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GSAPP Portfolio

REDRAWING EAST HARLEM

ADVANCED STUDIO, SPRING 2017

Instructor: Hilary Sample

Partner: Kig Prasansiri Veerasunthorn - https://kig-veerasunthorn.squarespace.com/

Redrawing East Harlem

GENETIC WELLNESS CENTER

ADVANCED STUDIO, FALL 2016

Instructors: Dominic and Chris Leong

Partner: Matthew Robert Lohry

http://www.mattlohry.com/

We have new technologies that are changing our daily life and we experience an overwhelming feeling about this rapid pace of technology growth. With all these technologies that ask us to live our lives differently, we basically have to change our mental model and our perception in order to understand what is happening around us, especially with something like gene sequencing that we typically don’t interact with in our daily life.

The Genetic Wellness Center is a place that anticipates the general use of gene sequencing, genetic data storing and analyzing. It provides a number of spaces and amenities for people to encounter the process and to conduct research and treatment. The goal is to create an environment of awareness and reflection that places that mix individual and collective experience and engages with the natural condition of the site.

CINEMATIC CITY

ADVANCED STUDIO, SPRING 2016

Instructor: Adam Frampton

Partner: Victor Marie-Hugo

In the downfall of the casino industry in Atlantic City, our proposal Cinematic City intends to revitalize Atlantic City with an alternative industry with film education, film production, and cultural tourism.

The master plan categorized complex program relating film industry into Front-of-Scene and Back-of-Scene, we call them Blue and Grey spaces respectively. Blue represents the temporary movie sets, referencing “chroma keying” in film technology. Grey representing the supporting programs in the back of the scene, including live-work space and storage for movie sets and equipment.

The proposal’s strategy of “striation” referenced OMA’s proposal for Parc de La Villette in creating opposite ways of experience the same space in different ways.