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BILL CM TANG Hi there. Here’s a little about myself. I’m currently a second year student at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, Ontario with a passion for design, using the language of architecture to find a voice of my own. The following are a collection of works which document my current interests and abilities in my first years of study in architecture. Thank you for your time.
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bill.cm.tang@gmail.com +1 647 915 4688
Markham / Toronto / Cambridge
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CURRICULUM VITAE PROFICIENCIES Photoshop Indesign Illustrator V-Ray Render Enscape Render Sketchup Rhinoceros AutoCAD Revit BIM Model Making Laser Cutting Woodworking
QUALIFICATIONS • 6 years experience in Adobe Creative Suite, specialist in Photoshop, advanced skill in Illustrator and Indesign developed while working freelance and in school. • A developed workflow between 3D modeling, drafting software and Adobe suite to create compelling architectural representation • Strong architectural visualization skills using 3d models, V-ray render, Enscape and Photoshop, with experience as a digital artist • Knowledge of Revit, starting 2015 • Clear verbal & visual communication, especially in writing • Strong academic and working achievements demonstrate adaptability, self-motivation and ability to learn quickly • Written and Spoken English, Chinese (Mandarin)
EDUCATION 2017 - Present Cambridge, Ontario
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE • Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Co-op Honours Candidate, Class of 2022
EXPERIENCE 2019 ARCHITECTURAL INTERN, ANN BEHA ARCHITECTS Fall • Assisted in producing several master plans and successful proposals for educational and cultural institutions projects; Adaptive reuse • Graphical work for presentations, award and publication submissions • Produced physical massing models, presentation visuals, and assisted in ADA research. • Extensive work producing detailed existing conditions & context models in Sketchup 2019 STUDENT ARCHITECTURAL INTERN, NORR ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS LTD Winter • Engaged in all phases of small and medium scale university renovations and new constructions: libraries, laboratories and research centers. • Became quickly proficient in work from design to construction document phases. • Also produced physical massing model, presentation visuals, and research. • Worked in AutoCad, Sketchup, and Adobe Suite
DISTINCTIONS 2018 Fall Term
2A DESIGN EXCELLENCE AWARD • For design excellence in 2A Studio
2017-2018 DEAN'S HONOURS LIST 4 Terms • Awarded for top 20% of Class 2017 TOP ACADEMIC STANDING Fall Term • Ranked 1st in class by GPA for the 1A Fall 2017 academic term • Adjusted quickly to university setting, achieving well-rounded results and top grades 2017 UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP • Entrance average 90% - 94.9%
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Learning Commons at Springfield Technical Community College: Producing drawings for awards, publication submissions, eventually published in Architectural Record, November 2019.
Dyson Hall at Marist College: Successful redesign proposal for Dyson Hall at Marist College epansion and renovation. Performed program analysis and schematic plans. Modeling of existing and proposed conditions.
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Various Projects: Modelled detailed existing conditions from built plans and sections for masterplan and renovation purposes.
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Plant Health/Cannabis Research Center at Guelph University: Pre-design and early schematic design Plan diagraming, context modelling and visualization support.
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McMaster Health Science Library Renovation Provided modeling during design development, and help draft contract document set. Project currently under construction.
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DISTORTIONS Design Excellence Award, 2A Studio Exhibited at the 2019 Year End Review Exhibit at Idea Exchange at the Riverside Gallery
Project: Program: Location:
Design Studio, Fall 2018 Conceptual Unknown time and place
The 2A studio final project was a culmination of a term of study on the concept of affect and atmosphere in architecture. This project was a conceptual exploration, in an imaginary time and place. The resulting project is a strange architecture, created between wood, concrete and chrome. It is an orderly grid intersected by seemingly random elements, squares by suspended circles. The architecture is mysterious and sci-fi. The interiors of the project are conditioned by these intersections, creating openings and framing views into and from the spaces.
Rhino V-ray Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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JUNCTION LIBRARY Supervising: Project: Program: Location:
Donald McKay Design Studio, Winter 2018 Library + Community Centre Dundas Street W. at Old Weston
This project is set in the post-industrial neighborhood around Dundas West in Toronto. The focus is to create a community center which reflects its community: serving as a library, community kitchen and assembly hall. The building’s plan imitates a common industrial building type: 2 building blocks with a former service corridor converted to an atrium. The exterior also reflects the post-industrial surroundings, using a heavy concrete and corten steel base to support the colossal glulam columns and tall windows of the upper floors. The windows are further used as reveals against the columns to emphasize the exaggerated structure, playing with expectations of solids and voids.
