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Spring 2011Fall 2010Spring 2011Summer 2010Fall 2009Summer 2009

Professional Work 2007-2009

JIA-JUN YEO

ADDRESS 1012 Chapel Street, Unit 202

New Haven, CT 06510 USA

PHONE +(1) 646-763-4566

EMAIL [email protected]

EDUCATION

Yale School of Architecture / Fall 2008 - Present Master of Architecture (I) Program

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada / Fall 2005 Student Exchange Program, Participated in Urban Design Studio and Design/Build Studio

National University of Singapore / 2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (Honours) May 07 RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, New York City / 2007 Aug 2008 Jul Junior Architect +(1) 212-237-3588 www.kpf.com

Bro-OS, Beijing / Summer 2010 Architectural Intern +(86) 10-5900-1989 www.buro-os.com

The Secret Little Agency, Singapore / 2009 Jul Aug Design Construction www.thesecretlittleagency.com

Alsop Architects, Singapore / 2006 Jun Aug Architectural Intern www.alsoparchitects.com

Ministry of Design, Singapore / 2004 Jun Aug Architectural Intern +(65) 6222-5780 www.modonline.com

Equal Brand Design, Singapore / 2001 Jan Mar Graphic Design Intern +(65) 6223 3398 ACTIVITIES

Yale School of Architecture / 2010 2011 Teaching Fellow, Intermediate Planning and Development, with Professor Alexander Garvin Teaching Assistant, Sites & Buildings, with Professor Steven Harris

Death of Print / 2007 2010 Contributor End of Century Gallery, New York City

5ft Creatives / 2007 2010 Founder Director Writer

Singapore Architect Magazine / 2010 Contributor

Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore / 2006 2007 Vice President, The Architectural Society Teaching Assistant, Technology in Social Habitats, with Professor Wong Yunn Chii

Singapore Youth Expedition Project / 2005 Volunteer with Tsunami relief effort in Galle, Sri Lanka

Guard of Honour, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002

Freelance Graphic Design / 2000 Present AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

Build a Better Burb / 2010 Finalist, with Kipp C. Edick www.buildabetterburb.org

Deans List / 2003 2004 National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture

Field Defence Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002 Outstanding RSAF Serviceman of the Month, Letter of Commendation SKILLS

AutoCAD, Microstation, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Pepakura, Maxwell, V-Ray, Mental Ray, Ecotect, Microsoft Office / Wood & Metal working, Experimental Casting, Timber & S.I.P. Construction, CNC Milling, Hand Drafting, Self-Publishing Fluent in English and Mandarin, both written and spoken. REFERENCES available upon request

JIA-JUN YEO

ADDRESS 1012 Chapel Street, Unit 202

New Haven, CT 06510 USA

PHONE +(1) 646-763-4566

EMAIL [email protected]

EDUCATION

Yale School of Architecture / Fall 2008 - Present Master of Architecture (I) Program

University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada / Fall 2005 Student Exchange Program, Participated in Urban Design Studio and Design/Build Studio

National University of Singapore / 2003 - 2007 Bachelor of Arts in Architecture (Honours) May 07 RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC, New York City / 2007 Aug 2008 Jul Junior Architect +(1) 212-237-3588 www.kpf.com

Bro-OS, Beijing / Summer 2010 Architectural Intern +(86) 10-5900-1989 www.buro-os.com

The Secret Little Agency, Singapore / 2009 Jul Aug Design Construction www.thesecretlittleagency.com

Alsop Architects, Singapore / 2006 Jun Aug Architectural Intern www.alsoparchitects.com

Ministry of Design, Singapore / 2004 Jun Aug Architectural Intern +(65) 6222-5780 www.modonline.com

Equal Brand Design, Singapore / 2001 Jan Mar Graphic Design Intern +(65) 6223 3398 ACTIVITIES

Yale School of Architecture / 2010 2011 Teaching Fellow, Intermediate Planning and Development, with Professor Alexander Garvin Teaching Assistant, Sites & Buildings, with Professor Steven Harris

Death of Print / 2007 2010 Contributor End of Century Gallery, New York City

5ft Creatives / 2007 2010 Founder Director Writer

Singapore Architect Magazine / 2010 Contributor

Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore / 2006 2007 Vice President, The Architectural Society Teaching Assistant, Technology in Social Habitats, with Professor Wong Yunn Chii

Singapore Youth Expedition Project / 2005 Volunteer with Tsunami relief effort in Galle, Sri Lanka

