Byron Huang // PORTFOLIO volume 03 // Fall 2024 // University Of Waterloo
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ABOUT
Learn about me and my work
CURRICULUM VITAE
Summary of my skills and assets through my experiences and accolades
Cultural Hub for Music and Performing Arts 5 10 22
VIVIDITY
Living Archive of Lost Things
An Archive of Pigments
A SOULFUL REVERIE
Music Conservatory & Library
FOR, WITH & BY AVIANS
Bird Sanctuary Landscape
An Ode to the American Cliff Swallow
Photography, Illustration and other Mediums 30 36
WOODEN ARRAYS
Pedestrian Bridge
Victoria Park Pedestrian Bridge
ARCHIVED WORKS
Previous Architectural Works
Academic and Competition
PERSONAL & OTHER WORKS
Nice to meet you! I’m Byron Huang.
I am currently a third year under-graduate student at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture. Presently, I am seeking an architectural internship opportunity from May 2025 to August 2025.
As a young aspiring creative, my initial draw to architecture was of creative expression. Since then, it has evolved into a unique medium —one that seeks to foster dialogue, build relationships, and shape not just spaces but narratives. Architecture, in my view, is both an art that crafts experiences and fosters cultural and communal development, and a service that accommodates and enriches communities. With a scope covering both the macro scale of how architecture shapes neighborhoods and the micro scale of precise, detail-oriented design, I strive to deliver work that resonates with users, inspires action, and challenges norms.
Eager to further my exploration of the capabilities of architecture, I hope that I can find a home within your team and meaningfully contribute to your successes.
Curriculum Vitae
EXPERIENCE
Francl Architecture, Vancouver Architectural Intern
- Working on various Design Development drawing sets for major residential projects, specializing in adaptable units, elevations and renderings
- Compiling and creating diagrams for a rezoning booklet for Vancouver East-side residential project
- Designing and rendering iterations for projects in Concept Design stage
- Site visits throughout various project stages in Vancouver
Diamond Schmitt Architects, Toronto Architectural Intern
- Modeled interior design in Rhino and Revit for mental hospital project abiding by program specific regulations
- Curated drawing sets for various projects on promotional presentations, project proposals and archival of many typologies including college, office, music conservatory and hospital projects
- Working on drawings on Revit to post-processing in Illustrator for linework drawings and Photoshop for rendered drawings
- Worked on rendering views in Enscape, Twinmotion and Photoshop
City Light Development, Richmond Design Intern Architect
- Input i n design and layout for development projects (residential, hotels, academic/schools)
- Creating fabrication and connection drawings for clients
Lord Byng Annual Production - Vancouver Director of Design Team (Art & Graphics)
- Managing work and deadlines of othe r illustrators on the team
- Illustrating for backgrounds, graphics featured in the yearbook
DISTINCTIONS
Dean’s Honour’s List - Excellent Academic Standing Term average for all courses over 80%
First in Class Engineering
Recipient of Top Scholastic Performance in 2A
School of Architecture Award
Recipient for Outstanding Design Work in 2A
Project Feature - A Soulful Reverie
Exhibited at Projects Review 2023 at Riverside Gallery
Project Feature - Over, Up and Around
Exhibited at Projects Review 2023 at Riverside Gallery
School of Architecture Award
Recipient for Outstanding Design Work in 1B
University of Waterloo President’s Scholarship
2022 -
SKILLS
3D Modelling
Blender
Grasshopper
Revit
Rhinoceros 7
SketchUp
Hand Drafting
Post-Process
Illustrator
Indesign
Lightroom
Microsoft Suite
Photoshop
Premiere Pro
Analogue Blender
Visualization
Model Making
3D Printing
CNC Milling
Laser Cutting
Photography
Illustration
Clip Studio
Illustrator
Photoshop Procreate
Traditional Art
INTERESTS
Bouldering
Film
Film Photography
Illustration
Music
Skateboarding
Snowboarding
EDUCATION
Enscape
Twinmotion
V-Ray
LANGUAGES
English Mandarin
University of Waterloo - School of Architecture Cambridge, ON, Canada
Bachelor’s of Architectural Studies, Honours Co-op Program
Lord Byng Secondary School Vancouver, BC, Canada
Byng Arts Mini School Honours Art Program, Dogwood Diploma
June 17, 2024
Letter of Recommendation
To Whom This May Concern,
We are pleased to provide this letter of recommendation for Byron Huang who completed a co -op term with Diamond Schmitt Architects from January 8, 2024 to April 26, 2024.
