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TING TING PEARL HO

T O L L B R O T H E R S C I T Y L I V I N G H A M P S H I R E H O T E L S & R E S O R T S

Brooklyn Urbanity.

Site B - Section 3Floor-Floor Residential: 9’-6”Floor-Floor Hotel: 9’-0”

Residential

R O G E R S M A R V E L A R C H I T E C T S 25

01 I N S T I T U T E O F M E A S U R E M E N T, High Line, new York, nY

MOTH CENTRE OF THE SPOKEN WORD , DUMBO, new York, nY

WALLED CITY , UniversitY of virginia, CharLottesviLLe, va

THE FRINGE , new York, nY

GLASS STUDIES , seLf stUdies, hong kong/va

CLEVELAND BRIDGE COMPETIT ION , CLeveLand, oh

SPACE OF YOUR COMPUTER , personaL projeCt

ON SITE FREE HAND DRAWINGS , CharLottesviLLe, va

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CHANEL BOUTIQUE , gUangzhoU, China

BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK COMPETIT ION , new York, nY

POP-UP L INGERIE STORE , new York, nY

WENDY MoMA PS1 , new York, nY

academic

*Lino print of distorted reflections on glass facade

representing: 5 minutes of change in human population.

01Course: Design Studio VI

Prof: Nana LastSpring 2011

Inspired by the relentless increasing of number counts on a live population clock, this building investigates the larger greater umbrella of purpose rather than only program. This design seeks represent measurement to teach people about the incapability of a singular person to fully understand his position in relation to the larger scale of the world within the limit of a life span.

INST ITUTE OF MEASUREMENT, High Line, new York

1 new life

1 less life5 minutes

drawing duration: 15 minutes 1200 dots, 535 dashes

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I began by diagramming and using simple marks on paper to represent measurement.

The intuitive swarm pattern became the common that served as a basis for future production, in a spiral and expansive relationship. The form of the architecture acts to represent measurement in a moment of time.

1. extrusion from dots (lives)

2. plans of the ‘flesh’ showing section slices

3. drawing representing 30 seconds of trees cut down worldwide

4. extrusion from 30 seconds of trees

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early Rhino studies

representing: 30 seconds of trees cut down worldwide. drawing duration: 30 minutes 7610 dashes

1 tree cut30 seconds

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The building as a means of measuring grants people a chance to understand fragments of the whole. Therefore, against the grain of ‘infinite’ spaces, paths are carved to allow the possibility of connecting people.

These human scale section slices combines two ambitions:

one - to teach its inhabitants that there exists scales of infinities in the universe within which they exist,

two - there will never be enough time to count or understand it all.

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5. The act of ‘sliding’ section slices out from the building

6. Section Slices are placed directly onto the Highline for people to interact with.

7. Paths left behind from removal of section slices

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“This living social flesh that is not a body can easily appear monstrous.” - Hardt and Negri

8. conceptual hand sketch of scales of usage - including a theatre, seating for meetings and gatherings, ramps and stairs.

9. Rock climbers tackle the outer edge

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02Course: Design Studio III

Prof: Alexander KitchinFall 2009

The Moth Centre of the Spoken Word is a mix-used building that includes a theatre space to host weekly story telling competitions and hotel and office spaces above.

The building seeks to retain the unique social atmosphere of the existing experience of lining up for a Moth event in New York City. There is no concept of cutting in line because those attending the event are all friends. The “line” is a spiral that eventually becomes the seating curled around the stage at the centre. The interactions between people in line are physically captured in the intimate seating spiral.

MOTH CENTRE OF THE SPOKEN WORD, DUMBO, new York

CURRENT QUEUE EXPERIENCE RETAINING HYPERSOCIAL QUEUE IN SPIRAL

1/4”=1’0” scale section model

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1. plans showing open corridors above shaped by the continuing gesture of spiral below

2. study models experimenting with alternate forms of floor plan

3. corridors above serves as both circulation and informal upper level ‘theatre box seats’

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THEATRE

‘THEATRE BOX’ CORRIDORS

PUBLIC SPACE

HOW THE LINE MOVES THROUGH THE BUILDING

View behind atrium

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Section cut at angle from back exit

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4. Overlayed hand drawn axonometric studies

5. Axonometric depicting spiral’s continuous form

6. 1/18” scale model of a singular hotel room

03Course: Design Studio IV

Prof: Charles MenefeeSpring 2010

Inspired by everything that was wrong with people’s habitation of an old military fort in Hong Kong called the Kowloon Walled City, this space is instead for collaboration.

Walls are the physical manifestation of boundaries and in Hong Kong’s Walled City they stood for people to hide behind. However, here they act as spaces where people are brought together. The focus is on light and open spaces created by the framing of walls. Glass bridges connect the walls creating as little shadow as possible.

