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Chloe Chen

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Urban Village

Location: Boston, MA

Date: Fall 2023

Type: Urban Housing Collective

Course: Northeastern Housing Studio

Top: Graphic site axon

This urban housing collective aims within multi-unit housing. To promote housing modules are designed and in mind - families, students, seniors, are oriented around the imagined Jarvis streets among the ground floor

aims to explore how to improve unit diversity and promote community interaction promote choice and begin to facilitate the notion of home, each of three different and oriented on the site with the convenience and comfort of different user groups seniors, as well as a module that promotes and focuses on communal living. Modules Jarvis Street, cutting through the center of the site, but also around meandering that promote communal interaction and provide amenities for various users.

Left: Plans

Large Duplexes

Accomodate flexible needs

Suitable for students, growing families, multigenerational living

Compact Private Suitable for single persons, seniors, couples

1 2 3

Large

Distinct living and sleeping areas

Private “bays”

Suitable for students, roommates, young working professionals

X-Large

Communal living

Shared living, dining, bathroom areas “Flex-spaces”

Suitable for transitional housing, group housing, SROs

Left: Interior street & exterior view

Bottom: Unit plans

Type B: Single rooms, 1-2B apartments with shared amenities Communal living

Type C: 1-4B apartments, duplexes Families, students, etc. 0

Ebbs & Flows

Location: Roxbury, Boston, MA

Date: Spring 2024

Type: Urban Design

Course: Northeastern Urbanism Studio

Top: Graphic site axon

Done in collaboration with Bethany Lai. Work is produced individually unless stated otherwise.

In response to the steadily increasing amongst vulnerable communities increase has been happening at an preventative and retroactive aspects

The introduction of an artificial river familiarize residents with the idea of only functions as a natural stormwater

increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, fostering resilience has become a high priority in many urban design efforts. In recent years, this alarming rate. This proposal argues that urban design must be radicalized in both aspects in order to prepare humanity for the rapidly increasing severity of the situation. river connecting the former path of the Stony Brook river is meant to prepare and of living with water, something seemingly inevitable in many cities. Here, water not stormwater management system, but a placemaking tool and a social marker of change.

Mapping of historical vs. proposed river placement

of water permeability & catch basins present in site and surrounding context

The Stony Brook was originally buried to reduce flooding and make room for growing car-centric infrastructure. This rationale no longer applies to present-day events given the unprecedented climate change and vulnerability of populations in Boston and beyond. Much of Boston and the site remains largely impermeable to water, leaving these areas highly susceptible to inundation and destruction. Modernistic and radical proposals of urban design are necessary to begin learning how to view nature as more of a manageable resource than an imposing risk.

Left:

Right: Mapping

*Mappings done by Bethany Lai.

a. Dry ground. Engineered topographically higher areas where water is less likely to reach.

b. Hydrosocial landmarks. An infrastructural and social/wayfinding network.

c. Buildings. Controls or accomodates the flow of water.

A combination of architectural, infrastructural, and landscaping decisions creates an engineered web of dry and wet regions for residents to navigate in both extreme and normal weather conditions. Elevated planes and regions of land create a navigable network that accounts for ground floor inundation, while infrastructural elements provide practical hydrological functions for plumbing and management of the sports field, or function as sunken basins for water collection.

Above: Different layers of dry network

Right: Complete map of dry network on top of floodplain with circulation paths & site context

*Diagrams done by Bethany Lai.

Typological differences in design between residential buildings on site manage the flow of water, functioning as either more of a berm or a permeable volume. This introduces differences in density among the site, with proximities to the floodplain differing as well depending on the function of the building.

Above: Illustrative site plan

Right: Transect cutting through stilt housing type

Common Grounds

Location: Boston, MA

Date: Spring 2023

Type: Public Library

Course: Northeastern Site & Program Studio

Top: Illustrative render of children’s play area

This project aims to solidify simultaneously deconstructing the be systematized, and the rules all - common ground for people libraries from other institutions elements found in conventional that invites people to use and of the library with both unconventional

the public library’s role as a hub for knowledge and learning, while the systems that dole out this knowledge. Learning and creativity cannot and orders assigned to libraries can be oppressive. Libraries are open to people to share and nurture knowledge and culture. This is what distinguishes institutions of knowledge. While still providing the fundamental programmatic libraries, this project reconstructs them in a playful and enticing manner contribute to their community - deemphasizing the “productive” nature unconventional representations of programs and unconventional uses of space.

1 Main book collection, reading room & staff elevator

2 Auditorium

3 1st floor entrance & cafe/speakeasy

4 Children’s play area

5 Public restrooms 1

1 “The bookshelf”. Iconography.

2 “The shoebox”. Tactility.

3 “The wedge”. Adult play area.

4 “The fishbowl”. Voyeurism.

Programs in the library are dispersed both in and among the interrupting nature of the core block elements. The cores subvert expectations of program in form and function, and entice both users and outside pedestrians. The spaces in between are filled with other typical functions, allowing for individual work, reading, socialization, and back-of-house offices.

Top: Exploded site axon

Bottom: Catalogue of cores

Right: Axon model & study model

(Krabbesholm Højskole by MOS Architects)

A Case Study in Campus Architecture

The Krabbesholm Højskole extension by MOS Architects provides spaces for the school’s architecture, art/ design, and photography departments. Space is unified by intentional voids, overhead coverings, and the framing of views to create areas with various degrees of privacy to encourage collaboration on all scales.

Left: Model photos

Top: Illustrated axon

Bottom: Interior model photo

Right: Section through interior street & building module

Top, Left: Ground floor program model photos

Activating the Ground Plane & Streetscape

Ground level activation of residential buildings provides an active and lively landscape for users, while providing a variety of readily accessible amenities available for use by residents and outside neighbors. These are interspersed with ground floor units, with private spaces directed away from the street, fully integrating living, working, social, and administrative spaces.

10 & 21 High Street

Location: Lynn, MA

Date: Fall 2024

Type: Mixed Use Multi-Family Housing

Professional Work at JGE Architecture + Design

Top: Render of west view at 10 High Street

This mixed use, multi-family residential 94 affordable rental units of 1 bed, and ground level respectively, with entirety of the SD phase, and the & massing visualization, conceptualization, guidelines and those for accessible and RCPs on sheets for increased

residential project comprises two buildings at 10 & 21 High Street, for a total of bed, 2 bed, and 3 bed units. Both buildings contain parking at the basement with retail space allotted for at 10 High Street as well. I worked through the the beginning of the rough DD phase of the project. I collaborated on facade conceptualization, and the iteration of interior units layouts, adhering to EOHLC accessible & CBH units. I streamlined the organization of unit plans, finish plans, increased clarity and delineation of typical & atypical units and common spaces.