The significance of architecture stems from the fact that it is the only human-made space except for natural creation. Architecture is fundamental to the coordination of all human social activities.
The relationship between architecture and humans is so profound that certain buildings have become associated with particular activities.
Due to the specificity and uniqueness of architecture to humankind, all social problems in the world can be addressed through architecture or require architecture to be solved.
ARCTIC DATA CENTER
This project is a hypothetical solution to reduce the rate of global warming and relief the worldwide energy shortage
According to NASA, the polar ice caps are melting at an alarming rate of 9% per decade. The thickness of the Arctic Ice has decreased by 40% since the 1960s. The IPCC predicts that sea levels could rise by 10 to 23 inches by 2100.
In Scandinavia islands, costal cities are facing greater danger due to the rising sea level. Meanwhile, these cities are facing severe energy crisis in winter due to these counries urgent heating demands.
Norway has the highest renewable capacity among the three Scandinavian countries, and almost all its energy comes from renewable sources. Hydropower is the main renewable energy source in Norway.
During winter months, the production of hydroelectricity drop significantly due to freezing temperature. In some facilities that consume massive electricity also produce massive waste heat, if we can manage to harness those waste heat, it is very likely to significantly reduce the overall power consumption of Scandinavian countries.
●Observed sea level since the start of the satellite altimeter record in 1993 (black line), plus inde- pendent estimates of the different contributions to sea level rise: thermal expansion (red) and added water, mostly due to glacier melt (blue). Added together (purple line), these separate estimates match the observed sea level very well.
●Observed sea level from 2000-2018, with future sea level through 2100 for six future pathways (colored lines) The pathways differ based on future rates of greenhouse gas emissions and global warming and differences in the plausible rates of glacier and ice sheet loss.
●If yearly emissions continue to increase rapidly as they have since 2000, models project that by the end of this century, global temperature will be at least 5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the 1901-1960 average, and possibly as much as 10.2 degrees warmer.
●Yearly surface temperature compared to the 20th-century average from 1880–2021. Blue bars indicate cooler-than-average years; red bars show warmer than average years.
●Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway is the northernmost town on earth. There are only fifty kilometers of roads, people getting around the island mainly on snow mobiles and dog sleds. Anyone leaving the town is required to carry a gun because the island is also owned by the polarbears. From the end of October to mid February the sun doesn’t rise at all during the long polar night.
●Hills around town are rich in coal deposits that have been mined over 100 years. The coal is transported to the port via a series of aerial tramways, most of which are no longer operrational. The economy now is based on tourism, education and research. Up on the side of the Svalbard airport is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
▲ Geographic Data of Longyearbyen, Norway History of Global Warming&Disappearing Glaciers
Dynamic heat dissipation skin
In order to efficiently dissipate the excess heat generated by the building, a program is used to dynamically control the building heat dissipation skin, so that the building skin changes position according to the real-time wind direction, so as to maintain the maximum base area with cold air as much as possible at any time and maintain the maximum heat dissipation efficiency.
Around Both Axes Fins Perpendicular to SW Fins Perpendicular to SE Fins Perpendicular to E
Fins Perpendicular to
Fins
Skin
Winter Prevailing Winds (SE-NE) Skin
Perpendicular to Spring Prevailing Winds (SE)
Skin Fins Perpendicular to Summer Prevailing Winds (SW)
Rotate Around Vertical Axis Rotate 30° Rotate 90° Rotate 60°
Rotate Around Horizontal Axis Rotate 15° Rotate 30° Rotate 60°
Rotate
Data Cener
Data Center Control/Lobby
Svalbard Therme
Therme Lobby
Hotel Lobby
Hotel Rooms
Pumping Station
Heat Distribution Center
Heat Distribution Center
This part of the building could use cold sea water (5 ℃ ) to water-cool the data center and harness its heat waste to provide hot water and heating for the building. Using the waste heat could greatly reduce the energy that is used to heat the building and saves the micro-environment by reducing the building's total heat emission.
Water-Cooled Data Center In
Data Center Machinery
A Glance of the Glaciers Sky Bridges
Svalbard
BOHEMIAN CONVOLUTION
The living condition of refugees who seek asylum in Europe is not ideal. Even with citizenship, immigrants are suffering from cultural alienation and racism.
