portfolio of architecture selected academic & professional works
Justin Pang
BSArch // University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2015 MArch // University of Cincinnati 2019
This portfolio is a selection of works I have completed in my academic and professional endeavors. It captures the versatility and expression of my passion for architecture. I would like to thank everyone that has supported me throughout my experiences.
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Academic MArch Thesis: Integration of the Intermediary Roadtown Redux Alchemy Brewery Art & City
Professional 2017 Chicago Architecture Bienniale: Between States
Justin Pang m: 410-487-3974 // e: jpang0105@gmail.com 6295 Heather Glen Way, Clarksville, MD 21029
Education 08.16 - Present University of Cincinnati // Department of Architecture, Art, & Planning Master of Architecture 08.11 - 05.15 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign // School of Architecture Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies
Professional Experience 05.18 - 08.18 08.17-12.17
HDR, Inc. // Chicago, IL
01.17-05.17
Michael Schuster Associates // Cincinnati, OH
05.16 - 08.16
Citadel DCA Architects // Washington, D.C.
05.11-08.11
OLBN, Inc. Architecture & Planning // Rockville, MD
Professional Skills Autodesk AutoCAD Autodesk Revit Rhinoceros Sketchup
RenderIn VRay
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign
MS Office
Academic Achievements & Recognition 03.19 - 04.19 “Two Sides of the Border” Curated by Tatiana Bilbao // Aedes Architecture Forum Exhibit Berlin, Germany 11.18 - 02.19 “Two Sides of the Border” Curated by Tatiana Bilbao // Yale SoA New Haven, CT 08.18-05.19
Graduate Assistant Scholarship // Instructor for First Year Design Communication Skills UC DAAP // Cincinnati, OH
09.17 - 03.18 Between States Exhibition // Chicago Architecture Biennial // Chicago Architecture Center Chicago, IL
Integration of the Intermediary: Reappraisal of Brooklyn Bridge Park
2018-2019 // Master of Architecture Thesis // Chair: Aarati Kanekar Committee: Vincent Sansalone Aging infrastructure and dead-end solutions falsifying resiliency continue to uphold the standard of a rigid dichotomy between core and periphery. This thesis acts as a critique of New York’s past and current attempts to revitalize major highway infrastructure’s relationship with the urban fabric it intersects, specifically with consideration of its waterfronts, which are often isolated zones that hinder cohesive connections despite their consistent evolving natures. The relationship between these urban spaces of potential and its neighboring infrastructure is seemingly strained indefinitely, as density and highways partake in a perpetual struggle for space. Being that these areas are simply in a state of uncertainty and not entirely condemned, deploying certain interventions that can equally benefit architectural and infrastructural typologies alike can embody a newfound equity for inhabitants and how they actually experience their surrounding networks of space. In order to represent the themes found in this thesis, the focus of the resulting architectural intervention identifies Brooklyn Bridge Park, despite appearing as a thoroughly developed recreational zone, as a site with larger potential to become a central concourse of urban interaction and public transit for the rapidly developing areas around it.
Industrial History
Research Summary
Flooding Concerns
Border Vacuums
Commuter Connections
Brooklyn Heights Promenade Schematic Design Study / Early Diagram Iteration
Excerpt from thesis document:
due to lack of funding and prioritization, reinforced by decades of
New York has continually fallen into a cycle and suffered from
infrastructural planning that have rendered indeterminancy in its
a fragmentary urban development that has ignored its most
typological planning.
pertinent issues. While the population of the city is registering rapid growth (projected to reach 9 million by 2040), uncontrollable
More severely in the peripheral boroughs is the question of
environmental conditions increase their threats to the cityscape,
continued development. Whereas Manhattan has arguably
its architecture, its infrastructure, and its users. This realization was
experienced its peak form of hyper-density and saturation of
finally reached after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, during which New
its grid, many districts in other boroughs seek compelling and
York suffered unprecedented levels of flooding and damage. Since
unprecedented renewal along its waterfronts, as subjection
then, the city continues to seek viable solutions to mitigate present
to industrial programming has prolonged dilapidation and
concerns about environmental catastrophes. Given its geographical
underutilized space. What the outer edges of Brooklyn and
conditions, urban design’s progression particularly along New York’s
Queens are experiencing is a very sensitive phase of potential
waterfronts is increasingly crucial in affecting both its central and
development in which desirable waterfront strips of potential seek
peripheral areas. Areas that were once undeveloped marshland,
to be reclaimed from its industrial predecessors. Though this is
such as in Brooklyn, are now substrate materials to heavy
true, restrictions imposed by historic highways yield unavoidable
development and density. Despite a recently shifted outlook on
consequences and dilemmas in how these remaining ambiguous,
how coastal cities can adapt to evolving conditions, progress is slow
yet promising spaces are seized.
