Samuel Leung Portfolio 2024

Samuel Leung Architecture Portfolio | B. Arch | CPHC

Pictured: Children sketching texture maps at the 2023 Hai! Japantown festival in Seattle's Chinatown-International District.

Workshop and photograph by Samuel Leung.

Architecture Portfolio

Table of Contents Spatializing Seattle Japantown

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Appalachian Garden

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Accessible Dance and Music Studio 16

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Gateway to Nihonmachi

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Phius Passive House

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Professional Work

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Spatializing Seattle Japantown | Seattle, WA | 2023-2024

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This work will be presented at the 2024 National Asian & Pacific Islander American Historic Preservation Forum in Seattle, WA. Recognized with the Undergraduate Architecture Thesis Award, the Henry Dietrich Fernandez Award in History and Theory of Architecture, and the Alpha Rho Chi Medal of Distinction for Leadership and Community Service.

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Sixth and Main Street was the historic center of Seattle Japantown.

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The Mitsuwado Bookstore tells the story of pre-war Japanese-American family life.

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The Panama Hotel is the first building in Seattle designed by an Asian American architect.

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Jackson Street is the core of Seattle's Chinatown, Japantown, Little Saigon, and Filipinotown.

Thesis | Advised by Michael Kubo and Jacqueline Shaw

Architecture gives us the opportunity to weave cultural histories and social values into our urban fabric.

How can architecture be used to manifest an archive of social memory? Using architectural techniques to spatialize archives, this thesis explores methods to a socially engaged exhibition.

This thesis spatializes social histories of Seattle Japantown that have survived through a patchwork of archives. Projecting these flat documents into enlarged, spatialized formats creates a physically intimate experience that allows viewers to occupy and engage with archives in three-dimensions.

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Histories are complex and require different perspectives. The story of Japanese Americans in Seattle should be exhibited in a format that reflects its complicated socialpolitical history. Beyond the physical artifact of the archived images and documents, visitors should feel engaged in the active conversations and memories that exist because of these artifacts.

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Spatializing Seattle Japantown | Seattle, WA | 2023-2024

The three main elements to the exhibition each utilize a distinct method of projection to talk at different scales.

Photogrammetry and anamorphic techniques come together to create a dialogue between past and present history.

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Thesis | Advised by Michael Kubo and Jacqueline Shaw

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The Panama Hotel hosts the Japanese American Museum of Seattle, with its first floor becoming an exhibition on Asian American history.

By utilizing projective techniques to merge an exterior photograph of the Panama Hotel with an interior photograph of the Mitsuwado Bookstore, the exhibit's form inherently juxtaposes scales of photographs and real-life artifacts, opening more connections for dialogue.

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One Roof: Food Community Center | Providence, RI | 2022

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Our 3 main goals are based on (1.) Mutual Aid Kitchens - expanding existing food typologies into community hubs, (2.) Networks - connecting social networks through food, and (3.) Narratives - sharing embodied cultural food knowledge.

Commercial corridors radiate through South Providence's residencial neighborhoods. Food networks are core to how communities nourish each other, pass on generational knowledge, and celebrate history.

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Collaboration with Tian Li | Food Futures | Taught by A+A+A Studio

The roof system references SE Asian garage street-vending typologies that house complimentary businesses.

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Food infrastructure creates places for people to connect to cultural community networks.

This typology unifies an existing co-located Cambodian restaurant and grocery store that share a parking lot.

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One Roof: Food Community Center | Providence, RI | 2022

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A carefully blended permeable paver design allows pedestrian and vehicular programs to intermingle.

Variations on a breeze block pattern transform into protective bollards, shared seating, and garden planters.

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Collaboration with Tian Li | Food Futures | Taught by A+A+A Studio

Existing restaurant business offers sit-down and takeout options.

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Recipe library doubles as an A/V recording studio for creators.

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Shared commercial kitchen space supports small food businesses.

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Indoor-outdoor space allows for hosting events all year-round.

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Permeable pavers transform the parking lot into an outdoor market.

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Existing grocery store rooftop allows for rain-protected outdoor food prodution.

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Roof creates shade to combat urban heat island effect.

