YUE DI · Selected Works · 2016-2019 Master of Architecture II University of California,Los Angeles,CA, USA diyue0806@outlook.com +1 4245356968
YUE DI
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[Educational Background] Aug.2018 - Jun.2019
University of California, Los Angeles | United States Master of Architecture II_Technology Studio
Sept.2015 - July.2016
Politecnico di Milano | Italy Exchange student Concentrations: Architectural design Studio; Building technology studio; History of Architecture
Sept.2013 - July.2018
North China University of Techonology | Beijing, China Bachelor of Architecture Awards: Dean’s list NCUT 2013-2015; 2016-2017 National scholarship 2014-2015 Outstanding Graduate 2018.7
[Professional Experience] Internship: Mar.2018 - May.2018
China Electronics Engineering Design Institute, Beijing, China Project: Overall planning and concept design of Harbin Institute of Technology(Huizhou) Organized all the interns to finish the bidding portfolio Responsible for modeling and calculating index
Jun.2017 - Aug.2017
Project: North China Air Administrative Bureau dormitory building Drew the construction drawing of all the plan and detail drawings
Jan.2017 - Mar.2017
Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design & Research Co.LTD, Beijing, China Project: Sihanouk Ville-Cloud Coast Project in Cambodia Proposed the terrace-backward building form Assisted to draw plans
Jun.2016 - Aug.2016
Jul.2015 - Sep.2015
Project: Ecological Resources in Conservation Zone-The Research of Green Ecological Building
Collected the material of the distributed power generation way to generate electricity Built the Sketch Up model of tent and wooden house Assisted to draw plans of tent and wooden house Project: Sri Lanka Hambantota International Cultural Exchange Draw the 21-27 floors plan and section’s detail drawings Revised the Sketch Up model of podium and added details
Paper: May.2019
Experiment on increasing solar radiation for building using “Smart Mirror” , Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering(Japan) (DOI: 10.1080 / 13467581.2019.1620750)
[Workshop Experience] April 14, 2019
AIA VR HACKATHON | Los Angeles Proposed concept of Despina group; Made unity scene; Video and presentation making Won $100 award prize
Mar.22 - Mar.25, 2019
HKS Design Fellowship | Los Angeles Proposed urban strategy of removing oil exploitation for clean 2028 Olympic Games GIS analysis and animation making
[Skills] Rhino | Grasshopper | Maya | Cinema 4D | Unity | C#(basic) | Tensorflow | Autodesk CAD | Sketch Up | Adobe PS AI ID AE PR | Revit | Oculus Rift | Magic leap | Microsoft office
CONTENTS ACADEMIC WORKS
SPIRIT OF THE JOURNEY
The reflection of the feeling of the journey in a staging post
RE-FORMING MILAN
Renovation Project in Via BORLETTI
THE MUSEUM OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Environments of the New Industrial Revolution
HONG KONG 2047
Proposal of solving the density problem in Hong Kong
TRANSFORMING LA CITY HALL
Architectural design & modeling based on style transfer with CNN
OTHER WORKS
INTERN WORKS
01 SPIRIT OF THE JOURNEY The reflection of the feeling of the journey in a staging post
Characteristic: Individual Work Location: Cinque Terra, Italy Winter 2016
The concept of the design derives from the feeling of a whole journey. The linear interior space symbols the process of the journey. At the beginning of the travel, people may need to do some preparations and the function room in concert with the first stage of the travel. It cannot be avoided that people may experience a hard time of the journey, but this stage is exactly the most unique and memorable part. Then, with the strong mind and devout spirit, travelers keep climbing over the third stage—we could see that the destination is very near and the condition becomes better than every previous day. Finally, people could attend the most bright and open space to enjoy the ultimate beauty of the journey. The design tries to express the feeling of the traveler through different spaces.
SITE The site is an imagninary landscape with reference to the Cliffs of Cinque Terra in Italy. Facing the vastness of the sea and the sky while standing as an anchor in the wuthering winds, the cliff makes a sense of tranquility, which recalls the spirit of the travelling. Besides, in order to have a closer engagement with nature, the form of the building performs as digging up a piece of land to the midair.
CONCEPT The concept of the design derives from the feeling of a whole journey. The linear interior space symbols the process of the journey. At the beginning of the travel, people may need to do some preparations and the function room in concert with the first stage of the travel. It cannot be avoided that people may experience a hard time of the journey, but this stage is exactly the most unique and memorable part. Then, with the strong mind and devout spirit, travelers keep climbing over the third stage—we could see that the destination is very near and the condition becomes better than every previous day. Finally, people could attend the most bright and open space to enjoy the ultimate beauty of the journey. The design tries to express the feeling of the traveler through different spaces.
