K RYSTEL A SHLEY Y ANG DESIGN PORTFOLIO
SELECTED WORKS 2013-2016
PROJECTS 2013-2016
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“PLEATS PLEASE” BOOM TOWN SENDAI GOOD FOOD POTRERO HILL LIBRARY RED CROSS HOUSE
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“PLEATS PLEASE” Architecture :100D Spring2015 Instructor: Lisa Iwamoto Location: South of Market, San Francisco, CA Site Area: 510,000S.F. Floor Area: 13,300 S.F. Program: Auditorium
ISSEY MIYAKE PLEATS PLEASE
The technological innovations of “Pleats Please” by Issey Miyake is fascinating, particularly when thought about architecturally. Visually and spatially stimulating, there is incredible potential to adapt this form into parametric design that can enhance a public performance space.
FOREIGN OFFICE ARCHITECTS YOKOHAMA TERMINAL
Many study the Yokohama Passenger Terminal for its architectural topography, but the architectural adaptation of the pleat can be found alive and real within the terminal’s interiors. Utilizing steel as its pleated roof and girder system, the structure feels heavy and immovable.
PAPER
1. COLUMN CONDITION
PARAMETRIC
2. TUNNEL CONDITION
3. WALL CONDITION
4. WALKWAY CONDITION
The Headlands Center for the Arts is sited in the Marin Headlands, part of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. This site analysis explores its dramatic and highly diverse topography, microclimates and landscape. It is the intent of the pleats pavilion to mimic the natural topography of its site, adapting and adhering to the landscape’s curvature.
A system was utilized in order to determine the type of shell the pavilion would take. Discovering that the triangle pleated system would create the most dynamic space for a pavilion, it became the modular system I would base the final design on. Experimenting with this module led to intricate interiors. As the tunnel, column, wall, and walkway conditions evolved, I was able to adapt them into an architectural form that people could not only experience from the inside, but also from the outside. The roof could be walked on while lightwells and columns would allow light to penetrate the structure. Structure arose as part of the entire design, without sacrificing the integrity of the architecture in the process.
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BOOM TOWN Architecture :100C Fall 2014 Instructor: Darell Fields Location: Emeryville, CA Site Area: 520,000 S.F. Floor Area: 410,000 S.F. Program: Housing, public park
EXISTING SITE
INTERIOR OPEN CONDITION
GREENWAY
INTERIOR CLOSED CONDITION
KEY GREEN STREETS
A mapping of recent housing developments in Emeryville. Two types of housing blocks emerged: the interior open condition and the interior closed condition
A mapping of Emeryville’s key green streets and its greenway overlayed onto recent housing developments. The interior open condition occurs adjacent to the greenway while the interior closed condition occurs adjacent to the hybrid street.
PROTOTYPE RESEARCH In order to understand the “housing typology” and to complement to the previous studies related to the city, precedent building strategies were studied to identify distinctions between a building’s type, program, and function. This led to understanding the finite nature and restrictions of specific housing types along with the sometimes ingenious design solutions demonstrating the inherent flexibilities of housing typologies.
STRUCTURE AND TECTONICS Kitagata Apartments Gifu, Japan
LIGHT AND POROSITY Unite D’ Habitation Marseille, France
CONTEXT (VIEW) VM Housing Copenhagen, Denmark
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interior closed condition housing on Bay Street
4 extension of Emeryville greenway with adjacent park
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observation of the scale of the site
creation of access points from parking lots
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inverse of the interior closed condition with application onto the site
creation of public plaza and amenities throughout the site
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GROUND PLANE / SITE PLAN
SITE MODEL 1” = 50’
ENTRY / VIEW
Micro-apartments were designed in mind of the site’s context - the Bay Area’s rapid increase of housing crisis and rising costs pose a difficulty to students and young professionals. The long and thin floor plan allows for the efficient use of space, reminiscent of Unite d’Habitation as a precedent in Marseilles, France. Apartments with micro units also emphasize what is outside the confines of the unit itself. The site was designed to offer an extensive array of amenities, intimate gathering spaces, and services to residents that enable them to experience community outside their micro unit.
GROUND FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
FIFTH FLOOR
SIXTH FLOOR
TYPICAL BUILDING HALLWAY
MICRO-APARTMENT UNITS
SIXTH FLOOR
FIFTH FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR TYPICAL BUILDING HALLWAY
SECOND FLOOR
GROUND FLOOR
MICRO-APARTMENT UNITS
The void cuts through the apartment building to open up the density of the structure. This allows for a unique space for residents to access light and air among the sea of microapartments. The void becomes a unique condition - setting itself apart from other housing typologies in Emeryville (the interior open condition and the interior closed condition). Here, public space becomes an entity in itself, architecture creates the background, and and engaging social areas become the foreground. SECTION MODEL 1� = 30’
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“GOOD FOOD” Architecture :100B Spring2014 Instructor: Ajay Manthripragada Location: South of Market, San Francisco, CA Site Area: 10,925 S.F. Floor Area: 43,700 S.F. Program: Food Hall, Auditorium, Gallery,
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10TH ST.
HOWARD ST.
The building envelope, a structural double skin, resembles rotating louvers draped over the transparent box of program, sometimes revealing and concealing the activities within to adjust to its orientation on the site. Overall, it promotes visual connectivity throughout the entire building. In addition, diamond-like voids in the floor plates interlace in order to filter light. These floor plate are complex - consisting of a waffle grid structure to support the open floor plans within the building.
