ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Selected work 2022-2023
Email: yuxinwan@umich.edu
• The Flowing City
• Sanhe Homeless Utopia
• Hide Facade Houses
• The ceremony Embassy
Role: Drawings: 100%, Diagrams: 100%, Design: 20%, Models: 50%
We designed two types of suburban house units. each provide for two family units. First one is double facade. Its facade have no entry to other house units. These two units totally separate with other family. The Other one is hidden facade. The facades are hidden in the boudary. Only the television windows on the out side structure can see part of it. In these two family units. it provide for more close family kinship. It does not have any boundary inside of house.
Doublue facade
Hidden Facade
Axon
Site Plan
Double facade
Hidden Facade
Courtyard bedroom
game room
Courtyard
Instructor: Perry Kulper Email: pkulper@umich.edu
Yuxin Wang
Autumn 2022
The purpose of the ceremony embassy is to send the souls of soldiers who died on the Great Wall of China back to their homeland so that they are not buried under the ground of the Great Wall. Since the Great Wall has been built by 15 dynasties in China, it lasted 2000 years. My project has a cycle of 2 years, 12 stops, one stop every two months, a speed of 0.2 miles per hour, a total length of 20,000km, spanning the entire Mongolia, which lasted 30 years, and sent these soldiers who died in foreign countries we go home. When the burning tower receives the ances-tral plaque representing the souls of the warriors, the burning tower will send the warriors to the Mongolian embassy, the ceremony begins, and the warriors return to their hometown through the ceremony. The burning tower then proceeds to receive the sign and proceeds to the next stop. This starts the next cycle. When the burning tower leaves a docking station, all ceremonial objects will be removed, and grass will be replanted to welcome wild cattle and sheep from the local area. When the tower returns to this embassy two years later, the ceremony belonging to the next dynasty will come again.
Sending the spirites back to home by ceremony. Spirite leadin gby the latern and finding way to go to their home. Burning tower, ceremony, gate( embassy )
At the beginning of the ceremony, the spirits of the ancestors will come out of the tower and come to the courtyard where the ceremony is held. In the courtyard, there are three steps, the dance for the sacrifice, the burning of paper money and the offering of the altar. After these three steps, the worshiping ancestors will come to the gate of the embassy under the guidance of lanterns. The gate will have a special arch-like shadow that coincides with the real one, giving visitors who want to visit the opportunity to "meet" their ancestors. When souls pass through this gate, their souls are also able to return home, to their own land.
After ceremony finished, the embassy will open to live people and courtyard back to the nature. The courtyard welcome local animal to come inside.
At the end of the day-long ceremony, the burning tower will hold a ceremony at the next stop to send the next batch of ances-tors home. In embassies where no ceremony is held, the courtyard is replanted with grasses and plants that native animals eat to attract native animals to the courtyard. At the same time, the embassy will also operate as a normal embassy, receiving local guests and tourists. Handle the business of various embassies. But 30 years later, when all the ceremonies are completed and all the ancestors are sent back to their hometown, the embassy and burning tower will also meet their own death, and all materials and engines will be reused and used in industries such as iron The material and the material of the engine.
