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K A T H Q U A C H

a r c h i t e c t u r e p o r t f o l i o

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) Architectural Engineering minor (design focus)

Adobe Creative Suite Sketchup Rhino 3d Microsoft Office Autocad Adobe Aftereffects Revit Grasshopper plug-in

3rd Year Super Show nomination | Winter 2012Dean’s Honors List

WATG, Irvine | Intern | June 2013 - September 2013, September 2012 - December 2012Assisted design document effort for Lisboa Palace Resort Casino - Cotai. Used AutoCAD and the Adobe Creative Suite to draft, create diagrams + exhibits. Produced presentation packages for Lippo Dali Resort and Arab Hills Resort.

Interdisciplinary studio with Margot Mcdonald, Cal Poly | March 2013 - June 20132012 International Preservation and Provocation Ideas Competition. Worked with team of architecture, Landscape, and City + Regional Planning students to reimagine Castle Pinckney.

Gensler, Los Angeles | Intern | January 2013 - March 2013As part of a student team, researched and derived rates of consumption for downtown LA, then compiled research into graphically accessible and animated form for Capac-ity (video), utilizing the Adobe Creative Suite and Aftereffects. Utilized Revit in applying redline edits to construction documents for the Santa Monica College Health, Physical Education, Fitness, + Dance Building.

Studio Ecesis | Intern | August 2012Utilized Vectorworks to produce interior elevations and add material specifications. As-sisted in building a physical model and presentation boards for Healdsburg House.

Town of Windsor Planning Department | Intern | August 2011 - September 2011Utilized Adobe Photoshop to create renderings, shadowed officials at board and public meetings, shadowed building and site inspectors.

K A T H Q U A C H

[email protected]

9792 Montego Ct.Windsor, CA 95492

[ email ][ phone ]

[ address ]

[ education ]

[ skills ]

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[re-envisioning castle pinckney]

[seaside hotel]

[static movement]

[digital fabrication]

[animated research on the population capacity of downtown LA]

[undergraduate thesis]

P A S T , P R E S E N T , F U T U R E1

U R B A N C O N D U I T6

[past work done for other firms]

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C A P A C I T Y5

T E S S E L L A T ( 3 D )4

C U L I N A R Y F L U X3

W A V E F O R M2

P A S T , P R E S E N T , F U T U R E1Shutes Folly Island, located near Charleston, South Carolina, is a forgotten island. Home to the crumbling ruins of Castle Pinckney, its location in hurricane alley and overall shallowness above sea level doom it to continual neglect. This entry for the 2012 ACSA Preservation as Provocation seeks to span the length of the island with monumental structures to its past, present, and future.

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Given the island’s location and current rise in sea level, Castle Pinckney is doomed to sink underwater.

By 2113, only the wind turbine will remain above sea level, as a monument to what once was on the island.

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Each section of the island also pays tribute to the ever present forces on the site: water and wind.

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PAST The history of the island, embodied in the castle

Present day activities such as kayaking, segways and sightseeing

Predicting the future of sustainable energy and colossal structures.

The island divides into three sequential sections.

past, present, prediction

[A] turbine

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[C] aquatic center

[D] walkway

[E] castle

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Castle

Respecting the natural processes of the castle, we intend to leave half of the interior alone. It is filled with different species of plants enjoying the protection of the castle. The roots of these plants are infiltrating the structure so that is why we are leaving the original castle walls, and building a brick facade replicating the original from the outside.

The other half of the castle will be scooped out and redesigned in the interior. Using the original archway, visitors can walk through and rent a segway or enter the belvedere.

The belvedere is a energy efficient structure that serves as a great lookout point 360 degrees around. This area of the island is designed to respect the history of the castle as well as giving opportunities for people to explore.

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The new belvedere structure collects rainwater and funnels it down into a storage tank for later use in irrigating the landscape.

Over time, trees have grown over the castle, their roots penetrating deep into the walls. Half the castle is preserved as is.

