PORTFOLIO Wei Wu
CONTENTS
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Beyond Quadrangle
Underground Campus
Triangular School
Z-House
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A housing project for everyone
A hyper-density campus
A middle school with the composition of triangles
A housing Complex encouraging inhabitants to have public life with various types of people
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Infill System
Interfaces and Agrestic Scenes Connection
Other Works
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A system upgrading local wisdom for resisting typhoon disaster
Supplementary Work including digital fabrication, design work, drawing, modeling and internship work
A teaching building renovation A student center focusing on aimed at abundant public space remaining viable all the time
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Site
Iteration 1.0 Typical courtyard layout
Iteration 2.0
Iteration 2.1
Iteration 3.0
Iteration 4.0
Iteration 5.0
Iteration 5.1
Iteration 6.0 Semi-open Courtyard Layout
Iteration 6.1 Adjust the building massing to respond to context buildings
Iteration 6.2 Break the massing into small volumes to maximize flexibility and air ventilation for the courtyard
Iteration 6.3 Place commercial spaces along Jos Campau to bring activities.
Massing Iterations
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The massing provides not only airflow and even light distribution throughout the site, but also creates a series of differentiated courtyards available to the residents. A larger courtyard towards the south of the side provides a central area for the townhouse units to use for outdoor relaxation. An adjacent courtyard is visible from the gym and can be used for more active pastimes. This courtyard also accommodates an on site daycare center located on its periphery. Rooftop courtyards provide more private outdoor spaces as well as views of downtown and the city. A small plaza on the corner of Jefferson and Jos Campau with a large occupiable landscape stair acts as a public gathering space. The courtyard on the north site is surrounded by event space and a hotel, perfect for wedding photos or outdoor parties. The greenway on the north site provides space for leisurely circulation to the south site and riverfront.
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As Detroit is a city attracting a lot of people to move in and work, the residents of the whole community could be really diverse, varying from single person to a whole big family, so our units is also varying from micro loft units to townhouse, targeting different groups. The clear glazing facade provides the visual transparency interaction from the tower to the ground, and reflect the city around it in a narrative way. Our facade is a composition of aluminum panels, fixed windows, operable windows and sliding glass panel. For the curtain wall system, we studied the high-technic Sobek house to learn to mullion system and the mechanical operation system.
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RESTAURANT
HOTEL
N AVE
E JEFFERSO
N AVE
E JEFFERSO
RETAIL
RETAIL
RETAIL
JOS CAMPAU
RETAIL
POOL
RESTAURANT
DAYCARE
AMENITIES
RESTAURANT
MARKET
Ground Floor Plan
GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1/20” = 1’-0”
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Typical Floor Plan
Typical Floor Plan
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Affordable Units
Micro-Lofts Shared Kitchen
Flexible Units (Single Level)
Flexible Units (Bi-Level)
Flexible Units (Bi-level) Communal Corridor
Flexible Units (Single Level) Outdoor Tennis Court
Amenities
Basketball Court Fitness
Town House Units Parking Amenities Market
Boutique
Circulation Swimming Pool Restaurant & Bar
Boutique
Fine Dining
Hotel
Wedding Event Space and Restaurant Old Building Extended Stay Parking
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The residents will be different in living style and custom, and we are designing flexible units to let the residents customize their home. And we studied through our precedents to learn how residents could have the interaction with the units. The units use the movable panels to let the residents decide the space of their home. With different arranging of sliding panels, this unit could range from two bedrooms’ unit, or single large bedroom unit, or a unit with a large living room, or a large studio unit.
