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Work Sample | 2012-2021

Mengru Wang Master of Architecture 2019 Washington University in St. Louis

MENGRU WANG EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

+1 (314) 229-0956 mengruwang@wustl.edu NYC

Washington University in St. Louis | Master of Architecture | U.S.A

2017-2019

Shenyang Jianzhu University | Bachelor of Architecture | China

2012-2017

Noroof Architects | Junior Designer | NYC, U.S.A

2020.8-Present

Projects: Single Family House (CD), Mobile Home Park Research, Rooftop Extension(SD) LA Low Rise Competition - Managed construction document: plans, sections, elevations, bath&kitchen details, window & door schedules, zoning diagram - Assisted scheme options and presentation drawings for clients - Led LA Low-rise housing competition - Researched mobile home park in the U.S.A - Managed product order, photo shoot staging, award publication material, studio Instagram business profile

Pei Cobb Freed & Partners | Junior Designer | NYC, U.S.A

2020.2-7

Projects: Residential & Hotel (CD), Office & Headquaters (SD), Mixed-used Projects in Jerusalem - Assisted Revit modeling and DWG plan - Managed Enscape renderings and PS perspectives,obliques and plans - Pacipitated in lobby interior design and residential plan

Lorcan O'Herlihy Architects | Intern | L.A, U.S.A

2019 Summer

Projects: Technology office (SD), Duplex (SD), Homeless Center Renovation (SD), Single Family (DD) - Managed concept diagrams, presentation drawings, physical modeling, landscape programming - Assisted schematic design options, facade design, code check, DWG plan, precedent research - Implemented interior and facade rendering

Kengo Kuma & Associates | Intern | Tokyo, Japan

2018 Summer

Projects: Bug Museum (SD), Mixed-Use Development - Developed schematic design options daily and presentation document - Paticipated in physical model making for 3 projects in different scales - Contributed Site Planning for museums, school, auditorium, dormitory, hotel, and restaurant

Atelier LiXinggang | Intern | Beijing, China

2016 Summer

Projects: Housing Development (CD), Tourist Center at Great Wall (SD) - Developed facade details and elevation design - Participated in schematic modeling and drawings

Teaching Assistant | Washington University Graduate Core Studio AWARDS & PUBLICATION

International Housing Studio: 2017-2019 Student Work Publication Graduate Approach 2018-2019: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design at WashU AIA Central States Region Student Design Competition | 1st Prize WashU Scholarships and Grants Guyu Cup National Design Competition | 2nd Prize Autodesk Revit Cup National Design Competition | 3rd Prize HYP Cup International Design Competition | Honor City Regeneration Competition in Architecture Design for Fushun | Top 30 Provincial Government Scholarship | Liaoning Provincial Department of Education Excellent Studio Design | Shenyang Jianzhu University

SKILLS

Digital: Revit, Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Enscape,V-ray, SketchUp Language: English, Chinese

2018 Fall

2021 2020 2017 2017-2019 2016 2015 2015 2015 2015 2014

Partners Michael D. Flynn FAIA Ian Bader FAIA

PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS Architects

Yvonne Szeto FAIA LLP

Michael W. Bischoff AIA José Bruguera AIA

Founders I. M. Pei Eason H. Leonard Henry N. Cobb

July 23, 2020 RE: Letter of Recommendation for Mengru Wang To whom it may concern, Mengru Wang has worked as a junior architect on my team since February 2020. Over the course of the past 6 months, Mengru has capably worked on a variety of complex mixed use projects on historically sensitive sites. She has prepared exceptionally effective representations that convey the interface between architecture and the life of the city. Mengru is a quick learner and analytical thinker. She asks good questions and proposes inventive solutions. She has been a very helpful team member and is skillful in 3d modeling and rendering. I enthusiastically recommend Mengru Wang for a position as junior architect. Sincerely,

Ian Bader FAIA

88 Pine Street, New York, NY 10005

212 751-3122 fax: 212 872-5443

pcf@pcf-p.com www.pcf-p.com

CONTENT

UNWIND PRIVACY

FRAMING INFINITY

ONE MORE ROOM

LABYRINTH OF LIGHT

UNFOLDING CITYSCAPE

UNWIND PRIVACY

Domestic Mutation | L.A | 2018 Fall Studio 512 | Instructor: Lawrence Blough Domestic mutations in the age of sharing paradigm are attributed to advances in communication and information technologies with the advent of the World Wide Web. The sharing economy dissolutes conventional boundaries between the shared and the unshared to accommodate transient residents and their accompanying needs. Typology “Spiral” provides varying degrees of access as people move through the private and the public. At every turn of the spiral, the working, living, sleeping realms unfold – views are framed, materials softened, light is conditioned for different social and spatial scenarios. Within each unit, residents occupy their own unique program such as day-lit bathtub, garden view, independent entrance, or guest room. Outside of the sleeping core, co-housing communities overlap which create ambiguous thresholds for both interior and exterior spaces. There are 6 small units created by a series of spirals that formed layers of privacy.

