Ivy Wang - GSAPP M Arch Application Works, 2015

COLLECTIVE INDIVIDUAL XIAOYAN (IVY) WANG

US, ITALY, CHINA, JAPAN...

I feel excited about testing my idea of “collective individual” in various urban contexts. I am always looking forward to the next experiment, in which I could try to figure out a relationship between distinct elements derived from dramatically different but also blended cultural and social ideologies.

CONTENTS

GATHER

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Fashion Pocket

Seattle, US

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Shanghai, China

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Seattle, US

Seattle, US Japan

Rethink Lilong

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Gallery/Live Space

Bonsai Garden

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Pavilion at Discovery Park

Rome, Italy

TAKE A WALK

MERGE

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INTERLOCK Eastern Paper Mill Seattle, US

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FASHION POCKET Rome, Italy Studio Project 8-week, fall 2014

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ROME STUDIO || FASHION IN POCKET

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HAVE A TALK WITH OLD CITY WALL The idea of the project is to transform the Piazza di Porta Maggiore from a busy transit hub that people just pass by to an inviting public place to linger and experience while maintaining the continuity and beauty of the ancient wall.

to recall the history to connect with the existing urban fabric and to be part of the future that is the POWER of FASHION for the whole public

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ust as the creative magic of transforming fiber, fabrics, leathers, and other materials

into beautiful garments and accessories, the fashion pocket is going to be a part of the evolutionary Rome urban fabric, when seeing each element involved in the city area as a piece of fiber.

excavate the POCKETS

insert the FASHION UNITS

excavate the space between to make an UNDERGROUND PIAZZA

cover with an ELEVATED PIAZZA above the ground

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ROME STUDIO || FASHION IN POCKET

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he fundamental idea of the project is to transform the Piazza di Porta Maggiore from a place that people just pass through to an inviting public place to linger and experience while maintaining the continuity and beauty of the wall. There is going to be a Piazza above the ground and an inviting galleria below ground; providing places to gather and to celebrate the fashion traditions of Italy in the shadow of the historic wall. It will celebrate the past, the present and the future.

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ROME STUDIO || FASHION IN POCKET

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STORAGE CONFERENCE ROOM

LIBRARY

RESTAURANT

FASHION STORE

SMALL EXHIBITION

CENTRAL PIAZZA

LARGE EXHIBITION AUDITORIUM

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BONSAI GARDEN Seattle, US Studio Project 8-week, spring 2015

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JAPAN STUDIO || BONSAI GARDEN

TAKE A WALK

JAPAN STUDIO: EXPERIMENT ON SCALE AND LAYERING For a bonsai garden, Scale, Materiality, and Circulation are indeed the most challenging aspects. The project is concerned with the subtle relationship between human body and space, with an aim to create a collection of different sensorial elements. The space triggers the connection between each person. At this time, even the human ďŹ gures become part of the collection.

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Several current issues regarding Rainier Beach area, including noise from cars and planes, lack of walking area, limited public space, etc.

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The master plan we propose in the future is in an effort to make the area more pedestrian friendly, as a result corresponding more to the walking experience in Kubota Garden.

The diagram shows what the area will be like following the master plan we propose. Our projects will bring in more diverse activities around the whole neighborhood. the Wood Work-shop Studio

BONSAI GARDEN

Culinary Center

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JAPAN STUDIO || MASTER PLAN

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bathroom

bathroom

Cafe

indoor gallery gift shop

courtyard

workshop

lightwell outdoor exhibition

gallery

gallery

Cafe storage central courtyard Cafe

storage central courtyard

workshop courtyard

pausing point

workshop courtyard

pausing point

small courtyard

small courtyard

workshop

corridor

corridor workshop courtyard bathroom

bathroom

storage greenhouse

indoor outdoor

indoor outdoor

boxes placed on the site according to the grid above

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JAPAN STUDIO || BONSAI GARDEN

outdoor path with free access to gallery, Cafe and bathroom

indoor conditioned path with access to bonsai workshops, sharing the gallery with outdoor visitors

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“Subtlety” is the word first coming into my mind when thinking of Japanese garden and architecture. The experience of Japan, for me, is more about each detail I encountered along the way by walking. We listened to the sound we made when our shoes touched the ground, felt the breeze blowing through the branches of the trees on the side of the road, saw the view beyond framed by gate or trimmed by the elegant gesture of the roof.

