MAINI KE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO 2017-2020
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Mountain Village
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Ultimate Cookware
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Rooms of Rooms
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Information Hub
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Greenpoint Community Theatre
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Other Works
Mountain Village 2018 Fall Professor: Ilias Papageorgiou Project Partner: Chenyan Zhou Bronx, NYC
The Mountain Village aims to provide a sustainable housing environment by creating maximum efficiency in terms of living area, energy using and urban synthesis. By
breaking conventional horizontal layout of units, the shifting movement of the rooms enables vertical connection and spatial continuity.
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We minimize the necessary unit area but maintain useful program space at the same time so that we could provide housing for more than seven hundred people in three hundred units. The project reduces carbon footprint and leaves the remaining space for courtyards that enhance the living condition. With the shifting units, each bar is thin enough for residents to experience courtyards on both sides. The connected and sloping roof is not only a gesture to merge the extensive building volume into the urban context, but also a sustainable landscape that collects rain water and absorb solar energy to serve the whole complex. The roof also becomes an additional space for community activities such as gardening and outdoor exercising. Twelve courtyards with different spatial experience serves as common sharing space for the residents. The pixelated landscape uses the rain
water collected from the roof and also serves as steps between courtyards with different elevations according to the site topography.
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The series of diagrams show the process of creating the massing of the complex. The shape of massing is developed directly according to the practical requirements such as program areas, sufficient sunlight, circulation efficiency , and relationship to the urban context. 6
The concept of connection happens in many different scales. On the ground level, the courtyards are accessible through openings on the bars of rooms. Vertical circulation cores are located at the crossing points of the bars so that the residents could commute to their room from the street very quickly. With different unit types surrounding each courtyard, the design of the landscape inside also differs: intimate and reachable for the studios; dynamic and public for the two-bedrooms; private and appealing for the four-bedrooms.
Ground Floor Plan 7
Fourth Floor Plan The bars of rooms are designed to be as thin as possible to allow maximum transparency for sunlight and views. In all rooms, residents would be able to experience the courtyards on both sides. On the southern parts where courtyards are designed to be more public, circulation corridors are located facing the courtyards. On the northern parts where courtyards are designed to be more private and only for views, rooms are located facing the courtyards.
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Fifth Floor Plan With the single loaded arrangement and the vertical circulation cores on the crossing points, the circulation inside this huge complex becomes easy and efficient. The roof top could be accessed on all levels. The other way of reaching the rooms is meandering up the roof slopes and enjoying the view of the city. Around each courtyard, there is at least one public room as communication and learning space.
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North South Section
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The arrangement of shifting and stacking the two bedrooms allows for privacy between the residents as well as a sense of connection. The shifting move makes the whole unit a continuous space with visual connection in all parts.
The individual rooms with different functions are added with different variations. The possibility of diverse lifestyle emerges. The thin slab also allow for introducing as much exterior space as possible.
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Each studio unit is an independent one-room unit stacking on top of each other. Public lounge space including kitchen is attached to two studio units on the side. Stairs that linked studio units and the public lounge are open to the courtyard outside.
Two bedroom unit has similar arrangement of the studio unit, while the stairs that linked the bedrooms and the shared living room is located inside the unit. With the channel glass on the side of stairs facing the corridor, the dynamic vertical movement could be shown outside.
Four bedroom unit requires more shared space with the increasing number of residents. It is consists of six rooms with the same shifting and stacking concept. Besides the living room, there is also a study room below.
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Process Section Model
Model Showing the Whole Complex 14
Model Showing the Courtyards
Model Showing the Accessible Roof Top 15
Ultimate Cookware 2019 Fall Professor: Jimenez Lai, Miku Dixit Project Partner: Yan Wang Cheyenne, Wyoming
By rethinking the social normality of cooking and dining in the contemporary culture, the project aims to establish a new typology for dining both spatially and socially. Through analyzing the culture of dining and the process of cooking, the building turns the traditional “back of house” to “the front of house” to establish a new dynamic between food production and consumption. Spatially, the architecture is the ultimate cookware. Cookwares for ingredients are translated into space for inhabitants. Key factors for food making processes such as heat,air, and water also perform as distinct spatial qualities. Socially, the building functions as an active social condenser. Customers are no longer passive consumers with detached dining experience but active participants of the whole process from food production to consumption. Community engagements are strengthened through traceability of ingredients and the new dynamic of social interaction. The building is the threshold for dining and cooking.
