work sample 2019

2016

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WORKS by KATE WANG

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LEARNING DYNAMIC INFORMATION A drive through librar y

SHARED HOUSING

Collective housing in Bronx

CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENT

A campus for kids with asthma

BORDER & EXCHANGE

An EXPO center for kick starters

THEATRE

Wooden framing constr uction

ENNEAD ARCHITECTS Professional practice

PETER EISENMAN ARCHITECTS Professional practice

SHARED HOUSING

Collective housing in Bronx GSAPP Core Studio III Instructor: Daisy Ames Teamwork with Chasce Tang Fall 2017

Our project explores the potential of adaptable spaces. We creates opportunities for co-living, co-working, retail and an expanding household for existing residents in the South Bronx site.

Observing from site, we observed that the area is largely occupied by community centers, schools, daycare centers, and commercial places. However, most of the programs’ locations seemed haphazard, and failed to form a logical dialogue amongst each other. We found interesting that the site’s location offers a great opportunity to weave all the family business, and communal center together. Therefore provide a ground for home occupation, which also welcome public to bring profits.

Sun Path Analysis We started by analyzing how the surrounding buildings cast shadows on the site block in order to optimizing the massing options for the housing.

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Create the Second Public Axis

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Rotating the Public Side Out

Shifting Off the Axis Create Public Axis

Bring in Tower Units

Close up the Private Courtyards

Our design intent is to achieve flexibility and adaptability of program by creating an open plan through a column-and-concrete slab construction method. The adjustable walls create opportunities for shared service and shared living space to achieving a lvarger living space in some cases as well as a live+work space.

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We also envisioned our dwellings as conditions. Dwellers could swap the internal walls with adaptive and movable partitions based on their specific needs. These customized partitions open up the layout and allow the dwellers to move freely and to maximize to usage of space.

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LEARNING DYNAMIC INFORMATION A drive through librar y GSAPP Core Studio II Instructor: Christoph Kumpusch Individual Work Spring 2016

The project aims to hybridize driving experience and learning experience into a holistic program through building a flux structure, a flowing system that metaphorically weaves individual’s sensitivity with the surrounding environment. Referring to the column structure that was built in Toyo Ito’s Sendai Mediatheque, the project will investigate how information flows and how individual as a receiver should engage with changing surroundings. In terms of structure, the project will question whether if the geometry of building that selects the degree of flexibility of the structure or the structure renders the rigidity/flexibility of the space.

Could the physical quality of concrete (or any other materials) be rendered differently though deploying porosity and permeability? Neither should library be sealed into a waterproof package nor should the information be trapped in a form of envelope. A new drive-through library learns how to breathe and imitates the process contraction and expansion of a pumping heart.

Materiality The architecture itself should act as a whirl, welcoming surrounding traffic to naturally enter the building. As a result, fear and anxiety towards learning new technology are erased.

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The dynamic of helical car movement and linear pedestrian trajectory are married to generate an architecture. The movement of people either driving in a car or meandering through the space would eventually become the speed of building.

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Frozen fluid smooth out entrance and exit. The architecture itself should act as a whirl, welcoming surrounding traffic to naturally enter the building.

As a result, fear and anxiety towards learning new technology are erased.

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Ground Floor slow path

Third Floor fast path

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Frozen fluid smooth out entrance and exit. The architecture itself should act as a whirl, welcoming surrounding traffic to naturally enter the building. As a result, fear and anxiety towards learning new technology are erased.

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BORDER & EXCHANGE An Expo Center for kick starters GSAPP Advance Studio V Instructor: Mark Rakatansky Individual Work Fall 2018

US’s 2,000 mile border has affected Mexico economical fate. Mexico, as the only developing country sharing a border with the world’s superpower,adjacency to the United States has provided Mexico with convenient access to a lucrative external market.

Witness Mexico’s transition over to the innovation economy; therefore proposed a more engaged and innovative way of working. The extensive collaboration of Mexican business people and industrialists with US corporations has undermined domestic efforts to build a stronger and more independent Mexican economy.

The aim is to encourage more local kick starters to be exposed to the huge market and educating the general public the capacity and potential of Mexico economic market through presenting how people can work collectively, individually, physical activity and resting; implicating the ecological about work today.

Courtyard as Gathering Space On the right is a physical model showing the courtyard of the building, which functions as the main space for communication.

