WILL FU
architecture portfolio 2015
WILL FU
E: willcongfu@gmail.com
SKILL SET RHINO NURBS 2.0 VRAY [for rhino] Grasshopper Processing Sketchup Revit 2015
AutoCAD 2014 Photoshop cs6 Illustrator cs6 Indesign cs6 Laser cutting CNC + RhinoCAM
Hand modeling Drafting Microsoft office English [fluent] Mandarin [fluent]
EDUCATION Univeristy of Waterloo School of Architecture
[class 2017]
courses include design studio, iconography, visual communication, building construction, environmental design, structures, lighting & acoustics.
WORK EXPERIENCE KPMB
architectural assistant [sept-dec 2014] drawing documentation for tender, complete millwork, detail, and elevation drawings, 3-D site modeling, renders
HWKN
architectural intern [jan-april 2014] 3-D visualization of context, massing iterations, in rhino nurbs. renders, diagrams,design research, and physical models.
Shenzhen Bowan
architectural assistant [july-aug 2014] 3-D visualization, section diagrams, brick & mesh design, and floor plan proposals.
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essential resume
HI! My name: Will Fu, a student, optimist, and lover of all things creative. Through research, and experimentation, I continue on a life long passion to learn how the shaping and connection of architecture can influence the way we communicate, percieve, and interact with the environment around us. Please view and critique my work. Thank you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC
pg.4-11 pg.12-17
agri-evolution garden projection centre
COMPETITION/SELF INITIATED
pg.18-21 pg.22-25 pg.26-27 pg.28-29
highline cinemas CPH digital library shadowplay sky city
WORK
pg.30-31 pg.32-33
KPMB HWKN
table of contents
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public + private programs accessible, only views outwards
evolutionary stages of species from gmo at centre out towards natural
architecture as machine, as a means of maintaining the landscape
AGRI-EVOLUTION GARDEN 2B STUDIO: LOLA SHEPPARD MILTON QUARRY, ON JULY 2014
The agri-evolution education centre is situated at the entrance of milton quarry. This centre showcases the evolution of selected cash crops and the horticulture associated with these early domesticated plants. The goals of the centre was to create a main circulation path in which layers of information, sectional relationships, and views of the landscape are gradually revealed before one exits the building to disperse out into the fluctuating topography of the landscape.
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agri-evolution garden
summer perspective from field
agri-evolution garden
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species size, spacing requirements from natural to gmo
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agri-evolution garden
human - plant comparison
annual growth
machines specialized in harvesting, and planting unique species
agri-evolution garden
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planting + harvesting times
[plan / roll out sections]
jan
feb
mar
apr
may
june
july
aug
sept
oct
nov
dec
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agri-evolution garden
building + landscape axo
agriculture + industrializatin timeline of cash crops
The landscape has 3 rings which represents the different evolutionary stages of each species from gmo centre to the natural. The circular organization of 1 acre plots allows for a rotating and changing landscape in which the species chosen are planted and harvested in different times of the year.
agri-evolution garden
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x-section
y-section
PATH
SEED ARCHIVE CORE LOBBY
PATH + INFO PANEL
LANDSCAPE
PRODUCE STORAGE
MACHINE STORAGE
LANDSCAPE
INFO PANEL + PATH
LIBRARY
LANDSCAPE
PRIVATE STUDY
PATH
tour of production
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RESTAURANT
agri-evolution garden
LIBRARY
EXHIBITION SPACE
SILO PATH + CORE LOBBY
LANDSCAPE
entrance perspective
model pictures
Upon entering, people’s vision of the landscape is carefully dictated and slowly revealed as one enter the building and ascend the primary educational stream that takes people from the ground floor to the top of the silo.
long section
agri-evolution garden
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max built mass, existing berm
extrude + reinforce berm
carve program,
PROJECTION CENTRE 2A STUDIO: ADRIAN BLACKWELL CAMBRIDGE,ON DEC 2013
The Projection Centre primarily focuses on establishing a connection between activites through the views, and movement of the user. The cultural centre is comprised of three fragments: the visual arts centre, the performance art centre, and the fitness centre. These fragments read as a extrusion from the landscape while the 2nd floor sits as the single monolithic build form on the site.
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projection centre
car perspective down water st.
site relations
add interior circulation
projection centre
extrude small programs, views
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context of Cambridge
double end section study model
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projection centre
sports fragment section perspective
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Visual arts
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Peformance
admin office, daycare, gallery auditorium, dance studio
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Fitness
general pool, hot tub
projection centre
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night perspective from berm
x-section through auditorium
x-section through pool
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projection centre
facade treatments for light and views catered towards program and circulaiton
views on the 2nd floor connect individuals in multiple platfroms, landscape to built, program to program, and circulation to activity. The framed extrusions were made in acknowledgement of key moments of the site.
projection centre
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night perspective from 34th and 10th
HIGHLINE CINEMAS HONOURABLE MENTION: POOR BUT BEAUTIFUL COMPETITION IN COLLAB: LOGAN STEELE 34TH ST, NEW YORK MAR 2014 Highline Cinemas introduces to the city what has previously been confined to the suburbs: the Drive-in Cinema. During the day the proposal serves as a functional, high density parking garage with accommodations for 252 vehicles. However, unlike a conventional parking garage which becomes inert overnight, our proposal comes to life as a vertically oriented drive-in cinema. Boasting two main screens along with a host of secondary screens ranging from one to three floors in height with various configurations in response to orientation and theatre functions, Highline Cinemas also provide moving pods with various functions and generous sheltered public spaces.
