UCLA MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE I / SELECTED WORK 2017-2020
Address:
Chieh-Ting Chuang , LEED GA
235 S San Pedro St. Apt 454 Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone:
424-361-4565
Email:
chiehtingch@gmail.com
Education University of California, Los Angeles | Master of Architecture I, Distinction (2017-2020), GPA 3.9 National Taipei University of Technology | Bachelor of Science in Architecture (2012-2016), GPA 3.6 (Leadership: 2013 NTUT Creative Design Week, General Coordinator and 2016 Graduation Exhibition, Chair of Public Relations)
Professional Experience Sharif, Lynch: Architecture, Architectural and Interior Designer (May 2020 – Present) Design and develop multiple residential, remodel, interior and ADU design based in Los Angeles and Bahamas using Rhino and Revit. Complete client presentation drawings, diagrams, renderings, animation, and material selection from the exterior of a residential to the interior design. Coordinate with civil and structural engineers to produce permit sets to comply with zoning and building codes.
Gensler Los Angeles, Architectural Intern (Jun. 2019 – Apr. 2020) Create architectural planning, programming presentation sets that contain diagrams, master plans, physical models, renderings , and animation for the client on a mix-use project which contains commercial, office, hotel and residence in Colorado. Prepare and researched exterior building materials and interior finishes for a mixed-use project and two office buildings. Conduct research on future mobilities of the city and present research of how future mobility can change the cities with a gr oup of 5 interns within 10 weeks.
UCLA Design Project Management, Architectural Intern (Jan. 2018 – May 2019) Worked on UCLA campus to produce construction drawings including renovations of ADA compliant restrooms, medical research laboratories, classrooms and EV chargers in all parking structures. Compiled campus ADA accessibility report for 81 buildings on campus with focus on evaluating the existing buildings in order to fulfill the CBC code.
Kevin Daly Architects, Architectural Intern (Jun. 2018 - Sep. 2018) Collaborate on space planning for renovation of the UCLA Campus Athletic Student Center with the interior fit-out team. Prepared presentations for client executives. Produced drawings and physical models with various material that delineated design options.
HWC Architect, Architectural and Interior Designer (Feb. 2017 - Aug. 2017) Residential housing project; ii) Two-floor housing addition; iii) Interior design of a Taiwanese based hostel. Compiled architectural drawings from schematic design to construction details to create comprehensive permit-ready architecture sets.
Software Skills Master
Revit, Auto CAD, Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Vray for Rhino, Enscape, Ureal Twinmotion Proficient
Grasshopper, Adobe After Effect, Adobe Premiere, Cinema 4D, QGIS, Excel
Language Skills English, Mandarin, Taiwanese
Exhibition UCLA Architecture & Urban Design, Selected Currents (2017-2020) The following projects selected for display: “Chiatown@Home”, “Climate Pilot”, “Accessories”, “Fire Station Museum”, “Steel Center”, “Social Housing”. Roof Tops and Back Yards: Expanding LA & Taipei, Taiwan Academy (2018) A collaboration with Bureau Spectacular. Personal Contribution: Design modeling and image production. Beyond the Geometry (2016) The project The Next Dwelling selected for display in NTUT School of Design Graduation Exhibition.
Honors and Award Franklin D. Israel Memorial Fellowship | Department of Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA | 2019 The Robert Webster Scholarship | Department of Architecture & Urban Design, UCLA | 2018 Honorable Mention | School of Design, NTUT | 2016
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CONTENTS Architecture and Building Environment 01 Steel Center
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02 Social Housing
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03 Climate Pilot
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04 Downtown Gym Club
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05 Rooftops and Backyards
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06 Professional Work
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Architecture and Media 07 #Chinatown@Home
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08 Accessories
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STEEL CENTER
Program and Structure Diagram
Academic, '19 Winter, AUD 415 Personal project Instructor: Wonne Ickx Type : Immigrant Welcome Center Location : Los Angeles, CA The immigrants welcoming center includes a varieties of space type, from big to small, from public to private. This program is a great fit for steel structure since steel structure can form a wide range of different spaces from large open spaces to small light houses. By differentiate the space type to public recreation and reception area, private offices and specific programs for the immigrants, I selected 3 types of steel structure systems to develop further in the project. This project explore how structure effects the space and influence the program and think of how different structure system can stack on top of each other in a smart way.
