Kyle Wing - Work Sample - 2015

KYLE J. WING w w w. k y l e j w i n g . c o m wing.kyle@gmail.com +1 916 718 9355

SELECTED WORK

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SACO LAKE BATH HOUSE

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GROW COLLECTIVE

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HOOP HOUSE

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KYLE J. WING

www.kylejwing.com | sacramento, ca + pittsburgh, pa wing.kyle@gmail.com | +1 916 718 9355

Education

Adobe Suite Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Lightroom

Digital Modeling Rhinoceros Grasshopper V-Ray Rendering RhinoCam Google SketchUp AutoDesk Ecotect

Experience

Drafting and Analog AutoCAD Hand Drafting and Rendering Screen Printing Lithography

Fabrication Wood Working and Hand Modeling CNC Routing Vacuum Forming Laser Cutter

Relevant Coursework Architecture Design Studios Digital Media I + II Analog Drawing I + II Building Physics Urban Context Human Factors Materials and Assembly

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Carnegie Mellon University | May 2018 School of Architecture - Bachelors of Architecture Pittsburgh, Pa - 3.8 GPA

C.K. McClatchy High School | June 2013 Sacramento, Ca - 4.6 GPA

Digital Fabrication Lab | Monitor Carnegie Mellon University, September 2014 - Present Aid students in developing files for computer assisted machining, laser-cutting, and 3d printing. Perform simple maintenance and oversee student use on machines.

Dominic Gualco, Poetry Chapbook | Design and Layout Sacramento, Ca, Summer 2014 Designed cover and managed layout of a limited run poetry ‘chapbook’ of well established poet. Developed and assisted in promotion campaign.

AfriPeace Development Foundation | Service Project Manager Mayaga, Rwanda, July 2013 Led a team of 8 American students and 40 Rwandan students in the construction of an outdoor shade structure. Worked with local officials and builders and members of the community. Fostered cultural exchange.

The Manestream Podcast | Producer, Designer Sacramento, CA, October 2012 - May 2013 Assisted in leading a podcast discussing and reviewing music. Maintained website, designed all graphic, visual, and audio material.

Architecture Mentorship Program Mentor Fall 2014 - Present Dean’s List Fall 2013 - Present Design Studio Commendations Fall 2013 - Present American Institute of Architecture Students Fall 2013 - Present

ENVELOPE | View of cor-ten steel facade

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EAST LIBERTY | Over the past century East Liberty has gone from a bustling business district of Pittsburgh to a struggling, blighted neighborhood. Recent development has put the neighborhood in a tough position, somewhere between gentrification and positive cultural diversity. This project attempts to address the future of the area.

CINEMA | The comparisons between architecture and film are well established and have served as a foundation of discourse within both art forms for over a century. The connections are natural.

This project affords the opportunity to explore the architectural conditions of collective media spaces that utilize cinematic conventions as well as emerging and experimental means of expression and communication.

DESIGN | The eyes and the limits of perception are ultimately the protagonist of all film. This project aimed to use cinema not as a just a fix-

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ture for which to situate the program around, but as a model through which to design. How can the building augment and play upon conventional ideas of perception? Spaces blend together and overlap, programmed for many uses, blurring programmatic lines and allowing one to flow freely. A lofty, open entrance sequence carries throughout the building, extending the dynamics of the corner into the lobby and through the gallery space. This openness is communicable by all, allowing cultural exchange between all members of the community. This accessibility is fore-fronted in the hope that the cinema becomes a community fixture, not simply a destination for those who choose to come, but a constant anchor for East Liberty.

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CORNER EXTENSION | The separation of the envelope from the building enclosure is leveraged as a tool to engage the corner and extend its function into the lobby of the cinema.

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ENVELOPE | Perforated steel is leveraged as a tool to alter view and explore the voyeuristic quality of the camer in cinema. How can openings begin to address issues of seeing and being seen - framing views out vs. framing views in? How does the experience differ when walking by vs. riding a bike or driving by? Changes in size of perforation correspond to progromatic needs for privacy.

