PORTFOLIO CONGQI WANG
SELECTED WORKS 2014-2019
Congqi Wang
3601 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (1)267-315-9532 丨 congqi@upenn.edu
Education
University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Design- Environmental Building Design (Expected) Central South University (CSU) Bachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.82/4.0 Rank: 5/35 Design Courses Rank: 2/35 12.2017 12.2017 10.2017 12.2016 09.2016 09.2015
Honorary Title of Excellent Student National Encouragement Scholarship University Scholarship of CSU, First Prize Honorary Title of Excellent Student University Scholarship of CSU, Second Prize University Scholarship of CSU, Third Prize
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 08.2019-Now Changsha, China 09.2014-06.2019
Competition 07.2017
2017 Times Grain National College Students Sustainable Architectural Design Competition Finalist Project: Rural Living Room Team Leader, Schematic Design 12.2016 2016 UA Creation Award & International Concept Design Competition (UACA&ICDC) Project: Rural Architecture in UA City Team Member, Analysis Diagram Drawing 10.2016
2016 National Green Building Design Competition Project: Frost with Summer Green Team Leader, Schematic Design
Third Prize
Academic Experience 11.2017 Thesis: Analysis about the era significance of Beijing Courtyard Style and Its renovation Accepted by Urban Construction Theory Research No.33 (2017): 82
Author
10.2017 Thesis: Regionalism of Traditional Residence reflected in a Historic Village of Hunan Province Accepted by Interior Design China No.22 (2017): 137 Author 07.2017-08.2017 Hunan Provincial Institute of Culture Relics and archaeology Summer Intern, Ancient Building Surveying/Mapping
Internship
06.2017-07.2017 Surveying and Mapping Practice of Ancient Buildings in Historic Village, Hunan Province Team Member, Surveying/Mapping
Internship
07.2016-08.2016 Cognition Survey of City and Architecture in Chongqing, Chengdu Team Member, Recording/Photography
Internship
Proficiency Language Mandarin/ English TOEFL 104 (Reading 29/Listening 27/Speaking 24/Writing 24) GRE 319 (Verbal 151/Quantitative 168/ Analytical Writing 4.0) Professional Skills Rhino/Grasshopper/Revit/Vray for Rhino Next/PhotoShop/ Illustrator/ Auto CAD/ Sketch Up/ Indesign/ Q GIS/Physical Model
[ CO NT E NT ] 01 [SPACE DIVIDED BY ARCH STRUCTURE] Coffee Bar in Greater Philadelphia
02 [FAR BEYOND THE BRIDGE] Rural Activity Center Design
03 [ RESONANCE WITH TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE] Aizhai Town Tourist Service Center
04 [INCOMPLETE WALLS]
A House Designing for an Artist with a Cat and a Dog
05 [STATIC TORSION]
Campus Shared Performance Theatre Design
06 [COMPLEMENTARY WORK] Suspended Cable-arch Structure
07 [OTHER WORK]
Climbing Entertainment Design Building Performance Simulation Design Youth Single Apartment Design Survey of Ancient Buildings in Southern Hunan Hand Painted Watercolor Copy
01 [SPACE DIVIDED BY ARCH STRUCTURE] Coffee Bar in Greater Philadelphia
Academic Project: Coffeen Bar Design for Social Place Individual Work Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Tutor: Mingjing Xie, Ying Song Date: 07, May.2018-09, Aug.2018
In the Philadelphia area, there are many historical and cultural buildings with arch rings as the basic structural system. Meanwhile, residents enjoy their coffee on their commutes, during business meetings, and while reading and meditating. Arch is an ancient structural system bearing memorial significance. The arch itself is a part of the spatial order of the building. Under such conditions, the design attempts to use arch as the basic formal language to create a social place for the citizens of Philadelphia to relax, business, meditate and even bathe in the sun. Coffee is a culture. The word "coffee" comes from the Greek Kaweh, meaning "strength and passion." Everyday coffee is made from coffee beans with different cooking utensils. Coffee beans refer to the nuts inside the fruit of coffee plants, which are roasted with appropriate roasting methods. Coffee is becoming more and more popular around the world. The resulting "coffee culture" fills every moment of life. Whether at home, in the office, or in various social occasions, people are enjoying coffee, which is increasingly associated with fashion and modern life. In this "instant" era, coffee brings us, not only flavor, we want, is a feeling, we will be crazy immersed in that feeling. Maybe it's just a small door on a street corner, maybe the coffee is not that good to drink, but, we are infatuated with the air, light, sound there, forget the time to immerse in there, in a group of people like themselves, maybe continue a person, but we all know. Men, women, cheerful, melancholy, a group, sitting alone, smoking, drinking strong coffee, or no coffee at all. We find each other by feeling, by staring at the corner of the room or the coffee cup, even if you look out the window, but not necessarily looking at something... I look at you, I know, I'm not like you, I know, I'm not like everybody, the realists come to the cafe, but they don't belong here, and they don't stay until they close and put their chairs on the table. The word "now" never entered the cafe, and all the fanciers found it.
