eric t portfolio 2014

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

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ERIC TSANG


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work samples

architecture | interior design

[2009-2014]


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process

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plaza (night shot)

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lobby

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roof plan

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roof (perspective view)

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KENNEDY WILSON151 El Camino Dr.Beverly Hills, CA

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KENNEDY WILSON150 El Camino Dr.

Beverly Hills, CA

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OAKBROOK SHOPPING CENTER2000-2060 Ave. de Los Arboles

Thousand Oaks, CA

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KENNEDY WILSON150 El Camino Dr.

Beverly Hills, CA

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california state polytechnic university, pomona

college of environmental design

bachelor of architecture

[2009-2014]

BESS 2013 Conference BS13(carbon neutral studio 2013)

HMC Architects High Performance Design Award(senior project class of 2014)


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AQUA CENTER

The Aqua Center is a place that supports activities of both exercise and leisure. In addi-tion, the building should provide an overall healthful environment - physically, mentally, while fostering and nurturing genuine fortuitous social interactions embedded in a sense of place.

The site for the Aqua Center sits on an island, bordered by the harbor inlet channel on one side, and boat slips on the other. The site is part of a large manmade harbor com-plex bordered by rock cliffs that includes restaurants, parks, a marine science center and various boating infrastructural buildings.The Aqua Center will attract many users. This studio will focus on the following four populations. Swimmers come to the AQUA Cen-ter for exercise. They primarily come for exercise and swim in the lanes of the lap pool, mostly visiting during mornings, evening, and during lunch breaks. If they have time, they may visit the hot tub, sauna, or steam room to relax and loosen their muscles. Bath-ers are all ages but mostly are between the ages of 10-18. They visit the AQUA Center for entertainment and recreation. The majority of them visit on weekends and during the summer. This population group is social, active and can be very loud. Bathers typically come with their parents but don’t need constant supervision. In addition to playing in the recreation pool and using the diving board, they will require an area adjacent to the pool for lounging. The healers swim for exercise and therapy. These users include the physically handicapped, elderly, and injured athletes. Healers tend to be social and will also require an area for lounging and sitting near the pool. They attend group swimming classes in the lap pool, and also exercise in the recreation pool. They enjoy visiting the hot tub, sauna and steam facilities.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 201

DANA POINT, CA


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THE MUSEUM OF CHADO

The Museum of Chado consist both a permanent gallery and a temporary gallery. Collec-tions include Tea utensils, Hanging scrolls, Replica of a teahouse and garden in the per-manent collection. For the Temporary gallery collections like the Works by contempo-rary Japanese artists and architects, seasonal f lower arrangements, Issey Miyake Pleats please collections, History of Hello Kitty, and Japanese pop culture would be displayed within it. The space for the temporary gallery should be created with f lexible configu-rations, which allows objects of different size to be displayed. Lighting of the museum is also one of the elements that affect the display of different collections. Division of programs also plays an important role working together with the arrangements of the displayed collections. The last feature that the gallery should have is to attract visitors to look at the displayed collections.

For the design of this museum, gallery starts from the second f loor to the forth f loor. Temporary gallery was to be displayed on the second f loor because the permanent gal-lery needed the garden to display some of the collections. For example the Roji garden and the teahouse. In the front of the third f loor and forth f loor a large space combining two levels were created for large objects to be displayed in that area. It is also on the north side of the museum, which is next to the street sticking out from the top, with glass window, which attracts the people walking by and also getting even sunlight. The forth f loor consisted of both indoor, semi outdoor, and completely outdoor spaces. Indoor spaces will be used to display collections that cannot be exposed directly to the light and the semi outdoor spaces will be used by objects like the teahouse that can give visitor a feeling of outdoor but also a protection from the sun and rain. The completely outdoor spaces are used to display the Roji garden.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 202

LITTLE TOKYO, CA


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RINCON FIRE STATION

The focus of this project will be on the development of a design that’ uses a small archi-tectural design project as a framework to explore the use of new materials and strate-gies for building, and the integration of aesthetics and technology forhigh-performance, cutting-edge architecture that approaches the goal of zero-net energy use. The small architectural project is a firestation located in Azusa, CA. The concept of the project is to createthe sense of one piece and to blend the structure with the surrounding context of the site. My sustainable strategy approaches includes cross ventilation, building orien-tation, overhang, earth sheltering, green roof, and use of tree shadings.

