Yang Huang
Tectonic • Transparent
Commons 3
Odaka Horse Watching Cloister
Sensation of Nature 11
The Morningside Gymnasium
Community Architectures 19
Classics' learning Academy
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Conference Hall of Southeast University
Other Works 31
Typology Correction for Affordable Housings
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Ningbo International Airport, Terminal 2
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Commons "Up to that day, all men and women had spoken with more or less equally powerful voices. Henceforth this would change. Henceforth the access to the microphone would determine whose voice shall be magnified. Silence now ceased to be in the commons; it became a resource for which loudspeakers compete." Ivan Illich, 'Silence is a Commons'
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Odaka Horse Watching Cloister Minamisoma, Fukushima, Japan 13 - week project / 2017 Tutor: Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow-Wow) Individual Project In Minamisoma, there is a famous traditional Horse Riding Festival called Soma Nomaoi. It is a yearly three-day festival. This new horse riding school complex helps reactivating Odaka’s strong and unique horse culture. This Cloister connects horse painting gallery (local people would paint horses as a gift for god), horse shoes making workshop, reception, host’s house, dormitory, and horse stables. In this way, Visitors would understand that horse riding in Odaka is not only a sport but also aculture. This Cloister would also be the place where local people meet with visitors. Forest
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Because of the tsunami in 2011 and Odaka was labeled as evacuation zone because of radiation accident, people are forced to leave from Odaka. Most houses are empty and land are abandoned. In July 2016, After the Cleaning Process, the designation of "in preparation for the lifting of the evacuation order" and "restricted residence area", was cnaceled, and local people started to come bcak to their homes little by little. In this area, now only 10% of people came back.
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Sensation of Nature "The Cathedral is not a plastic work; it is a drama; a fight against the force of gravity, which is a sensation of a sentimental nature." Le Corbusier, 'Towards a New Architecture'
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The Morningside Gymnasium New York City, the Unite States 12 - week project / 2016 Tutor: Bernard Tschumi Collaborator: Ciudad Alejandro My Role: Concept; Analysis; Drawing; Models; Presentation The project is an expanded view of sports. Focusing on the space for communal interaction through the physical activity and protection of the body. The space overlooks the segregating factors of society and returns to the unbiased nature of the human. Morning Side Park lies in a space of, social, cultural, economic segregation and the efforts from the park to pursue sports as an identifying factor are experienced through the facilities and notations already located in the park. Like the Tower of Babel, The MorningSide Gymnasium, is the construction that represents that communality and unifying ground where individuals come together as a group.
Columbia University Protests of 1968 On April 23, 1968, Columbia University students began a nonviolent occupation of campus buildings that lasted nearly a week. Students and community supporters called for the university to cut its ties to research for the war in Vietnam and to end construction of a gym in Morningside Park. After negotiations failed, the administration sent in the police, injuring many and arresting over 700, triggering a campus-wide strike that shut down the university.
The old gym was opposed by students because its enclosure volume and discriminational attitude. It occupyied public space but only columbia students and facultys can access it. The main entrance is on the Morningside Height where Columbia University locates. It has a tiny backdoor for Harlem, which was regarded as a representation of discrimination for Harlem Community. The construction was stopped after the protests of 1968.
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The whole building is constituted by an interior spiral loop and an exterior spiral loop. The exterior spiral loop is the main circulation which smoothly connect the Harlem and Morningside Height. The programs of the gymnasium concentrate on the interior loop. There are a swimming pool, a multi-funtion court, a gym a restaurant and a sona in the gymnasium. Different programs connect each other on spiral loop and create a continuous spacial experience. Visual connections are also created between different levels. First Floor
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The structure design of this gymnasium is very unique. You can imagine that the spiral volume can be unfolded as a super beam. The bottom of the super beam was inserted into the slope and deliever most of the vertical force to the slope. This structure innovation reduce the size of the structure under the spiral volume in order to create the connection between the interior and exterior on the exterior spiral loop.
