CONTENTS

Undergraduate -U1-
Tongji University Spongy Blocks
BArch 2015-2020 Intermingle the Suffocated Spaces and Historic Residence 2

-U2-
A Slice to the Subterranean World
Interpretation Center of Singapore's Underground Master Plan 6

-U3-
Interweave
Maker Space on Zhangwu Road 10

-U4-
Detached Twins
Watch tower on salt pans and Heritage Center in Village 14

Graduate -G1-
MIT Bridge the Gaps
MArch 2020- Core 2 Studio Independent Study 16

-G2-
The Ensemble
Core 1 Studio Independent Study 17

-G3-
Deformable Performer
Creative/Embodied Computation 18

-G4-
Simulation Based Design/Urban Energy Model Study
Pathways towards a Net-Zero Building Stock 20
PORTFOLIO
Graduate Work Video Channel
汪 逸 青
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPFfpnHjg-HL4Zv0KpHKNhA
Wang Yiqing
[email protected]
+86 186166157 03
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Juxtapose the Context

Shanghai: -746 to 2019

2020-

2019

1979

1949

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-U1-
Spongy Blocks
Intermingle the Suffocated Spaces and Historic Residence
Hongkou, Shanghai, CHINA
Urban Research & Design / Individual
Instructor: Alfred Pun E-mail: [email protected]
Sept 2019 - Dec 2019

In the crevices grows life.

Over the past 40 years, the historic area in central Shanghai inevitably greets the
newcomers. Towers, podiums, and enclosed retail spaces sealed the pedestrians
and the “lilong” Residence. These tumors are still growing in this sprawling
metropolis, but we would need surgery at this moment in 2019.
This project explores how new developments replace the previous urban fabrics
and the way to relink and release these typical suffocated spaces to the city.
Three types of blocking are further investigated in the context. The design provides
a spongy softened boundary for the buildings and blocks, creating crevices for
communal activities and interaction with streets.
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Street View Clash of the Old and the New
Connecting Residential Area & Retail Street
Released Space for Stands and Market

Concrete Column

Metal Coil Drapery

Wood Deck Overpass to the

Rooftop of Historic
Buildings

Balcony Connected
with Office Level

Projection Screen

Open Recreational Terrace

Conserved Residential
Building

Wood Flooring
On Wood Sleepers Wood Flooring
Concrete on Metal Deck
Metal Panel Ceiling

Inserted
Reading Room

Original Commercial
Space

Intumescent Painted Steel

A Column

Type A : Scattered
Restore the Capillaries
Alleys are still alive but partially occupied. Enclosed area
and dead ends are created when the clots are scattered
in the parcel. Small clots (retail buildings inserted into
the continuous old buildings) are distributed along the Micro Sunken Space
For Communal Activities
main streets. The design tries to fold the alleys into the
enclosed spaces, joining the commercial space with the
alleys. The shared space could activate the neighborhood
Original Buildings
which embraces a long history of the market selling
artworks and books. Passage and overpass could be added In-between Public Spaces
to relink the old and the new. Also, the courtyards inside A-A Section
the parcel would be activated by the flow from the retail Folding Alleys into the Massing
streets.
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Street View
Filter of Chaos

A
B

C
D

Section A
Pop-out
Section B
Flowing
Section C
Cut Through
Section D
Puncture
Type B: Seige
Turn a Barrier into a Filter
As the streetside is taken by linear volumes, the inner
lanes lose their entrance and became caged inside the
parcel. On different levels, the building calls for diverse
ways to interact with the streets and the historic buildings.
Four typical relationships are built sectionally. The
openness of the building depends on the surroundings and
the function of the public space. A thin layer of spaces
is attached to the linear massing on the street side,
penetrating the building at some special points, rebuilding
the rich experience in public spaces. The building filters
the urban flow and activates the sieged area.
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Street View Encroached Background
Blend the Background

Type C: Chunk
Capillaries Would Climb Up
From podium to the tower, the release of enclosed spaces to
the public restores the fabric in horizontal and vertical ways.
Downward in the street level, interaction with the windows Section A-A
recreates the relationships in the terraced alleys. The ground
floor mall open to the community when adjacent to the alleys
and lanes, creating a continuous spatial sequence with the
urban fabric. The street retail thus could be linked together. The
traditional book market and vendors share the sheltered spaces
without getting into the entrance. The residence has its activities
happening on different levels. The retail space could be broken
down into platforms facing where people gather. Ramps and
staircases would connect the intersecting spaces. The facade
also could be experienced, both looking inside or outside the
tower, Along the ramps, people could walk while viewing the
transforming city. Also, the spotlight spaces could be linked so Ground Floor level: Retail Spaces: Recreational Spaces: Commercial Spaces:
that visitors could have another circulation. The porous surface Street Flow Into Space Interacting Platforms Sky Walks As Terrace Open Spotlights
makes relaxing punctures for the vertical chunks.
Section:
A Journey to the Deep Down 6

