Kendra Chow - Portfolio

archi t ect ure po rtfo l io

spring 2016

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fall 2021

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ACADEMIC WORK completed at the university of virginia

ARCH 2020

ARCH 3010 research

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foundation studio iii

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ARCH 4020

independent design research studio

ARCH 7020

foundation stuio iii

ARCH 8010

research studio

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RESEARCH WORK paid work completed for an exhibition ALBERT KAHN

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PRESTON AVENUE CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

SPRING 2016 ARCH 2020 FOUNDATION STUDIO III

ECCCC CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA

Housing Preston’s People & Art:

A Center for Students, Residents, & Artists Attempting to address the instinctive desire for fresh air and space for outdoor activities, this project includes an extension of Washington Park, weaving throughout Preston Ave. This ongoing pathway encourages walking in an area that is heavily car oriented. It serves to transport people from program to program break up the harsh divide between residential and commercial areas.

Currently, Preston Ave is not safely walkable nor inviting.

Eliminating parking would prove beneficial for businesses as the location along the trail will attract more pedestrian customers.

Integrating the places of attraction and the places where people live will enhance Preston by creating a network that promotes a healthy lifestyle of exploring the neighborhood on foot in contrast to isolating vehicle-nessecary programs.

The public green space has the potential to foster a more welcoming sense of connection through the insertion of community farms, gardens, open eating areas, and a sculpture park can attract the public. Focusing on a hybrid housing building, this project proposes a multi-use center for art and artists.

The complex mixes private and public through classrooms, studios, commercial spaces, exhibition areas, apartments and outdoor areas. Inspired by the Nexus World Housing by OMA, the apartments include bedrooms primarily on the lower level complimented by open upper level access to fresh air and natural lighting through private patio space.

Rising Against Cancer: An ECCCC Addition The Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center, located in the UVA Medical System, is frequented daily by patients, caregivers, family members, nurses, and doctors.

Despite the heavy traffic flow, the existing cancer center has extremely poor circulation.

The proposal focuses creating new pathways for people to move throughout the center through the use of a ramp across the entire front facade. In between the walkways are narrow volumes for occupants to spend time.

These new spaces each have a program designed to make a visit to the cancer center a more enjoyable and productive experience.

Such places include a cafe, lounge, library, art studio, shop, pharmacy, fitness room, and confrence spaces.

These different spaces were determined through interviewing staff and caregivers in addition to programmatic anaylsis of the current ECCCC. Each floor was categorized as zones for staff, treatment, patients, services, maintenance, and circulation as well as varying levels of privacy.

FALL 2016 ARCH 3010 RESEARCH STUDIO I

DUPONT CIRCLE WASHINGTON, DC

SPRING 2017 ARCH 30 FOUNDATION STUDIO III

FALL 2017 ARCH 4010 RESEARCH STUDIO II

MASORO, RWANDA

Masoro Learning + Sports Center This proposal is for the Masoro Learning and Sports Center, a project that focuses on expanding literacy and education opportunities through organized sports programs, specifically soccer leagues, for youth in Masoro, Rwanda. Following the natural densification of trees, the site strategy aims to reinforce a gradient from public to private through programming, added vegetation, as well as both woven and ground surface porosities.

After studying braiding as a weaving technique, grasshopper was used to write a script to create five strand braid patterns. This exploration led to matrices of forms and patterns determined by changing variables concerning density and shape. Following this study a spectator structure sytem was developed using the braided pattern as a way to provide semi-porous shading.

Selected for Publication Fall 2017 project “Masoro Learning & Sports Center” was selected for school-wide publication.

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MODA: Museum of Distributed Artefacts The objective of MODA, Museum of Distributed Artefacts, is to invite pedestrians into the museum without intimidating them with outrageous architecture, but rather small ribbon windows along the facade that work in a gradient to expose more of the installations inside while still keeping them somewhat unknown.

The methodology of the MODA is expressed through the division of the “Back of House” programs such as administration and archives, and the public space to be enjoyed visitors to the museum, the auditorium, or the cafe.

