AUDREY WANG PORTFOLIO
CONTENT
1. Amalgamate: Senior Thesis Project
2. Kikuo Saito: Museum/ Theater/ Artist & Residence
3.Toren: Residential
4. Venus: Modular ACT tiles for Museum
5. Internship Group Competition: Observatory Housing
AMALGAMATE (senior thesis project)
Contemporary design often excludes or designs for elderly alone which can contribute to their isolation. Universal Design principles can break down ageist boundaries and inform environments beneficial to all. Through investigations of spatial and material intersections, this project redefines cohousing and nightclub as spaces for people of all ages.
CUP: LI DY D
Concept sketches
FINAL DESIGN
SCALE: 1-0”=1’-0” TOP VIEW
SCALE: 1-0”=1’-0” ELEVATION
SCALE: 1-0”=1’-0” SECTION
The shape of the glass is based off the shape and size of a typical hand. The glass is best fit within the palm with two fingers, thumb and 4th finger along the frosted band with the index finger used to turn the cap.
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ALIGNED
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ROTATING
OFFSET
Frosted bottom is illuminated through a small light. The illuminated glass bottom can be used as a flashlight for those who have difficulties seeingg bar menus but can also just be for aesthetics for those who don’t need it (duel purposed).
Easily accessible: opening & closing
Illuminated bottom
ROOM PROJECT: BOOTH
SPACIAL APPLICATION OF CUP
Combined Seating
16” Seating
24” Seating
Seating
Leaning and Bar table
Standing
SITE INFO: 450 W 14TH ST.
Meatpacking Plant Renovation
Meatpacking Plant
1938
1980
Building the Highline
GRAPHING EXISTING ELDERLY FACILITIES
2011
2011
New added HighLine Building above exisitng building
GRAPHING TRANSPORTATION ROUTES
366 in various locations, this is their office location
20-50 elderly living
20-50 elderly living
460 West 14th Street Manhattan
Transportaion/ Train Stations
Bus/
Elderly Facility
Ve h i c u l a r / Pe d e s t r i a n Circulation
Main/Focal Streets
ONLY Pedestrian Circulation
Side Alternative Circulation
ANALYSIS OF CIRCULATION: EXTERIOR
Exterior Vertical Circulation
Building and HIghline connection
Street entryway
ISOMETRIC DIAGRAM: 450 W 14TH ST. diagram showing how the first and third floor are connected as well as the potentional for the people passing on the Highline to see activities below and be attacted in. The buffer between the first and third floor allows for the people living above not to worry about the sounds from below.
3RD FLOOR: 15 FT
HIGHLINE: 28 FT
GROUND/ STREET LEVEL
CIRCULATION EXISTING ELEVATIONAL CONDITIONS
DJ BOOTH
DANCE FLOOR
LOUNGE
BAR TABLES BAR
RESTROOM CAFE SEATING CAFE
FLOORPLAN: 1ST FLOOR, LOBBY/ NIGHTCLUB
COAT RECEPTION DESK
BED ROOM
BATHROOM PANTRY LIVING ROOM/ KICTHEN ELEVATOR WAITING AREA
FLOORPLAN: 3RD FLOOR, INTERGENERATIONAL LIVING
COMMON LOUNGE
RESTROOM
ENTRY WAY
BAR TABLES
DANCE FLOOR
CAFE SEATING
BAR & BATHROOM PASSAGEWAY
SHARED KITCHEN
BATHROOM
BEDROOM
COMMON LOUNGE
DJ BOOTH & DANCE FLOOR
KIKUO SAITO
(performance center/ gallery/ artist & residence)
My design concept derives from Kikuo Saito’s painting Persian Hat. From the painting I recognized that there was an overlap of information from still to movement. Seeing the painting as a whole vs the moving components of the play throughout the page. This influenced the concept of tension between visually seeing verses the actual circulation of the space. Throughout the space, adjacent rooms sit next or ontop of one another, with clear glass eniterly through the space. This allows for the layering of each program, and the discovering of each component when circulating the space. The person experiencing the space must feel the tension of the showcase moments of theather or artist and residence, but not being able to reach the end goal until they circulate through the entire space. There is a sense of knowing but indiviual discovery through circulating the space. The space creates a contrast between the stillness of each individual program but movement & sweeping of circulation.
