CO-HOUSING COMMUNITAS

from Pratt Penghui Henry Zhang Portfolio 2018-2020

Grief Reconciliation Hope

Living Spaces Design for Two Families

225 East 21 St Street, New York, NY 10010

This residential project is catering to two families according to different users’ activities. In addition to private spaces, the deck and the library on the second floor are designed as a communal center to connect two families. The circulations are convergent to the communal areas to gather people as well.

The site is in between two taller townhouses. Thus, introducing natural sunlight to interior space is a cardinal design strategy integrating with circulation formation based on four communal areas and six private rooms.

Cross Section

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THE SHAPE OF WATER: A Retreat Facility on Staten Island Academic Pratt SOD Spring 2019 (3 Months) David Ling Battery Weed, Staten Island, NY 10305 52,300 Square Footage Individual Work

The Shape Of Water

A Retreat Facility on Staten Island

The new construction aims to connect three tiers of the original building so that the users could get into each level more convenient. Moreover, The new construction caters to major programs, including seminar rooms, conference rooms, and plenty of communal spaces to convergent people together.

The structure consists of the cylindrical unit iterations, which forms its self-support structure and brings plenty of natural light to each floor.

Site Analysis

Client: Environmental Defense Fund

Every month, users will come to the Retreat Facility for three weeks to work towards solving our global water issues. The attendees are from 12 different countries, across 12 different disciplines. Disciplines vary from scientists to politicians, engineers to designers.

Four-tiered 19th century trapezoidal fortification built of granite masonry with a moat. Guarding the Narrows, built to protect New York from attackers coming from the Atlantic Ocean. Rendered useless by the time it was completed because weaponry had changed NYC Landmark.

Programs

ITERATION 0: SINGLE-DIRECTION WAVE

STRUCTURE TYPOLOGY ITERATIONS

ITERATION 1: MULTIPLE-DIRECTION WAVES

ITERATION 2: MIRRORED CYLINDERS

3rd Level Plan

COOKING

DINING

AUDITORIUM

2nd Level Plan

LOUNGE/1ST FLOOR AUDITORIUM/2ND FLOOR

1st Level Plan

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Noguchi Museum Annexe

Academic Pratt SOD Spring 2018 (2 Months)

Gregory Bugel

37 Main Street Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

4,250 Square Footage

Individual Work

Kinetic Viewing in Traditional Chinese Paintings

Compared with the western perspective, Chinese landscape artists tend to translate the 3D space into a graphic with a kinetic viewing. They recorded a panorama of the landscape and transferred what they saw on the scroll like a diary. Therefore, the artist’s viewpoint is moving, and they need to collage each scene in their memory into a continuous landscape scene.

CORE, Basalt, 1978

Isamu

Noguchi (1904–1988)

was a Japanese American artist and landscape architect known for his sculpture and public artworks. The design is based on a series of experiments of observing his artwork: Core made out of Basalt stone. Noguchi intends to embody a sort of convergent energy in this artwork.

Viewing Box

The viewing box is a series of spatial experiments to observe the object, borrowing insight from traditional Chinese painting’s kinetic viewing. It aims to highlight the properties of the sculptures and create an immersive circumstance that the viewers will come close to the artwork gradually through exploration.

To guide the viewers to observe the sculpture from various perspectives, the viewing box’s design devised different viewing paths such as seeing through, screened, overlooking, kinetic viewing, etc., to emphasize the specific characters of the artwork.