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of Interior programming + exterior facade performance(Food research hub)

of theatrical space + technology(Theatrical interjection)

of retail architecture + void spaces(Fashion outlets design)

of circulation systems + formal interjections(Solids, voids and the Library)

of structure + joint

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of modern architecture + landscape(Work at AMLGM)

Ian Lai candidate portfolio

Work at ELS office - Los Angeles Fashion Outlet Mall

Responsabilities: prepare cad files for physical model components + design charette brainstorming

The outlet stores was a challege and an enjoyment

as the project began as an officewide design charette

involving funneling and filtering of alot of great ideas. It

was a large scale mall stretching an entire 2000’ strip

of land in LA. Many materials were explored and a

continious daily collaboration with the revit model and

rendering teams was crucial.

Work at ELS - Los Angeles Fashion Outlet Mall

Responsabilities: prepare cad files for physical model components + design charette brainstorming

A strip mall of substantial length was initially proposed by a previous office, but we at ELS needed to break down the homogenous and banal spaces by introducing cuts through the volume which were not only aesthetic, but also allowed light and air circulation where elevator and escalator shafts were added on the edges of the building’s cuts.

Work at AMLGM Labs Underwater Parking Structure

Responsabilities: attend meeting with AMLGM’s Hanzhong clients and build revit model of underground carpark of firm Principal’s initial plans

Work at AMLGM Labs Underwater Parking Structure Ramp detail and underterrain entrance

Responsabilities: build revit model and develop entry ramps 75 feet underground into carpark

The overarching theme for the park was to keep a consistent style with the

vernacular local architecture, and yet insist on modern interpretations of the

buildings to keep a new and advanced campus. The client insisted on deeply

integrating the architechural elements, such as roofs, and walls into the

landscape of Hanzhong.

Work at AMLGM Lab: Landscape integrated resteraunt

Responsabilities: attend meeting with AMLGM’s Hanzhong clients and build revit model of under-ground carpark of firm Principal’s initial plans

Work at AMLGM Lab: Residential waterfront housing Elevations + Sections

Inspired by the traditional chinee followed a similar logic and only needed to rationalize the organic modules

Work at AMLGM Labs: Residential waterfront housing

Inspired by the traditional chinee followed a similar logic and only

needed to rationalize the organic modules

Food research hub (individual project Fall 2014)

Not only is the facade changing and responding to the natural environment functionally on the microscopic scale, but also changes and morphs aesthetically to the changing degrees of sunlight.

Inspired by pinewood strips, the facade is a living element that changces accoriding to the natural environment’s sunlight, and is also a reconciling element between outside views or active spaces and inside programs or passive spaces.

Programmatic synthesis of shared functions through lofting floorplates

Studio instructor: Legg Yeung Ho Man

Section A Final facade elevation Final facade cross section

Ecotect sunpath Resultant carve Louvers

Waffle Pine wood strips Substructure

Unrolled facade

Programmatic split

Vertical glulam fins Lateral girders

Pinewood strips

Wood beams

Secondary structure

Lab/ Offices

Auditorium 2nd floor

Auditorium

Lobby

If food is an organic substance, then it makes sense that a building that facilitates food research and development, as well as exposes the public to these subjects be organic and living. A seamless reflection of the products of food production,

Interior rendering looking at looking at central atrium

Street level Entry

A theater that is inserted into a found site, and performatively reveals film about the location’s history. Cultural and theoretical prompts given relating to the idea of silence and surveilance using the architectural condition of the panoptic were cross referenced, producing a diagram showing manifestations of the panoptic serving arts and arhcitecture through time.

Segment sectional perspective

Theatrical interjection (individual project Spring 2016)

Construction and derived components

Studio instructor: Darell W. Fields

Section B

The deprivation of sound gave rise to the theatreics of melodrama in SIlent film, where expressions and gestures had to be exageratted. This actually was well recieved as a filmic mode and was adaptable to many famous masterpieces ranging from Charlie Chaplin to any film to date.

Section B

Theater bunker

sectional model 2nd + 3rd floor interior perspectives

1st iteration sectional model

Studio instructor: Rudy Pakravan

What is solid, what is void? is one mutually exclusive or can both be combined?Does intersection occur only with forms, or can systems be fused?

How can meaningful programs, or even a building be made from a line?

Short frontal section

Solids, Voids and the Library (individual project Spring 2014)

Short section 1Short section 2 Long section 1

Level: 3

Level: 4

Level: 5

Level: 2

Level: Olive

Level: O’farrel

Level: 1

Level: 1Level: 2

Level: 3 Level: 4Level: 5

Long section 2

Level: OliveLevel: O’farrelSite Plan

Short Section 02

Section Perspective

Short Section 01

E elevation

Level: 4Level: 5 Level: 2Level: 3

Short section Short section Long section

Short section

Top floor Ground floor

Circulation which reconciles both used space and active space, or Solid staic spaces, with void non-static spaces is utilized in the form of a ramp.

Ramp = movable in vertical direction, yet has a slope gentle enough for liberal public use, blurring the line between function purely for movement versus function purely for habitable space.

Volunteer work in Honduras for Global Architecture Brigades

Sketches and technical drawings (outside class)