Tong Ouyang Columbia University. M.S.AAD University Of Nottingham B.Arch(RIBA PART I)
Tong Ouyang
245 West 109 Street apt 10, Manhattan | New York | NY 10025 3474454316 | to2339@columbia.edu |
EDUCATION Columbia University (2018-2019) Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design Studio Critics: Maarten Gielen + Lionel Devlieger | Phu Hoang+Rachely Rotem | Laurie Hawkinson. University Of Nottingham (United Kingdom)(2014-2017) Bachelor of Architecture
SOCIAL EXPERIENCE Volunteer Translator Volunteer Translator in The Nature Conservancy (TNC) , China.
EXPERIENCE B.L.U.E Architecture Studio based on Beijing(2017-2018) Studio Founder: Shuhei Aoyama Architectural Intern - Digital Model Building for Interior Design Of Lily Nail Salon in Beijing Taikoo Li Sanlitun. - Digital Model Building and Interior Image Rendering of a Private Housing Project in Osaka, Japan. - Document Translating, CAD drawing for Private Housing Project in Kyoto, Japan. - CAD drawing, Analysis diagram drawing, Rendering for Wuhan Skyscraper Polar Day. - Digital Model Building, CAD drawing, Designing for Restaurant in Zhejiang Province. - Designing, CAD Drawing for a Financial Office in Beijing - Designing for a Portable Kiosk Design in Beijing and Shenzhen. Beijing Architecture and Engineering Institution(2016) Architectural Intern - Translating Documents for presentation(Chinese to English) - Participated in early design stage for Thai Theme Park planning - Digital Model Building for a Hospital Design Southwest China Railway Engineering Administration Architecture Department(2015) Architectural Intern - Helping with CAD drawing - Orgnizing Material for Presentation
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AutoCAD, Rhino, Sketchup, V-ray for SU, Photoshop, Revit, Illustrator, Indesign, Imovie, Physical Model Making, Sketch, Photography, Grasshopper
LANGUAGES Native in Chinese, Poficient in English, Beginner in Japanese.
01 Chinese Photographer Gallery
06 Housing
02 Tidal Immersion Metropolis
03 Wren Church Exhibition Pavillion
Other Work
04 Contractor Retreat
05 Immersive Theater Zoo
Mini Project
Phase I: Columbia GSAPP(2018-2019)
PIER D BAR AT BROOKLYN NAVY YARD #Post-Industrial Retreat Purposing a new leisure retreating bar at the brooklyn navy yard , this project aims to explore a new strategy in the post-industrial age. Using abondoned bunker oil tank as main structure material, I designed a set of instruction specifically for my contractor - GMD shipyard. The whole building is celebrating the welding technique using on the shipping building and try to reuse the post-industrail waste. As a new recreational area, Brooklyn navy yard is lacking relaxing place for the workers in the park.
MSAAD Project Individual Project Site Location: Brooklyn Program:Retreat Critic:Maarten Gielen +Lionel Devlieger
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The main structure will be assembled from used bunker oil tank(10’x34’) either recycled from the shipyard or purchased from second-hand dealers, welded together and covered. The interior spaces will be covered with bent timbers and planking typically used in keels. To celebrate the ship building and repairing technique, steel welding and cutting contractors as well as carpenters from the shipyard will be kindly invited to take responsibility to construct the main body. All the Oil tanks need to be cleaned overly and cut in an relatively open space as individual components, then transport to site by cranes to be welded on site. Interior construction will take place after the main structure has finished on site. Following your earlier request, we provided lots of windows and balconies overviewing the harbour. I also recommend to landscape the rest of the pier as an outdoor recreation area using the cut-offs from the tanks to produce exterior furniture might be productive here.
