HAN Lizhe Portfolio
2010-2018
MArch BArch
University of Virginia 2017 Huazhong University of Science and Technology 2015
E-mail Tel
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EDUCATION 2015.08 - 2017.05 2010.09 - 2015.06
HONORS May.2017
Jul.2017-Jul.2018
Great Project for Publication, UVa
Studio Project Chosen for Publication, UVa
Feb.-May. 2017
Best Graduation Project& Outstanding Graduate
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
Jan. 2017
Excellent Student Work, Architectural Society of China, PRC,Wuhan, PRC
Aug.-Dec. 2016
Excellent Student Work, Architectural Society of China, PRC
Public building design: “Breaking the Wall” community library design, Wuhan, PRC
Jan. 2013 Sept. 2012
May.-Jul. 2016
Excellent Student Work, Architectural Society of China, PRC
Jan. 2016
Feb.-Jun. 2015
2012 Top 10 China Emerging Architect
SKILLS Layout Drawing
Photoshop Illustrator V-Ray Enscape Lumion Ecotect Wind flow
Research assistant, Historical Architecture Studies and Restoration, Wuhan, PRC
Collected and analyzed data from traditional residential architecture in Wuhan; Sketched historical building facade for academic paper; Built Revit model to better understand historical masonry-timber structures and their styles.
Keep Climbing-- Backpack’s camp design
SketchUp Rhino+Gh Revit
Externship at Shalom Baranes Associates, Washington, DC
Collaborated and improved a dormitory project; created Swimming pool and main entrance for the dormitory with Sketchup modeling software.
Structure and site analysis course design: “Keep Climbing” Backpack’s camp design, Wuhan, PRC
Aug. 2012
Internship at Perkins Eastman, Washington, DC
Worked in design department; gave conceptual scheme for entry design, made series of models and rendering for senior high schools; prepared material for marketing use.
Bronze Medals of 9th National Green Architecture Design Competition, PRC Conservation Center Design: “Green Life”, Changzhou, PRC
Research Assistant for Prof Earl Mark in UVa, VA.
Researched and modeled refugees' camp and light structure tent; assisted lecture in Chewonki semester school in Maine; analyzed tent structure; improved shade and tent material.
Residential building design: “Custom Tailor” , Enshi, PRC
Sept. 2013
Externship at Olson Kundig, Seattle.
Helped with graphic work of perspective explode axon; gave ideas for new project's conceptual design.
Historical architecture restoration design: “Reborn of Pinghe Packing Field”, Wuhan PRC
Sept. 2014
Teaching Assistant for Prof. Earl Mark in UVa, VA
Advised studio students on framing ideas with hand-drawing and computer technique; bridged relationship between students and professor; continued research on refugee tent design.
Military Base Design: Infiltration
Jun. 2015
Technical Designer for Gensler DC, Washington D.C.
Addressed design challenges. Visualized design ideas, sketches and documents into 2D/3D models and images. Researched artistic and/or technical issues when they arose. Documented for client meetings and team cooperation. Major projects: 30th Street Station; Junior Achievement for Greater Washington.
Studio Project Chosen for Publication, UVa
Infrastructural Urbanism design: Emergence, Sao Paulo, Brazil
May. 2016
University of Virginia (UVa),Charlottesville, VA Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei, PRC
EXPERIENCE Nuttallburg Material Culture Museum and Visitor Center, WV
Sept. 2016
MArch BArch
InDesign Pen drawing Watercolor Sketch Graphic Design
Video
Adobe Premiere
Model
Hand-made model Casting model Laser cut 3D print
Aug.-Nov. 2014
Internship at Design and Research Academy, Henan University of Technology, Henan, PRC
Investigated site, proposed concept, developed 3D model and drew the main plans for the new Library of Henan University. Collaborated to produce construction drawing for Staff Dormitory of Henan Institute of Engineering.
Content
I engage in concreting creative ideas by offering the rich and practical space. To obtain the maximum professional training, I explored architectural design with various forms and style, and unified them by ability to generate new typologies and wide design concerns.
