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Preface The world is so subtle that everything is interlocked maybe just because of a tiny power like a butterfly fluttering. Architecture, as a small component in the world, should also follow, correspond, represent this subtleness. This is how the world works and how we sense the world. This book tries to explore this kind of architecture and I call it
Whispery Built.
Content
Saint Louis Very Fast Airport
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Flying Pool
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Big-Net
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Swaying House
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Stereotomic Library
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Mega-Garden
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Exploding Dwelling
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Weaving Chair
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JiaDing Chinese Medicine Hospital
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Chronology
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Big Net WUSTL Degree Project Insturctor: Adrian Luchini Site: Saint Louis, Missouri 2016 Spring Brentwood shopping area in Saint Louis could be called as typical American shopping mode and the project locates in the parking lot in-between Trader Joes and Target. We can find shopping spaces are isolated from each other by the parking lots in here. Customers,finished shopping in one store, have to walk through a big boring parking lot to go to next store with heavy things they just bought. Understanding this problem, the project translates those potential desired paths into a BIG NET - new strip malls connecting those existing store as anchor stores. By moving the existing parking lot into underground, the new ground level and the roof of new strip malls, existing malls are occupied as a new green park space. In here, exterior Park space includes Basketball court, tennis court, running path, bicycle path, green space, Picnic area, Children play ground, etc and New strip malls are consist of department stores, restaurant, pavilion, cinema, cafe and bar. As an exterior or interior hybridization program respectively, Park and Mall are two similar composite programs in terms of hybridization and they can activate each others’ vitality in a commutative way.....
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Existing parking space and customer
Potential circulations between existing markets
Volumn created based on the potential circulations
Submerge parking lot
Lift the NET to open ground level
Shopping layer and Park layer
Spatial connection between Recreational and Garden level
Vegetations
Isolation and Connection There are close to 200 stores in the Brentwood area spanning almost all shopping categories. From art galleries to auto supplies, man’s and women’s apparel to children’s apparel and specialty furnitures. However, the shopping experience could be said as limited- no greens, more parking lots than shopping or entertaining spaces. And these customers’ spaces are almost isolated from each other which means spatial experience are broken in here.
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Introduction and Integration The urban fabric in the Brentwood area is a series of square blocks in a huge mat of parking lots following the principle of economic and efficiency . Inbetween those blocks, we can see empty, boring, unorganized spaces. The new BIG NET, as it has been introduced to those inbetween spaces, could introduce a new form dialogue to the context as well as more activity permeatration and urban stories. The new integration of BIG NET and the existing buildings could be a better answer of balancing between spatial quality and principle of economy.
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Ground Floor The ground level of the BIG NET is a fully open space except ten anchor spaces connecting to the recreational level. The original road has been preserved with two entrances to the underground parking. In order to create skylight for the underground parking and also vegetations for the ground open space. Trees will be planted from underground level through holes on ground level. By doing this, structure load to the roof of underground parking could be minimized.
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Second Floor The strip spaces of BIG NET work as strip malls inbetween the existing super markets, shops as anchor stores. Cafe, Restaurant, Cinema, Pavilion has been introduce to the intersection areas to make the mall more interesting to the customers. Instead of a boring path with shops in two side, shops are placed in one of the path to leave the other side with open views to the courtyards. Besides the spatial hybridization, the views of looking at spaces extending to two direction at the intersections is another hybridization of views.
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Spatial and program sequence
The hybridization of a space could be the most important factor to the vitality of it cause a space could be active by another. Hybridization of the BIG NET in both of horizontal and vertical directions, through Recreational level, ground open space, roof sports filed will make this project and exiting site context as a integrate interesting place to the citizens. From interior to exterior, from Pavilion, Restaurant, Shops, Cafe, Cinema, Supermarket to Sports field, activity overlapping could introduce more stories to the neighbourhood and city.
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Pattern of Courtyard The new strip spaces which connects the existing stores also form several irregular courtyards. The patterns and shapes of courtyards follows the spatial logic of strip spaces in a black-white relation. Boundaries between interior recreational space and exterior recreational space are blurred, opaque and people could feel the greens outside when they are shopping, dinning or reading. Two ramps which connecting the three levels (open ground level, recreational level, roof level) have been design into an iconic, figurative shapes to attain the spatial clarity for the visitors.
