RAY HO Architecture Portfolio
Rhode Island School of Design Bachelor of Architecture 2025
RAY HO
EDUCATION
Sept 2020 - May 2025
Rhode Island School of Design
Bachelor of Architecture (NAAB Accredited)
GPA: 3.814 + Concentration: Nature/Culture/Sustainability Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sept 2024 - Jan 2025
3SIXO Architecture - Providence, RI | Architecture Intern (Part Time)
Renders, 3D modeling, drawings for private residential projects
Jul - Sept 2024
3SIXO Architecture - Providence, RI | Architecture Intern (Full Time)
Renders, 3D modeling, drawings for private residential projects
Active participation in project meetings
Assisted with RFP for local elementry school expansion
Jun - Aug 2023
SED-IA Architecture - Taipei, Taiwan | Architecture Intern (Full Time)
Renders, models, and drawings for highrise residential projects
Firm campaign and WELL Certifications in existing projects
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sept 2022 - Jun 2023
AIAS - RISD Chapter | Event Coordinator
Building connections with universities to access resources and help students understand professional roles by coordinating firm tours and community events.
Sept 2022 - Jun 2023
ACE Mentorship Program - RI Chapter | Mentor Volunteer
Provide mentorships to high school students who are interested in architecture, construction, or engineering as their future career.
Jun - Sept 2023
SOFTWARE
Adobe CC
CAD/Render
Young Architects Competitions - Home After Crisis | Finalist Mention
Photoshop | InDesign | Illustrator
Rhino 3D | Revit | AutoCad | Sketch Up Lumion | Enscape | Climate Studio | ArchGIS
LANGUAGES English (bilingual) | Mandarin (native) | German (elementry)
01 PHASES OF LIVING
Accessory Dwelling Units
Spring 2022
Core Studio - Urban Ecologies
Critic - Leeland McPhail
Teammates - Samantha Salazar, Sophia Francesca
Skills Applied:
- Plans / Sections vector work (Illustrator)
- Physical Model Fabrication
- Digital Model (Rhino 3D)
- Urban Scale Housing Research
Phases of Living is an accessory dewlling unit design that focused on creating affordable housing and public spaces for West End, Providence. This project emphasize on intergrating new spatial organization systems; invision new possibilities of urban planning to address current issue of housing instability. We reinvisioned the relationship between the individuals and the collective community; empowering people by giving them autonomy in sheltering.
Removing property lines to allow formations of new connection. Extended the previous systems as an entry point for new distribution of space and The gabion warming wall serves as basis of our units, considering warmth the foundation of survival; while design easily constructable structures to the community achieve self-suffiency.
West End, Providence Site Plan
Extended point energy. as the warmth as design help self-suffiency.
02 SUNSET PARK RECLAIMATION
Waste
Recovery
Center + Adapt and Reuse
Spring 2024
Advance Studio - Waste Works
Critic - Amelyn Ng
Teammates - Jessica Ko, Hardy Huang
Skills Applied:
- Axons / Plans / Sections vector work (Illustrator)
- Physical Model Fabrication
- Digital Model (Rhino 3D)
- Collages / Renderings (Photoshop / Lumion)
- ArcGIS Mapping
Sunset Park Community, a water front community located in Brooklyn, NY, was among one of the location heavily relied on industrial activities. With the transition of era, vacant offices and empty buildings are in need of new life and purpose. Our strategy aims to revitalize the Sunset Park urban waterfront district, including the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal; focusing on the movement and usage of waste materials. Aiming to redirect locally produced waste in construction and automotive industries through a waste recovery and inspection facility, and resupply materials via cicular economy.
We position Sunset Park as a redistribution hub for New York City’s C&D and automotive industry by designing for the preparation and shipping of both reusable and unusable materials via marine and vehicular transportation. We aim to provide refined and reclaimed raw material for the rest of the city, building on Sunset Park’s existing model of a circular economy; limiting the rapid growth of landfil and environmental pollution.
On the pier north of the site sits the Marine Terminal, once used for construction storage. We aim to salvage the structure elongated space to house waste processing as well as material repurposing studios. and workers will filter the waste, and based on the waste type, material, and “waste materials” a second life with
the South Brooklyn construction material structure and utilize the processing machineries studios. There, artists and organize them and value. Giving with new purpose.
The eight story office building was once occupied by shiping companies that regulates the exports and imports from across the world; now converted into four main programs: first floor is waste reuse marketplace; mezanine level is library and offices; second floor is public & private ammenities for visitors and residents; lastly, third to eighth floor are affordable housing for the sunset park community, facility workers, and artists.
The building’s core is carved into a light well that desend with terraces, provide natural light and a buffer space for the residents. Exterior facade is preserved to maintain the history of the building.
