Monica Tong's Portfolio

Monica TongUNDERGRADUATE PORTFOLIO

MONICA TONGArchitecture

Education

Work Experience

Leadership

Skills

Interests

Adobe InDesignAdobe PhotoshopAdobe IllustratorAdobe LightroomAutoDesk RevitRhinocerosVRay for RhinoAutoCAD 3DS MaxMasterCAM/VisualMillArcGISEcoTect AnalysisFinal Cut ProHtml

LasercuttingMilling3D printingModelingRenderingDrawing/SketchingWatercolorDigital PhotographyAnalog Photogrpahy+

photographyillustrationgraphic designmovies

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Carnegie Mellon UniversityBA in Architecture Graduated May 2014 | Pittsburgh, PA

Carnegie Museum of Art | The Art Connection TeacherSeptember 2013 - May 2014 | Pittsburgh, PATaught elementary school students how to conceptualize and produce art of their own; Skills such as painting, sculpting, printmaking, drawing, etc.

Architecture Explorations | TeacherAugust 2011- May 2012 | Pittsburgh, PAMade lessons plans for teaching basic foundations of architectural spacial understanding and making. Taught middle school and high school kids on model mkaing, spatial understanding, and presentation.

Liberty in North Korea | Design ChairAugust 2010 - May 2014 | Pittsburgh, PAdesigned posters flyers and postcards for events, design tshirts and interactive media that helped promote awareness

Asian Student Association | BoothDecember 2009 - April 2010 | Pittsburgh, PAspecifically focused on the fountain construction, design, and execution for the ASA booth. Helped execute aesthetic design and plans.

School of Architecture (CMU) | Graduate Office AssistantJune 2012 - May 2013 | Pittsburgh, PAundertook general office duties and handling phone calls, helped designpostcards and fliers for departmental events

Eugene Bell Foundation | Graphic DesignerJune 2012 - July 2012 | Pittsburgh, PAworked with foundation to help make promotional print advertisements and posters for events hosted in Pittsburgh

School of Design (CMU) | Research June 2012 - August 2012 | Pittsburgh, PAWorked with a team, CMU design department, and Sojourner House in publish-ing a photo essay book documenting the stories of the program attendees

Pittsburgh International FIlm Festival | Event DesignerAugust 2011 - December 2011 | Pittsburgh, PAworked with promoting awareness about the North Korean human rights situation, designed promotional movie poster and postcards for selected film

School of Architecture (CMU) | Architecture Office Assistant August 2010 - August 2013 | Pittsburgh, PAdesigned various posters, flyers, and postcards for events, undertook general office duties and handled phone calls, worked with a wide range of faculty throughout the architecture deparment

Tourbillon Alliance Partners | Graphic Design InternJune 2014 - Present | Pittsburgh, PAAssisted in graphic design and visual layout producing of print media as well as producing graphics for social media; redesigned and revamped company website

Tourbillonalliance.comTourbillon Alliance Partners - Graphic Design Intern

East Liberty Market HallCarnegie Mellon Architectural Design Studio Advanced Construction

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Theater for a New Audience Carnegie Mellon Drama + Architecture Collaborative Studio

Willing to Change... Photo-EssaysCarnegie Mellon Design + Sojourner House Foundation

Connect UPtownCarnegie Mellon Architecture + Action Housing Uptown

Harvard SquareCarnegie Mellon Architectural Design Studio Material Tectonics

Surreal lifeCarnegie Mellon Black & White FIlm Photography

TruthCarnegie Mellon Digital Photography

Book BindingCarnegie Mellon Letter Press Lab

Resume

TOURBILLON ALLIANCE PARTNERS

This project was completed the Summer of 2014 as a Graphic Design Intern at Tourbillon Alliance Partners. Working with the company as well

as some other interns, we worked together to completely rebrand, rethink, and redesign the company’s existing website. I worked with HTML,

wordpress, as well as looking to making better information graphics,overall and layout for the whole website.

Website address: www.tourbillonalliance.com

ADDTIONAL SERVICES REDESIGN

HOME PAGE REDESIGN

METHODOLOGY INTERACTIVE SLIDER

ABOUT US REDESIGN

PRDUCTS AND SERVICES REDESIGN

THEATER FOR A NEW AUDIECNESituated in a corner of Bostons bustling theater distract the theater for

a new audience is partioned and exposed showing different studios pushed out of the membrance right up to the sidewalk. Passerby can experience and see everything up to practices and the performances themselves. Colored flooring hit with direct sunlight help to make the

whole buidling itself glow out. .

STUDIOPERFORMANCE/GALLERY

OFFICEPRIVATE INSTRUCTION

LOUNGE

PROGRAM DISTRIBUTION

EAST LIBERTY MARKET HALL

The cell-like parti illustrates the fluidity of movement through this large commercial structure. This site’s opportune location at a bustling intersection in East Liberty, Pittsburgh, nearby a pulic transportation hub, acommodates thousands who arrive

from many directions. The form of the main market hall yawns outward from the urban towards the people exiting buses and

parking lots to accept them into its unencombered belly.

