University of Waterloo Honours Bachelor of Architectural Studies
The following is a curation of my academic, professional and personal work completed during my undergraduate studies at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
Over the past four years, I have gained over a year of professional experience, working with international architecture, landscape and urban design firms in Vancouver, Paris, and Tokyo
I invite you to explore my portfolio and hope it resonates with you!
Cover Image: Gardens of Versailles, Italy October 2022, Shot on Ricoh RZ 735 (Fujicolor Superia 400)
ACADEMIC ACADEMIC PROFESSIONAL FABRICATION
ACADEMIC ACADEMIC FABRICATION FABRICATION
PERSONAL
WANG SHI YUAN
IN-ANIMATE
ANALOG ZINES
Maekawa House, Edo Architecture Museum, Konagei, Japan, March 2024, Shot on Lumix G100
PHILLIS YANG
EDUCATION
SEP 2020 - 2025
CAMBRIDGE, ON
EXPERIENCE
MAY - AUG 2024
VANCOUVER, BC
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
Candidate for Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op
Bridge Centre for Architecture + Design / Editor, Market Vendor, 2021-2024
Mentorship for Architecture Peers / Student Peer Mentor, 2021-2022
Waterloo Architecture Student Association / Athletics Director, 2021
FORMOSIS ARCHITECTURE / ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT
Assisted with building permit submission for a mid-rise residential project in Revit and prepared a rezoning application for a mixed-use tower with renders. Prepared presentations for client meetings and assisted with administrative tasks.
Built a detailed 1-50 scale physical model for client presentation and produced various interior renderings for a flagship retail store Created a large scale model and rendered for conceptual design of a landscape fog project using Twinmotion and Rhino
PERKINS&WILL / STUDENT INTERN DESIGNER
Worked collaboratively for a transit-oriented development proposal in design studies of context, program, unit mix, and amenity Assisted the rezoning submission by detailing in Revit, setting up efficient schedules and preparing the booklet for client design review
TAKTYK LANDSCAPE AND URBANISM / ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER
PARIS,
PARIS, FRANCE
Contributed to schematic design and construction details of a public park redesign in Roubaix, an urban plan for Geneva and a residential courtyard in plan, section, and diagrams
JAN - APR 2022
JAN
VANCOUVER, BC
FRANCL ARCHITECTURE / STUDENT CO-OP INTERN
EXHIBITIONS
DISTINCTIONS
SKILLS
VANCOUVER, ture onal Experience ,
Developed urban scale design schemes, analysed large scale urban contexts, assisted with fee proposals and produced graphics for client presentations and rezoning applications
Dezeen School Show: Ten Architecture Projects by Waterloo / Step by Step, 2024
Dialogues in Action Design Studio Project Exhibition / Galt V illage, 2024
Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Material Syntax Exhibition / Step by Step, 2024
LANGUAGES English (Native), Mandarin (Fluent), French (Intermediate)
POLO CIVICO
Program Type
Collaborator
Instructor Completed
Civic Centre
Academic - Pair
Emily Kok
Beatrice Bruscoli, Vittoria Stefanini
November 2024 (6 weeks)
+ Waterloo Roma XLV Exhibition
Located along Rome’s Lungotevere Testaccio and the historical ex-Mattatoio, this project aims to frame a new vibrant public space with revitalized arts, recreation and culture. The piazza creates a cohesive civic identity while fostering community spaces integrated into Rome’s urban fabric. By creating a seamless urban flow, Testaccio’s rich heritage is celebrated through vibrant public engagement. Two distinct new hubs, coupled with an entrance canopy and a multi-use pavilion, honour the existing user habits and build upon the Mattatoio’s established community presence.
Instructor Completed Community Hub Academic - Individual Jaliya Fonseka December 2023 (6 weeks)
Within the heart of downtown Cambridge you’ll find the Galt Village: a place for identity to be shared through mutual care. It hosts three integrated programs: a zine print house, a storytelling space, and a tea space. By curating spaces for reflecting, sharing and creating, the community-owned space fosters a greater sense of automony. The public-facing print house hosts a self-publication display, while the storytelling space is tucked deeper within the cluster to provide a sense of safety and anonymity. Lastly, the tea house disarms visitors and intentionally mellows the rapid pace of everyday life.
