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Firion Wang M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture
Portfolio
Firion Wang Southern California Institute of Architecture M.Arch II 813 Alpine St. Apt 205 Los Angeles, CA 90012 +1 213-421-6327 firion.wang@gmail.com Š 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of copyright owner.
Firion Wang M.Arch II Southern California Institute of Architecture
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REPLICA Design Studio
FALL 2016 DS 1200 ( 2GAX ): Complex Morphologies Instructor: Marcelyn Gow Team: Firion Wang, Fiona NG
This studio will interrogate the potential of the replica in architecture. Advancing recent debates regarding influence, affinity and appropriation in architecture, we will adopt an approach that exploits the potential for architectural acts of appropriation to engender new forms of authenticity and to challenge context and type within an architectural project. Quotation as a postmodern form of referencing an ‘original’ and subsequent forays into sampling including kitbashing and the mash-up are various forms through which appropriation has surfaced in architectural discourse and practice. A more contemporary notion of the replica ties it to the status of the object in architecture and its inherent potential to engender multiple and coexisting forms of legibility; raising questions of scalability ranging from the colossus to the miniature. This approach involves the selection of copies (found objects) instead of the creation of originals.
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Chair Study Given that the studio will interrogate the potential of the replica in architecture, the first exercise will focus on the replication of a source object, the Thonet chair, through a series of digital models that explore various mereological relationships. Each student will produce three models that alter the parttowhole logics inherent to the piece of furniture. The source object is based on threedimensional curves which produce a range of silhouettes. These silhouettes will be used to produce both massive and linear forms.
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Cleantech Incubator This project, the design for a cleantech incubator, starts off with close geometric analysis of the form of a thonet chair, breaking its primary curves into smaller spline segments and reimagining them as threedimensional pipes that wrap around the building mass. The resulting frame not only serves as external ornament to the building but also as a structure that perforates through the building envelope and floor slabs. The splines extracted from the thonet chair also inform the curved, inflated surfaces of the building, as well as subtly redefining the rigid edges where these surfaces meet. The project has taken into account Manfredo Tafuri’s metaphor that compares the assembly of lines to the organisation of modern urbanism, where hierarchical chains should be presented in a way that each parent object must be seen as an assemblage of smaller ones; architecture does not describe anymore a form, but organizes different principles of the city. The project affirms this and during the assembly of splines, certain parts are arranged together to create specific effects and purposes for the building. MASTER PLAN
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SECTION
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TEXTURE: Painting from David Reed Brought into Processing.
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REPLICA + DD FALL 2017 AS 3222: Advanced Structure Instructor: Herwig Baumgartner, Brian Zamora Original Design Team: Firion Wang, Fiona NG DD Team: Firion Wang, Zhikai Chen, Bingyi Li, Ruoya Li
This course investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. The course includes a reviser of basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, environmental systems, buildings service systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this course is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the built environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project and Stewardship of the environment.
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SELECTION OF THE STRUCTURE SYSTEMS
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SELECTION OF THE STRUCTURE SYSTEMS
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
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CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATING
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LEUCHTTURM
LEUCHT TURM Master in Architecture Spring 2015
Instructor: Dieter Geissbuehler Role: Chief Designer
The “Light Tower“ would become a landmark of the local cultural project “Halbinsel“ in Horw, Luzern, Switzerland.Client required that basically the building would provide spaces for exhibition, lectures and information of current events in Horw. The building must be expressive enough while the budget was very limited. Prof. Dieter Geissbühler was leading the 11-people class to do the project. The semester started in February. Firstly we worked for 3 weeks individually to have 11 ideas, then the teachers would choose 3-5 ideas to continue, and students would team up and work together. After another 2 month the teachers and clients would discuss and decide which one to be executed. The small tower was planned to be standing there in the end of August 2015.
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A Symbol in Horw Initial Idea The site locates in a parking lot near the bus station “Horw Zentrum“, just a minute walk towards Migros, Coop, Kantanal Bank and Reiffessen. Also, the local church is just about a hundred meters away. In deed this is the center of Horw and plenty of people walk pass by everyday. Due to the finance and the regulations, we were informed that the building must not be higher than 20 meters. Another settled requirement was, the fundamental material must be wood, and it is better be executed by the traditional wood construction method. Also, we were suggested to introduce natural wood in the project. Thinking of its functions and temporality, I started to try to build a fascinating open structure that seems to absorb things in.
MAIN STRUCTURE
SECONDARY STRUCTURE
ADDING STAIRS
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Shear Walls as Exhibition Boards
Natural Wood Scaffolding
Platform
Traditional Chinese scaffolding is made by long bamboos. They are simple, easy to be made and quite stable. One important feature is that the bamboo pieces are connected by rope knots. Skillful workers can make a knot very efficiently. Thus the bamboo scaffolding saves time and money for the investigators.
