SELECTED W O R K S 2010 - 2015
JOANNE HO
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thesis project
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design projects
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center for photography
dormitory
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rockaway hub
boathouse
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additional works
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rendering
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BIM
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JOANNE HO
E X P E R I E N C E Teacher’s Assistant (Brooklyn, NY)
Pratt Institute, 2013-2014
Assisting the professor in teaching first year students representational tech niques, including Rhino, V-Ray, Maxwell and the Adobe Creative Suite as tools to develop a design concept.
Architecture Marketing Intern (New York, NY)
sl.joanneho@gmail.com (718) 249-7374 150 Myrtle Ave, Apt 2901 Brooklyn, NY 11201
VOA Associates Incorporated, 2013
Helped manage marketing materials, graphic presentation layouts, business development research, social media marketing, competitor research audit and assisted in space-planning/test-fitting of architectural plans for a new hotel.
Editorial Intern (Long Island City, NY) Songza.com 2010-2011
Managed and compiled lists of songs for different stations, as well as promoted Songza to various blogs outside the topic of music, collaborating with their teams on their own playlist for their fans and fans of Songza.
E D U C A T I O N Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY)
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), with Honors 2011-2015
New York University (New York, NY & Florence, Italy) Urban Design and Architecture Studies 2009-2011
International School of Beijing (Beijing, China)
International Baccalaureate Diploma, 39 points 2005-2009
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Proficient in:
Adobe Create Suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), Rhino, AutoCAD, Maxwell, Vray, Sketchup, Microsoft Office, Cura (3D printing).
Intermediate skills in:
Revit, Grasshopper , FL Studio, Ableton, Chinese (mandarin), HTML, Website Design
P U B L I C AT I O N S INPROCESS 20 Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Comprehensive Design: Pratt Dormitory (pages 72-73), 2015
INPROCESS 19 Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Intermediate Design: Artist’s Dwelling (page 201), 2014 7
T H E S I S P R O J E C T The premise of this studio lies in the hybridization of landscape as architecture and architecture as landscape, as opposed to the current paradigm of architecture as object with landscape as an accessory. By examining type and typology in Los Angeles that determine the visual and cultural identity of the city and its history and development, the thesis project will take a stance on the city’s current identity through redefining a typology that already exists. We propose an alternate way to reconfigure the homogeneity of the urban fabric and its experiential infrastructure through the rethinking of buildings across the city to understand and comment on the greater variation of neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
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PRATT INSTITUTE
LOCATION
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CRITICS
FALL 2014 - SPRING 2015
Arcade Park
SIZE
120,000 SF
LA River b/w 6th and 4th st
Dragana Zoric Evan Tribus PARTNER: Steven Shimamoto
WALK OF GAME An Alternate View of Leisure in Los Angeles
Leisure permeates through the lifestyle of Angelenos as a resulting condition of Los Angeles’ mild climate, car culture and proximity to the beach. Spaces solely for pedestrian activity, however, are sparse and located remotely from one another, existing in the city’s interest for mall shopping, hiking, and the beach. We are proposing an alternate type of pedestrian space within the city that allows for the coexistence of different modes of leisure, from the passive, slow and relaxing meandering to the active, fast-paced and noisy environment of a media arcade. As opposed to the existing types of pedestrian spaces for leisure, this alternate node of leisure aims to interweave discreet forms and boundaries of an open field into the city. Located in the heart of the Arts District and equally accessible from the surrounding neighborhoods densest in Los Angeles, this new media park nests within the edge of the LA River.
The city as steps of atomization from a house to the car, to a destination.
Los Angeles at first glance seems like a field of sameness with pockets of isolation and instant places of entertainment and leisure. Within our swath of interest, we have selected two architectural types that demonstrate the create of instant place in West and Central LA: The pier and the courtyard housing.
The courtyard housing infiltrates Los Angeles as a privatized oasis within the city.
The pier is the furthest extension of a commercial strip of land into the water.
THE COURTYARD HOUSING TYPOLOGY The courtyard as an introverted internally operating space is privatized, whose spirit is governed by the compartmentalization of domestic lifestyle. The courtyard creates a self-curated space rather than a predetermined one. Typically, these buildings consist of a large void centered
in the middle of the housing block that allows for an enclosed public space within a private dwelling. This void becomes the primary organizational element around which public programs are oriented. The courtyard presents itself as an ideal place of relaxation and exclusive pleasure for its inhabitants.
