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EDBERT CHENG ORTFOLIO
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“The Bathhouse - Study in Section”. From Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away (2001). 18” x 24”, Graphite, 2013.
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SELECTED WORKS Towers of Light Laxe Lighthouse and Pilgrim’s Lodge
Passages Hong Kong Central Market and Escalator
Raw Nature, Cooked Nature Masterplanning the Delta do Jacui
Bridge Housing Chelsea Waterfront Masterplanning
Concrete House Private Residence in Valparaiso, Chile
Flying Roof Pavilion YOHO Playable Journey Installation
Yellow/Nomadic Canopy Freaked Nuclear Markers
From Sheet to Form Material Studies and Digital Fabrication
Microtectures Pop-Up Spaces & Other Things
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Towers of Light Laxe Lighthouse and Pilgrim’s Lodge Spring 2013 | Cornell University Professor Maria Hurtado de Mendoza
Laxe Site Plan
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Night View of Lighthouse from Peninsula Foothills
At the edge of Galicia, Spain, in the rocky coastal regions called finisterre, there stands a pair of solitary towers. One is a metal monolith, an industrial Tower for People; the other is an efferescent Tower of Light. The two towers form a spiritual gate, welcoming the brutal Atantic winds from the coasts. A visitor to the lighthouse walks along a curving path, before turning a corner and crossing into the threshold of the towers. Just before the walker lies the tower of the floating box, and to the righ the entrance to the lodge. From there, he can go below, into the half-submerged stone basement to find rooms, a sunken courtyard, and a chapel - or he can circulate upward to experience the spaces of the People’s Tower: a double-height loft, a sineous steel bridge, and a sky garden. The walker has found himself in a spiritual space, a sublime outpost on a rural hilltop.
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Exploded Axonometric of Building Components
Narrative Sequence (Top to Bottom) 1 2 3 4 5
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Aerial map, highlighting the NS ridge along the peninsula site (space of duality) Photo of existing lighthouse and electrical tower Collage of proposed towers and bridge, forming a “Torii�-like spiritual gate Model of buillding on the ridge of the peninsula (plaster and MDF model) Perspective view of steel bridge between the two towers
Laxe Lighthouse: Building Plans 3.50
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Graphic Anatomy: Section Perspective of Laxe Lighthouse
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Passages Hong Kong Central Market and Escalator Spring 2016 | Undergraduate Thesis, Cornell University Professors Val Warke and Tao Dufour
The Mid-Level Escalator in Hong Kong is a function of the economic efficiency of the hyperdense, hyper-capitalist city-state. This instrument of commute inadvertently becomes a public “third space” in the city, allowing residents to experience the city’s rhythms as they move between home and work. This thesis documents the spatial qualities of this cinematic passageway and amplifies/appropriates these conditions in the abandoned Central Market. The design reflects the urban dynamics of Hong Kong by spatializing flows and territories of exchange.
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Urban Map of Mid-Level Escalator and Elevated Waalkway System
Photo Documentation of Mid-Level Escalator Plann and Experiential Callouts
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Collage Series III (Upper Section) - Escalator Walkway from Hollywood Rd to Robinson Rd
Collage Series II (Middle Section) - Escalator Walkway from Central Market to Hollywood Road
Collage Series I (Lower Section) - Elevator Walkway from Victoria Harbourfront to Central Market
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Urban Section of Mid-Level Escalator
Completed in 1994 to reduce traffic, the Mid-Level Escalator is part of a vast network of elevated walkways that stretch from the luxury residences of the Mid-Levels to the supertall office buildings of the Central harbourfront. Along the way, the pedestrian network weaves through the changing urban fabric of the city, moving around buildings and over alleyways like a voyeuristic armature. At the foothills, the escalator system cuts through the former Central Market, an abandoned Art Deco-style building that was once the center of wholesale commerce in the British colony. The market is an odd relic in an ever-changing city - as the economy transitioned from wholesale to industrial production and ultimately financial services, the building gradually lost relevance and closed, living on as a utilitarian “passageway” along the escalator network. To update the former Central Market into a contemporary community space, I propose transforming the building into a network of “hyper” public circulation. Using the existing escalator system as an operative reference, I adapted disparate conditions along the pedestrian way into new spatial juxtapositions. The new building, comprised of a series of connected program boxes and passageways, would amplify public space and provide alternative, transgressive leisure routes through the market building. Through this subversive intervention, pedestrians can take a respite from the commercial grind of Hong Kong and reestablish a sense of community.
