will fu architecture portfolio 2015 [outdated]

WILL FUarchitecture portfolio

2015

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WILL FU

EDUCATION

SKILL SET

WORK EXPERIENCE

essential resume

courses include design studio, iconography, visual communication, building construction, environmental design, structures, lighting & acoustics.

Univeristy of WaterlooSchool of Architecture

[class 2017]

KPMBarchitectural assistant[sept-dec 2014]

drawing documentation for tender, complete millwork, detail, and elevation drawings, 3-D site modeling, renders

HWKNarchitectural intern[jan-april 2014]

3-D visualization of context, massing iterations, in rhino nurbs. renders, diagrams,design research, and physical models.

Shenzhen Bowanarchitectural assistant[july-aug 2014]

3-D visualization, section diagrams, brick & mesh design, and floor plan proposals.

RHINO NURBS 2.0VRAY [for rhino]GrasshopperProcessingSketchupRevit 2015

AutoCAD 2014Photoshop cs6Illustrator cs6Indesign cs6Laser cuttingCNC + RhinoCAM

Hand modelingDraftingMicrosoft officeEnglish [fluent]Mandarin [fluent]

E: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

HI!

ACADEMIC

table of contents

agri-evolution garden

My name: Will Fu,

a student, optimist, and lover of all things creative.

Through research, and experimentation, I continue on a life long passion to learn how the shaping and connection of architecture can influence the way we communicate, percieve, and interact with the environment around us.

Please view and critique my work.Thank you.

projection centrepg.4-11pg.12-17

COMPETITION/SELF INITIATED

WORK

highline cinemas

KPMB

CPH digital library

HWKN

shadowplaysky city

pg.26-27pg.28-29

pg.18-21

pg.30-31

pg.22-25

pg.32-33

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AGRI-EVOLUTION GARDEN

2B STUDIO: LOLA SHEPPARD

MILTON QUARRY, ON

JULY 2014

The agri-evolution education centre is situated at the entrance of milton quarry. This centre showcases the evolution of selected cash crops and the horticulture associated with these early domesticated plants.

The goals of the centre was to create a main circulation path in which layers of information, sectional relationships, and views of the landscape are gradually revealed before one exits the building to disperse out into the fluctuating topography of the landscape.

public + private programs accessible, only views outwards

evolutionary stages of species from gmo at centre

out towards natural

architecture as machine, as a means of maintaining

the landscape

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summer perspective from field


human - plantcomparison

species size, spacing requirements from natural to gmo


machines specialized in harvesting, and planting unique species

annual growth


planting + harvesting times [plan / roll out sections]

jan

feb

mar

apr

may

june

july

aug

sept

oct

nov

dec


The landscape has 3 rings which represents the different evolutionary stages of each species from gmo centre to the natural. The circular organization of 1 acre plots allows for a rotating and changing landscape in which the species chosen are planted and harvested in different times of the year.

building + landscape axo

agriculture + industrializatin timeline of cash crops

PATH + INFO PANEL PRODUCE STORAGE LANDSCAPE

CORE LOBBY RESTAURANT EXHIBITION SPACE

LIBRARY PRIVATE STUDY SILO PATH + CORE LOBBY

LANDSCAPE MACHINE STORAGE INFO PANEL + PATH LANDSCAPE PATH LIBRARY LANDSCAPE

PATH SEED ARCHIVE


tour of production

y-section

x-section


Upon entering, people’s vision of the landscape is carefully dictated and slowly revealed as one enter the building and ascend the primary educational stream that takes people from the ground floor to the top of the silo.

entrance perspective

model pictures

long section

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PROJECTION CENTRE

2A STUDIO: ADRIAN BLACKWELL

CAMBRIDGE,ON

DEC 2013

max built mass, existing berm extrude + reinforce berm carve program, site relations

The Projection Centre primarily focuses on establishing a connection between activites through the views, and movement of the user. The cultural centre is comprised of three fragments: the visual arts centre, the performance art centre, and the fitness centre. These fragments read as a extrusion from the landscape while the 2nd floor sits as the single monolithic build form on the site.

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add interior circulation extrude small programs, views

car perspective down water st.

carve program, site relations


context of Cambridge

double end section study model

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sports fragment section perspective

1 2 3

Visual arts1

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Peformance

Fitness

admin office, daycare, gallery

auditorium, dance studio

general pool, hot tub


night perspective from berm

x-section through auditorium

x-section through pool

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views on the 2nd floor connect individuals in multiple platfroms, landscape to built, program to program, and circulation to activity. The framed extrusions were made in acknowledgement of key moments of the site.

facade treatments for light and views catered towards program and circulaiton

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HIGHLINE CINEMAS

HONOURABLE MENTION: POOR BUT BEAUTIFUL COMPETITION

IN COLLAB: LOGAN STEELE

34TH ST, NEW YORK

MAR 2014

Highline Cinemas introduces to the city what has previously been confined to the suburbs: the Drive-in Cinema. During the day the proposal serves as a functional, high density parking garage with accommodations for 252 vehicles. However, unlike a conventional parking garage which becomes inert overnight, our proposal comes to life as a vertically oriented drive-in cinema.

