MArch I Academic Portfolio - Yale School of Architecture

PROJECT LISTING 3rd Year Advanced Studio Gehry - Spring 2016

CONCERT HALL FOR MUNICH 3rd Year Advanced Studio Plattus - Fall 2015

PEOPLES-AMBITIOUS HAPPY LAND 2nd Year Design Studio - Spring 2015

BRIDGEPORT FAIRGROUNDS 2nd Year Design Studio - Fall 2014

BLANCHE-LEVY GOTHIC 1st Year Design Studio - Spring 2014

THE ACTIVATED HOUSE-WALL TEAM G - LAYER HOUSE 1st Year Design Studio - Fall 2013

TEMPLE TO HEDONISM LANDSCAPE OF PLAY UNDER PRESSURE Non-Studio Work

ORNAMENT THEORY & DESIGN FORMAL ANALYSIS VISUALIZATION II & III ROME: CONTINUITY & CHANGE WESTERN EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE

CONCERT HALL FOR MUNICH An Accessible Creature The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra of Munich is one of the world’s premier orchestral groups, yet it lacks a permanent home, alternating between the compact mid-century Hercules Hall and the acoustically deficient Gasteig. It is by fortuitous chance that a promising site has now been found. The Werksviertel district in Munich is undergoing a post-industrial transformation. For decades after the relocation of the Pfanni potato processing factories to the city outskirts, the land belonging to the Pfanni food empire has existed in a seedy in-between state, home to makeshift informal music and nightlife venues.

Today, heir to the Pfanni food empire Werner Eckart seeks to transform his property into an attractive new live-work urban center for Munich. Well-served by the Ostbahnhof railway station, the new concert hall serves as an important new urban anchor, its status as the city’s premier classical music venue cementing the district’s urban future.

Under Gehry’s direction, the design of the building grew from within, with attention heaped upon the layout, circulation and articulation of building’s central space: the 1,800-seat concert hall. The building’s exterior presents itself as a “creature”, fluid and restless, emblematic of the drama of change washing over its surroundings.

M.Arch I 3rd Year Spring 2016 1115b Advanced Design Studio Critics: Frank Gehry, Craig Webb, Trattie Davies

Precedent size comparison

Site strategy and relationships

Werksviertel, Munich. Once a thriving potato processing factory, the site is now in the midst of renewal into Munich’s next urban hub.

3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

Iterative models of concert hall articulation from scrap wood

Study of concert hall interior atmosphere

Iteration 1: “Archway”

Iteration 2: “Shards”

Iteration 3: “Bowl”

Iteration 4: “Ember”

Development of seating spiral

View from orchestra stage

3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

Seating spiral showing circulation ramps on perimeter

View from orchestra stage

3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

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3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

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3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

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3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

LOFT 203 SEATS

Chengqi John WAN

3D scan of exterior massing model

Rationalization of 3D scan

Concert hall volume nested within facade ribbons

3rd Year Studio - Concert Hall for Munich

Chengqi John WAN

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Final concert hall model, showing waffle structure

Final concert hall model, showing waffle structure

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Exploded isometric of concert hall

Plaza landscaping

Public programme

Concert hall

Envelope

View from public plaza

View on approach from Ostbahnhof train station

View skywards from grand plaza

Section through concert hall (unoccupied)

Section through concert hall (occupied)

Site visit with landowner Werner Eckart

Berlin Philharmonic

Walt Disney Hall

Yacht excursion on the Foggy II

Visit to DZ Bank

Visit to DZ Bank

PEOPLES-AMBITIOUS HAPPY LAND Insurgent Urbanism What if urban design straddles both local and regional ambitions, yet remains meaningful and relevant to the communities it serves?

The Tonghui riverfront in central Beijing is a difficult, forgotten post-industrial railway landscape, only because its latent potential has not been realized. These places can be the foundations for insurgent public spaces; self-made urban spaces that range from reclaimed and re-appropriated sites, to temporary events and informal gathering places.

We approach the question of city-healing not through a singular top-down strategy, but instead through the analysis of sitespecific, unique situations. This produces urban experiments which address both the problems and opportunities of found urban sites. We see programme not as a singular, unyielding thing, but as a limitless list of possibilities generating a continuous urban laboratory in which both public and private are engaged in the process of urban development, represented through narratives that capture the intricacies of human inhabitation.

