worksample 2011
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GARY KU
EDUCATION
Yale University School of Architecture, New Haven, CT / M.Arch I
UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, CA /B. A. in Architecture with Distinction, 3.57
Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark / Denmark International Study Program / Summer Studio & Course in Scandinavian Architecture
WORK EXPERIENCE
Johnston Marklee & Associates, Los Angeles, CA/ Hut House, Hawaii / bid set documentation/ Assembly of detailed 5’x5’ presentation model
Dreamworks Animation SKG, Glendale, CA/ Consultant to New Business Initiatives division, undisclosed project/ Performed competitive/market analysis, Interface design and mock-ups, presentation and video editing
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, Chicago, IL/ Qingdao Audit Bureau Tower, China / developed primary option during schematic design, including massing, façade, spire, and podium; presentation layout, rendering, and presentation model/ Ningbo Tower, China / developed podium-tower concept, façade options
Kilo Architectures, Paris, France/ Berliet Showroom, Morocco / presentation plans and sections/ Montabo Hotel, French Guiana / presentation plans and sections/ Oualalou House, Morocco / working models
Periphery Design, New Haven, CT/ Jensen House, USA / SD-DD for kitchen-bedroom addition
Ong & Ong Architects, Singapore/ Wu Gallery, Singapore / solo SD through CA for a private gallery/ Singapore Tower, Dubai / SD-DD, conceived of and developed selected scheme, including facade, massing, programming
Stanley Saitowitz, San Francisco, CA/ design drawing set for loft renovation project; competition packets; rendering and graphics work
AWARDS AND PUBLISHED WORK
Retrospecta / Yale University Press/ project, “Suburban Escalation” (urban design)/ project, “A Variation on Corrugation” (installation)/ project, “YAA/Facade” (facade design)/ paper, “Abstraction to Its Logical Conclusion,” analysis of visual rhetoric in work by Mies and Sejima
Teaching Assistantship / “Religion & Modern Architecture”/ organized funding and logistics for 5-day class trip to Cairo, Alexandria, and Luxor, Egypt.
Winning Team—2008 Yale Building Project/ designed winning house scheme together with six other students/ developed and built winning scheme, including DD/CD, framing, finishing, fixture installation, siding
Winner—Eisner Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeley’s highest prize for architectural design, awarded after competitive portfolio review
Winner—Library Prize, UC Berkeley/ Berkeley’s highest prize for undergraduate research, awarded for analysis of the historiography and social purpose of Trajan’s Markets/ paper published in Clio’s Scroll, Berkeley’s honors history journal
SKILLS
SoftwareRhinoceros, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, 3DS Max, Maya, Mental Ray, V-Ray, Maxwell Render, Adobe Creative Suite, Adobe After Effects, ArcGIS
FabricationLaser cutting, ABS Plastic and Powder 3D printing, 3- and 5-axis CNC milling
[email protected] / 00 1 714 206 0511 / La Cañada Flintridge, CA, USA
May 2011
May 2006
Sum 2005
Jul 2011– (current)
Jun 2011– Jul 2011
Sum 2010
Sum 2009
Sum 2008
Aug 2006– May 2007
Jan 2006– Apr 2006
2010201020102009
Spr 2009
Apr 2008
May 2006
Apr 2004
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DIAGRAM / PROGRAM REPRESENTED BY FURNITURE PLACED OVER THE SITE MODEL / SURFACE CARVED TO ACCOMODATE PROGRAM (ROOF REMOVED)
SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELDALTERNATIVE HIGHSCHOOL IN NEW HAVEN, CTYale University / Spring 2011 / Prof John Patkau
This project is about loose programs nestled among figures, gently emerging from a field condition carved upon a hillside, that slowly con-dense into an alternative school for young makers and inventors.
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SCHOOL OF FIGURES IN A FIELD, continued
PLAN / PROGRAM PLACED AMONG TOPOGRAPHIC FIGURES
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MODEL / EXTERIOR
RENDERING / LIVING “ROOM”RENDERING / “VERANDA”
HOUSE IN A FIELD OF FIGURESHOUSE IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIAYale University / Fall 2010 / Prof Hernan Diaz Alonso
This project is about loose spaces among a series of figures, a field of gentle volumes that eventually becomes a house.
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MODEL OF GRADUATE ART STUDIOS RENOVATIONPRESENTATION MODEL, 5’ X 5’ AT 1/4” = 1’Johnston Marklee & Associates / Fall 2011 / With Ian Christopher
Final presentation model assembled over one month period, hand-cut from foamcore, museum board, and corrugated plastic (with exception of laser-cut trusses).
