Wenbo da portfolio-2017

1 Hotel Montreal

2 elf Experience Store

4 NYU School of Animation

3 Floating House

5 REI Store

6 Dining Chair

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Hotel Montreal Location: Montreal, Canada

Fall 2016

Site

Imagery

Public Space

Concept Montreal is a city with history and fashion, formal and informal and with old and new. Sometimes people see the historical street with the history of hundreds of years but sometimes the most fashionable things catche your eye. I want to bring this city texture into the hotel. I feel that there are two attributes in the city—‘static’ which means the history and antiquity and ‘dynamic’ which means the fashion and avant-garde. The design language abstracted from the architecture in the city itself. Static includes symmetry, order and verticality from the historical classical architecture while the dynamic includes movement and asymmetry from modern architecture.

Axonometric

Guestroom Floor Plan

Typical Suite Plan

Living Room

A

A Bedroom

B

B

Section B-B

Furniture and Finishings

Refreshing Room

RH Carpet

Section A-A

Polished Plaster

Gray Leather

Oak Flooring

Black Oak

White Oak

Brass

Brown Leather

White Marble

Fur Carpet

Suite

Elevator Lobby & Corridor

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elf Experience Store Design Location: Manhattan, NY

Fall 2015

Concept

Inspiration

elf is a very successful cosmetic products E-retailer. This is my design for the brick-and-motar store for the brand. In the store, selling is not the only thing but the experience as well. An exhibition area, bar, salon and beauty lab will be added in since I want to design a space where customer can touch, smell, try the product and even have a seat here during the leisure time. The most obvious feature of elf is the “ play beautifully box” plan, which means elf will send gift boxes including the most current products to their customer. I choose “Box” as my concept and putted different experiences in different boxes. To attract people getting in, I designed the interior in a really quiet and minimal way to show up the products and to have the contrast to its traditional outside space. buildings around.

Ground Floor

Process A

Exhibition

Salon

Beauty Lab

Beauty La

Section A-A

Service

Meet

Try

Learn

Mezzanine

Bar

ab

A

Cashier Exhibition Sale

Salon

Test

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Floating House Location: Hundson River, NY

Spring 2016

Case Study

Concept

This is a floating house located in the Hudson River in New York. Wa people’s living. I want to explore the relationship between water and is a big difference between living on water and in water. Sound and lig and private space, change from above to below. According to the public different functions on different water levels. For this project, I want to give of walking into the water so that the space will be very open and boun

"Not using the potential underwater space"

"Function and spacial experience are same as buildings on land"

ater has lots of benefits for people’s behaviors. There ght, which define the public c and private needs, I putted e my customer an experience ndaryless like water itself.

Process Roof Garden

Dining

Study Activity

Water Level

Bath Sleeping

Function Arrangement

Vertical Arrangement

Use of Sunlight--Rotation

Residents are able to change the angle and the direction to sun to have a best efficiency of use of light.

Experience

Physical Concept Model

Reading Working Activities

Cooking

Bar Bath Sleeping

Entry and Kitchen

Study and Activities

Bath and Sleeping

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New York University School of Animation Design Location: Manhattan, NY

Fall 2015

Third Floor-Library

When I think about the ways and processes of making animation, I was inspired by motion graphic and photography. My design language is layering and framing. Layering--the flipbook create a movement by layering many different motion graphics. Framing—the camera create appropriate scenes by framing specific shots.

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1. Book Stacks

6. Group Study

2. Open Reading

7. Computer Lab

3. Casual Reading

8. Check Out / In

4. Staff Room

9. Printer

5. Conference Room

10. Digital Reading

Section A-A

11. Restroom

Natural Light

Artificial Light

Ground Floor-Restaurant

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1

6

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B 1. Waiting Area

7. Casual Eating

2. Exhibition

8. Kitchen Bar

3. Stair to Gallery

9. Kitchen 10. Storage 11. Restroom

4. Wine Bar 5. Buffet 6. Dining

Section B-B

12. School Entry

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B

2 3

12

10

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Basement-Gallery

4

3

C

1

C 2

Section C-C

1. Gallery 2. Reception 3. Auditorium 4. Restroom

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REI Store Design Location: Manhattan, NY

Fall 2015

REI is an American corporation selling outdoor recreation gear, sporting goods and clothing. Its mission is to get people outside, to inspire people for worldwide outdoors. Outdoors make me think of traveling and that makes me think of the airplane, world map and earth. I was inspired

by Latitude & Longitute on the world map. I want to design a space where my customer can feel outdoor and green and a space where people can explore.

I decided to break down the wall around the building using zigzag lines inspired from the logo to strengthen the brand show off the sailing space to attract customers.

Inspiration

Process

the REI and to

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Building Elevation

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1. Reception 2. Garage 3. Bike 4. Ski 5. Water 6. Apparel

7. Restroom 8. Climb 9. Outdoor & Wear 10. Camp 11. Exhibition & Activities 12. Back of House

Exhibition

Lecture

Lecture

Exhibition

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Chinese Dining Chair Location: Manhattan, NY

Spring 2016

Renderings

Concept This is a dining chair design. I was inspired by the ancient Chinese chair from Ming dynasty. It is very elegant. I tried to design it in a new way to simplify it. Since it is a knock down chair for IKEA, the structure of this chair should be simple and easy to be understood by customers. I decided to keep its most important feature and discard useless ornament.

Packing

Physical Model

Linean

White Oak