Y3 Building Project Long Section 1 & -3.0m Plan
New Orleans Breakwater Club
The project re-imagines the New Orleans Southern Yacht Club after Hurricane Katrina. The narrative is that the yacht club rests inside a giant water tank where film studios will use for filming water scenes. This allows controlled flooding, subsequently living with water can be discussed in better detail.
Y3 Building Project Long Section filming scene
New Orleans Breakwater Club
Open-air water tanks used for large scale film production, are incredible surrealistic structures which exists functionally in real life. Incorporating the water-filming revenue programme allows the ‘living with water’ topic to be discussed under current time setting.
Y3 Building Project View & First Project Views
Indian Step-Town
Indian Step-Town is a speculative short design project prior to this year’s mean building project. A imaginary town near Jaipur, India, lives in an exposed underground landscape similar to a traditional Indian stepwell. Rain water is stored in the ‘Steptown’ and residents adapt to their changing environment.
Hand drawings & SU modelling I am also proficient and greatly enjoy hand drawing as a faster mean of registering my thinking. Here are some conceptual drawing collage for Y3 building project. I could also manage new software under tight schedules. Above left is a traditional Beijing courtyard (Siheyuan) SU model I made overnight.
Y2 Main Project
Peckham Convalescent Home
Focusing on healthcare, well-being of living and relieving current NHS pressure, this project is a convalescent home built on a historic site in Peckham, London. Using water and light to bring the patients here a sense of calmness, as well as magical elements from the first project.
Y2 First Project
Rain Pavilion
The project’s design concept is trying to make rainy weather in London a pleasant experience, with the use of optical illusion and spatial deception. I used rhino modelling, illustrator and photoshop to complete this drawing.
Y1 Process of Making On the left are 1 : 50 beach model and early building model photos. On the right is ‘the Spine’ we as a group made for the year 1 show in the Bartlett Summer Show 2015. Through these, I gained skills in structure making involving wood, joints, steel, welding and digital processing. I really enjoy the making process, like learning and making dove-tail joints and finger joints, or heat bending for the brackets that hold the models to the ‘Spine’.
Y1 Installation Project
The Drunken Sailor
The installation group project was under the theme of ‘Longing and Belonging’, we (12 students) have to find connections between two sites, the Greenwich Beach, and the underground bowling alley in Greenwich’s Old Naval College. The ‘Drunken Sailor’ is a mechanism designed to reinterpret the action of bowling by a drunk, disabled sailor. And the repetitive nature of bowling and this mechanism represents the cycle of tides on the Greenwich Beach.
Photo Credits https://www.flickr.com/photos/bartlettarchitectureucl/ Chen Yifeng Stuido Xie Xiaoying Stuido Zara Chen, Sardonna Lueng, Rosie Murphy, Elliot Nash