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YINGDA SUI ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO Selected Works 2016-2020
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Why ‘Unity of Opposites’? Today we observe the disintegration of architecture discourse: radicalists in opposition with conservatives, practical architects divorced with pure theorists, ‘virtual architecture’ emerging as a new branch while not recognized by physical architecture advocacies... Yet, all of them claim to stand on ‘the right side of history’. As a practical architect to-be, I found the land, the city, the physical space and materiality never detachable from this profession. While the emerging lifestyle, production method, and consequently aethetics and philosophy, is inevitable either. Indicated by ‘the unity of opposites’, the future of architecture should be all of them rather than one replacing the rest. In this portfolio, you will see ‘unity of opposites’ in many ways: ‘virtual community’ as a concept to encourage physical community life, the integration of organic and rigid form / structural systems, the re-uion of two contrasting urban context, the blend of localness and modernity, etc. Moreover, the collection as a whole includes projects in both super-generic city and heavy-historical context, both top-down and bottom up design strategies, both radical designs and nostalgic ones. Opposites are not taboos, but chances.
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AN OFFLINE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY
Individual Academic Project: PUBLIC CONDENSER Master Thesis @Public Building | 31 weeks incl. Research & Design 2019.9 - 2020.7 [Final Grade: 8.0]
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ACTIVE AGEING VILLAGE
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UNITY OF OPPOSITES
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SUZHOU MODERNITY
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METROPOLIS-MUNDANE DELTA
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PLANET MAKER II
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YEAR OUT PRACTICE
Individual Academic Project: ACTIVE AGEING ARC304 Final Year Project | 21 weeks incl. Research & Design | 2016.11 - 2017.5 [Final Grade: 75 (British system) | Honor: Exhibited in Suzhou Design Week 2017]
Individual Academic Project: ECONOMIC INNOVATION WUPPERTAL MSc 1 @Public Building | 14 weeks | 2018.10 - 2019.1
Individual Academic Project: SMALL URBAN BUILDING ARC204 Level 2 Design Studio | 14 weeks | 2016.3 - 2016.6
Individual Academic Project: SMALL & MEDIUM BUILDING ARC305 Level 3 Design Studio | 14 weeks | 2016.9 - 2016.12
Group Academic Project: PLANET MAKER II MSc2 Design Studio @The Why Factory | 9 weeks | 2019.5 - 2019.7
Group Practical Projects 7 months | 2017.6 - 2017.9, 2018.3 - 2018.7
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AN ‘OFFLINE’ VIRTUAL COMMUNITY Designing a Public Condenser as a ‘System’
TU Delft MASTER THESIS @PUBLIC BUILDING Undergraduate / Academic / Individual Topic: Public Condenser 2019.9- 2020.7 Mentor 1: Henk Bultstra [H.J.Bultstra@tudelft.nl] Mentor 2 (BT): Jelke Fokkinga [J.D.Fokkinga@tudelft.nl] Studio Leader: Prof. Nathalie de Vries [N.A.deVries@tudelft.nl] Final Grade: 8.0
KEYWORDS: Social condenser, community center, multiplicity, ‘virtual community’ materialization, narrative design, architecture as a system.
The virtual world, existing in parallel with the physical one, has reshaped our life. Nowadays as people rely increasingly on social media for mutal interactions, ‘the virtual community actually becomes the real form of community today’ (Clark, A.). Such reliance owes to the ‘customizing system with hirarchy’ of virtual community to a large extent. This situation is especially dominant on the site of Morgestond, Den Haag: a generic post war city where most migrants lives. Having rarely any leading culture or shared memory, the community struggled to establish a commen sense of belonging. However, if taking the architecture as a ‘system’, it has the capability to learn from virtual community. With a translational process, the ‘customizing system’ of virtual community was first diagrammized, then spatialized and materialized as an architecture. The building is expected to guide its various users layer by layer, to their own favorite ‘channel’, and help them establish a sense of belonging to their community.
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THE CITY OF DEN HAAG, NL SITE @MORGESTOND ‘DISPERSED’ COMMUNITYTE @ MORGESTOND
A. Neighborhood Lack of Common Sense - High migrant ratio (over half) - Low political participation rate - High unemployment - Low income - Low sense of security / belonging
B. Post-war City without Local Identity - Grided plan - Repeated slab housing
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C. Urban Agglomeration on Rail People’s daily life of morgestond is not tied to their community or district. Rather most people commute within Rotterdam-Den Haag Metropolitan Area every day, via Morgestond Leyweg tram station.
