WEIWEI CHEN Selected works 2020-2022 PORTFOLIO Master of Design in Interior Architecture 22' Rhode Island School of Design
Graphic Design
ANLAN Visual Identity Design Team Work, 2021 01
02 KENSEN Visual Identity Design Team Work, 2020
03 Visual Identity Design for University
Individual work/ 2019
04 Layout Design
Providence,Rhode Island,US Individual work, Summer, 2020 05 Typography Poster Design Providence,Rhode Island,US Individual work, Summer, 2020
Content
Interior and Architecture 07
06 Blurred Lines
Adaptive reuse Zhuhai Going Port, China
Thesis, RISD Individual work, Spring, 2022
Lego Rustic Oasis
Huopu Competition Team work, 2021
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Back To The Market
Adaptive reuse for statehouse in Rhode Island Providence,Rhode Island/ Individual work/ Fall, 2021
09 Nostalgia Future
A Public Laundry and Apartment Hongkong, China/ Individual work/ Summer, 2021
10 Marine Cultural Center for Civic and Fish
Present as Prologue: Adapting for Rising Seas Boston, US/ Individual work/ Spring, 2021
11 Art space for Barbara Hepworth
Adaptive Reuse for Studio and Residence Providence, US/ Individual Work/ Winter, 2021
12 Fog and Mountain Pavilion Deisgn about Light and Color London, UK/ Individual work/ Spring, 2021
13 A Bridge Design for Villagers
Bridge Construction Guizhou, China / Volunteer / May, 2020
14 Professional Work
Lishui Urban Design Competition China/ Professional Practice/ Summer, 2020
ANLAN Visual Identity Design
Team Work, 2021 Team member: Haiwen Yang,Jialiang Li, Zixun Meng, Weiwei Chen, Mengyao Yu.
We designed visual identity system for Japan Beauty brand ANLAN, including logo, pacakge, web, clothing and other visual design.
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Kensen
Visual Identity Design
We designed visual identity system for men's Product brand
including logo, pacakge,
other visual design.
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Team Work, 2020 Team member: Haiwen Yang,Jialiang Li, Zixun Meng, Weiwei Chen
KENSEN
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Visual Identity Design for University
Macau University of Science and Technology Macau, China
Individual work, 2019
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Layout Design
Individual work, Summer, 2020
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Paul Renner and released in 1927. It was designed as a contribution on the New Frankfurt-project. It is based on geometric shapes, especially the circle, similar in spirit to the Bauhaus design style of the period. It was developed as a typeface by the Bauer Type Foundry, in competition with Ludwig & Mayer's seminal Erbar typeface of 1926. The truly modern is what we hold today to be timelessly perfect. -Paul Renner F UTURA B O D O NI A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) Bodoni is the name given to the serif typefaces first designed by Giambattista Bodoni (1740�1813) in the late eighteenth century and frequently revived since. Bodoni's typefaces are classified as Didone or modern. Bodoni followed the ideas of John Baskerville, as found in the printing type Baskerville—increased stroke contrast reflecting developing printing technology structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction. and a more vertical axis—but he took them to a more extreme conclusion. Bodoni had a long career and his designs changed and varied, ending with a typeface of a slightly condensed underlying. structure with flat, unbracketed serifs, extreme contrast between thick and thin strokes, and an overall geometric construction. “ The sweltering hideousness of the Bodoni letter, the most illegible type that was ever cut, with its preposterous thicks and thins, has been mostly relegated to works that do not profess anything but the baldest utilitarianism (though why even utilitarianism should use illegible types, I fail to see).” — William Morris T E WEIWEI CHEN
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Graphic
05 Typology Poster Desgin
Providence,Rhode Island,US Individual work, Summer, 2020
5.Albert Camus 1.TUKUMA 6.YCO SPACE T E Y
Design
06 Blurred Lines
Adaptive reuse Zhuhai Going Port, China
Thesis, RISD
Individual work, Spring, 2022
Gongbei Port as a border crossing connects rich and poor, layered and diverse cultures, capitalism and socialism, Macau and Zhuhai. This thesis attempts to make an ambiguous zone in this dualistic context running between a large nation and a semi-autonomous state. By integrating the layering of culture and emphasizing connection, the gateway between Macau and Zhuhai will serve as an inbetween place.
