XIANGYU GUO PORTFOLIO Harvard University Graduation School of Design March1 Current Student, 09/2016- Present E-mail: xguo@gsd.harvard.edu Address: 14 Peabody Terrace, Apt22, Cambridge, MA, 02138 Telephone: +1 8579285129
[ RHYTHM OF THE RAIN ] _ Space For Feeling The Rain Site: Jilong, Taiwan / Time: May,2014 / Solo Work
My project is aimed at developing senses and Ups and downs of emotion , with rain as a media, in a linear space for feeling the rain. One can make the fullest use of each and every sense to see, smell, listen and touch the purest and the most powerful force of the natural world. The interactions between a man and rain in a pure space stimulate one’s most sensitive and powerful feelings for nature, the world and self, and help a man to slow down, stop, filter out their metropolitan vanities, relax and free their souls to reconstruct his relationships with his heart.
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PROBLEM RAISING
THE RAIN CONDITION OF THE SITE
Crowded Street
Dull Routine
Noisy Traffic
PHENOMENON ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION PROPOSING The modernity, vanity and distress which have filled our life block the way for us to understamd nature, to embrace it and ourselves. To relieve burden and build relaxed atmosphere, the peoject referenced the image dialogue technique, used rain as vehicle to build all kinds of scenes in architecture. Standing as a pure spatial language, it induces people to use their imagination to communicate with the air, the sun light, the water and the space itself. One can take full advantage of his various senses to fully feel the purest and the most powerful thing of nature. Meanwhile, the ups and downs in the emotion of the spatial sequence of the architecture exactly fit different stages of one’s life. Eventually, one can heal himself by knowing what he should really do and who he really is.
Polluted Air
Dense Plants
Difficult Employment
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IMAGES OF MEMORIES IN THE RAIN
Image dailogue technique grew out of psychogenic analysis and psychodynamic theories. It is so creative to combine psycholog them to imagine, in order to better understand their psychological conflicts berried in their subconsciousness and make them to logical adjustment. Only self-cognition could help us figure out what true freedom is which can lead us to happiness and joy. This design choses rain which represents awareness as the medium, for the rain itself stands for purge and baptism. According to nature by communicating with air, sun light, water and any other natural metarial in the pure space.
Memories come back to my childhood... Every creature is a friend of mine, Every little thing waves great magic to me. Whenever it rains, I feel so free Free as a bird, rain is my life
Filtered out the hustle and bustle of the city, let us slow down our steps, kiss the rain, feel the life, listen to our inner voice, and pick up our memory of innocence. Life is cool, when you view it another way. Heart is soft, when you feel it inside yourself.
‘Rain, rain, fall away, Keep the sin of hate at bay, Love is coming here to stay, Let my fears and sorrows run away.’
gical analysis, hypnosis, humanistic psychology, psychology of eastern culture and so on. It aims at curing the visitors by inducing o go deep into their subconscious to change the image. Image dialogue is more like self-cognition than a treatment or psycho-
o the image dailogue theory, one can feel free to imagine, relax his sprit and go deep into his subconsciousness to know his true
The dust replaced in hoisted roads, The birds jocoser sung; The sunshine threw his hat away, The orchards spangles hung.
Embracing the rain, Feeling the drops kissing my face, Life is a dance in the rain, Let it flow in its misterious way.
Piercing the drizzle and the sky, The sun’s rays go into the air, Time keeps going on, As I await a new day to come.
Freshness of air is invading my breath, The echo of drops falling, The purity of the sky, Let me be myself now, in unity with the universe...
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HUMAN INTERACTION WITH RAIN Properties as rain intensity, vapor density and water area in space will directly influence human sensory system and then affect experiencers’ mental feelings.
