Joann Feng Architecture Portfolio

ASSORTED ASSORTED WORK: WORK: 2008-2012 2008-2012

Joann Feng

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Florida International University B.A. Architecture (April 2012)

Joann Feng

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11452 NW 50th Ter Doral FL33178

Artech Architects

Intern. Associated in project development for “UDN headquarter”, “TPK Complex” and “Hua

Nan Bank Building” (Jun 2012 - Present)

305-215-5089 jfeng001@fiu.edu

Bio Architecture Formosa

Associated in final models production for “Tapei International Flora Expo 2010 Xinshen Park”(Jun - Aug 2009) FIU School of Computing and Information Sciences

Associated in 3D model building for “3D Hurricane Storm Surge Animation and Visualiza

tion Project at the DMIS Laboratory” (Aug - Sep 2010)

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MONAD Studio

Associated in editting for the publication “Pulsation in Architecture“ (May - Sep 2010) Urban Project Collaboratvie

Intern. Associated in project deveolpment and graphic design of the “Compost Mobile”

Project (Aug - Dec 2011)

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Skills-Language, Creative, Technical American English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish Hand and Digital Drafting, Physical and Digital Model Building, Laser Cutting

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AutoCad, Rhinoceros(V-Ray Render, Grasshopper), Autodesk Maya(Maxwell Render), Google Sketchup(V-Ray Render), Adobe CS5

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Honors, Awards, Affiliations Five times works selected to display in the BEA International Gallery at the FIU Paul Cejas School of Architecture in 2008-2011

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Reciepient of 2012 FIU SOA Excellence Award Student Design for the AlterMall Competition-Museum of Seasons in San Francisco Affiliated with Up-Lab’s Compost Mobile-a recipient of the Awesome Food Grant

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Affiliated with the winning design PerFORM[D]ance House for Solar Decathlon 2011 in site analysis and on-site construction as FIU’s Office of Sustainability Member of National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Golden Key International Honor Society

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ACADEMIC WOKS This section highlights works done within the design studios in my undergraduate studies. It contains examples of my creativity in design and passion in the exploration of architecture.

TRANSPARENCY: A SPATIAL PHENOMENON

Space Strategies: Opaque planes and lines to define the intimate space.

Opaque planes become translucent or desolved into screens, resulting in a relatively open space. Lines and translucent planes structured on a horizontal trajectory, creating the space of the most transparency.

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“The transparent qualities of the superimpositions often suggest transparency of context as well, revealing innoticed structural qualities in the object.”

“Superimpositions of form overcome space and time fixation. They transpose insignificant singularities into meaningful complexities...”

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FROZEN MOTION, TRANSFOR MATION

The exploration of physical and perpetual relationships between human body and three dimensional form and space is a critical interest in the study of architeture.

The body-space relationship is critically observed and analyzed through the creation of body montage, which examines the physical human factors in relation to space, structure, surface and light through photographing the interaciton of body, site, and installations. Architecture intervened the study through capturing the phenomenon and rearticulate into space, the interaction between the dynamics of body motion and the rigidity of the background matrix.

Animal Locomation by Eadweard Muybridge

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Body Montage explores the physical and sensual human facotrs in relation to space, structure and light though photographing the interaction of human body, site and installaitons.

Forces penetrate through the horizontal datum, providing structural supports and subtle, playful light filtetration.

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Sectional model highlights a specific moment of the whole space, allowing for a careful development of rhythmic, rigid tectonics.

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POSTCARD MUSEUM

Stack of postcards became the inspiration for the bisectional system for spatial dynamics.

The site is located on the lot directly north of the Wolfsonian Museum at Miami Beach, Florida , a mid-density urban beach community .

The design begun with a series of explorations of “generative complexity,� which starts from a simple system and evolves in scale and complexity, The result was a museum that is rich in its spatial and experiencial complexity. The design strategy generated a contiguous procession that allows for a visitor to observe architecture and exhibitions in the museum without any interruption.

Greenary Perceived as Controlled Growth

Flow of Pedestrian/Vehicular Movement

Site mapping and analysis further informed the design of the spatial system explored.

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Top to Bottom: Plans at Ground, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and Roof Level Right, Top to Botttom: West Elevation, Sections 15

Layers of Rythmic Shifted Grids

Parasitic “Controlled Growth� on Skin

The bisectional system of line, skin, and volume collectively hosts a continuous procession of spatial dynamics.

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Ever-bisecting Planes

NOUVEAU PULSATION

Nouveau Pulsation is a FIU SOA design project granted by the Wolfsonian Museum at Miami Beach.

