Wen Wang Academic Portfolio 2016-2017

SELECTED WORK FROM 2016-2017 To, Astronomer 01 To, Firefighter

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MIRROR UNIVERSE //Man-made// 01//UCLA Building with Landscape Studio Fall 2016

The concept is to design a man-made universe for researchers to live and work where they can fanatically devote themselves in to their career, and visitors can come to experience and explore for their interest field. The real universe and the man-made universe are not connected to each other directly. The “in between space” which connects the ground and underground, also represents a layer of isolation dividing two worlds.

The “in between space” is the public space which contains many rectangles and irregular forms. These rectangular forms function as the housing for five permanent residents, and the irregular forms contain café shop, gym and all facilities for daily life.

Below the “in between space” exist three planets which are the three types of residential spaces. Contradicting the chaotic “in between space” the planets below are very silent. People get into these spaces can feel the stop of time and a special silence of universe. Moreover, these planets have different rules from each other.

Inside of each residential planet, there exists a big core which plays as the “sun” of these underground spaces. Small holes penetrate the top surface of each, playing as the stars of the sky. These elements give residents a feeling of being in their own Universe.

The circulation of these two residential space is based on how researchers understand the universe. They have clear topic about what they want to get more comprehensive understanding. Therefore the circulation reflects this clarity. The two “planets” for researchers intersect with each other and produce a wormhole.

The two groups of researchers communicate in this newborn space to exchange their exploration about two planets.

Contrary to the two residential spaces, the planet for visitors is more like a maze. They do not have the same understanding about the universe as the researchers do. They come here with many doubts and confusions. The disordered circulation in this space reflects the required exploration to understand.

Case Study The study is the Royal Crescent and King’s Circuses located in the city of Bath. The shapes of them are described as their names. Behind houses are the private gardens of habitants. We could read a clear contrast between the front façade and rear façade.The public front façade is unified and symmetrical, consisting of repetitive elements; whereas, the rear façade is a mixture of differing roof heights, juxtapositions and fenestration. My interest is the formation of different morphologies for these two facades.

As time goes by, extension happened on the rear part. The front façade is the boundary to control the space from invading to public urban park. In contrast, based on different and unceasing demands of the habitants, new spaces are added to the rear structure, enriching the diversity of the rear spaces and also changing the rear façade. So, in the time dimension, the front façade is perpetual and stable. the rear façade is amorphous and always changing responding to habitants’ rising demands. This façade is readable.

Case Study The juxtaposition, fenestration happening on the rear façade could imply the stage of extension and also the domain and property of each habitant. Whereas, when we scrutinize these two facades from this drawing again, we could read the personal scale and also the urban scale. Rear facades changes within the private domain so it is insignificant on the urban scale. The front façade plays a more important role to the urban context.It is like a giant wall to define boundary between the public and private spaces . At the same time ensure the integrity and uniform by shielding the diversity of private domains.

What’s more, the centralization created by the curved shape reinforce the characteristic of aggregation for the urban park and on the opposite, provide spare decentralized spaces for private domains to grow.

By apply the same logic to the design, the isolation piece is rotates 90° that horizontal to the ground, to separate the upper ground which is unified and to hide the underground organic part.

Plan drawing The organic spaces with underground plants garden

Model Photo Powder 3D printing pour within resin

Model Photo Two sectional model, arrange together as a whole

Steel House 03//UCLA Steel Structure Studio Winter 2016

//Film Director// //Guests//

The design of my project is organized around the logic of the Fibonacci sequence. The design begins at the core of the house, with the screening room becoming a centralized, spherical domed space for sake of representational efficiency. (I'm not totally sure what you mean by "representational efficiency." Perhaps you could explain that idea here, or you could rephrase the idea.) From here, the sphere becomes the module of growth, with further spheres radiating and aggregating outward from a central point. Each growing sequence follows the programmatic requirements as well as the landscape. This technique is applied not only to program, but also to volume, roof pattern, and garden design.

As people move through the house they experience a flow between light, architecture and landscape. They encounter views from one level to another and from the inside to the outside.

The spaces for living and sleeping are constructed with reinforced steel bars welded together, while the screening room uses a stressed skin system to support people sitting in it. Unlike traditional wood structures or concrete structures, the steel frame system greatly reduces the wall thickness, and in return, the irregular gaps between front of house areas transform into back of house which can be used for storage and as bathroom, kitchen, or HVAC. The front side of the house employs a clear glazing wall supported by glazing fins. This strategy reveals a bright and transparent interior volume, as well as the spherical structural system. Similarly, it brings the landscape to the inside. At night the glowing interior provides an inviting transparency, making visible the interior spherical mass.

The other three sides use double layers of semi - translucent glass to diffuse and refract light. During the day the semi translucent glass injects varying qualities of light into the inside, while at night glows with the internal light.