ARCH IN DIFFERENT SCALE DIVIDING SPACES
SPACE LANGUAGE
LOCALLY ARCHED SPACES
Perspective of Parent-Child Space under the Largest Arch
Perspective of Reading & Negotiation Area
1ST FLOOR PLAN
2ND FLOOR PLAN
Perspective of Semi-outdoor Social Space
Perspective of Baking & Catering Area
Perspective of Memorial Space
Perspective of Party Space
3RD FLOOR PLAN
4TH FLOOR PLAN
Secti
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Secti
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02 [FAR BEYOND THE BRIDGE] Rural Activity Center Design in South Hunan
Academic Project: Rural Activity Center Designed for Left-behind Groups Individual Work Location: Yongzhou, Hunan, China Tutor: Ming Luo, Weidong Li Date: 07, Apr.2017-09, Aug.2017
This set of painting shows Chinese life in 12 months. These paintings show very clearly the architecture details, normal people’s daily activities. There is no theme of each painting. However wherever you look at the painting, it seems that special spot is the theme of the whole painting. Currently this set of paintings are in the collection of the Taipei National Palace Museum. The painting is done on silk. Although no author is recorded, it is widely believed that they are done by Tang Dai, Ding Guan Peng, and several other people collectively from Qing Dynasty. To describe the life of the people in twelve months is not entirely based on a story. With the use of complex buildings with perspective concept, the picture space is divided into several different areas, and then a number of representative activities that can be carried out during the month are filled in. This way of dealing with activities in blocks, the whole does not seem to have a particularly clear theme, but no matter where the line of sight has interesting delicate design. The design attempts to combine the traditional farming culture of China's Mesopotamia with social issues through this painting. We will provide more humanistic care for left-behind children and the elderly, who are attracting more and more social attention.
In the traditional Chinese farming civilization, the 24 solar terms are the time axis of agricultural production and the life of farmers. With the change and alternation of solar terms there will be different demands on the spatial form. From this we realize that for agricultural producers, different combinations of space for different time are needed.The problems of "left-behind children" and "left-behind old people" are widespread in developing countries that focus on agricultural production.This design aims to arouse social attention to the issue of "left-behind" through the resonance of the concept of traditional Chinese clan, and at the same time, connect villages with villages through such design, so that left-behind villagers can have more communication and play a role that more than a bridge.
Bridges in traditional water towns not only assume the functions of traffic, but also social and architectural functions.
The canoe is a commonly used tool in the villages of southern Hunan in China.
Waterwheel is an irrigation tool invented by the working people in ancient China. As an important part of China's farming culture, it provides a witness for the study of China's agricultural civilization and history of water conservation.
The stage is a special place for the performance of traditional Chinese operas. The ancient stage in China was basically wooden structure.
SITE: THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE WATER TOWNS IN HUNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA The xiangjiang river is one of the tributaries of the Yangtze river, the birthplace of the two rivers civilization in China. In southern China, in hunan province, along the xiangjiang river, there are tens of thousands of traditional Chinese water towns. These traditional ancient villages gave birth to China's advanced agricultural civilization. But there are some common problems in the development of these villages. The problems of "left-behind children" and "left-behind old people" are quite common. Young people who have the ability to work go out to work, they have made a great contribution to the development of the city. However, the life and mental state of the elderly and children have been adversely affected by the chronic lack of care and communication. This design aims to arouse social attention to the issue of "left-behind" through the resonance of the concept of traditional Chinese clan, and at the same time, connect villages with villages through such design, so that left-behind villagers can have more communication and play a bridge role.
