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Selected work 2017 - 2021
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+ Prologue Architecture without empathy for the end-users is lifeless, no matter who those end users are. It is the celebration of one's perception and his or her perception of other occupants within the space that activates architecture through its sociological and phenomenological dynamics. The envisioned experience composed through passionated design is what we, the designers, truly yearn for. During my study at Parsons School of Design for a foundation year in BFA, I learned the importance of sensual-oriented design. Later in my study at Pratt Institute School of Architecture and Interior Design Department, I persisted in the principles learned at Parsons and continued exploring and adopting many architectural design methodologies and ideas to manifest envisioned spaces.
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The Boradcasting Box
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Theatre Tower / Cinematic Office ARCH Design Studio 202 | Spring 2019
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Above Water
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Community center / Gymnasium / FEMA Emergency Shelter ARCH Design Studio 302 | Spring 2020
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The Lunar OASIS
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Lunar Habitat / Mock up Model Digital Fabrication NASA X-Hab Studio: " Moon to v| Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
In this portfolio, I would like to give my interpretation of space design at different scales and contexts and the experience-driven design decisions made in these six projects. The project scales range from Extraterrestrial human habitat design to interior furniture design with the same goal of elevating the user experience through space design.
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A “Soundless” House
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Urban Dwelling Townhouse Residence INT Design Studio 301 | Fall 2021
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MOB Ballet Library
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Community Library / Ballet Theatre INT Design Studio 301 | Fall 2021
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Pavilion at High Line
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Space Design with Grasshopper ARCH Applied Computation 2021 | Spring 2021
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The “Broadcasting” crystal A monumental glass tower of cinematics
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Film Production Company Tower ARCH Design Studio 202 Michael Chen Spring 2019 New York, New York
This project is defined by a request to propose a contemporary film production company and theatre tower. My approach is to create a monumental tower for modern movie culture. According to the screening schedule, people from the street would constantly see attending audiences swarming up and down the building. This phenomenon explicitly created through the tower typology and architectural organization establishes a cinematic context at the streetscape scale, setting the pedestrian into this monumental
atmosphere through their visual connection with the tower. The circulation is specifically designed to channel the attendees to spiral on the building's edge, so their movement is visible from the street, enhancing the perceived phenomenon. The film projects onto a twoway screen that blurs images of the movies from the outside. The building is perceived as a semi-transparent glasshouse with the installed fritted glass facade during the daytime. When seen at nighttime, the building becomes a lited glasshouse with light in a gradient
of shades created through different transparency in the fritted glasses facade. The theater rooms are perceived as hanging dark boxes within the structure.
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Within the building, two space typologies are
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use to circulate the building. The other is the theatre space typology, where an enclosed auditorium is set up as black boxes within the whole building. The trussed massing is shifted sideways to make room for vertical circulation. Having stairs located in the area ensures that vertical circulation is exposed and visible to the pedestrians.
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The developed structural strategy allows large areas within the building to be the structure-free area where no additional structural elements need to be introduced. These areas resemble Le Corbusier’s domino house and remove all its necessary columns. This is achieved through a cross stacking of linear trussed massing. The trussed structure pulls the floorplates in stress load within each trussed massing as they are also the ceiling hanged for space below it.
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With the need to design the circulation enhancing the phenomenon of occupants circulating up and down the building, a movie scheduling system is developed. Crowds attending the movies can be seen circulation each half-hour throughout the day. The phenomenon starts at noon when the first movie is scheduled and ceases at 2: 00 AM when the last movie is scheduled.
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To further optimize the designed phenomenon, The facade glazing varies in transparency, drawing the pedestrian’s eye onto the most transparent side, the front side, also the side where blurred images of movies are broadcasted to the street. The gradient is achieved through the density difference in the fritted glass.
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Community center / Gymnasium /FEMA Emergency Shelter ARCH Design Studio 302 Leonard Leung Spring 2020 Far rockaway, Queens, New York Leon Yang
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In an era of climate change, more robust storms have been witnessed worldwide. During the 2012 Hurricane Sandy, a large portion of new york’s coastal area was severely flooded, raising designers’ attention to include consideration of the changing climate context in their design. In this community center project, the FEMA regulation requirement was added to the design criteria. Methods of addressing the potential flooding issues have to be considered, and ways to convert this community center into
an emergency shelter need to be developed. In response to the high flood elevation, the existing ground floor elevation that is 6 ft above sea level is further elevated by 8 ft to surpass the 13 ft requirement. This grand design decision in this project limits the flooding area to only the outdoor sports area while all other indoor programs remain functioning. During non-emergency periods, the community center draws the population from the surrounding community by offering a community-friendly sports center where a
climbing gym, skateboard palace, and basketball court are included.
