ZHENGYANG WANG PORTFOLIO 王正阳作品集
ACADEMIC WORK Museum of Architecture and Industry Columnbus, IN_2011
Boston Symphony Center Boston, MA_2012
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL_2012
Zipped Units Lima, Peru_2013
PROFESSIONAL WORK Grand Center Art Walk St. Louis, MO_2013
Cineplex Belleville, IL_2013
Academic Work Entrance Lobby Rendering of Columbus Museum
Columbus Museum of Architecture and Industry MuseumIndiana of Architecture and Industry Columbus, Columbus, Indiana Professor: Nadia Anderson Professor: Anderson Studio HonorNadia Mentioned Project Studio Honor Mentioned Project
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Architecture Map
Topographic Map
Traffic Map
Orientation Map
The design method is based on Deconstruction and Reassembly.
Time Flow
The museum was designed with two aspects in mind: Mass and Void.
Archives &Architecture
Void focuses on the experience and the dynamic flow flow of time. Mass is shaped by the dialog between site and city.
Finally, the two forms are reassembled to fufill the program. Although the two are placed together, each is expressed uniquely.
Void Flow of Time
Mass Accumulation of History
Central Atrium
Time Flow
Industrial Objects
Reshape
Hybrid Drawing Showing the Experiential Quality of the Void
Site Line
Retain
View&Orientation
Mass&Void
Study Model
Accumulation of Time and Space
Study Models Show Form Transformation
Final Massing Model
Section Study about Levels and Light Shaft
The Unwrapped section below shows the experience of visitors coming to the museum. This suggested continous A facade of transparent main circulation indicates the flow of time. As visitors move up and down along the slope that wrapped around the two light shaft, they will seecement both architecture exhibition and industrial exhibition in chronicle order. The Main Lobby panels protects the with the highest ceiling implies the core of the space stands in the middle. The lobby separates two parts of exhibition galleries from direct sunlight and works as the intersection of allstill type of circulation as well. while maintaining
a connection between inside and outside. The appearance of concrete causes the museum to project a static character on its exterior and allows the building to integrate more smoothly with the surrounding neighborhood.
Central Lobby
Central Lobby
Architecture Collection
Architecture Collection
Architecture Collection
Central Lobby
Main Public Circulation Building Entrance Private Circulation Elevator Light Shaft
Architecture Collection
Industrial Exhibition
Industrial Exhibition
Central Lobby
Entrance/Exit
Unwrap Section Scale:
Site Plan
Industrial Exhibition
Basement Level = -12’
First Floor Level = 0’
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Third Floor Level = 16’’
Section Study about Levels and Light Shaft
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A facade of transparent cement panels protects the galleries from direct sunlight while still maintaining a connection between inside and outside. The appearance of concrete causes the museum to project a static character on its exterior and allows the building to integrate more smoothly with the surrounding neighborhood. Second Floor
A facade of transparent cement panels protects the galleries from direct sunlight while still maintaining a connection between inside and outside. The appearance of concrete causes the museum to project a static character on its exterior and allows the building to integrate more smoothly with the surrounding neighborhood.
Level = 10’’
Central Lobby
Central Lobby
Architecture Collection
Archite
Architecture Collection
Architecture Collection
Industrial Exhibition
Central Lobby
Entrance/Exit
Unwrap Section Scale:
Longitudinal Section
Architecture Collection
Industrial Exhibition
Archive Display Corridor
South Elevation
North Elevation
Central Lobby
Education Center Light Shaft
West Elevation
East Elevation
Boston Symphony Center Massachusetts, Boston Professor: Kris Nelson
The Boston Symphony Hall Project focuses primarily on revitalization of the southern Boston Innovation District by providing quality public space.
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The building itself is designed as two separate auditorium masses with a connecting bridge between. The site and the building are designed to provide 24/7 public access and experiences. By tracing the existing pedestrian movement on the site, a pass-through space between the two auditoriums is not only a pedestrian shortcut but also a third, informal space for performance. The passthrough space references an existing park on the site and serves as one of three linked plazas, each of which is distinct in function.
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In conjunction with a grand, open lobby space, the plazas merge outdoor and indoor events. Together, they invite site and provide a large, public gathering space for events and performances. Open at all hours, the linked plazas are more than just a stop for pedestrians. They support wheelchair and bike activity, creating a universal appeal that is critical to the busy harborwalk activity adjacent to the site. The smaller, 300-seat experimental hall is designed with arena-style seating. Half of the seats are on the interior of the hall, and half are placed on the front exterior plaza, allowing both indoor and outdoor audiences to take part in the performance simultaneously. A sky-fold door can be closed to make the space completely interior.
