WORK SAMPLES | TAO, YILAN Cornell AAP 2013-2014 Pre-Cornell 2011-2013
Work Samples | Tao, Yilan Cornell AAP 2013-2014 Pre-Cornell 2011-2013
01 Promenade Gallery Studio Le Corbusier Remix
02 Open Chest of Art
Venice Artist Home and Museum
03 Apartment of Sky View Berlin Cooperating Housing
04 Speed of the Flow
Theater and Hotel Complex
05 Blossom Pavilion Parametric Design
06 Soundscape
Digital Ceramic Installation
Villa Le Lac ( Parents’ House) The small house has a long, horizontal window facing the lake. But the functional core is blocked between the entrance and the landscape, so that the space sequence is play a game of “plain-narrow-expanded”.
Ronchamp Chapel Ronchamp Chapel is integrated closed to its landscape. The promenade starts from the foot of the hill, turns in a clockwise direction into the chapel, and then expands at the outdoor altar.
Promenade and Lighting
Concept Models
Lighting in Church of Firminy and Ronchamp Chapel.
Concept models, attempts with different geometries.
1”/4’ Model
Wood, Plexi and Stainless Steel The studio took advantages of the various fabrication facilities on Cornell Campus. Wood and plexi - laser cut in AAP; stainless steel- water-jet in physics lab.
Long Section
Promenade Gallery
Studio Le Corbusier Remix Option Studio, Cornell Instructor: Mark Morris Fall 2013
Le Corbusier has been a permanent topic in the architectural field. Following the Corb exhibition in MOMA from June to September 2013, the studio takes the chance to design a group of small galleries on the rooftop gardens of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. Each of the galleries accommodates 6 of Corb’s sculptures from Le Corbusier Foundation. The idea of promenade can be seen in nearly every piece of Corb’s work, from Villa Le Lac and Savoye to Ronchamp Chapel, integrated perfected with the landscape, thus it becomes the concept of the gallery. Spaces with different kinds of atmosphere are composited along the linear journey on different levels, which serves as exhibition space, info center, cafe and rest rooms, while expanding before the eyes of visitors a sequence of urban scenes on the 5th Avenue. The journey culminates in the tiny patio following the long walk in the gallery tunnels, where visitors are embraced by the surrounding urbanscapes and can view the places they have just entered and passed.
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Night view on 5th Avenue
With Rockefeller Center and St. John Cathedral
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Perspectives on Promenade
Small perspectives shows the views visitors will see during the tour, both interior and urbansacape around. Reading clockwise; the entrance and the exit are next to each other.
Gallery Interior
Curving wall accommodates the Corb sculptures; the wall with waving surface metamorphoses the light from windows and sky lights.
Open chest of art
Venice Artist Home and Museum
First Prize in Joint Studio and Competition L’Atelier International de L’Architecture Construite Instructor: Xiaoqing Chen Spring 2012
Duet Facades
Commercial and Residential In Venice
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Venice Jewelry
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SITE Front
l cana aza mal l the s n Polo P to Sa the Grand Canal
Venice, the fascinating city on the sea is delicate and comprehensive, for that its role has been constantly changing in the last hundreds of years, from the bustling European port to nowadays the historical live culture center.
Tourists used to know a lot what the great canal is like, but few learn what other parts of the island is like on tourism guild books. A walk at the site by oneself will reveal the complexity of its social ecosystem and the secret of its long lasting prosperity. When you leave the main streets and rivers, and go into the residential area in the north Back and east of the island, you find a living Venice, less commercial, and more alive. This is the area where handicraft factories, fishery and port operation still exists, and they are still the major industry supporting the island.
Opening Chest
Exhibition and Living Since the site is on the crossing of the Great Canal and a small canal, its two facades shall reacts differently to the context. Thirty units of studio and residence are required in this project. They assembly form a complex inner structure, and this structure is exposed to the public space above the small canal. The various platforms serve as exhibition space and commercial space. Nevertheless The facade facing the Great Canal is smooth as its neighbors. The building will be like an treasure chest, opening a crack to the Great Canal.
Geometry Study for Public Space
Roofs
Model Section
Geometrical form of the public space is important in this project; the study begins with a straight facade, then develop into two divergent proposals, and ends up with the combination of the two divergences according to water traffic requirement and visual accessibility from the other side of the Grand Canal.
