PORTFOLIO JUNYU CAO 2013-2016
AMBIGUOUS DISTANCE Dumbo Warehouse Adaptation to The American Folk Art Museum
CALLIGRAPHY Noguchi Museum Dumbo Annex
INTERIOR LANDSCAPE Integrated Health Center in SoHo
PLACE OF REST
BACK TO THE EARTH
Modular Acoustic Scarf
Pavilion in Pratt Sculpture Garden
WAYS OF LISTENING TO THE PAST Shanghai Slaughterhouse Adaptation to The Promenade Concert Hall
AMBIGUOUS DISTANCE Dumbo Warehouse Adaptation to The American Folk Art Museum
Why do we exhibit folk art pieces in a museum? What’s the relationship between folk art and fine arts? How do we adapt an existing architecture to express a new subject?
This project discusses these questions with a new interpretation of the museum language of framing, casing and staging, and introduces the “ambiguous distance”, which represents the intricate relationships between each pair of the subjects above.
ADAPTATION & INSERTION The white panels through out the entire space are composed of a layer of perforated metal sheet. The panels extending towards the exterior through windows and doors have another layer of transluscent-reflective glass. The exterior panels wrap around the building, tangle the St. Ann’s Warehouse and the museum together, and become partitions when they enter the interior. The museum embraces the old St. Ann’s Warehouse, while still maintains the independency of each other. The perforation, the semi-reflectivity and the transluscency attracts people to approach the building, peek into the space, glimpse at the art pieces while also seeing themselves; it is the beginning of the ambiguous distance between the audience and the folk art pieces.
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LOWER LEVEL
1 Reception
2 Leveling Stage
A Museum Store
B Coat
C Auditorium
3 Penetration: Another Perspective D Women
E Men
4 Juxtapose Object & Audience F Storage
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5 Scrolls - Story Telling H Lecture
K Office
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6 The Anonymous: Identify Each Other in the Crowd M Library
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7 Landscape & Portrait: Public & Private
9 Quilts: The Intimate
10 Carousels
11 To Dumbo: Jane’s Carousels
UPPER LEVEL
RECEPTION The language of framing, casing and staging starts at the reception, even before the audience entering the building. The grand leveling platforms next to the entrance staircase is a perfect spot for a short break, which also implicates the interior characteristics of the museum.
JUXTAPOSE OBJECTS & AUDIENCE The seating for the audience in the waiting area is very similar to the platforms for the art pieces across the hall. The juxtaposition discusses the ways of seeing and being seen.
LEVELING STAGE & PENETRATION The leveling platforms over pebble stones create distance between the audience and art pieces. The box with transparent bottom penetrating the floor slab above reveals the rear unknown side of an object. While audience walking on the catwalk meandering around the platforms, surrounded by the folk art pieces from many directions, they are encouraged to reconsider their relationship with folk art objects in terms of daily objects vs. art pieces.
LANDSCAPE & PORTRAIT Hanging landscape paintings in an interior space can be interpreted as the longing for certain views or lifestyle. Portraits are always symbolic for the owner. When exhibit the two subjects in a museum, the personal relationship between the pre-owner and the art becomes public. The museum exhibits the relationship as well as the art. In this gallery, audience approaches the portraits more straight forward at moments such as at the end of a long narrow aisle. Relationship between landscapes and audience is more distant by a gap between the exhibition wall and the floor. Landscapes become intangible.
SCROLLS A large part ot the American Folk Art Museum is the double-sided scrolls, telling time-based stories on the two-dimensional media. The scroll gallery is composed by narrow, intimate aisles close to the perimeter brick wall, leading audience to the intricate details on the painting. Despite creating the narrow aisle, the wall descending from the Landscape & Portrait gallery above implies the connection between the subjects in the two galleries, seducing audience to the second floor.
QUILTS The Quilts gallery takes advantages of the corten steel frames through out the museum to exhibit the quilts at the double-height space. The once intimate quilts become intangible.
CAROUSEL Many collections in the American Folk Art Museum used to be functional daily-life objects. However, they became static once they were archived by museums. In this gallery, all of the carousels face the balcony, which leads the audience to the exterior, and the Jane’s Carousel right out of the door. This gallery is a response to the Jane’s Carousel. It connects the past and the current moment.
SECTION east - west
SECTION north - south
Noguchi Museum Dumbo Annex is a community center for the Dumbo neighborhood. Inspired by the artist’s sculpture “Calligraphics” in 1957, the space enlarges the subtle aspects and spirits of the sculpture, creating classrooms, lecture hall, event space, and exhibition gallery for the community.
CALLIGRAPHY Noguchi Museum Dumbo Annex
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A calligraphy detour
cast iron calligraphy (soft) & iron (rigid) B
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concave & convex
slit & crack
ANALYTICAL DRAWING Hand drawn analytical drawings of Isamu Noguchi’s sculpture, “Calligraphics”, 1957. Graphite on vellum paper. Front Elevation
Back Elevation
ABSTRACT THE PRINCIPLES Based on the study and analysis of “Calligraphics”, couple principles of design were developed with associative thinking.
