Da portfolio 2018

WENBO DA

P O R T F O L I O Email: dawenbo2015@yahoo.com

Cell Phone: 631-229-5073

2015 - 2018

contents

1 China Box

4 elf Store

2 Hotel Montreal

5 Australian Center

3 Floating House

6 Park Hyatt Aviara

1

China Box

NYSID

Location: New York, U.S.

Spring 2017

R ETAIL

GA LLE RY

R ES TAU R A N T

This is the the place where you can hangout to explore Chinese food and culture in Mahattan. It combines retail, gallery and restaurant. Inspired by the rice container in Chinese restaurant, “China Box� wants to become an another icon for a place where people can find authentic Chinese food, cooking classes, spices and comtemporary Chinese art.

CONCEPT I CHINA BOX SPACE STUDY Restaurant

Retail Classical Garden

Courtyard

Layered space

Gallery

SITE

PROGRESS

Original solid building block

Chelsea market

Highline

Lifted base

Space connection

Whitney museum

Connect with highline

Add new volume to the building

Floating the volume

Open to street

Add central volume

All volumes connected

Highline Building

The building is located in Chelsea connected with highline and close to Chelsea market, Whitney museum and many other attractions. There’re lots of people around this area. Since its unusual location, I decided to bring the energy of highline into this project.

Section A - A CENTRAL HUB

Inside sheer

Central hub is a transitional “In Between“ space serves as gallery, transport and cultural hub and even a meditation space functions. A mega staircase connected both the building and highline bringing live to this solid brick building and breaking the boundaries between floors and walls.

Lantern Mega stair

Outside sheer Temporary exhibition for food and culture Boxes

A

A

Connect to outside

CHINA BOX I FLOOR PLAN

7

20 6

21

17

4

22 24

3

5

19

16 1 18

2

Ground Floor

Third Floor

14 13 10

15

12

9

11 Second Floor

23

1. Tea House

13. Restroom

2. Book Store

14. Elevator Lobby

3. Gift Shop

15. Central Gallery

4. Spices Market

16. Shanghai Cuisine

5. Courtyard

17. Shandong Cuisine

6. Restroom

18. Cantonese Cuisine

7. Elevator Lobby

19. Sichuan Hot Pot

8. Equipment Room

20. Elevator Lobby

9. Tea House

21. Restroom

10. Cooking Studio

22. Shared Kitchen

11. Book Store

23. Shared Kitchen

12. Food Court

24. Central Gallery

GROUND FLOOR I CHINA BOX

Inside

Outside

Open to street

Tea house entrance view

From tea house to courtyard

Courtyard

CHINA BOX I 2nd FLOOR

Central stair

Frame of views

From food court to stair

Multi-level experience

Inside

Outside Food booth

Food Court

Food court layout concept

2nd FLOOR I CHINA BOX

The cooking studio Cook

Dining area at cooking studio

Stair entrance on 2nd floor

Eat

Space connection

Tea house

Inspiration

CHINA BOX I 3nd FLOOR

Communal dining

Shanghai restaurant

From stair to restaurant

Shared kitchen

Inside

Outside

Inside

Outside

View on mega stair

2

Hotel Montreal

NYSID

Location: Montreal, Canada

Fall 2017

LOBBY I HOTEL MONTREAL SITE AND CONCEPT

Montreal is a city with history and fashion, formal and informal and with old and new.

Sometimes people see the historical street with the history of hundreds of years but sometimes the most fashionable things catche your eye. I want to bring this city texture into the hotel. I feel that there are two attributes in the city—‘static’ which means the history and antiquity and ‘dynamic’ which means the fashion and avant-garde. The design language abstracted from the architecture in the city itself. Static includes symmetry, order and verticality from the historical classical architecture while the dynamic includes movement and asymmetry from modern architecture.

IMAGERY

Lobby

Lounge

4

Circulation

6

1. Lobby

2

2. Reception 3. Lounge 4. Elevator lobby 5. Gift shop 6. Rest room

3

Floor Plan

1

5

HOTEL MONTREAL I GUESTROOM FLOOR Gusetroom Floor Plan

Axonometric

B

B

A

A Typical Suite Plan

FF & E Living Room

Bedroom Materials

Refreshing Room

TYPICAL SUITE I HOTEL MONTREAL

Section A-A

Section B-B

HOTEL MONTREAL I TYPICAL ELEVATOR LOBBY AND CORRIDOR

Elevator lobby

Corridor

Corridor

3

Floating House Location: New York, NY

NYSID Spring 2016

CONCEPT I FLOATING HOUSE CASE STUDY

CONCEPT

"Not using the potential underwater space"

"Function and spacial experience are same as buildings on land"

This is a floating house located in the Hudson River in New York. Water has lots of benefits for people’s living. I want to explore the relationship between water and people’s behaviors. There is a big difference between living on water and in water. Sound and light, which define the public and private space, change from above to below. According to the public and private needs, I putted different functions on different water levels. For this project, I want to give my customer an experience of walking into the water so that the space will be very open and boundaryless like water itself.

