Architecture Portfolio MA RAN

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO M.Arch I MA RAN 2016.4 - 2016.12

01 FLOWING MUSEUM A concept of continuous exhibition space applied to museums 2016.5 individual works

02 TRIPLE YARD A reconstruction of Siheyuan, retrieving courtyard life in old days 2016.7 individual works

03 FLOATING BOX An experience of illusionary floating boxes 2016.9 individual works

04 FROM CHAOS TO ORDER A study of noodle 2016.10 individual works

05 MAGIC MUSHROOM An imaginary ecological reconstruction of future business area 2016.11 individual works

06 ARTISTIC PRACTICE Works of copying and still life sketch 2016.4 - 2016.7

Flowing Museum

A concept of continuous exhibition space applied to museums

CONCEPT In most museums, exhibits are displayed in separate rooms in different stories, and the structure of museum buildings usually fit in the category of cuboid. To provide a new visiting experience, I create a continuous space considering “attention”, “rest”, and “emotion”.

· ATTENTION When visitors appreciating art in traditional museums, their attentions as well as a perception of coherence can be disturbed as they walk between different stories.

To prevent this disturbance and better preserve the coherence within exhibits, stories should be cancelled and a continuous space should be developed instead.

High

FOCUS

Low

· REST Rests are needed during a visit and people take it randomly.

Along a linear continuous space, much rest spaces are needed in order to satisfy this requirement, yet causing a redundancy.

To better integrate rest spaces while maintaining the continuity, a bending continuous space, inspired from protein structures, is applied. In this way, visitors can go back to any portion of the exhibition at any time and retrospect or resume right from where they take rest.

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Exhibition Space

Rest Space

Visiting Route

Inspiration from protein Linear amino acid can fold into 3D structural protein and form a binding locus at the center. This allows amino acids from different portion on the chain to be connected to the locus directly. Inspired by this, previous linear continuous space is bent similarly to an amino acid chain, making direct connection of different portion of the continuous space and creating one common rest space at the center like a locus.

Amino acid sequence of a myoglobin. (Letters indicating specific amino acid types)

3D structure of a myoglobin. Linear amino acid chain folds and forms a binding locus at the center.

¡ EMOTION Unlike identical space, which can cause visual and emotional fatigue due to its monotony, variable space can lead to different visiting experience. By constantly changing spacing arrangement, visitors can receive diverse impressions walking along the continuous space previously created.

Broad Cozy MOOD along with WIDE & NARROW

Open

Comfortable MOOD along with HIGH & LOW

Energetic Calm MOOD along with UP & DOWN

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ELEMENTS To make the concept compatible to all future exhibiting requirements, 12 elements of exhibition space, connection aisle, and rest space are created.

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Exhibition Space #1 For small installation art and paintings

Full Height Space #1 For installation art and large paintings

Connection Aisle to Pubilc Rest Space #1

Interconnected Pubilc Rest Space #1

Exhibition Space #2 For paintings

Full Height Space #2 For small installation art

Connection Aisle to Pubilc Rest Space #2

Interconnected Pubilc Rest Space #2

Exhibition Space #3 For large installation art and performing shows

Full Height Space #3 For large installation art, paintings and performing shows

Connection Aisle to Pubilc Rest Space #3

Interconnected Pubilc Rest Space #3

Possible Formation and Function

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Route Analysis

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Function: small gallery, small museum of modern art Capacity: ~200 people

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×6

×3

×2

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Spiral Up

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Function: large gallery, medium museum of modern art Capacity: ~400 people

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×5

×2

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×2

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Squeezing

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Function: large gallery, large museum of art, multipurpose exhibition hall Capacity: ~1000 people

Twisted Fold

Continuous Space Public Rest Space

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TWISTED FOLD GALLERY PART 8

Full Height Space (Exhibition Space#1): Paintings, Giant Installation Art

Exhibition space #2: small or medium size paintings

9 Exhibition Space#3 : giant size paintings, projection hall

Entrance (exterior): Path, Interior Garden (Trees and Lawn enclosed by continuous exhibition space and connection aisle)

Connection Aisle with Public Rest Space: Bar, Restroom, Connection Passage

Exhibition Space#3 : 10Performing and Show, Stage Stage for for Sculpture and Installation Art

TWISTED FOLD Performing and Installation Art Part 11

Triple Yard

A reconstruction of Siheyuan, retrieving courtyard life in old days

Brief History of Siheyuan courtyard - Layout and Communication Function The vicissitude of the courtyard reflects not only changes in living pattern but also those in communication. Initially, single courtyard provided housing for family only and allowed them to have intimate conversation. Later, it became a place for acquainted neighbors to share and exchange information amiably. Finally, habitants became people without any relationship and only sporadic chitchat happened or even no communication in the courtyard.

