Zachary B. Gong
Zachary B. Gong
zachary.gong@gmail.com
Thesis Work: “Off / On’ A. “The Un-Easy” B. “Insufficient Dwelling”
Studio Work 1. Urban Soundings #1: The Grid 2. Urban Soundings #2: Sympathetic Architectures 3. Urban Soundings #3: Three Works 4. Roji House: High Density Housing in Yokohama 5. Blankness: Dearborn, MI 6. Networked Fragments: Museum Dérive 7. Gutter To Gulf 8. Live/Work Residence 9. Threshold House
Make, Draw, Fab 10. 111 West 57th Street: 1/8” = 1’-0” Model 11. Curating After Hours 12. Jacobs House Analytical Model 13. Activated Displacements 14. Faceted Aggregation 15. Peripheral, A Film 16. Tapered, Upholstered 17. Manual + Digital: Working Drawing 18. Alt Mapping / Borrowed Plans
On The Ground 19. Gallery House 20. Hollygrove Bus Shelter 21. Hollygrove Greenline 22. Hollygrove Porch Networks: A Cheap Chair 23. Critical Adjacency: Vacant Detroit
Thesis Work: “Off / On”
University of Michigan (2014-2015) “The starting point for this redefinition is the concept of habitation, understood as the half-real, half-imaginary distribution of times and places of everyday life.” Lukasz Stanek, Towards an Architecture of Enjoyment
Off / On #1: “The Un-Easy”
University of Michigan Thesis Project (Faculty: M. Roddier, 2015) This thesis is an attempt to author an appropriable architecture: figures and compositions that act as a substrate for “use,” inhabitation and architectural enjoyment through a means of projected possibilities and mis-orientations. Towards this end, “Off/On” operates within two scalar sites, titled the “Un-Easy” and “Insufficient Dwelling,” respectively. The first work is sited within the imagery and expectations of leisure furniture, and the second within the planned conversion of the Wurlitzer Building (Detroit, MI) into a new boutique hotel. Simply put, the “UnEasy” presents the image of a lounge chair with its own ottoman appended as a sidecar. This re-composition of an otherwise staid spatial relationship opens up the furniture object to invite discovery of a new set of relational potentials amongst a field of like-minded pieces.
Off / On #2: “Insufficient Dwellings” University of Michigan Thesis Project (Faculty: M. Roddier, 2015)
Within the “Insufficient Dwelling,” the managerial spaces of the forthcoming boutique hotel cohabitate the existing Wurlitzer Building with a new dormitory for Detroit’s Wayne State University. The material coexistence of the two dwelling types reveals an essential self- and projected imaging of the other: the picture of the wholly private and that of the total collective. As with the “Un-Easy,” expected organizational and spatial norms are misaligned towards an architecture conflicted in its concreteness and imaging as two divergent utopias. Comprised of these two works, “Off/On” frames Henri Lefebvre’s discussion of “concrete” and “abstract” utopias as the flickering tension between the image and material reality of architecture. The space between image and material—those negotiations of reconfiguration and novel occupation—makes the case for an architecture of incompleteness.
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Washington University in St. Louis, University of Michigan (2007-2015)
Detroit, MI (Urban Soundings) #1: The Grids University of Michigan Arch 522 ‘Networks’ Studio (Faculty: K. Velikov, 2013)
Sited across the Eastern Market District of Detroit, MI, The Grids proposes a new organizational overaly that is otherwise apathetic to the existing fabric of the city—in orientation, footfalls and scale. As a response to the disinvestment and spaciousness of Detroit’s contemporary moment, the novel Grid can serve as the substrate for the palimpsest of utopic visions, and provide a meter with which to orient, gather and observe the expansiveness of any current and future renditions of Detroit. A new organization of the grid can be understood: a pock-marked field, whose constituents are organized not just by adjacency, but by the literacy and relevance of that adjacency in the new field. A new organization of “sites” within the grid begins to emerge, compelled not only by the omission of discrete points that clarify defined figures within the field of “sites,” but also by the matrix of “connectivity” between and amongst clusters of “sites.”
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Detroit, MI (Urban Soundings) #2: Sympathetic Architectures In contrast to the uniformity of a Totalizing Grid, the Sympathetic Grid approaches each point within the proposed field as a unique and autonomous condition, for which a specific architectural and organizational perspective is developed. The premise for this work was an exercise in filming the full panoramic context from each point within the grid; this effort resulted in the development of context-specific and site-sympathetic architectural gestures for all 144 of the ‘sites.’ Through both 2-D and 3-D processes, each vignette projects a plausible programmatic and organizational future for the individual site, resulting in a particular (and specific) architectural proposal. While structurally opposed to the sentiments of the Totalizing Grid, both espouse different versions of rigorous autonomy of site (the total gridded site, or the individual, introverted site).
