Izzy Chew Architecture Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

Isabelle Chew

CONTACT

916.622.7673

isabellechew02@gmail.com linkedin.com/in/isabellechew

PHILOSOPHY

I seek to capture the human condition in the spaces we craft. Architecture has the power to shape our ideas for a just world into a reality where this profession is a continual progression to hone the energy of our environments with care. Design brings me closer to an understanding of our desire for connection across time and generations; it is my passion to study and share a design for people to discover their own passions.

HARD SKILLS

*Software Revit

Lumion

Rhinoceros

AutoCAD

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe InDesign Microsoft Office

Google Workspace

*craft hand drawing graphic design modeling poetry

SOFT SKILLS

adaptive problem solving creative collaboration project management presentation communication

HOBBIES

bouldering collecting vinyls and cds drawing in ink and oil pastel mini-scrapbooking knit fashion accessories

EDUCATION

University of Oregon

Bachelor of Architecture

Minor in Interior Architecture and Creative Writing

WORK EXPERIENCE

University of Oregon Esports Program Oregon Esports Media/News Team Coordinator

Oregon Esports Valorant Team Manager

Lead 10 skilled artists, writers, and video content creators to produce graphic promo for 5 competitive teams Manage the program website with 60 player biographies and 20 developing stories about video game events

University of Oregon Kultura Pilipinas Co-Director

Public Relations + Media Fusion Coordinator

Lead 9 resilient Event Coordinators to create a strong and safe community of Filipino-Americans across 5 events

Host the NorthWest Filipino American Student Alliance Annual Filipino Olympics in 2024 for 40 universities

University of Oregon American Institute for Architecture Students Event Coordination Committee

Secretary

Produced Introduction Video for WQ Video Roll Call among 120 universities at National AIAS Conference, FORUM Hosted Portfolio and Resume Review nights for 50+ stu dents, College of Design Professors, and Administrative staff

Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED)

Paid Intern

Drew 200+ construction details and plan adjustments on Revit for Livermore High School Athletic Complex 40 weekly hours of mentorship under Chris Ramm, Malou Sanchez, and Thanh Tran

PROJECTS

U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Student Designer, Group Competition Finalists

Design with a group of 4 students towards a net-zero adaptive use K-12 school in Kharkiv, Ukraine

Utilize Revit, Rhino, Lumion, and IESVE for 3D model daylight and energy analysis for sustainable strategies Utilize Tally for life cycle analysis and RSMeans for market analysis to source culturally responsive, local materials

The Racks Thrift Co. Interior Designer

Collaborate with 2 local thrift businesses to design their first storefront at the downtown 5th Street Market Design with a team of 4 cross-disciplinary students towards the register area’s counter and staging 2020-2025

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2024 | Winter Studio ARCH484 Building Hope: A Net-Zero School on Sites of War and Political Conflict | Professor Ihab Elzeyadi U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon Finalists, University of Oregon Representatives

Isabelle Chew, Ben Michel, Renee Relf, Quincey Dunlap

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E.G.G.

2023 | Fall Studio IARC484 | Academic Incubator at the Romania Building | Professor Merike Mighell

In collaboration with the Lundquist College of Business Center for Entrepreneurship

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TIBER ACADEMY

2023 | Rome Study Abroad OROM488 | Strata: Reimagining the Roman House through the Ages | Professor Esther Hagenlocher University of Oregon and Pantheon Institute

Isabelle Chew, Casey Aslan

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PORTLAND ARTS CENTER

2023 | Spring Studio ARCH384 | Performing Arts Hub in Portland | Professor Stephen Duff

Isabelle Chew

Sunflower 46 is a net-zero K-12 school in Kharkiv, Ukraine that is dedicated to restoring the community devastated during the war between Ukraine and Russia. Our approach to regenerative design combines the adaptive use of the existing building and new construction of autonomous classrooms to respect traditional building systems and integrate innovative technologies. This built our design principles around the concept of architecture as the third teacher, cultural material recovery, and biophilic healing. These strategies manifest in recycling the rubble from the shelling debris and honoring Ukranian resilience.

KHARKIV, UKRAINE

In response to the destruction of the war, our vision of hope relies on trauma-informed design to build safe spaces for a nation’s children to learn and thrive. The partial shelling debris will be recycled into the new concrete floors and the sunlight will be harnessed as energy through a solar atrium, greenhouses, and photovoltaics to promote healing through nature.