The aim of the project is to design a free-standing “ornamental backdrop“ and fabricate using CNC mill as surfaces made of panels that adhere to floor, walls, and ceiling, mediating the transition between the spaces of the gallery and serving as support for the artifacts on display. This membrane will operate as a lens to integrate the eras of Art Nouveau and the Contemporary within a continuum of shared sensibilities, resonating with ornamental graphics projected on walls and thus creating effectively an immersive space of narrative.

German Jugenstil: minimal, smooth, vegetative, organic form that meets demands without excessive decoration.

Study of atmospheric effects informs the narratives of space.

Study of Atmospheric Effects 17

Inspired by German jugendstil and the atmosphere study, a taxonomy of cells is determined and aggregate into a structure for display.

Cross Sections and Longitudinal Section 18

FIELD OF SWARM An architectural installation designed with grasshopper.

Swarm: a loss of force, intensity, or strength. to disappear gradually; fade away. consists of a system emerged from the interaction of components at a local level. The emergence and dissolution of form comes out of a complex order from a field.

formula for swarm 1. create 3 curves with similar attributes shifted and rotated threedimensionally.

2.create a shape bounded by a box.

3.create operations in grasshopper to merge the shape in a gridded format along the lofted surface created by three curves.

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A series of experiments using the same system is made to explore possible forms of swarm.

Operations 1. Create a diamond shape with openings on both sides.

2. Create three curves.

3. Create a grid.

4. Add rules to grasshopper lines 5. Bake!

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HABITATION IN THE LANDSCAPE A region characterized by unique geological fortress known as Drumlin, becomes home for an artist.

The project questions the current typologies of habitation by addressing issues thought upon by the landscape and adapting them to meet with the needs for an artist. Topics such as phenomenology of the site and its qualities were observed analytically through a series of diagrams and models to develop a form and programmatic organization for the dwelling.

The result was a home that blends architecturally within the landscape through capturing the site’s unique qualities while maintaining the balance of an artist’s personal and protectional life.

A series of form studies captures the action of erosion, further developing as a land-strategy for artist’s dwelling.

Phenomenology Diagram observing potential sensory experiences throughout the site.

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Erosion takes action thoughout the site and transforms into a crystaline landscape.

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ARTIST COLLECTIVE: HABITATION IN THE GARDEN The artist collective housing is an experimental arena where installation artists of different backgrounds and interests can compete and influence each other.

The architecture organizes a number of programs in such a way that while their particular needs are respected, their coexistence ensures maximum mutual influence; their interface generates hybrid condition.

Site is adjacent to Madison Square, Savannah, where green space stimulates Social-Cultural phenomenon.

Green spaces serve as a natural and recreational web of Savannah, where public spaces allows for collective experiences and private gardens provide leisure and sense of privacy.

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Architectural gestures are made based on the intention to encourage interations within the housing and with the surrounding.

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Opening parallel with the adjacent narrow lane avoids direct visual contact to neighbor while accomodates for natural light and vistas.

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Level 1: Garden/Gallery

Utilization of greenery stimulates rich interaction in public spaces while provides visual privacy for personal spaces.

Level 2: Workshop/Studio

South Elevation

Level 3: Artists’ Rooms and Dining Space

North Elevation

Level 4: Artists’ Rooms 29

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MUSEUM OF THE SEASONS The aim of the project is to create a phenomenon of artificial nature embedded in the Twin Peaks of San Francisco, a surreal space of juxtaposed seasons and nature that transcends time and space—four seasons coexisting inside a hill. The proposed indoor landscapes will enhance the potential of the bare, left-over nature of the site.

The Museum of Seasons comprises four main parks that correspond to each of the seasons -Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. The seasons are conceived as independently controlled environments, self-sufficient landscapes that speak to one another through the language of fluid movement and seamless flow of space and materials, blurring of the boundaries between building and nature.

Spring Spring

The users of the space will experience a landscape of sand dunes in the summer area, a ski slope in the winter wing, a vegetable garden and farming area for fall, and a botanical camping forest for spring, a systematic complex of man-made environments embedded within the experience of the Twin Peaks themselves, while sights of the urban fabric of San Francisco are intermittently perceivable at particular moments.

Fall Fall

interior partitions

landscape and vegetation

carved-out-sloping ground condition

vehicle-free circulation loop and access parks

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R -OVE LEFT E R NATU Summer

A new form of non-commercial mall: Artificial Nature embedded within Bare Nature

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Winter Park: Ski Rink

Winter Park Roof-Retaining Wall Structural Detail

Winter Park Floor Plan

Winter Park Section 33

Self-sufficient landscape speaks to one another though fluid moment, blurring the boundaries between hardscape and nature.