DETAIL DESIGN _ SPACE FOR REFINEMENT
EMOTION STREAMLINE
Peaceful And Quiet
Utter Innocence
Pursuit Of Desire
Vast And Hazy
Pursuit Of Faith
Back To Inner Peace
Unity Of Ego And The Cosmos
EMOTION BOX
Bamboo Grove
Space For Pleasure
Sightseeing Platform
Forest Of Confusion
Tower For Faith
Space For Refinement
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TYPICAL SPACES AND ISOMETRIC VIEWS BAMBOO FOREST - ENTRANCE
SPACE FOR PLEASURE
FOGGY FOREST ＆ TOWER FOR FAITH
DETAIL DESIGN _ BAMBOO FOREST
SPACE FOR REFINEMENT
SPACE FOR ZEN
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PLANS
Bamboo Forest
Space For Pleasure
Tower For Faith
Foggy Forest
Space For Refinement
Sp
pace For Zen
DETAIL DESIGN _ TOWER FOR FAITH
BROKEN-OPEN PERSPECTIVE VIEW
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[ SLOWING DOWN THE TIME ] _ A Club For Serenity Starting From The Study Of Windows
Site: Boston / From GSD Core2 / Solo Work / Instructor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
Nowadays We are pretty much at the mercy of our screens and phones,controlled invisibly by the hustle and bustle of daily routines.We are so used to be stimulated by the dazzling outside world with its myriad temptations, and our attention is so used to jumping from one thing from another, as we settle into meditation our drill bit is dull. I hope to create a space where people could do nothing but just stay still, embraced by the serenity, repetitive elements and rhythm of the surrounding environment, so as to bore into our mind, watch the light, be aware of our breath. And at any moment your mind could explode into the universe and inner peace. And then enlightment may happen .
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WINDOW PRECEDENTS STUDY
In Zen they say: if something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen ,thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting.Meditation is meant to be boring. You stay still and use your attention lick a drill to bore into the mystery of existence. In this sense,Boredom is another kind of engagement, or even enlightment. The first project of CORE2 in GSD focuses on the exploration of windows as the starting point serving the club defined by the student. My window works in different ways with the property of repetition, slightly swinging or moving. The seemingly boring and monotonous space provides individuals with different levels and senses of stillness and serenity, without perceiving the change of time and isolated with and from the dynamic outside world.
MEDITATION OF WATER REFLECTION
Physical Model
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FLOATING ROOM - DAY-DREAMING MEDITATION
Physical Model
MEDITATION OF INFINITY
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LIGHT FOREST - WALKING MEDITATION
Physical Model
SITTING MEDITATION
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[ SPIRITURAL RENEWAL ] _ A Semi-permanent Community For The Post-earthquake Area Site: Kathmandu, Nepal / Time: June, 2015 / Solo Work
After an earthquake, rescuers care more about relief supply materially for survivors, while somewhat ignoring spiritual as well as psychological renewal of the victims. Aiming at exploring the post-earthquake reconstruction of the complete personality of individuals, the project is based on research of Maslow’s Needs-Hierarchy Theory and analysis of psychological deficit of the survivors. The post-disaster community for spiritual renewal helps victims regain sense of belonging, self-esteem and sense of self-fulfillment by the spatial layout design.
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SITE CONDITION The heavily populated Kathmandu valley has a 300-metre-deep layer of clay beneath it.This reflects and focuses the seismic waves of an earthquake within the valley, resulting in what is known as soil liquefaction.This occurs when vibrations cause solid ground to turn in to something like quicksand.As a result, buildings and roads can be swallowed by the earth.
Gorkha Epicentre
NEPAL
Mount Everest
Gorkha Sindhupalchok Camps for displaced people Kathmandu Bhaktapur
Camps for displaced people The average number of casualties
1,000+ 500-1,000 100-500 50-100
CASUALTY LOSS CONDITION
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NUMBER OF EARTHQUAKES IN/NEAR NEPAL (More than 4.0 richter scale)
Magnitude
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A magnitude-7.8 earthquake that shook Nepal in April 2015 killed some 9,000 people and injured 23,000 more, but the death toll in the valley of Kathmandu could have been more worse. Due to frequent and aperiodic earthquakes, Napal were suffering from loss of life and personal injury in decades . Earthquakes bring damage to individuals economically, physically and psychologically.
