Rui Wang Work Sample by Rui Wang

E-mail: rw2787@columbia.edu Tel: (1)9174431589 Address: 225 W, 109th Street, Apt 22

Rui Wang MSAAD, GSAPP B.Arch, Tongji University

RUI WANG rw2787@columbia.edu | (1) 917 443 1589 | 225w, 109th Street, Apt 22

EDUCATION BACKGROUND June.2019-June.2020

Columbia Univercity in the city of New York | New York Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design (M.S.AAD)

Theoretical envelope of 1916 Zoning Law appearing between the Municipal Building and theWoolworth (rendering by Hugh Fernss).

● ‘High Pass’ in all courses (Except the COVID-19 semester) ● 4 Projects Published in ‘Abstract’, a faculty-selected student work publication

Sept.2013-June.2019

Tongji University | Shanghai Bachelor of Architecture ● GPA: 4.76/5.0 (3/69)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Sep.2018-Feb.2019

UDG China, Urban Renewal Design Institute | Shanghai, China Intern Architect

● Tongfuli urban renewal project | researching, brainstorming, preliminary designing and 3d-model drafting in the concept stage for the renewal of the lanes in the center of Shanghai, China ● Heshenghui roof renovation project | coordinating and revising construction drawings ● Ge Dai and Zhu village redesign | conceptual designing, and 3d-model drafting in the early stage ● Nanchang Street project | site researching and conceptual design discussion

Mar.2018-Jun.2018

UDG China, Urban Construction Institute | Shanghai, China Intern Architect

● Poly, Sihui residential project | 3d-model refining, detailed designing and drawings revising ● Changsha Yanghu heart residential project | 3d-model refining and drawings revising

SELECTED HONORS June.2019

Excellent Graduate of Shanghai | Shanghai

June.2019

Nomination Award of Academy Award in Design Category | Shanghai

June.2018 Aug.2017 June.2014 2014-2018 Sep.2014

● Highest Honor of graduates in universities in Shanghai

● Highest Professional Award of CAUP department in Tongji University

The 8th Digital Future Workshop & Symposium | Shanghai ● Selected into exhibition

Busan International Design Workshop | Busan, Korea ● International design team member, won Third Place

Tongji International Cardboard Construction Competition | Shanghai ● Design & construction team leader, won Second Place

Excellent Student Scholorship of Tongji University | Shanghai ● 4 times in total

Shanghai Excellent Student Scholorship | Shanghai

SOFTWARE SKILLS AutoCAD, Sketchup, Vray, Lumion, Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper, Ecotect, Photoshop, Illustrator | Hand Sketching, Laser-cutting | Microsoft, Processing(Java), Unity(C#)

LANGUAGE English, Chinese(Mandarin)

Prologue Architecture acts more like negotiation in nowadays than before, as ecological and political agents are increasingly involved in the process of making decisions. As ZaeroPolo, Alejandro said in his 'The Politics of the Envelope' that 'Architects' traditional role as visionaries (and ideologists) has become redundant as the sheer speed of change overtakes their capacity to represent politics ideologically'. Architecture as the Intermedium Architecture+ is the menifesto that architecture acts as the medium and persuasion to be engaged in urban environment, human & society for future changes and politic decisions, where the envelope and the systems act as the medium. Architecture+ has its double meanings including the interdisciplinary and the trans-scale thinking. As Koolhaas said that 'It is a tragedy that planners only plan and architects only design more architecutre'. And it's an opportunity to raise proposals for urban issues by employing architecture as the intermedium to coordinate between the city and the human beings.

