2018 Portfolio by Charles Don

Studio work

Extension

Lakeside villa

Ideal context

Square

Urban Hote

Savannah, Georgia, US

Bridge

Complex education building

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Boundary

Railway history museum

Zhalantun, Heilongjiang Province, China

Process

Bicycle factory

Accra, Ghana

Accelerator

Individual project from Mar. 2011 to May. 2011

Architectural Design (II)

Individual project from Aug. 2015 to Dec. 2015

Advanced Building Studio (I)

3-member team project from Mar. 2016 to Aug. 2016

Advanced Building Studio (II)

Developed design idea, made physical model and detail drawings.

4-member team project from Jul. 2012 to Sept. 2012

Autodesk Revit Design Competition

Team leader of the project, developed landscape concept and made diagram drawings.

2-member team project from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2016

Research and Design Studio (I)

Researched on bicycle factory and developed parametric logic. Made digital models and diagram drawings. drawings.

10-member team project from Mar. 2017 to Aug. 2017

Research and Design Studio (II)

Made large scale physical models (part of). Helped other team members to develop and assemble façade mockup.

Individual project from Mar. 2014 to Jun. 2014

Design

R & D center for textile and fabrication Seoul, Korea

Vision Tourism resort TaiHang Great Canyon, Shanxi Province, China 2017 2018 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 5 25 33 13 19 41 55

Graduation

Other work

Concrete Workshop

Complex education building Atlanta, Georgia, US

Operation:512

4-member team project from Mar. 2016 to Aug. 2016 Construction Tech 2

Cooperated team members to develop design product and mold geometry and fabricate them.

Building façade layout automation

Small installation design and fabrication Atlanta, Georgia, US Individual project from Aug. 2017 to Dec. 2017

Design of Bamboo Mushroom Column

Individual project from Aug. 2016 to Dec. 2016 Elective Seminar and Workshop

Drawings and paintings

Individual project from Feb. 2018 to Jun. 2018

Models

Individual project from Sept. 2009 to Jul. 2011 Art of Architecture

Building

System and Data

Finding and Solving problems in AEC processes Atlanta, Georgia, US 65 69 81 89 73

Extension Lakeside villa

This lakeside villa is designed to be a private space purposely for meditation. Space extends to the boundless stretch of water by a long corridor, which organizes the vertical transportation and separates different activity partitions. The root of the corridor is embedded under the ground and the entrance of the villa is located here. Descend the stairs and go through the darkness, and then, step into rooms during the way towards the shining surface of the lake. Or you could also go straight forward to the edge of the corridor, the farthest place from the shore. This long corridor catches the natural light and reflects it until dying out. The hosts go through the corridor as well as the brightness and darkness in their daily activity.

5 2011

Lakeside villa

Corridor 6

Dark and bright space

7 2011

C - C Section B - B Section

A - A Section

0m 5m A B C 10m 20m 3rd

Plan 9 2011

Floor

0m 5m 10m 20m 2nd Floor Plan 1st Floor Plan 10

Perspective from lake 11 2011

Square

Urban hotel

Savannah is famous for its historic districts which was designed by James Oglethorpe. The plan of the historic portions of Savannah is based on the concept of a ward, as defined by James Oglethorpe. Each ward had a central square, around which were arrayed four trust lots and four tythings. Each trust lot was to be used for a civic purpose, such as a school, government building, church, museum, or other public venue, while the tythings were each subdivided into ten lots for residential use. The hotel is located on tything lots facing a square. Sequential gardens are arranged in the design in order to introduce the central square into hotel.

13 2011

Savannah’s urban structure Satellite,

Highquality Lowquality

condition 14

Function, Streets and Lots

Space between gardens

15 2015

Floor Plan: 3 4 2 1 5 16

Wall Section 17 2015

Bridge Complex education building in Georgia Tech

The Living Building Challenge is a building certification program, advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to rapidly diminish the gap between current limits and the end-game positive solutions we seek. The Challenge is comprised of seven performance categories called Petals: Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. In our design, we built a long bridge to connect people in and off campus, to communicate with landscape, and to collect water and energy from nature.

19 2015

21 2015

23 2016

Boundary Railway history museum

This project is designed to build a museum in Zalantun, Hulunber, Inner Mongolia in order to store, display and memorize the history about Middle East Railway. During the period of the Middle East Railway, Zalantun was a significant town and became a popular health resort for aristocrats of Tsarist Russia. Why this town was chosen by Russia? Or we say by history? Reason comes from the location. Zalantun situated on the boundary of humid continental climate and subarctic climate zones, that means this area is not as warm as inland China and not as cold as Russia. Just for the climate factor, the vegetation in this area also have a special boundary between steppe and forests. The design proceeds from it by recreating the landscape boundary to response to the localization context.

