Academic Projects.

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JUN CUI PORTFOLIO

ARCHITECTURE UNIVESITY OF PENNSYLVANIA


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BYPASSING | ressidential

Estranged (Architectural) Objects As a Prototypical Urban Densification Strategy

University of Pennsylvania | Arch 601 Studio 2016 fall | Instructor: Kutan Ayata

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BIG+SOFT+HAIRY | public

Thick Space, Superfluous Material and Constructed Atmosphere University of Pennsylvania | Arch 602 Studio 2017 spring | Instructor: Simon Kim

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Torres del Agua | residential

Water Infrastructures: Disruptively Innovative High-rise Design University of Pennsylvania | Arch 701 Studio 2017 fall | Instructors: Sulan Kolatan& William MacDonald

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UrbanAcupuncture | community

The Agency of Carnivalized Autonomy

University of Pennsylvania | Arch 502 Studio 2016 spring | Instructor: Eduardo Rega


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SEHORTRARAFE | pavilion

Se(al)+Hor(se)+Tra(y)+(Ca)rafe

University of Pennsylvania | Arch 501 Studio 2015 fall | Instructor: Ezio Blasetti

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OfficeTower | commercial Building Information Modeling (Revit)

University of Pennsylvania | Construction II 2016 spring | Instructor: Franca Trubiano

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15Min andCounting | public

Immersive and Poetic Museum Experience

University of Pennsylvania | Arch 702 Studio 2018 spring | Instructor: Hina Jamelle

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Islands&Neighborhood | park

Landscape architecture/ Planning

SUNY-ESF | Thematic Studio 2013 may | Instructor: Emanuel Carter



01 BYPASSING Estranged (Architectural) Objects as a prototypical urban densification strategy University of Pennsylvania Arch 601 Studio 2016 fall Instructor: Kutan Ayata Object is often seen as a fiction that can be criticized as a native fetish. Reality could be considered as being in relations between analyzable parts or in the relations that humans construct. This notion of object presents great potentials and a fresh way of thinking for the conceptualization of architecture, whilst sets forth serious challenges to overcome: Architecture is always made of smaller parts then the whole itself and architecture always enters the realm of debate through relationism. What does it mean for the architectural object to withdraw as a whole to suggest nothingness? What does it mean for the architectural object not to break down to categorized scalar parts of assembly? How do we represent these ideas? This project will view these provocations of a renewed debate on aesthetics as a potential way to take on these challenges. This recent speculative turn towards the re-conceptualization of the architectural object requires us to explore new methods of design towards new aesthetics. The primary efforts will culminate around the aesthetics of estrangement. This project works to transform the entire character and experience of Stuyvesant Town. Unlike the modernist strategy of tabula-rasa to remedy a failed modernist urban strategy, this project will look to fully embrace the permanence of the physical context and accept all that it has as a three-dimensional site to operate on. A proposal is generated to create to create a heterogeneous urban assembly. By working with others collectively in studio, we will together seek to define a prototypical urban densification strategy by design of a new neighborhood. The design concept is to grow a new autonomous building from the existing building egress and land on the ground in the middle courtyard, providing new different programs vertically and horizontally with different level of access and privacy.


Site Allocation Surrounded by four large building blocks, no.7 courtyard is located at the bottom left corner of the site and currently used as a alternative sports field. The small footprint of the new building bundles also propose new opportunity of the new ways of usage of courtyard.


iteration 01 surroundin roof matt

iteration 02 roof egress panels

iteration 03 building bottles

iteration 04 surrounding rood bridge

iteration 05 attached panels

iteration 06 archy tower

iteration 07 column and bridge I

iteration 08 column and bridge II

iteration 09 floral column I

iteration 10 floral column II

iteration 11 column bundle I

iteration 12 column bundle II

Schematic Form Iteration

Exploded Axon of the New Building Bundle The horizontal parts are connected with the vertical parts, but could not be accessed from one and another. the three strips in the bundle look separate from the appearance, but actually connected with the fire staircases and the elevators.


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Section Access is differentiated by the primary function of the new building bundle. The horizontal part which contains residential units can only be entered from the existing building egress while the vertical part which contains shared working space and other amenities can only be accessed from the middle of the courtyard.


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Apartment Moments The facade twists and becomes the ceiling. The blurring definition of wall, ceiling and ground has provided more visual interests. The space created when the balcony railing joined with the building facade could be utilized as planters.


