Fan Lu_Academic Portfolio

FAN LU | ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO

MArch I, GSD, Harvard University, 2015-2020 School of Architecture,Tsinghua University, 2009-2015

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CONTENTS

Thermal qualities are an important part of our experience in a space. However, these thermal experiences are often oversimplified in architectural design considerations by tempering the indoor environment to a homogeneous room temperature. With a provocation that the thermal function of building and thermal comfort to accommodate various people could be used as an effective element of design, this project seeks to strengthen the relationship between people and thermal environment. Taking the emerging co-working culture as an opportunity, this thesis challenges to redefine a working space which has a diversity of atmosphere. Against the homogeneity of the modern climate, this new co-working space serves as vehicle for people to embrace thermal delight – a fresh gentle breeze back into the modern enclosed glass box.

01 WORK-SCAPE

Towards Thermal Hygge

Thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Holly Samuelson

Duration: 02.2020- 05.2020

Location: Suzhou

Academic Work

Chinese Kang-bed [radiation][conduction] medium: air

THERMAL ACTIVITIES STUDY

Yakhchal [evaporation] medium: water

Japanese Irori [radiation][convection] medium: fire, air

Inglenook [radiation][convection] medium: fire, air

Batak Toba House [convection] medium: air

Islamic Garden [evaporation][convection] medium: water

If we take a step back to the time before air-conditioned age, we can find there were a diversity of thermal qualities. The heating source of the house is always the center for social activities of the entire family in different culture. A cool Islamic garden is always a place for people to gather.

Ancient Roman Bath [radiation][convection] medium: air. water

The ancient roman bath represents a compelling example of an architecture that is thoroughly thermodynamic in its conception, design, and use. The bathing sequence itself varied greatly according the preference of each individual, generally proceeded from hot to warm to cold.

THE RAMP

Leisure + Exercise [vertical stratification]

On the north west corner is the ramp for exercise and leisure working space, which connects the ground and the roof top. The vertical temperature stratification offers the possibility to choose the place with different thermal quality.

THE RINGS

Dine + Work [thermal coefficient]

On the south is space for dine + work, which has café and restaurants. The three layers of glazing façade offers a gradient of temperature and daylight in between. A courtyard is also placed on the north to bring in more sunlight into the middle of the space.

THE SUNKEN ROOM

Rest + Work [heat concentration]

The sunken room in the middle north is a dim and private space for people to take a rest or people that require more privacy to work. It concentrates the heat better and makes the thermal environment more steady. While exit from the sunken space to the open seating area offers a transient experience from warm to cool, a fresh air from the window.

THE AUDITORIUM

[thermal mass]

The auditorium is placed on the east side, the coolest zone, which will offset the large occupant cooling load when in use to some degree. And the thermal mass in the middle containing the service will receive and store solar heat in the winter. When in summer, direct sunlight is largely blocked by the overhang.

FIRST LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

GROUND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

THE FACADE

[natural ventilation][shading]

DAYLIGHT ANALYSIS

spring to fall: with vegetation

winter: without vegetation

In 1969, Archizoom came up with the idea of “no-stop city” - an urban space consists of continuous indoor space and even units, showing an infinitely extending grid subdivided by partial lines symbolizing walls. Bedrooms are condensed to occupy minimal space to give more room to a continuous and flexible public space. When the ideology of “no-stop city” meets with 21th century Boston, we push the idea of sharing to the limits.

A Boston Parallel

Architecture Core Studio IV, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Jeanette Kuo

Duration: 02.2017- 05.2017

Location: South Boston

Academic Work, Cooperation with Yina Moore

THE HOUSING PARALLEL

THE DEMOGRAPHIC PARALLEL

THE POLITICAL PARALLEL

Inspired by Archizoom’s No-Stop City in 1969, we begin by exploring the possibility of an urban continuity, characterized by a large degree of freedom within a regulated system, and less hierarchical spatial configuration. But unlike Archizoom, we do not believe that a dystopia is the only way to critique social issues. By minimizing the absolute privacy and maximizing sharing possibilities, we imagine a collaborative and healthy community where urban families intersect on common resources but maintain individual choices.

