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Junfei Pei 06|03|1990
peijunfei@wustl.edu
+1 314-570-4814
754 Leland Ave. Apt.2N St Louis MO 63130
SKILLS
LANGUAGE
Rhinoceros Revit Sketchup Pro Maya Blender T-spline Grasshopper ArcGIS Infraworks
Mandarin English
native proficiency
AutoCAD Photoshop Illustrator InDesign AfterEffect Keyshot Lumion Cycles V-ray Atlantis TheaStudio Maxwell 3d Printing Photography Drawing/painting
Design 200
Communicate
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Build
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Visualize
Analyse
Write
Co-op
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EDUCATION Washington University in St. Louis Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Master of Architecture
Southwest Jiaotong University School of Design & Arts Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture
2014-2017
2009-2014
EXPERIENCE DSL Consultants Pte. Ltd. Intern
HDDeign Co. Ltd. Intern
HONOR National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of the PRC
3rd Place | Xingcheng Cup International Students Design Contest 2011 Chengdu Biennial
Graduate Student Scholarship Washington University in St. Louis
2017 Widmann Prize Nominee Sam Fox School of Design & Arts
2017 Graduate with Honor
Sam Fox School of Design & Arts
2017 Thesis Design/Degree Project Award Sam Fox School of Design & Arts
Graduate Student Marshal at 2017 Commencement Washington University in St. Louis
EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION Approach 2014-2015/2015-2016/2016-2017 Work selected
7 ROOMS
Exhibition at Pritzker Art Foundation, St. Louis
2013.9-2014.1 2013.2-2013.3
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CONTENTS
Selected Works
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A SYNTHESIZED CITY
ITTNER’S COMPLEX
A Architecture B Landscape C Build
BRIDGE THE VOID : THE VOID BRIDGE
FORM AND SPACE
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CONTENTS
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ASCEND! BERLIN!
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FLOATING RHYTHM
Architecture
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A DOUBLE STREET
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REBUILD WETLAND
Landscape
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EXHIBIT ABSENCE
Build
AIR RIGHT MAP
High density VS. Street-level Vacancy
scale: 1:25,000
Contradiction & Opportunity
LOW-----------------------------------HIGH BUILDING AIR RIGHT AIR RIGHT /HEIGHT LIMITED
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Vacancy of street-front store
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Beyond ‘SoHO’ Another ‘fresh level’ of Big Apple Instructor: Janiffer Yoos Period: 2016 Fall Location: SoHO, Manhattan, NYC
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A SYNTHESIZED CITY What if...? Create a horizontal layer in a vertical city HIGH-LINE 3 PHASE
HUDSON YARD
MadisonSquare Garden
K TOWN
HIGH-LINE 3 PHASE
HUDSON YARD
MadisonSquare Garden
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NQR BDFM PATH 33 RD STR
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BDFM NQR PATH 33 RD STR
PENN STATION
A C E PENN STATION
Manhattan section through Penn Station Times Square
BOA Tower
Metlife Building
Chrysler Building
United Union
Times Square
BOA Tower
Metlife Building
Chrysler Building
United Union
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BDFM
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Manhattan section through SoHO historic district
The synthesized multilevel city suggests not an aggregation of disparate parts, but a unified whole where integration achieves a continuous urban fabric; unifying buildings, landscape, and infrastructure. Ideally, a more interconnected city shifts buildings away from their typically autonomous object-like character by synthesizing architecture with infrastructure and landscape to create more cohesive urban space. Yet, in its more optimistic forms, the synthesized multilevel city is more interconnected, more differentiated, exciting, and potentially more resilient. Throughout the studio, while addressing the practical impetus for these systems, I explored ways that the multilevel city can create more positive and proactive urban forms, in a typical vertical city, Manhattan, NYC. Zoom into Soho area, apply coverage levels at the top of buildings and connect them with necessary bridge, no matter indoor or out door. This master plan is only showing the proposal I gave as an architect or urban designer, only showing a initial phase of development above the Soho. Whole roof top will become new urban landscape for citizen public activities, which are expected to engage with programs underneath it. More architects can be involved, as well as more spaces above roof top, into design progress with city governor to decide what part can be developed consequentially. I will show my complex design as a social condenser as an example, but it is not to say that there is no diversity of styles or methods in any further design phases.
