PORTFOLIO OF CHER WONG MLA 2020
CONTENT 01 Social Propeller
02 Hua-Shan Express
Immigrants x Urban rupture
History x Exploration
academic & individual work 2019 Nicosia, Cyprus
professional & individual work 2016-2017 Taipei, Taiwan
07 Xiu Luan Tribe
08 Internship work
Urban system planning & design
Public hot spring renovation design
Participatory playground design
UIUC veternary building sidewalk design
Indegious culture x Toursim professional work 2015-2016 Jianshi, Taiwan
professional work 2019 Champaign, Illinois
03 City Platform
04 Chinatown Crossroads
History x Inclusiveness
Pedestrian x Open space
Historical site design
Urban surface design
05 A Conversation With Snapping Shrimp
Coastal soundscape restoration
06 Douliou Vision
Participatory city planning Post-Agricultural City
Animal x Humans academic & group work 2012-2013 Taipei, Taiwan
academic & individual work 2020 Chicago, Illinois
09 13 McConnell Street SW
10 Hand Drawings
professional work 2020 Grand Rapids, Michigan
academic work 2019 Chicago, Illinois
Design process
Green roofscape renovation
academic & individual work 2020 Singapore
professional group work 2014-2015 Douliou, Taiwan
Northern Cyprus
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New City
Commercial
01 Social Propeller
Urban system planning & design Immigrants x Urban rupture
academic & individual work design 02.2019-05.2019 Nicosia, Cyprus
Green line (Border)
Vacant
Walled-city
Heritage
Moat
Green space
Parking lot
New city
Migration to and from Cyprus 1974-2019
Distribution of immigrant over total population 2011
62%
Immigrants work in service sector
PROFESSION GAP IN CYPRUS’S MIGRATION TREND Immigration has long played a dramatic role in shaping the demographics of modern Cyprus. In the past two decades, more than 50% of cypriot student tends to study abroad. The inward immigration flow has not been decreasing for jobs, investment, and refuge. For these immigrants, more than 62% work in sevice sector in Cyprus. When young cypriot professionals chose to leave and the new young immigrants can’t make up the gap, the current trend shows that Young people of all types are faced with a lack of professional’s opportunities that may lead to a thriving and diverse cultural identity.
Migration of students in Cyprus 1990-2010
Eligible emplyment sectors for immigrants 2011
Half A House | ELEMENTAL
Walled-City, Nicosia
PRECEDENT --- SECONDARY SPACE “Half a house “by ELEMENTAL is a precedent for the Walled city secondary spaces could create more impact by gathering people and sharing resources.
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200 m
MASTER PLAN
RULES --- “PROPELLER“ SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP
1.Incubator axis 2. Community path 3. Elevator platform 4. Underground commercial plaza 5. Underground entrance 6. Recreation plaza
a. Modern art museum b. Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chambe c. Pancyprian Gymnasium d. CVAR/Severis Foundation e. Melina Mercourl Hall f. Famagusta Gate g. Community Center
INCUBATOR INTERFACE An incubator cluster will consist of repurposed mix used units as studio, shops, social housing, and training lab. Factors include courtyard, distance between public building, social housing and streetfront to decide which repurposed program will be the better fit.
CREATIVE VILLAGE
PRINCIPALS OF REPURPOSED BUILDINGS
02 Hua-Shan Express
Participatory playground design History x Exploration
chief designer / project manager design 03.2016-06.2016 construction 10.2016-5.2017 470 sq.m
Playground Reform In Taipei, playgrounds have been fully standardized for decades. Rigid, unchallenging facilities have been compromising children's creativity and their ability to explore and play. Civic groups, landscape architects, and the Taipei government have been working together to reform playground designs; Hua-shan Express was one of the projects. The development of Hua-shan Express is tied to the history of Hua-shan park ─ it was the Huashan freight station from 1937-1986. A playground that tells a local story is the first of its kind in Taipei city.
" No more rigid 1944 map of Hua-shan freight station 1937 Photo of Hua-shan freight station
playground, give children their right to play" Pa r k s A n d P l a y g r o u n d s F o r C h i l d r e n B y Children Organization
2015 Photo of playground in Hua-shan park (phase 6)
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Culture context
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Designer, Client
site connection
03. 07. 16 Space Texture
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exploration
Blank for creativity
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family civic group
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design with user
Designer, Client , Civic group 03. 24. 16
Design With the Users
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The design process had involved roles including designer, client, maintainer and the interested civic group. The collaborative process successfully helps to mediate concerns of each role. As a result, the client was convinced to take a chance on a more experimental approach such as raising the floor height and replacing the rubber mats with the loose gravel pavement, giving the designer more room for creativity in the final design.
