DIALOGUE Yinlei Pang's Portfolio Selected Works 2016-2021
PROLOGUE DIALOGUE
Jiangyin city, where I grew up, is generally in a relatively traditional atmosphere of Chinese water town. Since childhood, people in my memory have been enjoying breeze in the alley, chatting across courtyards, splashing in the water at the ferry, and having dinner on the patio. Around 2008, with the development of economy, China carried out a vigorous wave of demolition and reconstruction. The new city and the old city stand back-to-back at the two ends of an era, and there is no possibility of dialogue between them. The demolition of my childhood neighborhoods has led me to my thinking of and pursuit in architecture that architecture should bring about a context that encourages dialogue. I often find it crucial in our time and a new building should convey a dialogue between collective memory.
CONTENTS 01 / Typification Printing Factory Spring 2022
02 / Invention Public System Fall 2021
03 / Modern Translation
Community Center Spring 2018
04 / Axis Rotation Factory Transformation Fall 2019
05 / Suspension Student Center Spring 2019
06 / Intervention Urban Ecological System Summer 2021
Other works Fall 2016-2021
01 Typification
Design Studio in Columbia University Type: Architectural Design Type: Factory Date: February-April 2022, 14 weeks Collaborator: Siyu Xiao & Yuening Jiang My Role: Chief Designer Location: New York, United States Instructor: Mimi Hoang This project focuses on the architectural corollaries and opportunities for innovation at the scale of the factory, its spatial components and its relation to the city and productive landscapes.It seeks to bring the factory back to the Gowanus Canal with its industrial memory and to f ind a new model of factory organization and the new architectural space it brings in the context of this era.The project is trying to propose a new typology for factories and a new role of factories within cities, as an educational amenity, to better serve the local community.
Spatial strategy The project sits next to the existing buildings with a continuous shared backyard. The sequence of the interior space is dominated by 5 double height spaces, starting from the main entrance to the backyard. These spaces vary in shape, function and also indoor/outdoor, from Entrance open plaza, large-scale machine printing, inner courtyard, education-based printing to the backyard.
Spaces of different scales To create different zones while keeping a fluid connection between them, the project uses the structural system of arches and the reversed arches. Some spatial typologies here demonstrate the overlapping movements of visitors and workers. The open and transparent space creates a welcoming environment for working and learning activities to happen at the same time. In order to better organize different scales of printing manufacture, The interior double height spaces act as cores to facilitate large-scale print. Surrounding these cores are some relatively enclosed spaces for small-scale and individual manufacture. Some of these small spaces are connected to the large space as a supplementary zone. Between these cores we develop some linear working zones, which also work as connections. The structure also highlights some gathering and dispersive spatial qualities. The ramp system is layered on the structural system, existing both as an educational passage, exposing the printing process to the public, and a ceiling forming spaces with various heights to allow different scales of printing happening under.
Flow Analysis The south facade of the factory uses the solution of folded arches, creating a welcoming waterfront passway. It also continues the porosity of our factory into the canal, reclaiming the waterfront as an attraction for local communities. When a local resident comes to visit the factory, he will walk upstairs to the ramp next to the large-scale printing space, watching how workers print architectural components and furniture. He could also see other workers carrying raw materials might pass through the ramp on the other side. Then he arrives at the space for self-printing machines, uses paper printing and 3d printing machines. Pass along the linear printing space and walk down the stairs, he will breathe fresh air at the inner courtyard. If he continues his journey, he will meet artists and designers printing their work in a gathering zone.
02 Invention
Design Studio in Columbia University Type: Architectural Design Type: Public System Date: September-December 2021, 14 weeks Collaborator: Haotong Xia & Qingyang Yu My Role: Chief Designer Location: New York, United States Instructor: Andrés Jaque The politics of architecture are the politics of prescription.Prescription is in the details. This project begins by studying the details of the Shed. The Shed mobilises huge resources to achieve flexible architectural results. Politically, it moves as a strategy to privatize public resources. Its real attitudes against the public are contradictory to its concept of flexibility and bringing diversity to the city.This project is an invention which is counter-doing and constructing alternatives to the Shed with the funding limit that was invested for the Shed. But this one is intended to be, not only fictionally flexible but actually flexible.