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Lego Rustic Oasis
Huopu Competition
Team work, Fall, 2021
Team member: Youshurui Li Weiwei Chen Linghui Li
We regard the historical conditions, preserving the existing buildings, by adaptive reuse and insert custom-made modular blocks to supplement the missing function. Lego Rustic Oasis could be applied to various regions through the customized modular assembly. Concomitantly, combined with the possibility for the future, to engage of the ecofriendly materials and efficient agricultural system to achieve sustainable development.
Through the analysis of the concept of village and the specific village, Baikou Village, we understand that the main problems in the rural areas are the relatively single industry, which is dominated by the primary industry, and there are few job opportunities; the rural areas are becoming empty and aging; and the economy is backward (poverty, technological backwardness, etc.). In the face of these problems, we hope to delay or improve them through most minimal intervention, and retain the village’s own right to speak to the greatest extenBased on the above reasons, we finally decided to adopt a metabolic architectural language and just provide basic modules for the village to renew itself.
These models are composed of simple frames and panels, made of local or commonly used prefabricated panels, which should be light, cheap and solid, and can be assembled by local villagers. We designed four types and totally nine basic modules according to functional requirements from our investigation. Through modularization and duplication and assembly, we have solved the basic functional requirements and retained the organicity of the original block. It can grow naturally as time goes by and people's needs increase or chang
The most basic module volume is a space of 3m X 3m x 3m. We have designed two basic shapes to design different space structures, and then form the prefabricated modules with different certain functions. The basic modules and the further designed modules will be combined to form the organic effect of the final structure.
08 Back To The Market
Statehouse in Providence,Rhode Island,US Advanced Studio, RISD Individual work, Fall, 2021
The RI statehouse (built 1891-1901) symbolizes through its style, materiality, scale and location power over its people. Used as a building for government representation, the staff, politicians and lobbyists hardly engage in person with the public and are further disengaged by a huge lot of empty space (empty lawns) and a giant -mostly emptybasement on the level My investigation started with the question on how to bring people close to the building, use it, and therefore interconnect tomorrow's government with its people.
The "American Renaissance" style of the building ,with its Renaissance and Classical design elements, looks extremely strict and symmetric and disconnected from the 21st century, so I intended to break/ overlay the existing and bring a dynamic structure with elements of ‘flow’ to generate a new space that belongs to the public.
Just as in the Greek Agora, the Roman Forum, to create public spaces where events of the day were discussed, merchants had their shops, and craftspeople sold their wares. Agora is therefore also understood to mean an assembly of people as well as where they meet and therefore where they make contemporary politics.[1]
My design scheme uses the existing empty (groundlevel) basement to reconnect the north and south area of the building and to transform the big empty spaces to a market. A market that sells foods, artifacts from artists, books, antiques, and also hosts events such as talks, music and theater activities. The tool of my design strategy is a large tensile structure that generates the interior, creates an entrance and the tunnel for people to cross through the basement. A soft intervention that attracts people from the outside, transforms the current appearance and generates live in and around the building.
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Mapping Market in RI
Plan and Section
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Statehouse RI Basement
Section Drawing Market space
30 Rendering Food Court
31 Rendering Play Space
structure existing building floor roof existing building's structure occupiable roof / berm
09 Marine Cultural Center for Civic and Fish
Present as Prologue:
Adapting for Rising Seas
Boston, US Advanced Studio
Individual work, Spring, 2021
The linear building extends over ¼ mile along the shoreline, spanning three city blocks. A single connecting corridor defines the spatial experience - sequence and passage will be primary drivers of spatial exploration. The historical structural and design currently being constructed will serve as the palimpsest for future interventions. Readings, research, discussions and collaborations will supplement individual design projects.
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34 Sea Level Rise Interior view of different time 2021 2060 2100 Concept Collage Drawing to build a berm for the existing building and people can walk on it. Context&Site Plan William Day Boulevard Street, Boston,MA
Form Development
From
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Building Model
Existing Building Adding RoofAdding berm
observing a fish's tail, and find 2 curves, translating these to the new intervention, one is the berm to add on the existing building and the another one is the roof on it.
