Tommy Yuqian Wang Portfolio 2023

YU QIAN WANG

Skills

Render

Vray Lumion

Enscape

Digital Modeling

Rhino Revit

AutoCAD SketchUp Maya

Plugins/Simulation

Grasshopper Umi Diva Archsim Climate Consultant ArcGIS Pro

Representation

Illustrator

Photoshop InDesgin Premiere Pro

Others

Physical Modeling

Free Hand Drawing

3D Printing

Laser Cutting Vaccum Forming Wood/Metalworking

Languages

English Mandarin Chinese

contact Information

Phone Number: +1 315-870-8910

Education

Columbia University GSAPP - Master of Architecture New York, NY, United States

Email: Ywang185@syr.edu

Syracuse University, School of Architecture - Bachelor of Architecture (Cum Laude) Syracuse, NY, United States

Experiences

Chris Dikeakos Architects - Graduate Architect

Vancouver, B.C, Canada

Worked on digital models, design drawings and diagrams for mixed-use highrise projects (SD, DD, CD phases), Prepared packages for rezonning, development permit submissions.

Helios - Building Envelope Specialist

Vancouver, B.C, Canada

Building envelope specialist- Roofing, cladding, membrane, insulation and construction team member, Technician helper, Specializes in passive housing envelopes

ZAO/standardarchitecture - Summer Intern

Beijing, China

Design team member (RiZhao Community Art Centre and Housing), Digital and physical models, Design drawings and diagrams, Construction site visit, Structural meeting

Performative Praxis Lab (PPL) - Research Intern

Center of Excellence, Syracuse, NY, United States

Conducting research on urban energy efficiency (Muller Community), UMI simulations, Data visualization, Research paper figures and drawings Syracuse, School of Architecture - Peer Advisor

Contacting prospective undergrads, Welcoming tour and peer advising for new freshman

2022 2015-2020

Fall 2021 - Summer 2022

Spring-Fall 2021

Summer 2019

Thesis Prize Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design

Syracuse University, School of Architecture Dean’s list

Syracuse University, School of Architecture George Klein Medal / 1st place

DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture Golden Keys

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Drawing | Architecture 3rd Place

DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Industrial Design

Honorable Mentions

DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Mix-Media | Architecture Excellence Artwork Award

BURGEON Environmental Art Exhibition | Fashion Design

Awards Interests

Fall-Summer 2018 2016-2017 Fall 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020

2020 2014 2013 2015 2012, 2014, 2015 2015

Art - Fashion - Basketball - Culinary Art - Wine Appreciation - Movie - Music - Travel - Gunpla

THe Rare Myth Thesis

Project

“The Rare Myth” analyzes the anthropogenic process of rare earth mining as a phenomenon of exploitation to speculate on future design scenarios. Mapping the manifestation of rare earth mining on today's political, economical, social, and environmental realities. Issues of climate change, extinctions, technofossils, terraforming of earth, are all part of the indelible human scarification of this world. This thesis is stylistically and philosophically inspired by traditional Chinese ShanShui paintings. Through the agonistic collage between traditional and futuristic languages, this project paints a satirical anecdote assessment of humanity’s rapacious trajectory. Sepculating on the destiny of a post-anthropocentric planet.

Heaven created mountains of bodily spirits and rivers of flowing vines, Children, exploit his gifts with endless greed, When’s the time comes reincarnation of emptied mountains and derived rivers? Hollow seasons soaring past while we pray for the ark.

Villages

The hovering villages were created for the purpose of maximizing productivity of the extraction process. The machine is capable of excavating massive volumes of raw earth, refining and disposal of waste materials. Mass production provokes fierce competition between rival ‘villages’. The rapacious automation chain maximizes effciency and profit while incurring irreparable damange on the earth with significant amount of pollution.

Metropolis

The PANGU initiative is comprised of all aspects of the rare earth supply chain process, from extraction to manufature to distribution. All taking place within a singular megastructure acting as semi-organic machines overtaking the landscape. Many rural areas and sites have become targets of mass excavation. Villages have been eradicated and turned into metropoles dedicated to feeding humanity’s insatiable greed, all part of an artifical ecosystem monitored by oligarchies.

THe Rare Myth

Everything artificial and organic has been mixed, intertwined and blurred molecularly. The earthscape has greatly altered in materiality and form. The paintings imply that ‘nature’ has become a term of the past and survive merely in representation and minds.