Spatial Typology

EAT

WASH

COOK

Concept Model

WORK

SLEEP

CO-LIVING

LIVE

Co-working Space Looking to Couryard

Public Space (rough material) Wraping the Private (fine material)

Variable Sleeping Cores

Spa Unit

Multi-generational Young

Study Unit

Garden Unit

Multi-generational Old

Short-term Unit

Organizational Anomalies

Process Model

Ground Floor Plan: shared gym + lounge + short-term living + old generation living Second Floor Plan: variable units + co-working + cooking Roof Plan: guest unit + roof barbecue

Private-Public Gradient

Varying Degrees of Access

HYGIENE

SLEEP

WORK

SUSTENANCE

Private

Programmatic Scenarios & Circulation Sequence At every turn different views are framed, gradually changing with the position and movement through the spaces, a dynamic layered architecture that unfolds as it is moved through.

RELAXATION

Shared

Enclosure and Figurative Systems

Permeable Threshold

FRAMING INFINITY

Sensational Spa | St.Louis | 2019 Fall Degree Project | Instructor: Julie Bauer “Floating” on the edge between Mississippi river and north river front lake, the spa project merged within the forest with six different “organs” growingg to different views. These are the vessels for intertwining outer perception and inner sensation. Dynamic experience unfolded by continuous surfaces and distinctive spatial relationships with trees, water, sky and terrain. When flood comes, the swimming pool rise, the mud room submerged and the body position is constantly changing with the surroundings.

Site in Flooded Zone Chain of Rocks Bridge

Depth of Space

New Chain of Rocks Bridge 270

SITE

Chain of Rocks Bridge

School

in of Rocks Bridge

Chain of Rocks Bridge New Chain of Rocks Bridge 270

in of Rocks Bridge TE

Chain of Rocks Bridge New Chain of Rocks Bridge SITE 270Bridge Chain of Rocks

9-foot Chanel

New Chain of Rocks Bridge 270 New Chain of Rocks Bridge SITE 270Bridge Chain of Rocks

SITE

Wing Dikes

Chain of Rocks Bridge Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant

9-foot Chanel

Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant

School School The hidden dimension is projected as a gradient of decreasing Chain of Rocks Chain of Rocks Water of Treatment Water Treatment Plant optical size (3D) and 9-foot increasing optical density (2D) thePlant space. The Chanel School School reinterpretation of depth is a visible surface recession.436 420 386 9-foot Chanel

9-foot Chanel SITE

Chain of Rocks Bridge Arch

436

SITE

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420

New Chain of Rocks SITE Bridge 270 Highest River Level Chain of Rocks Bridge

Chain of Rocks Water Treatment Plant

Arch

School The hidden surfaces beyond436cannot be perceived, but can be conceived 436 420 386 436 420 420 386 436 through our mind and body. 9-foot Chanel Arch 436

Arch

SITE 420

SITE

386

436

Lowest River LevelArch

SITE 420

SITE 436 420 SITE

386

Highest River Level Lowest River Level SITE

SITE

Mutidimensional Experience Lowest River Level

Lowest River Level Highest River Level

436 Arch

420

SITE 420

436

SITE

Highest River Level Wing Dikes Highest River Level

420

386

436

SITE Lowest River Level

Framing Infinity

420 SITE Highest River Level

- Spa of Sensuality

Perception If depth means distance from here, then it involves self-perception and the hidden and the unhidden is simultaneously changing as the obeserver moves. The hidden surfaces beyond cannot be perceived, but can be conceived through our mind and body. What I call depth is either nothing, or else it is my participation in a being without restriction, first and foremost a participation in the being of space beyond every particular point of view. - Merleau-Ponty

g Infinity - Spa of Sensuality Framing Infinity Framing Infinity g Infinity - Spa of Sensuality

