portfolio of kenneth hu - spring 2016

ARCHITECTURAL & DESIGN WORK

SAMPLES BY KENNETH HU

2016

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Digital Detox 2014

PLASTIC CITYIn-Progress Thesis4

ATMOSPHERICBANKING201530

RISINGHABITATS201518

DIGITALDETOX201438

URBAN YOUTHCENTER201146

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PLASTIC CITYIn-Progress Thesis

"...a system is 'soft' when it is flexible, adaptable, and evolving, when it is complex and maintained by a dense network of active information or feedback loops, or, put in a more general way, when a system is able to sustain a certain quotient of sensitive, quasi-random flow."

-Sanford Kwinter

Plastic City proposals a new developers' model for short-term rentals. This project addresses the way we understand private-public relations, property, ownership, social exchanges, and spatial assets. It is designed as a new addition that sits above the exist-ing residential fabric of San Francisco where party walls are undermined, circulation is maximized, and amenities are hyper-valued.

ADDITIVE DEVELOPMENTThe project begins loosely based on San Francisco's Affordable Housing Bonus Pro-gram, proposing a developers' model to to add short-term units above the city's exist-ing urban fabric.

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AIRBNB IS AN INFRASTRUCTURAL NETWORKHidden within San Francisco are soft, flickering networks of urban transformation. Companies such as Airbnb are changing the physical landscape, challenging the bound-aries of privacy and how we understand home ownership. This is affecting the way architecture designs for housing.

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CITY IN FLUXShort-term rental units fluctuate in availability dependent on demand and time of year. There are more units during events like the Superbowl and there are less units during off-season. This creates a pulsing city, forcing the housing market into temporary changes throughout the year.

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SPATIAL EXCHANGESGroups of rooms are bridged together through their floorplate. Floors terrace, creating multi-story atriums for social interaction.

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CONTINUOUS SPACEThe exterior facade is treated as a continuous skin that wraps around the project. Interior spaces are all connecting through the block, producing a circulatory network that is laid over the existing block.

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INTERTWINED DEVELOPMENTThe addition upstairs utilizes the cores of the existing buildings downstairs, creating an interconnected circulation network. The proposal is not only just new development, it is a renovation of existing units below.

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SROs to PENTHOUSESThe housing program is made of a mix of different sized spaces from single-resident occupancies to penthouse suites. The mixing of the spaces forces an exchange of dif-ferent lifestyles, communities, and architectural shapes.

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ADD

5,879 SF

CONVERT

Zen Garden

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804 SF

ADD

2,521 SF

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Storage

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817 SF

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4,536 SF

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Running Track

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816 SF

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TV Room

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DEVELOPERS' RULESExisting tenants downstairs are required to convert a certain amount of square foot-age into a public amenity (ie. coffee shop, library, gym) in order for development to happen upstairs. In exchange, profits made will be used to subsidize living expenses for long-term tenants.

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DRAWING DRAFTSThis section drawing cuts through the entire block to better understand the relationship between the new development above and the existing buildings below. The objective was to formally create a new development that was homogeneous and continuous across the entire block. This drawing was designed as a skeleton/base for the fol-lowing drawing.

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BLOCK SCALE SECTIONThis section is drawn to be printed at 10' long and be presented with a projection (displayed on the white box in the drawing). The drawing is broken down into zones of assets and short-term units. Indoor spaces intersect and overlap, extending from the core of the building beneath to the development above.

01Asset Zones

Asset Zones are highly-valued amenities that double as places of social sharing and interaction. These Zones are the founda-tion of the identity of the short-term rental complex and intersect with residential units.

Plastic City is a short-term rental complex designed to be built at the expense of long-term living. It is part-architecture, part-soft-ware. This network of short-term residential units spans over the scale of a San Francisco block, providing hyper-valued activities and spaces, called assets. These assets overlap, intertwine, and intersect with other spaces, creating moments of exchange. This architectural network of assets and exchange occur formally and programmatically at the expense of privacy, tenants, and a fluctu-ating housing market.

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02Public Amenities

Existing units are converted into public storefronts - such as a library or a coffee shop - to engage with the street and foster an active community. Existing tenants are displaced at the expense of improving the city.

03Spatial Overlap

Units range in type and size from single-occupancy units to family suites. Utility spaces are shared between units forcing an architectural and social exchange.

