Eric Chin work sample

ERIC SUNGMIN CHIN.

PROJECT INDEX WORK SAMPLE

HYDE COLLECTIONCONTEMPORARY MUSEUM EXPANSION

HYDRASCAPEBIOSWALE INFRASTRUCTURE

ARGONAUTISSPECULATIVE NARRATIVES

AQUAS PLUSHGRAPHIC BRANDING FOR PLEATS PLEASE

PERISCOPIC HEIGHTSCINEMATIC RIVERFRONT RESIDENCY

RECENT PROJECTERIC S. CHIN

This group of work represents selective architectural nautics through 2.5 years. Navigating through a captious, tumultuous contemporary terrain of “exhausted complexities”, the work attempts to terraform a conceptual landscape of finnessed, animated, personified, and subtly charicatured architecture in its overtly critical and sterile domain. Each project behaves as a crafted artifact of various scales that prioritizes graphic composition, coloration (or lack thereof), figuration, and toggles between softcore and hardcore sensibilities.

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HYDE COLLECTION

LOCATION GLENNS FALLS, NY

Situated amongst a gentle slope behind the historic domestic museums, the HYDE COLLECTION addition takes on new programmatic and iconic responsibilities. Like a gem, carved out of the hillside, the intervention provides a gradient of cavernous double and triple-height spaces. These “caverns” accomodate a consecutive set of gallery, administration, and communal spaces that are elevated above an underbelly that provides an extrinsic public environment, connecting the streetside and rearscape of the Hyde site. Operating by packed volumes, the museum deploys multiple programs that diffuse into one another vis a vis a constantly winding torque of circulation. The project resorts to an expressive interiority and figural roof fenestration in order to retain the Hyde’s extrinsic heritage and historicity.

PROGRAM MUSEUM EXPANSION

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Ground floor and Second floor

Site plan

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Render of rear concourse

Transverse sections

Render of central courtyard

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Perspectival view / central gallery

A play on “greenwashing”, HYDRASCAPE satirizes the political and ethical dimensions of eco-friendliness in design that are exploited and commercialized. Part land art, and part infrastructure, hydrascape inhabits the context of places often overlooked (i.e. transitional spaces and intermediary topographies such as parking lots, beaches, agricultural fields). Ideal as a buffer zone, the bioswale contains three-layer modules that can be arrayed along two axes to tesselate into an augmented landscape of scalar variety. The combination of green anodizing, steel, aluminum, and natural filtration is used as a subtle jest of eco-nomies by a way of overdesigning.

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HYDRASCAPE

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PROGRAM BIOSWALE

Aerial visualization

20’0’Typical planA Matter of Course #10 by Dillon Marsh

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Eco-graphic componentry applications Uphill disposition

Component strips

Longitudinal section

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Anodized aluminum scrims

Auxilary ramp

Aqueduct

Perforated scrimfor rip rap

Aluminum stripes for soil buffers

Filtration concept

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SYNTHESIS INDEX

0Graphic grooves provide circulationguidance and surface friction

1Dirty surface runoff is captured through aluminum troughs or perforated scrims

2Water enters first stage of filtration through steel buffers holding soil and vegetation

3After soil remediation, water is drained through a base sheet of rip-rap (shot rock that prevents component erosion and provides filtration)

4Clean water seeps down to local ground aquifer, while debris is collected on base strips for convenient cleaning

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LOCATION TERRAFORMED PLANETS

ARGONAUTIS

NARRATIVES ARGONAUTIS

PROGRAM CELESTIAL DOMESTICITIES

Atmospheric pressures culminate with a crash on a desolate landscape. From this projectile crash rises two augmented shears, consisting of three figural masses for inhabitation. Elevated living spaces are crowned with aperatures oriented towards the celestial unknown while the central atrium for speculation and secluded base space for rest peer into a newfound terrain of desire.

Physical models and landscapes

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AQUAS PLUSH

LOCATION 128 WOOSTER ST. NY, NY

Issey Miyake’s fashion identity is built around traditional Japanese attire motifs. Emulating satorial sensation over satorial technique, the new storefront portrays a seamless sheet of soft infrathin plastic that responds similarly to how polyurethane foam retains shape. The plush sheet consists of an array of tiles that are intrinsically sharp, yet extrinsically soft., making it a tactile and animated surface.

FACADE PLUSH WALL

PROGRAM STOREFRONT / BRAND

Storefront elevation Aerial render dramatizing plush tiles Render of interior surface

Bitmap diagramsCicada Pleats by Issey Miyake

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PERISCOPIC HEIGHTS

LOCATION 230 RIVER ST. TROY, NY

MIX-USE PERISCOPIC HEIGHTS

PROGRAM RESIDENCY HOUSING / CINEMA

Aerial visualization

Suspiria (1977) by Dario Argento

Periscopic Heights is a mixed-use cinema and filmmaker residency that is situated at a prominent river front site in upstate New York. The empty block issues a double party wall condition which manifests in a hyper graphic two face project. A voided sphinx houses a frontal atrium, box office, projection room, theater, and entry, while an array of thirty residence units sits above encased by the rectilinear profile. The cinema situates its organization as a type of periscope where the cinematic image is projected in orientation to the urban development and the large central aperture is projected in orientation to the Hudson river. The large aperature creates a framed view that exaggerates the scale of fenestration, immediately transforming extrinsic dispositions into a filmic terrain. Likewise, an array of brise soleils with transparent solar panels texture the front and back graphic faces, providing shading, energy and a celluloid glaze. An auxilary entrance for residences sits at street side and level with each floor providing six units and a recreational and study rooms. Periscopic Heights presents itself as a local showcase and effort to revitalize cinema culture for a reviving downtown.

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Ground floor plan Typical residences plan

Site plan

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Longitudinal section

Interior render from atrium Synthesis axonometric

Aluminum shell

Sphinx and residency

Solar celluloid screen

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