MOOSE VERSION PERSPECTIVE DRAWING
IMMERSIVE THEATER ZOO #Who is the Observers? Expanding the research on interaction behavior between human being, we move on to the relationship between human beings and animals. In order to change the relationship between human beings and animals in a traditional zoo which is, human being the audience and animals being the performers, this project blurs boundaries between those two subjects. Instead of caging animals, we would like to give animals and human beings the same experience. By transforming the whole southern island into our zoo, we provide human beings and animals with equal freedom and flexibility. We are creating architecture without roof by immersing architecture in the landscape and also immersing landscape in our architecture. .
MSAAD PROJECT Pair Project| Partner:Qianhui Shi Site Location: Governor’s Island Program:Zoo Critic: Phu Hoang+Rachely Rotem
We try to change the relationship between people and animals in the traditional zoo, no longer caging them, providing more freedom to animals. we immse landscape in architecture and immerse architecture in landscape. Overturn the concept of zoo from social aspect and environmental aspect. Relationship Between Human Being and Animal
Traditional Zoo In Nature
Relationship Between Animal and Animal
Seperated by Topo
Predator
Human In Cage
Same Species
Different Species Solitary
Varying topography creates different environments–cave, river, etc.. These spaces are separated naturally through changing elevation. On the other hand, there will be enclosed spaces which are conditioned to allow for year-round programming, yet animals are allowed to penetrate and explore this otherwise “interior� space. Architecture is fading and landscape is growing from north to south in order to create a sequence which allow human beings and animals interact with each other step by step.
TIDAL IMMERSION METROPOLIS #new way to engage sea level rising The site was supposed to be the new location for Amazon HQ, although Amazon decided not to come, how to arrange private space and democratic space remains an architectural issue. Taking the advantage of the waterfront site, we aiming to use water as node to connect communities and incoming technology company. New York is surrounding with water, however, not much space could people be able to directly access east river. So we decide to create mutiple directly water accessing recreation on the site.To actually live with water rather than live beside water. We are trying to explore a new waterfront urban typology and at the same time propose a new office environment.
M.S.AAD Project Group Project Teammate:Ziwei Deng Site Location: Long Island City Program:Ferry Terminal +Recreation/Planning Critic: Laurie Hawkinson
Using city context as planning reference. Instead of simply extending city grid, we introduce three direction within our site and the interacting of different direction blocks will create interesting negative space. The blocks will be the positive space. We either push or pull these positive blocks to create either pools or buildings.
Democratic Space
Private Space(office)
Mix
Slice
Explode
Assign Program
Rescale
Low Tide
High Tide
Flood Reorient
Sectional Shift
City Edge + pond
Terminal+Aquarium
Bridge+Water Sport
Data Center+SPA
Office+Aquarium
Office+Diving
Massing Model
Building Section
Phase II: University Of Nottingham (2014-2017)
CHINESE PHOTOGRAPHER GALLERY IN LONDON #Peeking into The Truth In the exhibition, the revolution of China will be one of my focus, the time will be locked in the period of China around 1949 when the People Republic of China established. That history is a huge break through of China ,however, some truth were hidden by the government. But photos could talk themselves, what architecture need to be is the stage. A peek from the crowded London city into the history of China. China has 5000 years history, its culture,civilization,humanity are all birthed from that history. Cultures varies from province to province, even town to town. We speak different dialects,share different conventions. This country can be never summerized by a single book or movie. Me, as a Chinese, I would like to provide a stage to show more about China to the world. Photography is a perfect media for that. Pictures can talk themselves,just like architecture, they store memories in one way and release them in milion ways.
B.Arch Year 3 Project Individual Project Site Location: London Program:Museum/Gallery Critic: Warren McFadden
Elevation
Site Model 1:500
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AXO
Contemporary Building Concept
Contemporary Building
Archive Building
Archieve Building Elevation
WREN CHURCH EXHIBITION PAVILLION IN LONDON #Evocation of Losing Memories This project aims to produce an exhibition space within the ruined church gardern and present 25 Wren Churchs. It is Productive exhibition design, which is the possibility of directly engaging with the producer of an exhibition. Becoming part of the actual process and product of the exhibition. I played with light and shadow for concept study. The most interesting part of nature light is it unpredictablility. This shadow cast on the wall will change with the time passing and it is how this device interact with it’s surrounding. Since the Wren Church located among city of London, the map of London is used as the pavilion’s pattern and the church bubble(to display the model of each Wren Church)is located just under the location on the shadow map of London. Glazing is used as structure to add the lightness of the structure so the roof will have more sense of floating.
