STEVE HUANG shuang@post.harvard.edu 1 (201) 323-2268
EDUCATION HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
WORK Nominated by professors for Studioworks, annual publication of outstanding student work
TOSHIKO MORI ARCHITECT
Completed schematic design for New York City Seventh Avenue Subway Extension
Instructors included Mack Scogin, Michael Meredith, and Nanako Umemoto
New York, NY Architect Intern July 10 - Sept 10
Assisted with design development and construction documents for private residence in upstate NY
Cambridge, MA Won peer-nominated Alumni Council Prize M. Arch, Architecture for Unsung Hero, Most Helpful Student Sept 06 – May 11
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
Thesis on architectural and structural redesign of Special Collections Library
Swarthmore, PA B.S., Engineering Sept 01 – May 05
Research included daylighting analysis and computational analysis of steel structures
Teaching Assistant Graduate Class Sept 07 - Jan 08
Copenhagen, DK Architect Intern Feb 09 - Sept 09 Taught all workshops and acted as weekly critic for sixty fi rst year students
Wrote lesson plans on paneling curved surfaces
BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL
Guest instructor for high school level summer program reviews
Invited Critic July 11 - Aug 11
ASCE ENGINEERING SOCIETY
Member of winning team for ACI Student Beam Competition, Delaware Valley, 2004
Philadelphia, PA Member / Secretary Sept 04 – May 05
Civil Engineer experienced with IBC, ASD, AISC, LRFD codes and FE/EIT certified
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Magazines include A+U, Kenchiku Note, Sokol Media, Chinas Most Successful Designs. Websites include ArchDaily, Archinect, DesignBoom, and Dezeen. Books include A View on Harvard GSD, and From Control to Design: Parametric/Algorithmic Architecture.
Experienced in Schematic Design, Design Documentation, Construction Documentation and Animation using AutoCAD 2002-2012, Rhino 0.7 -5.0, Adobe Creative Suite 1-5.5, Catia V5, Grasshopper 0.7-0.8, 3DSMax 6-2012, V-Ray 1.4-2.0 for Max and Rhino. Languages include English, basic Spanish, and basic Mandarin Chinese.
Selected to join competitions teams for international projects in Tallinn, Helsinki, Malmö, Shenzhen, and Taipei Winning competition entries included World Women’s Village of Sports, Tallinn Town Hall, and Danish Expo Pavilion Involved in all aspects of competition entries from concept through design production
Guest instructor for college level summer program reviews
Invited Critic Summer Programs June 11 – Aug 11
SKILLS
Coordinated structural drawings and detailing with outside engineers
BIG, BJARKE INGELS GROUP
TEACHING HARVARD GSD
Selected for Brooklyn Armory Gym competitions team for NYC Department of Design and Construction
Managed model team for eighth scale Scala Tower for Venice Biennale
STUDIO DROR New York, NY Design Intern Dec 08 - Feb 09
Prototyping of patent pending modular framing system Schematic design for private residence in Costa Rica
SO-IL, SOLID OBJECTIVES
Schematic design of Avaaz Foundation offices and Sunnyside-Up rooftop pavilion
New York, NY Architect Intern July 08 - Sept 08
Managed models, rendering, and computer networking in office
URBAN A&O
Facade design on Beijing Olympics Pavilion for Johnson & Johnson
New York, NY Architect Intern July 07 - Sept 07
Responsible for in-house model shop and rapid prototyping machines
OBRA ARCHITECTS Monograph team for Bezalel Museum New York, NY Architect Intern May 07 - July 07
MOS-OFFICE Cambridge, MA Architect Intern Jan 07 - May 07
PS1 Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Young Architects Program, and Urbia furniture systems Responsible for schematic design of PS1 MoMA court yard, including custom castplastic furniture, misting elements, and presentation animations
SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY
ACADEMIC: Thesis, Spring 2011
CRITIC: Mack Scogin
PROGRAM: Hybrid Subway Stations
