Yetao Jiang | UMich 2020 | Architecture Portfolio

PORTFOLIO OF YETAO JIANG Selected Works 2016 - 2020 University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture Master of Architecture

PROLOGUE

What is Architecture for?

- People Architecture exists because of people, and people must get involved in architecture. They are interdependent relationships. Both architecture and people are independent and self-contained as well, so we call them both self-reliance. People and architecture are the results of respecting the individual and its aesthetic value after the general harmony. For the humanity, it is an indispensable soul display in architecture or in various design fields. The future of architecture must be an interconnected and interdependent society which pursuing its own understanding of aesthetic.

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0 1 D E A R BO R N C I T Y H A L L Architecture Design - Dearborn City Hall of Tomorrow

0 2 M O N D R I A N FO R E S T Architecture Design - Innovative Living Community

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0 3 BO UT I Q U E H O T E L - 3 6 Architecture, Urban Design - Boutique hotel in Champaign

04 APARTMENT Y Architecture, Urban Design - Urban infill apartment

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0 5 T RE E H O U S E A D V E N T U R E Architecture Design - Tree House in Kikapoo Park

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0 6 T RI N I T Y FU R N I T U R E C O L L E C T I ON Furniture Design - Light, Table, Chair

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07 THE WILD PEAR GARDEN Furniture Design - UIA-CBC Construction Competition

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OTHER WORKS Internship in Tianhua Internship in CCDI Photography and Caligraphy

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01 DEARBORN CITY HALL UMich_ARCH 552 Design Studio - Accessing Dearborn, a City Hall of Tomorrow Instructor: Tsz Yan Ng Site: Dearborn, Michigan, US Individual Work * 2019 Taubuman College Student Show

Beyond the historical model of city hall as an edifice to demonstrate authoritative power, city halls today as civic institutions demand access. This comes in many forms, and in this case the access to food becomes one of the solutions.With today’s information technology, where one can deal with most municipal transactions electronically, there is a pressing question as to the status or role that City Hall s plays to both anchor administrative services as well as be the physical landmark in the age of digital technology. By the accessing to the variety kinds of food services,it will bring people together and reinscribe the necessity of City Halls as civic institutions.

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Segregated from downtown Dearborn

by Michigan Avenue, the whole site is

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solve the local dinning problem and

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also attract the public by food. Starting from the underground plaza which 4

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Indoor Food Stall

serves as the place for farmers’ mar-

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at the back of the building. Following

Food Truck Area

CONVENIENVE STORE CONVENIENVE STORE

the Z shape ramp up to the third floor,

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there’re the dining hall which can connects to the council chamber and a

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FLOOR PLAN

Fourth floor has a council chamber and its lounge on the left

Third floor is divided into two parts. The right part is for differ-

second floor consists of administration office, attorny office,

First floor is half Governmental

corner, as well as different department offices and a roof garden.

There are two balconies on the north part also provides the out door space.

bussiness office, education office and city clerk. Provides the workers an open and continuous working space.

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ent governmental departments and the left part has a cooking studio and dinning room w hich connects to the council chamber.

building and half indoor food stall area, the courtyard in the middle provides citizens a public gathering place and connects to a embedded stair continues to the third floor.

CIRCULATION

PARAMETERIZATION

There are four vertical circulation paths go through the building. The two white lines represent the egress stairs and the elecator which located at the opening in the south facade. The other one is the embedded stair round the center courtyard, the stair as long as the large z shape ramp stair at the back conncects the first floor food/grocery area with the third floor dinning/cooking area.This make a complete and continuous circulation for the public to access for food as well as the civic institutions

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Farmer’s Market

MESSING

Outdoor Food Stall

Indoor Food Stall

Dearborn It has the largest Arab population in the US, so the concpet start with the “Kaaba” which is the shape of a cube. While creating a courtyard bring can more option to the public space. The revealing is the main method to shape the mass of the building, which also is the metaphor to reveal the public which gathering be itself a response to the desire to have more meaningful engagement as a community and to solicit active involvement for local governance.

