PORTFOLIO 2017-2020 Selected Works
YAN WANG
Professional Work
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NANJING EAST TIEGUANXIANG PROJECT Building Technology
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CURTAIN WALL: BREATHE
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SUPER-TALL
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ARCTIC BATH
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CULTURAL NEST Academic Design Works
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THE ULTIMATE COOKWARE
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HUDSON PROMENADE
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INDEFINITE INTIMACY
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HOUSING IN DIAGONAL
YAN WANG 434-284-1040 yw3072@columbia.edu
EDUCATION 09.2017 - 05.2020
Columbia University, New York, NY Master of Architecture _ expected graduation May 2020
09.2013 - 05.2017
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Bachelor of Science in Architecture, with honors Awards School of Architecture Design Excellence Award _ 2017 Galsworthy Endowed Scholarship _ 2016 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
06.2019 - 09.2019
Grimshaw Architects, New York _ Architectural Intern _ Collaborated with associates and senior architects to deliver multiple SD packages for Belmont Horse Racing Park Renovation. Worked on hospitality research, design narratives, building plans + sections,entry circulation, and paddock design. _ In charge of rhino modeling of existing condition based on surveys. _ Proposed early stage design concept for Dubai 2020 Metro Station. Collaborated with junior architects to produce design narratives, circulation diagrams, plans, sections, and exterior renderings.
06.2018 - 09.2018
SOM _ Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York _ Architectural Intern _ Responded RFP of Capital Market Authority Tower in Kuwait. Collaborated with technical designer to propose tower massing options with different parking and core layouts. Produced 3d model,typical floor plan, parking plan, and section for each massing options. _ Proposed facade options for Hangzhou A07 Tower by using parametric design tools. Worked on detail surface modeling for multiple tower skin options. _ Collaborated with associate and architects to effectively tailor the RFP for Disney NY headquarter competition entry. Worked on design narratives,diagrams,exterior and interior renderings.
05.2016 - 08.2016
FR-EE _ Fernando Romero Enterprise, New York _ Architectural Intern _ Collaborated with associates to research and facilitate for Hyperloop Global Challenge. Created phasing proposal based on site research. _ Resolved design issue of central auditorium for Havana Ocean Museum. In charge of entry plaza design. _ Produced CD drawings for Mexico New International Airport. INVOLVEMENT
09.2017 - 09.2018
GSAPP Fabrication Shop Assistant PROFESSIONAL SKILLS _ Language _ English, Mandarin _ Software _Rhino, AutoCAD, Revit, Grasshopper, 3dsMAX, Enscape, Vray, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup, Karamba
Tower Massing Iterations
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替选方案2 Alternative Option 2
替选方案1 Alternative Option 1
替选方案2 Alternative Option 2
替选方案1 Alternative Option 1 窗墙比 Window Wall Ratio: 68%
窗墙比 Window Wall Ratio: 66%
4.2m
4.2m
2.8m
2.8m
4.2m
2.2m
1.5m
1.5m
Facade Options
HANGZHOU A07 MIXED-USE TOWER Schematic Design Project at SOM 2018 Summer Team leader _ Daniel Cashen -Proposed tower massing options -3d modeling of facade options -Produced exterior and interior renderings of each option
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Interior Views
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City View
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Supter-Tall Tower Facade Options
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NANJING EAST TIEGUANXIANG PROJECT Schematic Design Project at SOM 2018 Summer Team leader _ Daniel Cashen -3d modeling of tower and shopping mall facade options -Produced exterior renderings for each options -Particapted in laying out floor plans and site plan
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Shopping Mall Entrance View
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Site Plan
Shopping Mall Facade Options
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CURTAIN WALL: BREATHE
Building Envelope and Detailing 2020 Spring
Instructor _ Heintges _ Daniel Vos + Robert Heintges
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Section Detail at Stack Joint
Section Detail at Intermediate Joint
Section Detail at Grade Section Detail at Parapet
Typical Plan Detail
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Plan Detail at Shadowbox
Typical Wall Section Perspective
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SUPER-TALL
Building Envelope and Detailing 2018 Fall Instructor _ SOM _ Nicole Dosso
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ARCTIC BATH 3ds Max Renderings 2017 Fall Instructor _Phillip Crupi
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The project aims to create a flexible design which offers diverse experiences in the community theater. Architecturally, the building takes the approach of an nest in a box, which fits into the city fabric from the exterior but at the same time offers as surprising grand moment inside. The movable back facade design enables the cultural nest to spill out to the park and integrated into multiple community art activities. The project is separated into several phases from schematic concept design to construction documents. The scope of work involves architectural and structural solutions as well as MEP and building envelopes. Through studying different wall section details and facade road map details, the building has a distinct quality both architecturally and materially.
