Szu-An Yao Portfolio 2015 I PennDesign by Szu-An Yao

SZU-AN YAO Architectural & Design Portfolio PennDesign Works 2014--2015 + Selected Works 2010--2013

Szu-An [Annie] Yao University of Pennsylvania, M.ARCH II annannyao@gmail.com I 718-290-5289

CONTENTS

Architectural & Design Portfolio PennDesign Works 2014--2015 + Selected Works 2010--2013

MARCH II PennDesign Studio

London I No-Stop Green-House

BACHELOR TKU Design Studio

Taipei I Life Drinking and Shopping

Fall 2015

Yokohama I Port Terminal Spring 2015

New York I Light Flux Office Building Fall 2014

Fall 2012 - Spring 2013 Graduation Thesis Design

Taipei I International Student Dormitory Spring 2010

An-Kang Social Housing Fall 2012

Other Works

Life within Nature Spring 2015

Deformative Space Spring 2015

WORK 01 Fall 2015

London I NO-STOP GREEN-HOUSE Housing Catatonic London NO-STOP CITY + TALL BUILDING Location : Battersea Area,London Type : Housing/ Tall Building Floor : 40F / B2F

AA Student Exchange/ Design studio work Teamwork with Ian Liu Instructor Prof. Homa Farjadi

NO-STOP CITY Conceptual Premise of the project takes on the Archizoom agenda for production of an imageless, inexpressive design of housing for London. It redoubles its seeming opposites in the two organisational typologies collapsing the residential car park of the no-stop-city and the tall building to focus our project this semester. When archizoom presented their project for ‘nostop-city’ in 1970’s their research on environment, mass culture and the city posed new questions that subverted the straight laced modernist agenda of technological optimism, of social agenda of housing provision based on existence minimum. They were after a non-hierarchized space of continuity. Residential carpark project outlined their response to the production of a continuous space, a field city; configurations of building swimming in a catatonic space of inexpressive, imageless undeferentiated repetition.

TALL BUILDING Contemporary London assumes its architectural character intersecting dynamic forces of change with local cultural trends and material technologies. At this moment the question of what the particular configuration of the urban form demands of its architectural form is faced with a global demand for housing in London. It’s image beyond its strictly historic centres is very much up for grabs. With the globalisation of money and productive forces, design often overrides pragmatic logics. Tall buildings have brcome a favoured type in this metropolois offering higher density for the investment capital and urban occupation of the urban ground. What kind of typological spatial strategies or organisational systems enable us to reach for both? We ask for quiestions what would rethinks the urban grounding and its potential for verticality, dimensional mix, porosity, ecology in an accumulation of contemporary housing.

SITE ANALYSIS

Battersea Green/Garden Complex

Garden Footprint -- -- -- Connecting Path

Our project plays with different privacy levels of programs, using gardens as an infrastructure to link different public and private programs together. Strategically our project is about the green house and gardens which create a centerless endless grid of combinations between residential and public programs. Our project is endless in that it can expand forever to nature, and also center less without a hierarchal form which can also be described as catatonic. Similar to Phillip Glass’s idealogy of catatonic architeture, residents within our complex will have their freedom to do whatever they want to the gardens. The gardens also blur the boundaries between exterior and interior. represent poor and wealthy residents as clear as possible: the way people plant flowers is also a sign of wealth. Architecture not as a reform but as a representation.

SITE ANALYSIS

Need For Greenhouse

Garden Footprint -- -- -- Garden Culture Distinction

Around the world villages are the producers of food. Studies show that by the year 2050 cities will become over crowded as more than 80% of the population will migrate to the cities. Location and definition of farms will also change as more and more people will come to cities. They are solving the problem of less space for cultivation today in our cities, as our cities are already overcrowded and people leaving in vertical columns have no space to spread horizontally.

BATTERSEA PARK

47% of London is green space 8 millions trees World’s largest urban forest

Proposal of Living Space + Greenhouse

SUNLIGHT

PRIVATE GARDEN

RESERVABLE GREEN HOUSE

PRIVATE GARDEN

TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT GARDEN vs RESIDENTIAL UNIT

