Cherry Yang RISD Portfolio 2019

2016 - 2019

B.Arch + B.FA

Rhode Island School of Design

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architecture portfolio

cherry yang

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self-sufficient living

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make, play, display

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civic terraform

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volumetric light, tangible shadows

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education

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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, RI, USA Bachelor of Architecture. 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts. 2019 Minors: Nature, Culture + Sustainability, Scientific Inquiry GPA: 3.87 Academic Honors Roll

Pickard Chilton Architects. Architectural Intern. Summer 2018 Worked on competitions in teams, producing plans and visualisations in AutoCAD, 3D digital models in Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, Revit for presentations; collaborated in model shop using laser cutting and 3D printing for client meetings.

ETH Zürich Fall 2018. Zürich, Switzerland Timber Behaviourology Studio w/ Momoyo Kaijima CAAD Theory and Practice w/ Ludger Hovestadt Unlearning the City and Portrait of a Tree w/ Christophe Girot

Teaching Assistant in Architecture Department. RISD. Fall 2016 - present Core Studio: Architectural Design w/ James Barnes. Spring 2019 Core Studio: Architectural Design w/ Lauren Bordes. Spring 2018 Architectural Projection w/ Petra Kempf. Fall 2017

skills 3D Software SketchUp, Rhinoceros, V-Ray, CloudCompare 2D Software AutoCAD, Revit, ArchGIS Programming Grasshopper, Processing P3 Adobe Suite Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, Photoshop Model Making Laser-cutting, 3D printing, wood, cardstock, CNC Hand Drawing, drafting, woodworking, intaglio, watercolour, oil Presentation Photography, graphic design, type setting, book layouts, board layouts Microsoft Suite Word, PowerPoint, Excel Language Excellent written and communication skills, conversational Mandarin, written French

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Office of International Student Services. Front Desk. RISD. 2017 - present Provide services to international students seeking information about immigration and visa status while providing the office with administrative support in paperwork processing and management.

other experience Maps & Stories in Rome. RISD Summer program. Summer 2017 Scholarship for 3-week study abroad in Rome, analysing a portion of the city spatially and historically and experimenting with analytical means of representation to communicate multi-layered information.

City+Data STEAM. RISD-BROWN club. Winter 2017 A STEAM (STEM combined with arts and design) sponsored intensive workshop that culminated in a gallery show, investigating the nature of big data and its representation of the city.

Microsoft Inclusive Design. Industrial Design Course. Winter 2016 Collaborated in team of four to brainstorm, research, ideate, and optimise navigation tool that was presented to members of Microsoft’s Industrial Design and Design Strategy teams.

leadership AIAS President. RISD. Fall 2017 - present Spearhead student committee to initiate, plan and market events to Architecture student body by leading weekly meetings with structured agendas, managing logistics and mediating communication between faculty and student body.

Senior International Orientation Leader. RISD. Fall 2017 Equip incoming undergraduate community with knowledge + skills to transition into the US by working with other SIOLs to organise and lead training programmes for Orientation Leaders.

awards + exhibitions Publication. VISIONS, RISD-Brown University Student Magazine. 2018.

Exhibition. RISD Printmaking Exhibition. 2018 Finalist. Ken Roberts Delineation Competition. Student Hand. 2017 Scholarship Award Winner. Rome: Maps and Stories Intensive Summer Course. 2017 Exhibition. RISD Experimental and Foundation Studies Exhibition. 2016 1st Place National. James Wallace Secondary School Art Awards. 2014

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St Cuthbert’s College 2008-2014. Auckland, New Zealand International Baccalaureate Diploma: 44/45 GPA: 4.00+ NZQA Scholarship Awards: Physics, History, Calculus, Art History

Friedrich St.Florian Architects. Architectural Intern. Winter 2018 Designed and solved details of a project, creating drawings, plans, sections, axonometric diagrams, perspectives and interior renderings with Rhino, Photoshop and Illustrator.

01 self-sufficient living Urban Ecologies with Critic Laura Briggs // Fall 2017

What does it mean to create affordable housing in the 21stcentury? This residential village rests in Olneyville, Providence, at the busy intersection of Manton Avenue and Hartford Avenue. The site is one block West of the commercial centre of Olneyville Square, and a few blocks away from the rest of residential Olneyville.

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The problem of our time is to find viable methods of creating sustainable, self-sufficient housing to both respect the environment and empower the residential community.

The project focuses on three methods of sustainable living: energy collection, water reuse, and collective food farming.

To prevent isolation from the rest of Olneyville, the project draws its grain from its immediate surrounding street grids, acting as an active urban threshold between busy streets to connect the commercial to the residential areas.

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The street grid is brought into the site at the ground level, as an urban threshold connecting the two roads.

Along the grain of the street, public programmes are placed to foster a greater sense of community while adding to the economy of the village; farmer markets, recycling centres, distribution centre, second hand clothing store, child daycare and cafes.

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How do you bring a large, urban street grid into the privacy of the single unit?

The non-regular grid of the street is brought into the unit at a 45 degree angle through the common living areas first (the living room and kitchen). As users continue into the unit, the grid rotates back to an orthogonal one, giving regularity as you move into areas of rest (bedroom).

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01 full unit plan The project incorporates Living Machines throughout its 150 units.

Between each set of 4 units, next to or near the vertical circulation towers, are the first stages of the Living Machines. Shared tanks further the idea of interdependence and communal sharing of facilities and resources.

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Opportunities for rest and reflection of the human relationship to the water are placed along the river, in such a way that the boundary of the water to land alternates between hard edge and soft edge. The Living Machine, placed under the porches of the cafes on the Northern bank (left in this render), are strategically placed opposite these sites of sitting so that citizens and residents of Olneyville are able to reflect on our collective water consumption and invite them to join in celebration of the Living Machine filtering water for reuse, leading to a healthier, cleaner environment.