The subway station is more than just a platform and an entrance. Every piece of this city infrastructure requires its own support infrastructures, including electrical substations to power the train tracks, water mains for sprinkler systems, and auxiliary buildings for ventilation. There are three basic components to the subway station. There are the entrances and platforms which are open to the public, there are ventilation shafts to provide fresh air and fire control, and there are electrical substations. Contrary to the MTA’s proposals for the Second Avenue Subway, all of these elements can be placed below ground, or tucked into multi use buildings. Infrastructure is often treated as a fi xed element, unconsidered in the planning of buildings. If they are combined, space, and money is conserved. And as other cities have
THE PROPOSED 2ND AVENUE SUBWAY RUNS STRAIGHT THROUGH THE EAST SIDE OF NY, BUT IT SHOULD BE CURVED TO BETTER SERVE ITS RIDERS
STATIONS COMPRESSED INTO SINGLE POINT OF ENTRY
ABOVE GROUND ENTRANCES ARE MORE LEGIBLE
EXISTING SITE FILLED WITH PARKING
AND THE MAJORITY OF THE DIGGING IS BETTER CONTAINED
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CONSOLIDATE PARKING INTO A SINGLE STRUCTURE
ALLOWING FOR MORE PROGRAMMATIC VARIETY
USE REMAINING SPACE FOR PARK, AND CAP PARKING WITH PARK
ADD BAND OF HOUSING, SHOPS, OFFICES, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS
SECOND AVENUE SUBWAY (CONT’D)
ACADEMIC: Thesis, Spring 2011
CRITIC: Mack Scogin
PROGRAM: Hybrid Subway Stations
already done, New York should explore the possibility of deploying electrical substations beneath public spaces. This conserves immensely valuable land, and allows for greater security and reliability. Such policies would lead to much more effi cient, profi table use of immensely valuable land—while maintaining supplies of secure, reliable power, provided by an electrical infrastructure that continues to recede from public sight. In a 2008 study, Hope Cohen, Deputy Director, Center for Rethinking Development wrote “People don’t like ugly, scary substations near them. But substations don’t have to be ugly and scary. And they do need to be nearby.”
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PARK HOUSING OFFICES VENTILATION STACKS
VENT STACKS SUBSTATION PARKING
THEATER BACK OF HOUSE CIRCULATION
CONCESSION STANDS SUBWAY PLATFORM DOWNTOWN
OFFICES PARKING GARAGE SHOPS
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OIL ECONOMIES
ACADEMIC: Fall 2009
CRITIC: Nanako Umemoto
PROGRAM: Urban Infrastructures
In the 1950s, oil exploration in the Azerbaijan area turned towards the sea as it has in China. There, the Soviets built oil platforms and created small floating cities to support its laborers. This typology creates a better working environment for offshore employees, combining civic centers with offices and residences. This model can work in other areas. In China, the New Caofeidian area, which spans roughly 60 sq km, has recently been planned as an artificial island chain and land reclamation project, as well as a converted and concentrated economic development zone within the Bohai Bay, a rapidly expanding industrial and commerce area in Northern China. It is also a site of large scale drilling and energy extraction.
TAKE A SIX- WAY INTERCHANGE
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(+32 M AOD) 3.6 M CLEAR GREEN SPACE CIVIC LAYERS
(+28 AOD) 3.6 M CLEAR HIGHWAY TRANSIT HUBS
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(+21 M AOD) 3.6 M CLEAR RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL
(+12 M AOD) 3.6 M CLEAR OIL PROCESSING INDUSTRIAL
SPLIT IT INTO TWO THREE WAY INTERCHANGES
LINK BY OFF RAMPS
THICKEN WITH HOUSING, COMMERCIAL, AND INDUSTRIAL BLOCKS
HOUSING BUBBLES
ACADEMIC: Spring 2008
CRITIC: John Hong
PROGRAM: High Density Residential
In standard construction, flat floor plates are built and then progressivel infi lled with units. However, the modular nature of housing does not need to follow this logic. The module here is a prismatic frame that is independently stable. It is repeated to create a space frame that gives the building great rigidity. One, two, and three bedroom units are created out of aggregations of one, two or three of these frames, which are then aggregated into blocks. Circulation on the site is entirely exterior to the building- a strip of public park runs down the center of the site joining a an arboretum to the west with the train station to the east. From this central corridor, a series of switchbacks naturally formed by the geometry of the module allow gallery access to each of the units.
