Siqi WANG B.Arts in Interior Design M.Arch Candidate, UC Berkeley (510)-680-6104 siqi.wang@berkeley.edu
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Siqi WANG Candidate for M.Arch College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley siqi.wang@berkeley.edu
| SKILLS | 3D Modeling Rhino(+ Grasshopper) AutoCAD Revit(+FlowDesign) Sketchup 3Ds Max Digital Rendering VRay Bongo Graphic Design Photoshop Illustrator InDesign After Effect Microsoft Office Word PowerPoint Excel Digital Fabrication Laser Cutting ZUND Cutting 3D Printing Analogue Hand Drafting Model Making Sketching Photography
| EDUCATION | UC Berkeley, Master of Architecture (Candidate), 2014-present GPA: 3.85/ 4.0 Design research using complex variation, geometric form, and algorithmic organization. Modeling technique including casting models and digital fabrication. Advanced coursework in building environment simulation, building skins, sustainable design, modern history and contemporary theory. Tsinghua University, Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design, China, 2014 GPA: 89/ 100, ranked 1 among 40 students Interior and architectural design as well as construction coursework with elective work in paintings, drawings and design of other categories (industial, graphic etc.). University of Toronto, Exchange Study in Architecture, Canada, 2012 Architectural studies in terms of theory and criticism, as well as creative writing based on design thinking and observation. | DESIGN EXPERIENCE | Student Intern, Zaha Hadid Architects, Beijing Studio, 2013 summer Worked on various projects including two mixed-use commercial/ office buildings (SOHO Peaks and Sky SOHO) and design Competitions. Assistant Interior Designer, DAMU studio, China, 2013 spring Worked on a cafe (Taking Time Cafe) & art salon in 798 Art District in Beijing. Parametric Design workshop, Tsinghua University, 2012 Summer Topology in the city, urban research and design based on Rhinoceros & Grasshopper, tutored by Nicolaos Webnitz, Department of Architecture, Tsinghua University. Group
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01 SHOTGUN HOUSE house design academic year: 2014 Fall type: individual work Instructor: Maria-Paz Gutierrez
The design started with a series of casting plater of the balloon animals. In order to study how force will affect the materials, varies experiments were proceeded. Then, drawings follow orthographic projection with proper registration. The whole process of creating new blobs with internal void space was experimental. First with vertain materials, for instance, air or water, being placed into several smaller balloons, a larger balloon with plaster in it would swallow those smaller ones. During this process, varieble was the quantity of the inside material. After deriving seven serial study models, they would be cut to see the internal space.
| HONORS & AWARDS| Selected Work, 2015 CIRCUS, UC Berkeley, 2015 Work “shotgun house“ was selected to present in the Studio Exhibits at the 2015 Berkeley Circus. Silver Medal, China Environmental Design Academic Award, 2014 Work “Container Base“ was granted best creative architectural graduation work. Fellowship, F14 Allen Fellowship, 2014 Department fellowship for merit-based incoming M.Arch students College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley Travelling Fellowship, by Steve Leung Designers, 2013 Winning proposal of a thesis-based trip to Japan Fellowship, by Evergrand Real Estate Group, 2013 Merit-based scholarship at Tsinghua University Scholarship, Haodushu (diligent reader) Alumnus Scholarship, 2012 Merit-based scholarship at Tsinghua University Fellowship, by Markor Furnishings, 2011 Merit-based scholarship at Tsinghua University | EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES | Logo Design, BAOLI Theatre, Liaoning, China, 2012 Logo Design, BAYUQUAN Library, Liaoning, China, 2011 Student Editor, TOPIC architectural magazine (published on campus), 2011 In charge of interviewing guest architects/designers and manuscript Editing at Tsinghua University
PORPOTIONAL STUDY The proportional study was a comparatively independent study during the whole project. The main propose was to seek for the proportional relationship that existed in a given historical precedent architecture. Moreover, the methodology during this process to analyze the case would be applied to analyze the blobs. *Case: Palazzo Spada
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SITE ANALYSIS “OPENINGS“ ON THE SITE The site of the project is located in a neibourhood of shotgun houses in lexington, KY. The site analysis focused on the existed openings ( windows, doors, openings of the chimneys...) on site. In order to better observe the relationship that this opening networks may create, a grid with the dimension of one shotgun house as one unit was developed for the study.
