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GSAPP Agua Complex, Los Angeles
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City Milkyway, New York
UNDERGRADUATE 32
Site Theater, Peniche
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Bath House, Brussels
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High Rise, HongKong
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Folk Museum, Shanghai
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Wooden Bridge, Beijing
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Post Mother Earth
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Agua Complex
Narrative Comics produced by Nanxi Su.
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he Agua-Complex project is under the topic of 2028 LA Olympic Games. Long Beach will host the sailing race. The idea was triggered by the great drought condition California, we questioned could a desalination facility host an audience of 12,000 for the venue as well as contribute to the city. We proposed sending these spectators to offshore barges near sailing race areas to have a closer view of this exciting sport. With excellent conditions on the sea, the barges are equipped with desalination facilities which are powered by wind and tidal energy. In this way, we imagine the three barges serve as a self-sufficient water supply and a recreational park. With reference from the sailing schedule of the London Olympics, we assumed three sailing competitions at most would happen spontaneously on the sea during a day. During races, the barge is anchored outside of the racing boundaries and each of the barge has its own theme: the cultivated agriculture barge, the water bottled factory barge, and the fish farm barge. The comic tells the whole story of the audience taking ferries from seashore to the venue for watching the game and having different leisure activities on different barges.
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Cultivated agriculture barge consists of greenhouses which target to diverse domestic plants growing while give opportunities for spectators to hang out in the backyard.
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Bottled water industry barge packages surplus desalted water and provides to the food courts on the barge. The excess bottled water would be sent back to city by ferries.
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Aquaculture barge has fish farms and fish markets which aim to provide seafood and leisure activities for spectators with the same water system working on the barge.
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The three different barges with desalination facilities and characteristic functions could composite together as a floating amphitheatre on the sea.
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City Milkyway
Datascapes produced by Nanxi Su.
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eath, Light and Life. The luminious milkyway. Within the passage of time. Woodlawn’s boundaries are opened. We propose to bring the city to the cemetery, creating a luminous dialogue between the remembrance of the dead and the larger, adjacent community. Memorial space is created to provide a place for all New Yorkers – the housed and the homeless alike. A networked system connects mausoleum clusters. To preserve the limited land of the cemetery, multilevel morphologic spaces are created in response to the exiting environment and memorials. Multifunctional public programs are provided to increase everyday access and services for everyone. The process of biomethanization transforms the deceased into energy materialized as light – a new ritual disposition to honor and cherish the persons they love.
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The light produced from the process of biomethanization of human dead bodies could illuminate the cemetery itself. And the life of a person is elongated in the presence of light.
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The elevated gleamy canopy grows into the heart of the old cemetery as time accumulates, which keeps casting light to the neighbourhoods on the opposite.
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Site Plan. Various public programs are inserted into the system of the mausoleums. The cemetery are opened to the city.
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Long section. The morphological change of the canopy reacts to the existing topography and differect space for various public programs.
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The elevated gleamy canopy grows into the heart of the old cemetery as time accumulates, which keeps casting light to the neighbourhoods on the opposite.
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The mausoleum around the waterfall during a tranquil midday...
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Peniche
rom observations of nature, architects' imagination always get provoked. Lightning strikes leave scars on the trunk, which is then covered by dirt and dust over time. To me, this phenomenon is a palimpsest of relationships and hierarchies. While one relates to the other, the interaction reveals a skein of tangling order, not chaos but a hierarchical unity with its principal. The building consists of eleven inclined rock-like concrete tubes oriented to the sky. Classy space types like the dome, arcade, and amphitheater carve out main performance spaces from the team of the concrete pipes. Cracks between each block demarcate the boundary and create a realm where one can appreciate the juxtaposition of different areas. The in-between spaces metaphorically represent the force of nature as the wind and wave erode the cliffs.
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Peniche is famous for its powerful natural scenery with a warm and temperate climate, where sheer cliffs drop dramatically into the ocean.
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Section of the three main performance space. Catalog of various forms and conditions of the rock pipes.
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1.Dome Theater 2.Reception Desk 3.Cafeteria 4.Gift Shop 5.Office 6.Toilets 7.Dressing Room
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The three different barges with desalination facilities and characteristic functions could composite together as a floating amphitheatre on the sea.
