PORTFOLIO_HAN YANG

HAN YANG PORTFOLIO 2022 HAN YANG

PORTFOLIO 2022

PORTFOLIO 2022 HAN YANG

Han Yang M.Arch I University of Southern California The following work are selected from my academic and professional experience in architectural design.

RESUME

Han Yang

yanghan716@gmail.com

EDUCATION 2018-2022

Master of Architecture I, University of Southern California

2010-2015

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2014 Summer

Certificate, Intro to Architecture, Columbia University

2020-2021

Architectural Designer (internship), WOODS BAGOT, Shanghai

2020

Architectural Designer (internship), TianHua Architecture & Planning, Shanghai

2016-2018

Project Manager, Laigu F&B Management CO., LTD. Chongqing

2013 Summer

Project Architect (internship), Institute of Construction and Design, Chongqing

2012 Summer

Project Assitant (internship), China CMCU Engineering Corporation

SKILLS Rhino

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Autocad

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Revit

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Sketchup

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Adobe Creative Suite

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LANGUAGE English, Proficiency for work Chinese, Native

PORTFOLIO 2022 HAN YANG

EXPERIENCE

TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMIC WORK 108 BLOCKS(THESIS)

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MCCARTHY RENOVATION

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THE WALL

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THE RING(COMPETITION)

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PROFESSIONAL WORK FACADE RENOVATION

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OFFICE INTERIOR DESIGN

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ACADEMIC WORK

108 BLOCKS

Thesis, USC SoA, Instructed by Jimenez Lai Description Mall is the conglomeration of different structures, in a collective, planned space to deliver service, commodities and entertainment to the public. Malls present themselves in different forms, either in the city or in the suburbs. How structures within malls engage with the city is imperative to its economic performance and financial outcomes. However, 21st century malls are dying, abandoned, and discontinued, left behind are empty hallways and washed out signages.How could we use design to revive the mall's vitality and make it adapt to the development of cities as a whole? The thesis discusses the current spatial conditions of malls and their engagement to cities in association with local building codes and zoning laws. The design revolves around three main conceptual ideas: density, typology, and cultural relevance.

Decay of suburbia Issue 1 The decay of malls is rooted in the decay of suburbia. In the 1950’s America, the trend of moving out of cities laid out the fundamental urban conditions Americans experience everyday now. The retail boxes, enclosed shopping area, parking lots, highways, and giant billboards.

However, cities are products of economies and not every suburban city could be favored by certain industries. Given a total volume of economic activities, smaller cities almost always gravitate towards regional centers, sometimes as a chosen location for a sub-constituent of an ecosystem, these didn’t find their positions in the process are often left there to rot. Following was the closure of shops, outflow of people, decreased economic activities and finally bankruptcy.

Density Solution 1 Fundamentally, what supports a retail space is simply the number of its customers. Shops would be easier to be profitable if opened in a denser, more hectic location. This principle applies to a single shop, should also apply to malls or commercial districts. By bringing higher volume of people, either as residents, tourist or commuters, the likelihood of survival of retails would be increased significantly since people would inevitably develop the habit of getting stuff for its most coinvent location in their daily routines. Urbanize the suburban is to increase the willingness of people to live in a certain area by providing good amenities, convenience, and a favorable lifestyle, within a level of affordability.

Boundary Issue 2 Contemporary malls are recent inventions. The father of malls, who designed the first enclosed shopping mall in the United States, Victor Gruen wished to recreate a European city in newly developed American suburbs, which accommodates cars. The result is usually less than 25 percent of total retails area and sometimes more than 50 percent of parking, in a form of ring, that surrounds the actual structure. The length from the perimeter of parking to the entrance of the mall is usually more than 300 feet, paved by hard concrete and cars shuttling through with people trying to unload. From the highways to the parking lot, then to the exterior wall of mall, human experience is confined to a boundary, both physically and mentally. This provides efficiency but reduces desire to explore. On urban scale, the boundary is even more clear to the city morphology. Often could be seen by a sharp contrast of denser residential area and expansive open parking area. A lot of newer malls, even in cities, remains this tradition of creating elongated boundaries with anchor store, parking structures and shops. The goal of it is to establish a sense of existing, reminding people of the space they are about to enter is “different”.