Guard of Honour, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002

Freelance Graphic Design / 2000 Present AWARDS & COMPETITIONS

Build a Better Burb / 2010 Finalist, with Kipp C. Edick www.buildabetterburb.org

Deans List / 2003 2004 National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture

Field Defence Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force / 2002 Outstanding RSAF Serviceman of the Month, Letter of Commendation SKILLS

AutoCAD, Microstation, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Sketchup, Pepakura, Maxwell, V-Ray, Mental Ray, Ecotect, Microsoft Office / Wood & Metal working, Experimental Casting, Timber & S.I.P. Construction, CNC Milling, Hand Drafting, Self-Publishing Fluent in English and Mandarin, both written and spoken. REFERENCES available upon request

6Infrastructural Topologies

This studio focused on the design of a high speed rail station for California in Downtown Los Angeles, while harnessing the density and lack of a central void characterized by the typology of the hypostyle hall. Crucial to this was the definition of a contemporary column; the columns developed here mediate between the planometric differences generated by the infrastructural program of the building. As a multi-modal transporation knot, the station will be a point of convergence for trains, automobiles and pedestrians. Connections at the intersections of these columns allow for the creation of a variety of inhabitable space within the hollow columns, while circulation systems and points of release punctuate the user experience as one enters the void figures between columns.

CALIFORNISTATIONYALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREGREG LYNN ADVANCED STUDIOSPRING 2011

7The project adapts existing modes of transportation while achieving a synthesis of various types of traffic through the use of a scaled-up columnar hall. While the traditional definition of the hypostyle hall operates based on repetition and flatness, here the station utilizes large scale, subtle columnar variation and volumetric intersection to create spatial difference and interconnectivity, adapting the typology of the civic hypostyle to a contemporary infrastructural institution.

Access to the station happens on multiple levels: from the train tracks, charging tracks below at B2, and from the existing Union Station on North Alameda Street and from the Gateway Transit Center.

L3R L2

L1 B1 Reflected Ceiling Plan

8Level 1 plan:Travel Lounges, F&B, Access to platforms

Basement 2 plan:Charging Highway, Parking, Retail, Connection to Santa Ana Freeway / East Cesar E Chavez Ave

Basement 1 plan: Grand hall, Retail, Connection to Union Station and Gateway Transit Center

L1 B2

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view from north

massing model

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Practice makes perfect

The town of Callan developed as did many towns and cities in the 19th century with their backs turned toward the main waterways. Instead, the Main street was where the attention of the town folk was centered; and in Callans case, away from its historical medieval lanes and Kings River.

Through the manipulation of the ground surface and insertion of textured ground surfaces, the KCAT Theater Center performs its bridging function while creating a new public space. The new ground surface links the main street intersection of Callan directly to the Theater Center, where a flexible performance hall, workshops and apartments surround a series of rehearsal spaces in which the daily activities of actors and artists unfold. While the horizontal configuration of program provides a counterpoint to the

GROUNDING CALLANYALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURETOD WILLIAMS & BILLIE TSIEN ADVANCED STUDIOFALL 2010

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vertically stratified nature of the existing KCAT building, the massing of the project expresses an aggregation of built form at the rivers edge a privilege previously only offered to streets and squares while organizing spaces around the daily practice of rehearsal. While expressing the accessible nature of the KCAT program and its new premises, the ground surface links the main street intersection of Callan directly to the Theater Center, where it slips between a flexible performance hall, workshops and apartments which surround a series of rehearsal spaces in which the daily rituals of actors and artists unfold.

This project was nominated for the Yale School of Architectures H.I. Feldman Prize in the Fall of 2011.

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performance theater hall2600 sf.prop shop1000 sf.

spill out spaces transitional spaces access & circulation

theaterhall

rehearsal rooms

houses

office store

cafe

green room

dressing room

prop shop

loading / unloading

cafe 1000 sf.

dressing room 500 sf.

rest rooms500 sf.

load /unload400 sf.

greenroom100 sf.

boxoffice100 sf.

pedestrian bridge

rehearsal / common use space800 sf.




office / admin100 sf.

restrooms500 sf.