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The Scalffolding Team Up I worked with Shiyao Li later. We both agreed that the building should create an atmosphere of the unfinished and continued the scaffolding concept. During the critic I acknowledged the 3-layers scaffolding was too complicated and expensive. Additionally, People should not reach higher than 3 meters because of fire regulation in the situation of this project. The design was reduced and simplified to pure scaffolding. As well as the material, changed from smooth artificial wood to natural wood trunks that we could collect in a nearby forest, connected by rope knot just like the way Chinese do. After a series of adjustment, our design became the only one that is not only expressive and fit the demands of the clients, but also cheap enough to be built within low budget.
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We had a long discussion through months with the engineers about how to make the tower stiff. One always propose to use steel ropes diagonally installed in the between the trunks. But we didn’t like it for it disturbed the expression of a pure scaffolding. Insisting and looking for solutions, we were finally able to persuade the engineer that 12 vertical pieces of trunks that continued from the base to the top, fixed by artificial walls in the ground floor could make the tower stiff enough.
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PUT ON SITE
The stairs were no longer designed in the corner but in the place where there was supposed to be the platform, for this could be a lot easier to be produced and construct on site. Each step is approximately 80cm wide and allows people to slow down. The sky is opened up from the ground floor where natural light creates nice atmosphere in the octagonal room. Now we have only one small platform on the second floor for lectures.
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THE SHAPE OF KNOWLEDGE
THE SHAPE OF KNOWLEDGE Design Studio
Instructor: Elena Manferdini Team: Firion Wang, Ge Wang SPRING 2017 DS 1201 ( 2GBX ): Generative Morphologies
If it is true that an excellent curriculum, great leadership and inspirational teaching are keys to driving academic standards, a school’s physical design and location can drastically impact academic performance within the student population. The aesthetic of a building can significantly contribute to the public appearance of an institution and promote specific interactions between students, faculty and the public at large. Our spring 2017 2GBX studio will take on this controversial discussion and will attempt to delineate how contemporary architecture can engage with the cunning politics of architecture in relation to learning spaces. Each of the three studios will have a different focus on this problem. Elena Manferdini’s studio will focus on the ambiguous potentials of material finishes and their applications in the design of façades and interiors. Cunning optical effects will be at the center of the studio exploration, because of their ability to instigate multiple readings. The politics of materials will be a device to engage with the difficult task of producing something unique out of something whose appearance by definition should be universal: the image of knowledge. The approach to materials will be cosmetic, cunning, relativistic and experiential.
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SCI Arc Loop As Sciarc is a futuristic school within its architectural field, the aim of our project is to give Sciarc a new identity, not only as an educational place, but also a place of communication, exhibition, which will also be the hub for future technologies.
Phase 2 and phase 1 are not physically connected, but consistent in massing. Together they create a loop, give Sciarc a new consistent face, in the meantime, frames the old Sciarc in the middle. In this way, the culture and spirits of Sciarc are inherited by the new interface. Sciarc’s aesthetic, robotic and futuristic works are unique among any other architecture school, thus the new cantilevered gallery, parallel to the old Sciarc, will be the special place that gives it a stronger identity. To give the public a comprehensive understanding of Sciarc, the gallery consists of students’ works in architectural, artistic and robotic styles. It also includes public experience area for new technologies(such as VR). The massing of the project is straight and simple, but split by curvy surfaces from the inside. These surfaces minimize the division of spaces, maximize flexibility, and energize the space by their intersected curvature. Some surfaces penetrate to the facade, weaves with the straight facade and generates a new pattern that suggests the organization of the inner spaces. The facade of the old Sciarc continues at the beginning of the knot, but gradually covered by the dominating texture on the new Sciarc.
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THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE Design Studio
Instructor: Mark Foster Gage, Melissa Shin Team: Firion Wang, Jennifer Dow SPRING 2018 DS ( 3GBX ): A collaborative project between the Southern California Institute of Architecture and the Yale School of Architecture
In this seminar students will research and debate these issues and speculate on the potential status of infrastructure in the American future, through design. They will bring new tools to bear on these problems as the sheer scale of possible speculations prohibits reliance on the standard architecture student repertoire of physical models or singular 3d digital models. Accordingly students will be taught new techniques of kitbashing and methods of professional digital matte painting as used in the special effects industry. The seminar will focus exclusively on the production of highly refined, large scale, rendered digital matte paintings that convey not only the functional aspects of the projects but, more importantly, the cultural and aesthetic possibilities of construction at such vast and significant scales.
