Work sample_2021.06_Yizhen Wang

Work Sample 2021. 06 CV enclosed

YIZHEN WANG Washington University in St. Louis Master of Architecture

YIZHEN WANG

March 18th, 1994, China, PRC

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Address: 6620 Alamo Ave, St. Louis, MO T: +1 314 203 7305 E: yizhen.wang@wustl.edu

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, USA Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art Master of Architecture 2, GPA 3.66/4.0

08/2019 - 05/2021

Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China School of Architecture and Design Bachelor of Architecture, GPA 3.44/4.0

09/2012 - 06/2017

David Chipperfield Architects (Shanghai) Ltd, Shanghai, China Intern Architect +Shanghai EXPO Tower, DD interior: Cad drawing. +West Bund Museum, DD: Rendering. +Beijing Lu Historical Building Renovation, Compitition: Rendering, Cad drawing, Diagram, Model +Zhejiang Medicine Headquarters, DD: Rendering, Cad, Supplier contact.

03/2018 - 09/2018

Shandong Urban Design Corporation Ltd, Shandong, China Intern Architect AWARDS

08/2016-01/2017

Chair's Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis National Excellent Architectural Design Work, National University Architectural Education Material and Student Design Work Review Honorary Mention, 2016 Sino-Korea Architectural Students' Workshop and Competition

Academic Experience

Research of urban self-renewal in the background of new urbanization, using NanYuan as an example Fund by Southwest Jiaotong University

LANGUAGE & SKILLS

Languages Chinese (Native), English (Proficient) Softwares AutoCAD, Rhino, Adobe Suite, Revit, Grasshopper, Sketch-up, Maxwell Render, V-ray, Enscape, Office Fabrication Wood shop tools, Laser cut, 3D printer, CNC mill

CONTENTS

01 CONVENT OF SHADOW A vertical convent 2020

02 REUSE SUBURBIA Topical housing & community renovation 2020

03 GHOST SANCTUARY Bridge hotel in Mountains 2019

04 MUSEUM OF LAYER A Museum on a Park 2017

05 APARTMENT OF MEMORY Collective Residence for Ex-farmer 2016

06 VERTICAL STREET Highrise Building 2016

07 OTHER WORK Digital fabrication 2021

08 PREVIOUS INTERN PROJECT Beijinglu historical building renovation 2018

01 CONVENT OF SHADOW

A vertical convent Characters and constitution of space studio project fall 2020

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Plot on Le Corbusier's Venice hospital model

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A Ground floor

“Architecture is a vase. My reward for eight years of labor [on La Tourette] is to have seen the highest things grow and develop within that vase . . . [The monastery] does not speak of itself. It lives on its interior. It is in the interior that the essential occurs.”— Le Corbusier This project is to organize the program of a monastery into a vertical tower (66x66x400 ft3). The tower is closed, and has only several holes for light. The space is for shadow, silence and song. As same as an ordinary flat monastery with cloister, this one is for sisters to spend their entire lives.

Program: Oratory, choir, visiting room, school, monastic cells, refectory, sister's chapel, chapter house, scriptorium, cloister garden.

Physical model Photo from inside

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Floor 2

Floor 5

Floor 3

Floor 6 & 8

Floor 4

Floor 7 & 9

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Floor 10

Floor 13

Floor 11

Floor 14

Floor 12

Floor 15

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02 REUSE SUBURBIA

Tropical housing & community renovation Flexibility for housing studio project spring 2020

Print-making about tropical environment

Suburbia context

Existing plan

This is a housing project based in the suburbia of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The print is a reflection of the natural catastrophes (hurricane & earthquake) and the lovely environment. Because of the climate and catastrophes of the tropical island, the project must use a passive strategy to adjust micro-climate.

Neighborhoods of this area have a certain fabric. A block consists of two rows of houses. This project originated from an existing plan. By renovating the existing prototype, it creates a flexible community.

Flexibility makes the community multifunctional, as public resources is weak here. Fexibility also allow the building to adapt the entire life span of a family. The community is available for new public facilities (school, factory...), new ownership (house, apartment...), and a sustainable lifestyle.

Rendering of the patio

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Ground Floor

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Original Construction

Second Floor

10ft Proposel

Community plan

Various types from one floor plan

Vegetation rain garden

Activity yard

03 GHOST SANCTUARY

River Bridge in Mountains Atmosphere from site (GENIUS LOCI) studio project fall 2019

Memory drawings in watercolor

Translucent draft drawings & projector installations

This project is a hermit residence above an old simple stone bridge in mountains. It originated in representational experiments seeking to capture traces of the place of ancient mountain life. Its representations, from translucent draft drawings to watercolors to projector installations, refine the atmosphere and generate the final design.

Basing on Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer and the exhibit of Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei's work, this project tries to recreate ancient mounitain life, for modern people to escape the world. But the appearance of the building has a strong modernist inflection. It is asking:"What would a space in service of an ancient hermit life be like - materialy, spatially, over the cycle of the day and year".