Exterior Moments The perforated metal skin of the building mimics the color and pattern of the bricks on the existing building facades. The mullion starts from minimal size on the ground level , grows larger as it goes up and merges with the bottom of the horizontal part. Perspective from the southeast corner. (Top) Perspective of looking up from the courtyard. (Bottom)



02 BigSoftHairy Thick space, Superluous material and Constructed atmosphere. University of Pennsylvania Arch 502 Studio 2017 spring Instructor: Simon Kim Team: 2 architecture students Role: overall project concept/3d Modeling/drawings/renderings

Connecting known architectural types and devices for the unknown or the recently-lost through transposition will create a methodology to engage a synthetic world of nature and machine and architecture, where the machine is not reduced to a technological filter or interface. The inversion of nature and the uncanny agent-to-agent relationship is then highly compelling as The Immersive or Bewildered will come to mean an autonomous agent, a player or author - as the architect is also a player or author - engaged in conversation. New York needs new nature, wholly synthetic and wild. Central park is presented as separate and distinct. More nature, even self-governing, is the central argument of "BigSoftHairy". Within its autonomy is human interaction in the form of architectural wilds. What should regular ground look like? Why does it have to be safe and sound? Is the landfill site as smooth as it appear to be? By proposing a new synthetic nature on site, we want to challenge the traditional way people look at the built environment. The new elevated architecture on site we propose is well-equipped with all the modern and high-technological instruments. By stretching out its straws (mechanical pipes), it takes the earth materials that are embedded with all kinds of waste, puts them into the purification machines, cleans them via different processes of remediation, discharges the cleaned earth material onto the site. The reused material becomes new ground, new ceiling, new column and new wall. It reshapes the original mechanical machinery architecture into a new synthetic nature. It transforms the relationship between the undesired environment and human beings. Architecture becomes part of the environment and the environment becomes part of the architecture. It is an hyperobject, giant and vibrant, appearing in the skyline of New York City. It is a space where people will never fully understand and appreciate; an autonomous by-product of the Anthropocene period. "BigSoftHairy" is a new nature, wholly synthetic and wild. If Central Park is a nature presented as separate and distinct, then "BigSoftHairy" means more nature, more self-governing, and darker. Within its autonomy is human interaction in the form of architectural wilds. NYC needs "BigSoftHairy"; and the world needs new nature. "BigSoftHairy" is not a fantasy of the future; it is the reality hidden beneath layers of knowledges. It is a non human agency that we have to coexist with, no matter how you love it or hate it.


00:01:00 Wax Dripping on Water Balloon, 5 drips

00:05:00 Wax Dripping on Ice Balloon, 100 drips

00:15:00 Wax Dripping on Water Balloon, 300 drips

00:20:00 Wax Dripping on Ice Balloon, 500 drips

00:01:00 Wax boiling with pigments and eggs

00:30:00 Mixture deposited under the wax layer

01:10:00 Ice water dripping on the cooled down wax mixture, 200 drips

01:45:00 Ice water dripping on the added wax layer, 100 drips

00:05:00 Wax mixture dripping into ice water, 10 drips

00:10:00 Wax mixture dripping into ice water, 50 drips

00:20:00 Wax mixture dripping into ice water, 200 drips

00:30:00 Wax mixture dripping into ice water, 300 drips

Material Researching The primary material experimented is soy wax. In ambient temperature, wax appears to be malleable solid while heated it melts into viscous liquid. This research discovered different techniques of dripping including dripping wax into liquid and onto solid surfaces and dripping other liquids into/onto wax. In doing so, different envelope and skin conditions are created.


The experiment discovers how wax behaves when dripped onto balloons with different temperature. As temperature varies, the dripping pattern is different from each other.

Different surface conditions (cauliflower, wire form, steel wool, cotton) are selected and various temperature are applied on different parts.More easy-meltable materials are studied, such as chocolate, cheese, shredded coconut etc.

Apart from dripping wax into something, this time we discovers the phenomenon of dripping other liquids (for example, ice water) onto hot wax surfaces.

The product contains both ways of dripping. On one side, it is smoky and foggy (wax into water), on the other side, it is bumpy and solid.

Physical Object Formation In this synthesized object, materials interact with each other and create different types of spatial/material/organizational situations, nesting, wrapping, invading, dripping, attaching and detaching.Multi systems are created with multi layers of hairiness. The overlapping layers provides various spatial qualities: thick poche, caves, nests, viscous dynamic flows.


Overall Plan and Elevation This project on site is a hyperobject that continuously intakes earth materials, remedies them through purification systems and discharge them back to site. The specially designed columns are not only for structural uses, but also guide the process of discharging. Since the earth materials accumulate, they gradually become new supporting structures, thickening and forming intricate space underneath.


Overall Exterior View The Site, Socrates Sculpture Park was an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite until 1986 when a coalition of artist transformed it into an open studio and exhibition space for artists and a neighborhood park for local residents.Today it is an internationally renowned outdoor museum and public park.


Status 1: Pipe Intake

Status 2: Pots Installation

Status 3: Structure Formation

Status 4: New Nature Maturation

Status 1: Pots Preparation

Status 2: Bleeding Initiation

Status 3: Structure Formation

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Column/ Wall Formation There are two types of the discharging systems. The first one is with large pipes extruding into the soil layer and intaking earth material while also supporting the building itself. The second one is only with pots that are discharging cleaned earth materials.


