Selected Works 2013-2017_Fang Nan_WIP

FANG NAN Selected Works | 2013-2017

FANG NAN fn7uu@virginia.edu | +1 (434) 466 0695 | 2021 Ivy Rd, Apt C5, Charlottesville, VA 22903 EDUCATION 08/2016- 05/2018

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Master of Architecture

08/2011- 05/2015 Xi' an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), Architecture, RIBA Part1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 09/2015- 08/2016 DnA_ Design and Architecture( XU Tiantian), Beijing, China Assistant Architect - Songyang Hotel, Songyang, Zhejiang, China (under construction) SD, DD, CA - Hotel Wind, Xiamen, Fujian, China SD, DD - Shicang Cultural Museum. Songyang, Zhejiang, China (built) SD 06/2014- 09/2014 MBAA Michael Bradley Architecture, Shanghai, China Intern COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS 03/2018

AIA|DC Unbuilt Washington Award 2018, Uva Non- comissioned projects (Folded Barcelona: A New Catalan Parliament)

06/2014

PLASTICITY COMPETITION, Suzhou, China Digital design to fabrication competition by TEX-FAB (Collaboration with Prof. Nancy Diniz)

09/2013

Introducing and Demonstrating Earthquake Engineering Research in School(IDEERS) An international earthquake competition by Taiwan National Applied Research Laboratories and British Council (Collaboration with Prof. Thomas Fischer and Christane M. Herr) Most Preferable Award Most Creative Structural Design (Engineering) First Prize Most Creative Architectural Design (Art) Second Prize

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 01/2018- 05/2018 Teaching Assistant, Uva Design Thinking with Prof. Elgin Cleckley A 3rd-year undergraduate all-major course using the design thinking path to propose multidisciplinary projects and strategic solutions.

09/2017- 12/2017 Barcelona Study Abroad Program, Uva 11/2016- 08/2017 Research Assistant, Uva Heritage and Preservation with Prof. Andrew Johnston Research on on-going preservation projects in China.

10/2014

“Design and Research: Shared Territories” Exhibition, Suzhou, China Physical models of the prototypes made for TEX-FAB competition were exhibited (Curators: Prof. Anuradha Chatterjee, Marian Macken and Thomas Fischer)

02/2014

URBAN PARASITE International Workshop, Suzhou, China (Cooperation with RheinMain University of Applied Science)

SKILLS AutoCAD | Rhinoceros | Sketchup | Revit | Maxwell | V-ray | Grasshopper Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Indesign | Adobe Illustrator ArcGIS | Physical Modeling | Lasercutting | 3D Printing | CNC router

LANGUAGES Chinese Mandarin (native) | English (proficient) | Spanish (basic)

Selected Works 2013 - 2018

01 FOLDED BARCELONA |

Fall 2017

AIA | DC UNBUILT WASHINGTON AWARD

02 A THOUSAND PLATFORMS |

Spring 2017

03 PARASITING CAMPBELL HALL | 04 BUILDING CO-OP |

Fall 2016

05 MADISON COUNTY CHAPEL | 06 THE MOIXIGANGA SPACE | 07 SWING TOWER |

Spring 2018

Spring 2017

Fall 2017

Summer 2013

MOST PREFERABLE AWARD // MOST CREATIVE STRUCTURAL DESIGN //

MOST CREATIVE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

--08 SONGYANG HOTEL |

2016

PROFESSIONAL WORK | UNDERCONSTRUCTION

01 FOLDED BARCELONA A NEW C ATAL AN PARLIAMENT Project Type: Academic Work, Architecture and Urban Design Time: Fall 2017 Instructor: Prof. Manuel Bailo Esteve Collaborated with Haoruo Zhu Site Location: Barcelona, Spain Area: 21,000m2 As the new Catalan parliament, the project is telling the story of Barcelona and Catalonia, to help better understand the city, the rhythm, the urban morphology, the complexity and its beauty.

Like what have happened before in the city of Barcelona, turning the fortress into the city’s public park, turning the military castle into the Olympic and culture area, this project decided to occupy the existing military building and turn it into a public space.

Barcelona, as a city lying it’s back on the mountain and facing the Mediterranean sea, represents the most distinctive character of Catalonia. Thus, being the new Catalan parliament and a public space, the project is aiming to capture this vital character of the city, fold and compress this city-scale experience into an existing fabric. To create connection all the way through mountain to the sea. To grasp the moments of the shifting of its urban composition. This is a place keep reminding people where they were and who they are.