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Flying pool WUSTL Studio 511 Insturctor: ALA architects Site: Helsinki, Finland 2015 Spring This site of the project is in downtown Helsinki facing St.Albertinkatu and split by St.Lonnrontinkatu. Street spaces in Helsinki are defined by the mixed-use building blocks which are used as commerical spaces on ground floor and residential space in upper floors. Streets are quite closed by these blocks and public spaces are actually rare here. As a consequence, people are always passing through the street quickly and very limited street activities can be found here. The concept is to create a public architecture by outlying the pool. The main pool has been stretched to a long strip to connect two towers in two sides of site following the street. Different pools has been placed into different spot in the long strip and they are narrating different street stories. These stroies are happening in swimming people, people on the street or between them.
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The two part of site
Two towers
Offset to create street plaza
Pull out the pool, build connection with street
Define each knot along swimming lane
Have section changes based on knots
Soften edges
Add atria
Narrate Urban Story Following the site which is consist of two lands defined by a crossroad and neighbour buildings, two towers have been offset several meters from the road side to create entrance plaza. In addition to the boxes, a free curved shape volume has been overhung from the two boxes. The free curved volume is the space for different swimming activities which are the determinant factors for the free curved volume in plan and section. A dialogue between free curves shape and linear shapes of street, the swimmers and the street pedestrians emerges now and different street stories might start to happen.
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Axonmetric
Transportation Core
Secondary Column and Beam
Mega Column and Beam
Pools with hanging rod
Structure Axonmetric The structure strategy attempts to corresponding to the forms and programs of the boxes and the free curved volume. Two boxes work as vertical structure towers supporting the free curve volume as an overhanging volume. A beam grid lays on four huge columns at each side of the site and from those beam grid, there is a huge curved beam stretching out. Hundred of Steel rods hanging from the main curved beam lift the swimming pool in the air. As the mega-structure for overhanging the swimming pool, there is a secondary beam-column system with two vertical cores for the two towers itself.
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SitePlan
The scale of volumns of this project are following the urban context to continue historical urban form and spatial memory.
Ground Floor Plan
A lobby space with cafe and gym in east and west site respectively chat with the entrance plaza and also the street
Fourth Floor Plan Different swimming spaces including long continuous swimming lanes teaching pool, hot club, cold club and slide pool... define the shape of the hanging pool.
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Tower & Curved Space
The contrast between the towers and curved space brings the architecture a certain degree of spatial, structural clarity. Through this narrativity, people could understand the organizatioon of this project better.
Curved Space & Street Another contrast between linear space and curved space is created by the street and swimming pool. This form dialogue makes the street more interesting and activity permeatration also occur after thet.
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As people swimming along the long swimming pool, they could have a continuous view changes, in Curved swimming pool space, lobby and gym as big entrance spaces in the ground floor, plaza spac for people whose movements will actually be performances to the street. Dia
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ncluding close views to the neighbour buildings, street, and long views to the Helsinki city center. ces and street spaces are the main spaces in this T-shape intersection. These spaces are stages alogue between these spaces or people is the conceptual goal of the project.
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Both of lobby and gym are double-height spaces with one light atrium respectively. Programs are develop floor are also the main entrance for the light which might in return highlight the importance of these two sp exciting to see cars driving through whe
Swimming Lanes & Multipurpose
The depth of Multipurpose pool is comparatively small considering the activity of water therapy or water exercise.
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Swimming Lanes & Hot Club Finnish People have a habit of jumping in hot or cold club for exciting feeling. Typical depth of hot club is 1.2 meters.
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Continuous Changing P
As the curved shape defined by the swimming lanes and other swimming programs, the pool also change function and guide people perceive and understand it. The sect
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ped around the curved swimming space and rectangular atrium. The two double-height spaces at ground pace. Above the Albertinkatu street, there is a high diving spot which might be a little scary but absolutely en you jump five meters above the road.
Swimming Lanes & High diving The pool in this area is much deeper for the high diving. The height of the high diving spot is approximately five meters while the water depth is four meters. Big difference starts to appear along the long flying swimming pool. Section C-C 1-200
Sliding Pool Sliding pool is a playing area for the kids.
Section E-E 1-200
Poche of the Flying Pool
es in section based on the program requirement and how people use it. Therefore, the shape reflects the tional shape changes coming from sectional program changes.
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High Diving Space
High diving space is a climax point among the long curved swimming pool spaces. Just sitting above the road, this climax point has been surrounded by one cafe area, two audience areas. The spatial concentration highlights this point where people could feel more exciting to perform in here.
Entrance Space The entrance space has been enclosed by huge glass facade which promotes the spatial dialogue between the entrance space with the plaza and street. The immateriality of the ground floor and the slant of light in the atrium intensifies the feeling of floating pool.
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Volumns in the Model The scale of two towers and atrium form comes from the urban context while the curved pool space introduce a new interesting form, dialogue to the neighbourhood blocks.
