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Cutting mountains. Cutting rivers. And within, it thrummed. Concept /Digital
0 /TEMPLE 2013
A solitary temple clutching to the narrow mountains of Tianzi. Future monks. Concept /Digital
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0 /TWISTED 2012
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TWISTED VECTORS is a space that wraps around itself - a coil carving into the hill Concept /Digital
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DISPLAY W/C INFO COUNTER
VIEWING WELL
0 /PROTOTYPE 2013/YALE
The conceptual axonometric illustrates the underlying diagram for the prototypical formal construct: an exterior shell - with a profile mimicking that of the typical pitched roofs - housing any number of interior volumes lifted above an open ground plane. Intersecting geometries generate a variety of interesting spatial moments accentuated by projected cuts into the facade. Torqued upper volumes protruding from the exterior shell allows for generous lighting moments outside and necessary paths of circulation within.
YALE’s Building Project is the annual design/build assignment, culminating in a low-income housing prototype for the city of New Haven. This design is for the first stage - individual design concept proposals: Prototype. This design concept proposes prototypical housing forms for such unoccupied sliver lots throughout the city, and could be adjusted given the site length and floating volumes as variable parameters.
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1 The living area below is an experiential sequence of spatial compression and vertical release as overhead volumes shift from slivers of shadow to a rift of glazed sunlit openings. With limited square footage, the rift in the middle and the open glazing at the rear proposes the expansion of the living space from the interior out. Above, privacy is maintained by individually suspended and enclosed bedrooms. Hints of activity peek through slits in these interior shells, providing for visual connections throughout. Connected by an internal circulation spine, or through slight intersections, these volumes could be programmed and developed as modules befitting the user.
0 /SKETCH 2012
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Sketches for a moon base Aggregate clusters of ship husks to form spatial hives for inhabitants Concept /Sketch
0 /MAMMOTH 2015
It is black on a white landscape. It is equal to a mountain. A lone wanderer investigates this out-of-place artifact. It pulses red. That is never a good sign. Concept /Digital
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0 /GLYTCH 2014
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0 /GLYTCH 2014
GLYTCH HQ Glitch. Symmetry. Reflection. This project sprouted from ideas of space and science fiction. A speculative study of apparent symmetries of mechanical systems (the ISS/SSI) and the development of geometries from glitch generation. The resultant drawing takes the human figure and its reflection; through similar operations, generates a structure with layers of scale and a weaving of form into an inhuman tapestry. Concept /Digital
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Initial studies [above] were developed utilizing animation techniques, tweening the transition and transformations and capturing the intermediate frames from the ground floor constructs to the roof; its floorplate shrinking with the ascent and the break in the ring - as generated by the space modules - shifting from rear to front. These studies formed the basis for the floorplates of the final design, though the exterior wrap has been discarded for the final shards concept.
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0 /WAVE 2014/YALE WAVE Museum is a proposal which seeks to redesign a currently sorely underutilized portion of Yale campus. Opposite of Cross Campus, which flows out from Sterling Memorial Library, open greens are cut short by a disorganized block consisted of a scattering of Yale and nonYale affiliated buildings in mess of scales and materials bounding a paved parking lot. The first step reorganizes the block with a new masterplan to densify and liven the street edges. The northeast corner is redeveloped to continue the length of pedestrian friendly restaurants and shops along the street, while the southeast corner makes way for larger Yale development. The swath of parking which occupies the center, along with flanking buildings, has been excised to make room for the heart of this proposal.
WAVE is the evolution of Yale’s Music Instrument collection from a depository into a museum. Working with collections curators, it was determined that an interactive and open display, with space for the performance of select instruments, would be necessary. WAVE organizes the program in two strips. The rolling field, playing off the Cross Campus green, not only serves as a continuation of the park, but as it rises gently, houses a performance space underneath the hill while terminating in the swell of an amphitheater. The flowing wave along the hill, which switches from façade to roof, shields the collections within while revealing, at moments, the folds and swirls of circulation.
