Yiran Wang PORTFOLIO
Table of Contents 4 Design Works 5 Representation Works
Yiran Wang Candidate for GSAPP M.Arch I Program This portfolio is a collection of works form U of Toronto Architecture Studios and GSD Career Discovery Program.
Film, Place and Urban Identity Interpolation Chopsticks Dancing Photography Traversing Space Origami Space Deconstructing M端ller House In between the Walls Representing Tolo House
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
A Film Archive and Outdoor Theatre for the Fenway GSD Career Discovery Program, 3 weeks, 2012 Instructor Annie Kountz
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Rethinking Procession to a Theatre The project is an intervention into urbanism. Challenging traditional urban experience of watching a movie - a strange disjunction between real and unreal, the experience is intervened as a transformation: transforming from blurry chaotic city to a tunnel-like focused room; from the focused experience to a slow reemergence to urban space - stay engaged with the story by seeing framed urban views. This transformative experience guides the design of an outdoor theatre and film archival gallery on a busy yet isolated site. Spatial arrangement of the programs and viewing corridors slicing through the corridors create public space on site and visually interactive zones around the site so that energized human-scale activities are encouraged.
First conceptual sketch
Concept collage depicting experience of watching a movie in a city, before and after
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
Conjunction and Disjunction Surrounded by busy traffic, Kenmore Square is simultaneously an energized urban space and an enclosed island removed from its surroundings.
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1 Context map, showing Kenmore Square in relationship with its surroundings. 2 Site experience collage, depicting the dual-identity of the site, as both a conjunction and a disjunction.
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
Experience
Experience diagram: sectional view
Public Space on the Roof
Peel Up
Screen of Couch Cinema
Peel Down
Outdoor Seating Spatial strategy: peels
Experience diagram: plan view and views of key moments
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
Intervening with the Site Critiquing the trend that the main body served by streets has shifted from human to cars, the building complex responds to and intervenes with its context. Public open space on peeled up roof garden invites passers-by to stay; view corridors penetrating through the site allows pedestrians at two sidewalks surrounding the complex to visually interact with each other.
Spots pedestrian lingers
1 View Corridors, created by connecting spots most people lingers, on both sides of the streets 2 Sectional view, showing relationship between building programs with peeled-up roof, view corridors and streets 3 View Corridors, as roof aperture for interior lighting 4 View Corridors, creating visually connective zones on both sides of streets
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
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Various Ways of Viewing Challenging conventional theatre organization, the film archival galleries are not simply display space for still image. Composed of screening rooms of different sizes and spatial qualities, galleries invite visitors to experience various ways of watching movies.
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Multi- Screen Cinema 2
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Couch Cinema, Free-Style Multi-Screens
Couch Cinema, One Large Screen
1 Display Space 2 Multi-Screen Cinema 3 Couch Cinema 4 Standard Indoor Cinema 5 Stacks 6 Reading Area 7 Office 8 Workshop 9 Cafe 10 Film Vault and Lab
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Circulation
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Program
Film, Place and Urban Identity
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Film, Place and Urban Identity
Interpolation
A Shared House for Two Families
GSD Career Discovery Program, 2 weeks, 2012 Instructor Annie Kountz
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Private Space: opaque wall and translucent roof
Public Space: transparent/translucent wall and opaque roof
Spatial strategy connecting public and private: Intersecting
This is a shared house for 2 families, the family of mother Mia,daughter Ella and grandpa Henry and the home of Jonas who lives by himself. To fit in the tight site and to accommodate all clients’ disparate personal needs, sharing is a must and intersecting is the spatial strategy to make maximum use of space. However, Mia and Jonas, the two major clients, do not get along with each other. Loving yoga and keeping bonsai trees as a collection, Mia conforms a Zen-lifestyle: clean and organized; Jonas, an outgoing designer and a rabid fan of rock and fashion, owning shoes collections, embodies a free-style life: sloppy and disorganized. How to solve this dilemma or even to manipulate this dilemma as the way to reshape the relationship between the two families is the focus of this project.
Frontal view of the shared house
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Interpolation
Sharing Mia
Sleeping
Eating
Living
Ella
Sleeping
Eating
Ballet
Herny
Sleeping
Eating
Eating
Jonas
Sleeping
Bonsai
Working
Living
Cooking
Telescope
Living
Cooking
Audio
Yoga
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Interpolation
“Tension” between Mia and Jonas Mia’s private spaces, reflecting her organized character Jonas’ private spaces, reflecting his sloppy character
Jonas’ audio room
Setting the shared gallery on the ground-level as Mia and Jonas’ meeting point, the spatial arrangement of their individual units from up to down embodies a hierarchical relationship: closer psychological distance through more porous visual connections. Henry and Ella’s spaces act as partitions with different levels of visual transparency mediating the tension between Jonas and Mia, allowing them to see their housemate in a new way.
Mia’s bedroom
Mia’s work space Jonas’ bedroom Jonas’ living room
Mia’s living room
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Interpolation
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1. Public Programs mediating tension between Mia and Jonas 2. Public - Private 3. Programs 4. Circulation 5. Narrative Section
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Interpolation
Chopsticks Dancing
Bodies in Motion / Bodies in Space
ARC321 Arch Representation Studio II, Fall 2011 Instructor Matthew Allen Co-Worked with Xiaoxue Ma
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Considering chopsticks as an extension of body when eating, this project explores movement of arm, hand and chopsticks involved in eating a traditional Chinese meal. Four methods of using chopsticks are distilled from a motion path diagram. Movement of body and displacement of chopsticks are mapped to convey the body’s response to the forces acting upon it and its relationship to the space it occupies during the 20-minute process of eating a dish.