Bohemian camper vans have long been an important cultural icon and shelter for their communities' members.Since Bohemians were still living a nomadic life, I began my BOHEMIAN CONVOLUTION project in Belgrade's Bohemian slum to deal with the social oppression in the face of European migration by creating flexible, mobile communities whose residents could quickly build modular parts as needed.
The prefab home takes shape from a bohemian camper van, which could grow or shrink to fit the people’s needs who live in it. The residents' everyday lives were connected by the marketplace located between the residential buildings. It encouraged a vibrant commercial and cultural environment for a more robust local economy and standard of living. Therefore, it evolved into an adaptable community that could be deployed either temporarily or permanently.
Zabrezje
Sava
Boljevci
Zabrezje
Obrenovac
New Belgrade
Bohemian Living Complex
A typical Bohemian family consists of three generations, the grandparents and their sons and daughters-in-law, and the sons and daughters-in-law's children, reflecting the heavy family values of Bohemians. The towers in the project are inspired by this extended family system, and are symbolized through prefabricated modules, extended family group, community. The large family group is placed on the core tube in a suspended structure.
The initial motivation of this project is to depict a picture of near future lifestyle, in which people are living in seperated self-sustaining living complex . The time is setted after the elimination of vicious megacoporations but human have failed to realize complete communism.
BIRD CAGE
Type:
The supporting theory of this project is the Dome Over Manhattan, which provides an energy saving prototype that could support a megacity. This project is developed on top of the foundation of Dome Over Manhattan,
The dome exudes immense amounts of strings from the center of the ocean, unravelling it, which shoot high into the sky as a concentrated beam. When high enough, they diverge to rain down to all sides in an umbrella-like fashion to cover a large area, even the whole of Aranya beach, creating a gigantic, razor-sharp wire-domed cage, slicing absolutely everything that passes through it. The singular bars are incredibly strong, as the cage to slowly but surely close in, eventually cutting anything inside apart, including the architecture practices of popular architects.
Aranya Art Center / Neri & Hu
Seashore Library / Vector Architects
Seashore Chapel / Vector Architects
Art Center of Aranya / Atelier Archmixing
TANG hotel / B.L.U.E Architecture
Case Study
1402 Coffee / B.L.U.E Architecture
House T / META-Project
Kennels / Atelier GOM
Cafe / B.L.U.E Architecture
In order to create a sophisticated and logical way of cutting the site subjects and reassembling them, I analysed these classical cases and extracted a key technique from them - slice up site subjects and rearrange the pieces within a given grid.
The Plug-In City / Peter Cook
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts / Peter Eisenman
The Strip / Rem Koolhaus
Zolaism
Massing Cuts
Objects of different materials, weight and are differently affected by the bird cage strings. Objects that are smaller than the gap between strings are not affected. Objects that are wider than the gap between strings are affected differently according to their various propoties.
Hard, heavy objects are cut through, leaving voids in the cutting path.
object would fall over under complicated circumstances.
Resilient, heavy objects are squzzed and cut through.
Hard objects of medium weight would be pushed.
Soft, heavy objects are cut through, but leaving no voids in the cutting path.
Profile Cuts
Different materials react differenly when being cut, resulting different shaped profiles. Profiles can be categorized into four basic shapes. Soft and tender materials generate rectiliner profiles. Soft but strong materials generate curving profiles. Resilient materials generate uneven profiles. Brittle materials generate organic profiles.
A Soft and tender materials would be cut through, leaving behind clean straight lines.
B Some materials are soft but strong, they cannot be cut throught but would bend as a whole, generating curves.
C Resilient materials would not bend as a whole, instead, they reshape and generate uneven profiles.
D When brittle materials are cut off, spherules would break apart from large chunks, leaving behind organic notches.
Brittle objects of medium weight would be pushed while breaking apart under force.
Some
Resilient objects of medium weight would be pushed while deforming under force.
Brittle, heavy materials break apart.
SPRING 2022
Residents of this complex gathering in the large voids beneath cooling tube system.
Helix Traffic
Spiral saircase that connects the sky hotel lobby and sky kennel lobby. Layered helix traffic interconnects main access points throughout the Bird Cage.
