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REFERENCES Jessica A. S. Letaw Title: Owner, jaslWerk LLC and Architectstasy E-mail: jessica@jaslwerk.com Jessica is current my employer for my freelance design job.

Tzs Yan Ng Title: Assistant Professor in Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Phone: 718. 564. 3771 E-mail: tszng@umich.edu Tzs was my instrustor during my thesis project, Inhabitable Column.

Mitch McEwen Title: Assistant Professor in Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Phone: 347. 620. 0346 E-mail: mcewen@umich.edu Mitch was my instrustor during the Networks Studio in the 1st semester.

Julia McMorrough Title: Assistant Professor in Architecture at the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Phone: 614. 271. 3948 E-mail: juliamcm@umich.edu Julia was my instrustor during the Systems Studio in the 2nd semester.

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ZHENJIA “JOE” WANG [EDUCATION] Master of Architecture ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... [May 2016] University of Michigan – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning – Ann Arbor, MI Bachelor of Architecture ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................... [July 2012] Guangzhou University – College of Architecture and Urban Planning – Guangzhou, Canton, China

[ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE] Project Coordinator – Towson, Maryland, U. S. A ............................................................................................................................................................... [Sep. 2016 – Present]

Responsibility : Visualization Rendering, Construction Drawing, Conceptual Designer, 3D Digital Modeling

[CONTACT] Address: 10 Ecoway Ct. Apt. 1A, Towson, MD, U. S. A, 21286 E-Mail: zhenjiaw@umich.edu Phone: 734. 272. 8164

Freelance Designer – Ann Arbor, Michigan, U. S. A ........................................................................................................................................................ [June 2016 – Aug. 2016]

Project : Sun Baths for Final rendering; Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum for Graphic design Externship – Works Partnership Architecture – Portland, Oregon, U. S. A .......................................................................................................... [Feb. 29, 2016 – March 4, 2016]

Participated in various meetings for learning how their firm runs and what I need to deal with in my future career Gegenwärtig Architektur Design GmbH – Assistant Architect – Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China .............................................................................................. [Feb. 2014 – July 2014]

Project : Suzhou Library; No. 1 Zhijiang Primary School; No. 1 Zhijiang High School

6-month professional practice

Responsibility : Provided innovative ideas; Drawing analysis graphics; Making physical and computer models SCUT Arch Design-Research Institute – Internship – Guangzhou, Canton, China ............................................................................................................ [June 2012 – Oct. 2012]

Project : Urban Design of East Gateway Area of Suzhou Taihu, International Tourism Area

5-month architectural intern Responsibility : Drawing AutoCAD; Making computer models.

[ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIENCE] Challenge Cup S& T Works Competition – Team Leader, Main Designer and Work Allocator – Guangzhou, Canton, China ............................................. [Oct. 2009 – April 2011]

Grand Prize in University, 3rd Prize in Province

Renovation Project : Youth Activity Center in Butterfly Square Visited Hong Kong – Exchanged Program by Guangzhou University and CUHK ................................................................................................................................ [Feb. 2011]

Visited landmark buildings and famous design firm

Exchanged views with Local Famous Architects and CUHK architecture students South China Univ. of Technology Design-Build Contest – Team Leader – Guangzhou, Canton ........................................................................................ [July 2009 – Aug. 2009]

Final Round, Top 20

Project: Shelter for People in Wenchuan Earthquake; Study and research bamboo techniques

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MANHATTAN RIDGE Affordable housing in Manhattan for commuters Type: Architectural Design, Teamwork, Oct. 2017 Purpose: 2018 Skyscraper Competition, eVolo Team Member: Zhenjia Wang, Xiayi Li Responsibility in team: Leader, Concept contributor, 3D Digital modeling, Grasshopping code for modeling, Graphic drawing and Rendering.

CONCEPT [MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE] The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) is a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge includes a deep rift valley that runs along the axis of the ridge along nearly its entire length. This rift marks the actual boundary between adjacent tectonic plates, where magma from the mantle reaches the seafloor, erupting as lava, producing new crustal material for the plates and holding the only connection between the separating plates from being apart.

