2024 Portfolio by Leo Huang

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 | Chicago, US Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Jun 2023- Aug 2023 Architecture Intern | New York, US Gensler New York Jun 2022- Jul 2022 Design Executive Officer | Lansdowne, Canada Cosmo Camping Inc Jun 2020- Jan 2022

AWARD & INVOLVEMENT

E.Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship Winner University of Pennsylvania May 2023 Design Ideal Beam Competion - First Place University of Pennsylvania Mar 2022 Re: Action: A Field Guide to Agency by Design (Publication) University of Toronto Jun 2021

SKILL

Hand 3D Printing Laser Cutting Model Making Wood Work CNC Printing Photography Casting

Software Rhino Revit V-Ray Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premier BIM360 Blender 3D Grasshopper Luminon AutoCad Unity

CONTENTS

RESUME TANS-FORMAL RED HOOK BROOKLYN MIXED USE HOUSING

02 04

OVERLAY MADNESS BROADWAY GLASS THEATHER

APPLETON PUBLIC LIBARY INTERNSHIP PROJECTS

SPOLIA AGENCY CALLOW HILL FESTIVAL MARKET

SKIN SCOPE SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTER

TOKYO VOID POSSIBILITIES IN URBAN VACANCY

TRANS-FORMAL RED HOOK BROOKLYN MIXED USE HOUSING Instructor: Ben Krone Completion: January 2022 Type: Academic - Graduate

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.

//DESIGN PARTI

Site

Unit Aggregation

Renovation Area

Circulation& View

Facade Alteration

Detail& Roofscape

Plan: An assemble plan shows a combination of a public bar( ground floor), a semi-public winery(second floor), and private housing(third floor) from left to right.

Exterior Roof Garden: Exterior Roof is an open rooftop garden redefines the existing abandon roofscape.

Public Common Lounge: An integrated bar that sees through beer making process.

South Facade Elevation: South Facade shows a reappropriation of existing brickwork. The open glass front captures the winery culture of the red hook by revealing the whole making process and from manufacture to final delivery to the bar below. See the whole process all at once; This is the best name card that represents identity of the neighborhood.

OVERLAY MADNESS BROADWAY GLASS THEATHER Instructor: Brian Deluna Completion: May 2023 Team: Yuhang Tao Type: Academic- Graduate

This project explores and redefines the traditional theatrical experience with a focus on the building process, building technologies, and most importantly, the material. In this case, glass tubes and mass timber (CLT) are the primary materials, also shaping the building envelope and design concept. Situated in a prime location on Broadway in New York, the project seeks to explore the relationship between the city and theater. Using the technique of layering and overlaying of translucent and transparent envelopes to create a unique visual effect that reflects the vibrancy of the urban context of New York. Moreover, I incorporate the light and liveliness of the city as an integral part of the “show.” The translucency of the glass material is designed to reflect and evolve its appearance throughout the changing light and weather conditions, creating an ever-evolving spectacle.

//PROGRAM The changes in scale and the layering of massing have also been reflected in the spatial organization, illustrating how people are arranged in relation to actors, programs, circulation, and public spaces. The areas with a higher interlocking volume of massing are designed to be open and transparent, featuring larger glass tubes with minimal distortion. These spaces are intended to serve as public areas, offering the audience a clear view of the flow and theatrical effects within the theater. Conversely, certain spaces employ multiple layers of glass and smaller glass tubes with more distortion to enhance opacity, providing increased privacy and control over lighting. This design fosters an intimate connection to the human experience of the show.

//SECTION

Elevation: glass tubes of varying density and scale to create a diverse range of visual effects also the definition of the space. The areas with dense and small-scale glass tubes will have more distortion, creating a sense of privacy and exclusivity, while the areas with larger glass tubes and less density will provide more visual transparency and clarity which serve as a public space.

//JOINT DETAIL

Joint Detail: The glass joint detail between fluted glass and a glass panel seamlessly integrates two surfaces for both visual appeal and structural integrity.

//SECTION DETAIL

//CHUNK MODEL

Chunk Model: Sectional chunk displaying the building within its context on Broadway Street, the current site of the Harry Potter Theater. The internal wood framework provides the structure for the fluted glass.

//PHYSICAL MODEL

Physical Model: Aluminum zigzag joints and laminated tube glass envelope the exterior, creating contrast with the surrounding buildings. Behind the translucent glass tube, an array of LED panels continually shifts and responds to the vibrancy of the cityscape.

