Architecture Portfolio_NH2561_RebeccaHuang_Summer 2020 by RRRebecca

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO NINGXIN HUANG

SELECTED WORKS | 2017 - 2020

Contents ACADEMIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I. VAULT GALLERY

A PIER GALLERY ON THE EAST RIVER II. 'PLAYSCAPE' +

COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER III. GROWING ON HILL

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE V. COLLAGE CITY

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN BRONX VI. HIGHWAY RESEARCH PARK

URBAN RESEARCH COMPLEX VII. ANTI-UNIVERSITY OASIS

URBAN-SCALED ARCHITECTURAL SPECULATION IN TOKYO

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY VIII. FOUR-BRICK THEATRE

COMMUNITY THEATRE IN BROOKLYN IX. SUPER-TALL

VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION & SERVICE

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115

PROFESSIONAL WORK X. CANNON DESIGN, LOS ANGELES

KP MEDICAL BUILDINGS/ KPSOM/ MOTJ

119

OTHER STUDIES

125

EARLY WORKS

151

ACADEMIC ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

PROJECT 1 05

VAULT VIEW GALLERY

Exterior View

VAULT GALLERY â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Pier Gallery On the East River The project is a gallery of views. It is really amazing that New York City has such a wide view along the East River, compared with the concrete forest in Manhattan city. However, the interaction between the view and people is weak. The project tries to lead people towards the riverside view and to truly experience it. Accordingly, the proposal created serious vaults to orient people to those certain directions. There are three different scales of vaults to satisfy varies kinds of people, and also different width of views through rotating or intersecting. When going along the main corridor created by vaults, the designed geometry will orient visitors towards nine different pieces of views on the big panorama. These include the Williamsburg Bridge, Brooklyn EXPO Center, the old Consolidated Edison Inc, the East River itself and many other typical or important buildings along the riverside. At the same time, the exhibitions held in each vault room can tell the story of each view to help visitors get to know the city more deeply. As people go upstairs and reach the tower part, they can look back to the whole Manhattan and a complete view of Brooklyn Bridge. Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Josh Uhl GSAPP Fall 2017 Core I Individual Pier City Gallery East River Parkfield, NY, USA

Featured in GSAPP selected Student Work

Site Mapping (Surrounding Views)

Prototype Study

Arch Height Variations

Landscape Cave

Transition between prototypes and the view they create

Openning Opening

Canopy Canopy

Prototype Combinations

Prototype Combination

Space created Space Create Testing

Landscape Cave

Lowest Level: used as floor slab over water, can be changed with water levels.

Lowest Level: used as floor over water, can be changed with water levels.

Opening Openning Medium Level: openings to the different sized views, can be combined or intersected to create various types of views.

Medium Level: opening to the different medium sized views, can be combinated or intersected to create more types of view

Canopy

Highest Level: to create the long and wide views, can be combined with medium sized arches.

Hign Level: to create the long and wide views, can be combinated with medium sized arch

Prototype Design

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East River 4 5 2 6 7

4 2 8 New York East River Park Track

1 Reception 2 Exhibition 3 Vault Cafe

Plan

4 Courtyard 5 Restaurant 6 Ourdoor Exhibition

6 Outdoor Exhibition 7 Artist Studio 8 Bookstore

Interior Rendering（towards 4 sites）

Exploded Diagram

Model 11

Section 13

PROJECT 2 17

COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER

1/16th Scale Model

PLAYSCAPE + ——COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER The studio aims at exploring the possibility of a new typology of public schools. Starting from the notion of play: 'NON-PRESCRIPTION', we reexamined the relationship between play and education and created an environment that could ensure the efficiency of the both. Insipred by Isamu Noguchi, we believe that an educational space emphasizes imagination will be of great benefit to the learners, especially children. Playground, as a necessity in the life of children, should instead of telling children what to do (swing here, climb there) but becoming a place of endless exploration, of endless opportunity of changing play. We started the exploration of the 'nonprescription' from the very basic architectural elements such as slabs, columns, roofs and objects. We extend their definition beyond architectural field, proposing the floor slabs could be the playground, columns could be rooms and the partition walls of the classrooms could be flexible enough for multiple functions. We also intended to combine two different spatial qualities in order to ensure the most activity efficiency. Instructor Studio Collaborator Program Location