Details of The Shed
Analysis of the Shed - From details When looking at the details of the Shed, we find it is full of wheels. Eight wheels at the bottom called bogies and a rack and pinion system on the roof of the base building allow the Shed to deploy on a rail and occupy the public plaza. The Toothed Wheel system allows the Shed to operate the side glass doors and elevate the windows while deploying. The drive wheel and roller system allow the Shed to deploy curtains and control the inside space. The wheel and track system on top of the Shed allows the window cleaning machine to adapt to different positions and contributes to the maintenance of this shiny icon. Moving is a big thing for the Shed, but moving is also making things complicated, which means additional cost: The dynamic conditions will lead to thicker beams and more columns of the foundation, more steel materials in the deployable frame, and a more complex structural system. In total, moving added 1666 ton steel, 168,100 kilojoules of energy, 4277 ton Co2 emissions, and about 3 million dollars cost. Politically, the Shed moves as a strategy to privatize public resources. Its real attitudes against the public are contradictory to its concept of flexibility and bringing diversity to the city.
Condition I
Condition II
Concept - Actually Flexible The design is counter-doing and constructing alternatives to the Shed with the funding limit that was invested for the Shed. But this one is intended to be, not only fictionally flexible but actually flexible. Here is the design - Possibility Maker. Each of them has an engine to support its transformations, and all the mechanical systems in the Possibility Maker learn from the Shed, but on a smaller scale and are used with different proposals. Instead of occupying and privatizing public space, the Possibility Maker is unfolding publicness as a means for collective emancipation. The bogie system in Possibility Maker is to help it break the limits of rails and travel to every corner of the city. The kinetic system helps it to extend the interior space vertically to respond to different conditions. The toothed wheel system opens both sides of Possibility Maker to let the space flow from interior to exterior. The drive wheel and roller system enable the shutter door on the back to be rolled up to open the interior space. The wheel and track system is under the roof in Possibility Maker, which allows the lights and projection to move and reposition them for different demands.
outer boggie
roof
back shutter doors
left door
right door
top rail
System I
System II
System III
Rail length:1,660,000 meters
Rail length:1,590,000 meters
Rail length:620,000 meters
Number of cars in total:1000
Number of cars in total:1500
Number of cars in total:500
Design of system The Shed is not located where the public really needs an art atmosphere. We first mapped out all the art institutions in New York City. Obviously, Manhattan is already full of them. Who really needs public space are the areas out of Manhattan Island.The design aims at taking advantage of the existing rail system. We summarized 3 systems from the existing ones, within which all rails are connected. The first system connects most of the rail stations and it majorly serves new arrivals to NYC. The second system connects Manhattan and the rest. And the third system majorly travels in Manhattan Island. New carriers we propose will be traveling on this rail system, and this new design of the carrier will be flexible enough to offer different types of public space to the whole city.
Management Systems Practically speaking, Possibility Maker requires three different management systems: one under MTA’s management, one cooperates with some NGOs, and one online to respond to immediate needs.
Free Mode of S
Student Activity
Condition I : Deadend Site: Sunnyside Yard Queens Deadend provides space for long-term deployment and a place for the rail-to-road transition. Sunnyside Yard Queens is in a diverse neighborhood with a number of schools around. There are huge demands on job training and workforce development.Possibility makers will come to the area, expand themselves, connect with each other, let the space flow, and offer platforms for education and training, babysitters for people who come with their kids, and shared kitchens for dining.
