WEISHI WANG LEED GA Master of Architecture
Texas A&M University- College Station Selected Works (2014-2018)
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WORK1/ GINGKO AND CHERRY BLOSSOM
Architecture, continuting care retirement community studio work Encouraing different generations living together, let all residents feel a sense of belonging in the community.
WORK2/ 21st CENTURY CLASSROOM
Architecture, auditorium building on campus studio work Creating an equal studying environment for students and improve their learning efďŹ ciency in result.
WORK3/ HONEYCOMB UNIT
Architecture, vegetable market studio work Proposing a new prototype about honeycomb to increase the effenciency of the original market.
WORK4/ ORGANIC BUILDING
Architecture, energy-saving reconstruction studio work Combining the local building construction and ornament with sustainble technologies. Welcoming more tourists to visit there.
WORK5/ RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT
Urban and planning, residential design and planning studio work Using three levels of group to organize the residential district, everyone could enjoy an open green space.
WORK6/ ELEGANT GARDEN
Architecture, hotel design studio work Adding the traditional elements of Chinese garden to the hotel design, in order to provide a suitable place for the old people.
WORK6/ DRAWINGS and PHOTOGRAPHY Artistic sketches, watercolor, oil painting and photograthy works. Including photos come from Italy, Spain and Thailand.
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RESUME
GINGKO AND CHERRY BLOSSOM
CCRC PROJECT IN WESTERN JAPAN Below the cherry blossoms of youth, the gingko shines with longevity. Chair: Professor Susan Rodiek Co-chair: Dr. Zhipeng Lu Committee Member: Dr. Chanam Lee Studio Professor: Ray Pentecost Year 2 : Fall 2017-Spring 2018
Cherry blossom
Bubble Diagram
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Concepts of Project The ideal senior campus is a place that gives a high level of care to senior citizens, honors their autonomy, dignity, and maximal functional independence. The purpose of the design for the senior citizens is not only to meet their basic daily requirements but also to help them experience and enrich their life at the rest time. People of different ages would be able to live and work together at here.
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Continuous Balcony Southeast facing continuous balcony provides an outdoor walking space for residents living in second floor. In addition, it provides enough sunlight, where residents can sit and watch activities on the promenade. Get enough sunlight in winter
View under umbrella
Courtyard
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Southeast Wing
Place for Living Indoor activity space connects with outdoor balcony and courtyard. Residents can choose to join group activities or sit alone to look, enjoying sunlight and great view outside.
Super class, 45.2 m2
Southfacing Public Space
Entry Garden
Deluxe class, 30.8 m2
Standard class, 20.2 m2
Northwest Wing
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Double Suite, 32.8 m2
21 CENTURY CLASSROOM AN EQUAL ENVIRONMENT FOR STUDENTS Studio Profssor: J. Craig Babe (Associate Professor of Practice) Arch 606: Spring 2017 Studio Project, Indidual work
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Bird’s eye view of site
Asix Mapping
Improve Learning Quality This project is located in the Texas A&M University, in the southwest of memorial student center. As a 21st century classroom, the goal is to improve the learning quality of students and encourage the participation in the class. All the auditoriums and classrooms look like a circle, which means students have the same distance with instructor and there is no hierarchy among them. Besides, there is enough open study space for students to communicate after class, which could promote the work efficiency as well. As for the architecture language, it should both be modern and take into consideration of the original campus architecture style.
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Site Plan
Internal Renderings
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HONEYCOMB UNIT
A VEGETABLE MARKET IN THE CENTRAL CITY Critic: Li Lin Year 4 : Winter 2013 Tian Zuo Competition
This project is about the Luo Jiazhuang vegetable market, lying in Xihu District, Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The modification work of the market aims to improve its use efficiency. There are three shining points in this design. The first one is that it takes the shape of honeycomb as its prototype, to change the original one to one business mode into one to many relationships. That is to say, a seller can simultaneously provide his service to numerous customers. The second feature is that it absorbs the roadside barbecue and other retailing booths into the market, to extend its business hours till midnight. The last one is that a series of public spaces are set in every floor for shopkeepers and customers to have a rest or carry out activities.
