Selected
Work
2017-2021
P O R T F O L I O ERIN CHEN
ER I N CH E N WORK EXPERIENCE
WXY ARCHITECTURE + URBAN DESIGN | New York, US 2019.7 - 2020.7 | Architectural Assistant Stevenson Commons | mid-rise affordable housing in Bronx, NY • Delivered DD/CD/HPD/ULURP submission packages • Built BIM models, drafted construction documents, organized sheet sets in Revit. • Coordinated drawings with structural, MEP and accessibility consultants. Urban Design Projects in NYC and NY State • Conceptualized a masterplan for the Erie Canal waterfront district in Rome, NY. • Evaluated the existing urban and building conditions in the Penn Station district, and wrote an analysis report to Empire Station Complex. • Assisted design and representation in a pedestrian and cycling bridge competition through its bidding process. Brooklyn-Queens Cycleway | article published in A+U magazine • Developed conceptual design in Rhino, diagrams, section and renderings NERI & HU DESIGN AND RESEARCH OFFICE | Shanghai, China. 2018.5 - 2018.8 | Architectural Intern DaQingShengWu Headquarter | 190,000sf mixed-use complex • 100% SD set: diagrams, plans, elevations, sections, drawn with AutoCAD. • Design studies: massing, plan, program organization, structure, window detail • Handcrafted 1:50 (6.5' X 6') foamcore model for client presentation KOHN PEDERSEN FOX (KPF) | Shanghai, China. 2017.6 - 2017.8 | Architectural Intern Qiantan Center | 56-story, mixed-use skyscraper • 50% DD interior design set: basement plans and RCPs, detailed drawings for lift cab, bench and reception desk, drawn with AutoCAD
Email: qian.erin.chen@gmail.com
1515 Bissonnet St, Unit 305C,
Tel: (+1) 713-380-9822
Houston, TX. 77005
EDUCATION
RICE UNIVERSITY | Houston, TX. 2019 - 2021 | Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) | GPA 4.00 2015 - 2019 | Bachelor of Art in Architecture (B.A.) | cum laude
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
RICE UNIVERSITY 2018.10 - 2019.6 | Research Assistant Alief Post-Harvey Floodplain Reclamation • Collaborated with Professor Albert Pope on developing a researched-based urban redevelopment for flood mitigation, residential buyout phasing, and neighborhood reconnection.
AWARDS
MARGARET EVERSON-FOSSI TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP 2021 | School of Architecture, Rice University • Awarded to the best design projects in the advanced option studios RALPH S. HERMAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP 2019 | School of Architecture, Rice University • Awarded to 1 undergraduate student based on merit
SKILLS
DIGITAL MODELING | Revit. AutoCAD. Rhinoceros. SketchUp. V-ray. Enscape. Grasshopper. ADOBE | InDesign. Illustrator. Photoshop. AfterEffect. Premiere. OTHER | Model-making (laser cutting, 3D printing). Drawing and Sketching. Bluebeam Revu.
LANGUAGE
ENGLISH | Professional working proficiency CHINESE | Native
CONTENTS ACADEMIC 01
Collide / Combine
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King Records Adaptation
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Shelter ADU
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Floodplain Reclamation
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PROFESSIONAL
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DQSW Headquarter
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Stevenson Commons
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Brooklyn-Queens Cycleway
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01 COLLIDE / COMBINE
TYPE LOCATION INSTRUCTOR YEAR
Social Condenser Houston, TX Ajay Manthripragada 2019
Architectural qualities are atoms. Similar to Lucretius’ theory of atom collision, new architecture is produced by the collision and combination of architectural qualities in references in a simultaneously arbitrary and systematic way. From a canon of 20thcentury towers, references are extracted to qualities of plan organization, vertical organization, ratio, structure, circulation, detail, and recombined to new designs. The massing of the social condenser tower is generated from from the collision and combination of several references, such as the Wind Tower and Kunsthaus Bregenz. The resulting architecture provides communal programs inside and on top of the solid ramps.
