Clover Chau | Portfolio 2021

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Carnegie Mellon University 2017 - 2021 B.Arch ‘22

POP - UP

EAT, SLEEP, PLAY

CARD BOARD CITY

Chater Road, Hong Kong SAR

A TEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE FOR FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPERS

In Hong Kong, “foreign domestic helpers” are employed by middle to upper class households as the answer to domestic labour. Ranging from their early 20s to late 40s, these women come from surrounding South Asian countries - primarily the Philippines and Indonesia, but also Thailand, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and India. Dedicated employment agencies recruit, train, procure employment and secure paperwork for these women who leave their families behind to serve another. Initial employment contracts last 2 years, but most stay for far longer, serving the same family for up to 15 years or more. Also stipulated in the contract is one government mandated day-off per week, which for most falls on Sunday. Established in 1974 and even now actively promoted by various South East Asian governments, this phenomenon of employing “foreign domestic helpers” is unlikely to end, making this an issue integral not only to the future of Hong Kong but also the world.

CHATER ROAD, CENTRAL

CENTRAL CBD

This thesis aims to analyse and intervene in the spaces in Hong Kong where domestic helpers gather on Sundays and public holidays. By proposing and potentially implementing a series of temporary cardboard installations that overturn the division between the public and domestic spheres, this thesis intends to use the pop-up culture of the weekend to turn streets and public parks into places of commoning, where the public interact with domestic helpers outside of work.

By providing a space to interact outside the power dynamic of the employeeemployer context, these interventions will bring visibility to the domestic helpers and the adaptation of their cultures to the urban landscape of Hong Kong. By encouraging the public to acknowledge domestic helpers as equal members of society with their own agency, these interventions will help to advocate in the long term for more equitable laws, wages and working conditions.

Conceptual Render

Bubble City Theoretical Computational Design Project With rising water levels and climate change changing the way paradigms through which we approach urban planning, this is a speculative computational design project inspird by the concept of ‘CITY AS FOAM’, positing an network of floating islands with bubbles as ecospheres for living. Using a Voronoi diagram to create ‘plots’, each plot is designated a category of use: - Residential - Public - Vacant - Null Using a design by search algorithm, a ‘path of best fit’ is generated from one end to the other of the governing site geometry, by choosing a neighboring plot and evaluating its category and distance to the desired ‘end plot’. Bubbles are then added to the plots along the path according to category and desired urban density.

Team: Clover Chau, Siqing Ge

Generating Steps

Experiential Render

Deleuze’ Rhizome network (top) vs Sloterdijk’s Foam (bottom) Source: Arch Aesthetics

Conceptual sketch

These diagrams show the aggregation logic and growth of the ‘bubble city’ over time.

The left shows a matrix of possible solutions according to the number of plots, while the right shows the progression of the path finding and bubble generation process for one fixed set of parameters.

Conceptual Collage

environmental learning center Garland Parklet, Pittsburgh PA An Environmental Learning Center designed with of resilience in mind, centered around the desire to make transitory spaces such as the front plaza, rear café and seating area, central atrium and stepped seating spaces ripe for engagement and informal encounters. The connection of spaces of all scales from the large gallery, multipurpose room and café to the classrooms and labs via the central circulatory spine allows the program to be united within an order that corresponds to the elevational change of the site and nuances of the neighborhood and environment.

The circulation parti of the building consists of primary central spine and a secondary mezzanine connecting the building both laterally and longitudinally. The central spine connects the extremes of the site as well as the public and private ends of the building while the second floor mezzanine wraps around the interior atrium, encouraging occupants to circumambulate around and observe events occurring in the central atrium space, providing a seamless internal connection and contributing to a sense of community.

Conceptual Images & Sketches

Conceptual Render - Lighting

Exterior Render

Conceptual Image

caly(x) Inspired by the concept of a ‘forest’ of intersecting beams and the modules ‘floating’ in space, this project uses CNC routing and computational modeling to create a maze-like structure made of planters, resulting in a vertical garden and allowing visitors to walk amongst the flora.

Team: Clover Chau, Vishaka Nayak, Steven Fei, Melissa Thomas

Speculative Renders

Module Exploded Axonometric + Detail Module Cut Sheet

Design Development As we refined and developed the module, these were the design and assembly logics that we settled on. In order to connect separate modules, we introduced slots and horizontal and vertical spanning pieces that would not only lock the pieces together, but create a Digital-to-Material Workflows sense of visual contuinity throughout the structure.

