The Environmental Ground of A-Monumentality of Architecture

Work In Progress

2021 Fall; Final Project Research; Fifth Year; Professor: Chris Perry; Individual Work;

This project is the work-in-progress version of the Final Project, which summaries my entire undergraduate interdisciplinary studies among architecture, humanity, arts, and nature.

Starting with Anthony Vidler's article "Shifting Ground", discussing Peter Eisenman's idea of the ambiguity of Monumentality, this project continues this idea through a contemporary lens that relates new questions, issues, and challenges, namely, the environmental crisis of the 21st-century and architecture's relationship to it, criticizing the beautiful world we are fearlessly enjoying, in particular, the relentless reliance on the HVAC system and the harms to Nature. This project utilizes architecture as a social medium to critically talk to the architectural history, contemporary issues, and the future, not only for architecture but for the human species.

Components

Monumentality of Architecture I

Doric Order

The monumentality of architecture shows the power and spiritual quality in the essence of architecture since ancient times.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Technological Building in disguise of Traditional Monumentality of Architecture

Reliance of Building Technology II

HVAC System

People devastatingly rely on building technology, especially the HVAC system nowdays, depending on the machines regardlessly

Nature III

Forest, Mountain, Lake

Real nature is being isolated from human interactions, peaceful and full of dangerousness.

Central Park

Artificial Nature in veil of Real Nature

CITATION

All images are reserved to the original authors. https://www.iucn.org/news/water/202003/nature-based-solutions-water-infrastructure-your-service https://abc7ny.com/nyc-homecoming-week-concerts-mega-concert-central-park/10903476/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/why-keeping-ourselves-cool-doesnt-have-to-mean-heating-the-planet/ https://www.grainger.com/know-how/industry/commercial/kh-eight-ways-to-conserve-energy-by-improving-hvac-efficiency https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/solving-climate-change-nature/ https://study.com/academy/lesson/greek-doric-order-of-architecture-definition-example-buildings-columns.html https://www.exploringbuildinghistory.co.uk/greek-temples-the-18th-c-grand-tour-learning-about-the-doric-order/ https://www.nycgo.com/museums-galleries/the-met-fifth-avenue/ https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/greenhouse-effect/ https://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:Current_Environmental_Issues

Concept Collage "Grid The World"

We live inside an ultimate 3d grid world, with everything being placed within a standard grid, providing energy. You won’t feel the grid visually or distinctly, but your body is built within the grid already.

Derived Environmental Issue

Contaminant and Global Warming IV

HVAC system produces a massive amount of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, which put many species in danger

Site selection: Central Park, NYC Synthesize

The monumentality of architecture is rendered ambiguously among the interrelationship of the four basic components, rethinking monumentality as an icon of the era, introspecting, and warning the human species.

This "building" works as a blurred body of the artificial and natural, the built and the environment, the machine and live creature, talking to the human species in alternative viewpoints, and reversing the positions from the dominators to the visitors.

To be continued in Spring 2022...

Montage Space - Germination

SoA Archive Project; 2019 Spring; Architectural Design Studio 2; First Year; Instructor: Ryosuke Imaeda; Individual Work;

Inspired by Jiro Ono's hand movements of making sushi and the rolling rehabilitation balls. The two specific motions all reveal the different kinds of germination, one from the outside in, the other from the inside out. By inspecting the two versions of germination, I defined the space that is growing in spiral, creating a series of montage space that have different heights, where no door is being placed as parititon but the different levels. The imaginary owner of the space is a couple, they repect each other's personal spaces while living as a whole. Embraing the defects and loving as always.

Active Rotation

The motion of making a sushi.

Passive Rotation

The motion of being inside a rotating

The montage collage turns into a 3D geometric projection drawing, different compartments represent different heights and possible functions. The montage drawing works as a emotional figure, which compose the future montage shape generation in the brain.

Montage Carves Geometry

The individual space creation analysis of the montage space.

Montage Composition

This series of diagram shows the geometric transformation step by step.

Montage Material Selections

The contrast of the soft motion of making sushi and being rotated inside a metal rehabilitation ball drives the materialization of the model. In light of the montage materials, transparency and translucency are achieved by ink injected melted soap and light color staking model of the large bubbles, which could turn into apertures and curved walls. The dark color and rocky textures cuddle the bubbles in an upward swirl motion, distinctive but inclusive.

