PORTFOLIO 2014-2015
CHUXUE WANG
347-278-4253 cw2787@columbia.edu 138 W 109th St, Apt 4E New York, NY 10025
CONTENT 01 HOUSE OF BELONGINGS CORE STUDIO III
02 ART ON THE MOVE CORE STUDIO II
03 SWIMMER’S CONSUMERISM CORE STUDIO I
04 CARVE and KNOT TECH ELECTIVE: design with wood
05 RED HOOK THEATRE TECH CORE IV
06 THE NEW LIFE OF CONCRETE TECH ELECTIVE: MMIL
01 HOUSE OF BELONGINGS AN ELDERLY-FRIENDLY HOUSING COMMUNITY IN NYC GSAPP Core Studio III Instructor: Robert Marino Fall 2015
Situated on a unique site in south Bronx, NYC, the various housing typologies that are already existing in the neighborhood is constantly being transformed and challenged by the users. As people’s lifestyle changes through different stages of life, the design of the housing complex should be more than a programmatic approach. Besides, this proposal features an emphasis on the physical substance of the housing and the techniques used in its transformations. A unique element of the housing is specifically designed through this practice, which is the storage space for residents’ personal belongings. While lifestyles may be easy to change, the spaces for storage remain permanent in the project to provide an emotional reference for the residents as they stayed longer in the neighborhood.
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Reallocating the Aging population in Manhattan The early research on the demographics predicts a population shift from Manhattan to Bronx in the near future. This project challenges the conventional elderly housing typology to create a more vitalized community that encourages people to stay longer as they are getting old.
The Storage Wall in the Massing The project features a storage wall running across the three blocks to provide a transitional space that tie all the unit together. The wall is evident from both inside and outside, and its concrete materiality and thickness adds to the monumentality of the wall.
The House of Belongings The specific approach to the aging community is the design of storage space. The house are not a machine for living, but also a storage of personal items and memories. In this project, the storage is emphasized to become the heart of the family and is expressed as a double-wall space that people crosses everyday.
The Wall inside a unit The early sketch model shows two thick walls that structurally supports the floor plate. In the final design, the thick wall decomposes into smaller pieces to provide more flexibility and visual depth into the space.
Apertures on the Storage Wall The two storage walls separate the bedrooms from the living room, creating a repetitive daily ritual to cross through the storage space. Both the diagram the and elevation photo of the wall shows that there are various dimensions of openings on the wall that serves different functions. Some are at eye level for display, some are hided from above or below.
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When the Wall Meets the Ground and Sky The Ground floor plan above shows the different community facilities for the residents. The storage wall falls on the ground to become public storage and display spaces. On the roof of the middle block, part of the storage walls extrude from below to become fixtures for seating and shelving. And the Concrete texture protects the public facilities from weathering.
Typical Floor plan The housing complex primarily have 3 different types of housing units, the multi-family unit, the single unit and the duplex. While each unit is separated by the vertical fins, they can still be concreted through the alternative door between the storage walls. When two adjacent units are combined, they will serve for a larger family with their offsprings. The diagram on the right suggests potential connection between the adjacent units.
MAXIMUM EXPANSION OF HOUSEHOLDS
Visual Transparency through the Facade The intimate distance between the two adjacent buildings provides visual contact within the community.
Detail Floor plan in Block scale The middle block is primarily composed of two-bed units with the living room side facing the corridor.
The Corridor as Community Interface With the wooden flooring and perforated facade, the corridor serves as an interface for the residents in the units to meet each other.
4TH LEVEL EL 37'-0"
3RD LEVEL EL 26'-0"
Detail unit Section By using the standard CMU dimensions, the construction technique of the storage wall becomes a unique feature of the living experience.
SINGLE STORY 3-BED UNIT
SINGLE STORY 1-BED UNIT
The Space within the Storage Wall From the living room to the bedroom, residents circulate the storage space to celebrate the memory of his belongs.
Living in the Unit through different life stages As residents grow old, they will gradually move to an adjacent bedroom within the unit that is closer to the utilities and has larger storage space.
LIFE CYCLE IN ONE UNIT
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Transverse Section through the Middle Block
The Construction Sequence The construction process started from laying the CMU blocks of the storage wall. Then the concrete floor planks are tied to the vertical fins. Afterwards, the wood partitions and facade are installed.