WALLED CITY, UniversitY of virginia, CharLottesviLLe, va

glass bridge axonometric section

theatre

informal outdoor

classroomlarger lecture halls

private study booths

group study rooms

piano rooms

dance rehearsal spaces

cafe

outdoor eating

informal outdoor

classroom

informal outdoor

classroom

informal outdoor

classroom

glass bridge connections

green roof

classroom

informal outdoor

classroom

media lab

In both plan and section, the spaces are read and experienced as linear unfoldings of one thick wall. The buildings themselves read as the thickest walls and from there layers of walls henceforth unravel. Smaller scales of ‘walls’ become outdoor informal classrooms.

social spaces between buildings and outdoor walls

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7. laminated safety glass floor8. sheet stainless steel on two sheets of plywood9. stainless steel angles10. channel filled with concrete11. steel square hollow section12. steel joist hanger13. glass beam: laminated safety glass

1. laminated safety glass ceiling2. stainless steel point fixing3. stainless steel plate4. sheet aluminium gutter on waterproof bonded plywood5. stainless steel angle6. steel rectangular hollow

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GLASS BRIDGE DETAILS

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models showing where glass bridge connections occur

04Course: Design Studio V

Prof: Michael BeamonFall 2010

Central Park in Manhattan is clean cut inside a rectangle, but the experience of the edge where city meets park is a much more holistic experience with many thresholds. Central Park also holds together many different elements of the city.

In this project, a vertical Central Park runs through the facing facades of the two skyscrapers serving as the core circulation of the towers. The fuzzy edge experience of the actual Central Park translates into these towers centrally as frayed edges on facing facades. This becomes the Vertical Central Park.

THE FR INGE, new York CitY, nY

Flipping Central Park vertically

View from above at Vertical Central Park Ground Level Podium with pedestrian shortcuts

The condition of the frayed edge inspired by the experience of how Central Park meets the city was explored through physically operable models and parametric experimentations.

The goal was to achieve a fringe edge of two opposing towers that ‘fray’ just enough to bridge connections between each other.

PLANclean cut

EXPERIENCEfrayed

HOW CENTRAL PARK MEETS THE CITY

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1. skip 2. slides 3. lateral elevators 4. hanging gardens 5. piles 6. branches 7. jenga 8. stilts

HOW CAN VERTICAL PARK MOVE THROUGH BUILDING

1/64”=1’ model

stack e�ect draws waste air out of the two towers and up through the atrium created by the combination of frayed edge and bridges

The Fringe is programmatically a microcosm of Manhattan. A guest of The Fringe could spend their entire lives never leaving this tower. The tower can fulfil every element of a city dweller’s lifestyle. The breathing space of the ‘Central Park’ connects everything from homes to employment, from the necessary to leisure and luxury.

bars/clubs

restaurants

serviced apartments

hotel

gym

central park

bars/clubs

restaurants

serviced apartments

hotel

gym

Central Park

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1. Antelope Canyons inspiring sequential form of section

2. Stack effect created through atrium of the Vertical Park between two towers

3. Ground Level shortcuts connecting store to store, cafe to cafe, etc

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The Podium is comprised of sloping platforms that bring people up gradually to the towers from street level. The shortcuts carved out draw a stronger connection to the ground.

independent

*Study of decaying leaves - Water colour, print, ink, leaves, pencil, pastels

white conté30 x 55 in

pastel pencil30 x 55 in

05Personal Studies

GLASS STUDIES , seLf stUdies, hong kong/va

ink and water30 x 55 in

pastel pencil30 x 55 in

06Personal Competition Entrywith K. Salamat & G. Dietz

August - October 2012

Soundwayv promotes the famed Rock and Roll culture of Cleveland while embracing the social and family oriented nature of the city into a linear social space that will become a gathering point for locals as well as a destination for tourism. Inspired by the variations of amplitude, wave length and frequency of soundwaves in music, the programmatic nodes of the pedestrian bridge shift according to the density of human activity.

The greater gestural move of adding to the bridge is the wrapping of a new bike path and two large social spaces on either side of the bridge.

CLEVELAND BRIDGE COMPETIT ION, CLeveLand, ohio

Light waves also come into play as the light mines serve to bring natural daylight into the currently quite dark spaces due to the colonnade that obstructs light. The light mines diagrammatically are like trees, consisting of solar ‘foliage’ that collects sunlight above ground and distributes channelled light down to its ‘roots’ in the lower level. Thus rather than mining from underground, these light mines are ‘mining’ from above and providing light to the pedestrian level, which will allow the spaces to feel much more open and porous.

The pod steps up on the Northern side, thus creating an amphitheatre for events and outdoor festivities, with a view towards the Jacobs Pavilion. On the Southern side, the pod dips down and touches the water, allowing people to feel reconnected with their river.

