Weijia wu portfolio 20160125

Portfolio

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

Fall_2015

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

Fall_2014

Nanjing-Lishui Master Plan

Skills

05_Nanjing-Lishui Master Plan

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

03_Station Mutation

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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

Farm Block Station Mutation House Over a Shop Nanjing-Lishui Master Plan

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

Farm City

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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

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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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Corresponding Sections

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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

Pedestrian + Car

Pedestrian Bridges

Skywalk

Pedestrian + Car

Car

Existing Railway Existing Expressway

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Farm Block

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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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House Over a Shop

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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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Loft Private Circulation

Ground Floor_Public Cafe

Back_Private Circulation

Public and Private Circulation

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4th Floor_Unit B

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4th Floor_Unit A

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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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