PORTFOLIO 陈璐 Lu Chen 2013-2019 Selected Works
-What is the space? -Space is infinite possibilities.
Photo source: Nolan's film Inception
Contents 01 Circulation · [Wandering] Tea house design 9.2014-10.2014 Individual
02 Program · [Floating forest] Community library design 9.2015-10.2015 Individual
03 Scale · [Loop X+] Fabrication Project 4.2016 Teamwork
04 Sequence · [The Arroyo] A New Exhibition Gallery for the Space Shuttle Endeavour 9.2018-12.2018 Individual
05 Information · [TONGJI AiR] Drones and Environmental Sensing 6.2018 Summer Workshop
Havana,Cuba. Photograph by Lu Chen
Lu Chen
Mobile: 1 – 213 431 9053 Email: luchen9512@gmail.com Add: 2827 S Orchard Ave. Los Angeles, California, USA, 90007
Education 8.2018-5.2020
University of Southern California (USC) Candidate for Master of Architecture
9.2013-6.2018
Hefei University of Technology (HFUT) Bachelor of Architecture
Competition 2.2017
Evolo the 2017 Skyscraper Competition Organizer: Evolo Magazine Team Project Entry: Eclecticism of Human Beings’ History Participated in modeling and digital representation
4.2016
National Green Architecture Design Contest Organizer: China Green Building Association Excellence Award Team Project Entry: Light & Wind Participated in data collection, schematic design and digital representation
Involvement 6.2018
The 8th Digital Futures Summer Workshop Tongji University, Shanghai Group2 : Drones and Environmental Sensing Tutors: Biayna Bogosian / Maider Llaguno-Munitxa / Wei Zang
6.2017-8.2017
Summer Intern Anhui Shanshui City Design Co., Ltd. Tongling, Anhui
9.2014-6.2015
School Orchestra University Student Art Troupe, HFUT First Pipa Player
9.2014-12.2014
Zhuya Magazine School of Architecture & Art of HFUT Editor
Skills
Software
Rhino Sketch up Adobe PS, AI, ID, PR, AE
Music
Pipa (traditional Chinese instrument) National Amateur Level 10 (the highest level)
Revit AutoCAD
01 [Wandering] Tea House Design
Sep.2014-Nov.2014 Individual Hongcun,Huangshan,Anhui,China
This project was designed after finishing the project Ancient Architectural Measurement. Through the surveying and mapping, I have a certain understanding of the structure and space of huizhou ancient architecture. This project was located in Hongcun, Huangshan, Anhui, which is a famouse ancient village and also famous for their tea culture. I choose traditional flow preference as a breakthrough point to discuss its topological deformation in modern architectural space.
《虞山枫林图》 王翚（1632-1717） Yushan Fengling Map, Wang Hui The winding path is the traditional Chinese aesthetic taste. “ After endless mountains and rivers that leave doubt whether there is a path out, suddenly one encounters the shade of a willow, bright flowers and a lovely village ” that the lines not only describe the mood of the wandering, but also include the philosophy of life.
[Site & Concept]
SITE
Hongcun, located in Huangshan, Anhui province, is an ancient village listed in the world cultural heritage list. It is famous for its architecture of huizhou residential buildings in Ming and Qing dynasties. The local tea culture of huangshan is strong, the local specialty tea has huangshan mafeng, taiping kowkui and qimen black tea. The tearoom is located in the woodland on the northern edge of hongcun. This special plot gives me the following considerations for the project: (1) Considering the topology form of the ancient building in hongcun, we should inherit and develop the traditional Chinese space mode and aesthetic taste through the topological deformation of the space sequence of the countyard. (2) Its position, space theme and landscape should base on traditional courtyard position theory and echo the traditional garden design language.
[Typical Spatial Sequence of Vernacular Architecture]
Entrance
Patio
Hall
Patio
[Circulation Sequence] This is the plan of a local residence, which can feel the flow line interest of traditional architectural design from the plane, as well as the organization of spatial sequence and real relationship.This model is referenced in the design of the tea house streamline, and the transformation is carried out, hoping to bring the experience of traditional space with modern architecture.
Main street
Function circulation
Entrance&exit
Wandering circulation
[Graphic Logic] In the graphic design of the project, I follow the spatial sequence of traditional building which consisted of entrance-patio-hall-patio and make some topological deformation. In the design of flow, I flow traditional aesthetic preference. Users could wander in the tea house and enjoy garden scenery in different views.
