janet chiahua wu ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
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contents This portfolio is an amalagamation of selected projects completed at Wentworth Institute of Technology in the Master of Architecture program.
01 City as Playground
02 Rejuvenating Historical Dadocheng
03 Frame and Infill
04 Found Object Iteration
05 Miscellaneous
06 Right The photo collage represnts the way of materials, roof tiles and bricks, stacking into landscape.
Construction Documents
01 City as Playground Fall 2016 Thesis Prep | Design as Research Professor | Penn Rudermann
The work proposes a solution for the lack of interactions between people and the city because of the fast-paced urban lifestyles. In order to redevelope the connections between city dwellers and built artifacts, play is the design-centric of this proposal. The project explores the material artifacts and immaterial stimuli. It links people to the complex and systemic features of urban space. The goal is to develop a system of ‘playcode,’ which can be applicable to any urban conditions. It brings people closer through play and interacting with playful and playable urban contexts. Further, it redevelops the image of the city.
Above The diagram of playcode system can be applicable to any urban conditions. Below The banister and staircase study opens up the imagination of these overlooked architecture elements. Staircase can be a place to climb, hide and crawl. Banister becomes a slide. Stairs are connecting not only different elevation but also people.
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Above City as Playground Make city as a playground by implanting playfulness to urban fabrics. City fabrics become playable.The playcode will be applied to any urban conditions and makes play become everyday life.
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Above Site provides various activities to happen simultaneously in these overlooked spaces. They establish diverse and vigorous city social networks.
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Right Above The diagram shows different body movements and how they interact and relate to the surface or space. The body movements seem to be individual, but they trigger the interaction among people. Above The model interprets the body movements into architectural features. There are various play activities in these model: climbing, jumping, hiding, pulling, swinging and sitting. The structure performance affects body move. Left The model interprets the connections among these individualities and how these individualities become a greater networks in the city.
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Tectonics of Play
Above The models are two different representation of the parkour. One is using existing features and transforms into a climbable surface. The other is creating a frame to make existing features become playable.
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Parkour study focuses on using simple geometry to generate a sense of hanging and climbing. Parkour is built with simple form, landscape and materials. The geometry assembly affects people moving from one space to another. These two models explore the sense of climbing, and leaping. They are two different structures. One is utilizing the holes on concrete blocks. Create the handles through the holes and transforms the concrete block into a climbing wall. The other is building a frame for leaping and climbing. They can be applied to create a frame for building structures or use existing building features to make facade become a parkour.
Above Persuasive PLAY Play alters how people interact with each other and further brings them closer in the city .
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02 Rejuvenating Historical Dadocheng Junior Planning Practice 2011-2012 National Chengchi University Professors | Tsung-Yu Lai and Jen-Te Pai Group Project This project is about revitalizing the Dadocheng historical district. Dadocheng is used to be the Central Business District of Taipei city before the government shifted commercial center to the Xinyi district. Preserving the Japanese colonial architectural style and providing extra green space and water access with bicycle path for the community and tourists will regenerate the economy of the historical district.
Above Bicycle Path along Waterfront Right The model represents the Tamsui River waterfront. Along the waterfront, there are bike and pedestrian path, and overhang structure platfrom to the waterfront.
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Greenbelt The overhang structure not only reconnects between the planning district and Tamsui River waterfront but also it is a platfrom for people to view the waterfront.
Tamsui River Waterfront
Urban Renewal For Highrise Residential Releasing More Open Space for The Community Transforming Open Space into Community Park
Tamsui Xinyi Metro Line
Community Green Space Baroque Style Facade For Mixed-Use Housing Yongle Cloth Market Revitalization Performance Stage For The Street Artists Communal Pedestrian Path
Taipei City
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03 Frame and Infill Fall 2016 Shanghai Special Topic Studio Professor | Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn Research Project | Samantha Lane Janet Wu Design Project | Samantha Lane Walter Pond Janet Wu
The project is located at Qing Cun, Shanghai. The Shanghai on site study focuses on zha jian (雜撿), which means material reuse. The design project, Frame and Infill, is based on the material reuse, “Pick and Save” study. Frame and Infill is an incremental housing prototype proposal to the Qing Cun government. The proposal is for providing a flexible and economic expansion for the local residents. The property ownership belongs to the government. This makes people build informal structures for meeting their domestics needs. This proposal is to create a system that allows people to have better housing structure for expansion and better quality of life.
Right The render is the incremental housing prototype proposal that government provides the core unit and dwellers infills their needs.
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shanghai on stie study | pick and save
"Pick and Save" is part of Chinese culture. Due to the hardships of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s, people abided by the philosophy of wu jin qi yong (waste not). They believed that resources should be squeezed for all their value and nothing be wasted. Besides, the local farmer developed a technique, "wa pan" by reusing these found object for reconstructing structures after natural disasters such as typhoons.
Wa Pan | Local farmers utiliz found materials like roof tiles, bricks for fast reconstruction after typhoons.
