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Selected Works 2017-2021
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Reclaiming the Marshlands Superstructure community in Ports Land (Super studio, 2018)
Mixed-use downtown commercial tower
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Upside-Down Golden Mile Natatorium
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Reflected-History Church Renovation for Library and Cable Car Station
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the VANISHing Giant Assembling Temporary Workshop
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Floating ISLAND City Lido in the Liverpool Waterfront
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Through-IN Non-human Agency Architecture
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the Nouveau NOUVEAU HOUSE FOR PIRANESI HADRIAN’S VILLA:
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THE ALURE OF THE INCOMPLETE DRAWING AS THESIS
Work Samples Club MED Hei Long Tan Hotel, Chengdu, China, 2019 Vision for Gardiner East, Toronto, 2021 8-plex Residential unit deisg,Toronto, 2021 Hello Wood Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2017
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Pagoda Tower
1.0 Pagoda Tower Mixed-use downtown commercial tower
SKYHIVE Skyscraper Challenge Competition Toronto Down town 2022
The annual SKYHIVE Challenge is a platform to examine the relationship between skyscrapers and the natural world, the community, and the rest of the city as a whole. It is important that designs show consideration for the impact on the surrounding environment, as well as how the increase in inhabitants will affect the current infrastructure, pollution levels, economic division, and urban sprawl. Pagoda Tower aims to promote community vitality through a mixed-use mode, redefine the city skyline, and increase urban diversity. Replacing traditional concrete with new building materials to achieve the revival of the La Pagoda.
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2.0 Upside-DOWN Golden Mile Natatorium Studio work at University of Toronto 2019 Partner: Yiting Zheng and Mengqi Xu
Selected the Golden Mile as the comprehensive studio site location. According to the reality needs and local future devlopment plan, design a natatorium for the residents and promoting the economic development. The Wexford Park is located at the north side of the site, the other sides of the site are all planned as the podiums or ordinary cube buildings for residential and business (Golden mile secondary plan organization). We want to break the rules of commercial planning, avoid the dark and narrow streets, invite the green space and natural atmosphere into the site, stimulating the latent vitality of the community and creating a new lifestyle for the residents.
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3.0 Reflected History Church Renovation for Library and Cable Car Station Studio work at University of Liverpool 2017
Designing a social intervetion for the city residents to explore the potential livibility of Liverpool. The studio mapped a green route through existing spaces, public parks, crematoria and clearings exploring a narrative which emerges from them and from the group research. Essentical to the narrative is the sense of the city-embedding what city is, was, and could be a narrative that will emerge from the places it passes through. The invention will be bourne of its specific site and may include re-loving and repurposing a forgotten place.
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Design strategy
Functional diagram
Structural Glass
Timber Staircase
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1F Timber Beam
Timber Column
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Concrete Foundation
Structural Bookshelf
Base Church
Glass structure 300mm deep Triple glass wall 18mm
Laminate timber column 400×400×15000mm
Polywood floor 100mm Laminate timber trusses 50mm (bolted connection)
Polywood floor 100 mm Laminate timber beam 195×195mm Insulaion 195mm Waterproof 5mm Polywood floor (ceiling)100 mm
Original church stone 1000 mm thickness,5 m foundation
Polywood floor 100 mm Laminate timber beam 195×195mm Insulation 39mm Waterproof 5mm Bolted steel connection Concrete slab 550×550×1000mm
The Natural Period When mentioned historical periods, the first that comes to mind is the pre-industrial revolution period, natural light, spring water, green plants and so on... so the natural materials and atmosphere on the ground floor are as the starting point for time travel. The external natural world is introduced into the building to achieve the natural transition between nature and human-made.
The Industrial Revolution Period On the first floor, the cable car as a private study room is the main representative of this period. The grand staircase is the connecting point of these two periods and the main public circulation. In order to make full use of the space under the stairs, bookshelf and reading room were built, and the vertical stairs were designed as glass to allow light to pass through easily, providing individuals with skylights.
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The continuous staircase presents the continuity of time. The glass box is self-standing, standing on the bottom original wall of the church, and is regarded as a historical preservation. The glass roof also shows the concept of touching the sky, expressing the livability.
4.0 the VANISHing Giant Assembling Temporary Workshop Studio work at University of Liverpool 2017
Merseyside has long held a fascination with giant propertions; whether that be Liverpool Lime Street Station as, for a time, the largest singlespan iron structure in the world, or New Brighton Tower; formerly the tallest building in Britan. This attraction continues in 21 century in the form of giant puppets invading the city. Royal De Luxe and the giants are set toretum to the city in 2018 to mark ten years since the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008. Based on Royal De Luxe’s now longstanding partnership with Liverpool, the studio is about designing a temperary creative space for them in the Baltic Triangle. The workshop needs an arch entrance, which could have a connection with the workshop. .
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Make full use of the edge of the workshop as a 4m×4m public cafe area
Movable ladder connection is easier for workers assembling giants
Staff entrance, wide semi-pulic communication space, midday rest area Fog glass workshop area, public could watch the giant assembling process.
Public entrance, glass facade has the interaction with the exterior environment.
