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WEI WANGGSAPP COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO 2001 - 2010

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EDUCATORIUM OF UNITED NATIONS HEADQUATER - EXCHANGENew York City, USA, Summer 2009 | Studio Mark Rakatansky

United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. There're some educational programs inside the building. However, it's hard for the public to reach these programs, such as the gift shops, bookstores, auditoriums, classrooms, conference rooms, and exhibition areas. The security area is just inside a temporary tent. The UNHQ is not open to the public. The concept of exchange brings programs inside out, and extending the security area similar to the security sequence of the airport. The extended security area is along with the bus stops, which creates a buffer zones for lots of people and different ways of transportations. A new curve shaped building, which has multiple educational programs inside. Besides, there's a bridge connects to a restaurant and a bookstore, which is at the other side of the road, and bring more people from the eastern side.The Educatorium is dealing with three different dimension and axis, to transform the original facade of UNHQ, and extend the volume along with the road and then link to the park.

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3. The curve-shaped surfaces are supported by the mega structures, which are placed on an infrastructure base, where the local train and local roads go through. Also, the curtain-wall structures support a lot of mirrors and glasses on the top of the circular surfaces. Those mirrors can reflect the heat of sun to the solar towers, which is placed at the center of the circular surfaces and mega structures. Some parts of the surfaces are covered by mirrors, for the other parts of the surfaces are covered by glasses where to allow the sun light can penetrate beneath the surface or onto the ground level.

4. The lift-up surfaces create a three-dimensional space to allow larger programs happen underneath, such as the Storage, Parking, Stadium, Museum, and some other big facilities. With the new clean energy system, the city is self-sufficient. The new city allows multiple programs and energy generation happen under the same urban context.

5. Finally, the whole system is planned on the existing land pattern, a new landscape allows the future city and new city blocks to expend. The landscape and the local road network are expended along with the existing urban texture, and the circular SolarReserve areas. So, the landscape has formed a new urban texture that connects in between the existing land use and the new urban context.

TOWARD AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN - SOLAR RESERVE CITYTianjin, China PRC, Fall 2009 | Studio Umemoto Nanako

The site is full of salty water which is used as agriculture and aquaculture. The concept of the design is to use the SolarReserve Energy System, to utilize the salty water to generate the electricity and multiple powers. The advantage of the salty water is because of the melting point is high, so the salty water can preserve the heat, so the system can generate the electricity during the night time, which is very different from the ordinary solar panels.

1. First of all, estimate the total energy requirement by the number of future population. Infill certain numbers of SolarReserve System into the site, where has the existing salty water. This system forms several circular fields in order to reflect the sun light and heat. The reflection on the circular surfaces would be the most efficient way to collect the energy from the sun.

2. Secondly, the curve-shaped surfaces reflect the heat of sun light to the focus point, where the heliostat is. Then, the heated salty water becomes steam with high temperature, and then generates the turbine to create the electricity. After the turbine, the salty water becomes cooler, and goes back to the solar tower to form a water circulation. During this process, when the salty water becomes cooler, it can also be transformed into fresh water. Then the fresh water will be distributed into different part of the city, which can be used as agriculture irrigation and residential water usage.

PopulationCurrent Population of Caofeidian = 300,000 peopleBy 2020, Estimated Population of Caofeidian = 800,000 people

Energy requirement1x SolarReserve PS20 = 20 MWEstimated(2020) Caofeidian Electricity Requirement = 300 MW(Based on the new power plant in Caofeidian)

SolarReserve Requirement = 15 SolarReserves

2x SolarReserves = 10,000 Homes = 30,000 People15 Towers can provide the energy = 225,000 people

Annual Sunshine TimeAndalucia, Spain = 1500 hoursTianjin , China = 2898.8 hours (Suitable area for solar energy)

SolarReserve PS20, Luscar, Spain

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Top View

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CRYPTO-FORM OF THE POST EMPIRE - Sensory Data CenterBerlin, Germany, Spring 2010 | Studio ED Keller

Keywords:geopolitics, affect, use value, postnational, post-model, 'terabyte age', empire, network, swarms, biopower, biopolitics, micropolitics, bioinformatics, ubiquity, epigenetics, multi-agent system, noise, pattern, parasite, stigmergy, agalmics, the common.

