Yueann Wu ::: Portfolio
Work Experience Single Family Residence: W2 House
Commercial: Hawaiian Breeze
Graduate Work Tea House:
the Path, the Journey, the Way
2050:
Diversity as the Future Cubical
Coast Guard Museum: the Alexander Hamilton
Digital Fabrication CNC Furniture: Giddy Up Rocking Chair
Grasshopper: Digital Origami
X-tra & About Me Sketches & Photos Resume
Work Experience @ Wang Lands Architects: KHH Row Houses @ Straightedge Design Build: Single Family Residence: W2 House Commerical : Hawaiian Breeze @ Pb Elemental Architecture: 23rd Live + Work MLK Townhomes
KHH Row Houses
front persective: NTS.
West View Perspective: NTS.
East View Perspective: NTS. wang lands architects | 2011
Where the heart is
W2 House The Program and Concept 1
the preservation of Ginkgo Ginkgo is known as a “living fossil” because the tree’s longevity—possibly up to 1,500 years. Reserved the only tree on the site is the major concept of program. Traveling along the stair tower, each steps enable us to peek through the vertical windows at the ginkgo tree that connects the poetic symbolism and practical functions of our daily life.
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Concept 2 Accessibility and Circulation
37th AVE S W2 House | 2009
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Section A-A PROGRAM: 1. Media Room 2. Entry 3. Living Room 4. Study Room 5. Kitchen 6. Garage 7. Stair Tower 8. Mater Suite 9. Bedroom 1 10. Bedroom 2 11. Laundry 12. Roof Deck
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first floor W2 House | 2009
May 08 Sep 08
Sep 08
Building Permit Excavation
Concrete Foundation
Sep/Oct 08 Radian Floor/Concrete Slab
Oct 08
First Wall
Framing
First Flr. W2 House | 2009
Second Flr.
Garage/Roof
Rear View
Jun 09 Finishes
Tiling
Cabinets
Yard/Decks
Sep 09
Flooring
Steel stairs
Occupancy
May 09
Drywall
Apr 09
Electrical
Mar 09 Siding: Alum. Panels & Cedar
Jan 09
Front View
Feb 09
Framing Interior/Fireplace
Water Proofing W2 House | 2009
Hawaiian Breeze A winning competition project for a couple of restaurant owners who are planning to add an addition on the existing Hawaiian cuisine restaurant to also serve a Japanese style cuisine with sushi bar. The clients want to keep the traditoinal feel and incorporate modern desgin into the new restaurant addition. By choosing to use white slate natural stone and aluminun metal panels to achieve the nature + man-made combination of the “old and new.� Also to reflect the same idea on finishes by install hardwood bamboo floor and recycling wood furniture as seatings.
Cashier and Waiter/Waitress Perp. Area Access to Breeze Restaurantt o Existing i Hawaiian Hawa w e R
ADA Restroom
Existing Floor Plan
Sushi Prep. Area Sushi Counter Seatings
Benching Seatings
Existing
New Addition
ADA Seating
N. 45th
Window Seatings
Wallingford N.
[alum.] Hawaiian Breeze | 2011
Key Plan
Restaurant Entrance
New Addition
[slate]
[wood]
[bamboo]
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[In-Restaurant Perspective]
Hawaiian Breeze | 2011
23rd Live-Work
pb | 2006-2008
Penthouse / Stair Tower
Roof: Decking
3F: Master Suite
Open Space Penthouse / Stair Tower 2F Public Space: Kitchen + Living Roof: Decking 1F: 2 Rooms w/ share bath 2F: Two rooms w/ share bath
Building B Program
Open Space at Entrance
1F Public Space: Kitchen + Living Basement: Master Suite Patio
Building A Program
MLK TownHomes
Work
School Projects Tea House:
The path, the journey, the way
The Future:
Denver in 2005, 2050
Coast Guard Museum:
The cutter that we salute
the Path, the Journey, the Way, Bring Us the Tradition and the Awakeness. This is one of my 1st-year project in grad-school: Japanese Tea House. It is based on the concept of Le Corbusier’s five points theory the 9-square grid system and traditional tatmi module to create architecture composition of the spaces. The design accommodates the ritual of the Japanese tea ceremony which including the traditional Tea House architecture layout andthe tea ceremony procedures: staring with a long walk of the sacred path, experiencing the journey of the path, and ends within the garden that served as a way to awaken consciousness and to realize the insight humility of our relationship with nature that `surrounds us, live within us and humans are afterall part of the nature.
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tatami modulor system ::: 9 square grid
roof garden
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entry circulation/ free facade tatami rm/free plan
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circulation
long horiz. windows waiting room
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Section A-A
Sacred Path
our path, our journey, our way
Diversity as the Future Cubical
Speer is the neighborhood containing multifamily and single family residential uses with the majority of commercial and office buildings. Located to the West is Denver’s most premier shopping and dining neighborhood, Cherry Creek; to the North is Capitol Hill neighborhood, which is a highly dense neighborhood dominated by mid and high-rise multi-family uses, and to its South, one of the finest parks and oldest neighborhoods, Wash Park in Denver. Speer neighborhood’s character is defined by its surroundings and definitely makes it a more diverse metropolitan area. Diversity became the combining strategy while developing this area. By introducing retail and restaurant spaces into the original commercial and office buildings at this time and redevelop the uses of spaces throughout a 50-year period of time. The neighborhood will gradually updat their demands to their needs by adjusting the functionality of the buiding and the community‘s program. Future Cubical | 2005
2050: Offices Parking Restaurants Retail Hotels Residential
2025: Offices Parking Restaurants Retail
2005: Offices
Path, People, Data
Undergroud parking + Transit System
Mixed-use + Residentials
Retail + Hotels
Offices / Commercial
Above surface parking
Retails Restaurants
Offices
Offices / Commercial Convert to Mixed-use + Residential Convert to Community Park Underground Parking Combine / Connect 3 buildings
Broadway
Acoma Street
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Through space and time, people will evolve the scattered community scheme into the simplest building solution. Combining all different types of buildings into a single building type that allows people to fulfill their daily demands.
