Luchao Wang Architecture Portfolio

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

NY / P | 10

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

NY / P | 14

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Axonometric of display screen in SOHO Prada Store

NY / P | 16

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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b f

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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

Plan of Atelier NY / P | 26

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-b

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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

NY / P | 32

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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c

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Unfold Plan of Octopus Atelier

Plan of Octopus Atelier at balcony level

NY / P | 38

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Emotion Diagram of phantom of the Opera in Plan

Top view of the model

NY / P | 40

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Emotion Diagram of phantom of the Opera in Section

Front view of the model

NY / P | 42

c

a b

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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e

f

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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.

Conceptual Mapping 49 |Tetris Housing

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B

36.6 m

A’

A

3F 3F

2F

Third Floor Plan

2F

3F

3F

3F

1F

32.2 m

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2F

3F

3F

1F

2F

3F

2F

2F 2F

B’ B

2F 0

5

15

30 m

27.7 m

Site Plan

A

A’

Second Floor Plan

B’ B

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A’

First Floor Plan

B’

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5

10 m

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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

5

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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7

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

1:50 detail section through steel house Forest of Steel | 66

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