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Lunar Habitat / Landing Pad NASA X-Hab Studio: "Moon to Mars" Michael Morris / Mark Parsons Fall 2020 - Spring 2021 Shackleton Crator, Moon (Physical Model: Brooklyn, NY) 20 students from 2 consecutive semesters
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This project is a lunar habitat proposal for NASA’s Artemis program. It serves as a trajectory for NASA to use the moon as a jump pad for deep space exploration, ultimately reaching Mars. During the first semester, we researched and investigated the precedents and existing conditions of the moon and made two schematic proposals for a lunar habitat, each with valuable aspects that we adopted to formalize a single project in the second semester. The ideas we brought forward are the 3D printed protective diagrid structure that uses in situ lunar regoliths as the construction material and the pressurized modular habitat assemblage that’s launched and brought from earth. In the second semester, we developed this proposal further by outfitting the interior of the habitat and later built a quarter-scale prototype model. The proposed habitat named the lunar oasis is derived from the concept of the NASA precedent RLSO II(Robotic Lunar Surface Operation 2). The idea is to excavate the perma-frozen regolith inside RLSO’s site Shackleton Crater at the south pole to extract water out of its volatiles. For the RLSO, the water extracted can be used to produce Liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen propellant for future Mars launch missions. For our habitat, it provides the water source for irrigating the hydroponic farms, and it is where the name Lunar Oasis is derived from. The regolith excavated is also used as a construction material through regolith sintering robots printing the diagrid protective layer of the habitat. This protective layer address several threats. These threats include meteorites impacts, radiation exposure, frequent and long-lasting seismic activity with the highest magnitude recorded at 6, and extreme thermal differential that shifts from 120 degrees Celsius to negative -130 degrees Celsius. l ef t si de
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As we researched and investigated the Shackleton crater, we proposed a site location with several requirements. First, a consistent source of solar energy is required. At the Shackleton crater, a large portion of the crater rim is exposed to sunlight most of the year, with its location at the south pole of the moon and the highest solar angle at 4 degrees. This condition provides efficient solar energy for the habitat to remain functioning. Second, a relatively close distance to the ice reserve in the crater is required. Thus an offset distance of 2 km, the optimal length for a current lunar rover to travel, which zones a ring of the desired location around the crater. Third, an area where the terrain slope is closest to flat is also desired for a more efficient habitat construction process. Lastly, a suitable shallow creator needs to be adjacent to the site as these craters are natural lunar dust barriers for a lunar landing pad. The technology of sintering regolith allows us to construct complex and biomimetic geometries to address different problems and challenges we had to face. We designed a lunar landing pad for future landing and launching missions with this technology available. Landing rockets on the moon will cause lunar dust to eject at a supersonic speed, and this may cause a threat to satellites and adjacent habitats. Thus we designed barriers that surround the landing site to mitigate this threat. The form of the barriers is designed to deflect lunar dust downwards into a trench where robots collect the dust.
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The construction of the habitat consists of pressurized modular chambers that are brought from the earth. The modules are packed and shipped to the moon through rocket launching missions. When they land on the moon, they are brought to the habitat site from the landing pad with robots and robotic gantry. The robots and gantry play the role of assembling the units on the site in place. The outfitting of the units is then unfolded automatically once in place. A system of expandable chambers was developed to incorporate connecting airflow and Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) while functioning as the connection between the larger circular expandable modules.