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Phased Construction

This project features a 500-seat theater space, galleries and non-human mechanical world where human activities are prohibited. The process of earth material accummulating takes decades, in return, there are different buidling outlook appearing in different periods.Rather than being static and passive, the buidling is immersive, vibrant, breating and sweating, mysterious and bewildering.


Phase I: Inhabitatation Preparating

Phase III: Material Intaking, Remedying and Discharging

Phase II: Pipe Inserting & Gallery Installating

Phase IV: New Nature Forming

Phased System ( plan)

The Site, Socrates Sculpture Park was an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite until 1986 when a coalition of artist transformed it into an open studio and exhibition space for artists and a neighborhood park for local residents.Today it is an internatinally renowmed outdoor museum and public park. This project on site is a hyperobject that continuously intakes earth materials, remedies them through purification systems and discharge them back to site. The specially designed clolums are not only for structural uses, but also guide the process of discharging. Since the earth materials accumulate, they gradually become new supporting structures, thickening and forming intricate space underneath.

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Phase I: Inhabitatation Preparating

Phase II: Pipe Inserting & Gallery Installating

Phase III: Material Intaking, Remedying and Discharging

Phase IV: New Nature Forming

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Grass Grow on Grass Grow on the Cleaned Material the Cleaned Material

Grass Grow on the Cleaned Material

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Phased Construction The new elevated architecture on site we propose is well-equipped with all the modern and high-technological instruments. By stretching out its straws (mechanical pipes), it takes the earth materials that are embedded with all kinds of waste, puts them into the purification machines, cleans them via different processes of remediation, discharges the cleaned earth material onto the site. The reused material becomes new ground, new ceiling, new column and new wall.


Views of Ground Level in Year 0 and Year 100 In Year 0, the Columns are starting to extrude into the soil layer and intake the earth material. In Year 100, after distributing cleaned earth material, the Columns become fat and grass grows which forms a perfect outdoor exhibition space


Theater Interior (up) Gallery Interior (down) The pots inside the theater space have multi functions, it can distribute mist as well as small drops of water according to the scenery of the opera that is played on stage which would create a harmonious atmosphere. The gallery space reveals part of the mechanical systems in the building and they also become part of the exhibition.


Physical Model (Sectional Model of the Building) The Sectional physical model addresses the different layers of the building: the mechanical parts, the theater space and also the filthy ground level. The slip rings serve as the structure parts, also create small vibrations.


Physical Model Details The 1st image shows the ground level scenarios while the 2nd and 3rd show the ground level scenarios of both the building part and the ground part. Very different activities can happen due to the different environmental characters.



03 Torres del Agua Water Infrastructures: Disruptively Innovative High-rise Design. University of Pennsylvania Arch 502 Studio 2017 spring Instructor: Sulan Kolaton/ William MacDonald Team: 2 architecture students Role: overall project concept/3d Modeling/ drawings/renderings

Disruptive technology is one that replaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry. Disruptive innovations are not breakthrough technologies that make good product better, rather they are innovations that make products and services more accessible and affordable, thereby making them available to a much larger population. This project proposes a residential tower that challenges the conventions of the programs, envelopes, and the relationship between low-cost and lux of the building. As a city of paradise to tourists, Barcelona has always been a place worth lingering aroundthe arts and architecture, the history and culture, the past and current. Barcelona's growth has followed a series of patterns throughout historic and geological time. The facade of this tower has mimicked the tendency of this growth and has merged into Barcelona's fertile environment with Antoni Gaudi's work. This project does not only depict a low/luxury residential tower for both locals and tourists of different staying scale, but also serves as infrastructure of water circulation connected with neighboring recycling center, provides various water-related programs to both residents and outsiders. The site is located at the end of the Diagonal of Barcelona, next to the beach. Taking advantage of the site's location, the key features of the tower is associated with water: daily water utilities, sauna, swimming pool, the cooling circulation, the humidifier system, the rainwater collection and water recycling center. The space in the tower is divided into three categories depending on their accessibility which would fulfill the needs for both local residents and tourists. The three different categories also have different water infrastructures and programs.


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This building doesn’t only serve as a high rise residential tower in the coast of Barcelona, but also as an infrastructure with disruptive intentions. With water running through the tower, it provides different water related programs to its residents and outsiders, including swimming pools, spa center, sauna rooms, aquatic center, etc. The used water in the tower will either be used in the tower’s cooling system or be recycled in nearby recycling center. Another feature of the tower is its numerous balconies and outdoor swimming pools, they follow the tower shape and go up as a spiral.

