SIYU CHEN Master’s of Architecture Candidate|2016 University of Michigan Portfolio
University of Michigan
inFORM Studio
Harbin Institute Of Technology
Biddison Architecture Architecture Student Show
Urban Energy Works Advanced Digital Fabrication
AECOM 2D Graphics
3D Modeling / Computation Architectural Design Institute of HIT Rendering
Language
CONTENTS
INFORMAL OFFICE Sept.2015-Apr. 2016 Crit: Christian Unverzagt
DETROIT AMTRAK STATION Sept.-Dec. 2015 Location: Detroit, MI Crit: Douglas Kelbaugh
RE(VEIL) GOWANUS Jan.-Apr. 2015 Location: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn Crit: Christina Hansen, Jonathan Rule
MINIMAL SURFACE TOWER Sept.-Dec. 2014 Location: Detroit, MI Crit: Matias del Campo
WEAVING BIRD Jan.-Apr. 2015 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Crit: Wesley McGee
HOUSE ON HILL Sept.-Dec. 2013 Location: Dalian, liaoning, China Crit: Chong Pu
CULTURE CENTER Jan.-Apr. 2014 Location: Changting, Fujian, China Crit: Shanshan Zhang
INFORMAL OFFICE THESIS(Sep.2015-Apr. 2016) Crit: Christian Unverzagt
Informal Office is posited as a tower in the digital age when millennials become the largest portion of the work force, reacting to the desire for unconventional working experience, including mobility, informality, openness, and variety. In contrast to the predominant and typical workplace generated by stacking typical plans and criticized for dehumanizing the worker, the workspace proposal attempts to integrate millennials’ individuality into spatial experience, with the goal of a diverse, hybrid and flowing office building. With the increase of work mobility, the workplace is less fixed. Work can happen anywhere in any form. It has been predicted that conventional cubicle-like office space may be reduced by 90% from 1970 to 2015. Also, based on the trend that millennials choose to live in downtown areas, enjoying close interaction among crowds and strong preference of public transportation for the sake of environment and efficiency, an office tower that deals with high-density and offers a new identity for a younger generation is critical. In recent years, new paradigms of the workplace have been tested. Information technology giants, such as Google and Facebook, offer a super-abundance of amenities. Wework offers a business model that leases short-term, small scale offices to start-up companies, with various emphasis on casualness. However, this project’s main goal is to step out of existing paradigms, and create a model to satisfy desires for diverse work experience. 1
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INFORMAL CIRCULATION The office tower contains various informal spaces for activities beyond typical work but with the purpose of generating value, flexibility for customized working experience, and flowing space to encourage interaction. 3
MOBILITY OF WORKPLACE
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The iconicity of the building is oriented towards the proximate indoor experience of space rather than a soaring urban image. The form of the building is a coherent result and representation of the flows happening inside. 5
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UNDULATING PLATFORM “In this phenomenon the nerves find in the refusal to react to their stimulation the last possibility of accommodating to the contents and forms of metropolitan life. The self-preservation of certain personalities is bought at the price of devaluating the whole objective world... a feeling of the same worthlessness.� - The Metropolis and Mental Life, Georg Simmel The undulating floors are inserted as a-typical platforms for the activities beyond typical and repetitive work, which is key to the physical and mental health and creativity of workers. 7
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ITERATION OF ATRIUM 10
“New district”, based on the new Amtrak Station in Detroit, is intended to bring street life and urban energy back to Detroit. A indoor street cuts through three sites with different programs, serving as spin to connect the whole district. The station sits in the middle as an annex.
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DETROIT AMTRAK STATION in Transit Oriented District TRANSPORTATION(Sept.-Dec. 2015) School: University of Michigan Teammates: Chengnan Diao Crit: Douglas Kelbaugh
BUILDING INFO. Program: Station, Hotel, Conference center, Ballroom, Commercial Total SF: 122,100 Hotel: 80,000 Auditorium: 4000 Conference: 4500 Ballroom: 2400 Parking: 102,000/355 cars Long-term parking: 266,000/840 cars
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RE(VEIL) GOWANUS RESIDENTIAL(Jan.-Apr. 2015) Type: Mix-use Location: Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn, School: University of Michigan Teammates: Tianbo Liu, Chad Schram Crit: Christina Hansen, Jonathan Rule
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Sackett St Showroom Gowanus Proteus Gowanus Retail Corridor
Reanimation Library
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FORM ITERATION The project has two distinguishing programs, residential and branch library. Our strategy is blending these two programs into one cohesive form, and introducing appealing public space in hierarchy for both residence and the city. 21
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Semi-micro Housing
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MINIMAL SURFACE TOWER HIGH-RISE(Sept.-Dec. 2014) Location: Detroit, MI, Height: 412m School: University of Michigan Crit: Matias del Campo
Along with the resurgence of Detroit, a new futuristic skyscraper is projected to add new energy and vision to the skyline of on the riverside. As the Renaissance Center, an iconic Modernism building, stands for the old glory of Motor City and the Fordism, the Minimal Surface Tower represents energy, variety, agility, diversity and change that is urgently required for the rejuvenation of the old legend. 29
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Talking to Renaissance Center
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WEAVING BIRD (Jan.-Apr. 2015) Academic Research Location: Ann Arbor, MI School: University of Michigan Teammate: Xiaofei Liu Advisor: Wesley McGee
Through this project, we researched on the relationship between lines and surface, whose main factors are distance, curvature and density of lines. We tried to achieve infinite real-time collages that involves different perspectives from the audience. Also, the conversations between void and volume, inside and outside, figure and shadow represent the continuity, ambiguity and uncertainty of space.
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HOUSE ON HILL (Sept.-Dec. 2013), Location: Dalian, liaoning, China School: Harbin Institute of Technology Crit: Chong Pu
This project is a proposal that speculates on the possibility of such a way of living. On the other hand, it’s manipulated carefully to take advantage of topography, forming condition serves the theme and reducing earthwork.
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The most fundamental idea hinges on the notion that “architecture is not a standalone entity, but as something inseparable from our bodies.”
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Analysis of Time Distribution It's an obvious trend that the time of sleep and of labor/exercise drops, of communication increases. Specifically, time of communication with family is substituted by that with stranger due to the over-shared information and connection on the Internet. Besides, time is fragmented. In all, it's against what human is designed to do, say, unhealthy.
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Three children just spent their weekend in each bedroom, staring at electronic screens for hours with face-to-face communication. In the information rich age, it becomes a dilemma that the more we communicate, the more lonely we are, which would be the opposite scene in this house. Fortunately and Sadly, organs of human-being are being substituted by tech, foot by motor, hand by remotecontrol, talk by Facebook..., which are all at the cost of resource and energy. It raises the question: how can we create a certain place and milieu to raise the real world communication and activities that have been cut down relentlessly by every modern device? One possibility is to introduce some characteristics of nature back into house, presenting the ways of living to which people are evolve.
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CULTURE CENTER (Jan.-Apr. 2014) Type: Mix-use Location: Changting, Fujian, China School: Harbin Institute of Technology Crit: Shanshan Zhang
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The historic tile roofs are harmoniously occupied by these little creatures barely noticed by us. The strategy of developing while preserving this area is to learn from their ways of living on the roof and utilize the fifth facade of the context-heavy and low-height district. CONCEPT: LIVE ABOVE ROOF
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Historic district
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Preserve and represnet historic formal language
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FORM ITERATION OF ROOFS
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PRESERVATION OF EXISTING STREETS The intention is to keep the continuity between architecture and landscape, which is inspired by local traditional buildings.
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