PROFESSIONAL WORK 2021
Pickard Chilton (New Haven, CT) Summer Intern
•Worked on the design of a Class A office building throughout the Schematic design phase. •Focused on the design of the ground floor retail spaces and the garage enclosure, as well as assisted in compiling the SD set
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Design Collective Inc. (Baltimore, MD) Summer Architecture Intern
•Tasks and projects included schematic renderings in Lumion, rendered elevations, SD and DD sets, unit design and documentation, feasibility studies, and planning exercises
+1 (484) 844-7775 Jonathan Wong is a fifth-year student at The Pennsylvania State University studying architecture and mathematics, as well as a member of the Schreyer Honors College and a LEED Green Associate. When he is not busy working in studio, he finds pleasure in digital photography and traveling to other countries to learn about different cultures.
EXPERIENCES 2021
•Provides free, 1:1 math tutoring for K-12 students to mitigate the externalities of online learning 2021
As he sees it, mathematics should no longer be merely an analytical tool to quantify architecture, but instead, it should further our knowledge about the field and push it into new frontiers. Thus, Jonathan believes a new understanding about the role mathematics can play in architecture will redefine the ways in which we approach issues of sustainability. From his experiences, he sees computational design as the true crossroads of mathematics and architecture And so, he wants to design architecture through mathematics such that it challenges people to look at and interact with the world around them in a new light.
MasteryHour (Zoom) Volunteer Mathematics Tutor (1 Year) Penn State Housing - EcoReps (University Park, PA) Marketing and Graphic Design Coordinator (4 Years) •Spread awareness of Penn State Housing’s sustainability department through the management and content creation for the program’s social media and other print/digital media
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U.S. D.O.E Solar Decathlon Design Challenge (University Park, PA) Project Manager; Treasurer (3 Years)
•Collaborated on an interdisciplinary team to design a net zero-energy ready residential building that blends technology, market potential, and design excellence with smart energy efficiency and renewable energy production; Submission included 2018
The GREEN Program (Reykjavik, Iceland) •Engaged in coursework based on energy, economics, and policy taught by industry experts at Reykjavik University •Oversaw an interdisciplinary team to develop an entrepreneurial business plan addressing a modern sustainability challenge connected to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
EDUCATION The Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College | GPA: 3.86
2016
Les Tapies Arts and Architecture (Ardèche, France) •Studied and practiced French vernacular architecture through visits to architectural sites around France and design projects based around local community member needs
College of Arts and Architecture | Bachelor of Architecture
PUBLICATIONS
Eberly College of Science | B.S. in Mathematics 2020
SKILLS
Bhagat, Puja and Wong, Jonathan (2020). “High Performance for Habitat for Humanity: Penn State’s 2018-2019 Solar Decathlon Design Competition Entry.” 5th Biennial Residential Building Design & Construction Conference Proceedings.
HONORS + AWARDS
Software Revit † Rhinoceros† AutoCAD† SketchUp† Grasshopper† WUFI* cove.tool†
V-Ray* Lumion† Unity* Adobe Photoshop† Adobe Illustrator† Adobe InDesign† Adobe Premiere*
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English† French* C#* Python†
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Recipient | 2021 Valley Family Scholarship Recipient | Fourth-Year Design Excellence Award Finalist | National Renewable Energy Laboratory JUMP into STEM Competition Second Place | AIAS InStudio: Portfolio Competition Honorable Mention | U.S. D.O.E. Solar Decathlon Design Challenge Second Place | NCMA Student Competition First Place | U.S. D.O.E. Race to Zero Competition Recipient | First-Year Design Excellence Award
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PO RT FO L I O C O N T EN T Selec ted Works (2018-2021)
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Château de Vibrac, France Team Members: Natalie Walter, Xi Jin Spring 2020 | 4 Weeks
Crato, Alentejo, Portugal Instructor: Katsu Muramoto Fall 2019 | 8 Weeks
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E X P E R I ME N TAT ION AS D E SIGN 3D C o n cre t e Prin tin g R e s e arch State College, Pennsylvania Instructors: José Pinto Duarte, Shadi Nazarian Team Members: Puja Bhagat Fall 2020 | 16 Weeks
Harlem, New York, New York Instructors: Juan Antonio-Sanchez, Vincent Garoffolo, Juan Ruescas Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 | 24 Weeks
Centre County, Pennsylvania Advisors: Lisa Iolu, Dr. Ali Memari, Sarah Klinetob Lowe Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 | 30 Weeks
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For centuries, libraries have been sources of information through vast collections of written knowledge. Since the advent of the Internet and computers, these collections have expanded to include digital knowledge. Yet, in the last decade, the typology of the public library has transformed once again to transcend the notion of a collection of knowledge. Today, a library taps into the intrinsic knowledge of its community to expand that knowledge further. Thus, the project aims to manifest this evolution though a high-performance design. With public walkability and access at the core of the design, the project links the community through a dynamic relationship between the interior and exterior. The sloped roof allows for a just, walkable experience with gardens, learning experiences, and more. The interior is an ideal place to learn and interact with others. The library has multiple maker spaces, artist galleries, a theater, and much more to build a community within Central Cleveland.
