MANGYUAN WANG PORTFOLIO
Project involved at kpf ONE NINE ELMES LONDON
One Nine Elms project invested by Wanda Group is a mixed-use twin-tower development including residential, 5 star hotel and retails. In the project I have been heavily involved into the residential and basement design and coordination work including observation design, wall type package, flat layout package, and lots of other detailing works from the early stage D to the end of the stage E.
Projects involved as an architectural assistant FeildenCleggBradley Studio Bath 2011-2012
OPEN ARCHITECTURE STUDIO BEIJING 2013-2014 Shanghai west-bund oil tank performing art center, The aim of the project attempted to vitalize the entire site open for public and reuse the left 5 oil tanks by transferring them into a series of performance spaces and art parks. The project is consisted of one big oil tank with three different types of performance stages: formal stage, back box and outdoor stage; 4 small oil tanks with programs of live house + pub, flexible space + bookshop, digital art gallery + design shop, circle experimental theatre.
Isaac Newton Academy, a very low energy and super insulated 125 place secondary school in London, design based on ArchiCAD BIM System
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Student construction team at The Solar Decathlon Europe international competition 2010 - selected to construct and present Nottingham H.O.U.S.E. building project sponsored by Saint- Gobain - construction work mainly including insulation filling, timber carpentry according to architects' details of walls, floors, ceiling, facades and equipments installation; in compliance with PassivHaus, and code for Sustainable Homes Level-6 Standards.
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CONTENTS / private PROJECTS
City, as a Filtration System
1. Leakage -1984 / City, as a filtration system (Drawing / making exercises)
2. Commissioned flat interior design
3. Typological study - The Adaptive structures of the informal settlements in Beijing
4. Early project part of the research thesis ‘China-ness Metabolism’
5. Secrets of the Magdalen Laundries (Nomination for RIBA President’s Medals Bronze Medal)
6. The memory, Group 14 (The 3rd placement in ISOVER Multi-Comfort Design Competition)
7. Eco Village Groundskeeper’s House
8. City Slice (Drawing exercise)
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Commissioned interior design project (in construction) The commission comes from a middle school teacher couple. The project is a residential duplex flat located in Yueqing, China with area of 240.3 meters square in total. The design concept grew out of the exploration of the couple’s daily life and understood the space flexibility of their potential needs. Such flexibility was achieved through a series of oversize door configurations to control the space division.
short section study
long section study
construction site
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The functional transition FOR ROOMS
multiple-use room Guest room as the retractable bed
Tea room being part of the living room
Kitchen being part of the living room by open up of the folding door
First level
Second level
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entrance lobby,
external study,
storage,
internal study,
kitchen,
storage for clothes,
washroom/laundry room,
2 washrooms,
dining room with living room,
parents room,
multiple-use room
son room,
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balcony,
Kitchen for cooking (Chinese people don’t like open kitchen as the heavy cooking smoke)
Parents room, son room and the Balcony (the public space)
Parents room connecting the Balcony
Son room connecting the Balcony
Reading room with study room, son room
External reading room, internal study and son room
External Reading room with study room, extra bedroom (baby room), son room (for further use)
son’s changing room )
Plan study _ ‘Flexibility’
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Typological Study_ the adaptive structures of the informal settlements in Beijing This two-page typological study is an abstract from my part current research of the adaptive structures of the informal settlements in Beijing. Based on the survey result of my initial fieldwork in Beijing, this work attempts to reveal the adaptive process of the morphology of the informal settlements in urban context at the same time figures out the hidden order existing in the ‘chaotic’ scene which to some extent maximises the efficiency of the spatial occupation.
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Each building has approximate 10 bays for average with around 15 meters square for each bay. The building with simple brick and timber roof structure was used for temporary relocation of famers, construction workers and local residents from 1953 to 1955. The original bay distribution followed one household one bay, but now two-three bays spaces connected together and owned by one household is very common.
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During 1960s, settlement residents began to extend the southern side of house personally; interestingly, such extension appears a kind of group behaviour. Each bay was attached 8 meters square space, which was mainly used for the combination of kitchen, storage, dining room and lobby.
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A further group extension happened in a short time just after the stage 2. Though such extensions are unauthorised either, group behaviour seems to potentially encourage and stimulate residents to increase their benefits. In the stage, the kitchen was separated from the south side and relocated into the new extension. 4 meters square is the common size.
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An informal invasion of public space
In this stage, the extension pattern appears much more unorganized and complicated. Partially because of the increase of the floating population, the housing crisis led to the dramatic increase in rent fee, especially in such a very central space. In order to let conveniently, the extensional spaces are no long spatial connected. Normally, each extensional space takes multiple functions: cooking, laundry, sleeping, dining, and clothes drying. Meanwhile, the spaces around the outside walls are also possessed informally. 6 meters square approximate is for each letting room.
