Work Samples of KANG

KANG is an architectural designer.

He is driven by a fervent passion for architectural innovation and problem-solving. His expertise lies in creating immersive experiences that blend architectural design with practical solutions. With a keen focus on addressing real-world challenges, KANG seamlessly integrates advanced technology with human-centric design principles.

KANG holds a Bachelor of architecture from the premier art school CAFA in China. After further studies at the Environmental Lab in Università Iuav di Venezia, he went to UCLA Entertainment Studio to further specialize in spatial narrative design and obtained a Master of Science.

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CONTENTS

Professional Practice

BONDI Sushi Bar | 2024 | Hospitality

1954 Santiago | 2024 | Residential

Renovation of Tibetan Dwelling | 2018 | Residential

Ireading | 2019 | Cutural

Dream Factory Industrial District | 2018 | Mix-use

Architecture & Urban Design

Seasonal Bibione | Sustainability | 2019

An Infinite Alley | Graduation Project | 2020

Nomad settlement | Conceptual Design | 2021

Narrative & Visualization

Countryside in China | 2018 | Architectural Exhibition

Retrospective Room | 2022 | Interior Visualization

VIA | 2023 | 3D Environment

Other Works

Dorm | 2016 | Canopy Fabrication

ProtoPlan | 2023 | AI Generation+3D Printing

Fine Arts | 2016-2018

1954 Santiago

Renovation of Tibetan Dwelling

2018 (Completed)

Professional Work

as Assistant Architect in HyperSity Architects

Location: Lhasa, Tibet

Area: 320 m²

Lead Architects: Yang Shi, Shaojun Li

Design Team:

Yang Lv, Lu Teng, Jiaqi Kang

Contribution:

Photography post-production

Diagrams

Construction Document

Technical Drawing

01. Basement Skylight

photograph- Upward View

04. Sunlight Room

photograph-

View 03. Kitchen

photograph- Yard View

03. Perforated Metal Stairs - Elevation-Side

Drawing by AutoCAD 01. Customized Furniture - Basement On-site photograph

Perforated Metal Stairs - Elevation-Front

Drawing by AutoCAD

Ireading Culture Space

2019 (Completed)

Professional Work

as Assistant Architect in HyperSity Architects

Location: Beijing, China

Area:

1000 m²

Lead Architects:

Yang Shi, Shaojun Li

Design Team:

Yu Song, Rongzhen Zhu, Lu Teng, Jiaqi Kang

Contribution:

Photography post-production

Diagrams

Rendering

3D Modeling

photograph-Rear Entrance View

Plan

01. Restaurant Area

photograph

02. Restaurant Area Rendering, by Rhino+Lumion 04. Reading Area Rendering, by Rhino+Lumion 03. Reading Area On-site photograph

05. Diagram - Axon for ArchDaily Publication - Rhino+AI+PS

Dream Factory Industrial District

2018 (Bidding Stage)

Professional Work

as Assistant Architect in HyperSity

Location: Hainan, China

Area: 65852 m²

Lead Architects:

Yang Shi, Shaojun Li

Design Team:

Manyu Yin, Yang Lv, Lu Teng, Jiaqi Kang

Contribution:

Presentation Document

Diagrams

Technical Drawing of facades

Rendering

a. Film Production Studio

b. Rental Apartment for Cast

c. Independent Studio

d. Row-house Studio

e. Muti-story Studio

A. Entrance Plaza

B. Central Garden

C. Garage Entrance

Hainan Film Dream Factory is envisioned as a vibrant cultural district, encompassing various facets of the entertainment industry, such as film production, television, and creative fields. This comprehensive district will offer full-phased services, bringing together the entire upstream and downstream industry chain, including digital video research and development, production, investment, education, training, design, scenariobased services, and film and television research.

The vertically stacked production workshops will streamline the production of film and television entertainment products, complemented by actor apartments and artist studios to support the central core building within the garden. This core building, characterized by staggered volumes, features an additional platforms serving as a sky garden. The staggered design not only enhances the facade's aesthetic appeal but also fosters a vibrant and inspiring space experience for the community.

01. Materplan

02. Perspective Drown View by Rhino+Lumion

03. Concept Generation Vertical gardens in tandem and inserting the functional space to improve the working environment of the high-rise workshop.

