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DESIGN PORTFOLIO | GRADUATION STUDIO LU WANG | MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 2015

DESIGN PORTFOLIO | GRADUATION STUDIO

CABINET OF DR. CURIOSITY

LU WANG | MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 2015

SITE ANALYSE

E: arawang1116@gmail.com P: 0430860022

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PRECEDENT BOX

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CORNER MODEL

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STORYBOARD

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INITIAL CONCEPT

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SPACIAL MATRICES

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PANDORA’S CLOUD INSPIRATION & FACADE SOLUTION LOST THROUGH LAYERS REFLECTION & REFECTION DEMATERIALISATION

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“A FIELD OF RELATIONSHIP” PLAN ELEVATION SECTION

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INTO THE CLOUD LEARNING CENTRE | THE VEILED TREASURE

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LECTURE THEATRE | A NEW WAY OF LEARNING

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THE VOID | THE LIGHT WELL

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The Life Sciences Precinct is located at Ross street gate which is next to the Parramatta road. It will accommodate shared learning and teaching spaces, laboratories, library facilities, and basement parking.

This new precinct will also integrate a number of faculties and schools including Veterinary Sciences, Agriculture & Environment. In rethinking the identity and potential of this precinct, the studio is trying to approach the design of the Life Science Building as a matrix of detailed moments – extracted from constituent conditions and reassembled as a spatial network within which both the user and the reader wander.

And this approach is different from thinking building only as a singular and linear totality which might not fully reveal the potential of the Life Science Precinct.

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SITE ANALYSE | MATERIAL STUDY

Plants, pieces of woods, stone, tile, pipes, metal, brick, concrete, moss...

Materials were found at different locations on site. A map was drew to show the geological networks of the materiality.

Materials are related to geological locations, material world, cosmic world, and also space and time.

Within the time frame we have experienced, the object we can found on site are limited, however, through an alien’s eye, we can categorise those materials into four period. At the beginning of the time frame, there was natural canopies occupy the site, later, with human activities taking place, the nature was modified and reused in different ways. A general assumption of the site history thus can be derived though this analyse.

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PRECEDENT BOX | MONA MUSEUM “MONA did not use grandeur scale to belittle or stand over visitors, rather, it was intended to mystify them, lead them astray, take them out of them selves to museum-scape of unexpected and extraordinary twists and turns. It eliminates seriousness and authority of conventional museum.�

Mirrored entrance: reflect the surface event horizon around block Hole: drawn visitors into MONA / a portal into a parallel world below

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“Art and building dissolved into each other, visitor love the architecture but isn’t appreciate separately from art.”

“Architecture and atmosphere were created in tandem, art wasn’t considered significantly more important than the other.”

Waffle: cues about scale Sandstone wall: breathes through holes Themes: Sex and Death Circulation: designed to get lost

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CORNER MODEL As the initial approach of the space quality study, the idea of visual and physical boundary was tested through a corner model.

Combination of structural and non-structural columns can generate boundaries that visually penetrable but physically restricted.

Daylight pass through layers of pillars creating shadow similar as in a forest.

Polaroid render of corner space

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STORYBOARD | MOMENT OF CONCENTRATION

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INITIAL CONCEPT | FLOATING LAYERS One could get lost through layers of spaces and blur the boundary of inside and outside.

The flexible modular spaces can be rearranged to create spaces with certain functions.

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SPACIAL METRICS | A NETWORK OF LANDSCAPE

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CIRCULATION & PROTOTYPE The circulation was designed to break the conceptual boundaries of wall, floor and ceiling, to set free oneself in a space without direction and time.

The proposal consists several prototypes of small clusters.

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Floor = Roof= Wall

PANDORA’S CLOUD

LOST THROUGH LAYERS

See and not see through layers, the screen of layers blurs the concept of inside and outside, one permeates the other.

Right: Photo montage of Louvre Lens by SANAA

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REFLECTION & REFECTION

In artist Dan Graham’s work, a two-way mirror was largely used to create effect of both reflection and refraction. Similarly, n the project Louvre Lens, a brushed aluminium panel was applied presented a brilliant display of reflection upon refraction.

Right: Photo montage of Louvre Lens by SANAA

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DEMATERIALISATION

At planck length, in a quantum foam, space does not have a certain structure or form. Inspired by the interpretation of artist Tomas Saraceno, the shape of space is influenced by the forces of visitors.

If less transparent means of partitioning spaces inside and out, translucent would blur the spatial and functional boundaries, thus achieving the seemingly form less effect of the building.

By applying the translucent facade human was turned from subject into object, a shadow or a figure that their activities can be studied by others.