CONTENTS

01 CHILDCARE+

-Urban institution based on Community Land Trust(CLT) & Green New Deal

02 FACTORY HABITAT

-A silk factory habitat as the new pier prototype on Bush Terminal

03 THE TRAMPOLINE CAVE

-Design of the Trampoline Club in the Mountain of Zhejiang Province

04 REDEFINITION OF 'TOEWER IN THE PARK'

-A plug-in system as infrastructure in NYCHA public housing

05 WALL FILMING SCHOOL

-Rethinking culture infrastructure and urban boundary surface in LA

06 WATERFRONT UTBAN COMPLEX

-Integration of new commercial mode and urban public space

07 MARKET LIFE ALONG HONGKOU HARBOR

-Waterfront Space Design of Hongkou Harbor & Study of Typical Waterfront Space in Chinese Paintings

08 RAILWAY DEMOLITION

-Redesign of City Boundary by Inserting Public Sports Space and Infrasturctures

09 ARCHEOLOGICAL CITY

-Renovation Design in Lilong of Shanghai & Study of Vertical Growth of Dwelling Pattern

10 THERMODYNAMIC FOREST

-Jinan Nautrual Museum Design & Study of Forest System Mechanism

PROFESSIONAL WORKS

OTHER WORKS

01 Childcare+ -Urban institution based on Community Land Trust(CLT) & Green New Deal GSAPP FALL STUDIO (16 - Week Individual Work) Critic: Bryony Roberts Autumn 2019

The site locates in Jackson heights, which faces the problems of limited green space, competition of space between the cars and the pedestrians, the risk of small business taken over by the large shopping malls and the mixed culture background.

Cemetery

1917 -Opening of elevated train line -Co-ops Introduced -Single and duplex houses built

Central Courtyard

Private Courtyard

The project questions what the new ethics of childcare would be and in which form in such complicated urban environment and under the circumstances of Community Land Trust and Ecological crisis.

Isolated Courtyard

Childcare+ is the integrated urban institution which combines the childcare, greenhouse, market and community gardening, working as the kitchen hub as well as introducing planting into the earlystage education.

Credit to Nika Tepper

The 'Green volume' is such space that integrates the planting, greenhouse, playground and semi outdoor and indoor space, which puts forward a new proposal for the childcare.

'GREEN VOLUME' The 'green volumn' shaped by the sunlight study functions both as the basic plug-in cultivation module and the semi-outdoor playground for the toddlers in the crowded urban situations. It not only functions as the intermediate in a system designed to integrate resourses like commercial corridors, backyard green space and food incubator, but also challenges the new education potentials for the toddlers by providing the wild nature space inside the artifical green house and generates both new type of space for learning, sheltering and marketing.

SUNLIGHT STUDY

02 Factory Habitat -A silk factory habitat as the new pier prototype on Bush Terminal GSAPP SPRING STUDIO (16 - Week Group Work) Critic: Mimi Hoang Spring 2020

Histor y of Silk Industr y & Ecological Cycle There was a long history of silk industry in and around New York. However, because of the lack of competitive advantages in cost, the industry gradually d e c l i n e d, l e av i n g l o t s o f mulberry trees in this area. Originated from China, traditional silk industry was integrated with domestic life and the income and outcome were in an ecological cycle, which was different from the contemporary industry efficiency. The project proposes to bring the silk industry back to the 'Made in NY' to generate holistic benefits including economical and political ones.

Factory Habitat The Factor y Habitat reinvents the typology o f t h e p i e r, f a c t o r y a n d park by inter weaving the production spaces of silk with the coastline habitats. The landscaped structure creates a thickened city edge that resists the degradation of the harbor, and challenges the dichotomy between nature and city, and between efficiency and natural cycles.

PIER TYPOLOGY COASTLINE SITE ANALYSIS

Slope & Buffter

Planting Module Modular Unit Planting Module + Slope

Factory As Weaving Landscape & Circulation

Circulation Type

Structure

The modular planting beds for mulberry trees create the new type of park, landscape and pier building typology, which is actullay a 'artificial mountain with factory inside'. It weaves the process of farming, raising worms, weaving, dyeing and habitat. The module creates continuous surface working as the circulation, the new ground level, the structural and envelope for the factory building on a pier.

Module as structure, conveyor & beam

When the module extends into the building, the basic unit deforms into integration of structure, conveyor and beams. Each form is selected according to their characteristics and properties. The module is scaled and combined to assemble the building.