During his time with the firm, Byron worked as a team member on a number of significant projects including:
• Humber College Cultural Hub, Toronto
• Fanshawe College Innovation Hub, London
• CAMH, Toronto
Byron was an exceptionally reliable and conscientious student who was always courteous and co -operative, exhibiting very good interpersonal skills and consistently establishing excellent working relationships with his co -workers. He is a very capable and skilled individual and we are confident that Byron would be a positive asset to any firm that hires him.
We wish Byron all the best in his future endeavors.
Sincerely, Diamond and Schmitt Architects Inc.
Elizabeth Gyde Art Director
SECTION I 部分 I
Selected Works 作品
Vividity An Archive Of Pigments
↳ “Living Archive of Lost Things”
↳ Toronto, ON, Canada
↳ Fall 2023
Understanding Our True Colors, One Stage At A Time.
This archive sits at the west of Toronto, as a facility of art education. With the core principle of being an archive, it stores a vast collection of colour pigments used throughout history.
Located in the intersection of Dundas and Sterling, the site serves as a central position for a communal space, located alongside one of the largest transit streets in Toronto. Not too far from city centre, Vividity is only a short detour away from the core of the city. With its green roof terrace, the archive serves the local community in bringing more green spaces to the suburban neighbourhood.
top: approach render from north, left: massing concept
CATALOGO COLORI WORLD MAP OF PIGMENTS
Stage 1 - Upper level’s column of pigments, showing fine pigments up top, transitioning to raw pigments below.
Stage 2 - Interact with the raw pigments on hand in the workshop and craft your own pigments in the traditional process.
Stage 1, is the introductory stage, through the familiarity of a design language that is more commonplace in museum architecture, visitors are brought to a space where they can interact with pure pigment, a familiar form of colour. But as they descend the stairwell, the forms of pigment shown become larger and more solid, transitioning into a more raw, natural form.
Stage 2, a world of the unknown, where knowledge previously unknown is revealed to us, through learning about the raw materials and the material processes of creating pigment. In the second stage, there is more hand to hand interactions with such pigments, creating experiences with the raw form. Furthermore, after interacting with the raw pigment, the potential of pigments shown within painting forensics, showing how historically such pigments are used.
Stage 3, the visitor returns and ascend back to the present where we see the modern developments of pigment but as also see the world without classically crafted pigments.
below: sectional examples of displays for each stage
Stage 3
Stage 3 - Experience the world without natural pigments, the digital replication of it and learn about the future of pigments
Stage 1
Stage 2
Divided into 3 cores, each one may know, experience the archive. We introduce, reveal, the past of our hidden our artificial present. the archive art of the past can live, where be taught, and for the future
each core corresponds to what experience and get out of each part of introduce, the existence of colour, we hidden pigments and we expose archive is a place where the where the art of the present can future of art to be preserved.
Stage 1
1 - Foyer - Reception - Coat Check
2 - Main Gallery Space - Broad Pigment
Displays
3 - Youth Classroom + Painting Workshop
4 - Cafe
Stage 2
5 - Gallery - Raw Materials & their stories Exhibition
6 - Deep Storage
7 - Pigment Crafting + Production Workshop
8 - Painting Studio
9 - Administration Offices
10 - Gallery - Art throughout the ages alongside their raw materials
11 - Artifact + Painting Restoration Workshop
12 - Artist’s Residence’s First Floor
Stage 3
13 - Gallery - Pigments Today and the world of Art without it
14 - Artist’s Residence’s Second Floor
15 - Rooftop Terrace
sectional model
exploded axonometric
a soulful reverie
// cultural hub for music and performing arts
↳ Music Conservatory & Library
↳ Toronto, ON, Canada
↳ Winter 2023
This music conservatory is located in the Don Valley Parkway, a communal hub for all levels of interests in music. The project supports musicians with its music library’s resources ranging from scores to music history. Including its chamber music hall and jazz pit, the conservatory gives a platform for musicians to perform and opportunities to learn both on and off stage with its music programs. The project’s vision is to celebrate the music of the past, present and the future generations through the spaces it creates.
