Designer: Yao Gao

Location: San Francisco
Academy of Art University
Professor: Kory Bieg

Proposal: Augmented Reality Pavilion
Investigating the relationship between humans and the built environment when the virtual, real, and augmented realities of our world collide. As a temporary pavilion the intensity and frequency of visitors drawn to the site will amplify the extreme spaces and force the occupants to question what is real.

This Pavilion Expo is located in the Mission Bay area in the city of San Francisco. It is a simulation venue to demonstrate the new technology and new structure. The main structure is located on several artificial platforms which are connected to the land by several bridges. Different opened aisles will lead people to the lobby, bar and admin which are all located on the first floor. The unique skeleton structure connects different interior spaces. For example, the café which is on the top of the lobby has a independent entrance. By the elevator to the underground area, people could enter the core of the building, which is a virtual cinema. The Expo shows the contrast of virtual world and the real world by two unique structures, which are opened skeleton corridor with viewing deck and fully enclosed interior spaces.

For example, the underground virtual cinema could simulate the whole virtual world. The cinema could float on the sea, in this case, people could feel the virtual world by sense of hearing, sense of sight, sense of smell and sense of touch. With the changes and transformations of the surrounding walls and retractable screen colors, in which it is like for people in the Avatar movie, people will enter the whole virtual world. Through the opened skeleton corridor, people could reach the restaurant on the top floor of the building from the lobby. People could feel the real feeling provided by the nature by standing at this place. The enclosed interior spaces are connected by the opened bridges. Just like the daily life that transforms from wake up to falling asleep and from the social networks on the internet to the real communication, people wanders between the virtual and the real world by passing through the enclosed interior space and the opened skeleton corridors. The exterior of the building will change its color and color intensity with the seasonal temperature change and sea rise. This new Expo will be an iconic new technological building in the Mission bay area.

Designer: Sura Pattanapanitchakul
Location: San Francisco, CA
Thesis Proposal for M.Arch @ Academy of Art
em: scoodyaood@gmail.com

Proposal: Cultural House of Jazz
This project intends to illustrate the synthesis between nature, urban and architecture, which supports and collaborate to each other,
showing the soul of interconnection which increasingly synthesize with the space, in order to show how architecture can act as an instrument.
Traditionally, music defined as aural element expressed through time. architecture as instrument explores the idea of music as defined
by visual expressed through time, specificially shadows cast as the sun traverse the sky visual representation of temporal experience-the
cycle of the day. Structure as instrument explores the idea that the structure itself is an orchestra and the ever-changing and continual
shadows that fall across it and beside it are music experience by users. In the context, the sun is the conductor, light are the musician
roadside element are the instrument, and the shadow they cast are the music.

The hybridization of jazz music which interacts with architecture is the main goal of this project, all each brilliant note which
performs from the nature will amazingly increase performance through the space which morphs based on sound quality. Moreover,
not only sound quality aspect which I focus on design, but also I would maximize space, by using computer to generate the algorithm
solution that will solve and gain the new opportunistic through architecture.

The project Cultural House of Jazz design sensitively to respect context and friendly with pedestrian experience of plaza and arcade
that provide space for enjoyment of urban through the architecture space. The geometry design specially to maximize openess, flow of activity
from the urban context to the interior space, creating the interconnection to each function start from the main plaza to the sky lounge on the
top floor.

Jazz, always changing, yet retains part of its original formation at it roots. Jazz is a musical style that change with the times
and the various outlooks of it listeners. One reason that Jazz remains popular and alive is its ability to adapt to the world it lives in.
The project intends to show the idea of cultural combination through art between Asian culture and American culture.
This would introduce a new perspective to the Fillmore neighborhood, which is the center of blues and jazz in San Francisco. This
factor combined with the high density of Asians residents in the area would convert Fillmore in the new Asian art destination in San
Francisco.

Designer: Pat Panupaisal
Location: San Francisco currently // From Thailand
Academy of Art: Professor Kory Bieg

Proposal: Aquaria – The Floating Pavilion

This proposal explores the possibility of floating structures and the interaction between architecture and water level fluctuations. The form of the pavilion evolved from a series of formal explorations documented in a modifier catalogue. The form consists of a skeletal/structural frame that holds the floating clusters of pod-like volumes in place.

Surrounding the building are tidal walkways, which as the name suggests, can become inundated throughout the course of a day. As the tide rises, the movement throughout the walkways is affected, constricting circulation and disconnecting the pavilion from the rest of the expo.

The underwater aquaditorium provides a dynamic and lively backdrop to the performance space as sea dwellers underneath the bay swim by. The main concept for this pavilion is the interaction between architecture and the world of water by exploring new possibilities for underwater architecture as well as floating architecture.