ARCHITECTURE POLFOLIO
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SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY B . A R C H 2 0 1 6
FANG FAN
I N F O R M AT I O N Date of bir th: 20/8/1992 Nationality: China (U.S. permanent resident)
E D U C AT I O N Syracuse University Bachelor of Architecture 2011-2016 Dean’s List D e s i g n G PA : 3 . 8 3
SKILLS F A B R I C AT I O N Model Crafting 3D-Print, Laser Cut, CNC Mill,Wood Shop D I G I TA L 3 D R h i n o c e r o s , V- R a y, R e v i t , S k e t c h U p 8 , T- S p l i n e , M u d b o x , Maya , Grasshopper (Experience) D I G I TA L 2 D A u t o C A D , P h o t o s h o p , I l l u s t r a t o r, I n D e s i g n , S k e t c h
C O N TA C T Address: 803 Comstock ave , Syracuse, NY Phone:315 -396 8640 E m a i l : f a f a n @ s y r. e d u
SELECTED WORKS
01 Line and City C u l t u r e C e n t e r n e x t t o Ta i p e i R a i l w a y
02 Prototype Airport Very Fast Airpor t Prototype Design
03 Form Typology Hybrides Architectural Institution next to Highline,NY
04 Excavating Boundary M u s e u m a t G r a m e rc y Pa r k , N Y
05 Model Making and Drawings Samples
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LINE AND CITY PROGRAM Culture Center LO C AT I O N Ta i p e i r a i l w a y TYPE 3 rd Ye a r V i s i t i n g c r i t i c p ro g r a m S p r i n g 2 0 1 4 INSTRUCTOR Dwayne Oyler & Jenny Wu Work in collaboration with Eujean Cheong
Lines exists in nearly every from in the city , cities like Taipei are entities driven by various forces and pressures. This project is interested in investigating the urban forces of Taipei on multiple scales , developing an approach that negotiate the urban elements with Architect’s influence. Assuming that a city can be tested and controlled in the formation of small scale conceptual idea, the design is aiming at binding the design work at larger urban fabric. The existing structure of the Taipei Train Depot is currently separating north and south part of the city. Conceived by graphical line drawing initiative, the new cultural center proposes the creation of fluid pathway through the site for efficient circulation and urban mediation. The programmatic volumes are situated relating to the abstraction of the pathway contours. Each volume of the cultural center receives transparent pressure from existing Train Depot volume. New and old do not touch each other, but implications are made on composition and texture of the building form and façade. Volumes consist of performing center, theater, and concert hall, along with underground commercial promenade. With new landscape that responds to the shaping of the massing of the new building, volumes are spread throughout the site and allow people to circulate through industrial building remnants. Proportional qualities of the landscape suggest the major building is on the center that has the main performing center and the others supporting the main program mass. The three distinctive programmatic volumes are constructed of individual materialistic approach: concrete, steel, wood. Through the formation of each volume with different material and structural builds, the singular formal language is further advanced in sensible qualities of various purposes of the cultural center.
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Line work site drawings The two drawings propose an abstract reading of the site only through the two-dimensional lines. The existing structure of the Taipei Train Depot is currently separating north and south part of the city, this fact is conceived by graphical line drawings. The project proposes the creation of fluid pathway through the site for efficient circulation and urban mediation.
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Volume under pressure of lines The study model is in search of a more integral approach to the making of the liner system and volumetric enclosures.
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1/8� Physical Sectional Model The model was made in piece by 3D print machine, structures and detail elements are assembled by hand.
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Interior Renderings 06
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P R O T O T Y P E A I R P O RT PROGRAM Very Fast Airpor t LO C AT I O N Site-less TYPE NYC Summer Program 2014 INSTRUCTOR Nanako Umemoto Work in collaboration with Eujean Cheong
The project explores the design of Low-Cost Airports, it suggests an alternate set of architectural consequences for the contemporary airport. The prototype is developed by a set of volume studies , using modular form to create sophisticated models that celebrate the both volume and void itself. As a possible futures for the architecture of the airport. The project is considered very close to groundlessness, may be redeemed in their shameless embrace of the artificial and the synthetic. It focus on the molecular because it is artificial, experimental unburdened from traditional methods, seeking new effects through a rigorous orchestration of sensory experience by pushing the envelope of material effects.
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1/80� 3D Print model 08
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BRANCHING
MAIN STRUCTURE
CIRCULATION TO GATE / DEPARTURE
CIRCULATION TO EXIT / ARRIVAL
Study model The initial form of the airport is examed and developed from the combination of various sizes of bottles, each bottle has either bottom or top trimed and glued onto the other one. The wire defines the framing of the new volume.
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Study model Each piece of paper is measured and cut by hand and then pasted onto the plastic bottles. This approach helps to create a new types of material effects of the envelope, breaking away from traditional methods.
