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PUYANG HOU PORTFOLIO 2009~2015 puyang@g.ucla.edu 312-605-6773
PUYANG HOU _EDUCATION
312-605-6773 puyang@g.ucla.edu 7157 Alvern Street, Apt 110, Los Angeles, CA, 90045 University of California at Los Angeles
Jun, 2015
Illinois Institute of Technology
May, 2014
LEED AP, BD+C
May, 2015
Master of Architecture II,
Los Angeles, CA
Bachelor of Architecture
_CERTICIFICATION _SKILLS
_EXPERIENCE
Chicago, IL
Rhinocerous/Grasshopper; AutoCad; Revit; Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/ InDesign/Premiere; 3D Studio Max/Vray; Sketchup; Microsoft Office Suite; Hand-rendering & Sketching; Model making/ Laser cutting/ CNC milling/ 3D printing
UN-FORBIDDEN Office Beijing Institute of Architectural Design Intern Architect
Jun-Aug, 2013
Beijing, China
- Be responsible for the project of collaborative landscape and surrounding development of Jean Nouvel’s winning design of The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) - Documented the site research and created analysis diagrams; Provided assistance on initial concept design Drafted site plan, plans and sections in AutoCad; - Created parametric 3d model in grasshopper rhino and rendered in Vray for rhino; Prepared presentations in Photoshop.
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ABB Group
Intern Assistant
Beijing, China
May-Aug, 2009
-Drafted basic AutoCad drawings for constructrion projects; participated in group meeting in administrative department; Communicate with different departments.
_ACADAMIC EXPERIENCE
Hyperloop Project Master of architecture
Los Angeles, CA
Sep,2014-Jun,2015
-Collaborated with Hyperloop Technology and SpaceX on the reserch initial concept,which including capsule, urban, station and route design of this latest transportation project. -Designed and built the first full-scale Hyperloop capsule section mock-up in UCLA Ideas campus. -Exhibited mockup and projection mapping work showing passenger experience on Dwell on Design LA at Los Angeles Convention Center.
Plug-in LA: Reinventing Personal Mobility Master of architecture
Los Angeles, CA
Aug,2014
-Exhibited research and design proposal focusing on the technological, morphological, environmental and economic qualities and foreseen impact of the electric and autonomous car.
Sweetwater Foundation: Studio 9601 Project Bachelor of architecture
Chicago, IL
Aug-Dec,2013
-Collaborated with the Sweetwater foundation to redesign their aquaponic production and education space in 9601 Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL. Conducted urban agriculture research of Chicago’s food desert.
Interprofessional Projects Program: Theater Renovation Bachelor of architecture
Aug-Dec,2013
Chicago, IL
-Developed insights that support energy efficiency improvement strategies of retrofitting the Victory Gardens Theater; Collaborated with other group members to design the whole HVAC system including wall insulation, mechanical plan and ventilation strategies;
IIT Crown Hall Open House
May, 2009-2013
C NTENTS
1. THE HYPERLOOP
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2. THE GARDEN CITY
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48............................................................................................................................................3. STUDIO 9601 Urban renovation project for educational use 64.......................................................................................................................4.DEFINIING DIAGONAL Carbini community commercial and residential complex
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THE HYPERLOOP UCLA, March II, Winter 2014, Spring 2015
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1.1 Fully Mobility
Hyperloop research and prototype design
Collabrated with: Jinliang Chen, Xiaoyuan Li, Junfeng Hong, Weizhong Zhang, Yafei Zhang
HYPERLOOP WILL TRAVELS AT OVER 700 MPH AS TWICE THE SPEED OF COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT...
LA
400 MILES
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TRAVELS FROM LOS ANGELES TO SAN FRANCISCO IN 35 MINUTES
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HYPERLOOP The Hyperloop is a conceptual high-speed transportation system put forward by entrepreneur Elon Musk, incorporating reducedpressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. A preliminary design document was made public in August 2013, which included a preliminary cost estimate for a passenger-only version at US$6 billion, while a version transporting passengers and vehicles was estimated at US$7.5 billion. The cost projections for the notional California route were questioned by transportation engineers in 2013, who found the sum unrealistically low given the scale of construction and reliance on unproven technology. The technological and economic feasibility of the idea is unproven and a subject of significant debate. Considering LA’s need for comprehensive land use and improving urban transport, the central objective of this project is to realize an efficient and sustainable Hyperloop station, which devoted to addressing concerns lead to the reduction of architectural footprint, fastest traveling route, activation of the existing commercials and services that surround, and development for a transitoriented neighborhood. In this way, this project is envisioned as a place worthy of the Hyperloop station, the existing residential neighborhoods and retails that surround the plan area, and the city of future as a whole.
