Jocelyn Chiou 2022 Portfolio

JOCELYN CHIOU S E L E C T E D

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Har vard GSD | M.arch I 2022

SPATIAL BAY

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SPRING 2019 | HARVARD GSD | CORE II

THE FALSE MONOLITH

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SPRING 2021 | HARVARD GSD | OPT STUDIO

WALK THIS WAY!

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SPRING 2021 | HARVARD GSD | OPT STUDIO

FILM STUDIO

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SPRING 2019 | HARVARD GSD | CORE II

JUMP CUT

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FALL 2018 | HARVARD GSD | CORE 1

OBLIQUE HOUSING

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SPRING 2020 | HARVARD GSD | CORE 1V

ANTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURE

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FALL 2021 | HARVARD GSD | THESIS

MAPPING SAMPLES SUMMER 2021 | HARVARD GSD

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SPATIAL BAY HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2019 CORE 2 CRITIC: MICHELLE CHANG

This project explores the fundamental relationships of part to whole in architecture as it relates to ground. Taking cues from Max Bill’s pinwheel painting, this small-scale pavilion nestles itself into the constructed landscape. The project further investigates how a constraint drawing might contain nuances of spatial, tectonic, and topographic logic, acting as a motherboard for a spatial array.

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PHYSICAL MODEL OF SPATIAL ARRAY

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CONSTRAINT DRAWING

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PHYSICAL MODEL, VIEW OF CEILING

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SITE SECTIONS

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VIEW OF SKYLIGHT

VIEW OF INTERIOR COURTYARD

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THE FALSE MONOLITH HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2021 OPTION STUDIO - M2 CRITIC: SHARON JOHNSTON

In an era in which health equity is a pressing issue, this small-scale civic building strives to be larger than its perceived footprint and radically generous to the community it serves. The wellness center is situated in a context in which an immediate site response may be to fortify and to discourage insurgent activities. However, this building

challenges this approach through its porosity, conceiving of the wellness center as an extension of Lynwood Park. Large scale apertures on the ground level respond to the various site orientations. Rather than fencing off space, security is conceived through programming the edge and allowing for constant views into the courtyard spaces.

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A BUILDING IN THE ROUND - MASSING MODEL

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APERTURE STUDIES - PHYSICAL MODEL

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APPROACH FROM MLK BLVD

VIEW FROM LYNWOOD PARK

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

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STRUCTURAL MODEL

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VIEW INTO ENTRY THRESHOLD

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WALK THIS WAY! HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2021 OPTION STUDIO - M1 CRITIC: TOSHIKO MORI

The I-880 was built in the 1950’s, violently disrupting Oakland’s fabric. Lines of transportation erased full scale blocks, creating leftover space adjacent and underneath the freeway. 3 vibrant neighborhoods lie next to each other, but they are cut off from each other due to lines of transportation. These neighborhoods

of Old Oakland, Jack London Square, and Chinatown each have their distinct characteristics and host cultures of popup food and festivities. But because of the legacy of infrastructure, Oakland has become a city of underpasses. If infrastructure has historically divided, how might a temporary architecture restitch Oakland’s urban fabric?

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WEBSTER ST. UNDERPASS - EXISTING CONDITION

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CHINATOWN

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PHASE 3: FABRIC INSTALLATION

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DAY MARKET STAGING

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This project uses a temporary market to occupy the underpass and to bridge between two neighborhoods. The structure is made from bamboo scaffolding, joined by nylon ties. A path is left open for pedestrians to freely walk through while a raised platform allows the staging of market programs.

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FILM STUDIO HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2019 CORE 2 CRITIC: MICHELLE CHANG

“A shed is performed by its secrets. It is defined by the way it is used rather than what it is. It is not grand; it is subtle. It is the palace of nothing…” – from Drawings Matter: Sheds – Palaces of Nothing The site for this film studio is in the Boston Seaport district, one that is in a state of potential urban transformation and ecological uncertainty. The program is a list of functional requirements for eccentric film productions.

This project strips the shed to its essential components, studying how proportion, light, and circulation can redefine the shed typology. A ramp of public program is inserted into the film studio, bifurcating the shed and film production programs.