Communication Function

Intimate

TIMELINE *Foundation of ROC 1912

Acquainted

Sporadic

Anti-Japanese War 1937

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#2

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*Foundation of PRC 1945

Traditional layout of quadrangle courtyard(Siheyuan). The whole courtyard belongs to one family . Parents live in the main room. Children and guests live in the west and east wing-room.

South room accomodates servants.

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Family Group

1949

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Adult

Child

*Truce of Korean War 1953

People flood into cities after 1949. Owners of Siheyuan started to lease rooms for extra money and government collected and assigned rooms for different families. The Siheyuans were reconstructed to accomodate more people and the courtyard became a space for neighbors.

Baby

Boom

Cultural Revolution 1966

Reform and Opening Up 1976

1978

After experiencing baby boom and Cultural Revolution, population in the city increased tremendously, yet housing was wanting. This led to a huge size of family living in a small spaced room. As a result, people started to occupy public places in the courtyard to expand their living space.

*Successful Olympics Bid 2001

' * ' Flag Event

Some habitants began to move into buildings and house were sold or rent to immigrants. Some habitants split house into smaller parts and passed it to children. The government's policy on housing compensation triggered habitants to build more houses. Different people live in the same courtyard.

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Analysis of Current Problems The living condition is inconvenient in current courtyard.

Habitants usually suffer from congestion due to historically occupied illegal and temporary constructions and lacking sufficient living facilities.

The only public space is the narrow path, making daily movement as well as evacuation under emergency difficult.

Sporadic

Storage - fire source and block evacuation route

Dwelling - low quality consturction

A common way of transform is to completely remove households, demolish extra construction, and rebuild Siheyuan into its traditional form. However, there are some problems within this method.

1. Compensation to households is expensive 2. Moving to suburb area against households’ willingness 3. Recovered Siheyuan will be unaffordable for working class The reconstruction aims to solve these problems in situ and improve living condition by introducing facilities such as bathroom and kitchen into every household and bring back communication in the courtyard.

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Kitchen - cooking fumes pollution

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Triple Yard In Triple Yard, each household contains three yards and each yard corresponds to a communication function. Sporadic yard located in the middle of the whole courtyard, an Intimate yard is beside the house, and an Acquainted yard, a balcony, on the second floor of the loft.

The area of each Triple Yard is tantamount to that of the former household, including both legal and illegal rooms. This is achieved by inserting a loft into former house, which reduces ground area occupied and thus allows more public area.

Through the construction of Triple Yard, historic wooden structure, brick wall, and decorations are well reserved as well as the texture of the city.

Communication Types at Home During a Day Sporadic Intimate Acquainted Sleeping & working...

Vacation Workday 0:00

6:00

Conversation between intimate family memebers

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Sporadic Yard: Providing a public space for communication and activities among unacquainted neighbors.

Acquainted Yard: Providing a comfortable and open area for daily conversation between neighbors.

Intimate Yard: Providing private space for family to have intimate conversation and allowing them to enjoy Siheyuan in the old way.

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Conversation between acquainted neighbors

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24:00

Conversation between sporadically encountered people

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Floating Box

What if there is no gravity?

How do we experience in a floating world?

BALLOON can lift everything.

Boxes are floating.

As long as there are enough BALLOONS!

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Is it just an illusion?

I don't think so.

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What if there is no balloon.

Can box lifts itself, floating?

What is the experience playing around under floating boxes?

Boxes float Under which, large and small Isolated niche and connnected space Up and down Look around

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Boxes float Under which, large and small Isolated niches and linear connnected spaces Forward and back Look in and out

Boxes float Under which, large and small Within, horizontally inter-connected Wander on box surfaces reaching wherever you want Platform rise and fall Go around and look around

Isolated Niche

Connected Space

Not accessible to other spaces

Accessible to nearby spaces creating continuity

Boxes float Under which, large and small Within, vertically connected Wander along box surfaces and up to the top Diverge and converge along the way Go up and look out

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From Chaos to Order

A Study of Noodle

Inspiration from noodles

In China, people eat noodle with chopsticks. When noodle is in the plate, every piece of noodle tangles in chaos. When it's picked up by chopsticks, upper part of noodle hangs and become straight line which is in order, lower part remain in the plate. Before put it into the mouth, noodle on the chopsticks turn into ordered line.

The process of picking up is the most amazing part. Chaos is at the bottom; order is at the top. Imagining stay within noodle and look around, like a diced meat of sauce. There will be a view of transition from chaos to order.