D. Virtual Community Taking Over Physical One Today, people rely on virtual community for mutal interactions. Neighbors only live spatially nearby, while without interactions. ‘Virtual community becomes the real form of community today’ (Clark, A.)
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URBAN LEVEL STRATEGY Location Choice & Building Envelope Location for the Public Condenser: - Next to tram/bus station - Integrated with the park - Easy for people with all aimes to pass through
Building Envelope - Sheltered street corner / unofficial transport hub - Opening to the park - Balancing the contextual ‘forces’
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INNTER ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY Translating the Principle of Virtual Community into Spatial Concept Principle of Virtual Community: Addictive Customizing System - With hirarchy - Personal Choice - Interfaces are important
FOLLOW Your customized community
PARTICIPATE PUBLISH
BROWSE
General online community
AIMED
(Not full-attention)
AIMED
AIMLESS
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Why & How do People ‘Follow’ - 4 reasons - Part-time attention Spatial Order for the Building - Hirarchy of 4 layers - 2 different interfaces - Clarity & directness
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GENERATION PROCESS Integrating Urban / Internal Strategy
80°
Plot with 80° street corner
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Edge rotation Extend street corner inside
Extrusion envelope & inner facade with rotation & inclination
PROGRAM BY NARRATIVE Browsing-Following-Participating & More
Meditation Theater
Libra
Paren
Game & leisure hall Auditorium Canteen
Co-w
Office Toilet / changing / shower Bath / massage Kitchen Storage Reception Street musician Street food Benches
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PASSING BY
BROWSING
PARITIPATING / PERFORMING
FOLLOWING
ISOLATED
SERVICE
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Make the participatin cells & browsing area
Adjust length & width to fit program Add 2nd layer to browsing area
Subdivide following area from the cells Add skate board field
CIRCULATION Including Staff-only & Non-barrier
Classrooms
Dancing room / stage
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Children playing zone nts’ working space Yoga / Taichi room Material workshop VR room Computer room
working space
ess room Table-tennis room Exhibition room Shooting room Basketball hall
Barriered (1st Floor) entrance Non-barrier entrance + staff entrace Non-barrier entrance
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‘VIRTUAL COMMUNITY’ SPATIALIZATION Passing-by, Browsing, Following, Participating Spaces
BROWSING 30-60min stay Spontaneous activity
PARTICIPATING 1-3 hr stay Specific scheduled activity
Following Several hours Specific activity and ‘keep an eye on’ Passing 1-15 min Passing by and encounter
‘EXPEND EXTRA ATTENTION’
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‘GET REAL-TIME INSPIRATION’
EP UP WITH UPDATE’
‘KEEP ALLERTED’
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1. Tram station 2. Sheltered street corner (Entrance hall) 3. Reception desk 4. Exhibition area 5. Table-tennis room 6. Fitness room 7. Staff’s office 8. Shooting room 9. Basketball Hall 10. Auditorium / staired pulse area 11. Men’s room (incl. changing / shower) 12. Women’s room (incl. changing / shower 13. Bath pool*2 14. Massage room 15. Kitchen (staff only) 16. Storage 17. Outdoor skateboard field 18. Pulse hall / board game zone
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19. Balcony 20. Canteen 21. Grandstand corridor 22. Cyber cafe 23. VR room 24. Material workshop 25. Self-working area of Co-working space 26. Meeting Room 27. Lecture hall for 80 people / theater 28. Meditation room 29. Yoga & Tai-chi room 30. Children’s playing room 31. Working space for parents 32. Dancing room / performance stage 33. Library 34. Discussion Zone for Library 35. Classroom for 15 people 36. Classroom for 30 people
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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
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ACTIVE AGEING VILLAGE on an Island of Suzhou
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University ARC304 FINAL YEAR PROJECT Undergraduate / Academic / Individual Topic: Active Ageing 2016.11-2017.5 Mentor 1: Prof. Pierre-Alain Croset [pierre.croset@polimi.it] Mentor 2: Dr. Jiawen Han [Jiawen.Han@xjtlu.edu.cn] Final Grade : 75 (British system) Exhibited in Suzhou Design Week 2017 Candidate for ‘China Architecture Studio Brief and Excellent Student’s Design Competition’
KEYWORDS: urban soft regereation, nostagia, landscape architecture, mutal-aid group living, minor housing, adaptable interior, non-barrier building.
