Baolin Shen Selected Works

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WORK EXPERIENCE

baolin.shen@yale.edu

ATELIER CHO THOMSPON

80 Howe Street, Apt 301 New Haven, Connecticut 06511

Conte nt Pa g e

to design at all scales, from the visionary urban to the practical and aesthetic details

Architectural Intern | New Haven | 2019 - Present

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Worked on the interior renovation of Titus Kaphar’s studio space in New Haven.

Urbanism | Data Analysis & Visualization | Exhibition

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

Architectural Designer | Beijing | 2017

Bachelor of Arts Architecture 2013 - 2016

YALE UNIVERSITY

Participated in the design phase of several projects including retail, mixeduse development, and education commercial. As a member of a small team, I was given a range of responsibilities to produce conceptual drawing, schematic drawing and even detail drawings.

Masters of Architecture 2017 - Present

URBAN REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF SINGAPORE

AutoCAD

Photoshop

Grasshopper

Revit

Illustrator

Rhino

Indesign

Sketchup

OTHER ROLES Head of Public Relation

LIU & WOO ARCHITECTS

Architecture | Community | Modular Construction

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RESTORATIVE JUSTICE CENTER MIDDLETOWN | FEATURED Architecture | Community | Human Dimension

Architectural Intern| Singapore| 2014

COMMUNITY GRAIN HUB

Worked on redevelopment of old historical shop houses and a shopping mall. I was mainly given the tasks of drawing plans and making models.

Architecture | Community | Smooth Transition

Yale US-China Forum 2020

Yale University | 2019

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THE FOOD CANAL | FEATURED

Architecture | Retail | Sustainable Design

HUTONGism - Urban House in Beijing Exhibition

Case Studies in Urban Design: Hudson Yard Yale | Michael Samuelian

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THE GREEN-HOUSE

Publicity Chair

Teaching Assistant

Urbanism | Research | Representation

Participated in a number of urban design plot simulations that help urban designers draft design guidelines for each land plot before release to developers. Workshops were also part of the regular routine that exposed me to various urban design strategies and tools.

EXTRACURRICULAR

Introduction to Planning and Development Yale | Professor Alexander Garvin

HUTONG-ISM RESEARCH

Urban Design Intern| Singapore| 2016

Association for Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale

Teaching Fellow

Architecture | Mixed-use |Vertical Urbanism

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CLOU ARCHITECTS

SKILLS

THE CHICAGO GATEWAY | FEATURED

ACHIEVEMENTS

Exhibited at the Yale School of Architecture North Gallery, HUTONGism is a research of the spatial relations of the urban vernacular in Beijing. Through the use of various media and organization of space, we attempt to immerse the visitors in an atmosphere in hutong.

Tsai City Student Innovation Fund Yale University | 2019

David Gardiner Hardie Prize

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BUILDING PROJECT TEAM E | FEATURED Architecture |Residential | Design-build

INTERTWINED HOUSE Architecture |Residential | Micro-housing

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HUTONG-ISM EXHIBITION | FEATURED Exhibition | Flexible Space | Immersive

CONCRETE CONE INSTALLATION Installation | Structural Patterning

University of Edinburgh | 2013

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The Chica g o G a teway [LOCATION] Chicago, United States [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Mixed Use [GROUP] Serena Ching [KEYWORDS] Mile-high, Vertical Green Space, Community

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Chicago Gateway is a mile-high skyscraper designed along Lake Shore Drive, orientated towards the chicago downtown and lake Michgan axis. The skyscraper starts with two halves on the ground, with the lake shore elevated highway cutting through and gradually merges as it ascends, forming a gateway along one of the most important transport axis of the city.

The site neighbours several existing urban park spaces but is cut off by the chicago river and the highway infrastructure. Together with the tower, the proposal is to convert the top deck of the highway into an elevated linear park to connect these parks and also stringing the vertical green parks of the tower.