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Master Plan SOHO district - 2 A Synthesized City - Beyond SOHO
Beyond ‘SoHO’ Programmatic / Formal Strategies
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office
ART district
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shared small business incubator
sports court
roof garden
common room
grocery
residential
gym
meeting
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ultilevel situation happened in complex. We can do some replacement and renovation of particular existing building as an INSERTION, create vertical connection and spot of connection to adjacent building. Once getting in the complex upper level, you can find the place you want to go or find out where is bridge connecting to other rooftop addition with expected activities. Interior and exterior public spaces are interacted with each other around the expanded central courtyard, which is also typical in some traditional New York block with narrow row house buildings.
theater
gallery
communication
bookstore
cafe
public
restaurant
classroom
art/ design studio
workshop event space
Latitude of NYC=40° a=90-40+23.5=73.5°
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Latitude of NYC=40° a=90-40+23.5=73.5°
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-takeout some existing building and keep their facade partially. -make inner courtyard open to street. -give more chance to create new structure element in replacement. -insert new program attracting people to upper level. REPLACEMENT
of NYC=40° +23.5=73.5°
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-buy air right of lower building on site together, and develop complex to infill the space above roofs. -enlarge courtyard footprint to make sure have more natural light. -new layer of roof top will be continuous and occupied. AIR-RIGHT RE-OCCUPY
Latitude of NYC=40° a=90-40+23.5=73.5°
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-reinforce and extend some existing core vertically to new developed upper intervention. EXISTING VERTICAL STRUCTURE
-new structure elements raising from replacement play the core role in structural system. -steel structure system is lighter comparing to the existing buildings. MODIFICATION+ADDITION
- 4 A Synthesized City - Beyond SOHO
BRIDGE SITUATION connection with other rooftop complex
GROUND SITUATION connection with street front. - 5 A Synthesized City - Beyond SOHO
Roof garden Sports court
Agora
Residential
Informal theater Common room/kitchen
Commercial
Fitness/Gym
Education/After school class
Office/ workshop
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Restaurant
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he original artists in Soho area are moving out because of the high land value/rent cost, instead of opening more and more famous brand store/ commercial street front store. This situation caused and very unbalanced life circle between night and day time, terrible utilization condition of upper level as well. Most of the historic buildings are transformed into office or commercials. Although art activities such as galleries operation are still here, but the space is not enough and affordable for artist to work anymore. In addition to the inversed circulation strategy mentioned above, more things can be happened not only above roof top of Soho, bu also beyond it. By introducing new complex with all kinds of programs, including residential, recreation, exhibition, commercial
and even roof landscape. Reoccupying air rights space to develop complex as a whole strategy is away to lower the existing building’s value and to improve upper level quality of existing buildings, based on the demands of different blocks in Soho area. Finally, the whole district can become layered with not only natural landscape/ playground on the new roof, but also have chance to create a new life circle, a new life method and a new lifted community-WHICH I BELIEVED AS A “BEYOND”.
- 6 A Synthesized City - Beyond SOHO
A New Rceation Complex Instructor: Philip Holden Period: 2017 Spring Location: Midtown, St Louis, MO
Elevated Interstae-64,
From one side’s vacancy to the other side.
Site Anchors
SLU-Metro Station-SLUMed
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BRIDGE THE VOID : THE VOID BRIDGE
The midtown industrial belt cuts St Louis into fragments along Interstate-64, which create gaps and vacancies in settled parts of the city. These spaces finally turn to be VOID spaces within superfluous parking lots, vacant buildings and event unused land under elevated highway. The VOIDs are isolated there quietly between heaven and earth between, between the road and the road, between the highway and the highway, between the building and the building, but only between the people. The purpose of my design is re-integrates and even creates VOIDs, in order to reactivate and re-socialize spaces but not simply remove or occupy them. To make the original VOIDs more meaningful, operations like digging, lifting platforms take place; further, in between the double-layer a new level of horizontal VOID -a bridge- will be created, used to connect existing VOIDs around infrastructures. In such a place, people can enjoy the feeling inside void rather than avoiding them.
