architecture portfolio 2007-2011

PORTFOLIO 07-11 / GARY KU

TYPE

Figures in a Field

Project Documentation / Modeling

Field of Figures

Design Development & Rendering

Urban Design

Fabrication / Installation

Museum and Research Center

Fabrication

Project Documentation

Two-Family House

Low-Income Housing

Miniscule Duplex

Film Theater and Gallery Complex

Business Hotel

Architectural Representation

GARY KU CONTENTS /

ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL

TITLE

/ SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELD

/ VARIOUS / JOHNSTON MARKLEE

/ HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES

/ QINGDAO AUDIT BUREAU / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL

/ SUBURBAN ESCALATION

/ A VARIATION ON CORRUGATION

/ YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE

/ YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE FAADE

/ VARIOUS / KILO ARCHITECTURES

/ BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE

/ MULTIFAMILY HOUSING

/ COHABITATION CUBE

/ TRIBECA CINECEUM

/ W STEAM HOTEL

/ ANALYSIS & REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE

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INSTRUCTOR / PRINCIPAL

/ Prof. John Patkau

/ Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee

/ Prof. Hernan Diaz Alonso

/ Brian Lee, Timothy Poell

/ Prof. Ljiljana Blagojevic

/ Prof. Brennan Buck

/ Prof. Joel Sanders

/ Prof. Brennan Buck

/ Linna Choi

/ Prof. Alan Organschi

/ Prof. Deborah Gans

/ Prof. Deborah Gans

/ Prof. Martin Cox

/ Prof. Martin Cox

/ Prof. Sunil Bald

YEARS 2007-2011SELECTED PROJECTS

EDUCATION

Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, CT / M.Arch I

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, CA /B. A. in Architecture with Distinction, 3.57

Kbenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark / Denmark International Study Program / Summer Studio & Course in Scandinavian Architecture

WORK EXPERIENCE

Johnston Marklee & Associates, Los Angeles, CA/ Hut House, Hawaii / bid set documentation incl. landscape element design/ Execution of detailed 5x5 presentation model

Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc., Glendale, CA/ Consultant to the New Business Initiatives division for undisclosed project/ Performed competitive/market analysis, Interface design and mock-ups, presentation and video editing

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL/ Qingdao Audit Bureau Tower, China / developed primary option during schematic design, including massing, faade, spire, podium; presentation/ Ningbo Tower, China / developed podium-tower concept, faade options

Kilo Architectures, Paris, France/ Berliet Showroom, Morocco / presentation plans and sections/ Montabo Hotel, French Guiana / presentation plans and sections/ Oualalou House, Morocco / working models

Periphery Design, New Haven, CT/ Jensen House, USA / SD-DD for kitchen-bedroom addition

Ong & Ong Architects, Singapore/ Wu Gallery, Singapore / solo SD through CA for a private gallery/ Singapore Tower, Dubai / SD-DD, conceived of and developed selected scheme, including facade, massing, and tower-podium relationship

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2006 AUGUST 2007 MAY

GARY KU

EMAIL / [email protected] / 00 1 714 206 0511

Stanley Saitowitz, San Francisco, CA/ schematic design for loft project / rendering and graphic design work

AWARDS AND PUBLISHED WORK

Retrospecta / Yale University Press/ project, Suburban Escalation (urban design)/ project, A Variation on Corrugation (installation)/ project, YAA/Facade (facade design)/ paper, Abstraction to Its Logical Conclusion, analysis of visual rhetoric in work by Mies and Sejima

Teaching Assistantship / Religion & Modern Architecture/ funding & logistics for weeklong trip to Cairo, Alexandria, and Luxor, Egypt.