Paper Cut Collage: Overflow

-U2-
A SLICE to the Subterranean World
Interpretation Center for Singapore Underground Master Plan
Jurong Lake, SINGAPORE
Year 4 Studio Work / Individual Design & Research
Studio Group Work: Site Report & Site Plan Collaboration
Instructor: Dr. Ruzica Bozovic-Stamenovic E-mail: [email protected]
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

Layer under layer — and now Cut a Slice of this cake.

As Singapore is building the future underground, the project is going to be a media
calling visitors to immerse in this endless exploration beneath the ground. The
minus-150-meter Singapore Underground Master Plan shed light on the efforts to
seek for any possible habitats and the invisible world — facilities, smart systems,
tunnels and caverns, etc. The interpretation center for the site would be an anchor
for the ongoing changes. The city becomes a whole-piece when the underground
spaces are integrated. When the fiction is going to be realized — the endless
vertical exploitation and unlimited spaces to discover — how would we live in this
deep world? Would we still be aware of nature, or, in extreme situations, would we
be immersed in a new context built by ourselves?
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1 Releasing a Gap
The ground is no longer a horizontal surface.
Excavation creates more livable spaces, letting
-1m — -3m light and air into the gap.
Substations
Electrical substations, which are essential for
providing electricity to estates, currently occupy
small tracts of land at the ground level, even
though they are connected to the underground 2 Against the Pressure
cabling network. The thickness of ground also generates
SecureMyBike pressure, both in a physical way and a mental
The Land Transport Authority completed the first way. The two concrete retaining walls would
automated underground bicycle parking space,
known as SecureMyBike. guard the void.
Bus Interchange
The new Bidadari housing estate will be home to
Singapore’s first underground 3 Thresholds
air-conditioned bus interchange below Housing The solid and the void are blended by the
Board flats.
sequences of spaces — human activities,
Pedestrian Links mechanical, vertical transportation, cable car
Underground pedestrian links make easier to
connect between buildings or cross busy streets. route and ongoing constructions.

4Inside the Solid

-1m — -10m The supporting walls contain spaces for people
Common Services Tunnel to explore the structure of the subterranean
More than just space-saving measures, world. The spaces expand and intersects with
underground pipes are less prone to external
wear and tear. The Common Services Tunnel frees each other to create a complexity.
island, with lesser maintenance disruptions on
the roads. Walk Way Along Bay

Waste Disposal
In housing estates, trash can be carried away to
a centralized bin center through a suction force
via underground pipes, using pneumatic waste
conveyance systems.
Drainage
Air-conditioning Pipes
hilled water used for air-conditioning could
be supplied centrally through an underground
network of pipes, known as a district cooling
system.

-15m — -40m
Road and Rail Networks
To enhance our living environments, future major
Activate the Glacier
road and rail networks, especially those that
will cut through built -up areas, will be located
Dimensions Of A Smart City
underground. This reduces the impact of noise
and dust on homes. Taking out a piece of this glacier, the slice of public space would be a
bar code of a smart city as well as a connection of the urban context
and nature. The minus-150-meter Singapore Underground Master plan
-20m — -50m and shed light on the efforts to seek for any possible habitats. Like
Deep Tunnel Sewerage other shipping and manufacturing port, Jurong District has transformed
System industrial district to a mixed-function zone. As one of the national
This is a network of tunnels that operates on Interpretation Center
gravity, and transports sewage and waste reservoirs, Jurong Lake faces pollution and the fallacy of unprotected & Pier of Jurong Lake
water across the island to two centralized water
reclamation plants. water catchment.
Short Section： Connect the Sky and the Earth

-100m — -150m
Jurong Rock Caverns
The Jurong Rock Caverns under Jurong Island
is for petrochemical storage. In phase one, its Jurong Lake Reservoir & Nature Reserve
five caverns are as high as nine stores, saving
approximately 60ha of land.