04Compensated Living

Though long-term units downstairs are affected by the development of short-term units upstairs, tenants’ housing expenses are subsidized by the money made from renting out the upstair units.

05Hijacked Cores

Cores are inflated and square footage is increased in order to accommodate the extra foot traffic that goes upstairs. These spaces are turned into lounge areas for gathering.

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2016Plastic City

01Asset Zones

Asset Zones are highly-valued amenities that double as places of social sharing and interaction. These Zones are the founda-tion of the identity of the short-term rental complex and intersect with residential units.

Plastic City is a short-term rental complex designed to be built at the expense of long-term living. It is part-architecture, part-soft-ware. This network of short-term residential units spans over the scale of a San Francisco block, providing hyper-valued activities and spaces, called assets. These assets overlap, intertwine, and intersect with other spaces, creating moments of exchange. This architectural network of assets and exchange occur formally and programmatically at the expense of privacy, tenants, and a fluctu-ating housing market.

Asset

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02Public Amenities

Existing units are converted into public storefronts - such as a library or a coffee shop - to engage with the street and foster an active community. Existing tenants are displaced at the expense of improving the city.

03Spatial Overlap

Units range in type and size from single-occupancy units to family suites. Utility spaces are shared between units forcing an architectural and social exchange.

04Compensated Living

Though long-term units downstairs are affected by the development of short-term units upstairs, tenants’ housing expenses are subsidized by the money made from renting out the upstair units.

05Hijacked Cores

Cores are inflated and square footage is increased in order to accommodate the extra foot traffic that goes upstairs. These spaces are turned into lounge areas for gathering.

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RISINGHABITATS2015

Rising Habitats is a botanical conservancy and educa-tion center located in the Port of Oakland's Middle Harbor Shoreline Park. The building consists of an on-land museum and a floating research institute that showcases the conditions of local ecologies. The natu-ral environment exists as a system of interdependent forces, between flora, fauna, wind, water, and sun, in which each force utilizes, changes, and constrains one another. These natural systems are more important than ever as global warming and climate change worsen; for flood protection, filtering pollutants, and fostering wildlife. Over 90% of wetland habitats in the Bay Area have disappeared over the past 150 years due to major industrialization along shorelines, demanding a revi-talization of these vulnerable zones. Referencing the work of the Bay Conservation and Development Com-mission and the objectives of Save the Bay, Rising Habitats proposes a new way of spatially interfacing with local wetland habitats. The architecture is used as an education tool, through its undulating form and soft boundary conditions, to reveal qualities of these habitats and forces that are otherwise unseen.

The entire project and its construction documents may be found on ISSUU:

https://issuu.com/kennethhu/docs/risinghabitats2015

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA WETLANDSPictured above is the location of wetlands in the Bay Area 150 years ago. This project is driven by re-introducing these wetland conditions to the bay.

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ITERATIVE DRAWINGThe project is broken into two pieces: a floating vessel and a land building. Figuring out how both building objects interface made a large part of the design challenge.

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2015Rising Habitats

MODELMAKINGAbove: a series of schematic, conceptual modelsBelow: a model of the building's radial structural system

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HABITAT GRADIENTThe Bay wetlands ecology can be understood as a gradient of habitats from the water to grass to scrub.

HABITAT ZONESEach floor is designated a specific habitat and is designed to the conditions of that habitat.

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Loadpath Irrigation Concrete Enclosed Program Habitats Circulation



BUILDING SYSTEMSThe project may be understood as a series of systems, from circulation to structure to ecology.

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DIGITAL FABRICATION - FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMERThe building is designed to use fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) which is anti-corrosive and performs as a structural skin. Working closely with Kreysler & Associates, we designed panels that are fabricated for testing.

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ECOLOGY & FORMThe objective of the fabrication is to find architectural forms that will foster biological growth when placed underwater. Pictured is a FRP panel designed by previous students which has been sitting in Monterey Bay for 4 months.

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HABITAT FLOORSEach floor reflects a certain habitat zone, beginning with the mudflats on the ground floor up to the scrubland on the top floor.

