Architecture P o r t f o l i o W e n q i C h e n
Wenqi Chen
EDUCATION Master of Architecture Rice University, School of Architecture, Houston, Texas -H. Russell Pitman Graduate Fellowship 2015 Study Abroad Rice School of Architecture Paris, France
May 2017
Fall 2015
Bachelor of Engineering 2013 Major in Fashion Design & Engineering Donghua University, College of Fashion, Art & Design, Shanghai -Donghua University Academic Excellence Award 2010
-Shanghai Advanced Summer Practice 2011
EXPERIENCE Architecture Design Intern May-Jul 2016 KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES in Shanghai -Project: Wedding Ceremony Hall, Contemporary Development, Xiamen, China
-Model Making, DD Drawings Drafting, Rendering
Research Assistant Jun-Aug 2015 Rice University Humanities Research Center -Project: imagine Rio: A Diachronic and Iconographic Atlas of Rio de Janeiro
-Virtual Modeling and Mapping Historical Rio de Janeiro on ArcGIS
Architecture Design Intern Jun-Aug 2014 Hua Zhu Architectural Planning & Engineering, Shenzhen,China -Project: Shenzhen Liuxiandong Block 1, Phase 2
-Model Making, Documentation Drafting, Organizing Presentation Slides
Fashion Merchandising Intern Jan-Apr 2013 Kids & Babies Department, C&A Fashion Company, Shanghai -Assisted Merchandiser with Monthly Ordering
-Draw Fashion Illustration
Charity Goods Design WABC (NGO), Shanghai, China -Design Goods for Charity Sale
2010-2011
-Assisted Organizing Mental Handicapped’ Artworks Exhibition
SKILL Software -Rhino -Illustrator -Photoshop -InDesign
Other
-Auto CAD -Vray -ArcGIS -Revit
-Office -Lumion -Grasshopper -Sketchup
-Model Handcrafting -Tailoring/ Sewing -Laser Cutting operation
LANGUAGE Mandarin English
Native Professional working proficiency
cellphone: (01) 702 580 3515 E-mail: wqchen.arch@gmail.com
CONTENT
1. A Pliant Partiton -A Micro Housting Strategy for Lower East Side Manhattan
2. Art in Splice -A Scheme for seeing 20th century Art
3. A Tower on a Tower with a Tower Inside -Olympic Village Housing on the Eiffel Tower
4. Tall Timbers -Sustainable Highrises
5. Grids Transition -Urban strategy for north downtown Houston
6. Civiv Boundaries -Courthouse + Theater Complex
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A Pliant Partition Fall 2016 Totalization Studio “Friends Included“ Site: Lower East Side Manhattan, NYC Teamwork with Evio Isaac Professor: Troy Schaum
Appliance has a double meaning. It is at once, a noun used to describe a device, machine, instrument, gadget, contraption, apparatus, utensil, implement,tool, mechanism, or contrivance, and a verb meaning the action or process of bringing something into operation. The building is both an archive of appliances (n.)-a space where domesticity is implied by a collection of household items in common space-and an architecture of appliance (v.)-a space that imagines domestic collectivity as an exponent of domestic and culinary itineraries which materialize as informal events and daily chores. The shared appliance (n.) is reimagined as a clandestine relational agent constructing new urban subjectivity through constant/daily negotiation. In this sense, the building is a model used to study the surfaces that connect appliances to one another, and to us, and the encountersmanifest by the resulting spatial and programmatic relationships.