Site Plan
Condition II: By the River Site: Jamaica Bay There is a pollution problem in Jamaica Bay.When demand for public service is low at midnight, Possibility Makers will be dispatched to the waterside and cooperate with NGOs to help purify the water. The trash collectors are fixed on the rails to collect trash, and when the Possibility Makers come at night, pipes on the cars will be connected to the collectors, and the purification will start. Every night, 300 million gallons of water will be purified by 1200 cars.
Condition III : Abandoned Stations Site: City Hall Station There are 12 abandoned stations around the city. Some of them are totally blocked from the rail system. And some of them are still accessible for subways, only the platform is abandoned. This City hall station is partially abandoned, which sits around three important city courts in downtown Manhattan. Most of the current legal services are located south of the city hall, far from the courts. Therefore, possibility makers will be sent to this station and offer non-profit legal services for people in need.
Condition IV : Stations in Use Site: Stations in Sunnyside and Elmurst The library circulation among students in Sunnyside and Elmhurst is higher than the average of New York City. However, the library budget in this area is at the lowest level in New York City. Therefore, we set some of the traveling possibility makers passing through stations in this area as libraries on the rail to supplement the gap between budget and usage.
03 Modern Translation Design Studio in Southeast University Type: Individual Architectural Design Date: May-July 2018, 8 weeks Function: Community Center Location: Nanjing, China Instructor: Zheng Wang This project is sandwiched between reality and traditional memory. In the face of the urbanization process, this project explores how traditional communities should survive, and how modernity and shared memory can generate a context of dialogue through architectural design. In view of the problems existing in the old community, I found that the treatment methods of the Chinese classical gardens that originally existed on this land provided a perfect solution. A modern translation of a traditional garden may also provide the right context for the dialogue.
The large road scale
The absence of grey space
Negative waterfront relationships
Confusing line of sight
The site: A place with inperfactions The site is located in Nanjing, China, which is filled with old houses. Due to the high residential density, the relationship between the views of the site is very chaotic. What is more, The site is located at the intersection of small scale residential area and large scale urban streets. Thus the design tends to face the problem of line of sight between different scales.
The Master-of-Nets Garden, 1174
The Garden of Cultivation, 1541
The Fangta Park, 1978
Riverside Passage, 2019
Method proposed by Chinese gardens Chinese gardens pay great attention to the relation of views. In gardens, the change of sight in the process of recreation is often affected by the spatial operation of walls. In the development process from classical garden to modern garden, the relationship between wall and sight has always existed, though the materials and details have changed.
Inactive space
Large scale interface
Continuous roadway
Facing the river
Functional Configurations
The form turns its back to the negative space, enclosing a pond-like courtyard in the classical garden. The large-scale function faces the urban road, and the small-scale function continues the residential area so that the relationship between streets and alleys is continued. The walkway connects the blocks in series.
Translation: views - walls - elements
In the discussion of the relationship between streamline and views, several different translation modes are extracted through typological analysis of walls and the walkway attached to them. These types eventually differentiate into operational forms in different functional spaces.
Modern Translation of Traditional Chinese Gardens Continuous walls and footpaths attached to each volume form a garden-like community center. The treatment of the line of sight around the wall creates a garden-like recreation experience.
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Space Perception Continuous and morphologically changing walls pass through the volumes. When approaching parts with different functions, the way of translation has been changed, but the overall layout is still the same as that of traditional Chinese gardens, which pay attention to the intersection of sight lines and the circling of streamline. The space between the interior and exterior of the semi-open square is separated by a curtain, with only a small piece of wall supporting the roof.This is to use a softened boundary to define the space, which is the same purpose as the approach in the garden.
Material Selection The fitness space, as a unit, is placed under the pavilion in the grey space, through which the walkway and the wall connect the fitness and the course. The sloping roof has a clear line-of-sight relationship. Here, the courtyard is to some extent the image of pool water in the classical garden. For such a system and connected part, the material distinction and manipulations are obvious. In the treatment of the wall and the footpath, I used the light steel structure to make the footpath appear dexterous. The different functional Spaces are mainly concrete and plastered.
