Architecture Portfolio

YAO TANG 唐瑶 WORK SAMPLE 2013-2018

YAO TANG 唐瑶 PORTFOLIO 2013-2018

I regard the role an archtect plays as a dreamer. In the process of design, we consistently discover problems, come up with solutions and polish the form, thus visualizing abstractions, such as history, geometry and ecology. Architecture is like a furnace, fusing our creativity and imagination with our painstaking hard work. I feel great fortune to choose the road of an architect. And I have determined to go much longer and further.

CONTENTS About Me

History

SPACE

MEMORY

Festival Theme Exhibition Hall and Research Center

REBIRTH

OF MINE

College Town in Abandoned Open Pit of Aoshan Iron Mine

Geometry

ONE BOX

ONE STORY

Artist Studio For Damien Hirst

TETRAHEDRON

INSTITUTION

Middle School Based On a TYPO Method

Ecology

TRANS

PLANTING

Residential Building Integrating Argriculture and Transportation

REDISCOVERY

OF WATER

Imagination of localized water infrastructure in Antonico corridor

THESIS

PROTOCHONDRION

OTHER

WORKS

Coevolution of Human Body and Machinic Micrometerology

Tang Yao M. Arch University of Michigan 2222 Fuller Road, Apt 607A Tel: 734-926-7304 E-mail: yaot@umich.edu

YAO TANG Master of Architecture | yaot@umich.edu | 734.926.7304

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

DESIGN Architectural Design

Urban Design

Diagram

Layout

YAO’s SKILL SET

Draftery

LANGUAGE

Tectonics

Modelling

Chinese

English

Grasshopper

Revit

ArcGIS

ANSYS

SOFTWARE PS,ID,AI

SketchUp

Rhino

Rendering

Maya

EDUCATION University of Michigan—Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning _Master of Architecture

Aug 2016 - Apr 2018

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid—College of Material Engineering _Exchange Program

Feb 2014 - Jun 2014

Zhejiang University—College of Civil Engineering and Architecture _Bachelor of Architecture

Aug 2010 - Jul 2015

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Taubman College Master of Architecture Peer Mentors Program—Ann Arbor, MI _Mentor

Feb 2018 - Apr 2018

Currated History of Michigan University—Ann Arbor, MI _In charge of Food Space Part and exhibited in Gallary of Taubman College

Jan 2017 - May 2017

Traditional Chinese residential architecture in Xinye Village—Zhejiang, China _Measurements and mapping

Aug 2013 - Sept 2013

Student Research Training Program (SRTP)—Zhejiang, China _Essay Impact Of Indoor Reverberation On Hearing-Impaired Elderly People

Sept 2013 - May 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Sasaki Associates—Watertown, MA _Externship Program between Sasaki and Taubman College _Produced site models with 3D printer, foam cutter and laser cutter Confucius Institute of University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, MI _Event Assistant

Feb 26 - Mar 2 2018

Sept 2017 - Apr 2018

Local Research Center of China Architecture Design Group (Former Cui Kai Studio)—Beijing, China _Produced conceptual models, digital models and conceptual design _Projects include Xintiandi Complex (Wuhan), Five Pavilions (Suining)

Apr 2016 - Jun 2016

Tongji Architectural Design Co. Ltd.(TJAD)—Shanghai, China _Produced conceptual design and construction drawings _Projects include Shangrila Tourists Area Project, High Speed Train Administration Center (Hefei), Special Education College (Handan), Ancient Kingdom Reconstruction (Yunnan)

Jul 2014 - Oct 2014

Hanjia Architecture Design Institute—Hangzhou, China _Preliminary design analysis

Jan 2014

AWARDS, GRANTS & RECOGNITIONS 2017 Dow Distinguished Award Grant—Ann Arbor, MI _First-place award-winning team, received $35,000 for project Ocupação Anchieta Avança

Dec 2017

2017 Ford College Community Challenge—Ann Arbor, MI _Awarded $25,000 dollars for project Ocupação Anchieta Avança

Jun 2017

Zhejiang University Merit Student—Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China _High GPA and active participation in students activities

2013 - 2014

Zhejiang University Excellent Leadership in Student Activities—Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China _Merit for contribution as vice president of College Volunteer and Social Practice Center

2011 - 2012

Zhejiang University Excellent Performance in Social Practice—Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China _Merit for survey on historical architecture preservation in Xi'an

2011 - 2012

01 SPACE MEMORY

Festival Theme Exhibition Hall and Research Center LOCATION

DALI, YUNNAN

DATE

MAR-JUN 2015

INSTRUCTOR

ZHANG YUFENG

PROPERTY

ACADEMIC INDIVIDUAL WORK

[ANALYSIS OF FESTIVALS] Festivals | Atmosphere | Activities

[Daily Scenes and 4 kinds of living space]

City is like an amplified architecture and architecture is like a contracted city.