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Space frame in Section Joints , enclosure details
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Ticketing / baggage claim
Entrance/Exit
Exhibition
Security
Departure/Arrival gate Immigration
Lounge
Cafe
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Plans
PERFORATED ALUMINUM SHEETS
GLASS AND INSULATION
STEEL PANEL /JOINTS MERO SPACE-FRAME STRUCTURE (Steel tube-and-nodes system )
INTERIOR ALUMINUM PANELS
Enclosure System
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Detail Envelope model
Renderings
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F O R M T Y P O LO G Y H Y B R I D S PROGRAM Architecture Institution LO C AT I O N High-line,NY TYPE 3 rd Ye a r P ro j e c t F a l l 2 0 1 3 INSTRUCTOR Kyle Miller
The project is interested in the idea to develop new architectural�design models and form types�, and to investigate new dynamic relationships between various design components and how they formulate a plausible architectural result. The assigned building program is a Institution for Architecture teaching and exhibition. This project is about creating a building form that engages its context through loose figural associations and dramatic volumetric propositions enabled by structurally expressive cantilevered spaces. The project combines characteristics associated with strong figural forms and buildings that are considered tectonically (structurally) expressive. The superimposition of two formal typologies creates interior spaces for the program that expose the strategy of collage via hybridization. Visually, the project is trying to build a form of multiple loose figural association, allowing multiple readings for the individual viewer.
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Physical form model 1/8� 22
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Physical sectional model 1/8�
Renderings
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EXCAVATING BOUNDARY PROGRAM Museum LO C AT I O N G r a m e rc y Pa r k , N Y TYPE 2 rd Ye a r P ro j e c t S p r i n g 2 0 1 3 INSTRUCTOR J o h n Lo t t
The project investigates the tensioning between natural and the built environment. With the population rise of New York city, those privately owned public spaces has gathered a lot of attention. In case of Gramercy park, humans and nature are separated by the iron fencing, only those who have the key can access and enjoy. The project introduces a way that allow the scenery of the park to be visually accessible by the public, and create a new set of dramatic public spaces along the park which serves to stimulate a dialogue between the individual, the park and the city.
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Ideas
Boundary
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Skywalk as extension of the sidewalk for pedestr view of the garden from higher level, meanwhile public space that is more safety and comfortable
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Change the original fencing(wrought iron) to a m environental friendly surface to attract pedestrai gather) and see the inside of garden in a differen
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PUBLIC Ground light chair outside the garden provide a rest, balancing the focus inside and outside.
Relationship between inside and outside
An issue of Gramercy Park Gramercy Park is located in historical districts , one of the small fenced private park in New York city . the laying out of Gramercy Park represents one of the earliest attempts in this country at ‘City Planning’ and it remain unchanged for eighty years. Only those who lives in the Neighborhood has the access to the Park. The diagram illustrates the public and social condition around the park and the neighborhood.
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Excavating the site The private park is defined and surround by 7 feet tall iron fencings , which block the scenery from inside. The approach is unrealistic but can ideally solve the problem and meanwhile create a new set of public space along the park.
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Tunnel Tunnel
Museum-Main Exhibition u eu n n u eu Museum-Cafe
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Exploded axon Space cut away from X,Y and Z direction, creating a three dimensional space under the boundary of park.
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Sections cutting through the park The excavated space is exposed to the monolithic skins ,create a museum that exhibit the earthy texture.
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Plan
Plan
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Renderings
Physical models 1/8�
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PHYSICAL MODEL&DRAWING SAMPLES
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SPECULATIVE REALISM | Fall 2014 TECHNIQUE [ Hand Craft , Spay Paint , Hot Glue] The Nutrition bulb is a full scale model that can be installed in the water. This element will be used in the floating gardens in the future to maintain the urban green area . Equipped with next generational nutrition absorb electronics and transmission monitors, the plants are able to use the nutrition that is transformed from the sea mineral.
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REST STOP | Fall 2012 TECHNIQUE [ Hand Craft , Glue] A rest stop design along highway I91 in Montana
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FACADE | Spring 2012 TECHNIQUE [ wood-shop , sewing] A facade study model showing the idea of skull and skin
W o r k i n c o l l a b o r a t i o n w i t h Z h e n q i a n h u i To n g & C h e n q i a o z h i Z h o u
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REST STOP |Spring 2012 TECHNIQUE [ Hand Craft , Glue] First Year design project :Connected isolation.
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FIGURES | Fall 2013 TECHNIQUE [ Wood-shop] A set of Abstracted Figural design
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Work in collaboration with Xiao Han
ISLAND | Fall 2013 TECHNIQUE [ CNC MILL] SOFTWARE [ Grasshopper ] Digital Fabrication
Work in collaboration with Xiao Han & Qiuchen Li
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MODULAR DESIGN | Fall 2013 TECHNIQUE [ Laser cut and Folding] SOFTWARE [ Grasshopper ] Digital Fabrication
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Work in collaboration with Xiao Han & Qiuchen Li
FRAMING AND SKIN | Fall 2013
TECHNIQUE [Laser cut and 3D Printing] SOFTWARE [ Grasshopper ] Digital Fabrication Work in collaboration with Xiao Han & Qiuchen Li
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PILES OF DEER | Fall 2013
TECHNIQUE [ Laser cut and Folding] SOFTWARE [T-Spline] Digital Fabrication
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Work in collaboration with Xiao Han & Qiuchen Li
SPECULATIVE REALISM | Fall 2014 TECHNIQUE [ Hand Drawing and Photoshop] Hybrid drawing
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Thank you for consideration Fang Fan Syracuse University Bachelor of Architecture Phone:315 -396 8640 E m a i l : f a f a n @ s y r. e d u