4 bedroom apartment1000 sf.


studioapartments250 sf. x 4

practice

living



theaterhall

rehearsal rooms

houses

office store

cafe

green room

dressing room

prop shop

loading / unloading

cafe 1000 sf.


rest rooms500 sf.

load /unload400 sf.

greenroom100 sf.

boxoffice100 sf.

pedestrian bridge






restrooms500 sf.




practice

living



theaterhall

rehearsal rooms

houses

office store

cafe

green room

dressing room

prop shop

loading / unloading

cafe 1000 sf.


rest rooms500 sf.

load /unload400 sf.

greenroom100 sf.

boxoffice100 sf.

pedestrian bridge






restrooms500 sf.




practice

living



theaterhall

rehearsal rooms

houses

office store

cafe

green room

dressing room

prop shop

loading / unloading

cafe 1000 sf.


rest rooms500 sf.

load /unload400 sf.

greenroom100 sf.

boxoffice100 sf.

pedestrian bridge






restrooms500 sf.




practice

living

Continued by means of a narrow bridge over the river, the ground surfaces consistent materiality across foreground and background collapses the space between the existing art centres premises and the new theatre centre. While the car park has been redesigned to suggest its use for activities ranging from daily parking to an annual arts festival, the rehearsal spaces and performance hall allow for flexible occupancy and back of house access to encourage theatrical experimentation.

Program diagrams and site plan at ground floor

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Central communal space,rehearsal rooms and theatre hall

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Aerial view of Callan with ground surfaces highlighted

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The removal of the I-195 highway in Providence, RI presented the opportunity for the insertion of a physically connective strip condition within the center of downtown providence, which will enable previously unprecedented programs and building types to catalyze the integration of local economy and human capital. What would happen if the edge became the center?

STRIP CITYYALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREBIMAL MENDIS URBANISM STUDIOSPRING 2010

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Various scales of architecture, building types and infrastructure occupying the zone of the periphery were examined in order to posit the repositioning of edge and peripheral types within the very center of Providence as catalytic agents; leveraging on the cooperative potentials between key industries and existing academic research institutions.

Amgen Research & Recreation Center, Providence RILongitudinal section through recreational plinth

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prologue

what type?

This kit has been developed as a guide to examining non-standard and hybrid buildings types which could constitute the ingredients of new urban districts, and test development parcels in locations where market-driven types will constitute the majority of buildings.

These typologies have unfortunately come to repre-sent the anti-urban, but they are just as much a part of the urban vocabulary.

If the Urbanism Starter Kit proposed informed build-ing blocks that aim to balance economic, dimen-sional and environmental criteria, these observa-tions look to eccentricities of typology that exist on the perimeter of urbanity in cities as we know it, to hypothesize what they can offer to specific urban contexts.

While typical types emerge as inevitable manifesta-tions of market forces and use, the new types here solve specific emergent problems through program-matic transformation while maintaining core flex-ibility.

The relative value of the land will have an impact on the potential elasticity of the type. In newly planned urban districts, the need for new identity, driven by economic agenda, impacts the evolution of the pure prototype into collaged assemblages.

JJ YEOGINA DI TOLLA

Clubhouse & Sport facilities

Rules of Thumb:

- The average golf course runs between 6400-6800 hundred yards, thats up to 3.86 miles. An 18-hole golf facility averages about 150-200 acres of total land, including water bodies, hard structures, and out-of-play-areas. Typical urban courses are only 110-120 acres, and courses in resort areas may go up to 170-190 acres.- Green fees can be high; in this case Pebble Beach charges USD$495 per flight- Attendant facilities include a clubhouse with food & beverage amenities and other sport facilities like a pool, tennis courts, etc. and even overnight guest rooms.- Drainage and Grading of golf courses are considered and are usually designed to be compatible with the character of their immediate environments- The golf industry has a substantial impact on the local economy. The 25 cours es in Scottsdale Arizona employ 1,025 workers with a combined payroll of $22.6 million per year. The direct economic impact of those 25 courses is conserva tively estimated at $45 million per year, with revenues of almost $676,000 in sales taxes in 1995. It is the indirect economic impact from tourists enjoying golf in Scottsdale, that provides economic benefits to the entire community. In addi tion to playing golf, tourists stay in Scottsdale hotels and resorts, eat at local restaurants, and shopping at local businesses. The indirect revenues generated from golf can be four or five times the amount of direct revenues.- Residential developments often incorporate golf courses into development plans, both as an additional amenity for future residents and as a way to add value to residential properties along the golf course.

