Master of Architecture by SIMPLE

PORTFOLIO Cheng Peiyu

SELECTED WORKS 2016-2021 C_peiyu043@126.com

Applying for Master of Architecture

To Design Space is to Design Light ——Louis Isadore Kahn

CONTENTS 01

Lightness and Vitality

Mechanical Arm

Sneaker experience hall

Robotic Fabrication

Embrace the Nature Funeral home

Shelter

Interlock

Other Works

Stadium

Mountain building

3d Robotic caly print、Chair、Sketch、 Watercolour

01 Lightness and Vitality Sneaker experience hall Academic work / Individual Work Location: Changsha,China Building type: Public buildings Date:3/2020-8/2020(B. Arch Year4) Tutor: jingjing Shan At the beginning, I want to find a place to activate this city. Therefore, this building is designed for the Surrounding residents running and walking, which can bring energy to the city For the vitality, I opt for the function to illustrate this. Besides, people are able to see the sceneries which include the city and the local river view when they run on the platform of this building. For the lightness, I choose the steel structure to support the whole building. On top of that, the truss to lift the whole building and the cable lifts the runway, which represents the subject. Note: This project was finished at Hunan University of Science and Technology

SITE PLAN This site is located in the Changsha. To begin with, there is a river which is named Xiangjiang river locating in the west of the site. On the east side of the site are commercial and residential areas, and on the south side of the square is connected with the sidewalk and the surrounding area. There is also a bus stop on the east side of the site.

SITE PICTURE

SITE ANALYSIS

Road

River

Connection

Remain most trees

THE USING FREQUENCY Elederly people Officer Students

Times

21 E l e d e r l y p e o p l e 17 a l w a y s w a l k a n d17 relax. 13 13 Officer choose to b u y t h e co f fe e and breakfast and snacks. Students will buy breakfast and shoes in the building.

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Time Time

THE ACTIVITY ANALYSIS Breakfast

(7.30-10.30)

Lunch

(12.00-13.30)

Afternoon tea (12.00-13.30)

Dinner

(17.30-20.30)

After dinner (20.30-24.00)

FLOW STUDY

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People

The flow of Landscape The flow of pedestrian The flow of runner

SPATIAL MODE

Runner

Pedestrian

Coffee Bar Sitting and Playing with sand

Drinking water

Shoe experience shop Sea

Observation Platform People can let their children play with sand. Meanwhile, they could go to the observation platform to enjoy the scenery

Running way

Shoe experience shop Everyone comes to here can gather in this building. They can drink coffee and buy shoes at the second floor . At the second floor, there is a place for picking up shoes

There are two running rails beside the buildings for people to pass quickly. Also, people can run up the building and have a bottle of water.

INTERIOR SPACE On the first floor, people can experience different coffee scenes, such as coffee take-out and sitting drinking coffee

Male, female from shoe cabinet colour differentiation. Sneakers are arranged from bottom up in sizes from large to small

Take away

Coffee and relax

Pick up shoes Eat in

Female

Male

THE PLANS

Second floor

First floor

1.Cafe Bar 2. Storage 3. Waiting room 4. The observation platform 5. The counter 6. Sneaker experience hall 7. Running space

SECTION PERSPECTIVE VIEW

SHOE EXPERIENCE HALL

People can use the running sapce to pick up the suitable shoes 10

COFFEE BAR

People enjoy the spare time in the coffee bar 11

STRUCTURE DESIGN

Steel roof

Concrete column

The steel cable

Steel truss Concrete beam

Ramp

Glass curtain wall

Wood wall

SIGHTSEEING ROUTES

The view of Changsha city and the square

The broad view of Xiangjiang river in the slope and the building

The broad view of Xiangjiang river in the second floor 13

02 Mechanical Arm Cutting foam Location: Shanghai, China Type: Computational design Date:10/2021-12/2021 Role: Individual Work Advisor: Tobby This project is to use different procedures to finish robot fabrication. The first step is to assemble a robotic arm and design a dynamic model in grasshopper. Following this, the Firefly connects with phone to achieve interaction with robot arm, which will let people use the remote-control methods to finish their fabrication. In a word, this project will improve the ability to do things, and actually build things. More importantly, this technology and tool extremely aids people to finish their idea and make their idea become more real. In the future, the robot arm is really a good tool to design and get a real items for people to finish some fantastic ideas. Note: This project, named Open Project 199，is finished at Studio Alpha in Shanghai, China.

