P O R T F O L CHEN DING SELECTED WORKS 2015-2017
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PROJECT 1
PROJECT 2
PROJECT 3
PROJECT 4
NAIVE INTENTION
INCUBATOR
NAIVE INTENTION
BIRD TOWER
LIBRARY IN DESERT
FACTORY
GREENHOUSE
BIRD OBSERVATION TOWER
LOCATION : CHILE
LOCATION : CHICAGO
LOCATION : CHICAGO
LOCATION : LATVIA
YEAR : 2016
YEAR : 2015
YEAR : 2017
YEAR : 2017
INSTRUCTOR :
INSTRUCTOR :
SITUATION
PEZO VON ELLRIECHOUSEN
PEZO VON ELLRIECHOUSEN
COMPETITION
Naive Intention
Library and Residential Facility in Patagonia
Like the theme of every movie. We need to follow the theme of building, which design by Mauricio Pezo& Sofia Von Ellrichshausen. The rectangular build in is located in the desert of Chile with 250 meters by 50 meters. 500 people will live here for 3 months without modern technology. Despite the complex and dramatic change of society and technology, the first thing we did before the design is imagined what the life of them will look like? What is the emotion if we live in the end of the world? The ideology of human is always the priority of design. After life without modern technology, pilgrims chase the power of knowledge from city to end of the world. As the result, the idea came from the word “Humbleness�. Living without the lust of nowadays society, we hoped people who live here will be dominated by nothing but knowledge. We preferred that people can feel the power of knowledge by using physical elements of architecture. 5 over exaggerated platforms surrounded by thousands of books for the study will be arranged in 200 meters long central hall in order to create a sense of monument. The living room will be located on the underground level with skylight. People can enjoy the peace of reading only after the long distance of finding a book. The contrast of physical condition will promote the emotion. heavy and lightness, darkness and brightness will be constantly used in the project in order to produce emotion change.
Inventory : Sculpture Column Basic sculpture column was designed basic on the image of historical building.Transformation of basic sculpture column was allowed by following the policy of geometry. The goal of the practice is to help us to learn how to extract element from exist things and transfer to architecture language.
The Reading Platform Picture of 16th,17th and 18th century’s library is the source for inventory
Building Plan Residence will be arranged In first floor. However, before they get into the room, they will step down half meter.This strategy is to let people have the sense of humble for knowledge
Contrast Between Interior and Exterior Contrast is one of the strategy we use to create a sense of moument. Comparing with the feeling of heaviness of interior, we tried to create a opposite feeling in exterior.
Section One of the strategy we used constantly is contrast. Comparing with the impression of exterior envelope that is light, the interior show heaveness and power.
The Reading Platform
In order to create a sense of monument, reading platform should shows dramatic contrast to its surrounding.
Building Section The hight of each platform are different.However, a rhythm of height in each platform reveal the policy of nature
The Moment In Between Platform Not only the experience on the top of platform is good, the space under and in between platform is totally different
INCUBATOR
Locate in traditional industry area of Chicago, The mission of the project is to design a headquarter for a tea company. Manufacture is the primary mission of the incubator. Without any other requirement of the program, we can arrange any logical program in the building. The difficulty of the design is the Dimension of the site. How can we put all the program into building under the limitation of the site? How can we break the traditional impression of industry building? How can we shape the culture of the company by using the program and site? All of these questions need to be answered by ourselves.
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THE FUTURE OF FACTORY
After a careful site study, we found an interesting phenomenon of industry district in Chicago As I showed on the map of Chicago. The green space of river side and the pollutional situation of industry area shows the clear difference. Also, comparing with some industry district area in other cities. The industrial area of Chicago is closely near one of the best neighborhood. The population density between sparsely populated industry area and the neighborhood is so obvious. Can we eliminate the obstacle between industry area and neighborhood? Can we break the impression of the traditional industry by using design strategy? Can industry building become a part of the neighborhood? Can we change the pollutional condition of industry area step by step? We must answer these questions during the design process. One of the ideas is to have a sophisticated program in order to solve all of these questions. The program of the industrial building can be diverse and can be used by different group of users. At the beginning of the design, we deconstructed the primary product of the factory, which is tea. After that, one of Jane Jacobs’s article about the time of park in Philadelphia attracts us. In the article, Jane mentioned 4 parks in Philadelphia. After few years development, the most popular park is the one surround by different mixed-used building. So, in order to let people use at different time, we analyzed how people will use different program during different time period. All the program are arranged during the analysis.