Flexible Unit Plan 1/8” = 1’-0” Flexible Bi-level Unit Plan 1/8” = 1’-0”
Unit Plan - Bi-level Flexible Unit 09
Axon - Flexible Unit
Two bedrooms
Studio
Closed Dining Room
One bedrooms
Large living room
Closed Kitchen
Unit Plan - Flexible Unit
Unit Plan - Townhouse Unit 10
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1 Terrace Construction: Paving Brick Work Concrete Screed Insulation Waterproof Concrete Slab 2 Wall Construction: Facing Brick Work Cavity Insulation Waterproof Concrete Wall
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3 0.5” Sheet Metal Lining 4 1.5” Aluminum Broad With Insulation 5 Ground Construction Paving Brick Work Concrete Screed Concrete Slab 5
Elevation
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Podium Wall Section
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1 Aluminum Sheeting 2 Roof Construction: Wood Deck Waterproof Insulation Waterproof Concrete Slab White Render
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3 Fixed Glazing Flat Glass + Cavity + Toughened Glass 4 Safety Glass Balustrade 5 Wood Flooring Sleepers Heating Screed Separating Layer Insulation Concrete Slab White Render
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6 Operable Window With Mechanical Operation System 7 Flat Steel Balustrade 8 Aluminum Panel with Insulation
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9 Mullion with Operation Facility inside
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Residential Wall Section
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The university of Michigan was founded in 1817, almost twenty years before it moved from Detroit to Ann Arbor. And the central campus is the original campus area in Ann Arbor. With the over 180 years of development, the comfortable space and environment of the central campus has been integrated into the urban context of the city of Ann Arbor. In 1950s, because of the expanding of the campus area, a satellite campus of UM, the north campus, was developed from a large piece of farmland. However, after decades of years, the isolation between north campus and central campus appears as a matter of fact. The spatial connection between two campuses is feeble. This isolation is mainly due to the Huron River and the long distance between them
Central Campus: developed since 1830s
North Campus: developed since 1950s
Bring the area of two campuses together
Fold
The idea of combining the buildings of two campus on the site of Central Campus
Adding new buildings above the public space
Adding new buildings on the public space
Adding new buildings below the public space
Potential of developing new buildings: low Potential of preserving existing environment: medium
Potential of developing new buildings: medium Potential of preserving existing environment: low
Potential of developing new buildings: high Potential of preserving existing environment: high
As a way to erase the isolation between Central Campus and North campus, one proposal is to consider the planning of the North Campus in the past future, to think about how to develop a new “north campus� on the site of the central campus. In this way of building hyper-densed campus, all the campus space could share the well-developed campus environment and urban context. Different approaches of adding new building, considering potential of developing new buildings and preserving existing environment are compared above. To develop a new campus underneath the central campus ground is a way to benefit from its urban context, to preserve historical buildings as well as to recall a part of university history.
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Underground Campus - Master Plan
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Entrance Escalator
Entrance through Sunken Courtyard
Underground Civic Space with the Reversed Spatial Relationship of Current Campus
Underground Swimming Pool
Underground Library
Underground Common Spaces
Underground Laboratory for Autonomous Vehicle
Arch Structure Prototype for the Underground Campus
New Space through Excavation
As for me , the campus of the future means the further development of the campus area, larger buildings, more equipments, more commons and more civic spaces. Underground Campus provides an alternative living style and tackles environmental and space limitations. The project explores the underground and seeks new territory for recreation and wellness while utilizing the subterranean environment to work and educate. My ideas of campus of the future is from two points. First, the central campus of Um benefits so much from such excellent collaboration with the school campus and the urban context, a kind of campus-urbanism. And I can’t stop thinking this campus-urbanism would develop vertically and 3-dimensionally, and demand efficiency and compactness. Secondly, what could be the new typology of the campus in the future world? Could it be architecture without elevation and exterior? Besides these ideas about the underground campus, the spatial relationship about the public space (the DIAG, for example) and the private space (such as Hill Auditorium, Michigan League, Rackham Graduate School) will be mirrored, which means there will be a civic space of Hill Auditorium, of Michigan League, of Rackham Graduate School, etc. In the underground campus. It is a way to build spatial relationship with the campus on the ground and identify the location in the underground campus. The campus buildings will also be shaped in this way and compose the new typology of the underground architecture.
