PORTFOLIO CHENGHUI NAN
CHENGHUI NAN EDUCATION Washington University in St. Louis | Expected Graduation May 2018 Master of Architecture Candidate, (March III Program) Tongji University | June 2013 Bachelor of Engineering, (Structure Engineering)
EXPERIENCE INTERNSHIP RedBridge Investment Inc, Real Estate Department | 2017.6-2017.8 Consult Architect Assistant Tongji Architectural Design Group | 2016.6-2016.8 Assistant Architect Yanbian University Architectural Design Research Institute | 2013.9-2014.2 Assistant Engineer Reform of the City Pavilion of Shanghai EXPO | 2012.7-2012.8 Construction Assistant VOLUNTEER Shanghai EXPO volunteer | 2010.5-2010.10 TEACHING ASSISTANT Teaching Assistant for Structure I & II | 2015.3-Now
SKILLS Autodesk Revit Adobe CC Photoshop Adobe CC Illustrator Adobe Premier Auto CAD Rhino v5 | V-Ray | Grasshopper
Basic Construction Basic Structure Digital Photography Fabrication Techniques Digital Rendering | Physical Modeling
MASTERED LANGUAGES
CONTACT
Korean, Chinese, English
Phone: 314-296-9110 E-Mail: Chenghui0709@hotmail.com
TABLE OF CONTENT
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SOULARD MULTIDISCIPLINARY LIBRARY
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DONGDAEMUN CANOPY
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLY
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META MASS HOUSING
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DUPLEX HOUSING
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SOULARD MULTIDISCIPLINARY LIBRARY
Design Date: Spring 2015 (Pre Stage Design), Fall 2016(Detail Design) Related Course: 318 Core Studio, Advanced Building System Instructor: Sungho Kim, Eric Hoffman Project type: Multi-Story Public Building Design Contributor: Xingguang Li (Section Detail), Shannon Chen (Mechanical Design)
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SOULARD MULTIDISCIPLINARY LIBRARY MUlTIFUNCTION LIBRARY PROJECT
This proposal is located in a historic French neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. The library intends to serve the community for events, scholastic endeavors and more.
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SOULARD MULTIDISCIPLINARY LIBRARY
PLANS/PROGRAMS
SECOND FLOOR PLAN 0’
5’
10’
15’
THIRD FLOOR PLAN 0’
5’
10’
15’
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN 0’
5’
10’
15’
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DESIGN CONCEPT
The St. Louis Downtown
The Gateway Arch
The Park Ave
St Vincent Church Old Factories
The I-55 High Way The library is surrounded with a unique urban context, which served an initial driver for design. Extruded ‘fingers’ in the design point towards these sights of interest as a way to engage the user with the diversity of the surrounding area.
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STRUCTURE DIAGRAM
Structure Core Tube
Structure Core Tube
Foundation Box
Structural Line
The structure core tubes are connected by structural lines. Four boundary cores are all connected through the center core. Five structure tubes are the main load bearing component of the building. The four outer cores are designed sufficiently strong to resist all lateral loads on the building, thereby allowing the center core tube to be simply framed for gravity loads.
