A DA LU C H AO WA N G
PORTFOLIO 2015-2018
M.Arch I Candidate
UCLA AUD: M.Arch I (2017-2018)
5-16 Labyrinth Jungle
17-24 Rock Learning Center
Columbia University: GSAPP NY/P - The Shape of Two Cities (2016-2017)
25-28 Prosthesis of Micro and Macro
29-32 Dressing Room
33-36 Atelier (New York)
37-42 Octopus Atelier
University of Liverpool: B.Art with Honor (2015-2016)
43-54 Tetris Housing
55-60 The Forest of Steel
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Labyrinth Jungle Instructor Year Building type Site
Andrew Kovacs AUD 2018 Winter Sports Club YMCA Bunker Hill, Los Angeles
A gym is the journey of life. The Modern Sports club is a place where transformation happens. A transformation from ugly to beautiful, from weak to strong and transition between different life styles. The site is surrounded by bridges connects nearby buildings and decks. It’s like a labyrinth in the middle of the city which brings different people from skyscrapers to the site, to take off the heavy pressure of life and switch to a more relaxed mode. Therefore the labyrinth in the city gets extended into the gym, where all parts overlay with each other and all the events happen at the same time.
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7 | Labyrinth Jungle
Render at Pool View
Seven Labyrinth Prototype
Elements Axonometric
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First Floor Plan
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First Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
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Section AA’
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Section AA’
Section BB’
Section BB’
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17 | Rock Learning Center
Rock Learning Center Instructor Year Credit
Benjamin Freyinger AUD 2018 Spring Individual
I am interested in the idea of physics and its implications on the perception and imagination of architecture. By assigning a false gravity, to a flat section artifact, I was able to speculate on how a structure distorts and collapses. The act of design is found as the existing structure confronts the fact of its burden – its perceived weights and physical properties, are suspended in a productive architectural stasis. Architectural elements are assigned perceived physical behaviors found in the act of collapse. Floor slabs that are sheared off their supports collapse vertically and come to rest at an incline. Elements of a space frame snap and spin off into a condensed nest of parts and sheared stacks. Gravitational force interacts with the architectural elements in plan and section, reducing the structure to its most essential overlapping elements, a process that creates collapses in two dimensions. Along with shear and incline, nest is introduced as a method, in which space is inverted into solid, and repeatedly nested into the central solid of the rock sculpture.
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Original Section
Section Transforming
Transformed Section
Structural Model 1
Structural Model 2
Structural Model 3
Volumetric Model 1
Volumetric Model 2
Volumetric Model 3
Final Elements
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Diagrams
Plan Level 06 Plan Level 09
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21 | Rock Learning Center
Section BB’
Section AA’
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Lasercut/ 3D Print Physical Model 2’x2’x1/2’
Lasercut/ 3D Print Physical Model 2’x2’x1/2’
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25 | NY / P
Prosthesis of Micro and Macro (1 of 4) Instructor Year
Thomas de Monchaux NY/P 2016 Fall
Scale
Clothing
Credit
Individual
Site
Orchard Street, New York
The way people observe the street and what kind of experience people gain from their observation varies. Most people experience the street and city at a slight glance and there were many interesting micro details which were easliy ignored by busy passerby. I thus created a prosthetic device which control the view of people changing between micro and macro through their body movement.
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27 | NY / P
Elevation/ Plan/ Cross section overlay
Mechanical movements of the prosthesis
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29 | NY / P
Dressing Room (2 of 4) Instructor Year
Babak Bryan NY/P 2016 Fall
Scale
Room
Credit
Individual
Site
Garment District, New York
After observing two customers changing clothes in garment district, I found out that body movements as well as walking paths are influenced by the fabric and their movements do not always follow the rational strict lines within the space. Therefore the curved surfaces were created by weaving between two basswood sticks which are perpendicular to each other in space. There is also diversity in the way and density of weaving to differenciate the private, semi-public and public space. In this way the surface of twine leads people in and out through the entire
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Changing room 1- a Closet for changing room - b Entrance - c Public rest area - d Changing room 2 - e Closet for changing room - f
31 | NY / P
Plan of Dressing room
Sections of Dressing room
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33 | NY / P
Atelier (3 of 4) Instructor Year
Sarah Carpenter NY/P 2016 Fall
Scale
Building
Credit
Individual
Site
Lincoln Center, New York
Human body is an art of origami. Impelled by different emotions, body folds and unfolds. The actors in movie west side story had extreme emotinal expression which has strong contrast with people in Lincoln center who are calmer. The flexible triangular surfaces of Aterlier derive from the triangular weaving changing rooms and they fold and unfold to interlock with the fins of Lincoln center. The circulation of administrative office/ studio space/ fabrication space/ storage/ runway stage/ retail boutique also reveal the contrast between emotional movements in west side story and calm spirit in Lincoln center.
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35 | NY / P
Unfold Section of Atelier The contract between extreme emotion circulation with calm emotion circulation
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37 | NY / P
Octopus Atelier (4 of 4) Instructor Year
Thomas de Monchaux NY/P 2016 Fall
Scale
Building
Credit
Individual
Site
Garnier Opera House, Paris
The goal was to transfer the atelier in Lincoln center into the lobby atrium in Garnier Opera House in paris. I analyzed the scene Christine was seduced in the movie Phantom of the Opera and found 7 tension and compression points according to the emotion in the movie. Part of the staircase was replaced and these 7 points distort the original atelier and make it expand like an octopus which has parasitic relationship to the origin Garnier opera house. The octopus swallows people inside and serve as a circulation hall. The function of atelier remains however the opening varies. The bottom openings are small enough to peek inside and outside while the upper openings are big and open to upper level for privacy differencing. The top transparent structure refers back to the screen of display the prosthetic at previous step.