Feldman Prize Nominee M.Arch I 3rd Year Fall 2015 1106a Advanced Design Studio Critics: Alan Plattus, Andrei Harwell In conjunction with Anne Ma

CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT (CHAOYANG)

TONGHUI RIVER

SHUANGJING RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT

2ND RING ROAD Site location within Beijing

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Municipal zoning plans overlook the fragmented Tonghui River site

A working past: the railyards juxtapose working tracks with isolated developments

At the post-industrial railyards of the Tonghui River, current paradigms of top-down urban development are out of sync with everyday realities. Dotted with illegal urban villages, abandoned warehouses, empty speculative developments, and water pollution, the district’s preconditions necessitate a more sympathetic methodology for urban regeneration.

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3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

Site 1 “Food Emporium”: Plan of stabilized condition

Site 1 “Food Emporium”: Existing condition

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Site 1 “Food Emporium”: Intervention and improvement

Chengqi John WAN

FOOD EMPORIUM SITE 1 /// SCALE ‘S’ In this insurgent district, the focus is on the “pinch point” in the existing rail tracks running through a majority of the extended Tonghui River site. The tracks are a major barrier between north and south, and even amongst extant building “islands” within the railyards.

We imagine communities on both sides of the railway tracks coming together to improve North-South connectivity from the southern Shuanghuayuan residential community and the northern Chaoyang district, spurring the city planners and railway company to invest in the repurposing and linkage of existing railyard buildings.

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

Site 2 “Egg Plaza & Circle Campus”: Plan of stabilized condition

Site 2 “Egg Plaza & Circle Campus”: Existing condition

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Site 2 “Egg Plaza & Circle Campus”: Intervention and improvement

Chengqi John WAN

EGG PLAZA & CIRCLE CAMPUS SITE 2 /// SCALE ‘M’ With the goal of revitalizing an under-utilized plot of land, “Egg Plaza” and its neighboring circular railway test track was imagined as a vibrant mixed-use campus intimately tied to its railyard heritage, which includes a collaboration between the extant Beijing Railway Museum and the Urban Planning Museum.

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

EGG PLAZA & CIRCLE CAMPUS SITE 2 /// SCALE ‘M’ In this narrative, a temporary festival on an empty lot owned by the national railway company evolves into a formal amusement park over the span of a decade, its content and nomenclature assisted by crowd-sourced community initiatives. An industrial landscape, vacant and under-utilized, is transformed into a cultural destination.

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

Site 3 “Keeper of the Ring”: Plan of stabilized condition

Site 3 “Keeper of the Ring”: Existing condition

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Site 3 “Keeper of the Ring”: Intervention and improvement

Chengqi John WAN

KEEPER OF THE 4TH RING SITE 3 /// SCALE ‘L’ In the largest urban experiment site, we looked at the space underneath and surrounding the 4th Ring Road’s intersection with the Tonghui riverfront. The intersection’s most pressing problem was traffic congestion, and this served as the starting point for revitalizing the site.

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

KEEPER OF THE 4TH RING SITE 3 /// SCALE ‘L’ The river is expanded into a bay with a “community island” for nearby residents. The island and its roadway, beginning as acts of intervention by the authorities, then act as a node and central hub for activity that spills over beyond the site’s extents, attracting new private development along the Ring Road, furniture market and open lots.

3rd Year Studio - Peoples-Ambitious Happy Land

Chengqi John WAN

Tonghui River urban planning kit

Tonghui River urban planning activity table

Presentation model of developed Egg Plaza site

Slice models of the three urban laboratory sites

“Urban Laboratory� model of all three sites Shades of grey denote passage of time

BRIDGEPORT FAIRGROUNDS Resilient Event Urbanism The blighted ex-industrial city of Bridgeport in Connecticut was once an important manufacturing hub. Concurrently, it was the home of famed circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum. Today, it struggles with under-employment and a dwindling tax base.

Hurricane Sandy in 2012 exposed another urgent problem: threat from flooding and storm surge.

This scheme proposes a combination of mixed-use new structures, event urbanism, and water resilience as the basis of a culturally referential urban intervention in an under-utilized neighborhood of the city: Cedar Creek. A system of constructed wetlands, berms, and stormwater runoff ponds is unified under a dazzlingly colorful landscaping scheme, promising an optimistic new urban heart for the troubled city.

M.Arch I 2nd Year Spring 2015 1022b Architectural Design Studio Critic: Alan Plattus In conjunction with Dima Srouji

Sectional slices through scheme

2nd Year Studio - Bridgeport Fairgrounds

Chengqi John WAN

Iranistan Hotel development with flood adaptability

BLANCHE-LEVY GOTHIC U.Penn School of Design An architecture school building should be a village; it should also be a teacher. In the design for the new home of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, this scheme examines interpretative conservationism in the crafting of a major academic building.

