PORTFOLIO 07-11 / GARY KU
TYPE
Figures in a Field
Project Documentation / Modeling
Field of Figures
Design Development & Rendering
Urban Design
Fabrication / Installation
Museum and Research Center
Fabrication
Project Documentation
Two-Family House
Low-Income Housing
Miniscule Duplex
Film Theater and Gallery Complex
Business Hotel
Architectural Representation
GARY KU CONTENTS /
ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL
TITLE
/ SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELD
/ VARIOUS / JOHNSTON MARKLEE
/ HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES
/ QINGDAO AUDIT BUREAU / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
/ SUBURBAN ESCALATION
/ A VARIATION ON CORRUGATION
/ YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE
/ YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVE FAADE
/ VARIOUS / KILO ARCHITECTURES
/ BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE
/ MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
/ COHABITATION CUBE
/ TRIBECA CINECEUM
/ W STEAM HOTEL
/ ANALYSIS & REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE
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INSTRUCTOR / PRINCIPAL
/ Prof. John Patkau
/ Sharon Johnston, Mark Lee
/ Prof. Hernan Diaz Alonso
/ Brian Lee, Timothy Poell
/ Prof. Ljiljana Blagojevic
/ Prof. Brennan Buck
/ Prof. Joel Sanders
/ Prof. Brennan Buck
/ Linna Choi
/ Prof. Alan Organschi
/ Prof. Deborah Gans
/ Prof. Deborah Gans
/ Prof. Martin Cox
/ Prof. Martin Cox
/ Prof. Sunil Bald
YEARS 2007-2011SELECTED PROJECTS
EDUCATION
Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, CT / M.Arch I
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, CA /B. A. in Architecture with Distinction, 3.57
Kbenhavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark / Denmark International Study Program / Summer Studio & Course in Scandinavian Architecture
WORK EXPERIENCE
Johnston Marklee & Associates, Los Angeles, CA/ Hut House, Hawaii / bid set documentation incl. landscape element design/ Execution of detailed 5x5 presentation model
Dreamworks Animation SKG, Inc., Glendale, CA/ Consultant to the New Business Initiatives division for undisclosed project/ Performed competitive/market analysis, Interface design and mock-ups, presentation and video editing
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL/ Qingdao Audit Bureau Tower, China / developed primary option during schematic design, including massing, faade, spire, podium; presentation/ Ningbo Tower, China / developed podium-tower concept, faade options
Kilo Architectures, Paris, France/ Berliet Showroom, Morocco / presentation plans and sections/ Montabo Hotel, French Guiana / presentation plans and sections/ Oualalou House, Morocco / working models
Periphery Design, New Haven, CT/ Jensen House, USA / SD-DD for kitchen-bedroom addition
Ong & Ong Architects, Singapore/ Wu Gallery, Singapore / solo SD through CA for a private gallery/ Singapore Tower, Dubai / SD-DD, conceived of and developed selected scheme, including facade, massing, and tower-podium relationship
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2006 AUGUST 2007 MAY
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EMAIL / [email protected] / 00 1 714 206 0511
Stanley Saitowitz, San Francisco, CA/ schematic design for loft project / rendering and graphic design work
AWARDS AND PUBLISHED WORK
Retrospecta / Yale University Press/ project, Suburban Escalation (urban design)/ project, A Variation on Corrugation (installation)/ project, YAA/Facade (facade design)/ paper, Abstraction to Its Logical Conclusion, analysis of visual rhetoric in work by Mies and Sejima
Teaching Assistantship / Religion & Modern Architecture/ funding & logistics for weeklong trip to Cairo, Alexandria, and Luxor, Egypt.
