Gabriel Chan '20 MArch Columbia GSAPP

Play-gency

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A common thread in the studio work be- 1 . low is a playful approach in designing solutions for problems including urban 2. renewal, civic works, infrastructure, program hybridization and multifamily 3. affordable housing complexes.

In all seriousness, nothing matters if our collective consumption of space does not remind of the breadth of our own imagination. Empathetic happy humanist design will perhaps keep ourselves away from building the dystopian and help us renew our desires for making brighter futures.

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Core One Critic: Stephanie Lin Core Two Critic: Benjamin Cadena Core Three Critic: Gabriela Etchegaray Advanced Studio IV Critic: Lindy Roy Advanced Studio V Critic: Oana Stanescu Advanced Cur tain Wall Critic: Rober t Heintges Advanced Studio VI Critic: Mark Wasiuta

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Fall 2017 Core I Critic: Stephanie Lin A series of mini-projects thats explores the superlatives " UP ", "ABOVE", " IN " and "ON ". The location of a building plays a par t in detemining the construction and spatial logics .

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GSAPP CORE 1 .1 Up 1 . Model Image Weaving Paper for Volume 2 . Model Image Plays on the Mobius Band

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GSAPP CORE 1 . 2 Ab ove 1 . Model Image Structure from 1 .1 Placed ab ove L ot 2 . Model Image Inf illing

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GSAPP CORE 1 . 3 In 1 . C onceptual C ollages 2 . Par ti Drawings

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GSAPP CORE 1 . 4 On 1 . Diagram Taxonomy of Bridge Sections 2, Model Images Weaving of Paths 3 . A xonmetric Scale of Bridge

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Spring 2018 Core II Critic: Benjamin Cadena Dumbo Music Librar y Drawing inspiration from the vibrant cultural landscape of Bushwick , the Brooklyn Museum and Queens Public Librar y Sor ting Facilit y, the new Dumbo Branch Librar y looks to create a sequence of public open spaces for day time and late night programs .

The quietness of reading and is contrasting with per formances in the atrium on the weekends . It is a librar y celebrating the reading musical person in multicultural Brooklyn .

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GSAPP CORE 2 Dumb o Music Librar y

1 . Study on P OPS NYC 2 . Nor th Elevation 16

1 | MACRO Herzog and De tMeuron Cottbus Library

2 | MICRO Edward L. Barnes IBM Plaza

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GSAPP CORE 2 Dumb o Music Librar y

1 . Flow Diagram 2 . Model Image Terraces Opening to Above 3 . Model Image Interlo cking C ores Wrapping to Form Atrium 18

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GSAPP CORE 2 Dumb o Music Librar y 1 . Model Image Galler y Space in Horizontal C ores 2 . Model Image Terraces for outdo or reading space 3 . Model Image C overed Outdo or corridor

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GSAPP CORE 2 Dumb o Music Librar y

1 . C ollage Ground level for musical per formances drives high P OPS ratio in design .

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Fall 2018 Core III Critic: Gabriela Etchegar y Dash-Dot Housing In collaboration with Wendy Guan The housing proposal reimagines Davis Brody Bond’s public housing structure with more diversified public and private open spaces . Priorit y of the design is to create unique experiences for users of dif ferent backgrounds .

In the operation of breaking down a chunk y cour t yard block to create a se ries of lego -like masses, a hierarhy of dif ferentiated public programs like the childrens playground, communal terraces and private patios are produced

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to accommadate multigenerational families in Crotona Park Neighborhood in the Bronx .

Each tower and the studios, one bed, t wo bed and three bedroom units within are orientated to look into the cour tyard and out to the cit y in a dif ferent viewing angle .

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GSAPP CORE 3 Dash-Dot Housing in collab oration with Wendy Guan 1 . Model Image Sectional model at 1/8 " = 1 ’ - 0 " Units have double height living rooms Stroikom st yle .

2 . Plan The podium level ser ves as a circulation path and communal terrace .

L aundr y room, barbeque areas and communal kitchens are sprinkled throughout .

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GSAPP CORE 3 Dash-Dot Housing in collab oration with Wendy Guan 1 . Model Image Blocks are intended to read small and individualized, avoiding the language of top - down planning .

2 . Visualization Tower blocks sit on top of ser vice programs like the Daycare centers fpr the residents conveniene .

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GSAPP CORE 3 Dash-Dot Housing in collab oration with Wendy Guan 1 . Model Image 2 . Visualization Tower blocks sit on top of ser vice programs like the Daycare centers fpr the residents conveniene .

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GSAPP CORE 3

1. Scale Model 1/16" = 1’-0" 2. Unit Typology

Dash-Dot Housing in collab oration with Wendy Guan 1 . Plan Type examples including studio, 2 b edroom and 3 bedroom layouts .

3. Axonometric Facade Study

Bathroom 8’ x 8’

2 . Visualization 15 degree angle rotations for differentiation views, giving each apar tment a higher degree of uniqueness .

Dressing Area 5’ x 6’ Living & Dining 10’ x 18’

Raised + 2’ - 0"

Sleeping Loft 10’ x 7’

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GSAPP CORE 3 Dash-Dot Housing in collab oration with Wendy Guan 1 . Model Image 1/16 " = 1 ’ - 0 overall model showing the relationship b et ween the pavement , cour t yard, public programs and residential blo cks .

