Qining Zhang Portfolio for Master program by Qining

QINING ZHANG Tianjin University Selected works from 2015-2019 Applying for Master in Architecture,Post-Professional Master's Degree， Princeton University

I am an ordinary person who grew up in an ordinary family in China, although there are typically not many dramatic experiences and commendable achievements in life. I still feel overjoyed and proud to be a person with curiosity and independent thinking. Before college, I was one of the numerals typical Chinese “good” students that study hard and get good grades, which is our family and school had wished. However, after I get into architecture school, things become different. Math and Physics have the only correct answer but architecture do not, which encouraged us to free our mind and chase the inspiration. We become the creator without limitation. Never the less, no restriction means the greatest restriction. We are so indulged in the expressive artwork-like architecture and the plausible story which saving people in poor financial circumstance. We just underestimated the complexity of reality. One project really awakened me. In a studio, we were told to improve the situation of refugees in Libya. Most of us followed teachers will and inevitably fell into general utopian fantasies which assumes that all technical costs and manpower could be provided by the architect himself then the utopia could be built. However, I find that the problem of the distribution of the benefits between the smugglers and the government here cannot be solved then the refugees would never flee from miserable fates. So I had to take this plan as a copy of reality, creating a beautiful surface-building for the refugees using their value to meet the wishes of the big wigs in the naked exploitation. Therefore, I began to think further and chase for answers not only from the architecture field but also from sociologists and philosophers. From Hobbes’ leviathan to Locke’s Two treatises of Government; from Roland Barth’s structuralism to Derrida’s deconstructionism. All of their theory was different but derived from vast experience and rumination, which remind me that all the judgment and action should be based on extensive observation and independent thinking. In the architecture field is the same, the costly building requires serious investigation and cautious estimates on others’ opinions.

Project 1 Urban Villa in Tokyo Architecture Design Spring 2018

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Project 2 Gallery in Rome Architecture Design Fall 2017

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Project 3 Refugee Camp in Tripoli Urban Design Fall 2019

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Project 4 Construction - Mollusc

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Other works

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Construction Design Fall 2018

As I noticed, Princeton has always been passionate and willing to reach the cutting-edge creative project, however, on the other hand still concentrate on the reality and critical thinking. So I firmly believe that the program at Princeton would let me fully combine the ideal with the reality while telling the grand narrative, I can also go deep into the concrete details, and finally find the answer through independent thinking. 1

URBAN VILLA IN TOKYO Ambiguous Sharing House / Academic Studio / Site : Tokyo, Japan Time : Spring 2018 / Individual Work / Instructor : Xinnan Zhang, Di wang, Manus Leung

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Residential Plus Commercial Kagurazaka is one of the most charming and famous walking streets with a long history in Tokyo. It has been an important commercial area since 1400.

The main road of Kagurazaka was at the outer edge of Edo Castle, opposite the Ushigome bridge over the castle moat, and has always been busy because of this privileged location. Kagurazaka is also widely regarded as an important center of Japanese cuisine within the Kanto region. Several old and famous ryōtei are to be found in the winding back streets, often

accessible only by foot. These provide expensive kaiseki cuisine, generally regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese food.They also allow diners to invite geisha to provide entertainment during the evening. Many shops in the area cater to this culture, especially selling kimono, Japanese sweets, and tea.

Pleasure of Living The traditional town house life style combines pleasure with living and selling. However, the pleasure is lost in the modern type of retailer‘s housing.

Town house is a type of traditional Japanese architecture which has several layers to serve different activities and also contains ambiguous grey spaces like "engawa". Many town houses were replaced by bland apartments because of the land cost and urbanization. People then live in simple and tiny spaces without pleasure of living.

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Return to Classical The whole building has five floors and it is separated into three parts in each floor: a public private garden, a private public commercial space and a transition space. Though from 1f to 5f the living space is reduced while have no commercial space. But the area of the garden is gradually increasing and the privacy level is rising.

