Architecture Portfolio
KA KIT CHIU URL: Selected Works 2016-2021
Ka Kit Chiu
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Bio A recent B.Arch graduated student originally from Hong Kong, who loves to explore design computations and digital media environment, actively pursuing an Architect License and LEED. My childhood adventures in construction sites and traveling experiences in cities of unique urban landscape cultivated my curiosity about buildings into a lifetime passion toward architecture.
Narrative Every after noon in my old house, I need to move my chair a few inches sideway every half an hour to avoid the solar glare... Why is it designed this way? This question also has me wonder the relationships between architecture, space, and human. IMAGINE, walking into a space for the first time without having to puzzle out this confusion... That experience is what I pursue to share, a selfless design that responds to us.
Exploration From modular system, computational design, to parametricism... the recent history of architectural design has now moved into a new period, A.I. Generative era. If a machine has a conscious mind, how would it value design? And how do we value a machine’s perspective? I’m interested in exploring how to bridge the gap between architecture and the application of computer science to address architecture-space-human relationship, not as a mean of replacement but a suggestive enlightment of future alternatives.
Digital Design Practice| 01
Research: Data Viusalization| 02
Thesie Project: Wall-ness| 03
C.C.C.S. | 04
LA Donut | 05
Between the Lines | 06
Symmetric Water | 07
ACS - Getty Installation: W.I.S.I.W.Y.G. | 08
01|Digital Design Practice|
Task: Parametric Podium Facade (Tencent Net City - P4) Location: Shenzhen, China Firm: NBBJ | Year: 2021 Design Team: Wei Hu
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Parametric Control 1: The podium massing is an sweeping form dictated by 2 sets of sweeping curves. Each set consists of another 3 basic control curves that construct the facade surface. They also generate secondary tween curves in between as guide lines to generate horizontal louvers.
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Task: Metro Canopy Design (Tencent Net City - P4) Location: Shenzhen, China Firm: NBBJ | Year: 2021 Design Team: Wei Hu
This particular task of the project consists of two constructibility challenges:
1) Geometry Rationalization: The design of the canopy is essentially a parabola surface, supported by straight-line structural members, is trimed by a Kite-shape projection, with blend curve control at the corners. Stucture and panelling share the same grid projection from plan view in order to achieve good documentation efficieny. The largest panel locates of the canopy.
2) Panelling Optimization: Based on the Shenzhen City Building Code, each panel should not exceed 2.5sm for the better load bearing condition. The panel division is generated by a grid project on plan view for better documentation. As the nature of the gemetry orients each panel with a slightly different slope, it imposes the challenge to maintain the panel size limit with a univeral grid dimension. 1
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Task: Podium Desgin Study (LexinFintech HQ) Location: Shenzhen, China Firm: NBBJ | Year: 2020 Design Team Lead: Nuo Xu
Massing Strategies
Galapagos Solver
Podium Position Optimization
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Evolutionary Algorithm: Galapagos (Rhino Grasshopper)
According to the massing strategies, the pyr-
amid podium comes from the leftover corner of the original tower, the design challenge becomes finding the best position of the massing that provides the maximum area footage without exceeding the regulated building height limit. It starts with the pyramid pivoting around the corner (Po) with 5° rotational interval on X,Y,Z axes. Then, level planes will intercept the massing for the area calculation. In approx. 6000 possible orientations, the results achieves 50%-130% increase of area, with a variety of choices.
Sunlight Exposure Scoring
LH Corporation’s Public Data Startup Idea Competition (3rd Place), Korea Team: Zenerate //July 2020
Zenerate is a team driven to provide optimized building solutions that position properties into successful operations through A.I. + Data sicence. In this competition, our proposal makes use of the data of a residential parcel, provided by LH Corporation, to evaluate it in terms of views provided by each residential unit, and further propose the optimized position of the residential towers for maximized market value, based on a given set of parameteric controls such as unit type cominations and counts, project cost, rent revenue... etc. My work duty is to help establish a strategy for evaluating the dwelling unit based on their view coverage. It will contribute to a bigger scoring system which is the driver of optimization. Moreover, I need to create a visual demo for the given data as well as the graphic design for the following app development.
Pilot Project Feasibility Study (Greenpoint Landing - OMA), Los Angeles Team: Zenerate //Aug 2019
When they were designing Greenpoint Landing, Zenerate reached out to OMA and proposed that they could help studying the optimized solution for the dwelling units, including the best combination of unit types from studio to 3B, affordable/market units, on each floor of this residential project, that can generate the most projected profit. During the research, I was mainly responsible for creating proper data visualiztions to help the team better understand the data from OMA, as well as creating a visual demo for their presentation.