Abandoned Arcade in Former Central Market
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The Lookout From Elgin Rd to Caine Rd
The Wrap-Around From Conduit Rd to Robinson Rd
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The Turn-and-Drop Along and Through Hollywood Rd
The Mechanical River From Central Market to Queen’s Road Central
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Design Process Section and Model Iterations
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Multiplying Passages Occupying the Central Market
EXISTING CONDITION
ROUTE 2 EXPERIENCE PATH
ROUTE 1 PARK PATH
ROUTE 3 PEDESTRIAN PATH
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Section Model 1/8” = 1’-0” New Central Market
Level 3 Building Plan Integrated Public Circulations
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Building Section Inhabiting the Void / Breaking Layers
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Raw Nature, Cooked Nature Masteplanning the Delta Do Jacui Spring 2015 | Cornell University Professor Tao Dufour, with Erica Alonzo
Landform Cartography: Delta do Jacui and Surroundings
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In the outskirts of the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, rural migrants live in informal settlements along the Jacui delta, where they collect and recycle the city’s trash. These settlements have led to ecological degradation of the area, and the substandard housing conditions are prone to fires, flooding, and general poor hygiene. The city wants to relocate the migrants to public housing in the inner city, but the migrants refuse to leave their self-built homes, communities, and rural livelihood. Our design strategy proposes the gradual rezoning of these informal settlements, to provide basic infrastructure to these river settlers in a specific zone while re-wilding/re-foresting areas scarred by human occupation and waste. By shrinking the non-residential boundary of the river and transforming Pavao Island (the island closest to the city) into a liveable zone, the city can re-integrate migrants into society. Rather than forcibly relocating migrants to concrete housing in the city, they should be able to continue their lifestyle on the delta, albeit in safer conditions. Our proposal outlines a program for incremental housing on Pavao Island. By building recycling sheds on the island near the highway, the migrants will have a place of pride and a stable place of employment. Meanwhile, a series of infrastructural stilts, providing electricity, plumbing, and flood protection, will be incrementally laid out along streets. The migrants can then build their own dwellings on top of the basic infrastructure, allowing for adaptability and community resiliency.
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Ecological Continuum From Nature to Man
DELTA CONTINUUM
MOSAIC
FOREST
BAGS
ISOLATED BUILDINGS
RICE FIELDS
UNPAVED ROAD
TRASH
URBAN AREAS
DELTA FILM STRIP
MACROPHYTE
SARANDIZAL
PAVED ROAD
Google Earth Screenshot, Feburary 2015 Human Settlements on the Ilha dos Marinheros (Island of the Mariners)
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URBAN / WASTE
Spatial-Temporal Map, Ilha dos Marinheros Tracing Fluctuations (2005-2015) 1 2 3 4
River edge over time Settlement + Housing over time Trash accumulation over time Forest edge over time
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Masterplanning sequence: Rewilding / Terraforming 1 (Top) Re-wilding the illegal settlements of the Ilha dos Marinheros 2 (Middle) Plan of settlements and infrastructure along Hwy BR-160-290 3 (Bottom) Planning + building a sustainable recycling community on Ilha da Pavao
2020
2030
2045
2060
2015
2020
2035
2050
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2050 Vision Reclaimed Landscape + Sustainable Community
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Scenography: Views of the Delta 1 2
View of water tower and housing on the water Proposed recycling centers (top) and community school (bottom) on Ilha da Pavao
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Bridge and viewing deck over reclaimed landscape Proposed flood-proof housing and street infrastructure on Ilha da Pavao
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Bridge Housing Chelsea Waterfront Masterplanning Summer 2016 | Arrowstreet, Inc. Sean Selby, AIA, with Alfred To
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Housing on the Wetlands: Forbes site and surrounding landscape
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community bridge
Living on the Water: Apartments with views towards downtown Boston
