2013 MArch Portfolio

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PROJECTS Solidity Flow Contrast

ANNEX Museum as a Sculpture

Expanding The Box

PreFAB From The Werehouse To Any Location Housing Prototypes

Suspend

URBAN PLOT City Market as a Community Garden

Inside Out

INTERIOR DESIGN Undergraduate Sample Projects

Skin To Structure

DIGITAL FABRICATION Tectonics

SOLIDITY FLOW CONTRAST

Museum as a Sculpture

ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York

ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York

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Museum as a sculpture…

Annex means to attach, append, or add, especially to something larger or more important. Our site, located on 10th Avenue New York City, is known as the meat-packing district. The High Line elevated freight line was authorized in 1929 as part of the “West Side Improvement Plan”, and the New York Central Railroad completed construction. Due to the elevated railroad line that were added through the neighborhood along Ninth Avenue and Greenwich Street, industrialization increased.

Annex is a Kusthal Museum designed to incorporate the industrial history of the site by celebrating materials such as concrete, metal, and glass. The solidity of the form of the museum serves as a crown monument of New York City. The skin of the building resembles shards of rocks to represent the historical aesthetics of New York in American society. The Plinth was design to connect the street level of the museum to the High Line thirty feet above ground. It serves as an artificially natural circulation for pedestrians to move about the site and on to the sculptural garden, which circulates around the museum. The Plinth also functions as a stand, in which the museum as a sculpture sits on.

The galleries of the museum are stacked into three concrete towers. The skin is made of glass, steel, and perforated metal. From the outside, the structure invokes a sense of sublimity with its rigid and rough exterior; in contrast, when entering the museum, the skin and the gallery are two different entities. The skin engulfs the interior structure, providing an exterior atrium. To enrich the space, the perforated metal allows light to be filtered into the space and enhances the sculptures that it houses.

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ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York

ANNEX 10th Avenue & 18th Street NY, New York

EXPANDING THE BOX

Housing Prototypes

PreFAB

From The Werehouse To Any Location

PreFab Prototype: L-House

Breaking up the box into modular units to be reassemble into many configuration.

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Open Space Private Space

North Elevation

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Moveable Wall Options

East Elevation

FLEXIBILTY

First Floor Plan

South Elevation

Second Floor Plan

West Elevation

PreFab Prototype: L-House

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Roof

Drain Scuppers

Open Space to Allow Water Flow

RoofEdge Paver Pedestal

Prevegetated LiveRoof Modules Slip Sheet Waterproofing Roof Deck

Roof/ Planter Detail 2nd Floor Exterior Walls

2nd Floor Interior Walls

Section B B 2nd Floor Exterior Walls

1St Floor Interior Walls

Assembly Diagram

Section A A

PreFab Prototype: H-House

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West Elevation

East Elevation

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OUTDOOR CONNECTION Sustainable Features - Daylight - Natural Ventilation - Wall Paneling System are (6’x10’) or (8’x10’) - SIP or CLT walls are used - Modular systems allow homes to be custom and affordable - Prefab construction saves time, building material, and cost - Modular Planters help shade roof without the structure of having a green roof - Water collection system stores and reduce water waste - Solar Water Heating ready.

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Handicap Accessible Floor Plan 2% Slope

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PreFab Prototype: H-House

View From Courtyard

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Modular Wall Panel System SIP Wall Detail

Optional Addition B

Optional Addition A Main Modular Unit

Expansion Diagram

Floor Connection

SUSPEND Food is essential to life. The more we know about food, the better we are about what we put into our bodies. What better place to learn and obtain fresh food than a market?

Asheville, North Carolina is an urbanizing city with a population of eighty three thousand people. Last month, the City Council passed a Food Action Plan in Asheville. Among other efforts, the plan calls for focusing on existing landscaping budgets to include more edible plants and community gardens. It also calls for using the city’s Unified Development Ordinance to prioritize urban agriculture. And it aims to give people without reliable transportation safe walkways and public transportation to emergency food providers, grocery stores and farmers markets. Regulations for farmers markets in neighborhoods would be streamlined.

Proposal I purpose Urban Plot as a centralized urban garden and market located in the heart of downtown Asheville. Urban Plot will be where farmers, consumers, food enthusiasts are united to promote education, health, participation, and experimentation with the freshest of foods.