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highline cinemas
daytime perspective down 34th st
highline cinemas
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15-18
program + view sections
day layout
night layout
max parking
screen programs
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13-14
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8-10
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5-7 19
2-4
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ground
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highline cinemas
moveable modular rectangles provide: private lounges, study spaces, and cooking stations for local business to sell food for the show at night
site context axo
interior perspective highline cinemas
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current library model
CPH digital library
future library model
AWR COPENHAGEN MODERN LIBRARY COMPETITION IN COLLAB: LYDON WHITTLE, LARA ISAAC HARBOUR FRONT, COPENHAGEN NOV 2014 This project seeks to challenge the existing paradigm and traditional ideals of libraries through recognizing how technology has influenced, among other things, the way people communicate, learn, and discover. The library embraces the prevalence of social media and the digitization and accessibility of information both of which have been rapidly transitioning in the past decade. The analog represents the traditional book centred library experience and is buried belowgrade in reference to an ancient delicate ruin marking the book concentrated zone as the foundation from which the digital realm has risen from. The upper portions of the library are more representative of the current and future digital experience where books are no longer the primary medium and devices have become the agent to accessing and exploring the intangible ‘cloud’. This opening of spaces shifts the definition of a library from a storage for information to a physical realm to induce research and cross disciplinary interaction.
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CPH digital library
ground floor perspective
CPH digital library
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program massing
threshold diagram
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CPH digital library
lecture hall + meeting area
multi-media zonge CPH digital library
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the playground
the playground in motion
SHADOWPLAY FAIRYTALES II COMPETITION
IN COLLAB: KOBI LOGENDRARAJAH, JOHNNY SINN, SHANNON KENNELLY Blankspaceproject JAN 2015
A mouse is to return home by navigating the maze. The wall, the most basic of all architectural elements impose and dicate the mouse to experience and act in polar extremes, his comfort is challenged, his morals are tested. “Extruded black walls populate in orderly fashion, snapping to the white grid of a black marble plane. Pieces crisscross and bind to each other, creating diverse paths in a maze of circulation, turning sharply to form clear distinctions between figure and void. The playground is ready.” “Within the home, encounters are minimal, chance is eliminated. Physically enclosed, comfort is protected, now resting within the permanence its locality. The walls divide and clearly punctuate the space. Black and white. There is no space for the grey, which confuses the animal with the civil.”
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private maze
navigating the maze
meeting another
arriving home
private maze
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SKY CITY NUIT BLANCHE TORONTO F_RMlab
DESTINGO RESTAURANT,QUEEN ST. WEST, TORONTO SEPT 2014
Sky City is an exploration and imagining of spaces of the future. Sky City defines a spacial dichotomy between physical materials and virtual softwares. The growth of our digital age promises a future where our spaces exists within the physical and virtual realities. We hypthosize future interior spaces that will think, sense, and react to changes in the environment, occupancy and time while the exterior form of spaces will become more systemized and modular. The curved path directs users through the cloud as the series of ribs illuminate the path following the users. Fabric is used to finesse the form of the ribs while creating an interior condition shielding views from the inside out. The cloud purposefully covers waist up, revealing only the legs of the user as their “heads are in the clouds.� The installation served as a shelter and framed the entrance to the restaurant that hosted our installation, Destingo.
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sky city
sky city poster
sky city
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millwork details and elevation
KPMB CO-OP II: ARCHITECTURAL ASSISTANT TORONTO SEPT-DEC 2014
At my time at KPMB I predominately aided in the drawing of construction drawings for an orchestra extension to Hendrie Hall, site and scale analysis of Huronia Regional Centre, and health and science layouts for CAMH. I learnt how to draw RCP’s, details, AV drawings, and slab edge drawings as well as general material and construction knowledge. I 3-D modeled the site of Huronia Regional Centre and surrounding context from google earth in order to develop a scale comparison study of different outdoor amphitheatre spaces. I was the sole aid to the principal in this early stage of the project and helped him prepare a presentation.
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KPMB
Huronia Regional Center site
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH, PHASE 1C
CAMH program layouts KPMB
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yotel highway perspective
initial massing schemes
massing model
HWKN CO-OP I: ARCHITECTURAL INTERN NEW YORK JAN-APR 2014
At my time at HWKN I predominatly did context modeling, massing, aesthetic tests and iterations in rhino nurbs. I also did photoshop, illustrator, physical models and design research. I mostly worked with the senior design director: robert may and got to experience intial design meetings and processes. hwkn gave me the opportunity to contribute my own design ideas while touching on a large variety of projects from interiors to masterplanning.
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HWKN
initial program massing roof interior studies
loop scheme
carve scheme
object scheme
facade studies
current scheme HWKN
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dream machine
wall - slab
CITA workshop ACADIA 2014
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play
surface iterations
negative - positive srf
play
wire texture
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wfu
e: willcongfu@gmail.com p: [519]-635-1932 thank you