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University of PennsylvaniaďźŒPhiladelphia Master of Architecture, 2017 Academia: _Research Assistant of Associate Professor Dr. Stefan Al, to work on research drawings and materials for his upcoming publication about high density blocks in the world, 2017 Spring _Teaching Assistant of Associate Professor Andrew Saunders in his M.Arch I design studio, 2015 Fall Awards: _Recipient of Dales Traveling Fellowship First Prize, 2016 _Recipient of Harlan Coornvelt Medal (awarded to one student who achieved the most outstanding record in required architectural structure courses), 2015 _Recipient of PennDesign Porreca Memorial Scholarship, 2014 Architectural Association, London PennDesign-AA London Studio, 2016 Fall Semester The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Master of Urban Design, 2012 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Bachelor of Arts in Design, 2011 Award: _M.Mosers Future Workspace Design Competition Honor Award, 2010
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OPEN Architecture, Beijing China Architectural Intern, May - July 2015 HASSELL, Hong Kong Assistant Urban Designer, Nov 2012 - July 2014 BLEND Architecture, Hong Kong Competition Design Assistant, Sept 2012 EXH Design, Shanghai China Design Intern, May - Aug 2010 Eastern Holiday International Design Consultants Ltd, Shenzhen China Design Intern, June - July 2009
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- 01Co-Hub Mixed Use Tower | New York City 2016 Spring
- 02 Floweaver Pavilion | Philadelphia 2014 Fall
- 03 Blendscape Gallery | Philadelphia 2014 Fall
- 04 DUO Urban Housing | New York City 2015 Fall
- 05 Shenzhen 10th Kindergarten Kindergarten | Shenzhen 2016 Summer
- 06 Linear Henge Urban Renovation | London 2016 Fall
- 07 Honeycomb Tower REVIT Excercise | Philadelphia 2015 Spring
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“Transformative Elegance“ Mixed Use Tower | West SOHO, NYC 2016 Spring M.Arch I 602 Integrative Design Studio University of Pennsylvania Instructor: Hina Jamelle Structural Consultant: Dan Brodkin and Matt Jackson from Arup New York Team: David Zhewei Feng,Yihui Gan
“CO-HUB” is a design proposal for a mixed-use tower in West SOHO, New York. This project is trying to challenge the typical program distribution of typical vertical high rise towers. A new typology was then invented to provide horizontally interlocked and integrated program spaces in a tower. The large diversity of programs can provide different user groups with flexible uses of spaces. The idea of the design comes from the study of the lava formation process, from magma transforming to igneous rock. The attributes captured from every stage of the transformation are carefully studied and re-interpreted into a process diagram. This diagram is working as a spectrum to give different spatial units different formal qualities and these qualities are the foundation of the overall elegance of the design.
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Lava Formation Process: The Qualities from the Transformation As important basic elements of the overall building formation, the spatial units are the synthesis of the ideas from the lava formation. Attributes of lava at different stage, from magma to igneous rock, are carefully studied and reinterpreted into the units. This diagram illustrates the transformation of the lava formation process, by showing lava’s status at different time since eruption. The unit percentage of SO2 is what affects the viscosity of lava and it changes through time, makes lava turning from liquid to solid rocks.
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New Program Distribution of Tower Typology: From Vertical Separation to Horizontal Integration A new typology was then invented to provide horizontally interlocked and integrated program spaces in a tower. Live and work programs are the main focus of this project. From the top to bottom there will be: Cooperate office + hotel guest rooms, general office + hotel apartments for short and midterm use, Shared Office (Like WeWork) + Dormitory, SOHO(Small Office Home Office) lofts. A shared program (Gym, Pantry, Auditorium, Conference Room, Meeting Room etc.) will be inserted in between the live and work programs on each floor and work as a supplementary.
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A transformation of the working space, the size of the space vaires depends on the type of the working space.
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The contunuity from architectural elements to landscape features. Subtle transformation and the overall unity.
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A transformation of the living spaces, from view and orientation to window size and balcony size, etc.
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Street look-up view of the south facade.
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A New Lifestyle in Chelsea With the same type of programs organizing themselves vertically along the tower, the integration of different programs at the same floor suggests a new lifestyle which can never be found on a traditional mixed use tower. Work and live space can happened on one floor and the diversification of each program type provides the market with varies products.
