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MUZI DONG Architecture Portfolio Selected Works 2015 - 2020 M. Arch II Washington University in St. Louis

‘If architecture is to remain convergent with culture, it needs to build mechanisms by which culture can constantly produce new images and concepts rather recycle existing ones.’

— Robert Venturi

CONTENTS

ACADEMIC WORK

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INTERSECTED BORDER Spring 2019 | 511 Option Studio

FOLDED AMBIGUITY Spring 2020 | 611 Option Studio

LIFTED LIVINGROOM Fall 2019 | 512 Option Studio

ORNAMENTAL INFORMATION Fall 2020 | Degree Project

SHIFTED PLATE- SCAPE Fall 2020 | Architecture Seminar

PROFESSIONAL WORK

06 07 08 09

LONGHOUSE AMONG PINE TREES Summer 2016 | Wuyang Architecture

TRANSLUCENT SHIKUMEN Summer 2018 | Personal Practice

KINNICK STADIUM NORTH END ZONE ADDITION Summer 2019 | Neumann Monson Architects

WEATHER DANCE FOUNTAIN STAGE Summer 2019 | Neumann Monson Architects

Halifax, Canada Inside-Out view from an Canadian harbor city

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BARCELONA, SPAIN Outside-In view in a high desnity neighorhood of Barceloneta

419 Core Studio, Rotation 1 & 2, Threshold drawings Fall 2018, Independent Work Instructor: Don Koster/ Emiliano Lopez

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LANDSCAPE IN MARFA Shading | Landmark | Vegetation | Tin roof Polaroid, 2019

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MARFA

United States

MIGRATION AND REFUGEE COMPLEX IN TEXAS

INTERSECTED BORDER 511 Option Studio Independent Work Selected for Approach 2018-2019 WashU SamFox School of Design & Visual Arts Publication Spring 2019 Presidio, Texas, United States Instructor: Stephen Leet

We are a great Sovereign Nation. We have strong Borders and will never accpet people coming into our Country illegally! — Donald J. Trump

Is it possible to design a border architecture that is welcoming rather than foreboding?

The worst aspects of the current situation are clear: re-purposed buildings and sites mismanaged by sub-contractors with little or no oversight. Officials should provide funding and opportunities for architects to design a whole new infrastructure — temporary housing as well as an ensemble of education, healthcare, legal and recreation facilities.

PRESIDIO

The need is absolutely urgent. A humane border architecture would provide immigrants with places of refuge and hope.

OJINAGA

Mexico

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DESIGN INTENTION IN NO MAN'S LAND Figure, colour & boundary

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PAINTING INTERPRETATION Overlapped Layering Sandu Darie, Estrutura, 1958

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TEXAS DESERT Development of complex circulation For migrants and refugees, the architecture of the southern U.S. border can seem as harsh as the Chihuahuan Desert and implacable as the Rio Grande.

U.S. Customs

Proposed U.S. Immgration Center

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SITE PLAN Intersection of Mexico & U.S. grid system 7

1. Intake Hall 7. Visitation Center 2. Medical Center

3. Office 6. Kitchen

5. Dinning Hall

4. Legal Consulting

8. Temporary Housing

10. Education

9. Theatre

Refugee Officer

11. Non Denominational Contemplative Space

PROGRAM CATALOGUE OF IMMIGRATION DETENTION Varation of Sectional Sequence for intense sunlight in Texas

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4. Legal Consulating Hall

5. Dinning Hall

7. Visitation Center

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE OF PUBLIC AFFAIR AREA Horizontal inner volume & Edge condition

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1. Intake Hall 2. Medical Center 3. Office 4. Legal Consulting 5. Dinning Hall 6. Kitchen 7. Visitation Center 8. Temporary Housing 9. Theatre

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN Enclosed poche & Public realm One of the most difficult challenges is the need for a perimeter that detains inhabitants but also protects them from wild animals, intruders and the nearconstant desert winds. This projects incorporated the spatial and social qualities of collective housing: from the scale of the family to the scale of a community; from the dwelling and patio to the courtyard, street and plaza. The character and atmosphere should be more similar to that of a small campus than a punitive detention facility. za. The character and atmosphere should be more similar to that of a small campus than a punitive detention facility.

