WORK SAMPLES | 2015-2016 TAI FENG|University of Pennsylvania
1.Eco Loop This project focuses on reactivating as well as integrating the lagoon of Cartagena by creating an ecological organization from an urban scale.
Infrastructure Design | 2016
2.Campus City This project is challenging traditional education space by recreating and integrating learning space in the "campuscity" building.
Educational Space Design| 2015
3.Shape the Edge A Rowhouse Prototype for Modern Philadelphia: the strategy is to create different boundary condition at different level of the house based on the spatial identity.
House Design| 2015
4.Biomorph This project talks about understanding the asset urbanism by creating the "atmosphere" tower at Manhattan.
Skyscraper Design | 2015
5.Material Structure Workshop PennDesign Elective Course: Material Structure Intelligence. Simulation and Optimization based on the materiality and structural performance.
Pavilion Design | 2016
6.Vertical City Provide new urban design ideas and methodology to achieve a new urban development based on a vertical city proposal.
Urban Design | 2016
7.Eco-Architecture Workshop PennDesign Elective Course: Building Performance Simulation & Design Performance Workshop.
Building Simulation | 2015-2016
Work1: Eco-Loop A new wall of Cartagena
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Water Purification Mechanism The loop starts from the south corner, a space consisting of water purification installations, near the entrance of the river. Each installation sinks and emerges, as water rains down from each "leaf" : a process for water purification and transportation.
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High-Density Residential for Birds
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Work2: Campus City Multi-Layered Urban Connector
Continuous Plan Seen from the plan, at different level of the vertical campus, there will be different programs based on the spatial identity. At the height of 40 & 30 meters, it has a library space which has multiple types of space for different study and communication activities. Also, the library is connected with the quiet dormitory area and outdoor space.
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Continuous Vertical Campus The design goal is to connect the lower community area with the upper urban environment while integrate it with innovative education space. Instead of creating a flatten campus which is limited by the urban environment, the project is inspired by creating a continuous vertical campus that contains a series of public program and educational space.
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Vertical Campus Space in the Campus is lying along the cliff environment. The program will be different at different height level in terms of the urban condition. The upper level is mainly for educational and cultural use, while the lower level would serve as a community center for the surrounding resident.
Work3: Shape the Edge A Rowhouse Prototype for Modern Philadelphia 2016 Spring PennDesign Elective Course In-Between Space Our Dream Life carefully caters to this ideal of an “in-between” space, and embraces its place in the city and in our lives. Neighboring buildings and people become a part of our new inter-related space that facilitates a calculated self-reliant life. Utopian visions of suburban life sithin the confines of an urban setting are realized via our facade garden that generates a natural(and seemingly unnatural) divide, as well as a tectonic shift from what is normal. Finally, our imagined home requires a facade that si flexible, capable of open and closing,shifting and moving, and adapting to the changes we desire in a public to private gradient of space in our home.
In order to achieve our “Dream Life” facade, technology will play an important part and embraced in all facets. Technology must first and foremost facilitate design, and will probably assist in fabrication material and structural components. Our structurual system must be precisely tailored to the challenges of facade-integrated urban garden (farm), that also accommodates egress and light, and ties into the existing structural integrity of a row home (longwall to longwall).
THE GARDEN HOUSE | A Rowhouse Prototype For Modern Philade The Dream Life
Private Domain
Our Dream Life is one that is both simple and clean, and close to nature. Our lives are compactly organized around carefully organized spaces, and embrace the openness of the city block, but retain the privacy most people desire. With the “edge of society”, the façade of a rowhome, existing between our intimate lives and the reality of the world, we do not wish for it to act as a barrier. We’d rather our societal “edge” bridge the gaps between private and public, and hold within it programmatic elements that incorporate a communal ideal; acting similarly to the “stoop” or “canopy” of typical residential buildings of today and yesterday. Our Dream Life carefully caters to this ideal of an “in-between” space, and embraces its place in the city and in our lives. Neighboring buildings and people become a part of our new inter-related space that facilitates a calculated self-reliant life. Utopian visions of suburban life within the confines of an urban setting are realized via our façade garden that generates a natural (and seemingly unnatural) divide, as well as a tectonic shift from what is normal. Finally, our imagined home requires a façade that is flexible, capable of open and closing, shifting and moving, and adapting to the changes we desire in a public to private gradient of space in our home.
