Deliang Chen 4th Year Undergraduate Portfolio

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DeLiang Chen Con t a c t

3293 Oak Grove Rd. Gadsden, AL 35905 T:(256)390-9355 E:deliang499@gmail.com

Skills GENERAL COMMUNICATION LEADERSHIP TEAM WORK TIME MANAGEMENT

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RESUME

I am a Fourth year seeking an internship over summer.

My current goals are to experience and learn from a professional setting. I find that even from the most menial of tasks something can be learned. I really wish to start my professional journey and willing to dive into any task that is thrown my way.

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AUBURN UNIVERSITY

BA: Architecture (Graduation Spring 2023) Minor In Business GPA: 3.5

INVOLVMENT

AIAS (American Institude of Architecture Students) Time Period: Fall 2018 - Current

AWARDS

Deans List Time Period: Spring 2018 - Current Skill USA Third Place

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CADC IT STUDENT WORKER

Time Period: Fall 2021 - Current Main roles were to maintenance technology throughout the college. Solved common problems with technology.

SUMMEROUR INTERNSHIP

Time Period: Summer of 2020 This was a two-week internship with Keith Summerour, an accredited architect located in Atlanta, Georgia.

The internship involved working with a team of five including myself.

During the intership we were not allowed to use CAD. Everything had to be done by hand.

We had to anylze the site, present different designs, and made mockups.

Re fe re nce Hobie Henning (CADC IT) T:(251)751-2867

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01 DOC SPIER New Meets Old

610 Jefferson Street, La Grange, GA 30240 We were tasked with adding retail space and readapting the existing gathering space and adding another gathering space on the west side of the building. My initial thought of the site was that it was an indoor courtyard. Taking this thought through the project. Extensions were placed in such a way that multiple out/indoor courtyards would be formed. Through these courtyards different types of intimacy between people was achieved.

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The In/Out Courtyards By looking at the plan one can see the different courtyard spaces. With the existing structure being the initial courtyard that connects the other three. Each courtyard provides an different experience for the user. The courtyard to the South is filled with birch trees that encourages a more intimate space for the users. While opposite to the South the North is a smaller but more open courtyard that is geared toward the community. The Northern courtyard contains the community garden that enforces the idea of community. Last there is the Western courtyard. The Western courtyard is less of courtyard but a interior space that opens into the space in the middle. Its identity is an open interior space that was meant to be used depending on the events that need to be held.

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The Versatile Space The project was intended to serve many different purposes. Such events were concerts, weddings, community parties, and much more. The diagrams shown are to showcase the versatility of the space. By using different types of furniture the spaces can quickly be transformed to suit the need of the events.

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Renders Of Project Through the different renders one can see the spatial quality of the different spaces. The spatial quality of the Western Garden can be seen in the renders. Tight spaces that almost forces the occupants to be close together. And one can see how open the rest of the site is allowing for the previous mentioned versatilely.

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RETAKE AND REVITALIZE

Jefferson Street, Nashville, TN 37208 This project was a cap over interstate I-40. The area is West of downtown Nashville. The neighborhood was split into two half by I-40. Currently one half contains a school the other remained mostly residential. This project seeks to stitch the two neighborhoods back together. My project focused on a dense space that had many elevation changes utilizing the canyon type of typography from where I-40 is currently located.

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ELEMENTS OF THE PROJECT In order to stitch the neighborhoods back together this project explores the idea of an active path. An active path is one that contains program that encourages pedestrians to use the programs. The programs are placed in a way that correlates to one another. For example, the auditorium

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is placed next to the recreation center.

There could be an event that happens in the auditorium that requires an after party having the recreation center beside it makes the transition between the two events convenient and seamless. Another main design concept within the site is the upper grounds or green roofs. These spaces are both ground and roof because of the

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sectional opportunity presented in the site through the topographical difference from the North and South side of the site. The upper grounds give the pedestrians within the site the ability to experience different levels of travel.

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03 OLLI CENTER A NEW BUILDING

1031 S College St, Auburn, AL 36832 The task was to design a new building for OLLI. It required classrooms for the different types of classes that OLLI provided. A few examples are art classrooms, kitchens, and typical classrooms. Another major space that was required was an auditorium that could be flexible in use.

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04 RURAL STUDIO

A HANDS ON EXPERIENCE Newbern, AL 36765

At Rural Studio my studio was largely focused on the construction portion of Ophelia’s home. Ophelia’s home is the most recent finished home in the line of 20k projects. My studio achieved in installing the walls and roof. With the studio behind us coming in and completing the project.

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SHIMMING THE WALLS AS THE FOUNDATION SETTLED AFTER BEING LEFT A SEMESTER UNTOUCHED.

INSTALLED COLUMNS

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HELICAL ANCHORS BEING INSTALLED TO PREVENT THE FOUNDATION FROM SINKING ANYMORE.

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INSTALLING RAFTERS

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INSTALLING RAFTERS

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05 SUMMEROUR INTERNSHIP A DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE GAY, GA 30218

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EXPERIENCES Much of the time during the internship involved being out in the field. The internship varied from building the project to surveying the site. Each experience from nailing to cutting a piece of wood provided a new perspective during my designing process.

During our time there we also got to meet many new people. We got to meet Dan Cathy, Rob Parker, and Shelly Brown.

GROUP EXPERIENCES Throughout the whole internship we as a group and individually were exposed to many new experiences. We were allowed to experience our projects from thought to reality. Working as a group was a brand new opportunity for all of us. It made us understand how different ideas could not only clash but improve upon each other.

Rapid sketch courses that was held during the internship.

Group photo taken with Dan Cathy.

This was our group looking through a part of the history of the site.

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WELL COVER The first project we were assigned was designing a cover for a well. For this project we were split into groups of two. The criteria for the cover was for it to entirely cover the well and relate back to the meditation area, but abstracted. We designed the well and built it ourself.

This led to the revelation for me that what we design

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are always subject to change in reality.

WELL CONCEPT The idea behind it was the advancement from a higher plane to a lower plane. This idea was taken and abstracted from the site of the meditation space. The material used was so it would be in contrast with a newly built house right next to it. The rusted metal plate accented by the mushroom wood on top grounded it in the site. Making the well less foreign on the site.

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MEDITATION SPACE The second project that we did was the meditation space. We had to work as a whole group on this project. The main site is located at, but not limited to, the intersection between four different alleys.

We were tasked with designing a meditation ARIEL VIEW OF ALLEYS space. The meditation space was not meant to dominate over the site, but improve and compliment it.

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The shape of the paths was thought of as a vine that would be see on a cross. This vine that we have weaving in and out of the alleys creates new paths. These paths create new progression to the meditation area. They allow for a more diverse view on the site.

With each path looking out into the open field. The meditation space was formed by one orthogonal offset from the curved wall.

The space is a step down from the site to symbolize a change in space. It is open on the east side to allow in that morning sun.

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CONCLUSION I am really grateful for this opportunity that Keith Summerour has provided me. This was by far the most memorable two weeks of my time. I am also grateful for the people that were there with me. It would not have been the same without them. So, thank you Abbey, Hunter, Michal, and Sydney.

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