R. Bai Portfolio

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Email: roujiab@umich.edu Tel: 7348460584 Master of Architecturue

There is hope in honest error ; None in the icy perfections of mere stylist.

PROJECT

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01

CITY IN THE PARK

03 - 26

02

FIRE FIGHTING "IMAGE"

27 - 32

03

CARING CONNECTION "YOU & EL"

33 - 40

04

BUILD FOR FUTURE

41 - 50

05

WEAVING COVER

51 - 54

06

NEW VERNACULAR OF ANNECY

URBAN CONDENSER

55 - 58

07

PROFESSIONAL WORK

59 - 62

08

MAKING AND SKETCHING

63 - 72

01 CITY IN01 THE PARK

2019 Taubman Alumni Council Awards First Prize 2018 Fall | System Studio CITY IN THE PARK 2018 Fall | System Studio

Instructor | Christina Hansen, Lars Gräbner Group Project | Roujia Bai, Zhiyi Li, Taylor Kayser Kwali Instructor | Christina Hansen, LarsKorslin, Gräbner

Responsible for | Revit Model, Plans,Korslin, Wall Section, Diagrams Group Project Roujia Bai, Rendering, Zhiyi Li, Taylor Kayser Kwali Responsible for Revit Model, Rendering, Plans, Wall Section, Diagrams

This project locates in South East Detroit, 3.2 miles from the downtown area, adjacent to Detroit River and across the Bell Isle State Park. The site is a linear, almost 1000 ft long and 180 ft wide; and there are two 4-stories, un-occupied residential buildings dated back in 1980s, and Whitter Hotel adjacent to its east.

Several neighborhoods locate along the Jefferson Ave n u e , s u c h a s I n d i a n V i l la g e , J e f fe r s o n i a n Apartment. However, Two under-utilized parks surround the site and make this leaner site isolated.

The design tries to densify the site and meanwhile build connection between the site, the parks, the water front and the city. Situated within the revitalization of city Detroit, another substantial design challenge is to vitalize the site and build a feasible and vivid residents profile and design based on their daily living scenes.

1-Edges

4-Extend

2-Platform

5-Carve/Peel

3-Curve

6-Under

1) Defined edges from context.

2) Follow the topography, minimize excavation and add a top surface.

3) Peel and push, create entrance, add playfulness to outdoor experience.

4) Extend to the water front and Jefferson Av. 5) Open up the top surface, blur the boundary of upper and lower levels.

6) Lower level could evolve into event space with the development of public transit

FORMING THE LANDSCAPE

1-Box

2-Up&Over

3-Skyline

FORMING THE ARCHITECTURE

4-Rotate

5-Additions

6-Opening

1) Extract massing from context buildings. arrange them along the existing axis 2) New building go up and over, the existing ones. anchor on the whittier side and gesturing toward the park 3) Create dynamic skyline, iconic on two ends, and more intimate in the middle.

4) Orient and rotate, optimize the sunlight and view.

5) Add additoonal massing, interact with the avenue and park 6) Inserting communal space in between the old and new, and the anchor side. activate plaza , exitsing buidling and new additions.

The tallest of the towers makes a strong presence on Jefferson avenue. As you approach the site you notice the dynamic skyline and feel the density contrasting with the Openness of the park.

Model Picture 1'=1/20'' Top: West Elevation; Middle East Elevation and Plaza Section; Bottom Left: Entrance to the site; Bottom Right: Plaza view facing the Jefferenson Avenue Left:From East Park facing Jefferson Avenue.

Ground Floor Plan

The Gold Coast site is lucrative due to its position between two parks and along the Detroit river, yet only three miles from downtown Detroit with views of Bell Island and Ontario, Canada. To siting the development, the design strengthens the reading of density on the Gold Coast site to define difference between our site and the two parks. It takes advantage of this topography change by allowing the plaza to exist at grade with the north side of our site and continue relatively level at this point, while the topography slopes down. The space in between is used to house parking for the whole complex with minimal site excavation.

