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Erin

Huang Architecture Portfolio

Erin Huang

Email: erinhuang199@gmail.com

Phone: 206 639 8008

125 Delancey St, Apt 1209

New York, NY 10002

Experience

Cornell University Bachelor of Architecture 2017-2022

Concentration in Building Science and Technology Minor in East Asian Studies

MASS Design Group

Architectural Designer 2021, 2022-2025

Utica Food Hub | Utica, NY | Lead Designer, Concept, SD. An adaptive reuse of a historic train building, including food hall, commercial kitchen spaces, and outdoor farmer’s market. 30,000 SF.

Sojourner Truth State Park | Kingston, NY | Designer, DD, CD, CA. Swimming pavilion, restrooms, and historic mule barn improvements at Sojourner Truth State Park in Kingston, NY. 21,000 SF combined.

Nubian Directions Youth Center | Poughkeepsie, NY | Lead Designer, Visioning, SD. An adaptive reuse of a historic brick warehouse into a youth job development center and community space. 20,000 SF.

Unshattered | Wappingers Falls, NY | Designer, Visioning, SD. Adaptive reuse of a former mechanical workshop into a leather goods production facility, offices, and retail space for Unshattered, a social enterprise supporting women exiting addiction programs. 16,000 SF.

The Land Institute Masterplan | Salina, KS | Lead Designer, Concept. Facility use study, visioning, & landscape-based long term masterplan for The Land Institute, a plant science research organization.

Fringe Cities Design Lab | Researcher Interrogating the legacy of urban renewal in small American cities. Designed & coordinated the Fringe Cities Future Exhibit, managed research interns for the lab since 2023.

Minglian Group

Assistant Project Coodinator

2020

Development & general contracting firm. Led initial construction tender phase of a winery building in Kelowna, BC. Invited subtrades for bidding process, coordinated site visits and meetings.

IBI Group

Architectural Intern

2019

Schematic facade and massing designs for two residential high rises in Vancouver, Canada, plus design development drawings. Coordinated & developed materials for city zoning presentations.

Noguchi Musuem

Lecture and digital exhibition of work with Naomi Frangos.

Cornell Council for the Arts

Risograph installation higlighting Ithaca’s indigenous agriculture.

Tjaden Gallery

Galleries in the Valley, digital gallery space and curated works.

Bound Books Unbound, group show highlighting print media.

Fabrication

Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, Lumion, Enscape, D5, V-Ray, Adobe Creative Suite, Grasshopper

Software Drawing Matter Language

Bilingual in English & Mandarin, proficient in Spanish.

3D printing, laser cutting, CNC, moldmaking & casting, woodworking, metalworking.

Print Media

Screenprinting, lithography, risography, bookbinding, papermaking.

Selected Projects

Professional Work

Utica Food Hub

Sojourner Truth State Park

Unshattered

Nubian Directions Youth Center

The Land Institute Masterplan

Academic Work

Thesis — Alimentary Infrastructures: Imagining Leaky Urbanisms

Bakery at Stone Barns

Daycare in Ithaca

Martemar House & Wood Screen Protoypes

Utica Food Hub

Year: 2022-2024

Location: Utica, NY

Client: Oneida County

Role: Lead Designer

Area: 30,000 SF

Program: Food hall, community kitchens, public space

Status: Concept — 2022-2023

Schematic — 2024

DD — TBD

The Utica Food Hub at the REA wing of Utica’s Union Station is a catalyst for a new kind of food-centered public space, serving local food entrepreneurs, visitors, farmers, producers, and community members alike.

MASS provided architectural, community engagement, and business operational modelling services to Oneida County in the development of this project.

Project programs include a food hall, shared commercial kitchens, rentable high-capacity cold storage, restaurant & bar, and covered outdoor gathering space for the existing Oneida County Farmer’s Market.

As a building designated on State and National registers, this adaptive re-use project balances sensitivity with new, historically inspired design elements.