Robot Arm Components First of all, sorting, assembling all kinds of parts, this process is a test of practical ability. 1st axis components

The steering gear

Circuit control panel

Six Axis Robot arm Assemble

The construction of Grasshopper procedure Dynamic model Robot arm construction

Robot protection

Signal transport

aixs length construction end effector design

maximum angle

Firefly control (signal on / off)

minimum angle

Transport angle

Caculate the angle

Max / Min

Six Axis Robot arm system in Rhino This is six axis robot m o d e l s y ste m i n grasshopper, which is constructed by g r a s s h o p p e r. B y using the firefly, people can connect digital with reality. Meanwhile, people are able to make use of the robot arm to do different tasks in constructing . 16

Print panel

Polar coordinate

Robot arm length

Dynamic model

Six axis robot arm

Route Trajectories and Angle Changes 1

2 α4=327° α6=55°

α3=92°

3 α4=329° α6=63°

α3=96° α5=117°

α5=125° α2=98°

α2=108°

α4=291° α3=109°

α2=98°

α6=62°

α5=118°

α2=98° α1=113°

α1=119°

α4=294° α6=62°

α3=108°

α1=101°

α4=243°

α3=105°

α6=70°

6 α4=233°

α3=103°

α6=54°

α5=109°

α5=118°

α2=108°

α2=92° α1=100°

α1=81°

α5=126°

α1=69°

End Effector design & Working Space Steering gear Explosion of end effctor

Arm support plate

Extra experiments

Writing Words

Using TouchOSC

The experiments of cutting & Thinking

After several experiments, this robot arm cannot keep stable in some small places. It will cause the error on the surface, which will not allow the bubbles to fit well together.

The reason of the problem By analysing the desk robot arm, there are several problems on the structural design. The first one is that 2nd axis is removed into error place. At the same time, the steering gears also have angle errors. Furthermore, the fourth and fifth axis are not in right point. Lastly, the end effector is too long to cut the foam. Shooted on workshop Reason 1

The standard model Reason 2

2nd axis shifting

4th axis shifting shake

Reason 3

Reason 4

shake

5th axis shifting

End effector shaking

Development After that, I come out a way to try to reduce the errors, which is to hold the foam block with the robot arm, and then fix the hot electric knife, and make some artistic cuts as much as possible. Then, I need to rebuild the movement of the robot arm.

End Effector design & Working Space

Foam model Compared with the hand cutting, I find that this tool is not suitable for cutting and doing the fabrication. Hand cutting can achieve more smooth lines on the surface. T h e re fo re , i n t h e future, I want to use more advanced robot arm to achieve the fabrication. Hand cutting

Robot arm cutting

03 Embrace the Nature Funeral home Academic work / Individual Work Location: Xiangtan, China Building type: Public buildings Date:12/2019-2/2020(B. Arch Year4) Tutor: jingjing Shan The design of the funeral home initially address the issues of how to link the building to temple on the south side of the site , to better integrate the building with the surroundings and to create the sacred atmosphere of the funeral home. There is an axis which is used to connect the building with the temple. Besides, the pond on the east side is introduced into the building, allowing the building to interact with nature. In addition, because Chinese people are introverted, and the funeral home is also a place with introverted and serious sense, walls are used to create a sense of enclosure around the building, creating a kind of atmosphere of chinese garden, and echoing with the landscape. Finally, in order to strengthen the sacred atmosphere, windows on the building's facade are vertical. As the sacred light is always vertical in people's mind, the windows are designed in this way. Note: This project was finished at Hunan University of Science and Technology

SITE ANALYSIS The site is in Yuhu District Xiangtan city, Hunan Province. It is not very far from my university. But the two road has lots of noise. Also, sun light can be the design point in this building. It influence the elevation of my building. The axis informs a good connection with the site and the traditional temple. In addition, the surroundings can be a part of my building. For example, the pool can be expanded and the trees can be an element in this funeral home.

