Ms. Gong's experience covers a broad range of building types, and she plays a key role in directing the design process, leading teams throughout the entire project, from inception of design through construction and occupancy. Ms. Gong's recent projects include Carnegie Mellon University's Collaborative Innovation Center, a sustainable office/laboratory building and parking structure, located in Junction Hollow between the University and the Carnegie Museum, the Pittsburgh Glass Center, a renovation of an existing vacant structure into a glass arts teaching and studio facility, for which she is in the process of documenting the project for LEED certification, a new mixed-use retail and office building at the Southside Works, and the design of mixed-use development on Bedford Square, including multi-unit housing, retail spaces, and an enclosed parking structure within a historic district and dense, urban context. In addition to her work with dggp Architecture, Ms. Gong recently participated in a community activity with the Uptown Community Action Group and the children at the Jubilee Soup Kitchen after-school program, extending a relationship that she established during a year-long Urban Design Studio at Carnegie Mellon University . Her community activities also include teaching Pre-School Fire Safety with the American Red Cross, and empowering Chinese American citizens through voter registration with the Chinatown Voter Education Alliance in New York. |