Ageing society and urban village are 2 main emerging urban challenges in China in recent years. And on a small island near Pan Gate, Suzhou, where lives a large group of elderly, these 2 challenges came across. This project seeks for a holistic solution that give response to both challenges. To achieve this, one of them: the urban village was re-evalued, and finally taken as a resource to improve the living quality of the elderly. The natural urban fabric kept to encourages spontaneous activity. And the partly conserved urban village walls holds elder residents’ nostalgia. The design challenges the common-seen practices of urban ‘relocation’ and nusing home which represents ‘passive ageing’, and provides an alternative model.
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ACTIVE AGEING VILLAGE Architecture design proposal
Composition: Private living units Shared living space Urban village ruis park Community center
Typology: collective housing + Landscape architecture Ground Area: 3650 m² Gross Floor Area: 6420 m² FAR: 1.76 Total units: 42, in 8 clusters Unit size: 30-32 m² Cluster size: 349-412 m² Maximum capacity: 168 residents
Sectional Axonometric Southeast
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Sectional Axonometric Northwest
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6:00 pm RAINY
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Public ruis park / community center
2nd / 4th Floor
1. Outdoor creative space (For small business & performance) 2. Fishing bank 3. Chess room 4. Courtyard 5. Workshop 6. Indoor sports room (Pingpong / Billiards) 7. Indoor creative space (For small business & workshops) 8. Library with reading room 9. Teahouse 10. Semi-open creative space (For small business) 11. Outdoor ampitheater 12. Landscaped memorial park 13. 1st floor platform 14. Entrance alley
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Dwelling Tower 15. Private living unit A 16. Private living unit B 17. Primary shared living room (Shared by the whole cluster of 5-6 units) 18. Primary shared terrace 19. Shared kitchen 20. Secondary shared terrace (shared by upper 2 units) 21. Private terrace to 1 unit
3rd / 5th Floor
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DEVELOPMENT OF BUILDING TECHNOLOGY On housing unit A
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UNITY OF OPPOSITES
ENGELS NEW WORKERS’ UNION
TU Delft MSc1 @PUBLIC BUILDING Master / Academic / Individual Topic: Economic Innovation Wuppertal 2018.10-2019.1 Mentor 1: Micha de Haas [M.J.deHaas@tudelft.nl] Mentor 2: Oscar Rommens [O.R.G.Rommens@tudelft.nl]
KEYWORDS: Man-machine symbiosis, typological symmetry, learning center, industrial 4.0 factory, Engels, Wuppertal.
Our life is now made increasingly convenient by the on-going industrial revolution. However, it meanwhile throw more pressure on the workers: they are faced with devaluation and unemployment. On the site of ENGELS PARK, WUPPERTAL, a decadent industrial city, and birthplace to Friedrich Engels, such ethical conflict is especially in tension. This project test a new building typology: that hybrids advanced robotic production line and creative hub. The two work together as a learning center, where workers could learn new technics and adapt to the changing job market. The method of ‘typological symmetry’ was used for spatial composition, in order to reflect the content of this building: man-machine symbiosis. Two oppositional spaces were united, hybrided, and became a new entity.
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UNITY OF OPPOSITES Architecture design proposal
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MACHINE DOMINATED SPACE View 1 Image repaired in Jun 2020
HUMAN DOMINATED SPACE
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BUILDING TECHNOLOGY Structure, climate & construction
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Natural illumination, ventilation
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SUZHOU MODERNITY
Co-working Space in a Historical Street
Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University ARC204 SMALL URBAN BUILDING Undergraduate / Academic / Individual Given topic: Co-working Space 2016.3-2016.6 Mentor: Dr. Jose Angel Hidalgo Arellano [j.hidalgo@mmu.ac.uk]
KEYWORDS: Critical regionalism, Suzhou historical city, traditional architecture language translation, co-working, individual working.
