Architecture Portfolio_Wenqin.S

WENQIN SHENG PORTFOLIO

Wenqin Sheng

01.09.1997

crystalsheng0109@gmail.com

Education

Aug 2015 - Jun 2016

Trinity College (Foundation study of Melbourne)

2016 - 2019

University of Melbourne

Bachlor of Environments (Major in Architecture)

Jul 2020 - Dec 2022

University of Melbourne

Master of Architecture

Work

Aug 2019 - Oct 2019

Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd

Architectural Intern

Sep 2021 - Jan 2022

Hassell Studio Shanghai

Architectural Intern

Skill

AutoCAD

Revit

Rhinoceros

Grasshopper

Sketch Up

3DS Max

VRay

Photoshop CC

Illustrator CC

InDesign CC

Makerbot 3D Printing

Photography

Oil Painting

Screenplay Adaption

English

Mandarin

Japanese

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To Whom It May Concern，

RE: WENQIN SHENG

I have had the pleasure of working with Wenqin on a number of competitions and projects during her intership in Shanghai. I have found Wenqin to be a great collaborator and curious. Always very responsive with an outstanding team work spirit. Wenqin was actively engaged in the team and was well liked by her colleagues.

I wish Wenqin a great start to the proffesional career. I am confident that Wenqin would be an asset to any organisation bringing diverse skills and experience.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours sincerely

Klevis Koco Principal Email kkoco@hassellstudio.com

Professor Paul Walker BArch (Auckland) PhD (Auckland)

6 December 2022

To Whom It May Concern

Re: Wenqin Sheng

I am very pleased to write a letter of recommendation for Wenqin Sheng.

Wenqin has been enrolled in the Master of Architecture Design Thesis studio which I have run during semester 2, 2022. This subject culminates the University of Melbourne Master of Architecture degree and requires students to undertake a research-led design in response to a broad theme set by the studio teacher. The studio I offered this semester was called ‘Radical Suburbs’ and required students to rethink typical suburban building programs, within a typical Melbourne middle-suburban setting – Cheltenham/Southland in our case.

Wenqin’s project involved the rehabilitation of two large industrial sheds in a zone of industrial buildings in the west of Cheltenham. While she envisaged her project as maintaining building fabric associated with the suburb’s history of light industrial manufacturing, she introduced a range of community activities to replace the original uses, to reactivate the buildings, and to introduce them to new groups of users These new uses were organised in plan in discrete zones of each shed, but with lateral connections devised to allow communication between. While conserving the repetitive frame structures of the two buildings, and their overall extruded form, she planned to partly de-clad or re-clad them. Some building materials and interior fittings and furniture were envisaged to be derived from recycled resources. The project was elegant both in conception and presentation

Before her studies for the Master of Architecture, Wenqin undertook a Bachelor of Environments at the University of Melbourne, with a major in architecture She has undertaken internships in Shanghai with the Tongji Architectural Design Group and with Hassell’s Shanghai studio. Wenqin undertook a range of electives in her masters study, particularly focussing on contemporary architectural practice. These included an elective studio in Venice, working with members of the eminent international practice Snøhetta. She has achieved mostly honours grades (H2A) in both her core and elective subjects, completing her Design Thesis with this grade as well.

Workshop Shed Perspective

Radical [Shed]

The configuration of sheds can be found everywhere in Western industrial Cheltenham. With a lack of cultural interest, they expose their intrinsic to functionalism. The industrial iteration of [ Shed ] is abused in this bleak place. The absence of landscape on the site leads to an unsuccessful shed.

[ Shed ] has lost its charm as a primitive hut interface with nature. The intrinsic connection between industrial and domestic sheds is the expression of extreme functionality. This scheme aims to examine the success of domestic sheds and provide a solution for the superseded industrial shed on 233 Bay Road. Through a process of recycling the abandoned domestic furniture, the hard rubbish carrying the untold story of previous owners will be renovated and become part of the civic space. The [ Shed ] as well as the pre-loved pieces will be rediscovered from superseded to renovated, restricted to civic.

