Portfolio_Xiangtai Sun_05232019 by Xiangtai Sun

PORTFOLIO Xiangtai Sun

CONTENTS: Working in LA (2016--2019) 01.Arena. Inspire Korea Project Aedas LA_2016-2017

02.Solaris Facade Renovation Project Aedas LA_2016-2017

Study in LA (2014--2016) 01.RECAST. Granduate Thesis Sciarc_GT_Fall 2016

02.TAINO MUSEUM. Thom Mayne Studio Sciarc_3GBX_Vertical Studio_Spring 2016

03.CEMUCHA MUSIC CAMPUS. Thom Mayne Studio Sciarc_3GBX_Vertical Studio_Sprint 2016

04.EL BULLI HOTEL & EXHIBITION CENTER. Design Development Sciarc_3GAX_DD_Fall 2015

05.IMPOSTURE & IMPOSITION. Peter Testa Studio

Xiangtai Sun

(1)323-397-9520 sunxiangtai719@gmail.com Via: 100 S Santafe Ave. Apt 446 Los Angeles. CA

Sciarc_3GAX_Studio_Fall 2015

06.MONOLITHIC. Creativity Campus Sciarc_2GbX_Studio_Fall 2014

07.FACADE & MATERIAL. redesign of elevation and structure basing on exsting architecture Sciarc_Advance Building Structure_Fall 2014

08.CUBE&RIBBON&VOXEL. copenhagen library Sciarc_2GAX_Studio_Fall 2014

09.CODING FORM. Python for Grasshopper Algorithm Development Sciarc_Advance Structural Systems_Spring 2015

10.Tensile Membrane. hybird structure Model Sciarc_Advance Structural Systems_Spring 2015

Intern in LA (2015) 11.THE INHIBITED IMAGE. Istanbul Community Market Ideas Competition. Ctrl + Space Studio Kinch_Exercise_Summer 2015

Working & Study in China (2011-2013) 12.PREVIOUS WORKS. Undergraduate Works & Working Experience China_Before 2014

07/2014 - 09/2016 08/2008 - 06/2012

EDUCATION:

Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-arc) | Los Angeles_US | M.arch2 Master of Architecture

Jiangnan University | Wuxi_CA | Undergraduate Bachelor of Architecture

EXPERIENCE: 05/2018 - 05/2019

DAC | Los Angeles_US | Computational Designer & Associate

03/2017 - 05/2018

Aedas LA | Los Angeles_US | Computational Designer

11/2016 - 03/2017

Stenfors Associates Architects Inc. | Los Angeles_US | Architecture Designer

01/2016 - 04/2016

Thom Mayne Studio | Los Angeles_US

04/2015 - 07/2015

Studio Kinch (M. Casey Rehm) | Los Angeles_US | Computational Designer

04/2015 - 07/2015

W.I.T.H International Design & Development Limited | Shanghai_CN| Architecture Deisnger

Manage cloud-based BIM 360 documentation and coordination with client BIM team. Manage the team accomplishes large Revit project Resort â&#x20AC;&#x153;Inspire Koreaâ&#x20AC;? SD & DD set. Including Arena, Casino, Hotel, Retail, Conference center etc. Parametrically develop massing geometry and enclosure system. Algorithm Development. Revit documentation and assist internal rendering. Mainly in charge of Arena exterior cladding system design. Including massing, panelization, facade pattern design, structure development, and documentation. Developing workflow to work amount multiple formats of modeling software to handle large complex project(Rhino-GH-Dynamo-Revit). Assist preparing centerline model for physic analyzation.

BIM managing experience. Revit documentation. Prepare detailed construction drawing for studio lab interior renovation. Thom Sci-arc Studio: Schematic design for Haiti Now. Field research in Haiti and group discuss es with clients. Experiencing bamboo structure and combinatory urbanism. Contribute to publication. Working on Ctrl+Space competition. Script Algorithm Development. Start to develop the script of using color movement to generate geometry. Architectural Designer: Mainly participated in the residential project. 3D modeling, planning, physical model, rendering, etc.

