Gluelam Weave
Skyhive Timber
2023 · Individual
UCL
School of Architecture 2022·
Project Team:
Flight Ways Typology EVolo Skyscraper Competition 2020 · Individual Skeleton & Body Cornell University 2021 · Individual Mass Timber Unfold Las Vegas Affordable Housing Competition 2022 · Individual Minor Symphony 2023 · Individual 1 5 12 16 20 22
Skyscraper Competition
Barbican Reimagined
Bartlett
Group
Du Li, Luke Dayong Zhang
Gluelam Weave
Skyhive Timber Skyscraper Competition
2023 · Individual
Glulam Weave is London’s next landmark skyscraper located at London South Bank. The area has great development potential to grow for high rises as the city area across the river has been overpopulated with skyscrappers. The tower is inspired by the weaving patttern of the London Bridge train station, and expand the logic into the air. The tower is constructed with glulaminated timber. The weaving pattern is studied with the interlocking system used for structural purposes and the interstitial system creating the stricking aesthetics of the facade.
Location: Magdalen St, SE1, London, UK The weaving pattern was derivative from the weaving London Bridage station railways, the historical symbol that witness the city evolvement in centuries. The pattern is explored as timber structural support that extends vertically in tho the skyline, echoing neighboured The Shard.
Type A - Interstitial Joint Component
Type B - Interlock Holder Component Study
Type C - Interlock Joint
Barbican Reimagined
2022 · Group Project with Du Li, Dayong Zhang Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Instructor: Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jimenez Garcia
Barbican Reimagined is a study of the symbolic Brutalistic Barbican social housing project in centeral London. The adaptive framework of program allocation massing and construction detail is envisioned in a similar Las Vegas social housing program in modern setting.
The reimagined project explore the environmental improvement with timber and rammed earth construction. The new site specific conditions and setting inspires the housing-casino-shopping mixed used megastructure.
Terra is a sustainable initiative exploring the non-traditional application of rammed earth construction. The project fully investigates the constraints of the material and turns it into a new aesthetic through aggregation.
1:4 Model 1:4 Model
Physical Models
1:4 Formwork
Minor Symphony
Competition
2023 · Individual Project
Minor Symphony is a poetic exploration of space harmonization with nature. The deliberation of fluidity as visual language blurs the boundary between within and without. Located on a mountainside, the Minor Symphony Hotel is a reflection of the organic scenery in the ecosystem and its resonance with the inner peace of the inhabitants.
Skeleton and Body
Individual Project · 2020 Fall
Cornell University · Core Studio I
Instructor: Caroline O’Donnell
Skeleton and Body are drastic architectureal contrasts, while funcational closely intertwined. Skeleton carries structure, the conjunction, while body proides guidence, the action.
The library stems from a basic component derived from the site, the Philly Rail Park. The aggregation explores site specific vacancy and solidity from paralleled but simultaneous investigations on the body-centric library and its skeleton-centric public space.
Roof Canopy Detail
⓪ 50mm Insulated Sheet Aluminum
① Warren Truss Timber Girder
② 80 - 250 mm Fiberglass and Mineral
WoolThermal Insulation
③ 80 mm Profiled Glass Panels
④ Aluminum T-Section Joint
⑤ Parapet Flashing
⑥ Transparent Photovoltaic Panel
⑦ Double Layered U-Profile Glass with Translucent Insulation
⑧ Intermediate Weld Block Channel
⑨ Cross Laminated Timber Ribs
Natural Light Infiltration
⓪ ④ ⑤ ① ② ③ ⑦ ⑨ ⑧ ⑥
Flight Ways Typology
EVolo Skyscraper Competition Personal Project · 2020
For over 60 million years, birds’ flight ways were blessed with freedom. Tragically, birds’ natural rights have been deprived drastically in the post-industrial age. In the book Flight Ways, author Thom van Dooren discerns the impact of human activities among all factors accountable for the accelerating extinction of birds, noticeably the mass usage of glass on buildings and climate change.
This project addresses the impact of architecture on the natural environment. A series of principles derived from the rain forest system guide spatial orientations. A canopy structure creates voids resembling the mid-range flight ways. Nest pods provide habitual and congregational space without imposing obstructions on the mobility of birds. The instrument channels a visionary type that defines space around animal behaviors.
Separation Cohesion Alignment Concentration Partition
Simulation Solid Void Compound Cluster Wave Torus Dome Flock Study Mathematical Models Spatial Utility 28% 36% 33%
Unit
Aggregations
Compound
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