Portfolio | Hao Wang

RESILIENCE PORTFOLIO | HAO WANG

Hao Wang School of Architecture, University of Virginia.

Tel: (1)434-227-8996 Email: hw6eq@virginia.edu Web: www.ourresilience.com

CONTENTS HISTORICAL RESILIENCE HISTORICAL BUILDING RENOVATION: TALKING TO CLASSIC I

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RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES FOR CARR’S HILL: TALKING TO CLASSIC II

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URBAN RESILIENCE URBAN RESILIENCE I: NEW COMMUNICATION LIFE

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URBAN RESILIENCE II: NEW COMMUNICATION LIFE

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COASTAL RESILIENCE COASTAL RESILIENCE I: REDIFINE THE EDGES

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COASTAL RESILIENCE II: REDIFINE THE EDGES

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WORK PROJECTS PRINCESS ANNE MIDDLE SCHOOL REPLACEMENT

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FIRE STATION REPLACEMENT

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HUILONGWO GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS RENOVATION

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HIGH-RISE MEDICAL BUILDING DESIGN: FOLD

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INDUSTRIAL RESILIENCE: DYNAMIC ACTIVATION OF INDUSTRY

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OTHER SKILLS RESEARCH AND DRAWING OF ANCIENT CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

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DRAWINGS AND PHOTOGRAPHY

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CURRICULUM VITAE

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Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ LAAR Studio

Charlottesville, Virginia, USA/ Peter Waldman Studio

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ LAAR Studio

Norfolk, Virginia, USA/ Mathew Jull and Manuel Bailo Esteve Studio

Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA/ HBA Architecture & Interior Design INC

Hampton, Virginia, USA/ HBA Architecture & Interior Design INC Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ LAAR Studio Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ LAAR Studio

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ Joint-teaching Program with Berlin Industrial University

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China/ Field Trip for Han Ling of Mount Hubu

HISTORICAL BUILDING RENOVATION: TALKING TO CLASSIC I Excellent Academic Award in 2013 AUTODESK National Competition Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China LAAR Studio Team leader, May - June 2013 Concept

Faced with the few surviving historical buildings, which are going to be demolished, do we architects still have strength to honor tradition, the classic?

Complete replication of classic only reflects stubbornness and ignorence in imitating the ancient styles; Innovation which completely gets rid of classic is also only an irresponsible attitude. I believe that following Urban Resilience , only innovation based on classic, through the appeal of symbolic language and spatial experience of the buildings themselves, can facilitate transition from past to modern and initiate an interactive communication between them.

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Architecture Axonometric Diagram

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Architecture Concept Narrative

Get inspiration from classical buildings’ symbolic forms. Then develop those architecture language and apply them to new architecture. It is not simply stimulation but one specific and brand new way to share the most representative characteristic of classical form and space with local people and visitors. The goal is to realize Urban Resilience’s intend: the strength to come back. To fulfill people with extraordinary classic architecture memory and experience. To show architect’s respect to classic.

Classical Space

Classical space has smaller scale, which is closer to human scale. It is easy to form individual space and has better privacy.

Modern Space

Modern space has much bigger scale benefit from developed structure. It is really a good experience when you get a view-sight of historical building from a different space.

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Site Scale

Existing Buildings

Demolished Buildings

Grid

Axis

New Buildings

Rotunda

RESIDENTIAL COLLEGES FOR CARR’S HILL: TALKING TO CLASSIC II Charlottesville, Virginia, USA University of Virginia, Peter Waldman Studio Individual Work, Aug - Dec 2015

Concept Part I

This is a project celebrating materiality’s of the construction site. These include deep attention to masonry traditions juxtaposed to steel frames and transparent and translucent materials. At time these buildings seen from the Lawn looking toward Madison Bowl are almost not there, they reflect the Jefferson Grounds and Monticello beyond to the South and the East. The Whole building is really a Reflection of that which is there thus Mirrors for the Sun and the Moon.

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Classical Roof +Skywindow

Roof Inspiration

Double Layer Facade: Kalwall + Curtainwall

Facade Inspiration

Conceptual Section

Residential Building Explode

Concept Part II

My idea is the importance of “Facing South, or the necessity of a Southern Orientation”. Because whether getting enough sunlight either important or not for living room is an issue for me as it is one significant element affecting people’s moods. The interesting thing is that Peter promotes one theme called “Nomad, Surveyor, and Lunatic” which form the sources of designing three different types of rooms and try to combine their advantages in order to create one good room. Then I used this concept of a good room to accommodate a wide range of students to participate in this college setting.