Sun-path

Tree coverage

Noise

Nodes

Edges

Routes

Views

Axis

Wind

People density

Temple

Site

Pool

Road

CONCEPT ANALYSIS

On the south of the site is the main road .On the east of the site is the minor road. Office

The wall can add an introverted feeling.

Family meeting space

main function

When it comes to how to deal with the surroundings , people and building in a harmonious way, Tang Dynasty painter Tang yin “Step Stream Map” gives an answer. The mountain represents the sloping roof and most different natural mountains. The second spatial is the river. It is divided into pond and plants. The wall has an introverted feeling, catering The function connects with the surroundings for the topic of building.

Considering the secondary space need link with the axis , the box is stretched.

FUCTION ANALYSIS

Temple

A traditional place of worship or prayer

Entrance hall Chapel

A place for people waiting and consulting

A small place for memory the dead people

Ceremonial room Waiting room Incinerator

A formal place mourning over a person's death

Waiting and taking the ashes of their loved ones

A place where ashes are burned

Mountain

The natural environment in site

Archives room Office room Kitchen

A place to store data

A place for staff working and leisure

Resturant and bar Flower house

A place for family eating and staying together

A place growing natural plants and relieving sadness

The first picture shows the sloping roof link to the surroundings in a natural way. It can echo with the mountains. Also, this picture shows the entrance of the building which is solemn. It is because the stone surface can create a feeling of the entity. Besides, the three main boxes have a good connection with the south of the temple.

N 0 5 10

The second picture of this funeral home shows the family meeting room and the flower house. These two rooms are surrounded by the pond. When people look at the pond , they can ease the pain of losing a loved one by the peaceful scenery. In addition , the elevation of this two boxes are looked like carved stone. It increases the feeling of people walking across the mountain.

Courtyard

Ceremonial room 28

Entrance hall

Chapel

The top of the picture shows the main axis of funeral home. And this axis becomes a main story line in this building. Most importantly, the axis has lots of chinese garden elements--trees, water and rockery. All of these elements have a good connection with nature. 29

04 Shelter Stadium Academic work / Individual Work Location: Changsha, China Date:9/2020-12/2020(B. Arch Year5) Building type:Public buildings Tutor：Jian Zhang To begin with, the concept comes from Xiangjiang which is the mother river of Changsha. Therefore, the connection between river and roof is the main aim of the design. By analysing changes in water, the roofs have different shapes. Besides, when students meet terrible weather , the roof can be the shelter of them. They can avoid the trouble of strong sunlight and rain through the roof. Finally, After considering the flow of people, the roof with eight raised corners becomes the entrance for different pedestrians. In addition, through these roofs, people can enjoy the different scenery inside the school as they walk around the ring road. Note: This project was finished at Hunan University of Science and Technology

SITE PLAN

The project is located in Wangcheng District, Changsha City, Hunan Province. The east, west, and south sides of the plot are all used by the school. On the north side is the city’s secondary arterial road.

INSPIRATION

Xiangjiang River

Wind blows water

Put down one stone

Put down two stone

Fan

Glass

Roof

Plane

Glass

Calm water surface The roof originates from the Xiangjiang river. The water wave form the shape of the whole building. Everything comes from the nature.

MODEL OPTIMISATION First, the relationship between water and the sheltered body study of water through an origami model, and surface then gradually changed the model.