The other half of the castle is restored and redesigned into an art exhibit. Using the original archway, visitors can walk through or enter the belvedere.

[above] aerial view of water sport area[below] underwater view of water sport area

aquatic center section

transportation

The aquatic center is for present day activities. A place where kayakers and land pedestrians can both interact near the water. This central part of the island is provoking and artistic to onlookers. Some components of it are that is partly underground, and is a shelter from hurricane surge.

Ferries, cruise ships, and other large-volume sources of aquatic transportation dock at Castle Pinckney, leaving their visitors to wander the routes of the island either by foot or by segway.

Local and other small water vessels have the option of docking northeast of the watersport center.

pedestrian routes

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W A V E F O R M2Santa Monica - a city of sunny weather, beach, and street performers on what seems like every other street. Located at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and 2nd Street, part of the property also stretches to Ocean Avenue.

Waveform hotel features the following:

5-star rating200 keys, 15% suite mixspectacular ocean views

9PODIUM STREET VIEWplaza render

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ribbon form directs pedestrian flow from the street to the hotel

ribbon form folds to define volumes with which visitors and guests interact

hotel guestshotel site pedestrains

create an exiting and welcoming space

hotel guests and pedestrains interact at the created space

7CONCEPT

32 NIGHT VIEW

[above] aerial view - night[opposite page] concept diagrams

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existing competition

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guests and visitors find the podium to be an odd yet playful space

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Hotel Carmel By the SeaThe Georgian HotelOcean View HotelShore HotelHoliday InnLoews Santa Monica Beach Hotel

Fairmont Miramar Hotel and BungalowsHotel Shangri-La

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18 LOBBY[above] lobby[opposite page, left, top to bottom] ground floor plan, basement, lobby floor[opposite page, right, top to bottom] podium level 2, podium level 3, podium level 4

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The tower too is divided into ribbons. In order to preserve the fantastic view of the ocean, all balconies angle towards an opti-mal view. The twists of the ribbons preserve privacy even in the corner condition, and minimize the tapering of balconies.

The panels require only one mold to form, as the same shape is repeated throughout the tower. They are formed from res-in-based composite polycarbonate reinforced with steel mesh.

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19TOWER EXTERIOR[above] tower facade[opposite page, top] facade concept[opposite page, bottom] typical tower floor plan

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20 TYPICAL GUEST ROOM[above] guest room interior[opposite page] typical guest room floor plan

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25ROOFTOP LOUNGE[above] rooftop lounge[opposite page] rooftop floor plans

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C U L I N A R Y F L U X3No matter what the scale, cooking with other people in the same kitchen involves a complex dance of moving out of the way, being where one needs to be, and adjusting to various factors. Yet, though the product and players may change, the stage of the kitchen remains constant.

In this project, the atrium forms the stage, and the programmatic elements and circulation slide through and around it.

The structure seeks to engage and merge the pedestrian streams circulating the adjacent sidewalk and historic Highline with the students leaning within by rising from the ground to touch the Highline. Interactive programmatic elements like the demonstration kitchen and bake shop have also been located near the entrance points to promote mingling of academic and public visitors.

culinary fluxNo matter what the scale, cooking with other people in the same kitch-en involves a complex dance of mov-ing out of the way, being where one needs to be, and adjusting to various factors. Yet, though the product and players may change, the stage of the kitchen remains constant.

In this project, the atrium forms the stage, and the programmatic ele-ments and circulation slide through and around it.

view from corner of Gansevoort St./Washington St.

view of restaurant at Highline lvl., library above it

primary entrance typ. teaching kitchen

[above] view from highline entrance[opposite page] exploded axonometric

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Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art

New York Highlinebench/walkway shape

hand operated kinetic machine - volumes based on case study

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kitchen viewentrance

T E S S E L L A T ( 3 D )4A project exploring the use of the Grasshopper plugin in Rhino to not only generate a parametric tessellation, but to ease the process of fabrication.