Depth is the experience of the reversibility of dimensions, of a global “locality” in which everything is in the same place at the same time, a locality from which height, width, and depth are abstracted, a voluminosity we express in a word when we say that a thing is there. - Merleau-Ponty

Sensation

- Spa of Sensuality

“Landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its conciousness” - Cezanne

Perception

- Spa of Sensuality

“What I am trying to translate to you is more mysterious; it is entwined in the every roots of being, in the imapalpable source of sensations” - Cezanne

“There is a human body when, between the seeing and the seen, between touching and the touched, between one eye and the other, between hand and hand, a then it involves self-perception and the hidden and the unhidden simultaneously changing as obeserver If depth means distance fromishere, then it involves self-perception and the hidden theisunhidden is simultaneously changing as thethe obeserver blending of some sortthe takes place - moves. when theand spark lit between sensing and sensible, lighting fire thatmoves. will not stop burning” - Merleau-Ponty

Perception & Sensation

Spa Rendering

“Landscape thinks itself in me, and I am its conciousness” - Paul Cézanne

Below- Between - Beyond

Ground Floor Plan Main Floor Plan Roof Plan

Transgressing Boundaries

Section from Mississippi River to Riverfront Lake

Ineffable Space

Inaccessibility of Being

LABYRINTH OF LIGHT Public Archive | Venice, Italy | 2018 Spring Studio 511 | Instructor: Robert McCarter Beginning with an idea about what the archive “desire[s] to be”(Kahn), project acts as a place of experience to archive, read and research in Arsenale area of Venice. The volumes of archive and reading interpenetrate each other and create the space for research. The lower part, archive, is anchored to the earth due to the heavy loads and strict light control for the rare book. The upper reading space frames the sky with different openings and ceiling heights for different light intensity and oriented views. The intersection, communication space, has qualities of both archive and reading space with direct access to each. Inspired by the maze-like fabric of Venice, the in-between spaces are designed as a series of layered “L-shaped” rooms where the volumes intertwine both vertically and horizontally from the reading to the archive spaces. The whole building lifts up one floor for the high tides, acqua alta, which is used as a temporary exhibition space open to the public.

Addition to Kahn's Building

Louis Kahn's (unbuilt) Palazzo dei Congressi Kahn conceived of the “congress palace” as an institution of monumental significance - “ the sense of a congress which is to bring people together” - a place to celebrate meeing, which Kahn considered to be the greatest of all human actions.

Venice Arsenale

Project 1: CUBE / Room

Archive as Itinerary of Actions

Type of use:

Type of space:

Collect/House Read/Translate Search/Discover Discuss/Debate Meet/Retreat Planned/Unplanned Questions/Interpret

Extroverted/Tower Introverted/Labyrinth Movement/Passage Assembly/Well Connection/Bridge Serial/Cells Crossroads/Threshold

“The space induces the project. If you have a space, something happens, the program then starts. It does not start before you make the space” “You plan a library as though no library had ever existed.” - Louis I. Kahn

Plans and Sections of 10 meter cube ‘Condensed’ Archive + ‘Released’ Meeting Space + ‘Floating’ Reading Space Spatial conception of what room ‘wants to be’ Interior space as the place of experience

Project 2: DATUM / Plan(e)

Archive as Society of Spaces

Land-form / Water-form Horizontal datum: 112’x480’, 32’ above the water plane, 1/2 suspended over water Mutiple ground plan(e)s: water, land, roof-top Solid 50% Voild 50%

Project 3: SECTION

Making Place Between Earth and Sky

Bring the weight to the ground Frame the aerial

Each space has its own proportion, rythm, light intensity and orientation. The transition from one place to another is by slipping through the space in angular rotation.

Orientaion in Space and Place Prospect: see out and survey the surroundings Refuge: to be hidden and enclosed To see without being seen

View from Arsenale gate looking to Kahn's Congress Scale decreasing from Asenale to residential neighborhood

View showing archive as a bridge connecting the neighborhood

Palazzo dei Congressi

Arsenale Gate

Arsenale di Venezia

Plan of Action: PROGRAM “The room should inspire its use without being named” “I think plan is a society of rooms.” - Louis I. Kahn

THE LAND OF MANY PALACES Vertical Ecosystem | Ordos, China | 2016 EVOLO | Instructor: Fan Zhang | Team: Haijiao Ma Ordos, the biggest ghost city in China, possesses completed facilities and adequate local administration, but few people live there except for the local farmers. Lacking social connections and drivers of economy growth, Ordos became the sacrifice of greedy GDP demands. The vertical farm incorporates solar energy, wind power and network grids within the existing abandoned concrete towers to raise livestock and vegetation with new technologies. The vertical ecosystem acts as a prototype and in the next 50 years, more towers will be adapted for different uses to realize its industrial and culture transformation.