NYC, as a metropolis, has offered so much promise of either career or day-to-day life. Being a hub where millions of commuting workers, local residents, and visitors interact with each other, during the day and at night, providing the city with an energy generated from the exchange of ideas and knowledge through social interactions, Manhattan’s status as transaction-maximizing place is made possible by its remarkable carrying capacity. However, the increasing load of Manhattan prevents people’s residence in this place, challenges local workers’ everyday commute, and makes New York Dream unattainable. Traveling to and from work should be easy, efficient, and allow you to focus on what matters: your job; while, based on a survey, full-time workers in New York City spend about two hours more per week commuting — an average of 6 hours and 18 minutes per week – which is almost like another 8 hours work day. Work longer hours. Spend more time on subways and buses. Can’t even afford to live here.

According to a latest survey, 82% of Manhattan-bound commuters take public transit to work from the city’s outer boroughs, or from Newark, Jersey City. In comparison, commuting trips among Manhattan residents is more multimodal in nature, since the lengths of commutes are more manageable, and residents also have better access to the city’s extensive taxi and limousine network. People who work in Manhattan deserve a home in Manhattan. Manhattan has been over exploited and one can hardly find usable land to build new residential buildings. By introducing new type of land resource to Manhattan, people will be given new type of space to reside and live.

Our proposal mimics the process of mid-ocean ridge’s production of new seafloor results from mantle upwelling, where new usable space be created out of none by being elevated over city traffic corridors (avenues, streets, roads, lanes) in between buildings. Like Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which ties the spreading plates back together, Manhattan ridge is the formation to bound buildings’ elevation closer, as a whole texture. Rift valley-shape streets space atmosphere, which is typical to City of New York, will be reformed and re-defined, where the existing of gap between high risers is weaken, while human-scale street space is opened up. The repeating circulation of plates spreading, mantle upwelling, holding plates from spreading; this geological activity symbolize our proposal of dynamic vertical space creation. Here, “plates spreading” represents wider traffic corridors are needed, which means heavier commuter load Manhattan needs to carry. As a result, system shall reach higher to accommodate more needs, which, in return, could be pictured as ridge reaches higher because of crustal material upwelling.

FIGURES OF HABITATION Student dormitory - Low density Type: Architectural design, teamwork, Jan. 2015 Purpose: Networks Studio, 2015 Winter, University of Michigan Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A Instructor: Julia, McMorrough Team menbers: Zhenjia Wang, Annelise Heeringa, Ramon Hemandez Responsibility in the team: The concept of “Building as Landscape, Landscape as Building”; Rendering, Units design (”bar” part); Digital and physical modeling.

Background In this studio, we will take one the challenges inherent in housing large and growing populations, and system-aticallymold them into new ideas and opportunities for developing a precise variety of typologies and domestic environments, as well as project-specifi c programmatic and performance criteria.

In our project, we re-think and re-define the charactor of housing in the city. The site of housing may not only service as a private space, but also become a place which shares its space for public. Thus, which kinds of spaces or architectural form are suitable for meeting this requirement?

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What is the character of this site in the city? Is it just only service as the function of housing. However, we think it can give us more than that, especially as a student dormitory where students have different kinds of spaces to play, to hold their activities, to communicate with each other and etc. Thus, my idea is we can create a place that is a semi-public and semi-private, as a city park and as a housing in the meantime.

We deal with this site (ground floor) as a public park. Reasons are: 1. Both of students and local people can share this place, that would make more interesting story there.

2. Continuting the city parks Here we create two shortcuts for the site, and the landscape setting would be set along these two paths.

We create a concept, “Landscape as building, building as landscape”, which means building and landscape are conbinated as a whole thing. Landscape not just services as the function of itself, but also has habitable function. We think this is one of the best way to make this site as a semi-public and semi-private place. People can share the place and the private life of students would not be affected.

