m.arch segment I portfolio 21st jan, 2020 - 23rd may, 2020
table of content introduction
Resume Reflective Introduction
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boston architectural college Transdisciplinary Studio Architecture Studio I Sustainable Material Assembly Algorithmic Design – Grasshopper CityLab Community Practice
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ABOUT ME Other Works
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Reference References
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Name: BAC id: Degree Program: Date of Submission:
Zhaoyu You 100106650 M. Arch 26th May, 2020
Zhaoyu You EDUCATION
Boston Architectural College August 2019 to present Candidate for Master of Architecture Wenzhou-Kean University September 2015 to June 2019 Bachelor of Science Major in International Marketing
SKILLS
3D Model & Render Rhino V-ray for Rhino Revit Enscape Grasshopper AutoCAD Graphic Design Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe InDesign CC Video Editing Adobe Premiere CC Office Work Microsoft Office IBM SPSS
EXPERIENCE Hebei Jianyan Architectural Design Co. July 2019 to August 2019 Enhanced design experience in education & Residence. Developed professional communication skills. Support engineers and scholars with marketing skills. TAMAYOZ NGO in Cairo June 2017 to August 2017 Taught Sudanese refugees Photoshop skills. Documented the life of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. Supported NGO with computer and graphic skills. Wenzhou Innovation Network- Wake-up breakfast November 2016- December 2016 Designed Visual identity for the event. Developed professional communication skills. Student Government of WKU October 2016 to December 2017 Organized multiple events on campus. Managed the social media team. WKU Graphics Design Office Assistant September 2016 to June 2019 Designed posters and website appearance. Decorated 3 walls and 300 m2 ground with 3D painting. Developed Photoshop, Illustrator and Premier skills. Lead a team of 8 students as the director. Classified and augmented the offical files for college. Speedy8 Billiard Hall-Freelance February 2016 to March 2016 Designed the wall painting for the client. Painted 1 graffiti and 3 3D wall painting for the client. 1
Reflective introduction
The word simplicity dose not mean simple. My favourite quote from Steve Jobs is
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Design means to find solutions of problems and the solution could be complex. I would name the result of integrating complex solutions into a simple approach as simplicity. I believe the simplicity is the ultimate solution for all the architectures. If the architecture is designed to be simple enough, then the architecture can be really user friendly. The simple design is the ultimate way to optimize the solution of design. I tried to keep my design simple during the 1st semester’s Transdisciplinary Studio in the BAC, however, during the 1st semester, as a student who don’t have architectural background, “simple” is diffcult for me to achieve. So, for the second semester in the BAC, I decided to just do more. More model, more drawings, more works. During the second semester, I dicided to fully utilize interative process and generate more design ideas. This method is really helpful for my Architecture Studio I, and I truly appreciate this iterative process of designing a building. Even the grade is not really satisfying (only an A-), however, I can see myself moving forward, from a marketing student to a design professional. This semester I learned about design process, materials and most importantly, people. As an architect, I am responsible to create public and private spaces for humanity. The stakeholders of the architecture should be able to get involved into the design. Segment I is a necessary process for me to understand architecture for a perspective of an architect rather than a marketer. I will bringwhat I have learned in the segment I into my future design practices. Zhaoyu You 23rd May, 2020
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“Void and solid” Dia boston gallery FND 3032 TransDis Studio Instructor: Christine Cuttitta Date: 21st, Jan 2020 - 7th, May 2020 Individual work
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The Site
After visited the site, I discovered that the Site is at a transition point in Boston. Between commercial area and residential area, between tall buildings and lower buildings.
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Ten Vertical Construction Fred Sandback, 1977 Represented the reality of order and harmony [3]
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Map of Broken Glass Robert Smithson, 1969 Represented the reality of chaos and disorder [5]
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Tape Series Numen/ For Use Represented the reality of being natural and organic 5
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Early Prototype An exploration of playing with the boxes
Corridor To create a shortcut for people to move between 2 corners. This corridor will lead people get into this architecture 6
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Solid The solid stands for the part the audience can only see walls. Like the reality faced by everyone.
