ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO WUT YEE HTWE
CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATION 2013- 2016
(anticipate)
2010- 2013 2008-2010
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
GPA- 3.6
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
GPA- 4.0
Hua Qiao University, Xia Men, China
GPA-3.3
Bachelor of Architecture
Associate Degree of Architecture 2 years Archiecture
EXPERIENCE 2015- Present
Sale Assistant in Flexform, San Francisco, USA
2014- Present
Web + Media Assistant of Architecture Division, California College of the Arts, USA
2013- Present
2010- Present 2011-2013
Produce CAD drawings, Update website, Greet with customers, Answer phones Handle students’ records in vault server, Edit and upgrade students’ experience with vault server
Vice President of Youth Society for Education, non-profit organization, USA
Gather sponsors from private business’ owners, Manage a team of 9 volunteers, Organize events and activities, Help in designing logos, banners, posters, website, and buildings
Building Designer Assistant, Myanmar
Solve design problems, Learn the process of construction, Analyze site, Talk with clients
Assistant in Counseling Department, City College of San Francisco, USA
Arrange workshops and meetings, Manage faculties’ schedules, Assist students with computers
PROJECTS 2015 2015 2015 2014
Aung Zay Ya Library Project
Design the library, Produce construction drawings, Meet with engineers and clients in Myanmar, Analyze the site, Estimate and report the budget,Get government approval
Low Income Housing Project
Volunteer in Tijuana, Mexico builiding a low income house for a family, Pour concrete, cut, bend and tie the reinforce steel bars, share collective spaces with architectue students from WoodBury University
Creative Architecture Machine
Design and make 3D printing machine,Cooperate with a team of 13,Research materials,Using Adruino and Firefly to get G-code
Design Charette Competition Project
Manage the schedule and materials, Establish a level of analysis, Coordinate with team members, Make decisions, Improve self awareness, Build relationships with a team of 10 members
SOFTWARE SKILLS
Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Lightroom, Dreamweaver, Revit, Autocad, Rhino, Grasshopper, Maxwell, Sketchup, Firefly
LANGUAGE
English, Burmese,Chinese
PROJECTS
ALONG WITH THE LANDSCAPE
AUNG ZAY YA LIBRARY
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR
DESIGN CHARETTE
ADVENTURE
WORK HOUSE
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR
SKETCHES & RENDERING
ALONG THE LANDSCAPE Recreation- Research- Culture Center San Francisco l California
Spring 2014 l California College of the Arts l Studio 2 l Jason Anderson, Eric Bloom, Lian Eoyang
CONTINUITY With the use of the geometric shape of the infinity , the building itself provides a continuous path in a public open space. With two different inner courtyards: the marsh and small gardens, people can sense the outside atmosphere even when they are inside the building. Meanwhile, it creates the active public space with the combination of 24 hour accessible routes and daytime accessible routes.
CONNECTION
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
MASON ST
PRIVATE
PUBLIC
OFFICE AREA
ACTIVITIES AREA
CIVIC AREA
NO PREDESTRIAN AREA
MARINA BLVD
MASON ST
ONE WAY
TWO WAY
ESTABLISHING SITE: PRESIDIO
SITE PLAN
CANTILEVER BRIDGING
EXCAVATION
BRIDGING CANTILEVER BRIDGING EXCAVATION
THREE OPERATIVE TERMS: CANTILEVER, EXCAVATION, BRIDGING
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
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Roof Walkway- Green Roof
Cultural
Center
Walkway- Green Roof
Walkway- Green Roof
Visitors can circulate through different paths: coming down from the top of the slope, going up from the bottom of the slope and the middle pathway, which connects directly to the library. Since, the circulation is the same as the infinity sign, visitors are forced to go around all the program spaces by experiencing outside atmosphere.
