II. 412 STUDIO

City Arboretum & Botanic Garden

‘Archi

Pottery’

Individual. 2022

Instructor _ Katy Barkan

An arboretum is a space dedicated to the collection, conservation, research, and display of living trees. Arboreta use their collections to study and conserve trees, providing space for the intentional preservation of specific trees and shrubs for educational and scientific purposes. Distinct from a forest, nursery, or park, arboreta are spaces where varieties of trees are grown for the purpose of research, education, and exhibition.

Among the similarities between the natural and artificial worlds is the centrality of structural systems. Regardless of provenance, structure shapes the material life of virtually every form. Most generally, structure may be thought of as a reaction to forces at play in a gravitational field and as such bears intimate relation to the formal language of objects.

Structure is, whether explicitly revealed or not, a geometric language that is not only responsive to the paths of gravitational loads moving through matter but a force which organizes the tectonic vitality, organization, and space of architecture.

Arboreta use their collections as archives for research, documenting biodiversity among and within species. This work is critical to the survival of trees and our planet, as a diverse collection of trees is more likely to survive the environmental stresses which are increasing each year in scale, magnitude, and frequency.

Sectional Perspective

Arboreta are specialized botanical gardens that feature trees and other woody plants (but may also include other kinds of plants). They are places where endangered plants and trees are protected and propagated in order to preserve the biological diversity of our planet.

The project focuses on the relation of structure to architectural design and examines different techniques of expression and form finding through its development. There are fragments of architectural components assemble together are emphasized toward a conscientious expression of both the physical and aesthetic role of structure on form.

Water & Greenery

It celebrates the water chanel with aquaticplants as a symbol of its decorative and ecological richness to grow an example of the complex water system. The complex water system allowed the water to flow out in the form of a shallow surface through the arches and running along the colonades.

The the propotional and shapes frame the visual canvas colorised by diverse vegetations and creatures.

Atrium & Coutyard

The space embedded verandas as a circulation route surrounding the atrium and isolating the couryards and zones. plants contribute to reshapin the spatial pattern and layers, and provides a playful walking experience as well as fantastic views.

The opens present variations according to different landscapes and spatial functions. It’s closely combined with the curved edges of the arches and atrium, hence forming several arc-shaped transparent spaces, which integrate the nature, architecture, and sky into the same picture.

III. 291 ARCHI THEORY

Uni-High School Builiding

‘Communal Centre’ Collaboration: EZ. Haydon. 2021 Instructor _ Dana Cuff. Ryan Horne

Hosing Resilience & Programming which help communities form, stay in place, touch, and thrive, by creating the opportunities for people to be able to equitably and easily meet their own and neighbors’ needs. Healthcare, Education, Maker Space + Jobs Training, and Food Distribution are many broad categories of localized need which innovative programmatic relationships and architecture may make more accessible and less intimidating.

A primary objective of the projecrt is to demonstrate the power of program in the expanded field of architectural design. To that end, the phased term project presents an opportunity to create new programs that will cultivate new architectural and urban form.

There will develop programmatic and architectural ideas for rethinking approaches to a range of emerging and entrenched issues in Los Angeles:

1. sustainable, cost-effective, and timely adaptive re-use of low-quality construction;

2. emergency accommodations for unhoused and housing insecure Angelenos; 3. Targeted programs for community resilience; and 4. housing justice. The project will move from fieldwork, research, and humanistic study, to concept development, to spatial-demographics, to site design and building program, to schematic formal development.

Surplus Food from Retailers

Date label concerns account for 50% of food waste at the retail stage. Many retailers found it difficult to accurately order correct amounts of stock, leading to shortages and waste.

“Grocery stores in the neighborhood is not the cheapest one I can find. I prefer driving 15 minutes to Food 4 Less. But inflation is driving up all the price tags. I want cheaper food alternatives that’s close by.”

Sofía, 39 Mom with 3 kids

Bruno, 30 Unemployed

“It is not easy to get myself back on track without anything to begin with. I really want to get some money and a small shelter and slowly make my life back on track. I will do anything to make it happen if anyone would like to give me a chance.”

“It is tiring for me to commute 2 hours one-day from Santa Clarita Valley to here. I really want more time to rest and perhaps an accommodation nearby is good to save time and do something else.”

