Prologue Island | Noise | Information “ We are drifting together toward the noise and the black depths of the universe, and our diverse systemic complexions are flowing up the entropic stream, toward the solar origin, itself adrift. Knowledge is at most the reversal of drifting, that strange conversion of times, always paid for by additional drift; but this is complexity itself, which was once called being.” Michel Serras Entropy stands for a thermodynamic quantity that measures disorder and randomness. According to The Second Thermodynamic Law, the total entropy of an isolated system can never decrease and the living system is destined to move gradually towards heat death. Such constant drift toward entropic status was collectively conducted by multiple factors from natural, cultural, and technological impact. While the irreversible drift compromises the living condition of human habitation, information and knowledge can be curated and exchanged to mitigate “noise” and “glitches” that amplify chaos. Architecture, spatial practice, can shoulder the liability of mitigating chaotic status and functioning as intervention that construct commoning territories for information. While accepting the steady accumulation of disorder, Neg-entropic design hacks into matrices and networks beneath the surface and establishes homeorhetic order within entropic flow. Concentrating on grounds instead of figures, dynamics instead of stipulation, acupuncture instead of imposition, Neg-entropic Island emerges to resist the erosion of chaotic flow.
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Ambivalent Bounds
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Urban Conjunctive Point Design Museum Helsinki ARCH 48500 | Academic Work | Fall 20
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Laputa
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Eco-Morphology Museum of Weather ARCH 48300 | Academic Work | Fall 19
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Diff[é]rance
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Prosthesis of Memory C&O Canal Lock No.52 Memorial ARCH 48250 | Academic Work | Spring 18
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Tangible Medium Lunar Gala Fashion Show | Spring 20
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Supplement Work Other Academic & Personal Work 2018 - 2021
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01 Ambivalent Bounds Urban Conjuntive Point
Architecture Design
Design Museum Helsinki
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University From August 2021 to December 2021 Location: Helsinki, Finland Collaborator: Fanjie Jin Finalist: Carnegie Mellon SoA 4th Year Design Award 2021
Propinquity means physical proximity, a kinship between people, or a similarity in nature between things. The notion of Propinquity, the initial prompt of the project, ties into the exploration of interiority, program heterogeneity, and material effect. Situated at a dense and rigid site condition, this building negotiates with the constraints of the site boundary to be able to dissolve within its urban context, stimulating an intimate connection. Through the permeable envelope, the unique city context is treated as patches and weaved into internal space; the collections will be recognized as part of the facades. Ultimately, the museum creates a reciprocal dialogue among people, city and culture.
Erosion of City Identity
Kasarmitori Plaza, Helsinki, Finland
Curating Culture
2021
With the complexity of urban composition and network, musuem exceeds its traditional role of information storage. Instead, it becomes a “information hub”, where culture, in forms of artifacts, can be curated into exchangable form of knowledge.
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With unorganized information scattered and flooded over living environment, this city by the ocean became the “ocean” itself. The project proposes a fundamental rebel from such erosion of mundaneness. A museum, an information hub, dedicates to collect, arrange, and showcase knowledge could be a solution to counter the chaotic flood that erodes city memory. Creating waves against surrounding to both interact and challenge the threshold, “island” emerges as the urban artifact.
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Helsinki, capital of Finland, is the cradle of Scandinavian design aesthetics and nordic lamination crafts. With the current city planning and spatial practice, the design culture and city identity was diluted by the univocal norm within the regulated city fabric.
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Re-Weaving Urban Identity
Museum Typology Timeline
Dismantling White Box Museum Ideology “White box” refers to the contemporary gallery typology with plain walls and no openings intending to diminish the existance of context and seperate exhibits from everyday life. This project chellenges such ideology by proposing an alternative gallery experience dedicating to integrate information inclusivity within the spatial definition.
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Programmed as the new Design Museum Helsinki, an knowledge hub, the project transcends its critical role of showcasing objects to stimulating an intimate connection between culture and city. By interrogating mutation of envelope through the gestures of pushing and pulling, the building forms and evokes desire to further engage with its prephery. Redefining the concept of interority, this negotiation between inside and outside blurifies thresholds and dissolves the building into the city.
