Yiqun chen_Portfolio by Yiqun Chen

YIQUN CHEN PennDesign | 2015 - 2018

Kema Bridge designed and built in Chinese village with locally available and sustainable material (2014).

01/ Miami Drift _ferrari headquarter 01/ Bath Tower _historic building reinvention 02/ Loop Commune _residential building 03/ Super Decorated _office&institution 04/ Whipped Caverns _constructed pavilion

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05/ Bamboo Pavilion _model&material study 06/ Trends Boite Shop _interior&facade _customized furnitures

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07 / Karlin Bridge _footbridge competition

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Spring 2018/ PennDesign /Instructor: Ali Rahim / Partner: Yi Yan

MIAMI DRIFT FERRARI HEADQUARTER In the early stage of this studio, we study the aesthetic and assembly technique of carâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bodyshell. We highlight three features that contribute most to its machine aesthetics: the indentation, seaming, and nesting. Through a process of selective seaming and creative indentation protrusion, the design aims to transform the facade into a habitable space. On the conjunction of Lincoln and

Alton road, the building is facing Herzog De Meuron 1111 Lincoln Project, which exposed the interior by removing the facade. In contrast, our project fully explores the spatiality potential of the facade which allows people to walk on it and car runs along it. We challenge the idea that facade, instead of just a single layer of skin, could it become an inhabitable space; the seam and pattern, instead of just visually satisfying, could it drive the

design of novel interior space. In our project, the seam and volume on facade later influence the programming process of the interior. Part of volume becomes the space for the human being, a n d t h e re st b e co m e s e i t h e r mechanical space or space for the automobile. These two areas are volumetrically interlocked but spatially disconnected.

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INTERLOCKED SPACE Over each triangle opening, there nested a white pocket of an area which becomes the space for human, and the rest of the space is for the automobile. These two areas are volumetrically interlocked but spatially disconnected. In the mechanical space, we deliberately express the customized structure, which completes a futuristic spatial experience and enthusiastically embraces a technological future with its new accompanying aesthetics.In the human space where the infrastructure is enclosed, people would emerge in a seamless, elegant space.

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Fall 2017/ PennDesign /Instructor: Ferda Kolatan / Partner: Shuxin Wu

BATH TOWER Historic Building Reinvention in Cairo's Old City Center Through a process of selective excavation and creative hybridization, the design aims to transform the historical Tiring Building with the surrounding local markets with a reinvented water system. Used to be the center of shopping, the site was part of the larger area named after the Azbekeya lake which later developed into the famous Azbekeya Garden in the period of Khedive Cairo in late 19th century. Social and economic changes

have shifted the center of Cairo away from the Azbekeya area and caused deterioration of the Tiring Department Store. Today, Tiring has become home to squatters, who set up small-business and workshops. Inside the building today was a mix of shops, workshops, residences, and a mosque on top. Inspired by how the well-designed water system in the Azbekeya Garden provided various entertainment and leisure activities for the social life of the elite class

in 1990s, the new water system is verticalized and transplanted into one corner of the Tiring Building where the tower of the dome is located: the infrastructure that transports water from the top water tank to the underground mechanical pumps and pipes become the central axis of the design of the mosque, the bath house, and the water pods in the markets.

Overall Reinvention Scheme of Cairo Azbekeya area. Group Work by Alex Bahr, Xuechuan Qin, Ryan Barnette, Jinwoo Lee, Lilian Candela, Lauren Aguilar, Jennifer Rokoff, Mana Sazegara, Yi Yan, Siqi Wang, Shuxin Wu,Yiqun Chen

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Plumbing System Hyberdization #01. Water fountain mechanical system #02. Water display in Islamic sahn #03. Hyberdized object study

INFRASTRUCTURE MATTERS The infrastructure, more than being displayed and fulfilling programmatic functions, is inseparable from the architecture and the city. The infrastructure is celebrated and shared by citizens. It completes the spatial experience and enthusiastically embraces a technological future with its new accompanying aesthetic.

Fall 2016 / PennDesign /Instructor: Scott Erdy

LOOP COMMUNE A LINEAR APARTMENT FOR MODERN LENAPES This residential project is aimed at constructing a community living space for modern Lenape tribe over Reading Viaduct, which is an abandoned railroad runs from Fairmount Park toward Reading Terminal in Philly's center city. In order to preserve the poetic linearity of the viaduct. The idea is to insert the building into the site and has the building as a linear extension of the reading viaduct.

Date back to Lenape's dwelling history in the 1600s, they might be the people who most familiar with linear living space. Their traditional Long House is usually 40â&#x20AC;&#x2122; wide and 150â&#x20AC;&#x2DC; long and can accommodate up to 30 people living together with little privacy, which seems unrealistic in modern apartment design. Through a study of the spatial organization logic in Long House, several circulation cuboids are inserted into the original

massing and later on activates the programming process. The place where those cuboids are placed is determined through deformation analysis. The circulation cuboids not along function as the public area but also structurally strengthen the building. The loop commune brings modern Lenapes back to the time they live together with brother and sister love.