Site

Across Highway

Scaled to Context

Green Connection

Building Metrics Building Height: 1615m Number of Floors: 272 Building Footprint: 76,519 sq.m. Gross Floor Area: 2,181,198 sq.m. Net Floor Area: 1,678,211 sq.m. Net to Gross Ratio: 77%

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Current Site Cut by Highway Bridge

Chicago Gateway

Existing Parks

Elevated Park & Transit Proposal

Highway Park

The site consists of several existing urban park spaces that is cut off by the chicago river and the highway. We propose to convert the top deck of the highway into an elevated linear park to connect these parks while adding additional light transit infrastructure to connect to the city centre.

Light Rail Subway

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Tower Section Diagram

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Tower Vertical Transportation Diagram

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Pa ge Title

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Office Space Section

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200' - 6"

200' - 6"

97' - 7"

97' - 7"

102' - 10"

102' - 7"

272' - 11"

FOOD KIOSKS

FOOD KIOSKS

201' - 7"

200' - 5" 103' - 11"

97' - 4"

97' - 4"

46' - 11"

OPEN TO BELOW

27' - 11" 271' - 7"

Office Sky Lobby

102' - 10"

OFFICE

OPEN TO BELOW

Office Floor Plan

271' - 7"

OPEN TO ABOVE

FOOD KIOSKS

102' - 10"

FOOD KIOSKS

102' - 11"

102' - 10"

28' - 0"

103' - 8"

OFFICE

272' - 11"

170' - 1"

170' - 1"

OPEN TO BELOW

168' - 9"

OPEN TO ABOVE

168' - 9"

OPEN TO BELOW

BAR/RESTAURANT

28' - 1"

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Level 4 Copy 1 1" = 50'-0"

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Hotel Sky Lobby

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47' - 0"

28' - 8"

Level 5 1" = 50'-0"

Hotel FLoor Plan

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362' - 11" 82' - 8"

104' - 3"

176' - 0"

234' - 8"

246' - 11"

128' - 2"

72' - 11"

102' - 0"

65' - 8"

72' - 0"

103' - 3"

76' - 4"

94' - 1"

FITNESS CENTER

PENTHOUSE 4

FITNESS GYM

POOL

FITNESS CLASSROOMS

103' - 3"

255' - 11"

SUPERMARKET

103' - 3"

292' - 0"

359' - 6"

102' - 9"

POOL

RESTAURANT

PENTHOUSE 3

128' - 7"

94' - 8"

76' - 4"

PENTHOUSE 1

CAFE

RESTAURANT/BAR

Luxury Residential Sky Lobby

LEVEL 198 - PENTHOUSE SKY LOBBY Copy 1 1 1" = 50'-0"

Residential Sky Lobby 1

Level 127 - RESIDENTIAL SKY LOBBY 363' - 0" 1" = 50'-0"

83' - 8"

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LEVEL 226 - PENTHOUSE FLOOR 1" = 50'-0"

0' - 0"

103' - 0"

176' - 6" 234' - 8"

246' - 11" 102' - 0"

65' - 8"

72' - 0"

103' - 3"

65' - 8"

OPEN TO BELOW

76' - 4"

94' - 1"

128' - 2"

72' - 11"

PENTHOUSE 4

35' - 5"

FITNESS GYM

PENTHOUSE 2

103' - 3"

255' - 11"

103' - 3"

FITNESS CLASSROOMS

PENTHOUSE 3

35' - 5"

OPEN TO BELOW

292' - 0"

32' - 9"

103' - 3"

359' - 6"

POOL

POOL

128' - 1"

94' - 8"

76' - 4"

PENTHOUSE 1

CAFE

RESTAURANT/BAR

Typical Luxury Residential Floor Plan 36' - 8"

34' - 8"

32' - 4"

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Residential Floor Plan Level Typical 128 - RESIDENTIAL FLOOR PLAN 1" = 50'-0"

LEVEL 198 - PENTHOUSE SKY LOBBY Copy 1 1" = 50'-0"

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LEVEL 226 - PENTHOUSE FLOOR 1" = 50'-0"

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408' - 10" 103' - 1"

26' - 1"

103' - 7"

87' - 11"

140' - 9"

88' - 3"

103' - 3"

OFFICE TOWER 1 LOBBY

SKY PARK LOBBY OFFICE TOWER 2 LOBBY

140' - 8"