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Solukhumbu
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Tibet/China
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Sankbuwasabhu
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Bangaladesh
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Sindupakhowk
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Khotang
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Humla Solukhumbu
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Bajura
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Border
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2013 6.0
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Bajura
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2011 6.0
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Taplajung
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Lamjung
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Bhutan
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India
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POST-EARTHQUAKE STATE
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Rotpa Rukum
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Solukhumbu
MENTAL ANALYSIS BASED ON MASLOW MODEL
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According to maslow’s hierarchy of needs higher needs such as social needs and esteem are not recognized until one satisfies the needs basic to existence.
Once physiological needs are met, one’s attention turns to safety and security in order to be free from the threat of physical and emotional harm.
The first level of higher level needs are social needs. Social needs are those related to interaction with others.
After a person feels that they “belong”, the urge to attain a degree of importance emerges. Esteem needs can be categorized as external motivators and internal motivators.
Self-actualization is about the quest of reaching one’s full potential as a person. Unlike lower level needs, this need is never fully satisfied; as one grows psychologically there are always new opportunities to continue to grow.
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SPATIAL SYNTHESIS
Layout of small-sized residential units based on triangular grids.
SITE PLAN
Gray space serving for communication and traffic conneting residential units.
Scope definition for Medium-sized residential units .
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Addition of work space - including workshops and parterres - within each medium-sized residential unit scope.
Public activity facilities were set.
Addition of mind recovery space, including a recovery center, cemeteries, meditation pavilions.
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DETAIL DESIGN_MEDITATION PAVILION
PHYSICAL MODEL
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TYPICAL GROUND FLOOR PLAN SPACE FOR ACTIVITY
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2. billiards 3. chess room
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6. ping-pong 7. reception room
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WORKSHOP
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MIND RECOVERY CENTER
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4. personalized therapy room 5. group therapy room 6. counseling room
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7. supervising room 8. information desk 9. outdoor activity therapy field 10. waiting room
RESIDENTIAL UNIT
1. living room 2. kitchen 3. dinning rom 1
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6. single room 7. room for couple 3
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8. room for a family of three 9. room for teenagers 10. room for single parent family
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To dwell is to garden. - Martin Heidegger
DETAIL DESIGN_ PARTERRE
DETAIL DESIGN_GRAY SPACE
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[A THEATER WITHIN THEATER] _ A Student Center of Berkelee Musical School Exploring Immersive Experience. ( Nominated for Harvard GSD Platform11) Site: Boston / CORE3 at Harvard GSD/ Solo Work / Instructor: Belinda Tato
Nowadays, people usually pay much to watch a fantastic performance or to learn an instrument. But art should be accessible and close to everyone, which is the essence of art. So in this project I try to reestablish the relationship between the public and the music-related personnels, to create an immersive experience in a buil ding with rich “interior facade“ , learning from stage design strategies. I try to set up various stages and microclimates in this building that the whole building itself is a theater. The interface between the public and private are blurred. When stages are everywhere in this building, which is the real theater? Who is the real actor and who is the audience? Which is the stage and which is the spectator seats? For me, everyone can be an actor, a performer, or a spectator, at the very moment, very place.
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INTERACTIVE WEBSITE DESIGN WITH SOUND (with weblink) The diagram shows the general daily routine of musical school students, professors and related staff and the general timetable of the public , considering different groups and ages of people such as streetplayers〠elderly citizens. Their encounters will provoktively create some activities that the music school could give back to the public and bring the community into the music school,like ,after-work interest learning classes, yoga class, the elderly choir, the street player performance,singing group, mini-open- karaoke, religious prayer fellowship,ect.
