Final Portfolio_GSAPP_WeiWang by Wei Wang

WEI WANG COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 2010 ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO

Ronchamp Curch, 2004

RESUME WEI WANG Birth: 09-Mar-1983 Sex: Male Address: 526 West 112th Street Apt. #4, NY 10025, New York, U.S.A. E-mail: wayne949@hotmail.com Phone: 1-347-331-9373 Collage Work: http://issuu.com/wayne949/docs/portfolio_final_10 2010 2010 2009 2008 2007-2008 2001-2006 2003-2005 2000 1998-1999 1997 1995-1997 1987 1983 2

Master Degree of GSAPP, Columbia University, Advanced Architectural Design Design Assistant in Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC Participate Gwangju Biennale, South Korea Study English for 3 Months in New York City Serve in the Armored Army, Corporal of Tank Commander Bachelor of Architecture in Tamkang University Photographer of Department Association Graduate from the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University Leader of Astronomy Club Join National Sports Games of Middle Schools Leader of Track & Field Team Begin to Study the Piano Born in Taipei, Taiwan

ARCHITECTURAL EMPLOYMENTS U.S. Internship Experiment: RUR Architecture PC, Jesse Reiser + Umemoto Nanako - First Prize of international Competition in Taiwan, Taipei Pop Music Center / Design Assistant / Diagrams, Drawings, Briefing Translation (Mandarin) / 2010.1 - 2010.2 Full-time Work:

Designer of HCW Planners & Architects: - Reconstruction of Taiwan Railway Administration / Design & Planning / 2006.7 - 2007.4 - Hotel of Marine Biology Aquarium / Inner Space & Program Design / 2006.10 - 2007.2 - SET Private House / Initial Design & Model Making & Detail Drawings / 2006.6 - 2006.10 - ATT OUI Wedding Plaza, Taipei / Detail Design of Lobby Main Stairs / 2005.7 - 2005.10

Term-time Work: GFI Group: - Historic and Arts Center in Tai-Tung University / Surveying & Drawing / 2009.1 - 2009.5 Modern Style Interior Design: - Private Housing / Interior Design / 2008.10 - 2008.12 Arctangent: - Electrical Engineering Building of Yuen-Chi University / Briefing / 2005.6-2005.7 EDS International Inc.: - Taipei Central Park Planning / Model Making, 2005.1 ARTech Architects: - Don-Sen Shopping TV Building / Model Making / 2004.8 - Hotel of Shin Kong Mitsukoshi A12 / Model Making / 2003.8 CHIEN Architects & Associates: - National Taiwan History Museum / Model Making / 2002.12 - 2003.2 ACHITECTURAL HONORS Tamsui Ferry Competition / First Prize of TAKEFUMI AIDA / 2004 7x7x7 Living Box Competition / First Prize, Scholarship / 2003 Recombinant Urbanism / 2nd Place, Scholarship / 2004 Taipei Debris / 1st Place / 2005 Case Study / 1st Place / 2002 TFAM Affiliated Library / 2nd Place / 2004 Binary Interface / Nominated by ETAT Lab / 2006 OTHER HONORS First Prize in Scientific Exhibition of Astronomy - Research and Observation of Leonids / 1999 Bronze Medal of Middle Schools Track & Field Games in Taipei City - Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100m Sprint and Long Jump / 1997 3