Sometimes, local residents are the best architects, because while architects design with their knowledge and imagination, residents build with their real lives. So the space local people create is the container of their collective memories- running on a lane, selling snacks on a street, flying a kite in a squareďźŒ telling stories to grandchildren in a yard. When we look into the figure and ground, we get the specific space of the city-

TEXTURE. I would like to borrow the texture of the city to build a museum of festivals for Dali people.

Dali, a traditional town lies in the west-south of China whose residents are mainly Bai People (an ethnic minority group famous for its festival culture). As the dominant center of Bai People in history, Dali developed an intesive texture under the chessboard-shaped city layout, which provide local people vivid daily life.

广 场

街 道

巷 子

屋 子

SQUARE

STREET

ALLEY

HOUSE

a s q u a re c a n b e abstracted as a box without top plane, local people use it for public activites such as assenbly, celebration and performance

a street can be abstracted as a box without top, front and back, it is used as public passage, both for transportation and communication

an alley is a more narrow and private street, it is used as transitional space often connecting a street and entrance of the private garden or house

a house can be abstracted as a box with 6 complete planes, it is a small and private domain

[TYPES OF ORIGINAL TEXTURE NEARBY] By extracting textures nearby and analyzing their sections, spatial scales of traditional settlements in Dali are obtained

TYPE A s p o t s q u a re s i n t h e c e n t e r of t h e b l o c k surrounded by alley net TYPE B l a rg e s q u a re i n t h e c e n t e r of t h e b l o c k surrounded by streets, houses and short alleys

TYPE C long square on one side of the block

TYPE D north-south direction alleys stagger in the middle

TYPE D TYPE B

TYPE E hierarchical alley net

TYPE G TYPE A

TYPE F s p o t s q u a re s i n t h e c e n t e r of t h e b l o c k connecting in angles

TYPE C

TYPE F TYPE E

Site Plan: team work with Yingzhu Mao, Yijia Chen, Jing Ma

TYPE G s p o t s q u a re s i n t h e c e n t e r of t h e b l o c k surrounded by end typed alleys

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1 main entrance 2 reception 3 cloak room 4 shop 5 teahouse 6 mini show room 7 entrance of yard 8 exhibition hall 9 equipment room 10 dressing room 11 stage 12 cafe&canteen 13 secondary entrance 14 imitated farmland landscape 15 outdoor stage

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[FORMATION BASED ON CONTEXT]

1 The site can be accessed both from south and north.

2 Set 2 axis-NS axis leads main flow from entrance to slope of the reser vior, WE axis leads flow to farmland and outdoor space.

3 Set a group of HOUSE similar to local houses in size based on the grid of nearby residences and create a entrance SQUARE and a STREET.

5 Set a third group of HOUSE based on the grid of slope of the reser vior and create a reletively close SQUARE.

6 A glass box is added to create comfortable indoor environment.

7 Either connect the 2nd floor of the HOUSEes or link them with a corrider.

4 Set a second group of HOUSE based on the grid of the farmland and create a center SQUARE .

8 C h a n g e s o m e p a r t of t h e farmland into a temporary stage to extend space and make people come closer to nature.

HOUSE STREET LANE

STREET LANE

6.0m

1.5m

9.9m

6.3m

HOUSE

A-A section reception & shops

4.8m

SQUARE

ENTRANCE SQUARE

B-B section celebration & connection with the outdoor ceremony 16.8m

12.9m

19m

SQUARE STREET HOUSE

STREET

LANE 2.0m

2.0m 9m

3.0m

4.2m

9.6m

4.5m

C-C section exhibition & indoor performance and interaction

[LAYERS OF STRUCTURE AND SPACE] [4 kinds of space and scenes] SQUARE

Glasss enclosure Scene A

Steel structure

CORRIDOR on the 2nd floor

STREET Scene H Scene G

Scene C

HOUSE ALLEY

Scene E Ground floor plan

SQUARE

Scene B Scene A Scene D Scene F

CORRIDOR on the 2nd floor

ALLEY Scene E

STREET

Scene C

Scene G

Scene B

Scene D

Scene F

Scene H

[DETAIL DESIGN OF THE GLASS ROOF]

Set glass louver to create more comfortable indoor environment resistent to strong sunlight and too much heat in summer.

