tinphamtran portfolio 2015

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Washington Ave. Mix-used Residence

Recreation Facility for Wounded Warrior

Expansion of Havana, Cuba

Future City - HOUSTON

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Concepts Development Floor Plan

Third Floor

Second Floor

First Floor

Single Cube Cube Transparency

Cube Multiplication

Cube Size Manipulation

Programs Development

Filling of Negative Space

Washington Ave. Mix-use Residence

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Building Sections

Assembly Wall Building Section Perspective

Project Description

The goal is to design a single-unit living quarter on Washingtonavenue, Houston, that can also function as a public gathering spotin order to highlight the social aspect and nightlight culture ofWashington avenue.

The concept is purism, which includes only cubes with transparentfacade at di�erent size to create a straightforward clean �oor plan.The cubes act as the positive space of the projects, which includeall the main programs while all the negative space between thecubes serve public spaces.

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Renderings

Project Perspective from Washington ave.

Front Perspective Back Perspective

Washington Ave. Mix-use Residence

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Bar Cubes

Resident Cubes

Exhibition + Community Cube

Site Plan5

Recreation Facility for Wounded Warriror Project

Project Concepts

ConnectivityBalance Accessibility

Based on the core values and the Wounded Warrior Project programs, the facility will have three main values that will facilitate the veter-ans with the best benefits:

Balance - Connectivity - Accessibility

The project is designed to be reasonably proportional between spaces and programs. Each space will be well connected with each other for easy access and engagement.

The swimming pool is the buidling core and other programs are arranged around the pool with reasonable proportion to maintain the balance between spaces and building size. There are two types of activities: physical activities and psychological activities

Besides internally engaging with each other through the pool courtyard and the arch circulation, the building also engages with the outside through transparent facade.

There are only two main circulations in the buidling along the core. Although circulation is not orthogonal, it still keeps the simplicity of accessbility from space to space.

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Project RequirementsDesign Strategies

Massing

Angle Manipulation

Shape Transformation

Core Formation

The project is required to address basic design issues of construction, materiality and life safety. Beyond that, the technical aspects of accessibility, structure, code requirements and environmental control systems must all work together to form a complete design solution. In addition, the project also needs to be explored more carefully into the potential architecture has for complex social impact. The challenge is to interpret and execute a universal space for a specific user group with the intent to honor those served.

The design is expected to address the fundamental design problem to a high level of resolution, as well as set an ambitious personal design agenda that challenges the abilities and insight acquired over the previous years of study. Formal strategies related to landscape, light or a transformative process like procession, growth, emergence and evolution could become tools in addressing the values and needs of the clients.

Mind

Body

Service Service

Service Service

Engagement

EconomicEmpowerment

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Recreation Facility for Wounded Warriror Project

Floor Plans

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11'16'

125'

260'

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0' 10' 30' 60'

Holcome Blvd

Cambridge St

Brays BayouA

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RonaldMcDonaldHouse

Section A0' 10' 30' 60'

Section B0' 10' 30' 60'

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Elevations

Elevation 1

Elevation 2

Elevation 3

Elevation 4

Wall Assembly 9

Recreation Facility for Wounded Warrior Project

Cap Finish

Base Coat

Swimming Pool Details

Reinforced ConcreteSlab

Underslab Insulationwith Vapor Barrier

Zero CompactionGravel

Reinforced Concrete Slab

Sand and Gravel Substrate

Wall Reinforcement

Reinforcement Rebars

Reinforcement Concrete

Strip Footing and Reinforcement

Sections Perspective

3D Section Perspective 1Section Assembly

3D Section Perspective 2

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Renderings

Main Entrance Perspective

Main Gym Exterior Perspective

Swimming Pool + Public Space

Swimming Pool Core

Swimming Pool Core from 2nd Floor

Building Structural SystemMain Basketball Court Public Space

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CultureCulture Culture

Culture

Housing

Housing

Housing

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Castilo de San salvadorde la Punta

National Museumof revolution

Memorial Granma

Manzana de gomez

National museumof Fine Arts

Cuba National Capitol

Old Havana Heritage Core

Connection

City Grid Extension

Zoning Band


Site Plan Project Description

Housing City Grid Mass vs. MassHousing vs. Cultural Building

Mass vs. VoidBuildings vs. Open Space

Havana Urban Planning

Using the heritage core of Old Havana, defined by Avenda Belgica and Agramonte, the project intends to create a connective piece of the current urban planning. The started ambition is to highlight the cultural heritage core while introducing new programs and building volume to accommodate the expansion.

