YUICHI TADA RESUME
964 41st Street Brooklyn, NY 11219 T: (626) 394-6910 e: ytada4274@gmail.com w: tadau-1.info
WORK EXPERIENCE OCT 2012 - PRESENT
Danny Forster Design Studio Junior Designer 133 Greenwich Ground Zero Courtyard Marriott Hotel | Preparing presentation renderings, drawings, Rhino and Revit modeling, Creating roadmaps from Revit, meeting with facade consultants, Design Development
AUG 2011 - SEP 2011
Void Inc. Junior Designer 3115 Dona Marta | Designing the space and preparing renderings for construction method schemes and preparing city permit drawings of an addition for residence MUL:7691 | Help producing the exhibition drawings of newly built house, presented at Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
JUN 2011 - JUL 2011
Atelier Hitoshi Abe Architectural Event Coordinator
Little Tokyo Design Week | Gallery design and set up, web design, event staff
JUL 2009 - AUG 2009
Atsushi Kitagawara Associates Intern Rise | Exhibition quality model making of the project
MAR 2007 - MAR 2008
EN Associates Draftsperson Exterior and Interior Architectural CAD Drafter in several hospital projects, Red mark corrections
EDUCATION SEP 2009 - JUN 2012 SEP 2007 - JUN 2009 AUG 2004 - JUL 2007
University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA | M.Arch I., Architecture University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA | B.A., Architecture Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA | A.A., Architecture
AWARD 2012
SukkahPDX Competition
Selected as one of the finalists to construct designed sukkah at Oregon Jewish museum
2012
The currents Winter 12’
Chosen for the best work from La Brea Tar pit Pavillion Project
SKILLS DESIGN PROGRAMS FABRICATION OFFICE SOFTWARE LANGUAGE
Revit, Auto CAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, Rhino, InDesign, Maya, Form Z, Grasshopper, After Effect, Scketch-up, 3D Max Laser cutter, CNC Mill Machine, 3D printer, Woodshop power tools Microsoft Office, Excel, Powerpoint Japanese (native), English (US education +11 yrs), Chinese (+3 yrs)
COMPETITIONS 2012 2011
SukkahPDX competition 2012 ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design competition Urban planning competition for Bayou river front at Houston, TX
2011
Play for all competition
Design competition for playground innovation at school in Mae Sot, Thailand
REFERENCES DANNY FORSTER HEATHER ROBERGE ROGER SHERMAN
Principal, Danny Forster Design Studio UCLA Junior Professor, Principal at murmur UCLA Senior Professor, Principal at RSAUD
Office: 1.212.674.0630 dannyforsterdesignstudio.com Office: 1.323.382.0191 murmur-la.com Office: 1.424.228.5676 rsaud.com
WORK SAMPLES PROFESSIONAL WORK I. COURTYARD MARRIOTT HOTEL - DANNY FORSTER DESIGN STUDIO II. 3115 DONA MARTA - VOID INC . III. MUL: 7691 - VOID INC.
ACADEMIC WORKS 01. SHEET LOGIC
AUD 403 Research Studio | Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 Instructor: Heather Roberge Project partner: Lillian Tara Zeinalzadegan
02. LA BREA TAR PIT POP-UP RESTAURANT AUD 401 Advanced Topic Studio | Winter 2012 Instructor: Michael Ra Teaching Assistant: Jeffrey Kock
03. COMPRESSED HOUSE AUD 401 Advanced Topic Studio | Fall 2011 Instructor: Jeffrey Inaba Project partner: Kayeon Lee
01. SHEET LOGIC AUD 403 Research Studio | Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 Instructor: Heather Roberge Project partner: Lillian Tara Zeinalzadegan The Research studio focused on two different scales in design: Overall master planning at Union Station in Los Angeles, CA where actual competition for the proposal happened recently, and take part of the master plan to further development on architectural quality using sheet logic.
MASTER PLAN:
Our master plan is a series of linear masses connecting the eastern and western edges of the site. Both ends of each mass are terminated with towers of varying heights and the middle bridges over the train station. The master plan organization creates intervals of day lighting and open space when experienced from the transit spaces below. These voids between masses become the primary site of our project development. The towers are located on both eastern and western ends of the development where they define the perimeter of development and the roof tops in between. They allow for direct pedestrian access from union station and Alameda Street on the west. This is accomplished by staggering their locations in plan. On the east, the towers align along the north south edge made by N. Vignes street. The bridges are programmed with alternating blocks of parking and retail. Their ends are organized with alternating vehicular entrances and office lobbies to decrease the travel distance between programs and increase adjacencies between parking and destination. This approach can be conceived as a transformation of the retail promenade model into a dense urban condition. The URBAN CANYONS are highly compressed void spaces created between the bridges that organize circulation and provide a coherent aesthetic experience at an urban scale.