Winning Team & Construction Intern2008 Yale Building Project/ designed winning house scheme together with six other students/ developed and built winning scheme, including DD/CD, framing, finishing, fixture installation, siding

WinnerEisner Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeleys highest prize for architectural design, awarded after competitive portfolio review

WinnerLibrary Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeleys highest prize for undergraduate research, awarded for analysis of the historiography and social purpose of Trajans Markets/ paper published in Clios Scroll, Berkeleys honors history journal

SKILLS

SoftwareRhinoceros, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, 3DS Max, Maya, Mental Ray, V-Ray, MaxwellRender, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe After Effects, ArcGIS

FabricationLaser cutting, ABS Plastic and Powder 3D printing, 3- and 5-axis CNC milling

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2008 APRIL 2008 AUGUST

2006 MAY

2004 APRIL

LOCATION / LA CAADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, USA

MANY LITTLE MOVES /

SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELDYALE UNIVERSITY / 1115B ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO / PROF JOHN PATKAU / SPRING 2011

This project is about loose programs nestled among figures, gently emerging from a field condition carved upon a hillside, that slowly condense into an alternative school for young makers and inventors.

I sought a gentle space of ambiguous boundaries, the interstial space among elements rather than the rigidly defined space of geometric volumes.

I started simply be visually the given program not as square footage, but as individual program elements, pieces of furniture, giving scale to a landscape and sensation to a topography. (DIAGRAM, RIGHT.)

STAN ALLENS FIELD CONDITION DIAGRAMS*

*STAN ALLEN, FIELD CONDITIONS, IN POINTS + LINES: DIAGRAMS AND PROJECTS FOR THE CITY. (PRINCETON, NJ: PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, 1999), 98.

INVESTIGATION, A FIELD CONDITION ON A SLOPE

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SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELD / PATKAU / SPRING 2011 / 11

INITIAL EXPLORATIONSThe first sketch models focused on the challenge of articulating the relationship between the members of a field and the slope. This initial series of sketches gradually developed more order and regularity until, unfortunately, the desired looseness seemed lost among deep carvings and strictly linear belt roof bands. After considering these models I refocused on the treatment of the topography itself as key to the project, as opposed to relying on field conditions which were applied to or floated above the landscape.

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3 / SKETCH MODEL / STICKS-BELT 4 / SKETCH MODEL / BELT-TROUGH

SKETCH PLAN / SKIRT


FORM, THINLY SPREADThe final scheme focused on an obsessive accumulation of small moves over the larger, more singular moves of earlier studies, creating a loose, ambiguous spread of program, circulation, and boundaries. Programs requiring assembly or security (auditoria,library) are focused in more specific figures in the landscape, whereas more individual or dynamic programs (studio space, workshops, exhibition) are loosely spread over the landscape.

KEY SKETCH MODEL / SHALLOW LANDSCAPE


FINAL MODEL


SITE

PHOTO / SITE FROM ABOVE DAM, FACING EAST

SITEThe site, a jutting hill with a 1:2 slope on its north side and a 1:1 slope on its south side, was chosen because it provided the opportunity to apply stress to the idea of a field condition. The inherent directionality of a slope, the challenge of creating usable terrain while preserving its original characteristics, the ability to differentiate programs by simply placing them on the other side of the hill, all were useful in the development of the basic field condition into a series of figures within a field.


SITE MAP


ENCLOSURE, FIELD OF AFFECTThe enclosureessentially, the roof, the which wraps around the hillwas difficult in that, for pragmatic reasons, it had to be a relatively singular thing. The final solution was to hot slump glass over curved steel beams. Sunlight refracting through the glass would create a field of affect.

ROOF SKETCH MODEL / FIELD OF AFFECT FORMED FROM REFRACTED LIGHT

DETAIL MODEL / 1/4:1


DETAIL MODEL / 1/4:1


STRUCTURE, REGULAR UPON IRREGULARThe columns which support the roof are placed at the intersection between a regular x-axis 16-foot-interval column grid and every sixth topography line, creating a field from overlapping a regular and irregular systems.