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FIRST LEVEL Community Center
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1 Reception 2 Multi-Purpose Classroom 3 Lecture 4 Office 5 Restroom & Janitor 6 Mechanical
MEZZANINE
A “Calligraphics” 1957
Event & Gallery
B “The Well” 1982
C “Peking Brush Drawing” 1930
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RECEPTION & DETOURING PATH The reception celebrates the principle of subtraction, which is derived from the technology of cast iron. Subtraction forms this reception, greets and embraces its visitors. A portion of the mesmerizing mezzanine appeals visitors to continue exploring via the ramp, which gradually reveals more details and characteristics of the “Calligraphics� with architecture and lighting elements, and eventually, to the art piece on the mezzanine level. 1
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FIRST LEVEL PERSPECTIVE 5 - Lecture 6 - Office
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MEZZANINE PERSPECTIVE 7 - Entrance 8 - Far End
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INTERIOR LANDSCAPE Integrated Health Center in SoHo
Located on the top two floors of Louis Sullivan’s Bayard building at the T-junction of Crosby & Bleeker St., the Integrated Health Center introduces the exterior features of the neighbouhood and the building exteriors into the interior space. It provides a smooth transition point between the exterior and the interior, which also reflects the unique characteristics of the health center; to help people find the balance between their inner soul and the external world via tranquility.
curve & circular circulation throughout the space, as if walking in a landscape, to create continuous & smooth experience
extrusion becomes partition & defines each programmed space
to introduce the exterior into the interior via the circular skylight
void space as planter for plants: the natural light from the central skylight will lead plants to grow towards the center, and eventually emphsize on the
subtract the extrusion
intersection of the interior & exterior
LEVEL 12
SINGLE RESTROOMS
LEVEL 11
SINGLE RESTROOMS LOCKER
MEDITATION
SAUNA
DIRECTOR
LOCKER RECEPTION
PRACTITIONER YOGA NURSE
ADMIN EXAMINATION
MASSAGE
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LEVEL 12 PERSPECTIVE
toliets
women’s shower locker janitor sauna
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2 - Central Stair stair
men’s shower locker
lobby
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practitioner
linens nurse
linens
medical supplies administrative area
Examination
massage
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toliets
LEVEL 11 PERSPECTIVE
janitor
meditation
3 - Stair & Floating Wall director of integrative medicine
stair
storage
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yoga
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4 - Yoga
Yoga
Program Based On Temperature Transition
Program Based On Sound Transition
PROGRAM STUDY In order to achieve the best adjacency and arrangement in planning, studies of the required programs were established in terms of temperature, sound, view and natural light.
Yoga 750 SF Toilets
Admin 300 SF
Medical Storage
Storage 50SF
Nurse Station
Shower / Locker 300 SF
Practitioner 110 SF
Lobby 200 SF Meditation 150 SF
Examination Room 120 SF
Admin
Examination Room
Nurse Station
Lobby
Shower / Locker
Medical Storage
Sauna 180 SF
Massage Therapy
Meditation
Janitor
Massage Therapy 150 SF
Janitor
Director Office Janitor Director Office 100 SF
Janitor
Linen
Linen
Toilets 80 SF
Toilets 80 SF
Storage Toilets
Practitioner
Sauna
Linen Linen COOL
WARM
CLEAR
MUFFLED
Program Based On View
Program Based On Natural Light Transition
Sauna Medical Storage
Medical Storage
Meditation
Nurse Station
Yoga Sauna
Practitioner
Yoga Admin Lobby
Nurse Station
Janitor
Practitioner
Examination Room
Janitor Admin
Examination Room
Shower / Locker
Meditation
Lobby Massage Therapy
Director Office
Shower / Locker
Massage Therapy
Linen Toilets
Director Office
Linen Toilets
Linen Toilets
Linen Toilets Storage
Janitor Janitor
Storage
VIEW
NO VIEW
DARK
BRIGHT
9:00 AM
NATURAL LIGHT PENETRATION STUDY
March June December
1:00 PM
5:00 PM
SCHEMATIC DESIGN DIAGRAM How the program studies and the site study determine and reflect on the final planning.
Bubble Diagram
Conceptual Diagram toilet
toilet toile
linen
linen
yoga
sauna
Circulation Diagram
therapy
publi
Privacy Diagram
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Duration of Rest 10-30 mins
PLACE OF REST Modular Acoustic Scarf
USER General audience coming to a music performance, looking for place of rest during intermission.
INTERACTION BETWEEN THE USER AND THE OUTSIDER Users are isolated, but not completely, from the outsider. Users can choose the degree of interaction by assembling the modular panels. The sphere of the scarf is the joint point of the user and the outsider.
Mock-Up Front View
Connection Hook & Loop Fastener
Modular Petal Surface Felt
Stem Circle Surface Acrylic + Polyester + Wool
Mock-Up Components
Mock-Up Back View
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