JIAYU HUANG PORTFOLIO

from 2023 Portfolio

by Leo Huang

SEARCH FOR NORMALITY IN DISTORTION

Education

Master of Architecture Professional Degree | Philadelphia, US

University of Pennsylvania

Aug 2021- May 2024

Bachelors of Arts in Architectural Studies | Toronto, Canada

University of Toronto

Aug 2017- May 2021

Medieval of Art and Architecture (Summer Abroad) | Oxford, England

University of Oxford

Aug 2019- Sep 2019

Professional

Architecture Intern | New York, US

Gensler New York

Jun 2022- Jul 2022

Chief Designer | Toronto, Canada

Cosmo Camping Inc

Jun 2020- Jan 2022

Architectural Assitant | Foshan, China

Shunde Architectural Design Institude Co Ltd

Aug 2019- Sep 2019

Design Ideal Beam Competion - First Place

University of Pennsylvania

Apr 2022

Publication

Re:Action - A Field guide to Agency by Design - University of Toronto

Published May 2021

Mentoship program, John H. Daniels Faculty | Toronto, Canada

Student Mentor

Sep 2020- Jun 2021

Hand

3D Printing

Laser Cutting

Model Making

Wood Work

CNC Printing Photography

Software Rhino Revit

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

BIM360

Blender 3D

Grasshopper

Luminon

AutoCad

Sketch Up

Tokyo Void

Possibilities In Urban Vacancy

INSTRUCTOR: JEANNIE KIM

COMPLETION: APRIL 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC- UNDERGRADUATE THESIS

The aging population continues to be a pressing issue in Japan, where the elderly population makes up a third of the Japanese population. Despite this, they are merely the focus of the design. Many elderly populations were either sent to the nursing home or instead living alone. They are often neglected by the city and even result in Kodokushi, which is a haunting phenomenon in Japan in which the elderly are dying at home and remain undiscovered for a long period due to physical immobility and social isolation with friends, family, and society.

Taking a different approach from many precedents, which create an apparatus and separate the elderly population in “utopia”, an urban solution is proposed to reconnect this enormous but forgotten elderly population back to society.

With the special concern of the oddness and temporariness of Tokyo urban fabric, a series of community infrastructure is designed to increase the bond of the community, linking the old and young in the neighborhood and providing some playful and short moments of escape for everyone in daily settings.

Site Selection

The seismic geographic feature has formed a distinct low and dense urban profile of Tokyo. Many of these buildings are relatively small in size, temporary in structure in order to respond to the frequent unstable urban structure. These qualities make Tokyo a dynamic city of change and result in many small and odd urban vacant spaces. After a sophisticated site analysis, the project finally grounded in the residential neighborhood of Kita city where it has voids in design and possibilities in absence, but most importantly it has the highest proportion of senior citizens among 23 wards of Tokyo, which are the main target of my design thesis.

Urban void spaces are hidden in the unnoticed corner of the city and often operated outside of our normative urban planning system which is often neglected and unsuitable for development. In fact, it provides room for new definitions and informal approaches by the people. Despite these unfavored conditions and difficulties, I see these odd spaces as opportunities and designed a set of tools that turn the space into productive land used by the community.

Community Support System

This mobile container is the main structure of the series. It is an exhibition pavilion, a slide for children, and also a health station for the seniors. It serves as a pop-up center gathering spot that can be easily placed in parks that lack infrastructure and bring a new meaning to vacant lots.More than a physical architecture, the infrastructure is designed with a community support system to achieve a connected community. All the elders in th neighborhood are given a safety bracelet that tracks their health status. When they are in an emergency, the bracelet will send an alert to the central database and activate the center lightbox and LED screen. Once activated, it will flash and send community workers to help.

Temporary Program: Informal appropriation of an unused lot with the proposed design tool.

Skin Scope

Sustainable Data Center

GROUP: BOHAN LANG, SHENGNAN GAO, YITING

ZHANG

COMPLETION: JANUARY 2022

TYPE: EVOLO SKYSCRAPER COMPETITION

In this digital-driven era, data and informationare pervaded and intertwined in almost every aspect of our life. Our personal and work information, shopping habits, are all stored in the nebulous space that people are often not aware of or even know where it is. The data center of the modern-day is always hidden in the unnoticeable corner, and intentionally “undersigned”.SKIN SCOPE was designed to reimagine a new data center of the modernday, rather than a product of to be storage,the architecture becomes the part of the data machinery, vice versa. and the public is invited to the visualizing the flow and deployment of the information. Additionally, the project was also aimed to tackle the potential issue within the data center, data security, energy insufficiency, and most importantly raise people’s awareness of the origin of daily consumption.

