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Weijia Wu
wwu21@hawk.iit.edu 3506 S State Street, Apt 210, Chicago, IL 60609
Station Mutation
Translation Fall 2014 "Ignorance and Surprise" by Matthias Gross • Translated chapter 5, 6 and notes from English to Chinese, Yilin Press Youth Olympic Games - Nanjing, China Culture and Education Department Intern • Held meetings for idea solicitation • Helped collecting designs for Sculpture Competition • Translated files
Summer 2012
House Over a Shop
Summer_2014
Spring_2013
• IPRO Award - College of Architecture Dean's Choice • 4YR CBD Spring Awards-Students Award, Best Project • Study Abroad at TU Delft/WHY Factory • College of Architecture Dean's List • Member, IIT AIAS • Models and photos displayed during Open House • International Student Scholarship • American Mathematics Competitions12-Honor Roll of Distinction • Professional Level in Piano Playing
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Awards/ Activities
Spring_2015
3-D Programs: • Rhinoceros, Google Sketchup, Revit, Grasshopper, V-ray, 3ds Max, Unity 3D 2-D Programs: • AutoCad, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Lightroom Machinery: • Wood working, Manual working, Laser cutting, CNC cutting, 3D Printing Art: • Pen/pencil sketch, Watercolor, Photography Other: • Proficient in both Mandarin Chinese and English • Good at solving problems and working with different people • Strong responsibility and creativity
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Nanjing-Lishui Master Plan
Skills
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Summer 2014
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AECOM Design + Planning - LA, CA Design Intern Projects: • Nanjing - Lishui Master Plan, Nanjing, China • Replanning of Las Vegas Wynn Hotel, Las Vegas, NV • Conceptual Master Plan of Dachang District, Beijing, China • Client Project Reference Book of Jiashan, China
Fall 2015
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Experience Elston Window & Wall, LLC - Chicago, IL Assistant Project Manager - Intern • Assisted Project Managers • Communicated with China • Worked with Engineering Department • Oversaw the installation of materials • Prepared project close-out documents
02_Harold Washington Library Renovation
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Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL Bachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.4/4.0 Anticipated date of graduation: Spring 2016
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Education
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School Work (Group work) Urban Design Fall 2014 The Why Factory/TU Delft Professor: Winy Maas Ulf Hackauf Bryant Pitak
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Farm Block aims at finding a method that merges farms with cities for a more efficient, dense, ecological and exciting life with food. The size is based on 10,000 people as consumers and 39 products. Starting with Farm Strategies, then move on to Farm Models, as research is being visualized through the creation of spatial schemes achieved through scripting; in the end, Farm models were transformed from research informed schematic modules into design proposals, first for buildings, then for self-sufficient future cities. I was in charge of using grasshopper to visualize all the farm block models. The different farm block arrangements and scenarios shown here were also designed and done by me.
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POTATOES
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Baseline Diet
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Ultra Nutritional Diet
SOYBEANS
GOAT
SOY MILK
MILK WHOLE
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CHICKEN
YOGURT
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MILK 2%
WHEAT
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LENTILS
ALMONDS
OLIVES
CHICKPEAS
CHEESE
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CHEESE (SWISS)
APPLES
LEMONS
BEANS
ONION
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STRAWBERRIES
ORANGES
CABBAGE
MUSHROOMS
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BANANAS
CARROTS
TOMATOES
Bug Diet
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CUCUMBERS
LETTUCE
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CHEESE (CREAM)
CRICKETS
Various diet types
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Space required for Farm Blocks and people (Water, Production & Waste)
Space required for all 39 Farms
Farm Block space required in Delft
Detailed space required for Farm Blocks and people with Water, Production & Waste
Water flow
Food Production flow
Farm Block space required in Rotterdam
Fodder flow
Waste flow
All flows
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Space required for 10,000 people (Water, Production & Waste)
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Farm Block space required in Chicago
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Harvest oriented Farm Block
Demand oriented Farm Block
Shelf Life oriented Farm Block
Synthesis Farm Block
Corresponding scenarios
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Tower
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Modular
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Distribution
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Cyclical / Elevated
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Harold Washington Library Renovation School Work (Group work) Public Building Spring 2015 CBD Studio Professor: Peter Landon Design Partners: Yoeun Chung Jihun kwon xu zhang Harold Washington Library is the public library located at Chicago downtown area with problems such as lack of accessibility and lack of natural lighting. Taking tree as a metaphor, the original building is divided vertically into three sections: a welcoming root, an information storage trunk and a knowledge sharing canopy. For better accessibility, the building also connects to CTA and the public park above and under ground. Our group came up with the design together and I was in charge of site analysis, building structure, HVAC/ Lighting systems, digital modeling and renderings. Almost all the drawings shown here were done by me.