CULTURAL NEST Greenpoint Community Theater _ SD to CD Set 2018 Fall _Brooklyn, NY Instructor _ SOM _ Nicole Dosso Group work with Munise Aksoy, Chenyan Zhou, Lihan Jin
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Level 1 Architectural Plan
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Level 2 Architectural Plan
Level 3 Architectural Plan
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Section 1 East - West
Section 2 North - South
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Mapped Elevation - North
Mapped Elevation - West
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BOH Wall Section + Details
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FOH Wall Section + Details
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Road Map System 3 - Perforated Metal Panel to Exterior Glazing Transition
Road Map System 3 Details
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Road Map System 2 - Movable Perforated Metal Panel
Road Map System 2 Details
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1. EXCAVATION AND PILES
4. STEEL COLUMNS
7. BEAMS AND FLOOR LAYER BY LAYER
Sequence of Construction
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2. GRADE BEAMS AND PILE CAPS
5. GROUND FLOOR BEAMS
8. TRUSSES FOR ROOF
3. FOUNDATION WALLS AND SHEAR WALLS
6. METAL DECK AND GROUND FLOOR CONCRETE
9. ROOF CONCRETE
Exterior Plaza View
Interior Ground Floor Lobby View
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By rethinking the social normality of cooking and dining in the contemporary culture, the project aims to establish a new typology for dining both spatially and socially. Through analyzing the culture of dining and the process of cooking, the building turns the traditional “back of house” to the “front of house” to establish a new dynamic between food production and consumption. Spatially, the architecture is the ultimate cookware. Cookwares for ingredients are translated into space for inhabitants. Key factors for food making processes such as heat air and water also perform as distinct spatial qualities. Socially, the building functions as an active condenser. Customers are no longer passive consumers with detached dining experience but active participants of the whole process from food production to consumption. Community engagements are strengthened through traceability of ingredients and the new mode of social interaction.
THE ULTIMATE COOKWARE A New Dining Culture 2019 Fall _ Cheyenne, WY Instructor _ Bureau Spectacular _ Jimenez Lai Group Work with Maini Ke
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EARTH
FIRE
WATER
AIR
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Fermentation Cellar
Air Dry Tunnel
Oven
Steamer
Green House
The project starts by analyzing the basic element of cooking and varied cooking methods using Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Through studying the process and the geometry of cookwares, the concept of “architecture as the ultimate cookware� is emerged. Rooms are abstracted as larger scale cookwares. Thus the relation between ingredients and cookware assembles inhabitants and space. Unique process of cooking lead to distinct spatial and thermal conditions.
Massing Studies
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Fine Dining
Casual Dining
Family Style
Dim Sum
Fast Casual
Buffet
Cafe
Sushi
Food Truck
Drive Through
Uber Eats
Home Cooking
Kitchen as An Ambient Condition
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Hunting
Soup Dumpling
Barbecue Pork Burger
The project develops with two parallel studies. The study of ingredient flow and the study of dining modality. The research of ingredient is developed upon the site visit to the Metropolitan restaurant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Based on the visit recipes of different dishes are spatialized through staging and time intervals. The cooking instruments of the building are built upon the study of ingredient flows. The research of dining starts with precedent studies of different ways of eating in the contemporary world, from fine dining restaurant to Uber eats. By abstracting three types of relations: people to food; people to kitchen and people to people, a new dining modality is produced . In the new modality, the building aims to turn kitchen into an ambient environment for both cooking and eating.
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Exterior View
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Cookwares are inserted as Objects penetrating through roof
Circulation Path is following Site Topography. Visitors move down to the river front
Different Experience along with Circulation Path Created by Rooms as Cookwares Site Plan
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Level 2 Floor Plan
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Level 4 Floor Plan
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
East - West Building Section
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The concept of “architecture as ultimate cookware� lead to distinct spatial condition for each space, especially in terms of humidity and temperature.
Humidity 10%
90%
Temperature 450F
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60F
In stead of creating a homogeneous comfort zone for dinning space, which is completely disconnect with the kitchen, the project is embracing the quality for each cooking method. For example, fermentation requires low temperature and humidity which leads to cold and wet space; Air-dry tunnel requires low temperature and ventilation which leads to extremely dry space. The mapping of humidity and temperature shows the variety of building environments that are able to established in the building. By overlaying humidity and temperature together, all cookware spaces, fermentation cellar, air-dry tunnel, steamer room, and the oven, have distinct spatial character which directly influence the environment for the in-between spaces.
Humidity + Temperature 450F
60F
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Level 2
Inside Fermentation Cellar
Build upon the distinct building environment that cooking processes established. The experience of inhabitants varies due to the unique condition of each space.