Case Study// Element House by MOS

The distinctive orientation and basic geometry of the Element house is derived by fibonacci sequence, it is expansive geometric system of growth, radiating and aggregating outward, one module after another. the growing sequence is following the program needed and the environmental factor.

The original hexagon unit is made from six triangle module, the first growth is two “solid ”unites on the corner of the hexagon, with two “connection triangle after become three units in total the second growth is three more units add on each one the three units next to original are semi-public space-Kitchen, Dining, Living area. The two units after are the private space-Bedroom.

01 Learn from Present By view the plan of Element House, the basic growth can be extract by fibonacci sequence like diagram.

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02 Fibonacci Sequence The basic formula of fibonacci sequence is like a tree groth diagram.

Fn=F(n-1)+F(n-2) 03 Transfer to design There are three main programmatic spaces in the house--the screening room, living room, and the bed room.

04 Fit to the Site The spaces are scaled based on program size in accordance with the fibonacci rules. these spaces intersect the bounding box generated from the setback allowance on the site. Irregular gaps are created in the intersections between each spherical mass.

Section drawing A-A 1'=1/4"

Physical Model A-A 1'=1/4"

South Elevation drawing 1'=1/4"

Physical Model B-B 1'=1/4"

Section drawing B-B 1'=1/4"

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Fire Station 02//UCLA Urban Block Studio Spring 2016

//Firefighters// //Neighborhoods//

The duality of being a firefighter is embedded within the highly mix working and leisure lives. We consider the fire station as an agglomeration that dedicates to enhance the dispatch workflow and to celebrate both the similarities and differences among all the firefighters regardless of their backgrounds and originalities. In here, we consider the working system consist of routinization and mechanical operation whereas the living system to be fluid and open ended. Therefore, we intend to design an aggregation that compartmentalize both the rigid working system and the fluid living system from which we wish to explore the inevitable and fortuitous interactions.

Each of the program space is treated as a module to the bigger whole. Based on the needs of each module, we traced back to the most basic architectural component that helps to constitute both the space and movements within the fire station. Most of the workflows are happened in a reciprocal space that constitutes a specialized system to accommodate activities with specific use. Meanwhile, the machanical room serves as the main core of the back of the house and its piping system reaches out to operate and connect both working and living spaces.

The matrix generated a new urban framework; it is a progressive reactivation of the fire station according to the individual personas of firefighters, coordinated work, and its involvement in the neighborhood. The designed meta-projects have two main goals: the reciprocity with the place in which they are inserted and the adoption of a flexible and resilient attitude which encourages the continuous development within a dense system.

Meta-project: dense but open-ended, prototype-but specific.

Front view Firestation within it context, a monument piece

Rendering serve both for firefighters and neignborhoods

Concept Diagrams As practical and pragmatic it needs to be, the piping system serves as the vessel between programs and formulate the skeleton of the compact working space. The outlet of the piping network starts to define the adjacency of equipment and thus generating an efficiency oriented working space. On the other hand, the sequences of daily leisure movement entail the spontaneousness of living activity and how it might across the spaces regardless to the function of the space.

Secional Diagrams In accordance to the determinacy of each program, equipment and dispatch work will be placed on the bottom and have the logistics above it. And each ceiling can be seem as the second ground for the upper floor, living and communal program will be placed on the top and thus have a reformed urban context on the roof whereas both the lower part of the building will be an infrastructural plinth that structuring the domestic programs.

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Model Photo The right four are showing each floor's top view. Different program are highlighted by different texture floors. And the bottom photo showing the view of interior fire lane as well as tool spaces and second office spaces.

Model photo during Exhibition The roof part-second ground, and the wire meshed facade are hanging to the ceiling during the exhibition.

Rendering of Scenario 1 Firefighter doing maintaince, and studing in the study area.

Rendering of Scenario 2 When there's fire alarm, firefighters run to the fire engine.

//EXCESSIVE// Our topic is about the deconstruction of the facade to respond interior free plan of the original building.

Studying from the precedent, the interior free plan, with disordered interior isolating wall, allows different program to be located inside freely. However, its facade, a monolithic excessive envelope, does not have enough reflection and response of the interior.

Therefore, we deconstruct the facade and transform the mono-grid system into several broken structures to respond interior space and its program.

Start with our precedent – the Millowners’ Association Building, Ahmedabad, India designed by Le Corbusier. Featured for its iconic Brises-Soleil and the monumental ramp, the interior is filled with programed in the free plan. We consider the building a monolithic block with pavilions plugged in. It became a direct reference to Corb’s later design – the carpenter center.

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COPY, CUT, PASTE Mill Owners’ Association Building by Le Corbusier Group mumber: Wen Wang, Shundi Zhan, Xiaofan Yin 04//UCLA Tech Core Studio Spring 2016

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Group Mumber: Wen Wa Ali Abdu Winter 2016

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Kinetic proposal for the John Portman`s Bonaventure hotel, LA and Renaissance center, Detroit retrofitting facade in order to increase thermal performance of the building as well as dealing with the issue of privacy.

