yueann wu portfolio 2013

Yueann Wu ::: Portfolio

Single Family Residence: W2 House

Work Experience

Digital Fabrication

Graduate Work

X-tra & About Me

Commercial: Hawaiian Breeze

Tea House:the Path, the Journey, the Way

Coast Guard Museum: the Alexander Hamilton

2050:Diversity as the Future Cubical

CNC Furniture: Giddy Up Rocking Chair

Sketches & Photos Resume

Grasshopper: Digital Origami

Work Experience

@ Pb Elemental Architecture: 23rd Live + Work MLK Townhomes

@ Straightedge Design Build: Single Family Residence: W2 House Commerical : Hawaiian Breeze

@ Wang Lands Architects: KHH Row Houses

wang lands architects | 2011

front persective: NTS.

West View Perspective: NTS.

East View Perspective: NTS.

KHH Row Houses

W2 House | 2009

W2 House

Where the heart is

alley accessstreet accesscirculation

the preservation of GinkgoThe Programand Concept 1

37th AVE S R.O.W sidewalk

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Ginkgo is known as a “living fossil” because the tree’s longevity—possibly up to 1,500 years. Reserved the only tree on the site is the major concept of program. Traveling along the stair tower, each steps enable us to peek through the vertical windows at the ginkgo tree that connects the poetic symbolism and practical functions of our daily life.

Concept 2Accessibility and Circulation

Section A-A7

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roof deck

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first floor

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second floor

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W2 House | 2009

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PROGRAM:1. Media Room2. Entry3. Living Room4. Study Room5. Kitchen6. Garage7. Stair Tower8. Mater Suite9. Bedroom 110. Bedroom 211. Laundry12. Roof Deck

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Building PermitMay 08

Framing First Wall

ExcavationSep 08

Concrete FoundationSep 08

Radian Floor/Concrete Slab

Sep/Oct08

Oct 08

First Flr. Second Flr. Garage/Roof Rear View

W2 House | 2009

Section A-A7

12

roof deck

1

basement

2

3 4

5

first floor

A A

second floor

6

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89

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A A

Sep 09

Mar 09

Apr 09

May 09

Jan 09 Feb 09

Jun 09

Front View Framing Interior/Fireplace Water Proofing

Electrical

Drywall

Finishes

Occupancy

Steel stairsYard/Decks Cabinets

Tiling

Flooring

Siding: Alum. Panels & Cedar

W2 House | 2009

Hawaiian BreezeA winning competition project for a couple of restaurant owners who are planning to add an addition on the existing Hawaiian cuisine restaurant to also serve a Japanese stylecuisine with sushi bar. The clients want to keep the traditoinal feel and incorporate modern desgin into the new restaurant addition. By choosing to use white slate natural stone and aluminun metal panels to achieve the nature + man-made combination of the “old and new.” Also to reflect the same idea on finishes by install hardwood bamboo floor and recycling wood furniture as seatings.

[slate] [bamboo][wood][alum.]

Cashier and Waiter/Waitress Perp. Area

Access to Existing Hawaiian Breeze Restaurant

ADA Restroom

Sushi Prep. Area

Sushi Counter Seatings

ADA Seating

Benching Seatings

Window Seatings

Restaurant Entrance

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Key Plan

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Existing Floor Plan

New Addition

Hawaiian Breeze | 2011

和風

[In-Restaurant Perspective]

