folio 2019

Portfolio Shu Fu (Fersula) 2016-2018

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Background I was born in China. I went to Melbourne for studying overseas when I was eighteen years old. At the time of entering the university, I chose architecture to be my major as I perceived it combines both scientific and cultural importance. Thanks to the diverse courses provided in my university, I had many chances of trying different types of design, which did not only limit in the architectural design but also involve graphic design, product design, and parametric digital design.

- The design is to interact with people by bringing a better experience

I always tried my best to gain the opportunities around myself. I did the internship for one of the five greatest architectural firms and also went to Tokyo Tech for the exchange study of architecture. After gaining such various experience, I decided to move forward to the new field of study, the Global Innovation Design. This interdisciplinary involves diverse design studies, such as product design and media communication design.

Currently, I am just in the first semester of my new career. The last project in this folio shows my best effort as a very beginner in UI/UX design.

In this folio, I show all my works from the first Uni year until now. They show my steps and progress through these three years.

Hope you enjoy reading this folio.

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Name: SHU FU Year: 1st year of Master Nationality: Chinese Email: fosuisui@gmail.com Contact number: 07013575197 Education: 2008.1 - 2013.6: Chengdu EFL High school, China 2013.8 - 2014.12: Trinity College of the Foundation Study, the University of Melbourne, Australia.

2015.3 - 2018. 6: Bachelor of Environment, Major in Architecture, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

2017.3 - 2017. 7: Exchange Study, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

2018.9- now: Keio Media Design Graduate School, Keio University, Japan

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Why Change

Why Japan

Belief about Design

Creativity was most emphasized in my undergraduate study, which made me realized that the essence of design is to interact with people with bringing a better experience. This understanding convinced my enthusiasm in design, however, it also accompanied with a sense of doubt.

I went to Japan mainly for three reasons:

- Learn design is learn everything

Comparing with architecture, I gradually realized that the medium which is more intimated and more influential in people`s daily life is the information products.

This feeling became stronger as I stay overseas longer. In such an information era, I understand what a significant role of internet plays in our daily lives.

Especially as an international student, I understand how internet essential in sustaining our emotional comfort which could be gained from families and friends over thousands of miles.

I look forward to doing designs which can bring more intimate experience and touched feelings to the receivers. That`s why I move forward from the world of architecture

Firstly, the master program I attended can give me a new start to study in product design and media communication design. Since it is established by three universities, I will also have opportunities to study in London and New York. I believe this multi-cultural global experience will greatly broaden my perspectives about design.

Secondly, Tokyo is a city where the information and ideas are highly dense and metabolic. There are best innovative product companies in the world. My ultimate career goal is to work in such innovative companies.

Thirdly, I love Japanese culture. I started to know about Japan from ancient architecture and music.

As much as I explore other aspects about this country, I just feel I was more fascinated with it. .

I am appreciated for my undergraduate study, architectural design, though I decided to move forward. Architectural design is a subject that involves many fields and requires various skills. I was very well trained in my self-learning ability. The aesthetic sense and the rational creative thinking both developed in my mind during the years. From the macro scale to the micro angles, my perspective about design was gradually broadened through the years. The design is everywhere in life. I believe more diverse experience can bring a more sensitive perception about design.

- The design is to interact with people by bringing a better experience I believe design is composed of two fundamental elements, the core, and the skin. The core of the design is to solve the problem, which can be embodied by its technology and its operation technology. The skin of design is the aesthetic look, which firstly interacts with the user. These two elements always lead me to explore the possibility of every project.

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Interest My interests covers a very wide range.

I like historical and cultural related stuff.

So in the leisure days, I like going to various exhibitions and historical sites. I really enjoy the life in Tokyo, there are always fresh exhibitions and the countless ancient temples and shrines. I really like to learn about their behind stories, which usually strongly resonated with my senses.

I also like sketch and drawings. Drawing while listening to the music is the most enjoyable thing for me

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In school/out school design work The project I did in my undergraduate school were all followed the guidelines given by each studio. They includes architectural design, graphic design, product design, parametric design.