1. Silk Wormy Dome 2. Mountain Park 3. Gallery, Museum 4. Production of Undyed clothing, dyed clothing, designed sample 5. Production of Raw silk threads, dye, herb medicine, clothes 6. Pier for cargo 7. Flooding Level (Habitat, Show + Retail Space)

LANDSCAPE- STRUCTURE- SILK DOME

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Modular Planting Beds To Landscape Building

0. Silk Worm Raising Dome 1. Leaves Picking & Storage 2. Boiling 3. Reeling Silk 4. Weaving 1 (Threads) 5. Weaving 2 (Cloghing) 6. Dye Production & Herb Extraction 7. Dyeing Production 8. Water Treatment 9.Design Studios 10. Clothes Manufacture 11.Storage 12. Design/ Office 13. Leisure Area 14. Design Atrium

THREE INSIDE ATRIUM WITH DOUBLE LAYER WORKFLOW

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SILK FACTORY HABITAT POOL PLANTING BEDS

LOADING DOCK

WHOLE FILM: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1H425xSpMu2ZcGZm0TvKc7IVq5nZQyZmb

SILK DOME & WORMY SURFACE (SEMI-INDOOR AND OUTDOOR SPACE)

DYEING SPACE WITH PROCESS OF BOILING- MAKING DYES- WEAVING- DYEING

Redesigned Silk Industry Process

Factory Habitat Clock

The activities of industry, animals, workers, desingers and the public are organized as the annual clock which supports the fashion show that would take place each year. Invisible processes as rising currents, fish breeding, birds immigration are the invisible benefits that the factory produces. And it also challenges the efficiency and linear relationship between the factory and the nature.

03 The Trampoline Cave -Design of the Trampoline Club in the Mountain of Zhejiang Province Tongji Core Studio(8- Week Individual Work) Critic: Xie Zhenyu Autumn 2016

Deformation & Movement of Space There exists tension between the dynamic movements of sports and permanent rigorous indoor space. We can experience such limitation especially by doing vertical sports as trampoline and rock climbing. The natural forces and the functions can sometimes spontaneously generate space like caves and mountains and this building is to create a natural cave influenced by the sports form- trampoline and fuse with the natural topography. Why not try to deform the building and translate it into the form that follows movements? In order to imply the sports space in the building, the prototype research according to different kinds of trampoline movements is conducted to guide the inner space design.

I n d o o r, O u t d o o r & Landscape It's interesting to look at the traditional chinese landscape paintings, where 2-d drawings show depths and various experience. Could such dynamic experience be translated in the static architectural language? Could the architectural forms and indoor space be the extension of the natual landscape? Could visitors still feel relaxed in such 'artificial' nature pluged in the lanscape somehow like Suzhou Garden?

R 04 Redefinition of 'Tower in the Park' -A plug-in system as infrastructure in NYCHA public housing Summer Studio in GSAPP Critic: Nahyun Hwang & David Eugin Moon Collaborator: Xinning Hua 2019. 6

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The NYCHA public housing emerged to occupy large areas of origingal small textures, reshaping the urban grid and redefining the public space from street to 'park' under the 'tower'.

Challenges as the limited public access, monotonous living mechanism, isolated schools, underutilized green space and parking lots, unfriendly boundaries, low resiliency towards flooding and little flexibility for public events are emerging. And among them the biggest problem should be the flooding, lack of money and maitainence.

Flooding & park & pop-ups

Farms & market loop

Housing & Transportation

Views From the New Living Module

Views From the Old NYCHA room

Indoor temporary living modules dealing with unexpected disasters and necessary maintainence. It is the relatively permanant part of the system in the third layer with easy access to railway transportation a n d L A M A R Q U E T TA m a r k e t u n d e r b r i d g e .

The plug-in system provides daily events and markets to intervene with the everyday life of the original residents, including educational trucks, exercising(running & swimming), barbeque, etc. The park under the tower is redefined as the pulic infrastructure that holds new potentials.

Urban Farming

Flooding resilience & Maintainence

The plug-in urban farming modules are the moveable parts that both as part of the park and economic resources to help relieve the financial burden. Bee houses and other related urban farming components are attached to the big farming loop, which is anchored in the first floor and supply materials to the food incubator in LA MARQUETTA.