Named for the Blanche P. Levy Park of the building’s site, the formal language of existing monumental Collegiate Gothic buildings are re-composed into a new school for design, one providing spaces of gathering, intimacy, creativity and exchange.

M.Arch I 2nd Year Fall 2014 1021a Architectural Design Studio Critic: Emily Abruzzo

Transposition (Design Generator) Familiar buildings on Blanche-Levy Park are transposed onto the site in a formal arrangement that references their original position, creating a “ghosted� fascimile.

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Iterations of Detail 1/ Fragments: The Gothic facades provide contextuality, “clothing� new programme.

2/ Column Grid: A thin grid of columns provide three-dimensionality to form.

3/ Curtain Wall: Aligned to the column grid is a protective curtain wall with chrome mullions.

4/ Programme: Floorslabs are then scaled according to the needs of programme.

1st Floor Plan Open-air public plaza

2nd Year Studio - Blanche-Levy Gothic

Chengqi John WAN

2nd Floor Plan Ring of assembly spaces and faculty offices

2nd Year Studio - Blanche-Levy Gothic

Chengqi John WAN

4th Floor Plan Studios nested within assembly spaces

2nd Year Studio - Blanche-Levy Gothic

Chengqi John WAN

6th Floor Plan Rooftops of masses adjoining studios become roof terraces

2nd Year Studio - Blanche-Levy Gothic

Chengqi John WAN

South Elevation

West Elevation

Short Section

Long Section

Site Massing

View from courtyard

View into courtyard

Internal corridor

View from Blanche-Levy Park

Model with site context

Evolution of concept

THE ACTIVATED HOUSE-WALL Minimal Dwelling for New Haven The contemporary house assembles a plethora of human needs under one roof. Tasked to conceive a minimal dwelling for a sleepy neighborhood in New Haven, the services and needs of basic dwelling were taken apart and examined.

The solution: a single wall hosting all essential services, utility rooms, and circulation, which constitutes a grand spine that runs down the center of the two-family home. Built from a sequence of cross-laminated timber (CLT) members, the spine is customizable, adapting to the evolving needs of its inhabitants.

M.Arch I 1st Year Spring 2014 1012b Architectural Design Studio Critic: Alan Organschi

1st Year Studio - The Activated House-Wall

Chengqi John WAN

1st Year Studio - The Activated House-Wall

Chengqi John WAN

Model of Scheme 1/8” = 1’-0”

Model of Activated Wall 1/4” = 1’-0”

TEAM G - LAYER HOUSE Jim Vlock Building Project A house shelters one from the harshness of environment and the turbulence of the exterior - but to be deemed a home, it must transcend the mere desire for protection to take on qualities of comfort and psychological ease. Given the challenge to design a micro-house in an urban neighborhood, the demand for spatial compactness might imbue a house with the characteristics of a confined fortress rather than those of a comfortable home. Without mediation, an abrupt transition from exterior to interior can carry with it unresolved anxieties of the outside.

Our design mediates these concerns by considering the house not as an object upon a lot but instead as a landscape. Through a layering of gardens, inner courts, and differing elevations, the site becomes the house, and the house, the site. The scheme meanders through a shifting exterior landscape to arrive within an interior that in turn borrows exterior views in the creation of perceived spaciousness. Walls perform all the functions of enclosure, all the while unexpectedly expanding space rather than defining boundaries.

M.Arch I 1st Year Spring 2014 1012b Architectural Design Studio Critics: Alan Organschi, et al.

In conjunction with Anne Householder, Dov Feinmesser, Kiana Hosseini, Jean Chen, Michelle Chen, Eugene Tan, and Winny Tan

1st Year Studio - Team G - Layer House

Chengqi John WAN

1st Year Studio - Team G - Layer House

Chengqi John WAN

LAYERS OF INHABITATION

ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL

PLANTINGS

Street Perspective

Daytime Street Frontage

Nighttime Street Frontage

Owner’s Bedroom

Owner’s Kitchen

TEMPLE TO HEDONISM Dance Hall for the Meatpacking District On a site abutting the High Line in New York, this scheme for a dance hall embodies a physical allegory of stratified urban life. In contrast to the myriad anonymous commercial developments in an increasingly gentrified Meatpacking District, the rich and powerful party hedonistically in a gilded dance hall high above the masses, while the person on the street is granted only the meagre underbelly of the brooding High Line park.

