PORTFOLIO Q I F E N G G A O
// GSAPP 2020’ / TJU 2016’
The order lies in the Chaos. A Folk House in Xiamen, China
Academic Works Design Projects // OPEN WORK // REBOOTING THE CITY // CLOUD NURSERY / GUIZONG TEMPLE / DOUBLE-FACED LIBRARY / HEY BUBBLES / TIANJIN BINHAI CARE CENTER / DAILY BLANKET Elective Courses // FACADE DETAILING // TENSILE-COMPRESSION SURFACE // RETHINKING BIM
Professional Works - THE SPRINGS F1AB - LIUXIANDONG COMPLEX
// GSAPP / TJU -Professional
// Open Work Studio Kawaramachi Housing Project May. 2020 Spring Studio, GSAPP Critic: Enrique Walker Collaborator: Yechi Zhang, Haitong Chen, Xinning Hua
Danchi is a mass housing type that was popular during the 1960s-1970s among middle classes in Japan and is now left with elderly people due to its narrow apartment space and isolated locations. Kawaramachi Housing Project is a typical Danchi which is built in 1970 designed by Sachio Otani. Over time with the aging of the Japanese population, elderly people encountered loneliness, depression due to a lack of close family ties. The issues also applied to the Kawaramachi Housing Project. Based on the knowledge of three threads (A-frame as Japanese Symbol, interior public space, and housing types in Japan), the Kawaramachi Housing project is reprogrammed as a collision of a community campus and housing units. By doubling its public space and transferring old interior A-frame space to a bigger A-framed campus, which brings vitality back to the old community.
Ise Shrine, 500s
Gassho House, 1200s
Nagaya, 1500s
Machiya, 1600s
Boston Housing, 1959
Tokyo Bay, 1960
Kyoto Conference Center, 1963
St. Mary's Cathedral, 1964
Tree Shaped Community, 1968
Kawaramachi Housing, 1970
Pasadena Heights, 1972
Hirato Resort Hotel, 1977
Genealogy, left page A-framed atrium, Interior public spaces in the 1960s and housing types in Japan
Structural Model, right page top An A-framed megastructure with each span of 5.2m, containing two types of units.
Units Layouts, right page bottom DK means Dining room and Kitchen, the number represents the bedroom.
A-Frame as a Symbole of Japan Interior Public Space Japanese Housing Types Kawaramachi Housing Project stands at the intersect point of these three threads. The original massing contains three A-framed megastructure residential complexes and four general residential mansions. The complexes and the mansions connected back to back with an interior public space, which served as an area for activities before people entering their units.
3DK
2DK
In its A-frame structure, there are two different types of housing units. As in most Danchi that were built in the 1970s, spaces there are cramped. After the post-war housing crisis was solved, most Danchi residents moved away to single-family detached houses, like Nagaya, with family members, which are more suitable for the Japanese lifestyle.
Three Layers of Circulation
COLLEGE PROGRAMS CLASSROOMS
RUNNING TRACK
PRIMARY CIRCULATION RESIDENTIAL CIRCULATION
INTERIOR CIRCULATION INTERIOR PUBLIC SPACE
While keeping two original internal public circulations on both sides, two other circulations are added: the primary campus circulation in the middle and the running track on the third floor that connects the major public programs. Also, between the bottom and up massing, an auxiliary circulation is set to create a soft boundary between students and residents.
The bottom A-frame structures are preserved and extended in the upper part as structures for the new apartments. The interior public space is doubled by adding college programs both between and underneath the original structures.
Exploded Structure of the Big A-frame
NEW HOUSING
NEW STEEL STRUCTURE
ORIGINAL HOUSING
CAMPUS PROGRAM
ORIGINAL STRUCTURE
RUNNING TRACK
First Floor Plan of the East Side
New and Renewed Housing Types
2DK+G Childless Family
3LDK+G Extended Family
3LDK+G Extended Family
3LDK+G Nuclear Family
1DK Solitude 1DK+G Solitude
4LDK+G Extended Family
1DK Solitude
Taking advantage of the tiered units, each unit has a garden that traces back to the spatial experience in traditional Japanese housing types.
Vignette of Gallery, showed in the upper section
Vignette of Auditorium, showed in the bottom section
A Bigger A-frame Street, Community Campus and Urbanism Seen from the sections, multiple community college programs are added in the middle, while keeping the surrounding houses which is the black part. The goal is to have the college not only serve students and residents but also reactivate this neighborhood. A new parking garage is added at the south end to enclose the middle street, which serves as a functional connection between the city and the buildings. The outdoor pool is also open to both students and residents to have more opportunities to communicate.