Right: Photo montage of the artwork “On Space Time Foam”

by Tomas Saraceno “Visitors are invited to enter three clear membranes of plastic suspended 25-meters in the air. The installation creates a new bodily experience, transforming everyday perceptions of space and one’s relationship to others.”

“The mass-energy of the visitors’ bodies stretches and sinks the diaphanous membrane just as the earth does spacetime.”

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“Rays of light shower the building between pillars in random arrangement, from the courtyard and through the holes piercing the roof, creating the atmosphere of a forest ...�

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“A FIELD OF RELATIONSHIP” “The void space is animated by the presence of people and object” With the open plan gird system, small scale functional elements can be injected to encourage varies activities, providing unplanned, user oriented spaces of buoyancy.

Void space penetrate vertically through level creating informal spaces and allow different types of energy(light air water sound) flow while facilitating vertical circulation.

Grass Movable cafe cabin Structural wall Guide Axis Main Road

1. INFORMATION CENTRE 2. UNI STORE 3. OUTDOOR SEMINAR 4. SUNKEN GARDEN 5. VOID

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1. EXHIBITION HALL 2. TOILET 3. CLASSROOM 101 4. LECTURE THEATRE 1 5. VOID 6. TEACHING LAB 101 7. LECTURE THEATRE 2 8. TEACHING LAB 102 9. SHARED LAB 101 10. SEMINAR 11. SHARED LAB 102 12. CONFERENCE HALL 1 13. CLASSROOM 102-103

LEVEL ONE

1. LEARNING CENTRE 2. TOILET 3. CLASSROOM 201 4. LECTURE THEATRE 1 5. VOID 6. TEACHING LAB 201 7. LAB STATION 8. LECTURE THEATRE 2 9. TEACHING LAB 202 10. SHARED LAB 201 11. SEMINAR 12. SHARED LAB 202 13. CONFERENCE HALL 14. CLASSROOM 202

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Lightness of Being

INTO THE CLOUD

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LEARNING CENTRE | THE VEILED TREASURE The learning centre is a home base of students , it applies the grid and column system, injecting private learning modular, small kitchen, toilet and other open plan functions. Half of the building merged into landscape generates different functions and uses around and upon it. An exhibition hall at the lower ground hidden below the landscape become a treasure that remain veiled.

The translucent glass facade conduct soft, natural daylight, indirect light disperses due to minimal walls in an open planed faculty, giving the interior of the building a homogeneous quality. Furthermore, the light reflects off different materials such as aluminium, glass, tiles and other surfaces, breaking the fixed conception of boundaries. The subdued light diffused by these surfaces disturbs perceptions of direction: the interior of the building is suffused with weightlessness and the feeling of floating.

Right: Photo montage of Louvre Lens

by SANAA

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Interior render of the exhibition hall

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LECTURE THEATRE|A NEW WAY OF LEARNING Unlike traditional ways of teaching and learning, the scale of lecture theatres in the Life Science Centre are designed to be able to accommodate both conventional teaching and small group discussions. The collision and fusion of different learning spaces creates dynamic learning experience and facilitates both formal and informal communication. The facade of the centre is provided with a liquid-crystal film sandwiched between layers of glass sliding that can be switched electronically from transparent to semi-opaque when privacy and acoustic are required and opened where informal discussion or interactive learning take place.

The intersection of lab station with lecture theatre allow both spaces to bring their capabilities into full play, especially when ‘show and tell’ and interdisciplinary learning is essential to life science faculty. A visual connection from the lecture room to ground level sunken garden and outdoor seminar space can be controlled by the electronic switch needed.

As facilities are shared between biology, chemistry, geology and environment departments, spaces can be booked for flexible uses ahead of schedule.

Left: (top to bottom) Exterior view of the lecture theatre Interior view of the lecture theatre Right: (top to bottom) Section through lab station Light testing Perspective view of lecture theatre and lab station

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THE VOID | THE LIGHT WELL

Daylight is introduced from different directions into each individual functional area, the result is the building filled with light. In the three-level void space connecting classroom, lecture theatre and the lab, a huge glass screen is integrated with the structural column system. The glass screen is covered with milky translucent film, which blocks UV light and softens the intensity of the afternoon sun.

Detail captures: top Ground floor open space Bottom: (left to right) Three level void space Reflection of the ground level Section through intersection of lecture theatre and lab Perspective view of lecture theatre

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Render of the ground floor open space

66 Inspirations: On Space Time Foam (Tomas Saraceno) Light’s labyrinth Ordinary day Pavilion (Cinzia Susca) Dan Graham Hans Haacke Precedents: MONA Museum GASP stage 2 (Room 11) Louvre Lens (SANAA) Serpentine Pavilion (Sou Fujimoto)

Render of the exhibition hall