Oana Stănescu GSAPP Fall 2019 Advanced V Qianfan Guo Community Learning Center Lower East Manhattan, NY, USA

Featured in GSAPP selected Student Work

Program Bar

Massing Strategy The original school on the site suffers from 3 main shortcomings: awkward layout, insufficient space and the local high unemployment rate. In order to introduce new programs (adult school and its affiliation) and provide enough space for necessary programs of the old institution, we are proposing a new building to both satisfy the needs of children and to help the parents explore their own career possibilities. There are three key programs in this project: children's education, adults' education and community services. We then defined the subprograms into two categories: the non-prescriptional and the prescriptional.The overall massing strategy is to surround the prescriptional programs with a non-prescriptional perimeter, and then locate the specific program based on its sharing condition. For sake of the safety of children and clear circulation of different groups, we separate adults and children into different buildings and combine adult education with some social programs.

children education (55%) Including kindergarten, elementary school and middle school

adults education (20%) Teaching gardening, writing, computer skills and etc.

social programs (25%) Including clothing donations, immigration advice, laundry services, daycare etc.

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COMMUNITY LIBRARY

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The Hybrid

Prescriptional + Non-prescriptional

Massing Model

We put traditional classrooms in the center to guarantee the practice of the routinely school schedule. The surrounding is a series of playgrounds with the flexibility to become classrooms for multiple kinds of curriculum. The changing slopes help indicates the different activities.

"Non-Prescriptive" Floor Plate

"Non-Prescriptive" Slab The curvature of slabs give hint to the potential programs. There are basiclly two different types of slabs. The normal flat ones are for ordinary prescriptive class such as Math, History, Science, etc. The curvy ones are for non-prescriptive classes such as music, dancing, or playgrounds. This strategy also works for the parents' school and the social programs.

Concept Model 22

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1/16th Scale Model

Children Outdoor Playground

Community Library

Demo-garden for the Elderly

1/4th Scale Partial Model 29

"Non-Prescriptive" Column In order to introduce new programs (adult school and its affiliation) and provide enough space for necessary programs of the old institution, we are proposing a new building to both satisfy the needs of children and help the parents explore their own career possibilities. 30

PROJECT 3 31

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE

1/16th Scale Model

GROWING ON HILL ——DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE The idea of this project is to create a landmark in line with the nearby central green park on campus – an architecture department building which merges with nature and form a safe environment for students, a super functional and attractive workplace and a green recreational haven for all people in the area.

I can climb to the platform.

The site is on the central hill in campus with easy access to the important facilities such as library, cafeteria and the Tong ji lake. The layout of the design is decided by the spineline of the hill and the directions towards these surrounding facilities. The building grows out of the landscaped woodlands, and consistently brings architecture students close to nature both inside and out, to create a healing atmosphere for the students with high pressure. Studios with courtyards and landscaped gardens form a green base for the repetitive offices and studios that rise above the building’s accessible green roofs. A public garden promenades on the third floor, leads into and right through the complex, and makes the building open and democratically accessible to all students in the area.

Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Yang Zhou NJUT Spring 2017 Individual Architectural Department Building Nanjing, JS, CN

Honeroed as the Second Place of the Sixth National Green Building Design Competition, China

Step 1

Step 2

Locate the ridge line and the important campus facilities near the site.

As the site locates in the middle of a forest, the project tries to symbolize the tree.

Step 3

Step 4

Locate the main 'trunk' in accordance with the ridge line and extend the 'branches' to the directions of each facility.

Insert other programs which need huge and unified spaces between the branches.