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“building as landscape” “landscape as building” Semi-public & Semi-private space The main concept is bringing nature into the building. What is the meaning of that.

We created a 3D landscape looking like a little natural hill, as the public space shared by the residents in this housing and the people living in around that. As you can see from the bird eyes’ view, the natural hill landscape creates a lot of interesting spaces, for picnic, for skateboard, for playing or other activities. ground level plan

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STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS A mash-up water treatment facility and cultural venue for the north end of Detroit, designed using models of fluid circulation in the mammalian brain

Type: Architectural design, Individual work, Sep. 2014 Purpose: Networks Studio, 2014 Fall, University of Michigan Location: North end, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A Instructor: V. Mitch, McEwen Sofeware used: Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, V-Ray, Keyshot Background There is, perhaps, no resource so vital to sustenance as water. The failures of 19th century conventions of water management (meeting the 21st century atrophy of the public sphere) reached a new apogee this summer with images of Detroit flooding at the same time that thousands of Detroit residents faced a water shortage. The STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS studio will take both the 100 year flood level and the emergencymanagementcreated crisis as starting points to design an integrated social infrastructure for water resources.

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Recently, metro Detroit suffered from flooding, and many streets were drowned. This phenomenon rarely happened before. As a Great Lakes project[1] says, the reason causing such unusual flooding in metro Detroit may be climate change, global warming that is one of the main cause. “Climate change projections suggest continued changes in the hydrology (the movement of water) of the Great Lakes region, including higher risk of more intense drought and flooding”[2].

As rising temperature in summer in Great Lakes region, “the heaviest 1% of rain events increased by 31%” [3].

What’s more, another major cause of flooding is that the storm water systems in metro Detroit cannot handle the amount of water that fell since “most of that infrastructure is more than 40 years old” without much maintenance and it “just uses a single pipe to convey sanitary waste from residences, industries and businesses, along with storm drainage”[4], said Amy Mangus, leader of plan implementation at SEMCOG. Such that, dirty water from flooding polluted clear water due to the limited capacity of treatment plant.

Thus, the planning and management priorities determined by communities based on their local assets and community demands. In other words, facing climate changing, such as more intense storm events, communities need to consider future the impacts caused by climate change while they make routine planning and infrastructure investment decisions. So what can be done? Detroit needs to rebuild a new water system to deal with unpredictable rain storm event in the future, but not just adding new pipes. “Using green infrastructure, such as green roof, installing pervious concrete in parking lots that allow water runoff to be absorbed into the ground rather than flow into storm drains. That water can then be recycled by property owners for sprinkler systems or other uses”[5], said Karen Kabbes, president of the environmental and water resources institute at the Washington, D.C. - based American Society of Civil Engineers, may settle the problem in long- term. There are many more processing methods to deal with storm drains to achieve a multi-party benefit result for communities and citizens, rather than just send storm water into the city system. Rising number of rain event may be not a quite terrible problem. However, taking another look at it, it may be an opportunity of gaining water if community can design a good water system since the cost of transporting water to each corner of city is free.

The other big event in Detroit about water is DWSD shut off the water service for residents who did not pay their water bill. There are 40% people in Detroit live under poverty line[6]. You imagine the life without water? They have no water to cook, to drink, to do daily activities that need water. They have to travel a long distance to get water, borrow water or even steal water. Therefore, creating a system of using cheaper sources, such as rainwater, snow and delivery water to each house are very important for the poor or ordinary residents. I believe the shortage of water supply would become more intense in the future since the growth of population.

[1] Dr Katherine J. Kahl, Heather Stirratt , “What could changing Great Lakes water levels mean for our coastal communities?”(published August 17) [2] ibid. P1 [3] ibid. P3 [4] Chris Gautz, “Storm drain system metro Detroit Michigan”, at Crains Detroit Busines magazine [5] ibid [6] Bill Mitchell, “In Detroit, Water Crisis Symbolizes Decline, and Hope”(published August 22, 2014)

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roof As the idea mentioned above, one of the systems is the local houses. I design a device that is installed on the roof of those houses for collecting rainwater and snow and cleaning them by this roof device. Besides, this design as landscape makes this community being more interesting.