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Site Plan The loop commune is an extension of the poetic linearity of the reading viaduct. The revolving loop weaves the lanscape into the community through providing a hanging garden.

orginal geometry

deformation analysis

insert strengthening cuboid which also function as circulation space

Under the deformation analysis , several vulnerable areas were detected. The strucutral performance was greatly increased after we insert four cuboid into the weak portion. This four cuboid also function as circulation space which later on invervene with the programing process.

deformation analysis

Bigba suite

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living unit

Long House spacial organization

Long House interior

Bigbayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suite

cafe area

family unit cluster

cafe area lounge

circulation public kitchen living unit public living space

cafe area

indoor playground workshop bathroom

changing room

gymnasium

restaurant

bathroom

changing room bathroom

cafe swimming pool

storage mailbox room office waiting area reception

Loop Commune spacial organization

4F Family Unit+ Single Unit EI Bigbay's Suite

2F Gymnasium

GF Auditorium+Restaurant+Swimming Pool Double Unit

Third Floor Public Space

Section of Public Space Includes auditorium, swimming pool , wood workshop and indoor playground

During day, the sliding door and revolving door can be opened to expand the view and enlarge the public space.

soil filter layer drainage layer concrete HSS

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family unit

Unit Assembly Detail three different types of units with bedroom, bathroom and a public roof garden on top

Spring 2017 / PennDesign /Instructor: Jonathan Scelsea / Partner: Linnan Yu

SUPER DECORATED Knoll Headquarter and Gallery â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not working on architecture, I am working on architecture as a language, and I think that you have to have a grammar in order to have a language...â&#x20AC;? L. Mies van der rohe, 1950 to van doesburg In this studio, our research has been interested in exploring spatial spectrum from 2d-graphics space, to 3d figural space and how can this help inform a new position on the spatial assemblage from inside to outside.

In the first part of the studio, we explore how to operate design on a language level and start by learning how to talking in "Mies". After the analysis of Krefeld golf club, the "Gestalt psychology" stand out as the logic sculpting the space. We further interpret and apply the "Gestalt psychology" to extend part of Krefeld Glob Club. In the second part, we shift our focus to Pier 57 on Manhattan and design the Headquarters and Gallery for the Knoll company. Ideologically the envelope usually

presupposes that the building has a discrete outside and an inside divide by a single surface. In the early 20th century, the surface might have been glass seeking to dissolve this relationship; in the figurative object, the duck, and the adorned generic, the decorated shed, the surface was reinforced and considered double-sided serving the interior one way and the urban another. In this studio, we strive to challenge that idea and design a building that could communicate its idea with water, the city and the world.

1930 Krefeld Golf Club Mies van der Rohe

Gestalt psychology

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The building located on Pier 57, which is a highly visible spot. In order to have Knoll Headquarter been seen and communicate outwards, to water, the city, the world, we design different facades revealing different internal identities and external messages. First, we try to maximize the information be presented by achieving the longest possible facade length of the two facing Manhattan. After collecting the results from Galapagos, we pick the most reasonable shape as boundary among the top four choices then optimize it according to the shape of our units.

Karlin Wave

Whipped Caverns Recognition: Innovation use of material

Photograph by Haeyon Kwon

spherical void exterior spray foam

LED light spherical void #1

exterior spray foam cut plane exterior

LED light LED light #3

area of crawl d:3'-0“

area of crouch d:6'-8“

exterior spray foam

area of stand d:6'-0“

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Axonometric of whole Circulation diagram Spacial heights diagram Spacial organization Aggregation diagram

BAMBOO PAVILION Handcarfted Paper Model and Unit Study For Bamboo Pavilion By Ntype Design

Photograhph by Joao Lemos

TRENDS BOITE A FLEXIABLE SPACE FOR ART AND RETAIL In order to adapt to changing needs of consumers and the evolving role of the physical store since the popularization of online shopping, Trend Boite purse a completely new identiy. The project centers on â&#x20AC;&#x153;a customized design that binds the strong diversity and ever-changing retail landscape. The store sited on a high-end shopping district in Chengdu, which is nation-wide known city

for Panda and bammboo froest. Its design draws inspiration from that character. In the facade design, we try to capture the wave of bammboo when blowed by wind. The unit close to the ground is more tilted to give a large opening area on human's eye level, which allow an constact dialogue between inner activities and it surroungigins. Designed around the principles of continuity and flexibility, the

interior provides an adaptable space that accommodates evolving programs and ensures constant adherence to the occupants' needs . With the diffrent configuration of the movavlble partition walls we designed, the inteiror can be highly intimate ,super welcoming or a condition in-between.

Half unit on the side stripe, see FEL_01

Flat trangle unit on the top row, see FEL_01

* All units are made of 1mm thick stainless steel panel

1mm Black FluoroCarbon Paint Stainlees Steel Panel

Half unit on the side stripe, see FEL_01

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When the store 's configuration is closed, the art viewing atmosphere is intimate, providing a comfortable and subdued environment for private showings, performances, and receptions. When the partition walls are seperated, the space are activated to accommodate commercial events while, however, some of them can still maintain "privatized pockets" for other programmatic needs.

3x 900mm T5 Tube Light 2mm L Profile Stainless Steel Frame 2mm Silver Finish Steel Panel

5mm Iron Foam Panel

2mm 50X50mm Steel Tubing 2mm Steel Panel 2mm L Profile Steel Frame 5mm Iron Foam Panel

5mm Iron Foam Panel 2mm Steel Panel 2mm 50x50mm Steel Tubing 2mm Silver Finish Steel Panel 2mm L Profile Steel Frame 5mm Iron Foam Panel

5mm Iron Foam Panel LED Plug

2mm 50x50mm steel tubing

Black Rubber Universal Wheel, Weight Capacity â&#x2030;¥ 400lkg

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