Circulation and perspectival views are integrated in the public spine to allow for interaction between the public and film production programs.

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CONCEPT MODEL OF PUBLIC INSERTION

CONCEPT MODEL OF PUBLIC INSERTION IN FILM SHED

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SITE PLAN

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STUDY MODEL OF PROPORTION AND PERSPECTIVAL INSERTION

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION A

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VIEW FACING WATERFRONT

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UPPER FLOOR PLAN

SECTION B

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VIEW THROUGH PUBLIC INSERTION

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FRAGMENT MODEL OF TYP FILM SHED

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JUMP CUT HARVARD GSD | CORE 1 | FALL 2018 DURATION: 4.5 WEEKS CRITIC: SEAN CANTY

The brief calls for the interpretation and reinvention of a building from seemingly incompatible section drawings. The given sections provide distinct and fragmentary figures of a building that must be read together as a pair for logics of organization and repetition capable of motivating a complete project.

In my project, a network of voids and circulation housed in the voids begins to stitch together the two incompatible sections. The building bends to reconcile widths in section and to respond to the site.

The building is a maker space located on a college campus. Circulation at ground level moves serially with the grain of the section projection while circulation in the upper level is thrown off tangents of the bend in massing.

The façade folds into the enclosed interior volume, blurring boundaries between inside and outside.

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CONCEPT MODEL OF VOID/CIRCULATION NETWORK

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MASSING MODEL

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BEND AS STRATEGY TO STITCH THE TWO SECTIONS

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GIVEN SECTION B

GIVEN SECTION A

Evocative of raumplan, spaces aggregated laterally, defined by 4 load-bearing walls

Evocative of free plan, spaces stacked vertically, defined by horizontal floor plates

REINTERPRETED SECTION B

REINTERPRETED SECTION A

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VOID AND CIRCULATION NETWORK

CONCEPTUAL CAMPUS SITE PLAN

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FRONT ELEVATION

REAR ELEVATION

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RAUMPLAN SECTIONAL HALF

FREEPLAN SECTIONAL HALF

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PLAN 1

CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS OF TWO WORLDS Above: Free plan juxtaposed with raumplan section Left: Raumplan, juxtaposed with freeplan section

PLAN 2

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PERSPECTIVES OF VOID SPACE

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OBLIQUE HOUSING HARVARD GSD | SPRING 2020 | CORE 4 COLLABORATOR: SEOYOUNG LEE CRITIC: GRACE LA

Located next to the Stonybrook T station, this project conceptualizes housing and urban landscape as a contiguous, fully connected terrain. Implicit in this act is a resistance to privatization of the landscape and an study of grade as collective tissue.

Challenging the cut-paste and stack nature of dense housing, housing is instead imagined as a terraform, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its interior contour as to its exterior figuration.

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VIEW FROM STONYBROOK PARK

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AN URBAN PROVOCATION - CHANNELING URBAN FLOWS IN THE SITE

GREEN SPACE IN URBAN CONTEXT

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PUBLIC PATH CONNECTIONS IN SITE

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CONCEIVING OF HOUSING AND LANDSCAPE AS CONNECTED TERRAIN

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UPPER PUBLIC CIRCULATION ROUTE

LOWER PUBLIC CIRCULATION ROUTE

ADDRESSING THE URBAN CORNER

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WEAVING IN THE PUBLIC REALM

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PROGRAMMING HOUSING FOR A SPECTRUM OF USERS AMENITY TOWNHOME STACKED FLATS STUDIO RAUMPLAN CORE

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STUDY UNROLLED MASSING MODEL

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COURTYARD 1

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APPROACH FROM STONYBROOK STATION

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COURTYARD 2

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VIEW ALONG UPPER PUBLIC PATH

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN WITH STACKED FLATS

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MIDDLE LEVEL PLAN WITH RAUMPLAN UNITS

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UPPER LEVEL PLAN WITH TH & STUDIO

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SITE SECTION

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ANTICIPATORY ARCHITECTURE HARVARD GSD | FALL 2021 M.ARCH I THESIS ADVISOR: MOHSEN MOSTAFAVI

“The time has come to approach architecture urbanistically and urbanism architecturally.”