The Combination of Structural Ideas and the Architectural Design To offer a flexible interior space with an open floor plan, there are no major structural columns between the elevator core and the structural components around the perimeter. Despite the core, Vertical structural components are combined with the facade elements and finds their continuous load paths to the ground.
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Physical Model Model Size: 1:200 Material: Museum Board Technique: Laser Cut
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“Tessellations” Pavilion | PennDesign, Philadelphia 2014 Fall
M.Arch I 501 Design Studio University of Pennsylvania Instructor: Andrew Saunders Team: David Zhewei Feng, Shimou Chen, Haiyin Tang, Mengjie Zhu
“Floweaver” is a full scale pavilion designed and constructed for the Penndesign “Tessellations” pavilion exhibition. The pavilion is constructed by transparent acrylic and white strings. Acrylic components serve as the structure of the pavilion as well as the platform for the strings to wrap around. With the structures become invisible, people will only see the strings floating in the air. The transparency of the structure allows people to observe the logic and enjoy the spatial relationship created by the strings that loop on the frame.
Final construction Details Height: 6 feet Area: ≈ 36 square feet
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Starting from Naum Gabo: Amplification & Multiplication This project starts with the analytical study of Naum Gabo's "Linear Construction" sculpture series. Following the study, new study models were made to examine the effects from the original sculptures and explore the way to amplify those effects. One of the study models was then selected to be further developed as the base module of the later pavilion.
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The selected basic module is a combination of two loops. In this module, the double frame concept stayed and the looping and weaving effects got amplified. Both loops weave in the out of each other, creating dynamic curves and ruled surfaces within a simple module. By multiplying ten times, the pavilion is a stack of ten modules in a pentagonal shape.
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Photo of the pavilion at the exhibition.
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“Topology / Threshold ” Personal Gallery | Philadelphia 2014 Fall
M.Arch I 501 Design Studio University of Pennsylvania Instructor: Andrew Saunders Individual Project
“Blendscape” is a new gallery extension of the Norman Fisher House designed by Louis Kahn. The project itself is a hybrid that blends the topological transformation of Naum Gabo’s sculpture, the trope of Louis Kahn’s architecture tropes and the thresholds of the Fisher House. By generating variations from the topological transformation process, the project acquires its own identity with new morphology that served the space with unique elegance and vitality. This project also carefully examines the thresholds of the Fisher House, including the stone plinth as a spatial threshold and the wood façade as a material threshold.
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Topological Transformation The idea of “Linear Construction 3” is to display the ruled surfaces from the strings looping on the two mirrored frames. The straight lines indicate the existence of twisted developable surfaces. By taking the Linear Construction 3 into process of topological transformation, it generates a series of topological variation and each of them shows the significant topological feature of the original sculpture. As a result, a physical model was generated to inherit all the qualities.
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Physical Model Material: Museum board Technique: Laser cut in layers and glue
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Louis Kahn and his architectural tropes Kahn delivered his trope about “room within a room” in his unbuilt work “Hurva Synagogue”. The gap between the rooms become the medium to filter light - natural night bounce into the interior space in specific places. The inner room of the synagogue were lifted up to a different level and people will visit the hall from the bottom. Also, we can find Kahn’s ideas about courtyard and poshe in his Dominican Mother House and Fisher House 3rd scheme. The idea of Louis Kahn’s architectural tropes are carefully studied and reinterpreted in the development of the plan as important definitions of spaces.
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Courtyard, an inner exterior space to exhibit key sculpture work from the gallery. Wood creates a material threshold , extending from the Fisher House and float to the surface at the courtyard.
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“Lo-Lux Housing” Urban Housing | Chelsea, NYC 2015 Fall
M.Arch I 601 Design Studio University of Pennsylvania Instructor: Jonas Coersmeier Individual Project
“DUO” is a design proposal for a residential tower located in Chelseea New York, on a site next to high line. This project explores the possibility of combining low-income housing with luxury housing in one tower. In this design proposal, two types of housing are separated in two different halves of the tower with significant difference in design language. This separation avoids the conflict and disturbance between the units, but a continuous public space with greenery breaks the separation and goes from the bottom to the top of the tower. It can also be seen as an extension of the high line. The project begins with a careful study of Hansevietel, a place that collects a lot of housing projects from almost all the influential modernism architects. As a comparison, one recent complete housing project was selected to compare with the Hansevietel projects. The plans and spatial arrangements of the design proposal are developed and invented based on the understanding of the precedents.