Bordeaux Courthouse, Bordeaux, FR, Richard Rogers
Simmons Hall, Cambridge, MA Steven Holl Architects
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nds Included
Rethink Apartments, Appliance, Belongings and Micro-Housing The Seattle Building Code, Section 1208.3
Size: 220 sf ~ 320 sf 150 sf habitable space
Storage: Built-in closet 55 cf storage space
Minimun Standard of Living
Footage
Wall
Bathroom: Toilet Sink Shower(Bathtub)
Minimun Units of Living
Configuration
Research: Appliance in Micro Living Unit
Appliances in Typical Micro Apartment Living Unit
Appliance: Object Sharing
Research: Space Sharing
Typical Micro Apartment Plan (Sharing Kitchen)
ARCH 601_Friends Included
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Abstraction: Kitchen as Appliance? _11
Food Prepration: Cooking appliance,Sink, Refrigeration Facility Food and utensil storage
Furniture/appliance
Formal Study: Pliant Partition Modules 19°
6'-0"
6'-0"
6'-0"
24'-0"
9°
Module Utilization: Pliant Poche Kitchen Type D
Conceptual Typ. Wall Assembly
Supply/Equip. Storage Custom Ply. Casework Precast Concrete Layer, Typ.
Surface of Appliance Poche
Appliant Interface btwn. Structure and Poche Conduits/Pipes Embedded, As Needed
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Precast Concrete Layer, Typ.
Saturated Appliant Poche Utilities, Embedded
Kitchen A Appliance Schedule Appliance A
Microwave (16)
Manufacturer GE
Model
Color
Power
PVM9005SJSS
Stainless
120V/60Hz
B
Television (2)
Samsung
UN40KU6300FXZA
Black
120V/60Hz
C
Refrigerator (2)
SubZero
UC24RLH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
D
Freezer (2)
GE
UN40KU6300FXZA
Stainless
E
Dishwasher (2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
120V/60Hz
F
Rangehood
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
G
Toaster Oven (4)
KitchenAid
KCO222OB
Stainless
120V/60Hz
H
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
I
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
Kitchen B Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Model
Color
Power
A
Espresso Machine (4)
GE
PVM9005SJSS
Stainless
120V/60Hz
B
Oven (6)
Miele
H6880BPOB
Black
120V/60Hz
C
Undercounter
SubZero
UC24RLH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
D
Refrigerator Undercounter (2)
GE
UN40KU6300FXZA
Stainless
E
Dishwasher Freezer (1)(2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
120V/60Hz
F
Cooktop
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
G
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
H
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
I
Toaster Oven (4)
KitchenAid
KCO222OB
Stainless
N/A
J
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
120V/60Hz
Kitchen C Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Model
Color
Power
A
Cooktop (3)
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
B
Oven (2)
Miele
H6880BPOB
Black
120V/60Hz
C
Refrigerator (2)
SubZero
BI-30U/O-RH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
D
Undercounter
GE
UN40KU6300FXZA
Stainless
120V/60Hz
E
Dishwasher Freezer (1)(2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
F
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
120V/60Hz
G
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
H
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
I
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
Kitchen D Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Color
Power
A
Cooktop (1)
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
B
Refrigerator (1)
SubZero
Model
UC24RLH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
C
Dishwasher (1)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
D
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
120V/60Hz
E
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
F
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
G
Electric Kettle (6)
Smeg
KLF01PGUS
Varies
220V/60Hz
H
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
I
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Kitchen E Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Color