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Pinwheel Cluster

TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL AREA Interwoven dayrooms, desert courtyards & living units

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Desert Courtyard

PUBLIC SPACE OF TEMPOR

Porous desert courtyards as public rea

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Day Room

RARY RESIDENTIAL AREA

alm & soft bounced light in dayrooms

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SOCIETY AND SCIENCE EXCHANGE CONVENTION CENTER

FOLDED AMBUIGUITY 611 Option Studio Spring 2020 Independent Work Selected for Approach 2019 - 2020 SamFox School of Design & Visual Arts Publication Chicago, United States Instructor: Philip Holden

That in the begining when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truth and they were all beautiful. — The Book of the Grotesque, Sherwood Anderson

For folded ambiguity, the main narrative is the structure system, generated from the notion of gravity. Steel columns stand between two double layers and support the steel deck roof. Inspired by Ellsworth Kelly’s painting, Meschers 1951.

Two colors of pattern which is difficult to define which color is the background of the painting. It implies the ambiguity of exterior and interior. Between each axis of double walls, one layer folded down and connect with another upper layer of the linear wall below. Meanwhile, the opening of the roof in plan follows the geometry of the folded wall, as skylight opening of the exterior and interior space.

Two directions of folded walls dominate the building. One follows the edge of theatre, another one aligns with the direction of Kingsbury street. The theatre lies underground to gain enough height for the fly tower. Individuals can be meandering around the general exhibition space and enter the meeting space. Meeting space as glass boxes, inserted in between two pieces of folded wall. Skylight seems like randomly appear in the exhibition, pre-function space, and other exterior public realms to punctuate the space.

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DYNAMIC GRAVITY STUDY Meandering experience created by folded surface

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INFINITESPATIAL AMBIGUITY STUDY Redefined by folded pattern projection

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PLANAR LOGIC Spliting and merging condition & ambigious skylight pattern

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1. Theatre 2. Lobby 3. Meeting room 4. Kitchen 5. Loading deck 6. Pavilion

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN Blend architcture narrtive into urban landscape

WATERFRONT

STREET LOBBY

TERRACE

PAVILLION

PRE-FUNCTION

CONFERENCE

KITCHEN

TERRACE

CONFERENCE

RESTROOM

EXHIBIT

LOADING DECK

LOBBY

EXHIBIT

RECEPTION

STORE

RECEPTION

THEATER

URBAN LANDSCAPE CITY

HORIZONTALITY & VERTICALITY New civic prairie school building in contemporary Chicago

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Section 4

Section 3

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SECTIONAL SEQUENCE Sequential ambiguity of space from inteior to exterior conditions

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Folded interior ambiguity

Folded exterior clarity

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1 rheinzink zinc roofing

2 double glazing

drainage mat

Steel plate mullion

water-proofing membrane

cable

roof boarding

aluminum mullion

3’’ rigid insulation

3’’ rigid insulation

Wideck SWA roof deck system

130 x 236’’ jumbo coated glazing

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OSB reflective metal sheet

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CENTRAL LIFTED STREET The overlooked urban living room in the historical neigborhood

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CO-WORKING & LIVING IN THE CITY

LIFTED LIVINGROOM 512 Optional Studio Independent Work Selected for Approach 2019-2020 WashU SamFox School of Design & Visual Arts Publication Fall 2019 Casco Antiguo, Seville, Spain Instructor: Sara De Giles

That in the begining when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the truth and they were all

Throughout modern and contemporary history, the evolution of society, culture and economy has had tremendous impact on the quality of work spaces. Important changes have taken place in the physical workplace, from the Fordian tradition (human assembly line in Ford factories), Taylorist processes (the division of work tasks according to the different functions to be carried out), to the collaborative and multidisciplinary modes of production and workstyles seen nowadays. At the same time, the close relationship that exists between architectural space and the workplaces that it is capable of generating must be highlighted, because it contributes in a large way to the humanization of these work spaces. On the other hand, the phenomenon of gentrification is causing the exodus of the local population from historic centers to the outskirts and suburbs of European cities.