25 2016

Square Space

Sunken Space

27 2012

Interior Space

Exterior Space

29 2012

31 2012

Process

Design of a bicycle factory in Accra, Ghana

The Design and Research Studio INDUSTRY 4.0: SMART URBAN FACTORY focuses on models of the contemporary and future factory environment within an urban environment. Our project is a bike factory located in the center of Accra, the capital city of Ghana. We use parametric design method to explore the morphology of the building under Accra’s urban context as well as the structure possibility, which allowed us to use bamboo to create long span structure. Bamboo is attracting increasing interest as a strategic resource that can provide climate-smart solutions to millions of rural communities across Africa.

33 2016

35 2016

37 2016

39 2016

Accelerator Research and development center for textile and fabrication technology

Seoul Accelerator is an interdisciplinary research and development center for textile, garment and fabrication technology. Dongdaemun is a vibrant commercial district of Seoul, where every component of the garment industry is accessible 24/7. Dongdaemun’s historic urban fabric is transforming in reponse to the rising information economy. The garment industry has an opportunity to leverage the growing demand for art, design and fashion. The project seeks to catalyze the industry by connecting researchers, fabricators, local vendors and customers. The institution serves as an innovation laboratory, accerlerating Seoul’s cutting-edge fabrication technology.

41 2016

South Korea has successfully adapted and evolved to act as an “accelerator,” fostering technological advancement and international trade. Korea has no substantial natural resources; therefore, the country has had to specialize in technology. According to the Biennale, the population of Seoul is to increase from 54% of Korea’s overall population to 86% within the next 10 years. As a rapidly growing city of 25 million citizens, Seoul is simultaneously historical and cutting edge, calling for an architecture that is timeless.

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53 2017

Vision

Rourism resort

This is a planning of a tourism resort in area of TaiHang Great Canyon. In this area, unique topography and land-form is the main character. What experience we gain from this place is different from the other kind of scenic spots? From my perspective, it is vision. The restriction of tourists’ sight from the natural landscape could create a strong sensations of space. Therefor, I consider more about this kind of restriction of sight in planning the buildings of the resort in this site. Restriction and guidance of the vision is the theme of this plan.

55 2017

We do not need to count mileage by guideposts when we travel into this area. That is because the mountain range and canyons could restrict our vision, which causes an intense sensation of space. The slope of mountains gradually steepen, that means we are approaching the depths. The slope of mountains gradually slow, that means we are moving away from the canyons. The spatial experience of tourists stems from vision.

57 2014

Microlopography

More than 40% slope

15%~ 40% Slope

5%~ 15% Slope

1%~ 5% Slope

Hydrochart

Water level in rainy season

Water level in dry season

Original landscape

Dominant landscape

General landscape

Renewable landscape

Unusable landscape

Original road system

Provincial roads

Cement roads

Unpaved roads

Side roads

59 2014

63 2014

Concrete Workshop

Begin by drawing an 6” x 6” x 6” cube as a set of orthographic and axonometric descriptions at a scale of 1:1. Then using a precise transformational procedure (or a set of algorithmic processes) create a mutant offspring of the original. Consider transformations and deformations such as affine projections, shearing, scaling, twisting, bending, Boolean unions + differences + intersections, etc. Both the parent and child will be translated from drawing to artifact through the making of molds and casting of the object in unreinforced concrete.

65 2016

Concrete Workshop

Design a stool for sitting to be produces as a thin wall UHPC element using ruled surface geometries or double ruled surface geometries (ie hyperbolic paraboloids). The thickness of the element must be between ½” minimum and 1” maximum. The stool should be designed for one person and should be able to carry a load of at least 250 pounds

67 2016

Operation:512

OPERATION: 512 is a hands-on workshop and production seminar that sets out to explore customized workflows that will oscillate between physical spatial production to advanced digital modelling and fabrication techniques. This exploratory course is inherently both digital and physical, often times simultaneously, as a prime directive built into the overall set-up is that participants will iteratively navigate a wide range of working methods and spatial / material results. Fully exploiting the extensive resource of digital tools, CNC fabrication machines and traditional shop equipment at the DFL, participants of this course are required to produce highly refined, composite spatial frameworks that elegantly and precisely contain or define a volumetric envelope of 512 cubic feet.

69 2016

71 2016

Building System and Data Building façade layout automation

Building Systems and Data focuses on the overlap between AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) processes and the building models and data that support them. This research project started from developing a use case for building models, workflows and specify exchanges that describe the generation, hosting, manipulation and transfer of this information through its lifecycle. Though database tools, scripting, plug-ins, and API programming studies will implement the workflow in BIM and database systems to solve specific problems in this use case.

73 2017

The use case is the design of a variable panel system developed on the façade of a hospital. Apertures of various functions on the façade show the complexity of hospital programs. The attributes of these apertures are highly restrained by lots of factors, such as:building structure, room function, aesthetic purpose, etc.

If some specific factors are changed, architects, structural engineers, and MEP designers should work together to adjust the panel system back and forth. For example, If the height of the floor is changed, the structural engineer should recalculate the dimensions of the beams and other stuff and pass the information to MEP designer. The ventilation system might be redesigned based on the structure condition. Finally, the architect should check if all the exchange still works well on the panel system. If there is any feasibility issue, the whole team should go back and seek alternative solutions. So I am looking for some more efficient way to improve the workflow.