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URBAN THRESHOLDS
ACADEMIC: Spring 2008
CRITIC: T. Kelly Wilson
PROGRAM: Urban Infrastructures
The intersection of a light rail line, a highway, a strip of park, an overpass, and a strip mall, creates an opportunity to create a gateway into south Boston. The form of a gateway is tipped forwards to create an inhabitable building. This tipping creates a different experience of the site as one drives into or out of the area- from the one vantage, the building is a gradually sloping frame on the road, and from the other, a more open civic gesture. Programs include offices for mass transit maintenance, a park conservation program, an art mural program, and a youth jobs program at the base of the structure. Each program has a substantial corresponding art exhibition placed at the top of the structure. These advertise to visitors the museum space above.
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GATE METRO
GATE RUNS OVER ROAD
ROAD RUNS OVER METRO
GATE TILTED INTO OVERPASS
PROGRAM BLOCKS EXHIBITS ON TOP OFFICES BELOW
DEFLECTION ANALYSIS
STRUCTURAL GRID
VIEW EXHIBITION EVENTS OFFICES METRO
FORM FINDING
ACADEMIC: Fall 2006
CRITIC: Preston Scott Cohen
PROGRAM: Transport Entrance
A parametric system for creating catenary curved surfaces was creating using the tension based cloth simulations of a physics solver. Each initial sheet is pinned at three to four points, and the sheet is allowed to flex. This creates the curvature of each shell, and is fully animatable. In order to panelize the structure, a script was written in Modo which takes each panel and creates each surrounding mullion. The result was unfolded, flattened, laser cut, and assembled. The catenary structure is inherently stable, and lends itself well to shell structures.
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SCRIPTING
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BEIJING OLYMPICS PAVILLION
FIRM: URBAN A&O
CLIENT: Johnson & Johnson
ROLE: Elevation Design, Models
The Johnson and Johnson Pavillion built for the Beijing Olympics housed exhibits on encompassing the subject of aging within the Chinese populace. Each of these exhibits, a mix of flat artwork, sculpture, and video installations, required different lighting levels. In order to vary exposure to natural daylight, a super graphic was cut from translucent plastics and applied to the glazing system. I worked on this graphic independently, and also managed the production of 1:20 presentation models. This building won the 2009 China’s Most Successful Design Award, and is featured in its annual catalog. I was responsible for the elevation design and models.
UPSTATE NY HOUSE
FIRM: Toshiko Mori Architects
CLIENT: Private Residence
ROLE: Schematic and Construction Docs
Located in upstate New York, the residence is perched at the top of a cliff, capturing a clear view of the valley below at the back. At the front, the entry is secluded amongst several interior trees. Inside, the ceiling is made up of a series of geometrically dynamic panels that defi ne the living spaces. From the beginning of design, it was clear that the cantilevers of the stacked volumes would require a technically complex solution, and much care was taken to integrate structural and mechanical systems in as tight a package as possible. I was responsible for design development and construction documents under project manager Josh Uhl. Renderings were done by David Jaubert.