TYPE C

MARKETS

RESERVABLE GREEN HOUSE PRIVATE MEDITERRANEAN

GARDEN

GYM Expandable and boundless plan

RESTAURANT

COOL CLIMATE

RESERVABLE GREEN HOUSE

PUBLIC GALLERIES

Public Kitchen

Residential Space

Public Kitchen

Residential Space

Public Kitchen

River Thames

Mud

Pumping Station

DW DW

Sorting Office

Battersea Power Station

Axonometric Diagram

Public Programs

Tropical Forest

Pool and Sauna Gym Public Park

Egress and Circulation Core

Public Kitchen

Inner Chimney

Flower Market Library

Units with Chimney

Facade with minimal Frit

Floor Plates

Lightweight Structure system

South Elevation / Physical Model

Landscape design

Thames

Studey Model of Structure

Air Chimney Ventilation System

HOT & HUMID ZONE

& ROTATING

er of

Palm House

Waterlily House

WARM ZONE Swimming Pool Sauna

TEMPARATE ZONE Alpine House Cactus House Public Park Public Kitchen

COLD & ARID ZONE Flower Market

COLD ZONE Library

Air Chimney_ Holes through slabs

Design Concept & Strategy

Top Floor_ Plam house and waterlily house

Temperate Zone_ Park

Ground floor_ Tree top platforms and flower market

PLAN

Top Floor Plan Top floor Located on the Hot and Humid zone. We provide a tropical greenhouse Palm which includes plam houseHouse and waterlily house. There are tree top walkway on difWaterlily House ferent level for people to enjoy the tropical greenhouse in various ways. Top Floor Plan

PLAN

Typical Floor Plan A Typical Floor plans are mainly ZONE for residants. TEMPARATE Every units are placed and rotated according to different attractors. For instance, Typical Floor Plan A typical floor plan A is located on temparate zones which the plants need bigger areas to TEMPARATE ZONE grow in the middle. Therefore, the units were pushed to the boundary .

Typical Floor Plan A

Typical Floor Plan B Typical floor plan B is located on cold and arid zones which the plants are more scattered.COLD Also the & temperature in lower, the ARID ZONE units form into clusters and placed around the scattered Typical Floor Planplants B .

PLAN PLAN COLD & ARID ZONE

Typical Floor Plan B

Flower Market 2nd Floor Plan

2nd Floor is mainly for Flower market. Since 2nd Floor the site is located around green spacePlan and flower show exhibition, we aim to link those Flower those togather and bring the publicMarket into the building. It easy to access from the 1st floor 2nd Floor Plan and is engulfed in the cryoflora greenhouse.

UP DW

Ground Floor Plan As you enter the building, you are inside the big greenhouse of cold zone. The six floor hight provide a enjoyable space for public. The Library and platform are floating in the Library space which people are able to meandering through the landscape1St of cryoflora Floorplants. Plan

Library

UP DW

Studies of Unit Typology Studing how the rotating and moving void space in the middle effect the uasable space in between.

Unit Typology

UNIT TYPOLOGY

Studio

1 Bedroom A

Studio

1 Bedroom A

1 Bedroom B

2 Bedrooms

1 Bedroom B

2 Bedrooms

Entrance

UNIT SECTION

Unit Radial Sections

Kitchen

A C’

B’

AA’ Section

BB’ Section

D D’ E’

Passage

Bedroom

Dining

E B

A’

CC’ Section

DD’ Section

Living Room

Facade of Physical Model

Catatonic Landscape allows people meandering into the building

WORK 02 Spring 2015

Yokohama I PORT TERMINAL New Yokohama Port Terminal Figures and Fields Location : Yokohama, Japan Type : Port Terminal Floor : 4F/20F

PennDesign studio work Teamwork with Eunil Kim Instructor Prof. Nanako Umemoto

Yokohama Redux The occasion of the Yokohama Port Terminal competition in 1995 was a watershed for the discipline in many respects. A new generation of architects and theorists across the globe seized it as a platform to explore emerging modalities in design, design technology, and delivery which would in the ensuing decades become the medium through which and against which much of contemporary practice plays out. To understand this shift is to recognize that Yokohama elicited changes not simply in one architectural register but across almost all of the disciplinary and sub-disciplinary categories that involve the conception and practice of design. This studio will undertake the Yokohama Port Terminal competition twenty years out based upon the accumulated knowledge gleaned from the salient speculative projects to emerge out of the competition and the subsequent trajectory of those ideas in the field. The work will proceed in three phases. First all students will undertake a formal analysis of a significant entry in the competition. This will involve not only analysis of the project itself but immediate antecedents to the project as well. The second phase involves taking the design principles derived from the analysis and creating a design model that will become the basis for your proposal. This involves a shift from the analytical mode to the projective mode. This model will factor in subsequent developments related to that model over time as shown in projects and design research that followed. The third phase will be the deliberate introduction, at three distinct scales and using three different systems, of discrete programmatic elements into the continuous models analyzed in the previous phases. This final phase brings us to projects and problems that are actively being worked through today. As such they are open ended. Assuming you take this material as seriously as your professional colleagues your successes and failures, will be vital contributions to the field.