At the confluence of Mill Creek and Chelsea Creek in Chelsea, Massachusetts, the Forbes Lithographic Plant sits vacant on a 10-acre wetland site. After several failed attempts to develop the land, the Yihe Development Group purchased the site in 2013, with the intention of developing 700 to 800 units of housing, retail spaces and a business hotel. The developer commissioned Arrowstreet to develop the masterplan for the site, an on-going process that began in 2014 and continues today. The Forbes site is bordered by a commuter rail line in the North and the Chelsea Creek along the southern edge. There is only one means of access to the site - a flyover bridge that connects the site to a local residential street. To support housing on the site, the developer intends to build a vehicular acess bridge across the creek to connect the development to the neighboring town of Revere. Given the challenging site and infrastructural conditions, the masterplanning scheme proposes a series of inhabitable “bridge� buildings that are fanned across the site. The bar buildings are lifted over a terraced podium, which houses the parking decks and retail spaces. A sequence of courtyards extend the wetlands landscape along the Forbes waterfront. At the southeastern end of the site, a 20-story business hotel marks the start of a new vehicular bridge across the creek, welcoming guests from nearby Logan Airport and downtown Boston.
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Design Process Thoughts + Iterations
2. Provide views to Downtown Boston for residents.
3. Enhance neighborhood connection to water and views to downtown.
6. Create a service boulevard along the waterfront and weave primary access
7. Create a sequence of qualitative open spaces between buildings: terrace | courtyard | plaza | boardwalk
1. Maintain neighborhood connection to water.
5. Optimize orientation of buildings.
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WATERFRONT PARK
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View from Airplane: Masterplanning the Waterfront
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Concrete House Art Collector’s Residence in Valparaiso, Chile Summer 2013 | BRU Architects Bernardo Urquieta, AIA, with Philip Chang
Casa Camus is a luxury private residence in Valparaiso, Chile. While working at BRU Architects, I prepared a series of client renderings of interior and exterior spaces. I developed a 3D model from the design development drawings and studied finish options through the photoshop and V-ray.
Casa Camus - Front Elevation
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First Floor Central Corridor / Main Gallery
Central Staircase, View from Second Floor
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(Top) Second Floor Master Bathroom (Bottom) 3D Rhino Model
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Library Messanine & Living Room
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Flying Roof Pavilion YOHO Playable Journey Summer 2015 | Internship, Hong Kong LAAB Architects, with Otto Ng and Yasuhiro Kaneda
YOHO, a new shopping mall and residential development in Hong Kong, commissioned LAAB to design art installations in the property’s public spaces. Due to the lack of play spaces in the new development, our team settled on the concept of “playable art” - a playground design that would appeal to children and adults alike. In each public space, we adapted common playground objects - a slide, see-saw, swing and monkey bars - into architectural installations. I was tasked with designing a swing in a sunny courtyard. Inspired by the rococo painting “The Swing”, I proposed a swing pavilion that would simulate swinging under a tree canopy, with shade covering and bursts of sunlight. The pavilion would have three types of swings for each user demographic - a bubble chair for adults, a bubble chair for children, and a ball swing for toddlers. I was responsible for the schematic design, design development, and construction development of the swing pavilion. I worked closely with the principal, structural engineer, and fabricator to draft the construction documents of the swing structure. The pavilion consisted of an aggregation of four tripod modules that could each accommodate two swings.
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Photo of Completed Pavilion - September 2015
Inspiration Diagram + Process Sketches
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Angled Column Dimensions
Roof Pipe Frame 4 Sections
3250mm 3000mm 67.4 degrees
1250mm
Key Structure Horizontal Beam (1500mm-6000mm length x 60mm diameter) 4 section panels Vertical Columns (3000mm length x 60mm diameter) 7 pcs
Concrete Footing Roof Structure Footing 7 pcs.
