Sichuan Chen Work Samples selected works 2015-2019
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contents . Acedemic Works Figure
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Columbia University domitory
Urban Foyer
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Pittsburg Northshore Automatic Parkinglot
An Enviromental Critique
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ShenZhen Residential tower
Re-appropriated Architecture
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Paris University bio-tech building
New York Google Campus
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Obama Public Library
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Professional Works Reminicent of Alleyway Life
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Speakeasy and Barbecue shop
Internship works
Internship at RNThomsen ARCHITECTURE Internship at MAD architects
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Figure Columnbia university dormitory extension
Roofs as new ground
2017 fall studio instructor Preston Scott Cohen
New ground of historic preservation and students’ life
A reinterpretation with a figurative perspective The interpretation of lateral extrusion links the Mckim’s building with the lineage of post-modern formal readings. Lateral extrusion is a formal operation that accentuate the frontality of the building regardless the overall massing. Also the lateral extrusion foster the reading to buildings as figures in urban and nature context.
The roof is the key element of Mckim’s buildings. Firstly, the ornament on the facades are expressions of verticality of buildings. They represent the reaction of the building to gravity. And the roof is the key elements that complete the tripartite architecture composition. The attic, middle and cellar are irreducible kit of parts for classic buildings. Secondly, the status quo of the roof are functioned as residue of buildings. They are occupied as social space for students. When considering the historical preservation, the roof is the new ground that remarks the essence of the Mckim’s building.
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+104ft +102.8ft
+96.6ft
Window for light
+88.6ft
Perforated panel
+80ft
+94.8ft
+86.8ft
+78.8ft
+70ft
The idea of roof as new ground is not only signifies the functionality and form, but also reflected on the level of tectonic and structure. The structure is following the profile of pitch roof and reinforce the diagram of clear devision between existing building and the extension.
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+86.8ft
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+1240 +150
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Ground floor plan
b a +22100 +20800 +18700 +16400 +14100 +11800 +9500 +7200 +4080
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Urban Foyer
+4180
Pittsburg Northshore Automatic Parkinglot
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2018 fall studio instructor HHF Parking lot in urban context is closely linked with zoning, infrastructure, urban development and technology. With the invention of automatic parking lot, the features of traditional parking lot such as ramp, open facade and roof are eliminated to enhance the efficiency of parking structure. Those features are considered as residues of efficiency oriented device, parking lot. However, as part of built environment, parking structures are not small proportion of urban context. They co-compose with office towers, residential buildings and malls to fabricate the cityscape. Though we can retreat from the battleground by reclaiming the architectural features of parking lot and slow down the evolvement parking lot, it is promising to evolve the fully closed parking lot from a purely parking device to a urban foyer from the perspective of zoning and cityscape.
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Parking platform floor plan
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Parking exit
Tower as symbol
Parking entrace
Stair demarks the gap between human and non human
Spanish Steps
With the extra parking space provided by the new scheme, parking lot cross the street can be re-planned as park to make a green connection to the river front.
Platform
224 parking space 145 parking space 346 parking space
Closed Automatic parking structure +13900 +12480 +10180
car/foot print area
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Oblique cross section
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parking time speed/car
Enhanced traditional parking
Vertical mechanical parking
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0.046
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antomomy of parking
iteration based on traditional parking structure
additional parking struction on empty lot
90 seconds
150 seconds
60 seconds
Vegetation by the shore Parking lot Site
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Water Pipes
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Water Pipes 2 Kitchen smog Exhaust
1 0 m/s Air Velocity
Cool air duct Hot air exhaust/ cross ventalation duct wind from southwest
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wind from southeast
Air duct air movement speed simulation
Cool air flow out of air duct to each room
Unit Section a-a
a Unit plan 90 sqm. unit prototype
Cool air duct embedded in floor-plate
unit cooling prototype
1 Minimize corridors
2 Create unit type variations
1 Bedroom recessing to block sun from west and east
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Unit placement according to solar shading
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3 Livingroom form to block the sun for bedrooms
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Wing placement according to solar shading
Evergrande residential tower plan, “butterfly Plan” “蝴蝶平面”
An Environmental Critique ShenZhen Residential Tower Mid-class community 2019 spring studio
Cross ventilation 南北通透
Rotate unit to create views
The aggregation of units of this project does not only follow the efficiency of plan, the major force to form the aggregation is the environmental perspective. The assemblage of unit can prevent the unit from its exposure from sun in the early morning and sunset when sun is low.
