SELECTED WORK 2018-2020
H U A Q I N
+ Professional 1. Buddhist Guest House
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2. Tea Warehouse
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3. Beer Factory
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+ Experimental 4. Intuitive Shoebox
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5. Saint George’s School
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6. Color a song
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BUDDHIST GUEST HOUSE Spring 2020 Inami, Japan Since Saint Shakunyo built up Zuisenji Temple in 1390, Jodo-Shin Buddhist has developed in Inami. Wood carvers gathered together to restore the temple after fire accidents occurred. This led to the origin of the relationship between wood carving and Inami. There are inexplicable connections among the temple, the wood crafts and Yokamachi street according to the history. While nowadays, young people tend to be less interested in the traditional wood crafts in Japan. How to treasure this cultural heritage in the context of today’s society? To reveal the beauty of this town with a historical and cultural experience, I’m proposing a Buddhist guest house to have the tourists settle down to stay longer in Inami. Meanwhile, providing a chance for modern citizens to seek for inner space through meditation.
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PROGRAMMING As the first western-style architecture in Inami, the neoclassical building is preserved as a representative time memory. For the Hokuriku Bank Building, the three volumns from different times created such a continuity. The new choreographic rules are set up based on factors of annual sun path, guests’ daily Buddhist’ routine, private level and noise level.
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PLANS
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MONK’S DAILY ROUTINE Architecturally, I’m adding two pieces of Corten steel walls to connect the old “host” (neoclassical building) and the “guest” (new additions). People are led by this architectural promenade for different activities from monks’ daily routine: Sit, eat and sleep. Waking up for the first day, the guests would leave the guest house early along the secondary exit to Zuisenji Temple. After that, they would come back to start chanting. People can see the roof of Zuisenji Temple from the south-east windows through the reading room.
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VISUAL CONNECTION People are led by this architectural promenade for different activities from monks’ daily routine. In order to make a dialogue between the old and new, a relationship of seeing and being seen is created. People can see through the neoclassical building while they are having different activities. Additionally, the relationship between solid and void/ light and shadow via spatial structure and material shows a certain architectural rhythm inside the space.
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RENDERINGS L1 - CHANTING ROOM
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L1 - DINNING ROOM
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L2 - HALLWAY
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L2 - READING ROOM
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TEA WAREHOUSE Fall 2020 Providence, RI
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When we go to a market place to get a commodity, we have no idea of the huge production behind it. Because everything has been measured, assembled and packaged into small discrete units. If we go back in time to the period of transatlantic slave trade, any item purchased from the ‘market’ had a high likelihood of being connected to the slave labor. Likewise, the transatlantic slave trade had a similar process of commodification. From 1700-1808, nearly a million slaves died throughout the slave trade, many
of them committing suicide. One of the reasons behind this was the poor environment of slave ships. “Slave ships were the instruments that facilitated the European colonialism .” （Bailey, Ronald W. «Slavery, «The Slave Ship,» and the Making of the Modern World.» The Journal of African American History 93, no. 4 (2008): 547-63. Accessed December 14, 2020. http://www. jstor.org/stable/25610024.) It was built
to achieve the best efficiency (load as many slaves as possible) without considering the living conditions. In the slave ship, black bodies were categorized by gender, age, size or tribe, commodified as objects of exchange, and restricted in a inhumane scale of space.
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Commodification is a result of colonialism, while decommodification can be seen as an act of rebellion and release. “On December 16, 1773, American Patriots dumped 342 chests of tea , imported by the British East India Company，at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston to strongly oppose the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights.”（(History.com Editors. Boston Tea Party. A&E Television Networks, October 27, 2009. https://www.history.com/topics/ american-revolution/boston-tea-party.) It is important to also note that this tea was
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imported from China by the exchange of Opium with Britain. On 3 June 1839, the destruction of opium at Humen began and involved the destruction of 1,000 long tons (1,016 t) of illegal opium seized from British traders. While both actions in China and the new American colonies were rebelling against colonial oppression or taxation by colonizers, these actions of unboxing tea/ discarding opium are also a kind of the declaration of breaking restrictions imposed by commodification.
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ENFORCED PATHS The restriction is created on commodities by packages, units or boxes, limits the quantities or producing flow for selling to each individual. Market house itself was a central trading place in downtown Providence, the arch windows on the first floor were all openings for pedestrian thoroughfare. The lateral walking flow, which is similar to our shopping experience today in any supermarket, aims to let people walk around each aisle of products to buy more.
To reverse the process of purchasing, I want to reverse the traditional lateral shopping experience. In order to make the customers understand their own complicity to commodification, slowering down the shopping process by visualizing the layers of production vertically.
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CONCEPT COLLAGE
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Original ro
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Glass roof
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(for drying area)
a. Chronop
hotograph y - Framing
activities
Framing sy stem
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sequence
60”
Tea wareho 1.
Tea making
80”
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Drying area
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Tea making
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by scales
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SECTION 1
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SECTION 2
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Castel Maggiore, a small town in Bologna, Italy. The area facing Villa Zarri is relatively rural, but it will vary a lot in the future. Many retail stores and commercial facilities are about to be built to enhance regional attractiveness. This will increase the potential customer and increase the influence of the producer.
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Fall 2018 Bologna, Italy
The site is at a street corner of the town, surrounded by fields and some tenants.The factory is considered to the landmark of the place. It is next to a hotel and is surrounded by a park.
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LIGHT & SHADOW STUDY Due to the simple requirements of old factories, the oringinal roof turns to be homogenizing. In the new proposal, there are different functional spaces with different lighting requirements. By studying the light & shadow variety in each unit, I found out that I can change the roof ‘s direction or height to create particular shadow effect.
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EXPLODED VIEW VOID: 1. Entrance 2. Gallery 3. Restaurant 4. Exhibition 5. Tasting &shopping 6. Kitchen 7. Transportation 8. Office
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SOLID: A. Raw material B. Beer production C. Assemble D. Storage E. Assemble F. Send out
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INTUITIVE SHOEBOX Summer 2019 Collage drawing material: Museum board, ink, toothbrush, paper Physical model material: Museum board, corrugated paper Using 2 verbs: cut and twist; 1 adjective: spacious to create a space with a shoebox’s scale.
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SAINT GEORGE’S SCHOOL Summer 2019 Middletown, US Non-digital project based on the reuse of study hall in Saint George’s School. Using the educational concept from the film ‘‘Dead Poem Society’’ in order to break the original order of the layout.
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