Kevin Jiang Portfolio

Del Webb Southern Harmony

Professional Work | LS3P Associates

Southern Harmony is a new retirement community located on a 580-acre site outside Nashville. The major structures in this community are the Sales Center, Amenity Center, and several accessory structures. The architectural language of these buildings is that of a modern farmhouse, with gabled metal roofs and board and batten siding, inspired by the barn vernacular of rural Tennessee.

Role | Designer and BIM Lead

• Contributed to the design of the major buildings and accessory structures

• Built structures in Revit and managed cloud models

• Produced significant portions of the conceptual and schematic drawing sets

• Made drawing sets and renderings for client meetings

• Led Lumion animation production efforts

Render of Amenity Center entrance

Render of Sales Center with view of covered porch

Render of Stage Pavilion at night

Thinking Outside the Bowl

QUEENS, NY | Spring 2020

Project Type

Sports & Entertainment, Recreation, Cultural, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Environmental Design

Project Size 3 million ft2 site

Academic Thesis

This thesis seeks to rethink the role of the stadium, not as a singular catalyst, but as an integrated component within larger urban planning frameworks. After completing research to identify issues that often plague stadia, I developed strategies to avoid or mitigate these pitfalls. I concluded the thesis by developing a stadium master plan that applies these strategies while addressing the issues and needs of its site in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.

The centerpiece is the Queens Community Stadium, a 25,000-seat soccer-specific stadium for New York’s two Major League Soccer teams with additional cultural and non-event day use. Adjacent to it are a recreational field house, a community track, a playground, multi-purpose plazas as well as open green space and a constructed wetland. A pedestrian bridge connects the site to the Corona neighborhood.

Underlying causes of issues with stadia and strategies to address them

Example design strategy card

Difficult Physical Accessibility Strategies

• stadia typically feel unapproachable during non-event days

• major roads, canals, and railways—especially those in post-industrial zones — create physical barriers to venues, almost like a border

• surface parking physically isolates the stadium by creating a vast moat around it

• critics have suggested that in some instances, physical connections are deliberately restricted from disadvantaged local areas

PHYSICAL

Design a Permeable Event Venue with a Face to the Community

• allow different levels of permeability within and without stadium on event and non-event days open up facade to allow views into stadium and out to community instead of containing and concealing the activities inside

PHYSICAL

SOCIAL

ENVIRONMENTAL

Balance Between Security and Approachability

• incorporate interesting and innovative security measures into the design of the open space and landscaping strategies landscaped mounds, sustainable drainage systems, water features, and disguising physical barriers as signage are a few ways to create security buffers that feel less hostile to the public and are less obstructive to crowd flow

PHYSICAL

Reduce/Remove Non-porous Surface Parking and its Negative Impacts reduce the footprint devoted to parking

• eliminate parking altogether if public transit is sufficient

PHYSICAL

Avoid (or Provide Connections to) Sites with Physical Obstacles to Access avoid sites like isolated by major roads, canals, railways, and other obstacles if working with such a site, provide meaningful physical connections to neighborhood

• create coherent transition between stadium and community

PHYSICAL

Tap Into Existing Transit Networks pick a site within walking distance of transit stops to provide those who rely on public transportation a way of getting to the stadium

• encourage the use of public transportation to reach the site to promote its accessibility