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Concrete Texture Glass Pathway Amenities Entrance
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
SECTION A-A Entrance
A
Loading Dock
Gift Shops
Marsh
Offices
Lab/ Lab Support
Automatic Data
Kitchen Storage
Painting Room
B
A
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
SECTION B-B
SECTION C-C
B
Library
Marsh
Marsh
C
Workshop
Gathering Space
C
Yoga
Cafe
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
MEZZANINE FLOOR PLAN
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
RECREATION- RESEARCH- CULTURE CENTER
Visitors can sense the outside atmosphere even when they are inside the building. Circulating around the building, people also can enjoy the marsh and the activities inside the program spaces at the same time. If they are in the program spaces, they can see the panoramic view of the presidio. In that way, the building provides the horizontal program arrangement which gives clear linear organization, vertical hierarchy of program spaces and diagonal relationships.
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ADVENTURE HOTEL NEAR TOURIST ATTRACTION NEW YORK l NEW YORK
Fall 2014 l California College of the Arts l Studio 3 l Thomas Ryan, Alda Black
HOTEL The site is located near the High line, New York, which is the tourist attraction, designing the aquarium in the hotel creates a new atmosphere for all visitors. They have a chance to get different experience even though they pass through the hotel by looking up the aquarium or going inside the hotel and experience the outdoor aquarium. Moreover, the sense of water brings peacefulness and pleasantness to the users of the space.
OUT DOOR AQUARIUM
HOTEL N
SHAPING THE CENTRAL ATRIUM CORE, PLAY AREA
Swimming Pool
Aquarium
Waterfall
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Dividing the main play area, the central core into three sections as swimming pool, aquarium and the waterfall, the hotel will be full of different spatial events and it will become active in both day and night. In that way, more people will come in and enjoy open public spaces which is directly connected to the High Line Level.
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Interactions between Outside and Inside W 21st Street
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W 20th Street 4
Ground High Line New Buildings
3
Buildings across the High Line
Hudson River
W 19th Street
Difference Moments Along the High Line
MAPPING: THE SPACES SHAPED BY THE HIGH LINE AND THE BUILDINGS
11th Ave
1
Spaces pass through High Line
10th Ave
2
W 18th Street
SITE PLAN
HOTEL THE SLEEPING PLOT & CIRCULATION ARE ATTACHED TO THE STRUCTURE
Connecting the hotel rooms and the cirulation
Relationship between Circulation & Sleeping Area
Relationship between Circulation, Program Spaces, & Structure
WATER SYSTEM FLOW WITHIN THE STRUCTURE
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Rain Water Collector Filter + Treatment with salt water Water In Waste Filter + Water Out
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Recycle Water In
6
Oxygen Pump
1 2 3 4 5
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Water Tank Flow to the earth (underground) Equabalance the temperature of water Temperature control water flow
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Primary Diaphragm
2
Secondary Diaphragm
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Warm up/ Cool down the sleeping plots
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The Geothermal water system is treated in the underground and it is used for all four seasons in New York, and water is running through the whole structure of the building including the one which is holding the aquarium and swimming pool. All the structure and trusses are exposed to outside the show the community that how water is essential and treated in different ways.
HOTEL
FAMILY BED ROOM
Sleeping Plot
Circulation
DOUBLE BED ROOM
Circulation
Sleeping Plot
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SLEEPING AREA AND AQUARIUM
SINGLE BED ROOM
The whole building is connecting the hotel rooms and the circulation path by using bridge system. There is no actual floor plates running through each floor. Only the back of the building, which is the center circulation area has floor plates. The rest are intertwined with individual sleeping plots and the bridge.
HOTEL Roof Top Bar
Rain Collector
DN
DN
ROOF TOP FLOOR PLAN
UP
SCUBA DIVING EXPERIENCE
OUTDOOR AQUARIUM EXPERIENCE
UP
SINGLE ROOM FLOOR PLAN
UP
UP
UP
UP
UP
HIGH LINE LEVEL FLOOR PLAN
Entrance
Storage
UP
UP
UP UP
Reception
Office
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
WEST ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR Affordable Housing in Mission District San Francisco l California
Spring 2015 l California College of the Arts l Studio 4 l Kristen Sidell, Randolph Ruiz
COMMUNITY The project follows two main aspects based on the site conditions, in- fill site and city fabric. The site is situated in between two different urban typology streets, a main boulevard which has commericnal and mixed use buildings- Mission Street, and a quiet residential street- Julian Street. An efficient way of organizing units and commmunal spaces becomes critical when designing collectivity housing without disrupting the nearby houses.
