Selected Works
Andres Feng
Design Portfolio
Andres Feng E: afeng101@syr.edu T: +1 617.955.9018
E D U C AT I ON Syracuse University Class of 2020 Candidate for Bachelor’s in Architecture
Syracuse, NY, 2015-2020 Dean’s List
Spring 2018 Urban Studio, New York, NY Fall 2018 International Study, London, UK
Language and Culture University Intensive Mandarin Language Program Beijing, China, 2012 and 2016
University of California, Berkeley emb-ARC Summer Design Program
Berkeley, CA, 2014 Architecture, Urban Design, and Sustainable City Planning
W O RK E X PERIENCE vonDALWIG Architecture Architectural Intern Brooklyn, NY Worked in several projects simultaneously at different stages of the design process, Summer 2019 directly with the client from the conceptual to the schematic phase. Helped in the production of rendering options delivered to the client. Created and edited images for the promotion and publication of the office in its website and local magazine.
Gensler Architectural Intern San José, Costa Rica Produced schematic designs and options of interior spaces for different companies Summer 2017 and Winter 2018 located in Costa Rica and Brazil. Helped on the production of physical models and consultation documents for an office in Panama.
Atlas Newspaper Production Editor / Photographer Wilbraham, MA Lead the production of the academic newspaper. Managed the layout design and 2012-2015 photography department.
L EA D E RSH IP AND R E C O GN IT IONS Participant, Sep-Nov 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism Finalist, May 2019 King + King Architects Design Competition Silver Key, May 2015 Boston Globe’s Scholastic Art & Writing Award 2015- Current Peer Advisor 2015- Current Student Ambassador
D E SI GN SKILLS Digital Proficient — Illustrator, InDesign, Microsoft Office, Rhinoceros, V-Ray, Photoshop
Advanced — AutoCAD, Grasshoper, Revit, SketchUp, ArcGIS Pro, DIVA, Bluebeam
Fabrication Laser Cutting, CNC Milling, 3-D Printing, Vaccuum Forming, Manual Languages Proficient — Spanish, English Advance — Cantonese, Mandarin
R E F ERE N C ES Fei Wang Professor at Syracuse University | fwang100@syr.edu Angela Co Professor at Syracuse University | anco@syr.edu
Assemblage
TABLE OF CONTENTS Projects 01
Re - Generation
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The Best Beetroot And The Worst Mandarine
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The Factory Of Energy
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Mott Haven Diversity Housing
Case Studies 07
Fondazione Prada
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Tate Modern vs. St. Paul’s
Professional Work 10
vonDALWIG Architecture
RE-GEN ER ATI O N
Spring 2019
Location: Xiong’An, Hebei, China Project Partners: Karisma Dev and Anna Korneeva Professor: Fei Wang Project: Kindergarten-Senior Center
Located in Xiong’An, China, this kindergarten-senior center strives to enhance the interactions between these two age groups in a way that exemplifies the behaviors and needs of each. This project is formally divided into three sections - the existing structures (previously housing units) that dictate ‘courtyard formations’ on the ground plane; the top path that serves as a playground and vast open space for kindergarteners and seniors alike to be free in a safe, elevated environment in which they cannot get lost; and the objects that interject themselves with the existing infrastructure and the path. Thus, 08
interaction is promoted between the two primary age groups and methods of connection are prevalent on a variety of scales. The program is rooted in needbased conditions of its surroundings. With Xiong-An operating as a new city with decreasing levels of childbirth and overall population levels and the price of education increasing each year, this center focuses on the functionality of an all-inclusive learning environment. By occupying the use of a range of senses (materiality, colors, format of programs), children and seniors alike can feel safe in a fun and playful learning environment.
