Minquan Wang Portfolio 2021 by Le Rouge

Minquan Wang Academic & Professional Works 2021

Minquan Wang

Post-Pro M.Arch 2018, Yale School of Architecture B.Arch 2014, M.Arch 2016, Tsinghua University

Sandro Botticelli, Map of Hell, illustrating Dante’s imaginary journey in the Divine Comedy.

Giuseppe Terragni, Danteum

An Engaging Autonomy Giuseppe Terragni’s Danteum was a reconstruction of the Divine Comedy. This unbuilt project spatialized Dante’s mythical trip through Inferno, Purgatory, and Heaven with ideal geometry and numerology, lending itself as a masterly demonstration of how architecture could exert on realms outside its disciplinary boundary without giving up on its inherent vocabulary.

Today, it would be only bizarre and reactionary to expect architecture to wall itself off from larger social engagements. Yet the alternative of our entire profession dissolving into an oversatuation of technologies, sustainabilities, economic rationality, and humanist patronizing, is equally horrifying. Ultimately, it is only to the extent that these external agendas are distilled into protocals of space, form, and materiality, that architecture retains its precious agency.

To that end, I am passionate for an architecture that bravely intervenes larger social narratives with a refound disciplinary core. I aspire for an engaging autonomy.

Academic

01| DÉTOURNEMENT OF ALLURE Miami Beach Oceanfront Development

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EASY OFFICE

Culver City Concept Art Studio

03| THE SUN ALSO RISES

04| ARCHIVE FOR THE DEAD

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Museum for a Film

Capital Cemetery Complex

IMPRINT OF SOUND

Interactive Installation

06| CONTENTIOUS CITY Gloucester Maritime Trade Campus

Professional

07| XRL WEST KOWLOON

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Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

1399 SW 1ST AVE Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

09| HENDERSON HUNG HUM Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

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CHONGQING ITCC

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

11| BLUE HORIZON ESTATE Atelier Li Xinggang

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DÉTOURNEMENT OF ALLURE

Miami Beach Oceanfront Urban Development

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YSOA Advanced Design Studio Instructors: Emre Arolat, Gonca Paşolar, Kyle Dugdale Partner: Istvan van Vianen Fall 2017 YSOA Feldman Prize 2018 Nominee Site Location: Miami Beach, FL, US 2

Miami Beach is among the ultimate tourism destinations in the US. The city has been remembered and fantasized for its seashores, bars, clubs, and tropical flair. What underlies all these tokens of Miaminess is its vibrant social life. However, consumerist developments have been gnawing at social life on the beach. Profit drives developers erect privatized luxury hotels and condos, chopping the beachfront into fenced bubbles. Since contributing to the urban life goes against their privilege and profit, beachfront developments are increasingly disengaged from the city. The most pertinent challenge in our face is not to design good architectures with high quality urban spaces, but to ensure such spaces are respected and maintained as they are intended to by the owners. In other words: can we design a game in which publicness is anchored at the core of profitability, thus invite beachfront developments to play along?

Miami Beach: Paradise Lost of Public Life? Miaminess means getting socialized.

While the beach is the most striking icon of Miaminess, the current beachfront developments, mostly luxury hotels and condominiums, work against Miami Beach's public nature. They seclude the beachfront, erect walls against the city, and chew into the sand with hedges and fences. The beach has become the city's last defense of public life, side by side with the most concentrated band of consumerist privatization.

Voluntary Prisoners of Beachfront Hotels Self righteous developments transformed the beachfront into a heterotopic landscape. While people pay for rooms to enjoy Miami Beach, they venture into the city for social life, even when the Miaminess they are after is right outside. Within the invisible walls of social isolation, they became voluntary prisoners in their paid cells.

Why build up walls and look out for fun...

...When we can party at home? 5

Preserve Two types of existing buildings are preserved: a. Registered historical heritage. b. Recently built high FAR buildings.

Public Program Public Circulation Street

Insert Public programs are inserted into individual blocks. A continuous circulation penetrates from the street, connect public programs, and reaches the Halo.

Unite The Halo's programs attract the public. To share its extra visitors, hotel owners have to keep public zone open. Profitability keeps them cooperative.

The Halo

The Halo is a circular structure unifying six blocks. While being designed as a whole, the mix-use hotels are handed to individual property owners and operate independently, whereas the Halo is managed by a third-party public agency.

EMBRACE THE GAME Instead of fighting Miami's beachfront development pattern, the project works with it. Five mix-use hotel blocks each is an islands of varying tastes and lifestyles, manifesting the will of individual owners, whereas the Halo bridges them to achieve a unified gesture and experience. The sixth block, a former parking lot, is transformed as a performance park joining the Halo.

Public Flow Ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators lead people from the street all the way on to the podiums of hotel blocks, and further up to meet the Halo. Program attractors (retails, amenities, etc.) are spread along to keep the flow pumping.

Exhibition Hall Auditorium

Outdoor Theatre

Halo-Hotel Joints The Halo has its stand-alone program attractors to establish its own presence, not necessarily relying on the hotels.

While the public program attractors of the hotels are profit-driven, the Halo carries three non-profit driven show spaces. They are managed by the Halo's stewarding agency and cater to non-profit driven public events, such as lectures, talks, exhibitions, etc. 10

On-Site Exploded View Each hotel block is designed with a cascading podium bringing pedestrian onto its top, and one or multiple guest-room towers elevated above.

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The Halo is broken into several segments on different heights to fit itself onto the site, but the circulation maintains continuous.

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1. Hotel Podium 2. Hotel Guest-Rooms 3. Performance Park 4. Beachfront Pool 5. Outdoor Theatre

6. Atlantics Hotel 7. Casa Faena 8. Faena Versailles Classic 9. King David Tower 10. Beach House 8 11. Halo Service Shaft 12. Halo Multi-Functional 13. Halo Auditorium 14. Halo Exhibition Hall

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GROUND FLOOR: CONSUMERIST HETEROTOPIAS The podiums contain most of the hotels' public programs (reception, retail, amenities, etc.). These are fully managed and operated on an individual basis, and configured to aim at commercial interest. From the ground floor, the project almost fully comply to the current model of development on the beachfront: profit driven consumerist heterotopias independently run by hotel owners.

HALO: NEUTRAL UNIFICATION The Halo unifies the individually operating hotels with neutral urban leisure spaces and show spaces managed by a non profit driven third party agency. The Halo's neutrality, reinforced by the performance park offering its independent access & program attractor, facilitates a steady public flow, making sure that cooperating with the Halo scheme stay lucrative to property owners. Public life is thus anchored at the center of profitability.