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Set travelling cradle to hang lights at night.

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1 welded steel main box girder 2 tapering fishbelly girder 3 steel stay cables 4 travelling cradle 5 girder grid 6 aluminium bracket 7 glass louver (one side is colored )

8 silicone sealant 9 laminated glass 10 steel tie rod 11 steel support rods 12 steel spider 13 aluminium track for glass louvers 14 aluminium bracket 15 laminated safety glass

Scene under the glass roof | in the daytime

Scene under the glass roof | in the evening

02

REBIRTH OF MINE

College Town in Abandoned Open Pit of Aoshan Iron Mine

LOCATION

Ma'anshan, Anhui

DATE

JUL-OCT 2014

PROPERTY

PERSONAL PROJECT

site research: with Wan Jieping design: individual work

After the reform and opening up, Ma'anshan vigorously developed iron and steel industry which requires a lot of manpower, Grandpa and friends in the same village moved to work here together .

Every dawn, Grandpa took the small green train to work in mine.

At that time, there were a variety of machinery everywhere in the mine working busily.

With the exhaustion of iron ore resources, the mine was not that busy any more.

Later, citizens decided to revive such a mine and transformed it into a college town, unique schools would attract people both in Maanshan and nearby cities.

Now, with the memory of the pit, I attend the colllege constructed right in the mine.

My hometown, Ma'anshan, is famous for its steel industry and thrived in the last century. Most people of Ma'anshan from my parents' age are workers. However, as the steel mine came closer to exhaustion, the pits were gradually abandoned, the rails across the city were also out of use, factories became problems for environmental protection.

In spite of this, steel industr y is the memor y of a whole

generation of my city, it is a cultural brand we will never forget. I proposed a college town to be built in an abandoned mine pit, which would attract people by offering diverse activities based on the special landscapes and help the site revive by itself.

I would imagine myself a senior student of the college in the pit and present the pit in a student's narrative.

[A BRIEF HISTORY OF MAANSHAN] [1st Stage | From 1910-1958]

1911

First steel ore was found by Chen Meiting in Dazha Hill and Changlong Hill.

1924

The most prosperous epoch of the mine area, steel ore produced accounted for 1/3 of national production.

1918

1913

1930

All of the railway lines in the mine area were completed.

1923

First rail was constructed from Pingxian Area to Maojiaqiao with the length of 4 km.

Six mines were put into exploit, and first harbour Caishi Harbor was built to tranport steel ore.

Maanshan Railway Administrative Office was set.

1942

1956

First thermal power plant was built and the lines to mine area stretched to 16.8km.

Maanshan was set as an prefecture-level city.

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steel cement national cast iron national crude steel national steel national cement

[2 POSSIBLE FUTURES]

population inflow

my proposal

population outflow

Wan's proposal inflow

[MASTER PLAN FOR ONE COLLEGE | 1/6 OF THE COLLEGE TOWN] living area

public space

[Section Stratagy]

60m

Living Area

60m

Academic Area

45m 60m

academic area

Replanted Area

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Living Area

Public Space

Academic Area

Dormitory

Stadium Living Area

Self-study Rooms Academic Area Public Space

Shop

LibraryDormitory

Stadium Classrooms

Dining Part

Auditorium

Teaching Lab

Living Center

Multi-use LivingSpace Center

Sports Field

Shop

Dining Part Sports Field

Museum

Self-study Rooms

Library

Classrooms

Auditorium

Teaching Lab

Research Lab Multi-use Space

Research Lab

Museum

[Site Structure]

Road

Living Area

Replanted Area

Railway

Teaching Area

Artificial Lake

The college town in the pit is a mixture of schools, lab factories and public greenlands and can be divided into several main function areas- living area, public space and academic area which spread vertically.

Since colleges in the pit consist of six college units which are similar in typology, space arragements and structures, I will simplify the issue and design one of the six parts in depth.

2 single persons' room

Ground floor

[LIVING AREA] T h i s a re a c o n s i s t s of s t u d e n t s ' dormitar y (most private), gardens and platforms (more public), students' center (more public) and public greenland (most public).