Open Work, Kwaramachi Housing Project
Vignette of The Middle Public Area revitalize urbanism
Looking at the Parking Structure functionally connect the community with city
Leisure Activities on the Running Track Connection between the young and old generations
// REBOOTING THE CITY Urban infrustracture proposal facing climate change Dec. 2019 Fall Studio, GSAPP Abstract Selected Critic: Andrés Jaque Collaborator: Zifan Zhang
This project proposed a 2020 resolution ‘the crust’, which would be a new version of air rights utilization in NYC, to face the urgent climate change issue. Researching into the block running from 54th to 55th st and 6th to 7th Ave, the ‘crust’ would function as socio-ecological urban infrastructure in four aspectsenergy, food, water ,and waste-by connecting itself with original buildings. All of the infrastructures would not only manage the City of New York to honor the 2050 plan target by 52% but also it would move from a model of unequal territorial distribution of the environmental cost of its daily functioning to an even distribution of environmental responsibility.
Behind the fact that citizens are used to purchasing fresh vegetables from markets like wholefood and Trader joe’s, these organic vegetables are transported through long-distance from states like California and Florida. Such food transportation emits 1.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year in the US.
FOOD SYSTEM STATUS QUE
Organic Waste New York City sends 1.3 million tons of waste to landfills every year. When organic waste degrades in landfills, it produces methane, a kind of greenhouse gas. Removing organic material from landfills, not only benefits the atmosphere, but it also presents an opportunity to harness its positive value as a potential clean energy source or compost input. For these and other reasons, Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Bill de Blasio introduced the “Zero Waste� initiative, aiming for a 90 percent reduction in landfill use by 2030. A cornerstone of the plan was a robust compost program, where the organic matter would be placed in brown bins provided by the city, picked up by the Sanitation Department, and then sold or delivered to places that turn the food into compost for gardening or convert it to energy.
As we know, buildings in Manhattan are fueled by power stations in New York State, including 20 that are sourced with natural gas. 44 % of the mix in NYC is natural gas and 33% comes from these 12 power plants. These powers stations together are responsible for 86,200 tons of CO2 emissions annually.
Transscalar Tower, Rebooting the City
Existing Buildings, the Frontier
Now, existing buildings in NYC are standing at the frontier of the battle against global warming. The Building Industry accounts for 39% of global CO2 emission, and since 80% of the buildings that will exist in 2050 in NYC are already here today. Intervening into existing building systems is the only opportunity to reduce GHG emissions. Human beings are facing an unprecedented climate crisis. By 2018, GHG emissions have caused the Earth to warm up by 1 ℃ compared within the 19th century. And even just a half-degree increase is not a small deal: ice-free summers are 10 times more likely in the Arctic area; an additional 23% of the world population and 61 million people would be exposed to severe heat waves and drought and so forth.
ust as the 1916 zoning code lead to building setback, while 1961 resolution leads to high-rise skylines based on air right trading. We urgently propose a brand new 2020 resolution, which supports a public infrastructure named the CRUST. It would be a new version of air rights utilization in the climate regime. By intervening in the inner systems including energy, food, waste, and water, the CRUST will reboot the exiting building and the city.By carrying out the policy of using air rights, rather than continue building giant skyscrapers and strengthen the empire of capital, a reformation in Manhattan would arise. Individuals have a new opportunity to find their niche in social structures – the urban farmer.
URBAN FARMER, A NEW SOCIAL CLASS In fact, almost 300 people are moving out of New York City per day since the average rent price increment by 4.1% year-over-year in Manhattan. While in the climate paradigm, part of them who are willing to offer labor in farming and monitoring infrastructures finally have the chance to stay but not flee from this metropolitan. The urban farmers share the same entrance with the original residences and live in the CRUST. The CRUST is supposed to develop into an urban layer that contains functions like education, children daycare, and community libraries, which make it a brand new and dynamic urban landscape, which reboot the city to step into the climate paradigm.
Disab Household Labors and Day-care Household labors are able to take part in day-care working for children while their parents are out during the daytime.
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Mixed Living and Display Area People can open flexible display spaces to share their art or music with the neighborhood. Meanwhile, they can also enclose their private working spaces.
