Tzu-Yu Su MArch I Portfolio by Tzu-Yu Su

TZU-YU SU

PORTFOLIO

2013-2016 Works at RISD

CONTENT

NORMALITY / ABNORMALITY RISD MArch I Thesis

THE PLEATED LIBRARY

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER

OCEAN NOMADS

THE INVISIBLE CORNER

NAVY YARD SENIOR HOUSING

PROVIDENCE TRANSIT STATION

ENCLOSED ENVELOPE

Advanced Studio: Imagination

Integrated Building System

Jacques Rougerie Competition

Advanced Studio: Computing Drawing

Urban Design Studio

Architectural Design Studio

Architectural Analysis

NORMALITY / ABNORMALITY

Graduate Thesis

Primary Advisor: Hansy Better Barraza / Secondary Advisor: Emanuel Admassu

NORMALITY / ABNORMATLITY how literature inspires and creates architecture

“Normal” is a violent word. Don’t use it for soothing. Don’t force it on somebody. Normal is itself an extreme of insanity.

Why, Why,

03 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

Why,

my friend,

you crouch?

my friend, Why,

on this busy street? you push your hands against your ears? my friend, you open your mouth wide?

my friend,

it’s been a while?

Why, my friend, you scream so

loud but i can’t hear a sound?

Peculiarity is normal. Peculiarity is common. Why one has to act normal, While one’s peculiarity is totally harmless?

“Graduation project is the embodiment of how one lives and survives through architecture” Takamatsu Shin, Japanese architect Before RISD and architecture, I studied and obtained the bachelor degree of English literature and German language. For the past two years, I haven’t encountered a moment when words, terms, paragraphs, or a story sparks the imagination of space or spatial form. Rather than that, a drawing or a model would inspire words and fantasies that tops and outshines my project and design. From the frustration, grew the curiosity of how space, form, or spatial logic are inspired by words and texts. People would hardly doubt that modern literature inspires and influences modern architecture. Yet while studying examples of how literature inspires architecture, I encountered numerous literary examples, of which spaces and buildings are treated as reflection of social background or psychological state of the protagonist; or architectural examples that shows people’s confusion of literature devices and linguistic devices. Roland Barthes, for example, collected words or scribbled thoughts of different people that contribute to the same topic, and assembled the words together to form a seemingly logical paragraph that contributes and gives birth to a collective consciousness. Roland Barthes’ work is more of a linguistic play, that uses de-construct, and re-construct actions to achieve a playful analogy. Whereas Peter Eisenman, whose architectural operation and intention of the “House of Cards” project are purely linguistic, was often mentioned or commented by critics with the term “literary” instead of “linguistic.” Literature focuses more on the understanding and delivering of context and is not a mere operation. My thesis explores how does literature perform as the generator of both the soft and hard elements of architecture?

URBAN ASYLUM: A HOUSING PROJECT The urban asylum is not a crazy house. It is a place where people can feel at ease and be themselves. No need to try or act normal to satisfy social etiquette and expectation. The room is itself the projection and reflection of the inhabitant’s mentality and daily life.

SITE Three hundred years ago, Taipei was still a lake. People followed the watercourse and entered the low land that sits inside the mountains. They constructed conduits to cultivate the farmland. Until fifty years ago, the times when people’s hands and feet are wet are longer than when they’re dry. Later on the houses followed the western trend and started to grow up restlessly. As if it’s going to grow a mountain in the center of the basin and press down the mountains that walled Taipei. The lake was drained but the basin stays humid as usual. The lake water converted into sweats and tears, secreted from the skin and eyes, vaporized into the air, rode on the cloud to escape to the sky. The clouds carried people’s wishes to throw the distress far away over the wall of mountains. Yet the labor of people was too solid, and the sorrow too thick. Not so high up in the sky, the clouds couldn’t carry the sweats and tears any further, so the sweats and tears turned into rain and fall back to the Taipei city, year after year, month

04 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

Rain writes the stories of people on the roofs, walls, windows, asphalts, grasses, puddles, and muds. Sometimes it writes so fervently, that it falls on people, cars, and buildings like fists. It smashes and blurs, the story can no longer be read, leaving only the dabbing sounds rocking the eardrum, and branding the life of the city onto peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s skin. There are also times that rain writes so light yet dense, like the soft caresses of silk. If you would, you could find a plain concrete wall to watch the rain drizzles the stories. The rain in Taipei never drains, so are its stories that wishes to be told again and again. It rains after rains, year after year, month after month.