An extended CLT canopy at entrance of the building establishes a new public square and takes formal cues from the site’s historic railway past, while a long and narrow building form makes a net-zero design possible.

As the lead designer of the project during the schematic design phase, I managed day-to-day client communication and subconsultant coordination, while developing the design and project visualizations.

Union Station & REA Wing historic cues

GATHERING

Building Net-Zero System: Cooling

Building Net-Zero System: Healing

Building Thermal Battery Concept Section

Sojourner Truth State Park

Year: 2023-2026

Location: Kingston, NY

Client: Field Oeprations, NYS Parks & Recreation

Role: Lead Designer

Area: 21,000 SF combined

Program: Aquatic facility & restrooms, historic restoration

Status: SD, DD — 2023-2024

Construction — 2025

Swimming Pavilion Site

Following the opening of the Sojourner Truth State Park in 2020, The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and the Palisades Interstate Park Commission began developing a master plan for the park.

MASS provided architectural, community engagement, and interpretation scopes for the project. Buildings include the new construction of a swimming pavilion and restrooms, and the SHPO-approved historic restoration of a 19th c. mule barn.

Formerly the site of a limestone quarry and later a cement factory, the building design and material choices leverage the landscape’s rich cultural,

industrial, historic, and geologic elements.

In contrast to the extrative history of the site, new buildings site lightly on the ground, repurposing existing materials onsite such as concrete and limestone rubble to be part of a gabion rainscreen system. Durable and long-wearing finishes including Accoya wood are utilized throughout.

My principal contributions to the project include SD and DD massing, facade, and design drawings, and lead CA administration during the bidding phase, as well as interpretation during the DD and CD phases. Construction is beginning June 2025, and Phase 1 anticipated to complete by July 2026.

Restrooms Site

Mule Barn Site

Swimming Pavilion view from beach

Restrooms View from the Commons

Mule Barn & Storytelling Circle

Swimming Pavilion view from beach

Swimming Pavilion view from East

Swimming Pavilion Interior View

Exterior Facade Palette

Unshattered

Year: 2023-

Location: Wappinger Falls, NY

Client: Unshattered

Role: Designer

Area: 16,000 SF

Program: Artisan workshops, office space

Status: Concept — 2023

Schematic — 2024

Fundraising — 2025

Unshattered is 501(c)3 social enterprise that provides pathways forward for women exiting substance abuse programs, ensuring economic independence and sobriety through community and career training.

Women participating in Unshattered’s program learn sewing skills, making handcrafted bags and accessories that have been featured nationally, and from recycled and upcycled materials.

Taking inspiration from common themes of renewal, rebirth, and regeneration, MASS has reimagined a former mechanical workshop in Wappingers Falls, NY, as the new & expanded headquarters of Unshattered.

Deeply guided by trauma-informed design principles, programs at Unshattered include artisan workshop spaces, a retail area and cafe, and offices and staff gathering spaces. Nested layers, visual security, and autonomy of movement are built into the design of the spaces, from workspaces to the landscape itself.

Extensive studies were conducted for the design of the facade, which wraps and drapes around the new entrance as if like the fabric staff work with.

The landscape design was also integral to staff experiece, incorporating meditation paths, and a restored meadow that will grow and renew perenially, like the participants of Unshattered.

View of building from meadow walk

View of Entrance Retail

Nubian Directions Youth Center

Year: 2023-

Location: Poughkeepsie, NY

Client: Nubian Directions

Role: Lead Designer

Area: 22,000 SF

Program: Technical training, education, community facility

Status: Concept — 2023

Schematic — 2024

Fundraising — 2025

Nubian Directions has been a mainstay of Poughkeepsie’s non-profit and youth services network for more than 30 years, providing career training, mentorship, and guidance for at-risk youth.

The new Nubian Directions Youth Center promises to be a beacon for Poughkeepsie youth, providing a safe space for students outside of school hours while offering state-of-the-art spaces for job training.