The two types of data center architecture that currently exists fails to address a solution of the architectural dead space and invisibility from the rest of the world. The retrofit and warehouse design of the data-political atmosphere acts as plainly a storage facility that focuses on data and does not have concerns with the function of the space in conjunction with people and the practicality of sustainability, security and maintenance. In our proposal instead of treating the data as storage, we create a dynamic environment where data is no longer the sole focus, but instead,drawn out acting as a facade element enveloping and dictating the architecture of living space inside, wrapping around and forming a skeletal membrane that pulls the architecture together.

Circulation

Program Growth People Circulation

The data center is used as a facade element, defining the synthetic lighting condition, while acting as a security measure. the damage done by the heat generate from the data storage, cooled by the ocean as it is embedded into the ocean’s continental ally, tidal energy is generated at the foot of the skyscraper of the site condition located on the coast of the business district addressing sustainability concerns.

TIDAL ENERGY SYSTEM

When the water level on one side of the barrage than the other, water to flow through the turbines to generate electricity.

Space Information Center

//Sky Lounge

//Data Storage

//Office

//Data Center

Ring Formation

outer ring’s form and measure. Second, to mitigate storage, the environment is continental shelf. Additionto further take advantage district in Hong Kong, level is high barrage is allowed turbines electricity.

The facade’s changing light and spatial condition are dictated by two systems that are critical in ventilation and circulation using the hot aisle and cold aisle arrangement. However, instead of the typical need for a 7-tile pitch square footage, the design of data storage racks as drawers saves room and further influences the light condition from the exterior facade. As a drawer is pulled out, the light on the exterior skin facade slightly, creating a new aperture that engaged with the city.

//Information Center

Tidal turbines are used as a power generator to support the skyscrapers’ use of energy and waste consumption. These turbines are very effective as with the same size blades as wind turbines,they can capture exponentially larger amounts of energy.

//Water Observatory

//Mechanical Storage

//Tidal Energy Turbine

Aqualava

PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS

COMPLETION: DECEMBER 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC this project and the idea for the reis grey. The when outthe future with the solid These prothe entrance circulation, which spatial exstudy, immerno imposed constraints upon designed as four part

Like the fusion of water and fire, this explores the intermediate zone and of fusion, which provides a place shuffle. Neither black nor white, it is project intertwined the moment door meet indoor, the history and collapse, and the void interacts with and forming a third topology. These grammable spaces can allow the of light,and freeform of circulation, gives the audience an immersive perience.It is a place for fun, study, sion. Within the space, there are no physical or psychological constraints its occupants.

Study Model: The study model is designed a puzzle which can disassemble into based on its program.

TRANS-FORMAL RED HOOK

BROOKLYN URBAN HOUSING

INSTRUCTOR: BENN KRONE

COMPLETION: JAN 2023

TYPE: ACADEMIC- GRADUATE

Site: The Liberty Warehouse, Brooklyn

Red hook is a neighborhood that is vibrant on one side and shares the skyline of New York but, on the other side, is away from the bustling core and allows the growth of the vernacular culture. With the aim to reinforce the cultural identity and historical legacy, the design strengthens the unique waterfront view through the spatial technique of layering and tilting in order to facilitate the proximity experience of seeing and living between residents and the neighborhood. Moreover, the project has reactivated the artistic community and the hidden local talents, such as the glass-making brewery, by transforming the liberty warehouse into a cultural hub that reveals the making process.

The liberty warehouse becomes a mix of commercial, manufacturer, and residential use, where people can do activities of wine tasting and touring the factory. A sense of hierarchy and boundary is blurred with a more integrated and open relationship making the public more common to the audience.

The Floating Box

STUDENT HOUSING

INSTRUCTOR: VICTOR PEREZ- AMADO

COMPLETION: APRIL 2020

TYPE: ACADEMIC

Few step away from the University of Toronto and the downtown financial core, The Floating box is an integrated residential complex that bridge the gap between traditional student housing and the desire of comfort which aim to fulfill different living needs of diverse constituents in the surrounding community, ranging from student and school worker to large family housing.

The floating box is a dual connected residential tower that can accommodate around 350 people. It redefines the conventional relationship between high-rise residents and the public realm by categorizing the residents into five living blocks, where people share the same living habits and can live together within one block without interrupting others. On every five floors, the residents from the different buildings are reintegrated by public sky bridges, which provide communal spaces for residents to interact from different levels and provide a smooth transition of space. The buildings have a moveable louvered system that gives flexibility in adjusting sunlight angles for constituents while ensuring residents’ privacy from the public bridge platform.

Precedent Study: Study of personal space to understand the qualities that create comfort, and the need for privacy and social space.

Ground Floor Plan: Two buildings are separated and share a courtyard on ground floor.

Dining Floor Plan: Two buildings are first connected on the third floor, which is a dining hall for the residents and student life center.

Residential Floor Plan: The typical floor plan consist of various types of units, from bachelor studio to loft unit for a bigger family.

Louver Facade:The moveable louvered system provides flexibility in adjusting sunlight angle and increasing privacy from the communal bridge.