PROBES ELEVATOR

05 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

Spider / Corner

I want to be a spider in my next life So that I can crawl from one corner to another Nesting, solidifying my petite territory Two sides safe Two sides to be alert of Good… Good…

CORRIDOR / STAIR

06 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

In one of the many wild dreams I was being chased by light. I was running so fast that I think I reach, even surpass the speed of light. My heart stabilizes with this joy of pride. Then I noticed something crawling from beneath my feet, so dim and vague I couldn’t tell what it is. BOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Heart ceased) GOT YOU!

What is it like to be trapped? Is it like when one tries to leave and run away from a place, but no matter how long or where one goes, one always returned to the same spot whether consciously or unconsciously. Maybe one doesn’t want the exit. The familiar fear provides the assurance of one’s existence and sense of securement. What is the pattern of this runaway? Is it linear, a loop, or a spiral? And what about the daily routine? Is the pattern of daily routine linear, a loop, or a spiral? I need a philosopher to talk to, or a talkative middle-aged person/elder from the neighborhood will do. I shall plant a philosopher and a talkative elder in my brain. Water them and have them talk to me. I wander in the accustomed daily normalcy, enjoy the smoothness weaved by experience, with my brain chill and unbothered. Till some enormous and unexpected deviance dropped and interrupted the all-too-familiar, background-music-like daily life, and altered for good the daily notes, which had been carved on every inch square of my flesh. The deviance should have been confined within that specific day, that specific hour, minute, and second it occurred, and within that specific place, that specific spot, but it didn’t…. It fell so violently on the smoothness that even it is past, no longer there, I, my fucking brain started to project that fucking horror, a timid act of defense and preparation for the might-never-happen-exactly-the-same deviance, a nightmare that happens not only at nighttime, a nightmare that happens regardless you are asleep or awake. I don’t know why, or rather, I don’t bother to know why I’m obsessed with rehearsing and experiencing this derailment again and again. And each time I chew it, I obtain and add more detail and flavor from and to it. What is it that I try to conquer or negate? Is it the incident itself, the self that responded to the incident, or the response I made towards the incident? If I chew it long enough, will it finally be bland, and will I be confident enough to spit it out? I need to plant a philosopher, or a talkative middle-aged/elder will do. I need to plant them in my brain. Water them, and have them talk to me. I need to talk. I need a person to talk to, spitting and sticking the bland deviance bit by bit on the other.

PROBES WALL

07 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

When I have trouble falling asleep, I comb the wall with my fingers, to feel the subtle cracks, the reminiscences of the paintbrush. I’ll sit up obtrusively in silence, and get more involved in this game of tracking. I’ll find a void to whisper the gibberish and secrets in, and then smear the warm breath away with my palm and seal the words. Good night, I’ll tell you more, next time.

I like to sprawl on the icy-cold concrete wall on a hot summer night, feel the wall sips my daily dribs and drabs away with my temperature, pacifies the nerves, loosens the frown, and glides me into the velvet dream.

I tuck the secrets into the wall and yet you hide yourself in. I embrace you as if I am cuddling my lover, even though your stiffness leaves my arm straight and unclosed. A wall with cracks, a wall with secrets, a wall with traces A wall that hides, a wall that refuses, a wall that hugs What is wall? It’s a segregation, a note, a manifestation, a protection, a tombstone.

08 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

PROBES BUILDING ANALYSIS

COLUMNS

09 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

I threw a swamp of sky for you on the floor, my friend Because I know you never lift your head. Throw a swamp of sky for you on the floor So that you know, Though the world hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change a bit Since the last time you looked at the sky It remembers and misses you still.

Hide a tree in a forest. If I stand straight enough or be really q

To perfect my invisible ability, I con columns. Days passed, and months fl metal door muffled as it closed behin a Kungfu novel. I squinted my eyes a chosen a buoyant district as my trial gr I made a firm strode that rocked the u

I forgot... that...... people...... move....

quiet and still, will you hide me?

nducted a strict closed-door practice among a forest of flowed. Finally it’s about time to test my skill. The heavy nd my back. I imagined myself a secluded masters from and gave the earthly world a long, profound gaze. I’ve round. My heart settled as I aspirated slowly and steadily. universe. Among the forest-like crowd, I was frozen…

...

10 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

It existed the moment you first came into the room, showed no surprise or refuse to your then presence and later being. You, instead, were stunned. It stood prominently in the middle of emptiness, left no clue about whether it just came or was about to leave. As a display of friendliness, you held a banquet in front of it. It didn’t accept nor refuse. It was just there listening to your awkward pleasantries and tipsy nonsense. Content with your courageous friendliness, you left the banquet there, and started to call it “friend” because it never told you its name. Oh, excuse me, it never made a sound. But it has shown its amiability through its quietness and permanent stay, you confirmed yourself. “Friend,” you called it. Having dinner with your friend everyday after work became a habit, a daily ritual. It never rejected your hugs. You were deeply drawn by the way it stands. “How indomitable and magnificent,” you thought. Your friend’s pride always guide you through the low tides and hullabaloo of life. You thought about decking out your friend, and drawing it a face, but decided not to after all. You’re afraid that your friend will die if you draw it a face, like “Chaos” in Chuang Tzu.

