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Fabric Studio Barcelona Market 2010 Studio 100 Baroque Rome Food Market 2011 Studio Ideal House Smart Architecture 2011 Studio As_Built Facade Renovation Detroit 2012 As_Built Dig-Fab Seminar Lightopus Detroit Power House 2011 SmartSurfaces Seminar Anatomy Corner Construction Drawing 2009 Construction Wet House Las Vegas Building Envelop 2011 Building System Seminar
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Book Wall Chicago Library 2010 Studio
Education
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning , University of Michigan, USA Master of Architecture Yuanpei College of Peking University, China Bachelor of Science, major in Mathematics CCER (Chinese center of economic research) –Yuanpei Joint Undergraduate Program Yale-PKU Joint Undergraduate Program
May 2012 Jul 2009 Jul 2009 Jan 2007
Academic Honors
3rd Award of Jiang Zehan’s Mathematics Scripting Competition, Peking University, China Used scripting to build digital model and solve some complicated mathematics problems No.1 in Guangdong Province in National Matriculation Entrance Test, China Equivalent to SAT, out of 400,000 candidates Mingde First-class Scholarship, Peking University, China The highest level of scholarship($2,000 in total); received every year
Oct 2006 Jul 2005 Sep 05-Sep 2008
Exhibition 2011 Architecture Student Show, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Univ. of Michigan
Apr 2011
Employment
RESUME
Cannon Design,Boston,USA: Architect Externship Feb 2012 Exposed to all kinds of activities, including making 3D model, 2D drawing and project panel meeting Fabrication Lab,Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, USA: Teaching Assistant Sep 2010-now On charge of 3D printers and helping architecture students to build up proper 3D model for print TKS Architects, USA: Architect Intern Aug 2011 Contributed to the firm marketing and built up the connections to local developers in Shenzhen, China Hanhua Design,Guangzhou,China: Architect Intern Jul–Sep 2010 The largest private design company in Southern China Actively participating the whole design process for big scale real estate project with 5,600,000 sf area, on charge of final representation drawings MIMA Design Workroom,Beijing,China: Assistant Designer Intern Sep 2008-Apr 2009 Investigated the contemporary development of LEED architecture in china and further explored innovative environment-friendly ideas and energy conservation techniques in construction Shenyin&Wanguo Securities Co.,Ltd,Guangzhou,China: Assistant Analyst Intern Jan 2008 Independently used scripting to build up an original derivative pricing model for a special project Performed actively in other projects of the investment banking department
Volunteer Service
2008 Beijing Olympics: Professional Volunteer Aug 2008 Actively worked in Media Operation department, mainly served journalists in the press tribune Chosen as the special assistant to foreign experts, due to my outstanding communication ability Received Outstanding Volunteer Award given by Beijing Organization Committee of Olympic Games Sunshine Volunteer Association of Peking University: Executive Member Sep 2005-Jul 2007 Built up and operated the first nongovernmental Bond Marrow Bank in China mainland Held fund raising events for leukemia patients, and delivered information about leukemia to the public
Skills
Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, RhinoScript, Processing, Digital Project, Sketchup, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Adobe, Vray Languages: fluency in Mandarin and Cantonese Others: organization, communication, sketch, speech, presentation
Book Wall Chicago Library 2010 Studio 2
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floor plan 1
GREEN ZONE UPPER BOOK STACK OFFICE
MAIN READING ROOM LOWER BOOK STACK EXHIBITION/PERFORMANCE AUDITORIUM
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MEETING
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floor plan 3
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floor plan 2
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floor plan -1
floor plan 0 5
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building envelop
book stack
book stack and reading room
green zone
other functional space
decomposed drawing of the whole building
skin pattern of book stack and reading room
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erspective view of book wall
ADULT ADULT ADULT ADULT ADULT ADULT KIDS ADULT KIDS ADULT KIDS RETURN KIDS RETURN
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MAIN READING GREEN KIDS READING ZONE
MAIN STACK
SPECIAL COLLECTION
CIRCULATION
ADULT ADULT ADULT ADULT KIDS KIDS RETURN
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Fabric Studio Barcelona Market 2010 Studio 12
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GROUND PLAN 1” = 16’
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BASEMENT PLAN 1” = 16’
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100 Baroque Rome Food Market 2011 Studio 20
Baroque research _ La Consolata
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keystone = 4.5
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keystone = 5
keystone = 5.5
keystone = 6
Baroque research _ Guarino Guarini
keystone = 20.2
keystone = 20.8
keystone = 21.4
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keystone = 22.0
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programmatic diagram
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basic diagram to generate the plan
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a = 25 deg
a = 40 deg
Ideal House Smart Architecture 2011 Studio 34
a = 45 deg
a = 30 deg
a = 35 deg
a = 50 deg
a = 55 deg
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basic geometry
parametric adjustment
communal space
substraction for view 36
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AS_BUILT: 38 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.
front vector
back vector
SINGLE UNIT:
SINGLE BAY:
SINGLE STRIP: construction logic
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40 metal skin
footer
header
mulllions B
mullions A
glass
hinge spandrel
kick plate
flashing
fin B
fin A
column B
column A
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Lightopus Detroit Power House 2011 Studio 42
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soft silicone skin
electronic and structural wire LEDs
reflective rigid panel translucent rigid panel
battery flexible solar panel
transparent soft silicone skin
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silicone skin
eletronic components
shape retaining plastic
1/16� silicone skin
suction cups
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I-BEAM GLASS STEEL SCREEN
EXTRIOR BRICK MASONRY
FASTENING section detail 1 1/2”=1’-0”
METAL DECK
CMU
CEMENT
REINFORCED STEEL
VAPOR BARRIER
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.
RIGID INSULATION
AIR SPACE
Anatomy Corner Construction Drawing 2009 Construction 47
Wet House Las Vegas Building Envelop 2011 Building System Seminar 48
wood frame
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super absorbent polymers fiber
Arch 527_Building Anatomies Ning Wang
49 Project Final Las Vegas
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