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Exothermal Reaction: In a low entropy system, the floating drifted electrons spontaneously bond to form more stable molecule structure and release energy
Drifted Floating electrons drifted in the system with loosely organization
Exothermic Electrons spontaneously move to form molecular bonds and create order
Bonded Once inter-molecular structures are established, the electrons are stablized
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Rhythm
Threshold
ORDER
BUILDING Responsive
Woven Esplanadi
URBAN
CHAOTIC
White Box
Malleability
Rikhardubkatu Library Reciprocality
Dialogue Kasarmitory Plaza
Helsingin Satama
Bulging Envelope
Interiority | Malleability | Threshold Interior space and exterior space are always relative. Interiority, different from internal space, was interpreted as an ambivelant condition. The project questions the acceptance building envelope’s default task of establishing boundary and exclusivity. By treating the envelope as malleable membrane, the project proposes possibility of variant spatial quality and experience along its periphery that both interact with surrounding environment and internal volumn.
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Neo - Typology Anatomy Portal | Wall | Room
By integrating mutant boundary condition into interiority, the fluidity inflows
Boundary Mutation
Motion studies functions as typology generator focusing on exploring spatial
into internal space, which forms dynamic gallery experience. The space, as
Retain | Push | Pull | Peel
potential of boundary condition. Occupiable spaces are created through the combination of gestures: retain, push, pull, peel, etc.
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opposed to the bland container, responds to city and exhibits.
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By pushing the envelope, the building forms highly accessible and inviting space; and by pulling, it evokes a desire to further engage with the building. This negotiation between inside and outside blurifies thresholds and dissolves the building into the city.
Space: Portal Gallery #2
Space: Portal Gallery #3
Exhibit: Comtemporary Designers
Exhibit: Alvar Aalto’s Legacy
Exhibit: Permanent Exhibition
Space: Wall Gallery #1
Space: Wall Gallery #2
Space: Wall Gallery #3
Exhibit: Scandinavian Tableware
Exhibit: Graphic Design
Exhibit: Finnish Furniture
Space: Room Gallery #1
Space: Room Gallery #2
Space: Room Gallery #3
Exhibit: Archive Gallery
Exhibit: Scandinavian Glasswork
Exhibit: Pop-up Exhibition
Retain 1 + Push 1
Retain 2 + Push 1
Invade 2 + Pull 1
Invade 1 + Push 1
Retain 2 + Peel 1
Invade 1 + Peel 1
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Invade 2 + Push 1 + Pull 1
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Space: Portal Gallery #1
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During the process of signal transformation, information is obscured by noise which causes redundancy. The univocal urban experience exists as norm that dilutes the cultural heritage of the city. With unorganized pieces of cultural memory scattered and flooded in cityscape, the erosion of mundaneness fades cultural memory and the city identity. Inevitably, urban as a cultural frontier, becomes an “Ocean” that provides habitat to the entropic stream and relentlessly drifts to heat death. Within such everlasting turbulent flow, culture can be organized as knowledge and information that produce reversal to chaos. Within such information hub, collection of knowledge becomes “Island” that rectifies chaotic noise by creating “waves” through the negotiation with prosaic norm and the curation of disorganized cultural fractures. Through the remediation of the connection between culture, city, and people, cultural island creates Neg-entropic potential that establishes and solidifies order.
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Culture & Entropy
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Program heterogeneity among above-grade and below-grade spaces blends the museum with existing postal office and supermarket. Despites its radical intervention to the urban streetscape, the cultural dimension passively inflows into the daily space through porosity and construct a seamless experience.
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Section B
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Porosity, which has been defined as the permeable elements between interior and exterior, is where the boundaries between urban space and museum got blurified and redefined. Existing in various scales, porous elements are integrated into the project in forms of voids and apertures. Through the permeable envelope, the uniqueness of city context is emphasized by being deconstructed as patches and weaved into internal space: the exhibits will be recognized as part of the facades. The simultaneity of viewing both collections and urban context recognizes and elevates the site identity. Situating artifacts within the city view, the gallery space evokes ambivilant bonds among people, city, and culture.
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Permeable Strata
02 Laputa Eco-Morphology
Architecture Design
Museum of Weather
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University From August 2020 to December 2020 Location: Six Mile Island, Sharpsburg, PA Individual Work Finalist: Carnegie Mellon SoA 4th Year Design Award 2021
As all built infrastructures are ultimately bound to the larger ecosystem, architecture transcends from regional enclosure to attuning device within matrices of social ecological context. With the notion of a cultivated infrastructure, the projects establishes a circular material and design flow where the shaping strategy and formal configuration directly derived from and reflect upon environmental index. It constructs a symbiotic relationship between architectural tectonic and landform, regional environemnt and urban ecology, human habitation and natural territoties.
