KAI-YU YU
Master of Science in Architecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
KAI-YU YU
M.S.Arch // Master of Science in Architecture, 2010, Pratt Institue, Brooklyn, NY B. Arch // Bachelor of Architecture, 2006, Chung Yuan Christian University, Tao Yuan, TAIWAN
Contact Info.
e-mail // kai.yu.yu.tw@gmail.com phone // 917-318-5082
[ Graduate ]
// Recreational Power Plant // Reconciliation Hotel // Shetler Facade // Digital Fabrication // Summer Post
[ Professional ]
// Xu Residence // Vieshow Cinema // Lee Residence // Chin-Shan Village // LKF Plaza
// Recreational Power Plant
[Graduate]
This is a thesis project regarding global energy draining situation and a possible architectural solution as a converter that turns energy consumption into a process of power generation. This project is trying to respond to the awareness of the energy crisis and design an potentil answer to it. This complex project is aimming to create a mediation between the consumption from recreational activities and the global trend of saving the limited energy resource with the use of new technologies that can turn natural and body energy which we disregard in daily modern life. This complex bring the originally merely consuming behviors of nowaday people into the a system where consuming is also contributing.
[ Drive ] We are facing a severe problem of population explosion. The increase of people on the planet is so fast that the whole world is starting to worry about the consequence this situation might result in. According to the report from U.S. Census Bureau, world population has rapidly increased in the past two hundred years from one billion people in nineteen century to seven billion in present. In order to sustain the lives of this huge population, more energy is consumed. However, we only have limited amount of our main energy resource preservation, fossil fuel, and we have already pased the production peak and will soon use it up. Massive use of fossil also leads to disasterous chain effects. Greenhouse gas causes global warming, which results in Glacier Meltdown. Then Sea Level Rises and global mass redistributes. The redistribution of the water mass from the melted glacier will even make the global Axis Shift.
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[ Concept ] As the economic grows, people started to have a better financial condition and so has their life style been changed. People started to pay more attention on their recreational life besides earning their living. According to a research, the percentage of total personal consumption has increased from 5.6% to 8.7%. Total recreation expenditure has increased from $17,700,000,000 in 1959 to $756,300,000,000 in 2005. People do not only eat and drink just for basic physical needs. They start to intake excessive amount of resources just for pleasure and pay money to use up the extra calories they gain. With the new technology, we are now able to use wasted body energy to generate pwoer. Therefore, we can transform the original one-way consumption into a Reciprocal power generation system.
Energy Consumption
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Power Generation
District Bar/Club Density
District 1
Area_955.6 acre Bar number_119 Density_0.124/acre
District 2
[ Site search ] The design sets off from locating a site where most likely to contain the maximum amount of wasted body energy. Thus, a methodology is applied in the wasted-energy-concentrated site locating process ― starting in Manhattan, New York, one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions famous for its diverse and rich night lives consisting of bars and clubs, map out the suitable site for a recreational power plant by using the distribution of bars in New York as reference. After analyzing the district bar/club density, it is found that District 2 has the Highest Density of bars and clubs among the 12 districts in Manhattan. Then, another research is conducted using subway stations as the evaluting center and 5-minutes walk as the research radius. The goal of this research is to find out the area where is most accessible with the convience of New York mass transportation.
Subway Bar/Club Density
1.68/m 2
Area_866.4 acre Bar number_255 Density_0.294 /acre
1.62/m 2
1.06/m 2
0.40/m
4.22/m 2
4.63/m 2
1.37/m
3.36/m
2.90/m
3.41/m
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0.71/m 2
District 3
Area_1077.1 acre Bar number_272 Density_0.252/acre
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District 4
Area_1131.8 acre Bar number_176 Density_0.155/acre
District 5
Area_1005.3 acre Bar number_288 Density_0.286/acre
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2.80/m
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5 mins radius subway station bar/club in District 2
1.37/m 2
2.95/m 2
1.88/m 2
1.22/m 2
bar/club outside District 2
District 6
Area_888.4 acre Bar number_182 Density_0.204/acre
3.61/m 2
1.47/m
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1.27/m
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2.03/m 2
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[ Site ] Narrowed down to District 2, the project site seeking process heads towards the west to approach Hudson River in order to obtain more power from the nature resources in addition to reclaiming wasted human energy. The lot next to High Line serves as a perfect link between the area with high bar density and the Hudson River. The High Line has become one of the most famous tourist attractions and a new spot where people in lower west Manhattan or visitors from other places relax and wander. The Westside Highway and the jogging path along the river bank also contain a lot of potential energy source from the passing through of vehicles and the jogging path users. Moreover, the relatively low height of the surrounding buildings also makes obtaining solar power possible.
