Portfolio by Pu Pang

Pu P o rt f o l i o

P o rt f o l i o

Pu Pang 3737 Chestnut St, Apt 2405, Philadelphia, PA 19104 * (518) 6054789 * pangpu@upenn.edu

EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, Philadelphia, PA

Master of Science in Design (MSD-AAD) •

Pressing Matters 2017-2018

Aug. 2012 – May. 2017

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Bachelor of Architecture • •

Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2018

Dean’s Honors List in Spring 2015 and Fall 2015 Exchanged to Italy in Fall 2015 semester

INTERNSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE RBSD (Internship) May 2018 – Aug. 2018 • Participated in the conference between the designer, constructer and department once a week • Drew the part of 15-floor plan detail changing, researched and made the decision for the interior material and furniture Quanzhou Historic Building Mapping Institute (Internship) July 2016 – Sept. 2016 • Measured and studied the architectural design of several historic buildings in Quanzhou • Familiarization with the structural design and cultural background of specific historic buildings • Researched the architectural differences between the northern and southern Chinese historical buildings HMD Architecture Design Co. Ltd, Shanghai (Assistant Architect) June 2015 – Aug. 2015 • Researched the Riverside design of Cheonggyecheon River and the Kamo River • Participated the design and drawing the plan for a 2-kilometers central business district along the Xiaoqing River of Jinan city in Shandong Province in China, include the office building, commercial area, fountain park Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd (Internship) July 2014 – Aug. 2014 • Active member in the design and improvement of aircraft boarding bridges at Beijing Daxing International Airport • Participated in scheme discussion, analytical chart and model making

RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Research contemporary or near-future collective or collaborative control or operations room Jan. 2017 – May. 2017 • Examined historical, contemporary, and imaginary [sci-fi] precedents of control room typologies, and their extended/related concepts: situation, war and operations rooms, among others, using the CRAIVE Lab facility’s immersive virtual reality room, to test and develop the projects across the semester Research of Sawyer Library in Williams College, Massachusetts, designed by BCJ Sept. 2017 – Dec. 2017 • Undertook research using primary and secondary source material, which included visiting the site/building and communicating with the building’s administration and the BCJ design team involved • Conducted the technical analysis of the building, including the production means, methods and materials employed in the buildings design and its construction • Sought to understand and describe the design and build process, its socio-cultural impact, and its historical context

SKILLS •

3D Modeling and Rendering: Rhino, Maya, Grasshopper, Revit, SketchUp, V-ray, Keyshot, Unity, Python

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Graphic and Drafting: Auto CAD, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere

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Office Set: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint

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Volunteer: One of the key members of light adjusting team for all types of university events, such as: ice hockey match, parties and stages shows. (Aug 2013 – May 2015）

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Extracurricular Experience: Chinese Students and Scholars Association （Aug 2012 – May 2017 ）Helped with planning and post design for various Chinese cultural and art events which received great success and popularity among students

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Intersection & Interweaving

Relative Reality

Hybridization

Repetition & Variation

Blurring Boundaries Morphogenetic

Urban Palimpsest

Manhattan Psychiatric Center

Other Works

INTERSECTION & INTERWEAVING JFK Airport Terminal , NY

This airport, we define it as a vertical machine, which convey people and cargo within it. As a temporary stop, the airport convenes people from different places and sees then away to their various destinations. Thus, the concept of our terminal is “intersection”. It is an intersection not only for people but also for people and their luggage. The activity of visitor is weaving with the path of cargo. The airport building consists of two parts. One part is the density part, which is created by complex sections with big scale space and pocket space. This part is used for transporting both airport visitors and cargo. The other part is a gathering point. The space is surrounded by a big surface and the hollow interior is the main hall. This is the place where those who arrive and those who are about to take off come together. Visitors will also be able to see where their packages are going. This is what I mean to be an “intersection”.

2017 Fall Design Studio Student: Pu Pang, Qishi Zhang, Hasan Critic: Ali Rahim, Nate Hume 4

The Suleymaniye Exploded Axonometric

Form & Technique Study

The research of structure is from Suleymaniye Mosque, located on the Third Hill of Istanbul, Turkey. We exploded the main structure to the small elements, then learned the details and the connection between each other. Also we cut the sections at different position to see the changing of the sections of Suleymaniye Mosque. In the different sections, we tried to find the relationship between the solid and void, regular shape and irregular shape, simple and decorate. After this, we recombined the different elements to get the different section. Using the new section to sweep or revolve to test the form.

