Timothy Chang Portfolio 2022-2024

PORTFOLIO

TIMOTHY CHANG 2022 - 2024

ABOUT ME

I am a San Francisco native pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Minor in the History of the Built Environment at UC Berkeley. I have a deep passion for architecture and design, and like to challenge myself to be innovative and creative while designing beautiful projects. I am currently seeking a rigorous architecture internship that will help me develop my technical skills and push my creative abilities.

PROJECT 01 – FABRICATION WORKSHOP

PROJECT 02 – REPURPOSED PARKING GARAGE

PROJECT 03 – DIAGONAL DUPLEX

PROJECT 04 – SEATTLE AVANT-GARDE ENCLAVE

PROJECT 05 – ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY

PROJECT 06 – MECHANICAL SURVEY

PROJECT 01

Junior Fall 2023 - Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, V-Ray, D5 Render

FABRICATION WORKSHOP

Drawing inspiration from the spatial qualities of an alleyway, my project focuses on the concept of porosity and the incorporation of the alley’s spatial qualities to transform a blocky building into one that is divided up into multiple parts and brings light and air into the building through tall and thin spaces. The exterior of the building is completely opaque and solid but the interior incorporates alleyway-like spaces that cut through the building and glazing along most of the interior surfaces. The porousness of the building can be experienced physically, by letting the “alley-like” spaces be open and exposed to the elements, and visually, by allowing users to see through to the other side of the building with the use of glazing.

A 21,000 sq ft fabrication workshop, each floor of the building is divided formally into multiple parts by the alleyway-like spaces. Programmatically, the building is divided into two parts, with the northwestern half consisting of non-work-related spaces and the southeastern half dedicated to work-related spaces.

CENTRAL STAIRCASE FROM 2ND FLOOR

MAIN FACADE

3RD FLOOR MEZZANINE

In the floorplans, you can see how the “alley-like” spaces divide up the building and create pathways that allow users to experience the outside while still being within the boundaries of the building.

The section shows how the building is divided programmatically with the shaded half being non-work-related spaces while the right side is dedicated to work spaces.

FLOOR 1

FLOOR 2 FLOOR 3

FLOOR 4 FLOOR 5

This concept model was created through a series of subtractions from a box with Tony Smith’s sculpture, Playground. With this concept model as the basis for the design, I took aspects of the model that I thought would be challenging and interesting to work with, such as the tall and narrow voids and heavy overhangs and incorporated them to the final design of the building.

In the final iteration of the project, the language of the alley-like spaces are used as a strategy to bring light into the building and the heavy overhang serving as a roof for an outdoor work area.

CONCEPT MODEL

FINAL MODEL

CLOSE-UP SHOT

TONY SMITH’S PLAYGROUND

PROJECT 02

Junior Fall 2023 - Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

Teammates: Chloe Wang and David Lin

REPURPOSED PARKING GARAGE

For this project, my group and I were tasked with repurposing a 52,000 sq ft parking garage located on the perimeter of the UC Berkeley campus. Due to the diversity of the people who access the area and the lack of a place for the community to come together, the parking garage was repurposed into a community center.

The community center includes four different spaces: a multipurpose court, an auditorium, a health/wellness center, and a creative gallery. The spaces are organized by having the central circulation core run up the middle of the structure and having the entrances of the four spaces branch out to each floor from the core.

A multipurpose court on the ground floor provides a spacious area that allows for different types of events such as sports competitions, dance practices, and even tabling events like career fairs to be hosted.

Keeping health and wellness of the community in mind, a double height gym and sauna area are included in the second floor.

This long section depicts the organization of the four programmatic elements that branch out from the central circulation core. Although the Auditorium space and Gym + Sauna area are both double height, the entrances to these two spaces are on separate floors with the Auditorium entrance being on the third level only.

The auditorium on the third floor serves multiple purposes as it can be used to host guest lectures and movie nights while being a work area when not hosting events.