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The collision explodes the references to their everybasic ideas and elemental architectural properties. The combination process meshes different ideas and properties to generate new architecture. nces is manifested through the catalogue, a classification method.
020101030303010501 Wind Tower - Toyo Ito
010201030103020505 Kunsthaus Bregenz - Peter Zumthor
040106030301010206 Research Tower - Frank Lloyd Wright
010201030103020507 Kunsthaus Bregenz - Peter Zumthor
040105010102010206 Ibere Camargo Foundation - Álvaro Siza
Reference Catalog
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Massing
Section Axon
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Plan 01
Plan 02
Plan 03
Plan 04
sport courts
gym
auditorium
exhibition
Plan 05
Plan 06
Plan 07
Plan 08
classroom
multimedia
library
cafe
Physical Model 5
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02 KING RECORDS ADAPTATION
TYPE LOCATION INSTRUCTOR YEAR
Adaptive Reuse Cincinnati, OH William Williams 2021
King Records is a historical landmark in the city of Cincinnati, where important recording artists, including James Brown, Lula Reed, Hank Ballard, recorded and produced their album. The project is aimed to renovate the dilapidated building, introduce new public and professional recording programs, and reactivate the surrounding area with a master plan. The master plan divides the site into three sections targeting different groups of users - public plazas on the east, private residential buildings on the west, and the adapted King Records building in the middle. The adapted King Record building is an aggregation of rectilinear volumes, alternating between old and new sections. Each volume contains a main program and is covered with a unique roof profile for distinct spatial, lighting and acoustic quality. The new volumes, wrapped with brick screen facades and extended beyond the sound barrier wall,create a new, iconic image in its highway frontage.
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Mastering
Archive
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Artist Studios
Outdoor Performance
Labeling
Multipurpose Gallery
Pract Record
tice Room ding Studio
Packaging & Shipping
Pressing
Alley
Theatre
Exploded Elevation Oblique
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1. Pedestrian Corridor 2. Lobby 3. Outdoor Theatre 4. Indoor Theatre 5. Practice Room 6. Multipurpose Gallery 7. Outdoor Courtyard 8. Listening Room 9. Record Library / Archive 10. Exhibition Corridor
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11. Event Space 12. Musician Lobby 13. Mastering Studio 14. Stamper / Label 15. Pressing 16. Packaging / Shipping 17. Recording Studio 18. Artist Studio 19. Bridge to Residential Building
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Plan 02
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Plan 01
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Highway Day View
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Highway Night View
Section Perspective
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03 SHELTER ADU TYPE LOCATION INSTRUCTOR TEAM YEAR
Accessory Dwelling Unit Brays Oaks, Houston, TX Andrew Colopy Erin Chen, Serena Liu 2020
A Shelter ADU is an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) that provides a residence for long-term rental housing and a place of temporary refuge during extreme weather events. With a researched policy proposal based on the current Houston Code of Ordinances, the new housing typology increases the environmental, economical and social resiliency to the whole community in the long run. The project is located in Brays Oaks, a super neighborhood in Houston, which is subjective to hurricanes, floodings and local-scale tornadoes. The Shelter ADU is designed urbanistically and architecturally as a response to natural disasters, while simultaneously building up a resilient community that promotes a program and culture of mutual-help outside the nuclear family bubble.
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B. FLOODING EVACUATION
A. TORNADO EVACUATION
ADU
Primary Building
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Bra
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Brays Oaks SOLAR BATTERY CONCRETE SAFE ROOM
8” 16-GAUGE FLOOR JOIST 6” REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL 6” REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB
Upon receiving a tornado alert, the residents in primary buildings evacuate to the ADU for shelter. The ADU contains a two-story bathroom core, made of reinforced concrete, which can withstand the wind and blast.
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ELEVATED BEDROOM
EVACUATION OPENING
All ADUs are builts in areas outside the 500-year floodplain, in order to avoid being repeatedly flooded. During flooding events, evacuees from adjacent flooded areas may come to nearby ADUs for shelter. The ADU is also designed with an elevated bedroom and openings for evacuation.