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CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL KEY: .01 60” X 12’ 16 GUAGE PERFORATED, WEATHERED COR-TEN SHEET .02 CUSTOM 12’ 1/4 IN, 8 - HOLE ALUMINUM JOINING PLATES .03 2” ALUMINUM 7075 COLD FINISH SQUARE .04 6 X 37 IWRC GALVANIZED STEEL CABLE 3/4” .05 1” ANGLED STEEL WELD PLATE .06 5” DEEP ALUMINUM RAIL/WINDOW CAP .07 2” GALVANIZED STEEL SUPPORT AND JOINING SOLID ROUND .08 STAINLESS STEEL 4-WAY SPIDER FITTING .09 60” X 12’ TRIPLE PANE I.G. STRUCTURAL GLAZING UNIT .10 W10 X 86, STEEL COLUMN @ IRREGULAR GRID .11 6” PRETENSIONED CONCRETE FLOOR SLAB .12 2” METAL DECK

.13 W18 X 86, PRIMARY BEAM .14 W24 X 162, ANGLED SUPPORT BEAM .15 10” RAFT FOUNDATION .16 4 - WAY PILE CAP .17 9”, 45’ DEEP PILE .18 METAL CAP FLASHING .19 3” INSULATED WALL PANEL WITH VAPOR BARRIER .20 ANGLED CANT BLOCK .21 3/4” GALVANIZED STEEL HEX BOLT .22 CUSTOM GALVANIZED STEEL ANCHOR BOX .23 1” STEEL ANCHOR PLATE .24 3/4”, 6” LONG GALVANIZED STEEL EYE BOLT .25. WELDED EYE BOLT PIN

INSTANCE | View out from bath over Saco Lake

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SACO LAKE | Nestled in Crawford Notch in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Saco Lake lies directly off the Appalachian Trail.

Heavily vegetated, the lake is cloaked in an array of diverse species, and flanked by steep, granite slopes.

BATHS | This project explores the relationships between the performance capacities of plinth, wall, and canopy to establish a set of design strategies that are informed by material attributes, construction logic, and atmospheric potential. The program consists of three (3) baths: a Tepidarium - 90 degrees Fahrenheit, a Caldarium - 100 degrees Fahrenheit, a Frigidarium - 60 degrees Fahrenheit, as well as lodging quarters for thru hikers.

DESIGN | The hiker’s journey is remembered in instances, exact points in time, moments. Although these experiences are very personal, the built environment can remove awareness of these

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momentous instances, rendering an unchanging, banal environment. This bathhouse relies on selectively defining and framing nature to create interrelating and powerful instances between the built environment and nature. Situation around the creek allows the introduction of a natural and symbolic threshold. The instance of crossing the creek is one of purification, literally from a ‘dirty’ space to a ‘clean’ space, but also mentally, hearing the creek rush frames the bathing experience. Light is also framed and constructed to create instances. Openings either too small or above the eye, deny the view and rather receive an instance of light. These instances are capitalized upon two separates times, where enclosure falls away and opens wide to frame a view out over the lake and a view up towards the peak of Elephant Head.

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SITE | Situated around the rush and dribble of the Elephant Head Brook, the water acts as a threshold as well as a symbol of purification and completion, ending in the lake.

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EXPERIENTIAL COLLAGE | Experiential collage encourage exploration of abstractions of user experience as well as an investigation of new drawing methods and aesthetics.

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Women’s room Men’s room Entrance / Mud room Kitchen / Dining space Bunks

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GROW | View from across Frankstown at Grow Center

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GROW COLLECTIVE | Grow Collective aims to leverage architectural design to advocate for new modes of food growth, distribution, and education in Pittsburgh neighborhoods.

LARIMER, PITTSBURGH | This Grow Collective negotiates a number of overlapping urban scales and use scenarios. The degree of overlap in this portion of the city [Larimer] reinforces the overall ambition that Grow Collective be rooted in it’s immediate context, yet also implicated in urban agriculture systems dispersed throughout the city.

STEM | In order to foster growth in a community, there must be a base point, a place to begin, to stem from. This Grow Collective, pulling from that concept, stems from one central circulation core, a multi-use space, charged with organizing all pieces of the program, it becomes an icon for the community, an icon all can engage with, regardless of their knowledge or investment in

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agriculture, naturally and gradually fostering a relationship to agriculture. An all inclusive, egalitarian approach to the design is seen in the way plants manifest themselves throughout the project. Interaction with the agriculture ranges from a simple coexistence to a full investment in the planting and growing of the plants all the way to the preparing of food made from produce grown themselves.