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The research preceding the design approach for this thesis highlighted several key components that would be necessary to provide the appropriate architectural response. Sited in a traditionally wealthy and powerful neighborhood, change to this particular segment of the cityscape does not occur easily, as political influence and source of funding has a great influence in development. The design proposal suggests an extension of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade as well as the cantilevered highway structure below, thus opening up the opportunity to extend the neighborhood as well. By incorporating the possibility of commercial/public space development on the piers level and residential communities above, the entirety of Brooklyn Bridge Park is transformed in both form and purpose. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway highway becomes burrowed and concealed to park-goers while new public attractions reclaim the currently open park space. The rerouting of the BQX commuter line also allows new subway connections below the park and a comprehensive transit hub system that allows a more inclusive connectivity pattern throughout the whole of Brooklyn and its peripheral districts.
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Longitudinal Section
Transverse Section
Residential
Extended Promenade
Commercial / Public
Representative Model of Programmatic Stacking Method
Roadtown Redux Spring 2018 // Elective Studio // Prof. Karolina Czeczek Exhibited at Yale University for “Two Sides of the Border� curated by Tatiana Bilbao
This elective studio revolved around the logistics behind food, challenging the students to explore and research key issues related to food production today. The studio began as a collective study of production and distribution, pinpointing the processes of farm to table, as well as potential problems within those systems. Roadtown Redux is a megastructural exploration of efficiency in food production, combining components of contemporary food logistics and visionary megastructure proposals popular in the mid-20th century. The proposal suggests a linear city that acts as an appendage to existing American highways (particularly in the Great Plains regions) that bisect underutilized agricultural landscapes, providing residential aspects as well as a streamlined focus on transporting food to the linear city as well as to existing cities. The final proposal consisted of multi-prong transportation systems with various production modes adhered to them, repurposing the adjacent farmlands as sites for hydroponic growing facilities, irrigation plants, water treatment, data centers, distribution warehouses, in addition to many other crucial auxiliary facilities.
Roadtown (1910) by Edgar Chambless Top Right: “Rotolactor”
“Rotolactor”
Jersey Corridor (1965) by Michael Graves and Peter Eisenmann
Agricultural City (1960) by Kisho Kurokawa
Since the harnessing of electricity, technological innovation has significantly influenced obsessions with efficiency and automation. “Linear Cities” are still heavily discussed as a means of production and living, supported by their positively indeterminate nature; they allow endless growth and evolution based on demand through bottomup procedures.
Site
Various typologies can co-exist without interfering with its adjacencies and modular characteristics allow adjustments as necessary. Through a baseline kit of parts oriented along a linear “spine,” various modes of transit and industry can occur.
Previous iteration of typological catalog
Residential
Industrial / Agricultural
Typical aerial view
Section Perspective Iteration 1
Section Perspective Iteration 2
Alchemy Brewery Summer 2017 // Advanced Building Studio // Prof. Terry Boling Collaborator: Shaun Baranyi Cincinnati’s growth through the recent decades has implemented urban renewal in various aspects. Built space with both residential and industrial districts are receiving a radical treatment, causing many of the city’s cultural qualities to be reborn and refined. Certainly a major cultural forte native to Cincinnati is its abundance of breweries, which continues to provide new identity for social, recreational spaces and how the community interacts with them. This extensive studio project initiated with an entry sequence segment that sought construction detail studies of a door or an entryway and how it may manipulate the way users enter and experience a brewery. The project then transitioned into an entire brewery that identified how the smallest tectonic details would directly complete the holistic building quality. This proposal prioritizes the use of ambient lighting in favor of a sloped site facing south, utilizing light timber framing and polycarbonate to illuminate a highly public taproom space. In contrast, the private and auxiliary spaces intended for staff and production use is set back from the property line with smaller apertures.
Axonometric View
The entry sequence portion of this project did not necessarily feed into the final comprehensive building project. Rather, it initiated an elementary thought process on how building details could potentially contribute to the overall representative character of the building. This door and entry sequence provides unique foresight on how entering visitors may experience the site of the brewery itself and how it could be articulated. While channeling visitors down a singular pathway running parallel to the roadway at the higher end of the site, it also provides opportunity to circulate downwards via an existing stairway. The doorway itself consists of a simple swiveling mechanism that embodies a hallway with a transparent door at the end of it, preventing intermittent movement but encouraging levity in the sequence.
Top: Entryway Rendering Bottom: Exploded Detail View Right: Plan View
Top: Overall Site Axonometric Drawing Bottom: Overall Site Model at 1/16� = 1’0�
The architectural intent behind the Alchemy Brewery was to preserve the simplicity of its site context. Despite being constructed on a steep hillside, the contextual buildings relative to the site most stripped reinterpretations of Art Deco, Queen Anne, and Italianate architectural styles. These vernacular, geometric masses stand tall in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood and are often shells for industrial and economic activity within the city of Cincinnati. By incorporating polycarbonate glazing over a light timber framing, a massive public taproom space can maintain its volumetric stature (in comparison to the neighboring Mockbee brewery) without comprimising a unique levity to it.
