PORTFOLIO 2013 - 2017
Yun Dai
Yun Dai Selected Works 2017.11
01 Collection of Spaces New Archive for TU Delft Delft | 2017 02 Gaps Van Eyke Print Workshop Rotterdam | 2016 03 The Stage Culture and Art Center Nanjing | 2013 04 Round Tour Botanical Museum for Children Nanjing | 2013 05 Urban Arcupuncture Strategy Research on Community Renewal Nanjing | 2014
01 COLLECTION OF SPACES NEW ARCHIVE FOR TU DELFT Delft Msc 3/4 Graduation Design 2016.10 - 2017.5
In the project TU Delft archive, the university will make its appearance through the new archive which is situated in Delft’s historical center. This new archive explores the meaning and position of the archive as urban institution - how the archive relates itself to the university collections, the expertise and the city public life. Inspired by the Dutch interior painting by Emmanuel de Witte, a room by room sequence is planned, intergrating urban fabric and connecting the project to the city. This sequence also invites residents from the city Delft to expolore the inner building, introducing the TU Delft collection archive which locates in the middle of the sequence, to the visitors.
Site Plan The site locates in Delft center between two important canals. The project tries to connect these canals, and at same time integrates the urban fabric.
TU DELFT ARCHIVE
Entrance A sequence of doors with different scales are arranged along a line. From each entrance, visitors could see the other canal through these doors.
Room Sequence 1. Collection exhibition hall/ 2.Archive of TU Delft collections/ 3. Display room of collections/ 4. Cafe
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Collection of Collection Spaces The scale, light, structure and material of each rooms change along the sequence, impressing visitors with rich experience. This project is an archive of TU Delft collections, a collection of collection spaces.
Order and Density of Objects In the archive, the strong ordered and high dense storing form immerse visitors in the knowledge and expertise created. By exhibiting collections in this ordered and dense form, the archive reveals the university expertise to the pubic.
Archive Dimension In order to keep the feeling of high density, dimension between each archive column is based on the minimun size and interspace for exhibiting objects on collection shelves .
Roof: Bitumen roofing felt 20 mm Thermal insulation, 2 layers laid cross-wise 2 x 150 mm Concrete floor 150mm
Floor: Floor finish 10 mm Sound insulation 10mm Concrete floor 130mm Ceiling 120mm
Wall: Concrete 100 mm Interspace 20mm Insulation 140mm Steel beam 50mm Concrete 400mm
Facade Detail
Material With modest and controlled interior colors, the steel construction system and concrete one works together as the background for collections exhibiting themselves to the city.
02 GAPS VAN EYCK PRINT WORKSHOP Rotterdam Msc 1 Studio Design 2015.10 - 2016.1
Van Eyck Academy plans to build a print workshop in Rotterdam. This workshop provides print equitments and education programs, helping students develop their research. Besides, in order to support the operation of workshop, it also needs to contain exhibition, shop and cafe to attract citizens. The site locates in the inner side of a block, surrounded by the backyards of residential houses. It connects the city though two gaps. Under this condition, the project would focus on the questions of gaps: what the workshop should look like from the city through these two gaps, how people enter the workshop though the urban gaps and what they would experience.
Gaps The site locates in the inner side of a block, hidden between the backyards of residential houses. The only connection to the city are two gaps.
Entrances Gaps are filled up by two entrances of the workshop, introducing the inner courtyard and print room to visitors. The wood material contrasts its surrounding brick buildings.
The Courtyard The courtyard is a transition between the city and the workshop. With the opening facades, it could also be seen as an extension of indoor program.
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Plan Public: 1.Report room/ 2.Café/ 3.Shop/ 4.Exhibition room/ 5. Project room Private: 6.Print room/ 7. Silk screen room/ 8. Dark room/9. Drying room/ 10.Wet room/ 11.Workshop room/ 12.Office
The Passages The circulation passages also accommodate spontaneous activities, such as informal discussion and presentation between peers.
03 THE STAGE CULTURE AND ART CENTER Nanjing Bachelor Studio Design 2013.4 - 2013.6
The government plan to build a new provincial culture and art center at Changjiang Road as an important component of Nanjing's cultural axis. This project aims to not only meet the formal performance request from the government, but also devote a high quality public space to the citizens. Based on the research, because of the limited performance plan, the utilization of grand theater in the culture center is insufficient. In the project, the stage is released from this serious governmental theater, opening itself to the outsde public. The double side opened stage makes full use of the theater facilities, and also perfectly balances the government and the public.
Site The project is located at Changjiang Road surrounded by many important cultural buildings, like provincial library and art museum.This place is also famous for the leisure blocks which contains night clubs, restaurants and cinemas.
Amount of Visitors during Day and Night More people visit Changjiang Road and the provincal cultural buildings in the daytime while Beiting Street and the nearby leisure blocks attract more people at night.
Inside - Day Theatre
Outside - Night Theatre
Two-side Opened Theatre More people gather on the south part of the site in daytime and move to the north at night. So, the stage opens to the south auditorium during the day and if there are no normal performance, it opens to the north to create an outdoor theater for citizen.
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Square A square is planned on the north of the site as a place for temporary openair theater, which shares the backstage and facilities with the indoor one.