FINAL MODEL / SURVEYING


FINAL MODEL / SURVEYING

DIAGRAM / ARROWS INDICATE COLUMNS PLACED AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE X-COLUMN GRID AND EVERY SIXTH TOPOGRAPHY LINE


FINAL MODEL / LIBRARY


FINAL MODEL / CLASS AREA

FINAL MODEL / WORKSHOPS AND STUDIOS


RENDER & DOCUMENTATION / ENCLOSURE SYSTEM FOR KAUAI HUT HOUSE / EQUIPMENT FENCE APPLICATION

RENDER / ENCLOSURE SYSTEM FOR KAUAI HUT HOUSE / FRONT GATE APPLICATION

WORK / JOHNSTON MARKLEE / LOS ANGELES

During Summer & Fall 2011 I worked on several projects for Johnston Marklee, notably a quarter-scale presentation model for the renovation of a series of art studios and an enclosure system for a house in Kauai, based on vernacular Hawaiian gates.

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PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION

PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION W/ IAN CHRISTOPHER

WORK / JOHNSTON MARKLEE / SUMMER-FALL 2011 / 27

ONCE UPON A HOUSE /

HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURESYALE UNIVERSITY / 1107A ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO / PROF HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO / FALL 2010

This project is about loose spaces among a series of figures, a field of gentle volumes that eventually becomes a house.

Typically, classical volumetric space is formed by hard, binary divisions, accessed through binary mechanismsa door is either open or closed, and a house so divided functions accordingly. This creates a rigid hierarchy among programs.

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HARD (BINARY) DIVISION

RIGID SPACE


LIFTED WALL,

SOFT (VARIABLE) DIVISION

A loose space is one formed from soft, variable divisions. Activities occur in areas of greater or lesser privacy, more or less formal density. Programs settle within a web of local relationships, dynamically formed, without explicit boundaries.

LOOSE SPACE

HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 31

Loose space may be formed in plan by a single line curving back upon, but never actually contacting itself. This curving loosely defines spaces within relatively stronger and weaker lobe figures. When combined with several other such lines, a field of figures begins to emerge.

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ARTICULATION IN PLAN


PHOTO / CLOUDS OFF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (SOURCE: NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER)

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Volume is created by applying the curves to two guide surfaces, representing the inner (interior) and outer (exterior) surfaces of the building. Curves are then individually adjusted to form additional interior spatial variety and more comfortably accomodate different programs.

ARTICULATION IN SECTION

1 / CURVES TAKEN FROM PLAN 2 / CURVES APPLIED TO OUTER AND INNER GUIDE SURFACES


3 / INNER CURVES ADJUSTED TO FORM MORE COMPLETE ENCLOSURE 4 / WALLS FORMED BY LOFTING BETWEEN INNER & OUTER CURVES


COMPOSITE PHOTO / HOUSE ON SITE IN SILVERLAKE, LOS ANGELES, CA


SECTION / LONGITUDINAL (EAST-WEST)


MODEL / INTERIOR HALLWAY TOWARDS LIVING ROOM


KITCHEN

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STUDY

MASTER BED

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FOYER

PLAN / GROUND FLOOR

RENDER / ROOF


RENDER / SHOWER & VERANDA

RENDER / STUDY


RENDER / HALLWAY

RENDER / MASTER BEDROOM


RENDER / LIVING ROOM


WORK / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL / CHICAGO

During my internship at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill I was involved with the schematic design of the Qingdao Audit Bureau, a office-residential-retail development in Qingdao, China. I aided in the development of the massing, faade, spire, and podium; presentation layout, rendering, and the final presentation model.

