Thanh Pham - Architecture Portfolio - 2022

01 SEAWARD SANCTUARY

Fall 2022

ARCH 4556-Design Studio: Architecture III

Contributors: Thanh Pham, Alexander Wagner & Aran Culhane

Professor: John Maruszczak

This structure is a multi-species sanctuary that confronts flooding and the loss of habitats for humans and other endangered species on the shore of Biscayne Bay, Miami. It reinforces the rich history and beauty of the site which was altered and damaged through rapid urbanization and environmental destruction.

Habitats include curated seascapes that protect and house manatees, aviaries for native birds, and artificial reefs for fish. In this way, it creates a natural extension from the land and co-habitable spaces fostering a stronger connection to nature. The light steel structural shell serves to dock and shield, both the human residents and species.

CONCEPT DIAGRAM

SURFACE PERSPECTIVE

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

While docked, the residents can recharge from the wave-powered energy generator and grow food in communal vertical farming. The residents here will cultivate a new holistic approach to ecology, achieving a sustainable and harmonious community.

UNDERWATER PERSPECTIVE

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3. Vertical Farming

1. Manatee Habitat

2. Bird Habitat

4. Synthetic Coral Reef

HOUSING ELEMENTS

TRANSFORMATIVE PERSPECTIVE

1. Vertical Screen Movement

2. Horizontal Screen Movement

3. Plates Movement

4. Side-wing Movement

1. Tidal Energy & Moving Motor

2. Moving Interior Elements

3. 3-Bedroom Configuration

4. 4-Bedroom Configuration

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This is a collection of exercise models that constitute our concept of cohabitation, through thinking of ways to create a more densified landscape with interactive elements among the habitats. With the scope of this project being on the water, the liquid world was used to think of how we can create spaces that can reinforce the movement and interaction of water. Harmonized habitat was then constructed as a visualization of how these habitats would be organized with a basic idea of how each habitat would look like.

LIQUID WORLD

HARMONIZED HABITATS

02 SEA MORPHOSIS

Fall 2022

ARCH 4556-Design Studio: Architecture III

Contributors: Thanh Pham, Cinny Zhao & Dina Elmatboli

Professor: John Maruszczak

In the current climate of global warming, the ocean plays a key role in absorbing excess heat to prevent the exponential temperature rising and the lack of interaction between the sea and the public threatens its existence.

Introducing Sea Morphosis, a sea center that is accessible by not only researchers but also the general population, working to bring awareness to the problems that the ocean currently faces. The journey of introducing amphibious vessels that take the audience from land to submerge evokes an experience that makes one become one with the ocean.

In this world, much like our own, land resources have been depleted leading to an age of sea exploration. These vessels are designed to adapt, migrate and contain human beings for long journeys of sea exploration. Our morphosis sea center is the hub for which these vessels dock, and share their journeys, and knowledge of the ocean.

HYDROPODS VESSEL

THE HUB

IMAGINATIVE SECTION OF THE HUB

ADAPTABLE MORPHING VESSEL

SHELL FLEXIBILITY

VESSEL COMPONENTS

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2. Circulation Layer

3. Inner Protective Shell

4. Infrastructure Core

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VESSEL SECTION

03 PLAYGROUND PARK

Spring 2022

ARCH 3554-Design Studio: Architecture II

Professor: Narjes Abbasabadi

Playground Park is the place where adults can be taken back into the joy of being a kid. Not only a park but an education tool that utilizes various landscape forms to educate the consequences of sea-level rises.

The elevated form of the main building structure is influenced by the concern about the rising sea level in Manhattan, New York coastline. The elevated structure allows for the interpretation and experience similar to that of being on the ramps between slides on a playground with multiple layers of circulation that allows for a unique exploration of the project.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

Flood Zone AE (Wave Height > 3ft)

Flood Zone AE (Wave Height 1.5 ft- 3ft)

Flood Zone AO

Wetlands

LIFTED VOLUMES ELEMENTS OF THE PLAYGROUND

Vertical Component Horizontal Component

SEA-LEVEL RISE PREDICTION

2100 AIRM*: 114” sea-level rise

2080s AIRM*: 81” sea-level rise

2100: 75” sea-level rise

2080s: 58” sea-level rise

2050s: 30” sea-level rise

2020s: 10” sea-level rise

*AIRM: Antarctic Rapid Ice Melt Scenario Data Source: NPCC 2018

ROOSEVELT ISLAND

STUDY MODEL

04 EMBASSY OF THAILAND

Fall 2021

ARCH 3553-Design Studio: Architecture I

Contributors: Thanh Pham & Vivian Metheny Professor: Dustin Wheat

ENTRY PERSPECTIVE

Reimagining what the Thailand Embassy would look like in Washington D.C., this project focused on the traditional architecture of Thailand and how it could be best represented on Embassy Row. Featuring a modernized layered roof system that is in keeping with many prominent established structures in Thailand.

With three separate structures, the main embassy, consulate house, and public greenhouse, this project serves Thais living in Washington and American residents & citizens, allowing them to experience Thai culture while living at the heart of Washinton D.C.

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EMBASSY COURTYARD VIEW

05 STUDIO HOUSE

Spring 2021

ARCH 2552-Basic Design & Drawing II

Contributors: Thanh Pham & Erin Pearson

Professor: Juan Carlos Gomez

ELEVATION 1

ELEVATION 3

ELEVATION 4

Studio House is a haven for an artist and his family. With accommodations for elevated living and working, the house features spaces that are encapsulated with natural lighting and scenery. This house provides everything an artist needs to live, experience, and inspire.

Front Entrance

ELEVATION 2

View from Working Space Backyard View

06 TRANSPARENT REALMS

Fall 2020

ARCH 2551-Basic Design & Drawing I

Contributors: Thanh Pham, Jaqueline Alvizo, Reagan Potts & Lia Villanueva

Professor: K.M. Kosut

These two studies conceptualized the idea of spaces. The first study probed the idea of a door and the role it plays in the procession of spaces, and how they essentially become portals or gates into another world.

The second investigated the idea of light and shadow in space, distinguishing how they would be represented within geometry. With the four cardinal times, dawn, noon, dusk, and midnight, each space placed within the cube corresponds to the placement of the sun in each cardinal time; dawn faces east, noon lies at the top, dusk faces west, and midnight lies beneath.

One enters the vessels at dawn, rises into noon, then descends at dusk and finally, deeper into midnight.

1. Views of the first study 2. Views of the second study

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07 DICE TOWERS

Spring 2019

ARCH 1342-Design Communication II

Media: Graphite, Marker

Professor: Pia Sarpaneva

This study started with six stacked cubes that varied based on planes determined by the chances of rolling six-sided dice. From the base drawing of the towers, there were a series of figure & ground studies that required recombining the towers.

Through the studies, it can be seen how two simple towers could be transitioned with different combinations and cuts to turn into unique compositions.

Base Drawing Shifted Figure & Ground

Inverse

Combining Inverses Multiplying Pieces

Side-Step Cut

Half-Top Cut Plan