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The Wall Undergraduate Thesis Project Media infrastructure complex | architectural graphical novel | Beijing,China Advisor: Karen Lange Media, Controversy, Empowerment Media technology has shown to be a vain and glorious species, as any dramatic shift in political power, the Wall imagines a different technology advances, its users gain access to its power in a democratic reality where architecture exists in a disconnection with economy but manner where anyone can grab attention, economic gain, or political draws inspiration from Chinese culture to contextualize a radical idea agency. However, the promise of democracy in the mediascape inspired by western literatures. However, it is the desire to push the has only been abused by centralised political authority and tech possibility for architecture to initiate something outrageous evolving companies to enforce censorship and restrict data accessibility. The from the rapidly changing mediascape. society as a whole needs to be challenged through a lack of censorship and authoritarian jurisdiction to visualise and mobilise active forces in participation of social changes. This challenge is attempted by an architectural proposition located in Beijing that materializes the decentralisation of media authority, demarcation of publicity and privacy, vulnerability of public ambience, symbolism, and a panoptical presence in an environment that is highly censored and The interactive comic is available online at: charged with political and cultural attention. Without alluding in to https://walterwang.cargo.site/
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VR research center | San Francisco, California | 30,000 sqf Advisor: Umut Toker
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Architecture of Laban Movement study Laban Movement study studies dance movement in relation to passage of space and time. Taking it as inspiration, this projects intends to create spaces with various relationship between skin, structure, and program to meet programmatic needs such as sunlight and circulation as well as exploring the morphology of architectural typologies. It is an architectural interpretation of shape, body, and effort in Laban movement study.
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Cementitious Panels Max: 48” x 96” x3/8”
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おはようございます > <
Shibuya P.W.C mix-use housing | Tokyo, Japan Advisor: Don Choi
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| 20,000 sqf
Walls move away from sleeping pods and open these rooms to other adjacent spaces
朝食は用意できている ~
Metabolic space in a high-density urban arena
おはようございます > <
お腹が空きました !!
寝る時間です
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staircases give access to residents to lower level
Traditional Japanese architecture has been seen as “architecture of walls”, and the flexibility of space framed by moving sho-ji walls are the defining architectural elements. Shibuya P.W.C combines the modularity in modern Japanese Metabolism architecture in 1960s and its culture of wall and creates a 12-story structure with pistons(infrastructure), moving sho-ji walls (thresholds), and chambers(territory) to constantly configure into spatial conditions for different activities.
Around 8am, kitchen tube connects with the rooms on upper levels, which are closer to sleep rooms. Therefore it allows adjacent rooms to become breakfast spaces for residents. Salaryman dress up!
朝食は用意できている ~
遅刻だ !!!
私はとても疲れている !
私はとても疲れている !
お腹が空きました !!
どこにいますか ? Kitchen/bfast space for residents at upper level ~ 8am
Stairs run from ground floor to top floor, which provides the primary means of circulation and encourages encountering among residents.
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Structures attached to the floor plates on top four floors. They are hidden by moving walls when residents are going to sleep or requires high level of privacy.
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Chamber 08 Structures that are attached to the floor plates of top six floors and provide major sleeping and private spaces for the residents when they are hidden by moving walls.
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From 8am to 12pm, kitchen tube slowly moves down to the middle floors and connect to the adjacent pods that are opened up by moving walls. Programs such as family restaurants can therefore be accomodated within these spaces.
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何を着たらよい?? 急ぎます !!!!!
Chamber 04 Sandwiched between two moving walls, Chamber 04 on each floor has very different views and privacy throughout the day. Therefore its function can change between private uses and social
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A four-story structure similat to Piston 1 includes kitechen and staircases inside. It moves from top to the bottom of the building and collaborates with Chamber 03s.
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Bathrooms for the buildin. Pipes go within the central column.
Elevator takes salaryman residents down to floor level
Rooms on both sides by moving walls experience the most dynamic changes in terms of privacy and views. Therefore they become the perfect spaces for social uses such as groupstudying and hangout.
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Rooms with various degress of enclosure that responds to sunlight. It provides dining spaces through collaboration with kitchens in Piston 1. When not connected to Piston 1, it functions as social spaces without a defined program.
お元気ですか ?
私は大丈夫です !
Hydraulic elevator tube
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A monolithic concrete structure for Zen meditation. It doesn’t move but intends provide a view of moving shadows of a cross at the opening on top.
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On ground level, wall-A plan forms very directional spaces to give more room for the pedestrian need passing the site due to busy rush hour in Shibuya.
Piston 01 A four-story cylindrical structure that is powered by hydraulic system to move from top to the bottom of the building. It collaborates with Chamber 01s to allow families run their restaurants at certain time of the day. At night, it reaches the ground and becomes part of the street life Shibuya.
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Each floor is in sequence two hours ahead of the floor below, and the structure will complete will reset into initial configuration every 24 hour -- walls move every hour to open up some chambers during the day closes off some at night, and moving kitchen pistons connect to the adjacent open chambers to provide dining space and storage space. Inspired by Sho-ji, walls are designed with wood members of four different profiles to provide various potential transparency and shadows. Socially, Shibuya P.W.C proposes a structure for mixed-use housing project that incorporates family-owned diners to promote interactions with people from outside and necessary privacy for residents, which is traditionally important to cultivate a Japanese sense of family and community. 私はとても疲れている !! 私はとても疲れている
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At around 8pm, walls move hides the sleeping roooms in upper levels to create privacy for residents.
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At around 8 pm, when Shibuya gets busier and people come out to hangout, the kitchen tube reaches ground floor, connecting with the spaces of adjacent rooms to allow people to gather in these family-style restaurants.
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West LA Campus urban planning | Los Angeles, California Advisor: Stephen Phillips
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Mix-use urban campus in west LA 01_Dissimulation Studies Replacing the current West Pavilion Shopping Mall, this project proposes a mix-use campus incluing a Google office complex, CHAMFER an Equinox Hotel, housings, transitional housings, shops, and restaurants. A series of exercise that depoits linear geometries led to an organisation of various boomarangs that facilitate navigation through the site and formation of courtyards and plazas as active WEDGE PRIME nodes of outdoor public space.
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sketches OPERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE Taking similar formal languages from two massings, operational perspective explores the possibility of 2D drawings to inspire three dimensional relationship through operations that create false perspectives and continuously alter the relationship of foreground and background in order to confuse audience and the clarity in meangings. Another layer of information is offered through shadows and dashed lines to question the relations among lines and figures.
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TWO MASSINGS A series of sketches explores two [types of] massing solids that interact with each other in a three dimensional space yet only captured through compositional instincts at certain moments. There are tectonic ideas as well as the obssession with complexity emerging from confronting with lines in a two-point perspective drawing. Due to the limitation in analog drawings, the space stay open to interpretations and imaginations.
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