A DA LU C H AO WA N G
PORTFOLIO 2017-2020
M.Arch I Candidate
CONTENTS
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25 Corridors Museum
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Crack The Wall Welcome Center
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Fire Station 49
33 LA Gravity Fall Fire Station 49
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Labyrinth Jungle Gym
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Rock Learning Center
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Professional Work
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5 | 25 Corridors
01 Instructor Year Building type Site
25 Corridors Museum Jimenez Lai AUD 2019 Fall Museum San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles
San Gabriel Valley has a long history of immigration. During the various stages of the Chinese diaspora, culturally distinct generations arrivals have brought with them unrelatable memories. Today, these memories physically coexist upon the San Gabriel Valley. In this way, nostalgia becomes an editing process from which unreliable memories reconstructed to update the many collapsed histories. In particular, the desire to emphasize some notion of “authenticityâ€? prevents time to progress - culture, like any entity, morphs over time. As cultures become detached from where it came from and the developing paths that have been interrupted, memories become frozen in time. I am interested in how memories have been distorted and misinterpreted during the process of diaspora. Memory is not infallible, and sometimes The memories can become corrupted and unreliable. Thus, we will explore how different paths from each generation have formed, and how they are experienced. The theory of the hyper-real, as defined by Baudrillard, is one of the philosophical foundations of my project.Â
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23 | Crack The Wall
02 Instructor Year Building type Site
Crack The Wall Welcome Center Mohamed Sharif AUD 2019 Winter Refugee Welcome Center Westlake, Los Angeles
The project is a 15,000 SF California Welcome Center for Immigrants and Refugees sited on the northeast corner of Wilshire and Alvarado just east of MacArthur Park in Westlake near DTLA. Using steel as the architectonic fabric, atrium as the vital organizational engines. Crack The Wall Welcome Center has horizontal circulation network activates the long, thin atrium at multiple levels and cultivates the atrium as a long galleria with multiple layers of perforated screens filter lights inside for a constant shadow play. The play between efficient straight up stair circulation with inefficient ramp promenade circulation encourages people to wander around and explore the space.
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TRUSS
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METAL COLUM
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TENSION CAB
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CORRUGATED
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GIRDER
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MULLION
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C SHAPE FINI
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ELECTRICITY
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1. I Beam 2. Truss 3. Metal Column 4. Tension Cable 5. Floor Slab 6. Corrugated Metal Deck 7. Girder 8. Mullion 9. C Shape Finishing 10. Electricity Pipe 11. Fan Duct Pipe
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Program / Structure Diagrams
I BEAM
FLOOR SLAB
FAN DUCT PIP
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2 14’
3 14’
4 16’
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5 14’
6 14’
D
7 19’
8 14’
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9 14’
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Top: Second Floor Plan Bottom: First Floor Site Plan
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Section AA’
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29 | Crack The Wall
Top: Section DD’ Bottom: Section CC’
Top: Section FF’ Bottom: Section EE’
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33 | Fire Station 49
03 Instructor Year Building type Site
Fire Station 49 Andrew Kovacs AUD 2019 Spring Fire Station And Park Long Beach, Los Angeles
Fire Station 49 locates in long beach has both fire engines and fireboat. it is split into 3rds, with core building in the middle and apparatus bay for truck and and boat by both ends. There is four different type of fire engines and one fire boat. During the interview with firefighters at the beginning of the quarter, they think the most important element of a fire station is to have drive through apparatus bay. Therefore taking 4 trucks and 1 boat on site, each of the fire engine will have its own driveway. The apparatus bays for both trucks and boat are straight forward industrial garages, in the middle there is a more animated facade for the house component of fire station. It has a convertible theatre on the first floor, looking out into a hand ball quart.
