Architecture Portfolio by Brandon Wang

BRANDON WANG Architecture Portfolio 2012-2016

Dedicated to Cathy and my family.

BRANDON WANG Bachelor of Architecture, 2016 Environmental Studies concentration Rhode Island School of Design I am invested in global systems, contested territories, material integrity, machining drawing, and landscapes. The context of land and our relation to it greatly inform my world vision. How does architecture exist in and navigate these frontiers? What is the scale of the human being among these large systems, and what becomes of self in this navigation?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Inter-MOTION

GROW-SoHo

Providence Innovation Lab

Mechanized Forestry

Modular Mountain

Lens of the City

360 Degrees

741 Dexter Street

Urban Junction

House for a Dance

Casa Del Fascio

Graphic Work and Publications

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Oedipus and Typography

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Landscape Photography

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INTER-MOTION

Cathedral Square, Providence, RI Advanced Studio: Between Content and Container Emanuel Admassu Fall 2015 Collaborative work with Tai Shaw (B.Arch 2017) This project shares the site with four other proposals from the studio, all of which spatially and programmatically negotiate to simultaneously occupy and redefine the site and the city.

This project addresses multiple scales and types of movement, within the site of Cathedral Square, and throughout and beyond the city of Providence. They range from urban scales of vehicular transit and pedestrian movement, down to the smallest, unperceiveable scale of particle movement. The program of the proposal addresses these two extreme scales: scientific research facilities combining an Astronomy Observatory and a Neutrino Research Laboratory.

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Site axonometric. Urban analysis: public transit and private research facilities.

Science and public access share an enduring relationship of tension, one that considers abstraction, representation, and visualization. Circulating through the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;enabling different speeds and levels of participationâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;encourages participation and temporary access into the realms of science and its content.

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Highway perspective. Ground site plan. Basement level 1 plan.

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Interior view. Public ramp and viewing moments. Urban corridors. Observatory deck and telescope dome.

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View from bus. Corridor view. Section B.

GROW-SOHO: VERTICAL FARM FOR NEW YORK

Hudson Square, New York, NY Advanced Studio: Climate Change Museum Launch Anne Tate / Nadine Gerdts

GROW SoHo is a hybrid food production and distribution center that merges public programs, integrates with local agents and consituents, and relates to the greater food infrastructure of lower Manhattan, New York.

Spring 2015 This studio was completed in collaboration with Climate Change Museum Launch, an initiative to build a museum in New York devoted to the public awareness of climate change, led by Miranda Massie. www.climatemuseum.org/

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CULTURE ETHICS EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE RESILIENCE

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Site mapping: stakeholders and potential partners. Global and local context.

The scales and programs span from community gardens to industrial-scale vertical farming. This project is an intensive solution for the Climate Change Museum Launch program that frames climate change to reconsider the role and agency of food within a hyperurban context.

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Aerial view looking east. Ground site plan.

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Typical upper floors. Site model, 1/32” = 1’-0”.

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View of vertical farms. Detail model of tower. Site section.

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION LAB

Providence, RI Integrated Building Systems Jonathan Knowles Fall 2015 Collaborative work with Christopher Beck, Ariel Resnick, Rebecca McGee (M.Arch 2016).

This project was a complete design of a building, including HVAC and water systems, structure and core, building skin, egress, and code analysis down to construction detail. Academic programs including labs, metal and wood shops, classrooms, and groundlevel gallery. A set of construction documents and detail section model was produced.

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SITE ANALYSIS Surface + Subsurface Conditions

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SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS

SITE ANALYSIS Topography

Soil Map—State of Rhode Island: Bristol, Kent, Newport, Providence, and Washington Counties

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Web Soil Survey National Cooperative Soil Survey

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SITE ANALYSIS Climate: Wind

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G Series: Solar Gain, Building Code, Site Conditions, Zoning Elevation diagram. 21â&#x20AC;? x 7â&#x20AC;? rotating terracotta louvers.

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Ground floor plan. Typical upper floor plans, roof plan with solar panels. Building section A.

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Facade diagram: West elevation. Structural drawings: Framing and foundation plans. Final model, 1/4” = 1’-0”.

MECHANIZED FORESTRY

Pier 26, New York, NY Advanced Studio: Climate Change Museum Launch Anne Tate / Nadine Gerdts Spring 2015

Mechanized Forestry is a pop-up temporary installation occupying Pier 26 in New York. Its primary principle is the visual communication and visceral experience of climate change, specifically through the lens of deforestation, and individual scalar environmental awareness.

Scales of deforestation. Plan.

600 columns align along a rotated grid, turning the field to orient with the globeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true North-South directions. The directional shift empowers a conceptual rethinking of our place among larger systems.

