Samantha Wai

321.536.4191

ssammiwai@gmail.com

Life’s Winding Road: Funeral Chapel

Sustainable Health: Roatan Trauma Center

Escape from Monotony: Kansas City Theater

Photography

Sketches

Paintings

Art

Architecture

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Represent then Reuse: Winter Olympics 12

Resume 44

Environmental Effects: Working Master’s Thesis 28

Architecture

Escape from Monotony:Kansas City TheaterThe theater has long provided people with entertainment and has opened them to a new world to feel a part of. It allows them to escape their everyday monotonous routines. The curvilinear, raised theaters represents this escape and contrasts the orthogonal, ordered form of the offices and practice studios, representing monotony. Separating these functions through form emphasizes the escape and creates an outdoor public plaza between the forms to encourage public engagement with the theater. Raising the theaters is also symbolic of being detached and free, whereas the offices and practice studios are built into the topography symbolizing being grounded.

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MONOTONY

ESCAPE

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Public plaza located between forms

1st Floor: Offices, practice studios,gallery, lobby, storage

2nd Floor: Public plaza

3rd Floor: Main theater, black box theater

Public plaza is used for formal and informal gatherings

Storefront windows engage pedestrians with the art gallery

Final form

Slope ceiling and floor of main theaterfor acoustic quality and to increase sight lines.

Organize program into forms of everyday activities and special activities.

Curve walls of main and black box theater for acoustic quality and to react to main theater form.

Separate theaters (the escape) from the base (monotony).

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Represent then Reuse:Winter OlympicsThis media center and tribune, designed for the 2016 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, has two design concepts, aesthetic and functional. Aesthetically, it is inspired by the athletes and their outstanding physical conditions. The concept is a muscle wrapping around a bone. The ‘muscle’ is the organic, load bearing steel structure that supports the entire building while wrapping around it like a muscle. The ‘bone’ is the orthogonal, rigid, wood building. Functionally, the building is designed to allow its reuse after the Olympics. It is created through modules that are the maximum size of a semi-truck. The building is split into 18 modules to be transported to 4 different popular South Korean beaches, where it will be reused as an information and camp site equipment rental facility. The reuse of the building is an environmentally effective way to expand its life-span.

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North-South Section: Media roomsSchematic design sketches

East-West Section: Green and Media room

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Wrapping steel structure represents a muscle

Outdoor viewing area

Haeundae Beach

Post-olympics locationsModular structure separated

Separate bottom halfof steel structure

Rotate

Reuse as public pavilion

MuchangpoBeach

ByeonsanBeach

HaeundaeBeach

SangjuBeach

OlympicLocation

Gyeongpodae

Sangju-Myeon

Muchangpo

Byeonsan

North Korea

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Muchango Beach

Byeonsan BeachPublic pavilion

When our design team met with the governor, mayor, local doctors, and community leaders in Roatan, the client’s needs became obvious. Since Roatan, Honduras has a very low budget allotted to their health care facilities, low cost construction and employment were important. To accommodate this need, the design is separated into three buildings according to function to allow for a phased construction, building as funds became available. A central nurses station allows one nurse to observe all the adjacent rooms, minimizing staff. Also, multiple design implications were made to naturally reduce the heat within the building and create a comfortable place to be without the need of air conditioning. Furthermore, this building was designed to mimic the culture and architectural style of the region.

Sustainable Health:Roatan Trauma Center

In collaboration with:Jay Chenault, Kelsie Kremer,Andrew Stith, and Naihao Fan

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Central nurse’s station allows easy access and observationto all services

Airflow between buildingsreduces heat gain

Water collection and filtration Community Center and storage

Waiting room, emergency ward, and operating room

Waiting room, central nurses station, and neonatal room

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Community Center

Storage

Nurses Station

Waiting Area

ER Ward

ICU

ICU

ApartmentApartment

Kitchen Neonatal

OperatingGardenGarden

Casting

Consultation

Neonatal

Nurse’s station from waiting area

Main hospital entrance

Louvered skin reduces heat gain

Louvered skin, double roof, and raised structure reduce heat gain

Circulation

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Though we may have an idea of what lies ahead, life is a winding road. We never know what is just around the bend. This funeral chapel was designed to represent life. Its curved floor plan doesn’t allow the user to see what it around the bend, until he or she reaches it. Letting natural light in above eye level eliminates outside visual distraction while experiencing the transition between entry and chapel. The view beyond the ceremonial furniture is of a natural wooded area, giving the mourning audience some visual relief and serenity.

