SHUYANG CHEN PORTFOLIO
ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI DAAP 2013~2015
DAAP has became our home, where we laugh, upset, relieve, and stress. Here is the place we spent most of our time to create and explore spaces without any complaint. I just love here, love the everything, which I created here. Here is our home.
DAAP
2013
SHUYANG CHEN CONTENTS ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS
THEATER AND POOL PROJECT TINY LIVING HOUSE COPY&PASTE SPACE
WORKING EXPERIENCE
NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN CENTER
CONCEPTS
LINE
UNITS
PLANE
SHADOW
VOLUME
SPACE
BALANCE
DRAWINGS
THEATER AND POOL PROJECT
RENDERING a. top left: Hall way b. bottem left: Corridor c. right 1. Indoor plaza 2. Pool 3. Hall way (back) 4. Outdoor plaza
THEATER AND POOL PROJECT The purpose of this project is utilizing the huge capacity of cars of the parking garage to build some large services. Theater and Pool are required, and I think that adding more programs could keep people stay in the space all day long. The hall way is the most important part of this project. It not only leads people go through all the programs, but also has intersting lighting condition. On the other hand, elevators are critical within the space for entering the theater and pool on the higher levels.
EXISTING GARAGE
DESIGN STRATAGEM The pool is designed to be placed on the top for maximizing the sunlight, and the theater is put right below the pool for minimizing the sunlight. Because there are so many programs, I designed a universal hall way running through the whole complex. So that people can enter each program by walking and elevator. The lighting experience is unique inside of this complex. A lot of glazing area and opaque walls will create some big contrast spaces of lighting, which could attract people to go experience them.
THEATER AND POOL
Circulation Pool Theater Mall Office 1 Office 2 Gallery Muti-purpose Market Restaurant Elevator
TINY LIVING HOUSE
SPACE FOR HANGING By thinking about a space for making excitement, the space was designed to have many edges and beams. People would stand on the edges and enjoy the landscape, also could hanging on the beams as small exercise. The purpose for designing such a space is letting people have a full feeling of the position, where they are standing. on the other hand, the space was designed for special group of people. So that, acrophobia, sick, and old people may not want to go in there.
SPACE
By thinking about a space for making excitement, the space was designed to have many edges and beams. People would stand on the edges and enjoy the landscape, also could hanging on the beams as small exercise. The purpose for designing such a space is letting people have a full felling of the position, where they are standing. On the other hand, the space was designed for special group of people. So that, acrophabia, sick, and old people may not want to go in there.
The whole space is combined by five small individual spaces. And each of these five spaces are designed for different actions. Sitting, standing, walking, lying, and squating are included within the space.
TINY LIVING HOUSE
MODULOR STUDY Accroding to Le Corbusier’s “Modulor”, a golden section base panal was used in the composition for locating the five small spaces. And the walls, stairs, ceilings are designed to fit human’s body perfectly as well.
COPY&PASTE SPACE
COPY&PASTE SPACE
PROJECT By studying the Unity Temple, understanding the circulation designed by FLW. The project is using Copy&Paste technique to develop a moment of Unity Temple to a new space. The walls and cirlulation are critical important to devide the space. My design used heavy concrete versus light glass to create a big contrast of black and white spaces. By experiencing brightess to darkness and then back to brightness, the light will lead people to go through the whole space.
DETAILING WALLS
COPY&PASTE PLAN
STUDY MODEL
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Address: 1902 N. High Street Columbus, Ohio 43201 Phone: 614.221.5001 Director: Isabela Gould
Director Comments:
Shuyang has been a great intern - very thoughtful, hard working, eager to learn, never shy to ask a question, always willing to take on hard tasks. He worked very successfully on several other projects besides those listed above, producing great design ideas, presentation material up to the office’s standards and also successful verbal presentations to clients. Shuyang is a very independent intern and a very talented designer, always giving his best. He drew beautiful drawings, made models, made sure projects were done, and figured out what steps were needed in the process sometimes with minimal guidance.
FACADE DESIGN Community Thread 1509 E Main St, Columbus, OH 43205
PAMA SOUTH SIDE MONUMENT On the given site above, a monument is needed, which could representative the South Side of Columbus. High elements, softscape were asked by clients. The design idea came from the two main industries, “Federal Glass” and “Buckeye Steel”. The Form is designed as a half glass bottle like, and concrete representative glass, steel set the form.