DECONSTRUCTION OF PROGRAM
PEOPLE DENSITY IN EACH FLOOR DURING TIME
TYPE OF USER DURING TIME Working time Weekend
Underground Level
1rd Floor Working time Weekend
2rd Floor
3rd Floor
OCCUPATION OF PPROGRAM DURING TIME
RETAIL SHOP
RETAIL SHOP
GARDEN
GARDEN
CLASS ROOM
CLASS ROOM
AMPHITHEATER
AMPHITHEATER
OPEN SPACET
OPEN SPACET
OFFICE
OFFICE WORKING TIME
WEEKEND
Offices area locate in 3rd floor.So, p can be insured
Green house is open not only for reasearch but also for publi
Tea studio is an important part of bu help people understand tea
Retail store can attract people fro neighborhood
Working space is almost exposed to
Amphitheater helps people to have a understanding of production
MAX HEIGHT
EXTENTIOTWALKBILITY
privacy
WALKBILITY OF SITE
SKYLIGHT AVAILABILITY
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WORKER CIRCULATION
worker primarily use underground level locker room and dining room also will be use
OFFICE CIRCULATION
Office scatter all around building.However, location of office is isolated to public space
CONSUMER CIRCULATION Retail store is highly demanded space in the building
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TOURIST CIRCULAION
Inventory : Sculpture Column
Inventory : Sculpture Column
Tourist mainly use first floor for consuming tea and visit factory
Studio space will be used only by membership consumer for education of tea
Public and private vertical circulation will provide highly efficient circulation
BASEGROUND LEVEL All the manufactural programs are arranged at underground level. As an important part of education,we hope tourist can understand every procedure of producing. So Amphitheater is designed for this reason. Assemble line is in the core of the space. mechanical room for producing surround the center core.
TOURIST CIRCULAION Education as an important part for factory should be include into program. So, an amphitheater not only bring a sense of publication to tourist but also can become a important way to clearly understand how tea is processed in the factory. Visual interaction among different activities can always be fun.
TEA PROCESSING
PACKING AND DRYING
Fresh Tea leave can’t be used directly. So, several additional step is necessary for a cup of good tea. First step of manufacturing is mixing. After that, fermentation by machine is needed. These two steps will be processed in the underground level by machine and people.
After first two steps of processing. Tea still need to be dried. This step will be processed by machine in the center core of underground level.After that, packing will be processed by people in the assemble line. In the end tea will be shipped directly to the retail shop in different city.
TOURIST CIRCULAION First floor can always be accessed easily. So Retail store is arranged in first floor. Also, part of office is arrange in first floor since some of the department demands public and easy to be assessed.
TEA RETAIL SHOP As an important part of consumption era, retail shop will be highly demand by neighborhood. All the products of factory are available in store. Retail store will be a strong connection between neighborhood and factory.
OFFICE Office area will be separated all around the building. First floor will also have one area for office. Since first floor is most public space, we believe office area is necessary for factory.
DINING & LOCKER ROOM Facility for staff is necessary . Dining room can provide convenience for staff. Locker room can be used by worker and staff.
TOURIST CIRCULAION
GALLARY SPACE
Tea studio, green house and office are arranged at second floor. Also, an open space can be seen as gallery and also can be treated as a public space for social event, tea ceremony, party.
We believe culture is an additional product of tea . In Asian, tea celebration is common. So, gallery space can be a important space for culture diffusion. This is a good place for tea ceremony, party and some other events.
TEA STUDIO Actually, tea is not as simple as you see. The temperature of water for boiling tea and the porcelain for tea is very important for a cup of good tea. Also, the procedure and other tea knowledge can be taught in studio area. mem bership can study in the studio. So, this is a semipublic space.
GREEN HOUSE Instead of importing tea from other country, green house for growing tea not only can produce fresh growth tea, but also can help staff better understand tea. Also, green house can help membership to understand the growth of tea and also can be a popular tourist attraction.
TOURIST CIRCULAION Four floor, is primarily occupied by office. However, lecture hall can provide multi-function event for factory. Research center is the incubator of the factory.
OFFICE Another office in third floor, which will be totally private for only staff. Basic on the different situation of each office, different function can be arrange .Also, the office area between second and third floor is connected by stair.t
RESEARCH CENTER Research center is the future of the factory. Tea contain many different nutrition.All of these nutrition can be studied better for different product. Beverage, medication also can be made by tea.
LECTURE HALL Lecture hall is not only for meeting, but also for the communication of different association. The cooperation, communication between each department will be promoted by lecture hall.
SECTION
STRUCTURE STRATEGY
HORIZONTAL BEAM
SECONDARY BEAM
We prefer to use wood as structure . First, wood is enviroment friendly material. Second, wood can bring a sense of nature into industry zoo in order to break the impression of tranditional industry. Structure can be seperated into 3 parts.Column, secodary beam and horizontal beam. Metal connector provide stability for wood structure.
