FIONA HO Master of Architecture Candidate Portfolio
Columbia University UC Berkeley
fiona.ho@columbia.edu
FIONA HO fiona.ho@columbia.edu 818.448.5852
EDUCATION
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Columbia University | New York, NY | Aug. ‘16 - Present Master of Architecture I | Columbia GSAPP, expected graduation 2019 University of California, Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | Aug. ‘11 - May ‘15 Bachelor of Arts, Architecture | College of Environmental Design Minor in Sustainable Design Berkeley Circus 2015 Selectee | Fall 2014 Selected to present to a panel of industry leaders in the annual Architecture Circus as a result of being in the top 10% of Architecture Undergraduates Rosanna Luis Scholarship ‘14 | UC Berkeley Undergraduate Scholarships Single recipient of Architectural Design Scholarship
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
BDE Architecture | San Francisco, CA | June ‘15 - August ‘16 Architectural Design Associate | Salaried position Designed units for 3 mixed-use high rise and high-end residential projects, compiled four Planning and Design sets, primary interaction with clients and consultants, responsible for design development and construction sets, assisted in bringing 5 large-scale projects through various SD, DD, CD phases City and County of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | June ‘14 - May ‘15 Architectural Design Trainee | Salaried position Project: Gilman Park. Personal project of redesigning park center according to ADA standards, main designer of drawing set, worked with accessibility codes. Participated in client meetings + site visits, provided drawings sets. Project: San Francisco Public Library Teen Center. FF&E presentation and drawings, filing project with city, assisted in choosing materials and furniture. [Alameda Creek Watershed] Monitored Schematic Design and Planning Proposal package, worked with landscape team in designing project’s urban surroundings. Freelance Interior Designer | Berkeley, CA | June - Aug. ‘14 Surveyed and photographed four bedroom residence, produced 4 variations of CAD documents of furniture layouts, researched and specified furniture. City and County of Alhambra Public Works | Alhambra, CA | May - Aug. ‘13 City Planning Administrative Intern Monitored and reviewed over 40 residential and commercial plans, building documents, and architectural drawings. Contributed on-site, received technical and construction experience, assessed over 100 residential and plumbing claims. Wendy Park Interior Designs | West Hollywood, CA | May - Aug. ‘12 Junior Interior Designer Hand drafting of three residential plans and furniture placement and design, organized and selected materials and graphics for presentations, attended client meetings and worked directly with contractors and construction team.
SKILLS
Digital and Craft Adobe CS6, AutoCAD, Rhino 3D, Vectorworks, Sketchup, V-Ray, Excel, digital rendering, physical modelmaking, laser cutting, Ecotect, Microsoft. Languages Native English, Proficient Mandarin, Proficient Cantonese
LEADERSHIP
American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) | 2013 -2014 Campaign Manager for Academic Vice President | UC Berkeley | ‘12-’13 Special Programs Director | Office of Executive Vice President
CATCHING THE LIGHT A BRIDGED LIBRARY ORGANIC SPLIT EXPERIMENTAL THEATER BANCO DE LONDRES PRECEDENT STUDY THE TRIFECTA EXPERIMENT EAST RIVER TRAVERSER 603 JEFFERSON 875 CALIFORNIA MAKING
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Catching the Light
Columbia University Fall 2016 Core 01 14th St. + Avenue A Manhattan New York
Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 2.5 weeks Erica Goetz
The new L Train station began as an interest in the relationships between different sources of light as it affects the users of a train station. I studied the correlation and locations of points of lighting underground and above ground during the day and night time. The station draws in people from the East and West sides, with entrances that come from both directions that directly relate to the directions that the cars above ground approach the station and that of the subways below. The station excavates from both sides of 14th Street, creating two paths of light and user movement, sculpting a form that intersects at a mezzanine level above the train.
