Shuo Yang Portfolio
The Core Pop-up Incubator Library Knowledge Pier Bent Grid Verticle Garden Other Works
The Core (Dec. 2016) Critic: Eric Bunge Collaborated with: Lian Ren Site: Bronx, New York
The Core is a housing project that explores the possibility to live in various cores in order to maximize density and light. Arranging most of the programs into vertical cores allows us to have the freedom for the perimeter, both for the building and for the units. Cores were assigned with different programs. For the public cores, we have hybrid core including elevator, circulation and a public storage, another hybrid core with laundry and toys, a library core, and a gym core. For those cores within a unit, we have hybrid core of bed and closet, kitchen and bathroom, and a fireplace core. All theses cores are providing structure suppport for the floor slabs. The structure of floor slabs is concrete waffle slab. The holes of waffle slabs were used as light wells and planter.
Site Program Study
Site Element Study of WIndow, Door, and Core
Case Study of Via Verde
Via Verde Element Study of WIndow, Door, and Core
Precedent study of storgage sapce of Celosia (MVRDV) units.
Compact 2 bedrroom: 8% Storage Space
2 bedrroom: 10% Storage Space
3 bedrroom: 10% Storage Space
Precedent study of bed sapce of Celosia (MVRDV) units.
Compact 2 bedrroom: 13% Bed Footprint
2 bedrroom: 11% Bed Footprint
3 bedrroom: 11% Bed Foot Print
Celosia was designed as an affordable housing project. In order to keep the cost low, MVRDV proposed with a re-usable formwork system in the construction process. This model mimicked the real construction process. All of the acrylic formwork could be re-used to produce more units.
West Block
Middle Block
East Block
Three block plans showing the transition of the floor plate from 1st floor to roof.
The public cores are located in the center of each block to connect all the unit cores on the sides. The unite cores are densely placed near the perimenter to allow more daylight and cross ventilation.
As the floor goes up, the voids in the floor changes to allow light to come into the public area, and generate interactions between different floor levels.
To emphasize the connection to the outdoor space, and the sense of community, we try to blur the idea of unit by using folding doors as the partition between the units and the rest of the floor. By this way, the residents could be more connected through the public area in the middle.
Due to the reason that all of the cores are holding the structure, all of the cores need to land on the ground. The ground floor of the west block was desgned to be a market with local venders. The middle block and east block’s ground floors were designed to be office spaces for start up companies that could be used for the college nearby.
Pop-Up Incubator Library (May. 2016) Critic: Erica Goetz Site: Brooklyn, New York
The role of a public library had shifted from a historical place to archive books to incorporate many other uses and experiences. However, the main conceptual premise of library as a place to spread knowledge to the general public has remained unchanged. The Pop-Up Incubator Library is located in downtown Brooklyn at the crossroads of a commercial and educational district, nested in a neighborhood of young professionals and young families. The Pop-Up Library is an incubator working space for fledgling businesses and is designed to foster the early stages of business growth. Drawing on the way that urban coffee shops and public spaces have become de facto meeting and working spaces, the Pop-Up Library aims to provide a designated and fruitful space for these activities.
Circulation Analysis
Possible Library Space Layout
Daylight Analysis
The ground floor served as an extention of street to invtie the circulation in. Since the site locates in a busy commercial area, there are many people in that block who might be shopping, meeting with friends, or may be just wondering. These people were represented by the blue figures. The red figure represents those people who uses the library. Since the major campus locates in the north east of the site, most of the red figures would come from that direction. The evenlope of the proposed library actually starts from the entrance stair in the core.
Original Plan Sketches
The Pop-Up library has no partition walls. It proposes a new type of working where private or collaborative spaces are not joined or separated by partition walls, but rather, organized through free section. The hive of cellular workshop spaces surround a central cascading stair. The workshop spaces are “pop-up�; meeting and working rooms that are meant to be occupied for short amounts of time. Each space is situated at the perimeter of the site with views through downtown, and each space also opens to the communal stair that houses shared programs and provides casual meeting space for the Pop-Up Library users. As the floor plates of the hive shift, privacy is created through elevational changes that result in visual privacy while maintaining a sense of the building whole. Like a hive, the space can promote a vibrant community while still allowing for layers of privacy. The lower floors of the library contain Pop-Up retail where the various small business users may sell their wares and services, or solicit feedback from the community. As businesses test and launch their ideas, they interact with the public at the ground level or invite them up into the auditorium, cafe and meeting rooms inthe upper floors of the library.
4th
2nd
Hive
Cafe
Lecture Room
Hive
Au
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Hive
Hive Meeting Room
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Event Space
Hive
Hive Conference Room
Resting Space Guest Entrepreneur Shelves
3rd
1st
Hive
Library Office
Hive
Hive Hive
Hive Hive Hive Hive
Hive Hive Sky Bar Hive
Ground
Guest Entrepreneur Office
Exhibition Space
Pop-up Retail Space
Espresso Bar
Meeting Space
Guest Entrepreneur Shelves
Hive
Exhibition Space
Hives & Common Area
Pop-up retail space
Knowledge Pier (Dec. 2015) Critic: Adam Frampton Site: 6th St. and East River, New York
The site is surrounded by a large area of affordable housing community. In contrast to prosperous atmosphere in East Village, this site seems to be desolated. There is a social barrier between those people who live in the community and people from outside of it. In order to eliminate this social barrier, a library pier is proposed for the site. This library would not only serve the local people, but also attract people from outside of the community over. This proposed library aims to offer a different experience of accessing information. By having detachable various sizes floating reading room with the great view of Manhattan and Williamsburg Bridge, this library can provide both social communication and intimate personal space for visitors. Floating away from the main structure of the proposed library, the readers could have a feeling of getaway of urban life.