Montjuic

Ciutadella

Part of the democracy is to open up private ownership to the general public. Examples could be found during the development of Barcelona. The Parc de la Ciutadella was turned from the fortress into a public park. Montjuic was turned from the castle into the Olympic park and cultural area.

credit to Fangli Zhang

Accessbility

Existing One main entrance with other entrances from all direction.

Proposal Keep the main entrance, create another to connect from the Moll.

Existing Accessable from all facades with entrances.

Proposal Open the back facade as street- facing restaurant.

Existing Two regular coutyards providing lighting, not open to public.

Proposal Re-locate the courtyards so that they are also accessible for public from the street.

Existing Several buildings together form a street facade.

Proposal Demolish and build a new building, keep the urban pattern in the pathway.

Existing Buildings between two pasages, no public space.

Proposal Provide open space and lift up the ground floor to provide accessbility.

Street Relationship

Courtyards

Urban Pattern

Open Space

Existing Interpretation In order to decide what to keep and what to demolish, the existing building and its surroundings were analyzed in different aspects. Some were kept physically (the building facade, the main entrance, etc.), some were kept in a more subtle way such as demolishing the building but use the pathway to keep and re-interpret its urban pattern.

exterior pathway

pathway

private

interior connection

vertical transportation

public

punch openings

structure

courtyard

Existing Fabric Facade

Private Function

Mountain

Eixample Public Function

Gothic Quarter

Sea

Harbour

Axonometric Diagram Sitting in an existing building fabric, the bottom part serves the public functions of library, cafe, auditorium, etc., while the upper part is the private parliament functions of offices and meeting rooms, with hemicycle in the middle. The pathway leads to the various views to the outside of which each turn represents a different Barcelona pattern.

Experience the city

Compress the experience

Embody the experience

from sea to mountain with urban public spaces

12km city scale experience to 120m with public spaces

create a new pathway inside an existing building

Facade and Roof Detail

2-ply sealant layer 160mm PUR lanimated aluminium foil vapour barrier layer 300mm reinforces concrete 60mm thermal insulation in aluminium frame 20mm marine plywood

Insulation glazing: 2x10mm laminated safty glass + 14mm cavity + 12mm toughened glass in aluminium frame

Bridge Connection Detail

2-ply sealant layer 160mm PUR, lanimated aluminium foil, vapour barrier layer 120mm/2mm sheet metal decking 200mm depth I beam 20mm marine plywood

60mm anhydrite screed 40mm acoustic insulation 300mm reinforced concrete 20mm marine plywood

Site Se

To activate Moll de la Fusta and to grasp the i is to re-design part of the Moll, create a conne that people from the water side can directl

ection

idea of a city growing from the sea, the idea ection between the Moll and the building so ly enter the building from the lower level.

Old&New Joint Detail

60mm anhydrite screed 120mm/2mm sheet metal decking with poured concrete 500mm depth I shape beam 20mm marine plywood

15mm composite screed 80mm thermal insulation 80mm thermal insulation in aluminium frame 500mm depth I shape beam 5mm rusted steel sheet

Axonometric The two buildings, the main building occupying the existing military building and the office building across the street, together forms a series of public spaces.

Activates Moll de la Fusta and the open spaces of Gothic Quarter, at the same time forms different kinds of public spaces inside the building.

5F Plan

3F Plan

1F Plan

View to Passage

Moll Elevation Pathway as the spine of the building, starting from the Moll to the interior of the main building and to the exterior roof terrace of the office building, leading to the scattered views to form a collaged Barcelona.

Unfolded Plan The functions are organized along the path. By unfolding the plan, it is clear that different functions are placed on both sides. However, different functions and different groups of people will overlap and meet when folded and compressed into the existing building volume. The pathway is the most active public space that can lead to any other public spaces in the building. At the same time, creating openings on the existing facade to allow and frame the view to the exterior, with the order of how the city is planned, starts with the sea and end with the mountain.

View to Gothic Quarter

View to Sea

View to Mountain

02 A THOUSAND PL ATFORMS A MIX -USED BUILDING COMPLEX WITH SHARED TERRITORIES Project Type: Academic Work, Urban Design Time: Spring 2017 Instructor: Prof. Manuel Bailo Esteve Collaborated with Shaocong Liu Site Location: Hudson Yards, New York, US Area: 200,000m2, FAR 8 (30% residential, 25% light industry, 25% office and 20% retail) Within the density of New York, every surface is shared in some format. New Yorkers are seeking for open public spaces like Central Park to take a breath from its density.

High-rise buildings together with the pedestrian passage next to it are forming a typical format of NYC blocks. Buildings are defining their territories by the way they touch the ground and thus isolated from each other. Empty spaces between buildings are becoming left-over spaces for passing instead of urban public spaces for gathering. Then what is obstructing the idea of sharing? I’d say boundary. Boundaries are easily built up by building facades, floor slabs, a door, a window or even the change of pavement.

