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The prefabricated housing strategy responds to the compact, over-finished while unaffordable modular housing types. Daily schedules of different farm workers are explored, resulting in spatio-temporal relationships that reflect users’ “critical periods” of occupying spaces. Spatial accommodations among neighbors could be achieved to maximize both public and private spaces through movable and customized construction systems.
The Incomplete Shelter
A Prefabricated and Foldable Housing Strategy for California Migrant Farm Workers
Ojai, Fall 2020
The self-organized, resilient housing model iserves marginalized occupations near the LA River. It deals with cross-scale interactions to reconceive the built environment as an infinite and sustainable process instead of a predefined container or product. It grows with external dynamics while always attaining internal persistence in its function, identity and structure among local changes. It also responds to the issue of vertical social segregation to blur the stratification regarding floor levels by generating homogeneous residential clusters distributed vertically and evenly.
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213-558-9235
The Incomplete L.A. Self-organized and Growing Communities Los Angeles, Spring 2022
Home is a metaphoric collector of memories. Past memories are re-membered as figural objects, and thus become the creator of human life and new spatial experiences. The two systems of a sculptural figure and the grid act as the figure vs ground, which invades each other and bring ups the ambiguity of order and hierarchy. The mirrored aluminum surface reflects different things at various angles. The object never changes, but as people move around, what they see and feel is changing all the time. Therefore the visual definition of home is not fixed, it depends merely on where you see it, how you feel it and who you stay with.
siman.tian@yale.edu
213-558-9235
Re-member to Remember
A Reflective Collector of Home Memories for Slum Dwellers
Bangkok, Fall 2022
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213-558-9235
A Collection of Physical Models that consists of a kindergarten transformation project, a collective housing design, a home memory collector, a self-organized living community, a structural design about "tensegrity" and a furniture design piece.