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Inside the library, there are multiple maker spaces and artist galleries. These spaces are flexible with their furniture and partitions to create new spaces. The maker spaces have the ability to be tech centers, fun spaces, private study rooms, and more. There are solar panels to create clean electricity and batteries store this energy in the event backup power is needed. Also, the building can be passively heated or cooled through operable windows and dynamic shading devices. There are endless opportunists for the building to change and advance the community of Central Cleveland.
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The project addresses future risks and vulnerabilities by using passive strategies in order to better the environment around it. A site once full of concrete will now have gardens, new public spaces, a public library with a green roof, and much more. The building itself focuses on strategies to educate the users and occupants to live a sustainable lifestyle at home and at the work space through the overall design as well as the detailing.
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Detail Roof Section and Intensive Green Roof Vegetation Diagram
The design supports the ecological health of the place over time by creating an urban green space of native plants that residents and visitors can easil gather on the roof and experience the native plantings. The use of native plants combined with educational signage along the pathways allows the residents library and the green roof. The selected native plants were chosen based on their minimal maintenance requirements, the low amounts of water needed, their to support regional habitat restoration. Additionally, the double layered roof captures rainfall and directs the water into an underground cistern, where t
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ly and intimately interact with. It creates a walkable, intensive green roof for the site that becomes a public space for residents and visitors to be able to and users to become more connected to the regional ecosystem of the site by learning about the health and sustainability-related design decisions for the r tolerances to full sun exposure, their ability to resist cold temperatures, the wildlife they attract to the site, and the combined color palette they form as a way the stored water is treated and filtered to be used in the low flow appliances of the building, as well as for irrigating the green roof.
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encourages a healthy lifestyle due to its walkability, visual connections, and ability to engage with the environment. Cross ventilation xposure to southern sunlight enhances public comfort. Each floor is visible to the floor below which engages all aspects of the building coming, safe, and inclusive for all. The two bus stops along Cedar Ave. drop the public off directly to the walkable roof or to the urtyard. The interactive roof garden, green roof, and public park help connect the people to nature and the rest of the community.
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By adjusting the norms of interior and exterior space, we can re-imagine the ways in which residential and communal architecture interact. Identifying the programs required to be enclosed within a core volume, this design re-imagines flexible program to encourage the continual movement between inside and outside. With this dialogue in mind, this design aims to challenge the traditional tree house trope, one of isolation and solitude, by introducing elements of growth. These elements provide the potential for a single tree house module to aggregate, transform, and connect to form an entire network and community.
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Constructed within the ground, the ‘Aldeia de Mata’ celebrates the relationship between humans and the Earth, particularly through the cycle of life and death. This design aims to highlight this connection to the Earth by juxtaposing the dolmen’s dialogue with the sky. The journey of the visitor is one of ascent. As they rise above the ground, they are exposed to the monumentality of the dolmen’s relationship to the Earth and its microcosmic personification of the celestial. Once the visitor scales the tower, not only are they able to observe the dolmen from a uniquely high vantage point, they are afforded the ability to experience the vastness of the landscape.
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The circular wall defines the sacred space of the dolmen, creating a cloister for one to experience the monument, while still respecting the original idea of a ‘megalith a top a hill’ through choreographed cuts in the wall. The movement up and around the dolmen affords the visitor the ability to view the it from various perspectives. This allows the visitor to perceive the relationship of the Earth to the dolmen to the sky.
During the rise of the winter solstice sun, a slit in the corten wall allows the sunlight to penetrate the wall and enter the dolmen, preserving the intentions of the original builders.
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As the visitor gradually ascends along the ramp, they are taken on a journ with critical moments in history, as a way to conceptualize the existentia abstraction of modern history, reminding visitors of its brief span in time, around the dolmen, the visitor is constantly reminded of its importance
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ney throughout human history where specific points along the wall align al relationship between humans and the Earth. The tower operates as an yet significant impact, on the Earth. Through the entire journey, in orbiting as a testimony to the historical and cultural heritages of humankind.