RESIDENTIAL LOBBY

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Level 102 - CLOUD FOREST 1" = 50'-0"

Cloud Forest Plan

Public Sky Parks on Levels 2, 44, 126, 254-272

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Horizontal Sun Louvre Steel Strut Exterior Glazing 3’ Air Space

Catwalk System for Maintenance Interior Glazing System with operable blinds Mega Bracing Structure

Double-Skin with Horizontal Sun Louvre System

Exteropr Glazing with 12” vertical Horizontal Bracing

Mega-columns 15” X 15”

Diagonal Bracing

Interior Gravity Columns Mega Bracing Structure

Office Atrium

Tower Structural Diagram

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Vertical Exterior Glazing System

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268 JOPS a n d Beyo n d

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[LOCATION] New York, United States

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[TYPE] Urbanism

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[CATEGORY] GIS Data 3

[GROUP] Tianyu Guan [KEYWORDS] Data harvest, data analysis, data visualization

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S O F T S U R F AC E

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A S P H A LT CO U RT A S P H A LT F I E L D SYNTHETIC FIELD G RA S S Y F I E L D SHADED AREA P L AY E Q U I P M E N T F O U N TA I N P L A Z A SWIMMING POOL OT H E R S

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F I X E D P RO G RA M

Decoding Quadrant Chart

List of 268 JOPs with different attributes

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Phase 1 Presentation Curation

Interative Set-up

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THE SPINE

Phase 2 Presentation Curation

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T H E B LO C K

THE BASIN

THE WEB

THE CLUSTER

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HUTONG- is m Res ea r c h

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[LOCATION] Beijing, China [TYPE] Urbanism [CATEGORY] Research [GROUP] Jingqiu Zhang [KEYWORDS] Street Observation, representation

HUTONGism is an ongoing research project that collectively explores the potential of the hutong, a type of urban vernacular in Beijing, as a living condition in highly dense environment. The hutong has developed from gridded residential neighborhoods into dynamic mixed-use complexes. Contemporary hutongs contain alleyways, courtyard houses, and service elements such as shops and restaurants. For our research, we imagine the hutong as a collective house: alleyways as living rooms, courtyard houses as bedrooms, shops as pantries, and restaurants as dining rooms. Residents share this house with each other and with visitors. Different from high-rise residences, its collective attributes suggest alternative ways of living in high density. We consider the hutong as an inspiration for vibrant urban community.

Local Restaurant with Eating Steps

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Exhibition Set-up

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Informal Kitchen and Garden

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Hostel with Balcony

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Ty p o l o g y S t u d i e s

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Proposal for Hutong Intervention

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H U TO N G - i s m 1 . 5 Wo r k- i n - p r o g r e s s

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The Fo o d C a n a l [LOCATION] Edinburgh, UK [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Civic & Commercial [GROUP & INDIVIDUAL] [KEYWORDS] Modular assembly, prefabrication, movable space

L This project aims to revitalize the Union Canal that was once the main transport route between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Flowing through large areas of farmland and ending close to the central of Edinburgh, the canal will be re-purposed into an independent transport corridor for locally

sourced food (farms along the canal) and food related activities (food market). The establishment will contribute to efforts of selfsufficiency addressing pertinent issues of food security due to the domination of the food market by supermarket giants.

FOOD SOURCE

Food Production Network Along Canal

FOOD PROCESS

CRAFT BEER FERMENTATIONMATURATION PRESSURE BRIGHT BEER TANKS (COLD)

BREWHOUSE (HOT)

FILTRATION -BOTTLING

KEG STORAGE

UNION CANAL CRAFT BEER PUB

NATURAL HONEY Bee Farm

HONEY EXTRACTION

ARTISAN CHEESE

CHEESE CAFE

CHEESE STORE

MATURATION

PASTEURIZINGCURDLING-MOLDING

Food Market Structure over Edinburgh Union Canal

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COMMUNITY GARDENS

Inspired by compactness and mobility of food trailers, market stalls and micro-factories are designed into customized modular ISO containers. Not only does it allow the ease of transport to the food market but can be also easily clipped to the super structure or deployed independently on the ground.