City Market as a Community Garden

URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

GreenLife Grocery

Pack Square

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Grocery Stores in Asheville

Market Goals · promote education and health · promote participation, recreation, and relaxation · contribute to food security · contribute to food safety · decrease food desert

Pritchard Park

SITE

Public Parks Access

Site Map

URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

Restaurants Cafe

Aditorium Circulation

Second Floor Pla

Market Floor Plan

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Walls

Framing

Mullions

Administrative Offices Auditorium and Class Rooms

Hyroponic Farms

Third Floor Plan

Steel Frames

Flooring

Site

URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

This model is constructed at an 1/8”=1.0’ scale.

All the columns and beans are connected with a figure joint and cable were attached to hang the floors below before it was erected.

LOAD DIAGRAM

STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

Girders were added to support the structure and roof. The structure was stable but the floor were swaying and need bracing to react to lateral forces.

URBAN PLOT Patton Ave and Lexington Ave Asheville, NC

ANALYSIS

The structure seemed stable but the floor were swayed from side to side when horizontal force was directly applied. Lateral bracing is needed to react to lateral forces. After further

analysis, lateral support was needed to make the structure static. Holes were drilled and cables were added diagonally along sides of the building connecting the structural frame and the floors to strengthen the structure.

Diagonal cables were also added in the interior structure connecting the floors.

After adding the diagonal cables for bracing, the structure was more static. The top floor was very stable while the bottom floor was less static. Because the cables were imperfectly hand stretch and tied, caused the study model to be not as tight as it should have been. There is not enough tension for the model to be static. If machines were used to build the structure, the structure would be static. This structure could be static and functional if it was built is real scale.

Undergraduate Sample Projects

Interior Design

INTERIOR DESIGN

Using the footprint o five star hotel with 40

Conceptional Models

1st Floor Plan

Design Concept: The tea. Different floors r the color palette, lev ect is to blur the lin cosmopolitan space this metropolis daily.

HOTEL DESIGN

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Contributed to: 1st Floor: Lobby, Reception, Restaurant, and Back of House 3rd Floor: Retail, Offices, Meeting Rooms, Conference Rooms, and Cafeteria 6th- 36th Floor: Deluxe Rooms 39thth Floor: Premier Suites

INTERIOR DESIGN

HOTEL DESIGN The design of the restaurant brings forth the element of water. The different levels and concentric rings radiating out from the bar echo the rippling affect of water.

Restaurant & Mezzanine Floor Plan

Restaurant Elevation

INTERIOR DESIGN

39th Floor Plan

Premier Suite Floor Plan Premier Suite Perspective

Premier Suite Elevation

HOTEL DESIGN

6th - 36th Floor Plan

Deluxe A & B Perspective

Deluxe A & B Floor Plan

Deluxe A & B RCP

Deluxe A & B Elevation

INTERIOR DESIGN Objective: With the community of Athens in mind, design an alternate facility that will enhance the exercise experience by creating a warm and relaxing atmosphere for people who enjoy.

Design Features: Inspired by Japanese architecture, multi-purpose classroom studios, a therapeutic pool, sauna and steam rooms, hourly day care, and a Zen garden and coy pond.

CafĂŠ and Juice Bar

Therapeutic Pool

Hospitality Design

Site Plan

South Elevation

Section A.2

Floor Plan

Skin to Structure

DIGITAL FABRICATION

DIGITAL FABRICATION The objective to this project was to design a digital model using various tools in Rhino creating a structure. First, many conceptual digital models were made to analyze the solids and voids of the sculpture. Using the “pipe� command, curves were extruded into a wire frame structure. Then columns and floors were designed in the model to create a standing building. Finally, a scaled model was fabricated to illustrate the skin and the structure of the building.

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Skin To Structure ITERATIONS II MARY TRAN

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DIGITAL FABRICATION Skin to Structure

Fabrication The base is a massing made out of chipboards. The structure consist of columns made with chip and basswood. The windows are framed in wood and layered with plexiglass. Thick basswood make up the floors of the structure. The voids and curded glass were fabricated using a 3-D printer.