And these functions are spread along the horizontal two-storey corridors.

When we walk on the corridor, communication between different people occur spontaneously.

4-bed room

4-bed room with skylight

[Talk with my friends along the corridor] I am going to run down to the bottom park along the twisting mountain road.

It's a long way more than 12km to go, good luck!

4-bed room with a garden

Walking along the porch, I could witness interesting events. Look, two freshman are vexed doing their machine repairment homework.

Tammy, I have just finished my new dormitar y construction, welcome.

Your mud wall pattern is pretty beautiful, I like it.

This is my d o r m i t a r y, I s h a re i t w i t h 3 c l a s s m a t e s . To enjoy the scenary of the yard while lying on the bed feels good.

I suggest you also sun your clothes and sheets. Many people have realized that it is a good clotheswashing day.

[ACADEMIC AREA] This is a mutli-functional area beneath the ground surface, which is lightened by light wells, skylights and indoor lighting.

Escalators and stairs are main ways of vertical transportation.

[Platform] The platform between dormitaries becomes active space for students to conduct different kinds of activities, such as doing exercise, holding parties and sunning clothes and sheets.

[ELEVATION IN PART]

03

ONE BOX, ONE STORY Artist Studio For Damien Hirst LOCATION

HANGZHOU, ZHEJIANG

DATE INSTRUCTOR

MAR 2013 QIN LUOFENG

PROJECT TYPE

ACADEMIC INDIVIDUAL WORK

Damien Hirst

1.2 0.0

[1. BOX]

While some ar tists tend to express their ideas through installations and paintings, architects are good at using space.

When I designed the studio for Damien Hirst, I tried to analyze elements of his works and to establish connection between his art works and workplace, in other words, I attempted to make his studio an epitome of his art.

Damien Hirst is a controverscial ar tist, although some of Damien's works may not be so comfortable for the spectators, they really shock us a lot by presenting bold scenes about life and death with a system of symbols he creates. And he is always asking the viewers to follow him into a university of his own

[2. PERSPECTIVE]

mythology underworld, where he uses animals bodies to mirror the cycle of life and tells stories of ancient theme, like ego and self.

I find that a series of Damien's works could all be described as 'some story in one kind of frame'. And I naturally seek to collect the modes he used and mix them together to create his workspace. So what is the story inside each of Damien's box?

How can those stories be organized? What is the feeling like if we change our prospective into those of the animals in display?

That is what I am interested in.

A ThousandYears

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Away From the Flock

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Mother and Child, Divided

The Collector

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A Way of Seeking

1.8 0.0

The Aquired Inability to Escape 1.2 0.0

[PLAN]

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Second Floor Plan

1. reception 2. watchroom 3.equipment room 4. D type studio 5. C type studio 6. B type studio

7. report hall 8. library 9. lounge bar 10. A type studio 11. B type studio 12. washroom

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B.Studio for several artist | communicate with each other and come up with new ideas

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C.Studio for one artist self | could be visited, communicate with the visitors

D.Studio for many artist | factory-like, could be visited

[ANALYSIS OF LAYERS]

enclosure (glass, marble, concrete )

structure (steel column and beam with H, rectangular and circle shaped section)

second floor (3 boxes)

ground floor (3 boxes)

[PERSPECTIVE | Animal Fable | Height and Angle]

[PERSPECTIVE | Perspective Analysis From West to East]

[STRUCTURE DIVERSITY] Steel components vary in different boxes within the same level in order to help the artist and visitors to identify different boxes better.

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TETRAHEDRON INSTITUTION Middle School Based On a TYPO Method

LOCATION

ANN ARBOR, MI

DATE

SEP-DEC 2016

INSTRUCTOR MICHAEL JEFFERSON PROPERTY

ACADEMIC INDIVIDUAL WORK

PUREFORM FORM PURE

Original all-sidedgeometry

Deformation in plan offset

Deformation in solid project

This academic project mainly tried to examine typology as a design method. Through a series of steps of formal, programmtic and contextural study (Typo method), a new typology of gapped tetrahedron school was finally created.

Firstly, triangle was selected as the pure base typology, recomposition of triangular schools plans were set as possibility exploration.

Then, with different attemps to misread triangle both in two dimension and three dimension, a tetrahedron object with gaps as a result of project and extrude operations was got.

By inserting institutional program and context limitation from a site in Ann Arbor, previous form was interrogated and transformed into reasonable organize space for a middle school.