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Triangular School 2016 Fall Term Institution Studio Project Program: Middle School Design Type: Academic Design Site: Ann Arbor, Michigan Instructor: Ashley Bigham Indiviual Work In my project of middle school,I am most concerned about whether students or teachers have easy and free access to all parts of the school, which would encourage them to participate in different school activities. I think this kind of access is about movements and vision. People in this middle school could move freely and have free views of all parts of the school. Thus, the space that contain different types of activities should be recognizable and the spaces in middle school should be various. To achieve this goal, I indicate different types of rooms with different shapes and blur the exterior and interior relationship of spaces with small courtyards and transparent glazing. The Location of various spaces in the site are organized by the needs of the room and site. In this way, shapes play a very important role in forming the spaces and offering people different feelings about the space. Triangles in section make a pure and classic space for studying, and the shapes in the plan make gathering spaces flexible and active. New spaces could also be created by overlapping different shapes. In my middle school project, the results may be open and free spaces, deep site planning by gathering spaces as well as nice and unique gathering spaces.
Site Plan
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Massing
Program
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Elderly
Away from noisy plaza
More sunlight
Small public place next to house
Seniors
Large unit
Closely related to other parts
More spaces for activities
Youngsters
Compact&economical unit
Communication room
Quick access to the plaza
Tourists
Convenience in getting to hostel&offices
Commercial space along the road
Larger plaza space
Plaza and More Plaza
The intervention site faces Spielbudenplatz, an entertainment plaza since its origin. To this day, a series of public activities and events are here hosted all year round, from the weekly market to live music performances, as well as football team celebrations. Thus, more public space is in need, for the plaza is often over-crowed. The public space on the ground floor is open to all, which can bring more interactions between the building and the plaza. Due to different service targets and radius, commercial places are arranged in various place. The program is hybrid housing, which integrate public and private sphere in a single structure, with a great formal and programmatic versatility. The program integrates a Commercial program with a dense Residential program in an area of the city that functionally, sits in the cusp of the public scale and activities of the Spielbundplatz with the residential surrounding neighborhood.
Public Space next to the Hostel
Public space on the second ground is the public space for both tourists and inhabitants. The garden connects the external place and the internal place, enhance inhabitants to have communications with the outside.
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A Main Entrance
Sub-entry
A Garage Entrance
Ground Floor Plan
Site
The site for this International Competition is located in St. Pauli District, in the center of Hamburg, Germany. St. Pauli District is well-known for its nightlife, combining the upper and common standards of entertainment, from musicals, theaters, to bars and clubs. Inhabitants there can enjoy the convenience of urban life, for the nearby supermarket, shops, restaurants and metro station.
100m*100m
Museum, football stadium, amusement park and park bring leisure experience to the inhabitants. The river in the south part is River Elbe, and the harbor offers people another choice of transportation.
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Six types of housing cell typologies for dwellers
Classifying dwellers into three types (youngsters, seniors and elderly)
Rotating and joining three volumes for better view and communication
Stretching the volume for sunlight and view of the plaza
Lifting the volume and creating more public spaces for both inhabitants and tourists
Arranging commercial spaces along the road and public space
Inserting seven bars of public space into the volume
Final volume
Nursing
Music Room
Children Activity
Sauna
Cafe Room
Fitness Center
Book Bar and Exhibition
Scenes of Seven Bars
43.800 m 40.950 m
32.400 m
26.700 m 23.850 m
18.150 m 12.450 m
6.750 m
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1 20-75mm corrugated stainless-steel sheet 20mm ventilated cavity 175mm water-repellent thermal insulation 180mm reinforced concrete
Sport
2 safeguarding: 11mm laminated safety glass fixed glazing with white PVB interlayer in steel frame
Rental
3 safeguarding net: 1.5mm stainless-steel cable 40mm mesh size in 30mm steel CHS frame
Living Garden Commercial
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Infill System Program: Teaching Building Renovation Time: 2013 Spring Term Design Studio Project Type: Academic Design Site: Beijing, China Instructor: Professor Zhu Xiaolei Indiviual Work
Strategy in Constructing
Instead of dismantling these two teaching buildings, a much more mild strategy is used in renovation. Hexagonal spaces are placed on the old structure, and act as a cell of a space, with functions like public space, circulation etc. Several hexagonal spaces can form a larger space and eventual become a system. Cell
Confluence
Cell connection
Interweaving
Human swarm
Yard
Each hexagonal space act like a cell, with its own structure and function, which can be easily built and removed.
