Portfolio by Siqi Wang

SIQI WANG ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO University of Pennsylvania M.Arch Candidate

SIQI WANG

+1-215-410-7663 wangsiqi@upenn.edu 210 S. 34th Street, PA 19104, US

EDUCATION 08/2015-Present University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Master of Architecture, Professional Degree [Expected: 05/2018]

09/2011-06/2015

Nanjing University

School of Architecture and Urban Planning Bachelor of Engineering, Majoring in Architecture

EXPERIENCE 02/2017 Baroque Topologies Exhibition Philadelphia, US

drew the plan, section and governing geometry of Sant' Andrea al Quirinale by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and helped professor Andrew Saunders to set up the exhibition

01/2017 E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship Philadelphia, US

won 3rd prize in the portfolio competition for the E. Lewis Dales Traveling Fellowship to travel abroad during the summer prior to the final year of the professional degree in architecture

05-07/2016

Internship in Lemanarc S.A. Shanghai Office

Shanghai, China

participated in the schematic design period of Nanjing Art Museum and Weihai Hospital, and helped finish the work of digital modeling, master plan drawing and diagram drawing

07/2014 Practice on Construction Site Nanjing, China

worked closely with builders on construction site and observed the actual process of construction, focusing mainly on tectonic details

08/2013 Survey and Drawing of Traditional Chinese Architecture Cicheng, China

measured the size of an ancient house in Cicheng, Zhejiang Province, studied wooden techniques, and interior space arrangement of traditional Chinese architecture

ACTIVITIES 09/2016-Present

Member, PennDesign Women in Archiecture

08/2014

Volunteer, 2nd Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing

SKILLS Software Proficient Basic

Rhino, Maya, Auto CAD, Sketch Up, Adobe Suites(Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign), V-Ray, Microsoft Office Grasshopper, Revit, Python coding, Maxwell, ZBrush, EcoTect

Fabrication

laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling, 123D Make, Pepakura, basic workshop tools

Language

English (fluent), Mandarin (native)

Others

photography, film printing, freehand drawing, piano

01 YOUR TUBE Live-Work Housing in NYC

02 SINUOUS Performing and Visual Arts Center

03 INHALE-EXHALE Pavilion in Manitoga

04 HIDDEN TRANSFORMER Gallery in Manitoga

05 ROOF TOP High-Rise Office Building in Nanjing

06 FLOATING CITY Urban Design in Nanjing

YOUR TUBE Live-Work Housing in NYC 09/2016-12/2016 Instructor: Ben Krone Individual Work This is a work-live housing project for the young artists in New York. Starting from the analog models, the live and work spaces are separated in different tubes. And then how these two systems can overlap and interact becomes the focus of the design. The overall structure goes more vertically so that it can get better sunlight and city view. The streets and gardens are also lifted up in between the tubes on different levels, so that people living in this building can enjoy the outdoor space in the air. The large tubes using perforated corten steel panels are responding to the industrial buildings in red hook. And the louvers of the working units could be controlled by the artists according to their needs. The whole project works as a system, and provides different possibilities for the artists.

Analog Models

Intersection Types

touching

half intersection

complete intersection

Design Process

Living Units

Working Units 2

painting

3D printing

music

Pioneer Works

factories

restaurants

bars

Streets Site Plan

WORKING UNIT public studio

LIVING UNIT shared apartment

WORKING UNIT individual studio

LIVING UNIT livie with family

Plan 0

family owned living unit

living room & game room

terrace

family owned living unit shared living unit

Cut-away Axon

terrace

kitchen & dining

exhibition

video room

public studio

living room & library

Cut-away Axon 4

Ground floor circulation

Sunlight

City View

Flood Zone

Outdoor Space

Life Safety Stairs

SINUOUS Performing and Visual Arts Center 01/2016-04/2016 Instructor: Andrew Saunders Individual Work This project studies the part-to-whole relationship in architecture. The three auditoriums, the concert hall, the theatre and the black box are set as three separate objects, and other programs as the container that wraps around these three objects. The start point is the drawing and modeling of a specific mask, the Komokwa mask, to represent the Carnival elements in this project, and the mapping of the urban thresholds in different parts of Philadelphia. The features of the mask are extracted to generate a masked object, which would be the basic form of the three auditoriums. At the same time, a container was designed with elements inherited from the typical city landmarks. The relationship between the objects and container was then developed and studied in order to create more dynamic and organized space from the exterior to the interior. Mask

2D Relief

Masked Obejct 8

URBAN THRESHOLD

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Subway Platform

Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the city. And the big steps functions not only as an entrance, but also like a plaza, providing citizens and visitors an outdoor space for relaxation and communication.

