JASON S WANG Selected Works Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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RESUME A: 462 S. Marginal Rd., Jericho, NY, 11753 E: jasonseanwang@gmail.com T: [646] 491-2857 _EDUCATION RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Bachelors in Architecture, GPA 3.47 / 4.0 (cumulative) - Recipient of Donald V. Edwards Scholarship, Rensselaer Leadership Award, and Dean’s Honor List - Studied at Tongji University in Shanghai, China for one semester as part of an internation study abroad program
Troy, NY Expected May 2014
_EXPERIENCE HAZARD FRANKEL ARCHITECTS Architecture and Graphic Design, Summer Intern - Designed official company website and various other company graphics - Assisted in building and site analysis of various housing projects - Prepared Schematic design and Construction documents to code for submission for evaluation by the D.o.B. - Assisted in the construction of several projects on site
Los Angelos, CA July 2013 - August 2013
Z-A STUDIOS Architecture and Design, Summer Intern - Prepared and Submitted RFPs pretaining to several state level projects in collaboration with a partnering firm - Designed and Participated in design process for additions to a single story housing project
New York, NY May 2012 - August 2012
_ACTIVITIES DESIGN CHARRETTES - Participated in design charrettes aimed to contemporize older projects HYDE COLLECTION - Project Leader: Casey Rehm
RENSSELAER ‘86 FIELD - Project Leader: David Riebe, Jefferson Ellinger
_SKILLS PROFICIENT - Rhinoceros, Adobe Suite [Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, After Effects], Microsoft Office, V-Ray, Auto-CAD, QGIS, Open Office, Grasshopper BASIC - Revit, Bentley Microstation MISC - Fabrication, Laser Cutting, Photography,
Fall 2011 Spring 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS CORE-trijk
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Center for Excellence
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Social Housing
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Shaker Museum
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Design Development Studio 2013
Design Studio with Joe MacDonald 2012
Design Studio with Jeremy Carvalho 2011
Design Studio with Florencia Vetcher 2010
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2013
CORE-trijk Design Development Studio Studio Advisors - Jefferson Ellinger - Mark Mistur A technology based studio emphasizing the materialization and making of architecture from schematic design through design development. The studio focuses on the integration of technology, systems, and materials in a comprehensive resolution of building design meeting code and zoning requirements.
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The project strives to merge a library, learning center, and music center by adopting a continuous, flexible ribbon strategy instead of the typical approach of stacking program. The ribbon setup accommodates the changing needs of the occupants by allowing the programs to be flexible and mutable, while encouraging communication by maintaining the continuous interaction between all parts. The building also accepts the cultural axis of the city, translating it into the spiral circulation that begins and ends on the axis, and serving as a physical and visual connection to the historic center of Kortrijk. The spiraling circulation is often interrupted by slippages. These slippages provoke interactions between different parties inhabiting the space. The faรงade relays this information to the exterior surface so people can read the slippages of space. The faรงade is a perforated metal rain-screen that allows the building to appear to have a solid and a void space and at night allows for the entire building to glow from the interior eliminating the distinction of solid and void.
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THE ENCLOSURE
The enclosure acts as a visual trace on the exterior hinting at the programmatic shifts that occur within. The enclosure is a perforated metal rain-screen in some areas and clear glass in other areas. The perforated metal enclosure wraps the “closed void� circulation path entirely as it continues through the glass and into the actual space itself giving it a continuity of form. The perforations on the interior become utility spaces allowing for lighting and fire safety installation such as sprinklers. This method also allows for the concealment of many ventilation and utility shafts.
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Center for Excellence Design Studio Studio Advisors - Joe MacDonald A computationally driven studio focusing on learning and applying parametric solutions to architectural forms. Emphasizing the importance of parametric design the studio also sought to balance functional spaces with fantastic forms.
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The Center of Excellence, located on the site of EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic, is designed to contradict the existing piece of architecture. EMPAC is RPI’s new flagship building and to not address the building in some way would be a lack of observation. However, the project challenges this existing building. EMPAC is this proud monument and in contrast the project relies on its subtlness to capture attention. EMPAC contains a ball of program housed in a shell of glass. This project inverses the logic and begins to understand the facade not as a singular entity but a system of openings and closings that mask the views and enables the inhabitant to move through the building to see the brief moments of the city before it. Program is then pushed along the edges and the interior to become open and a large open space for visitors and students alike.
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Social Housing Design Studio Studio Advisors - Jeremy Carvalho - Andrew Saunders A studio structured so that the first half was the analysis and deconstruction of a built work that had a significant impact on the architectural world. The second half focused on applying ideas learned from the first round of analysis to a large housing unit for both students and faculty.
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Social Housing is a hub that mediates both people and the urban and natural fabric. Social housing attempts to combine two very different kinds of people into a singular building. Housing both scholars and students allows for an creative intersection of both worlds. In order to do so the circulation brings both parties into the cores and follows a spiral through each floor joining public spaces used for reading, meditation, and study. The spiral concept then informs each unit as well as the way the building reacts to its context. The site is situated between the city and the river and to bridge the urban context with its natural context the project uses its large cores to funnel views into the building. Inhabitants are able to circulate through the building and at each major landing the building opens up views to both sides visually tying the city back to nature and vice versa. Also by lifting the building, a large open space is created for users to experience both the city and nature simultaneously.
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Urban Landscape
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The design of the cores embrace these values as they spiral upwards as well as branch off and intersect with each other. The views are maximized at the ends and the rooms are designed as spirals that come off each of the main cores. As the inhabitants move upward they are moving in a spiral motion around each structural core and forces interaction. At this point all the inhabitants are forced into interactions with each other.
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Shaker Museum Design Studio Studio Advisors - Florencia Vetcher - Andrew Saunders The studio focused on applying trophes learned in the analysis of shaker artifacts to the design of a museum dedicated to the life and culture of the shaker world. The studio focused on carrying through the ideas learned from the trophes in a built form that would be both functional and creative.
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Beginning with the analysis of a shaker artifact that cut and arranged broomcorn of various sizesfrom the village of Watervliet I discovered a system of twisting and volumetric changes based on the orientation of reptitive parts. This system led me to develop a module that was capable of mimicing the complex changes discovered in the artifact. Through reptition the project began to snake and take form through segments and allowing for variation to happen from the points of connections of these modules. The spaces in between were utilized for lighting effects and landscaping techniques. In order to push the module further a bifurcation happens in the circulation dividing public and private programs. The module adapts and creates back of house as well as conference rooms in space that overlooks the main programmatic areas. The landscape becomes a reaction to the spatial changes created by the module.
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THANK YOU
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