Sketches of sites throughout Flushing Meadows

Early conceptual sketch

Rebuilt Pier 2

New Queens Water Exploration Center

Restored Pier 1 & Ferry Stop

Restored & Repurposed Schladermundt Structures

Constructed Wetland

Pedestrian Bridge

Neighborhood Playground

NORTH CORONA

Community Track

Recreational Field House

Queens Community Stadium

CORONA

Citi Field

NEW WILLETS POINT DEVELOPMENT

New Convention Center

New Dragon Boat Regatta Course

Cinnamon

Trumpet

Buttonbush

Grey dogwood

Silky dogwood

Eastern oyster

Monarch butterfly

Western honey bee

stormwater runoff filtration

North Section

Blue crab

Brown bullhead Brook trout

Bluegill

Largemouth bass

Swamp milkweed

Duck house

Passerelle Pedestrian Bridge

Long Island Railroad

Nest piling Kayak

7 train

Oyster cage

Floating wetland

Pedal boat

Green arrow arum

Virginia creeper

Indiangrass

Beach plum Grey birch

Red maple

Sweetgum

Eastern red cedar Boxelder

Common hackberry

Osprey

Red-tailed hawk

irrigation field irrigation

Canada goose Great blue heron

Mallard duck

Double-crested cormorant

Cruiser bike Surrey Deuce Coupe

Switchgrass Inkberry

Cinnamon fern Fringed sedge

Trumpet honeysuckle

Lowbush blueberry Eastern teaberry Sheep laurel

Notre Dame Temporary Church and Museum

PARIS, FRANCE | Fall 2019

Academic Project

The approach for this project was to challenge, manipulate, and form circulation flows to respond to the different programmatic elements of the temporary church, permanent museum, plaza, and archaeological crypt. The intent was to expand one’s perception and understanding of Notre Dame, its history, and the recent fire.

Urbanistically, the museum extends the street edge while better defining the plaza and helping frame and organize the circulation of people going into Notre Dame. The plaza is carved away to dramatically reveal the crypt. The museum’s exhibits tell the story of the fire, the significance of what was destroyed, and the restoration efforts.

Conceptual collage

Circulation of completed museum, reconstructed plaza, and restored Notre Dame

Composite site plan showing circulation of temporary church during and outside of service as well as holiday services

Exhibit on the attic of Notre Dame with a partial reconstruction Exhibit on the beginning of the fire as captured on social media

Exhibit on the history and collapse of the spire reconstruction of the “forest”

Residential Drug Treatment Center

PITTSBURGH, PA | Spring 2019

Zines (covers designed by Alina Kramkova, Rachel Baker, and Serra Cizmeci)

Academic Project

For this studio, I chose to design an architectural intervention that would help address the ongoing opioid crisis facing the United States. My research covered the causes and results of this epidemic and the effects it has had on mothers and the way the impacts extend to their children and into the foster care, health care, and education systems. My design is the adaptive reuse of an apartment building

into a residential treatment center where mothers are allowed to take care of their children while undergoing treatment. The upper level is comprised of reconfigured units with balconies added. The ground floor has different spaces to meet the needs of residents and staff. This includes communal living spaces, therapy rooms, enrichment classrooms, de-escalation rooms to handle behavioral problems, offices, and outdoor amenities.

Axonmetric showing design intervention on existing apartment building

Exploded axonmetric

Example of kitchen/dining area - Sojourner House

Example of outdoor play space Sojourner House)

Example of motor room - East Falmouth Elementary

Example of de-escalation room - East Falmouth Elementary

plan

Example of multipurpose space - Sojourner House

Example of IEP classroom - East Falmouth Elementary

Example of living room - Sojourner House

Example of bedroom - Sojourner House

Pier 57 Megastructure

MANHATTAN, NY | Fall 2018

Project

Project

Academic Team Project

The Pier 76 megastructure is intended to respond to the main crises New York faces that threaten its growth and viability as a top-tier global city. The megastructure’s podium consists of a ferry transit hub and a theater/ arena venue, as well as levels for residential, education, and shared workspaces. The skyscraper rises above it and contains offices, hotel, and residential floors. The constructed berm extends outward along the river’s edge.

Role

• Contributed to development of the conceptual basis for the project, design work on the tower and riparian edge portions, digital and physical modeling, and the final drawing set and model

The elevated berm/riparian edge that strings together green spaces along the Hudson to protect the city edge

The public “arts atrium” connecting residences to performing arts and convention halls

Fin facade/double skin curtain wall study models

rainwater collected by fin channels and guided into cisterns

transparent pv curtain wall

fins shaped to shade against harsh light in atrium gathering spaces

water collected by 6” thick extensive green roof collection rate:

summer=70-80%

winter=40-50%

fire sprinklers

greywater/ rainwater storage tank

irrigation tank

cooling tower treatment tank

active chilled beam

vertical axis wind turbine

1 turbine=10,000 kW/hr

384 turbines=3.84 mil kW/hr