Work Samples

SUWEI WANG 2018-2022 SELECTED WORK

01 Desert Resort

02 Share House

03 Gallery for Agnes

04 Canopy Village

A resort, isolated in the middle of desert in Arizona and away from the mainstream is designed based on neural network and relief study.

The sunlight is highlighted in the Tokyo residence design to inspire the vitality of the public space, promote communication and interaction between residents, and allow people

In the exhibition hall designed for the minimalist artist Agnes Martin, I intended to provoke visitors’ thoughts with the atmosphere created by light.

Looking for inspiration from the traditional dwellings of the Dong people, learned the living wisdom from the locals, and applied it to the modern building design.

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to enjoy life after routine busywork.

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05 Alterable Elastic Building

06 Future Stock Exchange

07 Deployable Structure

08 Fabrication: Abandoned Area Activation

The variable-scale teaching building designed for campus could provide students with a variety of functions and fun.

Exploration for New York stock exchange in the future. It combined both human space for museum and stock exchanging and non-human space for machines behind the exchanging system.

This deployable structure has a similar shape with hyperboloid. It is able to expand from the length of 20 inch to about 60 when it is fully deployed.

Design explores how to transform industrial heritage through acupuncture-style design, link and activate its physical community, and finally generate a wider and in-depth urban renewal effect through collaborative effects.

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Desert Resort

Group Work, Team of 2, 2022 Spring A resort, isolated in the middle of desert in Arizona and away from the mainstream is designed based on neural network and relief study.

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Isometric View Rhino, Grasshopper, Keyshot

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Rehab Resort We try to build the resort into a rehab resort. It provides people treatments which are off the mainstream and indigenous of the desert culture. For instance, Marijuana which comes from the buds and leaves of the cannabis plant has been used for centuries as part of herbal remedies for many illnesses. After researching, we found out that with proper shading device and irrigation system, the desert could be a nice environment for Marijuana growth. Also pools , treatment lounge and gardens are included within the facility. We also try to make food product with Marijuana and other indigenous plants that has medical use, like cookies.

Rhino, Zbrush, Keyshot

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Share House

Solo Work, 2019 Spring The high-rise buildings pervaded the crowded Tokyo and competed for sunlight, just like trees in the forest. Hence, to maximize the sunlight resources inside the building, I turned the light itself into space in this project.

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Solar Study Grasshopper, Ladybug

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Residential Area

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Among the public spaces, each floor could accommodate 2-3 residents. Every residential unit could easily accessed to the nearby public space for activities.

Sections, Plans

SketchUp, Rhino, AutoCAD

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Public Bath Taking the Japanese cultural custom into consideration, a public bath was set up in the apartment. In winter, the sun will shine into the bathroom from the roof. People could take a relaxing bath and chat here.

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① Dinning Hall There was a dining table to accommodate all the residents in the dining hall, and small tables were set near the window for single uses.

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Gallery for Agnes Martin Solo Work, 2018 Fall

Sections, Plans

SketchUp, AutoCAD

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Light Atmosphere There was almost no direct light in lobby. People glimpsed translucent interface while visiting. When gathering here after the visit, they would naturally be attracted by the installation, provoking their reflections about the works.

Physical Models Laser cut, CNC mill

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Canopy Village

Group Work, Team of 2, 2019 Fall After a week’s research, we found the local Dong people lived in a very clever and unique way through continuous practice. We tried to apply the crystallization of this wisdom to architectural design.

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Structure The roof was divided into three parts, each supported by three half arches, and when the heptagons were combined, the half arches were also combined into a complete arch structure.

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Alterable Elastic Building for Campus Solo Work, 2020 Spring

Changing Space When the building changed, the space division inside the building would also change. When fully expanded, the interior of the building was mainly a large lecture hall, classrooms, etc. These large spaces would be divided into small ones as the building shrinks. Of course, auxiliary spaces such as toilets would not be affected.

Isometric Views, Plans Rhino, Grasshopper, Python, AutoCAD

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Future Stock Exchange Group Work, team of 2, 2021 Fall

Exploration for New York stock exchange in the future. It combined both human space for museum and stock exchanging and non-human space for machines behind the exchanging system.

SECTION DETAIL

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SHEET #4 BUILDING NAME: KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM

CHUNK

INSTRUCTOR: FABIAN TEACHING ASSISTANT: TONG

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

WEITZMAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN MSD-ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FALL 2021

INSTRUCTOR: FABIAN TEACHING ASSISTANT: TONG STUDENT TEAM: YUJING JIAO

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

WEITZMAN SCHOOL OF DESIGN MSD-ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE DESIGN FALL 2021

SUWEI WANG

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Depolyable structure

Group Work, Team of 3, 2022 Spring

Double layer hyperboloid This deployable structure has a similar shape with hyperboloid. It is able to expand from the length of 20 inch to about 60 when it is fully deployed.The model is built with laser-cut acrylic, 3D-printed joints and aluminium pipe as connections. Also,it has double layers of hyperboloid that connect with each other, forming a spacial structure.

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Ring & Joints The joints that connect the ring and other scissors are designed carefully. Since there is unavoidable distortion of the whole structure, especially where the scissors meet, we make the joints allow some amount of rotation, which, to great extent, makes the structrue more stable.

Rhino, Solidworks

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Fabrication: Abandoned Area Activation Group Work, Team of 2, 2022 Summer

We selected the Richmond Power Generating Station in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania in the U.S. as our site to respond to this issue of abandoned industrial area with an alternative approach. The proposal is to transfer space in the building to a new applied platform that can keep pace with the current era.

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Richmond Power Station It is a famous building built in the early 1920s in response to the rapidly growing population of Philadelphia. After the building was abandoned in 1985, it provided the virtual world with important scenes, such as scifi movies Twelve Monkeys and Transformers. This design explores how to transform this famous industrial heritage through acupuncture-style design, link and actvcommunity and virtual social information exchange, and finally generate a wider and in-depth urban renewal effect through collaborative effects.

Partial Renovating Our research seeks to understand the principles of the abandoned classic building to develop a methodology that can co-exist and interact with the new part created on this site. Preserving one corner of the existing classic building and introducing new elements will inspire potential social encounters and inter ac tio ns. In this way of acupuncture, renovating part of the building will trigger conversations and activate the whole area socially, economically, environmentally, and visually.

Rhino, Keyshot

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1/4” MDF board Laser cut

2” Foam CNC mill

2-1/2” Main board Mixed materials

6×1/4“ Wooden stick

1/4” Ceramic Robotic arm 3D print

1/2” PLA Panel 3D print

Physical Model Fabrication Part of the elevation was extracted as the physical model to show the assemblage logic. This 1:2 scale model included columns, structural boards, ceramic pieces, and panels from inside to outside. For a model at this scale, we have carefully designed the structure.

1/4” MDF board Laser cut 2” Foam CNC mill

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1/2” PLA Nut 3D print

The height of the model is almost 5 feet. Each piece of the model was fabricated carefully and through various methods. After production throughout the semester, numerous testing, and one-week of assembling, a complete model could finally stand.

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RittenHouse Project

Revit training - Floor Plan, 2022 Summer

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Ancient Architecture Mapping - Zunjing Temple Elevation & Section, 2018 Summer

Point Clouds, AutoCAD

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Case Study

Elevation rendering, 2022 Summer

Rhino, Lumion

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S U W E I WA N G

2018-2022 SELECTED WORK University of Pennsylvania / Tianjin University