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FLOATING FARM
THE LIFE WRITER
THE LIFE HUB
INVISIBLE HOUSE
FIGURE AS MONUMENT: GIACOMETTI IN LANGTOU FRESCO REVIVED THE INTERLOCKING HOUSE
12 ZODIAC ANIMALS
LUSTER SHIELD
TALE OF TWO CITIES
PRINT LANDSCAPING
Academic / Core I Studio
Instructor: Carlos Medellin
Site: Pier 45, New York Fall 2024
Collaborated with Pinutcha Wiriyapanlert
Floating Farm is a modular, eco-friendly system that integrates water purification, renewable energy, and urban farming. The project began with a pocket garden system that utilizes reverse osmosis to reduce seawater salinity while generating electricity through Geobacter bacteria. Initially tested at City Hall, New York City, the modular system provided micro-habitats for birds, dogs, and squirrels, demonstrating its adaptability in urban environments.
Recognizing the food insecurity faced by communities along the Hudson River, the pocket garden evolved into a temporary floating farm at Pier 45. Inspired by Lenape agricultural traditions, corn, beans, and squash—the Three Sisters—are cultivated on repurposed Lenape canoes. The canoes form islands at low tide and floating farms at high tide, creating a dynamic, resilient food production system.
Once harvested, the crops are distributed to food desert communities, addressing urban food scarcity while honoring Lenape values of sustainability and environmental stewardship. Floating Farm reimagines New York’s waterways as active ecological and agricultural spaces, merging indigenous knowledge, climate resilience, and urban innovation.
Academic / Arch 411 Studio
Instructor: Chandler Ahrens
Site: Earth City, St. Louis Fall 2022
Individual Work
In the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, which is also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, some of the most significant innovations and technology have been displayed, and it created the most important venue for sharing knowledge. Among all the innovations, I specifically chose the Underwood Typewriter as my research object as it informs a tactile quality of machine that requires human’s motion. Based on the prototype, I invented a new speculative future object which I called it the Life Writer. The Life Writer is an interactive machine that generates film images based on the users’ action, and all the film images could be stored, responding to the non-tactile digital era.
Extracting the key components in both the historic object and new speculative, such as silver type keys and black cylinder rod, I made a physical fabricated drawing model to reveal both spatial quality of these objects. The drawing model informs and inspires me to the factory proposal, with its strong expression in both structures and massing.
The site is in earth city, St. Louis and it is an industrial area with flat warehouses. The proposal for the factory is to produce the Life Writer machine, with rigid programming for metal, LED and film production. The public entrance is a gallery to display film images created by people from all over the world. As different languages would create barriers, but the self-generated patterns will not and it would deliver individual’s emotion in a universal language: images.
The life writer has LED panels installed on keys that generate patterns, and the user could type different patterns base on their preference as inputs. The film would then be unrolled, and the patterns would be projected onto the film in the darkroom case through a negative developing process.
Academic / Arch 312 Studio
Instructor: Constance Vale
Site: downtown, Los Angeles Spring 2022
Collaborate with Christa Hua
Responding to the Shanghai’s Covid-19 lockdown issue, which leaves residents struggling to access food or medical care, We envision our 2099 urban development strategies which address the COVID challenges happened not only in LA but also globally. It is not momentary alternation that need to respond to, we need to response it in a multi scale - how do we delivery supplies under COVID in the future city.
We proposed a medical and supplies distribution center that utilizes autonomous vehicles which could equally deliver food and medicine in a global scale. Due to the large amount of lose during the whole pandemic, we envision it also as a COVID memorial museum that visitors can see the mechanism of the drone & av circulation which consist of several memorial spaces. The repetitive rhythm of the elevator keys, converer belts and transportation tunnels informs that each medicine and supply are in memory of a passed life.
The distribution center is a private cooperation system that fund the public transportation. We propose an economic transportation system that provides service to the public by private cooperation. The private healthcare cooperation provides medicines and vaccine injection for the public, and 30% of the profit would be funded to the public transportation system, as the private business would give back to the public. All cooperation’s office in the hub are rented as the government collects the rent and then uses the money to maintain the infrastructure.
Artist Residency / Installation
Organization: Digital Global Root
Site: Haikou, China
Winter 2024
Individual Work
The Invisible House is an installation inspired by three casuarina trees in Rongshanliao Village, resilient yet broken after Typhoon “Mojie.” The work draws from the Li ethnic group’s architectural traditions, symbolizing harmony between gender and nature through nine pillars: three original trees representing strength and six hidden stumps symbolizing latent resilience.
This evolving piece reflects on ecological disruption, contrasting urbanization with the Li people’s sustainable practices, and honors the enduring connection between culture, nature, and humanity.
Architecture Internship / Installation
Organization: O-OFFICE Architect & Giacometti Foundation
Site: Guangzhou, China
Summer 2024
AR Experience: Individual / Exhibition: Teamwork
Figure as Monument: Alberto Giacometti in Langtou is an exhibition I designed, exploring the intersection of modernist sculpture and traditional Chinese architecture. A key component of this project is the augmented reality (AR) experience, which I initiated and led, bringing Giacometti’s Standing Woman (1960) into the historic Langtou Ancient Village through an interactive WeChat Mini Program.