The danger of such extension is about unconscious. The space is gradually privatised from informal to formal, from penetrable to impenetrable. Everything can be a gesture of potential ownership.
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The emergence of single detached building Stage 6 can be seen as a final status of the inform extension in stage 5. Most of these buildings have only one storey with only single space inside without partition wall. Meanwhile, the use of spaces have strong relation with the commercial activities, the latter is estimated the driving force of the existence of such extension.
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Most of these two storeys are the result of the failure of the negation with government about site demolition. Therefore, people decided to further increase spaces for improving living condition and letting. Most of them were built very in a very recent.
TWO WAYS OF VERTICAL ADAPTION, BUT STAIRCASE IS ALWAYS ATTACHED OUTSIDE
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KITCHEN
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DININGROOM
LOBBY
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MASTER ROOM
RENTED ROOM
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Horizontal extensional adaptability, a case study of squatter settlement ‘Xin Zhong Jie’
STORAGE
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Case one:
Two ends of building block
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ROPES for clothes dry, transform the public space beneath into a periodical semi private space. When clothes are taken down, the space returns back to public.
Interior 1
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A DOOR FRAME, though never locked, has transformed the public alley space to become a more intimate and private space.
Interior
A SHELTER across two buildings implies that the nature of space beneath has been subtly changed.
Case two: alleyway privatization
Causally PILING UP things outside, in fact potentially increases the size of the personal space, which lays down the foundation for further space possessing.
RENTED ROOM
RENTED ROOM
RENTED ROOM
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The zones in red indicate the densest locations of detached buildings. Most of the detached buildings are used for groceries, restaurants and other
KITCHEN
COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES.
DININGROOM
LOBBY
Structure 1&2
STORAGE
MASTER ROOM
RENTED ROOM
Interior 2 Structure
Case three: a further extension based on stage 2
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Due to years of spatial expanding and accumulating, the original site layout is not clear. The following layout diagram is plotted according to the current building layouts, the memory of the interviewed landlords (famers), as well as the reference of the typical layout of Beijing village (right).
STREET WIDTH: 8 METERS The original farmer’s building TYPE ONE:
The original farmer’s building TYPE TWO:
A complex of building groups is usually made up of one main building and two subsidiary wings (east and west) buildings.
The layout of the main building is similar to the type one. But the subsidiary building is optional due to the limit of the land; usually kitchen is a simple subsidiary building separated from the main building.
The main building facing south normally has 4 bays, of which one is used as living room and other three are for bedrooms. Other functional spaces such as kitchen, dining room and storage are located into east and west buildings. Three buildings form a semi-courtyard inside and outside walled for security purpose.
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The building extensions during this stage mainly focused on expanding private site area by seizing of surrounding public spaces such as streets, alley ways and etc. Meanwhile, in some cases farmers renovated the spatial configurations of the east & west wing buildings and private courtyard in order to further increase the number of room for letting. The extension averagely contains 6-9 rooms. Plus the renovated rooms in the original buildings, the total number of the room for letting per household usually reaches to 10-13.
TYPE ONE, developed from the original farmer’s building type one
STAGE TWO
STREET WIDTH: 3 METERS
TYPE TWO, developed from the original farmer’s building type two
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Vertical growth and Densification Comparing to the horizontal expansion of the ground floor which still had to take the basic public spaces into consideration, the vertical expansion of the upper floor seems much free of the space restriction. In many cases, the space arrangement of the upper floor does not follow the layout of the floor below, at the same time further extends the walls out to possess the high level space of the public street/alley. Moreover, demolishing the original building/s to completely rebuild a much more compact multiple-storey (mainly two) in the same site is also prevalent, which directly pushes up the number of room to 40 - 45 per household.
Vertical extensional adaptability,
EXTENSIONAL AREAS AND EXTENSIONS
a case study of urban village ‘Xiao Jia He’
REBUILT AREAS AND REBUILTS
STAGE THREE
TYPE TWO, developed from the original farmer’s building type two: The disconnected wall lines and uneven roofs reveal that the second storey was built part by part in different times rather than one-off. The external staircase connecting two storeys further narrows down the street upper space. Second storey: 10 rooms for letting, the roofs of the corridor were framed by aluminium structure with glass panels covered.
