This portfolio presents 8 projects by Yiyao Wang from 2016 to 2019, with a wide range of typologies and mediums, including a museum, two landscape designs, a boathouse, a dormitory, an academy, a bath, and some photography works.
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1. International Culture Center of Art 2. East River Playscape 3. Tourist Vortex 4. Columbia Boathouse 5. Pratt Dormitory 6. Wave Hill Academy 7. C-Bath 8. Photography Works
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Musuem:
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International Culture Center of Art
2018 Fall Instructor: Mark Rakatansky Location: Manhattan, NY
Guggenheim Museum has been a leading figure in the international art scene, with collections from all over the world and its interests of cross cultural art. The goal of the museum addition of the permanent collection is to encourage visitors to see art globally and enable them to be immersed in a diversed international art cultures. To achieve this goal, the collections that are from a variety of cultures are selected, along with two world-known artists Brancusi and Noguchi's arts as two nodes for specific collections. Both Brancusi and Noguchi are artists who had global roots and embraced their cultural heritages, and had an increadible openness to global cultures, which formed their unique artistic characters.
Specific international collections are displayed along Brancusi and Noguchi's art based on cultural references. Paris, Eastern Europea and Africa collections come together forming Brancusi collection, as Japan, China and Latin America Collections come together forming Noguchi collection. Brancusi and Noguchi become intersecting pathways, constructing a global network.
Colors are used to lead visitors's eyes and to create intensified moments and cultural crossroads. Visitors's moments are choreographed through the planes, and the architecture is framing devices for the art, allowing visitors to view arts simultaneously and to understand the relationships between different artifacts.
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2017 Fall Instructor: Dragana Zoric Location: Manhattan, NY
The idea of play shouldn't just happen in the playground but everywhere, and people should play more in the context of their daily life. The site is situated between pier 11 and pier 15. It is now the circulation path between two piers. Instead of a normal promenade, a new landscape offers an endless variation of play options and creates playful explorations without people's anticipation, constructing an unexpected experience.
East River Playscape
2018 Spring Instructor: Larry Zeroth Location: Manhattan, NY
Situated in the spina right in front of St.Peter’s Square, the proposal is a park accommodating both pedestrians and cyclists, creating a pedestrian-cyclists co-existing environment with the fusion of different speeds, increasing movement fluidity of the spina. By engaging bikes, it aims to be a tourist destination. Biking is among the most sustainable forms of recreation and tourist activities, and is being taken up by increasing number of tourists regardless of age and social position. It is a form of soft recreational tourism that yields many positive results. I am interested in the street scape of Rome, and the accessibility of the city during Nolli time.
Tourist Vortex
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Columbia Boathouse
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2017 Spring Instructor: Christian Lynch Location: Manhattan, NY
The site for this project is a specific parcel at 555 West 218th Street in NYC along the Harlem River adjacent to Columbia University’s Baker Field sports complex. The program of the project is a boathouse for Columbia rowing team and community rowing club. On top of that, the boathouse stresses physical context, relationship to water’s edge/park and neighborhood to city scale, boat access and clearances, dock structures, transportation network and traffic patterns, sun/shadow, pre- vailing winds and orientation, views.
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The facade of the boat house provides physical barriers and varying visual connections between inside and outside. It is placed along the main path of the boathouse, so that while people pass by the facade, visual connections between inside and outside change in three conditions: enclosed, semi-open, and open. On the rooftop, the outdoor auditorium on the right side, the river on the other side.
By removing barriers between the private and the public, this project refigures the relationshop between Columbia rowing team and the pulic rowing club. While there is still a distinction betweem two parties, the boathouse attracts the public into the boathouse. Ramps are constructed through out the whole building, and visitors can access to the building without entering the building and without meeting a single deadend. Fragmented surfaces enhance visual connection.
The aisle welcomes the public crowed to the boathouse.
On the main path, vistor can see the boats though facade.
Walking towards to the rooftop in the facade.
Pratt Dormitory
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2016 Fall Instructor: Sal Tranchina Location: Brooklyn, NY
Started with the idea of a planar unit derived from earlier studies, using the idea of “breaking boundaries�inside vs. outside + shared vs. individual + private vs. public. These spaces were overlapped, interlocked and blurred. Communal spaces continue the language of planes, connected to the units via their shared spaces.
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2016 Spring Instructor: Chi-Fan Wong Location: Wave Hill, NY
This Project is located in Wave Hill. The academy provides classes, lectures, tours, etc. The two clients are Dan Barber and Sophie Wolanski. Dan Barber is the chelf of Blue Hill. He grows his own ingredients for his restaurants, working between culinary art and farming and pursuing the “from-the-farm-tothe-table” idea. Sophie Wolanski is a florist and the founder of Muck Floral – a flower studio. Sophie sells cut flowers and plants as well as a carefully selected range of home and garden wares. The academy aims to boost people's awareness of local products and sustainability.
Wave Hill Academy
C-Bath
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Superficiality is something that does not have a direct relationship to the actual content, but it enhances the mood or atmosphere, and sensations are also generated. I am interested in how superficiality can be utilized in architecture. I am trying to create a indoor pool with the atmosphere of outdoor. To achieve that, elements, images and lightings that would relate the occupants to the experience of outdoor are installed in the space, so that the aura gets enhanced. Can superficiality be not superficial in architecture? While the program and the function are the most celebrated elements in modern architecture, the importance of spacial character can never be exaggerated. By incorporating superficial elements that only has visual values, the mood of the space is achieved, and it affects the experience of the architecture.
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Photography