2016 Spring Studio

Jing Wang Jing Wang| ARCH 1102 Spring 2016 Teaching Associate: Aaron Goldstein Professors: James Williamson and Lorena del RĂ­o

Hybrid Architecture

Analysis of Moriyama House

The project starts with analyses of both modern and historical precedents. The modern precedent is the Moriyama House, located in Tokyo, Japan, and designed by SANAA in 2005. The analysis of the Moriyama House puts focus on how spaces and enclosures are formed and implied through the arrangement of the openings. The historical precedent is the shotgun house originated from New Orleans during the 1850s. The study looks at the shotgun house on an urban scale. The analysis was based on an existing shotgun house neighborhood in New Orleans, in which I analyzed the conditions when the standard shotgun house prototype transforms and adapts to the environment.

In the hybrid, I took the linear grain from the nature of the shotgun house and combine with the opening strategies of the Moriyama House. As a result, the hybrid presents a pattern weaved by the longitudinal visual transparency and latitudinal circulation. And also the configurations of volume come from the analysis of different shotgun house variations.

W The final project is a family cemetery that locates on a sloped river shore. It is comprised with a series of walls that situate in a large garden so the garden becomes interior space like in the case of Moriyama house. A field is created from the presence of the tree grid overlapped with the grain that defines the width of the enclosed volumes. Elements are arranged and landscape is modified according to the field. The arrangement of walls also creates open private spaces like the family dining place. The ambiguity between the living and the dead is embodied by the ambiguity between the private and the public, the enclosed and the open. Circulation and transparency patterns are created by strategies like fenestration and misalignment. The resulted directionality also coordinates with the functionality of the space. For example, meditation spaces are on the second level, in which visions are facing towards the water, the border between the living world and that of the dead, and circulation is conducted from the side of the land, which represents the livings’ world. The directionality of the mediation space is meant to trigger contemplation through vision. Besides for circulations, the garden also serve the purpose of burial, in which the dead are buried as trees scattered in the entire site. The rendering is meant to convey the bright and easy atmosphere I imagined for the project. This project is an embodiment of my personal belief towards death that death is something ordinary and humble like the growth and fall of a flower and a tree.

plan and section drawings of moriyama house

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

variation of individual units

study of facade i

openings regulated by floors.

study of facade ii

openings on the single-floor, high-ceiling room.

studies of layouts

fenestration and misalignment

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Analysis of the Shot-gun House

plan of an actual shotgun house street block

analysis of configuration transformation & layout transofrmation analysis of configuration transformation

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Hybrid

studies of one possible arrangement

other possibilities plan & section of the hybrid Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Site

Final: Family Cemetery

site modified by walls, according to programs and circulation

adaptation to the site

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

final model

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

axonometric section

plan of the 1st level and 2nd level

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

perspective section

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

rendering: view 1

rendering: view 2

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

rendering: view 3

rendering: view 4

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016

Jing Wang | ARCH 1102 Spring 2016