Thanh Tran Portfolio 2023

Archi t ect ure Po rt f o l i o

THANH HUU TRAN Selected Works 2020 - 2023 California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo

EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture Los Angeles Metro Program Architecture Program

2023 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 2022 | California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 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.

Assist with designing complex roof for single residential projects.

Prepare diagrams and renderings for presentations.

3D print physical models and project sites.

Architectural Designer | Andrew Goodwin Designs | San Luis Obispo | Present Contribute to wide variety of project types from hospitality, commercial, civic, and educational projects.

Contribute to all stages of design process from schematic design, design development to construction document, and plan check. (Revit | Bluebeam) Participating in site visit for better understanding of project’s existing conditions.

Join project coordination with MEP teams lead by archiect.

PROFICIENCY

THANH TRAN thanhhtran825@gmail.com https://issuu.com/thanh.h.tran/ docs/academic_portfolio

Modeling | Drawing Rendering Post Production Physical Modeling

Revit | Rhino | Autocad | Hand Sketch Enscape | Twinmotion Adobe Suite | Bluebeam 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 METROPOLIS Future 100 Winner 2024 METROPOLIS Future 100 program sets out each year to designate the top graduating architecture and interior design students accross North America.

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

TABLE OF CONTENT

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INTERCONNECTED

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EMERGENCE

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VERTICAL HUBS

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VITALITY

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HYDROLOGICAL TERRITORIES Thesis

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PRODUCT DESIGN Small Chair

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HAND DRAWING Pencil, Charcoal

Boys and Girls Club Detroit | MI

Museum for Climate Change New York | NY

Mixed - use Los Angeles | CA

Mixed - use Barrio Logan| CA

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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.

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plan

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1 library

2 pool

3 lobby

4 outdoor playing area

5 cafeteria

6 outdoor court

Atrium | Reading Area On Grand Staircase and Library

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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.

1 enter exhibition

2 coffee + restaurant

3a ticket + lobby

3b auditorium

3c elevation

4b research + labs

5a exhibition

5b public forum

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7 exit from exhibition

exhibition

4a exhibition

Atrium View From 5th Floor

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1 plinth

2 core + atrium

3 structural steel system

4 GFRC skin

5 sawtooth roof

Opening and View from Exhibition Hallway

Water St and Peck Slip intersection | Pedestrian Friendly streets

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.

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VERTICAL HUBS Fourth year studio | 2022 | LA Metro

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plan

1. cineplex 2. lobby/ticket 3. restaurant 4. urgent care 5. social service 6. non-profit org 7. retail/commercial 8. exhibition/lobby 9. metro entrance 10. existing building 11. basement ramp 12. public plaza 13. public pool 14. communal kitchen 15. gym 16. two story unit 17. micro unit 18. boutique hotel 19. three beds unit 20. two beds unit 21. single unit 22. library

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plan

1. cineplex 2. lobby/ticket 3. restaurant 4. urgent care 5. social service 6. non-profit org 7. retail/commercial 8. exhibition/lobby 9. metro entrance 10. existing building 11. basement ramp 12. public plaza 13. public pool 14. communal kitchen 15. gym 16. two story unit 17. micro unit 18. boutique hotel 19. three beds unit 20. two beds unit 21. single unit 22. library

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VITALIT Y

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

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.

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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 Fifth Year Thesis | 2023

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.

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PRODUCT DESIGN

Small Chair 2023 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.

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HAND DRAWINGS

Charcoal Drawing Art Museum | Tadao Ando | Pencil Rendering

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