Second floor plan
Axis Sight Yard Path Guideline First floor plan
Dinggu hall
office storage
tea culture exhibition
Houkui hall Qihong hall
Songluo hall
Maofeng hall
The main entrance
Patio
Hall
Patio
Entrance
Relationship of sight
Main Entrance
Secondary Entrance
Walk up to the second floor platform to overlook the ancient village scenery
Courtyard 1
Exit 1
Entrance
Courtyard
Hall
Courtyard
Exit 2
Courtyard 2
02 [Floating Forest]
Community Library Design Sep.2015-Oct.2015 Individual Hefei,Anhui,China
This project was accomplished in my junior year and I think it can represent my attitude toward design. The site is located in a complex area with low-income groups and floating people. As a community library, it not only need to design for read and study but also need to alleviat some social problems. Traditional libraries are more tend to be academic and look like a palace of knowledge. Considering users from the neighborhood have different levels of knowledge, I want to eliminate the lofty sense of distance of the traditional library and create a kind community library to welcome different kinds of people.
[Concept] Aristotle Aristotle
Plato Rene Descartes Baruch Spinoza Sigmund Freud Plato Rene Descartes Baruch Spinoza Sigmund Freud
life principle spirit-substance thought-extension life principle spirit-substance thought-extension
nature nature
the drive of human the drive of human
Information Encounter
FOREST
Wandering
Search
Traditional library function
Acquisition Delivery the drive of human the drive of human intention reading room/independence LIBRARY public space/interaction unintentional intention reading room/independence LIBRARY public space/interaction unintentional
Philosophers have long theorizing about the nature of man. "Man is the measure of all things," said Prota Godzilla, an Aristotle Plato Rene Descartes Baruch Spinoza Sigmund Athenian sophist. What he means is right or wrong, depending on how it relates to human needs. Aristotle and Plato'sFreud philosophy divided people into souls and substances, believing that reason and existence are related. Descartes, a dualist, puts forward "Cogito, ergo sum",emphasizing the role of human consciousness. And the monist Spinoza, who life principle spirit-substance thought-extension nature the drive of human has overturned some of Descartes' points of view, still stresses the free development of will. Freud argued that there was a constant tension between man and his environment, especially between the urge to drive and the demands of society. Because of the lack of clear directivity, people can walk around in the forest and carry out various activities. As a community library, I hoped this library will be more community-based than the scholarly library.Titled Floating Forest, the lack of clear directions enabled users to walk around and perform various activities by means of multiple entries, fluidity expressed by translucent and transparent glass walls; as for the fixed functions, they take form in separate and independent rooms, thus eliminating hierarchical relationships between spaces. Information
Information Encounter
Wandering
Encounter [Site]
Wandering
intention
FOREST
Search the drive of human FOREST Search
reading room/independence Acquisition
Acquisition
LIBRARY Delivery
Traditional library function Traditional library function
public space/interaction
unintentional
Delivery
The old urban district
Binghu new district
Site
lost area & forgotten people lost area & forgotten people
The old urban district The old urban district
farmer’s market modern community village in market the city farmer’s modern community village in the city
The new urban district The new urban district
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20% 50% 30% 20% 50% 30%
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2004 2007 2012 2015 There is a lot of lost space in China's urbanization process.The site is a land of positive change between the old city and the new city.The function of the site is dominated by residential areas.The largest proportion of them is the village in the city.There are many drawbacks in the village in the city such as noise,congestion and lack of public space.
[Spatial Diagram]
The part of the function takes the form of boxes , creating a different space through the different positions of the boxes. Other parts use transparent and semitransparent materials, hoping to create an ambiguous ane flowing space.
Creating different spatial experiences by changing the facet of the face
Create different limiting spaces through scale changes
Create different spatial relationships through spatial nesting
[Scenario axonmetrics]
[Free reading area]
[Eat & read] .
[General reading room] .
[Children's reading room, newspaper&journals room ] .
[Service counter] .
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01 Street
02 Free path
03 Library
Creat a street cross the site
The first floor is free for all kinds of people
Function interspersed in the path for people to choose
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1. lecture hall 2. free reading area 3. group study area 4. service counter 5. duty room 6. bag keeping area 7. general reading room 8. newspaper&journals room
[Different Path in the Library] Considering people from neighborhood have different background, I divide the path in the library into two kinds. People could wander in the ground floor and use the open space as a social place. For those who want to read or study in the library, they can also find suitable space.
