In Collaboration with Amy Zhang, Jasper Ryu Design Studio, Arch203 University of California, Berkeley Fall 2024
THE PANDEMIC STREET 2030
Individual Work Summer 2023
Individual Work Spring 2024
Individual Work
Design Studio, Arch202 University of California, Berkeley Spring 2024
NEXUS AUDITORIUM
Individual work
Design Studio, Arch200B
University of California, Berkeley Spring 2023
GLICH GARDEN AFFORDABLE HOUSING
Individual Work
Design Studio, Arch201 University of California, Berkeley Fall 2023
WHITE TREE TOWER CONSTRUCTION
In Collaboration with Yuhan Zhang, Siyu Liang
Construction Studio, Arch260
University of California, Berkeley Fall 2023
HEOPLE HALL
Individual Work Fall 2021
The design of the Martinez Ferry Building draws inspiration from the natural surroundings of the site, seamlessly integrating the mountain, marina, and open water into the architectural language. The project explores the relationship between the built environment and the diverse user experiences it facilitates. By orienting the building to maximize views and creating four distinct wings, the design establishes a balance between privacy and openness, offering a variety of outdoor spaces, including a pool, amphitheater, and passenger waiting area, each tailored to its specific function.
The contrasting materiality between the transparent, inviting ground floor and the more solid, private second floor reinforces the programmatic zoning of the building. The structure employs Type IV-C mass timber construction, with CLT beams, glulam columns, and scissor trusses supporting the expansive gable roof, showcasing the beauty of natural wood while ensuring structural efficiency. The project serves as a multifunctional hub for ferry passengers, recreational users, and the local community, creating a harmonious interplay between human activity and the natural landscape, ultimately fostering connectivity and engagement.
Martinez Harbor Nexus
— WALL SECTION —
The Martinez Ferry Building is a two-story Type IV-C construction, designed to be a transit hub and a recreational center. The design features natural materials, showcasing timber’s aesthetic and structural qualities. Overall, the building’s primary structure consists of timber beams, columns, and a tripod truss-column system to support the gable roof. These materials are exposed to showcase natural wood finish but also ensure sufficient fire resistance.
The timber columns extend through the two stories and are spaced 26’ for load distribution and structural efficiency, while also maintaining open and flexible spaces throughout the building. These columns are supported by reinforced concrete foundations that distribute loads to the ground.
The middle of the gable roof, where two roof structures intersect, is supported by a tripod truss system. Three timber trusses support the ridge lines of the roof, and the loads are transferred evenly to the columns. The tripod trusses allow an open ceiling, highlighting the gable roof structure from beneath.
To further ensure the building’s stability, lateral loads are resisted by timber shear walls. The shear walls are evenly distributed throughout the building and conform to the overall building layout and design concept.
— ELEVATION —
UNSW Canberra Education Building
The original intention of this building is to find a suitable architectural vocabulary for the future university campus from the perspective of the surrounding site and Canberra City, thereby exploring the relationship between the city and the future university.
In the site analysis stage, what impressed me most was Canberra’s unique urban texture and garden city atmosphere. As an university campus in the urban texture transition zone which is trying to sew up the urban space, my idea is to bring natural elements and artificial geometric patterns into it, so that they can be integrated and created a livable campus that is not isolated from the urban.
In choosing the hexagon as the core framework of the scheme, I particularly considered and researched the significant applicatoin of this geometric pattern for the general layout of future educational buildings. The hexagon is formed by 6 triangles, each side is correspond to a different urban condition and fabric. The hexagonal system is selected as it helps with responding the urban fabric as well as strengthening the relationship between campus and urban.
— HEXAGONAL SYSTEM —
Geometric Pattern in Planning & Building
For the campus, after analyzing the artificial planning trace, the urban context and circulation system, the planning of Canberra is based on triangle. In addition, after analogizing with the City Hill, the hexagon is formed by 6 triangles, each side is correspond to a different urban condition and fabric. In summary, the hexagonal system is selected as it helps with responding the urban fabric as well as strengthening the relationship between campus and urban.
For the education building, through the different combination of hexagonal modules, the building can evolve into different spatial forms and functional arrangements, which can be flexibly applied to different conditions and situations. The hexagon system in geometric definition often has two distribution patterns. The application of these two distribution patterns in the use of teaching building design in the future through my scheme.