Along the EMPIRE - POST-EMPIRE polytical axis… systems theory, cybernetics, and modelsof positive and negative feedback have set the stage for our current situation. Let’s consider this hypothesis: the theory and techniques of encryption are the next significant challenge & opportunity we face. Thanks to computational advances and global networks, we are finally arriving at a point where any citizen [at least in the first world, with a laptop and an internet connection] has the tools necessary to experiment with and observe the consequences of encryption, interacting in a meaningful and transformative level on a daily basis. Using data channels, creating hidden messages, and performing pattern recognition and datamining: all aspects of everyday life, and of design, can be revisioned through this model of code and meta code. Hidden levels of order, hidden regimes of time.

What will these emerging forms of hybrid media do to individual and collective agency, to theconcept of a common that exists at a global scale? Massively open datascapes, techniques of encryption, of datamining, of disinformation, are transforming the nature of the citizen/agent.These changes are taking place so rapidly that most of us do not notice, as the consequences of ubiquitous computation and communication have so deeply penetrated our daily lives, rendering us ever more as ‘naked life’ in the global theatre. Unanticipated forms of transparency become the rule rather than the exception.

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Programs:

1F Plan

1. Lobby & Infomation2. Recreation room3. Office (Internet control room)4. Store5. Exhibition6. Storage7. Sitting areas & Shelves8. Reading Area9. Restaurant & Cafe’10. Gallery11. Monitor sphere12. Collective experience room (Sound)13. Collective experience room (Vision)14. Personal experience chamber15. Periodic exhibition room (Large)16. Periodic exhibition room (Small)

2F Plan

17. Collective experience room (Smell)18. Collective experience room (Touch)19. Collective experience room (Taste)

B1 Plan

20. Memory shops21. Memory cafe’22. Mixing room23. Gaming room24. Psycho-clinic25. Audio-Video26. Machine room27. Security28. Dark room29. Filming room30. Equipment

1F Plan 2F Plan

3F Plan Roof Plan B1 Plan

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TFAM is the most important contemporary museum in Taipei city. It is situated next to the Zhong-Shan arts park. However, the scale of this park is so big and no activities inside. Due to the roads and the wall of MP’s headquarter have cut the connection between park and outside environment. There is a small library on the basement inside the museum, but it is not big enough to full fill the increasing need of books. As a result, the new library is needed. The library will be put inside the park as an affiliated library to create activities and let more people come to this area.

The original site is a huge art park, and the Taipei Fine Arts Museum is very distinctive inside this area. The museum is a stack of orthogonal rectangle boxes. Therefore, I try to make this square follow the logic of the museum. In the end, the museum, the library, and the green area will form a square in the center facing the main street.

Because of the volume of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum is stacked by rectangular boxes. As a result, it has created a lot of solid spaces and void spaces. The library is a huge rectangular box as well. So, it needs light for reading. Therefore, the design has converted the solid into void, in order to let the light go into the volume of the library. Then, the volume has been cut by the void, and voids are arranged by different pro-grams. The cutting spaces are also play the role of dividing the programs. So, people will feel an opposite experience between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Affiliated Library.

The site is not small. Thus, the is design separated into four squares with different height level. Also, they are separated by the TFAM and the new Affiliated Library. In addition, the triangle main square has opened a space for the main avenue. It makes people to get more accessibility to the Library. Finally, the museum and the library have both created several public spaces around themselves.

The volume of the affiliated library is opposite to the museum, Therefore, the size and its void are also related to the museum. This concept started from even two parts. Then separated into two blocks, which formed a public space in between.

The bridge that connects the museum has streched into the library. Thus, the interior space has been separated into two parts. The left part is for the reading, office and storage of books. The right part is for the atrium, corridors, platforms, entrance, and the void spaces. When walking inside the lobby, there will be several void spaces above. Those void spaces are the special spaces for reading and discussing. There is a lower square on the basement level, where people can also walk between the museum and the library. The purpose of this lower square is for outdoor reading or exhibition. People will not hear or see the cars or lots of people pass by. There’ll be several trees which provide the shadow a cooler reading environment.