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A_Hudson River current B_riverside jagging path C_westside highway D_sun exposure E_Highline park
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Water GYM CLUB
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BAR Hot Yoga
Arena & Cinema Play Field
workout shower wc dance bar wc lounge bar wc seating classroom shower wc seating stage wc slide swing carousel bounce bed
Urine
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Torque
Pressure
[ Program ] The activities accommodated in the power plant are based recreation-based in order to reclaim the energy people waste the most. Determined programs are broken down into a chart to analysze the energy that can be obtained.
[ Design ] Get rid of the trash truck lot across Westside highway from the site for the out-reaching programs in order to utilize the current and bouyancy of the Hudson River. Extend the linear neighborhood pattern as MAYA hair dynamic base to create a curved spactial frame that holds both programs on the site and Hudson River and the connection between them.
[ View from Hudson River ] Floating arena and cinemas genertate power when they rotate the wheels on the sliding tracks underneath Hudson River by sinking adn floating with the change of audience live loads along . All the circulation from Highline to the river deck are paved with power panel so pedestrians can generate energy by walking throughout the profect.
Solar Panel
Power generating sliding track Power generating circulation
Current Turbine
[ View from Manhattan ] Solar panels take the advantage of the low-rise surrounding and also create shading for people on Highline park. Urine tanks below the sphere volumes store the urine from programs on top and generate electricity from the collected urine through chemical reaction.
Thermal power generator
Solar Panel
Solar Panel
Power generating circulation
Urine tank
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A_Arena B_River Deck C_Cinema D_Playfield E_Urine Collector Lot
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F_Water Tank G_Gym H_Bar I_Urine Tank
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G_Gym H_Bar I_Urine Tank J_Shower / Locker
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[ persective ] view from Westside Highway
[ persective ] view from beneath Highline
// Reconciliation Hotel
[Graduate]
This is a studio aimming to build a hotel at Atlantic Yard, Brooklyn, based on neurology reseach. This project is inspired by the neural transmission of outter stimuli to the brain. The neural system tansmit stimuli back and forth through electrical exchange among axons and neurons, so we can receive information and respond. There is a intriguing phase in the transmission where the eletrical exchange has to “jump” over the synaptic cleft without passing through any medium. This “cleft” became the main idea of the hotel, which accommodates community class, gym, shopping center, X-gme field and swimming pool with public access hoping to reconcile the conflict between the neighborhood and the developer by benefiting the surrounding residents with the hotel’s public facilities.
[ Drive ] There is a severe conflict between the city goverment and the residents on the surrounding plans of the Brooklyn Arena because of the use of eminent domain, which unwillingly took the residents’ property. The revealed plan does not satisfy the residents financially or aesthetically. The residents are forced to leave their home with little compensation when the developers will earn multi-million dollars. And the design of the whole complex project is also considered not blending into the neighborhood.
[ Concept ] According to the neurology system research for the studio, the mechanic of our neural system is based on ion exchange between neurons through synapses, which connect neurons together into the whole neural system. However, the synapes are not literally connected. There is a tiny gap between synapes called “synaptic cleft”. Therefore, when stimuli are sensed from receptors, ions have to travel through the whole neural system to the brain by “junping” from synapse to synapse over the cleft. The cleft is the most appealing outcome of the research. It does not only plays a essential role of the whole system, but also represent the eletric flow by revealing the ion exchange from rest enclosed neural system. This inspired the Activity Gap concept of blending new programs that spatially connect surrounding attractions and expose the energy and socially benifit the community to soothe the conflicts between the residents and developer and goverment into the hotel project.
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Atlantic Center
Subway
Sport commercial
Brooklyn Nets Arena
Art
connection
commercial
site attraction vacant resource
[ Site plan ]
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A_BAM plaza B_Target connection I C_Skywalk stage I D_Target connection II E_skywalk caf’e F_Skywalk stage II G_Hotel entrance H_Atlantic center connection I_Arena connection
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[ GF Plan ]
A_Entrance Plaza B_Lobby C_Luggage room D_Office E_Lounge F_Caf’e G_Kitchen H_Bar I_Auditorium
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J_Art Gallery K_Workshop space L_Lounge bar M_Stage N_Restaurant O_Kitchen P_Retail
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[ 3F Plan ]
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A_Swimming pool B_Shower room C_Rock climbing D_X game field E_Snack bar F_Gym G_Dancing room H_Arena ticket vender I_Arena ticket booth
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J_Cafeteria K_Kitchen L_Hotel lobby M_Artist studio
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[ 5F Plan ]
A_Cafeteria B_Artist residence
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C_Hotel room typeA D_Service room E_Artist residence F_Lounge
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A_Hotel room typeB B_Hotel room typeC C_Service room
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[ 14F Plan ] E
D_Hotel room typeD E_Service room
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A_Hotel lobby B_Swimming pool C_Art Gallery D_Lobby E_X game field F_Retail G_Auditorium
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[ persective ] view from site’s south-east
[ persective ] view from site’s north-west
[ persective ] view from Brooklyn Arena
[ persective ] view of BAM plaza
[ persective ] view of subway station
[ persective ] view of X game field and hotel atrium
[ persective ] view of hotel room
[ persective ] view of hotel atrium
// Shelter Facade
[Graduate]
This is the result of first semester elective of MAYA. The goal of this elective is to create a spatial element. This project is a facade that can swell and bend to become a shelter that block either rain or sun. However, when the shetler is not serving as a shelter, it become an outter layer of buildings without blocking the view of people in side the buildings.
