WORK SAMPLES Shawn Chen
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WATERSIDE HOTEL Wuhan/China/Hospatility/Academic/Individual Work Tutor/Chang Jian Located in the East Lake scenic area of Wuhan City, the Lakeside Club offers busy urban residents a satisfactory place for entertainment and leisure. The site is constructed in a peaceful environment but also adjacent to the downtown. Building the construction site in the lakeside, the design attaches importance to establishing connection with surrounding environment, which creates abundant indoor and outdoor space. Consecutive slope roof stretches to the lakeshore. This produces a hydrophilic environment. The slop reaches to a 4-story height in the northeast side, which can work as an observation deck to view the beauty of the East Lake scenic area.
HONGDU CINEMA CENTER Wuhan/China/Complex/Academic/Individual Work Tutor/Chang Jian Hongdu Screen Culture Creative Industry Center borders commercial district, residential area and school. It provides not only work places for screen culture creative enterprises, but also services for the public. The design emphasizes on building relationships between the center and surrounding public areas. It aims to create an open space that can enable all sorts of people to enjoy various public activities. The construction site is located in the amphitheater. This aims to build the site into an openair performance center. Organized or spontaneous activities can be held outdoors. The main building surrounds the amphitheater. It has openings in south and north sides, and well connects surrounding space including the campus square, open air theater and the public lawn.
PROJECTING EVENTS
From the second project we start to collaborate with Cirque De Solei and the first project requires us to apply our ideas into a theatre with the capacity of 3000 – 5000 peoples. My aim is to design a theatre that has a strong relation to the city and involve the audience into the show.
Academic/Theatre Design/Cirque De Solei Individual Work
Although we have different kinds of ideas at the beginning, we eventually split into two sides – either moving the stages or auditorium, partially or wholly. My idea belongs to the former group. In my project, horizontal motions of stages create a relation between theatre and the street and vertical motions change the space inside the building dramatically. Together, the two kinds of motion can constantly reverse and reform the active space.
DESIGN GENERATION
01 Start with the basic form of theatre. Evevate the theatre to have a bird-eye view in the city.
02 Plug in support rooms to provide space for extra stags, back stages and auditoriums.
03 Locate the auditoriums around the stage to mix the per formance and audience spaclialy.
04 Use the tent language to form the surface.
04 Insert sliding stages. Sliding stages can sliding horizontally, funtion as street show stage, bridge between back stage and main stage, and recombinational elements.
05 Insert elevating stages, which slide vertically and mainly reform the volume of the interior space of the theatre.
07 Open the surface btween two sliding stages and insert bridge stage to create the main street show surface.
08 Create outdoor auditorium for pedestrian.
09 Open the rooftop for after show party.
ANITMATED COMPLEX
DESIGN GENERATION
Academic/Complex/Cirque De Solei Individual Work After the presentation of the theatre with Cirque De Solei, we found it is hard to operate a cirque with the capacity of 5000 audiences in any other place than Las Vegas, with out the huge amount of tourists attracted by casino. So we decide to scale down the project and find a more propitious form for Cirque De Solei. Three sites in Los Angeles are chosen to for researching. We are aim to find an advanced form of cirque for each site based on our space and motion ideas. My site located on Wilshire Blvd, inside a large shopping area. Commercial complex is thought to be the best kind of architecture for this area.
Main Flow
Wide View
Main Road
01 Caculate the volume of the building and take the whole stie as the Nike Town.
02 Insert the curve walls to define space for moving stage. These walls also serve as structure parts.
03 Elevate the first floor to create a huge lobby for events.
04 Elevate the north east part to create the entrance plaza.
05 Open the surface according to the flow of pedestrians.
06 Make two holes on top to introduce sun light into the building.
07 Sink part of the first floor to create a stair way to underground gallery.
08 Plug in the cirque part. It moves along three railways and animate space where it stops.
09 In sert open spaces into the building. These space function as auditorium squire inside the building when events happen.
Most popular shops are on the north est part of the site. Wilshire Blvd also located on north, which indicate to attract more people, these parts of surfaces should be well designed. I choose to open the building to the city to create a visual connection between the complex and people.
MID-EAST RAILWAY MUSEUM
DESIGN STRATEGY
Hulun Buir/China/Museum/Academic/Individual Work March.2012-April.2012/3rd Year Studio Tutor/Chang Jian
I imagine the museum will arouse people's awareness of the value of history. So I took the public nature of the museum into consideration, trying to attract more people to the museum. And in order to coordinate with historical buildings, I use local elements of facades in the design.
To memorize the historical value of the Middle East Railway, local government planned to build a culture experience center. The Middle East Railway Architectural Culture Heritage Experience Pavilion serves as a place for culture collection, exhibition, educational research, and academic exchanges activities. Through those events, the government tries to revitalize Middle East Railway culture. This architectural design emphasizes on the establishment of a relationship between the newly-built structure and the historical one. Besides, the structure is a public building and constructed in the frigid region. Thus, fulfillment of functions and energy issues should also be paid attention to. Adhering to the continuation of the original urban fabric and street faรงade, the design wants to express the sense of harmonious coexistence of the old and new buildings. In addition, the design provides two public squares in the areas with large flow of people. This can not only better serve the public but also attract more visitors.
