Work Sample | Xiangdi "Diz" Wang | 2016

X. DIZ WANG ARCHITECTURE WORK SAMPLE 2016

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THE GALLERY “UNDERWATER” - Crissy Field, San Francisco Museum of Bay Area Figurative Art is located next to the Presidio Parklands in San Francisco. This museum design incorporates with the metaphor “underwater” - a serene spatial experience that is quiet and peaceful, with ambient light filtered from the water surface above. As visitors approach and enter different parts of the museum, one would experience different space vibes, like different stages of the movement of immersing into the water. The various spatial qualities are achieved through the control of the natural light entering into the space.

Integrated Bldg Design Instructor: Kristen Smith Ryan Keerns

The gallery spaces in the museum are naturally lit from the roof. The roof of each room is a four-direction light reflecting system. It introduces soft natural light into the space in order to achieve the bright and tranquil atmosphere while protecting the artworks. Also, the ripple form of the roof further complements the metaphor and extends the underwater atmosphere visually.

Partner: Joy Fu CCA Fall 2015

DESIGN INTENT

MAIN GALLERY SPACE

MUSEUM LOOKING FROM THE LANDSCAPE

AXONOMETRIC

LEVEL 1 PLAN 1/ 100” = 1’ - 0”

LONGITUDINAL SECTION 1/ 50” = 1’ - 0”

3/4” INSULATED GLASS WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE ALUMINUM SHEET RIGID INSULATION CORRUGATED METAL DECK PRIMARY BEAM STRUCTURE ALUMINUM SHEET DRY WALL

DRY WALL 3/4” PLYWOOD (2)

PUBLIC PROGRAM | CORRIDOR | COURTYARD

AXONOMETRIC STEELFRAME STRUCTURE

-2”-1” 0

3”

6”

1’

2’

3’

WALL DETAIL 3 Scale 1 /4” = 1’- 0”

18

17 WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE

PRIMARY BEAM

METAL SHEET RIGID INSULATION 3” CORRUGATED METAL DECK

WALL DETAIL 2

CONCRETE PANEL BOLTED ONTO STEEL COLUMN

WALL DETAIL 1

WALL DETAIL 3

ROLLER BLIND

3”

3/4” FLUSHED GLASS

PRE-CAST CONCRETE PANEL

5’

DRAINAGE SYSTEM LIGHT FIXTURE SEMI-RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER PLYWOOD SHEATHING

-2”-1” 0 0 2” 6”

1’

2’

4’

SECTION Scale 1 /16” - 1’

3”

6”

1’

2’

3’

-2”-1” 0

3”

6”

1’

2’

3’

8’

WALL DETAIL 2

WALL DETAIL 1

Scale 1 /4” = 1’- 0”

Scale 1 /4” = 1’- 0”

NARRATIVE SECTION

HOTEL: ART INCUBATOR - Chelsea, New York City CCA B.Arch Studio 3 Instructor: Andrew Kudless Fall 2012 CCA Jury Prize Nomination (Best in Class)

1/ 16” = 1’ - 0”

BUILDING CONCEPT

SOCIO-CULTURAL CRISIS

This is an innovative hotel sited in New York City’s gallery district. As an “Art Incubator,” its unique hotel program utilizes the correlation between art and general public as the producer and consumer, and connects these two groups. It allows making art, exhibition and hotel lodging to happen simultaneously in the building space. This hotel consists of several TYPICAL PLAN - HOTEL LEVEL

LEVEL 3 PLAN - HIGHLINE LEVEL

1/ 50” = 1’ - 0”

1/ 50” = 1’ - 0”

levels of flexible space. Each level is equipped with a series of mobile rooms sliding on the rail. These sliding rooms divide the floor space into different units of art-related space and lodging. The configuration of the sliding rooms defines the size of different rentable units to accommodate the need for artists and travelers-- from art composing to exhibiting, and to suites of different sizes. This flexible system of sliding rooms allows a variety of spatial arrangements thus different events and relationships between art connoisseurs and art will be formed. Chronologically, different functions, from artist studio, to exhibition, and to a themed hotel room, may take place at the same spot.

