Portfolio by Charles Don

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Studio work

Extension Lakeside villa Ideal context

5 Individual project from Mar. 2011 to May. 2011 Architectural Design (II)

Square Urban Hote Savannah, Georgia, US

13 Individual project from Aug. 2015 to Dec. 2015 Advanced Building Studio (I)

Bridge Complex education building Atlanta, Georgia, US

19 3-member team project from Mar. 2016 to Aug. 2016 Advanced Building Studio (II) Developed design idea, made physical model and detail drawings.

Boundary Railway history museum Zhalantun, Heilongjiang Province, China

25 4-member team project from Jul. 2012 to Sept. 2012 Autodesk Revit Design Competition Team leader of the project, developed landscape concept and made diagram drawings.

Process Bicycle factory Accra, Ghana

33 2-member team project from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2016 Research and Design Studio (I) Researched on bicycle factory and developed parametric logic. Made digital models and diagram drawings. drawings.

Accelerator Research and development center for textile and fabrication Seoul, Korea

41 10-member team project from Mar. 2017 to Aug. 2017 Research and Design Studio (II) Made large scale physical models (part of). Helped other team members to develop and assemble faรงade mockup.

Vision Tourism resort TaiHang Great Canyon, Shanxi Province, China

Other work

53 Individual project from Mar. 2014 to Jun. 2014 Graduation Design

Concrete Workshop Complex education building Atlanta, Georgia, US

63 4-member team project from Mar. 2016 to Aug. 2016 Construction Tech 2 Cooperated team members to develop design product and mold geometry and fabricate them.

Operation:512 Small installation design and fabrication Atlanta, Georgia, US

67 Individual project from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2016 Elective Seminar and Workshop

Building faรงade layout automation Finding and Solving problems in AEC processes Atlanta, Georgia, US

71 Individual project from Aug. 2017 to Dec. 2017 Building System and Data

Drawings and paintings

78 Individual project from Sept. 2009 to Jul. 2011 Art of Architecture

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Extension Lakeside villa This lakeside villa is designed to be a private space purposely for meditation. Space extends to the boundless stretch of water by a long corridor, which organizes the vertical transportation and separates different activity partitions. The root of the corridor is embedded under the ground and the entrance of the villa is located here. Descend the stairs and go through the darkness, and then, step into rooms during the way towards the shining surface of the lake. Or you could also go straight forward to the edge of the corridor, the farthest place from the shore. This long corridor catches the natural light and reflects it until dying out. The hosts go through the corridor as well as the brightness and darkness in their daily activity.

Lakeside villa

Dark and bright space

Corridor

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3rd Floor Plan

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Perspective from lake

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Square Urban hotel Savannah is famous for its historic districts which was designed by James Oglethorpe. The plan of the historic portions of Savannah is based on the concept of a ward, as defined by James Oglethorpe. Each ward had a central square, around which were arrayed four trust lots and four tythings. Each trust lot was to be used for a civic purpose, such as a school, government building, church, museum, or other public venue, while the tythings were each subdivided into ten lots for residential use. The hotel is located on tything lots facing a square. Sequential gardens are arranged in the design in order to introduce the central square into hotel.

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Space between gardens

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Wall Section

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Bridge Complex education building in Georgia Tech The Living Building Challenge is a building certification program, advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to rapidly diminish the gap between current limits and the end-game positive solutions we seek. The Challenge is comprised of seven performance categories called Petals: Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. In our design, we built a long bridge to connect people in and off campus, to communicate with landscape, and to collect water and energy from nature.

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Boundary Railway history museum This project is designed to build a museum in Zalantun, Hulunber, Inner Mongolia in order to store, display and memorize the history about Middle East Railway. During the period of the Middle East Railway, Zalantun was a significant town and became a popular health resort for aristocrats of Tsarist Russia. Why this town was chosen by Russia? Or we say by history? Reason comes from the location. Zalantun situated on the boundary of humid continental climate and subarctic climate zones, that means this area is not as warm as inland China and not as cold as Russia. Just for the climate factor, the vegetation in this area also have a special boundary between steppe and forests. The design proceeds from it by recreating the landscape boundary to response to the localization context.

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Process Design of a bicycle factory in Accra, Ghana The Design and Research Studio INDUSTRY 4.0: SMART URBAN FACTORY focuses on models of the contemporary and future factory environment within an urban environment. Our project is a bike factory located in the center of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. We use parametric design method to explore the morphology of the building under Accraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s urban context as well as the structure possibility, which allowed us to use bamboo to create long span structure. Bamboo is attracting increasing interest as a strategic resource that can provide climate-smart solutions to millions of rural communities across Africa.

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Accelerator Research and development center for textile and fabrication technology Seoul Accelerator is an interdisciplinary research and development center for textile, garment and fabrication technology. Dongdaemun is a vibrant commercial district of Seoul, where every component of the garment industry is accessible 24/7. Dongdaemunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historic urban fabric is transforming in reponse to the rising information economy. The garment industry has an opportunity to leverage the growing demand for art, design and fashion. The project seeks to catalyze the industry by connecting researchers, fabricators, local vendors and customers. The institution serves as an innovation laboratory, accerlerating Seoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cutting-edge fabrication technology.

South Korea has successfully adapted and evolved to act as an “accelerator,” fostering technological advancement and international trade. Korea has no substantial natural resources; therefore, the country has had to specialize in technology. According to the Biennale, the population of Seoul is to increase from 54% of Korea’s overall population to 86% within the next 10 years. As a rapidly growing city of 25 million citizens, Seoul is simultaneously historical and cutting edge, calling for an architecture that is timeless.