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Structure includes steel square Vierendeel trusses and full thermal insulation of enclosure as well as of the steel structure itself.

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The shared Living Machines between units connect to later stages of filtration at grade. Water can be reused and recycled back into the system, allowing for a self-suffiicient system.

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The community garden which begins at the street level for full public access and lies next to the distribution center and farmer's market is then lifted onto the green roofs of the residential building. Each layer of roof terrace contains planters which allow for planting of basic vegetables and trees for shading.

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02 make, play, display Timber Behaviourolgy with Professor Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow // Fall 2018, ETH ZĂźrich

This project focused on the actor network of a project, reaching beyond the direct users of the final architectural product. Where do the building materials from? Who builds the project? How is the community involved in its construction? How does this project affect those beyond the immediate environment?

My site is situated in Mikawa in the Gifu prefecture, West of Tokyo. The small town holds 800 people with a

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depopulation trend. Along the river in the valley is a thriving Timber Industry with locally sourced Hinoki Cyprus wood as well as a timber market, log market, timber mill and workshops for local carpenters.

abandoned rice paddies on the.

To bring people back to Mikawa, I proposed a wooden toy campus with a path in the forest. My project aims to connect the timber industry with the Mikawa community, the nursery school in the old town and the

Below: Actor Network Drawing, hand drawn, of proposed conditions with distortion of scale to show relationships between the actors.

Ultimately, this wooden toy campus expands the existing timber industry of Mikawa, reactivates old rice fields, and reinforces a stronger relationship with the forest.

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Structure model at 1:50, showing the timber construction and beam/column hiearchy, bringing traditional Japanese methods into modern architecture.

Triangular trusses are arrayed in irregular 5-sided beam system to reflect the canopy of the forest. The irregular roof naturally wraps around the existing rice paddy structures as the organic shapes lead to the forest.

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02 1:50 + 1:20 models Partial model at 1:20 scale, showing further details in timber construction as well as joinery, insulation, materiality and hiearchy. To reinforce the connection to nature, raw hinoki logs are sanded and polished without milling so that the roof structure reflects the branches of trees above.

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Programmes are strategically placed in pavilions to address the making, playing and displaying of wooden toys.

The museum or showroom on the upper rice paddy has interactive wooden toy displays that allow visitors to engage with the toys.

Next is a professional workshop for the production of wooden toys by local woodworkers, as well as a community workspace for people who want to learn basic woodworking skills or use the machinery and make their own woodworks.

This is incorporated with a path leading into the forest to connect treehouses to bring people into the forest and reconnect them with nature, while teaching visitors about the importance of the original source of the natural material for their wooden toys.

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Among the trees there are wooden platforms that allows people to play with larger toys and interact directly with the tree. The path winds through the forest so that people can have a closer relationship with the original natural source of the toys.

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02 section perspective of interactive toy museum Section perspective through the museum. The structure is centred around a main central column with trusses extending outwards. The main columns are polished log, while five "branches" offer structural support for the roof, providing an atmosphere of being under a canopy of trees.

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Advanced Studio with Visiting Prof. James Dallman // Spring 2018

Civic terraform; the manipulation of terrain and responding to the site conditions. Launching from chosen textures, models were created and later discretised in digital form.

An initial model of plaster cast to imitate cracks gave way to architecture with spaces carved from the mass to produce an emergence of monumental architecture from the earth.

Circulation is continued from the street into the architecture, blurring the boundary between where city ends and the building begins.

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The urban fabric carves through the architecture, blurring the boundary between the interior and exterior of built space. During the night, artificial lighting from within the enclosure filters through the bricks, peeled apart to allow light through. The architecture is both a space for transitory movement and staying.

The rehearsal room overhangs above the entry, forming a spatial threshold between the city and the external interior. Steps at the entry allow for users to sit and stay or perform, while the ADA ramp allows direct circulation behind the stairs.

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This elevation shows the bricks that are placed in a porous way to allow light through to the inside during the day, and to the outside during the night..

The peeling of the bricks are in dialogue with one another and with the building facade as a whole.

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04 volumetric light, tangible shadows Architectural Analysis with Assistant Prof. Aaron Forrest // Spring 2017

A hand-drawn x-ray section oblique drawing of the Convent of La Tourette in Eveux, France,

by Le Corbusier, focusing on the structures that control the way natural light pours into the interior space. Rather than simply rendering lighting conditions within the space, the structures and apertures which allow the light to pass through are emphasised by manipulating lineweights and extrapolating construction lines.

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Materialising light. La Tourette is filled with direct parallel light (sun) freed and yet restricted to a strange parameter of entering the structure only at right angles to each facade, without diffusion. In the top analysis, light is given solid form the moment it passes the aperture and into the building, halting once it reaches any physical boundary (walls, floors, stairs, columns). In the center analysis, the light carves out the structure that it reaches -- the parts of the building struck by direct light. The bottom final analysis are the remainders of La Tourette, left in darkness.

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04 analysis ​​ section imposed on a plan. Two A floors of the south wing are taken to explicitly examine the way light finds its way through Le Corb's carefully designed mullions and brise soleils, falling onto the various different parts of the interior (walls, floor, desks & columns here). Tones of grey show where the light is traveling through space, while the white of the paper demonstrates where the light reaches its destination, illuminating the structure.

Medium: graphite powder Size: 48"x60"

Selected as finalist in KRob Delineation Competition, Student Hand category.

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thank you

contact Cherry Yang 001.401.286.4726 cyang03@risd.edu 2 College St, #1978 Providence, RI 02903 USA

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