RYAN W SHIH
Undergraduate Architecture + Design | 2019 www.ryanwshih.com
M | rwshih@gmail.com T | +1 571 275 4057 P | www.ryanwshih.com
Education
Aug. 2016 - Present
CURRICULUM VITAE University of Virginia | BS Architecture: Design Thinking 2020 Minors in Global Sustainability + Architectural History Current GPA: 3.497 (4.0 Unweighted)
Jun. 2018 - Jul. 2018
Study Abroad: Research | China (Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, etc.) Prof. Shiqiao Li, Esther Lorenz | Researching the Chinese Cosmopolitan City
Experience
Dec. 2018 - Jan. 2019
Extern | brightspot strategy
Assisted in project deliverables, synthesizing university library space programming Organized database of projects and implemented new forms of visualization Aug. 2018 - Dec. 2018
Teaching Assistant | ARCH 1020: Lessons in Making
Lead discussion sections teaching fundamentals of drawing and design to first year students Aug. 2018 - Present
Architecture IT Assistant | UVA School of Architecture
Handle various tasks and setups around the architecture school including, but not limited to: virtual reality, 3D printing, electrical wiring, computer and software installation May 2017 - Aug. 2017
Conference Sevices Assistant | UVA Housing and Residence Life Hospitality services including customer service and emergency response Reviewed contracts with clients, supported day-to-day facility operations
Involvement
Aug. 2018 - Present Member since 2016
Marketing Chair | AIAS at University of Virginia
Aug. 2017 - Present
Marketing Designer + Social Planner | UVA Class Council
Design graphics according to AIAS branding guidelines for AIAS at UVA’s events and firm crawls Planned events centered around UVA architecture students + faculty Design graphics, flyers and merchandise for events + individuals Coordinate and plan events both small and large scale for the class of 2020
Aug. 2018 - Present
Graphic Designer | TEDxUVA
Design graphics and miscellaneous advertising for TEDxUVA speaker events
Skills
Digital
Analog
Accolades
Languages
Rhino 3D | Photoshop | Illustrator | Indesign | AutoCAD | VRay for Rhino | Grasshopper | Karamba | Enscape | Microsoft Suite | Cura Hand Drafting | Free Hand Sketching | Model Making | Laser Cutting | Foam Cutting | CNC Routing | Wood Fabrication | 3D Printing
Chinese Cosmopolitan City Exhibition | UVA Architecture School Elmaleh Gallery German Sprachdiplom II (Language Diploma) Level C1 Sue & Lee Piepho International Study Scholarship Roger V. Amelunxen Scholarship Native English Proficient Mandarin + German Basic Japanese
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Having worked at all scales, I find that the projects and designs I find myself drawn to is the work that speaks at a human scale; a level of design that reacts emphathetically yet at the same time pushes the boundaries. This portfolio is a reflection of my design ethos, starting with grand sweeping “gestures� of design and ending with interpersonal studies of how space can be redefined.
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SELECTED WORKS 2016 - Present
Werkbundsiedlung
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Charlottesville Convention
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Hang 6
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Jointspace
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Chef + Home
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Urban Filler
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WERKBUNDSIEDLUNG What | Housing Development for Columbia Heights, D.C. When | Spring 2018 ARCH 2020: Landscape of Human Habitation With | Prof. Maria Gonzalez Aranguren Taking cues from Kazunari Sakamoto’s Werkbundsiedlung for Mßnchen, Columbia Heights housing attempts to better integrate public and private space within a vertical aspect into a cohesive site that not only coexists with the existing fabric of the city, but at the same time seeks to redefine what it means to densify housing within a city such as Washington D.C. As densification moves vertically, so should public spaces. As the housing aggregation moves upwards, new levels of public spaces open up alongside apartment units, providing open circulation among large vertical units.