1 mile

Golf Course Water Management Schematic

Rules of Thumb:- Storage of commercial / personal goods & items- Usually commercial / industrial storage facilities are located at the city fringe, while personal storage facilities are located more centrally

- Located near infrastructural highways- Large, Horizontal, Low Structures.- Required Usage of - Large Loading / Vehicle Storage & Parking Area

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Rules of Thumb:

- Also known as Interstate Rest Areas- Located along U.S. Interstate Highways- Provide Food & Drink, Fuel and other Amenities to Drivers- Usual Tenants:Macd

Extracts from pamphlet

Peripheral Inversion of Manhattan

$99M $515M $16M $175MInternational Student Tuition

Domestic Student Tuition:Country

2008City

Budget

$800M

RISD

JOHNSON & WALES

BROWN

Domestic Student Tuition:State

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2008City

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$800M

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JOHNSON & WALES

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2008City

Budget

$800M

RISD

JOHNSON & WALES

BROWN


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2008City

Budget

$800M

RISD

JOHNSON & WALES

BROWN


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2008City

Budget

$800M

RISD

JOHNSON & WALES

BROWN


Contributions



2008City

Budget

$800M

RISD

JOHNSON & WALES

BROWN


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chelsea piersmanhattan

payne whitney gymnasiumnew haven

pier 40manhattan

siteprovidence, ri

water cubebeijing, china

5 miles

Edge precedents

Large scale sports and recreation precedents

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TidalFlooding

ProvidenceRiver

TidalFlooding Control

Point /Chestnut St.

ControlPoint /

Richmond St.

ControlPoint /

Dyer St.

ControlPoint

Interstate-95Catchment / Storm Zone 4

Catchment / Storm Zone 3



TidalFlooding

ProvidenceRiver


Point /Chestnut St.

ControlPoint /

Richmond St.

ControlPoint /

Dyer St.

ControlPoint





Unfolded plan and sectionTidal pool, flood plain and stormwater system

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TidalFlooding

ProvidenceRiver


Point /Chestnut St.

ControlPoint /

Richmond St.

ControlPoint /

Dyer St.

ControlPoint





TidalFlooding

ProvidenceRiver


Point /Chestnut St.

ControlPoint /

Richmond St.

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Dyer St.

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Cooperative programs give birth to architectures which materialize as infrastructure-scaled buildings catering, in this case, to research and development programs linking up Bio-Med MNCs such as AMGEN and local institutions like Brown University. These buildings inhabit a flexible green thoroughfare which doubles as connective park tissue and stormwater repository and contingency flood plain for the city of Providence.

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Transverse section Proposal for Amgen-Brown University Bio-Medical Research & Recreation Center

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In examining the existing implements that constitute the urban zero-point, we saw the opportunity to rebuild Long Island literally from the ground up. While architecture has changed over time, the built environments hardscape that which constitutes any given stretch of sidewalk, asphalt, tree planters, newsstands, hard paving and even street lighting has essentially remained constant regardless of location, be it city center, suburban strip mall or rural countryside. The needs of the Long Island burb requires more than just purely unctional implements but something which can sustain an aging population, while catering to and attracting an active younger demographic with new implements that improves the surroundings while offering a different living environment from the metropolis.

Seemingly convenient, the current suburban landscape in Long Island is geared towards the default use of the automobile by its inhabitants. An analysis of land use within the Hicksville downtown vicinity reveals that residential areas are distinctly separate from amenities and conveniences. A typical Hicksville inhabitant has to endure minutes of downtown traffic junctions in order to get a bottle of milk, a magazine, visit the laundromat or even to get some groceries. Contrast this with downtown Manhattan, where all the needs of an apartment dweller are met within just a twoblock radius.

Performance thus has to be aimed at mechanisms that can accommodate physical accessibility and economic and social atmosphere. Instead of a top-down imposition of asphalt and concrete, the new hard-scape springs from bottom-up, taking into account existing conditions and inhabitants and enabling improved pedestrian and bike connections between related programs, and ultimately greater access to regional networks such as the LIRR and LIE. At the more immediate scale of the Long Island home, a five to ten minute walk to the office, or a light jog to the deli, are visions which the new hardscape will enable, in favor of neighborhoods which encourage human interaction and not traffic-light distraction.

One startling obvious fact about most hamlets in the Long Island region is its unrelenting flatness. The lack of topographical variety has undoubtedly contributed to the unsavory nature of Hicksvilles downtown, which lacks an appealing environment for living, working, and play; much like any other Long Island neighborhood. Trading the largely single or double-storied city for one that has urban relief would offer greater variety in downtown skylines. Higher density development are efficient enough for rental, enabling a more liberated, pedestrian-friendly ground floor to meet the citys inhabitants everyday needs; be it parking, retail or recreation and leisure.

