Wendy Yunting Guan '20 MArch Columbia GSAPP

WENDY GUAN architecture works 2017 - 2020

CONTENT

L MACHINE IN THE GARDEN ARTISANAL MANUFACTURE ACADEMY BRIDGE PARK

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M ALBEE SQUARE RENOVATION DASH DOT HOUSING POINTS TO CELLS

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S CLOUD PLAYGROUND LIGHT CHANNEL EXTENDABLE KITE

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TECH GREENPOINT THEATRE CURTAIN WALL DESIGN

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MACHINE IN THE GARDEN 2019 Critic | Marc Tsurumaki, LTL Architects Location | Newark Program | Bioplastic Factory

Substituting the annual global demand for fossil-based plastic with bioplastic can reduce more than 42 million tonnes of CO2 per year. This bioplastic factory in 2050 aims to lower carbon emission, provide jobs and housing for new immigrants and climate refugees, and help with the economic growth of Newark.

The biomass feedstock including corn and castor bean purifiy the polluted site by bioremediation.

After years of purification, the site will become inhabitable.

The factoty produces 3D-printed bioplastic apartments, and slowly turns the site into housing over time. It will provide 3,000 units in the future to allievate predicted population growth. In 2100, due to sea level rise, the raised public terrace will become the new inhabitable ground.

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ARTISANAL MANUFACTURE ACADEMY 2019 Critic | Adam Frampton, Only If Location | Newburgh Program | Campus

Newburgh has great opportunites for developing small-scale artisanal manufacture business. The campus focuses on supporting artisanal manufacturing industry in Newburgh. It includes a vocational training school for local citizens and a college that collaborates with the existing SUNY Orange degrees.

The concept is to express different programs with a functional form each with unique identities. The extroverted campus will be a showcase to the public.The masterplan’s short axis creates connectivity from city to the waterfront through highways and railway, and connects the SUNY Orange campus with the new campus.

The buildings are laid out in low density to provide open green space. Their sections adapt to the big level difference of the site. A circular walkway unite them to the central park space which provides flexible space for activities and encourages interaction between cross-disciplinary students.

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Circular Walkway Interior View

Perspective Looking North

The walkway would act as exhibition space/leisure space.

The amphitheatre connects different levels of the site.

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OFFICE / TEACHER / EVENT AMPHITHEATER EXHIBITION WALKWAY 4 FURNITURE STUDIO 5 GYM 6 COLLEGE 7 STUDENT SOCIETY 8 ARTISANAL FACTORY

Partial Plan

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FOOD PRODUCTION SEWING STUDIO PUBLIC MAKER SPACE LIBRARY DESIGN STORE COMMERCIAL HOUSING

Axonometric Drawing

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College

Design Store

Sectional Perpective

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Sectional Model

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BRIDGE PARK

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2017 Critic | Christoph Kumpusch Program | Park

My thesis is a bridge park connecting the East River Park at the Manhattan side and the East River State Park at the Williamsburg side. The bridge is only for pedestrian and cyclers. Unlike a traditional bridge which only allows people to move from one side to another side, it serves multiple functions to let people stay at the bridge and becomes a main public space attraction. There are several advantages connecting the two parks: 1. The stunning river view encourages walking and cycling as exercise.

2. It enhances the interaction between the communities from east village and northern Williamsburg.

3. The L train which connects Manhattan and Brooklyn will stop its service in 2019.

The Bridge Park will become an important link for travelling between East Village and Williamsburg.

The Bridge Park will be an openable bridge with a 40-feet-clearance when close and a 123-feet-clearance when open. After preliminary plan study, the optimized plan consists of two parabolas to increase the travel distance to fulfill the ramp steepness.

The multifunctionaility is the main attraction of the Bridge Park. It encourages people to spend more time for different leisure activities. When the bridge is open for deep draft ships, the other parts can still be used.