Sketchup V-ray Enscape Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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BRONZE
YMCA of Greater Toronto
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1st FLOOR LIBRARY HALL KITCHEN 2 RECTANGLES OF 1:2 RATIO
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WEBBED GLULAM COLUMN
TENSION TIE ROD CONNECTION
STEEL PINNED CONNECTION
CONCRETE COLUMN AS BASE
COLUMN DETAIL
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SHERBOURNE ARCADES Team: Supervising: Project: Location:
Daniel Beg, Teodor Mlynczyk, Steven Starkell Adrian Blackwell et. al Design Studio, Winter 2020 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
SHERBOURNE ST. SOCIAL HOUSING MASTERPLAN For the second project of the 3a design studio, focused on urbanism and social housing, we were tasked with creating a masterplan for 6 sites along Sherbourne street in the downtown east of Toronto. The goal is to design a system of social services and housing in a traditionally low-income neighborhood know for it’s dense concentration of public housing which help to improve the street while avoiding gentrification. Our group took the approach of filling the sites with midrise blocks which are connected to the street by through way arcade and extended corridors.
Sketchup Rhino V-ray Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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Social Service and Relative Use Value (Population) Social Service and Relative Use ValueSubway (Population)
DESIGN PORTFOLIO | BILL CM TANG Social Service Streetcar Medical Bus Route Residential Cycle Path Religious
Social Service and Relative Use Value (Population) Social Service and Relative Use Value (Population) Subway Social Service Streetcar Social Service and Relative Medical Use Value (Population) Bus Route Social Service Residential Medical Cycle Path Residential Religious Religious
Social Service and Relative Use Value (Population) Social Service and Relative
Value (Population) HydrologyUseand Drainage Subway Subway Accross Sherbourne Streetcar
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Route Prioritize GroundBusDrainage Over CentralizedCycle Stormwater Path Drains Bus Route
Cycle Path Water Drainage Existing Sewer Pipe Social Service and Relative Use Value (Population) Hydrology and Drainage Subway Accross Sherbourne Streetcar
Prioritize Ground Drainage Over Centralized Stormwater Bus Route Hydrology and Drainage Drains Accross Sherbourne
Prioritize Ground Drainage Cycle Path Over Centralized Stormwater Drains Water Drainage
Water Drainage
Existing Sewer Pipe Existing Sewer Pipe
Hydrology andand Drainage Social Service Relative Accross Social Service and Relative Use ValueSherbourne (Population) Use Value (Population) Belt Prioritize GroundGreen Drainage GreenStormwater Belt Over CentralizedPublic Green Space Drains
Public Green Space
Water Drainage Existing Sewer Pipe
Hydrology and Drainage Social Service and Relative Accross Sherbourne Use Value (Population) Prioritize Ground Drainage
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VIEW FROM SHERBOURNE AND DUNDAS
SHERBOURNE LANES ARCADE
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ATRIUM INTERIOR
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QUARRY BENDS WETLAND PARK
Supervising: Project: Program: Location:
Jane Hutton Design Studio, Spring 2019 Community Centre + Wetland Park Brantford, Grand River
Land Art and wetland park located on a former aggregate quarry site on the Grand River provides an opportunity to explore the possibilities of a wetland design which will unfold through the natural processes of erosion and deposition. By excavating on a diamond shaped grid, this project highlights the processes of erosion and the dynamism of wetland systems. Bringing longterm processes to the foreground. Erosion will rapidly overturn the man-made grid, left at the mercy of natural forces, to and sculpt a new environment. From the initial lowcomplexity state of the diamond grid, natural forces will be able to develop itself an evolving and complex system of wetlands. Contrasting these, 4 concrete retained hills which as mounds for the excavated soil, as vantage points to overlook the wetlands around and as flood resistant mounds on which to build outdoor learning spaces. A series of boardwalks and outdoor classrooms anchored by a learning center and gallery space will invite the public to explore and interact with the natural forces present in these wetlands.
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1 yr 1 EQUIPMENT STORAGE 2 SHELTERED BIKE STORAGE 3 MECHANICAL 4 WASHROOMS 5 WORKSPACE 6 WORKSPACE 7 KITCHEN SPACE 8 STORAGE 9 GALLERY/CLASSROOM 10 TERRACE 11 OUTDOOR CLASSROOM 12 OUTDOOR CLASSROOM 13 SITTING AREA
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COUNTERPOINT Exhibited in 2019 at BRIDGE Center for Architecture + Design
Project: Team:
Design Studio, Fall 2018 Ben Hao, Christa Hu, Sparsh Gandhi, Annie Wang, Chi Un Lee
The second studio project of the 2A 2018 design studio asked us to image a heterotopia. Using imagery and atmosphere from films such as 'Third Man', "Brazil' and 'Once upon a Time in the West' we created a 3 strata city connected by a network of tube columns and a central stairwell. The 3 layers of the conceptual creation each have their own qualities, created by the use of materials, lighting and spacial relations. The top can be describabed as an authoritarian architecture, the middle as commercial and the bottom as pastoral. While on display, vistors could look all around the project, and observe both the overall construction and it's many finely crafted interior moments.