Ghost City Distribution in China

Ecological Industry

ONE MORE ROOM

Collective Housing | Santiago, Spain | 2017 Fall Studio 419 | Instructor: Emiliano Lopez Santiago is one of the three main centers of Christian pilgrimage whose peregrination has become both culturally significant and a main tourist attraction in Spain. Due to the rising housing costs, most people live with their family for their whole life. To accommodate the needs of family members in different life periods, the flexibility of rooms and the thresholds between the dwelling interior, the neighbors and the city are increasingly important. Public realms overlap diagonally to extend views and to be experienced as a whole. While approaching to the private zone, in-between spaces create gradients of privacy by controlling the views and filtering the sound. There is no corridor, only undefined rooms for latent use. Sleeping, eating, working, and living spaces can be altered with different furniture layouts when the situation changes. Due to the harsh weather in Santiago, the enclosure intermediate between the exterior and interior working as wet room or double façade system.

Historic Pilgrim City Context

The Threshold Between the Domestic Realm and the Communal Space

Expanded Threshold Mediate Between Exterior and Kitchen

Matrix of Connected Rooms

A static juxtaposition Two spatial modules A and B are positioned one beside the other. The experience is unambiguous and strictly divided: one is either in space A, or in space B

A dynamic superposition Two spatial modules A and B are positioned in a condition of overlay. The experience is ambiguous: the transgression from space A to space B unfolds gradually. There is a condition of superposition.

Conditioned Opening Through a dynamic disposition different spatial entities can be emphasized and placed in superposition, depending on size and composition, but also the degree of openess and the expression of rhythms through openings, beams and columns.

Diagonal View and Fluid Space

The Aggregation of Units

A Central Space Revealed Gradually Through Several Transgressions and Layers

Flexible Inhabitation

Personalization of Space Within the Collective

A Sequence of Adjacent Spaces

The Neighborhood and the City

Openings Mediate with the Climate ('Galleria') Physical Model (Museum Board)

West Facade Looking from Neighbor's Parking Weathered Wood Material Changing Through Time

UNFOLDING CITYSCAPE Levitation Research Center | Chicago | 2019 Spring Studio 612 | Instructor: Sungho Kim Pioneer Court was a great civic space at the time of its development in 1965 and has hosted numerous art installations, performances, civic events, advertising events and festivals. On this site, the project aims to unfold urban context vertically by mixing with different programs: office, research center, gardens for both the staff and the city. As a headquater for Arx Pax who awarded the Patent for Magnetic field architecture, defing gravity has been the fascination of optical and perceptual manipulation

Chicago History Layer

Section looking to Wrigley Building

Physical Model 1/16"=1'-0" 5'x5'x5'

Process Models

Street Elevation

Unfolding of the Inner Spaces (3D print)

Tribune Tower

Equitable Building

Apple Flagship Store Site at 401 North Michigan Ave Pioneer Court

Open Office

Outdoor Park

Typical Floor Plan

Research Laboratories and Regional Headquarters

TIME FALL Tea House | Fushun, China | Instructor:Yinong Li A large area in Fushun is sinking due to the extraction of coal under the city. Rather than using typical structures to protect building from sinking, the tea house creates an opportunity by marking time through the sinking condition. Expanded stairs anchored in ground stretching day by day enable people to come down to the bottom of the holes. Looking at the scar of excavation, people can reflect on the relationship between human activities and nature.

Sinking Site

Concept

Construction

Structure

PROFESSIONAL WORK

KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES - SD PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS - CD NOROOF ARCHITECTS- CD LORCAN O'HERLIHY ARCHITECTS - SD ATELIER LIXINGGANG- CD

OFFSET HOUSE noroof Architects - CD

GRAPHICAL WINDOW SCHEDULE GRAPHICAL WINDOW SCHEDULE 2'-9"

3'-4" 4'-3"

7' slope to drain

Aluminum coping with continuous extruded alum. anchor set in L.1 non-curing sealant typ.