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ded with vertical movable g space, disabled people can e through floors easily to get uch with their neighborhoods.
Seperate Privacy with Shared Working Space
Inter-generation Co-living
Strangers live separately can share working space to lower the rent price, and this arrangement also creates an opportunity for cooperation.
Inter-generation co-living on ,one hand offers an opportunity for conveying household skills, and on the other hand help, the elders learn from the young generation in high-tech gadgets.
Based on the population investigation in NYC 2018, there would be 5 kids(under 13), 12 teenagers(13-18), 50 adults (18-60), and 13 elderly people (60+) in a group of 80, which is the least population that can form a community. Among those people, the various relationships would be built up. To situate both privacy and publicity for the community in the ‘CRUST’, changeable modules are being used.
Food System The CRUST makes it possible to introduce a new urban food production strategy in the existing buildings. This is not unusual in NY, for instance, there is a dairy farm located in the Asonian building on the Upper West Side. We are introducing CRUST Farms as an urban strategy to reduce the impact of food production. In this block, enough quantity of vegetables can be grown in 1876 m2 aquaponic farms for 683 people, which eliminates 847kg CO2 per year caused by industrial fertilizer production and vegetable transportation.
Energy System The CRUST replaces the 5 out of 7 boilers fueled with Natural Gas with a geothermal system operating not in the rock but in the sewage system. Such a system has already been in the application in Penyvesia. Taking advantage of the stable temperature in sewer drainage underground from 10℃-20℃. The geothermal circulation can ensure the heating under 0℃, cooling beyond 20℃, which reduces 74% of the natural gas used to fuel on-site boilers.
Water System The NYC water supply system serves 8.5 million NYC residents each day. Thus the sewage produced by residential buildings flows to 14 wastewater plants with flows of 6.8 million sewage water, 1.3 million tons of CH4 emission per year in synthetic processes. While in the CRUST, the biological wastewater recycling system includes five steps that will be installed. Wastewater can be pumped into biofilter and reused in gardening, flushing, washing machine, mopping, which reduces 68,000kg GHG emission by avoiding transportation and absorbing GHG gas by plants.
Waste System A waste collection and compost circulation are created. 49 tons of bio-waste including kitchen debris, cooked foods, garden waste are transported by elevator to the organic waste recycling bins built in the air and shred each week. After 4-6 weeks for a composting cycle, wastes are transferred into the fertilizer. Since the CO2 produced by compost causes 25 times less temperature to arise than methane produced in a landfill. In the typical block, the on-site compost of bio-waste can avoid waste transportation and provide fertilizer to the urban farm, which in total leads to a reduction of 55 metric tons of GHG emission.
All of the infrastructures would not only manage the City of New York to honor the 2050 plan target by 52% but also it would move from a model of unequal territorial distribution of the environmental cost of its daily functioning to an even distribution of environmental responsibility.
// CLOUD NURSERY
A new layer of nature nourished by city infrastructure Aug. 2019 Summer Studio, GSAPP Critic: Gabriela Etchegaray, Jorge Ambrosi Abstract Selected Collaborator: Miles Mao
This project utilizes water as an energy source, transporting it below NYC from a park to the metropolis. Steam is released in Central Park—a monument of nature—to create a heat-landscape that nurtures awareness in the city of the original of this energy source. In this way, Cloud Nursery serves as a reminder of natural conditions from which the city emerged and connects inhabitants to a paradigmatic vision of nature and the city as a whole.
Through the research of NYC’s water supply system, it is noticed that steam, as another state of water, plays an important role in New Yorker’s lives. NYC’s steam system, which is the biggest in the world, is also the largest consumer of the NYC water supply system. Thus, several hidden aspects of this city can be noticed by analyzing the steam system. Meanwhile, the invisible steam can be implied by visible clouds, vapor, and smoke. The ‘visualized steam’ also provides us with a new perspective to
understand the relationship between humans, and environment, urban area and nature. Nowadays, Co.Edison is running most heating systems in Manhattan. According to the data from Co. Edison, the hot water system would be 23% more efficient than a steam system in midtown and uptown area due to the long-distance transfer loss. As the steam system grows from downtown, our ‘Cloud Nursury’ also functions as a transfer station from the steam system to the hot water system.