Power
A
Cooktop (2)
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
B
Refrigerator (2)
SubZero
Model
BI-30U/O-RH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
C
Undercounter
GE
UN40KU6300FXZA
Stainless
120V/60Hz
D
Dishwasher Freezer (1)(2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
E
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
120V/60Hz
F
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
G
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
H
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
I
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
Kitchen F Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Model
Color
Power
A
Cooktop (2)
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
B
Refrigerator (2)
SubZero
BI-30U/O-RH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
C
pH Meter (4)
Hanna
HI981404N
N/A
Notes
120V/60Hz
D
Submersible Pump (2)
EcoPlus
727735
Black
120V/60Hz
E
Flood Tray (8)
Active Aqua
AAHR22W
White
N/A
F
Dishwasher (2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
G
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
120V/60Hz
H
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
I
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
120V/60Hz
Kitchen G Appliance Schedule Appliance
Manufacturer
Model
Color
Power
A
Cooktop (2)
Miele
KM2355GSS
Stainless
N/A
B
Refrigerator (2)
SubZero
BI-30U/O-RH
Stainless
115V/60Hz
C
Wine Refrigerator
Fridgidaire
FFWC38B2RS
Stainless
120V/60Hz
D
Wine Cooling Unit
N'Finity
840 03 30
Black
120V/60Hz
E
Dishwasher (2)
GE
GDF520PMJES
Stainless
F
Downdraft Range Hood
Miele
DA6490SS500
Stainless
120V/60Hz
G
Transition Duct
Ventahood
VP562
N/A
N/A
H
Sink (2)
American Standard
18CR.332232C.075
Stainless
N/A
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
I
120V/60Hz
J
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
K
Not Used
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Notes
Kitchen E, Pasta Kitche
en
Kitchen B, Cafe
Kitchen C, Soup Kitchen
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Sectional Axon
Typical Floor Plan -7-
Typical Floor Plans (credit: Evio Isaac) -8-
Site Plan
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Space Sharing on Street Level The setback of perimeters on street level provides “plug-ins“ for the appliances of the city, which are the street leisure furniture, cafe, and street vendors.
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Details (credit: Evio Isaac) Alum. Flashing Alum. Tab
Conc. Parapet
6” Alum. Fin
Sliding Door
Waterproof Membrane
Embed, As Needed
Sliding Door Track 1” Insulated Glass
1” Spandrel
1” Structural Glazing
Insulation
Cable, Behind
Insulation
Hydraulic Ram Torqued Alum. Fins, Behind
Alum. Tab
1” Insulated Glass Insulation Recessed Track
1. Parapet Detail
2. Stack Joint Detail
3. Cable Wall Detail
Embed as Req’d Embed as Req’d
8” Conc. Slab Sliding Door w/ 1” Insulated Glass
Sliding Door w/ 1” Insulated Glass 2” Steel Cable 6” Vertical Mullion 6” Vertical Mullion 1” Insulated Glass
4. Plan Detail
Alum. Tab Below
Alum. Tab Below
6” Torqued Alum. Fin
6” Torqued Alum. Fin
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Silicon Butt Joint w/ Backer Rod
6. Plan Detail
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Sectional model with night view mock up
Model Living unit with convertible furniture
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ART I
N SPLICE
Autonomous Representation of 20th Century Art Spring 2016 Optional Studio Site: Kulturforum Berlin, Germany Professor: Ron Witte
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Art of the 20th century is a kaleidoscope. A museum of 20th century art should not only educate people its aesthetic value but also present its dynamic. Offsetting exhibition spaces to connect different thematic zones creates more adjacency between different themes. Hence the museum enables autonomous representations of its artwork collections, which depend on the spontaneous flexibility of movement generated by the space organization.