REVIT

MODEL AND LUMION RENDER BY RENEE RELF AND IZZY CHEW

1. Malyshev, Dmytro. Стадіон школи №46. Google Images. Google, May 2023. https://maps.app.goo.gl/tafkMMGDNac3Ydqy7.

2. Grabowska, Sam, et al. 2021. Architectural Principles in the Service of Trauma Informed Design. Denver, CO: Shopworks Architecture, Center for Housing and Homelessness Research at University of Denver, and Group 14 Engineering

RHINO MODEL UNDERLAY BY QUINCEY DUNLAP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR DIAGRAMS BY IZZY CHEW

ACTIVE + PASSIVE SYSTEMS

A passive solar heating and cooling system that consists of an aperture, exposed south facade with moveable louvers, a central pool that serves as thermal mass and mitigate humidity, and a rock thermal storage unit for delayed redistribution. The double skin facade serves as an additional layer to trap heat from high daylight exposure on the south facade.

A fixed-film ecological sewage treatment that combines wastewater technology with the purification process of wetlands to recycle greywater within the facility.

More commonly known as PVs, all panels are fixed at a 30 degree angle towards the south face. The PVs on the covered walkway between the south classroom wing and cafeteria are comprised of bi-facial cells that can capture energy from both sides.

This intensive green roof has 10” of media depth to support barrels of various produce in the 5A climate zone such as carrots and lettuce. Students are encouraged to pick their own crops when they’re in season for their lunch break.

The gutters within the winter gardens and greenhouses all lead towards an underground water tank that assists the geothermal heat pump to power the radiant concrete flooring.

May also be referred to as GeoExchange, this system harnesses heat energy from termperature hot spots (the football field) in the shallow crust of the earth and transfers steam from the water vapor generated by the rainwater collection.

1. . 1981. “Solar Atrium: a hybrid solar heating and cooling system”. United States. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6465889. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6465889.

2. Office of Water. “Wastewater Technology Fact Sheet: The Living Machine.” Washington D.C.: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, October 2002.

3. Breuning, Jorg. “Intensive Green Roof.” Green Roof Technology, October 16, 2021. https://greenrooftechnology.com/green-roof-finder/intensive-green-roof/#:~:text=An%20Intensive%20Green%20Roof%20or,flowers%2C%20shrubs%20and%20large%20trees.

REVIT MODEL BY RENEE RELF AND IZZY CHEW ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR DIAGRAM BY IZZY CHEW

FLOOR

FLOOR

SOLAR ATRIUM LIBRARY

Our facade comprises of a steel bar and tension cable system that suspends terracotta tiles in a randomized scattered pattern to imitate the stippled light that comes through leaves in a nearby tree. This system is resilient to the 5A climate zone weather of heavy snow and rain present throughout the majority of the school year.

FACADE

FACADE SKETCH ITERATIONS

A POEM FOR UKRAINE

RUINS AND RESILIENCE

SEEDS IN TOIL

FRIGID SOIL SOLELY PLANTED HERE TO DIE GRASP THE DIRT IT FALLS OUT LOOSE YOU DROP YOUR SOUL AND DRY YOUR EYES

YOUR HEART, A PIT A SHELL OF IT

LIES IN YOUR PLACE INSTEAD IN SILENT DUST

I WISH, I MUST, MOVE FORWARD, LOOK AHEAD

I BREAK THE GROUND

I REACH FOR SKIES

I SEE IT RIGHT AS RAIN

THE FAINTEST RAYS WILL SPELL A SIGN

MY PROMISE STANDS THE SAME

I GROW DESPITE

THE DARK I DARE

I FOUND RESPITE

THE WAY I CARE WILL HELP ME BLOOM BEYOND THIS WEARY HEART, THIS BEATING SONG

I’VE KNOWN THIS TUNE FOR YEARS

I MOURN THE LOST, THE YOUTH

THE SCOPE OF WAR AND PEACE

I CAME TO SEEK

THE COST

THE TRUTH OUR HOPE

The E.G.G.

The Romania Academic Incubator for Entrepreneurial Genesis and Growth

FALL STUDIO IARC 484 | PROFESSOR MERIKE MIGHELL

INTERIOR ARCHTIECTURE STUDIO | AN ACADEMIC INCUBATOR AT THE ROMANIA CENTER

Inspired by the anatomy of mammalian and microbial cells, energized by the symbiotic relationship of order and entropy, the E.G.G. (Romania Academic Incubator for Entrepreneurial Genesis and Growth) is a vessel to generate collective innovation on the pulse of biology and technology. As the heartbeat of Eugene, the mission to make human of the machine is to redefine the collaborative process of work into creation through human trial and error and ultimately, adaption through dynamic spaces. My five guiding principles are adaptive reuse, community engagement, accessibility and inclusivity, future-proofing, and biophilic comfort.