Above New Academy of Art in Hangzhou by Chinese Architect, Wang Shu He designed the facade with reuse materials for preserving the traditional building technique, wa pang, in the southeast region. Right Documentations of Qing Cun's reuse materials. Local residents store piles of materials in front of their house for building informal structure.
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EXISTING CONDITION Existing Unit Government Row Housing
The majority of the housings in China is provided by the government. The existing housing unit is based on the minimum residential unit. The size is determined by the local wood dimensions. The programs are the basic neccessities, such as kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. People utuilize the reuse materials to build the informal structure to meet their needs.
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3.5m ( 11.5 ft ) Unit Area | 23.8 m2 ( 256.45 ft 2 )
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Outdoor Kitchen
Enclosed Kitchen
Boathouse
Balcony
Clothes Hangdry Space
Hanging Garden
Shed for Storage
In Between Space for Storage
Lean-On Structure for Storage
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20 sq m
POPULATION | 1.3 BILLIONS
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POPULATION | 1.3 BILLIONS
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Unit Area | Core 24.5 m2 ( 263.35 ft 2 ) / Full Unit 49 m2 ( 527.43 ft 2 ) POPULATION | 0.3 BILLIONS
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kit of part construction The frame and infill developed a system that provide an easy construction and low-cost construction for the local residents. Roof | Metal sheet Wall | Gabion wall and basket Frame | Wood frame system
Roof System | Metal Sheet
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Post and Beam | Wood Frame
Gabion Wall | Material Reuse
Street Condition Section
Courtyard Condition Section
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04 Found Object Iteration Spring 2016 Professor | Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn This project explores the potential of everyday found objects for a screen design. The curvature of a fork allows for sliding and nesting to create a collective module. The screen prototype is applied to the facade of Boston Local Art Gallery. The openness of the facade for peoeple to see through the screen to further develop relationship. The interior of the gallery is inspired by the continuity of the facde pattern through an internal ramp.
Right The screen design with everyday object, forks
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fork iteration The curvature of a fork allows for sliding and nesting to create a collective module. In order to create continuous pattern, the fork pattern is transformed into the flower budlike shape.
Above Fork iteration diagrams Right 3D prints of the fork iterations
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Transformation from Fork to Prototype
Above Render of the fork iteration
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Boston Local art gallery Parti Diagram The screen prototype is applied to the facade of Boston Local Art Gallery. The openness of the facade for peoeple to see through the screen to further develop relationship. The interior of the gallery is inspired by the continuity of the facde pattern through an internal ramp.
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05 Miscellaneous Parklet Design Fall 2015 Professor | Zach Pursely
Above Parklet design located at Troy Boston. Movable foam blocks creates a playful and interactive landscape for kids and adults. The represntation is hand rendering with model collage.
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Material Collaging Fall 2016 Professor | Jennifer Lee Michaliszyn
Left The photo collage represnts the way of materials, roof tiles and bricks, stacking into landscape.
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Formless Vacuum Forming Spring 2016 Professor | Rob Trumbour The project is to experiment PETG and polystyrene through vacuum forming. In order to create various patterns, the project created a formless jig with dowels. Also, the form allows dowels to connect into a screen structure.
Above The formless jig with dowels for the vaccum forming Right The assembly of each panels into a screen. The image is the shadow of the screen.
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Cities in Europe had to be reconstructed after WWll. It brought a chance to renew the cities. Urban renewal in North America was influenced by Europe. City is a complex entity. It combines with various ascept from zoning, transportation, histroical preservation to housing. Futhermore, the influence of urban and architecture exhibition also plays an important role for urban renewal.
North American Urban Renewal
Exhibition Chicago Chicago World Fair
Housing Policy USA
Pittsburgh Architectural Exhibitions
Canada Housing Act
New York MoMA Architecture Exhibition
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Transportation Policy
Philadelphia Better Philadelphia Exhibition
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Boston Highway Plan Boston
Regent Park Project
Housing Act
Citizen Seminar
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Philadelphia Housing Act
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National Housing Act
Movement of Designating National Historical Park
USA Historical PreservationAct Boston Quincy Market Renovation
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Zoning Regulation New York Modernization City Zoning Code Boston New York
General Plan Zoning Reform
Pittsburgh Gateway Center Project
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Above History of urban renewal infographic
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Evolution of Translantic Urban Renewal
Housing Policy Germany
Healthy Housing in Healthy Communities
Transportation Policy Berlin Highway Modernization
European Urban Renewal Zoning Regulation London Greater London Plan Berlin Berlin Zoning Berlin Berlin Zoning Amended
London Abercrombie London Plan Germany
Germany Tomorrow: Urban and Regional Planning
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06 Construction Documents 2015 Summer Full Time Intern T.S. Lin & P. Y. Lin Architects and Associates
Right Ground floor plan of the high rise residential building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Left Sections of the high rise residential building in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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