The Sea
The Cliff
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5M
10M
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Stage 4 — Extension
Stage 3 — Distortion
Stage 2 — Puzzle
Stage 1 — Preparation
Stage 1
Preparation
The entrance of the staging post is beneath the ground level and the beginning part is covered by a pool of water. While the architecture is facing the sea, travelers could feel the surrounding water when they approach it. When people go downstairs, the view of the environment and architecture would vanish from the water level and it implies the change of position and the mood as well. The concrete wall is the element of nature and it also symbols the roughness and hardship of the journey.
Stage 2
Puzzle
After finishing the staircase part, travelers will arrive at an array of depolished glass maze. There is light diffused from the glass in the dark space. People would get puzzled and have a difficult time to find the access to the next interspace. The depolished glass make travelers see the obscure profile of others but cannot reach each other. The experience represents a hard time of the journey. People may get lost but as long as there is light, they could solve the problem and make the experience as a treasure.
Stage 3
Distortion
The upper staircase is around the twisted corner of the architecture. The underneath part and the suspended space are connected by the polished metal floor and roof. And the fantastic variation happens at the distorted corner. When travelers step on the stair, they will experience the change of position of the roof.
Stage 4
Extension
After the up and down in the journey, travelers would arrive at their destinations. It could be a beautiful scene or a relaxing resort. The same feeling can be unconstraint and carefree. So the wide and open view assisted by the floor and roof's reflection of sea and sky could fully liberate the tension of nerves and muscle as well.
02 RE-FORMING MILAN Renovation project in Via BORLETTI
Instructor: Prof. Youjia Wang Characteristic: Individual Work Location: Via Borletti, Milan Spring 2017
The project, located further outside of the city of Milan, appears as an abandoned building with either active outside area or the accessible interior space. The buildings on the surrounding blocks have the same height and the similar size which indicates that the renovation should respect the current condition in this area. The original building consists a factory with slope roof in the west and a five-story office building in the east. The renovation project is aimed at reforming the abandoned area in Milan by increasing the vitality of the whole block through reconstruction and redesign. The proposal of a multi-function community center can fulfill the need of the citizens living around and attract people who live far away. In the process, I used old-new contrast method and combined with the complexity of demanding.
LOCATION
Italy
Lombard
Milan
Site
BACKGROUND
REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS
Museum
Coffee is essential
Library?
Play! Play! Play!
I need church
My own studio
Site research In order to apply new function in the original building during the reconstruction project, I asked my friend to do an interview for me. The result shows that the requirement various as the age and job change.
STRUCTURE ANALYSIS The design strategy includes opening the middle part as the courtyard of two buildings, so the first step is to demolish the load-bearing wall in the middle. After that, a rooftop was added on top of the structure.
ORIGINAL STRUCTURE
DEMOLITION PART
PRESENT STRUCTURE
ADD ROOFTOP
ROOF ANALYSIS---overall shape As the middle part is demolished, the original building presents in two individual part. From the urban context, it is better to keep a whole building in this block corner. Then the simple way is to add a box on the top of them. In order to correspond with the original building's rooftop, I repeat the triangle frame and modifies with curvature.
ROOF ANALYSIS---specific shape
Rooftop typology study This series of diagrams show the process of finding the final shape of the rooftop.
FUNCTION AND TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS
PUBLIC SERVICE(REST ROOM) OFFICE EXHIBITION+PRESS ROOM PUBLIC ACTIVITY ROOM STUDIO LIBRARY TRANSPORTATION RESTAURANT
PUBLIC OFFICER
Function division These two diagrams are about function arrangement and different streamline according to the varies people.
EXPLODED ANALYSIS
The origianl building. Recording the facade patern.
The structure. Demilition middle part of the structure.
The new building. Represent the facade patern of the original building by using metal mesh board.
Recording the facade In order to keep the memory of the original building, I choose to the use photographic way to record the original facades' view. Then assisted with the technique of print image on metal mesh board, it would be more remarkable than before.