Policy 1: Use
C. HURRICANE EVACUATION
If one ADU includes one shelter-standard safe room with the capacity of 5-10 people, 10 square feet per person, the ADU can be built to 1200 sqaure feet maximum.
Brays Oaks, TX
If the property owners sign an agreement to accommodate temporary evacuees in time of emergency situations, the ADU construction cost can be partially funded by the government.
900 SF
1200 SF
ADU SHELTER
Lake Charles, LA
HOSTING TEMPORARY EVACUEE
PARTIAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING
Policy 2: Site ADUs which are built 0.5 mile from potential emergency shelters or food distribution (including schools, hospitals, churches, food banks) can have 20% property tax reduction for five years. ADUs built within 0.25 mile from the facilities may have 40% property tax reduction for five years. ADUs built within 0.25 mile from two or more types of facilities, the property can have 60% tax reduction for five years. LEVEL 2 | NORMAL RESIDENCE 0.5 miles SCHOOL
5 miles 0.2
TAX 20%PROPERTY REDUCTION TAX 40%PROPERTY REDUCTION
HOSPITAL
CHURCH
TAX 60%PROPERTY REDUCTION FOOD BANK
Policy 3: Energy LEVEL 2 | TEMPORARY SHELTER
In major hurricane events, a large number of people are displaced. The ADU tenants, partnered with the municipal government, may receive temporary evacuees for days or weeks. The layout in the ADU is transformed to host additional residents with more privacy.
Each Shelter ADU should incorporate a back-up power system generated by solar energy. The power capacity should sustain lighting and ventilation system of the ADU for 24 hours minimum.
24 hr
EMERGENCY BATTERY
SOLAR ENERGY
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GARAGE
An automated process by grasshopper is used to populate the ADUs on site. The bedroom part of the ADU can rotate to adjust to different site conditions, at an angle that maximizes its building footprint, and optimizes the solar direction to face the south.
3’
PROPERTY LINE
Automated Design
3’
3’
3’
OFFSETTED LINE PRIMARY BUILDING ANCHOR POINT
GARAGE
16’
TORNADO SHELTER BEDROOM VOLUME
15’-6”
FLOOD SHELTER
20’
PRIMARY BUILDING
AX
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HURRICANE SHELTER
BEDROOM 9 0 VOLUME ° M
GARAGE MULTI-USE LOFT ELEVATED BEDROOM
ROTATION CENTER
PRIMARY BUILDING TWO-STORY BATHROOM
BE VO DRO LU O M M E
GARAGE
x°
OUTDOOR PATIO/ ENTRANCE
0˚
MIN.
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N 19
KITCHEN/ DINNING/ LIVING
50˚
55˚
60˚
65˚
70˚
ANGLE BASED ON SOLAR OPTIMIZATION
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PRIMARY BUILDING
75˚
80˚
85˚
90˚
MAX.
