Zefeng Wang Portfolio

Zefeng Wang

Portfolio 2020-2022

Education

Rhode Island School Of Design（RISD）

M.DES Int. Architecture

Exhibition and Narrative Environment

Providence,RI

2020-2023

Guangxi Arts University(GAU)

B.FA Interior Design

Nanning, China

2016-2020

Working Experience

Cable Space, Shenzhen, China Internship 2021

SILKROAD VISUAL Technology CO, LTD, Shenzhen China Exhibition and Interior Designer 2021

Design of Chongqing Liangjiang Planning Museum

2021, April to December Design and Planning Pavilion, including conceptual design, 3d Modeling, renderings and diagrams. node design, material selection, and curatorial copywriting.

Caofeidian Planning Museum

2021,September to December

As a member of the design team, design the preliminary concept, including material selection and conceptual design, continue to deepen the hall part in the subsequent design and obtain bids, and complete the material and structure part in the subsequent deepening.

NANTOU ODYSSEY Exhibition

2021,March to June

Participated in the conceptual scheme, produced a series of 2D drawings and 3D renderings.

Skills Proficiency

3D Software:Rhino, Sketchup, Autocad, Grasshopper

2D Software: Adobe Creative Suite

Rendery Software: Enscape, Vary, Lumion

Other:Unreal Engine 4/5, Blender, Unity, C#, C++, Model Making/Conceptualization, Laser Cutting.

Awards

Outstanding Graduate of Guangxi Arts Institute (2020)

Second Prize in Urban Regeneration Design Competition (2019)

Certificate

Havard Business School Online Certofocate (Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting）(2022)

Activities

Shenzhen Lianhua Muontain Volunteer Activities. (2019)

Languages

English

Mandarin References

Eduardo Duarte

RISD Professor

E:eduarte@risd.edu

Zefeng Wang

zwang18@risd.edu

Teaching Experience

2021 - Rhode Island School of Design Teaching Assitant Providence,RI

Intro to Building Structures, Systems, Reuse. Contributed to student desk crits during class hours as well as on weekends. Assist professors to let students know more about architectural structures.

Exhibitions

“Crossing the pell”— A virtual reality experience of biking and walking (2022)

"Excellent Graduate Works Exhibition of Guangxi Art Institute" (2020)

Youngjin Song

RISD Critic

Rhode Island School of Design

E：ysong02@risd.edu

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Let's Talk About What Is a Real Hiphop

Architecture

The Afterlife of Authoritarianism

Monuments and Democratic Transition

Exhibition of Indian Feminist

Virsion of "US"

Exhibition of 7 Species vision

Crossing the pell

Exhibitions of Virtual Reality

Urban Planning Museum of Liangjiang New Area (Construction)

Professional work

Caofeidian Planning Exhibition Hall (under construction)

Professional work

Other Work（painting, Rendery,Illustration )

1.REAL HIPHOP LIVE HOUSE

—live house architecture design

The world-class Hip-hop culture was first seen in the violenceridden slums of Brooklyn as a result of the law change. People express their dissatisfaction with the growing phenomenon of violent gangs in the forms of street dance, rap and graffiti. This project was designed based on this.

The building itself meant that hip-hop culture was born in the factory buildings of the slums, mimicking the streets of America inside the factory buildings. audio-processed the chorus part of LIFE IS STRUGGLE to generate a curve, which was used as the second building and matched with the first building to express the birth of hip-hop culture on the streets of the slums.

HIPHOP DATA

The world-class Hip-hop culture was first seen in the violence-ridden slums of Brooklyn as a result of the law change. People express their dissatisfaction with the growing phenomenon of violent gangs in the forms of street dance, rap and graffiti. This project was designed based on this. The building itself meant that hip-hop culture was born in the factory buildings of the slums, mimicking the streets of America inside the factory buildings. I audio-processed the chorus part of "LIFE IS STRUGGLE" to generate a curve, which was used as the second building and matched with the first building to express the birth of hip-hop culture on the streets of the slums.

