PORTFOLIO MAINI KE
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Mountain Village
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Bibliotheque
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Ripple Pier
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Ultra Expedition
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Information Hub
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Professional 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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Ground Floor Plan
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Fourth Floor Plan
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Fifth Floor Plan
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Bibliotheque 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. 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. Continuous columns inside the cylinders allow force to be transferred downwards by tension and compression, holding up the whole building at the same time. Auditorium, meeting room, working labs and vertical circulation are housed inside the tubes while the open fields are filled with books and other kinds of information. On the ground floor, the tubes could be accessed individually, merging into the urban context. 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. The simplest intensions 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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Fifth Floor Plan
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Ripple Pier 2017 Fall Professor: Ilias Papageorgiou East River Park, NYC, NY
The initial concept is the meeting between two elements: the land of new hilly landscape and the water of the east river. The natural elements shape the project for a new playground and public museum. Sinuous and spontaneous lines are generated from the shape of water ripples. Multiple islands with different diameters and heights form a dynamic landscape that emerges and disappears with tides.
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The Ripple Pier project is the combination of the landscape that is formed by ripple shape ramps as well as the interior space below that is created by the ramps above. The rising and falling of the series of ripple shape ramps interact with water and register the level of water in different times and due to climate change. Besides from the educational museum below, the exterior landscape also becomes part of the educational program. The shapes of the three pavilions are differed by how the ramps fall and drop. The pavilion with half circular interior divisions is for education center, including classroom, workshop, lecture hall and offices. The second pavilion’s ramps above is going up and then reaching down to the courtyard in the middle, forming a circular interior space for gallery. The pavilion reaching out to the water has two loops of asymmetrical ramps creating a viewing deck and a gradual slope to interact with the water. The three pavilions meet at the different levels, linking all the ramps together to form a landscape that continues all over the site.
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Ultra Expedition 2017 Fall Professor: Ilias Papageorgiou Union Square, NYC, NY
The main purpose of the hinge designed is to create multiple connections between the hot spots on site and to provide different experience through different times of the day to meet the demands of circulation groups. The options created by changing the form of the structure not only performs spatial juxtapositions but also proposing an idea of creating different spatial experience related to speed of movement. The installation consists of four sections of ramp groups, all connected to be able to fold and unfold as one whole structure. By folding the ramp groups to different positions, multiple circulation paths are provided. The unfolded stage provides a long ramp from the bottom to the top, becoming the slowest way to go up to accommodate casual afternoon time when people tends to enjoy the activities in the park and beyond. After folded, the monumental ramp disappears and transforms into traditional scissor stair form to provide faster way to go up and down vertically during rush hour.
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Information Hub 2016 Spring Professor: Seth McDowell China Town, New York City
The Information Hub establishes new formats and spaces for design education and research. It re-imagines the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to books, but a dynamic space for communication and urban design. All forms of media are presented openly and flexibly with maximum accessibility for the public and the academic. The library space on the ramps is the heart of the project, linking upper design lab to the teachers’ offices, review space and lower public reading area. The stacks are accessible by a continuous ramp divided into stairs for seating and slopes for shelfing and circulation. Various types of furnitures are placed for reading and studio working. It becomes a playground for students to explore knowledge and a communication center for the academics and the general public to exchange ideas.
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Ground Floor
Second Floor
Two and Half Floor
Third Floor
Fifth Floor
Five and Half Floor
Seventh Floor
Eighth Floor
Operable Louvers
Four and Half Floor
Ninth Floor
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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
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Tencent Office Signage 2018 Summer OLI ARCHITECTURE PLLC Shanghai, China Co-worker: Hiroshi Okamoto, Xiaoyu Wang
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MAINI KE
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