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concept, physical model

exterior perspective, floor plans, flow, motion and passage cultural analysis

King Yin Lei Theater Park

AFFECT-T Competition Wan Chai, Hong Kong, CN Nov 2011 - Jan 2012

KYL Theater Park is a contemporary chinese opera as addition to historic mansion near peak in Hong Kong. Theater includes 3 star restuarant, rehearsal rooms, drama school and renovation of old mansion into drammatic arts museum focusing on Chinese Opera. The vision of the KYL theater park is to support the research, experimentation, and performance of mainstream and experimental theater arts in Hong Kong, Asia and the rest of the world in support of Hong Kong as the new cultural cosmopolitan. The park will also provide the local public with unique culture, arts, leisure and entertainment experiences that while new, are not totally alienated from Hong Kongs cultural roots. The proposed park is envisioned to be a cultural landmark for the research, experimentation and performance of theater arts in Hong Kong. The idea of the park is employed as a metaphor for leisure and entertainment, to be enlightened and amused, and for learning and inspiration. The many programs of the site allows for visitors to have a variety of experiences, both historic and contemporary.
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AREA: 1,104 KM POPULATION (2010) : 7,097,000 DENSITY: 6,428/KM

HONG KONG

AREA: 80.5 KM CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: 191 NEW YORK CITY

HONG KONG ISLAND, HONG KONG

AREA: 80.5 KM CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: 191

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AREA: 1,214 KM POPULATION (2010) : 8,175,133 DENSITY: 6,734/KM

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HONG KONG AREA: 80.5 KM 80.5 KM AREA: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: 191 191

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NEW AREA: 87.5 KM YORK CITY AREA: 87.5 KM CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: 860 860

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK CITY MANHATTAN,

Art Galleries

Major Performance Halls

Museums

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AREA: 1,104 KM POPULATION (2010) : 7,097,000 DENSITY: 6,428/KM

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AREA: 1,214 KM POPULATION (2010) : 8,175,133 DENSITY: 6,734/KM

NEW YORK CITY

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CULTURAL DENSITY

Population(2010): 8.175.133 New York City CULTURAL DENSITY Density: 6.734/Km2 Area: 1.214Km2 Population(2010): 8.175.133 Density: 6.734/Km2

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Concerts

Area: 87.5 Km2 Cultural Institutions: 860

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Dance

Operas Theatres

site plan King Yin Theater Park Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

population density

cultural density

event and institution comparison Wan Chai, Hong Kong 2012

elevations, axonometric, understanding the skin

formal diagrams, renderings, aerial exterior views interior and view

CHINESE RENAISSANCE CHINESE RENAISSANCE

conceptual diagrams, sections, scale, flow and environmental oriented spatial adjacency | perspective section
MODERNISM MODERNISM

CIRCULATION

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0.01 Extrusion

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0.03 Theatre and Storage

0.04 Restaurant and Green Space

Classical Symmetry Symmetry Classical

TraditionalTraditional Ornaments Ornaments

EARTH FORM MORPHOLOGY

MODERNISM MODERNISM

CUT: FORMAL
The main volume is split into two smaller volumes by a view corridor that is directed from the garden to break the monolithic mass, while organizing the roof gardens and programs within the building. Finally, a canyon space is left over from the cut to not only create a passageway from the garden, but also provide a picturesque mountain view.

Program: Theatre + Storage

The two volumes of the buildings are separated in program masses as the theatre is placed in the larger volume and the storage areas for the stage and sets are placed in the smaller volume. The stacking of the storage masses will allow for double height volumes that can fit most stage equipments necessary for the theatre. Intermediate bridges are created between the two masses for circulation.

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ornamentation

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aerial view

perspective section

building tectonics, exploded diagram

juxtaposition of history and present, building plans

park entrance
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King Yin Theater Park Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

1 Lobby 2 Public Lifts 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Changing Rooms 6 Public Restrooms 7 Main Stage 8 Back Stage 9 Side Stage/Additional seating area 10 Stage Level Seating 11 Bar/Lounge

1 Lobby 2 Public Lifts 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Changing Rooms 6 Public Restrooms 7 Main Stage 8 Back Stage 9 Side Stage/Additional seating area 10 Stage Level Seating 11 Bar/Lounge

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1 Lobby 4 1 2 Public Lifts 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Ticket Office 7 Public Restrooms 8 Balcony Level Seating 0 2 10Bar/Lounge 9 m

1 Lobby 1 2 Public Lifts 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Ticket Office 7 Public Restrooms 8 Balcony Level Seating 10 m 9 Bar/Lounge

1 Lobby 4 2 Public Lifts 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Ticket Office 7 Public Restrooms 8 Balcony Level Seating 0 2 9 Bar/Lounge

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1 Kitchen 2 Public Lift 4 1 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Restaurant Reception 7 Dining Area 8 Bar/Lounge 9 Public Restrooms 0 2 10 Restaurant Balcony 10 m

1 Kitchen 2 Public1Lift 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Restaurant Reception 7 Dining Area 8 Bar/Lounge 9 Public Restrooms 10 m 10 Restaurant Balcony