Sketch Model
The movement of goldfish's tail Inspiration
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37 1 lobby and service 2 exhibition 3 office 4 reading room 5 cafe 6 fish habitat 7 classroom 8 restaurant 9 toilet 10 kitchen 11 storage 12 berm 13 ramp Section 2 Plan 12 6 3 13 1 2 2 9 5
Elevation 1/32' Physical Elevation
Elevation 2 Physical Model Elevation 1
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Nostalgia Future
A Public Laundry and Apartment Hongkong, China Individual work, GSD Summer, 2021
Yet today's economic growth and the acceleration of the urbanization processes have produced buildings without local characteristics but built in large quantities. Traditional buildings are disappearing and been demolished in an exhilarating speed. This also led to some people being forced to leave and move out of their original homes, and then moved into the new western style residential buildings. In the past, harmonious neighborhoods and low rise buildings no longer exist in Hong Kong. They are all crowded and high-rise buildings. Their emotions have not been concerned about, demolishing the ruins of the past and wantonly building new buildings has become a situation of confrontation and contradiction. Develop the relationship with the past. How to think about the new public space to meet people's needs in the future.
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Site Anaysis
Site Anaysis
landary in high and low rents areas
Site Anaysis
Site Anaysis
block
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SIite Hongkong, China Shanshui
Po district
Public/private
Accessible
building
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Axometric Drawing
1st floor laundry
The site is located in Sham Shui Po, in the northwest of Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong. It is a highly populated area. Up to now, most of the land in Sham Shui Po is used for residential construction. It is the poorest area in Hong Kong.
So I try to design a point tower by combining the apartment and laundry as a public space to active the urban life for people to gather and social.
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Art space for Barbara Hepworth
Adaptive Reuse for Studio Providence, US Individual Work, RISD Winter, 2021
This five-week course is the final studio in the MDes Core Studio sequence.The studio is designed to sharpen critical investigative and design abilities and to prepare all students for Advanced Studios in the spring.In this studio, students will reimagine the host site building, using a specific artist’s body of work as a creative springboard. Students will select from a pre-established list of artists. AR students will be designing a studio workspace and residence for a selected artist or artists.
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48 Context & Site Form
Development Diagram
49 Axonometric Drawing
50 1st Floor 2nd Floor 3rd Floor Section 1 Section 2
Perspective View
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Perspective View From the corridor to see the interior garden and studio
From the corridor to the bedroom
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Fog and Mountain Pavilion Deisgn Light and Color Course
London, UK Individual work,RISD Spring, 2021
We are assumed to design a pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in the UK, where we are asked to use light and color. My inspiration is Chinese landscape painting, and then I do a translation , from the mountains in this painting. Inspired by form, I also tried to interpret the relationship between them, from far to near, the relationship between void and solid, and then to think about the relationship between fog, because there will be looming fog on the mountain, how to use color and lighting to express what I'm thinking.
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Perspective View
Perspective View
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In the evening, the pavilion with the artificial light
In the morning, the pavilion with the day light.
55 Jian Jiang(1610-1664)Chinese Landscape painting I translate the relationship with the mountaion about solid and voild/form/near and far. Conceptual Diagram Artificial ight Natural light Think a mountain with fog from under Think a mountain with fog from top Adding pavilion module Adding pavilion module Adding artificial light Adding day light
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Photo of bridge
Design process / Construction photo 1 Design process / Construction photo with villagers 2
Photo/Handrail designPhoto/Site in the mountain
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A Bridge Design for Villagers Bridge Construction Guizhou, China Volunteer, Team Project May, 2020
As a volunteer and Teaching Assistant, I came to Tianba village in Guizhou Province for a two-week process from design to construction, and designed a bridge for the mountain road which is difficult for local residents.
Group members: Zengjie Guo (Teaching Assistant), Weiwei Chen(Teaching Assistant), Zihao Zhang , Niran Hu, Jialu Chen , Mengting Zhu , Siyi Fang, Sijia Zheng.
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14 Professional Work
Lishui Urban Design Competition Lishui, China Internship Summer, 2020
Sponsor: Lishui Municipal People's Government Type: Urban Design Base area: About 152 square kilometers
Design team: Da! Architects, Ind architects, B + B Bureau Main designers: Anna andronova, Amir idiatulin, Sun Lidong, GERT Jan Wisse Design team members: Angelo Renna, Rimma vildanova, Chen Weiwei , Ren Chenjia, Natalia voroshilova, Tatiana Yakovlev, Wu Chenyang, Alexandra kolyadina, Zhang Zihao, Kong Jining, Vitalii Verbytsky, Guo Shaobai, Zhuang Junling, Xie Wanying, Kira kompanetz, Lin Guojing, Zhang Lingke, Wei Shubo
Results: Shan-Shui City Creative Award
Main Work: Design Intern, research and draw plans and analysis drawings&collage
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Collage 1 / mountain and water Collage 2/Agricultural Technology Park
Atural resources Analysis Site Analysis
Cultural resouces Analysis
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