Program analysis
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Detail Section
Re-Generation
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Projects
Perspectives
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Longitudinal Section West
Longitudinal Section East
Re-Generation
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Projects
Library and Cafeteria
Gym and Auditorium
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A FR AM E TO C O N N E C T
Spring 2018
Location: Bronx, NY Project Partners: Umut C. Guney And Tirta P. Teguh Professor: Angie Co And Julie Hoskowitz Project: Affordable Housing and Start-Up Incubator
Located in Mott Haven, in Bronx, New York City, the project looked to find an alternative to the issue of affordability in the Bronx. As the project was lead by utilizing community land trusts, the project also focused on the development of the neighborhood as well. The project consists on 26 affordable residential units and 7700 square-foot community-use space, sub-leased by the community land 16
trust, south bronx unite. The project budget is $11 million, which makes it affordable for a clt to push forward. The project is expected to produced a levered internal rate of return is 2.08% and levered equity multiple of 1.10. Located in a R-6 zone for residential, the site has a maximum far of 2.20. However, due to its affordable nature, we were able to include an additional 10% to the far making it 2.42.
South Bronx Social Housing Distribution
South Bronx Student Homelessness Percentage
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Start-Up Incubator Plan
A Frame to Connect
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Projects
Growth Speculative Diagram
Residential Unit Plan
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Section Perspective of East Building
A Frame to Connect
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Projects
Building Transparency
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Collage Perspective and Model Perspective
A Frame to Connect
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TH E BE ST BEE TRO OT A N D TH E WO RST M A N DA R I N E
Spring 2017
Location: Cazenovia, NY Professor: Molly Hunker Project: Farm-to-Table Restaurant and Research Center
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The project brief is to design a landscape for a restaurant and spaces for culinary research. The project is based on the idea of how food can change the perception of reality, nature, and artificial through what people eat. The methodology lays in the similar way cooks have design a dish, like architects design spaces. As a result the dish becomes the conceptual inspiration that drives the project. The dish is based on the product of several culinary chefs such as Dan Barber and Heston Blumenthal. The first chef inspire on producing the “purest” form of a vegetable, while the second one worked on deceiven the food aesthetically. The project’s goals is to lead the users to undermine this threshold of natural vs. Man-made through spacial
design. In this landscape both the natural and the artificial landscapes are mashed up to enhance (and maybe confuse) the user’s experience. Entering the site, the area seems to look very familiar to existing conditions; plants and vegetables are planted in rows similar to those in farms. The extreme order of nature questions the naturality of the space. As the user move further, the order in nature breaks but the landscape becomes extremely affected by humans. Thus, again, the user’s experience is affected. In the similar way, the buildings begin to transform as the space changes. Ultimately, the project questions the idea of familiarity and unfamiliarity through the experience the user goes through.
Dish: Conceptural Diagram
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Plan Oblique
Familiarity vs. Unfamiliar
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Site Section
Program Duality
The Best Beetroot and the Worst Mandarin
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Projects
Familiarity vs. Unfamiliar
Landscape Transformation
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Plan Oblique: Unfamiliar Landscape
The Best Beetroot and the Worst Mandarin
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Projects
Plan Oblique: Familiar Landscape
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TH E FACTO R Y O F E N E R GY
Spring 2017
Location: Syracuse, NY Professor: Molly Hunker Project: Willow Shrub Recreation and Research Center
The project is focused on the idea of a factory as a process of learning, through the design of a botanical garden in the skirts of the onondaga lake. The site of this project then turns into three different stages of learning: investigation, exhibition, and recreation. In the investigation area, laboratories, greenhouses, and classroom are in order to accommodate the needs of scientists and researchers. The second zone— the exhibition area— then turns into a space that allow new participants to learn from what is already established. Lastly, the recreational area creates a space that allow to put these new ideas into practice. 34
Through the change of the terrain and landscape of the existing site, we can create territories defined by these spaces. In a simple way, by creating mounds in the terrain, the form forces people to walk around the mound. On the contrary, recesses in the land would create spaces that allow for congregation. The main goal is to create spaces not only dedicated for the work of professionals but also designed to attract people from different communities, thus, hoping to create further interactions between people who not normally interact with each other.