ISOMETRIC PLAN
-1 FLOOR PLAN
MODEL
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN
THIRD FLOOR PLAN
FUNCTION ANALYSIS
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1 COURTYARD 7 ACTIVITY ROOM
2 OFFICE
3 MIDDLE POOL
4 PRESS ROOM
5 EXHIBITION 6 HANDMADE ROOM
8 INTEREST ROOM
9 STUDIO
10 LIBRARY
11 RESTAURANT
12 ROOF GARDEN 13 TRANSPORTATION
Renderings Another highlight is the roof garden of the west building. Visitors could access there and have a rest with a good view.
Section
The rooftop formes in a continuou order to follow the hei
n view
us lifting way from west to east in ight of two buildings.
03 THE MUSEUM OF SOCIAL MEDIA Environments of the New Industrial Revolution
Instructor: Guvenc Ozel, Benjamin Ennemoser, Gabby Shawcross Characteristic: Group Work Collabrator: Haocheng Dai, Xuanyi Xu, Ce Yan Location: Los Angeles, US Spring 2018
This is an experimental museum of social media interaction by applying AR, VR, MR and robot arm technologies. The aim of this museum is exploring contemporary issues and opportunities in local and global cultural trends. In order to realize the concept of the museum, we plan to create a purely physical space with an aggregation of simple geometries, compared to the info overloaded virtual world. We choose mixed reality experience as an example to make a full-scale installation for people to experience in real life. Besides, a 1:75 whole museum model was made for TV projection from bottom to show the overall experience inside.
DESIGN PROCESS
SPACE DIVISION
ADDING INFORM
CONTROL LEVEL OF STICKS
APPLYING ST
COMBINING STICKS WITH WALLS
REPLACING P
MATION STICKS IN CORRIDOR
ROOM DIVISION
TICKS WITH CERTAIN LENGTH
DETAILING INTERIOR SPACE
PART OF WALLS WITH STICKS
FINAL OUTCOME
PLAN OVERVIEW
EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW
EXPERIENCE 1 [INTERACTION ROOM]
EXPERIENCE 2 [ROBOT ROOM]
EXPERIENCE 3 [AUGMENTED REALITY ROOM]
EXPERIENCE 4 [MIXED REALITY ROOM]
INSTALLATION
PHYSICAL MODEL Full-scale model TV model
MR EXPERIENCE
04 HONG KONG 2047 Proposal of solving the density problem in Hong Kong
Characteristic: Individual Work Location: Hong Kong Summer 2017
HongKong is the ultimate form of “super density”, and what’s more astonishing is that its densification still increase. Its evolution is a process of continuous hybridization, coexist, and reinvention.The crowding, restriction, pressure, and the overloaded use of land caused by high density have caused the uncomfortableness to mask the changing interest of the time and multi-dimensional physical space. In limited plots, the potential of vertical direction seems to have been exhausted when the building has been repeatedly copied along with the boundary of the plot. Stacking, which means the programs are mixed in unusual ways based on the principle of efficiency and benefit.
HISTORY Hong Kong was a colony of the United Kingdom, ruled by a governor for 156 years until 1997, when it was returned to Chinese sovereignty. China had to accept some conditions, such as the drafting and adoption of Hong Kong's mini-constitution before its return. The Basic Law ensured Hong Kong will retain its capitalist economic system and own currency (the Hong Kong Dollar), legal system, legislative system, and people's rights and freedom for fifty years, as a special administrative region of China. Deng Xiaoping, China's supreme leader at the time said, "When the terms expire, China will surely recover its sovereignty over Hong Kong." Deng asked investors in Hong Kong "not to worry," indicating that China will deal with the issue under the "one country, two systems" principle. It has been past twenty years and Hong Kong developed in a great rapid speed. Several urban problems have appeared, such as: the crowding housing, the pollution caused by a great number of people, the traffic congestion, the exhausted land resource and they even have to face the problem of the land rights policy when the next thirty years come. The discussion of a series of problem arrived at the future vision of the city. In the perspective of an architect, we could use the professional method to propose our own plan. 1997 WELCOME RETURN 50 YEARS NO CHANGE ONE COUNTRY, TWO SYSTEMS SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION
I agree let's try
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privilege? it's good
2047 traffic jam social burden public housing urban congestion water pollution
The continually growing height of public housing causes various urban problems such as ventilation issue, noise, hygiene issue and so on. Solving the living condition issue could fix several problems. Reducing the sprawl of the city could avoid the city be full of airtight tall buildings.