Above are speculative renders of different ways in which Clover theChau, modVishaka Nayak, Melissa Thomas, Zeyin Fei Fundamentals of Computational Design, Spring 2019 | MP1 ules could be aggregated to create different spatial conditions.

caLy(X)

For precedents we looked heavily to the work of Kengo Kuma, using his treatment of wood and wood joineries to influence our design strategies as well as the way it would inform the overall structure.

Grid Logic

V& A Dundee

GC Prostho Museum Research Center

Precedents

West Elevation

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Folk Art Museum

West Elevation

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Module Exploded Axonometric + Detail

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Module Cut Sheet

Main Takeaways

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Singular and Combined Modules

Design Development

As we refined and developed t and assembly logics that we se modules, we introduced slots a pieces that would not only lock sense of visual contuinity throu Above are speculative renders ules could be aggregated to cr

Grid Logic Speculative Renders

Module Exploded Axonometric + Detail Module Cut Sheet

Design Development As we refined and developed the module, these were the design and assembly logics that we settled on. In order to connect separate modules, we introduced slots and horizontal and vertical spanning pieces that would not only lock the pieces together, but create a sense of visual contuinity throughout the structure.

Above are speculative renders of different ways in which the modules could be aggregated to create different spatial conditions.

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CONIC CUTTING LOGIC

PLAN

SOUTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

inter.woven

INTERWOVEN Computational Representations

Clover Chau, Vishaka Nayak Fundamentals of Computational Design, Spring 2019 | MP1

Team: Clover Chau, Vishaka Nayak

FOR THIS PROJECT WE DECIDED TO EXPLORE HOW ONE CONTINUOUS PIPE CAN START TO CREATE SPACE. THE PROCESS BEGAN WITH PARABOLIC CONIC SECTIONS CUT AT DIFFERENT ANGLES AND JOINED TO CREATE A LOOPING CURVE. THE FINAL VARIATION IS MADE UP OF 4 CONNECTED PARABOLAS WITH AN ANGLE ROTATION OF 60 DEGREES. ONCE A SURFACE IS APPLIED TO THE STRUCTURE, AN OCCUPIABLE SPACE STARTS TO EMERGE FROM THE SIMPLE STRUCTURE WITH THE MEMBRANE WEAVING IN AND OUT OF ITSELF AND TWISTING AROUND ITS OCCUPANTS. THIS CANVAS AND STEEL PAVILION WOULD BE PLACED IN A PARK SETTING TO BE ENJOYED BY PEOPLE OF ALL AGES. IT HAS 2 DISTINCT SPACES DIVIDED BY A SHEET OF CANVAS AND CAN SERVE AS A PLAY STRUCTURE FOR KIDS OR AS A SHADING DEVICE.

AXONOMETRIC

CONIC CUTTING LOGIC

PLAN

SOUTH ELEVATION

EAST ELEVATION

NORTH ELEVATION

WEST ELEVATION

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sanc.tuary 931 Spring Garden Avenue

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2/F Plan

A hostel designed as retrofit within an old abandoned industrial brick building.

It acts as a safe space for youths in Pittsburgh looking to escape dangerous domestic situations and seek out a better life for themselves. A well defined ‘Y-shaped’ interior circulation ensures clear sightlines between the private dwellings and public areas, encouraing a sense of transparency, mutual trust and community.

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Interior Perspectives View From Entry Vestibule

Circumvolution

Clover Chau, Joanne Chui Fundamentals of Computational Design, Spring 2019 | MP1

Project 1 - Making Computationally

Physical Model

1. 8” x 1’2” x 5.5” box

2. cut through diagonal corners twice

3. rotate around cutting plane edge

4. rotate again around cutting plane edge

circumvol.tion Team: Clover Chau, Joanne Chui

1. 8” x 1’2” x 5.5” box

5. cut through remaining diagonal corners

2. cut through diagonal corners twice

6. rotate around cutting plane edge

4. rotate again around cutting plane edge

3. rotate around cutting plane edge

7. rotate again around cutting plane edge

8. rotate

9. rotate

Project Detail To ‘Circumvolute’ is to rotate. By splitting the box and rotating the pieces along their edges, a plethora of interesting geometries emerged. It also allowed for all the pieces, through the process of rotation to “unfurl” from the box. While not shown in the final model, one of the prototypes shows this such movement. It starts out from a block with the pieces opening up via hinges, and is essentially where the final concept came from. Another very important parameter was the cuts that we made which were limited to 3 of the original box’s corners. This allowed the dynamicism of form to come purely from the rotation. Once all possible cuts were made, the only operation used was rotating.

