Work samples_Yuanyuan Cao

Yuanyuan Cao (Kiko)

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Architectural design is a process of constantly solving problems through logical and rational analysis.

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EDUCATION

University College London (UCL)

Master of Architecture, Urban Design, RC12

Qingdao University of Technology (QUT), China

Bachelor of Architecture, Architecture

EXPERIENCE

Research Assistant

Digital Architecture & Manufacture Laboratory [DAM_Lab]

Job details: Robotic clay printing, robotic foam double curve cutting, 3D printing, digital laser cutting. Joined in the architecture & manufacture experiments and performed some management tasks.

Digital Construction & Woodwork Laboratory, QUT

Job details: Architectural modelling Proficiency in the application of cutting, sanding, drilling, polishing and gluing wood. (See portfolio for pictures of models.)

Research & Workshop

Journal of Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design (AILCD)

Journal Article: Digital Robotic Clay Structure. (Authored with others) Research focused on robotic arm 3D printing of clay for generating architectural curtain walls.

Master Workshop Pezo & Von Ellrichishausen

Project: Painting and Space.

Exploring the combination of architecture and art, using different colours and furnitures to change the feel of the space at different scales, the work is finally presented on a 1.2 x 1.6m panel (See portfolio.)

2019 Bamboo Space Design Workshop, Japan

First Prize | Project: Happo Torii. (Teamwork.)

A sustainable public gazebo built from bamboo and without the use of bolted joints. Involved in the design of the scheme, modelling and cutting of materials. (The University of Kitakyushu)

The 4th International Robot Construction Camp Outstanding Member | Project: Robotic Clay Printing. (Teamwork.) Exploring the applicability of robotic 3D printing clay to architectural curtain walls and testing the impact of material fabrication on print results. (See portfolio.)

COMPETITION

The 5th Bauhaus Award International Design Competition Gold Award | Project: Dormant Pulse. (Teamwork.)

The 11th Shandong University Student Construction Design Competition Excellence Award | Project: Under the Dome. (Teamwork.)

The 3th Bauhaus Award International Design Competition Gold Award | Project: Qingdao Olympic Sailing Museum Design. (Teamwork.)

The 10th Shandong University Student Construction Design Competition Excellence Award | Project: Wave of Tiles. (Teamwork.)

SKILLS

Language:

Mandarin (native), English (proficient)

Software Skills:

Design software:

Rhino Revit

Grasshopper

Unreal

CAD

Sketch-up

Maya

Sep 2021-Sep 2022

Sep 2016-Jul 2021

Adobe:

Photoshop Illustration

InDesign

Rendering software:

Rhino for Vary

Lumion

Enscape

Twinmotion

May 2019-Jul 2021

Mar 2018-Jul 2021

Feb 2020

Jul 2019

May 2019

Apr 2019

Mar 2020

May 2019

Oct 2018

Sep 2018

01 “1h" copolymer

The possibility of establishing a fictitious city management mechanism and demonstrating its results

Date : 2020.11 - 2020.12

Site : Mumbai，India

Individual Work

This project studied, following the current information society, under the imaginary social form of "time society", what kind of state will the city evolve into? And if the architect in the future is a revolutionary, how to balance the class oppression from the "time society" for the slum people at the bottom of the society, and build an ideal world that can survive and satisfy basic human rights and desires.

The world background of the project comes from the "time supreme" social system in the film "In Time". This design takes Dharavi slums in Mumbai, India as an example, and tries to analyze historical cases of "social forms affecting urban evolution". Explain the possibility of fictional city management mechanism and show its deduction results. In the city of the future, the construction of Dharavi’s "1h polymer" will save the poor in society an hour of survival time to satisfy their desires. It not only meets the basic sustainable survival and equal human rights at the bottom, but also establishes a revolutionary foundation for the formation of a new ideal city that is inclusive, diverse and equal.

Through the extraction, classification and translation of the living space elements of the Dharavi slums, the spatial prototype of "how to satisfy these basic living functions in the shortest path" is studied, the spatial sequence is reorganized, and an infrastructure system is established. This creates more survival time for the people in the slums than in the old space, which is used to make up for the spiritual world that is missing in the life of the two points of work and survival. Therefore, in addition to living space and manufacturing plants, the "polymer" has also added religious centers, music stages, cultural theaters and other facilities to build a diverse living space.

Michel Foucault

A history of space is necessarily a history of power.

political

political superstructure

Henri Lefebvre

As the inter-society and society are mutually constructed. all social phenomena are bound to shape spatially.