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Four types of cooking elements determine the form of the cooking space, some resemble the shape of the cookware.
By embedding programs such as farming and food processing, the building is exposing every steps in the food production chain.
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The research of dining starts with precedent studies of different ways of eating in the contemporary world, including fine dining, casual dining, buffet, family style, food truck, cafe, hunting, and online ordering, etc.
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By abstracting three types of relations: people to food; people to kitchen and people to people, a new dining modality is produced . In the new modality, the building aims to turn kitchen which traditionally has been the back of the house to the front of house which creates an ambient environment for both cooking and eating.
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The cooking instruments of the building are built upon the study of ingredient flows. The research of ingredient is developed upon the site visit to the Metropolitan restaurant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Based on the kitchen layout of the Metropolitan restaurant, recipes of different dishes are spatialized through staging and time intervals. The bubbles that content the ingredients and cooking moves represent the space of cooking including storage, preparation kitchen, cold kitchen, hot kitchen, the kitchen of four elements and pantry space. The size of the bubbles are scaled to the area of each cooking space.
Process Section Study
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Fourth Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
The active consumers enter the building from the top floor. By going down the arranged spaces, they would experience the different kitchens according to the study of food production process. The furnitures for dining are attached to the kitchen spaces to form an ambient environment that combines the process of making and consuming the food. Thus the actual cooking process become the main drive for spatial design.
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The roof is accessible through multiple thresholds on different levels. It acts as the continuation of the landscape around. The kitchens of four elements with distinct forms penetrated the roof.
The oven and the steamer radiates the heat into the dining area around while the dark cellar and the wind tunnel has low temperature.
The wind tunnel and the fire place in the oven are the most dry places while the dark cellar, the steamer and the green house are humid.
The building works as a machine embedded in the landscape, interacting with the natural elements in the surrounding. There are two main sustainable systems. The first one is the water system. The water from the lake is heated up by the oven and then used for the steamer. With the remaining temperature, the water is then transferred under the floors of all levels to provide additional heating for the rooms. The water is finally circled back to the run-around heat recovery system to give some temperature to the lake water. The second system incorporated the plants and animals that consume the land. The food sources from the local site is processed and transformed to consumable dishes. The butchering industry in the surrounding city is also added into the system.
Combing the temperature and the humid diagrams, we could find a spectrum of spaces with different qualities. 22
Overall, the ultimate cookware is actively engaged with the site.
Roof Plan
Sustainable Systems Diagram
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Interior Views
The interior environment of the ambient kitchens have very distinct qualities. The dark cellar for vegetable curing is enclosed and intimate. The area between the oven and the outdoor pocket garden is tropical like. The area between the steamer and the wind tunnel is filled with the steam and furnished with wood material. The area between the oven and the steamer is industrial like with exposed mechanical system. Looking from the other side of the lake, the ultimate cookware emerges from the landscape slope and acts like an active machine. Exterior View
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Building Model
Building Model
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Rooms of Rooms 2019 Spring Professor: Phu Hoang Newburgh, NY
To challenge the traditional physical boundaries that limit programs and activities, a new type of spatial arrangement that creates a field of rooms within rooms is adopted for the future art school. The system of folding and curving at the corner that connects four spaces enables the learning spaces to be incremental and adaptable so that over time in the future when vehicles become obsolete, the parking deck could be gradually taken up by learning spaces. By creating diagonal, horizontal and vertical visual and spatial connections, different learning experience could happen in designated spaces. Thus space becomes the third teacher. It not only encourages encounters, communications, and relationships, but also mirrors the ideas, values, attitudes and cultures of those who use the space.
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Urban Study
Renovation Typology Study
The city Newburgh is full of local artists. In the government’s long-term planning, art is considered as the main focus to attract tourism for the Newburgh city. Right now, the studios and museums are concentrated in the downtown area. However, the airport has the potential to become a new art center for both artists and buyers. With the location next to the airport, it would be convenient for large art pieces to be transported and for the buyers and curators from New York City to visit. 27
Site Analysis
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Existing Park Lot Analysis
Parking Deck Transformed into Art School
The simple move of folding the corners of two facing walls gives the rooms with enfilade layout a new diagonal circulation. With the original structural grid created by the parking spot, the enfilade rooms are able to merge into bigger space for classrooms of different sizes.