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The four households live on four floors that have similar functional configuration but different spatial identities.

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The public garden is a carefully constructed artificial natural environment shared by the four households. The gas inside ETFE pillow can be opaque when the light is too strong. So the summer sunlight becomes soft after being refracted by the ETFE film. However, it also becomes a greenhouse in winter because the gas will be transparent then. The gap

Roof construction: Finish Paint layer 40mm Fine stone concrete rigid protective layer Separating layer 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board separating layer 4mm SBS modified asphalt waterproof membrane min.20mm lightweight concrete with 2% falls 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete Exterior wall construction: Exterior wall waterproof coating Anti-cracking mortar alkali-resistant mesh cloth Profiled steel sheet 10mm Water resistant paper plastic board 50mm Expanded perlite insulation 10mm Water resistant paper plastic board 25mm Waterproof composite floor ETFE movable panel

20mm Marble plate 30mm Cement mortar bounding layer 1.5mm Polyurethane waterproofing layer 20mm 1:3 Concrete mortar leveling 20mm Light aggregate concrete CL7.5 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete Water wax finish layer 20mm Wooden floor 20mm Diagonal wooden floor 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board 30X90 Crosser(spacing 400mm) Moisture proof pad 20mm Concrete leveling 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete 25mm Insulation glass door CB50X20 Type main keel CB50X20 Type secondary keel 10mm Paper plastic board

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at the top allows wind and fresh air to enter the garden, while also allowing rainwater to flow down along the exterior walls and eaves and then water these planets inside . People can see rain fall down from the profiled steel sheet eaves and that phenomenon is similar to the view that Tokyo people had already been watching inside town houses for a long time.

Private Public Garden The interlaced functional arrangement guarantees the privacy of the public garden.

Second floor garden

ETFE pillow board

PTFE corrugated board

Due to the staggered placement of the garden and bathroom, people can see the entire garden's plants without disturbing their neighbor. Residents can observe the whole picture of their own plants, the canopy of the plants below and the shrubs of the residents above. They are not merely just sharing the space itself, but also the environmental elements

including light/shadow/temperature/sound and planet. The gardens link straight to bedrooms so the view can be part of the daily life. Japanese people take much count of bathing process and the bathing atmosphere as well. The bathing room is also placed straight to the garden in order to accommodate this particular spacial requirement.

Public Private Shop The semi-translucent floors make the private commercial spaces become public and inviting.

Shadows and footprints

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Bouble layered translucent floor 1: 16mm Laminated glass 2: 160mm Steel joist with rubber strip 3: 8mm Frosted glass

The translucent floors make the commercial space integrated because people can feel the activities and movements above but they can not precisely understand what is happening there. The commercial space as a whole ensures that the shops on the top would not be ignored and also gives the space a kind of ambiguous feeling.

The floor consists of two layers. The top layer is translucent and the downward layer is blurry glass. There is gap between the two layers which ensures that the shadow will not be distinct and clear. Stairs of each floor start from different directions which give people hints about whether it is allowed to go upstairs or not.

The pleasure of living in high density urban context.

GALLERY IN ROME Translation of Chirico's intranquil mystery / Academic Studio / Site : Rome, Italy Time : Fall 2017 / Individual Work / Instructor : Xinnan Zhang, Di Wang

Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti

Giorgio de Chirico House Museum

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Rome, Preserved Value Rome is a collection of colonnades, arches , narrow streets and shadows.

The project is located near the Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti), next to Giorgio de Chirico's former residence in Rome. The facade of the architecture nearby is reserved properly and the colonnades and the arches which used to be the elements of Chirico's paintings are all combined with each other harmoniously to create a typical landscape of the

city Rome. The streets here are also very narrow and straight so that a lot of shadows are cast while creating a very strong contrast between bright and dark elevations as well as deep one-point perspective views.