Karl Heinrich Marx / Friedrich Engels

ideological superstructures

superstructure

Urban socio-spatial Socialism

socio-economic background

social status living condition lifestyle

economic income consumption patterns

economic basis

Human society can be divided into five social forms: primitive society , slave society , feudal society , capitalist society , and communist society ( socialist society is the lower stage of communist society). Looking at these ages from another Angle, it presents a sequence of technological society forms: fishing and hunting society -- agricultural society -- industrial society -- information society.

Fishing and hunting society

Clan society is linked by family affection. Due to low productivity and public ownership, products are distributed equally.

Information society

The information society is also called the information society, which is a society where information will play a major role after leaving the industrialized society.

All tribes are equal and gather in blocks along the river.

Planning Building

Cave dwelling and nest dwelling.

Agricultural society

The income of agricultural products is stable, the productivity is high, the surplus products appear, the production system is private.

Planning

The capital is centered on palaces or churches, with a high degree of political concentration, and the city has a clear axis.

Building

Buildings are divided into levels, and different aristocratic classes use buildings of different construction styles.

Counterurbanization:Counter-urbanization, the collapse of centralization, the emergence of multiple centers.

Planning Building

The emergence of intelligent construction and intelligent buildings, the use of buildings is combined with intelligent information control

Industrial society

Machines brought higher productivity, concentrated industrial production in cities, and caused a vicious population expansion.

Planning

Urbanization

With industrial enterprises as the center, workers gathered to form a complete village and town, the city gradually became larger, and the large factory city grew rapidly.

Building

1. New materials, new technologies, and new types of construction appear. High-rise buildings and large-span buildings have emerged.

2. slums

Cities have become crowded, workers have gathered in large numbers, housing shortages have occurred.

Broadacre City intelligent building Garden Cities

forbidden city , China Home Insurance Building Musée du Louvre , Paris Birmingham, slum

The project was inspired by the dystopian film "Time Planning Bureau". In 2050, the time society will come. If the time for labor is not enough to support the basic survival time, people will die immediately because of "overtime". Therefore, time becomes a universal currency, which can be transferred or stored in the time bank. The efficiency of society has become extremely important. Reflected in the evolution of the city: traffic has become extremely developed, high-rise buildings and residential units have become aggregates, industry has evolved into aggregates of intelligent manufacturing, commercial advertisements on the streets have disappeared, and the excitement of the past is no longer .

Hall + Smart Factory

People in the slums enter the aggregate through here and see the pictures of the city in the lobby. The remaining part is the intelligent industrial operation area, where the input and output of industrial materials are carried out.

Workspace

According to people's virtual operation behaviors in 2078, the most efficient form of office is an independent space, manufacturing industry below.

Living Area + Entertainment Area Top Theater

The living area uses modular 3*3 as the unit to generate different apartment types, and the capsule elevator in the core tube connects the living and working areas. The entertainment area is more flexible and contrasts with the living area.

The top floor is a theater that symbolizes culture. Not only high-efficiency society but also the revolutionary ideas

2078, it can be deduced that space, which operates the

only the human culture in the are promoted here.

02 Connect the old and new

Explore the rebirth of abandoned brick factories after relocation in the post-industrial era

UIA-HYP CUP 2019 COMPETITION

Date : 2019.08 - 2019.10

Site : Qingdao，China

Individual Work

This project studied how to connect the old memory information inside the site with the new functions and life in the face of the activation project, so as to give the site new life.

In the context of China's post-industrial era, large areas of factory buildings have been relocated and rebuilt, and the original site in the city center is facing a new reorganization The urban planning around the factory has shifted from industrial land to commercial and residential land. Factory workers who were originally resettled and new residents who moved into the area became the main crowd. On the one hand, the spatial memory of factory workers needs to be preserved; on the other hand, the demands of new residents for community space also need to be met.

The project uses a series of continuous architectural spaces to connect memories and new functions.The structure and walls of the original factory are retained, and the internal space relies on the new continuous space to establish new functions—the brick factory historical exhibition and community activity center. The tour route coincides with the previous brick production line, and retains the most distinctive features: "tunnel kiln", "inverted flame kiln", "drying workshop", and "air transmission corridor" four spaces, these parts have also become the site The most distinctive node.Community activities revolve around the history of the brick factory, with some exhibitions and workshop experiences.

We can participate interesting workshops. materials here, we can make interesting things to take

On weekends, we can come here to relax and learn about the development history of bricks. In addition to learning knowledge, we can also make something by ourselves. In the community center, you can sit on the big stairs and chat with everyone.

