Portfolio
Table of Content
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School of A + D Extension - Competition
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Sound Towers - Competition
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Courtyard Residence
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Apartment Renovation
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Cadman Tower
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School of A+D Extension Architecture competition First Prize (137 Participants) “Design a gallery space, review rooms and a cafe to serve the College and Students.“ Standing on the intersection of three primary circulation routes, this project aims in creating a moment of pause and reflection in the form of a democratic public plaza, thus enticing a busy and young crowd to ‘pause and enjoy’ a moment. Visual connections to the open Gallery, Cafe and the review rooms invite people within, where the design plays with ambient-natural light to create an ambience of knowledge and discovery.
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Spatial organization and interaction with the ground floor
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Renders (Rhino + V-Ray)
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1” : 1/2’
1” : 1”
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Within the review rooms for the design studio, the building plays with ambient sky light with the help of the mechanism illustrated to illuminate pin-up/ persentation boards for the students to present on. Simply put, knowledge is illuminated.
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Sound Towers Architecture Competition Honor Award (137 Participants)
“Create three towers, each with a gong. How do they touch the ground? How do they reach for the sky? How does the space affect sound?” The three towers, as they gradually crawl out of the ground, work as a singular architectural experience - a journey which incites one’s sense of sound by putting them in atmospheres with different acoustic conditions. A single source -the gong is thus experienced in a variety of ways.
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Site Section - The three towers exist as one entity. A procession stringed by a grand singular experience
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The procession has a variation in audial experience due to chaging spatial conditions.
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Courtyard Residence Second Year
A study on using modules as a catalyst to comprehend and achieve indoor-outdoor intergration as well as spatial and programmatic understanding of a form and function. Each module is given its function, and are seperated from one another by exterior spaces. Thus, the architecture offers a unique experience and a new way of living,
Situated in Christiansburg, Virginia, this project aimed for a home celebrating both the ‘interior’ as well as its integration with the ‘exterior’. Residents can subside into their own ‘private courtyards’ and get a sense of isolation and serentity within.
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Plan - a light study to demonstrate natural lighting in interior and exterior spaces
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25’
Inside the residence, the line between inside and outside is blurred as one is allowed to be exposed to the elements while also being protected by the house.
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8’ 30°
Axonometric - structure + spatal arrangement
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Integration of the exterior with the built environment
Circulation study on the three main axes
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Apartment Renovation Second Year
The project aimed to renovate a historically significant loft space, in dowtown Lexington, into a residential apartment for the Luthi Family. “Why can I walk around my house but not around my apartment?� was the question which served to become the driving factor of this project, hence questioning the archtypal apartment space of this era, and soughting a solution to this question.
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Zero Degree Axonometric - circulation and spatial study
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Section perspecti through the two main axes A and B. Circulation study. A
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The organization of the spaces, in red, are with respect to a shifted grid. This allow for the division of the plan into 2 main axes - A and B -which are used as primary circulatory paths around these functions, and ultimately, around the house.
Spatial organisation of functions based on a shifted grid
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B A
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This design offers a new experience to the residents by allowing them to walk along an aisle of windows in their apartment, a feat the clients were unable to do so before and were extremely excited by . The circulatory path in red shows the circumambulatory nature of the procession one may participate in inside this apartment. This also allows one to end up where they began walking from without having to turn around - an experience unique to this design.
Primary Circulation around the functions and along the perimeter
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Cadman Tower A civic tower in downtown Brooklyn
This project questions the basic essence of a tower - an autonomous object. How can the boulevards, plazas, and streets in between buildings in the horizontal realm be translated into the vertical dimension, and into a tower? Towers are historically known to be uncivic in nature. They isloate themselves and stand as objects with little to no community interaction. A Civic Tower demands transparency and a converstation with the community on not only the ground floor, but also on the floors within . This tower is three independent institutions, each seperated by a civic environment, intersecting only in the civic spaces. This project may be translated as ‘A city within a tower’ or ‘a floating garden’ as it tries to elevate the civic spaces within a city into the sky.
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Section perspective - a demonstration of the Floating civic spaces. Gardens in the sky
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The tower, on the ground floor, creates a dialogue with the community . While in transit from the resdential side to the commercial, people find themselves under a grand arch and in a free democratic space. With a transparent nuilding above them, they are encouraged to interact with it and explore the civic sky lobbies in the sky. 20
Organisatiom
Circulation
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Egress
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The three institutes are physically serperated by each other with the green spaces in the form of sky lobbies. People in transit across the site pass under a grand arch in a free democratic and unforcing space. The tower focuses on the ground floor and the lobby floors on the eighth and the twentieth floor as moments of pause in between a set volume of functions. The tower aims to improve community interction - an act fading away in this age of convenience.
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Light
Reading side - Medium Book keeping side - Low
High Light
Medium Light
High Light
“How can we redisign a tower to become a moment of pause in the busy life of Cadman Plaza?�
Medium to Low light B-B
Low Light
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Program
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Height
420 ft.
Zoning
R10
Floors
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Total Site Area
3,000 ft²
Total Floor Area 35,000 ft² Public Library
Sky Lobby
Office Space
Restaurant Sky Lobby Technical Floor + Storage 911 Telecommunication area K-9 + Police Training Police Precinct A-A
Chief’s Office + Juvenile Holding Roll Call + Equipment Room Classrooms Public + Police Gym
Ground
Complaint + Holding and Processing area
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The peoples arch. A democratic gesture for the community.
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