An adaptive reuse of a former brick factory in Poughkeepsie’s underinvested Northside neighborhood, programs will include a STEM lab, construction lab, classrooms, office space, gathering

space, and outdoor recreation areas.

The design of the building activates corridors into spaces of discovery, encouraging students to discover and engage with the variety of programs offered at the Youth Center. A series of CLT canopies support PV panels that help the space achieve operational netzero while providing covered outdoor space.

As lead designer during all phases of work, I led day-to-day client communication, subconsultant coordination, and developed all designs, drawings, and visualizations. The project is currently undergoing zoning approvals with the City of Poughkeepsie.

main entrance of the building from residential south side of the warehouse, the local neighborhood it serves

entrance of the building from residential south side of the warehouse, local neighborhood it serves

and Center outdoor space, urban will be equipment efficiency

Optimizing the Back entrance

the Back entrance

The current front entrance of 209 Cottage St. will become the back entrance of the new Youth Center, receiving equipment, materials, and other back-of-house operations.

Extending the Front Entrance

A new, large covered building entrance and outdoor area for the Youth Center will increase gathering space outdoors, facilitating outdoor events & classes.

Spaces & Urban Gardens

More green spaces and an expanded urban garden will give youth the opportunity to spend more time in natural landscapes, reaping the benefits of the outdoors.

& Mansion St. Entrances

Visitors will have vehicular and pedestrian access from Winnikee and Mansion St., and on-site parking. Bike racks will also be provided to encourage all modes of transportation students and staff.

Green

Winnikee

Optimizing

Green Spaces & Urban Gardens

Winnikee

Center space,

View of building from sunken covered court

View of atrium & cafeteria

View from street entrance

The Land Institute Masterplan

Year: 2022-2023

Location: Salina, KS

Client: The Land Institute

Role: Lead Designer

Area: 55,000 SF buildings, 40 acre site

Program: Technical training, education, community facility

Status: Masterplan — 2022-2023

The Land Institue is a pioneering non-profit research organization based in the prairies of Salina, KS. For more than 50 years, they have pursued cutting edge plant science research on their campus, collaborating with universities and international organizations to develop perennial grain crops and agriculture.

MASS was brought on to develop a 5, 10, and 50 year vision for the campus, the land, and the organization. Multiple onsite visits and an extensive immersion process was conducted to document and understand current space use and future needs.

Staff and researchers at TLI have become adept at sharing resources in constrained environments, in a

process that varies widely season to season.

Our proposal focuses on expanding the campus eastwards and providing dedicated spaces for visitor education, staff research, and organizational gathering. These programs are intertwined by the landscape itself, a prairie wetland that embeds the user within the land. Extensive site, landscape, and carbon analyses were provided as part of the final report.

As lead designer, I facilitated all engagement and immersion events, developed the masterplan design, and produced all graphics and visualizations.

BREEDING PROGRAMS INCLUDE EXISTING KERNZA, LEGUMES, OILSEEDS, PERENNIAL WHEAT, AND SORGHUM. FUTURE CROPS WILL ALSO MOVE THROUGH THIS PART OF CAMPUS.

EXISTING GRAVEL ROAD

ECOLOGY PROGRAMS INCLUDE CPE, CPG, SOIL ECOLOGY, CROP STEWARDSHIP, AND ECOSPHERE STUDIES.

View of the Commons building from East campus

View of the Wauhob Prairie from the Prairie Pavilion

Alimentary Infrastructures: Imagining Leaky Urbanisms

B.ARCH THESIS, SPRING 2022

ADVISORS: LILY CHI, JESSE LECAVALIER

Alimentary infrastructures is an alternate way of thinking: Infrastructure that is not extractive, but nourishing—regenerative.

