Tuan Pham - Portfolio Spring 2024 | University of Waterloo Architecture Undergraduate

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Tuan Pham OAA Student Associate Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies (Hons.) University of Waterloo - 2025

www.linkedin.com/in/tuan-phamt53pham@uwaterloo.ca +1 506 - 874 - 7682 issuu.com/hiimtuan

Work Experience WORKac

SWON Ltd.

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Architectural Intern

Architectural Consultant

Architecture Student Worker

Sep - Dec 2022 | New York, NY

Jan - Apr 2022 | Toronto, ON

Jun - Aug 2023 | Vancouver, BC

+ Cornell AAP - Sibley Hall Renovation + Packer Collegiate Student Centre Renovation

+ Cornell AAP - Sibley Hall Renovation + Packer Collegiate Student Centre Renovation

+ UBC Furniture Replacement Feasibility Study + BC SPCA Behavioral Centre Cowichan - Design Development

Technische Universität München

TUM + Steelcase

Buoyant Foundation Project

Architecture Exchange Semester

Lead User Research - Office Accessibility

Research Assistant

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 | Munich, BY

Oct 2023 - Apr 2024 | Munich, BY

May 2022 - Pres. | Cambridge, ON

Architecture Museum of TU Munich

Snøhetta + Selgascano - Venice Studio Oslo

ICAADE 2023

Exhibition, Curatorial Seminar Project: “City in the Cloud, Data in the Ground”

Production Dynamics: Exploring Alternative Visions for Urban Expansion

Scheduled for mid-2024

Jan 2024 | Madrid, ES

Poster Presentation: ICLR Quick Response Report: Investigating the impacts of the November 2021 - February 2022 Atmospheric River Events in British Columbia

UWSA Design by Riverside Gallery

2023 RAIC Student Work Showcase

Project Review Exhibition

Selected for Exhibition

Nov 2023 | Cambridge, ON

CASA/ACEA | 2023

Education & Research

Exhibition, Conference, and Mentions

Oct 2023 | Cottbus, BB, Germany

Awards & Recognitions Dean’s Honours List

President’s Scholarship of Distinction

Brewed Bali (Competition)

Top 10% Winter & Fall 2021

Entrance average 95%+

Editor’s Choice + Yearbook Feature

University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo | 2020

UNI XYZ | 2021

Digital

Manual

Languages

_Rhino 3D _Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, ReCap _Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign, Lightroom, Premiere Pro) _Grasshopper _Enscape _Lumion _GIS (Mostly ArcGIS Pro) _Unity & Unreal Engine _Microsoft Office Suite

_Physical Modeling _Fabrication (3D Print, Laser Cut, 3D Print) _Woodworking _Stoneworking _Videography _Photography _Sketching/Drafting

_English _Vietnamese _French (A2) _German (A1)

CCA Charrette 2023

Runner-up CCA | 2023

Skills

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About

Table of Content

01_Build Kitchener Creative Class!

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02_Fine Line

12 - 23 Tuan Pham is a third-year architecture student at the University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON with working experience at multiple architectural design firms and research projects, including WORKac in New York and the Buoyant Foundation Project. He is also active in studentrun initiatives and has been recognized for his community involvement.

Tuan’s body of work ranges from architectural to landscape and urban design, with a focus on environmental justice, human experience, and the re-imagination of ubiquitous types/patterns as a form of design exploration.

03_Skylight from a Table

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04_Ingersoll Schoolhouse

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During his exchange semester at the Technical University of Munich, Tuan focuses on the topics of Lead User Research, Product Design, as well as methods of materializing and utilizing data to facilitate discourses in architecture and urban planning. He is currently investigating the material politics of big data for an exhibtion at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in 2025.

05_ & 06_Other Professional Work

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June 15, 2022 Tuan Pham Re: Letter of Recommendation Dear Future Employer, SWON LLC employed Tuam Pham as an Architectural Consultant in our Toronto office from January 2022 to April 2022, during University of Waterloo’s Winter co-op term.

I was impressed by his exceptional commitment to developing and articulating design concepts in close collaboration with his peer and supervisor. He completed described tasks with can-do attitude and levity, effectively building an overall positive work environment for the office. Tuan’s contribution will be sorely missed.

During his time, he worked on residential and cultural projects in Toronto and Southwestern Ontario townships and indigenous reserves: documenting existing conditions and developing as-built drawing sets; assisting in client meeting preparations and minute taking; and developing design drawings and physical study models.

He was resourceful in applying his general knowledge and worldly awareness to the specific problems uniquely present in the ‘invented’ problems of architectural design. He showed keen interest and willingness to play with wide parameters of each project, while attendant to hard deliverables required for design documentation and communication.

I am happy to support his pursuit of any future employment opportunities.

All Best, Igsung So

Principal Consultant Southwestern Ontario Design Consulting / SWON

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01_Come Build Kitchener’s Creative Class!

Let the people build.

The project questions the definitions of agency and citizenship in the archetypal “community centre.” Located in the building that was once a police station, the creative centre is a radical architectural embodiment of a fully autonomous space which participants own and is responsible for. It, therefore, makes extremely visible the health, politics and creative agency of the community as a whole.

+ Rhino + Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Photoshop + Photography

Culture Hub - Adaptive Reuse Kitchener, ON December 2021 | Academic Supervisor: Eric Haldenby

System Model (Screenshot by my tobe employer during my final review)

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Material Panel Samples

Layout Samples

---from cellular blocks to partitions...

