CHENMING JIANG SCI-Arc Portfolio 2016-2018
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CHENMING JIANG jiangchenmingjohnny@gmail.com
EDUCATION 2017- PRESENT
Candidate for Master of Architecture, expected September, 2019 Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2014- 2016
Undergraduate Architecture Program Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2011-2015
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SKILLS
2018.05 - 2018.08
3D MODELING Rhinoceros, Revit, Grasshopper, Maya, Zbrush, SketchUp, AutoCAD
GENSLER, MINNEAPOLIS, MN, US As a Summer Intern, I worked closely with teammates on live client projects. Fully integrated in a design team, I participated in design charrettes and weekly learning sessions as well as lectures, tours, and events. Collaborating between our Detroit, Minneapolis, La Crosse and Chicago offices, I put myself into a wide range of design experiences within architecture, interiors, graphic design, industrial design, master planning and consulting.
Architecture Intern
Bachelor of Art and Design Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2016.05 - 2016.06
FREELANDBUCK, LOS ANGELES, CA, US Provided intern-level assistance in designing Hungry Man Office and Flatiron Public Plaza Holiday Design Competition 2016 proposal, including Schematic Design, digital model building, physical model making and design proposal.
Architecture Intern
HONOR AND AWARDS 2017- PRESENT
Awarded Scholarship by Southern California Institute of Architecture
2017
“Exhibit City”, Awarded Selected Prize “SHOWING”-Alternative Design for Museums -The 4th Competion of Non Architecture Competitions, Italy
2015
Group Exhibition “Diamond Leaves”The 2nd Exhibition of Artists Books From Around The Word, CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China
2013
Awarded Scholarship of Competition in Beijing Normal University
2013
Awarded Selected Prize The 3rd edition of “Poster heroes” International Poster Design Competition, Italy
2012
Awarded Scholarship of Academic in Beijing Normal University
2015.05 - 2016.07
NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF CHINA, BEIJING, CHINA Provided intern-level assistance in the Design Department of National Art Museum of China, including Exhibition Booklet design, Exhibition ticket design and Museum Display Design.
2014.02 - 2014.06
THE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND COMMUNICATION, BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY, BEIJING, CHINA.
Graphic Designer Assistant
Graphic Designer Assistant
Participated in package design of Taishan Cigarette, including package design, brand advertising.
2014.09 - 2014.12
NO.2 MIDDLE SCHOOL AFFILIATE TO BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY Intern in teaching General Selective Course-Graphic Design. In the class teaching high school student basic knowledge and software about poster and logo design
2014.03 - 2012.05
INYWHERE TECHNOLOGY INC., BEIJING, CHINA Part-time work in Graphic Design Department of Inywhere Technology Inc., design works about applications on mobile devices and browsers. Participated in Interaction design and design concept support in gamming applications
Graphic Design Educational Intern
Graphic Designer (Part-time)
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2D GRAPHIC AfterEffects, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop SCRIPTING Python for Grasshopper, Processing RENDERING KeyShot, V-ray FABRICATION CNC Milling, Lasercutting, 3D Print, Metal Welding
2GB BIG _ BUILDING INSTRUCTOR: ANDREW ZAGO SITE LOCATION:
100 W RANDOLPH ST, CHICAGO, IL 60601
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The studio examines the interrelationship between architecture and the city- deepening students' understanding of the ways in which architecture can both inform, and be informed by, the urban fabric into which it is woven. Through a full integration of design resources and research on various scales of operation? From housing to institutional and commercial building types that contribute to the formation of neighborhoods and public space? Students are encouraged to design into existing urban conditions with a full understanding of the dynamic and interdependent forces of economics- ethnicityculture- society-politics and infrastructure that have shaped the contemporary city.
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This project is an alternative proposal for Helmet Young’s Thompson Center. I began with Schenkel’s Altes Museum. In order to make new programs fit, I tripled original Altes Museum by hybrid “copy” and “duplicate” parts of original plan. After observing Chicago plan, I find it would be interesting to wrap city-grid into a building and bring outside pedway into building as interior circulation. So, I transformed my precedent building, which has central atrium and orthogonal circulation grid like surrounding street, by applying previous product box operation. Using a box operation that I call “flip back and forward” gives the transformed building a new, interesting, connected atrium, intersected circulation and a mid-rise tower. From the appearance of building, it is relatively easy to see that the tower can accommodate hotel and state office, then the podium part can serve as commercial retail store and CTA metro connecting station.