Workers becoming the infrastructure, the infrastructure becoming the city, the city becoming the machines, the machines becoming the landscape, the landscape becoming architecture.

living canopy

Inglewood, Los Angeles, California

The site located within a former industrial tract of Culver City, has recently seen substantial development due to its desirable location and proximity to the newly completed metro station. The project explores the theme of diet and exercise to promote healthy lifestyles. The project will house an outdoor basketball court, swimming pool, gym, farmer’s market, and other programs. Inspired by the human body and its motion during sports activities, the project utilizes numerous structural and passive systems to convey sustainable ideas and an expressive narration of the theme. The massive space-frame green roof hovers above the steel-frame 'exercise' building and the brick 'diet' plaza. The ‘green cannopy’ not only act as solar shading but also creates public recreational space between the two structures.

intuative mapping Demographic Study of Los Angeles

Program Model

Healthy living theme - Exercise + Diet + Leisure

Structural Model

Sustainable design - Structure + Passive Systems

excercise facility suspended walkway shaded promenade

Broad channel workademic INcubator

Broad Channel, Queens, New York

Broad Channel is a lower-mid income island neighborhood in between Queens and the Rockway peninsula. The area is facing numerous resiliency and economical challenges. With constant weekly flooding caused by rising sea-level, in addition to the lack of education and office spaces across the neighborhood, Broad Channel undergoes its critical transitional period. The project answers to existing issues by incorporating a magnet school and co-working office into a resilient structure. The project aims to promote collaborations between students and professionals while providing public plazas that engages the community. The structure is designed to cope with flooding and storms, protecting the entire block that’s behind the building. The project intents to revitalize the area from rising sea levels while boosting ecnomic growth.

Floor Plans Water Testing Models

Physical Model

Morphopolis

Jeddah Economic City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Morphopolis explores the rapid cultural and political changes in Saudi Arabia. The site is located at the heart of Jeddah Economic City which is under construction featuring the JEC tower that will be tallest building in world. The city is one of the biggest and most ambitious project under Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision 2030. The goal of JEC is to stimulate Jeddah’s economic growth especially targeting the rapidly growing younger generations and creating a landmark destination similar to Dubai.

inspiration

circulation Network

The Grasshopper script simulates ant-like circulation behaviours over a period of time, forming swarms of network. The comprised network suggests program usage and circulation hotspot which then can be analyzed into programatic and formal strategies. The final form interpreted by the swarming visualization, inherits resemblance to Saudi’s local natural rockscapes which provides both intriguing aesthetic and substantial shading for users.

The natural landscape of Suadi Arabia inspired the concept and the form of the project. The natural rock-scapes possess intriguing forms while creating interesting pathways for circulation and natrual shading. The mass and texture of the landscape gives the viewer an ant-like experience. The project captures the form and scale of the rockscapes to encourage curiosity and discover. The form also performs the perfect outdoor overhead shading which is essential for the harsh weather of Saudi Arabia.

perspective section

physical model

roof plan program

ascension

Chelsea, New York City, United States

The Ascesion is an academic project part of Fall 2017 Studio. The interest of the studio was to explore adapting interesting programs into a hotel typology.The site located on a busy intersection in Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, NY. The ambition of ‘Ascension’ is to criticize and rethink current burrial methods which is wasteful and not environmental friendly. The project attemps to metaphorically and literally push the bondary between life and death by adapting two ‘contradicting’ programs (hotel and columbarium) together. Moreover implementing passive ventilation and structural systems inspired by the human body to a iconic design aesthetic.

The site is located in Chelsea, Manhattan, at the intersection of 10th ave and W 18th street. The unique characteristics of the site is being across from the Highline and blocks away from the Hudson River. The challenge was to take elements of the Highline into desgin consideration as well as producing a building icon for the Manhattan skyline. The view deck located at the south-west of site sparked the initial idea of sloping the building to convey a line of sight. Additionally, considering the view to the Hudson River and rest of the Highline, the building has a open facade on the west side.

Site Highline study model

site: Chelsea,NY

01 03

Top: concept diagram bottom: Plan

Viewing deck line of sight

02 04

welcoming plaza

The parametric facade is generated base on an anual solar radiation simulation.

The density and opacity of the facade gradiates solar exposure and heat gain, optimizating glazing and indoor comfort.

In addition, the Voronoi pattern enhances structural rigidity.

A visualization of the anual solar radiation on the building’s facade.

parametric facade generation

left: north facade elevation

Right: West facade elevation

hotel

bracings

load bearing wall shear wall

plaza

columbarium highline

Columbarium interior render

“Ascension” reimagines the dynamic between life and after-life by concieving the soul ascending experince. Drawing the two yin and yang components together, suggesting that the distance between the two ‘opposites’ can be much closer than what we believe...

physical model

mueller community Austin, Texas, United States

The Mueller Community Energy Efficiency Study is an ongoing research project conducted by the Performative Praxis Lab (PPL), led by Dr. Tarek Rakha. The research conducts series of urban analysis on the Mueller Community’s energy consumption and use simulation tools to test design changes that would potentially improve energy efficiency in the neibourhood. My role in the research comprises mainly of urban scale energy simulation (using UMI), data visualization and creation of sernarios.

PPL Spring/Summer2018 Team: Yuqian Wang, Rawad El Montar and Elena Echarri

Art And design

Personal /Technical

“Tri-wave”-George

Medal Wood,Foam Board, Paper

Klein

“rolling bridge”-Scholastic Golden key Wood, Paper, Plexiglass

PORTFOLIO/

For more work, please contact yw3967@columbia.edu YUQIAN WANG