DANCE WITH WATER Thesis design - Water and Architecture Instructor : Lawrence Scarpa Precedent : Falling Water
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Intro: This thesis focuses on relationships between buildings and site. The thesis leanring from Falling water, and exploring more “organic” methods to intergrate water and architecture.
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USC Compus -complex design Instructor : Kim Coleman Intro: This project focuses on intergrating different programs, and creating multi-intereactions betweens different layers.
THE DIFFERENT “VIEW” Los Angeles Maker - Space design Instructor: Rob Ley Intro : This project intends to transfer the traditional self-enclosure, dusky, and “boring”man’s cave into an open, bright , and interesting exhibiting space. In addition, this building will become a piece of urban landscape , which can provide activity and parking space for the community.
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modular residence Residential Quarter design (China) Instructor : Xu Wang
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20 hand drawings
10-18 Part I: Architecture line drawings Part II: Water color / markers
Intro: This project focuses on increasing intereactions between neighborhoods by using modular design method. From a basic modul, through overlaying, rotating, combining, and dividing strategies, to create various friendly space forms.
skills represent Grasshopper
Autodesk- Revit
20 above street level ShaPingBa Commercial street design 14 (China) Instructor : Xu Wang Intro: This project intents to create a shopping and recreating walking space by solving local traffic and unregular site problems. In addition, by producing a new urban fabric, we increased variations of city building forms.
modular and sustainable China Green Building Competition Instructor: Yu Hong Intro : This research is about exploring new methods to interperating the green building and sustainable architectures. In my team, we interperated modular idea and passive design into green building, and using eco-tect to test results.
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Autodesk- Dynamo
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BUILDING
BUILDING + LANDSCAPE
THE “DIFFERENT” VIEW (Los Angeles Makerspace Design
This design focuses on providing unique views of makerspace to the public and users. Makerspace, as people known, usually is a building which are consisted of by several self - close, professional, and dim rooms. People outside makespace don’t have the will and chance to figure out what happens inside. However, in this design, I hope to break these barriers, and to show the interesting side to the public. That’s why this building is flatten on the site, so people can easily “go into” and “look into” the working space below. In addition, existing site is a parking structure. We all know that parking shortage is always a problem for Little Tokyo area. I decided to keep the parking function, and created an interesting shortcut to the street level. Furthermore, people whatever tourists heading to Little Tokyo, workers waiting for buses, or people passing by, will have a chance to see how people works with machines down below with the skylights on the roof.
Site info: Site is located at Little Tokyo, Downtown LA, and it is surrounded by various stores, shops and resturants. Visitors and normal workers will be the majority of this area.
MODULAR RESIDENCE (Residential Quarter design) (China) Project location: WuHan, China Date: March / 2014 Duration: 10 Weeks Class: 3rd-year Studio Designer: Dong He Instructor: Xu Wang In this design, The basic form is a single cube. Then I transform the module into other architectural spaces by scaling, overlaying, rotating, combing, and dividing . Architectural spaces can be a single module, or a group of modules. The purpose of this deisgn is to rebuild friendly relationships between neighborhoods. In modern China, More and more residential buildings were built like Le Corbusier's Plan Voisin in Paris. Inside lliving machines, peopel has limited connections and social networks. To solve this problems, I tried to use passive and positive design methods, which means creating net-working space or induce people to do net-working by themselves.
ABOVE STREET LEVEL (Commercial Promenade design ) Project location: ShaPingBa, ChongQing, China Date: Novermber / 2013 Duration: 10 Weeks Class: 3rd-year studio Designer: Dong He, Zhiruo Ma Instructor: Xu Wang This design mainly focus on solving existing problems. The slope of existing site is very big, which it not easy to put building on. The second problem is the existing heavy traffic. To solve these two problems, we lift the whole “promenade” up, and use escalators to connect street level and first level. We believed that escalators will eliminate the felling of hight difference. In addition, traffic will not be disturbed by the exist of promenade. The height we provide for exisiting transportation are 15’ will higher enough to let small trucks through. For the still transportation, we designed both motocycle and bicycle parking. The parking space will also be provided to surrounding neighborhoods. In the building form design, we didn’t follow exisiting urban fabric. We use curve forms which is better for people walking or browsing.