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“The cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of the central nervous system (CNS) has been thought to play a role in solute clearance from the brain. CSF formed in the choroid plexi flows through the cerebral ventricles and the subarachnoid space to its ultimate sites of reabsorption into the bloodstream via arachnoid villi of the dural sinuses, along cranial nerve sheaths or through the nasal lymphatics .

Interstitial solutes have been thought to be cleared to the CSF by the convective bulk flow of ISF, which courses diffusely through brain tissue, rather than through an anatomically or functionally discrete structure. Here, we have used in vivo two-photon imaging and other techniques to investigate the flow of subarachnoid CSF into and through the brain interstitium.”

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MISSED MEMORIES Chinese Eastern Railway Cultural Heritage Pavilion Type: Architectural design, Individual work, Jan 2012 Purpose: Graduation project and Autodesk REVIT Cup Competition Location: ZhaLanTun, Inner Mongolia, China Site area: 14300 M2 Sofeware used: Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, V-Ray, Keyshot, Phoenics, Ecotect

Background The contest selected an important cultural line, the Chinese eastern railway, which is taken as historical and cultural background. It is a multinational railway line being from the Siberian railway to northeast part of China in the end of the 19th century. Due to the construction of the railway, it led to a considerable number of Russian immigrants swarmed into, and numerous Russian buildings were massively built.

Thus, along the railway line,countless cities and towns had begun to appear, which made the whole of Mid-East railway line be full of a strong Russian cultural atmosphere. The sort of buildings are affluent, such as train station, word area, church, clubs, hospital, schools, barracks and a large number of railway houses.

The Chinese eastern railway cultural heritage pavilion is a place consisting of collecting function, exhibition, researching, education and academic communication etc.

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program analysis

interior rendering Standing at this spot, visitors would see a spacious space with sunlight perfusing the whole space thought a huge glass wall, which creates a space being filled with wonderful light effect.

b1 floor plan

view point

clay layer

This layer is set in underground as the site is located in cold region ( 48.014°N 122.737°E ). Thus, ground would provide certain heat in some degree, and it is a good way of being blown by biting wind in winter.

As being in underground, setting certain opening courtyards inside is an effective method to offer sufficient sunlight, which is more energy saving and adds beautiful views.

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section A-A

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17.5mm laminated safety glass+18mm cavity+12.3mm laminated safety glass precast concrete hollow slab waterproof layer of roof + 100mm insulating layer moulding styrofoam 70*70mm aluminum keel of ceiling i-steel beam 50*50mm wooden keel of ceiling 100mm insulating layer moulding styrofoam 100*100mm steel keel of steel cladding panel air inlet of central air conditioning weathering steel cladding panel

sunlight

wooden panel of ceiling steel i-column 13.5mm laminated safety glass low-e coating 100mm air cavity 10.3mm low-iron float glass

air inlet

outtake of wind pipe concrete wall 50*50mm wooden keel reinforced concrete beam mechanical shutter

backfill 50mm 1:3 cement mortar screeding layer waterproof layer concrete wall grass layer

rainwater pipe 150mm cobbly layer + M2.5 cement mortar layer

exterior rendering

Thinking drafts

This perspective shows the view of main entrance. As the entrance is set underground, visitors would pass a huge ramp connecting the entrance. As we can see from this graphic image, there are a large number of plants at the both side of ramp and walls, which gives visitors a scene of being comfortable and beautifies the building. Besides, using weathering steel on the part of ground floor makes the scene being more fascinating and historical, which meets the theme of this pavilion.

Wind analysis (made by Phoenics) Winter (exterior)

Wind pressure 1.5m above the ground

Wind speed

1.5m

Wind speed (vector)

1.5m

Wind pressure -2.5m

Wind speed

-2.5m

Wind speed (vector)

1.5m

Wind pressure -2.5m

Wind speed

-2.5m

As the standard of natural ventilation, in the winter, the delightful wind pressure between windward side and leeside is under 5Pa. In such circumstance, it would not product wind.

