Through-In

Through - IN New York Fall 2019

Xinyue Cong Junlin Lan

Instructor: Simon Kim Mariana Ibanez Assistant: Adam Schroth Master of Architecture University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architetcure, Landscape, and Design

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Contents P0.0 Biology Creatures

P1.0 Through-IN 1.0 Section Drawing ---Initial Phase 1.1 Section Drawings Details

P2.0 Site Research 2.0 Site Analysis

P3.0 Through-IN 3.0 Axon Drawing in Site Context ---Thriving in Flooding 3.1Axon Drawing: Detail

P4.0 Homunculus 4.1 Model Study: Phase 1 4.2 Model Study: Phase 2 4.3 Model Study: Overall Homonculus

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What's inside ???

超自然力量 变异 人定胜天 进化 杂交裂变 混乱 解构重生 湮灭

Supernature?

Mutate?

Manipulate?

Evolution?

Hybrid fission?

Chaos?

Rebirth ?

Anihilation?

Gene?

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Ship of

f Theseus

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Pitched Roof House

Liana

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Brain (Hippocampus)

<Anihilation> Alex Garland, 2018

0.0 Biology Exploration

“人造物” ???

“入侵”

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.

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1.0 Through-IN

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

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1.1 Section Drawings Details

Brain Chamber

Mutate 10

Human Space

Museum Station

Substance Transformation 11

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2.0 Site Research

As the climate warms, the city will have to reconfigure much of its urban fabric, particularly the 520 miles (837 kilometers) of shoreline. “It’s a mind-boggling scale,” says Ellis Calvin, a planner and data research manager at the independent nonprofit Regional Plan Association (RPA), as we stand at the water’s edge. By the middle of the century, the New York City Panel on Climate Change estimates, temperatures in the city could be hotter on average by 4 to 6 °F (about 2 to 3 °C), with several heat waves per summer. Sea levels could rise 11 to 21 inches (28 to 53 centimeters) by the 2050s and up to six feet (1.8 meters) by 2100—doubling the size and population of the 100-year-flood zone, the area that has a 1% annual chance of flooding. The borough with the most land affected by all this will be Queens.

---The “mind-boggling” task of protecting New York City from rising seas Courtney Humphries, Apr 24, 2019

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3.0 Through-IN

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.

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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.

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3.0 Axon Drawing in Site Context (Vector)

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3.1 Axon Drawing: Detail

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3.1 Axon Drawing: Detail

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4.0 Architetcure Homunculus

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.

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Phase 4.1 : Jackfruit with Foam / Wires

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Phase 4.2 : Foam with Organism (Babysbreath)

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Phase 4.3 : Overall Homunculus

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Phase 4.4 : Detail Homunculus

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Overall Homunculus (color)

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