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Modern/Contemporary Housing Precedents: Study and Comparison This study is about housing projects from modern housing in Hansevietel to contemporary housing projects recently built. Selected projects are Hau Hansaviertel (1957) by Oscar Niemeyer and Interbau Apartment Blocks (1957) by Walter Groupius in Hansaviertel, Germany ; Sugar Hill Housing (2014) by David Adjaye in New York City, USA. Comparisons are made based on units typology, aggregational logic, ciruculation and outdoor space, etc.
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Averaging two units to share one staircase. One elevator core connectedd to the 5th floor - where the public space is; and the 7th floor - the top level.
All apartments hae balconies. A large common public space is located at 5th floor accessible by all staircase s and the elevator.
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Movement is restricted to discrete stairwells and apartment entrances located in isolated towers.
Apartments are clustered around semi-public balconies and roof-top patios.
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Staircase and elevator reach every floor and a public corridor links all the units with the vertical circulation cores.
There is no balcony or outdoor space designed for any of the units.
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Generative Studies: Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) As part of the study of spatial organization, the SEM image about the detail of proboscis was selected to be studied. 3 different systems was identified in its structure and the diagonal connectivity became a key reference for the later study models.
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Generative Studies: Circulation concept from SEM study Circulation concept developed from previous Proboscis study.
Physical Study Model Material: Matt Cardboard Technique: Cut by hand
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Generative Studies: Spatial organization concept from SEM study Spatial organization concept developed from previous Cow Stomach/Proboscis study.
Physical Study Model Material: PLA Filament Technique: 3D Printing
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Front Elevation
The elevation of the final design proposal. luxury apartments are located at the half of the tower that is adjacent to High Line in order to give the residents the most valuable views. The other half of the building with dark concrete facade is for low income housing, with apartment units in smaller areas.
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Plan: Low-income Housing Units Private Core + Public Loop Low-income housing is usually featured with shared space because that’s the more efficient way to distribute space as a resource. Communal kitchen or restrooms are designed for social housing at the beginning. The idea of the Pilotis from Le Corbusier was also aiming at freeing the ground floor space for public use. However, with the development of virtual communication tools, people tend to stay at home to communicate with others virtually, rather than going out physically. Now, the public/shared space for housing needs to be subdivided and scattered. Bedrooms - as the domestic private spaces - are placed in the middle of the units. Domestic public spaces are broken down into smaller public spaces to define more specific programs: dinning, working, reading, TV watching, etc. These spaces forms a loop surrounding the private spaces. The idea is to create a continuous public space within the housing unit and encourage more activities to happen along this corridor.
Low Income Housing: 1-Bedroom 64.3 m2
Low Income Housing: 2-Bedroom 78.3 m2
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Plan: Luxury Aparment Units Priviledged and Privatized “Luxury”, in modern context ususally means “privatize” because it can give individuals more privilege. Luxury apartments tend to privatize everything to guarantee the least amount of disturbance from others, therefore we have luxury apartments with private swimming pool at the balcony, private gym and home theatre within the housing unit. Luxury apartments are located at the half of the tower which adjacent to High Line in this project. These units have the view of High line, larger unit space and standard layout.
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“The Collective Villages” Open Competition | Shenzhen, China 2016 Summer Team: David Zhewei Feng, Shimou Chen, Jessica Yuan Ma
This is a competition proposal for a kindergarten in Shenzhen, China. The idea of the design is to create a “collective village” for the kids who go to this kindergarten, as there will be large and continuous roof space and adjustable interior space surrounded by nature. Also, the proposal is trying to make use of the opportunity to impact the community. A community shared canteen is added to the corner of the kindergarten. Together with the small plaza in front of the canteen, the street corner became a place for parents and the elders to gather in the afternoon.