When hexagonal space is connected, it will form a larger space. Different composition will result in different space. Due to hexagonal shape, the composition is easy and various.
Several spaces can form a large space, which could be treated as public spaces, and it will be a place for people to work together.
Two different type of space order will come into confluence in this program.
With renovation, the spaces of two separate teaching building will flow and interweave.
The void part of hexagonal space composition act as yard, with multiple and transparent view, just like traditional yard in Chinese architecture.
Infill of Public Space
Before, two teaching building lacked public space. After renovation, the hexagonal spaces in the middle form public space between two teaching buildings. It could be used for exhibition, library, meeting,discussing or leisure activities. The in fill of public space connects two teaching buildings both indoors and outdoors, greatly extending space for more people and more purpose.
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Classroom
Office Classroom
Office
Classroom
Laboratory Library
Entrance Hall Lecture Hall
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Interfaces and Scenes Program: Student Center Design, 4200m2 Time: 2013 Spring Term Design Studio Project Type: Academic Design Site: South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China Individual Work
Interface and Activities
Besides studying, I used to spend most of my time videoing in my school. I noticed that newly-built public buildings were low-efficient in using, but many small corners tended to become viable spaces. This phenomenon makes me wondering. How can public spaces have more active effects in the campus? Architecture goes with much potential; in turn makes itself a motivator to its surroundings. Interface is the carrier of this motivating process. It is the border zone, the in-between shared by architecture and other systems, where the transmission of signs translates spiritualities into potential effects. The aim of the design is to provide communication place with high spacial quality and to achieve vibrant atmosphere.
Lecture Hall
Studying Coffee House
Computer Lab Offices
Videoing
Gym
Watching Movies
Painting
Lectures
Jogging
Study Room
Surfing the Internet Art Room
Site People Stream Analysis
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Dining
Working Out Discussing
Skatebroading
Working
Playing Music
Scenes and Activities
1 Lecture Hall 2 Gym 3 Art Room 4 Office 5 Rehearsal room 6 Computer Lab
I hope to change the designing method to solve this problem. Spaces are closely related to campus life, so I tend to defining the spaces by events. The starting point of this student center is thinking from what scenes will really happen in the future, and it gives space an order.
Site Reviving
The most notable issue around is a lake. As waterfront promote activities, the aim of this design is to create a space for students to have more interactions with the water and to maximize the use of the lake. The ground is extended though the building. This action enlarge the contact surface between the building and the outside .
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Time and Activities
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Different kinds of activities (studying activities, interest activities, sport activities and leisure activities) take place in different time. For instance, study room is mainly used in morning and afternoon, and interest activities and sport activities mainly happen in the evening, but cafe will be very crowded during lunch or dinner time.
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By overlapping different kinds of activities, the efficiency of this student center could be increased. The building is defined by various events. Students can make a full use of the student center because of the events at the most time.
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Ground Floor Plan 36
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Agrestic Connection 2015 Designing Resilience in Asia Competition Program: Regional Planning and Architecture Design Time: 2015 Spring Term Design Studio Project Type: Academic Design Site: Xinxing Harbor, Hainan, China Instructor: Professor Xiao Yiqiang Partners: Xiao Zeheng, Zheng Chufeng Contribution: Concept&Architecture Design, Diagram, Rendering
Xinxing Harbor is a fishing village in the typhoon-prone area. Each year, typhoon disaster causes great loss to the village. We hope to design a set of social system to enhance resilience. We plan to minimize the loss through ecological and agrestic sustainable methods. Comparing Xinxing Harbor with other nearby villages which can be much less affected in typhoon disaster, we find that layout, breakwater and windbreak are three key features in resisting typhoon disaster. These features are all from traditional villages in Hainan Province.