Hawaiian Breeze | 2011

pb | 2006-2008

23rd Live-Work

MLK TownHomesWork

Penthouse / Stair Tower

Roof: Decking

Open Space

3F: Master Suite

2F Public Space:Kitchen + Living

1F: 2 Roomsw/ share bath

Building B Program

Basement: Master Suite

1F Public Space: Kitchen + Living

2F: Two rooms w/ share bath

Open Space at Entrance

Patio

Roof: Decking

Penthouse / Stair Tower

Building A Program

School Projects

Tea House: The path, the journey, the way

The Future: Denver in 2005, 2050

Coast Guard Museum: The cutter that we salute

tatami modulor system ::: 9 square grid

roof garden entry circulation/free facade

tatami rm/free plan

long horiz. windows

waiting room

Section A-A

piloti

TEA HOUSE

tatami modular

reformation

circulation

connection

CONTEXT

TEA SITE

JOURNEY

TEA HOUSE TEA HOUSE

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DN

Hallway

Tataimi

Seating Rm 6

Hallway

RestroomKitchen

Roof Garden

PillotiTatam

i

Seating Rm 4

Outdoor/Indoor Garden

Tatami

Seating Rm 3

Outdoor/Indoor

Garden

Outdoor/Indoor

Garden

Main Entry

RestroomKitchen

Pilloti

Tataimi

Seating Rm 2

Tataimi

Seating Rm 6

Tataimi

Seating Rm 5

Tataimi

Seating Rm 4

Rear Exit

Side Entry

Waitinig

Room

Tataimi

Seating Rm 7

Roof Sand

Garden

Hallway

Open Entry

Space

Tataimi

Seating Rm 1

TEA HOUSE - Roof Level

TEA HOUSE - North Elevation

TEA HOUSE - West Elevation

TEA HOUSE - East Elevation

TEA HOUSE - South Elevation

TEA HOUSE - Second Level

TEA HOUSE - Ground Level

Section A-A

Sacred Path

our path, our journey, our way

the Path, the Journey, the Way,Bring Us the Tradition and the Awakeness.This is one of my 1st-year project in grad-school: Japanese Tea House. It is based on the concept of Le Corbusier’s five points theory the 9-square grid system and traditional tatmi module to create architecture composition of the spaces.The design accommodates the ritual of the Japanese tea ceremony which including the traditional Tea House architecture layout andthe tea ceremony procedures: staring with a long walk of the sacred path, experiencing the journey of the path, and ends within the garden that served as a way to awaken consciousness and to realize the insight humility of our relationship with nature that `surrounds us, live within us and humans are afterall part of the nature.

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[method]

tatami modulor system ::: 9 square grid

roof garden entry circulation/free facade

tatami rm/free plan

long horiz. windows

waiting room

Section A-A

piloti

tatami modular

reformation

circulation

connection

CONTEXT

TEA SITE

JOURNEY

TEA HOUSE

TEA HOUSE

CONTEXT

TEA SITE

JOURNEY

N

N

N

DN

Hallway

Tataimi

Seating Rm 6

Hallway

RestroomKitchen

Roof Garden

PillotiTatam

i

Seating Rm 4

Outdoor/Indoor Garden

Tatami

Seating Rm 3

Outdoor/Indoor

Garden

Outdoor/Indoor

Garden

Main Entry

RestroomKitchen

Pilloti

Tataimi

Seating Rm 2

Tataimi

Seating Rm 6

Tataimi

Seating Rm 5

Tataimi

Seating Rm 4

Rear Exit

Side Entry

Waitinig

Room

Tataimi

Seating Rm 7

Roof Sand

Garden

Hallway

Open Entry

Space

Tataimi

Seating Rm 1

TEA HOUSE - Roof Level

TEA HOUSE - North Elevation

TEA HOUSE - West Elevation

TEA HOUSE - East Elevation

TEA HOUSE - South Elevation

TEA HOUSE - Second Level

TEA HOUSE - Ground Level

CONTEXT

TEA SITE

JOURNEY

Section A-A

Sacred Path

our path, our journey, our way

Future Cubical | 2005

Diversity as the Future Cubical

Speer is the neighborhood containing multi-family and single family residential uses with the majority of commercial and office buildings. Located to the West is Denver’s most premier shopping and dining neighborhood, Cherry Creek; to the North is Capitol Hill neighborhood, which is a highly dense neighborhood domi-nated by mid and high-rise multi-family uses, and to its South, one of the finest parks and oldest neighborhoods, Wash Park in Denver.

Speer neighborhood’s character is defined by its surroundings and definitely makes it a more diverse metropolitan area.

Diversity became the combining strategy while developing this area. By introducing retail and restaurant spaces into the original commercial and office buildings at this time and redevelop the uses of spaces throughout a 50-year period of time. The neighborhood will gradually updat their demands to their needs by adjusting the functionality of the buiding and the community‘s program.

2005: Offices

2025: Offices Parking Restaurants Retail

2050: Offices Parking Restaurants Retail Hotels Residential

School

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Speer Blvd

OfficeRetail/MixRestaurant

Path, People, Data

Through space and time, people will evolve the scattered community scheme into the simplest building solution. Combining all differ-ent types of buildings into a single building type that allows people to fulfill their daily demands.

Above surface parking

Undergroud parking + Transit System

Retail + Hotels

Mixed-use + Residentials

Convert to Community ParkUnderground Parking

Combine / Connect 3 buildings

Offices / Commercial

Restaurants

Offices

Retails

Offices / Com

mercial

Convert to Mixed-use + Residential

US Coast Guard Museum | 2005

To the first lost:the Alexander Hamilton, Coast Guard Cutter WPG-34

The story

The Hamilton was first launched in January 1937 and sunk after an attack by a German U-boat in January 1942 near Reykjavík. The Hamilton was the U.S. Coast Guard’s first loss during WWII. On August 19, 2009, the Icelandic Coast Guard discovered a shipwreck believed to be the Hamil-ton.

This U.S. Coast Guard Museum will contain the history of the Hamilton and also general history and story of the ship and the life of the brave men that fought and died during the attack. The museum will also serve as a place to restore and moor the Coast Guard Cutter Alexander Hamil-ton.