The project adopts the traditional slope roofs.
Physical models showing the inner facades and back elevations.
Image of the view from the canal
Top View
South View
Living Units
Iterations of Unit Combinations
Each unit, either for painter or for sculptor, has a duplex studio and a single apartment.
Units are combined due to requirements and also accessibility to the public platforms.
North-west View
North-east View
Color of the Street
Design for Blurred Public boundary Along the canal street The narrow streets differ from the great avenues in many aspects, one of which is its color. It is a common scene in back streets in Venice that hanging clothes are lined up by color above the streets. To create a dialogue between this custom and the new building, bright colors are added to the bottom surface of the overhanging boxes, which can be seen from the water street when tourists pass by.
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Detail The detail drawing shows the section of the exterior balcony.
Structural Axon
cover and tiles roof frames
exterior walls
separating walls
bearing walls and pillars
Apartment of Sky View Berlin co-housing project
Optional Studio at Cornell Instructor: Verena Von Beck, Tim Heide Spring 2014
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Left to right: Floor plan from ground floor to the 5th floor
This project explored the possible public spacial connection in a cooperative housing. It adopted the traditional courtyard prototype, while it also adds terrace space, or small yards into the built volume, thus creating visual corridors between different yards in a residential community. Shifts in the heights of the volumes introduce more light into the small courtyards, and redirecting the visual corridors to the sky. The process of the design starts with the abstraction of the site, which is typical in Berlin urban district. The depth of the site is much larger than the width, and on both long sides are the fire protection walls, which block air and light. By dividing the long courtyard into smaller ones, the project introduced more north-south direction rooms, which become the core living area in every apartment unit. The void part, the open terrace, also enables opening on the wall of the dark corner room-the “Berlin Room�, which improves its spacial quality to a considerable extent. The proposal is not only designed for this site, but also bears the potential to be adapted to other sites in Berlin.
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Apartment Type: Six Duplex Units
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Speed of the Flow
Theater and hotel Complex Senior Optional Studio Instructor: Xiangdong Lu Spring 2011 Cooperative work with Jin Chen
The site is on the north-west corner of Beijing city, located between Beijing University and Tsinghua University, surrounded by the busies technology area in the city. The site is narrow and as long as 136 meters, with complicated existing public traffic around. The main street on its west, Zhongguancun North Street, provides easy access to buses and subways, and also brings large amount of pedestrians passing through the site. On the narrowest part, the neck of the site, there is an existing pathway connecting the two universities which students use very often. After analyzing the demands of potential users of the theater and hotel facilities, and also taking the existing circumstances of its traffic demands and public space into consideration, we de-composite the complex into three parts, which are the small experimental theater, the main theater, and the hotel high-rise. A front plaza and a walkway through the complex is designed so that the new building still attracts the pedestrian flows on the site.
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Pedestrians cross the triangle part of the site from one university to the other.
Function Analysis and Traffic Analysis
theater
commercial
hotel
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connection
Potential Users
which are students, faculties, visiting scholars and technicians, traveling business man, local residents.
Ground Floor Plan
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Bird View from West
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Main Theater Interior
The main theater tcan accomodates 500 audience and has a full functional stage.
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Entrance Lobby
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Soft Membrane Lightbox
Dark Mable Stage
Entrance Lobby The interior design of the entrance lobby of the hotel is dedicated to the irregular sharp of the plan. The stratching lightbox echoes the exterior facade, and guides guests either to the dining room or the elevators. Auditorium
Light Mable
Grey Mable
Walnut Wood
Creation facing density 798 art zone 798 Art Zone is a thriving artistic community houses among 50-year old military factory buildings. Since its booming from 2001, the center of 798 experienced a dramatic increasing in passenger traffic and rental cost.
creation with existing site analyse Site Analyse focuses on two aspect: the circulation around the site, which has a large impact on the ground floor plan; the industrial scenery in the district, which affects the geometry of upper levels.
Blossom Pavilion
Parametric Design
Senior Optional Studio Instructor: Weiguo Xu Summer 2012
Located aside the entrance plaza of 798 Art Zone, the thriving creation center of Beijing, the site requests for creation as well as density. The studios around the site are the most popular and regarded as “classical� in the zone. Nevertheless, the site itself is a forgotten inner yard at the prime location. It shares the large tourist flow around it, thus has the potential to be a connector of the studios around it. So instead of replacing the old buildings, the proposal is to construct a growing structure blossoming over the existing.
