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ARCHITECTURE 2025 SARAH WONG

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Hi, my name is Sarah Wong!

I am a fourth year student at Northeastern University,

pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture. My passion for experimenting with various media especially through hands-on approaches has always driven how I design! Architecture excites me to explore culture and community whether through people I design for or with. Aside from architecture, I spend my time on the field playing sports, training for races, or trying new food with friends.

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Boston Public Library

Amesbury Public Library

Note: All drawings are by Sarah Wong unless otherwise credited.

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Chinatown Pavillion Adjacent to Boston’s Chinatown Gate, this pavilion seeks to expand the scope of accessibility in its urban context through the incorporation of the public restroom. By coupling the need for public restrooms in Boston with the desire for greater interactive spaces in Chinatown, the pavilion unquely fulfills the civic necessity for public restrooms. The neighborhood unfolds through an exchange of food, language, and experiences. In keeping with this idea, the design for this pavilion provides existing street vendors - selling fruits, vegetables, and herbs – a greater space for this exchange. This project ultimately led the development for a Boston Public Library design in Boston’s Chinatown.

Chinatown Gate Mary Soo Hoo Park Playground

Chess Park

Circulation Circulation becomes a focal point of experiencing the pavilion. Formal circulation is created by the weaved ramp whose entrance compels visitors to travel underneath the ramp and thus through the markets in order to formally circulate the pavilion. On the other hand, the ramp’s underside provides visitors to autonomously weave themselves through the pavilion however they choose.

Inspiration from Musashino The beginnings of this pavilion project began with a precedent study: Sou Fujimoto’s Musashino Library located in Japan. Musashino focuses on circulation methods through the library. The formal circulation is enforced on the second floor whose openings in the walls frame the informal circulation on the first floor. This weaving of paths, along with the library’s conformation to its neighborhood, inspired the design for the Chinatown Pavilion.

Reference The pavilion manifests as a weaving continous ramp whose platforms at the end of each ada accesible ramp look out into a specific area of Mary Soo Hoo Park -- the space adjacent to the site’s location. These points of reference in the pavilion provide a tangible connection to the surrounding park.

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Program Below the last four landings of the pavilion are housed storage space for the market, public restrooms -two of which comply with ada, and bike storage, respectively. Under the bulk of the pavilion, through an interlocking of covered and uncovered spaces, typical vendors seen on chinatown’s streets can utilize the space to tell their goods. These street vendors cooperate with one another to create a marketplace that can spill out beyond the pavilion as well.

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Boston Public Library

This design uniquely responds to the need for a larger space to house the Boston Public Library branch in Chinatown. In keeping with the spirit of the pavilion, the library expands on themes of circulation and reference, creating a weaving structure that ties Chinatown together.

Process Site The library sits on a site previously used as a private parking lot. The street north of the site is Kneeland street, whose road is often filled with bustling traffic, and which informally marks the crossing from Chinatown’s attractions to Chinatown’s residential neighborhood.

Sandwiched betwen a modern apartment complex to the east and a Tufts University-owned facility, the design for the new library sought a creative means of reconciling Chinatown to its public community amidst the private developments around it.

During the process of developing the design for the BPL, there were many considerations taken into account in order to fulfill the architectural motive desired. Thus, many iterations were created for the inter-weaved structure that would ultimately result. Firstly, the structure needed to apply ada accesible ramps throughout the library in order for the experience to truly be open to all. In addition, at the end of each ramp would be a visual connection point to a different part of Chinatown. The resulting design fulfilled all these requirements while maximizing the various means of circulation through the negative space under the library.

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Experience Lobby The experiential aspect of the Boston Public Library plays off the themes of “circulation” and “reference” previously discussed through the Chinatown Pavilion project. The Chinatown neighborhood directly influences the weaving form that the library takes as the specific orientation of each reading room towards a distinct area of Chinatown excites the flow of movement through the space. Figuratively, this physical weaving ties the various parts of Chinatown together into a tight knot. The library’s various interior and exterior programs create a mixing pot of Chinatown’s food, culture, and community.

Library Stacks Reading Room Misc. Program (cafe, library offices, community room)

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Chinatown and Market Views

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Ecosystems of Learning with Faith Nguyen and Daniel Lai Yin Lo.

Ecosystem of Learning takes on the challenge of designing a forest driven by experiential learning for the mental, physical, and emotional wellbring of the Mission Hill and Roxbury neighborhoods in Boston.

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Setting the Scene An analysis of the existing site’s stakeholders demonstrated a great number of educational institutions and public schools in the area as well as a lack of access to large open spaces for neighborhoods nearby.

As a result, a starting point for the development of the site began at the intersection of education and nature. Through research, we found the benefits of the nature for residents and nature-based learning to be notable, highlighting how active engagement with nature allowed for all participants to experience improved mental and physical well-being and for lower income individuals to have well-being levels as high as the richest respondents.

“Ecosystems of Learning,” like a system of tributaries feeding into an open ocean, connects the neighboring formal institutions of education to the real world, teaching Mission Hill’s students to view their surroundings as their classroom.

