Jennifer zhang arch 20 final portfolio

Arch 20 Portfolio Jennifer Zhang CCSF / Fall 2016

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My Favorite Building

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Array Tools & Patterns

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III. Tiny House Projec

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My Tool / Improved Tool

V. Mid-Century Modern Architecture for the 21st Century - MIT Chapel

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Saint Joseph Parish / Mission San Jose

Mission San Jose is a Spanish mission located in the city of Fremont, California. It was founded on June 11, 1797 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen. It is the fourteenth of the 21 Spanish Missions in Alta California.

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MULTIVIEW DRAWINGS OF MISSION SAN JOSE

SECTIONS AND ELEVATION

FLOOR PLAN 5

Array Tool Exercises - Cube Array The exercises provide me an great opportunity to practice how to create and manipulate the component.

Strength: I was able to create a simple repeated object in order to generate a pattern or component, which lay a great foundation for the future projects.

Weakness: I spend too time to get familiar with this tool.

Opportunities: The tool is very useful in the future project once master it to create repetitive objects.

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Array Tool Exercises - Cube Array

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Array Tool Exercises - Trellis

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Array Tool Exercises - Pattern

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Tiny House - Group project : Taped Floor Plan & Session

Strengths: As red team, We learned to worked together to deliver the floor plan in time.

Weakness: we spend more time making the tape straight or making sure the measurement is accurate.

Opportunities: If we were to do this in the future, we would spend more time in architecture design.

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Drawings of floor plan, section and axon

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Tiny House - individual project

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Originally the Tiny House was a two-story flat roof tiny house which has an external stairs lead to the front door on the second story. It has a reverse floor plan which has living area on 2nd floor while bedroom and bathroom on the bottom floor.

The huge two story glass window gives the house plenty of light to overcome the small living space.

The roof top garden adds enjoyment of yard when lot is limited to the house size. The operable skylight window gives more light to the house.

The Tiny House was then re-design to a one story box type tiny house.

Inside It has huge ceiling in the living/kitchen area and split to 2 stories at the back. This will create a nice two-story area with bedroom on top floor and bathroom at the bottom.

With door opening in the middle it creates a nice L-shape for the living area.

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Floor Plan

The Tiny House Project is designed for practicing how to module a complete house. It provided me the opportunity to learn details of how to use the tools of Sketchup we learned to create the plans, sections, elevations, etc. I also learned how to use the Layout to put all the generated plan, sections, elevations together and have a physical printout of architecture design.

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Section

Tiny House Elevations

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Backyard View

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It is very nice to have this project not only give me the opportunity to practice from design to implement it to a plan for presentation, it also provided me opportunity to work with group people. I also did presentation in front of group people which also improve my presentation skills.

Tiny House Front View Since I didn’t have enough practice yet to manipulate the tools of Sketchup, so the details of the plan is limited to the skills I have to implement it.

If I were to do the project again in the future, I will focus on the managing grouping of each individual part of the house, organising the structure of the layout, and explore more of the tools and functions, instead of paying too much attention on how to create a “Best” tiny house in the world.

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Tool Project - NutCracker Original Tool

The Tool Project is to module a household tool with SketchUp and make improvement later on. I chose a nut cracker for the tool to be improved.

The original nutcracker does not hold the nut firm enough when I try to crack a walnut with it. it sometimes doesn’t crack the walnut at all. Also after cracking the nuts, the broken pieces fall all the way around the place.

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Improved Tool Exploded Axon

I improool and provide an improvement of the tool.

This new nutcracker improved the contact points of cracking touch and the the handle. It also add a giant bowl to hold the nuts and shells after cracking.

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Strengh: I learned to use various tool including new tools just learned such as follow Me, soften edges, intersect, etc to draw irregular shape and make the edge more real.

Weakness: I had a difficulty to make the round corner of handle and cup shape of the bowl.

Opportunities: If I were to do the project in the future, I will sharpen my moduling skills before I start to module the tool.

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Mid-Century Modern Architecture for the 21st Century Project

For this project I choose The MIT Chapel which was designed by famous architect Eero Saarinen.

The purpose of the project is to continue improving the modeling skills of SketchUp. 21

Floor Plan

Roof Plan

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Session

Scene from Front

East Elevation

South Elevation

North Elevation

West Elevation

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Perspective model of the MIT Chapel

The marble altar with a metal sculpture

The custom-designed organ set

Strengths: the modeling of the building is a group project. It gave me another opportunities to work with other team member.

I module the statue, the organ set and metal sculptures and the final touch of the modeling.

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The stained glass entryway leads to the chapel

Weakness: I spend a lot of time studied the the object to be modeled such as the organization of the organ set, actual size of statue and distance between the metal pieces of the metal sculptures.

Opportunities: If I were to do this in the future, I will learn how to work more efficiently with other people in a team by dividing parts to each person to avoid the overlap of work.

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Moat of MIT Chapel

The original building has a few major issues. One is the high maintenance of moat surround the building. In winter time, water becomes ice in the moat which will cause potential cracking of foundation. So water has to be drained during winter time. Therefore The light effect of the light effect inside is invisible during after of the year.

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Original Vew of Inside

With the only dome skylight and light from the small moat, The lighting inside is limited, dominated by the dart brick color inside the building.

Drawings of MIT Chapel

I change outside pool with glass instead of water To solved the water problem. I also add a thin layer of white stucco to the existing exterior brick wall to give the MIT chapel a new look.

With existing 30 feet height, I add another 20 feet to the top of the building and add a ring-shape skylight to improve the natural light inside.

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New MIT Chapel

inside look with new ring-shape skylight

The beautiful marble altar and the metal sculpture remain unchanged, but with more natural light coming from background.

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New MIT Chapel Drawings

Section The exploded axon shows each component of the building: ● Statue on roof top ● New circular roof with glass ring at the edge ● Metal Sculpture ● Bricked interior wall ● Stucco on top of original bricked exterior wall ● The walkway, organ set, wood wall, altar ● basement

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New Roof Plan & New Perspective

I improved the skills a lot during this last project. I was able to bring my architectural idea into my model, manipulating the tools I learned.

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MIT Chapel background

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The MIT Chapel was designed by famous architect Eero Saarinen in 1955.

It is located in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

This cylindrical building’s unique and beautiful design make it a great example of mid-century modern architecture in the United states.

The main building a windowless double brick cylinder, which has 50’ in diameter and 30’ high.

The architect chose rough brick pattern to create textured effect of outside and inside.

The interior wall design transform into a light box that absorbs the light from the small moat and the skylight.

The chapel has a solid white marble altar in the center of a circular marble platform.

There is a beautiful metal sculpture hangs from the domed skylight to the altar reflecting light from above.

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