2012 portfolio

Jeffrey C. LuPortfolio, 2012

College of Art, Architecture, and PlanningCornell University, Ithaca, NY. 14850

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First Year Studio, 2009 - 2010

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_VESSELProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

In this excercise, a given vessel (glass whiskey bottle) was to be physically and graphically recorded, analysed, and modeled. Close graphical analysis - plans, sections, elevations - of the bottle revealed intimate details, sometimes that were hidden to the naked eye. Photoshop manipulation progessed idea developments, and the in-troduction of basswood sticks proponed basic ideas about structure.

High emphasis was placed on the importance of maintain-ing ‘construction’ or ‘datum’ lines throughout the studio.

Fall Semester, 2009


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_BOTTLE MUSEUMProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

In this exercise, the shattered pieces of my glass whiskey bottle were to be housed. I designed a museum for the pieces to be showcased and exhibited to the public.

Essentially a long corridor, shaped by the profile of the bottle, and divided by openings at intervals determined by the relative sizes of the bottle pieces. The openings serve two purposes - firstly to let in light and secondly to allow the bottle pieces, embedded in plexiglass, to slide in and out of the museum. With the pieces in place, visitors can look inside the museum from either end to visually recreate a whole bottle from its seperate pieces.

Fall Semester, 2009


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_PAPERProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

Paper, an extremely versatile material, can be used in a multitude of different operations. Here are two:

1) Folding paper (origami) to create body armour, and a sensory control mask that limits both sight and hearing.

2) Using paper as a documentary tool to document the physical operations (ripping, shredding, wrapping, pok-ing, soaking, floating, wrinkling, etcetera) of a time-ravaged waterfall site, originally formed by the slow landscape carving of a prehistoric glacier.

Fall Semester, 2009


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_PAVILIONProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

A pavilion was to be designed for Hammondsport, NY. My design makes full use of transparency - utilising datum lines of an existing street front, and manipulation of per-spective and playing with the sense of sight - redefines preconceptions of a pavilion’s role.

The multipurpose pavilion provide shelters and elevated viewing platflorms, supported by a web of structure that stretches across the entire street and firmly reifies its footprint.

At night, the entire structure is beautifully lit up.

Spring Semester, 2009


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_PAVILIONProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

This evocative rendering shows the potential duplicity and reciprocity of the pavilion along the entire street.



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_STAIRProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

Developed concurrently with the pavilion project, my design for a stair fully explores the idea of playing with transparency by layering sheets of plexiglass.

The lighting effects created give the stair an ephemeral, ethereal quality that suggests lightness (in terms of both weight and with respect to light).

Emphasis was placed on stair design in order to facilitate our understanding of circulation in larger buildings for more advanced studios.



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_VIEWING TOWERProfessors Vince Mulcahy and Alex Mergold

An installation was to be proposed for Ithaca, NY. My design is a visitor’s viewing tower that combines the idea of a spiral circulation pattern with external viewing platforms that provide unique vantage points from which to see surrounding attractions from a single, panoptic structure.

Situated on top of the public library,the structure pierces through the roof and into the ground floor of the one-sto-rey building. Stretching some 80 feet into the air, it will also serve as an obvious landmark, much like the lofty towers found in Italian towns.



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Second Year Studio, 2010 - 2011

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_TILTING THEATREProfessor John Zissovici

The design for this theatre was based primarily on the operating verbs TILT and SLIDE. Exploration of the opera-tors began with a structural site model of Hammond-sport, NY. I chose to model the roads, which originally had tram tracks inset, but have since been paved over.

A simple three-tiered structural model then developed into a series of iterations investigating the notion of each road ‘layer’ being a habitable space.

The most provocative iteration deals fully with the idea of multi-configurations stemming from the TILT operator.

Fall Semester, 2010


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Fall Semester, 2010_TILTING THEATRE, HAND DRAWN SECTIONSProfessor John Zissovici

The sections through the theatre show that the theatre itself is accessed from the street level, and cantilevers out over the water. Underneath the theatre is situated the care-taker’s apartment, and below that, a storage area for boats that are carried up from the water front via a line-and-pulley driven cart system.


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_FIRST FLOOR PLANProfessor John Zissovici

The plan reveals that the caretaker’s apartment is ac-cessed from the sidewalk, and that a seperate, adjacent-path leads directly to the waterfront.

The plan also reveals the tracks embedded in the site, referencing the tram tracks that once existed, on which the pulley-drawn carts SLIDE, carrying boats to-and-from the busy waterfront.

The sections on the far left further reveal the structure and internal configuration of the theatre.

Fall Semester, 2010


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_RHINO/VRAY RENDERS AND PHOTOMANIPULATIONProfessor Clare Olsen/Professor Jonathan Ochshorn

The renders and image manipulation show here incoporated a variety of programs, including but not limited to: Google Sketchup Pro 8.0, Rhinoceros 4.0, VRAY for Rhino, Adobe Illustrator CS5, Adobe Photoshop CS5, and Adobe Indesign CS5.

Spring Semester 2011/Fall Semester 2010


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_BUTTERFLY CRECHEProfessor Werner Goehner

The aim for this third year studio was to design a creche - a schoolhouse - for Johannesberg, South Africa. Many limactic challenges were posed.

The schematic plan for the butterfly creche reveals the butterfly form from which the creche gets its name. Centred around a central sunken courtyard, with plenty of overshadowed areas (semi-outdoor space) as well as plentiful play areas, the classrooms embody the concept of easy transition between indoor and outdoor space, with swivelling saloon-style doorsthat can open com-pletely to the exterior.



