Congqi Wang

PORTFOLIO CONGQI WANG

SELECTED WORKS 2014-2019

Congqi Wang

3601 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 (1)267-315-9532 丨 congqi@upenn.edu

Education

University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Design- Environmental Building Design (Expected) Central South University (CSU) Bachelor of Architecture GPA: 3.82/4.0 Rank: 5/35 Design Courses Rank: 2/35 12.2017 12.2017 10.2017 12.2016 09.2016 09.2015

Honorary Title of Excellent Student National Encouragement Scholarship University Scholarship of CSU, First Prize Honorary Title of Excellent Student University Scholarship of CSU, Second Prize University Scholarship of CSU, Third Prize

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 08.2019-Now Changsha, China 09.2014-06.2019

Competition 07.2017

2017 Times Grain National College Students Sustainable Architectural Design Competition Finalist Project: Rural Living Room Team Leader, Schematic Design

12.2016 2016 UA Creation Award & International Concept Design Competition (UACA&ICDC)

Project: Rural Architecture in UA City Team Member, Analysis Diagram Drawing 10.2016

2016 National Green Building Design Competition Project: Frost with Summer Green Team Leader, Schematic Design

Third Prize

Academic Experience 11.2017

Thesis: Analysis about the era significance of Beijing Courtyard Style and Its renovation

Accepted by Urban Construction Theory Research No.33 (2017): 82

Author

10.2017

Thesis: Regionalism of Traditional Residence reflected in a Historic Village of Hunan Province

Accepted by Interior Design China No.22 (2017): 137 Author 07.2017-08.2017 Hunan Provincial Institute of Culture Relics and archaeology

Summer Intern, Ancient Building Surveying/Mapping

Internship

06.2017-07.2017 Surveying and Mapping Practice of Ancient Buildings in Historic Village, Hunan Province

Team Member, Surveying/Mapping

Internship

07.2016-08.2016 Cognition Survey of City and Architecture in Chongqing, Chengdu

Team Member, Recording/Photography

Internship

Proficiency Language Mandarin/ English

TOEFL 104 (Reading 29/Listening 27/Speaking 24/Writing 24)

GRE 319 (Verbal 151/Quantitative 168/ Analytical Writing 4.0) Professional Skills Rhino/Grasshopper/Revit/Vray for Rhino Next/PhotoShop/ Illustrator/ Auto CAD/ Sketch Up/ Indesign/ Q GIS/Physical Model

[ CO NT E NT ] 01 [SPACE DIVIDED BY ARCH STRUCTURE] Coffee Bar in Greater Philadelphia

02 [FAR BEYOND THE BRIDGE] Rural Activity Center Design

03 [ RESONANCE WITH TRADITIONAL RESIDENCE] Aizhai Town Tourist Service Center

04 [INCOMPLETE WALLS]

A House Designing for an Artist with a Cat and a Dog

05 [STATIC TORSION]

Campus Shared Performance Theatre Design

06 [COMPLEMENTARY WORK] Suspended Cable-arch Structure

07 [OTHER WORK]

Climbing Entertainment Design Building Performance Simulation Design Youth Single Apartment Design Survey of Ancient Buildings in Southern Hunan Hand Painted Watercolor Copy

01 [SPACE DIVIDED BY ARCH STRUCTURE] Coffee Bar in Greater Philadelphia

Academic Project: Coffeen Bar Design for Social Place Individual Work Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Tutor: Mingjing Xie, Ying Song Date: 07, May.2018-09, Aug.2018

In the Philadelphia area, there are many historical and cultural buildings with arch rings as the basic structural system. Meanwhile, residents enjoy their coffee on their commutes, during business meetings, and while reading and meditating. Arch is an ancient structural system bearing memorial significance. The arch itself is a part of the spatial order of the building. Under such conditions, the design attempts to use arch as the basic formal language to create a social place for the citizens of Philadelphia to relax, business, meditate and even bathe in the sun.

Coffee is a culture. The word "coffee" comes from the Greek Kaweh, meaning "strength and passion."

Everyday coffee is made from coffee beans with different cooking utensils. Coffee beans refer to the nuts inside the fruit of coffee plants, which are roasted with appropriate roasting methods. Coffee is becoming more and more popular around the world. The resulting "coffee culture" fills every moment of life. Whether at home, in the office, or in various social occasions, people are enjoying coffee, which is increasingly associated with fashion and modern life.

