Nicky Chang | selected works 2007-2012

2007 2012 nicky chang

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Yale Museum of Providence Contemporary Art Water City

025 culture

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047 residential

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077 landscape

Infinit Pavilion

Ireland Bath house + artist residence

34 Oak Street x Marina Bay

42nd Street Inhabited Bridge

Shanghai Observation Tower

085 institution

097 commercial

109 installation

115 urban

119 product

125 furniture

Suzhou High School

Shanghai Ramp Restaurant

Prosthetic Attachment

Ecological Urban Voids

Automatic Recycling Machine

BYO Chair Steel Bench Foyer Table

129 drawings Tempietto di San Pietro Villa d’Este San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

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British Art Center

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conceptual design working models scale: 1/32” = 1’-0”

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week 1 “2x2” conceptual sketches

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North elevation 3. view from top of York St. Garage 4. roof courtyard 5. bridge gallery to 36 High Street

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day light study model 1/2” = 1’ - 0”

Exhibition Continues

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York Street Main Gallery

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conceptual wall detail original sketch @ 1” = 1’ - 0”

Providence Inlet spring 2011 urban studio critic: Bimal Mendis team: James Sobczak, Nicky Chang

2nd Year Studio: Providence Inlet

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stills from animated site studies scale: 1”=500’

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Providence Urban Redevelopment The abandoned highway I-94 leaves a scar across the city of Providence. Continuing the interest about urban void and working with the existing urban infrastructure, the fourth core studio, an introduction to the planning and architecture of cities, concerns two distinct scales of operation: that of the neighborhood and that of the dwellings, the institutional and commercial building types that typically contribute to neighborhood. Issues of community, group form, and the public realm, as well as the formation of public space, blocks, streets, and squares are emphasized.

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water blocks providence river, rhode island

floating islands riverside park, manhattan

inverted piers chelsea, manhattan

2nd Year Studio: Providence Inlet

The final proposal examines the significant yet neglected history of Providence River to release its latent capacity to generate vibrant urban space. Working closely with the School of Forestry and Environment, the architecture proposal is constantly tested against urban design criteria and urban ecological strategies; urban ecological pulsing concepts are deployed to allow the new development to respond and adapt to the changing climate and economic environment.

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Left: Ship Street waterfront detail model scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”

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Below: across Providence River detail model scale: 1/16” = 1’-0”

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R+D pier 2 Site Section through the piers and islands

Beehive Offices pier 3-4

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East Bank Shoreline Preservation island 3

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Corporate Labs + Dyer Street Ferry Terminal island 1

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Providence Inlet at Night water-fire festival

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4S0ur0fa0ceftT3ranslation fall 2009 core studio critic: Martin Cox

1st Year Studio: Surface Translation

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Assigned Precedent Aichi Pavillion by FOA

final model 1/4” = 1’-0” 1st Year Studio: Surface Translation

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ground plan scale: 1/2” = 1’ - 0”

roof plan scale: 1/2” = 1’ - 0” surface translation plans 5

DĂşn Laoghaire fall 2011 advanced studio

Location: DĂşn Laoghaire, Ireland Time Stamp: Fall 2011 Critic: Yvonne Farrell, Shelley Mc Namara Program: artist residency, lecture hall and public bathing facilities Keywords: minimum impact/maximum effect, redundancy and stagnancy, existing context, sea level rise, public private relationship, James Joyce, Ireland

Advanced Studio: Dun Laogahaire, Ireland

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private world

circulation/ service wall

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public life

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Archipuncture DĂşn Laoghaire

Working with the idea of redundancy and excess in our culture, the studio asks the question why is the ordinary undervalued in favour of the novel, and why are new interventions built on the premise that complexity replaces richness.

With a precision of thought and economy of means, and to make minimum interventions to maximum effect, the modest bath house/culture center is built with concrete recycled from the ruins found at the 19th century Victorian bath house.

Strategically placed at a half mile length of Dublin coastline which stretches from the Joyce Tower to the West pier of Dun Laoghaire Harbour, the artist residency combines the private narrative with unexpected adjacencies of public use, users, and activities in an attempt to promote the role of the architect in the making of public space from ordinary things.

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< unfolded circulation wall - private path

< telescopic public promenade

< section city to the sea Advanced Studio: Dun Laogahaire, Ireland

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< elevation from the city Advanced Studio: Dun Laogahaire, Ireland

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< observation deck

< roof cloister

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< artist residency

< public reading room

< lecture/concert space

< thermal bath & changing rooms

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SITE PLAN

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< elevation from the sea Advanced Studio: Dun Laogahaire, Ireland

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< group site models

scale 1:50

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1st Year Studio: Transmogrification

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team: JT Bachman Can Bui Nicky Chang Greta Modesitt Will Fox James Andrachuk Liz Bondaryk Amy DeDonato

42nd street Inhabited Bridge spring 2012 advanced studio [nominated for Feldman Prize]

Location: 42nd Street, New York, NY Critic: Bjarke Ingels, Douglas Durst, Thomas Christopherson Team: Avi Forman, Nicky Chang, Marcus Addison Hooks Program: bridge, public green belt + residential units Feldman Prize nominated

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Shanghai Observation Tower client: Shanghai Changning District Government office: Brearley Architects + Urbanists architect team: Lei Huang, Nicky Chang, Kelly Liu structure engineer: Shanghai Xuehui | Baosteel Group curtain wall consultant: Rheinzink China responsibility: construction documentation: 2009 construction administration: summer 2010

Professional Work: Shanghai Observation Tower

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Professional Work: Shanghai Observation Tower

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Suzhou Creek Landscape [completed] The Suzhou Creek redevelopment provides Shanghai with a rare chance to create a city-scale spine of recreation. The design approach primarily seeks to make the passage along the Creek edge continuous, and proposes connections to various other parks within reach of the Creek.