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Three lines are tangled at bottom and pulled by six stretched sur faces randomly, forming three primary spaces and three subordinate spaces which chaotically cross. Then, three stretched surfaces pull lines with counterforce at the top, creating an ordered and geometrical space, tabling the whole structure.

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Black, bring chaos within white.

Black, create order above black.

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Magic Mushroom

An imaginary ecological reconstruction of future business area

Site Introduction Jianwai SOHO and Yintai Center are located in the south of Beijing Central Business District (CBD), which are on the site of 0.2 square kilometers. This area is one of the busiest urban centers integrating residential areas, offices, recreational facilities, and retail outlets.

Jianwai SOHO (front) & Yintai center (back)

Jianwai SOHO (front) & Yintai center (back) Under smog

Prospection of Future Business Area In the future, this area can satisfy the demands of both living and working, yet each building contains different specific functions. Thus, making connection between buildings and creating convenience for inter-region traffic become crucial.

In addition, air pollution has become a serious problem in Beijing. Although regulation and policies such as restricting fossil fuel vehicles and moving polluted factories have been applied, there is still a long way to go to completely solve the problem.

Moreover, with increasing attention on health, a better outdoors place for exercising will be desired. Finally, despite the convenience created by Internet for communication, people are actually more isolated and lonely, thus a place that can provide daily faceto-face communication will be necessary to bring back people together.

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Jianwai SOHO (photoed from Yintai Center)

Present

Future

vehicle route

vehicle route

on-foot route

on-foot route Inter-Region Ride route

Currently, it requires people to reach ground floor each time they want to access to a different building and encounter with ground traffic, causing inconvenience and congestion.

smog

People walk on elevated inter-region platform and take InterRegion Ride to get to different buildings and areas. People and vehicles are separated, increasing safeness and efficiency.

upper air current pumped air current smog absorbing water recycling

Under unfavorable weather condition for the diffusion of pollution, smog will be remained static to the ground’s surface, causing harm to people outdoors and indoors.

Upper air flows faster than air near the surface, leading to pressure difference. Air near the surface can be pumped up through hollow columns. Also, water can spray on the surface to absorb and purify air.

face-to-face communication place

face-to-face communication place

place for jogging or taking a walk

place for jogging or taking a walk

The recreational facilities and shopping places of the current design are located at the ground floor, and the only open place for people to do sports or go jogging is on the ground along with traffic.

People go jogging do sports, enjoy recreation and have face-toface communication at elevated inter-region platform. There, air quality is better. And people can enjoy nature and good view.

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Higher Jogging Route: along elevated platform, about 500m

Function Analysis Inter-Region Platform: 7 platforms on different levels connecting different buildings and hollow columns Fast Arrive Inter-Region Ride Station: access to Vast Round Rail or get to building entrance directly

Lower Jogging Route: along elevated platform, about 300m

Rest Spot: near the entrance of building on the elevated platform

Communication spot: on the edge of elevated platform lawn for relaxation and nicer view

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Inter-Region Ride Station: access to near buildings and connect to stations at any levels and any columns

CafĂŠ on the edge of elevated platform

Vast Round Rail: around the rim of the MUSHROOM, access to distant Fast Arrive Station quickly

B Inter-Region Ride Station at the bottom of hollow column: access to ground level and to stations at any columns and levels

WATER CYCLE SYSTEM Transparent water pipes are embedding in the double layer surface.

Water is used for controlling surface pores, absorbing air pollution, and watering plants. The operation of the watering system is automatically controlled by the air quality.

On

outer

Off

outer

water current

inner

‘cell’ movement

inner

Surface Pore This structure resembles the epidermal pore of a leaf, which penetrated through the double-layered surface and consists two elastic “cells”. Under unfavorable air condition, “cells” are filled with water and expands, causing pore closure. Under favorable air condition, “cells” shrink, causing pore openness.

clean

absorbed water current plant purification

Water Purifying After smog absorption, water will be circulated to the inner surface layer and utilized to water plants on the elevated platform. The plants, with their innate features, can then purify water, and the purified water will be collected and redelivered to the outer surface layer and get reutilized.

Water Spray Surface Outer surface layer is embedded with filament-like tiny water tubes. These tubes can spray and recycle water on the surface, allowing smog to be absorbed. outer

smog absorb water recycle inner

current & spray

loop 'wheel'

rail

door

side 'wheel'

INTER-REGION RIDE A ball shaped vehicle capable of carrying 3-4 passengers. It utilized magnetic levitation to run on 4 rails. The rotatable side “wheel” and loop “wheel” allow it to run both vertically and horizontally.

Artistic Practice

Works of copying and still life sketch

Still life sketch 42

Works of copying

Works of copying 43

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