JING WANG s e lec te d wor ks 2015 - 2020
B.Arch ‘20 Cornell University
NO - S TOP C H O N G Q I N G 1.0 ARCH PROJECT fall 2018 Leslie Lok This project uses the analysis of Chongqing’s most omnipresent infrastracture, highways and elevated interchanges, to reveal and propose for a new possibility for elderly housing. Ramps are created to traverse the drastic height differences in “Chongqing-scape”. Not only does the ramp provide the elderlies a milder way to circulate, it also creates a space that nurtures the spontaneity in the entertainment culture of Chongqing and a connectivity within the community.
zoning
gridding
path-making
No-Stop Chongqing proposes a scenario of elderly community living in which the infrastructure becomes the living room and playground for all.
ground floor plan
structural system
No-Stop Chongqing is an attempt to use the continuous ramp as a regulating tool for space and time. It asks question for this booming “Bridge City�: can infrastructure be o ccupiable? If so, what are the possibilities?
cross sectional perspective
NO - S TOP C H O N G Q I N G 2.0 B.ARCH THESIS spring 2020 Leslie Lok & Marta H. Wisniewska Since the late 1990s, urbanization of Chongqing has been facilitated by top-down infrastructural construction and private real-estate development. One pursuing speed and the other economic values, the discordance between the two forces created a cityscape that has marginalized the pedestrians. Proximity no longer guarantees accessibility. The displaced connection between topography and building scales has cut off much of the access to the landscape, the view, and the civic functions. Without necessarily negating the ambition for economic growth and the need for infrastructural networks, No-Stop Chongqing 2.0 seeks through architectural means to intervene with the current cityscape and to re-enact these lost accesses. It is an imagination of how we can better design a sectional city in a parallel reality.
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FA M I LY C E M E TA R Y ARCH PROJECT spring 2016 The project starts with analyses of both modern and historical precedents: the modern: the Moriyama House, by SANAA in 2005, and the historical: the shotgun house originated from New Orleans during the 1850s. The study proceeds through hybridization of the analyses, which generates the final design project, a family cemetary complex located on the sloping shore of Cayuga Lake.
study of moriyama house
study of the shotgun house
hybrid study
ground floor plan
second floor plan
cross sectional perspective
longitudinal sectioned axonometric
1:100 scale model
perspective illustration
L AT E R I C I U M PAV I L I O N ARCH PROJECT spring 2018 Jenny E. Sabin The project is a synthesis of the brick study from phase one and the site analysis. The project takes advantages of the slope site besides Temple of Venus and Romana, using ramps as a means to mediate elevational circulation and to connect different flows and fabrics: local pedestrians and temporary visitors, Basilica of Maxentius and the line C Foro Imperiali station, the spectacle of Colosseum and the textures of artifacts.
The project started with the investigation of a Roman brick laying technique, Opus Latericium. The study of one corner column at Basilica Julia in Roman Forum leads to a conclusion that the different layering patterns of bricks correspond to different structural moments as well as functional purpose: to increase the attaching surface area with the filling concrete. Further explorations went on under a playful idea “what if columns become occupiable?�
studies and collages of brick arrangement
street elevation
The sectional strategy utilizes ramps to organize and navigate the complex flows of pedestrian at the site: tourist walking towards the Colosseum in the east and Piazza Venezia in the west, visitors approaching the Roman Forum and Temple of Venus and Romana the ramp behind, and local residents commuting through the new Foro Imperiali station beneath.
longitudinal section
TEMPORARY ST UDIO STRUCTURE fall 2016 1:15 structure model of Temporary Studio at Kyoto University of Arts and Design, by Shigeru Ban Architects Partnered with: Ziqing Becky Xu
scale 1:15 paper tubes, steel, wood
model details
study and re-design of the connecting details
D R AW I N G C I T Y M A N I F E S TO ARCH THEORY fall 2017 Leslie Lok This drawing manifesto is a critique on Beijing City: Centered city structure and resource distribution leads to a social hierarchical stratification. Separation between programs creates traffica pressure both to the city facilities and commuters. Unfair real-estate market and speculative consumer behaviors contribute the unreasonably high rates for housings. This manifesto is a proposal to democratize the city model with a no-cener, no-axis, homogeneous hexagonal grid megastructure.
Precedents studied include: Walking City by MOS Architects Fujian Tulou (traditional co-living housing type in Southern China)
PARALLELOGRAM BAIRD PRIZE fall 2016 A small changing room competition project, Parallelogram experiments with the geometric nature, spatial potential, and functional possibility of folding and unfolding.
model details
geometric development
folding motion of the model
in body scale
HOUSE F E.A. SEIPP PRIZE 1ST PLACE fall 2017 A co-housing for three.
plan
long section
D R AW I N G DOMESTICITY R E P R E S E N TAT I O N fall 2019
Leslie Lok
Independent research study on different praxes of representation through the lens of domestic space. The study is divided into 3 chapters: the disappeared wall & the constructed wall, the framed window & the unframed view, and the Paranoid Critical Method
H O ME I L LU S T R AT I O N 2016 - 2017 A collection of illustrations for magazine, commissioned by Architectural Digest 厉邸 China
T H E PA R A D I S E ASIA&VISUAL STUDY fall 2018 Prof. Suyong Son Representing the Paradise is a researchbased visual project for ASIAN 2270, East Asian Imagination of Death, which examines the lineage of Japanese Pure Land Buddhist paintings of the Ami da Buddha and the Western Paradise. Building upon the understandings and analyses of the historical representations in relation with the visual culture and socio-political contexts, the final outcome composes the evolution and adaptation of the genre in the context of 21st century urbanity.
21st Century City Mandala ビル越来迎図
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