New York State Daily Water Supply
Daily water Consumption of Thermoelectric Power
Daily water Supply of Public Water
324m x 324m x 324m=34million m³
284m x 284m x 284m=23million m³
196m x 196m x 196m=7.5million m³
New York City Daily Water Consumption 156m x 156m x 156m=3.8million m³
Winter Daily Water Consumption for Steam System NYC 53m x 53m x 53m=0.15million m³
Winter Steam Production in Manhattan 284m x 284m x 284m=23million m³
Albany 41m x 41m x 41m=0.07million m³
Syracuse 53m x 53m x 53m=0.15million m³
Rochester 58m x 58m x 58m=0.2million m³
Summer
Spring
Fall
45m x 45m x 45m =0.09million m³
37m x 37m x 37m =0.05million m³
31m x 31m x 31m =0.03million m³
Summer
Spring
Fall
252m x 252m x 252m =16million m³
200m x 200m x 200m =8million m³
171m x 171m x 171m =5million m³
Seasonal Variation of Steam Consumption
The 'cloud' reflects the amount of steam varys among seasons and buildings.
Energy Changes the Status of Water
Energy status of cloud, fog, haze, water and steam.
Masterplan of Cloud Nursery
Taking advantage of the topography in central park.
Topography model of the site
Capturing the steam and create a boundary between the valley and pedestrian level.
A heat exchange station is needed to cool down the 180℃ steam. It lowers the pressure and adjust steam to a milder temperature around 24℃ and keep it steadily. The concrete islands function as steam vents spread around. After cooled down, steam is released from the organically shaped boundary slowly and then fulfill the entire space. The island also serves as an infrastructure, people can lean on it, sit beside it and touch it. The graph analyzes the environment parameters and listed the new plant species might survive in this plant nursery.
Structural Section
Machenical instruments are integrated with human activities
Shadow of Objects
Balloons, plants and topography.
/ GUIZONG TEMPLE
Modern religious building in historical and natural context Excellent Graduate design undergraduate school of architecture,TJU Jun. 2016 Instructor: Wang Di Individual Work
Guizong means 'back to the origin' in Chinese, praising the virtue of pure essence, which seems to be an oxymoron here. The GuiZong temple was demolished and rebuilt repeatedly from the Dong Jin Dynasty (317-420 B.C.) and eventually was abandoned under the power of capital transaction. Redefining the Guizong temple as both memorial of the past and spiritual space for the contemporary, the project, on one hand, collects the historical elements on-site, and on the other hand, create sacredness by means of light manipulation.
After repeated demolishment and reconstruction, the site has been torn into ruins. Only some on-site elements are remained as witnesses: modified topography, trees, rocks, water pool, and a scruffy temple. The only thing that remained the same is the mountains behind. According to the Chinese traditional 'Fengshui' theory, connecting from the site to the highest mountain is used as the main axis of architecture, which contributes to height consistency between nature and architecture.
All the facts are inter-related on the site. The historical background and natural environment nourished the zen temple culture, adding with religious regulations, monks follow a rigid daily schedules nowadays. Then the religious culture attracts tourists, who come with unregulated activities and economic income. The condition in the Guizong temple reveals a common status quo of the modern temple operation in China.
1. Canteen
Monks only have two meals a day. The buddha of food is served in front of the canteen.
2. Sutra Depository
Sutra depository is as a library in modern zen temple. The statue is served in the middle on the first floor.
3. Mahavira Hall
Monks gather here every early morning for the ceremony. The supreme leaders of buddhism are served in the middle.
4. Heaven Palace
Heaven palace is the first hall after the main entrance, which acts as an stop point to core courtyard.
5. Meditation Room
The buddha of the future is served in the middle. Here monks hold the most long-lasting activity: meditation.
Natrual Light and Space Division Among the seven major halls, five are expected to have buddha statues. To divide buddha’s space- from human’s space, as well as to create a sense of sacred, these five halls use different roof form to guide the natural light. Through direct beating, reflecting and scattering, sunshine lightens up the space for buddha, while shades human spaces.
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Gate Sanctuary Heaven Palace Tea Room (2F Bell Tower) 5. Office 6. Monks' cells 7. Meditation Room 8. Mahavira Hall 9. Sutra Depository 10. Kitchen (2F Canteen)
The Ratio of Outdoor Space to Indoor Space The importance of outdoor place is obvious by calculating the ratio of outdoor place to the total area of famous Chinese zen temples. Outdoor spaces are places where monks hold religious ceremonies and events.
Preservation of trees and structures on site
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Stairs align with the height of tree roots.