Out of school, I did the intership experiences in the architectural firms in both Melbourne and China. The project was about a large commercial complex.

Now in the new semester of my master study. I entered the labortary of Embodied Media in Keio Media Design School, which focus on researching in haptic design. The theme of my sub group is Altered Reality, which is researching and developing the equipment for cross-haptic senses.

My Japanese ability?

I learnt Japanese as the selective subject since I entered in the undergraduate university. My Japanese abilities of listening and reading is advanced.

While the abilities of speaking is still keep in basic. I think that is because there was no much chance to practice since I stayed in Australia. But I did feel my speaking ability is becoming better after I came to Japan. I believe I can express my ideas fluently in the workshop.

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Architecture&Graphic Deisgn

Product Deisgn

Ui UX Deisgn

Project 1 A PLACE FOR KEEPING SECRET

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Project 2 SLEEPING POD

Project 3 A Cozy Hut for Man and Cat

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Project 4 P28 Parametric Design: Blooming Dress

Project 5 The University High School: Tree Growing

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Project 6 Landscape 3D Design

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The online link version of this portfolio is: https://issuu.com/shufufersula/docs/folio_2019

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Project 7 WAKEEE

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Time Line

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Herring Island -

The Secret of A Falling Cloud The theme for the project is "Secret". A place high in clouds where the spirits living in the myths was the earliest idea about "Secret" that came to my mind. This project illustrate the ideas of a secret hidden within a falling cloud. It includes two parts, The Cloud Pavilion and "The Hidden Secret ". These two pieces are in contrast of different textures, one is of lightness and transparent and the other one is of mass and darkness, while both of them are creating the mysterious atmosphere and are integrated by the designed journey.

The whole journey shows the cyclic narrative of cloud, from cloud falling down as snow, and snow melting in water, and water reflecting the real cloud of the sky ine the water. Practically, people walk down through the Cloud Pavilion, go into the back hidden space, go down the cloud stair, sit on the water waved bench and see the real cloud of the sky reflected in the central pond. The Secrete is cloud, the cloud where they walk in and the cloud which they see in the end.

PROJECT 1

by Architecture studio Earth sem 1, 2016, edited in 2018

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Cutted Perspective

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Elvevation

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The site situated at a steep slope on the north west of Herring Island, a small island of Yarra River in Melbourne city.

There is an existing path directed to the sloop straightly, but it turns to the right and goes to the north landing of the lower river bank in a far way. So the Cloud Pavilion is designed here to receive the pedestrians from the straight path and send them down to the river bank in a more convenient and interesting way.

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The white steel structures grow up from the lower ground, which attracts the pedestrians to enter in the maze of cloud. Once people entered in this pavilion, the multiple routes will send people to different spaces, they can enjoying in an obscure semi-transparent pavilion hung in the air and viewing to the river side, and they can enjoying in a space of light and mass for meditation.

Water Waved Concrete Bench

Water Pond

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The Cloud Pavilion

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The Cloud Pavilion consists of hundreds of hexagon units. This pavilion plays the role of leading people down and blurring people`s view. The hexagonal unit implies the state of cloud falling, which is the snow.

The Secret of Cloud

The Secrete space is more like a meditation space. It`s is quite and has the amazing light shade effect by the penetrating skylight. This internal space consists of the water waved bench, and a small pond in central, which shows the narrative of snow melting into water, and lastly water hide the secrete of cloud (i.e.. reflecting the cloud of the sky in the

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Plan - Ground Floor

Plan - Underground Floor

Water Waved Cocrete Bench

Hole on the ground

Water Pond

The Secret o f Meditation

Cloud Pavilion

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Cloud Pavilion

Lost Journey “A Lost Journey” is the focus of the experience from this project. Visitors might feel lost within the journey as there would be multiple routes, various locations of different heights, and the obscure views by the interaction of the architecture and daylight. Although the routes seems intrigue while there is only one entrance and one exit. All the journeys are designed to the same destination, the lower ground accessing to the river bank, and designed to send people to discover the secrets unexpectedly.