Void The void stands for the part where audiences can see through. Like a illusion in the dream.
Transportation The gallery is a corridor for pedestrains to move through a short-cut. 7
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1. Site Plan 2. Floor Plan 3. Section A-A 4. Section B-B 5. Section C-C 9
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Sketch of the corridor
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ADA Ramp The gallery is fully accessible via ADA Ramp. A stair-ramp was designed to provide better accessibility for the disables. To me, accessibility is one of the most important features of a museum because disables should have equal rights on visiting museum.
Corridor The short-cut with view of The Tape Series on top, is one of the most important moment in this architecture. It serves the funtion of bring people into this building and bring the art into people’s eyes.
Arts Each piece of art in the museum have an exclusive location to place them. But the visitors are able to see it from multiple locations because the building itself is not fully enclosed and the locations where arts are placed are designed to be opened.
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dia boston galary Reflection I consider this project as my failure in architecture. Because this semester I focused on the result and form too much and ignored the importance of the space and users of this architecture. The result is this building cannot fulfill my expectation. Also, for the research, I was driven by the result I want to perform, rather than what I actually found after the research. So the site analysis and the research to the art are not strong enough to convince the reviewers in the final review of this project. So, in the Studio I, I tried to learn from my failure in TransDis Studio and bring my architectural research into a higher level.
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“By the ocean” Long wharf ferry terminal ARC 3306 Architecture Studio I Instructor: Michael Dellefave Date: 21st, Jan 2020 - 7th, May 2020 Individual work
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Long wharf ferry terminal Precedent Study The project began with the precedent analysis studies the spatial relationship of the America’s Cup Pavillion by David Chipperfield. Through modeling and analyzing, I discovered David Chipperfield formed the shape of this building by manipulating the position of the roofs and formed the spatial relationship by placing 4 huge columns.
Functional Human Movement Circulation Core
Public Space Private Space
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Long wharf ferry terminal At this location, I feel I am closer to the water, also, the building near me is giving me pressure.
At this location, I feel I am free to touch the water, I cannot feel any pressure from the surrounding buildings.
Site Analysis The site for this project is the parking lot behind the Marriot Long Wharf. After visited the site for several time, I started the analysis by observing the relation ship between the site the urban condition. The grid of the urban can also be identified in this diagram. The angle between the Marriot Long Wharf and the water front are identified in the later phase of this project.
At this location, I feel I am free to look at the water, and it is a place making me feel comfortable to rest here.
At this location, I feel I am more connected to the park and landscape rather than water.
Site Analysis Surrounding Buildings Landscape & Water Pedestrain Movement Motorways Edge 15
Long wharf ferry terminal Study Model #1 This is the early conceptual model designed for this project. My initial of designing this building is to align the building to the ocean and create a unique space ffacing the Christopher Columbs park.
Study Model #2 My initial of designing this model is to test the influence of combining two materials into this building. This model made me decide to use different material for the interior walls.
Study Model #3 This model was created to test the influence of different facade as building envelope. Beyound that, this model also works as a structural model and helped me decided to use bearing walls primarily.
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The building need to adapt to the grid of the urban, in order to fit into this site
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Long wharf ferry terminal Mid-Term Model This model was built for the mid-term review. It is a result of the second urban analysis. My initial to build this model is to make the building adapt to its surrounding urban condition. Make the building fit to the site.
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The third urban analysis was done for better understanding to the landscapes surrounding the site, and other elements may have inflence to the site, internal or external. As a result, I found the two elements have biggest impact on the site are water and landscape. So, I decided to design a small landscape space in the building based on the result of the 3rd urban analysis and the feedback from mid-term review. The adding of the sunk plaza changed the circulation within the site completely different as waht is shown in the diagram on the left side. 19
Long wharf ferry terminal 2nd Precedent Study This project was a ferry termional located in Pudong District , Shanghai, China. This is a 2 stories reinforced concrete bulding in between 2 parks. So this building was designed to be a threshod connects these two parks together and allow pedastrians to pass through.