The design has followed the concept of the solid and void to operate the space. It has to be considered by different programs. Because of the different uses of the spaces, it has created different proportion of voids. The void is not only exists in the library, but also surround the volume of the library. The observatory window is an extension symbol of the window of Taipei Fine Arts Museum. Because of the window is an extension from the museum, it has become the only volume that protrude out of the library.

AFFILIATED LIBRARY OF TAIPEI FINE ARTS MUSEUM - SOLID & VOIDTaipei, Taiwan ROC, Winter 2008 | Studio C.Y.S.

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GWANJU BIENNALE - LIVING & RESTGwuanju, South Korea , Summer 2009 (Team work)Habitable / Inhabitable

The pavilions of Soswaewon act not as a dwelling house, due to the absence of walls, but as a temporary shelter that supports the fluid experience of the spaces within the garden. This fluid habitation, where one is constantly drawn to enter into a new spatial event is what our object aims to offer.

Human Positioning in the Exhibition Space

Soswaewon Garden carefully frames the natural experience of the surrounding landscape in all its variations and eccentricities. Our aim is to orient the viewer in various positions around our object and the exhibition similar to the garden experience.

An “organic experience” is an escape from the complex social setting to a quiet nature where one enjoys the leisure of life through various human activities. Soswaewon is a collection of postures that allows one to relate to this organic experience fundamental in Korean gardens.

Resting while positioning oneself in 3 corporeal configurations that induced our structure (lying on the ground, sitting, interacting with another) - one can begin to understand how Soswaewon frames nature through the 48 human activities described by the ancient poem revered today as the garden’s prerequisite guide.

Through articulations of different member densities and pattern formations, our structure informs how one can consciously reposition the human body to recreate this organic experience of living and rest embodied in Soswaewon.

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Call Main()Sub Main() Dim l,k,u,v, strNewSrf, arrcntPt, strDot, arrObjects, arrCrvs,arrJnCrvs, arrOffCrvs, strNewestSrf Dim arrExpCrv Dim strsrf : strSrf = Rhino.GetObject ("Select surface",8) Dim intU : intU = 5 Dim intV : intV = 5 ReDim arrFrame(intU,intV) Dim UDomain : UDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 0) Dim VDomain : VDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 1) Dim UStep : UStep = (UDomain(1) - UDomain(0)) / intU Dim VStep : VStep = (VDomain(1) - VDomain(0)) / intV Dim counter : counter = 0 For l = 0 To intV For k = 0 To intU u = UDomain(0) + UStep * k v = VDomain(0) + vStep * l arrFrame(k,l) = Rhino.SurfaceFrame (strSrf, Array(U,V)) 'Call Rhino.AddPoint (arrFrame(k,l)(0)) If (l > 0 And k > 0)Then strNewSrf = Rhino.AddSrfPt(array(arrFrame(k,l)(0),arrFrame(k-1,l)(0),arrFrame(k-1,l-1)(0))) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (strNewSrf) strDot = Rhino.addtextdot (counter, arrcntPt(0)) Call Rhino.SelectObject (strNewSrf) Call Rhino.Command ("unrollsrf enter") Call Rhino.UnselectAllObjects arrObjects = Rhino.firstobject Call Rhino.MoveObject (arrObjects, array(0,0,0),array(0,counter*10,0)) arrcntPt = rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid (arrObjects) Call Rhino.AddText (counter, arrcntPt(0),2) arrCrvs = Rhino.DuplicateEdgeCurves (arrObjects) arrJnCrvs = Rhino.JoinCurves (arrCrvs,True) arrOffCrvs = Rhino.OffsetCurve (arrJnCrvs(0),arrCntPt(0), 0.25) arrExpCrv = Rhino.ExplodeCurves (arrOffCrvs,True) Call Rhino.ReverseCurve (arrExpCrv(1)) strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddLoftSrf (array(arrExpCrv(1),arrExpCrv(2))) 'strNewestSrf = Rhino.AddPlanarSrf (arrOffCrvs) 'Call SubdivideSurface(strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (strNewestSrf(0)) Call Rhino.DeleteObject (arrObjects) counter = counter + 1 NextEnd SubFunction SubdivideSurface(strSrf) Dim sl,sk,su,sv Dim sintU : sintU = 12 Dim sintV : sintV = 12 ReDim sarrFrame(sintU,sintV) Dim sUDomain : sUDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 0) Dim sVDomain : sVDomain = Rhino.SurfaceDomain(strSrf, 1) Dim sUStep : sUStep = (sUDomain(1) - sUDomain(0)) / sintU Dim sVStep : sVStep = (sVDomain(1) - sVDomain(0)) / sintV Dim scounter : scounter = 0 For sl = 1 To sintV For sk = 1 To sintU-1 su = sUDomain(0) + sUStep * sk sv = sVDomain(0) + svStep * sl sarrFrame(sk,sl) = Rhino.SurfaceFrame (strSrf, Array(sU,sV)) If sl > 1 & sk > 2 & sk < sintU Then Call Rhino.AddPolyline (array(sarrFrame(sk,sl)(0),sarrFrame(sk,sl-1)(0))) 'Call Rhino.AddPolyline(array(sarrFrame(sk,sl),sarrFrame(sk-2,sl),sarrFrame(sk-1,sl-1),sarrFrame(sk,sl))) End If Call Rhino.AddPoint (sarrFrame(sk,sl)(0)) NextEnd Function