Erosion of Eco-vibrance
Ecological Crisis
Six Mile Island, Sharpsburg, PA Cause
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Crisis
Six Mile Island, located at Sharpsberg, is an alluvial island in the Allegheny River. The unconsolidated soil has been washed against water flow over years, which caused the island to drift away from its original location. In addition, the natural landscape and infrastructural organization conjointly induce flooding and sewage outlet. With the loss of habitation for multiple species, the island is identified as ecologically sensitive where the entropic stream is continuously drifting living system to chaos. Embedding mapping index into topographical section analysis allows precise tracing of territories that suffer from ecological disadvantages such as flood, erosion, and combinatory sewage, etc.
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“Ecosystem is evidently a thermodynamic system, sometimes operating at very high temperatures, and tending toward death according to an unpredictable and irreversible time, but going up the entropic stream by means of phylogenetic invariances and the mutations of selection.”
Site Location
Hydrography
Depression
Building Footprint & Topography
Flood Plain & Vegetation
Surface Runoff & Sewage
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Eco-Morphology
Affinity with Weather
Environmental Intervention: Museum of Weather
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Atmosphere
All built infrastructures are ultimately bound with larger ecosystem. Design methodlogy should embrace the bridge between form finding and environmental feedback. Extracting information from site indexing provides a rational perspective for acupuncturing existing site condition through the lens of analytical approach. Aiming to negotiate and juxtapose the spatial relationships among the site, water infrastructure, and local ecologies, the Museum of Weather is proposed as an environmental intervention that functions responsively to its
Emerging from and connect with the site ecological condition. the architecture performs as a regenerative intervention that remediates local ecosystem. The machinic notion lends
Collaborating with Climate
the museum to exposes its mechanical components as the exhibits. By blending artificial
Weather, associated with ecology and nature, has consistently been considered as a factor need to be avoided
infrastructure within natural landscape, the space evokes a commoning territory where
and insulated in architecture for human habitation. While such resistance is neccessary, there are chances to
human collaborate with weather to form a sharing identity.
challenge the binary relationship between human and weather by actively adapting weather and embracing a
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situated site context.
non-anthropocentric design logistic that promotes co-exsistance.
Gaia Hypothesis: Interaction with inorganic surroundings to form a synergistic system
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Interaction
Regionalization: Runoff and Sewage System
The living organism tend to interact with their inorganic surroundings in order to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life. 1. Intervention Domain Framing
Adaptation to their environment in order to
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The organisms make adjustments improve their chances at survival in that environment. 2. Infrastructure as Acupuncture
Synergy Once the organisms have adapted to the surrounding, the organisms and environment support each other’s growth and proliferation. 3. Synergic Growth as Attunement
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All built infrastructures are ultimately bound with planetary ecosystem. While the prevalent binary design thinking frames issues as individual entities, the “solution” as an imposition ignores the nuanced medium that exists within the entanglements of the environment itself. Along with the accumulation of the discordance between architectural tectonic and its context, entropy gets amplified. By focusing on grounds instead of figures, bonds instead of objects, acupuncture instead of imposition, Homeorrhesis within entropic flow could be established to mitigate chaos. Transcending from the typical role of anthropo-centric habitation, architecture evolves into neg-entropic island that attunes existing ecological context and eventually withstands heat death.
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Ecology & Entropy
Homeorrhesis
In-Situ Formation of Eco-Territories
Architecture is fundamentally one of the wheel gears within the planetary ecosystem, therefore it should exceed the ideology of monolith and embrace the in-situ factors as design logistics. Based on the understanding of larger ecology of the site, the methodology negotiates spatial relationships among the site, water infrastructure, local ecologies and architectural intervention.
01. Puncture Bridging the site with access points from both side of the island.
02. Expanding Adapting site topography and organically expanding to form occupiable space.
03. Organizing Establishing circulation network as the stewarship of spatial organization.
Directing Water
Diretionality of surface configuration lends itself to channel water. Flowing towards same direction, micro-climate is formed within the threshold of slots.
Converging Water The combination of mounds and depressions creates micro territoties that aggregate and accumulate water. Retaining Water Continuous drenches posit perpendicular to the flow direction and function as barriers that deccelerate water.
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Homeorrhesis emphasizes the idea of continual movement and exchanges as opposed to the less dynamic idea of Homeo-stasis. It captures the dynamic nature of the organism by means of a terminology that avoids suggestions of the static.