2017
tentative region mid-air traffic liberating the ground surface giant cluster function reintegration
BACKGROUND
HEIGHT STATISTICS
FUNCTION STATISTICS
0-50 50-100 100-150 150-200 200+
residential office service entertainment commercial
CONCEPT
Current Situation (building density)
Current Situation (road network)
Simplify the Road Network
Hign density in the area nearly reaches the land saturation.
Complex and intersect road network in the area need to be reconstructed.
Remain the important railway and connect to the adjacent area.
Building Integration
Transportation in the Midair
Ground Landscape
Reassign the building to a series of new-built transportation core.
Provide a new way of transportation in the future by applying rail traffic.
Liberate the ground level to the environmental landscape.
FUNCTION BLOCKS
30M
40M
Based on the statistics of the whole site, I classified the buildings into five functions. The reintegration of the city need a rule to reassociate each functions, so I refined five functional blocks and introduce the module into the following design.
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CLASSIFICATION RULE CLASSIFICATION RULE Residential Function
Commercial
Office
Ratio FUNCTION
COMMERCIAL
49.77%
16.47% OFFICE
49.77% 40*40*40
16.47% 25*30*30
20*23*16
40
Service 4.48% SERVICE 4.48% 25*32*8 25*32*8
65 65
10 BLOCKS TO CORE 5 16 BLOCKS TO CORE 1
13 BLOCKS TO CORE 3 14 BLOCKS TO CORE 2 12 BLOCKS TO CORE 4
40
9 BLOCKS TO CORE 3
66
6 BLOCKS TO CORE 5 8 BLOCKS TO CORE 2
10 BLOCKS TO CORE 3 8 BLOCKS TO CORE 4 10 BLOCKS TO CORE 5
3.26% 20*23*16
7 BLOCKS TO CORE 4
17 BLOCKS TO CORE 1 14 BLOCKS TO CORE 2 15 BLOCKS TO CORE 3 12 BLOCKS TO CORE 4
66
70
3.26%
ENTERTAINMENT
10 BLOCKS TO CORE 1
70
47
QUANTITY
25*30*30
12 BLOCKS TO CORE 4
47
40*40*40
15 BLOCKS TO CORE 2
Quantity
20*50*40
9 BLOCKS TO CORE 2 7 BLOCKS TO CORE 5 12 BLOCKS TO CORE 1
UNIT SIZE(M)
10 BLOCKS TO CORE 5
26.02% RATIOSize(M) 20*50*40 Unit
15 BLOCKS TO CORE 3 17 BLOCKS TO CORE 1
26.02%
RESIDENTIAL
Entertainment
HEIGHT/M CORE 1
700M
CORE 2
600M
CORE 3
600M
CORE 4
500M
CORE 5
400M
Every new proposal needs a rule as the restriction of the development. Based on the function, I try to analyze the several uses in the area and rearrange into the functional box to form the new city image.
BLOCK COMBINATION Each group was constituted by different functional combinations. The number of functional varied as the different difinition given by each group. The final forms are listed below and the function are represented by different colars.
ENTERTAINMENT
SERVICE
RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
OFFICE
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EVOLUTION PROCESS After calculating the number of units according to the reconstruction of varied functions, I chose LEGO — the modularization material to realize the design in model. I tried to use several sizes Lego blocks to make the model. The transparent square blocks represents the core of each building and there are five other sizes to symbol the divergent functions. I followed the rule I created on the left page and arranged every groups of combination to the core then arrived at the final building form. The rails, served for connecting each cluster, are placed in the midair to realized the air transportation. Process 1
Preparation
First stage
Process 2
Second stage
Method
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4
Insert Adding the set groups to balance the ratio of each function.
Pile up Jointing two clusters into one to decrease the ground pressure.
Rotate Alternating the angle of each groups to avoid shading.
Connect Using rails like PRT to connect two buildings.
Process 3
Fianl shape
Based on the precise research of the area, I created five cores to suppor t the whole buildings in this area. The core mains the vertical transportation from the ground level to the upper floors. For horizontal traffic, there are rails such as PRT(personal railway transportation) to connect one building in this core to another building in that core. After raising all the building to the midair, the ground can be liberated and restored to the natural condition. People live in the giant cluster which can offer all the requirements and it is formed like a community. The method to solve the density problem is to concentrate the building in the area then elevated the building higher than the ground.