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Community Cluster

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providing private swimming pool and sauna room

providing sauna, swimming pool, aquarium, dining/cooking area, amphitheater, vertical gardens

providing grand services such as large swimming pool, public lounge, shops, bar and cafeteria

Programs The space in the tower is divided into three different categories depending on their accessibility: the public portion is located at the lower levels of the tower and open to the public; the community portion is a living/entertainment mixture area where low-cost residential units coexist with the facilities that are provided to the community; the private portion has more luxury residential units.


Close Up Exterior View The tower is built with concrete and ceramic materials. The distinctive geometry and colorful texture are deeply influenced by Catalan culture and the works of Antoni Gaudi. The residential cluster consists of different housing units of various sizes. Some luxury units have private outdoor infinity pools. Those pools can also collect rainwater for future use. After accumulating, the water overflows and becomes waterfall.


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Shifting Floor Plans As the building itself shifts, more views from different angles are provides, wind is cut smaller and redirected. In return, there are more varieties for each floor. Residents have more options to choose and customize their units.


Rooftop Cluter: Roof Garden Infinite Pool Rain Water Collecting Facilities Rooftop Restaurants Luxury Penthouse

Public Cluster: Water Recycling Center Cooling System Humidity Control System Aquatic Center Swimming Pools Restaurants Rock Climbing Amphi Theater

Community Cluster: Restaurants Demostration Kitchen Swimming Pool Rock Climbing Sauna and Spa Center Party Room Children’s Playroom Multi-functional Room

Affordable Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Community Cluster: Restaurants Demostration Kitchen Swimming Pool Rock Climbing Sauna and Spa Center Party Room Children’s Playroom Multi-functional Room

Affordable Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Residential Cluster: Private Swimming Pool Sauna Room Hot Tub Various Housing Units

Community Cluster: Restaurants

Demostration Kitchen Swimming Pool Rock Climbing Sauna and Spa Center Party Room Children’s Playroom Multi-functional Room Affordable Housing Units

Public Cluster: Water Recycling Center Cooling System Humidity Control System Aquatic Center Swimming Pools Restaurants Rock Climbing Amphi Theater

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Residential Floor Plans Due to the continuous nature of minimal surface, there are a large percent of duplex and triplex units in the residential cluster. Each unit has its own water related recreational programs such as infinite pool or sauna room. Water circulates in the building vertically in its structural wall cavities. Most of the wet programs are placed close to the core for better maintenance.


Exterior Views of Residential Clusters A new lifestyle that fits Barcelona very well. Not simply a residential skyscraper, but an infrastructure of water. Not simply a place to live, but a home where you can enjoy a lifestyle related with water.


Plan and Section of Commercial Cluster Different from the residential clusters in the tower, the community cluster is a place where most of the amenities and public facilities are located. For example, large size swimming pool, gymnasium, demonstration kitchen, party room, terrace lounges etc.


Exterior View of Commercial Cluster Some of the amenities including the community swimming pool are open to the residents for free and available to outsiders who pay. There are also a small amount of smaller housing units in the community cluster, relatively more affordable compared to the luxury ones in other floors.



04 UrbanAcupuncture The Agency of Carnivalized Autonomy University of Pennsylvania Arch 502 Studio 2016 spring Instructor: Eduardo Rega Team: 4 architecture students Role: overall project concept & design/3d Modeling/drawings The Agency of Carnivalized Autonomy will challenge the debate between architecture's project of autonomy and architecture as a project for social and political change. Carnivalizing Architecture’s Project of Autonomy is a perversion that opens the field’s internal disciplinary substance to be cathartically released and have agency in the formation of a new world. The Agency of Carnivalized Autonomy proposes a third, weird and excessive category that will arise between the intrinsic properties of architecture as an object and its effects on a given field of relations with other objects. Distinctions between actors and spectators are dissolved in architecture, it responds to its own laws, it disrupts hierarchies and has maximum transformative potential. Architecture is also a form of action capable of revealing contradictions and unmasking truths. Architecture is the realm of freedom, a privileged space for critique and a laboratory for the elaboration of an alternative world. In order to expand, while problematizing, the limits of the field, the carnival that involve local community enhancement, justice and defense of civil rights needs to be architecturalized. This project works to blur the limits between carnival and architecture, boundaries that contradict both the utopian essence of architecture and the spatial nature of Protestivals and Occupy movements. Architecture is to be shaken by the carnivalesque social revolution. The Carnival’s architecturalization will be a cathartic rehearsal of utopia, will reverse hierarchies, will give voice to those that have been silenced and will maximize the number of vanishing points towards an alternative possible worlds. With the use of video, diagrams and maps, our group investigates one local actor (Self. Inc) and the network it establishes with other actors using available archive and performing field work that will include visits and interviews. The research on Philadelphian actors/activists/ community groups is used to project their mission, goals, activities, strategies and relations on the site. Architecture will then spatialize their Carnival.


