Yingying Yan
Bachelor in Architectural and Building Sciences/ Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Selected Works
2017-2022
Yingying Yan
415-906-9868
ying.yan9a@gmail.com
10 Ney Street
San Francisco, C.A. 94112
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bachelor of Architecture | 2022
Minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies | 2022
Lowell High School
1101 Eucalyptus Dr, San Francisco, CA 94132
2017
Skills
Experience
Woods Bagot | Architectural Designer (Interned)
San Francisco CA | 2022 - Present Full_Time, 2021 Summer Internship
• Design, test fits, representations and documentation for multiple projects, including Seattle Airport, Apple, NEOM etc.
• Participated in wide range of project phases including competitions / bids, concept, schematic design, design development and CD
• Design with intermediate and senior team members
CMU SOA | Teaching Assistant
Pittsburgh PA | 2017 - 2022
• Environmental I Climate & Energy in Architecture | 2020 - 2021
• Digital Fabrication Monitor 2019 -2020
• Digital Media 2018 - 2019
AECOM | Architectural Intern
San Francisco CA 2019 Summer
• FF&E project using BIM 360
• Fixed redlining on details and technical drawings using BIM 360
• Concept diagrams & block-type studies for Colorado master planning
CMU SOA | K-12 Outreach Instructor
Pittsburgh PA | 2017 - 2019
Digital
AutoCAD
Bluebeam
Climate Studio
Climate Consultant
Enscape
GIS
Grasshopper
IESVE
InDesign
Illustractor
Microsoft Office
Photoshop
Revit | BIM 360
Rhinoceros
Vray for Rhino
Sketch Up
Fabrication
Laser Cutter
3D Printing
CNC Routing
Woodshop
Language
English
Cantonese
Mandarin
House 26
Lithopic Co-house
Fluent Fluent Fluent
Junktopia
Vertical Theme Park
• Taught students from K-12 about drawing, model making, digital tools, graphic layout and architectural concepts
• Created course curriculums
Involvement
Trip Leader | Advisor | CMU Habitat for Humanity
Pittsburgh PA 2017 - Present
• Led a group to Houston, Texas for hurricane recovery efforts
• Organized group trip to Maui for affordable housingconstruction assistance
Assistant Head of Marketing and Entertainment | Spring Carnival Committee
Pittsburgh PA | 2017 - 2020
• Designed and built entranceway for 2018 Spring Carnival
• Created logo, posters, and updated website for Marketing
• Planned talent shows and entertainment activities
Honors
Graduated with University and College Honor | 2022
Deller Prize in Sustainable Architecture and Real Estate | 2021
First Penguin Award (Design Hackathon) | 1st Place | 2021
Dean’s List| F17, F18, F19, 20, F21, S21, F22, S22
Lewis J. Altenhof Memorial Scholarship | 2018-2019
ACP Student Scholarship | 2017
San Francisco Credit Union Youth Scholarship | 2017
AFSF | 3rd Place in Graphic Representation 2013
Blue Mat
Upcycling Design-built
Climate Museum
Microclimate
Table of Content
HOUSE 26
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University
Year 4 Semester II, 2021
Location: Pittsburgh, P.A.
Partner: Sean Meng
Professors: Dana Cupkova
Featured in 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and ACADIA Conference
House 26 utilizes a cradle-to-cradle design framework on an ecological collective living project located at a post-industrial site at Hazelwood Pittsburgh. It reconciles Site-specific social-ecological problems such as landslides, soil toxicity, water runoff, and food desert.Hazelwood was previously a steel mill site that experienced enormous air and soil pollution. Its steep topography serves as a secondary pollution source during extreme weather conditions when runoff water escalates the poor soil quality and limits the community’s ability to grow healthy local produce. House 26’s core design framework focused on collecting and treating the toxic soil through composting systems in combination with communal gardens and food waste from the household.
The project relies on an additive manufacturing method - binder jetting -to reuse local granular materials or construction waste for building assembly and landscape formation. It addresses material scarcity through structural optimization simulations to reduce the usage of concrete aggregate or earthen materials. Both the architectural and landscape systems are designed to be part of the local ecological processes and human processes to promote eco-living.