Yokohama Redux YOKOHAMA REDUX

Original Port Port Terminal Research Original Terminal Research

Object

Sectioning A

Section Study Sectioning B

Sectioning A+B

Original Object

Sectioning A

Sectioning B

Structure Study

Casted Object

3D Printed Model

Sectioning A+B

Interior of Contour Model

Surface Model

3D Printed Model

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

steel supporting structure box girder sheet steel reinforce concrete interior teimber deck

Folding & Winding Structure

Original Fold Structure

Contour Model 1

Contour Model 2

Folding Surface Model

Bifurcated Fold Structure

Folding Original Fold Structure

Bifurcate Process

More Bifurcation

Exploded Girder Structure

A+B

Winding Two Paths

Array Geometries

A B

A+B

Roller-Coaster Structure

Mass

Surface

Frame

Arch 704 Nanako Umemoto Studio / Szu-an Yao + Eunil Kim

Field

Original Object Egg Cartons

Casted Field

Contour Model Vertical / Horizontal

Emphasized bump 3d model

Modification Process

Simplifying process

Hybrid status between simplified and intensified

Simplified Mylar Surface Model

Mylar Surface Model Intensified Bumps

Mylar Surface Model Mixed Reiteration

Study on Lattice Structure

Study on Lattice Structure Structure Analysis

Assembly Analysis

+ Thin paper basic module lasercut

Another module assembled at 90 degree angle

Assemble (base module x 4)

Structure stabilizes with more modules

Group A

Number of layers & view angle determines visual illusion

= Group B

Plan view

Morphing Iteration

Group A sample

Cut Lines

Group B sample

Perspective

Site Plan 1:1500

Tokyo Bay

Perspective

Perspective of Structures

Tow

Plan Cruise Deck andPlan(+5m) Main Floor Level1:800 Terminal Level

Retail

Cafe

Retail

Market Foodcourt

Retail

Info

Restroom Baggage Claim

Check in Office

Custom

Restroom

Retail

Health Check + Office Arrival Immigration

Lounge Ticket Check

DOMESTIC TERMINAL

Retail

Roof Level Access

Roof Level Access Cafe

Market INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL

Security Checkpoint

Tower Access

Osanbashi Hall

Restroom

Retail

Cafe Departure Immigration

Ground Level Plan(0m) 1:800

Parking

Drop off

Access to Main Level Tower Access

Drop Off Parking

Parking

Taxi Stand

Storage / Service area

Exploded Axonometric - Tower

Design Concept

Slabs Tower Circulation Horizontal Ring Structure Vertical Frame Structure

Folded Skin - Translusent Panel Deck

Double Skin System

Exterior Skin - Mesh Interior Volum

Exploded Axonometric - Skin

Stair Garden

Skylight

Bump - Translucent Panel

Vertical Structure Cruise Deck & Main Floor level

Recessed Floor Level

Parking Deck Level

Visitor Domestic Circulation International Circulation

Inspired from the contingent research of casting, contouring and folding, Cloud like lattice structure surrounds internal program void. The lattice structure is primarily deformed following the underwater geography, and necessary program spaces are carved out. Internal program spaces are derived from the bump surface model, developed from the deformed egg carton model. The egg carton model was analyzed through casting, contouring and recreated into paper surface model. In the end, the surface model exists only as a void program space and a rooftop stair garden connected to the tower. The tower part is derived from the analysis of plastic tube model. After casting and contouring, the object was recreated into paper fold model. Skin and structure system were developed based on the paper fold model. The contours from the original model become horizontal ring structure, and three void volumes with helix circulation hangs to the ring structure. The void volumes have double layered skin, with circulation in the outermost layer and empty space in the middle. Rain like Vertical structure connects the horizontal ring structure and the lattice structure.

Plan Tower

Section

Section 1:800

Section

Lattice Structure

Structure Exploded Axonometric Diagram

lattice structure surrounds internal program void.

Horizon

Vertical

Founda

Section 1:800

Lattice S

Vertical Structure

Internal program spaces are derived from the bump surface model, developed from the deformed egg carton model.

