HONG-KUAN WANG Elisava Portfolio by WANG.HONG-KUAN

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO HONG-KUAN WANG

HONG-KUAN WANG Telephone: +886 - 988091912 Email: jimmy860408@gmail.com

EDUCATION Chung Yuan Christian University/ Taoyuan, Taiwan Sept 2015- June 2020, Bachelor of Arts in Architecture

BIRTH 1997 / 04 / 08 WORK EXPERIENCE KRIS YAO Artech/ Taipei, Taiwan Jul 2018- Aug 2018, Intern

Bio-architecture Formosana/ Taipei, Taiwan Jan 2019- Feb 2019, Model assistant HCW Architecture & Associates/ Taipei, Taiwan Jul 2019- Aug 2019, Intern

Skill AutoCAD, Rhino, Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator

P.4 Material, construction and environmental context

P.18 About Myself P.54 Snakes&Ladder In The City

P.68 Other Works 3

01 Material, construction and environmental context Function/ Expansion of the prayer room Designated Material/ Bricks Individual Work Time/ 2018/9-2019/1 Advisor/ WANG JIA ZHEN Site/ Sanxia Church, Taoyuan, Taiwan

Sanxia river

Sanxia tample

Blue dyeing workshop

Sanxia old stree

Sanxia church

Vanish

Recovery

Revitalization

Inspiration/

In Sanxia, it can be found that there is a timeline of disappearance, recovery, and revitalization. The Sanxia temple was burned down. In the restoration process, combined with Western art, birds carved in stone and gilded wood panels. The blue dyeing team started their research in 1988, they rejuvenated the traditional dyeing method dated from 1960s. New innovative design combined with traditional production methods, have become Sanxia's new style.

Site - Sanxia Church/ The church was built by Pastor Mackay at 13th century(a). Adjacent to the Sanxia River and the convinent connecting roads, the location was suitable for conducting evangelism. The site for this project is located in the space beside the church, (b)(c) is the current photos.

(b)

(c)

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Concept/ The church itself is old and has been restored before. I placed the prayer room creatively. Different from the original structure of the church, using the light and translucent properties of the blue-dyed cloth curtain. I devised a space that was like growing organically from the ground, and people can also walk on the new ground. The main church building will not be disturbed, and new activities can be seen from the street.

Surface shaping space

Space penetrable

People can walk on it

Trigger the main line

Concept Model/ Type operation of curved surface and brick stacking.

Function and Shape/

I research the book to understand the relationship between religion, p r ay e r b e h av i o r, a n d s p a c e . "Sacred Building", "Humanity and Its Symbols". The chapters emphasis that religious space has a close relationship with sound and interactive activities, and also has a strong symbolic connection between people and god.

The skylight creates a connection between people and God

Prayer behavior echoes the activities in the church

Cut for Ritual entrance

Create tree holes to response the original trees on the site

SOUTHWEST FACADE

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SITE PLAN

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AA' SECTION

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The generation of brick arch/

Using to use Grasshopper to generate a brick arch model with mechanics, including individual bricks and their arrangement Choose the brick arch surface

number of bricks

Perform entity intersection on two objects

Choose the texture of the bricks

Translate the object along the vector

Extract the edge curve of the object

Convergence curve

Simplify the curve

Project a curve onto an object

Direction/

It consists of three layers in total, with no steel support in between. The bricks from the bottom layer are arranged from four corners to the center as the main supporting surface (a).

(c)

The middle-layer bricks face northwest to southeast. Thus, strengt hening t he overall structure (b). The surface layer are facing northeast to southwest, staggered and strengthening support (c).

(b)

Total number of bricks/ A total of 8,226 pieces of bricks are used, calculating by the computer. (a)

Extract control points and curve nodes

Scale objects with non-uniform factors

Put a circle on a set of points

Create a lofted surface from a set of section curves

Create a flat surface from a collection of boundary edge curves

Offset the surface by a fixed amount

Merge data

Pressure test/

The area in red indicating where the pressure is relatively high, shown at the area arround the centre hole and the four supporting bases (d). The solution is to arrange the bricks like a ring arround the centre hole to increase the overall stability (e), and the supporting bases are connected to the concrete foundation to increase the structural strength (f). (d)

(e)

(f)

STEP 4 Surface layer Lay in staggered directions, wait for the white glue to dry, trim the edges, and take off the bottom support base.

