2015 fall Studio

Jing Wang Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015 Professors: James Williamson and Lorena del RĂ­o Teaching Associate: Andrew Fu

European Mole The initial process of de-familiarization starts with the analysis and mechanical reconstruction of the mole. The most significant bodily mechanism of the mole is probably the process of digging, implied by the huge proportion of the front arm and palm to its body. Utilizing the movement similar to the arm part of the frog swimming stroke, the mole digs through pushing away and densifying the dirt. Similar to that of humans, mole’s arm is composed with one bone of the upper arm, two bones of the lower arm, and five fingers to form the palm.

The initial models was a series of study of how the specific bone structure of the mole perform the digging, with a focus on the angles and limits of the movement.

Then after the group drawing of an imaginary instrument with Thomas Rushton and Zhengxi Hou, the originally “2.5D� model evolved with the addition of a pair of rotatable shoulder blades that enable movement in the third dimension.

Then the site and the final architectural proposal were developed based on a Photoshop performative drawing of the instrument. In the drawing, the asymmetrical layout of the symmetrical instrument was deliberately created. The site was created by layering slices of different stages in the movements, giving the visual perception of the space excavated out from the ground. The final architectural proposal was intended to be a place for exhibition, which could perform both public and private functions. It was improved by inversing the steeper terrace, which created a semienclosure instead of an open garden, and digging out three underground walkway and chambers, which generated an underground circulation system paralleled with the ground circulation on the terrace.

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Studies

Research Graphs

Studies of Bone Structure

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Performative Drawing of the “2.5D” Study Instrument Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Initial Instrument

Improved Instrument Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Group Drawing

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Imaginary Instrument Synthesizing Other Mole Studies

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Final Instrument

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

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Initial Drawing of the Final Instrument Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Photoshopped Drawing that Further Breaks the Symetry

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Site Development

Study Model I

Study Model II

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Final Site

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Architectural Proposal Development

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015

Project European Mole: Exploring the Unfamiliar A modest architectural program: a place for exhibition and study 1/4 Scale Model Final Proposal Professors: James Williamson Lorena del RĂ­o Teaching Associate: Andrew Fu ARCH 1101: Design I Fall 2015 Cornell University AAP

Jing Wang | ARCH 1101 Fall 2015