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ALBEE SQUARE RENOVATION 2020 Critic | Jing Liu, SO-IL Location | Fulton Mall Program | Temporary Installation/Renovation

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Original residents of downtown Brook-

Albee Square is a triangular open space

with the iconic billboard will also be

lyn are mostly African-American and

formed by the set-back of two adjacent

redeveloped into a mix-used high-end

Caribbean immigrants. In 2004, the

buildings: City Point and the Dime Sav-

residential tower.

Downtown Brooklyn Plan rezoning was

ings Bank. City Point is a large mixed-

approved by the city and development

used commercial complex with a retail

The project aims to preserve the existing

downtown has proceeded on a site-by-

podium on the ground level. The Dime

buildings, embrace public performance

site basis, which led to sharp rise of land

Savings Bank is a monumental historical

space, and celebrate the traditional

values and gentrification.

landmark built from 1906 to 1908. Its

culture of local African American and

exterior was designed to resemble a

Caribbean communities. Given the rich

Located near the end of Fulton Mall,

neo-classical temple with fluted columns

music and dance culture of the local

Albee Square is not only highly acces-

leading to a domed roof. The Dime Sav-

community, it would invite the general

sible but also popular for holding public

ings Bank will be transformed into retail

public to occupy Albee Square in new

events. The old Albee Square Mall which

by SHoP Architects. A 1,066-foot-tall

ways and blur the boundary between

was demolished used to be a collective

mixed-use tower designed will be built

the public/private realm.

memory to the local community.

behind the bank. The triangular block

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Concept Albee Square has a rich culture of public perfomance and dance/music activities.

The concept is to let public performance space invades into private properties.

Different type of spaces allow different scales of performance to occur.

On the other hand, the triangular block will be redeveloped into a food court that provides Caribbean and African cuisine to embrace the traditional culture and create jobs for the local communities.

Tropical plant species from the Caribbean Islanads are used in the project to enhance the environment. A canopy with vines growing underneath provides shading and boundary for performance.

Performance

Performance Performance

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Short Film

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DASH DOT HOUSING 2018 Critic | Gabriela Etchegaray, AMBROSI | ETCHEGARAY Location | The Bronx Program | Public Housing Team | Gabriel Chan

An affordable social housing project in the Bronx that create hierarchy of privacy from the bottom to the top. Apartment blocks are stacked on a continuous belt of semipublic programs on top of public programs.

Inner courtyard provides safe and private space for residents to relax while exterior gardens serves the public.

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public park division

respond to context

semi-public “ring�

residential blocks

public first floor

private terrace

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40 units 25 units 30 units 25 units School

Mix-use

Mix-use

40 units Total: 160 units

173,500 sqft

Claremont Pkwy

Mixed Duplex

3-Bedroom Duplex

Mix-use

Rowhouse

3rd Ave

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to Washing

School

2-Bedroom Duplex

Flexible Apartment

Mixed Duplex

Studio

3-Bedroom Duplex

2-Bedroom Duplex

E 171st ST

The Bronx Population Research Average family size United States First Floor Plan 38

Public Housing

Public Housing

Third Floor Plan

Bronx

Family household 3.3 3.7

63%

Single-parent household 56.3%

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Balcony

Access Gallery

Street

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3-Bedroom Duplex

Daycare

Inner Courtyard

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Shared Terrace Interlock Apartments

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POINTS TO CELLS 2018 Critic | Mimi Hoang, nArchitects Program | Public Library

Located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, this is a highly flexible library that provides multiple functions

Office

with changing spatial characters and encourage interaction of users. It does not any strictly enclosed rooms. The space is continuous yet divided into cells of different permeability.

The structure of the library is an interlocking

Community Room

cruciform wood column made of CLT. from the bottom to the top, the structure of the building changes from columns to cellular walls with gradual change in scale creating hierarchy. Different kinds of activities and

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scale of interaction are cultivated around the structure depends on its scale.