STEP 3 Middle layer Lay it in a different direction from the first layer, and continue to pave the third layer.

STEP 2 Bottom layer Arranged from four corners to the center in four directions. The scale of this model is 1/10. The corresponding material of the bricks is cork board (the size ratio is relatively close), and they are glued with white glue. .

STEP 1 Support base Structure beams are marked with a number, and the corresponding drawing surface is assembled into an arch shape.

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1. Surface Brick, size 210mm x 110mm x 60mm 2. 100mm motar 3. Middle Brick , size 210mm x 110mm x 60mm 4. 100mm motar 5. Bottom Brick, size 210mm x 110mm x 60mm 6. Reinforced Concrete foundation 7. Pre-tensioning Rebar 8. 50mm PC 9. 200mm Gravel layer

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FOUNDATION DETAIL

MODEL

100mm

Scale 1/2

Experience blue dyeing with classmates, this piece of cloth was used as studio door curtain.

The total size of the model is 1305mm long, 1020mm wide, 300mm high. Take me as a ratio.

02-1 About Myself Self-awareness in achitectural project INDIVIDUAL WORK TIME/ 2019/2 - 2019/6 ADVISOR/ HUANG JUN MING

02-1 In the first part, this topic is divided into four parts which can be individual or integrated. Including self introduction, ideal myself, ideal architecture collage and analogy architecture model.

1/Self Introduction

2/Ideal Myself

3/Ideal Architecture Collage

4/Analogy Architecture Model

02-2 The second part is to apply the self-awareness to the design. The design is a temporary performance formed by intervent temporary installations in a transition of construction.

The Temporary Performance

1/ Self Introduction

I l ove f a nt a s y. I 'm o b s e s s e d w i t h exqu isite st r uc t u re. E specia l ly t he materia l.My home is located in t he cent re of ta ipei. Z hongsha n Nor t h Road is very romantic. Lush trees, the window display of the bridal shop, the gorgeous hotel, and the magnificent boutique bank building. People will lost in the sea of the beautiful scenery. And parallel to the Zhongshan N Rd is Linsen North Road. The once red-light district adds a bit more mysterious to it. My fa m i ly i s a t r ad it iona l fa m i ly. Following the traditional concept and social expectations. However, I want to be a person who have passion, full of imagination, and not afriad to think outside the box.

Model/

The TV box represent the constraints of which society impose onto oneself, and also served as a structure for the work. And the cloth mantle shuttles freely, manifesting it's desire to break through the constraints. The blue and red fabric will change according to the light and flutter. And the colorful laser fabric is glimmering and outstanding, my personality of passion,weirdness, and unpredictability, also for my desire for creativity and change. The feathered balance ball represents delicate and sensitive mind. The piercing of t he keyboard is a metaphor that modern people are accustomed to using online text to communicate, but I prefer to express it direct ly in person. Roses represent romantic thinking. This work is a chaotic combination of how I perceive myself.

2/ Ideal Self

FIRST EDITION

Originally, I was deeply influenced by the social stereotypes. But I wanted to break through , take off the outer shell, and reveal the inner truth. The red and blue pieces are like a soft cloth, but it is actually hard thick paper. Pink represents enthusiasm and blue represents rationality. They are intertwined and balanced.White flowers enclosed in the middle symbolize pure thoughts.

HOWEVER This is not me at all. Is the ideal me still trapped inside the stubbornness of social values? For example, what architecture really needs is individualized artistic design or nonindividual standardized manufacturing?

2/ Ideal Self

Seconed Edition

I love playing dolls. The makeup of the doll is put on layer by layer, each layer has a different texture, gloss, and transparency. I use light to penetrate translucent materials to create space organized by "color shadow". The materials including transparent, semi-transparent, and reflective. From single color to composite. That only penetrstes once is called dominated-light. After more than two times of refraction or reflection, the light is weak, causing different levels. The laser gloss scattered by the optical disc and cellophane adds various different layers. The medium of all triggers is light.

