Memory Archive is a community hub that includes a library, theatre, arts & craft center, and multipurpose outdoor activity space that can be used as a swimming pool, basketball court, ice rink, depending on the season. The project site is in the Alphabet City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Located west of Avenue D, east of Szold Plaza. There is an existing building that current has a ball court and public pool with a small masonry building that borders the southwest corner of the site. The existing building is retained through design and adapted to a new program and utilized in relation to new structures. Directly north of the site is a elementary school. Programs are designed primarily so that children can engage in afterschool activities in this community/learning center.
Temporal Change
The philosophy is to create collective memories for the community that changes throughout the season, and years by designing according to temporal change. This is achieved through creating sensorial experience with temporal change in the space. There are four types of temporal changes that engages with the users’ sensorial experience: change of utility, change of water level, change of light, and change of materiality. In different seasons or weather condition, the water level across the site also varies. The change in water level will not only relate to the activities, for example swimming pool with water vs. basketball court without water, but also to the circulation of the site. Some path will be inaccessible during rainy days because of raise in water level, thus the circulation and accessible area of the site changes as well. The materiality across the site will also make the users realize the temporal change as the material goes through the process of erosion. Outdoor activity spaces are located on the side that gains more solar exposure throughout the year. Following the design intent, the space with outdoor activity program connects to the alley and visually extending to the school. Hence, blending the program with the neighborhood.
Short Section 兒- Weathered
Short Section - New
Reading Room
Terra Cotta Works
Redesigning the waterfront site in Queens, New York by incorporating the existing Architectural Terra Cotta Works heritage building . The inspiration for this design are rooted in the local context of its surrounding neighborhood. Having surveyed the area, despite being close to a cluster of nycha projects in the northeast, the vicinity is lacking in numerous neccesary amenities. Taking into considerationsof the lacking amenities, this community hub provide core essential needs such as a supermarket, a children’s daycare center, community garden,and multiple residential complex catering to needs of new starting families.
Year : 2021
Softwares : Sketchup, Rhino, V- Ray
South Elevation
West Elevation Elevation
Daycare & Garden Level
Communal Plaza
Cafe
Underpass
House with Two Faces
Year : 2020
Softwares : AutoCad, Rhino, V-Ray
This being the corner lot in an intersection has the unique opportunity to create a house with two fronts to solve the problem of solidarity within multi-generation housing. Each Suite have their independent circulation shared with a communal space of kitchen and family space. Many suburban families actually use their garage door more often than their front door, thus each suite have their individual front entrance, and symmetric garage entrace.
in the City
The central core of this housing project is the garden. Originally integrated as spaces for people to come to-gether and help provide for each other, This is the guiding principle for the services provided in the design details. This neighborhood area is under-served in mental health, physical wellness, and early childhood education facilities, therefore these services are be provided in the program, both acting as the base of the residential structure and forming the exterior community space. The community garden will also create a source of fresh food for the people and link them within the space. Similar to the zen garden, there will be no true separation between the services, with integration across the plan being encouraged. Changes in the flooring material and overhead height will accentuate the definition of spaces and uses, suggesting verandas and thresholds.
Sarah D. Roosevelt Park Theatre
Year : 2019
Softwares : Sketchup
This architeccture project negotiates the relationship between park and performance, through the design of an indoor/outdoor theater. The program for this facility is comprised of two small performance stages, one indoor and one outdoor. The pertruding cantilever structures serve both as the seating wings or the indoor theatre, and an overhang for the exterior public theatre. The facility support the performers, the audience, and the neighborhood communities that already engage this site as a park.A significant aspect of this project is how architecture can be designed to both address site and to address questions of performance, art, recreation, preservation and development.
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P2P Architecture
Year : 2021
Softwares : Rhino, Vray, Photoshop
With 8.5 million habitants, New York has one of the highest density of population in the world. It also has one of the highest homeless population in the world. In the midst of Covid, the city of New York started giving out permits to the expansion of roofed outdoor patios that effectively became seating expansions post-covid. These outdoor patio rooms often occupy more than half the streets they're on. Menwhile the increased homeless population due to unemployment and rent hikes foundthemselves to be pushed further and further into the outskirts of the city. For me this project is about exploring the possibilities of creating temporary shelter using cheap and found materials within tiny pockets of unoccupied spaces within the city.
What I propose is a series of structures both permanent and temporary scattered across the city in small unutilized space or temporarily unleased space. It is called P2P architecture because the inspiration comes from P2P networks rather than traditional Server based networks. Most of the kind of services currently provided for the homeless are server-based. You have large set locations in the city acting as hubs each providing various services. The flaw of that being that it requires big locations which are expensive in a downtown district. Furthermore locations are far in between and leaves gaps in in between that made lack services altogether.
P2P architecture refers to the utilization of small lots of vacant land and existing spaces throughout the city that can be utilized temparily to service the public rather than sit vacant for months or years to end, The advantage of P2P architecture is that it gives more flexibility, is potentially cheaper, and can reach out to more people in need. The same $100 million budget that can be allocated to design and build one mega structure can be partitioned to create a thousand $100k modification to existing structures or temporary structures. It reaches out to more people in need in closer proximity, make use of otherwise wasted space.
Grasshopper Generated Fabrication
Lighting Analysis & Design
Year : 2021
Softwares : Rhino, AGI 32
Kitchen
Living Room – The ceiling to provide ambient light during the day as well as early evenings. Another layer of downlights in the middle providing direct illumination around the coffee table. The downlights are approximately 15w so they are sufficient enough to illuminate the living room on its own while the perimeter wall wash provides gentle soft indirect ambient light for the space. The perimeter wall wash is recessed to reduce glare.
Kitchen - Under the cabinet light to illuminate the kitchen counter surface while a linear surface mounted combo light illuminates the bar table. The middle aisle in the kitchen has a row of directional downlights providing general illumination which extends out to the hallway providing enough lighting n the floor as well as on the shelves.
Bedroom - One large surface mounted light with a color band to create visual interest. Arte mode Tagora provides soft ambient light. Both downlights in the living room and the bedroom should be on a dimmer so they can be optimized for different activity.