As a result, historical centers are becoming more and more like museums. But there are still spaces available in the dense urban centers, which are providing an opportunity for tertiary sector use that can respond to the needs of contemporary society. This circumstance will allow a new focus of economic activation and production in the heart of the historical centers to be established, and create spaces for citizens to live their daily lives, thus contributing to the humanization of the city.

HISTORICAL CASCO ANTIGUO Blending new internal streets into the historical area of Sevile

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Original Boundary

Lifted Public Realm

Co-working space as base

SITE STRATEGY Place shifted bridge as condenser to cross over the central public realm

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Housing as bridges

Space of relation Residents' terrace Co-worker Resident

Single Housing Units

Family Housing Units

Co-working Space

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Shifted Floor plate

Service Core Elevated Street

Restaurant

Mechanical parking garage

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1. Exterior Terrace 2. Amenity 3. Public Kitchen 4. Housing for single co-workers

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3 RD FLOOR PLAN Housing as a integrated community

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1. Cafe 2. Lobby 3. Store 4. Restaurant 5. Mechanial parking entry

GROUND FLOOR PLAN Public program for citizens and residents

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SECTIONAL PHYSICAL MODEL Spacial sequences of shifted working space and housing bridge

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4th Floor Plan

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BRIDGE HOUSING FOR FAMILIES Double floor family unit as bridge to overlooking the street

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Housing For Single Worker

Co-Working Space

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CONTEMPORARY SUPERMARKET IN MIDWEST Ornamental elements as catalyst to generate energy in food desert

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INFORMATION ORIENTED SUPERMARKET IN FOOD DESERT

ORNAMENTAL INFORMATION Degree Project Fall 2020 Independent Work St. Louis, Missouri, United States Instructor: Philip Holden

‘If architecture is to remain convergent with culture, it needs to build mechanisms by which culture can constantly produce new images and concepts rather recycle existing ones.’

— Robert Venturi In the current typical supermarket, visual merchandising is mundane, confused, and disoriented. From fresh fruit, meat, dairy products to aged cheese, wine, etc. the quality of these contents are various and changeable. People tend to get lost in the supermarket and spend a lot of time finding and locating their targets. They probably have to be there several times to remember each area selling different merchandise and food. Hereby, Architectural ornament can be served as an indicator and navigator of information to organize and represent the huge amount of categories of merchandise.

Meanwhile, to make these ideas converge with contemporary culture, particularly in this pandemic period, a well ventilated, accessible and information friendly supermarket, illuminated by natural sunlight which offering the curbside pick-up and delivery service will be the most indispensable supermarket in the current pandemic circumstances.

The main narrative starts with the shelf space and fresh food package in the supermarket. Normally shelf space has countless parallel shelves with its central corridors in a giant box. The new shelf space will form various continuous and open rooms, defined by the roof-scape above the ground level, The ideas of the roof and ornamental system comes from fresh food packaging, normally the fresh meat and vegetable were packaged in a rectangle plate and wrapped by the transparent membrane, It is the outward shape of the food itself shape the surface of the membrane. Under the surface of the membrane, The space between the plate and the inner side of the membrane can allow many things to exist in-between. By translating these attributes into architecture language, the shelf space in the middle scale of an architectural element that mainly engaged with ornament. The ornamental information system is based on three set s of category in a supermarket, each set control one character of the system. All these spatial qualities are trying to create a safe, dynamic, identifiable shopping experience. Moreover, ornament itself can bring more pleasure to people.

