A COLLECTION OF SMALLER PROJECTS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EXPERIENCE, CONSTRUCTION OF A SURFBOARD RACK, & FILM PHOTOGRAPHY
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01 URBAN INSTITUTE
The infil site in San Francisco hosts the Urban Institue as a open connection point for the city through program organization and form. The basis for the urban institute is that a better quality of urban life can be supported through design.
The Urban Analytical Drawing below locates the site’s proximity to surounding infrastructure similar to ones offered in the urban institute itself. The city can be described as descrete, privatized, and having autonomous spaces. Thus, the urban institute acts in opposition, providing an open connection to the city.
The structural component acts as a seam between each developing program, creating stack ventillation. This passive strategy allows cool air to enter the building and causes the warmer air to rise and exit out of the top of the frame. In order to connect people and spaces vertically, a light well shifts back the floor plates on each level, exposing the structural frame across the entire form. As visitors journey to their desired space they get a chance to see the connected frame as they move up through the building.
The Expanded Cut demonstrates the operability of windows that aid in passive cooling strategies. On the roof are PV panels to collect additional energy.
STACK VENTILATION DIAGRAM
EXPANDED CUT
THIRD LEVEL — MODEL EXHIBITION SPACE AND VIEW OF STACKED VENTILATION
SECOND LEVEL - VIEW TOWARD ASSEMBLY SPACE AND STRUCTURE
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5.
THIRD FLOOR
URBAN MODEL
WORKSHOP 8. OUTDOOR TERRACE
FOURTH FLOOR
9. RESEARCH AND POLICY
10. BREAK ROOM
11. OFFICES
Program is placed on an activity and noise level basis. The longitudinal section hilights the urban model space and amphitheater, revealing connectivity between spaces as visitors journey up. The cut line is shifted in Section A in order to portray visual connection, circulation on the left, and on the right the pulled back floor plates. Connectivity drives the idea for an open plan that gives access to and through each space; a central elevator allows glimpses of each program.
Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
SECTION B
SECTION C
02 ADAPTIVE REUSE
909 TENESSEE STREET FIREHOUSE: A LIVING ARCHIVE OF IMAGINATION,
STORYTELLING, AND REMEMBRANCE
Archive and Storytelling
The city of Dogpatch is a vibrant community filled with stories and people of past and present. In many of the old buildings in Dogpatch and Potrero Hill, there are remains, or artifacts, of the past (lettering, tools, materials, labels) that show remnants of the past. These items that have remained throughout each building change, each remodel, each program change and shift in store ownership are crucial to recalling the past. However, these artifacts would be worth little without those who also remain to speak of the past. The act of remembering puts life and character into the spaces and materials around. As things are changing constantly, it is interesting to note: what persists, what doesn’t; what is gone from the past, and what remains. The act of remembering is special and unique to each individual. All around the city, these stories were told audibly and often unprompted spoke about the past.
PARTI DIAGRAM
LONGITUDINAL SECTION
In addition to these storefronts and small businesses filled with history and remains of the past, the firehouse at 909 Tennessee Street will be a place of recall, archive, imagination, and storytelling. Partially burned buildings that are preserved and restored hold remnants of the past accompanied by those firefighters who respond to local emergencies, major disasters, and rescuing of persons. Fire departments and the buildings they maintain are worth remembering because of the firefighters and citizens who remain to pass on stories. The firehouse on 909 Tennessee Street will be a space for the city of San Francisco to create archives of the past and present. As residents of San Francisco go through everyday life experiences and endure hardship, they will have a chance to story tell, produce archives of the past, and remember who and what is closest to them.
7. STORAGE
8. ASSEMBLY HALL FOR ORAL STORYTELING
9. PHOTO ROOM FOR CAPTURING CURRENT MEMORIES
10. REFLECTION & JOURNAL ROOM
6. EGRESS STAIR
SECOND LEVEL VIEW OF ARCHIVE ASSEMBLY ABOVE
03 AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Located off of 16th and Mission St. Bart Plaza and adjacent to Marshall Elementary School, “Beauty Between” Affordable Housing prioritizes and supports residents of the building, Marshall Elementary School, and the larger community in the Mission. A lively ground floor of shared collective spaces guides visitors into the central community park. Views of the elementary school and roof garden work to promote unity and connection between visitors of the Mission, residents, and the youth.