Show The Visitors... And The City! All the show spaces on the Halo are designed with maximum transparency. They are meant to show not only to the visitors within, but also to the city. Even though the content of the shows are not always visible to the people on the street due to distance, a vibrant backdrop with the awareness of "something is up" is enough to lure people in. The entrance of the performance park sits on the focal point of the Halo. An outdoor theatre allows people to walk up onto the Halo as they enjoy performance events of the city, 16

EASY OFFICE

Culver City Concept Art Studio

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YSOA Advanced Design Studio: Pita & Bloom Instructors: Florencia Pita, Jackilin Hah Bloom, Miroslava Brooks Individual Work Spring 2018

Site Location: Los Angeles, CA, US

In the documentary Brillo Box (3¢ Off), when Andy Warhol is asked why he turned a common Brillo box into sculpture, he casually responded “because it’s easy to do”. Appropriation yields irony which is easily interpreted, but is paradoxically difficult to attain without an alignment of particular social, economic and cultural forces at play. This studio investigated appropriation, misinterpretation, and abstraction as tools to generate formal agendas in the adaptive reuse of a warehouse building in Culver City into an Easy Office. Students were asked to hunt everyday items and curate them into a collection to express their sensibilities and obsessions, and convey it through collages. They then compressed the collection of objects into well thought ensembles, and dematerialized them with vacuum-forming. As levels of abstraction goes up, a formal agenda was extracted from each student’s work, which was ultimated transposed into an office interior.

Object Collection The studio initiated with collections of daily items to express a viewpoint, a sensibility or an obsession. My collection focused on streamlined industrial product with highly specific forms. The sharpness, linearity and hinge in these objects implied a tension between connection and exclusivity. 20

2D Collage The images of the objects were then composed into collages to inform a formal agenda. The collages here stitched together disparate objects following their intrinsic formal logic, forming a mechanical Frankenstein, where the individual objects fade away into a new collectivity. 21

3D Collage + Vacuum Form Ideas gathered from the collages were implemented with real objects. The flattened silhouette as an approximation of original objects were actualized with felts. The 3d collage models were sent under vacuum forming. The result further defamiliarized the daily objects by compressing them into a dematerialized aggregation. 22

Items from Initial Collection

Formal Statement This abstraction drawing, based on the tracings from the vacuum forms, is the distillment of the formal statement: the dialectics between constitute parts and a cohesive whole. The illusionistic manipulation of outlines and overlays opens up intentional misinterpretation of their 3-dimensionality, guiding the next stage of work. 23

Developed Surface Drawing

Drawing for Misinterpretation

The developed surface drawing transposes the formal techniques from the previous iterations onto an architectural site. Item collections from the site were added to the initial collections, and together composed onto the unfolded interior surface of a warehouse. This results in a "technical drawing done wrong". In trying to make sense of the paradoxical readings, geometric mutations were made.

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Defamiliarizing the Objects The tracings of the collected objects were manipulated to disrupt their readings. Lines were taken and misplaced, making their geometries ambivalent, but still hinting the original forms. The linework eventually becomes neither recognizable figures nor completely meaningless abstractions, leaving the viewer hesitant to make an identification. 25

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Spatializing in "2.5D" The developed surface drawing is built into an actual building in "2.5D". Against the drawing convention of generating 2D as the reduction from 3D, 3D forms here are constructed from a 2D drawing that implies a range of 3-dimensionalities without prescribing a fixed end. The formal statement is thus concretized into an office statement with spatial and programmatic agency. 26

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Office Statement The Easy Office project experiment materializes as a next-gen concept art studio in which both spatial specificity and synchronized action are allowed. It has two elements:

1. Figures: taken from the collection, defamiliarized into individual work spheres, each imposing an organizational order.

2. Approximations: occupiable surfaces approximated from the figures, non-autonomous and reliant on them take shape, either carrying an figure to extend its identity or cover one to obscure it, becoming the intermediate zone between various work spheres. 27

Office Statement Cont'd T h e p l ay b e t we e n t h e f i g u re s a n d t h e approximations results in a versatile field that flickers between identifiable forms and fluid aggregations. Small squads of conceptual artists or freelancers find their temporary niches by their preferences and constantly shuffle as projects proceed. 28

THE SUN ALSO RISES

Museum for a Film

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Personal Work No Instructors Partner: Xiyao Wang Summer 2015

Site Location: Kunming, Yunnan, China

This project investigates the linguistic nature of space to tell a story. It exploits the interactivity of space to expand the narrative into the reciprocity between the narrator and the viewer, and challenges it with open readings.

A museum is proposed based on the film The Sun Also Rises by Wen Jiang. The Sun Also Rises unfolds with a non-linear narrative encompassing four sub-stories weaved between multiple characters. The director plays with misplaced timelines, tangling events, and illusions of causality. The film montages the story into a myth. Taking a structuralist point of view, this project embarks on a pure spatial abstraction of the movie’s narrative structure rather than its specific plots. The movie’s key scenes and narrative structure are translated into four spatial prototypes and two lines upon which the museum is developed. Visitors flicker between participants and spectators, thereby interpret the story through their own lenses.

NARRATIVE

I. 2

EPISODE I. [MADNESS]

Scene 1: Mad Mom

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Li found a CAVE mom built for him, set up like a marriage house, containing things she broke back home. The cave somehow speaks of the cause of her mom’s hysteria. Upon Li’s return, mom went missing.

After losing her shoes, Li’s mom lost her sanity and did crazy things around the village. In his futile attempt to make sense of mom’s behaviors, Li encountered only more ABSURDITY.

Liang is a teacher. He was mistaken as a perver and caught in escape. His friend Tang, his secre admirer Lin, and a strange woman gave him three confessions. They were trying to help, ye they made the event even more COMPLICATED.

Scene 2: The Cave House

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Scene 7: Tang's Struggle Emotions anger

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Friends & Admirers

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SOUTHERN CHINA, SUMMER 1976

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SOUTHERN CHINA, AUTUMN 1976

Tang was transfered to Li’s village with his wife to be reformed through labor. His wife showed unusual interests in Li. One day Tang found his wife in bed with Li in the CAVE built by his mad mom.

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Tang was infuriated, yet his sense prevented him from revenge. In such a PERPLEXITY he left the village and sought for help from a friend in Beijing.

