F19-S23 Portfolio - Meilinda (Mei) Darmawan

Meilinda Darmawan

Cal Poly Pomona Architecture 2019 - 2022 Selected Works

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SELECTED WORKS

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(Fall 2020) Museum of Contemporary Japanese Art

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(Fall 2021) Scientists’ Retreat

13-18 (Spring 2022) Mixed Use Multi Family Residential 19-23 (Fall 2022) Tsunami Evacuation Tower 24

Graphic Design for Student Innovation Idea Labs CPP

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Museum of Contemporary Japanese Art Second Year Design Studio (Fall 2020)

This proposal for a Japanese Contemporary Art Museum in Little Tokyo is an extension of the greater site that is surrounded by important cultural buildings - Noguchi Plaza, Aratani Theatre, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, and the Japanese Village Plaza. A raised courtyard complements and extends Noguchi Plaza to create a connection to all of the cultural buildings. The largest public programs such as the courtyard, auditorium, and store are accessible from both sides of the project without passing galleries for better accessibility. Visitors remain outside as they first enter through the envelope of the building and approach the raised courtyard that serves as a gathering space.

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Left: Ground Floor Plan | Right: Second and Fourth Floor Plans 5

Left: Longitudinal Section | Right: Cross Section 6

Scientists’ Retreat at Vetter Mountain Third Year Design Studio (Fall 2021)

This proposal for a scientists’ retreat and research center in Vetter Mountain is a shallow, reserved, shed-like structure placed on top of the mountain. The structure and typology of the building draws inspiration from the Yusuhara Wooden Bridge Museum. The building is organized around a core hallway and further divided based on a grid, making two distinct bars for the program to fill. The hallway creates the two halves - the side for work and the side for personal living spaces. The hallway links two decks with one being a public gathering deck accessible from a lower point of the site through a winding ramp that follows the contours of the topography, and the other a private observation deck accessible for the resident scientists. The activities in the buliding are balanced in its grid as the reserved building itself appears balanced on the mountain top.

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Image: Exterior Rendering 8

Left: Floor Plans | Right: Site Plan 9

Left (top to bottom): Massing, Program Adjacency, and Program Diagrams | Right: Detailed wall Section 10

WALL ELEVATION

Left (top to bottom): Longitudinal Section and North Elevation | Right (top to bottom): Cross Section, West Elevation, Wall Elevation 11

Image: Interior Rendering 12

Mixed Use Multi Family Residential

Third Year Design Studio (Spring 2022) This is the beginning of the design of a mixed use multi family residential project.

The building is designed for 10 units of housing for artists, with plenty of open space for the residents to use as work spaces. The ground floor hosts a maker studio that the residents can showcase their work in while also being open to the public as a center for innovation. The buildng’s appearance is a series of individual rugged blocks which are carved out of larger original volumes.

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Left: Floor Plans | Right: Unit Plans 14

Left: Elevations | Right: Isonometric Renderings 15

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SCALE:1/8" = 1'-0" 0'

Left (top to bottom): Section, Massing Diagram | Right: Framing Diagram 16

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C1 A-521

TOP OF BUILDING + 35'0"

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WINDOW HEAD + 31'4"

WINDOW SILL + 27'10"

D THIRD FLOOR + 24'4"

WINDOW HEAD + 21'0"

WINDOW SILL + 17'6"

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Left: Rendered Building Fragment | Right: Detail Wall Section and Elevation 17

Left: Entry Render | Middle: Community Outdoor Space Render | Right: Bedroom View Render 18

Tsunami Evacuation Tower

Fourth Year Topic Studio (Fall 2022) This tower is situated in a preservation zone in Kalama Beach in Kailua, Oahu. As one of three proposed evacuation towers in Hawaii, this project maintains the basic skeleton and pattern of the group’s base structure but elongates the building outline. The precast double tee has a wave-like shape, representing “Kailua” which translates to “two seas.” The local context of the Beach Club area and the enlargement of the floor plates allows for more people to inhabit the levels without needing to build up as high as the base tower. The facade came with a different approach, an oblique metal facade that took into account the datum lines from the stairs as well as the non-linear datums that came from the residential homes around. Overall the building’s porosity allows for ease of movement on the ground level and visual transparency to better fit a residential area.