INDIVIDUAL POD
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PHYSICAL REACH
HUMAN SCALE
CAPSULE SESSION
The design was started with a study of human scale, which related to the passengers’ experience the most. To maximize the flexibility of move, the individual pod was designed to be traveled along a certain routine thus it can help shorten the boarding time and provide convenience for passengers to get aboard.
30s 28 4
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2 min 6,000
waiting time passengers in an hour
NON-STOP
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MECHANICS OPERATION
PASSENGER TIMELINE
TIMELINE
One of the major factor infect the design is the boarding process. Hyperloop capsules supposed to be sent out every 30 seconds. The rapid departure will need functional loading processing routine including make the capsule turned and guarantee there is one capsule sent out every 30 seconds. Thus, the programs are arranged according to passengers’ timeline in the station, and each space will be assigned to a specific period of the whole process.
CAPSULE ROUTES PODS ROUTES
PRE-DEPATURE
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AIRLOCK/ MECHANICS
ENTRANCE VIEW
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VOLUME GENERATION
VOLUME
Considering the program demand of the station, this design focus on three aspects to arrange the space, which are how to release the ground level to make it more open to public, how to split levels, and how to deal with the vertical circulation to make the station functional smoothly.
ARRIVAL LEVEL CIRCULATION
DEPARTURE LEVEL CIRCULATION
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CORE CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
CIRCULATION
In this project, time always comes first. Thus the circulation wants to be straight forward and linear to reduce the time consumption in the station. Also, the transition to connect people’s walking path and the mechanical operation of Hyperloop is another thing to concern. The prototype building contains departure level, arrival level, lobby level and underground parking level.
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION
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SECTIONS
SECTION
The series of section drawings shows during the linear process of boarding and arriving, the whole procedure is pushed forward by the rational program arrangement. Each session of the space is designed with different function to make sure the whole process goes smoothly and reduce not only the building footprint but also the passenger’s walking time.
MASTER PLAN
GROUND LEVEL PLAN
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LOBBY LEVEL PLAN
DEPARTURE LEVEL PLAN
ARRIVAL LEVEL PLAN
ROOF LEVEL PLAN
LOBBY LEVEL VIEW
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ARRIVAL LEVEL VIEW
STATION EXPERIENCE
Another attempt to shorten the timeline is that we are purposing the individual seat could be able to move around the station picking up and dropping off passengers. Thus the whole experience in the new hyperloop station will be like taking an adventure ride and the individual pod will be controlled by the computer system and set off passenger to the desired destination, which means the hyperloop capsule or the collective spot in the station.
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1.2 MechPark Hyperloop station design
Collabrated with: Weizhong Zhang
SITE BARRIERS
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MeckPark Site Condition The proposal of Hyperloop MechPark is a site-specific station which was treated as a combination of mechanism and nature. The site is on the east side of Los Angeles River. Looking at the existing site condition, the site is located near this conventional residential blocks, so what change will the station bring to the site is the problem we are trying to figure out. One of the very first problem is as a hyperloop station, how to bring this number of people to our site in an hour. On the site, there are certain physical barriers surrounded by, the river, freeway, bridge and the industry zone which is pretty vacant.
Strategy Considering the condition on both side of the river, the objective for our station is to attract passengers form DTLA, and inject vitality to the Boyle Height and provide more opportunities for employment at the same time. So, depends on the existing barriers on the site, the east side of the site, which is the north mission road become really important as the major access lane. Considering it is a four lanes road, we want to widen that to eight lanes, 100 feet and shift the road over to create a green belt. Also, the green belt also provide a specific lane for station drop off only. And there is going be green landscape on the curbs to block the residence for the station to minimize the influence of it.
