 - 2020
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New New England Church
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Conic Cricket Club
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Prisoner Hotel
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Core Plays
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Natural Monument
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Gas Stations of Cambridge
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Methodist Church
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Figuring out DTLA
N E W N E W E N G L A N D C HU R C H Spring 2019 Thesis | Advisor: Mark Lee | Harvard GSD
In 1938, the German architect Rudolf Schwarz stated that the post-war task of the time was “to build churches out of that reality which we experience and verify every day.�1 Rather than reminiscing on the nostalgic past of the church as an institution, this thesis reconsiders the church as it is currently and how architecture can facilitate its activities. The struggle between big box and cathedral, banal and numinous, institutional and communal, symbol and anti-symbol, duck and shed is manifested through a series of wall constructions that express these dilemmas as a struggle between the free section and the free plan. Given the events of a typical Sunday service, the proposal creates a novel way of looking at the sequential progression of the service in addition to the physical construction of a new New England church. 4
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Site Plan 6
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View from Main Road 7
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View from Communion Space 9
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Cross Sections 12
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View from Sermon Space 13
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Constrcution Sequence 14
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CONIC CLUB Fall 2016 Core I | Instructor : Cameron Wu | Harvard GSD
This project is a investigation of the generic and the specific. The conic module is used as the generic to designed for the specific. Through various geometric operation (rotate, mirror, scale) of the conic module, the modules are able to adapt to different programmatic requirement. Sitting on a slope, the cricket club provides both large span court space as well as cellular utilitarian programs such as offices and changing room.
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Top: Transverse Section A Middle: Longitudinal Section B Bottom: Longitudinal Section C 22
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P RI S O N E R H O T E L Spring 2017 Core II | Instructor : Tom dePaor | Harvard GSD
The prisoner holiday club is a space for prisoners to spend twenty-four hours with their family and friends. Seven concrete walls hold up the structure of the building. The opening in the wall creates corridors, spaces or view frame. The height of the opening to the ceiling implies the depth of the beam. Different proportion of beams create different kinds of spaces. Guards makes sounds. Sounds indicate spaces, though unseen. The prisoner is always being watched, physically and mentally. The addition of floor places indicates activities, and the subtraction of wall allows activities. The building is a dialogue between sight and sounds, prisoner and guard, square and circle, addition and subtraction‌etc.
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CORE PLAYS Fall 2017 Core III | Instructor : John May | Harvard GSD
This project challenge the conventional notion of core in a institutional building . Core is considered as the unchanged and repetitive element on each floor. The stability of the cores allows for the complexity of the program to change around it. Even though the cores are the same on each floor, the perception of the cores can be different when different program start attaching to the core, or when the exterior envelope start to move in and out. The flexibility of openings in the cores helps to regulate the public and private complexity of the program, and can become a threshold between two programs. When people are in the core, they are away of the larger spaces above or below them, while in the floor plate they only perceived of their own program.
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GAS ST AT I O N O F C A M BR I D G E Spring 2019 Independence Study | Advisor : Tom de Paor | Harvard GSD
The gas station canopy is a duck that looks like a shed, or a shed that turns into a duck. The canopy is at the same time a sign and a shelter, an identity and a place. Each gas station is unique, yet ordinary. The beauty of the simple and (dis)honest structure of the canopy decorates street corners in every city. If self-driving and electric cars are on their way to becoming mainstream transportation, what will gas stations become in twenty years? The once glamorous canopies may become obsolete and turn into urban ruin. What is the afterlife of the canopy without its pumps and vehicles? What is the future of the these gateways?
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BROADWAY AUTOMOTIVE CARE CENTER Phone: (617) 354-9004 Address: 320 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139 “The staff and the owner both did an excellent job on service and pricing.” “A great place to quickly get car work done at a great price”
SHELL MEMORIAL DRIVE Phone: (617) 354-5565 Address: 820 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02139 “I wish there were more gluten free and plant based eating options.” “Great spot @ this self service gas station”
SHELL ART GALLERY The Shell Art Gallery is a dynamic tripartite exhibition space located right next to the Charles River. Our gallery houses temporary exhibitions by emerging local artists. The gallery features two exterior courtyards for larger sculptures and an interior hall for paintings.
