PORTFOLIO Selected Working Samples 2011-2018
YUFENG WANG M.Arch Candidate University of Michigan Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture Tongji University
YUFENG WANG Address: 2222 Fuller Ct. Apt, 811A Phone: +1 734-834-7093 / +86 13661647246 E-mail: wangyufe@umich.edu / 13661647246@163.com
Education:
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University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planing Master of Architecture
08/2016~05/2019
Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planing Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture
09/2011~07/2015
Practice AIA AssociĂŠs Full-time Intern Architect (Schematic Design, Digital Modeling& Drawing, Rendering, Diagramatic Drawing, Physical Modeling) Project1: Beijing Mentougou Tomor Hospital (competition winner) Project2: Tangshan Jici Hospital (renovation design, entrusted project) Project3: Hainan Lingshui Psychiatric Hospital (competition winner, selected in portfolio)
06/2017~08/2017
International Century Design of Architecture Co., Ltd Full-time Associate Architect (Schematic Design, Digital Modeling& Drawing, Rendering, Diagramatic Drawing, Physical Modeling, Conference with clients) Project1 : Wuhan Broadcast Center in Hubei Province (competition) Project2 : Shudong Dongge Culture Center in Guizhou Province (entrusted project) Project3: Yinguan Ancient Tomb Museum in Guizhou Province (entrusted project, selected in portfolio) Project4: Huaian Design& Culture Park in Jiangsu Province (competition)
08/2015~06/2016
Project5: Residential Area design in Hainan Province (competition winner) Project6: Residential Area design in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (competition winner) Tianhua Architecture Planning& Engineering Co.,Ltd Full-time Intern Architect (Digital Modeling, Physical Models, Documentation)
07/2014~09/2014
Publication
Fall 2016
FORM Studio, Design of Public Pool and Duplication Project selected for "2017 Students' Show in TCAUP" Prof. Adam Fure, University of Michigan
Awards& Schorlarships
Fall 2011
Tongji Excellent Student Schorlarship, Tongji University
Fall 2012
2nd Prize, Summer Research Competition, Tongji University
Fall 2014
Social Activity Award, Tongji University
Fall 2016
Students Show Selection, University of Michigan
Skills:
Language Fluent English, Native in both Mandarin Chinese& Shanghainese Chinese
Softwares 2D Graphic: Auto CAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign 3D Modeling: Rhino, Sketchup, Revit, Z-Brush Rendering: V-ray for Sketchup/ Rhino, KeyShot, Lumion Coding: Grasshopper, Python, Rhino Script, MatLab Film Editing: Final Cut, Adobe Premier Analyzing: DIVA
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CONTENTS Selected Works 2011-2018 1. Fire Network Station...........................................................6 2. Yulin 47, Historical House Renovation.............................12 3. Urban Complex/ Valley Complex......................................16 4. Campus Center/ Campus Torch........................................20 5. Building a Socialist Utopia...............................................24 6. Form Studii (Public Pool/ Duplication)...........................28 7. Situation Studio................................................................32 8. Hainan Lingshui Psychiatric Hospital.............................34 9. Yinguan Tomb Museum.....................................................36 10. Historical Environment Record......................................38 11. Other Works....................................................................40
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FIRE "NETWORK" STATION SITE: ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN INSTRUCTOR: JEN MAIGRETE TIME:FALL 2017
The Fire Networking Station reorganizes the current consolidated design of firestations into a network of distributed fire stations. The current firestations in Ann Arbor are geographically distributed to achieve a 10-minutes service time across the city and each of the 5 stations includes apparatus bays to store and service trucks along with program supporting the 24 hour shifts of firefighters including administrative functions & offices, dorm rooms, living areas, workout space and kitchen and dining areas. In contrast, the distributed network proposes more frequent yet smaller fire stations with minimized apparatus bays, vehicle size and on-site services across most of the sites with occasional stations to house the largest of the service vehicles and a single, shared service center for the fleet. In this way, the network will effectively reduce the response time as well as offer a building scale that can more readily integrate into a variety of urban conditions, minimize mechanical functions and provide public space on the site to enable the institution to become more active with the surrounding community.