Winning Team & Construction Intern2008 Yale Building Project/ designed winning house scheme together with six other students/ developed and built winning scheme, including DD/CD, framing, finishing, fixture installation, siding
WinnerEisner Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeleys highest prize for architectural design, awarded after competitive portfolio review
WinnerLibrary Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeleys highest prize for undergraduate research, awarded for analysis of the historiography and social purpose of Trajans Markets/ paper published in Clios Scroll, Berkeleys honors history journal
SKILLS
SoftwareRhinoceros, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, 3DS Max, Maya, Mental Ray, V-Ray, MaxwellRender, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe After Effects, ArcGIS
FabricationLaser cutting, ABS Plastic and Powder 3D printing, 3- and 5-axis CNC milling
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2008 APRIL 2008 AUGUST
2006 MAY
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LOCATION / LA CAADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, USA
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SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELDYALE UNIVERSITY / 1115B ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO / PROF JOHN PATKAU / SPRING 2011
This project is about loose programs nestled among figures, gently emerging from a field condition carved upon a hillside, that slowly condense into an alternative school for young makers and inventors.
I sought a gentle space of ambiguous boundaries, the interstial space among elements rather than the rigidly defined space of geometric volumes.
I started simply be visually the given program not as square footage, but as individual program elements, pieces of furniture, giving scale to a landscape and sensation to a topography. (DIAGRAM, RIGHT.)
STAN ALLENS FIELD CONDITION DIAGRAMS*
*STAN ALLEN, FIELD CONDITIONS, IN POINTS + LINES: DIAGRAMS AND PROJECTS FOR THE CITY. (PRINCETON, NJ: PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS, 1999), 98.
INVESTIGATION, A FIELD CONDITION ON A SLOPE
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SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELD / PATKAU / SPRING 2011 / 11
INITIAL EXPLORATIONSThe first sketch models focused on the challenge of articulating the relationship between the members of a field and the slope. This initial series of sketches gradually developed more order and regularity until, unfortunately, the desired looseness seemed lost among deep carvings and strictly linear belt roof bands. After considering these models I refocused on the treatment of the topography itself as key to the project, as opposed to relying on field conditions which were applied to or floated above the landscape.
1 / SKETCH MODEL / STICKS 2 / SKETCH MODEL / STICKS-HILL CUT
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FORM, THINLY SPREADThe final scheme focused on an obsessive accumulation of small moves over the larger, more singular moves of earlier studies, creating a loose, ambiguous spread of program, circulation, and boundaries. Programs requiring assembly or security (auditoria,library) are focused in more specific figures in the landscape, whereas more individual or dynamic programs (studio space, workshops, exhibition) are loosely spread over the landscape.
KEY SKETCH MODEL / SHALLOW LANDSCAPE
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FINAL MODEL
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SITE
PHOTO / SITE FROM ABOVE DAM, FACING EAST
SITEThe site, a jutting hill with a 1:2 slope on its north side and a 1:1 slope on its south side, was chosen because it provided the opportunity to apply stress to the idea of a field condition. The inherent directionality of a slope, the challenge of creating usable terrain while preserving its original characteristics, the ability to differentiate programs by simply placing them on the other side of the hill, all were useful in the development of the basic field condition into a series of figures within a field.
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SITE MAP
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ENCLOSURE, FIELD OF AFFECTThe enclosureessentially, the roof, the which wraps around the hillwas difficult in that, for pragmatic reasons, it had to be a relatively singular thing. The final solution was to hot slump glass over curved steel beams. Sunlight refracting through the glass would create a field of affect.
ROOF SKETCH MODEL / FIELD OF AFFECT FORMED FROM REFRACTED LIGHT
DETAIL MODEL / 1/4:1
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DETAIL MODEL / 1/4:1
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STRUCTURE, REGULAR UPON IRREGULARThe columns which support the roof are placed at the intersection between a regular x-axis 16-foot-interval column grid and every sixth topography line, creating a field from overlapping a regular and irregular systems.