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Left: Section Oblique of lighting conditions in each space, highlighting how form effects light Top: Section model
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Left: Site analysis plan drawing of light sources on existing subway station during night and day Bottom Right: Sectional model of reflective screens and lit spaces Top Right: Site analysis study of light condition above and below ground showing the flicker of light behind columns
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A Bridged Library
Columbia University Spring 2017 Core II Brooklyn, New York Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual - In Progress 5 weeks Stella Betts
The exploration of the Brooklyn library began with the study of the Musashino Library by Sou Fujimoto, where the act of frames dictated the structure and placement of program. The quality of space led to a proto-building that was based on the act of meandering, where the perception of space is distorted based on a number of intersections, and the ability to wander. The interstitial spaces that are placed in between larger, more open ones. The library is structured by a jagged portion of light that inspired the weaving of a series of inhabitable and programmed bridges that act as the in between space between the sides of the street, as well as a nest between the central program of the library. This breaks up the geometry/grid of the site. The library takes these material studies into an inhabitable scale, and incorporates the changes in perception from the possibilities of moving in around and on top of these bridged structures.
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Proto-building using images of physical models as an exploration of form and light
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Left: Longitudinal section of library’s bridges forming program and open space Top Right: Site analysis using the situationist concept of the derive, with emphasis on the act of meandering Bottom Right: Daylight and shadow study of the library site at 8am, 12:30pm, and 5pm
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CIRCULATION
BRIDGE + PROGRAM AS STRUCTURE
LIGHTING + APERATURE
Left: Sectional model revealing relationship between program and circulation Top: Series of diagrams that represent circulation, program, and lighting studies Bottom: Sectional model focusing on depth and orientation shifts
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FLOOR 06 1/16” = 1’-0”
FLOOR 03 1/16” = 1’-0”
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Organic Split Columbia University Fall 2016 Core 01 Intersection of 14th + 7th Ave. Manhattan, NY Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 2.5 weeks Erica Goetz
The Organic Split takes place at the intersection between 14th and 7th Avenue. The project initially looked at the presence of movement through the public and private realms within the site’s subway station, commercial site, and residential program. The project and its analyses aim to break apart the strict horizontal movement of the site by looking at the site as vertical volumes that each contain a specific direction and location of movement. The corner creates a central axis that initiates a different movement and connection at different hours of the day by opening and closing, allowing for either larger or smaller nodes of activity. The bottom circulatory system is able to swing around to pick up users from the subway station in order to bring them up throughout the corner.
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Left: Spatial axonometric of geometries placed within corner site Top: Site analyses of vertical movements within public and private realms at the intersection between 14th and 7th Ave.
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Left: Axonometric section of corner’s rotational activity and connection to subway circulation Right: Physical model made of high density foam, fabric, cardboard
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The Experimental Theater
UC Berkeley Spring 2015 ARCH 100C Berkeley Marina, CA
Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 7 weeks Jean-Paul Bourdier
The experimental theater is influenced by the dual and complex identity of a black box theater, driven by contrasting interests that affect certain spatial and social explorations. The program is challenged to sit on top of a floating barge, completely surrounded by water in the Berkeley Marina. The central system introduces an interlocking and shifting orthogonal form that branches out in varying directions that initiate specific views of the environment. These projects are framed by a faceted metal skin that introduces the quality of a third condition, a middle ground that allows theater users to create a series of ramps, nodes, and congregation areas in between the two systems.
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Left: Exterior perspective of theater and its relationship to floating barge wide entrance allows for an exterior amphitheater seating Top Right: Exploded axonometric drawing of steel frames and mesh facade Right: Interior perspective of experimental theater and sound panel design
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Floor 02
Floor 01
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Floor 04
Floor 03
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Left: Conceptual section cut Right: Interior perspectives of central interior circulatory pathways
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Banco de Londres Precedent Study Clorindo Testa Columbia University Fall 2016 Architectural Design + Representation 01 Type Duration Instructor
Precedent Analysis 6 weeks Bika Rebek
The precedent study analyzes the relationships between the warmth of Banco de Londre’s interior activity and its heavy exterior. The inside of the bank is inviting and communicative, with an open and active environment that is structured around the building’s circulation and work stations. It is visually comforting and pleasing, filled with freedom and abundance of light. This interior form seems to protrude outwards as it becomes the exterior as if to create a barrier or camouflage from the hecticness of the outside city. The submergence of Buenos Aires in 1960 into social disorder and terrorism is Banco de Londre’s defense mechanism. The experience of the bank from the inside looking out is a feeling of protection and nostalgia. Left: Axonometric drawing depicting the bank’s central atrium as a center of programmatic and circulatory structure. The study inverts the attention and detail to the liveliness of the interior space.