Subconscious Mind of The Doll I have great interest in dolls. This doll is made by a company called Integrity Toys. Each dolls is unique and has it's own attitude. Eyeshadow matching color, eyes charm, hairstyle and color, and fashionable clothes and accessories. When i'm into t he world of dolls, I will subconsciously project my self onto it. I don’t want to be a woman and wear women’s clothes. I want to be unique and have my own attitude, just like them. They don’t imitate each other and fawn social people. They Show themselves very confidently, attract everyone's attention and always be the focus. It is what I think my truly ideal self. ( All photos shot by me) 29

Jewelry Design

I also design accessories for dolls, including earrings and necklaces. From styling design, selection of beads, color matching. It is then worn by the doll, photographed with a photo of the product, and finally fixed in the box, presenting a complete collection. 33

3/ Ideal Architecture Collage collage the look of the ideal building in our minds

In the collage, there are multiple structural: skin layers hung on the the skeleton, and sub skeleton supports the structure. The skeleton is consistant, and skin layers can be changed. Different skin layers create different spaces atmospheres. For example, glass can reflect environment but also allows light went through it when hang on the steel strusture. (a) Back to ideal self work. The body of the doll is used as a structure, ``hang’’ on different skin tones, layers of makeup, pearly and velvet textures, hair thread material, cloth material of clothes, jewelry, leather, and ribbons for shoes. Different skin layers attach to the structure in different ways, including adhesion, suspension, embedment, and insertion. It is resemblance like curtain wall. (b) (a)

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4/ Analogy Architecture Model

Before entering the analogy architecture model, I tried to make four prototypes as the initial transformation from the collage. A.Create a translucent film. The straws form a flat triangular frame. The cloth is fixed on the frame with a pin to stretch the cloth, making the cloth surface tight and showing different luster colors at different angles.(a)

B. Shaped in a bionic way, the iron wire is passed through the beads, and the iron wire is twisted to resemble a skeleton. The supporting material (pearl) is shaped in a bionic form to form a natural and organic plant-like shape.

C. Try the smoothness and roughness of the material surface. The smooth mirror reflects a single light source, and the image is clear. The tin foil paper has one matte and one bright sides. The winkles make the light diffused in muiltiple directions.

D. Construction system. How two planes can support and create space, use pins in a row where the two planes intersect, like a human spine. After adding an angle, it changes from a two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional, and created the space. Supporting mechanics is like an arch, but the style has changed.

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02-2 About Myself The Temporary Performance The site- Retiro is going reconstruct. The construction process takes two years. If we can intervent temporary structures on site, people can still engage even under construction, so that Retiro will not become an idle space in the city. Individual Work Time/ 2019/2 - 2019/6 Advisor/ HUANG JUN MING Site/ Hsinchu Park ,Hsinchu, Taiwan

Old dormitory Bridge Glass Museum

The site is at the park in Hsinchu, Taiwan. There are zoos, Confucian temples, and gymnasiums around the lake that are all under construction. The construction barrier prevent people from entering the area. Retiro, the lake, is under construction.The construction process is two years, and the site will looks like ruins. It occupies a space in the city, but cannot exert its substantive functions, forming an unusable space during this period. If temporary performance can be placed in, all the space is used for the performance. People will participate, so that it will not become an idle space.

Environmental Theater/ There are many forms of the stage, framed mirror, center, horseshoe, etc., all of which set a distance between the stage and the auditorium and make the space become a ceremonial space. In an attempt to break the traditional layout, the relationship between the audience and the stage gradually began to change, and the integration of the stages and seats form an immersive theatre or called environmental theater.

Richard Schechner, one of the founders of performance studies, is a performance theorist, theater director, author, editor of TDR and the Enactments book series, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies. He proposes six guidelines for "Environmental Theater" 1. The theatrical event is a set of related transactions. 2. All the space is used for the performance. The entire space is a performance area, and at the same time, it is also a viewing area. The audience watched the scene and created the scene. 3. The theatrical event can take place either in a totally transformed space or in found space. Theater activities can take place in a totally transformed space or in spaces that have been designed and changed.

4. Focus is flexible and variable. There may be a diversified focus or change. For example, through the special arrangement of the space, if the audience does not move around, they will not be able to see all the performances. Or perform multiple performances at the same time, allowing the audience to choose one to watch 5. All production elements speak their own language. Dramatic elements are equally important, regardless of severity, and each expresses in its own language 6. The text need be neither the starting point nor the goal of a production. There may be no verbal text at all. The text is optional. The play does not start with a text script. The root of the drama needs to be sought by the actors.