In collaboration with and feedback from our community partner PODER the corner of 16th and Mission opens up as an extension of the Bart plaza, bringing guests and locals into tianguis/flea markets run by local residents. The Beauty Between works to uplift current vibrancy and values held within the Mission as well as encourages the community to see and work towards the beauty of what could be.
This affordable housing project is for those seeking to connect with the many unique communities in the Mission. Beauty Between accommodates housing for singles and couples (seniors, transitional aged youth, and others) along Mission Street and family housing along 16th Street. Both housing units contain views overlooking the elementary school and central plaza, instilling family partnership and connection with youth. Additionally, the orientation of buildings around the central park and plaza generate defensible space.
Curved elements, bridges, and courtyards all operate together to feature “the beauty between.”
Curving circulation within the project extends an invitation for the larger community seeking amenities while simultaneously opening up to and cherishing the residents within the affordable housing project. The Beauty Between invites togetherness, uniting all who seek community and desire to work towards change for the better within the Mission.
PHYSICAL MODEL ON SITE
DIRECTIONAL UNDULATING FACADE
3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS
FLEA MARKET/ TIANGUIS
BART STREET PLAZA
COMMUNITY MEETING ROOM AND LOUNGE
PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
PROGRAM ADJACIENCIES AND GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FLOOR AND UNIT PLANS
3 BEDROOM 1 BATH (1200 SQFT)
PHYSICAL MODEL
2 BEDROOM 1 BATH (1000 SQFT)
04 ADDENDUM + PHOTOGRAPHY
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: AFFORDABLE HOUSING WORKSHOPS WITH PODER AND BLACK CULTURAL ZONE
In my senior year affordable housing studio with Prescott Reavis and Fernando Marti, my peers and I created and facilitated two affordable housing workships in the Fall of 2021 in San Francisco’s Mission District with PODER and partner Plaza 16 Coalition, and in Oakland with the Black Cultural Zone (BCZ).
Our workshops, “Culture and Empowerment: Design for the Community, by the Community,” allowed us to learn about PODER’s community and cultural life in the Mission and BCZ’s core values of arts and culture, place keeping, a strong economy, and quality of life. The hope for these workshops was to collaborate and envision a housing that uplifts and serves the community, ultimately de signing a project that reflects the community who inhabits it now and in the future. PODER’s workshop was held at 518 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA (Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics), an affordable cultural gathering spot.
I collaborated with 3 other peers to create internal and external agendas with icebreakers, Activities such as “Defining Values, Goals, and Culture,” “Mapping your Neighborhood” and “Designing Community Spaces” where community members could work together to envision affordable housing in their city. I worked as a facilitating coordinator the day of by keeping time and introducing each new activity on our agenda. From these meetings, we took the information and feedback provided by the community into our affordable housing projects in the Mission and San Francisco.
After documenting community patters from the workshops, I created imaginative solutions of the patterns suggested at the workshops. These patterns were compiled into a color 8.5” x 11” PDF book and shared back with the community.
ARCH 100C
FALL 2021
STRUCTURED OBSERVATION
COLOR STUDY
PROPORTIONAL ANALYSIS
LINEWEIGHT STUDY
Medium: Cardstock on Vellum
Medium: Pencil on Vellum
Medium: Pencil on Vellum
PICASSO’S THREE MUSICIANS FIGURE GROUND
Medium: Cardstock on Vellum
3D CONSTRUCTION OF 2D DRAWINGS
Material: Chipboard
Medium: Pastels on Vellum
HKING LOOKOUT TOWER
Inspired by Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye in Poissy, France. Corbusier was fascinated with frame and orientation; similarly, this lookout tower forces a constant reorientation of space and sight on the viewer through strategically framed views. Views are situated both towards the Berkeley Hills and the Bay depending on the direction of circulation.
CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
PHYSICAL MODEL
BERKELEY HILLS
SURF RACK
ARCH 160 INTRO TO CONSTRUCTION SPRING 2022
This versatile surfboard rack can hold, shoes, wetsuits, towels and up to four surf boards.
Tools Used: Table Saw, Rift Saw, Band Saw, Drill Press
Materials Used: 2X3 Whitewood Studs, Plywood for Base and Catilever, 16” Dowels
