ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO - JASON

To decide where we are going from here ...

For, with, and by nature ...

It’s a story about what happens when nature and culture unite

CULTURE NATURE SUSTAINABILITY UNION

True architecture begins with nature-inspired design ... And ends with design-inspired nature

DESIGN THINKING PROCESS

Year: 2021 - Present

Location: 3825 Highway 7 E, Markham, ON

Status: Under Construction

Role: Project Coordinator, SD DD

Skills: - Coordinate with clients, consultants including Structural and MECH engineers, Code, Traffic and other team members under guidance of the Arch Associate; - SD & DD Drawings focused on SPA, Zoning, Permit Set ensuring all code, zoning requirements and clients’ needs are met

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Bluebeam, Excel, Photoshop. UPTOWN

Height: 36-38 storeys (4 storey Podium)

Height: 30-30 storeys (6 storey Podium)

Role: Arch. Designer, SD DD

Skills: - Shadow Study, Grade Elevations, unit layouts;

- Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Photoshop.

Year: 2021 - Present

Location: 295 Jarvis St, Toronto, ON

Status: Pre-Construction

Height: 36 storey tower, 351 units

Role: Arch. Designer, SPA

Skills: - SPA drawings; - Detail drawings

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Excel, Photoshop.

Year: 2019

Location: 161 Eglinton Ave E, Toronto

Status: Complete

Height: 33 storeys

Role: Arch. Designer, Presentation

Skills: - Rendering,Presenting

Software: Revit, Enscape, Photoshop.

Year: 2021

Location: Boca Raton, Florida

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Arch. Designer

Skills: - Hand sketches, SD drawings

- Rendering

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, V-Ray, Photoshop.

Year: 2023

Location: 1695 Weston Rd, Toronto

Status: Pre-Construction

Height: 24 storeys

Role: Arch. Designer,

Skills: - Rezoning & DD drawings

Software:Revit,AutoCAD, Bluebeam,Photoshop.

Year: 2019

Location: 3585 Mavis Rd, Mississauga, ON

Status: Design Development

Height: 1 storey factory, 3 storey office

Role: Arch. Designer,

Skills: - DD drawings

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, Bluebeam, Enscape, Photoshop.

Year: 2020

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Modelling Freelancer

Skills: 3D modelling

Software: Revit

Year: 2020

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Modelling Freelancer

Skills: 3D modelling

Software: Revit, Dynamo

KBL MOTEL

Year: 2016

Location: Tan Binh, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Status: Completed

Height: 6 storeys, 24 rooms

Role: Project Lead (Architect), SD DD CD

Skills: - Coordinate with client, consultants including Structural and MECH engineers, Code, Traffic and other team members under guidance of the Arch Director;

- SD, DD, CD Drawings

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Acrobat Pro, Excel, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

INNOVATION CENTRE

Year: 2015

Location: Distric 7, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Status: Design Development

Height: 12 storeys

Role: Project Lead (Architect), SD DD CD

Skills: - Coordinate with client, consultants including Structural and MECH engineers, Code, Traffic & other team members under guidance of the Arch Director;

- SD, DD, CD Drawings

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Acrobat Pro, Excel, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

HOA BINH BUILDING

Year: 2017

Location: Cau Giay, Ha Noi, Vietnam

Status: Conceptual Design

Height: 22 storeys - 4 towers

Role: Project Architect, Team leader

Skills: - Coordinate with client

- Hoa Binh Group, consultants including Structural and MECH engineers, Code, Traffic and other team members under guidance of the Arch Director;

- SD Drawings

Software: Revit, AutoCAD, SketchUp, Acrobat Pro, Excel, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

SEHWA OFFICE

Year: 2017

Location: Binh Duong, Vietnam

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Freelancing Architect

Skills: Meet with client, Site Analysis, Design, Render and Present

Software: Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

SALES GALLERY

Year: 2016

Location: Hanoi, Vietnam

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Freelancing Architect

Skills: Design, Render and Present

Software: Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

LONG HAI RESORT

Year: 2015

Location: Vung Tau, Vietnam

Status: Master Plan Design

Role: Bungalow Villa Designer

Skills: Site Analysis, Bungalow Villa Analysis, Design Render

Software: Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

COMPLEX BUILDING

Year: 2017

Location: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

Status: Conceptual Design

Role: Project Architect

Skills: Site Analysis, Design Render

Software: Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop.