WAVE Museum has been selected for the H.I. Feldman Prize Nomination 2015 for the best solution to an architectural problem John Patkau Advanced Studio
facade to roof /03 wave structure
instrument/manuscript /02 collections
greens to amphiteater /01 + admin building
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Studies of the seriality and repetition found in the fluid forms within the piano inspired the WAVE; taking the concept of the gradually shifting member to form an elegantly smooth but deceivingly simple and constructible ruled-surface faรงade-roof.
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The strong section provided by the WAVE is produced by a parametrically driven system which accounts for both form and structure. While carving out a flowing spatial experience below its wing, each fin along the row (each consisting of two heavy timber members supported by steel frames) adjusts to accommodate the loads of the roof above.
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COMMERCIAL / 01F
COMMERCIAL / 01F
YALE PROPOSED 04 FLOORS STOECKL HALL
SLIFKA CENTER
YALE / LANGUAGES
NORTH COURTYARD
MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
ELIZABETHAN CLUB
NORTH ENTRANCE
UNDER HILL
CORE
GIFT
SPIRAL ATRIUM
CLASS
LOBBY
AMPHITHEATER
CAFE LEIGH HALL HENDRIE HALL PROPOSED EXTENSION 03 FLOORS
TEMPLE STREET
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COLLEGE STREET
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS PROPOSED 03 FLOORS
UNITED METHODIST
ELIHU CLUB
HENDRIE HALL
GRADUATE CLUB
VISITOR CENTER
COMMERCIAL / 01F
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Housing the musical instrument and manuscript collections, the bar beneath the WAVE efficiently gathers curated pieces in linear strips, creating a field of instruments and display units. Circulation is kept at the outer edge with views down onto the hills and a voluminous spiral of stairs marking a dramatic entrance to the procession upwards.
0 /SCATTERED PETALS 2011/KASIAN SCATTERED PETALS: buildings floating in a park. For a masterplan to redesign a monotonously typical city block in Luoyang - endless rows of sunlightchoking residential slab towers - a proposal was devised to introduce a splash of color and bring the park to the forefront. Taking the Chinese peony, a rolling landscape of petal-shaped strips - delineated by meandering pathways and ponds - weaves together the interior and exterior both in plan and section, accommodating commercial/inhabitated/cultivated spaces.
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The initial plan is derived from a network of paths, carving out gentle patches of peony planting, grass, and heavily forested areas. from this, several edges are pulled up to reveal retail spaces, while a central mound houses a sweeping library buried amongst trees. The resultant is a flowing and dynamic terrain accentuated by a series of pond features, connecting the corners of the site.
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01/site plane
05/slice [access]
02/lift [retail]
06/punch [sun/access]
03/lift [library]
07/flow [water]
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08/scatter [greenhouse] use]
0 /SCATTERED PETALS 2011/KASIAN
To create a builtscape to match the fluid landscape below, the utilization of parametric design tools facilitated the design process. Designating an editable doubly curved surface for both the roof plane and base plane, along with three sets of outlines - floor plate and top/bottom balcony profiles - sixteen buildings with continuous undulating balconies could be orchestrated in unison to create a unified skyline while constantly outputting per building statistics and site density calculations.
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skyline script
0/NOWHERE 2013
It came from nowhere. And it was colorful. Emerging from the clouds. Organs pulsing. Tendrils trailing. Bones creaking. Puss oozing. And it sought flesh. Concept /Digital
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EBB A tranquil space woven into the Earth Concept /Digital
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Developing the idea with pen and paper Concept /Sketch
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1 /UNKNOWN 2015
UNKNOWN is a concept for an otherworldly architectural space developed with the techniques of DIGITAL BUTCHERY. Wrapped in layers of mass, carving across the plies reveals a rippling of striations and voids. The resultant structure is then sliced, reformed and repacked, disregarding its original form. Within, inflating voids form bloated volumes of programs, forming and bending to the exo-structure. The final project was presented as a video: CLRLSS/UNKNOWN Concept /Digital
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carve/02
cut/03
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1 /UNKNOWN 2015
The pods of UNKNOWN have been developed as hard shelled panels split to reveal a heavy layer of textured moss While bracketing the form, the shells give the bulb shape while allowing for the bulging green to spread between.
1 /UNKNOWN 2015
Butchery involves surgical cuts which not only form the shapes and sufaces, but reveal unexpected interior situations beneath a unified exterior - the gory mess held tight beneath the skin.