Unintentional The atomosphere of the place encourages spontaneous behavior
Children’s reading room
study room
Newspaper &journals
Intentional All functions are organized by the axis to facilitate people to go to the destination
second
Eat&read
Service coun &researching
General reading room Auditorium space
d floor
elevators& distributional stair Reference hall
nter g Management office&facilities
To answer different need of behaviors, the space in the library has generate different types in section.Social spaces need sight communication and large space while reading spaces may be more independent.
[Space is Infinite Possibilities] This project was accomplished after I read books authored by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. The Modernist legacy of architecture overemphasizing functionality was undone with Fujimoto’s proposal that building functions should not be imposed onto people, and that space should be optional to accommodate the thousands of possible changes. Titled Floating Forest, the lack of clear directions enabled users to walk around and perform various activities by means of multiple entries, fluidity expressed by translucent and transparent glass walls; as for the fixed functions, they take form in separate and independent rooms, thus eliminating hierarchical relationships between spaces.
03 [Loop X+]
Fabrication Project April.2016 Teamwork Collaborator: Xue Wenfeng, Ju Zhao, Zhang Xiaohong, Zhang Peiyao,Fu Zengyu Role: concept 50%ďźŒphysical model 20% Hefei,Anhui,China
This is a cross-professional cooperation project, with collaborators from architecture major (4 people), industrial design major (1 person), art design major (1 person). The background of different subjects collided in this project. Scale is a very important part in design. Architecture design, industrial design and art design tend to focus on different level's scales.We hope to design a device or public art to combine and express our understanding of different scales.
350mm 350mm 350mm 350mm 350mm 350mm
From Funiture To Architecture Think and experiment on different scales SCALE In our lives, scale is everywhere. The scale of furniture such as table and chair, the scale of the room, the scale of exhibition and so on all come from our understanding of human body engineering. Our concept is developed, and through the analysis of human scale, we hope to design a coherent device to meet the different needs of human beings. From the furniture scale to the space scale, interprets people's different behavior.
SHAPE Shape comes from the metamorphosis of the mobius ring. Extending from furniture scale to space scale, it is an extension of experience from individual experience to group experience under the same space. Starting from the furniture scale, the scale is expanded gradually, and a variety of functions are generated in the same space, bringing different people together to create a different situation.
The spring is free to bend but not stable
Sliding block push-pull structure is not conducive to form generation
Inspired by the structure of the metal watch chain
STRUCTURE We've had a lot of discussions about how to build the structure of the mobius ring. Eventually we were inspired by the structure of the metal watch chain. Metal bracelet is easy to bend, not reverse, because the reverse bending bracelet similar to arch structure, but because of its internal unit not only pressure, and axial tension, and jagged interface make seam pressure more closely. In the model test, acrylic and wood materials are used. It is found that the acrylic is not easy to wear and the anti-pressure performance is superior. Due to the final construction model of 1:1 model, considering the cost and actual implementation difficulty, our final model is the wooden simplified version. Use an interval of wood to represent a complete unit.
[Discussion about the shape of the mobius ring]
[Model section test]
04 [T h e Arro y o ]
A new exhibition gallery for the space shuttle Endeavour USC 605a Studio Instructor: Nathan Bishop Sep.2018-Dec.2018 Individual Los Angeles, California, USA
Los Angeles is the nation’s second largest metropolitan area, with one of the densest and most diverse urban populations in the country. This, in conjunction with its access to international exposure, tourism and funding, gave Los Angeles the edge as NASA’s choice for a new permanent home for the Space Shuttle Endeavour. A 200,000 SF museum expansion to house the orbiter Endeavour and a new air and space exhibition has been designed by the firm ZGF and awaits ground breaking. 2018’s ARCH 605a studio borrows the premise of this museum in a hypothetical and abbreviated form. The gallery program, beyond being a medium to explore the pragmatic design objectives of building systems and code, provides an extraordinary opportunity for the study of dynamic spatial and formal relationships within, as well as the potential for building form to organize the site.