Vertical

Carved

Cruise D

Parking

Substruc

Elevation 1:800

Elevation

WORK 03 Fall 2014

New York I LIGHT FLUX OFFICE BUILDING Skyscraper in City of New York Multiple Facades for generous solar access and natural atmosphere in interior space. Increase the value of high rise building. Location : 57th street in Manhattan, New York City Type : Office building/ High rise building Floor : 75F

PennDesign studio work Teamwork with Jaeho Jin and Xingfeng Chen Instructor Prof. Ali Rahim, Ferda Kolatan, Peter Trummer

Asset Urbanism In times of immense growth in capital due to economies in China, India and the Middle East there is more capital than ever in the world today. While monetary capital has always played a significant role in determining the built environment, recent shifts in the character of global finance have resulted in a new relationship between investment practices and buildings. More specifically, the studio probes the notion that the increments of architecture (units, buildings, parcels of land, etc.) increasingly operate primarily as financial investment assets in contradistinction with the performance attributes typically associated with the art and science of building. The growth of capital leads to affects in architecture and urbanism. New York City for example has 12 per cent of its housing market vacant. That is a large number. How can architecture take on this issue and be more in alignment of or critique architecture formed global capital markets?

From Artichoke to Concept of Light The form of the project comesfrom artichoke. Considering the urban assets in New York City, the layering typology allows the building to maximize the access to nature lights. Therefore the concept of the project is to sell lights. Layer-Effect The morphology of artichokes has lead to the concept of this project _Multiple Facade. The effect of multiple facades is to open up the interior space toward the exterior natrual environment. As far as we are concerend, natural light is the most important element for interior space, especially working space. Natrual light gives people a feeling of uplifting and positive affect. In order to have efficient light in all the interior space, multiple facades, light wells and light tubes have been created. This allows more service areas to have more natural lights, inderect light, direct light, ambient light.

Artichoke

Maya Modeling By studing artichokes, we have found an interesting pattern of the growth. The structure of artichokes are in layers. The bud are neseted in the center and the leaves accumulate around.

Elevation The site is located in the midtown of New York, it is a place of many skyscrapers extruding from the land. The high desity area has increased the value of the building . In the project, we aim to raise the value of the skyscraper itself by bring more light into the interior space. At the same time, the access of the direct solar light such as deep light well are able to soften the it into indirect light through times of reflections.

Section The concept of this project is to sell lights. In order to have efficient light in all the interior space, multiple facades have been created. Multiple facedes form light wells, light tubes, which in terms allows more service areas to have more natural lights, inderect light, direct light, ambient light. In the project, we produce the deep cuts into the core of the building. Some spaces have specific programs for office use. But some spaces are just void and empty with floorplates around them. The void space as a light container where people can enjoy the natural atmosphere .

Interior Space Some spaces have specific programs for office use. But some spaces are just void and empty with floorplates around them to increase the quality of light space. The void space as a light container where people can enjoy the natural atmosphere .

Circulation Diagram

Structure Explode Axonometric Diagram

The panels on the outter are made of metal mesh shell. Those metal panels are capable of reflecting and refracting the daylight. The facade on the other side, facing inner side, are placed with glazing materials.At night, when the opccupants turn on the light behind the panel, the building will glow like a torch.

Metal Mesh Shell

Glass Panel

Steel Structure

WORK 04 Fall 2012 - Spring 2013

Taipei I LIFE Drinking and Shopping Chien-Kuo Brewery Reconstruction Stroll Down the Alley Location : Taipei City, Taiwan Type : Recreation Building Floor : 5F

Bachelor Thesis Design Individual Work Instructor Prof. Hideki Hirahara

1st Prize Honorable Mention

2013 Cross-Stairt Young Talent Award of Architecture 2013 Award for Undergraduate Design Thesis

Brewery Reconstruction This project seeks to blur boundaries of streets and buildings, through the transformation of Chien-Kuo Brewery, the experience to walk in Taipei City can be continued. Therefore the scene of everyday life can be combined with the wine-making process, there are new changes over time with the continuous fermentation. Different from the general design, the objectives of this work is the process of designing urban life, rather than the end destination. The location of this old brewery in the center of Taipei, explains the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entire urban developmental footprints.The expansion of the city, caused these industrial sites to be enclosed by the surrounding commercial zones, resulting in a mix-matched urban development. Oftentimes urban renewal meant the transformation of these spaces to commercial districts, for example the HuashanArts Center or the Sungshan Creative Arts Park.