Young Middle-aged
Population Composition of Inhabitants Clinic Confucius Temple Typical Day In Xinxing Harbor
Layout
Forming narrow alley and unblocking strong wind
Haikou Yubao Harbor
Breakwater
Ancestral Hall
Tea House
Forming inner harbor and resisting big waves
Xinxing Harbor (Site) Baocai Village Changsha Village
Windbreak
Lowering wind velocity and resisting big waves
Flood Prone Area
Hainan Province
Unique Shushi layout in traditional Hainan village can lower the wind pressure along alleys, which inspired us to think of a new layout to lower wind pressure in different directions. It is called Jingge Layout and it is proved to be more beneficial for wind resistance through computer stimulation. However, canceled courtyard has drawbacks for wind resistance, which means broad alley can’t lower wind pressure.
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A Section of Coastal Area Plan
A Section of Village Layout Plan
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Old Buildings New Buildings
Road Network Garbage Spot Garbage Station
Sewage Pipe Anaerobic Tank Constructed Wetland Storm Sewer
Windbreak Breakwater
Family Workshop Restaurant Shop Factory
Tourist Fishing Shallow Breeding Breakwater Fishing
Exploded Diagram of Village System 41
Seafood Processing Factory Warehouse Tourist Service Center Restaurant Leisure and Sports Facilities Fish Market Book House
The Aged Activity Center Skill Training Center
Shop Infirmary Nursery
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Panot
Other Works
Digital Fabrication CNC Milling and concrete Casting February 2017
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Flat to Fold
Digital Fabrication CNC Water Jet Cutting March 2017
Post Pillars
Digital Fabrication Robots February 2017
Mapping Traffic Crashes in Michigan Spatial Data Formation November 2017
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CBD Cultural Center CBD Cultural Center (Under Construction) (Massimiliano Fuksas architetto) Contribution: Coordination, Documentation and Detail Drawing
Beijing 2017
Interior Rendering Credit: Massimiliano Fuksas architetto
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Guosen Securities Tower Guosen Securities Tower (Under Construction) (Massimiliano Fuksas architetto) Contribution: Rendering, Modeling, Detail Drawing, Coordination and Documentation
Shenzhen 2017
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Longhua Sports and Cultural Center Longhua Sports and Cultural Center (Competition) (Massimiliano Fuksas architetto) Contribution: Drawing, Presentation Document Preparation, Coordination and Documentation
Shenzhen 2017
Hytera Headquarter (Competition) (Massimiliano Fuksas architetto) Contribution: Drawing, Diagram, Presentation Document Preparation, Coordination and Documentation
Shenzhen 2017
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Beijing Grand Hotel Beijing Grand Hotel (Schematic Design) (Massimiliano Fuksas architetto) Contribution: Schematic Design, Modeling, Rendering, Diagram, Coordination and Documentation
Beijing 2017
Bridges Design (Schematic Design) (He Jingtang Studio) Contribution: Project Design, Modeling and Diagram
Zhongshan 2016
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Other Works
Geometric Modeling
Skyscraper and Pavilion, with Grasshopper
Collage of Norman Foster’s Work
Work for Representation Course 2016 Fall Term Composition Rules from Fall of Babylon by Duvet
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Hand Drawing and Watercolor Rendering Work for "Architectural Drawing Performance" Course 2013 Spring Term
Lingnan Art Museum
2014 Spring Term Design Studio Project Type: Academic Design Site: Guangzhou, China Partner: Li Yueyi Contribution: Architecture Design, Model Making, Rendering, Diagram
Watercolor Painting
Work for "Fine Art (Water Color)" Course 2013 Spring Term Site: Hongcun, China
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