6 7
8
50° Plan - Level 2
A’
B 5 6
C
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2 1
3
B’ 50° Plan - Level 1
C’ A
1. Outdoor porch 2. Living room 3. Kitchen 4. Dining area 5. Laundry closet 6. Bathroom 7. Home office/ temporary bedroom 8. Bedroom 20
9 Level 3 17’-0”
6
3
Level 2 8’-9”
1
2
Level 1 0’-0”
Section AA'
10
9
Level 3 17’-0”
6
7
Level 2 8’-9”
6
2
4
Level 1 0’-0”
Section BB' 21
2/3/4
8
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1. Outdoor porch 2. Living room 3. Kitchen 4. Dining area 5. Laundry closet 6. Bathroom 7. Home office/ temporary bedroom 8. Bedroom 9. Attic 10. MEP room 22
Detail 1 - Wall to Slab 11
ROOF - T.O. ROOF DECK
1
+26’-0”
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3 7
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3
2
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1 3
9’-0”
10 13
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Detail 2 - Balloon Framing
Level 3 - T.O.DECK +17’-0”
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17 16 6
3
8’-3”
1 2 5 10
24 18 8 7
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9
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Level 2 - T.O.DECK +8’-9”
6 9
Detail 3 - Roof to Wall 1
21 4
19
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2 22 8’-9”
12 20 1 11 3 10 6
Level 1 - T.O.SLAB +0’-0”
1 14 15
10 8
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1. Corrugated metal cladding 2. Corrugated furring strip 3. R3 insulated ZIP panel 4. R3 rigid insulation 5. R19 mineral wool insulation 6. R38 mineral wool insulation 7. 1/2" gypsum board 8. 6" 18-gauge steel stud 9. 12" 16-guage steel joist 10. Steel track 23
11. Weather barrier 12. Metal flashing 13. J-bolt anchor 14. 6" reinforced concrete 15. 8" concrete edge beam 16. 3/4" subfloor plywood deck 17. Finish floor 18. Sealant 19. 3/4" roof deck 20. Flashing tape
21. Roof membrane 22. Metal coping 23. Window head 24. Window sill 25. 16"Ø concrete pier
Construction Sequence
a. Reinforced concrete piers and foundation.
b. Concrete bathroom core.
c. Preassembled light gauge steel stud panels for ground portion.
d. Preassembled light gauge steel stud panels cantilevered portion.
e. Preassembled light gauge steel stud roof panels.
f. Insulated Zip panels.
g. Furring strips.
h. Corrugated metal cladding.
i. Solar Panels.
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Shelter Capacity
Tornado Shelter
Flood Shelter
Hurricane Shelter
Tornado Event
Flood Event
Temporary Evacuation
• 2 hours duration • 5 sqft per person • blast resistant
• hours • 20 sqft per person • wind resistant
• days to weeks • 40 sqft per person
7 people max.
16 people max.
7 people
7 people
7 people
20 people
3 people max.
20 people
20 people3 people
3 people
3 people
Urban Metrics (Maximum Realization) Total Number of ADUs
1,753
Shelter Capacity (people) Tornado:
16, 091 people
Flood Event:
25,171 people
Temporary Shelter:
11,375 people
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25
2
20
50° 26%
other 29%
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10
55° 15%
5
60° 8%
0
90° 24% 0°
50°
55°
60°
TORNADO SHELTER
65°
70°
75°
FLOODING SHELTER
80°
0° 47%
50° 26%
70° 10%
90°
ADU Type Breakdown ADU TYPE BREAKDOWN
1
1
75° 14%
LONG-TERM STAY
ADU Shelter Capacity by Type ADU SHELTER CAPACITY BY TYPE 25
85°
80° 9%
85° 10%
55° 15% 65° 8%
60° 8%
Shelter ADUs Existing public facilities Buildings within two .25 mile radii Buildings within .25 mile radius Buildings within .5 mile radius Buildings outside of 500-year floodplain Other buildings
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04 FLOODPLAIN
RECLAMATION
TYPE LOCATION INSTRUCTOR TEAM YEAR
Urban Design / Planning Houston, TX Albert Pope Erin Chen, Xinyu Chen 2018
Floodplain Reclamation takes on the urban design and planning method to address the issue of flooding through strategic retreat, and increase the resiliency and connectivity of the community along the Keegans Bayou in Alief, Houston. The main problem to tackle is the excessive volume of water from upstream bayou backing up from the highway during major hurricane events, which repeatedly flooding the adjacent single family neighborhood, and commercial and industrial areas. Therefore, channelization, detention ponds, and bayou wetland are the three hydrologic strategies for flood control; simultaneously, the urban strategy of realigning the parcels into bands creates the connection between north and south bund of Keegans Bayou. The floodplain reclamation takes place in multiple phases, where in each phase, the urban structures slowly retreat from the bayou, and are integrated and densified to mixed-use buildings in different typologies, to create bands with different characteristics.