ACCEPTED GRADUATE SCHOOLS GASPP, Columbia University, Advanced Architectual Design MIT, Massachusetts Insitution of Technology, March || AA, Architectural Association, DRL ETH Zurich, Master of Architecture TU Delft, Architecture & Urbanism UCL Bartlett, Msc Advanced Architectural Studies WUSL, Washington University in St. Louis, Master of Architecture IIT, Illinois Institution of Technology, March || ASU, Arizona State University, March || Rhode Island School of Design, Master of Architecture Cornell University, March || (wait list) TRAVEL EXPERIENCES Turkey: Istanbul, Cappadocia / 2010 Germany: Berlin / 2010 USA: New York, Boston, New Jersey, Pennsylvania / 2008 San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas / 1998, 2004 Netherlands: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Den Haag / 2004 France: Paris, Ronchamp, Poissy, Dijon / 2004 Italy: Milan, Bologna, Venice / 2004 Switzerland: Lucern, Zürich / 2004 Japan: Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo / 1997 EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES ETAT Lab Media Exhibition / 2007.7 Personal Exhibition of Photography / 2006.10 Visited la Biennale di Venezia / 2004.9 International Children’s Folk Lore & Folk Game Festival, Yilan / 2004.6 - 2004.7 Volunteered to the Reconstruction of 921 Earthquake / 2003.6 - 2003.7 Workshop of Archi-gram, Taipei / 2002.9

CONTENT 1. EDUCATORIUM OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUATER - EXCHANGE | MARK RAKATANSKY

2. GWUANJU BIENNALE 2009 - BOX, REST, LIVING | MARK RAKATANSKY

3. NEW ECOCITY OF CAOFEIDIAN - SOLAR RESERVE CITY | UMEMOTO NANAKO

4. CRYPTOFORM OF POST EMPIRE - DATA CENTER OF FIVE SENSES | ED KELLER

5. VISUAL STUDIES - PARAMETRIC REALIZATION - ANIMATED COMPUTATION - TOPOLOGICAL STUDY of FORM - TILLING EDUCATION

6. DIGITAL CRAFT - NEW DE YOUNG MUSEUM - GRASSHOPPER BRIDGE - PANTON CHAIR - 60_6_6_6_FABRICATION - BARCELONA PAVILION - BARCELONA CHAIR

7. WORKING EXPERIENCE - COMPETITION OF TAIPEI POP MUSIC CENTER | FIRST PRIZE DESIGN ASSISTANT | REISER + UMEMOTO, RUR

SUMMER 2009 MARK RAKATANSKY STUDIO EDUCATORIUM OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUATER NEW YORK U.S.A.

Concept of Exchange UN United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Openness There're some educational programs inside the main building. However, the UNHQ is not open to the public. It's hard for the public to reach these programs, such as the gift shops, bookstores, cafe', classrooms, conference rooms, auditoriums, and exhibition areas. So, the design gives new spaces for these programs, and make it more open to the public. Security In addition, the security area is just inside a temporary tent. The space is not enough for more tourists, and the storage. So, essentially there's a problem of the entry sequence. An more optimized security space is needed. Exchange Therefore, the concept of exchange brings programs inside out, and extending the security area that similar to the security sequence of the airport. The extended security area is along with the bus stops, which creates a buffer zones for lots of people and different ways of transportations. Also, there's a new curve shaped building, which has multiple educational programs inside. Besides, there's a bridge connects to a restaurant and a bookstore, which is at the other side of the road. Changing Axis The Educatorium is dealing with three different dimension and axis, to transform the original facade of UNHQ, and extend the volume along with the road and then link to the park. The park is connected to the 2nd Ave, which will have a new subway system crossing by. So, there're will be more people comming from the eastern side. Elevated Ground Level Part of the new volume is elevated above the ground level, which allows people can get into the building easily, and also cross though the building to the lawn of the United Nations. Thus, the design is also a new gate way of the UNHQ and also a new educational and an informational space in associate with the UNHQ.

