Will Ngo - Portfolio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

TO+WN Design / Founding Partner

Architect and Designer of projects of a wide range of scales including mid-rise office towers, restaurants, retail stores, branding and product design Projects Include:

- Aeon Prime - a 520,000sq.ft, 19-storey tall office building

- The World Is Your Oyster - a 3D-printed jewelry collection

- Foundation Capital - various design projects for the VC including presentations and document design.

Microscape / Founding Partner

Developed the concept, branding, and fabrication of a collection of highly detailed 3D-printed cityscape models

Diller Scofidio + Renfro / Project Architect

Project Architect for large-scale cultural projects during Concept Design, Schematic Design, and Design Development phases.

Projects Include:

- High Line (Section 3) - a 1.5-mile linear park built on disused elevated train tracks in New York City

- The Broad Museum - a 50,000sq.ft art museum in Los Angeles

Imrey Culbert Atelier / Project Architect

Developed the curatorial experience of a new museum designed to house 300 pieces of artwork from the Louvre Museum’s permanent collection.

Projects Include:

- Louvre-Lens Museum - a 280,000 sq.ft. museum located in 200km north of Paris

Jaklitsch / Gardner Architects / Project Architect

Project Architect for several retail stores in Europe, Asia, and in the United States

Projects Include:

- Marc Jacobs, Paris - a flagship retail store for the fashion brand

- Bodanna Gallery - a ceramics studio and retail gallery for a non-profit organization

TEACHING

New York City College of Technology / Adjunct Professor

Department of Architectural Technology

Courses Include: Architectural Design IV, Integrated Software in the Architectural Office

Parsons The New School for Design / Adjunct Professor

School of Constructed Environments

Courses Include: ID Studio 2, Digital Presentation, Digital Modeling with 3ds Max, Drawing Interiors

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EDUCATION

Columbia University

Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design (MSAAD)

Pennsylvania State University

College of Arts and Architecture

Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.)

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

- 3ds Max

- AutoCAD

- Figma

- Google Workspace

Adobe Creative Suite:

- Photoshop

- Illustrator

- InDesign

SKILLS AND INTERESTS

- 3D Printing

- Lasercutting

- Sketching and Drafting

AWARDS AND HONORS

- PowerPoint

- Revit

- Rhino - After Effects

- Premiere Pro

- Physical Model Making

- Digital and Aerial Photography

- Digital Filmmaking / Editing

2018 Design Intelligence Award

2017 Architizer A+ Award

2016 A’ Design Award, Gold Medal

2011 Architizer Design Competition

2009 Distinguished University Teaching Award

Parsons The New School for Design

2005 Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize: Columbia University, GSAPP

2004 Thesis Design Award, Penn State University

2004 Alpha Rho Chi Medal

2004 John Stewardson Memorial Competition

2002 Hajjar Memorial Competition in Architecture

AEON PRIME

TO+WN DESIGN MANILA, PHILIPPINES - 2015

Aeon Prime is a 19-storey office building that sits atop a podium that houses the main lobby and retail presence on the ground floor as well as multiple levels of parking. The building anchors the main intersections in the business district of Filinvest City, one of the country’s most significant hubs for the world’s leading information and technology industries.

Role included designing the facade and shared public interior spaces from schematic design through to construction.

MOBILE MARKETING ASSOCIATION

TO+WN DESIGN NEW YORK / LOS ANGELES

Designed as an annual conference to accommodate booths for several software companies and large presentation areas. Each of the exhibit booths are designed to be modular and reusable framed in clear powder coated black galvanized steel tubes, perforated steel sheets. Integrated birch plywood consoles stabilize the units and provide both storage and an additional presentation surface.

Role included working with the client to develop an overall planning strategy for their temporary exhibition spaces, design fixtures for the exhibitors and generating marketing material.

MICROSCAPE

THE NEW YORK COLLECTION

2016

A collection of highly-detailed 3D printed architectural models of cities around the world.

As a founding partner, my role included creating the digital models using aerial photography and photogrammetry, translating that into 3D printable objects, designing the product packaging, developing overall branding and marketing for the art object.

MICROSCAPE FOR ADIDAS

NEW YORK CITY - 2019

BROAD MUSEUM

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO LOS ANGELES - 2013

The Broad is a new contemporary art museum founded by philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles which opened in September of 2015. The 120,000-square-foot building features two floors of gallery space and is the headquarters of The Broad Art Foundation’s worldwide lending library.

Role included being on the design team for the facade and roof monitors / skylight from the Schematic Design through the Design Development phases of the project.

HIGHLINE SECTION 3

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO NEW YORK CITY - 2012

Designed in collaboration with James Corner Field Operations and Piet Oudolf, The High Line is a 1.5–mile long public park built on an abandoned elevated railroad stretching from the Meatpacking District to the Hudson Rail Yards in Manhattan.

Contributed to the design and development of Section 3 of the High Line from Schematic Design through the Design Development phases of the project.

MUSEUM OF IMAGE AND SOUND

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO RIO DE JANERIO, BRAZIL - 2012

The architecture of the Museum of Image and Sound takes Copacabana Beach as its inspiration: its coastline, its wraparound building wall, its mountains, and its distinctive beach promenade designed by Roberto Burle Marx. The promenade captures the key element of the beach—a space of the public in motion—on foot, bicycle and automobile. The building is conceived as an extension of that boulevard, stretched vertically into the museum.

Role included developing the diagrammatic introductory animation and fly-through animation of the project during the Competition Phase of the project.

NORTON CHRISTMAS PROJECT

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO 2012

In collaboration with pastry chef Richard Capizzi, this ephemeral sculpture was designed in 2011 for the Norton Family’s Christmas Art Project, an annual artist commission for a limited edition gift. Bittersweet is composed of 25 bitter to sweet chocolates shaped like numbers with differing heights running diagonally from sweetest to bitterest. The chocolates were presented in a clear plastic box in white wrapping and a plastic jump drive.

Served as Project Lead from conceptualization through realization of the limited edition art object.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO STANFORD UNIVERSITY - 2012

The McMurtry Building unites Stanford University’s Departments of Art and Art History—the former dedicated to art production and the latter to art study. The 96,000 sf building accommodates a broad range of disciplines: Art History, Studio Arts, Photography, Media Arts, and Digital Design.

Served on the Design Team during the Competition Phase of the project.

MAILMAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

DILLER SCOFIDIO + RENFRO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - 2012

The project involved updating a pre-existing building containing the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. The strategy involved unifying the main lobby floor to allow for more public space internally while expanding programmatic space on two sides of the structure.

Served on the Design Team to help conceptualize the project and generate material to communicate the design intent to the client.

LOUVRE LENS

IMREY CULBERT STUDIO

LENS, FRANCE - 2008

The Louvre-Lens was designed in collaboration between architecture studio Sanaa and museography team Imrey Culbert Studio. The museum’s main exhibition space, the Galerie du Temps, is a 3,000 m² open gallery displaying artworks from the Louvre in Paris.

As part of the museography team, I worked on developing a strategy to organize and display the over 200 artworks on loan from the Louvre’s permanent collection.

THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER

FOUNDATION CAPITAL TO+WN DESIGN

MARC JACOBS - PARIS

JAKLITSCH / GARDNER ARCHITECTS

PARIS, FRANCE - 2007

A 1,700 sq.ft. Flagship Retail store for the luxury fashion brand Marc Jacobs located at Palais-Royal in the center of Paris.

Role included developing the 3D model and renderings, drafting construction documents and developing the FF&E for the project.