“Feel the sea”

Explore the museum space design of multi-dimensional five sense experience

Architecture design II （A）

Instructor : A.P Cheng Ran

Date : 2018.10 - 2018.12

Site : Qingdao，China

Individual Work

This project explored how to transform the abstract "coastal city culture" into a more perceptual architectural space experience in the museum design. Because with the evolution of museum functions in historical development, contemporary experiential architectural spaces have brought people a strong value identity, and the function of museums has also evolved from a one-dimensional exhibition to an experiential cultural consumption. The future museum building needs to bring more dimensions of space experience.

The site is located in Qingdao, China, an important coastal port city, which has a longterm connection with the sea. However, Qingdao has always lacked the experience of seawater culture. For more tourists from the inland (never touched the sea), they need a more dimensional experience to deepen the impression of the sea and Qingdao. Therefore, it is planned to be in the Olympic Sailing Center Port. On the ground, this problem is solved by building a museum of multi-dimensional perception and experience.

Based on the research on the perception of seawater culture, the program proposes a prototype of the architectural space corresponding to the four perceptions of sight, hearing, touch and smell. Vision: sunlight and sailing boats by the sea, hearing: sound of flowing sea water, touch: foot on the beach and touching running water and rough reefs, smell the smell of the sea through the openness of space. The space creation is dominated by the demand of public experience.

HISTORY OF FIVE SENSE EXPERIENCE IN MUSEUM

bc.283 - Renaissance

Cultural heritage

To preserve and inherit historical civilization for mankind

18th century - 19th century

Cultural symbol

National identity and cultural achievements

Hearing

SITE ANALYSIS

The venue is located in the port of the Olympic Sailing Center, the most famous scenic spot in Qingdao. The sea view around the venue is very open. However, Qingdao has always lacked a place to experience seawater culture up close. The site is located at the end of the port, in front of which is a long walking distance. It is suitable for tourists to experience the sea culture and appreciate the landscape.

Touch

Pantheon c.125

Vision Statues, hanging frescoes.Holy table, echo wall.

The Capitoline Museums 1603

the Louvre Museum 1793

The museum goes to the public and the artwork is touchable.

19th - 20th Century

Cultural capital

Consumption by society has the potential for value-added, combined with commercial development and tourism and cultural industries

FUTURE

Public experience demand dominates space creation

PROPOTYPE OF FIVE EXPERIENCE

Ramp walk to observe the exhibits.

Enrich people's experiences based on themes. Perception

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1959 Bilbao Guggenheim Museum 1997 MOMA 2013 Galerie Joseph 2017

Ground floor plan

1,Museum entrance Hall

2,Storage

3,Tactile space

4,Auditory space

5,Equipment room

6,Museum coffee

7,Rest space / Temporary exhibition gallery

1st Floor plan

1,Visual open space

2,Sea view platform

3,Olfactory space

4,Visual narrow space

5,Office space

2nd Floor plan

1,Olfactory space

2,Visual window

3,Visual narrow space

4,Projection room

5,Equipment room

1,Tactile space

2,Visual narrow space

3,Visual window

4,Visual narrow space

5,Olfactory space

6,Export

04 “A co-starred drama”

Explore cultural self-production through an immersive experience involving all people

UIA 2021 RIO Maré-City Competition

Date : 2020.04 - 2020.07

Site : Rio,Brazil

Individual Work

This project studies how to generate a sustainable economic cycle through the cultural activation of all citizens in slums, so as to improve the problems of slums and improve the urban differences in Brazil.

When thinking about urbanism and plural and inclusive cities, we can no longer disregard the territories occupied by self-built housing made by low-income social segments. Such territories, widely known as slums, are a substantial part of Rio de Janeiro for over a century. Through research on Rio's slum“Mare”, it is found that the low-income people here generally lack formal jobs and stable income, which has caused the land they occupy to become the fringe area of the city, facing water shortages and lack of public buildings. In addition, residents and Ngo groups frequently conduct educational and artistic activities in this area, but the venues are limited and the scope of influence is small.

This project provides a business strategy that links the common interests of multiple participants, transforms the original factories and residential buildings on the site, and establishes a sustainable economic activation site. The east side of the highway forms a cultural and commercial block based on the original advantages. The narrow strip on the west side of the highway forms a cultural display and supplement area. This solution not only solves the existing problems in the site, but also realizes the integration between the city and the slums.