Musum of the Seasons Ground Plan 34

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS This section highlights works done outside of the design studio realm. It may contain examples of architectural installations, graphic design, published works produced in recent years. Works ranging from installations and posters displayed at different exhibitions or visualization of data as a part of local green innitiatives.

POP-UP POSTCARD CASE Inspired by the shorten-extend mechanism of a scalable phone, the postcard case’s main design intention aims to optimize portability as well as efficiency in space utilisation.

Through careful observation of and a series of form studies, the dynamics of a simple, basic unit aggregating into a complex system is rigidely experimented.

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WASTED MATERIALS INSTALLATION PROTO-TYPING: 7,000MAGAZINES MATERIALS: 7,000+ WASTED MAGAZINES DFESIGN TEAM: PIE STUDIO ROLE IN PROJECT: ON/OFF SITE INSTALLATION This exhibition is an idea. A work in progress that looks at different ways in which repurposed products can be engaging spatially and affectively. It raises the possibility for the waste materials to be reporposed.

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PROFESSIONAL WORK: TAIPEI INTERNATIONAL FLORA EXPO XINSHENG PARK DATE OF CONSTRUCTION: 2009-2011 LOCATION: TAIPEI, TAIWAN DESIGN TEAM: BIO ARCHITECTURE FORMOSA ROLE IN PROJECT: STUDY AND FINAL MODELS PRODUCTION

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PROFESSIONAL WORK: COMPOST MOBILE A Food Scraps Collection Initiative

DESIGN TEAM: UP-LAB ROLE IN PROJECT: DATA COLLECTION+ANALYSIS, POSTER DESIGN Compost Mobile is devoted to collecting food scraps from residences and small businesses for composting design skills to invent new ways for our communities to become more sustainable.

Through research and propaganda, Compost Mobile envisions how Miami could improve if it adopted the initiative city wide.

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My endeavor to pursue a professional degree in architecture from Columbia GSAPP is firmly bound to the way the institution influences the profession in blurring the boundaries between emerging architecture and the associated disciplines, as well as inducing new ideas and technologies that are relevant to contemporary issues in our world.

GSAPP has always been recognized as one of the greatest architecture institution nationwide that has the strongest multidisciplinary study program. It has long promoted progressive explorations on utilizing architecture as means toward the goal of making the society a better place. At GSAPP, I wish to explore the infinite possibility of architecture as much as possible with the organization’s finest faculty, and most importantly, the diverse student body with broad range of backgrounds, interests and talents.

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I have always been intrigued by the role architectural plays in improving living conditions through keen awareness and thoughtful design strategies. Through my education at Florida International University, I have consistently sought to synthesize ideas, strategies, and technologies in the process of architectural design. I become aware that “design values” is more critical than “designs” and that design drives innova-

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tive solutions. Without cross-disciplinary practice, architecture is destined to form in vacuum.

At FIU, I have gained particular passion about exploring parametric design methodology with computer aided design and fabrication methods throughout projects. Innovative technology has been an emerging

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trend in architecture, and I believe that it will provide design solutions that are more effective and economic.

Upon such belief, I wish to inquire skills in cutting-edge digital strategies for design, visualization and fabrication that the learning environment at GSAPP has to offer.

Aside from academia, I have been involved in various and initiatives associated with humanitarian design.

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With collaboration with Urban Projects Collaborative, I had been part of numerous initiatives, including “Compost Mobile,” that are geared on utilizing design as a tool to share knowledge and produce concrete outcomes for individuals and communities in need.

Through MONAD studio, a Miami based design-research practice, I have been connected to the “Digital

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Pulse” conference hosted by Eric Goldemberg, with participants including Ali Rahim and Jeffrey Kipnis.

The Digital Pulse focused on the discussion of innovative concepts of architectural sensation and fabrication techniques.

Through professional work in the field of architecture, I have experience in a range of construction project

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types. During the internship at Bio-architecture Formosa, I was involved in the 2010 Taipei International Flora Expo. Currently, I am working as an intern at Artech Architects, a Taipei based architecture firm that specializes in large-scale public sector and commercial constructions.

Through the academic, extracurricular and professional experience with continuous conversation with ar-

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chitects and professionals, I have discovered my goal and interests in academia and the professional realm. I became aware of my passion in exploring architectural solution to the worlds’ resource and housing crisis, as well as the need to pursue knowledge, ideas and profession in the field.

I hope to be part of GSAPP in searching for higher knowledge in architectural design and to establish a

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long-term connection to the community. I believe GSAPP will strengthen my acumen, ability, and creativity in design and will prepare me to achieve my goals as a professional for many years to come.

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