Ray Ho Portfolio

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

Young Architects Competitions - Home After Crisis | Finalist Mention

SOFTWARE Adobe CC

Photoshop | InDesign | Illustrator

CAD/Render

Rhino 3D | Revit | AutoCad | Sketch Up Lumion | Enscape | Climate Studio | ArchGIS

LANGUAGES

English (bilingual) | Mandarin (native) | German (elementry)

CONTENTS 2022

PHASES OF LIVING........................................................................................................... 01 3rd Year Core Studio

2024

SUNSET PARK WASTE RECLAIMATION.......................................................................05 4th Year Advance Studio

2023

NOOKS AND CRANNIES...................................................................................................09 4th Year Advance Studio

2024

HUB 59 Native Plant Seed Network.......................................................................... 12 5th Year Intergrated Building System

2022

BIOMIMICRY - GALLERY................................................................................................. 14 2nd Year Core Studio

2024

RENDERING SAMPLES..................................................................................................... 16 2024 Summer Internship

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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.

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Removing property lines to allow formations of new connection. Ext the previous systems as an entry p for new distribution of space and e The gabion warming wall serves as basis of our units, considering war the foundation of survival; while d easily constructable structures to the community achieve self-suffien West End, Providence Site Plan

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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.

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SUNSET PARK WASTE RECLAIMATION | 2024

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.

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On the pier north of the site sits the Marine Terminal, once used for cons storage. We aim to salvage the struc elongated space to house waste pro as well as material repurposing stud and workers will filter the waste, and based on the waste type, material, a “waste materials” a second life with

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e South Brooklyn struction material cture and utilize the ocessing machineries dios. There, artists d organize them and value. Giving h new purpose.

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2nd Floor Public Ammenities + Library

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.

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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.

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The site conditions are reflect mirrored pathways; emerging landscape conditions. In some hidden landscapes are reflect the mirror wall; essentially “s structures; engaging with frac landscape and seasonality. Th heat zones on site that create environmental conditions thr zones. The south facing wall i lenses, generating concentrat heat source for the furnaces i

ted through the g visitors in projected e instances, the ted directly onto see through” the ctured pattern of he brick wall creates es contrasting rough artificial climate incorporates fresnel ted solar energy as in the glass shop.

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Fresnel Lense Solar Concentrator

Mirror Walls Reflection Pathway

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NOOKS AND CRANNIES | 2023 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.

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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.

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Ray Ho Portfolio 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*

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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.

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The diamond modules are inter-linked on a corners, providing a structural quality. The between the diamond shaped modules cre spaces for the overlayed sheath to bend an Under pressure, the sheath of linked diamo modules are allowed to curve and fold, cre dome like spaces that are structurally stro as an exoskeleton for the building.

The gallery design explores how the dynam of the module sheath reacts under tension compression forces, forming a flexible skin wrapes around the programs and provide s support at the same time.

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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.

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06 - Professional Work Samples 3SIX0 Internship - Residential Remodeling

WORK SAMPLES

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