DIAGRAM / TOWER SPIRE OPTIONS SECTION DETAIL / OVERLAPPING SOUTH FACADE W/TIM POELL, ETC

DIAGRAM / QINGDAO TOWER / SPIRE OPTIONS


RENDER / QINGDAO TOWER / WEST ELEVATION

PRESENTATION MODEL / QINGDAO TOWER W/ PAVLO KRYVOZUB, ETC

RENDER / QINGDAO TOWER / ATRIUM

WORK / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL / SUMMER 2010 / 47

URBANISM /

SUBURBAN ESCALATIONYALE UNIVERSITY / 1022B URBAN DESIGN / PROF LJILJANA BLAGOJEVIC / SPRING 2010

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COLLEGE HILL

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JEWELRY

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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLPublic Secondary School

W. HISPANIC SENIOR CENTERGeriatric Care

R. I. MEDICIAL SOCIETYR. I. NEIGHBORHOOD HEA LTH PLANFOUNDRY SPORTS MEDICINEHEALTH & WELLNESS INSTITUTER. I. BLOOD CENTER

DIOCESE OF P ROVIDENCEHISPANIC MINISTRY DEPT

CHEATERSADULT VIDEO & NEWSMEGA-PLEX

RHODE ISLAND HOSPI TALHASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPI TALWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPI TAL

SPRAGUE ENERGY TERMINAL

PETES TIRE BARN

ST JOSEPH SPECIA LTY CARE

MARY E. FOGARTY ELEM. SCHOOL

GILBERT STUART MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST END COMMUNITY CENTERKNIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRA RYALFRED LIMA ELEM . SCHOOL

LIFESPAN CORPOR ATIONHospital System

St. Patricks Church Hispanic Ministry

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

R. I. Hispanic Min.

Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul

St. Charles Borromeo

St. Michaels

Holy Rosary Rectory

St Josephs Church

HISPANIC DOMINANT AREAS

ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISHES

Providences most marginalized ethnic groups are also its fastest growing, yet the city has largely failed to integrate its periphery with its economic and cultural center. A highway starkly divides Downtown Providence from its surrounding suburbs.

This project proposes the unification of Providence by water and by architectural form.

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MOSES BROWN SCHOOLQuaker Friends Day SchoolEst. 1784

BROWN UNIVERSITYIvy League UniversityEst. 1764

R.I. SCHOOL OF DESIGNArt SchoolEst. 1877

23% of color77% white

32% other8% Hispanic60% white



JOHNSON & WALESPrivate UniversityEst. 1914

CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOLMagnet Secondary SchoolEst. 1843

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URBAN DESIGN / BLAGOJEVIC / SPRING 2010 / 51

RHODE ISLAND IS 30% WATER

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CONNECTION / LINKED LAND-WATER NETWORKS


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RIGHT / MULTIMODAL TERMINAL

A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PROVIDENCE BY KAYAK

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The proposed canal will cut deep into Providence, activating a series of water-based transportation and recreational areas that constitute Providences other side.

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Highway I-95

A highway starkly divides Downtown Providence from its surrounding suburbs. Instead of trying to resolve mutually incompatible urban and suburban typologies, the latters forms are escalated over the formers fabric: one lifestyle raised to the densities of another.

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DENSITY ESCALATION RELATED TO DOWNTOWN SECTION

ESCALATED AGGLOMERATION AT DOWNTOWN END

CONNECTION / SUBURBAN ESCALATION


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The suburban agglomeration is cropped at the edges of the urban mass below to create a unified facade that reads at an urban scale from the true street level. Meanwhile, within the faux level the agglomeration reads as many discrete units, maintaining an escalated suburban lifestyle at increasingly urban densities.

FINAL MODEL / SEGMENT OF SUBURBAN ESCALATION


0 / Camouflaged big box retail among storefront retail A1 / Units placement from agglomeration algorithmA2 / Units cropped to edge of urban mass to unify urban facadeA3 / Passageways cut where units touchA4 / Back yards cut where passageways meet urban facade

B1 / Second level of units from agglomeration algorithmB2 / Units cropped to edge of urban mass to unify urban facadeB3 / Where units intersect shared yards are cutB4 / Additional yards cut to create evenly discrete unitsB5 / Passageways connect yards

0+A+B / Final suburban-urban agglomeration

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PLAN GROUND LEVEL: RETAIL, OFFICES, MECHANICAL PARKING ACCESS

PLAN LEVEL 3: TIER 2 DISCRETE HOUSING, COURTYARDS

For overlap to occur the faux suburban fabric must be continued at a constant elevation from the original suburban fabric, such that urban programs can utilize the space underneath. Suburban commercial programs such as big box stores and supermarkets are camouflaged by placement among typical mixed-use urban retail programs. Vehicular access and storage between the faux and true levels is achieved by compact, vertical mechanical parking systems installed in-between.