FINAL MODEL / SURVEYING
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FINAL MODEL / SURVEYING
DIAGRAM / ARROWS INDICATE COLUMNS PLACED AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE X-COLUMN GRID AND EVERY SIXTH TOPOGRAPHY LINE
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FINAL MODEL / LIBRARY
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FINAL MODEL / CLASS AREA
FINAL MODEL / WORKSHOPS AND STUDIOS
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RENDER & DOCUMENTATION / ENCLOSURE SYSTEM FOR KAUAI HUT HOUSE / EQUIPMENT FENCE APPLICATION
RENDER / ENCLOSURE SYSTEM FOR KAUAI HUT HOUSE / FRONT GATE APPLICATION
WORK / JOHNSTON MARKLEE / LOS ANGELES
During Summer & Fall 2011 I worked on several projects for Johnston Marklee, notably a quarter-scale presentation model for the renovation of a series of art studios and an enclosure system for a house in Kauai, based on vernacular Hawaiian gates.
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PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION
PRESENTATION MODEL / GRAD ART STUDIOS RENOVATION W/ IAN CHRISTOPHER
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ONCE UPON A HOUSE /
HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURESYALE UNIVERSITY / 1107A ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO / PROF HERNAN DIAZ ALONSO / FALL 2010
This project is about loose spaces among a series of figures, a field of gentle volumes that eventually becomes a house.
Typically, classical volumetric space is formed by hard, binary divisions, accessed through binary mechanismsa door is either open or closed, and a house so divided functions accordingly. This creates a rigid hierarchy among programs.
DOOR,
HARD (BINARY) DIVISION
RIGID SPACE
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LIFTED WALL,
SOFT (VARIABLE) DIVISION
A loose space is one formed from soft, variable divisions. Activities occur in areas of greater or lesser privacy, more or less formal density. Programs settle within a web of local relationships, dynamically formed, without explicit boundaries.
LOOSE SPACE
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Loose space may be formed in plan by a single line curving back upon, but never actually contacting itself. This curving loosely defines spaces within relatively stronger and weaker lobe figures. When combined with several other such lines, a field of figures begins to emerge.
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ARTICULATION IN PLAN
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PHOTO / CLOUDS OFF THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS (SOURCE: NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER)
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Volume is created by applying the curves to two guide surfaces, representing the inner (interior) and outer (exterior) surfaces of the building. Curves are then individually adjusted to form additional interior spatial variety and more comfortably accomodate different programs.
ARTICULATION IN SECTION
1 / CURVES TAKEN FROM PLAN 2 / CURVES APPLIED TO OUTER AND INNER GUIDE SURFACES
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3 / INNER CURVES ADJUSTED TO FORM MORE COMPLETE ENCLOSURE 4 / WALLS FORMED BY LOFTING BETWEEN INNER & OUTER CURVES
HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 35
COMPOSITE PHOTO / HOUSE ON SITE IN SILVERLAKE, LOS ANGELES, CA
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HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 37
SECTION / LONGITUDINAL (EAST-WEST)
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HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 39
MODEL / INTERIOR HALLWAY TOWARDS LIVING ROOM
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KITCHEN
LIVING
STUDY
MASTER BED
BED
BATH
BATH BED
FOYER
PLAN / GROUND FLOOR
RENDER / ROOF
HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 41
RENDER / SHOWER & VERANDA
RENDER / STUDY
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RENDER / HALLWAY
RENDER / MASTER BEDROOM
HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 43
RENDER / LIVING ROOM
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HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURES / DIAz ALONSO / FALL 2010 / 45
WORK / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL / CHICAGO
During my internship at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill I was involved with the schematic design of the Qingdao Audit Bureau, a office-residential-retail development in Qingdao, China. I aided in the development of the massing, faade, spire, and podium; presentation layout, rendering, and the final presentation model.