Section Diagrams Show the Translation of Land Form
The large, 1200-seat main hall is based on the undulating topography of the existing site. This undulating form is expressed by the triangulated cherry wood panels of the interior walls, which are shaped for acoustics as well as for their response to the existing topography.
Create Transpass Though Site
Design for All Day Avaliable Experience
Angle for Circulation Guide and Loading
Parking
Mechanical
Concession
VIP Lobby
Performer Area
Music Halls
Linked Palaza for Different Use
Linking Plaza
Administration Office
Public Lobby
Vertical Circulation
Solar Study of Sinking Plaza Sinking Plaza Section
Plaza Analyze
Plaza Solar Study Model Plaza View
First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Experimental Hall and Front Plaza Section
Main Hall Hall Renderer Render Main
Experimental Hall Renderer
The multifunctional facade is the key to integrating all of the design elements. Wrapping around the building, the facade represents the primary aspects of the building: It indicates interior circulation and engages with the activities within the building. The triangulated elements once again become a major component to formal generation. The dynamic form provides opportunities for it to be used as a shelter for the experimental hall, a bike rack, stair enclosure, structure for a green wall, and a sculptural element in the plaza. The structure is more than a symphony hall on the site. It serves as a public institution whose spaces and program reach out to the entire community. In this project, “public” includes more than ticket-buying audiences. The definition of “public” expands to include all residents and visitors of the neighborhood, creating a truly universal environment.
Circulation Diagram
Section Cut of Main Hall
Front Plaza
Sinking Plaza
Back Plaza
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois Professor: Cameron Campbell, Jihyun Song Collaboration: Joseph Louis Hersheway, Maghan Reichert, Morgan Zimmerman Award: Nurture Collegiate Healthcare Design Com petition Finalist
Located in downtown Chicago, RIC is seeking designs that are formally expressive able to provide the comforting conditions needed for recovering patients. The program calls for 250 beds for patients, divided into five different departments with separate "ability labs" (exercise space) and nurse stations. The clinical zones also include a sky lobby with full service dining, a ground lobby, a research area, 800 parking stalls, and healing gardens private for the patients.
The concept was derived by observing the daily patterns of patients. Since they moved often between the ability labs (innovative rehabilitation laboratories) and the patient rooms, we chose to integrate the two functionally and spatially. By combining curved and static movement, we generated a formal experience that encourages recovery that can be both private and social. Curved and static movement are linked by a series of nodes that become family areas and small staff lounges.
Form Transformation plans as a base, we generated the basic form of the building. By pushing and pulling the volume, the building began to take on a gesture that curves slightly towards Lake Michigan, providing views of the lake to each patient’s room. Finally, we formally articulated the sky lobby in the middle of the building as well as the protected healing garden at the top.
More than just functional circulation, the corridor alongside the ability labs becomes a passageway for social activity. It is integrated as an interstitial space within the facade, serving as a formal, social, and functional space. The horizontal panels of the interior curtain wall system work in conjunction with the vertical panels on the exterior skin, generating a deep, multilayer “facade.� This corridor/facade/social space creates transparency between interior and exterior, provides sitting spaces and shelving, and frames views of social activity within.
Sky Lobby Plan and Perspective
Patient Floor Plan and Perspective Render
Entrance Detail and Perspective Render
Building Entrance
Ground Floor Lobby
Zipped Units Lima, Peru Professor: Clare Cardinal Patt As one of the most well-known informal settlement areas in the world, Huaycan, Lima has been a research zone for both urbanist and architect.After decades of development, Huaycan has developed its own society rules and living style. Although there are still some existing issues in the community, it’s really hard for the local goverment to participate in the development process. In this project I tried to explore a new construction type that will allow the people in Huaycan to build their house while reshaping the land and rebuilding the community sense spontaneously.
Possible Site Analysis
Calculation shows that a one story unit can use up to 35% of the dirt that digged out from the site, two-story would use up to 70%.
The topography in Huaycan makes it difficult to deliver building materials to high level mountain side. The new construction type will encourage the usage of the site itself. By digging into the site, local people can get the material they need for the brick as well as reforming the land to build buildings on. After mixing the dirt with cement, they can use a widely used tool CINVA RAM to compress and shape the mixture to the right shape of the brick they need.