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Tang realized that it was his faul to have treated his wife coldly. H planned to spare Li, but Li kep irrigating him unintentionally Tang was faced with the hard CHOICE between letting go o revenge.

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MOVIE NARRATIVE STRUCTURE: 11 SCENES, 4 EPISODES, 4 PROTOTYPES, 2 LINES Eleven key scenes are selected to summarize the movie. They are grouped in four episodes, namely “Madness”, “Love”, “Gun”, and “Dream” in sequence, as the director himself named them. Each scene speaks of a situation in which the protagonists are placed. The eleven key scenes are thus categorized into four prototypes as “Shelter”, “Maze”, “Divergence”, and “Destination”. They allude to spatial conditions and provide a base for further translation.

The two lines linking the scenes are then mapped and compared. The Timeline follows the real time sequence of the story, reflecting the logics and causality of events. However, the movie itself tells the story by the Narrative Line, deliberately rearranging the events to construct a myth. 32

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Amid the inquisitions, testimonials, and the stressful personal relationships, Liang melted down. He was eventually acquitted with an OPTION to write off everything and return to norm.

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However, traumatized by the system and the people around him, Liang ENDED his life. He hung himself under a colonnade. Before suicide he gave his gun to Tang.

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Tang’s anger exploded after all. He pointed his gun at Li and pulled the trigger. Their fates were CONCLUDED.

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TIME

Scene 9: Revenge

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DESTINATION

Time rewinds. Li’s mother and Tang’s wife were in their youth, traveling together for different causes. Li’s mother, already pregnant, was going for the remains of her dead lover, while Tang’s wife was heading to her marriage. Their road came to a DIVERGENCE.

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II. [LOVE]

The two girls reached different ENDS. From the remains, Li’s mother found evidence of her lover’s infidelity, while Tang’s wife was greeted by Tang and Liang with wild celebrations...

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NARRATIVE LINE IV. [DREAM]

TIMELINE

SHELTER

MAZE

DIVERGENCE

DESTINATION

ABSTRACTION

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PRIVILEGED VIEW TIMELINE

IMMERSED VIEW NARRATIVE LINE

PRIVILEGED VIEW

IMMERSED VIEW

Spatial Translation Each plot abstraction is translated into a spatial prototype, and developed into a twofold:

The lower part is an immersive environment in which visitors play the roles of the movie character. Overwhelmed by immediate perceptions, they experience the story arranged by the narrative line. The upper part provides a review of the scenes from a privileged view. This time they become distanced observers while other visitors lingering in the lower part become their subjects. Plots follow the timeline to clarify the events.

I. 1/SHELTER

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III. 3/DIVERGENCE

III. 4/DESTINATION

MAIN HALL

SESSION 2

SESSION 4

REDIRECTIONS

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SESSION 3

I. MADNESS

I. 1-MAZE Li walks into a maze, its circuitous passage reflects the absurdity placed onto his life.

I. 2-SHELTER After a dark, uneasy passage, Li enters a huge spheric space. A bridge leads him to its center, where the niches around come into sight. From the objects within he realizes that this cave-like house is set up for him by his mom with everything she broke into pieces at home. A narrow light beam from the top renders the cave as warm and secure.

II. 1-MAZE II. LOVE

Chased by many, Liang enters a narrow ramp. After an abrupt turn he examines the confessions of Tang, Lin, and a strange woman in three repeated rooms.

II. 2-DIVERGENCE Liang comes to a crossroad with two options. The tiring but gentle one: returning to normality through a staircase. The quick but hard one: ending his life by descending from a cliff.

II. 3-DESITINATION Each road leads to a chamber with a small enclosure inside, where Liang’s chosen destiny is revealed to him.

III. GUN FACADE

III. 1-SHELTER Tang peeks from the small opening at the bottom of the spheric cave. From the image inside he finds his wife in bed with Li. The oppressive surface adds to his anger.

III. 2-MAZE Caught between sense and anger, Tang left. In the circuitous maze he gets even more confused.

III. 3-DIVERGENCE Tang can choose the hard road to forgive Li by taking the long open ramp. He can also take the straight but gloomy path to kill him.

III. 4-DESTINATION

IV. DREAM

Whatever his choice is, the consequence awaits in a small room within the next chamber.

IV. 1-DIVERGENCE Traveling together, Li’s mom is going for her lover’s remains, while Tang’s wife is heading to her marriage. They reach a crossroad.

IV. 2-DESTINATION In a small dark cone, Li’s mom finds the evidence of her lover’s infidelity. Meanwhile, in an expanding, skylit room, Tang’s fiancée is greeted by Tang with ecstasy.

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Chamber of Redirection The Chamber of Redirection is where visitors’ routes are recoordinated to the sequence of the Timeline. Bridges reach out of the chamber into the main exhibition sessions, cutting the scenes through, forming mezzanine-like observation points. The observation areas also serve a “paragraphing” function in the museum’s spatial syntax. They separate scenes to create a sense of articulation and prepares passing visitors for the transition ahead.

GEOMETRY

SESSION 2 [LOVE]

IMMERSED VIEW PRIVILEGED VIEW

SESSION 1 [MADNESS]

SESSION 1 [DREAM]

IMMERSED VIEW PRIVILEGED VIEW

SESSION 3 [GUN]

NARRATIVE LINE I-II-III-IV

TIMELINE IV-I-II-III

Dual Experience: Narrative and Time

Visitors experience the museum twice. During the first tour, as directed by the Narrative Line, visitors take the roles of movie characters, bringing themselves into the plots and lost in the intense narrative. Upon finishing the first tour, they are led to the second tour as per the Timeline to review the story. This time they gain a privileged view of the circumstances they were set in moments ago, with other visitors still in their first tour putting up the "play". The dual experience facilitates a dialogue between "actors" and "spectators", allowing visitors to construct their own story.

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ARCHIVE FOR THE DEAD

Capital Cemetery Complex

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Personal Work No Instructors Partners: Xudong Sun, Zijian Wang Summer 2014

Site Location: Beijing, China

The Capital Cemetery Complex is designed to house the remains of deceased Beijing citizens from 1935 to 2050. It collects the personal images of Beijing citizens from both the past and the future as a reimaginination of the city’s zeitgeist. The cemetery complex tells its story with nothing beyond actual people’s lives. Sitting right next to the Ancestral Temple and the Imperial Archive, it protests against Beijing’s authoritarian historical narrative.

