Shao-yi Chiang (Dodo) Portfolio 2013

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Shao-Yi Chiang

Works........2013

CV

Shao-Yi Chiang

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Education

Candidate of Bachelor of Architecture / Fine Arts June 2014 Rhode Island School of Design

Awards

Experience

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2 College St, Box#293, Providence, R.I., U.S.A. 02903 401.651.3822 schiang@risd.edu dodochiang.com

Recipient of the Architectural Studies Trael Aaward 2012-13, RISD Recipient of the Peter Guimond Memorial Scholarship, RISD

A R C H I T E C T U R E

Hsieh Ying-Chun and Atelier-3 @Taiwan Design Intern ‡ 2010 / 1 month 2012 / 2 months Making details and construction drawings for archiving purpose. Design and experiment dry-pit toilet for rural condition. Experiemnt the exhibited structure full-scale and cordinate the materials for the exhibition for Liverpool Biennial 2012, U.K. Six-Degree Design Studio @Pawtucket, R.I., U.S.A. Design Intern ‡ 2011 / 1 month Construct and refine the of the community garden - Blossom.

Design and construct rain water collection gabions, furnitures, planting beds and trellises.

TMA Architecture & Associates @Taipei, Taiwan Office Intern ‡ 2010 / 1 month Handel permits documents for legal processing, architectural rendering of residential and commercial projects.

Experience

C O M M U N I T Y

Office of Intercultural Student Engagement @Providence, R.I., U.S.A. Website Designer ‡ 2011 - Present Design and mantain website under PHP and CSS frameworks for the office of Intercultural Stduent Engagement, Rhode Island School of Design (ise.risd.edu).

Made In Taiwan Culture Club @Providence, R.I., U.S.A. Chair of Catering & Food ‡ 2010 - Present Overseeing the orgainization of acitivies in association with food. The club is to promote exchanges and dialogue between different ethnicities, cultural entities.

Beaches Habitat for Humanity @Jacksonville, F.L., U.S.A. Lights Film Festival @Providence, R.I., U.S.A.

B U I L D I N G

Skills

Volunteer ‡ 2011 / 4 weeks Part of the Alternative Spring Break project. 2011 Lights Film Festival is a student-curated showcase of short films and animations from RISD and around the world.

Zhi-Ton Indigenous Tribe Workshop @Taitung, Taiwan Workshop Manager ‡ 2010 / 2 months Document and record the events of workshop, communitcate between the communities and the workshop members, construct stairs for the existing structure with drifted wood and advocate against the economical and political exploitation of the local cultural and natural resources.

OS : Mac OSX + Windows + Ubuntu Website Design: PHP, CSS, Wordpress 2D : AutoCAD, Draftsight, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite CS4/5/6 3D : Rhinoceros, V-ray, Language : English, Mandarin Chinese

In winter 2013, I traveled to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, to investigate its peripheral rural conditions. It was an 6-week long extensive and independent research project in hoping to physically immerse in the current rural condition and contemplate sincerely with the environment and myself. Reflections and thoughts during the trip are summarized in the form of a booklet.

Encounter China

MEGAform in Istanbul Based on the preliminary design brief of the recent Yenikapi Train Station International Competition in Yenikapi, Istanbul, individual were asked to propose design strategy for the Yenikapi Terminal and the peripheral programs, which include a high school, commercial and residential complex. The proposals have to further oscillate the idea of "Megaform"

The Permeable History Before 1453, Yenikapi was a swampy harbor with a stream running through. When time passed, the stream gradually deposited clay and silt which filled in the harbor and covered the harbor. Since 1521, Yenikapi has always been an orchard open landscape until contemporary construction of the highway along the shore of the historical peninsula. In acknowledging the rich layers of history in the area of Yenikapi, I created a conceptual model to bring up the traces and remnant impression of the history.

MEGA systems The project is built on top of the concept of recognizing Yenikapi

as two systems - islands and web. Islands are entities of a collection of events, in which activities densified. Web, on the other hand, is constructed network which connects and integrates the dispersed islands as one bigger entity. Based on this concept, my proposal takes form as building entities sprouting from ground with water treatment system embedded as a network that connects each islands. By embedding an building + infrastructure system, opportunities are created around the perimeter for a future alternative. Furthermore, Historical symbols, such as the old Theodosius Port and Yeli Neighborhood, are also reinforced to retain the lineage and heritage of Yenikapi.

Light. Ambient Energy . Mirror The primary goal of this studio is to focus on the potential of Solar Energy. Solar energy is understood through both scientific methodologies and artistic approaches. Building form and materials are analyzed to see how they can be deployed to interplay with the dynamics of the environment and ecosystems. The studio will explore the potential of new types of energy systems that coordinate and aggregate substance into a unique and sustaining whole within its environment.

Both passive and active solar energy are introduced and incorporated to the design of the project.

In the first stage, light sculptures and light devices are designed by individual and choreographed between each other in to create a public event that transforms the atmosphere of a site in Providence (Market Square).

Full-scale individual components are created to catch, concentrate, reflect, amplify or store sunlight using only lightweight highly reflective structures.