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Canopy
Iconic experience
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Strengthen downtown area
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Root
Fundamental programs
Catalyst to the south
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Resource
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Trunk
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Second Floor Plan
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Site Plan East Elevation
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Third Floor Plan
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East Section
Explode into three vertical sections
Library as an attraction
Divide middle section
Generate vertical cores
Connect to CTA and Park
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Existing Library
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North Section Activities in the Art Core
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Between Cores
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Glare Protection
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Photovoltaic Panels
Natural Lighting
Detail (Facade and slab connection)
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Movable Louvers Library Cafe Place
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Passive Heating
Rainwater Collection
Kid’s Library
East Wall Section
Wintertime Heating
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Summertime Cooling
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School Work (Group work) Architecture + Urban Design Fall 2015 Cloud Studio/SOM Professor: Robert Bracken Mark Nagis Design Partners: Yoeun Chung seung won seo
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Station Mutation is a research and design studio aims at proposing the US Midwest High Speed Rail corridor from Chicago to Toronto to reduce the traveling time between the cities and create more opportunities to the Great Lakes region. The design scale changes from the overall regional planning down to the architecture of the stations. The station proposed here is located in Toronto, the end of the HSR corridor. The main idea is to break the barriers in the city, and to attract different user groups through the HSR to Toronto. The precedents studies were done by the whole studio section, and I did the Beijing HSR station. The analysis, design and drawings of Toronto were done by my partners and me. The Scheme_01 was done totally by me.
The analysis of 16 HSR stations from 7 different systems around the world in zoning maps and sections at the same scale.
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HSR Station precedents
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CHSRA SF Transbay Station, CA
CRC Beijing South Station, China
ACELA Washington D.C. Union Station
AVE Atocha Train Station, Spain
Shinkansen Kyoto Station, Japan
Shinkansen Morioka Station, Japan
TGV Liege Station, Belgium
AVE AVE Logrono Railway Station, Zaragoza Railway Station, Spain Spain
TGV Gare de Lille Europe, France
TGV Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu, France
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CHSRA Anaheim Station, CA
ACELA Penn Station, NY
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AAF ACELA AAF Miami Central Station, FL West Palm Beach Station, Boston South Station, MA FL
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toronto city barriers Toronto has two city barriers. The physical barrier is the Gardiner Expressway and the Railroad; the intangible barrier is the centralization of different neighborhoods.
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Over Railway Below Railway Existing Park Planned Park Pedestrian + Car
Car
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Pedestrian Bridges
Skywalk
Pedestrian + Car
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Existing Railway Existing Expressway
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Stitch the gap Improve vertical access Create green cultural corridor
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Scheme_01 Toronto Live in the Air
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Serving as a new city center, the station supports the famous stadiums around, and provides sports facilities to students, citizens and travelers. The plaza (rooftop) connects to the programs (Station, Sports Center, Retail, Exhibition, Theater) and other buildings from either rooftop or upper levels.
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Generate programs
Project related context buildings
Develop programs
Generate paths
Extend connections
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Elevate plane
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Pile up the School
Split the Plaza
Assemble
Ticketing Space
Floating Archive
Retail Space
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Float the Archive
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To bring Torontonians together, we are adding a civic education program, repositioning the station as a “regional campus“ for the 300,000 students and 50 million residents now connected by the High Speed Rail. Knowledge is brought by containers from the different cities and institutions that share this line and is exhibited, shared and celebrated in the station’s public space.
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Scheme_02 E Station
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School Work (Individual work) Residence+Retail Spring 2013 Masonry Studio Professor: Michael Mitchell
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Located at Bronzeville, a historic neighborhood in southern Chicago, a vacant lot is turned into a low-rise apartment housing above a coffee shop. Built by modern masonry cavity wall, House Over a Shop serves as a community cohesion, provides a new way of living, and solves the conflict between public and private at the same time.
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Site and Bronzeville
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Fourth Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan Site Plan
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Roof Plan
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Conceptual Master Plan of Lishui District and Core Area Urban Design Professional Work Urban Planning + Urban Design Summer 2014 AECOM Design + Planning Design Principal: Vaughan Davies Design Partners: Bicen Ye, Stephen Nieto, wenji ma Lishui, located at southeast China, part of Nanjing, is a historic district with plenty of natural canals and hills. The project is an overall master plan with a detailed urban design of a proposed CBD and Cultural Area based on its future development and natural topography. The design was from the Design Principal, and all the renderings and diagrams shown here were made by me.
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Central CBD, Canal and Open Space
Open Space
Traffic Connections
Framework and Gateways
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Land Use
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Cultural Area_Programs
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Cultural Area_Water Variation
Cultural Area_Edge Variation
Cultural Area Retail
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Fence Project
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Case Study Model - Weekend House
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Photography - Chicago
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Color Project
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Drafting - Brick House
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Pen sketch-Anhui Village, China
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Watercolor sketch
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Geometry Site Project
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