Wenqi Chen Work Samples
Wenqi Chen cellphone: (01) 702 580 3515 e-mail:
Wenqi.Chen@rice.edu; wqchen89@gmail.com
EDUCATION Master of Architecture Rice University, School of Architecture, Houston, TX
2016
Balchelor of Engineering 2013 Major in Fashion Design & Engineering Donghua University, College of Fashion, Art & Design, Shanghai -Donghua University Academic Excellence Award 2010
-Shanghai Advanced Summer Practice 2011
EXPERIENCE Architectural Intern 2014 Hua Zhu Architectural Planning & Engineering, Shenzhen,China -Project: Shenzhen Liuxiandong Block 1, Phase 2
-Assited Model Making, Drafting, Organizing Presentation Slides
Fasion Mechandising Intern 2013 C&A Fashion Company, Kids & Babies Department, Shanghai -Assisted Merchandiser
-Draw Fashion Iluastration
Fashion Pattern Making Intern Quanjie Uniform Company, Nanning,China -Assisted Pattern Design
2012
Charity Goods Design WABC (NGO), Shanghai, China -Design Goods for Charity Sale
2010
-Assisted Fabric Cutting
-Assisted Organizing Mental Handicapped Artworks Exhibition
SKILL Software -Rhino -Illustrator -Photoshop -Indesign
-AutoCAD -Vray -Ecotect -Lightroom
LANGUAGE Mandarin English
Other -MS Office -Lumion -Grasshopper
-Hand Model Making -Tailoring -Laser Cutting operation
CONTENT 1. COUPLING100 2. 24H URBAN COMPOUND 3. CIVIC BOUNDARIES 4. PUBLIC REALM 5. GRIDS TRANSITION 6. 2014 summer intern work
ARCH 501 COUPLING 100 Fall 2013 Professor Ron Witte
Quenby Street
ARCH 502 24h Urban Compound Fordham Street
Spring 2014 Professor Mark Wamble The studio required student to base on one case study, developing a new strategy by transplanting the case from its original context to the urban context in Houston. The West university district is a typical community in the city of Houston. The 24-hour compound in this district will be a center for the residents or guests to work out, take training courses, and have meetings and social activities. The program is flexible and the rooms or swimming pools should be changeable to fit different activities during day and night.
Lake Street
Robinhood Street
Tangley Street
Plumb Street
Kirby Drive
Quenby Street
Robinhood Street
Tangley Street
Dunstan Road
Bolsover Street
I took the tube-like module from my case study–Vitra Haus by Herzog & de Mueron, making the tube self-folded and compressed at its two ends to create a new module. Therefore single-high, doublehigh and triple-high spaces are formed in one module, creating rich space experience. Within this module, indoor and outdoor programs, group and private activities could be reasonable placed. By arranging modules with different widths parallel on the site, I created a porous system in the urban grid of Houston, which connecting the residential and commercial sides on the two sides of the site effectively.
FORM 24
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SIMPLIFIED MODULE
SKEWED
SELF-FOLDED
AGGREGATION
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22. leisure pool 23. leisure pool 24. whirling pool 25. whirling pool 26. teaching pool 27. semi-private teaching pool 3rd FLOOR PLAN 1/16”=1’-0” PARALLEL
PROGRAM
CONNECTED BY MIXED SPACE
day night 17
CLUB LIFE (OUTDOOR)
CLUB LIFE (INDOOR)
leisure pool
strength forum
leisure pool
club lounge
teaching pool
multi-purpose
aquatic performace
group meeting
pool deck
cafe
SUPPORTIVE
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store
19
delivery
21 up
down
up
down
changing admin
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16 up
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down
up
cooking
club terrace
dining
training deck
sauna
club performace
sauna
laundry
whirl pool
massage
reservation
whirl pool
massage
down
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storage
13. laundry 14. storage 15. sauna 16. multi-purpose room 17. massage 18. massage 19. meditation room
classroom
20. dining
kids’ night out meditation room
21. training deck 2nd FLOOR PLAN 1/16”=1’-0”
private meeting
continuous, outdoor
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1
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detached, indoor
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up
down
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down up
down
up
1. store 2. delivery
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detached, outdoor
3. classroom
up
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4. strength forum 5. changing room
outdoor+indoor
6. administration office 7. reservation 8. changing room
detached, indoor
9. strength forum 10. drinking 11. cooking demonstration 12. kitchen GROUND LEVEL PLAN 1/16”=1’-0”
ARCH 503 CIVIC BOUNDARIES Fall 2014 Professor Carlos JimĂŠnez The scheme of Civic Boundaries project is based on the idea that the civic life should achieve smoothly transition between different institutions and should maintain the continuity with the urban condition. By looking at previous geometry strategies for civic building, the project innovated in articulate the existing of different institutions within one singular volume and coordinate their relationship at the same time. The combination of material and the formal language also create different reading in the context of 3300 Richmond Avenue.
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ARCH 503 PUBLIC REALM Fall 2014 Professor Carlos Jiménez
The common master framework I worked with other two fellows in the studio suggested a combination of two urban cultures: verticality and horizontality. Under the principle set up by the master frameowork, in order to make these two parts interact with each other in a positive way, the connection of the common master frame work is not enough. This project aimed the densification issue of the super blocks, developing a strategy in which two sets of grid used to determine the architecture on one block. A ground grid and a highrise grid (block grid) determined the orientation of middle rise buildings and highrise building respectively. Lower part the highrise transits its orientation with the growth of its height. By the transition and integration of the grids, the project made the horizontality in a highrise and the verticality in the middle rises possible.
ARCH 504 GRIDS TRANSITION Spring 2015 Professor Neyran Turan
TYPICAL HOUSING UNITS
INDOOR AREA: 2425 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 663 (+1538) SF TOTAL: 3088 (+1538) SF TOTAL UNITS: 57 UNITS
INDOOR AREA: 1035 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 75 SF TOTAL:1110 SF
INDOOR AREA: 835 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 75 SF TOTAL:910 SF
INDOOR AREA: 835 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 75 SF TOTAL:910 SF
TOTAL UNITS: 24 UNITS
TOTAL UNITS: 24 UNITS
TOTAL UNITS: 24 UNITS
INDOOR AREA: 1060 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 75 SF TOTAL:1135 SF
INDOOR AREA: 1730 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 150 SF TOTAL:1880 SF
TOTAL UNITS: 32 UNITS
TOTAL UNITS: 32 UNITS
LOWER LEVEL
UPPER LEVEL
LOWER LEVEL
INDOOR AREA: 4150 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 375 SF TOTAL: 4525 SF
INDOOR AREA: 2860 SF OUTDOOR AREA: 150 SF TOTAL: 3010 SF
TOTAL UNITS: 8 UNITS
TOTAL UNITS: 4 UNITS
UPPER LEVEL
SUMMER 2014 INTERN
Hua Zhu Architectural Planning & Engineering Project: Liuxiandong Block 1, Phase 2, Shenzhen Architects: Tao Zhu Changming Li Tianchu Shu Tony Luo
Tasks: Model Section Digram Plan
phone: (01) 702 580 3515 e-mail: Wenqi.Chen@rice.edu wqchen89@gmail.com portfolio: http://issuu.com/orzsto Š2015 Wenqi Chen