The program proposes to have new mixed-used cultural center; serving as an extension of the existing heritage core, and a new housing complex, formed by the extension of the city housing grid. The initial band is then multiplied to create a series of program, adapting to the city traffic flow. By reflecting different urban planning styles of the city, the project aims to sensitively extend the existing urban block morphology with appropriate programmatic mixes.

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City Housing Grid ExtensionCirculation

Mass vs. VoidUnits Plan

Open SpaceGreenery Plan

Development Diagram

Havana Cultural values vs. Program Proposal

MusicCuba revolution CuisineLiterature SportTheaterperformance hallAuditoriumPublic Performance

MuseumGalleryMemorial

Local FoodCoffee shopEvent Concession Stand

BookstoreLibrary

Recreational Park

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Main circulation - city to siteInternal circulationEntreesPedestrian tra�c

Cultural units

Housing units

Multipurpose green space

BoulevardOccupiable green roofLandscapeUnoccupiable green roofGardenRecreational green space

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Project Planning

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Cultural Units Abstract Floor Plan Housing Units Abstract Floor Plan

Complex G x 14- 7 Units/Floor x 4

- 3 Three-bedroom- 3 One-bedroom- 1 Two-bedroom

Complex H x 5 - 11 Units/Floor x 4


Complex K x 1 - 6 Units/Floor x 4


A - Library B - Theater C - Museum 1

D - Museum 2 E - Gallery 1 F - Gallery 2

Legend1 - Lobby/Entry/Reception2 - Computer Lab3 - Book Stacks4 - Reading Area5 - Auditorium6 - Projection Booth7 - Mixed Use Public Space8 - Cuban War Memorial9 - Museum Exhibition10 - Gallery Exhibition.11 - Service

ElectricalMechanicalElevator

12 - Restroom

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CUltural Areas1. Library - 138000 sf2. Theater - 216000 sf3. Museum - 382000 sf4. Gallery - 183000 sf

Total = 919000 sf

Complex J x 1 - 14 Units/Floor x 4


Housing Analysis- Units Total: 692 Units- Area Total: 1252000

Mass Mass

Void

Mass Mass

Void

Mass Mass

Void Void Void

Housing Book StacksComputer Lab

Auditorium AuditoriumExhibition

AuditoriumExhibition

Auditorium

RecreationalPublic GatheringGreen Roof

Public gatheringGardenGreen Roof

Water FeaturePublic GatheringForest

Outdoor GardenRecreationPark

Housing

Book Stacks/LobbyBook Stacks/StorageClassrooms

Lobby/ReceptionAuditorium/Pre-concert room/Public Gathering

Lounge/Retail/ConcessionSky Lounge/Viewing Platform

Mass vs. Void Section

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Cross Section

Gallery 2 Viewing PlatformExtended Cardenas St.

City Aerial View

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Housing ComplexExisting Factoria St.

Courtyard - LibraryExtended Economia St.

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Project Requirements

I-45 & Gulfgate intersection programs analysis

Sectional programs analysis

The project requires students to research and analyze the city of Houston in order to identify problems that the city is facing. From their research and analysis, students are to pick one problem and one major area of the city to start designing a new prototype that could solve the city’s struggle. Moreover, the prototype has to show their impact on the city as a whole and how it can start shaping the city’s evolution in the future.

The analysis aims to provide a full understanding of the area’s programmatic value. Most of the buildings are highly isolated from each other. Orientation of build-ings and relationship between them are not clear. Besides, park-ing lots take a significant amount of landuse, which is very in efficient while the city population is growing.

The project proposes that all the programs to be categorized and merged in multi-functional towers while embedding them with living spaces to provide better accessibility and interaction. The highway is proposed to be reconstructed to serve more transportation modes and become more pedestrian friendly.

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To get a good understanding of the area in term of relationship between the highway and surrounding programs, it was necessary to look into the sectional condition. The programs are isolated from the higway with inefficient land use for parking lot.