The Suleymaniye Choisey Axon (Structural System) 5

In the left page, the up six drawings are the sections of the test form. In the sections, can see the component of space and different type of space, the opening space, close space, pocket space. The bottom drawing is show the component parts for each parts from the complicated form to the simple pieces. In the right page, the airport is decomposed to the different parts using the same logic from the left page. In each part, we can see the space they have through the section. Also the find the transform from one type of section to another type of section. 7

Second Floor Plan - Departure

Ground Floor Plan - Arrivals 9

Physical Section Model

Southeast Corner Elevation

Short Section

RELATIVE REALITY Natural History Museum, Halifax, NS

Human, as a part of building, is the constituent of the moments of the city. In this project, the idea is blurring the boundary of exterior and interior. The site is in the boundary between the residential area and the commercial area. Thus, the plaza is formed to a welcoming node, three boxes circumfused, to attract the visitor from different area. The opening path to give the free for the street view. The middle double glaze is floating and overlaying with the opening path to keep the solid, void, solid composition. The arrangement of programming is more efficient and relay to the circulation reasonably. The exhibition of main floor is imitating several different ecological environments. There are three boxes in the building, each box has different concept, anthropology, zoology and cosmology. This undergraduate studio entered to the design development step, we used Revit to build the design model and get the plan, section drawings from Revit.

2016 Spring Design Development Studio Student: Pu Pang, Peini Chen Critic: Mark Mistur, Eric Churchill,Bryan Kim 12

Site Analyze Diagram

Concept Diagram

Program Diagram

First Floor Plan (Site Plan), with Revit

Second Floor Plan - Main Lobby, with Revit

Third Floor Plan, with Revit

Interior Render - Main Lobby

Physical Model (0-1’ = 1/2”) 19

The main structure is constituted by three main cores and eight columns. The vertical stucture made the top box look like floating.

Concrete Facade and Roof

Glaze Facade 20

Corridor Structure

Short Section, with Revit 21

HYBRIDIZATION Reforma Avenue., Mexico City

We explore Hybridization and Reconfiguring as an opportunity to integrate both architecture and mobility infrastructures while revising the city’s possibilities to induce public space into the existing city fabric and the impact of this new typology. This objective stems from a dramatic statistic: it is estimated that 65,000,000 km of paved roads exist today worldwide with an estimated cost of USD 70,000,000,000. We hack existing road infrastructure in the city and we will imagine futures where these spaces can do more for cities than allow motorized circulation. Our site of intervention is Reforma Avenue. Mexico’s most important corridor, symbolically and economically, is abruptly cut in two: a violent schism divides it into the rich west and poor east of the avenue. We will focus on “the poor” section and speculate on the potential for transformation of this space by hacking it and turning it multi-functional. In doing so, we will introduce much needed public space in the neighborhoods around this area, and we will turn a space devoted to motorized mobility into a more complex construct with the capacity to introduce social, cultural and ecological agendas.

2018 Fall Design Studio Student: Pu Pang, Jiaqi Sun, Yuan Ji Critic: Inaki Echeverria 22

Second Level Plan

Ground Level Plan

Underground Level Plan 26

REPETITON & VARIATION Andy Warhol Museum, Miami

A memorable characteristic of Andy Warhol artwork is the ‘Repetition & Variation” in his sculptures and artwork of mass-produced objects. Like soup cans and portraits of Zedong Mao. We take this idea of Repetition and Variation into the concept of our Museum design. We do so in a number of ways: Galleries are designed from the more ‘regular and repetitive’ permanent art galleries to the more fluid volumetric temporary galleries. The building transitions from flat floors to the three-dimensional clustered galleries. Circulation clearly guides visitors through permanent and temporary exhibitions . We also see our museum as an “Interactive art museum”. Involving people to create, to participate, to communicate. The museum contributes to the design district during the day and night. During the daytime, it applies to art and city. At night inspired by the “factory” studio, we intermix the club with a parking lot in the basement. Parking space is divided into two parts, one is the regular parking grid which transforms into a nightclub.

2018 Spring Design Studio Student: Pu Pang, Qishi Zhang Critic: Hina Jamelle 30

At the start, we analyzed two pop artworks, one is “Fifty years of urban wall“ by Burhan Dogançay, another one is Camouflage print by Andy Warhol. According to the force magnitude and the color transformation to get the diagram to represent the artworks.