When people stand on the upper ground, they only see the white metal branches growing up from the unseen below. This distinct stunning looking unknown things easily gains curiosity from the pedestrians.

For the “Cloud” Pavilion, It is not easy to recognize the entrance only if people walk near to it. Once they entered, the next step is immediately down. So the people would seemed disappeared suddenly for the other people who are still on the upper ground. People who entered would also likely seem to disappear for each other, as the narrow walking tunnels are spreading to different directions, not on the one plane, and the rest space are all infilled with the repeating hexagonal units, which obscure the views but not hide completely. So people might see someone disappear and then appearing again.

The routes including going up to the front top for a great view of the river side , leading to the two in-air half-enclosed shelter spaces at different layers, leading down to the lower ground and the most sheltered space at the lower ground.

The route also leads to the hidden secret space within the earth, hidden behind the Cloud Pavilion, which only can be accessed by those who entered the “Cloud”. People will go to the video room (required by criteria, one of the secrete) by following that only way.

The Secret of Meditation: This is a space that is excavated from the slope.

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Model Gallery

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Concept Mass Drawing

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SLEEPING POD

by Digital Design and Fabrication sem 2, 2016 teamate: Songyuan Ma

This subject aimed to explore the idea of Personal Space by designing a sleeping pod for one person. The brief calls for innovative design of a secondary skin or envelop that is wearable and accommodates the body.

This is first subject that we began to learn digital tools in designing and architectural fabrication techniques that applied commonly in computationally designed architectures.

My project is about the technique of "Sectioning and Profiling�

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Ideation

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Fabrication Process

Design Proposal Final Original

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Smoothing

Sectioning & Profiling

Eye PATCH

At the beginning stage, I start from analysing the structure of the object handed out. Ours is a wooden skeleton T-Rex model. The assembly technique is the notch joint, inserted perpendicularly between two pieces.

This project is aimed to design a sleeping pod using in a public area, we start to analyse the personal space when people sitting for a nap. The final posture chosen for developing design is putting the elbow on the desk to support the jaw, which is normal to see in school environment. Since the table separates the spaces, people can feel more senses of security, especially for people`s legs and feet. This posture also allows us to design the object to be more depend on the table, in order to be more portable. So we began to think about a sleeping pod can be the substitute of their arms.

The design proposal starts from the solid volume. The first proposal developed to be not only about standing for supporting head, but also extend to cover the back of the head, working as the helmet for personal space defence. The second proposal extend a little bit more, to cover the eye, working as the eye-patch. This improvement add more continuity of the whole curve, making it more aesthetic designed.

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Helmet Joint Detail

This is a testing stage for whether the laser cutting technique and the 3D modelled notch joint could achieve successfully.

I chose the eye-patch part for testing, smoothing the solid model first to achieve a comfortable angle, and then to cut into stripes in horizontal and vertical directions, joint by notch to create a volume.

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MODEL GALLERY

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A Cozy Hut for Man and Cat -The Renovated House of Bath In Ogijima -The sharing Energy between Man and Nature

by Architecture studio 1 sem 1, 2017 This is a studio hold in Tokyo Institute of Technology during my exchange study term. It is a renovation program in a remote small island, Ogijima Island.

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Perspective to the East

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Ogijima Island

Existing Barn House

Cats On Ogijima Island

This project situates on Ogijima Island. All the insfrustratures are send from the near mainland Kagawa. There are under 200 people live in this island, and the residents almost over 60 years old. On this island, cats are more than people.

The site holds a broken barn house currently. The client wants to renovate his house and built with a new bath which will be shared with the near by residents. The client is living in Tokyo, he returns to the island occationally.

And He is willing to share the house to those travellers.

In such an old community of minority people and owned by a non-local landlord. So this house is not daily used, it is more likely a temporatiry hostel. So I think about a hut, it can benifts more creatures on this island when people use it and comsume energy with it.