In what is a return to what surburb were supposed to represent - an escape from the metropolis - the reconceived hardscape reinvents the suburban landscape by a re-optimization of hardscape implements so that the Hicksville downtown is injected with greater pedestrian connectivity, while acknowledging the presence of important regional networks.

RE-LIEFFINALIST, BUILD A BETTER BURB COMPETITIONWITH KIPP C. EDICKSUMMER 2010

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Parking Clusters

Parking Clusters

Hicksville, Long IslandUnbuilt fabric defined by block and parking

28 North Broadway

To incorporate a multitude of specific hardscape interventions, the N-S streets need to be widened to incorporate, at minimum, a bike and bus lane. The infusion of various types of regional hardscapes along Newbridge and Broadway would encourage walkability and discourage monocentric objectives.

LIRR Wishbone

The LIRR is turned into a feature by lining it with bands of bike, walk, run and bus lanes. The LIRR promenade is a way of embracing one of the staples of suburban lifestyle, the commute, instead of avoiding it until Monday. Sight lines to and from also add to the legibility of the projects ambition, re-connecting the past and present.

29Parking Swales

Where we have chosen to cover existing surface parking, we have either replaced it entirely with new program, or incorporated a surface that engages both parking and landscape simultaneously. Moreover, the swooping nature of the asphalt and grass berms is an attempt to provide a flat landscape with vantage points, and to connect moments back to the LIRR and shopping centre.

Inserted Typologies

Row

Cross-Street

Raised

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This project for an archive, which will serve as extension to the Beinecke Rare Books Library, is primarily about the archive user, its artifacts, and their relationship with daylight. Within the archive, the eye gradually adjusts to a new dim; light is employed sparingly; and an ongoing dialogue ensues at the interface between inside and outside, at the edges where the world outside ends and the life of the archive within begins.

YVMAYALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREMARTIN FINIO COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING STUDIOFALL 2009

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Transverse section

Third floor reading room plan

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New York Public Library Rose main reading room

Daylighting model

Study model

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Section looking souththrough basement auditorium

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ground floorreceptionreference desktheatre entryshoppecafe

basement onetheatreloading bayprocessing

basement twoarchival vault

info / display bar

maincirculationstair

second floor galleries & offices

third floorreading roomdigital browsingreference desk

roof

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BEINECKE REDUXYALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTUREDIGITAL MEDIA & FABRICATIONSUMMER 2009

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As part of a digital media and fabrication studio, beinecke redux sought to explore how the existing facade of the beinecke could be transformed through subtle alterations to its base geometry, while maintaining the experiential transition from a subtle exterior to a dramatic interior.

Animation sequences were used as visual transitions between pages on the site, which further illustrated the redesign of Gordon Bunshafts 1963 facade panel for the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

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A gradient of visual and liminal porosity was created using Grasshopper in Rhino, and a 9-panel prototype was then produced by means of a medium-sized MDX 540 Mill.

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Beinecke library facade with new panels

Milling in progress

Completed flip mill

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Professional Work 2007-2009

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NNTHE SECRET LITTLE AGENCYFREELANCETANJONG PAGAR, SINGAPORESUMMER 2009

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Located in Tanjong Pagar, Singapore, this project for a small seven-person advertising agency involved the interior renovation of a conservation shop house to accomodate new office premises that included a meeting room, work stations and a pantry.

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Plans, electrical, HVAC ductwork and ambient lighting

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Whiteboard interior walls facilitate the creative process in the office

Glass wall between meeting room and office area

Ambient ceiling light

Back door

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HUDSON RAIL YARDSKOHN PEDERSEN FOX ASSOCIATES PCNEW YORK CITY, NEW YORKFALL 2007

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Participated as junior architect for the design of the landscaped ground plane, in collaboration with West 8 Landscape Architecture. It is here, that 12 towers and a planned museum designed by KPF, Arquitectonica, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Elkus Manfredi Architects engage with the street level of the city.

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Plan detail at 11th Avenue

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TIANJIN HEDONG CBD MASTERPLANKOHN PEDERSEN FOX ASSOCIATES PCNEW YORK CITY, NEW YORKFALL 2007

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Facade types based on common guidelines set by the team for the entire development

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KPF explored a number of residential tower layouts that maximized exposure to southern light and city view while still minimizing the wall effect of stringing multiple towers next to each other. A number of precedents were studied.

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