Detroit, MI (Urban Soundings) #3: Three Works As the the third installment in the project, the Engaged Grid seeks to articulate a more precise vocabulary for the grid’s engagement at each point, beyond just the promise of contextual “sympathy.” Rather, the Engaged Grid proposes a lexicon of “Hacks,” o r specific attitudes with which the Grid engages its discrete sites. Such “Hacks” have the potential to engage contextual histories and realities, as well as speculative futures. As these “Hacks” are generalized and codified, larger patterns across the grid become apparent and offer perhaps the most precise, articulate and active observational capacity of any of the three meditations. This specificity of language and type establishes a framework to develop specific architectural proposals at or between any given site(s).
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Armed Sentry Station Shell Gasoline Corporation
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New Monitored Pedestrian Entry OForest Park Development, LLC
Urban Soundings: Watchtower Sightlines and controlled access become integral architectural tenets within Urban Soundings. Grid points located along borders or shared territories foreground issues of frontage and identity within the urban mat. Watchtower is both an emblem of exclusivity—provided for the existing adjacent gated community—and nodal belonging of an urban lighthouse.
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Micro-Hotel Valueway Global Logistics, Inc (CAN)
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Lobby/Diner Carmango Foods Company (MI)
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Long Haul Truck Motel Valueway Global Logistics, Inc (CAN)
Urban Soundings: Trucking Motel At the point in time when Urban Soundings would comprise a viable utopia for Detroit, conflicts of international trucking routes from Canada present a pressing issue for both economies. Conflicts of tax jurisdiction and stringent visas necessitates the development of trucker housing cooperatives, sited within the confines of preexisting logistics and packaging facilities along Detroit’s Eastern Market.
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Urban Mega Church NorthRidge Church (MI)
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Suprlus/Black Market Goods Drop-Off NorthRidge Church (MI)
Urban Soundings: Back Room Sanctuary At sounding territories of vacancy and neglect, the urban mat incubates large cultural projects, in this case that of the urban megachurch. Concealed within the house of prayer, however, is an illicit marketplace for Canadian trucked goods. Mega faith and the backroom cornucopia comprise a new premise for religion within the new grid.
Roji House
University of Michigan Arch 562 ‘Systems’ Studio (Faculty: MacGillivray and Lee, 2014) The “roji,” or Japanese alleyway, serves as both a cultural and material precedent for this high rise housing proposal. The roji’s vernacular logics of mixed uses along a dense small-scale corridor are translated into a study of the double-loaded corridor as a site for maximum exposures of difference, interaction and negotiation among residences. The building is organized by seven double-height corridor spaces, which serve as social spines onto which a highly varied set of unit types (studios to four bedroom units) are linked. The project aims to break down the otherwise repetitive logics of residential corridors through both organizational and tectonic means, here balancing the promise of a social public realm with the necessity of private residential spaces.
Blankness: Revisiting Strip Commercial University of Michigan Arch 672 ‘Propositions’ Studio (Faculty: Mitnick, 2014)
“Blankness” has a troubled role in the history of architecture. Sought after and reviled, abstraction and facelessness represent the very aims of certain brands of modern practice, and are also those traits mocked by others. Along Warren Avenue in Dearborn, MI, blankness is neither fully the white-box abstracted forms of one camp, nor is it the “strip” as lauded by Venturi and Scott Brown. It is a troubling, and exciting, combination of the two. This project is both a study of these phenomena and a proposal in situ for a mixed-use commercial block sited on Warren Avenue. Herein, blankness is an architectural agenda: at once the corporate manipulation of “getting overlooked” and the misorientation of those trite modernist aspirations for blank massings. Blankness is also a highlighting of absences: the absence of the pedestrian wthin and auto-dominated context; the vacating of focused investments along a struggling commercial corrider; the brandless commerce clammoring for the non-attention of consumers speeding past...
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Networked Fragments (Museum Dérive) University of Michigan Arch 422 ‘Situations’ Studio (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013) Framed as a departure from the brief for a cultural museum sited in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Strip District, this project tries to establish an architectural language and planning strategy that would allow discrete fragments of museum programming to be dispersed across the neighborhood’s back alleys and windswept rooftops. The resulting ‘museum’ sheds iconic and typified institutional associations; the dispersal of the program across spaces of typical neglect offers both a new catalyst for occupation of such sites while also accommodating multiple audience agendas (the intentional patron, the passerby).
Gutter To Gulf Studio Washington University 412 Studio (Faculty: D. Hoeferlin, 2009) New Orleans is a city surrounded by water, but the storm water infrastructure developed for the drainage and protection of the city has, over time, come to embody a system in denial of water. The Gutter To Gulf Studio, a joint design program developed by the School of Architecture at Washington University and the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at the University of Toronto, seeks to develop alternative storm water scenarios in New Orleans that embrace water as an amenity. My design propsoal looks at the use of residual empty space created by infrastructure- freeways in particular- as an opportunity to increase New Orleans’ storm water retention capacity in hybird public spaces and layered water retention strategies. In-depth analysis of intermitent flooding data informed a proposal for a multi-layered storm water storage park-scape.