Focus is flexible and variable - new way of watching theater /

In traditional theater, the audience must view from the beginning to the ending to understand the whole plot. However, modern audiences are influenced by the Internet and multimedia. The way of watching dramas often involves jumps, fast forwards, or reverses to choose what you want to see. Watching theater becomes a new way for the audience to intervene at any time and choose the clips they are interested in watching.

Focus is flexible and variable - visual analysis/

In the environmental theate. the audiences usually walk arround during the performances. Therefore, the visual analysis became important. Including focus perspective and cavalier perspective.

Focus Perspective/ Eyes, Camera

Limited by space, the observer is standing on a point, it will be a one-point perspective and twopoint perspective, mainly for static spatial. The viewing ratio is usually determined by the human eye with a vertical viewing angle of 30 degrees and a horizontal viewing angle of 45 degrees, usually the ratio of 3: 2.

Cavalier perspective/

The visual experience that walking on the bridge is similar to the cavalier perspective used in Chinese brush painting. The observer is not standing in one place. The objects observed from various perspectives are assembled in a painting. Including three ways: loft view, far-reaching view, flat view.

(a)

(a) Lofty view Looking up from the bottom up.

(b)

(b) Far-reaching view This is standing on the mountain. You can see the far- reaching scenery.

(c)

(1)All the space is used for the performance

All the view while walking by the lake and on the bridge is regarded as a performance area.

(2) The eyes use single-point perspective to see each scene, take the best perspective 3:2 composition, and connected to form cavalier perspective.

(3)The scene is decomposed from the perspective and divided into foreground, middle and background.

(4)Each scene corresponds to the method used in brush painting.

Flat view

Far-reaching view

lofty view

The performance/

The theatrical take place in a transformed or found space. Using the history of the place to compile a fictional script. The Taiwanese girl is simple and indecisive, yearning for the outside world and hiding on the island connected by bridges. The Taiwanese soldier who live in old dormitory, is very shy. He likes the girl but only dares to hide and peep from a distance. The Japanese official follows the emperor to visit Taiwan. At a party in glass museum, glass brilliant light made he feel exhaust and tired. He went to the lake to relax. Accidentally, he met a girl, and started his pursuit. The girl wanders between the soldier and the official. The whole performance utilize existing buildings and new implement designs to help story develop. The performer also use dance to convey their minds.There is no verbal text at all. When the girl interpreting her inner struggle, or the soilder adore the girl and the official passionate pursuit.

Focus is flexible and variable. During the entire play, the audience can choose to watch the same scene repeatedly, or move around at will. Everyone has a different viewing order and time, and has their own perspective.

The girl is shy and yearn for an outside life. And the soldier like the girl, but he only dare to hide him and peep at the girl.

The girl was very excited whe the Japanese official, but she with the relationship between t and the official.

en she met struggled the soldier

Japanese official do not like to party, he met the girl by the water while walking on the trail. He also fell in love with the girl.

The girl's inner world

Fix a transparent ball on the iron net and put a little colored water inside. When the sunlight penetrates, the interior space is like colored water waves, implying that the girl's inner deisre. But the outside is bound by society, and she should be a docile girl.

See and be seen/

During the performance, audience watched the scene and created the scene. There is no distance between the actors and the audience

(colleague) audience (her friends)

(Soldier) actor (girl)

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Soilder's crush

Can't tell the girl the truth, he only hide in the lookout pavilion made out of mirror to peep at her. The mirror reflects the external environment, making the space invisible, afraid of being discovered. But the girl has already known.

Japanese official

Followed the emperor to visit Taiwan. In t he e vening par ty, because he didn't like to socialize with others, he came to the river to relax by himself. Accidentally met a girl, and started his pursuit.

mirror

(friends) audience (dignitaries)

(girl) actor (officials)

(c)

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03 Snakes&Ladders In The City Intervention in public space Individual Work Time/ 2019/9 - 2020/6 Advisor/ FU-YUAN SU Site/ Taipei MRT Zhongshan Station

Inspiration- Publicity in Barcelona/

During my trip to Spain in 2019. the central of the street house was usually for private residential usage, such as swimming pools and courts. But when I walked at the La Rambla, I saw many entrance, attracting people to enter. The experience is always wondering whether it is possible to enter or whether it is a private realm.