DRAWING PROCESS

The “V”s help me gauge space to space visibility while the arrows help me find the most common walking paths.

In the smaller diagrams, I gauge space proximity to increase informal meetings across disciplines.

Here, I’m pathing vertical circulation and accessibility through high-security spaces such as the wet labs and machine room. 2 1 3 5 4 6

Starting to imagine the user type and occupancy of these spaces help me prepare support spaces like storage ahead of time.

I start to settle into a design when I can draw any room in my program with multiple furniture layouts.

Sometimes in cleaner drawings, you can tell I’ve lost my creative mojo by the lack of frantic marks and callouts for the next one.

1/32”=

SECTION ELEVATION: ROMANIA SHOWROOM

SECTION ELEV A TION: ROMANIA SHO W ROO M

1/8”=1’0”

1/16”=1’0”

SECTION ELEVATION: COWORKING SPACE

SECTION ELEV A TION: CO-W ORKING S PA CE S

1/8”=1’0”

1/16”=1’0”

OCCUPANCY LOAD TABLE

1/64” = 1’0”

FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR EGRESS 1/64” = 1’0”

CEILING PLANS

FF&E

Warehouse Light

PLT LED Linear Fixture

Rolled steel painted white 47.6”x2.8”x3.2”

Hallway Light

Meyda Tiffany LED Pendant Bronze painted grey 60”x60”x17”

Office Light

Mary White Oval LED Light

Aluminum painted white 47.6”x2.8”x3.2”

Pendant Light

Letifly Flowerpot Pendant Light

Iron and Aluminum painted red 16”x10”x5”

scale: 1/64”=1’0”

SUMMER STUDIO OROM488 | PROFESSOR ESTHER HAGENLOCHER

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO | ROME STUDY ABROAD: STRATA | IZZY CHEW, CASEY ASLAN

Tiber Academy respects the past while making space for the future by preserving the Casa Della Farnesina ruins, creating an educational facility that connects across the Tiber River to the Palazzo Farnese and the rest of Rome. Our guiding concepts of exploring the arch embodies unity across time and people; the arch is a connector, the arch is a portal, the arch is a half of a whole. This community around historic preservation and the arts asks guests to witness their own intellectual transformation to listen the wisdom of the past and create with the tools of the future.

Inspiration from the flat Roman brick, material we used for our walls.

ROME, ITALY

THE SITE

THE SITE

The site serves as a point of connection between the city of Rome and the serenity of Tiber Academy is inspired by the hunting grounds and manicured garden at Villa Lante. Our largest public garden has direct access from Via della Soala. The trivium is the main entrance connecting the road, bridge, and inner courtyard for maximum harmony.

The site serves as a connection between the bustle of Rome and the serenity of the Tiber Academy. A two-garden approach, inspired by the duality of the hunting grounds and manicured garden at Villa Lante, created a divide between the public and private realms. Our large public garden provides an easy and direct access from the Via della Scala which acts as a public park that connects to the architectural ruins of the Casa della Farnesina. One is expected to explore the space and stumble through the various tree clusters to the fountains providing a visual and audible connection to the neighboring River Tiber. The trivium is the main entrance and connects the Via della Scala to the walking path bridging over the ruins and directly to the walking path leading to the river bridge, providing an easy-to-navigate approach for first-time visitors. The walking path ties the space together through a connection of the private, public garden and bridge to the academy, as well as by providing both an elevated view above the excavated ruins and ramps and stairs allowing one to walk through the ruins.

The site serves as a connection between the bustle of Rome and the serenity of the Tiber Academy. A two-garden approach, inspired by the duality of the hunting grounds and manicured garden at Villa Lante, created a divide between the public and private realms. Our large public garden provides an easy and direct access from the Via della Scala which acts as a public park that connects to the architectural ruins of the Casa della Farnesina. One is expected to explore the space and stumble through the various tree clusters to the fountains providing a visual and audible connection to the neighboring River Tiber. The trivium is the main entrance and connects the Via della Scala to the walking path bridging over the ruins and directly to the walking path leading to the river bridge, providing an easy-to-navigate approach for first-time visitors. The walking path ties the space together through a connection of the private, public garden and bridge to the academy, as well as by providing both an elevated view above the excavated ruins and ramps and stairs allowing one to walk through the ruins.