Besides, wind speed making people feel comfortable is below 1m/s.

Summer (exterior)

Wind pressure 1.5m above the ground

Wind speed

1.5m

In the summer, the delightful wind pressure between windward side and leeside needs to expeed 1.5Pa, which is the condition of producing wind. In addition, wind speed making people feel comfortable is between 1m/s and 5m/s.

Summer (interior ventilation)

B A

Wind pressure 2.5m above the ground

Wind speed

2.5m

Wind pressure -2.5m

Wind speed

C

-2.5m

comfort zone

2.5m (on natural ventilation)

Climate information Severe cold area Location of the site 48.014°N 122.737°E

Wind speed (vector)

-2.5m Solar condition

Wind condition

Wind speed (vector)

-2.5m

Summer

comfort zone

-2.5m (on natural ventilation)

Winter

PRESERVATION AND ACTIVATION The renovation project of Yuwotou Sugar Industry Type: Architectural design, Teamwork, Mar 2011 Role: Leader Purpose: Challenge Cup S &T Works Competition Location: Yuwotou, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China Responsibility in the team: Conception maker and building design; Computer models of transport machine and youth activity center; Rendering Site area: 10000 M2 Software used: SketchUp, AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop, V-Ray, Keyshot Background In the latest decade, the development and construction of cities had a huge change. However, in the meantime, it was consuming a large number of land resources, leading to the conflict between supply and demand became noteworthy increasingly. It severely restricted the sustainable development of cities. Thus, it is quite necessary that to enhance the use efficiency of land by remoulding and reusing those old and available lands and buildings.

The site of this project is located in a place named Yuwotou which is a southern village of Guangzhou. Now, it is a waste sugar industry with a few worn-out functional buildings and machines.

However, there is a heritage building in the site which was owned by a historical person. In addition, this waste sugar industry also has a long history and carries a lot of locals’ memories. Therefore, it is worthy to rebuild and reactivate this place.

This design is mainly to focus on creating a public space with a few different functional facilities by transforming those existing old buildings or constructions. It facilitates not only the locals living in there, but also makes this wasted site be remembered and realized by people again, which is our original purpose , preservation and activation.

master plan

perspective

floor plans

3rd floor

2nd floor

1st floor

ground floor

window shutter glass wall 1st floor

glass wall elevator 3rd floor 2nd floor 1st floor

glass wall

glass wall 2nd floor

newly-built stair window shutter

Entertainment Center (transport machine)

Section A - A

Floor plans

As the graphs showed, the new building we created connects those existing old buildings by bridges, which makes all buildings in this site become an entirety.

Section B - B

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A

Ground floor

A

1st floor

2nd floor B

Master plan

Night perspective

Audiences ①

Staffs Students Actors

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Program analysis ②

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1st floor 30

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1. Roof 2. Ceiling: Acoustic reflection plate + lights 3. Overhead bridges of stage 4. Storeroom 5. Toilets and shower enclosures 6. Offices 7. Rest space 8. Medium-sized rehearse room 9. Meeting rooms 10. Large and medium-sized dressing rooms 11. Custumes room 12. Props room 13. Small-sized dressing rooms 14. Large-sized rehearse room 15. Small-sized rehearse room 16. Toilets and shower enclosures 17. Duty room & reception room 18. Courtyard 19. VIP room 20. Fire control room 21. Lifing stage 22. Equipment rooms 23. Orchestra 24. Auditorium 25. Side hall 26. Main hall 27. Cafe 28. Report hall 29. Opening little theater 30. Exhibition space 31. Student activity rooms

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1st floor A

Section A-A

INHABITABLE COLUMN

THESIS

Concrete fabrication project Type: Fabrication and design, Teamwork, Jan. 2016 Purpose: Thesis, 2016 Winter, University of Michigan Instructor: Tsz Yan Ng, Wesley McGee Responsibility in team: Digital model, Grasshopping code for PETG’s “tab”, Formwork design and fabrication by MasterCam, CNC router, Zund knife cutter, KUKA 7-axis robot, Casting concrete and Rendering.