04 Axis Rotation
Design Studio in University of Florence Type: Architectural Design Date: September-November 2019, 8 weeks Collaborator: Siyu Wang My Role: Chief Designer Location: Prato, Italy Instructor: Peng Tang The design faces a historic Chinese textile factory. In prato, a city with a special community ecology, the factory is actually a microcosm of the interweaving of Chinese and Italian societies.The dialogue between the two communities began with work. The main task of this design is to revitalize a functioned building under the new community relationship. Preserving the building but changing the axis of the complex, as the Chinese community did in Prato, is a subtle but necessary maneuver. The commemoration of the migrant workers and the transformation of the factory also retained a common memory.
* All graphics have been redrew by myself unless otherwise credited.
Canneto
Montale
Prato City (site) Quarrata
Comune di Sesto Fiorentino
Bagno A Ripoli
Firenze
The design site is located in Prato, Italy, and the factory is adjacent to Macrolotto Zero, which is the old industrial area of the city. As the city expanded, most factories moved to new industrial areas named Macrolotto I and Macrolotto II. Meanwhile, the old industrial area is planned as Creative District.
Site Plan
In the 1950s, war-torn Prato, aided by the Marshall Plan, began to revive its traditional textile industry.In the Macrolotto Zero area, in addition to the restoration of existing 19th-century textile factories, new buildings quickly filled the vacant blocks and formed a dense and characteristic texture and attracted a large number of Chinese workers.In the 1990s, Chinese laborers accumulated wealth and established brands, and a new mixed social circle was formed in Prato.The creation of a multi-ethnic community with a mix of Italians and Chinese became Prato's main problem.
Axis on the site
The old factory's axis
An active community's axis
Concept - Rotation of axis When the closed textile factory was converted to serve the community, the disadvantages of the old building became apparent. The inner courtyard is set at the central axis of the factory layout, which becomes the core inward space of the entire factory complex. The new functional requirement is the construction of a Chinese labor memorial and common community space here. The old axes and enclosed factory space do not meet this need. In order to form a vibrant community space, the concept of a twisting axis was proposed.
Massing process
open the border
set the axis
strengthen the axis
refine the details
After the axis was twisted, the orientation of the factory complex changed. At one end of the new axis is the large-scale Chinese Labor Memorial Hall. At the same time, it is equipped with office area and special exhibition area to create convenient conditions for artistic exchange of the community. On the square at the other end of the axis, due to the tradition of art fairs, the prototype of the factory structure was extracted, and the market part was retained and designed. The original factory gate has been transformed into an artist's apartment, with volumes on both sides of the axis for workshop and education services respectively.The factory volume through which the axis passes is cut and broken, and the boundary is opened to become a more open bar and restaurant.
Section along the New Axis
Section along the Original Axis
The new axis create
The new axis changes the orientation of the complex, connecting th a new space for the communication between Chinese and Italian outside market square. People can do a series of activities around t
e urban living room
hree functional groups of market, hotel and museum, and providing n communities. The existing factory courtyard was opened to the the axis.
As the site square itself has a tradition of holding markets, it was retained in the design. On the basis of understanding the needs of the local residents, the design needed to provide some structures to add vitality to the market. The design took the prototype from the original structure of the factory and simplified it. At the same time, the design continues the position of the column network, placing the plants beds of different scales, which themselves have the orientation toward the axis.
In this part of the design, the orientation of the new axis is reinforced. The jagged boundary opens to the axis, and the whole factory space is divided into several restaurant groups, while the rest of the space exists as a grey space. The entire axis becomes the living room of the city.The factories on both sides retain the original shape and structure, but the unitary workshop and classroom break the original interface, so that the original axis is weakened.
In the design of the Chinese Labour Museum, space of different scales is designed according to the height of different exhibits. The entrance of the memorial is directly opposite the axis and is divided into two floors. One side of the factory was transformed into a casual dining bar, and a ramp was set up to slowly rise into the exhibition space on the second floor. The other side will be a special exhibition area. Part of the factory interior was excised to serve as an inner courtyard to provide light to the exhibition.
