CURRICULUM VITAE [IN BETWEEN] HOUSE FUSION HOUSE THE CANYON DUBAI ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL TOWER SAIGON CANALSCRAPER CAPPA CAFE & GALLERY FUNDAMENTAL STUDY PRECEDENT STUDY
HOANG MINH LE
Born
1989 / Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam
Add
2505 Syracuse Drive, Irving, Texas, 75062
Cell
214 - 727 7358
hoang,le@mavs.uta.edu
Web
www.linkedin.com/in/hoangminhle
2016
CAPPA - College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs / The University of Texas at Arlington / B.S. in Architecture, GPA 3.92
2012
North Lake College / Associate of Science
2011
Richland College / Associate of Science
2008
FPT Arena Multimedia / Diploma of Graphic Design
2015
First Place Award of CAPPA Competition CAPPA Café and Gallery / UTA
2015
Winner of Freedom By Design Competition Cary Middle School Pavilion / UTA
2015
Member of Tau Sigma Delta ΤΣ∆ Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts
2012
eVolo Skyscraper Competition Recognition in 2012 eVolo Competition Poster
2009
First Place Award / Installation Art Competition Installation Art at HCMC University of Architecture
EDUCATION
RECOGNITION
EXPERIENCE 2013
Head Graphic Designer / Multicultural Affairs / UTA Producing artworks for visual communication Proposing initial ideas, sketches for a marketing product Creating graphic design package for events and promotion
2009
Graphic Designer / Success Software Service Produce artworks for visual communication
REFERENCE George Gintole / Associate Professor of Architecture / CAPPA / j.george.g@uta.edu Dustin Wheat / Assistant Professor in Practice / CAPPA / drwheat@uta.edu Joshua Nason / Assistant Professor of Architecture / CAPPA / nason@uta.edu Pia Sarpaneva / Visiting Professor of Architecture / Helsinki / sarpan@uta.edu John Chow / Visiting Professor of Architecture / New York / jchow@uta.edu
SKILL Digital Modelling / Rhino 3D, Revit, SketchUp, 3Ds Max Digital Graphics / Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Auto CAD, V-ray Hands-On / Photography, Woodworking, Drawing, Sketching Modelling / Foam, Resin, Acrylic, Plaster, Wax, Soap, Chipboard, Cardboard Basic knowledge about sustainable design and LEED
INTEREST Graphic Design Photography Installation Art
[IN BETWEEN] HOUSE Residential Project / Design Studio 3 / Fall 2015 Instructor: John Chow House for a wood worker Designed on a site in Bishop Arts District A practice on designing a house with a challenge to create an unconventional design to offer a unique idea with an imagined client in a real site. The site was selected is bishop arts district in southern of downtown dallas. A chosen narrative is a wood worker who lives with his wife, an artist, they love to have a woodshop integreated to their house and a gallery to showcase their artworks to the public.
SECTION STUDY Those sketches are studies of solution on how to engage two facades and convey the main idea of unity in form for the house.
FACADE STUDY
PLAN STUDY
STUDY MODEL Based on several sketches, few study models were created in styrofoam to test the connection between the house with the surrounding context. The existing walls help to keep a private condition for entire house. The new structure looks like hidden behind the old envelop of a machine shop in bishop arts district. This interesting condition gives the great opportunity to offer something playful inside. A simple ‘s‘ shape was chosen to be a ‘bridge‘ to connect two facades and create two private and public courtyards for the house at the same time. The house will be lifted up at one end in order to produce a better connection in space for both courtyards and create different attractive compositions for facades.
A rigid timber frame was chosen as a main structure to carry the cantilever part of the house and keep the consistency in design language. With this advantage, the design was offered a potential space for the woodshop underneath the living area. That way the house has one part of private area and the other end with public access to the gallery. Lastly, the louver was added not only to create shading, but also emphasize the shape of the house and reinforce the main idea is carried throughout the wood structure. With the complicated curving forms of the louvers, this is a great opportunity for the clients to show their talent and skills in wood working.