The morphology diagram above shows the importance of the balance and placement of each space, although conceptualized as individual blocks, you can see how the spaces came to overlap and become a shared space with time and development as seen in the section cut below; cutting through the chamber hall, cafe, jazz pit, library and the practice rooms.
Located at the intersection of Thompson and Broadview Street, the conservatory is located in a central location, a key location for a communal hub. The first floor has a lot to offer, with a cafe, jazzbar, vinyl collection, chamber music hall and lounge area.
With wooden slats incasing the second floor, the library program is rotated to point out toward the intersection. The length of the mass is directed towards the greenery of the “front yard” of the library as well as towards the public dog park. The first floor is behind a layer of glass and steel, but behind that screen is more wood, laid throughout the interior to have the same warm woody feeling as a concert hall. above: ground plan, left: approach render
The second floor is small, consisting of practice rooms of varying sizes. The largest room houses a grand piano, ideal for quartets and larger groups to practice in. The other rooms are supplied with soundproofing and recording equpiment, perfect for solo or duo musicians to write and record music.
The third floor is comprised of the library program, rotated creating pockets of canatalever and balcony in contrast to the floor below. The floor also has an opening, creating a double height space with the cafe/bar. The spaces of this floor is mostly bookstacks, for storing all kinds of music literature, recordings and sheet music. The space is also kitted with study areas and listening spaces to consume the vast library of media located on the third floor of the library.
The diagram above displays the functionality of the placement and rotation of the wooden slats, and how they create differing lighting situations at different times of day within the upper library study spaces.
top left: third floor library space render, bottom left: chamber music hall render right: cafe/bar space render
↳ Bird Sanctuary Landscape
↳ Cambridge, ON, Canada
↳ Summer 2024
the birds use nearby mud to craft their own mud nests on bare cliff faces nearby bodies of water
pyrrhonota (american cliff swallow)
The southern bird-watching pavilion’s bird blinds are directed to maximize views towards the bare cliff faces of the Rare Charitable Reserve. The planting plan’s orange viewcones signify a birdwatchers field of view from behind the bird blinds.
cliff swallow habitats (mud nests)
petrochelidon
deeper marsh common cattail giant burreed
walking trail
circulation path stemming from the walter bean trail
lowland evergreens balsam fir eastern hemlock red cedar
lowland forest black maple silver maple american sycamore common juniper yellow birch ostrich fern
cliffside forest white cedar eastern hemlock early meadowrue virgin’s bower riverbank grape speckled alder rushgrass creeping juniper ostrich fern
shallow marsh fringed sedge fox sedge palm sedge marshmarigold joe pyeweed grays sedge tall meadowrue sweetflag pickerelweed arrowhead
shaded regions (site modifications) the highlighted regions indicate which spaces need to be curated and planted among the “pre-existing” plantations these site adjustments address the development of the mudflat as well as bird watching pavilion and its garden
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an ode to the american cliff swallow
Focusing on the avian of the American Cliff Swallow, the landscape project serves as an animal sanctuary for cliff swallows during their breeding season by providing the neccessary ecosystem, soil conditions and shelter. Through creating an artificial marsh, the marsh provides much of the natural surroundings of the native bird.
top: planting context plan with accompanying legend bottom: hand drafted site section
With, For and By.
This landscape project helps explore co-existing with our nature and how our understanding of that can change as we continue to live and experience in nature.
To further mudflat development, a stray stream of water stemming from the Grand River allows for a “delta” condition that can form a mudflat allowing for vegetation and wildlife to support cliff swallows and most importantly, provide mud for their mud nests to be constructed during the nesting season in the early summer.
above river level
water is held in mudflats above river level to protect the mudland from being reclaimed by the river
armoury
elevated armory with solid earth and deeply rooted vegetation (ex. sedges) supports the mudflat from overtop spilling and protection from river movement’s erosion
top: site plan, showing the river redirection into delta bottom: hand drafted longitudinal section of boardwalk
Above planting diagram covers the many common plants found within the site for differing types of site quality. The various plants show the ability to retend the mud, an important factor for the mud marsh’s integrity over time.