The project includes the re-development of green-belt between the adjacent high density housing development and the riverside road. Rather than remaining a passive buffer, can this green become an active linear park which encourages residents to get out of their enclaves and partake in a new wider community? If programs of sports, leisure and passive green are incorporated, then the park can appeal to a broad range of users. By connecting these three programs along highly legible paths, the ten 200m long parks can be understood as one 2km park. This single park can provide 2km of rubber jogging track, with periodic exercise circuit apparatus, basketball courts, badminton and other sports plazas. The park can provide 2km of socially active paths connecting tea houses, pavilions, and small plazas and gathering areas. Another 2km of quiet green experience can also be established. Where these three programmatic threads cross, or intertwine, areas of greater complexity and density emerge. To provide a place of more extreme escape, an elevated walkway is also provided. It passes through the canopy of existing trees and provides a

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variety of views of Suzhou Creek.

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Professional Work: Shanghai Observation Tower

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Suzhou High School client: Suzhou Science & Technology District Government office: Brearley Architects + Urbanists architect team: Jiang Han, Richard Tam, Nicky Chang, Olga Mladenovic, Yingyin Zhou structure engineer: Shanghai Xuehui program: school facilities for 1800 students, dining hall and sport stadium responsibility: dining hall + library construction documentation: 2007 construction administration: 2008

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Suzhou High School [completed] This state school is situated within the park belt of the new Suzhou Hi-tech district. It is split into two halves to allow continuity of the park. To the west is the boarding facility for 900 students and staff. To the east are teaching facilities including library, sports hall, and administration building.

Each of the two parts has a central connecting to the mountain park: one a triangular view corridor, the other a rectilinear space. Both are lined by rows of large crowned trees. These spaces are charged by both nature and the institution. They provide a space capable of embodying and expressing the institution of

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human collectivity.

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Jinqiao Ramp Restaurant [completed] Pudong, Shanghai. The post-industrial landscape imagines a new future without automobiles. A vertical car park has recently been converted to a boutique hotel, leaving the car ramp redundant.

Working with the existing context, the new restaurant finds its spacial identity from this abandoned concrete car ramp built in the early 90s. The project is situated opposite a planned exhibition centre and adjacent to an industrial compound undergoing gentrification as a creative industry site. The proposal converts the ramp into a restaurant-bar-cafĂŠ but keeps the cars circulating down the ramp under the restaurant to a basement car park. In order to keep the ramp pure and open, a new detached building is designed to house the kitchen and service. A cafĂŠ is designed for the ground floor of the new building to provide the street corner

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with activity.

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* Project completed under the supervision and mentorship of Richard Tam.

looking twice | sketches and other projects

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spring 2010 Visualization III grasshopper + industrial felt elevator installation critic: Ben Pell, John Eberhart team: Avi Forman, Nicky Chang

Elevator Installation: Prosthetic Attachment

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looking twice | sketches and other projects

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paper mock up model Prosthetic Attachments scale: 1 : 10 paper mock up model

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performance video stills from a 30 seconds unfolding sequence

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1. single module

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3. group module

4. larger group behavior

Elevator Installation: Prosthetic Attachment

construction sequence material: 1/8â&#x20AC;? industrial felt adhesive: 1/4â&#x20AC;? translucent expandable stripes

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Critic: Alex Felson [School of Forestry] presented with Dongni Ye [School of Public Health]

Ecological Urbanism: Rethinking Urban Void

Ecological Urbanism: Perturbation Experiment

looking twice | sketches and other projects

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Ecological Urbanism: Rethinking Urban Void

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Launch: Architecture + Entrepreneurialism

NYC public space recycling

spring 2012 seminar Location: New York, NY Critic: Keller Easterling Presented with research by Margaret Hu

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impact

extended impact

majority

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pilot

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34% city wide expansion

spread to other cities

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innovaters

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compactor 6'-0"

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touch screen phone scanner

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printed coupon

bottles + cans

newspaper+ magazines

all other trash

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BYO chair ETH Z端rich, 2011 plywood prototype

ETH Zurich: Sustainable Furniture Workshop

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foyer tables dumbo, brooklyn 2007, 2012

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Bar San Calisto Rome, 2011 pen and ink on paper 8â&#x20AC;? x 12â&#x20AC;?

Rome: folios from travel journal summer 2011

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section of villa d’este Rome, 2011 pencil on paper 36” x 60”

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waiting for fĂŞte de la Musique palais royal, paris, 2012 [sketchbook #22]

Nicky Chang 耶鲁大学建筑学硕士常皓 Yale School of Architecture New York: +01.646.709.1550 Shanghai: +86.21. 54656029 ////monkieking.tumblr.com //////hao.chang@yale.edu