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KYLE WONG 2024-2025 SELECTED WORKS

KYLE WONG

Aug 2024

Education

Sept 2022 - Present

437 983 0602

kyle1.wong@torontomu.ca

www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-wong-

DAS BASH Assistant

Toronto Metropolitan University

• Paid assistant for the 75th Anniversary DAS BASH Exhibition

• Designed and fabricated a 1:25 model of the TMU Architecture Building

• Meetings and collaborations with the chair, workshop technicians, and colleagues to conceptualize and refine the design of the model.

• Utilized shop resources, tools and machinery, and full scale mockups to ensure high quality craftsmanship

Architectural Science (Honours) COOP, BArchSc

Toronto Metropolitan University

• 2024 Dean’s List

• 2023 and 2024 works featured on Year End Show (YES)

Extracurriculars

Jul 2024 - Present

Event Executive

Architectural Science Student Society (arc.soc)

• Planning and execution of events such as DAS Orientation, AGM, and the Student Formal

• Develop event schedules, manage budgets, and ensure efficient allocation of resources

• Delegate tasks to subcommittee members and oversee their completion

• Lead event related meetings with stakeholders and team members, providing direction, support, and clear communication to achieve event objectives

Sept 2024 - Present

Peer Mentor

Toronto Metropolitan University Architecture Course Union (ACU)

• Serve as a positive role model, assisting mentee by answering questions, providing constructive feedback and academic support

• Maintaining regular communication with my mentee to build a trusting and productive mentoring relationship

Skills

• AutoCAD

• Revit

• Rhinoceros 3D

• Sketchup

• Enscape

• Photoshop

• Illustrator

• Indesign

• Model Making

• Laser Cutting

• CNC

EDGE

SELECTED WORK FOR CASA ACEA

Project: Academic

Year: Winter 2024

Location: 218 Dundas Street East, Toronto

Typology: Midrise Residential Infill

Software: Revit, Rhino 7, Illustrator, Photoshop, D5 Render

Edge is a proposal for the missing middle attempting to answer how density may take its form in Downtown Toronto. The apartment style housing features 32 units from 1 to 3 bedroom suites aiming at providing equitable housing and renting for students and artists with varying incomes. The building also features a public art studio and daycare center to engage the community. The building’s rear garden is a communal food production hub, addressing food insecurity exacerbated by rapid inflation. The building features integrated photovoltaics on its south frontage, allowing opportunities for a decentralized power grid.

Exterior Courtyard and Garden

224 HOUSE

Project: Academic

Year: Winter 2024

Location: 224 Seaton Street, Toronto

Typology: Laneway Residence

Software: Revit, Illustrator, Photoshop, D5 Render

Laneway houses are a response to providing affordable housing through a complex relationship between the city’s push for densification and strict zoning by-laws. 224 House works with these restrictions while providing two private outdoor spaces for both units, aiming to improve the quality of life of these tight living conditions.

Terrace

Courtyard Garden

Ground Floor Interior

NEXUS

Project: Academic

Year: Fall 2023

Location: 64 Church Street, Toronto

Typology: Community Library

Software: Revit, Rhino 7, Illustrator, Photoshop, D5 Render

Toronto’s public libraries are shifting into community hubs providing equity, access, technology and social services. Nexus revitalizes an existing parking lot and underused POPS, aiming to activate public gallery and exhibition programs, and merge a visual and circulatory connection to St. James Park. The library doubles as a cultural and performing arts centre, providing open program spaces for learning, practice, performing and displaying. Inspired by a 1000 word poem used to teach students vocabulary, the calligraphic perforations on the veil is a symbol of learning to the predominantly Chinese speaking demographic.

Trellis

Cloister

Reading Room

St. James Cathedral

Reveal at Cathedral

Children’s Reading Area

WEAVING

Project: Academic

Year: Fall 2023

Location: Withrow Park, Toronto

Typology: Public Pavillion

Software: Rhino 7, Illustrator, Photoshop, Enscape

The pavilion celebrates Toronto’s local silver and sugar maple trees, framing a poetic image of changing foliage throughout the seasons. Smooth curvilinear forms of the pavilion pull the passerby into a central enclosure with an oculus. The orientation of the bricks, angled at specific sight line nodes reveal glimpses into intimate reading areas on approach. In the interior observatory, the laying of brick patterns and reveal pronounces the earthwork, hearth and enclosure as distinct elements.

Angled Thinshell Slab Edge Sink

Angled Bricks

Traces of Plywood Formwork Frames the Foilage

Outdoor Reading Area with Angled Bricks

CASCADE

Teamates: Lincoln Uy

Project: Competition

Year: Summer 2024

Location: Punta Cruz, Bohol Philippines

Typology: Private Residential

Software: Rhino 7, Illustrator, Photoshop, Enscape

Cascade is built around the idea of the Gnomon, and its intimate relationship with the local farmer’s way of life from dawn to dusk. Living spaces revolve around a sundial, acting as a signifier of time and its association with living and farming activities. These frames converge at a central prayer room, animating the spiritual space through dancing water reflections and the changing subtleness of light and shadow.

Gnomon

Terrace

Mangkono (iron wood) Column

Sectional Perspective done by Lincoln Uy, Kyle Wong

Perspective Facing Path and Bedroom done by Lincoln Uy, Kyle Wong

CROSSING PATHS

3RD PLACE BUILDNER HOSPICEHOME FOR THE TERMINALLY ILL ED. III

Teammates: Tiffany Chui, CIci Huang, Lincoln Uy

Project: Competition

Year: Summer 2024

Location: 3902 Muley Point Rd., Lake Simcoe

Typology: Hospice

Software: Rhino 7, Illustrator, Photoshop,, Twinmotion

Rooted in compassion and connection in end-of-life care, Crossing Paths draws inspiration from backyard and deck communities of Lake Simcoe, the veranda stands as a distinct architectural element, serving as a transitional communal space between indoors and outdoors. Its design weaves together interior programs and garden courtyards, with subtle curves and recesses encouraging social interactions from casual encounters to larger gatherings.

Roof Assembly

Mortar Topping

Bonding Layer

Waterproofing Membrane

Air Barrier

Plywood Sheathing

Open Cell Insulation

Vapour Barrier

Exposed Plywood Interior (Finish)

CLT Framing

Window Wall Assembly

Double Glazed IGU with Low-E Coating

Aluminium Clip & Transparent Silicone Joint (Seamless Mullions)

Floor Assembly

Grey Brick Tile Flooring (Finish)

Concrete Slab

Vapour Barrier

Waterproofing Membrane

Closed-cell (Rigid)

Insulation

Air Barrier

Drainage Mat

Gravel (Foundation

Substrate)

Waterproofing Membrane

The “Deck” done by Cici Huang, Lincoln Uy

Design Detail done by Tiffany Chui, Kyle Wong

Floor Plan done by Tiffany Chui, Cici Huang, Lincoln Uy, Kyle Wong

Veranda at Lobby done by CIci Huang, Lincoln Uy

DAS BASH

Teamates: Cuejun Choi, William Youngrak Choi, Kris Chou, Tiffany Chui, Rehan Nakhooda, Ka Lee Jian

Project: Design-build

Year: Summer 2024

Project Lead: Matthew Chetcuti

Skills: Model Fabrication, CNC, Laser Cutting, 3d-modeling, Drafting, Design Iteration

The DAS Bash model is a 1:25 model of the school expressing the Architecture Building in its Tectonic form, such as the structural framing and facade panels. The operational model was built as a physical tool for the DAS Transform Project enabling 3rd year students engage with a physical model. The operational model was an opportunity to design and learn about digital fabrication and craftsmanship.