INTEGRATION
HOUSING
Mission Street
Julia Street
BIKUBEN STUDENT HOUSING STRATEGY L-SHAPE ROTATION (Solid Vs Void)
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SITE PLAN
The strategy of Community Integrator is arranging the living units in an L -shape like the study of Bikuben student housing and then rotating the shape to create double and triple height spaces. The solid spaces become living units and the void spaces become the shared communal area: kitchen, living rooms and dinning rooms.
COMMUNITY INTEGRATOR STRATEGY L-SHAPE ROTATION(Solid Vs Void)
HOUSING
ARIPA JUNTOS SPACE
FUNCTION SPACES
STUDENT ZONE
WORKERS ZONE
LIVING UNITS
KITCHEN, LIVING AND DINING
RESIDENTIAL FLOORS
FAMILY ZONE
COMMUNAL SPACES
Targeting students, workers, and families, the quality of the spaces are different according to the user group. The design strategy is to define private-public and semi-private areas based on three different zones. The collective, private, and community spaces also give a rule of division of the interior functions, where the living is located and why. The student living units are dwelled facing Mission Street and the family living units are dwelled in the back, which is facing the Julian street. The courtyard are also divided into three different zones. Work and study for student zones, Gym and sporty for worker zones, and day care for family zones.
Getting vertical view angle, looking down the courtyard
Getting more privacy between each room
VIEW FROM ROOF TOP TO DIFFERENT COMMUNAL SPACES
VIEW FROM MISSION STREET
HOUSING
Getting horizontal wider view angle, looking out to the Mission Street and Julia Street.
During the summer, the residents can use the folding shutter as sun shade.
HOUSING
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
MEZZANINE FLOOR PLAN
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
SIXTH FLOOR PLAN
FIFTH FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
13’
15’
HOUSING
STUDENT UNIT TYPE
WORKER UNIT TYPE FOR (COUPLE)
15’
15’
15’
10’
12’
WORKER UNIT TYPE FOR SINGLE
30’
FAMILY UNIT TYPE
JULIAN ELEVATION
85’ - 0”
85’ - 0”
75’ - 0”
75’ - 0”
65’ - 0”
65’ - 0”
55’ - 0”
55’ - 0”
45’ - 0”
45’ - 0”
35’ - 0”
35’ - 0”
25’ - 0”
25’ - 0”
15’ - 0”
15’ - 0”
SECTION A-A
AUNG ZAY YA LIBRARY Elementary School Library Aung Zay Ya Village l Bago I Myanmar
2015 l Youth Society For Education l Non Profit Organization
ENLIGHTENMENT
Architecture is not only designing pretty building, it is more about who we are targetting to, which area we are building, what kind of atmosphere we are creating. In this project, the design is very simple but it is so effective as the villagers requested. This is their dream space. With our efforts, parents who are earning meager wages can reduce the burdens of buying books for their childern. They can also have a comfortable and quite place to study. They can broaden their horizon from reading books since the educational knowledge is the only way to change the status of poverty.
EDUCATION
AUNG ZAY YA LIBRARY
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B
C
25’- 0” 20’-0” 6’-0”
7’-0” B
7’-0”
Summer
B
5’- 0”
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5’- 0”
10’-0”
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5’- 0”
35’- 0” 10’-0”
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10’-0”
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FLOOR PLAN
The orientation of the building avoids the noon and evening sunlight, which can heat up the room in both hot and cold seasons. The good ventilation system is created by having high ceiling, which allows warm air to rise by convection and escape to the outside and forces cold air to infiltrate through open doors and windows.