Open square toward people flow
Connect historical buildings
Connect public square
heat The site located in the north of China. As a significant factor, the climite influnced the design a lot, especially the energy saving problem caused by the low temperature in the winter.
Use elements of local historical buildings
Dispersion structure lose more heat
Joint form has fewer radiating surface
Block-b lobby: entrances of units (up to level 1 or down to bloch-d below), with some children room located on this level and two accessible units for senior tenants with a greenhouse facility
VERTICAL BLOCKS Dec.2012 - Jan.2013/4th Year Housing/Competition/Team Work Tong Qi/Jia Wenzhao/Xiao Chen Design/Diagram Tutor/Libao Chen
Block-d level 1: occupants reach thier units on this level from lobby level below,while some units entered from fire escape stairs.
Our plan procceed from vertical block which extends the normal block on the vertical dimension to build a serial street. 4 floors serve as a unit with some public space for the residents to communicate with each other. In this comfortably snug space, children can disport with their parents lightheartedly. Connected tall space is exist in each units and good for ventilation, while each units are rotated regularly. In the house types, the whole amalgamated dwelling set the sizes according to the household size, it contains 5 house types(single,a couple, the couple with a child, the couple with a child and an aged parent(s)).These 5 types offer different needs for different people,letting them to choose the most suitable and comfortable space for themselves. Inside the room, the vertical spiral stairs make the space more abundant.
level 1
Block-d level 2: which is extended space from units below and some are extended units from level 3 above.
level 3
Perspective of Courtyard
level 2
Block-d level 3: highest level of blocka and most occupants on this level enter from the level above (block- b level lobby)
level 4
Perspective of Apartment
PROGRAMMABLE RANDOM Academic\Fabrication Physical Model Manufication\Video Recording 3 People Team Work This techseminar is about limit. And we think go over limit is a very cool thing. What robot always does id going through a programed path within a specific time and a certain load. So we want to produce something over the path, which means using a very simple path to create something really complex and beautiful.
Trail Pattern Program is always a loop, so we use a pattern like the shape of '8' to leave circulation possibility for the future programable robotic test.
Layers in timeline By presice calculation of motion of the bottle which provided by robot, and time of each motion stop to produce drawing, the robot produces almost the same complex pattern if we keep the length of the line and wight of the bottle. The sixth pattern might be a little due to the accumulated error.
studio a+i
studio a+i
MASTER PLAN
MONTAUK HOUSE
SITE PLAN & SECTION AT POOL DECK
Long Island/New York/House/Professinal Studio A+I
A1-00
This is a house located on Long Island for a couple and their kids. They want to use it as their vocation house during summer and rent it out in the rest of year. The idea of the faรงade is form some ancient Japanese villages. When the surface of wood been burnt in proper way, resin inside wood will come out and form a water proof layer on it. Meanwhile, the wood will have a nature black looking and unique texture. Many Japanese village use this method to building their roofs and walls. We take this method to create the faรงade of the wood cage. Most structure of the house are prefabricated. We find a company in New Hampshire doing this by huge CNC machine with super accuracy. This allows the process of construction to be as short as one month.
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SOUTH ELEVATION
SOUTH ELEVATION
A3-02
Burnt Wood Facade
Prefabricated Units
EAST ELEVATION
WEST ELEVATION
studio a+i
studio a+i
MAIN STAIR DETAILS & TRANSVERSE SECTION
A2-09
studio a+i
PARDO HOUSE Brooklyn/New York/Brown Stone/Professinal Studio A+I This is a brown stone located on Bergen Street, Brooklyn. We proposed to renovate the whole house, add a one story roof extension and a two stories rear yard extension. This is a historical building, which give many restrictions to the design. We proposed to provide a five people family a nice home with enough privacy and living area. The first floor is for the grandfather, who’s an artist. We provide a studio area for him so he can work at home. The second floor is the main floor for the family. The main kitchen and living room located on this floor. The third floor is for the parents. It has a master bedroom and a guest bedroom. The roof is for their two kids. They have their own bedrooms and share the bathroom.
PROPOSED SECTION studio a+i
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PROPOSED SECTION
A-310.01
VIEW OF ORIGINAL ADDITION FROM EYE LEVEL, ONLY CHIMNEY VISIBLE
VIEW OF ORIGINAL ADDITION WITH A FLAT ROOF, MOCK-UP LARGELY VISIBLE
VIEW OF LOWERED ADDITION FROM EYE LEVEL, ADDITION NOT VISIBLE
EXISTING FRONT FACADE EXISTING FRONT FACADE
A-13
EXISTING ELEVATION
PROPOSED FRONT FACADE PROPOSED FRONT FACADE
PROPOSED ELEVATION
EXISTING & PROPOSED EXISTING & P FRONT ELEVATION FRONT ELEV
A-04
A-04
PROPOSED 2ND FLOOR PLAN
PROPOSED 3RD FLOOR PLAN
studio a+i
2ND FL
2ND FL
studio a+i
studio a+i
A-11
PROPOSE CELLAR & GARDEN
PROPOSED 1ST FLOOR PLAN
PROPOSED 4TH FLOOR PLAN