Yuqian Wang 2021 portfolio selected works

PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS 2015-2021 YUQIAN WANG

YU QIAN WANG

contact Information Phone Number: +1 315-870-8910

Email: Ywang185@syr.edu

Education Skills Render

Syracuse University, School of Architecture - Bachelor of Architecture

2015-2020

Lord Byng Secondary - High School Diploma

2010-2015

Syracuse, NY, United States Vancouver, B.C, Canada

Vray Lumion

Experiences

Digital Modeling

Helios

Spring-Fall 2021

Rhino Revit AutoCAD SketchUp Maya

Vancouver, B.C, Canada Building envelope specialist- Roofing, cladding, membrane and construction team member, Technician helper, Specializes in passive housing in Vancouver areas

Plugins/Simulation

Performative Praxis Lab (PPL) - Research Intern

Spring 2016-Summer 2016

Peer Advisor - Syracuse, School of Architecture

2014-2015

Grasshopper Umi Diva Archsim Climate Consultant ArcGIS Pro

ZAO/standardarchitecture - Summer Intern

Summer 2018

Beijing, China Design team member, Construction site visit, Digital and physical modeling, Design drawings and diagrams, Presentaion during engineer and client meetings Center of Excellence, Syracuse, NY, United States Conducting research on urban energy efficiency (Muller Community), Simulation using UMI, Data visualization, Research figures and drawings Contacting prospective undergrads, Welcoming tour and peer guidance for new freshman

Awards

Representation Illustrator Photoshop InDesgin Premiere Pro

Thesis Prize Citation for Excellence in Thesis Design Dean’s list

Fall 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020

Syracuse University, School of Architecture

George Klein Medal / 1st place Others

2020

Syracuse University, School of Architecture

for2014

DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture

Physical Modeling Free Hand Drawing 3D printing Laser Cutting Wood/Metalworking

Golden Keys

2013

3rd Place

2015

Languages

Excellence Artwork Award

English Chinese Mandarin

Interests

Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Drawing | Architecture DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Industrial Design

Honorable Mentions

DX Canadian High School Design Competition | Architecture Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Mix-Media | Architecture

2012, 2014, 2015

2015

BURGEON Environmental Art Exhibition | Fashion Design

Art - Fashion - Basketball - Culinary Art - Wine Appreciation - Movie - Music - Travel - Gunpla

selected works

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selected works

Living Canopy

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Bc workademic INcubator

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Morphopolis

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ascension

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mueller community energy project

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art and desgin

professional research

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technical

The Rare Myth

academic projects

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THe Rare Myth Thesis Project

“The Rare Myth” analyzes the anthropogenic process of rare earth mining as a phenomenon of exploitation to speculate on future design scenarios. Mapping the manifestation of rare earth mining on today's political, economical, social, and environmental realities. Issues of climate change, extinctions, technofossils, terraforming of earth, are all part of the indelible human scars on the world. The thesis is inspired by traditional chinese ShanShui painting’s philosophy and representation styles.

Through the agonistic collage between traditional and futuristic languages, the project paints a story of ironic connotated assessment of humans’ rapacious trajectory.

Sepculating the destiny of a post-anthropocentric planet.

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“future”

“Anthropocene” “nature” “infrastructure” “power” “War”

“earth” “mine” “factory” “LAbor”

“death”

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‘Natural’ vs ‘artificial’

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Heaven created mountains of bodily spirits and rivers of flowing vines, Children, exploit his gifts with endless greed, When’s the time comes reincarnation of emptied mountains and derived rivers?

Hollow seasons soaring past while we pray for the ark.

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Villages The hovering villages were created for the purpose of maximizing productivity of the extraction process. The machine is capable of excavating massive volumes of raw earth, refining and disposal of waste materials. Mass production provoked fierce competition between rival ‘villages’. The rapacious automation chain maximizes profit and effciency yet trading for sharp scars and piles of discarded pollutants on the landscape.

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Metropolis PANGU project was developed to precisely indicate, extract and refine RE materials from the site and transport directly to the consumer optimizing the supply chain process, acting as hovering villages over the landscape.

Many rural areas and sites have become targets of mass excavation. Villages have been eradicated and turned into metropoles dedicated to manufacture. This would then process the materials into components, parts and products.

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THe Rare Myth

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Everything of artificial and natural has been mixed, intertwined and blurred where the landscape has greatly altered form and materiality in planetary and molecular scales. The paintings imply that ‘nature’ has become a term of the past and surviving merely in our representation and minds.

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The machines

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Workers becoming the infrastructure, the infrastructure becoming the city, the city becoming the machines, the machines becoming the landscape, the landscape becoming architecture.

02 living canopy

02 living canopy Inglewood, Los Angeles, California

Site located within a former industrial tract of Culver City which has recently seen substantial development due to its desirable location and proximity to newly completed metro station. The project explores the theme of diet and exercise to promote healthy lifestyles. The project will house an outdoor basketball court, swimming pool, gym, farmers markets, and other programs. Inspired by the human body and motions during sports activities, the project utilizes numerous structural and passive systems to convey sustainable ideas and an expressive narration of the theme. The massive green roof, space frame structure, hovers above the steel-frame 'exercise' building and the brick 'diet' plaza. The ‘green cannopy’ not only act as passive shading but also creates publicly interactive spaces in between the two buildings.

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intuative mapping Demographic Study of Los Angeles

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Program Model

Healthy living theme - Exercise + Diet + Leisure

Structural Model

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Sustainable design - Structure + Passive Systems

sectional Model

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suspended walkway

sECTIONAL Model

excercise facility

shaded pr

romenade

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roof garden

Food/farmers market

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axon chunk

perspective Section

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plans

03 BC workademic incubator

03 Broad channel workademic INcubator Broad Channel, Queens, New York

Broad Channel is a lower-mid income island neighborhood in between Queens and Rockway peninsula. The neighborhood is facing numerous resiliency and economical challenges. With constant weekly flooding caused by rising sea-level. In addition, the lack of education and office spaces across the entire island, Broad Channel undergoes its critical transitional period.