Irregular stripes is a kinetic facade system that filters light and enhanes user privacy. The series of panels create a textured affect through the use of light weight undulating stripes. A two-sided surface with a different visual performance on each face. It appears as an opaque and dynamic cage from the exterior where the faceted cladding gives scale and texture to any facade it is mounted on. From within, the thinness of the stripes and the packaged mechanism transmit a soft movement and striated glowing light to the interior through the slits, providing visual texture through the irregular veining of the thin stripes.

We intend to propose this panel as a package that can be mounted directly onto any facade to create a fluid and interactive system which provides a new dimension to any stoic surface/facade. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=kienet+facade+irregular+stripes

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Proposed Mechanism Mounted to Floor Slab/Existing floor wode flange beam/Poly-carbonate legs/Suspended ceiling/Bendable compostie sheets/Storefround glazing/glass railing/concrete floor decking/reanslucent glass panel/Aluminum tube encasing/Support wide flango beam for panel

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Glass ailing/ Existing floor wide flange beam/ Poly-corbonate legs/ Benadble composite sheets/ Vinyl finish with weatherproof membrane/ Concrete floor decking/Mechanism packaged within floor slab/ Support wide flango beam for panel

M3*16 Buttom Allen Screw M3*8 Washer 5*10*4 Ball Bearing M3*16 Buttom Allen Screw M3*8 Washer 1/4” Acrylic Rotating Plane M3 Lock Nut M3*6 Washer 1/8” Acrylic Cap 4*8*4 Ball Bearing 52 Teeth Spur Gear M3 *12 Buttom Allen Screw M3 *8 Washer

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VESTIGE HUB 06//UCLA SUPARASTUDIO Installation for public space Fall 2017//Instructor: Mark Mack

Other than leisure and entertainment, Los Angeles is also known for its arid and sunny weather. People in Los Angeles don't always have the chance to experience other weather type such as foggy, rainy, stormy, cloudy, snowy, humid, and even hail. Hot and sunny become such a normal weather type in LA. Thus, in this project, we want to build an installation that can show the opposite weather type in LA as well as creating an immersive experience for the people.

For the site option, we chose the open area in Westfield century city which provides a great shopping experience and yet, some spaces are still lack of shading and might be unpleasant to stay for too long.

With the chosen site, we propose an installation that can act as a shading device in the daytime and perform as a hub at night in which the visitor can experience the feeling of rain.

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Section and Plan In this design, we hang the hub 2.5’ above ground while keeping its ceiling low to provide a more intimate feeling.

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Model Detail The fixed plastic caps hold 1400 optical fibers in place. When light going through the optical fiber, the plastic cap will glow with it.

Model Detail The installation hangs from the external structure, and enclosed by polyfiber mesh. The projector is place on top of the ceiling and connects to the optic fiber. In here, the optic fibers transmit the image from the projector and form a digital screen on the mesh.

Model Detail We chose optic fiber to be the end of this image output because of its flexibility and its total internal reflection of light. When the light pass through the fiber from one end to another, the light will just show up on two ends. And the middle part of the fiber, we will just see the vestige of the light, like the track of reaindrop imprint.

Also there is a audio speaker on the top of the instllation, when people walking in the hub, there will be rainning/storm/thunder sound effects, to bring more immersive experience.

Gear House 07//SUPRASTUDIO 24 hours Workshop//Fall 2017//Instructor: Alex Schweder Installation/Performance Architecture

Care taking is an act of taking charge of looking after someone, is an unbalance relationship between various party of people that the party who hold more ability to taking care of others.

In China, the traditional family structure is sandwich generation that adults, elder and children living together. Adults should bear up the responsibility for the family burden to taking care of their parents and kids in multiple ways, not only materially taking care also spiritually taking care. In that case as the cared of elders and kids, there life are bonded by the adults.

There are different daily routines for three generations, we focus on four typical daily schedule for them, which is sleeping, eating, working and relaxing.

Also, we found out that different age people are having different pace of schedule. The frequency of children is faster than adults and the elder are slower than them.

Base on those conditions, we designed the gear house as the prototype to performing the idea of a typical Chinese sandwich family and to indicate the relationship among three generations in which the adult is as a caretaker to look after the child and the old.

Three disting sizes of gears represent the different frequencies of generations, that the smaller gear represents the children’s speed is twice than the adult and bigger one is represents elder’s speed is half of it. The middle adult gear take the responsibility to produce the motion of two other gears. The diagram showing how we organize the rotation, the black represents the sleeping time, orange color is the entertainment time, the blue is eating and green is working.

For example, while adult is eating the other two also get the chance for eating, and when adult watching TV the kid get chance for sleeping and elder can choose either sleeping or watching TV. The white period is the time for bath room, when who want to use the bath room they can call adult to rotate the gear to use.

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