CAFE/ MIDDLE GALLERY
PRECEDENT STUDIES
NUDE #4 2012
NUDE #3 2012
NUDE #8 2012
NUDE #1 2012
The photographs by Shinichi Maruyama layers movement of a performance dancer into one photo. Each image combines 10,000 individual frames snapped while dancers perform meticulously choreographed gestures. The result straddles the line between sculpture and performance art. “I tried to express the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion as well as the concept of time.”
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Bathroom
Office
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Artist & Residence
Gallery
Artist & Residence
Gallery
Cafe Woodshop
Classroom
3
Entrance Gallery
Reception
Theater
Stage
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
DESIGN LANGUAGE
ARTISIT & RESIDENCE ROOM
Cafe Auditorium
Auditorium Cafe Building
Gallery Gallery Ga Gallery
Design Diagrams of the overlapping of programs. Each moment the viewer is able to see at least two programs at once. Diagrams of adjacent programs.
SECTION 1
SECTION 2
SECTION 3
GLASS DETAILING This is a detail on the connection of glass within the ceiling ot the floor. I want to indicate the materials working to secure large slabs of the glass in place as well as the finished floors and ceilings working flushed against the glass, creating a seamless quality to the glass installed.
THEATER
GALLERY SPACE
TOREN
(multigenerational urban dwelling)
The dwelling concept is based on the interpolation of framed elements that are shared/active and enclosed elements that are private. This concept was informed by the investigation into the reupholstery methods used to overlap either the structural framework inserted within the enclosed foam or fabric or the solid surface inserted into the void framed components. Based on important program adjacency an overlap is created. Where the overlap occurs the enclosed solid spaces opens up to the shared framed space. The transition of the framed or solid space creates an opening which increases visual communication into the larger, more activated, common space. The enclosed elements create rooms while in contrast the frames act as boundaries for inserted shelves or hangers for clothes or hanging furniture.
SPACE WITHIN A SPACE The idea of space within a space allows for a shifting of solid to void, and can be interpreted as slotting, interting, or patching.
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2
FIRST FLOOR FURNISHED PLAN
DINING ROOM
SECOND FLOOR FURNISHED PLAN
1.
PRIVATE
OPEN/SHARED
2. PRIVATE
OPEN/SHARED
PRIVATE
3. PRIVATE
OPEN/SHARED OPEN/SHARED
RENDERED SECTION 1
PLAYROOM
RENDERED SECTION 2
VISUAL COMMUNICATION
visability to child’s room COMMON CIRCULATION
visability to shared child’s playroom
Through the spacial models, spatial taxonomies were used and implemented in order to create three variation of design language used in various locations. Through these taxonomies, program adjacencies were used to locate the location in which these taxonomies would appear. Then finally the change between solid, void in relation to rooms and shared space.
KITCHEN/ STAIRS
KITCHEN/ BEDROOM PASSAGEWAY
Examples of slotting and inserting at a more tangible scale, from the bookshelf dual fuctioning as a shelf and tread to the overlap of the kitchen sink to the bar table.
VENUS
(modular ACT tile)
The folding of paper helps to represent the scalloping of the shell. It’s purity, delecacy, and beauty. The cycle and repetition helps to be a reminder of who Venus is. Though sometimes thought of as erotic, and having a dark side, she also is seen as the mother. One who gives life and this continuous cycle or new life, as well as even her own cycle or falling for humans, for the brave, and bring ing herself to a human level. There’s something mesmerising in her actions and the complexity of her various personalities.
PLAN
LED mounted to upper ceiling
Lighting spine is to be located along the most opaque layer in each tile, following the curve of the tile. This will create strong contrast between the “froth� and the despersing waves. LED strips will be inserted into spine which allows for easy removal of lighting when needed.
