portfolio of Lang! by Lang Lang

Lang WANG Selected Works 2010-2013

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Cooking School in Sao Paulo Sao Paulo Brazil Tod Williams Billie Tsien

Guatemala Civic Center Guatemala City

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2010

Sally Stone John Lee

2010

Joe Day Michelle Paul

2012

From Isolation to Connection Fall River USA

OTHER

Sijin Yin

Now-plex Cinema LA USA

2013

A Room in Venice Venice Italy

CONTENTS

Leon Krier George Knight

Hotel in Beijing Beijing China

2012

Fred Koetter Ed Mitchell

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Bowl

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Visualization

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Chair

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Light, Space and People

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Rome, Continuity and Change

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Rousham Garden

2011

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DESIGN

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Cooking School in Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2012 Yale School of Architecture Tod Williams /Billie Tsien

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As Le Corbusier found in Emma, there is a balanced relationship between individual life and community in the traditional monastery. This proposal tries to reinvent it as a prototype for school, and adapt it to the complex urban conditions in Sao Paulo. It is a cooking school for favela students. They will live there and learn cooking as living skills. The proposal is located at the center of Sao Paulo city. Surrounding it is the unique landscape----the natural topography left by the old river which does not exist today; and the artificial landscape made by the viaduct and skyscrapers. Along with this verticality, the conventional courtyard is transformed vertically, and dispersed into multiple small ones. It creates a new possibility for metropolitan, not to stay in one â&#x20AC;&#x153;cageâ&#x20AC;? in skyscrapers, but occupying your own sky and green.

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Site_Typology

In all the traditional prototypes, courtyard is the one that appear in almost every main culture. It provides people the place to work, to relax and social in the nature, which is gradually lost in modern life, especially in metropolis. For these favela children, a courtyard in the metropolis will be the place to help them nurtured by the nature and get out of poverty. By planting and taking care of trees, flowers and vegetables, students first learn how to care people and treasure their life, and the basics of cooking. Indirectly it can also be shared by the public. When people go through the site from lower street to upper street and on the viaduct, they can see the garden in a comfortable distance to appreciate this urban oasis.

Medieval Courtyard__prototype for school

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The organization of public and private is critical when we consider the site. People come from two levels---viaduct level and ground level. This situation decides the structure of the school has to be like â&#x20AC;&#x153;sandwichâ&#x20AC;?, with the private part in between two public layers. However, along with it is the problems of light and circulation.

Site Plan To look out

Public Private

To Infiltrate

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Programs_Sections

The “Sandwich” Structure

A lifted courtyard for School

1 Cafe 2 Dormitories 3 Students’ Lounge 4 Event Space

The dispersed courtyard connects public and private parts of the School

The Site in the City Center

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Cross Section

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Event Space Water pool Courtyard

Reception Students’ lounge Courtyard

Public Stairs

Students’ Stairs

LOWER STREET LEVEL

UPPER STREET LEVEL

1 Cafe 2 Dormitory 3 Students’ Lounge 4 Public Passage

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Cafe Exterior Cafe

Dormitories Classrooms

Kitchen Garden Public Stairs

Public Stairs Students’ Stairs

Students’ Stairs

3RD LEVEL

VIADUCT LEVEL 5 Exterior Cafe 6 Guests’ Apartments 7 Teaching Kitchen 8 Event Space

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Public_Event Space

Ground Plan

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1 Event Space 2 Water pool 3 Courtyard 4 Public Stairs 5 Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stairs Ground Plan

Entrance of Public Passage

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Light Wells and Pool

Public Stairs and Rest Place

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Private_Courtyard

Second Floor Plan

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Main Courtyard

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Small Courtyard

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Public_Roof Garden

Roof Plan

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2 Exterior Cafe 3 Kitchen Garden 4 Public Stairs 5 Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stairs Roof Plan

Exterior Cafe

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Facade Details

Responding to different programs inside, the facade varies. There are three combinations of the aluminum mesh, frosted glass and transparent glass with three levels of privacy. They also control the sight. Operating in a 1m*1m grid, this simple system provides numerous possibilities which can be subtly respond to activities inside.