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The performance spaces are like natural caves, while people are like small animals climbing inside. Through separated according to heights, performance spaces are connected by continious walkways.
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Gaps between the walls make people be aware of the activities happening on other stages, forming a status of coexistence and harmony.
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Brussels
uman everywhere has tended to organize themselves in communities based on the desire to live in groups. The project is aimed to provide a wider range of options for those living alone, including the opportunity to live within small collectives where resources can be share, individual privacy retained and micro-communities formed. Kruitmolenstraat 33 is within an existent self-sufficient community, the chief of the community would value if one is qualified to live here, in spite of his/her national or religious background. Once moved into the community, residents do not need to pay any rent, yet they work here so as to make the community function properly. They live, eat, study and work together. Contrary to the facade, the inside of the building is a different world. Clusters of apartments are attached to the central baths system, with turning stairs bringing people to different ends. Throughout the day, owners of the apartments and the guests of the baths share this entire building.
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Site. Once moved into the community, residents do not need to pay any rent, yet they work here to make the community function properly.
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Space sequence. Public baths and shared apartments.
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Physical model of public entrance and apartments entrance. The atrium is illuminated by daylighting.
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Physical model of facade. The jumping beams and roud shaped windows reveals the inner space organization.
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Physical model of secrets transition chamber and communal space. Residence could enter the bath from the apartment sides.
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1.Entrance Hall 2.Lounge 3.Massage Bath 4.Apartments 5.Backyard 6.Secret Chamber
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Physical model of a hot bath appreciating the city view. Stone bench is provided for a rest.
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1.Lounge 2.Sauna Bath 3.Massage Room 4.Secret Chamber
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Section Sequence. Catalog of public baths.
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High Rise
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Hongkong
eijing and Hongkong are both hometowns for me. While with different cultural background and geographical conditions, buildings of these two cities possess distinct styles from each other. Take the Forbidden City which is the biggest Chinese traditional courtyards, for example, interlocked greens are distributed averagely into the horizontal layouts for the needs of communication and getting close to nature. Quite the opposite, Hongkong is filled with vertical high rise confined by the shortage of vacant space. The project is intended to create a vertical courtyards system within a highrise in respond to the restricted dwelling life and the tropical sizzling climate.
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Courtyards Distribution
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Unfolded elevation where different courtyards conditions take place.
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Units assembly process. Each module was 3D printed and works as a prefabricated part that could be constructed into a tower with a changing elevation.
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Typical plans of office space Typical plans of hotel space
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ilong is a typical housing compound in China where traditional custom and lifestyle in Shanghai has genuinely preserved. The alley between rationalorganized rows of housing is called Long. The Design is a modern art gallery, with intentions to evoke the vitality of the historic district and to create a more vibrant urban atmosphere in the neighborhood. Dimensions of the streets and the historical context are also of design concerns. Corbusier has tried various forms and types of buildings throughout his life. The domino sandwich prototype he proposed ultimately free the layout of a plan, and also liberate the space and facade of architecture. This revolution also inspired contemporary architects. If it is possible to invent a curved structural wall, which can make the buildings free of columns?
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The elevated gleamy canopy grows into the heart of the old cemetery as time accumulates, which keeps casting light to the neighbourhoods on the opposite.
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Different turns of the circular staircace. Within the tube and outside the tube, two distinct space could be appreciated.
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o finish the project on time, we were divided into two groups. Assembling and production were ongoing at the same time. During the assembling process, we also used QR code and cameras to project the figure of the digital model to reduce mistakes and improve efficiency. It was hard to match the mortises and tenons due to the significant number of pairs, so we made sure to store and transport the components orderly to avoid repetitive work. Through nine days of teamwork, the final installation was structurally reasonable to hold up to ten people at the same time. Visitors were astonished that we could finish such a complex work within intensive nine days. It is proved the Chinese traditional timber structure is fantastic to create infinite possibilities. With the help of the robot and digital design methods, we have saved tremendous time and efforts. It is not hard to imagine that as technology evolves, we can create more complex designs in a short time. The bridge is entirely constructed by environmentallyfriendly materials so that all the components could be recycled or reused after the exhibition.
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Ultra real. Renders of a crashed jet engine which strikes into a abandoned factory. The scenery shows a sense of destruction.
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Portrait of a Korean singer
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