Corridor with water reflection and glass projection

Perspective section

04 MUSEUM OF LAYER

A Museum & A Park Layers (for space & atmosphere) Undergraduate final project 2 members teamwork Summer 2017

industry museum Public architecture axis science museum

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Green belt urban planning exhibition hall

Museum + Park

Atmosphere has layers. In an ancient Chinese house, between yard (nature) and bedroom (human), there are many layers to make a transition. Parts of them were called "grey space". But all of them can be treated as multiple space "layers".

In Ziyang city, between public architecture axis and green belt, there will be a museum of the city.

"Layers" make sense in such situation, making a transition between public architecture and green belt, playing and learning, nature and human.

Looking to the building from green belt

Main entrance

Layers in the museum Different layers of space make a transition between museum and park. In the meanwhile, it provides more forms of space. The atmosphere of space changes from solemn(center part) to relaxed(side parts).

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2 1. Exhibition hall I 2: Exhibition hall II 3. Temporary exhibition hall 4. Main entrance hall 5. Lecture hall 6. Office 7. Storage 8.Temporary Storage

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EXHIBITION HALL I Main exhibits: paintings and calligraphy

TEMPORARY EXHIBITION HALL Use: lecture and exhibition

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skylight: double glazing, 2×5mm compound safety glass+110mmcavity+6mm safety glass aluminium frame movable curtain: PTEF transparent soft film

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2-layer bituminous seal 80mm polyurethane themal insulation 10mm motar to falls 100mm reinforced concrete roof 20mm screed prec. conc. element 10mm shanghai plaster

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20mm shanghai plaster 80mm polyurethane thermal insulation 500mm reinforced concrete external wall 160mm drainage tube screed prec. conc. element 10mm shanghai plaster

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2-layer bituminous seal 80mm polyurethane themal insulation 10mm motar to falls 300mm reinforced concrete roof 10mm shanghai plaster

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50mm limestone slate 20mm screed 30mm timber carrier plate 100mm H-steel

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Exhibition hall II Main exhibits: ancient sculptures and artifacts

05 APARTMENT OF MEMORIES Collective Residence for Ex-farmer Montage (from memory to dwelling) Personal project Winter 2016

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1990 Urban area of Chengdu, China

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Farmland & Urban area

Farmland in Urban area

Farm

Urbanization

Farm Farm City City City

Land intensification Land intensification Land intensification

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System System

Architecture

Architecture Urbanization Architecture Urbanization Memory Prototype Citizen Memory Prototype Citizen Rapid urbanization has crushed everything in the rural area of China. Farmers were forced to live in the Memory Prototype Citizen city. What on theirFarmer farmland now are groups of highrise building. What they dream now are those rural Farmer lives of their childhood.

Farmer This project originated from montages of their memories. It created montage from memories as well as architectural elements & scenes. It finally reflects the utopia of those ex-farmers who lost their farmland and villages. In the meanwhile, it is not a rural house, but a collective residence that can adapt to the urban context.

Memory

Collaboration

Prototype

Collaboration fields

System

Path

Dinner Kitchen

House

Tree

Traffic

Water

Landscape

Irrigation

Recycle

Land use

Field

Under trees

Above trees

Flowing water

Still water

Grassland

Farmland

Courtyard

Farm

Water

Courtyard

Courtyard

06 VERTICAL STREET

Highrise Building Between living and working Studio project

2 members teamwork Summer 2016

HOTEL

*Photos of the demolished old street.

OFFICE

From home, via street, walk to the office. It is street connects living space and working space. Street not only includes the traffic space but also the shops and public spaces around it. It enriches the daily lives of citizens. However, city rennovation demolished all the old street around this project.

In this project, a new street snakes up in the middle of a hotel tower and an office tower. It opens to residents in the hotel, employees in the office, and citizens on the ground. As it ascends, it expands and contracts to create atrium-like spaces. These include areas of tiered seating, meeting rooms, open gathering spaces, gyms, cafe, and outdoor terraces.

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Meeting space

39.000 Climbing wall

Coffee house 24.000

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20.000 Book bar

31.000 Gymnasium

35.000 2F Playroom Study center

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Hotel tower F20 79.000 Salon

55.000 Movie theater

Gallery

RF 94.000 Hotel tower Urban farm

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RF 63.000 Office tower Urban farm

51.000 2F Karaoke bar

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+36.2m Floor Plan 10F Hotel Tower, 10F Office Tower, Playroom and Study Center of the Street Street

Living & Working

On the "Street" On the garden's roof of the "Street" where employees and residents can socialize and relax.

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"Street"

07 OTHER WORK Digital Fabrication Elective course project Spring 2021

Digital models are designed in Grasshopper. Physical models are made by CNC mill and 3D printers.

08 Selected Previous Intern Project Zhejiang Medicine Headquarters

Intern Project in David Chipperfield Architects (Shanghai) Ltd, spring 2018 ~ fall 2018 Project Team: Libin Chen, Mark Rendel, MIguel Angel, Zhexu Du, Yizhen Wang, Hejia JiN My work: DD, interior design, landscape desgin

Photo from Zhexu Du, 2020