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Fabric Studio Barcelona Market 2010 Studio Book Wall Chicago Library 2010 Studio Ideal House Smart Architecture 2011 Studio
Lightopus Detroit Power House 2011 SmartSurfaces Seminar Anatomy Architecture Multiple Projects 2009~2012 Architecture Drawing Seminars Professional Works Multiple Projects 2012~2013
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As_Built Facade Renovation Detroit 2012 As_Built Dig-Fab Seminar
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100 Baroque Rome Food Market 2011 Studio
Ning Wang 55 W Chestnut, Apt. 2603, Chicago, IL 60610 7343899680 annewang@umich.edu
Education Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Master of Architecture , focused on computational and interactive design Yuanpei College, Peking University, Beijing, China Bachelor of Science, major in Mathematics CCER (Chinese Center of Economic Research) – Yuanpei Joint Undergraduate Program Yale-PKU Joint Undergraduate Program, Beijing, China
May 2012 July 2009 July 2009 Sept 2006-Jan 2007
Employment SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL LLP, Chicago, IL: Architectural Assistant Designer
Dec 2013-Sept 2014
Blu Homes Inc., Boston, MA: Project Designer
July 2012-Nov 2013
▪ Utilized advanced digital design software like CATIA and Grasshopper to innovate design process ▪ Designed buildings, prepared design and construction documents, made digital and physical models for all design phases ▪ Coordinated and translated the conference with Chinese clients
▪ Worked with the user interactive design team to provide clients visual experience of the company product houses, and provided digital design support to the company website ▪ Made drawings for all design phases
Cannon Design, Boston, MA: Architect Externship
▪ Participated all kinds of activities, including 3D modeling, 2D drawing and project panel meetings
Fabrication Lab, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, UM: Lab Assistant ▪ In charge of 3D printers and helping architecture students to make proper 3D models for print
TKS Architects, Las Vegas, NV, USA: Architect Intern
▪ Contributed to the marketing and built up the connections to local developers in Shenzhen, China
Hanhua Design, Guangzhou, China: Architect Intern ▪ Actively participated in the whole design process for large scale real estate project with 5,600,000 sf
Feb 2012 Sept 2010-Apr 2012 Aug 2011 July-Sept 2010
area, in charge of final representation drawings
MIMA Design Workshop, Beijing, China: Assistant Designer Intern
▪ Investigated the contemporary development of LEED architecture in China and further explored innovative environment-friendly ideas and energy conservation techniques in construction
Sept 2008-Apr 2009
Academic Honors No. 1 in Guangdong Province in National Matriculation Entrance Test, China
July 2005
▪ Equivalent to SAT, out of 400,000 candidates
2nd Place Award of National Physics Olympiads Mingde First-class Scholarship, Peking University, China
▪ The highest level of scholarship ($2,000 in total); received annually
Sept 2005-Sept 2008
Exhibition Fabric Studio, 2011 Architecture Student Show, University of Michigan Responsive Ideal House, 2012 Architecture Student Show, University of Michigan
Apr 2011 Mar 2012
Skills Software: Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Firefly, RhinoScript, Processing, CATIA, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Adobe, Vray Languages: C and Python; fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese; proficient in English
100 Baroque Eataly Food Market, Rome 2011 Studio Instructor Craig Borum 2
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Baroque Research _ La Consolata This studio starts with the research of La Consolata designed by Baroque architect Guarino Guarini. La Consolata (two photos on the left) is still functioning today in Turin. It was modified by Guarini and his students many times from 17th century. The drawings on the left spread are the plans of La Consolata in different periods. We can alwasy see the connections among them, which throws light on the fact that these plans are generated from the same geometric set. Thus, I moved forward to speculate this background constructive geometric set by comparing these plans. The drawings on the right spread show the process of re-construction. All the plans are based on a set of circles which are either tangent or intersect with each other. It is very intricate and elegant that all the architectural elements from the aera of the chapel to the size of the column seem to be controlled by a simple set of geometric. It is very hard to image this geometric set can generate such a complicated space.
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The site is in Rome. It is a perfect square plaza bordered by six building blocks, facing the huge round tomb of August. The surrounding blocks are not aligned up but offset a bit, showing a force/tendency to push the design. The project is to design a building for Eataly which is a chain Italian food market. Eataly always has nine sessions to sell and serve nine categories of food. Since we are dealing with 9 circles problem, it is very natural to put nine sessions into nine circles. The programs serve as the internal driver. I first rearrange the spatial location of nine sessions to make sure the food always goes together should be arranged as neighbours. Then extruded nine cylinders from nine circles and deform cylinders according to drivers.
