SHAO-YI DODO CHIANG 2009-2013
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Résumé
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Design/Build Blossom Spring 2011
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CV
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Tooling Infrastructure Fall 2013
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Design Principle Fall 2010
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Encounter China Winter 2013
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Heart ♥ beat Spring 2013
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MEGAform in Istanbul Fall 2012
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Light. Mirror Ambient Energy Spring 2012
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Tamsui Church Summer 2013
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Proposition in Guatemala Winter 2012
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Fuyang City Youth Center Spring 2013
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Urban Providence Fall 2011
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Liverpool Biennial Summer 2012
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Awards
CV Candidate of Bachelor of Architecture / Fine Arts June 2014 Rhode Island School of Design
Recipient of the Architectural Studies Travel Award 2012 @ Hangzhou City, China + 2013 @ Capetown, South Africa Recipient of the Peter Guimond Memorial Scholarship. Rhode Island School of Design
Architectural Experience
2BxL - behet bondzio lin architekten @Taichung, Taiwan + Münster, Germany Design Intern ‡ 2013 / 2 months Design phase of one private residential project Competition for church complex in Tamsui, Taipei. Hsieh Ying-Chun and Atelier-3 @Taiwan Design Intern ‡ 2010 / 1 month 2012 / 2 months Details and construction drawings for archive. Experiment full-scale exhibited structure and coordinate the materials for Liverpool Biennial 2012, U.K. Six-Degree Design Studio @Pawtucket, R.I., U.S.A. Design Intern ‡ 2011 / 1 month Construct and refine community garden project - Blossom. Design and construct rain water collection gabions, furniture, planting beds and trellises. TMA Architecture & Associates @Taipei, Taiwan Office Intern ‡ 2010 / 1 month Handel permits documents for legal processing, architectural rendering of residential and commercial projects.
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Competition
Community Building
Fuyang Youth Center Competition @Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China Chinese Academy of Arts ‡ 2013 Design Competition for Fuyang Youth Center in Fuyang City, Zhejiang Province, China Office of Intercultural Student Engagement @Providence, R.I., U.S.A. Website Designer ‡ 2011 - Present Design and maintain website under PHP and CSS frameworks for the office of Intercultural Student Engagement, Rhode Island School of Design (ise.risd.edu). Made In Taiwan Culture Club @Providence, R.I., U.S.A. Chair of Catering & Food ‡ 2010 - Present Overseeing the organization of activities in association with food. The club is to promote exchanges and dialogue between different ethnicities, cultural entities. Beaches Habitat for Humanity @Jacksonville, F.L., U.S.A. Lights Film Festival @Providence, R.I., U.S.A. Volunteer ‡ 2011 / 4 weeks Part of the Alternative Spring Break project. 2011 Lights Film Festival is a student curated showcase of short films and animations from RISD and around the world. Zhi-Ton Indigenous Tribe Workshop @Taitung, Taiwan Workshop Manager ‡ 2010 / 2 months Document and record the events of workshop, communicate between the communities and the workshop members, construct stairs for the existing structure with drifted wood and advocate against the economical and political exploitation of the local cultural and natural resources.
Skills
OS : Mac OSX + Windows + Ubuntu Website Design: PHP, CSS, Wordpress 2D : AutoCAD, Draftsight, Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite CS4/5/6 3D : Rhinoceros, V-ray, Language : English, Mandarin Chinese
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Tooling Infrastructure Cholera Treatment Center in Haiti Fall 2013
The studio work to develop new tools, design strategies, and tectonic systems that both respond to, and enhance the local capacity to meet architectural needs associated with Haiti’s cholera crisis. A great range of appropriate construction technologies are examined – both analog and digital – towards creating sustainable, rapidly deployable, high performance CTCs that address local conditions and culture, towards establishing a viable and distributed cholera treatment infrastructure. Haiti, a country severely lack of national infrastructure - sanitary, healthcare, and transportation system, is facing an even greater challenge after the 2010 earthquake. Buildings, institutions, and homes are destroyed. Within little time to rebuild, cholera epidemic struck due to the lack of proper water treatment system. Thus, one has to look at Haiti’s reconstruction in a systematic and infrastructural scale.
