LUCHAO WANG
PORTFOLIO 2012-2016
Luchao Wang | Luchaowang129@ucla.edu | +1 (310) 729 7658
M.Arch I Candidate
Columbia University: GSAPP NY/P - The Shape of Two Cities (2016-2017)
5-10 Prosthesis of micro and macro
23-32 Atelier (New York)
11-16 Screen of Display
33-44 Octopus Atelier (Paris)
University of Liverpool (2012-2016)
45-58 Tetris Housing
59-72 The Forest of Steel
17-22 Dressing Room
Prosthesis of micro and macro Critic 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 the 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 create a prosthetic device which control the view of people changing between micro and macro through their body movement.
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Collage and diagram of street observation with prosthetic device on 7 | NY / P
Diagram of street observation NY / P | 8
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Elevation/ Plan/ Cross section overlay
Mechanical movements of the prosthesis
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Screen of Display Critic Year
Jane Kim NY/P 2016 Fall
Scale
Furniture
Credit
Individual
Site
SOHO Prada store, New York
The triangular prism display at the northern tip of Flatiron building function as a framed screen of observation. In the daytime when outside is brighter than inside, it is hard for observer from outside looking into the inside. While in the night time when interior lights on, it is possible to observe the bright interior meanwhile hard to observe from interior to darker exterior. Thus I would like to continue the idea of frame the view from prosthetic into the display screen using several interlocked triangular pyramid.
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The frame of view varies from triangle with depth to 3D rectangle with barriers, encourage people to move while looking at the display. It increase the interaction with people and break the barrier of seen and been seen.
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Diagram of Flatiron frame
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Axonometric of display screen in SOHO Prada Store
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Dressing Room Critic Year Scale Credit Site
Babak Bryan NY/P 2016 Fall Room Individual Garment District, New York
After stalking two customers changing clothes in Garment district, I found out the body movements as well as walking paths are influenced by the fabric and the movements are 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 circulation.
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Diagram of body and clothes movements in the changing room
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a - Changing room 1 b - Closet for changing room c - Entrance d - Public rest area e - Changing room 2 f - Closet for changing room
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Plan of Dressing room
Sections of Dressing room
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Atelier Critic Year Scale Credit Site
Sarah Carpenter NY/P 2016 Fall Building Individual 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 were 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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Retail Boutique
Fabrication space Storage
Studio space
Office
Changing rooms
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Diagram of people’s movement in West Side Story and people at Lincoln Center
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a - Lager part for room wall b - Smaller part for pedestrain footprint c - connection part d - Surface with notch is more flexible to fit between the fin at Lincoln Center 27 | NY / P
Section of Atelier
Diagram of structure components NY / P | 28
Unfold Section of Atelier
The contract between extreme emotion circulation with calm emotion circulation 29 | NY / P
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Interior studio space
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a - Entrance and Administrative office b - Southwest facade of the Atelier c - Semi-public plaza created underneath the Atelier d - Night view of the Atelier
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Octopus Atelier Critic Year Scale Credit Site
Thomas de Monchaux NY/P 2016 Fall Building Individual 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 analyse the scene Christine was seduced in the movie Phantom of the Opera and get 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 expend like an octopus which has parasitism relationship to the origin Garnier opera house. The octopus swallow 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 very top part 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 35 | NY / P
Section of Octopus Atelier NY / P | 36
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Unfold Plan of Octopus Atelier
Plan of Octopus Atelier at balcony level
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Emotion Diagram of phantom of the Opera in Plan
Top view of the model
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Emotion Diagram of phantom of the Opera in Section
Front view of the model
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a - Runway stage
b - Dressing room
c - Runway stage with dressing room
d - Bottom view of the Octopus Atelier
e - Retail boutique
f - Fabrication space
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Axonometric
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Tetris Housing Tutor 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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Stage 1: Existing situation
Stage 4: Diversity in path and communal area
Stage 2: Path breaking
Stage 5: Optimize the path
Stage 3: Extend the path
Stage 6: Materiality lead people
Walking Path
Site plan of Garswood district 47 |Tetris Housing
Diagram of housing and path arranging Tetris Housing | 48
The materiality and texture not only influenced people’s walking path, living habit, but also influenced people’s mood and mind. The vivid color and texture of brick settled in communal area will give people an excited mood while the grey concrete settled in living and private space will help people to calm down. Architrects are not only design in 3D, but in 4D to influence people’s mind and mental health, maybe even in 5D or 6D in the future.
