Jay (Javier) Chan - Selected Design Works 2023

ARCHITECTURE STUDENT | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

SOFTWARE

AUTOCAD

RHINOCEROS 3D

GRASSHOPPER

ARCHICAD

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR

ADOBE LIGHTROOM

ADOBE PREMIERE PRO

SKILLS

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

VERBAL COMMNICATION

PUBLIC SPEAKING

CREATIVITY

DESIGN

COLLABORATION

LEADERSHIP

VIDEO EDITING

2020 - 2024

TORONTO, CA

Education -------------------------------------------------------------------

University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts, Architectural Studies

• Dean’s List Scholar 2021-2022

Experience -------------------------------------------------------------------

June – July 2022

HONG KONG SAR

Ida&Billy Architects Ltd. – Architectural Intern

• Specialized in architectural visualization: producing photomontages

• Maintained strong engagement with clients by efficiently communicating design changes in timely manner

• Developed skills in architectural research

• Assisted head architects with making powerpoint presentations

July – August 2021

TORONTO, CA

DesignLIFES CREATE Program – Communications Assistant

• Managed company website

• In charge of video content, interviewing students to document and showcase their experiences and research outcomes with the program

• Coordinated and moderated zoom events such as the Research Showcase

July - August 2019

HONG KONG SAR

Enzyme apd - Architecture Intern

• Experience in using BIM software (ArchiCAD)

• Assisted in office renovation project

• Assistant to head architects with making powerpoints and communications

• Communicated with suppliers to ensure materials were shipped in timely manner

Awards -------------------------------------------------------------------

October 2022

Peter W. And Linda D. Hamilton Award In Social Housing

• Awarded

October 2022

Ontario Association of Architects’ Scholarship

• Nominee

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01. NORTON HOUSE PRECEDENT STUDY

ARC361 | FALL 2022

Frank Gehry’s Norton house is an architectural staple of the deconstructivism style. In Gehry’s project, there is a unique focus on the incorporation of found materials and objects. With my precendent study of this house, I wanted to focus on the house’s circulation system and how it serves an architectural promenade in the exploration of the project’s many unique architectural characters.

Attached to the precedent study is a concept model. In this portion of the study, I wanted to capture the very essence of the project, that being the idea of ‘deconstructivism’. As such, the project can be assembled and disassembled and depicts a simplified conceptual adaptation of the Norton’s House’s circulation system as well as key architectural features.

02. KENSINGTON MARKET SITE STUDY

ARC361 | FALL 2022

As a precursor to the housing studio course’s final project of designing a laneway house in Toronto’s Kensington market neighborhood, I conducted study on the programmatic elements of the site. With this study, I wanted to understand how different programs were mixed within the site and the ways in which the residential areas were folded into an otherwise heavily retail and restaurant dominanted area.

03. A FLORIST’S HOUSE

ARC361 | FALL 2022

As the final project of the housing design studio, we were tasked with designing a mixed-use laneway house. A number of design challenges were attached to this site, especially the fact that we were confined to a 5 x 11m site boundary. Eventually, I arrvied at the design of a house for a florsit, who operates a flower shop on the ground level and grows their plants in a greenhouse on the levels above.

Formal Concept

In order to maximize sunlight exposure for the greenhouse portion of the house, I explored the concept of using the sunpath at the site to create angular faces on the building’s so that sunlight could be funnelled in throughout the day

04. CAVE WALLS

ARC201 | WINTER 2021

In this course, we were tasked to center our projects around a single key word. For me, this word was “cave”. In my project, I wanted to explore the fine line between forms that are naturally derived and forms derived from human intervention. This course featured three projects, the first of which was to create wall formations, within a 9-square grid condition. With my project, I wanted to emulate the inside of a rock cave by using horizontally stacked planes to create a plethora of unique spatial experiences.

05. CAVE: STUDENT CENTER

The final component of this course called for the design of a volumetric space surrounding our key word. The expressed purpose of this volume is to serve as a concept for a student center. In my project, I decided to take the juxtaposing concepts of human made versus naturally derived at face value by merging two completely opposite masses that in turn, offer different spatial experiences for users within.

06. LAWRENCE PARK SOCIAL HOUSING

ARC200 | FALL 2021

In ARC200, we studied the Toronto Yellowbelt and tackled the idea of neighborhood densification. My assigned site was Lawrence Park, a neighborhood unique for breaking the conventional grid like system with winding circular roads and cul de sacs. With this project we were tasked to imagine methods to densify the neighborhood with additional units. For my project, I imagined this space being an elevated megastructure that stretches along the neighborhood’s winding roads and served as both a residential walkway and platform to house stackable housing units. This design was largely inspired by the High Line and fisherman homes in Hong Kong, which were similarly dense in nature and utilised the structural support of bamboos and columns on the water. With this design, I envisioned my intervention to transform the Lawrence Park neighborhood from a highly individualized and privatised area into a vast social hub.