Prologue
Rubber Tree Seedling
Metal Stock
Cement Coconut Tree Seedling Hydraulic Jack
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Deployement of Design
Coconut Boaard Mixture Tests
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Materials
What is infrastructure? Infrastructure is a systematic organization aims at improving the life of the ordinary common people. It may oftentimes take tremendous duration of time in order to establish such system. Thus even though I set out with an objection to design an cholera treatment center that is a present and temporary issue, I would like to find something that has the potential in an infrastructural level. Coconut Cement Board Coconut fiber is one of the major byproducts of coconut oil and coconut juice. The current commercial use of coconut fiber (coconut coir) are products such as car seats, mattress and geotextile for retaining water. Because of coconut fiber’s strong capacity in holding the water, by adding it with cement, it has the ability to provide the water needed for curing cement before the compound are compressed together. Out of many tropical plants species, coconut has the ability to grow under poor soil and weather with excess precipitation. Though coconut takes about 10 years to be mature enough to bear fruits, it is also the time needed for Haiti to reestablish all its infrastructures.
Harvesting
Dehusking
XL Mixing : Concrete
Board Pressing
Defibering
Water Bathing
Xs+Xs Drying
Coconut Cement Board Production Process Materials Exploration Coconut Fiber are soaked and mixed with Portland cement mixture or vulcanized moldmaking rubber then compressed by clamps or hydraulic press machine.
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The goal of this studio is to design and build a machine which makes a building components and assembly that construct the Cholera Treatment Center. In the hope that such deployable design can provide the people a tool to reconstruct.
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Building Component
Coconut Board Design Iterations
Final Board Design & Connection
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Up Coconut Fiber Board, before taking out of the mold. Right Final physical Coconut Cement Board, with eight metal sleeves connections cast inside. Upper Left Coconut Cement Board design iterations. Left Final Coconut Cement Board Design, accompanied with exploded axon of the bolted connections. Lower Left Process of Making the Final Physical Coconut Cement Board: a. CNC routing top and bottom molds. b. Primed with Paint. c. Cut the coconut fiber. d. Soak it with water. e. Mix it with Portland Cement. f. Place the mixture in the mold. g. Load the mold into machine. Compress board by pumping the hydraulic jacks. h. Removing the mold.
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Cholera Treatment Center
Hospitalization/Treatment
Staff/Office Waste
Reception/Waiting Area
Screening/Mild Dehydration
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Cholera Treatment Center
Cholera Treatment Center Plan Left, Lower Left Cholera Treatment Center Perspective Rendering Upper Right Wall Assembly
Corner condition, with connection to foundation and roof Lower Right Physical Corner Assembly
Previous Perspective
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Wall Assembly
Foundation, Wall and Roof
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02 Prologue
Rural
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Encounter China Expedition to Rural China Winter 2013
In winter 2013, I traveled to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, researching its peripheral rural-urban conditions. It was an 6-week long independent research project with first-hand experience. Reflections and thoughts are summarized in the form of a booklet.
Three Rural Issues 三農問題 Rural China has undergone many major transformations in the past one-hundred years. From land reformation in the 1950s, the Great Leap Forward campaign in the 1960s to the later Cultural Revolution, rural villages always played an important role in the Chinese political and social history. After the Chinese economic reform, rural China is facing many social issues. Three Rural Issues (三農問題), concept proposed by Economist Wen Tie-Jun (溫鐵軍) in 1996, were three main issues identified as the future problems rural China has to deal with. They are issues regarding agriculture, rural villages and peasants accompanied with other social problems such as population mobility and wealth disparity. Agriculture, in need of industrialization and advancement in technologies, has to raise their production efficiency and intensified the industry. Rural villages are facing problems like the lack of infrastructure, poor facility in public health and educational resources. Ultimately, peasants are the core to these three problems. Because of their low-paid positions and the increasing disparity between city and rural areas, labor in the rural area were forced to depart and seek opportunity in the cities, leaving only the elders and children in the villages.