In addition to dividing the programs vertically between Back of House and Museum, the public spaces located on the first floor may be accessed on days when the MoDA is closed, still generating revenue.

The artefacts are purposely positions on higher levels to allow the museum to function efficiently with back of house needs below ground to maximize the gallery space and public programs above while respecting of the Metro station and adjacent buildings.

MODA serves as a home to installations intended to entertain and intrigue visitors.

The organization and volume of the artifacts will lead people along a maze-like path, winding across galleries, allowing visitors to enjoy the exhibits from multiple views.

The context of the project stems from the individual creation of installations, a similar set of rules dictate the form of the museum while the physical context of the site informs the design and experience of the museum.

The strategy of the museum follows a set of parameters established early on in the project. These rules include defining boundaries, creating a trajectory, and dividing into a series of moments that together make a complete collection.

The museum aims to take visitors on a journey through individual exhibits, which vary in scale to give different sensations of space as experienced through framed views.

This is accomplished by using the site context of Du Pont Circle in Washington D.C. to design a multi-story path which behaves according to the placement of the distributed installations.

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LIRA, UGANDA

SPRING 2018 ARCH 4020 INDEPENDENT DESIGN RESEARCH STUDIO

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An African Oasis: Advantages of Living + Learning in an All-Female Environment Project: A School for Adolescent Girls & Resident Faculty.

Adjacent to an Anglican Church & Hospital Complex and along a Main Street leading to the Central Market. This thesis was systematically developed at the scales of age appropriate rooms, and around three typologies of courtyards defined by shade and shadows framing a public municipal Football Field.

Problem: Across the world many people have been deprived of the opportunity to learn. Of those who have not been granted access to schools, a majority of them are female. Using research on the low enrollment rates of girls in developing countries’ schools, this project aims to idenitify the social and physical barriers that affect attendance. This thesis project attempts to promote girls’ education through the creation of a single-sex school. The intention of the project is to use architecture to provide facilities of safe spaces for learning and empowerment for girls as well as for community gathering and bonding.

Lira is a city in Northern Uganda and is the third largest city with a population of 120,000. The city offers a suitable location for a boarding school because it is easily accessible through air and rail transportation. Lira offers a variety of opportunities for natural exploration as it is located directly above Lake Kwania and in between two of the country’s largest protected areas.

On a city scale, Lira is also blessed with protected areas within the city limits.

Near Lira’s airport is Lira Regional Referral Hospital as well as the Lira Main Market. The juxtaposition between exposure to these urban amnities and nationally protected natural landscapes provides a unique site to foster both independence and privacy for a boarding school.

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Program: A campus made up of educational, recreational, and boarding facilities for an all-female student population. The user group will include lower and upper secondary students (Grades S1-S6), faculty, and community members. The goal of the project would be to provide not only eucaation, but aslo a safe place for young women to develop self-confidence and supportive INCREASED FEMALE INCREASED CONFIDENCE LOWER BIRTH RATES LOWER MOTHER & LEADERSHIP & EMPOWERMENT INFANT MORTALITY relationships.

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SOROTI KUMI

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TORORO JINJA KAMPALA

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EQUATOR MBARARA

Site (City): Lira, Uganda. The Ugandan government recognizes education as a basic human right; however, a lack of funding, teacher training, rural populations, as well as inadequate facilities stunt the of education in Uganda.

PROTECTION FROM HIV, HIGHERprogress LITERACY DELAYED FAMILY ECONOMIC GROWTH ABUSE, & EXPLOITATION

ROOM TYPLOGIES ROOM TYPOLOGY SCALE | 1:100

S1 - S2 | 8 PER ROOM 8 x .5 M CLOSETS 4 LOWER BEDS 4 UPPER BEDS 8 x 2 STORAGE 4 DESKS

S3 - S4 | 4 PER ROOM 4 x .5 M CLOSETS 2 LOWER BEDS 2 UPPER BEDS 4 x 2 STORAGE 2 DESKS

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S5 - S6 | 2 PER ROOM 2 x 1 M CLOSETS 2 LOWER BEDS 2 x 2 STORAGE

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S1-S2 | 8 PER ROOM

S3-S4 | 4 PER ROOM

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FACULTY B

S5-S6 | 2 PER ROOM

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FACULTY | 1 PER ROOM 1 x 1 M CLOSETS 1 LOWER BED 2 x 2 STORAGE COUNTER DESK

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edges on Pennsylvania avenue and the western alley are anchored by the hinge generated on the northwest corner.

tying together two themes of movement while maintaining a consistently open relationship with the surrounding neighborhood.