Ammunition Facility
The underground ammunition facility built under
a quarry in Mandai in 2008 stores
ammunition and explosives.

-150m — -300m
Reservoirs
Water can be stored in underground reservoirs, A Smart Spine
with the national water agency PUB currently
looking into an idea that can free up significant
parcels of land for development. The 17
Connection From City to Nature Reserve
reservoirs currently occupy 3,700ha, or around 5
per cent of Singapore’s total land. The interpretation center is going to anchor the history of Jurong by
educational spaces and exposing visitors to the recalling experience.
The building, connecting with the water, the MRT smart spine, and the
underground construction, becomes a joint of the flows from three
dimensions, bridging the urban context and the natural environment. It
*The blank volumes are other projects of studio
Source: URA STRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS members. The site plan came from a collaborative
adapts to the surroundings such as water body, tree, and park circulation
Finding space for future massing study by the whole studio. by minimal footprint but strong axis.
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A A

a a

Ground Floor Plan

A-A Section
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Cable Car Route

The Gap Space Path
Isometric View Mechanical & Facilities Connection
Vertical Transportation System
Threshold & In-between

Junction of Fiction
Scenes Along the Routes
The city becomes a whole-piece when the underground spaces are integrated.
When the fiction is going to be realized — the endless vertical exploitation and
unlimited spaces to discover — how would we live in this deep world? Would we
still be aware of nature, or, in extreme situations, would we be immersed in a
totally new context built by ourselves?
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-U3-
Interweave
Maker Space on Zhangwu Road
Shanghai,CHINA
Year 2 Studio Work / Individual
Instructor: Prof. Li Li E-mail: [email protected]
Feb 2017-May 2017

The collision of orders makes an ordered complexity.

As a joint of the urban context and the labors’ residential area, the project is going
to become a platform for the college innovative society and a community-friendly
workplace. Rather than responding to the context with the volumetric operation,
the project explores the possibility of leading the different orders from the site
into the plans, weaving the axes together.
As the two axes decompose the spaces, the split corners, apertures, and
staircases welcome interactions and autonomous activities. Rather than a clean
formal we-work space, the design lets students working here feel like home.
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GF Plan 2F Plan 3F Plan

Public/Communal/Recreational Space & Courtyard Maker’s Units & Co-work Space Maker’s Units & Lab Platform

+ +
+

Redefine the Edge

Split the Module by Another Order
Compared with traditional office spaces, the work environment of a college Maker
is more of a studio plus a dorm, and the collaborative jobs could be done as soon
Maker's Unit as one stands up even by his or her desk. The cells follow the same order, extruding
Workshop & Lab
Shared Workplace from the building. From the street side to the courtyard and residence, there is a
Courtyard / Atrium gradual transition of functions from the public to private.
Meeting & Talk
Relax & Gym
Service Space
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A-A Section
From Street View to Maker’s Life

South to North Sections West to East Sections South to North Sections West to East Sections
+ Work/Community Public/Private Work/Community Public/Private

Fragmented
Split Sections
Independent units connect
to the communication space,
and sectional divisions create
apertures and microcells. The
site is at the entrance of the
community, the south side
of which is the main street.
Responding to the site and space
needs, the split section forms a
sequence of spaces, transiting
from public areas to relaxing
courtyard blended to the quiet
neighborhood.

Maker's Unit
Workshop & Lab
Shared Workplace
Courtyard / Atrium
2F Perspective View Meeting & Talk
Facing to Co-work Space and Maker Units Relax & Gym
Service Space
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Roof Insulation Layer Powder-coat Aluminum Frame with Line of Silicone

Waterproofing Membrane Water Based Silicone Sealant at Joints
Leveling Screed 240 x 240 x 120 Glass Blocks
Concrete Slab Stud Frame
Ceiling