PLAN LEVEL 2 (FAUX GROUND LEVEL): YARDS, MECHANICAL PARKING ACCESS

ROOF PLAN


MODEL / SHORT SECTION / FACING WEST


MODEL / UNIFIED URBAN ELEVATION


INSTALLATION / A VARIATION ON CORRUGATION

The Art & Architecture Buildings famous corrugated concrete is continued into a stairwell niche and then warped to articulate difference. The 1.5-0.5 corrugated rhythm is then cut into the warped form, with the cuts signified by a reflective coating.

1215B INNER WORLDS / PROF BRENNAN BUCK / TEAM WITH JUAN ASTASIO / SPRING 2010


DETAIL PHOTO / MILLED FOAM AND CHROME MYLAR SURFACE

INNER WORLDS / BUCK / FALL 2009 / 65

PHOTO OF INSTALLATION IN BUILDING


DETAIL PHOTO / MILLED FOAM AND CHROME MYLAR SURFACE

INNER WORLDS / BUCK / FALL 2009 / 67

INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING /

YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVEYALE UNIVERSITY / 1021A INTEGRATED BUILDING STUDIO / PROF JOEL SANDERS / FALL 2009

A center for the exhibition, research, and storage of architectural artifacts. Researchers spiral up into the light, visitors spiral down into the gallery, the public has a sunny space inbetween.

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MODEL / NORTH ELEVATION MODEL / WEST ELEVATION


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FABRICATION / YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE FACADE

An ccrylic full-scale model of Yale Architectural Archive faade. A multitude of translucent colored fins creates a striated, all-over effect. The fins are inserted into a bracket which fixes their positions; the brackets are attached to vertical supports.

1220A ON THE FACE OF IT / PROF BRENNAN BUCK / FALL 2009

FINAL FULL-SCALE MODEL

UNFOLDED FAADE FROM THE YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE


1/16:1 MODEL OF THE ORIGINAL PROJECT, THE YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE

ON THE FACE OF IT / BUCK / FALL 2009 / 79

EACH SET OF FIVE FINS HAS ONE

CHROME FIN (RED) IN A DIFFERENT

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FULL-SCALE MODEL DETAIL

FULL-SCALE MODEL

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WORK / KILO ARCHITECTURES / PARIS, FRANCE

During Summer of 2009 I interned at the Paris firm of a Yale/GSD graduate, Linna Choi. I was asked to develop a spare, simple office style for presentation graphics, with which I reintrepreted several key projects.

PLACE PIETRI / SECTION / COMPOSITION FORMATTING SHADING

PLACE PIETRI / FORMAL DIAGRAMS

MULSANNE / ELEVATION


MUSEUM IN MOROCCO / GROUND PLAN

MULSANNE / SECTION

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DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE /

YALE BUILDING PROJECTYALE UNIVERSITY / 506B BUILDING PROJECT / ELEVEN PERSON TEAM / PROF ALAN ORGANSCHI / SPRING 2008

A duplex for two veterans located in New Havens Hill Neighborhood. One veteran is part of a family of five and partially disabled, while the other veteran is single and fully able. The house has a square footprint divided into a large ground floor unit for the disabled veteran and a smaller second level loft unit for the single veteran. (Group project.)

