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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)
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