SITE STRATEGY
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SITE ANALYSIS
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ENTANCE VIEW
GREEN SPACE ANALYSIS
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CIRCULATION The MechPark primarily served as a Hyperloop station for City of Los Angeles. Thus, the most important circulation is based on the study before in part 1.1, the prototype of the Hyperloop station. It obeys the 30s departure time and the major operation of the mechanical system keeps direct and simple to minimize the time consumption in the station and provide the fastest route for the passengers. Besides, the individual pod also travels along the whole park connecting the union station potentially to the south parking lot in the park. It offers the experience for passengers to explore the park a little bit more without need of getting off their pod. It works alike to the operation of a ride of a theme park, which may attractive passenger to the Hyperloop station. SITE PLAN
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CIRCULATION DIAGRAM
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AERIAL VIEW
PHYSICAL MODEL
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
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GROUND LEVEL PLAN
PROGRAM As a new urban transportation facility, MechPark wants to serve more than a station. To arrange different program and form the shape of the architecture, the relative program was listed and shifted to advocates more physical activities on site. Adding the efficient circulation of the boarding process helps regulate the station as well. Also, the strategy for pick up and drop off helps connect the site with its surrounding urban contents. As a result, MechPark provides service more than a station. It also combines retails, educational showrooms, galleries for all kind of passengers even local residents to experience the station.
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SITE FORMATION
TRANSVERSE SECTION
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LONGTUDINAL SECTION
LANDSCAPE To provide the community a better living environment, MechPark also works as a green space interact with the LA River and the Boyle Heights community. As shown in the diagram on the left, the whole project can be abstract into five layers. The soft surface contains major part of the green space, which creating the continuous soft curving surf like nature environment. The hard surface is covered with paving materials and includes pedestrian walking path and small plaza. The landscape design of MechPark always wants to respond to the various movements in architecture on site. Along the journey travelling the whole project, passengers will experience different types of landscape.
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GARDEN CITY IIT, BARCH, WINTER 2013
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2.1 Dolly's Wonderland
Chicago Woodlawn urban research and strategy
Collabrated with: Shiyu Chen, Qian Wang
SKETCH This project revisits the projects of “Garden City” and “Middle Landscape” as potential resources for conceiving a low density urbanism in metropolitan districts experiencing flat or negative growth. Students will also focus on the physical reformulation and restructuring of urban blocks and their potential to enable alternative models of land ownership, stewardship, and public space/private property relationships. Our propose, Dolly’s Wonderland, aims at combing modern technology with high value urban agriculture development together to deal with the existing vacant lots in Woodlawn community. This project takes the experience from the Dutch, which is also the first group of settler in the Woodlawn community and learn from the latest modern agriculture technology.
Histroy
Floral Industry
Future
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City of Chicago
Netherland tourism
Asian Market seed/technology
seed/technology Woodlawn
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OPPERTUNITY MAP: THE VACANT LOT
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GRID
INTERSECTION + VACANT
INTERSECTION
FARMLAND + VACANT
CONCEPT of LIVING LOOP
FORMATION of LIVING LOOP
MASTER PLAN According to the analysis diagram, the master plan is a combination of the living loop and facility loop. We integrate the existing vacant lot and make the best use of it. Also, the stewardship of the farm land is another important issue to concern. In this proposal, residents here do not need to farm themselves. The owner of the land rent their property to the community government and they hire other labor to farm. The residents get a certain share and profit annually.
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GRID
FACILITY FOOTPRINT
FARM FOOTPRINT
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Index of High-value Horticultural Product
In this proposal, the product growing in this farmland is also selected thoughtfully. Given the farmland in an urban fabric, the most efficient way is to grow high value horticultural product which could be processed further and make more valuable product like perfume. Eventually, the ultimate goal is to profit both the government and the residents, also raising the land value.
lavender
rose
lily
chanterelle
hyacinth
carnation
anthurium
boletus edulis
chrysanthemums
gerbera
daffodils
white mushroom
tulip
freesia
orchid
portobello mushroom
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PRIVATE GARDEN AND PUBLIC FARM
WONDERLAND SCENARIO
GREENSPACE SITE SECTION
FARMLAND SITE SECTION
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2.2 Greenhouse House
Prototype residence design in “Dolly's Wonderland"
Greenhouse House The Greenhouse House is an extension project of Dolly’s Wonderland. Since modern agriculture use a lot of technology of greenhouse, this is an experimental prototype design to discuss the relationship between living and working at the same space. The design starts with consider “living” as a solid, private part and “working” as a transparent, public part. After exploring different potential relationship between those two, the “within” relation was selected to be primarily studied. In this case, for all intents and purposes, this project is a prototype home – except for the extra glass layer surrounding it. Inside the greenhouse, the owners can grow plants which typically are not able to survive in the Chicago climate. Also, the interactive between the edged, solid wood structure and the curved, hollowed-out steel frame structure make the space have various of changes.It re-defines the spatial concept on interior and exterior and blur the edge of public versus private spaces.
