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Architecture Portfolio

Selected Works from 2014 to 2016

Table of Contents

Undergrad Studio Works

Showcase thought process and design skills in academic environment.

Urban Good Food Center Library Black Box Theater

Individual Works

Demonstrate enthusiasm of facing real world challenges.

Jiangsu Smart City Science & Industrial Park In Progress City Underground Space Exhibition Center Under Construction Longtoushan Townhall Unrealized (Scheme now being displayed in Ludian Earthquake Menmorial) Living Ruins Complete

Create Space with Surface Urban Good food Center Arch 100B Professor: Alan Tse 2015

Case Study: Federal Court House, Salt Lake City Study how the skin system differatiate space behind it Abstract the building into a scan of â&#x20AC;&#x153;lignt linesâ&#x20AC;? entering the building

Federal Court House / Thomas Phifer / Salt Lake City / 2014

Conceptual Cut An idealized skin condition A skin system that synthesize structure, shading, ventilation and circulation Creat various spacial experience by controling of fins and openings

Bin Tu CONCEPTUAL CUT SPRING 2015 - ARCH 100B INSTRUCTOR: ALAN TSE Structural Skin, Breathable Building

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Research Lab

Garden

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Consuming

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Cooking

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Processing / Storing

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Growing / Harvesting

Food Storage

Classroom

Food Hall

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Kitchen

Continous Skin as arranging media for a complex set of food related programs, manifest a continous sequence of food: Produce, Process, Prepare, and Consume. Skin condition are designed in responmse to specific programs behind it. Continouse skin them being folded around and into the building to form building envolope and Avenues, which are pedestrain friendly active space inside the building.

The project sits in South of Market Area (SoMA), which is a highly mixed use area where one can find a mechanical shop on the bottom of a building and a yoga studio on topo. Avenues that are typical in San Francisco divide up the space but also allow interactions between different uses, thus in a way connect the spaces at the same time. Avenuse formed by skin folding into the building divide the building into small boxes of different programs, and at the same time bound the different spaces.

Vertical fins are all at slightly different angles and depth to generate various areas behind the skin. Also create gradiant horizontally; cogradient and merging vertivcally. West Elevation

South Elevation

East Elevation

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First Floor Plan First Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan Second Floor Plan

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Third Floor Plan Third Floor Plan

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Note the auditorium is one continous space but conceptually divided into four smaller spaces by avenues Relief the awkwardness of the large scale space in a relatively small building volume. Also allow the flexibility of using it as one big auditorium or four small gatering spaces.

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Upper and lower portion of the building has totally different experience, which is a unique chracteristic of South of Market Area in San Francisco.

Model / 1/16”=1’-0” / Basswood, Museum Board

Sectional Concept Model / 1/4”=1’-0” / Acrylic Each surface in the project are argubally generated from the same system. Each surface are designed with different purposes including enclose, seperate, buffer and connect, manifested as different color and opacity in the model Surfaces with specific functions then define space between them

Create Space with Solid / Void Library Arch 100A Professor: Ajay Manthripragada 2014

Voids in the central part of the library are being arranged along a plain. The plain does not exist physically but registered by solid/void condition. Multiple levels of conplainarity of simple voids enhace ambiguity of spacial experience.

Circulation and book stacks all being arranged along the central plain. Circulation weave in and out of the plain allow maximum experience of the void. Entering the digital era, definition and role of library is changing quickly. Book stacks being grouped together free up the floor plan to accommondate changes.

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1. Lobby/Recepetion 2. Reference Area 3. Book Shelfving 4. Viewing Space 5. Community Meeting Room 6. Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Space 7. Young Adults Area 8. Book Display 9. Administrative Office 10. Somoking Room 11. Media Room 12. Bathroom 13. Storage

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Section E-E

Massing Model / 1/8”=1’-0’ / Museum Board

Solid/Void Invers Model with Book Stacks / 3/16”=1’-0’ / Museum Board, Wood, Paint

Create Space from Abstracted Ideas Black Box Theater Arch 100D Professor: Darell Fields 2016

Competition Entry for the Socialist City, Magnitogorsk Ivan Leonidov, 1930

Postmodern Theater

(The particular one in the picture is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fuerza Brutaâ&#x20AC;?)

Helen Hayes

Three prompt, theatrical site, theater type and theatrical figure was randomly assigned with the intention that no obvious connect would be made among any combination.

Postmodernism arrived in Russia from Western Europe and seemed at first completely alien to thiscountry. “what is called postmodernism in contemporary Russia is not only a response to its Western counterpart but also represents a new developmental stage of the same artistic mentality that generated socialist realism. Further, both of these movements, socialist realism and postmodernism, are actually components of a single ideological paradigm deeply rooted in the Russian cultural tradition.”