Reading rooms float out based on the tide’s direction.
Bent Grid (Nov. 2015) Critic: Adam Frampton Site: East Village, New York
Lost and Found, as an additional program of this subway station, made me started to think about what could be lost due to the construction of a subway station, and at the same time could be found by designing the subway entrance in a specific way? Several lost that can happen in subway entrance is considered during the design process. The northwest corner one is located right on a fenced garden of Stuyvesant Town, which means that with the construction of this subway entrance, the residence of Stuyvesant Town will lost their garden. Besides the garden, they will also lost the privacy with a new subway entrance open under their windows. Once people enter the subway entrance, they lost sunlight. Using light 24/7 is not environmental friendly. The dirt that was dig out for the excavation of the entrance is also a lost. The accessibility of the subway lost in most of the subway entrance design in New York. Putting an elevator is the most common solution that we see here. However, the efficiency and sanitary condition in the elevators are not good. These lost that could happen in the subway entrance became my design criteria.
Precedent study of Mies van der Rohe’s the New National Gallery
Two grid shelves next to the ramp are designed with different sizes to storage the stuff of lost and found facility.
By having the pealing shape roof, the pedestrian’s view toward the residence is blocked. The roof structure is designed to be a bended grid. The beam of the roof has the same height as the original fence, in order to prevent people get on top of the roof to disturb the residence. The roof is covered with plants to compensate the lost of the garden for the residence. The dirt came out by the excavation of the entrance would be used as the soil for roof garden. Seven light modulators are arranged on the roof structure to provide sunlight to the underground part. A ramp and a stair were designed for the circulation of the entrance.
Original Site Situation
Virtical Garden (Oct. 2015) Critic: Adam Frampton Site: Intersection of 14th St. & 1st Ave, New York
The strong symmetrical design element in the site stood out when I visited there. The stairs of subway, people’s circulation of the corner, the façade of Stuyvesant Town building, and the lay out of the Stuyvesant Town community are all symmetrical.In order to go along with the surrounding environment, symmetrical became the theme of my proposed design, which was considered in both form and program. it was still very busy in rush hour. Pedestrian path are crowded with people near the subway entrance. Cars are roaring on the road. Residence in the Stuyvesant Town must be very disturbed. I started to wonder if my corner could be able to solve these problems at the same time to give the pedestrians a larger space and to protect the residence from being disturbed by the noisy street.Since Stuyvesant Town’s slogan is to provide New Yorker a chance to live in park, I decided to use a vertical green garden to solve the crowded pedestrian path and noise to the residents. Columns with little opening on side are erected and hanged on the structure. Plants can be grown up from the columns. By using the track and hinge, this movable vertical garden could have two phases, daytime and nighttime.
Night time mode with plants grown out from the hanging tubes as curtains and fence for the recidence.
Night time mode as a plaza and social gathering space for the public.
Other Works
the Show Case, 2015 (Inspired by Prada Tokyo, Herzog & de Meuron)
Yi Chair, 2014
Nest Lamp, 2014
Shuo Yang 516 W 47th St. Apt N5B, New York, NY, 10036 (347)268-2677 sy2620@columbia.edu
Education Columbia University (GSAPP) Degree: Master of Architecture
New York, NY Fall 2015--- Present
Estimated Graduate Time: Spring 2018 The University of Iowa Degree: Bachelar of Science in Engineering (Civil Engineering)
Iowa City, IA Fall 2010--- Fall 2014
Bachelar of Art
Experience Trace Architecture Office (TAO) Internship • • •
Beijng, China Summer 2016
Worked on a primary school project (Estimated to be completed in 2018) Involed in Concept Design, Schematic Design, and Structure Design Represented project by physical models and render images
Columbia GSAPP Output Shop • Mainly in charge of laser cut & plot
New York, NY Fall 2015--- Present
Beijing Municipal Engineering Professional Design Institute Co., Ltd Internship • Conducted researches of the broken roads’ major repairment • Created site plans for road and bridge construction • •
Beijng, China Summer 2012
Participated in major bridge’s repair on Beijing 2nd ring road Analyzed traffic situation of Beijing 2nd ring road
Design Skill
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Rhino Autodesk: Revit | AutoCAD | Robot Structural Analysis | 3DS Max Design Adobe: Illustrator | InDesign | Photoshop | Aftereffects
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Google Sketch Up
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ArcGIS
Mandarin English
Engineering Proposal & Research North East Corridor Project Regional Development Plan • • • •
Muscatine, IA
Two arterial roads were designed to boost regional development Generated regional flood prevention plan Estimated peak-runoff by using Rational Method Developed storm sewer system along the proposed arterial roads
Spring 2014
• Designed conduits across the proposed roads to cooperate with Mad Creek flood prevention plan Water Resource Design • Created Field Assessment and Concept Development by Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) • By adjusting open channel size, simulated a flood prevention plan in SWMM Roundabout Design • Designed a two-lane in each direction roundabout for Hwy 6 in Iowa City Finite Element Analysis • Analyzed foundation slope stability by Ansys
Reference Eric Bunge
Tei Carpenter
Principal of nARCHITECTS eric.bunge@narchitects.com
Founder of Agency-Agency tfc2115@columbia.edu
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