PORTFOLIO YUHENG OUYANG
01. INFLATING PATHFINDER Creating space from obstacles
Walls define space. Closed walls define a certain space, but when there is an opening, the space behind the wall is also indicated. Motivated by “something behind the wall�, the project tried to discover the relationship between spaces and obstacles, and finally through a generation strategy based on obstacles, to build a pavilion serving different purposes.
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The first study was based on Esherick House, Fisher House and a transformative modeling from the Esherick House to a gothic cathedral. Focusing on “something behind the wall�, the spaces that tend to inflate beyond the wall were mapped using progressive lines.
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The subsequent material study with foam and paper reproduced how space inflates beyond obstacles. A comparison between the reach of eyesight and that of foam reveals the spaces that cannot be seen but can be reached by foam. Such spaces are wanted when creating a pavilion where both circulation and privacy are needed.
Using same strategy that was tested in the material study, the pavilion was generated up and down through the forest of obstacles – the scattered walls of Esherick House.
Center open space The glossy shell structure stands surrounding the sharp, shining tree trunks, creating an open, bright and dramatic space for people-gathering activities, such as celebration or party.
Intermediate circulation space
Inner enclosed space
Inside the shell structure, people sit, walk, talk and eat in the circulation space. The soft, warm shell and carefully opened windows make the space comfortable like home.activities, such as celebration or party.
In the midst of the shell, there are specially protected spaces that are totally insulated from external light. With the glowing light from the tree roots, people enjoy the precious serenity.
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Corridor Meditation Room
Upper Meditation Lobby Room
Restaurant Meditation Room
02. VEIN / PETAL Visualizing tension
The flowing current from anode to cathode are freezed as petals. By arranging the generative points, petals begin to have hierarchy. Growed as cantilevers, the sheer petals call the support of ground. Inspired by the tensile of water between two objects, the vein of petals are extracted from the surface to space, touching ground and supporting the petals.
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Void Volumn Tracing + Volumn Tracing
Volumn Tracing
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Removing a plastic membrane quickly causes water under it to shrink. The process of shrinking reveals the tension between water and the plastic membrane, and also the tension in water themselves.
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Tracing the process of water shrinking, the result is shown in interconnecting lines that resembles a tree structure.
Given vertical tensions, the planar structure begin to have spatial qualities.
Algorism simulating the shrinking process of water is tested. From scattered water drops, the tension within them grasps them together, forming larger water ponds. The dynamic mapping of their behavior also implied spatial potentials that will be tested later.
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03. PEEL / WEAVE Augmented Edge
The project is interested in the edge conditions of city and water. Using the strategy of peeling, the edge is transferred from the liner state to a woven relationship. The boundary of water and land is blurred and the existing hierarchies are disrupted, and the intermediate space begin to have programmatic potentials. (Studio in progress)
CA = Changing Area CF = Café CS = Concessions DP = Olympic Diving Pool GD = Garden GL = Galleries IS = Ice Skating LB = Lobby PK = Parking PL = Pool RS = Restaurants RT = Retail SP = Spa TH = Theaters
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04. TIMEOUT
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Fig. 1 / Animal Anatomy 1. Ears 2. Skull 3. Upper Right Foreleg 4. Lower Left Foreleg 5. Flank
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A member of the biological canine family, this particular breed has evolved over time due to overexposure of toxicity and abuse. Less agile than their domestic counterparts, they do not possess the mobility to hunt for sustenance, and instead thrive on readily available nourishment such as PVC, foam, and polyester. The body forms range in size, from twelve to fifteen inches in height, and six to eight inches in width, with the most noticeable variations in the size of their cranium, and the mobility of their legs. It is unknown how much longer this species will thrive before becoming extinct.
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Due to stresses of their environment, these relatives of sea-dwelling turtle (Testudines family) no longer occupy their nature-given place comfortably, and spend their days roaming the earth’s surface in search of food. Their diet solely consists of coffee beans and gummy bears. Where they once had a protective shell to fend off enemies, the shell on this breed is warped and deformed. Despite their malformations, they are considered social creatures, and are often found with various members of the Animal Kingdom who use the turtle’s stability and size to their own benefit.
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Material exploration, evolutionary process, and a forced dichotomy between the playful and the grotesque define Timeout. Abstracted components, resembling animals in motion, are born from an emphasis on the transformative properties of soft membranes and rigidized fillings. Each component aggregates in a manner to encourage individual animation, while generating an overall mass that is both static and dynamic. The resultant form is one which exists between the boundary of reality and one’s imagination, while a purposefully vague narrative creates an ambiguity of space that is simultaneously smothering and exciting, playful and dark. The extent to with which one experiences either extreme is unique to each visitor and dependent upon their own associations. As a group project, my work includes the entire 3D model and all the renderings. I also contributed to idea generation and phisical model making.