School

The Programand the ConceptLocated at Brooklyn navy yard, New York City, the NYC’s redevelopment authorities have commissioned a museum to house coast guard and navy yard artifacts with the focus on the restoration of USCG Cutter-Hamilton. It is to be a living museum that is to be a active and working facility. The restoration of the ship is to take center stage and the coast guard and navy will combine their cumulative and celebrated histories into a single venue.

Digital Fabrication and Design

Furniture Making: Giddy Up, Giddy Go

Grasshopper Paper Folding

Giddy up giddy go

digital fabrication & design UW | 2012

CNC Furniture Making

The Giddy up giddy go rocking chair is the result of a study on folding furniture. This idea was driven from origami study, which is interpreted simply as “folding + geometry.”This basic idea then leads to the “static vs. dynamic” concepts in furniture making.

Origami: What is the minimum folding: 1 fold. Then what can I do with 1 fold?! Furniture: folding + dis-assemble lesser pieces?!

Rhino Rendering

IdeasIdeas

folding umbrella

folding rocking stool

one chair rib -> mirror ribs -> stool -> rocking stool

folding chair: 3 hinges -> 1 hinge

Concept

Giddy up giddy go

digital fabrication & design UW | 2012

Dis+Assembling:Dis+Assembling:

Birch plywood for the rocking stool, leather for the seating and cardboard for packaging.

The rocking stool part was routed out by CNC. The seating part was cut out and stitched by hand.The packaging part was made by laser cutter.

Digital SystemDigital System

- (4) 5/8” nuts and bolts- (2) 1” removeable pin hinge- (6) buckles for leather seating and reign

MaterialMaterial

The initial idea was sketched and used Rhino with Grasshopper plugin to figure out the folding, seating angles, and different scales for children. Then using RhinoCam for CNC layout routing and Rhino for laser cutting package fabrication.

Fabrication SystemFabrication System

PackagingPackagingRhino Design & RenderingPhotoshop

digital fabrication & design | UW

Digital Origami

Valley

Crease

Mountain

crease + foldbasic concepts | DIVIDING THE PAPER

water bomb basic formtraditional concepts + methods

Methods:1. Folding by Hand

2. Using Geometric equipment to draw the fold

3. Using a computer to draw the folds: Rhino + Grasshopper!

grid divisions: one linear + one diagonals

linear divisions diagonal divisions


water bomb basic formgrasshopper definitions

0-45 degree

angle

rotat

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90) d

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angle

rotat

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folded motif - one side

folded motif - two sides


symmetrical repeats

spans and parabolas

motif - spans

parabolas

0-45 degree

angle

rotat

ion U

P

motif - symmetric repeats

folding motion

rolling direction


glide reflection grasshopper study

3d surface waterbomb grasshopper study

motif - glide reflection

sketches & photos

4 corners

4 corners

Rome

Rome

X-tra

Yueann Wu | 206.707.1406 | [email protected] | 3818 37th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98118 | issuu.com/uann/docs/portfolio_2013

ABOUT yueannWU I am a MArch graduate from University of Colorado at Denver. I have three years of formal office experience working for two Seattle based Design-Build firms on varies sizes of residential and commercial projects.

Recently, I am working as a contract designer for two architectural offices. I have also just finished a continuing education certification program of Digital Design & Fabrication at University of Washington. EMPLOYMENT current Dean Alan Architects, Contract Architectural Designer

Working on both client based and competition submittals for public and commercial projects.

Jul 2010 – current Wang Lands Architects, Straightedge Design Build, Contract Designer Responsible for creating 3D visual presentation layouts and coordination for both client based and competition projects.

Oct 2008 – Dec 2009 Straightedge Design Build, Project Designer

I worked on one new custom contemporary single-family and one commercial remodeling project based in Seattle. Responsible for the design, design development, permitting and construction document development. Also construction administration, site detail drawings, scheduling, cost estimating, and purchasing. Developing projects from schematic design through permitting to 100% finish construction phases.

Sep 2006 – Oct 2008 Pb Elemental Architecture, Architectural Assistant Participated in the schematic design process on varies single family and multi-family new contemporary construction projects and related interior designs. Responsible for creating 3D visuals, diagrams, and assisting with preparing and coordination of CD sets. Part of the construction team, working on permitting, detailing, cost analysis, and on-site documents coordination.

EDUCATION Sep 2011 – Jun 2012 Certification of Digital Design & Fabrication, University of Washington Aug 2002 – Aug 2006 Master of Architecture, University of Colorado at Denver

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Structure II class Graduate Teaching Assistant for Environmental Control System II class

May 2004 – Aug 2004 Rome Study Abroad Program, University of Rome Aug 1995 – Dec 1999 Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno SKILLS AutoCAD, Revit, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Rhino, Grasshopper, FormZ, SketchUp MS Office, PowerPoint, Keynote, Mac and PC Platforms. CNC Router, Laser Cutter, Plasma Cutter, 3D Printing, Model Making.

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yueann wu portfolio 2013