"Our design for the new Shore Club builds upon the rich history of Miami Beach's exuberant modernism and Art Deco allure while also connecting to this iconic waterfront location."
RAMSA Professional Work June 2022 - Novemember 2023
"Our design for the new Shore Club builds upon the rich history of Miami Beach's exuberant modernism and Art Deco allure while also connecting to this iconic waterfront location."
RAMSA Professional Work June 2022 - Novemember 2023
THE LANDMARDWITHTHE MOSTHEIGHTSINNANTONG, JIANGSU,CHINA.(CONSTRUCTIONINPROGRESS,RHINO)
PROFESSIONALWORK
This major project went through my previous professional career, the tallest building in a Tier 4 city in China. Initially, the project was suspended due to a design problem. The central conflict in this project is among client, government, and design. The government would like the building to be the landmark of Nantong, which indicates the building to be different on the exterior facade. On the other hand, the client would like to profit from this project by defining it as a high-end residential building since the domestic residential market can only be sold in the form of a high-end residence. In that case, I proposed an integrated commercial function on the lower level to form an exciting TOD typology and high-end residential on the higher level with a large scale atrium with six shared platforms with different tasks throughout the atrium. Moreover, an exclusive club is arranged at the top of the building, accessible to the residence and the club members. Speaking of residential and commercial, proposed an atypical entrance for the residence.Onthesouthside,throughalongescalator,theresidencecanaccessagranddomehall.
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The commercialmainly occupies the north side of the groundfloor since it isdirectly connected tothe subway systemboth on the ground andunder the ground. Sincetheblockhas a smallpodium,andtheregulationindicatesno facilitieson the walkway, thecooling tower willbe situatedon the 4th floor to makethegroundcleaner.Thesouthsideisdesignedastheresidentialentrance,withacantileveredcanopytocreateawelcomingenvironment.
Thewholearchitectureisgeneratedthrougharelativelysimpleprocedurethatusesacoupleof different ellipsoidstoshapethemassingandcreateentrances,atrium,facadeidentity,rooftop,andlobby.
[Atrium] [Commercial]
[Lobby] [Rooftop]
[South Facade]
[West&East Entrance] [North Facade]
[South Entrance]
The atrium is the production of the idea of being unique. The atrium serves the residents with different functions, such as recreation, business, etc. Moreover, the north entrance is designed as the commercial concentration to become a TOD typology project. The south entrance becomes the
Different sizes of spheres form the entire building. Starting from the bottom on the north side is the commercial dome, whichlures pedestrians from the street and thesubway systemto come inside thebuilding.On the thirdfloor,the somewhatmore giant whitedome is theresidentiallobby.Residents can access the hall through the south entrance. The space that organizes the residentialis a vast atrium with variousplatforms to separate the residentialinto severalparts.Eachforumhasanenormoustrusssystemtosupportitself,creatingauniquestructuraldesign.
Having a secret can feel exhausting. In fact, it is exhausting. We want to confide and get the secrets off our chests, but we also want to protect ourselves and our relationships. That conflict is what wears us down.Soa box for secret telling isdesigned at the centerof New York City - Bryant Park, Your figure will beblurdbythespecial facade,andyour voicewill be blended with others, so nobody will knowyoutrue identity. And if you just want to hear others secrets, you can just walk into the central courtyard, and listentoothersdeepestsecrets...
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50%TransparentTube FrostedGlass CourtYard
Step1:The most innerLayer, court yardfor listening toothers'secrests.Alsoisthe edntrance to the staircase. After you went on the staircases, you can go into the centralcoreforchoosingyournextstep.
Step 2: The 3rd layer is made of flat frosted glass. And on each side of the layer, thereisabench,fortheparticipantstotelltheirsecrets.Andtheportionof glassby the bench is clear, meanwhile there is a speaker and a recorder which will enlarge your voice to the courtyard, and also record it as a track that will be blended into themixtapeof theloopplaying.
Step 3: The 2nd layer is made of 50% transparent cylinders. And this layer is designedforpeopletoestablishtheirwordsandmentalityforsecrettelling.
