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Education Philadelphia, PA the U.S.
University of Pennsylvania Penndesign Master of Science in Design- Advanced Architectural Design (GPA:3.65/4)
1.5-y /Sept. 2017--Dec.2018
Wuhan University of Technology (WUT)
Wuhan, Hubei China 5-y /Sept. 2012 -- Jun. 2017
Bachelor of Architecture (GPA:3.74/4)
Work Experience StudioTeka, New York
Jun. 2018--Aug. 2018
Summer Intern
Finished a whole small project individually, participated in other modeling, market research, concept design CCCC Rail Transit Consultants Co. , Wuhan, China
Jul. 2016--Sept. 2016
Summer Intern
Participated in Drawing sets, modeling, preparation of presentaiton materials
Summary of Qualifications Creative thinker who enjoys coming up with new and different ideas Always have passion to take challenges Strong work ethic, with ability to stay calm and work well under tight timelines Rich experiences of working in groups and always willing to communicate and share with teammates
Professional Skills Maya
AutoCAD
Revit Rhino Keyshot SketchUp Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Unreal Engine Microsoft Office Set Diva Vray
Language Mandarin(mother language), English(proficent)
Academic Experience Cemex-Upenn Workshop
Organized by Cemex Global R&D
Designed a chair made by multiple concrete and Participated in the prototype tests “The Flying Box” Proving Children in High Latitude Area with Mobile Intelligent Modular Dormitory
Oct. 2018
Jun. 2015--Apr. 2016
Organized by China Youth Development Foundation & Huazhong University of Science and Technology Participation in the Scheme Design Discussion
Green building Workshop
Organized by Lorenzo Barrionuevo，Arqrel Barcelona & School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, WUT
Nov. 2015
Understood of the green building and carried on relevant design Analysis of current situation of historic buildings in Wuhan City and its outskirts
Organized by Wuhan Urban Planning Bureau and School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, WUT Drawing of “Kun Houli” Graphic Collection
“Jinggang Love·Chinese Dream” National University Students Summer Practice Session
Organized by National Youth Education Centre for Modern History, Jinggangshan Hand-drawn map & Bookmarks, Postcards Illustrations
Ruochen Wang 3945 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 rochinw1226@gmail.com | (215)789-0971
Honor Academic Scholarship, First Prize (2014), Third Prize (2015,2013)
Awarded by Wuhan University of Technology
Jun. 2015--Sept. 2015
Jul. 2015--Aug. 2015
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MULTIFARIOUS FUTURE: Experience and Test
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AUTONOMOUS AMERICA: Living and Driving
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MUTUALISM: Parallel and Interlaced
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DAILY: Moving and Gathering
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PURE: Darkness and Light
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ORDER: Passing and Stay
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OTHER WORKS
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Project 1
Sports Retail Center, Les Halles, Paris
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MULTIFARIOUS FUTURE: Experience and Test Sports Retail Center Les Halles, Paris, France Les Halles is a historical market place from 20 centur y at the north of River Seine, right west of the Pompidou Center, near Musee du Louvre. Based on the researches of nowadays' retail stores and reviews, we think that future retail should focus more on the shopping experience and embrace urban transport pretty well. We try to provide Paris citizens a "One-Day Experiential Park" where people could "rent" all the newest products from multiple brands within a day and test them in our testing courts. There is only "Product Gallery" to display new stuff but no store any longer.
Group work (with Xing Zhang)
In charge of Concept and Strategy Design, Overall and Chunk digital model, Plan Drawings
Besides, from the material study in Cemex, we develop the "Floating System." Plants could grow on the lightweight, porous concrete plates, which could float with water running through the whole site. That creates a changeable landscape and unique visual experience.
2018 Fall Instructor: Robert Stuart Smith
What's more, we also design a compact lift system which could move both horizontal and vertical. The general track is hanged under the floor, and the lift could pump up to let customers get on and off without forcing other lifts to stop.
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Project 1
Sports Retail Center, Les Halles, Paris
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Project 1
Sports Retail Center, Les Halles, Paris
side-way elevator system
express
airtaxi
autonomous car
delivery bot
floating system
running track
e-bicycle
airtaxi landing
RER
lift system
pool
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Project 2
Airport Terminal, New York, the U.S.
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MUTUALISM: Parallel and Interlaced Future Airport JFK International Airport, Terminal 5 Based on the section structure studies of Hofburg Dome, we extracted the basic rule set of geometry and applied that for creating cargo tubes and circulations.
