MADELEINE ANG WONG Pratt Institute ‘18 academic works
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Tourist Vortex: La Roconcillazione e La Riconsiderazione Spring 2017 • critic: Frederick Biehle Site: St. Peter’s-Via della Concillazione-Castle Sant’Angelo Rome Italy
This project intends to examine Rome’s residual continuity. This study looks at the present as one of the many layers in a city that has evolved through different perios ans thus iterations of itself, all now collapsed and can only be deciphered by an episodic sensibility that can cross through these verious layers. We were first asked to analyze a chunk of the city as a spatial fragment. These fragments will then become a basis for both a speculative game of transformative re-assembly and ultimately a point of departure for an architectural intervention from St. Peter’s to Castle Sant’Angelo; the very center of the historic city. The contemporary visitor of Rome inevitably finds him or herself in a place that is foreign yet familiar, profound and contradictory.
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Domestication in the Case of Home-Sharing Fall 2016 • critic: Lawrence Blough Site: Broadway St, Venice Beach Los Angeles USA
This project explores contemporary mutations of the house by investigating new domestic assemblages targeted for the sharing economy; a residence for a family designed to accommodate a multi-generational family (grandparents, nucelar family & transient occupant) and their accompanying needs, desires and mechanisms of support. Given the program of a domestic environment, theproject involves recuperating two combinational techniques the address the form, facade and organization. It entails the programmatic hybridization and implementation of ‘the stanger’ (stranger) towards the habits of “the host”(domestic) as well as allowing for anomalous organizations to emerge promoting new scenarios for occupation. Over a perios of time, as the family grows and ages, the house evolves along with it.
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Columbia University Boathouse Spring 2016 • critic: Beth O’neill • In collaboration with Agata Jakubowska Site: Columbia University 218th St. & Indian St. New York USA
Manhattan is a dense urban jungle packed with an artificial kind of animal. Concrete planes intersect sky high glass and the landscape is all but natural. Artificiality is sculpted by the designer and the inhabitant exists as an implemented foreigner just like his environment. On the very tip of the island lies a vastly different experience, where the unaltered makes its refreshing appearance. This peninsula, marked by Inwood Park is characterized by an openness that leads your eyes up and away, past the green plants native to the area, past the tranquilly still river, past the robust colossal rock formations left behind by the pre-existing glaciers of the area. This makes the site an ideal space for commemorating human as part of his original landscape. With the two forces acting on the site, we decided to proceed with a dichotomous language of natural versus urban. Two axes formed; one where the inhabitant is integrated into his environment and one where he is introduced to it. The boat shed becomes a new topography peeled up from the existing landscape and the rowers maneuver within the new formed in-between space to carry scull or sweeps out and in. Offices and community spaces become foreign to the program and so they sit atop and within, able to observe what occurs within the environment they are visiting. The split between urban and natural begins to blend when the two become interrelated. These relationships occur in the outdoor spaces when roof becomes ground, becomes park, becomes observational space. The ultimate goal of the boathouse is to educate the public on the rituals and practices of rowing while at the same time allowing them to experience the idiosyncrasies that make the site such a special space.
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Pratt Graduate Housing Project Fall 2016 • critic: Gonzalo Carbajo • In collaboration with Elaine Tan Site: 509-515 Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn,New York USA
A graduate housing project design for three different typologies- the Urban )Manhattan) Spaces, the Zen (Dark) Spaces and the Bright (Light) Spaces.
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Wavehill Academy Project Spring 2015 • critic: Anne Nixon Site: WaveHill Academy 675 West 252nd Street Bronx,New York USA
Create a facility for 2 scholars that contains a classroom, 2 residences, 2 studios and an auditorium. The overall idea is the reconfiguration of the landscape through various rotation of views through the building. The building has three levels; with each level’s shaps is manipulated based on the topography and the specific view that the level is oriented towards. Beacause each level is directed at a specific view, the building creates a rotation that interacts with the view of the landscape. The arrangement of the program and the position of the building comes from the direction of the main street of the WaveHill Academy. The giant curvature of the sturcture allows for a wider sense of perspective that overlooks the academy while the othere side of the structure overlooks the horizon of the hudson River. The concept is to allow for a viewing rotation within structure to allow for a bigger point of view.
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Poem Archive for Emily Dickinson Fall 2014 • critic: Ran Oron Site: Chinatown 250 Grand Street New York,New York USA
We were to create a library in the middle of the streets of Chinatown, right across the street from Sara D. Roosevelt Park that used to be an African burial ground;where sound and noise pollution were very high. To create an envelope which embodies and adapts to the site. The archive houses Emily Dickinson’s 52 Envelope poems. From the analysis of the site as well as a specific poem chosen to move forward with, the concept of the Past, Present and Future was derived. The archive is the reflection of the park that is right across it. Theres in an auditorium that overlooks the park and the surrounding buildings; it also functions as in indoor and ourdoor park that allows the occupant go from one roof to another.
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Pratt Townhouse:SolidVoid|ArtistMuse Spring 2014 • critic: Robert Bracket III Site: Pratt Townhouses 200 Willoughby Avenue Brooklyn, New York USA
The project comes from the elevation of the townhouses where 2D synthetic geometries were produced and then later on was adapted to 3D/ The objective is to create a hybridization of the solid and void form with t he act of folding that houses two opposing occupants. The project contains two opposing spaces for the Artist and the Muse. The opposing relationship between the two studios is not intended to be extreme but a benevolent one.Dividing the two studios is divided by a wall that is both a shared space and a space for circulation. The artist is able to use the muse as inspiration for his works while not diturbing the muse dancing. It is through this wall that verbal and visual interaction take place.
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Point + Line + Plane + Volume Fall 2013 • critic: Anthony Caradonna
The project is intended to be an folly that serves as an introduction to architecture. Drawings that were made were derived from the idea of mazes and labirynths.
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Span + Cantilever Fall 2013 • critic: Michael Chen• In collaboration with David Franck
To create a structure the contains a 2 feet span and a 2 feet cantilever that can hold weight through the use of piano wire and 1/8 inch basswood sticks based on the structure and form of the human body. The prototype explores the distribution of compressive and tensile elements in the materials used. Joinery techniques were used to develop a single module that can then be continously be replicated in order to create the span and cantilever required.
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Representation Fall 2013 - Fall 2015 • critic: Anthony Buccellato & Nathan Hume
Exploring the breakdown of champhered cubes from a solid form to its planar surfaces to lines through a series of explosions Further exploration by initially creating serial oblique and linear sections and later exploding the sections into their basic elements. Though serial section cuts, each cut piece is rotated and reattached to create a new form.
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