Summer Albouy - Architecture & Design Portfolio '22

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Portfolio issue No.22

It’s Summertime!

Read inside for more about Summer Albouy’s portfolio between 2018 and 2022.

CONTENTS

Architecture & Design Portfolio

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REST STOP

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VILLA MÜLLER

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CASE STUDY: IKEA

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GALLERY OF GROTTOES

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VITRA CHAIR PAVILION

DESIGN CHALLENGE 26 CO-WORKING TOWER

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THE FOOD BOROUGH

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PERSONAL WORK

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Section A Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”

Elevation Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” Summer Albouy

Section B Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” Summer Albouy

Site Plan 2 Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” Summer Albouy

Located off highway I-75, the site serves as a rest stop with basic amenities such as restrooms, a cafe, a welcome centre, employee break room, and storage space. Creating interstitial space with five primary

pavilions and its off-setting walls invites the public to freely circulate throughout the site, creating a unique experience of a typical rest stop.

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Site Plan 1 Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0” Summer Albouy

The rest stop’s concept is dictated by these pavilions, each holding their individualized programs, while playing with bubbly geometries that are then emphasized by its surrounding curved

walls. In a typical rest stop, there is no desire for the public to explore the space and rather use its utilities and leave. With this format, visitors can take time to meander throughout the site and discover each of the

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Even in this new age of technology with concepts such as the Metaverse and NFTs, today’s culture still finds comfort in y2k aesthetics and retro cyberpunk themes. Given the task to re-imagine Villa Müller in a new form led me to produce renderings of a vaporwaveinspired version

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of the iconic building.

Merging something studied so definitively in architecture with a trivial, yet specialized concept brings about a new perspective on Villa Müller – a new clash of ideas that would otherwise never find its way connected to one another.

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A very specific programmatic type of architecture – warehouses – showcases elements unconventionally found in commercial and residential architecture.

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and analysing its components sheds light on these architectural components that make these spaces so specified. Studying this specialty architecture concludes with high ceilings, lots and bays, metal shelving units, and the product units occupying them.

CASE STUDY: IKEA

In collaboration with Nick O’Brien

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GALLERY OF GROTTOES

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HOW DO YOU VIEW ARCHITECTURE? How do you view architecture? And is there a difference in the way its portrayed through photography versus seeing the structure in person?

What are architectural p h o t o g r a p h y ’s limitations?

In this project to create an

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art gallery, these were all questions we asked ourselves along the way as we studied the concept of image object. How can we shape the way we view architecture through the lens of a camera, or with touchups on Photoshop?

Studying Gaudí’s works as precedents – La Sagrada Família, Casa Milà, Park Güell, and Casa Batlló, led to the extraction of the materialistic quality of his buildings. The ornamental and mosaic-like piecing of Gaudí’s iconic architecture led

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to the inspiration behind my proposed art gallery.

His naturalistic, yet weird and f r a g m e n t e d style is alluded to throughout the rest of the project, bargaining the question – What really is?

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What really is, and what is not?

This collection of collaging warps and merges reality and fiction: the rose window becomes skylights, a colourful bench found at Park Güell becomes a ramp, and the ornamental

figures from La Sagrada Família’s portal becomes a gritty grotto as it lines the walls. An experimentation of materiality and texture begins the formation of the final project, while drawing these elements from Gaudí.

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WHAT REALLY IS?

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The final gallery is formulated around interstitial space which serves as open gallery spaces, allowing guests to flow from one space to another. Other amenities such as an auditorium,

co-working spaces and offices, and a café also inhabit this gallery found amongst the trees, sitting on the site in Storm King Art Center (New Windsor, NY).

The weirdness and ornamentality taken from the original materiality of Gaudí’s works is utilized in the structural components of the gallery itself, shaping the walls of the different programs. With the help of displacement mapping, these materials become alive and begin to poke out into the

galleries, creating grottolike structures and walls to house the artwork in.

