BILL CM TANG DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2019 SELECTED WORKS, SPRING 2019
BILL CM TANG
DESIGN PORTFOLIO 2019 SELECTED WORKS, Spring 2019
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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. As an individual, I am innovative and adaptable but pragmatic and detailed in my work. In my spare time, have an interest in linguistics and history, Latin, and historical Chinese. I am a playwright and poet. 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
CURRICULUM VITAE SKILLS SOFTWARE Photoshop Indesign Illustrator V-Ray Render Rhinoceros AutoCAD Revit BIM Sketchup MANUAL 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 and Photoshop, applying my experience as a digital artist + Fundamental 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 //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 in design to construction document and tender phases. + Also produced physical massing model, presentation visuals, and research. + Worked in AutoCad, Sketchup, and Adobe Suite 2018 //GENERAL MACHINES OPERATOR, RIPPLEPAK LTD. Summer + Learned quickly to operate heavy and complex machinery safely and efficiently + Kept up with a fast-paced schedule set by production deadlines for each order 2015 - 2017 Summers
//GRAPHICS DESIGNER, FREELANCE + Designed and executed various web & graphics projects using the Adobe suite + Worked closely with clients, in Chinese and English to ensure their vision was met
DISTINCTIONS 2018 //SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE OUTSTANDING DESIGN AWARD Fall Term + For design excellence in 2A stzWudio 2017-2018 //DEAN'S HONOURS LIST 3 Terms + Awarded for top 20% of Class 2017 //TOP ACADEMIC STANDING, 1ST 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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// PROFESSIONAL WORK, NORR
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Exhibited at the 2019 Year End Review Exhibit at Idea Exchange at Riverside
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“They tell me that you like to walk to the edges of the city, mornings and afternoons, that somethings draws you to that island in the old desert, that centuries-old block which your friends claim you to frequent: architecture from a forgotten future.�
DISTORTIONS Design Studio, Fall 2018 Conceptual Unknown time and place
Left: The architecture from the southeast Below: The architecture from it's entrance
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.
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CAESURA Byron Cai, Lyric Barnik, Cian Hrabi For Arxsite 2018 Site Chapel Pessegueiro Island, Portugal
Left: Looking down the central axis of the project and north to the sea Below: The chapel viewed from the coast
The 2018 Arxsite competition asked young architects and students to propose a site chapel on the island of Pessegueiro Island, Portugal- A historic island with Roman ruins, a quarry and a renaissance fort. Caesura begins by referencing the unique historical and geographic data of Pessegueiro Island. It reflects upon and augments an island thoroughly worked by man and weather, drawing lines from the site’s rugged maritime bearing to inform its geometry and material. The coastline, dominated by rocky cliffs and exposed quarry-stone demands commensurate sheerness of form and forcefulness of material: a monolithic, yet dynamic concrete figure.
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YMCA of Greater Toronto
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Donald McKay Design Studio, Spring 2018 Library + Community Centre Dundas Street W. at Old Weston
Left: Render of building exterior from Dundas and Old Weston Road Above: First floor plan within the context of it’s Dundas west neighbourhood.
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.
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1st FLOOR LIBRARY HALL KITCHEN 2 RECTANGLES OF 1:2 RATIO
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SE NW SOUTH STREET ELEVATION (DUNDAS W)
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RENDERING OF THE ATRIUM SPACE
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WEBBED GLULAM COLUMN
TENSION TIE ROD CONNECTION
STEEL PINNED CONNECTION
CONCRETE COLUMN AS BASE
COLUMN DETAIL
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WELLINGTON HOUSE
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Rick Andrighetti, Anne Bordeleau Design Studio, Fall 2017 Student Residence Cambridge, Ontario
Left: Model showing the building from a southeast angle Above: Digitally drawn perspective from Wellington St, showing the streetfront, the neighbouring house and City hall in the background.
The Wellington house is a co-operative student housing residence designed to accommodate up to 5 students and a small take-out cafė comfortably in the center of downtown Galt in Cambridge, Ontario. The building sits on a steep hillside with access from both top and bottom, overlooking the parking lot of the Cambridge City Hall and into the Grand River Valley, flanked on the south by a small grove and to the north by existing houses. The result is a building which negotiates the awkward public-private dimensions of both it’s program and site with a take-out coffee shop in the basement facing out to the City Hall and residences ontop.