- 7 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
- 8 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
An integral architectural mass will be designed to cross highway and float on the ground,
FLOAT defines
- 9 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
- 10 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
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esides these spatial actions, multiple programs will be arranged, such as gym, aquatics center, theater, and fitness mixing with exhibition space and other multi-used event spaces and studios. As a complementary to the new develop plan of this area, it will become a multi-used recreation center not only for students from St. Louis University but also opening to public, which is needed around St Louis city, especially midtown area.
- 11 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
- 12 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
Structure
Floating
Entrance Hall
Main Court
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LOAT defines VOID. This requires less structural pillars, large spans and large overhangs. My design uses a relatively complex hybrid steel structure to achieve these goals. The facade also uses reflective material to enhance the physical and void nature of this whole floating body. Solidity is embodied in the complete mass, while vanity is embodied in its reflective material. Therefore, this metaphorical contradiction is emphasizing that “here is void�, rather than the traditional way of re-occupying voids by buildings, landmarks.
Aqutic Center
- 13 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
- 14 Bridge The VOID: The VOID Bridge
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public transportation
site plan it is the starting point for the design as an open shelters, then no matter who you are, refugees, students and immigrants who are going to settle her or even travelers, all can feel this open gesture. You enter the building and ascend along steps in courtyard, stop at each floor to explore what you can do, and then reach the top level. After getting every procedure done, refugees will enjoy the city at this point, the first public, citizen building they freely enjoy will be here.
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he city of Berlin is not only the capital of Germany but also its vibrant cultural center. It has always been a heterogeneous patchwork of various districts and neighborhoods. There is no real city center. The abundance of historical traces as well as contemporary development create multiple, fluid layers. One cannot read or understand Berlin without wandering around the city, exploring anew and anew. This studio is concerning itself with one of the most urgent political and social question of today’s society: Migration. With a increased number of refugees and security risks, the government efficiency getting became lower and lower. A much-needed house of welcome in city center is need be designed. The site is located in the east of Alexanderplatz, close to various public transport stations (U-bahn, S-bahn and M). No adjacent buildings in context, which itself is an open attitude as well.
Make it Public New welcome center for refugees Instructor: Johanna Meyer-GrohbrĂźgge Period: 2016 Spring Location: Berlin, Germany
The new House Of Welcome-Berlin is among other public amenities providing rooms that can be rented by the Lageso, the BAMF, the Arbeitsamt (employment center) or other governmental services upon need. It also is a place of information about all the possibilities that the new arrivals have, where and how they can apply for jobs, housing and other kind of supports. It should be their first starting point. It should not only provide new capacities but be a welcome sign. It should give the people orientation and a first place to turn to. It is not only for refugees and those seeking asylum but be for all people that come to Berlin and want to stay, also those applying for citizenship, students and temporary visitors
- 15 A New Welcome Center - Ascend! Berlin!
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ASCEND! BERLIN!
Formal + Programmatic Strategy
occupy
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ascend
vertical circulation horizontal circulation entrance - 16 A New Welcome Center - Ascend! Berlin!
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1 multi-used event hall /flexible spaces 2 info. desk 3 library 4 exhibition space 5 workshop
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Interior Atrium
Multi-used Public Event Hall
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s a shelter, top floor cover the site as roof to protect activities on ground, which outside of small footprint ground floor. The volume become larger and larger floor by floor,without supporting columns, which need unusual structure system to ensure the safe cantilever. Regarding each floor as a structural entirety with steel-truss structure. The diagonal truss appearing behind facade, also in courtyard, becoming a tectonic motif without concealing structural components. This will give the building new iconic meaning to make such an open, context-less site become a place. 2f truss
vertical structural elements - 19 A New Welcome Center - Ascend! Berlin!
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1 ROOF ASSEMBLY roof membrane 15mm cover board 185mm roof insulation subtrate board metal deck perforated aluminum ceiling 2 GUTTER roof membrane 15mm fire retardant plywood board all sides gutter 60mm min insulation 3 triple layer glass
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4 FACADE ASSEMBLY scatter aluminum finish panel 18mm air cavity alum sub-framing with 25mm rigid insulation in between 40mm batt insulation 10.800m vapor-retarding air barrier 10mm gypsum exterior sheathing 70mm cold-formed matel framing 5 FLOOR ASSEMBLY polished concrete floor 9mm screed 40mm accoustic insulation 120mm composite slab perforated aluminum ceiling
stripe light
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- 20 A New Welcome Center - Ascend! Berlin!
