[THE MISSION] Arch itectu re Portfolio Bo Su
EDUCATION
[Aug.2017-May.2022]
Collage of Architecture, University of Arizona Tucson, USA •Major: Collage of Architecture •Degree: Bachelor of Architecture to be obtained in May 2022 •GPA: 3.0/4.0
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[Aug.2016-May.2017]
Colleges of Letters, Arts & Sciences, University of Arizona, Tuscon, USA
INTERNSHIP
Su, Bo
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Bo China Date of birth: 10/24/1997 Nationality:
PRACTICES
University of Arizona Bachelor of Architecture
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
“Inequity of Gender” in Republic of Djibouti, Africa
2020 •Inspired by studio work “Urban Injustice”(Instructor: Rosano, Teresa) •Aimed to establish a skill center to empower their voice and reduce the impact of gender gaps in the way of helping them with accomplishing self-worth
RISE FROM THE RUIN
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
“Re-Memory” in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, US
2021 •Inspired by Performance + Architecture on public space. (Instructor: Weinstein ,Beth M) •A mine reconstruction project, aimed to reestablish the relationship between the abandoned memory and the local community by bringing back the historical glory of mining culture in Pennsylvania.
DESERT UPTOPIA
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
Exploration of “Placemaking” in Tucson, Arizona, US
2019 •Studio project on COAT Top Ten measurements. (Instructor: Kothke, Michael) •Discussed how to make people of different identities, races and ages in the community get together to exchange cultures, interests and lives, thus highlighting “the place”.
RED SEASHORE
INDEPENDENT PROJECT
“Dolphin Slaughter” in Taiji, Japan
2020 •Reflection on “The Cove” by Ric O’Barry. •Aimed to popularize the situation of dolphins through architectural means to call on more people to protect the marine environment.
Designer Assistant, Design Institute, China Building Technique Group Co,. Ltd •Got involved in the structural renovation project of the municipal service hall of Beijing’s sub center •In charge of digital model making, floor plan drawing, structural proofing, solving some circulation problems [Aug.2021-Dec.2021]
Mission Garden Exhibition: A group exhibition in Mission Garden, Tuscon on the food shortage and water procurement. [Jan.2021-May.2021]
Patagonia Health Centre Design: Conducted field research, came up with the concept, made detailed design and modeling.
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[Aug.2020-Dec.2020]
Tucson Community Center (Parking Lots Redesign): Conducted field research, came up with the concept, performed detailed design and modeling, and made project presentation.
bosu1024@yeah.net 255 N Granada Ave Tucson, Arizona 85701 United States
[Feb.2019-Apr.2019]
Participated in the school project for the bare wall assembly and construction.
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[Jun.2019-Aug.2019]
Software Grasshopper Rhino Maya Photoshop InDesign Illustrator Website editing Revit GIS Sketch Up
[Jun.2018-Jul.2018]
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ESCAPE FROM THE VEIL
Participated in compilation of Village Planning in Liannan Yao Autonomous County. [Jun.2021-Jul.2021]
Studied the Urban Strategy program of Beijing Univ. of Civil Engineering&Architecture.
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITES
Digital Fabrication Laser Cut CNC Router 3D Print Hot Wire Material Lab Model Making
[Jan.2020-Apr.2020]
Teaching Assistant of the Material Lab of the College •Provided guidance for students on how to use all kinds of tools correctly and ensure their safety. [Oct.2021]
Volunteer of the Mission Garden Exhibition, Membrillo Festival •Did the cooking and provided tourists with necessary services about tasting food and visiting the garden
PASSIONS
Visual Design
Gardening
Photography
Event Planning
Graphic Design
Community Engagement
Football
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Escape From The Veil Site Location: Djibouti, Africa.
Background:
Due to illiteracy, cultural, religious and social persecution, Djibouti women are severely suffering inequal treatments from work, family, and society which lead them to be the “Lower Class”. In the way of helping them with accomplishing self-worth, a skill center could greatly empower their voice and reduce the impact of gender gaps. It is a war without smoke of gunpowder and It will never stop but they are trying...
“women’s voices matter”
This is a self-exploration project. Not for a certain gender, race, ethical group, religion and culture. ]I apologize for any offense.
