CC CHIANG

CC
Chiang
917-863-8698
chiehchih.chiang@gmail.com
Chicago, IL

Education Work
Harvard GSD 2018 bKL Architecture
Master in Architecture I Architectural Designer 06.2018 - Present
Brown University 2011 ‐‐ Coordinated hotel interior and assisted with envelope detailing for a
BA International Relations
Magna cum laude 440,000 SF mixed-use tower along Michigan Avenue
‐‐ Designed dining hall and servery for a 3,600 SF dining hall in the GEMS
Skills Upper School
‐‐ Design: ‐‐ Contributed to DD and CD for a 120,000SF multifamily housing project in
Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, 3DS Max, Chicago, with specific responsibility for envelope design
Unity3D
‐‐ Developed design studies and feasibility analysis for a mixed-use
‐‐ Graphics:
complex in Atlanta with 200 hotel keys and 400 residential units
Adobe CS, VRay, AfterEffects
‐‐ Assisted with envelope detail design for Cirrus and Cascade multifamily
‐‐ Analysis:
Grasshopper, Dynamo, ArcGIS towers in Lakeshore East
‐‐ Language:
English, Mandarin Kwong Von Glinow Design Office
Architecture Intern 06.2017 - 08.2017
Honors ‐‐ Developed renders, drawings, and studies for 3 competition entries
‐‐ Platform 8 (Published), 10 & 11
‐‐ Assisted with business development strategy and client outreach
(Nominated)
‐‐ Harvard President’s
Challenge 2016 Finalist Arquitectonica
‐‐ Hult Prize 2016 Regional Architecture Intern 06.2016 - 08.2016
Finalist ‐‐ Conducted feasibility studies for 3 mixed-use projects in Miami
‐‐ Developed submittal packages for 8 adaptive reuse developments
Affiliations
‐‐ Chicago Architectural Club
MASS Design Group
Board Member
Design Fellow 06.2015 - 08.2015
‐‐ Illinois Institute of Technology
Visiting Critic ‐‐ Produced concept designs for the Memorial to Peace and Justice
‐‐ Associate AIA ‐‐ Contributed concept designs for the Colorado College Innovation Center

References Japonica Partners

‐‐ Philip Stott
Associate Director, bKL Architecture
pstott@bklarch.com
‐‐ Alison Von Glinow
Principal, KVG Design Office
alison@kwongvonglinow.com
‐‐ Andrew Holder
Associate Professor, Harvard GSD
aholder@gsd.harvard.edu
Financial Analyst 01.2011 - 04.2013
‐‐ Led research team to identify underperforming assets in sovereign debt
and corporate equities in Europe and Asia
‐‐ Performed valuations of a Japanese multinational conglomerate and
American healthcare startup through sum-of-the-parts analysis
‐‐ Wrote research reports on macroeconomics, sovereign accounting,
statistical analysis, and equity valuation
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Brownstone 2 1/2 Homes

 Professional

Miami 300 North Michigan Avenue

 Brownstone
2019
Collaboration with Esther Bang

A submission for the Big Ideas for Small Lots competition, Brownstone is
a modularized co-living system combining affordable living with communal
amenities: Tucked behind the 12 microunits and shared kitchen/laundry is a
garden for the whole block to enjoy. Each microunit is adorned with a canopy
that animates the facade as it opens and closes.

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+39’

+22’
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+5’

2 3

1. Public Tunnel
2. Lobby
3. Block Garden
4. Kitchen
5. Typical Studio
6. Rooftop Garden
7. Laundry

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Canopy CLT Facade Showerpod

Bed + Storage

Steel Bracing Concrete Shear Wall

CLT Wall CLT Floor MEP Chase

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1. Vestibule
2. Public Tunnel
3. Block Garden
4. Kitchen
5. Typical Studio
6. Rooftop Garden
7. Laundry

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1612 Lexington Avenue 405 East 161st Street
Attached Corner Attached Interior

St. Mark’s Avenue Harbor Road

Detached Shallow

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 2 1/2 Homes
2019
Collaboration with Runmin Yu

The roots of America’s affordable housing crisis are many, from NIMBYism
to antiquated zoning. While Chicago has been progressive in shepherding
citizens to home ownership, it too faces familiar foes, from a decline in the
stock of two flats to escalating costs of construction.