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Designer, Client, Civic group 05. 10. 16
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Concept The design is based on the profile of Taiwan's first steam locomotive, Teng Yun ("cloud rider"). Gravel, wood, and steel are used as key elements to create a vivid environment akin to that of railroad tracks. 1 1.5 m
3 m
Like a locomotive winding along the railway, children can run through the history of Hua-shan freight station with their imaginations.
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Texture, Color, Space The design brings together a variety of textures using simple construction methods and natural materials such as terrazzo, pebble washed, wood board, stainless steel, and gravel. This creates a multitude of sensorial experiences for those playing in the space. Natural materials are used to form a harmonious connection with the surrounding environment. The simple tone contrasts with both the dynamic texturing of materials and the multidimentionality of the space.
stainless steel pipe
80 cm
pebble washed 135 cm
40 cm
fine gravel (4.5-7.5 mm)
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terrazzo
100 cm
Reflection Hua-shan Express offers a interactive and exploratory playing environment for parents and children. It is a space designed to encourage children to connect with local history, bond with their natural environment, and create new ways to engage with their communities.
Community Response " A Storytelling playground" Article & feedback
03 City Platform Historical site design History x Inclusiveness
leading member 09.2012-05.2013 0.04 sq.km
The project was a refutation to the urban renewal plan in 2006. The area needs a more cohesive public space, rather than more commercial buildings.
National / City heritages 1. Railway workshop 1932 2.Railway department 1899 3. North gate 1884 School
4.Taipei post office 1892
Hospital
5.Director residence 1932 6.Railway garage no.5
Parks and sport
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7.Minister residence 1905
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3 Resenditial area
Airport MRT station
Taipei main station
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Photo of the site 2012
Employee Residence for the Taiwan Railway Department
1884
1895 - 1954
1979 - 2006
Qing dynasty occupation period
Japanese colonial period
Republic of China period
The site had been established by the Qing dynasty in 1884 as the Taiwan Railway Department and had served for three colonial regimes. It became family housing for employees of the Taiwan Railway Department in 1979. In 2006, residents were evicted by the government for urban renewal. The site was closed and remained idle.
Inventory
House Structure
Enclosure Structure
House condition
Wood
x 25
Ki-li stone
x 15m
Well preserved
• City heritage • In operation • Ki-li stone wall
Preservation criteria
Brick
Fully preserve
x7
x16
x4
Hollow brick x 313m
Partially damaged
• Well preserved • Single house
Concrete
Brick
x 19
x3
• Historical element from 1899
Largely preserve
x1
x 289m
Sheet metal
Concrete
Severely damaged
x1
Investigation based on the 32 existing houses, open space and 98 trees. The varied house formats, patchy materials, and twisting trees inside the houses reveal a tangled relationship between the site and the three historical periods.
x 162m
x5
• Partially damaged x5 • tree co-living
• Severely damaged x7
• Historical element
Largely remove
Fully remove
Project Approach
Youth
health care
ecology city gateway
dwellers NGO
P reservation Preserve 80% of existing houses, trees and primary lanes based on historical value and existing condition.
C ulture Platform
C ity wind corridor
Station in relevant NGOs to reconect the site and this highly diverse cultures area which can further develop into a cultural platform where local cultures can collide, interact, and thrive as it is made more accessible to the public.
Keep the buildings under two floors, and extend the vegetation area, funneling cooler and cleaner air from the river to the city.
A. city light box
21. exhibition hall 1
entrance to wetland forest
22. exhibition hall 2
City platform
32.eat well restaurant
24. shoebox concert hall
29.convenient store
+ hall 1 permanent exhibition + hall 2 special exhibition
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Youth platform
11.13.14. recovery garden
main entrance / lobby
4. .international cultural youth exchange(NGO)
8. vigor station 8. vigor station
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+ Youth volunteer exchange + International youth events
Eat well platform 2.homemaker union NGO
32.31.eat well restaurant
+ food justice information, events + safe food & gorcery
2.homemaker NGO 34.cafe 3.farm house 33.labour NGO
+ goods trade + tools storage
4.farmhouse
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Eco platform
21.22.city light box
20.eco book store 18.19. eco NGO
16.17. ruins garden
16.17. ruins garden
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R. civic farm
04 Chinatown Crossroads Toward the pedestrian & natural capital- driven urban design Pedestrian x Open space
academic & individual work design 02.2020-05.2019 Chicago, Illinois
This project aims to transit the dominance over the site from cars to pedestrians employing two fundamental “Game Changers” opportunities-- the existing parking lots and roadway intersections. The project transforms these into a series of public spaces that unified the highly vibrant CTA “L” metro station, the new Chinatown public library, and the old Chinatown district blocks as a whole and further support the greater Chinatown neighborhood to Ping Tom Park.