DIAGRAM / TOWER SPIRE OPTIONS SECTION DETAIL / OVERLAPPING SOUTH FACADE W/TIM POELL, ETC
DIAGRAM / QINGDAO TOWER / SPIRE OPTIONS
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RENDER / QINGDAO TOWER / WEST ELEVATION
PRESENTATION MODEL / QINGDAO TOWER W/ PAVLO KRYVOZUB, ETC
RENDER / QINGDAO TOWER / ATRIUM
WORK / SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL / SUMMER 2010 / 47
URBANISM /
SUBURBAN ESCALATIONYALE UNIVERSITY / 1022B URBAN DESIGN / PROF LJILJANA BLAGOJEVIC / SPRING 2010
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CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLPublic Secondary School
W. HISPANIC SENIOR CENTERGeriatric Care
R. I. MEDICIAL SOCIETYR. I. NEIGHBORHOOD HEA LTH PLANFOUNDRY SPORTS MEDICINEHEALTH & WELLNESS INSTITUTER. I. BLOOD CENTER
DIOCESE OF P ROVIDENCEHISPANIC MINISTRY DEPT
CHEATERSADULT VIDEO & NEWSMEGA-PLEX
RHODE ISLAND HOSPI TALHASBRO CHILDRENS HOSPI TALWOMEN & INFANTS HOSPI TAL
SPRAGUE ENERGY TERMINAL
PETES TIRE BARN
ST JOSEPH SPECIA LTY CARE
MARY E. FOGARTY ELEM. SCHOOL
GILBERT STUART MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST END COMMUNITY CENTERKNIGHT MEMORIAL LIBRA RYALFRED LIMA ELEM . SCHOOL
LIFESPAN CORPOR ATIONHospital System
St. Patricks Church Hispanic Ministry
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
R. I. Hispanic Min.
Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul
St. Charles Borromeo
St. Michaels
Holy Rosary Rectory
St Josephs Church
HISPANIC DOMINANT AREAS
ROMAN CATHOLIC PARISHES
Providences most marginalized ethnic groups are also its fastest growing, yet the city has largely failed to integrate its periphery with its economic and cultural center. A highway starkly divides Downtown Providence from its surrounding suburbs.
This project proposes the unification of Providence by water and by architectural form.
POOR / HISPANIC
PROVIDENCE DIVIDED
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MOSES BROWN SCHOOLQuaker Friends Day SchoolEst. 1784
BROWN UNIVERSITYIvy League UniversityEst. 1764
R.I. SCHOOL OF DESIGNArt SchoolEst. 1877
23% of color77% white
32% other8% Hispanic60% white
13% other7% Hispanic81% white
31% other30% Hispanic39% white
JOHNSON & WALESPrivate UniversityEst. 1914
CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOLMagnet Secondary SchoolEst. 1843
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RHODE ISLAND IS 30% WATER
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CONNECTION / LINKED LAND-WATER NETWORKS
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LEFT / STACK BUS AND FERRY TERMINALS
RIGHT / MULTIMODAL TERMINAL
A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PROVIDENCE BY KAYAK
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The proposed canal will cut deep into Providence, activating a series of water-based transportation and recreational areas that constitute Providences other side.
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Height of 3rd tallestdowntown tower
Highway I-95
A highway starkly divides Downtown Providence from its surrounding suburbs. Instead of trying to resolve mutually incompatible urban and suburban typologies, the latters forms are escalated over the formers fabric: one lifestyle raised to the densities of another.
DENSITY RELATED TO ELEVATION / CUT AT 50 ft
DENSITY ESCALATION RELATED TO DOWNTOWN SECTION
ESCALATED AGGLOMERATION AT DOWNTOWN END
CONNECTION / SUBURBAN ESCALATION
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The suburban agglomeration is cropped at the edges of the urban mass below to create a unified facade that reads at an urban scale from the true street level. Meanwhile, within the faux level the agglomeration reads as many discrete units, maintaining an escalated suburban lifestyle at increasingly urban densities.
FINAL MODEL / SEGMENT OF SUBURBAN ESCALATION
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0 / Camouflaged big box retail among storefront retail A1 / Units placement from agglomeration algorithmA2 / Units cropped to edge of urban mass to unify urban facadeA3 / Passageways cut where units touchA4 / Back yards cut where passageways meet urban facade
B1 / Second level of units from agglomeration algorithmB2 / Units cropped to edge of urban mass to unify urban facadeB3 / Where units intersect shared yards are cutB4 / Additional yards cut to create evenly discrete unitsB5 / Passageways connect yards
0+A+B / Final suburban-urban agglomeration
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PLAN GROUND LEVEL: RETAIL, OFFICES, MECHANICAL PARKING ACCESS
PLAN LEVEL 3: TIER 2 DISCRETE HOUSING, COURTYARDS
For overlap to occur the faux suburban fabric must be continued at a constant elevation from the original suburban fabric, such that urban programs can utilize the space underneath. Suburban commercial programs such as big box stores and supermarkets are camouflaged by placement among typical mixed-use urban retail programs. Vehicular access and storage between the faux and true levels is achieved by compact, vertical mechanical parking systems installed in-between.