1 Kitchen 4 2 Public Lift 3 Service Lift 4 Egress Stairs 5 Storage 6 Restaurant Reception 7 Dining Area 8 Bar/Lounge 9 Public Restrooms 0 2 10 Restaurant Balcony

building plans
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building secition Wan Chai, Hong Kong 2012

renderings, entrance view and building section

evening narrative, exterior perspective

E-W building section

canyon entrance perspective

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Restaurant Kitchen

N-S Site Section

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Loading Dock Rehearsal Stage Offices

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Storage

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Changing Room

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night perspective

concept, physical model

floor plans, flow, motion and passage

South Sides Water Taxi Terminal

Comprehensive Design Studio Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Spring 2011

Pittsburghs Southside urban fabric has evolved dramatically over the past century, ranging from industrial to residential, commercial and even institutional uses. As a way to remember and display these diverse urban layers, I created voronoi diagrams of footprints from different time periods to derive the structural and screen components of the water taxi terminal. Users arriving by foot or car will descend slowly through boardwalks, as shown in the site section, to the two main interior waiting areas. From there, they can either purchase their tickets and proceed down to the cafe/gift shop or go up to a viewing platform through the three storey atrium. The atrium, along with the long interior spaces, create Venturi and stack effect, to passively ventilate the waiting areas by drawing in cool air from ground level and releasing it at the top of the atrium. Finally, the users can wait for their water taxi at the outdoor waiting area or the conditioned interior waiting area depending on the season. After passing through the building, the users would have experienced the historical layering of Southside, physically, structurally, and spatially.

mezz floor plan

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ground floor plan

site plan South Side Water Taxi Terminal

physical model

basement floor plan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Spring 2011

Logitech

Logitech

elevations, axonometric, understanding the skin

renderings, interior and exterior views

sections, scale, flow and environmental oriented

west elevation

atrium space south elevation

E-W building section

north elevation

interior lounge space

east elevation

N-S Site Section

exterior waiting area

exploded axon layering skin components

atrium space

Air Flow Diagram Perspectival Section 8

design diagrams, platform manipulation for program

Fort Wayne Pedestrian Bridge

Urban Lab Studio Downtown, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2010

Pittsburgh was once celebrated for its infrastructure and bridges, but now that its industrial days are gone, its adjacent spaces are left unused. These spaces are now isolated and desolated from the rest of the urban fabric of Downtown. The Fort Wayne Bridge that extends from the northside to downtown Pittsburgh is an example of an unused territory. The convention center and nearby surface parking lots act as physical and perceptual barriers of the urban life from downtown Pittsburgh to the north side of its trails and river life. Implementing a pedestrian walkway using the bottom level of the existing railroad bridge infrastructure would allow for the adaptive reuse of the bridges structure, while achieving an animated pedestrian traffic. Public activities and urban connectivity will activate the once unused areas. Populating the riverfront will allow the public to experience Pittsburgh in a different way while redefining their definition of Pittsburgh as a city. The location of the site provides a number of phenomenological and environmental amenities that add program to this pedestrian walkway and also attract visitors to use the spaces. Given the opportunities that are presented with the riverfront site, a series of programmatic archipelagos were developed and maneuvered to best capture these site forces. The diagrams show each platforms morphology and which force drove its manipulation. These forces included views, river life support such as fishing and kayaking, green space, contemplative pond and bike support. A layer of structure was then added to allow the platforms to hang off the existing bridge to relate each of these spaces and its activities back to the human and material scale. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fall 2010

INFRASTRUCTURE fort wayne bridge

Fort Wayne Pedestrian Bridge

existing vs proposed

axonometric, section, juxtaposition of pedestrian and bridge

renderings, platform experiences

river life support platform

green space platform

exploded axonometric diagram

bike support platform

project overview

perspectival section

reflection pond platform

viewing platform

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project scope, vacancy rates, market prices, income

critical path, building sections

P_Patch Project Adaptive Transformation

Teammates: Karen Branick, Lowell Day, Ben Lehrer, Silvia Park Issues of Practice Homewood Community, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2010

The P_Patch Project correlates to how an actual architectural project would proceed in a firm or office in a group environment. Starting from the profession standard of project scope, schematic design, design development, construction documents to implementation methods. The goal is to produce a comprehensive set of construction documents that clients can use to transform their house in the Homewood community. The project includes an in depth investigation on the communitys market price in housing, standards of living and compares it with other neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. Our teams adaptive transformation design is not only sustainable but fits into the culture of its community. The design is taken into design development for materials and cost and finally detailed to its most refined scale. A process of implementation is also included within the construction document from how to apply for a Hope XI grant, apply a loan from a bank, critical path analysis and a full materials/labor cost sheet. The process of construction is also documented with a series of demolition diagrams with steps of how to apply the adaptive transformation for the contractor that will build for the client. Our team also focused on the representation of construction documents and details so that they are concise and clear to understand for the contractor and even the clients. Our design introduces natural sunlight into major living spaces to save on conditioning costs and thermal massing with the balconies, which are also used as a shading device in the summer. The form of the roof follows the sun path during the day for maximum daylighting and exposure.