The Ruler of the Southern Ocean was Shu, the Ruler of the Northern Ocean was Hu, and the Ruler of the Centre was Chaos. Shu and Hu were continually meeting in the land of Chaos, who treated them very well. They consulted together how they might repay his kindness, and said, ‘Men all have seven orifices for the purpose of seeing, hearing, eating, and breathing, while Chaos alone has none. Let us try to chisel the orifices for him.’ Accordingly they chisel one orifice for Chaos a day when seven days passed, Chaos died.1 1“Zhuangzi: The Normal Course for Rulers and Kings,” trans. James Legge, http://ctext.org/zhuangzi/normal-course-for-rulers-and-kings

11 N O R M A L I T Y

WINDOW ROOM MASTERPLAN PLAN SECTION

/ A B N O R M A L I T Y

FRONT ELEVATION (middle) SECTION (left)

12 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

13 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

WALL ROOM (right) STAIR (left)

14 N O R M A L I T Y / A B N O R M A L I T Y

THE PLEATED LIBRARY

IMAGINATION STUDIO

Instructor: Chris Bardt

MATERIAL EXPERIMENT

17 T H E P L E A T E D L I B R A R Y

Rubbing

Study Models

Vellum cast in transparent encapso

Vellum cast in plaster

Epic Drawing (72 inch x 100 inch)

18 T H E P L E A T E D L I B R A R Y

FORM STUDY inspired by epic drawing

THE LIBRARY

19 T H E P L E A T L I B R A R Y

Paper Model

Plaster Model

Mass Rendering

PROGRAMS SKETCHES

INTERIOR RENDERING

20 T H E

natural science

P L E A T

social science

L I B R A R Y

philosophy

religion

view towards the entrance view from the entrance

P.I.C. PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER

Integrated Building Systems

Instructor: Laura Briggs Group Member: Jun Ahn, Tzu -Yu Su, Mike Todd

23 P R O V I D E N C E I N N O V A T I O N C E N T E R

MASSING STRATEGY

FLAT roof area:

21O 4,690 sqft

building volume: 709,000 cft

roof area:

5,326 sqft + 13.5 % building volume: 653,000 cft 8% volume loss:

42O roof area:

6,300 sqft + 34 % building volume: 578,000 cft 18.5 % volume loss:

The project site is located in Providence the latitude is 42 degree. To optimize the solar energy gain from the roof, it is suggested to have the roof tilted at the angle of its located latitude. The issue for the team is to balance between solar energy harvest and the loss of building volume.

gross gross /occupant /occupant

7F 7F

OFFICE OFFICE 3135 3135 sqft sqft 31 business areas: areas: 100 100 gross gross /occupant /occupant 31 business

6F 6F

MULTIPURPOSE MULTIPURPOSE SPACE SPACE 2763 sqft 2763 sqft 55 /occupant 55 educational: educational: shops shops & & vocational: vocational: 50 50 gross gross /occupant ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

7F OFFICE

ENERGY TARGET & LOAD

business business areas: areas: 100 100

37 37

8F OFFICE

6F MULTIPURPOSE SPACE

DISTRIBUTION

DAYLIGHT

5F 5F

RETAIL RETAIL 3135 3135 sqft sqft DAYLIGHT ANALYSISDAYLIGHT ANALYSIS SUMMER SUMMER 52 11F MECHANICAL 11F /occupant MECHANICAL11F 11F MECHANICAL MECHANICAL 52 mercantile:areas mercantile:areas on on the the ﬂoors ﬂoors 60 60 gross gross /occupant 3990 3990 3990 sqft sqft 3990 sqft sqft G SERIES

5F RETAIL

G SERIES

9 AM

11F MECHNICAL ROOM

12 PM 9 AM

DAYLIGHT AUTONOMY

WINTER 16 PM 12 PM

WINTER

16 PM 9 AM

12 PM 9 AM

DAYLIGHT AUTONOMY DAYLIGHT 300 LUX AUTONOMY 16 PM 12 PM

16 PM

NATURAL LIGHT

WITHNATURAL ARTIFICIAL LIGHT LIGHTING

AST AST

300 LUX

architects architects

300 LUX

WITH ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING

DAYLIGHTING

11F MECHNICAL ROOM

10F STUDIO INNOVATION USER 10F INNOVATION INNOVATION 10F 10F STUDIO INNOVATION STUDIO STUDIO USER EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE CENTER CENTER 3190 3190 3190 sqft sqft 3190 sqft sqft COMPUTER 50 gross 63 63 50 gross 63 63 3790 3790 sqft sqft 9F STUDIO INNOVATION 9F INNOVATION INNOVATION 9F 9F STUDIO INNOVATION STUDIO STUDIO sqft 3135 /occupant 76 USER EXPERIENCE 3135 sqft 3135 sqft sqft educational: shops shops & & vocational: vocational: 50 50 gross gross3135 /occupant 76 educational: 11.4% CENTER 50 62 62 50 gross gross 62 62