LANDSCAPE
LANDSCAPE
Urban Context Hydrology Flow Slope / Landslide Farm Bioswale Retaining Wall Terrace Frame Rain Water Toxic Runoff Sanitized Soil Condition Toxic Mounds Food Worm Compost MAPPING
ANALYSIS
CONCEPTS
Landscape Modified Landscape Analysis Layers 8
SITE
SYSTEM
Pre-modified
FLOW SIMULATION
FORMATION 9
DESIGN FRAMEWORK 10 11
STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION 12 13
Softscape texture
Wall Texture
Hardscape texture
BACK ENTRANCE
STAIR CHUNK
BIOMASS TEXTURE STUDIES
SAND PRINTED MODEL 14
SITE AXON 15
WORM WALL SHORT SECTIONS
JUNKTOPIA
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University
Year 4 Semester I, 2021
Location: New York City
Partner: Jasmine Lee
Professors: Hal Hayes
JunkTopia is a fantastical urban theme park, showing the role of humans in the greater cycle of waste, and exposing the inner workings of waste transformation to the public eye. Our project responds directly to the past of Gansevoort Peninsula as the site of both a waste incinerator and a proposed marine transfer station, which was scrapped due to objections from new residents. Junktopia will make the hidden infrastructure which supports our society visible, highlighting the responsibility of humans in the waste cycle and environmental inequity by allowing the users to view, experience, and take part in the many mechanical processes interpreted in the park. In a micro scale, JunkTopia connects individuals to the greater whole of the waste cycle and passes on the green philosophy while connecting back to the district’s historical functions. In a macro scale, JunkTopia also aims to create a ripple effect through social ecology by shifting people’s value through their experience of the park and establish a community of concern about dark ecology. Ultimately, JunkTopia will become a catalyst of change, where even people who might not have been to it will come to know its name.
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Waste Water Treatment Plant
Roskilde Cogeneration Plant
DESIGN CONCEPT
Fresh Kill Landfill PRECEDENT STUDIES MACHINE SYSTME
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MACHINE TO PARK
VERTICAL THEME PARK FLOOR PLATES & CORES HIGHLIGHT MACHINES
Structures and Machines
Waste Flow
Human Flow
MEGASTRUCTURE 26 PEOPLE SPATIAL TYPOLOGIES MACHINES CORRELATIONS RIDES PARK 27 Core Machine Spaces Human and Machines Floor Plate Circulations Structures
ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS
BLUE MAT
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University
Year 5 Semester II, 2022
Collective Studio
Location: Pittsburgh, P.A.
Professors: Stefan Gruber
Our urban environment is under predictable, accelerarted transformations leading by top-down masterplaning designs, which is an ineffective approach to many contemprary urban conditions. In contrast, the Urban Collabotory Studio engages urban milieus, the local community, and design intervention targeting the “ongoing transformation of neighborhoods in a meaningful way”.
This studio works with Community Forge and Bricolage Theater on the participatory design of a community/performance space. Community Forge is a vacant elementry school that is under the transformation to a community center. Bricolage is an immersive based theater believes in“whatever is at hand” to create something new. The studio worked side by side with the cilents and answered with a final proposal of the spatial transformation, including phasing and a built project in the community space focusing on solvaging and upcycling material in an circular economy matter. Through reusing the blue gym mat, the project transformed the space while retained the memories of many who attended school here. This project also asked how could circular materials make sense at an architectural scale. Given the constraints of nonstandard materials, when should architects and communities pursue adaptive reuse?
Hurry, we graduating in three days! It’s over.We don’t have enough tools!
Nonstandard materials are so tricky!
We have no money, and no time!
Not material shortage too!!!
