thuy ma architecture
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THUY MA l portfolio
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04-21 I SSFCU I information technology building I design process methodology
22-31 I School Board of Manatee I horizons academy
32-37 I School Board of Manatee County I jessie p. miller elementary school
38-43 I Jacobs Residence
44-47 I Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate I residence & chapel
48-51 I USNA I field house
52-55 I USNA I visitors’ access center
56-61 I Harrisburg International Airport I intermodal center
62-69 I DFW International Airport I terminal d
70-75 I DFW International Airport I arrival canopy
76-85 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I places of exchange
86-87 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I community center for tourists & locals
88-89 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I video shop
90-91 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I multi-media center
92-95 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I exhibition space
96-99 I UF Architecture School Studio Project I community museum & workshop
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A major Florida Credit Union intends to establish a new corporate campus with a series of buildings situated around an open central pedestrian green space. The Information Technology Building includes a 7,000 sf data room that will house the entire corporate computer network and equipment. It wil be the first of three buildings for the Credit Union campus.
The building is elevated above a portion of the required parking to provide security and preserve green space. The facility is designed with an open office plan to accomodate 120 employees. Additional support spaces include two conference rooms, an employee break room/cafe, a lounge, work room, copy room and various management offices.
The major challenge of this project is to create an open, inviting work environment, while still providing and enclosure to withstand a category 5 hurricane.
Location: Tampa, FLSize: 43,000 sfCost: n/aProjected Completion: 2009Firm: HHAA
SSFCU l information technology building
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site study
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sunscreening study
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skin/elevation study
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program layout
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refined elevation study
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The facility is designed to provide a short term curriculum alternative for 500 students who have had difficulty succeeding in the mainstream educational environment. Different age groups range from the 6th to 12th grade.
The school consists of four academic houses, two of which are dedicated to younger students and the others are for older students. The two house groupings are separated by the core programs of the gym, media center and cafeteria, located a the central axis of the campus to prevent the two different age group from crossing each other.
The primary access into the facility is through a front entrance at the administration area located directly opposite of the secondary student bus drop off entrance, thereby creating a functional, visual “urban street” for supervision security.
The idea behind this project is to create an open friendly campus downlaying its identity as a secure facility.
Location: Manatee County, FLSize: 50,000 sfCost: $9,900,000Completion: 2007Firm: HHAA
School Board of Manatee County l horizons academy
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Designed as a two story-830 student replacement facility for existing school structure, the new campus incorporates state of the art planning principles in response to the new classroom size reduction legislation. The scheme provide single point of entry as well as natural light to all instructional spaces.
Location: Manatee County, FLSize: 100,000 sfCost: n/a millionCompletion: 2007Firm: HHAA
School Board of Manatee County l jessie p. miller elementary school
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The site is situated at two convergent streets, leaving the property exposing to two sides. The idea behind this project is to use the two bars as a protecting boundary to create privacy for the residents. The merging of two axis creates a social space for daily interaction with the neighborhood.
Location: Tampa, FLSize: 6,000 sfCost: n/aProjected Completion: 2009Firm: HHAA
Jacobs l residence
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The site is located on a heavily travelled street across from the main chapel. The intent is to create a quiet enclave while maintaing its iden-tity to the city. A two-story residential building with its chapel is to serve 15 full-time priests and 10 part-time guests. The residence is designed around the internal courtyard for calm reflection. The chapel is identified by the city with its layered envelopes while penetrating light through these revealed layers are marking a passage of time from morning light to its evening gathering mass.
Location: Washington DC areaSize: 23,000 sfCost: n/aCompletion: 2006Firm: HNTB Architecture
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate l residence & chapel
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The field house is located on the waterfront property of the USNA cam-pus. The project includes a 80,000 sf indoor track with several offices for supporting space. Major glulam beam structures are exposed to recall the old ship’s ribbed construction with open viewing toward the water.
Location: Annapolis, MarylandSize: 100,000 sfCost: n/aCompletion: 2006Firm: HNTB Architecture
United States Naval Academy l field house
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The concept plan for the project revises pedestrian and vehicle access to welcome visitors by providing security improvements for vehicular and pedestrian traffic approaching the gate.
The light fabric roof structure is to reflect the distant sailboats located along the entrance axis. the intent is to create a landmark for the gate-way of the campus.
