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Megan Cheung's Portfolio of selected works professionally and from her M'Arch 14 at University of Pennsylvania.
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UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
megan cheungM.ARCH’14 B.S. ARCH’11
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FAME the haus of gagaTOWER
MORR the museum of
reimagined realities
MAXIMALISM
FAX-IST
435 the new art decoW50TH04.
01 coMpoSItIon
Maximalism manifests itself in the figure as a composition of accumulated objects.
01.1Overall Perspective of the proposed integrated F1 test track and headquarters from the North East
MAXIMALISM
locationFerrari Headquarters[Maranello, Italy]
programmeF1 test track + Headquarters
missionMaximalism, for us, is the idea that a figure, or whole, is a composition of accumulated objects. However, there were two things, by which we were wary of being trapped. At one extreme, we wanted to be careful about focusing too heavily on the discrete objects and then merely relying on local relationships to begin to define the composition. This would result in a figure that lacked an overall coherency as there would be no overall compositional strategy. At the other extreme, we also wanted to be careful about putting too much weight on the figure and relying on a subdivisional logic to create the constituent objects, inevitably result in a rather predictable subdivision of the figure.
Rather than avoid either of these two extremes, we chose hyperbolize them. To create these extremes of the multiple readings of the composition, we maximized the use of the seam from its play on the surface and how it can imply a surficial panelization but also the moments when it deepens to a crack, perhaps an opening and eventually into a volumetric void that inverses the inherent reading of the spaces from the exterior. By maximizing the extremes, the in between becomes the moment of interest where the two extremes coalesce. Qualities bridge these seams or run parallel. Material bridges seams where one would expect a material change. As seams densify and accumulate, a pattern emerges from the accumulation of seams, material changes and apertures.
[done in collaboration with Andrew Gardner]
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01.EXtrEMES
The extremes are utilized to maximize the possibilities in between as the seams transition from crack to void and ultimately when it inverses and creates space within.
01.2Site Plan Render
01.dEnSIFy
As the seams proliferate and densify, there is a pattern that emerges from the transition from a surficial seam to those that deepen and accumulate.
01.3East Building's transition of seam use
01.pAttErn
The accumulation of seams begin to form a larger pattern of aperature openings, material changes and transitions between indexing and non-indexical readings of the buildings.
01.4North Building's emergent pattern
02 bioluminescence
Bioluminescent creatures in their native environments have an unquestionable otherworldly affect, and yet we understand that they exist. This believable otherworldliness is what intrigues us and what makes them perfect for science fiction. We understand the existence of bioluminescence in the wild and we can believe that at some point in the future, humanity will find a way to harness and even engineer this unique biological process.
02.1Kent Avenue + S. 3rd Street corner entrance
moRR the museum ofreimagined realities
locationKent Avenue + S. 3rd Street[Williamsburg, NYC]
programmescience fiction museum
missionScience fiction often alters the role of perception between human and machine through the evolution of technology. MoRR celebrates the spectacle, creating the unforeseen, reversing the traditional role of who or perhaps what is viewing and who or what is being viewed and ultimately, how they are viewed. Perception drives the formal language within our design, producing moments where viewers are viewed by others or the building, unnoticed.
As an unique genre for film as that it relies on otherworldly affects to catch the attention of the audiance and scientific realities. To captivate an audience in an immersive experience, science fiction must make the audience believe that these speculative realities are not just speculations, but realities.
The goal of MoRR is to investigate the bioengineering and harnessing of bioluminescent algae to act as a set of architectural systems that are highly integrated with the overall formal qualities of the design. Just as science fiction relies on a balance of science and fiction, the flows of algae throughout the museum strive to adopt a hybridized visual language that can be both highly organic and highly artificial.
published on suckerPUNCH[done in collaboration with Andrew Gardner + Yi-Ju Tseng]
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02.system oR effect
The algae system is not only for its bioluminescent effects but also to define the formal qualities of the rest of the building systems on the interior as well as the exterior.
02.2Courtyard + its entrance on the east side
02.inhabitable facade
Formed Resin, the facade takes a plastic form that morphs from wall to seating to recessed screens.
02.12/F Corridor Exhibition and Screening
02 topological suRface
The building skin and the facade wraps not only itself but with each other, creating nested spaces.