Urban surface evolution 1830 >
1937 >
1999 >
2030 >
River-driven
Railway-driven
Cars & buildings-driven
Pedestrian & Natural capital-driven?
public open space
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Existing surface inventory
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land for car roads/parking lots
10%
land for Pedestrians
9%
land for permeable surface
Station atown k-Chin
Old Chinatown
Cerma
wn a ato Plaz n i Ch uare Sq
Pedestrian destinations
Chinatown crossroads
Existing crossroad
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Permeable ground palette
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Permeable ground sections
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Painted stroke
Concrete compacted gravels
Turf
Concrete
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A stage for place identity The oval shape forms a stage for the landing visitors from Metro station and further highlights the dynamic pedestrian flows that have been keeping the community tight and prosperous in Chinatown and thus showing the place identity in the most authentic and blunt way.
Reverse the priority of infrastructure The design reverses the priority of crossroads from cars to pedestrians by using permeable pavement to re-define the boundary between roads and blocks while also unify the surrounding open spaces, and thus create a “plaza� experience to enhance the location of road and intersection crossings.
05 A Conversation With Snapping Shrimp Coastal soundscape restoration design Animal x Humans
academic & individual competition work design 09.2020- in process Singapore
“A conversation with snapping shrimp” presents an exchange through sound between humans and one of the smallest, but loudest marine animal – Snapping shrimp. An effective conversation requires either end to quiet down, to listen, and torespond. However, anthropogenic noise and the increasingly acidic marine environment from carbon dioxide have disrupted the conversations between even the loudest marine siren—the snapping shrimp--with other marine animals and severly damaged the shallow costal habitat.
“A conversation with snapping shrimp” is a sea coast salon that creates niches for both snapping shrimp and humans. It asks humans to “speak air” through an air tube to activate “bubble curtains” which slow down sound waves under the water, quiet down the coastalurban and industrial noise, and allow the snapping shrimp to snap and to be heard. While humans are quieting themselves down and focusing on blowing air (speaking air), they can visually and sonically receive messages from the snapping shrimp in locations and sound levels from the oyster screen.
Using restored coral reefs to provide snapping shrimp a safe habitat to stay while they mitigate through the acidic water. The “oyster screen” is a combination of vertical oyster reefs and a screen sensor that translates the sound spectrum from anthropogenic sources, mixed with snapping shrimp to display sound levels into colors. Humans can also receive sonic messages through a live radio channel. This conversation gives humans the ability to participate and cocreate with this vital marine species “listening”, “seeing”, and ”reciprocating” in their world.
06 Douliou Vision
Participatory city planning Post-Agricultural City
assistant project manager 07.2014 - 07.2015 93.72 sq.km
Douliou city was the main entrance and administration center of Yunlin county— Taiwan’s primary agricultural region since 1900. In 2015, a highspeed rail station was built at the adjacent town. In turn, Douliou no longer operates as the region’s predominant traffic or political hub. We now have the chance to involve the community and re-envision the city’s functions collectively.
Taiwan Douliou City
Yunlin County
Project Approach
Site Inventory
Community Visit
Interview and brainstorm with 32 out of 38 chiefs of villages, as well as 5 communities groups.
Visions Workshop
Douliou Vision Proposal
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06 2014
Investigat Douliou City’s geography, city development and cultural context.
Visions Matching
Integrat collaborative ideas into 6 categories: water, leisure, traffic, industry, welfare and living lab.
After introducing all 72 plans, respondents voted for their top 10.
06 2015
Base on the vote, interviews, and site conditions, designers planned a final proposal.