Live/Work Residence Washington University 312 Studio (Faculty: I. Frasier, 2007) Located in downtown St. Louis, this project begins with “live” and “work” as two discrete volumes separated by a courtyard. These primary volumes are broken down through a process of tessilation, overlapping and intersection. Resultant interstitial geometries create thresholds and sequenced transitional spaces that break down the previously stark distinction beatween “living” and “working” spaces and experiences.
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The Threshold House investigates the manipulation of orientation as a legitimate method of spacemaking, rooted in a critical reading of Wright’s Jacobs House (Madison, WI 1937). An initial massing and regularized organization is sifted, pushed and pulled to create a sequence of perpetual and subtle shifts in orientation for the home’s occupants and passing pedestrians. Spaces are defined most by one’s orientation within, and transitions between entry, room, and garden; such sequences of space and form are teased, spun and knotted across the home’s plan and grounds.
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University of Michigan Arch 412 ‘Form’ Studio (Faculty: A. Trandafirescu, 2012)
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Make, Draw, Fab
University of Michigan (2012-2015)
111 West 57th Street: 1/8” = 1’ - 0” Scale Model SHoP Architects (Summer 2015) Completed as a final model for the project (construction to begin Fall 2015), this scale model stands over eight feet tall. The project makes use of a varied material palette, including milled Corian, PLA plastics, acrylic, treated wood, and coated pulp board. Key to the design and fabrication of the piece was the balance of abstraction and realism: facade details are paramount to the architecture of the tower, to the degree that translating these small scale moments into a 1/8” scale representation was the primary focus of the project.
Curating After Hours University of Michigan ‘Situations’ Studio (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013) Completed as one in a series of weeklong model-building exercises, this piece examines the potentials of found object construction. The piece presents an effort to utilize found objects to acheive a loose but critical control of a recombinant aesthetic and formal language, while also articulating a nascent critique of standard architectural assemblies (both conceptual and tectonic). The project explores the notion of performance space as a (structurally) plastic realm: how both performance and audience act on a space either in its expansion (beyond its phyiscal boundary) and contraction (back into discrete spatial devices).
Jacobs House Analytical Model University of Michigan ‘Form’ Studio (Faculty: A. Trandafirescu, 2012) This model seeks to represent an analysis of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs House in Madison, WI and begin to articulate the project’s emphasis on overlapping spatial and formal orientations. Completed in 1937, the Jacobs House was built as Wright’s prototype Usonian project and represented for him an affordable and modular logic for home building that could be utilized within Wright’s formal, organizational and spatial agendas of the time. A primary experience in the home is that of the perpetual threshold: by breaking away from and disintegrating his own 2’x4’ organizing grid, discrete spaces begin to unfold onto one another through continuously layered and unpeeling transitional moments.
Activated Displacement University of Michigan ‘Situations’ Studio (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013) This week long model building project sites a contemporary performance space within the bounds of a university swimming facility. ‘Active Displacement’ activates the phenomenon of pool water overflow and develops a mechanical narrative through which these volumes of displaced water engage a series of staggered audience podiums. As activity heightens through water-based performance, audience seating and its arrangement shift and trigger alterations to the building’s ventilation and lighting systems to adapt to changing levels of sound, humidity and refraction.
Faceted Aggregation University of Michigan Arch 571 ‘Digital Fabrication’ (Faculty: M. Kaczynski, 2013) This study focuses on the development of a faceted origami formwork strategy for the fabrication of modular concrete paneling. Geometric faceting was deployed both for its formmaking capacity as well as its structural enhancements for the concrete. Here, both curing device and resultant (thin) monolith are artifacts of importance.
Peripheral, A Film University of Michigan Arch 522 ‘Networks’ Studio (Faculty: K. Velikov, 2013) Peripheral is an attempt to use the technical and atmospheric experiences of making and watching film as opportunities for understanding (and exploiting) ‘the periphery’ of place. We have established a nascent hypothesis that a focus - used here in its multiple meanings - on the peripheral allows a particular perception of the non-peripheral ‘core.’ We consider certain places, objects and phenomena ‘peripheral’ in relation to the depth of field and framing of discrete cinematic frames, as well as in relevance and proximity to the typical narratives of a neighborhood (the Eastern Market area).
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Tapered, Upholstered University of Michigan Arch 574 ‘Digital Fabrication’ (Faculty: M. Kaczynski, 2013)
A layered process of digital and manual fabrication techniques forefronts an investigation into supple, Victorian concrete furniture. The stated goal of the project was to develop a thin, light-weight modular furniture system, replicable by the reusable nature of the milled and treated formwork used to acheive a specific formal, structural and tactile agenda. The resulting project is truly an exquisite corpse of technique and tectonic motifs, all realized within the mono-material concrete language. Joint, surface, structure and allusion are carefully integrated within a singular bench prototype.