04. Plan-Ground Level by AutoCAD

North Elevation by AutoCAD

South Elevation by AutoCAD

05. Plan-5th Level by AutoCAD 03. West Elevation by AutoCAD

04. East Elevation by AutoCAD

06. Perspective Central Garden View by Rhino+Lumion

SEASONAL BIBIONE

2019

Academic work with Selena Garbo, Xiaodong Yang

Environmental Planning LAB

Universita IUAV di Venezia

Site Location: Bibione, Veneto, Italy

Instructor: Francesco Musco

Responsibility: layout, diagram drawing, strategy analysis, visualizing ideas

Bibione is a seaside tourist town along the Adriatic coast of Italy. Its high season is characterized by the influx of tourists between May and September, while in the low season the town is lifeless with a few inhabitants. The mobility of tourists defines the lives of the local inhabitants and brings extreme turbulence to the social equilibrium of local communities. This project aims to strategize the stimulation of events to adjust Bibione’s imbalance.

Road Friendliness & Public Space & Residence

Residence + Public Space

Road

Areas which includes hotels with unfrendly roads. Due to the influx of tourists, traffic jams are ubiquitous during high seasons.

Events Map + Public Space

When people walk along the streets, their experience is not only depends on if the street is friendly or safe, but also the feeling of public spaces they view.

The most comfortable walking distance

Analysis by Each 400M

Events are concentrated along the beach. While nland public spaces are lack of use by events.

The darker red circles show the more convenient accessibility to public space.

Strategies & Actions

Strategy 1

Making the existing public space suitable for public activities and sociality

Strategy 2

Creating new public spaces that strengthen area connections

ACTION1

Adding different facilities in public spaces

Masterplan

ACTION2

Adding the necessary facilities in the new public spaces

Strategy 3

Improving the accessibility of public spaces

ACTION3

Establishing boating parks for sightseeing and fishing

ACTION4

Establishing observation points and galleries for wildlife

ACTION5

Establishing seasonal market as an economic connection

Strategy 4

Making the public spaces more resilient and ecosustainable

ACTION6

Establishing recreational centers for sports activities

ACTION7

Weakening the boundaries between public spaces

ACTION8

Transforming roads to facilitate pedestrian interconnectivity between public spaces

ACTION9

Renovating floor tiles to enhance water penetration

ACTION10

Using solar energy to provide lighting

ACTION11

Increasing plant diversity

AN INFINITE ALLEY

2020 Individual Work Graduation Project in Central Acedemy of Fine Arts

Location: Chengdu, China

Instructor: Yufang Zhou, Huanyu Wang, Wendong Wang

My graduation project is a bionic reimagination for Chengdu’s “Kuanzhai Alleys”- the infamous touristy commercial street- by creating a network of logistics & delivery routes resembling celllike structures and an expandable vertical “alley” building.

Building a drones’ network for logistics to mimic a mitochondrial platform on the urban scale, this project hopes to strengthen the social and economic functionalities of urban infrastructure. It now existsw virtually on cloud.

(online exhibition link)

Kuanzhai Alley is a name card in Chengdu, a famous city with vibrant food culture. It is filled with restaurants and food stalls. During the lockdown period, the catering industry was paralyzed, and the city's food supply was threatened for various reasons

This graduation project required the second phase of Kuanzhai Alley adjacent to the original traditional one. The project was inspired by the significant impact of the epidemic on Chengdu's proud social culture and catering industry. The design concept strives to create an infinite vertical extension for the future alley, symbolizing resilience and continuity in the face of adversity.

01. Concept Collage

02. Masterplan

03. Boiling-simulation I simulated the upward trend using the boiling phenomenona process in which gaps are constantly created to give the possibility of energy entering the space from multiple angles. Using the metaphor of tea water evaporating and disappearing, I aim to symbolize the transient nature of the cultural landscape.

04. Metaball-simulation-Grasshopper in Rhino

Perspective - OutdoorPlatforms

Section - Internal Scenes

This re-constructed energy network from a two-dimensional urban plan to a three-dimensional vertical building. Such dimensional upgrade creates a more efficient lifestyle in city.

East Elevation by Rhino+CAD+PS

In the process of upgrading, the upward growth will be away from the equilibrium state, continue to move toward a high-speed rapid change, macro-orderly dynamic balance.

network with energy supply

Assuming the epidemic reappeared in 2037, lockdowns might re-implemented to combat the pandemic. This time, the new urban infrastructure actively meets the needs

Yet, people would still yearn for free movement. How to better cater to the needs of people in a world with endless dangers and challenges might become an ongoing issue.