Fire Station 3,692 s fGarage: 2,400 s f

Fire Cache: 324 s fTower: 32 s f

Office: 144 s fWork Area: 288 s f

Restrooms/ Showers: 144 s fData/Telecom Room: 36 s f

Workout Room: 324 s fBarracks 2748 s f

Bedrooms: 1296 s fRestrooms/Showers: 520 s f

Living Area: 420 s fKitchen: 432 s f

Laundry facilities: 80 s fTotal Net Area 6440 s f

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 203

LITTLE TOKYO, CA


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WHITE ROOFMETAL ROOF

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HILL SIDE HOUSE

Given the site is located in the mountains of the city of Azusa, we were asked to design a small residential house with only one bedroom and one bathroom. After a series of site analysis including solar, wind, noise, and location, the massing, orientation, and differ-ent passive sustainable strategies were developed. With the basic considerations to the design, the hill side house is then designed by dividing the house into three components, the site, the reciever, and the container. The reciever is the f loor of the house, which was carved out with built in furnitures that is constructed with wood framing structures. The container is the skin of the house, which creates thermal enclosure, rain water pro-tection, and solar protection. The f loor to ceiling east facing curtain wall is controlled by the vertical fins to create shading and control the temporature inside the house.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 301

AZUSA, CA


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Assignment: Schematic Drawings

Title: Floor Plan

Date Due: 10/24/2011

Course: ARC301 ARC342

Scale: 1/4” = 1’ - 0”

Chi Wang TsangCal Poly PomonaFall 2011

(909) 569-3737

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HOUSING IN SILVERLAKE

This project is located at the intersection of Bellevue Ave and Silverlake Blvd. The pro-gram for this project consists of 10 live-work units and 5 single family units. Additionally, the project called for 5,000 sf of rent-able office space and an 800 sf community space.

I approached this project with the intent of creating individualized homes that followed the Silver Lake community criteria. I wanted to underscore the idea of indoor/outdoor living as well as pedestrian friendly homes that are easily accessible by individuals trav-eling by foot and bike. My initial solution to this criteria was by using a row housing scheme but offsetting the living units to create privacy. This allowed for ground f loor access to each unit as well as minimal shared walls. When developing this idea I created a connecting feature that tied all of the units together with a courtyard space in the center The courtyard space is surrounded by the row housing, which is inteneded to be a private space open only to the residents. In plan, you can see that all of the dwelling units having there own front and back patio with the hallway facing the interior courtyard space. The shared walls between the units are those that require minimal natural ventilation and light. Additionally, I divided each unit into 4 parts; 2 parts are designated as yard space, one part as living and the other as office space. This creats a front yard and backyard condition for each unit which ultimately results in maximized personal outdoor space as well as double ended conditions for all of the rooms in each unit. This can minimize the construction cost and modulates the units to have many posibilities in terms of the massing of the building itself.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 302

SILVERLAKE, CA


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ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

The site is located at the intersection of Western Ave. and 2nd St. in Koreatown in the City of Los Angeles. Charles Kim Elementary School 225 S. Oxford Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004.

Through the study of elementary schools, the quarter will focus on the design of a large institutional building complex. The problem will particularly address issues of spatial organization, hierarchy, scale, structure and materials, program, and context. Particular challenges will be to attain a balance between precedent and innovation; to attend to overall organization as it affects the urban context as well as to create a successful micro scale; to allow for program f lexibility as well as specialization; and most importantly to address the needs of teachers and students in order to create successful learning environ-ments.