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One important idea about this project is to transfer the background geometric manipulation on the plan to 3 dimensional volume. The diagrams on the left spread show the whole process. The top row is the 2 dimensional manipulation of the nine circles problem. The constraint of the system is the tangency of the adjacent circles. This constraint remains the whole process. By offsetting the circles, I got a series of dynamic patterns, which has the potential to generate
the plan. The second row is the process from 2-D diagram to 3-D volume. I stacked the selected three plans and lofted them vertically to get the volume. Therefore, this volume is controlled by these plans, and fundamentally by the basic nine circles. The last row is to refine the volume as a functional space, moving from object to architecture. The envelop of the volume has been trimmed to fit different natural lighting demand, contextual condition and programmatic features. The photos are the
sketch model which perfectly shows the subtle curved complication of the design.
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Fabric Promenade Barcelona Market 2010 Studio Studio Critics Sophia Psarra 20
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This project is a fabric market located in Barcelona, Spain. There also will be some fashion studio space for local designers who are running small business. People can come here to buy their favourite fabric and then bring to those fashion studio and have designers customize their clothes. Designers can showcase their works here and even organize their fashion show. Instead of the ordinary fabric market where fabric and textile are stacked in rolls behind the counter, I got the inspiration from old Chinese fabric market where fabric is hanged on the bamboo racks in an opening outdoor space and customers can walk through it, touch it, feel it, wear it and pick up what they want. Meanwhile, the racks can serve as the structural component so that they not only hang the fabric but also the building. Since the building is for small fashion business, it does not need to be big volume. Thus, the basic idea is “rack� structure hanging individual small volumes. 22
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The site is in the El Raval district, behind the most famous market La Boqueria, near the popular tourist street La Rambla. El Raval is one of the two historical neighborhoods that border La Rambla, the other being the Barri Gòtic, and contains some 200,000 people. Different from the modern urban fabric, El Raval district has many wired and narrow alleys squeezed by condensed residential and commercial blocks. The urban space is very crowded, compacted and full of pedestrian. There are some public plazas where pedestrian can get rid of the shadow of building blocks and the shopping crowd to sit down and enjoy a sun-shined cappuccino. But their numbers are far from enough. Since the context is already overwhelmed with architecture, human activities and social events, I would rather my project to be quite, humble, slow, relaxing and peaceful where people can take a breath and short rest from the busy shopping. 24
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The local building prototype in El Raval district is two to four floors rowhouse. And the ground floor always functions as the store with showcase. The above floors function as residential space or workshop. This prototype works well for my project, too. Considering those individual studio units as a row of two floors rowhouses which occupy less than half of the site. By offsetting these units, I can increase the showcase surface. And then I insert one catwalk intto each floor. Models can walk on them during the fashion show week, and during the rest time, people can also use them as circulation path to go through those fashion studios. In terms of the skin, I try to mimic the texture of fabric by making wrinkle on the skin. It is interesting contrast to have real, soft fabric flutter in the wind and hard “fabric� stays still. 28
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The three renderings on the top show the interesting contrast between fluttering translucent fabric and still opaque envelop. The racks structure goes through the envelop as well and looks like hanging buildings and fabric at the same time. The two renderings on the bottom are the long section and short section cut rendering. The long section one shows how the catwalks string small units together. The short section one shows the vertical circulation inside the small unit. The ground is lower in the center to create a sinking plaza where pedestrian can have better view of the showcase. The linework drawing on the top is the decomposed drawing dissects the building into floor slabs, skin envelop and racks structure. 32
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Book Wall Chicago Library 2010 Studio Studio Critics Anya Sirota 38
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This project is to design a district library near the deserted Bloomingdale railway in Chicago. The Bloomingdale railway used to be an important and busy railway connecting downtown and suburban area. Most of this railway is hanged above the ground, allowing traffic and pedestrian to go across under it. But this railway is not functioning anymore while there is no organization reclaiming it for other purposes. Thus it became a free zone for human beings, animals and plants. Citizens walk their dogs here, birds produce and feed their offspring here while weeds grow on the rusted rail. This free zone automatically achieved an interesting harmony among different occupant groups, which has been kept in my design. The intact Bloomingdale railway is going through the library to introduce people as well as to provide a semi-natural environment to those tired readers. Therefore, the railway has been redefined new function as the connection
between the library and the community, the artificial environment and the nature, the deserted urban ruin and the newlydeveloped space. Libraries always contain two big volumes - human space and book stack. Many library design negotiate and manipulate these two volumes, but I would rather to treat book stack as surface than volume. Since the book stack turns into book wall, it can wrap around the human space, serving as envelop, bench or other functional element. More interesting, when people take away books randomly, this book wall is dynamically perforated into different patterns. The main portion of the book wall divides the library into two halves with stairs along. The stairs go through all floors to direct vertical circulation. There is also direct conversation between the book wall and the free zone. The book wall also wrap the reading rooms.