Courtyard Housing Typologies: Programmatic Structure
Courtyard Housing: Degrees of Privateness from the Street
The site is located in the middle of the densest neighborhods in Los Angeles.
THE PIER TYPOLOGY The pier as an extroverted peripheral place at the city’s edge that one must drive to, exists as a series of spaces that patrons can meander in a hedonistic chase for artificial pleasure.
Pacific Ocean Pier Programmatic Diagram
Santa Monica Pier Programmatic Diagram
The pier as a typology embodies the furthest western expansion of the American manifest destiny, denying the
Pier Typologies: Programmatic Structure
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boundaries of landscape and becoming an extention of the commercial strip. The form of a pier is typically recognized from its raised structure from the water, supported by piles that extend away from land and into a body of water into a linear path towards a final viewing platform.
Walking through the bubbles of environmental arcade games, looking north.
HYBRIDIZING THE PIER AND THE COURTYARD Leisure becomes the highest priority for Angelenos, As the two spatial types of leisure studied exists in the pier and the courtyard housing as the direct inverst of each other both topologically in mass-
ing and programmatically. By comparing the two collections, we begin to understand their inverted qualities.
Figure-ground diagrams showing that the pier and courtyard housing are direct inverses of each other.
Inversion to hybridization of pier platform and void of the courtyard housing.
Looking south from the roof of the Arcade
Arts District mural
Road adjacent to the site.
The new 6th st viaduct (image courtesy of Michael Maltzan Architects)
Located in the Arts District in Los Angeles, the site in which this new collection of play spaces is located along the LA river between 4th and 6th street. The block fits within an area that has future plans for development, including the 6th street viaduct which is situated close to and above south of the site.
Pedestrian activity from the new 6th st viaduct
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Within an atrium looking above at the bubbles of arcade spaces and to the sky.
PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL SURFACE STUDIES We examined form making that merges the pier as a platform for walking and the courtyard as a concentrated void for leisure. By lofting surfaces and in-
tersecting them to create uniquely shaped voids, our goal was to create a space for meandering and watching digital projections that cannot be found in other pedestrian spaces in Los Angeles.
Microsoft’s “RoomAlive” transforms any room into a giant Xbox game.
Lofting surface studies of addition and subtraction to create void spaces.
Projectors detect surfaces and projects onto objects within the room.
HYBRIDIZED SURFACE STUDIES
Gathering Well
Circulatory Well Space
Curved and Continuous Cinema Space
Entry Sequence of a Sheltered Uncondition Space Environmental renderings with projected surfaces.
Entrance from bridge
Cafe
Arcade Nodes
Roof Garden
Cinema
Hybridized section from surface studies
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SITE PLAN
Exit Well
Exit Well
Utilities
Cinema Projection
Cinema Projection
Cinema Entrance Cafe Gaming Module
Auditorium Well
Auditorium Well
Gaming Module
Gaming Module
Viewing Well
Viewing Well
Entrance
Entry Well
Tunnel Entrance
FLOOR PLAN
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GROUND PLAN
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
FLOOR PLAN
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Gaming Node
Gaming Node
Gaming Node
Gaming Node
Cafe
Cinema Entrance
Gaming Nodes
Cinema CROSS-SECTIONS
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PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER TYPE
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Museum and School
Center for Photography
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100,000 SF
The Center for Contemporary Photography houses educational and gallery spaces and sits on a pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. By examining discreet and continuous forms in photographs, the operation of blurring programmatic boxes and then creating discreet forms brought on a quality of delamination. The frame of these
manipulated programmatic boxes are defined, discreet lines that enclose the transparent and translucent surface that create an experiential “blur� when walking through the building. The intersections of these delaminated boxes contain the circulatory spaces and cracks in the surfaces that play with light.
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94 Beard St, Brooklyn, NY
Adam Elstein
Entrance to the Center
Line, form and value analysis of photographs.
The line, form and value analysis of photographs is applied onto the methods of form making. Delamination is the solidification of blurred programmatic forms, displaying a the concept and desire to replicate the analysis of forms and value within a photograph.
Process of delamination
Transportation to the Site
The intersection of these delaminated forms allows for the exploration of the way that the discreet frames and continuous surfaces “crack� to let light in in different ways throughout the day. Every visit never looks the same.
Exploration of cracks within the frame and surfaces of the delaminated forms.
Ways to step down a curved surface.