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Historical Buildings

Residential College

Memorial Tower

Visitor Pavilion

Earth-covered Space

Rotunda

Conceptual Section

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To Playground

To Memorial Tower

To Rugby Road

To President Office

To Visitor Pavilion

To Residential College

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URBAN RESILIENCE I: NEW COMMUNICATION LIFE Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China China University of Mining and Technology Individual work, Sept - Dec 2013 Concept

It is urge to create one new communication life among high density residential buildings in developing countries, like China. The topic is to renovate an extremely narrow street and to create something new for it so as to revitalize the area. When I was stuck in the mire, a scene where a group of children were playing while hugging a big tree on a side of the street came into my sight. As I looked further, the trees on the two sides of the street stood in line, presenting a portrayal of the old history and dilapidation of this street. When interacting with the trees on the street sides, the surrounding buildings, though dilapidated themselves, are full of ancient charm endowed by the history.

The idea of vitalizing buildings through landscape came to my mind. I feel that the basic definition of landscape is to limit people’s acts so that people can better interact with the buildings. Further, interesting communication may happen among people.

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Urban Resilience Strategies

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URBAN RESILIENCE II: NEW COMMUNICATION LIFE Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China China University of Mining and Technology Individual work, Jul - Aug 2014 Concept

It is informed of preserving plenty of historical urban village from Urban Resilience Design phase one.

It is important to conduct a more detailed design which is closer to human scale. Architect chooses one representative site in this area, full of Urban Village.

Keep respect towards old buildings; extract symbolic language; apply them to new architecture form.

Also, multiple branding forms are created by rearranging single form. As a result, quantity of public/private space, which are closer to human scale, are generated.

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Existing Site

The existing footpringt of Urban Village

Demolishment

Ruined buildings are needed to be demolished.

Main Street

Clear out extra ruined buildings and form one main street,which can go through the whole site.

New Buildings

New buildings follow the style of symbolic language coming from old buildings.

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Urban Resilience Strategy I

Axonometric

Urban Resilience Strategy II

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COASTAL RESILIENCE I: REDIFINE THE EDGES Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China LAAR Studio Team leader, Feb - May 2013 BACKGROUND Coastal Resilience is one of the hot social issues right now. Architects, who are in charge of social construction should make a contribution to this issue. Site is located at one empty area near the coast. Two different typologies are close to this area – field and lake.

Also, there is one factory in the opposite side of the site. The project dealt with relationships between typology and water, architecture form and structure.

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Control Lines

Control lines consist of vertical and horizontal lines, which is helpful to define axis.

Field Contour

Original field contour is formed by simple vertical and horizontal lines. Help to have sense towards scale.

Single Force

Southeast wind (premiere wind orientation during summer) helps to form one single force, which direct the first transformation of this site.

Double Force

Flow forms the other force and help to make the transformation.

Basic Form

After above three steps, basic form is generated, which can be resilient to heavy wind and water.

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Birdview II

Birdview I

Interior 18

The west side of sunlight is white concrete reflection, aim to prevent the wall surface temperature high.

The chimney effect of atrium leads to indoor and outdoor air flow more smoothly. Indoor introduction of water improves indoor micro climate.

Roof water retention system is installed and green roof is used.

High performance glazing and the vertical tappet design provide with good viewsight.

Facing lake side is using glazing maximumly.

Ecology Analysis

Floating Island 19

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Existing Edge Condition

8’ SLR Condition

Proposed Edge Condition

Proposed Transportation Condition

COASTAL RESILIENCE II: REDIFINE THE EDGES Norfolk, Virginia, USA University of Virginia, Mathew Jull and Manuel Bailo Esteve Studio Team member, Jan - May 2016 Project Narrative Hampton Roads Region, utilizing the existing typologies of the Elizabeth River trail to inform and redesign the edge into a new public zone, filled with various new programmatic elements. The trail as it sits will in fact become the new water’s edge through an 8ft flooding event, necessitating the need for it to function as a new type of urban public space. Through this investigation, two conditions for the proposal can be reached, including the design of the trail as a new boundary as well as the design of the new building complex as it plugs into one specific site. My intention is to seek to create a new public space, one that bridges the gap between private and public typologies while redefining the edge as a permeable, yet protective barrier to rising seas, subsiding land and increased urban runoff from the developed city.

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Existing Edge Condition

Proposed Transportation network

8’ SLR Condition

Existing City Program

Proposed Edge Condition

Proposed City Program

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Bar Building

Simple Wall

Field

Repetition

Step Down

Triangle

Great Wall

Coastal Resilience

Massing Study

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Proposed Edge Condition

Develop Mass

Establish Base

Popularity

Massing Strategy 24

PRINCESS ANNE MIDDLE SCHOOL REPLACEMENT Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA HBA Architecture & Interior Design INC Intern, June - August 2016

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Circulation

Three distinct zones: arrival/ school/ play. The surrounding neighborhood has a direct impact on planning strategies. Street presence/ context, bus/ service, cars/ parent drop-off will be carefully evaluated.