BEE FARMS RESTURANTS

F U L LY E N C L O S E D C O N TA I N E R

MICROBREWERY HONEY EXTRACTOR COOKED FOOD MARKET

MICROBREWERY

FRESH FOOD MARKET

F U L LY O P E N E D C O N TA I N E R

P A R T I A L LY E N C L O S E D C O N TA I N E R

CHEESE MAKER

TOILETS (PERMANENT SERVICE)

Food Market Programs

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N A R R OW B OATS F O R F O O D T R A N S PO RTAT I O N

Container

Configurations

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Structural Assembly

Assembly On-site

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Joint Details

1. STORAGE POSITION

Assembly Sequence

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2. PUSH THE HANDLE FORWARD

3. TWIST THE HANDLE RIGHTWARD TO LOCK INSERTION BRACKET

4. SLOWLY GUIDE THE CORNER BRACKET INTO THE KEY

5. TURN THE HANDLE DOWN TO LOCK THE CORNER BRACKET

6. TIGHTEN THE SCREW

Twist Lock Procedure

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HYGROSCOPIC EXPERIMENT

AS PART OF THE PROJECT WE DESIGNED A 1:1 SCALE PASSIVE FACADE SYSTEM IN A GROUP

1:1 Scale Facade Fabrication

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The Green - Ho u s e [LOCATION] Beijing, China [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Civic & Retail [OFFICE WORK] CLOU Architects [KEYWORDS] Fun retail, experiential, communal atmosphere

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GREEN = Sustainability, Public Space HOUSE = Community In an attempt to address the issue of both social exclusion and the marginalization of public space, ‘The Greenhouse’ offers a creative solution to a commercial belief. The proposal employs components of an active lifestyle which creates a unique social sustainability to the surrounding community. Located at the south east of Beijing near the Sixth Ring highway, the site is at the center of a newly planned university zone as well as a series of new residential developments. In face of a potential surge of young people and families, the design

concept seeks to create an urban centre that traditionally revolves around a shared civic space. In this proposal, combinations of commercial activities - retail, entertainment and F&B venues - and shared spaces serve as the catalyst for attraction of the surrounding population or people from even further areas. The mall will no longer be a place for shops and retail, but focused more on creating an communal atmosphere that benefits both the patrons as well as the shops,.

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Re stora t ive J u st ice Ce nte r M id d l etow n [LOCATION] Middletown, Connecticut [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Civic [INDIVIDUAL] [KEYWORDS] Human dimension, variable scales of spaces

The Restorative Justice Centre Middletown provides spaces both for the private restorative justice services and the public activities within the city.

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The project began with an investigation of the human dimension based on Edward Hall’s theory of the degrees of intimacy and distance. The intention is to create a variety of spaces where one can find a space suitable for themselves.

Spatial analysis based on Edward T. Hall “The Hidden Dimension”

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Site Plan

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Ground Floor “Playscape” Plan

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Circle Room

First Floor “Roofscape’” Plan

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“Secret Garden” Beyond Circle Room

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The building consists of two halves, the ‘urban roof’ which house the offices and rooms for restorative circle process and the ‘urban playscape’ which is a landscape of differently-sized pockets spaces with varying height in relation to the streets. The in-between condition of these two generates a variety of spaces with different levels of privacy, open-ness, enclosure and exposure that are suitable for the different needs of the people. The private spaces of the restorative circle and the public spaces of the local activities are intertwined but respected for their required nature.

Sequential sections showing the changing relation of the in-between space

Structural and spatial components

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Commu nit y G ra in Hu b

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[LOCATION] New Haven, Connecticut [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Civic [INDIVIDUAL] [KEYWORDS] Research & social, boundryless transition

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Ground Floor Plan

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Bu ild ing Proje c t Te a m E

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[LOCATION] New Haven, Connecticut [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Residential [GROUP] Miriam Dreiblatt, Michael Glassman, Xiaohui Wen, Alex Pineda Jongeward, Limy Rocha [KEYWORDS] Design-build, contextual