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The design showcases the various capabilities of 3D concrete printing technology by being a tangible extension of this technologies future potential. Through the sole use of 3D concrete printing technology, both the design and construction reflect the potentials of this new technology for creating innovative architectural experiences. The design becomes an artifact, a commentary on both art and technology. And so, the architecture becomes more than a space. From testing joint details to surface textures to complex forms, full-scale 3D concrete printing experimentations were conducted to understand the capabilities and limitations of the new technology. The lessons learned from these experimentations allowed the design to evolve beyond the limitations of conventional construction techniques. Thus, the design and experimentation worked hand-inhand, whereas the limitations of one, became the possibilities of the other, and vice-versa.
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Structural and Programmatic Ribs Wall Cavity Cap
Porosity and Tension
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Joint Tolerance Experiments
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The spirit of Harlem is derived from the people who live there and through the ways in which they live every day. This design aims to highlight the inherently theatrical nature of a person’s everyday life. The site, being situated along the cultural corridor of 125th street, acts as a final point of interest on the eastern end of Harlem and emphasizes the movement of people throughout this unique urban context. Through a fan-shaped atrium space carved out of the plan and section of the building, the activity of the visitor is put on display. Within this three-story atrium, the main circulation of the building is woven in and out of the space. Here, one can watch the movement of the visitors as if they are the actors in a performance. In reversing the traditional role of the visitor, this design challenges the way we think about our everyday lives. In essence, the visitors become the performers of the building.
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The site, Harlem, New York, has an extremely rich cultural scene and a long history of fostering aspiring musicians and artists. In particular, 125th St. is home to the National Black Theater and the Apollo Theater, where scores of musicians, actors, artists have performed for decades. Thus, this design for a New Media Art Center continues a long legacy of the arts within Harlem, while also bringing it into the 21st century. The fan-shaped atrium lies at the heart of the New Media Art Center, where all of the activity of the building occurs and the movement of the visitors is put on display. Here, the visitors become both the performers of the building as well as the audience members. The entire atrium space is their stage as the public and private program come together to emphasize the concept that the New Media Art Center is designed to be a space of interaction and performance.
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From the street, the atrium redefines a traditional stage by acting as an exterior stage for the public to watch the visitors move throughout the building. The facade utilizes cast-in-place concrete with exposed formwork to establish a grid pattern. The regularity of the grid emphasizes the void created by the atrium space. The smaller voids of the windows support the subtractive nature of the atrium without competing with it.
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The Penn State Solar Decathlon team partnered with Centre County Housing and Land Trust to design cost-effective, community-oriented, net zero-energy ready homes. The team focused heavily on understanding the basis of sustainability and community as they morph at different scales. The design strategy includes three scales of design: the home, the neighborhood, and the community scale. In scaling up the size and type of building, aspects of finances, materials, labor, and logistics must be scaled up, too. It is vital for designers, engineers, and planners to not only scale up their context of thinking, but to also be aware of how those spaces in between are addressed. This design shows that wide-scale net zero can be achieved by scaling up the steps one would take to achieve net zero in a single home.
2019 - 2 0 2 0 U.S. DOE Solar Decathlon Design Ch al l e nge Centre Country, Pennsylvania Advisors: Lisa Iulo, Dr. Ali Memari, Sarah Klinetob Lowe Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 | 30 Weeks Revit, AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, WUFI, REM/Rate, BeOpt, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Lumion Student Leaders: Puja Bhagat, Celina Deng, Khaled Khalil, Paul Panassow, Alex Vinitski, Jonathan Wong, Holly Zimmerman Team Members: Jarrett Ballister, Emmanuella Bakare, Kristina Barr, Shane Facciponti, Fahimeh Farhadi, Adam Figueroa, Samuel Howard, Xi Jin, Teresa Pecher, Kevin Plamenco, Kristin Roy, Luke Scanlon, Elizabeth Stefanelli, Seth Truckenmiller, Boyuan Wu 30
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Project Data Location: State College, Pennsylvania IECC Climate Zone: 5A Floors: 1 Total Sq. Ft.: 1,536 ft2 Lot Size: 6,889 ft2 Occupancy: 4 Number of Bedrooms: 3
“Centre County Housing and Land Trust will lead the way to create diverse, vibrant communities through long-term affordable housing in Centre County, PA”
Number of Bathrooms: 2 Full Baths HERS Score without PV: 44
Leadership Strategy As a team leader, I concentrated on building a team. I focused on giving each team member a reason for engaging with the project and collaborating with one other beyond the commitment of the competition. To accomplish this, my meeting plans focused on ensuring every member felt involved and as though they had a voice in the design. This materialized into continuous feedback loops throughout the design process, such as informal reviews, an educational lecture series, and weekly discussions with the team, consultants, and stakeholders. These systems became critical to our success as we navigated the virtual realm at the start of the pandemic by keeping members excited and engaged to finish the project.