6 SOFFIT ASSMBLY steel structural beam cold-formed metal framing 10mm gypsum exterior sheathing vapor-retarding air barrier 120mm rigid insulation alum sub-structure white painted matte alum finish panel 7 exterior drainage
Social Attractor A ”Jazz” Library Instructor: Tyler Meyr Period: 2015 Spring Location: St. Louis, USA
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Blues music can be played in the streets, is a kind of music which initial courage to express themselves with musical emotion naturally, give a tremendous impact on the development of modern western music. Its open gesture to not only all people, but also other kinds of music, make ragtime and jazz take in shape.
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Floating Rhythm the Arch
This core studio asks students to practice spatial manipulation with multiple programs fitting in. Also it lets me think carefully about context to find out the potential start point of design. From the study of site context: in the between of industrial and residential area, building should be intended to be a community center. (Especially how to invite people from main road to the building with the feeling of floating (piloti) to activate and utilize negative space (under the highway). According to the blues and landmark site analysis, give particular orientation for building and make it more open to residential direction with relative smaller architectural mass.
mississippi eiver
At the same time, we are asked to design a library for Jazz music, which has historic origin in Soulard district, St Louis. Such a library need traditional reading and stack space as well as new kind of space containing multi-media research and study. A small performance space for 200 people also required in proposal. Therefore, the project is not so much a library as a mini complex. - 21 A “Jazz“ Library - Floating Rhythm
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listening space
exhibition
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recording studio
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listening space
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SITE STL downtown
ElevateN corner
recording studio 200 seats theater
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listening space
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soulard district
200 seats theater
Make public sinking entrances
listening space
exhibition
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recording studio
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exhibition
recording studio
200 seats theater
listening space
exhibition
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exhibition 200 seats theater
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recording studio listening space
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exhibition
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he floating building shape also indeed corresponds the open gesture, and the space is not used for specific functions but can be used for all public activities related with blues. (Soulard music festivals, improvisation, communication, playground) By creating a grand slope slab from the underground to the upper building and enveloped with glasses, the architectural mass will be dogged. The stepped up spaces will contain the programs of musical listening, exhibition, multimedia center and open media stacks which allow interactions among them. Toward another gentle slope space (200 seats formal performance spaces/theater), the “grand slope” may have chance to connect the theater in the center hall, the most interactive and energetic space.
exhibition multimedia sapce theater
coomunication space
vertical connection
storage
- 24 A “Jazz“ Library - Floating Rhythm
interactive learning center
info. & service open stacks
“When, in architecture, one uses a fixed unit and combinations of it, to produce harmony, the effect should be most striking and apparent...
as it is in music by the measured beat
and in poetry by the cadence and rhythm...”
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illiam Butts Ittner (1864-1936) was an architect in St. Louis, Missouri. He designed many school buildings in Missouri and other areas. He was described as the most influential man in school architecture in the United States and has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. He was appointed St. Louis School Board commissioner in 1897 and is said to have designed open buildings that featured “natural lighting, inviting exteriors, and classrooms tailored to specific needs.”
After William. B Ittener’s visit to Europe, he brought new vision of programmatic and spatial arrangement in school building, such as wider and brighter corridor contain communicating use for students and teachers. Next step, 2 selected school will be zoomed into. After making models and drawing figure-ground spatial diagram, I can choose interesting perspective as toolkit to exploring methods of space design. William B. Ittner’s legacy in midtown St. Louis Exhibition+Education+Housing Instructor: Jan Ulmer Period: 2016 Summer Location: Midtown, St. Louis
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Topology study- model of school’s corridor +figure & ground spatial diagram Spatial quality study- Collage +3d representing model
My project’s site is located in a very special location. In the midtown of St. Louis, Grand center area is a sub core of St Louis city circle. A lot of cultural facilities are located around here. the corner site is face toward east, where the great arch located. What’s more important, is that the site is in between of 2 Ittner’s public building: Continental Life Building and Scottish Rite Cathedral. These 2 buildings are very different from his most common works typology: school building. Therefore, let people have a close view of this two building is a good way to organize exhibition. Inward aspect, implement corridor, classroom and stair class of Ittner’s will become another way to arrange exhibition. The starting point is to visit existing school building designed by Ittner in St Louis area, no matter if it is in use or vacant, to figure out the spatial quality which can be exhibit or utilized in my own design. His brand new idea of school design emerges in the typological comparison. - 27 William B. Ittner’s legacy in midtown St. Louis
typical school dimensions
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32ft classroom 24ft
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determined by typical dimension of Ittner’s school
exclusive view of Sccotish Rite & Continental Building
What could be possible categories and layers of this collection, how could we let these layers interact with each other and what could be the possible forms of displays? By accommodating the module of original Ittner’s school, I created a system of 8’*8’ grid. The dimension of 8 feet is the basic scale of corridor, width and length of a typical classroom in his schools. The wide corridors are always 16’, the classroom also exactly fits the dimension of 24*32’.