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Long wharf ferry terminal Structure Model #1 This model’s initial is to test the apperance of using columns to support the building, as repose of the floor plan of the Shanghai Minsheng Ferry Terminal in the 2nd precedent study
Structure Model #2 This model’s initial is to finalize the structure of the final design and test the sectional quality of the building. Overall, this model is very close to the final design of the building.
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The final design of this project combined the result from all my research of the site and the precedents. 3 The project’s goal is to Define space using the vertical placed silos and form the feeling of walking in the city. The ultimate goal of this project is to form a space as an extension and summary of the surrounding urban environment. So, this project will be designed as a project which is highly adapted to the surrounding urban and the water’s edge. The project will include necessary public transportation and commercial function, also, the project will try to have consistence in the unique sectional quality. 22
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This rendering shows how people see this building when the ferry is approaching the terminal. The passengers on the ferry will see how the building adapted the height of its surroundings and how the building tries to frame the city surrounding it. 26
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This rendering shows how people see this building when when they are in the Christopher Columbs park. The audience will see how passers-by are using this building as one of their daily activity. 27
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“art of Material� case study report #2 & 3 FND 2011 Sustainable Material Assembly Instructor: Michael Fiorillo, Wei Cheng Date: 21st, Oct 2019 - 9th, Dec 2019 Individual work
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Case study report #2 CASA CALDERA DUST Architect The Casa Caldera is a private holiday house was built in Arizona by DUST architect. The building material used is poured lava-crete. The lava-crete is the mix of scoria, cement and water. Compare to traditional concrete, lava-crete is more environmental friendly, at the same time, lave-crete have better thermal performance and acoustic performance.
Roof Corner Detail
Interior Wooden Partition Detail
Exterior Wall & Floor Detail
The Casa Caldera used a thermal massing method to insulate the building. This technique is effective when the temperature gap within a day is big.
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Conditioned Space
Air flow
Conditioned Space
Living spaces
Zaguan
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The center hallway in the building is a opened space. This space can provide airflow to the building and cool the building down or heat the building up. This hosuse is devided into 3 parts, each parts are assigned to different functions. The Zaguan is a traditional area in the traditional houses in Arizona State.
Case study report #2 Because the building used poured lava-crete as material, in order to simulate the building process, I decided to use plasma as the material to make my own building model. It is my first time making plasma model. The model is hard to dry especially in the water of Boston. So by the time I photographed this model, it is still a little bit dry. But the plasma model really works for the Casa Caldera and it perfectly simulated the texture and building process or the Casa Caldera.
Section Model of CASA CALDERA
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Case study report #3 Student Residential Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects Rued Langgaards Vej 10, 2300 København, Denmark Tietgenkollegiet, in Cobenhagen is a Educational architecture served as the student residence. The conspicuous circular form of the Tietgenkollegiet is originated from the traditional southern Chinese Hakka. The building is 7 stories high and have multiple functional spaces, including 360 separated rooms with restrooms and kitchens, one courtyard, a cafe, several study and computer rooms and laundry rooms. The major materials are used in this building are wood, concrete and steel. The Tietgenkollegiet used a modular construction method. There are 4 basic types of rooms: 26 m2, 29 m2, 33 m2 and 42 m2. 1 stack have several columns of units.
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The modulars are designed by L undgaard & Tranberg Architects
Small modular parts are constructed by the Pihl Construction
Stacks are built on-site and all modular p arts are assemblied on-site
This is the material map of the Tietgenkollegiet. I have to say it is hard to locate where the concrete came from, so instead, I located the contractor and the design firm. In this case, I can present to the audience how the idea of this building is transfered from the design firm to the contractor and how the modulars are assemblied on-site. 33
Case study report #3
Basic Circular Form The base form of the Tietgenkollegiet is a circular form consists of the repeating bedroom units. The whole building is splited into 5 blocks. Between the blocks are the staircases.
Modular Assembly Overview For each blocks, the additional modulars will be added to the building, and form different spaces to fulfill different functions.
Grasshopper Algorithm This is the first time for me to bring Grasshiopper into production process. Since the building implemented a modular construction method, I decided to use grasshopper to generate basic form of this architecture. The algorithm below shows how did I generate the form in Rhino using Grasshopper.