In this "instant" era, coffee brings us, not only flavor, we want, is a feeling, we will be crazy immersed in that feeling. Maybe it's just a small door on a street corner, maybe the coffee is not that good to drink, but, we are infatuated with the air, light, sound there, forget the time to immerse in there, in a group of people like themselves, maybe continue a person, but we all know. Men, women, cheerful, melancholy, a group, sitting alone, smoking, drinking strong coffee, or no coffee at all. We find each other by feeling, by staring at the corner of the room or the coffee cup, even if you look out the window, but not necessarily looking at something... I look at you, I know, I'm not like you, I know, I'm not like everybody, the realists come to the cafe, but they don't belong here, and they don't stay until they close and put their chairs on the table. The word "now" never entered the cafe, and all the fanciers found it.

ARCH IN DIFFERENT SCALE DIVIDING SPACES

SPACE LANGUAGE

LOCALLY ARCHED SPACES

Perspective of Parent-Child Space under the Largest Arch

Perspective of Reading & Negotiation Area

1ST FLOOR PLAN

2ND FLOOR PLAN

Perspective of Semi-outdoor Social Space

Perspective of Baking & Catering Area

Perspective of Memorial Space

Perspective of Party Space

3RD FLOOR PLAN

4TH FLOOR PLAN

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02 [FAR BEYOND THE BRIDGE] Rural Activity Center Design in South Hunan

Academic Project: Rural Activity Center Designed for Left-behind Groups Individual Work Location: Yongzhou, Hunan, China Tutor: Ming Luo, Weidong Li Date: 07, Apr.2017-09, Aug.2017

This set of painting shows Chinese life in 12 months.

These paintings show very clearly the architecture details, normal people’s daily activities. There is no theme of each painting. However wherever you look at the painting, it seems that special spot is the theme of the whole painting. Currently this set of paintings are in the collection of the Taipei National Palace Museum.

The painting is done on silk. Although no author is recorded, it is widely believed that they are done by Tang Dai, Ding Guan Peng, and several other people collectively from Qing Dynasty.

To describe the life of the people in twelve months is not entirely based on a story. With the use of complex buildings with perspective concept, the picture space is divided into several different areas, and then a number of representative activities that can be carried out during the month are filled in. This way of dealing with activities in blocks, the whole does not seem to have a particularly clear theme, but no matter where the line of sight has interesting delicate design.

The design attempts to combine the traditional farming culture of China's Mesopotamia with social issues through this painting. We will provide more humanistic care for left-behind children and the elderly, who are attracting more and more social attention.

In the traditional Chinese farming civilization, the 24 solar terms are the time axis of agricultural production and the life of farmers. With the change and alternation of solar terms there will be different demands on the spatial form. From this we realize that for agricultural producers, different combinations of space for different time are needed.The problems of "left-behind children" and "left-behind old people" are widespread in developing countries that focus on agricultural production.This design aims to arouse social attention to the issue of "left-behind" through the resonance of the concept of traditional Chinese clan, and at the same time, connect villages with villages through such design, so that left-behind villagers can have more communication and play a role that more than a bridge.

Bridges in traditional water towns not only assume the functions of traffic, but also social and architectural functions.

The canoe is a commonly used tool in the villages of southern Hunan in China.

Waterwheel is an irrigation tool invented by the working people in ancient China. As an important part of China's farming culture, it provides a witness for the study of China's agricultural civilization and history of water conservation.

The stage is a special place for the performance of traditional Chinese operas. The ancient stage in China was basically wooden structure.

SITE: THE TRADITIONAL CHINESE WATER TOWNS IN HUNAN PROVINCE, SOUTH CHINA The xiangjiang river is one of the tributaries of the Yangtze river, the birthplace of the two rivers civilization in China. In southern China, in hunan province, along the xiangjiang river, there are tens of thousands of traditional Chinese water towns. These traditional ancient villages gave birth to China's advanced agricultural civilization. But there are some common problems in the development of these villages. The problems of "left-behind children" and "left-behind old people" are quite common. Young people who have the ability to work go out to work, they have made a great contribution to the development of the city. However, the life and mental state of the elderly and children have been adversely affected by the chronic lack of care and communication. This design aims to arouse social attention to the issue of "left-behind" through the resonance of the concept of traditional Chinese clan, and at the same time, connect villages with villages through such design, so that left-behind villagers can have more communication and play a bridge role.