Museum Design P01
Nuttallburg Material Culture Museum and Visitor Center
P20 30th Street Station West Underground Concourse
Museum Design P03
Smithsonian National Museum of Environmental Sociology
P21 Junior Achievement, the Greater Washington
High-rise Building Design P07
Follow the wind, Office Building Design
P22 Westfield Montgomery County Mall Extension
Residential building Design Custom Tailor
P12
Infrastructural Urbanism Design P16
Theoretic urban planning propose for Sao Paolo: Emergence
P23
Revit Modeling
UVa Architecture school Campbell Hall addition
P25
Parametric Design
P26
Drawings
01 Nuttallburg Material Culture Museum and Visitor Center Type Time Instructor Location
Individual work Museum Jan-May 2015 Luis Pancorbo & Edward Ford National Mall, Washington DC
This Material Culture Museum tries to deliver the appreciation to natural materials, meanwhile providing a nice research / restoration/ study environment for scholars and visitors. The staggered arch and triangular system make entire structure super stable while have a pleasant space rhythm. The triangular division make the building volume dissolved in to smaller pieces that proportionally merged into environment. By integrate the same treatment to the roof, the triangular system provides a series of valley spaces which introduce natural light and collect rain water spontaneously.
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Nuttallburg Material Culture Museum and Visitor Center Construction Process
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Land Modify
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Glass Panel- Wood Finishing
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Plan 1:1500
E 2 Column system
F 2 Flat Envelope
G 2 Staggered Envelope
H 2 Floor Slab
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Roof system
Roof Panel
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02 Smithsonian National Museum of Environmental Sociology Individual work Type Museum Time Sept.-Dec 2015 Instructor Shiqiao Li Location National Mall, Washington DC
This project is inspired by the complex dynamic relationship between human society and environment they relayed on. The emerging of civilization has been modified environment significantly, which give us both prosperous and disaster--I believe both direction were built up dynamically and worth memorizing. The abstract concepts of humans subjective behave, environment objective responds, and a retrospectively perspective are represented respectively by three different types of space--1) main exhibition volume, 2) exterior public ramp, and 3) in-between penetrate bridges. These three types of the space, just like the abstract relationship, are conflicting, interacting, and then combining--- just like the eco-tone that intrudes and compromises by two species that want to coexist. These 3 types of space display content in 3 catalogs and guided 3 major visiting circulation. Spatially, the main exhibition column emerges from the earth, the exterior public ramp merges into the ground, while the in-between bridges fade the edges between previous two -- intrude, avoid and meander, which create super rich layered experience for visitors. To support environment sustainability with the confidence in technique, the interior space are provided for 3D mapping and AR interactive exhibition, which achieve education goal vividly but save tons of exhibition material. Plus the digital visual arts can be updated efficiently and explains dynamic history seamlessly, which not only guarantee a good experience, but also inspire people to think.
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Smithsonian National Museum of Environmental Sociology
Installation:
When the top light is given, the two contradictory elements, natural waste and plastic trash, are switched via shape of shadow. This makes me think about the fixed scene can be inversed, and limited information can be multi-layered.
Massing exploring:
Eco-tone: (in-between space)
Progress:
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Smithsonian National Museum of Environmental Sociology Perspective Section: Three System:
Main Function:
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Plans and Section:
Smithsonian National Museum of Environmental Sociology
3D-Mapping provides technique support for dynamic exhibition.
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03 High-rise Building Design: Feel the Wind Focus on passive strategies and structure design
Individual work Type Office+Commercial Time Sept.-Dec. 2013 Instructor Lei Peng Location Wuhan, PRC I believe architecture design has its social responsibility to enhance the environment and enrich human spirit. The neighborhood exposes problems like traffic congestion, low commercial condition, short of parking area and lack of public space. I researched carefully and use my proposed solutions as guide line to design the building. Meanwhile I believe green is the future of architecture, and utilized a strong site condition -- windy weather to test a passive design creatively. Guided by the physical facts that hotter air is lighter and wind flows from the higher pressure area to the lower pressure area--an interior wind tunnel is designed to maximum natural ventilation. Referred to the drawings for this project, the rotated typical plans with atrium in each floor plus the opening on lowest and highest floors make the wind tunnel possible.
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site analysisďźš
Situation:
Elemet:
High-rise Building Design: Feel the Wind
Analysis:
Developmentďźš
Creat the volume of office tower
make the tower part of the main elevation of the main street.
Define entrance to the site
Location We are asked to design office tower and define the function of the skirt buildings.
propose the skirt building to be extention of the commercial environment.
Also 10 min away from some shopping center.
locate the tower on the focus point of the main street
Save south square (better sunshin and wind condition)for public space
tower
A pedestrian street is next to our site and commercial atmosphere is great.
Continue the sense of commercial street
Our site is 10 min away from large scale malls
Commercial
commercial street
main street JHD rd.
JH rd.
JHD rd. is the main street of Wuhan with heavy traffic flow. QJ rd.
Guide part of heavy traffic flow into our site to avoid crowd
crowd density in JH rd. varies according to different time
4th JH rd. Congective traffic because of unregulated street parking
Traffic
Vertical garage behind glass curtain wall become a strong advertasing sign of parking
minor road
Our site is encircled by three one-way traffic, which were originally aimed to manage traffic wisely. However, random parking makes things go into a worse condition.