Jolyne, 43 High School Student

CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM ELIGIBLE AREA

HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT LOCATION

SCHOOLS GROCERY STORE

Area of school(s) and Census Block Group where at least 50 percent of the children are eligible for free or reduced price school meals

SITE/SITE PARKING

IX. STUDIO FIRE

Uni-High School Builiding

‘Communal Centre’ Individual. 2018 Tutor _ Robert Polgase

The project will engage with historical, theoretical, structural, and environmental ideas relevant to the specific project through the various set design practice.

As the brief to design new school facilities for a high school including renaissance centre, general learning area and sport court. The proposal should create a fresh image of school towards both urban society and internal campus.

With the objectives to enrich the school experience and improve educational quality covering diverse leanring methods, the design focuses on encouraging interactive communication among students, and building contact with social public.

City fucture should look forwards to the development of the educational institution. Through creating interactive social space to merge diverse learning methods together, the school provides students and social people with planty space and opportunities to have more interflow with urban society.

The exercise explores the architecture as a compendium to compus exhibition and urban conversation between high school and society. The criteria of the pedagogy inspired a set of architectural translation on from educational theory into spatial interations.

37°47′50″S 144°57′19″E

77 Story Street, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

As in 2016, 1,425 students attended the school

University Of High School

Since 1930, the school has occupied a site in Story Street, Parkville, adjacent to the Royal Melbourne Hospital (public service buildings etc.) and the Central Business District in Southern part, while in close proximity to the University of Melbourne in Eastern side.

Create interactive social space articulated by circulation, which encourages diverse learning process communicating.

Concept

Space presents the narratives of decent daily life, while the sequence of it implies the hierarchy of the life stages.

Sketch

The primary division of functions as active sports center and passive general leaning, are spatial articulated through strategy.

The Image Of The Action

The thesis translate the perception and experience to spatial setings. Going through the actions from zone to zone, it reveals the interactive daily matters whihc amplifies the current architectural conditions and defines the notion of presence and self-awareness.

Ground Floor

First Floor

Facade towards Royal Parade (public street)

Step 1

Link

Massing Generation

The design process pursues a form of decent spatial enlightment, which responded the site context, pegagogy theory and selfconciousness of space. It naturally created a atmospheric journey gothrough complex programs.

bounding surface of facade shape

Equal grids as measurement

Parametric Facade Matrix

Gradient triangular pattern to draw the central focus

Apply the gradient pattern to facade responding to central ecological skylight

Solid and transparent materials introduced the classification of private level, which is inspired by the temporal and progaming characters of space. The gradient facade focus on the central point of design - complex pavilion - functioned as entrance to campus, seperation of volumes, circulation gatharing, and articulation of space. The transition of geometries in square and triangle suggests the deconstruction in patterns.

ACTIVE CENTRAL PAVILION RENDER

Architecture is not only the shalter space, but the design is also functioned as an core public area of the campus. There is a ecological garden decently to calm down the busy circulation in this active entrance

X. STUDIO AIR

Paramatric Office Pod

‘Floating Pavilion’

Collaboration: Ann / Kelly. 2017

Tutor _Finnian Warnock

The core of this undergraduate design studio is the development of both design thinking and dexterity with tools, rom digital modelling to physical modelling. the theme of air, should be explored conceptually, metaphorically, structurally, or technologically The project aims to exercise in demanding greater synthesis of diverse requirements by organise 3D spatial order.

The design is to proposed to create a meeting space in an existing office. Our process of practice to realize the concept of ‘interlocking structure’ in computational exploration.

Taking the advatages of the parametric method by grasshopper, there were more potential in form generation and logic workflow. In the process, the paramertic desgn need the support kof physical model to test implementation of materials, construction and details.

The nature of the material also significantly defines the both distinction and connection of the places. Our understanding of meeting space is byond noise control, taking visual privacy and atmosphere into consideration as well. The pavilion is hidden to a certain extent yet not isolated.

& Generatinng Form

SITE PLAN & DIAGRAM

The brief is to design a meeting area with acoustic considerations, taking visual privacy in the room of a shared office. The design installation should functioned as not only a meeting pods, but also a partition.

lofting surface contours

Series boolean circles moving and scaling

Dots matrix into interpolate curves

Lofting Surface

The primary attempts tested simple lofting system. With the assistance of grasshopper, the shape is built based on the algorithm starting from a few points, then moving series of 2D-mateball curves. Through scaling, rotating and shattering, the surface gets distorted, weaved and coiled to form expected flow.