Dashiqiao Village

7km Xiaoshiqiao Village

10km 4km

Shanggantang Village

8km

Jingtouwan Village

6km Baojing Village

Heavy snow

Spring begins

Slight cold

Winter solstice

Great cold

Insects awaken

The rains

Clear and bright

Vernal Equinox

Summer begins

Grain rain

Grain in ear

Grain buds

Slight heat

Autumn begins

Great heat

Summer solstice

White dews

Stopping the heat

Cold dews

Autumn equinox

Winter begins Hoar-frost falls

THE RURAL CALENDAR Light snow

CHINESE LUNAR NEW YEAR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY FAMILY GATHERING BUSY FARMING SEASON The ideal proportion of labor force in the total population

EXTRACURRICULAR EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY ACTIVITY ANCESTOR WORSHIP

The proportion of labor force in the total population

EDUCATION

HAPPY FARM

READING

BUSY FARMING SEASON EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY

PREPARING FOR THE THE MAEKET-DAY LUNAR CHINESE NEW YEAR IN THIS TOWN

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY EDUCATION

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

During the tiaditional Chinese lunar New Year

Apr

May

Jun

PARENT-CHILDREN INTERACTION

RURAL LABOR

SUMMER VACATION

LEFT-BEHIND COMMUNITY

Jul

Aug

During the summer vacation for the left-behind children

Sep

Oct

Nov

THE CITY CALENDAR

Dec

During the autum harvest when the laborers go back

1 Composite space for market

3 Composite space for happy farm

1 Composite space for market

2 Viewing deck

6 Composite space for extracurricular activities

2 Viewing deck

3 Composite space for happy farm

7 Composite space for education

3 Composite space for happy farm

4 Traditional opera stage 5 Composite space for family gathering

8 Composite space for parent-children interaction

DIFFERENT STATES

The combined form of space will change according to the change of solar terms or seasons in farming civilization, so the shape and function of the plane are different in different time periods on the timeline

The combination of arc-shaped unit space will generate flexible space in different forms, which can be provided for left-behind children to communicate or learn during the summer vacation.

The open and semi-open arc-shaped unit space is combined to produce different spatial patterns of virtual reality, which provides the performance and appreciation space for traditional operas.

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Basic Unit For Usual State

Composite Unit For Left-behind Children

Composite Unit For Left-behind Elderly

Composite Unit For Tourists

Basic Unit For Festival Celebration

Basic Unit For Busy Farming Season

Composite Unit For The Bazaar

Composite Unit For Parent-child Interaction

Composite Unit For Traditional Opera Performance

Composite Unit For The Clan Rally

Composite Unit For Grain Storage

Composite Unit For Harvest Festival

Boards mortise joints Two-story composite wooden frame

Non-loading bearing wall

Roof veneer

Wood panel roof sheathing Wooden grating Beam Wooden bearing frame

Non-loading bearing wall

Spiral stair

Subflooring panel

Vertical timber partition

Bamboo sticks for horizontal connection

Floating auxiliary air carrier Floating bamboo raft structure

Wooden frame mortise and tenon joint

From the perspective of the village to the building, the material and structure are unified with the original village.

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During the traditional Chinese festival, the building provide a place of ente returning rural workers. The clan concept is very strong in rural China. The c of younger generation to th

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ertainment, social networking and reunion for local left-behind groups and children at this together with their parents, grandparents, manifests the awe heir ancestors and tradition.

03 [MEMORY RESTORE]

Design of Aizhai Tourist Service Center Undergraduate Graduation Design: Jishou Aizhai Town Tourist Service and Reception Center Design Individual Work Location: Jishou, Hunan, China Tutor: Mingjing Xie Date: 03, Mar.2019-06, Jun.2019

Aizhai town is located in the west of Jishou city, Hunan province. Aizhai is also a minority community town. The town is surrounded by the southern Hunan folk customs garden, China's first overpass of the Chinese highway wonders also locates here. Aizhai is the central tourism gold line of western Hunan town.

