Khang Le Architecture Portfolio (Undergrad)

PORTFOLIO D’ ARCHITECTURE

KHANG LE

ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

ABOUT ME Hello Having been born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, an interest and passion for architecture has existed in me, thanks to the old and mysterious constructions found throughout city. Since the beginning of my adolescence, I have dedicated myself to developing necessary skills to become a professional architect. Such hobbies include sketching and digital designing, which I practice, daily. I enjoy self-learning and challenging myself. I work well independently but also I enjoy working collaboratively on large projects with a team. I am still experimenting with who I am as an artist however I would say a huge source of inspiration comes from the French Gothic style. By using French Gothic as a muse, my plan in the future is to combine this style of architecture with Vietnamese style in my buildings, since my country used to be a French colony. What you see presented in this portfolio hopefully proves that I have enough ability and necessary skills to become a prospective student at your school and a leading and inspirational architect in the future.

Khang Le

01 02 03 04 05 content 06 07 08 09 10 11 THE PRECIOUS

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TO UNDISCOVERED WORLD

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STAPLES CITY

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FUTURISTIC CITY

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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

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ROOM RE-CONSIDERING

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TRADITIONAL LAMPSHADE

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THE CONTRAST

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POWER OF ENGINEERING THE HOUSE CONTAINER COFFEE

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THE PRECIOUS

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- Alleyway -

INSPIRATION The original painting of a small alleyway in Saigon by artist Pham Anh.

Place: First image (Left) Medium: Sketching Place: Saigon Time: July 2020 Size: 22.9 x 30.5 cm

EXPLANATION: Finding old residential areas in modern cities like Saigon is not easy. I always have a special feeling with small traditional alleyway like this because it has represented for Vietnamese lifestyle and culture for a long time. This sketching shows my interest in describing every little detail of my city’s physical heritage through art.

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TO UNDISCOVERED WORLD - Human’s ambition -

- My inspiration taken from JAXA and CNSA Website -

EXPLANATION: The artwork beyond was inspired from the space exploration journey to the new undiscovered world. Objects including: satellites and the black hole were illustrated in cubic and painted by poster color.

Medium: Poster painting Time: January 2021 Size: 22.5 x 22.5 cm

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- My planning -

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STAPLES CITY

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- Residential area Planning -

- Top view from Google Maps -

- Current landuse -

Location: Turtle lake (Ho Chi Minh city) Medium: Model Building, planning Material: Staples, markers, papers, glue, etc Time: July 2020 Size: A3 Paper (26:30 cm for planning area)

EXPLANATION:

This is a building model of my idea to re-consider a residential area in Ho Chi Minh city, which I think needs to be replanned due to the good-looking of the city’s landscape. All buildings are distributed reasonably in height and have views to the central point (the pool).

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- Khang Le -

- Different view of the planning -

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FUTURISTIC CITY - 2050 -

Medium: Sketching Time: September 2020 Size: A3 Paper

My imagination of the futuristic city with skytrain go through complexes. Streets

EXPLANATION:

would be less crowed and cities have more space for trees, which help to reduce the pollution. Having more complexes also makes it easier to control the winflux of residents in case of big pandemic (like COVID) happens.

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VISIONS OF THE FUTURE - NASA poster design -

- Logo of the mission (created by me) -

- My Inspiration from NASA Visions of future -

WHY I MAKE THIS ?

Poster of fictional expedition to the sun Apollo 51.

Inspiration from NASA Visions of the future. The poster represents my ambition and belief about artificialspace construction that conquer the space, like the way humans have done with the Earth.

Medium: Digital drawing Software: Adobe Illustration, InDesign Time: November 2020 (school project) Size: 8.5x11 inches

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ROOM RE-CONSIDERING - Design challenge -

- Inspiration from Homify website -

EXPLANATION: I am really interested in this kind of room with windows on 2 sides to maximize the amount of light. There are a lot of ideas to distribute and decorate this type of room, which motivate me to design the room in my own styles. The room was sketched from my imagination with the purpose to maximize the light and plants, I call this: ‘green habitat�.

Medium: Sketching Time: August 2020 Size: A4 Paper

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TRADITIONAL LAMPSHADE

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- For phone flashlight -

EXPLANATION: This is a design of a handmade paper lampshade. The object contains iconic symbols that showcase the pride of Vietnam.

Medium: Designing, handicraft Material: Paper, glue Time: October 2020 Size: 5.5cm in height, 5cm in wide

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THE CONTRAST

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- Photograph + Story -

MY STORY: For most buildings, as they get older, they become more and more precious, especially when they could keep their original building style, materials etc... Those buildings receive the protection, respects and estimation from the society, no matter how many modern buildings later that are more effective and more useful than the old ones. The left picture is an old building that was built in 1900s in Hai Phong city of Vietnam, and has been under government protection for a long time.

However, that is not true for people. Modern society does not need anyone who keeps standing in a position. If they do not change themselves, they would be eliminated at some points. The right pictures show the sadness and tiredness of an old man who has worked in motorbike taxi (A very common traditional means of transportation in Vietnam in the 2000s) for a long time. His customers can have better services from many new companies such as Grab and Uber...He is being replaced step by step.

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POWER OF ENGINEERING - Photograph -

EXPLANATION:

Pictures of the Alex Fraser Bridge, one of the biggest and voluminous infrastructures of the Vancouver Lower Mainland. This is the most impressive construction for me, it represents the huge power of engineering, the power of architecture. These power helps humans to survive, to conquer the nature, but not destroy it.

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THE HOUSE

- Khang Le -

- Big Project -

- The sketching of my idea Medium: Designing, rendering Time: Spetember - October 2020 Software: SketchUp, Lumion, Photoshop

- Section plan created on Photoshop -

EXPLANATION: This is my first ever architectural project that was done completely by myself and I am really proud of it. I have posted it in an architecture forum and received a lot of good feedbacks.

The inspiration for this house is from the idea of boxes piled up; the measurements are mostly based on the size of shipping containers.

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Rendering:

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CONTAINER COFFEE - Let’s save the environment -

Medium: Designing, rendering Time: January 2021 Software: SketchUp, Lumion

EXPLANATION: Protecting the environment is not a personal job; it is the duty of every people no matter who they are. In this project, as an architect, I will turn old and useless containers into a cozy coffee store with full of convenience.

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1. Designing:

Glass window allows light to go inside the coffee store

Outdoor area

Billiards table

Customers can sit on the ground

coffe table Bar table & chairs

Ceiling fan

TV Stairs to floor 1

Bar table & chairs

Stairs

WC

Ceiling fan Smoking area

- Section Plan of Floor 1 -

- Section Plan of Floor 2 -

This coffee shop has 2 floors. The second floor lies diagonally right compares to the first floor to creates space for light to get into.

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2. Rendering:

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- Different views of the store -

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