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•Education: The priority, in terms of education, is given to boys, particularly because they are considered to be the future heads of households.
General Routine Spiritual
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New day to me, I’d better prepare for today
7:00am Balbala, Djibouti
Physical
The best part throughout a day is to watch my husband going to work, hope he could bring us more money today...
Wake up Prayers Breakfast Reflection
Water fetching
It’s still dark, time to feed my family..,
Farming
Family Activities
Lunch Prayers Dinner
What we are suffering... Riots... Wars...
Cook
Dua’ List 24:00
Sleep
Story of Mrs. Mohamed 07:30 Wake Up Another day for Mrs. Mohamed. Like the past 10 ten years, she woke up her husband and children.
We, Female, Need Helps
Hey, buddy, what did I tell you before?
Allah, let me touch the light...
We pray to Allah
Famine... Breastfeeding
08:00 Pray The Sunnah Prayers They start their morning breakfast prayer to worship Allah. 10:00 Recite the Morning Athkar She starts to recite her recent behaviors and precaution of wrong-doing.
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We walk 5 miles everyday to fetch water.
Laundry
The Inspiration for A Girls School
13:00 Work She was not educated, so the only thing she could do is basic labor work, farming. Also, she is responsible for water fetching for the whole family. 22:00 Housework and Dua’ list Mrs. Mohamed finally finish cleaning up their house. After breast feeding her little son, she goes to bed and pray to Allah for bringing anything from her Dua’ list.
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“Minaret”(Tower)
“Four-iwan”(Hall)
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Ladies, Time to stand up!
Congradulations! You finally make it to the last platform. Your work will be sent to the exhibition center to inspire your fellows to catch up. Also, there are two options for you to pick, you could either go back to the training centers to help more people, or our corperative company provide you with a job Level of Difficulties:
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If you think you could pass each skill test easily, you are completely wrong. Our professional trainers will make sure if you are qualified or not for your future job. Do not worry too much. You will still obtain credit to treat for the movie tickets and some presents.
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•Make Your Own Choices Once you decide to get a training courses, there are 5 options for everyone to choose: Farming, hairdressing, cooking, I.T. assistant and cars & repairs. Take your time and pick upon your own interests. Level of Difficulties:
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Female will be treated equally in the skill center. Either she wants to work or not, it will provide them with food supplies, meditation space, children playground and human right’s regulations.
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Unit I-Speech Hall
Unit II-Playground
Unit III-Basic Skill Training
Entertainment Stand up! Ladies
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I’m ready for the class
Empowerment Eduacation Family
Unit VII
Professional Skills Training
Skills
Unit IV-Advanced Skill Training
Unit V-Family Integration
It’s a busy day, but I’m glad I have a chance to learn and make more friends
Unit VI-Circulation This is how you do it...
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Lobby
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Rise From The Ruins Site Location: Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania
Background:
Bringing back with historical glory of mining culture in Pennsylvania in 1930s, the project aims to reestablish the relationship between the abandoned memory and the local community. The memorial, the communal, and the individual will integrate with one anothers to form a collaborative environment for the present and prospective generations.
“compose a rhapsody of the past, the present, and a future.”
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“When the wind bellows through the St. Nicholas Breaker, ancient drifts of airborne coal dust sting the eyes, clog the throat, and powder the hair, catching the light to lovely effect, if you can stomach the black lung… Back home in Brooklyn I wasted no time getting into the shower to scrub off the day’s dirt, pondering the depth of history in all things.” [Ellis, Will]
Gilberton Power Co
Mining Processes [1] Site Survey and Geological Benchmarking
[2] Drilling and Blasting
[3] Transporting the ore lumps to the crushing site
St Nicholas I was torn down for the new coal breaker
The breaker ceased operations when Reading Anthracite Company shifted their mining operations, and constructed the “new” St. Nicholas breaker near Minersville PA.
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St Nicholas I was began operating. It was the “crown jewel of a relatively safer, more modern anthracite industry” built.
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The breaker stopped operating due to workers dismantling.
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“20 miles of railroad track were laid, 3,800 tons of steel and more than 10,000 cubic yards of concrete were used. A mile and a half of conveyor lines, 25 miles of conduit, 26,241 square feet of rubber belting, 118 miles of wire and cable and 20 miles of pipe were installed. When the breaker was constructed it was divided into two sides. Each side could be operated independently, producing 12,500 tons of coal a day.”
