Shawn Wang Work Samples by Shawn Wang

SHAWN WANG WORK SAMPLES

shawn/SHENG QI WANG KTX992@GMAIL.COM (540)200-5626

SHAWN / SHENGQI WANG (540)200-5626 KTX992@GMAIL.COM

EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture in Architecture (Urban Design Concentration) College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA Projected Graduation: Spring 2017 Minor in Industrial and product design College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA Projected Graduation: Spring 2017 SKILLS Digital: Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom), Rhino, Auto Cad, Google Sketch Up, Revit, Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Excel) Technical: Drawing & Sketching, Hand-drafting, Photography, Charcoal & Graphite, Model making, 3D printing WORK EXPERIENCE Landscape Array for 50th Anniversary of Virginia Tech school of Architecture reception area Sentient Chamber (Philip Beesley) in National Academies of Science. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITES & HONORS Personal exhibition 2013 in Virginia Tech (Fine Art) Personal exhibition 2014 in Virginia Tech (Architecture) Block Out! (Third Place) 2015 Annual CAUS competition with CMU blocks Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Work of Excellence 2015 50th Anniversary of Virginia Tech school of Architecture reception area field array design Participated as a student representative in the 50th anniversary committee and designed the landscape array for the reception area Mural Painting for Blacksburg Farmers Market Habitat for Humanity 2014, 2015, 2016 ADDITIONAL SKILLS Fine art (Oil, acrylic and water color painting; pottery and sculpture) Fluent in English and Chinese Mandarin Mac and PC Operating Systems Masonry and reinforced concrete construction skills Building veneer/ tile cladding Wood working skills/ Furniture making Thermal heat floor installation Hard wood floor installation

Thesis

Star Library

Bird Observatory

50th Anniversary of School of Architecture

Architecture Folly

Thesis work A bath house Location: Lake Michigan Instead of being representative of designed spaces, these drawings are meant to take certain feelings and be represented through spaces. These drawings served as a design process, as more drawings were produced, the more the building was revealed to me. They are unusual as architectural drawings, without convention or scale, and this is intentional. This allows them to be interpreted in different ways as the thesis continues to develop. Drawing as a tool helps me to be ‘slow’, unlike computer software, which is forgiving and able to produce renderings rapidly. Drawing demands time to carefully consider where to land each line, where to add more shade, and so forth. There is enough time to think about propositions of the thesis while planning and making each drawing, a process that became more important than the actual drawing of the time. Perhaps the space in a particular drawing won’t appear in the final building, but the only way to find out is to draw it out. These drawings attempt to convey the feeling of the ‘sublime’ in a way that conventional ‘references’ are taken away. Usual reference: sense of scale, nature light, building materials, smell, temperature and texture, are absent, situating the viewer into a space that dematerializes, forcing the viewer to realize the tininess of him/herself. The viewer becomes present in the drawn space in order to become part of the space. This feeling can be compared to a bolt in a functional engine – it becomes more than just the singular person.

The floor plan was a direct translation of an olive branch. When I think about time, I thing about how time shape things. The twisty nature of the olive branch resonates,with me, with how a curvy path a person can take through the person’s life time.

Star Library Seattle/ Original site of the movie ‘UP!‘ The Star library is suspended to separate itself from the shopping mall for acoustic reasons and also in honor of Edith’s house. The suspension also provides an open space underneath the structure for small-scale gatherings such as coffee breaks. In Seattle, a big and busy city, the Star Library was designed to be a place where people could spend cozy sunny afternoons, where they could reach their fingers in between pages to feel the warmth of sunshine that has been captured by each book of the libraries’ collection, where they could smell the print on each page and to touch the bumps punched by letter presses on book covers. The main structure is a frame of I beams. The wood floor joist was filled in later. Frosted glass was introduced as rain screen as well as light diffuser for the entire library.

lightning rod anemoscope

steel skeleton

observation platform

water collector

Bird Observatory The tower is 150+ feet tall for several reasons. Firstly the lightning rod has to be at a higher altitude than the trees in order to attract lightning. This protects the surrounding trees and animals. Secondly, birds nest at various heights and most raptors fly very high, the observation platforms were distributed ranging from 5 feet above the ground to 100 feet in the air to compensate different habits of birds. Steel piles were driven into the soil as foundations instead of traditional excavation for environment protection reasons. The observatory also features an anemoscope to collect wind data for academic studies, along with a water collector to attract birds in drier seasons.

pedal powered lift

torque converter

50th Anniversary of School of Architecture field array and additional applications -Total of 200 concrete columns -Used or reception area of the anniversary -LED in each lanterns for a view at the night

Architecture Folly This project was my first hands on experience of construction. The entire structure was made with 2x4s and fabric, situates on a farm in Blacksburg, VA. A color changing LED bulb was a center piece in this project to create mood and a view for the nights. In this case we had to take material thickness in consideration. Peer collaboration was a great experience.

THANK YOU! SHAWN / SHENGQI WANG KTX992@GMAIL.COM (540)200-5626