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Typology Solution 2 Malls generally take up lots of space in an urban scale. How circulation cut through the space has impacts on the pedestrian mobility in the cities. The tradition of designing a shopping mall, whether is in cities or suburbs, follows two major types: dumbbell and cluster 1. The dumbbell divides retail area by one major pedestrian pathway. The pathway is usually efficient, preset in a way to let customers be exposed to most amount of commercial interface. Cluster divide retail area into several groups, creating a network of intersections. Both patterns usually define exit and entrance in an established, defaulted, and recognizable fashion. the original urban morphology may be changed, or totally subverted by the guided pathway to more spending. however, the division often creates a hierarchy for space, meaning some of the stores would get higher volume of traffic, some wouldn’t.

The differentiation creates both spatial and physiological effects on people who enters. It is acts like a filter that keeps out unwanted impurities. What if the boundary is removed? The patterns could be dissolved into the surrounding context in a less discriminative way. Cancelling the “main entrance” is to reduce the intent guidance, making the enter and exit insensible.

Hence, in the proposal I restored the typology to a simple, human scale grid with no clear indication of entrance and exit. But with internal public space stripped out of commercial activities. The use of these public space is totally subjective to the dwellers. that keeps out unwanted impurities. What if the boundary is removed? The patterns could be dissolved into the surrounding context in a less discriminative way. Cancelling the “main entrance” is to reduce the intent guidance, making the enter and exit insensible.

Hence, in the proposal I restored the typology to a simple, human scale grid with no clear indication of entrance and exit. But with internal public space stripped out of commercial activities. The use of these public space is totally subjective to the dwellers.

Irrelevance Issue 3 To talk about malls is to talk about culture. Malls have already evolved beyond its basic functions as a place to exchange goods, obtaining service and entertainment. Malls are the contemporary churches, where people worship mass culture and constructed identities through billboards and logos on signage, all just to get a fast dose of cheap self-recognition.

In mid-20th century, along with the prevailing achievements of industrial revolution, increased people started to migrate from rural area to cities. The process of urbanization happened so rapidly across America, new communities were formed, in which many families got disconnected from their long-standing tradition and way of life. People needed new identities, a place for themselves to be fitted in socially, on top of that, they needed an easy outlet for their free time. So, what was better than a clas¬sical Hollywood movie in a nearby cinema? Just like those old Hollywood blockbusters, malls once brought excitements and an enviable lifestyle that somehow filled voids of banal suburban life, along with mass consumerism and popular culture.

The themes of mall in 80’s America, although not at all times, was often a coarse fusion of elements, a chaotic mesh up of different concepts and ideas, aiming to bring instant stimulus. These traits could be found in multiple film and television works, fashion, imageries in mid to late 20th century and even carried to architectural styles.

In north America, malls built in 1980s and later tried so hard to construct an almost surreal realm, a paradise where everything in anywhere is a swipe away. The early postmodern architecture brought back orientations to distinguish themselves. Others borrowed the classical designs of European palace to stress on its luxury and comfort.

Shopping malls in general, have relative short amount of construction time that is aimed to achieve a long life span. Excessive investment in extravagant forms and material works against the very goals of building it. Nevertheless, competition pushes developers to produce better, some¬times superfluous ideas to attract customers. To make malls are to make space with catachrestic that welcomes a certain type of lifestyle. But culture and trends may change several rounds during the life of a mall, so that malls would be inevitably irrelevant at some point, sometimes making these initial investments fail to generate the desired returns.

Culture Reoccupation Solution 3 Since trends always come and go and often they are unpredictable. Commercial space needs to be identified, but at the same time not to be possessed by the narrative it produces. the idea of cultural reoccupation comes up as a potential solution for dilemma of doing too much and doing nothing architecturally. The idea was to create a framework that is style less, inherently meaningless, with a blurred representation of what it could be. Meanwhile it is symbolic, memorable, and evocative. In another word, it creates a framework for culture to occupy and reoccupy, with freedom to expand, adapt and evolve for whoever occupies it.