Relations being developed through reserach. Several ideas become design inspirations:

Mikhail Epstein. After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture, Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1995, pp. 188-210

Triagular relation of the three promts that they denies yet depends on each other.

“All reality of “tsarist” Russian dissolved when Lenin and the Bolsheviks transformed it into the launching pad for a communist experiment. Finally, all Soviet reality collapsed in a few years of Gorbachev’s and Yeltsin’s rule”

Ivan Leonidov, Competition entry for the Socialist city, Magnitogorsk, 1930

Mikhail Epstein. After the Future: The Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture, Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1995, pp. 188-210

Lack of narrative and multiple points of attention of postmodern theater. Abstracted ideas being synthesize into examples with physical forms. Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conicle Intersect

in a patriotic APostmodern fundamental aspecttheme of postmodern culture may be collapse of distinction between the economic and cultural realms... This conflation of the cultural and economic renders “critical distance” impossible -- the cultural can no longer persume to stand back from the economic/political and comment on it from without. -- Philip Auslander, Toward a Concept of the Political in Postmodern Theatre

Duchamp’s Double Door

Magnitogorsk Plan, Ivan Leonidov, 1930, using a grid system subdivded into five by five sectors.

Constructivism firmly embraced the new social and cultural developments that grew out of World War I and the October Revolution of 1917. Concerned with the use of 'real materials in real space', the movement sought to use art as a tool for the common good, much in line with the Communist principles of the new Russian regime.

Conicle Intersect, Gordon Matta-Clark Gordon Matta-Clark’s works as an attack on postmodernism

Socialism ideology and social structure

1922/3 performance of Magnanimous Cuckold an example of Russian Constructivist theatre

Postmodernism breaks down barriers between art forms

Duchamp as precursor of conceptual art, and prelude of Postmodernism Constructivsm starts as a rejection of autonomous art. Many of the pioneers in Constructivism began to attack traditional forms of art, which it was thought Constructivism could supplant.

Postmodern theatre show Fuerza Bruta, 2007 Audience being part of the show. Narrative is less important, impossibility of communication, meaninglessness of words.

Postmodern theatre is part of Postmodernism movement, which is a response of Modernism. Postmodern theatre is very different tha pre-WWII theatre, but it cannot exist without it. Postmodernismtheatre has certain characteristcs but not as a defined style rater than a response and critique to modernization. Double Door by Duchamp

Broadway theatre as representaion of the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world

The style (of theatre) is changed, the language is changed, in fact I can’t find language in the theatre anymore, we seem to discarded language. --Helen Hayes on CBS show “at Home with Helen Hayes”

Interior of Park Theatre, 1798 Audience and performers being seperated

Post Modern Theatre

Hayes being a representative star in Broadway

Basic module being developed into â&#x20AC;&#x153;structureâ&#x20AC;? to fill up space and construct a totem. Totem is physical representation of abstructed ideas. Door is a basic but representitive architecture element that being redefined as window, vertical connection, bridge, and switch or conditionor of different spacial experiance. The space has no orientation and is always changing.

Prototypal Phase Siting the theater in the theatrical site. Totem become a postmodern theater. Totem clash with the host building in a manner of no negotiation, but it existence depends on the host.

Transamerica Pyramid, 1972, 853’, 48stories, 600 Montgomery St, tallest building

Bank of America Building, 1969, 779’, 52stories, 555 California Street, second tallest, largest floor area, focal point of financial district

345 California Center, 1986, 620’, 721’ to tip, 48stories, office tower in financial district

Millennium Tower, 2009, 645’, 58 stories, 301 Mission St, condominium in SOMA

101 California Street, 1982, 600’, 48 stories, office skyscraper in the Financial District

A “grand, almost forbidding” plaza, with a sculpture, a garden and teak benches

A “shady snippet” with granite benches and some planters

Final Phase

An urban garden within a large plaza, dominated by three stepped pyramids

50 Fremont Center, 1985, 600’, 43 stories, office skyscraper on the boundary of the financial district and SOMA

San Francisco Marriott, 1989, 436’, 39 stories, 780 Mission St, downtown conference hotel

44 Montgomery, 1967, 565’, 43 stories, office skyscraper in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District

One market plaza (Spear Tower, Steuart Tower), 1976, 564’, 43 stories, commercial office

San Francisco Marriott & Marquis courtyard, the view lounge

A plaza oriented to the sunny side of the building

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One California, 1969, 438’, 32 stories, commercial office Snippets around the building feature trees and benches, and is partly occupied by the indoor café’s tables and chairs