COLUMN SYSTEM
1. RETENTION
LAYER 2. AERIATION LAYER 3.THERMAL INSULATION 4. DRAINAGE LAYER 5.ROOT BARRIER 6.PROTECTION COURSE 7.THERMOPLASTIC WATERPROOF MEMBER 8.STRUCTURE DECK 9.SEALANT 10.FLASHING 11.INCADESCEND LIGHT 12.FLUORESCENT LIGHT 13.COLUMN 14.HANGERS 15.METAL STRAP 16.GLAZING PANEL 17.WINDOW FRAME 18.STEEL RUNNER 19.WATER BARRIER 20.BAKER ROAD 21.SPANDREL 22-25.DUROCK CEMENT PANEL
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STRUCTURE DETAIL
STRUCTURE DETAIL
Naive Intention
Green House With 100 Living Space
Located in chicago suburban area. The dimention of building is 200 meters by 150 meters,which design by professor Mauricio Pezo& Sofia Von Ellrichshausen GREENHOUSE
VILLA
From the domestic Victorian case to the anonymous industrial warehouse, a greenhouse is always the ambitious human attempt to both imitate and defeat nature. An almost invisible and certainly fragile envelope is technically enough to encapsulate, seal and regulate a limited volume of warm air. This pervasive building type is not only a room with an artificialized climate (without any threat of wind, pollution or season, with perfect light, temperature, moisture and ventilation) but also the very idealized reservoir of pure wilderness. Behind its diffuse membranes there is a perfect ecology, a literal promised land, a deep bubble mechanically controlled and barely supported by a delicate but rational, open, and homogeneous steel structure. This paradisiacal territory, a colourful landscape filled with exotic flowers, plants and trees, can be understood as the destination place, a large civic garden (somehow between an orchard and a park) for a devotedly ecological traveller.
As a feeble relative of the greenhouse, the villa also accommodates a fantasy. Beyond its functional dependency to the city, there is the construction of an idealized scenery for the mere hedonistic enjoyment of its inhabitants. Ackerman warned us that “the content of villa ideology is rooted in the contrast of country and city, in that the virtues and delights of the one are present as the antitheses of the vices and excesses of the other�. For the sake of our ingenuous plan, the obsolete distinction between urban and rural will be merged in the infinitely extended metropolitan domain. Among generic highways, tedious signs and accumulation or production sheds there will be a hidden paradise: a detached world crowded with a carefully manicured vegetal atmosphere. As in an inverted version of the Renaissance villa, the detached object surrounded by crops, greens and forests will be enlarged up to the point in
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
Pezo Von Ellrichshausen
which the figure itself contains the ground.
The Layer Of the Building From the bottom to top: Handcraft studio. Residential living space. Public loop.
Mentality Of The Building
With the skyscraper and modular building surrounding, nowadays people can only find large scale deep plan in the natural environment or on the screen of phone or computer. The most familiar thing of our hand is keyboard and screen of a phone. Our body physically lost the scale of the world. Pressure, competition mentally place heavy burden. We hope this building can be a place which people can get rid of all the thing in urban environment, like Pallasmaa mention in The Thinking Hand.We hope to rebuild the sense of body, which almost lost in nowadays urban environment. Why will people leave the urban environment to this building in the suburban area? What’s kind of emotion they have when they are trying to leave the urban? What’s atmosphere can this building bring to them? What’s the role of this building in nowadays society? What’s kind of plant can achieve the atmosphere? We asked ourselves patiently in order to let this building to have not only functional meaning but also mental meaning to the society and user. Lavender, a visual beauty plant with large scale growth can bring us a sense of singularity, which is rare in city environment. Like the cruise ship on the ocean, people have more choice inner when the ship limit the choice. We believed that the singularity can help people to build more both physically and mentally. Different character of spaces is another strategy for us to achieve the goal. Temporary user is the primary consideration for us. Not only live separately but also thinking separately. We gave them a lot of dim space in second floor to promote meditation happen. The heaviness of column, the temperature of concrete, the shadow of 200 meters hallway, all of these build the atmosphere together. When we limited the function of space, we gave them more character of space. In third floor, an open loop brings the lavender and surrounding environment to the building. Also, public activities can happen here not only for the user, but also for the resident who lives in the neighborhood. As one of the requirement, a factory of lavender is required. Comparing with isolate the factory space for the contemporary user, we hope some of the work can be done by them. We believe the spirit of handcraft is great opportunity to help them bring a connection between mind and body.
Inventory : Space Transformation Like my first project with Pezo Von Ellrichshausen, different spaces of Palladio’s design will be extracted.After that, transformation and rethinking is allowed basic on the characteristic of our design.