01. Re-organized City on Growing

02. New network with energy supply

02. New

NOMADIC SHELTER

2021 Individual Work

Location:

An Untitled Planet

Software:

Rhino, Enscape, Blender, Keyshot

The nomadism of humans had never ceased, physiologically or subjectively speaking... The earth is desirable, but difficult to reach. Not only because of the far-flung distance, but the hospitality of Earth is also long gone.

Humans have wandered in space for decades; they are tired of nomadism and long for settlement. The Earth is faraway in the past, people's nostalgia could only be relocated to new temporary stations until the most suitable home is found.

Perpetual Nomad

Imagine a sustainable living in extreme environments as a way to envision architectures under extreme weathers. Imagine our migration to other planets, all resources, including air, water, food and waste, must be recycled.

Self-sustainable circulation of heat supply, moisture, air, electronic equipment will be the key to human survival in the future. This project provides a model combining the variable living environment with the adaptability of the human body.

Reconstruction Phases

Inflatable membrane

Compressed and squeezed, folded into the unit body. After being inflated, a flexible space is created to construct a living environment that meets the necessary needs.

Single Unit Exploration

Nodes

Membrane structure: a shape memory material to reduce the weight of the structural nodes.

Fabric

Organic fabric is the perfect way to fuse two single balls. The assemblable structure allows the monomer to extend indefinitely.

The Journey of Nomadic Shelter

01. Plan

02. Top View

The assembled shelters take a ring shape. The semienclosed space points to the center-the plaza of shelters, where future exchanges and interactions will take place.

03. Perspective View - Surrounding Landscape

Arrayed or randomly located artificial metal plant landscapes grow wildly, thanks to more efficient reproduction technology (based on 3D manufacturing).

04. Perspective View - Entrance

The building units are not in direct contact with the ground. On the one hand, it provides multiple access channels to the Square, and on the other hand, it prevents risks from the ground and reduces possible environmental damage

Countryside in China - Architectural Exhibition

2018 Academic Work as Research Assistant in CAFA with Minglu

Gao, Jiamin Huang, Dijin Li

Location: Beijing, China

Polao Village is a typical example of extremely poor mountainous area in China. We researched local ancient buildings and folk customs, and tried to improve the living conditions of villagers by recording valuable cultural assets, analyzing villagers activities, designing Airbnb to attract tourists, planning village film festivals, and filming public welfare documentaries, and used exhibitions to involve more social forces to help villages get rid of poverty.

AI

Genderation + 3D Printing + Fabrication

Polypropylene Dome 2016

Rihno, Grasshopper

Tongji University International Construction Festival Won the 2nd price

Tutor: Yu Dapeng

Team: Kang Jiaqi, Na Mila, Cao Xinwen, Cui Kuangxi

ProtoPlan

2023

MidJourney, ChatGPT, Rhino, 3D Print

Proto Plan aims to harness the power of AI to facilitate rapid iteration and generate a multitude of design options, which are then refined and controlled by human aesthetics to create unique and outstanding visual representations and models.

RETROSPECTIVE REALITY DORM

A future living style

This 30 seconds video. Retrospective X-capsule, expresses an integrative environment between the different cultures, characters, elements fused together representing an equal, sustainable habitat where things are managed at a smaller scale. Interspaced with mixed reality of wilderness traditions and technology to re-imagine the future of living which is made more habitable by collaborating an environment of Human, Machine and Nature,A Hybrid ecology.

Software: UE5, Rhino X-capsule Dorm 2022

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This X-capsule expresses an integrative environment between the different cultures, characters, elements fused together representing an equal, sustainable habitat where things are managed at a smaller scale. Interspaced with mixed reality of wilderness traditions and technology to re-imagine the future of living.

YouTube Unlisted Link: https://youtu.be/rkZuXhHiYyI

Fantasy Landscapes

2022-2023

Software: UE, Blender, Rhino, Photoshop, Premiere Pro

CGI animation illustrates a group of nomads migrate through different seasons, adapting to their environment through their multifunctional skin, which serves as their portable home.

YouTube Unlisted Link: https://youtu.be/R8iRllLHURI

Saubhagini Mahajan & Jiaqi Kang

Other Works

1. Viewing 2016 Graphite on paper 12 x 42 cm

2. Fields in April 2016 Conté sticks 29.7 x 42 cm

3. Herding sheep 2016 Conté sticks 29.7 x 42 cm

4. Shell 2016 Graphite on paper 44 x 118cm

5. Rural Ruin 2019 Pen-and-ink drawing 29.7 x 42 cm