Tunnel entrance(a)

Building facade opening(c)

Connect with Vila de Mardrid relic(b)

Connect with shopping street(d)

Patio entrance(e)

Connect with Mercado de la Boqueria market(f)

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Background/ Two maps

Take me as an example. I live near Taipei MRT Zhongshan Station. Every time someone asks if I have been to that store, I usually don’t. The area marked by circle is near my house and where I am familiar with it. The red area is where popular by tourists. Depending on the identities and roles, one is a map of local people and the other is a map of tourists.

tourists area residents area two maps intersect

Snakes & Ladders game/

It’s an Indian game. Go from 1 to 100. Use the dice to determine the number of movement. When you encounter a staircase, you climb up, and when you encounter a snake, you will fall down. The strategy is to tranform game, Making the area three-dimensional and imagine moving in a three-dimensional space. After being placed in the city, connect the various areas from the horizontal to the vertical. Therefore, concatenation can be space or field. The relationship between the route and the building, the connection from point to line and the integration of surface, space and field.

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Use dice to determine the number of moves. Go from 1 to 100.

When you encounter a staircase, you climb up, and when you encounter a snake, you will fall down.

Drift from space to space, and this is random.

Making the area three-dimensional and imagine moving in a threedimensional space

After being placed in the city, connect the various areas from the horizontal to the vertical

Concatenation can be space or field

The relationship between the route and the building, the connection from point to line and the integration of surface, space and field

ISSUES (1) Make the two maps intersect

When people want to know a place, they can break the limitation of the role and connect the different areas.

(2) Provide publicity in the city

Generate new activities at the intersection of the two maps, so that both tourists and residents can participate.

(3)Connect and reach – snakes & ladders

To tourists, make them walk to random places. To residents, create new opportunities in familiar places. The generation of the design is step by step. From the two maps in the background to the inspiration from Spain, the proposal of the game concept, and finally to the design.

(D)

Snakes and Ladders- Reappearance of Water/

(C)

These connecting points persuade residents and tourists to walk to the new spaces. The historical riverway is no longer visable. Using temporary structures and materials to re-capture the scene. (A)Water bubbles, which are refracted by sunlight and disperse various colors (B)Reflection of water, using mirror material to reflect the image (C)Water ripples, which are formed after sunlight penetrates the water (D)Translucent materials, expressing the feeling in the water

Place the game/

Snakes and ladders introduce tourists into residential places. The houses’ outer walls were retained, and a new water feature was created inside. The facade of the house along the water surface changed from close to open. The space between the houses allow people to see the activities inside.

Activities and functions/

The water is the core of the space. Activities beside the water, such as restaurants, exhibitions, reading, and community classrooms. There is also a promenade route. Opens up the water in the city and gives back to everyone, anyone can participate.

(B)

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This structure is a transparent glass ball with colored water, which is suspended from the roof structure by steel cables. Through the penetration of light, refracting with the air and water, making the space full of vibrant colors.

When standing at the entrance, you can’t see the water. Because the ground is uplifted and the best viewing angle of people is 10 degrees to 30 degrees. But the sunlight reflected the water by the mirrored ceiling. After walking inside, you will see the water.

The ground rises, creating parallax

Use translucent plastic materials and different heights of the wall to form various ways of interaction between people.

The image of water scattered through the stones. When walking outside, you can only peek inside through the gaps. You can participate in the activities when you enter.

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The sun light through the water, reflected on the rough metal, and projected onto the stone ground. When it rains, the raindrops form ripples in the water storage area, which makes the space appear dynamic, and the shadow in the ground will also change accordingly. What you see will be different due to weather and time, in a space that changes at any time.

The place where each snake finally reaches is public, such as promenade route, reading space, resting place, and the wall near the water is also open to further intergrate the inside and the outside area. The space can be experienced even if the stores are closed at night. Open up the publicity of the city and giving back to everyone.

OTHER WORKS/

Structural and Material system

Pavilion