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Architecture as a Lens: A Way of Narrative.
Man Drawing a Lute by Albrecht Dürer, early 1500s
Mutual Aid
Renovation of Institute of Contemporary Art Building
School Studio Design
Philadelphia US/ Individual Project/ Fall 2023
TA: Amy Koenig
Instructor: Eduardo Rega Calvo
In today’s world, marred by violence, responsibility that lies within each of us. Central to this initiative is the to easily access and transport symbolizes the commitment To facilitate the cart, continuous curved of flow and unity. These gentle slopes community. To better program the architecture, space.
injustice, and prejudice, the creation of sanctuaries for minority communities is not just a necessity but a us. Thus, this project aims to serve as a haven for mutual support, communication, and resource exchange. the concept of a mobile cart. This simple yet innovative tool empowers individuals transport resources not only in the architecture, but also throughout the city. Its mobility to reach and assist people in need, transcending physical and social barriers. curved floors create a seamless journey through the space, eliminating obstacles and fostering a sense slopes allow for easy navigation, helping the ease with which resources and aid should flow within our architecture, the obliques are offered for lying or creating contoured stairs, ensuring a friendly and cozy
Site Analysis
The ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art museum of UPenn in Philadelphia, and the building is located at the trolley line 36th St exit. Thus, this building can be seen as a link between the private education system and the urban public transportation system. By renovating this building, we can strike at the exacerbating inequality of private university institutions, as well as further occupy the city through the urban transportation network.
The Museo de la Calle (Street Museum) is a project initiated in the 20th century by Colombian artists. Artists pushed carts into the streets to engage in goods exchange, transforming the street into a museum throughout the process, where everyone could become both a creator and a visitor of art. This form of exchange and exhibition through carts broke through the traditional elitist museum space. Through the city's public transportation network, there's an opportunity for the carts to be further promoted.
ICA Site Map
This project has three systems: Column System, Floor System and Unit System.
The column system, with its slim metal columns, offers a forest-like ambiance for tranquility and nature connection. Besides, it secures carts for resting and funnels rainwater to support plant and human acts.
The Floor System creates a continuous curved surface floor, allowing people to freely push carts on it. Following the undulations of the floor, flat platforms and stairs are created, thereby accommodating more programs.
The unit system includes mobile units, space units, and inflatable space units. This modular approach allows for the dynamic adaptation of the center to meet various needs, ranging from resource storage to creating expansive gathering areas.
Elevation View of Model
Inner View of Model
Split Town
Architectural Translation of TV series Severance
Independent Study Design
Source: Studio Alpha Open Project 214
Fictional Site/ Individual Project/ Fall 2022
Instructor: Hermione Huang
Split town is an architectural translation setting of the TV series. The design and consumption. The architecture sphere in which the controllers live. intense light is awe-inspiring, but the is a concentration of modernity - glass embodiment of humanity, with space the architecture is diversed, yet they consumption processes. The inhabitants
translation of the TV series Severance. This project attempts to criticize totalitarian capitalism by using the integrates the town in the TV series into a single architecture - a self-consistent unity of production is splited into a company and a living area. The whole architecture is surrounded by a mysterious
The light emitted by the sphere becomes the sun and moon for the people in the architecture. The the controllers are never visible, so the sphere is both people's hope and their surveillance. The company glass curtain walls, white walls and convenient elevators. The living areas, on the other hand, are the space and activity galore, and the enjoyment of the goods produced by the company. The experience in they actually complement each other and are controlled by a set of behind-the-scenes production and inhabitants thus become voluntary prisoners of the architecture.
In the TV series, after the severance procedure is performed, the memories would be separated by the chip in the brain, splitting into two personalities: the innie and the outie. outie is the original personality, and the innie personality is the newly split one, which can only exist in the building of the Lumon -The capital that controls the town. Although Lumon uses many methods to discipline people, this management model has its own endogenous contradictions, so the control is not sustainable.
Theoretical Diagram
Conceptual Collage
Section of the whole Split Town：A panoramic representation of the company contrasts with the richness of the living area, but they The architecture becomes an intallation with mobility, which
representation of residents' daily life. The strict and rational management they are both controlled and monitored by the capital at all times. which means that the threat of totalitarian capital is universal.
The Testing Floor: The place where people get severanced, and also where innies are rebooted.
The Church: The most sacred place in the living area, light of hope is no more than a mask of supervision.
Exodus of the Past
Antuo Hill Memorial and Art Museum
Architectural Competition Design
Shenzhen, China/ Individual Project/ Spring 2022
Instructor: Hermione Huang
Antuo Hill used to be a quarry in Shenzhen several long volumes attached to the through it. This black volume is composed Despite the diversity of interior spaces, as a clue, suggesting that the past movements mountain and the past destruction of
Shenzhen for reclamation. To commemorate the suffering of Antuo Hill in the past, the museum consists of the cut slope. From the outside, the museum is a long and black volume with a red bridge that meanders composed of different smaller volumes that represent spaces of different moods to form a whole narrative. spaces, the cut slope is always a part of the structure of the museum. The slope appears inside the architecture movements in Shenzhen, whether good or not, is always part of the memory. In order to echo the solid of Antuo Hill, the rectangle becomes the motif of the architecture.
Conceptual Sketch
With the urbanization of Shenzhen, the government has expanded the area of the city by reclamation. But the massive excavation has caused landscape and ecological damage. Antuo Hill is one of the stone quarries. The unique cut slope is both a distinctive feature of the site and a scar left by the city's development. If the parallel lines in the conceptual sketch represent modernism, then the natural traces of pigment flowing down are the possible exodus of modernity.
The Shadow Corridor has a lot of windows opening on one side of the wall, which bring in light reflected by the cut slope, becoming a metaphor of Shenzhen's past. After walking through different spaces, people finally arrives at the Meditation Hall, where the cut slope becomes the main character and leads the visitors to meditation. Walking up the stairs, the tour ends up in the Exodus Galley full of plants and reconnects with nature.
1. Entrance Hall 2. Shadow Corridor 3. Gallery of Memory 4. Multi-functional Exhibition Hall
Model Images
EscapeGallery
Gallery of Memory: The heavy volume above and the light sprinkled between the gaps form a mysterious atmosphere.
Meditation Hall: The soaring space and the sloping wall creates a monumental atmosphere.
1. Mysterious Woods
2. Lake
Concrete
Aluminum Roof
Steel Column
Wood Planks
Expanded Metal Sheet
Viewing Deck: Tilted columns "push" people to the view
Canopy Walk: The path meanders through the woods
Top Deck: Raised light shelter expands the view of Yangtze River
Sunken Pavilion: A serene space
Buddhist Statue, 2020 Watercolor on Paper
Corner of the Courtyard, 2020 Watercolor on Paper