2nd Floor Public Ammenities + Library
03 NOOKS AND CRANNIES
Glass Artist Studio + Community Center
Fall 2023
Advance Studio - Solar Trojectories
Critic - Laura Briggs
Skills Applied:
- Axons / Plans / Sections vector work (Illustrator)
- Physical Model Fabrication
- Digital Model (Rhino 3D)
- Collages / Renderings (Photoshop / Enscape)
- Solar Concentration Research
The Blackstone River situates through Central Falls, Rhode Island, the once blooming center of the american industrialization. The district consists of vacant factories once dominated in production of motor vehicles and tapestry. The site faces nearby marshland and is cornered by the river. This studio center encourage practice and education for glass artists and visitors.
The site conditions are reflected mirrored pathways; emerging landscape conditions. In some hidden landscapes are reflected the mirror wall; essentially “see structures; engaging with fractured landscape and seasonality. The heat zones on site that creates environmental conditions through zones. The south facing wall incorporates lenses, generating concentrated heat source for the furnaces in
reflected through the emerging visitors in projected some instances, the reflected directly onto “see through” the fractured pattern of The brick wall creates creates contrasting through artificial climate incorporates fresnel concentrated solar energy as in the glass shop.
Fresnel Lense Solar Concentrator Mirror Walls Reflection Pathway
The brick wall creates heat zones on site that helps the native plant life bloom early, creating contrasting environmental conditions through artificial climate zones. The south facing wall incorporates fresnel lenses, utilizing the concentrated solar energy as heat source for the furnaces in the glass workshop.
The fins on inetrior surface help diffuse heat. The light tunnels are wider on the inside to intensify the redirected sun light into the interior; as well as preventing heat loss. The circular cavities consists horizontally throughout the brick. When stacked on top, the cavities line up and create insulation via suspended air, the terracotta material function as thermal mass. The serrated edges allows bricks to lock onto each other, as instructions for construction.
04 HUB 59
Building Codes + Native Plant / Seed network
Fall 2024
Intergrated Building Systems
Critic - Penn Rudermann
Teammates - Minho Kwon, Naomi Kern, Gavriel Faigenblat
Skills Applied:
- Axons / Plans / Sections vector work (Illustrator)
- Physical Model Fabrication
- Digital Model (Rhino 3D)
- Technical Drawing Sets Drafting (AutoCAD)
- Detailed Building Structural Design
- Building Systems Research / Design
HUB 59, located in the East Side I-195 Redevelopment District of Providence. This project is created for the purpose of training knowledge of building codes & systems. HUB 59 houses an administrative, processing and distribution center to support ecoregion-specific planting throughout the region. The design achieved 54% EUI reduction through the use of heavy insulation and solar panels. It also serves as an educational and community center to support ecological restoration projects nationwide.
The stepping terraces of the building provides balcony spaces to maximum the river-side view as well as solar exposure. The building is built up to the lot boundary, bringing the pedestrian experience closer to the building encouraging public interaction. The south facade is spatially open with a l-shaped facade to take advantage of the existing pedestrian route. The north facing facades reflects the traditional brick material and color of the historical district. It is also built with high R-value wall assemblies and intergration of solar pannels. The building has an total EUI of 182,933 kWh/yr, compared to the original EUI of 337,547 kWh/yr without the panels. This proposal helps the building offsets its energy use by 54.2%.
A TOTAL OF 64 DRAWINGS SET
Life Safety Plan, Structural Plans, Mechanical Plans...etc.
*THE ENTIRE DRAWING SET IS AVALIABLE UPON REQUEST*
05 BIOMIMICRY - GALLERY
Art Gallery + Tectonic Design
Spring 2022
Core Studio - Architectural Design
Critic - Annie Mock
Skills Applied:
- Physical Model Fabrication
- Hand Drawn Plan / Section
Designed from the biomimicry analysis of seahourse skeletons; analyzing the structural components with emphasis of joints, strength, and flexibility, which is then applied in the design of the gallery. The gallery design looked into the details of natural structures of seahorses’ skeletal anatomy. Observing the diamond plates that acts as the singular modules. The shell model above aim to replicate similar forms that behaves with similar flexiblility and supports seen in seahorses.
The diamond modules are inter-linked on all corners, providing a structural quality. The between the diamond shaped modules create spaces for the overlayed sheath to bend and Under pressure, the sheath of linked diamond modules are allowed to curve and fold, creating dome like spaces that are structurally strong, as an exoskeleton for the building.
The gallery design explores how the dynamic of the module sheath reacts under tension compression forces, forming a flexible skin wrapes around the programs and provide structural support at the same time.
The same mudular design is applied to the façade mechanism of the other structures, allowing each panel to expand and contract to filter the amount of sunlight passing through. all four gap in create buffer and deform. diamond creating strong, acting dynamic forms tension and skin that structural
3SIX0 Internship - Residential Remodeling