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Fall Semester, 2010_BUTTERFLY CRECHE, HAND DRAWN SECTIONSProfessor John Zissovici

The sections through the theatre show that the theatre itself is accessed from the street level, and cantilevers out over the water. Underneath the theatre is situated the care-taker’s apartment, and below that, a storage area for boats that are carried up from the water front via a line-and-pulley driven cart system.


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SEMI-OUTDOOR SPACE B

SEMI-OUTDOOR SPACE A

SEMI-OUTDOOR SPACE C

SEMI-OUTDOOR SPACE D

TRANSITION

TRANSITION

EUCALYPTUS OUTDOOR LEARING SPACE

GARDEN

OUTDOOR STAGE

SANDBOX

PARKING LOT | DROP OFF

INTERACTIVEMUSICAL FENCE

CLASSROOM A (BABY) 46.33m²

CLASSROOM B 46.33m²

CLASSROOM C 46.33m²

BATHROOM A / B BABY TOILET STORAGE B

BATHROOM C/ D STORAGE D STORAGE C

CLASSROOM D 46.33m²

OUTDOORSTORAGE

OFFICE 60.5m² KITCHEN 25.60m²

PUBLIC | PLAY SIDE 380.57m²

PRIVATE | GARDEN SIDE 193.34m²

EATING AREA 45.78m²

_S CRECHEProfessor Werner Goehner

The schematic plan reveals the S-shaped, interlocking classroom configuration. Other features include sloped roofs for rainwater collection, a wooden-log auditorium, a sunken eating area, and plenty of semi-outdoor and play areas.

The walls are constructed of straw-bale blocks encased in a protective (water and fire) polycarbonate sheathing. The gridded configuration of the roof trusses allow for sliding panels that regulate the amount of both light and air that enter the classrooms. The north-south axis of the classrooms maximises use of daylight.



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Polycarbonate Ceiling Panels (Open)

Polycarbonate Window Pane (Open)Polycarbonate Sliding Doors (Open)

Hey Carly I don’t know where to put this tidbit or if we should even have it because it might look cluttered so use your judgement, feel free to rephrase or omit at your discretion:

Adjustable polycarbonate sliding doors and windows maximizes cross-ventilation during the summer and streamlines stack ventilation. Operable ceiling panels open to allow warm air to rise into the truss space.The open design of the truss system allows for cross-ventilation to carry warm air outside.

Summer Ventilation Diagram

Straw Bale

Polycarbonate Window Pane (Closed)

Polycarbonate Ceiling Panels (Closed)

Polycarbonate Sliding Doors (Closed) Winter Ventilation Diagram

During the winter, the classrooms can be enclosed so that the interior classrooms are protected from precipitation and cold drafts.Polycarbonate glazing on the east facade, ceiling, and windows produce a greenhouse e�ect that retains light and warmth within the classroom, while straw bale walls act as thermal masses.

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DIRECT

DIFFUSED

WINTER | 12:00PM | 40*

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SUMMER | 12:00PM | 88*

_S CRECHE DIAGRAMSProfessor Werner Goehner

The ventilation schematic diagrams show how cool air is allowed to pass through the classrooms, and how hot air can dispel through the ceiling panels during the hot summers. In the winter, hot air is kept inside with all openings in the closed configuration.

The daylighting diagrams show how the sloped roofs (with windows) and reflective panels allow plenty of sunlight inside during both the summer and winter.

The wall section reveals how all the structural compo-nents fit together harmoniously.

_S CRECHE RENDERSProfessor Werner Goehner

The interior renders show just how much light the class-rooms receive, thanks to both the glass sliding doors and the sliding ceiling panels.

The exterior renders show the spacious play area, sunken eating area and wooden-log auditorium.

The fence consists of three different sections - earth wall, plastic ‘musical’ pipes, and wire fencing.

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Fall Semester, 2010_PROFESSIONAL LAYOUT/GRAPHIC DESIGN Centre for Innovation in Neuroscience and Technology

My responsibilities included ergonomically redesigning neurosurgical technologies, performing market research, layout of graphics, and logo design. These information handouts were used to showcase technologies to prospective manufactureres.

Summer 2010

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Summer 2011

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_RESEARCH STUDIOProfessors Yehre Suh and Leonard Mirin

The summer research studio travelled to Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Xi’an in China, Tokyo, Kyoto, Nara, Yokohama, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka in Japan, and Busan, Gyeong-Ju, and Seoul in South Korea.

The research studio sought to investigate how the three different countries approach the sensitive issue of pres-ervation, both historically and in the present (when faced with, for example, natural disasters such as earthquakes).

Summer, 2011

Summer 2011

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Summer 2011

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Summer 2011

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Je�rey Lu | James NguyenVilla Garches as an Extruded Painting

2 of 3 (Axonometric)

_VILLA GARCHESProfessor Vince Mulcahy

Le Corbusier was no stranger to alternative art move-ments such as Cubism or his own Purism. It seemed fitting then to retrospectively realise his Villa Garches first as a Purist painting, flatting all three dimensional features revealed in the floor plans into a single, two dimensional composition, and then to re-extrude the flat painting into three dimensions.

Two techniques were used in the extrusion:

1) Extrusion of equal colours on seperate layers.2) Extrusion of equal colours from a base layer.

Je�rey Lu | James NguyenVilla Garches as an Extruded Painting

3 of 3 (Exploded Axonometric)

Fall Semester, 2010

Second Year Studio, 2010-2011

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