ivy chan portfolio 2016
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Undergraduate work from University of Illinois at Chicago as well as Graduate work from Southern California Institute of ArchitectureTRANSCRIPT
Ivy Chan
Southern California Institute of Architecture Master of Architecture, Summer 2017
University of Illinois in ChicagoBachelors of Science in Architecture, May 2015 Minior in Criminology, Law and Justice
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Ivy Chan
Design Studio
pg 17-24 Fall 2015 (DS1200)Complex Morphologies
pg 25-30Spring 2016 (VS2538)Exact Forms
Visual Studies
pg 37-48Spring 2015(AS2421)Automaton_Designing
pg 1-16 Spring 2015 (DS1201)Generative Morphologies
pg 31-36 Fall 2015 (VS4200)Modeling, Tooling, and Computation
pg 65-66Spring 2015 (CS2200)Theories of Contemporary Architecture 2
pg 57-64Fall 2015(AS3200)Advanced Tectonics
pg 67-68Fall 2015 (CS2201)Theories of Contemporary Architecture
Cultural Studies
pg 49-54Spring 2016 (AS3202)Advanced Structures
Applied Studies
pg 55-56Spring 2016 (AS3201)Advanced Building
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A New Federal Courthouse The building takes on a monumental mentality by mimicking the forms of an obelisk or stele. The building beings to take on these ideas by standing higher than its surrounding government buildings at 705ft. It attempts to break the existings connotation that government buildings are unwelcoming stone hard places by using a warm gradient of colors ranging from pink to a light lilac to depict its public spaces. The building ice cold blue begins to melt away at the edges and reliefs in the facade being to peel away at private programming and allow for public programs to sit adjacent to private spaces.
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GROUND FLOOR1/32"=1'-0"
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1. PUBLIC ENTRANCE2. PRIVATE ENTRANCE3. SECURE ENTRANCE VIA SALLYPORT4.PUBLIC CAFETERIA + KITCHEN
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TYPICAL FLOOR1/16"=1'-0"
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1. COURTROOM2. JUDGES CHAMBERS SUITE3. WAITING AREA4. JURY DELIBERATION ROOM5. HOLDING AREA6. ATTORNEY WITNESS CONFERENCE ROOM
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Complex Morphologies: Speculations in CameraIn partnership with Aman Sheth
This project aimed to colliade objects and images to produce a architectural form. Beginning with a individual study on the formal qualities of candy jars the project emerged into a partner project that studied the areas of misalignment. It began to take the jar and content from the existing site and juxapose them in a way to create a cohesive Annex to the Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve in Paris, France.
Rendering of candy jar
Photo of candy jar with candy for colorpallete
Merging of candy jar images to create a form: study 1
Merging of candy jar images to create a form: study 2
Applying texture map to jar for pattern study
Texture maps placed on Annex
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Detailed zoom render of street level collinade mimicing the surrounding site and pedestrian passage way
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Annex to Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve
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Rendering showing relationship with the ground and site
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Color DipStarting with a series of color test on very simple geometric shapes. This project begins to explore the visual illusions different materials and colors created.Taking the edge condition effects from the precedents created the test was then brought into a larger shape that began to test these effects on a large scale and on multiple surfaces.
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Visual Studies This is a collection of projects created through a series of Processing and Grasshopper scripts. Each manipulate existing images to create new spaces. The end product is a interactive video display that utilizes a camera to track movement which is aligned with the distortion of the overall image.
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BIO-Design Challenge Team: Shilpa Sushil, Emre Turan, Tarun Hari, Yichao Li
This was our group entry for the BIO-Design Challenge for 2016 in which we studied new techniques that could advance facades and building surfaces in the future. We studied the movement of salt eating bacteria and simulated these over a series of test in the robotic lab. By layering salt rings, we began to mist water to create hard surfaces in which bacteria would be injected to create pores and coloration. This panel was then used a mold to cast on to to create a harder more buildable surface.
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Long-Span Architecture
This project took on two existing structural systems and began to merge the two together to create a structurally sound long-span football stadium.
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Advanced Building Systems
This course explained building systems in detail from structural to mechnical. Lectures and a series of quizes were given to help us better understand each topic. This is a sampling of the quizes given.
HOK and Parsons Brinckerhoff’s design of the ARTIC uses the idea of literal and phenomenal transparency to its max potential. Not only does the entire building look like a giant glass shell but most of its building systems are open to public view. While there are many great building systems to talk about in the ARTIC building, I found the most unique and interesting of them to be the track system.
