Portfolio Sichuan Chen selected work 2014-2017
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Appropriated Architecture
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Paris University bio-tech building
Dynamic Structure
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Sci-arc New Compus
Frame Mass and Void
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Obama presidential Library
Dancing Extrusion
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Rservior residence
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Other works
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Spatial color blending
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MALI proposal
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Appropriated Architecture Paris University Bio-tech Building 2017 summer thesis instructor David Ruy
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google image
plan section 2d analysis
hyperthetical photograph
Model give form to image
Image
rendering approaching real
plan
form to architecture
nowadays the avant-gard art and the reality of
architecture agree on one thing. That image is the most important part of argument, aesthetic and power. Image now are no longer only signify meaning that it correlated with but rather bluring the boundary between reality and fiction.
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multi-authorship
3d analysis
discipline
Model
Image
Architecture Image collage Method 1 parts
Kit of parts
Filip Dujardin
Method 2
composition Perspective
Lighting
Color
Clay Lipsky
When collage architectural images, rather than looking at architecture in the image, I tend to look at the image. Architecture is only a part of perspective, color and compostition. On that sense, collage is a process that combining, bluring and matching perspectives and compositions. The appropriated architecture as a result of the image collage synthesize context and other details that support the reality.
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The program has been determinded by the exterior opennings. Certain space need certain types of light consitions. When reverse the process of design by making image before arranging program, the transfarancy of architecture makes the program follows the facade.
1. Gellary 1 2. Gellary 2 3. Cafe 4. outdoor cafe 5. Bio-lab 6. Domitory
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Plan is not only a device to consider the two dememtional program arrangement, but it is also a tool to negociate the program in three dimention. Cores help to align programs in a spatial relationship.
1. Study room 2. Theatre 3. Rasturant 4. Library 5. Bio-lab 6. Domitory
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Dynamic Structure Sci-arc new compus 2016 fall studio instructor John Enright
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Courtyard The commercial booming in art district is transiting art district into a commercial dominate area. Artist can barely afford the rent in art district now. A rasteruarnt have been open for 10 years in art district closed recently only because the rent is too high and the profit is not enough. Consistency in order to connect the sciarc with the public, the massing is lifted to reveal the old SCI-arc building. visually it connect three parties, public in art district los angeles, exsisting SCIarc building and the new SCI-arc extension public and private The CCTV tregic is still vivid in people’s memory especially for me as Chinese. The huge open space is not utilized however it was concealed by fence to seperate public from the national TV station. My strategy is control the access of public to the building and lift the whole building up. So the private institute will not be affected by public and also the ground is embracing public.
Ground and Ground Overlaying courtyard will create multiple public space. The courtyard on ground is physiclly seperating public and private. The couryard above is combine and seperate different couryard. It creates dynamic public spaces.
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office (phase 2)
Gallery
The gound is seperated into diffrent areas that can seperate public public space from private public space.
Cafe
Auditorium
sciarc store
school private public space
Retail
administration
Library
The controled access points to the school create real publicity. Also the hirechy of space are clearly related to the circulation of students, the circulatio of public and the circulation of stuff.
The phase II tower is sitting between the old SCI-arc building and the new SCI-arc building. Every year’s graduation needs space that can only be accessible to graduates and their family. So the space need publicity and privacy at the same time.
automobile entrance
public entrance to school
student entrance and student access to leisure area
The phase II is office building for incubator. As the economic shifting. The relation between education and practice is getting tighter. It is both benefitial to school and the design society. SCI-arc as a avant-garde school consistently is supporting architectural and deisng society with newly trained students who familiar with differnt maedia.
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The section quality of the building is unique. It has multiple diagrams embeded. Circle in the frame diagram is reinterpreted that the frame is above the circle and the circle is also a part of the frame.
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The softly lifted retail is the moment that appealing to people. The building react to the ground in a unique way to connect architecture and human. Each part of the building perfom in the same way.
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Frame Mass and Void Obama presidential library 2015 fall studio instructor Marcelo Spina collaborate with Issy Yi
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The translation betwen mass and frame is a topic that always discussed. There are two variables that can control the performance of matrix of frames.
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The study of frame is leading us to gain the control of frame with three different variables, the desity of frame, the thickness of the frame and the overlapping of different frames.
When the density is high and the thickness is low, the frame is perfom as a cage that suggesting connection between inner space and outer space.
