Architecture Portfolio 2022

Above: “The Apparatus” from Project 01 Discontinuous Permanency

Cover: a frame from the animation “Temple of Entropy” in Project 05

DISCONTINUOUS PERMANENCY

Venice is a floating city. Not only from its appearance, but also from the inside. Its buildings are like islands, inserted to the soft soil beneath, with long and indirect foundations. The exhibition, to the same extent, floats on the “container” - museum of Ca’ Corner della Regina. The inserted system introduces a sense of flow to the heavy, monumental structures of Ca’ Corner, by creating both connection and blockage to the original circulation system. The two systems intersect and overlap, forming a discontinuous monumentality.

The renovation of this heritage building takes investigation into the hidden “left-over” spaces, which are the small chambers behind staircases or corridors that are not fully functional. By manipulating and exposing these spaces, the museum forms a third system that connects the inside and the outside.

University Project: Renovation of a Museum

Skills: Researching, Renovation Software: Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Suite

Render of courtyard

Insertion 01 Piano Terra Insertion 02 Piano Ammezzato

Insertion 03 Piano Terzo Insertion 04 Piano Nobile The “Transparency” The “Resistance” The “Museum room” The “Operation”

Diagram of Insertions

Entrance View

TERRAIN RE-FRAMED:

Eclipse of a (Tendentiously) Authentic Barbican

Barbican does not tell it stories. But they are written in the hidden corners of corridors where light does not irradiate, on the machines in the basement whose noises cannot be heard, and on the decayed bricks where visions are distracted from.

Located at Barbican, this community centre creates multiple and unexpected spaces for photographers, local and foreign. The gaps in the façade and the lights through the gaps frame unusual views toward the city, the Barbicanian context, and the people in this building. It uses its undulated floors and thresholds to distract the viewers into looking at the materiality of Barbican, the every-day lives of local residents, and the development process of photos.

University Project: A Community Centre for Photographers

Skills: Drawing, Model-making Software: Rhino, AutoCAD

Physical Model Main Section

Ground Floor Plan

Awarded Project John Charles Lloyd Exhibition

FROST TOWER

Subject: Applied Architecture Technology (Group Project)

This is a proposed residential and commercial tower in Melbourne CBD. In this group project, I focused on the parametric curtain wall system. My works combined design and technical resolution. In addition, I also produced all the renderings and many detail drawings to curate the project.

Award-Winning Project: An Office Tower

Skills: Architecture Technology and Detailing

Software: Revit, 3ds MAX, V-Ray

Renderings using 3ds MAX and V-Ray

Made by Author

Work Project

EAGLEMONT HOUSE

Works at LLDS, Melbourne as Student of Architecture

Role: modelling, drafting, and rendering

Project: A House in Eaglemont

Architects: Paul Loh, David Leggett

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Enscape

TEMPLE OF ENTROPY 05

“Obstinate Persistence” is from a quotation by Rem Koolhaas in Elements of Architecture, “Architecture is a strange mixture of obstinate persistence and constant flux”. And the “persistence” here, becomes a sense of collection and accumulation of architectural and industrial elements.

There are two conflictive parts of architecture, the ideal, which is the surface, facade and the finishing of a building; and the reality, the service systems, cables or hvac systems. This workshop is developed based on the nature of machines instead of humans. It utilises the system of energy exchange as the generator of circulations.

University Project: A Workshop of Fungi Bricks

Skills: Rendering, Animation

Software: 3ds MAX, V-Ray

Rendered Animation: “The Capriccio” Vignettes

The capriccio is a collection of studies, precedents and systems that I have accumulated during the research. Like the idea “obstinate persistence”, these accumulations continuously affected the system that I created, and finally became the elements in the design.

from the animation

HUMAN INCLUSION COMPLEX 06

This thesis is about the geography and technological colonisation of humans in the post-Anthropocene.

The landscape of Seattle is a combination of natural terrain and artificial manipulations, which were predominately led by historical industry-transformations. This obsession with instant profits has created a seemingly smooth and organized urban landscape, but with the negation of old industrial ruins, civic spaces and pedestrian paths, the landscape becomes an entropic assemblage of discontinues spaces – we are not organizing the landscape well enough. This thesis proposes a new landscape that rationalises the exchange of ground matters made possible by the communicative structures between underground and overground spaces, aiming to design a new Amazon’s data centre that accommodates the digital insertions by the technologies of the city, but also acknowledges the discontinuity, the civic spaces and the human scale. Through contrasting the human scale and the machine scale; the artificial and the natural; the entropic and the smooth, it forms an uncanny “American Dream” of the future.

University Project:

Skills:

The Imaginary Headquarters of Amazon

Research, Mapping Software: Rhino, Adobe Suite

Labour vs. Machine

City vs. Ground

History vs. Spectacle

ANTHROPOMORPHIC MACHINE

Works at LLDS, Melbourne

Role: model making, detail design, parametric design Project: Installation at Science Gallery

Concept designer: Stelarc

Architects: Paul Loh, David Leggett, Psyche Hou

This is an installation that moves like human bodies with the use of tensegrity structure and pneumatic muscles, curated by Stelarc and LLDS.

In the project, I developed the joinery system of the tensegrity units. With my modelling, grasshopper scripting, as well as the fabrication of 1:10 model, I also participated in the iterative design of the outcome.

Model of Installation 1:10

Made by author