If Hong Kong continues to maintain a high-density urban form, we have to think about a way of thorough and radical changes, breaking the limitation of the existing way of walking. We try to convert the disadvantage of terrain into the favorable conditions of space and strive for more breathing space in the form of folding according to the high and low density of mixed mode. The architecture will slowly change the behavior of people in space and improve the relationship between environment and architecture. These changes make Hong Kong’s city life an endless intention. Life is no longer just limited to the cross between floor and floor. Spatial experience full of suspense effect of shifting, overcoming the problem of boredom and restriction.
05 TRANSFORMING LA CITY HALL Architectural design & modeling based on style transfer with CNN
Instructor: Prof. Guvenc Ozel, Benjamin Ennemoser, Gabby Shawcross Characteristic: Group Work Collabrator: Zhengtao Liu, Risu Na Location: Los Angeles Fall 2018
This project takes the LA City Hall, located in Los Angeles as the experimental object and it is an attempt to apply artistic styles to architectural design by using CNN, which is an artificial intelligence algorithm and it can integrate the artist’s artworks with architectural pictures together. Machine learning technique enables architects to obtain unpredicted results and widely explore the potential of architectural design.
STYLE TRANSFER MATRIX
STYLE TRANSFER MATRIX
CITY_HALL & YAYOI_KUSAMA & UNIVERSAL_EVERYTHING & META_HEAVEN
Base Image: City Hall
Influence 1: Yayoi_Kusama
Influence 2: Yayoi_Kusama
Influence 3: Universal_Everything
Influence 4: Meta_Heaven
Transfer 01 ML Iterations: 100 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: default Scale: 100% Transfer 02 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: default Scale: 100% Transfer 03 ML Iterations: 1000 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: default Scale: 100% Transfer 04 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: default Scale: 50% Transfer 05 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: default Scale: 25% Transfer 06 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Contrast: default Saturation: 100 Scale: 100% Transfer 07 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Levels:default Saturation: 100 Scale: 50% Transfer 08 ML Iterations: 500 ML Style Weight: 1 Resolution: default Levels:black 150 Saturation: 100 Scale: 100%
We tried to apply four different artistic styles to influence the original architecture image. In each column, we keep the same resource and change the parameters like iteration, saturation or scale to compare 9 : YUE_DI, ZHENGTAO_LIU, RISU_NA - Assignment #03 the difference and choose the most successful result to exploreTEAM further development.
AESTHETIC DIRECTION
Original image
Influence Style_Yayoi Kusama
Outcome
Original image
Influence Style_Universal Everything
Outcome
EMERGENT QUALITIES AND FORMAL LANGUAGE
Hole Grid
Density Viriation Grid
Hair Surface
VORONOI SYSTE
Parallel Grids
Points Arrangement
Points Connections
Voronoi Cells
Cell Selections
2D Random Points
3D Random Points
EM EXPERIMENTS
Zigzag Grids
Low-Density Zigzag Grids
Low-Density & High-Density
BASIC VOLUME TRANSFORM
Boolean Out & Soften Original Model
Setback Prototype
VORONOI ON VOLUME EXPERIMENTS
Original Model
BASIC VOLUME TRANSFORM
Original Volume
Frame Base
Glass Panel
Thicken Frame
Soften Frame
Add Hair
VORONOI ON VOLUME EXPERIMENTS
Voronoi Volume
Frame
Final Outcome
ROOF TOP
CLOSE SHOT
Using the honeycomb as structure and hairy objects as functional decoration which could perform like sunshade in day time.
INTERIOR
DISTANT SHOT
Honeycomb also perform as structure and window frame.
OTHER WORK Urban design_Transformation of Shougang industry zone, Beijing, China Winter and Spring, 2016
OTHER WORK Residential design, Hunan, China Fall, 2016
INTERN WORK China Electronics Engineering Design Institute, Beijing, China Mar.2018 - May.2018 Project: North China Air Administrative Bureau dormitory building Drew the construction drawing of all the plan and detail drawings
INTERN WORK China Electronics Engineering Design Institute, Beijing, China Jun.2017 - Aug.2017 Project: Overall planning and concept design of Harbin Institute of Technology(Huizhou) Organized all the interns to finish the bidding portfolio Responsible for modeling and calculating index
INTERN WORK Shenzhen General Institute of Architectural Design & Research Co.LTD, Beijing, China Jan.2017 - Mar.2017 Project: Sihanouk Ville-Cloud Coast Project in Cambodia Proposed the terrace-backward building form Assited to draw plans
YUE DI · Selected Works · 2016-2019
Master of Architecture II University of California,Los Angeles,CA, USA diyue0806@outlook.com +1 4245356968