SUMMER 2009 MARK RAKATANSKY STUDIO GWUANJU BIENNALE 2009 TEAM FABRICATION SOUTH KOREA

Box - “Rest” Information The Exhibition Space in Gallery 2 is located on the second floor of the Convention Hall. It is a 28m x 72m column free space with large skylights and a 6m ceiling. We will share this gallery with Universal Design Exhibition called “Design to Care”. The exhibition space for Clue Two Box - "Rest" is approximately 18m x 54m. There will be power and internet available to those boxes who wish to use it. The 50 x 50 x 50 cm boxes will sit on a 120 pedestal with the Exhibition information printed on two sides of the pedestal. One side will present your ‘Rest’ - Box, the other side will present your own work and text on "Rest". The 2 x 2 x 2 m boxes will site on the exisiting floor of the gallery with the Exhibition inforamtion printed on a presentation board on the wall near your ‘Rest” box. Habitable / Inhabitable The pavilions of Soswaewon act not as a dwelling house, due to the absence of walls, but as a temporary shelter that supports the fluid experience of the spaces within the garden. This fluid habitation, where one is constantly drawn to enter into a new spatial event is what our object aims to offer. Patterns and Variations Not unlike the poems depicted on the 48 wooden blocks which act as sign posts for different spaces around the garden — variations in pattern can act as indicators for different positions the viewer can experience from our object. Human Positioning in the Exhibition Space Soswaewon Garden carefully frames the natural experience of the surrounding landscape in all its variations and eccentricities. Our aim is to orient the viewer in various positions around our object and the exhibition similar to the garden experience. An “organic experience” is an escape from the complex social setting to a quiet nature where one enjoys the leisure of life through various human activities. Soswaewon is a collection of postures that allows one to relate to this organic experience fundamental in Korean gardens. Resting while positioning oneself in 3 corporeal configurations that induced our structure (lying on the ground, sitting, interacting with another) —one can begin to understand how Soswaewon frames nature through the 48 human activities described by the ancient poem revered today as the garden’s prerequisite guide. Through articulations of different member densities and pattern formations, our structure informs how one can consciously reposition the human body to recreate this organic experience of living and rest embodied in Soswaewon. 25

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FALL 2009 UMEMOTO NANAKO STUDIO NEW ECOCITY OF CAOFEIDIAN SOLAR RESERVE CITY TIANJIN CHINA

TOWARD AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN - SOLAR RESERVE CITY The site is full of salty water which is used as agriculture and aquaculture. The concept of the design is to use the SolarReserve Energy System, to utilize the salty water to generate the electricity and multiple powers. The advantage of the salty water is because of the melting point is high, so the salty water can preserve the heat, so the system can generate the electricity during the night time, which is very different from the ordinary solar panels. 1. First of all, estimate the total energy requirement by the number of future population. Infill certain numbers of SolarReserve System into the site, where has the existing salty water. This system forms several circular fields in order to reflect the sun light and heat. The reflection on the circular surfaces would be the most efficient way to collect the energy from the sun. 2. Secondly, the curve-shaped surfaces reflect the heat of sun light to the focus point, where the heliostat is. Then, the heated salty water becomes steam with high temperature, and then generates the turbine to create the electricity. After the turbine, the salty water becomes cooler, and goes back to the solar tower to form a water circulation. During this process, when the salty water becomes cooler, it can also be transformed into fresh water. Then the fresh water will be distributed into different part of the city, which can be used as agriculture irrigation and residential water usage. 3. Thirdly, the curve-shaped surfaces are supported by the mega structures, which are placed on an infrastructure base, where the local train and local roads go through. Also, the curtain-wall structures support a lot of mirrors and glasses on the top of the circular surfaces. Those mirrors can reflect the heat of sun to the solar towers, which is placed at the center of the circular surfaces and mega structures. Some parts of the surfaces are covered by mirrors, for the other parts of the surfaces are covered by glasses where to allow the sun light can penetrate beneath the surface or onto the ground level. 4. Also, the lift-up surfaces create a three-dimensional space to allow larger programs happen underneath, such as the Storage, Parking, Stadium, Museum, and some other big facilities. With the new clean energy system, the city is self-sufficient. The new city allows multiple programs and energy generation happen under the same urban context. 5. Finally, the whole system is planned on the existing land pattern, a new landscape allows the future city and new city blocks to expend. The landscape and the local road network are expended along with the existing urban texture, and the circular SolarReserve areas. So, the landscape has formed a new urban texture that connects in between the existing land use and the new urban context. 33

