Janet Shuy's Architecture Portfolio

janet shuydesigner| artist| perfectionist

2010-2014

negative solids

table of contents

Double Negative

Protrero Library

Protrero Sequence

Good Food Center

Diana Center Analysis

Fall 2013 | 100A |Pakravan

Fall 2013 | 100A |Pakravan

Fall 2013 | 100A |Pakravan

Spring 2014| 100B |Chang

Spring 2014| 100B |Chang

double negativeFall 2013|Pakravan

Two solids formed by triangulation to form a lateral torque and a longitudinal torque that intersect, which are then subtracted from a rectangular volume to produce dynamic spaces. The intersecting voids create abstract dynamic spaces.

Longitudinal and Lateral Torques

Process Diagram

Lateral SlicingDiagram

Longitudinal Slicing Diagram

Planar Section A

Lateral Section A Longitudinal Section A

Planar Section B

Lateral Section B Longitudinal Section B

In the same site as the sequence, this project calls for a modern library which accomodates a lot of books, children's room, offices, teenagers' room, community garden. I carry the concept of torque by interlocking two torques, forming a double helix, which sits in a transluscent box, challenging the spaces within the torque and the spaces between the torque and the exterior walls.

Fall 2013|Pakravan

potrero library

First Torquebeginning at street

SecondTorquebeginning parking level

Combined Torquesintersect to form four levels

Spaces between Torque and Box

Translucent Exterior

It also challenges what is void and what is solid. The interiority of the torques are all aligned with book shelves while the space between the torque and translucent box is associated with non book programs such as the community meetnig rooms, offices, and bathrooms. Light enters the interior of the torques through the splits which happens as the torque twists.

This double helix scheme allows for social iteraction where the torques intersect to create all four levels, which include children's area, teenage room, reception, and garden terrace.

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5.

C

C' A'

A

B' B

D'D

Third Floor PlanSidewalk & Second Floor Plan

LONGITUDINAL SECTION A-A'

LATERAL SECTION B-B'

Using the idea of a torque, defined as a large pivot in the z axis, the carving out of two intersecting torques result in an earthwork sequence nestled in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill. The conceptual idea of subtraction of intersecting volumes from an existing solid volume is carried from the previous project, the double negative.

Potrero SequenceFall 2013| Pakravan

Hidden Carved Out Torque

Visually Implied Torque

TORQUE CONCEPT DIAGRAM

Assembly Space

Viewing Platform 1

Viewing Platform 2

Viewing/Contemplative Place 3

PROGRAMMATIC DIAGRAM

PROCESS DIAGRAM

Start of Triangulation Pivot across different planes

Main Circulation Torque Framed Programs Combined Program and Circulation

Infilling Earth

good food center

Spring 2014 | Chang

The Good Food Center is a building which combines commerce, education, and research regarding food into a mixed used buidling in the heart of Soma, San Francisco. The program given was as dense as a three and half floor building with buildings adjacent to it, making the most importatnt challenge how to allow light into the building while rationalizing the organization of all the programs.

My design uses the concept of a series of parallel lines along the same grain in which emphasizes the diagronal line through the misalignment of these grains which stop at the diagonal. The diagronal against the straight grain not only brings in these giant light-wells but also allows for the main circulation. The diagonal is further emphasized by the placement of walls and furniture so that the persons in this building experience this diagronal movement unconciously.

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

A A'

B' C

B C'

Longitudinal Section A- A'

Misalignment against DivisionDivision of Modules(Medium, Large, Small)

Diagonal Cut against the Grain Alternating Lightwell and Stairwells

PROCESS DIAGRAM

The Good Food Center is a building which combines commerce, education, and research regarding food into a mixed used buidling in the heart of Soma, San Francisco. The program given was as dense as a three and half floor building with build-ings adjacent to it, making the most importatnt challenge how to allow light into the building while rationalizing the organi-zation of all the programs.

My design uses the concept of a series of parallel lines along the same grain in which emphasizes the diagronal line through the misalignment of these grains which stop at the diagonal. The diagronal against the straight grain not only brings in these giant lightwells but also allows for the main circulation. The diagonal is further emphasized by the placement of walls and furniture so that the persons in this building experience this diagronal movement unconciously.

diana center analysis

Spring 2014|Chang

WEST SOUTH

This ia an analytical study of Diana Center, Barnard College, New York.

Diana Center, which has a unique fritted paneling system allows different intensity of light corresponding to the interior program of the building.

My analytical drawing is an unfolding of the envelope projecting it onto the interior plan as a grid system. I then use this diagrammatic draw-ing as the blueprint for my model.

The model uses etched plexi, which is frosted according to each fritted panel type. The line remains continuous onto the gridded floor plans in which tiles of plexi begin to form a topography map according to the ligh intensity within.

Lighting Grid(Envelope/Performance)

Lower Level II Lower Level I Ground Floor Second Floor

EAST NORTH

Lower Level I

Ground Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

Roof

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A Panel / light translucentB Panel / dark transulcentS Panel / opague

D Panel / clear

Light Dark

Third Floor Fourth Floor Fifth Floor Roof

NORTH WEST SOUTH

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To enhance my techinical and conceptual understanding of architecture

B.A. of Architecture, GPA 3.6University of California Berkeley

Minor in Sustainable DesignMinor in City Plannig

Adobe Illustrator CS3- CS6Adobe InDesign CS3-CS6Adobe Photoshop CS3-CS6AutoCad 2012Rhinoceros 4.0-5.0 with V-rayMicrosoft Office

Basic EcotectBasic Google Sketch-UpModel MakingLaser CuttingRevit 2014Fluent in Mandarin Chinese

2010-2014

Objective

Education

Skills

Contact

janet shuy(408) 368-4499janetshuy@gmail.comBerkeley, California