DAYLIGHTING

4F 4F

10F INNOVATION STUDIO

FLOOR HEATING

TARGET

Primary Energy 10-20 kWh/sf/year:

SUPPLY*

Solar Energy Gain /year*:

DEMAND

Appliance energy use/year

400,000 kWh 98,954 kWh

227,068 kWh

9F INNOVATION STUDIO

50 50 gross gross /occupant /occupant

educational: educational: /occupant & educational: shops shops & & vocational: vocational: educational: shops shops /occupant & vocational: vocational:

8F 8F

OFFICE 8F OFFICE 8F OFFICE OFFICE 3790 3790 3790 sqft sqft 3790 sqft sqft 8F business OFFICE areas: gross /occupant areas: 37 10037 grossbusiness business /occupant areas: 100 100 gross gross /occupant /occupant 37 business areas: 100 37

7F 7F

OFFICE 7F OFFICE 7F OFFICE OFFICE 3135 3135 3135 sqft sqft 3135 sqft sqft OFFICE areas: gross /occupant areas: 31 business areas: 100 10031 grossbusiness business /occupant areas: 100 100 gross gross /occupant /occupant 31 7F business 31

6F 6F

MULTIPURPOSE 6F MULTIPURPOSE MULTIPURPOSE 6F SPACE SPACE MULTIPURPOSE SPACE SPACE 2763 2763 2763 sqft sqft 2763 sqft sqft MULTIPURPOSE shops SPACE & 55 vocational: educational: 50 shops /occupant & 55 6F educational: 55 educational: shops &55 vocational: educational: 50 gross gross shops /occupant & vocational: vocational: 50 50 gross gross /occupant /occupant

8F OFFICE

7F OFFICE

3F CAFE

271,886 kW

400,000 kWh + 98,954 kWh - 300,285 kWh :

7.3% CAFE CAFE 2190 2190 sqft sqft 146 restaurant: 15 net net /occupant /occupant COOLING15 146 20% restaurant:

3F 3F

33%

50 50 gross gross /occupant /occupant

educational: educational: /occupant & educational: shops shops & & vocational: vocational: educational: shops shops /occupant & vocational: vocational:

9F INNOVATION STUDIO

APPLIANCES

10F INNOVATION STUDIO

*Resource: http://www.energy.gov/energysaver/maps/appliance-energy-calculator

5F RETAIL

HOT WATER

5F RETAIL

mercantile:areas /occupant on mercantile:areas on on the the floors floors mercantile:areas mercantile:areas /occupant on the the floors floors

4F USER EXPERIENCE CENTER

LIGHTING

1F 1F

50 gross

shops educational: /occupant & 4F educational: USER EXPERIENCE educational: shops & & vocational: vocational: educational: shops shops /occupant & vocational: vocational: CENTER

50 gross /occupant /occupant

LOBBY LOBBY 1770 1770 sqft sqft 2F 2F 2F RETAIL RETAIL 2F RETAIL RETAIL 3790 3790 3790 sqft sqft 3790 sqft sqft 63 60 60 118 assembly without fixed seats: tables and chairs 15 net 63 60 gross gross 60 gross gross 1F LOBBY 118 assembly without fixed seats: tables and chairs 15 net 6363/occupant /occupant 1F LOBBY 1F LOBBY assembly without fixed seats: standing space 5 net /occupant 354 1F LOBBY 1F LOBBY 5 net /occupant 354 assembly without fixed seats: standing space 1770 1770 1770 sqft sqft 1770 sqft sqft 9 AM 12 PM 16 PM 118 118 15 15 118 118 15 net net 15 net net B1 5 5 354 354 B1 STORAGE STORAGE 5 net net 5 net net 354 354 B1 STORAGE STORAGE B1 B1 STORAGE STORAGE B1 4500 4500 sqft 4500 sqftSUMMER 4500 4500 sqft sqftSUMMER DAYLIGHT ANALYSISDAYLIGHT ANALYSIS 4500 sqft sqftSUMMER DAYLIGHT ANALYSIS 15 15 300 300 15 15 300 gross gross 300 gross gross 15 gross /occupant 15 mercantile: mercantile: storage, storage, stock, stock, shipping shipping areas areas 300 300 gross /occupant SOLAR IRRADIATION INNOVATION INNOVATION NO. OF ENERGY USE 3F 3F