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02 MONDRIAN FOREST UMich_ARCH 672 Design Studio - innovative and future oriented medium density Instructor: Mick Kennedy, Kit McCullough Site: Detroit, Michigan, US Group Project: Yijia Liu, Yubei Song

Nowadays, architects can use a variety of mechanical methods to control the climate environment in the buildings they design. Therefore, it has become a general trend to rely entirely on engineers and their equipment to obtain comfortable climatic conditions in building spaces. However, it seems to have undesired side effects: Not only does the initial cost of the building increased significantly, but the smooth operation of man-made systems also requires regular and expensive maintenance. While it is impossible for architects to reject what modern technology can bring a comfortable dwelling place, we as architects, should think about how to make human survive, adapt, get used to and even appreciate the environment they live in through the design itself. Also when modern cities have gradually lost their “roughness”, human life has been completely covered by science and technology, everything has become smooth and regular, individuals have been drowned out by larger urban narratives, and life with temperature is disappearing. Where is the boundary between people? How can life be presented? So our thesis focuses on how the design of architecture can tackle the natural phenomenon and create a living community with focus on residents’ everyday life and their relationships.

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Mondrian Forest Floor Plan

Site in east of the Dequindre Cut entry and the Eastern Market

Between Chene and Dubois Street, overlooking Gratiot Ave.

Design for living, working, and the communities and urban context.

Inspired by Mondrian, we applied the site to a natural subject the principles of cubist composition that is in the process of assimilating and working out in a partucular way.The site is divided into six small clusters, within each cluster, there is a community kitchen, two shared bathroom and a couple incremental housing. Each cluster is connected with catwalk on second floor and third floor in order to in crease interaction between the residential areas.

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Unit Typology

The residential housing unit is incremental housing type. Houses will continue to change with the changes of family structure, city and society. The traditional big family life model has gradually been replaced by small families. Families made up of three or less members have become the majority, and even one-person homes have increasingly appeared.

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Social Agenda

The type of residence originally designed for the extended family model is no longer suitable for the status quo or future development. We want to extend the concept of home and life to various spaces in the city by building a shared community to meet the needs of people in the city at this stage and in the future.

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Community Kitchen Wall Section

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Community Bathroom Wall Section

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the sharing economy,

shared communities are not necessarily cheap or convenient. Its value lies in forming a new family model belonging to this era, providing people with more possibilities for new relationships. Even if there is no blood relationship or marriage relationship, people can share life in it. Through this design, the individual’s home is no longer closed, and people are liberated from their private living spaces, so that people and people can meet here.

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We use three main Materials:

Bricks, Wood and Polycarbonate. Our wall system is also based on different materials: Thickest walls are double bricks with insulations and radiation pipes in it It is about 16 inches thick. These walls are located near Kitchen and Bathrooms.

The other kind of brick wall is the one without radiation pipes in it. It’s about 12 inches thick.

The wood walls are mainly for residential area. it is about 6 inches thick with finishes inside.

And thepolycarbonate is used for temporary and incremental walls. It is about 3 1/8 thick.

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Courtyard Area

Shadow Analysis

Void of Roof

Cross Steel Column

Tree-shape Column

Tree-shape Column(with pipe)

CANOPY OF MONDRIAN FOREST The canopy in Mondrian Forest is separated from residential part, serves as shading and water collection system, aiming to create another layer of weather in Detoit. There’s 3 kinds of panels in canopy to make full use of sunlight: solar panel, glass panel and just grid. While structed by 3 kinds of column, the canopy system allow direct sunlight in winter, cast shadow in summer and collect rainwater without affecting the shade.

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Let's go to Eastern Market

7:00 am

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I prefer coffee...

Come and have a cup of tea

Beautiful garden!