LOW2NO HELSINKI
FIRM: Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG
CLIENT: Finnish Innovation Fund
ROLE: Plans, Sections, Renderings
To impose demands for tabula rasa, sustainable master planning would be missing the target for 90% of all urban developments. Most urban projects deal with transformations of existing neighborhoods, from industrial to urban, rather than developments of entirely virgin sites. The project begins with the perimeter block typology common to all Scandinavian cities, and proposes a set of zoning regulations based on environmental principals. The block is shaped by daylight exposure and heating gains studied by Arup. The aim is to optimize general conditions, rather than starting from scratch.These ideas are driven by technical capabilities and functional demands and are free to improve and evolve as habits change and technologies improve during Helsinki’s gradual development.
SUNNYSIDE UP
FIRM: Solid Objectives, CLIENT: Garden City Idenburg Liu (SO-IL) Roofs
ROLE: Design and Rendering
WORLD VILLAGE OF WOMEN SPORTS
FIRM: Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG
The winning design was chosen among five submissions by a jury, comprised of the founder and main financier of the World Village of Women Sports, Kent Widding Persson, the co-founder and entrepreneur Maarten Hedlund, City of Malmo Architect,Ingemar Graahamn and Architects Mats Jacobson and Cecilia Hansson together with representatives from the City of Malmo.
CLIENT: H-Hagen Fastighets AB
ROLE: Diagrams and Renderings
“Considering the special requirements of women of all cultures and all ages, special attention has been given, to provide the sports village with a feeling of intimacy and well being often lacking in the more masculine industrial-style sports complexes that are more like factories for physical exercise, than temples for body and mind.” Bjarke Ingels, Partner-In-Charge, BIG
Danish architects BIG have won a competition to design a centre for research, education and training about women’s sports in Malmo, Sweden.
The central hall is large enough to accommodate professional football matches as well as concerts, conferences, exhibitions and flea markets. Rather than being an introverted sports arena shut off from the surrounding city – it appears like an open and welcoming public space, visible from all of the surrounding streets – generously offering its interior life to the passers-by. The pedestrian network around the main sports hall plugs into the surrounding street networks as well as the interior galleries of Kronprinsen, turning it into a complete ecosystem of urban life. “BIGs design places great emphasis on architecture tailored to women with an unconstrained atmosphere and a feeling of wellbeing. The architects see the WVOWS as a town within a town rather than just a sports complex. The decisive factor has been the holistic approach and the overall impression of the design – the ability to interact with the neighborhood and environment, and creating attractive housing and functions at the same time.” Mats Jacobson, Jury Member, WVOWS
“The WVOWS fuses high levels of ambition within public space and private accommodation, living and working, health and recreation, sport and culture. Like a village rather than sports complex it merges the modern utopianism of the neighboring Kronprinsen with the intimate scale and specificity of the nearby historical city center of Malmo.” Bjarke Ingels, Partner-In-Charge, BIG
Called The World Village of Women Sports, the project is conceived as a series of buildings of varying size with sloping roofs, alternating with open spaces.
Composed as a village rather than a sports complex the WVOWS combines individual buildings with a variety of uses with open spaces and public gardens.
The main hall will be able to accommodate football matches, concerts, conferences, exhibitions and markets.
“From the main football field at its heart, to the gyms and auditoria, from the handball halls of the university to the laboratories of the health facility, it is an entire village committed to sport.” Nanna Gyldholm Moller, Project Leader, BIG WORLD VILLAGE OF WOMEN SPORTS CREDIT LIST:
The sloping roofscapes and alternating building volumes provide the complex with the varying identity of a small village thus reducing its scale to the adjacent neighborhood.
PROJECT: WVOWS TYPE: Invited Competition CLIENT: H-Hagen Fastighets AB COLLABORATORS: AKT, Tyréns, Transsolar SIZE: 100.000 M2 LOCATION: Malmo, Sweden STATUS: 1st Prize Partner-in-Charge: Bjarke Ingels Project Leader: Nanna Gyldholm Moller Team: Gabrielle Nadeau, Daniel Sundlin, Jonas Barre, Nicklas Antoni Rasch, Jin Kyung Park, Fan Zhang, Steve Huang, Flavien Menu, Ken Aoki