07Personal Project

Spring 2011This is a project that introduces a new way to organise your bookmarked webpages on the internet. Users navigate their spatial library by each rotating their own 3D ‘World’. The interface organises and groups the user’s interests in the scaled hierarchy of the Continents,Countries, Cities, Districts of the real world.

ORGANIZ ING THE SPACE OF YOUR COMPUTER, website interfaCe

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1. Each user begins with their blank canvas World.

2. The user chooses the medium of interest such as ‘blogs’, ‘books’, ‘videos’ and creates Countries

3. Second, the user chooses categories and subcategories such as ‘Music’ then ‘The Beatles’.These become the Cities and Districts within the Countries.

4. When tags meet the selected media they will overlap. The more bookmarked pages in one District the thicker it becomes. The layers will build up into a density model of bookmarked websites.

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NAVIGATE AND ROTATE YOUR WORLD

08Personal Project

Spring 2011On-site drawings are an essential tool I use to recording my personal understanding of space. I focus on architecture and its relationships and scale to the surroundings. Each drawing was completed on-site both outside and inside modern houses in 15 minutes or less.

ON S ITE FREE HAND DRAWINGS, CharLottesviLLe, va

Clark House, Charlottesville, Virginia

Ford House, Charlottesville, Virginia

Dripps Phinney Residence, Batesville, Virginia

Clark House, Charlottesville, Virginia

*Changes in Charlottesville land through time - bar relief study

professional

09Summer 2011 and Winter

2010 InternshipCHANEL, Hong Kong

I interned twice at the Hong Kong office of Chanel’s inhouse architects who are in charge of all of boutiques in Asia and Australia. I was fortunate to work directly under the General Manager and had the opportunity to travel to China a number of times to observe the course of construction. This afforded me the practical experience of watching the details I drew become built and allowed a greater understanding of Construction Documents.

CHANEL bou t ique , gUangzhoU, China

Watch Display Glass Showcases Small Leather Goods Showcases

* all drawings shown completed personally for Chanel

Sliding Panels at Ready To Wear

Storefront

10September - November 2011

internshipRogers Marvel Architects

I had the privilege of an internship with Rogers Marvel Architects and worked on the Winning Entry for the submission to the Brooklyn Bridge Park Competition in New York City. I worked in a team of six under Jonathan Marvel and was responsible for study and final models, diagrams, plans and renderings. I attended weekly meetings with Toll Brothers and was able to gain experience of working directly with developers. The experience was extremely fast paced and intense as many iterations were developed and redeveloped. Our proposal was selected as the winner in July 2012 and will break ground Summer 2013 and projected to achieve LEED Silver status.

P IER HOUSE - BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK COMPETIT ION , new York, nY


Extending The Park.

CREATE EDDIESIncrease frontage, increase park area, increase views

EXTEND THE PARKBuilding is greened

ALLOW POROSITYMake visual and physical connections through the building

COLLECT WATERRain water management integrates with park water system


* all work shown completed personally for Rogers Marvel Architects


Brooklyn Urbanity.

Site A - Section 1Floor-Floor Residential: 9’-6”Floor-Floor Hotel: 9’-0”

Passage

Roof Gardens

Residential


House 1 House 2 House 3

House 4 House 5 House 6

There is one module of six units that is repeated throughout the two residential buildings. They are designed to echo the luxury of Brooklyn urbanity.

five out of six units - have double height spaces

every single unit - has cross ventilation

The complex features green roofs, a variety of pathways to access the park and a newly activated Furman Street sidewalk.

Similar to the housing units have double exposure, there are a number of passage ways that connect the park and the street.

PIER 1 BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK36T O L L B R O T H E R S C I T Y L I V I N G H A M P S H I R E H O T E L S & R E S O R T S

PASSAGES

Breathing.

East Elevation

West Elevation

Promenade

Sqquiu bb Park


* all work shown completed personally for Rogers Marvel Architects

11October 2011

Fabrication TeamSOFTlab

As a part of BOFFO’s ‘Building Fashion’ Pop-Up Store Series, SOFTlab was selected by lingerie brand ‘The Lake and Stars’ to physically build their winning entry inside an empty gallery space. I was a part of the on-site construction and fabrication team that worked on building the store in less than two weeks.

‘ THE LAKE AND STARS ’ POP-UP STORE , new York, nY

The concept was a kaleidoscope peep show where shoppers look into the viewing cones and at the lingerie clad mannequins. The reflective white surfaces behind enhance the colourful filtered light that comes through the cones.

12June 20112

On-Site Construction TeamHWKN

Over the summer I volunteered weekend hours to helping build HWKN’s winning entry for the annual MoMA PS1 Summer ‘Partyscape’, named Wendy. I assisted with construction on-site which included the creation of new wheelchair ramps, waterproofing pools and climbing the scaffolding to hoist and secure the blue cones.

WENDY, MOMA PS1 SUMMER WARM UP SERIES , new York, nY