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I'll invite my friends to cook

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Take a walk after dinner

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Let's go home now

What a warm hot spring~

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ONE DAY IN MONDRIAN FOREST When the virtual network is infinitely involved in human daily life through the thrust of the era, whether the city should still be designed according to functionalism is a question that needs to be considered. Architecture or urban space does not need to assume specific functions in the future, it should exist as a carrier of people's life memories. Although digital technology can facilitate human life, people still belong to the real world, and virtual is just a way and service. In the future, buildings should become shared spaces that retain memories and temperature, and reconnect individualized people in the city.

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Original Site Extra Site Illini Grove Park is a great Champaign offers the best of urban life in a friendly, smaller option for outdoor activities and city. With a world class get-togethers. university 2000ft and a vibrant 4000ft 6000ft downtown, Champaign offers arts, culture, and diversity like no other city our size.

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World-leading academic programs, life-saving 8000ft research and innovations, and Big 10 champions.

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CHAMPAIGN REDESIGN

Hotel

Illinois_ARCH 475, ARCH 374 Design Studio - planning for the provision of municipal services Instructor: Christina Bollo, Annamarie Bliss Site: Champaign, Illinois, US

Farmer’s Market

Individual Project

Apartment

The latest trend “surban” denotes the sweet spot between city living and suburban space that millennials and young families are migrating to. A surban neighborhood typically provides the most sought after features and facilities from both urban and suburban living.The site downtown Champaign is the heart of a lively entertainment scene with restaurants and pubs, a full service hotel, parks, outdoor cafes and much more. With a blend of old and new, the district has quickly emerged as a favorite destination shoppers and diners.The majority of people will opt to rent instead of own homes, ramping up the demand for single-family rentals. Contradictory to the redevelopment of urban downtowns, the suburbs will bring at least 80 percent of the oncoming wave of new households as younger families seek urban facilities combined with more child friendly housing and strong education offerings typically associated with the suburbs. Surban areas were previously referred to as “mixed-use” developments and are the hot topic amongst the real estate trend predictors. So the dowtown Champaign project invovle the urban palnning of exploring the city’s surban factors on their own, such as the presence of summer festivals, concerts and street festivals. While also provides the dowtown with includes three buildings: boutique hotel, farmer’s market and apartment, each in different use. Seperated but also connect to each other in a way that can improve diversity of the city blocks .

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Boutique hotel 36 is characterized by and local personality, it tend to be sm intimate vibe, allowing hotel teams t and experiences. boutique hotel 36 edge of the local neighborhood and munity where the boutique resides. of curious vacationers, so properties from cultures represente

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UE HOTEL-36 Studio - surveys the conof hospitality spaces

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y its small size, personalized service maller in size, which results in a more to deliver customized guest services offer a hotel team with deep knowlhigh-end design to reflect that comFood is also important to this group s strive to provide authentic options ed in the neighborhood.

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Available Site

The site Is situated on a corner lot, where circulation is an Important feature to consider

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The south facade of the building is pushed in to better accommodate traffic, pedestrians, and a new bus stop

Courtyard

The roof slab is pushed slightly down in the center to accommodate for a funnel that will be a key feature

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Necessary Height

The boundaries of the site are extruded to the necessary height that fits the program’s needs and avoids becoming an obtrusive mass

Receding Facades

The facades of the building are set back to create ribbon windows, as well as exterior balconies around the perimeter

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A rain screen facade is implemented to gather and direct precipitation downwards, while also creating a unique ‘wave’ effect

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Hotel Floorplan Within a round circulation, guests can have two options of room type. One has the windows facing the West and South side, provides the guests with the great view of downtown Champaign. The other has the windows facing the inner garden with a focus on the naturallandscape, utilizing plants, rustic stone, and water. Instead of bright color and symmetry, the garden focus on green foliage and natural shapes of plants. The design of the gardens creates an extraordinarily peaceful and tranquil environment.

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The model of the hotel 36 in the autumn season

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Inside the hotel, a delicate garden is b In our busy life, we always want a mo area, can provide everyone a momen enjoy the beauty of

Chimney Effect Strength natural vantilation and adjust the temperature of the building.