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Visualizing actor-network in Philadelphia: Diagram of Controversies Architecture is a thing within an actor-network. An actor is an entity (either human or non-human) that performs an action within a network of associations. Architecture will reveal the spatial manifestations of these actions and will critically rethink them. The main actor in this project is Self. Inc, an organization aiming at helping homeless people.


Visualizing actor-network in Philadelphia: Storyboard of Controversies By researching any available resources and interviewing with the person who is in charge of the Self. Inc, a storyboard is made in order to reveal actors’ relationship in the city. While there are still minorities such as homeless people in the community suffering from discrimination and high exposure to hatred and even murder. The storyboard aims to spatialize those problems and respond to it with architecture/urban tactics.


Visualizing actor-network in Philadelphia: Map of Controversies A service map for homeless people which has locations and paths of all the available homeless shelter/ organization and/ or services each place provides. Utilities are also marked.


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Radial Puncture: Proto Sections and Proto Plan Architecture exists in trial version. According to Federico Soriano, “proto document” refers to the first version of architectural documents, such as plan and section that uses fragments of found materials. The site is carnivalized by selecting, interpreting, reusing the urban acupuncture tactics in plan, section and axonometric. To inform the remixing process, proto-documents also need to be developed, using actors’ map of controversy as a base layer.


Radial Puncture: Radical spatial tactic design test Urban acupuncture is the introduction of several small-scale but socially catalytic interventions across a large urban network. Architectural nodes are placed as an antidote to socioeconomic failings in order to reinvigorate an underserved area. Existing transport networks are revitalized to connect the new network of services. The small scale architectural interventions aim to have the largest possible impact on society.


01. FIND THE DEFICIENCY OF PROGRAM AND SERVICES

02. IDENTIFY VACANCY/ OPEN SPACE

03. EVALUATE QUANTITY OF PROGRAM

04.TRANSPORT NETWORK

05.IDENTIFY MODULAR

06.REDESIGN MODULAR

07.LOCATE NODES

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11. MODULAR CIRCULATION

12. MATERIALITY

Radial Puncture: Dictionary of spatial tactics_Instruction manual Reinstating the existing but dormant Philly trolley system provides an extensive network to program with additional services for the homeless. In addition a proposed new river boat ferry service on the Delaware River allows for enhanced transportation links for industry and the population, between Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Ultimately Radial Puncture will remove the initial node crane and focus of external energies when the node is self sufficient due do its empowered population and economy. The node shall be recited in an area identified for its socio-economic failings.


Urban acupuncture is proposed as an architectural tactic to service the currently underserved 5,500 homeless people in Philadelphia. In four phases, this project aims to integrate the homeless into society, as tax paying employed citizens. Inspired by Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt we aim to supply both static and deployable program modules programed with services to rehabilitate and shelter homeless people in Philadelphia.


An industrial/residential block in the north west of Spring Garden St. station and the water side east of the station are selected as the two preliminary nodes for revitalization. A ferry boat network is installed for passengers and commodities on the Delaware River, the ferry will dock at Festival Pier landing and connect onto the Trolley network, allowing to bring materials directly onto the network for construction purposes. A workshop/training facility is to be inserted to engage homeless people in apprenticeships and train them in skilled work to enter the job market.


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Phase III: Module Units The modules are also updated with new interior facilities, utilities, and additional attachments, reorganized and aligned to the permanent built-up frame. The depth and width of the frame system could also be adjusted according to the size of the aggregated modules. This approach has customized people’s different requirements in order to fulfill their needs throughout different periods.


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Phase III: Curing Moments Design interventions happen around buildings to repurpose their interior through exterior attachments via actions of add, subtract and transform. The trolley system remains the same function as transportation for people and functional modules. Frameworks and crane are set up in the open space around the trolley track to provide opportunities of unloading the modules to generate new functions in the open space.