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SOCIAL HOUSING
Aerial Ground
Gound Patterns
Slid Fgures
Arial Pathways
Academic, '18 Fall Personal project Instructor : Mohamed Sharif Type : Residential Housing Location : Frog Town, Los Angeles, CA This p roje c t is a c on tin u o u s a g g re g a t i o n of di s cre te u n i t s and clear edges within a complex layered pathway according t o t h e s i t e ’s p rof i l e . W i t h o u t i n va d i n g t h e m a t b u i l d i n g ’s o r i g i n a l l o g i c of p l a c e m e n t , i n t ro d u c i n g a 4 - d i m e n s i o n a l intersecting grid to provide a new form of circulation. A mat building is a building that has access, layout, daylighting and ventilation solved for a plan unit that’s repeated as often as needed. All the repeating units will form a conglomerate building fabric that has a clear logic of placement. What I am more interested in is the vertical possibility of the mat building system and how the two-distinct system interact with each other. The vertical pathway system is an element that layered architecture information into layers and interlink through the unfolding strategy. The overlapping system creates a woven grid. Each side of the landscape on the ground floor is extended to the upper level of the building complex to ser ve as a public pathway which graphicly shows a continuous grid in the roof plan.
Chunk Model
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Communal Floor Plan
Ground Floor Communal Area View
Enlarge Site Plan / Communal Area
Rooftop Communal Area View
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CLIMATE PILOT
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Food Distribution
Vrtical Crculation
Public Space
Entrance
Shadow Studies
Academic, '20 Winter Personal project Instructor : Christina Tung & Helen Kongsgaard Type : Community Center Location : Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, CA Utilizing the existing infrastructure of bodega and private farmland in Boyle Heights to coordinate a larger impact of supply and service in the community. The productive landscape can introduce shades, social spaces and healthy food resource. Creating networks of delivery and pick-ups can spread the impact of the system to a larger community and create a stronger economy system for the people. Expanding on the concept of existing fruit trees, I intend to create a neighborhood orchard that is widely spread in the neighborhood with careful consideration of the species and harvest season. The market can serve as a hub of distribution crops and selling good. Designated routes can start to pick up the fruit in the community and drop up the reproduced product. As a human scale, the alley way can be designed to create shade and a more walkable space with a dense grid of trees.
Garden overlook view
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Top: Section through classroom and cafe. Middle: section through storage and market. Bottom: Section through exhibition and loading zone.
EXPERIENTAL GARDEN
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EVENT SPACE
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FRUIT ORACHARD
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Top: Unroll elevation. Middle: Diverse use activity diagrams of interior and exterior space. Bottom: Unroll Section.
Building Entrance and Cornor View
Supermarket interior view
PUMPKINS
GRAPEFRUIT
BLACKBERRY
ORANGE
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TECOJOTE
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CABBAGE
COMMUNITY FARM
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5 MINUTES WALKING RADIUS
SUPER MARKET SCHOOL DISTRIBUTION COLLECTION ROUTES ORCHARD ALLEY MARKET DROPOFF/COLLECTION TARGET MARKET PRODUCT PICK UP ROUTE HUMAN WALK WAY EXISTING PLANTS PROPOSED PLANTS SPRING
Community Service map
WINTER
Top: Close Up Plan of Neighborhood Orchard. Below: Enlarge Plan of Neighborhood Bodega Distribution Center.
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DOWNTOWN GYM CLUB
Academic, '18 Winter Personal Project Instructor : Andrew Kovacs Type : Gym Location : Bunker Hills, Los Angeles, CA This project explored the design and arrangement of walls as a way to contain program while acting as the primary structural system for the building. Walls are arranged in a L shape configuration to shape and frame a soft boundary. Furthermore, when stacking two walls in a L shape configuration the boundary of one space is not only be defined by the one on the same plane, but also the wall above it.
Swimming Pool View.