Variation between pieces was created by varying the amount of hydrocal poured into the mould, thus varying the extrusion depth.

Grasshopper was used to control the amount of variations allowed for each piece, and also to note the location and total number of each type.

material efficiency

mixture grasshopper definition

tessellation calculations

volume

1 fl oz water : 2.22 oz hydrocal = 3.1 cu in mixture250 lb >> 4000 oz 4000 oz hydrocal >> 5586 cu in mixture, 1802 fl oz water

aim for 5500 cu in mixture

front piece0” extrusion: 30.4 cu in.5” extrusion: 18.5 + 30.4 = 48.9 cu in1’” extrusion: 37 + 30.4 = 67.4 cu in

back piece0” extrusion: 43.5 cu in.5” extrusion: 18.5 + 43.5 = 62 cu in1” extrusion: 37 + 43.5 = 80.5 cu in

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C A P A C I T Y5More people within a city means more life. But how much is too much?

The Capacity project presents research on the factors influencing the total number of people who could live in, commute to, or otherwise interact with downtown Los Angeles.

After intensive research, all factors considered were refined into use per person per day. In combination with an estimate of the total amount of a resource available, population capacity could be estimated.

In addition to a motion graphic video, an excel spreadsheet containing all rates found during the research phase. It further details the estimated population possible per resource.

http://vimeo.com/61751408

http://www.archdaily.com/350991/capacity-gensler-los-angeles-academic-studio/

Capacity: Downtown Los Angeles

Archdaily

Screened in 5th and 6th Annual Downtown Film Festival

see video here:

mentions

see companion excel sheet here:tinyurl.com/capacity-dtla

U R B A N C O N D U I T6

location in lower Manhattan, Financial District

It's accepted that sunlight and greenery are generally good things to have down at street level. One look at cities like Irvine, with neatly planted trees lining almost every street and wide, wide streets, is proof enough.

On a policy level, it's part of the reason for the sprawl of the modern city, for the famously stepped back highrises of NYC at the turn of the century.1 In order to get more light down to the pedestrian, many towns have placed height limits on local buildings, and mandated setbacks and street widths but have kept the same solid box like form. Essentially, planners have solved the problem.

But is this the only solution? Or indeed, even the desired one? Solutions that utilize height limits and spacing of high rises advocate sprawl, which negates many of the typical benefits of urban living: pedestrian-friendly streets, critical mass for public transit, concentration of businesses.

About half the planet’s population currently lives in urban areas, and that population continues to grow. 2 It follows that if we wish to grow population, and also preserve low intensity and no intensity uses of land, more people must live on less land.

To answer how light plays into this scenario, it is necessary to do a quick, topical analysis of the American city street level. In a place like downtown Manhattan, where the high rises dwell, the street level is shaded for a good deal of the day. Save for noon and the hours directly adjacent, no ray of sunlight will ever strike pavement. So down at street level, the environs are freezing and barren of plant life. Quite unpleasant.

Contrast this with cases like 20 Fenchurch Street in London, designed by Rafael Viñoly. It features a gently curving glass facade, which, in the right conditions, focuses rays of the sun down upon the street in what can only be termed a Death Ray effect.3 Clearly, it is possible to bring sunlight and warmth down to street level through architecture. Imagine a more distilled version of this effect taking place in New York. In colder climates, there could be light and warmth, while in the summer, just the light.

The research involved in this thesis is straightforward. It seeks to bring the sunlight down to street level, and the architectural mechanisms by which such a task may be accomplished. The architectural portion of this thesis examines how high rise architecture may be affected by such schemes as applying those mechanisms to the buildings of downtown New York City, and also how new programmatic possibilities may be opened up at street level.

Let us begin.