Group work (with Chaeyoung Kim, Zihao Fang) In charge of digital and physical model, section drawings
In Advanced Architecture Studio, 2017 Fall Instructor: Nathan Hume
The tubes combine and intersect each other, making an unusual airport mood. The flow of tubes expresses dynamic situations of the airport, and the protruded parts of the building connect with the bridge to the airplane in the later extension. Since the protruded portion adjacent to the air train road, it can be combined with the train directly and used as the main entrance for people. For the skin, hairy skin is applied. Since the airport building is not the human scale but the vast mass, hairy skin which is divided and made up of pieces in a tiny size, it gives people not to feel too much pressure by the huge mass. Also, tube surfaces are mixed with section structures, and each tube is divided into several sections, people’s circulation and cargo spaces can be served at the same time.
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Project 2
Airport Terminal, New York, the U.S.
Structure Study: Hofburg Dome
Master Plan
Tunnel Prototype
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Project 2
Airport Terminal, New York, the U.S.
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Project 2
Airport Terminal, New York, the U.S.
Exploded Axon
A-A Section Plan
1:2000
Objects
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These are basic machines and ways that we apply to the cargo delivery and classifying process. In the future airport, we treat cargos and devices, those non-living, inorganic “creatures,” the same way we do with human, human and cargo are at the same status. Different tunnels have different delivering speeds. Some walls between tunnels are transparent, so creatures could watch others moving. Some structures are also exposed.
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Hair
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B-B Section Plan
1:1000
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1. Check-in Hall 2. Check Point 3. Baggage Claim 4. Ground Transportation 5. Concourse 6. Office
Tunnels
Base
7. Tunnels to Gate 8. Cargo Center We apply the pattern that’s derived from the Hofburg Dome to both the section and plan. In those composite tubes, sometimes cargos and passengers move in parallel lines and human can watch, observe and even enjoy the cargo’s delivering process; sometimes the tunnels intersect, cargos and passengers might meet and they move through each other but in different heights.
Shell Detail
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Project 3
Residence, Los Angeles, the U.S.
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AUTONOMOUS AMERICA: Living and Driving Zero-Division Residence with Lv.5 Autonomous car Los Angeles, U.S. In this project, we try to assign a "theme," a function to the Lv.5 autonomous veh i cl e s , w h i ch me ans t he c ar c ou l d work i nd iv i du a l ly w it hout any human assistance or observation. The car itself could be a lounge moving on the road and provide a more comfortable environment to the riders. For the prototype car, I want it to turn to be one kind of furniture that cooperate with others in the room. So the overall shape is fluid and soft. As it arrives at home, it would plug into the revolving platform. When it turns around, the seats provided by car could meet other pieces of furniture to enhance the connections of each other. And people could also sit directly on it.
Individual work 2018 Spring Instructor: Volkan Alkanoglu
Then I develop a residence using this strategy. The revolving platform is in the center of the home with other rooms surrounding. There is no door or any other solid boundary in the house. The vehicle is the key to divide a private room with others. When the car comes back, the car doors open and turn to be the walls in the house, and the vehicle itself merges into that single room and create a bigger but private space.
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Project 3
Residence, Los Angeles, the U.S.
Autonomous Car For a Normal House
Car as a Piece of Furniture
The car would insert into a rotatable platform, and when car doors open and the seats spread out, they would make up a new functional space with the fixed furniture.
Autonomous Car For the ZeroDivision House
Car in the Zero-Division House
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Project 3
Residence, Los Angeles, the U.S.
Division Strategy living room
atrium stairs
kitchen
bathroom
master bedroom
bedroom bathroom
Car on the first floor
Section
Let Car Be the Division
When the car parks on the first floor, it could be used as a piece of furniture, and there is no division in the house, the residents can walk through the whole house in a path. When the lift comes upwards and fills the hole, people could roam freely. If the car doors open and meet the exterior walls, it would divide and create a private space from the unity.
Car on the Second floor Type 1
Car on the Second floor Type 2
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Project 4
Community Service Center, Wuhan, China
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DAILY: Moving and Gathering Community Service Center Bapu Street, Wuchang District, Wuhan
This site is located on Bapu Street around Wutaizhai, an urban village. Most surrounding buildings are one or two floors. I observe that in this community, there are so many corners and little squares scattering but no large square or center. So I offer a larger square in the building for people to gather and according to the original pattern of the streets and residences, rooms and halls of different functions are planned just like along a road.
Individual work In Architecture Design 3, 2014 Fall Advised by Jian Chang
What's more, because only kids and old people would stay in the community on workdays in which young people get out for work or school, I find that "observation" is a common and frequent activity. Olds would sit and watch kids playing or passersby for a long time. For better observation and communication, I offer a "height supplement" to make people able to look at each other directly in their eyes and horizontally.
Type 1 along the street
Type 2 surrounded by buildings
Type 3 expand from the crosses
corners little nodes
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Project 4
Looking into others' eyes horizontally shows respect.
