Anh Tang Portfolio

ANH TANG

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS

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Alternative Housing

02 Fire House Commons

03 Open Air School 04

Case Study: School in Orsonnens

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Professional Work: Bath House

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Professional Work: Pool House

01 ALTERNATIVE HOUSING

for self formed families

The site is part of old oakland and is characterized by the restaurant and retail businesses and the historical facades of the buildings. Many of the people working on this site are service workers and as service workers they often find roommates or move in with their parents to afford the high living costs. While it is becoming more common for people to have many roomates, the majority of housing is still being designed for people to live independently or as the typical nuclear family. How can the apartment unit be reimangined as a flexible space to accomodate a broader definition of “family” and foster a community that can share their resources and support one another.

Dogon settlements consist of multiple compounds and each compound can include fixed elements such as a house with a hearth, various granaries for storage and additional dwellings for relatives grouped around a courtyard. The stone walls are used to define the boundaries and connect the fixed elements forming the courtyard where people work and eat together.

They lived sharing their resources and responsibilities, allowing work and life to co exist in the same space comfortably.

CASE STUDY dogon tribe in west africa

To reconceptualize this relation of permanent and adjustable elements in response to the variety of needs of the people living there for an urban context, this project proposes to organize pairs of dwellings on a grid with an offset central core and two strips housing the kitchen and storage on either side making up the permanent elements. Offsetting the core allows for a variety of unit arrangements and with the addition of operable walls, the rooms can be joined together or closed off to facilitate different programs with varying levels of privacy.

UNIT VARIATIONS

The repition and relatively small size of the elements that make up the grid system for the units can be prefabricated as CLT panels to streamline the assembly of units.

The core is simultaneously used as a utility core, structural core, and the spatial organization for the pairs of units.

The building fills in the corner of the site where there was a parking lot before and reactivates the street life by continuing the rythym of the block with the retail spaces along the ground floor.

02 Fire House Commons

fire house and community center

The project is situated in Richmond’s Alvarado Park where the urban conditions of the city meet the natural conditions of the park forming a wildland-urban interface zone. The project adresses the complexities of joining a fire station and community center while considering the risks of wild fires.

This project derives its formal and material strategy by responding to the site conditions and programmatic needs resulting in a radial organization. This radial strategy unifies the program of the fire house and community center, their respective massing and the overall structural organization. The sculpted massing comes as a reaction the the site’s urban and natural conditions creating a stronger curve to accomodate the fire house using the fire truck turning radius as a guide and a gentler curve to accomodate the community center facing the natural setting using the site contours as a guide. The curves are reconciled structurally and programmaticaly by following a radial grid that allows the geometry of the circular courtyard to speak to the curvature of the south and north facades. The materiality of the building is considering the fire house as the fortress protecting the more delicate community center and therefore creating this protective concrete shell around the channel glass facade.

Image by: Sophia Bono

Image by: Sophia Bono

Image by: Sophia Bono

Image by: Sophia Bono

Image by: Sophia Bono

TYPICAL ROOF ASSEMBLY GFRC PANEL STANDING SEAM ROOF WATER BARRIER RIGID INSULATION WATER BARRIER CLT ROOF PANEL

GLULAM FRAMES

TYPICAL WALL ASSEMBLY

CONCRETE FOUNDATION

GFRC PANEL METAL MOUNTING SYSTEM WATER BARRIER RIGID INSULATION CLT WALL PANEL

CLT ROOF AND WALL PANELS

WATER BARRIER RIGID INSIULATION

GFRC PANEL TRACK SYSTEM GFRC PANEL

GLULAM STRUCTURAL FRAMES

COMPOSITE CONCRETE & CLT FLOOR

CONCRETE BASEMENT FOUNDATION

INSULATED CHANNEL GLASS

CHANNEL GLASS STEEL FRAME METAL FINS

TYPICAL ROOF ASSEMBLY GFRC PANEL STANDING SEAM ROOF WATER BARRIER RIGID INSULATION WATER BARRIER CLT ROOF PANEL TYPICAL EAVE ASSEMBLY DRIP EDGE GUTTER WATER BARRIER METAL TRACK GFRC PANEL GLULAM STRUCTURAL FRAMES TYPICAL CHANNEL GLASS ASSEMBLY CHANNEL GLASS FRAME STEEL PLATE BOLTED TO CLT STRUCT. CHANNEL GLASS FIBER GLASS WOOL INSULATION METAL SCREEN CHANNEL GLASS

03 OPEN AIR SCHOOL

To produce healthier environments that are more condusive to learning and education, the Open Air School addresses how the classroom can be moved outdoors.

The stacking and rotating of the indoor and outdoor classrooms create a porous volume that allows light and air to permeate.

The vertical circulation elements create an environment of compression that enhances the open and porous experience of the classrooms.

Physical Model by: Anh Tang, Hyunji Kim & Heather Highland

The school in orsonnens had a unique shingle pattern that references the barn typology which we depicted in the physical model along with the diagran to the right as a way to understand the tectonics of the building.

04 CASE STUDY

School in Orsonnens by TEd’A Arquitectes

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05 Professional Work

bath house site and typology research

The bath house will be situated on a valley site facing the ocean. To better understand the site, these drawings help to clarify the morphology of the surrounding context and the various possibilities for views and site orientation.

06 Professional Work

pool house designed by UME Studio

1. Caretaker’s Home 2. Outdoor Space 3. Bar 4. Lavatory 5. W/C 6. Lockers 7. Showers 8. Pool Entrance 9. Warm Plunge 10. Sauna 11. Cold Plunge 12. Tech 13. Pool 14. Garden

1. Caretaker’s Home 2. Outdoor Space 3. Bar 4. Lavatory 5. W/C 6. Lockers 7. Showers 8. Pool Entrance 9. Warm Plunge 10. Sauna 11. Cold Plunge 12. Tech 13. Pool 14. Garden

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