DETAIL PHOTO / COURTYARD WITH STAIRWAY DETAIL PHOTO / INTERIOR PROMENADE
CLASS
SEMINAR
GALLERY
(OPEN TO ARCHIVE)
SEMINAR
GALLERY
MECHANICAL
COMPACT ARCHIVE
MECHANICAL
STORAGE
ARCHIVISTOFFICES
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
MODEL PREP/STORAGE
ARCHIVE
ENTRANCE PLAZA
LOBBY
RECEPTION
MEN’S WC
WOMEN WC(OPEN TO GALLERY)
AUDITORIUM
(OPEN TOGALLERY)
CLASS
SEMINAR
GALLERY
(OPEN TO ARCHIVE)
SEMINAR
GALLERY
MECHANICAL
COMPACT ARCHIVE
MECHANICAL
STORAGE
ARCHIVISTOFFICES
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
MODEL PREP/STORAGE
ARCHIVE
ENTRANCE PLAZA
LOBBY
RECEPTION
MEN’S WC
WOMEN WC(OPEN TO GALLERY)
AUDITORIUM
(OPEN TOGALLERY)
CLASS
SEMINAR
GALLERY
(OPEN TO ARCHIVE)
SEMINAR
GALLERY
MECHANICAL
COMPACT ARCHIVE
MECHANICAL
STORAGE
ARCHIVISTOFFICES
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
MODEL PREP/STORAGE
ARCHIVE
ENTRANCE PLAZA
LOBBY
RECEPTION
MEN’S WC
WOMEN WC(OPEN TO GALLERY)
AUDITORIUM
(OPEN TOGALLERY)
DIGITALRESEARCH
ROOM
REF AREA
OPEN OFFICE
(UPPER DIGITALRESEARCH ROOM)
MATERIALSRESEARCH
MATERIALSRESEARCHOPEN TO
BELOW
MATERIALSRESEARCH
ISSUING DESK
REF AREA
REF AREA
EXEC OFFICES
REF AREA
AUDITORIUM
OFFICES
OFFICES
ISSUING GROUP STUDY
DIGITAL RM
READING ROOM
GALLERY CLASSROOMS
MECHANICAL
LOADING/PROCESSING
RESTROOMS LOBBY
ARCHIVES
AUDITORIUM
GALLERY
GALLERY
ARCHIVES
GALLERY CLASSES
LOADING
MECHANICAL
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YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVEARCHITECTURE RESEARCH CENTER ON THE YALE CAMPUSYale University / Fall 2009 / Prof Joel Sanders
Architecture researchers spiral up into the reading room, visitors spiral down into the gallery, the public has a sunny space inbetween.
B2 ARCHIVE
SECTION WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH
B1 GALLERY GROUND FLOOR / PLAZA LVL 5 READING ROOM
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UNFOLDED FACADE ELEVATION
MODEL (ROOF REMOVED) FULL-SCALE FAÇADE MODEL
North West South East
YALE ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVE, continued
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PARTIAL MODEL / URBAN-SUBURBAN FABRIC MASTER PLAN
SUBURBAN ESCALATIONPLAN TO UNIFY WEST AND DOWNTOWN PROVIDENCEYale University / Spring 2010 / Prof Ljiljana Blagojevic
A highway starkly divides Downtown Providence from its surrounding suburbs. Instead of trying to resolve mutually incompatible “urban” and “suburban” typologies, the latter’s forms are escalated over the former’s fabric: one lifestyle raised to the densities of another.
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PHOTO OF INSTALLATION IN BUILDING DETAIL PHOTO / MILLED FOAM AND CHROME MYLAR SURFACE
A VARIATION ON CORRUGATIONWALL INSTALLATION IN THE ART & ARCHITECTURE BUILDINGYale University / Spring 2010 / Prof Brennan Buck
The Art & Architecture Building’s famous corrugated concrete is continued into a stairwell niche (1) and then warped to articulate difference. (2) The 1.5”-0.5” corrugated rhythm is then cut into the warped form (3), with the cuts signified by a reflective coating.
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“SHINGLE” FAÇADE OPTION (W/TIMOTHY POELL, ETC) “SHINGLE” FAÇADE OPTION RENDERING QINGDAO AUDIT BUREAU TOWER RENDERING
QINGDAO AUDIT BUREAUTOWER-PODIUM COMPLEX: MASSING, FAÇADE, PODIUM LAYOUTSkidmore, Owings and Merrill / Summer 2010 / Internship
Schematic design of the Qingdao Audit Bureau, a office-residential-retail development in Qingdao, China. I aided in the development of the massing, façade, spire, and podium; presentation layout, rendering, and the final presentation model.
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LOCKERSCONFERENCELOBBY
CONDENSATION POOL
TYPICAL 2-TIERCONFIGURATION
STEAM LEVELS
ROBES
AUXILLARY PROGRAM
STREET CLOTHES
PROGRAM AXONOMETRIC SECTION THROUGH HOTEL
STEAM HOTELBUSINESS HOTEL FOR NEW HAVEN, CTYale University / Fall 2007 / Prof Martin Cox
A cylindrical stack of 3-tier rooms, promenades, and lounges centered around a giant pillar of geothermal steam. Visitors change into robes and lock their possessions, then proceed to relax in the upper levels.
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BUILDING PROJECT HOUSE NEARING COMPLETION CONSTRUCTION
YALE BUILDING PROJECT 2008HOUSE FOR A LOW-INCOME FAMILY IN NEW HAVEN, CTYale University / Spring-Summer 2008 / Prof Alan Organschi
Designed the winning scheme with a group of nine students; part of the construction crew during Spring-Summer 2008, including framing, glazing, siding, fixture installation, cabinetry, interior finishing.