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The Trifecta Experiment
UC Berkeley Fall 2014 ARCH 100A Potrero Hill San Francisco
Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 6 weeks Lisa Iwamoto
Potrero Hill: a bustling San Francisco community located on a hilly site surrounded by narrow family homes. The site stood as an urban landmark that could be integrate the landscaped qualities of the neighborhood. A tri-layering system emerged through analyzing the relationships between the uneven ground, the roofs of houses, and the offset of telephone lines. The library serves as an information hub and place of collaboration, forming a large open public space that is open and lit around the clock. The library contains three distinctly different experiential qualities of space including: a floating reading center, a central open courtyard that connects the front street to the adjacent backyard, and an underground research area.
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Top: Bird-eye view of roof facade and access to roof garden Bottom: Sectional perspective of book stacks as the primary circulatory pathway
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East River Traverser Columbia University Fall 2016
Corlear’s Hook, Manhattan to Brooklyn Navy Yard - along East River
Type Duration Instructor
Conceptual 3 weeks Erica Goetz
The unique site has some of the fastest current speeds of the entire river, where commercial and smaller boats often have difficulty pushing against the flow of the currents. The study of the topographical shifts below the water level at this location initiated an exploration of topographical erosion and its relationship with man-made erosion as they relate to level changes and movement. The fluctuating level changes of the pier respond to the natural height shifts of the tide, as the tubes move up and down allowing for walkways and bridges that are revealed and disappear during tidal changes. The pier acts as a docking area and passageway for commercial boats and leisure boating crafts, and is a main commute path for those traveling between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Its mounds are oriented on the shallowest parts of the topography, and surrounded by the main paths of travel of boats on the East River. The series of mounds are accessible at certain entryways, where individuals are able to climb atop them for spectacular views of New York. The correlation between topographical changes and elevation shifts is explored through a central circulatory tube that makes it way, entering and dipping underwater, portraying the roles of tunnel, room, bridge, path across the East River.
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Right: Site plan of the pier’s orientation in between Corlear’s Hook and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The plan considers current boating routes and topographical shifts at the site. Left: Contour model using chip board, acrylic, museum board
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Collaged perspective views and experiential quality of the pier and its surroundings
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Elevation looking North
Elevation looking South
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Detailed section drawings of three islands, each which creates a unique inhabitable space that meets the intersections of tube and organic form
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Plan drawing of cross-river islands, including a series of bridges and level changes that occur as the pier changes identity from island to island
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603 Jefferson BDE Architecture San Francisco, CA
Professional Project December 2015 Location Building Type Project Team Status
Redwood City, CA Residential + Commercial Jon Ennis + Alex Kolouris + Fiona Ho Under Construction
Develop the project through Schematic and CD packages. Worked directly with MEP and structural consultant teams to produce all permit sets. Coordinate with clients, and attended all team meetings. Initiated planning permit set. Administered detail drawing sets and compiled all necessary documents for planning and proposal meetings.
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Ground Floor | Commercial Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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875 California
BDE Architecture San Francisco, CA
Professional Project
May 2016 Location Building Type Project Team Status
San Francisco, CA Nob Hill Area Multifamily Residential Jon Ennis + RAMSA + Brenna Williams + Fiona Ho Under Construction
Develop construction document drawing sets based on client and conversation with RAMSA’s office. Coordinated with MEP and structural consultants for permit sets.
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Making Columbia University UC Berkeley 2011 - 2017 Miscellaneous Models + Model Techniques
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FIONA HO Master of Architecture Candidate Portfolio Columbia University
fiona.ho@columbia.edu 818.448.5852