STREET WIDTH: 1-2 METERS
TYPE ONE, developed from the original farmer’s building type one: The initial squeezed courtyard is preserved for the natural light penetration and roofed by glass and plastic sheets. Second storey: 13 rooms in total, of which 10 are for letting with average of 7 meters square Pigeon houses stacked on the roofs form the third storeys
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Early project part of the research thesis ‘China-ness Metabolism’:
Detachable web suspension joint
Pulley system to adjust the staircase level
to explore the possibility of the new urban adaptability for solving the issue of the Beijing ‘floating population’ living conditions by combining the top-down dictatorial spatial setting with the bottom-up spontaneous spatial adaptation
Open square for public event
Detachable web suspension joint
Semi-closed modules providing small resting area
Web market area formed along with the open space
Roof gre
Potential artificial land for modules adapting in the future
Bridge module bridges the gap between belt system and web system
Public shower room
Public kitchen Public toilet
Other facilities channel
LONG SECTIONAL STUDY
Primary electricity channel
CHINA-NESS METABOLISM
Primary water pipe
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Other facilities channel Primary electricity channel
Piping system transports water, electricity and sewage up to the web, at the same time is used as staircase structural element.
Truss column is used as web supporting structure as well as vertical circulation
Primary sewage pipe
Primary water pipe
Primary sewage pipe
A new billboard is being lifted up Soft staircase for billboard maintaining Staircase module is used for the main vertical circulation The Belt truss system / belt walkway
Roof adaption constructed by resident is used as private storage and garden Small kindergarten formed to take care of the kids after parents go to work
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China-ness Metabolism A design research to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed new relocation housing community in guiding the new urban land paradigm based on the study of the Chinese land economy, policies and population management.
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initial Touch Stone
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initial Touch Stone
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Secrets of The Magdalen Laundries This project is awarded Nomination for RIBA President's Medals Students awards 2011 (the Bronze Medal for the Best Design Project at Part1)
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his project is about the memory of Magdalen Laundries, to commemorate those victims who had been forced to incarcerate into the Cork Magdalen Asylum for long time even their whole live. The Project is a combination of a chapel, a public baths, a memorial space and a Magdalen Laundries Archive.
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t grew out of the 'rescue movement' in Britain and Ireland in the 19th century, which has as its formal goal the rehabilitation of women who had worked as prostitutes.
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nfortunately, this movement became increasingly distant from the original ideas of the 'rescue'. It has been estimated that around 30,000 women including prostitutes, unmarried mothers, developmentally challenged women and abused girls, even young girls who were considered promiscuous and flirtatious, were admitted during the 150-year history of these institutions, often against their wills.
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n the asylum, they were called 'Magdalenes', or 'Penitents'. The only thing they had to do was laundry. By scrubbing, they were supposed to wash away their sins along with the stains on the clothes.
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exual, Psychological, and physical abuse while being isolated from the outside world for an indefinite amount of time.
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hey were forced to give up their individual identities and assume new names for the length of their incarceration.
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eople had no idea of those asylums until 1993. A part of convent in Dublin was sold out to a real estate developer by nuns.
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he last asylum in Ireland was closed in 1996.
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agdalenes had nowhere to go after the last laundries finally closed. They were no longer used to this outside world. Many of them have to still live in convent and be cared for by the same nuns who once confined them.
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Water washing
Scrubbing
Sacred
Rediscovering the lost meaning of Magdalen asylum, three key elements abstracted from Magdalen laundries.
The invisible audience
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he design attempts to explore the lost positive meaning of magdalen asylum and see how this purification process can be reinterpreted by moden way to positively contribute to this modern Cork. The building provides a place for citizens where people guilty in mind could be released and filtered through a series of spiritual bathing process. The design mainly contains an around 10 people baths space, a small chapel space (around 30 people). Baths and chapel are separated and reconnected by hearing and vision.
Initial diagram shows the space relationship between chapel and baths
Cork A City SCAR...
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he boundar y between Magdalene Asylum and the city is complicated; it initially used to be the reconnection between city and prostitutes but later corrupted into the impermeable border of nightmare. It was from tangible to intangible; it once was a wall, a river, with the falling down of the asylum building it has been firmly rooted into the heart to the victims. The disconnection between city and Magdalene Asylum, between city and victims should be re-understood and reconstructed. And the modern Cork city should make a respond, a gesture to these victims, to the asylum.
When the bathers are devoutly listening to the sound of the pray from another side chapel, the title ' invisible audience' at this moment emerges.
Girls were forced to sent into Magdalen asylum which was located outside of cork city, and the river lee became a natural barrier to separate the asylum and city
Reconnect the relationship between city and asylum by architectural way
Site area location: riverside, an open field area where building situates on the axis between city and asylum
The river became the natural barrier to separate them and the city. In one side of the river, the city was keeping on developing while those spirits of girls once belonging to this city were still wandering in another side of the river. Many years later, does this modern city still remember those victims? A modern city should have the manner of self-questioning. This city should make a respond, a gesture to those victims, to this scar. And this gesture should be open and inclusiveness. Therefore, bridging the river Lee for those victims as a metaphoric connection between the city and the distant asylum, representing a respect and regret gesture to those victims from this modern Cork city.