The New Villages Policy The Chinese central government, in realizing the emerging problem in the rural areas executed the new rural village policy (新農村建設). Adopting from the Korean New Community Movement in 1970, the major objections of this policy is to advance the rural infrastructure such as road network, irrigation facilities, drinking water, public health, education and land reform. At the same time, intensify and industrialize agriculture in order to generate more empty land for development such as highway and railway development to alleviate land shortage issue in the urban area.
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Old & New
Chu-Jia Wu village (裘家塢村) is one of the villages influenced by this policy. When I visited, a great part of the old village was demolished to create farmland and spaces for construction of infrastructures such as the highspeed rail. New houses are offered to the owners to compensate their old houses. These new houses are built in adjacent to the remained old village but in its own gridded layout. Four to six houses form a row and face the rear of another row. They are constructed with reinforced concrete and bricks, three-levels, same footage and same height. The only alternation the villagers can make on the exterior is the tile covering and window overhangs. Variety of patterns is generated with mosaic tiles. Hybrid styles are created by different architectural symbols, ranging from Greek columns, pediments to East European towers. It is a popular new house style easily seen across the developing rural villages, for its low building cost and the symbolic meaning to a modernized life style.
Left High-speed Rail cutting through the village and is now under construction Right “Standard Rural Houses Construction Manual“, found in the Hangzhou Public Library.
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Up - Old 200-year-old Temen, Owner: Jiang Lun-Lin Temen (ĺ?°é–€) is a local style that refers to houses that surrounded an entirely enclosed courtyard with a front door and two side entries. These side entries usually lead to the side entries of another Temen owned by a different household who is under the same family.
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Down - New Recently finished reinforced concrete three-level house, 2006. Owner: Jiang Ban-Jin, a former committee secretary of this village. The house is split in half sharing between two households. The west wing belongs to Jiang Ban-Jin and the other belongs to his brother-inlaw. The entire house is elevated one meter off the ground for concern of flood. He wants his house to be used for hundreds of years.
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Hidden Talent
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One particular phenomena I observed from my visits to the different villages is a strong intuition the villagers have with their material environment. They bundle, stack, pile up, collect and store systematically about everything. These are primitive and fundamental reactions such as to fill in, to encircle, and to layer, which are less easily to spot while in an urban area than in the rural. However, such close relationship between human and construction materials are gradually disappearing from the rural environment while the urban construction techniques and styles made their way to the rural areas. Advanced technology were blindly followed and architecture symbols were wrongly worshiped. For them, the newer the more advanced, the better. Average age of the Chinese construction workers is constantly rising. Fewer young adults are willing to work in the laborious condition even though it is comparatively highly paid. They prefer easier works in the service sectors. Craftsmen still existed among the villages and for architects it is very easy for them to forget such facts. There is a way to protect this disappearing primitive and intuitive nature in the rural. We have to regard and respect the local craftsmanship, providing spaces for their own inventions.
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MEGAform in Istanbul Yenikapi International Train Station Fall 2012
Based on the preliminary design brief of the recent Yenikapi Train Station International Competition in Yenikapi, Istanbul, individual were asked to propose design strategy for the Yenikapi Terminal and the peripheral programs, which include a high school, commercial and residential complex. The proposals have to further oscillate the idea of “Megaform�. Megaform, originated from Kenneth Frampton’s essay Megaform as Urban Landscape, refer to the form-giving potential of certain kinds of horizontal urban fabric capable of effecting some kind of topographic transformation in the megalopolitan landscape.