Open Reading Area

Maker Space

Lobby/ Children’s Library

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5/F Community Room

3/F Open Reading Area 50

Small to Large Collective

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CLOUD 2019 Critic | Joshua C. Jordan Material | Casted rockite module Course | Transitional Geometry

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Early Design 68

Infinty Collage 69

PLAYGROUND 2017 Critic | Christoph Kumpusch Program | Installation

The playground is an exciting rotatable mutifunctional installation for adults and children to explore. It is also a playground of light, shadow and visual illusion - the moirĂŠ effect.

The purpose of my project is to enhance the activities at Union Square. Located at the centre of the open square, it is composed of nine 4m x 4m cubes, in each of which a different geometry is placed. The geometries are specially designed to have a different function when they rotate 90 degrees. They provide new functions that the Union Square does not provide, such as playground, private space, sitting place (for eating and resting), performance space and shaded area.

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LIGHT CHANNEL 2017 Critic | Christoph Kumpusch Program | Subway station

In a usual subway station, natural lighting

Natural light spreads freely and gently along

is seldom used. Artificial lighting can

the underground walkway. When pedestrian

never bring people the characters of

are walking in the underground space, they

natural sunlight: variations throughout

could appreciate the sky from different light

time, temperature, colors and so on. The

channels.

purpose of my project is to introduce daylight into the underground walkway.

The final form is generated by kangaroo physics in grasshopper. The protruding

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By merging the light channels, the ceiling

parts have different usage such as news

and the wall altogether into a singular

stand, bicycle park, sitting area and elevator

surface, a fluid organic space is formed.

entrance.

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EXTENDABLE KITE 2017 Critic | Christoph Kumpusch Program | Flying Device

This project is inspired by the flying mechanism of kites. When a kite is in the air, its tilted surface creates longer path for air to pass through, thus lower air pressure is formed beneath the kite. The air pressure difference created the lift force which allows the kite to ascent.

The flying device is simply comprised of a kite surface with four anticlastic surfaces and four flaps underneath. The undulating kite surface increases the air path, thus creates lift force to the device the same way as a kite does. The four flaps extend when the device is falling and increase the air resistance. Before flaps extending, the device volume is within the 15x15x15 boundary.

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Building Technology Studies

GREENPOINT THEATRE Per fo

2018 REVIT Project Team | Eduardo Meneses, Shangyu Tian, Hector Garcia

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Architectural Consultant | David Burke, Grimshaw Architects Structural Consultant | Amy Harrington, Robert Silman Associates Enclosure Consultant | Tom Reiner, Studio D.P.C. MEP Consultant | Ciarรกn Smyth, WSP

Structure Concept 84

V-columns and floor height trusses create column-free interior space.

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Facade Exploded Axonometric Diagram

Roof Parapet Detail

Part Plans

1 Steel mullion 2 Channel glass 3 Steel angle 4 Tension rod 5 V Column 6 Steel Plate 7 Insulation 8 Steel Plate 9 Glazing

Sustainability

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CURTAIN WALL DESIGN

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2019 Critic | Robert Heintges Course | Advanced Curtain Walls

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D ROOF 74’- 9”

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The façade design is inspired by an abstract art piece by Heather Hutchinson.

LEVEL 4 58’- 9”

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Designed for a narrow infill building in 3 4"

New York, the façade would maintain

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the minimalist aesthetic and the elegant proportion brought by the artwork. Its curtain wall provides floor-to-ceiling

LEVEL 3 42’- 8”

low-e glass with gradient ceramic frit that improves the energy efficiency. By 16'-0

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emphasizing the horizontal transom and minimizing the vertical mullion, there would be minimum obstruction of view.

LEVEL 2 26’- 8”

The façade’s twelve identical, insulated15'-1

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glass panels are assembled by thin vertical mullions which yields structural efficiency, meets wind load requirements and enables a thinner monolithic outer

LEVEL 1 11’- 6”

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lite than normal, providing greater

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transparency. The horizontal transoms are wider than mullions to emphasize the

LEVEL 0 0’- 0”

horizontal framing of the glass.

Building Elevation

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Building Section

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Typical Mullion Plan

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Typical Plan

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Plan at Anchor 90

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Corner Mullion Plan

Detail Typical Section 91

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