SITE DIAGRAMS

BOYLE HEIGHTS LOS ANGELES, CA

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SPRING 2021 ARCH 7020 FOUNDATION STUDIO III

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McMahonBalancing

Boyle Heights: The Space Between Collaboration with Meghann McMahon

BAILEY STREET ELEVATION

PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ELEVATION

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SITE EAST LA

SARA | NY Design Awards 2021 | Merit Award Recipient

The project responds to the duality of urban conditions through its focus gh the on two realms: the rigid and the flexible. This dichotomy relates to the mming existing opposing forces of movement and stability and the struggle to balance thse with familial migration frequenty found around Boyle Heights. atterning building.In order to accommodate both the vehicular focused streetfront and rigid and pedestrian nature of Mariachi Plaza, the facades respond accordingly by incorporating both rigid elements and circular,PANEL fluid typologies.

The urban d FACADE TRANSPARENCY BAILEY STREET ELEVATION PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE ELEVATION edges on Pennsylvania Avenue and the western alley are anchored by the hinge generated on the northwest corner.

MARIACHI PLAZA ELEVATION

ALLEY ELEVATION

FACADE ORGANIZATION BAILEY STREET ELEVATION

Systemmatic rigidity is incporporated internally through the grid pattern, ween the which organizes and informs programming and circulation. The circular ework - facades hint at the patterning of the plaza, becoming an extension into the building. Thus the resulting form is one half displaying the rigid and ntaining stable, while the other half embraces flexibilty and movement as it open ing up towards the community.

MARIACHI PLAZA ELEVATION

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MARIACHI PLAZA ELEVATION

Overall, the project aims to encourage community engagement, acting as a point of convergence between the pedestrian and the realm of the larger urban framework - tying together two themes of movement while maintaining a consistently open relaitonship with the surrounding neighborhood.

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SITE ISOMETRIC

MOVEMENT

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SUBRACTION SITE ISOMETRIC

SITE EAST LA ALLEY

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PLAZA DINING

MARIACHI SERVICE

SITE ISOMETRICALLEY

SITE DIAGRAMS

FACADE PANEL TRANSPARENCY MOVEMENT

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FACADE PANEL TRANSPARENCY SITE ISOMETRIC

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LIBRARY

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BOYLE HEIGHTS LOS ANGELES, CA

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TERRACE

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WORKCOURT

DINING

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12 EAST-WEST 1 SECTION

EAST-WEST 2 SECTION

NORTH-SOUTH 1 SECTION

NORTH-SOUTH 2 SECTION

SPRING 2021 ARCH 7020 FOUNDATION STUDIO III

VERTICAL CONNECTION

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VERTICAL CONNECTIONS STATIC

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SHIFTING

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CERAMICS WORKSHOP

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CLASSROOM

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TEXTILES WORKSHOP

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OFFICE

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MURALS WORKSHOP

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OPEN WORKSHOP

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LECTURE

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LIBRARY

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TERRACE

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LOBBY

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WORKCOURT

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CONSTRUCTIVE SECTION DETAILS

BOYLE HEIGHTS TH 2 SECTION LOS ANGELES, CA

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SPRING 2021 ARCH 7020 FOUNDATION STUDIO III

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CONSTRUCTIVE ISOMETRIC

NORTH-SOUTH STRUCTURAL SECTION

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3" CONCRETE SLAB ON 2" METAL DECK

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STEEL I-BEAM, SECONDARY

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CORTEN STEEL I-BEAM, PRIMARY