The island is very cold in winter, and the infrustructures are simple. Burning natural fuels such as wood or charcoal is the best way to gain heat.

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Plan on Site, 1:200 @ A4

Site Model

By the heat transfer along the external wall, I designed the Cat Hostel. It consists of break parallel wood boards, with the holes for cat to across. This form is inspired by the pet product of cat box. Cat like dark and warm space, so I half closed the shelves.

The bath is designed to be Goemon Huro, which is a traditional Japanese bath taken in a barrel of water directly heated underneath. The burning natural fuel of wood is every where on this island. It is the easiest and the most enconomic way to heat the bath water.

There are two sandwich-walls at the living space. This design is mainly for heating service in winter. Wood or charcoal burn in the fire place that is next to the kitchen, and the smoke will bring heat through the two sandwich-walls. The warmness is kept in the internal space and also transfer to the external facade.

The living space is intergrated with the bedroom. There is a foldable wood board on the concrete bench, which can be unfold into a small bed in night.

Explode Diagram

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There is another single bed on the folded sandwich wall.

People and cats are sharing the heat through the wall.

Perspective to the West

For the facade that is facing to the courtyard. The half is the shaded Cat Hostel, and the other half is the exposed shelf for owner to put things or plant for decorections.

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The Blooming Dress -Parametric Design

by Studio Air sem 2, 2016, (second year) TEAMATE: MEINA LEE, This studio is one of the final level studios for an undergraduate. It was aimed to develop design thinking and dexterity with both designing and fabrication tools. PARAMETRIC DESIGN was mainly conducted through the whole semester via GRASSHOPPER, different projects were expected to accomplish in different tutorials. The project in our studio was making a garment, aimed to explore parametric design, creative space, and fabrication techniques, to build A

WEARABLE MODERN ARCHITECTURE.

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PROJECT 4

This piece of art was done with the collective ideas by our group members. All the elements were derived from our individual works that were done before this final design, which provided us an envision of a such dress: multiple strips, dense but translucent, impressively colourful and intriguing, textured with lightness, elastic and movable during walking.

The concept of “A BLOOMING DRESS” expresses the two states of the dress performances: the moment of blooming by shaking and vibrating stripes when people wear it and walk; the scene of bunches of beautiful blooming flowers when the stripes are still. Unlike the former architecture project, this one started with the technique prototypes and worked out the concept latter. This concept was born from and materialized by the physical prototype we made, which successfully achieved the multiple performances : “an alternative state of moving lively and keeping still”, “space creating” and “dense lightness”. The blooming flower perfectly describes these characteristics of this garment.

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The Most Inside Strip that Fits on Body

Overlayed Stripes Stand on the Two Joints to Create Space of

Developed pattern, by Waverbird and Gradation

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Chosen Points

Add Multiple Layers of Changed Width of the OverStrips, Extending in A Single layered Stripes Direction between the Two

The Zoom-In Version of the Developed Pattern Traced the Chosen Pattern

Base Plates

Traced Flower Pattern, Correspond to the Theme of A

Gradation

Stripes Spread from Two Sides of Each Baseplate, Connecting as A Unit

The Widest Pink Stripes

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The hollowed pattern is intended to make on the layer of the widest strip, at which the light can penetrate through and map the pattern on its below layer.

The First Inside

SPACE CREATING: Three dimensional space is firstly created when the upper stripes are curved to stand over by the tension between the two end joints, and it is developed further by changing curvature, density, spreading directions and connection ways to be doable for a garment.

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Combination Test 3, Changed Side Length

Combination Test 4, Cross Spreading Directions

AN ALTERNATIVE STATE OF MOVING LIVELY AND KEEPTING STILL: Since there is a tension force existing between the two baseplates, whose stripes could elastically shaking when applied force, and also could keep its own curved standing shape when no one touches.

DENSE LIGHTNESS: Multiple layers of the thin stripes with different width, different curvature, different color and different shapes. 3 layers are included,

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2D Pattern Distribution of Gradation

The Second Inside-layer The Most Outside Layer

The baseplate are needed to hold and connect the stripes as we tested in the previous stages. For the most inside layer that is touched on the body, baseplates distribution are considered with the degradation element.