3F CAFE

CAFE 3F CAFE 3F CAFE CAFE 2190 2190 2190 sqft sqft 2190 sqft sqft restaurant: restaurant: 146 146 3F CAFE restaurant: 15 15 net net /occupant restaurant: 15 15 net net /occupant /occupant 146 146/occupant

2F RETAIL

on /occupant on 2F mercantile:areas RETAIL mercantile:areas on the the floors floors mercantile:areas mercantile:areas /occupant on the the floors floors

1F LOBBY

without assembly and chairs tables 1F assembly LOBBY assembly without fixed fixed seats: seats: tables tables assembly andwithout without chairs fixed fixed seats: seats:/occupant /occupant tables and and chairs chairs 9 AM

12 PM 9 AM

16 PM 12 PM

mercantile: mercantile: areas /occupant areas mercantile: storage, storage, stock, stock, shipping shipping mercantile: areas storage, storage, stock, stock, shipping shipping /occupant areas

RETAIL

CAFE

USER EXPERIENCE CENTER

RETAIL

MULTIPURPOSE SPACE

OFFICE

1770 sqft

STUDIO

MECHANICAL

APPLIANCES

WATTAGE

WINTER

3790 sqft

2190 sqft

3790 sqft

3135 sqft

2763 sqft

3135 sqft

3790 sqft

3135 sqft

3190 sqft

LAPTOP

7309.12

COMPUTER MONITOR

6409.536

PRINTER (INKJET)

3990 sqft

117.468

250

1506

PRINTER (MULTI-FUNTION)

108.432

DISHWASHER

330

82.83

MICROWAVE OVEN

1500

1506

ROUTER / DSL / CABLE MODEM

1 1

225

1724.625

473.04

200

200.8

99.396

SLOW COOKER STEREO SYSTEMS TV

TOASTER OVEN

234

2466.828

1051

791.403

ELEVATOR

3500

45360

CEILING FAN

784

101.7

55.8

96.75

80.1

70.65

80.1

96.75

80.1

81.45

101.7

0.09w/m3/h

845.1

LIGHT (Project) LIGHT (Downlight) LIGHT (Office) WATER HEATER FLOOR HEATING (34,600 sqft)

16 PM 9 AM

WINTER

/occupant /occupant

9 AM

12 PM 12 PM 9 AM

16 PM 12 PM

16 PM

NATURAL LIGHT

WINTER WINTER

STUDENTS WITHNATURAL ARTIFICIAL LIGHT LIGHTING

WITH ARTIFICIAL LIGHTING

DAYLIGHT DAYLIGHT AUTONOMY 300 LUX AUTONOMY

300 LUX

DATE

STUDENTS Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike JunTodd Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd DATE

I N AST N Dec. 4th 2015

Dec. 4th 2015

ME106 ME106 O architects

SPRING

SUMMER

FALL

SCALE

SOLAR SCALE IRRADIATION

DECEMBER: 76.5 kWh/m2

MARCH: 131 kWh/m2

JUNE: 183.5 kWh/m2

SEPTEMBER: 140.5 kWh/m2

JANUARY: 80 kWh/m2

APRIL: 141 kWh/m2

JULY: 173.5 kWh/m2

OCTOBER: 118 kWh/m2

V A T I O N C E N T E R

7618

CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING ERV VENTILATION (w/h)

/occupant /occupant /occupant /occupant

12208.64

PRINTER (LASER)

REFRIGERATOR

/occupant /occupant

/ YEAR (kWh)

COMPUTER

FLOOR AREA

P R O PROVIDENCE PROVIDENCE V INNOVATION INNOVATION I CENTER CENTER D SEMESTER SEMESTER RISD Fall 2015 ERISD Fall 2015 N COURSE Integrated COURSE Building System Integrated Building System C Laura Briggs INSTRUCTOR INSTRUCTOR Laura Briggs E

/occupant /occupant

assembly assembly without /occupant standing assembly without without fixed fixed seats: seats: standing standing assemblyspace space without fixed fixed seats: seats: /occupant standing space space

