Architecture Portfolio 2022 Zhaohui Wang

B.ARCH | University of Southern California | 2016-2021 MSD.AAD | University of Pennsylvania | 2021-2022

RESUME EDUCATION B.Arch in University of Southern California Study Abroad: La Salle Universitat, Barcelona, Spain

Aug 2016 - May 2021 Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

CUM LAUDE MSD.AAD in University of Pennsylvania

Aug 2021- Aug 2022

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Kengo Kuma and Associates (Beijing Office), China - Employ Rhino and Grasshopper to navigate schematic and detail design - Produce concept models in the beginning of the design phase using Sketchup.

- Create rendering drawings to articulate design.

Projects: Chaoyin Temple, Hangzhou, China Nanqiao Chuan Yue Fang Shopping Mall, Shanghai, China

Hello! My name is Zhaohui Wang and I am a Graduate

student currently in my second semester at the University of Pennsylvania for the MSD-AAD degree. My interest in art and humanity as well as the curiosity of logic and scientific thinking has always been my motivation in studying Architecture. In my educational and professional experience, I seek to create that evoke people’s emotions and solve their daily problems. I also dedicated myself to the exploration of cross-disciplinary study and thinking beyond architecture.

May 2018 - July 2018

CBIM, Beijing, China - Determine Procedures and instructions to be followed, according to design specifications and quantity of required materials.

- Lay out building arrangements for commercial buildings using CAD. Projects: Aoshang Hope Elementary School, Jiangxi, China Fenghua County Industrial Estate, Guangdong, China CAAS Transformation Planning, Beijing China

May 2017 - Aug 2017

China Architecture Design & Research Group, Beijing, China

- Develop detailed digital model of artistic installation of infrastructure using Rhino.

- Produce physical model for schematic design.

Projects: Zhaojun Museum, Hohhot, China Mudanting Cultural Park, Jiangxi, China

May 2016 - July 2016

Cuikai Studio, Beijing, China

- Produce physical site model to analyze landscape and local neighborhood.

- Produce digital schematic model using sketchup.

Projects: Kunshan Cultural Park, Jiangxi, China

SKILLS Proficient 3D digital modeling and parametric design software: Rhino (Grasshopper, Ladybug) | Sketchup | Maya | Revit | Vray | Twinmotion Proficient 2D architectural representational and analytical drawing software: CAD | Adobe Illustrator | Photoshop | InDesign | Lightroom | SAI | ArcGIS Excellent Model Making: Laser-cutting | Woodshop | 3D printing | CNC Programming: C++ | Python | HTML | CSS Presentation and Document: Photography | Layout design | Graphic design | Type setting | Microsoft Suite Language: English | Mandarin

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CONTENT 01

THE SEAMS

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WATERDROP

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PORT REVIVAL

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LINKED BRIIDGES

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JUXTAPOSED VILLAGE

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01 THE SEAMS

THE FUTURE OF THE NY STOCK EXCHANGE Instructor: Ali Rahim Teammate: Shiyu Jin 2021 FALL

Due to uncertainty in global relations, the NYSE needs to expand its core business to continue its global leadership. If New York City mines Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT’s) that are pegged to Real Estate value in the city, residents and visitors alike can invest in the City’s future. Non-fungible tokens are a unit of

data stored on a digital ledger, called a blockchain, that certifies a digital asset to be unique and therefore not interchangeable. If this token is accessible to all its residents and visitors allows for the increase in value to sustain and even develop some of the city’s services, in addition the increase in value over time will monetarily help each resident and tourist who invests in the future of NYC. The site is on the corner of Broad Street and Wall Street in the Financial District New York City. We are designing a project with three programs, a NFT mining facility, a museum to explain blockchain technology with examples of NFT’s and am cryptocurrency exchange developing a new hybrid typology for NYC. The existing Stock Exchange is uniquely equipped to speculate on the future of its development into a precise and novel architecture and urban proposal that are unprecedented that links local finance with global market demands.

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TECTONIC PRECEDENT STUDY (LEFT: YALE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, LOUIS KAHN. RIGHT: LONG MUSEUM, ATELIER DESHAUS)

FORM ITERATION

ISOMETRIC VIEW

In this project, the New York Stock Exchange NFT museums is re-imagined as an embodiment of the most advanced and futuristic technology. The museum serves to educate people not only through housing the servers but also through representing the mechanics of the sophisticated connectivity of the NFT system through architectural form. Our NYSE project design explores the implementation of seams. We use the seam and the vault as vehicles to navigate the structure and the aesthetics.

The genesis of the vault features the characteristics of conceal and reveal. The vaults are either concealed as mechanical space that houses the air circulation, HVAC, or servers. Or revealed to the public and serves as human occupiable space.

INTERIOR ITERATION

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FRONT ELEVATION

TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE

On the facade, the seams and the vault constitute the arrangement of different facade patterns. The occasional opening of the vault revealed on the facade serves as the air duct that circulates the air from inside out.

The lower part of the building is elevated through four pillars that draw a reference to the existing stock exchange market’s columns. By doing this we create a public space and open entry to the interior.