Aluminum metal mesh +

Frosted glass

Transparent glass

South Facade

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Teaching Kitchen

Guestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bedroom

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Facade Details

Paint Plywood Steel framing

Aluminum expanded metal mesh

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Insulated glass system

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Studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Lounge

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Guatemala Civic Centre Guatemala City, Guatemala, 2013 Yale School of Architecture Leon Krier/George Knight

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Leon Krierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Master Plan The scheme aims to build a new civic centre for Guatemala city and explores the style of one of early modernist master----Le Corbusier. How to critically use and refine his language becomes the most difficult part of this design. Le Corbusier is closely related to the idea of Picturesque, especially in his interiors. However in most of his urban design, rich experience and intimate spaces are lost due to the dominate orthogonal grids. This design tries to explore the potential of â&#x20AC;&#x153;picturesqueâ&#x20AC;? Le Corbusier language in a urban scale, avoiding the boring and non-human spaces which kills modernism. The design process is a constantly zooming-in and zooming-out thinking. First linking urban space into interiors, and unifying them in a continuous experience; then from interiors to urban landscape, in which the concept of picturesque control the design. To avoid copy-paste Corbu details without critical thinking, it is essential to understand Le Corbusier as a builder and his language as expression of structure. Only in this way his language makes sense. Then in the design of one specific building----Guatemala Parliament, I try to make each building components express its inner structure, and to organize the whole building in a clear order. Lang Wang

Site Analysis_Topo and Axis The focus of this scheme---Guatemala Parliament is located at the very west point of the civic centre. It is at the highest point and anchors the whole city. At both sides, there is a square. To the left, it is the national plaza and also the first impression to people who enter the political centre of Guatemala. On the other side, the plaza is enclosed by several buildings, forming a more intimate space. It will be a stop for people to rest and appreciate the parliament before they get into the building. Another critical difference between these two urban plazas is their different topographic relationship with the Parliament. It largely influences the experience and become a crucial problems the design need to deal with.

Parking Mall

Entrance 1 Entrance 5 Tower marks the plaza

Central Plaza

Entrance 2

National Memorial

Parliament Entrance 3 Entrance 4

Parking Mall

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Long Section through Paseo

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The topography of the site has the potential to help create a lively public space, like Capitoline Hill and Spanish Stairs. It requires carefully dealing with the stairs and platforms, as well as the facades which enclosed the space. Thus when people enter the plaza from different directions, their view will constantly change. If one walks along paseo, he will first see a large stairs, a tower and the surrounding buildings. When he gets up, more details emerge one after another. First the balcony of the tower, a platform where people can see a trip window on the tower, then its bottom....finally the parliament appears and occupies the sight. Before one enters into the interior, the whole experience will prepare him with a mood which compliment his experience in the building.

Capitoline Hill

Spanish Stairs

The traditional Guatemala architecture

The Modernist transformation

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Site Plan

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Site Plan

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Ground Floor Plan

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1 Ramp (Public Entrance) 2 Reception & Info desk 3 Conference Chamber 4 Administration Offices 5 Archives 6 Main Entrance (for ceremonies) 7 Reflection Pools 8 Guatemala History Museum 9 Government Office Building 10 View Tower

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Parliament-Facades

Elevation Facing the Civic Plaza 1

Elevation Facing the Civic Plaza 2

Elevation Facing the National Plaza

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Plan

The Key to generate the plans is to understand Le Corbusierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Purism painting. The figure-ground relationship in his paintings continues in the plans, sections and elevations.

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Sections Each architectural component expresses its own right. On the east and west elevations, the great colonnade and Brise-Soleils all support themselves . The roof is floating above the main space, and the load-support relationship with columns is exposed.