PARAMETRIC REALIZATION - RHINO SCRIPTNew York, USA, Fall 2009 (Team work)Using Rhino Script, Monkey, as the main program. Also combined with some grasshopper definition. To create an installation of the parametric form. Learning how to write the definition of the Monkey Script, and understanding the logic of it, so that the definition can apply to different kinds of forms.

First, make several physical study models to study what are the posibilities of a single unit. Then develope it into a whole size of model. Secondly, subdivided the 3D model in Rhino, by using the Monkey script, to separate the shape into 50 smaller pieces.

Next, subdivided agian for each pieces into smaller triangles. Each piece has different size and shape, so the parameter of smaller triangles are also controled by the definition. The program actually subdivided a three dimensional model into 50 flat triangle pieces. Therefore, it can be printed out and be built by the laser cutter.

After finishing cutting all the physical pieces, it is important to make a structure behind the model. Thus, there are four triangular boards behind the surface, which surpport the skin of the model. The shape is formed by itself because of different size of the pieces.

The final installation is attached on the wall of the classroom. The upper surface is actually as same as the lower surface, only the direction is different. The hardest part was the edge of the suspension side. The difficulty was to make the edge as a straight line. Finally, the end point has more than three feet away from the wall.

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DEGITAL STUDIES - Maya, Max, RhinoGSAPP Columbia University, Winter 2009 - Spring 2010

ANIMATED COMPUTATIONMaya modeling

TOPOLOGICAL STUDY of FORMMaya animation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZT6np78Xe4

BARCELONA CHAIRMax Modeling

ANIMATED COMPUTATIONMaya modeling

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PANTON CHAIRRhino Modeling

ANIMATED COMPUTATIONMaya modeling

BARCELONA PAVILIONMax modeling

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TAIPEI POP MUSIC CENTER, COMPETITION - FIRST PRIZETaipei, Taiwan ROC, Winter 2010 | Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC

Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Official Website: http://www.reiser-umemoto.com/

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Diagrams making / Translation of Mandarin / Collage / Plan Drawing / Site Research

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RECONSTRUCTION of TAIWAN RAILWAY ADMINISTRATIONTaipei, Taiwan ROC, Summer 2007 - Summer 2010

1. Mesurement & Documentation The site is an obsoleted old factory, where the workers fixed the steam train. The factory has been over one hundred years old, most of the houses inside are over sixty to seventy years old. Therefore, it is necessary to renovate the whole area. The design is the first period of the five to ten years’ renovation project. The client of Taiwan National History Museum is attempting to build the site as a Museum of the Train History. The first phase is to mesure all the old houses and set the documents of all antiques. Also, record the structures that need to be replaced or fixed. The site is also located on the ancient wall of the city, so it takes a long time to build the infrastructure. All of the old materials need to be marked.