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Third Floor Plan
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32.2 m
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Site Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Private upper level bedroom and balcony
Public plaza next to cafe hall
Public cafe area and activity room
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Axonometric
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Section A A’
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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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The Forest of Steel Tutor 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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Secret Garden
Entrance of Secret Garden
Storage and Toilet Interior Exhibition area
Exterior Exhibition area
Site plan of Liverpool One Kitchen for Bar
Exterior Bar
Interior Bar
- Semi-public area
- Circulation path
- Relationship with the tree on site
- Structure arrangement
- Structure arrangement with second floor
- Combination of the relationships
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Plan
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Translucent tensile membrane Illuminated at night
Tensigrity structure with isolated A space of triangular prism
struts in compression inside a net of tensile cable
Suspended cable in tension to hold metal meshes for plants to Turn steel struts obique into
grow ont
45 degree
Isolated steel cube house underneath with oblique roof for draining. Enclousures as interior bar and exhibition. Connect struts with tensile stainless steel cable
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1. Adjustable steel joint
16. Steel galvanized 22 mm
2. Curtain wall system with double glazing window
Aluminium profile 31 mm
3. 150 * 80 mm RHS steel column
Sealing tape
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Sandwich alunimium 80 mm 4. Post and mullion construction 50 * 50 * 3.2 mm
Steel decking 46 mm
5. Construction stainless steel cable 1 * 19
Secondary carrier steel profile 50 *50 mm
6. Metal mesh
Steel 塼 beam 100 *100 mm
7. Grid
Rear ventilation 30 *30 mm
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1:20 detail plan of metal mesh
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OSB plate 2 *12 mm 8. Metal mesh
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17. Double glazing curtain wall 4 mm
9. Cantilever supporting
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Aluminium profile 40/ 25 mm Sandwich aluminium pannel 80 mm
10. Translucent tensile membrane
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RHS steel column 150 * 80 mm
11. Adjustable pin joint
18. Resin finish 50 mm
12. Construction stainless steel tensile cable
Reinforced concrete 140 mm
13. Lighting bulb as supporting between membrane
Metal decking 60 mm
14. CHS steel strut 150 mm
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Sandwich panel 40 mm
15. Arch Dolts
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19. Insulation glazing in aluminium frame 2
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1:20 detail section of metal mesh
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1:20 detail of RHS and curtain wall 17
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Detail photo of tensegrity structure model base 65 | Forest of Steel
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1:50 detail section of struts and cables
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A forest of steel People walk, talk, socializing in between the tensigrity structure Like an adventure in the steel jungle
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Day Elevation
Night Elevation
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- Exterior exhibition area
- Public space outside the exhibition area
- Public space outside the exhibition area
- Space inside secret garden
- Space inside secret garden
- Cross section cutting through the toilet/ storage/ exhibition area/ secret garden
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EDUCATION | UCLA Architecture & Urban Design Current
INTERNSHIP | Fujian Provincial Institution of Architectural Design & Research
[Los Angeles, USA]
M.Arch I Student Representative, GPA: 3.82/4.0
08/2015-09/2015
[Fuzhou, CN]
Project: Shude Primary School and Kindergarten
Columbia University, GSAPP
Assist in detail designs: site circulation and interior rend-
09/2016-06/2017
ering with AutoCAD, Photoshop, Artlantis and Rhino.
[New York, USA & Paris, FR]
Program: New York / Paris Certificate 01/2014-02/2014
University of Liverpool 09/2012-06/2016
[Fuzhou, CN]
Project: Fuzhou Meng Chao Liver Hospital [Liverpool, UK]
Cultural Museum of Chinese Medicines
Bachelor of Arts (Architecture), Major GPA: 3.47/4.0
Ninghua City Hospital Contribute for organization of final documents and drawings of masterplan, sections and diagrams
NAME | Luchao Wang BIRTH | 12/ 09/ 1993 CONTACT | Luchaowang129@ucla.edu +1 (310) 729 7658 (US) +86 13400551209 (CN)
LEADERSHIP | Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales
EXTRACURRICULAR | Global Volunteer Program - iTeach ACTIVITY
06/2014-08/2014
[Mauritius]
Teach English and Math in a local church school and a
01/2013-06/2014
welfare house in Mauritius Team Leader in charge of Asian and Indian area <06/2013-06/2014>
[Suzhou, CN]
Global Volunteer Program - Skouras Camp 06/2013-08/2013
[Greece]
LANGUAGE | Chinese (Native)
Responsible for training five managers about participant
Be an Arts teacher and safe guard for children aged 4 to
English (Fluent)
volunteer management, organize publicity activities and
14 in the Summer Camp
French (Basics)
presentations to share volunteer experience
Global Volunteer Program - Nav Jyoti 01/2013-02/2013
Exchange Participant Manager <01/2013-06/2013>
[Suzhou, CN]
Responsible to search voluntary projects, assistant six participants to do volunteer work in six countries
Teach children Arts and Phycology in a disable school of India
2012 School Sports Meeting 10/2012
Youth Volunteers Association 05/2013-06/2013
[India]
[Fuzhou, CN]
First Place in Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-hundred meter race, break [Suzhou, CN]
the school record
Part-time Arts teacher in a primary School of Suzhou City
The 26th Fujian Adolescents Science & Technology Innovation Contest 03/2010
[Fuzhou, CN]
Third Prize, study on the rapid detection technique of the artificial eggs