Central Courtyard
Exploded Axonometric
Sequence of Spaces
Parti Diagram
Program Diagram
Study Model Tea House View into Courtyard
Zines
Section AA
THE COLLECTIVE
Program Type
Collaborator
Instructor Completed
Mixed-Use Residential Housing
Academic - Pair
Soeun Park
David Fortin
December 2024 (12 weeks)
The Collective is an affordable co-housing project that addresses transit-oriented development through a community-focused approach. The proposed ION lightrail encourages Preston’s flourishing future as a significant urban centre. Two residential buildings will primarily house the elderly, families, and single parents. The target demographics are supported by a daycare, elderly care, clinics, a communal kitchen, cafes and family-owned businesses. With a wide range of units sizes, they can be adaptable for families as they transition through their lives.
Queenston Road Elevation
THE ALLEY
Program Type
Instructor Completed
Public Arts Centre
Academic - Individual Rick Haldenby
December 2024 (6 weeks)
The Alley is a cultural hub designed for collaboration and inclusion that revitalises Kitchener’s Civic District. In light of the Arts Reboot, the adaptive reuse project aims to repurpose the old Waterloo Regional Police Station into a host for the city’s ever-changing arts scene. The cultural complex retains most of its original structure, with a rearranged internal program to accommodate for theatre spaces. Additionally, a new wing is incorporated to allow for flexible workshop spaces, visiting artist accommodations and multidisciplinary studios.
Roof Plan
Roof Plan
CHAP CHARBON
Program Type
Supervisors
Employer
Completed
Residential Courtyard
Professional Sebastien Penfornis, Luca D’Anna Taktyk Landscape & Urbanism
December 2022
+ Proposal Selected for Construction
Chapelle Charbon compliments a nine-story, 100-unit residential project with a domestic landscape, a hortus conclusus. This intimate closed garden introduces necessary green space to the heart of a Parisian housing complex and a domestic offering of contemplation and gathering. It is intended to be a multifunctional courtyard which acts as a shaded garden, a sponge landscape, and a shared community space. The diverse range of local vegetative species will provide a dynamic and domestic courtyard space for residents to recharge and build connections.
+ Received BDP Quadrangle Excellence in Digital Design
+ Featured on Dezeen School Shows: Waterloo
Step by Step weaves ceramic craft into an architectural element activated by the user through movement and touch as they ascend or descend. The brick module is a double sided, inversal experience that cast angular shadows and varies aperture size. When mortared and assembled similar to a conventional brick wall, the stair is presented with formal rhythm and an optical effect, creating a new poetic experience and appreciation stairs.
Wang Shi Yuan is a Chinese garden designed for a wealthy scholar from the early 12th century. This study model explores the harmonious experience between a unified landscape and traditional architecture. In addition to mastering relative dimension, contrast, sequence, and depth, the garden exemplifies a traditional designer’s ability to synthesize art, nature, lifestyle and architecture. The central plexiglass pond reflects the “one step, one view” concept integral to Chinese garden vernacular design.
Role: 3D modelling walls, columns, bridges and ornamentation, laser cut and etched basswood, assembly
INANIMATE
Program Type
Collaborators
Instructor Completed
Material Study Model
Academic - Group
Cynthia Zhang, Avina Gonen
Cameron Parkin
December 2021 (6 weeks)
+ Featured as a UWSA Project Feature 2022
This blanket trilogy, In-animate, is a series of meticulous fabrication tests of a woven blanket in foam, museum board and PLA filament. The three objects were derived from the same base model, produced by photogrammetry scaning. The woven, edgeless fabric was converted to a rigid mesh and manipulated to accommodate the three differing methods of digital fabrication. This project aims to explore the removal of objects’ inanimacy and to give them life through computergeneration and physical manipulation.
Program Type Completed Self-Publication Personal - Individual April 2023 (2 weeks)
Analog Zines is a curation of the film photographs in which I experimented with vellum print and zine-making. The series of five zines, printed each on a sheet and folded into eighths (4.25” x 2.75”), all take on a similar theme between the selected scenes. Vellum was intentionally chosen for its transulent potential, and allows for images to be viewed from different opacities as the reader flips through. The photographs are shot on my father’s old Ricoh RZ-735 on Fujicolor Superia 400. The mini zines reveal a glimpse into my slow travels through Paris, Amsterdam and Lausanne, my university life in Cambridge, and the nostalgia of Vancouver.