Stainless Steel Metal Capping

Thermal Bridge Break

Hidden Equipment Space

3f Maker’s Unit

2f Maker’s Unit

Frosted Glass
Hidden Aluminum Frame
Reinforced Concrete Beam

Open Space To
the Street
Reinforced Concrete
Wall

Pedestrian

Detail Section
Attention Please Wood Flooring
West Faced

Facade of Depths Exposing Space & Order 50mm Insulation Layer with Wood Sleepers
Cement Based Waterproof Coating
The complexity of plans naturally generates the brutal outside of the 20mm 1:3 Cement Mortar Screed Coat
100mm C20 Concrete Base
building. The facades of a fixed space will be relatively static until the 10mm Lime Mortar Segregation
inner order is reflected onto it. The relationship between the upper and 60mm Lime Soil Base
Compacted Soil
lower maker’s units further evolve into an ordered fluctuation on the
facades. While the upper and lower units are misaligned, the form of
the unit is constant. Continuous glass bricks give the cell-like units a
translucent transition to the double-height co-work space. To emphasize
the intersected structure, beams and columns are exposed in the main
Weaved Order and Mixed Life space. Also the glass bricks and reflective concrete make the space light
A Working Space like Home
and fluid, highlighting the interweaving two axes.
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-U4-
Detached Twins
Watch Tower on Salt Pans and Heritage Center in Village
Lake Poopó, BOLIVIA
Open Project Plus 66: Twin Architecture
Instructor: Alfred Pun E-mail: [email protected]
Group Work with Zihan Zhao Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Individual Rework in Dec 2019(Narratives/Tectonic/Construction Study & Development )

When lake shrinks, the past and the present see each other.
The twin miles away would be crystallizations of the shrinking water and exposed
lakebed, containing people’s activities and memories. The structure and the
construction process represent the reversible characters of the core and the
shell, with vernacular materials — bamboos and rammed earth — showcasing the
correlation between two segregated towers. Distinguished from its background,
each tower creates an identical experience of inside and outside, as well as the
relationship with the surroundings——the salt flats or the village. The distance and
the similarity of the buildings evoke memories of Lake Poopó and indigenous life
which has drastically transformed due to climate change.
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Bamboo Railings
Orthogonal Joint Bundle Joint

Whole Culms
Bamboo Wall Diagonal
String Joints
Bamboo Framed
Halved Culms
Core
Framework

Bamboo Column
Reinforced Corner

Bamboo Reinforced
Rammed Earth

Diagonal Bundle
Joint

Bamboo Battens
(Culms split into
eight segments)

Bamboo Reinforced
Beams

Bamboo Columns
and Strips
Halved Culms
Bamboo Strips

Bamboo Reinforced Bamboo Strips

Rammed Earth Wall Reinforced Slab with
Plaster Cover

Dense Bamboo
Boards Interwoven
with the Frame
Loose Whole
Bamboo Culms

Framed Richness Rich Framework

Tower as Protector Tower as Shelter
The core could first be mounted The core using bamboo reinforced
and then become the scaffold to rammed earth is more flexible
construct the shell. It is made of than its twin near the lake. The
double layers of the dense bamboo cantilever staircases and platforms
structure. The staircases are between are supported by the inner bamboo
or stretched out from the structure. beams which are connected to the
Rammed earth structure is reinforced strings inside the core.
by bamboo strings inside. While The shell — a light structure of
the shell is built, the core can bamboo — creates apertures of
already serve as the scaffold and transparency that facing the ruins
the watchtower. Layer by layer, the in the site. Local products could be
elevation leaves the trace of time and hung onto the structure. Since it is
the texture of earth and bamboo on also self-supported, people can easily
itself. adapt the form to the exhibition.
Structure and Tectonic Detail
Axonometric Diagram
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Materiality acts as a micro

representation of the concept of
gaps, revealing the essence at
the junctions. The disappearing
envelope and edges, therefore,
dilute the building mass. The
intersecting structure frames
daylit gaps to read the city.
While the exhibition area
showcases the history of the
Chinatown community, the
building acts as a showcase of
the present.

-G1-
Bridge the Gaps
Chinatown, Boston, MA, USA
Core II Studio / Individual
Instructor: Matthew Bunza - [email protected]
Feb 2021 - May 2021

The uneven distribution of urban furniture and the tight-knit Boston Chinatown community triggers an
intervention bridging the gaps. The robust cores, rooted and growing, are turned into social infrastructures,
serving the community as a hub of intersection, standing and watching the ebb and flow of civic life.