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NON-RESIDENTIAL
Commercial Buildings
Commercial spaces are built along the major roads in the east-west direction, forming commercial corridors. Public institutions and industry scatter in multiple locations throughout the neighborhood, with the northwestern and southeastern area sees the most concentration of these public buildings. OFFICE + COMMERCIAL
RESIDENTIAL
Residential Buildings
The majority of Alief housing is single family. Multifamily, generally developed as infill in the region after the first wave of development of single family housing, is a promising future trend.
TOWN HOUSE
OPEN SPACE The largest park space within the neighborhood is the Arthur Storey Park along the Brays Bayou. In addition to this, there are many smaller-scale community parks serving the region. Undeveloped land spreads throughout the area, filling-in the lands in-between earlier houses development. ARTHUR STORY PARK
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Undeveloped Areas
Alief Landuse Map
65%
RESIDENTIAL
10%
8%
PUBLIC
COMMERCIALI
9%
4%
NDUSTRIAL UNDEVELOPED
4% PARKS
ALIEF URBAN ANALYSIS The Urban fabric of Alief is composed of high density, multi-family residential and retail along the West-East running major roads. The population is lower income compared to Houston’s average and thicaly extremely diverse. Chinatown is located in Alief, thus the neighborhood has a stronger Asian population than the city overall. With 63 people per square mile, Alief is one of the highest density areas of the city. Houston averages out to 38 people per square mile. The land use of Alief is fairly distributed between residential, industry, parks and retail comparetivly to other neighborhoods.
Alief Median Income Compared To Houston Average 33%
32%
25%
ALIEF HOUSTON
9% >25K
25K<50K
50K<100K
100K<
Alief Ethinicity Distribution Compared To Houston Average 49%
HOUSTON
22% ALIEF
20%
9%
WHITE
BLACK
HISPANICA
SIAN
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HYDROLOGICAL PROBLEM + SOLUTION
HYDROLOGICAL PROBLEM: FLOOD
HYDROLOGICAL MITIGATION: BUFFER
HYDROLOGICAL SOLUTION: NATURE
URBAN PROBLEM: FREEWAY FEED
URBAN MITIGATION: VERTICAL ROADS
URBAN SOLUTION: LADDER
SOCIAL PROBLEM: SEGRAGATED LIFE
SOCIAL MITIGATION: MIXED PROGRAM
SOCIAL SOLUTION: CONDENSATION
The hydrological problem is flooding due to freeway backups, while the most straightforward mitigation is to retreat from the freeway to create a natural buffer zone. Overtime, this will evolve into a solution where landscape takes over space along the bayou.
URBAN PROBLEM + SOLUTION The urban condition is now featured by a gridded road system that feeds eastward into the freeway. To enhance the north-south connection, more roads could be constructed across the bayou, while overtime, a ladder system will be introduced to enhance such a connection.
SOCIAL PROBLEM + SOLUTION Programmatically, the current site is divided into a more industrial-based north and a more residential-based south. To integrate the programs more, building types will start to mix in both banks. Ultimately, condensation will help achieve more integrated programs and life.
CONNECTIVE URBAN BANDS Alief is bounded by three freeways with two bayous runThe proposed intervention creates an adaptive greenway along the bayou with a buffer zone close to the freeways. With nature taking over space alongside the channel, buildings have been retreated from the floodway and programs have been mixed up through condensation. The result is a more walkable urban space where parks, retail, and work could be all within walking distance.
SUBURBAN SPRAWL The original site is more than a typical Houston neighborhood. It is characterized by low-density single family houses as well as commercial and industrial buildings that are usually less than two floors tall. Moreover, the site’s adjacency to two major freeways makes it essentially an automobile-based suburban neighborhood, where people commute long distance to workplace, grocery stores, as well as friends’ homes.
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Final Strategic Plan
Cross Section Along Bayou Section A
Greenway Strategic Phasing - Final Stage G
F
G
F
E
D
C
B
E
D
C
B
A
Section B
Section C
Section D
Section E
Section F
Section G
76 acre X 10ft = 800 acreXft
A 82 acre X 14.6 ft =1200 acreXft
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BANDING ORGANIZATION Housing is developed in a banding organization. The wide bands are generally more natural, populated with trees, and have larger detention ponds on the bayou. Whereas, the narrow bands are more human designed with hardscape and fewer trees. It also has smaller detentions that are both inline and offline of bayou.
