Portfolio 2019

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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.

Chunk >>>> 16Model

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

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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