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The book wall directs both horizontal and vertical circulation, thus the arrangement of books and the spatial arrangement of programs influence each other. Combining the programmatic plan and programmatic section, we can see that they interact with each other by the book wall. The book wall is the registry of the spatial arrangement of programs. There are 5 floors including the basement in the library. The functional space changes from public to more private as from basement to top floor. The floor plan follows the basic geometric composition which takes into account the shape of the site.
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The letf top drawing shows the perspective view of the book wall, the stairs and the floor slabs. It throws light on the internal circulation of the library. In fact, the moving path of people here mainly depends on books, which book they are looking for, which section they are heading for or which activity they are attending. So it cannot be more natural or rational to interweave the book stack and the circulation.
The two bottom drawings show the projection of the programmatic arrangement in both horizontal and vertical directions. The book wall also serves as the main load bearing structure of the building, since books are very heavy. The special collection is between the ground floor and the first floor where readers need special permission to access. The height of book stack also differs according to the reader group.
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Ideal House Smart Architecture 2011 Studio Studio Critics Karl Daubmann 48
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This project is to design a ideal house while I am not sure the definition of ideal house. But I think there are two things important to ideal house. First, ideal house should work for ideal family, i.e. to improve the perfectness of the family. A family cannot be considered as ideal without Intimate communication between family members. However, due to today’s development of telecommunication, internet and social network, Iphone and Facebook is replacing the face-to-face conversation. Family members spend less together talking, listening and sharing their life. This project is exploring the potential of architecture to make up for this loss. Thus I defined two types of space in a family house - communal space, such living room where the whole family can physically get 50
Robie House by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Moriyama House by SANNA
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together, and personal space, such as bedroom and study where people do their personal stuff. The spatial relationship of those famous house prototypes have been analysed, shown as the top row of drawings where the blue area is the communal space. I think Chinese courtyard house works well for this purpose, since the communal space is wrapped by personal space and the interface between these two space is bigger. So it provides better opportunity for family members to enter and stay in the communal space. Second, ideal house should be able to easily adjust to different context, that is the robustness of the building form. We are required to pick up one and only one ideal shape to develop our
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house, which I chose triangle. The second row of diagram on the left spread shows the robustness and flexibility of the system. The house consists of two intersected triangles, and one stays fixed while the other can rotate to adjust surrounding condition. The overlap of these triangles is defined as communal space (blue), and the rest is subtracted as personal space (light grey) according to the external view. The rest of the subtraction is porche. By changing the angle of the second triangle, thousands of different houses are generated, shown as the drawings on the right spread. Since in DigitalProject everything is linked to the plan diagram, this is those two intersected triangles, the change of angle controls the whole building. This is a ideal dynamic system.
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The site is on a 30 degree slope of the coastline. I chose the resulted triangle house from the robust system. The gesture of the house is leaning down towards the ocean, while the main entrance is on the second flour. So people enter the house from the upside of the hill. The living room is right next to the main entrance. The double layers balcony serves as the extention of the living room, one of whose layer directs view up towards the sky while the other down towards the ocean. The living room is surrounded by guest bedroom and study. The lower floor has garage, storage and main bedroom which intersects with the lower layer balcony. There is the smart AuralCeiling covering the communal space. This ceiling can respond to sound level and deform itself automatically. 52
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The house is also about view, since the personal space is subtracted according to the external view. If we project the surrounding scene onto the building envelop, the windows can also be considered as the frame of good views on the building envelop. The windows of personal space is designed specially for unique views. Dwellers can see through personal space in the living room and enjoy the natural beauty. There is height difference between the living room and personal space to ensure people in living room can visual access the external view without peeping and disturb-
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ing people in the bedroom. There is smart AuralCeiling covering the communal space. The AuralCeiling can respond to sound level and automatically deform itself. It is controlled by sound sensor and Arduino processor. The function is to adjust the indoor noise level and provide better sonic condition. The rendering on the right shows the AuralCeiling responds to different sound conditions. When someone is vacuuming, the AuralCeiling will absorb noise. When they are dancing with soft music, the AuralCeiling will reflect harmonious music.
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The ideal house project also requires a smart component which can respond to the environment. I designed the AuralCeiling, a ceiling can hear and respond to sound. This ceiling consists of many identical cells. The side face of the cell is made with soft material like fabric to absorb sound, and the bottom face is made with hard material like hardwood and glass to reflect sound. The connection between cells is hinge connection, so it can deform and rotate easily. The whole ceiling works like a mesh. In certain locations, there are sound sensor to detect the sound level and transfer the data to electronic process (Arduino) which analyze the data and send out resulted command to the mechanical system (servo). The mechanical system will provide responsive reaction to the control points of the ceiling. When the sound level is too high and the room is noisy, the system will pull down the control point and turn the ceiling into convex. Then more soft side face is exposed and absorbing the noise. When the room is quite, the system will lift up the ceiling into concave and expose the hard bottom face to reflect and amplify the sound.