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• Create opportunities for experiential and environmental learning, building on and filling the gaps in the many surrounding institutions of education • Inspire curiosity and interest toward the site with temporary, sculptural follies • Restore a modern Stony Brook River to the site, developing a multifunctional landscape, an invaluable learning and environmental asset • Create open spaces that encourage community gathering and experiential learning • Learning through the landscape, through community, through play • Hub for residents and greater community • Address issues of flood control, stormwater management, and lack of biodiversity caused by urbanization • Create a pedestrian focused hierarchy of movement through site, encouraging people, particularly children and families, to engage with site amenities

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Parker and Prentis At this corner of Parker St and Prentis St, the revitalized Stony Brook river invites Mission Main residents across Parker St to enter the site. The continuity between paths across and into the site allow for a smooth transition into the landscape. In addition, the towers for housing carve out voids in the to create enclaves for the forest density to climb into the residential realm.

by Faith Nguyen

Details To dedicate the majority to the growth of trees, we pushed our housing design into dense towers. Through this project, we mitigated the need to sacrifice either a density of housing or a density of nature. Instead, our design pushed for the coexistence of both, providing a crucial amenity to the wellbeing of those living on and around the block.

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What about Time?

The question of time was unavoidable when it came to the long growth period of certain trees species that would serve a pivotal role in the ultimate design of our landscape.

What happens to the site while the trees are maturing?

How can we design for the present and the future? How can the site engage visitors in the interim period of growth?

Drawings by Faith Nguyen

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Designing for the Temporal We turned this design hurdle of temporality into a call for local artists to engage the site with temporary tree follies that act as and with the growing trees. The goal was to encourage curiousity within the site with different installations responding to different times throughout the site’s maturation. An example is shown here for what could potentially be hosted on site at 15 years old.

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Plaza as a Space of Rest Plaza as a Social Space

History, Features, and Program

Plaza as a Playground

Plaza as a Cultural Hub

The choosing of La Plaza Mayor as our place of intervention was not difficult but rather the decision on how this intervention would come about. To begin, my team and I took various site visits to the plaza, observing and recording different user groups and the interactions we witnessed. We collectively found that what was supposedly a cultural hub was more-so a space dominated by toursim and minimal overlap of user groups -- a point of interest we wanted to explore.

Architecturally, the plaza contains a central gazebo surrounded by an ellipse of trees. The plaza is shaped on all sides by restaurants, hotels, a theater, and most famously a cathedral. To the right is a graphic representing the main roads and frequency of pedestrian pathways as well as the dominating features of the plaza.

As this wall is closest to restaurants, kids are encouraged to play here.

Thus, the two sets of walls are offset further from each other, allowing kids to play and move in between the walls, without parents losing sight of them at the restaurants.

The Cathedral is directly across from this wall, making it a prime location for tourist pictures. To bring out the cultural aspects of the plaza and its surrounding program as well, this wall extends to both a lookout space and a stage for the theater to produce performances outside.

Intervention

The Climbing Hydrangea -- a natural plant found in Spain -- is added to these cladded wall for a more private setting with a self-watering system contained within the concrete foundation.

In keeping with our site visits and discoveries of Plaza Mayor, we found that an intervention that amplified rather than disrupted the current state of the historic Plaza would further serve its users. The creation of staggering heights and layers in the form of cladded walls plays with the idea of privacy for user groups in such a public setting. In addition, while these various spacial nodes are created from the natural contours of pedestrain pathways through the plaza, the users still have autonomy in deciding what is interior and exterior of the structure. While there were many user groups observed in the plaza, each come together unknowingly to create the atmosphere.

Likewise, each of these four cladded walls, though unjoined, spacially come together to form a new programmatic experience.

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Design Construction Taking the structure of our precedent model -- the AB McDonald Classroom, my team and I reenvisioned how the components could be restructured to create our new design. Cladding was utilized in a different way while maintaining this theme of visibility and shadowing. The use of steam bending as was relevent in the testing of arches for the AB McDonald School was taken up by my team and I for the creation of a outlook area in the plaza.

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Details

EXPLODED AXON + DETAILS DOUBLE WALL

EXPLODED AXON + DETAILS Diagrams byWALL Petya, Julia, and Sarah DOUBLE WITH VERTICAL GARDEN

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Amesbury Public Library Renovation and Expansion with Bruner/Cott Architects.

1 Second Floor Stack Level Added 1955

2 Teen Loft Area Added 1955

3 Ramp and Vestibule

1960-1970, 2007 renovation

4 Lower Level Interior Renovation 1993

Amesbury Public Library 1900

Amesbury Public Library 2024

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS YOUTH SERVICE REFERENCE NONFICTION FICTION

894 937 Total SF 1684 444 894 937 Total SF 772 1684 444 894 937

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS YOUTH SERVICE REFERENCE CIRCULATION BOOKSHOP BOOKSHOP STAFF/STORAGE SPECIALSERVICE COLLECTIONS YOUTH

1403 772 1684 444 894 405 1403 772 1684 444 1859 405 1403 772 1684

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PROGRAM BUILDING SERVICES BUILDING SERVICES CIRCULATION existing - 635sf PROGRAM new ~SERVICES 3650sf BUILDING

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LIBRARY PROGRAM existing - 937sf LIBRARY PROGRAM REFERENCE NONFICTION NONFICTION FICTION LIBRARY PROGRAM existing - 894sf YOUTH SERVICE new ~ 1000sf REFERENCE NONFICTION FICTION

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YOUTH SERVICE REFERENCE REFERENCE NONFICTION FICTION existing - 444sf STAFF/STORAGE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS newSERVICE ~ 400sf YOUTH REFERENCE NONFICTION

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Two major concerns were understood from our conditions assessment and ongoing discussions with the Amesbury community...