The cemetery is based on a purely object-oriented framework to reveal three aspects of a person’s image: social identity, personal memory, and physical presence. These sections are aligned along a timeline and relate to important historical events to contextualize personal lives. As the housed items tell their stories, the cemetery itself is but an undertaking machine, a silent narrator. Refraining from any partial intepretations, the project casts a cold eye on our era.

Sino-Japanese War

Birth of PRC

End of WWII

Cultural Revolution

The Great Leap Forward

Economic Reform

End of Cultural Revolution

Market Economy Established

Mapping China’s Birth Population Prior to the design, a study of modern China’s history and its birth population is made. The timeline above reveals the links between important historical events and people’s birth. Were each deceased in the cemetery to be arranged by birth year, the resulting structure's outline would resemble the birth chart.

CITIZEN PROFILE

PERSONAL BELONGING

UNKNOWN DECEASED

ASHES

SOCIAL IDENTITY

PERSONAL MEMORY

PHYSICAL REMAIN

RESTORED IMAGE

Restoring Images of The Deceased To restore the multifaceted images of the deceased, three reflections are extracted: a man’s social identity, personal memory, and physical remain. They are embodied by tangible items: citizen profiles, personal objects, and ashes. The project functions as a container which houses and rearranges these items to reveal the restored images.

CHANG'AN STREET

OLD TOWN

IMPERIAL ARCHIVE

CEMETERY

FORBIDDEN CITY

ANCESTRAL TEMPLE

archive of the deceased

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personal belongings exhibition

vertical access to all floors

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Theme Exhibition Entrance

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Time

Columbariums and personal objects storage are center containing profiles of the deceased is at the project’s initialization). Items of the deceased are inserted at years of significant events.

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Model Details

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Circulations

The project provides circulations for both visitors and items. The principle is simple: both circulations align with the main axis and link to programs via a tree structure. Vertical accesses lead visitors up and down the central rift, while mechanisms move the items. The passage on the bottom is specifically for the bereaved, where they watch their loved ones’ items transported. 49

Archive

Columbarium

In one of these co Just walk along and you’ll see...

Look son! Here’s grandpa’s profile. A record of his entire life by the state.

Really? What does it say? Umm...It says he had been a exemplary member of the Party. Interesting...

So where’s grandpa’s urn, dad?

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Look at all these beautiful little things your grandpa used to keep! I saw his collection grow as a child...

Three Reflections The Archive Center, the Columbarium, and the Depository are the three primary components of the cemetery. They contain the profile, the ashes, and the personal belongings of the deceased respectively. These items are the three reflections (social identity, physical remain, and personal memory) of a man’s image. As visitors go through them, a multifaceted image is restored.

Wow! He must had been a sensitive man!

Haha I guess you’re right!

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Archive Atrium The atrium’s strong focus and extreme proportion begs for attention to the process of profile delivering, ritualizing the supposedly functional activity. The wall of lifts, erected right in front of the atrium, is where the bereaved put their’ loved one’s records into place.

Delivering Cage

The “Delivering Cage” is a matrix of mechanics to categorize and deliver items. As the bereaved enter the cemetery, they travel to the top floor via these lifts, during which they place the profile and and personal objects case into the Cage. Machines then fetch and move them into place. This marks the departure between the living and the dead.

IMPRINT OF SOUND

Interactive Installation

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Tsinghua School of Arch Installation Workshop Advisor: Lei Yu Partners: Le Li, Lu Zhang, Xiyao Wang, Yi Xu, Zijian Wang Summer 2013

Digital Shanghai Exhibition

Site Location: N/A

Sound is powerful, but intangible. Technologies can easily break sound down into digits and bring it back into waves and patterns, but the dry digital images they produce are nothing compared to the charm of actual sensory perception. Can sound be captured in images without disenchanting it?

This interactive installation proposes an engaging way of visualizing sound with physical images. An drawing machine, driven by motors and controlled by a terminal that receives and processes sound inputs through wireless sensors, produces eye-catching drawings at the tip of a pencil. The properties of these real-time signals, in relation with human behaviors, are translated into motion parameters, thus projected onto a continuouslyevolving trace. The installation catches the slightest fluctuations in sound environments, thereby re-enchants the daily phenomenon of sound in a provocative way.

The installation receives sound inputs via two remote sensors, which can be placed at different locations. The installation’s two processing modules, each linked to a rotating disk, modulate the drawing hand’s movement according to wireless signals from sensors. The interplay of the two sound sources therefore produce ever-shifting images.

The sound inputs from remote sensors are analyzed in their properties (volume and duration). These properties, in addition to a manually evaluated weight factor (representing the importance of the detected area), are the independent variables for the processing modules. Each module then uses an algorithm to calculate them into motion parameters of the corresponding disk. The disks move independently while controlling the drawing hand together, thus influence the final curve shaping in synergy.

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OUTPUT Equal Velocities

Reduced Distance

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Varied Velocities

Increased Distance

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Increasing Velocity

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Before deploying the installation to real-life situations, a series of digital simulations using rhinoscript were conducted to test the program’s feasibility. Please consider them in comparison to the variables above. Mathematical functions were used to simulate the changing sound environments (which proved to be more random in actual environments). The tests follow the variable control method and thus reveals the link between each pair of installation parameters and curve features.

Equal Ratio

Equal Velocities

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Varied Ratio

Velocity+Disk Location

v1=7.9°/step v2=10°/step x1=-200 x2=200 g1=5 g2=3 timesteps=3000

v1=10°/step v2=[10 - 2.5 / (1.0025 ^ i)]°/step x1=-200-0.06t x2=200-0.02t g1=5 g2=5 timesteps=2000

Varied Ratio

Disk Location+Ratio

v1=7.9°/step v2=10°/step x1=-200 x2=200 g1=5 g2=2 timesteps=1000

v1=10°/step v2=5.97°/step x1=-200-0.06t x2=200-0.02t g1=1 g2=5 timesteps=2000

Varied Ratio

Velocity+Motion+Ratio

v1=7.9°/step v2=10°/step x1=-200 x2=200 g1=5 g2=1 timesteps=1000

v1=10°/step v2=[10 - 2.5 / (1.0025 ^ i)]°/step x1=-200-0.06t x2=200-0.02t g1=1 g2=5 timesteps=2000

Installation Production The installation is made of laser-cut acrylic sheets, common CNC components, and hardwares. Digital control is based on Arduino, while remote signal exchange is achieved with zig-bee. The motion mechanism mainly relies on two sets of step motors, one responsible for the rotation of disks, the other for the locomotion of sliding platforms. The disks are assembled using simple hardware connections. The sliding platforms utilize a combination of rod rails and lead screws. The gear is manually adjusted. Hub

