Vy Nguyen 2020 Portfolio

SELECTED WOR KS | 2015-2019

P OR TFOL I O - V Y NGUY EN

Image: The Chameleon Center Meeting Conference + Meditation Center

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INTRODUCTION

about me

I am Vy Nguyen and currently a graduate architecture student that pursuing Master in Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington.

I am studying to become a designer of the future. I am very passionate about the act of creation and how we as a society can change for the better through design.

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CONTENTS

01 | The Chameleon

05 | Cubism

02 | The Research Center

06 | Theorical Guibook

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03 | Concrete Pipe Tiny Home

07 | Drawings

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04 | Art House

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THE CHAMELEON

A MEETING CONFERENCE AND MEDITATION CENTER

The project takes place at Douglas Russel Parks and Recreation in Arlington, Texas. Hidden within the park, there is a graveyard 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 meditation place with an accommodation. The project examines the intention and seizing upon reflective 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 separated volumes to diminish the overall impact of the building of being compressed rather than intimate. Even though it is separated but unifies under one roof. The facade skin plays like a skin of a chameleon due to its materials of mirror that placed irregularly throughout the building and mimics the pattern of the existing trees in the park.

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INTRODUCTION

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PHYSICAL MODEL: BASSWOOD, CHIPBOARD AND PAINT | SCALE:1”-20’- 0”

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SITE ANALYSIS

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GALLERY + RECEPTION

HOTEL MEDITATION ROOMS TIERED AUDITORIUM

FOOD SERVICES

OFFICES

OPEN SPACE

CIRCULATION

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FLOOR PLAN | SCALE: 1”- 32’- 0”

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ACADEMIC

t.o roof 18’-00” b.o ceiling 15’-06”

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SECTION A-1 | SCALE: 0’-1” = 64’-0”

t.o roof 35’-00”

section A-1 | scale: 0’-1” = 64’-0”

SECTION A-2 | SCALE: 0’-1” = 32’-0”

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Clerestory detail 1/16” = 1’- 0”

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Section detail 1/32” = 1’- 0”

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Ceiling detail 1/8” = 1’- 0”

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Section detail

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Clerestory detail

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Ceiling panels

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ACADEMIC

THE ACADEMY OF SCI ENCE TRANSFORMATION FROM THE ALCHMEST HOUSE This project will divided into three phases: Phase 1 Retrace | A House for The Alchemist Phase 2 Return to the House of Alchemist Phase 3 The Academy of Science | Institutional Research + Historical Precedence

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PHASE 1 | THE ALCHEMIST’S HOUSE Investigate using collage and historical precedence the making of a plan based on traditional and formal principles of Classicism.

The Island is being design with a topographic change of 30 feet and it serves as a mythological site for the Alchemist’s House

ISLAND FORMATION | Illustrator

HISTORICAL COLLAGE | Paper on Canson

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ISLAND STUDY MODEL | Chipboard and Lasercutter

FLOOR PLAN COLLAGE| Graphite Pencils on Canson paper PHASE 1

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FIRE 1 2 3

AIR

Hearth

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Gallery

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laboratory

EARTH

Observatory

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Garden

Chapel

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Studio

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Arcade

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Apothecary

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Library

WATER 1 2

Pond Kitchen

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PHASE 2 | THE RUIN OF THE ALCHEMIST’S HOUSE In this phase, an investsiga

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PHASE 2

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PHASE 3 | THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

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PHASE 3

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FIRST FLOOR | SCALE: NTS

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FIRST FLOOR SCALE 1” = 20’-0”

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SECOND FLOOR | SCALE 1” = 20’-0”

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ROOF PLAN|SCALE: NTS

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CONCR ETE PIPE TINY HOME AIAS 2018 COMPETITION COLLABORATION 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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SECOND FLOOR | SCALE 1” = 20’-0”

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ART SPACE SPATIAL SEQUENCES

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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FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

THIRD FLOOR

FOURTH FLOOR

SECTION A-A

SECTION B-B

FRONT ELEVATION

FRONT ELEVATION

study models

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STUDY MODELS

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SPATI AL TR ANSFOR MATI ONS FROM PAINTING TO MODEL

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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ORIGINAL PAITING Cubist Figure , 1992 Albert Gleizes

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GREYSCALE A rendering using graphites on paper

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COLLAGE A paper collage os made using various types of paper cut-outs.

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GRID Grid system and regulating lines based on the painting

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GRID SYSTEM Pencil and photoshop

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ANOMOMETRIC

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FIRST LAYER

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SECOND LAYER

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THIRD LAYER

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FINAL MODEL Cressent Board

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TR ANSFOR MATI ON 2 | Based on a grid earlier established by a cubist painting, this model shows a transformatopn in a myriad ways. The most prominent transformation that can be seen is that two dimensional plans to large and three dimensional volumes. Arranged in order of scale, smaller clustrered planes slowly begin their metamorphosis into less dense, volumetric figures that suspended in mid-air. Several ordering principles were used to define and create the model. The Fibonacci Sequence was used to increase the width of the planes as they changed from plane to volume. Color was used to create hiearachy

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STUDY MODEL

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FINAL MODEL

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VISUAL MOTION RENDERING

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sketch

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TR AVEL THEOR I CAL GUIDEBOOK

SUMMER 2017 - ACROSS MEGACITIES IN ASIA STUDY ABROAD This is a series of urban mapping cartography through out several mega cities in Asia, the collection of intricated public transportation network on a guide map. Each system has its own unique history and detailed information to help users to navigate around the city.

Through out the travel and the mission is to make a theoretical travel guidebook with various items that given on the way to each mega cities.

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DR AWINGS

BASIC DRAWINGS STUDIO

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