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parking
theatre hall
experimental theatre
rehearsal room
Public Circulation Sequence Various public programs - theatres, gallery and rehearsal rooms sparical up in the building around the square.
Outdoor Theatre The cultural center square provids space for openair concert and movies, also stimulats spontaneous performance and square dance.
Âą0.000m Plan
THEATRE 01.main stage 02.right stage 03.left stage 04.back stage 05.orchestra pit 06.make up 07.bathroom 08.wardrobe
09.graphic 10.painting room 11.instruments store 12.equipment store 13.entrance hall 14.ticket 15.lounge 16.auditorium 17.lounge hall
18.light control room 19.projection booth 20.sound control room OFFICE 21.office 22.reception room 23.president room 24.meeting room 25.guard room
OTHER 26.shop 27.restaurant 28.gallery LOFT 29.main rehearsal room 30.small rehearsal room 31.band rehearsal room 32.recording studio
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3.550m Plan
8.950m Plan
Solar Radiation
Pixelation
Mental Louvers
Louvers-Facade System ECOTECT is used to calculate the surface solar radiation, and then the result is pixlated into black and white.The color gradation demostrates the amount of solar radiation absorbed by the surface. The color is lighter if the amount is larger. The color gradation is divided into 6 parts and each part corresponds to a kind of louver with appropriate opening degree.
Facade Detail The outside is consisted of a netlike metal structure and varied louvers. The diamond-shaped diagrid is comprised of 6 different louvers that allow for varying degrees.
04 ROUND TOUR BOTANICAL MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN Nanjing Bachelor Studio Design 2012.11- 2013.1
Children's Botanical Museum is a design aiming at a special group of people — children. So, in the project, children's psychology and behavior should be considered, as well as the needs of space scale and interactive environment. Based on the theroy form Mitsuru Senda, freedom and repeatation are essential for children's play space design. From the theory, the museum program is divided into 2 parts: the upper level for children and their guardian, the lower level for children's independenct exploration. Also, a head-tail connected route is planned between exhibition halls. The endless circular visiting flow stimulates children's exploring desire, and consume their superfluous energy at the same time.
Site Plan The site of the project is located on a slope in Zongshan Botanical Garden and surrounded by a pond and groves, which provide a high-quality scenery for the museum.
Abstract
Wood Louvers
Printed Glass
Vertical Pattern Surrounding fir forest is abstracted into a vertical pattern. In facade design, this pattern is represented by wood louvers and printed glass according to the requirements for atmosphere and light in different level.
Elevations The vertical pattern of wood louvers and printed glass echo the surrounding fir forest.
Roof & Envelope Fir wood louvers are used to creating a highquality indoor light environment
Entrance Level Programs which need the participation of adults
Waiting Area The intersection of audlts' and children's flow
Exit Level Programs which can be explored independently by children
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Audlts' and Children's Flow The flows of children and adults are independent of each other but have a cross point. Adults can go straight to this waiting point without the unnecessary visit to the exhibition. This point is also the end of the children’s flow, as well as the start of their revisit.
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Plans & Programs Âą0.00 m Entrance Level: 1.Lobby/ 2.Office/ 3.Information desk/ 4.Multifunction room/ 5.CafĂŠ/ 6.Storage/ -4.800 Exit Level: 7.Waiting area/ 8.Exhibition hall/ 9.Interactive exhibition hall/ 10.Shop/ 11.Temporary exhibition
05 URBAN ARCUPUNCTURE STRATEGY RESEARCH ON COMMUNITY RENEWAL Nanjing Bachelor Studio Research Report and Design 2013.11- 2014.1
The site locates in Danfeng Street with communities of varied construction time, resulting in a complex crowded situation. Now, the site is facing a big challenge that these old communities can not meet the growing needs from the residents anymore.
This research is trying to find a proper communities renewal strategy by combing and reorganzing the existing public spaces. Based on the research, walls and shacks are removed and a new public space system is implanted, which includes nodes with complementing public programs and a linear belt park connecting them.
Walls - Division
Division?
Communication!
Walls & Communities — Line In 1990, because of the allocated housing policy, residents in a community were from the same work place. So walls were needed to separate each community. In 2010, after decades of house trading, residents in the same community are mixed up.The difference of communities is disappearing and now residents need communication instead of division.
Shacks Remove
Needless Needed Rebuild
Vacant Space
Shacks & Social places — Nodes Public service facilities were not included in the original community planning. So the shacks, as replacements of the insufficient facilities, appear spontaneously and make the public space crowded. Shacks should be removed for vacant space. Some of them where social events happen, such as shops, should be moved back in as a organized public space.
Renewal Strategy 0/ Under present siruation, walls and shacks make public space isolated and crowded in site. 1/ Remove walls and shacks to release enough vacant space for the community renew. 2/ Intergrate vacant spaces. Plan a line - node system in suitable places. 3/ Implant functions in nodes and lines to create community centers and walking system.
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1 Commercial Node 2 Activity Node 3 Cultural Node
Chess Room Tea House
Reading Room
Retail Clinic
Conceptial Master Plan In order to face the needs from different communities, different public service function is implanted in the appropriate nodes, creating several community centers. On the other hand, a belt park replaces the walls between communities.These community centers and the belt park are stacked up into to a master plan.