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PLAN LEVEL 2 (FAUX GROUND LEVEL): YARDS, MECHANICAL PARKING ACCESS
ROOF PLAN
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MODEL / SHORT SECTION / FACING WEST
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MODEL / UNIFIED URBAN ELEVATION
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INSTALLATION / A VARIATION ON CORRUGATION
The Art & Architecture Buildings famous corrugated concrete is continued into a stairwell niche and then warped to articulate difference. The 1.5-0.5 corrugated rhythm is then cut into the warped form, with the cuts signified by a reflective coating.
1215B INNER WORLDS / PROF BRENNAN BUCK / TEAM WITH JUAN ASTASIO / SPRING 2010
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DETAIL PHOTO / MILLED FOAM AND CHROME MYLAR SURFACE
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PHOTO OF INSTALLATION IN BUILDING
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DETAIL PHOTO / MILLED FOAM AND CHROME MYLAR SURFACE
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INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING /
YALE ARCHITECTURE ARCHIVEYALE UNIVERSITY / 1021A INTEGRATED BUILDING STUDIO / PROF JOEL SANDERS / FALL 2009
A center for the exhibition, research, and storage of architectural artifacts. Researchers spiral up into the light, visitors spiral down into the gallery, the public has a sunny space inbetween.
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RESEARCH
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OFFICES
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ISSUING GROUP STUDY
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GALLERY CLASSROOMS
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LOADING/PROCESSING
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AUDITORIUM
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LOADING
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SECTION / NORTHERN EDGESECTION / EASTERN EDGE
MODEL / NORTH ELEVATION MODEL / WEST ELEVATION
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OFFICES
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ISSUING GROUP STUDY
DIGITAL RM
GALLERY CLASSROOMS
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MODEL / EAST ELEVATIONMODEL / SOUTH ELEVATION
SECTION / SOUTHERN EDGE
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DIGITALRESEARCH
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REF AREA
OPEN OFFICE
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MATERIALSRESEARCH
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MECHANICAL
STORAGE
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DIGITAL ARCHIVE
MODEL PREP/STORAGE
ARCHIVE
ENTRANCE PLAZA
LOBBY
RECEPTION
MENS WC
WOMEN WC(OPEN TO GALLERY)
AUDITORIUM
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PLAN LVL 2 (UPPER PLAZA)
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DIGITALRESEARCH
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REF AREA
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MATERIALSRESEARCH
MATERIALSRESEARCHOPEN TO
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B1 GROUND FLOOR / PLAZA
LVL 4 LVL 5
YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE / SANDERS / FALL 2009 / 75
READING ROOM
AUDITORIUM
GALLERY STAIR
GALLERY
76 / GARY KU / [email protected]
YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE / SANDERS / FALL 2009 / 77
FABRICATION / YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE FACADE
An ccrylic full-scale model of Yale Architectural Archive faade. A multitude of translucent colored fins creates a striated, all-over effect. The fins are inserted into a bracket which fixes their positions; the brackets are attached to vertical supports.
1220A ON THE FACE OF IT / PROF BRENNAN BUCK / FALL 2009
FINAL FULL-SCALE MODEL
UNFOLDED FAADE FROM THE YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE
78 / GARY KU / [email protected]
1/16:1 MODEL OF THE ORIGINAL PROJECT, THE YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE
ON THE FACE OF IT / BUCK / FALL 2009 / 79
EACH SET OF FIVE FINS HAS ONE
CHROME FIN (RED) IN A DIFFERENT
POSITION TO CREATE VARIANCE IN THE
COLOR FIELD
80 / GARY KU / [email protected]
FULL-SCALE MODEL DETAIL
FULL-SCALE MODEL
ON THE FACE OF IT / BUCK / FALL 2009 / 81
WORK / KILO ARCHITECTURES / PARIS, FRANCE
During Summer of 2009 I interned at the Paris firm of a Yale/GSD graduate, Linna Choi. I was asked to develop a spare, simple office style for presentation graphics, with which I reintrepreted several key projects.