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The Memory of Breaker
“Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.” [Gardner, 1994]
[4] Crushing and Screening
[5] Transportation to New York
2000
there were proposals to make the St. Nicholas Breaker a historical site but failed.
2013 Part of the breaker was demolished
2017
The St. Nicholas Breaker was being dismantled piece by piece. The work has been ongoing for several years, but the bulk of the structure still stood.
2018 The St. Nicholas Breaker was demolished in a controlled explosion
A memory of the past, a memory of the miners, a memory of history, and a memory of an era. The St. Nicholas Coal Breaker carried three generations of people to a stage of isolation and physical danger, bad food and illness, and even death. As a part of industrialization, miners, in terms of what they did, are the epitome of the times.
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Elements Extraction
Aging Society
Economic Depression
Population Loss
Urban Schematic Central Distribution
Working Sections
By restoring mining processes, the programs are reformed into new branches.
Learning
Research
Mourning
Bar Culture
Speech
Remembering
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Exhibition
Memorial
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Most coal trains had 125-150 rail cars, making them up to 1.5 miles long (Black). The coal is picked up from the St. Nicholas Breaker in Mahanoy City and transported via train to the East Coast.
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“Moment of the Loss” “Learning & Doing”
“Centralized Urban Structure”
“Displacement of the Trauma”
“Industrial Symbolic Form”
“Preparation of the Future”
Remembering the Past
Perserving the Present Daily
Facilities
Transportation
“Space of Interconnection”
“Loss of Mining Culture”
Amusement
Cleaning is one of the important process used for the washing of coal in coarser size range and is based on the difference in the specific gravity of the solid particles.
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“Local Culture”
“Empitness and Disappearance”
Possiblities
Screens in screening plant are used to group process particles into ranges by size and resize them into smaller particles.
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Spatial Replacements
Central Hotspot
By restoring industria memories, The spaces are reformed into new branches.
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Coal Jig
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Spatial Patterns
Memory Recreation
Behavioral Patterns
Coal bunker is a storage container for coal awaiting use. This can be either in domestic, commercial or industrial premises, or on a ship or locomotive tender, or at a coal mine or processing plant
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The social structure shifted from industrial centralization to decentralization social network
Conveyor Belt
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Train Loading
Pollutions
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The Present
The main purpose of a conveyor system is to move objects from one location to another. The design allows for movement of objects that are too heavy or too bulky for humans to carry by hand.
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Coal Screening
Industralization
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Conveyance
Coalmine Bins
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Industrialization, a slow and fast process, helped bring enormous social changes, including the rise of factory work, the move from rural farms to giant cities, the production and consumption of countless new goods, and the spread of global inequality and modern empires.
Coal Spiral
Memory Reconstruction
Celebration
Ephemeral
Art Events
Festivals
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Remembering the Past
Perserving the Present
Celebration
Rehearsing the Future
The memorial provides a space for peoeple to mourn the loss, the trauma, the forgotten history
The past and present, the history and memory, the frame of this moment, the integration of the mining culture.
The events space provides a series of activities to celebrate the gain, the preciousness, the joy of being absence.
The studio creates a reality but not the reality to mediate the gap between the past and future.
“A t h u n d e r o f t h o u g h t s B e s i d e s t h e m o n st r o s i t y r e m a i n s Silent memories....”
“ S te e l o f c o l d Slightly embrace the chaos But where is home....”
“ S h a r e d , c e l e b r a te d T h e m a ke r o f m e m o r i e s , More than carnivals....”
“ T h e h u m o n g o u s m o n ste r C a st s t h e w h i te s h a d ow Whispering the future....”
Gathering Space
The memorial center is reconstructed at the largest structure within St. Nicholas coal breaker. It was originally used for receiving and gathering the coal from the mines. However, the structure still remined despite the several decades of wind and rain. For coal mines, this place was where they got started to be processed. As for coal miners, it was where their memory began and ended.
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The exhibition space locates at the original coal screening department. The history and coal process showcases interweave and integrate the mining culture to attract the visitors and at the same time, remember the “missing” piece. There are art exhibition space, cafe, and event space to support local economy and redefine the resilient urban form.