Second Floor

Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts (NISDA) In the second stage, student is asked to design a self-sufficient and resilient complex for the NISDA, located on the eastern edge of Nantucket Island, M.A. PHPP (Passive House Design Package) calculation method was introduced and used in evaluating the energy performance of the design project.

Ths proposal is built on the concept of an expandable structure which change its form according to the environment conditions.

The expandable structures also provides the possiblity to have linear parobolic solar concentrator on the roof which generates most of the heat and power for the building.

Ground Floor

Linear Parobolic Trough Solar Power Concentrator

Expansion Space Thermal Envelope

Proposition in Guatemala “Proposition in Guatemala” is a 6-week long travel studio aiming at enriching the study of architecture through travel experience. In the duration of 6 weeks, student has to finish a 100-pages painting sketchbook along with a design project. During the trip, we visited Flores, the major tourist city and nearby famous archaeological site, Tikal(Tik’al) in the first two weeks. In the following 4 weeks, we stayed in Antigua, one of the famous postcolonial cities in Guatemala, and also explored the surrounding villages.

Site - Antigua Public Park The site is a raised elongated open park located in the center of Antigua. To the east side of the site is a colonial period public basin that provides public water source for the surrounding Maya communities as they can freely collect water, wash clothes and rest. The existing site has several palm trees planted by the municipal government and is under construction for an underground public bathroom facilities in upgrading their compatibility to the increasing volumes of tourists and seasonal religious events.

Day and Night - Twin Lights Local crafts are well preserved because of the local prosprous toruist business. Candle making especially, is one of the traditional crafts that are still existing and operating locally. My interest resides in the distinct and intriguing process of candle making in relation to the working environment of craftsmen/craftswomen. one of the most popular products in the traditional candle shop is the white candle for religious practice. However, white candles that made from natural bee wax require

6~7 months of solar exposure in order to achieve certain state of color quality. Thus the close relationship this program celebrate with sunlight has an intricate reverse character when darkness is needed for candle to perform. By providing spaces for both the process of making candle and the display of candle, architecture can be experienced very specifically and differently during the day and the night.

Antigua, Guatemala

Day

Night

Design/Built Blossom

In this 12-week long semester, the entire studio collaboratively design and construct thecommunity garden and public pavilions at 333 Rossevelt Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The site brings together three distinct groups: the Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island, the Herritage Park YMCA: Early CHildhood Education Center, and Roosevelt Community Housing. Integrating the divergent expectations of these groups became a determining factor in the design. The intervention sites itself on the available green space, simultaneously addressing the needs of gardners and visotors.

In the following summer, with the help of four other classmates, we polished and finished the remaining works such as furnitrues and more planting beds. As season changed, astonishing transformation took place. The two pavilions are well utilized by the local communities, as well as the garden beds diserned from the flourshing gardens.

Design Principle This studio explores design principles common to architecture, and landscape architecture. Projects are selected to provide a basis for discerning and investigating both the differences of focus suggested by the two disciplines and their common concerns.

Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued: 1) the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation and 2) meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.

Tectonic The first stage of the studio started by examining an assigned fisherman knot and translating it into a paper material.

Once logic of knot is figured out, one has to generates different units by applying the same self-refrained principle. Further investigation are made to each units, such as material properties, kinetic characteristics and means of connections..etc.

Habitation for Minotaur The second stage is aiming at helping students to understand the construct of architecture for a true inhabitant. The students has to use the tectonic of the previous realized units to construct a habitation for Minotaur, on an constructed ground generating from slices of croissant sections.

Urban Design This studio is a comprehensive one consisting of a program concerning habitation on a site in Providence. Besides urban issues such as context, scale and public space, issues of building organization, circulation, room layout, accessibility light and view will be emphasized.

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Chapter VII. Parcel Planning and Capacity Studies

Rhode Island Interstate 195 Surplus Land: Redevelopment and Mar

Required Surface Area 28400 ft2

33725 ft2

HOTEL

ELDERLY HOUSING

31775 ft2 STUDENT DORM

39920 ft2 DAYCARE & AFTER-SCHOOL

Building Height

100 ft

80 ft

40 ft

50 ft

Elderly Housing Cooking Arts / Arts and Crafts Classrooms

Hotel Student Housing

Entertainment/ Study Rooms Convention Center Art Studios/ Stores Kindergarten / Nursery School Cafeteria Commercial / Retail Stores

Recognizing the various types of users on site, my aim is to accommodate all and promote a sense of community within the block. Public programs are deployed as middle ground for interaction between different groups of users and as a zone of mediation between public and probate.

The block is divided into two parts: the commercial/public zone and a residential/private zone.

The commercial zone is comprised of a hotel,

convention center and retail stores which cut through the site. The residential zone is comprised of the elderly housing, student dorms and other public programs such as a kindergarten, nursery and culinary schools classrooms, entertainment rooms and study rooms.

Liverpool Biennial + Drypit Toilet During the two months of my internship in Hsieh-Ying Chun and Atelier-3, I have the honor to participate the design and production of their exhibition for the Liverpool Biennial 2012. The tents are constructed out of slotted-angled steel which demonstrates a durable and low-cost emergency shelter that can be constructed easily and fast after disasters.

Hsieh-Yin Chun architect has spent decades in practicing and experimenting with simplified construction techniques, flexible production line, and building community through cooperative building.

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