Structure Innovation
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Community Architectures "Transparency may be an inherent quality of substance, as in a glass curtain wall; or it may be an inherent quality of organization." Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, 'Transparency'
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Classics' learning Academy Nanjing, China 8 - week project / 2014 Tutor: Ge Ming, Shin-ichi Okuyama Collaborator: Sun shihao My Role: Concept; Analysis; Drawing; Models; Presentation Academy is a kind of Chinese traditional architectural form, which is designed as a place for learning Confucian classics. Introvert and quiet learning atmosphere, close relationship between teachers and students, study together with livelihood are three features which make it different from modern university system. In this case, a modern academy will be set beside Southeast University to accommodate senior programs in IE, Civil engineering and Architecture.
The Auditorium-centered Type Teaching Buildings Type: Auditorium-centered Dwell Type: Students In Group And Teacher Has a Whole Floor
In this academy design, there are two things which are most important. The first one is the inner arrangement of the academy. We came to analysis this case in a more abstract view. Relationships between entities 7 should satisfy the academy's use and creating good atmosphere of learning to inspire the students to learn. In addition to learn well, live well, the relationship between the learning and living cannot be fragmented. In this model, the grey is the study part, the white one is living part, well mixed and not influence each other. The second is the relationship between the academy and the city. The academy should make the city more open. In this model, we can see that the academy has a yard of L shape along the river. This empty makes the whole college have an open attitude to the river and gives the surrounding community a new public space which is different from ordinary public space.
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Transparent Ground Floor The ground floor concentrate on the connection to the city and transparent sense in academy.
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Sections Responding to City As a modern academy, it should not only keep the quietness and selfoperation of the traditional academies but also need to open to city and adapt to the contemporary way of learning. It is bad to use walls to cut off from the city. In this case, I use sections to respond to this problem. Sections are considered together with plans, the prototype of traditional academy and the connection with city.
East-west sections design focus on the publicity and the connection to city.
Section A - A
Section B - B
South-north sections reflect the profound mix of the functions, the independence of the academy and a sense of privacy.
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Students' dorms Each teachers' dorm occupy a whole floor of the dormitory building. In the dorm, there is a great view of Inner-qinhuai river and surrounding trees. Also, their private research rooms locate on the bridge which connect teachers' dorms and the library/discussion rooms.
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Dwell in the Academy In this academy, students live in the west part of the academy and teachers live in the east part of the academy. Students' dorms have easier connection to the study rooms while teachers own higher level of privacy.
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Teachers' dorms In the east part of the academy, the buildings have a higher density which combined with a mass of trees, yards and platform. Students live there would find that they can study or relax everywhere in this region. Each group of the dorm units have a lounge and students can have fun there. On the second floor, students can walk across the platforms and enter the core of the academy to start their study.
Teachers' Dorm Unit
Study Space in the Academy In the academy, the auditoriums are centers of the study system, both of the academy boarders and students outside can use them. The discussion rooms mix with library and they can be used by teachers and students conveniently. Classrooms are set along the river to make the study a really pleasant experience.
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Conference Hall of Southeast University Nanjing, China 5 - week project / 2015 Tutor: Ge Ming Roof is an important element in architecture. In this case, the site is in a college which is full of buildings with slope roofs. The new conference hall's roof would be a good point to respond to the environment. But the function of roof will go further than that, normal rooms may become extraordinary because of the roof which covers them. So, I concentrated on exploring the subtle relationship between building's roof and rooms in this design.
A College Full of Slope Roofs There are many historical buildings in the Southeast University. Most of these western classic buildings and Chinese traditional style building have a similar character, they have slope roofs. So, to continue the elegant beauty led by this unitive style, I decided to make the newly-built conference hall a special slope roof. According to this situation, I choose to make the roof a group of slope roofs. Here is the analysis of the way to organize these partial sloped roofs.
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The Site Plan of Southeast University
The Hall under Slope Roof The conference hall is the most important room in the building. It must be big enough, honorable enough, private enough and open enough. In this case, the hall is covered by the highest part of the slope roof to create its honorable sense. Also, it is surrounded by other small rooms to keep it not be too open to site. Hall, lobby and exhibition, three big rooms interact with each other on different level. At the same time, the hall itself call for people's behavior in meeting. So it comes to an end that the conference hall is not a black cube but a room with unique form.