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Aerial Views From these series of aerial views, the possibility of changes of daily life and stories in the T-cross urban space could be shown. Different shapes, forms make the this public space extremely interesting.
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Swaying House WUSTL Studio 419 Insturctor: Philip Holden 2014 Fall The project was located in the Hillsboro, Illinois which is a beautiful small town. The atmosphere was so quiet that you can feel every natural movement - crops, trees swaying and clouds, ripples moving in the wind. The project was swaying house which wish to correspond to the nature movement. The house was consist of special triangular structure which could sway in a certain range and soft ETFE membrane for insulation.
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Farmland
The context of the project are mostly composed by farmlands which are cultivated as different geometric surface. The heigh of the crops is a critical factor of the fantastic open views to the farmland. The softness of corps makes them bending easily by the breeze.
Trees
Trees in here grows naturally in the low lands which are water ponds in rain season and are difficult for cultivating crops. The height of trees add another layer to the farmland and the soft small branches , leaves sway in the breeze.
Lake and Cloud There is a big lake in here. Clouds, sky are fully exposed to the daily life of local people since there are no tall buildings in Hillsboro. Lakes and clouds are important elements of softness in Hillsboro.
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The structure of swaying house is consist of series of triangular brackets. Obviously, the buckling property differs from the bottom to the top which allows the bracket to sway in a certain level.
ETFE surface encloused the house and its insulating property could ensure the interior microclimate. On the other hand, the softness of ETFE makes this enclousure resonate with the swaying bracket.
In the afternoon, Und Breeze visits occasionally a Golden crops swaying like waves a Clouds totter over the sky and cas Among them, house also sways i It is diffcult to say if the house is a n 36
Roof of the swaying house is a super thin concrete layer. It contributes to the lightness and softness of the house.
The whole house sways differently in different wind. The swaying house project is not finished after construction but finished by the breeze.
der the slants of light and Ripples appear on water and trees flickers as a background st a continuously changing shadow in a natural way in such a context natural or artificial product anymore 37
Structural Diagram
It will be a forest of triangular brackets, ETFE membrane, columns, curtains, corps, plants and trees.
Structure and shadow Light, penetrating through the house, strengthen the structure of the house. Shadows will have interesting changes as the house sways in the breeze.
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Unit Diagram
Buckling property of triangular bracket, thermal property of inflated ETFE surface endows the house swaying and residential properties.
Courtyard The house has been splited into two strips and these two strips are creating a long narrow courtyard. The curves of roof, ETFE membranes and the straight lines of the triangular structures creates a strong contrast in this house.
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Cluster Model 1'-8'' Interior The enclosure is designed based on the grid of brackets. Enclousre in different shapes create a interesting, changeful apartment experience.
Cluster Model 1'-8'' Whole
The project is siting in the farmland so that the houses have been lifted up for half meter to avoid extra water from farmland and to provide a better views to the context.
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Triangular protuberances on the roof wrok as the skylight tains using as interior enclosure endow the flexibility in e close the curtains or have fantastic open views to the
When marimba rhythms start to play Dance with me, make me sway Like a lazy ocean hugs the shore Hold me close, sway me more
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t and ventilation parts of each individual houses. The cureach houses. Residents could have their privacy as they e farmland and soft context as they open the curtains.
Like a flower bending in the breeze Bend with me, sway with ease When we dance you have a way with me Stay with me, sway with me
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Stereotomic Library WUSTL Studio 318 Instructor: Andrew Colopy 2014 Spring
The library located in the between a residential community and elevated expressway. The ambience of this project is trying to use the footprint of the neighborhood as a site boundaries reference line. Reference line partition the site into a series of triangles. Functional division, entrance space are all come from this geometrical partition. After stacking different triangular volumns, changeful gap spaces appeared as the walls shifting angles according to the reference lines. These spaces are correspond to not only views to the neighborhood but also residents’ habits, eg. entrance is designed according to where to cross the road. Façade facing to the neighborhood are all solid walls while windows are placed facing to gaps between the volumns. This strategy create a paradox between openings to outside or inside. The whole shape is related to outside while the experience is introversive.
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Study Models In this series of study models, relationships between library, neighborhood and site boundary are the key issues being explored in here. The position of intersections, the width of road, the direction of alleys are all seared into local people’s daily life. Therefore, having a stereotomic strategy by refering community context could be highly important to introduce this new library to the community.
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Exploded Axonmetric As the library is splited into four tower volumns to create different sized reading spaces. Coming after this form, four vertical circulations with pairing skylights have been added while enclosures are mostly kept to be solid walls to strengthen the sense of solid, void, narrow, open space. The project are more open to the skylights, or courtyards so that light environment could be better for reading and quietness could be protected.