Arduino Board

Disk

M8 M3

Sliding Platform M4 Lead Screw Nut Lead Screw

Slide Bearing Rod Rod Support

Spring

Acrylic Rod

Coupling M3

M10

Pencil

Drawing Hand

Drawing Desk

Acrylic Rod

Spring

Hand Pivot

8mm MDF M3

Bearing Support

Coupling

Motor Support

Step Motor

Chassis 59

CONTENTIOUS CITY

Gloucester Maritime Trade Campus

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YSOA Post-Pro Design Studio Instructors: Edward Mitchell, Aniket Shahane Partner: Istvan van Vianen

YSOA H.I. Feldman Prize 2017 Recipient Site Location: Gloucester, MA, US

The historic identity of Gloucester, a once renowned New England marine town, is under siege. Global capital is challenging its deep-rooted sense of place while ruthless tourism development rapidly erases local fishing traditions. Rather than forced preservation that inevitably turns the city into a cultural fossil, this plan establishes the Gloucester Maritime Trade Campus as an anchor institution to empower Gloucester with social, economic and political impetus to firmly reinvigorate its identity.

The GMTC reshapes the shoreline with key nodes fusing traditional activities (fishing, logistics operations, boat crafting, and ship maintenance) with novel curatorial/educational practice. It brokers a zero-sum game between tourists, the local maritime community, business development and working class professionals. The resultant social adjacencies are never perfectly smooth, yet strives for a subtle equilibrium, preventing any single interest group from taking over.

later that night...

shoot, who forgot to turn off the light??

XRL WEST KOWLOON

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

|07

Professional Work 03/2021-07/2021 Competition/Planning Approval Submission Role: Designer of Client-picked competition scheme; Office Tower main contributor, responsible for design studies and model/drawing management throughout. Assistance in retail facade design. Situated in the famous Kowloon district in Hong Kong, and projected to be an emerging city center, this office/commercial/retail mix-use project comes up with unique challenges.

The project was initially conceived together with the adjacent XRL (Express Rail Link) station as part of a larger XRL West Kowloon topside development plan. The site sits on the continuum of West Kowloon Parkway, which offers serial urban green spaces extending across the city to the water front. Due to planning approval issues, the original design scheme of the mix-use site was suspended, even though the XRL station and the basement of the mix-use site itself were already fully built. The new design has to accommodate to the existing structure and lend itself as an integral part of the West Kowloon Parkway sequence. KPF was invited by the owner, SHKP, into a competition to reconceive the site. After being awarded the project, KPF continued to work with SHKP to develop the design scheme for Town Planning Board approval submission. I designed the Client-chosen scheme during the competition phase, and was the main contributor to the office towers design in the subsequent Planning Board submission phase. I also participated in the retail podium facade design.

XRL WEST KOWLOON

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

Client base scheme

KPF scheme

The scheme initiated from a unique massing composition that responds to the rather bizaare spatial/programmatic requirement of the site. The city’s major pedestrian circulations are on L2 via a pedestrian bridge network as part of the West Kowloon Parkway, with the vehicles circulate through driveways to reach the drop-off area, which is on L2 as well. With the office drop-off zones disconnected from the city and cut into seperate zones by the Client’s 3-tower base schemes, it was very hard to form a cohesive sense of arrival.

Challenging the Client’s base scheme with three towers longitudinally arranged along the site, our team proposed an alternate solution, where three deformed tower volumes revolve around a concentrated drop-off plaza. The driveway ramps continue to L3 while the entire L2 is allocated to retail. This allows for not only a shared plaza with memorable office drop-off experience, but also dynamic open spaces to further activate the retail components.

LINEWEIGHT X 0.8

|07

XRL WEST KOWLOON

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

|07

Being characteristic of Hong Kong’s urban planning, the main public space is elevated on the L2 terrace, interconnected by a network of foot bridges.

The project directs the pedestrian flow across the site with carefully orchestrated retail interfaces, with the office towers’ dramatic gestures adding to their spatial definition.

S18

S17

S16

S15

S14

S13

S20

S19

Due to the basement being already built, the towers have to work with the existing structure. A transfer plate below L2 is introduced to transition the podium column grid into the tower column grids.

12000

S39

S38

S37

S36

S35 12000

12000

S34

S33

S32

S31

S30 12000

12000

S29

S28

S27

S26

S25

S24

S23

S22

S21

12000 12000

SA 11250

TING EXIS W BELO

AHU-2

(~30m2)

11250

SC 11250

EXIT

AHU-2

(~30m2)

RAMP DOWN

11250

RE OP

EXIT

AHU-2

11250 (~30m2)

RAMP UP

SF A

(~30m2) (~30m2)

(~30m2)

AHU-2

11250

AHU-2

(~30m2) AHU-1

(~30m2)

AHU-1

AHU-2

11250

AHU-1

(~30m2) AHU-1

(~30m2)

11250

AHU-2

P.D.

(~30m2)

AHU-2

(~30m2)

SJ 11250 UP

DN STR-6

STR-5

16000 14550

SL 14550

SQ 14550

SM 14550

L02 Plan

14550

S13

S12

S39

S38

12000

S37

S36

S35

S34

S33

S32

S31

S30

S29

S28

S27

S26

S25

S24

S23

S22

S21

S20

S19

S18

S17

S16

S15

S14

S13

12000 12000

SA 11250

AHU-2

(~30m2)

11250

SC 11250

EXIT

AHU-2

(~30m2)

11250

AHU-1

(~30m2)

AHU-2

(~30m2)

RE OP

(~30m2)

RAMP DOWN

AHU-2

RAMP UP

EXIT

11250

LOBBY

SF 11250 AHU-2

(~30m2) (~30m2)

(~30m2)

AHU-2

11250

AHU-2

(~30m2) (~30m2)

A AHU-2

AHU-1

(~30m2) AHU-1

(~30m2)

11250

LOBBY

P.D.

