portfolio. jennifer fang
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natatorium
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earth closet
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monastery
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hotel
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bank
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manhattenville, new york, new york straus park, new york, new york sugar hollow, charlottesville, virginia
chelsea, new york, new york long island city, new york, new york
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Water is a transitory medium, able to carry people to and from their destinations, able to wash away masks, facades, preconceptions, and able to erode away sharp edges until all are equalized. Where the Ship of Fools had carried the mad away from society, the asylum had brought them back, but kept them in secondary, other spaces, while attempting to heal with hydrotherapy. This project combines the natatorium with a halfway house, and hopes to use water and its associated programs, not to heal, but to reintegrate the mentally ill back into society. There are three pools, the cold diving pool, the hot bath, and the warm lap pool. Upon entering the natatorium, the visitor first encounters the diving pool; the cold water acts as the threshold which grants passage to the rest of the building by the main circulation, which winds around the building, before eventually reaching the outdoor lap pool.
natatorium manhattenville, new york city, new york core I | fall 2014
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RESIDENT SHOWER VISITOR SHOWER COLD POOL
21,420 CU.FT.
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HOT BATH
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HEATED OUTDOOR POOL 13,500 CU.FT.
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Decay is inevitable. Everything that is capable of experiencing time will also experience decomposition. This project is an examination of how architecture can be shaped by time and attempts to take the unattractive process of decay and use it to reveal something beautiful. The form of the bathroom is derived through studies of decay and decomposition. There are two parts to the bathroom; the exterior mass, which is meant to decay away, and the inner shell, which is revealed over time. The exterior face of the inner shell is covered in LEDs, and at night, the bathroom becomes a lantern, activating the space and creating a safer atmosphere. The necessary bathroom fixtures, like the toilet and sink, are incorporated directly into the shell and become part of the structure.
earth closet straus park, new york, new york core I | fall 2014
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Creation myths are common throughout the world. As an inverse, the desruction myth has just as many interpretations. The “end of the world� can occur at multiple scales, whether through economic collapse, interplanetary collision, or death of a loved one. This project is a manifestation of a particular social response to the concept of the apocalypse. The monastery is a self sufficient retreat from the rest of society, located next to the Charlottesville reservoir in the Shenandoah Mountains.
monastery sugar hollow, charllotesville, virginia arch 4010 | fall 2012
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SIZE
ROUTINE
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F5 storage
F4 worship
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library
F2 housing
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exhibition dining observation broadcast workshop kitchen bathroom program
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B1 ritual
floors
circulation
OBSERVATORY STUDY ROOMS LIBRARY BROADCAST WORKSHOP
DINING 66 FT
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ENTRANCE EXHIBIT
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ground floor
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fourth floor
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This project began with an analysis of the snail as precedent for compact, temporary, housing units. These indiviual pods were then aggregated to form a hotel located at a site next to the High Line. Manual methods of sketching, rendering, drafting, and modeling were employed.
pod hotel chelsea, new york, new york arch 3010 | fall 2011
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The space of the bank is deteriorating. As banking moves into the digital realm, physical space and interactions become more and more obsolete. Preservation of this space can only be achieved by attaching the bank program to a thriving, site specific program. Long Island City is a major art hub, with institutions such as the Sculpture Center, 5Pointz, Noguchi Sculpture Museum, and MOMA PS1 all located nearby. This project attempts to mesh the bank program with gallery spaces for new, upcoming, artists. The building experiments with the concept of “coreless,“ in that the core is deconstructed and incorporated into thickened, structural, walls, which also serve to serperate program within the buidling. This project is in progress.
bank long island city, new york, new york core II | spring 2015
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FORMAL STRATEGY
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ART
STUDIOS GALLERY
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BANK
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jennifer fang education
571.286.9247 | jcf2176@columbia.edu
columbia university, gsapp | new york city, new york m.arch candidate august 2014 - may 2017
university of virginia, school of architecture | charlottesville, virginia bachelor of science of architecture, minor in environmental and urban planning
work experience
august 2009 - may 2013
intern architect + designer | skb architecture + design | washington, d.c. design development, construction documents, construction administration june 2013 - june 2014
research assistant | professor earl mark | charlottesville, virginia researched and designed fabric architecture project for site in schoodic point and cow island, maine fall 2012 - spring 2013
teaching assistant | arch3410: computer aided design | charlottesville, virginia fall 2012 - spring 2013
architecture teacher | 4star summer camps | charlottesville, virginia june 2012 - august 2012
extern | pei cobb freed | new york, new york january 2012
intern | h.c. chen architects and associates | taipei, taiwan june 2011 - august 2011
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skills
digital rhino + grasshopper photoshop/illustrator/indesign vray render maxwell render autocad autodesk maya bentley microstation google sketchup
pubilcations + awards
catalyst conditions | actar publishers | university of virginia trabecular sculptacular | arch 4020 monastery | arch 4010
references
physical model making lasercutting 3d printing cnc routing
christoph a. kumpusch | columbia gsapp | adjunct assistant professor of architecture christoph@kumpusch.com
2012 - 2013
certificate of design excellence | university of virginia 2009 - 2013
intermediate honors | university of virginia spring 2012
belmont vortex workshop competition | honorable mention spring 2012
erica goetz | columbia gsapp | adjunct assistant professor of architecture eg2643@columbia.edu mark baughman | skb architecture + design | managing partner mbaughman@skbarch.com | 202.332.2434
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