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1. Reinforced Concrete Corbel. See Detail 52. Removable Connecting Spacer 3. Bolted Connection4. 3” Structural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer ‘Sandwich’ Floorplate. See Detail 45. Foam Insulation6. Sliding Glass Curtain Wall. See Detail 37. Bolted Column Connection. See Detail 28. FRP Removeable Panel 9. Plastic Bolted Connection. See Detail 110. Adhesive Connection11. 3/8” Fiber Reinforced Polymer Strip Bolt Accepter12. 3/8” Fiber Reinforced Polymer Removable Panel13. Bolted Connection14. Structural Fiber Reinforced Polymer Column15. Reinforced Concrete Pier16. Removable Connecting Spacer 17. Neoprene Pad

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Water VesselThe water vessel is a floating research lab, similar to a barge, detached from the main (land) building. A portion of the hull is extruded outward to collect mud sediment, replicating the mudflat habitat.

Habitat FormsEach habitat zone is shaped to the qualities of that particular habitat. Similar to how coral reefs grow over time, each zone is designed to anticipate physical growth as sediment collects and plants get bigger.

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ASSEMBLY SYSTEMThe building is composed of 23 "chunks": prefabricated FRP panels that are shipped and assembled on-site.

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ATMOSPHERICBANKING2015

The San Joaquin Valley, also known as the "Dust Bowl", is a vulnerable and elastic anthropogenic biome that exists according to its own set of rules. Actions - regardless of scale and location - have domino effects that are difficult to consolidate and ob-serve. From its disappearing wildlife to its breathing geology, these intricate variables play a major role in influencing an intricate formula. What complicates the Valley's condition is its intangible properties: chemical pollutants in the air cannot be seen and the sinking topography cannot be felt. Over long periods of time, these effects build up to have drastic consequences such as earthquakes, cancer, and disappearing aquifers.

INFRASTRUCTURAL FORCESThe Valley was first studied as a place of industry and forces. By comprehending the complicated networks of economy, transaction, and infrastructure, the Valley can be better broken down and potentially reveal vulnerable moments that may be leveraged as design resolution.

Alternative energy

Out-of-state water sources

Local water sources will drastically decrease in availability, increasing

dependency on the importing of water from neighbor states.

Oil sources will eventually deplete. Oil companies will eventually convert to renewable sources of energy.

The transition into renewable energy sources will require new or refurbished infrastructure.

With an increase in importing water, existing infrastructure must be extended and new infra-structure will constructued.

Additional productsAdditional products

The moving of product will continue but may potentially increase in the use of alternative methods of transportation, like plane.

Population increaseCommuter mobility increase

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People & Pumping Plant People, Products, &Pipelines

Crude petroleumNatural gas

Gasoline and aviation turbine fuelFuel oils

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Agricultural products except live animals, cereal grains, and forage productsAnimal feed and feed ingredients, cereal straw, and eggs and other products of animal origin n.e.c.

Meat, fish, seafood, and preparationsMilled grain products and preparations, and bakery products

Prepared foodstuffs n.e.c. and fats and oils

Alcoholic beveragesTobacco products

Monumental or building stoneNatural sands

Gravel and crushed stone

Non-metallic minerals n.e.c.

Metallic ores

Basic chemicals

Fertilizers and fertilizer materials

Chemical products and preparations n.e.c.

Non-metallic mineral products

Base metal in primary or semi-finished forms and in finished basic shapesArticles of base metal

Coal

Infrastructural Forces

Residents

International touristsWorking employees

Pets

Domestic tourists

RESERVOIR

DAM

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OIL TERMINAL

CANAL

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PIPE

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CRUDE OIL PIPELINE

PETROLEUM PIPELINE

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COMMUTER RAIL

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TRUCK NETWORKFREIGHT CARRIERS

MASS TRANSPORTATION

PERSONAL VEHICLES

Centralized agricultural industries may slowly collapse as trends lean toward local, small-scale

productions, lessening the need for transportation infrastructure specific to agriculture.

New infrastructures may act as dual purpose transportation vehicles, moving people and products, mimicking air transportation.

Potential Relationships

2040 Forces2015 Forces

�e major forces and content, once understood under each system, may be interchangeable and offer new

methods of mobililty.

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Alternative energy

Out-of-state water sources

Local water sources will drastically decrease in availability, increasing

dependency on the importing of water from neighbor states.

Oil sources will eventually deplete. Oil companies will eventually convert to renewable sources of energy.

The transition into renewable energy sources will require new or refurbished infrastructure.

With an increase in importing water, existing infrastructure must be extended and new infra-structure will constructued.

Additional productsAdditional products

The moving of product will continue but may potentially increase in the use of alternative methods of transportation, like plane.