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Vision Rourism resort This is a planning of a tourism resort in area of TaiHang Great Canyon. In this area, unique topography and land-form is the main character. What experience we gain from this place is different from the other kind of scenic spots? From my perspective, it is vision. The restriction of touristsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sight from the natural landscape could create a strong sensations of space. Therefor, I consider more about this kind of restriction of sight in planning the buildings of the resort in this site. Restriction and guidance of the vision is the theme of this plan.

We do not need to count mileage by guideposts when we travel into this area. That is because the mountain range and canyons could restrict our vision, which causes an intense sensation of space. The slope of mountains gradually steepen, that means we are approaching the depths. The slope of mountains gradually slow, that means we are moving away from the canyons. The spatial experience of tourists stems from vision.

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Microlopography More than 40% slope 15%~ 40% Slope 5%~ 15% Slope 1%~ 5% Slope

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Hydrochart

Water level in rainy season Water level in dry season

Original landscape Dominant landscape General landscape Renewable landscape Unusable landscape

Original road system Provincial roads Cement roads Unpaved roads Side roads

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Concrete Workshop

Begin by drawing an 6” x 6” x 6” cube as a set of orthographic and axonometric descriptions at a scale of 1:1. Then using a precise transformational procedure (or a set of algorithmic processes) create a mutant offspring of the original. Consider transformations and deformations such as affine projections, shearing, scaling, twisting, bending, Boolean unions + differences + intersections, etc. Both the parent and child will be translated from drawing to artifact through the making of molds and casting of the object in unreinforced concrete.

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Concrete Workshop

Design a stool for sitting to be produces as a thin wall UHPC element using ruled surface geometries or double ruled surface geometries (ie hyperbolic paraboloids). The thickness of the element must be between ½” minimum and 1” maximum. The stool should be designed for one person and should be able to carry a load of at least 250 pounds

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Operation:512

OPERATION: 512 is a hands-on workshop and production seminar that sets out to explore customized workflows that will oscillate between physical spatial production to advanced digital modelling and fabrication techniques. This exploratory course is inherently both digital and physical, often times simultaneously, as a prime directive built into the overall set-up is that participants will iteratively navigate a wide range of working methods and spatial / material results. Fully exploiting the extensive resource of digital tools, CNC fabrication machines and traditional shop equipment at the DFL, participants of this course are required to produce highly refined, composite spatial frameworks that elegantly and precisely contain or define a volumetric envelope of 512 cubic feet.

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Building System and Data Building faรงade layout automation Building Systems and Data focuses on the overlap between AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) processes and the building models and data that support them. This research project started from developing a use case for building models, workflows and specify exchanges that describe the generation, hosting, manipulation and transfer of this information through its lifecycle. Though database tools, scripting, plug-ins, and API programming studies will implement the workflow in BIM and database systems to solve specific problems in this use case.

The use case is the design of a variable panel system developed on the faรงade of a hospital. Apertures of various functions on the faรงade show the complexity of hospital programs. The attributes of these apertures are highly restrained by lots of factors, such as:building structure, room function, aesthetic purpose, etc. If some specific factors are changed, architects, structural engineers, and MEP designers should work together to adjust the panel system back and forth. For example, If the height of the floor is changed, the structural engineer should recalculate the dimensions of the beams and other stuff and pass the information to MEP designer. The ventilation system might be redesigned based on the structure condition. Finally, the architect should check if all the exchange still works well on the panel system. If there is any feasibility issue, the whole team should go back and seek alternative solutions. So I am looking for some more efficient way to improve the workflow. The basic design of the faรงade consists of rectangular panels of aluminum, stone, and glass(windows). The size and location of the panels are varied based on room function and faรงade orientation to optimize daylight, views, and natural ventilation while conforming to an overall aesthetic language established for the faรงade.

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Architecture Design

Design faรงade pattern

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Building dimension, Grid system, Occupancy

Material usage ratio MEP requirement

Faรงade schemes

Pattern drawings

Structure Design

Exchange

Architecture concept design

Exchange

MEP Design

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MEP concept design/calculation

Ventilation detailing

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MEP model

Window-to-wall ratio, Room orientation/ventilation, Natural or nechanical air volume

MEP model with ventilation system, Location, Dimension

MEP data

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Faรงade refine

Load estimation

BIM

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Faรงde model

Detail drawings

Building structure design

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Material properties

Structure model with location, dimension info.

Equipment and MEP info.

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Chao Dang 678-995-2883 cdang31@gatech.edu chaodangarch@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/secretgoldfish/

Georgia Institute of Technology Master of Architecture Master of Science in Architecture

Atlanta, Georgia, USA Aug. 2015 - May. 2017 Aug. 2017 - May. 2018

Taiyuan University of Technology Bachelor of Architecture, professional

Taiyuan, Shanxi, China Sept. 2009 - July. 2014

Externship in IWAMOTOSCOTT ARCHITECTURE Internship in Atelier Z+ Internship in XVI Studio of China Architecture Design & Research Group

Mar. 2017 San Francisco, USA

Research on Ruins of an Ancient Village in Dian Tou Village Autodesk Revit Design Competition Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Architecture Research on Low-carbon Technologies of Traditional Cave Dwellings

Sept. 2012 - Oct. 2012

Dagmar Epsten Environmental Vision Merit Award The Practice of Science and Technology Scholarship Third Landscaping Prize of Network Originality Competition Merit Student Second-class Scholarship of College

Apr. 2016

Mar. 2015 - Jun. 2015 Shanghai, China Mar. 2013 - Jun. 2013 Beijing, China

Jul. 2012 - Sep. 2012 Sept. 2011 - Sept. 2012

Sept. 2012 May. 2012 Sept. 2011 Sept. 2010