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Left: Floor plans and Sections | Right: Program Diagram 20

Left: Assembly Diagram | Right: Base Physical Model 21

Images: Physical Base Model 22

Left: Daily Use Interior Rendering | Right: Tsunami Rendering 23

Stadium + Sports Performance Center Fourth Year Topic Studio (Spring 2023) This stadium proposal is designed to house specifically track and field events. To serve the athletes, a sports performance center is a connected structure that houses program to support the athletes’ health and development. Using the dynamic movements and fluidity of track and field event partterns as inspiration, the structure translates the movement to a fabric. The ETFE roof begins to take on a weaving and pattern making inspired by tartan fabrics with their overlapping regularieites. This fabric is stretched over the metal structure of a compression ring and tied into the dramatic flanges as fabric is stretched over a loom. The horseshoe shape is present not only in the roof, but also the form of the building. The horseshoe shape keeps the building enclosed but also open. This results in a monolithic base that has a supporting enclosure but is still open to the outside.

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TICKETING AND SECURITY

RESTROOMS AND CONCESSIONS UPPER BOWL SEATING ACCESS

PERFORMANCE CENTER

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PLAYING FIELD ACCESS

CIRCULATION

PARTI OPENING TO THE PARK

MEDIA BOX ACCESS LOWER BOWL SEATING ACCESS

ATHLETE AND STAFF ENTRY

MINOR SLOPE AT THE OPENING

SPECTATOR AND MEDIA ENTRY

EXPANDING THE CONCOURSE

TICKETING AND SECURITY

RESTROOMS AND CONCESSIONS UPPER BOWL SEATING ACCESS

PERFORMANCE CENTER

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SUNKEN PIT FOR TRAINING LEVEL ACCESS

PLAYING FIELD ACCESS

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CIRCULATION

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SITE RESPONSE

ENCLOSURE

ATHLETE AND STAFF ENTRY

MINOR SLOPE AT THE OPENING

Above: Diagrams

SUNKEN PIT FOR TRAINING LEVEL ACCESS

OUTSIDE

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1. TICKETING AND SECURITY 2. CONCOURSE

1. TICKETING AND SECURITY 2. CONCOURSE 3. CONCESSIONS

3. CONCESSIONS 4. RESTROOMS 5. MEDIA BOOTH

4. RESTROOMS 5. MEDIA BOOTH

6. UPPER LEVEL SEATING

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7. LOWER LEVEL SEATING 8. PLAYING FIELD

6. UPPER LEVEL SEATING

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7. LOWER LEVEL SEATING 8. PLAYING FIELD

9. CONCERT STAGE

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CONCOURSE PLAN

Left: Concourse Plan | Right: Overall Plan 26

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Image: Sports Performance Center Plan 27

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Top/Middle Left: Sections | Bottom/Middle Right: Maquette Render 28

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Left: Roof Plan | Right: Roof Pattern Iterations 29

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Right: Roof Assembly Diagrams 30

Left: Daily Use Interior Rendering | Right: Bird’s Eye View Render 31

Website Banner Design and Logo Work

Student Innovation Idea Labs, CPP Student Innovation Idea Labs (SIIL) at Cal Poly Pomona offers equipment training such as 3D printing and laser cutting to students which promotes and supports creativity and innovation on campus. A new program called Innovator’s Harvest showcases student work that has been made using the spaces, tools, and training SIIL provides.

This created a need for graphics to promote the program and a logo to symbolize the innovation and creation that will be showcased by students.

Top: Innovator’s Harvest website banner | Middle: Proposed CPP iLab website banner | Bottom (left to right): Innovator’s Harvest logo development 32