Along with the elegance of being able to theoretically fold all the pieces back into their orignal state, ie. a box, we found the forms generated by the rotational movements to be more spatial that other those created by other operations. In addition we found with the other two prototypes that diagonal cuts rather than orthogonal cuts produced geometries that were better at facilitating rotation .

Project Rules Rule 1: Splitting Cut along 3 diagonal corners of the box. Repeat.

Rule 2: Rotating Rotate piece along cutting plane edge. Repeat.

Rule 3: End Rule Repeat Rule 2 such that the pieces all touch and support one another.

weather museum Six Mile Island, Sharpsburg, PA A design for a weather museum on an island in the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, it aims to integrate visitiors into the natural landscape and draw them via a series of walkways into different ecotones. There are 3 enclosed areas for each aspect of the program: Living with Weather (residential), Experiencing Weather (educational) and Studying Weather (scientific).

Studying Weather

Experiencing Weather

Living with Weather

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Conceptual Collage

PROCESS OF SPATIAL RECONFIGURATION ECOTONE

STRAIT

ISTHMUS ISLANDS

ARCHIPELAGO/ ISLANDS

ATOLL REEF

SHOAL

SUBARRAY

WATERFALL

MODEL SCHEMATIC

This set of diagrams dissect and explore the participant systems in riparian systems on the micro, meso and macro scale and the material flows such as water and nutrients that are crucial to their rich biodiversity.

GROUNDWATER DISCHARGE/ RECHARGE SURFACE RUNOFF

HYPERHOIC EXCHANGE

SEDIMENT EROSION/ DEPOSITION

SYSTEM DIAGRAM

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MACRO

SOIL COMPOSITION

MICRO

MESO

KUMO HOOP HOUS A2|Grow Collec�ve Project Two, Clover Chau

Named after the Japanese word for “spider” the KUMO Ho House features origami - inspired folding at circular openin that were attached to ‘legs’ of conduit. In addition, it is bu an elevated base to facilitate the folding movement.

KUMO HOOP HOUSE Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens, Pittsburgh, PA Named after the Japanese word for “spider” the KUMO Hoop House features origami - inspired folding at circular openings that were attached to ‘legs’ of conduit pipes. It was built on an elevated base to facilitate the folding movement. Our design relied heavily on sewing not only to attach the heat shrink plastic to the frame, but to also attach create lines along which we wanted the plastic to fold. To give the folds greater rigidity, we also inserted piano wire as we were sewing to make the lines cleaner and straighter. It was very labor intensive, but as a result our plastic to metal joints were very clean and almost imperceptible.

Team: Clover Chau, Adam He, Steve Wang, Melissa Thomas

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6’-5 1/4”

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5’-6 1/8”

B1.5

3’-11 7/8”

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5’-6 1/8”

B2.1

3’-2 3/8”

A9

5’-4”

1’-8 3/8”

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2’-5 5/8”

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5’-1”

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8’-2 3/8”

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2’-5 7/8”

1x

3’-5 7/8”

1x 5x

1x

10x F of 0’-5”

1x B2.4

1’-8 3/8”

Backup Conduit

1x 1” 5x J1

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29’ - 9 5/8” 2’ - 5

1/8”

1’ -

2’ - 1/8”

8”

2’ - 11

1/4”

6 3/

18-8 STAINLESS STEEL PAN HEAD PHILIPS SCREW 1/4” 20 THREADS, 1-1/2” LONG

STEEL HEX NUT 1/4” - 20 THREADS

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Edible Garden

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S12 Edible Garden

Edible Garden

1/4” DIAMETER

Phipps Conservatory

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Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

WASHER

Hoop House

Scale: 1” = 2’ - 0”

KUMO

Scale: N/A

10/24 THREAD SIZE

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STEEL SCREW (FOR BINDING BARRELS)

Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

For Review

1/8” TK.

18-8 STAINLESS STEEL WASHER

KUMO

18-8 STAINLESS STEEL UNTHREADED SPACERS

1/4” 20 THREADS, 1-3/4” LONG

Joinery Details

1/4” DIAMETER

Phipps Conservatory

Access Diagram

Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

Phipps Conservatory

5’

18-8 STAINLESS STEEL WASHER

1/4”- 20 THREADS

Hoop House

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1/4” DIAMETER

WASHER

For Review

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STEEL BINDINGS BARRELS

1/4”- 20 THREADS

18-8 STAINLESS STEEL PAN HEAD PHILIPS SCREW

KUMO

Hoop House

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STEEL HEX NUT

For Review

8’ - 11 1/2” 20’ - 0”

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Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

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Edible Garden

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5’ - 1 1/4”