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Emotion Diagram of phantom of the Opera
Section of Octopus Atelier
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f
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Axonometric
Front view of the model
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43 | Tetris Housing
Tetris Housing Instructor Year
Marco C. Iuliano 4th Year Design Studio Spring 2016
Credit
Individual
Location
Garswood Street, Liverpool, UK
Material
Concrete, Brick University of Liverpool
In an increasingly globalised setting the dominance of visual seductiveness and soulless technology has destabilised the main quality of architecture: an occasion to convey material and immaterial values. Studio Two aims to tackle the current trend, which neglects the fundamental role of architecture as a powerful tool for social engagement, so as to build a sense of place and community. As well as working on pure theory, we aim to re-think space in a pragmatic manner, through intellectual injections and critical interpretations of contemporary good practice, in order to refine a methodology capable of making a responsible design for the future. Students were asked to build a housing complex in Liverpool in substitution of a recent development, trying to create an environment attentive to the cultural context, sensitive to scale and that fosters human interaction. This should be tackled via a tthoughtful design of a single inhabitable unit, considering the role of the unit in the formation of the whole scheme.
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Walking Path
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Site plan of Garswood district
Stage 1: Existing situation
Stage 4: Diversity in path and communal area
Diagram of housing and path arranging
Stage 2: Path breaking
Stage 5: Optimize the path
Stage 3: Extend the path
Stage 6: Materiality lead people
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Third Floor Plan
B’ B
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A’
Second Floor Plan
B’ B
A
First Floor Plan
B’
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10 m
36.6 m
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2F
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32.2 m
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27.7 m Site Plan
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Axonometric
Private upper level bedroom and balcony
Public plaza next to cafe hall
Public cafe area and activity room
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Section AA’
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- People circulate through public plaza
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- Southwest side facade
- Semi-public atrium space
- Dining room
- Living room
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55 | The Forest of Steel
The Forest of Steel Instructor Year
Valentino Sousa 4th Year Design Studio Fall 2015
Credit
Individual
Location
Liverpool One, Liverpool, UK
Material
Steel University of Liverpool
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: ‘This is Beautiful’. That is Architecture. Art enters in. (Le Corbusier, 1923) The project is divided into two parts. The first is the study of the materials, their performance and the relation to the two basic construction principles, structural frame or load bearing masonry. The second is the application of that knowledge to the design of a walled garden on the Ropewalks area.
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Day Elevation
Night Elevation
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- Exterior exhibition area
- Cross section cutting through the toilet/ storage/ exhibition area/ secret garden
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- Public space outside the exhibition area
- Public space outside the exhibition area
- Space inside secret garden
- Space inside secret garden
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NAME | Luchao Wang BIRTH | 12/ 09/ 1993 CONTACT | Luchao.wang129@hotmail.com +1 (310) 729 7658 (US) +86 13400551209 (CN) LANGUAGE | Chinese (Native) English (Fluent) French (Basics)
EDUCATION | UCLA Architecture & Urban Design Current
INTERNSHIP | Frederick Fisher & Partners
[Los Angeles, USA]
M.Arch I Student Representative, GPA: 3.82/4.0
03/2018-Current
[Los Angeles, USA]
Lead Designer in Venice City Hall Renovation Project Other Projects invloved: Natural History Museum, Covel Commons Renovation, Santa Monica City Service.
Columbia University, GSAPP 09/2016-06/2017
Engaged with client meeting, physical final model,
[New York, USA & Paris, FR]
Program: New York / Paris Certificate
Fujian Institution of Architectural Design 07/2015-09/2015
University of Liverpool 09/2012-06/2016
facade design, produced renders with enscape and revit.
[Fuzhou, CN]
Project: Shude Primary School and Kindergarten, [Liverpool, UK]
Fuzhou Meng Chao Liver Hospital, Cultural Museum of Chinese Medicines.
Bachelor of Arts (Architecture), Major GPA: 3.47/4.0
Assisted in detail designs and interior rendering with CAD, Photoshop, Rhino and Artlantis Studio.
LEADERSHIP | Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales 01/2013-06/2014
[Los Angeles, USA]
Rock Learning Center Project Professor: Benjamin Freyinger
Team Leader in charge of Asian and Indian area 06/2013-06/2014
EXPERIENCE | UCLA AUD Currents Exhibition AWARDS 2018 Spring Quarter
[Suzhou, CN]
Global Volunteer Program - iTeach 06/2014-08/2014
[Mauritius]
Responsible for training five managers about participant
Taught English and Math in a local church school and a
volunteer management, organize publicity activities and
welfare house in Mauritius
presentations to share volunteer experience
Global Volunteer Program -Skouras Camp
Exchange Participant Manager 01/2013-06/2013
06/2013-08/2013 [Suzhou, CN]
Responsible to search voluntary projects, assistant six
[Greece]
Arts teacher and mentor for children aged 4 to 14 in the Summer Camp
participants to do volunteer work in six countries
Global Volunteer Program - Nav Jyoti 01/2013-02/2013
Youth Volunteers Association 05/2013-06/2013
[Suzhou, CN]
Part-time Arts teacher in a primary School of Suzhou.
[India]
Teach children Arts and Phycology in a disable school of India
Ada Luchao Wang | Luchao.wang129@hotmail.com | +1 (310) 729 7658