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FIRE FIGHTER REFRESHMENT LANE The service center in my fire-fighting network has responsibility for caring the fire fighters. After droping off the fire trucks and all the used facilities, the fire fighters can have a comprehensive break in the service center. The fire fighters will have a good space for taking a break, body cleaning, having food and having medical aids. The service ensures that the fire fighters have a comfortable break before they drive a well maintained fire truck back to the stations.
FACILITY MAINTENANCE LANE All the functions in regular fire stations are moved to a composive service center. The crew in the service center will collect all the facilities the fire fighters used after a mission and put them into a maintenance lane. The facilities like the gears, breathers and trucks will go through a maintenance process from the unload deck to the backup parking for the prepared trucks.
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GARDEN STATIONS The fire-fighting network gives the distributed stations a great advantage that most of the mechanical functions are move to a composive service. This means that the biggest reason for the isolation of the firestations in the urban environment is solved. The firestations become pleasant places for people live nearby. The firestations now can be combined with different kinds of public spaces. As a reflection of the lack of public garden space in downtown Ann Arbor, i made one of the many stations in the network to be an opened garden in downtown area. It combines a fire station with garden space at the corner of a block. It is opened to everyone and provides a place to hold public activities like parties and voting. The fire station weakly surrounds the garden and provides a possibility to the public to observe how a fire station works.
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02 YULIN 47 HISTORICAL HOUSE RENOVATION SITE: YULIN RD, YANGPU, SHANGHAI INSTRUCTOR: HONGJUN WANG TEAMMATE: LV, DEXUAN TIME: FALL 2014
What's the value of a historical building? How can a historical building live in the new urban environment? Where is the border between "Conservation" and “Renovation”? This project is my answer to the three questions. This project is conposed of research of the old building, judgement of the historical value and renovation design. To conserve the valuable historial information this old building has, we had a design strategy with minimized touch on the old building. To convert the old house to be a hotel, we made connection with added structures. We kept the original rooms to be the hotel rooms and moved all the service function to the added buildings.
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03 URBAN COMPLEX/ VALLEY COMPLEX SITE: HONGKOU, SHANGHAI INSTRUCTOR: LIU, MING TEAMMATE: WANG, JUNCHAO TIME: WINTER 2014
From late 1970s to now, cities in China, especially cities like Shanghai, have experienced a miraculous time with high-speed modernization. However, the rapid expansion of the cities left serious problems of "urban faultage". The "urban faultage" means that the city didn't develop evenly and the area with poor quality has become social problems in the city. Our urban complex was building a connection between the two parts in the city. We imagined that by improving accessibility and lively public space, the gap between the two parts of the city can be bridged. At the same time, as the bridge of the two parts, the urban complex itself will also have great benifits.
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04 CAMPUS CENTER/ CAMPUS TORCH SITE: CAMPUS OF TONGJI UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI INSTRUCTOR: ZHANG, JIANLONG TIME:WINTER 2012
This project comes from my research about the campus security in Tongji University. The teaching buildings, libraries and dining halls which usually closed early at night are located together in the central part of the campus. This means that the central part of the campus is dark and always has few people in. This probably lead to a potential safety problem in the campus. The goal of the new campus center design is to rebuiling the sense of security in the campus. Since the campus center which has students' clubs in is opened over night, i made the small boxes to be torches lighting up the dark campus.
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ELIMINATE THE DARKNESS! Darkness in the area with few people is a main factor lead to the unsecurity. The campus center is mainly about adding students who will use this area at night and giving a light source for the dark area. The darkness not only lifts the possibility of crimes, but also gives people a sense of unsecurity. The 24-hour operating time makes the campus center a 24-hour light source. At the same time, people who use the campus center can also give a sense of safety to this area.
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ILLUMINATION BOXES To illuminate multiple directions to this area, i distributed the campus center to be several boxes. Every single box can be a room for one students' club and a commons space underneath the boxes is a public gallary which is also the reception for the boxes. The boxes are facing to several directions which enable the illumination to be maximized.