BUS PEDESTRIAN

STAFF

PEDESTRIAN

LOWER

HIGH

Conceptual Masterplan

Hierarchy

1 Arrow shows one hierarchy among three distinct zones from lower to high to lower. This will affect skyline of the design.

2 Dot area describes green belt formed to create an ecological environment.

LOWER

Three distinct zones: arrival/ school/ play. Access points (pedestrian/ non-vehical arrival), bus/ service, car arrival, and understand the vertical component impact to the site. The middle zone is important with respect to the site and the instructional component for the middle grades. It includes a living machine which will be developed in concert with our blackwater and greywater management design. It focuses on the learning component for students. This will bea very active area that will be seen from the school, used as an active outdoor classroom, and a transition area to the play area. The landscape will be defined to create a street presense and connection to the landscape.

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VIEW

SITE

NEIGHBORHOOD

REFFUB

BUFFER

NEIGHBORHOOD

SKYLINE

NEIGHBOR

PLAY

WETLAND

Volume Relationships

SCHOOL

ARRIVAL STREET

NEIGHBOR

This diagram shows relationship between different building volumes. The height of main building is almost the same as its surrounding buildings in order to create a harmony phenomenon instead of a massive building.

View Creation

This diagram shows viewsight created by volume. Skyline shows two valleys are formed by the whole site, which indicate Play zone and Arrival zone. When step up to the main building, people will have a open view directly to the play zone for observatin and relaxation.

To Be A Good Neighbor

1 Lower noise: two green buffer area between Play zone and neighbor, Arrival zone and neighbor; 2 Environmental friendly: adding more green area helps to create an environmental friendly phenomenen for school and its neighborhood.

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Existing Site

The site is located at 1430 Kecoughtan Rd., Hampton, VA. We need to relocate the fire station which is near one abandoned school and pool club. Four bays and clockwise circulation are required for this project.

Enlarge 19th Ave.

Concept one is about using existing road -- 19th Ave. Enlarge the width of road to fit four bays (80 ft.) and maximise land use.

Building is one floor high.

Add New Road

Concept two is to create one specific road for Fire Station. Building is two floor high.

FIRE STATION REPLACEMENT Awarded to GuernseyTingle Hampton, Virginia, USA HBA Architecture & Interior Design INC Intern, June - August 2016

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Project Birdview

HUILONGWO GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS RENOVATION Project Narrative

The site located at north side of Huilongwo Historical Cultural District, which is near the downtown. Buildings to be renovated are including #26, #27, #28, #29, #30 and Residential Buildings. #30 Building, which used to be a school in 1924, is required of being kept and its style is Minguo Style. So, the surrounding buildings should be renovated following this style for a harmony phenomenon.

Some parts of existing government buildings are not used for now and they are old, which wall are full of plants and water trail. Buildings are mostly brick-concrete, which should be concerned about considering current situation.

Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China LAAR Studio Project Manager, May - August 2013

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Existing: This building is six-floor steel framed structure. And the main body and appearance are kept well. But, it belongs to modern building, so façade’s style needs to be renovated completely.

Rules: Keep the original buildings structure, and renovate based on function. Renovate windows and doors in façade and beautify them with new material and texture. Add more details to façade and make it closer to Minguo style

#27 Location

Comparison I

Comparison II #27 Facade 30

I Core Tower

II Main Tower

III Skirt

IV Plaza

V Skin

HIGH-RISE MEDICAL BUILDING DESIGN: FOLD Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China LAAR Studio Individual Work, March - May 2013 31

Section

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Early Stage of Activation

The foothold of the early renovation project is the ground floor, namely, attracting developers as the investors who will finance the construction of public activity areas via the guiding role of government in the market. The ground floor carries the material basis for regional development which the old community lacks completely -- urban infrastructure pipe networks and public activity facilities, and the specific phases primarily include functional zoning of the site and organization of the overall streamline.

Mid Stage of Activation

Above the early-stage public activity area, the government encourages developers to conduct high-density commercial development. In this development model, the ground and air of Quantai Coal Mine form a colorful activity belt respectively, thereby diversifying functions in different latitudes. In the economic development-oriented business districts, old scenes carry out self-renewal under the belt’s guidance and the development of a new town is also supported by it.

