Final Review
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Progress update
This term started with a major redesign of the overall scheme, transitioning from an awkward, inefficient plan to a much more regulated, and still inefficient, plan. This inefficiency is intentional, with most of my recent work exploring my thesis topic….
The Mid-Point
It’s a little strange to be writing a reflection on a studio with the knowledge that I am going to be continuing the project in another term. Going through the term, I focused much of my thinking into a somewhat…
Thoughts on a Midterm
In the lead up to this midterm I focused on developing floorplans to examine the role of collaboration in the building. I had started this entire studio with the main principle of the building going to be the interaction between…
Wax
More of these will be coming later. These experiments didn’t turn out at all as I was expecting, but I stumbled onto the fact that these strings became a hell of a lot more stiffer after pouring wax on them….
Branding and MakerKitchen
We were tasked with coming up with a new brand and logo for our project. I got a little excited and carried away with this project, just check out my notebook! I then brought all of this into Illustrator…
Site Diagramming
This analysis started off by another student and I creating an urban masterplan for Zidell Yards. We looked at multiple urban plans for the site and combined the best parts of all of them. We continued the checkerboard pattern of…
South [Maker]Factory
A current draft of my prep book: [embeddoc url=”https://blogs.uoregon.edu/arch586s16cheng/files/2015/12/Draft-26qmy80.pdf” download=”all” viewer=”google”]
Health-Tech Incubator
There is a unique opportunity in Portland with the increasing tech culture and the growth of the OHSU throughout the South Waterfront to create an opportunity for the two to intertwine in a building. Tech start-ups centred around…
Upsetting the Grid
With the existing tech start-up culture in Portland, and existing tech industry in place including Intel’s fabrication plant in Hillsboro, the ‘fab lab’ becomes a perfect fit for the city. The Zidell Yards site is situated at a prime point…