NICK
CHEUNG
SELECTED WORKS 2024
NICK CHEUNG This collection of selected work consists of projects created in Iowa State University’s undergraduate architecture program. The work embodies a range of explorations from the urban condition to the natural environment. Each project carefully considers the social and spatial dialogue between people, nature, and the built environment. Understanding distinct local conditions, architecture becomes a medium for cultural storytelling. The projects utilize various digital visualization and analog techniques to explore these concepts. Awards Lyle E. & Anna M. Lightfoot Scholar Benjamin Gilman International Scholar College of Design Dean’s List Wells Concrete Competition Winner AIA National | AIA Iowa Diversity Award Iowa State Undergraduate Research Grant President’s Leadership Class Iowa State University Bachelor of Architecture Entrepreneurial Studies and Sustainability Minors Graduation | May 2024
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CONTENTS GRAFT
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Portland, Oregon
CHELSEA COLLECTIVE
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New York, New York
FLORA
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Rome, Italy
EMBEDDED INSCAPE
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Iowa City, Iowa
FRUITS OF LABOR
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San Francisco, California
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FALL 2023 | BGL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
IN COLLABORATION WITH JUAN ARGUETA, SOPHIA MAGUINA, ANDREA MUCHORI, JAMILETH SARCENO, & TIMOTHY ZHANG PROFESSOR: AYODELE IYANALU
GRAFT ALBINA CREATIVE CAMPUS PORTLAND, OR
Graft is a dialogue about reclaiming land and giving access to resources that empower people to participate in creative pursuits. By acknowledging the emptiness as it stands today, it serves as a vision for a brighter future. Graft exists at the intersections of living, working, playing, and expressing. It draws on the surrounding context to create a sustainable relationship between the community and its people. The graft manifests as a covered space providing shelter from the natural elements and a porous, connected public realm to circulate through.
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Here, grafting becomes a restorative act, a way to heal by reclaiming black agency. By embedding their presence in place, a strong bond emerges. Using vertical and horizontal moves Graft pools resources and compiles individual’s ideas and pursuits. This proposal seeks resilience by design, fostering rich entrepreneurial and creative spirit for the long term. By relinquishing control of the site to its rightful owners and breathing life back into the neighborhood, the Albina community is empowered to flourish, setting a foundation for a just and joyful future.
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KELLI & TOYA DUNN
TASHA WILLIAMS
THE WALKERS
BARBARA JOHNSON
User Group: Single Mother
User Group: Emerging Professional
User Group: Large Family
User Group: Elderly
Age: 39 & 7
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Age: 42, 37, 9 & 6
Age: 71
Occupation: Pediatrics Nurse
Occupation: Artist
Occupation: Advertising Executive
Occupation: Retired Teacher
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Way of Living: High Density
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Site Map & User Profiles: Site map of the Albina neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. User profiles reflect community needs based on a town hall meeting in 2023. 6
1 | REVEAL
2 | RELATE
3 | CONTEXTUALIZE
4 | BREATHE
5 | GRAFT
6 | GROW
Top Right: East Facade Exterior Approach View Bottom Right: Massing Diagram 7
AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS
SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS
OUTDOOR VENDORS
MARKET BUILDING
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CREATIVE RESOURCE BUILDING
ACTIVE GREENSCAPE
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CREATIVE STUDIOS
LOCAL BLACK BUSINESSES
MARKET SPACE
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING
FOR-SALE HOMES COMMUNITY CENTER BUSINESS INCUBATOR
EMERGING BLACK CREATIVES EXHIBITION
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LOGGIA COURTYARD PLAZA LOBBY LIBRARY CREATIVE EXHIBITION SPACE STUDY SPACE
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LOCAL CAFE OFFICES CONFERENCE ROOM CO-WORKING SPACE LOCAL BLACK-OWNED RESTAURANT RETAIL RESIDENTIAL LOUNGE
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MAKER SPACES COURTYARD CREATIVE STUDIOS UNDERGROUND PARKING AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS CAFE LOBBY
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Site Model Photos: 3D printed site model cladded with 1/16” basswood. 15
SPRING 2022 | ARCH 302
IN COLLABORATION WITH KA HEUN HYUN PROFESSOR: BOSUK HUR
CHELSEA COLLECTIVE NEW YORK CITY, NY
New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is synonymous with art culture yet lacks one essential piece: artists. As artists have been cast to the margins, Chelsea Collective presents an alternative program featuring artist residencies that enable local artists to blur boundaries between where the curative and creative processes of art exist. By intersecting two rectangular forms, opportunities for gathering and collaboration are emphasized. Chelsea Collective becomes a shared framework that encourages and facilitates creativity.