Later Stage of Activation

On the ground floor, the public activity area will connect and radiate each area. The ground floor is filled with colorful city public events, including art exhibitions, performances, park plazas, walkways, cycle tracks, vertical transportation and a transportation system connecting the whole Quantai Coal Mine. Meanwhile, comprehensive building of a sustainable system: (1) Buildings: Building skin performs a preservation-based ecological renovation of the existing buildings and comprehensively builds a “green space” in the form of vertical greening; (2) Site: build walkways and greening/ landscaping/ plaza/ building systems and cycle track and greening; (3) Industry: industry-university-research institute cooperation and technological innovation are encouraged, and development of new products and new techniques and conversion of technological achievements promoted. By emphasizing talent development, specialized staff training should be provided regularly and the self-renewal capacity of the whole industry chain strengthened. At the same time, the communication of business and culture should be enhanced, field education jobs developed which offer training of relevant industrial knowledge to students, parents and teachers, dynamic explanation and education systems designed which popularize the basic knowledge of protecting and reusing old industrial buildings among tourists in the form of pictures and explanation, and tourists’ immersive advantages grasped in order to extend. In addition, research and experimental bases can be provided for efficient and scientific research units by virtue of the subject’s marks of the old industrial age, and the local university takes charge of managing related projects and carries out scientific research, experiments and monitoring; (4) Life: Low-carbon travel mode featuring walking and cycling should be encouraged and develops into the principal means of transportation in the whole industrial park in order to create “urban slow-paced life”.

INDUSTRIAL RESILIENCE: DYNAMIC ACTIVATION OF INDUSTRY Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China Joint-teaching Program with Berlin Industrial University Individual Work, March - May 2012 33

RESEARCH AND DRAWING OF ANCIENT CHINESE ARCHITECTURE Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China Field Trip for Han Ling of Mount Hubu Team Member, July - Aug 2013

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IMPRESSION OF VENICE Type: Watercolor Location: Venice, Italy Date: March 2012

ROCK YOUR LIFE

Type: Paper Model Location: University of Virginia Date: March 2016

MIND

Type: Charcoal Drawing Location: University of Virginia Date: May 2016

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STEPPING

Location: National Gallery of Art East Wing Date: Sept 2015

EXPLOSION

Location: Slover Library, Norfolk Date: July 2016

FOOTPRINT

Location: National Gallery of Art East Wing Date: Sept 2015

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RSAA (Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design) Ltd. | Beijing, China Architectural Intern -Assisted in preliminary schematic design and destination work -Built digital 3D models

October 2014 --- November 2014 full – time

LAAR Studio | Xuzhou, China October 2011 --- September 2014 Architect part – time -In charge of daily management and maintenance of project -Assisted chief architect with project promotion and implementation, covering from scheme to working drawing design -Produced final general layout, vertical design intention and texts

PERSONAL INVOLVED PROJECTS & RESEARCH (MAIN)

Hao Wang School of Architecture, University of Virginia.

Tel: (1)434-227-8996 Email: hw6eq@virginia.edu Web: www.ourresilience.com

Reconstruction Project of Government Office Building of Huilongwo, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Prov., China Reconstruction Project of North Jiangsu New Rural Investigation

June 2013 – August 2013 Research: Residence Planning and Design based on Low Carbon Strategy – Taking Xuzhou and Suqian as Examples January 2014 –March 2014 Dynamic Activation of Old Industrial Building based on the Infrastructure System July 2013 –October 2013

EDUCATION BACKGROUND CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY | Xuzhou, Jiangsu, China Bachelor of Architecture UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | Charlottesville, VA, USA Master of Architecture

July 2015 GPA: 3.89 | Rank: 2/86 Expected Dec 2017

EXPERIENCE

HBA | Virginia Beach, USA June 2016 --- August 2016 Intern full – time -Prepare Conceptual Architectural and Interior Designs as part of a team -Prepare Construction Bidding Documents as part of a team and under the supervision of an Architect -Assist Architects in Construction Administration phase services such as shop drawing review and site visits.

-Generally assist Architects and Principal Architects in their management of projects -Participate in business develop /marketing opportunities as part of a team -Participate in firm’s community service initiatives HOK | Houston, USA Externship (Job Shadowing) -Met with Design, Planning, Consulting, S&T, PA, HC, CA, Interior Team -Assisted chief architect with project promotion -Attended PA’s one-on-one meeting

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Honor & Awards (MAIN) “Excellent Assignment” in Excellent Assignment Activity of Overseas Exchange Students from Collegiate Schools of Architecture in China March 2014 “Excellent Award” of 2013 Autodesk Revit Cup National Sustainable Architecture Design Competition for College Students August 2013 First Prize of the 1st Jiangsu Province Architect Cup Architect Cup Architecture Design Scheme Competition December 2012 “Excellent Assignment” of 2012 Selection Activity of National Architecture Design Scheme and Teaching Achievement in Higher Education Institutions September 2012

January 2016 full – time

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