Minimal Mechanism Maximum Space Instructor
Yan Gao University of Hong Kong
Custom Mechanism and Arduino relay. Moving modular wall using servo motors and sonic sensor connected with Arduino, where the wall moves and reacts to passerby
Creation of an interactive wall with minimal mechanism that allows inhibition from both sides
Fake Sun Clock Alarm
Course Work
MIT’s Centre for Bits and Atoms
Micro-controller
Mimics the sun rise and set with self adjusting clock time and data parsed from internet
Alarm clock made using custom PCB with precision milling, and manual soldering. All relay designed indlucing a copper touch pad for manual light control
WIFI ESP8266 breakout board it connects to weather data API to fetch sunrise data and adjusts lights brightens to mimic sunlight by manupulating voltage frequency
AVR programming in Arduino with some use of C++ to interface with breakout board
Untitled Matrix Academic Harvard,GSD
Instructor Andrew Witt
Generative Art
3D matrix that displays three distinct images when seen from different angles
Image 1
GSD
Image 2 Andrew Witt
Image 3 Frank Gehry
Aortic Morphology Academic Harvard,GSD
Instructor Andrew Witt, Team Philip Poon
Generative Art
Mesh displacment in GH
Hybrid Formations
Academic Harvard GSD
Instructor Volkan Alkanoglu
Team Anthony Chu
Aluminium construction, Exploded Drawing for fabrication of a formal sculpture to fabricated with CNC water jet cutter
Construction details and waffle generated with Grasshopper
Continuous Walking Strip
Allows the inhabitants to transverse up and down freely with walking.
FACADE
Fins create dynamic form
HETEROTOPIA
Every floor a distinctive common sky lobby, and hotel rooms surrounding the plaza
SEASONAL
Large temperature difference between seasons. Operable Facade insulates sky lobbies in winter, allows for ventilation in summer.
Top Floor, Garden
Untitled Thesis
Academic GSD Advisor
Dr Bing Wang
Associate Professor Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, GSD
Oana Stanescu, Founder , Family Lecturer , GSD
Exploration of a new developmental approach to residential architecture.
Critique on current procedure.
Creation of a Co-lving building in NY
Tower as cohesive colony neighbourhood Various composition of programme Tower as mega molecule
The Theatre Begins Here
Academic HKU Instructor Yan Gao, Assistant Professor, HKU
Modular housing where street-scape and the city continues upwards. Reinstate communal neighbourhood in housing tower. Project fronted by an old theatre with iconic arches.
Untitled Reactor LA, USA
Academic Harvard GSD
Instructor Florian Idenburg, Founder, SO-IL
Incubator
Provides access to machinery and communal space for start ups. Incubates competitiveness against private space agencies
COLLISION
Large central mixer creates serendipitous encounters for generation of new ideas.
CENTRALIZED LAYOUT
Large workshop space flanks office space and central atrium.
+0m -6m +0m -1m -2m +0m +0m +0m +0m +0m -2m SECTION A
, workshop and Office for NASA
Lower level entrance from South East
General Atrium
Through the Looking Glass
Replica of the city on the edge of the city. The constant reproduction and reflection of living of life.
A physical reflection of the dreamscape experienced by residents of the unresolved city edge.
Team Alex Porter
Madeline Lenaburg
Instructor Andrew Holder, Assistant Professor, GSD
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