Location: Annapolis, MarylandSize: 100,000 sfCost: n/aCompletion: 2006Firm: HNTB Architecture
United States Naval Academy l visitors’ access center
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This projects is designed to connect all of the major circulation between the airport to the city, by providing an intermodal center, additional park-ing deck and elevated pedestrian walkway to the proposed amtrak sta-tion.
Location: Harrisburg, PASize: 20,000 sfCost: n/aCompletion: 2005Firm: HNTB Architecture
Harrisburg International Airport l intermodal center
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Airports are gateways that link the cities in a complex network. The first impression of cities are often our sense of arrival. The intent of our impression is to leave the passenger with a sense of openness and intuitive wayfinding. The roof is sculpted like a bird frozen in flight. The interior space below reflects the curve roof with lightness and openness. Skylights and clerestory glazing wash light down to enhance this effect.
Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TexasSize: 1.5 million sfCost: $650 millionCompletion: 2006Firm: HNTB Architecture
DFW International Airport l terminal d
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An integral part of the DFW terminal is the canopy spanning 150’ between the terminal and parking garage. The translucent fabric serves as a welcoming gesture for the arriving passengers by protecting people from the elements while maintaining the sense of openness with a sunlit translucent skin. At night, a soft glow of light is projected onto the canopy, creating an orientation landmark for the terminal campus.
Location: Dallas/Ft Worth, TexasSize: 33,000 sfCost: $2.4 millionCompletion: 2006Firm: HNTB Architecture
DFW International Airport l arrival canopy
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A seventeenth century hacienda located within a village of Maya descendants is tucked away in dense vegetation within a long stretch of bare Yucatan landscape. The site is marked by the enclosed wall of a Spanish Colony. The topography is interwoven with aquaducts and exposed limestone, while the sectional shifting of the ground surface leads to the small aperture of an enclosed cenote. The abandoned ruins and artifacts hold an interesting potential, because of its size and because of its possibilities.
The mapping of postcards are used as a vehicle to project across space and time to look for commonplaces through the landscapes. It is an arbitrary collection of fragments to cut section through a particular moment. The folding box is to create a temporal condition to reveal certain surfaces/subsurfaces of the vessels such as the existing cenote as a bathing vessel as a social space among different fluxes.
Location: Post-Colonial landscape of Hacienda Yunku, Yucatan, Mexico
Studio Project I places of exchange
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The film “La Jette” was analyzed through continuous series of overlapping images. The montage elements become an inquiry into the making of a cinematic language through memory. This fictive interpretation is later translated into the idea of the experience of a train passenger...seeing fragmented side views with unexpected events developing into displacement and condensation. These shifting sequences of spaces become the beginning of an architectural itinerary.
Location: Gainesville, FL
Studio Project I community center for tourists and locals
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An analysis of the contemporary American city has been conducted utilizing three different constructs involving three water edge conditions. The major elements of video shop, parking space, and public spaces are cross programmed through the understanding of the city scale and pedestrian scale, at which the transition between these scales frames the project as proposal for generating identity for American city.
Location: Contemporary American City
Studio Project I video shop
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The project is to propose a building that would stitch together the parks on both sides of the river edge. The center allows visitors to interact media, art and education. The public space is structured with overlapping virtual and physical environments. This space is split by two converging wings of the digitized information walls. The walls create a transient space among the four uses of the program: research, production, entertainment and housing.
Location: Hillsborough River, Tampa, FL
Studio Project I multi-media center
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As a project with no given site, this construction is to focus on the provision of a complex identity of space, taking cue from the qualities of the Maholy-Nagy light-space modulator sculpture. The structure sets up an interplay between light and dark provoking speculation upon structural order. The manipulation of light becomes a key function of this construction as it simultaneously becomes a projection mechanism and display space for the modulator.
Location: No given location
Studio Project I exhibition space
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Considering the presence of an existing folded plate structure on this site by Robert Ernest in 1965, the project provokes a speculation upon the essential relationships between tectonic and stereotomic structure. The intent of this project to challenge the existing notions concerning community, art, public, private and architecture as a link in the fabric of a community. The workshop spaces to house five types of craft artifacts (metal, weaving, ceramic, glass and wood) celebrate the intersection between community space and space for the exhibition of fine art craft work. The viewing of the production processes involved in creating the work serve to link the community space.
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Studio Project I community museum & workshop for fine art craft work
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