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Bedroom Unit This mothod of assembly is the assembly for a base bedroom and it can extend the area of the bed room. This model can extend the size of the bedroom from 26 m2 to 29 m2, 33 m2 or 42 m2.
Public kitchen Unit This method of assembly is the space as public kitchens. This model will be added to the building as an extension facing the center courtyard, usually located near the staircase.
Computer Lab/Study Room Unit This method of assembly is the space as a computer lab or a study room. This model will be added to the building as an extension facing the center courtyard.
Standard Interior View
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Case study report #3 Modular VS Prefab
The modular architecture is a building method sepcifically suited for large scale architectures because the technological limitations of pumping large amount of liquid concrete to higher level of the buildings. Comparing with reinforced concrete building method, modularization architectures are safer for the workers and easier to control the logistical services and project schedule. Comparing with prefabricated architecture, modularization architectures can reach larger scale and more program for the architecture. Overall, modularization is can reach the balance between building scale and project management.
Material Capacity Diagram
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Modularization Prefabrication
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In the Sustainable Material Assembly, I learned about the basic structure and material of the architecture. The SMA helped me to understand what the building is made from, how the building is built and most importantly: why the building is sustainbale. Being an architect need to know these because they will help architects understand the architectures in a professional way. This course helped me understant the building systems like the envelope, landscape and fundation. Before learning this class, I simply care about what the building looks like and works like, however, now I started to think how the building will be built and how can I change how people feels about his building by changing the material or building systems.
“math in design� Parametric skyscraper DME 2055 Algorithmic Design Instructor: Kevin Cespedes Date: 23rd, Mar 2020 - 13rd, May 2020 Individual work
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Base Points are set-up for the building
Dimension for the curve and cubes are set-up
Introduction The goal of this project is to design algorithm which can generate a skycraper based on my needs of manipulating boxes. So, this building have to be fully parametric since I need to adjust the amount of the boxes. So I decided to split the algorithm into two parts, the curve and the boxes. By making these two parts parametric, I can manipulate the form of my skycraper as I want. 38
The points on the curve are set-up
The curve where cubes are eliminated is set-up
The center points of the cubes formed the building are defined
The points near the curve are eliminated
The curtains for the building is generated.
The curtain grids are generated
The closed blocks are generated
The final output of my tall building design.
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Reflection
3D Printed Model After the final submission, I printed a part of this project to examine the shape physically
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This Grasshopper class really made me start to think how will we design in the future. I remember I used to see an advertising about chair design, their is a oldman in the advertising say that the chair he is shouwing me in that advertising is the first chair fully designed by AI. If I can make my algorithm fully automatic rather than fully parametric, can it design the building by itself? I actually hope it cannot because if it can design by itself, what is my job in this design process? To me, grasshopper is a powerful media for me to boost my productivity working with Rhino. It is deeply embeded into Rhino 6 and I can save a lot of time using grasshopper to work. For example, in my SMA’s CSR #3, I used Grasshopper to generate the base form of the Tietgenkollegiet. With Grasshopper, I can process data and base drawings more accuratly and efficiently. The power of Grasshopper is not limited to design the result. I can also use it to analyze and visualize the data I collected and the result of my research. I really appreaciate this function because I know I need to enhance my ability of dong the research. From a designer perspective, grasshopepr is a power full tool to make my idea become true. However, I think I need to control the algorithm carefuly, so I get what I want, not what the program want.
“Know the city” Sketchbook from citylab FND 3006 CityLab Instructor: Arlen Stawasz, Lonnie Ash Date: 23rd, Aug 2019 - 31st, Sep 2019 Individual & Group work
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Section drawing of the Trinity Church
The backside of the Boylston Street
The entrance of a park near Backbay Station
NEU’s fancy building near Ruggles Station
Mass. ave Backbay Ruggles
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roxybury crossing
Section sketches created along southwest corridor
What if the high way was built?