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Openess and Shadows Skylights and openess in differet shapes and sizes come from the reference lines of neighborhood. Shadows migrates among this library to highly enhance the interior expreience.
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Spaces are changing dramatically from small reading space and na gradually considering the inward openings. However, the context-b languages in this changeful library and this narrativity co
Stairwell and Illumination The geometries of Illuminations and stairwells folloows the logic of the basic volumns.
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arrow alley to the big book shelves space meanwhile they changes based systematic geometries keeps the continuity of the spatial ould guide visitors to understand this library and context.
Courtyard The courtyard brings some green and light to the reading spaces.
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Considering this library as a local community library, reading spaces are splited to a family reading space for reading or even watching a film in their spare time after their school. Besides that, moving around in this spatial sequence consis be a tour to th
Connection Connections between main towers and small famly or group reading towers are highly defined. As a consequence, circulations in this library are largely confined so that experiences could be discoverable, changful rather than a continuous, homogenuous, general.space.
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d into different size for different reading groups. For example, a family could go es. A group of pupils could go to a group reading space to finish their homework sting of occupiable, interval, semi-openair spaces in different sizes could also he community.
Gaps Interval spaces between solid volumns are extremely important to introduce sptial dialogue between different floors or between the library and context.
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Saint Louis Very Fast Airport WUSTL Studio 612 Insturctor: Nanako Umemoto Site: Saint Louis, Missouri 2015 Fall This project starts from Milk bottle which could provide many form and structure prototypes. A series unpredictable, changeful stduy models have been made through this process. The airport , coming after function, usually become a enclosed, boring interior space. Passengers could barely have a chance to breath fresh air but have to staying in the air-locked, glaring interior. The spaces or forms of these models definately become cornerstone of disccussing possibility of redefining interior and exterior.
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Study Model Taking down the structural parts of the bottle and assemble them in a concave way could create a continuous concave shell. And the contrast between softness of curved surface and the sharpness of the edge joint endows the space a entertaining spatial experience.
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-Volumn Shrinked volumn could provide a public exterior space for the long waiting traveller
-Strcuture The shell of shrinked volumn becomes a continuous dome system. Centripetal structure pattern follows the dome system
-Floor Floors are hanging or supporting from the continuous dome structure
-Facade Opennings and enclosure emerge randomly based on structure pattern which create a fascinating starlight-feeling light environment.
Form Process Model
Form Diagram
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Site Plan
Security Control Area
Office
Deaparture Level
Check in Hall Departure/ Metro Entrance Cafe/Bar Departure/ Driving Entrance
Arrival Area
Arrival Level
Office &Support Area
Arrival Exit
Program Diagram 57
Saint Louis International Airport A good place for sun bath
Check In Hall
+62 ft Plan - Check in & Departure 58
Grand Canyo Go up or down?
Central Plaza
+62 ft Plan - Check in & Departure 59
Saint Louis International Airport Come to find your miracle .
Central Plaza
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Saint Louis International Airport Very fast Airport.
Departure area
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Megar-
HYP compe Student: Sheng Li Tianren Li Instructor: Heather Wo 2014 s
City today is a product of modernism and fast-developing urbanization. The most important t geometrical way. After that, we put different labels to disribute the program. there are two ch only work for transportation. 2. architectures are road-centered. (a
When we go back to have a look at traditional Chinese garden. We might find another relation passages go accross the architecture and they are expand around the landspace. There are Transportation space is more about experience. We think highly of changing views, different f ture) are incoperated,mixed with each other. So, we think that it is a better prototype for
Mega-G The original road
The podium building with some caved space.
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etition 2014 Taokai Ma Joseph Vizurraga oofter Andrew Colopy summer
thing in here is efficiency. We use rectangular road system to devide the city into squares in a haracters of the urban: 1. different space are isolated from each other. Transporation space is architecture erected on the two sides of road, road is the center.)
nship prototype of architecture, landscape, and transportation space. We could see that the e two character of this space: 1. architecture, transportation space are nature-centered. 2. far and close views in traditional garden. 3. Three things (transportation, landscape, architecdealing the relationship. We can try to enlarge this prototype into city scale and we call it
Garden Moving the road into the podium building. A more various path emerges now.
Replace the orignal infrustructure space with green land and public space.
Combining the infrustructure with more activity space. Infrustructure is no longer just a passage for commuting. But also a path of experiencing urban life.
Build up the skyscraper. Views to the outside is extremely important now.