Operating Factory Shut-Down Factory Recreation Railway Station

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1937

2 1937 1914

1937

taipei railway workshop

taipei 1937-2012 railway workshop

1919

chienkuo brewery

tapiei train station

huashan warehouse

taipei sugar mill

1920

Urban Expanding 1937

songshan tobacco factory

1919

1909

1937-1998 songshan tobacco factory

Factories Dissapearing 1937 taipei railway workshop

songshan tobacco factory

1956

1945 1914

2010

1937

chienkuo brewery

huashan warehouse

songshan culture and creative park

huashan freight station

taipei sugar mill

1919- today chienkuo brewery

1937

-194

2 1937 1914

1919 chienkuo brewery

huashan warehouse

1909

Factories Recreating

-199

taipei railway workshop

songshan tobacco factory

-194

huashan freight station

taipei sugar mill

1914-1989 huashan warehousee

989 1919 chienkuo brewery

1909

-198 19146 -1

huashan warehousee

huashan 1914 creative park

-2012

huashan freight station

taipei sugar mill

1937-1986 huashan freight station

1937

-194

2013

Factories Emerging

Railway Operating

Issue Introduction

Preservation of Equipments

In today’s Taipei, most of these old factories no longer have their original equipment, and the space has been converted, opened to the public to experience; the Chien-Kuo Brewery is one of the few places with its original site and equipment, and a stereotype in the public’s idea of a “factory”, surrounded with large walls. The Chien-Kuo Brewery has been long forgotten, but in fact has many strengths.

The location of this old brewery in the center of Taipei, explains the city’s entire urban developmental footprints.The expansion of the city, caused these industrial sites to be enclosed by the surrounding commercial zones, resulting in a mix-matched urban development. Oftentimes urban renewal meant the transformation of these spaces to commercial districts, for example the HuashanArts Center or the Sungshan Creative Arts Park.

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1 Packing Space

Electric generator room Refrigeration equipment Stokehole Air Compressor

1F Filter chamber 2F Yeast Adding chamber Keg measuring chamber 3F-4F Indoor Open Fermenter Outdoor Fermenter Keg storage room

3 4 5 6

Copper Saccharification Kettle Stainless steel Saccharification Kettle

7 8

Strategy Brewery maintain it’s original function, equipments and historical building. While breaking down the walls for introducing the public into the brewery, it still carry on with its own manufacturing.

Brewery

Restaurant

Glassware

Beer Spa

Malting

Farming

Glass Recycle

River

Brewing

Market

Glass Reuse

Water Filtering

Maturing

Cooking

Glass Making

Spa Material

Drinking

Eating

Gallery

Relaxing

Gradient Program From Original to Supplementtal, From Manufacturing to Enjoying, From Closure to Public

Physical Model The Reconstruction Brewery will emphasize a complete commercial area, conserving the original spirit, while also exploring the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peaceful mystery.

Design Description The design concept allows the space to flow together freely, conserving the original production steps. This creates a unique urban platform, allowing for transformation of the traditional brewery.The Reconstruction Brewery will emphasize a complete commercial area, conserving the original spirit, while also exploring the siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s peaceful mystery.

Public Roof Top

Eating

Drinking

Shopping

Strolling

Slops Penetrate into the Brewery

Slopes Penetrating into the Brewery Farming

New Path

Bathing

Equipment

Strolling Visiting

Original Building

Working

Exploded Axonometric Exploded Axonometric

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

DN.

+0 +20 +40

UP..

+60

+40 +20

UP.

Souvenir store

Label costumize

Locker room

Beer Garden

Spa lobby +120

Herb market

Locker room

DN.

3 F Plan Scale: 1/200

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Terrace

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

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6 5

4 3

9 9 9

Integrating New Platform and Original Brewery 1. Beer Spa 2. Beer Bar 3. Herbal Market 4. Vertical Farming 5. Brewery Museum 6. Souvenir Store 7. Label Customize 8. Viewing Deck 9. Visiting Path

Integrating the new platform with the old brewery pathways, connecting the old buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s empty roofs, to the brewery passageways and the remnants of the Japanese era wooden structure, along with the interior of the old buildings. The original brewing equipment is found throughout. A new life experience, will soon be displayed here. With the large platform, and interconnected rampways, the original process is conserved with the breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operating area and production lines. The space undergoes change from a linear production process to a three dimensional journey. The production flow are explained along the way, as the public learns the entire process from beginning to the first brew. The process explains the beer culture along the way.

Section With the large platform, and interconnected rampways, the original process is conserved with the breweryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operating area and production lines.The space undergoes change from a linear production process to a three dimensional journey.The production flow are explained along the way, as the public learns the entire process from beginning to the first brew.The process explains the beer culture along the way.