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The Lunar “OASIS” | Zen Garden Nasa X- h a b stu d i o : “Mo o n to mar s ” | fa l l 2 0 2 0 - s p r in g 2 0 2 1
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The desolate and lifeless environment on the moon will be detrimental to the psychological health of the astronauts in the habitat. We aim to mitigate this by integrating a zen garden in our habitat oasis project. The zen garden is located at the center of the inflatable module in a courtyard arrangement. We studied chromotherapy and incorporated color coding to enhance the specific program in the space adjacent to the garden. LED lights and Plants in green and purple are used at the dwelling space since green creates a sense of healing and purple promotes socialization. Whereas blue and yellow are used in the workstation area as yellow and blue promote Creativity and Productivity. Within the garden, the modular planter system is fabricated using onsite 3D printers. These planters stack into pillars that situate around the central water tower, where water is distributed to each plant through a vertical water pumping system. As the plants photosynthesize while exposed to artificial light, fresh oxygen is also supplied to the astronauts.
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Panel Assemblage TheProtective protective layer of the habitat is shaped to cover and protect the core habitat. It is intentional that we designed it as a porous shell so that we can incorporate delivered protective panels to promote efficiency by reducing the overall construction time. These panels have several layers addressing different threats to the habitat. The assemblage of the panel includes a layer of aluminum for thermal protection, a layer of ballistic Whipple shield designed by NASA for meteorites protection, and a layer of polyethylene for radiation protection. Base isolators are also installed at the root part of the structure to address the constant seismic activity on the moon.
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A “SOUNDLESS” Home Residential house for a deaf child and his parents Program Studio Professor Date Location
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Residential housing INT Design Studio 301 Calvert Wright Fall 2022 Brooklyn, New York
In this project, a townhouse residence is designed for my clients: a family of 3, Susie, Dirk, and Ray. Susie works in the hospital who takes night shifts occasionally. With the context of a post-COVID domestic reality, a novel lifestyle style is anticipated where productivity and leisure space coexist within a domestic environment. Dirk is a photographer who works in a home studio. Ray is the child
of the family who is born deaf and sensitive to light. These unique qualities require a universal design approach to suit the needs of different light modes that address the family’s sensitivities in light. The keyspaces and conditions within my urban dwelling that exemplify and expand this design approach include designated productivity space, Sight increasing wall corners, and switch of uninterrupted
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Hethe walks Deaf. to school Heeveryday. walks everyday. to school everyday. promoted in promoted 2019. Because in 2019. ofBecause the current of the pandemics, current pandemics, Susie Susie metimes works more than 50 hours per per week. As the of As the sometimes sometimes works more works than more 50 hours than 50 week. hours As perhead the week. head ofthe thehead of Work: the Work: Work: urse at the Brooklyn hospital, Susie takes 5 shifts a week and 8 hours nurse at the nurse Brooklyn at thehospital, BrooklynSusie hospital, takesSusie 5 shifts takes a week 5 shifts anda8week hours and 8 hours cheach shifts. Habits: shifts.each shifts. DirkDirk has has made a reputation the portfolio has gather made Dirk ahas reputation madewith a reputation with the portfolio withhe the he portfolio has gather he has gather Habits:Habits: during the years of travel. 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hospital since 2014 and got promoted in 2019. Because of the current pandemics, Susie sometimes works more than 50 hours per week. As the head of the nurse at the Brooklyn hospital, Susie takes 5 shifts a week and 8 hours each shift.
age of 38. Dirk loves photography with a passion and has been working as a freelance photographer since high school. He works on both analog media and digital media, so a studio with a darkroom would be required. Sometimes when it’s shooting day, he will go out and take photos with the model, and sometimes he would stay home washing films or editing photos.
Ray was born in 2011 and he is innate deaf with a level of severe ( 71-95 dB). This makes Ray needto wear a hear-aid to help him listen Ray goes to St. Francis de Sales School for the Deaf. He walks to school every day.
Susie loves sports. She likes to try all types of sports with her family, and among all He also likes fish and has a fish tank sport her favorite is swimming. Susie is maintained by his father Dirk. Besides photography, Dirk is also mixologies he would sometimes photography, Besides photography, Dirk is into also into Dirkmixologies is alsothat intothat mixologies he would that sometimes he would sometimes cocktails for him and his wife Susie in Saturday movie nights at home. very much into coffee as she has worked makeBesides Besides photography, Dirk is also into make cocktails make forcocktails him and his for wife him and Susie hisinwife Saturday Susie in movie Saturday nightsmovie at home. nights at home. chedule: Schedule: Schedule: as a barista during college. She would Schedule: mixologies that he would sometimes make Schedule: Schedule: 009:00 AM to PMAM Monday to PM Friday AM5:00 to9:00 5:00 PMtoMonday 5:00 toMonday Fridaybake to Friday sometimes even her own coffee beans cocktails for PMhim and his wife Susie in ccasionally takes Night Shifts Typical routine: 9:309:30 AMroutine: to 6:00 Occasionally Occasionally takes Night takes Shifts Night Shifts Typical routine: Typical AM to 6:00 9:30PM AM to 6:00 PM Work schedule flexible and subject to change. Work schedule Work flexible schedule and flexible subject to and change. subject to change. for the daily consumptions of her and her Saturday movie nights at home. husband.