Different Height of sighting line
Community Service Center, Wuhan, China
Boxes, Houses
Experience with Section
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Ground Level Plan
Project 4
Community Service Center, Wuhan, China
1 lobby 2 square 3 children playroom 4 infant playroom 5 elderly playroom 6 reading room 7 children classroom 8 manual-training room
9 resting area 10 restroom 11 above the mechanical area 12 cafe 13 storage room 14 viewing platform 15 open gallery 16 exhibition
17 lecture hall 18 theatre 19 stage 20 outer stage 21 preparation room 22 comprehensive reading room 23 newsroom 24 eletronic reading room
25 special exhibition 26 salon 27 chess room 28 gym 29 changing room 30 office room 31 meeting room 32 tea room
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Project 5
Movie Theatre, Suzhou, China
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PURE: Darkness and Light Movie Theatre Fengqiao Road, Gusu District, Suzhou
Light is an essential element of the movie. And people who come to the building for film, would step from an entirely bright exterior space, then into different dark chambers to watch movies they choose. So, they would experience a process from "full of light" to "without light." According to this, the project is based on controlling the quantity, direction, and property of light.
Individual work In Architecture Design 4, 2015 Spring Advised by Jianyu Chen
The location of the site is opposite to Hanshan Temple, a famous scenery spot in Suzhou, and there are two rivers paralleled it. As the sun goes, the light would change its direction and make exciting scenes. Considering the active periods of different chambers vary, I organize the plan to have a light condition full of changes.
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Ground Level Plan
Project 5
Movie Theatre, Suzhou, China
Lighting Effect Typology Direct Projection
Reflection
Ground Level Plan
Refraction
Sound and Sight Control
Functions
landscape
Sound Reverberation
Sight Control in Theatre
Sight Control in Cinema
Stage
work space
resting hall
auditoriums and corridors
Activities with artificial lights off Steeve
Overbridge
Lifting Platform
Section
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Project 6
Train Station District Planning, Wuhan, China
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ORDER: Passing and Stay Wuhan Railway Station Residence and Business District Planning Yangchunhu Road, Hongshan District, Wuhan
This district is planned to be the vice center of Wuhan, just in front of Wuhan Railway Station, a top class one. So as the first gate of Wuhan for tourists, it should be instrumental, multifunctional, and friendly. Meanwhile, as there is planned to have a living hub for local people, it needs to be safe, convenient and comfortable.
Individual work In Architecture Design 6, 2016 Spring Advised by Chuancheng Li
Considering those differences between tourists and residents, such as their lengths of staying time, needs, active periods and so on, I set a platform covered with grass to separate the most interweaved part of their courses, with some nodes down to the ground to allow a fluent movement. Different parts of the platform are of various heights to offer different functions.
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Project 6
Train Station District Planning, Wuhan, China
Quantities of Visitors
Existing Circumstance need for dining
need for shopping need for lodging need for exhibiting & communicating need for working
landscape business blocks domicile blocks
Quantities of Visitors‘ Different Needs
business & domicile blocks
Project 6
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tourists' courses
Interweave
residents' courses
the interweaving of courses may lead to disorder and unconvinience
Functions of the Platform According to Residents' Needs
Train Station District Planning, Wuhan, China
Separate
platform
separate two courses to two layers by a platform
platform
Connect
lower the platform on three spots to connect two layers
When People come to Wuhan from Other Cities
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Other Works
Panyu Library
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Panyu Library
Vertical Cemetery
Panyu, China 2017 Spring
Hongkong, China 2014 Spring
Individual work There exists a world in each book. We travel through multiple universes when we read books. This project thrives from the concept of " one and a thousand universe" and hopes to provide a fanc y and unique re ading environment.
Individual work Grave niches move along with the growing trees towards sky and people die the second time when other people finally forget them.
Other Works
Vertical Cemetery
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Other Works
Concrete Construction
Other Works
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white Cotton Fabric & Steel Cable
MDF Board
Black Geo-Tactile
Foam Base 10mm thick
Concrete construction
Meditation Chair
2018 Spring
2018 Fall
Group work Group work We f i g u r e d o u t h ow t o u s e concrete to build a corner of the "tiny house," and practically used hot-wire cutting to create multiple molds to cast concrete.
In this project, we attempted to use two types of concrete in one chair. Pipes were embedded into the chair and water was pumped to the upper side of the chair, and then run through the porous concrete.
Meditation Chair Fabrication Proposal
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Other Works
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Geometrical Structural Design 2018 Fall
Other Works
Diva Simulation for Daylighting 2018 Fall
Hubbe House by Mies in VR Wood Egress Stair
2018 Fall
2018 Summer
Individual work This is my first project finished in my summer internship, a pair of wood egress stairs in Port Chester, New York State.
Mobile Intelligent Modular Dormitory 2015 Summer
Deployable Structure 2018 Spring