EXPLORING THE RICHNESS OF THE VOID SPACE IN SECTION SERIES
-- Voids Happening In The Center
Here’s a website link which is an animation with sound about 1 minute 30 seconds. https://rainbowyu0515.github.io/final_demo/ After the animation, you could also click on the buttons . Click on one of the grid you could hear the sound of that activity, click once more to let that sound stops. You can at the meantime listen to several sounds mixed if you click on several of them without the second click for each one. At the left top corner, there is a button “stop” to stop all the sounds. The diagram and web is designed to simulate the potential immersive experience when the public wander inside a building where different types of music and sound of the environment like talking, traffic or noise are encountered.
FINALIZING THE RICHNESS OF THE VOID SPACE IN SECTION SERIES
-- Voids Happening All Around
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CONCEPT MODEL AS PROVOCATION Using “theater� as a metaphor, I try to think about the whole building as a blackbox within a theater that each space is a stage viewing and being viewed by people on other stages. Applying stage design strategies, I employ layering as a model-making technique exploring the richness, depth and atmosphere of a space, spatial relationship and visual connection.
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2nd Floor Plan Ground
2nd Floor Plan
Sculptural Section Models Testing Richness Of The Void Space
Section Model for the Building
BUILDING SENARIO (selected) I build several zoom-in building senarios to explore spatial relationship and then develop into the whole building. This showing senario illustrates city as a background, rehearsaling (as a bridge in the air), studio theater, classrooms, workshop, shopping and public gathering happening around the central void space as different stages.
Detail
Facade Testing
Detail
Detail
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[ A SHED FOR NOTHING AND EVERYTHING] _ A film Studio Design Studying a Shed Structure
Site: Boston / Time: April, 2017 / Solo Work / Instructor: Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
A shed is a location, offering not only facility but place, full of atmosphere and promise. The shed is in itself cinematic, not fore but background, a machine but also a theater, a sign and a busy small town in itself and a landscape and many, all at the same time and constantly changing. It is also a very large object, one of several, at the edge of the city and at its entrance by water and air. A shed is performed by its secrets. It is defined by the way it is used rather than what it is. A shed is for nothing and for everything. It is full of possibilities - it is for anything. It relies on potential, not actual. It can house anything and that is its beauty, the undefined pragmatism, the openness and the possibilitis that come with them. It is not grand; it is subtle. It is the palace of nothing, and we all have one. This project explores the shell structure as its modularity applied to spatial design serving different functions requiring various spatial qualities. Physical model making is highly emphasized in the experimental study.
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PRECEDENT STUDY- SHELL STRUCTURE Bacardi Bottling Plant, Felix Candela, 1960
Shell As Sheds - Modularity
Shell Made Of Hyperbolic Paraboloid
Shell Connected With Frame Structure
TRANSFORMING TO FILM STUDIO DESIGN- THE STUDY OF MODULARITY How could a modular system serve spaces with different sizes and functions?
Studying Unit Structure
Combining Shell With Frame Structure In A Unit
Frame Structure Units Assemble In A Linear Way To Accommodate Different Functions
ADJUSTING UNIT COMBINATION AND DETAILING UNIT FUNCTION
Cutting the shell made of hyperbolic paraboloid into different sizes to serve various functional space, dropping the small-size unit to the ground, a skylight is created naturally as a gap between the two shell units of height difference while sharing the same surface line structure.
Frame structure lower level as stages of different sizes
Horizontal Circulation Space surrounding the stage
Serving core happens where two units meet creating a leftover space
Frames underneath a Shell to create a flexible structural system
THE STUDY OF SURFACE How could different surfaces in an architecture system be produced by different types of lines?