FORM GENERATION

Customer Activities

ATMOSPHERE COLLAGE

EXPLOSIVE DRAWING

RENDERING WAITING ROOM

When the venue is not in use, it will be used as a public entertainment space. People can freely enter the first floor to play skateboards or dance hip-hop, promoting the Hiphop culture in this area.

LIVE HOUSE (PUBLIC TIME)

HIPHOP HISTORY ROOM

The LED light strip hidden in the inner structure of the building will change with the beat played on the spot, making the building not just a carrier for the performance, but also integrated with the building.

The LED light at the entrance will change according to the style of the singer tonight, the hardcore rap will show blue, and the trap type music will show red

HUNGARY HISTORY

2.The Afterlife of Authoritarianism

—Monuments and Democratic Transition

The exhibition, in collaboration with curators at Brown University, raises questions about the transition period after the regime decline and options for the future by presenting monuments to authoritarianism in Brazil and Hungary. The exhibition takes place in a neutral area of Berlin that has also experienced horrific political violence. The exhibition uses time as a clue to convey different atmospheres and empowers people with different psychological changes by creating different forms, light, materials, and view scales in the three spaces. It considers the intersection of political violence, monumental representations, and national memories in Brazil and Hungary to understand how memorials become key to the transition process that shapes post-authoritarian society.

HUNGARY(1949-1989)

Created in 1947, the statue of a Red Army soldier commemorates the "liberation" of Hungary from the Nazis at the end of World War II and the Soviet soldiers who died in battle. The 6-metertall bronze soldier became a symbol of Soviet oppression against Hungarians. The sculpture was destroyed during the revolution of 1956 but rebuilt two years later. In 1990, after the fall of communism, new Soviet soldiers were removed from the monument again and now stand in Memorial Park.

After the fall of the communist regime in Hungary in 1989, many communist statues and monuments were immediately removed. These form the basis of the Memento Park's current collection of statues. This park is not about monuments or sculptures, but a critique of the ideology that uses these statues as symbols of authority.

Synchronized Memory Landscape

1985s

Border with Austria is opened, and thousands of East Germans escape to the West. Communist state in Hungary is dismantled and a transition to a multi-party democracy starts.

1989s

The Stalin Monument was statue of Joseph Stalin in Budapest, Hungary. Completed in December 1951 as a "gift to Joseph Stalin from the Hungarians on his seventieth birthday"

it was torn down on October 23, 1956 by enraged anti-Soviet crowds during Hungary's October Revolution.

1974s

Kadar gradually introduces limited liberalising reforms. Political prisoners and church leaders are freed, farmers and industrial workers given increased rights.

1985s

Tancredo Neves chosen as first civilian president in 21 years under military-run electoral college, but dies before he can be inaugurated. His vice-president Jose Sarney becomes president, and struggles to cope with inflation.

General Ernesto Geisel becomes president, introduces reforms which allow limited political activity and elections.

Protesters write insulting words on fallen Stalin statue

1960s

Uprising against Soviet domination suppressed by the Soviet Army. Janos Kadar becomes head of government.

1956s

Military rule

1964s

President Goulart ousted in bloodless coup, flees into exile. Military rule associated with repression but also with rapid economic growth based on stateownership of key sectors.

BRAZIL HISTORY

Communists consolidate power under Soviet occupation, with new constitution, nationalisation of industry, collectivised agriculture and mass terror.

1947s

Soviet forces drive the Germans out of Hungary by early April. New coalition government introduces land reform bill, redistributing land from large estate owners to peasants.

Communist rule

1945s

BRAZIL (1964-1985) Separated Memory Landscape

The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre encapsulates the country's approach to dictatorship monuments. Within a radius of 3.5 kilometers, one will find a modernist 1979 monument to the first military dictatorship, the "Monumento a Castelo Branco". The "Monumento aos Mortose Desaparecidos", a monument dedicated to the regime's victims in 1995, is not far from the building that was once the first torture center of the regime in the Southern Cone, the "Dopinha". Both the abstract form and the monument's location seem ironic. The history of these monuments and the public debate (or lack thereof) surrounding them reveals Brazil's policy of reconciliation through institutional forgetting.

