QIFAN WANG
ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2016-2022
NYSE Expand
USC Social Justice Center
Connecting Vessels
Rippling Box
Other works
Museum/ Expand/ Form-making
Office/ Mid-rise/ CLT
Research/ Urban/ Collective Housing
Long-span/ GFRC
2021 Fall, UPENN MSD-AAD
2020 Fall, USC BArch
2019 Fall, USC BArch & La Salle Barcelona
2019 Spring, USC BArch
- Brick House - City_X Proposal - Shangrao Convention Center
an NFT museum & mining facility
a flood-overflowing zone rennovation
a community swimming pool
in-progress work/ group work/ intern work
NYSE EXPAND AN NFT MUSEUM & MINING FACILITY MANHATTAN, NEW YORK Museum/ Expand/ Form-making 2021 Fall, UPENN MSD-AAD
An NFT Museum unprecedentedly challenges any forms of existing museum. The sufficient space for servers and mechanics replaces the large and open exhibition halls, and the digital device which brings audience from real world to metaverse changes the museum visiting. Thus, the project upon the existing neoclassic NYSE building inclined the architectural grid and generate the continuous sloped circulation transiting the human occupied space to non-human occupied space. While the mechanics are regarded as the poche, the figural solid non-human sections intersect the main promenade and carves the geometry of human space. The façade implies the oblique nature of the project with delicate fluid texture. Curvatures on the façade cut the figural solid and break the surrounding architectural language, differentiating the futuristic NFT structure from the contemporary Wall Street circumstance as the block chain industry sweeping the traditional economics.
USC SOCIAL JUSITCE CENTER A CLT MID-RISE OFFICE BUILDING LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Construction Details 2020 Fall, USC BArch
The USC Social Justice Center was designed as a landmark building in the Lement Park area of Los Angeles. After the turbulent 2020, the building is defined as a facility that unites and serves society. The building is used for regional social activities, community services, sociology consulting and research, and other businesses. Environmental issues should be included in the discussion of social justice. Therefore, the contribution of mass timber structure to the environment is the highlight of the building. The building uses a reasonably designed facade to ensure sufficient ambient light while preventing the building from being exposed to strong sunlight in Southern California. The building focuses on the integration with the surrounding community, leaving voids on the ground to create a permeable ground space between the commercial along the street and the parking lot behind the building. The working areas in the building are connected by a coherent building staircase, allowing the staff on each floor to communicate with each other.
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Cafe
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Mixed Chamber
Water Proof Layer １ Rain Screen Clip 2 Batt Insulation 3
Sloped Metal Panel 4 Gutter 5
1’x 12”Wood Facade Panel 6 6”Steel Tube 7 6”C-Beam 8
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18”Glu-Lam Timber Beam 12 Steel Column Footing 13 14”Glu-Lam Column 14 10’x 30’CLT Floor Panel 15
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Mechanical Fixtures 18 Splinker System
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Window Mullion 16 Double Layered Insulated Glass 17
1’ Concrete Retaining Wall 18 24”Concrete Column 19 Protection Board
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CONNECTING VESSELS
A FLOOD-OVERFLOWING ZONE RENNOVATION BARCELONA, SPAIN Research/ Urban/ Collective Housing 2019 Fall, USC BArch & La Salle Barcelona
Barcelona maintains a systematic stormwater drainage system and several retention tanks preventing overflows. However, as a merging point of three major watersheds of Barcelona, this site frequently suffers from surface overflow due to the busy sewage system. To prevent overflow meanwhile enhance the connectivity of different watersheds, the plan is to connect these sections by canals on the surface. Canals transit the overflow flooding from one busy sewage to others and meanwhile activate the surrounding public space and irrigate the green landscape. In the canal system, seven major joints are selected as retention ponds for stormwater and overflow flooding.
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Diagram 1 Barcelona Watershed and Drainage System Study
Diagram 3 Neighborhood Strategy Communicating Vessel system between two Retention Tank
Amadeu Torner
Riera Blanca
Zona Franca
Amadeu Torner
Riera Blanca
Zona Franca
canal flow direction depends on which side has higher water pressure
Sewerage Culvert Surface Water Landscape
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Overflow Real Tank Cloggage Virtual Tank
the Mediterranean Situation
the Mediterranean Solution
Diagram 2 Urban Strategy: Slope and Tank Mediterranean
Water from three major sewage paths is evacuated from underground pipes to the exposed canals. The water flow and retention ponds form charming water landscapes and practically function as irrigation to surrounding landscape facilities. The Residential Complex locates between the Riora Blanca drainage and Amadeu Torner drainage. To utilize the maximum water from the system, a water cycle of storing, cleaning, and distributing is implemented in the housing project.
Diagram 5 the culvert transporting stormwater from underground to the surface
Diagram 4 Building Strategy Water purification system in the housing building
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By following the urban idea of "communicating vessels", the system in the architectural scale is similar. The housing complex connects two existing warehouses which are renovated into library and retail. The form of architecture is derived from a continuous promenade with water flowing above generating the water cycle and a water landscape on top of the roof. As the water retention tank and surface drainage system are directly attached to the architecture itself, it can affect its functionality and programs with dynamic conditions.
RIPPLING BOX
A COMMUNITY SWIMMING POOL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Long-span/ GFRC 2019 Spring, USC BArch
The "Rippling Box" is a community swimming pool at the boundary of a neighborhood and a park. The building contains multiple functions for the region and provides the ideal swimming environment with the park's maximum sight. The water in the swimming pool is rippling, and so is the roof. Besides a formal metaphor, the rippling roof provides sufficient natural light income and avoids heat radiation from the hot sun of southern California. Each ripple also collects the rainwater into the gutter for recycle. The wave-shaped roof is made of glass fiber reinforced concrete and the concrete wall echo with the surrounding ordinary-buildings, allowing the swimming pool to blend into the community naturally. The wooden cladding in the swimming pool gives the pool space a warm and comfortable feeling. The solarium in the middle ring is a social area that gathers swimmers and non-swimmers. It absorbs the most abundant sunlight. It is not only a central stage that encourages communication between people but also a comfortable space to enjoy the sunshine alone.
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COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO DOCUMENTATION
0. DESIGN DOCUMENTS 0.11 ISOMETRIC CONSTRUCTIVE DETAIL
9” DIAMETER TUBE STEEL 3” DIAMETER TUBE STEEL
8’×12’ 1” GLASS FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE PANELS WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 1” PLY WOOD SHEATHING 6” FOAMED THERMAL INSULATION STRUCTURAL SILICON GLAZED CLERESTORY 2
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6”EXTRUDED ALUMINUM VERTICAL MULLION 6”EXTRUDED ALUMINUM HORIZONTAL MULLION
16” O.C LIGHT GAGED METAL FRAMING W 10×15 I BEAM BRACE
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OTHER WORKS BRICK HOUSE AN APARTMENT FOCUSING ON EACH FRAGMENT OF BRICK ROSARIO, ARGENTINA Vernacular housing/ Bricks/ Model-making 2022 Spring, UPENN MSD-AAD
CITY_X PROPOSAL DIGITAL RENAISSANCE
a group project with Zida Liu and Wei-chun Chou
Futuristic City in the next 50 years of Xiong'An, a new-planned city in China 2020 Spring, USC BArch Urban Planning/ Parametric Scripting
Shangrao Convention Cneter SCHEMATIC DESIGN in ZXD ARCHITECTS Shangrao, China schematic design/ render 2022 Summer, ZXD Architects
SCHEME 1
SCHEME 2
ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY DSLR Camera & Drone Photography Photoshop/ Lightroom