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Overall, the vision is to make a self-sustainable house that produces food, instead of waste. And living in a greenhouse encourages a sustainable and non-toxic lifestyle. That means in an ideal situation, the greenhouse house could be not hooked up to a sewer system and reuses all of its graywater and blackwater as irrigation in a closed-loop system. Built primarily out of wood and other zero-VOC materials, the well-insulated building maintains a low energy footprint aided by passive solar and natural ventilation.
CONCEPT
STRUCTURAL CROSS SECTIONS
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INTERIOR VIEW
PLAN
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SECTION
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EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC
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GREENHOUSE VIEW
GREENHOUSE VIEW
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OPENHOUSE SETUP
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STUDIO 9601: TRANSLUCID MARKET Urban renovation project for educational use IIT, BARCH, Winter 2012
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Studio 9601: Translucid Market From previous studies about Food Deserts in Chicago, the 9601 studio noticed that there are few places in the city that sell fresh products to our community. In addition, considering the amount of industrialized products nowadays, the question “where does our food come from? ” should be a parameter to understand and improve our society’s food habits and health. Currently, on this site, there is the Sweet Water Foundation, which aims to change the neighborhood based upon concepts of community, equity, transformation and resilience, using the urban agriculture as a “vehicle for community development.” In the same way, our projects aims to interfere in this community, not only by providing fresh food for it, but also involving the community in the food production process.
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SITE PHOTOS
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CHICAGO FOOD DESERT
Over half a million Chicagoans live in the city’s three food deserts,and the vast majority of them are African-American. Of this group, nearly 400,000 live in areas with an imbalance of food choices. In other words, they have ready access to fast food and other fringe retail outlets, but very limited or no access to the fresh, healthy food available at grocery stores. Food desert residents might buy their food at convenience stores, fast food restaurants or gas stations.
SITE MAP
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SITE STRATEGY
As a new entrance is added, there comes with three part of the building and connected in the second floor by the bridges. In the middle there are two axes directly going to a “destination� feature in the back. In the north there located a water fountain, which filled by the rainwater collected by the curvy roof and spread the reused water to irrigate the plant in community garden through the waterways. In the south there is a pavilion connected with the seasonal outdoor market, for the customers to have a rest when they feel tired. Also, it provides opportunities for people to be close looking at the growing bed outdoor and the plant, and get to know how down the food grown and where down they come from.
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SOUTH ELEVATION
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glulam woodbeam glazed wall
metal roofing
bridge
green roof
second floor clumns (new)
wood floor
first floor colums (exsiting & new)
brick wall STRUCTURE AXONOMETRIC
STRUCTURAL RENOVATION As a retrofit architecture project, most of the building’s walls are kept. However, some walls were torn down in order to divide the project in three buildings. Even though the project is divided into three, at the same time it is connected in the second floor by four bridges with curtain wall system that keep the translucid idea through this path between the buildings. Keeping the existing sturcture grid, a new i-beam grid is added to reinforce the structure and hold the load of second floor. On the roof, glulam wood beam are added for as major structure, which is gives the building a atmosphere or warmth. The curving roof is designed according to the sun study and needs of light for different programs, as shown in the diagram on the right. There are large skylight on the roof to maximize the amount of light which provide a suitable condition for plant growing.
57 1 glulam roof beam 2 metal roofing sheet 3 secondary wood stucture 4 roofdecking 5 girder 6 new steel coluun 7 cable railing 8 concrete roof/ceiling 9 floor finish 10 steel plate 11 exsiting steel column 12 foundation 13 concrete slab 14 isolation layer 15 gravel layer 16 drain 17 outdoor paving tiles 18 louvres windows
WALL SECTION
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INDOOR MARKET
OUTDOOR MARKET
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NEW MARKET The 9601 Translucid Market’s name came from our main concept on the project: the relationship between food production and food selling should be transparent, or, in other words, translucid. As the market as a selling area and the aquaponics/ growing beds areas as production places, we decided to place the market in the middle of the project, as the heart of it. At the same time, the market would be related to the production areas around it: the transperency idea would be given by the usage of curtain walls between the three buildings. Also, another floor was added to the existing building, in order to allow people to see from above what is happening in the food production and food selling areas.