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Re-organizing two existing facades
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Inserting rooms, platforms, and stair
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Louver system is added to reinforce the idea A part of louvers is bent up to create shading for woodshop space
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FUSION HOUSE Residential Project / Design Studio 1 / Fall 2014 Instructor: Dustin Wheat House for married couple Designed on a given site in Finland
CONCEPT The concept of the house was drawn directly from the basic requirement of its owners, which are a photographer and an artist. The wife wants her house to have a studio and dark room to practice her abstract photography. On the other hand, the husband needs a space for a library and reading area for research. However, their main requirement is that the entire house has to be a continuous space, where they can see each other in every daily activities. Therefore, the house was designed as a stacking three-storey building with public, semi-public and private ares. The library, reading room, living room, dining and kitchen are located on the first level. On the second floor, the studio and dark room are taken place. The master
bedroom, guest room and laundry are placed on the third floor. The studio and the library are connected but shifted into different levels. The entire house was wrapped up in a membrane structure to optimize the house for maximimum cover area with minimum cost. Each floor was designed to be rotated in 90 and 60 degrees to have the best views and maximize the use of solar panels, which are integrated into the skin structure. The skyline at the staircase brings sun light into the house and helps to balance the inside and outside environment. The house is transformed into a living form and it has its own parallel life together with its owners.
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2014 KROB ARCHITECTURAL DELINEATION COMPETITION ENTRY
THE CANYON Astronomer Lodge / Design Studio 1 / Fall 2014 Instructor: Dustin Wheat Proposal of astronomer lodge for the UT McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas.
CONCEPT Astronomer Lodge project is a challenging exercise for an architectural student to work in a real site with local condition and infrastructure. the required programs included 25 standard units, 4 suite rooms, group rooms, entertainment, public and service areas. Firstly, the basic programs were stacked on each others and then distributed into the site based on the local topography. Secondly, the programs were re-arranged, spread out, and rotated to maximize the views for each level. It expresses the important of the research of the site condition and the strategy in framing the
perspective for each programs in order to create the best place for accommodation, researching, education, and entertainment. The astronomers also need a public space where they can gather together to have conversations and discussions about their interests, and researches. Therefore, a ‘canyon’ like stacking public space was created to connect all of the programs and put the astronomers at the heart of the entire lodge. The public space is a spine for a project. It plays as a connecting point and a robust structure for other programs to be developed.
MASSING DIAGRAM
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DUBAI ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL TOWER Design Competition / Spring 2014 Entry for [AC-CA] Dubai Competition Team: Hoang Le + Bao Dong Viet Ngoc Dubai Architecture School Tower will be located in downtown area at the intersection between Al Khail Road and Ras Al Khor Street. The main Idea throuhgout this building is the freedom of design and the orderly chaos in architecture education. Nowaday, with high technologies, students can apply the advantages of computer to create and develop their designs in many incredible ways. With an ideal conditions, Dubai should have a new building which not only provides educational environment, but also a symbol or a lesson for its students to study from. The freedom and the craziness in tensegrity structure became a main idea for the building’s shape, which can represent the chaos but in a regulation inside each architecture student.
Reinforced Cable
Library
Art Studio
Double Skin Facade
Tensegrity Structure
Auditorium
Workshop
Roof System
Computer Center
Classroom
Wind Turbine
Staff Office + Research Professional Practice Zone
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN The tower uses tensegrity systems as main structures and minor light shafts to lead natural light gained from the Sun to fill the interior spaces in day time in order to save electricity energy. There are numbers of light cable Inside these tensegrity structure. Louver system also has multiple functions like cooling down the building as a double-skin facade, and saving water from rain for farther uses.
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SAIGON CANALSCRAPER Design Competition / Spring 2012 Entry for 2012 eVolo Skyscraper Competition Individual Entry Saigon or Ho Chi Minh city is the biggest commercial center in Vietnam with leading roles in most aspects. It also has many problems such as air pollution, over-population, traffic jam, lack of green spaces. Nhieu Loc, along with other canals and parks, were originally designed to provide ecological environment for the city by the French. In fact, these canals are highly polluted and negatively affects the lives of low-income people in the surrounding areas. All of the reasons above have impacted the city and made Saigon one of the most polluted cities in the world. The predominant purpose of this project is to combine green spaces and residential houses into one skyscraper with attached essential functions in order to increase living standards for people.
