LUYI HUANG Pitzer College 2015- 2019
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CALL OF THE VOID DIS STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM, COPENHAGEN Aug - Sep 26, 2018
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COMMUNITY HOUSE DIS STUDY ABROAD PROGRAM, COPENHAGEN Sep - Oct 10, 2018
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TWILIGHT ZONE CAREER DISCOVERY, GSD Jun - Aug 2017
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RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIALS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS), POMONA COLLEGE Sep - Nov 2016
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GRAPHIC DESIGN ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR, INDESIGN, AFTEREFFECT Jan-May 2018
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SCULPTURE WOOD WORKING, PITZER COLLEGE Jan-May 2018
Call of The Void Project 1 DIS Study Abroad Program Aug 28 - Sep26, 2018 Established in the early 17th century, the King’s Garden is the oldest park in central Copenhagen, Denmark. This project comes as a proposal for the temporary pavilion competition happened every two years located within the park. The design intention rises from the rigid layout and traditional garden landscape of the park. The idea is to create a playful space yet maintain the rigorous structure echoes through the park. A combination of organic and regular shapes are taken into the design. A cuboid with curvy shape carved out forms a interative negative space. It provides a rigid structure looking from the outside, yet through each slice visitors are able to glimpse into the void.
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Community Center Project 2 DIS Study Abroad Program Aug 28 - Sep26, 2018 This site is located in a quiet residential street in central Copenhagen. Two of the surrounding buildings comes relatively different in terms of height and facade. On one side is a five-story apartment built in 1850 for middle class unmarried or widowed women. On the other side is a row of two stories height single-family house. One of the design challenges come as to how to incorporate the community house into existing buildings and more importantly, how to manage to fit into programs in a relatively small space. The design concept is initiated from floor plan diagrams where the ground floor is mandated to have a three meters wide fire exist but the total maximum width of the site is around 9 meters. Thereby limited programs were put on the ground floor. Circulation system was formed in an enclosed space which also serves a fire escape purposes. Tilted walls on the ground floor aim to lead the visitors into the building as well as to the courtyard.
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The neighborhood is mainly dominated by residential dwellings as well as local small business. Even though it is situated in the historical district of central Copenhagen with yellow row-houses nearby as a tourist attraction, the area remains quiet and away from major commercial activity. Public transportation is relatively accessible in Copenhagen central area, but the site is in distance to major bus and subway station which takes around 10-15 minutes by feet. Public green spaces are prevalent and adjacent to the site, which provides quality relaxation for the residents meanwhile lessen the needs for having green space within the community center.
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TWILIGHT ZONE Project 2 Career Discovery Program, GSD Jun - Aug 2017 Just a barrel, a dark depository where are kept the counterfeit, make-believe pieces of plaster and cloth, wrought in a distorted image of human life. But this added a hopeful note: perhaps they are unloved only for the moment. In the arms of children, there can be nothing but love. A clown, a tramp, a bagpipe player, a ballet dancer, and a Major. Tonight’s cast of players on the odd stage—known as—The Twilight Zone.
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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
Inspired and originated from the “Twelve Nights of Christine” episode in the British comedy series “Inside No.9”. The character of the narrative named Christine. And she found herself in this strange dimension where is the Portal X. As she walks through the stairs, each room represents a scene. And in these rooms, she met the 7 most important people in her life ( her husband, her kids, her parents, and her friends). Christine is not capable of physically sensing that she was walking up the stairs, for her it seems to be one minute ago she was still dating Adam (who is her husband) but then next moment she knows she already got married and they were packing up for the honeymoon trip. The longer time she stays in this dimension, the more confused she got. She started questioning whether she became delusional. By the time she got to the final room, It is Christmas, and Christine is having dinner with her beloves. She unwraps her present to find an album of photos from her life. She says that she feels as if her life is flashing before her eyes, and then suddenly she realized what is really happening. The reality laying here is that Christine is in a severe car accident, and when a person is going to die, chemicals released in her brain and she started having flashbacks of all the pressure moments in her life her life. Some people claimed that they saw God when they have a near-death experience. But for Christine, she saws her life.