AUNG ZAY YA LIBRARY
The proposal aims to give a shelter which has to be environmentally friendly. The building consists of two main architectural components: the elevated foundation, and the clerestory roof design. The foundation is designed by elevating three feet above from the ground to prevent from flooding in rainy season. The clerestory roof design provides diffuse sunlight to the interior by reflecting off the sloped ceiling without the harsh glare in the morning. The project uses local and sustainable materials including brick, concrete, wood and handmade bamboo weave sheets for ceiling. Bamboo sheets function as both sound and heat insulation so in the rainy season, the users can focus more on their studies and in the hot season it controls the room temperature. 4 2’- 0”
3 5’- 0”
5’- 0”
2 5’- 0”
5’- 0”
1 5’- 0”
5’- 0”
A
B
2’- 0”
TOP OF ROOF 21’-0”
TOP PLATE 15’-0”
B
B
BALCONY 6’-0”
FIN FLOOR 3’-0”
SECTION
NORTH ELEVATION
DESIGN CHARRETTE Group Project I Inflation Project San Francisco I California College of the Arts
2014 l Soft Environments: Architecture Division Warm-Up Charrette
COMPETITION The Soft Environments charrette is a short, but intense sprint and prepares students for the
TEAM WORK
marathon-like term ahead. It is also a Warm-Up charrette to examine inhabitable inflatable structures made with semitransparent plastic. There were 16 teams total and all the structures needed to designed the entrance, the pathway and the exit. Our Design strategy is providing the different size of spaces for people to experience the scale changes from the entrance to the exit.
DESIGN CHARRETTE
DESIGN CHARRETTE
Our goal is very simple that we all need to finish, or complete designing and building the inhabitable inflatable structure by using semitransparent plastic and tape within three days. The challenge of the competition is how to make the decision really quick and effective and build the structure up without having any failures.
WORK HOUSE Group Project I Model Making Los Angeles I West Hollywood l California
Fall 2013 l California College of the Arts l Material & Methods l David Maynard
HAND MADE
Understanding the details of the primary elements of the building such as floor, roof, walls and openings of the “Work House� designed by Guthrie and Buresh, our team needed to build a section of the building. Since, the building has rectangular volume, long and narrow, we three members selected the longitudinal section to learn about how work space and living space are interlocking orthogonally formed spaces in simultaneous and multiple containment and release. In model making, we used rockite for concrete and bass wood for plywood and MDF for the foundation.
TEAM WORK
WORK HOUSE
SELECTED SECTION
WORK HOUSE
SKETCHES & RENDERING 2009 - 2012
HUA QIAO UNIVERSITY l CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
HAND DRAWINGS Using different kinds of techniques and mediums to practice the hand drawing skills. Even though, nowadays we use different computer softwares as design tools, I believe that we need to know how to produce a drawing in short period of time. We usually sketch out our ideas and thoughts of the relationships between space and people, connection of outdoor and indoor. Sketching is requried in every single step of design process. In my practice, I learn not only sketches, but also the rendering with watercolor, markers, charcoal, ink and chalk.
SKETCHES
Practicing One Point Perspective
Practicing Two Point Perspective
Medium: Size: Year:
Medium: Size: Year:
Ink drawing 8” x 8.5” 2010
Pencil drawing 11” x 8.5” 2011
Doric Order: Black and White Tones
Expansion of Piranesi Drawing
Palace of Fine Arts
Medium: Size: Year:
Medium: Size: Year:
Medium: Size: Year:
Graphite Pencils drawing 18” x 24” 2012
Color Pencils drawing 20” x 15” 2012
Color pencils drawing on Color Paper 15” x 24” 2012
RENDERING
In Class Practice:Drawing within 3 minutes
Rendering Elevation Medium: Size: Year:
Medium: Size: Year:
Marker and Ink 8” x 8.5” 2010
Watercolor painting 24” x 18” 2011
Rendering Section
Rendering Perspective
Medium: Size: Year:
Medium: Size: Year:
Chalk and Color pencils 24” x 18” 2011
Watercolor and Ink 36” x 24” 2009