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Spring 2019 Advanced Studio IV Critic: Lindy Roy Newburgh Foraging Food Center The proposal looks into the vacant spaces in Newburg and Ecological Networks to identify local floral and fauna that can be farmed and foraged to become a resource for city-dwellers. The food center hosts gardens of local edible flora and fauna to share knowledge on foraging techniques and culinary opportunities.

This represents an opporunity for reviving the local economy as well as attract East Coast Food Industry investment to draw on regional resources to reduce importing and exporting.

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Advanced IV Newburgh Foraging Fo od C enter 1 . Map Identif ies open spaces, park and reser ves of Upstate NY in relation to Newburgh Cit y.

2 . Diagram Breaksdown farming supply chain to show new models of consumption

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Advanced IV Newburgh Foraging Fo od C enter 1 . Map Ecomap of Newburgh 2 . Plan and Zoom-in Each Garden is paired with a dining space and kitchen dedicated to the selection of species

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Advanced IV Newburgh Foraging Fo od C enter

1 . Diagram of Farming Schedules 2 . Planting Schedule 3 . Section of Food C enter

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Fall 2019 Advanced Studio V Critic: Oana Stanescu The Play-trium in Public School 188 Public School 188 is unique in that half of the student body is homeless and living in shelter on Houston or neighborhoods further away. 3 smaller schools inhabit the C.B. J. Snyder pre-war structure in as an ecosystem, sharing recreational and administrative facilities within.

Incorporating ideas from Montessori and Noguchi, the schema redevelops the school using handsketches and physical models to produce an atrium that for play only.

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Advanced V 1 . Hand Sketch The idea of the play trium is freedom of movement and hotspots for playing .

2 . Model Additions and Sub straction in the scho ol

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Spring 2020 Advanced Cur tain Wall Critic: Rober t Heintges Learning from Sol Lewit t In a proposal to permanently house Le wit t ’s collection in downtown New York , the cur tain wall system draws inspiration from his piece Grid 5, using the drawing as the par ti diagram .

The cur tain wall plays the thresholds bet ween spandrel and vision, column and slab, wall and window.

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Advanced Cur tain Wall 1 . Visualization Mullions are f inished in Dark Bronze and Glazing is with C e ramic Frit to mimic L ewit t ’s grid work .

2 . Elevation The CW uses grid cells of 14’ x 14’.

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Advanced Cur tain Wall Slab Edge Below 3 34 "

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Flooring by Others

Air Seal Weather Seal 5 12 "

Dark Bronze Aluminum Extrusion Structural Silicone

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Dark Bronze Aluminum Frame Beyond Dark Bronze Aluminum Frame Below

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Top Mounted Aluminum Anchor Assembly w/ +/- 1" Tolerance

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Air Seal Weather Seal 5 12 "

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Thermal Break Aluminum Extrusion

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Dark Bronze Aluminum Frame Below

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Dark Bronze Aluminum Frame Beyond

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Typical Vertical Type A, Typical Vertical Type B

Project: Downtown Sol Lewitt Museum

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Typical Spandrel Horizontal @ Anchor

Project: Downtown Sol Lewitt Museum

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Advanced Cur tain Wall 5 12 "

Extended Unit Beyond GL-1 Vertical Mullion Beyond Extruded Aluminum Shade Track Weather Seal Air Seal

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Top Mounted Steel Anchor Assembly Accomodating +/- 1" Tolerance Painted Aluminum Panel Shading System Interior Ceiling

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Typical Stack Joint, Typical Spandrel

Project: Downtown Sol Lewitt Museum

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Spring 2020 Advances Studio VI Critic: Mark Wasiuta Soil Rehabilitation Factor y Soil Remediation processes in Da Nang and Bien Hoa airpor ts in the Southern Vietnam incinerate contaminated soil in American Funded in-situ containment structures . The process is yet another rendition of ecocide since the products of the process is not made farm ready.

The proposal modifies the industrial process to prepare the soil for food pro duction on an elevated landscape that separates decontaminated soil and doubles as a viewing deck and cultural institue for local residents to engage

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with remediation, rehabilitation and a new form a urban living post-toxicit y.

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Advanced Studio VI 1 . A xonometric Section of the Masterplan showing the new soil rehabilition factor y and superstructures .

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Advanced Studio VI 1 . Plan low-rise housing is paired with new decontaminated farmland .

2 . Diagram The In Pile Thermal Desorption pro cess relies on cement blo cks heat wells to decontaminate dioxin .

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Advanced Studio VI 1 . Elevation A new factor y building that b ecomes the new center for soil remediation and sor ting .

2 . Perspective C ommunal gardens weave with private gardens to ser ve on-site residents and cit y population, ensuring a clean source of fo od for the needing .

3 . Diagram Flowchar t in section for to show alternate pathway of soil instead of b eing landf ill .

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Advanced Studio VI 1 . Visualization Soil sor ting and testing is transformed into an open process and resource that can be har vested and engaged with by residents .

The organization of the soil rehabilitation factor y references galler y spaces to cross reference the ecological, cultural and industrial programs .

2 . Plan The factor y functions as a circulation core for the superstructure’s farming and living facilities .

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