Centrual Forest Park

Secondary Entrance

Auditorium Entrance

Tongji Lake

Main Entrance

Site Plan 33

Fire Passage

Plan Level 1 34

Plan Level 2

Plan Level 3 (Platform Level)

Plan Level 4

Plan Level 5

1/16th Scale Model (Platform)

1/16th Scale Model (Main Entrance )

Platform View (3F) 29|30

Platform 1/16th Scale ViewModel (3F) (View from north dining hall)

Section A-A

Section B-B 42

PROJECT 5 45

AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN BRONX

Massing Model

COLLAGE CITY

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN BRONX

Collage City is a housing project based in the Bronx, New York. The housing complex relies on micro-, local- neighborhoods where residents would not only share objects and experiences, but recycling amenities and facilities. The project also introduces 3Rs (Reduce, Recycle and Reuse) to its inhabitants and its neighborhood. It is a critique and response to the American hyper-consumerism that gives rise to problems of unsustainability such as material consumption, material excess, exploitation of material and labor, waste disposal and incineration. Spines consisting of cabinets and shafts face the courtyards, with trash and laundry chutes that are directed into the courtyards. This project aims to create these pools of material goods and labor that answers also issues of maintenance. The project tackles how owning and getting rid of stuff can enhance public spaces on the ground level. People can aggregate in courtyards in special occasions of bazaars, flea markets, and engage in ceremonies of exchange, purchase, and donations, to honor those materials into better uses.The process of interaction becomes beginnings of conversations between families from different demographic and cultural backgrounds and lifestyles. Instructor Hilary Sample Studio GSAPP Fall 2018 Core III Collaborator Kachun Alex Wong Program Affordable Housing Location South Bronx, NY, USA Honeroed as the John A. Notaro Memorial Scholarship of 2018, AIA, NY

1879 “Dumbell” tenement plan James E. Ware and others BCR: 85%

1880 Philanthropic tenements for the improved Dwelling Association Vaux and Radford BCR: 70%

1894 Parisian-inspired central courtyard Ernest Flagg BCR: 55%

New York City Block Evolution

Collage City takes a critical look at how perimeter blocks boast high density in housing people in landscarce environments such as New York City, while throughout history, different courtyard proportions are experimented from historic tenement blocks with narrow air shafts, to Ernest Flagg-type Parisian-inspired courtyards, to luxurious Astor-developed courtyard buildings, to contemporary interpretations such as the VIA 57 West by BIG and Mercedes House by TEN Arquitectos. Courtyards allow for natural light and cross ventilation into each flat as a passive strategy to reduce the energy cost, which seems to be a recurring theme in the city’s residential endeavors. According to Forbes, the average American woman today owns 30 outfits, compared to eight in the 1930s. The contemporary home immediately calls for a system that addresses issues of storing and managing stuff. Trends such as fast fashion, electronic gadgets and accessories, and frozen food are sources of clutter in every room of an apartment. Overall, our team has engaged with housing design with themes of diversity, sustainability and equity.

1924 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Project Andrew Thomas BCR: 50%

1938 Garden Apartment NYCHA BCR: 30%

Massing Diagram

The site was previously occupied with 20%, while the proposed has increased to 50%. However, the proposal can house 250 families, compared to the current 60. Currently, the site has a central shared courtyard with mostly unkempt grass. Collage City proposes multiple courtyards of different shapes and sizes. The courtyards are public spaces that contain civic programs such as ball courts, swimming pool, and recreational amenities, and transparent laundry and garbage facilities. The voids also provide agricultural segments for residents to grow their own gardening or food crops and to contribute to the local ecosystem. These interventions also become the temporary storage space for abandoned household items and furniture, and to display them in attracting opportunities for a second life.

Ground Floor Plan 49

A. Community DIY farmlands

B. Transparent facilities for recycling of worn clothes

C. Facilities for furniture recycle

D. Classrooms and the community library using recycled books 51

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mmunity use and food bank

G. Flexible use of the basketball court as farmers' market

H. Garbage collection 52

J. Recycling of building materials

Collage City promotes long-term flexibility and re-use. Its curtain wall can be recycled and easily repaired and dissembled, thanks to the multiple courtyard-facing facades. Its courtyards can store maintenance machinery, such as scissor elevators and crane. Its dispersed and large-numbered garage rooms facilitate maintenance and upkeep. Its resiliency during disasters is improved by the courtyards, where parts of a building can be shut down temporarily due to its diversified courtyard typologies. Its courtyards can be re-purposed in face of disasters. By thinking about the Bronx site as a venue for possibilities, used toys and books can be re-purposed from surrounding schools, as well as out-fashioned electronics, clothing, and furniture from NYCHA blocks. The Collage City introduces programs such as food banks, community kitchen, thrift shops, second-hand book stores, and farming that systematizes a flow of resources both within the project and within the district. The perimeter block has more than eight entrances and lobbies, as well as retail and recycling programs along its periphery to engage neighbors.