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This approach is one that challenges the existing structures that focus solely on commoditizing the final art form by shifting that focus towards the creative process rather than the end product. The ownership of art is decentralized as the community interacts with its designers. With artists as the facilitators, Chelsea’s construct of observation will be challenged as we begin to enable the community to participate in the storytelling and creation of its art scene in a shift towards a more authentic expression of Chelsea.
Top Left: Massing Diagram Bottom Left: Site Isometric showing integration into the Chelsea neighborhood. Right: Exploded Axonometric identifying building programming. 18
1 | EXTRUDE
2 | SPLIT
3 | SUBTRACT
4 | CONNECT
5 | CIRCULATE
6 | PROGRAM
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ART GALLERY
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Mixer Space Featuring Various Art Installations and Collaborative Projects 20
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High Line Render Showing Active Urban Life 21
Unit A
Studio unit with large operable windows and open space for artist to create.
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Accessible one bedroom one bathroom unit with large operable windows. Retractable sliding door creates separation of space and privacy.
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Large accessible two bed two bath unit with large operable windows. Large open space accommodates kitchen, dining, and living room.
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1/2” FINISH CONCRETE 1/2” ACOUSTIC FOAM PAD 2” LIGHTWEIGHT CONCRETE 4” METAL DECKING 12” R-9 BATT INSULATION W 12 x 72 I BEAM 1” GYPSUM BOARD 6” STRUCTURAL CONCRETE WYTHE 3” R-9 RIGID INSULATION VAPOR RETARDER MEMBRANE 4” ARCHITECTURAL CONCRETE WYTHE MULLION DETAIL PER MANUFACTURER DOUBLE PANE WINDOW ANCHOR BOLT FIXED TO STRUCTURE ALUMINUM CLIP ALUMINUM PAN FLASHING AT SILL TRACK HEAD COVER SEAL POLYCARBONATE PANEL POLYCARBONATE PANEL FRAME THK 3.0 ALUMINUM SHEET RUBBER CLIP BUMPER STEEL BACKING M10 SET ANCHOR 18” CONCRETE PARAPET ROOF MEMBRANE BACKER ROD
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KEY ART STUDIO 1 EXHIBITION SPACE 2 TEMPORARY GALLERIES 3 INTERACTIVE INSTALLATIONS 4 ARTIST RESIDENCIES 5 COLLABORATIVE STUDIOS 6 MAKER SPACES 7 CAFE 8 EGRESS STAIRS 9 HIGH LINE 10
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SPRING 2023 | ROME STUDY ABROAD SEMESTER
IN COLLABORATION WITH JACOB BECKER & EMILY PRESTON PROFESSORS: SIMONE CAPRA, CONSUELO NUNEZ CIUFFA, & LAVINIA ANN MINCIACCHI
FLORA SAN LORENZO LIVING ROME, ITALY
San Lorenzo is a vibrant community with a diverse intersection of people. With an extreme population density, the current urban framework favors the private over the collective. This proposal embeds collective ownership into the community by carving into the context of the urban surroundings to define a new void as an outdoor public space. The landscaping creates a sequence from a dense wilderness to open, occupiable greenspaces. As the landscape transitions east toward the central piazza space, an active open space enables the community to access vital greenspace they were previously deprived of.