At this point we extend the plaza out over the river to allow residents and the public access through the site to expansive views of Detroit and the river. While this pier is above grade it allows connection between the two parks.

Massing Model 1' = 1/32''

FORMING THE ARCHITECTURE The towers contrast with the horizontal brown-bricks to create distinction in combining them. In between the existing and new is an accessible roof terrace for residents. As you walk through the plaza you encounter a range of programs from a daycare playground to a cafe, restaurants, seating, and areas for informal activity. As you walk, the new buildings craft a varied experience with contrasts in density and expanse.

PLANS

11th Floor Plan (Typica)

5th Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Sections and elevations The organic form of the plaza is followed by the natural slope of the site, on the on hand, minimumize the evacuation, on the other hand, provide a moderate slope for different acctivities.

The south end is extended to the water front, creates a integrated experience, and connects the city, park and the water front.

The organic shapes of the openings allow the lower levels have natural lighting and make possibilities for transform into future event venues.

View from lower level

Perspective from west park side.

LIGHT AND INTIMACY Smaller massing sticks out to the west park side to create a more intimate relationship. It seves as a bright light house during dark, and a warm, welcoming harbour for the open field during the winter. Both the box and the gaps serves public function, such as fitness center and dinners, to add more attractions to the park side.

The upper level of this project uses the unitized curtain wall system to create a light, transparent and minimal look, in contrast of the existing brick facade. Steel frame structure maximize the flexibility and best natural lighting.

Facade and Wall Section - Upper Level

Contrast in Materiality Lobby entrances as well as the window openings of the existing building are deep and thick. While the window frames are keeping the original material as red metal, the lobby uses wood as the main material to hight light the entrances and add more a sense of warmth to the glossy cold facade of matal and glass.

The Lower level includes the existing brick facade and the roof deck above it. To keep the sense of nostalgia, the lower level facade kept the brick and the metal window frame; For a lighter and more transparent look, the gap uses storefront system and minimize the mullion size.

Facade and Wall Section - Lower Level

Detail Model 1'=1/4''

02 FIRE FIGHTING "IMAGE" 2017 Fall | Institution Studio

Instructor | Brittany Utting Individual Project | Institution, Fire Station, City Archive

This project focuses on the public perception of fire stations and firefighters. How the nuance between the propagandistic public image and the every-day reality is displayed. Putting out fire and saving people is typically understood as heroic; but after peeping into the real fire station, there is an emerging trace of difference between outside and inside. By adding interactive and changing elements, the fire station provoked citizens’ attentions and tried to change the cognition of their public role.

Public images are dazzling and baffling. Inspired by google image search, the surface of the building is covered with a mix of images that represent what we easily perceive through public media, histories, mythologies, movies, posters, newspaper, toys, cartoons, etc. However, citizens can intervene with these public images as an interactive “exhibition”.

With the assistance of projection techniques, citizen’s movement, people’s ideas are exhibited to the city. Media changing together with people’s movement behind the glass, the building challenges and threatens the existing image of the fire department.

Real Life Behind the Smoke & Mirror Beyond the blurred skin is a solid and busy object supported by two towers, a hose tower centralizing the fire-fighting function, and one media archive tower surrounded by public service space. Due to the transparency of the façade, people are invited to look into or walk through the fire station, to actually learn and participate with the fire department, while also experiencing the tension between space and the ambiguity between layers.

Activities and motions are brought into the void space between openness and solid object. Through wa l k i n g a n d e x p l o r i n g i n t h e b u i l d i n g , b o t h firefighters and citizens become part of the elevation.

With the city’s voices and motions, fire station no.1 is turned into an origin point where we to think and to question the public images of its gesture as a societal icon.