I. Typical Unit

Circulation Diagram

Staircase Unit Type A Unit Type B Circulation Direction

Section A-A 55

Typical Unit Plans

Unit A (2 Bedroom for a typical 3-member family) Unit B (2 Bedroom for co-tenants) Unit C(3 Bedroom for a big family)

1/4th Scale Unit Model 58

Section B-B 59

Interior Rendering (corridor)

Interior Rendering (bedroom)

PROJECT 6 65

URBAN RESEARCH COMPLEX

HIGHWAY RESEARCH PARK

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;URBAN RESEARCH COMPLEX

In order to bring students from the local five colleges together to increase the educated rate and employment rate of Newark and to create a space for people to hang out, the program of our project is a Research Center with a combination of residential, retail, labs and most importantly, an urban park. Newark is abundant with transportation systems, yet the McCarter Hwy becomes the biggest obstacle in the design. It not only splits the site into two pieces geographically but also largely prevents visitors from gaining access towards the riverside. What we propose here is a building that runs horizontally above the highway with a hill-like roof. The roof serves as a bridge between the city and the river, while helping facilitate the rainwater collection at the same time. The building also helps separate the itineraries of automobile and pedestrian to ensure the safety of both. Therefore, the formal industrial-like site becomes a warm garden and automatically blends into nature. The architecture becomes the landscape.

Instructor Studio Course Program Location

Crag Schwitter GSAPP Studio Spring 2019 AT V Urban Systems Integration Urban Research Complex Newark, NY, USA

GIS Information

Mobility

Land Use

Green Space

Educational Institutes

Mobility

Ground Permeability

Flat Roof

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3.1-Bu 3.2-Building 3.3-Bu

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Natural irragation Naturally irragation with withaccessible accesible roof roof

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House shading House and social shading and plaza social plaza 68

Light Rail Automobile

Residential 250,000sqf

Office 100,000sqf

Retail 100,000sqf

Educational 200,000sqf

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Light Rail

Automobile

Inhabitable Space Greenery + 550,000sqf 350,000sqf 69

Bike Lane Pedestrian path

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Aerial View

Exterior Plaza

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Exploded Layers

Walkable Green Roof Solar Canopy

Research & Education Social Plaza

Offices Social Plaza

Residential Area Retail MC Carter HWY Main Research Building Water Collection System Water Park Organic Levees Bicycle Lane Retail Passaic River 76

Energy Recycle Section

Wate

Building Section Interior Space 85|86

Vegetation + Landform

Solar Panels

Inverter Converts DC Electricity to AC

Reusable Water to Building

er Treatment

Water Treatment

Inverter Converts DC Electricity to AC

Solar Panels

Electricity to Building

Electricity to Building Building Section Interior Space Vegetation + Landform

Waterfront View

PROJECT 7 81

URBAN-SCALED ARCHITECTURAL SPECULATION IN TOKYO

Anti-University ANTI-UNIVERSITY OASIS

What if... then... —— URBAN-SCALED ARCHITECTURAL SPECULATION IN TOKYO

The studio explores the formal and programmatic possibilities of invented large-scale architecture in Tokyo. Based on the study of key historic projects, the studio aims at developing scenarios that leverage specific qualities of the city, and will seek to mine these scenarios for their formal possibilities. Anti-university oasis looks into the pressure Japanese young people bear and how they relax through varies different Japan sub-cultures. The proposal recognized the virtue of these subcultures. For one, it celebrates modern trends and perceptions of the general populace while staying connected with traditional art forms. They are colorful, eclectic, and unique that have already attracted a global following and seeped into other countries’ cultural consciousness. Anti-university is an oasis for young people to develop their special interest in Japan sub-culture while maintaining their ordinary school schedule. The mega-structure also looks into the distance that these sub-cultures would be the mainstream in the near future. Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Sarah Dunn & Martin Felsen with George Louras GSAPP Spring 2020 Advanced VI Individual Campus Tokyo University Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan

Research on Japanese Youth Subcultures

What if... Then... Subcultures in Japan are prosperous, but young people especially those college students are bearing so much pressure from school and family that they cannot enjoy these subcultures even though they have time. They sometimes even feel afraid to admit these hobbies, let alone exploring new developing opportunities of their careers in these territories. So what if the young people of Tokyo created an anti-university on top of Tokyoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus where they could develop their unique lifestyles while maintaining a flexible school schedule? Then they could not only share and pursue the creativity and knowledge of their unique lifestyles but also enrich the lives of their peers and the greater Tokyo public. The project aims to create a new campus typology by inserting a giant platform with both top and bottom primitives. The bottoms mainly contain vertical transportations and several activity rooms. The platform serves as a gathering hall for all kinds of mixing. The top ones are defined into different districts for particular subcultures. The size and scales of the top primitives are determined based on the need of each subculture after the analysis of each activity typology. They could either be occupied respectively or collectively.

Prototypes

Section Diagram

Tops ďź&#x2C6;Subculture Clubs)

Original Campus

Public Platform Bottoms (Original Campus & Transportation)

Aggregation and Mixing of Programs As a second campus for the students of Tokyo University and the community at large, the project will serve as a destination for creative and subcultural production. The complex is designed to house music halls, theaters, art galleries, classrooms and studios, maker spaces and shops, art labs and production facilities, and rehearsal spaces. The first floor of the facility is organized as a continuous, public-oriented 'street' linking large-scale theatres, recital halls, and galleries that promote interaction between different academic departments, and between the individual clubs and the public. The main courtyards act as windows into the backs-of-house of each of the main public venues, revealing the ways in which art is created. The courtyards also provide both natural light and a unique graphic identity to each of the academic departments housed in the Arts Center. The academic departments are stacked both in vertical and horizontal clusters. Each cluster is composed of various rooms that are aggregated to form larger groupings of disciplinary spaces.

Aerial View 87

Partial Plan 89

Section Part A (Zentai Club)

Section Part B (Cosplay Club)

Section Part C (Otaku Club)

Section Part D (Soshiku Club)

Aerial View

Miu Miu's Serendipity Miu Miu is new to the University of Tokyo, he majors in computer science. He is traditionally an indoor person, a little socially anxious and spends all his time studying in classroom and library. He knows there is another world above the campus. He could sometimes see the people there through the classroom window. They seem happy all the time.

Miu Miu does not want to be a book worm any more. However, he has been accustomed to be in his zone for sake of his parents' espectation and the overwhelming study pressure. People from the above oasis are cordial to invite Miu Miu to join them, but he always hesitates. They are so weird in special costumes, pretending to be superheroes, doing exaggerated make-ups...

One day, the person again came down to invite him to join the "cosplay" club. Should I try? Miu Miu talked to himself. He went up to the rooftop of the academic building and shouted to the person there. -Hey, is it fun out there? How can I get to you guys? -Relax yourself here! Go staight onto the platform or use the central stairs!

Finally, they meet each other. The guy introduced a lot about the location and the schedule of each club the anti-university has. Miu Miu wanted to start with his childhood hobby: cartoon and he received a warm welcome from both the "otaku" club and the "cosplay" club. Miu Miu is really thankful to this serendipity. He found many people who shared his interests and he also made lots of friends. Miu Miu now has a great balance between the university life and the anti- one. He also becomes more and more outgoing and confident due to the social skills he acquired during the different activities.

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Precedent Study 01

Mat / Agricultural City, Kisho Kurokawa, 1960

Precedent Study 02

Wall / Algiers Obus Plan, Le Corbusier, 1931

Precedent Study 03 Mound / Towel of Babel

BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

FOUR-BRICK THEATRE

—— COMMUNITY THEATRE IN BROOKLYN Instructor Studio Collaborator Program Location

David Burke(Arch), Amy Harrington(SF), Canan Smyth(MEP), Tom Reiner(Enclosure) GSAPP Fall 2018 AT IV (Revit Project) Ran Ma, Qingying Wang, Qingkai Luo Community Theatre Brooklyn, NY , USA

Architectural Plan Level 1 109

This project was a theatre designed in a technology course aimed at improving the understanding towards the difference between documentation and modeling. We were also trained to consider every part of the actual architecture design practice including structure, MEP system and facade detailing.