Dashiqiao Village
7km Xiaoshiqiao Village
10km 4km
Shanggantang Village
8km
Jingtouwan Village
6km Baojing Village
Heavy snow
Spring begins
Slight cold
Winter solstice
Great cold
Insects awaken
The rains
Clear and bright
Vernal Equinox
Summer begins
Grain rain
Grain in ear
Grain buds
Slight heat
Autumn begins
Great heat
Summer solstice
White dews
Stopping the heat
Cold dews
Autumn equinox
Winter begins Hoar-frost falls
THE RURAL CALENDAR Light snow
CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY FAMILY GATHERING BUSY FARMING SEASON The ideal proportion of labor force in the total population
EXTRACURRICULAR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY ACTIVITY ANCESTOR WORSHIP
The proportion of labor force in the total population
EDUCATION
HAPPY FARM
READING
BUSY FARMING SEASON EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY
PREPARING FOR THE THE MAEKET-DAY LUNAR CHINESE NEW YEAR IN THIS TOWN
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY EDUCATION
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
During the tiaditional Chinese lunar New Year
Apr
May
Jun
PARENT-CHILDREN INTERACTION
RURAL LABOR
SUMMER VACATION
LEFT-BEHIND COMMUNITY
Jul
Aug
During the summer vacation for the left-behind children
Sep
Oct
Nov
THE CITY CALENDAR
Dec
During the autum harvest when the laborers go back
1 Composite space for market
3 Composite space for happy farm
1 Composite space for market
2 Viewing deck
6 Composite space for extracurricular activities
2 Viewing deck
3 Composite space for happy farm
7 Composite space for education
3 Composite space for happy farm
4 Traditional opera stage 5 Composite space for family gathering
8 Composite space for parent-children interaction
DIFFERENT STATES
The combined form of space will change according to the change of solar terms or seasons in farming civilization, so the shape and function of the plane are different in different time periods on the timeline
The combination of arc-shaped unit space will generate flexible space in different forms, which can be provided for left-behind children to communicate or learn during the summer vacation.
The open and semi-open arc-shaped unit space is combined to produce different spatial patterns of virtual reality, which provides the performance and appreciation space for traditional operas.
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Basic Unit For Usual State
Composite Unit For Left-behind Children
Composite Unit For Left-behind Elderly
Composite Unit For Tourists
Basic Unit For Festival Celebration
Basic Unit For Busy Farming Season
Composite Unit For The Bazaar
Composite Unit For Parent-child Interaction
Composite Unit For Traditional Opera Performance
Composite Unit For The Clan Rally
Composite Unit For Grain Storage
Composite Unit For Harvest Festival
Boards mortise joints Two-story composite wooden frame
Non-loading bearing wall
Roof veneer
Wood panel roof sheathing Wooden grating Beam Wooden bearing frame
Non-loading bearing wall
Spiral stair
Subflooring panel
Vertical timber partition
Bamboo sticks for horizontal connection
Floating auxiliary air carrier Floating bamboo raft structure
Wooden frame mortise and tenon joint
From the perspective of the village to the building, the material and structure are unified with the original village.
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During the traditional Chinese festival, the building provide a place of ente returning rural workers. The clan concept is very strong in rural China. The c of younger generation to th
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ertainment, social networking and reunion for local left-behind groups and children at this together with their parents, grandparents, manifests the awe heir ancestors and tradition.