The Spring Garden subway station is right next to our site and the platform high above the highway provides a great view both to the Delaware River and the center city skyline. We hope to use the form of the subway platform at a high level to give people a better city view.

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1. Concert Auditorium - 1,200 Seat 2. Concert Back Stage 3. Indoor Shopping Arcade 4. Food Service Market 5. Theater 2000 Seat Auditorium 6. Theatre Rehearse 7. Theater BackStage 8. Black Box Auditorium 500 Seat + Stage

Plan 0

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Concert Auditorium Back Stage

Section 0 11

25 50

100

Concert Auditorium Concert Stage

Concert Entry Hall

Shopping Arcade

INHALE-EXHALE Pavilion in Manitoga 09/2015-10/2015 Instructor: Eduardo Rega Group Members: Yiwei Gao, Siqi Wang, Shuxin Wu, Tong Wu The concept of the pavilion is to create two functions in one site, so the inflatable system with interior frame structure is used in this case to reach our goal. When the system is deflated, only the structure covered with translucent plastic film stands. The space inside the pavilion is more open and public, in which people can move around freely. With the pavilion more open to the outside environment, the sunlight directly goes in the pavilion, and people can see more about the natural scenes from the pavilion to the outside. When the system is inflated and the plastic film expands as large bubbles, the space in the pavilion becomes closed and private. Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities is restricted within a small area, disconnected from outside. With the specific patterns on the plastic film, the lamps hanging inside the bubbles cast shadows on the ground. In addition, the sofa part of this pavilion will expand into a larger one so that people can lie on it to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere.

Deflated Condition

Inflated Condition

FABRICATION

Plastic Sealer

Air Pump

Plywood

LDPE Film

Step 1 extract one component from overall massing

Step 2 make countour lines in two diections on the surface

Step 3 extract some contour lines that construct the ribs

Step 4 make the contour lines stripes

Step 5 add thickness and make a basket

Step 6 attach the air chamber inside the ribs

Step 7 seal the outer layer with the inner layer by the plastic sealer

Step 8 wrap the whole component using the LDPE film

plastic outer skin

plastic air chamber

structure: plywood ribs

INFLATION PROCESS

plastic outer skin plywood rib structure plastic inner air chamber

HIDDEN TRANSFORMER Gallery in Manitoga 10/2015-12/2015 Instructor: Eduardo Rega Individual Work This project started from two points at the same time. The first point inherits the concept of the previous pavilion, Inhale-Exhale, which is the transformable structure. The second point is a narrative that originates from a Chinese movie “Still Life”. These two points were then combined and generated the basic idea of the whole project. The narrative was inspired by the ancient Chinese tale “The Peach Blossom Spring”. It tells a story of a man that ran into a forest accidentally and discovered a utopian village that is isolated from the outside world. People in this village do not want to be disturbed by the outside world and live in a structure that is hidden in the forest. So this project is a transformable building that could respond to different exterior conditions in order to hide itself in Manitoga and not to be discovered by others.

Fun Palace

Pompidou

Complex mechanic structure system of steel lattice columns and beams, which enables the dynamic movements of programmatic elements inside.

Inside-out framework of large-span steel trusses creating free-column plans, which allows freedom for various programs and makes easier to adapt, clip on or remove components. 18

STORY LINE

Han Sanming working

going home

accidental entry into the hidden village

walking around the village

friends

Xiaoma Ge

Plan 19

Hong encountering him and showing him the village

leaving the village and marking the way

telling the story

listening the story

losing his friend

setting out for the hidden village

Section 20

STORYBOARD

LOST After a day's heavy labor work, the main character Han Sanming, got lost in his way home, and accidentally ran into Manitoga.