Beer Spa

Market

Strolling Cooking Drinking Eating

Transporting

Packaging

Performin

Brewery Chimney and New rampway

Browsing

Beer Bar / Restaurant

Resting

ng Eating

Shopping

Glass Making Overlooking Storage

WORK 05 Spring 2010

Taipei I INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DORMITORY Inserting new building into the historical city context

Location : New Taipei City, Taiwan Type : Housing Floor : 5F Bachelor studio work ARCH 02 Spring 2010 Individual Work Instructor Prof. Wan-Li Fang

The city locates by Tamshui River. Buildings grew organically, densely and ran parallel to the river to adapt to the commercial activities around river bank. The city naturally creates many gaps between masses. There is also a gap which allows the site to reach the view of Tamshui River. In order to make good use of this precious gap of view, this project place a huge wall pointing directly to the river.The staircases flowing along the wall and public spaces opening to the river enable the users in the building to enjoy the specific frame.

Peeking Through the Gap Tamsui Waterfront Observation

Site

Residential Area

Stores

Commercial Street

The densely city has an interesting way to reach the beautiful view of Tamsui River and mountians from narrow, vertical, and Liner gap. The city locates by Tamshui River. Buildings grew organically, densely and ran parallel to the river to adapt to the commercial activities around river bank. The city naturally creates many gaps between masses. There is also a gap which allows the site to reach the view of Tamshui River. In order to make good use of this precious gap of view, this project place a huge wall pointing directly to the river.The staircases flowing along the wall and public spaces opening to the river enable the users in the building to enjoy the specific frame.

SITE

Stores

Tamsui River Bank

SITE

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ing

Commercial Street

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Ta m

ive

Church

Site Plan Extend visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vertical spatial experience when entering the building from the slope which connect the commercial street and residential area.

Program Arrangement and Subdivision Diagram Program Subdivided

Vertical Lobby

Public Spaces 160 m2 Public Livingroom Public Restroom Roof Terrace Service Core Communal Space

Conference Room

Communication and Service 250 m2 Class Room

Staircases lead way to the building Extend visitorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; vertical spatial experience when entering the building from the slope which connect the commercial street and residential area. Staircase lead the way to the building

Studio

Vertical Livingroom

Residents 280 m2

Programs

1F 1. Classroom 2. Resident Entrance 3. Public Restroom

3F 7. 8. 9. 10.

2F 4. Common Room 5. Conference Room 6. Visitor Entrance

4F 11. Resident Livingroom 12. Buddy Room 13. Roof Terrace

Laundry Room

Buddy Room

Studio Study Lounge Single Room Laundry

Single Room Total Area 720m2

Exploded Plans

Resident Livingroom 4F-5F

8 11.

12.

13.

Study Lounge 3F-4F

10.

7. 9.

13. 6.

Visitor Entrance 2F-3F

5. 13.

1. 3.

1. 2.

Resident Entrance 1F-2F

Structure and Material Study

Material Study

Facade Facade-Metal Mesh Curtain Wall Metal Mesh Curtain Wall

Expanded aluminum mesh

Glas

Meta

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Detail

Axonomatric Section Common spaces where design to open up to upper level in order to gather occupanats and increase the oppertunity to interact with each other.

WORK 06

Sharing with Community

AN-KANG SOCAIL HOUSING

Sharing with Family/ Friends /Visitors

Ramps

From Sharing and Exchanging to Flexibility and Adaption

Public

Courtyard

A’

Bachelor short-term C’ design Individual B Work B’ B C Instructor Prof. Hideki Hirahara

Restaurant

Plaza

Service Center

Private

Fall 2012

New Housing Typology

Creating an egg-shape as a new prototype for residential building, which enables residents to experience a more comfortable way of sharing without clear boundaries. Also, spatial extension and vertical courtyard may encourage residents to enjoy good relations with their neighbors.

Vague boundary

Public Cafe

Geometry of Sharing

Vague Boundary Geometry of Sharing

SQUARE-SHAPE X CURVE

A’ D

C’ B

B’ C

8 pin

16 pin

SPACE X SOCIALITY

24 pin

Sharing with Neighbors Indivisual Dining Room

Communal Dining Space

8 pin

Open

16 pin

Extension 24 pin

Sharing with Community

Sharing with Family/ Friends /Visitors

Ramps

Public

Courtyard

Restaurant

Private Void/ Courtyard

Plan Circulation spirals break the boundaries between different floors. The spiral slopes creates a spatial continuum along the lower floors up to the roof. The courtyard, a vertical open space facing to north, admits natural light to every residential unit and public space. The public cafe and a more spacious semi-outdoor plaza on the ground floor could be used for communal events.