The idea of the unit design is trying to give as much freedom as we can to locals who are willing to design the interior space by themselves. Only the main structure system is designed and it’s the only static component in the project--load bearing walls made from the brick, and residents can decide how to divide the interior space on their own, which allow more participation from residents. Conceptual Model shows the idea about fixed structure with flexible space
The new shape of the Brick inspired by the acient Inca Walls makes it easier to assemble all the bricks together.
Cinva Ram Work Method Public Chapel with New brick Used as Exterior Wall
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Construction Detail.PartitionWall-Facility Wall-Facility Construction Detail.Partition
ConstructionDetail.Beam-Load Detail.Beam-Load bearing Construction bearing
Construction Process Ground Excuvation
Add Floor Slab to the Beam
Load bearing Walls
Install Beams and Interior Walls
Horizontal Extension Sharing One Load Bearing Wall in the middle
Extend the Wall Vertically
Install Beams and Interior Walls
More Expansion in the Future
Flexibility of Interior Space Flexibility of Interior Space Orange shows partition Wall Orange shows partition Wall
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Bedroom Bedroom Livingroom Livingroom Kitchen Kitchen Bathroom Bathroom Stairs
Stairs
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Community Space Community Space
Community Map
Community Growing Diagram
Step by step, before the locals realized, they’ve used the easiest way to build their units while shaping the land into a community space. Starting with a little brick, this contruction type influence the way people live gradually. Soccer Field Community Plaza
Stairs Chapel Market
Terrace Line
Professional Work Grand Center Art Walk St Louis, Missouri Axi:Ome IIc Principle in Charge: Design Team:
Catty Dan Zhang, Jamon Diaz Zhengyang Wang, Alex Kim, Hannah Novack, Haosheng Yu, David Poeyamidjaya, Chenglong Zhao
The ARTWALK project is an urban landscape project in St Louis Missouri Grand Center area, where lots of monumental architectures and historical sites locate. We are aiming to create an identity for the project that can establish it as a unique piece of urban infrastructure in St. Louis. Combined with the historic and contemporary uniqueness of the Grand Center district, the ARTWALK will be an “attractor” for use by residents and visitors. The ARTWALK is designed to provide connectivity between the many and varied cultural institutions in Grand Center through elements that communicate a sense of continuity to residents and visitors by using the “front porch” for the institutions adjacent and connected by the pathway. Detail design concepts for hardscape, landscape, signage, lighting and street furniture that provide a common language throughout the ARTWALK are designed as a set to work as both functional infrastructure as well as the way finding system for visitors. We consider both the horizontal surfaces as well as the walls of surrounding buildings to establish “outdoor rooms” of varied character and function in order to offer conditions for different social dimensions. By using appropriate designed lighting, sight lines and vegetation, the spaces in ARTWALK insure a perception of safe and secure passage at all hours and seasons. Specific to the nature of Grand Center, the visitor arriving for an event will be enticed to use the ARTWALK as a way to explore Grand Center beyond the venue being attended. The ARTWALK also set the stage for future institu-tional development; it has the flexibility to accommodate development initiatives along its path that will add to the variety and vitality of the pedestrian experience.
reflective Canopies reflective Canopies
floating platforms + raised paths
floating platforms + raised paths
landscape mounds
landscape mounds
Artwalk - 5
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Spring Street
Washington Street
KETC and Parking
SLU Plaza and Passage
Observation Deck
Parking
ARTWALK Knuckle
PXSTL
Pulitzer Entry
Lindell Soundscape
Sluma Secret Garden
SLU Campus Sleeves
Scottish Rite Passage SLU Plaza
Contemporary Art Museum Entry
Pulitzer Plant
Public Seating
Reflective Canopy
Spring Street is the entry way of ARTWALK which contains three major parts of design: landmark reflective canopies indicate the start of ARTWALK, landscape mounds and new visitor center. Occupied the largest open green space close to Pulitzer Foundation and Art Museum. Spring street zone is regarded as a potential urban garden for all social dimensioning. All the infrastructures in Spring zone are designed to support the street art, music performers, outdoor film and other type of media.
Spring Street
Corner of Spring Street & Washington Blvd
Reflective Canopies
Playgrounds
Lights&Poles
Visitor Center Street Benches
Ramp&Railing
Bike Racks
Street Planters
Washington Street
Washington Street Zone has the most solid streetscape that we are trying to polish. By redesigning the entry way of Pulitzer Art Foundation and Contemporary Art Museum, the space that used to be concrete walls become a more pleasant place with seating, plants, projection screen for people to hang out. The design blurs the boundaries between the two landmarks and creates more possible paths for visitors to explore.
