Chun Wang Portfolio

PORTFOLIO Chun Wang

PORTFOLIO Chun Wang

TABLE OF CONTENT IN BETWEEN/ APPALACHIAN TRAIL MOUNTAIN HUT Harriman State Park, NY 2018

THE WALL/ A NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGY 2nd Ring Road, Beijing, China The entry for UAD HYCUP architectural student competition, 2018

THE TOURIST VORTEX AT THE SPINA La Spina in front of Bernini Piazza, Rome, Italy 2018

THE HEARTH OF HOPE/ COMMUNITY CENTER Pharping, Nepal The entry for ARCHsharing competition for a community center in Nepal, 2018

THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE Muscota Marsh, New York, NY 2017

THE DORM Myrtle Ave & Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 2016

THE CANRILEVER 2014

IN BETWEEN APPALACHIAN TRAIL MOUNTAIN HUT Harriman State Park, NY 2018

In the wilderness, where the logistic and technology necessary to build a structure is almost absent, the hut is transported and assembled by an autonomous way.

Hiking poles, the third and fourth leg of a hiker, becomes the skeleton of a hut. Additionally, hikers carry triangular wood panels and other hardware necessary up to the sit. All of those walls are less than 3.5’ length, makes portaging them by human bodies possible. Hikers obtain fiberglass sticks and wall components at trailheads and then carry them up to the site.

The structure is made of those components. Apart from a traditional understanding of architecture made of spaces surrounding by walls, the spaces are part of the structure. There’s not a distinction between space and structure anymore. Sticks support 2 panels spacing 6 feet for sleeping or storage. Cables offer extra reinforcement. The open bigger spaces are for the mass gathering. The spacing between roof panels enables air to move through and extract air from the interior.

Method to carry parts uphill

The WIndow

The Structure

The Unit

Section 1

Section 2

Plan

THE WALL/A NEW HOUSING TYPOLOGY 2nd Ring Road, Beijing, China The entry for UAD HYCUP architectural student competition, 2018 (with Minyang Sun and Ziying Peng)

Located above the 2nd ring road in Beijing, the wall is a housing complex for housing units, offices, and commercial activities for young entrepreneurs. As the innovation playing a stronger role in the economy of China, space for them to live, work as well as promoting their business is important.

The site is the 2nd ring road in Beijing, where the ancient city wall used to be, The wall is both the boundary and the major facade of the city. The surface on the wall is potential to be a place for advertisement. It was the most visible and identical place in the city. The project tries to acknowledge the history on the site: the site should be reoccupied again. The highway over the site abruptly slice through space and leave a huge void between blocks. A structure over it can be a bridge to join blocks.

The strategic location enables more exposure to the activities happening within.

The building consists of onion-like layers from the core to the facade. The offices are in the center. Living units are pre-fabricated. Its location would change due to the instability of the size of new companies. They're inserted into the concrete megastructure. Bridges join the units and offices. Recreation and service programs are also inserted into the megastructure. The exterior of each unit is LED screens to display commercial ads. They're owned by the offices corresponded to the housing units where their staff live. As the size expand or shrink, the area for ads changes, and the strength of exposure change.

THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOATHOUSE Muscota Marsh, New York, NY 2017 With Elizabeth Gomez The boathouse is locating between the Columbia University campus that is privately owned and a park which is more public. It's in between a hill and water. The edge situation encourages programs to intertwine for more surfaces to interact. So I lift up the second floor to leave space between open.

It's completely opened to the public. Ramps connect the space with the rest of the site.

THE DORM Myrtle Ave & Grand St, Brooklyn, NY 2016 With Weizhong Chen The dorm for Pratt Institute examines a new type of social relationships. Its spaces are organized according to the principles of layers between total privacy and publicity from the facade to the core of the building. In general, The units for individual students are separated from the mass gathering space, leaving atrium in between.

The units for a single person are shifted, leaving the room for two people to use. Two of the public room join in a grand public room for four. By staircases, these units are joined with the mass 2 floors gathering spaces, like kitchens and dining spaces. The first floor is for everyone staying in the building. There are a gym, a garden, and the security stall.

The prefabricated bathroom units are plugged into the structure. Each painted panel on both interior and exterior facades represent a bathroom behind. They're shared by 2 as well.

A drawing shows a section of units. Single units, space for 2, public space and bathroom are shown

Typical Floor Sections