YILIN ZHENG Work Sample Selected Work 19'-22' yz4323@columbia.edu Columbia University GSAPP M.S.AAD. Assumption University AAU B.Arch
Prologue
Most of my interests and enthusiasm for architecture sprouted from the books that I read about the universe when I was a teenager. One of them is Pale Blue Dot, by Carl Sagan. The humbling image of the Earth, a pale blue dot, in the vast dark cosmos made me realize that everything we think of as spectacular is just a drop of water in the ocean.
I asked myself, what is the responsibility of me to preserve our Earth, the only known livable place that our lives are depending on? I found my calling in the pursue of architecture design...
Chap.01 Transient Processor
And, also?
Chap.02 Tea Hub
Tea poem in Swatow design
Chap.03 Mega City
Peace, Equality, Symbiosis
Chap.04 The Lone Traveler Museum
A lonely journey
Chap.05 Phetchaburi Diary
The way to capture the essence of Phetchaburi.
Chap.06 Other Works
Pale Blue Dot, By Voyager 1
01 Transient Processor
And, Also?
Columbia University
Advanced Arch Design Studio
2022.06-2022.08
Site: NewYorkCity, USA
Pairs work with Chengyu Zhang
Instructor: Karla Rothstein
Our project traverses the history and future of Penn Station and the situation of homelessness in New York City. We’ve identified gaps that occur in society with impacts that cross simultaneous scales in space, time, and humanity. Current measures are ambiguous and ineffective, leading suspended students and unsheltered homeless to unknown voids (space) and chaotic gaps (time + distance). As a centerpiece of a coordinated and thoroughly modern transportation system built for the needs of the 21st Century, infrastructure is reimagined to include supportive housing, after-school programs, and public space. The new Penn Station accepts the potential generation of urban chaos and the irrationality of its surroundings. Compared with the internal complex procedures, it uses strategic subtraction and reconfigures to facilitate spatial and lighting quality to improve these realities. The intersection of views, spaces, and circulation systems produces fragments and sections related to the cognition and orientation of internal and external space. This is a large-scale navigation device. It aims to aggregate gaps with different properties to produce new effects in voids and be redirected. The vitality generated by metabolism makes this chaos and irrationality no longer hostile, and the final solution will not tend to be one.
HOMELESSNESS
Our project traverses the history and future of Penn Station and the situation of homelessness in New York City. We’ve identified gaps that occur in society – in memory and physically – unseen by most people, yet with impacts that cross simultaneous scales in space, time, and humanity. Reimagined as a keystone of a coordinated modern transportation system built for the needs of the 21st Century, the project is recrafted to include supportive housing, after-school programs, and urban oases.
PENN
INVESTIGATION PENN STATION INVESTIGATION
Reading
Academic
Homeless Population Rate in the USA NYC46.98% SINGLE38% PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS 90% HOMLESS STUDENTS 86% MALE 60% BLACK 17.9% SHLETER 19% 10% 86% 14% 50% 94.4% 5.6% 19% 12% 6% 13% 90% THREAT 25% MINOR ALTERNATION17% BAD B.H 8% OT 6% DBU9.3% OT 18.5% FREE LUNC 10% FEMALE 40% MR.4.7% SUSPENSION HIGH R6.6% SUSPENSION HUB 13.8% SUSPENSION RATE 14% HOMELESS10% ADULT FAM.32% CHILDREN 32% QUEENS32% CA40.9% OR37.4% WA30.1% NA22.4% OT Homeless Population Rate in NewYork City Homeless Population Types in NYC DHS Homeless Students Rate in Public School in NYC Suspension Homeless Students Rate in Public School in NYC Suspension Rate in Public School in NYC Suspension Students Gender in Public School in NYC Suspension Students Races in Public School in NYC Suspension Students Races in Public School in NYC(Housing) Suspension Students Reasons in Public School in NYC Access Tension Landscape v.s Ground v.s Underground Combination HPR HSPR EHSR HSR MSR LSR AL.SC HSPH HPRH
STATION FLOW &PROGRAMS Permanent Housing Type A Type B
Center Temporary Housing
Department Sub-Program
Homeless Population in public school 1:10 Homeless suspenstion students Population among homeless students in public school 1:7
Academic Department Sub-Program
Temporary Housing Permanent Housing
02 Tea Hub
Tea poem in Swatow region
Assumption University Design Studio VIII 2021.01-2021.04
Site: Shantou,China
Individual work
Instructor:Asst. Prof. Dr. Le Thi Thu Huong
I created a vernacular space through integration with natural conditions, variations of space formation and translations of local tea culture.
Visitors can experience the process of tea making and finally the charm of tea tasting while strolling along a tour route with activity nodes featured by waterfront, leisure space, veranda and greens.I used semi-outdoor space for tea tasting, such that people can enjoy peaceful sceneries, observe activities of others, and feel the soothing climate in southern China.
*all drawings produced by myself
TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS
SITE INVESTIGATION
Harvesting
Sunlight+Wind
Tea gardens provide a spacious outdoor environment for growing tea, ensuring plenty of sunshine and moisture.
TEA POEM IN SWATOW
Withering
Sunlight+Wind
In this space, people can feel the process of tea evaporation.By the appropriate sunlight and wind, and observe the change of tea form.
Rolling
Pressure+ High Temperature
People can feel the process of tea rolling. By the intense space and narrow space, integrate with the high temperature.
Firing
Pressure+ High Temperature
This space form is trying to imitate the process of firing. Much more intense and pressure feeling from high walls.
Baking
Scent+ High Temperature
The second time of firing, we can smell the tea scent at this process.
Enjoying
Sun+ Wind+Scent
Outdoor leisure space for people to enjoy tea and nature.