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Maintain the old entrance of the contemporary temple.
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Reuse the abandoned water pool on site.
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Use the existed heigt difference and stone stairs as part of the new courtyard.
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Preserve a tree grow tightly connected with an old house.
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Maintain the trees grow on a stone step as part of water pool landscape
Meditation Room
Skylight
Wood Profiles
Shared Rest Area
Wood Partition
Meditation Area
/ DOUBLE-FACED LIBRARY
Factory rennovation into a middle school library Jun. 2015 Instructor: Liu Conghong Collaborator: Xuesong Zhang
The rapid Chinese urban renewal in the past decades has made heavy industry migrated out of city centers, thus left numerous vacant plants. Reprograming the plants and helping the site rebuild urbanism is the topic. A new middle school is to be built in this old industrial zone. The ‘A’ side of plants faces the teaching area, while the opposite side ‘B’ side faces a plaza connected with the residential neighborhoods. The plants act as intermediation who intervene in both sides.
The industry transformation in recent China leads to space reshaping in abandoned downtown factories. This project is generated from this background and the goal is to transform three old industrial plants into a middle school library.
Industrial Memory
This side faces the teaching area of the school, mainly for receiving the students. Thus, the design provides an open space and a platform on the 2nd floor for public activities. Students can enter different buildings by their needs, the left building is an e-reading area and the right one is the traditional reading area.
The exhibition entrance faces to the public area of the school and mainly serve exhibition visitors. This path was designed with calm water surface and orderly structures, which can help people transform from hustle and bustle into tranquility when getting close to the library.
The space in the old plants is regular and rigid, while the new structure generates like a plant growing in the stone crack. the new structures generate in the voids and penetrate the existing format, which will lead to some open and active spaces.
In the interior design, the brick walls and concrete floors were reserved and exposed. Wooden furniture and plants are inserted as new elements. We can get close to the building history by touching and feeling the old materials.
A shallow water pool was placed beside the old building as a mirror of history, people can observe the reflection of the building elevation when visiting the tiny museum. The inverted reflection in water is regarded as a memory image, calling up the historical elevation and memory.
Growing structure penetrated the gap and also created various kinds of conmmunication spaces in different height.
Growing structure also reshaped the plan, creating view line reflection indoors.
heating cooling
capillary radiant heating/cooling system
Besides conservation of the old factory structures, this project also includes Eco-Design strategies including active strategies and passive ones. The water cycle system collects rainwater in the renewed pool, and uses the water to adjust the interior temperature by capillary radiant heating/cooling system installed inside the slabs. Meanwhile, there are some extruded sunrooms which provide comfortable reading experience in days with low temperatures.
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/ HEY BUBBLES
An experimental beer garden rennovation Jun. 2016 Student Competition Work Bronze Award, Exhibition of Architectural Design in Developing Countries Collaborator: Danqing Huo, Siying Li, Yue Geng
With both long beer history and experimental artisanal production nowadays, Villa Zarri in Italy is chosen to be renovated as a beer garden. Italian passion for beer will be tangible in this center and the cultural and entertainment activities will come with beer. The project started from materializing the dynamic status that foam coming out of beer bottles, and combine the ‘bubbles’ with the rigid original structure. The changeful bubbles serve as both indoor and outdoor activity containers and help visitors to deeply immerse themselves in the world of beer through vision, smell, taste, and interaction.
Bubble Concept Generation Original Structure
Fluctuation
Concept Diagram
Light & Smell
Density of Bubbles
Generation of Bubbles
Interaction with Fluctuation
Activity on Different Slopes
Outdoor Inflactivity
Since bubbles generated fluctuation inside the building, Slopes of various gradients are created to fulfill different kinds of behaviors. While in the outdoor space, visitors can inflate bubbles during parties, which become a translucent shelter.
Circulation
Handmade Beer Brewing Tasting Area Offices for Experiment Aroma Smell Space
Restaurant Banquet Area Souvenir
Laboratory
Interior Bubble Structure
Gardern Landscape
1 Aroma Smell Space 2 Multi-used Space 3 Craft 4 Wheat Planting 5 Balcony
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East Elevation
North Elevation
1st Floor Interior
/ TIANJIN BINHAI CARE CENTER Mix-use residential and grocery market Dec. 2014 Instructor: Jianghua Wang Individual Work
China has stepped into an aging society in the 21st century, thus the problem of lacking facilities for the elderly becomes increasingly urgent. Most existing
facilities have poor transportation, fewer activity spaces, and the elderly people hardly have sense of belonging to such places.