The project aims to provide the maximum public spaces with fulfilling the high-density programmatic requirements. The proposal attempts to break the boundaries between every singular building and the ground level, between floor slabs.

The idea is to create shared spaces between different functions and individual living units, to apply open plan to nonresidential floors to maximize the sharing condition, to provide a continuous experience from the ground floor plaza to the building interior spaces.

World Trade Center

Madison Square Park

SITE

Hudson Yards

Bryant Park

Rockefeller Center

Lincoln Center

Poor Richard’s Playground

metro station

commercial

metro line

street

manufacture

transfer station

residential

SITE Rockefeller Center Central Park

Horizontal Site Relations

Vertical Site Relations

place the building according to the gap provided by the existing building around to create an enclosure facing the waterside for the plaza in the center

adjust the building heights according to the surrounding buildings at the same time fulfill FAR8 area requirements

Building Connections

The Plaza

cut the edges of the buildings so that buildings facing each other are sharing the same axis

using the axis of building connections to help generate the plaza going down from the city side to the water side

Building Structure

Bring Water

both ends of each individual building work as the main vertical structure and spaces for services and staircases

bring water from Hudson River to the plaza, with the sloped surface, it could be plaza, water landscape and a place for ice-skating

Functions

Shared Floors

Structure

Ground

The idea is to introduce a public plaza in the center, surrounded by five buildings of different scales. The plaza gradually steps down from the city side to the river side, creating a smooth continues surface from the exterior all the way to the building interior floor slabs.

Floor Plan

Front Facade Axonometric

Back Facade View

For each single floor, the fluidity of space leds to an uneven spatial experience. The scale varys from intimate and private to a sharing public space. By obliterating the rigid floor to floor framework, the combining of different levels are unlikely to be stacking and repeating, but rather an organic composition of scales, activities, and scenarios.

Slab

Core

Side Openingings

Office Use Floors

Office Lounge View

Auditorium View

Residential Use Floors

Back Facade Individual Unit

Front Facade Sharing Unit

03 PARASITING C AMPBELL HALL THE WES T WING ADDITION Project Type: Academic Work, Architecture Design Time: Spring 2018 Instructor: Prof. Luis Pancorbo Individual Site Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Area: 1,800m2 Campbell Hail, with its situation of sitting on top of the surrounding topography, deals with the site condition with its own attitude. It has large openings that help bringing the nice view into the building, and it has many entrances that people can access the building from different directions on different levels. However, at the same time, with this multi-entrance situation, it brings up a scattered condition that people are not gathered together for better communication and sharing of works.

Due to the increasing number of the students in the school, the extension of studio space, exhibition space, and also the innovative makerspaces of which the FabLab takes an essential role, is necessary.

With these programmatic requirements buried in mind, the proposed idea is to create a new lobby, a new gathering space and exhibition space with a central circulation that could bring people from both north and south sides to help resolve this current situation of scattering. Without disrupting the nice view provided by the large openings, the parasite extension attaches on the opaque walls on the west corner supported by its own structure.

Phase 1

columns and foundations

Phase 2

trusses conneted with columns

post- tension concre

Longitudin

Cut through the diagonal connection, the stud lab. Showing the addition is rapping around linked by several dia

Phase 3

ete slab construction

nal Section

dio space and the double- height robotic arm d the existing building with functional boxes agonal connections.

Phase 4

The steel structure building is composed of pre-fabricated steel trusses and joints, post-tension concreted slabs, steel columns, glass facade and the mesh shading system. They are brought to site and constructed together.

adding facade structure

View to Existing Building The contrast between the existing Campbell Hall and the new addition demonstrate a dialoge between different materials, structural systems and composition of space.

Studio View The arrangement of 3rd and 4th floor studio space continutes the existing floor organization, large open plans containing clusters of individual working area, group work space and discussing area.

Transverse Section 1 Cut through lobby area and the diagonal studio space connecting from the entrance volume to the lifted up studio volume.

Transverse Section 2 Cut through 3rd and 4th floor studio area. Show connection between the new addition and the Campbell Hall existing builidng.