LOBBY

5F 5F 2F RETAIL RETAIL 5F RETAIL RETAIL 5F RETAIL RETAIL 13.4% 2F 3135 3135 3135 sqft sqft 3135 sqft sqft 52 52 60 52 52 60 60 gross gross 60 gross gross 3790 sqft sqft 14.2%3790 4F 4F USER 0.7% 4F USER USER EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE 4F CENTER CENTER USER EXPERIENCE EXPERIENCE CENTER CENTER 63 mercantile:areas on the ﬂoors 60 gross /occupant 2F RETAIL 3790 3790 63 mercantile:areas 3790 sqft sqft 3790 sqft sqft VENTILATION on the ﬂoors 60 gross /occupant 50 gross 50 gross 76 76 6F MULTIPURPOSE SPACE

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER

1044.16

214

13750.784

310

17429.44

SEMESTER

4500

30496.5

COURSE

12w/sqft

74736

INSTRUCTOR

FEBRUARY: 93 kWh/m2

MAY: 172.5 kWh/m2

AUGUST: 165 kWh/m2

NOVEMBER: 84 kWh/m2

STUDENTS DATE

RISD Fall 2015 Integrated Building System Laura Briggs Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd Dec. 4th 2015

L101 SCALE

VENTILATION NATURAL

FLOOR PLAN

AST

architects

NATURAL VENTILATION

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER

MMER PREVAILING WIND:

SEMESTER

P R O V I D E N C E I N N O V A T I O N C E N T E R

TYPICAL PLAN #3

RISD Fall 2015

COURSE

Integrated Building System

INSTRUCTOR STUDENTS

Laura Briggs Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd

DATE

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER

Dec. 4th 2015

ME104

SUMMER PREVAILING WIND:

SEMESTER

SCALE

COURSE INSTRUCTOR STUDENTS DATE

RISD Fall 2015 Integrated Building System Laura Briggs Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd Dec. 4th 2015

ME104 MECHANICAL

SCALE

AST architects

REGULATED VENTILATION WITH e WITH HEAT RECOVERY LUNOS 2

• • • •

Window / Curtainwall / Wall integration Silent Environmental friendly: 0.09W/m3/h Tech infor:

MECHANICAL VENTILATION DUCTING

TYPICAL PLAN #2

AST architects

REGULATED VENTILATION WITH e2 WITH HEAT RECOVERY LUNOS • • • •

Window / Curtainwall / Wall integration Silent Environmental friendly: 0.09W/m3/h Tech infor:

MECHANICAL VENTILATION DUCTING

TYPICAL PLAN #1 PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER SEMESTER COURSE INSTRUCTOR STUDENTS

RISD Fall 2015 Integrated Building System Laura Briggs Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd

DESIGN CONCEPT DATE

PROVIDENCE INNOVATION CENTER SEMESTER COURSE INSTRUCTOR STUDENTS DATE

RISD Fall 2015 Integrated Building System Laura Briggs Jun Ahn, Tzu-Yu Su, Mike Todd Dec. 4th 2015

ME105 SCALE

Dec. 4th 2015

The site ME105 locates near the providence river park and connects the downtown and the college hill, acting as a hinge and a corridor. The gr ground floor is carved out to provide the visual linkage. At the north corner, the stairwell is enclosed by the curtain wall to provide the historical and natural scenery of Providence and a treat to encourage people to walk the stairs. On some of the floors, the south corner is turned into a mezzanine providing the view of the canal river and the bay. SCALE

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

ELEVATION

PROGRAM AREA & OCCUPANCY LOAD 11F MECHANICAL 3990 sqft 10F INNOVATION STUDIO 3190 sqft 63 educational: shops & vocational: 50 gross /occupant

WEST ELEVATION

INNOVATION STUDIO 3135 sqft 62 educational: shops & vocational: 50 gross /occupant

OFFICE 3790 sqft 37 business areas: 100 gross /occupant

OFFICE 3135 sqft 31 business areas: 100 gross /occupant

MULTIPURPOSE SPACE 2763 sqft 55 educational: shops & vocational: 50 gross /occupant

RETAIL 3135 sqft 52 mercantile:areas on the ﬂoors 60 gross /occupant

USER EXPERIENCE CENTER 3790 sqft 76 educational: shops & vocational: 50 gross /occupant

SOUTH ELEVATION

CAFE 2190 sqft restaurant: 15 net /occupant 146

RETAIL 3790 sqft 63 mercantile:areas on the ﬂoors 60 gross /occupant

LOBBY 1770 sqft 118 assembly without ﬁxed seats: tables and chairs 15 net /occupant 354 assembly without ﬁxed seats: standing space 5 net /occupant STORAGE 4500 sqft 15 mercantile: storage, stock, shipping areas 300 gross /occupant