Typical Greek Temple

Eads Bridge

Wainright Building

The Cat Shed

FORM

STRUCTURE

ATTACHMENT

SURFACE

Rediscover from human body

Claim identities of modern nation

Serve the needs of ordinary people

Display Goods & Entice Potential Buyer

SYMBOLIC CONNECTION

VERBAL CONNECTION INFORMATION

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SUPERMARKET IN ST. LOUIS

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RADIUS

ALDI (Small discount grocery store)

Dierberg’s (upscale Grocery and pharmacy)

United Provisions/ Olive Supermarket (international Foods & grocery)

WALMART/TARGET (Large discount grocery stores)

Whole Foods (upscale Natural foods/Health conscious)

Farmer Market (Temporary Fresh Food)

Schnucks (Grocery and Pharmacy)

Straub’s (Small format specialty grocery store)

Large grocery store 5 mi Small grocery store with 1 mi

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PERCENTAGE OF POVERTY

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Farmer market with 1/2 mi

Ave

RACIAL DEMARCATION

PUBLIC TRANSITS

ACCESS TO PERSONAL VEHICLES

19%-54%

African- American

Bus

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SITE PLAN Low Income Low Access without a Vehicle > 1/2 mi Bus Metro Existing Supermarket with 1 mi radius Potential Supermarket with 1 mi radius

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STAFF SERVICE (NORMAL ) Office Storage Loading

Derlivery Pick- up

CUSTOMER SERVICE (NORMAL)

AGED + RAW (NORMAL)

FRESH+ PROCESSED (HOT)

Curbside pick-up

pasta spices/ rice/ pasta/dressing baking essentials

Bakery Kitchen Deli

Check out Service

FRESH+ PROCESSED (NORMAL) restaurant cafe

FRESH+ RAW (NORMAL) vegetable fruit florist

AGED + PROCESSED (NORMAL) snack food wine jam Pantry Household Personal Care Body care & Beauty

FRESH+ RAW (COLD) egg seafood meat

Hue / Color Temperature

COLD

NORMAL NORMAL

Brightness of Color

FRESH RAW

AGED PROCESSED

Process / Division of Area

Dairy / milk

AGED + RAW (COLD)

AGED + PROCESSED (COLD)

Cheese forzen sea food /vegetable

Cheese forzen food beverage

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3 SETS FOR A NEW TYPE OF SUPERMARKET Redefine the category of merchandise in current supermarket

CONCEPT MODEL FROM CURRENT SUPERMARKET Wrapped fresh vegetables and meat as spatial idea

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN Ornamental information in plan to help customer navigeting in the supermaket

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‘XL’ ROOF SCAPE & ‘S’ ORNAMENT Ornament as navigator to give sense of direction in horizontal landscape

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Main Drive Thru Lane

Interior ornamental information

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A FORM AND FACADE OF THE CLASSIC 860-880 LAKE SHORE BUILDING

SHIFTED PLATE-SCAPE Seminar Arch 407B Fall 2020 Independent Work Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, United States Instructor: Sungho Kim

Dynamic Materialism and Urbanism develops digital design skills with the conceptual understanding of transformative awareness of artistic production of computational processes that can inspire a new form of architectural conditions. The current developments in digital technology allow mathematical expressions to transform complex generative systems, which have shifted the formal discourse of architecture. The new digitally based techniques are being invented to inform creative processes in architecture through the manipulations of complex geometrical and topological forms. This course focuses on developing new techniques that translate these mathematical developments into diagrammatic design strategies. The Course uses 3D printing as a method to iterate models at a level of complexity that is hard for handcrafting to achieve in a limited time frame.

The Seminar’s objective was to take the classic Lake Shore Drive Towers and transform their massing and facade in the current urban context. The new design splits two buildings into eight boxes and shifts each of them to merge into one building on the middle and top of the building.

The new facade is using the similar idea that using one basic to experiment with the visual effect via shifting and scaling. The new building provides a new possibility of view to appreciate the lake view on Lake Shore Drive.