Background The aim of thesis project is to design an inhabitable column. To dematerializing a solid, heavy concrete column, which is present everywhere in concrete frame buildings, we decided to redesign it with a brunchlike structure. In doing so, one is able to explore the spaces within the column, in-between the brunches and even, outside the column, to make it inhabitable for users.

Recent experimentation with lightweight formwork such as the use of PETG enabled a more flexible way to cast concrete. No longer restrained by heavy and extensive formwork, both process and formal possibilities are opened up. Building off of precedents using PETG as formwork, we are working with tree structure geometries to explore techniques of casting for this inhabitable column. Testing developable surfaces to create folded PETG formwork along with robotic wire bending for reinforcement, our column design stems directly from parameters defined by the material, processes in casting, and scale.

A reusable custom designed jig was developed that holds the lightweight PETG in place during the casting process. Each prototypes produced tested the limitation of the formwork. Scaling became a factor to determine the range by which the branch-like structure could be cast. And finally, the cast-in-place process was phased to enable ease of handling and to prevent blowouts from pressure generated during the pouring process.

overall rebar structure

seperation system

rebar

rebar

plastic pipe joint

plastic pipe

rebar contactor

level 03 segment

rebar

plastic pipe

rebar

column segment contactor level 02 segment

rebar holder

rebar

rebar holder

level 01 segment

framework system

casting process level 01 overall framework (left) stapling petg (right)

formwork of the selected node (left) rebar holder and petg holder (right)

holder for locating rebar holder for fixing petg petg

rebar bending (left) We use 7-axis robot to bend the steels that would be the main structure of the column. This method gives us a opportunity to get the accurate shapes of rebar, exspecially for each rebar which has different length and angle, which guarantees each rebar would stay in the place according our design.

framework cutting (left) For the framework, we apply 3-axis CNC router for the same reason, accuracy, because the accuracy of framework would decide that each level of segments can combin with ecah other or not.

prototype

selected node (biggest one)

rebar

petg

rebar holder

petg tab

grasshopper code for petg tab

casting process

testing and improving

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petg sample 0.4

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dash score cutting

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formwork and cast method

unit dimention

material : foam

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RECASTING CMU Concrete fabrication Type: Fabrication, teamwork, Sep. 2015 Purpose: Thesis, 2015 Fall, University of Michigan Instructor: Tzs Yan Ng, Wesley McGee Team menbers: Zhenjia Wang, Xiayi Li Responsibility in the team: Physical modeling (3-axis CNC router operator), Digital modeling (Rhino and MasterCam file).

Background In light of digital fabrication, the complexity of parts in relation to the whole and its corresponding production is often a confusing and laboring process. By providing a system of organization and logic specific to the design, coherence of the project would yield a better product for fabrication and assembly.

For this project, we just use only one simple unit to create a concrete wall. Each unit’s shape is a hexagon with a series of specific inner angle. The most interesting thing is each unit can fit with each other, which makes the way of making this wall become simple and which reduces the labor of making this wall.

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casting concrete

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MOON SCAPE Planter, Fabrication with CNC router Type: Digital Fabrication, teamwork, Jan. 2016 Purpose: Elective course, 2016 Winter, University of Michigan Instructor: Wesley, McGee Team menbers: Zhenjia Wang, Xiayi Li Responsibility in the team: the concept of design, Physical modeling (3-axis CNC router operator), Digital modeling (Rhino and MasterCam file).

Background This project creates several multi-function pieces, which can be used as planters or something between holders and small sculptures.

As home decoration pieces, due to the surface and edges processing done to them, these pieces have the potential to be puzzles, which create fun while the uses trying to assemble them in different ways.

This project is milled from MDF using a 3-axis CNC router. For the sake of keeping the beauty of machinery, part of the surface is left without sanded.

different conbinations

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