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Shiyang Anna He extracted project works from Master of Architecture and Bachlor of Design in Architecture course
Shiyang He C A map of tree leaves
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Featured Illustrations with Peter Wilson -24 Drawings -2013 A tree, its shadow, a House
Architectural studio / Flinders station -2013 master plan & collective memory museum
Digital studio / Redfern station with Keira Zhang -2014 Design roof structure in computer aided programs Urban studio / liverpool -2014
Multigeneration immigrant housing
Architectural Communications / the Object -2012 Transformation of Umbrella
Architectural Technologies / Scout Hall -2013 1st Balmoral Scout Hall
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Sketch & Draw Two B/W drawings included in Peter Wilson - 24 Drawings/A Tree, a Shadow, a House Products and Bi-products of Architectural Practice 11-18 October 2013 Curated by Claudia Perren Tin Sheds Gallery
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population growth
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Thir d year Studi o Pr oj ect
M e l bou r ne F l i nde r s St a t i o n T hi rd Ye ar Arch itec ture Design studio proj ec t desi g n e d t o re spo n se to the historic al herita ge building i n Fl i n de rs St at i on while artic ulated a moder n alt e r n at i v e so l u t i o n to ac tiv e the site. Flinders Stat i o n as o n e o f Me lbour ne’s most signific ant ic ons is t he re fo re t rav e re d various c onc e ptual transfor mations t hro u gh the design proc ess. Le ft : Laye re d hi storic al ma ps of Melbour ne from 1963 untill 2013
About. When Robert Hoddle drew the plan of Melbourne in 1837, he left a gap between his grid and the river. Not even Flinders Street was drawn. The gap now is where Fliders station situated. Flinders Street is where the city meets the river. See it as not just a place to pass through on your way to work but as a place that requires rediscovery of an ancient hidden heritage and a potential future for this now exciting part of the city. See a future for Flinders Street as a destination in its own right, with its own character and its own contribution as a catalyst for new ways of using the city. My approach was first trying to reinvent the space by researching into the past of the site. Shiyang He C photography
1836
FIGURE GROUND chronologically & morphologically
INVERTED FIGURE GROUND TO LANEWAYS a system of relations
1858
1969
1978
- SCALE -
City is a complex entity that harbours the lives on people in the long term of urban evolution. In the process of urban development, the physical environments transformed as a result of changing demographic profile and increasing demands in social products. The city accommodated people, while being transformed by adaption of people’s lifes.
The scale of a place is not only the dimension of its length, width,depth, but also a system of relations. Through the inverted figure ground map, we see the historical transformations of laneways. The physical forms of layerd geometry shapes embeded human scale in its three dimensional way.
Through researching into the past of Melbourne hoddle grid, exploring melbourne’s laneways in another unique perspective: the growth and erosion of laneways as a way of reflecting the human acitivities impacted on the city. The urban form in the process of historical transformation is in response to various agents, includes economics, political forces in different stages. Like WWI,WWII,Industrialization etc, which impact on the way of living. It was evident that after industrialization in Australia, with invention of public transportations like steam trains, people started to move out of the town which siginificant reduce the erosion of city grids.
By linking the voids with a sketch of laneways, the human scale in relation to the laneway’s atmosphere and function become interestingly revealed. You might find yourself squashing through back of coffee tables in Flinders lane with overhang balconys. The experience of passing through laneways has accumulated into an culture icon. The form of laneways is constantly being readapt and transformed by people using it.
Concerning the geographic representation of historical spatial structure in Melbourne city grid, the intention is to regenerate the track of historical transformation in the morphological process, by interpreting the evolution of streets, blocks and building form in the set of figure ground map. By inverting the figure ground plans and overlapping them (in the last diagram), the once lived space that occupied by city dwellers become vivid again. The voids become laneways. Traces of political forces, economics, human activities of a time are encapuslated in the Void map.
2013
The feasibility is credited to historical images and maps.
Concept model
from site analysis
VOIDS (laneways overlapped map) Inverted figure ground plans
The form of shape driven by form of intensity & population flow analysied in site plans
Concept diagrams
exploring the rules of formation for the voids of laneways & potential public space in master plan
unfolding/stitching everyday life into laneway grid
Master planning of Flinders station. Sketch plan, an idea of layering experiences
tunnels and walkways in station as street in the city where strangers meet. lead towards unexpected open spaces with varies scales.
The New Station Carried Melbourne’s laneway characters into the master planning of Flinders Station plan researched into changes of functions, scale of laneways from 1963 to 2013. Intrepreted and translated using 3D modelling and diagramming. Station as an micro city encapsulated culture diversities, histories’ past and present.
LEFT: master planning of Flinders station.