There are regular floodings happening during summer and winter, which cut the power off since the devices are in the underground floor. As a result, elevators and other boiling machines can't work. The flooding retainers and the device rooms on the roof help reslove these challenges when these disasters happen.

0 Wall Filming School -Rethinking culture infrastructure and urban boundary surface in LA Graduation design(16- Week Individual Work) Critic: Yung Ho Chang, Zheng Tan Spring 2019

DUCK/BILLBOARD IN LA The large volumes along the Hollywood Avenue maily consist of filming studios, cinemas, museums and etc with easy access. The volumes get smaller perpendicular to the Hollywood Ave and the boundaries are lackes or made of solid walls or fences.

PARKING LOTS STREET The vast outdoor parking lots are underutilized and make the streets unfriendly to walk along. The urban environment is incontinuous with these 'broken boundaries'. And without needs to have windows, how should cultural buildings like filiming studios interact with the urban environment?

TALENT HUB

城市设计——“墙”作为换乘点、车行向步行城市过渡

大片低效露天停车场作为洛

以洛杉矶“墙”文化作为媒介

以“墙”作为停车、换乘、学

墙从单纯界面成为生长基

以新的墙界面作为城市建筑

杉矶车行城市的产物，催生

介入城市，作为城市新基面

校机构、历史界面保护等的

面，衍生庭院、架空等公共

生长基面，载入连锁式校园

大量城市背面。

弥合城市步行界面。

载体，解放地面空间。

空间。

功能或其他基础设施功能。

Phase4

Phase5

Phase1

Phase2

Phase3

Urban Hub for public transportation & events

WALL SCHOOL AS INTERFACE/ STAGE Contrast to the exsiting situation where architecutures are blackboxes and solid walls and derserted parking lots serve as the urban boundaries, I revert the function of 'wall' as the cultural institution itself and present itself as the showcase and stage to the city. The wall is a scaffold with minimal structures, pipes and more permanant components of the school, with public space sharing with the urban environment and allows more flexibility for further occupations and modifications to grow from the walls. The walls are the integrations of billboards, surfaces, public space, stages based on the culture institions to hold public film-related events and redefine the form of 'advertising' by making the production programs transparent as well as engaging the public to experience inside. Squares, access, corridors, doors etc are space carved in and extended in the 'wall' and generate the potentials for further development into constructions inside the site. The 'in' and 'out' are redefined by reshaping the 'boundary surface' as a solid building entity.

WALL SCHOOL AS TALENTS INCUBATOR Back to the scale of a single building, the wall school is equipped with basic fuctions as classrooms, studio, libraries, multi-function halls, offices, dormitory and production rooms. The programs are designed according to their publicity, potentials towards urban environment, needs for operating systems and their inner relationships among each other. The school's transparancy shows by its small depths, making it easy to walk thorough and exposed to enough sunlight. Althoung its footfprint is long in one direction, the volume is still not that heavy thanks to its thin depth. And the main streamlin inside for working is along the longitude direction and the streamline of the urban public goups is along the other short direction for easy access into the inner courtyard for public events. It's also interesting that cause it's a wall, it has double surfaces, one of which faces the outside and the other faces the inside. While the outside serves as the billboard or the stage towards the urban pedestrian environment and the inside one serves as the transparent section of the production process and also the connection ports towards practical industry. The new prototype of school institution serves as the new sign around the Hollywood Ave areas which supplements the products of filming industry and culture and makes it a urban issue.

06 Waterfront Urban Complex -Integration of new commercial mode and urban public space Tongji Core Studio(16- Week Group Work) Contribution: Concep/ Research/ Detailed Design Critic: Dai Songhua Collaborator: Zhang Yaotian Spring 2017

B u s i n e s s Va l u e : S e e k differentiated business value in homogenized and intensive business circle.

Public Green: At city level, the site is the green node along the river between the two parks.