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This project is a renovation and expansion project of the existing Arlinton Branch Brooklyn Public Library. The client for this project is the founder of a non-profit community arts organization called The Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MOB Ballet) Foundation. The MOB Ballet was established by a renowned ballet dancer, educator,
diversity strategist, and consultant, Theresa Ruth Howard. With the client’s desire, a new type of library is developed where the blacks in ballet and the ballet culture are celebrated while the surrounding community is welcomed with the existing library program. TOP RI GHT
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study room In this MOB Ballet Library, the end users can conference space be summarized into two major groups, one public library computer lab is the ballet community that’s composed of Temple of knowledge Temple of ballet library reception performers and general audiences who enjoy community lounge terrace Community center the ballet culture, and the other is the local displaying platform bike lot L community members and researchers who i b cafe / bar lounge enjoy the additional space provided by the r ballet theatre a ballet theare library. Both these end-users of the library are r ballet exhibition space y In thisand MOB Ballet Library, the library end users can be summarized into 2 major attracted guided into this community is thethrough balletan community / groups, MOB balletone theatre expanded andthat’s composed of performers and general audiences who enjoy the ballet culture, and the other is the local comrenovated that gathers and redirects Centralized Cores Mars (Chaqun) Zhang munity entry members and researchers who enjoys the additional space providProject 3| MOB Ballet Library | Project Info. people several designated spaces.end Within ed byintothe library. Both these users of the library are attracted and of knowledge Temple of ballet guided intoCarnage this community library theatre through an exthis renovated library, also known as / MOB ballet Temple panded and renovated entry that gathers and redirected people into severthealtemple of knowledge, a book tower that both designated spaces. emphasis the symbolic meaning of books and the L i Within this renovated Carnage library, also known as the temple of knowlphenomenon of users circulating it and absorbing b edge, a book tower that both emphasis the symbolic meaning of books and r ADA ramp the knowledge is centralized as the core of the a the phenomenon of users circulating it and absorbing the knowledge is cenr library. In addition that, of thethe ballet culture In is addition to tralized as thetocore library. y that, the ballet culture is y, the end users can bein summarized 2 major layered theinto book as an dance exhibition symbolizing the layered in frontfront of theofbook tower astower a dance all users mmunity that’s composed of performers and genballet performance part ofperformance the temple ---- Temple of Ballet exhibition balletlocal the ballet culture, andsymbolizing the otherthe is the comCentralized Cores earchers whopart enjoys Entry Extension of the the additional temple ---- space Temple providof Ballet. hese end users of the library are attracted and ity library / MOB ballet theatre through an exProject 3|and MOBredirected Ballet Library | Concept Statement Mars (Chaqun) Zhang ry that gathers people into sever-
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Paramatrically Designed Pavilion ARCH Applied Computation David Mans Spring 2021 High Line, New York, New York
Parametrical or computational language extends the possibility of architectural design. This digital mindset in space design removes many analog design restrictions caused by over-tedious procedures. In this project, a parametrically formed pavilion was designed to create a unique experience in an existing context. Led by an industry leader, Professor David Mans, this pavilion
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This shell is created by applying the Ngon frame on the cellular mesh twice. The outcome of this is a small pavilion with planar panels. There are five openings on each panel, consisting of 4 smaller ones and one larger one. The larger one follows a modifier in which the highest point and the middle of the height are the largest. The small ones follow another modifier in which the closer to the bottom, the larger it gets. The material of this structure could potentially be metal panels as the planes are all flat. The structural plates are applied on the exterior of the whole assembly hiding from the end-user underneath the structure and leaving the inside of the structure a cleaner surface.
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