S1 SECTION PERSPSCALE : NTS
M1 3D PRINT MODELSCALE : 1’ = 1/16”
03 parti
The FAME tower is a pivotal link between the Highline and 10th Avenue, redefining what is considered as the front face of the building. Its
03.1FAMEtower's unit users and lifestyles
03.2Cluster concept organization
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location23rd Street & 10th Avenue, NYC [the highline]
programmeresidential
clientsLady Gaga & her monsters
user groupsNicola Formichetti (designer)Chloé Grey (aspiring)Christian Lee (monster)
missionThe HAUS of Gaga pushes the boundaries of design and music production, learning and collaboration with different disciplines, especially the business world. Centered around the design innovations of Lady Gaga’s creative team, there will be visiting inspirations, aspiring artists and observers who simply want to experience the creative happenings in person.
Young working people, creative or other-wise (such as I-bankers), often spend most of their time outside of their home, whether it be work or just out and about. They use their home merely as a place to sleep and store their things. The Residences within the Haus will have sleeping spaces with shared ‘living room’ spaces that residents can use during their downtime. The house nests private and public spaces around the open circulation with visual connections to different programs throughout.
published in PRESSING MATTERS 2
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FaME the haus of gagatowEr
03. rEsidEntial Exhibition
The FAMEtower’s concept of interlocking and visual connections is applied in the micro - scale within the residences.
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03.3View from the open bathroom and bedroom that is visible from the main entrance as visitors are escorted below to the entertainment area. See but don’t touch.
03. strEEt FacE
The FAMEtower fronts on both 10th Avenue and the Highline and with the drastic difference of use and programmes to both, different attitudes and faces are required.
03.4View from 23rd Street and 10th Avenue
03.5Typical Four Unit Cluster Residential Plans(opposite page)
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03. street face
The variety of interactive programmes stem off the main trajectory connecting the Highline lobby and the 10th Avenue lobby where the unforseen meetings and happenings occur at the most unexpected moments.
03.6Composite drawing from Highline elevation to the 10th Avenue lobby section
FAMEtower
04. the living block
The Living Block define the units and creates rhythm throughout the system of unit aggregations
04.1option 2 axon render (right)
04.2interior elevation render (below)
04.3option 1 - 3 physical model (opposite page)
location435 W. 50th StreetNY, NY 10019
firmmanifold architecture studio
programmeluxury loft living
competitionfirst place
missionThere is a wealth of opportunity offered through the combination of its distinctive location and its architectural heritage, evaluated through the lens of 21st century living. Manifold would like to position 435 as a well-crafted, quality living unprecedented in Clinton and undeniably New York.
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435 the new art decow50th
05.BOSTAN
Istanbul has experienced incredible
growth over the last 50 years, tripling
in its population. As a result of this
massive influx of people, land resources
have grown increasingly scarce.
Bostans, the traditional community
farms, have become the latest victims in
the search for developable land within
the city. In addition, the importation of
food products, made possible through
growing pressures of globalisation,
have made bostans increasingly difficult
to sustain. The destruction of these
bostans do not simply represent the loss
of arable land for the city; their losses
also have negative cultural and social
impacts on their neighborhoods.
05.1Southern Perspective of the vertical
bostans indexed by the blooming
photovoltaics.
FAX-IST
locationIstanbul, Turkey
programmeMixed Vertical Bostan, Residential and
Commercial
missionThis speculative prototype for a new
approach to urbanization in Istanbul layers
these bostans back into the city. Given the
ecological, cultural, and social influences
of the bostans, the designing of a building
layered with them must itself be layered into
the ecological, cultural, and social contexts
of the city. This means layering bostans
into both public and private programs. This
means layering in and designing integrated
renewable resources into the architecture.
This even means layering the building’s
formal presence within the landscape into
the existing geographic and infrastructural
contexts. This excessive layering of
highly specialized programs, performative
systems, and architectural forms gives rise
to an aesthetic defined by an excessive
expression of layered formal qualities.
FAX-IST will not simply revitalise the
bostans in Istanbul, it will also contemporise
them, bringing back their cultural and
social benefits within the context of a
contemporary, vertically-organized urban
fabric.
[done in collaboration with Andrew Gardner]
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05.SITE CONNECTIVITY
FAX-IST interfaces with the site at
two elevations allowing vehicular
access and pedestrian access. It also
interfaces with the land and water,
emerging from the landscape.
05.2South Western Perspective of the tower's
multpile access points and its emergence
from the landscape.
05.MULTIPLICITY OF SCALES
The multiplicity of scales within the
forms of hydroponic planters allow for
a range of food to be grown.
05.7 - 05.9Section 3D Print of a single module within
the Bostans on the residential floors. The
blooming photovoltaic indexes the bostans
within.
05.VERTICAL GENERATION
A new generation of residents will
be reintroduced to a farm to mouth
concept, understanding how food is
grown.
05.10Bostans, reintroduced in a contemporized
manner, cohabitates within a residential
tower instead of being demolished for
continued building.