A
B
C
D
A2D2 CONSOLIDATED / TOWER / LOW DENSITY
1
A4E6 DISPERSED / SLAB / LOW DENSITY 3X + 3X
3X + 3X 2
3
A’2D’2 CONSOLIDATED / TOWER / HIGH DENSITY
4
A’2F’5 DISPERSED / TOWER / HIGH DENSITY
8X + 4X
A’
B’
C’
8X + 4X
D’
1
2
A2D’2 CONSOLIDATED / SLAB / MID DENSITY 3X + 4X
A4D’2 DISPERSED / SLAB / MID DENSITY 3X + 4X
3
4
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The landscape closer to the bayou is more reminiscent of a natural wetland, with terraces and trails that can be flooded during flooding events. The tower of center aggregation is adjacent to more open landscapes such as plazas and soccer fields. However, all these ground floor landscapes are floodable. The rooftop of the podiums are well-designed sundecks with greenery as well as recreational facilities. The building blocks of edged aggregations contain floodable courtyards within their framed boundaries. The rooftop of the podiums have been converted to inhabitable decks and made accessible to residents from adjacent slabs. 36
05 DQSW
HEADQUARTER
TYPE LOCATION FIRM TEAM ROLE YEAR
Mixed-use Complex (SD) Zhengzhou, China Neri & Hu Architectural Intern 2018
DQSW Headquarter is an urban complex with programs of office, commercial retail and residential units, covering an area of 190,000 sf. I was involved in its schematic design phase, and delivered an 100% SD package. I developed various design studies on different building segments, including the facade, sunken courtyards, atriums, rooftop gardens, and window details. I also produced representations through plans, elevations, sections, diagrams, rendering and physical model.
Exterior View 38
Exterior View
方案图纸和数据 drawings & data
平面图 Floor Plan
Facade Diagram
L4 +13.80 AFF 1:800 A3
Plan
2018.07.05 大清生物总部方案阶段汇报文本 - 附录 DQSW SD PRESENTATION - APPENDICES
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drawings | 方案图纸
Office (Open) Office (Enclosed) Meeting (Enclosed) Multi-function (Semi-Open) Guest Rooms BOH Circulation F&B Retail Apartments HQ Canteen
Sections 剖面图
开敞式办公空间 办公室(私人) 会议室 辅助+休闲空间(半开放式) 客房 后勤 客用大堂+走道 餐饮 商业 公寓 员工餐厅
Physical Models
案图纸 drawings | 方案图纸
Office (Open) Office (Enclosed) Meeting (Enclosed) Multi-function (Semi-Open) Guest Rooms BOH Circulation F&B Retail Apartments HQ Canteen
剖面图 Sections 剖面图
案图纸 drawings | 方案图纸
剖面图 Sections 剖面图
Headquarter
Headquarter
drawings | 方案图纸
Sections 剖面图
Headquarter
Office (Open) Office (Enclosed) Meeting (Enclosed) Spa and Gym Guest Rooms BOH Circulation F&B Retail Apartments HQ Canteen
开敞式办公空间 Office (Open) 办公室(私人) Office (Enclosed) 会议室 Meeting (Enclosed) 辅助+休闲空间(半开放式) Multi-function (Semi-Open) 客房 Guest Rooms 后勤 BOH 客用大堂+走道 Circulation 餐饮 F&B 商业 Retail 公寓 Apartments 员工餐厅 HQ Canteen
开敞式办公空间 Office (Open) 办公室(私人) Office (Enclosed) 会议室 Meeting (Enclosed) 水疗/健身房 Spa and Gym 客房 Guest Rooms 后勤 BOH 客用大堂+走道 Circulation 餐饮 F&B 商业 Retail 公寓 Apartments 员工餐厅 HQ Canteen 大清生物总部方案阶段汇报文本 -
Headquarter
开敞式办公空间 办公室(私人) 会议室 水疗/健身房 客房 后勤 客用大堂+走道 餐饮 商业 公寓 附录员工餐厅 DQSW SD
Hotel
2018.07.05 PRESENTATION - APPENDICES
Office (Open) Office (Enclosed) Meeting (Enclosed) Multi-function (Semi-Open) 2018.07.05 2018.07.05 Guest Rooms 大清生物总部方案阶段汇报文本 - 附录 DQSW SD PRESENTATION - APPENDICES 大清生物总部方案阶段汇报文本 - 附录 DQSW SD PRESENTATION - APPENDICES BOH Circulation F&B Retail Apartments HQ Canteen