Brazil has largely refused to address the trauma of an authoritarian regime and has thus struggled to create an ambiguous memory

“Changingattitudestowardsmonumentsarepartofatransitionprocessthatshapespost-authoritariansociety”

PHASE1 PHASE2 PHASE3

Dictator Times (1964-1985)&(1949-1989)

Fallen Times (After 1964 &1989)

Afterlife

The Cornerstones of Regime: Symbolism and Propaganda in the Cold War —Contextualizing, Symbolism, and Propaganda

Competing for Memory: The Evolution of a National Historic Monument

Monumental Hauntings: Contemporary Specters of Authoritarianism —Contemporary Echoes and Memory Stakes

First floor

Atrium Underground Floor

Reconstructing Falling

History of authoritarianism and context for the exhibit.

Contrasting two different changing methods for the monuments. How victims build or repurpose monuments as a response afterward.

Collecting the responses and choices of the visitors.

How does authoritarianism structure itself through monuments?

Underground Floor 2Part- Fallen Times Brazil

How did victims build or alter monuments in response to the aftermath?

Trace how regimes try to commemorate themselves and construct nationalist narratives through monuments.

Explore how, after the fall of the regime, the opposition alters or adds to the narrative and memory patterns of the state.

Underground Floor

What are the current debates and political interests of authoritarian regimes?

Underground Floor

2Part- Fallen Times Hungary

By looking at how the public perceives these monuments today (as tourist attractions, places of mourning, sites of nationalist

To invite you to reflect on the role of memory (monuments and memorials) in building democracies in postauthoritarian societies, especially in countries where authoritarian discourse is revived today.

3. "NO" MEANS NO

The building uses female's body shapes as the source of inspiration to attract people who is ill-disposed to women into the exhibition area and achieve the goal of changing them. The mass on the other side is produced by the combination of the four stages of the story and the upper part. The design of the heart of the entrance illustrates that love is the prerequisite of sex.

The building uses female's body shapes as the source of inspiration to attract people who is ill-disposed to women into the exhibition area and achieve the goal of changing them. The mass on the other side is produced by the combination of the four stages of the story and the upper part. The design of the heart of the entrance illustrates that love is the prerequisite of sex.

OUTCOME RENDERY THREE PART OF NARRATIVE

The building consists of three stages. The first stage shows the clothes that women wear when they are sexually assaulted. The second stage shows the pain of women to make the crowd empathetic. The third stage shows the result of this behavior.

intentions crimes consequences

RENDERING ENTRANCE TO 2 PART

The second entry is designed as a gate, which means that if you have a peek at the first stage, there is no way for you to go back.

RENDERING 2PART

INTERACTION PROCESS

When the viewer enters the second space, he will get a package made of traditional Indian women's clothing. The bag has a 3D glasses inside. When the viewer opens the bag and puts on the 3D glasses, it indicates that the viewer also joins the atrocity.

DETAILS RENDERING

RENDERING 2PART

When the viewer comes to the interactive device, there is no "no" option on the screen. Because in general rape cases, the rapist will continue whatever the victims say. After the reviewer selects "yes," the screen will play images that women are hurt.

RENDERING 3PART

When the audience comes to the last space, he will see people watching him with scorn and disdain on the screen, which is to simulate the feeling of being utterly isolated. The previous exit uses an iron fence, which implies that the last consequence is being imprisoned.

VISION OF 7 SPECIES RESEARCH

4.VISION OF US

—7 Species visions Exhibition

The content of the exhibition is based on non-anthropocentrism, from the perspective of vision, by equally expounding the special features of each species, so that the audience realizes that human beings are part of nature and not above nature. The design takes the natural ecosystem and biological chain as the basic prototype of the space, aiming to create a flowing space and a multiperspective viewing method. Through spatial division and connection, species are connected with each other, and the audience's vision is constantly intertwined in the space, creating a multi-hierarchy viewing experience. Even when people stand in one space, their sight can reach any space, so people both watch and be watched at the same time, completing the identity conversion between different species in the ecological circle.