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Trees’ Talk Seed Bank and Urban Agricultural Center 2009 Studio Studio Critics Craig Borum 60
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The site is in downtown Detroit, next to the new public transportation tool Detroit People Mover (DPM). DPM is the above-ground light rail connecting all the important buildings in downtown and normal traffic can go beneath it. It functions like a huge bridge over the city and redirect urban circulation. Also it provides a different view from the top of the city to the commuting citizens who usually view the city from the bottom. It is lifting up our view. And “lifting up” is the inspiration of my design. Further, since the site is on the street corner bordered by two high blocks, it is perfect for a public open plaza among the condensed city center. Lifting up the volume can provide the ground floor as the open plaza. The project is for Detroit Seed Band and Agricultural Center. Thus it is very important to have direct conversation between the building and nature. So I carved out the volume with several voids vertically and horizontally. And trees can grow through the building within these voids. I separated the seed bank and the agricultural center according to different privacy/public requirement. The seed bank is a tower taking the form from ivy leaves. 63
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From the visual experience around the building, poeple can always have direct view towards the plaza and the trees. The artifical indoor environment and outdoor environment is blended and interveaven. Hanging the program above the ground can also provide privacy and security which are the main concern in a city like Detroit. The main entrance towards the reception hall is right on the corner and the small entrance to offices is on the back.
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AS_BUILT: 68 As a new pedagogical model for thesis preparation at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College, a group of graduate students designed and built this intervention at an under-utilized site in Detroit. Critically examining the standard CMU-infill as a means to secure enclosure, this spatial skin reinterprets this function while also acting as a threshold for openness, views and light mediation.
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Lightopus (Group Project) Power House, Detroit 2011 Studio Studio Critics Karl Daubmann, John Marshall 72
Lightopus is product design for the PowerHouse Project. The PowerHouse Project is to rehabilitate a deserted two floors house in Detroit suburban. This house is a traditional detached and low-rise residential building in Bangalow style. But It is totally off the grid without city water supply or electricity supply. Our goal is to design a self-powering product - a responsive and interactive solar light. 73
The whole project is to develop a system including interactive lighting fixtures, data receiver and data recorder. First, the system will detect the presence, speed and movement of passers-by around the house, and control the lighting fixture to respond accordingly. Thus it is far more than the light will turn on when someone approaches. For example, if the system detects someone suspicious wandering, then the light will turn red to warn both the passer-by and the house dwellers. Further, the system will record the history data and upload to the processor, like the household computer or online library as data feed. After a period like one year or decade, we can have the pedestrian behavior record to analyse and capture the useful information. The solar light is the lighting fixture of this system. It consists of photovoltaic panel which converts the solar energy into power, battery which stores the power, sensor which detects the movement of pedestrian, processor which analyses data to make reaction, and LED light. The solar light can take many different forms in different locations. It can be a bunch of grass-like fibres among the landscape. It can be a special panels wrapped around the house. But finally, we ended with a snowflake-like light unit which can easily relocate and attach to the vertical surface.
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I studied the southwest corner of the Walgreen Drama Center, which is well-known as the Glass Cube. The most significant feature of this corner is the spatial relationship and construction connection of its two corners and three walls. In structure, a interior concrete wall (16” thick) going through the whole height of the building, and two exterior wall enclosed the lower corner and upper corner, one wall of which is about 15” offset the other. The lower exterior wall is made by concrete and brick, and the upper wall is made by glass. I focused on different things for these two corner. For the upper one, since its materials are mostly glass and steel, it is open and easy to figure out the construction details. However, for there is no insulation on the glass wall, it is very cold inside. There is no activities or programs going on here, and this corner is locked and almost inaccessible to the public, i.e. a secret corner that we spent a long time to find its entry. So I am interested in the function of this corner. For the lower corner, since it is made by concrete and brick which we cannot see through, we don’t even measure the thickness of the walls, no mention the structure between the walls, which is interesting to me. I estimated the thickness of the wall through its spatial relation to other two walls. And then I referred to the construction handbook to pick up the proper size of CMU and the brick. At last, I added water-proof, insulation, and fastens between CMU and brick, I also tried to guess how it supports the roof. I enjoyed this process.
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Anatomy Architecture 2009~2012 Architecture Drawing Seminars Instructors Robert Adams Craig Borum Perry Kulper 79
COMPOSITE Arch 527_Building Anatomies Denise Huang_Thao Do Gang Zhou_Ning Wang
Final Project
COMBINE
Las Vegas
wood frame super absorbent polymers fiber
Arch 527_Building Anatomies Gang Zhou
SIEGEL HOUSE Robert C. Metcalf Architects
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Arch 527_Building Anatomies Ning Wang_Zhou Gang Do Thao_Denise Huang
SIEGEL HOUSE Robert C. Metcalf Architects
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