PLACE PIETRI / SECTION / COMPOSITION FORMATTING SHADING
PLACE PIETRI / FORMAL DIAGRAMS
MULSANNE / ELEVATION
82 / GARY KU / [email protected]
MUSEUM IN MOROCCO / GROUND PLAN
MULSANNE / SECTION
0 1 2 4 8m
WORK / KILO ARCHITECTURES / SUMMER 2009 / 83
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE /
YALE BUILDING PROJECTYALE UNIVERSITY / 506B BUILDING PROJECT / ELEVEN PERSON TEAM / PROF ALAN ORGANSCHI / SPRING 2008
A duplex for two veterans located in New Havens Hill Neighborhood. One veteran is part of a family of five and partially disabled, while the other veteran is single and fully able. The house has a square footprint divided into a large ground floor unit for the disabled veteran and a smaller second level loft unit for the single veteran. (Group project.)
1/16:1 MODEL IN NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT
86 / GARY KU / [email protected]
BUILDING PROJECT / SPRING 2008 / 87
ELEVATION / SOUTHELEVATION / WEST
DIAGRAM / PROGRAM IN SECTION AND GROUND PLAN
FAMILY
TENANT
SOC
IAL
PO
CH
E
PR
IVATE
88 / GARY KU / [email protected]
ELEVATION / EAST ELEVATION / NORTH
SECTION (WITH TOMEK SMIERZCHALSKI)
BUILDING PROJECT / SPRING 2008 / 89
PLAN / GROUND LEVEL
90 / GARY KU / [email protected]
FINAL MODEL / FRONT AND SOUTH ELEVATIONS
FINAL MODEL / ROOF REMOVED TO SHOW TENANT SPACE
BUILDING PROJECT / SPRING 2008 / 91
PHOTO / BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE FRAMING
Construction during Spring-Summer 2008, including framing, glazing, siding, fixture installation, cabinetry, interior finishing.(Photos courtesy Susan Surface)
92 / GARY KU / [email protected]
PHOTO / CONSTRUCTION
BUILDING PROJECT / SPRING 2008 / 93
PHOTOS / CONSTRUCTION
94 / GARY KU / [email protected]
PHOTO / BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION
BUILDING PROJECT / SPRING 2008 / 95
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE /
SINGLE-PARENT COMMUNITY HOUSINGYALE UNIVERSITY / 502B DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE / PROF DEBORAH GANS / SPRING 2008
SOLUTIONPrioritize parenting/family over individual privacywrap individual programs around group programs,creating an immediate connection.
IMPLEMENTATION1 / Draw axis between Master Bedroom A and Main Living Space B.2 / Offset to create volume.3 / Offset perimeter shelving/storage.4 / Attach individual/private programs to primary axis.5 / Program niches are created by the attachment of the individual programs.
The location of the kitchen and the parents bedroom at extremities allows for easy outdoor surveillance.
PROBLEMThe traditional corridor house prioritizes individual privacy over family community, making it more difficult for a single parent to manage a household and increasing maintance, etc.
Solo
Solo
Social
Social
Solo
Solo
corridor
SocialCore
Individual Programs
1 2 3 4 5
The rooms of each apartment are arranged on a spine of social space, which extends between the parents bedroom and the kitchen. A series of interlocking balconies and courtyards allows a community to form around raising the kids.