SECTIONS SHOWING THE LAYERING OF THE SPACE

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JAPAN STUDIO || BONSAI GARDEN

Every detail is designed for people entering the space, either on the aspect of scale or rhythm, or even the location of a single door. Each turn makes a difference and the only way to experience it is by putting ourselves into the space. It is never possible to get the idea of subtlety if we drive a car or simply see from photographs.

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“to make architecture more human means better architecture, and it means a functionalism much larger than the merely technical one.”

——The Humanizing of Architecture by Aalto To me, a design that fits people’s psychological approach is functional.

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JAPAN STUDIO || BONSAI GARDEN

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RETHINK LILONG Shanghai, China Research & Design Experiment summer 2015 - now

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SHANGHAI || RETHINK LILONG

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A NEW WAY TO GO BACK An ongoing experimental Independent Project based on undergraduate honor program research regarding the current state and characteristics of the Shanghai Lilong, a high-density dwelling system being developed during the colonization period, with a hybridized style from European townhouses and traditional Chinese courtyard houses.

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new apartment

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ollowing the 1949 revolution, the Chinese government has put a large amount of effort into constructing new affordable modern apartments for citizens, in order to solve the problem of the expanding demand for new housing. The old lilong dwellings, as a result, are like left-over pieces, finding themselves more and more difficult to survive in today’s age.

old lilong

A NEW WAY TO GO BACK?

diverse daily activities happening in the “space between” —— a unique quality belongs to Lilong system 21.

SHANGHAI || RETHINK LILONG

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he idea is to merge the individual units into the public space between. Each family could see each other but still be in their own places. The aim is to re-collect the wisdom of living, rather than tearing down everything that is out of date.

It is about striving for the greatest freedom within existing restrictions.

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SHANGHAI || RETHINK LILONG

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SUMMER

WINTER

OUTDOOR TERRACE

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TURN INTO INDOOR SPACE WHEN NEEDED

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DENTISTRY

COMMUNITY CENTER

LIBRARY TEA HOUSE COFFEE SHOP

SMALL STORE

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

A COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY

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SHANGHAI || RETHINK LILONG

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Bidonville on the hillside

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PLAN OFPLAN EAMES OFHOUSE EAMES HOUSE

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by CUHK Professor Zhu Jingxiang, “Architecture is not good. It is an object against the nature. When natural disasters happen, the detachment hidden beby CUHK Professor Zhu Jingxiang, “Architecture is not good. It is an object against the nature. When natural disasters happen, the detachment hidden behind comes to the surface.” It is certainly too radical to question the legitimacy of architecture as a whole. The fact, however, really puts us on an emergent hind comes the surface. ” It is certainly to questionways the legitimacy of architecture as a whole. The fact, however, really puts us on an emergent spot totoredefine the architecture andtoo findradical more sustainable of living in the future. spot to redefine the architecture and find more sustainable ways of living in the future.

Prefabrication is one of them. “It is a new system of building. A real architecture is not permanent but something can flexibly respond to any change Eams House model Prefabrication is one of them.

“It is a new system of building.

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It isItallisabout design and technology. all about design technology. elevation of and Djenan el-Hasan

Local Bidonville, Algiers Colonial Project: Djenan El-Hasan Before going into detail on the project, it is important to first understand theHousing bidonville and how it affected Simounet’s later design. Simounet was among the first to do a serious and comprehensive research on the bidonvilles of Algiers as a member of CIAM. Instead of treating them as merely shantytowns, Simounet and his group explored several qualities which, it was argued, corresponded to: “the best conditions defined by modern urbanism.” (Celik,112)Among them he was especially attracted to their perfect site response, their incorporation of topography and their flexible use of space. These positive qualities were found in the organization of the units, such as in the stacking of bidonville units along the hillside overlooking the horizon of the sea with their terraces linking different levels. Simounet concluded that “the dwelling unit is the only element of the bidonville that needed technical improvements.” (Celik,112)

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HOT POT?

ANOTHER LOGIC?