Step 4: The 1st layer is made of transparent cylinders to distort the image of participants,andalsotoletthepeoplefromoutsideseethemovingfigureinside.
Step 5, 6: Together, they form the box of secrets, and these layers have different effectsaccordingtothesunlightingsituationduringtheday.
[Combined]
[Plan - 25'5'']
[Plan - 65'5'']
[Stair System]
[Section - Looking From Ease]
REALAFFORDABLEHOUSINGPROPOSAL INBRADHURST,HARLEM
The major viaduct over 155th street with Macombs Dam Bridge establishes an important connections between Upper Manhattan and the Yankee stadium centered recreation infrastructures in the Bronx.
Our project seeks to connect the larger scale to neighborhood walkability, using the post office site as an important intersection between modes. A more friendly and lively pedestrian experience is generated by the introduction of optimized walking routes passing through new and preexisted open green spaces on the ground level and bridge linking across the Harlem River Drive. A total amount of 620 affordable housing and market rate units are designed to address the demand for affordable housing in Bradhurst. The program also advocates for enclosed and outdoor commercial spaces and various community service programs, such as after school, co-working and community library, integrated into the residential volumes to further facilitate an involving diversity of urban lifestyle in the neighborhood. These design strategies attempt to elaborate possible solutions for a local dynamicurbannarrative.Thepost officesite,therefor,eistransformed intoan‘URBANBLENDER’.
[Site Plan ]
[Step 1 ]
Arrange different programs along the west-east direction to enable the pedestrian a better experience. Meanwhile the waterfront area is more connected to thenorthgreenspacewithanunexpectedsurprise.
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To deal with the topography in the area, several transportation tunnels are introduced into the site, and a centered gallery is designed as the main hub. Several differentsizedgreenspacesstartingtoformasystem.
[Step 3 ]
A Total 660 units with different layouts, different family structure are assembling this 'Social Blender'. In order to keep the residential part private, the housing is designed at the top with various function on the bottom. These different functions are orgnized by two courtyards, one is public, the other is rather private. Moreover, a connction hub is arranged at the center of the layout which functions not only as transportation towards the north of the viaduct, but also the gallery of the community. Withquite amount of pedestrian going through the hub, it has the potential to become the mostimportantconnectioninthearea.
Floor Plan ]
The top-level floor plan is highly diversified since the transformation of the facade is creating a setback. All units are different from each other to create a floor with varying structures of family that isorganized by a single corridor with a glass facade towardsthe sky garden on the lower level, which provides residentswith a pleasant landscape.
[1] Shared Units: used by all residents
[2] Studio A: for a family with 1-2 members
[3] 2 Bedroom:for a family with 3-4members
[4] 2 Bedroom A: for a family with 3-4members
[5] Studio B: for a family with 1-2 members
[6] 1 Bedroom:for a family with 2-3members
[7] Work-Living Studio: provide Bradhurst residents with the option to work from home, a response to the currentglobalizedpandemic
[Top
PRE-REVOLUTIONRESIDENTIALRECONSTRUCTION
"Qi Fa" Neighborhood was created during aparticular history segment - "The Big Leap" in the 1960s. At that time, China was trying to uprise quickly so that we imitate Soviet collectivism and their house form. The neighborhood had developed since. During the 1980s, more residentials were built indifference under the background of China's economic boost, and a couple of more in the 2000s. Nowadays, the neighborhood is occupied mainly by landlords and renters. In the 1970s, collectivism was at its prime; acquaintance society, a by-product of collectivism, was brewed secretly. Surprisingly, the mechanism of shadow play matches the social form at that time, which was very popular in the local area. The combination of shadow play and the collectivist background will retell this magical place's story in the form of architecture and human activities.
Strategy 1: Collectivism & Shadow Play
The specific society and neighborhood form is created under the influence of collectivism socialism, which breeds the potential Aquantence Society
The relationship is similar to the traditional Chinese art - Shadow Play, the combination of shadow play and Soviet From architecture vividly tells the story of this special site. Projection of different period are as follow.