The basic design of the façade consists of rectangular panels of aluminum, stone, and glass(windows). The size and location of the panels are varied based on room function and façade orientation to optimize daylight, views, and natural ventilation while conforming to an overall aesthetic language established for the façade.

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Division: 2017

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Architecture concept design

Building dimension, Grid system, Occupancy

Material usage ratio MEP requirement

Design

BIM

Façade schemes

MEP concept design/calculation

MEP model

Window-to-wall ratio, Room orientation/ventilation, Natural or nechanical air volume

Ventilation detailing

MEP model with ventilation system, Location, Dimension

Pattern drawings MEP data

Architecture Design Structure Design MEP Design Exchange Exchange Exchange

BIM BIM Ref. Ref.

BIM

Ref. Ref.

façade pattern

Structure

connection

Detail drawings

BIM

Structure model with connection info. Structure model with location, dimension info.

properties

and

Façde model

Material

Equipment

MEP info.

BIM BIM Ref. Ref.

estimation Building structure design

refine 77 2017

Ref. Load

Façade

79 2017

Building Models Design of Bamboo Mushroom Column

The project focus on building (product data) models for representing information regarding design and the built environment, and their utilization in the process of engineering and fabrication activities. As a material-oriented computational design, bamboo is used as structure material. The project defines data requirement specification and implementation based on the handcrafted bamboo structure, represents information for the computational processes in Building Information Modeling (BIM), data standards for Product data representation and Exchange (STEP), Industry Foundation Classes (IFC).

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Split bamboo shingles

Waterproof membrane

Split bamboo celling

Bamboo rafters

As a material-oriented computational design, bamboo is used as structure material. The pliability and stiffness of pre-bent bamboo can increase loadbearing capacity. Bundles of bamboos are fixed at certain point can create organic structure geometry and support long-span structure. Structural engineer should provide feasible solution and pass the data of bamboo configuration to architects, to apply them into different design situation.

The scope of this exchange requirement is the exchange of information from bamboo structural analysis to geometry of architecture components. It includes the need for length, number and location of bamboo culms and also the need for shape, size, number, and location of bamboo structure components. This exchange requirement allows for the provision of information at Criteria Definition Phase, Design Phase, and Coordination Phase during the design process. The information provided at each stage is essentially the same.

However, the level of certainty regarding components used will increase at each stage allowing greater certainty in space provision.

Bamboo Multiplex Bamboo Column Column Pedestal

Project Methodology

1. Create Process Model, Exchange Requirement and Exchange Requirement Model.

2. Define and document the MVD with entity data types, concept templates and property sets using IfcDoc.

3. Create 2D geometry based on structural analysis. Use GeometryGym to create IFC object and export as IFC format.

4. Import IFC file into Revit.

Bamboo structure design & calculation Floor plan design Name Project Stage

Bamboo Cane Diameter; Thickness Swept Axis; Location Bamboo Bundle Layout; Location Mushroom Column Combination Entity/ Pset/ Functional Part Man Rec Opt Not

Information Needed Single

er_exchange_bamboo_model (structure) 31-10 00 00 Inception Phase 31-20 00 00 Conceptualization Phase 31-30 00 00 Criteria Definition Phase 31-40 00 00 Design Phase 31-50 00 00 Coordination Phase 31-60 00 00 Implementation Phase 31-70 00 00 Handover Phase 31-80 00 00 Operations Phase 31-90 00 00 Closure Phase IfcBuildingElementPart IfcElementAssembly IfcMember Structural model Apply 2D frame into voronoi system Voronoi geometry development Finish structural model Structural Engineer Architect Exchange

2D Line drawing of Structural frame Column location and geometry

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SweptAxisID

Diameter: Thickness:

SweptAxis: Location:

Curve: Length:

MushroomColumnID

Location:

Geometry:

of Made

BundleArray:

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Bundle <<entity>> <<entity>> <<entity>> <<entity>> <<PK>> <<FK>> <<PK>> <<FK>> <<PK>> <<PK>> <<FK>>

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Column Bamboo Cane SweptAxis

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SweptAxisID BundleID BambooCaneID

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2D Frame Drawing

Bamboo cane Bamboo Bundle 84

The bamboo column is made of several bundles of bamboo canes. There is an aggregated structure in it, which can not be well represented by column and beam objects. So in this project, ifcBuildingElementPart is used to represent single bamboo cane, and the whole structure was represented by ifcMember. The bundle configuration was described by ifcElementAssembly.

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Using Rectangular Array and data structure to describe bundle configuration

Using IFCBuildingElementPartType to create bamboo bundle element

Using IFC Circle(Hollow)ProfileDef and IFCSweptAreaSolid to describe single bamboo cane

The Final result include: Model View Definition (top left); 2D structure frame Rhino model (middle left); Grasshopper solution with GeometryGym plugin (bottom left). GeometryGym is an OpenBIM tools for AEC industry. IFC file can be generated by this plugin, and read in Revit.