ALEXANDER WU CalPoly Pomona Bachelor of Architecture PORTFOLIO
California Polytechnic State University at Pomona (CalPoly Pomona)
Bachelor of Architecture, NAAB accredited, 2022
Outstanding Student Senior Project, 2022
Dean’s List for GPA 3.5 or higher, 2021
Honorable Mention for Bobby Brooks Memorial Studio, 2021
President’s Honor List for GPA 3.5 or higher, 2020-2021
Publicated by NON-Architecture for Material and Representation Studio, 2020
Special Mention for CalPoly SLO Design Village Competition, 2019
Exhibited art installations at Bombay Beach Biennale Festival, 2019
Honorable Mention for Second Year Design Studio, 2019
Da-Ju Architects & Associates
June to July, 2021, Taipei, Taiwan
Produced construction documents of a distribution center project in Taiwan.
Ricky Liu & Associates Architects + Planners
May to December, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
Designed and produced physical models to compete for the international competition of Taichung Arena, in Taiwan.
Produced BIM models of a 500+ unit social housing project for the government.
Domaen
May to September, 2019, Los Angeles, California
Designed and produced physical models for Resident Alien, an exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, NYC.
Critical Thinking make logics out of chaos through the scientific method
Observation understand which is unique to design
Problem Solving able to identify, prioritize, and select alternatives for a solution
Communication able to articulate thoughts in public speaking
Execution enjoy the process of carrying out a plan
Creativity able to imagine and connect the dots for possibilities
Ethics be a global citizen and a responsible designer
Rhinoceros
Revit
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Indesign
Enscape + VR Grasshopper
Autocad Physical Model
Sketchup
Woodworking
E d u c a t i o n S k i l l s A bi l i t y
I n t er n s h i p x anderpwu@gma i l . c o m
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Lasercutting
Printing A l e x a n d e r W u A r c h i t e c t ur a l D e s ig n e r
+English +Mandarin
3D
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Garment
Academic: Outstanding Senior Thesis Project
Indigenous Headquarters and Community Center
Academic: Honorable Mention B.B. Memorial Studio
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Organic Patio
Independent: Design-Build
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Astronomer Retreat Tower
Academic: Interim Exhibition
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Digital Fabrication
Internship:
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The Truth About Fast Fashion
Worker Center and Museum
Wood Ranch
Starlab
Replicates
Model-Maker, Domaen Inc.
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The Truth About Fast Fashion
Garment Worker Center and Museum
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A Space for Social Agitation and Mobilization
Academic : BArch Thesis, CalPoly Pomona, 2022
Awards : Outstanding Student Senior Project Instructor : Mitchell DeJarnett
Site : N Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California, USA
SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Premise
What is Fast Fashion?
Forever 21 / H&M Group / UNIQLO Zara / Topshop / SHIEN
Fast Fashion refers to trendy clothing mass produced at low costs, made possible through the exploitation of the environment and garment workers. Downtown Los Angeles is home to some of the largest garment sweatshops in the USA. From here, this project confronts the unethical products and practices of the industry ...
Historical Reference
Cotton, this particular species of plant, represents the products of a system that required slave labor to function...
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Victims of Fast Fashion
“I don’t want to die for Fashion.”
1. Rana Plaza Factory Collapse, murder, death: 1,134 garment workers, Bangladesh, 2013
2. Child Labor, kidnapped, sweatshop, Vietnam, 2013
3. Child Labors in a sweatshop of Gujarat, India, documented by Rahul Jain, “Machine”, Germany, 2017
4. Uyghurs Sweatshop Camps, genocide, China, 2022
5. Forever 21 Sweatshop, wage theft, Los Angeles, 2022
6. Child Labor, sweatshop, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2019
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The Cycle of Fast Fashion
Raise Awareness Recycle / Reuse Protect Workers UNION MUSEUM
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Museum GF / Union Hall 2F
Courtyard Scheme
Insert Cores & Masses
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A Museum Displaying a Landfill of Fast Fashion products
Distilled Form & Function
Landscape, Stairs, & Bridges
Plan Strategy
Activity Beautiful Memorial in the Cotton Field 1 Confront 4 Gathering 2 Educate 5 Unite 3 Recycle 6 Memorialize 1 2 3 4 plaza museum charity shop 07 GF 2F
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Form and Function
Program as Protest
1 Sweatshop Owners
2 Chapel in Cotton Field
3 Museum of Fast Fashion
4 Garment Worker Center
5 Civic Square of Protests
6 Charity Shop
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Facade as Program
Red sandstone veneer is chosen as facade for two reasons. Sandstone gives a sense strength, cohesiveness, and solidarity. Red reflects the politics and history of socialism, communism, labor movements, and trade unions, which is provocative and meaningful for the garment workers.
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Offspring From The Sky
Indigenous Headquarters & Community Center
“Empowering the Indigenous Peoples who are discriminated in the City”...
Academic:
Bobby Brooks Memorial Interdisciplinary Design Studio, CalPoly Pomona, 2021
Awards:
Honorable Mention for Bobby Brook s Awards
Instructor :
Irma Ramirez, Andrew Wilcox
Site: 5800 S Figueroa St., Los Angeles, California, USA
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Spatial Qualities
User
CIELO , a non-profit organization, seeks for a new headquarters in downtown Los Angeles to extend its outreach service of protecting the rights of the 50,000 Mesoamerican indigenous diaspora.
Program
1 Parlor
2 Workspace
3 Library
4 Foyer
5 Lavatory
6 Courtyard
7 Stage
8 Balcony
Materials & Feelings
Softscape is for looseness, privacy, & emotion.
Hardscape is for energy, positivity, & nature.
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Cultural Expression
“How can features of the Mesoamerican Temples be used in a modern way?”
Mesoamerican Culture
To put human life, nature, and the built environment on the same level, and build a sustainable ecosystem where all components support one another and thrive, resulting in an organic architecture.
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Step Pyramid Daily Life Temple Astronomy
Material Resemblance
Since the prehispanic times, the Mesoamericans sleep, eat, and give birth on petates, and live under the stars for bright hope, big possibilities, insight and intuition.
Ceiba Wood Petates Stars Rug
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Wood Ranch
Organic Patio
Independent : Design-Build
Location: Chino Hills, California, USA
A Patio that Brings My Family amongst Nature
UNITY
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Starlab Astronomer Retreat Tower
Academic: Third Year Design Studio, CalPoly Pomona, 2020 Instructor : Yasushi Ishida Site: Vetter Mountain, Los Angeles, California, USA
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Prefab Steel-Framed Modular Tower
Modular System for Minimizing On-Site Construction
NASA Astronaut Astrophysicist Hiker Astrologer
John Grunsfeld
Site Foundation
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Factory Prefab
Dale Sanders
Core-Tower
Jan Spiller
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Welding
Pollution amongst Nature
User
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Replicates
Digital Fabrication
Office-work : Model maker, Domaen Inc., Los Angeles, 2019
Exhibition: Resident Alien, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City, 2019
Instructor : Axel Schmitzberger
Team: Nauryzbek Naurbekov, Osvaldo Limon, Aang Castillo
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datum lines
figure-ground
House APL
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