SPRING 2010 ED KELLER STUDIO CRYPTOFORM OF POST EMPIRE DATA CENTER OF FIVE SENSES MITTE, BERLIN GERMANY

CRYPTOFORM OF POST EMPIRE - DATA CENTER OF FIVE SENSES Memorial architecture plays the role as recording of certain time period. It also reflects certain spiritual meaning, such as the glory of the state power, to remember some important people, or to record certain historic event. The main object of the design is to rethink of a new memorial archtiecture. Berlin is a political city which has been through twice of the world war. So the city has been separated, divided, deconstructed, and recombined. This situation also happens along with the Berlin Wall, the events here and the architectural programs are discontinuous, especially from the East Berlin to the West Berlin. Even though the wall has disappeared, but the discontinuity is still remain. It seems that there’s an invisible wall which blocks the events from the east to the west. Germany as a post empire, there’re so many discontinuities inside the city. Follow the inevitable globalization, Berlin has to reconnect itself. The more and more memorials and museums have created more discontinuity inside the city. Also, the memorial architecture is static, there’re no actual activities inside. Thus, the discontinuity is increasing inside the city. After the downfall of the Berlin Wall, the discontinuity between Eastern Berlin and Western Berlin is still remained. Even though there’s no physical boundary, the use of the space and the programs are separated. The design attempts to erase such discontinuity of Berlin. It is a new type of memorial architecture. It is a dynamic and open-source architecture. It is a memory data center which records the body movements and human senses from different parts of the city. Therefore, there are many individual units inside the city, which record and submit the crypto-signal to the data center. The data center is located at the site, Tiergarten, next to the Brandenburg Gate and the Holocaust Memorial. It is situated at the border of the East and West Berlin, and also along with the invisible Berlin Wall. The garden was a zoo, however, there’re no animals inside that area. There are also no infrastructures squares, and public activities inside the garden. The site has been blocked by the high density of the trees. Therefore, the design also tries to bring the public into the garden, and break the gap from the east to the west. The program of the design is a memory bank of five senses, which are touch, sound, smell, vision, and taste. As a result, there’re five sphere halls which are the memory bank of these five senses. People can experience the collective memory of the five senses inside these halls. In addition, each hall has connected to twelve different directions. There are twelve links, some of them are the structures, and some of them are the tubes for cables. For the coming ten to twenty years, the brain wave technology is about to have huge break through. The interactive technology of architecture is also growing up. Such interaction is both physical and metaphysical. The program of the design is a collective result. The five senses create the architecture, the architecture, records the five senses. 53

VISUAL STUDIES - PARAMETRIC REALIZATION - ANIMATED COMPUTATION - TILLING EDUCATION

Call Main() Sub Main() Dim l,k,u,v, strNewSrf, arrcntPt, strDot, arrObjects, arrCrvs, arrJnCrvs, arrOffCrvs, strNewestSrf Dim arrExpCrv Dim strsrf : strSrf = Rhino.GetObject ("Select surface",8) Dim intU : intU = 5 Dim intV : intV = 5 ReDim arrFrame(intU,intV) Dim UDomain : UDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 0) Dim VDomain : VDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 1) Dim UStep : UStep = (UDomain(1) - UDomain(0)) / intU Dim VStep : VStep = (VDomain(1) - VDomain(0)) / intV Dim counter : counter = 0 For l = 0 To intV For k = 0 To intU u = UDomain(0) + UStep * k v = VDomain(0) + vStep * l arrFrame(k,l) = Rhino.SurfaceFrame (strSrf, Array(U,V)) 'Call Rhino.AddPoint (arrFrame(k,l)(0)) If (l > 0 And k > 0)Then strNewSrf = Rhino.AddSrfPt (array(arrFrame(k,l)(0),arrFrame(k-1,l)(0),arrFrame(k-1,l-1)(0))) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (strNewSrf) strDot = Rhino.addtextdot (counter, arrcntPt(0)) Call Rhino.SelectObject (strNewSrf) Call Rhino.Command ("unrollsrf enter") Call Rhino.UnselectAllObjects arrObjects = Rhino.firstobject Call Rhino.MoveObject (arrObjects, array(0,0,0),array(0,counter*10,0)) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (arrObjects) Call Rhino.AddText (counter, arrcntPt(0),2) arrCrvs = Rhino.DuplicateEdgeCurves (arrObjects) arrJnCrvs = Rhino.JoinCurves (arrCrvs,True) arrOffCrvs = Rhino.OffsetCurve (arrJnCrvs(0),arrCntPt(0), 0.25) arrExpCrv = Rhino.ExplodeCurves (arrOffCrvs,True) Call Rhino.ReverseCurve (arrExpCrv(1)) strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddLoftSrf (array(arrExpCrv(1),arrExpCrv(2))) 'strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddPlanarSrf (arrOffCrvs) 'Call SubdivideSurface(strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (arrObjects) counter = counter + 1