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Observatory space, an end condition
Interstitial space between the forms
Renderings of experimenting with cracks of a box
SECTION A
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Observatory Lobby Entrance Library
Residency Spaces
Storage & Archives Photo studios
Lecture rooms
Education Gallery Space
SITE PLAN
GROUND PLAN
TOP PLAN
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Graduate Dormitory
Pratt Institute
57,000 SF
We propose a new type of dormitory that allows public visitors from the neighborhood to enjoy the ground floor of the site. By reacting to Pratt Institute’s sculpture garden, our approach to the form is volumetric, allowing the form to split and lift, creating entries and openings that welcome visitors in.
The courtyard that punctures through the building emphasizes environmental factors such as sunlight and ventilation, also providing visual connection within the community. The priority of this dormitory is efficiency and conserving space for collaboration within circulation and gathering spaces.
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79 Grand Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Brian Ripel
Kevin Chang
Courtyard space looking at adjacent street and public rear yard
New buildings and public spaces
New stores and restaurants on Myrtle
Sculptures on campus for the community
Main lawn on campus
Facilities within the vicinity of the campus
Newly constructed public space
Pratt Institute campus and its surrounding
As a way to compensate for the void in the middle of the building, there are alternating hallways on each floor, and half of the suites are two-storied units that include stairs within.
Single duplex unit
Alternating hallways
Cross-section
The dormitory duplexes are simply places for students to sleep, in contrast to the ample gathering spaces that occur on the ground floor to the third floor. Each duplex has six rooms and two bathrooms, and have enough space for a desk, bookshelf and a closet space.
Top Floor
Public rear yard Typical duplex unit
Bottom Floor
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Concrete tile/paving Roof
Tile flooring Waterproofing
Double-paned Window
Bi-folding shutters Concrete slab Fourth Floor
Third Floor
Concrete beam
Second Floor
Facade and balcony FACADE WALL SECTION
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
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Each floor has alternating hallways to the bottom floor of each duplex. There are also alternating shared kitchen spaces on each floor that have double height ceilings.
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Studying space
Double-heighted kitchen spaces
Entrance
Bicycle racks Car ramp to the basement
Longitudinal Section showing double-height shared kitchen spaces.
Shared kitchen spaces that alternate from north to south on each flloor
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ROCKAWAY CENTER TYPE
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Community Center
Far Rockaway Community
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390,000 SF
RAMP (Recovery, adaptation, mitigation + planning) is a Pratt Institute initiative for teams to participate in collaborating with community organizations to develop a center with much needed program, jobs as well as protection from future flash floods. Jamaica bay and the surrounding communities such as Far Rockaway and Broad
Channel are looking for ways to implement coastal resiliency, proposed/imposed FEMA regulations. Our studio’s solution is to design either floating or elevated to survive the rising waters with the possibiliy of transforming the builings from commercial activity to emergency centers when needed.
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Rockaway Community Park
Zehra Kuz
On the public floats, looking at educational spaces.
By using the neighborhood’s new buildings as a basis for an architectural facade language, reused shipping containers have sustainable frames that can be reclad in wood or translucent polycarbonate. It also has the ability to be quickly implemented on site.
Corrugated metal that can be replaced
The frame that can be reused
Swimming pool and multi-purpose space
Structure of the floor
Swimming pool Exploded axon of a reusable shipping container
Wrapping around the site is a berm that will keep rising levels of water out for a sustained period of time with a drain under soil and plants in case the water reaches above the berm.
Section of a berm
Section of a pier leading to floating platforms
Water flow down into the site (the conch) in Far Rockaway.
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Bed and Breakfast
SECTION A
Community center and indoor pool
Outdoor pool
SECTION B
Mussel poles farming
SECTION C
Bird’s eye view of the site from the south
Bike destination and energy hub
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BOATHOUSE TYPE
LOCATION
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PARTNER
Community Center
Far Rockaway Community
xx,xxx SF
Columbia University has decived to upgrade and modernize its boathouse facility, extending its commitment to innovative and sustainable design. The new proposed boathouse will be a shed to house the rowing shells and oars and create a space for the rowing community. The site, nestled between a park and another of Columbia University’s buildings, the entrance is
narrow, hugs the side of a steep hill, and meets the water at its edge. The exercise in the making of the building’s form is a design that addresses the problem of mitigating the level difference between the hill and the waterfront.