Level 3
Level 2
Ground Level Left: Plans Right: Taproom Exterior Rendering
Taproom Sections
Left: Tectonic & Material Detail Right: Taproom Interior Rendering
The structure, while elegantly simple, also is functional in that it both secures and purposefully displays the mechanical systems within the building. The taproom space in particular requires sensitivity in thermal comfort, given the building’s south-facing orientation and minimal amount of sun-shading provided by the exterior louvers. However, the taproom space’s grandeur is emphasized by its height, the machinery that runs parallel to the orthogonal structure, and its use of multiple levels to divide auxiliary functions from the recreational. Its exaggerated size and monolithic appearance, particularly from the exterior, provides a stark contrast between the brightly lit taproom space and the concealed production spaces.
building = canvas?
Art & City Summer 2014// CTBUH Tall Building Competition// Prof. Erik Hemingway Baltimore City, rich with culture and hometown pride, is often a stagnated urban condition due to its low-income neighborhoods and the district boundaries that emphasize their undesirable characteristics. These low-income residential districts are stifled by the neighboring districts geared towards tourism, and vice versa. Due to the widespread segregation of these areas, there is a lack of a comprehensive community but rather groups measured by various statistics, despite their cultural commonalities. Art & City is a submission to the CTBUH Tall Building Competition that aims to revitalize and inflate the purpose of a tall building’s facade, implementing a simple visual tactic to be displayed at a large scale: art. Allowing residents to curate art represents a wide collection of cultural viewpoints that can be projected outward to the city and those that can see the skyline. The intent behind the tall building’s visibility then becomes an attraction to the lower-level art galleries that exhibit the pinnacle of Baltimore’s culture, thus uniting all walks of life and allowing a unique mixed-use experience to occur.
Site & Massing
Program Arrangement
Circulation
Green Space
The building is sited in downtown Baltimore, intended to trump the banality of the traditional skyline. With a facade consisting of curated art, mixed-use and residential program is oriented vertically through the tower, with green spaces adhered to the corners of the tower. Whereas the structure and circulation aspects are intentionally symmetrical and placed in a logical fashion, the building envelope masks the interior rigidity by focusing on influencing those that experiences the building from afar.
RESIDENTIAL
Private
6
RESIDENTIAL
5
4 Public
3 2
ART CENTER
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1
Main Entrance
4
Upper Gallery
2
Lower Gallery
5
Residential
3
Art Theatre
6
Private Green Space
Chicago Architecture Foundation Exhibit Opening // Fall 2017
Between States Fall 2017 Co-op // HDR Architecture Professional Work
Exhibited during Chicago Architecture Bienniale 2017 // Collaborators: Tom Lee, Ian Thomas, James Bayless, HDR Chicago
HDR (Chicago office) was fortunate enough to be invited to represent their work during the Between States exhibit, a collaborative effort of proposals from some of the most prestigious architectural practices in Chicago. The 50 proposals from citywide firms were made up of both built and unbuilt concepts targeting the 50 wards of Chicago, acting as critical architectural/urban planning commentary on existing projects or areas requiring improvement. The designs submitted by the various firms all varied in scope and scale, providing an immersive and positive vision of how a variety of built space improvements could help the city of Chicago evolve. HDR Chicago’s proposal consisted of the re-evaluation and value of the significant “L train” stations in Chicago, specifically targeting the 63rd and Cottage Grove stop along the Green Line in southside Chicago. Rather than creating a shadowed and daunting sidewalk gap underneath the elevated tracks, it is shaped into a crucial focal point of transition and station in which the platform extends over the sidewalk and into a new library/community center building. The proposal promotes relevant themes in architecture today, including adaptive reuse with social/cultural significance.
Left: Site Plan Right: Existing station platform photos
Station Platform and Library Rendering
The proposal calls for an adaptive reuse of an abandoned bank building located in one of the quadrants at the intersection of 63rd St. and Cottage Grove Ave. Adjacent to the bank on the street is one of the terminating stations for the Chicago Green Line, a pivotal train route serving several Chicago neighborhoods. By conjoining the station and bank building (proposed library/community center), the train platform transforms from a stagnant waiting area into a vibrant learning hub for the community. Expansion of the apertures facing the platform provides a direct link between to the interior levels and the opportunities within. This project was an intensive charrette study regarding the southside region of Chicago as well as a visionary preface to an actual project in progress by HDR’s Chicago office.
Section Perspective courtesy of: Ian Thomas, HDR Chicago
Woodlawn // Cottage Grove Station (in progress, 2018) courtesy of: HDR Chicago
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