Jisu Yang Architectural Design Installation Fine Arts
01 House of Dance Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2019 September Instructor: Christopher Bardt Entering the house, oblique planes and lines suggest perspectives. The ground moves me. a pure circle magically appears as I step into a threshold. The water complements the circle, lines collide across the ground, wall, and ceiling. the dancer moves. A dance partner, a wall, pivots to match the dancers motion. Untouched planes imply motion, the house accepts forces. The stair has a trajectory. I follow it. The line builds a relationship. The dancer is in motion. As the stairs stop, the motion ends. The dancer sleeps. The dancer is inactive, receiving the forces. The water cleanses her physical body WWThe dancer gets inspired.
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02 Weaving Color Casa Gilardi by Luis Barragan, Mexico City Porto Academy Visiting Barragan, 2019 June The screen weaves the color of the house.The screen flattens the space into a fabric as the panels reflect and the gap permeates the color. As it stands in the threshold, the screen ambiguates the views for visitors when they first enter the house.
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Breathing Tower Providence, RI 2018 Fall Semester As the shuttle breathes, the elastic string shifts the axis and changes the length. This logic is translated into architectural elements: ceiling, stairs and walls to create an atmosphere that resembles breathing.
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Bass Wood Model, 1’=1/4”
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Public shuttle observation room
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Shuttle maker’s studio
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Nesting in A Frozen City RISD European Honors Program, Castelvecchio Calvisio, Italy 2019 September The installation is placed inside the abandoned house which is part of an old neighborhood in Castelvecchio Calvisio. Inspired by bird nests that constantly appear inside discarded houses, the project attempts to create a nesting pathway constructed by foud shards of roof tiles and bricks in the house. As visitors follow the path, they change directions and start recognizing small details that indicate traces of inhabitation. The proposal symoblize hope for re-populating the neighborhood that was abandoned after the earthquake in 1980s.
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Connecting Dots: Mapping Community Gardens in Providence City Government, The Parks Department, Providence, RI 2019 September As a Maharam STEAM Fellow working with the Parks Department, my core mission was to create a collective map that gathers and narrates individual identity of community gardens in Providence. A single dot is insignificant but if there are multiple, it has a stronger capacity to bring attention. Food justice is an ultimate element that completes the cycle of urban agriculture. The collective entity forms a larger movement of urban agriculture in Providence. Link: http://www.providenceri.gov/providence-parks/park
07 Festina Lente Alfama, Lisbon, Portugal 2018 Janurary Instructor: Laura Briggs Make haste slowly. Festina Lente offers a new wayfinding system leading to The Lady’s Hill, the highest viewpoint of Lisbon. The pWWWroject intends to make both tourists and locals to slow down and observe details around thelsemves, using stereoscope and wayfinder. The project gives more awareness to the depletion and negligence of Alfama by filling out the gap of missing and damaged tiles with cork tiles. The project offers an alternative way to fulfill absence of the city.
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08 Series of Analogue Models for Spatial Studies Plaster casting, 2019 Spring
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Body as Drawing Instrument Acrylic paint, 2m x 3m, 2019 Spring
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9.2 Taking tangent line of arches generated by my arm movement traces archaeology of my body movement. Density of line reveals where my body was located.
10 Fog of Light The drawing attempts to express diffusion of light in Alvaro Siza’s Santa Maria Church, Porto, Portugal. The concentration of dots corresponds with the degree of light in the church. Thus, the most concentrated area refers to the opening and light travels through vast space. Siza used techniques such as double spaced wall and curved interior to maintain the gesture of light. Once full volume of light in the building is represented, the physical structure becomes redundant and seizes to exist.