SECTION PARALLEL TO SOUTH FACADE

B1 EAST ELEVATION

26 P R O V I D E N C E I N N O V A T I O N C E N T E R

OCEAN NOMADS

JACQUES ROUGERIE COMPETITION

Team Member: Tzu-Yu Su, Yashen Hu, Dongyue Zhang, Mengcen Shen

STORY BOARD EMBARK

VENTURE

29 O C E A N N O M A D S

The city grows itself into the ocean, forming a new suburb area. {Living Unit}

The community starts to drift away from the mainland and becomes self-sufficient. {Living Unit + Production + Trade + Social + Health}

Tzu-Yu Su

Yashen Hu

FLOURISH

DECOMPOSE

30 O C E A N N O M A D S

The community evolves into a nomadic tribe and thrives on the ocean. {Living Unit + Production + Trade + Social + Health + Research}

Small self-sufficient units emerge and drift away from the main program structure, which performs as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;main land.â&#x20AC;? {Living Unit + Production + Trade + Social + Health + Research}

Dongyue Zhang

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THE INVISIBLE CORNER

Computing Drawing

Instructor: Carl Lostritto

STATEMENT

THE INVISIBLE CORNER Chapter 1: The Canvas a fragment of the perceived world

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Chapter 2: The Lines a herd of lines enter from one end of the canvas, traveling through, and exploring this scrap of the world they turn, diverge, intersect, collide, blur, and fade as they travel, responding to the substance, unperceivable by human eyes, forming a representation of the matter exists in this framed fragment of the universe, and delivering it to the eyes. Chapter 3: The Missing Edge place where the lines ponder or cease disappointing viewerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expectation of seeing the moment through its absence unneglectable regret Chapter 4: The Corner revealed through the streaks of lines, composed of, and accentuated by the missing edges reified on the canvas, yet unsettled with the ever shifting understanding of it it is concrete and ephemeral inside and outside concentrating and dispersing solid and void permanent and transient

The studio examines the reciprocal process between computation and architecture design and explores how computation generate drawings, influence, and inspire architectural design. It focuses on the corner conditions of architecture and how lines articulate the edge, the corner, and the surface.

STROKE STUDY CODING STUDY

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BOSTON US POST OFFICE DRAWING

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NAVY YARD SENIOR HOUSING

URBAN DESIGN PRINCIPLE

Instructor: Dongwoo Yim

SITE ANALYSIS FLOOD BUILDINGS AFFECTED BY FLOOD

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The site locates at the Charlestown area in Boston, MA. The flood analysis shows the existing buildings and the program type of the buildings that will be affected by different flood situation. The 2-feet-flood condition is common for Boston now, while the 5-feet flood condition illustrates the extreme flood situation. Yet, presumably in ten years, with global warming effects, the now-extreme situation will be common and the 7-feet-flood condition will be the extreme situation. And in twenty years, the extreme flood situation might reach up to 11 feet, which will affect 15 percent of the residential buildings in Charlestown.

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The project will be a senior housing combined with the public water rehabilitation program. This will be a response to the aging population in Boston, which aims to provide housing units for seniors living alone, with spouse, with family, or with friends, combined with the water rehabilitation that can soothe common muscle and joint problems. The ramp in the project is to connect and circulate between the housings, and encourage the residence to walk and introduce views to the residence. The public program also serves as an alternative destination for the Freedom Trail visitors and as a social hot point between the residence, the local community, and the young and the old.

The site is located at a triangular shape dock in Charlestown, Boston. On the north-west side of the site boundary sits the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital. The site has a strong visual linkage to East, West, South, and North End of Boston, and to Chelsea. Charlestown is also one of the earliest settlement place because of its high terrain. CHELSEA

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TOURIST ROUTE The site is only 0.5 miles away from the end destination of the Freedom Trail, which is celebrated by 4 million visitors annually, yet rarely visited by tourists or local residence.

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Freedom Trail Route: Freedom Trail Route Length: 2.5 miles Time: 45 - 90 minutes

Length 2.5 miles Additive Route: Freedom Trail Route: 45 - 60 minutes Time Length: 0.5 miles Length: 2.5 miles Time: 90 minutes Time: 459 -mins walk from USS Constitution Musuem

16 mins walk from Bunker Hill Monument

Additive Route: Extended Route Length: 0.5 miles Time:

9 mins walk from USS Constitution Musuem

16 mins walk from Bunker Hill Monument Length 0.5 miles Time 9 minutes from the USS Constitution Museum 16 minutes from the Bunker Hill Monument