The de­sign for a two unit house (family and single) is pred­i­cated on two sim­ple, yet fun­da­men­tal char­ ac­ter­is­tics of a home  —  owner­ship and pri­vacy. The two units share a front porch on Button Street and have views of the larger site on the sec­ond story. Due to the asym­ me­tries in the pro­gram and site con­di­tions, we de­signed the stu­dio and fam­ily homes to wrap around each other. The ver­ti­cal align­ment of the two units on the first floor turns into a hor­i­zon­tal align­ment on the sec­ond, giv­ing both par­ties ac­cess and views of the land­scape. The in­ter­lock­ing CLT forms em­body our re­sponse to co­hab­i­ta­tion.

CUMULATIVE SITE ANALYSIS WITH SWOT RATING

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Longitudinal Section

Shared Front Porth

Cross Section

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FOUNDATION + PARTY WALL

CLT STAIRS

1F STUD WALL

2F CLT DECK

2F CLT WALLS

2F STUD WALLS

EXTERIOR ENVELOPE

ROOF + FINISHING

Typical Wall Section Details

Typical Wall Plan Details

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Construction Sequence

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I nte r wine d Hou se

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[LOCATION] New Haven, Connecticut [TYPE] Architecture [CATEGORY] Residential [INDIVIDUAL] [KEYWORDS] Micro-housing, urban infill

Third Floor

First Floor

Second Floor

Section Perspective Triptych

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HUTONG- is m E x h ibiti on [LOCATION] New Haven, Connecticut [TYPE] Exhibition [CATEGORY] Research [GROUP] Jingqiu Zhang [KEYWORDS] Immersive, flexible space

“HUTONGism – Urban House in Beijing” is exhibited in Rudolph Hall, Yale University, featuring the current research on the hutongs in Beijing. Besides photos, drawings and models, the transition of the spaces as one walks through also forms part of the experience of the exhibition. With the gallery space limited to 4.3-meters in width, the designers insert a “floating house” into the centre of

XS the space, leaving 1-meter wide “alleyways” on either side. The translucent fabric is reminiscent of the silhouette of the traditional courtyard houses that are native to the hutongs. Visitors will also experience an impression of daily life in hutong as they step into the “alleyways” where they will be immersed in the series of photos and videos of the unique spaces and elements in the hutong.

Exhibition Entry

Exhibition Events

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Exhibition Plan

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Upon entering the main exhibition space, a sense of intimacy and closeness is experienced, wrapped by translucent fabric. The translucency not only created a sense of enclosure but also maintains a connection to space outside. Various types of activities can happen within this small space as it reconfigures for different functions. It is an exhibition gallery with pedestals, a lecture space with chairs, and social space with a long table at its centre. The flexibility in its space is reflective of the hutongs where the same space is used for recreation, pop-up retail and restaurant extensions at different times of the day and year. The smoothness and translucency of flex fabric is a distinct contrast to the rough texture of the brutalist architecture of Rudolph Hall. Metaphorically, it is a conversation between the formal, which is the Rudolph Building, and the informal, which is the urban house in Beijing. The materiality is the part of the concept that resonates with the exhibition contents.

Flexible main space that can be reconfigured

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Con crete Co n es

Concrete is monolithic, opaque, and heavy. It is exactly these qualities that we wanted to challenge throughout the course. We explored a wide variety of aggregates to lighten and add texture and porosity to the concrete block. Due to the constraints of the site, we resolved to the conical shape for structural integrity, material economy, and transportability. Various ways of stacking the cones resulted in different visual and lighting effects on all sides. The nature of hand casting 220 cones produced unique characteristics in each.

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Final Installation Set-up

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ECOLOGY NATURAL ECOLOGY Re-introduce natural ecologies back into the dry and barren site through various landscape & water features.

ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE Net Zero Energy, Water and Waste

COMMUNITY

NATURE

Live and have fun with people from all around the world, making new friends.

Live symbolically with nature for personal health and minimal impact on the environment.

COMMUNITY

NATURE

Work together with new friends, or come as team and strengthen your bonds.

REDUCE

RECYCLE

CO-LIVING

Working close promotes better health and productivity.

CO-WORKING

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