5. 4. 8.

6. 3.

3. 4. 2.

5. 4.

1. 2.

6. 5. 3.

1. Living room 2. Dining room 3. Kitchen 4. Bedroom 5. Bathroom 6. Balcony 7. Public Dining room 8. Courtyard

3rd floor

Extending living room space to communal space

Section

Elevation

Extendable living room space from private to public. Increase the opportunity to interact with neighbors and to share life together.

al Experience

The panels are light and porous and capable of reflecting and refracting the daylight.

Section

Facade Pattern Study The facade pattern is made with assembled aluminum rings,which are easy to fit the arch-shape of the building. The panels are light and porous and capable of reflecting and refracting the daylight. At night, when the residents turn on the light behind the panel, the building will glow like a Chinese Latticed window. The circle pattern follows the concept of “linking”. Circles are being logically generated with the base sequence of hexagons. Chinese Latticed window

ving room mmunal space

Unit prototype

Elevation

Design Concept

A way to bind the community together, to promote public participation, and to share happiness

ion

“DANCE“

by Henri Matisse

Base Geometry--Hexagons

Assembled aluminum rings

Circles are being logically generated with the base sequence of hexagons. Chinese Latticed window

Facade Pattern Study Facade Pattern Study The Facade pattern is madeiswith assembled rings,which are easy to The facade pattern made with aluminum assembled aluminum fit the arch-shape of the building. The panels are light and porous and capable rings,which are easy to fit the arch-shape of the buildof reflecting and refracting the daylight. At night, when the residents turn on the Unit prototype ing. The panels light and porous capable light behind the panel,are the building will glow like aand Chinese Latticed of window. The circle pattern follows the concept of “linking”. Circles are logically reflecting and refracting the daylight. At night,being when generated with the base sequence of hexagons. the residents turn on the light behind the panel, the building will glow like a Chinese Latticed window. The circle pattern follows the concept of “linking”. Circles are being logically generated with the base sequence of hexagons. Base Geometry--Hexagons

Assembled aluminum rings

Chinese Latticed window

Unit prototype

Base Geometry--Hexagons

Assembled aluminum rings

WORK 07 Spring 2015

LIFE within NATURE Textile Block Building System from Frank Lloyd Wright PennDesign I Modern House Teamwork with Seung Bae, Yongsu Choung, Joongho Lee Instructor Prof. Annette Fierro

Dream Life

Compared to a general city life which is surrounded by tall buildings, many cars, and busy people, we hope to have more of a chance to communicate with nature and neighbors at home. To obtain privacy and tranquility in city surroundings, our idea is to place a garden on the street side of the house. Hence, this general garden feature will be a partial façade of the row house. This front garden-facade will welcome us before getting into the house and will be visible from every oor. Since we are not planning to hide this garden, our façade material will emphasize our garden even from the outside of the row house. In other words, this garden will be visible both inside and outside of the house.

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Honeycomb-like concrete block. According to La Miniatra by Frank Lloyd Wright

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Seung Bae, Yongsu Choung, Joongho Lee, Szu-An Yao STEEL PIPE HEXAGONAL CONC. BLOCK

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The Morden House

STEEL WIRE @¼’’

EMBEDDED NAIL

CEDAR WOOD THK 1½ ’’

THIN MORTAR BED

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HEXAGONAL CONC. BLOCK

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CONC. BLOCK

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Structure Detail The honeycomb block will subtly transfer to wooden louver to continue the building façade. Pin joint system will be applied to connect between wooden louver and honeycomb concrete block and steel pin will be placed on the top of theconcrete block. Arch738 The Morden House

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Arch738 The Morden House

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Dinning Room

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The honeycomb façade with inner garden provides a unique and beautiful aesthetic value as well as passive design quality which gives Arch738 The Morden House den e House a lot of benefit to residents in the row house.