Manual + Digital: Working Drawing University of Michigan Arch 516 ‘Representations’ (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013) Developed as a part of Perry Kulper’s ‘Representation’ curriculum, this drawing is the artifact of multiple layers of digital and manual graphic efforts. The drawing itself was cycled through alternating manual and digital processes, each concerned with an autonomous representational agenda; within this graphic palimpsest, each phase of work evaluated its inherited artifact as a tabula rasa. The end result tries to mediate between the inherent schizophrenia of such a process with fundamental tenets of line, tone and space.
the removal of hierarchy was crucial for the move toward counterurbanization
Alt Mapping University of Michigan Arch 516 ‘Representations’ (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013)
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on the one hand pulling toward technical, rational planning and on the other toward an arcadian imaginary.
As a ‘map’ this drawing works to intentionally game its representational and associative agendas. Its lowest populated census tracts have simply been subsumed into the crust of the earth, its educational infrastructure relegated to a tactical military deployment, and its most contested and economically disparate municipal borders giving way to new mountain ranges. While the literal effect of the map is one of utter dystopia, its fundamental structure and data are ‘real,’ simply translated and heightened via representation.
Borrowed Plans University of Michigan Arch 516 ‘Representations’ (Faculty: P. Kulper, 2013) This work should be read as a surgical collage: the combination of canonical urban agendas within a single composition speaks less so to an image of “A Captive Globe,” and more so to the weary aspirations of architectural agendas for the city.
On The Ground New Orleans, LA / Detroit, MI (2009-2015)
Gallery House EnviRenew USGBC Competition Collaborators: John Kleinschmidt, John Monnat, Andy Sternad Designed as an entry to the USGBC “Small, Green, Affordable� competition, our entry includes a long gallery-- a typical New Orleans condition in many shotgun houses-- that stretches from the street to the backyard. This multipurpose gallery organizes the entire house. Front steps pause at a stoop, then continue to the front porch which includes a lift for potentially physically challenged occupants. After the porch is the front door, which opens to a dining and entry area. Facing the front door is a pair of glass French doors that open to an insect-screened outdoor dining area. Beyond the insect screen is a private porch with large sliding glass doors leading back inside. At the rear of the house, the porch narrows to allow a flight of stairs down to the ground level.
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Hollygrove Bus Shelter
Design Corps Summer Studio 2009 (New Orleans, LA)
Working with 11 young designers, AARP Louisiana and the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, the Design Corps Summer Studio sited, designed and constructed a community bus shelter. Working closely with community leaders and other residents, the design team conducted in-depth site analysis and material studies before developing the concept of the shelter as a “flag in the sand� for the Hollygrove neighborhood. Reclaimed cypress structure is anchored to a custom poured pad with a post-tensioned structural system, which also aligns the wood base with the metal and plastic roof/sign construction.
Hollygrove Greenline Project
Nat’l Endowment For The Arts Community Grant (2009-2011 New Orleans, LA)
Driven by resident engagement, the Hollygrove Greenline Project is a visioning, design, and implementation project of new public spaces along a former railroad corridor spanning the entire Hollygrove neighborhood. Residents of the Hollygrove neighborhood have been working since 2009 with the Tulane City Center and the NEA-funded Hollygrove Design Initiative to create a vision for the Greenline, including park space, urban farms, community gardens, stormwater management strategies and more.
Hollygrove Porch Project Nat’l Endowment For The Arts Community Grant (2009-2011 New Orleans, LA) The goal of the Porch Project was to combine architectural precedent, contemporary community engagement planning (“Eyes On The Street�) and an enthusiastic corps of neighborhood children to develop an iconic piece of community furniture for Hollygrove. The design, a result of outreach and ready-made material and assembly techniques, employs only basic hand-held tools and stock plywood, dimensional lumber and finishing coat, for a low cost of $3.00. Integral to the project was the development and training of middle-school children and volunteers, who now constitute the labor and organization behind the success of the project, both as a community asset and fundraising opportunity for local faith-based non-profits.
Critical Adjacency: Vacant Detroit University of Michigan Arch 505 ‘Liquid Planning’ (Faculty: J. Maigret and M. Arquero de Alarcón, 2013)
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Sited in the heart of Detroit, MI, this neighborhood-scale proposal emphasizes vacancy—and adjacency to it—as a viable building block for community redevelopment. “Critical Adjacencies” develops a series of strategies for the catalogue of residential vacancy typologies—and their various stages of combinatory aggregation—to engage the issues of property value, activated public space, resident-driven development projects and localized storm water flooding.
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