Design Portfolio

ARCHITECTURE

DENNY WANG

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

2026

ACADEMIC + SELECTED WORKS

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I am a multidisciplinary designer with a background in architecture and experience across spatial design, visual communication, retail, and creative practice. My work explores the layered relationships between space, material, culture, and visual identity, and how they come together to shape perception, movement, and experience within a space.

With architectural thinking as a foundation, I approach design through research, observation, experimentation, and narrative. I am drawn to moments where different disciplines, scales, and ideas intersect, creating environments and visual experiences that are thoughtful, atmospheric, and connected to the cultural and material context.

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education

University of British Columbia

2023 - 2026

School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Master of Architecture

University of Manitoba

2019 - 2023

Faculty of Architecture

Bachelor of Environmental Design

Red River College

2013 - 2015

Diploma of Electrical Engineering Technology experience

Retail Visual Designer

July 2024 - July 2026

Figure Lecture - Vancouver • • • • •

Designed and executed seasonal visual campaigns across storefront windows, in-store displays, packaging, digital assets, and social media using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign.

Collaborated with a creative team to develop seasonal concepts that strengthened brand identity and customer experience.

Led visual merchandising projects from concept through installation, coordinating with store operations and creative staff.

Produced and edited product photography for marketing campaigns and social media using Adobe Lightroom.

Curated merchandise displays through trend research and visual storytelling.

Grader & Marker

Aug - Dec 2023

University of Manitoba - Faculty of Architecture • • •

Evaluated assignments, design projects, and examinations using established assessment criteria.

Provided constructive written feedback to support student learning and communicate evaluation outcomes clearly.

Delivered presentations introducing first-year Environmental Design students to program streams and academic pathways.

Architectural Research Assistant

May - Dec 2022

University of Manitoba - Faculty of Architecture • • •

Conducted archival research on architectural pedagogy at the University of Manitoba (1920s–1950s), examining student drawings, convocation booklets, and institutional yearbooks.

Compiled and synthesized archival student data to support ongoing research, future departmental exhibitions, and scholarly documentation.

Presented research findings to faculty members and departmental audiences, contributing to curatorial discussions and subsequent research initiatives.

Office Assistant

April 2017 - Oct 2021

University of Manitoba - Ancillary Services • • •

Served as the primary point of contact at the Welcome Centre front desk, providing administrative and visitor support.

Managed inquiries related to payments, permits, parking applications, appeals, and logistics for university events, including report preparation and data processing.

Coordinated interdepartmental requests, arranged parking permits for faculty guests and events, and verified student records and signing authority.

technical skills

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achievements

Academic Awards • • •

Autodesk Revit Rhino 3D Sketchup Autodesk AutoCAD

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Adobe Photoshop Adobe Indesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Lightroom

UBC Master of Architecture Awards UMSU Undergraduate Research Award Dean’s Honour List Recipient

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Lumion Enscape Model Making Photography

Sept 2023 May 2022 2020 - 2023

Competition •

A Miner’s Journey — Young Architect Competition, Finalist (Group submission)

Oct 2022

Publications • • •

Nova Domus and A Miner’s Journey published by Warehouse Journal 31 Frontiere published by NETWORK 2021 and Warehouse Journal 30 Feastscape published by Warehouse Journal 30

Oct 2022 Oct 2021 Oct 2021

Perspective Drawing. Hand Drawn

architectural

DOMUS REDUX

NOVA DOMUS

Academic / Individual Project

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WHO IS THIS CITY FOR

UNEARTHED

Academic / Group Project

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STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE

CHURCHILL FOOD COMMONS Academic / Individual Project

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COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO

IN SITU

Academic / Group Project fashion

WHAT YOU CAN CARRY IN YOUR HAT

UNTITLED

Academic / Individual Project competition

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MEDITATION MINE

A MINER’S JOURNEY Group Competition Project exhibition

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ARTISTIC STORIES

PERSONAL WORKS Individual Projects

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table of content

Rendered First Floor Plan, hand drawn.

NOVA DOMUS

VIE D’ANGE

Undergraduate | University of Manitoba Academic Studio Project (Individual)

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Nova Domus reconsiders value through the rehabilitation of an abandoned 1908 house on Langside Street in Winnipeg. Researching the house as an archive, the project traces its construction, remnants, and the Dingle family. These fragments become a reflective basis for a speculative timber reconstruction exploring domestic memory and relationships between architecture and occupants. The house is reimagined as

a shared home for two displaced families, one North Korean and one Indigenous from Treaty One territory. Existing traces are preserved through repair and selective alteration, while additions provide spaces for privacy, work, gathering, and collective living. The project also accommodates urban wildlife and neighbourhood gatherings, framing reclamation as cultural continuity, coexistence, and renewed domesticity.