Kangeroo stimulation from tensive grids

Kangeroo stimulation from tensive grids

Kangeroo stimulation from tensive grids

Kangeroo stimulation from tensive grid and weighted points attach to brep

Form Selection With Infills

The final form we selected in black contains the criteria, covering the space all around to achieve our ‘hiding’ purpose, and providing two-side access as well. The shape for the grid shell filter the gaze and sound, yet maintains the background noise as an exclusive island .

Kangaroo Grid Shell

There are the second digital explorations according to grid shell algorithmic definitions. The basic grid is constructed from series strictly ordered points in flat plane. Experimenting different sets of anchor points, the flat grid would be lifted up by bending force. Through this logic, the Kangaroo plug-in can examine the desired forms with force bearing analysis. Therefore, the grid forms are bending and curving in more reasonable and aesthetic standard.

Atmospheric Render

As the proposal, the materials and form where let the light pulsate and undergo constantly the state of flow, merged together with the spatial surroundings.

People could strongly experience a transition of space by the charm of light and natural materials, which generate the meeting space organically and abstractly fall in between. There creates a sense of decent atmospheric definition for communication.

Stick double layer of panels with perpendicular grain.

FABRICATION & INSTALLATION

Reciprocal Interlocking System

In general, we explored and tested the simple idea of interlocking system which we think has the greatest developable potential. Within this system, joints are unnecessary for the whole form that the panels are functioned both as patterns and connections for structure. The friction promises that the patterns can curve itself upward, and lock the cane cores in grid structure.

Repeat the previous to add panels according to certain axis until this row is compacted

Reverse bend two adjacent sides of panel, while get cane core and Perspex cross passing through holes.

To knit more rows, assemble the second row of panels from the other end of Perspex rod.

Verticalaxis

Horizontalaxis

Physical Model

Utilized the clear Perspex as the material of main supporting structure. Through precise laser cut, Perspex rod can mold the form without unexpected deformation. Furthermore, the light structure creates a delightful sense of floating, weightlessness.

XI. SUMMER STUDIO

Enable the Intalligence of City ‘Triangular Tower’

Collaboration: Douglas / Momo / Wang. 2017 Tutor _ Mark Helme / Omid Kamval

This subject is a 2-week intensive design studio. The workshop is run by visiting staff from the Architectural Association, School of Architecture, UK and teaching staff from MSD. It introduces students to contemporary digital design techniques, toolset and workflow, striving for innovation in design resolution. The studio offers students with peer work experience and is supported by a program of seminars, lectures, design reviews and exhibition of outcome.

“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”

Aldo Rossi

Mage cities are the future. It is projected that two third of the world’s population would live in cities. The time of smart urban environments is coming, which are more intelligent for diverse demands of citizens for cultural communication, mechanical operation, and substance flows etc.

Globally metropolises have gained influence, who have become so powerful and effective that they expand based on occupants demands and desires. Big cities are attractors. They offer jobs, facilities and are by themselves a destination for anybody that believes in progress.

Project Site

Urban Map

The Map of Melbourne is in a rectangular grid network as shown. The CBD area is governed by groups of main roads, Swanston St. and Elizabeth St. which perpendicularly intersect with Bourk St., Collins St., Flinders St., etc. For the increasing demands of land use, the simple city grids form merely with main roads is not enough. There are small lanes emerging for various circulations, activities, and social communications within each block core surrounding the building clusters within the block cores.

Growing Matrix Diagrams

DEGRAVES ST.

Just across Flinders Ln. from Centre Place, Bustling Degraves Street is a typical Melbourne laneway which crowded with restaurants, hole-in-the-wall cafés, tiny shops, street art, tourists, workers, pedestrians. The lane is narrow yet effective overlapping of public walking area and private space. The canopy seats could be regarded as an extension of indoor dining activities sharing the space with passers-by, which is an interesting western catering culture phenomenon.

Exhibition Prototype

Since there is no additional glue applied for disk joints and triple-grouped cane sticks, which tightly get stuck completely relying on friction.

To emphasize the spatial quality, we explored different type of infill system.