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Interior

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Large Entrance

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Cityscape

Civic Centre---Parliament and Museum of History

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Residence---First Floor Shops

Center Plaza---Center Pavilion and Dovecote

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Hotel in Beijing

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LINKAGE HOTEL Whenever to design a building, it is to design a city. This scheme is tying to explore the surrounding urban constraits and to generate forms based on them. It is a hotel located at the most lively street in Beijing, very close to the Forbidden City. Next to the site is St.Joseph Church, one of the earliest churches in China. A nice public plaza is adjacent to it, where lots of new couples take pictures. Instead of making a noisy symbolic building, this scheme aims to be a "link" between the large commerical blocks and the old cultural relics. It also "links" the interior public spaces such as shops, restaurants and cafe with the exterior plaza. The green roof extends the the public spaces, and the exterior wall of conference hall provides spaces for screen for concerts. The whole building implements and improves the existing condition. And what most important is every room has a good view to the landscape and the city.

Forbidden City

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1 Rooms 2 Administration Offices 3 Structure 4 Kitchen 5 Restaurant 6 Restrooms

7 Shops 8 Cafe 9 Staff Lounge 10 Storage 11 Control Room 12 Staff Dining Hall

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13 Staff Kitchen 14 Small Kitchen 15 Event Space 16 Parking Lots 17 Mechanical Rooms

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Ground Floor

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1 Administration offices 2 Shops 3 Front Desk 4 Cafe 5 Entrance 6 Restaurant 7 Main Entrance

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Entrance Lobby

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Plans

2ND FLOOR

1 Restaurant 2 Main Kitchen 3 VIP Room 4 Conference Hall 5 Small Conference rooms

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3RD FLOOR

1 Administration Offices 2 Conference room 3 Hotel rooms

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4TH-11TH

Hotel rooms

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BASEMENT

SUBASEMENT

1 Above Event space 2 KTV 3 Bar 4 Changing rooms 5 Swimming pool

1 Event space 2 Service Kitchen 3 Dining Hall 4 Dorms & Changing rooms 5 Offices 6 Electronical Equipments 7 Equipments for Swiming pool

PARKING LOTS

4TH BF equipment

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Landscape The roof of hotel is divided into three seperate slopes with a bridge between them. The walking routes are carefully designed so that people can see the best view of Wangfujing Street and St. Joseph Church. The skylights also provide a unique light effect for the interior space. The choice of vegetation is also based on the consideration of local climate. It is mainly composed of native plants and cold and drought tolerant plants. The appearance of the hotel will always change with the growing of these flowering plants. The combination sof various colors and shapes of flowers make the landscape attractive and interesting.

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Pedestrain Routes

static and dynamic

Vegetation

rest areas

plants to prevent the northwest wind

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Landscape

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Seasonal Change

SUMMER

SPRING

CHROMATOGRAM OF VEGETATION

blue cornflower

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Iris germanica

Allium giganteum

Lychnis cognata

Coreopsis basalis

Potmarigold

AUTUMN

Ophiopogogon japonicus

Platycodon grandiforus

Hyacinthus orientalis L.

WINTER

Buxussinica F. atropuTpurea (Rehd.etWils.)Cheng

Amygdalus triloba

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Perspectives

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A Story of 49 People and Their Gathering in Venice Venice, Italy, 2010 Manchester University School of Architecture Sally Stone, John Lee

This project is to organize a gathering for 49 people in Venice, and design a space for this gathering. This proposal is a indoor concert where a 7-person band play the native musician Vivaldi's Four Season. How to choose the site and how to reflect the feature of Venice are two important questions in this project. It has to be related to water, to music and people. The result is a "waterdrop" like space with ETFE panels subtly reflecting the light. The band is on the top platform where people can hardly see like the organ in the church. Thus the space is only filled with music and the changing light throught the day. This lightness, airy space and Four Season share the same spirit of Venice.

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Site

On foot from Campo S.Margherita

By waterbus

Campo San Margherita

Ponte dell'Accademia

the Accademia Art Gallery

On foot from Accademia

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Water, Bridge and square are four unique features of Venice. And they define the specific site for this gathering, which is on the side of Grand Canal close to one of the four bridges across the canal and famous Campo S. Martguerita. It is S. Vidal, a lovely church where a indoor Vivaldi concert is held every week.