While many can talk about how wonderful the ETFE is, it’s a system that can be seen in many buildings and frankly lacks uniqueness and innovation. The idea of ETFE itself is a scientific genius but the use of it in this system is not. The simple track system on the other hand is the one thing in this whole building that caught my attention.
At first glance it seems very out of place and without explanation it’s hard to understand what it is actually used for. The system allows a person to attach to the facade and move to any point on of the ETFE and repair it.
To be able to predict the need for the future, the design of adding a track system along the entire facade of the building to allow for a cradle hook up and for employees to attach to the facade itself to target certain areas is phenomenal. Such an easy concept as small as a track system has the most potential and impact on the building itself.
The system itself allows for maintenance by local rock climbers. They are escorted up along the track by the motorized cart and they can being to scale the building with the system of hooks along the facade. The system also aids with the LED lighting system. It allows for a motor
car to connect to it and workers can move around and change the LED’s that brings this building to life at night.
The LED system although is only an aesthetic component it also becomes the only visible component after dark. The series of LEDs along the X joints brings life to the building and becomes the icon of anaheim besides disneyland. It provides a wonderful view for the city and as trains begin to arrive it provides a sense of joy. The X joints are also reflected across the ground pattern providing a graphic relief to the space.
Artic Anaheim from www.hok.com
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NQuiz 1 explored the idea of curved glass facades. Given a curved surface each student was to create a structural system and divisions that would allow for the curve to be builtArtic Anaheim from www.hok.com
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Elbe Philharmonic Hall Case StudyTeam: Khalid Alattas, Omar Baqazi, Rifat Islam, Chris Thackrey
This project studies the advance glass facade created by Hezog & de Meuron for the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg, Germany.
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Theories of Contemporary Architecture
This is a series of writing samples that reflect on the ideas brought up in class.
This writing sample is a critique of Dave Hickey, Mark Foster Gage and Elaine Scarry’s writings.
Mark Foster Gage and Dave Hickey has a similar argument for the aesthetic of architecture and art. Although they do it in two different ways, they both argue for an equilibrium between beauty/form and experience/function. It is important to understand that we study architecture theory to help us guide our designs but we shouldn’t forget about the aesthetic qualities along the way. With every design we have it’s easy to fall into the trap of designing only to meet the requirements and not designing for the idea of experience and beauty. Contrary to last week’s reading, they are saying we need nuance in design but it’s a controlled nuance. Although I agreed to fuck nuance, I also agree with the grey area that nuance is something to be controlled and used. I find that aesthetic qualities are more important and shouldn’t be hindered by efficiency, problem solving nor sustainability. Form should not follow function in this case. Function and Form should be considered side by side with equal importance to produce a beautiful form. It is important to take away from these readings we shouldn’t let only one set of criteria to control our work but rather let it develop our form better while acting with other criterias. Tom Hardy puts it very well in the movie Inception “Mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger.” If we begin to dream big we won’t let rules block us and we must grow from theory and not forget about aesthetics.
Source: Dave Hickey, “Enter the Dragon, on the Vernacular or Beauty”Mark Foster Gage, “Introduction,” in Aesthetic Theory: Essential TextsElaine Scarry, Excerpt from On Beauty and Being Just
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This writing sample is an analysis of post-modernist ideas in the viewpoint of Robert Venturi, Aldo Rossi and Umberto Eco.
The transition to Postmodernism lead to the emergence of many buildings that reclaimed the idea of historical memory and local context. It started to give design a purpose again by returning to decoration and historical styles. A notable event that showed the range of Postmodern work was the competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower. John Howells and Raymond Hood’s entry for the Chicago Tribune Tower echos all values of Postmodern architecture. They take from historical Gothic cathedrals in their design by mimicking buttresses in the upper half of the tower. However, unlike actual buttresses, the buttresses in Howells and Hood’s entry do not actually act as supports but rather just a decorative art. This idea of contradiction was seen a lot over the course of Postmodernism like in Philip Johnson’s AT&T building or Robert Venturi’s Vanna Venturi House. Both examples punch holes through the typical structural peak of a roof. Howells and Hood’s building also investigates the idea of memory by have so many minor details within the decorative art that allows them to tell a store, while wrapping the walls with stones from various famous buildings. The project show the idea that Postmodern architecture began to design for a purpose again and revert back to the historical context by designing with the presence of a form. Postmodernist work continued to imitate past works and create from memory, causing a dual-code behind most buildings and a physical metaphor at times. These ideas can strongly be seen in Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas and the idea of the decorative shed.