The state of California is currently educating 1 out of every 8 students in America. In this period, California has seen historical enrollment rates four times higher than national averages. Many current schools are aging and over 30% of existing facilities need major renovation. At the same time, California schools are spending nearly $450 million on energy, more than the combined cost of supplies and books, in a time of rising concern over energy supplies and tight school budgets. There is therefore a need and opportunity to design and build a new typology of school grounds: facilities that improve the learning environment while saving energy, resources, and money.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 303

KOREAN TOWN, CA


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SECOND FLOOR15' - 0"

FLASHING(17600)

1/2" GYPSUM BOARD(06160)

6" STEEL STUD(05400)

1" BACKER BOARD(06160)WATERPROOF MEMBRANE(07100)

3" INSULATION BOARD(07220)

1/2" AIR SPACE

STEEL ANGEL(05120)

4" CONCRETE FILL

2" METAL DECKING(05300)

W12 X 26 BEAM(05120)

W8 X 35 COLUMN(05120)

2% SLOPE

ACOUSTIC PANEL HANGER(09120)

4" RIGID INSULATION(07220)

PLASTIC PAINTWATERPROOFING(07100)

2" STONE PAVING(09340)

CANT STRIP

STEEL ANGELCONNECTO(05050)

CLIP(05050)

STONE PANEL(04400)

GROUND LEVEL0' - 0"

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6" SOG(03110)

ANCHOR BOLT(05050)

1/2" GYPSUM BOARD(06160)

6" STEEL STUD(05400)

1" BACKER BOARD(06160)

WATERPROOF MEMBRANE(07100)3" INSULATION BOARD(07220)

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W8 X 35 COLUMN(05120)

THICKENED EDGE(03110)

REBAR(05050)

VAPOR BARRIER(07140)

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CORAZON COMMUNIT Y CENTER

Climate change, mostly due to anthropogenic emissions, is the most important envi-ronmental threat facing our planet. Buildings contribute about 30% of the Green House Gases emitted to the atmosphere and as designers of the built environment we must learn how to reduce this impact. Sustainability and the road to carbon neutrality involve many different variables that are usually grouped in three broad dimensions: social, economic and environmental. We usually focus on the environmental variables that we can quantify and that help us to illustrate the performance of a given building or neighborhood. However we usually for-get that the 80% of the world’s population that lives in informal settlements must also live sustainably

The intention is to use the community center as a model for social and economic growth in the community. Think of how the design of the buildings could improve their quality of life instead of becoming an economic burden. The intention of developing the cluster layout is to develop a model for potential layout for development of rural less developed areas in the desert. Consider the site and the program as form givers and the issues pertaining to the manipulation and control of the sun, wind and light.

Digital tool including Ecotect, Climate Consultant, Vasari, etc. were used to analysis all aspects of sustainability. In particular with my project, only passive sustainable strate-gies were applied to keep the operational cost and constructional cost at the minimum as it is a donor funded project.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 401

TIJUANA, MX


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WHERE CARS RELA X

The history of American development in the 20th century is a history of the car.

In the first half of the century, America converted itself from a society that moved on streetcars, trains and horse-wagons into one that moved in buses, cars and trucks. As na-tional aff luence and mass motorization nested snugly into each other’s legends, the purr of the internal-combustion engine became an urgent growl to remake town and country as pliant hosts of the automobile. It was heeded. One-third of the typical American city is asphalt. In the second half of the century, we dealt with the consequences, and muddle through them still. The auto-urban relationship — fumbling, overheated, unsatisfying for both parties — never stands still long enough to be rationally inspected. But there is one place where city and car merge into stasis: the parking garage.

This project attempts to introduce automatic parking into Los Angeles, which benefits the drivers, everyone that lives in Los Angeles. By combining parking garage with other programs can improve the quality of life in Los Angeles, as it solves problem with limit-ing parking spots in the site location. It can also solve the traffic issue by setting an ex-ample of innovative parking strategies. In particular with my project, hotel and shopping mall are the two programs that is integrated with the parking structure. The building is designed in a way that it can be renovated into different uses whenever it becomes under occupied, which is an important sustainable move that designers should all put in consideration.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 402

LOS ANGELES, CA


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WHERE CARS RELAX : HOLLYWOODVEHCULAR ACCESS AND CIRCULATION

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URBAN DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE

South Park is located next to the 110 and 10 freeway South of downtown Los Angeles. There are many pros and cons that we have found during our site evaluation. The most inf luencing factors is the location and connection of the site. It is located at the intersec-tion of four districts. Our theory is to bring all the different characteristics of the four districts into South Park.

