BAIYANG KONG ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO SELECTED WORKS 2017-2020
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-INDEX1. THE BREAD TUNNEL - Regenerative Architecture studio by MASS Design Group 2. COLLAGE MUSEUM - Modularity and duplication: Venice Design Studio by Jerry Wells 3. A WOODEN DAYCARE - Integrated Wood Design Studio 4. BERLIN MIXED USE HOUSING - An integrated lifestyle: Core Studio by Werner Goehner 5. ADAPTABLE PAVILION - Program specific variation and mechanization 6. YAC TREE HOUSE MODULE - Competition entry: Customized Cabin To-Go 7. ZENITHAL LIGHT - Monastery entry design with attention to detail 8. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE - LUHU Cultural Resource Center SD by Studio Link Arc Selected works of Baiyang Kong 2017-2020 Inquiries: bk489@cornell.edu
Structural Concepts 2018 Spring. Collaboration with Ben Goldsmith, Allan Mezhibovsky
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Option Studio: The Bread Tunnel Site: Blue Hill At Stonebarns, Tarrytown Instructor: Caitlin Taylor/Michael Murphy -- Mass Design Group Collaboration with XinYue Wang
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The Bread Tunnel
Following the entry sequence of the Stonebarns campus, the grain mill seeks to explore ways of transforming people through the knowledge of bread, where the experiential tunnel serves for the duality to change both the people and the physical grain. The grain mill component protrudes as an additive volume that follows the formal typology of Stonebarn’s facade. The bakery component is a deductive void that utilizes the available interior space of the historic building. Overall, the bakery and the grain mill highlight the intent for both leading consumers to choosing better grain products and supporting the sourcing of the grain for a sustainable agricultural economy.
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LONG SECTION cutting through the bread tunnel
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Section cutting through bakery
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Research Phase: Tracing the Ingredient The research of the project begins with the tracing of wheat and olives with the goal of re-establishing the infrastructure of food transportation and planting strategies. USA Production Distribution by Region
Olive Production and Export by Country
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Third Year Studio: Peggy Guggenheim Museum Addition Site: Grand Canal, Venice Instructor: Jerry Wells, Daniele Durante
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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Addition
Venice as a city had experienced a linear expansion in population throughout the past century. As a crowded city that requires enormous expansion of its housing capacity, various operations such as insertion, duplication, and layering have been utilized to resolve the crisis. As an attempt to maintain the continuity of the facade along the Grand Canal, the intervention follow the careful operation of aggregating and duplicating various types of exhibition spaces, truly envisioning a Venetial experience that is full of surprises.
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Installation/artifact Film
3F Sculpture Painting
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Double height sculpture room
Skylight painting room
Narrow text+sculpture room
Ambient installation+performative art room
Types of exhibition spaces according to lighting feature and dimensionality
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Room Dimensions presented in Sections
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LONG SECTION CUTTING THROUGH COURTYARD
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Second Year Studio: A Wooden Daycare Site: Eddy St Downtown Ithaca Instructor: Katharina Kral
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A Wooden Daycare As a gesture to capture the essence of the running water, the elevation difference, and the erosion typology of the site, the design focuses on the expansion of its horizontal dimensionality and maximizing the opporunities of interaction between the people and those natural conditions. Utilizing the sponge concept, the building is perforated with triangular openings, allowing maximum daylight performance throughout the day. The triangular form of the openings follows the language of the CLT frame, while at the same time forming a 3-way divider to orient programs around the courtyards.
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Left: Section cut/ Right: Construction detail of balcony moment
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CLT and Glulam frames are joined together with mortise and tenon method. The frames are spaced evenly with diagonal elements to prevent shearing moments within the span of the frames. Opaque circle: Main structural columns. Outlined circle: substructural columns.
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Interior Comfort Analysis The desired result from the daylight and glare analysis is managed through 2 ways, with one being the initial openings as a response to the programmatic and circulation requirement, and the other one being the optimization of openings based on daylight simulations, where areas surrounded by openings are maintaining an average lux of 800. Average lux goes up to 1200 for areas near hallways and gyms where spaces depend more on natural light. The exterior enclosure uses double layered glass with a Uval of 2.6. This study implemented a dynamic blind system that is opened for around 70 percent over the year.
Daylight Availability
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Annual Glare Analysis
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Third Year Studio: Berlin Mix-use Housing Site: Kreuzberg, Berlin Instructor: Werner Goehner
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INTERVENTION Kruezberg, Berlin
Acknowledging the historical shift in the demographics of Kreuzberg through the postwar period, this project explores the possibilities of establishing diversity in the urban housing fabric by hosting various types of shared programs that are interconnected and woven into each other to symbolize the revitalization of a new generation. Through the means of analyzing local circulation, access routes, public transportation, and existing retail practices, this project uses a series of grids as a method to reconstruct a set of meaningful circulations within the expansive area. The massing begins as a strong axis offset from the existing taxation buildings nearby. With the addition of the grid, the program blocks are reorganized with the redefined circulation route.
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The cut used as a terrace catwalk
The cut used as intermediate connection
Sliding window mechanism
The cut used to seperate public+private
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1:200 BUILDING PLAN
Section through gallery+catwalk+housing units
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First Year Studio: Plateau Pre-School Site: Huangtu Plateau Instructor: Luben Dimcheff, Val Warke 40
Plateau Pre-school is a childcare center designed to respond and adapt to its various scarce climatic conditions. Inspired by two vernacular architectural precedents, the tobacco barn and the Ricola storage building by Herzog, this project highlights the possibilities of using its environmental conditions, such as wind-flow and natural light as an advantage to categorize and enhance the spatial experience. To convey the relationship between the interior and the exterior, the design follows a structural system that mimics the gesture of carving various ground conditions to formulate programs.
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YAC Treehouse Module: Competition Entry Site: Vibrac, Suburbs of France Collaborators: Alexander Htet, Turner Andrasz
This treehouse closely follows the ideology of operability and customization to various environmental and climatic contexts. The project creates a fluid connection between the ruins and the forest through framed views, while the facade unfolds like a drawbridge of a castle. This project acknowledges the mobility of modular components, in which the programs can be easily aggregated and seperated during transportation and onsite assembly.
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ZENITHAL LIGHT - Construction details+ extended program
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Seminar: Zenithal Light
Monastery lighting and material detail design Instructor: Rodolfo Diaz 44
The project of this seminar aims to explore the possibilities of volumetric lighting qualities through means of experimentation with attention to structure and materiality. As a monastery entrance, the physical scale model aims to capture the richness within the skylight reflected through the many layers of the wooden grain. The wooden frames serve both structural purposes and light filtrations. The CLT frames are designed to be 4 inches thick. The four repeated components are fastened together with customized bolted joints which allows four separate pieces of the wooden frames to be combined in an X shape geometry. The skylight is enclosed with polycarbonate.
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Render by Studio Link Arc
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Professional Practice: Luhu Cultural Resource Center Studio Link Arc 2019 Summer 46
THEATRE STUDY
The LUHU Scientific and technological culture area is conceived as a cluster of cultural buildings. A triad of public buildings- a theatre, an art center, and a library forms the centerpiece of the project. The project advances a building strategy that employs architecture to recognize the topography and the spillways into public amenities inhabiting a new type of waterfront.
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