When the desity is high and the thickness is low it suggesting the space inside and it is perform as a object.
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In this project, we not only deal with the dichotomy between mass and frame, but also propose the comflict of mass and void by putting the emphasis on the void between the two masses. The void is framed by the mass but constructed with the device of frames. It not only serves as an public terrace, also provides the viewers with a place for accentuated feelings of monumentality. The frame, on the other hand, is a device used throughout the project to open apertures, regulate interior arrangements, and create focal depth. The frame is also intentionally contrasted with the Chicago grid in the background, opening up an urbanistic discussion.
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Figure Columnbia university domitory extension 2017 fall studio instructor Preston Scott Cohen
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The additions built above the Mckim’s buildings are nested rested and relieving from the new ground, Columbia campus buildings. The lateral extruded blocks are related with each other by the motion embedded in the additions.
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Maxim space avalible for rooms
Seperating commute space from living space by lift the rooms three stes above
Carving out landing space
Shifting the shell to allow structure can be integrated with the existing structure
In the super compacted shell, the domitory need to maximize the utility of the space. However, the condensed building somehow will sacrifice the privacy and publicity of students’ life. On that sense, a few accomdations need to be made.
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The plaza in front of two major libraries in the lower compus though divided by steps and a drive, it is hard for students to occupy. The Plaza provide a space for every-year graduation ceremony but barely efficient to everyday campus life. The new addistions help to reorganize the plaza. Visually attracting students and visitors to move around the plaza.
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Dancing Extrusion Resivior residence 2015 fall studio instructor Margaret Griffin
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Tessellation as a game of pattern helps us understand the role of ratio in geometry.
Escher’s tessellation Fish Embeds ratio, 1:1.414, in the geometry. When color, patterns create illusion of depth. The reason for that is it relates with 45 degree axonometric cube.
I am trying to play with the ratio to create a plan that is revolving to the corner of the center rectangle to embed dynamic in the building
The revolving can be defromed with remapping to created different outcome after being cutted with varias surface
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studies of cutting. Cuttings are not only applied on exterior the same rule also efficient when carving out interior space. the study also discussed how different surface meet or merge together linear cut
concave and convex
Each elecation of study models were treated with different cut to exust the possibility of cuttings and combination of cuttings.
Each elecation of study models were treated with different cut to exust the possibility of cuttings and combination of cuttings.
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convex cut creates layers of continuous wall
convex cuts creates layers of walls
concave cut creates openings, each cut creat
concave cuts creates openings
the inlay layer seal gaps and holes that in shell layer to make it possible to be habitable, and it also provides a oppotunity to reregister the texture
shell layer exploring how cutting would depict a object and control the elements to perform as a architecture
Rounded shape blend elevation and plan together to create a continuous texture.
Inlay layer the inlay layer seal gaps and holes that in shell layer to make it possible to be habitable, and it also provides a oppotunity to reregister the texture
It is a three dementional modual that created with the tow dementional modual in tesselation. It serve as a tool to apply cutting to massing that carving out interior volume.
The interior volume is following a pattern of pin wheel. It creates dynamic space though it only has four space in both first floor and second floor.
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Spatial Color Blending 2016 spring visual studies instructor Andrew Zago collaborate with Issy Yi
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Void blending Different from other color blending mode, the method we testing to blend color and to restore image is more than representation. As a physical representation of image or any other information, the image will constantly changeing when walking around it. The image we see is based on the distance between each layers and it deceid what the porpotion of different colors will bland together.
The new blending mode we discovered is combining all charateristic together. The CMYK and RGB are modualar blending without direction. And the painting stroke has clear motion of artist’s hand. The new blending has both of them.
Oil painting blending
Georges Seurat painting detail
The Seurat painting is drawn with small strokes. But this one is different in a way that some strokes work as pixel of color and some are working as figures. There small flowers are vaguely captured in the figure of real flowers.
Georges Seurat painting detail
Georges Seurat painting detail
Georges Seurat painting detail
Georges Seurat painting detail
CMYK blending
comic book print detail
The CMYK color blendingmodel (process color, four color) is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow and key (black). Though it varies by print house, press operator, press manufacturer, and press run, ink is typically applied in the order of the abbreviation.
RGB blending
RGB LCD screen dispaly detail
The RGB color model is an additive color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors. The name of the model comes from the initials of the three additive primary colors, red, green and blue.
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