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You look up, trying to see how far the stilts extend; A dense fog obscures the extent of the massive columns you move up through the transparent shaft between pillars which grow tall into the sky. The earth shrinks below your feet before dissolving into mist. you are caught between earth and sky The columns around you transform into a forest, which emerge from a terraced valley, all pressed beneath a soft, sloped canopy. As you navigate up the flowing layers you push past chattering folk, who live close to their substance, close to the fields and among the animals and observe the gathered masses in the sacred Circle. a lovely day. You are tracking the sway of shadows through the porous screens of the dwellings suspended tensely above you; which stretch from beam to beam, scattered freely in the open volume, when a cow ambles past you, scrawny and drained and the unintelligible shouts of a streetside man fill your ears with discord. As you crouch to dip your dry, dry hands into a steady stream below, you catch a glimpse of a small misshapen thing fallen dark on the water’s edge where the musty scent of rotting dulls the fragrance in the air. and the voices wash over you— you pull back your hands, shaken: your palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. You stumble away, up the stairs that wrap around the pillars; which seem to spiral upwards in an endless blur. As you hit the platform of the dwellings at a sprint you nearly careen over the edge, feel wood give way before your outstretched arms— You move to escape the chthonic womb below, certain it will soon devour you. and after passing through a floor are relieved to find a more well-maintained space above, gathered between 2 planes, a marketplace, full of diverse activity. merchants, transients, foreigners, people from above and below, mix together in a stunning stew. commerce is booming. You meander through the streets, beset by shops and vendors who compete for your attention and money, Not knowing the streets, you wander into silhouettes of bodies. you stumble into the writhing mass. An arm around your shoulder, a leg pressed flush against yours, a trailing brush against— you reawaken, bolt away red, body in motion, blood roaring. in the corner of your eye, intertwined figures flash in the canyon-streets and you leave, turn a corner at a clip almost swindled by peddlers and persuaded by adverts, nearly ready to part with the money they desire. The action overwhelms you. The various noises, sights, and people of the market swirls together into a bland and insipid blend. Gradually you slow, and find yourself in a steady flow of people, streaming around a copper platform all in an void You follow, ascending into the belly of a dark pyramid, a bright light above you, hope: A temple, held high by a concrete tower—a perfect cloudlike mass set nobley in the sky. In time, you emerge through the floors into a symmetrical hall, immaculately white you follow the others the air here is crisp and odourless, like on a mountain summit. a fine mist percolates through the air all around you, under the pristine domes a ritual purification, to cleanse those entering You ignore the rites and rush excited to a window, eager to peek the landscape around. Through the glass see the walls, dignified marble-clad towers rise rightly above the topography below, raised on a grid of pilotis which remove them from the earth. between them move in lines of unidirectional conveyors. but looking out through to the city below, the distant people move like ants in a line, and your skin seems to fit wrong. you are at once too big, and too small: reality is too far removed, yet still crystalline in its clarity you blink. your body aches. You retreat back from the window, shaken, but only to find all the people in the temple staring you down strangely you are an alien here judging eyes persecute your movements as you scitter to avoid their gaze your steps fall muffled as you realize that you’ve entered into the frosted heart of an omnipotent god. passing underneath the eye of the temple, you feel bare: A shiver runs down your spine as you move to turn away from the light, searching for an exit Step by step, you plot your escape, not hesitating before plunging down the stairs, hitting the concrete too hard as you descend.
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MISC PROJECTS ART & RENDERS
//OBELISK | V-ray Render, Photoshop, Rhino 5 | Winter 2018 In Collaboration with Chi Un Lee
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//GAIATOPIA | V-ray Render, Photoshop, Rhino 5, 3ds Max | Fall 2018 In Collaboration with Chi Un Lee, Marco Adly, Alexey Vasiliev & Teodor Mlynczyk
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//RESEARCH STATION DESIGN | in Guilin, China | V-ray Render, Photoshop, Rhino 5 | Winter 2018 In Collaboration with Byron Cai
//2 MONTREALS| Photography | Fall 2017
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//CLIFFS & DAGGERS | V-ray Render, Photoshop, Rhino 5 | Spring 2019 In Collaboration with Sparsh Gandhi, Maria Munir, Alexey Vasiliev
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//CMYK | Monoprints | Fall 2016 |
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Thanks for your time, let’s talk soon!
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