critical path analysis

summer vs winter conditions P_Patch Adaptive Transformation

project scope studies

sections with transformations Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fall 2010

assembly sequence, balcony and porch details

exploded details, stair and roof assembly

assembly diagrams

The diagrams show the process of demolition and construction. Starting with the removal of the existing roof, porch, stairs and windows, then the new stair layout is constructed to open up the living spaces to sunlight. Next, the roof segments are shipped and set in place. The new balcony and porch is then added onto the house to provide shading and thermal heating, depending on the season. Finally, the new low-E glass windows are installed to minimize heat loss/gain but maximizing the amount of daylight.

stair assembly details

batwing diagrams

exploded balcony detail

roof assembly details

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concept, naturally lit lobby space

floor plans, transformation of light shafts

Andy Warhol Museum Annex

Occupancy Studio Northside, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2009

Through analysis of the Warhol Museum program, there is a sense of adjacency but a lack of integration between the programs of the building. The layout limited the amount of interaction that can happen within the Warhol Museum. So for the Warhol Expansion, a system of 5 light wells penetrate the floor plates that divide up the spaces without hindering interaction between the users of that level. Most evidently, the black box theater of the expansion allows users from the bar space, lounge space, lobby and the restaurant to view the performances in the theater. The light wells is also an integrated system of structure, circulation, light well, and a visual interaction. Other spaces that relate to each other through these wells are the cafe to the rehearsal space, and the bookstore to the hearing booth to the theater. It creates an atmosphere that not only deals with visual aspects, but also spatial, experiential and hearing for the museum visitors. The facade of the museum deals with public and private spaces according to the program of the museum to related the expansion back to the Warhol museum and the streetscape.

lobby space

site plan Andy Warhol Museum Annex for Contemporary Art and Theater Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fall 2009

info desk space

floor plans
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Fall 2009

renderings, interior experience

section, physical model

elevation, perspectival section

south elevation

cafe space

building section

gift shop mezz

black box theater space

physical model

perspectival section

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concept, morphologic stratum

floor plans, vertical growth

Morphologic Stratum Post Apocalyptic Architecture

Advanced Construction Studio Homestead, Pittsburgh, PA Spring 2009

As the Aethers emerge from the underground tunnels, a new stratum of growth is layered upon the historic site of Homestead. The Aethers need to create habitable spaces drives them to salvage and explore for materials on the postapocalyptic site, such as rusted metal and panels. The Dream of a utopian society will base its foundations on the layers of its past and morph as the architecture and its people move towards utopia. As the investigation and learning improves, the architecture begins to inform that with its rigor, sophistication and complex building techniques. The building is centralized by a transportation core that runs through the underground tunnel to the homestead grays bridge. This core not only acts as circulation, but it also becomes the intermediate spaces that dwells within the other programs to encourage the highest level of interaction between residents. The chapel is centered in the core of that circulation as its main component of experience, as the space is completely open to all the elements around.

concept section

concept model

site plan Morphologic Stratum Post Apocalyptic Architecture Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Spring 2009

building section

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Spring 2009

floor plans

axonometric, section, juxtaposition of pedestrian and bridge

renderings, platform experiences

chapel interior

physical model

manufacturing assembly line

chapel interior

speaking platforms

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plan, public vs private

one to one scale, varying levels of opacity

DFab Lounge Space Digital to Physical

Team: Karen Branick, Silvia Park, Arlie Schrantz Fabricating Customization CFA, Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2009

lounge plan

The DFab Lounge Space is a multi-functional space for sitting and lounging for students in the College of Fine Arts. The project was the final product in a Digital Fabrication class. The bench is situated in the CFA buildings basement for the music major students to practice in and for other CFA students use for lounging, with a magnificent view up the staircase core. The space is divided according to different privacy levels desired for the students, from an isolated personal seat to a group core seating area. The layers of OSB wood are cut and milled off a 3-D model by a CNC Milling Machine. The pieces are then attached with a threaded metal rod in five different places.

Digital Fabrication Music Hall Lounge Space view upwards layering OSB as structure and screen view from floor above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Spring 2009

Digital Fabrication Music Hall Lounge Space

hong kong, chicago

pittsburgh, new york

Photography
Architecture Photography Various Locations 2006-2011

hsbc building - hong kong, china

bridge underpass - pittsburgh, pa

Photography

flat iron building - new york, ny

cloud gate - chicago, il

afterparty - ps1 MoMa - new york, ny 18

university center, cfa great hall

university center interior, baker hall stairs

Free Hand Drawings

Pencil, Conte, and Charcoal Drawings Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2006- Fall 2007

university center - conte

university center - pencil

Free Hand Drawings

sculpture drawing - charcoal

cfa great hall - pencil

baker hall stairs - pencil

purnell hall interior, conte and pencil

car figure, platform experiences

Free Hand Drawings

Pencil, Conte, and Charcoal Drawings Pittsburgh, PA Fall 2006- Fall 2007

purnell hall interior - conte

car figure drawing - conte

resnik hall drawing - pencil

purnell hall interior - pencil

chapel interior

cfa stair - pencil 20