Highrise Circle: Under continuous intensive high-rise interface, the need for open buffer zone is urgent.

From Congestion to Evacuation: The site needs multiple access in various directions responding to the multiple complex streamlines.

Residents Activities: The site lacks public space around where residents and working people aggregate on Sichuan North Road.

WATERFRONT STRATEGIES MULTIPLE GROUNDS & VIEWS

VOLUME GENERATION

FLEXIBLE PLAN OF THE LIFTED FIRST FLOOR

WATERFRONT & MULTIPLE VERTICAL COUTYARDS

07 Market Life along Hongkou Harbor -Waterfront Space Design of Hongkou Harbor & Study of Typical Waterfront Space in Chinese Paintings Tongji Core Studio (8 - Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept & Detail Design of Space along the River / Team Leader / Research Instructor: Wang Yi Collaborator: Yang Yanrong / Chen Shuaijiang Autumn 2017

As the number of the rivers in Hongkou District shrank sharply in the last past two centuries, the geological as well as the financial environment changed largely. The Hongkou Harbor lost its original function as the Freight Channel and the river became deserted, being surrounded by factories and infrastructual buildings. It's urgent to revitalize the river space.

Along the River During the Qingming Festival is a wellknown long colored painted scroll by Zhang Zeduan from Song Dynasty. In order to revitalize the river space with cultrual conventions which easily arouse our emotional resonance, several urban catalysts prototypes are extracted to be translated into modern architecture languages.

Catalyst 1 Bridge

Bridge, as one of the typical symbolizations of river cities, plays an indispensible role both in functioning as physical connection and the container for daily activities to take place. Thus the Bridge can activate its surroundings areas by serving as the city complex.

Catalyst 2 Flexible Markets

Flexible places like mar kets and stages which have different functions at different time periods during the day, can meet residents' daily needs efficiently as well as add diversity to urban life.

Courtyards with undefined functions, are the most bustling and vivid space in Chinese traditional cities.

Catalyst 3 Multifunctional Courtyards

Unlike plazas in western cities, most courtyards are of human scale and serve for residents nearby. Such courtyards are like pores permeating into the city and blur the sharp boundaries.

Catalyst 4 Waterfront Interface

The easy access to river, the successive waterfront interface and multiple ways for people to get close to rivers are of great significance for the city to create vivid scenes along the river.

Bridges --- Connection of two banks --- Linear container of public events in neighbourhood.

Flexible Markets ---Vital catalyst where people bargain, chat and exchange goods and share emotion.

24H Use of Fexible Markets

Multi-functional Courtyards --Void space with the most diversified activities. --- Courtyards of different themes.

Waterfront Interface --- The multi-storey waterfront interface â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Easy access and crossdimentional experience to Hongkou Harbor

24H Use of Multifunctional Courtyards

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BRIDGE MARKET

DOUBLE-LYATER BRIDGE

CINEMA PLAZA

HYDROPHILIC PLATFORM

BRIDGE MARKET

WATER COURTYARD

LIVING COURTYARD

08 Railway Demolition -Redesign of City Boundary by Inserting Public Sports Space and Infrasturctures

Personal Work Summer 2018

The railway once functioned as the boundary of the old city of Hangzhou. However, with the city expanding quickly, the railway seperates the city like a scar. The urban texture gradually evloves into totally different patterns on the two sides and the vitality near the railway is lower than other areas.

In order to bridge the border created by the old railway, the design strategy is to employ sports as the catalyst to attract people and weave the texture. The cycling and the running path along the old railway is for connection.

Various infrastructures along with sports fields are inserted according to certain urban textures and the needs of people from surrounding areas. Theme sports public outdoor fields together with indoor infrastructures provide an opportunity to update the facilities of old city, revitalize abandoned areas as well as promote healthier lifestyles. The existing architectures and the traffic systems can also be integrated under the theme of sports.

01 City Station--------Sports + Multifunctional Center

Center

Field

02 Shuichengqiao Station--------Sports + School

Route

In the high density center, the runway functions as the connection to generate and integrate sports fields of different sizes on different levels. The 'CENTER' is combined with stadiums and office towers which meet the demands of the high density. The 'ROUTE' is in the form of track. The 'FIELDS' are mainly scattered on the roof layer.