Within this litany, two particular problems are ripe for disruption: Uncertainty
in construction and uncertainty during home purchase. Coordinating trades
on site frequently leads to cost overruns. Concurrently, a first time homeowner
is hard pressed to forecast spatial needs and often wind up unable to afford a
home fully built out upon purchase.

Sited in the rich urban fabrics of West Humboldt Park and Bronzeville, the 2
½ House tackles these uncertainties by leveraging the construction logic of
prefabricated structural insulated panels (SIP) to build a home with space to
spare.

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2. Unit 02 Vestibule
3. Unit 01 Bedroom
4. Garden
5. Unit 01 Living Room + Kitchen
6. ADU
7. Unit 02 Living Room + Kitchen
8. Unit 01 Build-Out
9. Unit 02 Build-Out
10. Unit 02 Bedroom

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Level 03

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Level 02

5 1

4 3 3

Level 01

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 Sheathing
EPS + OSB
Sheathing
AWB
Polycarbonate

Prefabricated
Bay

Structural Insulated Panels

(SIPs) integrate insulation with
structure into a single prefab unit
that lowers construction time by
50% and cost to ~$180 psf.
Unit 1/2
Unit 02

By carving out a courtyard in the

Unit 01
two flat, we create a new backyard
volume that can serve 3 income
generating functions: a studio
living space, office, or storage.

Studio Office Storage

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Unit 01 Build-Out Unit 02 Build-Out ADU

Double-height spaces within Units A and B allow

residents to keep initial costs low while building out over
time, whether a bedroom for a growing child or an office
for remote work.

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 Miami
Harvard GSD Option Studio
Fall 2017

The site of transplants from one continent to another - economic, social,

political - Miami forewarns the coming sea level rise that threatens all
coastal agglomerations. Into this city of artificial constructs and continental
tensions enters this particular mixed use building - a vessel that collects
programs hitherto bound within the generic interiority of the Miami mixed
use and sets them into an iconic form confronting the city from its bay.

Comprising a financial exchange, child immigrant facility, and a plastic

surgery clinic, the building collages Miami’s economic centrality, its
celebration of the body perfect, and its burgeoning role as the gateway of
illegal immigration into a tense architectural confrontation.

Adopting an nautical form befitting its immediate context, the building

utilizes geometric juxtapositions to craft two major public sequences - one
interior and the other exterior - that weave their way through the three
major programmatic blocks.

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Thermodynamic Types

Trading Floor

Dormitories

Condo

Garden

Medical Center

Office

Cafeteria

Operating Theater

Garage

Pool

The thermodynamic properties of each programmatic

‘room’ informs their location within the project, as
heat sources are cooled by natural ventilation and
buoyancy while heat sinks are distributed to optimize
Server Room daylighting and socio-cultural juxtapositions.

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Section Studies Facade Study

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Condominium

Medical Center

Internal Plaza

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 Immigration Center

Garden

Trading Floor

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11. Trading Floor

1. Theater 6. Medical Center Lobby
12. Medical Offices
2. Retail 7. Operating Theaters
13. Immigration Center
3. Garden 8. Internal Plaza
14. Condos
4. Placement Center Classrooms 9. Trading Offices
15. Immigration Court
5. Placement Center Dorm 10. Placement Center Offices

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 300 North Michigan Avenue
bKL Architecture
2018 - 19
Team: Simon Juska, Phil Stott, Darya Stefanovic, Kevin Kosciulek

300NMA is a mixed-use tower comprising a hotel, apartments, and a retail

podium.

As a designer, my contributions to the project centered on the hotel.CitizenM,

a European budget chic chain accustomed to working with prefab units,
brought with them a rigorous encyclopedia of brand standards that we had
to adapt to fit our building.

Collaborating with Concrete in the Netherlands, we designed front and back

of house spaces, as well as seven room layouts - paying special attention to
detailed interfaces with the facade and MEP coordination.

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