Flow Velocity:
A0-4: Directing Water
B0-4: Converging Water
C0-4: Retaining Water
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Route Formation: Combinatory circulation system formed by programmatic logic
Texture Design Matrix: Rugosity variance for micro-climate
A1: Height: 0.1 Area: 132%
A2: Height: 0.2 Area: 275%
A3: Height: 0.5 Area: 406%
A4: Height: 0.8 Area: 731%
B0: Height: 0 Area: 100%
B1: Height: 0.1 Area: 156%
B2: Height: 0.2 Area: 301%
B3: Height: 0.5 Area: 497%
B4: Height: 0.8 Area: 802%
C0: Height: 0 Area: 100%
C1: Height: 0.1 Area: 143%
C2: Height: 0.2 Area: 287%
C3: Height: 0.5 Area: 578%
C4: Height: 0.8 Area: 926%
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01. Island Roof level as primary museum interface.
02. Bridge Program interconnected by open corridors.
03. Forest Outdoor space for experiencing weather.
LAPUTA | Castle in the Sky “In shape the upper surface sloped down from circumference to centre, causing all rain to form rivulets into the centre where four large basins 1/2 mile in circuit lie 200 yards from the absolute centre. In the centre of the island itself was a chasm 50 yards in diameter continuing down into a dome extending 100 yards into the adamantine surface.”
Bridge
19’, 37’, 53’
Forest
0’ - 19’
The Museum of Weather responds and reacts to local ecological context. With eco-machine attuning environmental factors embedded within its architectural tectonic, the museum showcases its intervention mechanism while collecting rainfall, adapting flood action, and retaining surface runoff. Multiple layers of spatial experiences unfold within the designed infrastructural system repsonding to seasonal flood planes under the three dominant spatial and programmatic typologies: Island, Bridge, and Forest.
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Island
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<<Gulliver’s Travels>>
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Adaptation
Environmental Curation
Site Flood Fluctuation Levels
Seasonal Flood Planes
Elevation Adaptivity Corresponding to Environmental Variables
Planar Adaptivity Corresponding to Environemntal Variables
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Instead of avoiding weather condition, the form actively adapts to and collaborates with it. The fluctuation of seasonal flood line becomes a boundary device that defines multiple modes of spatial occupation. Following the flood planes, hybrid spatial experience was unfold by layers of circulation routes. Through working with weather, experiencing weather, and inside of weather, a shared identity between human and nature can be established by collaboration.
Flood level: 19’
Typology I: Forest At fluctuation level 1, the form maintains its reversed concave geometry creating tangible volumn at its ground level. The negative space formed by architectural canopy establish the first layer of spatial typology as “Forest”. Janurary - April 2020
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At fluctuation level 2, the flood level rises to the outer edge of sectional profile, where the modules are interconnected by a series of spatial corridors. Transition space forms the second layer of spatial typology as “Bridge”.
May - August
Flood level: 53’
Typology III: Island At fluctuation level 3, ground and second level of the volumn were submerged by the flood planes. Architectural form dissolves itself into the weather. Roof as the fifth facade completes the final layer of spatial typology as “Island”.
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Typology II: Bridge
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Climate and seasons constantly mold existing habitats by their ever-changing nature. Bringing unpredictable impacts to the environment, they increase the entropic energy and drift ecosystem to “heat death”. Nevertheless, within such inevitable tendency, space and form can be introduced as interventions with intentional curation. Interpreting local environmental index, the intervention generate remediation as reaction to the specificity of site. Aligning with the ecological rationale, it forms homeorretic territories that confront the disordered flow brough by climate and weather. Transforming entropic noise to information, the museum hacked into its host and actively adapts to the local ecological system.
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“The fluid is always stable; the solid which wears away is unstableHeraclitus and Parmenides were both right. Hence the notion of homeorrhesis. The living system is homeorrhetic.” Michel Serres
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03 Diff[é]rance Prosthesis of Memory
Architecture Design
C&O Canal Memorial
Academic work, Carnegie Mellon University From January 2019 to March 2019 Location: C&O Canal Lock No.52, Hancock, Maryland Individual Work
Relics are abandoned sites where memories from the past are folded into the ruins as a form of preservation. As entropy rises along with the irreversible directionality of time, the accumulation of the forgotton history erode identity of places. With the ambition of establishing dialogue with memory in a reflective manner, spatial intervention performs as prosthesis allowing people to access and revisit corpse of history. Instead of dwelling on the past and restoring memories, the space provide a perspective of a spectator who detached from the fixed memory lane and critically assess the heritage of the abandoned condition.