Center

Field

03 Shanty Town and Technology Complex-------Sports + Community Route

Shuichengqiao Station is a mixed area with warehouses, markets, dwelling houses and tourist attractions. The runway here combines with the extreme sports school with lots of 'Centers' which integrate mixed functions as foundation. The school here meets the demands of both residents nearby and the tourists around. The 'CENTER' is the integration group of schools, markets, warehouse and other diverse functions. The 'ROUTE' is the track of extreme sports like skateboard, roller and rocket climbing. The 'FIELD' is a mixture of extreme sports fields and regular sports fields on different layers.

Center

Field

Route

The high technology complex area and the shanty town are seperated by the old railway. The dwelling houses there are too outdated and crowded, which are in desperate need for renovation. While the technology complex area is of large scale and little vitality. The runway here evolves into several community nodes of different sizes to serve both sides and redivide the unreasonable road network. The 'CENTERS' are scattered in the shanty town and technology complex. The 'ROUTE' is the walking and running path redividing the site. The 'FIELDS' are sports and public fields serving the old community and working groups.

01 SPORTS + Multifunctional Center The railway seperates the high density tower areas and the low quality residence areas violently. The 'CENTER' -- Office Towers and Stadiums providing jobs and basic needs for residents in outdated dwelling houses, attracting people from surrounding areas. Th e ' R O U T E ' - - E x te n d i n g runways serve for certain scope , bridging textures and revitalizing the abandoned areas. The 'FIELDS' -- Sports fileds of different sizes on different layers are integrated to explore more public space for residents .

The existing residents houses, the stations and the towers are integrated under the sports system, connected by runway. The boundary between work, entertainment and rest is blurred here because of the mixed function in multi-dimension. Neighbourhood atomosphere is redefined here. By mixing the function and people's needs for exercising, the cut-apart textures can be bridged naturally.

02 SPORTS + School

The 'CENTERS' -- Foundations to support the fields on the roof, contain different basic functions of the school, including classrooms, stadiums, lecture hall, canteen and dormitory. The existing warehouses as well as markets can also be contained in such forms in order to integrate the chaos situation here.

The 'ROUTE' and the 'FIELDS' are part of the architecture forms to help sports permeate into every dimension of the students' life. Newly designed schools and other nes architectures are designed under such logic and simultaneously, the existing functions can also be integrated under such logical forms.

03 SPORTS + Community

The 'CENTERS' -- Community centers are in the forms of stages, stands, sports center, viewing platforms, resting corridors, courtyards, etc. They serve for areas which are easy to reach within15-minutes walk. The sizes, the forms and the functions are flexible to fit the complicated existing buildings, creating both outdoor and indoor public space.

The 'ROUTE' and the 'FIELDS' redivide the existing walking network and public space, bridging the different textures of the two sides and integrate the exsiting infrastructures under the sports system. They also create different themes and public sports atmosphere to organize the communication among neighbourhood, providing green space as well as the basic needs like the clinics and the shops.

09 Archeological City -Renovation Design in Lilong of Shanghai & Study of Vertical Growth of Dwelling Pattern UIA2017 Design Competition (4-Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept / Research / Detail Design Instructor: Li Yanbo Collaborator: Zhang Yaotian / Li Haoran / Chen Feifan Summer 2017

Lilong, the typical dwelling housing form in Shanghai, is facing rapid demolition in recent two decades. Those preserved are either treated as the fake antiques or in poor conditions which are hard for people to live in. Original residents face relocation from the center of the city to remote areas and the old texture of the city is being encroached. The concept of the design is to explore new patterns of city constructions on the sites of Lilong to both preserve the valuable dwelling forms as well as update the area and fill the density to meet the demands of new living, working and entertaining styles. The city is like an overlapped image and different vertical layers represent different periods of the city, with different atmosphere and living styles. The life presented on different layers can interact with each other in three-dimension and the new 0.00 layer is constantly replaced and updated. The city is like a living archeological city, welcoming every adventurers to start their journey to the past.

