Claire Q. Mo_Architecture Portfolio 2011 by Claire Mo

CLAIRE.Q.MO ARCHITECTURE CV 2011

Museum of San Miniato, ‘Project Finding Origin’

Tuscany, Italy

Aerial View, beginning and the end of the town

3/32" = 1'-0" Level -Plan OPEN DN DN DN A B C D E A B C D E 3/32" = 1'-0" Level -Plan 3/32" 1'-0" 2 Level 3 -Plan D D D D D D D 2 3 4 5 6 7 D D D D D D D 2 4 5 6 OPEN OPEN OPEN Plans - ground floor, second floor, third floor galleries

Site Diagrams - Viewing spots, Public/ open plazas Parti Models - Courts, and Projecting Frames Final Concept Model Revit Model fitted in Site Model Sections - Galleries NS, EW

Cencept Sequences - Under Arch, Private Plaza, Alleys, Edge View Points, Double Frames, City Edge Entrance Underground Concept Sketches

Sculpture Court

Precedents

Challenge & Program

The San Miniato museum is located at a strategic site on the route of trading, La Via Francigena in Tuscany. This is at a charming town that’s overgrown with residential establishment. It’s urbanism is at the hill, the landscape of the town includes the up and down framing of the city fabric, with one icon and gathering site being the bell tower. The proposed design is inspired by the linear town layout and framing perspective to mimic the context by following an established sequence and ‘story board’ to dedicate a place of celebrating the local culture, by going through the musem program and navigate through the building to be the beginning and end of the town. Precedents of the project includes James Turrel and Richard Sierra’s framings by plane and masses.

Gallery Under Skylites Main Floor Galleries

Approach Perspective Elevations - Urban Facade, Hillside Facade

Framing the Framer, Stie Plan, Ramp Perspective Stage Perspective

8:00 9:00 10:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 20:00 June 21 Sun pattern during working hours 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 16:15 Dec 21 Sun pattern during working hours Aerial View of Site: Trangular Tip of North End Underarmour Headquarters Office Building Boston, MA North End Traffic Polution Diagram Dec 21st Working Hours Sun Path Jun 21st Working Hours Sun Path Traffic Circulation Pedestrian Circulation Visibility Boston Greenbelt Heavy Traffic Polution Medium Traffic Polution Wind Direction

CHALLENGE

The Underarmour Headquarters Office Building locates in the tip of North End Boston, Mansechussets. In addition to its unusual triangular site shape, its location has many cultural and environmental challenges. It faces the brutalist government garage, half of the site is under its shadow. The narrow streets on the west brings heavily poluted air from traffic. How does this office building maximize lighting, preserve energy and contribute interests to the commercial surrounding?

SUSTAINABILITY

The Design propose a high performance steel construction with an ‘travel’ atrium, to passively ventilate the office spaces in the building, It devides the public programs towards the south-east streetfront and private open office towards the north. Along with glazing on avtive programs, the atrium contribute to bring natural light deep into every floor. The back street facade pressures the air from street level up to the buidling via a louver system that purifies intake ventilation.

BASEMENT 1/16”=1’0” GROUND FLOOR LOBBY GALLERY FLOOR 1 FLOOR 2 CAFE LOUNGE OPEN OFFICE RETAIL FLOOR 3 OPEN OFFICE RETAIL Basement Floor Ground Floor Second Floor Third Floor Fourth Floor Approach Rendering

Site Plan

PROGRAM

The public enters from the triangular front, and able to access the store and gallery of first four floors. The auditorium is floating away from the floor plates creating an relaxation island, with dynamic lounge/ cafe under, and an ourdoor garden above. The elevator cores are pushed at the two ends of the envelop, maximize the circulation flexibility. Behind the core at the back, there are individual private offices facing a seve floors high green wall.