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Hotel
开敞式办公空间 办公室(私人) 会议室 辅助+休闲空间(半开放式) 客房 后勤 客用大堂+走道 餐饮 商业 公寓 员工餐厅
Apartments
开敞式办公空间 办公室(私人) 会议室 辅助+休闲空间(半开放式) 客房 后勤 客用大堂+走道 餐饮 商业 公寓 员工餐厅
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Apartments
Section | Program Diagram 40
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Design Studies
roof
interior arches
interior slabs
interior facade & windows
exterior platforms
outer facade ground floor arches & storefront
Facade Explode Diagram
Facade Studies
Drop-off View 41
L5
L4
L3
arches + tray
atrium wall + void + tray
L2
L1
slabs+ void
HQ Atrium Study
Sunken Courtyard Study
Sunken Courtyard View 42
06 STEVENSON COMMONS
TYPE LOCATION FIRM TEAM ROLE YEAR
Affordable Housing (DD/CD) Bronx, NY WXY Architectural Assistant 2020
Stevenson Commons is an affordable housing complex in Soundview, Bronx. The east portion of the block is occupied by an existing housing complex; WXY is designing six other buildings in the west portion, including two low-rise buildings, and four mid-rise buildings. I was involved in the DD and CD phase completing multiple submission packages for ULURP zoning analysis and the two low-rise buildings. My daily tasks involve designing according to NYC building code, 3D modeling in Revit, documentation, and coordination with consultants.
Site Axonometric Drawing 44
Zoning Plan
Zoning Sections 45
South Elevation
North Elevation
L1 Plan 46
Enlarged Unit Plan
Finish Plan
Unit RCP 47
Interior Rendering
Enlarged Stairwell Design
Interior Details 48
07 BROOKLYN-QUEENS CYCLEWAY
TYPE LOCATION FIRM TEAM ROLE YEAR
Urban Design (Proposal) New York, NY WXY Architectural Assistant 2019
The Brooklyn-Queens Cycleway is an article published in A+U magazine, proposing two waterside bike lanes on the existing BrooklynQueens Expressway, with bike amenities and connection to public transits. It creates a sustainable lifestyle for cyclists in NYC's outer boroughs. I was involved in developing the scheme in 3D Rhinoceros, and producing diagrams, sections and visualizations for the submission.
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B R O O K LY N ARMY TERMINAL
RW SB
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S U B W AY CONNECTION
FERRY CONNECTION
To
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C Y C L E W AY
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BUS CONNECTION
1 S T AV E N U E
2 N D AV E N U E
B R O O K LY N Q U E E N S C Y C L E W A Y
F O U R T H AV E N U E
F I F T H AV E N U E
Intersection Diagram
planted buffer / sidewalk
south bound cycleway
north bound cycleway
Cycleway Upper Level
south bound vehicles
FERRY
NW
58TH STREET
SE
north bound vehicles
N R
SUBWAY B37 B1 1
sidewalk
bike parking
south bound vehicles
transit
ramp green infrastructure
cycleway south
share station
transit
north bound vehicles
bike parking
sidewalk
north
0’
5’
10’
20’
Section
Bike Station at Public Transit 51
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Th a n k y o u .
Erin Chen 713-380-9822 qian.erin.chen@gmail.com