Steamer and Air-dry Tunnel
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Dark and humid condition in fermentation cellar lead to an intimate space with dim lights; high temperature and humidity for steamer room lead to an steamy sauna like space; Dry and hot condition for oven establishes an industrial ambient; sunlight and humidity requirement for indoor pocket garden result into a lively tropical experience.
The building is no longer function as one big scale dining space but rather multiple small scale dining experiences with distinct spatial characters. Visitors are able to experience all of the above dining experience by circulation inside the building with different types of food that are produced through each cooking process. The building is celebrating the new mode of cooking and eating. The kitchens are the front of the house which establish the ambient condition for all social interactions around it.
Pocket Garden
Level 4
Around Oven
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Massing model reveals the project is following the topography change, directing visitors to move down to the river front. Cookware spaces are shown as inserted objects, embedded into the overall massing with distinct geometries. Section model are showing the relation of roof, floor plate and cookware objects. The facade is using translucent channel glass to reveal the inside geometry.
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The campus aims to return Newburgh’s city gateway back to the Hudson River to strengthen the linkage to greater Hudson Valley. Build upon the regional flourishing agricultural industry, the project attempts to establish a Food Hub for both the local community and external visitors. The campus is designed to incorporate food-based programs such as culinary school;workshops with Chef in Residence experience which attracts the existing tourist groups around the region; Offices and food labs for food-tech companies and experimental restaurants. Architecturally, buildings are designed as threshold spaces along both inner city edge and water edge to soften the existing site barrier and to activate water by bringing dynamic flows along the riverfront. With the adjacency to Beacon ferry line, the campus also focuses on public transportation. By connecting the local bus system to ferry station; extending ferry lines to surrounding tourism spots, the project transforms the site to an intermodal transportation hub which establishes a stronger linkage between city scale and broader regional scale. The campus functions as a significant city river gate to foster future community economic growth and to activate Newburgh as a new visitor’s hub in the Hudson Valley network.
HUDSON PROMENADE An Urban River Gateway 2018 Fall _Newburgh, NY Instructor _ Only if Architecture _ Adam Frampton
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Through analyzing at the larger scale of Hudson valley. The project identified several key factors that could further strengthen the regional connection: Agriculture, Transportation, and Tourism. Located within the networks of above factors, Newburgh river front has the potential of establishing a new identity through factors above. Zooming into site condition, existing freight line is a major barrier. It cuts apart the access residents connection to the river front activities. Elevated railway makes pedestrian connection the river almost impossible. Also a large scale vacant lot separates the river front to current city fabric, making it an isolated left over land.
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Existing Site Condition_ Railway as Barrier
Massing Iterations
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Axon
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URBAN CONNECTION
URBAN CONNECTION
FOOD PRODUCTION
INTERNAL CONNECTION
TAXI DROP OFF
FERRY TERMINAL
RIVER CONNECTION
BROADWAY CONNECTION
BUILDING PROGRAM FORMAL TO INFORMAL
The project aims to re-establish the connection between the river front and existing city fabric through multiple strategies. The overall building sits above the railway to create direct pedestrian connection .Major operations on the massing including carving out edges to create large scale public gather space linking the end of Broadway directly to the river to active city accessibility.
POP UP RESTAURANTS
FOOD HALL
FOOD TECH INCUBATOR
CULINARY HOUSING
CULINARY COOKING CLASSROOMS
BUS TERMINAL
Program Public to Private Level Private
Public
Programs are arranged based on public to private gradient in a linear way, with culinary school facing the city edge to provide more job opportunities and with food market facing the river front for tourists.
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Main Level Building Plan
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North - South Building Section
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North Exterior View
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With the strategy following the topography change, the building creates an intimate facade facing the city edge with one story elevation. However the roof peels up and presents a more monumental facade facing the river front to establish a new identity for Newburgh as a transportation and tourism hub.
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Courtyard Interior View
The monumental roof of the project is a timber vault structure covered with thin shell at the exterior. The wooden framework further sketches out the curvature of the roof and creates a public gathering space with high ceiling height. Along with roof perforations, internal courtyard functions as an atrium to bring natural light into the space.
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Partial Model with Roof Structure
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Library is the space in the messy in-between zone of individual and collective; continuous and disruptive. In this project, open and intimate spaces are not separated distinctively by walls or rooms but rather formed in a relative relation. The layout of floor plans with vertical openings allow visitors to experience the library as a fluid space but at the same time get disrupted by the visual connection of different activities happening on other floors. By creating pockets along the parameter, the city view is intervening into the library and allow the visitor to immerse into the Brooklyn cityscape.
INDEFINITE INTIMACY Branch Library for Brooklyn Public Library 2018 Spring _ New York, NY Instructor _ nArchitects _ Mimi Hoang
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The project starts with the spatial exploration of the inward v.s outward, open v.s close relation. Through modifying and twisting a simple module, the models are exploring a spatial relation at a medium scale between every three floors. By opening up corners and central atrium, the models establish an indefinite relation of public and private spaces. Inward focus floor has a central atrium which emphasis public programs such as gathering while outward focus floor has edge spaces which lead to private programs such as study rooms.