05 SEHORTRARAFE Se(al)+Hor(se)+Tra(y)+(Ca)rafe University of Pennsylvania Arch501 Studio 2015 fall Instructor: Ezio Blasetti Team: 4 architecture students Role: overall project concept & design/3d Modeling/drawings One of the most basic methods for beginning to understand architectural discourse is an analysis of part-towhole relationships. Part-to-whole relationships can be defined at many scales of design, from metaphysics to society, mechanical design to biological processes. Throughout history, architecture has operated as an analog model embodying those multi-scalar organizational hierarchies and behaviors. From the Renaissance project of Alberti that sought to establish a synthetic humanist whole based on proportion, to the counterculture post-1968 generation of the political forces that shape it in combination with contemporary technologies that enabled its (trans)formation. Each case motivates a specific signature of ordering components that leads to unique architectural consequences. In the theory of Speculative Realism, Object Oriented Ontology, the term “object� is all encompassing. They need not be natural, simple or indestructible; instead objects are defined only by their autonomous realty. What may be most important for designers (of objects) and architects is the non-reductionist approach that insists on objects having qualities of their own that cannot be reduced down to a sum of parts. Furthermore, objects contain certain qualities that resist being known in full, leading to multiplicity that cannot be reduced to formula. This project is a full scale prototype for a pavilion structure to be located in Manitoga, New York. A pavilion as a built dialogue that speculates on the trajectory of mid-century modern design of mass standardization, reassessed through the current political paradigm and new digital instruments that champion mass customization in design and fabrication. Begin by analyzing and precisely reconstructing digital and 3D printed models of pieces from Russel Wright product lines, the process move beyond the literal representation of the artifacts though a more speculative stage of advanced digital drawing and modeling techniques aimed at interrogating objects, transposing and amplifying specific effects, and opening the objects to architectural interpretation through the generation of novel tectonics and expression.The design is from the combination of four different objects distributed to each group member. By using boolean calculation and scripting, we are able to find an ideal form and manage to build it after testing with different materials. Design process includes designing the method of fabrication and construction. Materializing concepts is as important as generating concepts. By using limited resources and budget, we are able to build a human scale pavilion which consists numerous curves. The construction requires precise calculation and execution. The materials we used are metal tubes, plywood sheets, screws, PVC strips, and zip ties.


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Part to Whole What do a horse, a seal, a tray and a carafe have in common and in difference? When we extract their features and mix them: for example, putting the horse’s hair to a carafe we get a new object. We can call it a “horafe”. Similarly, when we combine the features of four objects by using boolean tactics, we can get something called “Se(al)-hor(se)-tra(y)-(ca)rafe”.


C37, 22.08’’ C36, 22.93’’ C35, 23.80’’ C34, 24.71’’ C33, 26.10’’ C32, 27.46’’ C31, 28.84’’

B37, 74.46’’ B36, 75.15’’ B35, 75.94’’ B34, 76.46’’ B33, 77.69’’ B32, 79.02’’ B31, 80.44’’ B30, 81.62’’ B29, 82.85’’ B28, 84.18’’ B27, 85.60’’ B26, 87.24’’ B25, 88.94’’ B24, 90.52’’ B23, 91.90’’ B22, 93.32’’ B21, 93.98’’ B20, 94.70’’ B19, 94.78’’ B18, 94.71’’ B17, 94.43’’ B16, 94.61’’ B15, 96.70’’ B14, 100.1’’ B13, 102.9’’ B12, 104.0’’ B11, 103.0’’ B10, 102.4’’ B09, 99.25’’ B08, 96.64’’ B07, 93.89’’ B06, 90.80’’ B05, 86.48’’ B04, 82.39’’ B03, 77.76’’ B02, 73.76’’ B01, 72.60’’

C30, 30.19’’ C29, 31.53’’ C28, 32.85’’ C27, 34.21’’ C26, 35.56’’ A37, 74.46’’ A36, 75.15’’

C25, 36.90’’ C24, 38.24’’

A35, 75.94’’

C23, 39.43’’

A34, 76.46’’

C22, 40.65’’

A33, 77.69’’ A32, 79.02’’ A31, 80.44’’ A30, 81.62’’ A29, 82.85’’ A28, 84.18’’

C21, 41.65’’ C20, 42.61’’ C19, 43.32’’ C18, 44.03’’ C17, 44.37’’ C16, 45.15’’ C15, 46.62’’

A27, 85.60’’

C14, 48.61’’

A26, 87.24’’

C13, 51.67’’

A25, 88.94’’

C12, 54.74’’

A24, 90.52’’

C11, 57.88’’

A23, 91.90’’

C10, 58.01’’

A22, 93.32’’ A21, 93.98’’ A20, 94.70’’ A19, 94.78’’

C09, 63.17’’ C08, 66.29’’ C07, 69.76’’ C06, 72.68’’

Phase I Structure

C05, 75.33’’

A18, 94.71’’

C04, 77.55’’

A17, 94.43’’

C03, 77.85’’

A16, 94.61’’

C02, 75.55’’

A15, 90.70’’

C01, 73.54’’

A14, 100.1’’ A13, 102.9’’ A12, 104.0’’ A11, 103.0’’ A10, 102.4’’ A10, 72.60’’ A09, 99.75’’ A08, 96.64’’ A07, 93.89’’ A06, 90.50’’ A05, 86.48’’ A04, 82.39’’ A03, 77.76’’ A02, 73.76’’ A01, 72.60’’

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Phase III Completion

Exploded Parts The pavilion is built with primarily three parts, the wooden base, the metal skeleton and the envelope made by PVC strips. Its construction requires precise calculation and great modeling skills. The above drawing shows how it is built.


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Orthogonal Drawings Located in Manitoga woods, the pavilion provides a resting space for human being and animals. The curves interact intimately with the nature, offering a chance of observing and being observed.