Vertical parking and undergroud parking in site
Built on stilts partially for creating the inner road inner road / garage
Necessary work need to do to tackle this trouble.
Wind tunnel inside to provide best natural ventilation Shape the body to fluid shape to reduce the restrict of wind flow, while create rich commercial space
comfort area if enlarge usage of natural ventilation
Environment
comfort area Wuhan, located in the middle of China and departed by the Yangzi River, shows a strong feature of Subtropical monsoon climate. It is extremely hot and wet in summer. However, the strong wind can decrease the uncomfortable feeling efficiently.
wind influnce According to our experience and analysis of Ecotect, we know the best way to do some passive design is have a sufficient utilize of the natural ventilation.
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High-rise Building Design: Feel the Wind
Planďźš
Entrance stuff only
preparation room resturant office core traffic
parking
atrium
charge booth
service counter altolift(to 4~7th floor)
undergrang entrance
shop
Office tower
gallery
resting area entrance core traffic
Resturant
hall
resturant
toilet
Inner road
front desk duty room
autolift duty room entrance
2nd floor plan
3rd floor plan
staircase
offic tower entrance: Commerce
Commerce toilet staircase goods elevator
entrance to 2nd floor shop and its storage
shop shop and its storage
shop
2nd floor cast
gallery cast staircase/ elevator/toilet
escalator
shop
staircase toilet
shop
commercial street entrance:
square and main entrance
first floor plan
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High-rise Building Design: Feel the Wind Section： Wind Tunnel
Plan：
Structure：
Vertical traffic：
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23th floor plan (contains exit of wind)
24~25th floor plan (contains exit of wind)
frame-core wall structure
Core wall Office Commercial
26~27th floor plan (contains exit of wind)
Entrance&exit of wind Inner road Parking
core wall(shadow area)
antechamber staircase locker room office
service area
open-plan office
ventilation channel outdoor public space entrance of wind
8th floor plan (contains entrance of wind)
manager's office meeting room core wall(shadow area)
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04 Residential building design: Custom Tailor Individual work Type Residence Time Sept.-Nov. 2014 Instructor Hong Chen Location Enshi, PRC Combining the advantages from both traditional and modern residential buildings, I strive to find a logic to create sample units that can match clients’ various requirements, local landscape and culture characters. Since its flexible compound mode and good cooperation with mountainous regions, the project acts as prototype for this area, and can be widely spread and developed.
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Residential building design: Custom Tailor Background: Our site located in a Chinese mountainous area, where a lot of traditional buildings locate. On the one hand, people ask for the modern living condition, on the other hand, they are very connected to the old building. So make the combination of advantages abstracted from both contemporary and traditional ones can be a good strategy.
Traditional element: Group trait:
People enjoy sharing daily life in the public platform
Individual trait:
“Paijia�, one of the most common traditional structure, has great performance in both physics and aesthetics
Buildings here prefer to be built on stilts to prevent the negative effect given by wet weather
2 floor house here is the symbol of a satisfying house.
The gallery and the corridor act the important function of public space for each family.
Buildings are built according to the landforms.
Site Plan 1:1000
Development:
Unit area defined by actual demand
Abstract Traditional Frame
Contemporary:
Residential building: Traditional:
Create Volume
Enlarge Scale
Apply Frame according To terrain and customer requirement
High land utilization Absent communication Low land utilization Rich communication
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Residential building design: Custom Tailor Process:
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Residential building design: Custom Tailor
Individual house: Adjustable PV panel for natural light
Setting flower bed and steps to avoid view disturbing
Division wall
Sustainable strategy for maximize natural ventilation
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05 Infrastructural Urbanism Design: Emergence Individual work Type Theoretical urban design Time Sept.-Dec 2016 Instructor Robin Dripps Location Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sao Paulo now is in an intense process of urbanism, which faces problems like population explosion, environment pollution, and infrastructure deficiency. These situations are essentially caused by the infliction between private requirement and public distribution, which means the city resource supports can’t meet individual needs, physical or spiritual.
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When interfacing this situation, besides exploring more potential resource, how you are distributing and assessing resources is also significantly controlling portion of high-efficient infrastructure, quality social environment and self-sustaining system. In my scheme, I focused on redesigning the urban develop process and resources distribution system in different scales, while using energy infrastructures, agriculture infrastructure, mobility infrastructure, public space, housing and job opportunity as catalysts.
Invest infrastructure system at potential developing spots abandon private blocks, valuable public blocks, or black area.