So inside this museum, people will experience the scale just like in his building. When I think about the site, two existing Ittner’s large public building-Continental Building and Sccotish Rite, which are both easily recognized by public in grand center area. They are the potential elements for my connection between building exhibiting Ittner and Ittner’s building in real world outside the building.
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eside the exhibition spaces we will integrate a library, an archive, a seminar room, classrooms for an after-school program, rooms for an architect in residence program as well as a space for the community to gather. Based on the research about ittners work, and I also added one residential tower to the program list at the street corner, which maintains the same height of Ittner’s Continental Building.
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ourtyards here help to create special spatial sequence which allow people can enjoy not only interior closure exhibition but also interior open space and exterior exhibition spaces. At some points, people have chances to see the Ittner’s famous buildings around: Continental Building and Scottish Rite Cathedral. Enclosed courtyard with 2-4 floor high white wall is a view-frame which isolating all other street situations. So inside this exhibition building, it is a world of Ittner, without disturbing from outside world.
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Formal Manipulation A Folded Riverside Villa Instructor: Wenqu Qiu Period: 2012 Fall Location: Chengdu, Szechuan, PRC
Folding & Intersecting Research From simple to complex
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FORM AND SPACE
Villa’s Programs Diagram
This project is based on the practice of deliberate geometry, its iterations and transformation from form to architecture with designated programs. We are asked to find a method to create a kind of module which can be repeated in particular way by rotating, merging, folding and etc. The form must contain certain spatial character, such as barrier, compressed plain, threshold and so on. The spatial potential will be applied into a further villa design.
First Floor entrance
garage kitchen
guest room
sitting room
laundry
The operation I researched is folding and intersecting. From the easiest way to make a continuous surface by folding, intersecting and shifting position. After making physic study model, the spatial and light quality can be showed. And this method can be used infinitely to create a iteration.
dining room
child room
bathroom bathroom
living room
As I known, there is a dramatic topography, which allow me to apply my from within a such altitude difference. At the same time, adjust surface to make sure the spaces inside have enough area holding programs. The form constituted by oblique panels also can weaken the difference between roof, floor and walls, as one single continuous architectural element.
main bedroom
studio & workroom
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River SideView
- 33 Formal Manipulation - A Folded Riverside Villa
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Paper shape Folding direction
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A New Traditional Commercial Block Beside Iron Statue Temple Instructor: Qingjuan Yang Period: 2013 Spring Location: Chengdu, Szechuan, PRC
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iron statue temple
Facing the issue of urbanization of Chengdu, the project give me an opportunity to change poor situation of people’s urban life nowadays. In fact, people needs new urban life because it is convenient, and they also need ‘Spatial Spirit‘, a perceptional sense of the place where people used to live in and remember. This new street design will compensate the lack of sense of scale, place and feeling of belonging by creating two different alleys overlapping at the same time.
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The Tianfu New Zone, a new satellite city of Chengdu, has occupied the south area of Chengdu. Instead of original farmland settlement context, wide roads and grid traffic network divide land into large regular scale zone fulling with skyscraper. However, all of these have been taking place for just 10 years. Although the new city expansion brings convenience to both locals and outsiders, such a quick change make local residents uncomfortable. The original scale of site is suit traditional context of settlement group called ‘Linpan’. But new expansion area invaded and erased it gradually, and finally leave almost nothing for locals to recall their memory of the site.
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hina is experiencing a period of pain, which is caused by blindly exceeding development and emerging recall of disappeared social, as well as spatial, memory. In the middle of such a dilemma, Government is trying to keep some religious and historic site while new developed zone is spawning around.