PROJECTING OPENINGS TO THE BLOB To acquire the openings for the blob, a study of projecting the exsisted openings on the shotgun house directly to the blob in according views. Then, the area with projected openings would be pixelized and the representing dots would be reduced to a proper amount.
ESSQUISE/ DESIGN PROPOSAL The proposal for the design is to use the acquired dots from previous step. Then , to connect the dots and create a network of lines. As a result, a line-frame cage was got to form the new blob with openings on it.
The materiality of the design focused on an expression of the wood. With the curvature pieces embodied in each other, the quality of the space becomes the permeation of the interior space and exterior space, the space above the ground and the space underground.
GEOMETRIC STUDY To acquire the ideal form of the new blob with openings, a serial geometric study performed. There were two sets of variebles, the first one focused on the number of the openings and the second one emphasized the size of the openings.
Then after adjusting paremeters of this grid, a new neighbourhood fabric will gradually transformed due to the tension in between the openings. Accordingly, when placing the previous balloon animals on the site, a curious network also appeared. Yet, it is questioning because those blobs do not have any openings on them. Thus, the grid became lines pushing each other.
PROGRAMATIC PROJECTION PROGRAMATIC STUDY SHOTGUN HOUSE TYPOLOGY As programatic analysis of the shotgun houses, a typological study including observing the precedents of the spatial usage in shotgun houses.
By slicing the new blob, and rearrange the combination of the two parts, the design tried to apply the original plan from the shotgun house but with different spatial formation. EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE
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Perspective
The project is located on a gentle slope in a valley of La Rioja Region in Spain. The building is rooted in the ground and facing south east. The valley keeps certain degree of humidity, while the earth is natural insulation to control tempreture for the building.
The aim of the design is to aggregated to the landscape and hidden in the landscape. Thus, how the building meets with ground is one thing that is crucial to the design. There are three major paths to the building: one for wine shipping, one for harvesting grapes for crushing, and one for visitors and employee use.
Before starting designing the winery, a case study of the winery Campo Viejo was taken to understand how the space is arranged. The program of a winery is fixed to some extent based on the nature of the wine making process.
02 Winery in La Rioja, Spain winery design academic year: 2015 Spring type: individual work Instructor: Susan Ubbelohde Danelle Guthrie
Also, the circulartion within the building requires a fluid movement especially for the wine making process. Moreover, how to maximize daylight for the space becomes an important factor that will alter the form of the space.
Then, the annual timeline for wining making is recorded in the production diagram. After observing the circular diagram, three major part is selected to become three volume for the winery: one for visitor use, one for production, and the left one for employees.
Due to the nature of wine making process, it requires strict tempreture and lighting control to the space. However, considering some of the space still have people working in, conditions of human comfort should also be stressed. Thus, taking the lab space as one typical room, simulations regarding both thermal and lighting conditions are reported. Also, by changing paremeters, a better performance in terms of daylight is achieved.
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03 CONTAINER BASE Commercial Space design academic year: 2014 Spring type: individual work Instructor: Wen Liang
The original study is based on the term, apparatus, from the Chinese traditional classic, Chang Wu Zhi. As a framework to look into the spatial containers, the site was chosen as Wudaokou, a current commercial area with unique problems along with its growth and development. To be specific, under the limit of its old and rigid architectural pattern, the programs and types of the diverse commercial spaces are facing increasingly chaos and disorder. Thus, the design and thesis will be based on this background, seeking for method to organize and adjust those problems. Eventually, a new “container base� will be generated in the field. In each single unit of the base, possibilities will be lied on the human body, movement, sensory experience and daily needs. This methodology requires our behaviors as listening, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching, instead of solving problems by force.
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04| FRAMING pavilion design academic year: 2012 Spring type: individual work Instructor: Max Gerthel, Prof. LU Zhicheng
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05 | BOXES WITH MISSIONS students' center design academic year: 2011 Fall type: individual work Instructor: Prof. LIANG Wen
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06 | HUTONG PIXEL parametric urban topology academic year: 2012 Summer type: individual work Instructor: Nikolaus Wabnitz
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Other Works
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