View Coverage Scoring System
02|Quarantine Terrace| Archue Competition: Pandemic Dwelling - Home in Times of Padeimce (Hononrable Mention) Team: Ka Kit Chiu, Jesus Montes, Isabel Rodriguez // July 2020
03|Wall-ness|
Degree Thesis: Hallucinations: Urban Space in the Age of AI, Los Angeles, CA Studio 5B//Prof. Ewan Branda, Cody Miner//Spring 2020
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his thesis project explores the potential roles of A.I. in the early phase of design of a simulated mixed-used design of art storage and housing for Glassell Park in Los Angeles, CA. It consists of a combination of two computational techniques: Evolutionary algorithms + Machine learning; under the design philosophy question: How do we prove if architecture exists during digitalization of our world? In today’s digital era, objects become more virtual and hollower because of speed and technology. Relative to every architecture’s existence in our cognition, the relationship between humans and architecture becomes more significant than every element within the relationship such as materiality and tectonics. This proposal suggests the “Wall” is what defines the relationship, a subjective spectrum addressing spatial dualities (Housing vs Storage in this senario), that inverts the traditional role of the wall as the first architectural element to have been virtualized through media.
Evolutionary algorithms: Galapagos (Rhino Grasshopper)
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This experiment uses Galapagos to optimizes a defined goal through evolutionary algorithm. It first truns the building code into fundamental parametric limits, then uses a given pair of catalogs and explores the best configuration as firgue ground drawings that follows the defined goals below:
Zoning Type: R5 (Multiple Dwelling Zone)
Setback & Standard Yard Requirement: R4/R5 Front: 15ft (10ft for key lot) Side: 5-16ft (10% of lot width for <50ft) Rear: 15-20ft Cargo: 20ft from PL Building Height Limit: 65ft (22.18.040.c.5) FAR: Site Area: 521,150 SF R5: 1.25 Required Parking: 2 parking : 1 family dwelling unit 1 guest parking : 30 guests room 15% of parking area for bike parking Preservation: <200sf for each dwelling
1. Housing : Storage ratio = 3:2 2. Maximum connection for housing 3. Most spread out for storage and amenity 4. Solution score: 0.000 -1.000 (best)
EXPERIMENT: FIRGURE GROUND ON SITE
H:S ratio: 0.079 Continouity: 0.088 Overall: 0.086
1st GEN SOLUTION
H:S ratio: 0.998 Continouity: 0.984 Overall: 0.988
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H:S ratio: 0.994 Continouity: 1.000 Overall: 0.999
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Machine Learning: Style Transfer Style Transfer is a A.I vision technique that blends a content image and a style reference image together. The result image retains the essense of the content image that mimics the style of the reference image. This experiment uses the firgure ground drawings as content images and the existing urban fabric as style reference image, and simulates how a given firgure ground would look like in reality. Furthermore, an additional layer of style trasfer technique is applied to control the content image. A new set of catalogs will be extracted from the A.I. translated image that reflects the idea of wall-ness, and feed into the previous algorithm to optimize its spatial arrangment on site.
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Conceptual mass from the optential cataalogs which reflect “wall-ness”.
Style Transfer Outputs
Ref: Seattle,WA, USA
Ref: The Interlace, Singapore
Ref: Amsterdam, Netherland
“Housing + Storage” is the programmatic focus of this project. “Housing” is a space for humans, whereas “Storage” is a space for objects. Thus, this is arguably another set of spatial dualities that would be addressed by the “Wall”, a system that treats buildings as a whole. With a machine-learning algorithm to study how a wall can morph to organize spaces, a cluster of walls is generated to accommodate the spaces of different purposes both horizontally and vertically. Then it becomes an independent medium with multiple resolutions of expressions and navigates us between housing and storage space as a landmark within the architecture. Overall, this cluster of walls in hierarchy displays the relationship between us and our inhabiting architecture, as well as to prove its existence.
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(Woodbury Annual Archived) Merced, CA Design Studio 5A//Prof. Jason Rebillot//Fall 2019
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mate Change Studies relevant to the general publics: What does CCCS do? How can it be inclusive to publics? Thus, the building is organized into two interactive sections: research core and public spine. The core includes Climate zones, adjacent labs, open offices, and supplementary program such as a modular system, connected by interdisciplinary space institutes potential research collaborations, enveloped by living area along the facade adjacent to San Luis canal and the flex space adjacent to I-5 freeway. The public spine is a twelve-minute-walk journey of curiosity, through discovery, to responses. People begin with an introductory exploration in museum and a library that leads to the rooftop translucent bridge above research core. It vaguely reveals CCCS’ daily work. Finally, it ends with a recycling center, allowing people to respond this experience. Any wastes collected in the recycling center will be used to generate power for the entire building. We, as humans, in a vast space experience it as a landscape instead of an architecture. Under the existing topographic condition, “Landform building” becomes the massing strategy. It hides from the I-5 perspective but exposes its facade along the canal for natural lighting.