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GROUND GALLERY The campus center is different from other public buildings, it sometimes doesn't always need a main enterence for all the rooms. In my design, i made the commons to be a gallery which can exhibit the information and works of the clubs. And all the boxes have their own enterances.
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05 REBUILDING A SOCIALIST UTOPIA SITE: LUOYANG HENAN INSTRUCTOR: ZHANG, PENG TIME: WINTER 2015, UNDERGRADUATE THESIS
1950s to 1970s was a special time period to China. The newly born China was copying everything from the Soviet especially the ideaology and social organization. The researched area was the residential area for workers working in the big factories. Years after the collectivistic life, the state-run factories have already lost their attraction to the young people. This residential area has already become living area for old people who used to be workers in the factories. My design was trying to rebuild a small socialist utopia in the cummunity center for the old. The community center was aimed to protect the common memory who was living there.
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MEMORIAL WALLS Old objects can always remind our memory, the old walls of the original buildings contain much information and memory of the city and this residential area. I kept part of the old walls to be a decoration layer of the community center. People living there can still touch the old building while they actually have a new community center. I can imagine a scene that people who are using the community center can walk through the memory to the reality.
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DESIGN STRATEGY The community center for the old is a group of small buildings which are 3-dimentionally connected. The users can walk from one building to another through bridges and paves. The greenery and plaza spaces are filled in the empty space among the buildings. The community center is opened to the public and offers service for the old people. The community center is giving utopian space for people from the special time period from 1960s to 1970s.
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06 FORM STUIDO/ PUBLIC POOL INSTRUCTOR: FURE, ADAM TIME: FALL 2016 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The public pool is a reponse of a series of formal transitions. The form grew from simple precedental plans and sections to a diagramatic drawing. After the formal transitions, i eracted a formal language to be applied to the public pool. The geometic forms became the walls, floors, landscape and pools. The pool is not creating buildings with specific functions or spatial feelings. The project is finding a way to design a public pool purely from geometry and researching how formal language can be transit to be architectural language.
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06 FORM STUDIO/ DUPLICATION INSTRUCTOR: FURE, ADAM TIME: FALL 2016 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The duplication is another formal transition exercise of architecture. The duplication is a housing building for two homes. One is a regular family of four people and another is a home for one people. The duplication is located on a fictitious site and all the site information about context and geography can be ignored. In the design of public pool, i transit four formal elements to be four architectural elements. In this design, i wanted to use one formal element to be multiple architectural elements. I transited the lines with curves to be ribbons in the building. The ribbons became walls, floors even furnitures in the building.
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07 SITUATION STUDIO WORK02 INSTRUCTOR: MORAN, THOMAS TEAMMATES: ZHANG, QI BROWN, BRYCE NAM, MICHEAL TIME: WINTER 2017
Rather than a design project, the huge drawing is more like a hybrid product of an incident, a painting and a situation. We assumed a pride parade was happening around the Statue of the Liberty and represented that with a specific painting style of Giorgio de Chirico. This work was a combination of the hypothesis of what will happen in such a situation. In the representation of this situation, we were trying to simplify the several things to be elemental keywords. The site of the Statue of the Liberty provided a background of context. The Pride Parade has its own ranbow colors and also indicates the emotion and behaviors of people. The painting of Giorgio de Chirico gives us a prototype of forming the figures and the statue.
The Disquieting Muses Giorgio de Chirico 1916 - 1918; Rome, Italy
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07 SITUATION STUDIO WORK04 INSTRUCTOR: MARON, THOMAS TIME: WINTER 2017
T h i s p ro j e c t w a s m a i n l y a b o u t a n experimental design method which is greatly different from how we usually design a building. The first half of this design is creating a series of situations which is related to the programs, imagined spatial atmosphere and people's activities. After that, i conbined the several situations to be a well organized hotel. This project was not designing "a good hotel". It's a practice and experiment of designing from part to whole.
