Yifan Wang Portfolio 2022

2019 - 2022 Washington University in St. Louis

Yifan Wang Master of Architecture

Portfolio June, 2022

Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION 2019 - 2022

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Architecture, Master of Architecture

2014 - 2019

Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China Urban and Rural Planning, Bachelor of Engineering

EXPERIENCE 3 months

CIS Academic Online Session, Teaching Assistant

2022

Assisted Professor Markus Berger (Rhode Island School of Design) with the syllabus, assignments, student’s communication, feedback, and evaluations. Gave students Rhinoceros Tutorial Course and Architectural Concept Design Tutorial Course.

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Central South Architectural Design Institute, Wuhan, China, Design Intern Participated in the Design of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, New campus of Wuhan College.

Proposed concept plan, drew diagram and made PowerPoint. Communicated and Coordinated between design group and construction group.

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6 months 2018 - 2019

2 months 2018

3 months 2017 - 2018

16 months 2016 - 2019

4 months 2016

Changjiang Water Resource Planning Committee, Wuhan, China, Deputy Intern In charge of the revision work of design plan 2020-2025 of Yangtze river basin. Fully understood the actual operation of the planning work. Learned the actual requirements of the preliminary investigation in the investigation stage of the planning process.

CIS Academic Summer Session, Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Assisted Professor Cristina Parreño Alonso (GSD) with the syllabus, student’s communication, feedback, and field research. Gave students Rhinoceros Tutorial Course and Architectural Concept Design Tutorial Course.

Investigation and Research on Residential Planning Studied on the present situation of 5 old residential areas in Wuhan and mapped according to the results of the research. Carried out data collection and analysis on the residential population and analyzed their demographic characteristics. Conducted questionnaire survey and analysis on the population demands of the residential areas. Completed diagram and design work. Rewarded as Excellent Project for in-school competition.

Hubei Jin Mu Shi Construction Engineering Co., Ltd., Wuhan, China, Design Intern Acted as leader of concept design group C (6 people Group) and took charge of the project design of Wuhan Financial Port. Proposed concept plan, drew diagram and wrote bidding report. Fully comprehended the practical operation model and overall process of an architectural design.

Research on Public Spaces in Town and Social Activities of Senior Citizens Analyzed elder’s mental demands of social communications and their behavior pattern in social life. Made contradictions between the elder’s special life pattern and current public spaces. Concluded the elders’ favorite kind of spaces and extracted the features they had in common through the analysis of data collected from questionnaires and related essays. Proposed appropriate solutions according to related researches.

SOFTWARE Computer Aided Design Programs

Rhinoceros | Grasshopper | SketchUp | Revit | Auto CAD | Maya (Animation) Rendering Programs

Vray for Rhino | Vray for SketchUp | Lumion | Enscape Adobe Suite

Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign | Lightroom | Media Encoder | After Effects | Premiere Productivity Programs

ArcGIS | Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Microsoft Excel

SKILLS Physical Modeling | Laser-cutting | 3D Printing | CNC Machine | Bookbinding | Printmaking

PUBLICATION / EXHIBITION Approach 20-21, 21-22 Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis 2022 Edition (Expected to Publish in September, 2022) 2023 Edition (Expected to Publish in September, 2023) Design Thinking Exhibition Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis FEB, 2022 Degree Project Exhibition Sam Fox School, Washington University in St. Louis MAY, 2022

LANGUAGES English Full Proficiency Mandarin Native CONTACT W.yifan.arch@outlook.com +1 (314) 203 8375 6625 Clayton Avenue, 63139, Saint Louis, MO.