[Program] Classroom

Students’ Space 73%

Classroom Unit (classroom+laboratory+self-study room+Storage)

grade 6

grade 7

grade 8

Classroom Laboratory Self-study room

Laboratory

Storage

Self-study room

Cafe

Storage Cafeteria Library

Public Open Space

internal

open to community

Library

Lecture hall

Lecture

Gym

Gym

Playground

Playground Teachers’ office

Teachers’ room Teachers’ lounge Gallery Canteen

Teachers’ space 8% Commuity shared space 19%

Restroom

Teachers’ Lounge Private Office Service Space

Middle School Program Bar

Gallery

Important knot

Canteen

Desirable adjacency

Restroom

Avoid adjacency

Adjacancy of Program

[Context Bias]

SITE PLAN

SCALE:

1/50” = 1’-0”

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[Ground Floor Plan] 1 guard offices 2 reception 3 sand playground 4 cafe 5 climbing walls 6 bleachers 7 upper area of basketball court 8 upper area of skating court 9 locker room 10 classroom 11restroom 12 canteen 13 kitchen 14 students activity stairs hall

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TRANS_PLANTING

Residential Buildings Addressing Resilience and Austerity

LOCATION

Detroit, MI

DATE

Sept-Dec 2017

INSTRUCTOR

Sean Vance, Kimberly Dowdell

PROPERTY

GROUP WORK (CHIEF DESIGNER) With Lisa Kuhn, Logan Richmond, Adam Mahardy

In our imagination of a healthy community in the future, residents live closely to nature in a relient and austere way.

lead to the previously blocked riverfront, so that the site will be activated.

Abundent ground space not only provides residents with outdoor activities, but also with productive local farmlands, thus poetic landscape and healthier food to resist present fast food's domination. Following the path of the farmland, public are

Textures of farmland resonate in upper apartment's design.

Bars of inner MEP core and periphery rooms ensures efficient organization of the plans and enough light for each rooms and corridor space with minumum energy consumption.

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Water, air and vapor control membrane, fully adhered

Sheet metal cap sloped to drain roof side

Wedge

Fully adhered water control membrane Trapazoid rigid insulation

Steel flange slip

Angled blocking

Fully adhered roof membrane

4” steel stud wall blown out

6” rigid insulation Water, air and vapor control 1/2” sheathing membrane, fully adhered 6” cast-in-place concrete Wedge

Sheet metal cap sloped to 1/2” drainsheathing roof side 6” rigid insulation Fully adhered water control membrane Air control layer transition membrane Trapazoid rigid insulation

2” corrugated metal deck Steel flange slip

Angled blocking

Fully adhered roof membrane

4” steel stud wall blown out

6” rigid insulation

1/2” sheathing

1/2” sheathing

6” rigid insulation

6” cast-in-place concrete

Air control layer transition membrane

2” corrugated metal deck

Sheet metal cap sloped to drain roof side Mineral wool packing

Metal frame for ceiling

1” Aluminum honeycomb panel

1/2” single skin platerboard suspended ceiling

Steel curtain wall support system Flashing with silicon sealant Steel shelf Sheet metal cap sloped to drain roofangle side LowE glazed window Mineral wool packing

Metal frame for ceiling

1” Aluminum honeycomb panel

1/2” single skin platerboard suspended ceiling

Steel curtain wall support system

Water, air and vapor control membrane, fully adhered

Flashing with silicon sealant Steel shelf angle

Wedge

LowE glazed window

Acoustic sealant Floating gypsum board 4”

Metal piece Water, air andpolyethylene vapor control 1/4” foamed resilient flanking strip membrane, fully adhered 1 1/2” self leveling concrete Wedge 1” diameter tubing loop tied Acoustic sealant to wire mesh by metal wire Floating gypsum board

Deflection head 1 layer of 1/2” gypsum based board or other fire stopping meterial connecting primary steel beam and light steel channel

4”

Metal piece 1/4” foamed polyethylene resilient flanking strip 1 1/2” self leveling concrete 1” diameter tubing loop tied to wire mesh by metal wire

Cap sealant

Deflection head 1 layer of 1/2” gypsum based board or other fire stopping meterial connecting primary steel beam and light steel Acoustic sealant channel 2 layers of gypsum board Cap sealant 4” light-weight steel frame seperating wall 1” Aluminum honeycomb panel