3'-5"

Picture Window + Fixed Picture Window + Fixed Picture Fixed Window + Fixed Picture Fixed Picture Mulled Unit Awing Mulled Unit Awing Mulled Unit Awing Window Window Casement Windows Casement Windows Casement Windows

Fixed Picture Window + Inward Opening Fixed Picture Tilt n' Turn Mulled Unit Awing Window Window Casement Windows

FixedOpening Picture Inward Tilt n' +Glazed Turn Window Exterior Door Window

16 6'-4"

5'-8"

6'-4"

7'-4" 2'

Fixed Picture Window + Fixed Picture Window Mulled Unit Awing (Interior Glazing) Casement Windows

Picture Window + FixedFixed Picture Window + Fixed Picture Window Mulled UnitOpening Awing Tilt n' Inward (Interior Glazing) Turn Window Casement Windows

Fixed Picture Window + Fixed Picture Inward Opening Tilt n' Window Turn Window

7'-3"

Fixed Picture Fixed Picture Window Window

Fixed Picture Window

3'-10"

7' 2'-1"

Fixed Fixed Picture Picture Window Window

Picture FixedFixed Picture Window Window

Parapet at Roof Deck

Nailing plate. How would the of contractor One layer 5/8 in. do this? Goldboard Densglass 5'-1"system Sto Stucco 3" rigid insulation, EPS, 3" rigid insulation, EPS, R-11.4 R-11.4 EPDM underside Air andtoMoisture of coping? Barrier

6'-6" 3'-2"

3'-9" 7'

Run EPDM over rail mounting plate. Seal through bolts to receive Aluminum railing platecoping with continuous extruded alum. set in Air andanchor Moisture non-curing sealant typ. Barrier

6'-1"

3'-9"

3'-10"

Densglass Goldboard

slope to drain

5'-1"

1'-8" 5"

7'-3"

6'-1"

Floor Level Actual Elevation Varies

2'-6"

3'-5"

Air and Moisture

3' 2'-2"

5'-8"

P.1 7'-7"

1'-8"

Floor Level Actual Elevation Varies

6'-6"

5'-8"

P.1

3'-5"

6'-9"

2'-2"

3'-3"

2'-3"

7'-4"

3'-2"

2'-6"

6'-9"

N.1

Fixed Picture Glazed Exterior Door Window

3" rigid insulation, EPS, R-11.4

Fixed Picture Window + Barrier Sliding exterior Mulled Unit Awing Two layersdoor of 5/8with in. glazing Casement Windows

5'-9"

2'-6"

3'-2" 5'-8"

6'-6"

3'-3"

2'-3"

N.1

7'-7"

2'-6"

3'-2"

Fixed Picture Window + Fixed Picture Fixed Picture Mulled Unit Awing Window +Glazed Window Casement Windows Exterior Door

6'-4"

BE Inward Opening Fixed Picture Tilt n' Turn Window Window

Two layers of 5/8 in. Densglass Goldboard Run EPDM over rail mounting plate. Seal through bolts to receive railing plate Air and Moisture Barrier

One layer V2of 5/8 in. Densglass Goldboard 3" rigid insulation, EPS, R-11.4

Sliding exterior door Fixed Picture Sliding exterior door Fixed Picture Glazed Exterior Door EPDM underside with to glazing Window Window with glazing of coping?

SCALE: 1-1/2" = 1'-0"

Sto Stucco system

LIGHT & Air

3" rigid insulation, EPS,

LIGHT & Air

FENESTRATION ENERGYFENESTRATION CODE PERFORMANCE ENERGYDATA CODE PERFORMANCE R-11.4 DATA Air and Moisture Barrier Two layers of 5/8 in. Densglass Goldboard

Parapet at Roof Deck

14 11

Insulated CMU

SCALE: 1-1/2" = 1'-0"

CMU to Stucco Wall Transition

Sto Stucco system

SCALE: 1-1/2" = 1'-0"

3" rigid insulation, EPS, R-11.4 Air and Moisture Barrier Two layers of 5/8 in. Densglass Goldboard

Non-curing sealant typ.