Concept
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POSITION
Outside of the market
The market locates at the crossing of the Wenyixi Road and Gudun Road, a bustling place with large population. With the development of the population growth, the original market can‘t meet the new requirements.
The analysis diagram
The site
Original model
Comparation
New model
In the original rectangle counter, the sellers and buyers are in a one to one relationship that the sale is in a low efficiency. However, in the hexagon counter, the sellers and buyers are in a one- to- many relationships to improve its efficient.
Resting
Eating
Selling
Functions
Structure
In the Morning, sellers put out the board with vegetables for customers to choose; at noon, sellers set up the board to create a break space; at night, the counter can provide adjustable seats.
The counter can be flat pushed and pulled up and down to satisfy different usage in different periods of time.
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GARBAGE DISPOSAL According to the traditional garbage disposal way that cleaners recycles the garbage from counter to counter through the handcart, which wastes time and energy. However, the new center pillar is designed to be the hollow garbage hurled pipes that all the garbage can be discharged into the same place for cleaners to centralized processing it. What’s more, the recyclables and unrecyclable wastes are discharged through different exits to recycle the available resources.
The plan view
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The perspective at night
The interior section
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The perspection
ORGANIC HOTEL THE ENERGY SAVING PROJECT Critic: Ruifeng Zheng Cooperator: Yijun Lin My Work: create the building model& add energy-saving strageties Year 5: Summer 2015 This project aims to improve the passive energy saving for the No.177 dwelling house in Chenjia village, Baimahu, Hangzhou. The propriety wants to transform the existing residential building into private hostels, both for tourists and themselves. Some of the excellent traditional architectural elements used in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area, will be presented in the design, especially in construction and ornament. The roof solar energy technology, heat storage materials, covered container with biotechnology, and flat roof rainwater drainage system, are all adopted in this project, to reduce energy consumption and to achieve the effect of energy saving and sustainable development. 14
The perspection
THE ORIGINAL BUILDING A building without any energy-saving methods The original building was built by farmer themselves with good neighboring environment, open vision, and high greening rate. The southern park also provides an abundant resource of landscape. The building is 14 meters high (The standard height of a floor is 3.3 meters while some of
the floor is 4 layers.) and covers 424.8 square meters. However, the building lacks diversity in construction and functional space. It retains the traditional wooden roof but the whole architectural image is in western style, which can`t give people a clear impression of architectural style. The
window-wall ratio far exceeds the standard requirement of regional energy saving in hot summer and cold winter, which makes the thermal environment uncomfortable for people in summer and winter and consumes too much energy.
The original residential building
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Roof heat perservation 1
Roof heat perservation 2
ENERGY SAVING STRAGETY We blanket outer surface of the building with green plants which can not only serve the function of heat insulation and preservation but also beautify the environment.
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The Birds’ eye view
GREEN NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT DESIGN Curriculum Design Critic: Mingshu Liu Year 4: 2014 September This project lies in Xihu District, Hangzhou, with a cover of 133100 square meters and about 2000 households. It plans to build multilayer and high-rise economic quarters, accompanied by service facilities, such as shopping malls, clubs, kindergartens and community center. The whole community is extended along the main street and the inner roads are in ring type. In the community, there are three spatial levels, several buildings making up a cluster, several clusters forming a courtyard, and the whole community, giving people a feeling of spatial rhythm. Every cluster of buildings has its own green land for elderly and children to have fun. Equal dots in the village
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The business perspection
The club perspection
First floor plan
Section
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guided diagram Site Function
Interior corridor
The hallway
DIFFERENT TYPE OF UNIT
The public garden Enjoy public outdoor space
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There are four house types, 90, 115, 130 and 140 square meters. The design takes the plate-type as the keynote, interspersed with point building. The different length and height of the residences show a varied landscape.
ELEGANT GARDEN
A HOTEL FOR THE ELDERLY
Interinship in The ADA Company Major Architect: Yago My work: master plan & analysis diagram Year 4: Summer 2014
Elegant Hotel, a health-keeping hotel providing services for elderly, lies in Xihu District, Hangzhou. Inspired by the traditional Chinese architecture, the design of this project adopts a layout of courtyard, which can strengthen the spatial organization and enhance the communications among customers. Within the hotel, it makes great use of the space into three key parts, the main plaza, the entrance hall and the detached house. Meanwhile, a patio is also added into the design to achieve a decorative effect and to integrate the interior and exterior building into a whole. Veranda, as the walking system with a roof, can be seen everywhere in the hotel, which can avoid the negative influence of the road slippery on rainy and snowy days. A plenty of wellness facilities such as the swimming pool, the garden and the court, are provided for people to keep fit.
