YANG, Kaiwen - Portfolio

Portfolio YANG, Kaiwen

Selected Work from 2019-2022 Master of Architecture I, UCLA

About Me Education University of California, Los Angeles | Sept. 2019 - June 2022 Master of Architecture (M. Arch l) | NAAB-Accredited Program

Tongji University, Shanghai, China | Sept. 2015 - July 2019 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture | CAUP Experimental Program

Professional Experience Architectural Design Intern HKS, Los Angeles| Jan.2022- Present

○ UCSD Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood| Model Making

Architectural Design Intern SmithGroup, San Francisco (Healthcare Studio)| June 2021 - August 2021 ○ UC Davis Health California Tower | Schematic Design, Patient Room Research ○ John Muir Health Outpatient Specialty Center| Construction Documentation ○ Sutter/Stanford JV Oakland Cancer Center| Concept Design, Facade Research

Marketing & Design Intern Creative Housing Associates, Los Angeles | June 2020 - Sept. 2020

○ Proposed the marketing document to show concepts and development trend ○ Assisted in design and document production for deliverables of TOD projects ○ Research on sites along metro lines to explore potential development focus

Architectural Intern B+H Architects, Shanghai | July 2019 - August 2019

○ Huawei Qingpu Research Center | Concept design, 3D modelling ○ Renovation Design for Xincang Road Alley | Presentation Document Deliverables ○ Sijiazhuang Botanical Garden Resort | Technical drawings, graphic design

Urban Design Intern SOM, Shanghai | Feb. 2019 - May 2019

○ Jinan Balcony Urban Design | 3D modeling, digital presentation ○ Xiong'an District Urban | 3D modeling, technical drawings, graphic design

Interior Architectural Intern AECOM, Shanghai| August 2017-Sept. 2017 ○ No.1111 Yuanshen Road | Concept studies, 3D modeling ○ Pudong renovation project of the APPLE Inc. | Technical drawings

Content

01 Landscape Hill

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Jabbar Cultural Arts Center

02 Bubble Connector

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LADWP Water Learning Center

03 Inter[Block]

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Affordable Housing Community

OUR MISSION 04 Y Shape Figure

Gym & Parking Structure

TOWNBUILDERS CHA is a townbuilding company.

We challenge the status-quo.

We are socially-conscious and sustainably-minded.

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Conventional wisdom is not accepted, as our present-day issues are the by-products of commonly held beliefs. Our ethos grows out of a commitment to improving the quality of life of residents and patrons of the communities we build in. We work to add value for future generations and invest in people and place resiliency with positive social & economic outcomes as our benchmarks for success. CHA’S projects articulate the pressing need for a massive shift away from real estate business as usual. Our solutions unify the enactment of real-world results with attractive, profit-minded vehicles for investment.

05 - 10 Professional Work

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Architectural Practice

DISTRICTS to Live, Create and Commune

CREATE A Sense of Place

RESPECT Local Communities 7

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Landscape Hill Jabbar Cultural Arts Center Academic Individual Work Location: UCLA Broad Art Center 403 Advanced Topic Studio October - December, 2021

The site is a natural hill facing the crowded Strathmore Avenue with the Tom Bradly center as the background. Activities like gathering, running on the hill could be witnessed occasionally but lots of people just passes by. In order to create a landscape park and cultural center for the campus as well as for the neighborhood nearby, the design embeds the whole building into the ground with the skylight on the hill as a trigger to create a folly garden.Through a direct underground arcade with programs along the way, a flexible wandering path with follies scattering around and a courtyard connecting the hill and the underground cultural center, the design's goal is to create a unique light and natural experience. .

Site

Design Prototype

Topography +7.200

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Form Strategy

Ramp & Program

Light Well on Hill

Flexible Circulation 03

Site Plan

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I| Front Street View

II| Park Path

III| Lightwell Garden 04

Plan 15’

15’

25’

1. Lobby 2. Multi- Purpose Hall 3. Office 4. Library 5. Restroom 6. Chair Storage 7. Equipment Storage 8. Archive 9. Efficiency Kitchen 10. Staff toilets 11. Printing / storage 12. Mechanical

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Interior Render A

Interior Render B

Interior Render C

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Courtyard When wandering on the hill, people could accidently enter this courtyard and find there is another world beneath it. They could start their journey form the courtyard and surrounding programs.

Section B-B

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Arcade The arcade directly connects the campus facilities and residential neighborhood through a ADA ramp. With glass along the way, people could still enjoy the programs while quickly passing though it.