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Rockaway Community Park
Sal Tranchina
Rena Cukurova
The circulatory spine that hugs the curve of the hill
A series of operational moves were made to create the form of the boathouse. First, it follows the curve of the hill and moved towards the waterfront for light and air. Second, the ground floor is shifted towards the water to mitigate between the steep hill and the ground. Third, the leg of the form that is closest to the entrance is bent towards the waterfront for views.
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The shed for the shells and oars live below the community spaces above. The shed is unconditioned and allows for external ventilation.
Cross-section
Sketch model, bird’s eye view.
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Sketch model, view from the waterfront.
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Metal roof Insulation Roof decking Fiberglass concrete
Dropped ceiling Glazing
Weathered steel Glazing Concrete floor Perforated panels
Concrete slab Insulation Secondary structure Primary structure Steel frame
Hollow cellular polycarbonate
Polycarbonate
Green Wall Wooden benches
Operable louvers Rebars Concrete slab Gravel Foundation wall Concrete footing
View from the top floor
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ADDITIONAL W O R K
RENDERING PRATT INSTITUTE SUMMER 2012
CRITIC
Ronnie Parsons
PROGRAMS
Rhino, VRay, Photoshop
The tertiary media and representational course in Pratt Institute develops on analog skills and drawing in autocad. By using Rhino to make precise and detailed modeling, the course emphasizes on developing a proficient workflow using the Adobe Suite Software. The primary rendering software used for this course is VRay.
After visiting the storefront, we’re able to recreate the space from photos as well as plans provided to us. Through these details, we were asked to outfit the space with an exhibition of a new form that we had created using Ernst Haeckel’s drawings.
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Using VRay, these test renders were to focus on lighting and preview the details of the 3D modeling in Rhino.
View of the exhibit space in the Storefront for Art and Architecture
The new form that was created from Haeckel’s drawings is exhibited in printed renders hung on the wall, in a three dimensional object as well as a section of the form that provides seating for visitors. These renderings were also done through VRay, although post-production of the people were created on Photoshop.
Large scale model with seating provided for visitors
Looking through the installation are two visitors admiring the full physical model.
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MODELING PRATT INSTITUTE SPRING 2014
CRITIC
Nicholas Mundell
PROGRAMS Revit 2014
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Joanne Ho www.autodesk.com/revit
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We generated plans, sections, elevations,
Pavillion Plan View Project number Date Drawn by Checked by
Fort Greene Pavillion
This course introduced us to the fundamentals of Building Information Modeling (BIM) using Autodesk Revit as a platform. By designing relationships using parametric, rule-based and associative techniques in Revit, we developed many projects including a pavillion in Fort Greene Park.
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details and schedules from the 3D digital models in Revit and created a collection of drawings as displayed in this section of my portfolio. Along with these sets of drawings, we’ve also used Dynamo to view environmental factors that impact the 3D model according to location and the time of day.
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Project Number Issue Date Joanne Ho Checker
A101 Scale 1/32" = 1'-0"
3/16/2014 5:54:18 PM
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Curtain Panel System - Wood (Oak) and Glass
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Modular Grouping of Curtain Panel System
Structural 1' Columns Structural 1' Columns Cast-in-place concrete around Pilings column of structural steel, high strength low alloy, ASTM - A572 50
Wood (oak)
3-Cap Piling
Soda Lime Glass Three Pile
Section A 1/32" = 1'-0"
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Joanne Ho www.autodesk.com/revit
Panel System
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Section + 3D Axon Project number Date Drawn by Checked by
Fort Greene Pavillion
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Project Number Issue Date Joanne Ho Checker
A102 Scale 1/32" = 1'-0"
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Round steel column Pilings of structural steel, high strength low alloy, ASTM - A572 50
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Soil Anchor Bolts
Steel Plate Bolts Round steel column
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Soda Lime Glass
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3' - 7" 6' - 7"
Foundation Detail (bottom) 1/2" = 1'-0"
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Foundation Detail (top) 1/2" = 1'-0"
Joanne Ho www.autodesk.com/revit
Fort Greene Pavillion
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Section B 1/32" = 1'-0"
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Foundation Detail Project number Date Drawn by Checked by
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A103 Scale As indicated
3/16/2014 5:54:20 PM
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Rendering
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Renderings Project number Date Drawn by Checked by
Fort Greene Pavillion
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A105
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A106
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Sun Path
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JOANNE HO sl.joanneho@gmail.com (718) 249-7374 150 Myrtle Ave, Apt 2901 Brooklyn, NY 11201