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MOSAIC HOME

THE Location: 299 Grenadier St, Toronto Lot Area: 451 sqm

Year: 2020

Role: Team Leader|Designer|Rendering|Presentation Board|Documenting Awards: OAAAS Student Awards For Excellence In Architectural Technology

Here+Now Competition - The American Institute of Architects

“What if sustainability could be a part of increasing your quality of life?”

Jason Tran

SketchUp

Revit

Insight Photoshop

V-Ray InDesign

concept statement

A house of the 21st-century should exploit Context, Technology-sustainability, and Connectivity into its musing design and create a relevant and contemporary home. Following the idea of “integration but not assimilation”, a unique design with an organic story reflects the symbiosis between individuals and society and plays the role of a singular ‘tile’ contributing to a complete cultural Mosaic of society. 1

Tradition Building of Swansea Community Swansea Community Map

SITE ANALYSIS

The Mosaic Home is located in the Swansea neighbourhood, one of the oldest inhabited areas in Toronto, abundant in natural-heritage features including hilly topography and facing High Park and Grenadier Pond.

Wind Roses (Billy Bishop Airport)

THE MOSAIC HOMEA STORY TELLER 3

The clients, an elderly couple who served for 40 years in the medical field, have a son and a daughter in their 40s who are both married with children. The client has recently retired and wanted a home that would bring all members of their 3-generational-family together under one roof. Their daughter has a disabled son, requiring that the entire home be accessible. Lastly, the clients are proponents of a good design that respects the environment, historic site, and community.

Bubble Diagram

From Tiles to Mosaic

Circulation Considerations Giving forms

Conceptual Model with Analysis

concept DIAGRAMS 5

The Client asked for a 3-semi-separateunit Home (3 blocks stacked on top each other)

The 3 Blocks were shifted toward the North to increase green roof areas as well as contact with sunlight and nature Unit 2 is rotated clockwise to resign space for a courtyard where will be a place to gather family members The roofs of Unit 1 and 3 are declined toward the South and the roof of Unit 2 is lifted to utilize solar energy The 2nd stair is added to bring members comforts to easily reach out to each other as well as ensure safety for the Mosaic Home

Exploded Diagram 6

Since the building will be built within a context with rich natural features, a central courtyard and green-roofgardens play the role of bringing nature deeper within the home and creating an intimate gathering environment for the family.

The Mosaic Home tends to “disappear” in the existing landscape with a minimalist design that arouses people’s curiosity; however once entering it is entirely new experience, enjoyed by all and defines a new concept of what a contemporary home should be.

The Mosaic Home, with its distinct users and stories, is an authentic and inspiring design that accommodates individual needs and creates connections between family members, community, nature and society as a whole.

(Front) South Elevation (Right Side)

Elevation (Rear & Main) North Elevation (Left Side)

Unit 2 Interrior Perspective

Longitudinal 3D Building Section

INTERTWINE YOGA CENTRE

- Joseph Pilates IT

“It’s the space that shapes the generations”

- Jason Tran “It’s the mind that shapes the body”

Project Scenario:

- To design a permanent, freestanding 1 storey building to be located within the environmentally sensitive Tollkeeper’s Park and to serve as a community and/or public-use facility

- To focus on green building and sustainability; the building must either be wood frame structure, and/or greensensitive recycled and/or reused materials

• The first time I arrived at the site when the sun was setting, I was touched and time stood still. I could see, hear, smell, touch, and feel. It was a beautiful moment.

• Maintaining the landscape was the intent of the project.

KEY PLAN

1INTEGRATION

It was started from studying the existing site to fully understand its connection with nature. The Semienclosed garden helped bring back a part of nature into the building. Instead of being an addition of the site, the yoga studio is now a part of it. The Yoga studio is now a substance connecting nature and practitioners, the three are intertwined.

BUBBLE DIAGRAM

SUSTAINABILITY 2

Proper angles are calculated in the range of 27° - 78° to ensure that minimum of 30% of practice areas are covered with natural light either directly or reflectedly during the day throughout all seasons. This helps practitioners stay connected with nature during their practices.

The northern wall is mostly vertical and solid to block the windflows from the hills whereas the southern wall acts like a green slope with Self Cleaning photocatalytic cement panels (green roof insulated with Straw bells) and parametric openings blending in to help this free stand structure fade in its boundary with the existing landscape.

