XUEYI SUN
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OUT OF THE MOLD Bottom Up Digital Design Experiment Group Work Year 2015-2016
DYNAMIC FLOW 2050 Museum Individual Work Year 2015
NARROW IN BROAD Rowing Training Center Individual Work Year 2014
TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS Music School Individual Work Year 2014
OUT OF THE MOLD
Bottom Up Digital Design Experiment Group Work Year 2015-2016 This project is a design proposal based on an innovative way of applying reinforced concrete without moulds, utilising both kirigami and origami methods in the concept of the design of steel structures then spraying concrete on the finished model. The starting point of this project is inspired by kirigami, holes are cut on a flat sheet of steel and pulled apart, and a threedimensional volume is created by bending and connecting steel plates at different positions. This project uses the bottom- up design process that starts from a single component design to the big volume accumulation. The digital simulation produced by calculating the mechanical behaviour of an object using various mathematical formulas. The simulation of a physical bending process is achieved through the use of Grasshopper(a visual programming language that runs within the Rhinoceros 3D modelling software) with the Kangaroo (particularly beneficial for mechanical simulations) plug-in. In this case, the original top-down deduction design process transfers to a bottom-up interaction design system, achieving the final result by setting up the input and the relationship between the input and the output. The input in this project refers in particular to the component design, while the output equates to the overall design. VEDIOďźšhttps://v.qq.com/x/page/o03433n9869.html
COMPONENT RESEARCH SINGLE COMPONENT DEVELOPMENT DESIGN This project uses the bottom- up design process that starts from a single component design to the big volume accumulation. Based on the kirigami principle, the components are made by cutting steel panels to continuous strips that remain connected between two strips, then bending and bonding different parts of the cutting panel to a 3d volume. The physical modelling and digital simulation methods were used to test and explore the flexibility and structural possibilities of the single component. During the experimental stage cardboard was used to replace the steel panels, greatly decreasing the construction and alteration time. After thousands of experiements, varieties of patterns have been developed. In this research, two ways to transfer a surface into a 3D shape have been explored: bending and folding. The bending method helps to have a volume from a surface, but adding the folding method we achieved to have a stronger component. The combination of both will add stability and complexity to the design.
PROJECT 1 - OUT OF THE MOLD
STEP 1: Creating Subdivided Triangluar Mesh
Step 2: Picking Points on the Folding Lines of the Triangular Mesh and Setting Folding Angle to 60 Degree Here is a snapshot from the digital animation of the process how the component being folded.
Step 3: Linking Connecting Points on the Flat Mesh to the Target Position
Step 4: Simulating Bending and Folding Forces by Using Kangroo
EXPLORATION OF COMBINATION LOGIC CHAIR AND COLUMN DESIGN
PROJECT 1 - OUT OF THE MOLD
EXPLORATION OF ACCUMULATION LOGIC PAVILION DESIGN
PROJECT 1 - OUT OF THE MOLD
EXPLORATION OF ACCUMULATION LOGIC FABRICATION
PROJECT 1 - OUT OF THE MOLD
EXPLORATION OF ACCUMULATION LOGIC CAFE DESIGN
PROJECT 1 - OUT OF THE MOLD
DYNAMIC FLOW 2050 Museum Individual Work | Year 2015 This project is a Suzhou Museum for 2050 celebrating the contributions that ‘foreigners’ have made to the city. In order to adapt to the media development (video and virtual reality) and achieve the combination of museum and daily life, a new type of museum supposed to be more dynamic and open.
INITIAL CONCEPT In order to adapt to the media development (video and virtual reality) and achieve the combination of museum and daily life, a new type of museum supposed to be more dynamic and open. A generative system was determined through qualitative and quantitative analyzing the exhibition contents in different topics and time ranges. In this case, the size and position of each exhibition room can be adjusted automatically.
PROJECT 2- DYNAMIC FLOW
CIRCULATION To achieve accessibility and freedom of visiting, only one side of the wall is kept in each exhibition room. These walls also work as vertical circulations, which provide more possibilities for visitors to choose the routes.
Horizontal Connection in the Middle
Horizontal Connection on the First Floor
Horizontal Connection on the Top
PROJECT 2- DYNAMIC FLOW
EXHIBITION SPACE ARRANGEMENT
PROJECT 2- DYNAMIC FLOW
MATERIAL & STRUCTURE
Sunshade Material: corten steel with varied levels of oxidization following the timeline.
skylight: double glazing
aluminium sash
brise solel: corten steel
steel beam galvanized steel beam
primary steel frame
PROJECT 2- DYNAMIC FLOW
PROJECT 2- DYNAMIC FLOW
NARROW IN BROAD Rowing Training Center Individual Work | Year 2014 This project is a rowing training centre located in the Yangcheng Lake Peninsula in Suzhou, China. It is designed for both athletes and the general public, which service for indoor and outdoor rowing training, competition and education of rowing. The facility was blended with earth and water landscape. As this training center located in the wetland, low visual impact was considered.
The facility was blended with earth and water landscape. As this training center located in the wetland, low visual impact was considered.
PROJECT 3 - NARROW IN BROAD
According to the time that people stay in the functional areas, divided function rooms into 4 classes.
When lower class function rooms meet higher class, they will draw back and leave a narrow corridor space between two rooms.
PROJECT 3 - NARROW IN BROAD
PROJECT 3 - NARROW IN BROAD
TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS Music School Individual Work Year 2014
This project is a music school in Suzhou, trying to explore “space of transitions� in an urban background. Totally natural environment cannot suffer from human activities. This project was tried to create a transition space between urban context and natural environment, where people can enjoy the charm of nature in a proper way rather than be mandatory separated. The design idea was from analyzing urban and natural features. Building was a typical symbol of the artificial environment with big and closed volume, like a block. Nature was an open environment and has smaller scales. The site contained a natural feature and adjoin the urban environment on the east side. Therefore, transition of this project was happened between urban and nature in both large scale (volume of school in two parts) and detail ways(two kinds of enclosures to create transition space).
PROJECT 4 - TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS
ENCLOSURE TRANSITION NATURE SIDE ENCLOSURES 10 * 10cm steel columns are covered by wood panel, used to support the individual rehearsal room congregations and the roofs of them. They are also working for creating different kinds of transition spaces between inside and outside of this music school by three types of arrangement (shows in follow image).
URBAN SIDE ENCLOSURES Using reinforced concrete (0.2m*1m*10m) to support the huge ceiling which covering the main parts of the music school. The concreter material and large scale of the enclosure fit with the urban landscape in the street side. The direction and distance of the enclosure was changed to create transition space between street side and the music school. The main entrance was showed by having a longer distance between each column and direction perpendicular to the street.
PROJECT 4 - TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS
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40mm screed 2 sealing layer 60mm perlite thermal insulation vapour barrier H steel beam 12.5mm plasterboard
wood panel 3 sealing layer 60cm perlite thermal insulation 50/50mm steel SHS vapour barrier 100mm*68mm*4.5mm I steel beam 12.5mm plasterboard
15mm screed polythene seperating layer 60mm perlite thermal insulation vapour barrier 100mm*68mm*4.5mm I steel beam
INDIVIDUAL REHEARSAL ROOM
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15mm screed polythene seperating layer 100mm*68mm*4.5mm I steel beam
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laminated-safety-glass fixed glazing in steel profile
6 wood panel 100mm H steel column
PROJECT 4 - TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS
PROJECT 4 - TRANSITION BETWEEN NATURE AND URBAN BLOCKS