Forming of the Containers
Containers for fluent simulation are shaped by the elements on the site and in the district. site
Containers
Different containers for experiments
Fluent Simulation iteration
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existing houses
trucks
entrance; flunt simulation
crowns
scenes, attraction; flunt simulation
function
The pavilion accomodates various service areas, including gallery, cafe and a small auditorium hall.
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walkway
exhibition
exhibition
elevator
Geometry
The diagram and sections reveal clearly how the geometries of the building are assembled.
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Skin construction
Elevations shows the relationship between the new and the existing.
The skin is part of the structure supports the building.
Concrete Panel Reinforced Concrete Colored Fibre Board
wall and floor
east elevation
Wood Panel
Triangle Steel Structure
west elevation
roof
Soundscape
Digital ceramics Workshop, Cornell Instructor: Jenny Sabin Autumn 2013 Cooperative work with Peter Williamson, Karim Daw and Xueting Wei Material: 3D print plaster models (positive) Plaster modes (negative) White Porcelain Casting Slip Cone 5 Galvanized Steel Multipurpose Strand Rope, 1 X 7, 1/32” Diameter, 185 Lb Break Strength Copper Stop Compression Sleeve, For 1/32” Rope Diameter, 1/4” Sleeve Length Copper Oval Compression Sleeve, For 1/32” Rope Diameter, 1/4” Sleeve Length Nylon 6/6 General Purpose Flat Washer, Off-white, No. 0 Screw Sz, .18”od, .07”-.09” Thk Nylon 6/6 General Purpose Flat Washer, Off-white, No. 6 Screw Sz, .44”od, .03”-.05”thk Open Aluminum Body Turnbuckle, W/ zinc-plated Eye & Eye Fittings,5/16”-18 Thread 5/16” White Bumper Post Rings
Concept: Wall of Sounds
The theme for this ceramic work is about music, or sound. After searching how people made ocarina, a simple instrument that make sound easily, we found that the frequency the wind instrument makes is decided and only decided by its volume and the length of the nozzle, rather than the shape. Adopting this idea ceramics can be potentially developed into an interactive installation of generative forms.
Design: From Digital To Fabrication
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Making: Porsitive to Negative
Generative Strategy---Molds Generative Strategy---Molds
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Since ceramic is efficient for mass production but inefficient for generative, individual designs, the fabrication strategy is important to the project. Traditionally the origami mode is consisted of two halves of plaster modes; so we if the joint section is the same, different modes can still be joint together and produce a complete ceramic piece. As a result, the joint section is equilateral triangle and allow the asymmetrical plaster modes to rotate to 3 different positions during the casting, so that we can multiple the combination by three times. In the end, there are 4 modes of different heights and shapes and nozzle positions, with which the total number of combination comes out to be 30. Virtual models are made in Maya for flexibility in control over the geometry, then printed into positive modes. The 3D print models are later casted into negative modes of plaster. The 3D print model has a different mesh resolution than the original virtual model, which becomes a digital texture on the ceramics. The size of the component, 7x7 inches, is a size that in which people can hold the piece comfortably in hand.
installation: Fabrication to Construction
Our component geometry was essentially triangular in section and contained a cable hole at the midpoint of each edge. These cable holes, created to allow the wire dia-grid to pass through the component, were made post-slip casting via a laser cut jig. Furthermore, shrinkage of the ceramics after firing is the major issue, which in our measurements was closer to roughly 8%. 2
Iterations: (C4 + 4)*(360/120)=(4*3/2+4)*3=30
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Internship
T21 Villa Project, Erdos, China Urbanus Architects
Master Plan for Old Bay Renewal, Ningbo, China Atelier Teamminus
Janamani Tourist Center, Yushu, China Atelier Teamminus
Responsible for class publication, Tsinghua, 20112012
Play Chinese fluent in CEME, Cornell, 2013-2014
Travel and Photograph
Service
Responsible of publication and documentation in 2013 Solar Decathlon, team THFI, Beijing, 2012-2013
In charge of publication department in Students Union, Tsinghua, 2012-13
Yilan Tao | Architecture Design yt437@cornell.edu | (917)-375-2801 419 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca, NY 14850