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Orthogonal Drawings Located in Manitoga woods, the pavilion provides a resting space for human being and animals. The curves interact intimately with the nature, offering a chance of observing and being observed.

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step 1: set the base

step 2: install the top side

step 3: fasten the strip

ziptie lock detail

Construction The pavilion is built with primarily three parts, the wooden base, the metal skeleton and the envelope made by PVC strips. Its construction requires precise calculation and great modeling skills. The above pictures show how it is built.


Model Photos The finished pavilion firmly stands by itself and creates very interesting light and shadow effects.



06 OfficeTower Building Information Modeling (Revit) University of Pennsylvania Construction II 2015 spring Instructor: Franca Trubiano

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a comprehensive means for organizing the building related activities which accompany the design and construction of buildings. Using BIM, both virtual modeling and data collection is used in the production of construction documents. The BIM Model, both in image and data, is materially, dimensionally, and tectonically consonant with the intended building. The virtual model results in an interactive representation of the architectural project to be built. The BIM Model communicates its information in representations typical of building industry including; Plans, Sections, Elevations and typical building details. Yet, it is capable of outputting 3-dimensional axonometric building details at a range of scales which facilitates the identification of the “elemental� logic of construction. In this project, Revit is used as primary modeling tool for designing a cost and energy efficient office tower in Philadelphia. The Revit model includes information on the Architecture, Structure, and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing) aspect of the project. It can easily output architectural drawings, detail drawings and renderings in formatted sheets with high quality. To perform well, the building envelope is specially designed with curtain wall system and sun shading devices.

The Tally report breaks down the embodied energy of the materials defined. The information is displayed in multiple formats allowing the user to see the effects of the project based on its Life CycleStages to the individual materials.


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Metal Deck Roof EPDM 6''

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Floor height: 10'-4'' Compound Ceiling ACT System CMU Masonry Wall

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07 15 Minutes and Counting New Andy Warhol Pop Art Museum in Miami Design District University of Pennsylvania Arch702 Studio 2018 spring Instructor: Hina Jamelle Team: 2 architecture students Role: overall project concept & design/3d Modeling/rendering/ 2d drawing/ physical model making Often described as a commecial asrtist, Andy Warhol, with a distinctive and recognizable line, magazine illustrations, advertisements, book jackets, and album covers. He built sculptures, shot photographs, and he even made films, He used every means to express his unique perspective on art. One important aspect of Warhol's genius was to eliminate the one aspect of a conventional ways of thinking to observe the outcome and fuel innovation. He made movies of objects that never moved and used actors who could not act, and he made art that did not look like art. He wrote a novel without doing any writing. He had his mother sign his work, and he sent an actor, Allen Midgette, to impersonate hime on a lecture tour. He had other people making his paintings. Warhol wasn't out to trick anyone. He was only changing one rule, the most basic rule, of the game he found that people just kept on playing. Inspried bby Warhol's approach and in a similar way aim to architecturally challenge the traditional idea what a museum is: Instead of rigid walls and angles, this deisgn has created a dynamic and fluid space which would give the visitors different experience while viewing the arts. Instead of being an outsider looking at artworks, they would be surrounded and immersed bby pop arts, touch and explore more freely with himself/herself being part of the artworks. Similar programs are bundled together: instead of being a traditional stacked building program, this design has generated a more logical way of developing different programs into clusters, making it easy for way finding/ touring around. Rather than individual rooms, continuous gallery volumes over multiple floors are designed to display Warhol's works chronologically. Visitors can experience Warhol's style change and growth over time without disruptions. Through morphological design, this material of the museum has been softened. The exterior wall utilizes light color polished concreate that would appear soft and malleable, providing a vibrant look of giant faric wrapping around the perimeter of the building. The unconventional way concrete becomes tacile and also refers back to Warhol's genuis. With the exterior and interior system, the building behaves more stunning at night, especially when the club in the basment starts operation, the lights shoot out through the ceiling glass that is connected with the landscape. These experiences delivers unique outcomes so that visitors can keep on playing and exploring.


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Pop Art 2D Analysis and 3D Dimensionalization To exam and study Andy Warhol’s famous painting “ Endangered Species” (screenprint, 298 San Francisco Silverspot), a systems of arrow flocks are developed to show the tendency of the color strokes.With different points of attraction, some arrows converge towards a center point while others diverge away from the center. And this analysis are transferred into a 3D language set which could be represented as different space.