Program Model

Transverse Section

FLOOR 5 FLOOR OFFICE GYM OFFICE OFFICE FLOOR 4 OPEN OFFICE RETAIL GARDEN FLOOR 7 FLOOR 8 OFFICE OFFICE OFFICE LOUNGE Fifth Floor Sixth Floor Seventh Floor Eighth Floor Ninth Floor

Longitudinal Section

Gallery/Display Office Sectional Detail Passive Ventilation/ Floor Heating HVAC Systems

and Lighting

Atrium

insulating double glazing steel beam hung ceiling aluminum louver blind glass encasement operable swinging window concrete concrete floor element aluminum window sill plasterboard lining vapour barrier rigid insulation steel cladding glass curtain wall steel supporting member plasterboard steel decking smart floor steel channel glass element horizontal steel tension rod precast concrete floor element veneer plywood sill concrete footing waterproof lining packed gravel billboard/rain shield DETAIL WALL SECTION 1/4”=1’0” Optimized Daylight The expansive glazing over the north and south facades provides for optimal daylight in the office areas. Due the narroness of the plan supplemented with the light provided by the atrium skylight, most workstation are provided with natural light year round. Sunshading Moveable vertical louvers and panels are integrated into the double layer facades. The perforated steel panels can be individually operated by the occupant while the vertical louvers remain fixed place to block the morning sun coming from the Northeast. Buffer Zone Buffer zones in the form double layered facades on the North and South sides the building minimize thermal loss by transmittance. The north facade constructed using glass curtain wall. The south facade constructed using perforated copper panels. Natural Cross Ventilation Negative pressure caused by the double facade draws fresh air into and through the building. When the windows are open on the Northeast and Southwest facades, air flows through from Northeast Southwest. This air movement largely independent weather conditions due the pressure maintained the double layered facade. Thermal Storage in Winter The concrete floor slabs act as thermal masses with that passively heat and cool the interior spaces. winter, the heat which absorbed the mass night radiates into the space during the day keeping the office space warm. Natural Cross Ventilation The stack effect, addition to the double layered facades pulls cool air up through the building and into the open office spaces. Movable windows throughout the atrium space allows for natural cross ventilation to occur. Thermal Storage in Summer summer, the thermal mass utilized by absorbing the heat gains and maintaining cool conditions during the day. The building is cooled at night cross ventilation. Recycled heat Since too cool the winter months cross ventilate, heating fresh air becomes inefficient and costly. centralized mechanical ventilation system cycles and recycles the heat through the building and reduces heating requirements. 5 4 3 2 1 A B C D E G H b d STRUCTURAL FRAMING PLAN 1/8”=1’0” Framing Plan Structural Axon Enclosure Axon North Sectional Detail Passive Ventilation/ Floor Heating HVAC Systems Atrium View Open Offices

Floor Plans - Ground and public archade, Second floor, processing serving food preservation and storage units, kitchen and resturant islands

The Sustainable Superstore is an invention of reconstructing what forms a traditional big box suburban strip mall. Part one of the program study is documenting the experience of traveling to a mall location from a bus station, traveling, arriving at the parking lot and go get the items, hop in & out. The proposed program each students picks a topic and I selected the vatious

food processing and preservation methods, which will be held at each various units at the periphery of the store, serving as education component as well as functioning for proper farm to table servings. The store is powered by solar panels and geothermal technologies and is self-serving for all costomers. It’s an utopian approach to a future state of store prototype without surveilance.

Farm to table - Sustainable Superstore Court View

PROGRAM

Downtown Parking Lot Motel Syracuse, NY

Siting Approach View Existing traffic pattern on site Parking lot site flow and mapping analysis

CHALLENGE

The Downtown Parking Lot project is based on 3-part-briefs: first, mapping an existing parking lot in downtown Syracuse, utilize the surrounding traffic pattern moniforing of 24 hours, regardless of weather, to choose an ‘action verb’ for next steps of formal exploration both digitally and physically. Through site surveying, an irregular shaged inter-street lot was chosen as it sits on the only diagonal street downtown, it presented opportunites to break the traditioanl square sites. A close verb associated with site movement is ‘interlock’; secondly, based on the verb through trials and series of digital models, with ‘continuity and interlocking spaces’ in mind, a singular module was further explored; thirdly, a 2-stories motel module were developed, where lower level is designed for communal programs such as galleries, conference rooms, classrooms, upper levels are compact living quaters.

Back View Parking

lot site flow and mapping analysis

Existing traffic pattern on site Top Site View Site Axon

CHALLENGE

The John Lennon Music Center sits on a fictional corner site reference a typical New York street block. At the long side of this 50ft x 100ft property there is a 12ft raise slop on the street. On the elevated back of propety it links to a semi private community garden that only has access through each building on the same street. How does this compact site address a music center that attracts the local community in its program and turns the corner of street creatively in architecture? And How to mingle the Music and a Library?

