Thanh Tran Portfolio 2023

THANH TRAN

thanhhtran825@gmail.com

https://issuu.com/thanh.h.tran/ docs/academic_portfolio

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Architecture 2023 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Los Angeles Metro Program 2022 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Architecture Program 2020 | Fresno City Community College

EXPERIENCE

Architectural Intern | Stephen Phillips Architecture | Los Angeles | January 2022 - July 2022

Worked on section drawings using AutoCAD for single housing and mixed-use projects in downtown Los Angeles. Build 3D model using Rhino. Assisted with facade designs based on plan and section.

Assisted with designing complex roof for single residential projects. Prepared diagrams and renderings for presentations. Prepared 3D print physical models and project sites.

SKILLS

Modeling | Drawing AutoCAD | Rhino | Sketchup | Revit (primary task) | Hand Draft

Rendering Enscape | Twinmotion Hand Rendering ( pencil | charcoal )

Post Production Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Adobe InDesign

Physical Modeling 3D Printing | Laser Cutting | Woodworking

RECOGNITION

President’s Honor List 2020 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

President’s Honor List 2021 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

President’s Honor List 2022 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

Honorable Mention for Thesis Award 2023 | Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

REFERENCES

Stephen Phillips FAIA

Professor Cal Poly | Director LA Metro Program | e_ sparchs1@gmail.com

Robert Arens

Professor Emeritus Cal Poly Third Year Transfer Studio | e_ rarens@calpoly.edu

Angela Bracco

Professor Cal Poly | 5th year Thesis advisor | e_abracco@calpoly.edu

INTERCONNECTED

Third year studio | 2020

Interconnected is a Boys and Girls Club located in between Detroit and Hamtramck. With the growth in population and economic in Hamtramck, the city continues to rise with its diverse culture and sense of community. On the other hand, Detroit seems to be continuously declining in population and education. This boys and girls club is designated as an educational center to promote youth career development and social interaction. Improving children’s education in Detroit while promoting cultural exchange for children of the two cities. The project proposes a line of connection that goes under the railroad and over freeway 75 for easy access while recreational programs and indoor courts act as sound buffers for library and classes. The sloping roof is designed not only to respond to hash weather in Detroit but also create an iconic welcome gesture from freeway 75. By using heavy timber structure with laminated wood crossed column, the project seeks for distinction in design aesthetic while contributing to the effort of reducing carbon footprint in building materials.

EMERGENCE

Third year studio | 2021

Emergence is a Museum for climate change in Manhattan, NY that is designed to host climate events and exhibition in order to raise people awareness of climate change. The site was chosen to address environmental issues and sea level rise particularly is happening in lower Manhattan. Taking advantage of pedestrian-friendly streets around the site, the project proposes semi-open exhibition spaces under a grand staircase that is designed for expansive plaza fostering public engagement.

Opening and View from Exhibition Hallway

Vertical Hubs is a high-rise 15 stories mixed-use project located at MacArthur Park on South Alvarado Street in downtown Los Angeles. The project aims to provide 725,000 sq.ft housing and hotel supported with public indoor spaces. The proposal uses vertical hubs in every three typical housing floors as communal space to promote social interactions among residents and visitors of the city whereas incorporate the public plaza and retailers to existing Metro entrances for a better shopping and commuting experience.

VERTICAL HUBS

Fourth year studio | 2022 | LA Metro

VITALITY

With careful programmatic planning based on contextual background, the proposal is expected to provide sufficient housing units that cater a large portion of Bario Logan’s residents, primarily low-income single and family household. Commercial programs are also carefully designed to meet the demand for economic grownth and cultural awareness and expansion. Creating a communal space used both by public and private is also a core element in the design.

Fourth year Studio 2021 | Worked on: Ideas, research, diagram,siteplan.

Questioning of change for current perspective towards environmental crisis is required. A new point of view in which climate change is positioned as a cultural idea that requires a renewed architectural environmental imagination rather than techno-fix. The quest is not to manage the unmanagevable, but to seek alternative architectural ideas of an eco-centric design by speculating for the future of living with new environment that also allows for nonhuman entities to survive. Although the future cannot be predicted, this can help set in place today factors that will increase the probability of more desirable futures happening. This thesis seeks a positive way to look at climate change as an opportunity in order to explore cultural potentials, and new novel aesthetic sensibilities of what ecological architecture can offer. The proposal explores the novel way of engaging co-habitation on water boundaries, and the implications of memory and myth on ritual space that shape new behavior towards our relationships to the planet and to our environment. Using new ecological form and space as mediator to shape a more respectful view of the ecosystem and mythological view of the landscape. Hydrological Territories aims to use ceremony and ritual space as a main driver to embed ecological values that ensure the long-term ecological restoration that is linked to the future of the communities.

HYDROLOGICAL TERRITORIES

From the ideas of monument and the spiritual belief of A-ka-lat (James Island), the project forms a large accessable veil over two stories of social space on boundary of water to promote the sense of cultural continuity, while embedded fishing huts and dwellings adjacent to water level teaches the awareness of climate change.

Ecocentrism ideology applies to the artificial reef that reaches out and fosters human activities such as salmon ceremony, fishing, and rock pooling while promoting interactions between human and nonhuman entities while embed ecological values to the restoration of ecosystem.

Project proposes a future fishing village with supporting program such as fish market, salmon hatching facility, and breedstock pool to help increase the salmon population. Accessable roof allows for sight seeing enhancing mythological view of the lanscape.

PRODUCT DESIGN

Utilizing Mahogany scrap wood in the wood shop, this piece of furniture is a part of thesis design development to test the idea of fluidity of water which is expressed by the organic leg. This unique feature is made by laminating layers of Mahogany and shaping it by hand grinder.

Small Chair 2023

HAND

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