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05|LA Donut|
Urban Interventions Competition (2nd Place), Los Angeles, CA Design Studio 4B//Prof. David Bruce Lee//Spring 2019
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The site, La Fayette Park, locates awkwardly in be-
tween two grid systems and two communities, Koreatown and Westlake. Being sliced by the Hoover St. and the Wilshire Blvd, the fragmented park becomes a filler to an ambiguous space and discourages people from using it. The existing commercial tower at the northwest corner is integrated by a federal courthouse responsible for civil cases, but It further isolates the park due to its security standard. To make the park a successful focal connection of Koreatown and Westlake, “Street Food” sparks the design opportunity as a common ground shared in Asian and Latino food cultures, who contribute 90% of the overall population of the area. A new street, the LA Donut, is therefore designed to provide space for local vendors to sell and share their homemade food. A new hierarchy of programs imposed on its renovated ground has energetic events always happen at the bottom level surrounded by continuous sitting areas, enabling people to watch freely while having foods. After making the new street, canopies with unique forms are designed to provide public shading as commodity as well as an inviting gesture. It re-invites people, allowing them to head and to be heard.
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06|Between the Lines| FORM STUDY DRAWINGS
AIA 2x8 Student Exhitbition (Honorable Mention + Woodbury Anual Archived), Los Angeles, CA Team: Ka Kit Chiu, Armen Janazyan//Design Studio 3B//Prof. Ryan Tyler Martinez//Spring 2018
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This project is designated to be the MoMA PS2 for PROGRAM DIAGRAMS
housing the MoMA’s permanent architecture collection in Los Angeles. Its scale operates in between MoMA PS1 and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. Given the primary purpose of a museum, this design questions architectural education by asking how people intuitively discover what it meant to be an architect and how we understand architecture as building, space, and experience. Lobby
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Architecture initiates from conceptual diagrams and developed through communications between plans and sections for us to perceive three-dimensionality. Hence, conversations about the presented architectural space or idea is oriented around two-dimensional drawings. Thus, the idea, “Architecture lives with drawings”, emphasizes the ambiguity between 2D and 3D. Changing Galleries
The rectangular site, with a slope from one end to another, acts like a canvas for drawings. Shape and composition within a frame becomes the key for landscaping and massing decisions. The architectural volume is a series of intersection projections from TOP, FRONT, and RIGHT, with primitive geometries that progressively forms a cluster of masses. Finally, line works as the facade extending the pattern to the ground brings the site and the mass into one three-dimensional drawings. -Read between the lines, there is Architecture.
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07|Symmetric Water|
(Woodbury Annual Archived) Los Angeles, CA Design Studio 2A//Prof. Anali Gharakhani//Fall 2018
In this project, a circular ancient architecture, Santa Costanza, is studied to archive its genetic geometric diagram, which later becomes a generative gene for new forms’ experimental modifications.
The plan of Santa Costanza has a reflected and rotational symmetry on the same axes extended from the center both horizontally and vertically. They ultimately guide all the columns and niches (the proportions) reflectively and rotationally. Lastly, an informative asymmetry to the central horizontal axis is added as a variant for its accessibility. As its current form is one of many possible geometric variants under the concept of symmetry, probable alternatives of its form and new masses would be discovered and proposed by manipulating its geometric origin. A new form is constructed by an additional translational symmetry, over-laying three identical diagrams with their circumferences intercepting the centers of their neighbors. After that, the selected form further develops its interiority by adding generative information derived from its genetic geometric diagram in order to transform the space into an aquatic center. 0'
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Ka Kit Chiu//Anali Gharakhani//Arch 281//Fall2016 Ka Kit Chiu // Anali Garakhani // Arch 281 // Fall 2016
Tranformation Title: Rotational and reflectioned symmetries at the center. Ka Kit Chiu//Anali Gharakhani//Arch 281//In The Round//Fall 2016
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08|Getty Installation: W.I.S.I.W.Y.G|
(Feature Article) Los Angeles, CA TECH 2705//Prof. Ana Herruzo//Spring 2019
This year, Getty Museum, invited us to design an in-
stallation for their event called “College Night.” With the idea of connecting Getty’s mission statement and their art in a contemporary way, we want to create an immersive, interactive environment merging Artificial Intelligent and Visual Art. After studying precedents by digital media artists such as Refik Anadol and Sebastian Peschiera, we designed an experiential installation that creates interactive visuals, driven by multiple forms of human expressions, accompanied by text generated using Machine Learning algorithms trained on the art collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Essentially, this is a vertical video wall composed of three landscape-oriented screens with two embedded sensors on top. These two sensors obtain live data in three categories, “Number of people, Age, Emotion” from users’ facial expressions and body movements when they approach the screen. Through computer vision algorithms, these data are used to create real-time generative animations as a background and also inside users’ silhouette as a foreground. The integrated machine learning algorithm will also generate a content description in its perspective accordingly. Unlike any other paintings of their time, W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G will always be the avant-garde of its time. Team: Ka Kit Chiu (overall art direction) Zane Zukovsky (software/hardware networking) Ben Luker - (playback system) Sungmin Lee - (interactive development) vArticle: https://derivative.ca/community-post/night-getty-what-i-see-what-you-get
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Instances of the installation reacting to users Photos & Images credits: Ana Herruzo, Sungmin Lee, Haojun Hu