The Permeable History
Before 1453, Yenikapi was once a swampy harbor. By time, the stream gradually deposited silt and covered the no longer usable harbor. By 1521, Yenikapi became an orchard until the construction of motorways along the shore of the historical peninsula.
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Archaeological Park With the discovery and excavation of the old Theodosius Port, Part of the ruins will be incorporated with the new water system as an historical water park.
High School By including part of the water infrastructure with the hight school, students are encouraged to discover the connection of the history, ecology and urban infrastructure.
Yenikapi Train Station By incorporating the Yenikapi Train Station with the existing uncovered historical ruins, visitors are welcomed by the historical park.
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Mega System
The project is built on top of the concept of recognizing Yenikapi as two systems - islands and web. Islands as a collection of events, in which activities intensified. Web, on the other hand, is constructed network which connects and integrates the dispersed islands as one bigger entity. Web as the embedded water treatment system. Based on this concept, my proposal takes form as building entities sprouting from ground with water treatment system embedded as a network that connects each islands. By embedding an building + infrastructure system, opportunities are created around the perimeter for a future alternative. Furthermore, Historical symbols, such as the old Theodosius Port and Yeli Neighborhood, are also reinforced to retain the lineage and heritage of Yenikapi.
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Light, Mirror, and Ambient Energy Nantucket Island School of Design and Arts Spring 2012
The primary goal of this studio is to focus on the potential of Solar Energy. Solar energy is understood through both scientific methodologies and artistic approaches. Building form and materials are analyzed to see how they can be deployed to interplay with the dynamics of the environment and ecosystems. The studio will explore the potential of new types of energy systems that coordinate and aggregate substance into a unique and sustaining whole within its environment. Both passive and active solar energy are introduced and incorporated to the design of the project.
Capture Sun&Time
At the first stage, light sculptures and light devices are designed by individual and choreographed between each other in to create a public event that transforms the atmosphere of a site in Providence (Market Square). Full-scale individual components are created to catch, concentrate, reflect, amplify or store sunlight using only lightweight highly reflective structures. The solar installation are constructed with two parabolas facing each other which concentrates and double reflects sunlight and create ephemeral instance of reflection on the neighboring wall.
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Linear Parobolic Trough Solar Power Concentrator
Expansion Space Thermal Envelope
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Diagrams Summer - Open to the surrounding landscape Winter - Enclosed and wrapped the school within the center courtyard.
Solar Art NISDA
At the second stage, student is asked to design a self-sufficient and resilient complex for the NISDA (Nantucket Island School of Deisgn and Arts), located on the eastern edge of Nantucket Island, M.A. PHPP (Passive House Design Package) calculation method was introduced and used in evaluating the energy performance of the design project. This proposal is built on the concept of an expandable structure which changes its form according to the environment conditions. The expandable structure also provides the possibility to have linear parabolic solar concentrator on the roof which generates most of the heat and power for the building.
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Proposition in Guatemala Day and Night - Twin Lights Winter 2012
“Proposition in Guatemala” is a 6-week long travel studio aiming at enriching the study of architecture through travel experience. In the duration of 6 weeks, student has to finish a 100-pages painting sketchbook along with a design project. During the trip, we visited Flores, the major tourist city and nearby famous archaeological site, Tikal(Tik’al) in the first two weeks. In the following 4 weeks, we stayed in Antigua, one of the famous post-colonial cities in Guatemala, and also explored the surrounding villages.
Marking Memory
Textural Memory
3 pages of water color sketches per day. Multitude of different mark-making techniques were explored: line-weight, composition, colors, texture, light and shadows...etc.
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Twin Lights
The site is a raised elongated open park located in the center of Antigua. To the east side of the site is a colonial period public basin that provides public water source for the surrounding Maya communities as they can freely collect water, wash clothes and rest. The existing site has several palm trees planted by the municipal government and is under construction for an underground public bathroom facility in upgrading their compatibility to the increasing volumes of tourists and seasonal religious events.