By virtually placing the sculpture next to the Huang Clan Ancestral Hall, the AR experience invites viewers to engage with Giacometti’s work in a new cultural and spatial context—bridging East and West through digital innovation. Langtou Village, established in 1367, preserves Ming and Qing dynasty architecture and an intact water system, making it an ideal setting to contrast Giacometti’s modernist vision with tradi-
Academic / Summer study abroad
Instructor: Shantel Blakely
Site: Florence, Italy
Summer 2022
Individual
I started my journey in Italy with my sincere appreciation and love for frescoes from all genres, as I travelled to the most distant and rural villages to see the masterpieces painted by unknown artists. Their passion and efforts could never be summarized by all those paintings on wall. Since Florence has been a center for artistic conversations from hundreds of years ago, the city shows its diversity and tolerance toward art in different cultures.
Hence, I proposed a fresco center that incorporates frescoes painted by unknown artists and mural works from all over the world. Diverse murals and fresco paintings would be projected on the interior wall of the tower, and as visitors walk up to the tower, all art works would be unrolled. The tower massing was inspired by my journey in San Gimignano that openings on the bell tower frame the landscape as paintings. It is a unique experience waking from the bottom to top as view changes.
The design of the loggia and elevated path is responding to the site and the secret Vasari Corridor. The fresco center connects the exit of the Uffizi Gallery and the Vasari Corridor, responding the urban dialogues with purpose to revitalize the corridor and bring new artistic energy to the city.
Academic / Arch 311 Studio
Instructor: Dusica Stankovic
Site: downtown, St. Louis
Fall 2021
Individual
The Interlocking House is an artist residence proposal located in Grandel Square Street, downtown St. Louis. The famous Pulitzer Arts Foundation designed by Tado Ando is just right across the street of Washington Avenue. The residence proposal is designed to be a combination of gallery space and artist residence.
The project first studied the wall system and massing of the building through a series of concrete studies, arranging eight concrete blocks modules in different positions and arrays. The central void in each concrete blocks was transformed into a vertical void in the final proposal that introduces sun lights in the interior space, and it also influences the roof openings.
The wave-like surface of the concrete modules has propelled the façade studies, that the continued window on the façade also serves as display space for art works, allowing visitors to appreciate the art works from both outside and inside.
The interlocking quality of the concrete modules led to a unique circulation of the building, as one mass serves a gallery for publics facing toward the main Grandel Square Street, and the other mass serves as the artist’s private residence facing toward the private street on the back of the building. In this case, although two programs are connected, the private life of the artists would not be interrupted by the gallery space.
Academic / Core I Studio
Instructor: Carlos Medellin
Fall 2024
Collaborated with Pinutcha Wiriyapanlert
12 Zodiac Animals is a research-based reproduction project that explores Ancestral Technology through the meticulous recreation of a Tang Dynasty artifact housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Using traditional slip casting and hand casting techniques, this work replicates the original sculptures at their exact scale and material composition, emphasizing the role of water and earth in pottery craftsmanship.
Beyond reproduction, the project includes a metabolic section drawing, tracing the artifacts’ origins, ritualistic significance, and complex history—particularly their journey to the Met following the Siege of the International Legations in China. Recognizing the spiritual role of these zodiac figures in funerary rites, the final composition integrates all twelve animals within the drawing, symbolically completing the
Academic / Core I Studio
Instructor:
Carlos Medellin
Site: Columbia University, New York
Fall 2024
Individual
The Luster Shield draws inspiration from the ancient Chinese Yang Sui, a concave copper mirror once used to ignite fire by focusing sunlight—an emblem of purity and reverence for the departed and the God of Fire. In this project, the Luster Shield becomes a symbol of resistance and protection, reflecting the shared trauma of those affected by police violence. Echoing the protests at Columbia and beyond, where laser lights were
used as tools of intimidation, this mask reclaims their power. The concave mirror deflects violence, reflecting back injustice, while scattering the laser’s focus into the wider world, transforming isolated strength into collective force. More than protection, the Luster Shield is a celebration of unity—where beams of light connect people, drawing together their energies in defiance.
Fashion & Book Desisn / Design Elective
Instructor: Zeuler Lima
Site: Shenzhen, China & Amsterdam, Netherlands
Spring 2023
Individual
Tales of Two Cities is a wearable narrative that explores the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, past and present, Amsterdam and Shenzhen. Inspired by the journey of Zhaoxiao Yong—a Dafen Village artist who dedicated years to replicating Van Gogh’s paintings only to discover their color inaccuracy when seeing the originals—this project reflects on perception, reproduction, and artistic identity.
The garment unfolds like a story: one side, created through image transfer techniques, envisions how Van Gogh might have painted Shenzhen’s urban village today. The other, using cyanotype printing, captures Yong’s monochromatic interpretation of Amsterdam, evoking a distant, dreamlike quality. Worn and reversed, the piece invites the wearer to shift perspectives, immersing themselves in both worlds.
Printmaking / Design Elective
Instructor: Carmon Colangelo
Site: St. Louis, USA
Spring 2022
Individual
Print Landscaping is a printmaking series that explores the relationship between graphic patterns and landscape through experimental techniques. Using lithography, etching, and engraving, I reimagine and construct imaginary landscapes, blending traditional printmaking methods with creative abstraction.
This series investigates how textures, lines, and compositions can evoke spatial depth, natural formations, and atmospheric qualities within a two-dimensional medium.