1) Free distribution Scattered randomly and freely, it presents the state of natural leaves. This distribution corresponds to a large number of plants in “garden city”, which can give users a relaxed and comfortable feeling.
2) Regular distribution Edge fit edge closely, which can well reflect the advantages of hexagonal system in architectural application.
Hexagonal Based Campus Planning
Canberra is known as a garden city, and its blueprint is built by Griffin, a famous American designer, after international public bidding. The central axis of the city is from the Capital building to the National War Memorial Hall, and several main roads to form a geometric pattern.
The strong sense of geometry not only brings orderly life to the city, but also dull feeling. Therefore, in this new campus planning and teaching building design assignment, I pay special attention to explore the relationship between the university building demands and the original texture vocabulary of the city.
- Analysing the artificial planning trace, urban context & circulation system - The planning of Canberra is based on triangle. - 60° staggered grid.
Spatial and Visual Permeability
— CAMPUS MASTERPLAN —
— SPACE PLACEMENT —
UNSW Canberra - Australia
— TECTONIC & STRUCTURES — — CIRCULATION
Mobile office space
Mobile office space
The tree-like column form can not only help with making consistancy of the building facade with the street trees, letting the building in harmony with the nature, but also help with reserving places for pipeworks & plant accessories as well as adopting a modular composition.
Ground Floor Near Spiral Ramp
— INTERIOR VIEW —
— SECTIONS —
Education Building of UNSW Canberra
The Attic - Public Storage Extension
The King-Garvey Cooperative Apartment, located in San Francisco, is an affordable housing complex established in 1966 as part of the Western Addition A-2 Redevelopment Plan. Initially serving as a sanctuary for low-income families within the African American community, the complex faced significant economic and structural challenges over the years. Through a collective effort by its residents, the complex was revitalized from 2008 to 2011 and transformed into a vibrant community, now home to a diverse group of predominvvantly African American and Korean residents.
To address the ongoing economic pressures faced by the community, this project proposes “The Attic” – a public storage facility located on the roofs of the complex. By utilizing the underused rooftop spaces, “The Attic” not only minimizes disruption to residents but also creates a sustainable income source to subsidize their daily expenses.
The design capitalizes on the staggered layout of the existing buildings, integrating single and double storage units across two levels. Lower-level units align with the third-floor residential spaces, while the upper-level units double as social spaces for tenants, featuring seating areas and tables to foster community interaction. Additional stairs provide convenient access between the levels, enhancing connectivity and usability.
“The Attic” incorporates a dual-pitched roof design, which improves drainage, ventilation, and insulation. Clerestory windows are introduced to bring in natural light, reducing energy consumption and enhancing the user experience. Recycled building materials are utilized throughout the project to align with sustainable principles and reduce construction costs.
This design maximizes functionality and community value, transforming unused rooftop spaces into a multipurpose amenity that addresses both economic and social needs.
2587 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124
Public Storage, founded in 1972 by B. Wayne Hughes and Kenneth Volk Jr., grew alongside the self-storage industry’s emergence. The company has expanded by acquiring and developing properties to address storage demands driven by urbanization and lifestyle changes while adapting to evolving regulations such as zoning laws and tax policies. By offering storage solutions for both individuals and businesses, Public Storage has positioned itself as a key player in the storage services sector, aligning its offerings with ever-changing consumer needs. The Public Storage facility located at 2587 Marin Street in San Francisco exemplifies strategic site selection. Positioned within an industrial environment surrounded by auto repair shops and storage facilities, the area has a sparse residential population, emphasizing its role as a hub for commercial and storage purposes. The facility comprises two main buildings separated by an auto repair shop, forming a curved layout. This design smartly integrates the central area as a parking lot, with spaces distributed around the perimeter and an open center, providing convenient loading and unloading zones for customers.
Adjacent to the central axis is a fire station, enhancing the site’s safety measures. Additionally, a neighboring gas station to the west of the street highlights the thoughtful urban planning in this area, reflecting a well-considered and practical relationship between Public Storage and the surrounding urban infrastructure.
The Attic 2587 Marin St, San Francisco, CA 94124
Staggered Dual-Pitched Roof
The dual-pitched roof facilitates drainage, ventilation, and insulation, while its aesthetic appeal enhances the attractiveness and practicality of the structure. The staggered dual-pitched roof design introduces clerestory windows, allowing for more natural light, thereby improving indoor lighting and contributing to energy savings.