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PROPOSAL 01: OIL RIG + REFINERY + PLASTIC CONVERTER
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PROPOSAL 03: SUSTAINABLE OIL RIG
TOP VIEW PROPOSAL 02: AQUAPONIC RIG + REEF
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THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE
FINAL PROPOSAL
RIG + RESORT The ‘Rig + Resort’, is a mega infrastructure project located in the Gulf of Mexico and has launched off of Trumps recent plan of allowing new offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all United Sates coastal waters. The plan gives energy companies access to lease more than 90 percent of American waters and more than a billion acres in the Arctic and along the Eastern Seaboard. The opening of American waters to oil drilling is an introduction to privatization and a clear indication of capitalist backing. The ‘Rig + Resort’ project is a paradise that stretches over a mile long and over 1,000 feet visible above water – that is 10 times the size of a typical offshore structure. Whether they are retired or active rigs, this major infrastructure rethinks the reuse of oil rigs and platforms and what they stand for. America’s Gulf Coast states attract people from all over the world to their beautiful beaches and right alongside a flourishing tourism industry is a robust oil and natural gas industry. The Gulf of Mexico has enormous economic and political clout throughout the region. Trumps new policy integrated with the Rig + Resort project promotes thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in wealth. After the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, the Rig + Resort proposal stimulates the tourism, fishing, and oil industries while also endorsing a safer environment. It is no secret that the coastal region of the Gulf of Mexico holds many popular tourist destinations, and each year the region sees more visitors.
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HOTEL VIEW
BOAT VIEW
CLOSE-UP VIEW
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ADVANCED STRUCTURE FALL 2016 AS 3200: Complex Morphologies Instructor: Marcelyn Gow Team: Qi Jia, David Lin, Jennifer Dow, Firion Wang
The class paired areas of investigation and speculation are Tectonics -predominantly building envelopes- and Performance -largely consisting of technical, technological, cultural and environmental dimensions. Working in groups throughout the entire semester, students analyze and document a Precedent in order to formulate a series of hypotheses in an attempt to construct a number of interrelated tectonic conjectures. In scrutinizing building assemblies, the class will attempt to position construction analysis so as to produce both technical knowledge and critical awareness of embedded cultural habits. The class will thus seek out an alternative understanding of the Tectonic –one that not only mirrors the realm of construction –materials, methods, sequences, tolerances, etc.- but also embraces architectural processes of expression, encompassing issues of geometry and technique; posture and character; etc.
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ADVANCED STRUCTURE
CASE STUDY: THE BROAD MUSEUM
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CASE STUDY: THE BROAD MUSEUM
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Final Proposal Due to the hot climate, the southern facing elevation is made up of large horizontal pleated overhangs that are wide enough to block the midday winter sun year round, but also absorbs some of the sun’s heat energy to warm the building during the winter. In order to stay cool during summer evenings, passive solar buildings rely on a horizontal shading system to keep the building cool. In the proposed design, the pleated panels are scaled up and sloped so that they project out less. The south windows accept direct natural sunlight to light and warm the building interior. The integrity of the stainless steel folding elements remains throughout the design, yet corresponds to the environmental aspects based on the orientation of the building. In all three iterations we tried to show a variety of effective shading strategies in order to accomplish our goal.
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INNO SANDWICH
INNO SANDWICH Spring 2016 , Urban Design Studio, CAFA Instructor: Lin li, Dapeng Yu Individual Work
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Type2: Joint Offices
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Roof Garden
Shopping Area
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Platform
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Display Area Exhibition
Shopping Area Office
Shops
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Product Display Area
Main Entrance
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CAFA CENTENNIAL
MUSEUM FALL 2013, CAFA Instructor: Binke Lenhardt, Hao Dong Individual work
To respond to the appeal of the“centennial property“ program initiated by CAFA, commemorate the centennial of the establishment of the academy since 1918, and provide a platform for interaction among national and international art academies, various art corporations and individuals to improve their levels, CAFA has simulated a project aiming to build an art museum commemorating the significant artists and events that have contributed to the development of China’s arts. The museum should display great artworks done by generations of masters, as well as motivate the young people studying in CAFA to promote the progress of arts to an unprecedented future.
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Centennial Property The purpose of this project is to call for attention to the relationship between the architecture and its surrounding, so that the design would blend in the pattern of the city. By studying how the complex behavior and circulation, composed space function and special structure form relate to the city’s texture, we must obtain the skills to handle with such sort of architecture design and improve our understanding in function configuration, different categories of space models and methods to create harmony.
PERMANENT X2 TEMPORARY
INTERACTION AREA OPEN CLASSROOM
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The total construction area should be approx. 6000 square meters, including 2400 square meters for exhibition. The building should not be higher than 24 meters due to the fire regulation. Based on the information we have got, I thought of the apparent problems on site: it was too closed for the people from the outside, while I assumed the centennial museum should be a place where students and artists meet together and exchange ideas. The area face the north campus toward west, the street toward east, the south campus toward south. Those directions could result in different entrances. Comparing to the width of the surrounding buildings, the site seems to be pretty wide, so an idea of skylight in the middle that would be the center that connect everything came out. I tried to adjust the volume for lots of times, place the functional area as required while manage to create different height for different exhibitions. Finally, a form with overlapping layers was defined.