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DIAGRAMS

TYPOLOGY

DENSITY

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CONCEPT DRAWING

A COLLECTION OF SoCal SIGNAGES CULTURE REOCCUPATION

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exterior

interior

Close-up, Arcade

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Close-up, Plaza

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MCCARTHY RENOVATION Studio, ARCH 605a, USC SoA Instructed by JOHN MUTLOW

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READAPTATION

"Parking Structures are relatively new – they have been around for the past 100 years. What is the future of this kind of building type? This is the warehouse of the 20th century, the vertical neighborhood of the 21st century."

From Parking to a Mixed - use student dwelling. My proposal focus on the issue of "urban connection". At a prime location of the Mccarthy entrance of campus, the parking structure takes up large amount of space but allows minial passage through it, like a giant concrete block that blocks off valuable connection between the Mccarthy quad and the streets. The attemps are to reconnect the public space to campus and smoothly extend the academia life into a broader urban envrionment.

EXSISTING STRUCTURES SLABS

STRUCTUAL MODIFICATION

FORM GENERATION

Exsisting

TH AND DEFINE GARAG GARAGEE / HOUSING HOUSING

RAMPS

SPLIT - CREATE CREATE ANOTHER ANOTHER PA PATH TH ADD-- CREATE ADD CREATE AMENITY AMENITY AND RETA RETAIL IL SPA SPACE CE ON QUAD QUAD

EXTRAC EXTR ACTT - CREATE CREATE PA

Modified ADD - CREATE CREATE EXTRA HOUSING AND AMENITY AMENIT Y SPA SPACE CE ON STREET STREET

COLUMNS AND BEAMS

TRANSPLANT - TTRANSFORM RANSFORM TTHE HE ROOF TTOP OP SPAC SPACEE TO GREEN GARDEN MOVE THE V VOLLEYBALL OLLEYBALL CO COURT URT TO TTHE HE ROOF TTOP OP

ROTATION ROTA TION - ROTA ROTATE TE TTHE HE EXTRA HOUSING INWA INWARDS RDS SETT BACK SE BACK - CREATES CREATES ROOF OVER HANG AND BALC BALCANY ANY ADD - ADD ANOT ANOTHER HER HOUSING PROGRAM ON TTOP OP OF

CONNEC ONNECTT - CONNE CONNECT CT THE SEPERATE SEPERATE VOL VOLUME UME USING SKY BRIDGE

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SITE PLAN

BUILDING ANATOMY

ROOF

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FACADE

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UNITS 2 4

EGRESS

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4 Garage Entrance 5 Atrium 6 Transportation Office 7 Lobby

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STRUCTUAL

ENVRIONMENTAL SYSTEMS

EGRESS DIAGRAMS GREEN PLANTS ON BOTH SIDE AND ROOFTOP PARK CREATES A COOLER MICRO CLIMATE

STACK EFFECT CREATED BY THE CENTRAL ATRIUM TO HAVE BETTER VENTILATION

DUAL LAYER LOW - E GLASS

FACADE PREVENTS OVERHEATING

NARROW BUILDING FORM IS ANOTHER ENVRIONMENTAL STRATEGY FOR BETTER CROSS VENTILATION

HVAC

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CHILLER/BOILER MECHANICAL

A.H.U

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CHILLER/BOILER

SECTION B-B

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FLOORPLAN:6F

FLOORPLANS

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1 STUDY LOUNGE 2 PARKING -LV2 3 OFFICE 4 GYM 5 ROOFTOP PARK+VOLLEYBALL COURT 6 DECK 7 SPORTS PREPERATION ROOM

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UNIT PLANS

The unit plans is a modular construction that follows the exsisting structures of parking garage. each module contains one 1b1b, one 2b1b, one 3b1b, one 4b1b dorm and a communal dinning/kitchen space. The modular design could be a convient solution for dorms in such renovation projects to increase constrcution effiency.