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Study of Contemporary Visual Culture Seeing through enfilade
enfilade circulation
Staggered Space: Seeing through and Walking through
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Typical museum tour follows curatorial routes. To provide new options to visitors and blur the thematic division of exhibition zones, I staggered space and open up the corner of walls so that visitor could see different thematic zones and randomly choose their routes
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Vertical offset staggered space on same floor. Walk through different thematic spaces, see 3 levels at the same time
Administration & Research
staggered space
Building Service
Media & Events
Restoration
Marx Collection
Art After 1945
Administration & Research
Storage
Art Library Restaurant
Workshop
Storage
horizontal offset Focused Exhibition
Workshop
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Storage
Art Before 1945
Lounge
Auditorium
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Art After 1945 Art Before 1945
vertical offset create mezzanine space
Locker
Coat
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Delivery
Art After 1945
Info
Pubilic Art
Pubilic Circulation
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Visting Circulation VisualConnection
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Exploded Axon
Site Plan
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Aerial View
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Bathroom
Building Services
Staff Lounge
Staff Kitchen
Storage
Research/Admin
SE: Media and Event Space Building
UP
offices
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services
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workshop
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Art After 1945 (1)
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nts
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A Tower on a Tower with a Tower Inside Olympic Village Housing on the Eiffel Tower Fall 2015 RSAP Studio Site: Eiffel Tower, Paris Teamwork with Eric Burnside Professor: John Casbarian, Tarik Oualalou, Linna Choi It is a symbol and infrastructure. Furthermore, how do you graft onto this sacrosanct object of French identity, considering the olympics last only a month, and are notorious for extravagantly over blown budgets, and questionable benefit to the host nation. Our project addresses each of these challenges with a keenness for simple solutions. We began by discerning something critical about the urban influence of the Eiffel Tower on the city of Paris. Because of Paris’ timid and sporadic relationship with tall buildings, the tower has a very strong orienting effect when it looms, peeks, or juts out into view in often unexpected, frequent and even distant places. We decided that our intervention would begin from the second platform and up, this way the tower could continue normal daily operations, make a clean separation between athletes andpublic, and maintain the incredible gravity defying spectacle one sees when arriving at the foot of the tower. We also decided early on that prefabrication, economy of materials, and cost would be a primary concern, but these are not restrictions, rather they are key assests to the spatial experience and social impact of our design. We designed a scaffolding space frame, forming a skeletal tube around the tower, and populated the tube with modular living units of typical stud wall construction. Early on we expressed a strong inclination to explore the verticality of the tower, and the space frame allowed us to surpass the seemingly implied height limit of the existing tower. Additionally, we chose to work with self contained modules as they would allow us to freely compose the facade of the building. We have also nearly eliminated the need for actively air conditioned spaces in the building, and the units could be reused long after the end of the olympics. In composing the facades we determined that the occupancy of each level would gradually increase as the tower rose, to allow much of the existing tower to remain exposed through the scaffolding until reaching the top, with our addition continuing upward. By making this series of simple decisions, our project allows the tower to exhibit itself to its occupants in a way that creates a uniquely rich spatial experience. By enveloping the tower, we created an immense room around the tower, both interior and exteriror. The Eiffel Tower rises up through the center, its gradually narrowing, rationalistic curves opposed to the regimented and relentless pattern of the scaffolding. It resembles the skeleton of some long extinct animal suspended in a natural history museum, and it would be a literal example of how “this will kill that,” apart from the fact that the existing tower is the literal foundation of our addition.
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From extremely close, the tower can be understood as the sum of its parts. But this reading of scale dissolves after moving only a short distance away
The full profile of the Eiffel Tower is also captive to a very small radius. The iconic image of the tower has a locality that only relates to this very small portion of Paris
Beyond that radius the tower can still be spotted frequently from all over the city, but rarely is it seen in its entirety, only from the second plaform and above
Although the tower is a cardinally oriented object, the spire, at a distance, flattens to a two dimensional shape, so assigning significance or orienting oneself by relationship to a particular facade becomes irrelevant.
The relationshop between the tower and the city at large becomes quite simple. The full profile of the tower is an international icon but only relates to a very small sector of the city. But from even kilometers away the tower remains a beacon, like the north star or orienting oneself by the position of the sun. If the tower is on your right or left, near or far, it can reveal quite a lot about your surroundings.
Two-thirds of new construction is connected directly to the existing tower. The remaining third is in cantilever
Existing tower subsumed by scaffolding space frame
We leave the lower decks to operate normally, and draw a simple separation between the tourist public, and the athletic housing above
Using prefabricated units, we compose a tower that increases in opacity and occupancy as it grows. In doing so we expose as much of the existing tower inside
3rd public deck
Transfer of vertical load vectors to the foundation
Vertical circulation is dispersed to prevent creating consolidated moments of continuous opacity on the facade
There is a partial thinning in density at the top deck to allow visitors to continue to visit the tower floor, as well as reveal the end of the existing tower, exposing the proportion that cotinues upward in cantilever
Shared programs area evenly dispersed throughout the tower. They form bands of glazing on the facade that are split into pieces and shift to break up the controlling rhythm of space created by the housing unit grid.