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Concept Design The planning of landscape was inspired by the investigation of people’s routes. Also, I opened an entrance for the art museum so that people won’t need to waste time to walk pass the north gate anymore. The ground floor plan shows the relationship between the skylight and the square. Natural light luminates the central area where you can reach the lobby, the coffee, the shop and the office.
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Program Organization The overlapping layers fit the purpose of interaction among different people. In the mean time, it allows the various functional areas to intertwine. Several heights are set for different use of the space. The temporary exhibition requires the highest space up to 8 meters which makes an exhibition for crazy sculptures possible. The permanent exhibition displays traditional paintings and sculptures that are smaller and nothing crazy, so it gets 4 meters high. The resting places are cozy with views inside and outside the building. People can also walk on the platforms and take a fresh breathe.
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DK Architecture & Urban Design + RATIO smdp Studio Role: Concept design, modelling
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CHEONGNA INTERNATIONAL CITY TOWER AND COMPLEX FACILITY DK Architecture & Urban Design + RATIO smdp Studio Role: Concept design, modelling
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FUERZA NATURAL Design Studio
Instructor: Hernan Diaz Alonso, Rachael McCall Team: Firion Wang, Sunghyun Lee FALL 2017 DS 4000 ( 3GAX ): Vertical Studio
Veering off from the well-lit roads of abstraction, this studio will explore the dark back alleys of literality. A neglected principle of interpretation and production, literality will be assumed as the guiding principle of our projects. In contrast to a typology, a species constantly mutates. A species needs a lineage—it comes from other things. Where others use words like “typology,” we will use words like “species.” While others look for categories, we will look for metamorphosis. This studio will mutate known architecture and will shamelessly exploit its clichés. Sure, Clichés are boring, but a cliché is a cliché because it’s been in the world—because people have been looking at them and using them. You may think the way to deal with a cliché is to come up with a genius abstraction. We’re not
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going to do that. We’re going to stay literal. We’re going to turn clichés into new clichés and privilege a permanent state of the present. The future and the past will always be on our minds, but we’re going to do our best to ignore it. As a way to explore the problem of literality, the studio will study carefully what we think an architectural feature or detail is and combine it with what we think a natural feature or detail is. We’re going to architecturalize the natural and naturalize the architectural. But again, we’re going to stay literal. We’re going to see if staying literal can be a new way to radicalize the idea of autonomous form.
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AERIAL VIEW
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ELEVATION
STAMPEDE ON THE FIELD The project locates at the border of the city and countryside in Rosario, Argentina. It’s mostly machine with human-use public places. It consists of multiple groups of power plants on the flower field, including public flower market plazas.
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VISUAL STUDIES I FALL 2016 4200 ( 2GAX ): Visual Studies 1 Instructor: Kristy Balliet & Casey Rehm Team: Firion Wang, Chihyi Kuo
The course will cover issues of contemporary representation and the development of splines in relation to complex digital form and physical and visual space. Visualization today encompasses the development, exploration and communication of information and ideas in multiple mediums. The course will engage recent techniques related to splines, gesture interfaces and virtual reality. The course will develop critical visual literacy and review methods for generating and evaluating lines, surfaces and volume. We will review modes of drawing and modeling in three dimensional space, including the importance of precision and abstraction. Exercises and associated tutorials provide opportunities to discover novel concepts through transformation and tactical work flows. Finally the course will foster the development of architectural character. You will be expected to develop expertise and execute your intentions with clarity.
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The Gestural Line Exercise 1 The gestural line will explore the potential and differences of the stroke, the gesture and the line. In architecture and visualization these artifacts can be associated with rhythmic repetition, erratic character, structural integrity, whimsical moments and elegant form. Thoufh the use of building and rebuilding lines the project will address issues of line, surface and volume.
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The Agency of Images Exercise 2 The agency of images will explore how composition and aesthetics can be rethought by stripping the digital image to it’s base components, the pixel, and regenerating new compositions purely through defining the relationships of those pixels to each other. UNROLLED FACADE IN PROCESSING
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The Gestural Volume Exercise 3 The gestural volume will explore the potential and differences of the stroke, the gesture and the profile, this time within the space of Virtual Reality. This exercise will challenge the prioritized view of the designer, working outside in, and instead ask that you design a volume around you, within an immersive environment. You will continue to develop a control and sensibility for repetition, erratic character, structural integrity, whimsical moments and elegant form. Building on the trajectory of software such as, TiltBrush, a program that allows you to paint in virtual space, we will use a combination of the HTC Vive and beta version of Second Studio.
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