Boasting two main screens along with a host of secondary screens ranging from one to three floors in height with various configurations in response to orientation and theatre functions, Highline Cinemas also provide moving pods with various functions and generous sheltered public spaces.

night perspective from 34th and 10th

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daytime perspective down 34th st

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program + view sections day layout

max parking

night layout

screen programs

5-7

2-4

ground

11-12

8-10

13-14

15-18

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moveable modular rectangles provide: private lounges, study spaces, and cooking stations for local business to sell food for the show at night

site context axo

interior perspective

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CPH digital library

AWR COPENHAGEN MODERN LIBRARY COMPETITION

IN COLLAB: LYDON WHITTLE, LARA ISAAC

HARBOUR FRONT, COPENHAGEN

NOV 2014

This project seeks to challenge the existing paradigm and traditional ideals of libraries through recognizing how technology has influenced, among other things, the way people communicate, learn, and discover. The library embraces the prevalence of social media and the digitization and accessibility of information both of which have been rapidly transitioning in the past decade. The analog represents the traditional book centred library experience and is buried belowgrade in reference to an ancient delicate ruin marking the book concentrated zone as the foundation from which the digital realm has risen from.

The upper portions of the library are more representative of the current and future digital experience where books are no longer the primary medium and devices have become the agent to accessing and exploring the intangible ‘cloud’. This opening of spaces shifts the definition of a library from a storage for information to a physical realm to induce research and cross disciplinary interaction.

current librarymodel

future librarymodel

23CPH digital library

ground floor perspective

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program massing

threshold diagram

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lecture hall + meeting area

multi-media zonge

26 private maze

SHADOWPLAY

FAIRYTALES II COMPETITION

IN COLLAB: KOBI LOGENDRARAJAH, JOHNNY SINN, SHANNON KENNELLY

Blankspaceproject

JAN 2015

A mouse is to return home by navigating the maze. The wall, the most basic of all architectural elements impose and dicate the mouse to experience and act in polar extremes, his comfort is challenged, his morals are tested.

“Extruded black walls populate in orderly fashion, snapping to the white grid of a black marble plane. Pieces crisscross and bind to each other, creating diverse paths in a maze of circulation, turning sharply to form clear distinctions between figure and void. The playground is ready.”

“Within the home, encounters are minimal, chance is eliminated. Physically enclosed, comfort is protected, now resting within the permanence its locality. The walls divide and clearly punctuate the space. Black and white. There is no space for the grey, which confuses the animal with the civil.”

the playground the playground in motion

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navigating the maze

meeting another

arriving home

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SKY CITY

NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO

F_RMlab

DESTINGO RESTAURANT,QUEEN ST. WEST, TORONTO

SEPT 2014

Sky City is an exploration and imagining of spaces of the future. Sky City defines a spacial dichotomy between physical materials and virtual softwares.The growth of our digital age promises a future where our spaces exists within the physical and virtual realities. We hypthosize future interior spaces that will think, sense, and react to changes in the environment, occupancy and time while the exterior form of spaces will become more systemized and modular.

The curved path directs users through the cloud as the series of ribs illuminate the path following the users. Fabric is used to finesse the form of the ribs while creating an interior condition shielding views from the inside out. The cloud purposefully covers waist up, revealing only the legs of the user as their “heads are in the clouds.” The installation served as a shelter and framed the entrance to the restaurant that hosted our installation, Destingo.

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sky city poster

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KPMB

CO-OP II: ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT

TORONTO

SEPT-DEC 2014

At my time at KPMB I predominately aided in the drawing of construction drawings for an orchestra extension to Hendrie Hall, site and scale analysis of Huronia Regional Centre, and health and science layouts for CAMH. I learnt how to draw RCP’s, details, AV drawings, and slab edge drawings as well as general material and construction knowledge. I 3-D modeled the site of Huronia Regional Centre and surrounding context from google earth in order to develop a scale comparison study of different outdoor amphitheatre spaces. I was the sole aid to the principal in this early stage of the project and helped him prepare a presentation.

millwork details and elevation

CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C




CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1CCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C




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Huronia Regional Center site

CAMH program layouts

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HWKN

CO-OP I: ARCHITECTURAL INTERN

NEW YORK

JAN-APR 2014

At my time at HWKN I predominatly did context modeling, massing, aesthetic tests and iterations in rhino nurbs. I also did photoshop, illustrator, physical models and design research. I mostly worked with the senior design director: robert may and got to experience intial design meetings and processes. hwkn gave me the opportunity to contribute my own design ideas while touching on a large variety of projects from interiors to masterplanning.

yotel highway perspective

initial massing schemes

massing model

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roof interior studies

initial program massing

loop scheme

carve scheme

object scheme

current scheme

facade studies

34 play

dream machine wall - slab

CITA workshop ACADIA 2014

35play

wall - slab

surface iterations

negative - positive srf wire texture

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will fu architecture portfolio 2015 [outdated]