AS A PART OF MAMMALS, HUMAN BEINGS TRANSFORM ENERGY FROM OTHER SPECIES INTO OUR BODY, AND THEN INTO OTHER SPECIES AGAIN, COMPLETING THE CYCLE OF THE BIOSPHERE.

WE ARE PART OF NATURE BIOLOGICAL CHAIN

Seven species make up this world, each species forms a circular ecology by itself, and through the biological chain, the entire species forms a great reincarnation

Through the research on the vision of seven species, multiple installations and walls are designed, so that the audience can experience the vision of different species and learn that there are many advantages of other species that we can learn from.

PROTOTYPE GENERATION

When the audience comes out from the fish part as the ending, we return to human vision, thus completing the concept of the whole ecological cycle.

Through the concept of ecological recycling, experiment with an integrated spatial form, based on circular elements and intertwined so that the audience can have a richer visual experience

MAMMALS BIRD REPTILES AMPHIBIANSI NSECT PLANT FISH

MULTI-VIEW CHANNEL

People standing at certain angles can see 5 to 6 other spaces through holes and arched doors.

PLANT

Make people feel the feeling of light by inserting led lights on the circular dome

REPTILES THERMAL INSTALLATION

The camera captures the outside and the inside screen displays the thermal image

FISH

Giving people a wider perspective through the continuous reflection of the circle and stainless steel

INSECT

Through the compound eye structure, building glass allows people to see the exhibition through the “compound eye glass”

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TRANSATION PART

magnified

RENDERING REPTILES PART

RENDERING REPTILES PART

RENDERING INSECT PART

RENDERING INSECT PART

RENDERING BIRDS PART

RENDERING BIRDS PART1

RENDERING FISH PART

RENDERING PLANTS PART

SITE RESEARCH

Many inmportant events associated with the shaping of the United States occurred at the Colony House. In 1766, citizens of Newport celebrated the repeal of the Stamp Act in and round the Colony House. During the Birtish occupation of Newport from 1776 to 1799, the Colony House was used as a barracks.

5.CROSSING THE PELL EXHIBITION PROJECT

—Exhibition design

Made possible by the work of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Interior Architecture students and faculty through a partnership with Bike Newport, Crossing the Pell is a virtual reality (VR) installation offering the opportunity to traverse the iconic Claiborne Pell Bridge on foot or on bicycle through four futuristic designs.

BRIDGE RESEARCH

DISTANCE

VRBICYCLE

NEWPORT

JAMESTOWN PELL BRIDGE

BRIGE SECTION

SITE COLONY HOUSE

FOUR PROPOSALS 3 DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE

THE USERS PERSPECTIVE ISOMETRIC

VR BICYCLE: VISITORS WILL PEDAL THROUGH FOUR STUDENTDESIGN CONCEPTS ON STATIONARY BIKES THAT RESPOND TO THE RIDERS’ MOVEMENTS, WHILE A VR HEADSET SHOWS A STRUCTURE THAT HAS BEEN UTTERLY TRANSFORMED TO FEATURE PEOPLE-POWERED ACCESS. THERE ARE 4 BIKES FOR DIFFERENT GROUP TO USE, TWO SIZES FOR KIDS, ONE FOR ADULT, ONE IS THE MOST STABLED FOR ADULT WHO NEED. VISITORS ARE ABLE TO CONTROL THE SPEED AND DIRECTION THROUGH THE BIKES.

PARTICIPATION

FOUR FEEDBACK BOARDS ARE SET UP IN THE WALL AREA INSIDE THE EXHIBITION HALL TO COLLECT COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK FROM THE VISITORS.

AR EXPLORE: BY SCANNING SPECIFIC PATTERNS, FOUR DESIGNED AR THE PELL BRIDGE CAN BE SEEN ON THE IPAD.