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Ground Floor Plan
1. Music classroom 2. Staff cafeteria 3. Kitchen 4. IT office 5. Transformer room 6. Storage
7. Administration office 8. Meeting office 9. Entrance 10. Accounting office 11. Guard room 12. Reference office
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1. Boarding classroom 2. Staff dormitory 3. Storage 4. Laundry room 5. Restroom 6. Atrium
7. 30m lane 8. Audience area 9. slide 10. Botanical garden 11. Playground
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Program Diagram
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An Interior Surrounded by Nature The old kindergarten design are very closed which causes poor natural lighting condition and isolation from the exterior environment. The high building density came with the rapid urbanization have also taken away beneficial green space for the kids. To resolve these problems, we are introducing two planting courtyards and largely boosted the size and number of windows. This ensures that every classroom has large windows facing at least two opposite directions to led in sunlight and landscape to provide kids with light and spacious environment surrounded by nature.
Typical Classroom Unit Plan When the movable partition opens, the spaces are joined into a larger space for children to play. We recommend the kindergarten to set a time on each day to open the partitions for children to play around.
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Shared Community Space The 10th kindergarten locates in the middle of Ningshui Garden which was design in 1988. The neighborhood lacks shared space for community activities. Therefore we decide to make the corner of the site into a community garden. The cafe and the music classroom that are directly connected to this garden can be selectively opened to the public during certain time to host community activity such as gala or kids’ drawing exhibition. When these programs are opened to the public, the building circulation can be strictly controlled to ensure safety of other areas in the kindergarten.
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Safe and Continuous Roof Space Similarly cause by rapid urbanization, the number of public garden has largely decreased. Back in the 90’s, it was still a very important part of children’s life to walk and play in the public square and garden in Shenzhen which was long gone during the development of the city. Therefore we decide to raise the building coverage rate by 5%-10% to create a large continuous roof space just like the public garden in we used to have. We also change the old build-playground design which causes discontinuity between the roof and playground space. Instead we combined both onto the roof top. This design can also protect the kids by limiting roof access.
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“World Without Objects” Urban Renovation | London, UK 2016 Fall
M.Arch I 701 Advanced Design Studio University of Pennsylvania / Architectural Association Instructor: Homa Farjadi Team: David Zhewei Feng, Haiyin Tang
* This project was done in Architectural Association (AA) London for the PennDesign-AA London studio program lead by Professor Homa Farjadi.
“Linear-Henge” is a design proposal for Hampstead Heath, to reconsider the relationship between urban space and the nature based on the reading of Superstudio and their idea of “Life without objects”. Linear-Henge: An Alternative Urbanity in Hampstead Heath Hampstead Heath is a precious piece of nature situated in London, the high-density metropolitan. We understand the value of it and would like to propose a series of towers with small footprints in the heath to maximize our access to the valuable resources of nature, such as sunlight, air, views, etc. These towers, with maximum 150-m high and no elevators, are manmade mountains that allow extended vertical journeys of nature from the heath. The towers themselves then become an alternative nature, to provide a different way to re-experience nature, and also, at the same time, another way to urbanize the heath.
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Superstudio: “Life Withou Objects”
“Objects are status symbols. The expression of models proposed.” <Superstudio: life without objects> p121 “By the destruction of objects we mean the destruction of their attributes of ‘status” and the connotation imposed by those in power, so that we live with objects(reduced to the condition of neutral and disposable elements) and not for objects.” <Superstudio: life without objects> p120
“The Continuous Monument” Superstudio, 1969
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An Alternative Urbanity in Hampstead Heath, London: Nomadism, Egalitarian, Freedom.
The purpose of the studio is to explore new possibilities of urbanizing Hampstead Heath - the precious piece of nature situated in London - with Superstudio’s ideas of “Life without objects”. In some of their major works, including “The Continuous Monuments” and “Supersurface”, the ultimate goal is to get rid of the hierarchy associated with any thing in the world and bring the world back to a total equal and fair state. Freedom, and anything related to freedom, such as Nomadism and Egalitarian, become the center of the discussion. How can we reinterpret the concept in 2017 under the context of contemporary urbanism?