WINTER 2015 || SEMINAR RESEARCH

WINTER 2015 || SEMINAR RESEARCH

Typical Urban Form in China: formal & informal, urbanization & deruralization Different layers of times and spaces derived from different periods of social movements collide and intertwine and overlap with each other, making the street and the places around it act like a “hot pot”. In a hot pot, you can find anything, including some places and activities that can never be found within any pre-set urbanization theory or rule. What we want in the future may not be another internationally standardized modern neighborhood, but something derived from the existing vivid pattern, without losing the real flavors of a “hot pot”.

29. MORE RESEARCH ON DENSE URBAN AREA

the Reasons behind the Transformation: from Djenan el-Hasan to overall colonial architecture Sheila Crane mentioned in the article Mediterranean Dialogues, “the architect’s enthusiastic “discovery” of vernacular dwellings in North Africa ultimately served as a means of confirming pre-existing ideas that seemed to find their echo in unfamiliar landscapes.” In western society, the idea of modernism is evident in a preoccupation with clear and rectilinear spatial arrangement, which could be found in almost all colonial architectures by western architects. However, in those areas, is there actually another type of logic?

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31. MOSAIC OF INSPIRATIONS

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PAVILION at DISCOVERY PARK Seattle, US Studio Project 5-week, fall 2013

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SMALL STUDIO PROJECTS || MERGE

MERGE

OUTSIDE IN & INSIDE OUT The pavilion is growing from and into the surrounding landscape. A blurry edge and unclear threshold between the artiďŹ cial space and the nature creates an interactional experience. Dynamic interventions with the site makes the pavilion become a continuously varying space.

The only consistency is the change itself.

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related spaces exist in a single frame box inside box space inside space time inside time life inside life

GALLERY //LIVE SPACE Seattle, US Studio Project 5-week, winter 2014

STUDY ROOM LIVING ROOM BEDROOM

LINK

EXPERIMENT ON CIRCULATION Staircases link each single space, at the same time creating rich amount of double-height spaces, allowing a continuously changing spatial experience, from narrowness to wideness, from darkness to brightness, from outside in, and from inside out.

DARK ROOM GALLERY&WORK SPACE

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SMALL STUDIO PROJECTS || LINK

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related spaces exist in a single frame box inside box space inside space time inside time life inside life pieces move around performing a drama of life

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SMALL STUDIO PROJECTS || LINK

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pieces of paper are fragile but when they interlock with each other they create force AND BECOME STRONG

EASTERN PAPER MILL Seattle, US Studio Project 5-week, spring 2014

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SMALL STUDIO PROJECTS || INTERLOCK

INTERLOCK

EXPERIMENT ON SUPER THIN WALL The idea of the project is to create a factory with well-divided but also connected function areas. Pieces of prefabricated thin wall panels interlock with each other, making the lightness and transparency of the space become possible.

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super thin

PLASTER model

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SMALL STUDIO PROJECTS || INTERLOCK

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What is ornamental? What is functional (authentic)?

Nothing can be funcational all the time.

At certain point, it becomes an ornament.

Functionalism or authenticity is defined by “that” particular time and space.

SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Kirkland, WA Professional Project ongoing

Wright? Right?

PROJECT ARCHITECT (INTERN) at STANNARD CONWAY ARCHITECTS The client is a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright’s early prairie house. I was responsible for the schematic design. The project provides me a chance to undertake a detailed study of Wright’s projects and understand how the functional spaces and proportion work in reality.

However, the case addresess me into one concern: is it right, or in another word, authentic, to “repeat” prairie house in today’s age? It reminds me of a discussion once being carried out in a theory class, which is about during industrial revolution many architects tried to find out an appropriate approach to modern architecture while the whole public still lay back and build “copies” of classical styles. The same issue is never gone in real society.

43. PROFESSIONAL WORK || FULL-TIME INTERN

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a model made by studio colleagues showing the “hide & reveal” effect of the “rain veil”

GlAZING PANEL DESIGN Seattle, US Professional Project summer 2015

45. SUMMER INTERN PROJECT

DOTS TO LINE

SUMMER INTERN at CHIHULY STUDIO Working with Dale Chihuly, Parks Anderson and a graduate student on a pavilion project on the rooftop of Buffett Cancer Center; responsible for the creation of a “rain veil” glazing facade with digital modeling technology; cooperate with many local architects and artists

a photo of me checking the full-scale scheme at glass factory

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We are always standing at a point, which will ultimately be brought together with its past, and its future.