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Master of Architecture, SCI-Arc, Summer 2018

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673 56th ST NY Tan Architect Summer 2016 Internship Supercisors: Architect Tan, Winnie Sui Thian Mok 19402 Northern Blvd #205, Flushing, NY 11358 (718) 224-1130

Tan Architect P.C. is a firm by liscensed architect Mr. Tan, which focuses on the local residential and commercial housing projects. The projects includes single/ multiple families housing, hotels, apartments, retails and so on. During the period working there, I experienced the whole process of designing, from concept design to construction design, negotiate with clients and government.

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Performa Tower Fr-ee Fernando Romero Summer 2017 Internship Supervisors: Sergio Rebelo, Unai Artetxe, Fernando Torres, Daniela Gallo FR-EE New York City +1 212-242-3104 15 W 27th St, 11 floor New York, NY 10001

FR-EE’s proposal for a 60-story office tower located on Paseo de la Reforma, the most significant axis of Mexico City, advances a focused real estate strategy to provide Class-A workspace to top local and foreign companies. The site is roughly 1.5 acres and located near the roundabout of Colón, a key point along the avenue. Reforma Tower 2 provides maximum plan flexibility and features two strategically placed vertical circulation cores. The project also incorporates sustainable design elements and technologies to create a performance-driven environment, adding value to the overall value and attractiveness of the tower to future tenants.

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Construction Technology University at Buffalo Spring 2015 Manefee Cabin

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The Merchant of Venice Design Studio Fall 2017 3GBX Instructor: Eric Owen Moss Partner: Volver Zhang

The project is to design a housing apartment for homeless people on the beach of Santa Monica next to Canal of Venice. The canal is of long history and with the dream of creating the Venice in Los Angeles.

The project start with the study of the typology of mountains and islands.

By merging the geometry, cutting the edge, or digging out the volumes, designers were trying to mutate the typology and its site. On the top of the mountain, we put the diamond stone which is the residentials.

It starts with the idea of mountain from the water. The pond will be the headwater connecting to the Canal. The geometry of mountain shape grows organically with small islands, bays and mainlands. The commercial area is programmed inside the mountain, while there is an diamond on the top for standard housing units. The project discusses the issue between the two elements as the way to merge them. Special windows are designed to merge the boundaries of the shapes.

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Design Development Applied Studies Fall 2017 3GBX Instructor: Herwig Baumgrtner,Brian Zamora Partner: Feng Wang, Bingyi Li, Ruoya Li

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The Sphere of Knowledge Design Studio Fall 2017 2GBX Instructor: Elena Marferdini

Etienne-Louis Boullee used the sphere as a symbol of enlightenment ideas in his Cenotaph for Sir Isaac Newton. In his view, the sphree was the geometry which represents innovation and perfection of new knowledge. In this project is not only about planning a new school but also envisioning the future learning environment. Especially for architecture education, there has been continuous development of new computational tools for 3d modeling and advancing design approach. So adopting new technologies became inevitable.

SCI-Arc has established on concrete pedagogy which is architecture can our future world. The school has been boldly engaged in new technology.

Future students of SCI-Arc will be learning outside, armed with different devieces, listening to a teacher from different specialities. Present SCIArc is ready for near future but enventually, the shcool will need more flexible learning spaces in long term.

While speculating new learning spaces, we are focusing on Virtual Reality devices. In our senario, make new SCI-Arc as a perfect environment for using VR as their future designing tool. The main goal of the project enables every student can use VR devices actively and share those exciting moments with their classmates and public.

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CONCEPT Devices for future architects

Architects will use VR to actually see and experience their design space, and discuss with partners or

Computer will be the main high technology that architects will work on.

3D Printer or robots hands will be used more for models making, instead of hand making.

Activities and spaces for future school

When architects work alone, they will only need a computer, VR and 3D maker. Space will be flexible, only if there is space for playing VR. Less requirements for the space.

On the day of presentation, audiences would be required to wear VR to see and experience the space.

Space needs to be bigger but again flexible. It can be any empty space.

The concept is to create a big VR auditorium for any scale of model to display, while a few amount of small VR experience room surround it.

STUDIOS CLASSROOMS CRIT ADMIN. PUBLIC/SOCIAL SHOP/CAFE LIBRARY AUDITORIUM GALLERY HOUSING RENTABLE GREEN CONSTRAINTS PARCELS

Building B 110,000 sqf Fire lane Constraints - 28’

Building A 40,000 sqf

S,S + S Constraints 23’

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Viaduct Constraints 12’

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Urban Housing Undergrade Design Studio Fall 2015, Buffalo, New York First Prize Studio Competition Instructor: Erkin Ozay Partner: Josh Erni

The project is to create working housing for artists. The site is on downtown buffalo, on the corner of Delaware ave and Chippewa St. It is a busy business center where locates all kinds of offices and retails.

Vasrious kind of people walking down the street. While, one block away, the Franklin road is quite quiet and isolated area. Our urban strategy is to create green path which lead people from Delaware ave to the Franklin road. The green path extends all way down to Pearl Street. A couryard is created as the starting point of the green path.

The public program is the art gallery, where artists in housing can exhibit or sell their art work. The first volume is uplifted 16ft off fround, and set back from the sidewalk. Thus, the courtyard is easily seen and accessible. The uplifted void space also offer the opportunity for light artists to exhibit their light sculpture.

The housing program is designed for artists, which means that diffuse daylight would be preferred for studio. The housing volume is rotated into the direction of true north. Also, panels are designed for light control.

There two types of units; the flat and duplex. The flat is fully accessible.

The studio is on the north isde of unit, while, the living space is on the south side. Both offer panoramic views. The direction of the housing is also facing the Allen Town, where gathers lots of studio and artists.

The structure for public program is steel struss cantilever form core.

Concrete taper is used for housing. Double galzing facade is designed on the south side. Thus, cross ventilation is feasible in the winter, when blocking out strong wind from southwest. Panels have various colors on the facade. Light pink, yellow, orange and red is used to light up the street.

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