1. Curling and Crease - Interweaving - Irregular

2. Alignment and Bifurcate - Scale - Rotate -Transformation

3. Solid and Void - Fold - Regular

Second Level Plan

Fourth Level Plan

Section Perspective

Section Perspective Zoom In 36

Interior of Exhibition Hall

Street View 37

BLURRING BOUNDARIES MORPHOGENETIC

3D printing is different from traditional manufacturing. For example, the manufacturing process and the raw materials are completely different. The processing of the 3D printing is like an accumulated process of soldering. However, at this point, 3D printing still has many limitations including, for example, the size of machine, the temperature to which the material should be heated, and the types of materials. Therefore, in this studio, we are trying to build a larger 3D printer and discover more types of workable materials. After analyzing the Rostock Delta Robot, we designed and built Paste Extruder Delta. This new machine was built based on our research and analysis. And testing the material to use for our printer. Then we design the structure wall and the furniture they are according to the catalog of Gaussian curvature, in order to blurring the boundary.

2014 Fall Vertical Design Studio Student: Pu Pang, Penny Chen Critic: Francis Bitonti 38

ROSTOCK DELTA ROBOT

PASTE EXTRUDER DELTA ROBOT

Processing

Commissioning Phase

Simple Line Phase

Testing the different materials to see the stabilization and hardness degree.

Complex line phase 40

Printing the different shapes and frameworks

BLURRING BOUNDARIES MORPHOGENETIC

SECTION

Urban Palimpsest Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

One of the most important characteristic of the city of Rome is its urban palimpsest, which results from the stratifications occurred in about three-thousand years of urban history. Additionally, with the 1870 unification of Italy, Rome became the Capital of the newborn country and experienced significant growth and transformation. Historic stratification and modern development, produced a number of urban conditions that nowadays from contemporary Rome. I focus on Villa Borghese. It is a villa suburban, a party villa, at the edge of Rome. I design the Porta Pinciana, a road in 18th century, that is extend from the Villa Borghese to the center of Rome. Try to intermingle the contemporaneity elements to the historical monuments and attract the local residences and the visitors.

Fall 2016 Workshop Student: Pu Pang Critic: Zbigniew Oksiuta 43

Analyze the Villa Borghese The shape of Villa Borghese is like a heard. Also, this villa is covered by the trees. So, it looks like the green heart in the Rome. The bottom of heart it close to the Piazza di Spagna, the place where people gather. I add the rock climbing, painting, green plant to the Porta Pinciana to attract the visitors and the residences. Also use the old road to connect the villas there are in Rome city to build an urban landscape.

Connect to the other villas

Typical Italian Domus 44

Typical Italian Piazza

Villa Borghese

City

Path

Villa

Extent to Piazza di Spagna 45

MANHATTAN PSYCHIATRIC CENTER Ward’s Island, New York, NY

Manhattan Psychiatric Center offers a range of comprehensive, evidence based inpatient and outpatient treatments for adults with mental illness. Families/Significant other(s) are involved as appropriate and with the permission of the consumer. We forced on creating a comfortable environment for the patients, doctors, and patient’s families. Considering the patient’s situation, we chose the interior materials and furnitures very carefully for giving them a peaceful place. From the plan, the public space and private space are separated for the security.

2018 Summer Internship RBSD 46

Other Works

Tension Bridge We researched and contribute to the geometry-based structural design methods for its intuitive characteristic and apply them in the design and fabrication of efficient, elegant, and non-conventional structural forms. We used the computational tools and methods relevant to design and transfer our foam. We chose all tension structure for the lightest material and the site space we have. The top part is a triangle to give the space for the using of the stair, the vertical column to share the load and make whole structure more stable. Each legs were separated to small numbers to reduce the load they carried.

Deployed Structure

Composed the whole conflguration with two basic forms Designed scissor, joint to connect and the fabric to cover Tested the small size model and built the real size physical model

Tessellation Cafe Table

Parallax Exploiting 2.5D Team: Pu Pang, Min He, Flavia Macchiavello

This project is focus on creating a new transmission and joint in the baseball bat. Bring the three-dimension visual sense in a two-dimension plane, changing the traditional vision. The 3D printing parts are liking tumor cells that is growing from the baseball bat and eat it.

PU PANG EMAIL: pangpu@alumni.upenn.edu Tel: 518-605-4789 University of Pennsylvania, School of Design Master of Science in Design (MSD-AAD) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Bachelor of ARCH 55