Acoustic sealant 2 layers of gypsum board 4” light-weight Unfaced steel frame seperating wall mineral wool batts 1” Aluminum honeycomb panel Steel bar Anchor Installation module 4” precast concrete panel Unfaced mineral wool batts Steel bar Anchor Installation module 4” precast concrete panel

1”aluminum ventilation panel Steel truss 4” light-weight seperating wall Operable lowE glazed window Metal flashing 1”aluminum ventilation panel Steel truss 4” light-weight seperating wall Operable lowE glazed window Metal flashing

48” height steel open-web joists Engineered soil Filter fabric Optioned reservoir layer Drainage panel 48” heightretention steel open-web Moisture layer joists Aeration layer Engineered soil Filter fabric Optioned reservoir layer Thermal insulation Drainage panel Drainage layer Moisture retention layer Root barrier Aeration layer Protection course Thermal plastic water proofing membrane Loose-laid retention tee Thermal insulation Non-vegetation Drainage layer zone Seam plates and fasteners Root barrier Protection course Thermal plastic water proofing membrane Filter fabricretention surrounding Loose-laid tee course gravel Non-vegetation zonesystem Perimeter drainage Capillary break relating Seam plates and fasteners footing and foundation wall Vapor retarder Concrete floating Filter fabric surrounding 4” gravel drainage layer course gravel Perimeter drainage system Capillary break relating footing and foundation wall Vapor retarder Concrete floating 4” gravel drainage layer

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WALL SECTION DRAWING 1/2’’ = 1’

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WALL SECTION DRAWING 1/2’’ = 1’

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REDISCOVERY OF WATER Imagination of localized water infrastructure in Antonico corridor

LOCATION

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL

DATE

Jan-Apr 2017

INSTRUCTOR

MARIA ACQUERO DE ALARCON

PROPERTY

ACADEMIC INDIVIDUAL WORK

[ANALYSIS OF FLOW DIRECTION] VALUE OF FLOW ACCUMULATION 1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128 Highest risk area of flooding

Antonico Creek is the main stream crossing Paraisópolis. However, this corridor area presents a variety of environmental problems and risky water area becomes a lost space in Paraisópolis, where people regard it as a private inner block courtyard, a waste dumping place, a dirty flow to pour their sewage from exposed pipes. No one would care if his behavior exacerbates the environment. Besides, the lack of fund makes the problem impossible to be solved in a short term.

Above all the issues that need to be handled, probably is to change people’s attitude towards water. My proposal is consisted of two phases. Firstly make water visible, so that people would be aware of the situation of the water; then, to add infrastructure to deal with the pollution of the creek including biological wetland, trapping net and pipes connected to existing broken sewage pipes; the second phase is to add infrastructure and public space along the creek, through a series of water based public activities, people would not only have a different attitude towards water

but also strengthen their community culture. At last, people in the whole community could work collectively to make water area a more healthy, cultural and sustainable living space. In this way could we rediscover water.

The design will base on a study of typology of water infrastructure and territory of water to create components in a localized water infrastructure network. By inserting these components and optimize them according to existing topographical and urban context, the water network would effectively provide the community a chance to increase natural and cultural environment.

What is also important is that environmental issue, in essence is part of a larger issue- how to make it an ideal community for residents to live a happy life. By involving people to celebrate water and create a series of public spaces centering water, the final goal is to imagine a healthy, cultural and sustainable community.

[WATER INFRASTRUCTURAL SYSTEM IN PARAISOPOLIS]

[EXISTING CONDITION OF THE CREEK]

VOID SPACE ATTRACTING WASTE

TREE ISLAND

RIVER STREET

HOUSE OVER WATER

LENGEND Underground Sewage Pipe Above ground Sewage Pipe Existing greenland Buildings Improved Inner Street Pipe Organization Water Collection Water project

Key Interventions Phase ONE [1] Tower with trapping net [2] Tower with a bridge [3] Tower above the creek Phase TWO [1] Linear green infrastructure [2] Community kitchen [3] Pipe ring

[SITE ANALYSIS AND INTERVENTION]

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Phase 1 The Tower - Awareness of Water Most part of Antonico Creek is actually insivible now. People pour sewage directly to creek, dump waste along the water front and construct above or along the creek.

So the first step to regenerate the corridor should be “To make the water visible�.

Tower here is a quick way to announce the existence of the creek. It is a landmark, an information conveyor, an independent infrastructural system, a viewing deck to remind people pollution behavior should be stopped.