LED track pattern Tile
1 Tile
OBSERVATORY HOUSING (internship group project)
Discovery - Time - Network. Three simple words that drove and defined our project. We used the stars to guide us to discovery, the same way it’s been done for thousands of years.. This led us to incorporate the idea of discovery into our resort, and create a fully immersive experience for the end user. Next was the concept of time, and it’s role in the viewing of constellations as the earth rotates. During our study of the constellations we were inspired by the networks and connections of these stars, and used a similar idea to create a fully immersive, interconnected star gazing experience .
The stars as our guide. After researching how constellations change due to the rotation of the earth on a timed schedule. We identified the largest stars of specific constellations on the longest night of the year, the winter solstice, and aligned them with our resort. Since constellations appear on a timed schedule on the night of the winter solstice all the stars align with the resort at that time.Don’t worry though, the resort offers epic observing,and a mesmerizing experience for curious visitors throughout the year.
TION MAP
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SKY LOUNGE
HOUSE X 2
CABIN X 5
APARTMENT X 3
VILLA X 1
RECEPTION 50 sqm.
LIVING 20 sqm.
LIVING 5 sqm.
LIVING 20 sqm.
LIVING 10 sqm.
RESTROOM 50 sqm.
RESTROOM 10 sqm.
RESTROOM 4 sqm.
RESTROOM 10 sqm.
RESTROOM 15 sqm.
BOOKSHOP 150 sqm.
BEDROOM 30 sqm.
BEDROOM 10 sqm.
BEDROOM 20 sqm.
BEDROOM 40 sqm.
CAFE 150 sqm.
KITCHEN 10 sqm.
KITCHEN 10 sqm.
KITCHEN 10 sqm.
DIDACTIC OBSERVATORY 300 sqm.
WENESS AREA 10 sqm.
WENESS AREA 10 sqm. MEDITATION AREA 10 sqm. GAMING 10 sqm.
PEOPLE CIRCULATION
REGULUS OBSERVATORY CABIN - 5 MAIN ROOMS
SPICA OBSERVATORY HOUSE - 3 MAIN ROOMS
PROCYON ACTIVITY - 2 MAIN ROOMS
ARCTURUS SKY LOUNGE - 2 MAIN ROOMS
NEW CIRCULATION OF PEOPLE EXISTING PEOPLE CIRCULATION
SPICA ARCTURUS VEGA
LARGEST STARS ON THE LONGEST NIGHT MAP OF STARS CONSTELLATION
CAPELLA
VEGA
OBSERVATORY APARTMENT - 4 MAIN ROOMS
OBSERVATORY VILLA - 1 MAIN ROOM
DISTANCE OF SURRONDING STARS TO LARGEST STARS
NORTHERN STAR HOTSPOT STARS PATHWAY
ELEVATIONS
ARCTURUS SKYLOUNGE
ELEVATIONS
SITE PLAN
The shape of space. We took our chosen constellations and then explored them in 3D space. These stars acted as nodes and created volumetric forms, which were then as a starting point for our structures and drove the architecture.
PLANS
PLANS
REGULUS OBSERVATORY CABINS
Observatory Houses Competition / 2017
Observatory Houses Competition / 2017
CAPELLA OBSERVATORY APARTMENTS
servatory Houses Competition / 2017
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VEGA
SPICA
CAPELLA
REGULUS
OBSERVATORY VILLA
OBSERVATORY HOUSES
OBSERVATORY APARTMENTS
OBSERVATORY CABINS
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SPICA OBSERVATORY HOUSES
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ARCTURUS SKYLOUNGE
A journey through the stars. The idea of the constellations network was incorporated into the layout of each space. It was also used to create a journey for the guest as they made the procession towards the castle. This journey itself is an interactive experience and which provides various points of discoveries along the way.
VEGA OBSERVATORY VILLA
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VEGA: OBSERVATORY VILLA POOL
RENDERS
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Use what the sky provides. With extensive amount of rain on the castle every year we designed the structures to capture and harvest the rain water. This in turned created forms that used breezes to passively ventilate each space. In order to re-duce the amount of light pollution, to maximize the star gazers ability to see, we controlled all lighting to be focused directly toward the ground.
REQULUS: OBSERVATORY CABIN
Observatory Houses Competition / 2017