Vertical Section/ Horizontal Sections 1 50mm rubber for drainage water barrier 140mm thermal insulation 150mm composite decking with reinforce bar 600/300/30mm steel I-beam 20mm gypsum board 2 mesh 30/30/10mm steel frame for mesh 6mm glass+12mm cavity+6mm glass steel truss structure 3 100mm concrete slab 400mm post-tension slab 4 100mm concrete slab 400/300/20mm steel I-beam 100mm thermal insulation 5 1000/400/0.5mm aluminium shingles, coatless, rolled, on 10mm cement-bound chipboard

04 BUILDING CO-OP AN ADAPTABLE SELF - CONS TRUCT SYS TEM OF EXC HANGE Project Type: Academic Work, Urban Design Time: Fall 2016 Instructor: Prof. Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich Individual Location: Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico Iztapalapa is forming from fragments, and it is a city of growth. As a densely populated suburb, the none-planned informal settlement leads to a limited situation of which residents are constructing attachments to the original building components to satisfy the ongoing growth. Each house is a self-sufficient unit as individual. Within the limited material and technique, they build, demolish and build again. This is not what we called “development�.

Civic city is not merely about space occupation, but a system of negotiation between occupation and public space.

Instead of being groups of isolated units, Iztapalapa should be a city as a self- sufficient community considering its culture of self- sufficiency.

This project is an attempt to seek for a response to the growth and link the individuals. Under the constantly changing situation, it is a negotiation between what is defined for them and what could be defined by themselves. It is place of exchange that people gathers, exchange for knowledge and techniques and communicates. It is a structure provides the modular system, and could be generated according to multiple functions. It is a system that keeps growing.

Eatery

Vendor's Shop Rest Area

Material Storage

Toilet Clothing Shop

Workshop

Tailor's Shop Electric Appliance Shop

Catalog of Building Attachment Construction

Flat Roof Structure semi-open shelter

Pitch Roof Structure semi-open shelter

Shell Roof Structure semi-open shelter

Steel Box enclosed space

Plastic Box enclosed space

Concrete Box enclosed space

Tent moveable structure

Catalog of Materials & Joints Steel Tubes - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + + + attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + + insulating ability: o o o o weight: + + + o cost: + + o o - USAGE: structure elements as columns and beams

Lumber - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + o o attainability: + + o o recyclability: + + + + insulating ability: + + o o weight: + + o o cost: + + + + - USAGE: structure elements as columns and beams, forms and supports for brick&cement structure, interior finishings or exterior claddings

Corrugated Sheet - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + o o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + + insulating ability: o o o o weight: + o o o cost: + + o o - USAGE: roof covering

Polycarbonate Plastic Sheet - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + o o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + + insulating ability: + o o o weight: + o o o cost: + o o o - USAGE: roof covering

MESH layer a translucent layer creating the building envelope and visual connections

NYLON layer a cheap material that is simple to set up and prevent rainwater

Brick+Cement - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + + o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + o o o insulating ability: + + + + weight: + + + + cost: + o o o - USAGE: a complete enclosure

Plastic Sheet - IDENTITY: structural stability: o o o o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + o insulating ability: + o o o weight: + o o o cost: + o o o - USAGE: cladding or roof covering for tents

String+Fabric - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + o o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + o insulating ability: o o o o weight: + o o o cost: + o o o - USAGE: tent structure

Stick+Fabric - IDENTITY: structural stability: + + o o attainability: + + + + recyclability: + + + o insulating ability: o o o o weight: + o o o cost: + o o o - USAGE: tent structure

STRUCTCURE layer steel structure using welded joints as a permanent structure

INTERIOR layer using steel corrugated sheet as a secure layer

Eatery The foldable structure can open-up during daytime to work as shelter for fast food or street food.

Workshop This is a workshop teaching the basic skills of fixing electric appliance at the same time a tool station for the neighborhood.

Electric Appliance Shop The shop works basically as a recycle and fixing center, and sells or helps to exchange second hand products.

Bicycle Fixing The indoor space provides bicycle fixing, while the outside provides bicycle pumps and basic tools for those who can handle by themselves.

05 MADISON COUNT Y C HAPEL Project Type: Academic Work, Architecture Design Time: Spring 2017 Instructor: Prof. Ted Jones Collaborated with Yi Yang Site Location: Charlottesville, Virginia, US Area: 230m2 To design a chapel at Madion County, the two essential factors are the topography and the openness of the site.

Considering the site condition, the design proposal used a curved concrete wall to form a leading gesture that indicates the visitors from the open land into a more human scale interior space. The curve itself also form a meditation space inside the chapel. The large trianglar shaped opening frames the nice view to the outside and creates the contrast between the openness and the heaviness of the walls made of concrete and timber that are easily get on site.

