Architecture Portfolio
Arthur Wang
Arthur Wang
arthurjwwang@gmail.com 540-750-1684
age: 20
EDUCATION
Virginia Tech | Bachelor of Architecture (Junior Year) | 2014-2020 (expected graduation)
EXPERIENCE
FutureHAUS | Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 | Design and build project focused on modern modules living, incorporating technology into all aspects of this everyday living space. Responsible for research, design, shop drawings and the building process. Solar Decathlon | Jan 2017 - Present | International Competition on design-build, net-zero energy housing. Focused on developing net-zero modular housing units to exhibit and compete in Dubai. Responsible for researching in efficient building design, renewable energy, sustainability and smart home technology. Also responsible for devloping design, shop drawings and the building process. Soup Garden | Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 | serve customers.
Mix salad, manage inventory and
COMPETITION
Third Year Competition | Honorable Mention | Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art
COMPUTER SKILLS
Revit 2D/3D | AutoCAD | Rhinoceros/massing in Revit | SketchUp Adobe: Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign Microsoft Office
LANGUAGE
English - fluent | Chinese - native speaker
HONORS / MEMBERSHIP INTERESTS
REFERENCES
Memeber of The Society for Collegiate Leadership & Achievement | 2015-2016 Dean’s List | 2014-1016 Member of AIAS | 2016-1017 graphic design | music production | screen printing | sketching | skateboarding Aki Ishida | Studio Professor aishida@vt.edu Clive Vorster | Studio Professor cvorster@vt.edu
Bobby Vance | Project Manager for FutureHAUS bobruns@vt.edu
Table of Content
Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art
CLT Structure Apartment
Pizzeria
Ecuador Disaster Relief Housing
Garden Club
Light Passage Sculpture
Sleep Institute
Institute For The Preservation of Performance Art
The project is loated at the backbay area of Boston, MA, funtioning as an institute to preserve performance art. The idea of the project is to set up the top floors as a double height maze, and the performers could be able to perform at wherever they like inside the maze. Performance could also take place on the top platform above the curved walls. The design of the building greatly considered integration into the surrounding site. The egress is intended to function as both an approach to the maze and an atrium to access day light.
Level 2
Reception / Office
Meeting Room / Storage
Level 3
Maze Level
Level 4
Performance Platform
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Level 1
The project is located in downtown Brooklyn Newyork, focused on using CLT wooden panels as the main structural system. The designe of the apartment complex aimed mainly on structural integrity and circulation. The designed process evolved around daylighiting, circulation and structural design with consideration of plumbing and electricity.
CLT Structure Apartment
- Luxury Urban Living
The site is adjacent to four similar apartment complexes. The parking lot of the apartment building is integrated with the parking lots of the four other apartments. The design of the parking lot also featured a big lightwell with bridges spanning on top. Sufficient access to sunlight allows plants to grow in the underground parking lot.
Section Oblique - view from northeast
South Elevation
East Elevation
North Elevation
Oblique Exploaded - Structure and Facade
The sturcture of the apartment building is a combination of timber beams and CLT panels. Structural CLT was chosen because it is fast to assemble, structurally stable, has great fireproofing abilities and also yields a warm sense to the occupants in the interior. The street level of the apartment complex is open to the public. Walk ways penetrate the structural walls on the north - south direction, leaving arched openings in the CLT walls covered in bricks as a facade material. People could be able to socialize in the public area, and the four apartment units are lofted above the street.
Southfacing Apartment - Dinning Space
Southfacing Apartment - Living Room
Level 2/4
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Level 3/5
The apartment complex consist of four individual apartments, each as a two stories apartment. The two apartments facing south also featured a double height dinning space, allowing daylight to reach deeper in to the interior. The wall which divides the belconies of the two apartments is rotated to allow morning sun to penetrate into the bedroom on the north side of the building, at the same time reflect sunlight during daytime deeper into the second floor living room. The strategy aimed at reducing glare and minimizing solar heat gain.
Street Level - view from northwest
Street Level - view from southwest
Pizzeria
The site of the pizzeria is in Blacksburg, Virginia, on the East side of Virginia Tech’s Campus. The design is inteded to correspond with the Moss Art Center which is across from the street. Facing the entrance of the art center, the pizzeria attracts costomers with its appealing exterior appearance and tasty wood baked pizzas. The design is a bold attempt with colors on both the exterior and interior, aiming to generate a welcoming and easy setting for the customers. The pizzeria featured a kitchen with two wood fired hearth which appears to be the icon of the restaurant.
view from southeast
East Elevation
Floor Plan
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E - W section
Exterior - view from northwest
Interior - view from southeast
Ecuador Community Living - Disaster Relieve Housing Homes are very modest in size and the basic unit begins with roughly a 6 meter by 6 meter foot print and between 36 to 40 square meters. The scale of this need has been overwhelming and a great concern of the government. The focus has always been on the basic home model and then placing that model at large scale numbers in a grouped community.