Phisical Model
Idea Sketch
View Drawings
Landscape design
Final Perspective
FACADE DESIGN Ruby Oddities and Treasures 2402 West Broad st Columbus OH 43204
STREET VIEW DESIGN Hilltop, Columbus
POSTER DESIGN Franklinton, Columbus
LINE BLOCK
SIDE VIEW
CENTER SUPPORT
MIDDLE SUPPORT
SIDE SUPPORT
COMPOSITION The idea of this block is using three various direction lines to find a point of balance by looking from the top view. And putting couple supports to space out those three layers, so that a feeling of continued and flowing line is giving.
STAIR OF LIGHT The thicker lines show the stairs in front, and the thiner lines show the stairs far away. On the other hand, the lines far away are getting shorter. The composition of those lines explore a continued and deep space, which bring you far away.
PLANE AND LIGHT Planes only have two sides, front and back. They are very easy to be seen, when exposures under light. The three drawings on the right side show the planes with their apertures and shadows. On the other hand, planes are somehow about layers; which is in front and which is in back. By using different colors, layers show up clearly.
PENCIL DRAWINGS
PLANE BLOCK
FRONT VIEW The middle piece is shifted from both side planes, which shows movement and beauty of symmetry.
ELEVATION The flowing apertures are cleaner showing in elevation view. The inset corner holds the square piece, but also was located in three eighths.
COMPOSITION The plane block’s key word is “shifting”. At first, the top and front faces of the cube are missing to exposure the inside. Then, the other side faces were designed to have flowing long bar like apertures, which turned at the corner. In addition, there are two square apertures in the center of left and right sides. At last, the missing two square pieces are shifting to the center of the whole cube to be one.
VOLUME BLOCK
PLASTER The plaster model was made in solid volume intentionally; and left a continued path on the surface.
COMPOSITION By expanding the continued path of the plaster model, the wood model was design to keep the same language with the plaster model. Strong feeling of symmetrical and centralize was put within the whole model.
COLLAGE
The composition of the collage is highly symmetric. The pictures are mostly following symmetric as well. The whole collage was made in black and white for having a sense of positive vs negative. Overall, it was designed at spider form.
BLOCK SHOW
2013
BALANCE BLOCK
BALANCE POINT A balance point was required for keep the model standing. The corners and edges were calculated to put the same amount of mass to keep balance.
COMPOSITION The idea started from finding a special standing point for the model. A continued solid wood bar started from bottom, went through six corners to the top, and then went down to the ground in a spiral shape. And the point, which touch the ground is supporting the model to stand up.
BLOCKS
MATRIX The drawing was about a sense of transformation. Started from the four models from the four corners, lined up each two of them and transformed the model from one side to the other in three steps. Line weights and density of line are richly used to express the deep of depth.
COMPOSITION (group work)
The idea of this unit is sliding and stacking. Each unit is combined by two small rectangles. And each of the rectangle holds two gaps on each side, so that units can slide together. I help my term build the units and gave the idea of making two small units into one unit, so that each unit could have two directions to expand and stack together.
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UNITS STACK FORMS 1. SCREEN FORM 2. SPACE FORM DRYWALL
3. SEATS FORM
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PLASTIC AND LIGHT Plastic has unique performance under the light. On the left hand, there are three models made by plastic; light was shotting through the models from one direction. Beautiful shadows came out on the white surface and had different shades of gray color.
SHADOWS ABSTRACT DRAWING The composition of this drawing is creating a three dimensional space by playing around section and plan of CCM building of University of Cincinnati. The idea is skewing the section and plan on Photoshop and match them together to express feeling of deep of depth; also using mirror pictures as shadows.
SPACE
COMPOSITION (groupwork)
The project was designing a space for people to stay inside. The idea started from making a bench. Then walls and roof were added to the composition. The space was designed to be really open space, which people can walk through or sit down. Wall could be separated to two part; one is rotated from the other one. It makes the bench have different angle of seat back. I help my term make the drawing on Rhino and AutoCAD, so that we could build the model more accurate.
PLAN RENDERING The drawing is painted by markers. The model was painted in light color to stand out from the green painted site. On the left hand side of the model, shadow was shaded to have three dimensional feeling, which is different from the right hand side part on the site.
STUDY MODEL
FINAL FULL SCALE MODEL
SPACE FULL VIEW The full project was finding a relationship between our section’s model and the next door section’s model. And after putting the seven sections’ models together, a flowing and continued space came out. The picture shows the full scale models on the site.
DRAWINGS
PENCIL CONTOUR 2013
SKYSCRAPER Pan ink Drawing 2014
MUSEUM Photoshop rendering work 2013
CHURCH Pencil detail drawing 2013
PEN SKETCHES 2014
THANK YOU
CONTACT Email: Chens3@mail.uc.edu Address: 2636 Jefferson Street, Cincinnati,Ohio 45219 Phone: 5134006483