“How does one scale single, net zero-energy ready home?”
Project Booklet
HERS Score with PV: -2 Construction and Labor Cost: $137, 006.19 without PV, without land $182,750.19 with PV, without land Monthly Energy Cost w/out PV: $58 per month (incl. service charge) Monthly Energy Cost w/ PV: $3 per month (incl. service charge)
Our ideas for this have centered around a scalable system that has the ability to evolve existing and future construction toward reaching the goal of net zero. It all begins with achieving a single NZERH, because without this foundational element, a truly net zero ecosystem is impossible. Then, the design must evolve to allow for the widescale reproduction of this home such that there is enough flexibility it can be both constructed and net zero regardless of its orientation, site, family size, etc. Afterwards, the design must scale beyond a single home. It must understand how a single NZERH interacts with a second, a third, a fourth, or an entire neighborhood of NZER houses to create a cohesive community. Finally, the design must reach for its apex by evolving to incorporate all facets of sustainability. The house, the neighborhood, and how they interact with one another should move beyond energy savings to address aspects of social, cultural, and emotional sustainability within the community design.
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Building Envelope Design
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One House, One Team During meetings, everyone, from new freshmen to seasoned seniors, collaborated and voiced their opinions to create unified team goals. This approach facilitated a continuous dialogue between the various disciplines on the team. Engineering students commenting on the architectural design and architecture students scrutinizing the financial plans. Such a back-and-forth dialogue allowed the team to step beyond our individual disciplines and come together as one team to create a single, cohesive design for a house.
Integrative Design Process In order to breakdown complexity of designing a NZERH, the team operated in five subteams: Architecture, Building Envelope, Construction Management, Energy, and MEP. While each of these teams focused on their individual aspects of the design, very few decisions were made without input from the other teams. The subteams came together regularly to ensure continuity of all design decisions. The research of one team was constantly used to inform the decisions of another. For example, the energy team was running energy models to help the architecture team space the houses on the site in the design of the Pod and the Neighborhood. In the design of the attic, the architecture and building envelope teams were collaborating closely to weigh the benefits of making it a conditioned space. Additionally, informal charrettes were hosted with professors, CCHLT representatives, and local industry professions to gain valuable feedback on the evolution of the design. By communicating with all of the stakeholders thoughout the entire design process, the team was able to create a cohesive and united project.
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KATYDID A Leaf Venation Algorithm The biological growth of vein patterns within leaves demonstrates a intuitive understanding about the density of a space and movement of materials within that space. The patterning of leaf venations is designed to transport water and nutrients throughout the leaf, and for each leaf, the leaf venation pattern is uniquely generated to optimize its efficiency. This natural process has the potential to transform the ways in which architects deal with challenges of density at from the scale of an individual building to the scale of an urban masterplan. Thus, there exists the potential for an infinite number of architectural combinations based around leaf vein growth. Katydid is an algorithm that visually simulates the growth of veins in an abstracted space time, Katydid mathematically approximates the growth of veins. The algorithm allows the user to control various elements that influence the leaf venation pattern, such as the boundary, the number of influence points, the length of each vein segment, and the starting point of the venation pattern growth. Since Katydid simulates a leaf venation pattern in an abstracted space, the algorithm itself and its underlying logic can easily be applied to address various architectural challenges such as laying out street networks within an urban context, designing a building skin to optimize the passive performance of a building, or optimizing functionally graded materials.
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Uffizi Gallery Florence, Italy One-Point, Sectional Perspective Graphite A hand-drawn, one-point, sectional perspective of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The drawing is overlayed on the plan of the site such that the vanishing point of the perspective is the same point as the vantage point of the viewer in the plan.
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EcoReps Online Recycling Roadshow Game Adobe Illustrator, Unity
EcoReps Mascot Comics - Bagsquatch Adobe Illustrator
The EcoReps Recycling Roadshow game is an online, interactive game for students where they can test their recycling knowledge in three game play modes, Short Game, Time Trial, and Survival, by matching the item with its appropriate recycling stream. The game was designed in Adobe Illustrator and coded in Unity in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, where EcoReps could no longer interact with students face-to-face.
To enhance the establishment of the EcoReps’ brand, the creation of a mascot for the program, Bagsquatch, provides students a fun, recognizable character to help them identify EcoReps events and content both online and around campus.
EcoReps Sticker Designs Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
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E: jrwong158@gmail.com T: +1 (484) 844-7775