Open roof, the upper 2m grid presents the concept of gradually disappearing between cities 6m grid tracks the giant assembling process
Design studio
The wide staircase serves as a semi-public space for the staff to chat, discuss and monitor the whole process
Culture is the crystallization of human wisdom and the purest part of human history. However, with the development of economy, especially in the information age, with the increasing speed of information dissemination and the increasing amount of information, more cultures are flooding people’s daily life. The compromise of life and the rush of career have made people see the true face of culture. For cultural awakening, we need a natural barrier or filter to purify pure life. Similarly, this different-sized shelf implies a filtering culture, essentially filtering people, people, cars, bicycles and other life-related tools of different scales, in exchange for a quiet pure assembly workshop for cultural celebrations.
As the main entrance material, glass introduces the on-site environment into the workshop and at the same time opens up the nature. Atomized glass is the main workshop material, especially the upper layer, which not only provides the privacy of the workshop, but also allows more natural light to enter the building and save energy. The solid white concrete material makes the building more stable while protecting the secret space at the core.
5.0 Floating ISLAND City Lido in the Liverpool Waterfront Studio work at University of Liverpool 2018
The project focuses on the theme of livable cities. By exploring the development relationship between Liverpool waterfront and River Mersey, suitable sites are selected from Heseltine’s Festival Garden site to Ten Streets in the North Docks to design and supervise urban bathing beaches along the waterfront. The necessary conditions for the urban sea bathing place are: the standard competition pool, the open sea bathing place and the supporting infrastructure. The bath area needs to have a standard competition pool and an outdoor bathhouse that adapts to the scale of the water activities and adds themes to each student’s vision to promote their understanding of the city’s livable landscape and environment. The project focuses on the experience of urban residents, the needs of tourists, and pays attention to the change of public use according to the time variation. By exploring the concept of “livable” in Liverpool, this paper challenges the current ranking system of livable cities in the world and puts forward the interpretation and ideas of livable cities.
Waterfront Timeline
What does the water mean to the people? What will Liverpool look like during global warming?
Liverpool is located in the Northwest of England, which is famous due to the maritime trade in 13 Century, it is easier to be influenced by the rainy, windy weather, and the ocean wave changes. As the frequency use of energy, the carbon dioxide release to the outside world, which is easier to lead to the rise of temperature and the sea level. The waterfront site of Liverpool will be the worst area to control this situation. In order to achieve the liveability of the whole city, the design will focus on the energy saving and the use of the water energy which is from the global warming.
The site is located next to the Festival Gardens, at the end of the waterfront, which is also the gateway to Liverpool city centre. Use shell shapes from the sea to develop the entire design. The bottom of the building will be defined as tidal energy cubes, and the floating objects comprise the air to produce the electricity. Solar panels will be placed on the roof of the building to collect solar energy. The tide and solar energy are combined to generate energy to support the use of the entire building. In this way, the island can be self-sufficient and convert the disadvantages of global warming into energy use, which is more sustainable and easier to achieve the liveability. Outdoor spas also use the same principle to generate energy. All buildings will be floated on the river by heavy concrete. The external spas and the main Lido are connected by a concrete platform.
Glass-reinforced plastic foundation calculation The radius of the Ground Floor V=40m(external), the thickness of the concrete facade=3m, the radius internal Ground floor =37m Facade concrete cylinder volume: πrh= 3.14 ×(402 -372)×20=14,506.8m³ Floor volume: Ground Floor: V= πrh=3.14 ×402×0.4=2009.6m³ First Floor+ Second Floor≈1/2 Ground Floor=1/2×2009.6=1004.8m³ Middle funnel volume≈ πrh=3.14 ×(202-182)×10=12560m³ Sum volum of concrete=14506.8+2009.6+1004.8+12560≈30,081m³ The swimming pool water volume:V=15 ×25×2=750m³ The diving pool water volume V=15 ×5×4=300m³ The learning pool water volume V=15 ×5×2=150m³ The second floor spa pool volumeV=2×1/2×4 πr3= 4 ×3.14×27=339.12m³ Sum volum of water=750+300+150+339.12 ≈1540m³ The density of water is 997kg/m3≈1000kg/m³ The density of concrete is 2400kg/m³ The formula of buoyancy: F=G=ρgV(ρ: density of Fluid (kg/m³), g: gravitational acceleration(9.80 m/s2) V: volume of liquid displaced (m3 or liters, where 1 m³ = 1000 L)) The desity of GRP=5kg/m³ Suppose the depth of the GRP is h In this way: F=Gwater+Gconcrete+GGRP =1000×1540+30,081×2400+ 5h×1004 =1,540,000+72,194,400+5020h=73,734,400+5020h FGRP= G=ρgV=1000×10×1004h h=73,734,4000/998980h=7.4m In order to keep the safety for people move around in the building, the depth of the GRP=7.5m for the foundation.
