Nadia Cho Architecture Portfolio (February 2023)

NADIA CHO

a r c h i t e c t u r e p o r t f o l i o

NADIA CHO

Phone: (781) 363-2472 Email: nncho@andrew.cmu.edu linkedIn: Nadia Cho Instagram: cho.topia

ABOUT

PROJECTS:

I’m a passionate third-year student on the path to earning my B.Arch degree at Carnegie Mellon University. I am fascinated by the art of renovation and adaptive reuse design which preserves the past while creating innovative, sustainable, and aesthetically captivating spaces for the future. What sets me apart is my unwavering motivation to learn and my relentless drive to make the world a better place through design.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant for Design Ethics and Social Justice in Architecture

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

AUG 2023 - DEC 2023 ▶ Assisted Professor Kai Gutschow and Valentina Vavasis in grading assignments ▶ Lead and assisted in class discussions

EX-CHANGE Publication & Exhibition Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA JAN 2023 - SEP 2023 ▶ Assisted in organization and coordinating team workflow ▶ Curated and organized the content in the EX-CHANGE catalogue publication ▶ Assisted with curation and fabrication of the annual Carnegie Mellon SoA EX-CHANGE ▶ Exhibition of student work

Summer Facilities Assistant

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

▶ Organized studio spaces for architecture students ▶ Collaborated with other students in planning

Teaching Assistant

Kumon Tutoring Center, Needham, MA ▶ Tutored students from 4 -15 years of age in Mathematics and English ▶ Organized the Center’s learning materials for students

AUG 2022

SEP 2019 - MAR 2020

Pittsburgh, PA ▶ Grade Point Average: 3.7/4.0 ▶ Dean’s List 2022 ▶ Pursuing B.Arch degree

Needham High School

Needham MA ▶ Grade Point Average: 4.7/5.0 ▶ Academic Honor Roll: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 ▶ National Honor Society ▶ Randolph College Book Award

SKILLS Analog Hand-drafting Laser-Cutter CNC Router Wood-Working (Bamboo Fabrication) Fabric Working (Sewing, Felting, Knitting) Digital 2D Adobe Suite (Acrobat, Aero, Illustrator, Indesign, Photoshop, Premiere Pro) Google Suite Microsoft Office Digital 3D Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper Blender Sketchup Climate Studio Programming HTML and CSS Python Unity

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University

Carnival Bamboo Pavillion Schematic Redesign(s) w/ Vicky Achnani @ Carnegie Mellon Architecture ▶ Facilitate design and detailings of repurposing old bamboo pavillion as a greenhouse Spring Carnival Pavillion Construction ▶ Aided construction of spring carnival entryway SSA/HKSA/FSA Spring Carnival Blitz Management ▶ Facilitate design and manage team coordination for spring carnival booth

SEP 2022 - MAY 2026 (EXPECTED)

SEP 2017 - JUN 2021

STRENGTHS

Organization Leadership Attention to Detail Resilience Communication

LANGUAGE English

Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Chinese French

TABLE OF CONTENT

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GALLERY ON SOUTH CRAIG STREET pg4

THEATER ON SOUTH CRAIG STREET pg12

3 CULINARY INSTITUTE ON BEECHWOOD BOULEVARD

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1 EMBRACE GALLERY ON SOUTH CRAIG STREET

1 EMBRACE SPRING 2022 INSTRUCTOR: ZAID KASHEF ALGHATA COORDINATOR: HAL HAYES, MARY LOU ARSCOTT IN COLLABORATION WITH HENRY YOUNGREN This Community Gallery, located on South Craig Street is designed as a vertical gallery and places a lot of focus on the interior even though it is a facade project. Our focus on the interior in designing allows for more interactions with the facade and creates a conversation around gallery orientation.

The process of our design focused on making different interior massings, where we designed massings that would allow for interactions with the outside and creating exposed corridors. Our bowtie shape design would allow for corridors with skylights and a narrow hallway in between. We utilized dropped ceilings and sloped hallways to further convey the directionality of our geometry and guide the guests.