AHU-1

(~30m2)

AHU-2

LOBBY

(~30m2)

AHU-2 AHU-2

(~30m2)

11250

SK 16000 14550

SL 14550

SQ 14550

SM 14550

SR 14550

L03 Plan

S13

S12

LEVEL 03 PLAN

T1-Ad T1-Ac T1-Ab

T3-

F1 T3-

F2 T3-

13367 12000

12000

T3-A1

T3-F

T3-E

T3-D

T3-C

T3-B

T3-A

120

T1-Aa

12000

120

T1-a

12000

12000 8000

12000

(~30m2) AHU-2

(~30m2)

0 50 0 50 13

95 115

-2 T3 -1 T3

0 12

12000

T2-

0 12

12000

T2-

12000

T3-B

12000

AHU-1

(~30m2)

T2-1

T3-A

8700

T2-1

(~30m2) (~30m2)

T2-1

(~30m2)

T2-

T2-1

A T2B

12000

(~30m2) AHU-1

(~30m2)

(~30m2) AHU-1

(~30m2)

T1-j

12000

AHU-2

10072

(~30m2) AHU-2

(~30m2)

AHU-2

12000

13148

T2-

12000

AHU-2

T1-h

11250

T3-C

12000

T1-5

12500

AHU-2

12500

12000

T3-D

T1-4

T3-E

12500

95 115

-3

T1-6

(~30m2)

T1-3

12000

T1-g

11250

12500

T2-Ac

T2-Ae

T2-Ah 12000

12000

AHU-1

-E T2-Ad

T3 -E

T2-Aa

T2-Ab

T2-Af

T1-f

11250

T1-2

T2T2-Ag

(~30m2)

T1-e

11250

(~30m2)

10685

T1-d

11250

T1-1

(~30m2)

T3 -E

T1-c

14405

11250

T2AHU-2

AHU-2

AHU-1

T1-7

T1-b

11250

A AHU-2

The towers cascading form also proved to be a challenge regarding structural feasibility. Transfer beams below terrace floors were eventually added to reconcile the column shifts where plan change occurs.

12000

T2-C

12368

T2-D

T2-E

T2-F

T2-G

12368

T2-H

T2-J

12368

T2-L

T2-K

6400

12368

T2-M

12368

8355

T2-N T1-B

T1-A

T1-C

T1-E

T1-D

T1-F

T1-G

LEVEL 22 PLAN L05 Plan

T1-Ad T1-Ac T1-Ab T1-Aa 12000

T1-a

12000

T1-7

T1-b

11250

(~30m2) (~30m2)

12500

AHU-2 (~30m2)

T2-

Am T2-

T2-

T2-1

4.50 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 4.50 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

F.O.F 114.65 110.15 105.95 101.75 96.95 91.95 87.75 83.55 79.35 75.15 70.95 66.75 61.95 57.45 53.25 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

sub-total

T1 Area

5,549 5,549 5,549 5,549 6,296 6,298 6,300 6,302 6,304 6,306 6,138 6,138 6,313 6,316 6,541 6,541 6,541 6,541 6,541 1,200 0 0 0 118,812 109,080

MEP

344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 344 0

6,536

lobby void Lift shaft

1,200

Floor #

Floor to Floor

18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 TRANS 1 G

4.50 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.80 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

F.O.F

98.95 94.45 90.25 85.45 80.45 75.65 71.45 67.25 63.05 58.85 54.05 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

1,996 sub-total

T2 Area

5,179 5,179 5,930 5,932 5,935 5,938 5,941 5,943 5,765 5,765 6,535 6,535 6,535 6,535 6,535 1,050 0 0 0 91,232 85,951

MEP

240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 240 0

3,600

lobby void Lift shaft

1,050

Floor #

Floor to Floor

17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 TRANS 1 G

4.50 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.20 4.80 5.00 4.20 4.20 4.20 5.00 5.00 5.00 2.50 4.25 6.20

F.O.F

94.15 89.65 85.45 80.65 75.65 71.45 67.25 63.05 58.85 54.05 49.05 44.85 40.65 36.45 31.45 26.45 21.45 18.95 14.70 8.50

631 sub-total

T3 Area

MEP

2,704 2,704 2,992 2,994 2,997 3,000 2,916 2,916 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 3,388 350 0 0 0 43,901

109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 109 0

1,526

lobby void Lift shaft

350

163

41,862

T2-1

10072

AHU-2

8700

11250

Floor to Floor

22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 TRANS 1 G

Total Office Total Retail Target Delta

(~30m2)

AHU-1

(~30m2)

AHU-2

T2-1

AHU-1

(~30m2)

T2A

(~30m2)

T1-j

12000

10685

(~30m2)

T2-

T2-1

12500

AHU-2

T2-C

12368

T2-D

T2-E

T2-F

T2-G

T2-H

T2-J

T2-K

T2-L

T2-M

T1-3

AHU-2

T1-h

12500

T2-

T2-Ah

AHU-2

T1-g

11250

T1-2

T2-Ad

T2-Ac

T2-Ag

T1-f

A AHU-2

12368

8355

12368

T2-N T1-A

T1-B

T1-C

T1-D

T1-E

T1-F

T1-G

T1-1

T2-Ab

T2-Aa

11250

T1-4

12500

T1-e

11250

T1-5

T1-d

11250

T1-6

AHU-1

14405

T1-c

11250

T2-

T2-Af

T2-Ae

Floor #

LEVEL 22 PLAN L11 Plan

In being responsible for the office tower design, I managed various aspects of the project evolvement, including massing and facade studies, plan studies, sectional stacking, GFA control, structural coordination, etc. I also maintained the area chart througout the project to ensure Client development goal.

L22 Plan

XRL WEST KOWLOON

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

KPF worked with the landscape architect, JCFO, to blend the project into the surrounding retail to form an enriched, integral urban experience.

The office tower overlooks the vast landscaped areas with cascading terraces, creating a vibrant living scene. The retail colonade defined by the towers’ overhang traces along the site’s boundary to form the missing link between the upperstream West Kowloon Parkway and the XRL Crossing landscapes opening towards the southern waterfront. Events and activities are scattered along the Parkway connection pathway, providing incentives for pedestrian flow. The atriums invites visitors to explore the interior and redirect them to the open spaces on various terrace floors.

|07

XRL WEST KOWLOON

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

|07

The urban passageway through the outdoor landscape intertwines with the indoor public spaces to guide the visitors through the site. Links were created between the ground floor, the L2 terrace main open space, L3 office drop-off plaza, and the L4 retail podium roof terraces. The result is a porous, integrated urban/architecutral sequence and a dynamic urban experience that both forms an internal summit and connects to the urban environment at the same time.

1399 SW 1ST AVE

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

|08

Professional Work 03/2020-08/2020 Response to RFP/Concept Role: Designer in charge, responsible for project research, design studies, modeling, and production throughout.

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

17'-0"°

620 sqft

645 sqft

520 sqft

905 sqft

30'-0"°

RESI STRUCTURE ABOVE

920 sqft

925 sqft

1710 sqft

840 sqft B.O.H.