Model Production site: foam core milling, white paint, sand, spray glue.

Tech-Urban Rewrite

Tsinghua University Architecture Parametric Workshop; 2019 Summer; Second Year;

Professor: Casey Rhem;

Technical Team: Yuxuan Liu, Haoyu Liu; All works presented are individual works;

I was exploring the design possibility of technology and tried to see how it could be related to humanities and urbanization. Thus I participated in the parametric workshop that explored artificial intelligence use in the architectural field, learning the technical knowledge. Using the language of the machine to try to tell a story of people and the world, defining the intrinsic rules of the urbanization process, this project investigates the capability of artificial intelligence utilization in architectural areas, with the use of pix2pix GAN and Python.

Urban Emotions

From the basic structure, urban emotions are givien by applying urban textures.The entire process treats the results as a cyber punk city that could camouflage with different textures in different times. The new city is a dynamic, portable self serving city, and the new portable city shifts its appearance without changing the sturcture.

Shinsaibashi-no-Kanji 心斎橋 の 感じ (The Feeling of Shisaibashi)

The city night mode is using the views of Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan to generate the cyberpunk environment, endowing a mood of excitement and digital prosperity during normal nights, providing leisure in the after work times, especially for the people in Japan who has high work pressures. The city in day time is totally different from the city in nights.

Universal Map

The universal map gives out the horizontal and vertical plans of the basic structure in all urban moods.

Military Base

The military base mode is using the regenerated picture of the desert, camouflage tents, and countryside housing to generate the urban emotions of military camps and the storage of military equipment when the new portable city is in need.

Recombinant Configuration

Honor Award; SoA Archive Project; 2020 Spring; Architectural Design Studio 4; Second Year; Professor: Zbigniew Oksiuta; Teamed with Emmy Chen;

Concept: Lin; Renders: Lin; Drawings: 30% Chen; All works presented are individual works;

This is a 2 person group project: a housing + library project for 50~60 units of residents located in Troy. This project discusses the utilization and the social meaning of public space in a residential houses. In this project, architectural movements are considered as the action of the city, which could alter the living habbit of the people livinng nearby positively. The shape is only given by the existing environment rather than a noval shape. Through this recombinant configuration, the city would be held up more tightly, and functioning better. The Recombinant Configuration acts as a verb for the city, and for the people.

The Video:

Urban Expansion of Troy

In the recent 35 years, Troy has been through rapid economic revitalization and urban expasion, Building density and landuse are at the apex.

Urban Fabric Studies

The urban structure of this area shows a distinct grid planning pattern, which is unbalanced in the contemporary use of extra traffic and housing. At the mean time, the opaqueness of building set up a "wall" for Troy, hindering people's eyesights.

Input the basic bars shape that follows the original arrangement of the city

From the bottom to the top, gradually rotating the basic massing toward the angle that parallel to Hudson River.

Urban Integration Studies

In light of "Space Syntax", this map visualizes the integration level of downtown Troy. The site is at a special moment that connects several essential elements of Troy: main road Broadway, Monument Square, unused City Park, Farmer’s Market, and the Hudson River. This project aims to use the architectural morphogenetic form as an urban rheostat that links this these moments as urban resistances and make the circuit of Troy more unobstructed, in other words, to be the recombinant configuration of the city

Enlarge the base of the building to meet the program volume requirements.

Boolean the massing along the angle of the main road, Broadway. Relinking the Monument Square and the Hudson River.

This void prolongs the Farmer's Market next to the building, and punches the path from river street to the city park along the riverside, adding more economic value for the market and promoting the use of the city park.

Adding the other footing for the building that balance the weight, and touching the River with the program of community library.

River Street Views

From the both sides of the River Street, the smooth "twist" of the project transmit the signal of the River to the people walking in the city, attracting them to the turning point of city, having the special feeling in an urban context.

Monument Square View

The building creates a gap of the city that links the city to the hudson river, and a frame for visitors on the monument square as well as people on the hudson river, nevertheless, it presents as a door, or an opening for Troy, to accept new era while preserving its history treasures.