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In this weirdly clam and emotional moment, her beloveds tell Christine, it is time for her to move on. And by the end, she comes to the Portal Y and this time, instead of entering a room or going outside of the construction, she reenters to a platform where she can see all the memory boxes of her life. Before she entered this individual separate room and now they are all unified and unwrap in front of her. That is the end of my story. But for Christine, her story goes on. Is she going to stay in a different dimension, is she going to be reborn or is she simply just vanish? These are the unknown and unforeseen of life where I transformed them into this dimension shaped by Christine’s memory.
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The circulation system is designed at the exterior space of this larger room. Walls are carved out to generate a narrow and condense stairs case creating an atmosphere of “ the end of the tunnel�. Stairs are connected to interior spaces which are all separated individual rooms. Those space represent the most important days in her life and in these days she encountered her beloves. Hence outside is a dimension where we might call it the reality and the inside is the unknown. Christine is constantly entering and exiting from two different dimensions. At the portal-y, instead of entering out space, the focus here is to reenter.
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DRAWINGS
Orientation One: Section
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Orientation Two: Section
Orientation Two: Plan
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RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS (GIS) Grace Stewart . Weronika Konwent Luyi Huang .Taylor Novick-Finder POMONA COLLEGE
“United States is entering the initial stages of an energy crisis. Coal, oil and natural gas reserves are rapidly being depleted at the same time that population growth is leading to greater energy consumption. Our nuclear power plants are aging, and while many new power plants are being proposed, a facility capable of generating ~3 GW (gigawatts) of power via nuclear technology requires roughly ten years to build at an estimated cost in excess of ten billion dollars. In addition, both coal/oil/natural gas and nuclear generation methods yield byproducts that are highly problematic.
Alternative approaches to power generation rely upon renewable sources of energy, either directly (e.g., photovoltaic) or indirectly (e.g., wind farms, hydroelectric). To put this into perspective, if the solar energy striking the Earth over ~40 minutes could be converted to a useable form it would match the level of current global energy consumption for a full year. What are those needs? The target of the proposed energy plan, looking ahead to the year 2050, is to meet ~70% of our nation’s electrical needs. Given current energy projections, we will need to generate ~3000 GW of power via some combination of renewable methods. If successful, by 2050 projected energy consumption would be reduced to 2.7 billion barrels of oil (it was 6.9 in 2007, expected to be 10.9 by 2050), 11.4 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (it was 22.2 in 2007, expected to be 35.4 by 2050), and 0.5 billion Wtons of coal (it was 1.2 in 2007, expected to be 1.9 by 2050); in addition, resulting CO2 emissions would drop to 2.3 billion tons, compared to 6.1 in 2007 and a projected level of 9.4 by 2050.”
For this project, we will focus on electricity generation using two proven and evolving methods: Wind and Solar.
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Wind Class Values (1-7) of the U.S
Solar and Wind Energy Potentials for contiguousi United States
“Implementation of an energy plan for the United States by 2050 that draws heavily upon solar generation alone has many things to recommend it. For example, rapid advances in photovoltaic cell production are yielding cheaper, more efficient units that will soon be capable of competing with coal and natural gas in terms of cost per Watt, and once the panels are built the technology requires very little cost to maintain and yields essentially no undesirable byproducts. Solar generation, however, also faces considerable hurdles. For instance, it is weather- and time dependent, indicating that a system for long-term storage and delivery of solar-derived energy will be required. One proposal involves use of the energy to store compressed air underground, with subsequent release of the air driving turbines in much the same way that a dam taps the energy from a river; others exist as well, and none are proven. In addition, efficient distribution of solar energy—generated better in some parts of the country than others—will require the use of DC rather than AC transmission lines, thus necessitating construction of a suitable new electrical infrastructure that can operate in parallel with or replace existing power lines.”