Air Quality North and east facade bring fresh air in and garden in the mid improve the air quality.

Green Roof Green roof can reduce the air temperature and improve the air quality.

Water Reuse Landscape and greeroof capture rain water that can reuse by building.

Sun-Shade Facade The facade is made up of thermal insulation, sun protection and light incidence glass.

built in the center of the ground floor, which is the spirit of the hotel. oment of quietude, and this garden, located in the center of the busy nt of tranquility. In addition, a roof garden is also built for people to f nature and the view of the city at the same time.

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Engineered Soil Paver With Shim Moisture Retention Layer Thermal Insulation Drainage Layer Root Barrier

Wood Curving Grille Outside: Double Lyaer Of Low E U-Profile Glass Units With Translucent Insulation

U-Factor = 0.27 Solar Heat Gain Coefficient = 0.28 Visible Transmittance = 0.51 Condensation Resistance = 58

Inside: Single Layer Laminated Glass Wall System Intermediate Channel Slip Connection Pin Connection Integral Blind System Closed-Cell spray foam (R value 6/inch)

Concrete Slab Granular capillary break and drainage pad

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W 6x25 Beam Crossing Bracing Steel Girder W 12 x24 Column

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04 APARTMENT Y Illinois_ARCH 374 Design Studio - innovative and future oriented medium density Instructor: Annamarie Bliss Site: Champaign, Illinois, US Individual Project

Suburban land is becoming increasingly scarce, and rural land is being pushed to inaccessible distances. Meanwhile, it’s more attractive than ever to live and work in the city, and less desirable to be stuck in traffic. One of the most successful solutions that we’re seeing in the built environment is urban infill. Apartment Y is an urban infill apartment near the campus and since young people are about to overtake Baby Boomers as the largest adult generation, it’s essential to consider what apartment features this particular demographic is looking for. When it comes to enticing younger renters, there are two categories of apartment features need to consider: individual amenities and communal amenities.For examples: modern appliances, fast wi-fi, plenty of storage, in-unit washer and dryers, smart home tech, pet-friendly, commercial parcel lockers and so on. Apartment Y is aim for the young people group and is designed to distinguish from other apartment complexes.

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Ground Floor Plan

Typical Floor Plan

1.Dancing Studio 2.Mini Theater 3.Meeting Room 4.Restroom 5.Storage Room 6.Elevator 7.Stair

1.Livingroom 2.Kitchen 3.Restroom 4.Bedroom 5.Livingroom/Bedroom 6.Elevator 7.Stair 0’

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Theatre / Apartment

Park Creations

Restaurant

Playground

Suburban land is becoming increasingly scarce, and rural land is being pushed to inaccessible distances. Meanwhile, it’s more attractive than ever to live and work in the city, and less desirable to be stuck in traffic. One of the most successful solutions that we’re seeing in the built environment is urban infill. Apartment Y is an urban infill apartment near the campus

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Apartment Y provides different types of room type that satisfied different kinds of people. Also the dancing studio and mini theatres providing young people places to meet with new friends and have fun. A comfort and fun living condition is what Apartment Y always bring to its residents.“Minimalism� is the spirit that support this apartment. The basic shape of the building and the windows on the facade is rectangle. The idea of simple is also the lifestyle that I hope this apartment can bring to its residents.

A simple life, a better life.

Outdoor Bar

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Outdoor Bar: Outdoor Bar: Using the Using the interspace interspaceofoftwo buildings, create a place two buildings, create a for people to enjoy place for people to enjoy

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05 TREE HOUSE ADVENTURE Illinois_ARCH 373 DESIGN Studio - Revitalise through the contact with forest and people Instructor: Jeffery S. Poss Site: Champaign, Illinois, US Individual Project

The overall goal of tree house adventure is to provide the public a better experience with closer immersion inside the forest. The walkway Experience aims improve accessibility to the forest while minimizing landscape disturbance.People can have intimate access to the great nature in different height, children can make houses for squirrels, sing with birds and enjoy the sunshine glistening through the leaves.