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Appalachian Garden | Providence, RI | 2023

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Gardens allow for rest, play, and rejuvenation.

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Plants: Form and Design | Taught by Adam Anderson

Northeastern Coastal Zone

Atlantic Coastal Pine Barrens

*Approximate height after 5 years

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Northeastern Highlands

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eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)

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sweet pepperbush (Clethra alnifolia)

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highbush blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum)

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eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)

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bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis)

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rhododendron (Rhododendron ponticum)

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northern red oak (Quercus rubra)

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scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)

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seaside goldenrod (Solidago sempervirens)

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sedge (Carex)

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red maple (Acer rubrum)

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American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata)

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black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa)

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sweet birch (Betula lenta)

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leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata)

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buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)

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winterberry (Ilex verticillata)

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Appalachian Garden | Providence, RI | 2023

Visitors amble under a medium-height, sunlit canopy of a transitional oak-hickory and birch-maple forest from the Northeastern Coastal Zone.

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Plants: Form and Design | Taught by Adam Anderson

The garden's center opens up to a meadow of native pollinator plants found in the Altlantic Coastal Pine Barrens.

Utilizing matrix and block planting techniques, plant groupings inspired by Northeastern ecoregions form three unique experiences in one garden.

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Collapsing geographies, visitors wander through a journey from the Appalachian Mountains to the Atlantic Coast. From the towering pine-oak forests to the maplebeech-birch forests of the plateau, paths open upon a meadow of the beach and sand dune shrubs.

The dramatic, dense canopy of an oak-pine forest from the Highlands borders the Northern edge.

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Accessible Dance and Music Studio | Providence, RI | 2020

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This dance and music studio is dedicated to the practice and performance of Taiko, Japanese ensemble drumming. Ramps provide a safe and practical form of vertical transportation for Taiko, which can be too large or heavy for elevators. Wrapping the ramp around a central atrium, landings become spaces of social gathering.

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The vertical batten screens are inspired by the wooden staves that American Taiko are constructed with.

Making of Design Priciples | Taught by Nancy Nichols

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Accessible architecture brings communities together, where everyone can find joy in public spaces.

The ADA's code prescribed rise and run for ramps creates a rhythm for windows to open up at landings.

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Gateway to Nihonmachi | Seattle, WA | 2023 | City of Seattle

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Design Vision Proposal | Architect: Matt Fujimoto, Project Lead: Samuel Leung, Designers: Carol Zeng, Taylor Sanville

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A signal to the community

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Thoughtful historical artifacts

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Building an alleyway network

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Active pedestrian connections

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The Nihonmachi park system

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Street-level activation

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Phius Passive House | Truckee, CA | 2024

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Certification for Passive House Consultant | Advised by Jonathan Knowles

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Professional Work | Shanghai & Sanya, China | 2022

Responsible for rendering illustrated plan and section drawings. Design concepts created by Moshe Safdie.

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Safdie Architects | Supervised by Wen Wen

Created diagrams and Enscape renderings and drafted plans and sections to support key design concepts.

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Professional Work | WA, ID, and MN | 2019

Responsible for applying design guidelines to large format retail retrofit projects.

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MG2 Architecture & Design | Supervised by Scott Owen Jr.

Drafted documents included: existing condition assessment, construction work scope, surface finish treatment, and material specifications.

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Hug Guitar | Providence, RI | 2019

Hug Guitar, an ergonomic acoustic guitar.

A carved solid wood body creates the acoustic chamber for the guitar. The tear drop silhouette comfortably sits in your lap, positioning the resonating sound close to your heart.

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Spatial Dynamics | Taught by Rachel Rosencrantz

Why do people hug?

"When we touch — cuddle, hug, or hold hands — our bodies release 'feel good' hormones. These hormones include oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin. Once the hormones are released into our bodies we experience feelings of happiness, relaxation, improved mood, and lower levels of depression." –OTS 27

Producer for In Return: A Community Taiko Concert, featuring 100+ artists and performers from Japan and North America.

Pictured: Performers gathered before the concert for the East Coast Taiko Conference.

Photograph by Joel Yong.