Surface Structure Exploring - Physical Model Testing Another Possiblity Of Making The Shell Using A Waffle Grid. Contouring Lines
hyperbolic parabola
Frame Structure Lines
Combination of Lines Creating Different Surface
Surface Formed Of Different Types Of Lines
Final Model For The Film Studio
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PLAN AND SECTION
1’ = 1/64”
CONCEPT OF SURFACE FORMED OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF LINES
Surface Formed Of Contouring Lines Surface Formed From Hyperbolic Paraboloid
1’ = 1/32”
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[ HIDDEN HOUSE ] _ Tourist Reception Center Site: Jingxing, China / Time: May,2013 / Solo Work
My design, extracted from classic gardens, Chinese landscape painting and the elements of the local architectures, tries to put the routes with their traffic function in the active combination of the different layers of the architectures so to leave the tourists a strong impact from the space. Meanwhile with the combination of the exteriorization and centralization of the functional space, people could have more interesting experience on each node on the path. Every step they move, the views change. Interrelationship is set up between tourists and the field.
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TRADITIONAL CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS The same core idea of landscape paintings and gardens is to seek nature. This is a very important and philosophical concept in Chinese gardens and classical Chinese landscape paintings. To make the manual work just like it is naturally formed is the beauty they all share. The classical Chinese garden uses tridimensional distribution to show us the views from different time. It is a feast for our eyes, our ears and twinkling around our touch. Inner peace is what the one who is in the garden would ever long for, far away from this noisy world. The Chinese landscape paintings, however, use paper and ink to show us those views on a plane, which leave us much space for imagination.
WAYS OF SEEING AS PAINTINGS The picturesque view method is exactly from the unique view of Chinese landscape painting, combining with the spatial layout of garden and then being used on architecture. Visitable and livable is about the living situation indoor. Partially blocked is one of the three main methods in garden designing. As a main thread, it is inspired by a Chinese Classical garden, Liu Garden, in which the rockery blocks each other, but the travelers here and there hints the available space ahead. In the long twisted galley, the close shot is sheltered by another, yet the distant one is dim but visible. In this design, the attempt is to make things except routes like walls, doors and windows to associate with routes thus to shelter the closer route and present the distant route becomes the ideal model.
TRANSCODE FROM A PAINTING TO ARCHITECTURE
ROUTES AND SPATIAL TYPES OF CHINESE CLASSICAL GARDEN
landscape semi-open space sight viewing node entrance direct connection
The spatial composition of garden is very complicate. The entire sequence is usually divided into several related sub sequences. And those sub sequences are just the united form of the diagrams above. As the Liu Garden shown in the figure, the key to organize of large landscape architecture sequence is to use comparison methods such as big and small, sparse and dense, open and close to make it rhythm. What’s more, the assistant of spatial processing is needed to guide people from one space to another until through the whole process.
FORM OF ENCLOSURE AND LANDSCAPE LAYOUT OF CHINESE CLASSICAL GARDEN
Most Chinese gardens like to do the landscape by using inner landscape surrounded by outer verandah. Different sights ranges along the verandah and crossing paths. In a 2D view, the spatial node inside the verandah enhanced the centripetal sense, the combination of exteriorization and reserved outside the verandah not only presents better visual effect which is more open and has more variations, but also makes the sight seeing more convenient, to watch distant mountains close shot. My project cites this method to use functional architectural space instead of landscape node in gardens in order to achieve the combination of exteriorization and reserved. - 28 -
SITE CONDITION
The reception centre is located at DaLiangjiang Village, the west part of JingXing County. This village was honored as the “Chinese Historical and Cultural famous Village”. Because DaLiangjiang Village is hidden by the surrounding mountains, the original style of the structures of Ming and Qing Dynasties are kept intact. Together with dark tiles and blue bricks, the local rocks were used as the main building materials for these ancient structures with wooden windows and doors. They are of great value for the study of ShanXi local dwelling houses and Jin Merchants’ culture.