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Aerial view looking north. Exploded axonometric of tensile canopies. Interior perspective.

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Elevation and true north elevation. Interior perspective. Model, 1/16” = 1’-0” and detail 1/8” = 1’-0”.

MODULAR MOUNTAIN: RISD GRAD SHOW 2015

Design, Fabrication, Installation: Trevor Knebel (M.Arch, 2016) Brandon Wang (B.Arch 2016) Exhibition Managers: Whitney Bosel (M.Arch 2015) Trevor Knebel Brandon Wang RISD Architecture Grad Program Director: Hansy Better Director of Campus Exhibitions: Mark Moscone Department of Architecture Rhode Island School of Design Grad Show May 20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 30, 2015 Rhode Island Convention Center One Sabin St, Providence RI 02903

Every year preceding Commencement, RISD celebrates the work of graduate students completing degrees from all 16 majors. For Grad Show 2015, Trevor Knebel and I conceived, designed, fabricated, and installed the exhibition for the Department of Architecture. The Modular Mountain is composed of modules along an LÂ-shaped spine. This aggregation creates a spatial wall to observe the collection of works completed by M.Arch 2015 students over the course of their final year. The students worked in teams of 2 or 3 to design their set of modules, while Trevor and I completed the fabrication and installation of these parts.

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Module sizes. Orientation and surfaces.

All modules were designed from a full or half-size 3/4”x4’x8’ MDF-core sheet, fitting various heights or depths to suit the display of a particular work. Relevant graphics were also produced, in particular a pamphlet that located each work and gave an introduction to the exhibition as a whole.

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Designed pamphlet for gallery show. Fabrication and installation in progress. Final exhibition design with student work.

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Final exhibition design with student work.

LENS OF THE CITY: CONTEXTUALIZING MATERIAL TRANSLATIONS

Providence, RI Advanced Studio: 1:1 Precast Concrete Brett Schneider Spring 2014 This studio was the first of a 4-year research grant sponsored by Precast Concrete Institute to study precast and prestressed/posttensioned concrete in an academic studio.

This project continually tests studies in materiality, planar projections and drawings, and physical forms. These operations are contextualized and re-interpreted through full scale concrete casts, translating into a programmed architectural object within a site.

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Site plan: skyline objects and urban grain. Chronology of material studies. Drawings: Heavy/light, Method of working, Object of interface.

The central inquiry focuses on the tension of forms between their 2-dimensional space and physical shapes. Dimensions, scales, and materiality are the navigational terrain. The final object is an urban compass that operates between visual metaphors and perceptual translations with its very material existence.

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INITIAL INTERPRETIVE DRAWINGS Responsive to three different ideas:

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Responsive three different ideas: 1. Heavy or to light 1. orof light 2. Heavy Method Working with Concrete 2. Working with Concrete 3. Method Object ofofInterface 3. Object of Interface

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Plaster and half-scale concrete tests. Full scale casting and models. Process sketches. Site perspective and plan.

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Construction drawings, elevation and plan: Formwork, cast concrete, wood face plate. Exploded axonometric â&#x20AC;&#x153;kit of partsâ&#x20AC;?: wood face plate.

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Site perspective. Full scale concrete cast, detail.

360 DEGREES: WEATHER MULTIPLICITIES AND SPATIAL KINETICS

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY Advanced Studio: Weather Museum Rachely Rotem Fall 2014

This project builds a new relationship between building and weather. Evolving from an analytical conceptualization of weather, and site analysis of the site in Red Hook, this museum strategy allows and incorporates various and simultaneous weather phenomena to create new expansive and contracted architectural spaces.

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Site plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Multiplicityâ&#x20AC;? diagrams. Concepts of weather.

The notion of multiplicity was established as a central force. Scenarios, truths, situations, and experiences can occur simultaneously, overlap, and intersect. How an architecture allows and participates in this unfolding of perception becomes the premise for the design strategy.

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Typological and performance catalogue. Interior view.

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Interior view. Ground floor plan. Sections A, B, C.

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Architectural frames relative to weather. Inward flow of wind, water, and light. Model, 1/16” = 1’-0”.

741 DEXTER STREET: PUBLIC PLAZA DESIGN/BUILD

Central Falls, RI Summer Internship: Design/Build Summer Program Lili Hermann / Daniel Feldman / Martin Anzellini Summer 2014

This summer 2014 program was a collaboration between RISD, Brown University, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia and the city of Central Falls, and was led by RISD professors Elizabeth Dean Hermann and Daniel Feldman, and Martin Anzellini from Javeriana. I was one of two student project managers overseeing the drawing and construction process of the 6-week design/build. Photography by Lukas Vasilko.

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Final design and construction. In process: initial strategy, site grading, mural design, pavilion roof.

