FEIMENG WANG / PORTFOLIO
RESUME
Hand Sketch The Pew House. Madison, WI
Education
Master of Arts in Adaptive Reuse Rhode Island School of Design Department of Interior Architecture June 2017 - June 2018
Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Design University of Washington College of Built Environment
Work Experience
Seattle Zenith Design & Consulting, LLC Designer August 2016 - June 2017
Edit and update company website. Design publications for marketing purposes. Design company logo and business cards for employees. Revise drawings for international auto show booth designs. Communicate with Chinese office for design details and feedback.
September 2012 - June 2016
Henredon & Schoener Interior Design
Skills
Rhino 5 Sketchup Revitv AutoCad Photoshop Illustrator InDesign
Design Assistant February 2016 - June 2017
Assist designers with preliminary plans and furniture selection. Update showroom display, and assess customer’s needs and provide design assistance. Manage design library and organize files and fabrics. Provide drawings and source materials for various projects. Coordinate interior designers and customers.
Muse Microsoft Office
Gensler Shanghai Office Work - flex 2
Model Making
Architecture Intern
Hand Sketching
Contact
Email: meredith.wang@live.cn Tel: (206)-765-7209
July 2015 - August 2015
Build Rhino / Sketchup models for design iterations. Design company marketing publications and research for retail interior design projects.
WEGET Magazine Graphic Designer March 2015 - April 2016
Design magazine layout. Illustrate concepts and brainstorm layout style. Design advertisements for sponsors. Review each layout design and coordinate with other team members.
CONTENTS
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SoNo Collection
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CLT Affordable Housing
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Museum of Water
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Sand Point Community Center
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Glenn Ian Apple Barn
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Tuxedo Table
SoNo Collection
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Norwalk, Connecticut
Mar. 2018 - May. 2018
Instructor: Jeffery Katz
Rhode Island School of Design
Client: GGP Inc.
Project Introduction The SoNo Collection sits in close proximity to the historic communities along Southern Connecticut’s coastline. Our client, GGP is one of the largest shopping mall owners in the United States. Currently, The SoNo Collection is under construction, and is a proposed mixed-use development that includes full line Nordstrom and Bloomingdale’s stores, and 80100 small shop inline retailers as well as a large public common area. The objective of the project is to think about how can the design of the future retail centers address the shifting needs of our society to maintain relevancy to our current and future users. As the project is designed for a retail landlord, we are looking at design of the public communal space specifically since GGP does not control the retail operations of each tenant.
Concept
The goal of the project is to critique the visual environment of current shopping malls, and give the SONO Collection a makeover. The makeover will attract a younger generation of shoppers. Skylight is concealed
Carpet is unappealing to the shoppers. The SoNo Collection
Out-dated lighting sconces Out-dated storefront
Under-utilized atrium space
Site Plan
Conceptual Renderings from the client
Project Description Strategy
Establishing a standard storefront that is used across a brand, regardless of the context, has been a conventional strategy for most national chains. As more and more millennial shoppers believe that brand transparency and authenticity are important to their purchase decisions, the traditional way of creating a brand environment is being challenged. In the Mall Makeover scheme, I propose that by constructing a controlled wood screen storefront system, GGP takes precedence as a brand. The system will allow each tenant to customize their own storefront and window display within tight parameters. The current system of unique branded storefronts creates a chaotic visual environment. This new storefront system will allow a calm atmosphere, while understanding that the millennial shopper is receiving brand data via social media. Just the logo on the storefront will conjure the entire brand for the young shopper who is receiving brand data through other channels. The objective of using wood as the primary material for the makeover is to allow the brand image for GGP to address sustainability, craft, and tradition.
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
Features
Additional features in the scheme include a library and a vertical garden. Both programs are inserted into the existing elliptical atriums. Concourses and atriums are traditionally designed for way-finding in the mall. The idea has been that peering through the atrium—large holes in the floor plate that create three story voids— you can see what is on the other floors. However as technology progresses and shoppers use apps and GPS as way-finding devices, the atrium concept of is diminished and the space being taken up by the void can be adapted for other purposes. In Asia, public libraries have become popular programs in many shopping malls. Introducing a public library to the SoNo Collection is an initiative to take an international position. The vertical garden is a program that offers a microenvironment for SoNo Collection shoppers to relax. Floor Plan Level 3
Customizable Storefront
Apparel
Shoes
Electronics
Accessories
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Railing & Fascia
Furniture
Railing
Soft & Modular Seating
Wood finish railing, continue the storefront grid system
Flexible furnitures for shoppers to relax and recharge one's batteries
Fascia
Material: Wool Felt
Wood texture, with wall washing recessed lighting
Highlight circulation Create a calmer and more relaxing environment
SoNo Collection interior rendering
Cross Laminated Timber Affordable Housing
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Pier 4 & Pier 5, Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, MA
Sep. 2017 - Dec. 2017
Instructors: Yugon Kim, Justin Cook
Rhode Island School of Design
Concept Development Pier 5
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Under-utilized piers
Pier 4
Avoid blocking neighbor’s views
Project Description Charelestown navy yard is a historical site in Boston, that attracts a large number of tourists as well as great real estate value. Pier 4 and Pier 5 are located in the waterfront of Charlestown navy yard. Both piers played significant roles during the war, and have been extremely under-utilized since.
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Public
Lack of affordable housing and sea level rising are two critical problems Boston is facing right now. The under-utilized piers are great locations for an expansion for affordable housing opportunities. One of the issues that I identified in Boston is that Boston does not engage with water well. The water bisects the city, and as sea level rises, the city is becoming even more disconnected. The goal of this project is to take the advantage of CLT, and building a pre-fabricated apartment complex including a water - taxi terminal to increase water traffic, as well as allowing the public to better engage with the waterfront. Program Distribution
Private
Occupiable Roof
Pre-fabrication construction diagram
Upper Floor
Cross-laminated timber (CLT), a relatively new material is made
by stacking three to nine layers of wood perpendicularly, compressed and then bonded together. CLT panel has high structural capacity, very customizable, and fire - resistant. Building with wood sigficantly helps reducing carbon footprint, and aids the sustainable foresty.