VIE D’ANGE

Rendered Building Section, hand drawn.

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VIE D’ANGE

[below] Wood Framing Model, hand crafted. [right] Living Room Interior Perspective Drawings, digital drawing. [right] Axonometric Plan Drawing , digital drawing.

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The renovation focuses on the adaptive transformation of the original house. The existing structure is repaired and preserved where possible, while two additions extend its spatial and social capacity. Together, the interventions create a layered domestic environment that accommodates private rooms, shared living areas, and spaces for work and ritual, establishing a dialogue between the inherited house and its new forms of occupation.

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FIRST FLOOR

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LEDGEND G. Private Bedrooms H. Balcony and garden space I. Kids sleeping corner J. Ladders to attic K. Play area for kids

BASEMENT

VIE D’ANGE

A. Kimchi making space B. Meditational Massage therapy space C. Bathroom understaris D. Communal kitchen and dining room E. Living room for both families F. Studio space for Indigenous family

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DOMUS REDUX

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[above] Site Section, hand drawn and digital edit. [below] Section Drawing, hand drawn. [middle] PlanGround Level 1, hand drawn. [bottom] Plan Ground Level 2, hand drawn. [right] Perspective Section, hand drawn.

UNEARTHED Graduate | University of British Columbia Academic Studio Project (In collaboration with Bridgette Kelly)

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Unearthed is a theoretical urban design project that explores counterculture as a spatial response to Vancouver’s increasingly controlled and homogenized urban development.

Situated at the threshold of the Downtown East side, the project proposes a speculative underground network that appropriates sites of development and redirects excavated soil to form new public landscapes along Burrard Inlet.

Moving from prescribed spaces above ground toward increasingly fluid spaces below, the network creates opportunities for gathering, making, performance, and creative expression.

The project challenges conventional systems of ownership, development, and Vancouverism, proposing an alternative urbanism shaped through occupation, agency, and collective appropriation.

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RECIPROCITY

BIODIVERSITY

FISHING

HUNTING

CHURCHILL FOOD COMMONS

NATURE AS MENTOR

Undergraduate | University of Manitoba Academic Studio Project (Individual)

Churchill Food Commons is a speculative architectural project that explores food sovereignty in the changing subarctic landscape of Churchill, Manitoba. Grounded in the concept of sympoiesis, the project understands food production as a reciprocal system connecting community, land, climate, and non-human life. The project brings together traditional Indigenous knowledge of harvesting, hunting, and fishing with emerging agricultural technologies to reduce reliance on imported food and strengthen local production. Farming, processing, composting, gathering, and food exchange operate as an interconnected cycle in which resources are continually returned to the land. Designed to expand and adapt over time, the Food Commons proposes architecture as an evolving framework for ecological reciprocity, community knowledge, and resilience within an uncertain future climate.

Conceptual Ideas, hand drawn.

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HARVESTING

CELEBRATION

FOOD SOVEREIGNTY

REBIRTH

[left] Model making process, photography and digital edit

NATURE AS MENTOR

Sympoiesis Conceptual Mapping, hand crafted.

Model Details in Scale 1:50, hand crafted.

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LEGEND A. GREEN HOUSE SEEDING B. WASTE ROOM C. MEAT PROCESSING CENTER D. PACKING CENTER E. FOOD MARKET F. GATHERING SPACE G. COMMUNITY KITCHEN H. INDOOR FARMING I. OUTDOOR FARMING

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[top left] Plan Drawing, hand drawn. [middle left] Cross Section Drawing, digital drawing. [bottom left] South Elevation Drawing, digital drawing. [top] Greenhouse perspective render, digital drawing. [middle] Indoor food market, digital drawing. [bottom] Community kitchen, digital drawing.

The Food Commons is conceived as an expandable architectural framework that can grow as new programs and community needs emerge.

Greenhouses, food processing, kitchens, markets, gathering spaces, and composting form an interconnected system of production and reuse.

As the complex expands, it can adapt to Churchill’s changing Arctic environment while strengthening local food production, community participation, and food independence.

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Exterior Perspective Render, digital drawing.

IN SITU Graduate | University of British Columbia Academic Studio Project (In collaboration with Nolan Spencer)

The concept of In Situ responds to Granville Island as an evolving intersection of land, water, cultural life, and material history. The project proposes a mixed use centre for art, craft, education, and public gathering that builds on the island’s existing culture of making while addressing its changing environmental future.