The building includes area for the school of art as well as invite the rest of the community. The gallery visitors enter through a narrow hallway which leads up to the main gallery which stretches across three levels with a slight look at a skylight. Whereas the second and third level is where the school area is mainly located but is opened to seeing the artwork on display as well.

GALLERY

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FLOOR PLANS

GALLERY

SECTION & ELEVATION

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GALLERY

RENDERING OF ATRIUM GALLRY W/ PHOTOSHOP GENERATIVE FILL

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2 IMMERSION T H E A T E R ON SOUTH CRAIG STREET

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2 EMBRACE SPRING 2022 INSTRUCTOR: ZAID KASHEF ALGHATA COORDINATOR: HAL HAYES, MARY LOU ARSCOTT South Craig Street is an area where students interact with the environment. The theater which I created focus on the idea of discussion and interconnectedness as a blackbox theater and it’s interlocking features, making the performers and audience more interactive and breaking the barriers of traditional performances.

In developing the theater, I had studied the temporary blackbox theater “The Shed” from the Haworth Tompkins Office and its strength of flexibility and engaging the audiences. To create my own theater, I performed transformation on the precedent which created more provoking ideas to the conventional theater by creating more angled roofs and intersections to present an interlocked idea through the geometry that guides the viewers toward the center of the stage. Similarly, the rest programming of the theater also focus on interconnectedness by using interlocked geometry.

THEATER

The facade of the theater uses different materials and punctured surfaces that promotes a conversation on theater and performers as well as convey an immersive and stimulative environment.

PROGRAMMING DIAGRAM

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THEATER

RENDERING OF THEATER INTERIOR W/ TWINMOTION

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THEATER

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CULINARY INSTITUTE ON BEECHWOOD BOULEVARD

3 TRI PEAKS FALL 2022 INSTRUCTOR: TOMMY YANG COORDINATOR: LAURA GARÓFALO IN COLLABORATION WITH BINA (BENNUI) GUO In this eight week project, we created a culinary institute that takes three main factors into consideration: Pittsburgh’s urban population, the natural biome, and a chef’s philosophy. Our philosophy revolved around respecting natural resources, being adventurous with the ingredients, and connecting the community.

Through our model making progress, we also explored materiality and modelled actual construction techniques with reinforced concrete and wood framing techniques using chipboard as the reinforcement. The section model is cut at a corner demonstrating two of the peaks, the interior of the lobby as well as the lecture theater.

With the culinary institute’s aim to connect the Pittsburgh community together and educate people about the natural food resources, the site is located at Frick Park, where visitors and students will have chances to forage around the trees and the spices of the natural biome. To accomodate Pittsburgh’s cold winter, there are also a greenhouse and outdoor planters where students will be able to plant and grow natural ingredients and share them to the community in the farmer’s market. Since our philosophy was closely related to the outdoors, there is also an outdoor amphitheater and cooking area where students may have lectures and classes.

The three “peaks“, which are created with rotated pentagonal geometries, emulated the hills of Pittsburgh and served as the key gathering spaces of this institute. The geometries were inspired by an abstracted field drawing, created by breaking apart the plan of a vernacular malay house and stacking the parts together after rotation and reflection.

ENSCAPE RENDERING CULINRY INSTITUTE

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1ST & 2ND FLOOR PLAN

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B1 & B2 FLOOR PLAN

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PROGRAM IN EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC EGRESS FLOOR 1 LOBBY AND COMMUNITY SPACE TEACHING KITCHEN LECTURE THEATRE STORAGE

BASEMENT 1 CLASSROOMS STUDY LOUNGE TEACHING OFFICE LOBBY AND COMMUNITY SPACE TEACHING KITCHEN COMMUNITY KITCHEN LOCKER BAKING LAB RESTROOM STORAGE CAFE KITCHEN LECTURE THEATRE

BASEMENT 2 LECTURE THEATRE

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