APPLETON CITY LIBRARY /EXHIBITION CENTER INTERNSHIP PROJECTS Company: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Fisher-Jorge Studio

Completion: July 2023 Type: Professional

During my internship at SOM, I have particated in serval pojects from the design devlopment to construction detailing, including the preparation of building schedules, construction administration,andcraftingmarketing visualizations; a flythrough animation used for the groundbreaking event, as this significant project now progresses through the construction phase. SOM’s renovation and expansion of the Appleton Public Library emphasizes community connections by introducing well-lit spaces with clear sightlines and versatile areas for visitors of all ages. Exhibition Center project focuses on facade panelization, wherein the glass panels are arranged at different angles and heights. My responsibility is to prepare a section detail with materials and callouts to indicate how it performs under various conditions.

//STOARYBOARD

10.Co-Working

Animation Storyboard: The animation begins with a circulation studies and storyboarding that comprises essential scenes animated to convey the architectural space’s circulation, program, and movement, featuring immersive walkthroughs and dynamic shifts in lighting and time of day.

//CIRCULATION PLAN

3.Community Meeting

4. Learning Stair

//SECTION DETAIL

Section detail: This project features intricate facade panelization, wherein the glass panels are arranged at different angles and heights. My responsibility is to prepare a section detail with material and detail callouts to indicate how it performs under various conditions.

//SECTIONAL CHUNK

//SECTION DETAIL

Section detail: Initial mock-up of the curtain wall details, revealing the mullion and connections between glass panels.

SPOLIA AGENCY

CALLOW HILL FOODWAY MARKET Instructor: Brian Deluna Completion: January 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 emerge. 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 is a place for play, eating, for immersion, where different building typologies.

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

//PHYSICAL MODEL

Physical Model: 1/8’’ physical chunk model demostrate spatial and interior/exterior realationship of the project.

Relief Map: Proposed form study strategy applied on site, derived from analysis of Philly.

//ELEVATION

//SECTION

//SITE CONTEXT This axonometric illustrates the building’s location within its surroundings context, highlighting its association with the adjacent rail park. Although the rail park is currently unused, there is potential to repurpose it as a parking facility for the green market, as depicted. Furthermore, the axonometric showcases the building’s programmatic elements, emphasizing its focus on integrating greenery.

SKIN SCOPE

SUSTAINABLE DATA CENTER

Completion: January 2022 Team: Bohan Lang, Shengnan Gao, Yiting Zhang 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. 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.

//DATA CENTER WORLD MAP

//REIMAGINATION 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.

Presence

Data Center Warehouse

Future Data Storage in Facade

//DESIGN PARTI

Intial Massing

Horizontal Growth

Trimed Edge

Smooth Edge

Ring Formation

Interior Negative Void

Divide Level

Data Center Meander

Chamfered Angle

Data Center Access

Program Block

Final Form

//FACADE SYSTEM The data center is used as a facade element, defining the outer ring’s form and synthetic lighting condition, while acting as a security measure. Second, to mitigate the damage done by the heat generate from the data storage, the environment is cooled by the ocean as it is embedded into the ocean’s continental shelf. Additionally, tidal energy is generated at the foot of the skyscraper to further take advantage of business district in Hong Kong, addressing sustainability concerns. 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,

Transport Pipe Converter Sluice Gates Turbine

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

Level of High Tide

Level of Low Tide

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.

//Sky Lounge

// Data Storage

// Office

// Data Center

// Information Center

// Water Observatory

// Mechanical Storage

// Tidal Energy Turbine

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.

//RESEARCH

23 SPECIAL WARDS OF TOKYO Population by age group(%)

0-14 years 15-64 years 65+ years

Adachi

Arakawa

Edogawa

Itabashi

Katsushika

Kita

Koto

Taito

Meguro

Minato

Nakano

Nerima

Ota

Toshima

Setagaya

Shibuya

Shinagawa

Shinjuku

Suginami

Sumida

Bunkyo

Chiyoda

Chu-ku

//SITE SELECTION

Model: Miyu Kojima’s miniature replicas of the room of Japan’s “Lonely deaths“.

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 to respond to the unstable urban structure. These qualities make Tokyo result in many small and odd urban vacant spaces. 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.

//TYPE OF VOID SPACE Left- Over Space

Insufficient Park

Abandoned Space

Public Parking

Public

Private

Public

Semi-Public

Urban void spaces: 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. //PHOTO DOCUMENTATION

Abandoned Space

Insufficient Park

Left- Over Space

Public Parking

COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE 1. Lighted Walking Cane 2. Separable Bench 3. Portable Mahjong Set 4. Moveable Screen 5. Signage Container 6. Mobilizer 7. Retractable Canopy

Community Support System コミュニティサポート

//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.

Urban Context:Temporariness is not absent from the present, it is the presence of possibility and potential events and phenomena. The informal practice and temporariness make it an experimental space that could occupy everyone and my design provides the tool for invention.