In response to sea level rise, the building is elevated above the projected flood level and shaped by passive ventilation, daylighting, rainwater collection, and planted swales.

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Soil excavated during construction is reused as LOAM and cast on site to form walls, circulation cores, ceilings, and structural elements. Through this cradle to cradle process, material removed from the land is returned as architecture. In Situ establishes a closer relationship between building, landscape, water, and occupation. It envisions an architecture that adapts to change while remaining grounded in the physical and cultural character of Granville Island.

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

LEVEL 2 PLAN

LEVEL 3 PLAN

LEVEL 4 PLAN

LEVEL 5 PLAN Rendered Floor Plans, digital drawing.

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[top left] Roof top entry render, digital drawing. [top middle] Outdoor entrance render, digital drawing. [top right] Indoor studio space render, digital drawing.

Cross section drawing, digital drawing.

East elevation drawing, digital drawing.

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The building uses passive strategies to respond to sunlight, temperature, ventilation, and human heat gain. Wood slats reduce summer exposure, while tall windows and LOAM surfaces store heat in cooler seasons. The loam ceiling absorbs heat from occupants and devices, and a central pivot window supports natural ventilation. A green roof further regulates temperature and reduces mechanical cooling.

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UNTITLED WHAT YOU CAN CARRY IN YOUR HAT

Undergraduate | University of Manitoba Academic Studio Project (Individual)

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Living in uncertain times, human beings are confronting a new reality shaped by climate change, pandemics, supply chain disruptions, and political upheaval. After the devastating fire in Lytton, BC, the possibility of leaving home at a moment’s notice feels increasingly real. Public safety guidance often prioritizes items necessary for survival, yet sentimental objects can be forgotten in moments of urgency or panic. This project asks which

possessions are most essential to personal identity, memory, and psychological well being. Five objects of greatest personal value are carried within a wearable vest made entirely from household waste materials.

Designed for uncertain conditions, the vest can be worn on the body, transformed into a portable bag, or unfolded into a pillow.

The design carries not only necessities, but memories to travel alongside the body.

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A MINER’S JOURNEY

MEDITATION MINE

Young Architect Competition In collaboration with Alexa Jaworsky, Dominico Obmerga, Jingwen He

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The story of the village of Allihies is deeply rooted in its relationship with the mountainous landscape of the Beara Peninsula . Beneath the layers of Cornish Path—moss and quartz rock—lies the quintessential ingredient in the town’s mining industry: copper ore. Taking inspiration from a miner’s hunt for veins of copper, the museological architecture integrates a build-up of tension and its subsequent release. The overarching design concept amalgamates the past and future through an ascent and detoxification program that simulates a miner’s journey from copper to sunset.

Concept Drawing. Hand drawing + digital edit.

MEDITATION MINE

1. ASCENT 2. RECEPTION / CAFE 3. MEMORIAL ADIT 4. RESTAURANT 5. GARDEN COMMONS 6. GALLERY TERRACE 7. GALLERY SURFACE SHAFT 8. GYM / WELLNESS 9. DETOXIFICATION THRESHOLD 10. YOGA AND MEDITATION 11. DESCENT 12. TEN ACCOMMODATIONS 13. FIVE SUITES 14. TWO LUXURY RESIDENCES

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Site Plan in Scale 1:1000. Digital drawing by Rhino and Illustrator.

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[below] Main buildings section in scale 1:200. Rhino and Illustrator drawing. [middle] Building plan in scale 1:500. Revit and Illustrator drawing. [bottom] Main buildings perspective render. Digital drawing. [top right] Exterior and interior perspective renders. Digital drawing. [middle right] All buildings section in scale 1:500. Revit and Illustrator drawing.

MEDITATION MINE

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Engine House as a threshold between the darkness of the mine and its history, and the light of the setting sun along the horizon of Bolleydenagon Bay; the proposal aims to rediscover a miner’s hardship and fleeting moment of peace as one emerges from the mine and descends to the haven of their home.

MEDITATION MINE

Utilizing the topographic gradient creates an opportunity to extract mining typologies that mimic the navigation of various angles and formed chambers within the mine. The resulting program provides a submersive escape that demarcates a sanctuary from the confines of society. Distinguishing the Man

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Oil Pastel Paintings on Artboads, 2023.

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Analog Conceptual Collages, 2022.

Graphite Drawing, 2023.

Chinese Calligraphy Painting, 2021.

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ARCHITECTURE

2026

ACADEMIC + SELECTED WORKS