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The mysterious feeling of Chirico's works is derived from the departure of the reality, which is achieved by the unreal and unknown elements in the painting.

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains and illogical perspective. Also， his imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Nietzsche and for the

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Giorgio de Chirico 10 July 1888 – 20 November 1978) was an Italian[1][2] artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains, and illogical perspective. His imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Nietzsche and for the mythology of his birthplace.

mythology of his birthplace. His use of deformation of scenography and semiology in his painting can create illusions to make unreal and mysterious feelings. On the other hand, the unknown elements like hints and dark shadows in his works can arouse people's collective memory of terra incognita horror, which also creates a sense of mystery.

After 1919, he became a critic of modern art, studied traditional painting techniques, and worked in a neoclassical or neo-Baroque style, while frequently revisiting the metaphysical themes of his earlier work.

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the sign of something unknown would happen immediately.

The bright light can make the shadow even darker to hide something.

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Responses to Milieu The usage of twisted volumes can be the response to the surroundings, which creates different types of outdoor space.

The East Street is where the main entrance is located, so the wall is parallel to the street in order to force people to look perpendicularly through the entrance and notice the illusion inside. The West Street is more open to the public because the cafe and the public

temporary exhibits are facing it. The volumes form two surrounding spaces for people to come and stay. Also, the angled internal street in directly towards a road to lengthen the scenography illusion.

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Responses to Different Streets Two facades also show different attitudes towards the street

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The west facade has two Conspicuous entrances for public activity and the slope of the roof is shown directly and honestly to the public. However, the east facade has only one obvious entrance and two illogical perspective views, which engages people to get inside and go through all the architecture. In this way, the difference between the facade creates two emotions:

one is inviting and one is mysterious. The two emotions have disparate influences on the urban atmosphere but both of them can attract people to get inside of the architecture.

Enframed Sceneries The project is a stage setting-like architecture that guides people to see several particular scenes in the circulation.

Different Dimensions Different dimensions of architecture elements create a surrealism circumstance of unreal space.

Chapter one: Hall and tower

The icons used here can remind people of daily architecture elements such as clock tower/window and gate, but dimension contrast will make them feel unreal. The colonnade on the left-hand side has a regular dimension while the windows are on different scales. The gates on the righthand side, however, are much larger than normal ones that are just standing beside

them. The noticeable contrast between the several elements is artificially designed into a single scenery to create an odd and mysterious circuitry. What's more, the sunlight will cast shadows directly into the gate and also make a contrast between outside walls and interior spaces.

The first scenery people see when they enter the entrance is an angled courtyard enclosed by four different elements: colonnade/gates/tower and water. The dimensions here are all different and the perspective view is illogical, which will suddenly involve people in an uncertain situation.

Trajection The alternant trajection circulation between two volumes gives people an advanced clue of the spaces they would experience afterward.

Shadow and Light The shadow was comparatively deepened because of the contrast of the bright walls lightened up by the sun.

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The matrix of the columns is the abstraction and duplication of the colonnade which also becomes part of the installation of light downstairs that scatters light into debris and shines onto the sculptures of Chirico. The fragments of the light add a mysterious and odd feeling to the sculpture while also creating a special effect on the exhibition hall.

Roof construction: 15mm Coating pellet protective layer 5mm SBS modified asphalt waterproof membrane 15mm Asphalt mortar screed 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board Separating layer min.20mm Lightweight concrete with 2% falls 800mm Concrete roof panel with squarecrossing beams Column construction: 500X600 Mirror stainless steel 600X600 Bar shaped steel 70X6000X7 U type glass(relatively stacked) Pool Construction Black ceramic tile 10mm 1:3 Cement mortar Multy-layer plastering waterptoof 20mm 1:3 Cement mortar 150mm Reinforced concrete pool floor 150mm C10 concrete panel 125mm Lime soil Plain soil sompactio

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The plaza separates the architecture into two parts: a tranquil gallery and a public contemporary exhibition hall.