98 / GARY KU / [email protected]
KING P
LACE
TRUMAN STREET
SINGLE-PARENT COMMUNITY HOUSING / GANS / SPRING 2008 / 99
LONGITUDINAL SECTION / SITE A
PLAN / LVL 1 SITE A
100 / GARY KU / [email protected]
PLAN / LVL 2 SITE A
SINGLE-PARENT COMMUNITY HOUSING / GANS / SPRING 2008 / 101
SITE MODEL
MODEL / CLOSE-UP
102 / GARY KU / [email protected]
MODEL / CLOSE-UP OF INTERSTITIAL SPACES
MODEL / STREET ELEVATION
SINGLE-PARENT COMMUNITY HOUSING / GANS / SPRING 2008 / 103
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE /
COHABITATIONYALE UNIVERSITY / 502B DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE / PROF DEBORAH GANS / SPRING 2008
There exists a 16 ft by 16 ft house for two people, one of an infinite series of cubical plots, accessed from below. One is a reclusive blogger, the other an extroverted dancer. The space for the latter spirals around the box of the former. The blogger and the dancer never meet, yet are tacitly aware of each othera bump here, a tap there, an overheard conversationthrough the wrapping of one space around another. They consciously own their respective spaces, yet subconsciously it is never entirely theirs.
CUBICAL SITE
106 / GARY KU / [email protected]
SECTION
COHABITATION / GANS / SPRING 2008 / 107
LVL 0 PLAN
LVL 1 PLAN
LVL 2 PLAN
108 / GARY KU / [email protected]
COHABITATION / GANS / SPRING 2008 / 109
FILM RESEARCH CENTER /
TRIBECA CINECEUMYALE UNIVERSITY / 501A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / PROF MARTIN COX / FALL 2007
1 / ANONYMOUS DOOR 2 / INFORMATION 3 / DISLOCATION 4 / INSTALLATION
ANALOGY TO DE MARIAS EARTH ROOM INSTALLATION
DISLOCATION AND REINTRODUCTION SEQUENCE
1 / THEATER, ENTRANCES. THE POSTERS
CORRESPOND TO THE FILM PLAYING IN EACH
THEATER. EACH THEATER HAS ITS OWN ENTRANCE.
2 / THEATER, ENTRY PASSAGEWAY. AS THE VIEWER
NEARS THE THEATER SPACE, PIECES OF LIGHT AND
SOUND BEGIN TO RESOLVE AN INDIVIDUAL FILMIC
EXPERIENCE.
3 / THEATER, BENCH SEATING.
112 / GARY KU / [email protected]
The TriBeCa Cineceum is a film exhibition, and teaching complex associated with the TriBeCa Film Festival. This project proposes an architectural analogue for to the dislocation of place central to cinema. Each theater is treated like an individual installation, with its own entrance. The user enters from a nondescript door andthrough the use of pocheis dislocated from the outside world. However, all audience members end in the same place, a post-function space of galleries, seminar rooms, and a cafe.
MODEL / REAR YARD
5 / EXIT TO GALLERY PROMENADE ON 3RD LEVEL. 6 / ROOFTOP INSTALLATION GARDEN4 / THEATER, PROJECTION SCREEN.
TRIBECA CINECEUM / COX / FALL 2007 / 113
1 / AN OBSERVER WOULD
EXPECT THE VISIBLE
THEATER VOLUMES TO BE
CONTINUOUS, AS VISIBLE
THROUGH THE GALLER
GLAZING AND THE EXTERIOR
PORTIONS.
2 / HOWEVER, THE ACTUAL
THEATERS WITHIN THE BOX
OF THE MAIN MASS ARE
SIMPLY EXTRUDED VOLUMES.
3 / THE REAL RELATIONSHIP
IS OF THE VOLUMES
AS SIMPLE SIGNS OF A
THEATER, NOT THE REALITY.
4 / THE ACTUAL FORM VISIBLE
ON DIFFERENT FLOORS AS
APPARENTLY CONTINUOUS IS
EXCLUSIVE OF THE THEATER
VOLUMES.
5 / THE INTERIOR OF THE
VISIBLE VOLUMES IS A
CROPPED VERSION OF THE
ENTIRE VOLUME.