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THE WALL

Studio, ARCH 605b, USC SoA Instructed by JOHN SOUTHERN Walls are common yet often insensible in architecture. Although they are of great importance since they define boundaries and organize space in such subtle, but often simplistic ways.

When the basic architectural element is enlarged to a urban scale, or rather, to the scale of an independent building itself, how could it change people’ perception of the role walls play as programmatic organizers in a building?

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DIAGRAMS Massing i.

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Structual System Diagram i. Shear Walls ii. Acoustic Insulated Walls iii.Structual Beams and Columns (CLT) iv.Combined System 21

SECTION

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WALL SECTION

1. SLOPED CAP - FLASHING 2. SELF ADHERE MEMBRANE 3. AIR BARRIER 4. EXTERIOR FINISHING COAT 5. CROSS CAVITY FLUSHING 6. ALUMINUM TUBE 7. WOOD ANCHOR FOR LOUVER SUPPORTS 8. PLYWOOD FLOORING 9. 2” METAL PLATE 10. GLASS FRAMES 11. ALUMINUM LOUVER SUPPORTS

CHUNK SECTION + DETAIL

1. ALUMINUM BEAR HOLDER 2. ALUMINUM BEARING WITH MOTAR 3. DOUBLE GLAZED LOW-E GLASS PANELS 4. HIGH STRENGTH FRAME 5. WOOD CHUNK FLOORING 6. INSULATION 7. CLT FLOOR SLAB 8. METAL FLOOR HOLDER 9. ROOF 10. CLT BEAM 11. ALUMINUM FRAMING FOR LOUVER SYSTEM 12. HOLLOW ALUMINUM ARM 13. ALUMINUM LOUVERS 14. IN-CASE ELECTRIC WIRING 15. LOUVER CLIPPING 16. PIN

12. GROUND FLOORING 13. RIGID INSULATION 14. DRAINAGE PIPING 15. FOOTING 16. LEAD FLASHING 17. PLYWOOD SHEATHING 18. INSULATION 19. CLT FLOORS 20. CLT BEAMS 21. CLT CROSS BEAMS 22. SLAB ON GRADE

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FLOOR CONNECTION DETAIL 1/4’=1’

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AXNOMETRIC CHUNK SECTION 3/4”=1’

WALL SECTION SCALE: 3/4”=1’

WEST ELEVATION SCALE: 3/4”=1’

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OPERABLE LOUVER SYSTEM DETAIL BOTTOM 1/4‘=1’

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SITEPLAN

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Lobby CAFÉ Secondary Lobby/additional café seating Bathroom Basement entrance Storage South Entrance West Entrance East Entrance Plaza

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PERSPECTIVE

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THE RING

SITE PLAN

Fire Resilient Command Post and Visitor Center Competition Entry, Honorable Mention, USC Architectural Guild Charrette 2020, With ZHIJIN SHEN, JING WU THE CHALLENGE "California must reconsider how fires are fought and implement resiliency requirements for new construction. California needs new, creative, out of the box, blue sky ideas to help transform the way the state approaches wildfires. Now is the time for future designers to embrace resilience in their work. The week-long charrette challenge is to develop a project that embraces wildfire resiliency measures for a site in the Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) at the very edge of the Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Mountains. Over the course of the competition, each team should consider resilient design interventions at the territory, site, and building scales."

SITE Brown Mountain Fire Road Command Post sits on the ridge line overlooking the Canyon Crest neighborhood in Altadena. The fire road is a popular gateway to the Angeles National Forest and the network of trails and fire roads that meander through the San Gabriel Mountains. A dated structure, the Command Post is in need of replacement.

New Regulations require all new built projects within the Wildland Urban Interface to serve as demonstrations of resilient architecture and landscape design. Given the number of visitors using the fire road, it is especially important for the new command post to inspire visitors with a new vision for resilient and beautiful buildings and landscapes in the WUI here in Southern California and further afield. As a way to increase exposure to resilient strategies and generate revenue outside of fire season.