Providing new construction platforms for housing transfer, enlarging the direct attach opportunity with RCs, enhancing the efficiency of getting resource.
Accumulate blocks vertically to enlarge their service range and public level aiming to supply more citizen’s requests.
The city’s topography is changed to a more balanced way, part of ground is released as the “free” niches, which have potential to tackle new programing reflecting the surroundings communities’ needs.
Integrate old structure and new program.
Stretch more paths to add the block’s accessibility.
More Resources Capitals are developed, which get efficient generation, distribution and reception involved in different industrials and the variation of programing. The inches unique physical and social identity.
Program also develop along the bridges between RCs to strengthen their connection and maximized the use for the bridge’s space. Eventually RC system’s may stop growth until it’s survive range and urban public survive range achieve a balance.
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Infrastructural Urbanism Design: Emergence Vertical circulation (each unit)
Floor connection path
Unit radiation path Community living space Community sharing space
Neighbored Scale
Building Scale
The neighbored (site) are arranged and occupied in RCs system. Main activities happen in RC towers while ground level is using for agriculture and connection with original city texture.
Single RC tower can be regard as a integrated self-supported system. It produces energy and food, provides living communities, and offers education institutions and other people’s spiritual requirement.
Community Scale
Community Working space (Aquaponic Lab)
Public pace spiral path
Communities are constructed with the integration strategies. Families are encouraged to share public space in living communities, which also a section of RC’s agriculture theme. Communities provided the unified working place like aquaponic lab.
Aquaponic Lab
People here have more job opportunities provided by community.
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Infrastructural Urbanism Design: Emergence Integrated energy industrial
Energy industrials process has potential and meaning to be integrated together. Because of the technique limitation, energy industrial emerged relatively individually, and usually has its own isolated produce process far away from people’s concern. Different energy industrials actually can have many similar facilities to share, “wasted” materials to utilize, and efficient schedule to cooperate.
Recycle station
Transfer station
Electricity power station
Generation: occupy site with agriculture production in different scale Make this Union Energy Hub functional
Sewage Treatment
Mixed agriculture-landscape filed
Main ground is planned as agricultural park, providing the public green scene via producing crop, soybean, sugarcane and other advantaged plantations.
Agriculture filed
When doing the filed plan for the agriculture, the site’s Pond Point photography can be developed to rain or drain collector, and connected various system like farm working and pedestrian/ bicycle path. Water is distributed and recycled by both spontaneous and artificial way.
City energy supply system
Mixed agriculture-landscape filed Community developed around it
Flood-resisting plantation
Redefine relationship
Develop vertically Core part for RCs
Integration
Utilize landscape condition
Develop work/walk path
Fill site with agriculture field
Match to community scale
Energy Union Hub works with mobility system and RC’s physical structure.
Mobility System Modification
Sub energy generator
Physical skeleton of Resources Capital
Energy distribution system
Public path between Community Units
Each Resources Capital has an Unified Energy Core starts new prototype for how infrastructure supports people’s daily energy requirements. In the same time, energy flow process could be detected and experienced, which adds more education meaning for community.
Keep main straightforward driving path for the car transportation. Provide new pedestrian/ bicycle paths on the ground and continually to the RCs. Set special track for possibility of fast movement between RCs or from ground to RCs.
Keep Main site road for vehicle
Create bicycle and walk path
Set Fast Track in site
Find shortest walk between region
Set comfortable walk region Locate existing / define new transpor(Region center is where RCs emer- tation spots gence)
Set branch track from Fast track to RCs
Establish more access between RC system and ground
Site Plan
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Infrastructural Urbanism Design: Emergence Job Opportunity as Community New industrials chains can provide a large amount daily job for different knowledge background; meanwhile the whole building ask for both intelligence and labor for operation and maintenance. Job places are easier to access, and the average commuting time reduces from over 2 hours to 15mins. Most important, people work together as communities, and get their identities and satisfaction while working and supporting the system.
System integration The transportation station has tight cooperation relationship with other programs like Agriculture vertical panels, the market, the mall, the library and also the fabric factories. Citizen can get evolve in the producing process, and have more idea how the resources flow while they enjoying their living here.
Agriculture Panel Transportation
Original factory switching: Fabric Factories
Informal library
Fast transportation Track
Transportation Factory Chain Shopping Mall
Education System Set education area and theme for each RC. The education institutions can be the formal education institution like elementary school, or informal skill training school like farming training. The education net and social activities develop based on fast commuting.
Agriculture Market
Transportation Knot The fast connection designs for both people and goods. The combination of agriculture market and transportation stop makes food distribution more transparent then before. People here can experience the process how food be grown, collected and distributed instead of grabbing them imply form grocery store.