PROGRAM

The John Lennon Music Center adapts the street block rhythem of verticality on its facade and “sheer” the circulation in its parti to feed the visiters in the main volumn of program. It’s a juxtaposition to ballance the music scene and library dedicated to John Lennon. The concert attracts public all the wall to its back on ground floor and vertically extends on the back of two more floors to serve the need of being in the music, while the library stays in front of the building occupies double stories of major space to house the collection of publication and CDs for this legend.

Front Elevation Side Elevation Concert Hall Library Outdoor Performance

CHALLENGE PROGRAM

The House as Site Site as House project sits on a Lake Front property with 20ft drop in elevation from the road to the water level. This is the first semester project after learned the primary architectural language from the Architecton and Painting analysis. Learning the Modern architecture through designing a vocation house for a writer. How to design a house that takes advantage of the site as well as blur the boundary between indoor and outdoors.

The Program of this project is single person vocation house. The design concept want to maximize the view towards the lake, and have clear spatial arrangement to have a sequence leading from the most public to the private, while visually emphasis the most important program which is the study for the whiter, from first approach to the site at any point on the property that’s the first piece to see. The major living quarters is linked to the private by the louvered “bridge” it links the programs, the courtyard, and pool with the lake.

Public Section / Living,

Lake View

Pool

Kitchen / Dining

Aerial View of the Capitol Mall & Washington Monument 90 Degrees - White House Redux Washington DC, MD

MOMENTS OF CONCENTRATION AND DENSITY EXECUTIVE OFFICE EXECUTIVE PUBLIC PUBLIC EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE OFFICE DIPLOMAT/GUEST Ring roads and interests Turning existing program vertically Urbanism fabric Density Green Distribution Siting & Surrounding Interests

Analyze the existing site constraints and uncover the layers of movement patterns between traffic, public pedestrains, and white house employees and residents

Analyze the designed program and project 10 x larger to accomodate future expansion and associated roles currently unable to be on site due to space constraints, Indicating a public to proviate smooth transition.

Site Plan with parking

Architecture 208: Responsive Network programmatic responsibility toneing changes responds to program executive office darker showing enclosed areas open view on presidential bedroom public retail and exhibition area ramps linking from the site through ramps to elevators main circulation for cars from each busy street entrance continuation with the subway hub sharing entrance with pedestrian sharing entrance with pedestrian pedestrian circulation derived from dense area of movement diagram central main space remain highly active but open for public outdoor activities dense area has steeper slope that leads to main open space of the site sharing circulation with the parking, over lapping space avoid crowds orthogonal connection for private use to have the quickest access through land eisenhower museum main presidential entrance security entrances security ofﬁce for urgent meetings

Materials studies: Tensigrity and Trusses

Exploded Axon: Top: Glazing Right: PV panels on east facade Bottom: Site structure mimic building geometry

Site Section

Left: Solid panels

chitecture 208: Responsive Network

topography going above topography going below changing slop edge ouline created by the langscape continuation of land during changing slop terran on site low area for parking low area for parking security entrance from ground level down security entrance from ground level down lawn for public gathering security entrance from ground level down main private entrance for the family public entrace from subway hub street entrance for cars and pedestrian street entrance for pedestrian street entrance for pedestrian car entrance public tendency of approching the white house pull up the landscape for a public circulation higher lawn area for public activities hosted by the president, emphasis of the site circulation from parking level to pedestrian level subway hub brought in from the nearest station from underground voids of sudden slope change for private entrances voids of sudden slope change for private entrances a b c d e a b c d e f

Site topography diagrams

sectional diagrams

Topography & Flow

Skin Trusses Detail

Site

Double

Materials studies: Tensigrity morphing scales

“Yet it remains embryonic in each design of the new architecture: there is only a great, invisible space in which relations and interpretations, rather than boundaries, reign”.

By Sigfried Gierion

Site View

Exploded Perspective

Lightscape Traffic Island London, UK Mapping Urban Traffic Island Typology

CHALLENGE

The London Urban Studio was tutored by two Designers from the Special Modeling Group of Foster and Partner’s office. Each team were to propose a transportation intervention that could be built with rapid-prototyping technologies. My team has surveyed various London Transportation system and decide to propose a defined, interactive Traffic Island by bring in the headlights of each car driving by to have an transient experience for pedestrians to enrich the time spent crossing streets.