SECTIONFACADE
Peeling the curtain wall from the building, revealing the section of the building.
Traffic Core
The traffic core is also a planetarium.
Giant space telescope magnifies the galaxy and project holograms to the waiting area.
Stargazing at Night
Stargazing plaza is the only entrance to the church where souls are purified. Believers climb up staircase to enter the holy sky spiritual space.
ZEN WING
A STUDY OF TRANSPARENCY& TRANGULAR SHAPES
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In the Chinese culture, "Zen" is an activity based on quietness that originated from human's instinctive behaviors, if a person could achieve "Zen" means that a person who is able to access the vastness of inner tranquility.
In Chinese, the charater "Zen( 禅 )" is the predecessor of the charater "cicada( 蝉 )" , an insect that changes its form but remaining the same creature within its different appearances.
Under such cultural background, it is easy to find the connection between the concept "Zen" and the architectural principle of transparency , which indicates the literal transparency could be achieved by the ostensible sense of transperency, but the greater kind of phenomenal transparency must be achieved from the inside of spaces.
This project is a hypothetical solution for real problems that happened on real site and for real clients.
Chongqing, China, is a mountainous city where the summer is hostile for people to stay outdoor. The project's site is located in the Chongqing university campus which accommodates thousands of students, teachers and students take classes and seminars in different campus, which requires frequent commute between distant campus sites. The university needs a location where students can wait for school bus within comfortable environment while dealing with their own affairs according to their expected waiting time.
Function-wise, this public project aims to provide the students and teachers with spaces where boundries between nature and glasses are indistinct. The clients could access the project when they need to wait for the next shift of school bus, different spaces with various functions are set to accommodate different waiting time of the clients.
Architecture-wise, the project combined aluminum and glass panels to create phenomenal transparency by arrange lines of sight to generate disorderness and continous movement in space, triangular shapes are repeatedly used to achieve such goal. Triangular shapes in different sizes are used in the roof system, the facade system and the floor system, distortion of the triangles themselves also added to the transparency of the project.
based design
The project divides the functional zones according to the length of time different people need to wait after arriving at the station, and sets the corresponding function areas by comparing the departure time of school buses and students' fixed class schedules.
Elevated third floor is quite but not easy to access the core function-waiting for bus. People can performe tasks that require more time and tranquility, such as studying and reading. Visitors could view the zen garrden through the gaps that created from the overlapping wing shaped roofs.
The second floor menifested two different column systems that suppot the load of the building. The forms of columns is origined from the shape of traditional Chinese pagoda and the shape of tree branches that spreading from the tree trunk.
Ground level is the place where surrounding buildings and the campus public transportation system convert, therefore it is the perfect location to place the bus lobby where people could wait for school bus while enjoying the comfort of Zen garden.
View from Campus Main Road
Zen Wing is unfolded around the core transportation hub where people surrounded by trees arer waiting for school bus. Triangular fences and the zen garden boxed this area inside the gap of roofs, people can feel the shadow casting onto the trees but find it hard to see through the zen garden, the phenomenal transparency is established since people can feel the space behind obstacles but unable to see directly.
Sinking level houses the zen garden, which consists of a atrium of green that provides enjoyable views for people in each level performing various tasks.
View from Teaching Building Top
Zen Gardens are embedded between the voids of roofs, people in the lower floors could walk through the zen garden and those in upper floors could walk besides the tree crowns.
▲▼AVIATION OF THE ROOFS
▲Aviation of the Roofs
▼Queueing Area
Construction Competition
Material: Polypropylene Panel
Time: Summer 2019
Project Location: Chongqing, China
Title: Chief Designer; Chief Construction Coordinator
Achievements: University Second Award
Innovation Construction Competition
Material: Staple Pins
Time: Winter 2019
Project Location: Chongqing, China
Title: Chief Construction Coordinator
Project Theme: Micro Metal City
Achievements: College First Award
Mapping of Traditional Chinese Architecture
Time: Summer 2021
Project Location: HuaYan Temple, Chongqing, China
Title: Group Leader
Age of Target: Initiated in the Tang and Song Dynasity, renovated in the Ming and Qing Dynasity