Section A-A

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Bubble Connector LADWP Water Learning Center Academic Individual Work Location: Los Angeles Headworks Reservoir 414 Major Building Design March - June, 2021 From the research of reservoir types, dam structures and other related facilities like intake tower, water tower and fish passengers, it is shown that they all function as a connective tissue to manipulate the water activities and the whole eco system. Then the interest of this project lies in how the architecture can be situated as a connective infrastructure on the way the river enters the reservoir and how each program could relate to each other through the wall thickness, circulation, and function organization.

Reservoir Type

A. Shallow, “U” shaped

Dam

Reservoir Dam Type B. Deep, “V” shaped

I. On Stream

Water Tower

Weir

Fish Passage

Division Channel

C. Deep, regular

Embark D. Shallow, regular Reservoir Shape Profile

ll. Off Stream

Intake Tower

Hydroelectric Dam

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Ground Floor Plan

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Relationship with Water

(a) Cafe

(b) Lab

(c) Workshop i

(d) Lobby

(e) Black Box Auditorium

(f ) Workshop ii

1. Cafe 2. Office 3. Black Box Adutioet 4. Gift Shop 5. Exhibition Hall 6. Lab

7. Workshop I 8. Workshop II 9. Office 10. Operation Center 11. Lobby 12. Restroom

Water Flow

Section

Master Plan

Function Organization N

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20’

40’

Figure Ground

(d) Office

(h) Exhibtion Hall 08

A| Lab + Office

C| Exhibition Hall + Gift Shop

E|Office + Operation Center

B| Wo

orkshop i+ii

D| Cafe + Office

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B

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C

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Section A-A

Section B-B

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Inter[block] Affordable Housing Community Academic Individual Work Location: Los Angeles Baldwin Village 413 Building Design with Landscape Studio October - December, 2020 The project starts from the idea of hinge, occupying the whole site.

Taken the consideration of texture in the surrounding, each block is in the courtyard form with the concept of interlock. Not only the building itself interlock between layers, but also the landscape is intermingled into each courtyard. Seven courtyards are situationed on the site with its own courtyard and roof garden. The courtyards are connected edge-to-edge and the layered landscape trails are introcudctioned to connect the courtyards so that people from different blocks could visit each other conveniently.

Plan Layout Transformation Concept| Hinge

Texture| Courtyard

Form| Interlock

Landscape Loop

Landscape Across the Building Landscape Pedestrian Loop

Ground Floor Circulation

Landscape Loop Public Function Courtyard Staircase Along Landscape Loop Staircase Below Cover/ Within Courtyard

Roof Graden Circulation

Staircase Leading to Roof Garden Public Function Roof Garden

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Site P

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Typ

A| Climbing

B| Lounge

C| Ball Court

D| Children Pla

Plan

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ayground

E| Lounge

F| Gathering Performance

G| Exercise 012

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40'

80'

160'

Ground Floor

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Third Floor

40'

80'

160'

Typical Interlock Prototype

Prototype A | L-L

Unfolded Diagram

Residence Public Green Staircase Gap

Unfolded Elevation

Prototype B | C-C

Residence Public Green Staircase Gap

Unfolded Diagram

Unfolded Elevation

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Scene A

Scene B

Activity & Courtyard Each courtyard has its own feature on the ground level under the covering of the massings and the roof garden. Due to the connection of the landscape loop, people living in the different courtyards can visit other conveniently and enjoy different activities and landscape to create a more integrated and united community.

A| Exercise

B| Climbing & Ball

C| Performance

D| Lounge

E|Roof Agriculture

F|Roof Sitting

G| Swing

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Short Section Different courtyard is in different angle to fit the site with various features, so that each is unique.

Long Section People on the landscape loop could easily get access to each courtyard to enjoy the unique activity provided.

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Y Shape Figure Gym & Parking Structure Academic Individual Work Location: Los Angeles Downtown 401 Tech Core Studio April - June, 2020 The Y shape section is achieved by the combination of the helical ramps, the cylinder and a long slow ramp, responsive to the infill site and circulation mode. The slabs deform in ways specific to the program's requirements. In order to reveal the Y figure, a thin pleated skin, is draped across elevation. Depth of pleats come different contextual concerns of the infill site.This sectionally-derived Y-figure becomes the idea and mechanism that integrates circulation, program, elevation and structure in a differentiated yet unified whole.

Concept How does the Y shape come from?

