The project site is located in the “bridge district” of the Tasman East Focus Area (TEFA), and it will offer a mixed-use development consisting of 508 Market-Rate Apartment units and ground-floor retail. Apartment residents and guests enjoy diverse outdoor and indoor amenities that include a variety of recreational, play-based, fitness, wellness, communal, and co-working activities.

Amenities are located on both the mid-rise and high rise top-levels in order to maximize 360 degree vistas toward the Silicon Valley foothills and Guadalupe River Parkway. At the ground floor, the retail supports the industrial neighborhood and the street frontage is designed as a necklace of exterior spaces that helps reinforce the park’s connection to the Apartments, Senior Assisted Living, and Tasman East community, including the Tasman Atria Senior Living Tower.

I have been helping develop the CD sets, including detailing of the stone facade, the RCP of the townhomes, the garage and retail plans, and some of the CA effort.

I was asked to continue CA on this project, while under construction. Using the Chinese made CD set of drawings, I created a study model in Revit, and begun to analyse the problems of fireproofing for the diagonal void cut of the facades. The on-going results were a series of questions (for both the contractor and the client) which we crafted in the form of markup sheets (see last two images).

This 200,000 SF office building has a fairly complex curtain wall geometry which required a careful review of the curtain wall submittal during CD and CA.  In fact, several in-s and out-s, together with convex and concave corner conditions, in both horizontal and vertical directions, created challenging curtain wall details.  I produced studies of some of these conditions for client approval and contractor clarification purposes, especially around the main entry lobby. I have also produced some studies for the interior of the main lobby. Other tasks for this project included amendments of the CD set to include detailed area calculations, and miscellaneous shell plan revisions.

When asked to help with the CD of this lobby, I developed the details for the security desk backlit LED panel cladding, the folding GFRG ceiling, and the stone cladding. I was also able to identify issues with the framing of the dropped ceiling being built, and point out to the contractor the inconsistency with the CD set.

I was hired by Shah Kawasaki to work with the Construction Administration team for this large hospital project. One of the major tasks of the team involved the production and delivery of ACDs (Amended Construction Drawings). Some sheets for ACD 033 follows in the gallery below.

This project included the addition of 3 stories to the existing concrete frame garage. The planning officials at the City of San Jose required the elevation on Winchester Blvd. to be "broken" down and varied, both in heights, colors and materials. Therefore I had to reconsider the original design that we developed to win this project, a sleek metal mesh wrapping the concrete frame. Ultimately, the metal mesh was replaced by a more colorful and differentiated set of elements. EIFS panels, a long fiberglass cornice, metal louvers, and glazed "shopping" windows provided the requested playfulnes and variation. The project was modeled and documented in Revit, and I followed it through CA.