The project answers to existing issues by incorporating a magnet school and co-working office into one resilient structure. The project aims to promote collaborations between students and professionals while providing public plazas that engages the community. The structure is designed to cope with flooding and storms, protecting the entire block that’s behind the building. The project intents to revitalize the area from rising sea levels and boost ecnomic growth.

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Water Testing Models

Floor Plans

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Physical Model

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exterior Render

04 Morphoplolis

04 Morphopolis Jeddah Economic City, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Morphopolis explores the rapid cultural and political changes in Saudi Arabia. The site is located at the heart of Jeddah Economic City which is under construction featuring the JEC tower that will be tallest building in world. The city is one of the biggest and most ambitious project under Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision 2030. The goal of JEC is to stimulate Jeddah’s economic growth especially targeting the rapidly growing younger generations and creating a landmark destination similar to Dubai.

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inspiration The natural landscape of Suadi Arabia inspired the concept and the form of the project. The natural rock-scapes possess intriguing forms while creating interesting pathways for circulation and natrual shading. The mass and texture of the landscape gives the viewer an ant-like experience. The project captures the form and scale of the rockscapes to encourage curiosity and discover. The form also performs the perfect outdoor overhead shading which is essential for the harsh weather of Saudi Arabia.

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circulation Network The Grasshopper script simulates ant-like circulation behaviours over a period of time, forming swarms of network. The comprised network suggests program usage and circulation hotspot which then can be analyzed into programatic and formal strategies. The final form interpreted by the swarming visualization, inherits resemblance to Saudi’s local natural rockscapes which provides both intriguing aesthetic and substantial shading for users.

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perspective section

physical model

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roof plan

program

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Interior Render

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Birds-Eye View Render

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05 ascension

05 ascension Chelsea, New York City, United States

The Ascesion is an academic project part of Fall 2017 Studio. The interest of the studio was to explore adapting interesting programs into a hotel typology.The site located on a busy intersection in Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, NY. The ambition of ‘Ascension’ is to criticize and rethink current burrial methods which is wasteful and not environmental friendly. The project attemps to metaphorically and literally push the bondary between life and death by adapting two ‘contradicting’ programs (hotel and columbarium) together. Moreover implementing passive ventilation and structural systems inspired by the human body to a iconic design aesthetic.

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site: Chelsea,NY

Site

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High

study model The site is located in Chelsea, Manhattan, at the intersection of 10th ave and W 18th street. The unique characteristics of the site is being across from the Highline and blocks away from the Hudson River.

The challenge was to take elements of the Highline into desgin consideration as well as producing a building icon for the Manhattan skyline. The view deck located at the south-west of site sparked the initial idea of sloping the building to convey a line of sight.

Additionally, considering the view to the Hudson River and rest of the Highline, the building has a open facade on the west side.

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Viewing deck line of sight

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welcoming plaza

Top: concept diagram bottom: Plan

view to highline + Hudson river

Colubarium

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The parametric facade is generated base on an anual solar radiation simulation.

The density and opacity of the facade gradiates solar exposure and heat gain, optimizating glazing and indoor comfort.

In addition, the Voronoi pattern enhances structural rigidity.

A visualization of the anual solar radiation on the building’s facade.

parametric facade generation

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perspective section

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columbarium

load bearing wall

hotel

bracings

shear wall

plaza

highline

Axon drawing

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Columbarium interior render

“Ascension” reimagines the dynamic between life and after-life by concieving the soul ascending experince.

Drawing the two yin and yang components together, suggesting that the distance between the two ‘opposites’ can be much closer than what we believe...

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Exterior render nightview

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physical model

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06 mueller community Austin, Texas, United States

The Mueller Community Energy Efficiency Study is an ongoing research project conducted by the Performative Praxis Lab (PPL), led by Dr. Tarek Rakha. The research conducts series of urban analysis on the Mueller Community’s energy consumption and use simulation tools to test design changes that would potentially improve energy efficiency in the neibourhood. My role in the research comprises mainly of urban scale energy simulation (using UMI), data visualization and creation of sernarios.

PPL Spring/Summer2018 Team: Yuqian Wang, Rawad El Montar and Elena Echarri

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DATA PREPROCESSING

BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS

CLUSTERING

UBEM

SIMULATION

SCENARIOS NON-GEOMETRIC

INPUT

HEATING

Cooling (27°C, 28°C)

COOLING / HEATING SETPOINT

Heating (18°C, 19°C)

GEOMETRIC

COOLING

20%

LIGHTING

WINDOW TO WALL RATIO

30% 40%

SHADING

EQUIPTMENT

BUILDING B2

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Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)

Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)

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B Baseline

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S1 WWR 40

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S2 WWR 20

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S3 Shading S3 SetPt

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B Baseline S1 WWR 40 S2 WWR 20 S3 Shading S3 SetPt

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BUILDING B4

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BUILDING B3

Cooling Energy Use (kwh/m^2)

BUILDING B1

Louvers

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S* All scenarios

Time of year (Months)

LIGHTING S* All scenarios

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07 Art And design Personal /Technical

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“Hands”-Scholastic Graphite on paper

Golden key

“Devoured”-Scholastic Watercolor, Ink on paper

silver key

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“Tri-wave”-George Wood,Foam Board, Paper

Klein Medal

“rolling bridge”-Scholastic Wood, Paper, Plexiglass

Golden key

PORTFOLIO/ For more work, please contact ywang185@syr.edu YUQIAN WANG