Section: The building provides various unit module, and amenities which are spread out in different stores. Residents from different stories all have access to it rather than cluster at one location.

Spolia Agency

CALLOW HILL FOODWAY MARKET

INSTRUCTOR: BRIAN DELUNA

COMPLETION: MAY 2022

TYPE: ACADEMIC

A journey in a city begins with its food.The cuisine of Philadelphia was shaped largely by the city’s mixture of ethnicities, rich history, and culture. Treasured by locals and former residents, Philly is not only the home of the signature cheesesteak.From rich Italian and Ethiopian food, Mexican tacos to the exceptional dim sum in Chinatown, Philly is a colorful and memorable city with all sorts of eating adventures abound.

Departure from studying the cuisine culture and food distribution pattern of the neighborhood, combined with the study of euclidean shapes, a series of patterns and new typologies emerges. The object form study has further translated the graphic into an architectural language and become a part of the facade system.

Like its diverse and sophisticated building envelope, the market is designed to be a welcoming urban leisure place that fuses a mix of programs. It a place for play, eating, for immersion, where different building typologies and tastes meet, forming a vibrant urban synthesis.

Activities And Program In Foodway Market

The market is designed to be a welcoming urban festival and leisure place that fuses a mix of the central plaza from 10th street, with pop-up vendors, food trucks, and a flea market. The oath and stairway will lead to the cuisine cultural center and connect the population to the existing is a place for play, eating, and immersion, where different building typologies and tastes meet, synthesis.

of programs. Visitors enter main massing diverging existing pedestrian atop. It meet, forming a vibrant urban

Carbon Foliage

HYBRID INDUSTIRAL NATURE

INSTRUCTOR: DANIELLE WILLEMS

COMPLETION: OCTOBER 2021

TYPE: ACADEMIC

TEAM: GYO SUN, YITING ZHANG, AIMEN ARAIN

This project is an exploration of hybrid material of metal, carbon fiber. The metal countour acts as the exterior framework to create organic curved and double curve interior voids, which is defined by the carbon fiber. We started this form through constant iteration, looking at differnt curvllinear solid and void relations.

Free-planning Space: Workers can freely detach from the fixed working space and choose their preferred work environment.

Oasis On The Cloud Workspace For Tomorrow

GROUP: RUOWU WANG, RUI ZHANG & DORIS WU

COMPLETION: MARCH 2020

TYPE: COMPETITION

RESPONSIBLE: CONCEPT, DIGITAL MODEL,DRAWING,ALL DRAWINGS REVISED,

Future office is imagined to be an inclusive and comfortable environment that is able to accommodate all different needs. They have options to pick whatever workspace they prefer.

Inspired by IKEA’s circulation approach, people are continually moving to different settings; People can freely detach from a fixed working environment to a free circulated workspace.

The cloud system is an unvisualized system that allows the worker to constructs a virtual computing environment and pulled out the work from the virtual system with no boundary of distances.

Workspaces for tomorrow will be integrated with a high-tech database cloud network system. The Cloud system revolutionizes the office’s interior zones and program divisions that respond to the requirements for the workspaces.

The first-floor is in contrast to the upper-level social space, where it is fully open to public socialize and entertainment. The first-floor performs as a core area for comprehensive working using the cloud network system where reveals a high mobility working environment. It concatenates two main areas individually serve as a fixed workspace and a flexible workspace.On the fixed side of the office, we have included a variety of necessary programs such as a small meeting chamber, kitchen, relaxation space, conference meeting hall, and management office.

Public Employee Management

TYPE OF SPACES

Furniture: The moveable furniture can reassemble into different forms of space.

The Breathing Maze

Computation Architectural Machine

INSTRUCTOR: MARIA YABLONIA

TEAM: HAIYEN CHEN, JIANGHONG DAI & JUNJIE SHEN

COMPLETION: MAY 2020

TYPE: ACADEMIC

RESPONSIBLE: CONCEPT, PRECEDENT RESEARCH, ASSEMBLY DIAGRAM, STRUCTURE DETAIL DRAWING.

“Breathing Maze” is an interactive architectural machine that investigates the topic of “automated space” in architecture. The machine is able to respond to the individuals’ movements, serving as an automatic spatial divider for the users. Once the user approach one side of the device, the touch sensor will detect the movement of the user and activate the roller system and accordingly rise down to create a void for potential space, whereas the remaining ones serve as spatial dividers.

The hexagonal pattern’s flexibility is an ideal geometry to achieve a chain reaction, and each individual module allows a dynamic change in pattern. The project thereby provides a possibility to satisfy the diverse needs for spatial configurations, a kind of spatial configuration that breaths with the users.

In this group project, our group formulated the concept as a group. I am mainly responsible for mechanism designs and produce drawings to convey machine movement into diagrams and other 2D dimensional representations.