First Floor Plan Bookstore, coffee shop and some handcraft studio is in south and north side of building. Some retail stores of lavender related product will be sold in west side of building for tourist . Manufacture are arranged in east side since the convenient traffic condition.
Second Floor Plan All temporary residence will live in south and north side of building. In the center of each hall way a small chapel bring more possibility to the space. Different stair will lead people to the lavender field or up stair.
Third Floor Plan Third floor is a totally open loop. Most of space is flexible, which can be used as any program. Two lines of column split one space into two parts. Basic on the difference of view they will have different characteristic.
Circulation In Exterior Third floor is a totally open loop space, not only for the people who live here, but also for the whole neighborhood. However, we also need to control the circulation for the security.
Section The building can be deconstructed into 3 layers. They have different program and shape different atmosphere.
The Memory Of City. To me, this building is sanatorium for temporary user. They will re-arrange their life. Also, they will re-arrange their mind.
Model Of Building Even the dimension of each two sides are same.We still tried to make different in every side basic on the demand of user and atmosphere in order to create special moment and meaningful program .
PAPE BIRD OBSERVATION TOWER
The Pape Nature Park is home to a uniquely diverse ecosystem. There are a great number of protected plant, animal and bird species concentrated within the relatively small park area, which is located in the Nica and Rucava Municipalities in the South Western region of Latvia. The Pape Nature Park is most known for being the first place in Latvia to reintroduce wild horses, auroxen, and bison back into the wild, however it also plays a vital role in the nesting habits of many species of birds. The Lake Pape area is an internationally-recognised breeding, migrating and wintering site for many birds, and is included on the list of ‘Important Bird Areas in Europe’.
Cenotaph for Newton / Etienne-Louis Boullée
Étienne-Louis Boullée, Cénotaphe de Turenne
Image in Delirious New York
The Image Of Sport Club In Delicious new york
The Balance Of Body Like the condition shows on the site map. The site of tower is surrounded by wetland and lake. Basic on the requirement of Tower, this design will be the tallest building in the context, which will be the monumental sign of the environment. The visual meaning of building become the priority of design. However, I am a person who always emphasizes the significance of body feeling. So, I tried to find a balance point between visual pleasure and the sense of body. The idea of design came from Rem Koolhaas’s famous book, DELICIOUS NEW YORK. In the book, Rem said that the tower shows the ambition of people to conquer the gravity. After many years of development, the initial ambition that people want to conquer gravity was not a problem anymore from technical perspective. What’s more, technology allows human to exaggerate our ambition through the building. As Rem mentioned in the book, the detached between exterior and interior is one of the signs of those ambition, which he called bigness. Basic on that opinion and phenomenon, I was trying to use that detachment between interior and exterior to find a balance between the feeling of body and visual pleasure. The Tower was composed of two parts, exterior skin, and interior envelope. They are opposite direction, which the upper part of exterior is bigger than the lower part and the upper part of the interior is smaller than the lower part. The contrast will be revealed from both visual and sense of body. when you walk into the tower, the gradual change of the scale will let your body realize the change of scale that can be noticed by our visual system.
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Interior Rendering With the elevation goes higher, the dimension of the stair and envelope gradually decrease. Our body can tell the dimension change of enviroment, which is the goal of design.
Exterior Rendering The shadow of interior envelope can show the contrast between exterior and interior by light
CHEN DING EMAIL: cding7@hawk.iit.edu TEL: + 1. 312. 536. 1967 EDUCATION
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Illinois Institute Of Technology Master of Architetcture | 2015-2017 Danforth traveling Award
Summer 2017
Hornered Exhibition In Open House Summer 2017 Hornered Exhibition In Open House Summer 2016
JiLin University of Zhuhai College Bachelor of Architetcture | 2010-2014 Best Graduation Project
Project: Air Control Center, Hengqing Destrict Plan. Zhuhai Police Station
Illinois Institute Of Technology Workshop Teaching Assistance
Summer 2014
Study Aboard, Scandinavia 2016 Summer SKILL Auto CAD Sketch up Rhino+Grasshopper Vray Revit Photoshop Illustrator
ZHAD Zhuhai, China | Internship | 2014-2015
LANGUAGES Mandarin English Cantonnese
ATTITUTE TO ARCHITECTURE To me, art and architecture can’t be recognized separately. Art means cognition of surrounding situation. It can be physical energy, politic, or it can be sensitive. We express those ideas through the object to let other people feel our unmeasurable mentality. As an architect, we used material and light to express our mind through architecture. So, the essence of an idea and the way of expression is the primary consideration of architecture to me. Architecture is an artful play of our mind with material and light.