Rest & Interaction Spaces
Extending the original structure’s staggered design, additional spaces for rest and interaction are created for customers renting storage units. This enhances the building’s functionality and practicality, ultimately enhancing the quality of living and user experience.
Recycled Building Materials
The use of recycled building materials reduces construction costs and aligns with sustainable development principles.
The attic minimally disrupts the original structure and the lives of the residents, reducing costs for them and bringing economic benefits. It alleviates their living difficulties without affecting their daily lives.
Glich Garden Affordable Housing
This community is designed from the perspective of surrounding areas and the city of Oakland to provide affordable housing for three groups: single mothers, refugees, and low-income young people.
Broadway, Oakland’s oldest street, is a major axis that crosses the secondary axes at both orthogonal and oblique angles, creating a multiplicity of view corridors and perspectival relationships as it moves from Downtown to Uptown. Despite its long history, it is home to many empty lots, low-rise car dealerships. When Broadway intersects with the relatively bustling Piedmont street, the resulting site will spark cultural vibrancy.
Considering three low-income demographics and the need to control construction costs, I developed four interlocking modular units. The lower floors are designed to create a secure and cozy community, with three distinct zones containing different functional areas for specific demographics, precisely meeting residents’ needs. Meanwhile, they establish a connection with the street ambiance in three directions.
— SIITE PLAN & OBLIQUE —
— UNIT PLAN & OBLIQUE
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The Pandemic Street 2030
When we talked about pandemic, “socialzing” and “humanity” are our top concerns. During the pandemic time, most of our lives are spent quarantine at home and too afraid to go afar due to the possibilitiy of getting infected.
Pandemic Mobility Data indicate people drastically changed their transportation means and destination, which call for a socializing revolution . Inspired by Haus-rucker-co’s A JAR’S AUTONOMY, I am trying to build an autonomous pandemic home where street residents could enjoy a vibrant community on street while maintain basci pandemic rules such as social distance.
To increase independence and create new socializing possibilities, we plug in the public infrastructure, treatment machine into a city streets. Therefore, bring back the street and dynamte atmosphere to the empty street during pandemic and hopefully this could enlighten a small portion of the city while people live in fear and lonliness.
During pandemic, the upper floor of the street could provide a comfortable space to recover and gathering
Through a few simple procedures we could form a temporal space during pandemic
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Platforms are used to accept deliviries and transport people from their home to the street
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The pandemic hit our community in a rapid and unexpected approach, from 2020 to 2021, it still impose extensive pressure on society, through this temperoal construction, I hope to find a mechaism that could cope with pandemic rapidly and easily disassemble after the situation.
Multiple function was implanted into this street occupation. By inviting such a big infrastructure into the street, I hope to create a autonomous community that enlighten people's life during pandemic.
Residence
The building on the street does not only speak to its inhabaitants, but the residents around, it connect those who live in their appartments with the people under quarantine and treatment.
Good morning, it looks good on your health report! Get my grocery done after jogging.
Let me find a place to get my business done.
Living here is fun, get to make aquaintences often.
Running late for the music concert... Hospital Cells
After pandemic, the place could be dismantled partially and used as public park for events and lesiure purposes.
During pandemic, the occupation is served as an aunomous community that could support function during pandmic.
During Pandemic
Post-Pandemic
From a module to a pandemic street
While we speak of the street of pandemic, we are actually address two scenario regarding pandemic and post pandemic time. “HUMANITY” and “SOCIALIZING” would be our top concerns. In order to rehabilitate the street and its inhabitants , we plug in the public infrastructure, treatment machine into it so as to increasing independence and create new socializing possibilities. During the post pandemic time, we would replace the obsolete program and create flexible project reacts to the new era.
Nexus Auditorium
This project presents an 8-story auditorium building located in Oakland, CA. Encompassing approximately 30,000 square feet, the building features a single 5,000 square foot auditorium with multiple circulation systems and a diverse range of supporting programs. The auditorium’s spatial composition is defined by the intersection of the main rectangular volume of the building and another rectangular volume, showcasing a collision of geometric spaces.
This unique architectural approach not only provides functional spaces but also serves as a captivating artistic expression of spatial dynamics. The cutting lines of the rectangular volumes on the main body of the building define the walls and windows, further enhancing its architectural aesthetic.