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ELEVATION / SOUTHELEVATION / WEST

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FINAL MODEL / FRONT AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS

FINAL MODEL / ROOF REMOVED TO SHOW TENANT SPACE


PHOTO / BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE FRAMING

Construction during Spring-Summer 2008, including framing, glazing, siding, fixture installation, cabinetry, interior finishing.(Photos courtesy Susan Surface)


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PHOTOS / CONSTRUCTION


PHOTO / BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION


SINGLE-PARENT COMMUNITY HOUSINGYALE UNIVERSITY / 502B DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE / PROF DEBORAH GANS / SPRING 2008

SOLUTIONPrioritize parenting/family over individual privacywrap individual programs around group programs,creating an immediate connection.

IMPLEMENTATION1 / Draw axis between Master Bedroom A and Main Living Space B.2 / Offset to create volume.3 / Offset perimeter shelving/storage.4 / Attach individual/private programs to primary axis.5 / Program niches are created by the attachment of the individual programs.

The location of the kitchen and the parents bedroom at extremities allows for easy outdoor surveillance.

PROBLEMThe traditional corridor house prioritizes individual privacy over family community, making it more difficult for a single parent to manage a household and increasing maintance, etc.

Solo

Solo

Social

Social

Solo

Solo

corridor

SocialCore

Individual Programs

1 2 3 4 5

The rooms of each apartment are arranged on a spine of social space, which extends between the parents bedroom and the kitchen. A series of interlocking balconies and courtyards allows a community to form around raising the kids.


KING P

LACE

TRUMAN STREET

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LONGITUDINAL SECTION / SITE A

PLAN / LVL 1 SITE A


PLAN / LVL 2 SITE A


SITE MODEL

MODEL / CLOSE-UP


MODEL / CLOSE-UP OF INTERSTITIAL SPACES

MODEL / STREET ELEVATION


COHABITATIONYALE UNIVERSITY / 502B DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE / PROF DEBORAH GANS / SPRING 2008

There exists a 16 ft by 16 ft house for two people, one of an infinite series of cubical plots, accessed from below. One is a reclusive blogger, the other an extroverted dancer. The space for the latter spirals around the box of the former. The blogger and the dancer never meet, yet are tacitly aware of each othera bump here, a tap there, an overheard conversationthrough the wrapping of one space around another. They consciously own their respective spaces, yet subconsciously it is never entirely theirs.

CUBICAL SITE


SECTION

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LVL 0 PLAN

LVL 1 PLAN

LVL 2 PLAN


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FILM RESEARCH CENTER /

TRIBECA CINECEUMYALE UNIVERSITY / 501A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / PROF MARTIN COX / FALL 2007

1 / ANONYMOUS DOOR 2 / INFORMATION 3 / DISLOCATION 4 / INSTALLATION

ANALOGY TO DE MARIAS EARTH ROOM INSTALLATION

DISLOCATION AND REINTRODUCTION SEQUENCE

1 / THEATER, ENTRANCES. THE POSTERS

CORRESPOND TO THE FILM PLAYING IN EACH

THEATER. EACH THEATER HAS ITS OWN ENTRANCE.

2 / THEATER, ENTRY PASSAGEWAY. AS THE VIEWER

NEARS THE THEATER SPACE, PIECES OF LIGHT AND

SOUND BEGIN TO RESOLVE AN INDIVIDUAL FILMIC

EXPERIENCE.

3 / THEATER, BENCH SEATING.


The TriBeCa Cineceum is a film exhibition, and teaching complex associated with the TriBeCa Film Festival. This project proposes an architectural analogue for to the dislocation of place central to cinema. Each theater is treated like an individual installation, with its own entrance. The user enters from a nondescript door andthrough the use of pocheis dislocated from the outside world. However, all audience members end in the same place, a post-function space of galleries, seminar rooms, and a cafe.

MODEL / REAR YARD

5 / EXIT TO GALLERY PROMENADE ON 3RD LEVEL. 6 / ROOFTOP INSTALLATION GARDEN4 / THEATER, PROJECTION SCREEN.

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1 / AN OBSERVER WOULD

EXPECT THE VISIBLE

THEATER VOLUMES TO BE

CONTINUOUS, AS VISIBLE

THROUGH THE GALLER

GLAZING AND THE EXTERIOR

PORTIONS.