2nd public deck
1st public deck
Existing power generation, water pumps
The brass gradually transition to the dark grey which will help the diminish the weight and density of the top of the tower. At night these units will all but disappear except for any light coming from inside the unit. Therefore at night, the composition will support the tower’s role as a beacon to the city, with seemingly floating points of light above the tower -27-
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Elevation
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Section A
B
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D
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384.3 m
380.2 m
PLAN +62
376.1 m
372.0 m
367.9 m
PLAN +59
363.8 m
359.7 m
355.6 m
351.5 m
347.4 m
343.3 m
339.2 m
335.1 m
331.0 m
326.9 m
DETAIL SECTION
322.8 m
318.7 m
314.6 m
310.5 m
306.4 m
PLAN +44
302.3 m
298.2 m
294.1 m
290.0 m
285.9 m
281.8 m PLAN +37 277.7 m
273.6 m
269.5 m
265.4 m
261.3 m
257.2 m
253.1 m
249.0 m
244.9 m
240.8 m TYPICAL WALL SECTION 236.7 m
232.6 m
228.5 m
224.4 m
TOWER CONNECTION DETAIL
220.3 m
216.2 m
212.1 m
208.0 m
203.9 m
199.8 m
195.7 m
191.6 m
PLAN +16
187.5 m
183.4 m
179.3 m
175.2 m
171.1 m
167.0 m
162.9 m
158.8 m
154.7 m
150.6 m
146.5 m
PLAN +5
142.4 m
138.3 m
134.2 m
130.1 m
126.0 m
PLAN 0
121.65 m
116.5 m
58.8 m
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8.2 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
4.1 m
8.2 m
322.8 m
318.7 m
314.6 m
310.5 m
306.4 m
302.3 m
298.2 m
294.1 m
1.55 m
0.5 m
7.7 m
0.5m
2.0 m
24.2 m
Detai Section
Detai Elevation
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2.0 m
8.7 m
scaffolding connector segment
600 mm
pipe section scaffolding - steel 50 cm di.
1100 mm
corrugated aluminum panel R250 mm rigid foam insulation O.S.B
600 mm
rectangle tube section beam - steel 400 mm O.C.
I Section girder - steel
curtain wall - double laminated glass panel
1800 mm Steel T section runner with multiple connection points
Steel unit mounting carriage. Welded to primary structure
spandrel beam w/ depth to allow penetration of scaffolding beam
Mounting carriage spanning support
Lateral scaffolding
Dark water
Supply water
Primary walkway support. Tapering steel beam in cantilever. Welded to primary structure
1000 mm
Steel Floor joists with cutouts for mechanical connections
poured terrazzo floor on steel deck aluminum soffet/slab edge panel pin joined lateral scaffold bracing 25 cm di.
Living Unit Detail
corrugated aluminum panel rigid foam insulation O.S.B 50 x 100 mm steel stud rotating glass louver screen
sliding glass door
300 mm
insulative curtain
beam for connection of unit to primary structure
200 mm 155 mm
Metal mesh bodyrail Existing tower structure Steel collar with pin joint connections Pipe section steel strut 50 cm di. Pipe section steel strut 25 cm di.
