JASON WANG portfolio
rensselaer polytechnic institute
RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SOA’14 E: jasonseanwang@gmail.com T: [646] 491-2857
Education: Bachelor of Architecture. Expected 2014 Minor: Electronic Media Arts GPA: 3.45
Related Experiences: Fall 2012 | Teaching Assistant for Elena Perez Summer 2012 | Z-A Studio, New York, NY Spring 2012 | Shanghai Study Abroad Program, Shanghai, China Fall 2011 | Hyde Collection Design Charrette Spring 2011 | Rensselaer ‘86 Field Design Charrette Spring 2011 | Final Jury Honor Fall 2010 | Material Witness Exhibition
Skills: Proficient | Rhinoceros, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop,
Microsoft Office, Grasshopper, Ecotect, Maya, AutoCad
Basic | Revit
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SELECTED WORKS p.04-09
Core-trijk
p.10-13
Center for Excellence
p.14-17
Social Housing
p.18-21
Shaker Museum
Design Development Studio Spring 2014
Joe MacDonald Fall 2013
Jeremy Carvalho Fall 2010
Florencia Vetcher Spring 2011
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CORE-trijk
Design Development Studio Spring 2014
The project strives to merge a library, learning center, and music center by adopting a continuous, flexible ribbon strategy instead of the typical approach of stacking program. The ribbon setup accommodates the changing needs of the occupants by allowing the programs to be flexible and mutable, while encouraging communication by maintaining the continuous interaction between all parts. The building also accepts the cultural axis of the city, translating it into the spiral circulation that begins and ends on the axis, and serving as a physical and visual connection to the historic center of Kortrijk. The spiraling circulation is often interrupted by slippages. These slippages provoke interactions between different parties inhabiting the space. The faรงade relays this information to the exterior surface so people can read the slippages of space. The faรงade is a perforated metal rain-screen that allows the building to appear to have a solid and a void space and at night allows for the entire building to glow from the interior eliminating the distinction of solid and void.
Wall Section
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Render in Context
To preserve a continuous circulation through the project we decided on a 1:20 slope to eliminate the need for landings and handrails. However, the project is not large enough to encapsulate a perfect 1:20 due to not having enough clearance for a floor when the slope had fully spiralled. Using this problem as an oppurtunity we developed the jump area into an event space which is a double height area. This not only allowed us to create large interaction areas but allow for certain areas of the building to become shortcuts through the building.
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View from Exterior looking at Area of Slippage
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View from an area of Slippage
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Final Model
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Final Model
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Center for Excellence Joe MacDonald Fall 2013
The Center of Excellence, located on the site of EMPAC at Rensselaer Polytechnic, is designed to contradict the existing piece of architecture. EMPAC is RPI’s new flagship building and to not address the building in some way would be a lack of observation. However, the project challenges this existing building. EMPAC is this proud monument and in contrast the project relies on its subtlness to capture attention. EMPAC contains a ball of program housed in a shell of glass. This project inverses the logic and begins to understand the facade not as a singular entity but a system of openings and closings that mask the views and enables the inhabitant to move through the building to see the brief moments of the city before it. Program is then pushed along the edges and the interior to become open and a large open space for visitors and students alike.
Top to Bottom | Rendered Building, Building in Landscape looking uphill, Building in Landscape looking downhill
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Section Perspective
Section
Section
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View Through Atrium Up
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View from Interior looking through atrium
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Social Housing Jeremy Carvalho Fall 2010
Social Housing is a hub that mediates both people and the urban and natural fabric. Social housing attempts to combine two very different kinds of people into a singular building. Housing both scholars and students allows for an creative intersection of both worlds. In order to do so the circulation brings both parties into the cores and follows a spiral through each floor joining public spaces used for reading, meditation, and study. The spiral concept then informs each unit as well as the way the building reacts to its context. The site is situated between the city and the river and to bridge the urban context with its natural context the project uses its large cores to funnel views into the building. Inhabitants are able to circulate through the building and at each major landing the building opens up views to both sides visually tying the city back to nature and vice versa. Also by lifting the building, a large open space is created for users to experience both the city and nature simultaneously.
Urban Landscape
ws al Vie Natur Top to Bottom | Elevation from street, Perspectival Renderings
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Section Perspective Through cores highlighting the bridging of Nature and Urban contexts
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
Natural Views
Natural Views
+4.5’ +4.5’
+3’
+3’ +4.5’
UP
+3’
UP
Urban Landscape
UP +4.5’
UP +4.5’
+3’
+3’
+3’
+4.5’ +4.5’
+3’
UP +3’
UP
+4.5’
UP
+4.5’ +3’
UP
+3’
+4.5’
+4.5’
First Floor Plan
Urban Landscape
N 10’
1’
40’
Perspective without sking to expose cores and reltion to context 1/8” = 1’ N
Floor 3
10’
1’
1/8” = 1’ Floor 2
40’
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FLOOR PLANS
Perspectival Rendering upward from River looking towards city
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Elevation + Facade Detail
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Shaker Museum Florencia Vetcher Spring 2011
Beginning with the analysis of a shaker artifact from the village of Watervliet I discovered a system of twisting and volumetric changes based on the orientation of reptitive parts. This system led me to develop a module that was capable of mimicing the complex changes discovered in the artifact. Through reptition the project began to snake and take form through segments and allowing for variation to happen from the points of connections of these modules. The spaces in between were utilized for lighting effects and landscaping techniques. In order to push the module further a bifurcation happens in the circulation dividing public and private programs. The module adapts and creates back of house as well as conference rooms in space that overlooks the main programmatic areas. The landscape becomes a reaction to the spatial changes created by the module.
Top to Bottom | Section through Second Floor, Analysis of Spatial changes in Artifact
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Left to Right | Looking into the interior from overhead, Interior Detail
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Left to Right | Detail of Repeating Pieces, View from above
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Model
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