FAN XIA
PORTFOLIO
INTIMATE & EXPOSED FOOD COMMUNITY
The project is a renewed restaurant design with two main micro-programs: exposed resting and intimate dining area to create a richer experience for costumers. The approach is creating a different gradient of publicness and privacy in relationship to interiority and exteriority. Intimacy experience is controlled by relative connections from inside-out or outside-in. Visual contact is the principal design elements employed as tangible and intangible boundaries to define public or private levels in the space. The most exposed programmatic components have a stronger connection from outside-in whereas the most private ones follow the opposite situation.
Rethinking of partition components between different space
Solid Partition - Absolutely private - No visual connection neither inside-out nor outside-in.
Transparent Partition - Absolutely connected to outside - No privacy
Is it possible to keep privacy inside without losing visual connection to outside?
Design Method The screen design is the method that combines visual blocking and visual connection properties. The distance from people’s eye to the screen is deciding whether it works as a window or a block. In this project, public is not open space necessarily. It means if people are exposed to others sight or not.
Design Method
Exposed
6th Ave
Intimate
1032 6th Ave, New York 4 Stories Footprint Area: 3387sf Built in 1914 Mixed used Building: - Commercial used on the ground floor - Residential Used on the rest levels
39th St
Site Plan Scale: 1/64”= 1’
Intimate
Exposed
Section Scale: 1/64”= 1’
Step 1: Open Kitchen in the mid as a performance stage for the whole restaurant.
Step 2: Place lounge area in between formal dining area and the kitchen to create a hierarchy of view to the kitchen, to define publicness and privacy. If a particular area is closer to the kitchen, it considers as a more public area.
Step 3: Putting lounge areas on top of the kitchen and overlap each other to open view from formal dining area to kitchen. Cutting the lounge area into oblique shape to keep a bigger range of visual connection from top to the kitchen on the lower level.
Kitchen Lounge - Informal Dinning Formal Dinning Napping Area
Curtain set for napping area - High density of fabric curtain for both privacy and warming demand
Glass floor on lounge area - Frosted glass that brings natural light from sky window Napping area - The most privacy place in the whole restaurant space with none transparent property Glass dining table and floor - The table and the flooring on formal dining area is made by clear glass to work as window Downward lighting
Drop ceiling made by denser louvers - The drop ceiling blocks view from lobby to upper level but still allows visual connection from upper level to lower level
- The downward lighting hidden in between fins makes visual connection from lobby to formal dining area even weaker
Formal dining space view
39th St
6th Ave Lobby space view
Visual Collage Folk Art Museum
The warehouse renovation project focus on the study of the culture of American folk art and the project site, Dumbo Brooklyn. Use visual collage as a method to make visitors overlook the art pieces and the site (Brooklyn Bridge) as background, to emphasize the inner connection in between.
Making a hallway connecting the two viewpoints
Visual conncection to the Brooklyn Bridge
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Converging point of views to low height houses in Brooklyn and high-rise buildings in Manhattan
Creating an inside garden that only opens views to Brooklyn Bridge and the sky
Two exhibition sections division - Brown part facing the river and Manhattan - White part facing the environment of Brooklyn
Parallel to Brooklyn Bridge to maximize the opportunity for visitors to observe the bridge
The museum is divided into three halls in different themes
Nature Hall
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Industry Hall
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Additional path beside exhibition halls that provides extra experience of watching the site rather than artworks
Mini-Industry Hall
Nature Hall Maximize the connection with the surrounding natural elements like sunlight, water, grass and the sky to reinforce the properties of nature of each artwork. The Nature Hall is the first exhibition space to see right after the ticket office. The floor height makes the original brick wall to block people’s view of the high buildings from Manhattan island.
Industry Hall This exhibition hall is a rectangular space that perpendicular to the sight line of people who’s looking at the Brooklyn Bridge in this hall, which is providing a strong visual connection from the area to the huge bridge. Brooklyn Bridge is a modern industrial art piece that constructed by thousands of labors who has no name recorded in history. Two characters can be read from the bridge, collaboration and nameless “artists.� Many artists collaborated to make each quilt artwork, and unnamed artists created the sculptures here. The wooden frame display design is making the bridge as visual background for each sculpture. The artworks and Brooklyn Bridge are working together to make their subjects stronger in the Industry Hall.
Mini-Industry Hall Keep using the concept of “visual collage� from the previous exhibition space; the collaboration is between the artwork and the brick wall of the buildings on the other side of the street. The wooden frames are longer to show only a small portion of the brick wall. If people have a longer distance to the display frame, they can see a larger portion of the brick wall. It is a metaphor to represent a hidden connection between artworks that next to each other. Several art pieces that done by one person could be suitable in this exhibition hall.
Nature Hall
Nature Hall
Cafe
Reception Gift Shop Indutry Hall
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Classroom
Auditorium Mini-Industry Hall
Office
Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Third Floor Plan