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FOX

FOX PARKING DECK

NEOSTARS

FILMORE

OLD GIANTS

NO 1.

THE NEGELECTED

Site section and site plan

Sculpture

Education

Education

Office

Office

explode and rearrange

Office/Administration

Art

General organization

Sculpture

Art

Origininal programs

Housing

Housing

Program organization

Restaurant

Restaurant

Teens

Galleries

Gallery support

Digital Media ArtDigital Media Art

Studio

Housing

Black-out

Entry

Setting up

Final result

Entry

Entry

DETROIT MUSEUM HIGH + LOW


Special spaces What is seen in Detroit is a broken balance of highs and lows. The concentrated and isolated housings, the high-rises of the central commercial districts and the popular recreational centers, being separated from each other, make the city fragments. The site environment, on the contrary, is exceptionally rich in its contents of both old and new, density and scarcity, popular and the less attented. The museum deals with different programs and issues such as education, digital media arts, work-in-place artists residence and general residence, all these different programs makes the museum complicated at the same time provides great opportunities. The organization of the museum is following the mixing idea by vertically alternating the highs and lows (in terms of popularity of each level), dark and bright, art and residence, etc. to maximize the experience of visitors as well as a response for the site. There are three special spaces inside the museum: the public graffidi exhibition entry level, the dark digital media art level and the open sculpture level up high.

Space and architectural skin: The skin penetrates into architecture creates a pattern of the exterior, at the same time forming space that people are be able to interact and even become rooms and partitions.

Ramps from above: The structure of the ramps from the upper level are exposed to the lower one of how it is meandering around the central circulation core.

Entry level Graffiti exhibition hall: As one of the special elements of the museum, the space embraces one of the characters of Detroit, allowing graffiti artists creates their work on the provided artboard in the museum during opening hours. The artboard are meant to be painted from the inside so it maintains the clarity of the fasade at the same time the concealed content of the artworks are be able to attract more people go into the museum and start exploration.


Elevations HIGH + LOW DENSE + SCARCE NEW + OLD The contrast of the two sides shows how different the density difference between the north and south side through south and east elevation: the notion of this contrast indicates the topic of high/low, new/old an the attended/neglected.

South elevation 0

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NO 2.

Tower of the city

As a museum displaying the history and culture of Ypsilanti, MI, and being located in the less populated district, the focus of the project is to establish the marker of the area, preserving and inheriting the history of Ypsilanti while letting people go up and appreciate the beauty of the entire region. The project focuses on the inter-relationship of different programs relates to each other, namely, the space of observation, the space of motion and the space of rest, and how these spaces collaborate and define the building and vice versa. As a result, the effort is to explore the very basic quality of spaces.

Third floor

Longitudinal section

Second floor

First floor

Cross section

Exterior Rendering

Interior Rendering


NO 3.

See Beyond DETAIL SECTION SCALE: 1/2” = 1’

See Beyond is a children’s museum of digital media arts. The project seeks an architecture that we know by touch, rather than by sight. Using material changes that are hidden from view, low light levels, and light projection to dematerialize surfaces, it reinforces and makes aware the power of touch through an exploratory occupation of space. The project is organized on three levels, connected by a continuous staircase. The floor slabs are covered by a layer of white, elastic material that conceals the varied underlying structures and textures, giving way to the pressure of footstepsand the touch of the hand to reveal the materials beyond. The elastic material allows for the creation of a smooth space that eliminates the hard boundaries of edges and objects; thus producing ambiguity in size, scale, and direction.

FINISH CONCRETE SLAB, BEYOND CONCRETE SHELL OPENINGS FOR PROJECTION FIBER STRANDS

CONCRETE WALL

SAND

END CONNECTION

THIRD LEVEL

MATERIAL SECTION SCALE: 2/3” = 1”

SECOND LEVEL

1/2 “

1/8 “ 1/8 “

LAYERS OF FIBER STRANDS

1/2 “ CONCRETE FLOOR FINISH

ENTRY LEVEL

THREADED ANCHOR INSERT

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20

30 ft

J - ANCHOR

STRUCTURAL CONCRETE SLAB


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