Vincent Yee
Architecture never fails to remind me of how incredibly powerful, precarious, and boundless it is to be a conscious human being. Through architecture, intangible ideas, imagination, and conviction may be constructed and explored in reality. Architecture is a means of advancing ideas, perpetuating understandings, and inciting revelations. I understand architecture to be an intervention that resonates through the spaces and people that it occupies as well as the world and the society in which it is conceived. Through the composition of tectonics, I an able to materialize not only objects to be seen, experienced, and remembered, but entire worlds for people to find sanctuary, to depend on, and to flourish. This portfolio illustrates an exploration of strategy and techinique in the resolution of design problems in architecture throughout my undergraduate studies.
01 Urban Environmental Research Center 02 Batak Teahouse 03 Le Refuge des Insurges 04 NOMA Competition: The Cordoba Home 05 Velux Competition: GT Learning Center
01
Urban Environmental Research Center synthesis of volumes 2nd Year The nature of the city block along Edgewood Avenue in Atlanta as a composition of clustered commericial functions serves as a strategy with which to design the urban environmental research center. The project is asynthesis of clustered volumes that house similar functions. Each cluster is wrapped in a cladding system that is functionally congruous and expressive.
sercuity measures
commercial function
vacant property
Property Economics
study model - street analysis
PUBLIC
CENTER FOR URBAN ORGANIZATION PUBLIC
ENTRANCE
PUBLIC
SEMI-PUBLIC
LECTURE HALL
RESTROOMS
ENTRANCE
GALLERY / OB
SEMI-PUBLIC LECTURE HALL
public PUBLIC
SEMI-PUBLIC semi public
PRIVATE private RESTROOMS
ENTRANCE
PRIVATE LECTURE HALL
SEMI-PUBLIC
LIBRARY
RESEARCH CENTER FOR URBA
PRIVATE
A
RESTROOMS
PRIVATE
A
PUBLIC
SEMI-PUBLIC
PRIVATE N
SITE PLAN 1/64” = 1’
A
N
A
GALLERY / OBSERV
SITE PLAN 1/64” = 1’
ME
N
A
N
parti development N
N
A
ENTRANCE N
SITE PLAN 1/64” = 1’
A
N
LECTURE HALL
A
SITE PLAN 1/64” = 1’
A
B
GALLERY / O
LIBRARY
N
A
GALLERY / OBSERVATION DEC
N
A
RESTROOMS
GALLERY / OBSERVATION DECK
N N
N
1st floor - lobby + auditorium
2nd floor - office + library + gallery
N
ENTRANCE FIRST FLOOR
3rd floor - guest residency
N
LECTURE HALL
1/8” = 1’ B
EN
MEETING ROO
3rd FLOOR floor THIRD 1/8” = 1’
2nd floor
SECOND FLOOR 1/8” = 1’
1st FIRST floor FLOOR
1/8” = 1’
interior render - gallery/overlook
N
N
N
exterior render - from street
02
Batak Teahouse lessons from indonesia 3rd Year The homes of the indigenous people of Indonesia are respond to the environmental conditions of the region. The vernacular strategies of extreme-pitched saddle-back roofs and stilted foundations subvert the heavy downpours and floods. While the roofs serve a functional purpose, they are also expressive and gestural. This proposal is explores a perpetuation of the gesture to constitute also the primary structure and inhabitable volume.
sections
plans - typical indonesian house
elevations
open floor plan and stilted floor allows for cross ventilation
steep roof allows for downpour to sheet off quickly + stilts allow refuge from storm runoff
3rd Floor
2nd Floor
1st floor
plans - proposed deviation on vernacular
sections
exterior render - bird’s eye iew
construction model
03
Le Refuge des Insurges inciting history 4th Year In the Eighteenth District of Paris, it is apparent the lack of public space that is genuinely accessible to everyone. In a city that is already densely saturated, perhaps the rooftops are the new frontier. Evoking the history of the Commune of Paris, a nearly forgotten social revolution, this proposal is the first access point to the rooftops of Paris. At a site where the communards themselves once took refuge, perhaps it is here that all peoples regardless of gender, class, and race may find their space and reflect on the spirit of a people united. Collaborators: Flora Reymond, Virginie Gimeno
as-is site photograph
vision sketch - rooftop colonization
plan
section
section
exterior render - elevation
construction assembly
final model
exterior render - street view
exterior render - bird’s eye view
site map
04
NOMA Competition: The Cordoba Home 1st prize the move and the moments 3rd Year The objective of this proposal is to design, not simply a house, but a home for the Cordoba family immigrating from Bogotรก to the suburbs of St. Louis. Reflecting on the interests and needs of the tight-knit family, most important to the design became a hearth space and universal accessibility as well as careful consideration of neighborhood context. Collaborators: Audrey Plummer, Ralph Raymond, Chi Chi Ugenyi, Ken Mai
vision sketch - neighborhood context
vision sketch - hearth space courtyard
neighborhood context analysis
model interior - ramp circulation south elevation
north elevation
section BB
section FF
section DD
section GG
section EE
private space
courtyard space
ramp circulation
structure
core cistern
exterior access
operable windows
low-flow plumbing
basement
first + grandparents floors
second floor
roof level
ramp from children’s quarters
ramp from grandparent quarters
living room + kitchen + courtyard
interiors of model
exterior render - south facade
05
Velux Competition: GT Learning Center Reflecting on Reflection 3rd Year Ruminating on the act of contemplation, this proposal explores understandings of reflection both literally and figuratively. Evoking the typology of cloisters, the design situates private spaces over a grand public space, creating a spectacular lightwell and dialogue of illumination in this center for this center of learning. Collaborator: Ali Karimi
parti
components
assembly
Detail
4
4
B
fourth floor
third floor
A
2
8
1
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
1
2 AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
7
5
6
second floor
first floor 1. Large Studio 2. Medium Room 3. Computer Lab 4. Cloister 5. Conference Room 6. Shop 7. Office 8. Gallery 9. Mechanical
9 3
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbWall (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
AecDbDoor (AecArchBase60)
6
basement
SUNLIGHT ON WALL
SUNLIGHT ON WALL light analysis
sections
SUNLIGHT ON WINDOW
SUNLIGHT ON MIRROR
SUNLIGHT ON WINDOW
SUNLIGHT ON MIRROR
sectional perspective