2. Reconstruction of the Roof The existent old roof is about to collapse. Water can be penetrated into the house. So, it need a new roof that provides a space for workers to repair the damage. Also, to prevent the precipitation caused by any wheather condition. After the reconstruction of the roof, there will be an office and a storage area inside the old house. All of the antique can be stored and fixed under the roof or inside the house. The design of the roof is going to link the old restaurant house at the front, and then transform itself into a platform for the storage house at the back side. So, the roof itself is a folded surface which plays multiple fuctions. The antiques will be repaired inside the building. Also, there will be the exhibition on the exterrior platform at times. Visitors can walk on the platform and look back to the old restaurant building, and see the repairing construction.

3. Facade The facade is a symbol of the the Museum, which is the reinterpretation of the old facade. There’re four panels made by the wood shades. This facade is facing the major road, Chung-Hsiao West Road, and the Chung-Hsaio bridge. Instend of the the other iron skin that cover the building completely, the ventilation is efficient in this project. Also, the visibility allows the people realized that the construction is going on. In the coming few years, this project will keep updating through out the whole area.

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ARTech ArchitectsDon-sen TV shopping buildingModeling MakingSummer Internship, 2004

HCWHotel of Don-shang RiverInner Space DesignOct - Jan, 2006

PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCESTaipei, Taiwan ROC, Summer 2004 - Summer 2007

ArctangentElectrical Engineering Building in Yuan-Chi UniversityParticipant of Competition Briefing / Modeling MakingFirst PrizeSummer Internship, 2005

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The hotel is located inside the Marine Aquarium Park. This hotel is built for the tourists who wish to stay in the theme park. It has several recreational spaces inside, such as the gym, game room, SPA, squash, and a swimming pool. The hotel is along with a river, thus, there are some openings by the riverside.

The project is a 7 floors’ volume, combined with a 5 floors’ side volume. The first and the second floor are open to the public. For the rest of the builing are mainly for the room services. Also, there’s a restaurant on the top of the hotel. It is the highest spot in the park, so tourists can see the whole Aquarium Park in this restaurant.

Sections

7th floor plan

8th floor plan / Restaurant

Standard floor plan / 3 - 6 floorBasement plan

Second floor plan

Ground floor plan

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HOTEL OF MARINE AQUARIUMYilan, Taiwan ROC, Summer 2007 / Inner Space Design

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ATT Wedding Plaza is a commercial building that combined with multi-programs which are related to the wedding. There are shops for wedding suits, underwears, tools for babies. Also, there’re some bigger programs, such as all kinds of restaurants with the wedding hall, the hotel, and the parking space next to the builing.

The main lobby is at the center of the whole builing. There’s a set back of the front road which has created a small square as the main entrance. The materials for the lobby are mostely made by glasses and mirrors, and some transparent materials. Thus, it has created a larger feeling of the space.

Due to the main entrance is not so large, so the vertical spaces and vertical circulation has become crucial. There’re two glass elavator and one spiral staircase next to the main lobby. The job was to desing for the staircase and to draw the elavator, and the plan of lobby and so on.

This is a circular staircase next to the main lobby, which surrounded by 37 panels of sandblasted glasses. It is an oval-shaped cylinder space connects to a restaurant on the second floor. When walking on the stairs, there will be shadow around the glass wall.

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Detail sectionFirst floor plan Second floor plan

ATT WEDDING PLAZAYilan, Taiwan ROC, Summer 2007 / Design of Lobby Main Stairs

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DESIGN WORK of UNDER GRADUATETam-Kang University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC, Fall 2001 - Summer 2006

7x7x7 LIVING BOXFree plan / Free Structure

CASE STUDYNational Taiwan History Museum

SEATING DEVICEExtend from the environment

PLATFORM of AIRPLANE (Team Work)Autonomy of the essentialism

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TFAM AFFILIATED LIBRARYConvert solid to void

DESIGN COLLEGE OF SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITYAzimuth of the sun light

TFAM AFFILIATED LIBRARYConvert solid to void

DESIGN COLLEGE OF SHIH CHIEN UNIVERSITYAzimuth of the sun light

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RECOMBINANT URBANISMProgram generated by its neighbor

TAIPEI NOMAD BOOKResearch of 7 types of nomad architecture

TAMSUI FERRY COMPETITION - FIRST PRIZESoundscape of Ferry Terminal