FUNCTIONING WALL + UPCYCLING Lobby Urban Milieu Layer Dividers Gradient Spaces Color Box Functioning Walls Options Community Members Case Studies Interviews Site Visits Black Box Theater Bar / Hallway Green Room Office Community Space Community Space 2 Kitchen Lobby Bookshelves Parked Parked Activated Ceiling Design Pull-Out Activated Research Analysis Programatic Schemes Final Layout Design Proposals
Final Design Plan Elevation Axon ` ` ` ` 1
Wall Anchor 2. 2 x 8 Spacer 3. Sistered 2 x 4 Wall Stud 4. ench Cleat
Bottom Spacer 2 3 4 5 Dimensions Labeling
Wall Structure Details Community Space Phasing 1 Budget PHASING BY ZONES Time Labor Layer Dividers Theater Lounge Lobby Kitchen Gradient Spaces Color Box Functioning Walls Community Members Prototyping Prep Mass Production Finalized Design Collect Salvage Materials Take Down Mass Produce Frame and Mat Assemble Mat and Frame into Blue Couch Prep Wall Elements Documentation On Site Construction
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5.
Mat Couch & Wall Design
Frame Prototype
Assemble Prototype Marking Place Frame on Flat Surface Drill Pocket Hole Flip Over Joinery Detail Assembly Remove Top Roll & Install Top Mats Finish Add Wheels Cutting Drill Logs Material Analysis Staple Cut Foam Store finished logs Cut OSB Wrap mat around foam and stable to osb Seperate to foam, OSB and mat 1 2 3 4
Mat Logs Prototype
Collect Salvage Materials
Down
Production Backwall Assembly Upcycle School Event Materials Thank you NOMAS for the donation! Damaged materials added troubles to mat shortage Marking Material Inventory Transport back to Woodshop Take Down
Team Add Preassembled Wall Anchors and Studs Add Window Frames Add Bottom Spacers and French Cleat to Wall Add French Cleat to Mat and Attach Mat to Wall French Cleat Details Finish Bottom Spacers and French Cleat to Wall Finished Transport
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Mass
Frame
Team Assembly
Mat
Expected Schedule Realistic Schedule
CLIMATE MUSEUM
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University
Year 3 Semester I, 2019
Location: Pittsburgh, P.A.
Individual Professors: Dana Cupkova & Marantha Dawkins
Climate Museum, articulated the composite linkage between humans, animals, and their microclimates through simulations and the exploration of morphology while reconciling with the environmental challenges of the site. The project began with landscape terraformation complementing the urban climate to construct a new island typography that formed three climate zones to increase the diversity of animal inhabitants. The architecture then built upon the three climate zones by creating a gradient of microclimate for different plant species and inhabitable areas for the pollinators through the manipulation of architectural form. As a result, in addition to the human-animal propinquity at the shared outdoor space, when users circulate through the interior of the museum, they will experience the fluidity of microclimates corresponding to the inhabitants on the other side of the “wall”, understanding one’s connection to the greater environment. By interrelating the different scales of climate analysis, the audience, and the design, this project aims to increase biodiversity and sustain urban resilience.
MICROCLIMATE FACTORS
CLIMATE CONCEPT DIAGRAM
DESIGN CONCEPT DIAGRAM
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LOSS MAPPING
BIODIVERSITY
Urban Context
Vegetation & Pollinator
FLOODING CONTAMINATION EROSION
DESIGN FRAMEWORK
CLIMATE DESIGN 3 ZONES ARCHITECTURE ZONES
CLIMATE GRADIENT
TERRAFORMATION
GARDEN COMPONENTS
URBAN CLIMATE
Hot Moist Cold
48 ISLAND CLIMATE
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Slope Slope 2 Canopy Proportion Proximity Form Flat 1:4 Full Coverage Original Mid-Pt Steep Slope 10° 10° Cut Mild Slope S N E W 20° 20° Cut Steep 2 30° 1:2 Full Coverge Staggered 1:2 Full Coverge 40° 1:2 half coverage Mid-Pt Staggered 1:2 half coverage SOLAR STUDY SITE 50 51
Level 1 Level 2 Proportion 52 53
Thank you
YingyingYan
Bachelor in Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Selected Works
2017-2022