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SITE | Located in a still recovering area of Pittsburgh, Grow Collective has a responsibility to be attentive to both the past history as well as inform the future for the area.

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INTERSECTION | In plan the project reads as three separate volumes intersecting - the resulting overlap contains the circulation - literally the core from which the rest of the building stems.

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TOP | Programmatic massing BOTTOM | Circulation

space [overlapping]

circulation greenhouse

teaching

co mmuni t y s us ti nance [co mmun i t y d r i ve n b e d s]

planter beds to be rented ou t anu ally, with 6 b ed s reser ved

[ li ke ly c ro p s]

peppers (bell, jalapenjos, c ayene), onions (g reen, yellow), tomatoes (che

for those enrolled in [g rowth: p hase.01] squash, c uc umber, chard, k ale, lettu ce, herb s (mint, b asil, cilantro, etc),

storage

pumpkins

outreach | market

tramp l e d tre asure s [e d i b le ] [non]

alpine strawberries, golden saxif rag e, b ox b err y japanese forestgrass, fiber opticgrass, thyme lawn {b ees}

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yi e l d s o f p l e nt y [ ra i s e d b e d s ] [ a e ro p o n i c s ]

mostly to begin seed ling s, u ntil read y to transp lant, althou g h main g rowing area come novemb er used year round, 99% less water, 20% faster and greater yield s

er r y, h ei r lo o m ) , c a rrots, p o t ato e s,

g rowth o n hi g h [ f rui t ] [d e c i d uo us]

apple, pear, p lu m, ap ricot white ash, nor way map le, su g ar map le

he l p i ng hand s [ le mo n g rass] [ fe ve r fe w] [ lave n d ar ] [c h r y sant h e mums]

dters flying insec ts meosqu ito rep ellent companion p lant deters ap hid s, ticks, sp id ers, mites, etc.

PLANTING | The planting strategy is to utilize a variety of plants, each group encouraging engagement with the agriculture on a different level. So that someone who may not understand the importance and benefits of growing your own food can sit on the terrace and pick a strawberry to eat, while down below someone can be picking tomatoes to roast that afternoon, while a kid sits under an orange tree to read, all engaging on different levels.

COĂœP HAUS | Hoop house without top module as growing system

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04 HOOP HOUSE

10.2014 | pittsburgh, pa instructor | jonathan kline

HOOP HOUSE | Design and construct a portable and lightweight enclosure for protecting a raised garden bed during cold weather.

LARIMER COMMUNITY GARDEN | The hoop house must be easy to access. The hoop house must be easy to disassemble seasonally. The hoop house must be functional (ie. keep heat in). The hoop house must also be visually engaging to (1) the architect, (2) the gardener, (3) the community.

STEM | In order to maximize ease of use and function, a gridded structure was designed to stay on the site throughout the year, providing a growing structure for the plants. Although designed to remain on site all year long, the structure consists of two modules (A and B). The asymmetrical module’s positions are flexible in order to allow for changes in the type and location of the plants in the bed. This is to allows for crops to be rotated seasonally to prevent depletion of the soil. The B module allows for vertical growth of

the system in the event of plants growing beyond the first 3 ft. of the system. Plastic sheets create enclosure to keep heat in, prolonging the growing season. Velcro makes access and removal of the enclosure extremely easy and intuitive, something familiar to many.

Completed in collaboration with: Josh Kim, June Kin, Cesar Neri, Edward Shin, Annabelle Swain

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DRAWING SET | Accompanying the actual hoop house was a construction drawing set detailing every detail through assembly and transportation.

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.01 | After construction drawings were finalized, the sheet specifying crimps and drill locations were plotted at full scale and measured against. .02 | A jig was made to make the drilling of each hole easier and more precise. Because some pipes have crimps going in both directions, this made making the jig a little harder. .03 | Time on location was limited, so off site assembly was required. .04 | Grommets were placed in the plastic in order to let wind and water pass through, as well as let the plants breathe.

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LEFT | Hoop house with plastic off. The structure was designed to be a flexible, modular growing system first and a structure for the enclosing membrane second.

ABOVE | Plastic membrane on.

RIGHT | Details of assembly from drawing set.

KYLE J. WING

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