N O A WANG
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University of Toronto Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design noa.wang@mail.utoronto.ca
SCHOOL MEETS DWELLING LIVING IN COLLECTIVE VIEWING THE DOMESTIC FOLDING X AND Y UNFOLDED ROOM CASE STUDY: HOUSE FOR SOLITUDE CASE STUDY: THE HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPER URBAN STUDY: PRIVATE GREENSPACE PARAMETRIC TOWER PAINTINGS
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SCHOOL MEETS DWELLING 2019 | SENIOR SEMINAR IN DESIGN: RESEARCH INSTRUCTOR: MAURICIO QUIROS PACHECO
As an exploration of the use of domestic and urban forms in schools, various elements from architectural precedents that emulate homes, villages or cities were selected and dissected to compose infinite architectural landscapes. The first exercise explores the compatibility of precedents of different scales within the roles they were intended to occupy. What happens when the school that follows the form of a house or an apartment is made to behave as such within an urban grid? Some elements comply with the domestic form that has been imposed upon them, while others come into direct conflict - thereby forcing a compromise that produces new interstitial spaces.
As a continued investigation of juxtaposing program, elements of schools that emulate forms of dwelling were superimposed upon one another on the sectional plane. When architectural moments come into conflict, one or the other may be extended or contracted to accomodate or encroach upon the other. Is it possible for the programs of schools and homes to produce new constructive possibilities that may reconcile their programmatic rift?
By importing dwellings and schools that imitate domesticity into a city, this study illustrates the mercurial coexistence and hierarchical struggle of the domestic and institutional. As schools and homes attempt to occupy the same space, with each one encroaching on the program of the other, they either come into conflict or reach compromises that produce new spatial possibilities. How do these juxtaposed elements perform when they are adopted as part of this imitation urban fabric? What kind of new spatial relationship may the collision between domestic and institutional produce?
LIVING IN COLLECTIVE 2019 | ARCHITECTURE STUDIO IV
STUDENT RESIDENCE INSTRUCTOR: JONATHAN CUMMINGS
Located outside the University of Toronto campus, this studio project was an exercise in designing for a large number of occupants with specific programmatic needs. The building contains shared units for 350 residents, and according areas dedicated to communal eating, learning and living. As an assembly of units that each simultaneously face a central void as well as its public urban surroundings, the project aims to reconcile the student body’s need for community and unity, with the individual demand for solitude and personal privacy when living in a large communal residence.
VIEWING THE DOMESTIC
2018 | ARCHITECTURE STUDIO III A HOUSE FOR TWO INSTRUCTOR: PETROS BABASIKAS
In a neighbourhood north of downtown Toronto, a house for two occupants illustrates a conflict between the compromising inclinations of architecture and restrictive nature of domesticity.
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FOLDING X AND Y 2018 | DESIGN STUDIO II: HOW TO DESIGN ALMOST NOTHING INSTRUCTOR: JENNIFER KUDLATS
The objective of this studio was to develop, from a static grid of columns, three expressions of space defined exclusively by either vertical or horizontal surfaces. From the grid of points first comes a linear procession, translated into a plane, which is then activated on the third dimension. The plane is a seemingly continuous entity that appears to twist and fold over itself like a piece of paper. Articulated by two different materials on either face, it inverts itself, permeates the ground or arches overhead at moments, making the boundary between vertical and horizontal indistinct.
UNFOLDED ROOM 2018 | DESIGN STUDIO II: HOW TO DESIGN ALMOST NOTHING STUDENT STUDY ROOM INSTRUCTOR: JENNIFER KUDLATS
As a conclusion to the first two exercises, the final project is to combine the principles prior used into a habitable student study room. The shape and its resulting areas are produced by another continuous. enduring plane which rests into shape around the room via bending and folding back on itself. The final product is then a space that can be used and occupied, but one that can also be reduced to a single paper-like surface when unfolded.
CASE STUDY: HOUSE FOR SOLITUDE 2018 | ARCHITECTURE STUDIO III CASA MALAPARTE ARCHITECT: ADALBERTO LIBERA
A study of the Casa Malaparte, a villa located on a cliff overlooking the Tyrrhenian sea. Made to the fantasies of an exiled writer, the home is an architectural expression of isolation and self containment. After performing a study of the Casa Malaparte through drawing and sections, the exercise delves into an exploratory model that slices the house into numerous sectional segments, allowing the viewer to peer inside certain stages of its linear progression without losing sight of the whole.
LANDSCAPE STUDY: THE HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPER 2019 | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE STUDIO III PROJECT: ROBSON SQUARE LOCATION: VANCOUVER ARCHITECT: ARTHUR ERICKSON
An examination of the current conditions of Vancouver’s symbolic civic heart, contrasted with the corporate monumentality of its first design iteration. the law
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The initial proposal for Robson Square was a celebration of the corporate monument, a government tower which was to be Vancouver’s tallest skyscraper. The monument was to be experienced by the public from a mounted viewing platform, which performed in service to the tower rather than civic amenity. In stark contrast, present-day Robson Square offers a symbolic horizontal procession in which the physical embodiment of the law, arts and government support the people of the civic square from underground. The original monument has been buried and turned on its side, not to be lionized but meant to discreetly provide for Vancouver as part of its foundation.
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A site-based exercise documenting typologies of green space within a neighbourhood in Toronto, questioning the degree to which communities use or require certain landscapes of questionable efficacy. Space delegated to private yards or public parks were categorized according to privacy, frequency of use and accessibility to the neighbourhood.
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PARAMETRIC TOWER 2018 | MODELLING AND FABRICATION IN DESIGN INSTRUCTOR: NICK HOBAN
Produced through Grasshopper script, this exercise is an exploration of generating architectural form through digital means, separated from more direct design methods where each formal decision is made through a digital formula. Working in this medium allows insight into how contemporary production methods allow for any number of alternatives and permutations, simply through the adjustment of data.
SKETCH MODELS: PROFESSIONAL WORK
BURO47 ARCHITECTURE | DELTA, VANCOUVER
DESIGNS by BURO47 ARCHITECTURE MODELS by NOA WANG
PAINTINGS 2018-2019 | PHOTOSHOP PERSONAL WORK
Noa Wang noa.wang@mail.utoronto.ca