MUSEUM OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF MELBOURNE LOST & FOUND MUSEUM
Narrative Take a train home from Flinders. Rainy, as usual,typical Melbourne day. Take train line A, waiting. It’s that few minutes everyday, you spent in the same platform with same strangers going on the same route. Life is a cycling route. The museum of Lost & Found is collecting things left on the trains and categorized them into display. Or inviting artists to make installation of these everyday objects into display. It’s like some years ago, those mudlarks who digged up Thames River to find Medieval treasures that burried in rubbishes in the river bed. Those trashes are the tracks of our life. Some day it may become someone’s treasure.
DIGITAL STUDIO/ REDFERN STATION
SMART STRUCTURE LAB Digital Architecture explores theories, media and techniques that involve digital mediation to create engaging architecture designs that stimulate all human senses in their relationship with the built enviroment. As a testing site, working with Redfern station,to develop a complex geometry that is structurally fit to be one element of a roofing system which can be multiplied, and expand to create a roof/landscape, which is able to cover this void in the inner city. The aim of this project is to create an alternative and creative roof structure and new pathways based on emergence, bridging the disparity between socio economic zones of the metropolis of Sydney Redfern. It is not only a roof, it is a speculation of unique apertures that could possibly altering people’s perception of an station. To transform the station into a spectacular volume that awaken senses. Throughout this project, we have been exploring through material logic and constrains, design and evaluation of the flexibility of aggregate module structures, computing aided design to fully understand the system. A wide range of computational as well as physical tests were conducted to understand the critical parameters as geometry control, pouring speed, degree of friction of boundary surfaces...etc. The characteristics of granular aggregation system is its liquidity behaviour despite being composed of solid elements. Therefore it could be utilized to create cavernous space with multiple stable states, transient spatial conditions, differently porous thresholds, and boundaries. As no aggregate structure can ever be conceived of as finished, it necessitates a critical shift from the precise design of static assemblies towards the recognition of self-organising and reconfigurable structures. In its ability to responding to our site and its potential to move beyond the site for its nature of flexibility form without binding agent.
Initial Module fabrication self forming structure using elastic fabric
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CHANGE IN LENGTH / NO.OF BRANCH / QUANTITY
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CHANGE IN MATERIALITY
DIGITAL MODELS
STAINLESS STEEL
GLASS
STATIC FRICTION 0.94
DYNAMIC FRICTION 0.4
Fixed quantity 250 Fixed branch no.6 Fixed length 35mm Constant speed 9.8N/m2
STATIC FRICTION 0.74
PLYWOOD
DYNAMIC FRICTION 0.57
STATIC FRICTION 0.25 - 0.5
DYNAMIC FRICTION 0.2
PHYSICAL ANALOGUE MODELS
PERSPEX WHITE
Diverse Experiments results showed in the above diagrams from 6 branches, 8 branches and 10 branches, using same material (plywood) in increased amount of 125, 250, 500 quantities have been tested in Maya software using rigid body gravity simulation. Observing the behaviour of physical model experiements (on the left), interestingly, the 12 branches (on the bottom) appear to be the strongest in performing a curvature.
PERSPEX CLEAR
SCREEN BOARD
3D PRINT
ROOF FORMING Applying on train station
Urban studio
Urban Housing for multigeneration immigration in Liverpool
About. Set in the urban context of Western Sydney, this studio investigated the ways that immigrant cultures adapt to housing pressure and to the demands of an extended family. My project focused on Chinese immigration housing. Immigrants arrived into a culturally restricted society but as the number grew, they also influenced the nature of mainstream Australia, over time creating a new and enriched society. This project traced back to history of Chinese housing development from traditional courtyard living (si he yuan) to economical blocks finding. Finding something still consistently remained and preserved as an cultural custom. It is this intricate relationship that remains and want to be pursued by Chinese people. The spatial relationship of public spaces shared by strangers, the collactive space shared by neighbours, the semi-private spaces shared be relatives and siblings and the private space share by couple or oneselfs. These differentiated spatial zones are therefore positively adoped as alternative spatial models, to reconstruct a generationally sustainable range of housing alternatives in Australia market.
Architectural Technologies
1st Balmoral Scout Hall Sustainable technology desgin approach
Anna Shiyang He CONTACT Mobile 0410912626 Email: he_anna@ymail.com Address: 1/34 Houston rd, Kingsford
EDUCATION 2008-2010 Balwyn High school VCE96.5 2011-2013 The University of Sydney / Bachlor of Design in Architecture 2014-present The University of Sydney / Master of Architecture
SKILLS Advanced: Adobe photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator, AutoCad Rhino software, Maxwell render Intermediate: Grasshopper, Maya
E X P E R I E N C E/I N V O L V E M E N T ‘A Tree, its Shadow, a House’, workshop with Peter Wilson Okidome, Sydney Design 2013, Powerhouse Museum Event function staff, Bar coco
WORK PUBLISHED
Exhibition Peter Wilson -24 Drawings, Products and Bi-products of Architectural Practice p38-41 ISB :978-1-74210-330-3 http://www.academia.edu/7176979/Peter_Wilson._24_Drawings_A_Tree_a_Shadow_a_House
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