“Other forms of renewable energy, while facing their own challenges, are highly complementary to solar generation. Wind generation, for instance, operates well in areas that might not receive a lot of sunlight, or which are subject to different land use constraints, though several of the concerns noted above for solar generation (e.g., storage, transmission, cost) are equally applicable to the development of wind resources. In contrast, hydroelectric facilities developed extensively over the past half century in the US are less affected by some of these (i.e., storage isn’t a major issue since rivers flow at all hours) but they face issues of their own (lifetime constraint due to sedimentation, etc.), and there is little opportunity for further facilities development. Ideally, to offset their individual weaknesses, it is worth exploring how different approaches might be combined into a configuration that meets the future energy needs of the United States.”
Ranking Solar Panel Installation Fesibility
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Topography of United States
Ranking Solar Panel and Wind Turbine Installation Feasibility Land Use Classfication
Ranking Solar Panel and Wind Turbine Installation Feasibility Restriction of Natural Hazards
Topography and slope ranges play significant factors in determing the feasiblity of planting wind turbines in certain regions. Orange portion (1~2) represents the area of lands that have higher slope, which are less suitable for building wind turbine. Whereas dark blue (8~9) represents the flatter lands that are most suitable for wind turbine. Ranking Solar Pnel and Wind Turbine Installation Feasibility Distance to Power Lines
Tornado Touchdown Points
Hails Greater than 2 Inches
There is obviously going to be a significant financial burden associated with shifting to renewable energy. The first-order cost in terms of taxpayer subsidies, including construction of the necessary power support infrastructure, is estimated at ~$500 billion between now and 2050. To place this into perspective, consider that estimates (at the 5 yr mark) for the cost of the Iraq war ran around $560 billion. As a more useful comparison, proposed “carbon tax� approaches to funding the equipment and materials needed to reduce CO2 emissions at current coal-burning plants in the US alone would amount to an increase in the price of electricity by 1-2 cents per kW-hr, whereas ~$500 billion in funding could be acquired with a tax that translates to ~0.5 cents. In other words, funding implementation of the new technology could be cheaper (even ignoring all of the other benefits) than attempting to mitigate the damage done by existing technologies should we opt to keep them active at the necessary levels instead. Earthquake(Peak Ground Acceleration)
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GRAPHIC DESIGN Intermediate Digital Art, Scripps College Design Hub Architecture Firm, China Jan - Dec 2018
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MARCH 23 7PM-1AM Mounds. BroadCenter. ClockTower
ONE NIGHT ONLY MUSIC & ART FESTIVAL | PITZER COLLEGE IDENTITY BOARD | SPRING 2018
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PORTFOLIO COVER |DESIGN HUB
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SCULPTURE WOOD WORKING Jan 2018 - PRESENT
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THE ROCK WALL | PITZER COLLEGE | PLYWOOD, CARDBOARD
CASA Ontario is Pitzer College’s ‘Pitzer In Ontario’ Community Center where Pitzer operates an academic, community immersion program for Claremont College students to work on projects and research papers in collaboration with internship sites that range from healthy food access to public health equity to workers rights. In addition, CASA houses three local non-profits which are Huerta del Valle Community Garden, Riverside All of Us or None and Starting Over Inc., and the Youth Mentoring Action Network. The space is open to all of our community partners and organizations we work with in the Inland Empire where we host events such as information forums, meetings and focus groups, retreats, cultural performances, social justice organizing, movie nights, art workshops, and even theatrical performances. “The Rock Wall” is designed for Pitzer College community engagement office at Ontario. The space is located at the first floor of a residential building. The office has a long history and is an open space with few divisions. Some of the challenges the office faces are to provide privacy as well as soundproof mechanism. Our design aims to relatively mitigate the problems by creating a removable whiteboard wall with different heights of cardboard on the backside.
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Untitled School Project Red Cherry, Walnut Finger Joints & Slide-in Lid
Tape Dispenser School Project Plywood Finger Joints
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