[1] NYC Department of City Planning. (2013) About Zoning. Retrieved from http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zonehis.shtml[2] The World Bank Group. (2012) Urban Development. Retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/topic/urban-development[3] Bill, Tom. (9/3/13) London’s Walkie Talkie Tower To Blame For Melting Car. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/london-walkie-talkie-tower-melts-car_n_3859283.html

At this stage in the process, program and and form remained vague. The only known factors in the design was the presence of light pipes. Developed by a company called Sunportal, light-emitting, specially coated have successfully been implemented at industrial scale at the Cheongpyeong Power Plant and POSCO Steel Plant. These applications channel light a little over 400 feet through dark, enclosed spaces. This iteration viewed the pipes as threading through the solid mass of building program.

An initial abstract material study was also carried out in order to further explore the use of tubes as light-transferring mechanisms.

[left] initial lighting study[below, left to right] close up of tube fas-tening system, prepainting, post-painting, final product

parabolic mirror collector + light transfer mechanisms

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[above, left to right] PROCESS: lighting study, material study, pre-assembly, post-assembly(vellum show)[on opposite page] finished product + lighting study

An entry for the 2013 Vellum furniture competition, SPINE continues to explore methods of channeling light. This lamp bounces light outward along perpendicular ribs rather than along its length (as experiment 2 did). In its final form, each half of the spiraling ribcage was each cut and folded from a single sheet of acetate. A strip of LED lights was looped around a twisting wire in order to create an inner core to which the ribs could be applied.

On a non-fabrication level, SPINE represents a playful approach to light. The ribs catch and reflect light as they twist around. The source is nothing special in an of itself, but the manner in which it is dealt with generates visual interest and inspires viewers to walk up and peer closer at the manner of its construction.

initial gestural studies

interaction with solar tubes tubes branching through solid volume

solids sprouting around branches (tubes)

form iterations

grasshopper definitions

grasshopper definition for block population

This definition translates the design concept into form fairly directly.

CONCEPT >> pipes drive design and affect overall formation of building

DEFINITION >> pipes enclose volume in which programmatic forms are randomly generated at each floor level

grasshopper definition for block population

structure distribution version 1

ground floor render

The next iteration consolidated the tubes back into a bundle, which surrounded the circulation core at the back of the building. This freed the facade, allowing ambient light to light the floorplates. Solar collectors were distributed across the surface of a leaf-like structure stretching over the roof.

parabolic dish + mirror collect sunlight and reflect it into bundle of fiber optic cables

2 motors allow for large degree of freedom of movement

motors + supports embedded in diagrid

fiber optic bundle clipped to grid

fiber optic bundles grouped together into treated glass pipe

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weather sealed layer - glass + steel frame

support layer - steel truss members

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After collection at the top, the cables are bundled into a series of glass tubes for transfer down an elevator atrium. These serve as a way to

visually connect the occupants with sunlight above.

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Beijing Lippo Investment Co. Ltd

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Sanlitun, Chaoyang District

Beijing, China, 100600

dA L I - tO W N O F c U Lt U R E A N d R O M A N c E

Dali is a city with a long history, also known as “Famous town of Culture”. Between The Jade Er Hai Lake and the turquoise

mountains Cang, the natural scenery is breathtaking. Putting these scenic wonders together has given the area the descirption:

“Windy flowers and snowy white moon”. This includes the winds of Xiaguan, the flowers of Shangguan, the snows on the

Cang Mountain and the moon shape of Er Hai Lake.

When visiting Dali, you will learn the customs of the Bai minority, by joining their folk festivals, tasting their unique flavored

foods and being memorized by their folk handcrafts and handmade arts.

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The 240 Mu project site for Lippo Dali resort is located Just North

of Downtown Dali. To the East, it is 3500 meters away from Erhai

Lake. To the West, it is screened by the Cang Shan Mountains and

just short walk away from the famous Dali Wuwei Temple. Passed

the 7th natural stream of Cang Shan is a 36 hole international golf

course.

The project site is about 4 kilometers from old Town Dali and

about 14 kilometers from downtown Dali. Additional amenities

include a viewing platform and marina.

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Local Imagery Vicinity Map - Global Site Map and Analysis - local Site Photos

Site Test Scheme

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