After testing the surface effect of dense string weaving, paper mache, polypropylene, and fabrics, yet the high flexible nature of cane made these systems difficult to control. In the end, vacuum formed plastic is designed, which keeps a consistency with our tensile structure, materializes the space inside the skeletal system, and adds perspectives for high dense formation.

XII. AA VISITING_MIAMI

Sonic Sculpture & Beyond

‘Suspended Sonic Weave’

Collaboration: Chantal Matar / Yuting Yang 2016

Contribution: Concept-60% Program-40% Model-33%

Tutor _ Eric Goldemberg / Filippo nassetti / Alessio Erioli

This subject is a 2-week intensive design studio. We experienced the conceptual design process in terms of the topic of sonic sculpture, and explored it through parametric process.

The design were initially developed by grasshopper to stimulate the suspended hoses form under the gravity. The 3D printed joints are functioned as control parameters in different positions which defines distinctive shapes.

SONIC WEAVE

HUMAN INTERACTION

CONTROL POINTS TEST

GRASSHOPPER ITTERATIONS

MATERIAL SONIC FORM TEST

XIII. CONSTRUCTION DESIGN

Western Base

‘Section I Axo Drawing’

Individual. 2017

Tutor _ Luke Wilson

This subject articulates and tests the idea of construction as a process requiring cultural and technical choices, which covers the analysis of specific architectural ideas and arrive at the evaluation and selection of implementation alternatives. Mixing built examples and project proposals, It shown how to identify, evaluate and engage with the technological underpinnings of architecture.

Physical Model 1 : 20

Western Base, an environmentfriendly constructed building as my study case (Section I).

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Roof RB1 - 380 x 100 PFC Roof Beam, sitting on top of PC1, 2-M20 Bolted to FC1 to support MC1 frame

RB2 - 600 x150 section Glue Laminated18 exposed beams. Span 12000 (Supported between PC1s). Spacing 3000 Bolted on PC1 and RB1at each ends through10 plate bracket with seat

PU1 - Hyjoist I beam @900 cts. 2 Span continuous.

Fixing to RB2 using Strap Bracing with screws

RA1 - Roof Battens to be screwed on packer over PU1, and form a 1.5 degrees slope Batten - 45 x 90 timber battens @900 cts screwed fixing on RA1

RS1 - Corrugated roof metal Sheet Lapped using screw fixing with roof membrane on Battens

Box Gutter - 600 x 150 colorbond box gutter Sitting on steel angle support plate which fixed to RA1

MC1 Metal Cladding Wall

MC1 cladding on continuous 8mm R1.1 Thermal Breaker

Structure frame:

FC1 - 150PFC @3000. Vertical element, bolted fixed on 1CB1

G2 - 12-C150Girt @600. horizontal element

They are bolted together with typical plate 90mm R4.5 insulation fill the structure covered with PF and PLY inside surface

WG.29 Window Glazing

1700H x 5038W for 7 pieces of doubled glaze with Sub-sill sitting on BW2

PFC header with welded plate lintel support for window head

Folded colorbond window capping over 20mm R0.2 Thermal Breaker

BW2 Concrete Block cavity Wall

Block type:

390 x190 x 190 (L x W x H) core filled Block work inside

390 x 90 x 190 core filled Block work for veneer

70mm cavity with 20mm R2.4 Foilboard

There should have metal sheets as wall tie for stability of block wall Weephole at wall bottom Wall flashing at the wall base

First Floor Slab 80mm screen slab with SL82 reinforcement & Heating cores

Fabric design for 4.0 KPa live load

11060 x 1200 x 300. 1332-HC01 Hollowcore Plank

Supported by 1332-1CB1 Precast Concrete Beam

1CB1 - Precast Concrete Beam

5710 Length x 700 width x 600&220 Height - L shape section, with 12 x 12 Chamfers.

9-N24 Bars, btm&top going straight through Beam, With 39 cover to surface fixed by:

(40) N12-U 600 x 175 Bars, @150

6-N12 Bars, with 30 cover to surface, fixed by:

(20) N12-L 150 x 500 x 400 Bars, @300

5-N12-U 900 x 510 Bars, @100. At each end of beam

Coming out of beam to connect and be reinforcement for Screen Slab

Tied with (20)N12 540 x 570 square closed LIGS, @300

Connectionn Between 1CB1 and PC1

Each 1CB1 sits on the table of PC1

2 Location Dowels penetrating though 2-RB20-100 Reidbar for PC1 table top to 50Ø grout tubes for beam

PC1 - Precast Concrete Column

12 x12 Chamfers

8-N24 Bars going through PC1 straightly, tied with R10 LIGS @250 Btm&Top have 50-(1) set R10 LIGS, respectively.