WATER COLLECTION Prototype:water tower This is a combination of rainwater collection core and space around it(including decks and sheltered bottom space). Water collected by the core could be used either for direct drinking and other activites surrounding it like water supply for public kitchen.

WATER TRANSPORTATION Prototype:pipe These pipe structures are connected with underground water supply/sewage pipe as communicators and playful objects.

Phase 2 The Creek - Celebration of water When more and more people are aware of the pollution problem of the creek and change their dumping/pouring behavior, a system of infrasturcture could be plugged in the void space of the creek corridor area. These infrastructures also play an important role to provide places for public activites so that the whole community can come together for the celebration of water.

WASTE TRAPPING WATER CONTAINER

Prototype:trapping net

Prototype:water tank

They collect trash in creek

They store both grey water for toilets and toilet water to generate bilgas for cooking.

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[EVOLUTION OF THE SURROUNDING | TOWER’S IMPACT]

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2 tower makes the creek visible

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rainwater pavilion trees

public toilet

central stoves long dining table picnic space

kitchen platform street food platform

paths with pipes

topo

RADIO ORGANIZATION

[SECTION OF PUBLIC KITCHEN]

[PUBLIC TOILET]

[KIOSKS OF STREET FOOD]

It makes people easier to have outdoor activites. It is also part sewage reuse system.

Rainwater pavilions provide clean water to attract small business to gather here and sell local street food.

[KIOSKS OF PICNIC] Clean water and shadows provides by water pavilions attract families to rest here and have picnic.

[COMMUNITY KITCHEN] Sewage is reclaimed and turned to biogas, which supports public stoves for cummunity cooking.

[LONG TABLE] People of the block will prepare foods together and have big dinner here so that to cultivate their unique community culture.

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rainwater pavilion trees

playground

running track

topo

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CIRCULAR ORGANIZATION

[SECTION OF PIPE PARK RING]

[Pipe Sculpture] Series of pipe sculptures included pipe swing, pipe chair, pipe faucet, pipe plant shelves.

These structures not only notifies peope the pipe line beneath it, but also provide good opportunities for people to make use of the open space and interact with water.

[Running Band] Running lane here equips people with space for exercise and leads them to a healthy lifestyle.

[Rainwater pavilion] These artificial tree like pavilions collect rain water and wih simple purification, they will supply clean water for drinking and washing.

[PLAY RING] A sand pit playground with slides and toys for kids play.

[Water forest] Community plant forest here for ecological recovery.

[Pipe bridge] Spiral pipes formed the structure of the bridge, it also functions as a shelter.

[AXON OF PIPE PARKI RING]

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PROTOCHODRION

Coevolution of Human Body and Machinic Micrometerology

LOCATION

Quartzsite, Arizona

DATE

Sept 2017-Apr 2018

INSTRUCTOR

Geffery Thun

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Engaging architecture, landscape architecture, mechatronics, and micrometereology, the speculative design of Protochondrion aims to explore a new transformable, responsive, intelligent architectural prototype defined by energy boundaries rather than material enclosure. The relationship between protochondria and their human partners is one of coevolution, of mutual reactive effect of differentiation and integration through interaction.

Within this work and across scales, the territory of Protochondrion is explored to test Protochondrion’s capacity to engender new architectures.

Protochodrion combines and hybridizes prototype, proteus and mitochondrion, which implies its two distinguishing characteristics: transformability and operation upon energy as matter.

[Metaphor of Hot Air Balloon | Event space]

In this way, the design proposal mainly looks into two architectural issues, boundary and transparency, and seeks to generate a provisional Protochondrion future with spatial and social implications other than a mere entertainment daydreaming. Through changing scales, territory of Protochondrion is also unfolded to test Protochondrion’s ability to transform energy, space and loci, specially in Quartzsite, Arizona.

Territory Of Protochondrion

[Kurzweil’s Evolution Rule]

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In his book The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil described himself as a “patternist”, someone who views patterns of information as the fundamental reality. Based on the basic idea that our universe consists of information instead of material and energy, he further defined evolution as “a process of creating patterns of increasing order” and talked about six epochs of evolution.

If Kurzweil is right, currently, we are at the Epoch 4.5, when we have already made progress in artificial intelligence and computational science, and are still forwarding to merge technology and human intelligence more closely. Technological evolution keeps accelerating, far more faster than the biological evolution. We humans would be destined to be replaced by intelligent machines, although we would still exist, just in another form other than biologically.