GOOD FOOD is comprimised of a series of elements that need access to the city: a large food hall, a loading and service area, and entry to four primary programs above. The food hall is a multi-use space, capable of hosting farmers markets, food fairs, pop-up events and other large gatherings. The interface between the city and the food hall is designed to accomodate different degrees of openness and porosity that suit the needs of different events. In addition to serving the food hall and other casual gatherings, the seating supports the growing food truck culture, which has a strong presence in SOMA.
1 LOBBY AND RECEPTION 2 FOOD HALL 3 LARGE KITCHENS 4 SMALL KITCHENS 5 MEN’S RESTROOM 6 WOMEN’S RESTROOM 7 BUILDING UTILITIES 8 LOADING DOCK 9 FREIGHT ELEVATOR 10 PASSENGER ELEVATORS 11 BICYCLE RACKS 12 FOOD TRUCK AREA 13 OUTDOOR SEATING 13 STAGE 14 AUDITORIUM 15 GALLERY AND EXHIBITION AREA 16 SMALL KITCHENS 17 SEATING AREA 18 MEETING ROOM 19 OFFICE SPACES 20 CONFERENCE ROOM 21 WORK SPACE 22 WORK SPACE 23 HYDROPONICS LAB 24 CLASSROOMS 25 TEACHING AND RESEARCH GARDEN 26 GREENHOUSE 27 WORK AND RESEARCH SPACE
PROGRAMS / MATERIAL
CIRCULATION / MATERIAL
SPATIAL / MATERIAL
PROGRAMS / STRUCTURE
CIRCULATION / STRUCTURE
SPATIAL / STRUCTURE
PROGRAMS / ENVELOPE
CIRCULATION / ENVELOPE
SPATIAL / ENVELOPE
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The Sendai Mediatheque by Toyo Ito is celebrated internationally for its visual elegance and radical structural solutions. The extent of the investigation began with an interest in the building’s earthquake resistance after the Sendai earthquake. This precedent study is an unrolled elevation with overlaid plans of the tube structure mapped to a corresponding floor to determine the movement of the tubes.
SENDAI MEDIATHEQUE Architecture :100B Spring2014 Instructor: Ajay Manthripragada Location: Sendai, Japan Precedent Study / Structural Analysis
For the physical model of the precedent study, fishing wire was used as the vertical component to determine the movement of the tube structure, and the horizontal component was lasercut on plexiglass.
A study of light and shadow play across San Francisco
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POTRERO HILL LIBRARY Architecture :100A Fall 2013 Instructor: Rudabeh Pakravan Location: Potrero Hill, San Francisco, CA Site Area: 3,500 S.F. Floor Area: 14,000 S.F. Program: Library
KNOT FORM
KNOT FORM OVERLAY
TRACING NEGATIVE VOID SPACE
NEGATIVE SPACE / POSITIVE SPACE
A topographical analysis of Potrero Hill depict rapid elevation changes, typical of the hills of San Francisco. Appearing to shift in nature, the contours of the topography form a “knot,” interpreted in this analysis as two opposing forces pushing to form a unique interval in between. The “knot” form will become the formal approach for the spatial investigations of the library.
ENCLOSING NEGATIVE SPACE
Here, the knot form manifests through the library’s circulation. The knot is the heart of the space, as it pulls visitors in through the central staircase and onto the viewing platform on the top floor. Shelves are embedded within the building’s circulation, lit up through the library’s skylight.
BASEMENT
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
ROOF
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RED CROSS HOUSE ONG&ONG Architects Pte Ltd Project Location: Penang Lane, Singapore Site Area: 10,925 S.F. Floor Area: 43,700 S.F. Program: Office, Event Space, Plaza
Project Architect: Robert Brodeth Design Director: Diego Molina Senior Designers: Tomas Jaramillo, Cheow Yeh Lee Junior Designer: Kay Yang
The Red Cross House is envisioned to be the hallmark of public-spirited development, which celebrates the organisation storied history and embraces her future needs through the restoration of the existing building to her original tropical-modernist two storey form and the addition of a 10 storey office volume onto the southwest fused onto a landscaped plaza that connects them.
ENTRANCE LEVEL
PLAZA LEVEL
TYPICAL FLOOR LEVEL
EXISTING BUILDING
FORT CANNING HOTEL NEW OFFICE BUILDING
FORT CANNING ROAD
PARKING
SITE MASSING
BUILDING MASSING
1ST FLOOR (ENTRANCE)
2ND FLOOR (PLAZA)
3RD FLOOR (MULTIPURPOSE)
4TH FLOOR (OFFICE)
5TH FLOOR (OFFICE)
6TH FLOOR (DONATION)
7TH FLOOR (DONATION)
8TH FLOOR (HQ)
9TH FLOOR (HQ)
10TH FLOOR (MANAGEMENT)
ROOF GARDEN
FACADE
EXISTING BUILDING
The striking artist-inspired façade of geometric concrete fins that adorns the northern and southern faces of the office volume is a contemporary take on the modernist concrete brise soleil (sun screens). These relating geometries were incorporated onto the new extension’s facade to create congruence between the new and original structures. Functionally, they shield the occupants and glazed inner facade from the sun’s glare and heat. Painted in Red Cross emblematic colours subtle gradations of these folding planes creates an optical illusion which forms the Red Cross symbol visible from both urban vistas.
KRYSTEL YANG | ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO | 2013-2016