2 / HOWEVER, THE ACTUAL

THEATERS WITHIN THE BOX

OF THE MAIN MASS ARE

SIMPLY EXTRUDED VOLUMES.

3 / THE REAL RELATIONSHIP

IS OF THE VOLUMES

AS SIMPLE SIGNS OF A

THEATER, NOT THE REALITY.

4 / THE ACTUAL FORM VISIBLE

ON DIFFERENT FLOORS AS

APPARENTLY CONTINUOUS IS

EXCLUSIVE OF THE THEATER

VOLUMES.

5 / THE INTERIOR OF THE

VISIBLE VOLUMES IS A

CROPPED VERSION OF THE

ENTIRE VOLUME.

FORMAL DISLODGING FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD

MODEL / GROUND FLOOR OF THE CINECEUM, INDIVIDUAL THEATER ENTRANCES CARVED THROUGH POCHE


theater 1 theater 2 elevator

GALLERY

ROOF

stairs

theater 3 theater 4


LVL B1 / BLOCKBUSTER THEATER

LVL 1 / ENTRANCE


LVL 3 / POST-FUNCTION PROMENADE

LVL 2 / UPPER THEATER LEVEL


LVL 5 / ROOF & INSTALLATION ROOMS

LVL 4 / GALLERY


MODEL / STREETSIDE ELEVATION

MODEL / ROOF CLOSE-UP


BUSINESS HOTEL /

W STEAM HOTELYALE UNIVERSITY / 501A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / PROF MARTIN COX / FALL 2007

LOCKERS/LAP POOL

LOBBY, CAF, LOUNGE, CONFERENCE

ROOMS)

CONDENSATION POOL

LEVEL 4, TYPICAL CONFIGURATION

LEVELS 5-7

STEAM LEVELS

EVERYONE IN ROBES

AUXILLARY PROGRAM

STREET CLOTHES


A proposal for a specialized W Hotel in New Haven based upon the social precedent of Russian, Finnish, and Japanese saunas and bathhouses. The hotel creates a sanctuary from the outside world. Guests leave the baggage of their lives behind and change into identical robes. Freed of markers of status and identity, each guest gains an aura of anonymity. Meanwhile, each room is a miniature sanctuary of its own, heightening ones senses through an invigorating play of temperature and touch otherwise unfamiliar in a largely hermetic, air-conditioned world.

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1 / LOBBY

PLANS / INDIVIDUAL ROOM

SECTIONS / INDIVIDUAL ROOMwarm air

cool exterior air

cool exterior air

bed

bed

warm air

2 / LOCKERS / CHANGING 3 /CANTILEVERED POOL


4 / STAIRWAY TO HOTEL 5 / PROMENADE 6 / VIEW THROUGH HOTEL ATRIUM


TIER 4 LOWER UNITS

LVL 1 LOBBY

LVL 2 LOCKERS / POOL

TIER 4 PROMENADE TIER 4 UPPER UNITS


TIER 5 PROMENADE

RENDER / ENTRANCE

TIER 6 PROMENADE TIER 7 PROMENADE


DRAWING / REPRESENTATION OF BUILT FORM 810B ANALYSIS & REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE AS BUILT FORM / PROFS SUNIL BALD & KYLE DUGDALE / SPRING 2009

Work completed for 810b, Analysis and Representation of Architecture as Built Form, including the documentation of Rudolph Hall, the interpretation of a sectional fragment as a plan and model, and analysis of the Yale Center for British Art stair drum .

PENCIL ON BRISTOL / CENTER FOR BRITISH ART STAIR DRUM ANALYSIS


PENCIL ON BRISTOL / PLAN / RUDOLPH HALL LVL 3

MODEL / SECTIONAL FRAGMENT AS SPACE

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ELEVATION LOWER PLAN


UPPER PLAN AXONOMETRIC

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