03 YOU & EL

2015 Fall | Undergraduate Core Studio Instructor | Jie Wang Individual Project | Pubic, Civic, Community Center

During the past 30 years, Chinese rural areas construction and development get much less attention compared to the urban one. With the fast pace of the urbanism, young people who are in their 20-30s, flooded in the large city while the elder people are left behind. On the other hand, more new parents left their children in the village and supported the family by seeking jobs in city. The Village Liruo, located in the city Wenlin, is one of the innerdecaying villages, which used to be one of the large village of fishery. But during the recent decade, with generations’ excess fishing, the inshore of China East Sea is no longer the ideal place for fishery, which resulted the inner-decaying problems.

This project is based on the social problem that the inner-decaying village need to be renovated, focusing on the kids and the elders, trying to create a social care space and a place they can interact with each other.

The community center of the village is renovated from three stone structure houses on the edge of a steep slope. To create a safe, comfortable and accessible space for the elders and kids, the design inserts a circulation loop into three houses, and using light weight steel frames to build different programming modules including reading room, kitchen, play area.

House No.1: Reading area and workshop area.

04 BUILD FOR FUTURE Individual Project | Institutional, Art Center | Hangzhou, China

Instructor | Zhi Qiu

2015 Winter | Undergraduate Studio 4

The art center located in Hangzhou, China, the city combined history and modern. Site is at the corner of Shuguang Rd. and Baochu Rd., right around the West lake and the national Art Institution. According to the art history investigation and the art facilities survey, the building try to provide both public space and art exhibition space.

To enhance the art enviroment of this area and introduce more modern, comtemporary culture into the historical enviroment, the building's form gneration focausing on leading people enter the public space and interact with the art. To achieve this goal, the building free both the ground and the 3rd floor to connect with surroungdings and further area.

The grid of this building is extracted from the surroundings, the right grid provide a basic space structure for the art centre's activities and construction. The structures use the modulization precast units, ensuring the building can be constructed and removed easily. Provide more freedom for the artists and future architects to explore the space, and also protect this building can be used in the future when art form change variously.

In the city, For the city The project locates in Hangzhou, China, a city where traditional and contemporary art meets and blends. To respect and enhance the local culture and urban fabric, the design using a set of grid to plug different modules in, such as ehbition space, opening for glimpse of city, entrance leading the citizens to walk in, small retails, etc.

Conceptual Model - Flexible and Adaptive

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Traffic Density Analysis

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Urban Activities Analysis

Urbn Circulation Analysis

ADAPTING AND EVOLVING Inspired by the non-stop city theory by Archizoom, the design uses modular units and steel structure for adapting differen scenarios.

Make sure that the space is flexible and free for all kinds of events and activities.

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Weaving Cover Group Project | Pavillion structure design | Hangzhou, China Team: Xinyu Jiao, Hanyi Liu, Wangda Zhu | Instructor: Tao Lin

This is a design project for a community pavillion providing a covered area for a small basketball field.

The deisgn addresses the realationship between space and structure, and reimagine a certain type of structure system, cable structure system.

Using the lgihtest cable and minimalized pole and light weight metal cable, the design is managed to have a lighest roof while the columns on the four sides are masculine and thick. The structure is weaved along two articulated cuves. The poles have four different lengths and repeat in a deisgn patternes to meet the curved surface.

Model pictures showing the cables, poles, columns and beams.

Model: 1:20 Mateiral: Nylon fibers, wood, stainless steel.

Top: Assembling details, Middle: roof surface diagram; Bottom: Front elevation.

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URBAN CONDENSER 2017 Winter | Proposition Studio

Instructor | Clement Blanchet, Jonathan Sturt Group Project | Zhiyi Li, Pengwei Tian, Nikita Somashekar

This project started with a historic study about the urban developement of Annecy, a small town locates in south Frrance. Through strudying the history and mapping exercises, and trying to set against the capitalized urban sprawl, the design took a aggresicve and radical aporaoch of reversing all the modern developemnt, and free the landscape to recovery.