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Handrail
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WALL SECTION
Floor Panel Floor Pedestal Grid Element Concealed Side Mount WaterProofing Membrane Drainage Mat Handrail Base 10” Concrete Slab
1/2” Gypsum Board 2” Rigid Insulation 8” Concrete Wall
Gravel Rigid Insulation
10” Concrete Slab
1/2” Gypsum Board 2” Rigid Insulation 8” Concrete Wall
1/2” Gypsum Board 2” Rigid Insulation 8” Concrete Wall Floor Panel Floor Pedestal Grounding Clamp Still Plate 10” Concrete Slab Reinforcing Bar Concrete Foundation WaterProofing Membrane Drainage Mat
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ELEVATION
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DONGDAEMUN CANOPY
Design Date: Spring 2017 Related Course: 500-600 Comprehensive Core Design Studio Instructor: Erik L’Heureux Project type: Public Space Redesign
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DONGDAEMUN CANOPY
SITE MODEL
SEOUL BIENNALE KM2 SITE MODEL INSTRUCTOR: ERIK L HEUREUX
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TEAM MEMBER: CHENGHUI NAN (DONGDAEMUN SECTION, RENDERING & SHADING) GREGORY BARBER (TEAM LEADER) DING YI WU YANG BIYING LI ZEZONG YU MUHONG ZHANG LIGE TAN SIYANG LIU AMANDA MALONE MENGQIAO SUN XINYI DU
Canopy Plan 0M
1.25M
3.75M
1:400
DONGDAEMUN CANOPY CANOPY PLAN
The definition of the cosmopolitan atmosphere is the interaction between street canopy and the urban context underneath that. In my design, the canopy is an overhead roof structure on the designated street fabricated by a concrete shell covering, which able to provide shade and shelter from weather conditions such as sun, wind, snow and rain. Also the canopy will redefine the condition of the street and provide a better place for the local business owner and coming visitors. The site is located west of the Dongdaemun(the east gate) historic heritage site, where is large commercial district for small business owners and local market. The site is lively and dynamic with different kinds of small businesses like toy market, hardware shop and grocery store. However, since most of the businesses are independent, and the whole areas are self-grown without proper master design, the buildings on the streets are over randomize and the block could be considered as chaotic. So my design is aiming to connect these scattered individual commercial into covered market community. For the local people, the business is their way of living, so, my design would keep most of the local business untouched, and imposing my canopy on their existing commercial environment. The canopies are built by standalone fabric concrete shells covered units. Each of the pieces are reacting differently to different weather condition. The concrete shell is a double curvature triangular shape surface which open on one side and closed on the other two sides and most of the openings are located at south and east part and serving as wind tunnel and sunlight path. The winter cold wind is coming from north-west direction and summer warm breeze is from south-east direction, so the closed edge of my concrete shell will block most of the direct cold wind during winter and allow the warm air cycle during summer. Also, the canopy are using systematical drainage, the concrete shell will collect most of the rain and drain them through drainage pipe inside the column. For the rest of the rain dropping from the
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DONGDAEMUN DONGDAEMUN CANOPY CANOPY
LONG ELEVATION CANOPY PLAN
One of the interesting features in Dongdaemun Canopy is the canopy is totally closed on the North side but open on the South side. The opening on south side will allow sufficient sunlight to enter the canopy, creating dynamic shade and allowing sun-heat to enter.
Most of the cold wind is coming from north-west of the site, so the closed canopy of the north side will prevent most direct cold from entering the inside the canopy.
Long Section 0M
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5M
15M
1:220
The opening of the canopy will introduce small amount of rain to enter the planting area directly on the south side of the canopy unit. And overall design gesture will create an interesting microscopic atmosphere inside the canopy.
On the other side, the warm and humid wind from south side will be partially allowed circulate inside the canopy.
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DONGDAEMUN CANOPY
CANOPY DETAIL
Detail Section 0M
15
5M
15M
Wormseye & Axon Drawing 1:300
0M
13.3M
50M
1:300
DONGDAEMUN CANOPY
PLAN DETAIL
Center Plaza Detail Plan 0M
50M
150M
1:1000
Axon & Wormsieye Diagram
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
Design Date: Spring 2016 Related Course: Digital Fabrication Core Design Studio Instructor: Erik L’Heureux Project type: Public Space Design
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
THE COLLAGES
Three collages are made by Chenghui Nan, Tianyi Han, Ethan Miller. We three were organized into a design teams to finalize our digital fabrication project. We first revisited my Non-Random Voronoi Patterns as modules for the installation. We studied the connection details, materiality, and massing to begin to understand the potential for this system. We quickly realized that we could exploit the various contradictions within the system to create an installation made up of a random constellation of floating objects. At the same time, this system leveraged the voronoi logic to create an easily fabricated system made up of a finite number of components.
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
VORONOI MODULE DESIGN CONCEPT
3D Voronoi Module
1 - Pass Module
2 - Pass Module
3 - Pass Module
Design Model
1 Node 2 Edge Lengths 1 Corner
2 Node 4 Edge Lengths 1 Corner
4 Node 16 Edge Lengths 1 Corner
3D Voronoi - The partitioning of a volume with points into convex polyhedra such that each polyhedra contains exactly one generating point and every point in a given polygon is closer to its generating point than to any other.