Context: Surperseded

The patterns of industrialisation and domestic can be easily distinguished and then documented with a satellite image. As Robin Boyd describes in the Australian Ugliness, Australian towns and villages look best from high in the sky that people only see continuity, unity and promising comfort in the pitched roof and tended green, however, when the plane drops closer the truth will be given away immediately - the green of the average suburb is a horizontal veneer, the battle of colours and inapposite features of the entrance porches with low surface tension (Boyd, 1960).

Walking around the western industrial area of Cheltenham, single-story buildings covered with a series of corrugated-iron roofs stand adjacent to each other closely that there’s no space to breathe. The area is occupied with bare brick blocks with almost no architectural implication suggesting the functions inside. Only the signages attached to the buildings indicate the usage of the buildings. Renovation is going on inside the obsolete factories although it is hard to detect from the outside, an unobservable transition of local identity.

Satellite Image of Cheltenham Industrail Area, the iron-corragted roofs of the sheds are different from the terra-cotta roofs of residential area Figure. Context Map

Axonometric Drawing

Stage CIVIC LIFE WITH PERFORMANCE

The stage provides a civic event space for the local community, people are encouraged to bring and leave their unwanted chairs, sofas or even mattress to create seating for themselves. The public space will be occupied by domestic furnitures.

Stage Axo

Stage Plan

Trail

GATEWAY TO TECTONIC LANDSCAPE

The grand gesture of landscape renovation connects the two existing buildings and boosts circulation. The soil replaces the cold concrete walkway. This lifted trail retains planting between the platforms and is at the same time a shortcut with various hotspots attached.

Trail AXO

Trail Section & Plan

A community kitchen builds against the leftover brick walls. A relaxing space for people to share and enjoy food. It is lifted to reduce the significant floor-to-ceiling height within the structure of the industrial shed.

An edible public garden for everyone that encourages the local community to grow and cultivate their ingredient.

GATEWAY TO TECTONIC LANDSCAPE

Community Kitchen

GATEWAY TO TECTONIC LANDSCAPE

Trail

GATEWAY TO TECTONIC LANDSCAPE

The community library builds closely with the botanic garden and provides people with a calm reading experience. People can grab a book and a chair stored in the community library and share their reading experience in the botanic garden.

Trail

The workshop located in the preserved building at the back allows people to bring their old furniture or home appliances there; people can build, repair and create upon the superseded.

Trail

Short Section 1:600@ A3

section bb’ 1 1:600

CIVIC LIFE WITH PERFORMANCE

section cc’ 2 1:600

CIVIC LIFE WITH FOOD

CIVIC LIFE WITH HANDCRAFT

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Long Section aa’ 1:600@ A3

CIVIC LIFE WITH GARDENING

CIVIC LIFE WITH BOOKS & BOTANY

section dd’ 3 1:600

section ee’ 4 1:600

Botanic Garden Section 1:100 @ A3

Community Kitchen Perspective

Museum of Open “Secret“

Barbican means fortified Gate in old French. It is present as an estate exclusive and safe. Barbican was established during the time that the political consensus was very different from now. It was a council housing, not for the vulnerable group but for the middle-class commuters who work in London city. It is impenetrable and confusing by incorporating an un-intuitive threshold, imposing walls and hidden entrances. Barbican is not just a housing estate, it is a sheltered sanctuary, a fortress within the London city.

Barbican, as a result of radical metropolitan thinking, was never meant to be a community for anyone. It was aimed at middle-class professionals at that time. It is present as an estate exclusive and safe.

Barbican, as an articulation of economic wealth. It is also a stage set that always caters to its excellence. The flower here is perfectly in bloom on a particular date. And the day they appear to be dying, they must be taken away. This museum aims to display the fragments of these enjoyable London apartments and the servants behind these well-served spaces.

"Drum Kit"

"Barbican Theatre"

"Exhibition Hall"

Watchdog

The designed environment generates social spaces concretely. It influences the way you act; stimulates the reflection you see. The cyber environment generates social spaces virtually. It changes the way you think, shapes the value you believe in. The principle of the algorithm should be revealed to awaken people’s awareness of the big data crisis.