Yifan Wang

CONTENTS

PROSPERITY - DECAY | PROSPERITY

Adaptive Reuse Cotton Belt Freight Depot As A Vocational School

EMBED IN FOREST

Center for the study and preservation of Endangered Species

ABOVE DESERT LANDSCAPE

Common-Living House and Studio For Artist & Art Lovers

REINVENTING CLASSROOMS IN THE NEW ERA

Freer Elementary School Additional Building

GRID - TRANSPARENT - SEMITRANSPARENT

YMCA - Swimming Pool & Diving Pool & Gym

OTHER WORKS

Mega-structure | Precarious Structure | Building System | Others

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PROSPERITY - DECAY | PROSPERITY Adaptive Reuse Cotton Belt Freight Depot As A Vocational School WUSTL, M. Arch Degree Project Site: Saint Louis, Missouri Duration: Jan - May, 2022 Instructor: Dennis McGrath Individual Work

It is only a line from prosperity to decay when driving from Downtown St. Louis to the Near North Riverfront area. There is an urban experience of crossing an invisible boundary. Even though the Near North Riverfront area is a wasteland nowadays, the emergence of the attention shows a renewed awareness of the area’s value. It would be valuable to break down the invisible and tangible boundaries in this area and allow the prosperity of downtown to continue into the immediate area, thus activating the Near North Riverfront area and responding to people’s renewed perception of the value of this area.

To bring vitality to the Near North Riverfront, break the boundaries, and get people into this derelict area, I propose to reuse the cotton belt freight depot to build a vocational school. The school would activate the area and bring a younger population into the spot while also taking advantage of the unique scale of the abandoned industrial buildings to accommodate the extensive vocational and technical facilities. By preserving the legacy of the Cotton Belt Freight Depot and challenging the connections of the surrounding vacant space, it offers potential for collaboration between industrial heritage and education.

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Building As an Oculus Site Context COTTON BELT FREIGHT DEPOT The Cotton Belt Freight Depot is located in the Near North Riverfront neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri.

It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2004. This area of Near North Riverfront is surrounded by highways, bridges, and the Mississippi River, which is the tangible boundary mentioned before.

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The highways are I-44 and I-70, and the bridges are Martin Luther King Bridge and Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. Cass Avenue is the road directly toward the Cotton Belt Freight Depot building. Cole Street and Carr Street are the invisible boundaries between prosperity and decay.

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The building is notable for its long, narrow shape. The concrete building is approximately 730’ on its east and west elevations and only 30’ on the north and south. The five stories include a series of loading dock doors on both sides that are sheltered by a concrete awning. Widely spaced metal-frame industrial type windows line the upper stories. A slightly taller cornice line marks the section of the building where the company offices were located. Most of the building’s detail is reserved for this section where the company’s name is displayed in two levels over a bay window.

DESIGN THINKING Site Research Book

COTTON BELT FREIGHT DEPOT

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NEW Steel Structure

Oculus

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History Sense - Structure - Keep

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EMBED IN FOREST Center for the study and preservation of Endangered Species WUSTL, Elective Studio 611 Site: Nicoya Peninsula, Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Central America Duration: Sep - Dec, 2021 Instructor: Carlos Jimeenz Individual Work

Costa Rica is known for its advocacy for the conservation and protection of its diverse flora and fauna. This admirable devotion to preserve the country’s native ecology has also produced its counter effects, best seen in the arrival of exploitative agricultural practices and unsustainable massive tourism. The tampering of a carefully intertwined ecosystem, together with the greed fueled by disproportionate tourist developments, threatens the natural balance of the region. Several animal and vegetable species are already at risk of becoming extinct, caught in the onslaught of other equally disruptive habits such as illegal hunting and deforestation. Such marvelous species as the Ocelot, the Giant Ant Eater, the Capuchin monkey, The Dante or Tapir, among others, are at the edge of extinction as their environments are cleared away by the most brutal of all predators: humans.

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ABOVE DESERT LANDSCAPE Common-Living House and Studio For Artist & Art Lovers WUSTL, Core Studio 419 Site: Marfa, Texas Duration: Sep - Dec, 2020 Instructor: Stephen Leet Individual Work

This tiny town perched on the high plains of the Chihuahua desert is nothing less than an art world station of the cross. It all started when the acclaimed minimalist artist Donald Judd left New York City in the 1970s for this dusty dot of a town, Marfa. He wanted to escape the art scene he claimed to disdain. Now, the Chinati Foundation runs all 400 acres of the site. When Heading toward the scrubby pasture where Judd scattered 15 giant concrete boxes, the landscape brings an empty and remote atmosphere.