The slope and diagonal roof create an illogical perspective view-illusion of scenography.

Chapter three: Plaza and facade

Here people come out and take a break, they will soon recognize that the dimension of the two facades on both sides of the plaza are still not equal, and the vanishing point of them point to different directions. The colonnade will lead people to the final part of the project which is relatively lively and public.

The plaza is directed towards a narrow street. People leaving the gallery will suddenly see the whole picture of the onepoint perspective view of the street with the plaza. However, because of the ascent of the ground as well as the diagonal roof and the angled placement of the volume, the vanishing point is not only one, which causes the illusion of scenography and

makes the whole environment unreal and unfamiliar. In that case, the surrounding is out of the daily experience of people so the intranquil mystery of Chirico's painting is revitalized. After people's going up they will see the entrance of the contemporary exhibition, here they can look back and finally realize the visual trick.

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REFUGEE CAMP IN TRIPOLI Qualified Citizens Generator / Academic Studio / Site : Tripoli, Libya Time : Fall 2019 / Group Work / Instructor : Lifeng Lin Collaborator : Chen Yu, Xingyu Lu Role : Team leader

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The refugees in Tripoli are going through a rough circle where they will lose almost everything, including their lives.

opened the door to refugees due to lack of labor; however, after a series of conflicts between refugees and Western people, this channel has long been closed. But the number of refugees wishing to Europe is continuously increasing, let alone that there has already been a large population of them waiting for months in the concentration camp of smugglers in Tripoli. They will face crowded and shady

Because of long-term disasters and conflicts，people in Central African countries have been flooded into Libya. After the Libyan civil war, these migrants began to use Di Tripoli - the largest port in Libya as a springboard to cross the Mediterranean to Europe via smugglers’ boats in hopes of starting a new life. In the early years, European countries

environments and infectious diseases, as well as abuse and rape. After they are finally caught on a boat that is severely overloaded and inadequate for sanitation to Europe, a considerable number of people will be killed in shipwrecks. Some survivors will be rescued by the European Coast Guard and returned to Libyan officials. They will be held in centralized

Miserable Tour Towards Europe

institutions as smuggling prisoners because the Libyan government has no time to take care of their lives. Conditions here are even worse than before. The local government even secretly sold some young adults and women to smugglers for profit, which also contributed to the appalling slave trade in Libya. A small number of "lucky people" will smuggle

successfully and stay in Europe, but they can only survive by hacking and suffer from discrimination and unfair treatment.

Refugee ALIENATION FOR SURVIVING ! human

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No One Will Pay For Them The only rational way to save refugees from death is to alienate them to make them useful and suitable for the society, which is so similar to the circumstances that we live in.

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‘qualified’ citizen

To improve their standard of living, we first define who the refugees are: for refugee family and friends, they are living people. For the Libyan government and smugglers, they are materialized into commodities, which can be measured by value. People without working capacity are just burdensome. For Western society and international public opinion, they are

digitized and are a series of numerical values. So if we want to establish a refugee utopia or ideal town here, no one will pay for it. To practically improve their living conditions and pull them out, the only possible way is to maximize their usevalue, maximize their output, and turn them into efficient production machines and then they can survive.

Discipline and Punish The alienation of the refugees are accomplished by the Normalizing Judgment, Hierarchical, Observation, Examination in schools, hospitals, houses, and factories.

The normalized ruling refers to the establishment of normalization of behavior/ standardization of institutions through punishment, making people habitual and submissive to and strict and detailed work processes; Hierarchical surveillance is internalized as part of disciplinary practice. In production and teaching activities, surveillance techniques can induce the

effects of power. Hierarchical surveillance is a network of relationships. The power of supervision and discipline is always present, not only between the "institution" and the person being monitored but also between the people monitoring each other; Inspection combines the technology of hierarchical surveillance with the technology of standardized rulings.