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Built in Model
08 HAINAN LINGSHUI PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL SITE: LINGSHUI, HAINAN PROJECT LEADER: SIMON TSOUDEROS TIME: SUMMER 2017 PROJECT IN AIA Associés
The project is to build a psychiatric hospital in Lingshui, Hainan. The client required a hospital mainly deal with psychiatric patients with a small part deal with regualr patients from nearby villages. The hospital should also be a research and education center for psychiatric medicine. Concept Concept Concept设计理念 设计理念 设计理念 Hillscape Hillscape Hillscape village village village 山中村落 山中村落 山中村落 Different from the regular hospitals, the psychiatric hospital has a special requirement about the interior traffic. I isolated the lane for the regular patients and the lane for the psychiatric patients which enables both the regular and psychiartic patients to have the best treatment.
MountainSide MountainSide MountainSide 山体轮廓 山体轮廓 山体轮廓
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MOUNTAINSIDE
Community Community Community 村落 村落 村落 COMMUNITY
Variety Variety Variety 多层次 多层次 多层次 VARIETY
VOLUMN SHAPING
Mountain scape
Garden space
Open space
Ground floor
VIP inpatient
FACADE DESIGN
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09 YINGUAN TOMBS MUSEUM SITE: YINGUAN, GUIZHOU PROJECT LEADER: HONGJUN WANG TIME: SUMMER 2016 PROJECT IN ICDA
The project was the new museum in Yinguan, Guizhou Privince in China. Different from the regular museum, the core exhibition is an ancient tomb. The ancient tomb has no archeaology plan in the coming several years. So the design of the museum was mainly about how to build a museum which can greatly protect the tomb while showing to the public. We had two proposals for the museum. Both the two proposals aim to give a courtyard space for the tomb. The courtyard is also the most important landscape in the museum.
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TWO COURTYARD PROPORSALS The courtyard is the most important space in the museum since the most important exhibit is the tomb which has not been escavated yet. The two courtyard proporsals are two strategies to form the spatial atmostphere. The first one is more like an ornamental garden. We made greenaries and Japanesestyle landscape around the tomb which can only shown like a mound. The second one put more attention on the engagement of the courtyard. In this proporsal, people are more welcomed to get into the yard and be close to the ancient tomb. This can provide the visitors a close touch with the tomb.
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10 HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT RECORD SITE: LIPING, GUIZHOU INSTRUCTOR: HONGJUN WANG TEAMMATES: HONG, FEI JIANG, MENGFAN
With the modernization of China, the villages are vanishing these years. The historical environment record is a way of documentation. The record is different from regular architectural record. The historical environment record put much attention on the site information and context. It did't simply record a model of the old buildings in the villages. This record accuratly record the building errors and influence of time of the buildings. History of the buildings is not simple the information of the buildings alone, the information of the site and the surrounding environment information can also support to build a complete context.
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11 OTHER WORKS @Fabrication@Coding@Representation@Project Competition@Construction@Engagement
GRID TO ELEVATION FLAT TO FOLD
ARCH537 FABRICATION @Fabrication@Folding@Mobius@WaterJet Elevation Image Transformation
Google Image Transformation
Super Pixel Image Transformation
ARCH591 GENERATIVE DESIGN COMPUTING @MatLab@Venturi House@Image Warping@Python Coding Half Tone Image Transformation
Fliped Image Transformation
Fall 2017/ University of Michigan
Elevation-Image Transformation
ARCH516 REPRESENTATION @Reoresentation@Eisenman House X@ZBrush
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Winter 2017/ University of Michigan
Winter 2018/ University of Michigan
XINHUA CULTURAL PARK @Project Competition@Cultural
2015.12/ ICDA
XITING/ BREAKING SPACE FOR COMMUNITY @Construction@Place for Breaking@Framing of Scenes
Summer 2013/ Tongji University
LANTERN FOR ANTARCTIC STATION @Play with the lantern@Electric liquid@Engagement
Summer 2013/ Tongji University
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YUFENG WANG
M.ARCH CANDIDATE
Contact
+1 7348347093/ +86 13661647246 wangyufe@umich.edu