For a remote town known for its art, what both tourists and artists aspire to achieve here is a sense of environmental detachment and a purpose for the artistic gathering.

A residence nestled around Judd’s legacy, where artists and art lovers can live, discuss and create, is designed as a common-living housing project. Two courtyard spaces organize the whole building. The courtyard is surrounded by a communal dining, a communal kitchen, a communal WiFi space, and a cafe facing both outside and inside, where artists and art lovers can meet and get to know each other. And the two towers become the backdrop of its legacy in the language of Judd Donald. And thus, it is possible to bring the vast landscape into the interior space, allowing the artist to feel the unique charm of Marfa at all times.

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Axonometric Diagram

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Donald Judd Studio House

Donald Judd Gate House

Donald Judd Cobb House

Ground Floor Plan

2nd - 5th Floor Plan

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Artist Studio Unit Perspective

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Artist Studio Unit Plan

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Movable Plane Soft Harsh Afternoon Sun Light

Thicker Wall Isolate Harsh Afternoon Sun Light

Entrance Perspective

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R E I N V E NT ING CLAS S ROOMS IN THE NEW ERA Freer Elementary School Additional Building WUSTL, Elective Studio 511 Site: Saint Louis, Missouri Duration: Jan - May, 2021 Instructor: Hongxi Yin Individual Work

The epidemic, forcing a change in the educational model, has made us think more about education and pushed schools to accelerate transformation.

With the continuous development of education reform, many new changes in school education philosophy have emerged. While pursuing comprehensive, systematic, and integrated teaching, more attention is paid to cultivating students’ personalities, communication, creativity, and other qualities. As the primary carrier of the educational environment, school architecture carries many functions such as teaching, knowledge display, information transfer, and emotional communication.

Traditional school buildings are facing innovation to adapt to the development of education. Still, innovative school design is not simply about creating movable spaces but diverse spaces that can accommodate specific learning requirements and provide an environment where children feel safe and healthy. At the same time, we are exploring the spatial impact of VR and Remote Learning on educational buildings by interconnecting spaces with new technologies to create educational areas that align with the technological trends of the times.

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Collaborative Space Perspective

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Ground Floor Plan

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Future Education Analysis Diagram

Dynamic Space Teachers

Dynamic Learning Space

Mixed Reality

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Mixed Reality Immersive VR Immersive VR Students

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Virtual Lecture/Field Trip/Individual Work SS from Any Location

Neuroscience Equipment

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Dynamic Learning Space Diagram Small Group

Smartness Setup + AR + Neuroscience

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Smartness Setup + VR +MR + Neuroscience + Robot

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Advanced Lab Individual Study Classrooms

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Smartness Setup + VR +MR + Neuroscience

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Dynamic Space Benefit: Dynamic classroom in the design of an Innovative Learning Environment(ILE) is beneficial to students’ study process. These results were in the form of grades, a criterion-based system awarded on a 15-point scale (A+ to E-), from in-class English, Humanities and Mathematics assignments and tests, collected throughout the study.

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Summer Window Device Comparison

Concrete Coping

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TAKTL® KORSA™ A02 Panel

Return Air Galvanized Steel Support

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Block Viewing Classroom

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SEMCO® LYRA II™ Cassette Chilled Beam

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Ceiling Panel Plywood Panel Wall Rigid Insulation

TAKTL® KORSA™ A03 Panel

TAKTL® KORSA™ A02 Panel Radiant Floor Galvanized Steel Support

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G R I D - T R ANS P AR E NT - S EMITRANSPARENT YMCA - Swimming Pool & Diving Pool & GYM WUSTL, Core Studio 318 Site: Saint Louis, Missouri Duration: Jan - May, 2019 Instructor: Kelley Murphy Individual Work

The earliest YMCA included programs aimed at creating a supportive community for the thousands of young, displaced men moving from their homes to urban areas.

