WORK SAMPLE 2022-2023
JUSTIN PONG
CONTENTS
MODEL HOUSE
ART RESEARCH FACILITY
SUN SHADE PROTOTYPE
HAT FACTORY MUTATES!
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Education
University of California Los Angeles
B.A Architecture Studies , 2018 -23
National Taiwan University
Foreign Language Gap Year, 2020
Work Experience
Caron Architecture
Design Internship, 2019
Puget Sound Hospitiality
Administrative Internship, 2021
Riant Capital LLC
Acquisitions Internship, 2023-24
Awards and Scholarships
Emma B. Keller Fine Arts Scholarship, 2021
UCLA School of Arts and Architecture Scholarship Fund, 2021
UCLA Asia Pacific Center J. Yang Research Award, 2022
Activities
Talk+Text Film Club
2022-23 Program Coordinator
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MODEL HOUSE
1/8” MODEL
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MODEL HOUSE 6 MASSING
In this studio, were given the skeleton of a pre-existing concrete townhouse. Without altering the original structure, we were tasked with adding 2400 square-feet and dividing the program into work and live.
I introduced a steep gabled addition to act as the double of the townhouse. I wanted the two parts to each insist that they are the model form and to make it unclear which came first.
Turning towards the interior, I partitioned work and live space by the logic of neither mass. Rather, the two programs are seperated into paths that are visually interwoven, alternating, yet with limited spatial overlap.
Instructor: Katy Barkan
Year: Fall 2022
Location: Los Angeles
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MODEL HOUSE 8 FLOOR 1 & 2 1. parking a. parking b. kitchen d. patio c. living room 2. office 3. workshop 4. study
SELECTED WORKS 9 FLOOR 3 & 4 5. rooftop e. bedroom
MODEL HOUSE 10 1/8” MODEL
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MODEL
12 TRANSVERSE SECTION
HOUSE
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ART RESEARCH FACILITY
MODEL
3/16”
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ART RESEARCH FACILITY
16 RELIEF MODEL
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In this studio, we designed a section cut of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture research extension facility in downtown Los Angeles. We imagined a place where the university welcomes public engagement and collaborative research.
Los Angeles has many vast, uninviting, and under-utilized modernist plazas. To address this, we designed a space where the plaza is integral to the program of the building. Key activities from lectures to performances to exhibitions take place on the open ground floor. A busy and public atmosphere like that of a train station was our goal. The first floor has no grand doorway, the main entrance is a like a missing tooth, anyone can slip in or out.
The facilities of the space are split into three: a public library, short-term dorms, and art/research workspaces. The public as well as those from university are allowed to participate in all aspects of the site through registration.
Instructor: Ben Freyinger
Year: Spring 2023
Location: Los Angeles
Partner: Justin Liu
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ART RESEARCH FACILITY
GROUND FLOOR
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PROTOTYPE
SUN SHADE
1/4” MODEL
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1/4” MODEL SUN SHADE PROTOTYPE
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1/4” MODEL SUN
PROTOTYPE
SHADE
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26 PLAN TRANSFORM SUN SHADE PROTOTYPE
This technology seminar we were given the plans of Dover Castle in England. The task was to invent a low tech solar shading solution inspired by the plans. We selected a slice of the fourth floor plan and reinterpreted the sharp gunholes as directional indicators. Mimicking the circular turret of the SW corner, we replaced the sharp protrusions with soft filleted curves. We converted these curves into a low-tech terractotta sun shade and prototyped the mechanism via model.
The model seen is a three-floor chunk demonstrating how the shading can be activated and retracted via rails and piano hinges attached to fluted terracotta panels.
Instructor: Mohamad Sharif
Year: Winter 2023
Location: Los Angeles
Partner: Justin Liu
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28 PLAN DETAIL 1/4”= 1’ - 0” 1 ELEVATION 1/4”= 1’ - 0” 2 SECTION 1/2”= 1’ - 0” 3 30” 14’ 14’ 14’ 5” 35” 40” 42” 43” SECTION DETAIL
SHADE PROTOTYPE
SUN
SELECTED WORKS 29 ASSEMBLY RENDER
SUN SHADE PROTOTYPE
30 HINGE DETAIL 2B 20° 3B 31° 4B 25° 2F 25° 4F 25° 2A 25° 3A 11° 4A 25° 2C 9° 3C 37° 4C 25° 2G 7° 2D 11° 3D 17° 4D 25° 2E 31° 4E 25° 4A 3C 3D 2E 2G 3A 2A 2B 2C 2D 2F 3B 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F HINGE ANGLE CONTROL
SELECTED WORKS 31 I-Frame HINGE MECHANISM 2”= 1’ - 0” 1 RAIL SYSTEM 1”= 1’ - 0” 2 center pivot steel hinges aluminum hinge with specified turning angle facade panels aluminum + terracotta plating Track Cover composite panel Cart System aluminum Glide System aluminum MECHANISM DIAGRAM
HAT FACTORY MUTATES! 32 1” MODEL
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34 SECTION DETAIL
HAT FACTORY MUTATES!
This studio was related to mutations. How might a building mutate and how would it affect the construction details?
I selected the corner of the Mendelsohn’s Steinberg Hat Factory as my subject. I conducted a detailed analysis and replicated building and its details via a 1’ : 1” scale model.
Then, attracted to the 75-degree tapered nose, I imagined what would happen if I pushed the nose inward. I was careful to remain faithful to the original brick bond and invented a Flemish bond variation of my own. The result of the transformation was a doubled, almost occupiable corner. And the nose became no longer an exterior detail but an interior one.
Instructor: Georgina Hulijch
Year: Spring 2022
Location: Luckenwalde
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36 HEADERS AND STRETCHERS INVERSION
HAT FACTORY MUTATES!
start
bond 2
bond 1
37 finish
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38 TRANSFORM RESULT
HAT FACTORY MUTATES!
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HAT FACTORY MUTATES!
BEFORE / AFTER
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THANK YOU!
JUSTIN PONG 42