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3d printed facade study

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Night condition

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TWILIGHT LONG HOUSE Translucent Facade & solid enclosure in pine tree forest

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TREE HOUSE FOR COUPLE IN RESORT PLACE

LONG HOUSE AMONG PINE TREES Professional Work in Wuyang Architecture Spring 2015 — Fall 2016 Qiyun Mountain, Anhui, China Supervisor: Feng Lu (Principal Architect) Contribution: Schemetic Design, Design Development, Construction Doucmentation. ( Collaboration with Structural Engineer) Photography: Ai Qing (CreatAR Images)

This long house is an independent guest room for couple in ZYJ Treehouse Land, which is a boutique resort in the tourism area of Qiyun Mountain in Anhui Province of China. The site is full of pine trees. To reduce the destruction of topography and feature of the mountain, the building is designed as a treehouse overhead, raised by four pairs of steel column. The whole building, the guest room with its long corridor, has a length of 16 meters.

When guests walk in the corridor, they could feel like going through in-between dense pine trees. For intellectuals in Chinese traditional culture, “inbetween pine trees” implies the poetry of living in seclusion. It is the concept of the design, that helps guests enjoy the still nature and escape from contemporary chaotic urban life.

It is the first design question that how guests experience the space changing from the outside of nature to the interior. Before guests get into the house, they will go through the long corridor which is not simply a pathway but a porch constituted by frames between nature and construction. The interior is opened by several holes enclosed by glass walls, from which pine trees grow across. Furthermore, wooden bars are used as a translucent surface of the building. Once getting in the room, guests will find themselves within a mixture space between inside and outside, between house and nature. A terrace is placed at the end of the longhouse. If guests go through the room, open the door, a view of distant mountain will be the end of their long trip.

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Qiyun Mountain

Pine Trees

Shape & Void

Long House

ACTIVITIES OF A COUPLE IN ONE DAY 'Before Sunrise', with its appealing linear narrative of typical lovers' behavior pattern, illustrated how two young people know each other spontaneously in an unexplored city. Switching from urban area to natural environment, the tree house is supposed to offer 3 different types of space in a particular sequence, allowing couples to interact with their partner and engage in nature.

City - From The Movie 'Before Sunrise'

Bridge

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Ferris Wheel

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Riverside

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Cafe

Park Lawn

Platform

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Nature - Vacation

Wandering Space

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Resting Space

Overlooking Space

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Occupying the hill & connected by the path

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INTERIOR INTIMACY The beginning and ending of the jounery in pine tree forest 47

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STRUCTURE & ENVELOPE A smaller box within a long steel framing tunnel with its translucent facade

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LONG CORRIDOR Two views from different walking directions

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roof boarding roof batten waterproofing membrane OSB t=12mm rafter 40*100mm @406 filled in glass wool t=120mm fireproof resistant plasterboard t=120mm mirror stainless steel sheet

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red cedar strip siding t=12mm rafter 40*100mm @406 counter batten moistureproof airtight sheet t=20mm OSB t=12mm

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wooden bar 40*80 mm @100 steel tube 120*120 mm

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red cedar strip flooring t=12mm electric heating floor t=50mm (including insulating layer) OSB t=12mm steel tube 120*120 mm

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TRANSLUCENT FACADE Two views from different spots in forest

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THE RENOVATION OF 118 MINGDELI

TRANSLUCENT SHIKUMEN Personal Professional Practice Summer 2018 - Spring 2019 Jingan District, Shanghai, China Client: Vicky Li SHIKUMEN, one of the most classical local traditional residential building type in Shanghai, still own its identity in the history of Shanghai. SHIKUMEN is a hybrid product that combines western and Chinese residential construction tradition. MingDeLi is such a typical ShiKuMen residential community in Jingan, which is used to be French Conssension during the last early twenty centries.

In Summer 2018, one of my best friends commissioned me to renovate the room on the ground floor with a patio in MIngDeLi, a historical Shikumen neighborhood. one of the most requirement is to design an addition as a bathroom for the unit she just bought.

Since the original apartment was already occupied and separated into serval units by various residents. The initial idea is to create a porous surface on the patio. Both entry of the living room and bathroom should have operatable windows and doors to ensure natural light and ventilation to penetrate the deep interior room. The functional fixtures were carefully layout from the entry to the end of the room. The design of lighting also plays as a spatial divider in this one whole room.