North South Section
Process Study Model
Basic Room Plan Module
Circulation and Visual Connection Building Plan Diagram
Vertical Circulation Core
Central Courtyard
Small Lightwell
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Ground Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
The plans are showing both the past and the future. After the parking lot become demolished, the two ramps for cars are taken out and turn into two courtyards. The visitors and artists are circulated vertically through the stairs on the North and South facade. The art goods are transported through the large elevators and the diagonal corridors.
Diagonal Corridor
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Art Studio
Art Studio
Art Classroom
East West Section
The diagonal corridor not only connects all the art studios and lecture halls, but also links the vertical circulation cores on the facade. Moving through the corridor, the visitors could peak into the studios to see the works. The diagonal corridors also serve as an exhibition space for the artists to display their recent works.
Cut Out Axon
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Information Hub 2018 Spring Professor: Emmett Zeifman Brooklyn, New York City It is urgent now, in new era of technology, to re-imagine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to books, but a dynamic space for communication. All formats of media are presented openly and flexibly with maximum accessibility for public and academic. The simplest intentions of focusing on the cylinders and open field in between allows for a poetic and visually intriguing design as well as a complex system of activities.
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Third Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
Building Elements
WORKROOMS/LABS 4000
OPEN SPACE 3480
AUDITORIUM 2000
COMMUNITY ROOM 2000
CAFE 1000
BATHROOM 800
STAFF LOUNGE 400
Process Models
OPEN READING/WORK AREAS 7000
LIBRARIAN OFFICES 1000 LOBBY/ENTRY 1500
MECHANICAL/STRUCTURE/ VERTICAL CIRCULATION 4000 STORAGE 1000
STACKS&COLLECTIONS 6000
BATHROOM 800
LOADING/DELIVERY 1500
CIRCULATION DESK 500
The concept derives from the study of the program requirements. By visualizing the relationship between functions and their sizes, the idea of using circle as a form for maximum freedom and interaction emerges.
Program Study
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Ground Floor Plan
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Exterior View
On the ground floor, the tubes could be accessed individually, providing more public space on the street. The public is led into a continuation of the surrounding city. The faรงade which follows the tapered shape of the cylinder, wraps around to create a solid skin, leaving space for skylight to come in and out. The opaque faรงade contrasts with the transparent tubes inside. The building might hide from the city, but has maximum openness within.
By tapering, stacking and shifting series of cylinders, diverse programs could be housed inside while setting free the open field in between for interaction of information and knowledge.
Massing Diagram
North South Section
East West Section
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Interior Views
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Structure Diagram
Program Inside Tubes
Continuous columns inside the tubes allow force to be transferred downwards by tension and compression, holding up the whole building at the same time. The tubes free the rest of space from columns so that there is maximum flexibility with furniture arrangement to create different study environments. Auditorium, meeting rooms, working labs and vertical circulation are housed inside the tubes while the open fields are filled with books and other kinds of information. 39
GREENPOINT COMMUNITY THEATER 2018 Fall Team Members: Zhibin Li, Haoming Li, Julia Giele Critic: Joe Hand, Aaron Campbell, Oliver Meade, Ashley Reed Brooklyn, New York City
Concept Diagram
Second Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
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North South Section
HVAC Risers in Section
Typical Detail
Structure Diagram
FOH/BOH Wall Sections
Facade Detail
Exterior View
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ZhangYuan Renovation 2019 Summer Kengo Kuma and Associates Shanghai, China Co-worker: Jiahua Li, Mengxian Bao, Ruben Arana, Xiaoshan Huang
YiXing Purple Clay Museum 2019 Summer Kengo Kuma and Associates YiXing, China Co-worker: Mengxian Bao, Xiaoshan Huang
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Miyajima Ferry Terminal 2016 Summer Atelier and I, Sakamoto Kazunari Miyajima, Japan Co-worker: Yasuhiro Kuno, Takeshi Odaki, Daisuke Tanuma, Tetsuro Toida, Ayaka Hiwatari
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AnjiPlay Kindergarten and International Childcare Centre 2018 Summer OLI ARCHITECTURE PLLC Anji, Huzhou, China Co-worker: Hiroshi Okamoto, Mahnaz Maroufi, Yuichi Tada, Yuan Chen, Yilin Chu
Tencent Office Signage 2018 Summer OLI ARCHITECTURE PLLC Shanghai, China Co-worker: Hiroshi Okamoto, Xiaoyu Wang
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Transitional Geometry 2018 Spring Professor: Trevor Watson GSAPP, Columbia
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