03 [MEMORY RESTORE]
Design of Aizhai Tourist Service Center Undergraduate Graduation Design: Jishou Aizhai Town Tourist Service and Reception Center Design Individual Work Location: Jishou, Hunan, China Tutor: Mingjing Xie Date: 03, Mar.2019-06, Jun.2019
Aizhai town is located in the west of Jishou city, Hunan province. Aizhai is also a minority community town. The town is surrounded by the southern Hunan folk customs garden, China's first overpass of the Chinese highway wonders also locates here. Aizhai is the central tourism gold line of western Hunan town. The social and cultural environment and living customs in southern Hunan are basically the same, and the residential buildings also adopt the shape and system of the Tianjing style residential buildings suitable for the local characteristics. However, due to the complicated topography of hunan, mountains, hills, basins, rivers and other landforms, nanling is the source and watershed of the xiangjiang river system and the pearl river system, and there are great differences in various natural conditions. Therefore, the local dwellings in southern hunan also showed various forms. We found many irreplaceable elements in numerous residential buildings. The spatial value and architectural meaning of these elements have not changed substantially, and they have their own architectural rules, which are reflected in the plane, which is the type of houses in the early period of traditional farming society. Other complex and diverse buildings are based on this form through different combinations of the form of evolution or transformation. In the design of aizhai tourist service center, homestay and folk museum also use such spatial language. The traditional village texture is endowed with modern significance. In this way, it tries to create a multi-functional tourist service center that integrates homestay, catering, entertainment, homestay culture display, etc.
Diagram of People's Activity in the Site
SECTION 1
SECTION 2
Extracted Spatial Patterns
Extracted Plan Orders
Extracted Spatial Language in Aizhai Traditional Residence
Form of Basic Unit
Three to One Souvenir Store
Two to One Souvenir Store
Four to One Souvenis Store
Extracted Spacial Orders with Shed Roof
Three to One Guesthouse
Two to One Guesthouse
Guesthouse with Atrium
Three to One Experience Room
Section of the Museum
SECTION 3
Viewed from the outside of the site to the entire visitor service center, the homestay monomer, as well as the souvenir shops and commercial pedestrian street, presents an open layout. This strategy create maximum commercial value for the visitor centre. The folk culture museum and the interpretation hall of folk performances are the climax of the whole site layout. This place presents a sales, exhibition and service center integrating commercial pedestrian street, homestay museum, homestay and other functions.
04 [INCOMPLETE WALLS]
A House Designing for an Artist with a Cat and a Dog Academic work: Residential House Design Individual Work
Tutor: Ming Luo, Weidong Li Date: 03, Oct.2018-06, Dec.2018
The starting point of the design comes from the "incomplete wall". The original inspiration came from House N by sou fujimoto. In the design of House N, the nested skin creates a transitional area between the outside and the interior. The house itself consists of three progressive shells nested within each other. The outermost shell covers the entire house, forming a covered semi-interior garden. The second shell encloses the limited space within the covered outdoor space. The third shell produces a smaller internal space. Residents build their lives in the hierarchy of this realm. One might say that the ideal building is an outdoor space that feels like an indoor space and an indoor space that feels like an outdoor space. In nested structures, the inside is always the outside, and vice versa. Similarly, in the design of "incomplete wall", the natural space that penetrates the natural sunlight through the forest and the interior living space create a more hierarchical order relationship. Add more flavor to life for man and his pets.
This is an artist's place of work and life, but also a place to invite the host and friends to gather together. In the residential environment, the studio and house are intended to remain open. All walls are ‘incomplete’. To ensure privacy, open and private Spaces are created by adjusting the "incomplete" state of the walls. Through the change of the height of the missing part of the wall and the adjustment of the parallel or staggered relationship of the wall, the vision can be blocked or opened. In this way, the controling method of the wall has directionally blurred the boundary of the site and formed a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding environment. People who come here can interact, meditate, and even bask in the sun.
The Complete Wall
An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Lower Half
An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Upper Half
An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Middle
A single row of incomplete walls
Double parallel rows of incomplete walls
Section of Multiple Rows of Walls
Incomplete walls of different heights generate relatively open or private spaces through parallel or interlaced morphological relationships.
F1 PLAN
F2 PLAN
Walls with different degrees of 'incomplete' form muti-level spatial forms through multiple parallel or staggered organization.