ARCHIZOOM - NO STOP CITY

ARCHIZOOM - NO STOP CITY

THE RADICAL LEFTIST MOVEMENT IN ITALY IN THE 1960s

WEWORK, CAMBRIDGE

INAUGURATION PROTEST ON BOSTON COMMON, 2017

BSA - “ONE ROOM MANSION” EXHIBIT

URBAN MASTER PLAN

SCALE OF SHARING

The sharing is intended to improve living environments. From unit scale to cluster scale, what we give up is a certain degree of privacy, but what we gain back is increased access to amenities that were previously associated with luxury living.

On an urban scale, the public courtyards vary in size, with some being covered or semi-covered, their organization do not reflect strong hierarchy.

URBAN PERSPECTIVE

01 view into basketball court

02 view into children's center

FLEXIBILITY OF SHARING

The sharing is also intended to enhance flexibility. The grid system and nonhierarchical circulation paths allow for the units to be easily re-configured. Meanwhile, residents can traverse through an enfilade of common spaces in multiple ways, or through other private units, if they happen to be open for access deliberately.

On an urban scale, all of the outdoor courtyards are connected on the ground level, most of which have more than two access points. These access points are strategically placed to create multiple possibilities for meander through the site

INTERIOR MODEL SHOTS

view into non -hierarchical rooms

URBAN SCALE MODEL

SCALE 1:1000

Located in Pittsburgh North Shore which is taken by vast parking lot and large scale sports facilities. Is there a way these large scale infrastructure for sports and other big events could become less of a mostly unused and closed off forbidden city to the adjacent urban fabric and society? The proposed new construction is relatively small in scale yet has a great potential. The ambuity of soft spaces are explored in this design so to make the small structure influence the site in an active way.

03 SOFT SPACES

A New Performance Center

Architecture Option Studio, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler

Duration: 09.2018- 12.2018

Location: North Shore, Pittsburgh, PA Academic Work, Individual

Delft University of Technology Library

Typology: the ground

Activities: study, resting, meeting, gathering

SOFT SPACES ATLAS

Ewha Women University

Typology: the stairs

Activities: circulation, resting, meeting, gathering

MIT Baker House

Typology: the ground

Activities: study, dining, resting, meeting, gathering

Harvard Smith Campus Center

Typology: the archade

Activities: study, performance, career fair, movie/party

The Shed

Typology: movable structure

Activities: gallery, performance, plaza, gathering

The Carpenter Center

Typology: the ramp

Activities: circulation both architectural and urban

Yokohama Pier Port Terminal

Typology: the ground Activities: circulation, resting, meeting, gathering

Basilica Palladiana

Typology: the loggia

Activities: circulation, resting, meeting, gathering

The Storefront

Typology: movable structure Activities: gallery

IIT Mccormick Tribune Campus Center

Typology: the corridor

Activities: circulation, study, resting, meeting, gathering

TRANSFORMATIONAL DIAGRAMS

The proposed structure has the function of social hub as well as new performance center. With two-sided terraces facing the stage and the stadium separately, the soft spaces are interwoven in between the two functions.

EXPLODED AXON

SCENARIOS

The proposed structure serves as a sponge between the Heinz Field, Stage AE and Great Lawn, activating the site in different ways during different events and scenarios.

GROUND LEVEL FLOOR PLAN

OTHER FLOOR PLANS

PERSPECTIVES

01 view from west side grand stair

02 view into the east side theatre hallway

In the busy downtown Boston, the Club provides people with a space to stay away from life tensions in the city and emerge themselves into a different world with a variety of scents. Starting from a botanic garden, enfleurage laboratory and workshop to scent experiencing centers, the scent club makes users fully engage with the scents both in olfaction and visual sensation.