APPROACHING MANITOGA Walking along a stream, Han Sanming saw ahidden structure hidden in between the forrest.

ENTERING THE STRUCTURE He walked inside the structure and found the entrance, wondering what is this building for.

MEETING THE LEADER A woman found Han Sanming and told him that there is a small village living here, and they built the hidden structure inside the forrest so that they are not distrubed by people outside.

HAPPY LIFE IN THE VILLAGE Guided by the woman, leader of this small village, Sanming visited the village and found that people were living happily in the building.

AMAZEMENT Sanming was amazed by the hidden structure, for that the building camouflages in the forrest so well that people from the outside cannot see it easily.

LEAVING MANITOGA When Han Sanming was going to leave the village, the leader of the village told him not to tell others about this hidden village. 21

FOREVER MEMORY Han Sanming left Manitoga and never went back again. But the wonderful experience in the hidden village has always been a beautiful memory that he will never forget.

TRANSFORM STRATEGY pillars & bars

volumes

ramps

Transform Strategy 1 expand the structure through adding more bars and pillars

Transform Strategy 2 rotate some of the planes to open or close a certain volume

Transform Strategy 3 change the loacation of the connecting ramps to change the circulation

ROOF TOP High-Rise Office Building 09/2014-10/2014 Instructor: Hang Yin Group Members: Siqi Wang, Yiyang Xu This project is to design a high-rise office building on the north side of the school campus of Nanjing University, with meeting halls and cafes in the annex building. This office building is aimed for people both on and off campus, so that the major concern of the design is how to arrange the circulations of different people and vehicles from in and out of the school. What makes this project more challenging and interesting is the altitude difference, for that the north-east point of the site is about two meters higher than the south-west point. Our design, based on careful analysis of the given site and transportation conditions around it, tries to use the altitude difference on the site to arrange the transportation. We connect the ground floor of the building next to it with the first-floor roof of the design so that people can walk on the big platform and cars can go under the roof.

The ground floor of the building next to the site is about two meters above the site.

The site has a direct access to the outside of the campus.

pedestrian circulation

vehicular circulation

Core Tube

STEP 1 Use the skin to cover the building, and to seperate the stream of vehicle and people on different levels.

Ventilation Atrium

Elevators

STEP 2 Raise up the skin on the west side so that cars can go into it and then go down to the underground parking lot. Raise up the roof of the main building so that we can put some building equipments on it.

Sunlight

Stairs

Office

STEP 3 Raise up the roof of the annex building so that we have two public platforms on the roofs of the annex building and a big rainshed.

STEP 3 Fold the roof and raise up the north-east point of the skin in order to make it more open to the east side.

Pedestrian Circulation Conference Hall

Vehicular Circulation

Exploded Axon

3rd floor

2nd floor

1st floor

ground floor

FLOATING CITY Urban Design in Nanjing 10/2014-12/2014 Instructor: Hang Yin Group Members: Ruoning Ni, Siqi Wang, Xiaoling Wang, Xinyu Wang, Si Zuo office buildings

This is an urban design studio focused on the rennovation of an old neighborhood in Nanjing. The site is located near the center of Nanjing, with an old residential area on its west side, a new commercial area with clubs and pubs on its east side, tourist attractions of museums and historic buildings on its south side. This area attracts people coming from all parts of the city, resulting in the huge demands of parking space. However, the buildings on the site are all old and misused, with many residential buildings used as restaurants and retail shops. Moreover, most of the street space is occupied by illegal parking, for the parking lots in this area cannot meet the growing demands. The initial objective of this design is to solve the parking problem for the neighbourhood, separate the vehicular and pedastrian circulations, as well as connect the surrounding areas with different functions.

residential buildings

bars and clubs

tourist attractions

parking space needed in total

million 2326

1308

available parking space

museum

1018

shortage

Data Collection Information Time: 8pm-12pm, 2014/11/16, Sunday available parking space -all parking lots around the site shortage of parking space -illegal parking along the street

total amount of vehicles in nanjing

3 2.5 12.35%

2 1.5 1 2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

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SECTIONS

EXPLODED AXON

massing

vehicular circulation

pedestrian circulation

wangsiqi@upenn.edu