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Hexagonal patterns are prevalent in nature and provides structural strength with minimal amount of materials. To fulll both structural and aesthetic qualities, we placed honeycomb steel frame in between honeycomb concrete blocks. Some of the honeycomb structures will partially extended to the inner part of the façade and will continually connect to the system, such as staircase, wall structures, small plant pot for owers, etc. The honeycomb block will subtly transfer to wooden louver to continue the building façade. Pin joint system will be applied to connect between wooden louver and honeycomb concrete block and steel pin will be placed on the top of the concrete block. Since both honeycomb concrete block and wooden louver provide various openings, they will invite great amount of sunlight into the house complex during a day. Since the top of the garden only covered by wooden louver with a certain gap and our front honeycomb façade has many openings, they will not only bring enough sunlight, but they also help to generate natural ventilation. This natural ventilation and sunlight will save energy and also create good environment for both people and garden. This honeycomb with garden combined façade will reduce carbon foot print, so it helps fresh air for each neighborhood in this community. Even though our facade encourages to have enough sunlight our trees in the garden will protect residents by direct sunlight and it will also protect people from street noisy and pollution especially in this urban condition like city of Philadelphia. This front garden will lead us to have a feeling of living in the nature and also living in awareness of the changing seasons. Philadelphia’s native but narrow trees, such as Fastigate Red Maple, Goldspire Maple, and Green Pillar Pin Oak will placed in the garden to bring local specic feature at home.

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WORK 08 Spring 2015

Parquet deformations are an abstract form of ornament first introduced by William Huff as an exercise for his Architecture students, and later popularized by Douglas Hofstadter in his Scientific American column. They are a kind of "spatial animation": a tiling of the plane Space Frame by Adaptation of Parquet Pattern from shapes that Structure gradually evolve in space. They are the aesthetic cousins of Escher's Metamorphosis prints. PennDesign I The Mathematics of Tilling Teamwork with Yongsu Choung, Joongho Lee We can create Islamic parquet deformaInstructor Joshua Freese & JoshofDannenberg tions as aProf. simple modification Hankin's method. Given a tiling, Hankin's method is parameterized by a single real value called the "contact Precedent Analysis angle". we haveare toan doabstract is gradually Parquet All deformations form of Parquet patterns are composed of Lines and vertex. change contact angle in space. ornamentthat first introduced by William Huff as The When one line or vertex is altered, all the correan exercise his Architecture students,novel: and sponding lines or vertices that ply the same role in results are for striking and certainly popularized by Douglas in his the copies of that cell undergo the same change. inlater centuries past, it wouldHofstadter never have Scientific American Theyaare a kind of Looking at the “Fylfot Flipflop”, you will get the disbeen practical to column. construct pattern “spatial animation”: a tiling of the plane from tinct sensation of scanning a tiny mountain range. where almost every shape is unique! shapes that gradually evolve in space. They are At either edge, the curves begin with a perfectly

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the aesthetic cousins of Escher’s Metamorphosis prints.

flat plain, and then moving into rolling hills, which became taller and steeper, eventually turning into jagged peaks;then past the centerpoint, these start to soften into lower foothills, which gradually turns into the plain again. The zigging and zagging is 180 degrees out of phase with the top line. Thus notice that the very center line is completely at rest.

Parquet Deformation Parquet pattern has amazing two dimensional visual effect that has bring our interest to it. We attempt to bring the two dimensional parquet pattern to three dimensional space.When it come to three dimension, we have to consider about the scale, the structure, and the spacial function. It is challenging that how to keep the essence of two dimensional parquet pattern in a three dimensional object. The space frame structure has inspired us to Perfect Hexagon developour three dimensional parquet pavilion which the pattern itself becomes structure pipes and people are able to shuttle back and forth inside the structure.While bringing the idea of space frame x3 structure to the pavilion, we have come to realize the different spacial experience within different scale. In a smaller scale, the parquet pattern Dizzy becomes the element in the Bee space, such as seats, by Richard Mesnik stairs, or hand rail. In Created a biggerinscale, the parquet the studio of pattern has become aWilliam facade.Huff Moreover, (1964) it is a self-stand structure.

Parquet deformations

Scale-Free Structure

Fylfot Flipflop by Fred Watts. Created in the studio of William Huff (1963)

Becombing Blossoms by Richard Mesnik Created in the studio of William Huff (1964) Perfect Hexagon

Squashed Pentagon

x3 Super Hexagon Dizzy Bee by Richard Mesnik Created in the studio of William Huff (1964)

Becombing Blossoms by Richard Mesnik Created in the studio of William Huff (1964)

Design Process

2D Parquet Pattern

3D Pattern Layering

Randomly Join Curves

Scoop out Partly

Apply Color to each Curve

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Colorful Pavilion Contrast between monotonal background and coloful structure.

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Thank You

Szu-An [Annie] Yao University of Pennsylvania, M.Arch II annannyao@gmail.com I 718-290-5289