The social and cultural environment and living customs in southern Hunan are basically the same, and the residential buildings also adopt the shape and system of the Tianjing style residential buildings suitable for the local characteristics. However, due to the complicated topography of hunan, mountains, hills, basins, rivers and other landforms, nanling is the source and watershed of the xiangjiang river system and the pearl river system, and there are great differences in various natural conditions. Therefore, the local dwellings in southern hunan also showed various forms. We found many irreplaceable elements in numerous residential buildings. The spatial value and architectural meaning of these elements have not changed substantially, and they have their own architectural rules, which are reflected in the plane, which is the type of houses in the early period of traditional farming society. Other complex and diverse buildings are based on this form through different combinations of the form of evolution or transformation.

In the design of aizhai tourist service center, homestay and folk museum also use such spatial language.

The traditional village texture is endowed with modern significance. In this way, it tries to create a multi-functional tourist service center that integrates homestay, catering, entertainment, homestay culture display, etc.

Diagram of People's Activity in the Site

SECTION 1

SECTION 2

Extracted Spatial Patterns

Extracted Plan Orders

Extracted Spatial Language in Aizhai Traditional Residence

Form of Basic Unit

Three to One Souvenir Store

Two to One Souvenir Store

Four to One Souvenis Store

Extracted Spacial Orders with Shed Roof

Three to One Guesthouse

Two to One Guesthouse

Guesthouse with Atrium

Three to One Experience Room

Section of the Museum

SECTION 3

Viewed from the outside of the site to the entire visitor service center, the homestay monomer, as well as the souvenir shops and commercial pedestrian street, presents an open layout. This strategy create maximum commercial value for the visitor centre. The folk culture museum and the interpretation hall of folk performances are the climax of the whole site layout.

This place presents a sales, exhibition and service center integrating commercial pedestrian street, homestay museum, homestay and other functions.

04 [INCOMPLETE WALLS]

A House Designing for an Artist with a Cat and a Dog Academic work: Residential House Design Individual Work

Tutor: Ming Luo, Weidong Li Date: 03, Oct.2018-06, Dec.2018

The starting point of the design comes from the "incomplete wall". The original inspiration came from House N by sou fujimoto. In the design of House N, the nested skin creates a transitional area between the outside and the interior. The house itself consists of three progressive shells nested within each other.

The outermost shell covers the entire house, forming a covered semi-interior garden. The second shell encloses the limited space within the covered outdoor space. The third shell produces a smaller internal space. Residents build their lives in the hierarchy of this realm. One might say that the ideal building is an outdoor space that feels like an indoor space and an indoor space that feels like an outdoor space. In nested structures, the inside is always the outside, and vice versa.

Similarly, in the design of "incomplete wall", the natural space that penetrates the natural sunlight through the forest and the interior living space create a more hierarchical order relationship. Add more flavor to life for man and his pets.

This is an artist's place of work and life, but also a place to invite the host and friends to gather together. In the residential environment, the studio and house are intended to remain open. All walls are ‘incomplete’. To ensure privacy, open and private Spaces are created by adjusting the "incomplete" state of the walls. Through the change of the height of the missing part of the wall and the adjustment of the parallel or staggered relationship of the wall, the vision can be blocked or opened. In this way, the controling method of the wall has directionally blurred the boundary of the site and formed a symbiotic relationship with the surrounding environment. People who come here can interact, meditate, and even bask in the sun.

The Complete Wall

An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Lower Half

An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Upper Half

An Incomplete Wall Cut Off in the Middle

A single row of incomplete walls

Double parallel rows of incomplete walls

Section of Multiple Rows of Walls

Incomplete walls of different heights generate relatively open or private spaces through parallel or interlaced morphological relationships.

F1 PLAN

F2 PLAN

Walls with different degrees of 'incomplete' form muti-level spatial forms through multiple parallel or staggered organization.