Insulated CMU

Flexible flashing

CMU to Stucco Wall Transition

Beam Pocket at CMU Wall

SCALE: 1-1/2" = 1'-0"

Non-curing sealant typ. Expansion Joint Flashing Flexible Slope 2% flashing

Beam Pocket at CMU Wall SCALE: 1-1/2" = 1'-0"

6'-6" 6'-6"

5'-9"

A1D

FixedExterior Picture Glazed Window Door

2'-7"

AB Inward Opening Fixed Picture Tilt n' Turn Window Window

Glazed Exterior Door

Nailing plate. How would the contractor do this? Sto Stucco system

2'-1"

Floor Level Actual Elevation Varies

Fixed Picture Window

L.1

15'-4"

K.1 6'-10"

6'-10" 6'-10"

2'-8" 3'-5"

4'-3"

K.1

2'-8"

G.1

2'-8"

3'-10"

3'-4"

10"

9'-8"

9'-8" 6'-8"

3'-9"

6'-8"

7' Floor Level Actual Elevation Varies

G.1

2'-9"

2'-4"

6'-10"

F.1

7'-1"

6'-11"

F.1

7'-1"

4'-7"

6'-11" 4'-7"

Door Tag

3'-4" 3'-10"

2'-8" 4'-8" 4'-7"

Door Tag

2'-10"

5'-6"10"

2'-4"

3'-9" 3'-10"

Window Tag 2'-8"

2'-10"

6'-1"

5'-6"

4'-7"

4'4'

3'-10"

Window Tag

4'-8"

6'-1"

3'-4"

Dimensions Indicate Rough Dimensions OpeningsIndicate Rough Openings Verify all RO's in field Verify all RO's in field

FixedFixed Picture Pictu Window Window

1-1 A301

Standing seam wall and roof panels back vented over 2" rigid insulation T&G Cedar w/integrated ceiling grilles

HVAC Condensing units on dunnage

8" wide Onmi Block system 8 insulated CMU. Ground face finish to

Standing seam wall and roof panels back vented over 2" rigid insulation

interior. EL +/- 43' Bulkhead Peak

Interior Gutter

Concrete roof pavers over built-up roofing and tapered rigid insulation.

Stl railing side mounted to parapet

Solar collector assembly

3'-6"

Built-up roofing and tapered rigid insulation.

Structural panel concrete roof deck over 800JR250-97 @ 16" o.c. floor joist typ.

5'-1" Exterior metal stud wall framing: 4J14@16" o.c.

Frameless glass shower enclosure

EL +/- 27'-9" Roof Deck

Jill's Bedroom

Exterior metal stud wall framing: 4J14@16" o.c.

Structural panel concrete roof deck over 800JR250-97 @ 16" o.c. floor joist typ.

Jill's Bedroom

7'-1"

Jack's Bedroom

14 1

EL +/- 17'-1 2" Bedroom 2

Steel stair with wood treads and cable railing UNO 8'-5"

6 Paired floor joist at perimeter openings typ.

Two hour wall assembly: -One layer 58" soundbreak XP GWB and one layer type x GWB at interior face -4" closed cell insulation -Two layers 58" Densglass exterior cladding -Sto Gold Coat with adhesive, 2" rigid insulation and Sto Stucco system

Living

AHU location

Dining 8'-1"

Structural panel concrete roof deck over 800JR250-97 @ 16" o.c. floor joist typ.

Stucco

1 EL +/- 5'-10 2" Living

Existing stone retaining wall

Slope 2% away from building

EL +/- 0 Base Plane

Compacted fill

11A

Inlaws

sim

Large format tile

EL (+/-) - 3'-6" Curb EL 34.5

Existing grade

Extended crawl space

5'-2"

Mechanical Crawl Space

11A

Cellar 8

Living

Liquid applied damproofing, drainage/protection board and R16 Formular 250 11A insulation board. sim

In-Law

8" wide Onmi Block system 8 insulated CMU. Ground face finish both sides.

7'-6"

3'-6" 7'-5"

x xxx

Cellar AHU

Liquid applied damproofing, drainage/protection board and R16 Formular 250 insulation board.

C9 U

7'-3"

Shared Bathroom

Fair-faced CIP over compacted fill

4" metal stud wall assembly: -One layer 58" soundbreak XP GWB and one layer type x GWB at interior face -4" closed cell insulation -Densglass exterior cladding -Sto Gold Coat with adhesive, 2" rigid insulation and Sto Stucco system

AHU

EL +/- 33'-0" Roof

Standing seam wall and roof panels back vented over 2" rigid insulation

Mirror

Master Closet

Exterior metal stud wall framing: 4J14@16" o.c.

4'-3"

Cellar

Continuous 8" foundation wall Finished concrete

8" reinforced concrete foundation walls with 4' X 1'-6" footings-typ.

