Tiffany Chang - Metropolis Future100 Winner Portfolio 2024

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tiffany chang

interior design kent state university

“Space-making” Through research analysis synthesis fabrication speculation

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01 Deployable Fragments | Modular Assemblies

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02 Subverting Obedience | Honouring and Imposing Play

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03 Pacing in Four Parts | Cinema and the System

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04 Deceptive Geometries | Exploiting the Proto-Image

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05 Push Pull | Designing for Gen-Z

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06 Notes from a Voyeur | Observation and An(notation)

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07 Bloom | Modular Shading System

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01 Deployable Fragments Modular Assemblies Bending active gridshell structures present an opportunity to activate an urban environment. This project explores existing linear assemblies and bending active wood structures; understanding the limits and potential of different fabrication methods. Through extensive material studies, a system of mass production and deployment was developed. Unique, yet modular fragments come together to form a pavilion with a dynamic experience underneath.

A single module was developed as a fragment; from the base inserts to the module’s collapsible logic. The prototypes evolved into a staggered linear arrangement by adjusting set pivot points to minimize variability between fragments. With a main axis established, tensile fabric is pinned in place, emphasizing the spatial experience underneath.

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Type

Pavilion

Partner

Polly Yip

Top View

Above; alternating module sizes allows for non-linear shading

Elevation

Spatial condition created by tensile fabric tethered to cantilevered modules

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Prototype

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Development of joint plates; minimizing individualized cuts for efficiency

Deployment

Module

Exploded axonometric showing the fabric’s points of contact 01 CONCRETE BASE INSERT 02 STEEL SCREWS 03 BIRCH PLY STRIPS 04 FIBREGLASS SCREEN MESH 05 STEEL PIN JOINTS

Collapsible logic for modules allows for ease of production and transportation

Plates

Detail drawing of joinery; plate highlighted in yellow is customizable by angle 01 STEEL BOLTS 02 METAL TOP/BOTTOM PLATES 03 INTERCHANGEABLE METAL PLATE 04 STEEL SCREWS (PERMANENT) 05 BIRCH PLY STRIPS 06 MAIN AXIS METAL PLATE

01 CONCRETE BASE INSERT 02 STEEL SCREWS 03 BIRCH PLY STRIPS 04 FIBREGLASS SCREEN MESH 05 STEEL PIN JOINTS

Anchors

Each module is fitted into a cast concrete base with a metal insert

Application

Perspective and aerial views of the pavilion in the context of a farmer’s market

02 Subverting Obedience Honouring and Imposing Play Through numerous programmatic changes, North Lincoln School continues to prioritize youth and adult education. Here, it is revitalized as a youth recreation center. Subverting 20th century spatial forms of obedience, the space creates an environment that imposes a sense of play. The angled ceiling form is translated onto the ground plane, carving a new dynamic and layered experience that is more reflective of a child’s desire to explore.

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Adaptive Reuse

Location

Alliance, OH

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Circulation

Not to scale; driven

Perspective

Custom cafeteria seating derived from diagonal ceiling planes

by a child’s natural curiosity to explore, programmatic needs emerge

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Blocking

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After the main axis of circulation is established, programmatic needs are subdivided by their level of interaction: for play, for community, and for operations

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Furniture Plan

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o scale; movable furniture for unstructured use of the space

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Section A Not to scale; existing ceiling plane informs experience at different elevations, from light fixture heights to wall panels

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Impose

Abstracting ceiling plane to introduce new ground experience

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Mirroring

Cubbies

Non-rectilinear experienced is “pulled” downward and juxtaposed as a means to inform an otherwise rectilinear space

Redesign of existing cubby unit; users are greeted with design motif upon entry, serving as an introduction of what’s to come

Partition

Interior elevations and perspective showing tactile and interactive partition derived from existing ceiling in multi-purpose space

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03 Pacing in Four Parts Cinema and the System Released in 2003, “Memories of Murder,” directed by Bong Joon-Ho, is South Korean film based on the Hwaseong murders in the late 1980s to early 1990s. After five years of investigation, thousands of suspects, and no resolution to the murders of at least ten women, this period was a marking of trauma in Korean history. Since the 2019 confession, the film has been brought back into circulation, highlighting the generational trauma and the prevalence of this cold case in Korean pop culture.

The film follows two lead investigators on the case who have opposing investigation methods informed by social hierarchies in Korean culture.

This dichotomy is explicitly supported by the prevailing themes in the film, the pacing of the shots, and the framing of the camera. This study breaks down a scene that serves as a pivotal turning point in the characters’ development. It depicts a shift in tone in the film, as there is a sudden sense of self-awareness between the two main characters. The film becomes less about their “good cop, bad cop” dynamic, and more about the system they represent.