As a first step following a studio-designed master plan of the city, this project provides an open plaza aimed at enhancing the community and its public spaces, and becomes a catalyst to drive deeper change to the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban environment.

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Exploded axonometric drawings: site and architecture. Ground plan.

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Engagement with community. Final design and construction.

URBAN JUNCTION: PUBLIC HOUSING IN BOSTON

South End, Boston, MA Urban Design Principles Gabriel Feld Fall 2013

This project attempts to activate the public realm of Washington Street. At the northeast edge adjacent highway 93, the site posed an opportunity to activate and occupy this particular urban junction by mixing housing with a theater complex. Using program, massing, and a bisecting public walkway to order and repopulate the site, this project aims to redefine the urban realm in the greater context of South End.

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Master ground plan. Urban analysis: corridors and Washington Street. Typical residential floor plan.

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Process sketches. Sections A and B. Section A, detail.

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Building scale models 1/8” = 1’-0”. Chronology of urban strategies. Final site model, 1” = 50’. Exterior view, looking north.

HOUSE FOR A DANCE

Fictional ground Design Principles Carl Lostritto Fall 2012

This project—third stage of a larger narrative— constructs an ambulatory viewing experience to Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography of The Rite of Spring (1913). The offset platform volumes and columnar axes frame and limit specific views of the dance. Circulation is constructed as a linear path moving around the principal stage, and back again towards the origin.

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Final model. Process models, stage 2 of 3.

Dance and experience are synchronized, where performance and viewership negotiate and conflict. The architecture becomes the house of this relationship.

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Mapping body extremities over the course of the dance. Mapping translated from points to lines. Stills from Rite of Spring (1913).

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Ground plan. Final model.

CASA DEL FASCIO: ANALYSIS AND OPERATION

Architectural Analysis Hansy Better Spring 2013

I researched, explored Giuseppe Terragniâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Casa Del Fascio in Como, Italy, and analyzed the inter- and intrarelationships of the building spaces through of x-ray axonometric representation. From both analytical drawing and historical research, the building was redrawn and re-interpreted through inward projections of the facades, creating a new existential sense.

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Casa del Fascio, existing fenestration details. Casa del Fascio, existing elevations. Axonometric exploring fenestration spaces.

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Exploded axonometric, breaking matrix of existing building. Intersections of projections.

The measurement of each facadeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fenestration relates to its internal spatial organization. These frames are projected to co-meet at the core, translating lines to shape intersection planes and volumes. These volumes became new spaces, inhabiting and negotiating with the existing atrium and offices.

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Intersections of projections.

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Intersections of projections, final drawing.

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GRAPHIC DESIGN AND PUBLICATIONS: RISD DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

Department of Architecture Fall 2014 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Winter 2015

Work in Progress Editor-in-Chief: Brandon Wang (B.Arch 2016) Faculty Advisor: Carl Lostritto 2014-15 Editorial Staff: Matthew Bohne (B.Arch 2015) Lucy Liu (B.Arch 2015) 2015-16 Editorial Staff: Christopher Beck (M.Arch 2016) Ariel Resnick (M.Arch 2016)

Beginning Fall 2014 spanning 4 semesters, I have produced and output graphic work for the Department of Architecture at RISD, including lecture series posters, final reviews posters, and miscellaneous work including gallery exhibition posters, publication announcement posters, department web banners, and special event business cards. Also as Editor-in-Chief of Work in Progress for 2014-15 and 2015-16, I oversee the chief publication design and management for the department publication.

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Final Reviews, Fall 2014. Final Reviews, Spring 2015. Final Reviews, Fall 2015.

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Lecture Series, Fall 2014. Master poster. Lecture Series, Fall 2014. Individual lecture posters. Lecture Series, Spring 2015. Individual lecture posters and mailers. Lecture Series, Spring 2015. Master poster.

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Work in Progress submissions, Fall 2014. Work in Progress submissions, Fall 2014, detail. Pop Up Pin Up Exhibition, Fall 2015. Announcement poster. Pop Up Pin Up Exhibition, Fall 2015. Information posters.

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Work in Progress, Spring 2015. Typical student work layout. Work in Progress, Spring 2015. Typical studio brief layout. Work in Progress, Spring 2015. Typical interview layout.

Established in 1996, Work in Progress is the Department of Architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s student run publication. The publication seeks to offer students the opportunity to critically engage and contribute to an ongoing discourse of architectural education, while provided a platform for self-critique and invited analyses. issuu.com/risdarchitecture/docs/wip_spring_2015_issue_16

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OEDIPUS: TYPOGRAPHIC STUDIES AND GREEK TRAGEDY

Finall book design, details. Typical spread.

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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

Providence, RI.

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Vancouver, BC. Coney Island, New York, NY.

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