30'-0"°

20'-0"°

SHAFT

30'-0"°

PARKING

OFFICE LIFT

OFFICE

19'-0"

17'-0"

1BD

800 sqft 15'-0"

14'-0"

OFFICE

1BD

775 sqft 17'-0"

BA B

AMENITY RESI LIFT RESI 1B

RESI 1B

RESI 2B

RESI 3B

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

1BD

16'-0"

1BD

800 sqft

17'-0"

15'-0"

1190 sqft 1190 sqft

2BD 16'-0"

19'-0"

BA 20'-0"

SHAFT

2BD

PARKING

775 sqft 17'-0"

1190 sqft

30'-0"°

BA K

15'-0"

30'-0"°

BA BA

B.O.H.

PARKING

15'-0"

14'-0"

17'-0"°

L 16'-0"

2BD

1180 sqft

14'-0"

RETAIL

OFFICE LIFT

OFFICE

15'-0"

SERVICE/MEP

1180 sqft

2BD SHAFT

16'-0"

SERVICE/MEP

AMENITY

RESI

RESI LIFT

RESI 1B

15'-0"

20'-0"

16'-0"

2BD

1190 sqft

14'-0"

2BD

1190 sqft 16'-0"

PARKING

20'-0"

1180 sqft

15'-0"

SHAFT

16'-0"

SERVICE/MEP RETAIL OFFICE

FLOOR PLATE: 11,360 SQFT

AMENITY RESI RESI 1B

RESI 2B

17'-0"°

15'-0"

1180 sqft

15'-0"

14'-0"

2BD

20'-0"

16'-0"

2BD

800 sqft

14'-0"

1BD

14'-0"

20'-0"

L 16'-0"

15'-0"

1180 sqft

FLOOR PLATE: 11,354 SQFT

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

RESI

5'-0"

L 16'-0"

2BD

10'-0"

B 14'-0"

BA 14'-0"

30'-0"°

6'-0"

B 15'-0"

5'-0"

AMENITY

RESI 1B

30'-0"°

24'-5 14 "

SERVICE/MEP RETAIL

RESI

30'-0"°

925 sqft

905 sqft

10'-0"

800 sqft

PARKING SHAFT

520 sqft

5'-0"

1BD

S 840 sqft

SERVICE/MEP 645 sqft

620 sqft

RETAIL

17'-0"°

20'-0"°

B.O.H.

6'-0"

B.O.H.

10'-0"

1190 sqft

BA BA

24'-5 14 "

2BD

15'-0"

1180 sqft

10'-0"

15'-0"

14'-0"

2BD

20'-0"

L 16'-0"

B L 16'-0"

SHAFT 920 sqft

30'-0"°

1710 sqft

SERVICE/MEP

5'-0"

17'-0"°

B.O.H.

PARKING

20'-0"°

30'-0"°

20'-0"°

30'-0"°

24'-5"

30'-0"°

B.O.H.

30'-0"°

B.O.H.

30'-0"° RESI 3B

30'-0"°

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

RESI 2B

30'-0"°

RESI 3B

30'-0"°

17'-0"°

30'-0"°

RESI 3B

17'-0"°

920 sqft

620 sqft

645 sqft

520 sqft

905 sqft

30'-0"°

RESI STRUCTURE ABOVE

925 sqft

1710 sqft

840 sqft

B.O.H.

15'-0"

B 15'-0"

1575 sqft

3BD 16'-0"

15'-0"

3BD

1670 sqft

15'-0"

1575 sqft

15'-0"

14'-0"

3BD 16'-0"

15'-0"

30'-0"°

FLOOR PLATE: 11,360 SQFT

920 sqft

PARKING

21'-0"

15'-0"

1710 sqft 620 sqft

645 sqft

520 sqft

PARKING

SHAFT

905 sqft

925 sqft

B.O.H.

1670 sqft

15'-0"

SHAFT PARKING

21'-0"

SHAFT

SERVICE/MEP

SERVICE/MEP OFFICE LIFT

OFFICE

AMENITY

RESI

RESI LIFT

RESI 1B

RESI 2B

RESI 3B

GF OFFICE AMENITIES

MEP PARKING

RESI RENTABLE: RESI INTERIOR: EFFICIENCY:

20'-0"

15'-0"

1635 sqft

3BD

15'-0"

3B X 33 2B X 266 1B X 214

GF OFFICE AMENITIES

L72 PLAN

L56 PLAN

L20-L80 (61 FL) RESI

L20 PLAN L17-L19 (3 FL) AMENITIES

L 81 L 80 L 79 L 78 L 77 L 76 L 75 L 74 L 73 L 72 L 71 L 70 L 69 L 68 L 67 L 66 L 65 L 64 L 63 L 62 L 61 L 60 L 59 L 58 L 57 L 56 L 55 L 54 L 53 L 52 L 51 L 50 L 49 L 48 L 47 L 46 L 45 L 44 L 43 L 42 L 41 L 40 L 39 L 38 L 37 L 36 L 35 L 34 L 33 L 32 L 31 L 30 L 29 L 28 L 27 L 26 L 25 L 24 L 23 L 22 L 21 L 20

899'

L 18 L 17

794' L72 PLAN

L56 PLAN

L20-L80 (61 FL) RESI

254'

206'

L20 PLAN L17-L19 (3 FL) AMENITIES

L 16

L 12

EAST ELEVATION

L01 PLAN

L9 L8 L7 L6 L5 L4 L3 L2 L1

RESI 3B

539,787 SQFT 659,443 SQFT 82%

899'

794'

L 18 L 17

254'

206'

L 16 L 14 L 13 L 12 L 11

L 11 L 10

RESI 2B

L 19

L17 PLAN L16 PLAN

L9-L16 (8 FL) OFFICE

L 13

L03 PLAN L02 PLAN

RESI 1B

L 15

L 14

L09 PLAN L08 PLAN L2-L8 (7 FL) PARKING

OFFICE

RESI

L 82

L80 PLAN

L 15

L9-L16 (8 FL) OFFICE

RESI RENTABLE: RESI INTERIOR: EFFICIENCY:

RESI

L RF

L81-L82 (2 FL) MEP

L 19

L17 PLAN L16 PLAN

AMENITY

TARGET RENTABLE: 529,100 SQFT

L 82

L80 PLAN

MEP PARKING

SERVICE/MEP RETAIL

AMENITY

OFFICE

539,787 SQFT 659,443 SQFT 82%

L RF

L81-L82 (2 FL) MEP

SERVICE/MEP RETAIL

FLOOR PLATE: 6,054 SQFT

TARGET RENTABLE: 529,100 SQFT

I undertook most of design studies in the process of responding to the RFP and developing a concept design package. These included zoning study, massing study, floor planning, GFA control, preliminary structural layout, and facade design. I independently produced all the drawings, diagrams, and renderings on the project.