Also at the side of the walkpath are six tree houses which can help people better enjoy the forest.

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Openable glass doors fill the compact space with light and creates an immediate connection with the forest outside. The interior is outfitted with bright and modern finishes along with a kitchenette with a drink fridge and wine cooler. The tree house has enough room for a bed and chairs.In accordance with the overall sustainability plan, the accommodations have minimal impact on the surrounding eco system. Natural materials and lots of daylight further the experience and help immerse the guests in the forest.

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Site map of Kikapoo Park

The body of water

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06 TRINITY FURNITURE COLLECTION UMich_ARCH 562 Design Studio - Accessing Dearborn, a City Hall of Tomorrow Instructor: Mick Kennedy Individual Work

This studio proposes that the design and fabrication of furnitures may serve as a fertile arena for the exploration and clarification of ideas pursuant to larger and more integrated architectures. The trinity furniture involve the a series of design fabrication projects that provided the collective setting for large Dinner Party at semester’s end. The design of each furnitrue engaged a different set of material and fabrication processes and the integration of a range of levels of craft. The parameters given for the design of each object roots the work in the artifact itself and also in the relational thinking in regards to larger architectural questions surfaces, joints, tectonics, form and space. And equally important: their use both singularly and in combination.

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T.124.1 FLOOR LAMP DIMENSIONS W 2 x D 2 x H 5.6 ft MATERIALS & FINISHES solid poplar wood, zinc u-joint, steel frame PRODUCT DESCRIPTION The shape was inspired by the three triangle (“Triciclici” in Italian), with its elegant shape crafted of poli-finished poplar structure comprising a triangle base and an LED embedded triangle loop. The floor lamp is complete with a triangle-shaped cap onthe center of the top, which completes the whole shape with intriguing decorative of touch

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Every component is in the number of three

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U-Joint

The idea of the lamp is to make it easy to assemble while maintaining the beauty of the geometric shape of triangle.

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T.360.1 High Table DIMENSIONS

W 4.5 x D 4.5 x H 3.6 ft

MATERIALS & FINISHES

solid poplar wood, red oak wood, steel frame

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Architecture, a pan virtuosity, acrobatic triangle proportions and an intersection of joints. An infinite table which is a geometric dialogue between the poplar and red oak – lightness and abstraction distilled

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The opening of the table top is the same size of the metal piece which breaks the “boundry� between the surface and structue, makes the table more stable and the triangle metal piece prevent the table from over twisting

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Trying to use the minimal structure as the support of the table, The components of the table are also in the number of three, with a triangle metal piece supporting in the center

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T.270.2 Chairs DIMENSIONS

W 18 x D 18 x H 33 in

MATERIALS & FINISHES

Solid poplar wood, steel plate

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The frame is produced from solid poplar in an array of variants designed to emphasise its elegance and enable it to be combined with T.360.1 table. The inclined structure made a obliqued apperance of the chair while it is still maintain an ergonomic design. The multiple potential combinations between the tones of the poplar structure and the various shades of the seat covers make this model extremely contemporary.

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Ergonomic Design

Hidden Joint Structure

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Inspired by 699 Superleggera Chair, the concept is to create a light-weighted chair with the combination of triangle design

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Communal Restaurant Project: Eat With Your Eyes The collection of furniture that is designed and fabricated in the studio provides the setting and a sequence of guests to sit discuss the work and related topics and enjoy a decent meal. The assemble sets of studio projects will form a Communal Restaurant where spatial and visual relationships between the projects are carefully calibrated by the design and location of a set of windows. Rather than a typical end-of-semester review we hosted our inaugural Pranzo di Ferraprile The studio proposes that such a space of the body, of conversation and the sharing of food comprises a fundamental location of our humanness and is an essential ambition of architecture. The communal activities of preparing food, presenting it to another and joining in discussion about our world is an equally essential component of our social lives and a primary responsibility of the architect to design.