While this project was unlike any other I’ve ever worked on, it was the most fascinating and experimental journey I’ve been on — I hope it shows through in my work.

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VITRA CHAIR PAVILION

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David Hockney-Inspired “Weird Chairs”

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Following a side project making miniature David Hockney collage photography-inspired chairs, we began creating pavilions on the Vitra campus (Weil am Rhein, Germany) to house our weird chairs. This fun mini project began with using household objects such as a loofah, bulbs, cameras etc. and

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projection mapping their curves onto our pavilions to create graphical shapes. Alluding to the wavy graphics on the exterior of my pavilion, the stands in which the chairs would be showcased on sat on a curvy wave, which can be viewed by visitors streaming in and out through both sides of the structure.

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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION INITIATIVE CHALLENGE

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As part of my Design Thinking minor, we were challenged to research an ongoing initiative at the Ohio State University and design graphical representations to be spread around campus in order to promote our chosen initiative.

Being Chinese, promoting diversity and inclusion specifically for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community resounded with me. After weeks of research into local

and national organisations with similar values and graphic design lectures, the final project was a poster and Instagram posts that are not only visually appealing but include compelling content for students and readers to follow this initiative.

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and the public. We find ourselves in a time where being able to spend time outdoors, instead of quarantined, is a privilege and more and more of society seeks this experience.

This concept boasts overhanging c a n t i l e v e r s throughout the building with both open-aired spaces and full visibility of the city around it to fully maximise the experience of the tower and bring the outside in, without forcing occupants to leave the building itself. Furthermore,

we were tasked with questioning the sustainability of this project and to keep some factors in mind whilst developing our concepts. The tower’s south/west facing allows the interior to be flooded with natural, yet less harsh, light and its mesh envelope serving as a skin for the glass exterior.

CO-WORKING TOWER

Given a site in downtown Columbus, Ohio, we were charged with developing a concept for a co-working tower that would not only include office spaces, but spaces of leisure such as a marketplace, cafes, restaurants and other amenities to serve its purpose to those who occupy the building

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FOOD BOROUGH

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B e t w e e n the Chicago neighbourhoods of River North and Cabrini-Green, two very socioeconomically distinct areas, lies our site for a food guild that

acts as its own neighbourhood promoting the education of food while serving all backgrounds that occupy the surround area.

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Despite the segregation of these parts, they also come together as a whole by serving needs to one another.

For example, the cooking school floors hosts a restaurant in which guests can experience a practicing chef’s cooking, and the produce grown in the greenery can be sold by vendors in the marketplace.

An elevator system allows for guests who specifically have business on the upper floors to move upstairs without needing to circulate throughout the entire building. Overall, this project aims to promote a one-stop shop and build a community within the building where the programs are intertwined.

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MARKETPLACE 1/16” = 1’-0”

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MARKETPLACE

GREENHOUSE

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The building is divvyed up into three portions, the lower, public floors serving as a marketplace and dining halls, the middle portion as a large atrium for hydroponic

equipment to grow plants and small trees with an outdoor garden, and the upper, more private floors for the cooking institute, auditorium, and rooftop garden. the food borough — ug4

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PERSONAL WORK

As part of some introductory studies to Gallery of Grottoes (p. 12), I began experimenting with curves and building collages that allows a curve from one image to flow into another.

These collages also document how photographic representations can begin to form architectural concepts, alluding to the idea of the image object.

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From there, the collages were projected on to Booleaned spherical and cylindrical shapes, warping and bleeding the image. The images break apart and merge, shifting the original composition into something entirely new.

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Another precedent study for Gallery of Grottoes, experimenting with Mies’ works instead.

Taking parts of walls from his work, this collage alludes to Mies’ concept of shifting planes and organizes them to trick the eye, obscuring the parts of the whole.

Practicing working with different graphical representations and colour palettes

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Studying Gaudí’s work just shows how weird the components and detailing of his buildings stick out but also blend well together.

This collage represents pieces from several buildings, yet could be read as one structure.

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