Music Studio Central Elevator Observatory
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3 The Hall The hall is the main event space for celebrating and gratitude of the gain from the miners. The ephemeral and daily events serve the visitors with a panoramic view of the mining culture and displacement of the memory. The centered joy of being absence is celebrated throughout festivals and events.
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The studio locates at the last department of coal mining, the transportation. This is the main space dedicated for people to brainstorm, conduct meetings and actively work in the unforseeable future. The studio creates a reality but not the reality to mediate the gap between the past and future.
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Interest The reshaping department refines the rehearsal process and expands each possiblity that could be potentially applied to other abandoned sites. Also, the flawed cases will be sent back to “rethink”
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Interest The finding department regulates the preparation of the suitable implications. It aims and indicates the scenario based on the existing infrastucture and create the prototypical designs for each of them.
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The future is the consists of unpredicted possiblities. With the visitors’ participation and social feedback, the possiblity department creates a series of moments to either repeat or simulate the realities.
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Interest The inventing department is a brainstorm session to predict the further future, the possbilities of possiblity. It builds a cohesive future network and spectrum to give the scenario a title and logline summary
Desert Utopia Location:
Campus Farm Tucson, Arizona US
Background:
-Patients are suffering mentally and physically from Cancer. -Students are seeking more opportunities to learn and work. -Communities need a place to bond surrounding neighbors
Research Question:
How would the parking lot be redesigned to reduce the impact of cancer for patients in the medical center and foster surrounding communities?
Methods:
Incorporating with design biophilia, providing job opportunities and bonding surrounding neighborhoods.
“What makes it unique” Environment: Wildfires, desert and dust from the salt river bed are the small contributors to the haze which affects local environment.
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Placemaking The basic amenities, community, well-being and education interwine and create a desirable space for people to play, work, learn, and interact. By reconstructing visual, olfactory, auditory, and biophilia aspects, it builds a strong sense of “Quality Place” with an unique site
Cancer Tradewinds Apartment
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Parti By manipulating central courtyard and building forms, the building itself will provide a safe, equal, health-supportive atomsphere to let occupants not only utilize the space, but also participate in and be a part of the architecture.
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Environmental Orientation Removing half of the torus to lead more sunlight to indoor space
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“The patients are imprisoned in the concrete building, they are getting more depressed.”
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Emmanuel , 45, Pediatric Oncologist. MD in University Medical Center
“I know it is Sonora Desert, but we really need some more trees and green yard.”
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Cole, 20, International Student. Resident of Fox Point Apt.
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“This is my first year of collage. I really need some friends.”
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Mike, 23, College Student. Resident of Tidewinds Apt.
“We hope students come and learn agriculture and mediate Tucson’s food Desert issue.”
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Martin, Information Technology Support Analyst in Campus Agricultural Center.
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Creating a courtyard for people to play, gather, and picnic.
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Creating steel louver facade to emphasis the notion of growth and developing the second layer of sun shading.
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Floor Plan
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In Tucson, the water shortage issue has affected the city for decades. By implementing sloped roof, water basin, and water cistern, the community center will be a stop along the way of water procurement and the contributor of food desert.
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Staff Offices LV1 Collaborative Living Room
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Central Courtyard
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Water Basin
COLLABORATION, OFFICE, CAFE
Section Perspective
Structural Connection 60’
Accoya Wood Panel Wall Insulation
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Steel Sliding Glass Curtain Wall
Reading Meditation Central Courtyard
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Computer Room
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Bird’s Eye View While enjoying unique Sonoran Desert weather, people gather around the main square to grab a drink and some food from the food trunk. Either sitting under the trees or step into the nature... Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. ----Andrew R. French
Red Seashore Site Location: Taiji, Japan
Background:
The Intemperate killing, trading, entertaining are endangering dolphins and other marine species in Taiji, Japan. This project is aiming to rescue the injured dolphins by learning and reconstructing their social structure. At the same time, it popularizes the status quo of dolphins through systematic methods and educate the next generation on the importance of protecting the marine environment.
“We swim with them, kiss them, hold them, hug them, and love them to death.”