Exploring the concept of sustainability in architecture provides a key response to the spatial differences and social polarization of the city, trying to find a suitable architectural expression and promoting the diverse development of slums to become a recognized part of the city.

RESEARCH

The main problem of slum dwellers is that they gather to form slums because of low work income. The rich cultural activities in the site can attract foreigners to use the original independent business foundation to make this an economic activator.

NGO

Resident Association Forum(FAM)

Right to public security

Get funds from bank foundation

Handicraft making

Public kitchen

Film screenings

Workshop

Education popularization

Farming experience

Graffiti

Sports

Dance performance

Photography exhibition

Food Industry

Clothing brand

Record

Sports brand Transportation industry

Landscape green park

First Creat an express line.Build a cultural exhibition green park and a activity center.

STRATEGY

Through the reuse of abandoned factories and used factories in the site, as well as the transformation of residential buildings.

shops

Second Build a walkable commercial street And some node parks.

Factory renovation on commercial street.

local residents own residences along the street

training

academic research and practice

Building roof folklore

Third with the increase of tourists, there is a demand for homestays.

MARE Resident Activity Center

Renovation of

along the commercial street.

NGO slum dweller tourist

tourist pre-job

government government

government

tourism developer tourisit

brand merchant entrepreneur land transfer more audiences，profit distribution shop venue certain compensation

The residences are located in the slums (the residence is not along the street)

tourism developer

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY (House)

The

use

How

PEDESTRIAN SHOPPING STREET

When walking in a commercial street, in addition to feeling the commercial atmosphere on both sides, you can also interact with the people in the houses. The plan makes full use of the roof space. The Brazilian slums are called jale. In the past, these platforms were mostly used in slums. Residents build by themselves, and now through reasonable planning, in addition to installing a homestay suitable for five types of people on the high-rise platform, the abundant rooftop activities also attract tourists who live here.

05 Clay Curtain

Explore the use of clay materials in 3D printing (Digital Fabrication)

Team Work

Workshop:The 4th International Robot Construction Camp

Date : 2019.04-2019.08

Site : Qingdao, China

Supervisor Professor : Xinyu Shi, Zhoufan Chen, Da Wan role in team : conceptual design, modeling and drawing, photo Pubuication:Journal of Asian Institute of Low Carbon Design, 2020

Clay printing has the same characteristics as 3D printing, and the construction concept of generating forms is mainly stack printing. By thinking about how to combine the printing of clay with the application of actual building construction, it can be applied to the building curtain wall system by utilizing the characteristic of diffuse reflection on the surface porous holes. By changing the orientation, size and density of the openings of the layered print, the intensity of sunlight entering the building through the curtain wall is controlled.

We found that in the 24-hour working environment of the American Emergency Alarm Center, it is required that the computer screen cannot produce any reflection, so as not to delay the viewing of any emergency alarm information. Therefore, in order to prevent the computer screen from reflecting on the computer screen because of the existence of natural light sources, it interferes with the office. Therefore, the wall of the building is generally closed, and artificial light sources are used throughout the day. This not only increases office pressure, but also Mental health also has a huge impact. Therefore, we hope that the porous surface of the clay surface can form the characteristic of diffuse reflection and apply it to the building curtain wall system. It can work without introducing reflection interference to the computer screen while opening the external field of vision, and introducing natural light sources into the room.

This solution can be applied in the transformation of the office environment. In the office environment of the emergency treatment center, in order office exterior walls increase the pressure on the staff. By applying the clay panel of the scheme to the curtain wall, by controlling the orientation, and relying on the upper part of the sunlight. Shooting indoors does not interfere with computer screens that require 24 hours of work.

CONCEPT ASSEMBLY

Each piece of 600mm x 600mm size is connected to each other by steel members. The four-sided steel is fixed like a frame to prevent the clay panel from being damaged by shear. Each panel is bolted together with two angles. In this detail we have thought of two detail treatments. One is to reserve a circle for the clay panel when printing, and clamp the edge with U-shaped steel. The other is to connect them by angle steel.

General curtain wall

caly print of the curtain wall

order to avoid the reflection interference caused by the direct sunlight, the large-scale use of artificial light sources and the application of closed orientation, height and opening size of the voronoi polygon rotation, the lower part of the sunlight enters directly, creating a good office environment

SHAPR GENERATION

On the basis of the Thiessen polygon, each layer is rotated uplifted, and each height is raised by 3mm (that is, the thickness of a layer of clay), and the next shape is reconnected at a distance of 5% from the side of each polygon. The secondary loop gets a shape with smaller and smaller aperture.