SKILLS: Languages: Mandarin(Native), English(Fluent) 3D Modeling: Grasshopper, Rhino, Revit, Dynamo Graphic Design: PS, AI, After Effect, Indesign. Coding: Processing(JAVA), Python. Rendering: V-Ray, Keyshot, Lumion

AWARDS:

01.ARENA Office: Aedas LA Director: Mark Ejnes

Aerial View

Project: Inspire Korea Gross area: 31,618 m2 / 340,333 ft2

Standing seam roof

Exterior facade enclosure

Arena Geometry assembly Diagram

The 15,000 seat inspire event center / arena and 6,700-seat outdoor amphitheater, which anchor the east end of the inspire korea development, will be primary destinations among the resort’s many entertainment options. The design responds to the unique location within a park-setting, surrounded by greenery and with views out to the water front. The singular, coloful, ‘boulder‘ form of the arena will be seend prominently from both the development ‘s main vehicular entry road as well as the inspire retail interior. The ‘pixelated’ pattern of glass and colored metal panels on the facade are inspired both by ‘wampum’, purple and white shell breads traditionally crafted by mohegans, asa well as the color of korean red maple trees in autumn.

Main Entry

Outdoor Amphitheater

01.ARENA Office: Aedas LA Director: Mark Ejnes

CONCOURSE & SEATING BOWL

Southern Concourse Rendering, Interior finish of the exterior enclosure using stagged mage panels assembly to create interesting pattern effect.

Project: Inspire Korea Gross area: 31,618 m2 / 340,333 ft2

ARENA SEATING BOWL Lower bowl with 14 rows of retractable / portable seats and 8 rows of fixed seats, and portable WC platforms with maximum GA capacity of 7,385. Club seating with 8 rows within lower bowl with maximun capacity of 564. Upper bowl varies between 10 and 18 rows with maximum GA capacity of 4,865 Electronic assisted acoustics system allowing variable reverberation times. Extensive broadcast cabling, fiber and copper, infrastructure with broadcast truck patching and power AV and theatrical lighting patching infrastructure for flexible placement of event production support house follow spot/high broadcast camera platforms. High power house sports audio system.

Southern Concourse Rendering, Interior finish of the exterior enclosure using stagged mage panels assembly to create interesting pattern effect.

01.ARENA

Grasshopper Roof Geometry

Office: Aedas LA Director: Mark Ejnes

Area Calculation

TECHNOLOGY

Project: Inspire Korea Gross area: 31,618 m2 / 340,333 ft2

Grid Setup Overall Input Panelization

Panels Color

Gutter

Design Surface Geometry Control

Interior Mega Panels Rib Structure

Unfolded Panel

Rib Structure

Individual Input

Individual Output

100% DD Exterior facade package Color Panels

Facade Panels

Secondary Structure

Gutter

Rib Structure

Standing Seam Roof

Glass Panels

Opening Panels

Grasshopper & Python custom tool

Dynamo & Revit documentation

02.SOLARIS Office: Aedas LA Director: Mark Ejnes

Algorithm Development Dynamic Calculation: Four main behaviors control circles movement. r2 r1

r2 r1 r2

Attract: r1+r2>Distance

Avoid: r1+r2<Distance

Processing Algorithm development

Attach: r1+r2â&#x2030;&#x2C6;Distance

Sum: Vector = V1+V2+...

01.Recast Sciarc | Graduate Thesis 2016 Instructor: M.Casey Rehm

Model Photo Los Angeles | Pershing Sqaure Residential & Transport hub

Pixel Transformation Rule Diagram

A contemporary approach in architecture toward distinguishing reality from its representation is to translate information extracted from exisitng objects into other entities. There are myriad ways to manipulate and use information but it is essential to maintain certain qualities of the reality being transformed and not render it illegible. The balance of using images of things that are familiar in order to produce things that are unfamiliar is much more difficult than to transform the image into something totally different. The focus of this work is that it seems to replicate things in an exact way but at a certain point we notice that some specific things like details are absent, which begins to change the way we understand both reality and its representation.