People experience the gaps and the tension in between. Under a large context, the gaps between towers
scale down the building, bring down the light to the ground level. Structurally, the system reveals different
levels of forces, evoking the awareness of elevated and floating, of separation and connection. The tectonic
details also resonance to the overall strategy of layering and connections with the sharp contrast of
materiality creating threshold moments.
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-G2-
Video
The Ensemble
https://youtu.be/6VXIDeX-HzA
Emerald Necklace, Boston, MA, USA
Core I Studio / Individual
Instructor: Hans Tursack – [email protected]
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020

The project is turning the Emerald Necklace into an activated landscape for self-organized construction
where community members are able to gather, learn, and build.
A manual, aiming to break down the design process, addresses prefabricated components in various scales
proposing potential hand-crafting building typologies. All structural elements and surfaces are made of
two materials: plywood and foam. The lightweight chosen materials, modular design, and adaptive joineries
allow for transportation, flexibility, and innovation. Architects can facilitate a building workshop for the
community: large-format components and optimized tools will be processed and assembled on site with
high speed and least machinery work.
The construction will continue after the event with a superimposed master plan. Influenced by the site’s
characteristics, the physical limits of the materials, and the manual, the non-deterministic space becomes
a lab where participants shape the space and exchange ideas through the process.
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-G3-
Deformable Performer
Visualized Energy: A Study of Active Bending Behaviors
Creative Computation / Individual Design
Instructor: Axel Kilian, Ous Abou Ras
Feb 2021 - May 2021

Is it possible to connect the deformable material to choreographed behaviors?

The bamboo weaving handcrafts triggered the exploration of using an actuated
woven structure as a form of interaction. Facilitated by the sensor data
communication and the finite state automaton, the physical and digital artifacts
simultaneously react to the inputs according to a positive feedback loop. The
amplified balancing behavior of the deformable structure of the physical prototype
and digital architecture challenges the common belief that a safe construction
must be stable and fixed. On the one hand, the physical object receives the
data and instantaneously reacts, actively adapt itself to the positioning and
environmental influences. On the other hand, the automaton structuralized
the digital model transformation according to the behavior modes visualizing
materiality and spatial forms that reflect human occupation.
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Current State Input New State Action

A1 B1 X Y A2 B2 P Q
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
Dormant
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1
Upset
0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
An Extensible System Designed System for the Object based on two Feedback Loops
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1
Alert
1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
Explode
1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Current State Input New State Action

0 LDR<200 (according to the environment)
A1 B1 X Y A2 B2 P Q X
1 LDR>=200
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deflection(Pitch<45 and Row>0)
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 Y
Dormant 1 Deflection(Pitch>=45 or Row<=0）
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 Setpoint(150)
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 P
1 LED reflects input
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Servo returns to origin state
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 Q
Upset 1 Servo reflects input
0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 Constant
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 A
1 Dimming
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rest
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 B
Alert 1 Balancing
1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0
1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
Explode
1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

0 LDR<200 (according to the environment)

FSA Network
X
State Transition
1 Table
LDR>=200
0 Deflection(Pitch<45 and Row>0)
Y
1 Deflection(Pitch>=45 or Row<=0）
0 Setpoint(150)
P
1 LED reflects input
0 Servo returns to origin state
Q
1 Servo reflects input
0 Constant
A
1 Dimming
0 Rest
B
1 Balancing

Rhino/Grasshopper Structure Diagram

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Urban Energy Model

PV Panel Study

Optimization Results

G4-a- Along with the office building design in the urban context — the Highline Park — we explored how a
simulation based design approach can be adapted to a design-driven agenda.
G4-b- Our study focuses on Town of Middlebury. We invited city hall representatives to address their goals(80%
Carbon Reduction) and proposed an optimized renovation trajectory based on the new Urban Energy
Besides proposing solutions aiming at lower carbon emissions and energy use, the project wants to Model. We concluded that retrofitting with continuous rigid insulation to baseline Efficiency Vermont
Highline High Light Urban Energy Model Study
emphasize the trade-offs in the final decisions. These decisions involved crucial variables such as On- standards reduces carbon emissions less than a heat pump upgrade. Both insulation and heat pump
New York, USA Middlebury, VT, USA
site Energy Generation (Solar Gain), Building Templates, Daylight and Interior Lighting, Envelope and upgrades are necessary to meet the town’s goals.
4.464 Course Project 2021 Jan Work
Simulation facilitated design studies Green Roof, HVAC Systems and etc. Group: Yiqing Wang, Iris Zeng
Group: Yiqing Wang, Qianqian Wan Prof. Shelly Pottorf, Jack Allnutt, Isabelle Gay Tools: Urban Building Energy Models (UBEM)
Instructor: Christoph Reinhart – [email protected] Tools: Climate Studio (DIVA) Instructor: Christoph Reinhart – [email protected] UMI for Rhino
Sept 2020 - Dec 2020 Grasshopper Jan 2020 QGIS