04 THE SCENT CLUB

Architecture Core Studio II

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Max Kuo

Duration: 01.2016- 03.2016

Location: Back Bay, Boston

Academic Work, Individual

basic structural bay

WORM’S EYE AXON

corner assemblage rotated cubes

Each structural bay is a 24 ft cube, with two-way partitions dividing the sides to 8ft and 16 ft. The basic structural bays are aggregated with the corner cube in a different direction, thus creating a sectional difference. Then at certain point, the cube is push in, connected with a rotated cube as public circulatory space. In this way, the corners are skipped in the circulation sequence to become more private.

01 view into rotated cubes

02 view from entrance into gallery

STUDY MODEL

structural bay, interior, facade

OTHER FLOOR PLANS

The gallery house is designed for two artists with distinctive personalities. Start from the public exhibition space as the central layer, the private programs of the two artists spread out on the two sides separately in the sequence of privacy. In this way, the villa is possible to house these two distinct clients, both separating and connecting them through circulation and gazing.

Duration: 08.2014- 10.2014 Independent Project

SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP

A and B are friends who share the same interest, yet have distinct personalities, one introverted while the other extroverted. The gallery serves as the place for them to communicate ideas, display their work.

TRANSFORMATIONAL DRAWINGS

Variation 1

INTERACTION ITERATION

Study Model | circulation, spatial experience, facade

Variation 2

Variation 3

Plan & Circulation

Section & Circulation

N-W Perspective

S-E Perspective

Detail Perspective

OTHER FLOOR PLANS

View into the Gallery

Rooftop salon

Entrance of A and B

Circulation in A

Elevation

Entrance to the Gallery House

Located in Doha which has an extreme hot desert climate, this tower explores the relationship between environment and architectural form. With a strategic layering of programs, the south wall which contains all services and mechanical systems serves as a temperature barrier to protect the hotel room in the north.

A Tower in Doha

Architecture Core Studio III

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Vincent Bandy

Duration: 08.2016- 11.2016

Location: Doha, Qatar

Academic Work, Individual

ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES

precedent study in hot dessert climate region

TRANSFORMATIONAL DIAGRAMS

define programs with environmental strategies circulation, program study

EXPLODED AXON DIAGRAMS

KEY FLOOR PLANS

SECTION MODEL

Scale: 1/16" = 1'

KEY FLOOR PLANS

STRUCTURAL MODEL

SHEAR WALL WITH VIERENDEEL TRUSS

NORTH FACADE

Dynamic facades have the potential to add to the architectural expression of a building by visualizing the changeable aspects of the environment. With the help of daylight simulation, we designed a kinetic modular system that can regulate indoor daylight environment.

07 KINETIC FACADE

Seminar, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Andrea Love

Duration: 09.2019- 11.2019

Academic Work, Cooperation with Yang Fei

SIMULATION

01 test model

basic office unit (3m x 5m x 3m), south facade, Boston. 30 degree rotation steps.

02 simulation runs

36 angle combinations, 11 hours every day (8:00am – 6:00pm), 3 typical day every year (3.20, 6.21, 12.21). A total of 1188 simulation runs.

spring & fall - 09:00

summer - 09:00

03 analysis

pick angles that satisfy both glare control and daylight requirements

CONTROL LOGIC

GOAL control glare

ensure sufficient daylight

block/receive solar heat gain to lower energy consumption

winter - 09:00

Hourly Sun Exposure (HSE) HSE exceeds 1000 lux per hour for less than 10% of floor area

Hourly spatial Daylight Autonomy (HsDA) HsDA exceeds 300 lux for at least 55% of the floor area

preferably open when ambient temperture < 20°C preferably closed when ambient temperture > 20°C

double-glazing system motor concealed

INTERIOR

DETAIL SECTION

500mm cavity with dynamic shading inside Inside layer operable for maintenance

daylight effect at differet times of a day

This interactive installation aims to activate underutilized space in a building. When the motions detect people’s movement, the corresponding motor controlled by arduino will drive the boxes to shake, making ambient sounds in the hallway.

AMBIENCE

Interactive installation - wall twerk

Academic Work, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Instructor: Allen Sayegh

Duration: 04.2019- 05.2019

Location: GSD Gund Hall second floor hallway

Cooperation with Abbey Wallace, Dylan Bachar, Jacob Stinson