Year 3 Project Individual Project Site Location: London Program:Exhibition Pacvillion Critic: Warren McFadden
London City
Wren Church Distribution
Pavilion Roof (Aluminum)
Structure
Shadow Experience
It is an open exhibition space. To reduce the maintainance fee, the structure has to be the weather proof. Weather proofing aluminum is chosen as the main structure material.
Design Develop
HOUSING RECAP #Story driving housing The initial idea is to design comfortable houses for people who live in the busy city and own a busy life. In that case, the space can be as simple as possible. At the same time, I consider the background of each potential residents. Such as a single man with a dog, a fashion designer moved from a foreign country. Or there could be a just married couple, or simply two friends want to rent a house together. There could be a big familiy with children. I start to imagine what kind of people will be living in the apartment and what stories behind those people. What kinds of space do they need.Only to fully undertand them, could a good architect design the most suitable apartment for them. However, Instead of building up a new building, what about adapt my analysis into an unfinished building ? Beijing is already overcrowded, what can we do to save such busy city through architecture?
Year 2 Project and Recap Individual Project Site Location: Beijing Program:Residential Critic: Warren McFadden
One Bedroom Apartment
One Bedroom Duplex
Two Bedroom Duplex
Three Bedroom Duplex
Mini Project Category #Concrete Bird Nest #Tectonic Modelling #Landscape Design #X-Information Modelling Exploring more skills and ability in architecture field, those mini project demonstrate different type of professional knowledge and skills.
CONCRETE BIRD HOUSE(Pair Work) By observing many of bird nests in the nature, most of them are bowl-like. To simplify the shape, we came up wth the square frustrum composing of parallel lines and radial lines insteand of curved ones. Also our intention is to have a pair of twin birdhouses. which are separated but with some kinds of connections. Therefore,we thought of transforming the Square Frustrum. Since the shae is made of a top and base squares and four trapezoids.
1:20 TECTONIC MODEL STUDY(Individual work)
I never separate civil engineering and architcture. I think they support each other and a building will not exist without any of them.As doing architecture course, we may not as professional as civil engineer, but it is crucial to have the knowledge of tectonic. Architecture is not just about art design,it is much more than that. Le corbusier has claimed that a building is to create space to make users feel comfortable,that involve the aspects such as temperature, ventilation, humidity,and light. Building’s structure is one of the main factor that decide all these aspects.
RETHINKING COMMUNITY PLAN(Pair Work) The Golden Lane Estate is a 1950s council housing complex in the City of London. It was built on the northern edge of the City, in an area devastated by bombing during World War II. This Project is to redesign the center park near the hatfield house and add a cafe kiosk for the resident convinient
X-information Modelling - Park Democratization(Pair Work)
This project aims to use x information modelling system to find an relatively best way redistribute central park to the rest of the Manhattan city so that residents could have equally access to green area.Original Manhattan Unit park service area is more than 100 which means that parks are under great pressure. At the same time the number for Central Park is only 3.5 which means low efficiency usage of the park. After redistribution, unit park service area should be in a reasonable range which is 33.26-51.7. Also the area of walkable distance to park has increased as much as 20% in some iteration. However, after our redistribute, the retail ratio dropped from 3.13 to 2.63 which means the way to redistribute parks could be improved.
Phase III: Practice Work
OTHER WORK(Practice) A set of rendering image for Wuhan Skyscraper Engineering CAD drawing for Wuhan Skyscraper rendering image for housing in Japan Model Making for Resturant in Zhejiang