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Office Residential Module 1
Commercial Residential Module 1 Residential Module 2 560
Market Residential Module 2
Public Library
Highway System Monorail Station
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Trash Disposer and Mud Collection
CONCEPT The project will distribute the skyscrapers along the canal to lower the population density in the surrounding area of canal. Therefore, it can increase the public spaces such as parks, plazas, squares, lakes which are extremely limiting in Saigon. Underneath this skyscraper is a system of trash and mud collectors to recycle and reuse them. The skyscraper uses photovoltaic panels, wind turbines and rain collectors to become a self-supplement system. By linking these skyscrapers together, the whole system will be able to solve the pollution problem of the canals.
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CAPPA CAFE & GALLERY Design Competition / Fall 2015 First Place Award / CAPPA Competition Individual Entry A place where the new CAPPA community and others will consider as the most welcoming and interesting place in the University to gather, eat and study should be a place where is no boundary between inside and outside. The new cafe and gallery will be a place for the unlimited imaginary.
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COURTYARD Taking the advantage from the form of the ceiling, the courtyard will be taken by another curvilinear patio which is blended into the grass to blur the existing definition between these two places. Again, this form will provide the most welcoming and attractive patio to draw the people walking from the Fine Arts building and library to the CAPPA Cafe and Gallery. This design creates a continual flow and experiment from the inside and outside spaces. The horse tail grass bushes will be located along the patio to enhance the space. This place can be used for outdoor yoga and taichi classes as well.
CEILING SYSTEM The ceiling system is the most interesting feature this design offers for the CAPPA Cafe and Gallery. It is designed with a concern about the connection between these two new spaces of the school. The result is that this ceiling provide an undulating form which runs from the cafe through the gallery space with a glowing surface to create a welcoming environment. This ceiling will be made by plastic sheets (polystyrene) mounted to the machined bended steel pipe which runs along the form. The gallery will be lighted and elevated by this attractive ceiling and leave a vast space for installations of students artworks.
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COUNTER The coffee counter is designed with a curvilinear surface which is constructed in many segment wood panels. This design is based on the anatomy and human activities when they sit down on the bar and enjoy a cup of coffee. The upper edge is extended to ensure enough space for students with books and laptops. In the other hand, the lower edge is offset back on a graduated curve not only to maximize the variety of sitting poses and activities, but also to provide an attractive form for the guests.
FUNDAMENTAL STUDY Design Study / Basic Drawing Courses / Fall 2013 Instructor: Jamice Wallace This study is an introduction to design, drawing and communication, and color theory using two and three-dimensional studio assignments. These courses develop a basic understanding of core architectural principles and strengthen a fundamental set of design skills that will be applied in education as well as practice. The courses focus mainly on the importance of form, mass, volume, color, texture and space. These fundamental elements emphasize the essential characteristics of architectural communication. The courses shape a better understanding to transfer the idea of the designer’s mind to the reality through the fascinating abilities of the hands.
A COLLAGE OF PEROT MUSEUM (MORPHOSIS) / COLOR PAPAERS
A COLLAGE OF SEATTLE LIBRARY (OMA) / GRAPHITE
SITE COMPOSITION Design Study / Basic Design Studio 1 / Fall 2013 Instructor: Thad Reeves Site composition with chipboard model
This exercise on designing an adjacent condition was developed on the second half of semester to mainly focus on the design of different conditions in the same place. The brief is simple but it has its own challenge when two partners in a group have to collaborate throughout different phases, scales and discussions to create a unique site plan. The three-dimensional volumes was created to fit the given architectural elements such as trellis, gates, walls, rooms, columns, and grids. This composition was not only an excellent practice for a designer to work with the challenging site, but also a great opportunity to revise the fundamental studies with axis, grid, figure ground, alignment, slot condition, and shear condition. It was also a chance to improve the ability to understand and change the convention and put the designer’s personality more into the project in order to emphasize their own sites without breaking the sharing identities and characteristics of the entire composition.
PRECEDENT STUDY Design Study / Basic Design Studio 1 / Spring 2013 Instructor: George Gintole Sumida Dental Clinic - Waro Kishi
GENESIS MODEL
Villa Savoye - Le Corbusier Casting with soap Instructor: John Chow
Saynatsalo Town Hall - Alvar Aalto Casting with plaster + Basswood Instructor: John Chow