EL (+/-) - 9'-2" Cellar

CIP concrete slab with vapor retarder and rigid insulation. Step footing co-planer with neighboring footing

Continuous 8" foundation wall

Step footing co-planer with neighbor footing

Electric water heater

Neighbor's wood frame wall w/brick infill clad in x siding

Perimeter foundation drainage assembly-drain pipe, coarse gravel and geotextile filter fabric.

Neighbor's red brick wall Bottom of shallow foundation at rear of neighbor Step footing co-planer with neighboring footing Neighbor's stone foundation wall per test pit

Section A-A North through Living

SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0"

Alternate location for AHU Powder room-see allowance schedule

15'-8"

Bench

EL +/- 3'

3' F

R.A Grill

10'-3"

New wooden fence to match exterior

15' 3'

Open to below

Powder

4'-1"

3'-5"

Bench DN

10'-4"

14'-6"

Alternate location of HP-2 above storage

4 UP 5R@7.5"xT@10.5"

Kitchen

EL +/- 2'-8"

Living

250 SF CH 9'

315 SF CH 9' 5"

300 CFM 18X6 SR VD

Fair-faced concrete stair and deck on compacted fill

7'-4"

Pervious area: 422 SF WP

Frost-proof hose bib

5R@7.5"xT@11"

15B

Linear floor diffuser

Outdoor Kitchen

W8X21 Steel Lintel above patio door opening bearing on steel tube at south end

F.1

EL +/- 6'-6"

11'-8"

12'-8"

3'-2"

4'-7"

EL +/- 0'

Storage

9' Metal guard rail

15 SF CH VARIES

F.1

GFCI

5'-6"

13'-10" WP under bench

DATA

15'-1" 16'-3"

3'-8"

L.1

21'-1"

49'

Kitchen-see allowance schedule

Kitchen/Living Floor Plan SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0"

Section 1-1 Entry Looking to Back SCALE: 1/4" = 1'-0"

ANPIN VILLA Atelier Lixinggang - CD

JERUSALEM MIXED-USED Pei Cobb Freed & Partners - CD

BUG MUSEUM Kengo Kuma & Associates - SD

ESRI OFFICE Lorcan O'herlihy Architects - SD

LOMITA DUPLEX Lorcan O'herlihy Architects - SD

ROW HOUSE RENOVATION noroof Architects - Staging & Publication

BEYOND PORTFOLIO

WHERE I GREW UP: FUSHUN, CHINA

Mom's Birthday at Home We live in a small 430 sft apartment together, every corner has its definition. Downstairs is our shoe shop connecting to the street, privacy is hard to maintain, but I got an sensitive eye and ear to observe people and life.

Life Territory Even though we lived in a congested house, every corner has its definition for life. Small amount of area made me think more about spatial efficiency and sensitive relationship. It’s also a triger for me to think about creating larger spactial perception in small amount of area.

Grandpa's Garden with My Cousin First impression of ‘landscape’, grandpa’s flower collection became our perfume experimental paradise. This small garden connected the front room for grandparents and back room for their kids, also a good place to say hi to our neighbor several steps lower than our grade. People know each other very well in this neighborhood and their kids played together almost everyday.

Grandparents House Inserted on a small hill, entrance from lower level went to the front courtyard and upper level to the middle courtyard (We can also jump out of the window to access it). Kitchen and coal storage are separated from the main room, we raised birds, flowers, dogs, chicken (before dog came) in the courtyard. In winter, we burnt coal and the heat transfered in the tunnel underneath the soil bed thus to heat the room. When I was12, this district was demolished.

UNDERSTANDING SPATIAL EXPERIENCE

Humble Administrator's Garden Suzhou, China

Tomba Brion Via Brioni, Italy

Teshima Art Museum Kagawa, Japan

Hiroshi Senju Museum Karuizawa, Japan

RECORDING MEMORY

Gifu City Library Sketch plan and light cover

Degree Project Plan Process sketch

Venice, Italy Water color drawn in the rain

Share House Concept Spatial typology

THINKING THROUGH MAKING

Degree Project Process model understanding the relationship between landscape and architecture

Concrete Model Test Dyeing to test the moss effect

3D Printing Half model to be glued together

Process Model Development from multiple ideas to main concept

TANGENT IDEA: LAYERING

Traditional Chinese Painting

Ostagram Process + Physical Modeling Layers (AI)

Food Layering

Hand-making Model

THANK YOU

F R A M I N G I N F I N I T Y

MENGRU WANG 2012-2021