The Facade Variations The facade on the bedroom side is a unitized system that the frame spacing is largely defined by the bedrooms. Whereas the facade on the living room and corridor side remain as a perforated surface made of layered bricks.
02 ART ON THE MOVE A BANK THAT COMBINES LOGISTICS WITH EXHIBITION
GSAPP Core Studio II Instructor: Julian Rose Spring 2015
The building is an art storage and gallery hybrid intervention accommodating its primary market, the online art rental store. The starting point of the project is the increasing demand for online art rental services, which no dedicated facilities currently exist to serve. The art rental market promises to bring art to a new and broader audience, but at the same time it is biased toward certain kinds of art and tends to overlook others The building is a hybrid typology of an art storage warehouse and a museum, which balances out the fast-paced processing of the online rental with a more traditional gallery spaces for contemplation of art. The art bank seeks for a collaborative culture with the artists by offering free storage for artworks and sharing the value of artwork rental. When dealing with large amount of rental artworks, it will be efficient to frame a sorting system based on the circulating cycle of artworks and its estimated duration in the art bank. Where short-term duration artworks will more likely be handled in a warehouse setting with less exposure to the public, the longer duration artworks will be handled less frequently and have a greater need to be exhibited and displayed. Therefore, the architecture itself should review the interrelationship between the duration of artworks and the different level of exposure to the public.
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Conveyor System Inventory and Process In order to resolve the different processing speed of the artworks, the design started with the research about the configurations of different conveyor systems. Then they are applied at different stages of the artwork handling process. The artworks are constantly moving inside the building while at the same time to be viewed by the visitors.
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monthly storage gallery setting 94'
weekly storage sliding archive
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06.Promonade| monthly storage
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Longitudinal Section The building uses steel structure to create open spans in the warehouse region. The vertical conveyor systems are tied to the horizontal elements to become part of the structure. As visitors elevate through the building, they will get closer and closer to the slowly-handled artworks.
Entrance level views to fast handling artworks When entering from the ground lobby, the visitors will be constantly exposed to artworks that are in the process of handling. The lower level features an indirect interaction between the viewer and the artworks while they are handled on a daily base.
Medium level views to monthly handling artworks When visitors pass through the reception floor and are on the way to the gallery, they will experience a semi-formal exhibition space along the ramp. After the artworks being sorted and temporarily stored in the bank, they will move to this level, which features a storage-display space that are open to the public. Visitors can pull out the artworks to review and rent or simply peak into the handling space below.
Gallery level views to permanent stored artworks When the artworks stayed in the gallery for more than half year, they will be moved further up into the gallery space. This space allow visitors to sit and rest to spend longer time with the artworks. These are the artworks that need to be locally consumed in the bank.
03 SWIMMERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CONSUMERISM A HYBRID BETWEEN SWIMMING POOL AND FOOD TRUCK
GSAPP Core Studio I Instructor: Joshua Uhl Fall 2014
Sitting on the border between two distinct communities, the expanded campus of Columbia University and the NYCHA housing, the swimming pool as a public intervention, will struggle to have its own identity. The food truck, as an egalitarian intervention, will harmonize the cultural and social diversity between the different groups of people. The project features an outdoor passageway for the food trucks that wraps around the indoor swimming pools, juxtaposing the two programs to provide a unique intersection between the swimming and the eating behavior. The organic curves of the building profile is initially defined by the turning radius of the food truck. At the center of the project is a concrete shell running across swimming pools to support the passageway. It efficiently integrates the wall, the pool and the roof to provide an unbrella-like canopy that provides visual transparency between the swimmers and the public.
Site Analysis and Strategy Storefront is an important measure of neighborhood vitality and identity. The mapping of East Harlem along the Broadway reveals that there is a lack of eating places in that community. Therefore, bringing the food trucks into the swimming center to create a public event space is crucial to the urban strategy.
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Urban Scale Axonometric View The elevated passageway not only allow food trucks, but also bikes and pedestrians to pass through. The visual transparency of the architecture encourages the public to experience the event space from all angles. The people on the railway can also peak into the facilities and get involve in it. The food trucks and swimming pool together help linking the people from the new campus and from NYCHA.
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PATHWAY TO GENERAL PUBLIC POOL FOOD TRUCKS: GENERAL PUBLIC
Imaginative Moments of Program Intersection As the passageway ramps up, a series of visual intersection will happen between the swimmers and the food trucks. The level difference creates various dynamics to drag the swimmers from the pool to the outside. Due to the different activities in the pools, the items displayed in the truck may vary.
