Vy Nguyen
Architecture Portfolio - Selected Work
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THE CHAMELEON CENTER
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CONCRETE PIPE TINY HOME
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PERISCOPE TOWERS COLLECTIVE CONCEPTUAL STUDIES SELECTED SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHY
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THE CHAMELEON CENTER Junior Studio, Spring 2018 Instructor , Kevin Sloan
The project takes place at Douglas Russel Parks and Recreation in Arlington, Texas. Hidden within the park, there is a graveyards known as Lost Cemetery of Infants. Considering that it was a home for unwed mothers, there were bound to be some still births and other complications. With the water branch system within the park, students were asked to create a conference center and meditaion place with an accomondation. The project examines the intention and seizing upon refeflective and meditative part of the program. Towards that, the study of precedent Katsura Imperial Villa was an approach model to begin to analyze. The programs are all lifted on columns and on seperated volumns to diminish the overall impact of the buildling of being compressed rathrt than intimate. Even though it is seperated,but unifies under one roof. The facade skin plays like a skin of an chameleon due to its matterials of mirror that placed irregullarly through out the building and mimics the pattern of the existing trees in the park.
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Site
Dough Russell Park Arlington, TX
Parti Studies and Sketches
Circulation
Public Semi-Private Private
Parti and Void
SCALE: 1” = 32’ - 0” Site Plan and Floor Plan Hotels/ Accomodation Spaces Welcoming and Gallery Meditation Rooms Auditorium Banquet Hall Administrative Offive Dining Area Kitchen
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SCALE: 1” = 16’ - 0” Section and East Elevation
SCALE: 1” = 16’ - 0” Section and South Elevation
SCALE: 1” = 20’ - 0” Physical Model
Perspective Rendering- Gallery
Perspective Rendering- Entrance
SCALE: 1” = 20’ - 0” Physical Model
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CONCRETE PIPE TINY HOME National AIAS Competition 2018 Collboration with Drew Morrison from Massachusetts College of Art and Design Overpopulation, homelessness, natural disasters. These are realities that architects are facing when designing now and for the future. In recent years, tiny homes have proven to be a positive solution for communities facing challenges such as population growth in urban areas, addressing homelessness, climate change and other natural disasters, and environmental degradation. Pipes are oriented for use/privacy needs. Convertible living spaces with ample light and views.
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Interior Rendering
Perspective Renderings
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PERISCOPE TOWERS Senior Studio, Fall 2018 Instructor , Sumaia Alamoudi Camera Obscura for Iwan Baan. Other Documentary Photographer
Iwan Baan’s photography work seem can be divided into 2 fields of work. For some projects, Baan’s focus is to capture a recent man-made wonder that continues to set the bar for the future buildings to come. However, in others, he tries to document various ad hoc dwellings in 3rd world countries. While each setting is vastly different, Baan still tries to convey the same message throughout each work of how do these places make sense in today’s society and the role each project plays in their community. Public awareness and comprehension of Baan’s overall ideas may be improved through the usage of pinholes. Concept wise the use of actual pinholes allows the perception of an attire field of work within one viewpoint and how it relates a whole. Symbolically it allows viewers to fully understand the work and thought process of each image he captures. In today’s urban society, new buildings are constantly being produced with designs that lack public awareness of their purpose and Baan’s goal is to portray them with his images. Not only does his images focus on the body of work, he presents them on how it relates to the community/city as a whole. Baan’s concludes that while current architecture today is at the forefront of technology usage, ironically, it is the vernacular architecture that remains the most sustainable. For future projects, providing a structure or an installation with pinhole images of the before and after allows users to picture future interactions within and their communities as a whole. Providing images with different aperture of one similar image allows them to go through a series of spatial sequences helping reinforce Iwan’s intentions at the end by providing a refined picture
Desire for gadety
First Camera and Art School
Influencers
Iwan Baan
of an existing building that they were previously in. Architecture Photagraphy Style
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Potential Sites
Pinhole
Lens Cornea
Iris
Retina
Camera Diagram
Mirrors
Lens
Image Background Foreground
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Depth of Field
Aperture
Elliott Bay
View From I-5
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North Direction
Site Rendering
Transformation Diagram 1
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Tower 1 Perspective Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
FIRST FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
Tower 1 South Elevatio Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
SECOND FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
Tower 2 Perspective Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
THIRD FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
FIRST FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
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FOURTH FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
Tower 2 North Elevation Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
ROOF PLAN - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
SECOND FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
THIRD FLOOR - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
ROOF PLAN - 1 / 8 " : 1' - 0"
North- East Tower 1 Section Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
South- West Tower 2 Section Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
COLLECTIVE CONCEPTUAL STUDIES Sophomore Studio, Spring 2017 Instructor, John Maruzsack
Material Studies and Diagrams
Shuffle Diagrams
SELECTED SKETCHES AND PHOTOGRAPHY Sketches from first year drawing , travel sketches and photography
Drawing 1
Drawing 2
Futuristic City
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Composition Drawing Perspective and Section
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Architecture Composition Portrait
ARCHITECTURE COMPOSITE PORTRAIT
Fruit Dissection
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Amalgations - Fragmented Space
Travel Sketches
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