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LANDSCAPE VIEWING NODE ON THE SIGHTSEEING ROUTE
gallery
watching the willow yard off site
watching clouds from outer gallery
Liu Garden twisted path
BLOCK GENERATION
from gallery to rain privilege
ROUTE SETTING
Function Circulation willoe yard
Sightseeing Circulation
inner gallery
Outdoor landscape
FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION
lobby
outer gallery
multifunctional hall rumpus room
VIP room accounting office preparation room
sales hall
control office
show guide room counter
kitchen service room dinning hall
information center
service counter
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PLAN
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1. storeroom 2. switching room 3. reception office 4. control room 5. canteen
6. VIP room 7. lobby 8. multifunctional hall 9. dining hall 10. podium
11. Information center 12. hallway 13. service counter 14. showroom 15. guide room
16. storehouse 17. sales hall 18. veranda 19. administration office 20. conference room
21. accounting office 22. infirmary 23. postal office 24. teahouse 25. private room
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PERSPECTIVE
1-1 SECTION
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[ CITY CAMPUS ] _ Vertical Educational Complex For Future Site: Chongqing, China / Time: August, 2015 / Cooperative Work Collaborator: Rong Wang, Ting Chen Contribution: Breaking Page - Detail of The Exhibition Hall / Individual Role Reversal In Education Process / From Process Of Modern Education To Types Of Functional Space / Form Evolution Based On Function Analysis / Site Analysis / Spatial Types / Handmade Model / Detail Design - Coworking Space / Detail Design - Library / Outdoor Landscape On Steps / Function Model
As the urban population becomes denser, men are faced with the scarcity of space available for future architecture. So there is chance that campus buildings occupying large area in the past will reach up to sky in the future. Meanwhile, relations between education, living and working will appear more interactive. Accordingly, we propose to carry out a plan of a highrise ‘city campus’ which strengthens traditional space supporting teaching and learning in the meantime introducing innovative spacial elements in response to future need.
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SITE ANALYSIS Located in Chongqing city in China, the site lies between A District of Chongqing University and Jialing River Shore Road. It is part of old neighborhoods of the city. Due to inadequate guiding as well as space design, the area shows lack of energy, with oversize altitude difference setting back seriously communication between the levels. Consequently, we hope to put up with a project here, a comprehensive city campus aiming to activate the radiating area, which involves public activities, cooperation among colleges and enterprises ,functions serving teachers and students and so on.
HANDMADE MODEL HANDMADE MODEL
SPATIAL TYPES The project takes fully advantage of different gradients from indoor to outdoor to create spaces with different sizes and could provide different functions. In the appearance, the gradient design creates a unique form of continuous climbing in outdoor and various functions of the indoor to fulfill the continuity and diversity of people’s experience.
SPACE FOR RELAXING
SPACE FOR RECREATION
SPACE FOR EXHIBITION
SPACE FOR COMMUNICATION
SPACE FOR READING
SPACE FOR WORKING DETAIL DESIGN_LIBRARY
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OUTDOOR LANDSCAPE ON STEPS The campus city we want to build is wrapped in mental and glass. We use a contradictory form to answer the evolution between tradotional and future education space.The regular towers with varous-scaled square rooms represents traditional education space. The spiral space between two towers represents the future education space. We also use the spiral form to respond to the need of local people in the bottlom of the campus. Various continuous outdoor scenes activate the whole rigion. Meanwhile, they bring different experience and visual joyness for people who enjoy architecture.
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FUNCTION MODEL Future campus is a concept of city which is not just education space but also satisfy the needs of local people.The regular space in two towers combines with various patterns of classrooms ,similiar office rooms, shared dormitories and open public hotel which brings benifits to the uinversity. Compared with the regular space, the spiral space is the most active part in the campus providing education functions like meeting,library, museum, exhibition,entertainment space like business, cafe, exercise, band. Also, the bottom side of the campus make use of the platform to provide great perspective of the river.
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TYPICAL SECTIONS There are various forms of indoor space, like the exhibition space consists of big ladders, fully functional library and rest bar, co-working space for interdisciplinary discussions. Modern characteristics and future trends reflects the inside-out, top-down thoughts and arrangements of designer.