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Footing schedule Mark Size(L x W)

12-N20-U Bars closed form & 4-N20- Bars table shape, tied with (3)N20 600 x 640LIGS (4)N20 200 x 590LIGS

Connection Between PF1 and PC1

PC1 sits on the top of PF1

8-N20 Dowels

Casting into Footing with 400 cogs at ends

Projecting 1000 into 50Ø PVC grout ducts at the bottom of PC1

50Ø PVC Ducts fully grout with flowable grout

Note: N20 Dowels covered with 50Ø ducts and N24 Bars for PC1 are tied within 2-R10-250 LIGS together.

150 Slab On Ground Hydronic Heating run across mesh bars, 20 MIN cover to face of slab & 75 MIN to adjacent cores or bar mesh SL72 top. Sl92 btm. 30 cover, Lap 1 grid + 25mm on 0.2 Polythne Memberane.

Slab to be formed over 100 MIN. Layer of compressible cardboard Void Former

Depth Reinforcement

BP1 600Ø Bored Pier 1200 MIN. SL92 x 2400 SQ IN Top of Slab

PF1 2000 x 2000 Pad footing 600 MIN. N20 bars @250 cts. btm. Each way N16 bars @250 cts. top. Each way SP1 450wide strip footing 600 MIN. 4-L12 btm&top

R10 LIGS @900 cts. N16 TIE bars @600 cts. 200cog base. 400 cog top 50mm Rigid insulation to full depth of footing edge

Note: all footing types have 15MPa mass concrete beneath to highly weathered rock

Soil Properties

Depth Structure Description

0.15m Soil Clayed silt, red brown/some basalt gravel

0.6-0.7m Soil Silt clay, red/brown, high plasticity

0.9-1.1m Rock Extremely high weathered basalt (~`50%) Silty clay, light brown

IX. WHENZHOU INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR CENTER

International Architectural Competition

Team: KSP Associates. 2020 Work, Beijing

‘SAILLING TO GATHER CRYSTALS, COLLECTING THE MOONLIGHT IN THE SEA’

The project aims to propose an exhibition center with complicated functions, including multiple exhinition halls, hotels and offices, and large commercial demanding. I worked as a group memeber to paticipate the brain storming and concept generation, as well as assist graphic diagram production.

FUNCTION ORGANIZATION

CIRCULATION ORGANIZATION

IX. SHENZHEN MANGROVE MUSEUM

International Architectural Competition

Team: KSP Associates. 2020 Work, Beijing

‘Landmark of City, Garden of Eden’

The project aims to propose a reserve musem to appeal people to protect ecology. Avoiding the rigid educational image of ordinary musuem, we preferred to fuze knowledge into entertainment. The whole architecture was fitted with landscape in shared spatial form. I contributed to intergrated design process and organized the final submission.

IX. LTCHC

Vilnius National Hall

International Architectural Competition

Team: PMA Associates. 2019 Work, Beijing

The National Concert Hall should become a Lithuanian culture symbol, an open and attractive space for cultural activities, education and relaxation, functionally integrated with the surrounding territory.

The design is dedicated to the idea of ‘House of Nation’, which will be conducive to comfortable journey and imaged as a monumental landmark in Vilnius.

Project Site

The project territory situated on the top of Taura’s Hill in Vilnius, which is the capital of the Republic of Lithuania and the centre of cultural life in Lithuania. It is a popular location among Vilnius residents and has an impressive panorama of the new city centre adjacent to the old town.

Measuring from the base, Tauras Hill is about 30-metres tall. The incline is uneven and forms a number of steps/ terraces.

Facade Modification

Reponds to the function programme, the National Concert Hall will be an open multifunctional art centre with a classical music concert hall and residing symphony orchestra.

As a modern arcihtecture, I applied parametric facade in design modification stage after competition to create matephor for hill form technically.