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To the first lost: the Alexander Hamilton, Coast Guard Cutter WPG-34
The story The Hamilton was first launched in January 1937 and sunk after an attack by a German U-boat in January 1942 near ReykjavĂk. The Hamilton was the U.S. Coast Guard’s first loss during WWII. On August 19, 2009, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered a shipwreck believed to be the Hamilton. This U.S. Coast Guard Museum will contain the history of the Hamilton and also general history and story of the ship and the life of the brave men that fought and died during the attack. The museum will also serve as a place to restore and moor the Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamilton. US Coast Guard Museum | 2005
The Program and the Concept Located at Brooklyn navy yard, New York City, the NYC’s redevelopment authorities have commissioned a museum to house coast guard and navy yard artifacts with the focus on the restoration of USCG Cutter-Hamilton. It is to be a living museum that is to be a active and working facility. The restoration of the ship is to take center stage and the coast guard and navy will combine their cumulative and celebrated histories into a single venue.
School
Digital Fabrication and Design Furniture Making: Giddy Up, Giddy Go Grasshopper Paper Folding
CNC Furniture Making Concept The Giddy up giddy go rocking chair is the result of a study on folding furniture. This idea was driven from origami study, which is interpreted simply as “folding + geometry.” This basic idea then leads to the “static vs. dynamic” concepts in furniture making. Origami: What is the minimum folding: 1 fold. Then what can I do with 1 fold?! Furniture: folding + dis-assemble lesser pieces?!
Rhino Rendering
Giddy up giddy go Ideas
folding umbrella
folding chair: 3 hinges -> 1 hinge
folding rocking stool one chair rib -> mirror ribs -> stool -> rocking stool
digital fabrication & design UW | 2012
Material
Birch plywood for the rocking stool, leather for the seating and cardboard for packaging.
Digital System The initial idea was sketched and used Rhino with Grasshopper plugin to figure out the folding, seating angles, and different scales for children. Then using RhinoCam for CNC layout routing and Rhino for laser cutting package fabrication.
Fabrication System
The rocking stool part was routed out by CNC. The seating part was cut out and stitched by hand. The packaging part was made by laser cutter.
Dis+Assembling: - (4) 5/8� nuts and bolts - (2) 1� removeable pin hinge - (6) buckles for leather seating and reign
Packaging Rhino Design & Rendering Photoshop
digital fabrication & design UW | 2012
Digital Origami crease + fold basic concepts | DIVIDING THE PAPER
Valley linear divisions
diagonal divisions Crease
Mountain grid divisions: one linear + one diagonals
water bomb basic form traditional concepts + methods
Methods: 1. Folding by Hand 2. Using Geometric equipment to draw the fold 3. Using a computer to draw the folds: Rhino + Grasshopper!
digital fabrication & design | UW
water bomb basic form grasshopper definitions
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digital fabrication & design | UW
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digital fabrication & design | UW
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glide reflection grasshopper study
motif - glide reflection
3d surface waterbomb grasshopper study
digital fabrication & design | UW
X-tra
4 corners
Rome
4 corners sketches & photos
Rome
yueannWU
ABOUT
I am a MArch graduate from University of Colorado at Denver. I have three years of formal office experience working for two Seattle based Design-Build firms on varies sizes of residential and commercial projects. Recently, I am working as a contract designer for two architectural offices. I have also just finished a continuing education certification program of Digital Design & Fabrication at University of Washington.
EMPLOYMENT current
Dean Alan Architects, Contract Architectural Designer Working on both client based and competition submittals for public and commercial projects.
Jul 2010 – current
Wang Lands Architects, Straightedge Design Build, Contract Designer Responsible for creating 3D visual presentation layouts and coordination for both client based and competition projects.
Oct 2008 – Dec 2009 Straightedge Design Build, Project Designer I worked on one new custom contemporary single-family and one commercial remodeling project based in Seattle. Responsible for the design, design development, permitting and construction document development. Also construction administration, site detail drawings, scheduling, cost estimating, and purchasing. Developing projects from schematic design through permitting to 100% finish construction phases. Sep 2006 – Oct 2008 Pb Elemental Architecture, Architectural Assistant Participated in the schematic design process on varies single family and multifamily new contemporary construction projects and related interior designs. Responsible for creating 3D visuals, diagrams, and assisting with preparing and coordination of CD sets. Part of the construction team, working on permitting, detailing, cost analysis, and on-site documents coordination.
EDUCATION Sep 2011 – Jun 2012 Certification of Digital Design & Fabrication, University of Washington Aug 2002 – Aug 2006 Master of Architecture, University of Colorado at Denver Graduate Teaching Assistant for Structure II class Graduate Teaching Assistant for Environmental Control System II class May 2004 – Aug 2004 Rome Study Abroad Program, University of Rome Aug 1995 – Dec 1999 Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno
SKILLS AutoCAD, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Rhino, Grasshopper, FormZ, SketchUp MS Office, PowerPoint, Keynote, Mac and PC Platforms. CNC Router, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter, 3D Printing, Model Making.
Yueann Wu | 206.707.1406 | yueannw2arch@yahoo.com | 3818 37th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 | issuu.com/uann/docs/portfolio_2013