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SUSPENDED CEILING SUPPORTS

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FACADE PANEL JOINT

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CORTEN CEILING PANEL

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PERFORATED CORTEN STEEL PANEL

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FINISHED FLOOR LEVELING SUPPORTS

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DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOW

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REINFORCED CONCRETE FOUNDATION SLAB

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CORTEN STEEL C-CHANNEL

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REINFORCED CONCRETE RETAINING WALL

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BATTING INSULATION

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L-SHAPED STEEL FLOOR SUPPORT

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VAPOR BARRIER

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REBAR

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FLOOR FINISHING

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FLOOR MULLION

DOUBLE GLAZED WINDOW

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COMPACTED SOIL

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LEVEL 2 FRAMING PLAN

LEVEL 3 FRAMING PLAN

LEVEL 4 FRAMING PLAN

FOUNDATION FRAMING PLAN

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LEVEL 1 FRAMING PLAN

CONSTRUCTIVE SECTION DETAILS

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12" CORTEN STEEL I-BEAM, SECONDARY

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18" CURVED CORTEN SPANDREL BEAM

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THERMAL SEPARATION WALL FINISHING

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PERFORATED CORTEN STEEL FACADE PANELS

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12" CORTEN STEEL FACADE C-CHANNEL

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CURTAIN WALL WINDOW SYSTEM

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REINFORCED CONCRETE RETAINING WALL

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REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING

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STEEL FOUNDATION BEAM

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CORTEN STEEL COLUMN

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STEEL TENSION CABLE

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TYPICAL WINDOW GLAZING

CHAPULTAPEC PARK MEXICO CITY, MEXICO

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Pollinator Pathways: The Bat Boardwalk Visiting Professor Mario Schjetnan

Located within Chapultepec Park, one of the world’s largest urban parks, Section III remains underdeveloped and rather inaccessible to the public. It was determined that in order to compliment the highly programmed activiy areas of Sections I and II, which contain energetic attractions such as a zoo, an amusement park, sports fields and multiple museums (along with many more sites of interest), that the project would benefit most from focusing on natural restoration and relaxation.

During the masterplanning phase, issues surrounding pollinating species migration and population declines became the focus of the research. Five pollinator groups native to Mexico were identifies as subjects to be incorporated into the masterplan design - Bees, Monarch Butterflies, Mexican Free-Tailed Bats, Fireflies, and Hummingbirds. Additionally a sixth category was included, human beings as pollinators through the introduction of on site orchards and vegetable farms.

The intention was to increase human interaction and education of these of these growingly endagered species. Thes drawings featured here are of the Bat-focused programming, a boardwalk and education center with bat roosts located on the understructure. Bat viewing would be encouraged and ideally would provide a safe space for distanced occupation by both bats and humans alike.

Mexican Free-Tailed bats migrate through North America most commonly from areas such as Austin Texas, which has an well known bat colony which occupies Congress Avenue Bridge and has become a spectator event in the summers at dusk as the bats take flight.

Bats thrive under elevated surfaces above water, which keeps them safe from predators, making Chapultpec Park’s ravine landscape well suited to house them. The boardwalk serves as a pedestrian traill to help visitor experience a peaceful journey along the adjacent Dolores Cemetery to the east.

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FALL 2021 ARCH 8010 RESEARCH STUDIO

GLENN L. MARTIN 1937

As a research assistant for Assistant Professor Luis Pancorbo at UVA, I was assigned to recreate Job. n 1752, the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Assembly Building by industrial architect, Albert Kahn.

The structure is 300 ft wide and 450 ft long, making it the longest span between columns for its time.

Kahn was able to achieve such massive spans by developing intricate truss systems.

Pancorbo—who received his Ph.D with a thesis on Kahn’s architecture — provided me with blueprints and photos of construction of the 1937 project.

I then produced digital versions of the plans, sections, and elevations as well as a 3D model and axonometric drawings which were displayed in an exhibit on Albert Kahn’s work, Architecture as a Techincal Object, which is expected to be published into a book.

ALBERT KAHN BALTIMORE, MD

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SUMMER - FALL 2017 RESEARCH ASSISTANT WORK

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