Masters Portfolio 2012

JI CHOI | PORTFOLIO MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE 2010 - 2012

01 VIVANTE COMMUNITY AND CHILDCARE CENTRE

02 THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS...

03 ICFF BAR & KIOSKS

04 HOUSE C2 & CENTER FOR VISITORS

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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS...

SEMESTER 2 DIGITAL STUDIO INSTRUCTORS || DAGMAR REINHARDT

THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL CREATES AN ATMOSPHERE OF CELEBRATION AND INCLUSIVENESS OF THE CITY EVERY JANUARY IN SYDNEY. THE CENTRAL LOCATION OF THE GARDEN PROVIDDS AN OPPROTUNITY, WHERE PEOPLE, MOVEMENTS, AND THE SCENERY CONGLOMERATE AS SPECTACLES AND SPECTATORS AS IT DOES IN A PERFORMANCE. OUR AIM IN DESIGN IS TO RETHINK THE SEPARATION BETWEEN THE VIEWER AND THE PERFORMANCE AND INLUCDE THE AUDIENCE, THE PUBLIC AND THE CITY AS A PART OF SPECTACLE, PART OF THE PERFORMANCE AND THE CARNIVAL. WITHIN THE SITE OF THE FESTIVAL GARDEN, THE MIRRORED FACADE WORKS TO COMBINE ‘THE FAMOUS SPIEGEL TENT’ WITH THE SYDNEY FESTIVAL’S DESIRE FOR AN ACTIVE, ANIMATED AND MODERN FESTIVAL ENVIRONMENT. THE STRUCTURE BECOMES AN INSTRUMENT TO ENLIVEN THE AREA AND THE CITY. THE PLAYFUL REFLECTIONS VISIBLE ROM THE STREET AND HYDE PARK, WOULD INVITE PEOPLE TO INTERACT AS WELL AS CONNECTING THE THEATER TO ITS CITY ENVIRONMENT, THE FRAGMENTATION AND DISTORTION OF THE MIRROR, THEN PLAYS WITH BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES OF REALITY AND FICTION. INITIAL CONCEPT IMAGE

FORM STUDY

GRASSHOPPER | RHINO PARAMETRIC CURTAIN WALL VARIATION SCREEN SHOTS

MIRROR CURTAIN

EXTERIOR VIEW (LEFT) INTERIOR STAGE VIEW (RIGHT)

VIVANTE COMMUNITY CENTER & CHILDCARE SEMESTER 1 SUSTAINABLE STUDIO INSTRUCTORS || PIETRO CHIEFA

LOCATED IN THE HEART OF THE EASTERN RUBURBIA, GRANVILLE SITS AWELL AS DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FAMILIES (I.E. SINGLE MOTHER W CHILDREN, EMPTY NESTERS, RETIREES, ETC). THE PROPOSED SITE, DUCK CREEK SITS IN THE MIDST OF EXISTING PUBLIC PROGRAMS AS TRAIN STATION, TAFE (GOVN’T LOCAL COLLEGE), HIGH SCHOOL, PUBLIC POOL AND LARGE COMMERCIAL CENTERS. WHAT KIND OF PROGRAM AND ARCHITECTURE CAN BE PROVIDED TO SUSTAIN A DYING COUMMNITY AND STEREOTYPED LIFE WITHIN SUBURBIA?

CONCEPT

SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY

HORIZONTAL CIRCULATION DIAGRAMS

CHILDCARE PLAN

ROOF PLAN & EXPLODED ELEVATION

COMMUNITY CTR PLAN

CHILDCARE INTERIOR VIEW (ABOVE LEFT) CHILDCARE SOUTH VIEW (LEFT) COMMUNITY CTR VIEW (ABOVE)

COMMUNITY CTR NE VIEW

SITE AERIALL VIEW

SCAPES AT JAVITZ CONVENTION CENTER:: A COLLABORATION UNDERGRADUATE DESIGN BUILD 2007 INSTRUCTORS || ALFRED ZOLLIINGER

MAGAZINE KIOSK AREA FOR

DOMUS | FRAME | ARBITARE | METROPOLIS

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR (ICFF) IS A REPUTABLE ANNUAL EVENT THAT REPRESENTS CURRENT IN DESIGN. ICFF COMMISSIONED PARSONS SCHOOL OF DESIGN TO CONSTRUCT THEIR BAR AND KIOSK AREA FOR THE EXHIBIT ATTENDEES AND SPONSORING MAGAZINE COMPANIES. THE COLLOABORATION WAS AMONGST 13 INVITED ARCHITECTURE/INTERIOR STUDENTS AND LIGHTING DESIGN STUDENTS. MY ROLE IN THIS PROJECT WAS TO CREATE CONCEPT IMAGES AND WORKING OUT THE DESIGN TO INSTALLATION FOR THE BAR. THE ENTIRE PRODUCTION WAS DESIGNED AND MADE BY STUDENTS INVOLVED. BAR: 96 FOOT LONG HALLWAY WITHIN THE JAVITZ CONVENTION CENTER WAS OUR SITE PROPER. 4-INCH WIDE INDUSTRIAL STRAPS WERE USED TO CREATE A VOLUME AND ALSO DUE TO THE FACT THAT NO IMPACT WAS TO BE MADE TO THE EXISTING CONDITION. APART FROM GIVING A VISUAL VOLUME, THE STAPS DOUBLE FUNCTION AS FASTNERS FOR POP-UP FURNITURE PIECES. BEHIND THE STRAPS ALONG THE LONG WALL SITS THE LIGHTING SYSTEM WITH SCREENS TO GIVE AN AMBIANCE TO THE AREA.

COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION :: A SPACE SEMESTER 3 URBAN STUDIO INSTRUCTORS || ROSS ANDERSON

“Sharing is to ownership what the ipod is to the eight track, what the solar panel is to the coal mine. Sharing is clean, crisp, urbane, postmodern; owning is dull, selfish, timid, backward.”

MARK LEVINE from NY TIMES

THE SITE AT LARGE SITS AMONGST VARIOUS SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURES. IT IS SURROUNDED BY TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES AS UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, UTS, AND UNIVERISTY OF NOTRE DAME, ALL WHICH INCLUDE OVER APPROXIMATELY 80,500 STUDENTS IN TOTAL WITHIN BOTH INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC STUDENT BODY. THE SITE IS ALSO ONLY 100 METERS AWAY FRO THE CENTRAL STATION, WHICH EMBODIES OVER 600,000 DOMESTIC COMMUTERS AND TRAVELLERS A LIKE, PER MONTH. THESE TWO SPECIFIC INFORMATION ALLOCATES TWO LARGE NUMBER OF GROUPS: STUDENTS AND TRAVLLERS, BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL. FOR THESE TWO GROUPS, THE ECONOMY OF ACTIVITIES AND REPLACING ACTIVITIES AWAY FROM HOME CAN BE THEIR MAIN FOCUS. THEREFORE I PROPOSE A BUILDING THAT EMBODIES THE FOLLOWING: - A PLACE FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION - A CENTER FOR VISITORS THAT PROVIDE INFORMATION, BOOKING STATIONS AND OTHER FACTORS THAT COULD BE INFLUENTIAL TO PEOPLE’S REASON OF STAY IN SYDNEY

HOUSE FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION NE VIEW

THERE ARE OVER 600,000 DOMESTIC TRAVELLERS THROUGH THE CENTRAL STATION PER MONTH.

1.2 MILLION FLIGHTS SEATS TRAVEL PER MONTH ROUTES: SYDNEY-BRISBANE-MELBOURNE

GIVEN THE NUMBERS ABOVE, TRAVELLERS THROUGH SYDNEY HAS ENORMOUS POTENTIAL FOR NEW VENTURES AS WELL AS A LARGE DEMAND FOR CITY INFORMATION AND OTHER RELATED ACTIVITIES, FOR THE CITY CURRENTLY DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY CITY GUIDE.

mel_bne: 292,443 syd_bne: 458,540

mel_syd: 780,932 mel_adl: 255,376

COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION IS. . . . . . A SOCIAL MEDIUM

A WAY OF DECENTRALIZAING THE ECONOMY

A WAY OF SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT

PLAZA VIEW

SUMMER/WINTER SOLSTICE SUN STUDY

INITIAL CONCEPT DIGRAMS GATE_SINGULAR

FORM STUDY MODELS

TRAVEL

SITE PLAN

GATE_SUCCESSION | SEQUENCE

TRAVELLING

THE SITE AT LARGE SITS AMONGST VARIOUS SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURES. IT IS SURROUNDEDBY TERTIARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUES AS UTS, USYD, AND UNIV OF NOTRE DAME. APPROXIMATELY 85,000 STUDENTS , BOTH DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL FLOW THROUGH THE AREA A EVERYDAY WITHIN SITE. ONLY 100 METERS AWAY FROM IS CENTRAL STATION , WHICH EMBODIES 300,000 DOMESTIC AND INT’L TRAELLERS PER MONTH. TRAVELERS | STUDENTS | THESE TWO GROUPS, THE ECONOMY OF ACTIVITIES AND REPLACING THE ELEMENT OF HOME ARE THEIR MAIN FOCUS WHEN SETTLING. THEREFORE I PROPOSE THE FOLLOWING:

A SPACE FOR COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION A CENTER FOR VISITORS WITH IN HOUSE BOOKING/EVENT

FORM STUDY MODELS 3D

SECTION AA SECTION BB

SECTION CC

BELOW GRADE

CAR HIRE PARKING ENTRY TO TOOLSHED TOOLSHED

SECTION AA

GROUND LEVEL

HELP/BOOKING DESK VISITORS’ INFO GUIDE PLAZA CAFE/LOUNGE LOBBY FOR HOUSE FOR CC

SECTION BB

LEVEL 2

LAUNDROMAT MEDIA LIBRARY BALCONY OPEN TO PUBLIC CAFE/LOUNGE

LEVEL 3

ROOFTOP CINEMA BALCONY OPEN TO PUBLIC WORK DESK FOR HIRE COMMUNAL KITCHEN

SECTION CC

LEVEL 4

ROOFTOP CINEMA EVENT/WORKSHOP SPACE FOR HIRE

HOUSE OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION

ROOFTOP CINEMA POROSITY PLAZA EVENT SPACE FOR HIRE WORKSHOP SPACE OFFICE FOR HIRE STUDY/WORK SPACE MEDIA LIBRARY/LAUNDROMAT

LOBBY/CAFE/INFORMATION CENTRE FOR VISITORS CAR HIRE/PARKING TOOSHED FOR PUBLIC

SOLID AS LIGHT SOURCE

ROOFTOP CINEMA VIEW

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