Washington Street View Contemporary Art Museum Entry
Pulitzer Entry
Pulitzer Gate
ARTWALK Knuckle
Ground Lights
Ramp
Railings
Oasis
Bleachers
Scottish Rite Parking and KETC Zone is a transition zone between the urban secret garden and other art institutions, which is also the zone with most scattered available spaces that need to be linked together smoothly. By using the special pavement pattern with ground lights and landscape elements that framed hard surface, we plan a way finding proposal with bleachers, cafĂŠ extension, public facilities that can be used to serve visitors as well as a propaganda for the TV station and radio station that the pedestrian walk go passed by. Scottish Rite Parking Slope
SLU Plaza and Passage Sluma Zone has the most complicate topography. We use landscape as a media to soft the hard edges between different buildings. Together the landscape mounds, reflective canopy, observation deck, periscopes and soundscape make the walkway more fun for visitors. Linked by these elements, the ARTWALK connects the historical building at different levels through a diverting path.
SLU Plaza
SLUMA Observation Deck
SLUMA Passageway
Reflective Canopies
Platforms
Tree Wells
Fences
Street Benches
Oasis
SLUMA Secret Garden
SLUMA Garden Section
View Frames
Periscope Deck
Together with the SLUMA passage way and urban observation deck, SLUMA secret Garden zone create a pedestrian deck with landscape features that leads visitors from the higher level of SLU Plaza to the lower level of Scottish Rite Parking. The main transition is the Observation Deck with Periscope. The observation Deck includes ramps following ADA rules and stairs that allow pedestrians to flow freely between the garden and parking lot. The garden which used to be an unfriendly space surrounded with fences now become a nice place to hang out. Periscopes, at the same time, provide visual connection between SLUMA garden with other parts of ARTWALK.
Urban Periscope Deck
Railings & Ramps
Bleachers
Roof/Information Booth
Cineplex Belleville, Illinois Axi:Ome IIc Project Team: Zhengyang Wang, Davis Owen, Evan Barrett Haosheng Yu, Hannah Novack
The location of the new Cineplex is at the edge of the old town-center of Belleville, Illinois. Cineplex project is a hybrid of Midwestern farm-scape, Midwestern town-scape and a Big Box-scape. This project is new solution for big box massing interfacing with the natural terrain and redefining the disappearance of small town centers around Midwestern landscapes in United States by sprawling strip mall culture. The Cineplex is an elevated building creating outdoor theaters and open market spaces and public plazas underneath the belly. The massing is developed as system of plugin theater units with a spinal corridor allowing fissures and gaps for light to penetrate through the depth of the building for terraces, gardens and courtyards. The interior is formed by multiple layers of programmatic thresholds that define the public galleries, party/meeting rooms, voids and plateaus of various choreographed experiences. The roof and the landscape are layered by GREEN LACE structure that becomes the habitat for indigenous fauna and flora. The GREEN LACE allows natural systems of filtering water runoffs and micro climates and organic farming to develop for highly efficient interface between architecture and landscape. The multimedia projection skin of the main highway elevation is to increase public awareness and allowing the vast open parking lot to perform as an old fashion Drive-In Movie Theater. The Cineplex project is a case study for the transformative nature of the American landscape.
Social Nodes Urban Study
Geographic Analysis
Traffic Analysis
Channel Depth
Slope
Pond
Path
Tertiary Branching Secondary Branching
Primary Branching
Flooding / Irrigation Stages
Branching Patterns
Water Movement and Distribution: Branching
Primary Branching Secondary Branching Tertiary Branching
Channel Depth
Slope
Pond
Path
Tertiary Branching Flooding / Irrigation Stages Secondary Branching Branching Patterns
Primary Branching
Branching Patterns
Water Mo and Distr Branching
Grass Ports
Cable Water Flow Design
Building Shell
Circulation Corridor
Green Field
Observation Deck
Cafeteria
Central Corridor
Theater
Main Hall
With the rain water collected by the cable irrigation system, the space underneath the building become a place for local public. With the cable structures, the space could be used as farmer’s market, green space and outdoor cinema. All these function makes Cineplex as a new town center to attract and gather residents from Belleville.
Rain Water
Section Model