Hoop House

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WALK WAY

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Scale: 1” = 1’ - 0”

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For Review

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Plan

10’ - 9 5/8”

4’ -

3/4”

Plastic Cut Sheet

3’- 0”

4’ - 5

1/2’

Edible Garden

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3’ - 3/4”

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Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

5’-2 5/8”

1x

KUMO

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J2

4’-3”

Phipps Conservatory

5’-8 3/4”

A2

Hoop House

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B1.6

B1.4

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6’-0 7/8”

3’-5 5/8”

1’-3 1/8”

For Review

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B1.8

B1.3

Conduit Cut Sheet

5’-11 3/8”

1x

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WALK WAY

6’-0 7/8”

A4

Scale: 1” = 1’ - 0”

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Scale: N/A

Sun Diagram

For Review

Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

KUMO Hoop House NEIGHBOR BED

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1x

Edible Garden

This study revealed that the designated plot receives, an average, four hours of direct sunlight per day.

Phipps Conservatory

A study of shadow patterns in the Phipps Edible Garden on October 21st, 2018 from 9am to 6pm.

1/2”

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Scale: N/A

For Review

Folding Mechanism Step 4.

Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

Make inward folds + Sew piano wire into creases.

KUMO

Step 3.

Make outward folds + Sew piano wire into creases.

Final result.

Edible Garden

Step 2.

Phipps Conservatory

Cut + laminate by ironing heat shrink plastic pieces.

Hoop House

Step 1.

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Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang

Scale: N/A

KUMO

Phipps Conservatory

PLASTIC - CONDUIT

Hoop House

Sewing Detail

PLASTIC - PLASTIC - CONDUIT

For Review

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PROCESS PHOTOS EXPLODED

MODULE 3

EXPLODED

Edible Garden

PIANO WIRE - PLASTIC

Edible Garden

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Clover Chau Victor Eraslan Adam He Melissa Thomas Steve Wang Phipps Conservatory

Install origami folding panels

Scale: N/A

Assembly - 3 KUMO

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Install heak shrunk plas�c panels

Hoop House

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EXPLODED

These are construction documents for Hoop House fabrication. From site analysis, plans and sections to material cutlist and patterning to joint detailing, these drawings helps us to prepare for the construction and installation.

Process Photos

SECTIONAL PERSPEC

gr•w collective urban agriculture center

ject proposal for an urban agriculture center in Downtown Pittsburgh that would house a farmers market, greenhouse and educational center with classrooms and gallery space. The roof mimics the canopy of the bringing a sense of nature in to the space.

PERSPECTIVE

grow collective - Urban Agriculture Center Garland Parklet, Pittsburgh PA A project for an urban environmental center in East Liberty in Pittsburgh, it will support urban agricultural projects in a large greenhouse space as provide educational programming for Pittsburgh residents in the adjacent wing. Conceived as a public building within a park, it aims to promote environmental awareness and community engagement by reinvirgorating Garland Park and the surrounding neighborhood. It will also host the East Liberty Farmers Market in the courtyard space between the two buildings, shaded by a tesselated origami-inspired roof.

SECTION (LONG)

SECTION (LONG)

MASS Classrooms

SECTION (SHORT) Entry Room

SECTION (SHORT) FRAME Office on Mezzanine

FRAMEStorage Area

Office on Open Mezzanine Flex Area

Left: Floor Plan Blue areas represent recesses in the ground for water or exterior planting space. The section Floor Plan (long) and section (short) refer to the Sectional Perspective and theinCross Sectionfor respectively.

Blue areas represent recesses the ground

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water or exterior planting space. The section

(long) and section (short) refer to the Sectional Storage Area Covered Farmers MarketPerspective and the Cross Section respectively.

Open Flex Area Greenhouse Right: Covered Farmers Market Site Context Analysis Diagrams Top: Zoning & Environment Analysis Green: Tree canopy coverage, Yellow: Commercial buildings Park Entrance Site Context Analysis Diagrams 89 Light Gray: Residential buildings Top: Zoning & Environment Analysis 71A Outdoor Farmers Market Dark Gray: Parking lots Green: Tree canopy coverage, Middle: Bus Route Analysis 87 Yellow: Commercial buildings Park Entrance Circles: Bus stops 89 89 Light Gray: Residential buildings 88 Lines: Bus route 71A 71A Outdoor Farmers Market Dark Gray: Parking lots Bus Key: 77 Middle: Bus Route Analysis 87 87 71C Circles: Bus stops 8989 88 88 Lines: Bus route 71A 71B 71A 77 Bus Key: 77

