Architecture & urban design / New York

Xinyu Wang

Structures that respond to people and time: canopies that open for a market, rooms that step down a hillside, a projected doorway that wakes as you approach.

01 / Osborn Plaza Market Canopy

NYC

Selected work

7 projects / architecture / installation / urbanism

Studio buildings, an interactive installation, a speculative city and an urban plan for Porto.

Osborn Plaza Market Canopy

A fleet of deployable bamboo-and-reed carts that turns a Brownsville plaza into a Wednesday farmers’ market, then folds down into everyday shaded seating.

Fall 2026 / Senior studio / MidtermOpen project

The Vertical Village

Affordable housing stacked above a public library. A glass-and-timber core joins the reading floors, and walkable glass plates in the corridors pull daylight down through the homes.

Spring 2026 / Studio / Library + housingOpen project

Between Levels

A common street across three levels: a hillside neighbourhood building where a shared stair-street, galleries and 48 public rooms connect streets 12 m apart.

2026 / Self-initiatedOpen project

Threshold Apparatus

An interactive moving-image study of bodily proximity: a sensor reads how close you are to a doorway, and a projected mesh wakes, deforms and settles as you approach, pause and pass.

2026 / Interactive installationOpen project

Human Race Motor

A city grown by rules instead of drawn by hand: cellular automata generate unit towers, the best are selected as the shell, and a space city takes shape around four zones and walkways in zero gravity.

2026 / Speculative urbanismOpen project

Triangle Commons

A multi-purpose building for the New York Botanical Garden: triangular pavilions on slender columns, rotated off one triangular grid, stepping down a slope to the water and bridging the road beside it.

Spring 2025 / Studio / Multi-purpose buildingOpen project

From Urbanity to Nature

A wine culture community on the last unbuilt stretch of Porto’s Douro riverfront: vineyards, orchards, a winery, homes and a hotel woven into the park, so the journey to port wine ends inside the city.

Urban designOpen project

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