instructor Ali Malkawi & Gordon Gill
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August Sun-path The stack effect draw cool air from the ground via the air chimeny
June Sun-path
April Sun-path
Massing Strategy
Facade Strategy
The form of the tower is formed by the force of the regulations of ShenZhen and the needs of market. The tripartite tower itself is a diagram of the regulation. Also the reverse setback of the massing provides additional shading for units beneath the 3 meter overhang.
The facade of the tower react to the context by locate louvers with different density to provide privacy for units close to the urban context and provide better views for units far from the urban village.
The chilled air delivered to each unit via air chimeny Hot air
Evaporation cools the hot air
Trees dehumidifies the chilled air
Cooling Strategy
floor to ceiling window generic window
The louver is designed according to the surface angule of April
Site model 1:1000
floor to ceiling window
Tower & Site model 1:300
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Re-appropriated Architecture Paris University Bio-tech Building 2017 summer thesis instructor David Ruy I designed a university building in southeast Paris. The actual site and program is not that important. I used this site and program as a vehicle to explore the possibility of reversing the process of design and start with a hypothetical photograph of the design after it is built (maybe fake photograph is a better way to say it). I assembled a small collection of photographic fragments of other university buildings and tagged them with keywords based on my reading of their qualities. These image fragments were then seamlessly collages together--scrubbing off whatever remaining trace of the original. I want produce a strange combination of both the familiar and unfamiliar in the viewer. The hard part of this project was to then move backwards from the final to the beginning, reconstructing the rest of the building. So much of this is subjective--there is nothing scientific about what I have done. It is an authored work. I had to make choices and would have difficulty defending all of them. But I am happy that it was this way because all I wanted to do was see if there could be another way to author architecture today.
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Google Campus New York Renovation Spring 2018 studio Instructor: Patrick Schumacher The site of Google campus is in New York. It is a building that occupied a whole block. The difficulty we confronted is that the building consists of flat spaces. Most part of the building would not have natural light. However, we see it as an opportunity to compose a heterotopia for the age of planetary computation. The Google campus will be a mute monster in the city. Architecture faรงade lost its ability to communicate with urban context. And the faรงade also lost its ability to be an interface that exchanges content between architecture and the city. The whole campus is more likely closely connected with the Google campus in California. Buildings are remotely connected via internet and cloud. The activities of people in the building are closely related to each other and eventually, the program of each floor will be correlated with buildings
Google is trying to achieve a flat organization. Sadly, physical constrains from architecture hold them back. Here the vortex composition evolved from the folds composition inherits the characteristic of the folds that has an unclear relationship among parts. The folds, without clear start and end, eliminate hierarchy in the composition. However, when apply to architecture is it impossible for human to circulate within structure that without beginning and end. So we come up with the vortex composition that the center of each vortex establishing hierarchy but the boundary between each vortex is not clear.
hundreds of miles away.
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Obama Public Library Fall 2015
Instructor: Marcelo Spina Collaborate with Issy Yi
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Rminicence of Alleyway life Interior Design
Commision Status: under construction The challenge of the practice is to compose a structure which can synthesize beauty, efficiency and profitability. The basis of any innovation in architecture is the commercial feasibility and even an enhancement of the feasibility. In this project, the aesthetics of informality is nostalgia to collective memory of dense urban life. It also provide a high efficient space that can contain more program and more seats than ordinary shops and restaurants. The space of informal also foster an rethinking of architectural space in the global south.
Axon of Pragram and circulation
1135mm 3015mm
3075mm
Tension members
3015mm
4010mm 2195mm 2075mm
Cmpression members
2075mm
Axon of structure 11 13
2014 internship at MAD & 2016 internship at RNThomsen ARCHITECTURE
The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Zijian Li Art Museum MALI Contemporary wing
Rminicence of Alleyway life
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