Initial concept section to explore the form, materials and relationship within the site
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Initial Bathing journey investigation [Entrance - Change - Prewash and scrubbing - Bathing pool & Individual bathing]
The possible direct view from the building to the Magdalen asylum on the hill related to the city
Initial Memorial Journey study [Entrance - Underground Tunnel - Magdalens' Dreams - View and bridge]
Chapel spatial quality exploration
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Initial space arrangement to explore the relationship between memorial space above and baths below which are connected by glass columns.
Above: Initial building form study Left: Architectural translation Below: Materials manifestation
mAGDDALENS' DREAMS
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he main memorial space is trying to explore the private inner world of the Magdalen victims.
columns, different light shadows will be casted around the space, and these light shadows... were the victims' desires of inner heart.
Although the Magdalen's daily routine was drab and restricted, and these women live in a private world of desire, longing , and unreachable fulfillment, forced into a mundane ritual of service without pleasure or amenities. their vitality and eros was bounded by the superficial morality of the Church, however, as Fenster pointed out, the women's lives were rich with individual desires, in sleep 'they enfold the body, carry its warmth, desire, perfume, and wrap it in death'.
Through the glass column, sunlight will be led down to the bathing space below, which provide natural light for the baths, at the same time, steam from the baths will come up through columns, therefore to change the light refraction and create a dynamic shadow effect.
Each column made by glass is a abstract of victim, columns with identical square shape will be arranged in grid, therefore when people experience the space, they have to follow the grid routine to finish the journey. The only d iffere n ce b et ween columns is the glass thickness and curve ratio of inner layer. when the sunlight penetrates through
The floor will be installed some small whisper devices which can collect the voice from the baths and convert it into whisper, therefore to suggest the absolutely silence atmosphere these victims once experienced.
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Secret garden of Magdalen
'They were called wild rose, They were growing from the rusting metal, They were hidden away from the public, They were thought just a story, Through they once existed indeed...'
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he secret garden is mainly growing tall reed grass (around 2m) with wild rose gardens in between. Wild rose garden are unable to be seen until be explored. Each wild rose garden has a rusting metal platform with several pierced squares, which provide spaces for wild rose growing within. The contrast between rusting metal and wild rose will form a several strong effects of vision, hearing, and tactility, therefore create a thought-provoking place for explorers.
Site plan study including main building, Magdalen Library, Accommodation house and wild Rose Garden
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A room that wants for light, is one long wall turning and returning on itself with all the convolution of a lie, my body riddles me with bleak resolve...
A rusting steel bridge, to reconnect Cork and the distant Magdalene asylum, to reconnect them and their lost dreams
A void, empty, but disrupting their lives and dreams
Chapel space with individual bathing space on the wall
Magdalens' dreams 'laundries', 'uniform', 'silence', 'routine', their dreams were forced to incarcerate into their minds. 'Light', 'shadow', 'whisper', 'steam', their individual dreams become to be revealed within this oblique rusting steel floor space.
Good shepherd magdalen Asylum, built in 1881, have been in a derelict condition since a serious fire in 2003.
above: Secret garden of Magdalen below:
Memorial chapel, the final stage of the journey....
The memorial circulation inside the main building
initial sketch investigating the individual bathing chamber spatial arrangement Perspective drawing explores the individual bathing chamber connecting with chapel
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Tectonic Manifestation
Short section study through the main building
Above: Architectural translation Below: Tectonic Manifestation through the main building
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Memory, Group 14 This project is awarded UK 3rd prize in ISOVER Multi-Comfort House Student's Competition 2010
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memory is wiped away once its carrier, the space, is demolished, as with passing time the image of the past space in people's heads is deconstructed.
Based on the Kevin Lynch's 'the image of city', this renovation project attempted to preserve this image for the people living nearby. The original building was a riverside warehouse, currently has been abandoned. Building materials are mainly reinforced concrete structure plus brick walls with typical modernism architecture style (columns and slabs); six floors , each floor with free plan; 5m height of each storey.
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Eco Village - Groundskeeper's building
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roundskeeper's building, situated on the water within a nature reserve
The design concept comes from the duty of groundskeeper, as a member of Eco village, he need to take care of the community's ground as well as reeds bed and wind turbines. Therefore the building's form follows the function requirement through splitting, reorienting and elevating the space. Furthermore, through the study of local site materials, the project shows the respect to the surrounding environment on the adoption of the building materials.
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Wang, Mang Yuan 2008-2012