The new living module is a community every five layers, which is equipped with public space, gardens, halls, shops, entertainment space and transportation stations. Each layer has a mixed proportion of people from different ages, sharing the public space in the centeral area. Rooms for the elderly and the children are specially designed to meet the needs and break the gap between different ages to form new neighbourhood. The new module can be updated according to the changing lifestyles, bringing new kinds of transportation and entertainment forms to the new 0.00 module. The new 'archeological city' is anchored with minimized space made up of elevator shafts and staircases. The texture and scale may even evolve into new ones with the future technology.

The new grid is set on the original texture but is rotated and enlarged in scale. Every tower made up of new modules supports the basic needs of one block and a continuous walking path layer is set between the new tower and the old blocks. Several elevator shafts are anchoring the new to the old.

The mixed living community with public space in the middle.

The transportation station layer.

The walking park with entertainment or highway with garages.

The refuge storey or floor for skydiving.

10 Thermodynamic Forest -Jinan Nautrual Museum Design & Study of Forest System Mechanism

Tongji Optional Studio (17- Week Group Work) Contribution: Concept & Strategy / Research / Museum Design /Simulation & Modeling Instructor: Li Linxue Collaborator: Yang Yanrong / Liu Xutian Spring 2018

Jinan in China belongs to temperate monsoon climate characterized by bitterly cold winter and hot summer. During the study in the thermodynamic studio, we hope to find architecture forms which are driven by energy principles to respond to environment and moderate the climate. Can buildings work like an organism, a creature or even a natural system to deal with the changing environment economically and flexibly? Can buildings work intelligently to provide a more comfortable shelter for people without unnecessary energy dissipation? It's where the design starts.

There have been some theories employing energy system language to reevaluate performances in architecture. William W.BRAHAM's book, Architecture and Systems Ecology, provides a possibility to use environmental principles of design that embrace the full complexity of our current situation. It borrows some items like climax forest, selforganization and ecotopia from biology and introduces thermodynamic principles including the competetive pursuit of maximum power, the development of energy transformation hierarchies, and the co-cycling of materials.

Aggregation, hierarchy and adaptation are three key words extracted from climax forest which represent three principles of self-organization, synergy, entrophy reduction and dissipative structure. We make form manipulation and trials with these three keywords and analyze its corresponding energy patterns to build the database for further design.

Bénard Cell

In order to find the basic form of a responsive 'machine' in 'architectrue forests', we turn to the mechanism of the energy dissipation in a single tree and find the Bénard convection in nature as the application of selforganization. By creating temperature difference between two plates and reserving the necessary path for the air to circulate, we expect the 'single' machine can generate wind automatically. By controlling the conditions of the mechanisim, we can regulate the energy ciculation rate.

Bénard convection Bernard convection found in a tree's energy dissipation process.

Form generation

The form aims to create temperature differences in order to generate wind circulation automatically. Solid form takes up the left space of the path.

Form optimization By modifying the plan into a shape of hexagon, we hope to achieve the most economic way of energy exchange. The principle is proved to work by both heat and wind simulation.

Prototype

1.The most dominant element in the site- wind forms the shape first.

Heat simulation

Wind simulation

2.Wind morphing —Single shape variation —Group density variation

3.Masterplan arrangement optimization—Pattern Optimization

4.Masterplan arrangement optimization—Energy Hierarchy Optimization

5.Second dominant element interference—light & radiation Maximization of energy absorption to generate benard circulation

6.Synergistic optimization of wind and solar energy

7.Seasonal energy transfer

8.Integration of microclimate, environment, circulation and function

The devices on the surface of central air passage are designed to introduce and control air flow into the indoor space according to certain functions inside, maximizing the benefits of the prototype. We select certain sequences, sizes and directions of the devices for simulation and find that in order to efficiently introduce wind from the central air passage, the opening orientation needs to point inward at the bottom and outward at the top. Devices of different sizes are applied to different locations according to certain functions inside the museum, forming the typical surface of the central air passage.