Space Bunbles Media Gallery Reception Children’s Gallery

Digital Lab Andy Warhol Library Full Dome Cinema

Sculpture Gallery Andy Warhol Collection

Exhibition Hall Museum Gift Shop Silver Clouds Gallery Cafe Storage Temporary Exhibition

Auditorium (Basement)

Night Club (Basement)

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Program Diagram Programs are designed in an unconvenional way. Different programs are bundled together according their sizes and functions. The ground floor opens to public with an entrance wall leading to the museum shop, cafe and temporary exhibition spaces. The storage is located at the bback with a loading dock. The seconf floor displays Andy Warhol collection in a chronological order. The thrid floor offers more interactive experience to visitors.


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3D Sectional Perspective This 3D Sectional Perspective shows the complex space bundles with inside the building as well as the relationship between exterior facade and the interior space. The facade is not only the skin, it extends inside horizontally and becomes the floors, and it expands vertically and becomes the interior walls.



3D Sectional Perspective This 3D Sectional Perspective shows the complex space bundles with inside the building as well as the relationship between exterior facade and the interior space. The facade is not only the skin, it extends inside horizontally and becomes the floors, and it expands vertically and becomes the interior walls.


Gallery Interior Views Gallery Display Ramp (Top) organize and exhibit Andy Warhol’s works chronologically using continuous ramp space that across multiple floors. Interactive Gallery Space (Bottom) provides visitors with the chances of being immersed in the artworks using the latest technology.


Museum Amenity Museum cafe (Top) uses customized furnitures that are inspired by Andy Warho’s artworks and spirit. Museum club (Bottom) starts to open while at night time, the up floor gallery space is closed, offers opportunities for artists gather together and exchange ideas.



Physical Model The physical model (24’x96’) is an intergrated assembly of 2D diagram, 3D spatial languafe and the cut out building itself. Built from wood, lasercut MDF and PLA 3D print.



08 ISLANDS & NEIGHBORHOOD Urban ecology restoration plan based around the renaturalization of Scajaquada Creek and community ecosystem services SUNY-ESF Thematic Studio 2013 may Instructor: Emanuel Carter Team: 4 landscape architecture students Client: Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper Organization

The re-naturalization of Scajaquada Creek is the main goal steering this design, searching to provide enhanced ecosystem services, such as benefits obtained from the regulation of ecosystem processes, products obtained from ecosystems or non-material benefits induced from the contact with ecosystem. Aesthetic and functional interventions join together with ecological design employing native plants in creating a space which is an asset to the community, improving quality of life and property values to the surrounding neighborhood. A phased installation of the design provides water condition improvement and a slow transformation of the landscape which ultimately would result in becoming a focal point for ecology, wildlife, culture, education and recreation, all in Cheektowaga Town Park. Main goal of improving the water quality conditions of Scajaquada Creek by bringing the community into closer contact with their main waterways, promoting the enhancement and stewardship of the Buffalo River watershed, connect of the Great Lakes water system. The green matrix is a series of design interventions throughout the city of Buffalo that provide optimal water infiltration. ecosystem services and green infrastructure practices using Cheektowaga Town Park as the catalyst for this kind of redevelopment. Vacant lots surrounding the park can be transformed from a city concern into a public display of productive landscapes. Vegetated planters will become stormwater collector planters. Other vacant lots have elements such as trees, low-grade points, and parking lots should be converted into part of the urban forests, rain gardens, bioswales or porous pavement parking. Boulevards or avenues that typically transect through a city are perfect to connect many of these random parks into a unified system, and then improve the overall ecosystem.


Creek Condition Survey Scajaquada Creek is a tributary within the Niagara River watershed, a river which connects the four upper Great Lakes to Lake Ontario, and major focal point in bird migration, water ecology, landscape identity and local industry, economy and beauty, renowned worldwide.


Pollutant Research Different sources of pollutants need to be dealt with via different methods of remediation.


Section A-A’ Elevated Ground Elevated ground increases the variations in soil humidity and variability between vegetated patches. Seasonal flooding and high water table offer habitat opportunity and phytoremediation space for water quality improvement.

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The constructed wetland area provides habitat, improves water quality, increases biodiversity and the variability within creek flow, meanwhile creates education opportunity, as well as naturalized aesthetics.

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The use if stone revetments creates eddies and variability along the creek bed and edge including oxygenation and mimicking natural processes.


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Park Plan The re-naturalization of this park is proposed to be achieved through many different interventions. An array of natural erosion control and water disturbance interventions are proposed along the creek banks as methods of soil stabilization and opportunity for habitat and water quality improvement.


Activity Interventions The Wetland space dedicated to Phytoremediation would serve as water quality improvements as well as habitat opportunities for birds and educational spaces for community outreach programs. (Top) Night lighting helps to make a safer community atmosphere and also provide opportunity for recreations. (Bottom)


Activity Interventions Rain garden terraces are proposed along part of the creek as a solution to improve CSO and MS4 outlets, as well as to collect runoff from the nearby parking lots. (Top) Tiered seating provides for an observation point for contemplation and enjoyment of a more natural environment within urban context of Cheektowaga. (Bottom)


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