Tea Hub Plan
Prototype 1: Sunlight
The opening on the roof will let the direct sunlight goes into the exhibition space.
Prototype 1: Sunlight + Prototype 3: Wind People can enjoy the sunbath while taking the tea moment.
Prototype 2: Scent
This prototype offers a space to let the tea scent gather and attract people to walk to the space.
Prototype 1: Sunlight + Prototype 2: Scent The continuous space will let the scent fill in the exhibition hall.
Prototype 3: Wind Saving energy and reducing consumption.
Prototype 3: Wind + Prototype 2: Scent
It is a beautiful moment for people to enjoy the tea. Experienced the scent and view.
Transitional space
Entrance of Tea Making Room
Tea Learning Space
Tea Sharing Space
02 Mega City
Peace, Equality, Symbiosis
Assumption University Design Studio VI
2019.08-2019.10
Site: Bangrak, Thailand
Individual work
Instructor: Nuttee Tantilertanant
I proposed a mega idealist city of surrealism, where there can be a platform for equal communication among people from different countries.
In this project, three typological spaces deform of grid: for individuals, partners, and groups. Besides, the number of people corresponds to different scales of space. The grid space is intended to maintain characteristics and independence, every person, every group, even the plants, animals and planets in this city can communicate with each other in such an egalitarian space.
Let us learn to live in peace with lives, culture, civilization and nature. Like the planets in the Milky Way, in separate orbits, but contribute to the brilliance of the universe together.
*all drawings produced by myself
Equality & Symbiosis
Analysis of Function Needs
Bang Rak District บางรัก
Mega City Diagram
Wall As Room Mega City Plan
TYPE #1 Individual Equality & Symbiosis
TYPE #2 Group
In this homeland, it offers a space that can only accommodate one person to introspection. People can be free from prejudice.
The larger scale of space allows people to communicate freely and extremism no longer exists.
City Silhouette
In a new way, we stroll through every famous city and observe the city that people are accustomed to from a new perspective.
Explore Nature
In this space where the proportion can be changed, people experience the charm of nature in the same proportion as the mountains. Observe the shocking and valuable nature.
Infinity and Self
This space provides a space for self dialogue, meeting all kinds of partners over time, and finally strengthening the strength of people's unity.
Transform Valley
The valley will become a infrastructure for people's daily use, which is closely related to people's daily life. People can experience the change of space typologies through each corner.
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The Lone Traveler Museum
A Lonely Journey Assumption University Design Studio V 2019.02-2019.04
Site: Bangkok, Thailand
Individual work
Instructor: Asst.Prof.Nobpadol Suvachananonda
This is a museum designed for drivers.
Drivers are one of the loneliest professions in the city. They shuttle in the city every day and see a lot of people coming and going, but they rarely communicate with people. They travel from the departure station to the destination, with different people getting on and off. Drivers act as ferrymen, taking them to their destination and leaving again. So in this museum, translated drivers driving moments : start, stop, parking, rest, by the arched shape.
The station sits at the crossroads of Victory Monument which is one of the busiest in Bangkok. Driver's journey transformed into a visual architectural space, the museum allows people to experience every journey of a lone traveler. Underground is a long narrow space leading to the MRT, and each space has a section to provide a rest stop, corresponding to the moment when the driver is driving.
*all drawings produced by myself
Victory Monument Junction Station
The Victory Monument, which has become one of the most recognizable landmarks in Thailand, is surrounded by a large square surrounded by transport stations. Every day there are hundreds of buses shuttle in this area, each of the past is just passing through this period of memory, yet each bus driver in the road, day after day, on this route has been formed a profound memory. The museum will also recreate the driver's perspective, allowing passengers at every turn to experience the visual and spatial experience of a bus driver. Let each visitor to victory Monument hub station, leave their own memory fragments.
Exploded Diagram of Museum
Victory Monument
A military monument built to commemorate Thailand's victory in the Thai-French War. Now it has become one of the important hubs in Bangkok, with developed transportation, including BTS, MRT, buses and so on, with large crowd flow.
Bus Driver's Moment of Journey
Entrance Waiting Atrium Departure Rest Stop Parking Destination Exhibition Hall Exit Transition Experience Strong Memorize
Solo Moment of Journey
Group's Moment of Journey
The Lone Traveler Museum Plan
The Lone Traveler Museum Section
It's a journey that evokes memories. At each bus stop of the daily commute, there are different people coming and going, people getting on and getting off the bus, and passing through a certain part of the city quickly. Physically, people leave a silhouette or a fragment of the city in their mind. For the bus driver, they will be driving in the bus route to repeat every day, and then repeat the memory, they are more familiar with the period of the movement. My intention is to create a sense of familiarity and strangeness through the arched space. Each visitor can have a deeper memory of the area and the Victory Monument.
Departure Get on Transition Standstill Interval Moment
Gathering Arch Displacement Destination Get off
04 Phechaburi Diary
The way to capture essence of Phechaburi
Assumption University Design Studio V 2019.04-2019.06
Site: Phechaburi, Thailand Individual work
Instructor: Vittvat Charoenpong
In this project, I used two different design methods of openings: static opening and dynamic opening. By doing so to observe local people, plants and scenery and capture the footprints of history.
Static opening: Captures static art installations or exhibits through a strong square opening. Dynamic opening, framed the dynamic view, like street view, people talking, and such which is achieved through digging on
*all drawings produced by myself
Phetchaburi Site Plan
Phechaburi Museum Floor Plan
Phechaburi Museum Second Floor Plan
Exhibition Space
Corridor
Phechaburi Museum Section A
Art Corridor
Moving Capture
Solar Farming Plan in East New York
Pair work with Ming D. Program: Sketch up, Rhino, enscape, Adobe PS/AI
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