BOADWAY SUSHI BAR Broadway Sushi Bar serves authentic sushi by Sushi Chef Yamamoto San. The bar style layout offers customers a one-on-one experience with the chef that brings the freshest sushi into your stomach.
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SPEEDWAY Phone: (617) 354-9613 Address: 287 Prospect St, Cambridge, MA 02139 “This gas stration is consistently has one of the lowers prices of the area” “Cheap gas, great people work, very convenient”
SHELL CAMBRIDGE ST Phone: (617) 354-8925 Address: 1001 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02141 “Good place to get your coffee in the morning.” “Nice overnight staff”
SPEEDWAY CHURCH Speedway Church church started in 2023 upon the closure of speedway gas station and has every since turned into a church that serves the Cambridge community. “We are a dynamic community in which the Holy Spirit transforms individuals into wholeness in Christ and restores His people to right relationships. This living Body of Christ seeks the shalom of God’s Kingdom in the world through reconciliation and justice.”
SHELL YOGA AND BAR Shell Yoga and Bar serves the soul and the body in one building. In the morning, enjoy yoga lessons to revitalize your body. In the evening, enjoy a drink with friends to rewind after a busy day. The studio and bar are cladded with mirrors, and feature a rotating counter that transform the space into two distinct programs.
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N AT U R A L M O N U M E N T Fall 2018 | Instructor : Pezo vaon Ellrichshausen | Harvard GSD Collaboration with Huma Sahin Nature is a house that we don’t allow ourselves to dwell in, that we are not allowed to dwell in. We are building our second house. A house inside another house. To make a house is a subtraction from nature, as much as it is an addition of itself. It is making an abstraction from an unlimited plane, from the unlimited air. We do not dwell in nature, we dwell in houses and nature is out there to be found. We can challenge this binary; the tradeoff is discomfort. The five houses express and amplify the tension between human and nature. They ask if there is value to be found in capturing the moment of transformation, heightening the experience of transition, dividing through connection, radicalizing the sameness of moments, finding unstable equilibriums.
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Plate House
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Block House
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M E T H O D I S T C HU R C H Spring 2019 Option Studio | Instructor : Pier Paolo Tamburelli | Harvard GSD
Located in Ohio, Clyde is one of the many industrial small towns in Midwest America. Sitting on the triangular site across the street from Clyde City Hall, the church consists of two volumes of long span structures. The two volumes are covered with a barrel vault. One of the volumes houses the main sanctuary, the other one houses other service program like bathroom, offices, kitchen‌etc. To build the church, only three types of steel frame are needed, and the common materials found in the industrial/agriculture barn: concrete masonry unit, corrugated aluminum roofing, U glass. The two volumes are connected through the altar. 58
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Stop Motion Video Interior Shot 64
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F I GU R I N G O U T D T L A Spring 2018 Core IV |Instructor : Jeannette Kuo |Harvard GSD Collaboration with Kevin Chong An exploration of interplay between the hidden and the hyper-exposed as a driver for designing for flexibility and alternative lifestyles for housing in DTLA. The project uses “figures� that are composed of aggregates of storage spaces and other functionally irreducible infrastructural elements, such as wet cells and structural elements, to reconcile the hyperexposed and the hidden. These curated figures are manifested as specific interventions to generic gridded residential floor plans. The use of figures allow for mediation between contrasting spaces and the sculpting of a hidden world flexible for alternative lifestyles. Similarly, the building mass provides a filtering effect between highly trafficked arterials and a hidden public courtyard unprecedented in scale and function in DTLA. 68
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Top left: Second Floor Plan Top Right: Ground Floor Plan Bottom Left: Transverse Section Bottom Right: Longitudinal Section 75
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Top left: Seconf Floor Plan Top Right: Ground Floor Plan Bottom Left: Longitudinal Section Bottom Right: Transverse Section 77
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