Ground Floor Re-planning

Comparing to the original plan of the building on the right, the new ground plan encourages idea exchange between investors & an incubator for/update on tech growth; and also helping them develop a strong portfolio in front of public.

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Interactive Space

The facade design has been carefully thought through.

The stone panels bands of the facade have been intertwined into the interior of the building, which are reflected in the balcony design.

The continuous stone facade encourages idea exchange between interior and exterior.

The existing marble facade are embedded in the heavy stone structure.

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CONDITIONED ENVIRONMENT A campus for kids with asthma

GSAPP Advance Studio IV Instructor: Nahyun Hwang Teamwork with Jiaxin Li Spring 2018 Asthma Hospitalizations per 1,000 children under 17 South Bronx: 9.9 - 12.2

BRAIN Study publiched by Harvard University suggests that children with autism disorders were 50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high amounts of several toxic air, and children’s IQ can be affected by mother’s exposure to urban pollutants.

According to a study done by University of North Carolina, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s may begin early in life with air pollutants playing a crucial role. Studies have also found brain inflammation and Alzheimer’s-Like Pathology in individuals exposed to severe air pollution.

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In the context of New York aging society along with concern in children’s mental care, we notice that more and more people are suffering in mental health and physical health at certain level. Today, health has been one of the most critical concern for new yorkers. Meanwhile, we found that New York city lack health facilities or nursing home for elderly and autism children, these two age groups are especially vulnerable to environmental hazard such as air pollution.

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RESPIRATORY SYSTEM People with Asthma - Over 57,000 adults and nearly 25,000 children with asthma live in Bronx area with unhealthful levels of year-round particle pollution. Air pollution also spurs allergies. 1 in every 4 children has been diagnosed with asthma in South Bronx, almost double the rate of national average.

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CO BRAIN Particulate matter less than 2.5 micrometers in aerodynamic

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Report showing that social interaction is critically important contributor to good health and longevity.

The campus aim to provide a great ground for different social interactions.

Material and Tolerance Pollution emitted from the vehicles is expected to adhere to the bubbles.

Overtime, the bubbles not only filter the pollutant but also become evidences that trace the environment in the area.

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Inflatable vs. stable structure

The site is located at south Bronx, adjacent to the triangulated highway. We looked at the other factory and industry near the site, and found a local middle school is located at a highly polluted area.

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LOST AND FOUND metro station extension

GSAPP Core Studio I Individual Work Fall 2016

Objects’ Statement: Once you lost me, you are never ever getting me back.Lost and Found objects are collected andexhibited as public properties. Owners could never get them back. This is a Lostand Found objects’ revenge on the people who lost them.

The architecture includes six galleries, and spaces are designed to manipulate observer’s vision.

1. Hats – they overhang above viewers, and project shadows on viewers’ head. However, viewers could never reach and wear them.

2. Shoes – they are stored in glasses boxes that embedded in the floor. Viewers can step on the top of those shoes, but cannot wear them.

3. Wardrobe – try on some personalities: each piece of clothes is framed in a glass box and all t he exhibition boxes lined up in a row. Viewers meander in between those exhibition boxes, and have different clothes projecting on them, but cannot wear them.

4. When you think it is small, it’s actually turning big – objects are place in an order from small to big. The biggest object is placed in a furthest distance to viewers and appeared to be small. The smallest object is place in a closest distance to viewers and appeared to be big.

5. Hide and Seek – recoupling single objects: single objects who lost their partners are presented together. Viewers help them finding potential new soul mates.

6. Donation Box – towards the end of tour, viewers can donate objects to the exhibition.

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THEATRE

GSAPP ARCHITECTURE TECHNOLOGY Schematic Design, Design Development, Construction Development Teamwork with Biyi Ruan, Joanne Chen, Richard Lee Modeling Program: Revit, Rhino, Autocade Rendering Program: Vray for Rhino

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YALE PAYNE WHITNEY GYMNASIUM EXTENSION

Schematic Design and Design Development Modeling Program: Revit, Rhino Rendering Program: Vray for Rhino, Enscape for Rhino

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Schematic Design Modeling Program: Rhino Rendering Program: Vray for Rhino

Exhibition design Modeling Program: Rhino, Sketchup

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CHICAGO PAVILION

FIGURE DRAWINGS

Modeling Program: Rhino Rendering Program: Vray for Rhino

Charcoal on Paper, Pencil on Paper

UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECURE STUDIO IV

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