STUDIO AIR GE YAN 692176
BIBLIOGRAPHY My name is Ge Yan, one of students in the University of Melbourne, majoring in architecture. As an international student, studying in the university, especially with architecture major, I was continually challenged, not only the language but essentially the high expectation from each subjects. At the first year, I considered architecture as a problem-solving method which have capacity to bring new ideas. Along with time, even I was totally exhausted with fihishing assignment, I realised I should put myself together and looking at it in a different way. Now I’m still on my way to find who I really am and what I want to achieve through studying in architecture. I’m trying to think differently and deeper, and and to put myself into a designer’s position. I am getting close to my real self and express my pure feelings and understanding through design.
PREVIOUS WORK
A.1.1 Design Futuring As is decribed by Fry, our human beings are sacrificing the future to sustain current life. Human centredness is regaeded as main problem leading to being unsustainable. And the diversity of design have the responsibility to work as one the world shaping forces. What is more, what the designer designed keep on designing in the future. That is, the design ethic was proposed, starting with changing our thinking, then what and how we design. That is how the architecture contributes to effect with its theory.
A.1.2 Lumen - Jenny Sabin Studio
The winner of MoMA PS1’s 2017 young architects program
The project has been designed to evolve, providing respite from the sun during the day, and emitting an ethereal glow after sundown. This is not what makes the project one that enables sustainability, it’s made of tubular structures in a lightweight knitted fabric, with a canopy of recycled, photo-luminescent, and solar active textiles that absorb, collect and deliver light. The fabric also host a misting system to cool off visitors taking refuge from the sun. It will serve as a temporary urban landscape for MoMA’s outdoor music series.
A.1.2 Glow - Prof. David Mainwaring & Leanne Zilka Installed by RMIT master student Leanne Zilka. The researchers improved longlife phosphorescent glow material so that there is now a persistent visible afterglow that lasts many hours after light exposure. The extended afterglow means new opportunities have emerged to reduce energy use in lighting public spaces, in architecture and in the arts. The use of knitting machine and nylon into fabric tube to improve the long-life afterglow. The tubes can then be installed in various arrangements in cities. Along with this project, the designer is passing a message of renewal and sustainability.