Jamaican Carnival near Jackson Square station
Jackson square
Mind-map for the square of Stoney Brook station
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This is the mind map I drew after the seven-days walk through of the south-west corridor of the Boston. To me this trip is amazing because it helped me to ubderstand Boston’s history from an architectural perspective. During the CityLab’s trip to southwest corridor, I felt this trip is a trip from the heart of Boston to the rural area of the Boston. Along with the change of the architectures and lanscapes, the human experience also changed a lot. From a noisy and busy metropolitian into quiet and relaxing blocks. The southwest corridor is successful because it fulfilled the need of public transportation, however, at the same time, it also fulfilled the need of humanity and beauty. The human experice along the southwest corridor will change depends on where I am. So I used that wave to represent my feeling of the human movement and vehicle movement.
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“design for human”
urban challenge FND 2007 Community Practice Instructor: Rashmi Ramaswamy Date: 21st, Jan 2020 - 7th, May 2020 Individual & Group work
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we Survey
we analyse
we calculate
we act
We will distribute questionnaires to different people based on their demographic background and find out what is the problem of The NorthEnd
We will analyse the site, the people and the feedback from the survey, in order to have this engagement “touch the ground“
We will calculate the damage of the problem and how much effort we need to make for solving the current problem
We will act by uniting different groups of people in order to solve the problem using a bottom to the top approach
Introduction After we analyzed the situation, we decided to make change to the situation of food waste in the NorthEnd. Since this area is a hot zone for tourists, the density and amount of the restaurants in this area is much higher than other residential areas in the city of Boston. After decided the topic for our Urban Challenge, we analyzed the NorthEnd and generated this loop diagram to figure out what we need to change and who need to involve in this change. Then, we decided to create a website to promote our idea and engage in this community. 48
Site Analysis Based on GoogleMap, I market most of the restaurants on the base map, and then marked the green spaces on the base map, for the audience to understand how dense the restaurants are. Also, the greenspaces located in a unbalance way. 49
The home Page https://ccalvinyou.wixsite.com/urbanchallenge This Page will provide an overview of our mission and goal to the people who is interested to our urban challenge. Also this page will alert them why we need to make change in the NorthEnd. Why US?
Our Recycling Prototype This prototype will collect wastes and turn them into useful recources. Also, part of the wastes will be used to sustain the growth of the plants.
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Reflection I always wanted to be an architect who only believe in my own perception and ideas, and I used to believe the world is run by capital and policies, not by John Smiths live in the neighbours and communities. After taking this class, I discovered the community practice and engagement also matters. Because architecture do not just design, we also need to plan, allocate and refine pub This Page will provide an overview of our lic spaces. The feed back from the community is organization including who we are and how the best reference for us to use during the design. can we change the current situation. The way The community actually stands for almost how we analyze the problem the react to it will everything we are heading toward to achieve arbe presented in this page. chitecturally today. Sustainability, WELL Building Standard and landscape ecology analysis are all Other Waste? aimed to provide better living condition to people, This Page will provide an obverview and community stands for the group of people. of further details about how we planned to So engaging community properly and practice in change the situation. Including our prototype community carefully is a method for architects to designed for out Urban Challenge design great architectures. What I also learned is that the value of teamwork. I used to be a person who hate teamwork. However, the power from an individual is limited by his energy and experience. A team consists of different people with different background can have much better performance comparing with an individual. Also, working with my GAS fellow are really pleasuring because we are also friends. I think the most valuable thing I learned from this class is I should be more focused on “humanity” rather than being too focused on “rationality”. I used to believe rationality is the enemy of humanity, however, after taking this course, I found they are more of a unity of opposites. They are bounded together so deeply while they are still contradictory.
About myself other works Hebei Jianyan Architectural Design co. ZeroHouseDesigns Mirror and Graffiti Freelances Date: 1th, Oct 2015 - 10th, Mar 2019 Individual & Teamwork
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Wenzhou-Kean University
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Hebei JIANYAN Architectural design co.
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ZeroHousedesigns inc.
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ZeroHousedesigns inc.
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Thanks For Your Reading Please contact me via zhaoyu.you@the-bac.edu or (+1)781-333-7497 Zhaoyu You 20 Summer St, Malden Apt 609 02148
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