[Symbiotic rather than occupied] My attitude towards the site is hidden. I hope that my project is not occupied but symbiotic in the site, and symbiosis with pedestrian path and landscape planning. So I sank a part of the program and set up a path across the site. Meanwhile, in order to make the building and the path better communicate, this is a path that partially sinks and have a interesting intersection with the bridge of the building. In the passing species, you can not only see the part of space shuttle, but also communicate with the tourists in the building.
people coming by public transportation
people coming by car
ascent to orbit in-orbit (underground)
on the ground
(underground)
coming home (underground)
Gantry viewing area
OUTSIDE GROUND
EXIT ground Orientation
Exhibit Entry
Cafe&gift shop
MAIN ENTRANCE ground
[Convoluted loop] The shape of the whole building is like arroyo. It is divided into two parts on the ground and connected by a bridge and a glass roof. In terms of circulation, it is also divided into three levels. The ground level is the landscape and public space that responding to the architectural form, and the underground part is the exhibition space. The upper ground floor is the gantry view space of the space shuttle. The space shuttle was set up as a special exhibit and I design backgrounds, lighting and viewing perspectives for it. The entire internal tour sequence is more like a convoluted loop, traveling through different spaces under different height. The use of clear glass allows visitors to see the space shuttle from different angles. You can only see the part of shuttle at the outdoor and entrance. This is a warm-up of the tour. At the top of the orientation, it is far enough to see the full view of the space shuttle, arousing the curiosity of visitors. After crossing the bridge, enter the gantry view area, you can observe the space shuttle from different points at close range. The end of the sequence is the cafe&gift shop, when you look back when you buy coffee, you can still see a small part of the space shuttle through the large diagonal space.
Gantry views
View from the top of gantry area
6.000 ft
The ground
View from the top of orientation
-6.000 ft
0.000 ft
View from the entry
Main Entrance
Exhibition Area -22.000ft
5’ level plan
-10’ level plan
15’ level plan
Structure diagram
Glass
Skeleton
Grid
View from entry
View from cafe & gift shop
05 [T ONGJI AiR ]
Drones and Environmental Sensing Jun.2018 Digital Futures Summer Workshop [Participate in data collection,video production, digital representation] Tutors: Biayna Bogosian (USC) / Maider Llaguno-Munitxa (Princeton) / Wei Zang(Tongji University) Shanghai, China
In the digital age, information is an intermediate medium that couples the human body and the machine together, and the stability mechanism proposed by "Cybernetics" is the law of information transmission in human-machine coordination. In the future of human-computer symbiosis, the way of data exchange between humans and machines is particularly important. How environmental data is recorded by the machine, how the data will be separated from its essential meaning in the context of the computer, and what kind of information it will convey to humans will be a topic worth discussing. Data visualization, as the most direct way we perceive the environment and behavior, is widely used in environmental monitoring, spatial biology and behavioral research. The DigitalFUTURES 2018 Drones and Environmental Sensing will use drones as a vehicle for environmental information collection, using a variety of environmental data sensors and physical model reconstruction techniques as data collection tools. Later, we will study how to construct a PC-side data visualization interface. Augmented reality devices such as HoloLens enable a more immersive data visualization experience.
[TONGJI AiR] TONGJI AiR focuses on the development of high spatio-temporal resolution urban environmental scanning and visualization in order to incorporate the hidden environmental parameters concerning architectural and urban design practices. The campus of the Tongji University has served as the test ground, where we have deployed a number of sensing kits called MUST-fly (Mobile Urban Sensing Technologies-fly) on drones to capture the vertical variations of the urban environmental data. We have also utilized sensor-equipped self-balancing scooters as well as bicycles to acquire the horizontal gradients of the urban environmental data. TONGJI AiR utilizes immersive technologies to visualize the acquired data: i)A web-based map is created to display the real-time data of temperature, hu-midity, carbon dioxide, and particulate matter from the MUST-fly sensing kits, ii)A mobile application is generated for on/off site interaction, iii) An Augmented Reality experience using the Microsoft Hololens headset allows the observer to overlay the air-quality data anywhere on the project logo, iv) A Virtual Reality ex-perience enables the user to engage with the site and the data visualization in both first-person and aerial perspectives. The goal of the TONGJI AiR is to de-velop context-aware environmental sensing and visualization workflows which inform the environmental literacy of architects and urban designers.
[Work flow]
Lu Chen University of Southern California School of Architecture luchen9512@gmail.com