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Analysis

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Sequence I

Park and Seo get into a physical altercation over their opposing investigation methods

Sequence III

Officer Kwon calls attention to the song on the radio

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Sequence II

Sergeant Shin escalates the situation; stopped by Officer Kwon

Sequence IV

Phone calls are made; focus shifts

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04 Deceptive Geometries Exploiting the Proto-Image In his paper titled “Rendering Environment,” Andrew Atwood calls for a closer examination of the image and the digital processes and techniques used to produce images in architecture. Atwood denotes an expanding gap between the architectural object and its image, as “images are produced as abstractions of abstractions,” and thus, moving further away from their “original” source. He breaks down the digital image into four categories by their processes: the proto-image, paraimage, post-image, and meta-image.

Proto-images are often used to refine the object or geometry by subtly adding the appearance of texture. What would happen if we exploit this tool? In order to investigate the impacts of proto-images, form was manipulated through a series of bump maps. As a result, this visual geometric abstraction creates illusions of false geometry.

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Speculative

Recursion

Increasing image destabilization through recursive texture mapping to reframe object and surface conditions

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Iteration

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Repeated texture mapping resulting in illusion of dimensionality

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05 Push Pull Designing for Gen-Z Selected for CAED X-Gallery Exhibition Pigment is a paint and coatings manufacturer that values teamwork, collaboration, and not reimagining the workplace for Gen-Z. The design framework is centered around ideas of fluidity, transition, and flow. This hybrid workplace reflects these ideas through blocking that is a departure from the traditional grid. The push and pull relationship between each block creates seamless, yet deliberate neighbourhoods or “zones” that support numerous work types. The space is welcoming and not overwhelming, aimed to support the return to the office. The spatial organization is governed by colour-blocking as a wayfinding technique, visually separating private offices, large collaborative areas, and everything in between.

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Type

Workplace

Location

Cleveland, OH

Partner

Katherine Zimmerman

01 ENTRY 02 LOCKER ROOM 03 WORK CAFE 04 KITCHEN 05 MEETING ROOM

06 CONFERENCE ROOM 07 PRINT AND COPY 08 IT STUDIO 09 TOUCHDOWN SPACE 10 SMALL COLLAB SPACE

11 PINUP AREA 12 FOCUS ROOM 13 PRIVATE OFFICE 14 LARGE COLLAB SPACE 15 COMMUNAL LOUNGE

16 CREATIVE STUDIO 17 EXHIBITION GALLERY 18 OUTDOOR TERRACE 19 UNIVERSAL RESTROOM 20 IDF ROOM

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Floor Plan

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Not to scale; push and pull of a traditional grid to create new “zones” for hybrid work

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Materiality

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Light, yet colourful wall finishes denote and ground each space

softer lighting

add acoustical panel as accent

whiteboard / bulletin

opportunity to add arch to define the space

paint interior faces

banquette or built-in seating

Café

Development sketches and ideation of work cafe banquettes; serving as a physical and transitional zone between private and communal spaces

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06 Notes from A Voyeur Observation and An(notation) In order to study voyeurism in the city, it is important to know who is the subject, or the “voyee.” The following three panels function as a series, abstracting a day trip to Montréal at three different scales. This exercise in spatial analysis and annotation is approached through musical notation and thus, creating a “soundtrack” of the day. This study aims to dissect infrastructure and experience, as governed by personal documentation, observation and narrative.

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Spatial Analysis

Macro

Abstracting the density of visual information on path of travel through indeterminate musical notation, inspired by the works of composers Cornelius Cardew and John Cage

Meso

Cataloging harmonious and dissonant spatial relationships, using musical conventions to draw parallels with their physical characteristics or their intended use

Micro

Highlighting digital distortion frame-by-frame, creating an alternating sequence of a skewed personal experience at a particular moment in time, in an urban space

07 Bloom Modular Shading System The design of this shading system emerges from a rigorous study of the Adaptive Solar Facade at ETH Zürich and Sosolimited’s Diffusion Choir.

The system of assembly focuses on its deployability and subsequent hidden mechanics that allow for an open ground plane. Each module actuates through a series of pulleys, pulling away from its resting position towards the user, and allowing the passage of light.

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Kinetic Assemblies

Partner

Renée Powell-Hines

Unfold

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Actuating “umbrellas” are nested with static support pieces

Perspective

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Variety of actuation angles creating a dynamic experience with light and shadow

Tectonics

Understanding joinery through fabrication and prototypes

Motion Diagram

Aggregation of moment frames showing deployment complexities

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