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One Embarcadero Center, 1970, 569’, 45 stories, commercial office, Embarcadero Center West Three separate open spaces

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Four Embarcadero Center, 1982, 570’, 45 stories, 55 Clay Street, commercial office Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 1973, 253’, 20 stories, hotel Altrium lobby, revolving restaurant/bar

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101 Second Street, 2000, 354’, 26 stories, commercial office In door park features a bright multi-story atrium with seating, trees and public art

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100 First Plaza, 1988, 447’, 27 stories, commercial office This public space is chock-full of impressive water features and sculptured grass areas

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150 California Street, 1999, 330’, 23 stories, office The Garden Terrace at 150 California has great views of the FiDi's gleaming office towers

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Siting the theater in San Francisco. Totem can conceptually apeers multipal times in the city to real certain idea or condition. Totem being inserted into skyscrapers as an attack on Modernism.

In San Francisco, skyscraper developers are required to build certain amount of Privately-Owned Public open Space (POPOS). POPOS are usually plazas at first but them there are more and more indoor open space for economic reason. Insertion of the totem reveal the hidden public open space create tension within in the stacked condition.

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Door as switches of space. Dramtically different spacial configuration controlled by doors. The space is always changing and encourges a new defination of very interactive theater / exhibition space.

Jiangsu Samart City Science & Industrial Park In Progress Nanjing, China 2015-Present Concept Level Design Consualting Area: 150,000 SM Buildings: 15 (3 existed being remodeled) Zonning for the site is Research & Development. Tech companies are getting smaller and younger. Government encourage and advertise innovation to general public. Traditional enclosed research facility need to be rethink. Proposed visually connected and inviting space with ground floor entirely open. Required privacy provide by spacial buffer like sloped plaza and elevated platform. Based on clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business model, proposed products that meet zoning requirement and can have alternative use such as residential and hopitality.

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Open/Public Plaza

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Double Height Space & Terrace

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City Underground Space Exhibition Center (Wthin Jiangsu Samart City Science & Industrial Park) Under Construction Nanjing, China 2016 Remodeling of an existing factory building Proposed insertion of a monolithic concrete-looking box into the existing building to create various spacial conditions and gain extra area. Design of the insertion is based on existing design with the goal to minimize trace of manipulation.

Out Reception Space

Bright High Ceiling Space

In On

Exhibition Space Light and air controlled space as an all-media exhibition center. Experience Space Fun space for interactive learning and VR experience. Reception Space

Experience Space

Classroom

Exhibition Space

Admin / BOH

East Elevation

West Elevation

Elevation Comparison: Before & After

North Elevation

South Elevation

Roof Plan

Floor Plan

Longtoushan Townhall Unrealized (Scehme now being diaplayed in Ludian Earthquake Menmorial) Ludian, China 2015 Conceptual Architectural Design Area: 1,200 SM Design building to replace town government office that being detroyed in Ludian Earthquake. The reconstruction after earthquake was seen as an oppotunity to shift local economic structure from argricultural to tourist focuse. Coventional office building need rethinking. Proposed a combination of government office and cultural exhibition center as a landmark with both political and cultural importance.

First Proposal

First pass was done in extremeley short time. The concept of combination of office and cultural center got comfirmed by client.

Design directions after presentaion to client: The two components are too disticnt as a single architectural system yet not have enough seperation between each other to provide necessary privacy especuially for office. Scheme is prefered to adapt to sloping local site condition. Representaion of some traditional Chinese building language should be kept.

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Buffer / Plaza

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Cultural Center

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Revised Proposal

Conceptually a plain folds into the building. Mitigate elevation change due to sloping site condition. Synthesize the two main program components and provide buffer between each other.

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Ground / Culture Center Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Third Floor Plan

Public Scuplture Complete Ludian,China 2015

Co-founded project “Living Ruins” with artis Mengda Zhang and photographer Wenli Liu. “Healing art” for a small town called Longtoushan where suffered from an earthquake. Mainly in charged of designing of sculptue and coordination of construction. First phase of project includes a public sculpture and a documentary. Started a Kickstarter pledge which lead us to our patron who fully funded the project. Installation of sculpture completed in July 2015. Next Phase of project “Living Ruins” coming soon.

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Form of the scuplture was inspired by terraced abd layered local mountain landscape. Sculpture is constructed with concrete shows human transform nature into home. The “hill” breaks into three pieces demonstrating destructing power of nature.

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Unique local red soil bleeds from cracks of the “hill” as scars of the disaster.

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Sculpture is designed by artists first but complete by nature.

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Seeds of local plants were being planted in the cracks. Vegetations heals and reunit the broken “hill” as they grow from the cracks.