Summer

Winter

SEASONAL WORKING MECHANISM|Function combined with environment

In summer, the prototype can generate wind automatically and the overall plan management also intensifies the wind from surrounding areas, thus improving ventilation to relieve the extreme heat and high humidity. The ventilation rate can be controlled by devices which block the wind or increase the wind velocity.

In winter, the single prototype works to gather and deliver heat economically and the large basement underground works as the large heat storage and the main exhibition space. The overall arangement succeeds in blocking bitterly cold wind from north-east to provide visitors with stable windless outdoor space.

The exhibition mode of the museum is designed flexibly in correspondance with the environmental strategy. In summer, the visiting route is combined with the consecutive shading areas provided by the inclined walls of the prototype buildings. As a result, the exhibition space permeates into and mixes with the outside environment and visitors can experience with stable and comfortable exhibition space.

The exhibition space mainly concentrates in underground space and the single prototype building is designed for theme exhibition. Every single prototype is like the stove which collects radiation and sunlight to support the indoor activities.

REBIRTH OF TONGFULI -Culture complex combined with Shanghai alley -Intern Project Contribution: Concept brainstorming, researching, modeling Autumn, 2018

The project locates in the center of Shanghai where Shanghai alley is going to be demolished to fit higher FAR buildings. With large population living and working nearby, the site faces complex circulation and program needs. The project basically starts from vertical integration of the circulation and programs, renovation of alley and insertion of high rise building in the CBD area. Then we conduct skyline and view research of the highrises in Shanghai and analyze how the building would influence on the site, on other highrises and the urban environment. The proposal is to form the big loop where views could geet through and make the site a cultural square with historical Shanghai alleys and provide easy access in the high-dense area. And it also reprograms the culture functions inside and around the site and connect the film-related industry to attract experimental firms to locate in. What would be the cultural industry park like in Shanghai's CBD? It may be one proposal.

BAOLONG COMMERCIAL STREET -Commercial street design -Intern Project Contribution: modeling revision, detail drawings, plan , section & facade revision & coordination Autumn, 2018

THE HOME OF ALUMNI -Tongji Core Studio (16 weeks) Individual work Instructor: Li Yanbo Spring, 2016

The project is to explore the spiritual place for alumnis to gather after graduation in the campus. The basic idea is to minimize the volume and form and create courtayards, grey space and space under the eave for gathering and function as the extention of the indoor space. By using the bare concrete and expose the structure and material, the project aims to create the intimacy for the alumnis when they return to the school with small-scale courtyards, semi-outdoor space and simple atmosphere. But simplicity doesn't equal nothing, the depth of the space, the texture of the material and the scale, the trees and circulation are carecully considered under modular thinking and flexible use. With multiple entrances, free wandering circulation, sufficient sunlight as well as shading and gathering platform and courtyards, the home of alumni is the space of 'voids'. The most fluid 'void' space is exactly the space for alumni to communicate and reblend into the campus environment with fresh students. As alumni reunion only happens in certain part of time, so the home of alumni is like an invisible building that could closely connect to the campus's daily activities with its outside environment and facilities, while it's also a place for reunion and party during the alumni reunion events happen.

COLLAGE LIFE-Balcony as the Stage & Structure -Competition of Busan International workshop (Residential Housing Renewal) Group work of 3 Contribution: Concept design & analysis, plan drawing, modeling Summer, 2017

Located in Busan, Korea, the residential housings are in bad conditions. The structure is not stable enough, the walls are worn out and the buildings are dark and lack community public space. The space is extremely small and crowded and most unit only has one room and doors are push-and-pull. What's more, with the residents are getting old, it's also a problem that there are no elevators. It could be the common conditions in Busan and in many other countires that these buildings are getting old. However, we could still feel dynamic everyday life by the plants that they grow near the windows and the spontanous balconies they build to extend their living space. These informal constructions become new identity in the area. So the proposal is to employ the balcony as the structure to maintain the building as wellas the stage of their everyday life towards the city.