Experience of water

PROGRESS

Physical study model

Roof Garden

Dining Water Level

Study Activity

Bath

Sleeping

Function arrangement

Residents are able to change the angle and the direction to sun to have a best efficiency of use of light.

FLOATING HOUSE I SECTION

Kitchen

Entrance

Water Level

Bar Bath room

Kid’s room

Water-based ecosystem

SECTION I FLOATING HOUSE

Library Study room

Water Level

Bedroom Water-based ecosystem

FLOATING HOUSE I ENTRY AND KITCHEN

Plan

Axonometric

STUDY AND ACTIVITIES I FLOATING HOUSE

Plan

Axonometric

FLOATING HOUSE I BATH AND SLEEPING

Plan

Axonometric

4

elf Store

NYSID

Location: New York, NY

Fall 2016

CONCEPT I elf STORE CONCEPT

INSPIRATION

elf is a very successful cosmetic products E-retailer. This is my design for the brick-and-motar store for the brand. In the store, selling is not the only thing but the experience as well. An exhibition area, bar, salon and beauty lab will be added in since I want to design a space where customer can touch, smell, try the product and even have a seat here during the leisure time.

The most obvious feature of elf is the “ play beautifully box” plan, which means elf will send gift boxes including the most current products to their customer. I choose “Box” as my concept and putted different experiences in different boxes. To attract people getting in, I designed the interior in a really quiet and minimal way to show up the products and to have the contrast to its traditional outside space.buildings around.

SKETCH

PROGRESS

Exhibition

Salon

Beauty Lab

elf STORE I PLAN AND ELEVATION

Section A-A

Section A-A

Service

Meet

Ground floor

Try

Learn

Mezzanine

Bar

A

Salon A

Cashier Exhibition Sale

Test

BAR AND TRY BAR I elf STORE

Try bar

Bar

elf STORE I BEAUTY LAB AND SALON

Beauty lab

Salon

5

Australian Center HBA Location: Hangzhou, China

Status: In Progress

LOBBY I AUSTRALIAN CENTER MOOD

SITE

The project is located in Hangzhou, China. Australian Center’s Lobby Areas present a luxurious interior aesthetic augmented by the tranquility of being in artistic natural spaces. Limestone cliffs are inspiration for powerful energetic elements, with the aboriginal Australian art unifying with the strength of the art and nature to create an experience of craftsmanship and serenity .

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I LOBBY FLOOR PLAN

SPACE STUDY

3

1

4

5

6

2

1. Residential Lobby

3. Residential Library

5. Residential Elevator Lobby

2. Commercial Lobby

4. Mail Room

6. Commercial Elevator Lobby

Add

Symmetry

SECTION

Reduce

Reception Area

Aboriginal art wall

LOBBY I AUSTRALIAN CENTER Residential Elevator Lobby

Residential Lobby

Materials

FF&E SELECTION

Looby Group

Library Group

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I LOBBY Commercial Lobby

Commercial Elevator Lobby

FF&E SELECTION

SKY LOUNGE I AUSTRALIAN CENTER MOOD

CONCEPT Australian Center’s sky lounge is a place for young people where they can work together, share experience, hang out and know each other. The concept for this area is to create a flowing and transitional space.

Meet

Fun

Relax

Work Multi-use

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I SKY LOUNGE

Alternate bed area layout to have extra emergency exit in back.

8

A

A

4. Gym

1. Living Room

2. Restaurant

3. Corridor

5. Kitchen

6. Terrace

7. Co-Work Place

8. Sun Deck

4

3

7

5 Rain Solution

Section A - A

6

2

1

SKY LOUNGE L33 I AUSTRALIAN CENTER

Chair Design

Booth Chair Design

Layout Concept Respect Building Structure Flowing Space Layered Function

Light Circulation

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I SKY LOUNGE L33

SKY LOUNGE L33 I AUSTRALIAN CENTER

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I SKY LOUNGE L33

Co-Work Concept This Co-Work space is designed for young entrepreneurs. It’s inspired by We-Work rental office idea. It’s a place mixed of different people and mixed uses.

Conference Room Casual study

Communal Study

Semi-Private Area

Meet and Learn Group Disscusion

Circular Seating Area

Meet

Separate

SKY LOUNGE L33 I AUSTRALIAN CENTER

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I SKY LOUNGE L34

Inspired by the sun bed on the beach. Take advantage of the sun light and views of the building.