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Mega-Gard
In the MegaGarden city, pace of daily life will be slowed down. Citizens, as they c sale information in the shops. Urban roads could be a path to tour the city instead by open spaces, residents’ activity could be extent to the ground level of whole restricted by the road and they
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den Utopia
commuting through the city, could have views to the urban activities, or even the of just being used as commuting infrastructure. Meanwhile, as the roads replaced e city which absolutely changes the current urban situation : residents are highly y have to cross roads in a scary.
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Masterplan
Transportation & Views New Roads Open Views
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Landscape Node & Surface Landsacpe Node Water Space
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Heat Island Effect
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The urban heat island effect happens when a natural landscape is altered in the name of development. In our scheme, we go back to the beginning try to cool the environment strategically - by planting trees and other vegetation in city in a different way which gives the air some natural humidity and creates a nice, cooling effect.
Reclai water.
Storm water Runoff
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Use the exist waterway as storm water runoff.
Protec mainly use of tems.
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cted areas managed y for the sustainable f natural ecosys.
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Explosion Dwelling Studio 318 Instructor: Andrew Colopy 2014 Spring In this double urban dwelling project, a possible dwelling type were asked to explore base on a hypothesis of future. The idea was explotion dwelling based on a possible cloth technology which could be able to create a comfotable physical body condition.
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Explosion In this case, house will be liberate and do not need to be a continuous interior space anymore. The house was exploded into single-function pieces and using series of exterior passages and platforms to connect small spaces. Many new spatial qualities could be found in here now. The proliferating space from the fixed small spaces to the platforms which could be regard as flexible spaces; The experience of taking fresh air and having better views emerge as residents moving from different places; Flexibility of sharing different spaces – when one resident occupying one space, the other one could go anyone of the rest spaces. All in all, the dwelling experience was highly liberated and advanced as the house had been exploded.
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1.Garage space 2.Computer Space 3.Drawing Space
Ground Floor Plan
1.Gathering space 2.Gambling Space 3.Fitness Space 4.Plant Space 5.Bar Space 6.Kitchen Space 7.Washing Space 8.Storage Space
Second Floor Plan
1.Sleeping space 2.Storage Space 3.Reading Space 4.Easy Chair Space 5.Make-up Space 6.Washing Space
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1’-4’’ Model with Base
When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun. -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
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1’-4’’ Model with Base
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Materiality and Immateriality As architectures changes fastly along with the industrial development, immateriality might gradually taking place of materiality considering the historical architecture trajectory or possible future technology. Spaces are become a mix of virtual and actual world nowadays. In the future, architectures might turn out to be one single cloth which could provide a nice microclimate.
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Weaving Stool instructor: Julie Tolvanen Student:Sheng Li The idea is to take advantage of laminating veneers to create a single continuous surface transit from stool leg to the seat. The stool has been made from by repeating only one single component four times. Using as a sauna chair, four ravine connecting to the hole are made for sweat dripping. Single material wood, makes the stool more pure.
Order and Irregularity As this stool is replicated from one single piece, the outcome is a central semetrical geometry. Order of organization between four pieces and irregularity of single piece could be a paradox property in this stool.
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Overlaping Structure of paper box inspires the structure of this stool design. The stool could only stand while four components are interlocking perfectly and this is a intriguing structure.
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Veins and Shape
The bending follows the veins of veneers to promise the strength of each components. On the contrary, the veins also amplify the beauty of the surface flows.
Interlock Four components compose a stool by laying on each other and this interlocking structure intensifies the strength of the stool.
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Just A Little Bit More Weavy.
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JiaDing Chinese Medicine Hospital Natural Build Intern Site: Shang Hai March 2013 Software: Sketchup, Illustrator, Photoshop, Vray JiaDing Chinese Medicine Hospital is my second intern project in Natural Build. We finished this competition proposal in one month. The main concept is to create a scattered, open and green hospital space through interweaving series of gardens and functional blocks. Under the guidance of the founding partner Shui Yanfei, I led another two interns working on study mass model, concept exploration, plan drawing and facade design. The proposal won the first prize in the competition.
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西方 视身体为机器
东方 视身体为园林
West: Body As Machine
East: Body As Garden
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Second Floor Plan
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Underground Floor Plan
East Elevation
South Elevation
West Elevation
North Elevation
Ground Floor Plan
Roof Plan
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Bridge Architecture 2012 Team Work
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Ferris Wheel Housing 2014 Studio
Aperture 201 Pers
Zedong Mao Mesuem 2010 Team Work
Building System 201 Team
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Sanyi House 2013 Internship
e Bridge 010 sonal
Jiading Chinese Hostpital 2013 Internship
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Thanks For Reading.
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