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[Energy As Building Material] In his work EOS series, Sean Lally proposed a synthesis of two intense pressures on society today: humanity’s manipulation of the environment and the bio-engineering of the human body. He is speaking in grand Einsteinian terms of the energy inherent in every material, in every space, and in the constant exchange of energy between our bodies and their surroundings—in short, the whole designed environment viewed as an energy system.

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Space becomes electromagnetic, chemical, sensorial and atmospheric with thermal, olfactory and coetaneous dimensions within which we are immersed when we move from metric composition to thermal composition, from structural thinking to climatic thinking, from narrative thinking to meteorological thinking.

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[PROTEAN ARCHITECTURES] Micro-installation + installation Scale

Protochodrion is an inflatable artifact and responsive, intelligent system, consisting of modules of floatation, sensation, kinetic transformation, energy collection and storage. It also serves as a mother ship for environmental nano-operators that alter temperature, humidity, light and air current.

Legend 1. solar panel for energy absorption, shading and resilience; sensor of human movement and environment; 2.

surface transformation and structure unit; 3. self-inflatable and floating unit; 4. nano robots repair center; 5. nano shell concentrator ; 6. information storage and command intergrative unit; 7. energy collection panel; 8. nano robots pick-up transportaion; 9. nano robots information passengers; 10. opening for emitting; 11. nano robots emitted to control environment and micrometereological effect: temperature, dust particles, light, humidity, air current

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Information movable nano robots

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[FROM ENERGY TO SPACE] Architecture Scale

Beneath protochondrion, an electronic boundary, within which environmental nano-operators can be active, is defined as a gradient of intensities. Energy is transmitted from protochondrion, distributed and transformed to an energy space without a material enclosure. Such energy space, together with the protochondrion that generates it

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[FROM SPACE TO LOCI] Site Scale

Famous for its ephemeral RV urbanism and immaterial culture, Quartzsite, AZ will host the spectacular proposal of Protochondrion. Situated on a mesa near Quartzsite and targeting a specific multitude: snow birds, who are usually aged middle class from northern climes that flock to the south in winter, a desert hotel imagines a possible Protochondrion scenario. In this possible near future, humans form codependent relationships with

their Protochondria across a terrain of dynamic zones of differentiated energy rules, an infrastructural field, to steer/guide/overlay different momentary gathering events. These aggregations imbue the mesa with eventfulness, engender new human-machinic loci and foster an alternate urbanism.

Flexible events space layout

Energy field

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Constructed topo surface for flexible programs Programming Structure

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momentary event space defined by energy

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[Layers | Quartzsite Desert Hotel] high zone left as resting area

sunken courtyard for plants

roofed area as entrance

08 OTHER WORKS

Academic, professional, digital fabrication

[Community Sports Center] Hangzhou, China, 2014

[Suining Urban Planning Museum](professional t Suining, China, 2016

[Hotel Reconstruction From Countryside House] Wuxi, China, 2015

[Bridge for Kids](compition team work) Wuhan, China, 2017

书 画 院

平万 印洁

瑶唐

[Museum of Traditional Chinese Art](academic team work) Hangzhou, China, 2015

[Informal Urban Design Collage] Sao Paulo, 2017

team work)

[Watercolor] Hangzhou, China, 2012

[Coffee with Snow Mountain](Architectural Photography) Lausanne, Switzerland, 2015

[Curating History of Michigan Union](Exhibition Diagram) Ann Arbor, MI, 2017

[Light Weight] (Steel+water jet) (team of 4) Ann Arbor, 2016

[Assembled Foam Facade] (Foam+Kuka R6)(tea Ann Arbor, 2016

[Rerouted] (Foam+CNC)(team of 4) Ann Arbor, 2016

[Wood Texture in Flatness] (Laser cut+spray) Ann Arbor, 2017

[Inflatable] (Plastic+Zund+iron seal)(team) Ann Arbor, 2016

[Heptagram] (Kuka R60+light baton)(team of 3) Ann Arbor, 2018

am of 4)

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[Organizer Design] (Laser cut+3d print) Ann Arbor, 2018

[Wall Techtonic Design] (Wood work+Kuka R60)(team of 3) Ann Arbor, 2018

[3D Printed Ceremic] (Kuka R60+clay extruder)(team of 2) Ann Arbor, 2018