DETAIL DESIGN_COWORKING SPACE
TYPICAL PLANS
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4. lecture hall
7. coworking space
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2. multi-sized classroom
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8. reading room
11. flexible sharing room
3. multi-functional classroom
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[ OTHER WORK ] _ Fine Art and Design
Poster Design/ App Design/Architecture Pen Sketch / Ancient Architecture Mapping - The Elevation Of The Hall Of Eminent Favor Of Tai Tombs In Western Qing Tombs / Industrial Design / Watercolor / Wood Block / Oil Painting / Pencil Sketch
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For MIT WUMING Drama Club 2018 Spring Drama GOD OF CARNAGE For Harvard GSD 2018 China Trip Wuzhen Forum
POSTER DESIGN (PUBLISHED)
DIGITAL CLOCK DESIGN (WORKABLE) from MIT course DATA VISUALIZATION project1 - 12 clocks design (selected3)/ Tool: p5. JavaScript Goal: Thinking about different ways to express time on a clock rather than a traditional way. Weblink: https://rainbowyu0515.github.io/viscourse/clock/ I use diagonal lines of square as axis to show intertwined time. Both diagonal lines are devided into 60 cells, one digonal line shows the change of seconds and the other show the minutes. The whole square is sliced into 12 pieces and each one of them represent one hour, the past hours will be colored while the remaining hours of the day will remain white. During one day, the whole animation will run two cycles.
This clock works pretty much like our traditional clock. Hour, minute and second are represnted using three concentric atcs, the innermost one with deepest color shows the change in seconds, the middle one in minutes and the outmost one in hours, like the upper design, the outmost donut is sliced into 12 arcs, so the whole animation will also run two cycles in one day.
This one is the most complex one in my design. The circle is devided into 144 cells, 24 cells for hour, 60 for minute and the other 60 for second. The ticks are different in length so that users can read the time easily. The cells for hour are colored in red, for minute are colored in yellow and for second are colored in blue. The current time can be read clockwise and they are connect with two thin arcs.
This clock also embodies the concept of Minimalism. Taking away the three hands from an traditional clock, instead using color-coded icons to represent time.
CONCEPTURAL APP DESIGN This design is in a simple and fresh style. It establishes a connection between weather and our life. In our daily life, not everyone is a meteorological expert, a lot of the exact numbers hold little meaning to the users. Therefore, this app first tries to give an overall perception of the latest weather(such as using cold colors to represent cool weather and warm colors the opposite). Meanwhile, it filters out the information people most concerned about. The first view clearly reveals the current weather conditions, in the form of animation and visualization charts of the temperature changes over the following week. By clicking a specific day we can get to know the detailed weather information about this day and here we come to the second view. What I wanna strengthen in the second page are the wearing advise and the weather alarm. Since most often people read a weather app mainly for choosing their clothes as well as means of transporta-tion. They are more palpable than the cold numbers. In addition, in the weather alarm, there are chosen music pieces in a music library related to different weather and moods. When you click the note button, you’ll get to a page where you could set the alarm for a day, then you gonna be waken up by the music related to the weather of that day and have a general perception of the intraday weather. (the alarm page has not been designed yet)
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THE TEA TABLE DESIGN Perspective 1
Perspective 2
T - Structure
W - Structure
Internal Clapboard
Detail Of The Holder
The tea table in this design is foldable, it could be folded into a cube when not in use to save space. The way to make it foldable is to use to two L shaped supports which could turn outward and in order to make them stable, gears are used (because of the shape changing of wood, the gears are made of resin). When the supports are opened, they could be of T style or W style to fit different needs. And there is an interlayer in the tea table to put some small things like cups.
FINE ART Waterolor
Wood Block
Physical Models
Model From Core1, March1 At GSD - Project4: Generic/Specific - A Cricket Club (Published on GSD PLATFORM10 )
Model From PQmesh Study - A Semi-Public Pavilion
Pencil Sketch
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