This project is a two-week quick design which probes into the combination of a grocery market and a community healthcare center. Based on the survey that 70% of people between the age of 55 to 80 years are fond of growing food at home. This project proposed an operation mode that allows elderly people to grow food and sell in the grocery market.
1st Floor Plan
Due to the result that working old people tend to be healthier mentally and physically than those who retired. Combining a grocery market with a healthcare center for old people, the residents can enjoy the convenience of shopping, and also they can rent a booth to sell their products, which will do good to their health.
Site Plan 1. Market &Beadhous 2. Community Sports Center 3. Community Culture Center 4. Addministration Office 5. Police Office 6. Community Hospital
2nd Floor Plan
Through the corridors inside the building, all the people can get easy access from the residential areas to the market despite the weather condition, which make the market a center of public activities. Bargaining and chatting provide the opportunity for old people to communicate and
acquire information. The corridor is widened than normal ones, in order to provide space for decoration. Once old people are able to decorate their own apartment door room, the crisis of losing their ways would be reduced by large.
As a result, the dynamic market scenario will contribute to the community atmosphere. Interpersonal activities like a bargain, chatting, and selling benefit the old people’s lives by inviting them to participate in social lives.
A-A Section
B-B Section
Apartment A layout owns a private kitchen and bathroom, and the bathtub is the size of the sitting shower, All the corridors are accessible with a wheelchair.
Apartment Layout A
Apartment B layout is more closer to a Chinese domestic apartment, two people can share a living room, which fits the need of co-living between two elderly people so that they can take care of each other.
Apartment Layout B
/ DAILY BLANKET
Flexible city infrastructure for incident activities Dec. 2014 Student Competition Work Individual Work
When taking a closer look at contemporary city life in China, it is easy to notice that there are a bunch of incident activity happens every day: Children take bus stop instruments as toys regardless of danger; the aged have to play chess and dance in the street corner and public squares suffering from automobile exhaust and uncertain weather. Aldo Van Eyck has endeavored to create a ‘city playground’ in the urban context in the late 20th century. Likewise, voids in a city are still proper space to contain those activities. The project started with the idea of establishing shelters for instant activities but not add a burden to city construction in peacetime. The ‘city blanket’ has a simple matrix plan within a basic module of 500mm, which meets various kinds of needs.
Possible Daily Blanket Cell Manipulation
Daily Blanket can be installed both on the horizontal and vertical surfaces. It is nearly invisible under an unused state. Users can freely choose to pull out extendable sticks to create whatever form they like. The small-scale Stretched film together with sticks can serve as city infrastructures, while on a large scale, they act as pavilions and shelters.
Timeline
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The Daily Blanket will change its form along with city life rhythm in each day.
The Daily Blanket follows a module of 500mm in the plan, which contains a person in one grid; while the stick can be pulled out to three levels which meet the needs for sitting, relying upon, and sheltering.
hydraulic equipment
electromagnetic button
The form of the Daily Blanket is controlled by cell phone APP, and users can choose an established model or create their form. The underground hydraulic equipment powered by solar energy make sticks flexible, while the electromagnetic button on top of sticks control whether the film is tightly connected with sticks.