05 Suspension
Design Studio in Southeast University Type: Individual Architectural Design Type: Student Center Date: April-June 2019, 8 weeks Location: Nanjing, China Instructor: Lin Zhou An abandoned outdoor pool can also be seen as a piece of land, and sinking is its natural property. When this sunken space becomes part of the student's memory, light interventions and updates become the best way to shape the dialogue. Suspension, connecting the new with the old. The function of new student activities often has the uncertainty of scale, while the original swimming pool is a relatively f ixed construction. When two things have a conversation, a new activity experience can often be born.
Chuzhou City Yangtze River
Zhenjiang City Nanjing City (site)
The site is located in the corner of the dormitory area of Southeast University, close to many educational venues in downtown Nanjing.The site was originally an open-air swimming pool for the school, but due to economic development, openair swimming was rejected by people nearby. But swimming and club activities are still a function of the needs of nearby students.
Site Plan
Dialogue - Collective Memory Although the open-air swimming pool has been abandoned, the pit-like structure has become part of the landscape, carrying the collective memory of generations of people.The pool where it was left is still full of water, and former students often come to take pictures.Therefore, I hope to intervene in this design with a light weight, and build a place on the original "relic" that can meet the needs of new student activities. This enables the shared memory to complete a distant conversation with the newspace.
Light Intervention
Concept - Suspended Structure When the swimming pool is regarded as a long-existing existence on the earth, a lightweight construction method emerges.On the one hand, the suspension can retain the original geological properties, on the other hand, it provides enough space for students to use.Student activities are often subject to the uncertainty of numbers and Spaces, so by hanging Spaces of different scales, equipped with adaptive water, electricity and light equipment, functional renewal can be resolved while also providing climatic boundaries for the open-air swimming pool.
Structural Force Analysis Diagram (Load Inside)
Structural Force Analysis Diagram (Load Outside)
Structural Moment Diagram (Load Inside)
Structural Moment Diagram (Load Outside)
Structure Optimization Because the structure should be as light as possible, the mechanical analysis of suspension function is more important.The traditional suspension structure is usually taken to hang directly on the structure, so that the mechanical effect of suspension is negative, adding more load.And the suspension as a counterweight, provide torque to pull the roof, can make the overall structure more balanced. Due to the diversity of space scales used in activities, the torque can be balanced by adjusting height and position in the case of different hanging space scales.The suspension mode of active space also has diversity accordingly.
Massing process LAYOUT
PATTERN
SCALE
SIDE
Juxtaposition
Weight as Load
Large volume is close to the inside
Active along the Road
Suspension
Weight Provides Moment
The small volume is on the outside
Regular along the Street
Plan Swimming Pool Renovation In order to meet the new swimming needs, the original swimming pool was partially expanded. An outdoor shallow water zone outside the climatic boundary is designed to be connected to the existing pool through several swimming lanes. The landing site of the structure is surrounded by a resting area for swimming. The glass facade can be open and closed for different weather conditions, distinguishing climatic boundaries and activating the building's road interface.
The East Elevation
A-A Section
Free Mode of S
The space for student activities is suspended above the swimming uncertain, the design considers the provision of water and electricit are free to choose the area suspended above the pool, and the han crowd below the pool.
Student Activity
g pool.Because the number and time of student activities are often ty equipment based on the formation of a free plane.Different clubs nging plate can create a visual contact and communication with the
Light Film Roof
Diagonal zipper stabilized structure
The board is suspended under the truss
The ramp acts as transverse structure
The stairwell serves as longitudinal structure
The volume of the activity space is attached to play a positive structural role
06 Intervention
Design Studio in Columbia University Type: Individual Architectural Design Type: Urban ecological complex Date: June-August 2021, 10 weeks Location: New York, United States Instructor: Michael Loverich & Antonio Torres As an integral part of an ecosystem, water is often present in the various parts of the system's circulation, connecting various organisms. For a city, the water supply and purification system are hidden in the pipes that connect various buildings. When we think of New York City as a vast ecosystem, the water cycle is a vein hidden behind the grand architectural facade. This design doesn't water to be internalized but a visible and spatial component of the City. The design introduces ecological thinking to the hidden water purif ication system of NYC, expressing ecology in a poetic way and in that process the project creates a wild urban space.