Meanwhile, most outsiders moving in want have some traditional and native cultural stuff which is absent at the city center. New large scale gives them the same feeling of central pressed city life. Finally, they find out there is no differences between urban and suburban, and they will forget what it is looks before, as well as their children, and grandchildren...The city seems missing its soul. How to combine this two kind of demands and recall a new city memory for them are design focuses.
- 37 A Double Street - New Traditional Commercial Block
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Infrastructure
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Except for a small part of the region, the majority of new zone is complete. Total lose of original context and pattern allows new zone become an expansion of Chengdu city without interval.
Commercial Tianfu New Zone Commercial Housing
Context Phrase 4
Software Park II
Former roads had been instead by new main road network with a large scale. More residential area would be planned and constructed. Gradual loss of original Linpan context is inevitable.
Access Road & Branch Theater
Luxury Residential
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Satellite town of Tianfu New Zone began to develop, resulting in a surge of population. Land had been levied for planning residential area, which start occupying original context.
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Exhibition Center
Ring Road of Chengdu was still under construction, and Linpan groups were widely distributed to farmland pattern going along with irrigation river system. Original context is completed preserved.
Ancillary High Density Housing
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Subway
ike a sealing cutting on a city, the Tianfu New Zone totally turn the context from a small scale to a large one. But both of them are necessary. Actually, we can try to combine them into same space with different methods
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to coordinate, just like 2 parts of ‘Tai Ji’, Yin and Yang. Addition and Subtraction will be used to each sides and people have more chances to shift their way to experience the same space, either traditional, or modern ones.
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esign a comfortable street environment need to not only properly utilize traditional architectural styles and forms, but also pay attention to the scale of the streets. For instance, the ratio between the street width and height of the building and relationship between construction sequence variations and street scale changes, etc. Meanwhile, to consider same questions about modern streets which are simpler than traditional ones is also an essential point.
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- 39 A Double Street - New Traditional Commercial Block
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inal form of main building maintain traditional style roof but most connect bodies use relatively modern style. Connection bodies’ roof can be used as terrace for the modern sky-walk. It will be painted with red color which can be regarded as hanging red lanterns which is common in Chinese alley. Roof greening also will be utilized in particular roof. Most landscape patterns are referenced from original farmland texture. Around upstream of river, I designed a ecological area with wetland landscape. And along the main street path, I have also designed certain slope to self-drain storm water into the river and rain garden to create ecological street environment without high-tech.
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Overall Building
Green roof
Main building Ground Landscape
2F Connection
Water System
1F Connection
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Traditional Reference
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o recall people’s memory of site is one important issue. I abstract typical some elements from ancient Chinese architecture and street, and use them in my design as shown above. Secondly, through research of Linpan composition, I also find out 9 types of courtyard space with different arrangement of enclosing buildings, and then it will be utilized in my design. After my initial design, space syntax is my choice to give assess on spatial accessibility, connectivity and individuals behavioral pathway. With these analysis, I can explicitly know where have problem and fix them immediately. This methodology also help to determine location of the tower where it can been seen as a distant visual focus.
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Sloping roof
Fire seal
Arcade
Window lattice
Tower
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Alder River Area
A Riverside Wetland Park Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design Instructor: Jiao Yang Period: 2014 Spring Location: Chongzhou, Szechuan, PRC
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REBUILD WETLAND
A more than 60 hectares farm land is requiring a park of ecological protection, ecological education and cultural recreation. The project focuses on the safety of the river and satisfies the flood control requirements. It is required to further satisfy the natural self-sufficiency, keep the river shape, reduce the destruction of the natural environment, reflect the sustainability of the river ecology, and improve the biological reproduction of the native species. Therefore, rebuild wetland from existing farm land is the solution here aside Alder River. It is aimed to create a regional natural and cultural landscape, to provide science education platform, also to promote the sustainable development of urban and rural environment. - 43 Rebuild Wetland - Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design
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eside the White town adjacent to Chongqing Road, a series of attractions in this tourist routes bring a certain number of cultural highlights, but the most popular traditional natural settlement form-LinPan- is under demolition. This is an opportunities to offer such traditional landscape/architecture experience in park as gathering/service space for people’s recall of rural traditions. While other traditional historical and cultural activities will be provided as well.