In April 2016, Ecuador was struck by a devstating 7.8 magnitude quake. The need for housing amongst the low income group became even more urgent. Scores of new homeless were created due to the disaste.
Ecuador brings out its dead as death toll from devastating 7.8 earthquake hits 272 - and government reveals more than 150 prisoners are on loose after fleeing jail.
The quake, Ecuador’s worst in decades, destroyed or damaged about 1,500 buildings, triggered mudslides and le some 20,500 people sleeping in shelters, according to the government.
In 2001, there were about 3,456,103 housing units in the country. About 72% of all housing units were detached, single-family homes, 9% were apartments, and 4% were ranchos or covachas, dwellings of wood, stone, or brick covered with palm leaves, straw or other vegetation.
Temporary housings are made to accomodate families up to 8 people. Including plumbing and a kitchen. These houses work well but are only temporary and does not accomodate the community type of living between families and generations.
In poor families, even small children can be seen selling candy on the streets. A bus full of passengers can be a captive audience for a young man trying to sell a product. Families will work together to cultivate and harvest their elds. Communities work together to clean and better their neighborhoods.
Family and kin constituted the most enduring and es- teemed institutions in the country’s social fabric. Both Indi- an and Hispanic traditions emphasized the family; indeed, few alternative institutions competed for an individual’s loyalty.
The Climate of Ecuador varies by region, due to differences in altitude and, to a degree, in proximity to the equator. The coastal lowlands in the western part of Ecuador are typically warm with temperatures in the regions of 25 °C (77 °F).
The weather in Quito is consistent wiht that of a subtropical highland climate. The city has barely any cool air since it is close to the equator. The average temperature during the day is 19 °C (66 °F).
TYPE 1 Each housing unit is a combition of four single units with two on the south side and two on the north side. Each side shares a public kitchen and living room unit. The two sides faces each other and are connected with a bridge structure. In Ecuador culture, family usually gather together in a very big table and have lunch together. The bridge structure courtyard create a great gathering area. However, the strategy does not provide much modification freedom in reponse to different family sizes. `
TYPE 2 This strategy highlights the modification freedom of differnt family types. Single modules can be connected together or disconnected by implementing locks on the connecting corridors. Smaller family could accomodate a single module or two connected modules. Bigger family could occupy an entire floor (four modules connected together). The shortcome of this design is that the circulation takes up a lot of space. Also, the kitchen and gathering spaces might not function ideally due to the lack of spatial variations.
TYPE 3 This strategy is a combination for type 1 and 2. Each module consists of three shifted units. Each unit consists of eight bedroom units (brown), a shared kitchen (green), and a living room / dinning space (blue). The shifted units are connected with a bridge structure surrounding the units, providing gathering and dinning area between units. The strategy could effectively accomodate different family types and sizes, at the same time provide an affordable solution to infrastructure.
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The form and orientation of the building is generated through solar simulation of different seasons of the year. The three unit of a module are shifted to allow wind to pass through between the units. Summer wind could be able to sweep through the connecting bridge area of the second floor, bringing cool breezes to the outdoor dinning areas.
Circulation Map
The kitchen area decended three feet from the second floor, serving as the core area of the surrounding eight bedroom units. This also allowed a gap between the living room and the kitchen, yielding a sense of spacial connection.
second floor bridge and outdoor dinning area
Interior - kitchen
Roanoke Garden Club
This is a building dedicated to horticulture enthusiasts and their community in the Roanoke region. The building will not only house their meetings and gardens but also a place in which the local community can come learn about plants and socialize. The main idea of the project is to create a secluded area within an urban setting to provide horticulture entusiasitics with an “oasis�. An inventive green facade is used to hold pots of plants on a network of metal frame. Structure of the building is embraced inside the green facade, evoking the sense of lightness of the plants.
view form southwest
view from northeast
Light Passage Sculpture
The project is a sculpture which studies the quality of sunlight that passes through it. The design of the sculpture is intended to be layers of poured concrete, forming various perpendicular surfaces inside the light tunnel, creating an interesting light reflecting effect.
The project is located on E. 49 St, 3rd Ave in New York City. The building is intended to provide a quiet and comfortable space for scientists to study the sleeping cycles of volunteers. The sleep institute provided not only rooms for the volunteers and scientists, but also spaces for the public to visit the insitute and learn about human’s sleeping cycles.
Sleep Institute
The main goal of the design is to provide efficient natural lighting inside the building, at the same time create an excellent sound barrier between the inside and the outside. ETFE membrane became the ideal choice of the building envelope, and the design evolved into a building within an ETFE inflated shell which provides efficient daylight, insulation, and noise cancellation.
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5 1 - Transparent Hallway
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2 - Guest Sleeping Room 2
3 - Observation and Research Room 4 - Reading Room / Social Space
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5 - North Facing Atrium 6 - South Facing Atrium
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7 - ETFE Membrane Structure
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