TRAFFIC INTERVENTION

The London city scape is nothing like a city grid. Through its development in history, city streets had grown into organic curves. The left over spaces of traffic island are in a significant amount. It barries between cars and pedestrians, and is the most passive space, on it, people do nothing. We propose a parametrically designed typology that using the shape of each island and the traffic surrounding to bring car light into pedestrian spaces to make away of the urban surrounding by being part of it.

Existing (Barrier) Reflect Light in Island Pedestrian Path Perpendicular Curves Triangulation Directional Net Voronoi

Lighting Performance Plan Pedestrian path Plan Mirror Railings Light Paths Traffic Light Walking Path Approach Rendering

Island Overall Mock up Concrete Tiles with Exploded Glass Cover System Pedestrian Performance Individual Brick with Mirror edge

3D Print Tile Fitting Half Scale

Individual Tile CNC Milled Foam Mock up Full Scale

APPLICATION

The Light Vessel Fabrication project started with the concept of being an individual module able to apply to multiple functionality such as filtering light and holding plants. The design is a 12”x16” curved ‘light brick’ that flips direction adjacently and upside down that forms a continuous surface. It’s made of transparent, translucent and chrome plastic with a painted pattern that visualize its curvature. By connecting two walls, it’s able to stand, and hold LED lights in between. By inserting a ‘water pocket’ that the ‘brick’ could also hold plants.

Plan

Light Vessel Wall as Planter

Section

Water Flow on Curvature Curvature Bending Analysis

Transparency Detail Connection Detail

Modules: Chrome with Blended Paint; Blended Paint with Plastic; Translucent and Transparent Plastic

Light Vessel Wall Model Looking Up Light Vessel Wall Model

Joint Detail Texture Layered Effect

Light Vessel Wall Application to a Room

Population

Residential Density

Built

Change

Income

Passenger

Rail

Data Source: Metropolitan World Atlas Change

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Density

Vehicle Density

in Area 50 World’s Highest Ranking on High Density Urban Facts manila

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buenos aires san

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tokyo-yokohama seoul-incheon toronto new york boston philadelphia washington-baltimore los angeles san francisco- oakland chicago dallas-

mexico city

bogota

santiago de chile

paulo rio de janeiro london paris randstad holland rhine-ruhr st.petersburg

lagos kinshasa johannesburg djakarta

istanbul karachi

perth

chennai bangalore mumbai hyderabad bangkok calcutta dhaka new delhi

hong kong lahore nagoya kobe-osaka-kyoto taipei shanghai tianjin beijing singapore kuala lumpur

sydney melbourne

Kowloon Cheung Sha Wan Sheung Wan Wan Chai North Point Happy Valley Mong Kok Tsim Sha Tsui Hung Hom Ma Tau Kok Kowloon City Diamond Hill 1 2 3 4 5 Urban Renewal Project Culture Districts Sky Bridges Roads Reclaimation

Hong Kong

Reclaimation Now and Then

Source: Hong Kong Survey & Mapping O ce Land Department 0 2 4 6km 0 1867 1924 1945 1967 1976 1996 Reclamation Hectares Year 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 -1887 1888-1924 1925-1945 1946-1967 1968-1976

Kowloon Walled City 1840s Causewaybay Six Storey Blocks 1935-55

Kowloon Megalithic Buildings 1956 Tsz Wan Shan

1997-2010 1977-1996

Public Housing 1968 Pop-up City: Roof Homes Cage Homes

Pencil Tower

Nan Lian Garden (2006) 3.5 Hectares | Kowloon

Hong Kong Park (1991) 8 Hectares | Hong Kong Island

Aviary: Conservatory: Sports Center: Squash Center: Children’s Playground: Clock Tower: Central Garden: Olympic Square: Vantage point: Tai Chi Garden: Conservation Center:

Badminton Basketball Netball Courts

Volleyball Courts Multi-purposes Table Tennis Tables Fitness Room

| 30m tall

Kowloon Park (1970s) 13.3 Hectares | Kowloon

Mini-Soccer Pitch: Fitness Trail:

Children’s Playground:

Discovery Playground: Maze Garden:

Sculpture Walk+ Garden:

Color Garden:

Chinese Garden:

Roof Gardens: Piazzas: Loggias:

Viewing Cone:

x1 (7-a-sided) 500m with 8 Fitness Stations

40x20m2

(capacity of 880)

1400m2 36m2 x8 x2 x2 x2 x1 x3 x1 x12 1000m2 20m

1100m2

3000m2

tall

Valuable Trees: Souvenir Shop Vegetarian Resturant Chinese Tea House Multi-purpose Room 35,000

x1 x1

Conservation Corner: Bird Lake: Aviary: 150x100m2 x1 x1 x3 3000m2 200m 37m

Tai Chi Garden N N N Conservation Center Sports Center Conservatory Aviary Squash Center Children’s Playground Clock Tower Central Garden Olympic Square Vantage point Sculpture Walk Discovery Playgro Maze Garden Color Garden Chinese Garden Roof Gardens Roof Garden Aviary Bird Lake Conservation Corner Viewing Cone Loggias L

Passive Programs

Victoria Park (1957,2000)

13.3 Hectares | Hong Kong Island

Active Programs

Tennis Courts: Bowling Green:

(1957) Swimming Pool Complex:

Soccer Pitches:

Basketball Courts:

Fitness Station+Jogging Trail:

Children’s Playground:

Model Boat Pool:

Bandstand:

Central Lawn:

Pebble Waling Trail: Resturant:

Fast Food Kiosk:

x14 (Seating Capacity of 3607)

x2 Lawn with 12 Arti cial Turf Lanes

1x 50mx5 Lane (capacity of 1100 swimmer+1700 spectator)

x6 (7-a-sided pitches)

625m long + 6 Practice Stations

954m2 (0.32 m deep)

228m2 (100 Seating)

2 Hectares

0 100 200 ft

Tennis Courts Bowling Green Swimming Pool Complex Soccer Pitches Basketball Courts Fitness Station+Jogging Trail Children’s Playground Model Boat Pool Band Stand Central Lawn Pebble Walking Trail Resturant

Fast Food Kiosk Mini-Soccer Pitch Fitness Trail

ound

Children’s Playground ns Roof Gardens

Piazzas

Among the ranges of domestic helpers, the Philipinos have the best reputation, even, they are rated as “ The most Professional Domestic Helpers of the whole

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55% 33% Hong Kong Singapore Data Source: Hong Kong Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys Hong Kong Population Total Domestic Helper Population Philipines Thailand Indonesia Sri Lanka Nepal 7,000,000 200,000 2.8% 140,000 70% Philipines Thailand Indonesia Sri Lanka Nepal

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A-Weekday’s Schedule for the Maid’s Activity

In the Morning, the Maid isstressed as the Masters are getting ready for work, she had to prepare clothes and food with any additional accidents

Daily Chores are including Laundry, Cleaning, taking care of the pet etc

During Lunch Hours Young Masters come home for Lunch, activities stay in the living room

Early Afternoon is the most tranquile time for Maids, there are time for a short break for TV and reading books

Dinner time sometimes the Female Master will join the Maid to prepare Dinner, and after cleaning-up, it is the maid ‘s job to Tutor English to the Kids

After Everyone Else went to Bed, Maid will only have time for herself to be in her room

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Thesis: Pro-Active Urban Gardens of Rapid Cities, HK

Advisors : Anne Munly, Clare Olsen

Author: Qiong (Claire Mo), 2011

a b c d e f h i

Level 2 - Circulation level of Pedestrian Bridge Park Level 4 - Park level of Pedestrian Bridge Park

Tensile Structure and Roof, location for lanterns during festivals

Locations for Signage, storage of equipment

Park Level with mild slope for areas created for groups sitting facing each other

Balconies for semiprivate group events

Level 2-4 circulation

Level 2 circulation level with group seating at periphery, ‘hilly zones’ for parklike activities

Site Section - Across reclaimed waterfront up the hills through mid-sections to residential districts

Singular design that can ‘travel’ from waterfront all the way up the hills is based on simple idea of a pedestrian bridge, like the roads, remains simple yet adaptable.

Site 2 - Mid-sections, Pedestrian Bridge Entrance