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movable

permanent

movable

track system matrix

permanent

existing new

Incubation Theatre Section

Main Theatre Section

...making space for openess, closure, and spontaneous moments ...

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... to create desired private and public moments, and evoke curiosity and communal relationship through generous visual connectivity.

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02_Fine Line “To Walk a Fine Line” “To achieve or maintain a balance” or “to be very close to two different ideas or attitudes at the same time.”

- The Britannica Dictionary “Fine Line” brings humans to the edge condition, allowing them to “walk on thin air” and safely experience the forces of nature in an unprecedented way. It reduces the gap between humans and nature to a fine line, virtually immerse its visitors into the forest scape but at the same time maintains a barrier that separates human presence from the existing site.

“Floating” condition on net (Aviary at Hellabrunn Zoo Frei Otto.)

+ Rhino + Grasshopper + Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Photoshop + Videography + Physical Model

Recreational/Landscape Design Hamilton, Ontario Aug 2022 | Academic Supervisor: Lola Sheppard

1// There is much irony in the relationship between nature and the urban Hamilton habitants: they seek the Escarpment as an escape from the city life, yet of anything else, the solution was to impose a “pedestrian boulevard” in the middle of the greenbelt.

1// Pedestrian Boulevard

Existing Trail

Proposed Passage

2// On Mountain Drive Park, a worn-out playground needs replacement. In this moment, the question is asked: why play in the park when you can play in the forest? Why, on the edge of a beautiful mountain that has so much to offer, did we decide to confine our experience to the banality of lawns and swings and plastic slides?

2// Plastic Slides

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Corporeal study of the human - nature relationship (motion picture) Featured in UWSA Project Review 2023 at Design by Riverside gallery 15

Thus conceived a new mode of

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traversing landscape.

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Parametric form-finding arranges and rearranges modules by topovariations and site elements - vegetation, habitats, etc.

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Lightweight, adaptable, and low-impact structural elements.

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SOCIALIZE

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CONTEMPLATE EXERCISE

Created by Enjang Solehudin from the Noun Project

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Connecting the lawn and the forest.

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03_Skylight from a Table Study Toronto, ON April 2022 | Professional Supervisor: Igsung So w/ Luke Zhang & Igsung So

What a table can do.

The project began as a modeling case study of Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione.

Through this hands-on process, the team has come to appreciate Mari’s brilliance in creating intricate objects from the humble dimensional lumber. The project captures a desire to create an architecture that’s accessible; not heroic, but nonetheless functional and beautiful.

+ Rhino + Enscape + Physical Modeling

Table No. 1, 2, and 3

The project then expanded into a design study for SWON’s main office, showcasing the firm’s mantra through design.

Doorway Study - 1/2”= 1’-0” 26

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04_Ingersoll Museum Schoolhouse Historical Institution Ingersoll, ON April 2022 | Professional - Ongoing Supervisor: Igsung So w/ Luke Zhang & Igsung So

A close study of the historical typology only to design the heck out if it.

The Ingersoll Cheese and Agricultural Museum project calls for an additional foyer for its schoolhouse building, and interior renovation and correction as the existing condition that does not reflect the historical typology.

When finished, the building will be house for reenacting tours that brings visitors back to the 18- and 19-century Oxford County schoolhouse. The process was a study of architectural details of the typology and a design exploration that results in mutations of those designs.

+ Site Measuring + Design Documenting + Rhinoceros 3D + Adobe Illustrator + Adobe Photoshop

On-site measuring of the existing building

The design intervention addresses typological inaccuracies...

14” WOOD BEAM W/ SLIDING TRACKS

3 1/2” CONTINUOUS WOOD WAINSCOTING

NEW BELL TOWER FOYER DOUBLE DOOR

FRONT DOUBLE DOOR

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... while also mutate historical details to distinguish old and new.

2” CONTINUOUS WOOD MOULDING STRIP

12” WOOD FLOOR BOARDS BLACKBORDS (2) 2’4” x 7’0”, 9’9” x 7’0” ON SLIDING TRACKS 12” WOOD FLOORBOARDS (WOOD CEILING BOARD ABOVE) 4”x4” WOOD COLUMN NEW WINDOW 12” WOOD FLOORBOARDS

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Translating the design methodology into construction details.

Weathervane pole Metal roof sheet

Ext. OSB sheathing

Light hip roof framing

Bell

Heavy Timber Framing

DETAIL AXONOMETRICS

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ROOF DETAIL, TYP.

WALL DETAIL, TYP.

CORNER, HORIZONTAL SECTION, TYP.

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05 & 06_Other Professional Work Models for WORKac Following are study models for WORKac’s upcoming projects: schematic design for Cornell Sibley Hall renovation, and design developement for a new student centre at Packers Collegiate.

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Renovation New York, New York Dec 2022 | Professional Supervisor: Amale Andraos, Dan Wood

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05_Cornell Sibley Hall Schematic Design Institutional Dec 2022

Professional | WORKac Supervisor: Amale Andraos & Dan Wood

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design studio

06_Packer Collegiate Presentation Models Institutional Dec 2022

Professional | WORKac Supervisor: Amale Andraos & Dan Wood

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Let’s get in touch! t53pham@uwaterloo.ca (506)874 - 7682 issuu.com/hiimtuan www.linkedin.com/in/tuan-pham-

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