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Appetizer - Braised beef shank with salsa verde

Entree - Lemon Seafood Risotto

Dessert - Onsen egg with cherry blossom

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07 THE WILD PEAR GARDEN UIA-CBC International College Construction Competition Type: Urban Design, Cultural Facility Group Project: Central South University *Honored with Third Prize

The 2019 UIA-CBC International College Construction Competition was held by the International Institute of Architects (UIA) as the international organizer. The competition was titled “Liyuan Hut”, and the public space of the village was updated through design to improve the quality of life of the villagers and shape the attractiveness of the village.

Central South University and University of Michigan’s “Wild Pear” plan combines local cultural features to increase the fun of the tour and improve the working environment of the villagers. By design, the fire consciousness of fruit forests, villages and villagers will be activated, and the works will be better integrated into the forest.

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Conceptual idea The site is located in a fruit forest, and the building has been erected to not only cut down the fruit trees of the fruit farmer, but also destroy the local landscape. “Spread� in the fruit forest at different scales, as if the fruit fell into the orchard. The image of the installation must not simply imitate the creation of the image of the pear. We weighed from the tetrahedron to the sphere according to the geometry of the pear, and finally chose the regular tetrahedron as our basic image.

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Structural design The regular tetradecahedron has two types of faces, a square face and an equilateral triangular face.Wild pear can adjust its shape through different combinations of unit cells and the mobility of the surface according to the different use scenarios. Each unit can be given different patterns, which gives us a lot of artistic creation space.

Welding the structure on site

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“花谢花飞飞满天，红消香断有谁怜，游丝软系飘春榭，落絮轻沾扑绣帘”——曹雪芹

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Wild pears integrated into the forest with various sizes and postures

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Baihua Office Building 2018 Summer Internship in Tianhua Building type: High-rise Bilding

Role in Team: Concept Design, Redndering, Revit Documentation, Physical Model , 2D Drawing Site: Shenzhen, China

We hope that this project can become a link between the districts and create a micro circulation activity system within the block. In terms of space shaping, the pedestrian walkway is built into the core space of the building. It is extended in two dimensions, horizontal and vertical, from the ground to the refuge level sky garden, and a variety of shared office spaces are implanted in the passage. Encourage new vitality into the interior of the tower, forming a three-dimensional, diverse, and rich public space system. In terms of internal functions, the new office model that emphasizes sharing requires breaking the boundaries between people, allowing people to meet more conveniently, and promoting collaboration between various departments. The ambiguity of functional boundaries such as office area, discussion area, and rest area will inevitably stimulate more possibilities for activities and stimulate creativity of thinking.

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Shenzhen Longgang Library 2016 Summer Internship in CCDI Building type: Mixed use Role in Team: Detail Drawing, 3D Modeling, Interior Design Site: Shenzhen, China The self-closing public flow line becomes a novel space rule and it becomes an important venue for public activities in the evening. The small square, as an additional space for the architectural theme, can promote and inspire the interaction between citizens. Improvised and spontaneous various civic activities fill the entire block with free breathing, and also show the most precious spirit of autonomy in the city of Shenzhen.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Tadao Ando once said that “light gives beauty a dramatic feeling, and wind and rain add color to life through their effects on the human body. “Architecture is a medium that enables people to feel the existence of nature. And architectural photography teaches people how to open buildings in different ways. When shooting, the light and shadow in the early stage are the main factors, and later the interference of the color on the lines is removed, and the architectural sense of the building is enhanced with black and white.

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CALIGRAPHY

Start practice since six, I believe Chinese calligraphy is a unique art in Chinese traditional culture, and it contains the essence of Chinese culture with its unique expression. Undoubtedly, in the long time of its development, Chinese traditional calligraphy has evolved into an art form with high cultural taste and cultural personality. From content to form to spiritual level, there are common factors with modern architectural design, and they can give architectural design guidance and reference in many aspects.

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YETAO JIANG

YETAO JIANG University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture Master of Architecture, 2020 Candidate morray@umich.edu