M.Arch I 1st Year Fall 2013 1011a Architectural Design Studio Critic: Joyce Hsiang

Cultural References Spirit of New York

1st Year Studio - Temple to Hedonism

Chengqi John WAN

Circulation Sequence From Crypt to Ballroom

1st Year Studio - Temple to Hedonism

Chengqi John WAN

Floor Plans

Early Section: A Mirrored Building

Developed Section: Temple to Hedonism

LANDSCAPE OF PLAY Pavilion for the Eli Whitney Museum The Eli Whitney Museum in New Haven runs unique day workshops that allow children to be in touch with nature. Its current outdoor play zone contains rustic exhibits that allow children to interact informally with the world around them. In the design for a new pavilion and visitor centre, this essential function of the site was retained and articulated into an undulating, looping playscape. It introduces an intervention that builds upon the existing phenomenological logic of its site to create an entirely new environment upon which children roam unhindered.

M.Arch I 1st Year Fall 2013 1011a Architectural Design Studio Critic: Joyce Hsiang

Fuji Kindergarten, by Tezuka Architects

Mobius Climber, by Landscape Structures

Concept Sketches - Continuous Wheel

Concept Sketches - Mobius Strip layout

1st Year Studio - Landscape of Play

Chengqi John WAN

1st Year Studio - Landscape of Play

Chengqi John WAN

Perspective view of approach

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Approach Walkway Vestibule Tree Activity Foci Ramp Up to Roof Playscape Steps to River Surface Servery Indoor Exhibition Space Café / Amphitheatre Amphitheatre Seating Restroom

Longitudinal Section 1 2 3 4 5

Vestibule Servery Indoor Exhibition Space Ramp Up to Roof Playscape Roof Playscape

UNDER PRESSURE A Sculpted Solarscape This spatial exercise arose from diagrams of solar movement. The representation of the sun’s march across the sky is extrapolated to generate raw physical enclosure etched upon an abstract landscape, fragmenting as it marches down a gentle slope.

M.Arch I 1st Year Fall 2013 1011a Architectural Design Studio Critic: Joyce Hsiang

Model Photograph

HUMANIZING EDWARD P. EVANS HALL Ornament for the Yale School of Management The Foster+Partners-designed Edward P. Evans Hall for the Yale School of Management (SOM) has polarized critics and neighbors over its stark departure in both scale and articulation from its genteel surroundings.

This ornamental scheme for Edward P. Evans Hall builds upon the ruthless ambiguity of Lord Foster’s design while returning the building to its spiritual roots - Yale SOM and New Haven. A lightweight stainless steel lattice activates the colonnade and curtain wall, blossoming upwards into a shimmering canopy of elm leaves, a figural motif inseparable from New Haven. The fractal subdivision of tree branches are analogous to the continued and cumulative acquisition of knowledge through generations, and the heritage of a proud institution.

M.Arch I 1st Year Spring 2015 1216b Ornament Theory and Design Critic: Kent Bloomer

Detail of arch canopy

Abstraction of elm leaves

Sketch of elevation

Final elevation

FORMAL ANALYSIS M.Arch I 1st Year Fall 2013 1018a Formal Analysis Critic: Peter Eisenman

San Giorgio Maggiore and Il Redentore (Venice, Italy) Modular Expansion

Heterogeneity Today (Free Drawing) An Individual’s Perception

Nolli Plan and Campo Marzio (Rome, Italy) Instauratio Urbis versus Empiricism

VISUALIZATION II & III M.Arch I 1st Year Fall 2013 / Spring 2014 1015a Visualization II 1016b Visualization III Critics: Sunil Bald, Kent Bloomer, Ben Pell, John Eberhart

Collapsed Ornament

Interstitial Spaces

Tryptophobic Panel

OF MONSTERS & MEN M.Arch I 3rd Year Summer 2015 1291c Rome: Continuity & Change Critics: Alexander Purves, Stephen Harby, Joyce Hsiang, Bimal Mendis

Capitoline Museum statuary Turbine Hall, Centrale Montemartini

Statue of Athena Turbine Hall, Centrale Montemartini

RENAISSANCE GARDEN AXES M.Arch I 3rd Year Fall 2015 4222a History of Western European Landscape Critic: Bryan Fuermann

Villa Lante

Villa Farnese

Villa Farnese detail

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Chengqi John Wan