/ Tensile-Compression Surface
Collaborated with Shenghui MaoďźŒShengyang He
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Fall 2019
Compression surface made of six sectors Final concrete model, left page
Compression Surface Right page
/ Tensile-Compression Surface
Collaborated with Shenghui MaoďźŒShengyang He
Tensile Surface, First Model Generated on basic geometry grids Four points on each surface
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Fall 2019
Compression Surface concrete
/ Tensile-Compression Surface
Collaborated with Shenghui MaoďźŒShengyang He
Process Model Mottled Concrete due to Handcraft Work Flow
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Fall 2019
Process Models Fabricated Tensile Surface, one sector, top Concrete Compression Surface, one sector, bottom
/ Tensile-Compression Surface
Collaborated with Shenghui MaoďźŒShengyang He
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Fall 2019
/ Rethinking BIM
Facade Renovation of Lever House
Airview Vignette Renovated facade
Tech/Visual Elective, GSAPP
Fall 2019
Sunpath Analysis based on Lunchbox
Workflow
Adaptive Component in Revit
Facade Renovation The depth of balcony is decided by the duration of sunlight in the day time
/ Facade Detailing
Collaborated with Shenghui Mao
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Spring 2020
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Stainless steel parapet capping Backer rod & seal Metal flashing
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+10.34m (33'11 3/32'') Traditional Chinese roof tile Waterproofing membrane
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Timber beam
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Reinforced concrete Vapor barrier 25mm(1'') Cavity Kolumba brick (528*108*37mm)
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25mm(1'') Self-leveling concrete floor Waterproof membrane
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Steel window frame top
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Steel window frame top
Double-layer heat strengthen glass
Wood seat covered by fabric
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Aluminum window frame Steel veneer
25mm (1'') Self-leveling concrete floor 50mm(2'') Insulation
12.7mm (1/2'') Gypsum board 75mm (3'')Insulation Reinforced concrete Vapor barrier 25mm(1'')Cavity Kolumba brick (528*108*37mm)
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Metal flashing
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Grout fill void between brick and insulation Waterproof membrane Mass concrete footing
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/ Facade Detailing
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Tatanium glass holder
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IGU Exterior 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'')PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating 6mm Argon
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6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'') PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating
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Wood seat covered by fabric 2.5mm (10'') dia bolt 5mm (2'') Nylon thermal break Thermal spacer fixed with structural silicon Steel window frame top +0.47m (18 1/2'')
45mm Ceramic frit
Aluminum window frame
20mm (25/32'')Steel frame 75mm (3'')Insulation Waterproof membrane 20mm (25/32'')Steel veneer
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12.7mm (1/2'') Gypsum board 75mm (3'')Insulation Reinforced concrete Vapor barrier 25mm(1'')Cavity Kolumba brick (528*108*37mm) Weep hole Silicon sealant and backer rod
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Steel window frame top +0.47m (18 1/2'')
IGU Exterior 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'')PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating Thermal spacer fixed with structural silicon
6mm Argon 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'') PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating Interior
Tatanium glass holder 150
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Aluminum rectangular frame
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20mm (25/32'')Steel frame 75mm (3'')Insulation Waterproof membrane 20mm (25/32'')Steel veneer
Kolumba brick (528*108*37mm) 25mm(1'')Cavity Vapor barrier Reinforced concrete 75mm (3'')Insulation 12.7mm (1/2'') Gypsum board
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Silicon sealant and backer rod
12
75
207
120
20
80
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Membrane termination
20
75
2.5mm (10'') dia bolt 20
Tech Elective, GSAPP
Spring 2020
Steel veneer
Insulation
Steel frame
IGU Exterior 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'')PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating
Prestressing steel bars
6mm Argon 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass 1.2mm (1/2'') PVB laminate 6mm (15/64'') Low-iron heat-strengthen glass Low-E coating Interior
Tatanium glass holder
Nylon thermal break Aluminum window frame
Tatanium glass holder
Nylon thermal break Aluminum window frame
Exterior Kolumba brick (528*108*37mm) 25mm(1'')Cavity Vapor barrier Reinforced concrete 75mm (3'')Insulation 12.7mm (1/2'') Gypsum board Interior
Window Frame Detail Vertical Section A-A Left page, top
Window Frame Detail Horizontal Section Left page, bottom
Insulated Glass Unit An exploded diagram to show the layers of IGU and cavity wall
-THE SPRINGS F1AB gmp Architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Beijing, China
Program:Mixed-use Location: Shanghai, China Time:05/2018 - 09/2018 Participate Stage: SD Status:under construction Position:Intern Architect Contribution: Conceptual Options | Mass Studies | Calculations | Facade Studies | 3D Modeling | Powerpoint Files
The Springs is a committed mixed-use commercial + office project including four towers. The total plot area is 44,000 m2. Under situations like height restriction, street-wall ratio and shadowing in neighborhood, pros and cons of several options are compared at the first stage of design. Then, in this option, each building owns an atrium to achieve better view and ventilation.
-LIUXIANDONG COMPLEX Atelier Li Xinggang, Beijing, China
Program: Landscape office building Location: Shenzhen, China Time: 07/2015 - 09/2015 Participate Stage: CD Status: constructed
Position: Intern Architect
Contribution: Plan Modification | Calculations | Negotiation with coorperators | 3D Modeling | Rendering
Liuxiandong complex is a group of four-storey underground buildings. The roof area mimics the shape of mountains and thus contains various public activities.
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