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Angled Column Dimensions
3250mm 3000mm 67.4 degrees
1250mm
Key Structure Vertical Columns V (3000mm length x 100mm diameter) 4 pcs. Angled Columns (3250mm length x 100mm diameter) 9 pcs. Main Beam (2500mm length x 100mm diameter) 12 pcs. Concrete Footing Main Structure Footing 13 pcs. Roof Structure Footing 9 pcs.
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SHK YOHO MALL SWING
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2500.0 1875.0
75mm x 75mm x 4mm thick SHS STEEL BEAM
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SWING CAPSULE BUBBLE CHAIR 1080mm x 1050mm x 83mm DEPTH
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MAXIMUM SWING ARC 45 DEGREES
SWING CAPSULE #2 A3 BUOY BALL SWING 430mm x 430mm x 560mm
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SWING CAPSULE #2 A3 BUOY BALL SWING 430mm x 430mm x 560mm
SWING CAPSULE #3 LITTLE TIKES DISC 298mm x 298mm x 133mm
NOTE: 1. Recommended Height of Swing Seat from Ground: 300-340mm 2. The greater the distance between the Swing Chains, the less it will sway side-to-side. 3. The expected angle of swing is 45 degrees front and back. Actual testing may be higher. 4. Currently, there are 5 Large Bubble Swings and 3 Small Swings. For Small Swings, test performance of Buoy Ball versus Disk. 5. Recommended Fall Zone of Swing is twice the distance between the swing seat and the swing bar. 6. If Small Swings prove to be too dangerous, a change to Bubble Swing is recommended.
BUBBLE SWING - SECTION 1:30
DRAWING
SWING DETAIL
SCALE
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1:30 @ A3
15/07/31
R1
SHK YOHO MALL SWING
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15/07/29
R1
SHK YOHO MALL SWING
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Yellow / Nomadic Canopy Nuclear Freaked Markers: Spatial Containers Fall 2014 | Cornell University Professor Eric Ellingsen
“Yellow” is a nuclear marker: an architecture that marks the site of nuclear waste stored underground. The marker must last 10,000 years - the duration of time necessary for radioactive decay. The marker warns humanity of death, until such time the site is safe for human activity. After looking at fringe sites for nuclear storage around the world, I proposed the following speculative scenario: a retro-fitted oil rig, commanded by climate refugees of the Marshall islands, will sail on the world’s oceans collecting waste and bury it under the seabed. The rig is a nomadic island - populated by displaced, wandering peoples for the first few centuries, then later becoming a sentient being itself. The short animated film “Yellow” follows this story, weaving together the themes of global catastrophe, individual resilience, and human destiny. “Nomadic Canopy” is a related installation. Inspired by the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, I designed a canopy of twenty yellow umbrellas. Students would “walk” the umbrella roof across campus, from the studio to the art gallery, in a procession. The umbrellas would then be hung on the gallery roof to create an “underwater” ceiling for watching the film “Yellow”. The canopy is a metaphor for the floating nuclear island: transport people from reality to the world of fantasy, or moving radioactive waste from cities to the seabed. https://vimeo.com/120927317
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Yellow Nuclear Island, Collage
Mapping the Fringes: Global nuclear waste sites
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Yellow: A Nuclear Dystopia (Excerpt) Once upon a time, a great nation learned to wield the power of atoms, the building blocks of the universe. It used the energy to wipe out its enemies, but soon other nations learned to harness the power of the particles as well. To keep their peoples safe, the nations experimented with the particles in the middle of the Great Ocean, causing great plumes of fire and destruction. Unbeknownst to them, the destructive plumes poisoned the land and the native peoples of the islands, leaving them radioactive for generations – 10,000 years, to be precise. Ashamed, the leading nation tried to purify the poisoned land; they built a great stone dome, 110 m in diameter, in the middle of the Great Ocean, to bury the poisoned land. The dome temple is called CACTUS, inscribed 1979. The nation paid the poisoned peoples and silenced them. Years later, the great nations forgot about war and desired wealth from trade. They turned the Great Ocean into a highway; through flying ships, sailing ships, and undersea wires, the vast ocean distances collapsed. The ocean became a small sea, and the sea became a backwater pond. Soon, the collective speed of travel warmed the Ocean, causing waters to rise. The stone marker and the islanders were forgotten. Meanwhile, the great nations turned the fearsome atom into power for industry, placing the poisoned byproduct – nuclear waste - into metal capsules. The nations produced thousands of these nuclear waste capsules. Soon, the capsules began to cover the Earth’s surface, and the islands began to sink….