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Plan Candle workshop and candle sunbleaching courtyard.
Sections Subterranean public bathroom with a candle work shop above.
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Star Candle
Local crafts are well preserved because of the local prosperous tourist business. Candle making especially, is one of the traditional crafts that are still existing and operating locally. My interest resides in the distinct and intriguing process of candle making in relation to the working environment of craftsmen/craftswomen. One of the most popular products in the traditional candle shop is the white candle for religious practice. However, white candles that made from natural bee wax require 6~7 months of solar exposure in order to achieve certain state of color quality. Thus the close relationship this program celebrate with sunlight has an intricate reverse character when darkness is needed for candle to perform. By providing spaces for both the process of making candle and the display of candle, architecture can be experienced very specifically and differently during the day and the night.
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Urban Providence Elders, Students and Visitors Fall 2011
This studio consists of three programs : habitation for Brown University students, hotel for visitors and an elderly center on a site in Providence. Besides urban issues such as context, scale and public space, issues of building organization, room layout, accessibility light and view will be emphasized.
Chapter VII. Parcel Planning and Capacity Studies
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Rhode Island Interstate 195 Surplus Land: Redevelopment and Marketing Analysis
Providence Jewelry District, Site Plan Down Rendering of urban condition
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Required Surface Area 28400 ft2
33725 ft2
HOTEL
Required Surface Area 28400 ft2
31775 ft2 STUDENT DORM
39920 ft2 DAYCARE & AFTER-SCHOOL
Building Height 33725 ft2
HOTEL
ELDERLY HOUSING
ELDERLY HOUSING
31775 ft2 STUDENT DORM
39920 ft2 DAYCARE & AFTER-SCHOOL
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Elderly Housing Cooking Arts / Arts and Crafts Classrooms
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Hotel Student Housing
Entertainment/ Study Rooms Convention Center Art Studios/ Stores Kindergarten / Nursery School Cafeteria Commercial / Retail Stores
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Interlocking Programs
Recognizing the various types of users on site, my aim is to accommodate all and promote a sense of community within the block. Public programs are deployed as middle ground for interaction between different groups of users and as mediation between public and private. The block is divided into two parts: the commercial/public zone and a residential/private zone. The commercial zone is comprised of a hotel, convention center and retail stores which cut through the site. The residential zone is comprised of the elderly housing, student dorms and other public programs as a kindergarten, nursery and culinary schools classrooms, entertainment rooms and study rooms.
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Design/Build - Blossom Community Garden Spring 2011
In this 12-week long semester, the entire studio collaboratively designed and constructed the community garden and public pavilions at 333 Roosevelt Avenue in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The site brings together three distinct groups: the Chinese Christian Church of Rhode Island, the Heritage Park YMCA: Early Childhood Education Center, and Roosevelt Community Housing. Integrating the divergent expectations of these groups became a determining factor in the design. The intervention sites itself on the available green space, simultaneously addressing the needs of gardeners and visitors. The proposal and construction represent the combined efforts of seventytwo undergraduate and graduate students.
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Design Phase
To develop the final proposal, the studio worked via a series of twelvehour charrettes to compose a master plan and project timeline. The built proposal began with a set of construction drawings, scale models, and detailed studies that were then brought on site to use as a working reference.
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Construction Process
Responsibilities were divided between construction, model building, design details, and drawing documents. With such strict deadlines, teams needed to react quickly and creatively to issues as they arose. Challenges like these provide the real world experience that solidifies an understanding of the relationship between design and construction.
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Follow Up
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In the following summer, with the help of four other classmates, I polished and finished the remaining works left from the studio design-built project. Works includes building furniture and more planting beds, water catchment gabions and more trellis and steps. As season changed, astonishing transformation took place. The two pavilions are well utilized by the local communities, as well as the garden beds. This place not only flourished as community garden, it also strengthen the communities around it.