Vision Matching
Leisure 11/ 72
Water 29 / 72
landscape route x 6 historical route x 3 community route x 2
Infrastructure
flood controling x 9 river remediation x 13 river park establishment x 7
Welfare
11/ 72
6 / 72
petestrain zone x 3 bike line x 4 car facility x 4
Industry
elders and children care x 2 new immigrants support x 2 volunteer city network x 2
Living lab
10 / 72
5 / 72
traditional industry revival x 3 agriculture boost x 7
city reforestation x 2 environmental education x 3
"Geodesign" Visions Workshop
Visions introduction
1st vote
Specialist suggestions
Final Top 10
2ed vote
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Heritages revive porject
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Yulin city river park
Yulin city river park
Landscape trip route
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Community agriculture
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Landscape trip route
Pomelo river park
Historic city walks
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Old town renewal
3
Historic city walks
Landscape trip route
Pomelo river park
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City sanitation project
4
Landscape bike route
Downtown parking lot
Taipin skills heritage district
5
Pomelo river park
Heritages revive porject
Yulin city river park
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Downtown parking lot
Historic city walks
7
City welfare network
Downtown farmers market
Downtown farmers market
Heritages revive porject
Zhong Hua pedestrian zone
Zhong Hua pedestrian zone
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Farm village trip route
Taipin skills heritage district
Downtown parking lot
10
Taipin skills heritage district
Parks per capita project
Parks per capita project
72 + 4 new proposals
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Respondents returned to vote for their top designs. They also gathered to see the wide variety of plans created, discovering potentials for further collaboration or integration of visions.
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Final top 10 Respondents x 30
Viewer x 10
Specialists
Criteria
retail
city office
agriculture
NGO
real estate
* 3 or more specialist suggestions * Ranking from 1st + 2ed vote * Ranking from 2ed vote
Museum Of Agriculture
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Douliu city as if a showcase of the changing landscapes, from the city to farm fields to mountain forests all within a 20 minutes trip. This provides great conditions for visitors to experience diverse processes of agricultural production. To highlight this unique characteristic of Douliu city, we planned a tour route with experiential programs and bike lanes. It connects two train stations in Douliu and five villages to the east.
Productive corridor (include vision top 1)
02-04 | Seedling Shiliu Station
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05-08 | Growing
3k
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Douliu Station
6 km
4 km 09-12 | Grown
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Hushan Dam
01-02| Reaping
Pomelo
Sugarcane
Rice
Greenhouse crops
Orange, Bamboo, Pineapple Farm villages
The road from city center to the mountain used to be a trade route. Now it has become a route that uniquely displays the region’s agricultural landscape.
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Farming holidays
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Pomelo river park
(include vision Top 3 )
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Harvest
Pomelo blossom
Rice
pomelo field
Dried bamboo shoot
Pomelo
Bamboo
Candy
Sugarcane Working holidays (weeks)
Working holidays (days)
Processing workshop
Festival
The agricultural experiential program is designed in relation to the Crop's Calender which follows the four seasons. Programs include weekend events for families, work exchange opportunities for travelers, and internships for those new to farming.
Seedling
Growing
Triming
Reaping
The thriving development of Pomelos in Douliu is the result of successful collaborations between technological and agricultural innovations. An educational park could help encourage more people to join in such innovative efforts.
07 Xiu Luan Tribe Public hot spring renovation design Indegious culture x Toursim chief designer 03.2015-01.2016 900 sq.m
a.s.l+ 1005 m
a.s.l + 845 m
The purpose of the public hot spring pool renovation is to demonstrate the environmental and cultural identity of the aborigine tribe and to create an intriguing attraction that attracts weekend visitors and serves residents on weekdays as an activator to develop a balanced tourism of the tribe.
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B1 plan 1. entrance garden 2. shower/dressing room 3.snack bar 4.kitchen 5.public bath pool (D=90 cm) 6.public bath pool (D=65 cm) 7.deck
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Lift the Pool lifting the pool from the basement level to the ground level greatly opens the view and improves the accessibility of the space. Two floors successfully separate public and private realm and created a more favorable layout for the program.
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1. car lane 2.entrance garden 3. shower/dressing room 4.snack bar 5.public bath pool 6.deck
7. maintenance room 8. courtyard 9. bath suite
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08 Internship Work UIUC veternary building sidewalk design Designer (grading, design, construction document ) 07.2019 0.6 Acre
A"Desire Path" This Sidewalk design was inspired by the existing "desire path" where most of the students park their cars at the other side of the road and walk across the lawn as a shortcut to the building. The project tried to create a path by using the subtle grading but fit for the ADA standard. It aims to create a tranquil pathway which is more than just a shortcut or sidewalk.
Proposed construction plan
09 13 McConnell Street SW Green roofscape renovation Graphic asistant David Yocca (Senior landscape architect) Rhino 3D model building, rendering 08.2020
10 Hand Drawings Design Process
Zero & Infinity
The 78th neighborhood redevelopment plan Chicago, IL 11. 2019
Le Botte Surface study exercise Surface Studio 02.2020
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