Différance: Delayed Appearance
Camera film developing: Technical Prosthesis enables Tertiary Retention
Tertiary retention and temporal objects
Tietiary retention is documentary in its nature. Tertiary form of memory constitutes an imprint of memory that is structurally prior to even our primary retention; it is from this which we temporalise ourselves and the world around us.
Primary retention is based on perception and experience. It constitutes a flow in time as each individual note appears and subsequently disappears, the newest note contains within it retains the previous note.
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Secondary retention is from memory. It involves a form of imagination rather than pure perceptions. It is a selective repetition of primary retention; it derives from experience rather than constituting it.
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Tertiary retention always exists in the form of dual-documentation: Film camera relies on both mechanical and chemical processes to complete retention. The retarding arrival of developed film due to negatives developing is refered as “Différance (Delayed & Different)”. The moment memory arrives with Différance evokes indefinite sensory recollection and therefore gives rebirth to the past.
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We can experience a memory multiple times, and our experience of that memory changes depending on the multitude of times we experience it, we must therefore have a form of technical retention, or “tertiary retention” in which the repeatability of a temporal object becomes possible. Our primary retention is also therefore dependant on both the secondary and tertiary forms of retention. Although external memory supports are empirical derivatives of human memory, they constitute, from the first, the way in which we conceive the past, present, and future.
Reflective Nostalgia Reflective nostalgia thrives in álgos, the longing itself, and delays the homecoming—wistfully, ironically, desperately. These distinctions are not absolute binaries, and one can surely make a more refined mapping of the gray areas on the outskirts of imaginary homelands. Restorative nostalgia does not think of itself as nostalgia, but rather as truth and tradition. Reflective nostalgia dwells on the ambivalences of human longing and belonging and does not shy away from the contradictions of modernity. Restorative nostalgia protects the absolute truth, while reflective nostalgia calls it into doubt.
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Reflective nostalgia accepts the fact that the past is past, and rather than trying to recreate a special past experience, savors the emotions evoked by its recollection. This acknowledgment of the irretrievability of our autobiographical past provides an aesthetic distance that allows us to enjoy a memory. It evokes a momentary sense of emotional pleasure rather than a restless urge to recreate a special moment from our past, and a sense of sadness when we realize the futility of that desire, that special moment, as it was lived, being forever sealed off from the present we inhabit.
The site is located along the historic C&O Canal on the northern bank of Potomac River in Hancock, Maryland. Remnants of Lock No.52 and the topographic traces of the canal basin are present across the site, which is currently maintained by the National Park Service. The site is part of an extensive national park that runs from Washington DC to Maryland and is a spatial and material trace of Canal.
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C & O Canal Lock No.52
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1. Occupy Human activities occupy and build connection to the physical space.
2. Coexist Human activities adapt to the site and evolve over time to form memory. Lane of Present | Storage
Time & Entropy
Lane of Future | Retrieval
Phantom Architecture Physical tectonic functions as “ghost” that is apparent to sense but with no substantial existence. The relic is treated as past for remembrance. Contrary to occupying the existing structure, the intervention serves as a viewing device that seeks meaningful conversation with the abandoned debris. During the sequential journey, the building discourages visitors to physically occupy the relic. Instead, it enable establish mental and spiritual connection with memory.
3. Abandon When activities disappeared, the place become abandoned with memories being sealed.
Technical prosthesis and signals as tertiary retention devices augment our ability to visit and replay our memory. However, by the 2nd thermodynamic law, as the present unceasingly turning into the past, the particular directionality of time causes the increment of entropy. And during the delayed arrival of memory display (Differance), the entropy dichotomizes the liminal feelings between past and present. Such discrepancy leads to an uncompared sense of reality when people confront the represented memory. Fighting against the ceaseless entropic flow, Differance constructs mental distance for people to relieve themselves from the irretrievable past therefore reflectively visit their memory.
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Lane of Past | Encoding
Trajecotry of Memory
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Any storage format is essentially a form of retention to “past”. Within the irreversible directionality of time, entropy constantly accumulates and solidifies irreparable difference between present and past. Between the liminal space of recording and revealing. The Différance(Delay and Difference) exaggerates the sense of presence through tertiary retention. At the memorial’s destination, where both physical and mental distance between two lanes are at their upper thresholds, Lane of Present transits to Lane of Future which offers a reflective perspective of memory and coeval. Ambivalent space in between is presented with a dramatic entounter. Ascending from the ground, the visitor completes the journey with final confrontation of rememberance.