Study of roof

ROOF TRANSFORMATION

step1

step2

step3

step4 Through the elements found in the water, the topology is carried out, and then raised to form an arch, forming a sheltered space, and then optimizing the shape.

step5

step6

step7

FLOW STUDY

1. Hall 2. Medical room 3. Clinic 4. Office 5. Competition control room

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6. Arbitration recording room 7. The gym 8. Martial arts training room 9. VIP lounge 10. Lounge of referee 11. Communication room 12. Office of journalist 13. Press office 14. Fire control room 15. Athletes lounge 16. Indoor basketball court 17.Timing control room

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18. Electronic control room

-0.600

19. Broadcast room 20. Store 21. Billiards room 22. Machine room 23. Viewing hall 24. Table tennis room 25. Equipment room 26. Viewing corridor

N 0 1

First floor

The entrance of audience

The whole design consider the flow of people and the function to satisfy the fundamental using of the stadium. Furthermore, considering the different view of the indoor space, there are four views at the second floor. In these sections, these can indicate the transparency of stadium and different views of the school .

Down

17 UP

Down

0 1

The entrance of audience

Second floor 34

Third floor

Top of VIP hall

West platform view

East platform view

Indoor view

INTERIOR SPACE

The top grid provides lighting for the indoor basketball space, and light flows on the pure white curved surface inside. When time changes, the light and shadow on the ground also have a hazy feeling.

ROOF STRUCTURE

The steel follow the structural line forming the whole roof.

A-A SECTION

Surface layer: 1:1 cement mortar Protective layer: 40mm c20 fine stone concrete (with Φ8 steel) waterproof layer: 2mm waterproof roll Leveling layer: 20mm roll 1:3 fine stone concrete Insulation layer: 40mm semi-hard mineral wool boardroll Structure layer: 480mm concrete face plate Paint layer: 20mm cement mortar

The section shows the structure and interior space. More importantly, the profile reflects the relationship between the gymnasium and the surrounding facilities, making people appreciate the building better. 37

05 Interlock Mountain building Academic Work / Individual Work Location: Zhang jiajie, China Building type: Public buildings Date:10/2020-11/2020(B. Arch Year5) Advisor: Xiaotang Tang This project is located in the zhangjiajie which has lots of gorgeous scenery. At the beginning, the concept comes from “Interlock”. By using the word, cubes have lots of forms. These cubes transfer from 15*15*3mm to15*15*15mm space. The whole process reflects the use of relatively flat spatial language to expand to three-dimensional space. It represents the succession of thinking. Finally, the final model based on the space composition is adapted to the requirements of the site and the scheme. The site selection is the cliff of Zhangjiajie, and the program is the observation deck. Note: This project, named Open Project 144&155, was finished at Studio Alpha in Shanghai, China.

INTERLOCK Interlock is the language of the model. All of these steps transfer the model from flat to vertical. At the first step, the sketches gradually evolve from the line to the cube. And the inspiration comes from Piet Mondrian. Secondly, the models have different shapes from diverse

Sketches

Piet Mondrian

Sketches

space. These models evolve by using the cube and small piece of wall to create different space. Lastly, the last model adapts to the site to form a unique observation deck, becoming a huge building.

15*15*3mm(STEP1)

15*15*3mm(STEP2)

15*15*6mm(STEP3)

Using the interlock

Making them more conncted

Joining a piece of the wall&breaking the sense of closure

15*15*15mm(STEP4) 40

Enhancing the sense of extension

15*15*15mm(FINAL) Making the model light and adding complexity

ADAPTATION In this step, by improving the final model of interlock, the language is applied to the cliff as a viewing platform to enjoy the surrounding scenery. The entire viewing platform is built against the mountains and the sea, with beautiful scenery.

The model(1:100)

The plan(1:1000)

Through the construction of solid models, the internal space of the building is considered, and a rich view form is obtained. The entire model is built with 1:100, topological language is performed on a 42*40*25 square box, through interlock, to create a shared space, and some independent spaces

The plan rendering

The section(1:1000) 41

06 Other Works

Graphic statics Chair design

3D Robotic clay printing KUKA Robot arm

Watercolour

Landscape、Ancient Building

Sketch Still life

Graphic statics By using the principle of graphic method of statics, this design will create a chair for people to use. From several steps of studying the force diagram, the chair is designed in a suitable form.