Architectural Plan Level 3

Architectural Plan Level 2 110

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Step 1: Dissolve to provide supporting programs

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Step 3: Rotate the theatre 15 degrees towards the north to have a greater view, to reduce glaze from west and to have a more fluid circulation.

Step 2: Shift the supporting programs to create an urban passage from street to park

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Step 1: Dissolve to provide supporting programs Site Block

Step 3: Rotate the theatre 15 degrees towards the north to have a greater view, to reduce glaze from west and to have a more fluid circulation.

Step 2: Shift the supporting programs to create an urban passage from street to park Theatre

FOH

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Facade System 1 Road Map

Facade System 1 Details 113

Facade System 1 Road Map

Facade System 1 Details 114

SUPER-TALL —— VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION & SERVICE Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Nicole Dosso GSAPP Spring 2020 Elective Individual Community Theatre Brooklyn, NY , USA

Elevator Core Plan (Typical Low-Rise)

Passenger Entrance Plan

Jamb Detail 115

Head Detail

Sill Detail

Vertical Transportation Section

Elevator Hoistway Section

Elevator Structual Plan 116

PROFESSIONAL WORK

Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Professional Work at Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign

Reference Time Position Location

Nadine Quirmbach 2019 Summer Architectural Intern Los Angeles, CA, US

Exploded Axon Diagram 119

Role

Invovled in Revit modeling and revised CD documents accordingly; Produced interior renderings with furniture and materilas selected.

Plan

LEVEL 01

LEVEL 03 CONVENING STAIRS

UPHOLSTERY FABRICS VINYLS & WOVENS

WOOD CEILING & FLOOR WHITE OAK CONCRETE FLOOR

ENTRANCE RUG WOOL FELT

Interior Renderings 120

Kaiser Permanente Medical Office Building â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Professional Work at Yazdani Studio of CannonDesign

Reference Time Position Location

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Nadine Quirmbach 2019 Summer Architectural Intern Los Angeles, CA, US

Role

Invovled in Revit modeling and revised DD documents accordingly; Helped with facade testing and produced exterior renderings.

122

OTHER STUDIES

PROJECT 11 125

INTELLIGENT PUBLIC PAVILION

Exterior View

CITY SMART ——INTELLIGENT PUBLIC PAVILION Within the context of China’s unprecedented pace and extent of urbanisation, we continues to probe the consequences for urbanism of today’s accelerated technological development occurring within the current transition in industrial paradigm towards information-based intelligence. The program investigates towards speculations of Intelligent Urbanism, shaped and materialized through flows of information through responsive infrastructure, interfaces and the Internet of Things. City Smart explores the potential for design intelligence to be transferred towards the materialization of information in urbanism. The project tries to test formal experimentation in architecture practice, and engaging new techniques in design production. The studio aims to design an intelligent ornamentation which could work as an urban furniture at Innovation Belt of Shanghai. Prototypes would be able to produced by 3D printer or robotic arms while acquire its aesthetic perception as far as possible.

Instructor Workshop Collaborator Program Location

Steven Ma, Soomeen Hahm AA Summer School 2017 Yuan Shang, Ziao Zhou Intelligent Public Pavilion Shanghai, CN

126

Minimal Path with Friquency

127

Prototype Generation

128

129

The shortest path generated on the ground

Walk path in hexagon order 4

Path growing on the wall from the volume

Volume developed in corner 6

Volume transformed to different patterns

Growing volume

130

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PROJECT 12 133

URBAN SANCTUARY IN DUMBO

MEMORY RESERVIOR

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D; URBAN SANCTUARY IN DUMBO

Spanning scales from corporeal to urban, work was produced through an iterative process of translation; a feedback loop across analytical drawing and critical material explorations enabling the transformation of concept into organizational, spatial and tectonic systems. Through the filter of death and remembrance in the 21st century metropolis, the studio explored new typologies of scular-sacred space, imagine how our collective mortality may redefine how we build, share and utilize urban public space. The Library of Liminality is a place of encounter with both the memory of the dead and vibrant gatherings of the living. Through the model exploration of 'malleability', new spatial qualities were revealed to help preserve bodies, burial objects, etc. The semitransparent walls help transfer and share stories and emotions across the chambers where visitors could relieve the sorrowness. Varies sizes of chamber rooms are also organized for both family memorial and individual ones.

Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Karla Rothstein (DeathLAB) GSAPP Spring 2018 Death Studio Individual Urban Sanctuary Dumbo, Brooklyn, USA

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Space Exploration

Substance: Malleability Materials: Nylon, mesh Haiku: Constraint and dilate, transformation happens in every direction with different scales, all surfaces become the stage.

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Operative Drawing The Library of Liminality is a place of encounter with both the memory of the dead and vibrant gatherings of the living. Thickened spatial pockets archive remains and cultural mementos. This library aims to foster new encounters by creating space for urban strangers to interact. Pockets contract and dilate to extend peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relationships with each other and facilitate multi-cultural social-mixing. 136

Chamber Plan

Chamber facade changes due to the variation of the number of burial objects. Layers of walls create an endless infrastructure adaptive to all emotional needs.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park

Furman St

5 1 1

Old Fulton St

Doughty St

2 1

1 1 1

Everit St Plan Level 1

1. Memorial Hall 2. Memorial Courtyard 3. Cafe 4. Small Multimedia Center

Furman St

1 1

Doughty St

Old Fulton St

1 1 4 5

1 2 1

1 1 1

Everit St Plan Level 2

1. Memorial Hall 2. Office 3. Cafe 4. Small Multimedia Center 5. Meeting Room

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TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRY

Casting Modules

TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRY

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;FACADE AS SPACES

The course explores and develops the tiling principles. Designed modules were casted in rockite and strategically placed to build an entire wall. Then the exploration comes further into introducing the wall from the outside to the inside. Nodes could be overlaid on frames to be flipped and rotated into forming new relationships. Then the interactive facade could also work as the interior partition walls.

Instructor Studio Role Program Location

Joshua Jordan GSAPP Fall 2019 Elective Individual Tiling System as Spatial Experience NY, USA

Featured in GSAPP selected Student Work

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The â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;handsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the module gives it the opportunity to rotate and flip to create new spatial qualities. Gathering spaces could be formed accordingly as needed.

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Scale 1 The occupiable scale of the module makes it able to interact with human body. Different tiling pattern could provide different ways of using.

Restaurant Renovation

Existing Condition 143

Aggregation 1

Aggregation 2

Scale 2

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TRANSITIONAL GEOMETRY

Casting Modules

FAST FORMWORK â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;OCCUPIABLE ARCH DESIGN The FenX company re-qualified highly abundant mineral wastes to build a safe and green future fostering a circular economy. They exploit key properties of mineral particles to produce highly porous materials. We are asked to assess the properties and explore the potential of this new foam material made out of recycled fly ash to become a construction resource in the building industry. The work was done by casting large-scale elements assembled into a full-scale architectural space. Our technique explores the potential of using cheap and rigid recyclable material to quickly create large forms. Because the formwork is disposable, foldable and bendable, this opens up a huge number of formal possibilities. Additional research into joints, seams and surface texture logistics. The piece on the left turned out to be the largest intact one casted with the new material up till now. The larger pieces suffered from breakings caused by varies conditions during form making, casting, demolding and drying, so this porous soft material might get better usage in insulating. As this is potentially the largest proposal, extra thought also must go into the weight, balance and possible mechanical fasteners that may be needed to stabilize the proposal. Instructor Workshop Collaborator Program Location

Daniel Bachmann, Nina Baier Fast Formwork, ETH Zurich Cris Liu, Nika Teper (GSAPP) Etienne Jeoffry, Nathanael Kiefer (FenX) Arch Zurich, Switzerland

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Sketch

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Section To make the 'ARCH' work, each piece is specially designed to support each other.

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7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14

192mm

532mm

27 6m

Conclusion

After our 3-week exploration, piece 8 is the only one that did not suffer from any serious break caused by casting, demolding and heating. This piece is also the largest piece that has been casted using the new material by FenX company.

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EARLY WORKS (before 2017)

——SELECTED WORKS FROM UNDERGRADUATE

Customised City (2015.8)

Canpus Stadium Design (2016.12)

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Opera Conservation Center (2015.4)

Urban Design in City Nanjing (2016.12)

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Ningxin Rebecca Huang 917-495-8508 nh2561@columbia.edu

https://rebeccahuang.me/