STRAW BELL - SELF CLEANING photocatalytic cement PANEL

The parametric wooden frame is the result of a process based on algorithmic thinking that enables the expression of the Yoga practitioners’ mind, body and soul. Based on the site analysis, the seamless geometry of building envelop and highly insulated exterior cladding are considered an ideal choice. This computational design helps quickly develop prefabricated framing elements, put the complexity and time for construction at ease.

- Educational values: The path to the building is inspired by the site topography. Placing two SmartFlowers and a wind Turbine along the path, not only does the system help generate energy, but also encourage yogis to learn more about the self-sufficiency so that they will appreciate the real values they’re inheriting from the studio.

- 40% more efficient in energy production than traditional solar. SmartFlower’s intelligent dual-axis sun tracking system avoids the major limitations of traditional solar.

- Generate, store & use on demand – on or off grid with an integrated battery storage system, allowing owners to store excess energy for later use.

SmartFlower-Inspired Design, Intelligent Solar Panels

By putting more thought into the design with efficient envelope design and the sustainable and imperative choice of exterior form and material, the building now is self-sufficent.

If putting an impact on the site is unavoidable, let’s choose to put a good impact.

AESTHETICS & MATERIALS

One of the design goals is to avoid distracting elements or exaggerated decorations. Wood acting as a warm material and soft colors helps attendees achieve a certain degree of initial concentration. Wood flooring facilitates, lighter and warmer compression with regular floor contact practises. `

FLOOR

TRAFFIC COMPOSITE™ ¾” THICK BAMBOO FLOORING:

- Canada’s most ecologically sound bamboo flooring.

- Independently tested for low to zero formaldehyde emissions and now available in forest stewardship council certified.

- Fsc is an assurance that the bamboo has been harvested from forests monitored for the protection of endangered species, pesticide use, economic sustainability, and respect for workers’ rights.

CEILING

NADURRA WOOD CORPORATION

Similarly, bamply architectural series™ ¾” thick ceiling (plywood) – is constructed of 100 % renewable Moso bamboo strips which are laminated into several different structural configurations. The sheets are finishgrade plywood customized in triangular shape.

ILLUMINATION

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The light pracitioner connection allows incooperation of the outisde environment and helps to lead the intensions of the practice. A direct but light touch of sun is essential in many Yoga exercises such as sun salutation. Light and shadows, together created a suttle and gentle lighting movement during the day bringing more inner peace and positive energy. When we take in positive thoughts, positive thoughts take over everything.“

InDesign 4

IUNGO RESIDENCE

*IUNGO (Latin) means to unite, to connect

Role: Team Leader|Designer|Rendering Presentation Board|Documenting

Location: Waterfront, Toronto, Lot Area: 5,176 m2

Building Height: 18 stories, Status: OAAAS Architectural Competition

Year: 2020

“Sustainability is key to a great design and a better community”

- Jason Tran

Software / Skills: Hand Sketching

SketchUp

Revit

Insight

Photoshop

V-Ray

1SITE ANALYSIS

CONNECTIVITY

The central courtyard serves as a reminder of the Renaissance period allowing for residents and pedestrians to have common areas and encourages interaction with each other and with nature on the site.

SUSTAINABILITY

The green space courtyard gives back what construction’s toll will take on the environment while creating an interesting and vibrant area for all who visit. The strucutre was mostly a combanation of concrete and mass timber which help meet LEED and the Toronto Green Building Standards. The negative impacts of energy and waste are reduced through harnessing solar energy and others.

VIEW FROM LAKE ONTARIO

CONCEPTUAL MODEL

INNOVATION

The shape of the building has an exceptional look, takes advantage of its natural surroundings, and integrates the waterfront community to the fullest. The void center creates a channel for the south-west winds to flow through and up the building bringing in fresh cool air to replace the hot air. The design is conscious of the surrounding buildings by reducing it’s negative impacts on the

3 DESIGN philosophy

The ground floor isn’t touching the site itself replaced by a green courtyard which is accessible by its residents and community creating a welcoming environment in the community.

The open courtyard and terraces play important roles in circulating the air as well as connectting the residents together. Besides, the continuous corridors assure there’s no dead end and/or no travel distance is more than 42 m

INTERIOR VIEW - UNIT 910

INTERIOR VIEW - MAIN LOBBY

4 SUSTAINABILe features

The building itself is an unselfish design and adds to the community site.

The courtyard with central clear-ends void provides natural light to suites on all floors due to placement and eliminates echoes created by residences.