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Breakdown of housing units | Dark red indicates private space integrated into floors of housing units
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Ground Site Plan | Located in the neighborhood of Columbia Heights in NW Washington DC
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Southside Section | Site elevation change was ~20 ft
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Example floor division, with two units evenly sized sharing one floor
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Floor division where one unit is for a 5-6 unit family, where the other is meant for 2-3 individuals
Floor with two 2-3 individuals units, with public outdoor space
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CHARLOTTESVILLE CONVENTION What | Urban Center for Charlottesville VA When | Fall 2018 ARCH 2010: Introduction to Urban Architecture With | Prof. Alex Wall As a first step into designing large urban spaces, our prompt was to create a new urban center in place of the open lot in downtown Charlottesville. Situated downtown between Water St. and South St., our urban centers were to serve as a catalyst for Charlottesville’s growth, but maintain the successful farmer’s market that occured on Saturdays. What Charlottesville needed was a Convention Center, one that could bring large scale events downtown while providing ample space for the farmers market.
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Located in the heart of Charlottesville, Virginia, the downtown mall consists of a collection of small retail and residential spaces. While the outdoors Sprint Pavilion caps the downtown mall, what the downtown mall lacks is an indoor space for large functions The convention center consists of two main constructions. the first is the roof enclosure, consisting of a canopy suspension system. The insides consist of three free-standing units, each a differnt size designed for various functions of varying scale
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Interior Perspective Rendering
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HANG 6 What | Inhabitable Pod designed for UVA School of Architecture When | Spring 2017 ARCH 1030: Foundation Studio I With | Prof. Erin Root, Olivia Cleary, Sarah Hirschfeld For a first sutdio, we were asked to create an inhabitable structure made out of recycled materials found around the University of Virginia, wtih a heavy emphasis on creating a structure that was effective in molding material to the site we chose. As a joint project with peers Liv Cleary and Sarah Hirschfeld, we decided to create a unit composed of recycled copper hangers sourced from local dry cleaners. With these hangers, we triangulated and molded the hangers together to create a canopy that used the steps in front of the Architecture School.
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Hang 6
Situated outside the Campbell Hall East Addition, Hang 6 was put together by hand in roughly 2 weeks, with the wire hangers sourced locally from Brown’s Cleaners and the Cavalier Marching Band’s closet. While not necessarily fulfilling the criteria of protecting from the elements, the wireframe structure offers a comfortable space that puts the site in a new perspective.
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JOINTSPACE What | Japanese Joinery When | Fall 2018 ARCH 3070 Design Thinking I With | Prof. John Comazzi, Garrett Vercoe, Eric Duong With the use of modern fabrication methods, our selected studies of Japanese joints needed to be translated from their traditional forms in both geometry and scale of production. These translations allowed us to create abstracted space through a reinterpretation of traditional japanese joinery. By studying the distinct ways that our joints could create implied volumes through their connections, we created a series of objects that can form further connections that lead to higher-level schemes of aggregation. Inspired by the spatial work of El Lissitzky and Sol Lewitt, each object explores a unique configuration of joints upon which observers can project their own functional or symbolic meaning.
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Prototyping of inital joint studies, as well as testing modifications and adjusments of initial Blind Dovetail Joint and Housed Key Splice for CNC Routing
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Two out of five “proun” joint aggregation, part of a larger units that could then be mocked up into various other permutations, shown below by protoypes done by Garrett Vercoe using joint “prounds” from both me and Eric
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CHEF + HOME What | Housing Typology Study When | Spring 2018 ARCH 2020: Landscape of Human Habitation With | Prof. Maria Gonzalez Aranguren As part of our exploration into architecture for habitation, we were given a series of prompts asking us to design a set of homes that fit different criteria, showing the various forms in which housing could come in. One of the first challenges presented to us was to design a single level home catered to a specific individual. One possible typology investigated is a living space centered around food and the livelihood of a chef creates a home where the dining room acts as the focal point of the home, a space to showcase the chef’s work.
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Chef & Home
Through shifts in floor heights, a room could be tailored towards certain functions without the necessity for explicit furniture, instead relying on the surfaces created by the variations in floor plates
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URBAN FILLER What | Inhabiting Stairs When | Spring 2018 ARCH 2020: Landscape of Human Habitation With | Prof. Maria Gonzalez Aranguren In order to try and create a home that could fill in the empty space left by poorly planned housing developments, or even be the starting point for a new range of hyper-thin housing, Urban Filler is meant to sustainably densify cities that suffer from poor planning. Starting with a large blank canvas of a wall, the staircase winds up the wall creating spaces as it elevates. The spaces created at platforms and landings served as the base for the spaces of inhabitation.
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The form was derived from negative space carved out of a large plane, with each landing space definied by its function.
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