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fter the site investigation, first thing can be found is that the field pattern is simple and the vegetation type is not diverse, which is unfavorable to the restoration of wetland. The soil nutrient is beneficial to the improvement of vegetation, but it also has some problems of eutrophication for wetland reconstruction. Second, the current water area shows narrow surface. The overall width of the Alder River is less than ten meters, although the high degree of bending but the constant width means no large area of open water to slow down for the formation of wetland habitat. And the poor water quality due to domestic and agricultural sewage still affects the ground.
potential water depth 30cm+
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Flood zone - 44 Rebuild Wetland - Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design
Hydrology
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wetland
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Ecological Suitability
Weighted Factors’ Overlap Mapping
Construction Hydrology Shurb/grass Forest
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1 Entrance plaza 2 Linpan-01-visitor center/service 3 Memorial Plaza 4 Eco-agriculture participation 5 Linpan-02-demostration/service 6 Lawn/camp site 7 Rain garden 8 Agora 9 Forest plank path 10 Parallel filter platform 11 Gravity filter pond 12 Bio-filter zone 13 Surface filter zone 14 Wetland Plants Exhibition 15 Observation zone 16 Watch tower 17 water-based plant exhibition
18 Science center/central plaza 19 landscape platform 20 observation island 21 Intertidal zone plank path 22 Wetland plank path 23 fish observation 24 bird obervation 25 Reed marshes 26 Wetland 27 ecological islands 28 Bird habitat 29 North entrance plaza/service 30 Stormwater Filter-layered landscape 31 Conservation zone 32 Isolated zone 33 parking 34 South entrance plaza
Master Plan
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he design of a wetland park focus into the following three aspects: the first is to regard it as a wetland generator, to restore and shape the wetland habitat; the second, as a water source filter, for cleaning water in the wetland park in a natural or artificial way of filtration and purification; thirdly, as a urban infrastructure. “Green belt� form can be used as a demonstration to the surroundings, as a recreational infrastructure, thus weakening the traditional concept of an isolated park. Finally this wetland park will be enlarged and extended with the surrounding cities and turned to become a city-scale greening system.
Urban Infrastructure
Water Filter
Wetland Generator
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Reshape Water By extending narrow water body to a open water gathering pond, enlarging the total area of water, creating different flow speed for different wetland species and making more natural shape connections. - 48 Rebuild Wetland - Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design
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allow mud flats, shoals, marshes, ponds, lakes, riverbanks...All of them can be a transition part from ground to water, which is so-called wetland here. However, the wetland is not only a geological transition, but a segment of mixture of ecological system at both ground and water. Acknowledging that, we can forge wide enough spaces for this transition in natural or artificial ways.
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Artificial Boundary to Wetland - 49 Rebuild Wetland - Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design
Plank path at fowls observation spot
Open lawn for camping and events
Path through wetland islands - 50 Rebuild Wetland - Alder River Park Landscape Planning and Design
Exhibition Center
Science Demo/observation/service
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Forest Plank Path
Bird Habitat/observation/plank path
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Constructing Ideas An Installation for “7 romms“ Exhibition Instructor: Jan Ulmer Period: 2016 Fall Location: Midtown, St. Louis,
historical map existing buildings intervention sites (20*20ft)
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We understand these rooms as viewing machines. They are free of any function and program. They reflect and interact with the physical context. Our goal was to create site - specific spatial statements, avoiding random design-decisions. Two other given constraints besides the context are the frame of 20 ft x 20 ft facing north, plus the color white. Feel invited to explore, gather, play, rest and stay. We are happy to put you on stage. My intervention named ‘skyline‘, which is located in between two previous building footprint. We used vertical framed wall facing slope frame supported surface to indicate two different buildings, two different attitudes toward different directions. The slope is facing the St Louis downtown, especially presenting iconic building new around with in ‘window‘ on vertical wall. It gives people a chance to walk through the gap in between and lay at slope to see skyline. - 53 An Installation for “7 romms“ Exhibition - Exhibit Absence
Figure/Ground Relationship
Proposal 1
Test Mock-up Model
Proposal 2
Proposal 3
Detail Design - 54 An Installation for “7 romms“ Exhibition - Exhibit Absence
Components Making
Assembly on site
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- 56 An Installation for “7 romms“ Exhibition - Exhibit Absence
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