2677 mm
117 mm 200 mm
Tower Connection
TYPICAL WALL SECTION
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Detai Elevation
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Tall Timbers Fall 2016 Architecture Seminar Teamwork with Michael Houy, Tiffany Xu Professor: JesĂşs Vassallo
This seminar explores the tectonic potential latent in heavy timber construction systems. As carbon emissions emerge as a driver for new economies, building with wood is increasingly considered as a realistic alternative to other construction systems for mass housing, such as steel or concrete. Interestingly enough, most of the research on high rise timber construction tends to focus on purely technical issues ignoring the constructive and aesthetic potentials of this new building method. For the final project of the seminar, the idea is to work with a twice taller version of the Murray Grove project, one of our case study in class, as a generic massing, and also to use its housing plans as a point of departure that can then be customized by the different groups. We came up with the idea that floor plans are not entirely confined to the structure of the building. So we use three spaces modules and one connector to generate living units in this 18 floors glu-lam framework. four kinds of pre-fabricated modules, provides us with more than 24 kinds of living unit variations. It also resulted in a porous structure, making the project sustainable not only in the construction process but also the built environment.
Murray Groove, Hackney, London Waugh Thistleton Architects
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Floor Plan @ 1/8” = 1’ Scale
Column to Column
Column to Beam
Beam to Beam
Core CLT Panels
Axonometric Diagram @ 1/8” = 1’ Scale
Structural Diagram
Connector 10’4.5” x 1’8.5” x 9’8.5” 17 sq.ft.
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Floor Plan @ 1/8” = 1’ Scale
Void
12’5” x 6‘2.5” x 10’9” 77 sq.ft.
Standard 12’5” x 12’5” x 10’9” 154 sq.ft.
Cantilever 12’5” x 18’7.5” x 10’9” 231 sq.ft.
Module Assembly
Module-to-Module Assembly
Section Section Detail
Column to Column
Column to Beam
Beam to Beam
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Core CLT Panels
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Grids Transition Spring 2015 Architecture Seminar Site: North Downtown Houston Professor: Neyran Turan
The common master framework suggested a combination of two urban cultures: verticality and horizontality. In order to make these two parts interact with each other in a positive way, the connection of the common master frame work is not enough. This project aimed the densification issue of the super blocks, developing a strategy in which two sets of grid used to determine the architecture on one block. A ground grid and a highrise grid (block grid) determined the orientation of middle rise buildings and highrise building respectively. Lower part the highrise transits its orientation with the growth of its height. By the transition and integration of the grids, the project made the horizontality in a highrise and the verticality in the middle rises possible.
BLOCK TYPOLOGY
SUPER BLOCK TYPOLOGY
COMBINATION
HIGHRISE HORIZONTALITY AND MIDDLERISE VERTICALITY
ORIENTATION
TRANSITION OF GRIDS
S
MASTER FRAMEWORK GRID
INTEGRATING VERTICALITY AND HORIZONTALITY
BLOCK GROUND LEVEL GRID FOR SOUTH FACING
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CORE BUILDINGS
BLOCKS
RING BUILDINGS, CONNECTIONS
CONNECTIONS
Core Building
Core Building
Core Building
Connector
CORE BUILDINGS
RING BUILDINGS
CONNECTION
LOWER LEVELS: GROCERY/RESTAURANT/PARKING HIGHER LEVELS: HOUSING
LOWER LEVELS: RETAIL/RESTAURANT/ CINEMA/GROCERY HIGHER LEVELS: OFFICES/HOTEL
CULTURAL CENTER/RECREATION
Ring Building
PERSPECTIVE VIEW OF SITE (Credit: Dylan Rinda)
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UNDERGROUND PARKING
Site Model
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Civic Boundaries Fall 2014 ARCH 503 Site: 3300 Richmond Ave. , Houston, TX Professor: Carlos JimĂŠnez The scheme of Civic Boundaries project is based on the idea that the civic life should achieve smoothly transition between different institutions and should maintain the continuity with the urban condition. By looking at previous geometry strategies for civic building, the project innovated in articulate the existing of different institutions within one singular volume and coordinate their relationship at the same time. The combination of material and the formal language also create different reading in the context of 3300 Richmond Avenue.
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PLANS
SECTIONS
FL 3
FL2
1
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West Elevation
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