Various depths of the aperture to reveal the trucks from the inside of the swimming pool
Lower Level Interior view Through the stairs on the left, swimmers will first ascend from the ground floor Lobby to this public pool. It provides an open view to the outside and double access from both front and back.
Axonometric overview: A Continuous Experience Besides the concrete shell structure, the rest of the facades remain open to the outdoor passageway. The terraces and ramps help creating a soft boundary between the inside and outside, at the same time provide seating for the swimmers and eaters.
The edges of the swimming pool fold up to become the structure and canopy.
Upper Level Exterior View From the inside swimming pool to the outside food truck, visitors have to circulate from the back to the front. The intermediate region helps to separate the wet areas from the dry areas.
Sectional Sequence Diagram
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1) people eating inside after swim after swim(outdoor)
2)people eating outside before swim 3) people eating in the pool.
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3rd Floor Plan
On the third floor, there is a hot tub, a general pool and a open terraced roof top that can serve as a food plaza.
Transverse Section
The concrete floor plate,double layer concrete wall and the roof are tied together to perform like a shell structure, supporting the truck passageway as well.
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On the second level, the trucks stop in front of the public pool and diving pool.
Ground Floor Plan
The ground level has a smaller interior space, leaving the outside to function as a walkway between Broadway and Amsterdam street.
04 CARVE and KNOT DESIGN WITH WOOD PROPERTIES
GSAPP AT ELECTIVE Instructor: Scott Marble Spring 2015
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WORKFLOW Carefully picking the materical and scanning wood surface
Creating a coordinate system and allocating the knots
Creating a topographical surface by cutting into the early wood
Creating topography on the cross-sectional surface and using the knots as attraction points
Breaking the surface into slices
Reassembling slices to reveal the cross-section
Assembling the pieces to a ďŹ nal construct
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05 RED HOOK THEATRE
GSAPP AT IV Instructor: Craig Schwitter Collaborative Design with: Eugene Chang, Yujing Cui, Ruomeng Wang Fall 2015
The project starts with the idea that the theatre functions as a unique object in the neighborhood, almost like a ship landed on the riverside.Therefore, the building performs as a double skin environment. While theatre space inside has a completely controlled environment, the Lobby and atrium is naturally ventilated and lighted. The objectivity idea also reflects on the envelope and object geometry selection. The solid object of the theatre is chamfered at the bottom to open up spaces for the public program and circulation, and the geometry of the theatre envelope is simplified as triangulated panels to reinforce the dynamic movements of people. Community engagement is another important consideration through our design. This project started with the idea of keeping the historic faรงade to keep a coherent looking with the neighborhood and bring contrast to the experience inside and outside. Also,The performance space is made flexible to meet the different public programs. The giant staircase at the entrance invite the public to the rooftop restaurant to enjoy the view of the riverside.
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06 The NEW LIFE OF CONCRETE REIMAGINING THE CONCRETE RECYCLE INDUSTRY
GSAPP Tech Elective Instructor: Sean A. Gallagher Collaborative Design with: Yujing Cui Fall 2015
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BNY PROMENADE (DAY) DANCE PLAZA (NIGHT) A combined material canopy blankets the ground and covers the lightning lab in Dry Dock 2 and Dry Dock 3. During the day time, the topography of the canopy create a playground for general public. Food kiosks and urban furniture alone the promenade bring people who works in BNY up to the viewing decks with view toward lower Manhattan. At night, the canopy act as an extraordinary surface lit up by the lightning bolt effect for performance, and for art.
Vision of concrete recycle industry Thanks to the convenience of water transportation, Brooklyn Navy Yard Concrete recycling lab will continue to provide recycled concrete for the new constructions in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and other regions that can be reached through waterway. The industrial landscape created by the lab will also serve as a unique community feature for the local residents.
EVENTS A 40,000 square feet event hall is located above Dry Dock 4 which can serve fashion show, weddings, exhibition and any special events for public. The translucent platform extends out and back, creating a beautiful curvy walkway that connects to dock 03 and reframes the relationship between the industrial zone and the surrounding waterfront.
CHUXUE WANG
347-278-4253 cw2787@columbia.edu 138 W 109th St, Apt 4E New York, NY 10025