Structural Axon
Site Plan
Gym Atrium View
Exterior Training Area View
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ROOFTOPS & BACKYARDS
Exhibition, '18 May An exhibition collaboration with Jimenz Lai. Worked on the design, 3D modeling and graphis. Type : Exhibition models and drawings Location : Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles, CA This is a story about two possible processes of urban densification: one horizontal, one vertical. The backyard urbanism of Los Angeles (horizontal) and the rooftop urbanism of Taipei (vertical) are two parallel stories of citizens adding architecture to architecture. In Taipei and Los Angeles, both cities experience shortages of both residential and commercial supplies to meet the growing demands of rent and purchase. This deficit has resulted in the prohibitively high cost of living, creating a sense of discomfort caused by the unaordability of architecture. As a result, many citizens of both places have generated a natural response to this problem: add more architecture to the properties they already own, and increase the quantity of supply to meet the demand. Although this economic solution sounds simple enough, there are var ying degrees of bureaucratic gymnastics in both cities that one must reckon with. In Los Angeles, the Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) became a common solution for property owners. The nickname for Los Angeles ADUs may give away clues to its origin story: The Granny Flat. Building buildings behind buildings, or, a type of backyard addition, became a solution to the replenishment of housing supplies. A groundup process of densification like this should probably be welcomed, yet ADUs in Los Angeles have been hampered by policy problems, preventing proliferation. Possibly due to a lack of public awareness of the permitting process to allow for ADUs to be constructed legally, or the nuisance the construction of ADUs may cause to its surrounding neighbors, whether or not Angelinos say yes to ADU is still a contested political issue.
Los Angeles Backyard ADU Model.
Los Angeles Backyard ADU Oblique Drawing.
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PENMAR ADU DESIGN Company: Sharif, Lynch: Architecture (Project Manager: Ben Gourley) Personal Contribution: Site Plan, Shematic design, Detail Design
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Oblique View
North Elevation
MULHOLLAND ADU DESIGN & HOUSE REMODEL Company: Sharif, Lynch: Architecture (Project Manager: Jena Meek) Personal Contribution: Site Plan, Shematic design, Detail Design, Lighting studies, Material Studies
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Wall Sections
HILLSBORO HOUSE REMODEL Company: Sharif, Lynch: Architecture (Project Manager: Mohamed Sharif) Personal Contribution: Detail Design, Wall section detail design, Material selection, Lighting design, Zoning and building code analysis
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Company: Gensler Los Angeles Personal Contribution: Site Plan, Section and Concept, and development diagrams
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ARCHITECTURE & MEDIA
#CHINATOWN@HOME
Instagram Advertisement of #CHINATOWN@HOME.
Academic, '20 Spring Research Studio Personal project Instructor : Yara Fegali Type : Game simulation app
#Chinatown@Home is a speculation on the technology behind photogrammetry. It explores frictions between texture and volume. Chinatown is a recognizable architectural style that has been copied in every major city. I explore the idea of following through the use of mapping technologies and convolutional neural networks wrapping our exterior and interior domesticity.
View of the vitural loft of #CHINATOWN@HOME.
#CHINATOWN@HOME Simulation APP.
Exterior Elevation View.
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ACCESSORIES
Accessories Concept
Academic, '19 Fall Personal project Instructor : Jimenez Lai Type : Museum Location : San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, CA It is common in SGV. Buildings that contains the readable shapes such as arches, domes, spires that is not like the signage with text, but are objects that contain information. This project is looking at the shed in San Gabriel Valley and produce the toy set and comic book that express the idea of accessories and architecture.
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2 Historical Gallery
14 Light Well C
26 Stairs B
3 Ticket Booth
15 Large Theater
27 Swimming Pool
4 HVAC A
16 Special Collection
28 Panda House
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17 Cusine Culture
29 Restroom
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18 Elevator
30 Local Artist Gallery
7 Light Well A
19 Lecture Hall
31 Light Well F
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11 Art Gallery
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12 Central Gallery
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THANK YOU! CHIEH-TING CHUANG Selected works 2018-2021
Email: chiehtingch@gmail.com Phone: 424-361-4565