[ Technique ] using maya attractor to create the gradual transformation accordding to the distance between the units and the attractor. The inflating of each units and bending degree of each row is also distanceconstrained to the attractor.
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Section
Distance
// Digital Fabrication
[Graduate]
This degital fabricated panel is made with the use of Rhino, Grasshopper and RhinoCAM. The goal of this elective is to understand the logic of Grasshopper and become proficient in the integration of Rhino and its plug-ins to. Fmiliarizing students w the fabrication process by going through the RhinoCAM set-ups and seeing how manipulations of the sizes of the drillers, depths drillers r going and paths drillers go along can make a difference on the result.
[ Grasshopper ] This equation creates a undulating surface as the first layer and then generates a pattern based on Delency mesh. Also, vectors and attractor point are used to shift the original triangles. The shifted triangles are then carved off from the first undulating surface.
undulation
rounded
shifted / scaled
// Summer Post
[Graduate]
This course is focus on 3D advanced modeling with the use of 3dMax. Course focused on poly editing along with boning, texturing and animation.
[ Rendering ]
// Xu Residence
[Professional]
Firm: CHU Studio Project location: Taipei, Taiwan Responsibility: schematic design, design development, 3D modeling, construction drawing The client works as one of the leading dancers in “Cloud Gate”, the worldrenowned Taiwanese dancing group. Therefore, the concept of the residential design ─ a dancing ribbon ─ was inspired by the client’s profession. This ribbon does not only define the spaces but also serve as cabinets for storage. Some furnitures are even coordinated into the ribbon so the client can do her daily stretch and prctice.
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[ Plan ]
A_entrance B_study room C_bar D_living room E_dinning room F_master bedroom G_couch H_child room I_front balcony J_back balcony
[ Bar transformation ]
[ Dinning room transformation ]
// Vieshow Cinema
[Professional]
Firm: CHU Studio Project location: Taipei, Taiwan Responsibility: schematic design, design development, 3D modeling, construction drawing Vieshow cinema locates in a huge complex, which is a extension of Taipei Main Station. This complex consisting of metro, high speed railway, railway, bus station, apartments, hotel and shopping center. The idea of a transitional tunnel is conceived to brings people into the cinema from the shopping center below. Deconstructed elements of the Vieshow cinema logo in the tunnel transform from only lines into carved-lined plank to bring people into the cinemas.
[ Transitional tunnel ]
[ Walkway]
[ Theater entrance ]
[ Plan ]
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A_transitional tunnel B_cinema lobby C_snack bar D_theater
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[ Construction drawing ]
ceiling line
poster box
ceiling line
poster box
// Lee Residence
[Professional]
Firm: CHU Studio Project location: Taipei, Taiwan Responsibility: schematic design, design development, 3D modeling, construction drawing There are two kids and two adults in this family. In order to give different individual characters to the spaces, two patterns are used to define the house. Bedrooms of two kids are surrounded by the "L" pattern and other spaces are defined with the "I" pattern.
[ Livingroom ]
[ Corridor ]
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[ Plan ]
A_entrance B_living room C_multi-use room D_kitchen E_dinning room F_storage G_bathroom H_coridor
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I_master bedroom J_walk-in closet K_child room A L_child room B M_bathroom N_living room O_front balcony P_back balcony
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[ Construction drawing ] A’
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wood surface
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cabinet
cabinet
cabinet
deco board
vanity
cabinet
A-A’ section
cabinet
C-C’ section
A-A’ section
cabinet sliding mirror
acrylic board cabinet television wood bean white blind
rack
vanity
cabinet
B-B’ section
D-D’ section
B-B’ section
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cabinet
cabinet
white blind
cabinet
cabinet
desk
cabinet deco board
deco board
A-A’ section
B-B’ section
A-A’ section
D-D’ section
embeded light
white blind
white blind
deco board desk
cabinet division
B-B’ section
E-E’ section
// Chin-Shan Village
[Professional]
Firm: LWM Architects + Shanghai Yue Jie Project location: Taipei, Taiwan Responsibility: 3D modeling, plan drawing, elevation drawing, section drawing
[ Site plan ]
[ Construction drawing ]
[ Construction drawing ]
// LKF Plaza
[Professional]
Firm: LWM Architects + Shanghai Yue Jie Project location: Macau, China Responsibility: 3D modeling, plan drawing, proposal document
[ Site plan ]
A_buidling A B_building B C_commercial skirt D_plaza
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[ Schematic plan ]
[ Schematic plan ]