Population increaseCommuter mobility increase

Commod

ity Pr

oduct

s

Highways

Railways

Energ

y & Reso

urces

Storag

e

Transf

erence

Vehic

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Peop

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Railways & HighwaysAqueduct & Freight CarriersPipelines, Products, &Mass Transportation

People & Pumping Plant People, Products, &Pipelines

Crude petroleumNatural gas

Gasoline and aviation turbine fuelFuel oils

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TRACKS

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Agric

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Life animals and fishCereal grains

Agricultural products except live animals, cereal grains, and forage productsAnimal feed and feed ingredients, cereal straw, and eggs and other products of animal origin n.e.c.

Meat, fish, seafood, and preparationsMilled grain products and preparations, and bakery products

Prepared foodstuffs n.e.c. and fats and oils

Alcoholic beveragesTobacco products

Monumental or building stoneNatural sands

Gravel and crushed stone

Non-metallic minerals n.e.c.

Metallic ores

Basic chemicals

Fertilizers and fertilizer materials

Chemical products and preparations n.e.c.

Non-metallic mineral products

Base metal in primary or semi-finished forms and in finished basic shapesArticles of base metal

Coal

Infrastructural Forces

Residents

International touristsWorking employees

Pets

Domestic tourists

RESERVOIR

DAM

PUMPING PLANT

OIL TERMINAL

CANAL

ADDITIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE

PIPE

AQUEDUCT

NATURAL GAS PIPELINE

CRUDE OIL PIPELINE

PETROLEUM PIPELINE

CRUDE OIL RAIL

FREIGHT RAIL

COMMUTER RAIL

PETROLEUM TANKER

TRUCK NETWORKFREIGHT CARRIERS

MASS TRANSPORTATION

PERSONAL VEHICLES

Centralized agricultural industries may slowly collapse as trends lean toward local, small-scale

productions, lessening the need for transportation infrastructure specific to agriculture.

New infrastructures may act as dual purpose transportation vehicles, moving people and products, mimicking air transportation.

Potential Relationships

2040 Forces2015 Forces

�e major forces and content, once understood under each system, may be interchangeable and offer new

methods of mobililty.

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CHEMICAL HEAT MAPMap of pesticides released as documented from 2003 to 2012. Most pollutants are found from the west to central portions of California.

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Foster Farms Livingston Complex

J. R. Simplot Co., Lathrop

Darling International, INC.

Bronco Wine Co.

Fineline Industries, INC.

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Copper Compounds

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Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether

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J.G. Bowswell Co. Oil Mill

Florestone Products Co., INC.

Constellation Brands, INC.

Calportland Co.

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Atmospheric Banking 2015

SOURCING POLLUTION IN THE VALLEYThe graphic shows the highest-volume chemical releases and their source of origin. The two Class I hazardous waste facilities of Califor-nia, Clean Waste Management and Clean Harbors Buttonwillow, top the list with most chemicals released, in chemical type and volume.

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Tubes of mesh that penetrate through the floorplates collect dust from the local environment. Over time, these chimneys become opaque, visualizing the quality of air.

Nylon mesh filters create the walls of the space, providing soft thresh-olds between different spaces. As the air travels through these mesh walls, the air gets cleaned and pollutants get trapped, creating different zones of different qualities of air.

The floor and ceiling is pushed and pulled in order to direct air into the air chimneys. The form is determined by the direction of the roads below and the direction of wind in the region. They also create different spatial experiences between voids.

Winds come in from the northwest and help determine the form and affect spatial qualities.

Located above highways I-5 and 41, the building collects dirt tossed around in the air from passing vehicles. The building hovers above the crossing of both highways.

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AIR CHIMNEYSA series of "chimneys" are used to capture the local air and its pollut-ants from the highway.

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Tubes of mesh that penetrate through the floorplates collect dust from the local environment. Over time, these chimneys become opaque, visualizing the quality of air.

Nylon mesh filters create the walls of the space, providing soft thresh-olds between different spaces. As the air travels through these mesh walls, the air gets cleaned and pollutants get trapped, creating different zones of different qualities of air.

The floor and ceiling is pushed and pulled in order to direct air into the air chimneys. The form is determined by the direction of the roads below and the direction of wind in the region. They also create different spatial experiences between voids.

Winds come in from the northwest and help determine the form and affect spatial qualities.

Located above highways I-5 and 41, the building collects dirt tossed around in the air from passing vehicles. The building hovers above the crossing of both highways.