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A monolithic stone facade solidifies its presence on the site. Permeable brick is introduced to create depth and permeability in the space. The ballatoio housing typology implemented provides communal space for residents while creating a portico that enables commercial space to breathe life into the site at all hours, sustaining the community’s vitality. Warm tones enable the building to maintain a consistent dialogue with its surrounding context. By focusing on the dialogue between the site and the community, this proposal can be a catalyst in empowering the public to reclaim agency over their neighborhood.
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Far Left: Site Analysis Diagrams Top Right: Site Isometric Bottom Right: Massing Diagram 29
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FALL 2021 | ARCH 301
IN COLLABORATION WITH MIRCEA NASTASE PROFESSOR: ANNA AVERSING
EMBEDDED INSCAPE INTERACTIVE LEARNING CENTER IOWA CITY, IA
Embedded Inscape is an interactive learning center that utilizes extended realities to blur the boundaries between a digital and physical space to examine what was, what is, and what possibilities exist for the future. Situated at Waterworks Prairie Park in Iowa City, Iowa, the project draws inspiration from various hidden and inaccessible site features. Integrations of digital environments within the natural landscape open up possibilities to connect and understand the site from new perspectives.
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Extended reality challenges the framework for educating and informing ourselves with opportunities to engage in ways previously inaccessible to the public. Users physically and conceptually interact with the park by integrating physical and digital senses. This provides a cohesive understanding of the site and connects to broader environmental challenges and implications. Embedded Inscape expands the understanding of the landscape, enabling informed decisions that directly influence our environment.
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NATIVE VEGETATION
WATER TREATMENT PONDS
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KEY EXHIBITION SPACE EDUCATIONAL GALLERY GREEN ROOF GARDEN IMMERSIVE SIMULATION SPACE VIEWING DECK
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ROOF WOOD SLATS LEVEL 2 CONCRETE CORE WOOD RAILINGS GREEN ROOF DECKING GLULAM BEAMS
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WOOD RAILINGS GREEN ROOF DECKING
GLULAM BEAMS
GROUND LEVEL GLULAM COLUMNS
Exploded Axon: Showcases building structural system 36
Walkable Green Roof with Cross Reality Installations
Immersive Simulation Space
Indoor Exhibition Space Featuring Site History
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FALL 2023 | ARCH 403
IN COLLABORATION WITH AIDAN ANDREWS, JACOB BECKER, & JAMILETH SARCENO PROFESSOR: MITCHELL SQUIRE
FRUITS OF LABOR ARCHITECTURE OF FUTURITY SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
As habits of consumerism normalize acts of extraction, a violent struggle occurs beneath the surface. Extractive capitalism desensitizes and perpetuates a rigid social stratification, stripping diaspora communities of their agency and subjectivity. Operating to fulfill this expectation, service workers bear this burden as their bodies become the site of exploitation. Architecture is built by bodies, for bodies, but often ignores the body. Architecture remains complacent in imposing itself on communities based on a capitalistic agenda for profit generation. Our discipline is at the mercy of a rigid system that often cannot solve all of our problems.
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There is an inherent power to architectures of informality to liberate our objects and bodies. This project serves to amplify the submerged perspectives of laborers and shift our material value systems away from formality towards informality to imagine new infrastructures based on care and solidarity. As informalities are explored, the intimate connections between the realms of labor and leisure are revealed in a more authentic reflection of the human condition. Using whimsical depictions of informalities, authentic artifacts and performance, explorations of labor begin to contend with the value of our objects and bodies. In the end, who reaps the fruits of our labor?
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Site Map: Site map of San Francisco highlighting sites of extraction and spaces of informalities within diaspora communities. Deeper observations focus on the Chinatown area. 43
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Far Left: Set plan showing common objects found in an industrial kitchen. Right: Stills taken from the installation depicting the submerged perspective of a service worker. 45
Front view of set installation: Performing gives agency to the body. By situating the work in the service industry, submerged perspectives of the seemingly mundane emerge to transcend their prescribed roles to reflect more authentic expressions.
