Architecture Portfolio

ANN NGUYEN ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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CHELSEA URBAN FARM

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Semester VII - Fall 2021

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HOLLERHAUS

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2021 Bee Breeders Modular Home Design Challenge

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AMARANTHINE ART AND CULTURE CENTER

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Semester V - Fall 2020

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OAKLAND CULTURAL BIOME

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2020 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition

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CHELSEA URBAN FARM Semester VII - Fall 2021

Like many parts of the United States, there is a crisis in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York caused by limited access to healthy and affordable food options. Among the COVID-19 pandemic, local food insecurity has increased drastically by 2,264%. This project aims to address and help reduce food and job insecurity in Chelsea by implementing a self-sufficient urban farm, affordable housing, and a community resource center that intersects a major transit artery along the Hudson River. Simultaneously, universal design strategies for accessibility are explored at the street level. Ultimately, this project strives to create a place that is centered around human well-being — acknowledging economic, physical, and social accessibility by the local community.

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Main Entrance Communal Space Housing Center M a r ke t p l a c e Re s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y

ACCESSIBILTIY

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Utilizing the ground floor as an extension of the street into the interior of the building creates a greater sense of accessibility that is essential in inclusive public spaces. Not only does this design decision — paired with large, open entrances on each side of the building — enhance pedestrian circulation, it allows occupants and passersby to easily understand the project as inviting and open to the public.

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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PROGRAM AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY

This concept translates into five programs that de es, a cultural resource center, an urban farm, and a s to both a vertical hydroponic farm that supports the es, and a community center and marketplace that provi The cooperation of these programs will employ self-suffi term effects that will benefit the health and wellbeing o

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C o r e / Ve r t i c a l G a r d e n U r b a n Fa r m i n g S p a c e Affordable Housing M a r ke t p l a c e Re s e a r c h L a b o r a t o r y Rainwater Collection System C o m m u n i t y Re s o u r c e C e n t e r B u s Pa r k i n g

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efine the project: a marketplace, affordable housing spacsupportive horticultural research laboratory. This translates e livelihood of the residents living in the residential spacides jobs while supporting the sale of food produced on-site. iciency that enables the site to support itself — creating longof the local community.

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MODULARITY The vertical development of modular housing units, each supported by a “rooftop greenhouse”, begins to divide the tower into a more tangible, approachable scale. The implementation of greenhouses within the residential tower was vital in the concept of this project, as it supports the notion of self-sufficiency. The sloped overhead condition of the greenhouses and the spaces between the residential modules creates an opportunity for light collection in one of the building’s cores, which houses a grand hydroponic garden. The sloped roofs atop the cores also creates an opportunity for rainwater collection, which is vital in supporting the urban farm.

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AXONOMETRIC DRAWING - RESIDENTIAL/GARDEN TOWER 11

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Digital Modelling (Ann Nguyen, Marla Stephens, Sydney Sinclair); Rendering (Sydney Sinclair); Photoshop (Ann Nguyen)

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HOLLER HAUS 2021 Bee Breeders Modular Home Design Challenge

The HollerHaus is crafted from the Appalachian idea that the porch is the central gathering place within a home.

This project seeks to modernize this notion, transforming the idea of the porch into being the “hearth of the home”. The concept of the Southern porch is derived from the symbiotic connection between the environment and the community. All spaces encompass the central porch in a modular fashion, generating an inward-looking space that emphasizes this relationship.

The structure utilizes local and sustainably sourced materials. The exterior facade is laminated with shou sugi ban wood siding, an ancient Japanese technique that chars the wood protecting the construction from insects and rot.

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FLOOR PLANS

Ann Nguyen, Marla Stephens

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C e n t r a l Po r c h Kitchen Dining Space Living Space

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Office Bedroom Bathroom Storage

AXONOMETRIC

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1 . F L O O R A S S E M B LY

2 . WA L L A S S E M B LY

3 . P O R C H A S S E M B LY

4 . R O O F A S S E M B LY UNFOLDING

The design is composed of two prefabricated modules, each holding the secondary floors and walls in a folded assembly on the exterior facade of each module. Once situated on the site, one facade from each module will unfold to double the floor space, then unfold again to position the secondary walls. The four folding floors allow for optimal floor space while remaining compact during transportation.