Perspective of Studio
Perspective of Bedroom
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05 [STATIC TORSION]
Campus Shared Performance Theatre Design Academic work: Campus Theatre Design Individual Work
Tutor: Yu Wang, Weidong Li Date: 03, Mar.2018-06, Jun.2018
The opera house itself can be regarded as an instrument. In the design of the campus cultural interpretation center, the studio USES the horseshoe (u-shaped) space of the classical opera house to effectively meet the acoustic requirements. A variety of reverberation times can satisfy different performance styles from classical to romantic. At the same time, the new design makes every corner of the space enjoy the best view. The u-shaped plane creates an intimate relationship between the artist, the orchestra and the audience. The main hall can seat 1000 people at a time. At the same time, the building adopts a twisting strategy to create a subtle and flexible campus Shared space. The design attempts to meet the requirements of the building's form and spatial order while taking into account the building's structural system. The steel frame structure is combined with the large span roof.
This is a Shared public building integrating display and performance functions on campus. A simple twist in the building’s volume creates a semi-outdoor open space on the ground floor that can be Shared by students and nearby residents. The warped geometry of the building volume merges the vertical and horizontal in a single motion, forming a staircase inside. The height difference generated inside the building meets the requirements of the performance hall. The "tubular column" adopted in the structural system not only meets the needs of long-span spatial structure, but also increases the sharing and interest of space.
Large Span Stru
Source of Architectural Form
Tubular C *This image is referenced from UNStudio
uctural System
Columns
Interactive Space
Bearing System
Main Entrance
Secondary Entrance
Staging Area
Below the Side Stage
Understage Space
Staging Area
Semi-outdoor Shared Activity Area
Outdoor Performance Area
Below the Main Stage
Below the Rear Stage
Below the Side Stage Entrance Hall
Entrance Plane
Subsidiary Rooms
Stage
Conference Room
Side Stage Subsidiary Rooms
Main Stage
Back Stage
Side Stage
Subsidiary Rooms
Exhibition Hall
Plane at the Height of 14 Meters
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[COMPLEMENTARY WORK] Suspended Cable-arch Structure Team Work：Structural Selection Design 2016.06—2016.07/with He Jianing Leading Roll in Structure Design, Model Making
Suspended cable-arch structure is a load-bearing structure formed by flexible tension cable and its edge members. Rope material can be made of wire bundles, wire ropes, chains and other wire with good tensile properties. The arch at the centre lifts a net of cables extending outward, which consists of transverse load-bearing cables and longitudinal stabilisers. And the central arch is connected to the ground, so the load on the roof is partly carried by the central arch, and the other part is transmitted to the eaves on both sides by the cable network. The load is carried by the columns on both sides and dispersed to the ground. The advantage of suspended cable-arch structure is that it makes good use of the properties of metal materials. As the arch material used as the frame is metal, it can well withstand the transverse tensile force, so as to avoid the risk of being easily folded by shear force.
[OTHER WORK] 01 Rock Climbing Recreation Facility Design Date: 23, Jul.2019-10, Aug.2019 Summer Digiblast of Penndesign Tutor: Ezio, Daniellei
[OTHER WORK]02
Solar Radition Simulation
Building Performance Simulation
Fall Semester, 2019 Tutor:Efrie Escott,Kit Elsworth, Saeran Vasanthakumar
Outdoor Thermal Comfort Simulation in Different Seasons
UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Jan.21st
UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Apr.21st
UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Jul.21st
UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Jan.21st
UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Apr.21st
UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Jul.21st
[OTHER WORK]03 Team Work:Youth Single Apartment Design with He Jianing Date: 14.Sep, 2017-10.Dec, 2017 Tutor: Yu Wang, Mingqiao Zhao
Auxiliary Rafter
Ridge
Auxiliary Ra Purlin Brace
Short Column
Cantilever Bea
[OTHER WORK] 04 Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Buildings in Shanggantang Historic Village Team Work
2017.06—2017.07/with He Jianing, Jiang Zekun Leading Roll in Mapping, Detail Drawings
Dark Grey Tile Purlin Brace Square Beams Connecting Purlins
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Roof Beam Short Column
Column
Dark Grey Tile Square Beams Connecting Purlins Roof Beam
Column Section of Wooden Frame of Traditional Chinese Residence
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PORTFOLIO OF CONGQI WANG University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Design-Environmental Building Design Selected Works 2014-2019 congqi@design.upenn.edu