SECTION PERSPECTIVE

For the interior, There are three types of spaces: the human space, defined by the large vault geometries where people can move through the cavity; the server space, placed around the vault structures and wraps around the central human spaces; the third is the seams, that are the service space for ventilation and air circulation. The continuous seams navigate through space and stitch together all programs but still allow connections between each.

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PEEL-AWAY MODEL

PEEL-AWAY MODEL 1’ = 1/4” DETAIL CHUNK MODEL

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02 WATERDROP

A PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL Instructor: Maria Esnaola 2019 SPRING

“Water-drop” is an aquatic center comprehensive design project featuring the study of long-span cable structure. The structural innovation was inspired by the Portugal National Pavilion designed by Alvaro Siza, which uses an impossibly thin concrete canopy supported by post tension cables to pursue the extreme material potential and to capture the harmonious view of the water-front. With an adopted post tension cable structure enclosed by FRP facade in an organic shape of water-drop, this project houses a multi-utility public swimming pool that engages in the urban landscape and local communities.

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SCHEME GENESIS

SITE STUDY

PROGRAM

TRAFFIC

GREENS

WIND

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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ROOF PLAN

ELEVATION

PRIMARY STRUCTURE MEMBER

STRUCTURAL GRID

TENSILE STRUCTURE STUDY MODEL

SECTION

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PEEL-AWAY DETAIL MODEL

DETAIL SECTION

BUILDING MODEL

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03 PORT REVIVAL

A TEXTILE FACTORY RENOVATION Instructor: Roger Paez i Blanch Teammate: Weijia Sun 2019 FALL

Port Revival is a project that aims to renovate the disused textile factory located in La Marina de Port in Barcelon, in reaction of the pressure of urban expansion and climate crisis. The original site has a compact organization, which provides an existing condition that can be appropriated into housing. Since each of these warehouses has different circumstances, different method of appropriation was applied. The complex mainly consists of three parts: family housing, single housing and co-living housing. They can satisfy all living expectations for all kinds of residents.

To keep the historical traces, some parts such as brick façade and steel structure are remained, but new material and tectonic method are applied. For instance, the family housing part is an aggregation of several individual two-story houses that are covered with a shell structure that control the internal climate.

The inspiration came from French Architects Lacaton & Vassal, who use polycarbonate sheet façade to achieve sustainable living environment. The result is an operable shell with open windows and curtains that control the shading and ventilation. Overall, the project aims to provide a solution for factory repurposing to adapt the incoming global climate emergency, operable shell with open windows and curtains that control the shading and ventilation. Overall, the project aims to provide a solution for factory repurposing to adapt the incoming global climate emergency.

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CIRCULATION

GREENS

PROGRAM

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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UPPERFLOOR PLAN

TYPOLOGY STUDY

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Each of the five residential modular block consists of 10 studio rooms, 1 two-bedroom room, and 2 three-bedroom rooms. The blocks are shifted on each elevation which produces some capacity between units that allows more customization on the domestic environment.

The bridge-like space is mainly used as gallery or workshop, which attracts the residences and people from the neighborhood to share and create artwork. The elevated platform in the courtyard is for holding commercial event and screen display.

The project overall intend to not just provide a solution for affordable-housing, but also propose a welcoming and humanistic environment for the low-income population.

COMMUNAL SPACE

FORM GENISIS

CIRCULATION

UNITS

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN

SECTION

THIRD FLOOR PLAN

CUT-AWAY PERSPECTIVE

MODELS

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05 JUXTAPOSED VILLAGE

USC CENTER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE Instructor: Roland Walhroos-Ritter 2020 FALL

Leimert Park is a neighborhood in the South Los Angeles region of Los Angeles, California.

Developed in the 1920s as a mainly residential community, it features Spanish Colonial Revival homes and tree-lined streets. The Life Magazine/ Leimert Park House is a Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument. The core of Leimert Park is Leimert Park Village, which consists of Leimert Plaza Park, shops on 43rd Street and on Degnan Boulevard, and the Vision Theater. The village has become the center of both historical and contemporary African-American art, music, and culture in Los Angeles.

The project is a proposal for the new USC Center of Social Justice in Leimert Park. The proposal features an 8-story CLT vertical structure with a public plaza adjacent to the Leimert station. The programmatic focus of the design project is to react to the current cultural and social crisis, and hence serves to become a cultural pivot point of the local community.

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1’0” = 1/64” SITE PLAN

SITE STUDY

The sunken garden tends to create a welcoming environment for visitors from all over. The garden itself serves multi-functions and will become a destination for people across the age, race, and culture. The building scheme also utilized the theme of juxtaposition, where the primative shapes of human dwelling were stacked together. From the street level, the building mass will be seen without the sunken parts, and the basin itself will become an intimate attraction point of visit without losing its transparency and publicity.

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STRUCTURE GENESIS

WALL DETAIL

URBAN

SCHEMETIC DESIGN

SITE

BUILDING

CIRCULATION

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