Perspective Section Roof Construction: Eternit Wooden keel Crossed wooden keel Ventilation cavity Sealant layer Thermal insulation and wooden keel Reinforced concrete Beam wooden keel Parquet Total
Floor Construction: about3.5mm 25mm 48mm 10mm 90mm 200mm 400mm 45mm 20mm
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Slope Roof Connecting Rooms The composition of conference hall, exhibition and lobby In this building, there are three important rooms: lobby, exhibition and conference hall. In the section A-A, the lobby locates on +2.00m level and the exhibition locates on -2.00m level. And a double-sloped roof cover these two rooms. In this way, people who walking on the sidewalk can have a view of the exhibition without interruption and they can feel the lobby. For the people in lobby, +2.00m level make them relax in surrounding trees and the good view of the south gate which is the signal of Southeast University.
In the section B-B, people attending the meeting would come to the middle part of the building. In this part, the overlapped slope roof give a chance to get the sunshine come through the clerestory. Two single-flight stairs are overlapped here to lead people get into the conference hall or go up stair into the discussion rooms on +5.00m level. In this part, there are two elevators to help the old participants wander in this building easily.
In the section C-C, which is the most important part in this building. The conference hall is a rooms which call for different elevations. The bottom of the conference hall is located on Âą0.00m level. Thanks to the big volume of the conference hall and its open attitude, It greatly benefits the space on the north of the building and make the whole site a public place. In this section, there are two groups of discussion rooms on -2.00m level and +5.00m level. These small rooms separate the conference hall from the interruption of the street. Also, because of the unique arrangement of the elevation, these discussion rooms can enjoy private and comfortable indoor environment.
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Other Works
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Typology Correction for Affordable Housings Bronx, New York City, the Unite States 8 - week project / 2014 Tutor: Juan Herreros Collaborator: Xu Yihan My Role: Concept; Analysis; Drawing; Models; Presentation This subject focus on the social housings in Bronx, New York City. These housings were built in 1930s and the typology of these housings is rigid and functional. Streets' continuity do not exist and the inner open spaces are hard to be managed. Also, the security problem and unemployment problem are evident here. This renovation project combie the exist mode of community garden and the vertical farming technology, transform the volume and the typology of the existing buildings in order to lift the living quality and social environment of these social housings.
Axonometric Drawing Before Correction
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Axonometric Drawing after Correction
Private Garden
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Vertical Farming Technology
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Plan Renovation The old plans of these social housings are inflexible.They are unequal to each family because some familys may never have south or east orientions. The elevation areas are dark and poor ventilated. In my proposal, each family has a big garden on south or east oriention and windows on the north or west oriention. The elevations are moved outside with great views. Plans are flexible to contain familys with different number of members. They can even work in their gardens with the vertical farming facilities.
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Ningbo International Airport, Terminal 2 Ningbo, China 8 - week project / 2015 Tutor: Gao Wenyan Zhou Yin Collaborator: Liu Dayong My Role: Concept; Analysis; Drawing; Models; Presentation Because of globalization, airports act as hubs of communication. Many people spend their hundreds of hours in terminals. In some place, terminals even become regional commercial centers. However, normal terminal design mainly focus on their function for transportation and make people feel hard to stay in them. In this case, I hope to break through the ordinary style of terminals both on site plan and structure to make them accommodate with the practical need.
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Site For T2
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For plane operation efficiency and the harmony with T1, I adopt the asymmetric site plan. Next step, I started to think how to combine the site plan with the travelers' boarding circulation. Previously, travelers have to endure a long and boring liner circulation to get their boarding gates. Now, in my design, the boarding and arriving circulation utilize the central courtyard well to make most of the travelers to enjoy a wonderful experience before their boarding or after their arriving.
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Boarding Circulation Surrounding The Courtyard
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