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Residential Building

Infill Building

Public Parking

Site Context

Cylinder

Long Ramp

Pleats

Helical Ramp

Let the light and air to go through

Most efficient for car parking

Form an order towards the residential building, avoid direct interface

Most efficient for car circulation

Responsive Element

Pedestrian

Car

Pedestrian + Car

Circulation 016

Program How does the slabs deform to fit the program Parking+

Program Property Mode

The relationship between the slabs and the

Parking+ Pedestrian Track

Parking+ Exercise Machine

Parking+ Skate Board

Vertical Lightwell

Large Swimming Pool / SPA

Ball Court Parking

Exerc

Introverted Lobby, Event Spacae Median Activity Room ( Dancing)

Push Outside

Push Inside

Program in Building

e cylinder

Program Relationship In a three-dimensional way

Swimming

SPA Exercise Studio Dancing Room

Ball Court

Gift Shop

cise Studio

Skateboarding

Gym

Pedestrian Pedestrian + Car Car

Extroverted

Enclosed

Offset

Unfolded Circulation 017

Pleats System

Facade with Y

Different scales of pleats create various visual effects

How facade deformation highlighting th

Transparent

Big

Rotation

Oblique Small

he inside Y structure?

Elevation and Structure How they relate to the Y shape form?

Elevation

Structure

Slab Explosive System

Unfolded Elevation 018

Ground Floor

Second Floor (Skateboarding)

4th Floor (Lobby)

6th Floor (Sports Court)

7th Floor (Dancing )

8th Floor (Exercise Studio)

9th Floor (Spa)

Top Floor

Y Shape Figure - Front Perspective In order to reveal (and sometimes conceal) the Y figure central to the building’s organization and identity, a thin pleated skin, like a veil, is draped across each elevation. Depth of pleats come different contextual concerns around the edges of the infill site. Deepest pleats are found at the elevation facing the residential building in order to create a spatial buffer for increased privacy. The pleats perform very differently as they near the helical ramp, parting and folding away to emphasize its figural role in the project.

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Professional Work Selected The selected professional work demonstrates my internships at various companies as different roles in the design department. It includes assisting with the concept framework, strengthening the design into practical construction and marketing demonstration, through which I earned knowledge of practical design standards, became proficient in software, and developed the ability to better collaborate in a team, which equipped me to be a professional architect.

05 UCSD Theatre District Neighborhood HKS Architectural Intern Work

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06 Healthcare Studio

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07 Community Development

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08 Huawei Qingpu Research District

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09 Jinan City Balcony

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10 No.1111 Yushan Road Office

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Smithgroup Architectural Summer Intern work

CHA Marketing & Design Intern work

B+H Architectural Intern Work

SOM Urban Design Intern Work

AECOM Interior Architectural Intern

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UCSD Theatre District Neighborhood HKS, Los Angeles, January - Present, 2022 Professional Work Location: La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA Supervisor: Yoosang Ahn, Diana Tang Role: 3D Model printing

The design is aimed to achieve the naturally ventilated student housing dependent on prevailing ocean breezes while also maximizing ocean views. The massing is rotated to be perpendicular to the ocean which allows the project to capture the ocean breeze.

Ocean views are maximized through the saw-tooth geometry on the skin, which orients the student windows to the Pacific Ocean beyond.

Ultimaker 3D Printing

Building I

Building II

Building III

Building IV

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Healthcare Studio

Smithgroup, San Francisco , June- Augest, 2021 Professional Work Supervisor: Jackie Lee, Rui Luo, Elisa Jue Role: Interior Concept Design, Documentation, Facade Pattern Design

Wood Panel

John Muir Health Specialty Center

Wood Panel Module A

Wood Panel Module B

UC Davis Health California Tower Interior Deisgn - Elevator Lobby & Guest Lobby

John Muir Health Specialty Center Material Boards

Sutter/Standford Oakland Cancer Center Facade Pattern Design

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Community Development

CHA, Los Angeles, June- September, 2020 Professional Work in Consulting Location: Inland Empire, California Supervisor: Jorge Loor Role: Marketing, Design Delivery lnland Empire, located on the east of the Los Angeles Downtown, has the potential to attract millennials to live in the Inland Empire with lower rents while enjoying high quality life with diverse institutions, leading to the eastward direction development trend. Ontario International Airport is the fastest growing airport in the country, quickly becoming a hub, increasingly attractive Inland Empire.

COVID-19 STRATEGIES

CHA is a townbuilding company.

We challenge the status-quo.

We are socially-conscious and sustainably-minded.

Conventional wisdom is not accepted, as our present-day issues are the by-products of commonly held beliefs. Our ethos grows out of a commitment to improving the quality of life of residents and patrons of the communities we build in. We work to add value for future generations and invest in people and place resiliency with positive social & economic outcomes as our benchmarks for success. CHA’S projects articulate the pressing need for a massive shift away from real estate business as usual. Our solutions unify the enactment of real-world results with attractive, profit-minded vehicles for investment.