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Design Principle The Beginning Fall 2011
This studio explores design principles common to architecture, and landscape architecture. Projects are selected to provide a basis for discerning and investigating both the differences of focus suggested by the two disciplines and their common concerns. Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued: 1) the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation and 2) meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.
Tectonic
The first stage of the studio started by examining an assigned fisherman knot and translating it into a paper material. Once logic of knot is figured out, one has to generate different units by applying the same selfrefrained principle. Further investigation are made to each units, such as material properties, kinetic characteristics and means of connection..etc. A multitude architectural properties are explored: relationship to ground, resistance to gravity, and connection without adhesive.
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Habitation
The second stage is aiming at helping students to understand the construct of architecture for a true inhabitant. The students has to use the tectonic of the previous realized units to construct a habitation for Minotaur which provides space for sleeping, dine and bathing. Three programmatic spaces are designated: sleeping area with skylight resides at the top of the structure providing privacy and view to the shore, living area at the first level looking down to the ground floor where pockets of the cone units embedded into the ground and became the bathing tubs. Bathing area emerges and recedes depends on the different tidal condition.
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Collective Consciousness
Heart ♥ Beat Physical Connections Spring 2013
I am interested in the moment of experience that - One longer embedded in the collective whole -Sensing oneself as attached or linking to the greater matter - Awaken from the obedient uniformity and regains its autonomy
“For if society lacks the unity that derives from the fact that the relationships between its parts are exactly regulated, that unity resulting from the harmonious articulation of its various functions assured by effective discipline and if, in addition, society lacks the unity based upon the commitment of men’s wills to a common objective, then it is no more than a pile of sand that the least jolt or the slightest puff will suffice to scatter.” ---- Emile Durkheim
“a person’s mind might survive death in a fragmentary state in the collective consciousness, a pool of memories and minds.” ---Garden Murphy
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Connect Physically
The idea that through the synchronization of physicality, one is consciously connected to the collective beyond. So the idea of an Heart Beat Machine emerged. Through the amplification of one’s physical properties, I can create the experience of connection and relationship between one and the whole. I am interested in the experience when one realizes his/her connections and association with the bigger collective either through physical or psychological means and then humbly admit his/her autonomy as no longer independent but carrying consequences.
Position the Heart How do we approach a human heart? How do we connect to others? If we are touching their heart, is it the closest we can get to someone else?
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Mimicking the Human Heart Material such as Gelatine and Flour are experimented to stimulate the weight and texture of the human heart. Then audio amplifier is applied to the human heart with extreme low frequency in order to vibrate the stimulated heart.
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Tamsui Church Competition Paradise Land 2BXL - Summer 2013
Tamsui New District is undergone a major zoning development in Tamsui, Taipei. With a new residential block zoning, mixing ground floor retails and urban pockets for recreation, the new district is expecting a medium density of population resides in this new developed area. Commissioned by one of the local Christian religious foundation, Tamsui Church Competition are looking for an eight-story church complex which houses two auditorium for large congregation and occasional wedding ceremony, A major street front provides opportunity for urban relationship to develop.
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Fuyang City Youth Center Seeking Experience 尋境 Spring 2013
Fuyang’s Youth Centre is not a building. It is a journey through the mountains, where the youth experiment, participate and learn. The constructed landscape draws inspiration from Huang Gongwang’s “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”, where intertwining paths and layered spaces are created to be explored. Our environment establishes the future context for growth in Fuyang City.
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Liverpool Biennial 2012 Emergency Shelter
Hsieh-Ying Chung and Atelier3 - Summer 2012
During the two months of my internship in Hsieh-Ying Chun and Atelier3, I have the honor to participate the design and production of their exhibition for the Liverpool Biennial 2012. The tents are constructed out of slotted-angled steel which demonstrates durable and low-cost emergency shelter that can be constructed easily and fast after disasters. Hsieh-Yin Chun architect has spent decades in practicing and experimenting with simplified construction techniques, flexible production line, and building community through cooperative building.
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