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B.A. Architecture 480 840 5065 | cchen9299@gmail.com 14412 Stroubles Creek Road | Blacksburg VA 24060 EDUCATION Virginia Tech | Blacksburg VA B.A. Architecture Minor Industrial Design

2010 | Present

Chandler-Gilbert Community College | Chandler AZ University Studies

2009 | 2010

Orme School of Arizona | Mesa AZ High School

2006 | 2009

WORK EXPERIENCE CMG Leasing | Blacksburg VA Preparation Technician

Summer 2014

Deet’s Coffee Place | Blacksburg VA Student Assistant Manager

2012 | Present

Summer Architecture Studio | Blacksburg VA Teaching Assistant

Summer 2013

SKILLS Rhino | Vray | AutoCad | Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign Sketching | Modeling | Sketchup | Microsoft Office | Drafting

LANGUAGE Mandarin Chinese

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English

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Resume

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511 W. 28th St. Residential Apartment | NYC Fall 2014 Professor Joseph Wheeler

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Test Cell Dwellings | Blacksburg, VA Spring 2014 Professor Patrick Doan

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Test Cell Clerk’s Office | Blacksburg, VA Fall 2013 Professor Patrick Doan

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Industrial Design Sketches and Renderings

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New York City | New York Professor Joseph Wheeler and DXA Studio Fall 2014

511 West 28th Street is a mid-rise residential apartment with a site cut through by the High Line in New York City. We had the opportunity to work with DXA, a New York City based firm, on a weekly bases over web-comm to explore the balance between design and development .

One of the questions that is most frequently asked throughout the semester that I struggled with the most is how does an architect maintain their idea under limitations such as developers and zoning codes.

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The proposition aims to create a central public plaza that links the east and west tower. The first three levels of the towers are commercial spaces due to the value of having a store front facing the highly visited High Line and privacy issues. The residential tower have a separate entrance and circulation core that has access to each level. The tower consists of units ranging from studio apartments to four bedroom apartments and penthouses. Spaces such as bathrooms and closets are located towards the center of the tower to free up valuable perimeter space for the living quarters.

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Ground Level Floor Plan

E Tower 5th Floor EL. 57’-0”

W Tower 5th Floor EL. 49’-0”

E Tower 4th Floor EL. 46’-0”

Hall Way W Tower 4th Floor EL. 38’-0”

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E Tower 3rd Floor EL. 31’-0”

Resident Gym W Tower 5th Floor EL. 27’-0”

Lounge Platform to Stage

E Tower 2nd Floor EL. 19’-0”

W Tower 5th Floor EL. 16’-0”

Coffee Shop 1 Gallery

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Double Panel Glass

1-1/2” Main Runner Chanels 3/4” CrossFurring Finishing Ceiling

Main Girt

Structrual Silicone Sealant Bonded Metal Panels

Backer Rod Space Bracket Vertical Mullion

Light Gauge Framing Metal Siding

Window Sill

3-1/4” Finishing Floor

3-1/4” Finishing Floor 2x4 Sleeper Radiant Heating Tubing

Structrual Silicone Sealant

6” Concrete Slab

Backer Rod Space Bracket

2x4 Sleeper Radiant Heating Tubing 6” Concrete Slab

Vertical Mullion 1-1/2” Main Runner Chanels

Double Panel Glass

1-1/2” Main Runner Chanels 3/4” CrossFurring

3/4” CrossFurring

Finishing Ceiling

Finishing Ceiling

Structrual Silicone Sealant Backer Rod Space Bracket Vertical Mullion

Light Gauge Framing Metal Siding

3-1/4” Finishing Floor 2x4 Sleeper Radiant Heating Tubing 6” Concrete Slab

1-1/2” Main Runner Chanels 3/4” CrossFurring Finishing Ceiling

Interior Finishing

3-1/4” Finishing Floor 2x4 Sleeper Radiant Heating Tubing 6” Concrete Slab

1-1/2” Main Runner Chanels 3/4” CrossFurring Finishing Ceiling

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Blacksburg | Virginia Professor Patrick Doan Spring 2014

The Test Cell Dwelling is a project targeted to provide temporary housing to the researching staff at the Research Development Complex (RDF) in Blacksburg. The project includes four units of living quarters with individual bathrooms for one professor and three students, an open work space and a dinning area. The proposed project is three steel frame structures with mostly metal claddings. Dark colored concrete and wood finishing are used for specific walls to achieve certain spacial qualities desired.

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AXONOMETRIC DRAWINGS SCALE 1/ ” = 1’ - 0”

GARDEN

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A-2 A-203 KITCHEN 002 PATIO

MEETING ROOM 001

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LOWER LEVEL SCALE 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

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BATH 009

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STUDENT III 006

BATH 008

STUDENT I 004

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STUDENT II 005

BATH 010 FACULTY 003

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GROUND LEVEL SCALE 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

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PATIO

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UPPER LEVEL SCALE 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

This is the first project that I had expressed what true beauty in architecture means to me and begin to formulate my own set of language and style; a sense of complex geometrical spaces that form not just the interior, but more so the exterior space of the project. As a result, each building and unit has a unique relationship with another and each space is experienced differently. Each space is planned through a grid that follows through the existing test cell buildings.

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NORTH ELEVATION SCALE 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

A-203

EAST ELEVATION SCALE 1/8” = 1’ - 0”

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TRAVERSE SECTION SCALE 1/4” = 1’ - 0”

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Blacksburg | Virginia Professor Patrick Doan Fall 2013

The Clerk’s Office is part of the complex of the RDF, Research Development Complex, project. The purpose of the building is to provide office space that oversees the complex. It houses a main office space, a rest space and a restroom. This is the project where I began questioning the importance of an architect versus that of an engineer. What values architects may add to a project by holding certain visions that eventually forms into spaces of unique experience.

Originally a simple rectangular plan was chosen for a focus on how the building operates such as the orientation of the building, the roof angle and extension, solar mass, passive heating and cooling, connection between materials and other sustainable elements. The question of spacial quality rises later in the project which led to the division of the building and formation of the garden.

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The study of industrial design has helped me communicate my architectural ideas through different design medias and perspectives. It was more than just the knowledge of how a two point perspective is composed free handed, how burning and dodging works in Photoshop or how to make prototype models. But how it can help me describe certain experience of spaces and how I am able to engage the user and audience in a different way that allows a better delivery of my idea.

Hank Chen 09/18/2013