As Covid-19 keeps looming in the present, it’s clear that it will leave a longing impact, forcing us to adapt and reevaluate the current circumstances. Apart from rethinking the office model, housing densities have been impacted, lower interacting circulations are now the norm, and Working from Home has become a new way of living.

Marketing Presentation- Eastward Development Our Mission - Town Builder

COVID-19 Strategies

CREATE A Sense of Place How to build a strong TOWN?

DISTRICTS to Live, Create and Commune

RESPECT Local Communities

Millennials Eastward Migration

How to build a strong town?

Phased Neighborhoods Development 2-5 acres per phase

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IE Snapshot Inland Empire Snapshot

Remote Working

Design Oriented Proof

No more need for comSeveral entrances to keep air Millennials have the intention to migrateEDUCATIONAL, eastmuteTECHNOLOGICAL or urban life, office & HEALTHCARE and circulationINSTITUTIONS flowing, no direct ward due to cheaper rent, more living spaces, space is moving online contact - sensors, open corridors, TOD equipment and more public-transit infraand remote working keep social 6 feet distance. structure and facilities to enjoy high quality life. mode is adopted.

Mixed-use Communities

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Necessary retail and entertainment Outside the front door

Public Support

Convenient Connection

Strong Demographics

Multi-model transit-intergreated neighborhoods Walk, bike, scooter, uber /lyft

Population, income, infrastructure, investment growth

GROWING HUB Ontario International Airport is the fastest growing airport in the country, quickly becoming a hub, increasingly attractive Inland Empire.

DEVELOPMENT TREND It has the potential to attract millennials to live in the Inland Empire with lower rents while enjoying high quality life with diverse institutions, leading to the eastward direction development trend.

PANDEMIC CONCERN During the COVID-19 pandemic period, it arouses great concern towards the high-density urban lifestyle. Living in the low-density town maybe a more suitable choice.

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School House, South Pasadena

Packing House, Azusa

Pioneer Square, San Dimas

SPADRA, Pomona

Empire Station, Rancho Cucamonga

University Village, Redlands

Empire Station, Rancho Cucamonga Empire Station

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INFRASTRUCTURE

Subterranean Parking & Building

4 Stories Residentials Apartments With First Floor as offices and retail

Pedestrian Bridge

Entrance Plaza Retail

Partnership with the private ownership and the city council to organize the project development, so there is no need to buy the land, avoiding risks.

4 Stories Residentials Apartments inserting a part as the parking structure

Four Stories Parking Structure

ENTITLEMENTS

4 Stories Residentials Apartments

Four Stories Parking Structure

Subterranean Podium Parking Requirement of additional parking spots

Public funding available for transit-oriented development and sustainable, low impact communities. Continued public investment in system rail expansion, service and future rail electrification.

Density bonuses, reduce parking ratios & maximum FAR allowance

Activity Platform

Subterranean Parking

Retail

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Activity Platform

Parking Structure Existing Office Building

Subterranean Parking

Office

Empire Station

Subterranean Parking & Building

Pioneer Square, San Dimas

Site Context

Vroman’s Bookstore

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Huawei Qingpu Research District B+H, Shanghai Office, Summer, 2019 Professional Work Location: Qingpu, Shanghai Supervisor: Jun Yin Role: 3D Modelling, Render, Presentation

Huawei Qingpu Research Institute uses the Featured Canadian Towns like Whistler and Lunenburg and landscapes like forests, ravine and courtyards as the prototypes to develop the design. Unlike the humanalienated and large research buildings , This project is trying to create a town-form research park, showing warmth, welcoming and humanity care.

Facade Sketch

Site Plan

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Jinan City Balcony

SOM, Shanghai Office, February-June, 2019 Professional Work Location: Jinan Prior Zone city Balcony Area Supervisor: Zhou Yinying Role: Diagram presentation, 3D modelling Jinan city Balcony area attempts to achieve the goal- leading the way for 100% self-sufficient and renewable energy, formulates a complete living structure to link the city to the life of the mother river and its ecological diversity, celebrates local culture heritage with respect on local traditions and urban forms and builds small and compact blocks to shape pedestrian-friendly communities.

Neighborhoon Types

Local Culture Community

Village Campus

Knowledge Community

Central Community

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No.1111 Yushan Road Office

AECOM, Shanghai Office, Summer, 2017 Professional Work Location: No.1111 Yushan Road, Shanghai Supervisor: Ni Wensi Role: Concept design, 3D Modelling, Render The lobby uses line element to show the geometry and order in the interior design, which comes from the façade decoration.

Meanwhile, taking advantage of the green garden on the southern perspective, there will be the café and resting lobby with trees responding to the landscape view and showing the relationship towards outside.

Concept Sketch

Coffee & Resting

Guest Lobby

Elevator Lobby

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