Hierarchical Arrangement The entire building complex consists of three sections, corresponding to three distinct discipline systems, and each stage has two to three classes of divisions corresponding to different treatments for management.

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Welcome

Here, no more hunger.

to the family!

The man promised… I would be a qualified citizen However… We are inspected like a commodity.

Monitored.

I’m rated as Class B, though I don’t know the criteria.

Repetitive, mindless labor. Visited by outcomers.

Chapter 1：Demarcation Point Refugees will be first scored and then live in the first section. Here they receive the general education and basic medical care required for basic labor. Managers will rank the refugees based on their performance.

The refugees will become part of this family as soon as they enter the gate. They will initially be quarantined and hand in their clothing. These belongings will be returned to the owner after the final review. They will wear uniforms, bring identification equipment, and be assigned to different dormitories and posts according to the test results. The schools will provide

everyone with basic common sense skills to adapt to daily life in the future. The dormitory is fully open for refugees and supervisors to check and monitor each other. Industries in this area are labor-intensive industries which suitable for workers who do not yet have the expertise and skills to adapt to the working environment faster.

No more freedom.

Having bee working so hard, I apply for the next stage.

Here, I look up to people of Class A every day.

After step-by-step testing and rating, I am classified as Class B, still.

In this area you have to fight to go up

And also I can see the people in the zone C - suffering.

It seems that class C people lives in a prison like apartment

One day, the one who worked below told me what’s happening underground.

Loser will be thrown to the cremator, with no trace.

Chapter 2：Heaven and Hill The Second area separates people into three layers. People in different layers have different facilities and work conditions, which encourages them to work and study harder.

After satisfying all the requirements of mental knowledge and professional skills, refugees can apply for the next stage. The review system is a step-by-step device for testing and rating. The second district is divided into three main strata. The best-performing refugees can learn technical knowledge and theories, and the accommodation conditions are more

comfortable. Their work is mainly to operate production machinery. Middlelevel personnel lives in collective dormitories. They also need to learn theoretical knowledge and work mainly in the deep processing of the textile industry. The conditions of the people at the bottom are relatively crowded, and labor-intensive industries still prevail.

Guess what? An arena where the eliminated grapple for bigwigs to watch.

I don’t want to die.

Countless Advertisements on the billboards. I am tested again, and become Class A finally.

The rail goes around us, viewing us all the time.

Every day the time to wake up is settled Get dreesed Get in line Get to work Get "paid"

You have to work to gain "money" "Money" printed

distributed There’s no school, but a supermarket.

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It teaches me how to be a modern consumer.

What a day!

Chapter 3：Economic Simulator Here is the economical and conceptual imitation of the outside society that they will be living in. We practice them to be the participant and the contributor of the whole system.

People who are familiar with social rules and laws or have a good working standard will go to the third area through auditing. Here they learn systematically about society in the future and its laws and rules. The accommodation environment here is more comfortable, and we imitate the urban landscape to facilitate their minds in the new environment. We also provide

psychological counseling to those who are confused. Their work is more technical and professional, and here they can pick up vouchers after work every day and go to the shopping mall to redeem the goods they want. After they have recognized the operation mechanism of the whole society, they can leave and go to their destination by ferry.

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CONSTRUCTION - MOLLUSC Self - supporting soft construction / Academic Studio / Site : Tianjin, China Time : Fall 2018 / Group Work / Instructor : Zhen Xu, Xuehai Bai, Ye Zhang Collaborator : Dongyu Li, Xi Wu, Jingrou Zhao Role : Team leader

scrunched paper arch

Concept : Why toilet paper stand We studied how toilet paper can support itself when Scrunched. The wrinkle structure pattern was one of the answers.

scrunched paper collection

flattened-out pieces of paper

wrinkle making

results of different bar-layout

Test : wrinkle formation We used hollow sticks and fix them into a paper. After we pulled the string that runs through all the sticks, different wrinkles showed up.

rhombus structure

Discovery : new structure form When the sticks were placed alternately, the paper itself became an arch that can create a space with a long span.

arch-like paper construction

Self-Supportive Soft Structure Our proposal was to create a new kind of structure that could make soft material self - supportive, which is imitating the scrunched paper.