Locating Cactus Dome, the world’s first nuclear marker
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Visualizing the Narrative 1 2 3
New flag of the Einewetak Atoll/Marshall Islands: New Etak Map of trans-Pacific undersea communication cables Montage sequence showing the disapperance of Marshall Islands, the arrival of climate refugees, and the construction of Yellow Nuclear Island
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Performance / Installation / Film 1 2 3
Nomadic Canopy (16 umbrellas, 16 people) Drawing of Nomadic Canopy installed in art gallery Storyboarding for “Yellow Nuclear Island�; film excerpts
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From Sheet to Form Material Studies and Digital Fabrication Spring 2015 | Cornell University Professors Sasa Ziskovic and Martin Miller Collaborators: Savannah Chasinghawk and Courtney Park
Material Studies: Wood Kerfing and Plastic Thermoforming
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Photo: Professors Ziskovic and Miller display the polystyrene prototype
From Sheet to Form, an architectural seminar at Cornell taught by Sasa Ziskovic and Martin Miller, explored emerging materials and processes in digital fabrication to study their implications in architecture. Students studied wood kerfing, wood veneering, plastic thermoforming, and fiberglass formmaking, as well as grasshopper scripting and CNC fabrication. At the end of the seminar, student groups developed their own material hybrid systems and built 1:1 prototypes. Inspired by the technique of Dukta kerfing and fiberglass shaping, my collaborators and I explored polystyrene kerfing. By milling grid patterns on both sides of a 3� polystyrene panel, the panel could flex in two directions, creating concave-convex configurations. The resultant shape, a catenary dome similar to Kangaroo modeling, can be stabilized through the application of fiberglass layers. An aggregation of these panels can generate an undulating surface with dynamic light qualities.
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Material, Design, and Maniuplation
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CNC Fabrication Process 1 2 3 4
CNC milling of polystyrene panel; overlapping grids on two faces Application of fiberglass layers on a warped panel; fiberglass setting within a plywood jig Fabrication of multiple polystyrene panels with varying shapes; shapes connect to form an aggregate whole Assembly of polystyrene panels into aggregate surface form
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Grasshopper script: panelling catenary modules on complex curved surface
Rhino model: resultant geometry from grasshopper scripting
Closeup: convex polystyrene panel with translucent fiberglass
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Microtectures Pop-Up Spaces & Other Things 2013-Present As architecture and the built environment trends ever-more towards bigness, uniformity, and efficiency (in the form of data centers, corporate headquarters, and institutional campuses), architectural design is increasingly marginalized, limited to small-scale interventions, luxury interiors, and technology prototypes. As a young designer, I take every opportunity I have to collaborate with different disciplines to design spaces and spectacles - the more far-fetched the better.
In 2013, I designed and built a composting toilet prototype, as part of Cornell University Sustainable Design (CUSD). Over fall semester, I worked with an engineering student to design and build a composting toilet and outhouse for a rural family in Nicaragua. Using a rotating, dual chamber design with urine diversion, we allowed the waste to compost safely and be used as fertilizer for the vegetable fields. During winter break, we flew down to Nicaragua and built the toilet with some nonprofit volunteers. In 2014, a group of friends and I staged “Pop-Up Hiphop”, an interactive dance performance at Cornell. Using kinect and computer scripting, we were able to capture the motion of a group of dancers, convert the motion data into vectors, and project the vectors onto a backdrop as “virtual graffiti.” We partnered up with Circus for Construction, a traveling art gallery, and Breakfree, a university dance team, to stage a performance at Milstein Hall. In 2015, the skincare company Malin+Goetz asked LAAB architects to design a pop-up retail store in a prominent Hong Kong shopping mall. We began the design process with a wall of white cubes that referenced the visual language of Chinese apothecaries. We then manipulated the shape and spacing of the cubes in grasshopper to create a dynamic curving display that drew customers into the pop-up shop.