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Sweep
Separate
Shovel
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20:00 Key Point Location
Motion Path
Elbow Wrist Chopstick Tip Motion Pathway
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Chopsticks Dancing
Elbow Wrist Chopstick Tip Motion Pathway
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Chopsticks Dancing
Photography
Personal Works 2009 -2012
Photography for me is not a way to recreate the “perfect” reality, rather it is a way to capture some evocative atmosphere or to hint a narrative that will arouse the viewers’ own memories or past experiences, and furthermore, to provide them with a new perspective to look at what is known and familiar, which is not unlike my way of doing architectural design.
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Photography
Traversing Space
Transforming a Pasta Kitchen into a Culinary Theatre
GSD Career Discovery Program, 1 week, 2012 Instructor Annie Kountz
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Room is Path and Path is Room.
Boiling room
Washing room
Storage room
In this project, the Tall Room invites cook to spatially experience the process of food preparation in a sequence before pasta cooking, a performance in the transparent Long Room kitchen facing eating area. Individual spaces in the Tall Room transform it into a circulation path connecting different functions. Light and apertures are manipulated to allow seeing and being seen when cook traverses through the spatial sequence. In this pasta restaurant emphasizing both visual and eating feast, the Tall Room connects a set of body movements in preparation for the performative pasta making in the Long Room, and acts a part of the whole sequential loop of this culinary theatre.
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Conceptual collage: sequential loop of serving pasta
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Traversing Space
Plans as guides to circulation: 1. Entrance: pick up pasta from shelves along the staircase 2. Boiling room: boil the pasta, keep going while waiting 3. Storage room: pick up fresh vegetables/meats when walking through 4 Washing room: wash fresh ingredients and keep an eye on boiling room through slits on eye-level
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Sectional View of the Long Room 40 | 41
Traversing Space
Origami Space
Fold, Unfold and Transformation of an Object ARC221 Arch Representation Studio I, Fall 2010 Instructor Nikole Bouchard
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Using the technique of ORIGAMI, this project investigates the formal, volumetric and structural potentials afforded by FOLDING. Fold and unfold act as generative techniques in producing architectural form. Through an examination of sequence, repetition and difference, the object employing one simple fold, as represented in the four-step diagram, is transformed into an artifact. The composite drawing simultaneity represents form of the transformed artifact and instructs construction process of the object.
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Origami Space
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Deconstructing Müller House
A Speculation on a Modern House
ARC321 Arch Representation Studio II, Fall 2011 Instructor Matthew Allen
This project explores the essence of “Raumplan”, the key concept of Adolf Loos’ Müller House, by the creation of a speculative composite drawing. The boudoir, a miniature of the house, is the focus of this project and is reconstructed as the way to analyse the “Raumplan” concept. In Müller House, walls are not understood as structural elements, but along with the built-in furniture act as weightless pieces recessing in space framing the view. Overlapping vertical pieces creates both visual porousness as well as varying views when visitors move in the room.
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In between the Walls
Complex of Sports and Artists’ Community Center
ARC 314, Architecture Design III, Winter 2012 Instructor Matthew Allen Co-Worked with Mengjie Cheng, Xiaoxue Ma
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This project explores how a sports centre can coexist with an artists’ community centre on an small urban “island” and interact with each other. Looking at Kowloon Walled city as precedent, the project starts by “walling” the island to an urban enclave. Instead of building up or extend out, programs are squeezed in to promote a vibrant atmosphere. Walls are not partitions separating different activities: programs are punched into the wall or inserted between the walls, therefore people will have interactive unexpected experience when walking in this urban enclave. Apertures on walls challenges conventional relationship between seeing and being seen thus evoking another layer of unexpected experience between the walls.
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In Between the Walls
Pool
Cafe
Public Plaza Cinema Studio
Market Sports Centre
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In Between the Walls
Precedent Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong
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1 Quadruple Sports Hall 27*60*7 meters 2 Olympic Swimming Pool 25*50*2 meters Pool Area 4
3 Open Public Plaza Outdoor Film 4 Artists’ Communal Space Gallery, Indie Cinema, Market, Cafe, Studios
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Context Plan
Urban Enclave
Density
Unexpected Experience
Exterior view from highway
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In Between the Walls
Regular Wall Pattern
Apertures on wall
Structure
Public Private Intensity
Punches on wall
Program
Carve out open space
Insert in between walls
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1 Diagrams representing spatial strategies 2 Night Scene showing public space
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In Between the Walls
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Experiences inside the walled enclave: 1 View in the studio: artists enjoy visual connections to sports programs as their inspirations 2 View along one pathway upon entering: visitors experience intense arrangement of programs extruding out from the wall, artworks can be seen in small punches 3 View along one pathway towards the open public area: view is more open with apertures on walls
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In Between the Walls
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In Between the Walls
This representational project focuses on creating a single axonometric drawing that captures both the organizational and qualitative aspects of Alvaro Siza’s Tolo House. The central concept of Tolo House, the long staircases running along the house both in the interior and exterior, as a response to the site’s hilly typography, is distilled and emphasized in this oblique sectional drawing.
Representing Tolo House
The Axonometric of a Modern House
GSD Career Discovery Program, Representation Work Instructor Sky Milner
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