USING AUGMENTED REALITY ALLOWED US TO OFFER VISITORS

A PEEK INTO THE INCLUSIVE FUTURE OF THE PELL BRIDGE

VIRTUAL REALITY

THIS SECTION IS A PANEL PRESENTING THE FOUR PROPOSALS, WHICH IS PLACED ON A STAND COMPOSED OF SEVERAL TABLES. THE PANEL IS ALSO THE BASE FOR THE AR BRIDGE. FOR GUARANTEEING THE FREEDOM OF THE AUDIENCE'S STREAMLINE, FULLY COMBINING THE EXHIBITION TABLE WITH THE ORIGINAL COLUMN STRUCTURE OF THE SPACE AND MAKING IT A VISUAL CENTER APPLIED AS THE DESIGN STRATEGY.

AR EXPLORE: BY SCANNING SPECIFIC PATTERNS, FOUR DESIGNED AR THE PELL BRIDGE CAN BE SEEN ON THE IPAD.

USING AUGMENTED REALITY ALLOWED US TO OFFER VISITORS

A PEEK INTO THE INCLUSIVE FUTURE OF THE PELL BRIDGE

VR PART INCLUDES SEVERAL TRICYCLES AND BICYCLES, WHICH REQUIRE A LARGE SPACE. THEREFORE, THE FIVE BICYCLES ARE ARRANGED CIRCULARLY AND COMBINED WITH THE ORIGINAL COLUMN STRUCTURE TO MAXIMIZE SPACE UTILIZATION. AND THIS ARRANGEMENT CAN REDUCE THE USE OF WIRES AND PLUG BOARDS AND MAKE THE EXPERIENCE SPACE MORE CONCISE.

BECAUSE THE AUDIENCE NEEDS A CERTAIN SAFETY RANGE WHEN USING THE VR EQUIPMENT, A CIRCULAR CARPET IS USED AS THE DIVISION OF THE SAFETY AREA. BECAUSE THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE CARPET AND THE FLOOR MATERIAL MAKES THE AUDIENCE CAN STILL DISTINGUISH WHETHER THEY ARE IN THE INNER CIRCLE WHEN WEAR THE HEADSET. AND IN ORDER TO MAKE THE EXPERIENCER LESS DISTURBED, THIS PART IS DESIGNED TO ONE SIDE OF THE SPACE.

ENTRANCE

PANO TOUR

COLUMN COVER STRUCTURE PORTABLE TABLE ISOMETRIC

THE CUSTOM-MADE TABLE HAS THE HISTORY OF THE PELL BRIDGE AND THE INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDENT PROJECTS. CONSIDERING THE NEEDS OF TRANSPORTATION, THE TABLE LEGS USE A FOLDED AND ASSEMBLED STRUCTURE AND THE TABLE TOP USES SEVERAL MENTAL PANELS TO ASSEMBLE.

LIGHTING

WE CHOSE LED STRIP AS THE LIGHTING DEVICE, AND THE BRACKET IS MADE OF ALUMINUM ALLOY STRIPS WHICH ALLOWS US TO USE ITS U SHAPE STRUCTURE TO HIDE THE CIRCUIT AND THE PLUG-IN BOARD INSIDE.

THE ORIGINAL SITE HAS TO BE PROTECTED SO THERE IS NO NAIL ATTACHED TO ANY COLUMN. IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THE LIGHTING DEVICE AND MEET THE NEEDS OF VISUAL GUIDANCE, WE DESIGNED THE ENCLOSURE OF THE COLUMNS. BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE PREFABRICATED IN ADVANCE AND THEN QUICKLY ASSEMBLED ON SITE. THEREFORE, THE ENCLOSURE STRUCTURE NEEDS TO BE ASSEMBLED WITH AS FEW STEPS AS POSSIBLE UNDER THE PREMISE OF STABILITY, SO WE DESIGNED THIS L SHAPE FORM ASSEMBLY METHOD.