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SECTIONS AND DETAILS Marla Stephens

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RELATIONSHIP TO CONTEXT

The home has a minimal impact on the environment and is ideal for any rural terrain because it is situated on stilts. It perches itself above the landscape, creating a juxtaposition between the orthogonal construction and the organic environment.

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EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Digital Modelling (Ann Nguyen, Marla Stephens, Sydney Sinclair); Rendering (Sydney Sinclair); Photoshop (Ann Nguyen)

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AMARANTHINE ART AND CULTURE CENTER Semester V - Fall 2020

The Amaranthine Art and Culture Center is located in the center of the Gainesville Regional Utilities (GRU) Groundwater Recharge Wetland Park in Alachua County, Florida. The primary objective of the center is to collect, preserve, study, and display significant artifacts of the community that will engage with nature and science through the lens of art and culture. The center provides gallery spaces for exhibitions and displays and an outdoor amphitheater for public events and performances to celebrate the community. Through an immersive cultural experience surrounded by nature, this center encourages opportunities for education and entertainment, stimulates creative activity and contemplation, and increases public knowledge of the significant relationship between humans and nature.

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MATERIAL SYSTEMS This project is comprised of three notable systematic elements: twisting wooden planes the makes up both wall and ceiling surfaces, a continuous glass structure that runs along one of the twisting surfaces, and a perforated facade structure that extends into the amphitheater. The organic form of the project continues to create seamless transitions between the walls and ceilings, and the structure and the surrounding site. This complex gesture creates unique and dynamic qualities for light, structure, and experience.

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BLURRING BOUNDARIES The primary concept of the building’s design is to blur the boundaries between interior and exterior, immersing occupants in nature even when they are indoors. As a place that is meant to bring people, nature, art and culture together, it is important that the architectural structure makes strong references − visual or physical − to the surrounding wetland park. This is accomplished through the continuous glass structure that floods the gallery with light and outdoor views. The perforated wooden structure surrounding the ampitheatre also brings enclosing qualities to an open-air space.

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SITE PLAN

Digital Modeling (UF National Organization of Minority Architecture Students); Rendering (Danielle Dottin)

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OAKLAND CULTURAL BIOME 2020 Barbara G. Laurie Student Design CompetitionTeam

Situated in East Oakland, California, the Biome serves as a mixed-use cultural center celebrates the rich cultural history of the Black Cultural Zone and provides spaces for social discourse. A biome is generally understood as a natural ecosystem, divided into biotic and abiotic factors. Similarily, this building considers both people and culture, as well as structure and space. This project seeks to foster community ties and celebrate East Oakland heritage through the honoring of an extensive and diverse local culture, and the integration of sustainable design measures. It is simultaneously respectful of the past and forward-looking.

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THE PEARL

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The primary spatial driver of this project is the Pearl, as it attracts visitors while creating spaces for gathering and dialogue. While envelopled by the adjacent residential and commercial structures, this glass structure opens the interior space to the sky — creating a bright, unique space that feels safe and welcoming. The Pearl is powerful in its potential programmatic flexibility: it may be a place of rest, of discourse, of performance, or of assembly.

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Digital Modeling (UF National Organization of Minority Architecture Students); Rendering (Sophie Wojtalewicz)

FLOOR PLANS

Emily Bishop

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

Digital Modeling (UF National Organization of Minority Architecture Students); Rendering (Eduardo Villamor)

THE PEARL

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The primary spatial driver of this project is the Pearl, as it simultaneously attracts visitors while creating spaces for gathering and dialogue. The Pearl is powerful in its potential flexibility: it may be a place of rest, of discourse, of performance, or of assembly. Its form of the greatly contrasts the rest of the project, though a language

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BUILDING SECTIONS

Ann Nguyen, Sophia Simmons

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DETAIL SECTION

Moises Villanueva

ELEVATIONS

Emily Bishop, Danielle Dottin

FACADE

The building’s detailing and translucent quality evokes both a sense of transparency from the exterior, and safety and inclusion within. A perforated, panelized screen that wraps around the facade of the residential/commercial tower also functions as a shading system for occupants, a solar collection apparatus, and a compliment to the gesture of the glass-dome structure — the Pearl.

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