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Atmospheric Banking 2015

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AIR REFUGEThe refuge space brings visibility to the content in the air with the use of nylon mesh filters.

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DIGITAL DETOX2014 FALL

In what ways can architecture emulate a constant symbiosis of social and urban events? The efferves-cent city is filled with instances of interaction and activity that become disconnected from the built environment. Entwined into our urban fabric exists an unseen network of social interactions, whether it is sharing an experience through a captured photo on Instagram, or voicing personal thoughts on Twitter. These events are flickering synapses that reveal a calling for a temporal, architectural syntax that may foster visceral connections of community, respond to cultural complexities prevalent in urbanity, and be resilient enough to adapt to unforeseeable changes.

TRANSITION + GATHERING24TH + MISSION

SERVICE + RESOURCE17TH + MISSION

ACTIVITY IN THE MISSIONThe Mission district can be characterized as a place of constant interest. Utilizing Flickr as an indicator of activity, the geolocation of where photos are taken (above) is compared to the location of local services, like markets, retail stores, and banks (right).

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HALL OF WELLNESS(THE SHARERS)

YOGA

MEDITATION

GUIDED BREATHING

ATELIER OFIMAGINATION

(THE RETWEETERS)

ALLEY OF EQUANIMITY(THE LIKERS)

ZONE OF EXEMPTION(THE COMMENTERS)

An open-air space for group health and fitness to attain balance spiritual balance

and interal tranquility.

Operable partition walls move as needed for diverse

class sizes.

CREATIVE WRITING

PAINTING

ARTS & CRAFTS

Get those creative juices flow-ing! Bring out your inner artist, creator, maker, and designer

through collaboration.

Meeting areas for idea-making.

Wall space for murals.

Built-in storage for art supplies.

JOURNALING

DOODLING

READING

F.O.M.O Reflief(Fear Of Missing Out)

Get lost in the moment of you.

Sound insulated nooks.

The only area with WiFi and re-ception. Enjoy it while you can.

Available based on schedule.

Event space for clients.

PROGRAMMATIC DESIGNThe property is divided into zones, each of which houses a different set of activities and uses.

MODELMAKINGSeries of models were created in an attempt to interpret the flickering activity of the internet into physical form.

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- Units shift along the central space to accommodate program spaces outside.

- Each unit contains two rooms and shares a bat-hoom-kitchen area with an-other unti.

- Operable partitions help regular programmatic space use and help condense or expand room as needed.

- Program spaces are ab-sorbed into the circulation

- A wall is added to the proj-ect to help define major zones of interest.

- An objective envionment to foster bottom-up social ac-tivity.

THE HOME

THE SWING’A MAH JIGS

THE PATH

THE SPINE

THE FIELD

TRANSFORMING ARCHITECTURETransforming architecture from a singular moment to a temporal expe-rience produces a spatial field filled with dynamic activity, immediacy in expression, and representation of its users.

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PRIVATE TO PUBLICThe spatial organization of the property allows for different degrees of privacy.

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FLICKERING ACTIVITYBy placing community programs - like yoga and painting - to the perimeter of the property, these activities contribute to the urban street interface.

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URBAN YOUTH CENTER2011

Urban Youth Center is a design project located near Washington Middle School in Honolulu, Hawaii. The task was to create an art and music community cen-ter, targeted for students in the area. The building's program includes rehearsal spaces, living quarters, a concert hall, and event areas.

GRAPHIC EXPLORATIONDiagrams and sketches were first done to organize interior programs and understand their formal product.

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DESIGN THROUGH SKETCHFirst iterations of the project were done through hand drawings of plans and interior vignettes.

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BUILDING AS CATALYSTThe students of a school act as molecules that synergistically work together to form an ecosystem community. Understanding that, the Center is meant as a place for innovation, gathering, and celebration, not only for the students but also for nearby citizens.

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CirculationOne major path ascends continuously from the entrance to the top floor, the concert hall. Community members, friends, and family attending an event jour-ney together to reach the peak of the evening where kids and talented youth await their arrival.

ProgrammingPrivate (center facilities) and public (visitor facilities) programs are separated into two different areas until the top floor. Privacy is important especially when rehearsing. This programmatic separation allows for distinction between room functions as well as creating anticipation for concert night.

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WASHINGTON YOUTH ARTS CENTERThe art center provides a safe and creative environment for the local students that allows for practice, making, and performance.

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