Some sustainable features that are integrated into the architecture are solar energy col-lecting system on the façade, solar balconies, and AVAC. Most of the solar collecting systems face the southwest which have most exposure to the sunlight. The energy that is collected can be use through out the block, which creates a carbon neutral design. AVAC is combined with the landscape design to manage and recycle all the trashes in all units of the building. Automatic parking is also integrated to all the blocks where people can park their cars into the garage that takes their car to the storage automatically as the driver get out of the garage on the other side entering the plaza. The façade is used as a sun shading screen and the skin of the screen is consistent with the “Stamped Ground” design of the landscape. Cutouts are made to allow direct sunlight to enter some part of the building that needs more sunlight. Placement and orientation of the buildings are designed accordingly to the shadow that the building casts and the sun path. The pro-grams in the building are designed following the design guideline, which maximize the concept of mix used design. Different programs like classrooms, gym, bar, restaurant, gallery, green houses, etc. is mixed in with residential unit, office space, and hotel. Pro-grams are placed accordingly as well. For example, gyms and bars would be placed closer to the offices, classrooms and libraries would be placed closer to the residents, green houses would be placed next to the restaurants, and gallery will be placed closer to the hotel. Retails are mostly on the bottom f loor, which allows the public to have access to it.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 403

SOUTH PARK, CA


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HISTORIC PRESERVATION & ADDITION

The faculty club in UC Santa Barbara is an historical building that was designed by Charles Moore, an American modernist architect. At the beginning phase of this proj-ect, research on both Charles Moore himself and his works was done throughly, and was then analysed in terms of his archtiectural styles. The addition to this historical building is 30 guest rooms that will be occupied by the facuties and guests in UCSB. The addition was designed according to Charles Moore’s original design, the circulation, nodes, archi-tectural language, orientation, massing, etc. were in consideration when the additional building was designed.

Other than the architecture, we also developed the landscape of the project, which was divided into different uses according to the placement of the programs. The use of mate-rial and method of construction were also considered. Sustainable strategies including redefining the use of existing spaces in the historical building were also integrated into the design.

The complex geometric massing of the existing building were the main cluster for shap-ing the addition building as well as the circulation paths. The circular pool in the center were also one of the existing landscapes that were modified and reused. With all that in consideration, the construction cost of the addition were minimized and therefore is able to attract clients as it is a real project.

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ARC 405

UCSB, CA


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RECONNECTION

“A bikeway is a symbol that shows that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important as a citizen on a $30,000 car.”- Enrique Peñalosa.

Bike-transit centers enable people to make the choice of bicycling instead of driving. It is well documented that improving the connectivity between bicycles, transit, and places of business is one of the most cost-effective, equitable, efficient, and environmentally beneficial urban strategies. The use of bicycles as a form of transportation also reduces air pollution, vehicle congestion and reduces the effects of urban sprawl, therefore en-hancing the quality of life.

The project is a modular temporary wood structure that has an animated facade that serves also as bike storage, this will keep the budget and construction time of this proj-ect at the lowest. With this idea, the project can be built at different locations, including below-occupancy parking lots, empty park spaces, or other kinds of unused spaces.

The prototype of this project is located in the Historic Old Bank District. Most of the historic buildings, including the Hellman building and Van Nuys building were renovat-ed into mixed used buildings, which includes retail and restaurants on the ground level and lofts on the upper levels. This gives a great opportunity to promote the use of bicycle within the downtown Los Angeles by placing bike transit centers that provide opportu-nities for the public to rent and store bicycles. Locker rooms, bathrooms with shower, and bike repairing shops are the main supportive programs of the bike center, commu-nity spaces including ourdoor seating area, eating area, and retail walkway are also part of the program to attract more bikers to visit the downtown Los Angeles district.

CAL POLY POMONA

ARC 495

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 2030 DISTRICT


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