Concrete Wall/ Roof: 1 100mm concrete 2 120mm insulation 3 250mm reinforced concrete

Timber Wall/ Roof: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

aluminum standing seam roof sheets water proof layer 22mm rough-sawn board 180mm insulation vapour barrier 100mm laminated cross-boarded timber 100/100mm timber battens 150/300mm structural timber columns

Floor: 1 20mm floor finishing 2 80mm cement screed with underfloor heating, PE foil 3 100mm concrete 4 vapour barrier 5 100mm insulation

Roof Detail

Site Plan

Pivit Door Detail

Foundation Detail

aluminum standing seam roof sheets water proof layer 22mm rough-sawn board 180mm insulation vapour barrier 100mm laminated cross-boarded timber

Different materials are not touching each other so that the gaps in between help bring nice lighting to the interior.

100/100mm timber battens 150/300mm structural timber columns

mechanical floor pivit door

06 THE MOIXIGANGA SPACE THE URBAN PUBLIC SPACE FOR HUMAN TOWER Project Type: Academic Work, Urban Design Time: Fall 2017 Instructor: Prof. Manuel Bailo Esteve Collaborated with Haoruo Zhu Location: Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain Human tower is a Catalan traditional way of celebration. Every year, people gather and whisper to see the centuries old tradition at many different places in the city. This project is to design a public space for human tower, considering spaces for both athletes who are building the tower and the audience watching. The idea is to break the clear division between artificial and natural surfaces of the site of Barceloneta, and to use the height difference between the two to create the spectators’ space. In this case, building human towers on beach or water also provides protection.

bring urban fabric to nature bring nature to urban fabric

changing room & locker

the beach

Forum

Plaza Glories

SITE

Ciutadella Park

the city

Plaza Catalunya

Montjuic

urban fabric manmade nature nature

design proposal

spectator's space

the beach

human tower space

e

Low Tide: sand goes into the urban fabric

High Tide: water goes into the urban fabric

the beach

the sea

resting space on water

the sea

07 SWING TOWER EARTHQUAKE- RESIS TANCE S TRUCTURAL DESIGN COMPETITION Project Type: Competition, Structural Design Time: Summer 2013 Instructor: Prof. Thomas Fischer and Prof. Christiane M. Herr Team member: Siyao Wang, Henan Xiong, Haoruo Zhu, Fang Nan Location: Taipei, Taiwan Purpose: design and construct a model at the competition venue.

Time Limit: each team has 6 hours for constructing the model.

Testing method: shaking table Opponents: 40 teams from world-wide engineering schools.

Strategy: invent a new structural system Materials used for construction

metal weight block

rubber band

medium-density fiberboard

hot-melt glue

cotton string

competition day

Awards: Most Creative Architectural Design Award Most Creative Structural Design Award Most Preferable Award

Rubber Band Connection Rubber band tied onto reinforced column working as energy absorbing damper. Then using string as cable to tie the cradle onto the rubber band on the column.

Cradle System The cradle which contains the load of each floor, has the ability to swing within a certain range, providing a control force to neutralize the building motion. Meanwhile, it transmits the kinetic energy to the damper to help avoid heavy shear force and bending moment acting on the vertical structural elemnts.

Cradle Connection Each corner of the cradle is connected to the column by the string in two directions: horizontally to one damper and up to another damper.

Automated Building Shakes

Building Motion Mass Shakes

+

=

control force

linked by rubber damper

Building Motion

control force

Building Motion

+

= control force Multi - Stories

Rotating Columns Columns rotating in two directions, acting as a bracing system, led to a super rigid exterior skeleton, containing the interior cradle system.

08 SONGYANG HOTEL Project Type: Professional Work, under construction Time: September 2015- April 2016 DnA_ Design and Architecture Site Location: Songyang, Zhejiang, China Client: Songyang Government Area: 8,000m2 This is a resort hotel project in Songyang, Zhejiang Province, China. The site locates at Damushan tea valley, the major tourist attraction in Songyang. A series of public space and facilities are requested in Damushan to as leisure and resting purpose for local villages, tea farmers as well as tourists. The project is considered not only as a hotel, but as a landscape that provides leisure and market space for local residents.

The previous excavation of the mountain has destoryed the natural landscape of the site, and the idea is to use the building to patch this excavation at the same time create a natural courtyard. Each bar represents a volume of a single floor, and the building sets back to align with the topography. The building takes advantage of the natural elements and brings the mountain to the interior space, thus it blurs the boundary between interior and exterior, human built and natural crafts.

Responsibilities: - Architecture and Interior design - 3D Modeling - Technical Drawings (plans, sections, elevations) - Diagrams - Organize the team to produce presentation package - Meet with clients and local design institutes to solve problems

1F Plan

2F Plan

Lobby View

Restaurant View

Corridor View

One type of room

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