3BD

PARKING

21'-0"

RETAIL

3B X 33 2B X 266 1B X 214

1399 SW 1st Ave is a residential develpment in Miami, FL overlooking the Underline project transformed from a series of abandoned public transportation infrastructures. The program consists of parking, office, and retail spaces, in addition to 1B/2B/3B apartment units. The architecture aspires to draw from the landscape spine of the Underline with a zipline of greeneries tracing through the facades, directing viewer’s attention from the urban landscape through a series of interstitial common open spaces of the resident community culminatinng at the tower’s top.

840 sqft

15'-0"

B.O.H.

30'-0"°

1635 sqft 20'-0"

5'-0"

14'-0"

21'-0"

20'-0"°

10'-0"

24'-5"

1670 sqft

B.O.H.

20'-0"°

15'-0"

30'-0"°

20'-0"°

1575 sqft

30'-0"°

L 16'-0"

3BD BA

24'-5"

14'-0"

30'-0"°

15'-0"

30'-0"°

B.O.H.

10'-0"

B.O.H.

10'-0"

BA BA

3BD

6'-0"

15'-0"

10'-0"

14'-0"

1575 sqft

24'-5"

16'-0"

3BD

6'-0"

3BD 21'-0"

15'-0"

B.O.H.

5'-0"

30'-0"°

L 15'-0"

B 21'-0"

5'-0"

B.O.H.

B 24'-5"

94'

L09 PLAN L08 PLAN L2-L8 (7 FL) PARKING

24' 0'

WEST ELEVATION

L03 PLAN L02 PLAN L01 PLAN

L 10 L9 L8 L7 L6 L5 L4 L3 L2 L1

94'

24' 0'

1399 SW 1ST AVE

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

|08

Massing Stu 96

Professional Work 03/2020-08/2020 Response to RFP/Concept Role: Designer in charge, responsible for project research, design studies, modeling, and production throughout.

udy Matrix 97

HENDERSON HUNG HOM

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

Henderson Hung Hom is a mix-use project of residence and retail development encompassing seven blocks. The project aims at creating the next generation of mix-use. It emphasizes on experiential retail with a blend of art and culture, and speaks of the lifestyles of the younger generation of visitors and occupants. A vastly extraverted retail experience allows the existing urban fabric to permeate into the internal site to facilitate synergy with the intimatel scale of Hung-Hom neighborhood. Anchor stores are strategically positioned and brought to highlight so as to frame the urban spaces, while activating commercial value.

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Professional Work 05/2020-08/2020 SD/DD Role: Retail podium design studies

Through SD and DD, I worked on the retail podium design in general and focused on a series of anchor stores and gateway volumes defining the entries into the project’s site and the interstitial public spaces.

CHONGQING ITCC

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

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Chongqing International Trade & Commerce Center is a large scale mix use development in Chongqing, China. The project consists of three office/hotel towers, a retail podium, and a light rail station. The project was initially conceived over a decade ago. Due to the project being transacted to the new owner (Vanke) and the subsequent design changes, KPF was comissioned with a major redesign of the podium facades in 2018.

I was the major contributor of the retail podium and LRT station facade redesign, and managed design studies, 3D models, drawing productions, and presentation materials throughout the process.

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Professional Work 02/2019-02/2020 SD/DD Role: Main contributor in retail podium & LRT station facade design, Responsible for design studies, drawing production, presentation materials etc. throughout.

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CHONGQING ITCC

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

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The design of both the LRT station facade and the shopping mall’s southern stone facade encountered various MEP and fire rescue window demands. To accommodate to the required facade opening rate without compromising the facade’s visual solidity, a fluid gradient pattern was applied to dissolve any discernible boundary between open/ventilated areas and nonopen areas.

To maintain the double-curve geometry of the shopping mall’s stone facade, extensive studies were done to modulate the stone panels and examine any potential visual tolerance issues. Parametric tools were applied to streamline the process with added accuracy.

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CHONGQING ITCC

Kohn Pedersen Fox NY

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Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC Architects & Planning Consultants 11 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 Tel: 212.977.6500 Fax: 212.956.2526

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The shopping mall’s SW main entrance was highlighted with a conical facade with rather convoluted deductive geometries. To accomodate to the fast-paced design iterations, I fully parametricized the facade allowing for automated regeneration of geometric setout, modulation, panelization, and curtain wall member modeling.

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BLUE HORIZON ESTATE

Atelier Li Xinggang

A hotel + apartment project in Haikou, China that borrows from traditional Chinese gardening to create scenic inhabitation.

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I assisted the design & drawing production of the residence buildings, and developed the rooftop mansion units with technical drawings under the supervision of a senior architect. The project experience was part of my B.Arch + M.Arch program and the basis of my M.Arch thesis at Tsinghua University.

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Professional Work 10/2015-04/2016 SD/DD/CD Role: Assistance in residence modeling & drawing production; Rooftop villas designer in charge, responsible for modeling, drawing production throughout.

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OTHER WORKS

Drawing, visualization, fabrication, & art

Paper Fold Computation Analysis Fabrication, 2016 Fall Instructor: John Eberhart Individual Work

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Casting the Fluid Custom Crafted Component, 2017 Fall Instructor: Kevin Rotheroe Individual Work

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OTHER WORKS

Drawing, visualization, fabrication, & art

San Carlo Unfolded

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Rome: Continuity & Change, Fall 2016 Critics: G. Knight, M. Brooks, S. Harby, K. Dugdale Individual Work

Study Sketches

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OTHER WORKS

Drawing, visualization, fabrication, & art

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Rome Sketches Rome: Continuity & Change, Fall 2016 Critics: G. Knight, M. Brooks, S. Harby, K. Dugdale Individual Work

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OTHER WORKS

Drawing, visualization, fabrication, & art

Female Body Imitation Study #1

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Ditigal, 3724x6400 07/2020

Infliction Ditigal, 4002x5436 11/2021

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Minquan Wang US: 203-508-4375 P.R. China: 15205514870 minquanwang00@gmail.com minquanwang.net