“Microenvironment“ Exhibition at “Italy-The New Domestic Landscape”, MOMA NYC Superstudio, 1972
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Marks: Key design ideas developed from Superstudio and their “Life Without Objects”
Dispersed density: The Vertical Redundancy
Create spatial redundancy as a foundation for a free lifestyle without conflict. To generate space and increase density, go vertical is the best solution. It allows for a minimum impact to the ground landscape. With the idea of vertical extrusion and minimum footprint, these towers will not occupy a large area of the park, but will still be able to provide a large amount of spaces. These spaces in the tower, working almost like a series of vertical urban shelters, will become the living and working units for the modern nomads.
Control and Freedom
Nomadic life was meant to be about freedom, new discovery, and flexibility. For a literal nomad living in Tibet, he walks along the mountain and find whatever place that he like to stay. Sometimes besides the river, sometimes on a slope of the mountain. It is the diverse natural landscape introduces him the large variety of environments. His tent stays the same as always, but where he places the tent is totally his freedom. In the design of the tower, it will be inappropriate to customize all the spaces according to the users. All the freedom will be deprived. Only part of the building, which majorly all interior space of the units will be designed for user’s convenience. The cavities in-between the units will leave as un-protected open space. With the large variety of different open spaces created, our modern nomads can find out any space they would like to stay, rest, picnic, party, cultivate, etc. These spaces will not be controlled, or protected from the weather.
Modern Nomads
Superstudio created an enormous structure, “The Continuous Monument”, with their “Supersurface” to allow for a free nomadic life. A horizontal extrusion of the gigantic structure enables the space to extend endlessly. There is an egalitarian through a spatial redundancy. The purely equal flat Supersurface get rid of social hierarchy and bring back an equal life with no conflict. In modern capitalism cities, development density raises land value and largely compressed our living spaces - either urban spaces or domestic spaces. In a dense city, large demand in space turns all architecture into objects. These objects are symbols of consumerism. Within this context, urban inhabitants are limited to a regulated daily routine. Under all the pressure, there seem to be no other options. However, at the same time, there are modern nomads living in contemporary cities. They embrace a lifestyle with a larger possible freedom in contemporary context. We appreciate their effort to seek for an alternative lifestyle and would like to create a new platform in Hampstead heath for the nomads to enjoy a better alternative urban life. This platform meant to be opened to everyone therefore urban inhabitants are also welcomed to come and try become a new modern nomad.
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Hampstead Heath: Site Analysis
Topography
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Our proposal, essentially 37 towers ranging from 18 m to 150 m high with no elevator, is an alternative nature but simultaneously an alternative urbanity situated in Hampstead Heath. These towers are hiking devices for people who visit the heath to experience the nature
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differently. None of the towers has a foot print larger than 64 m2 in order to minimize the damage to the existing heath ground. However, the height of the towers allows for more fresh air, sunlight and views above ground, which extends the access to nature.
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Psychics of hiking
When people go for a 3-hour hike on a mountain, they are trying to look for a better view at a higher point. But when people are trying to reach the peak of Mountain Everest, it not about views any more. It’s about triumph, about challenge one’s upper limit, about finding one’s new world.
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According to the psychics of hiking, the spaces at different height of the tower are different. Size of the habitable space, the proportion of the opening, the position of the horizon varies along oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey hiking on any of those towers.
Conceptural collage with a sectional perspective of the tower.
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Habitable space at lower part of the tower. Allow for any people who would like to have a longer stay (modern nomads, etc).
Habitable space at lower part of the tower. For those who decided to stay longer, they might bring in their own furnitures.
The top part of the tower. View from outside of the tower. Mirrors reversed the relationship between sky and ground.
Staircases, half exposed. An extension of nature and hiking experience.
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Habitable space at the middle part of the tower. Openings are not proportioned.
Habitable space at the higher part of the tower. Tents are needed to provide protect privacy. Openings tend to show less views.
Camping in the tower, exterior. Tents are necessary as shelter.
Camping in the tower, interior. Like staying in a cave of a mountain, tents are not necessary. However, tents will be used to generate privacy.
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Individual REVIT Excercise Office Tower | Philadelphia 2015 Spring ARCH 502 Constructions University of Pennsylvania Instructor: Franca Trubiano Individual Project
This is an indivisual REVIT excercise for the “ARCH 502 Constructions” class. All the drawings and renders are created from REVIT.
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