Shantang street of Suzhou historical city has a history of a millennium. It’s unique urban fabric and building style has been inherited seamlessly during the past hundreds of years. On the contrary, co-working space is a brand new concept emerged in recent years. Such a constrast calls for an architecural solution that is both ‘vernacular’ and ‘contemporary’, namely, to accomodate the new officing mode, and blend in the traditional context at the same time. This project extract valuable architectural language from the context, and creatively translated into a spatial organization. Its broad meaning lies in ‘the modernization of Suzhou local architecture’.
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SUZHOU MODDERNITY Architecture design proposal
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METROPOLIS-MUNDANE DELTA Jing’an Culinary Center
Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University ARC305 S/M SCALE BUILDING Undergraduate / Academic / Individual Given topic: ‘Creativity of the Mundane’ 2016.9-2016.12 Mentor: Dr. Glen Wash [Glen.Wash@xjtlu.edu.cn]
KEYWORDS: Gentrification, urban segregation, junction, analogical concept, food market, public kitchen.
Nanjing Road, one of the most famous commercial street in Shanghai, is now highly gentrificated and brought apart from its adjacent community Jing’an Villa. Local life is absent on the street. Meanwhile, the community lacks of public spaces. This project try ‘sew’ such crack by creating a communal space that aggregate the local residents, tourists and office staffs in this area. An analogy was made to conclude the site condition: a river delta. And ‘alluvial islands’ were used to give form to this site-specific building.
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THE CITY OF SHANGHAI, CN SITE @ NANJING Rd. / JING’AN VILLA
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Jing’an Villa (1927, listed)
Jing’an Villa as a passageway
FRACTURE BETWEEN METROPOLIS & MUNDANE 1. Nanjing Rd. commercialized & gentrificated 2. Jing’an Villa lack of public space & became a passageway 3. The residents of Jing’an villa are generally senior, median-incomed
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RELINK ALL STAKEHOLDERS with local food & cuisine Image appended in Jan 2018
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ANALOGICAL CONCEPT OF ‘ESTUARY’ After restrained demolishing
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FORM GENERA Based on the conc
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CIRCULATION Fitted in the context
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METROPOLIS-MUNDANE DELTA Architecture design proposal
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PLANET MAKER II
The Design of Prediction
TU Delft MSc2 @THE WHY FACTORY Master / Academic / Group Given topic: Planet Maker II 2019.5-2019.7 Project Director: Winy Maas Mentor 1: Felix Madrazo Mentor 2 Lex te Loo Team: Alex Hewitson, Anneloes van Slooten, Bowen Chen, Chris Benning, Huudat Nguyen, Kevin van Weerdenburg, Leonardo Traverso, Maaike Mossinkoff, Minnie CHU, Ton van Giessen, Yanjie Liu, Yingda Sui, Ziou Gao Personal role: Data-miner, ‘Movement’ group member
KEYWORDS: Big data visualization, datascape, parametric design, simulation, game design, #python
We are living in an extensively related world, yet, which faces global challenges in almost all aspects. The future of our world and city are out of architects’ imagination. Big data and simulation tools let architects win back the capability to predict the future. By simplifing the world issues into 4 topics of ‘people, movements, climate, food, collecting related data and set up their mathmatic mutal relationships, we got an abstract but living earth in our simulation engine. This small virtual world could be played as a ‘world governance’ game when we ask ‘What if’ to it. More than merely a fantasy game, as a ‘datascape’, the project also suggests a futuristic architecture typology.
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TIANCHAN YIFU THEATRE RENNOVATION, SHANGHAI
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JIANGBEI CBD PLOT A2-A5, NANJING
ECADI Department: Historical Architecture Conservation Institute Job title: Architecture Intern 2017.6-2017.9 Supervisor: Dr. Ning Zheng, Registered Architect, head of 3rd design section [ning_zheng@xd-ad.com.cn] Main Projects: Tian Chan Yifu Theatre Rennovation (PD/SD) Bai Mansion Rennovation (Bidding)
JC MANDARIN COMPLEX, SHANGHAI
GreenbergFarrow Department: Shanghai office Job title: Architect Assistant 2018.3-2018.7 Supervisor: James Lew, RIBA, China director [james.lew@greenbergfarrow.com] Main Projects: Plaza (DD, main contact person) JC Mandarin Complex (DD) Nanjing Jiangbei CBD A2-A5 (SD)
Dongtai
DONGTAI PLAZA, SHANGHAI
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