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Technology In order to achieve our “Dream Life” façade, technology will play an important part and embraced in all facets. Technology must first and foremost facilitate design, and will probably assist in fabrication material and structural components. Our structural system must be precisely tailored to the challenges of façade-integrated urban garden (farm), that also accommodates egress and light, and ties into the existing structural integrity of a row home (longwall to longwall). Technology will also be used to allow for flexible/modular systems that allow for changes that cater to real-time uses. Our moving façade will use technology to design an automated system, or an easily manipulated manual system.
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1.Kitchen 2.Living Room 3.Entrance 4.Dinning 5.Bathroom 6.Terrace 7.Bedroom
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THE GARDEN HOUSE | A Rowhouse Prototype 3rd ForFloor Modern Philadelphia 1st Floor Plan Plan The Dream Life
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ARCH 738 | The Modern House Student Team: Yuan Ma, Tai Feng, Alex C. Professor: Annette Fiero
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Work4: Biomorph Atmosphere of the Place 2016 EVOLO Skyscraper Competition: Honorable Mention
Atmosphere of Light In the facade, morphosis design of organic creature makes many different diffuse light qualities, which can produce various interior atmospheres. When people experience the space, the bright light lead and gather people who are losing way from dark area, then the dark zone attracts people who are holding a strong curiosity. The contrast of small-scale rooms and large-scale atriums gives people various spatial inspirations on the difference of urban scale.
The entire project does not only synthesize the fundamental function with morphology of the building design, but also consider large-scale urban environment as an experimental field to explore and provoke people’s diversity.
Work5: Material Structure Workshop Simulation and Optimization based on the materiality and structural performance
Work6: Vertical City Urban Design of South China Sea Eco-island
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6.Music center Art center Museum 7.Towers & Connections 8.Cruise ship route
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Work7: Bedroom Daylight Simulation& Optimization Instructor: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari
Background and Goal The study model is bedroom of a row house, located in Philadelphia,( 39.9526° N, 75.1652° W). There is no direct sun light penetration for this bedroom, however, the corridor on the south adjacent to it, has south facing window, which could potentially allow daylight penetration to the bedroom. In this project, I am working on how to improve the annual daylight autonomy, useful daylight illuminance as well as thermal comfort condition of this bedroom, by manipulating the glazing ratio and shading elements of both the exterior wall and the wall between the corridor and bedroom.
Final Result The bedroom has been designed to optimize the banlanced result between daylight and thermal comfort performance by changing the glazing ratio, adding shade, adjusting R value of wall assembly.
Baseline Bedroom
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Adding shade & Change construction materiality
Change density and depth of shade
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Changing Glazing Ratio
Useful Dayligh Illuminance(100-2000lux)
45% Annual Daylight Autonomy
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Energy Balance
Comfort: 18.66%
Comfort: 17.76%
Base Model
1st Option
Comfort: 24.01%
2nd Option
Comfort: 22.83%
Final option
Residential Plan Optimization Design Performance Workshop Final Plan: 4th modification
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Top view Height: 10m Velocity: 3m/s
Comparison with former step
Step3 5.25 2.80 1.70 For the last step, I tried to lower the wind speed at north entrance of the community. I elongated the building at northwestern part and created a buffer space. The wind speed became lower from the simulation result.
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Conclusion After these changes, the wind environment has been improved, the speed goes from 0.5m/ s—5.5m/s inside and outside the community.
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Step4 6.77 2.86 4.12 2.87 0.82