Main Floor
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Floating Garden 7
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Main Floor Plan
Ecological Water Treatment Floating wetland are vegetated with plants that are able to remediate metals and toxins in the water.
Section AA
CLT Pontoon Mooring System
Ferry terminal rendering
Museum of Water | Adaptive Reuse
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Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun 2017
Instructor: Heinrich Hermann
Rhode Island School of Design
Concept Development
Existing Buildings for Reuse
Noise Filtering
Existing Circulation
Connecting Old and New
Original Site Plan
Project Description Pumpehuset is currently an institutional building in Copenhagen. The building was completed in 1858, and served as the water supply station for the Copenhagen Municipality for over a hundred years. Water is one of the most important elements of the city. Musuem of Water educated visitors the history of the site, and the importance of water, including interactive instatllation, photography exhibition, as well as a green house that is divided into different climates.
Loop Circulation
Rainwater Collection
Rainwater Reuse
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1. entrance 2. ticketing office 3. lounge 4. “we are water� exhibition 5. kitchen 6. cafe 7. exhibition room 8. rainroom 9. tropical greenhouse 10. temporary exhibition 11. gift shop 12. office 13. conference room 14. lecture room
Section BB
Section AA
Outdoor Cafe rendering
Tropical Greenhouse rendering
Sand Point Community Center | Adaptive Reuse
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Building 18, Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA
Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2016
Instructor: Katheryn Merlino
University of Washington
Site Analysis
Vehicular Flow
Site Analysis ARCH 401 | Meredith Wang
Vehicular Flow Pedestrian Flow
Project Description Building 18, The Fire Station Building, at Magnuson Park is constructed in 1936 as the Sand Point Naval Station firehouse. After the base was deactivated in the 1970s, people decided to turn the old naval base to a park. Magnuson Park therefore was founded in 1979, and has been served as the second largest park in Seattle. Building 18 has been vacant for decades. The proposal for this project is to redesign and reuse this abandoned fire station, and transform the old building into a community center. The new building is consisted with a public library, a cafe/restaurant, a gallery, a visitor center, and an outdoor rock climbing facility.
Pedestrian Flow
Program Diagram
Building 18
Building 18
Community Building
The goal of my project is to preserve the historical appearance of the building, as well as creating a public open space that embraces the building. Building 18 has always been a key way-finding building at Magnuson Park. There are some unique architectural elements that describe the background context and history of the era. The original hose tower is the starting point of my project. By removing a large portion from the back of the building, the tower becomes free standing, and is isolated from the rest of the building. A courtyard space is created that wraps around the tower, and the tower itself will serve as a rock climbing facility.
Community Building
Private Building NOAA
Private Building
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NOAA Field
Program Diagram
The walls from the additional bay on the east side of the building are also removed, except the east side exterior wall. The new free standing wall is braced with steel cross bracings, and functions as an entrance to the cafe that is hidden at the back. My adaptive reuse intention is to form clear contrast of what is old and what is new by selecting metal and glass as new materials added to the old building. The new material and the existing masonry also forms a contrast in weight. The programs are arranged based on acoustics. The front portion of the building is quieter than the back portion of the building. Where the front of the building is used for gallery, library and offices, while the the back of the buidling is mainly for social activities, such as dining and rock climbing.
Section Perspective AA
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Gallery
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Visitor Center
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Cafe
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Office
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Conference Room
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Second Level
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Street Level
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Gallery interior rendering
Cafe interior rendering
Glenn Ian Apple Barn Lodge | Adaptive Reuse
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Hooper, WA
Oc. 2015 - Dec. 2015
Instructor: Rob Hutchinson
University of Washington
Rail Cart Barn - Section AA
Library - Section BB
Lodging Room - Section CC
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Kitchen - Section DD
Dining Room - Section EE
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Floor Plan
Project Description My first intuition toward Glen Ian Apple Barn site is to transform the abandoned apple barn into a new space. The apple barn played a significant role at Hooper town back in time. It is a valuable building in the history of Hooper, and it is valuable for people who live there as well. The apple barn also marks the end of downtown Hooper. My design approach is to preserve the apple barn as well as incorporating some new elements to fulfill the programs. Screen system is one of the major elements that I experimented with on this project. I propose to remove the existing skin, and add a lightweight screen cladding to the building. The new screen wraps around the south faรงade and attracts the visitors coming from downtown Hooper. The large portion of the apple barn transforms to a public dining room, with a loft that serves as a sauna for the travelers. The lower and longer portion of the apple barn transforms to the private lodging area with separated rooms. Each room has a loft that is designed for kids. In order to keep the same architectural language, I extended the original apple barn and created a library space that gradually transforms to a rail cart barn, which is another major component of my design. I added a couple more rail road spurs for parking rail carts. The spurs eventually blends into the existing rail road adjacent to the apple barn.
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Apple Barn Site Plan Scale: 1/16” = 1’-0” Contour Interval: 1’
Restaurant interior rendering
Lodge room interior rendering
Tuxedo Table
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Seattle, WA
Apr. 2016 - Jun. 2016
Instructors: Penny Maulden, Steven Withycombe
University of Washington
Project Description Material: Steel, Western Maple, Wenge Table top: Recycled western maple slab Butterfly Joint: Wenge Butterfly joint is added for securing the exisiting check on the wood, as well as for decoration Legs: Three legged system is inspired by Poul Kjarholm’s iconic coffee table.