2D FORCE DIAGRAM

Step1

Step2

Step3

Step4

Step5

Step6

Step7

Final

2D FORM DIAGRAM

Force diagram

3D FORCE DIAGRAM 3D FORM DIAGRAM

Form diagram

3D INTERNAL LINES

The chair concept

Fibre rope

Foam Store items

Young people

The elderly

3D print model (1:20)

Individual work Advisor: Tobby Note: This project, named Open Project 199， is finished at Studio Alpha in Shanghai, China 11/2021

3D Robotic Clay Printing

Preparation

Print plane definition

Simulation

Studying the form of line

Testing 3d construction

Group work Location: Shanghai, China Tutor:Zheng Kangyi Team members: Cheng Peiyu, Liu Yumeng, Wang Zichun, Yang Ye, Luo Linxiao, Sunne Mei Role: Design, plan route, prepare caly 12/2021

Watercolour

Architecture Art(3) Watercolor 2017 Winter

Basic course of architectural design Watercolor painting 2016 Autumn

Architectural art(2) Sketch 2017 Autumn

Sketch

CHENG PEIYU

Address: Changsha, Hunan Province, China E mail: C_peiyu043@126.com TEL: +86 19118915560

Education 09/2016 - 06/2021

Architecture | Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST) Bachelor of Engineering

Scholarship 03/2020 03/2019 12/2018 03/2018

3rd Prize Scholarship for 2019-2020 Academic Performance 2nd Prize Scholarship for 2018-2019 Academic Performance 2nd Prize Scholarship for 2017-2018 Academic Performance 3rd Prize Scholarship for 2016-2017 Academic Performance

Internship 06/2021 - 09/2021

Intern Century Chief International Architecture Design Co., Ltd (CCIAD) Attended three projects: Hebei Wuqiao Acrobatic Art School Expansion Project, Urban Design Around Lujia Station of Rail Transit Line S1, Jiangsu Province, and Design of Anle Kindergarten in Dongcheng District, Beijing. Contributed for preliminary study, modeling and drafting.

05/2020 - 08/2020 07/2019 - 08/2019

Intern Hunan Architectural Design Institute Limited Company Participated in planning and design of the second phase of preferential commercial housing in Pingtang, Intelligent networked automobile inspection headquarters and industry incubation base project design, and Dream·Fenglin Bay real estate construction drawing design. Mainly worked on preliminary research, project analysis and computer graphics.

Design Experience 03/2021 - 06/2021

Workshop 12/2021

The 2021 Hunan Colleges and Universities Joint Graduation Design Project of Architecture and Urban-rural Planning Majors Excellence Award / Designer Individual Project: Extension Project Design of Yiyang Normal University Institute for Advanced Study

Creative of Robotic Arm, Digital Fabrication and Man-Machine Interaction

Design, plan route, prepare caly Group work: 3D Robotic Clay Printing Organized by Tongji University, Gensler, and People's Government of Yangpu District, Shanghai

Activity 11/2017

Research 11/2020

10/2020

A Poster for the Joint Exhibition of the Theme of the Chinese Dream Winning Award / Designer Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST)

Construction Economics and Management Excellence Award / Writer, Researcher Individual Project: Construction Economics and Management Course Practice Report Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST) Introduction to Landscape Architecture Excellence Award / Writer, Researcher Individual Project: Landscape Investigation Report Hunan University of Science and Technology (HNUST)

Skills& Interests Language Interests Software

Chinese – native / English – proficient /French - beginning Table tennis – 5th Place in Changsha Junior Group Competition Vocal music – Grade 9 /Piano /Basketball Proficient: SketchUP, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Rhino, Vray, ENSCAPE Moderate: InDesign, Lumion, Grasshopper, kangaroo, PR, Arduino, Office