Site Plan
Section
Plan
System In
In New York City's underground plumbing system, 2 billion gallons of water flow In the design of the ecosystem, I have focused on the circulation and evolutio translate the water tower-water pipe system in an ecological way, so that it can and below the ground. This is visually and spatially expressed by the combina for distribution and various landscape features including artificial plants to dispe
ntervention
w back and forth every day, but the structure of the circulators is often unknown. on of water, its connection to the urban water supply system with the site, and be perceived and paid attention to by the city in a more intuitive way both above ation of the following elements: water towers used for storage, expressive piping erse water or topography to collect the water.
Circulation o
The whole site is organized by several vertical water towers that punctuate an undulating topography. The w adopts the layered form of the second project. The water tower in the center of the site is the core tower. At amount of precipitation and complete the initial water settling work in it. The initially purified water then passes towers. On top of the small water tower, there is also a water purification container - Little Pearl. Here, the w tower. Then, the little Pearl of the small water tower is connected to Filamentous plants attached to its skin, and so water delivered to the plant system is received from the roots of pouring Flowers and sprayed from the umbre others vaporize as light bubbles that fly to the core tower and are reabsorbed by the egg-shaped reservoir. So
of the system
water tower is a development from the shells of the first two Projects of Go Wild, while the terrain as a whole the top of it, there is an egg-shaped water storage tank similar to a pearl, which can adjust its size with the s through black pipes inside the tower and into the underground floor, where black pipes feed to smaller water water is further purified. At the same time, the city's water system is connected to a small underground water
ome of the water is transported to the plant system, while the rest goes straight back to the core tower. The ella-shaped buds. Some of the water collects in the lowlands, where plants such as Pipe grass gather, while ome species can attach to air bubbles and grow as floating grass.
Planting Plan
Changes of Tower
OTHER WORKS
furniture design - 2019
I. Flying Doves
UBC-SEU-NTU Timber Design Studio July-August 2019, 4 weeks Collaborator: Yongxi Ji My Role: Concept; Analysis; Design; Presentation Instructor: Lei Zhu, Xiaofeng Han
Based on the research of Vancouver wood industry, the updated design with universality and typification for the existing old communities in China has been preliminarily promoted in some residential areas in Nanjing.
Sun Shades
Dismountable Elements
Wooden Structure
Foundation
Columns 80*114
II. Chuanxindian in the Palace Museum Internship in the Palace Museum
August-September 2019, 4 weeks Collaborator: Siyu Wang, Shunqing Yan, Mingyu Shen My Role: Concept; Analysis; Mapping; Presentation Instructor: Yang Shen, Tingli Jia
III. Hotel with Bookshop Internship in Genarchitects
June-September 2020, 12 weeks Project Location: Qinhuangdao, China My Role: Construction Drawing; Analysis; Model Making Instructor: Beilei Fan, Rui Kong, Zhe Xue, Yushan Wang, Chenye Yu
IV. Fire Station Internship in Genarchitects
June-September 2020, 12 weeks Project Location: Suzhou, China Program: 3500m2 My Role: Analysis; Model Making Instructor: Beilei Fan, Rui Kong, Zhe Xue, Yiling Zhang, Jia Qian
Yinlei Pang MSAAD, Columbia University, United States BArch, Southeast University, China Tel: +1 5184282881 Email: yp2600@columbia.edu Mailing Address: 110 Morningside Drive, Apt 64C New York, NY, 10027