These included housing, recreation, and educational and surrogate cultural facilities.

Through the years, the housing component of the YMCA’s become less relevant, and healthy-living-focused programs have increased. Today, the societal issues preventing healthy communities’ development are more varied and pervasive than in previous generations. Civic fragmentation, social disintegration, and the continued legacy of economic disparity contribute to the new brand of community instability.

The YMCA sits on the corner of Debaliviere Ave and Forest Park Parkway. The building is located on a site with various traffic crossings. The YMCA is designed to be a space for sports and recreation and for people to encounter, interact and hang out. With the program on swimming and diving as the primary space, the other space serves as the social and exercise place, including 24 hours gym as a light guard for this complicated area. The unique form of the roof and wall evolved from a simple gird form with the concept of the transparent verse semi-transparent, which created a dramatic shadow on the pool and audience space.

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PRECEDENT & CONCEPT Personal Research Website

Precedent Study Physical Model - Multi-Sport Pavilion, Alberto Campo Baeza

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Women Locker Men Locker Lap Pool Diving Pool Diving Platform 24 Hours Exercise Balcony

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Classroom Training Room Outdoor Yoga Room Equipment Storage Women Restroom Men Restroom Roof Platform

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Exploded Diagram

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MEGA-STRUCTURE: City As Building And Building As City Individual Work The future is big. Cities consist of many giant constructions, massive mega structures that are each large enough to be cities unto themselves. These mega-structure cities are comprised of two parts. One is the “surface city,” which is an inhabitable ground modeled on historic cities, like the Paris Mega-structure shown here. The second is “interior city” that accommodates housing with outfitted with VR, robotic city services, and a data center that gathers information about the population. Because of the enormous size of the construction, the interior city and the surface city imply two different orders (the horizontal and vertical) and unique gravitational fields (externalbelow and internal-central).

There is an age gap between the macro-structure and the people living on the surface city. Most people who live in the surface city are people who prefer the past and are nostalgic for the land in which they once lived. In contrast, most people in the macro-structure are younger and better suited for an all interior life. It is possible to transition from interior to surface through the portals, micro-buildings, and highspeed transportation that connect the two.

Besides, the people living on the surface city is the wealth classes. They controlled 99% of resources on this planet because they are the founder and first immigration on mega-structure. They are old, but they will never die. However, the people living in the macro-structure only have 1% of resources on the plant, so they even cannot enjoy the natural sunlight. They are transformed into the bionic human, who can only work to survive. Fortunately, maybe, unfortunately, there is the word “dream” that if they are hardworking, there will be a chance to enjoy 10min sunlight.

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MAYA ANIMATION Personal Video Website

PRECARIOUS STRUCTURE: COMPOSITION / ANTI-COMPOSITION Individual Work - Maya Animation Using the Maya animation suite, I worked through simulations and rendered animations using libraries of architectural forms to perform diagrams of movements.

These geometric ballets might evoke—on the one hand—known architectural precedents such as El Lissitzky’s Pronouns and Peter Eisenman’s early House series and artistic experiments in the vein of Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark’s Neo Concrete geometries; zero-gravity arrangements of points, lines, and planes suspended in immaterial, compositional non-space. On the other hand, our work will set elements into choreographed operations borrowed from the movements of human figures.

In this, disparate sources such as athletic diagrams, Étienne-Jules Marey’s photo sequences, and the movements of objects in video games and popular animations will provide kinetic scaffolds for our experiments. Such exercises will imagine fields of primitive surfaces and volumes performing carefully orchestrated postures, falls, and transitions from state-to-state, in pursuit of novel formal arrangements that ask the viewer to project animate qualities into platonic, abstract constructions.

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BUILDING SYSTEM Group Research

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HOUSE THRESHOLD Individual Work

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TOUCH MATERIAL IN HOME Individual Work

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W.yifan.arch@ Outlook.com +1 314 203 7375 Master of Architecture Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Washington University in St. Louis Work From 2019 to 2022 June, 2022