Voronoi - The partitioning of a plane with points into convex polygons such that each polygon contains exactly one generating point and every point in a given polygon is closer to its generating point than to any other.
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
MODULES DETAILS
1-PASS MODULE
LEAST COMPLEX LOWEST DENSITY WEAKEST STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES $10
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2-PASS MODULE
MEDIUM COMPLEX MEDIUM DENSITY AVERAGE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES $15
3-PASS MODULE
GREATEST COMPLEX GREATEST DENSITY MOST MATERIAL USE AVERAGE STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES $25
3D-PRINT NODE AND CAP MOLD
POUR MOLDS
NODE ORIENTATION DURING PRINTING IS DETERMINED BY LIMITATIONS OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING PRINTING I.E. LIMITED OVERHANGS
WE USE A SILICON MOLD-MAKING RUBBER TO CAST A MOLD NEGATIVE OF EACH NODE.
TIP-TO-TIP CONNECTION INTERSECTION OF 6 MODULES
VERTEX-TO-VERTEX CONNECTION INTERSECTION OF 4 MODULES
2-PASS MODULE CONNECTOR DETAIL
REMOVE MOLDS
POUR CONCRETE AND PLACE CAP
THE RUBBER IS FLEXIBLE, YET STRONG, WHICH EASES THE REMOVAL OF THE MOLD.
THE CAP USES THE ALIGNMENT KEYS TO ENSURE ITS RECEPTOR IS IN THE CORRECT POSITION.
SNIP-FIT CONNECTION DETAIL
FINISHED NODES THE FINISHED PRODUCT IS A CONCRETE NODE WITH VOIDS AT SPECIFIC LOCATIONS, READY TO RECEIVE SILICONE TUBING AND ACRYLIC ROD
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
PERSPECTIVE ELEVATION The perspective Elevation shows the structural massing strategies. The higher the interior force, the denser the massing grid.
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ELEVATION
ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
PERSPECTIVE PLAN
The perspective plan shows the basic massing strategies. The grid is composed by three “clusters” which also works as the structural system.
PLAN
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ALGORITHMIC ASSEMBLIES
INSTALLATION PHOTO
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META MASS HOUSING
Design Date: Fall 2015 Related Course: Core Design Studio Instructor: Catalina Freixas Project type: Public Housing
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META MASS HOUSING Public Housing
The massive housing project a housing project for fifty families‘ housing, located in the Buenos Aires. The project site is given to a team of three, each work on designated site and three designs are adjacent to each other.
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FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FOURTH FLOOR PLAN
SITE PLAN
NORTH ELEVATION
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INNER CORRIDOR
PUBLIC BALCONY PUBLIC BALCONY
The different extrusion of each room make the inner corridor dynamic and complex, which also create so many interesting spaces along side the corridor like inner indoor garden and public balcony. INNER CORRIDOR 31
The east side is the “front” side of my building. Also East side have the strongest sun light. So the design of the east side is fully utilizing the incoming sunlight. The opening of the housing, the orientation of the corridor follow the sunlights.
EAST SIDE HOUSING HOUSING UNITS
CORRIDOR SPACE
EAST SIDE CORRIDOR
EAST SIDE PLAN DETAIL
EAST ELEVATION
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DUPLEX HOUSING
Design Date: Spring 2015 Related Course: Core Design Studio Instructor: Sungho Kim Project type: Residential Housing
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DUPLEX HOUSING Residential Housing
The duplex housing project is first year studio project located in St. Louis. The building is located in between two residential buildings, which made the project long and narrow like tunnel.
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MODEL PHOTOS
CONCEPTUAL MODEL 1
CONCEPTUAL MODEL 3
CONCEPTUAL MODEL 2
The inspiration of this project came from telescope. When we see through telescope, light from different direction merge into one point, and same thing happens to my conceptual model 1. Lights from different direction pass through the “tube” and merge and divide at some place.
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CONCEPTUAL MODELS
FIRST FLOOR TUBE SECOND FLOOR TUBE 1 SECOND FLOOR TUBE 2
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SPACE DIAGRAM
FRONT ELEVATION
First floor and second floor follow different “tube” paths. First floor is a linear “tube” and second floor is a more “dynamic tube”.
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
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