QINJUNKAI YAN Selected Works 2022 - 2023
Master of Architecture Stuart Weitzman School of Design University of Pennsylvania
CONTENTS 01 PORCHSCAPES Design of Academic Housing
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MODULAR METAMORPHOSIS p.13
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ECHOES
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04 REVIT WORK Assignment of Construction II - Course at UPenn
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Design of Market
Design of Museum
01 Porchscapes Instructor: Scott Erdy Location: The 46th Street Septa Rail Station, Market Street in West Philadelphia Academic Project Individual Work 2023 Fall
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Drawing inspiration from the rich cultural fabric of West Philadelphia, my project pays homage to the unique ‘porch fest’ tradition. The area is characterized by rows of townhouses with inviting porches – an architectural feature that has inadvertently become the epicenter of local celebrations, fostering camaraderie and a love for music. Observing this vibrant porch culture, I envisioned a structure that extends this concept vertically.
Apart from the central elevator, this staircase acts as a bridge, fostering interactions and exchanges among students of varying academic disciplines. This design also erases boundaries between the private and public realms. The public can ascend, witnessing academic discourse, camaraderie, and perhaps even impromptu performances. The journey culminates at the rooftop garden, offering panoramic views of Philadelphia, stitching the urban landscape with the building.
Enter the 13-story academic housing – a modern reinterpretation of the townhouse and porch dynamic. Grounded in the essence of community and belonging, each floor represents a specific college dormitory. While each floor develops a distinct culture and personality that characterizes that college, it is essential to note that this design doesn’t foster isolation. On the contrary, an open-air staircase spiraling the building serves as a unique conduit, weaving together these diverse floors and their inhabitants.
In essence, the design mirrors the townhouses and their porches but elevates the concept – quite literally. Each floor, while being a microcosm of a specific college, is part of a larger cohesive community, celebrating academia and life in the West Philadelphia.
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SITE ANALYSIS The site is located on Market Street in West Philadelphia and engage the 46th Street Septa Rail Station. The type of housing in this area is basically townhouses, and that these townhouses come with porches. And the porch fest has developed around the porch, which is a really important thing that the neighborhood in West Philly does every year. during which people put bands on their porches and people walk around on their porches eating, drinking and having fun.
CONCEPT
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Take the street, the townhouse as well as the porch concept from horizontal to vertical and extend the building upwards. First, started with one solid, and then playing Jenga by taking out one after one rectangular block and refining each floor based on Move Circulation, Building Program, and the Concepts of the Porch, and ended up with this building.
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Building Floor Plans Ground Floor Plan
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Common Areas Floor Plan
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Typical Floor Plan
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Housing Unit Detail Plans
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Section
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Elevation
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Renders
Exterior
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Interior
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02 Modular Metamorphosis Instructor: Ezio Blasetti Location: The Callowhill community, Philadelphia Academic Project Individual Work 2023 Spring
The Callowhill community, steeped in industrial heritage and artistic culture, presents a unique opportunity for the integration of cutting-edge architectural techniques with its rich historical context. The project concept is to combine innovative, complex and adaptable architecture, but also highly efficient production methods with the rich industrial heritage and artistic culture of the Callowhill community. While combining the efficiency and adaptability of modular and prefabricated buildings with the complexity and versatility of digital design.
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Drawing inspiration from Weaire-Phelan structures and combining them with elements drawn from AI technology, they serve as the functional and aesthetic cornerstones of the project, highlighting the possibilities of modular architecture and 3D printing to create complex, beautiful architecture quickly and efficiently.
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References
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Water Cube
Discrete Assemblies
Protohouse
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Geometric Catalog Weaire-Phelan Structure
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Reliefs Heightfield Relief
Images generate by Midjourny & Input images to Runway
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Sectional Relief
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Massing Studies
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Renders
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Site Plan
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Section - West to East
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Floor Plan Axon View
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03 Echoes Instructor: Ryan Palider Location: The Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia Academic Project Individual Work 2022 Fall
This project is about finding a massive, gravitational, excavated architecture that mostly sets up an interiority through the exterior spaces. A museum needs to be a unique building in the city, but more than that, it needs to have qualities that reflect permanence and thus be able to move away from the styles of a particular architectural time. The project proposes a building with a simple and radical that can show off both the things on display and the light and shadow of the site. The project wants to show what makes the site unique and how important it is. The site is unique because it is above the Fairmount Water Works.
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So, the project is shaped by incorporating local geometric shapes into the architecture and using expected movements from the road and the city to shape both the external and internal form of the museum in the same way that the water and wind flow have shaped the rock shapes over time. In this way to create an interior that has been dug out and is both sculptural and monumental. This allows on the one hand, to create big empty spaces suit to a public building and, on the other hand, to have the quiet and privacy needed in a research and work building.
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SITE PLAN Scale 1/32” = 1’-0”
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Floor Plan
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
Scale 1/16” = 1’-0”
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Sections
SECTION AA’ Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
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SECTION BB’ Scale 1/8” = 1’-0”
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Elevations
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Renders
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04 Revit Work Instructor: Ryan Palider Location: 1901 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 Academic Project Individual Work 2023 Spring
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Thank You for Watching!
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