6.0 Through-IN “人造物” ???
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Non-human Agency Future Architecture Studio work at University of Toronto 2019
Architecture has been as “artifact” designed by human since it appeared. The mankind has been dealing with architectural imperfections such as mold, water leakage, rust, collapse, ventilation and insulation, in order to make it more perfect. However, back to the “non-human agency” topic, we imagine that future architectural development is not dominated by human, the natural force or supernatural power instead. In this way, the building evolves and gradually loss its architecture identity, becoming a hybrid object. In this context, we want to explore a mechanism which could change the current design process manipulated by human but subjectively achieve self-growth, self-renewal, self-healing, and last stay in balance and harmony with nature. Following this changes, the surrounding environment changes accordingly, which affects other biological species. The long-awaited "Through-In" has also begun.
人脑根茎控制中心 太阳能板及风能发电设备与植物根茎共生 羊角-花 水管传递植物水分 建筑结构与植物连接支撑 In this section drawing, this pithed roof building is where the transforming process happen. The building itself is like a sophisticate organism, it’s absorbing water, obtaining energy from the soil and transforming sunlight into power. The roots and branches of plants as the medium of energy transmission and exchange in the building, also the structure system. Human brain rhizome control center Solar panels and wind power generation equipment are symbiotic with plant roots Sheep - flower Water pipes transfer plant's nuitrition Building structure and plant connection
Section Drawing
Axonometric drawing
Through the expression of axonometric drawing, the flooding background is trying to express the further evolution of our hybrid building and how it survives and thrives in the flooding zone. In this stage, to respond the raising sea level, the tree is growing higher and stronger, and the upper part of the canopy is turning into giant leaves. With the growing and development process continue, it needs more energy and nutrition, the solar panels are unable to meet the need, so these leaves can do photosynthesis to compensate the energy demands. And its roots stretch deeper into the ground and go through in the building, replacing more original elements. With the increasingly level of gene intertwining and this process start spreading to the surrounding area, the brain is also turning bigger and bigger, finally taking over the whole space underground.
Models require a critical capacity for abstraction - this is a representation for that - prototypes and homunculus architecture allow for full-scale testing. At the full scale homunculus, jackfruit is the core part with all kinds of inserted wires and wine glasses as the control center. And the insulated foam spray on the junction to simulate the biology swelling and growth situation. The simulated cliff base is made by the foam and the plastic waterpipes comes out from the middle of the base foam. The shell structure made by the foam and made the natural self-supported structure by the alcohol. The wine glass breaks through the shell structure and fill with the plants indicated the self-growth.
7.0 the Nouveau NOUVEAU HOUSE FOR PIRANESI HADRIAN’S VILLA: THE ALURE OF THE INCOMPLETE DRAWING AS THESIS Thesis project at University of Toronto 2020
The formation and development of ancient Chinese architecture has a long and layered history. Each dynasty added unique shapes and motifs, resulting in an evolution of iterative complexity and beauty. Viewed in retrospect, the overall change is subtle. Given this extensive evolution, it is curious that China never developed a style related to the western Art Nouveau movement. The objective of this thesis is to tease out a novel taxonomy of Art Nouveau tectonic elements and assemblages that have Chinese aesthetics and history clearly embedded in their DNA — and, finally, to shape a visual feast of new forms and flavours.
This thesis mainly applies the taxonomy methods to summarize the constituent elements of traditional Chinese architecture, including ancient Chinese beasts, flowers of Chinese provinces, and traditional Chinese building units (pillars/columns, brackets, doors, windows, roofs, balustrades). Combing the characteristics of the constituent elements with the development of political, economic, and social life in different periods of Chinese modern history to design new Chinese-style building unit with Chinese aesthetics. The design mainly explores the process of transformation from plants and animals into architectural form. The converted multiple styles (sharp, soft, different scales, functions) will fit different materials to create a better space atmosphere, at the same time, the connection with different architectural elements also has their own properties, finally shaping a new Chinese DNA and achieving the revival of Chinese architecture.
The Lion Forest Garden The Lion Forest Garden was built in the Yuan Dynasty. It is one of the representatives of Chinese classical private garden. The Lion Forest Garden is located in the northeast of Suzhou City. It integrates traditional gardening techniques with Buddhist ideas, and the modern Bei family introduced Western gardening techniques and family shrines into the garden, making it a temple garden that integrates the principles of Zen and the joy of gardening.
The Lotus Pavilion The lotus pavilion is the best viewing spot for admiring lotus flowers, and it is also a living room and entertaining place for friends, which is in the center of the whole garden. 荷花亭是欣賞荷花的最 好觀景點，也是待客之 處，居於全園中心。
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Ancestral Hall (Zhibaixuan) Zhibaixuan is a place for worship in Zen temples, where Buddha statues live in houses for worship
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Work 8.0 Samples
Club MED Hei Long Tan Hotel, Chengdu, China, 2019 at AIM Architecture
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toronto/article-the-east-gardiner-a-stretch-of-highway-or-a-new-neighbourhood/
Vision for Gardiner East, Toronto, 2021 at Smart Density
https://smartdensity.com/8-plex/
8-plex Residential unit deisgn Toronto, 2021 at Smart Density
https://www.archdaily.com/877424/students-construct-7-inhabitation-structures-at-hello-woods-2017-project-village
Hello Wood Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, 2017