The typographies of city vary, from the historic city center intertwined with canals to the urban sprout that compromised to the topography. The result of the growth seems harmonious, but there are problems hidden behind the superiority of natural landscape and resources, which are the foundation of Annecy’s identity.

The result of the growth seems harmonious, but there are problems hidden behind the superiority of natural landscape and resources, which are the foundation of Annecy’s identity.

The site locates on the south shore of Lake Annecy, includes a freeway with heavy traffic, mountain, and waterfront. As the threshold toward the city center, the proposal should balance among transportation, landscape, and fast urbanization; the language will also cater to the relationship between the mountain-lake-people. As the center of the commune, a vision for new, modern development is also another need.

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Use different methods to connect isolated parts and make different programs a completed system, including vehicle lanes, bike lanes, pedestrian and expecting a light rail system in the future. An optimized mobility system is being set in place in keeping the goal of a more pedestrian friendly Annecy.

Concept developing

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Master plan future development. Beginning with the idea of preserving the natural characters of Annecy and making the urban expansion more “sustainable,” meaning to stop trading natural landscape for the economy, this project diagnoses the existing and targets the future needs. The parking lots take large areas. The highway cuts through the site and makes the waterfront inaccessible for citizens.

MASSING MODEL

Exposition: Annecy vue du Michigan | 2018 Dec | Annecy, France

Exbihition board | back view

Exhibition “Annecy Vue du Michigan�

The project is proudly part of the exhibition "Annecy Vue du Michigan", and has been exhibited in University of Michigan, Annecy, and Paris (Lobby Val de Seine). Together with the history research project, urban menifesto, a n d p ro g re s s i ve d e s i g n a p p ro a c h , we challenge the common issues in global urban developement.

Pop-up Exhibition | Taubman College Gallery | 2018 Sep.

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

Music Center Plaza RIOS CLEMENTI HALE STUDIOS Los Angeles, CA, USA

Supervisor: Naseema Asif, Devin Miyasaki In charge of renderings for design iterations for architecture, signage, interior design.

The grand canopy of the Grand Avenue Entrance.

Marketing rendering for pavillion commercial and benefactor meeting.

Participated in the interior design process, including samples decision, finish tests, customized table top, and bar stool modeling; as well as the signage design, rendering, and lighting design.

Wayfinding walkthrough in the exhibition space.

WAY FINDING WALKTHROUGH | AR / INSTALLATION

Design Computing 2019 Winter | Instructor: Martia Del Campo | Team: Liam Li, Richy Yang Working Environment: Maya, Fologram, Hololens, Rhino.

Extracting the pop-art and street art elements from graffittis, mural, such as arrows, comic pop, mosaic, arranging and forming an spatial objects photo-booming in the augmented reality space. By arranging the elements in the AR space, though the power of hololens and fologram, the objects are orgainized as a way-finding signage for the AR exhibition space in a new, extreme ornamented way.

Floating!

On Repeat Fabrication 2017 Fall Instructor: Daniel Tish Team: Roujia Bai, Lucas Denit, Samer ElHusseini.

Zund Cute, Grasshopper, Musuem board, color paper.

T h e f o r m i s g e n e ra t ed f ro m a g ra s s h o p p e r c o d ed f o r m degenerated script. Started with a basic platonic form and step by step, desolves into a spiral-like, opened surface. To amplify the openness (contradict to the starting point which is an enclosed surface), we used two materials on the very opposite side, one extremely thick skin, and one soft, colorful and flimsy papper.

Double Dipping Fabrication 2017 Fall| | Instructor: Viola Ago, Jeff Halstead

CNC Router, Water dipping, Hot pressing, Kuka Robot.

Look Up Representation 2017 Winter| feat. Jasmine Almonar| Instructor: Cyrus Penerroyo

Source from San Francisco Musuem of Fine Art and the contemporary music video from Grimes, this projects questions the domestic ceiling and its ornamental value

2014-2017

Travel Sketches 2014-2017