The project proposes multi-functional towers attach to the highway. Parking lot will be moved underground, allowing more vacant land for future development. Building footprint will be significantly reduced due to the new vertical orientation of categorized programs.

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Conceptual Diagram

Modes of Transportation

Recharging

Shopping

Working Business Learning LivingLinear City

EatingPlaying

Population Projection Houston Tra�c Volume Analysis

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1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2030 2050 2100 2120

Source: US Census Bureau

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Source: US Department of Public TransportFederal Highway Administration

Introduction of SHAREWAY

I-45

US-59

I-610

US-290

I-10

A study of Houston population from 1960 - 2010 was conducted to determine how the population has grown. The data is later used to estimate how much the population will grow in the next one hundred years from now. A population projection is done in order to understand how much space and accommodation SHAREWAY will be able to provide for Houstonians.

In order to gain a comprehensive understanding of Houston traffic volume on major highways of the city, the project also reviews the Annual Average Daily Traffic. This study helps understand current condition of Houston traffic in order to further investigate how SHAREWAY will be able to improve the city traffice condition

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Programmatic Section Diagram - Existing

Programmatic Section Diagram - Proposed

Business separated from each other

Business have little to nointeraction with each other

Parking lot only servesadjacent buildings

Ine�cient landusefor parking lot

Street primarily serves carTra�c �ow is isolated frombusiness

Housing is isolatedfrom business

Business merged togetherto make a multi-functionalcomplex

High speed tra�c is moved underground

Easy accessibility for pedestrians

Addition of tra�clayer for lower speed vehicles

Vacant propertiesfor green space andfuture development

Underground parkingto reserve space

Convenient accessibilitybetween housing and business

Conveninent accessibilityfor vehicles and pedestrians

Housing is integratedwith business

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Project Concepts

In the year of 2065, Greater Houston become Mega Houston, de�ned by the sprawling networks of suburbs, exburbs and high density corridors. Infrastructure across the city is failing. The housing developments sprawls are foreclosed. We can no longer a�ord our current models of mobility in �nancial, environmental and social terms. The traditional incarnation of the American Dream is equally outdated and precipitated the future development of the city. In 2115, as the population keeps rising and the crisis keeps putting pressure on urban development, within the infrastructural leftovers of the outdated dreams, lies the possibility of conceiving Mega Houston as highly orchestrated platform, from which we might �nd an alternate path for the American Dream.

SHAREWAY, a new invention is staged for augmenting infra-structure that generates a new future of public and personal mobili-ty. To treat highway as a platform for divergent forms, a “street of desire” with attaching programs instead of a street that only serves traveling purposes. SHAREWAY aims to project the existence of Mega Houston through leveraging the highways as a platform to connect the unrelenting expanse of undi�erentiated urban material. I-45 corridor is reimagined as the �rst platform for staging other infra-structural narratives and moments of political, social and spatial di�erence. With a strong focus on open space, nature, mobility and sustainability, the new Mega Houston will serve as a model for future developments. The plan is to combine all related program into one common area, embedded with living space, forming several multi-funcational towers, attaching to a multi-layered freeway. The newly proposed SHAREWAY will provide easy accessbility, variety of transportation modes and e�cient landuse for future urban devel-opers.

SHAREWAY Axonometric Diagram

Hi-speed traffic

Vacant land for green space

Programs relocation

Low speed traffic

LivingShoppingEatingLearningRecharge

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Section Perspective of Proposal

Business located alongthe street of low-speedlayer for easier accessibility

Underground parking

Housing integrated withbusiness, lifted higherto reduce noise but stillprovide easy accessbility

Future developmentPedestrian friendly layersalso function as noise barrier

Hi-speed layerLow-speed layer

Multi-functional towers Vacant land

Project PhasingInsertion of Hi-speedunderground freeway

Underground freeway completeRenovation upper layer I-45 for low speed vehicles and pedestrians

Programs insertion with the new highway system

SHAREWAY becomes a city-wide system, vacant lant for future development

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Site Plan

W-E I-45 from upper layer

I-45 - W-E upper layer

Pedestrian layer + living + shopping

Gulfgate + I-45 main plaza shopping + living + business +low speed traffic layer23

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