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Deploring the linearity of time, the space provokes a delayed reappearance as the retention of memory. By collecting fragmented pieces of memory from the timeline, the “place” evokes the desire to revisit, reflect, and reimagine the past from a bystander’s perspective. Through the sortation and assemblage of the abandoned relic’s identity (C&O Canal Lock No.52) , the humble intervention serves as an activating retention device denying the erosion of memory fading with the river of history and entropy flow.
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Fractured Temporality
04 RE:PARTUS Tangible Medium
Garment Design
Lunar Gala Fashion Show
Personal Work, Carnegie Mellon University From December 2019 to Feburary 2020 Designed for the annual student-organzied fashion show at CMU Lunar Gala 2020 “Yesterday“ Individual Work
With the ambition to expand architectural ideation into multidisciplinary thinking, this project testifies garment as a tangible medium to communicate symbolistic translation and formal narrative. A line constitutes of 8 garment dwells on the concept of sentimental process of mutation, which was depicted in Black Swan. Transforming cinematric language into volumn, texture, and silhouette, the line collectively presents the corrupting swan image through the lens of malleable medium.
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Translation, Mutation, Metamorphisis
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“RE:PARTUS”, stands for “Rebirth” and “Self-Metamorphisis”, is the conceptual scaffold of this line that is constituited of 8 looks. Inspired by the psychological horror film Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky, the line aligns with the film’s surreal montage of Swan Lake and reinterprets it through the length of wearable sculpture as a tangible medium. With the ambition to translate the process of White Swan’s kinship to self-destruction and its rebirth as Black Swan, the design translates the movies’s plot and extracts its motif. The montage of various elements was expressed through the formal mutation which varies from mild silhouettes to dramatically untamed figurations.
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In search of the dialogue between body, artifacts, and spirit, the collection studies and challenges the boundary between multiple design mediums.
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While seeking for external perfection, the shadow sneaks in as rebellion. Through the expression of material and sihlouettes, the notion of Metamorphosis dissolves within garments representing the tension between one’s outer persona and inner shadow.
03. House [26]
04. Geology of Form
Entry and final list for Epic Metal Design Competition 2019. Air Hacker posits itself within post-Apocalyptic scene where air condition is severe. Through this mobile air lab, architecture materiality bounds to its functionality and societal role.
House[26] explores architecture tectonic as regenerative intervention which connects to and attunes larger ecosystem. The project bridges architectural form, material logic, and construction technique.
Architecture composite drawing that meanders between 3D modeling, computational simulation, and graphic illustration. Aiming to decode the invisible ecological property of formal configuration, the drawing embodies explicit information with insight into its ecological behavior.
05. Manjusaka
06. Urban Incubator
07. Urban Agriculture Center
08. Lithop (Living Stone)
Design project that incoporates computational design thinking. By utilizing generative design methodology, the form was resolved and articulated into architectural scale.
Design project situated within urban fabrics. The project stimulates the abandoned site by reading into the specificity of the site condition and urban identity.
Design project aimes to discuss building performance within its urban condition. By creating threshold and entry points, the formal gesture interacts with site and larger urban context.
Fabrication project that bound with computational workflow and additive construction logic. By exploring the ecological potential of geometry with the assistance of topological optimization, the primitive geometry mutates into complex architectural form.
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02. Air Hacker
Entry for Hypcup Architecture Competition 2021. Cul[tea] vate is a schematic proposal speculating future rural planning. Grounded within Nanpo villlage as the site for case study, the proposal negotiates and challenges the dynamics between urban and rural.
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01. Cul[tea]vate
Other Academic Works (Year 2019-2021)
2018 - 2021
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Digital Photography
Travel Sketchbook
Selected travel photography shot with digital camera. Taken in New York City, Barcelona, Cambodia, etc. The ambition was to absorb and capture architectural thinking while on-site. Through different technique, the emotion and spirit of buildiing and space was retained to be reflected. The work exists as a personal archive to be studied or expanded.
Travel sketch book that was finished during Scandinavian trip in 2019. Covering Denmark, Swedan, and Finland, the sketch featuresiconic Scandinavian designs across different era. By sketching in an analytic manner, the work was aimed to be a reaction than merely documentation. Unique Scandinavian design philosophy and methodology were recorded for further study.
Other Personal Works (Year 2018-2021)