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SECOND FLOOR PLAN

HARVARD SQUARE

In this project we looked at how we could replace the old existing newstand and incoporate a new media center as well as make changes

to existing elements already there in hopes of revitalizing the site. Our group specifically looked at sound and how we could use it as a media

transferring device. With the aid of our component that was deisnged with sound retaining qualities in mind we implemented it throughout

the site to make up the walls of a new media center, media projection surfaces, as well as the back wall of the performance pit. Depending on the placement and angle of component one can control the sound that

transfers through to the other side. At times sound can be contained, reverberated back towards the audience, or subtly leaked out to

passerbys to pique their interest in the media.

SOUND DIAGRAM

PROPOSED SITE PLAN

CIRCULATION DENSITY

SUBWAY CROSS SECTIONAL DAWING

SITE CONTEXT

HARVARD SQUARE

HARVARD CAMPUS

TRANSVERSE SITE SECTIONAL DRAWING

URBAN CONTEXT SITE VIEWS

FINAL COMPONENT

COMPONENT STUDY MODELS

CONNECT UPTOWN

Pittsburgh’s Uptown, formerly known as Soho, has been declining for many years, but hopefully will begin anew under a variety of rejuvenation

projects. To focus of the project is 2024 Fifth Ave. Located in the LNC zoning of Uptown. The zoning code gives the opportunity to provide a

mixed use building directly on a main road of the area. The first floor of the buidling will be commercial providing office, retail, or specialty goods

spaces. The remiaing two floors and basement will be renovated into a single family home. Commercial and economic growth coupled with a

greater living environment will help to foster a greater sense of commuity between residents and businesses in the area. Connecting the existing community together first to help further connect it back into the Greater

Pittsburgh Area.

Link to full publication: http://issuu.com/monicatong/docs/connect_uptown

Strengthen residential core Bring new amenities Branch out to other neighborhoods

UPTOWN IN 3 DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES

OAKLAND

UPTOWN

DOWNTOWN

Strengthen Residential Core Bring New Amenities Branch to Other Neighborhoods

OAKLAND

UPTOWN

DOWNTOWN

Strengthen Residential Core Bring New Amenities Branch to Other Neighborhoods

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Rooftop Patio Level

Ground Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Backyard Exetioer Perspective line drawing. View is from Watson Street looking onto the house. .

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5. Remove lower portion of facade. Bricks will be cleaned of mortar for reuse on both the front and rear construction.6. Construct shoring on first floor to hold up facade.

7. Insert 12” steel lintel to support remaining facade.8. Regrade sidewalk to make room for new entry and removal of floor plates.9. Remove existing floor plate and walls for reconstruction. Keep support column system in basement with additional supports until new walls are in place.

10. Construct new floor plates for multi level Commercial Space out of 2x12 Lumber.11. Reconstruct portion of facade and interior walls out of reused bricks to designate residential entry.12. Construct entry hallway and new staircase to adjusted floor height.

13. Construct aluminum framing for set back shop window14. Insert 1” glazing and new commercial point of entry15. Place residential front door

16. Install sun shading system along edge of commercial store front. 2” x 2” aluminum channel for 1 x 4 wood planks to be bolted to.17. Pour concrete ramp at a 1-12 slope leading to commerical entry for handicap accessibility.

WILLING TO CHANGE ...

Willing to Change is a photo-essay book on the lives on these mothers struggling with overcoming their addictions

to any type of substance abuse. Partnering with the Sojourner House Foundation in Pittsburgh we tell their

stories of their lives, struggles, triumphs, and family life.

Direct Link to Publication: http://issuu.com/monicatong/docs/sojournerhouse_willingtochange

NICHELLE AND HER SON JAYDEN

SURREAL LIFE

Through the camera viewfinder I focus on finding people and their interactions with one another and their surroundings. During production and printing

however I start to decontextualize the subjects. I shoot with Ilford HP5 and shoot not only by pushing the film to ISO 1600, but also by developing

with HC110. This enables all the photographs to have a very high contrast and make the core subject stand out superimposed onto the background. Similar to how one would make architectural renders and then photoshop back in scale figures, I’m creating scenes as well, but all with in the same photograph. Using this I start to piece together different photos to make a

continuous panoramas and dyptchs with people and their different situations. I’m decontextualizing, taking them out of their interactions and surro

TRUTHAn exercise in telling a photo narrative when assigned a song. The

narrative is about a passive nostalgia that happens throughout the day Remniscing and accepting the fact that you will not be able to share

exactly the way you experience the world. A coming of age realization, to a bigger picture about the complexity of human emotions and

relationships- but letting all of that behind and continuing on with life.

BOOK BINDING An exercise in learning how to saddle stitch sew as well as make books,

and book boxes. An example of high precision and craft making

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