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EDUCATION Rice University Rice School of Architecture Master of Architecture 2013 - present [expected graduating in Jan 2015] University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture Bachelor of Science In Environmental Design 2007-2012
WORK EXPERIENCE Randall-Porterfield Architects Houston, TX 2012-2013 Skew Collaborative Shanghai, China 5/2014-8/2014 Internship
CONTACT INFO 2711 Sable Ct. Pearland, TX-77584 E-mail: fin.bu06@gmail.com Phone: 281-744-5966
UNIQLO RETAIL HEADQUARTER New York City Fall 2013 Studio Prof. Mark Wamble Rice University
LEK YUEN Sha Tin, Hong Kong Spring 2014 Studio Prof. Albert Pope Rice University
RUBIK’S CUBE Seattle Spring 2010 Studio Prof. Matt Johnson University of Houston
HACKER_SPACE Houston Spring 2012 Studio Prof. Matt Johnson University of Houston
LEARN FROM FAVELA Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Fall 2010 Studio Prof. William Truitt University of Houston
SITTING ON BLURRED EDGE New York City Fall 2011 Studio Prof. Jason Logan University of Houston
CASE STUDY: Institute of Contemporary Art Diller Scofidio + Renfro Name it. Inside OUT In the ICA Boston, the trussed upper box structurally functions as a structure equilibrium that carries loads including gravity load, load sitting on top of the trussed floor and load that hangs off from the cantilevered space. I call all the different sourced loads “add-ons” to the structure system. Since all the loads are applied through different locations to the structure, it also becomes part of the system that keeps the overall building structure operating as a state of equilibrium. Group it In ICA Boston, the 4 mega trusses function as the horizontal beams that transfer the load back to the major vertical steel columns. This structure strategy is also adopted in many other cantilever projects. Transform it The required programs and the relatively small site decide that it is going to be a high-rise building. The structural concept I took from ICA is the cantilevered “Structural Plane”. Then I started transforming the plane by stretching, pushing and pulling in order to fit into the site. The truss only occurs every two floors to eliminate excessive structural members. In total, there are 4 “Structural Planes” standing on the site. Claim it The project is designed for a Uniqlo, which is a fashion-clothing brand. Tall, open and transparent space is desirable for displaying the products. Since the truss only occurs every two floors and all the vertical column are hidden inside the cores located in the back of the building, it provides two levels of truss free and column free open floor plans in between, which will give lots of potential to create interesting retail and display space. A process of folding space in all these structure-free levels will really start to break the consistent pattern of the section of the tower in order to make it a better shopping and circulating experience.
UNIQLO Headquarters
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interior render
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basic cantilever structure model
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core thickened on bottom (going up)
split to create central circulation
shifted cantilevered space
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horizontal space division
central circulation inserted
cantilevered spaces placement
hierarchy of different spaces
program diagram[elevation view]
night render
The LED lighting layer behind each cantilevered box will be lit up with different theme colors of Uniqlo at night. From far away, people will still be able to perceive the building with a strong reading of Uniqlo branding. The building itself at night becomes a iconic spotlight within the area.
An urban intervention project on creating a new residential district, Lek Yuen, located in Shatin, a new territory town in Hong Kong.
LEK YUEN
Existing
A New MTR Station Added
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New Banding
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New Banding+New Resolution
Void Inserted
Adjustments
NEW DISTRICT: LEK YUEN
Reconstruct the Bands
The current existing residential band is this really fat band filled with different housing types: T-shape towers, slab buildings, donut-shape towers. It is lacking a clarity of plan and program organization and not fully taking advantage of the existing banding structure. So by reconstructing the bands as the first step, the relationships between each band start to shift and reinforce each other. And the residential band is divided into two by inserting in a slice of the canal water as the first movement of setting up a more effective plan organization for this new residential district: LEK YUEN.
Reconstruct the Resolution
The next step I took to further develop the plan organization is to reconstruct the resolution. Currently there are only two readings of resolution occurring on the site: the village band and the mixed-type residential band. After reconstructing the resolution of the two new residential bands, it will have this four-quadrants reading of different resolution occurring within each quadrant.
Void/ Waterfront Program Modification
A central void is dropped in by bringing in the canal into the site. It starts to make a change on the relationships between the four quadrants. Two kinds of plan organizations emerged: two quadrants form a continuous spine organization and the other two will be read as individual areas that address separately with the villages and canal but at same time relate to each other. Further adjustments are made to create different waterfronts for each quadrant. The recreation band is merged into one of the quadrant adjacent to it. All four quadrants are separated by water to reinforce the plan organization.
The New Image
A NEW IMAGE of Lek Yuen district is created to open up this currently neglected area to the canal and the rest of Shatin.
Shatin cavalier oblique [existing condition]
Lek Yuen Site
Lek Yuen oblique [the new district town]
Lek Yuen cavalier oblique
A small-scale hotel project that will accommodates multiple unit size. The design is trying to create a great atmosphere for communication for people during their short stays in the hotel.