Greenhouse OUTDOOR

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OUTDOOR

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Office Spaces Classrooms Corridor Office Spaces Restrooms Corridor Mechanical Room Restrooms Storage Room Mechanical Room Entry Room Storage Room

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71C Bottom: Pedestrian Access71C Analysis 89 88 Circles:88Bus stops 71B 71B 71A 77 Lines: Possible routes to site 77

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Bottom: Pedestrian Access71C Analysis 88 71B Circles: Bus stops 71B 77 Lines: Possible routes to site 71C 71B

SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE

89 71A 87 88 77 71C 71B

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Left: Developed conncept model Right: 2nd round of concept models The 2nd round of concept models explore further the flow of circulation through the sit ena dposit ways in which the mass and frame, signified by the contrasting materiality of the trace paper and the chipboard, could facilitate it.

The developed concept model shows an interpretation of the curved forms of the previous two rounds of iterations as a triangulated surface. This version describes the massing and the roof as two distinct entities, as well as a proposal for the material gradient of the roof. The final design was based off a simplification of this design.

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Right Middle: Initial concept model no.1 Right Bottom: Initial concept model no.2 Left Bottom: Plan view of the developed concept model.

The initial concept models show a prelimary attempt at positiing 3 different masses in relation to one another as well as establishing a curved arrowlike formal language. In particular, model no.2 begins to introduce the idea of materiality through the use of aluminium piping.

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CLASSROOM (E)

CLASSROOM AREA: 20 NET AREA: 500 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 25

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CONCENTRATED BUSINESS USE AREA: 50 GROSS AREA: 120 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 3

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ACCORDING TO IBC 402.4 & 503.1.3 SINCE THE CENTER IS A TYPE 1 CONSTRUCTION IT IS PERMITTED TO BE OF UNLIMITED TABULAR BUILDING HEIGHTS AND AREAS AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS.

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UNCONCENTRATED TABLES & CHAIRS: 15 NET AREA: 645 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 43

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ACCESSORY STORAGE AREA: 300 GROSS AREA: 100 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 1

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AS REQUIRED BY TABLE 601, FIRE RESISTANCE RATING OF THE STRUCTURAL STEEL FRAME IS 2 HRS, CONCRETE EXTERIOR BEARING WALLS IS 2 HRS, CONCRETE INTERIOR NON BEARING WALLS IS 1 HRS AND ROOF CONSTRUCTION IS 0.5 HRS. IN ACCORDANCE WITH IBC 708.3, CORRIDOR WALLS HAVE A 0.5 HR FIRE RESISTANCE RATING BY TABLE 1020.1.

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CODE REVIEW IN ACCORDANCE WITH IBC 2018 THIS BUILDING IS CLASSIFIED AS A COVERED MALL BUILDING.

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CLASSROOM AREA: 20 NET AREA: 500 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 25

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TOTAL OCCUPANCY (EXCLUDING MEZZANINE): 489 TOTAL OCCUPANCY (INCLUDING MEZZANINE): 493

50 GROSS AREA: 10 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 1

50 GROSS AREA: 10 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 1

OFFICE SPACE (B)

CONCENTRATED BUSINES USE AREA: 50 GROSS AREA: 200 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 4

CODE ANNOTATION KEY:

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MERCANTILE: 60 GROSS AREA: 15000 SQ FT OCCUPANCY: 250

1. TO ALLOW THE MECHANICAL ROOM DOOR TO OPEN INTO THE EXIT PASSAGEWAY, THE CORRIDOR WALLS AND DOOR HAVE A 1 HR FIRE RESISTANCE RATING. 2. THE SPACE BETWEEN TWO DOORS IN A SERIES IS 48 INCHES MINIMUM PLUS THE WIDTH OF A DOOR SWINGING IN THE SPACE AND SWING IN THE SAME DIRECTION. 3. ACCORDING TO IBS 402.8.25 DISTANCE TO TRAVEL FROM AN POINT TO AN EXIT SHOULD BE NO LESS THAN 200 FEET. THE GREATEST DISTANCE IN THIS BUILDING IS 109 FEET. 4. IN COMPLIANCE WITH IBC 502.2.1 THE MEZZANINE DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE BUILDING AREA OR NUMBER OF STORIES AND IS LESS THAN ONE THIRD OF THE ROOM IN WHICH IT IS ENCLOSED. 5. THE STAIRWAY SERVES AN OCCUPANT LOAD LESS THAN 50 AND HAS A WIDTH OF 92 INCHES AND HEAD ROOM OF 96 INCHES COMPLYING WITH IBC 1011.2 & 1011.3

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CLOVER CHAU

thank you!