In terms of the culture, its flexibility respects the ever-changing function and events in the building space, especially in Chelsea-- the post industrial art neighborhood. Hotel: Art Incubator takes a critical stance on preserving art culture in the neighborhood against the gentrification by creating the bond between art and the visitors/art connoisseurs. By putting the hotel customers in front of the artists and artwork’s life cycle, lodging becomes a unique experience. The financial support to art and art production is also established.

MeSSION TERRACE - the Mission, San Francisco

CCA B.Arch Studio 4 Instructors: Mona El Khafif, Craig Scott Spring 2013 CCA Jury Prize Nomination (Best in Class)

The Mission District in San Francisco is a vibrant neighborhood with diverse demographics including original Hispanic residents, hip youngsters, artists and Silicon Valley IT workforces.

This housing design, MeSSION Terrace, reacts to the Mission’s demographics and the culture of various races. It aims to provide desired dwellings for various types of household. Meanwhile, the design concept celebrates and brings the Mission’s diverse community into the apartment complex. Other than the ground public space, a double layer bridge structure weaves in between every two apartment blocks and connects each unit with linear elevated garden and “flex space” units.

A collective thought has been applied to the design strategy that porosity, individual terrace and public space are equally maximized for every apartment unit. This is realized through a series of shifting movement. Each unit owns an individual sun deck or yard and gains access to both ground and elevated gardens. Potentially “flex space” can join the residential units and expand the space like an addition. They alone serve as live/work studio with independent access to the public. The loft units that share the side wall are lit by lantern skylight--the sunken window on the ceilings. The lanterns situate underneath the stairs of the upper apartments. The dead space underneath the stairs are utilized to provide natural light for the lower units.

Eventually MeSSION Terrace defines an unprecedented yet constructible block-bridge-block housing typology. This typology opens the possibility of utilizing the space above the open space. It provides extra open area and indoor space. In the other hand, it bonds the residents altogether and help form the community, which is the opposite of the isolated neighbor relationship that exists in residential housings. Eventually, MeSSION Terrace elaborates a complex housing system and hence aims to house a diverse yet vibrant urban lifestyle.

LEVEL 1 PLAN

LEVEL 2 PLAN

LEVEL 3 PLAN

LEVEL 4 PLAN

1/100” = 1’- 0”

1/100” = 1’- 0”

1/100” = 1’- 0”

1/100” = 1’- 0”

SITE MAPPING - THE MISSION, SAN FRANCISCO

COMMUTE TIMES MAP

SECTIONAL DIAGRAM

ZONING AROUND THE SITE | MISSION

BLOCK C

UPPER UNIT

BLOCK D

BLOCK E

BRIDGE GARDEN TERRACE FLEX UNIT

LOFT UNIT

GROUND GARDEN

LOFT UNIT

STREET UNFOLD SECTION - APARTMENT BLOCK

PLAN DIAGRAM

EXPLODED DIAGRAM

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 3

FLEX UNIT (UNDER THE BRIDGE)

BRIDGE/ BONDING

SECTION - FLEX UNIT | BRIDGE

BLOCK F

PRECEDENT HILLSIDE BUILDING STRATEGY

DESIGN STRATEGY

BUILDING TYPOLOGY AS BRIDGING, STITCHING, CANTILEVERING. CONSERVANCY CENTER AT LANDS END - Sutro Cliff, San Francisco CCA B.Arch Studio 2 Instructors: T. Jason Anderson, Jessica Lisagor BRIDGE HOUSE Spring 2012 Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects

CIRCULATION

ROMAN QUARRY REDESIGN

BOH VISITOR CENTER

AllesWirdGut Architektur

ZLG Design

MASSING

CCA Jury Prize Nomination (Best in Class) MAIN CIRCULATION 2NDARY CIRCULATION

Conservancy Center at Lands End’s main design concept is accessibility. The proposed building locates on Sutro Cliff at the west end of San Francisco facing the Pacific Ocean. In order to achieve universal accessibility, two Z-shaped sloping stripes that are less steep than the site intersect with each other and form the building. The shorter “Z” (the steeper one) becomes the interior space and the longer “Z” (less steep) becomes exterior circulation. The exterior circulation cuts the interior space and subdivide PLAN it into different programs. The

EXTERIOR PATH

programs are arranged according to the accessibility as well, as the public facilities are closer of the entrance in the east and the office/ research spaces are further at the lower part of the site in the west.

INTERIOR PATH

The Conservancy Center is equipped with an elevator indoor. The outdoor path is fully accessible. It has access to every part of the building and it provides the road to the lower site of Sutro Cliff and the ocean 24/7, which would not be affected by th office hour of the building.

SECTION

BOOKS PERSPECTIVE

R ES EA

RC H /

TORE /

C AFE

EXHIBIT SPACE

LIBRA

RY

ATRIUM

STUDY MODEL

LIBRARY

The critical study models from a series of 12. They help a exploring and explaining the relationship of the building and the land.

CUTTING

STRUCTURE CUTTING

BOOKSTORE RESEARCH E S IT THE F O SLO PE

ATRIUM

AMP

ACCESSIBLE R

CAFE

EXHIBIT SPACE

LIBRARY

MAKER’S REVOLUTION COMMUNE - SOMA, San Francisco CCA Advanced Studio Instructor: Craig Scott Fall 2015

EXTERIOR VIEW FROM WEST | LOWER SITE

EXTERIOR VIEW FROM SOUTH

LIZE SOHO - Beijing, China Zaha Hadid Architects DD Phase 2014

ATRIUM

LIFT LOBBY

FLOOR PLAN LAYOUT

TYPICAL OFFICE LAYOUT

REFLECTED CEILING PLAN

TYPICAL OFFICE LAYOUT

TYPICAL OFFICE LAYOUT

RESPONSIBILITY: - Rhino modeling | Grasshopper | Rendering - Plan | RCP | Diagram drawings - GA documen | DD Booklet

SECTION

LAVATORY

FLOOR PLANS

DOGPATCH APARTMENT - Dogpatch, San Francisco Iwamotoscott Architecture RFP | Concept Design Summer 2015

LEVEL 7- PLAN 1/ 40” = 1’ - 0”

LEVEL 4 - PLAN 1/40” = 1’ - 0”

LEVEL 2 - PLAN 1/ 40” = 1’ - 0”

LONGGANG INCUBATOR TOWER

CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG - Longgang Shenzhen, China URBANUS Architecture & Design International Competition, 2nd Place Summer 2012

CONTRIBUTION: Led diagram drawings Assisted with visualization Collaborated on design documents -

- Longgang Shenzhen, China CONTRIBUTION: - Collaborated and assisted on structural design - Developed plan and section drawings - Developed physical and digital drawings

URBANUS Architecture & Design Design Development Phase Summer 2012

The Chinese University of Hong Kong is the leading institution in Hong Kong and Asia. Responding to “University of Humanities, Innovation and Urbanity”, we designed the school as an interface between community, education and industry. The nature is introduced into the campus, and library becomes the core of the whole system that it binds the dorm and academic space together.

Longgang is transforming from an export-oriented industry to residential and commercial uses recently. Our project locates in an existing old industrial area. By integrating the business cycle into the space, we are proposing the office building as an incubator.

This project, collaborated with architecture firm Mecanoo and NODE, has received runner-up in the competition amongst hundreds of international practices including Arata Isozaki, UNStudio, Morphosis and the winner Rocco Design Architects.

The ring is established in between various buildings above ground and connects the adjacent buildings and prospective future office building development. In the current scheme, the three-dimensional facade panel system is adopted to the tower. Variations of the module forms a pattern on the overall exterior elevation as to reflect program’s level of privacy.