By waterbus

Important places

Walking route

Gondola ferry

Waterbus route

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Sketch

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Models

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Acoustic Analysis

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By analysing the paths of sound rays, it is easy to correct most of the acoustic faults at the design stage. And it can also help me to determine which areas require reinforcement( in a form of reflector), and which require damping(in a form of absorber). In this way can I avoid some faults Geometric Acoustic Analysis such as Flutter Echo and Dead Spot.

This analysis of Sound Pressure Level shows which areas of the space can receive direct sound(purple) and which areas receive reverberation and echoes(other colors). The different distributions of direct sound and reverberation result in different sound Sound Pressure Level Analysis effects.

To achieve the uniform distribution of sounds needs to analyze the loudness of the space. This diagram indicates that the " water drop" space has a good acoustic performance. Loudness Distribution Analysis

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Materials and Models

sketch about how to connect the panels and form a curved surface

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Step II

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Now-plex Cinema Los Angeles 201 Yale School of Architecture Joe Day, Michelle Paul

This proposal examines the possibilities to break from the conventional cinema to multi-projection on different surfaces. It starts from exploration into how spaces at different levels in time-space system. By formally breaking the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blank Boxâ&#x20AC;? and focus on the interfusion, opening and folding of surfaces, this proposal not only changes the relationship be-

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Daytime Section

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

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Night Section

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Plans

shop balcony

vision library

Second Floor Plan 1:30 cafe

kitchen

tickets

foyer

main theatre

small theatre

storage&service

shop

First Floor Plan Second Floor Plan 1:30

foyer

Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan 1:30

West west Elevation elevation

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restaurant

balcony

exhibition space

Fourth Floor Plan 1:30 exhibition space

individual theatre

gallery kitchen

restaurant

Third Floor Plan

1:30

west elevation

Fourth Floor Plan 1:30

Roof Plan

Roof Plan 1:30

North southElevation elevation

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Perspective

Entrance

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3rd Floor Cafe and Library

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From Isolation to Connection

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Fall River, MA, USA, 2011 Yale School of Architecture Fred Koetter/Ed Mitchell H.I.Feldman Nominee

Fall River in MA is a city without public center. It’s city fabric was largely changed by blooming mill industry during 19th and early 20th century. The population growth and industrial development demanded large amount of housing and infrastructure. This “Spindle City” experienced the most dramatic expansion in 1871 and 1872 and had 1/6 of all New England cotton capacity and one-half of all print cloth production. In the 1960s, the city’s landscape was drastically transformed with the construction of the Braga Bridge and I195, which cut directly through the heart of the city. In the wake of the highway boom, the city lost some great pieces of its history. The Quequechan River was filled in and re-routed for much of its length. The historic falls, which had given the city its name, was diverted into underground culverts. A series of elevated steel viaduct was constructed as to access the new Braga Bridge. Many historic buildings were demolished. In 1970s, several modern apartment high-rise towers were built throughout the city. However, today along with the outsourcing of the textile manufactory, Fall River is experiencing the economy recession. How to utilize the superfluous infrastructures to revitalize the city becomes a critical problem. Instead of tearing down, we consider these infrastructures part of Fall River’s history. By building as little as possible,our approach is the most efficient and gentle “City Repair”. Lang Wang

OUR APPROACH

HISTORY

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Fall River in 1910

Fall River in 1983

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EXISTING PROBLEMS CONNECTION The connection between city center and waterfront is interrupted by highway and viaduct. The street is not well-constructed neither. However, by investing the site carefully, we found a potential connection---anawan street. Our aim is to enhance this link as much as possible, and to make it a new main street for tourism and also for new creative industry of Fall River.

PUBLIC SPACE There is also a lack of defined public space in Fall River. The existing public spaces are isolated. Their view to the waterfront is also blocked by various infrastructure. In order to make a lively street, it is necessary to reorganize these public spaces and figure-ground relationship . Thus there will be a sequence of public spaces . It will also help to form a good inside-outside relationship.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS It is obvious that the public buildings are along the existing main street. There are no places attracting people along the waterfront, not to mention the streets that connect city center and waterfront. This is a urgent problem---how to insert new programs/industry to attract people and form community? What kind of people will be there? What is the atmosphere?