DRAWING PROCESS

SOLIDIFYING BIG IDEAS

EXPLORING EXPLODED AXONS

CONSIDERING BRIDGE ACCESS

In this project, I decided to take on writing a poem for all the stops on one of our walking tours in Florence but drawing with only 7 strokes. I would be limited in drawing, so I’d have to capture the moment with just my words. Here they are below. Enjoy.

outdoor courtyards as indoor rooms with the sky as the roof. It was most interesting to compare furniture types due to their usage inside and outside.

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC

represents the arch Rome with the inner workings site underneath.

Curved roof represents the arch as well as the hills of Rome with the infrastructure and inner workings of the buildings and site underneath.

creates arches dimensions of space manifesting itself through elements and in the experience within. underground, the history of ourselves. changes represent ages past unearthed advancement, ever everlasting.

The site creates arches across four observable dimensions of space and time, manifesting itself through both a physical and emotional experience..

The physical level change that happens when stepping into a dig site represent our past being unearthed.

site lies the ruins,but also what lies ahead. This underground allows us to stay grounded reminding us to respect the create for the future.

This large access basement beneath the gardens provide shade for excavators and students alike, reminding us to stay grounded with ourselves.

create respond to organization more needs of students the utilitzed boundaries weave in organiacross close human.

FLOOR PLANS

FUN FACT! BOTH OF THESE PIECES TOOK ME 30 HOURS EACH TO PRODUCE OVER THE COURSE OF

1. Dormitory

2. Bathroom

3. Common Area

4. Large Overhang Balcony Area

1. City Garden

2. Half-Moon Pool

3. Semi-Covered Walkway

4. Double Arch Facade

5. Art Gallery

6. Art Studios

7. Classroom

8. Library

9. Commercial Kitchen

10. Restaurant

1. Uncovered Ruins

FACADE STUDY

FROTTAGE

These frottages are from a study using charcoal and fine-pressed paper to take an impression of an interesting texture during our tour through Ostia Antica and other Roman inventions such as the brick roads and travertine capstones. Casey and I traded for each new texture during this trip.

The most precious memory of this trip was seeing a mosaic of the lighthouse of alexandria . It was an understanding across time that someone else had dreamed of its beam and perhaps commissioned an artisan or did it themselves to see if they could share this dream with another person.

NORTH EAST-FACING ELEVATION

FEATURED SKETCH WORK

SKETCH WALK

BUILDING ELEVATIONS AND SECTIONS

These preliminary sketches exemplify our use of arches as our guiding motif and concept throughout this complex. The ones shown here are our progression through di erent arrangements of arches that we’ve considered in our final design: endless and timeless.

These preliminary sketches exemplify our use of arches as our guiding motif and concept throughout this complex. The ones shown here are our progression through different arrangements of arches that we’ve considered in our final design: endless and timeless.

NORTH WEST-FACING ELEVATION

CROSS SECTION

Inspiration from the flat Roman brick, a material we used for our walls.

NORTH WEST-FACING ELEVATION

NORTH EAST-FACING

ELEVATION

LONG SECTION

CROSS SECTION

These preliminary sketches exemplify our use of arches as our guiding motif and concept throughout this complex. The ones shown here are our progression through di erent arrangements of arches that we’ve considered in our final design: endless and timeless.

Inspiration from the flat Roman brick, a material we used for our walls.

SPRING STUDIO ARCH 384 | PROFESSOR STEPHEN DUFF

ARCHITECTURE STUDIO | PERFORMANCE ARTS HUB IN PORTLAND

The Portland Hub for Dramatic Arts is a center for all performance arts and occassional visual media such as film and traditional painting. This center boasts a black box theatre, a white box theatre, two beautiful dance studios and a fabrics’ workshop next door, media library for those interested in learning theatre tech, and classrooms for students who attend our summer programs. The Portland Hub is also a great place to catch up with friends over a cup of coffee or a quick tune up for any musician. It’s location in the Pearl district of Portland, OR is sure to enrich the community with performance arts and beauty.

STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC RENDERS

1/8” = 1’0” Congregation Education Production Expression Inspiration 5 4 3 2 1

1/16” = 1’0”

1/16” = 1’0”

1/16” = 1’0”