NICK CHEUNG
+1 (515) 822-8252 nicktcheung@gmail.com www.linkedin.com/in/ntcheung
A complete collection of my work can be viewed at nicktcheung.cargo.site
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
Iowa State University
Pickard Chilton Architectural Intern
Ames, IA Bachelor of Architecture Sustainability & Entrepreneurship Minors Graduation | May 2024 3.9 GPA
RECOGNITION Lyle E. & Anna M. Lightfoot Scholar Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar Paul M. Heffernan Travel Abroad Scholarship AIA National | AIA Iowa Diversity Scholarship College of Design Dean’s List Wells Concrete Competition | Winner Undergraduate Conference Grant Multicultural Vision Progam Scholar Iowa Governor’s Scholar Optimist Youth Community Service Award
SKILLS DIGITAL
ANALOG
Adobe Creative Suite Rhinoceros 3D Grasshopper Revit Enscape Lumion AutoCAD SketchUp Climate Studio
Laser Cutting 3D Printing Model Making CNC Routing Public Speaking
LANGUAGES Fujianese (Native) Mandarin Chinese (Intermediate) Spanish (Elementary)
REFERENCES BOSUK HUR Associate Professor of Practice Design Principal, Folio (857) 980-0579 bhur@iastate.edu
ANNA AVERSING Associate Professor of Practice (646) 455-7317 aversing@iastate.edu
TYLER RILEY Principal, FEH Design (515) 288-2000 tylerr@fehdesign.com
05. 2023 - 08. 2023 New Haven, CT Created 3D models, renders, and diagrams to visualize design concepts for clients. Assisted with presentation drawings for numerous design competitions. Collaborated with project teams to deliver schematic design drawing sets. Iterated multiple massing and facade schemes to present to project teams. Conducted feasibility studies and site research for various projects.
FEH Design Architectural Intern
05. 2022 - 01. 2023 Des Moines, IA Produced construction documents, detail drawings, 3D models, renderings, and presentations. Communicated with architects to secure grant funding for large community proposals for clients. Engaged with community stakeholders to co-design public projects.
Iowa State University Research Assistant
01. 2020 - 05. 2021
Ames, IA Observed, analyzed, and archived social interactions in US cities. Devised research methods to quantify range of social behaviors engaged. Created presentations to communicate research at present at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research.
LEADERSHIP National Organization of Minority Architecture Students
Co-President | Vice-President | Secretary | Ames, IA | May 2021 - Present Initiated engaging chapter goals and actionable plans to accomplish them. Facilitated and led interactive chapter meetings. Organized guest speakers and professional development opportunities. Collaborated with professional and student organizations to host large scale events including firm crawls, portfolio reviews, and guest speakers.
Iowa State University Department of Residence
Resident Advisor | Ames, IA | August 2020 - January 2023 Established a safe and welcoming living environment for residents. Strategized events for over 1,000 residents on topics ranging from wellness, academics, and diversity. Mentored first and second-year students in social and academic settings.
ACTIVITIES Lobitos for Care Dean Design Charette Barbara G. Laurie Student Design Competition DATUM Student Journal National Organization of Minority Architecture Students Multicultural Vision Program University Honors Program Iowa State University Rome Program Des Moines Intern Connection Program American Institute of Architecture Students City Leisure and Play Undergraduate Research National Conference on Undergraduate Research Habitat for Humanity Presidential Leadership Class Iowa Asian Alliance American Heart Association
October 2023 2022, 2023 2023 - Present 2021 - Present 2019 - Present 2019 - Present Spring 2023 May 2022 2020 - 2021 2020 - 2021 May 2021 2019-2020 Fall 2019 2017-2019 2016-2019