Public Water Rehabilitation

GROUND PLAN

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Water Rehabilitation

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Reception

Swimming Pool Water Rehabilitation Reception Water Rehabilitation

Water Rehabilitation

Bath

Swimming Pool Swimming Pool Body Scrub Water Rehabilitation Swimming Pool Water Rehabilitation ReceptionReception Water Rehabilitation Reception

ater Rehabilitation

wimming Pool

TYPICAL PLAN

Reception

Water Rehabilitation

Body Scrub

Massage

Reception Reception

Body Scrub Body Scrub

40Scrub Body

Sand Bath

Swimming Pool

Bath

Bath Bath

Bath Steam / Sauna

Massage

Body Scrub Body Scrub

Sand Bath Body Scrub Massage Massage Massage

Sand Bath

Stone Bath Sand BathSand Bath Sand Bath

Stone Bath

Steam / Sauna

Stone Bath

Steam / Sauna

Stone Bath

Steam / Sauna

Kang Bed (Heated Brick Bed)

Steam / Sauna

Kang Bed

Stone Bath Kang Bed (Heated Heated Brick Brick BedBed) Stone Bath Steam / Sauna Kang BedSteam (Heated Bed) Steam / Brick Sauna / Sauna Kang Bed (Heated Brick Bed)

Massage Massage

Kang Bed (Heated Brick Bed)

Stone Bath

Massage

Massage Bath MassageBody Swimming Pool Bath Body Scrub Swimming Pool Swimming Pool Body Scrub Scrub Stone Bath Massage Sand Bath Sand Bath Stone Bath Bath Stone Bath Water Rehabilitation Water Rehabilitation ReceptionReception Sand Bath Steam / Sauna

Bath Bath Pool SwimmingSwimming Pool Stone Bath

120 Sand Bath

Steam / Sauna Steam / Sauna

Kang Bed (Heated Kang Bed (Heated Brick Bed)Brick Bed) Kang Bed (Heated Brick Bed)

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HOUSING TYPOLOGY

STUDIO

STUDENTS & YOUNG PROFESSIONALS

5 BEDROOMS STUDENTS

2 BEDROOMS SENIOR COUPLE

2 BEDROOMS & 1 BEDROOM COMPLEX SENIOR COUPLE & SENIOR LIVING ALONE

3 BEDROOMS

SENIOR LIVING WITH FAMILY / RELATIVES / FRIENDS

2 BEDROOMS

SENIOR COUPLE / FRIENDS

46 S E N I O R H O U S I N G

MODEL MASS MODEL

47 S E N I O R H O U S I N G

INTERIOR LAYOUT & PUBLIC PROGRAMS

DRAWING VIEW TO THE BAY

VIEW FROM THE BAY

48 S E N I O R H O U S I N G

HOUSING UNITS

PUBLIC BATH

PROVIDENCE TRANSIT STATION

Architectural Design Studio

Instructor: Manuel Cordero-Alvarado

SITE SHADOW CASTED ON THE SURROUNDINGS

SUMMER SHADOW

WINTER SHADOW

S T A T I O N

Summer Shadow Winter Daylight

T R A N S I T

SHADOW / DAYLIGHT ANALYSIS

Winter Shadow

P R O V I D E N C E

-80 feet

-40 feet

0 feet

50 feet

100 feet

STUDY MODEL SHADOW MATRIX

52 P R O V I D E N C E

MASS MODEL

T R A N S I T S T A T I O N

DRAWING FLOOR PLANS

Roof Plan

53 P R O V I D E N C E

2nd Floor Plan

T R A N S I T S T A T I O N

Ground Plan

Platform Plan

MODEL

54 P R O V I D E N C E T R A N S I T S T A T I O N

ENCLOSED ENVELOPE - CHINA ACADEMY OF ART

Architectural Analysis

Instructor: Chris Bardt

CHINA ACADEMY OF ART, BUILDING #14 BUILDING ANALYSIS

ENVELOPES ROOF

BUILDING VOLUME

57 LOUVRE FACADE

E N C L O S E D

GALLERY

MAIN PROGRAM NORTH WING CLASSROOM

E N V E L O P E

SOUTH WING CLASSROOM

COURTYARD

LOUVRE FACADE

INNER CORRIDOR

Instead of modeling the walls, columns, and floors, the digital model models the space itself, which shows rooms as space bubbles. The bubbles are connected through the windows and the doors. The building sits next to a lake, with its arms stretch into the water, and faces the mountains. Despite the location and the form of the building display a welcoming gesture to the natural surroundings, the main occupied space is wrapped inside multiple envelopes of space bubbles.

OUTER CORRIDOR

X-RAY DRAWING

VIEW FIELD ANALYSIS

58 Normal View Field: 1st Floor

E N C L O S E D E N V E L O P E

Broadest View Field: 1st Floor

The view field analysis further examine the contradictory character of the relationship between the building and its environment. The 1st Floor Normal View Field shows the main view field locates at the sides of the building. However, the scenic nature view locates at the front side of the building where no view cones are shown.

Overlay of View Fields