Life’s Winding Road:Funeral Chapel

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Schematic design sketches

27Large chapel and outdoor reflection area

Curtain wall systems are among the most popular facade choices in North America and other regions. However, the typical curtain wall is a poor insulator and causes a building’s energy needs to be quite high. Through research, my team has found that the weakest insulating point in a curtain wall is its frame. Therefore, we created a new curtain wall system with the framing area reduced. We accomplished this through our innovative “structural spacer” and “aluminum shelf” which replaces the frame’s typical horizontal mullion. Our new system increases views by 33.45% at 3’ away and 6.70% at 20’ away, increases natural daylighting by 19.86%, increases thermal insulation by 58.70%, and decreases heating and cooling loads by 18%.

In collaboration with:Hanh Phung and Tyler Countess

Environmental Effects: Working Master’s Thesis

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Increased natural daylighting by 19.86%

Our Curtain WallTypical Curtain Wall

Increased thermal insulation by 58.70%

Decreases heating and cooling loads by 18%

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low-e tempered glass

convection control film

expanded rubber

steel channel spacer

butyl

vertical aluminium mullionaluminum shelf

low-e tempered glassstructural spacer

low-e tempered glass

structural spacer

Art

Between Skins

Sagrada de Familia

On a Grid

Jewish Museum

35Deception Pass on Whidbey IslandKSU Photography Competition: Best in Show

Reflections of the Past

Gehry and Graham ParthenonBarcelona Pavilion

BMW Showroom: Munich

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The Flow of Energy Within the Wave Bird of Paradise

We Are All Connected

43A Broken GuitarKSU Delineation Competition: First Place

EDUCATION Master of ArchitectureKansas State University 5 year NAAB Master's Program GPA: 3.8

Minor in Regional & Community PlanningKansas State University GPA: 3.8

Minor in BusinessKansas State University GPA: 3.9

Study Abroad: Architecture and Urban PlanningCzech Technical Institute Feb. 2014 - May 2014

HONORS Dean's ListFall 2010 - Fall 2014

1st Place Delineation Competition2012 College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

Best in Show Photography Competition2012 College of Architecture, Planning, and Design

SAMANTHA WAI ssammiwai@gmail.com 321-536-4191411 N 17th Street Apt 2 Manhattan, KS

INVOLVEMENT American Institute of Architecture StudentsFall 2010 - Spring 2014

Responsible Stewardship CommitteeFall 2012 - Spring 2013

United States Green Build CouncilFall 2013 - Fall 2014

Study Abroad CommitteeFall 2014 - Spring 2015

American Planning AssociationFall 2014 - Spring 2015

SKILLS

EXPERIENCE Action Pact Design Manhattan, KSArchitect Intern May 2013 - February 2014Construction documents, Photoshop, facade design, specifications, filing, collaboration, and organization

Mucho Burrito Melbourne, FLManager December 2008 - August 2010Marketing, accounting, training hiring, and business management

Restaurant server FL KSServer May 2005 - August 2014Time management, confidence, and verbal communication

REFERENCES Tracy AndersonArchitect Supervisor tracy.anderson@actionpact.com 785-539-0806

Michael GibsonGraduate Studio Professor mdgibson@ksu.edu

David SachsStudio Professor sachs@ksu.edu 785-532-1183 45

Adobe Design Standard CS6Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator

AutodeskRevit 2014, AutoCAD 2013, Ecotect 2011

Other ProgramsRhino 5.0, Microsoft Office 2013

Model makingHand-made, Laser-cut, 3D printed

Sketching & PaintingGraphite & Ink, Acrylic & Oil paint

Photography