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Office Level- 5th Floor (Typical Paln) Intersect of up and low Atriums
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Street View Photos Montage Massing Model
90° Axonmetreic North-South View
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2GA DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIO DESIGN INSTRUCTOR: DEVYN WEISER SITE LOCATION:
500 S BUENA VISTA ST, BURBANK, CA 91521 IN COLLABORATION WITH ELAINE CHAN
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The architecture on the Disney Burbank campus is renowned for their iconic features; dwarf caryatids, the magic hat, and film reel patterns. As such a major part of the campus architecture, we wanted our project to follow a similar theme but in a less literal manner. Referencing Claes Oldenburg’s Geometric Mouse, our building selected and assembled 5 parts from a catalogue of generic geometries to embed Mickey Mouse into the architecture, so that it would only be legible from the air or on google maps. The parts stretch along the site in a pinwheel type arrangement similar to Frank Gehry’s Winton Guest house, which enables the space to circulate around a central body and segregate programs into distinct areas.
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1GB DIPTYCH HOUSES INSTRUCTOR: MARGARET GRIFFIN SITE LOCATION: ELYSIAN VALLEY RIVERSIDE, LOS ANGELES, CA 90039
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION My proposal of 1GB studio project started by placing two objects generated with one same process but differentiated in selection of solid and void. Due to the strategy used, the two objects share many qualities in common result in one interesting moment repeatedly appearing in the project with slight shifts in both plan and section.
Eduardo Chillida Jorge Guillén, Mas Allá
As a diptych duplex pair, I used two main strategies, to wrap up and to carve out, to articulate these two parts. From these two strategies, this pair of house has a reading of whole from the south-west elevation which is the side with more context buildings. However, the elevation of the riverside has a reading of split parts. The two objects are like conjoined twins which share some parts in the middle, definitely obtain appearance similarity but still partially independent.
Site Plan
Study Model I
Massing Study
Study Model II
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Northeastern Axonometric
Photos of Model Interior
Southwestern Axonometric
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BLURRY TOWER INSTRUCTOR: DAVID FREELAND SITE LOCATION:
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO IN COLLABORATION WITH HANNAH LEE
VISUAL CONCEPT As approached the skyscraper typology, one of the first ideas that we were interested in was the relationship between the building mass and its surrounding environment, including the sky as well as the ground. Rather than the skyscraper rising from the ground to the sky, we were focussed on creating the opposite effect through a series of lines that seems to fall from the sky to meet the ground. As the lines meet the ground, they curve to create openings to enter the interior of the building mass. These lines have thickness and gradually fade from black at the top of the building to slightly lighter shades of grey at the ground. - -
24” x 24” Collumn
Hotel Elevator Shaft Equipment Room Storage Room Atrium Hotel Room Fire Elevator Shaft Fire Stair
1. Floor Finish 2. 12" Concoret Slab 3. Bris Soleil Connection 4. Floor Brace 5. Ceilling Finish 6. Foam Fire Insulation 7. 12" x 24" Steel Wide Flange 8. GYP. Ceiling Pannel 9. Insulated Glass 10. 3" x 3" Extruded Aluminum Mullion
To create a visual effect in which the top is denser and darker, to looser and lighter on the bottom, corrugated glass is used at different wavelengths to create these variations in density. With favor to the upper, center of the elevation, the corrugated glass has smaller wavelengths to create a darker, denser effect through repetitive reflections. In terms of transparency and opacity from the interior, it does not change throughout the building because the physical lines are equally spaced apart. However, from the exterior through the reflections of the corrugated glass it appears to have fluctuations in
transparency and opacity. These visual effects were inspired by Gerhard Richter’s paintings as well as from nature, for example, waterfalls, exposed cliffs, chandeliers, and drapery. Through this effect, the building lands gently on the site not in an obtrusive way, rather a respectful curtsy.
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THEATER DESIGN INSTRUCTOR: ANNA NEIMARK SITE LOCATION: PASADENA, CA 91103
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1. Exterior Grids 2. Printed Graphic Render 3. Exterior Shell by 4ply Museum board 4. White Painted Tape 5. Inside of Shell 6. Exterior Grids 7. Cut Thin Stripe Tape 8. Escalator by 2ply Museum board 9. Scissors Stairs 10. Stage in Large Theater 11. Ground Plate by 4ply Museum board 12. Pillar of Basement by Basswood
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The assignment is to deform a simple shoebox through rendering to introduce subtle eccentricities in its orientation, material thickness and corner detailing. The representational format for this exercise is the developed surface—a drawing of the interior elevations of the box unfolded in relationship to one another(see figures below from Robin Evan’s text where a room’s interior elevations are folded outward from the plan). This drawing device offers an opportunity to design interior elevations in relationship to each other, the plan of the box, overall geometric form of the box, thickness of material, and ornament’s direction and delineation.
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