THE POROUS BOUNDARY OF PATIO Poetic threshold & essential living fixture

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remove existing wooden floor

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remove exisiting doors

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN Construction documentation drawings for workers

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1. Score Board 2. Seating&Canopy 3. Steel Structure 4. Shingled Cladding 5. Skywalk

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KINNICK STADIUM NORTH END ZONE ADDITION Summer 2019 Internship in Neumann Monson Architects Summer 2019 Iowa City, Iowa, United States Supervisor: Nick Lindsley Contribution: Award Drawings Photograph: Asa Houston The Kinnick Edge project replaces the existing general admission seating bowl in the north end zone with upper and lower general admission seating bowls, two concourses, and a premium club level. Both concourses increase and improve concession and restroom facilities. The main concourse on street level enjoys an unobstructed view of the field. The upper concourse has open decks at the east and west ends with views to the field and places where fans can congregate.

Between the two concourse levels is a premium club level.

The footprint of the site is very small, pinched to the north by Evashevski Drive. To fit, the new program requires a three-deck superstructure that cantilevers up and partially over Evashevski Drive. The design takes advantage of modern materials, creating a unique façade for the club and upper concourse while aligning with the geometry and massing of historic east and west towers. The exterior of the upper levels is a combination of glass and architectural panels that wrap the north end to provide a windbreak enclosure. The new scoreboard features a logo to the exterior and, with its elevated position above the upper bowl, serves as beacon to the north that is visible for miles.

SHINGLED FACADE SYSTEM

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CUSTOM OFFSET CLIP

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3. SHINGLED SYSTEM

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ELEVATION

CLADDING WALL SYSTEM

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SECTION A-A

FOOTBALL GAME SEASON

PROGRAM Vertical Circulation Club/Skywalk Seating Service Area

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SECTION 1. Main Concourse 2. Club Lounge 3. Upper Concourse 4. Lower Bowl Seating 5. Outdoor Club Seats

6. Upper Bowl Seating 7. Skywalk Connection 8. Mechanical Mezzanine 9. Score Board 5. Evashevski Drive 62

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WEATHER DANCE FOUNTAIN STAGE Summer 2019 Internship in Neumann Monson Architects Summer 2019 Iowa City, Iowa, United States Supervisor: Nick Lindsley Contribution: Award Drawings Photograph: Cameron Campbell The 700-sf canopy and stage anchors a comprehensive pedestrian streetscape overhaul. Forty years after central downtown was reserved for pedestrians and twenty years since its most recent improvements, the redesign caters to a broad demographic, building local pride and invigorating public space outside small businesses.

The project caps a major access corridor and provides a central performance venue with technical infrastructure for small-to-midsize performances. Six wide-flange steel columns between each bay rise through the canopy to support a cantilevered superstructure from which hangs a layered assembly of joists, louvers, and glazing. Sloped glass planes maximize acoustic performance, protect performers from weather, and channel rainwater to drain. The louvered aluminum canopy above serves alternately as sunshade and light reflector. Brick paving at the western three bays rises flush with the exposed grade beams to form a level, understated stage. In subtle contrast, the eastern two bays ramp gently down, guiding pedestrian traffic to and from an existing public pass-through. The sloped bays typically remain accessible during performances, setting the scene for theatrical interactivity as passersby momentarily become part of the show.

In its off-hours, the canopy operates as an occupiable urban landmark. It is a meeting point, a threshold, an awning, and a shady respite. At midday, the glass ignites with white brilliance in crisp contrast to the shade it projects. As dusk approaches, the growing glow of its programmable color-changing LEDs lends safe visibility and a playful ambiance to the promenade.

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Gutter Conductor Head Mounting Pipe Gutter Closure Suspension Rod Tube Downspout Glazing Assembly Banner Rigging Stage Lighting Electrical&A/V Conduits Drain Lines Glass Pattern Banner

COMPONENTS ASSEMBLY

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