The pattern of scratched toilet paper is tanglesome. As we wanted to find a realistic way to force controllable wrinkles, we had to simplify the messy pattern into a geometrical regular one. At that moment we had already thought about the way of constructing and making wrinkles in real life. We stuck some hollow bars onto the paper and placed them in

different ways. Then we let the lines go through all the hollow bars and then pulled the lines. The bars were shrinkled and began continuous, which held the paper together to force wrinkles. In the end, we found a way of placing the bars and it could form an arch-like structure that could stand still by itself.

Experiment : new material

Construction : trial and error

The paper was fragile so we tried another material PVC and used wood sticks to replace the PVC bar .

irregularity of the wrinkle could damage the integrity and stress flow of the PVC membrane. Also, the wood structure was not able to sustain the high tension of the wrinkle.

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Woodern bar machine engraving

Woodern bar collection

The structure can be simplified into an arch, but actually it is more like a structure of stick systems wich the membrane wrinkles acting as the bars, not the wood.

The structure seemd fine after we finished it. But we found it collapsed the next day morning because the little mistakes and deformation accumulated and the canopy could not sustain its own gravity.

interior view of the arch

outside view

Wrinkles Provide Strength Unlike folded paper, the wrinkle of the PVC membrane has strong tenacity which could provide enough strength for itself to stand.

We noticed that the difference between PVC membrane and paper is that paper is irreversible after the folding line was made. However, the PVC membrane can get back into its original shape, which means that when we forced it into a wrinkled structure, the curve of the structure began the new original form of it and the material volunteered to become an "arch".

flattened plane

" Wrinkles " At that time we thought that there would be a chance to create an automatically built architecture form that the only thing for builders to do is pull the strings.

Weak Point The irregular shape of the construction always contains vulnerable spots that can slowly destroy the whole structure.

irregular shape of the sonstruction After we found the pattern and the structure we started to figure out how to build the construction in real life. We used bars and adhered them to the 2D PVC membrane and use ropes to run through them. After that, we tensioned the ropes and let the structure build automatically.

collapsed the huge tension inside the wrinkle and the uncertainty of the soft material and also the cold weather outside that can freeze the PVC membrane into a solid plastic plane.

The problems that we needed to tackle are

"Uneconomical " Structure

Membrane Can Support Itself

We finally settled the structure into regular shape and also tried to figure out the force principle of the structure.

The most interesting point of the structure is that the soft material is undertaking pressure while the hard sticks are undertaking pull and tension.

"kangaroo" digital model

M6 Lifting eyebolt M5 Nut/washer set M5 Lifting eyebolt M6 Nut/washer set

We also used Kangaroo software to simulate the process of membrane folding under compression. Under the same stress conditions, the membrane in the software presented the same hexagon structure as in reality.

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force analysis The wrinkle of a soft material becomes a solid bar that can buttress the whole system and also because the wrinkle is placed alternatively, the interval part of different layers of wrinkle can be twisted into a solid upholder that transfer the gravity down. In this way when the whole soft material is placed like a curve, it becomes a canopy.