For new and upcoming micro-tecture projects, please see www.edbertcheng.com.
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Malin+Goetz Pop-Up Store LAAB Architects Harbour City, Kowloon, 2015
Pop-Up Hiphop w/ Kinnect Circus for Construction + Storefront for Art and Architecture Ithaca, NY, 2014
Composting Toilet Cornell Sustainable Design+ Sostenica Nicaragua Nagarote, Nicaragua, 2013
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About
A native of Hong Kong and Saint Louis, Edbert Cheng is a designer and architect trainee. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University (B.Arch ‘16). Edbert believes architecture is for the intellectually curious, and this curiosity can take you to distant places. He has had internships in Saint Louis, San Francisco, Chicago, and Hong Kong. In his undergraduate studies, he also participated in travel studios to Italy and Brazil, as well as engineering projects in Nicaragua and Honduras. In his free-time, Edbert dreams of hip-hop dance and building his donut shop empire.
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EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
ARROWSTREET
Undergrad | Ithaca, NY | 2011 - 2016 Bachelor of Architecture College of Art, Architecture and Planning Awards Cornell Asian Studies Travel Grant (2015) Jacques Rougerie, Honorable Mention (2014) AAP York Prize, Honorable Mention (2012) 3.78 Dean’s List Professional Skills Revit Rhinoceros Grasshopper AutoCAD Sketchup Adobe Ps Id Ai Pr MS Excel Languages Chinese Cantonese Chinese Mandarin Interests House Dance Animation Photography Doughnut-Making Websites Portfolio www.edbertcheng.com Blog www.airportsketches.weebly.com
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Architectural Designer | Boston, MA | June 2016 - Present Chelsea Summer Court, Residential Masterplanning, Chelsea, MA King Open and Cambridge Upper School, Cambridge, MA Target Small-Scale Format Rollout, Stoneham, MA General Growth Properties, Towson Town Center Wayfinding, Towson, MD
LAAB Architecture Intern | Hong Kong, China | Summer 2015 YOHO Mall Swing Pavilion, Yuen Long, Hong Kong YOHO Mall Playable Journey Masterplanning, Yuen Long, Hong Kong Malin+Goetz Popup Storefront, Harbour City, Kowloon
GENSLER Architecture Intern | Chicago, IL | Summer 2014 Fulton Market District Intern Research, West Loop, Chicago, IL KU Central Business District, Campus Masterplanning, Lawrence, KS Loop Alliance Wabash Avenue Improvements, Streetscape Visioning, Chicago, IL Lakeview Pantry West, RFP, Chicago, IL
BRU ARCHITECTS Architecture Intern | San Francisco, CA | Summer 2013 Edificio Astoreca Redevelopment, Competition Renderings, Valparaiso, Chile Private Residence for an Art Collector, Design Renderings, Santiago, Chile San Francisco Nunnery UCSF, RFP, San Francisco, CA
UNIVERSITY CITY DEPT. OF PLANNING Urban Planning Intern | St Louis, MO | Summer 2012 Delmar Loop Redevelopment, Parking Study, University City, MO Parkview Gardens Masterplanning, Public Approval Process, University City, MO
PERSONAL PROJECTS Pop-Up Hiphop | Circus for Construction | Fall 2014 Interactive Hip Hop Dance Performance for Circus for Construction, Ithaca, NY Part of Storefront for Art and Architecture (2014) Composting Toilet | Cornell University Sustainable Design | Winter 2013 Sustainable Composting Toilet Design and Construction, Sostenica, Nicaragua
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