California’s Central Valley is one region where the hidden systems of invisible resource extraction and labour economies that feed the nation come alive. Migrant farmworkers in towns like Porterville, CA live in close proximity to massive private reservoirs of groundwater, while their own taps run dry during drought events.

What if the Central Valley’s extensively engineered water infrastructure could feed communities, not just crops?

The Central Valley’s Tulare Lake becomes our point of entry—Once the largest lake west of the Mississippi, it has become a ghost lake, drawn down and dissapeared, reappearing only 5 times in the past 200 years, at the behest of extreme rain.

Leaky Urbanisms exists in an on-again, off-again future where, like the rest of the country, the Central Valley vacillates between extreme weather events, alternating years of biblical floods and ground-cracking droughts, making water capture and storage critical.

It proposes a new water infrastructure for the unincorporated city of East Porterville, CA that connects it to the Tule River, harnessing above-ground water stores during wet years. A system of dryland canals anchored by a toolkit of community spaces allows for different urban futures to flourish, each with a different focus: housing, community spaces, agriculture.

Leaky urbanism is a kaleidoscope: a model, tool, or instrument to see so many different ways of living through a single, alimentary infrastructure.

Fresno, Tulare, & Kings County Hydrology & Irrigation Networks

Porterville Canal Parti Diagram

Tulare Lake Ground & Surface Water Section

Stills from Nelly Servin’s Every Drop We Get

Tulare Lake Basin, Dry Year water management

Tulare Lake Basin, Wet Year water management

Year-long canal cross section & toolkit

Scenario Z: Agriculture

Note: When I was developing my thesis in the spring of 2022, California had spent the last 10 out of 12 years in a drought. I had based Leaky Urbanisms on a theoretical future where weather events became so extreme that perhaps Tulare Lake would return, setting the stage for this pilot project.

I did not expect it to come true so quickly—in 2023, California experienced one of its most extreme atmospheric river events to date, resulting in the return of Tulare Lake for the first time in generations.

It was a hollow vindication, and reminder that these are not just academic hypotheses—they are real and urgent problems that bear down most quickly on the most vulnerable of us.

Scenario X: The Commons

Lake Tulare, 2023. Images by Mark Abramson for The New York Times

Lake Tulare, 2023.

Bakery at Stone Barns Center

A REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE MOVEMENT

ARCH 4101 FOURTH YEAR OPTION STUDIO: FALL 2020

INSTRUCTORS: MICHAEL MURPHY, CAITLIN TAYLOR PARTNER: ADRIANA CONTARINO

Culture creation: pun intended. This bakery at the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Hudson Valley is designed to be a new hub for the regional grain economy of the Northeast. The glulam barn structure recalls the wooden skeleton of historic barns, combining two iconic formal cues of the campus. A bakery, cafe, and mill are combined in a space bridging old and new. A flexible design allows different events and programming to happen, and addresses the campus’ need for a new ‘face’ to welcome visitors.

e/w longitudinal section

Daycare in Ithaca, NY

WOODWORKS: INTEGRATIVE STUDIO

ARCH 2012 SECOND YEAR STUDIO: SPRING 2019

INSTRUCTORS: SASA ZIVCOVIC

This daycare is sited in a unique location in Ithaca, NY, in a valley between an urban and natural context with a creek running next to it. The project contextualizes the building as an extension of the site, introducing the concept of sight-

site section, 1/16”:1’

INSTRUCTOR: MARK CRUVELLIER WITH CHRISTINA XIE, CHLOE TSUI

A 1:50 scale model of Ensamble Studio’s Martemar House, analyzing the main structural concepts of the residence. Constructed in brass, walnut, and rockite.

Wood Screen

Facade Prototyping

WOODWORKS: INTEGRATIVE STUDIO ARCH 2102 CORE STUDIO | SPRING 2019

INSTRUCTOR: SASA ZIVCOVIC

A wood screen designed to partially muffle and block noise, through an increase in surface area, created with tablesaw fabrication methods. The structure is friction connected with no glue.