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DINING CAFE
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all models and drawing were originally made and drafted by hand, using only analog methods. The drawings you see here are digitally improved edits of those original hand drafts.
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“Welcome to Gaia, where we bring to life the newest generation of inspired living. Nestled between 80 square kilometres of distinct landforms, the rocky peaks of the Ourean Mountains and glimmering waters of Lake Thalassa, Gaia is born of it’s spectacular geographic setting.”
GAIA
Team: Alexey Vasiliev, Marco Adly, Chi Un Lee, Teodor Mlynczyk Project: -Topia, for 2A Iconography & Fairy Tales Competition Left: A few units of Gaian apartments Above: Haema Bloodsports stadium
Gaia is a science fiction exploration of how architecture may look in a dystopian society. In this project, we take the perspective of a people fully immersed in their world, presenting Gaia as a parody of an advertisement for a current-year urban condominium development, complete with dramatic renderings, and
a text which oversells the project. Gaia sells itself as a the world we would like today—one with renewable and recyclable resources—however, it does so in a very dystopian manner: human bodies are harvested, consumed and used as a material and commodity. In the society of Gaia, all of the grotesqueries which we would consider morbid and unfathomable today, are normalized and accepted as a beneficial and basic part of society. In fact, these societal norms have allowed the people of Gaia to survive their dying world and surpass previous generations. Gaia challenges to reader to let go of their presuppositions of what is normal and sacred, and to imagine what the world would look like, through its architecture, under different axioms.
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“At Gaia, you will always be connected to what matters most. Whether it be neighbors, family or beyond, you will be part of a close knit and amenities-rich community, teeming with life and activity. All of Gaia’s amenities are located within walking and biking distance.”
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“Housing at Gaia elevates everyday living to luxury. Each complex at Gaia begins with the structural power of braced ossite frames which combine the dignified appearance of marble with durability of ossite steel... This exposed skeleton frame is thoughtfully punctuated by precast carnite dwellings placed within. Surrounding these units are a multifaceted arrangements of terraces and community spaces for shared amenities.�
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“Biocrops are grown within Mother and planted at a specific location depending the biocrop strain. From here, a blend of fertilizer and energy is injected directly into the growing crops, to increase their rate of development. The biocrop also directly fed minerals as well as carbon extracted directly from the atmosphere. Once the crop has grown, it is aborted and the harvest is complete.�
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“Helping humans thrive in the unispecial world, you will be part of a project which helps to realize and safeguard humanity’s full potential as the only life-form remaining on Earth. Gaia turns away from the failed methods which had extinguished all non-human life before, focusing, instead, on a new lifestyle of reuse and recycling.”
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Exhibited at the 2018 Year ‘How Might We Live' Installation Exhibit
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COUNTERPOINT 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.
Left: The top of the model focused on the stairway and cloud temple, with market and upper level buildings around
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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Above: A closeup of the market layer, with the people busying about
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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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Left: Render of submission to 2018 CISC Steel Competition, Obelisk, a lighthouse in Sicily, Italy
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//RESEARCH STATION DESIGN | in Guilin, China | V-ray Render, Photoshop, Rhino 5 | Spring 2018 In Collaboration with Byron Cai
//2 MONTREALS| Photography | Fall 2017
//KATYUSHA | Digital Painting | Spring 2016
//WORKSPACE | Digital Painting | Summer 2016
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// SCULPTURES + PRINTS
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//TRASHED + FOOTPRINT 1st place at the YENYR Equinox Environmental Art Competition Found Objects Collage + Ink Print 60 cm x 60 cm x 60 cm Winter 2017
//CMYK | Monoprints | Fall 2016 |
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//ENTANGLED | Wood Dowels + String | 60 cm x 24 cm x 36 cm | Winter 2017 |
//CUBOID Foam Core Sculpture 45 cm x 45 cm x 45 cm Fall 2016
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//STEPHANIE GU AS A DISGRUNTLED TANG DYNASTY CONCUBINE Part of a Series: ‘A God Among their People’ Photoshop Portrait Summer 2016
//JESSICA LONG AS AN UNCOUTH ‘BAROCOCO’ NOBLEWOMAN Part of a Series: ‘A God Among their People’ Photoshop Portrait Summer 2016
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//LAWRENCE PANG WITH A POMELO SHELL FOR A HAT Photoshop Portrait Fall 2017
//DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO GRADUATE | Digital Painting, Graduation Portrait | Spring 2017
Thanks for your time, let’s talk soon!
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