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The main idea of this scheme is to use independent buildings to reorganize the fragmented space in Fall River to create a new public center. Thus it can be implemented based on the funds.

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We divide the whole scheme into 3 parts-Waterfront Street, Big Bowl Campus, and Triangle building. In Waterfront Street, we develop two districts--commercial districts and art district. We want to use different programs to attract residents, artists and young people to come to this area. And the new buildings cooperate with the existing ones to form a sequence of public space, and the changed river flows provide an opportunity for people to experience water when they walk in the street.

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Art Studios

Art District

Pier

Hotel Hotel Pier

Theater Theater Shops Shops Community Community college college

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Waterfront District District Waterfront

For the Big Bowl Campus, we transformed the abandoned viaducts into a complex with train station, art gallery, cafe and shops. To get rid of the heavy traffic, we created a lifted landscape to form a enclosed civic space with a pedestrian system that connects Main Street, Waterfront Park and the Train Station.

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Analysis

NEW BUILDINGS By inserting independent buildings, we reorganize the figure-ground relationship. These mix-use buildings also become CITY-GENERATORS to revitalize the street life.

LANDSCAPE The water system is restored and becomes an important landscape element of all districts. It reminds people of Fall Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history----from a river city to a post-industrial city. By inserting new buildings, Anawan Street is emphasized as the connection between waterfront and city center. They also form small intimate public spaces along the street.

EXISTING SITUATION---REUSE Some of the existing buildings are re-used for institutions, such as art school and art studio. The abandoned viaduct becomes a link between different districts and contains various public programs.

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College/Commerce

Art Parking

Train Station Commerce

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LAND USE

Recreation and Culture

WATER SYSTEM

TRAIN

PARKING=4200 SPOTS

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AUTOMOBILE ROUTES

PEDESTRIAN SYSTEM

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Architectural Solutions

Ground Plan

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City Center New Plaza/Shopping Mall College Gallery & Cafe

Train Station Shops

The Big Bowl Campus and New Plaza are the center of this design and also the area we decide to figure out the architectural solutions. For the Big Bowl Campus, we transformed the abandoned viaducts into a complex with train station, art gallery, cafe and shops. To get rid of the heavy traffic, we created a lifted landscape to form a enclosed civic space with a pedestrian system that connects Main Street, Waterfront Park and the Train Station. For the Triangle building, which is the new public center of Fall River, we transform the odd wedge of the main new building intervention into a bouncing series of arched structures that housed a supermarket, classroom spaces and parking for the train that were energetic, spatially complex and utterly memorable.

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“Big Bowl” Campus

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“Big Bowl” Campus

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6 Amphitheatre 7 Garage 8 Bus Station 9 Theatre

LIFTED LANDSCAPE

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Bowl Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, 2012 Yale School of Architecture Tod Williams/Billie Tsien

In preparation of a Brazilian feast before traveling to Sao Paulo, the studio was instructed to design and fabricate a utensil and vessel for display and consumption of a prepared dish. Camar達o com Chuchu, one of the traditional Brazilian seafood dish is served in this bowl made of cherry wood. The inspiration came from the large shells, and results in the back pattern. It is relatively heavy and thick, to present the property of wood.

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Visualization Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2009

This project aims at analyzing and represent one thing as structure. I choose cat. Through study its skeleton, I understand how different parts of its body come together and move when a cat moves. Then this study about skeleton transforms into a sculpture where I use basic shapes to represent bones.

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Chair

Cut holes and prepare materials

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Connections between cones

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Light, Space and People San Carlo Church, Rome, Italy, 2012 Yale School of Architecture

This project is about light and space in San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Borromini. Along with the change of light from the dram, different part of the church is highlighted, the overall space also changes slightly. By depicting the ceiling,capital, frieze, doors and people in the light, the final drawing tries to capture the geometry of the space, but also peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities and how they interact with the space and light. In all of these little watercolors,I tried to use various colors and different techniques to evoke the special light and mood in this quiet church. They all together form the interior and reflect the atmosphere of this special church in Rome.

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Rome, Continuity and Change

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Rousham Garden

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