Strategy 2: Break the "Grid"
The old Soviet form residential is mostly grid and rectangle, but since the economic reform, the civilian’s need is recombined more and more special need has occurred. In this site. There are actions of remoding the street void space with Abnormal Shape and dynamic objects that indicate the local site’s grid needs to be broken. The method to break the grid is divided into three degrees.
Scale Strategy
Split the neighborhood's major street to activate the inside vibes and commercial potential. Also, the rise of the central street will increase access from the outside to this originally closed block. The z ig-za g shape breaks the rigid grid that was created back to the1960s for collectivism.
House Scale Strategy
Module
3m is a scale extracted from the original architecture as a basic scale of module to reshape the street
Human Scale Strategy
Local civilians began to create self-built space since the original collectivist dorm could not meet the need of their daily life. For example, there is only one kitchen per three dorms, so locals do their chores outside under their selfbuilt room with canvas, threads, trees, and poles. These spaces represent the recombination of people's needs after the end of collectivism. Nowadays, the difference is coming into obvious.
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Typology Catalogue Module Catalogue
The original activity typology exists on the site. I list the total four most active typology, including their composition, space order, and location.
The Basic Module is transformed from the original typology I studied earlier; the scale not only fits the human scale but also fit the original scale of neighboor Step 1 Install the Hinge Joint
Step 2 Remould the Building
Step 3 Assemble the Module
Step 4 Create the Shadow
Ground Floor Plan
Ground Floor is designed for personal seller and pedestrians As the most important street in the neighborhood it is set to be the widest pedestrians road considering the situation of people line up for the snack around the rush hour
2nd Floor Plan
Second Floor is designed for people who would like to grab a bite really quick. This circumstance mostly happen on office group nearby, who prefer food with lower price and a place to social with their co-workers.
3rd Floor Plan
3rd Floor is designed based on the original commercial deli on the first floor, as the ground floor is occupied by snack cart, original food stall is moved to the third floor. Kitchens are arranged in the old Resi to make the upper level more alive. There are two bridge connecting from third level to fourth level.
Top Floor Plan
Roof floor focus on pleasure activity. Since the neighbor is surrounded by high towers, sunlight is hard to gain with the narrow road between buildings, we are trying to lift the activity level to roof top to increase the quality of the old’s life.
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ANCIENTVILLAGERESIDENTIALRECONSTRUCTION
"In the valley, morning sings" originates from one of the eight Gangtou phenomenon, which means in the harvest season, people who live in leisure and affluence sing in the morning. As time goes by, although this scene no longer exists, the optimistic and positive attitude towards life and the rich and harmonious collective lifestyle of people in Gangtou village have been inherited. Based on the consideration of cultural customs, daily activities, and economic benefits of Gangtou village, Huadu, Guangzhou, this design chooses the combination of Cantonese opera performance and tea-drinking activities as the internal driving force of architectural design. The core space of this design is the semi-outdoor sinking theater and the new roof The skeleton continuedandcoiled fromtheroofoftheoriginalbuilding,completingthegradualchangefromtheroof to the wall body, which creates an interesting gathering place for local villagers and tourists, hoping to injectnewvitalityintoGangtouvillagethroughanewinterpretationof traditionalculturalactivities.
Step 1: Define the original site to be a tea house and the vacant sites to be show space and landscape. Build a new roof system based on the old wall tomake theheightsufficientfor two stories sothatbothvacantsites canbe adequatelyviewedfromthenewproposal.
Step 2: Proposea new rooftopfor thewest site to form aconcentratedshow space for the traditional Chinese theatre play. The new rooftop on the north site also forms a backyard to create an open space in the relatively narrow villagealleyforanimplicationof thepotentialnewbuilding.
Step 3: The -1 floor is introduced to the building to make the center stage more engaging. At the same time, the show stage is set between the -1 floor and the ground floor so that pedestrians from the street can also be introducedintotheteahouse.
Step 4: Meanwhile, a second floor is designed with the same agenda. The teahouse isnow operated with two major activities: tea and Chinese theatre. These activities are happeningin three different levels,which gives the village adifferenttypology,acombinationof thenewandtheold.