Site Terrain
Tree Canopy: Area Coverage
Soil Type Analysis
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The Factory of Energy Private Parking Laboratories Classroom
Forest
Greenhouse
Lab Garden
Willow Shrubs
Plan Oblique: Program and Vegetation Distribution
Storage Demonstration Garden Exhibition
Classroom
Public Parking
Recreational Center
Wetlands
Wetlands
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Projects
Plan Oblique Close-Up
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Perspectives: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and WInter
The Factory of Energy
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Projects
Model Close-Ups
Physical Models
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FO N DA ZI O N E PR A DA
Spring 2019
Location: Milan, italy Project Partners: anna korneeva Professor: Fei Wang Project: Adaptive Reuse Analysis
In this intensive and exploratory case study, we examined buildings transformed from an industrial building. We analyzed the concept, the context, the relationship between the old and the new, programs, structures, systems, envelope, and construction. Fondazione Prada, a former gin distellery, expands the repertoire of spaces to exhibit art and shared with the public. The complex consists of a combination of old regenerated and new buildings— the cinema, the podium, and torre. The spaces allow 40
for both temporary and permanent exhibition. OMA, the architect of the project, utilized a variety of materials to create a feeling of pavilions on the site and further emphasize the relationship between art and architecture. The façades becomes an exploration of materials ranging from metallic foam to gold while mantaining its orignal buildings concrete, creating a contrast of the old and the new.
Material Isometric
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Axonometric Analysis
Fondazione Prada
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Case Studies
Context, Program, Structure, Systems, and Materials
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S HA RE_YA R A I CH O
Summer 2018
Location: Tokyo, Japan Project Partners: Anna Korneeva and Ayebanengiefa Wabote Professor: Marcos Parga Project: House Construction Analysis
The case study looks into the details and the construction techniques of a small house by Satoko Shinohara of Spatial Design Studio and Ayano Uchimura of A Studio. The project is located in the neighborhood of Shinjuku in Tokyo, Japan. The area is known to be characterized by well-manicured and larger dwellings which are humble, 44
homely and formally idiosyncratic. Within this public context the envelope is respectful to its neighbors, however it is also unique with its simple form and innovative use of anomalous fabric.
Massing Form Analysis
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Section Detail
Share_Yaraicho
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Case Studies
Detailed Axonometric
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Structural Plan
Share_Yaraicho
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Case Studies
Electrical Fixtures Plan
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Structural Model Detail
Share_Yaraicho
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Case Studies
Structural Model: Beams and Floor Plates
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M I RRO RED I NSTI T U TE S
Fall 2018
Location: London, United Kingdom Professors: Davide Sacconi and Anne Munly Project: Palimpsest Drawing
This drawing tries to understand and compare different institutions. In this case, institutions of art and religion are placed in relationship to create a conversation between the two typologies. The relationship compares elements of scale, materiality, form, organization 52
between the Tate Modern and St. Paul’s Cathedral both located in London, United Kingdom The drawing tries to put emphasis not only in the exterior but also on the interiors of both buildings. Both buildings share similar heights, rhythm of bays, and massiveness.
Composite Drawing
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PR O FE S SI O N A L WO R K
House in Brooklyn Schematic Plans
House in Bedford Physical Model
Location: Brooklyn, NY Firm: vonDALWIG Architecture Date: Summer 2019
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House in Bedford Model Perspectives: Kitchen and Bath
House inManhattan in Manhattan Rendering: Kitchen
House inManhattan in Manhattan Rendering: Hallway
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Hudson Competition: Workshop
Hudson Competition: Dance Party!
Hudson Competition: Street Cinema
Hudson Competition: Farmers Market
vonDALWIG Architecture
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Professional Work
Townhouse in Brooklyn Promotional Drawing Second Floor
Townhouse in Brooklyn Promotional Drawing Ground Floor
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E: afeng101@syr.edu T: +1 (617) 955-9018