This design attempts to bring reflection and insights to the public regarding the emerging ethical issues of technological innovation. It should provoke self-consciousness and offer a bird’s eye view inspection of a common domain.

This building will help people to understand their rights as individuals in this cyber world. Establish a regulatory system overwatching the big data organisation to manage the agents’ marketing activities and implement the legal company’s strategy. This design not only provides an office area for big data companies and relevant watchdog, but it is also an opensource center for people to learn about public information security and how to guard their privacy against being overly exposed.

Axonometric Drawing

The building is made up of three forms. The watchtower, a circulation space also for reflection, the public frontage to educate and the office area for working. The mass building is divided into two parts by the watchtower. The public space facing the street and office space that is only accessible for authorised staff. I use red and white to colour code the big data space and watchdog space. For the front part, a cylinder data storage running through the block emphasise the connection between these two different spaces. At the back of the building, it shows a more clear relation that the big

data space is surrounded and being supervised by the watchdog. A new grid is introduced to the site by following the angel between the site and parliament. A sunken plaza leading to the watchtower is the starting point of the journey. The watchtower is a metaphor for people are monitored all the time. It is also a gateway into the building. The watchtower is the main circulation in this design. It is the transition between each floor. The form of the watchtower continues and become the core of this building.

1. SUNKEN PLAZA

2. WATCHTOWER GATEWAY

3. PUBLIC ENTRANCE

4. DATA STORAGE

5. STAFF ENTRANCE

6. RECPTION

7. CORE

8. TOILETS

9. DINING AREA

10. CONSULTATION ROOM FOR CLIENTS

11. MEETING ROOM FOR CLIENTS

12. LOUNGE

Axonometric Ground Floor Plan

Auditorium

Big Data Office

Watchdog Office

Watchtower

Library

Consultation Room

Food Court

Data Storage

Hotdesk

Staff Entrance Perspective

Hassell

Zhangjiang Medical Park 06-01 Plot

Location: Zhangjiang, Shanghai, China

Job Title: Architectural Intern

Tasks: Design, Presentation Prep, Prelimnary Render, Concept Modelling, Diagramming

Architectural Intern

The major responsibilities include:

1. Site analysis & research, diagramming & illustration with Illustrator & Indesign

2. Recording and taking notes for the meetings

3. Bringing insightful observations to the team during the concept design stage

4. Worked primarily with Rhino & Revit to produce protypes of design schemes

5. Using Enscape to render for perspective drafts

The major accomplishment includes:

- Close contact with different departments of the firm and gained the communication skills.

- Helped to win the competitions for the firm.

Tianchang National Sports & Fitness Center

Tianchang National Sports & Fitness Center

Tongji

Tianchang National Sports & Fitness Center

Location: Tianchang, China

Job Title: Architectural Intern

Project: Tianchang Sports Center

Tasks: Design, Presentation Prep, Prelimnary Render, Grasshopper Debug, Concept Modelling, Diagramming

Architectural Intern

The major responsibilities include:

1. Worked primarily with Rhino & SketchUp to produce protypes of design schemes.

2. In charge of presentation slides that are used for draft design and developed design with Indesign

3. Assisting the project manager to develop the overall architecture form and the façade.

4. Debugging Grasshopper during facade design if there is an error occurred.

The major accomplishments include:

- Participated in multiple projects to adjust and optimize the initial design schemes.

- Cooperated with colleagues and leaders to contribute to the final presentation.

- Helped to win one of the competitions for the firm.

Waterfront Tower

Waterfront Tower

Waterfront Tower is located at the corner of Spencer and Lonsdale street in the Central Business District (CBD), adjacent to the Docklands. The tower features a mixedused programme of retail, premium rentable commercial space, luxury hotel floors, a sky lobby and sky deck that offer scenic views of the city.

To speak to the urban context and waterfront landscape near the site, the selected facade and form cooperate to create a flowing structure with a streamline. The form of the tower is magnified with the design of the facad.