The points are chosen symmetrically .

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Prototype Materials Before Assemble

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otype Single Unit

Final Model

Baseplate Detail & Joint Detail

Prototype Double Unit

Prototype Double Unit

Different Curvature

The Model was mainly made of Polypropylene stripes and the Perspex Baseplates. All their shapes were cut by laser cutting. Bolt and nut were used as the best joints after a series of tests.

It is easy to hold multiple stripes and able to be adjustable properly.

All these stripes were calculated lengths for their curvature purposes, thus each of the strip is unique. Flowing and Degradation are achieved through these stripe curvatures of different lengths.

Connection Flower

End Rolling

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The University High school:

Tree Growing -From General to Specific via Experiencing Differently, To Grow up like a tree

by Studio Fire sem 2, 2017, (Third year) Individual Project This studio is one of the final level studios for an undergraduate. It was aimed to develop the skill of designing a practical architecture, which gave us the real site and specific requirements. This is a mixed used building for both the High-school and the community people. Three parts of functions are included: the class rooms for school use, the Renaissance Stack Library and a Sports Department.

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The Growing process of a tree is same with that of a highschool student. Tree is from one trunk to branches and thousands of leaves. Students come in the one highschool and study the same subject, and will soon enter in different majors in universities and different occupations in the society. I apply the same logic to this building, trying to make the design to bring the inspirations to the students, to encourage interactions and communications between the students and the community people, to help the students know more infomations and learn more knowledges, in order to gain the boarder perspectives for their future life.

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TRUNK

General Interaction & Exchange of Knowledge Trunck provides the nutrient to grow up a tree, Ideas and knowleages grow up people.

This BIG STAIR general space work as the trunk of a tree, which encourages interactions and communications. It is shared by both the students and the community people without any boundaries. There are three common spaces on the BIG STAIR, where people can have chatting and breaks. Three space are in different height levels and are in different exposing levels. One is in the centre, facing and seeing through the next stadium. One is behind the tree glass, in a relative quite private space. The other is next to the roof garden.

Under the big stair, there is the student kitchnette and the cafe, all the common spaces are boundariless.

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BRANCH

Experiencing Differently & From General to Specific Branches gorws into various directions, the Walking Ways are crossing and spreading into different destinations. People have multiple choices of routes in this building.

Moreover, inspect of the regular floors, the stack mezzanie sits between the 1st and the 2nd floors, ramps and the floors are rising to the 2nd floor.

LEAF

Specific Spaces & DayLight Penetrating The routes will lead to the specific rooms, such as the project romms and classrooms. Since when the animals living on the tree, they can see through each other, the rooms are set with glass facing to the trunk general space, in order to gain the sense of connectivity.

The leaf idea is further developed about the leaf shade in the aspects of the facade and the roof.

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Structure Stacking Diagram

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Facade Penetrating Daylight Effect

Roof Penetrating Daylight Effect The wrap of the building are all illustrating the idea of penetrating daylight through the leaves.

In order to create the atmosphere of living within the tree, I tried to make the daylight illumination more interesting.

Stadium Facade Penetrating Daylight Effect

The roof is in wood coffer structure, with daylight penetrate through ramdomly. For the facade facing to the main road, it is a combination of waffle wood boards and the hollow bricks. The other facade for stadium is also in wood & stone texture, and it consits of wood stripes and piled tiles.

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Landscape Tectonics Design

by Site Tecntonics sem 2, 2016, (second year) This is a landscape studio, aiming to learn the designing of countours and ramp, also the basic 3D Max modeling and rendering.

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LANDSCAPE DESIGN

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OVERVIEW

UPPER PATH - EYE VIEW

NEAR HOUSE - EYE VIEW

INTERIOR HOUSE - EYE VIEW

NEAR HOUSE 2 - EYE VIEW

LOWER PATH - EYE VIEW

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