Though the structure and the elements seems simple, it still cost us lots of time because the shape of the construction was not normal core. Every element had unique length and position, which means that the digital model and the real model needed to be corresponding or the wrinkle would have flaws and the whole system could be ruined.

node close-up view

Shape : gradual changing

Result : translucent canopy

The form was changed to gradually changing shapes to prevent weak points

The plastic membrane reflected and refracted the light of the sun, formed a pattern like soap bubbles on the surface of it.

surface close-up view

lightend view

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Other works Project 1 Weaving Compus Architecture Design Spring 2019

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Project 2 Cloud City

Architecture Design Fall 2018

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Project 3 Poetic Dwelling Installation Design Spring 2017

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Project 4 Guande Palace Internship Program Fall 2017

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Particle system distribution analysis

WEAVING CAMPUS Topological digital design / Academic Studio / Site : Nanjing, China Time : Spring 2019 / Group Work / Instructor : Zhen Xu, Xuehai Bai, Ye Zhang Collaborator : Zheng Li Role : Team leader

The servace space reached a loose structure which enclosing the dormitary synthesis.

We used processing to creat a better group disruibution system of campus to alleviate the traffic and functional issues of mordern campus.

When the functional areas are distributed in a centralized manner, users will bring about a large amount of instantaneous traffic and overall commuting time when they switch between various functions. If different functional areas are subdivided into groups, the commuting distance and time of each person can be shortened without causing traffic congestion and congestion. And as users, the function of

centralized distribution cannot meet the diverse and flexible living demands in space. For large buildings with centralized functions, due to the consideration of convenient management and security, opening hours and uniform cleaning and tidiness hours will be set, which cannot meet the diversified needs of individuals in terms of time distribution.

Blue-Before

According to the simulation results, we draw the following conclusions: in our service - life binary system, the service space will form many non-optimal solutions, that is, the location of the cavity, due to the attraction of people flow and the commercial agglomeration in the pursuit of profit maximization.

Particlr system timeline analysis (black particle - student lines - functional space) Red-After

CLOUD CITY Sharing collective housing / UIA-HYP 2018 COMPETITION / Site : Hongkong, China Time : Fall 2018 / Group Work / Instructor : Xinnan Zhang, Delong Sun Collaborator : Ying Cheng, Jiayue Xu, Jingrou Zhao Role : Team leader

interpretations of functions

the fruit bar and the surrounding environment have become more and more contradictory In the middle of the night, the bargaining sound of the fruit merchants and the engine sound of the trucks will disturb the rest of the surrounding residents.

Sharing strategy At the same time, only one of the different functions of the home is used, and the rest is idle, which is a waste. Moving the remaining functions to other people's homes can increase the efficiency of space usage, and can also generate sharing behaviors and sharing behaviors. The owner of the fruit bar unloads the goods every evening, rests in the morning . Maker's activities at night. So we divided the two types of people into two different living units, the unit is a ring. There is

organizational logic a shaft in the center of the ring, which allows functional blocks such as laundry and cooking to be used for a limited time each day to move between different units. During the daytime, during the cooking, leisure and other activities of the maker, the function block will receive the service from the maker's living unit. When the boss wakes up at night, it is the opposite. This will not only form a more diverse way of organizing the space, but save space for more sharing and free up more area.

10th floor plan

Hong Kong's housing problem afflicts low-income residents, while Yau Ma Tei's is even worse

Yau Ma Tei's Fruit Bar is located in Waterloo Road in the north and Shilang Street in the south. Among the high rise buildings in Hongkong, the various twostarey buildings and the fruit stacks on the street have become one of the few urban depressions in Kawloon. The fruit business

here has not fallen far more than a century, but has become an irreplaceable hub for Hongkong fruit distribution. The development of the city is fast, and only the purest Hongkong taste of the last Century is preserved here.

POETIC DWELLING

GUANDE PALACE

inspiration and exploration

Surveying and mapping practice

/ Installation Design/ Time ： Spring 2017 Instructor : Yike Hu, Delong Sun

/ Internship program/ Site : Jingshan Park, Beijing Time : Fall 2017 Instructor : Fengwu Zhang

Guande Palace is located in Jingshan Park, Beijing, which is a temporary accommodation for the emperor during the sacrifice ceremony. Most of the wooden structures in this lift-beam building are leftover from the Ming and qing dynasties, so they have high protection value and research value

East elevation of Guandedian