Source:Robert Venturi, excerpt from Complexity and Contradiction in ArchitectureAldo Rossi, excerpt from The Architecture of the CityUmberto Eco, excerpt from the Postscript to The Name of the Rose
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Experience, a word that holds so much meaning in architecture. Experience can alter someone’s
view so strongly. It’s what every architect tries to create and achieve in design. From the
moment you walk through a door the experience starts and the architect tells you a story though
each space. It’s generally told through observation with your five senses but what if science had
a way to create a sixth sense. How can architecture evolve to accommodate and utilize these
new tools? Wearable technology has become a trend in the recent years and only seems to be
increasing popularity. While the world is evolving around us architects should begin to evolve
with it and utilise these technologies to create a new way of experiencing space.
The aspect of experience in architecture itself can be further transformer and evolved to a more
current and more realistic state. Libeskind created his experience through physical building
of tunnels utilizing the user’s senses. He does a wonderful job at creating a story for the user
unlike the other two architects mentioned. Diller and Scofidio’s Blur Building takes technology
to another level and creates an experience that limits your senses, however, the downfall of
this project is that they do no actually push the envelope far enough and simply recreated a
thick fog on a platform. Lally takes the blur building to another level but may have taken it too
far. His ideas are very extreme approaches and although he has some research to back him
up it seems very unrealistic and too large of a jump. He does, however, do a wonderful job at
providing a platform for a more realistic discussion on the topic of architecture moving forward.
Bio-hacking is the process of becoming the absolute best version of ourselves through a
systems-thinking approach to the human biology. Biohackers use modifications to heighten
their experience in the world. A well known scientist in this field of thinking is Kevin Warwick.
Warwick is known for his project Cyborg. In Project Cyborg, Warwick implanted an array into his
arm with the intention of becoming a Cyborg. Although Warwick’s intentions are a bit extreme,
through the experiment Warwick was able to control objects with the array and discovered
possible benefits to this modification for patients with damaged nervous systems. Warwick was
connected to a ultrasonic sensor and was physically able to sense extra sensory inputs. He was
able to transmit data through electrodes implanted in his nervous system.
“Jewish Museum Berlin (interior).” Larry Speck RSS. Accessed December 20,
2015. http://larryspeck.com/2011/09/14/jewish-museum-berlin-interior/.CU
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A new approach to experiencing architecture
This essay begins to explore the idea of allowing bio-technology to reform the way we create experience in architecture. It takes from precedents like Libeskind’s Jewish Museum and Diller and Scofidio’s Blur Building.
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In recent years the emergence of body modification is becoming extremely popular. A
procedure in which a small rare-earth magnet called neodymium magnet is used and
implanted into the body most commonly into the fingers has gained enormous backing.
This leads to the ability of having a sixth sense. Users will now be able to sense magnetic
fields by vibrations when they are near electromagnetic waves. Articles have been written
about those who have had these implants and it has been documented that they tend to
experience the world in a whole new way as they now begin to sense these fields they
would not previously have been able to.
Bio-hacking is allowing users to discover the world in a new and almost impossible ways.
From helping actual patients to just a fun party trick, bio-hacking is opening doors to a new
world in which architecture needs to start developing a stance in. Architecture needs to take
the leap and become a more dynamic element that starts to gear the direct of bio-hacking
and the relationship between human and the world.
Architecture can now begin to create a bridge between a small simple implant that has no
practical use to a way of experience a space in a new way. By utilizing electromagnetic
fields spaces can be created that would draw users in certain directions and create invisible
wall barriers that only those with implants could sense. Layers of spaces could be nested
on top of each other to create different experiences for different users. If we take the ideas
of all three architects and being to merge them together creations of new spaces can have
different levels of experience beyond the five senses and elevate architecture to a new level.
With the emergence of new technology, architecture should begin to harness these
new ideas and restructure the way architectural space is experienced. As we move into
the future, the material we have available and the way our body perceives them starts
developing. Experience is a driving factor to good architecture. With various examples of
good architecture in the past, the joining of new technology with good architecture can lead
to another level of great work that will being to lead the discussion in a direction that will
help architecture become more sustainable. Architecture has the opportunity to becoming
one of the first pioneers in the future and restructure how humans interact with their new
surrounds, a powerful tool everyone wants.
”Future Architecture Will Be Built from Energy Says Sean Lally.” Dezeen Future Architecture
Will Be Built from Energy Says Researcher Sean Lally Comments. November 3, 2014.
Accessed December 18, 2015. http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/03/new-energy-
landscapes-sean-lally-istanbul-design-biennial-2014/.
”Diller & Scofidio: The Blur Building.” Diller & Scofidio: The Blur Building. Accessed
December 18, 2015. http://www.designboom.com/eng/funclub/dillerscofidio.html.
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