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In recent years, dolphin hunters have instead turned to the trade of live dolphins. Taiji’s fishermen are allowed to catch 1,749 dolphins or small whales during one hunting season. Hunters can make $48,000 per live dolphin, as opposed to the mere $480 when slaughtered. Some of these captured dolphins are sent to China, where 90 dolphins were purchased in 2018.
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Selling dolphins to aquariums and attractions all over the world is the main source of income and therefore it is the reason to hunt dolphins. Each trained dolphin is worth $15,000 sold to all over the world.
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What is NEXT?
Dolphin Social Structure
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Mechanical Analysis The main energy generator are the solar panels and tidal turbines. By converting solar and tidal force into electricities, the whole structure operates on its own and the rainwater harvesting system at the base of the dome will serve the users and experimental purpose.
Energy Generator
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Group I Medical Aids
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The sea trash collector spins during the high tide and the low tide. With the tidal force, it collects the sea trash from Pacific and the land. All collected trash will be sent to portable bins and classified into recyclable and unrecyclable.
Sea Trash Collector
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Group IV Acoustic Barrier
Cross-family Environment preservation
Communication Method Click: Clicks are used to sense their surroundings through echolocation
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Echoed sound waves pass through the dolphin’s fat-filled jawbone cavity.
Whistle: they use whistles to communicate with other members of their species and very likely, with other species too.
The social structure discovers the relationship between the function and topology structure of network. Within the dolphin communities, the acoustic signal is the only method for interacting, hunting, and communicating. However, the growth of human activites and marin fishing in the ocean is tearing down their ecosystem and endangering their lives. By implementing the medical aids, acoustic barrier and fishing restriction, it will integrate dolphin’s living condition on the Mother Earth.
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Sonar detector is the main device for dolphin protection. It can recognize and catch the certain frequency of sound that is sent by injured dolphins. By sending back the lure sounds, the injured dolphin will be captured and healed.
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As Fukushima nuclear power plant released the nuclear waste water into Pacific Ocean. The contaminated water endangers the marine species including dolphins. The device uses reverse osmosis method to purify up to 70 percent of radioactive elements.
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Japan locates in circum-Pacific seismic belt which is the world’s most active earthquake zone. The earthquake detector reaches to the sea floor to inspect and predict upcoming catastrophe, such as earthquake and tsunami. When it comes to emergency situation, the Marine Spring will be compressed and tightened to protect users and marine species.
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Instruction of Protection
They move smooth curves like waves of Sound, Singing through the tide, Their whistle words pull like the moon to those they swim besides, To leap and plunge the sky of domain, They keep in touch remebering a tune of dolphin names.
OTHER WORKS
[THE MOUNT LEMMON PAVILION]
[THE MISSION GARDEN EXHIBITION]
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LAS ARTES
Mission Garden envisions historical educational opportunities to locals and visitors by expanding its services through spaces designed for food vendors, demonstration gardens and water remediation towards Anza Trail and Santa Cruz River.
Las Artes Youth Art Program looks to address food injustice in South Tucson by providing an outlet for its students and the greater community through a teaching kitchen and demonstration garden.
Group Photos
Exhibition & Publicity Poster
[FABRICATION EXPLORATION] NOV 2019
[RE-PRESENTATION OF HASHIMA ISLAND] Hashima Island
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The spaital research on Gunhamdo (2017)
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“The Battleship Island” Hashima, Japan -In 1959, the island was one of the most densely populated areas on earth. On the tiny island (400 x 160 meter), more than 5000 people lived and worked. -Exploitation of underground coal mines. -Island was built as a city, cit including hospitals, schools, shops, cinemas and even a cemetery. -Thousands of laborers from South Korea and China were forced to work on Hashima Island -During this period, it is estimated that about 1,300 of those conscripted laborers died on the island due to various dangers, including underground accidents, exhaustion, and malnutrition.
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Salt Spray Crossing
Ruined Pod
The Hole
Emotion Level Dolphin Pier
The camera view is the audiences’ eyesights and from one scene to another, audiences teleport from space to space, time to time, dimensions to dimensions, reality to reality, place to place etc. Camera angles shifted to expose, observe, imply, hook, tease, hide, seek, read... Film is a story-teller to lead you to perceive the world.
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