strNewSrf = Rhino.AddSrfPt (array(arrFrame(k,l)(0),arrFrame(k-1,l-1)(0),arrFrame(k,l-1)(0))) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (strNewSrf) strDot = Rhino.addtextdot (counter, arrcntPt(0))

Call Rhino.SelectObject (strNewSrf) Call Rhino.Command ("unrollsrf enter") Call Rhino.UnselectAllObjects arrObjects = Rhino.firstobject Call Rhino.MoveObject (arrObjects, array(0,0,0),array(0,counter*10,0)) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (arrObjects) Call Rhino.AddText (counter, arrcntPt(0),2) arrCrvs = Rhino.DuplicateEdgeCurves (arrObjects) arrJnCrvs = Rhino.JoinCurves (arrCrvs,True) arrOffCrvs = Rhino.OffsetCurve (arrJnCrvs(0),arrCntPt(0), 0.25) arrExpCrv = Rhino.ExplodeCurves (arrOffCrvs,True) Call Rhino.ReverseCurve (arrExpCrv(1)) strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddLoftSrf (array(arrExpCrv(1),arrExpCrv(2))) 'strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddPlanarSrf (arrOffCrvs) 'Call SubdivideSurface(strNewestSrf(0)) 'strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddPlanarSrf (arrOffCrvs) 'Call SubdivideSurface(strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (arrObjects) counter = counter + 1 End If

Next Next End Sub Function SubdivideSurface(strSrf) Dim sl,sk,su,sv Dim sintU : sintU = 12 Dim sintV : sintV = 12 ReDim sarrFrame(sintU,sintV) Dim sUDomain : sUDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 0) Dim sVDomain : sVDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 1) Dim sUStep : sUStep = (sUDomain(1) - sUDomain(0)) / sintU Dim sVStep : sVStep = (sVDomain(1) - sVDomain(0)) / sintV Dim scounter : scounter = 0 For sl = 1 To sintV For sk = 1 To sintU-1 su = sUDomain(0) + sUStep * sk sv = sVDomain(0) + svStep * sl sarrFrame(sk,sl) = Rhino.SurfaceFrame (strSrf, Array(sU,sV)) If sl > 1 & sk > 2 & sk < sintU Then Call Rhino.AddPolyline (array(sarrFrame(sk,sl)(0),sarrFrame(sk,sl-1)(0))) 'Call Rhino.AddPolyline (array(sarrFrame(sk,sl),sarrFrame(sk-2,sl),sarrFrame(sk-1,sl-1),sarrFrame(sk,sl))) End If Call Rhino.AddPoint (sarrFrame(sk,sl)(0)) Next Next End Function

Option Explicit ‘Script written by <Wei Wang> ‘Script copyrighted by <Parametric Realization> ‘Script version Friday, November 06, 2009 6:05:07 PM Call Main() Sub Main() Dim i,j ReDim arrPt(30) For j = 0 To 30 For i = 0 To 30 arrPt(i) = array(i,i+sin(i*j)+j+sin(i*j),cos(i+j)/1.5-0.75) Next Call Rhino.addCurve (arrPt) Next

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