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From a strain of genus Delphinus, more commonly known as the dolphin, this species is a rare hybridization between dolphins and manta rays. Although the mating behavior has never been observed, the distinct features of both animals are readily apparent in this creature. They have a restricted diet of cinnamon Altoids and deep-fried calamari, and although outside of their natural habitat, their movements remain consistent with the water-locked breed. They are often witnessed leaping through the air, seemingly defiant of gravity.
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STRING Leftover String from where items, seamingly drugs, had been hung from trees SHELTER Makeshift structure in a state of decay made from tree branches, construction fencing and woven foliage BURNED BOTTLE Hanging from a trees between sets of flags, these appeared to be left deliberately, hidden in plain site via the coding of hte ribbons
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As a living monument, the project’s programming is constantly shifting. The patterns of habitation and drug use led us to consider how a monument could engage such a debate in a prodcutive manner. Our research led us to the experimental and progressive implementation of safe injection sites for addicts of drugs like heroin. Centers like these have proven effective in reducing both drug use and the spread of needle-borne diseases, specifically HIV, however they’re existence is still controversial.
We propose a center like this as a provacation to both the legal system and the public to consider productive conversation for one Philadelphia’s most unknown problems. This program, represents and modern day use of the site as a monument to the urban invisible. Other potential programming could include Alcoholics Anonymous centers, Community center for homeless teens, and Education and training for the homeless population
“WHILE MONUMENTS AND COUNTERMONUMENTS COMMEMORATE ONE EVENT, THE LIVING MONUMENT IS NO LONGER ABOUT THE SPECTACLE OF NOSTALGIA FOR ONE TIME OR PLACE – INSTEAD, IT REPRESENTS A TERRITORY OF MULTIPLICITY.” -lexicon for the provisional future(s)
Our project proposes the site as a continuous living monument to the urban invisible. The site has a dynamic history as the battleground of prescient issues in Philadelphia and in the larger social fabric, dating back the mediation of the native americans and the colonialists, all the way to the present day in which gentrification urges a confrontation between socially privileged and oppressed. Rather than freeze this productive process of mediation and confrontation with static forms, our monument seeks to perpetuate this dynamism with an ever-changing platform to amplify these issues and to provoke social change by making visible the debates which inevitably favor the monied and the privileged. As The regularized grid of the city meets the flowing fluctuations of the Delaware River, our site becomes a dissolved border – a series of hybrid conditions neither of one world nor the other. Our project changes with the flows of its surroundings. Daily changes of the Delaware’s tides transform the site, weaving water into pools and canals. Philadelphia’s social cycles
transform the architecture and the program of the site, embracing the voiceless and provoking new understandings. The seasons change and with them, our monument. The landscape and architecture transform, embracing the open air in the summer seasons, celebrating the water and the vibrant ecosystems of the Delaware riverbank. In the winter, our site becomes a place of refuge, warmth and of meditation. We seek to engage an invisible urbanism, one which "brings together interdisciplinary thinkers to speculate on the biological, virtual, and moral tools at our deploy in confronting the post-industrial landscape, and designing for resiliency in an ecologically destabilized future." As a Living Monumnet, our proposal reconsiders the appropriateness of a static monument in a time and place where dynamism, both physical and social, is not only necessary, but also an existing feature of the site.
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RIBBONS Tied to trees indicating a field containing something important. We found burned bottles with a white substance or severed strings hanging from branches
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A new type of Monument: one which acknowledges and addresses continual HISTORICAL MOUNMENT change, one which doesn’t seek to simplify place or time but engages in the complexity of place and of continual change, that celebrates culture by provoking discourse and progress. This establishes a performative monument
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FIREPIT Used recently for cooking, warmth. Still containing black ashes
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examining the historical context as it pertains to the present day, we see the neighborhood of fishtown grappling with the continous clashing of cultures. Just as Penn and the Indians were forced to confront their differences and find peace, so too does this site now seek to common ground for discourse. Throughout time the site has mediating Land and Sea, City and Nature, Rich and Poor, Native and Colonial. This realization led us to understand that this site has always been a place of productive and necessary confrontation
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STRING Used to secure burned bottles, signs, and other markers
Research into the site’s significance led us to several apocryphal stories and contradictions. The site has hosted parks, industry, endured the shifting of the river’s geography and the shifting of industry and economy. The site has grappled with environmental changes and challenges as they cycle both daily and accross eras: the site is in a constant state of flux
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Our landing on the site provided a rich bank of observations and inspirations. Most notable to us were the evidences of human habitation, and, significantly, a deliberate coding on the site with apparent relations to its inhabitants cycles of drug abuse. These patterns were significant for their unique patterns according to the site’s geography, both legal and physical boundaries. We understood the site as a place of of simultaneous refuge and dispair, further reinforced by the casino expansion along the sanctuary-like cove on the delaware river. the site is unique for its existing codes of habitation.
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SITE FINDINGS
Graphic Design
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