MODULAR
& SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
Instructor : Yu Hong Team member : Dong He, Peng Ju, Shuai Jiang, Yu Han
In this competition, our team intent to find an universal sustainable building form by using modular design methods. We believe that sustainable building, or green building can be more independent and free by combining posive design. This research focuses on natural ventilation and lighting through a lift-time period of architecture.
Working with Revit + Dynamo + Enscape REVIT + ENSCAPE
REVIT _ ADAPTIVE COMPONMENT
DYNAMO_ SOLAR DIRECTION FACADE
Wadden sea visitor center is designed by holzer kobler. Based on to architecture drawings on internet, I re-drawed this building from site to interior finish in Revit.
Then, I added a pannel which is made of adaptive componment to the north side of the visitor center. Designers can change the size, and number of the componment.
In this project, the facade will change its openings’ size by following the sun direction. The componment will reduce its opening when the facade faces the sun vertically. On the other hand, the side can’t get enough sun light will have a bigger opening.
This project is a bridge finished in Dynamo Studio.
DYNAMO_ SOLAR + ADAPTIVE COMPONMENT
DYNAMO_ LADDY BUG PLUGIN
This the adaptive componment, whcih consists the facade.
This project is a research about Dynamo plug-ins. I tried two plug-ins, which are Rhynamo and Laddybug. With these two plug-ins, I can build model in rhino, and bring the model to dynamo. In addition, laddybug can run interior/exterior lighting test.
REVIT _ LIGHTNESS
Once I build Wadden sea visitor center in revit, I can add interior /exterior light to RCP plan, and render the lux map in cloud rendering.
REVIT_ PARAMETRIC ADAPTIVE COMPONMENT
This is the adaptive componment in the pannel above. Designers can change all the details by changing type parametrics.
DYNAMO_ BRIDGE
dh Dong He
2817 Consol Ave, Unit 12 El Monte, CA 91733
LEED Green Associate
donghearc@gmail.com
EDUCATION August 2016 - May 2018 University of Southern California. Master of Architecture +2 Program August 2010 - June 2015 College of City and Technology, ChongQing University Bachelor of Architecture ( 5 Year)
COMPETITION September 2014 - December 2014 National Sustainable Architecture Competition Applied lifecycle and modular strategies to the design of a green building in a four-people group; Used environmental analysis software such as
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ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Arch 605a Graduate Design Studio University of Southern California Developed design through site context using different languages; Made a physical model and delivered a presentation as a team leader; Finished the design of LA Makerspace. Arch 561/ 562 Urbanism Themes and Case Studies/ Architecture Themes and Case Studies University of Southern California Learned theories and histories of modern cities and architectures; Finished a paper about the development of apartments in Highland Park and its social influence.
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Arch 507 Theories of Computer Technology University of Southern California Mastered computer skills about Revit, Dynamo, and Enscape; Finished different building details, components, and drawings in Revit; Learned structure, MEP design in Revit.
Arch 611 Building Systems: Materials and Construction University of Southern California Learned construction details of different structures; Accomplished two field trips and reports; Finished a comprehensive structure report about Palms-Rancho Park Branch Library.
May 2017 - November 2017 Architecture Intern Feng Xiao Architect. INC 2540 Huntington Drive, Suite 207 San Marino, CA 91108 Tel: (626) 380-7098 Email: contact@fxarchitect.com - Developed design and construction drawings in Auto Revit and Photoshop; - Participated in site research with landscape architects, and documented research results; - Developed researches on wood-structure single-residence details; - cooperated with civil engineers, landscape architects, and structural engineers to refine design and construction drawings; - Attended city design review and meeting with clients;
COMPUTER SKILLS June 2014 - September 2014 Architecture Intern Peking University Resources (Holdings) Company Limited - Contributed to the design process utilizing various software platforms including Auto Cad, Adobe Creative Suite, Rhino, Sketch-up, and Grasshopper; - Coordinated with the interior design and engineering teams; - Modified various architectural drawings in AutoCAD; - Drawed conceptual diagrams in order to introduce projects to clients; - Participated in meetings with clients.
RHINOCEROS 5 Sketch Up Grasshopper Unity 5 Auto CAD Architecture 2017 Auto Revit 2017 Adobe Photoshop CC Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Indesign Dynamo Studio Keyshot 5 V-Ray for Rhino Enscape Ecotect 2010 QGIS
MODEL MAKING CNC MILLING 3D PRINT LASER CUT