FORMAL DISLODGING FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD
MODEL / GROUND FLOOR OF THE CINECEUM, INDIVIDUAL THEATER ENTRANCES CARVED THROUGH POCHE
114 / GARY KU / [email protected]
theater 1 theater 2 elevator
GALLERY
ROOF
stairs
theater 3 theater 4
TRIBECA CINECEUM / COX / FALL 2007 / 115
LVL B1 / BLOCKBUSTER THEATER
LVL 1 / ENTRANCE
116 / GARY KU / [email protected]
LVL 3 / POST-FUNCTION PROMENADE
LVL 2 / UPPER THEATER LEVEL
TRIBECA CINECEUM / COX / FALL 2007 / 117
LVL 5 / ROOF & INSTALLATION ROOMS
LVL 4 / GALLERY
118 / GARY KU / [email protected]
MODEL / STREETSIDE ELEVATION
MODEL / ROOF CLOSE-UP
TRIBECA CINECEUM / COX / FALL 2007 / 119
BUSINESS HOTEL /
W STEAM HOTELYALE UNIVERSITY / 501A ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN / PROF MARTIN COX / FALL 2007
LOCKERS/LAP POOL
LOBBY, CAF, LOUNGE, CONFERENCE
ROOMS)
CONDENSATION POOL
LEVEL 4, TYPICAL CONFIGURATION
LEVELS 5-7
STEAM LEVELS
EVERYONE IN ROBES
AUXILLARY PROGRAM
STREET CLOTHES
122 / GARY KU / [email protected]
A proposal for a specialized W Hotel in New Haven based upon the social precedent of Russian, Finnish, and Japanese saunas and bathhouses. The hotel creates a sanctuary from the outside world. Guests leave the baggage of their lives behind and change into identical robes. Freed of markers of status and identity, each guest gains an aura of anonymity. Meanwhile, each room is a miniature sanctuary of its own, heightening ones senses through an invigorating play of temperature and touch otherwise unfamiliar in a largely hermetic, air-conditioned world.
W STEAM HOTEL / COX / FALL 2007 / 123
1 / LOBBY
PLANS / INDIVIDUAL ROOM
SECTIONS / INDIVIDUAL ROOMwarm air
cool exterior air
cool exterior air
bed
bed
warm air
2 / LOCKERS / CHANGING 3 /CANTILEVERED POOL
124 / GARY KU / [email protected]
4 / STAIRWAY TO HOTEL 5 / PROMENADE 6 / VIEW THROUGH HOTEL ATRIUM
W STEAM HOTEL / COX / FALL 2007 / 125
TIER 4 LOWER UNITS
LVL 1 LOBBY
LVL 2 LOCKERS / POOL
TIER 4 PROMENADE TIER 4 UPPER UNITS
126 / GARY KU / [email protected]
TIER 5 PROMENADE
RENDER / ENTRANCE
TIER 6 PROMENADE TIER 7 PROMENADE
W STEAM HOTEL / COX / FALL 2007 / 127
DRAWING / REPRESENTATION OF BUILT FORM 810B ANALYSIS & REPRESENTATION OF ARCHITECTURE AS BUILT FORM / PROFS SUNIL BALD & KYLE DUGDALE / SPRING 2009
Work completed for 810b, Analysis and Representation of Architecture as Built Form, including the documentation of Rudolph Hall, the interpretation of a sectional fragment as a plan and model, and analysis of the Yale Center for British Art stair drum .
PENCIL ON BRISTOL / CENTER FOR BRITISH ART STAIR DRUM ANALYSIS
128 / GARY KU / [email protected]
PENCIL ON BRISTOL / PLAN / RUDOLPH HALL LVL 3
MODEL / SECTIONAL FRAGMENT AS SPACE
REPRESENTATION OF BUILT FORM / BALD & DUGDALE / SPRING 2009 / 129
ELEVATION LOWER PLAN
130 / GARY KU / [email protected]
UPPER PLAN AXONOMETRIC
REPRESENTATION OF BUILT FORM / BALD & DUGDALE / SPRING 2009 / 131