The surroundings
The Perspective view
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The Location
SPACE CONSTITUTION
Gardens
TYPIC ELEMENTS
Buildings have different space closure forms. The pillars can form a semi-accessible space. The windows block out the way but visible on the sight. The solid walls directly divide the space.
Hui-style building
The elements of the Hui-style architecture: Hui-style architecture is originated from Ming and Qing Dynasties, and flourished in humid Jiangnan Areas. The typical characteristics are Ma Tau wall, gabled roof and special small attic.
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Traditional Chinese painting
Bird’s eye view
ANALYSIS
The ground plan view
THE CONCEPT The design concept comes from the traditional Chinese landscape design, adopting a basic layout of courtyard and also emphasizing on the space interspersed. Meanwhile, the building corresponds with the nature. It retains the original lakes and ancient trees and adds the yards and viewing platform systems.
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Roof Corridor In order to have a better combination of the lake and hotel, we create a long corridor with roof around the lake. So the old could enjoy a safe and pleasure time near the nature.
Central yard
Yard before guest room
THE GROUND FLOOR PLAN
A-A section
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The CourtYards The guestrooms are organized by different sizes of yards, so no matter where the visitors are live, they could enjoy the scenery.
Lobby
Outside pond
THE SECOND FLOOR PLAN
B-B section
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SKETCH & WATERCOLOR Painting from 2011-2013 Teacher: Qi Huiquan
Watercolor
THE SKETCH MADE IN NEPAL AND THAILAND
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PHOTOGRAPHY The photograthy were taken when I went to the Venice, Italy and Greece with my family members. Under the setting sun, we can see that there is a play between the light and shadow.
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WEISHI WANG (1) 979-985 8199 1601 Holleman Dr. 1904 apt, College Station, Texas.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2016 Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University. (Mar. to May.) Participated in concept design and landscape design of 118,400 sf Cultural Museum.
VOLUNTEER
2014 ADA Architectural Design Co., Ltd. (July to August) Participated in the project design of Yazhuang Retirement Center; recorded meeting content.
SKILLS
2013 Zhejiang Fancheng Architecture Landscape Design Co., Ltd. (July to Aug.) Participated in Fiji Island Hotel design; searched information about the plants, geography, climate and architectural features of Fiji Island. 2013 Hangzhou Jingwei Architecture Design Co., Ltd. (Jan. to Feb.) Self-learned CAD, Sketch Up and Photoshop by reading and learning from senior employees.
EDUCATION
2016-2018 Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Master of Architecture Certificate in Health Systems & Design 2011-2016 ZheJiang University of Science and Technology, ZheJiang, China Bachelor of Architecture
RESEARCH
2017
Measured the light transmittance of the dynamic glazing, compared data from physical model and software simulations. (TAMU)
2015
The Combination and Innovation of Regional Rural Building Reconstruction and Passive Building Energy-Saving Technology (June -present)
2013 The Local Winter Intermittent Heating Strategy and Construction Renewal Methods in Huizhou (Jan. -present)
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2018 2017 2016
Computer
Revit, CAD, Sketch Up, Rhino, V-Ray, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Language
Chinese: mother tongue English: fluent speaking German: daily expressions of greetings
INTERESTS AWARD
ASHE PDC Summit in Nashville, Tennessee 17th Chinese Hospital Construction Conference in Wuhan, China FGI Workshop in Austin as a student volunteer
Travel, Photography, Sketching, Climbling, Chinese zither 2017 2017 2016 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013
Design for Aging Competitive Scholarship 2017-18 Design for Aging Scholarship The Robert L and Helen Wingler Endowed Scholarship 2nd Academic Scholarship National 3rd Class Landscape Designer Certificate Merit Student 3rd prize in School Architectural Structure Design Competition 3rd Academic Scholarship
THANKS