FLOOR 1

FLOOR 2

FLOOR 3

PROJECT 03

Junior Spring 2024 - Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, V-Ray

ORIGAMI TOWER

Starting off with a pavilion, the project tasked me to used the themes of “vaguely square” and “awkward stack” to build a mixed-used recreational facility along the perimeter of the UC Berkeley campus. Starting off with the “vaguely square” pavilion, it is a series of doubly folded squares that form a square when looking at it from an angle. By taking one module of the doubly-folded square, I created the “awkward stack” by stacking the modules on top of each other on opposite corners. The final product was produced by introducing structure and programming to the conceptual designs.

The pavilion is “vaguely square” in plan. This is done by arranging four doublyfolded square modules so that one corner of a module would be touch another either physically or in plan.

The “awkward stack” is created by arranging six modules on top of each other and scaling them while rotating the floorplate by 180 degrees every floor. Awkwardness is created by doing this as each floorplate is stacking on a single corner.

3. CONDENSE

After the “awkward stack”, I was tasked to introduce structure and program in to the stack. While still keeping the overall organizational strategy the same, I introduced an extra module in to the design to bring balance to the proportions while accommodating for an extra large program that will have to go in to the building.

The final version of the design features two extra large floorplates derived from the module to accommodate large recreational programs and four smaller floorplates to accommodate both public and private programs such as a large lobby, cafe, studio spaces, open offices, and private

FLOOR

FLOOR

PROJECT 04

Sophomore Spring 2023 - Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop

DIAGONAL DUPLEX

In this project, I explore how the shifting of two diagonal forms derived from Bridget Riley’s Perceptual Abstraction painting can create new forms that can then be turned into inhabitable spaces.

The diagonal is the driving concept that guides this design as it is what directs the shifting of the two forms and the circulation throughout the building. The diagonal is also what creates continuity throughout the building as all the stairs, running along the diagonal walls of the building, lead to another set of stairs. This connects the entire building and leads to shared spaces like the public garden (in Floor 2).

While the stairs may compromise privacy, this is fixed by employing the primary wall which helps separate the two units.

AXONOMETRIC STAIR DRAWING

Made out of foamcore, the physical model allowed for the understanding of the interior spaces and how one would move through the building.

NORTH ELEVATION SOUTH ELEVATION

PROJECT 05

Junior Ongoing Project - Cal Seismic Team Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, D5 Render

SEATTLE AVANT-GARDE ENCLAVE (S.A.G.E.)

My team and I were tasked to design a seismically stable skyscraper located in Downtown Seattle for the EERI Seismic Competition. Following the skeleton of the structure to guide the design, elements like vertical sunshades, louvers, and light reflectors are incorporated to create a building that limits energy consumption. The skyscraper is designed to be a residential building that includes studios, twobedroom units, family units, and double-height community spaces on the ground floor and the 14th floor where the third tier of the building starts.

01. Unfolded representation of Wheeler Hall’s lobby

PROJECT 06

Sophomore Fall 2022 - Rhino

ARCHITECTURAL SURVEY

In this project, I was tasked to choose a building in the UC Berkeley Campus, in this case, Wheeler Hall, and use technical drawings to represent it as an unfolded box. Wheeler Hall is a three-story building situated on a slope in the heart of campus.

02. Unfolding exercise only using facade and surrounding landscape

PROJECT 07

Sophomore Fall 2022 - Rhino, Photoshop

MECHANICAL SURVEY

This project tasked me to select a mechanical tool, and using Rhino and Photoshop, identify relationships between the different parts of the tool. This can be seen in the first two drawings. The third drawing represents how the clippers look if its surfaces and visible components were unfolded. The fourth drawing is a reiteration of the unfolded representation and explores how the mechanical components move.

01. Orthographic projection study

03. Unfolded representation to understand construction

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04. Exploration of how mechanical components move

Line drawing to study form and geometry