[Second Floor View]
[B1 Floor View]
[Tea Room View]
[Entrance Street View]
"Cloud & Rain" try to emphasis on reminding the traveller to pay attention to the local context. LouNa is famous for its soft weather that almost half of the year is drizzie day. So that the local architecture uses sloping roof to drain the rain. But since we aim to arrange the traveller to experience that characteristic, we design the roof in a oppsite way that collect the water by the central funnel installation. Rain will follow through central hole and fall down to the watercanal on the ground. The form was inspired by the triditional chinese toy "East, South, West, North". Each part is responsible for a living function. South for living room, North for entrance, East for bedroom, West is for half outdoor space. All structure nodal points are designed with premanufactured structure, nails and screws. The on site assembling process is guided with the simplestinstruction thatcanbehandledbythreestudents
ONSITEWOODHOUSEFORSOLOTRAVELER
Weather - Mountain - Housing Typology
Range from Mid West to Mid East
Diaojiaolou, also known as stilted building, is a traditional residence of Miao, Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Shui, Tujia,etc. There are totally 5 wildly used typologies . Stilted building is designed to fit the local weather which has a lot of rainning days around the year as well as humid environment. The way each typology fits different environment vary from each other according to the varying mountain shape and weather. Moreover, each typology can develop into a housing proto-type of traveller's dwelling. The similarity theyshare makes the form more reasonablle.
Shape Origin
The form tranformation is abstract from local's natural environment - karst landform and local residence. The housing typology in Louna is unique, people try to lift the building from the ground to avoid humid and rainning. We reverse the roof slope to create a funnel so that rain can be collected for the solo traveller to experience the special context.
The form of the house is abstract of triditional Chinese paper art - "Dong, Nan, Xi, Bei" which splits from center into four body with same size. We try to adjust each part for different living function, such as living, sleeping etc. Finally we achieve the goal of balancing different function's area and structure rationality of dwelling.
Shape Transformation
Chongqing Tujia Louna Guilin
Zhangjiajie
Chongqing
Tujia
Louna
Guilin
Zhangjiajie
Rain Sun Cloud
Relationship With Context
"Cloud & Rain" not only emphasize the relationship between the traveller and rainning, it also explores the relationship between architecture and nature context, in this case the cornfield. Louna is rich for its agriculture which is mostly consisted by cornfield, put the architecture on a rather flat mountain corner that covered by cornfield can give traveller a peaceful environment that is middle point between nature and human activity. From "Cloud & Rain" you can see pure nature on one side of the platform and the village on the other which is covered by the roof.
Construction Process
The on site construction process should take several factors into account, for example, number of constructors, local weather, material processing difficulties. Nine steps total are considered to be done. From placing the concrete foundation to pave the bamboo cover, each step aims to take the shortest period for quick build on site.
Step 1: Use short-pedriod and water proof concrete to form the foundation
Step 2: Install the four center columns and tie them to create a center structure.
Step 3: Tie the thread of the four dual columns to center structure .
Step 4: Use the pre-installed structure to fix the four "Y" columns.
Step 5: Install the secondry structure of the architecture to combine column system.
Step 6: Use thin wood strips to fill the ribs for roof and platforms.
Step 7: Install the roof and platforms with wide wood strips and nails.
Step 8: Install the bamboo made walls and water channel which create privacy.
Step 9: Waterproof the entire house to prevent it from frequent raining.
Corner Joint fuses several compelicated joint at corner and also decrease the sharp space feeling for the traveller
"Y" joint spreads from one wood pillar into two bridges. Using inherent insertion of steel board to reinforce joint.
The joint uses triangle joint to reinforce the intensity of three bridges joint here.
Mountain shape component solve the problem of the joint between bridge and pillar
Central Funnel
Corner Joint
"Y" Joint
Bottom Load Joint
Central Pillar Joint
[Structure Joint Catalogue ]
[ Rainning Night View ]
[ Daylight View ]
[ Relation with Context & Roof Material Plan ]
Section aims to discribe the detail of the roof structure and central funnel structure while presenting the relationship between building and environment. Fundation detail articulates that we use several pre-installed components with quick-dry concrete to create a solid foundation for building. Other than component and foundation, the rest of building is made of wood. The tilt angle of the component is