BENCH WITH THE PELL BRIDGE RULER BENCH INSTALL

THERE IS A LOWER BENCH ON ONE SIDE, SO THAT CHILDREN CAN SEE THE BRIDGE, BUT ALSO FOR VISITORS TO SIT. THERE IS A TIME LIMIT FOR INSTALLATION SO ALL THE EXHIBITION PARTS ARE DESIGNED TO BE EASY TO ASSEMBLE AND EASY TO CARRY AWAY.

BECAUSE THE LENGTH OF THE LIGHT STRIP IS EIGHT FEET, IT IS NECESSARY TO DESIGN A REINFORCED STRUCTURE AT THE CONNECTION TO MAKE IT STABLE WHICH ALSO CONDUCIVE TO TRANSPORTATION. EASY TO CARRY AWAY.

THERE ARE ONLY FOUR ORIGINAL SOCKETS IN THIS EXHIBITION HALL, BUT VR/AR EQUIPMENT NEEDS ELECTRICITY. THROUGH REASONABLE LAYOUT, IT IS ENSURED THAT IPADS, HEADSETS, COMPUTERS AND LIGHTS CAN GET POWER, AND AT THE SAME TIME, PAY ATTENTION TO HOW TO ROUTE CABLES ON UNEVEN GROUND NOT TO TRIP PEOPLE, OR WIRES ARE DISTURBED BY VISITORS

WEBSITE LINK: HTTPS://BIKENEWPORTRI.ORG/RISD-CROSSING-THE-PELL/

ARCHIEVEMENTS

MORE THAN 450 PARTICIPANTS, AGES TO 93, WERE TRANSPORTED INSIDE THESE INSPIRING VISIONS, WHERE THEY VIRTUALLY WALKED AND PEDALED

2.1 MILES ACROSS THE ICONIC CLAIBORNE PELL BRIDGE, THE LONGEST SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN NEW ENGLAND.

AMONG MANY EXCITING SPECIAL GUESTS, US SENATOR SHELDON WHITEHOUSE WHO INSPIRED THIS PROJECT WITH THE RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN IN 2021, WAS DELIGHTED IN BEING PART OF THE PUBLIC EXPERIENCE OF THE DREAM, THE VISION, AND THE REALITY.

THE EXHIBITION FEATURED CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR VISITORS TO OFFER FEEDBACK AND SHARE THEIR OWN DREAMS FOR RHODE ISLAND’S FUTURE. COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK CONFIRMED THAT PEOPLE ARE EAGER TO ENJOY SUCH ACCESS IN THE REAL WORLD.

THE ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY CROSSING THE PELL INSTALLATION HAS GARNERED BACKING FROM BIKE NEWPORT AND GOVERNMENT LEADERS LIKE US SENATORS JACK REED AND SHELDON WHITEHOUSE. AND NOW THAT THE STATE HAS RECEIVED $82.5 MILLION FOR RETROFITTING THE BRIDGE, THE BUZZ THAT THE PROJECT IS GENERATING MAY LEAD TO REAL-WORLD ADVANCES.

DESIGN IN 2021, DELIGHTED IN BEING PART OF THE

6.Urban Planning Museum of Liangjiang New Area

—Professional work

Urban Planning Museum of Liangjiang New Area, as an important commercial area in mainland China, Liangjiang New Area focuses on the goal of "two high and two areas", making the public and the government aware of the new urban planning of Liangjiang New Area and the future development planning route.

INSTALL DETAILS

RENDERING

RENDERING

7.Caofeidian Planning Exhibition Hall

—Professional work

Caofeidian Planning Exhibition Hall is the largest planning hall to be built in China, in which am in charge of the preface hall and part of the planning exhibition hall.

8.OTHER WORK

RENDERING, GRAPHIC DESIGN, PAINTING, SCENE DESIGN

SCENE DESIGN

Caofeidian Planning Exhibition

Hall is the largest planning hall to be built in China, in which am in charge of the preface hall and part of the planning exhibition hall.

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