Fabric operation from several garment technique
SHEETS:
Our interest in sheet logics relies on its ability to capture and reveal the Impact of forces on materials. This property of sheet allows stabilization of material in a steady state, tending to register the way force is resolved within the material. Deploying sheet logics in the design of urban-scale development, we were interested in the fact that fabric allows the character of the architecture to be produced by the architectural model. When translated as architectural assemblies, this character can swerve the properties of actual building materials toward those of the architectural model. The circulation paths are applied as a moment of break through sheet, which allows for releasing the excess energy and surface of fabric at their insertion points. The release results in discontinuity along the seam as the excess material detaches from mass and performs as thin gestural elements receiving circulation. The layers of space connect along these breaking points creating sense of depth and volume in space.
RIGHT) rendering from courtyard
Site section showing the process of the sheet logic approach
Floor plan from from retail level and reflected Ceiling plan from the station
Perspective Section at the office tower
Perspective Section from retail and parking
02. LA BREA TAR PIT POP-UP RESTAURANT AUD 401 Advanced Topic Studio | Winter 2012 Instructor: Michael Ra Teaching Assistant: Jeffrey Kock This studio focused on the lighting and atmospheric quality of the space while considering the structural, construction and detail part rigorously. The site of the building is located at one part of landscape of La Brea Tar Pit site at Hancock Park, next to LACMA. My intention of the project is to create the atmosphere of fuzziness or fuzzy boundary within the articulated container. By doing this, not only creates the blurred boundary with the different program in the space, the quality of the light in the space will also varies. From the sketch of the imagery which shows my idea of the pavilion, desire of connecting both the feature of the site and achievement of the fuzzy atmosphere of the building from my material and light study. By simply adding the horizontal blurry roof, occupies the space below and becomes a floating object from the top of the page park next to the site. Ground is also treated with same language of fuzziness between inside and outside and different programs. For the material, thin structural aluminum pipes are placed in grid and layered in different number to create different density of fuzzy atmosphere. Vertical members are twice as thick as horizontal members and supporting horizontal members and the class roof.
Ground floor plan
Detail study model
Roof plan
Perspective section
03. COMPRESSED HOUSE
1.5R zoning lots in Silver lake
AUD 401 Advanced Topic Studio | Fall 2011 Instructor: Jeffrey Inaba Project partner: Kayeon Lee
This studio focused on the experimentation of new single family housing design with the theme of “compression.” Subdivided lot houses as building program, the idea is to take out , deform, and squeeze from and space according to the necessity for the new type of house so that these houses will have unique program proportions as well as the new formal aesthetics. We have looked at RD 1.5 zoning types (Restricted Density Multiple Dwelling, minimum area per lot 5,000 sq. ft., per divided unit, 1500 sq. ft.) in Silver Lake, Los Angeles to find the cheap value site where has potential for the challenge to make it valuable. The subdivided houses are restricted with specific rules. For example, each house has to be structurally individual unlike the apartment complex; between the units there needs to have 4” gap; depending on the places of the windows, it needs to have 3’ offset from the angle of the window perpendicular to its property lines. So the goal of the studio is to design the compressed house through many types of restrictions.
units. Connecting the indoor and outdoor space with this openings of the window and the same flooring treatment at the ground gives residents have the feeling of very narrow space of the house. These bars are compressed even more in minor scales, almost like pinching, creating more convenient aperture for the natural light to come in.
Our design through multiples of schemes, we first compressed the units skinny to become bar-type form but these bars are shifted and rotated within the lot to gain circulation and maximum outdoor space in each units. Surface of the bar peels off from the ground and from the ceiling to have openings according to the program type, location and relationship with other adjacent
In order to achieve this form, semi-monocoque system, using two thin metal sheets with steel studs in between, is used for the surface of the house and two layers of metal mesh wraps around as a secondary skin system. This material assembly allows to create the smooth continuity of the wall, window opening and the structural support and the visual dynamic moray pattern created by these two meshes.
Site plan
PHYSICAL MODEL ABOVE) 4 units together RIGHT) second unit