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1684 YOUTH SERVICE Amesbury Public Library Facilities SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Masterplan 772 HALL PRINTER/COPIER STORAGE SHED 1403 STAFF/STORAGE ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud Drawings Amesbury Facilities EXIT 405 BOOKSHOP STAFF OFFICES 04/17/24 HALL Masterplan 1859 CIRCULATION THE STACKS UP 301 sf 1/8" = 1'-0" 252 sf BOOKSHOP 236 sf Existing Point Cloud Drawings Amesbury Public Library Facilities EXIT UP 635 BUILDING SERVICES RAMP STAFF OFFICES HALL 04/17/24 Masterplan ASSISTANT 408 PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S DIRECTOR'S BOOKSHOP Amesbury Public Library Facilities OFFICE 1/8" = 1'-0" OFFICE/STORAGE 252 sf Existing Point Cloud Drawings ACCESSIBLE STORAGE 9441 sf ENTRY 104 sf STAFF OFFICES 67 sf 57 sf Masterplan 04/17/24 Amesbury Facilities ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud1/8" Drawings = 1'-0" 252 sf STAFF OFFICES Amesbury Public Library Facilities Masterplan 04/17/24 STORAGE Masterplan Existing Point Cloud1/8" Drawings = 1'-0" 252 sf NEW ROOM STAFF OFFICES 473 sf 190 sf CIRCULATION DESK ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud Drawings Amesbury Facilities 04/17/24 948 sf UTILITIES/STORAGE WORKSHARE SPACE PRINTER/COPIER 408 sf04/17/24 550 sf Masterplan 1/8" = 1'-0" 252 sf = 1'-0" ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud1/8" Drawings Amesbury Facilities REFERENCE ROOM EXIT 04/17/24 HALL Masterplan 238 sf Amesbury Facilities RESTROOM = 1'-0" ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud1/8" Drawings 444 sf UP Amesbury Public Library Facilities UP UP Masterplan AMESBURYMasterplan ROOM 04/17/24 STAFF BREAKROOM ENTRY FOYER Existing Point 324 Cloud sf Drawings Amesbury Facilities ExistingPublic Point Library Cloud Drawings 1/8" = 1'-0" STAFF OFFICES 249 sf 04/17/24 UTILITIES 1/8" = 1'-0" 252 sf Masterplan STAFF RESTROOM 04/17/24 RESTROOM DN LOWER LEVEL 32 sf Existing Point Cloud1/8" Drawings = 1'-0" 04/17/24 MAIN ENTRY 1/8" = 1'-0"

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Lack of Sufficient Program Space The below diagram consists of the current point cloud plans of each library level with square footages corresponding to a highlighted program. An analysis of existing upgraded libraries as well as conversations with community members have given us a better understanding of how much the library should expand based on rough square footages. Our team performed various testfits for the immediate future, providing a better organization of programs amidst accessibility upgrades. In addition, we had drawn up testfits for the long-term future, which include a medium or large addition to the existing library.

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Accessibility Accessibility throughout the library has been a major concern. The addition of the ramped entrance in the 1960s only provides access from exterior parking lot behind the library to the first floor. Neither the basement nor second floor are accesible from the first floor. In addition, the library has a need for accesible restrooms as restrooms are located either on the basement or second floor. Library visits have allowed our team to find potential locations for an elevator and vestibule as well as accessible restrooms.

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MECHANICAL

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

CHILDRENʼS LIBRARY

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BOOKSHOP

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VESTIBULE

DISPLAY

ELEVATORS/STAIRS

ELEVATORS/STAIRS

CIRCULATION DESK / WORK AREA

MAKERSPACE/ MEETING

ELEVATORS/STAIRS

FICTION

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BOOKSHOP

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ASISTANT DIRECTORʼS DESK

VESTIBULE

RESTROOMS

MAKERSPACE NOOK

STUDY ROOMS MECHANICAL

DIRECTORʼS OFFICE

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OPEN WORKROOM PUBLIC STUDY

RESTROOM

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BREAKROOM

RESTROOMS

STORAGE

2 LOWER LEVEL

FIRST FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

MEDIUM EXPANSION

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Program Space

2

Accessibility scale 1/32” = 1’ 0’

10’

20’

40’

Short Term

Long Term

6

Faces and Figures Experimenting with different media.

Oil Paint and Canvas

Oil Pastels and Blue Paper

Colored Pencils and Paper

Portrait Series

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