Sun Bed Concept

Layout Concept

Layered Function Light Fire Pit

Dining Table

Multi-function furniture pieces will make people easily meet and communicate.

Circulation

Use lower partitions to create open space doesn’t block the sun light and view.

SKY LOUNGE L34 I AUSTRALIAN CENTER

AUSTRALIAN CENTER I SKY LOUNGE L34

Night time

6

Park Hyatt Aviara Location: San Diego

HBA

Status: In Progress

REBIRTH OF AN ICON

Carlsbad is a semi-arid Mediterranean climate which is ideal for rejuvenating the body and mind. Its history as a place of refreshing waters goes back to the 1880s, when a former sailor dug a well in the area and discovered clear crisp water. A second fresh-water well was discovered to contain water chemically similar to some of the most renowned spas in the world and thus town was named after one of these spas; the famed spa of Karlsbad. This rejuvinating terrain serves as the context for this property, inviting guests to slow down and revel in the local landscape.

From the moment you enter you know you are somewhere special. Our design is about the connectivity from the landscape to the neighborhood, from nature to business, from the hotel to the ocean and hillside. Local flora and fauna frame the approach from the entry gate to the porte cochere. When the hotel comes into view everything is light and open. Stepping through the doors, the view across the lobby has a strong sightline that opens up to the sky.

You are embraced by a comfortable hum of activity from the interconnecting public spaces.

Indoor flows to the outdoor in a breezy sequence.

We envision this as an opportunity to create a unique identity that could not be duplicated elsewhere, taking the existing Mission Revival style building and modernizing the design to emphasize the easy elegance which is so distinctive to this place and the Park Hyatt brand.

PARK HYATT AVIARA I PUBLIC SPACE

SITE

MOOD

The hotel is located in northen San Diego. It’s been built in 1997. Also, southern California is known throughout the world for its sunny beauty and healthy climate. Within breezy proximity to the beach, the grounds of Park Hyatt Aviara are a lush setting for relaxation or business retreat.

INDOOR- OUTDOOR CONNEC TIVIT Y N AT U R A L A N D R E J U V E N AT I N G

HUMMING WITH LIGHT

W A R M LY I N T E L L I G E N T REFRAC TED WHITES WITH TEX TURED NEUTRALS

PUBLIC SPACE I PARK HAYTT AVIARA

P L A N and P R O G R A M

E

Outside

Outside

Outside TERR ACE

Inside

Inside

LOBBY TERR ACE

TERR ACE

A

LOBBY BAR B

CORRIDOR

LOBBY BAR

LOBBY LOUNGE F

BAR

G

PA NT RY

C

R E TA I L MARKETPLACE

H

PROMENADE

PROMENADE LOBBY

RECEPTION

CONCIERCE

R E TA I L PRE-FUNCTION

ENTRANCE

MEETING ROOM

D

ARCADE

Demolition Plan

PORTE COCHERE

ARCADE

Our approach to lobby programming seeks to create a unified and dynamic space where edges are blurred and guests are drawn to move throughout the space. By opening to the exterior where possible, we bring in light and connect to the surrounding nature. Utilizing scale and heirarchy we will set dif ferent moods throughout the lobby that ser ve to activate the disparate zones - the lobby bar will take on a more formal, sophisticated identity while the lobby lounge provides a energetic and casual contrast.

By removing physical and visual barriers we improve the flow and strengthen the connection to the site.

SIGHT LINES G U E S T C I R C U L AT I O N A . LOUNGE LIKE OUTDOOR S E AT I N G B . I N T R O D U C E S TA C K E D DOORS C. OPEN UP WA LLS T O C R E AT E A V I S U A L CONNECTION TO THE MARKETPL ACE, ENERGIZING THE LOBBY D. INTRODUCE ICONIC M O M E N T S AT A R R I V A L E . P U L L B AC K FAC A D E , C R E AT I N G I N I N D O O R OUTDOOR LOBBY E XPERIENCE

3D Study Our Approach

F. F I R E E L E M E N T T O P U L L GUESTS INTO THE LOBBY

Existing

G . S O P H I S T I C AT E D L O B B Y BAR ENVIRONMENT PROVIDES A FORMAL SETTING H. MARKETPL ACE SERVES AS A DYN A MIC BACK DROP TO THE CASUAL LOBBY LOUNGE

PARK HYATT AVIARA I PUBLIC SPACE

RECEPTION I PARK HYATT AVIARA

PARK HAYTT AVIARA I CENTRAL LOBBY

BAR I PARK HYATT AVIARA

PARK HAYTT AVIARA I RESTAURANT