ENTRANCE VIEW
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NUTRIENT FILM TECHNIQUE
ROOTING MEDIA-BASED GROWING
VERTICAL GARDEN (FLOOD & DRAIN)
GREENHOUSE (MULTI-
DEEP WATER CULTURE
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URBAN AGRICULTURE Urban agriculture can reflect varying levels of economic and social development. It often takes the form of a social movement for sustainable communities, where organic growers, ‘foodies’ and ‘locavores’ form social networks founded on a shared ethos of nature and community holism. These networks can evolve when receiving formal institutional support, becoming integrated into local town planning as a ‘transition town’ movement for sustainable urban development. In our site there are lack of fresh food providing systems, the new technology are proposed to give the community a brand new situation of food supply and consuming. Cooperating with our client, The Sweet Water Foundation, different kind of aquaponics system are used for all around the building. They are not only used for provide fresh food for our market, also work as an exhibition to educate the public of the knowledge about food.
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STREET VIEW
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water after a certaiin level n the main tank is allowed to flow freely into soil, through a filter and valve combination (to make sure that soil does not enter water in the main tank.)
GARDEN VIEW
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GARDEN VIEW (MODEL)
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DEFINING DIAGONAL Carbini community commercial and residential complex IIT, BARCH, Summer 2014 Collabrated with: Shiyu Chen
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1. SITE AND ACCESS POINT
2. CONNECTING ACCESS POINT
3. SHORTCUT DIAGONAL
4. CENTRAL GREENSPACE
5. BUILDING ZONE
6. BUILDING VOLUME
7. BUILDING DIVISION
8. BUILDING FORM CUT
TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLAN
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SITE MAP
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DEFINING DIAGONAL
This project locates in Cabrini, which is known as the Cabrini–Green Homes, Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing project located on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The construction reflected the "urban renewal" approach to United States city planning in the mid-20th century.Today, only a small set of row houses, built in the 1940s, remain and the re-develop of the Cabrini Community is the topic for this project. By connecting the new diagonal on the site to merge the density different on each end, the new diagonals want to create a shortcut that obtains more directionality. The courtyards are defined by the division of the building footprint. Each of the session is centralized by the courtyard but still connect together with the corridors. This project is a mixed-income, mixed-use development. In addition to its residential component, the development will have retail offerings and other services. The complex will include a day care center with a play lot as well as a restaurant that is expected to have onsite job training facilities. The development will also feature an outdoor deck and community garden complete with active beehives.
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NORTH BUILDING SECTION
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DURING SUMMER
DURING WINTER
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MISMATCHED LOFT Robotic hotwire motion study
UCLA, Fall 2014 Collabrated with Ji Qu, Xiaoyuan Li, Shijie Zhang
The project studies types of lofted surfaces. Loft was understood as one way of surface generating method under the logic of connecting relative division points on a curve, in the pattern of 1 to 1, 2 to 2, 3 to 3… When this match up relationship is interfered with an increment, torsion emerges. In other word, this torsion could be defined as ‘mismatched loft’, of which the points corresponding relationship is1 to 1 to 1 + Δ, 2 to2 +Δ, 3 to 3+Δ… Based on the theory, the project discovers the potential of applying such surface logic into creating of negative spaces in volumes. There are five pairs of ‘mismatched surfaces’ cutting out the volume in forms of cylindrical voids. Each pair was twisted in certain degree. Based on the specificity of their special location, several voids and surface profiles are created by intersections between each pair rather than the original pairs. Under the synthetic eect of these disciplines, the final form was generated.
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CUT LIST
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CURVE MATRIX
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CONSTRUCTION
Hyperloop full-scale mockup and projection mapping project UCLA, Fall 2014, Winter 2014 Collabrated with Matt Whitham, Christos Kyratsous, Hanxiong Liu (Construction part) Collabrated with Austin Yu, Qiaoyue Wang, Runzhi Wang (Projection mapping part)
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Full-scale Mockup Construction:
See construction process at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fvckLzxyEU
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Projection Mapping : See full video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7lZ37ZL5M
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