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CONCEPT THREE LAYERS OF DEFENCE:

OUTSIDE - FIRE DETECTING PROBE SECOND - ACTIVE FIGHTER PLATFORM BUILIDNG - FIRE-RESISTENT MATERIAL & UNDERGROUND SHELTER HELICPTER DECK

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WATER SOURCE - WATER COLLECTION POOL AND DEVICE FIRE RESILIENCE - DEFENSIVE VEGETATION ZONE RETAINING WALL

OUTDOOR SPACE FOR HIKING

EDUCATION GARDEN PARKING & WATER COLLECTION DEVICE RESERVOIR

PROGRAMME

OUTDOOR SPACE FOR HIKING AT FLAT SOUTH SIDE EDUCATION GARDEN AT HUMID NORTH SIDE RESERVOIR AT VALLEY PARKING AND SWALE AT PERIPHERY FOR FIRE DEFENCE

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LANDSCAPE STRATEGIES

PLANS LEVEL GROUND

ENTRANCE, PLAZA, RECEPTION

LEVEL -1

HOUSING, EXHIBITION, SHELTER, OFFICE

LEVEL -2

ENTRANCE, SHELTER

EMERGENCY SHELTER & CONNECTION TO PERIPHERAL LEVEL

FLOORPLAN - GROUND LEVEL

FLOORPLAN - UNDERGROUND

SECTION

EXPLODED DIAGRAM

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2020

HAN YANG

SHEN ZHIJIN

WU JING

PROFESSIONAL WORK

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FACADE RENOVATION

Built, Kunming Angel's Pediatric Clinic Facade Renovation, (WOODS BAOT 2020-2021) Client: Angel's Group/Project Architect,Team Lead: CHEN ZHIGUO; Designer in Charge: HAN YANG; Project Manager: ELLEN ZHAO; Technical Designer: WANG YU

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会诊空间 Consultation Space

抢救室/外科/内科/儿科/中医/妇科/咨询室

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休息空间 Recreation Space

接待/等候区/门厅/前台

辅助空间 Service Space

办公室/资料室/更衣室/卫生间/多功能室/储藏室

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妇科会诊 妇科会诊 妇科会诊 妇科会诊 储藏间 清洁间 多功能室 咨询室 咨询室 等候区 WAITING AREA MULTIFUNCTION ROOM

BATHROOM

CLEANING

NURSING

CHINESE MEDICINE CONSULTATION

GYNECOLOGY

CONSULTATION CONSULTATION

男卫生间 母婴室 中医会诊 中医会诊 中医会诊 等候区 CHINESE MEDICINE STORAGE

CHINESE MEDICINE CONSULTATION

WAITING AREA

内科会诊 外科会诊 抢救室 等候区 门厅入口 女更衣室 行政办公室 EXECUTIVE OFFICE PHYSICIAN SURGICAL EMERGENCY ROOM DRESSING ROOM

CONSULTATION

WAITING AREA

GYNECOLOGY

GYNECOLOGY

GYNECOLOGY

儿科会诊 儿科会诊 儿科会诊 儿科会诊 PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS

PEDIATRICS

ENTRANCE

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SCHEMATIC DESIGN

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RENDERING

COMPLETED

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DRAWINGS

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DESIGN DEVELOPMENT DRAWINGS

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OFFICE INTERIOR DESIGN

Built Project; Chongqing LongFeng Office Space; ChongQing, China With ISZON, JESSIE JING

SITE CONDITION

T

he walls were torn down to create a more continous space.

We mapped basic geometries on the irregular l shape space, creating a unique, yet functional working area with interesting winding pathways between them.

We also abandoned traditional design. By putting most of the manager's offices away from the windows, the overall working envrionment became more spacious and bright.

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DIAGRAMS

PLAN

1. RECEPTION 2.OPEN WORKING ARE 3.MANAGER ROOM 4.STORAGE ROOM 5.ACCOUNTING OFFICE 6.MANAGER OFFICE 7.MULTI-FOUNCTION 8.PANTRY 9.PRINTING AREA 10.MEETING ROOM(SMALL) 11.MEETING ROOM(PRIMARY) 12.GENERAL MANAGER OFFICE

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2016 ARCHITYPE STUDIO

HAN YANG

ISZON JESSIE JING

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