The boardwalk is the first connection for humans to connect to the site, traversing through the mud plains which the birds often reside to collect more mud. At the end, visitors can access the river by boat and view the rest of the sanctuary from afar.
top left: drawn render of river view of the pavilion and mudnests
top right: drawn render of interior view from inside the pavilion
left: rendered plan of the pavilion
right: hand draft latitudunal section and longitudual section of the pavilion
The project consists of two major portions, the boardwalk and the bird watching pavilion. Past the boardwalk, the forest opens up to a clearing where the right side is flanked by large cliffs, perfect places to watch the cliff swallows nest during their nesting season.
The bird watching pavilion is constructed to be a place for the birdwatchers to connect with the birds on the site, looking through the rammed earth bird blinds to see the nests as of the cliff swallows, which parallel with the birds seeing through their own mud nests, to look back upon us.
WOODEN ARRAYS
↳ Pedestrian Bridge
↳ Kitchener, ON, Canada
↳ Winter 2023
left: roof detail render, ,right: south approach render
Located in the Waterloo Region’s Victoria Park, this bridge is designed to replace a previous pedestrian bridge, spanning over 20 metres. With a focus on connection details, the bridge is covered end to end with wood and steel, with wood to wood connections, steel to steel connections and wood to steel connections. The project is required to be fifty percent covered as well as wide enough to be used by accessibilty mobility devices. The bridge also features seating and a lookout point, towards the large pond of Victoria Park.
timber roof joists
- 250 x 70 mm L: 2.87 m
steel bolts
b c d
steel spanning channel
- 255 x 400 mm with 40mm depth
- 12 mm radius L: 210mm
timber roof joists
- 145 x 70 mm L: 1.68 m
steel bolts
- 12 mm radius L: 140mm
b c d e f g h i j
steel spanning bracket
- 200 x 50 mm
steel bolts
- 9 mm radius L: 90mm
steel bolts
- 9 mm radius L: 45mm
steel plate bracing (30mm thickness) with 400 x 100 mm welded bracket
steel angled wide flange
- 675 x 200 mm with 40mm depth
steel wide flange
- 450 x 400 mm with 40mm depth
steel bolts - 24 mm radius L: 81mm
steel bolts
- 18 mm radius L: 114mm
timber deck beams
- 250 x 200 mm L: 3.29 m, gap: render, canopy connection detail
timber roof joists spanned between central wide flanges
timber beams attached through central wide flange and held with steel angle bracket
steel wide flange held through deck and below wide flange
steel plate bracing (30mm thickness)
timber
SECTION II 部分 II
Over, Up and Around
↳ Botany Lab & Private Residence
↳ Cambridge, ON, Canada
↳ Fall 2022
Located in Cambridge, Ontario, this wooden home is located by the riverbank of the Riverbluffs Park. Its wooden plat systems that wrap up, over and around the building provides a excellent environment for botanists and curious learners to ignite and pursue their passion in protecting the native plant species of Ontario against invasive species through selective breeding and genetic splicing.
top: perspective sections (longitudinal + latitudinal), right: ground and first floor plans, below: 1:50 model photos
皮 膚 と
↳ Off-Grid Housing
↳ Kutchan, Hokkaido, Japan
↳ Winter 2023
A off-grid home located in a small rural town in Northern Japan. The goal of this project is to create an environmentally friendly, carbon reducing, self reliant home. The philosophy of this project is to be enviromental, so the house is designed to have two notable elements, the actual house, and the skin that surrounds it.
The actual house is made of recycled materials from local demolished homes, designed to imitate the style and methods that is local to the region of Hokkaido. The skin is constructed of wooden structure and corrugated plastic. The space between the skin and the house serves as the workspace program of the two residents of the home, a botantist and a woodworker.
伊 勢 神 宮
>> rendezvous <<
↳ Java MC 1.20.1 Project
↳ - 332867916799341530
↳ Q1 2024
Developing my style, I explored a lot more block palettes and gradients, building in a mesa also helped me venture outside of my “cottage-core” style of building and expanding to styles outside my comfort zone. Ultimately a project to refresh my building skills and familiarize with new building mods and techniques, this stands to be one of my favourite builds I’ve made in past history.