Spatial Relation Study Model
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The final massing model of the overall building is build upon medium scale modular study of the indefinite relation between public and private. By alternating the inward floor and outward floor, the model is showing the fluidity of spatial division in the building. There are no hard divisions of rooms but rather a relative relation of open v.s private in an open floor plate. A sectional connection through atrium as well as the extended edges create inter-locking double height spaces which produce natural light and visual connection between book space and activity space. Massing Model
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1 Floor Plates with No Connection 2 Floor Plates with Point Connection 3
Floor Plates with Surface Connection
4 Floor Plates with Surface and Corner Connection Spatial Module Transformation
Operations such as filleting the edge of floor plate and breaking up the rectangular vertical wall into curved walls blur the boundary between open and close, inward and outward. No rooms are created, instead a series of connected zones with height defining its privacy level are formed. Programs also take the geometric profile and the vertical spatial condition. No program is contained in a room but rather an open organization transition into each other. More intimate small scale spaces are arranged along the edge while larger scale public programs locate in the center.
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Program Sequence Diagram
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Level 2 Floor Plan - Study Floor
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Level 3 Floor Plan - Book Floor
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North - South Building Section
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Level 1 Site Plan
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South Exterior View
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Exploded Structural Diagram
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Interior View
X-Ray Model
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Today’s economic and technological disruptions are fundamentally challenging the idea of home. With freelancing, home-office and Airbnb, the permanence, program, ownership and identity of home are becoming ambiguous. The project takes the stand of rethinking housing as more than the space for basic daily activities but rather a site for working, creating, socializing and consuming. By combining diagonal and layering layout, the project creates an incremental experience from most public streets to most private individual bedrooms. Urban markets, communal courtyards, hallway lounges, and sharing doorstep spaces are designed to encourage different scales and ways of working and socializing. To the unit level, the diagonal spatial strategy focuses on creating flexibility to serve a variety amounts of users.
HOUSING IN DIAGONAL Public Housing Project in Central Bronx 2018 Fall _ New York, NY Instructor _ SO-IL _ Ilias Papageorgiou Group Work with Alex Li
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The project starts by exploring the concept of served and servant space in everyday life. Instead of dividing up rooms as public and private, the project proposes layers of served and servant space. With the servant space in the middle layer, it has the most flexibility of serving different or both layers of public programs. Furthermore, the project also aims to break up the fixed layer condition but still having the flexibility of servant space by opening up corners and establishing diagonal connection.
Served and Servant
Massing Model
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Diagonal Connection
Level 1 Building Plan
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Circulation Sequence
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Spatial strategies of diagonal and layering are applied to both macro and micro scale. At an urban scale, the diagonal public path cuts through the existing urban grid and connects two dense circulation points with most public urban programs such as food markets and recreation court for all public access. Another diagonal connection, which links the children play ground and community garden, is private for residents but still remain as open gathering space. The resident could experience an incremental path of public to private, in terms of both program and spatial quality, from the busy street to one’s individual bedroom.
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Circulation Gateway
3 Basketball Court
Public
4 Children’s Playground
2 Circulation Gateway
Private
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1 Public Market Public
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Circulation Sequence - Street to Home
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2 bedrooms
2 bedrooms
nuclear family
airbnb and guest
co-living college students/young professionals
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duplex/lower fl multi-generation
1 bedroom young couple
duplex/upper fl multi-generation
studio freelancer
Unit layout is also following the diagonal and layering strategy as well as the incremental relation of public to private. The doorstep space and balcony form the public diagonal line. The doorstep becomes the sharing space between neighbors and balcony is less public but still has the visual connected through the use of channel glass in the corner. Two bedrooms form the most private diagonal line with one facing outward and another facing inward the corridor. Servant spaces such as bathrooms are placed in the center layer to create flexibility of serving either the living room or the bedroom.
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Level 3 Building Plan
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level 3 / partial plan
level 2 / partial plan
The unit organization flips from floor to floor to create more connections sectionally. In this way, Three units are functioning as one small scale social group with one unit sharing entrance lobby with neighbors to the right and sharing balcony space with neighbors to the left.
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North - South Building Section
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Street Facing Facade View
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Interior Courtyard View
By flipping units aggregation every floor, a facade with alternating solid and void condition is created. The concept of diagonal connection is underlined through the facade pattern. The balconies also function as space for individuality within the group form. The inward facing facade of the complex takes the same strategy. The door step pocket for each unit forms the void space which allows individual expression at a human scale to break the overall homogeneity.
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YAN WANG 434-284-1040 yw3072@columbia.edu