RUBIK’S CUBE
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ground level plan 1. main entrance 2. exhibition space 3. fire stairs 4. lobby 5. office area 6. cafeteria (below) 7. suite 8. large room 9. small room 10. elevator 11. exterior circulation
second floor plan
sixth floor plan
suite interior shot
model on site
With an increasing number of tourism and urban attractions, Seattle has quickly transformed into a building with parking on the roof, the chosen site will accommodate a new boutique hotel with multiple u include: suites, large rooms and small rooms. With a steep topographic change, the lobby sits on the second level of the hotel to create multiple pu is to take a simple “cube� with similar size to the surrounding buildings and carve out spaces to creat becomes a courtyard that allows people to interact from visually, from their rooms, and physically wit an artistic graffiti style that is controlled by digital medium. The inner skin of the hotel is made of bo and express their ideas. In order to encourage communication, each room is provided with LED displa customize their environment and communicate with other guests through texts and sketches.
model photo
a hub for green design and modern urban interventions. Occupied by a single-story unit sizes and a wild-card program to be the urban attraction. The typical hotel rooms
ublic access point and still have direct access to the major street. The design concept te views and shared spaces to interact within the building. The central carved space thin the public courtyard. The wild-card program came in the form of “digital graffiti”, oth clear and frosted glass that serves as a giant canvas for guests to communicate ays and interactive interface that imitates the “twitter” idea and people are able to
transverse section scale: 1’=3/32”
night view
A project designed for “Hackers� to use. Hacker refers to people who investigate new technologies that expands to all sciences. This project is intended to provide the hackers a space to work, communicate and handout with outside visitors.
HACKER_Space
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Outdoors and Parking Wild-card Program Public/Classrooms/Galleries Workshops Administrative
Partial workshop space and Administration are lifted up from the ground to avoid light rail and create shaded seating area underneath.
Adjusting building edges to create direct views to downtown/light rail line.
Green pockets/light well inserted in to open up the building from the inside.
site plan
workshop space
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1. lobby 2. office 3. conference room 4. elevator 5. fire stairs 6. mechanical 7. main staircase 8. workshop space 9. garden space 10. new light rail stop 11. parking
Favela Style
As the project title “Learn From Favela� has stated, my design goal is to create an urban mega-structure that celebrates some of the good urban qualities generated from the Favela model. It is not a mimicry project as the Favela model has many crucial issues within itself. Analyzing and learn from it is what this new hybrid structured, mixed-used almost super-block like urban model tries to represent.
Favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. Former slaves who had no land ownership and no job moved in these areas and over the years, more and more freed slaves started living in the favelas. Favelas are associated with extreme poverty. Unequally distributed wealth in the country resulted in the emergence of the favelas in Brazil. Police have very little or almost no control in most of favelas. Drug use and sale are highly centralized in these favelas and are run by local gangs. In the end of last century, the poor population had grown at a very fast pace so as the modern favelas that they have lived in.
Learn From FAVELA
concept diagram
Due to the location of the chosen site, people who live inside the Favelas will cupying the very top level of the Mega-Structure is affordable housing. Henc relationship between the Favela people and the people who live inside the by the Mega-Structure allows the new and younger generations of the Fave relationship is meant to show the appreciation of the Favela as a urban mode
l be able to look over to the designed Mega-Structure. The main program occe the design intention is trying to project a potential future image of the Mega-Structure. As the diagram has suggested above, the housing provided ela residents to migrate in. The physically separated but visually connected el that contains qualities that can be learned from.
site plan
Potential Site Favela
Potential Site (Elevated) Favela
Even though a Favela is not a pleasant or stable environment to live, it is a very unique urban case. Favela still has its successful operating system that is worth learning. Within the city, Favelas are isolated from the rest of the city, which forced it to become a very self-sustained community.
The site is located right next to the Favela, I was very interested in bringing this self-sustained community idea to urban project, which later became the major concept that influenced the overall design strategy of project.
Residential Commercial Transportation A glimpse of Favela: A self-sustained and mixed-used community
housing level plan
The mega urban structure is divided into 3 layers of different assigned programs like a “sandwich�. The bottom level contains the transportation hub that is directly connected to the existing rail line. Unlike the isolation of Favela, which is one of the issues that Favela model has, the transportation hub allows the community connects back to the rest of the city. The mid-level contains a series of office, retail and restaurant space. It provides people who live on the top housing level to have everything that they need in life within reach, which is borrowed from the self-sustained quality of Favela model.
housing platform connection
retail vehicle lane
section model
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housing looking over to Favela
transportation hub level
housing commercial/retail
parkscape
metro
exterior view
PROBLEMS that we see from traditional seating 1. Seating is an individual object. 2. People sitting down have their views blocked by people standing or walking in front of them. 3. When people sit down, as they are positioned on the same vision line, it is more difficult to communicate with each other when there are more than 2 people. QUESTION: How to create a PUBLIC SURFACE that serves a more efficient seating and a great gathering/hang out place for people?
interior view
MULTI-LEVEL seating breaks the orthogonal relationship between ground line and vertical building facade.
Creating MULTI-LEVEL seating helps solving problems.
SITTING ON BLURRED EDGE
富 玢 BIN FU