LABORATORY BUILDING DESIGN

Urban Renewal Design

PROJECT TYPE: City Complex Beijing, China / 2013-2015

CONTRIBUTION: Elevation Design (teamwork)

This project is located in the old city center of Beijing. How to build a large volume new building in a small scale traditional building block is a huge challenge. After determining the initial design of the building’s massing and internal functions, we teamed up for a long discussion on the relationship between the building facade and the city. The response to the urban surroundings was a major theme of the project. During the design process, we considered the image of the building’s legacy from different periods

RAILWAY STATION TOP COVER ESTATES DESIGN XINGHUO HIGH-SPEED RAIL STATION

PROJECT TYPE: Transportation Complex Beijing, China / 2016-2017

CONTRIBUTION: Concept Design (teamwork)

XINGHUO Station is a very special project, leaving us with a narrow site five kilometers deep along the railway line but only fifty meters wide. All the sites had to be discussed in the context of the forces and resonance problems caused by the tracks and the telltale railroad. It was very difficult to develop the project commercially. We finally set the function as a complement to the surrounding community. Since the length along the line is very long and the communities involved are very complex, the final functional distribution combined with the idea of landscape architecture provides a very rich variety of small-scale activity types. We are very happy that we can provide such a grand scale but detailed functional landscape “bridge” to the city through our design.

Pedestrian System

Functional Group Distribution

The functional distribution relies mainly on the proximity of the community properties to provide a complement to the community’s functions. For example, small office building groups are set up next to large residential communities, and extended commercial and entertainment building groups are set up next to industrial parks and art districts. The community activities and dining functions are then arranged in a nodal mode so that each community can conduct daily activities such as dining within a limited distance.

Adaptive Reuse Of Industrail Building

Shougang Transportation Hub Integration

Beijing, China / 2016

PROJECT TYPE: Transportation Complex, Industrail Building Reuse

CONTRIBUTION: Concept Design (independently)

The project is located in the northeast corner of Shougang Industrial Park, adjacent to two main roads. The project underwent nearly a year-long negotiation before the specific building principal design was undertaken. The main focus was on the arrangement of the stormwater pumping station and duty room at the large full intersection and the way to connect to the metro line 6 extension and S1 light rail station site. In the architectural design process of the legacy industrial buildings were comprehensively evaluated and retrofitted to maintain the integrity of the industrial plant skyline, but also to have a better landmark of the site. The project is small in scale but rich in challenges from all sides.

Functions

Harmony In The Wild

Los Angeles, CA /

2021

PROJECT TYPE: Education

CONTRIBUTION: GRAD Studio Work

Moss, the most unimpressive plant in nature, always shows as extending groups on moisty rocks and tree trunks. Moss is also the most sociable plant in nature. They grow to meet the boundary of other groups, communicates, fights and then overlaps commensally.

Moss is colorful, especially in damp air under the scattered light. Color changes, like uncertain life, like express its emotion. Moss is polymorphic but unimpressive, we cannot realize the shape differences unless we are close to them enough.

A rock-like building is ready for moss’s growth simulation. Sharp rock becomes downy when covered by moss. Shadowed holes for multiple layers of moss accumulation. The sunny side of the rock has thinner moss, for sunlight to go through the shell to light the interior up. after the night comes, the rock light it up from interiors and the warm light emits through holes of the shell, light the moss, makes it more energetic.

The whole interior is a huge communicable space with a high atrium with scenic lifts. Open spaces are always on the side of the atrium such as The music library, the exhibition, the rehearsal space and some rest corners. We can lean on the armrest of 3rd floor and listen student bands performance at 4th floor, or try to enjoy the performance at the bottom – the main stage.

Oblique Ground

Mass Voca 11

North Adams, MA / 2022

PROJECT TYPE: Education

CONTRIBUTION: GRAD Team Work

MASSMOCA is a historical museum campus surrounded by beautiful greenery-yallery hills, located in north Adams, Massachusetts.

When we see through the panorama of the MassMoca, we find it is a historical campus surrounded by beautiful greeneryyallery hills. But when we talk about a museum, it appears to be a building in our mind. So how to redefine the group building, not only one museum, is the main topic in our project.

Firstly,such huge a campus has a low utilization rate. We found that the events are mainly raised in March, April and September, with little activity during the rest of the year. We also researched the commercial activities in the town, such as the amount of the restaurants and accommodations. We found that it is not enough to handle such a large number of visitors. based on people's passion for this place and the Demand needed here exceeds the current supply. So we can transform this place into a village, which would be fully used to contain more functions and activities.