PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS 2015-2021 YUQIAN WANG
YU QIAN WANG
contact Information Phone Number: +1 315-870-8910
Email: Ywang185@syr.edu
Education Skills Render
Syracuse University, School of Architecture - Bachelor of Architecture
2015-2020
Lord Byng Secondary - High School Diploma
2010-2015
Syracuse, NY, United States Vancouver, B.C, Canada
Vray Lumion
Experiences
Digital Modeling
Helios
Spring-Fall 2021
Rhino Revit AutoCAD SketchUp Maya
Vancouver, B.C, Canada Building envelope specialist- Roofing, cladding, membrane and construction team member, Technician helper, Specializes in passive housing in Vancouver areas
Plugins/Simulation
Performative Praxis Lab (PPL) - Research Intern
Spring 2016-Summer 2016
Peer Advisor - Syracuse, School of Architecture
2014-2015
Grasshopper Umi Diva Archsim Climate Consultant ArcGIS Pro
ZAO/standardarchitecture - Summer Intern
Summer 2018
Beijing, China Design team member, Construction site visit, Digital and physical modeling, Design drawings and diagrams, Presentaion during engineer and client meetings Center of Excellence, Syracuse, NY, United States Conducting research on urban energy efficiency (Muller Community), Simulation using UMI, Data visualization, Research figures and drawings Contacting prospective undergrads, Welcoming tour and peer guidance for new freshman
Awards
Representation Illustrator Photoshop InDesgin Premiere Pro
Thesis Prize Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design Dean’s list
Fall 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020
Syracuse University, School of Architecture
George Klein Medal / 1st place Others
2020
Syracuse University, School of Architecture
for2014
DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture
Physical Modeling Free Hand Drawing 3D printing Laser Cutting Wood/Metalworking
Golden Keys
2013
3rd Place
2015
Languages
Excellence Artwork Award
English Chinese Mandarin
Interests
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Drawing | Architecture DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Industrial Design
Honorable Mentions
DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Mix-Media | Architecture
2012, 2014, 2015
2015
BURGEON Environmental Art Exhibition | Fashion Design
Art - Fashion - Basketball - Culinary Art - Wine Appreciation - Movie - Music - Travel - Gunpla
selected works
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selected works
Living Canopy
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Bc workademic INcubator
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Morphopolis
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ascension
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mueller community energy project
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art and desgin
professional research
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technical
The Rare Myth
academic projects
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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 scars on the world. The thesis is inspired by traditional chinese ShanShui painting’s philosophy and representation styles. Through the agonistic collage between traditional and futuristic languages, the project paints a story of ironic connotated assessment of humans’ rapacious trajectory. Sepculating the destiny of a post-anthropocentric planet.
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“future”
“Anthropocene” “nature” “infrastructure” “power” “War”
“earth” “mine” “factory” “LAbor”
“death”
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‘Natural’ vs ‘artificial’
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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.
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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 provoked fierce competition between rival ‘villages’. The rapacious automation chain maximizes profit and effciency yet trading for sharp scars and piles of discarded pollutants on the landscape.
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Metropolis PANGU project was developed to precisely indicate, extract and refine RE materials from the site and transport directly to the consumer optimizing the supply chain process, acting as hovering villages over the landscape. Many rural areas and sites have become targets of mass excavation. Villages have been eradicated and turned into metropoles dedicated to manufacture. This would then process the materials into components, parts and products.
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THe Rare Myth
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Everything of artificial and natural has been mixed, intertwined and blurred where the landscape has greatly altered form and materiality in planetary and molecular scales. The paintings imply that ‘nature’ has become a term of the past and surviving merely in our representation and minds.
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The machines
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Workers becoming the infrastructure, the infrastructure becoming the city, the city becoming the machines, the machines becoming the landscape, the landscape becoming architecture.
02 living canopy
02 living canopy Inglewood, Los Angeles, California
Site located within a former industrial tract of Culver City which has recently seen substantial development due to its desirable location and proximity to 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, farmers markets, and other programs. Inspired by the human body and motions during sports activities, the project utilizes numerous structural and passive systems to convey sustainable ideas and an expressive narration of the theme. The massive green roof, space frame structure, hovers above the steel-frame 'exercise' building and the brick 'diet' plaza. The ‘green cannopy’ not only act as passive shading but also creates publicly interactive spaces in between the two buildings.
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intuative mapping Demographic Study of Los Angeles
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Program Model
Healthy living theme - Exercise + Diet + Leisure
Structural Model
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Sustainable design - Structure + Passive Systems
sectional Model
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suspended walkway
sECTIONAL Model
excercise facility
shaded pr
romenade
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roof garden
Food/farmers market
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axon chunk
perspective Section
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plans
03 BC workademic incubator
03 Broad channel workademic INcubator Broad Channel, Queens, New York
Broad Channel is a lower-mid income island neighborhood in between Queens and Rockway peninsula. The neighborhood is facing numerous resiliency and economical challenges. With constant weekly flooding caused by rising sea-level. In addition, the lack of education and office spaces across the entire island, Broad Channel undergoes its critical transitional period. The project answers to existing issues by incorporating a magnet school and co-working office into one 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 and boost ecnomic growth.
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A V ER A GE OF FI CE SI ZE
R AC E 0.7%
CLASS A
1.3%
19,000
AGE AND NATIVITY 25000
0.20% 0.047%
3.9% CLASS B
20000
16,300 35.3%
5% CLASS C
12,000
SQ UA R E FOO TA GE
15000
WHITE W OR K N YC
74,000
ASIAN MU L T I RA C IA
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Water Testing Models
Floor Plans
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Physical Model
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exterior Render
04 Morphoplolis
04 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.
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inspiration 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.
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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.
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perspective section
physical model
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roof plan
program
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Interior Render
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Birds-Eye View Render
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05 ascension
05 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.
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site: Chelsea,NY
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study model 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.
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Viewing deck line of sight
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welcoming plaza
Top: concept diagram bottom: Plan
view to highline + Hudson river
Colubarium
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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
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perspective section
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columbarium
load bearing wall
hotel
bracings
shear wall
plaza
highline
Axon drawing
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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...
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Exterior render nightview
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physical model
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06 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
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DATA PREPROCESSING
BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS
CLUSTERING
UBEM
SIMULATION
SCENARIOS NON-GEOMETRIC
INPUT
HEATING
Cooling (27°C, 28°C)
COOLING / HEATING SETPOINT
Heating (18°C, 19°C)
GEOMETRIC
COOLING
20%
LIGHTING
WINDOW TO WALL RATIO
30% 40%
SHADING
EQUIPTMENT
BUILDING B2
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Time of year (Months)
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Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)
Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)
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B Baseline
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S1 WWR 40
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S2 WWR 20
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S3 Shading S3 SetPt
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Time of year (Months)
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B Baseline S1 WWR 40 S2 WWR 20 S3 Shading S3 SetPt
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EQUIPTMENT
2 1 0
0
1
COOLING
BUILDING B4
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Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)
BUILDING B3
Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)
BUILDING B1
Louvers
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S* All scenarios
Time of year (Months)
LIGHTING S* All scenarios
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07 Art and design
07 Art And design Personal /Technical
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“Hands”-Scholastic Graphite on paper
Golden key
“Devoured”-Scholastic Watercolor, Ink on paper
silver key
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“Tri-wave”-George Wood,Foam Board, Paper
Klein Medal
“rolling bridge”-Scholastic Wood, Paper, Plexiglass
Golden key
PORTFOLIO/ For more work, please contact ywang185@syr.edu YUQIAN WANG