Perspective of Studio

Perspective of Bedroom

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05 [STATIC TORSION]

Campus Shared Performance Theatre Design Academic work: Campus Theatre Design Individual Work

Tutor: Yu Wang, Weidong Li Date: 03, Mar.2018-06, Jun.2018

The opera house itself can be regarded as an instrument. In the design of the campus cultural interpretation center, the studio USES the horseshoe (u-shaped) space of the classical opera house to effectively meet the acoustic requirements. A variety of reverberation times can satisfy different performance styles from classical to romantic. At the same time, the new design makes every corner of the space enjoy the best view. The u-shaped plane creates an intimate relationship between the artist, the orchestra and the audience. The main hall can seat 1000 people at a time. At the same time, the building adopts a twisting strategy to create a subtle and flexible campus Shared space.

The design attempts to meet the requirements of the building's form and spatial order while taking into account the building's structural system. The steel frame structure is combined with the large span roof.

This is a Shared public building integrating display and performance functions on campus. A simple twist in the building’s volume creates a semi-outdoor open space on the ground floor that can be Shared by students and nearby residents. The warped geometry of the building volume merges the vertical and horizontal in a single motion, forming a staircase inside. The height difference generated inside the building meets the requirements of the performance hall. The "tubular column" adopted in the structural system not only meets the needs of long-span spatial structure, but also increases the sharing and interest of space.

Large Span Stru

Source of Architectural Form

Tubular C *This image is referenced from UNStudio

uctural System

Columns

Interactive Space

Bearing System

Main Entrance

Secondary Entrance

Staging Area

Below the Side Stage

Understage Space

Staging Area

Semi-outdoor Shared Activity Area

Outdoor Performance Area

Below the Main Stage

Below the Rear Stage

Below the Side Stage Entrance Hall

Entrance Plane

Subsidiary Rooms

Stage

Conference Room

Side Stage Subsidiary Rooms

Main Stage

Back Stage

Side Stage

Subsidiary Rooms

Exhibition Hall

Plane at the Height of 14 Meters

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[COMPLEMENTARY WORK] Suspended Cable-arch Structure Team Work：Structural Selection Design 2016.06—2016.07/with He Jianing Leading Roll in Structure Design, Model Making

Suspended cable-arch structure is a load-bearing structure formed by flexible tension cable and its edge members.

Rope material can be made of wire bundles, wire ropes, chains and other wire with good tensile properties. The arch at the centre lifts a net of cables extending outward, which consists of transverse load-bearing cables and longitudinal stabilisers. And the central arch is connected to the ground, so the load on the roof is partly carried by the central arch, and the other part is transmitted to the eaves on both sides by the cable network. The load is carried by the columns on both sides and dispersed to the ground. The advantage of suspended cable-arch structure is that it makes good use of the properties of metal materials. As the arch material used as the frame is metal, it can well withstand the transverse tensile force, so as to avoid the risk of being easily folded by shear force.

[OTHER WORK] 01 Rock Climbing Recreation Facility Design Date: 23, Jul.2019-10, Aug.2019 Summer Digiblast of Penndesign Tutor: Ezio, Daniellei

[OTHER WORK]02

Solar Radition Simulation

Building Performance Simulation

Fall Semester, 2019 Tutor:Efrie Escott,Kit Elsworth, Saeran Vasanthakumar

Outdoor Thermal Comfort Simulation in Different Seasons

UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Jan.21st

UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Apr.21st

UTCI Simulation for 13pm, Jul.21st

UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Jan.21st

UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Apr.21st

UTCI Simulation for Average Temperature 8:00am-18:00pm, Jul.21st

[OTHER WORK]03 Team Work:Youth Single Apartment Design with He Jianing Date: 14.Sep, 2017-10.Dec, 2017 Tutor: Yu Wang, Mingqiao Zhao

Auxiliary Rafter

Ridge

Auxiliary Ra Purlin Brace

Short Column

Cantilever Bea

[OTHER WORK] 04 Surveying and Mapping of Ancient Buildings in Shanggantang Historic Village Team Work

2017.06—2017.07/with He Jianing, Jiang Zekun Leading Roll in Mapping, Detail Drawings

Dark Grey Tile Purlin Brace Square Beams Connecting Purlins

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Roof Beam Short Column

Column

Dark Grey Tile Square Beams Connecting Purlins Roof Beam

Column Section of Wooden Frame of Traditional Chinese Residence

HAND PAINTED WAT

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PORTFOLIO OF CONGQI WANG University of Pennsylvania Master of Science in Design-Environmental Building Design Selected Works 2014-2019 congqi@design.upenn.edu