MUSEUM OF HUE

Location: 1 Le Loi, Hue, Vietnam

Status: Graduation Project / Individual

Role: Design | Rendering | Presentating

Board | Documenting

Year: 2013

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”

- Frank Gehry

KEY PLAN The selected site is located at the central region of Hue, which was the capital of Vietnam Kingdom from 17th to 19th century. It's facing and across the Perfume river from The Imperial City which is a walled enclosure within the citadel of the former imperial capital of Vietnam. As an architectural monument in Nguyen Dynasty, Flag Tower of The Imperial City has long become one of the symbols of the ancient capital.

DEMOGRAPHICS

The design thinking started from the dialogue with the site context. Respecting the historical architecture and landscape, the design is transformed including splitting, joining, “folding” to compromise the museum with the contexts and utilize great values as well as bring valuable benefits to the society

The Museum form the city’ Silhouette towards the Historical Flag Tower

Defining the museum’s asis towards the Historic Flag Tower

Form Finding

Conceptual Massing Model

Parametric Framing

Panels Added

Final Product

With 40% volume of the museum built underground or hidden by the backfill to avoid destroying the existing beautiful nature, the museum is rising up from the ground as a new-born “baby” and intertwine with the manmade hill as an appealing landmark with all respect to all surrounding architectures

Working with real massing models at the very beginning inspires and contributes to the conceptual design process as well as allows me to create a design that promotes the endeavors of its occupants while eliciting an emotional response in both the interior and exterior environment.

MODEL

... It is not just about shells and forms ...

A persuasive story of history is writen by a contemporary museum in a contemporary way and sending that to the community and let people enjoy and explain it in their ways. It is a transparent bridge to connect humanity with objects around, and must make the world a better place.

Learning from Frank Lloyd Wright, the long and narrow path tightly brings visitors through different contexts like a journey from the past to present before joining the gathering area. Then the giant atrium with a cone-shaped void opens up their feeling like an Eureka effect

BASEMENT FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

Visitors can barely see the building boundary; instead, they see the museum intertwined the hill and the site as a whole. It simply brings a feeling of a man-made mountain along the axle of the city connecting historical monuments.

Latitudinal cross SECTION

3d section

West ELEVATION

STRUCTURAL SIMULATION

The simulating structural model expresses the possibility to build the building with light steel framing structure, poured concrete, and fiber glass reinforced concrete panels

NORTH ELEVATION

MULTI-LEVEL EXHIBITION

exploded diagram

Circulations:

The cone shaped atrium with a spiralling ramp gradually tapering out which informs the external appearance through the understructure of assemblies exposed. That allows viewers to enjoy the structure, indoor and outdoors artworks as well as outward views along the path.

Programmatically, floors connected by a continuous ramp help make the public space assesible.

MAIN LOBBY - ATRIUM

CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITION VIEW museum staircase and opening INTERIOR VIEW “BROKEN cars“

View from the bridge

drawing...is an act

Sketching encourages open minded thinking and creativity. These can be really helpful for Architecture, general development and solving problems. It is a powerful process that aids in discovering the best ideas and solutions to a design problem.

LIGHTEST BALSA BRIDGE MODEL AMONG OVER 150 STUDENTS’ BRIDGES

Weight: 50Gr | Min. Required Span: 900Mm

Carried Weight: 5 Kg (11 Lbs)

Connections: Pinned (No Glue Allowed)

Year: 2018

STEEL FRAMING SYSTEM MODEL - made from BALSA WOOD

STRONGEST POPSICLE STICK BRIDGE MODEL AMONG OVER 150 STUDENTS’ BRIDGES

Testing Method: Actual Person + Extra Weight Are Applied To The Top Of The Bridge

Connections: Wood Glue And Notches

Required Material: Popsicle Sticks

Total Carried Weight = 708 = Highest Ratio Bridge’s Weight

Carried Weight (My Body + Weight): 85Kg

MMaking physical model helps me explore the potentials of the project as well as possibilities of having different solutions. It also helps the brain always think in 3 dimensions and ignite our imagination. Like hand sketching, when I cut a piece of paper and put it stand up, it will not be a perfect shape, my imagination will define what it is at the time.

We could always switch to another idea instantly and make another piece to fit with the new thought. By touching the wooden pieces, cutting the foam, our brain and senses all work together.

COACH HOUSE MODEL

GRADE: 47/50

YEAR: 2018

design thinking with clay design thinking with structural foam