Monomer

panel 1

Circular interference

Rotate 1 panel 2 panel 3

Linear interference

Rotate n

Curve interference

PROGRAM OPTIMIZATION

When printing each Voronoi diagram, there are five points of the robotic arm to run. The first point coincides with the fifth point. The robot arm recognizes the point-to-point path. We turn on the air pump at the 0th point. At the 4th point, the air pump is turned off and the clay extrusion is stopped, and then the fifth point is returned. This is to prevent the clay extrusion from accumulating at 0 th point, so stop the mud at 5 mm from the fifth point.

After printing one layer of a single unit, the mechanical head is lifted 2 cm and then lowered to the specified point to print another layer of monomer.

The optimized route is mainly "Z" shaped route, which reduces the initial layer step to 42 steps and greatly shortens the printing time.

MECHHANICAL ARM OPERATION

Problems encountered:

1. The progress of clay printing cannot be known.

2. The amount of clay in the metal tube cannot be followed up, and it is easy to run out of clay in the printing process. In order to prevent the use of clay in the printing process, a multi-tube connection is realized by a tee.

THINKING ABOUT ROBOTIC ARM

Through the design of this scheme, we clearly realized that the robot arm will play an important role in the future building construction environment, and can effectively assist people in customizing the corresponding personalized building design and customization, and contribute to the development of human civilization.

06 Meta Consumer

Explore the development of commercial spaces in the Metaverse

B-pro Show 2022，RC12

Date : 2021.09-2022.09

Site : Oxford Circus, London Team Work

Tutor: Luke Pearson, Sandra Youkhana

Team members: Xiaolin Liu, Han Wei, Shaoyu Wang

Meta Consumer explores how the metaverse and virtual worlds are economic sites for content production and consumption. Combining studies into consumer behaviour alongside the analysis of ‘gamer types’ using Bartle’s taxonomy of players, MetaConsumer creates experimental retail experiences, leveraging how people instinctively engage with virtual environments.

The game is constructed around a system of agents containing both consumer and gamer profiles.

Players must create structures that appeal to both the consumerist tendencies of these shoppers and the ways they are predisposed to interact with virtual environments, using combinations of different generic elements which then become attractive to agents based on their personality type. ‘Killer’-type players, who thrive on competition, will be attracted to vertiginous structures inspired by games such as Doom Eternal. In contrast, ‘explorer’-type players will seek out structures providing unexpected journeys, drawing upon the aesthetics of games like Minecraft. As players perceive game worlds in fundamentally different ways according to their personality, MetaConsumer uses this in a shifting landscape of experiences and consumption.

Players acting as retailers combine different basic architectural elements into spatial forms that attract different player types. These will then be perceived and explored by consumers within the game. Studies into how different player types are attracted to different spatial forms. Killer-types, looking to dominate their surroundings, will be drawn to high ground or difficult objectives, while explorer-types will seek out branching paths.

An in-game screenshot of a MetaConsumer environment, showing elements that are being perceived and explored by the different player types corresponding to different game types, and 'blank' structures that are not currently being visited. The MetaConsumer environment is one that oscillates in and out of meaning, with the world physically changing depending on the player personality type of the user experiencing it.

NS_Achiever

NS_Explorer

NS_Socializer

Spawn Actor From Class

SimpleAgent E

SimpleAgent A

SimpleAgent K

SimpleAgent S

Move to Destination

(Random)

Explorer_Destinations

Achiever_Destinations

Killer_Destinations

Socializer_Destinations

Overlapping actors = Corresponding types ?

Destination Actor

Trigger Box0

07 Other works

Explorations related to construction and arts

1.Joint Practice Design

Project: Rest around the tree

Time: Aug2018

Site: Qingdao,China

Role in team: leader,conceptual design,construction,operation made in Woodwork laboratory

2.Structural Design

Project: Argi Chapel

Time: Mar, 2019

Site: Qingdao,China

Role in team:construction,modeling and drawing made in Woodwork laboratory

3.Workshop:Pezo & Von Ellrichishausen

Project: Painting and Space, Individual Time: Aug, 2019

Site: Nanjing,China

Joint Practice Design

Made in Woodwork laboratory

Project: Rest around the tree

Time: Aug, 2018

Site: Qingdao,China

Role in team: leader,conceptual design,construction,operation

Structural Design

Made in Woodwork laboratory

Project: Argi Chapel

Time: Mar, 2019

Site: Qingdao,China

Role in team: construction,modeling and drawing

Yuanyuan Cao (Kiko)

Selected Work 2016-2022