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8.35 ft
7.36 ft
22.26 ft
8.00 ft
8.50 ft
34.31 ft
100.00 ft
10.47 ft
12.00 ft
37.71 ft
38.00 ft
40.70 ft
10.75 ft
11.00 ft
48.56 ft
Fire Engines
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Second Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
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South Elevation
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East Elevation
North East Elevation
North West Elevation
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Section
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Core Building Interior View
Boat Garage View
Engines Garage View
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Door
Door
Door
Arch
Duct
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Window
Arch
Pipe
Original Facade Elements
Landscape Diagram
Column
Pipe
Window
Window
Chimney
Fan
Site Axonometric
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Fire Station View
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Entertainment Zone View
Boat Factory View
Business Zone View
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45 | Labyrinth Jungle
04 Instructor Year Building type Site
Labyrinth Jungle 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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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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55 | Rock Learning Center
05 Instructor Year Credit
Rock Learning Center 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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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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Professional Work
63 | Professional Work
Gramercy Senior Housing | Kevin Daly Architects
Kevin Daly Architects | Gramercy Senior Housing
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Professional Work
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Turtle | Eric Owen Moss Architects
Eric Owen Moss Architects | Turtle
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Professional Work
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234 Pico | Frederick Fisher & Partners
Frederick Fisher & Partners | Covel Commons Renovation
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NAME | Ada Luchao Wang BIRTH | 12/ 09/ 1993 CONTACT | AdaLuchaoWang@gmail.com +1 (310) 729 7658 (US) +86 13400551209 (CN) LANGUAGE | Chinese (Native) English (Fluent) French (Basics)
EDUCATION | UCLA Architecture & Urban Design 09/2017-Current
[Los Angeles, USA]
M.Arch I Student Representative, GPA: 3.82/4.0
EXPERIENCE | UCLA AUD Currents Exhibition AWARDS 2018 Spring Quarter
[Los Angeles, USA]
Rock Learning Center Project Professor: Benjamin Freyinger
Full Scholarship Recipient 2017-18
Global Volunteer Program - iTeach
Columbia University, GSAPP 09/2016-06/2017
06/2014-08/2014
[New York, USA & Paris, FR]
[Mauritius]
Taught English and Math in a local church school and a welfare house in Mauritius
Program: New York / Paris Certificate
Global Volunteer Program -Skouras Camp
University of Liverpool 09/2014-06/2016
[Liverpool, UK]
RIBA Part 1, Bachelor of Arts & Architecture, GPA: 3.47
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 09/2012-06/2014
[Suzhou, CN]
RIBA Part 1, Bachelor of Arts & Architecture,
06/2013-08/2013
[Greece]
Arts teacher and mentor for children aged 4 to 14 in the Summer Camp
Global Volunteer Program - Nav Jyoti 01/2013-02/2013
[India]
Teach children Arts and Phycology in a disable school of India
Class Representative
INTERNSHIP | Kevin Daly Architects 10/2019-Current
LEADERSHIP | Association Internationale des Etudiants [Los Angeles, USA]
Projects: Gramercy Senior Housing, Little Berkeley,
en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales 01/2013-06/2014
Venice Residence, Houston headquarters. Produced drawings, diagrams and renderings with Rhi
Team Leader in charge of Asian and Indian area
no, AutoCAD and Adobe suite, physical model making.
06/2013-06/2014
Eric Owen Moss Architects
Responsible for training five managers about participant
06/2019-09/2019
[Los Angeles, USA]
[Suzhou, CN]
volunteer management, organize publicity activities and presentations to share volunteer experience
Project: Wrapper II Office Building, Turtle Office Building. Assisted in detail designs with Rhino, physical models
Exchange Participant Manager 01/2013-06/2013
and drawing submission.
[Suzhou, CN]
Responsible to search voluntary projects, assistant six
Frederick Fisher & Partners 03/2018-03/2019
participants to do volunteer work in six countries [Los Angeles, USA]
Lead Designer in Venice City Hall Renovation Project Other Projects: Natural History Museum, Covel Commons Renovation, Santa Monica City Service. Engaged with client meeting, physical final model, facade design, produced renders with enscape and revit.
Youth Volunteers Association 05/2013-06/2013
[Suzhou, CN]
Part-time Arts teacher in a primary School of Suzhou.
Ada Luchao Wang | AdaLuchaoWang@gmail.com | +1 (310) 729 7658