- Alison and Peter Smithson Contemporary architects are often excluded from the project of the city. Handed a plot of land and predetermined boundary conditions, architects lack agency to shape the future development of the city. But before disciplinary specialization, architects historically tackled more than the object building. They possessed a broad skillset ranging from geographical to territorial organization. Today, sites in the American city are increasingly hybrid and leftover - between architecture, landscape, and infrastructure.

There is a necessity to transform less than ideal existing conditions.

This thesis explores an alternative process in which given conditions of the city can be revitalized through the framework of anticipation. An anticipatory architecture eagerly expects. When applied to an urban strategy, it prepares the land for what is to come while being malleable to accommodate change over time. Rather than the masterplan, ideas for development and event are conceived incrementally through a close reading of the as found.

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CONSTRUCTING SITE - CITY AS PALIMPSEST

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SAN FRANCISCO

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NODES OF LEFTOVER SPACE IN SF

CENTRAL SOMA

SELECTED NODE - CENTRAL SOMA

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SCORING SITE - MARKING POTENTIAL IN THE AS FOUND

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CONSTRUCTING THE URBAN FIELD: 1. Removal 2. 100 Year Flood 3. Escavating Ground 4. Redirecting Flows

5. Scoring Site 6. Developing the Edge 7. Layered States 8. All States of Development

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EXPANSION OF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ACROSS TERRITORY

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NEW ECOLOGIES IN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE

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STORMWATER MANAGEMENT

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DAY TO NIGHT TRANSFORMATION OF SURFACE

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SITE SECTIONS

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ARCHITECTURAL FRAGMENTS

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VIEW FROM INTERIOR TO EXTERIOR LANDSCAPE

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1. Steel I-beam 2. Sheet Metal w/ Concrete Topping 3. Steel Beam 4. Insulation 5. Insulated Glass Unit 6. Aluminum Cantilever 7. Insulated Glass Unit 8. Sliding Glass Door 9. Concrete Slab 10. Raised Floor 11. Corrugated Steel Mesh 12. Metal Clip 13. Operable Door 14. Concrete Pavers 15. Mounted Light Fixture

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MAPPING THE INVISIBLE HARVARD GSD | SP 2021 | SCI 6322 INDEPENDENT WORK CRITIC: ERIC ROBSKY HUNTLY

In this map, I explore the relationship of trajectories of sacred spaces and sacred activities within a 5-mile radius from Gund Hall. I was particularly interested in mapping phenomenal relationships related to the sacred that cannot be described through pure form and hard edges.

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Places of worship Paths of students with sacred activities 1 mile buffer from Gund Hall Density of sacred activities

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However, this finding also has limitations as the data collected is not comprehensive and represents a small sample size of Harvard GSD students. In addition, for some activity descriptions, students wrote that they meditated, for example, in Harvard Art Museum. These findings are extremely interesting and challenge the assumption that sacred activities must take place in sacred spaces.

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Using data from predecessors in previous iterations of the class, I selected activities and pathways that contained description of worship or meditation and aggregated these activities to various grid sizes. In this map, we can see that one major cluster is within a 1-mile radius of Gund Hall and another is next to the red line T stops in Boston. This finding makes relative sense as students would prefer to participate in sacred spaces near convenient lines of transportation.

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SURFACING THE SOCIAL HARVARD GSD | SP 2021 | SCI 6322 W/ ALLISON HYATT, BLAINE WESTERN CRITIC: ERIC ROBSKY HUNTLY

This project compares relationships between the construction of public transportation infrastructure and demographic shifts in the Bay Area across time. In the map series, a racial dot map is projected onto a terrain calculated by the average income per capita and non-vehicular travel sheds. Walking

and cycling distances are further computed and projected to a combined demographic surface. This series invites the viewer to observe demographic shifts while giving them space to speculate who the map is for and how public transportation may contribute to these demographic shifts.

BEFORE CONSTRUCTION OF MILBRAE EXT. (1980)

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Mixed or other Census Tracts Bart Line Milbrae Bart Ext. Walking Travel Shed Biking Travel Shed

DURING CONSTRUCTION (1995)

AFTER CONSTRUCTION (2019)

JOCELYN CHIOU | SELECTED WORKS | 2016 - 2022