Transportation station
Vertical farming panel
Agriculture Market
Fast Track for people
Fast Track for Food
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06 30th Street Station West Underground Concourse Client Type Location Time Supervisor
Amtrak Retail Philadelphia, PA July.2017-Nov.2017 Vaki Mawema
30th Street Station is a historical icon in Philadelphia. We wanted our design represented a modern life altitude and contrast with the station elegantly. The fluid shell shape and curvy still structure add a attractive layer to the city’s gate way. The retail pavilion where the major brand lands, companied with water stair case and sunken plaza, leading the traffic down to the underground level, where you can find more retail and small business that make commuters’ life easy. Besides, functionally by activating the abandoned tunnel and parking garage in between 30th Street Station and STAPE, our design successfully make people’s daily commute seamlessly and efficiently. Environmentally, our design bridge the landscape design on south plaza and the Drexel square(facing the west plaza of the station), and the sunken plaza we designed, guide people spontaneously walking down for exploring and resting. Our design also provides qualified outdoor space for citizens.
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07 Junior Achievement Greater Washington Client Type Location Time Supervisor
Junior Achievement Education, Interior Montgomery, MD Nov.2017-Jun.2018 Vaki Mawema
Junior Achievement aims to equip young adults a better finance understanding, and our site is the simulation town where the final practice happens. By leveled up the experience in this interactive town, we created a energetic space for young adults by replacing walls with modular wood frames, which varies at wideness and fluid at shape. These modules were regulated as Entry, Seating, Kiosk and Shelf, and they successfully add a layer of social/relaxing space to young adult. This project had its grand openning in Jun.2018 and has been put in use.
This project is open on Oct. 2018
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08 Westfield Montgomery County Mall Extension Client Type Location Time Supervisor
Westfield Retail Montgomery, MD Jan.2018-Jun.2018 Vaki Mawema
We were inspired by the historical Potomac environment and living style,and proposed series design to help the client to achieve a homey welcoming feeling for Westfield Montgomery Mall Extension. The extension requested the design of retail storefront, hotels, offices, residential, and parking garage, and we see a lot beautiful compositions. To visualizing the idea efficiently, we did a lot analysis about successful store front design, and researches about classic material. By doing so, we had mature design prototypes ready for testing design options and make decisions. By working with the clients, civil engineer, parking consultant, and landscape designer tightly, we figured a lot complex and meaningful problems and successfully delivered the entitlement.
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Revit Modeling Exercise: UVa Architecture school-Campbell Hall addition
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Designer: WG Clark
Ednund Schureman Campbell Professor of Architecture Campbell Hall addition provides significant academic space in UVa Architecture School. Its’ incredible well-done details and tight standard fascinate me a lot. I built up the Revit model from general building massing to customized details, according to existing CAD and in site measuring. It’s a great exercise for me to polish Revit skills systematically, re-understand building construction, and analyzing documentation.
2th Floor Axon Plan
Explode Axon
Axon from northeast
Type Revit modeling Time Oct.-Nov. 2016 Instructor Seth McDowell Location Charlottesville, VA
4th Floor Axon Plan
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Revit Modeling Exercise: Campbell Hall addition
405 interior rendering at daytime
Exterior rendering from southeast 405 interior rendering at night
Axon from northwest
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Parametric design practice Image sample: UVa symbol
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Sao Paulo Use this definition to understand the site of Studio project
Image Sampler
Meaningful for landscape analyzing / customized building or furniture facade
Random Step Generation
Simulating possible user pattern
Reference tutorial from: Daniel Christev
Set Pi(N)=1
U Force = 1000 (Units:mm) U Force = 2000
https://www.youtube.com/v=eE_c40GvRMI
U Force = 3000
Set Pi(N)=2
Set Pi(N)=3
Kangaroo-Tensile Structures
Weighted Elements Diagram Making date visualized and effectively understood
Set Equation to get/manipulate spiral curve
Set spiral surface via group of points (provide the base of anchor points)
Extract the middle group of sub mesh
Locate anchor points
Make anchor points at different height (provide hight for pavilion)
Simulate the tensile shape
Mimicking material’s performance under multiply load.
Parametric Facade Providing manufacture indication
Changing opening correspond to sun ray angle
Variate facade and do quick comparison
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Other works: Pencil and Pen Drawing
Albert Einstein
Portrait drawing Oct. 2016
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Instructor: Pam Black
Sitting woman
Figure drawing Nov. 2016 I
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Historical Architecture Restoration Design: OtherReborn works: of Pinghe PencilPacking and PenField Drawing
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