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Model Photo, 2016 Xiangtai Sun

01.Recast Sciarc | Graduate Thesis 2016 Instructor: M.Casey Rehm

Elevation & Section Los Angeles | Pershing Sqaure Residential & Transport hub

Producing an architecture interface relevant to its context and the city by utilizing tectonics of image transformation to form. By using the process of utilizing image base pixels base data to generate form. I create an architecture that is more concern with articulation at the interfacial level and coherence at the interfacial level. And then they form the overall figure. How I begin to mediate with contextual information toward performance quality. Utilizing information in one way to create structure, slub, form, articulation and plan organization. By planning organization I making a lot of formal decision now How I generate an architecture from the image. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m very directly controlling the algorithm that are producing that piece of architecture. So the things Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m giving importance to be things like sequence organization and plan.

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Elevation Image, 2016

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Section Image, 2016

01.Recast Sciarc | Graduate Thesis 2016 Instructor: M.Casey Rehm

Floor Plan

Los Angeles | Pershing Sqaure Residential & Transport hub

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Exploded Diagram, 2016

How I can use the material, the fragment and materiality to imply organization within the interior of the building. I blow away column wall alining begin to generate the intense room or like imply spaces within more indifferent shaded floor plan. that sense is building on more museum understanding of modernism floor plan. Where I have clear hierarchal distinction between architectural tectonic types, column walls, slub. However, my architecture creates a kind of ambiguity between those and I allow the materiality of the building to fluctuate between column and wall without necessarily different shading material type. Consistance system in approach is applied the way I develop a column to the wall. They never really always one or the other. Like if you’re looking at my plan. It’s sometimes it’s kind like a column. Sometime it’s kind like a wall. Sometime it’s kind like a posy. BUt it’s never exclusively that.

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Floor Plan, 2016

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Model Photo, 2016 Xiangtai Sun

01.Recast Sciarc | Graduate Thesis 2016 Instructor: M.Casey Rehm

Site Plan

Los Angeles | Pershing Sqaure Residential & Transport hub

This is the case that taking that museum project of hierarchy none coplaner grid within the floor space. Open floor plate. Manipulating by blurring the distinction between material approach to those tectonic types columns walls. The way I situates the building onto the site. I reorganized the diagonal system with the pixel grid.

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Site Plan, 2016 Xiangtai Sun

01.Recast Sciarc | Graduate Thesis 2016 Instructor: M.Casey Rehm

Axonometric Drawing Los Angeles | Pershing Sqaure Residential & Transport hub

In order to allow for a layering none totalistic. Kind of mutable process from sidewalk to interior of the project. By overhanging those layers. The distinction about where the project starts or where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stops. And really shift to its context is not well delineated so it never bust to the sidewalk like a typical urban project does.Which is in a lot ways of like more a suburban project. Like my residential life in the suburb they pull back their front yard and things. By rotating my project I create kind of suburban exterior condition in an urban site which allows us to still operate it as a park as well as a building and a bus deport.

Sciarc Graduate Thesis Axonometric Drawing, 2016

02.Haiti Project Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Background Haiti | Port-au-Prince 1. Taino Museum 2. Cemucha Music Campus

In this studio we study with Thom Mayne and team from Morphosis dealing with two group of actural clients from Haiti. The first one is in building scale, a Taino museum which have thousand Haiti local artifacts. And the other is in urban sacle, a museum campus. We have a short trip to Haiti meeting with the clients discuss their demand and current conditions. The studio’s aim is to understand these conditions and recognize Cap-Haïtien’s cultural assets as oppertunities for urban development, economic growth and community enhancement.

Client of Cemucha Music Campus, 2016

Client of Taino Museum, 2016

INTRODUCTION: The Haiti Now Project (2012-2014)

In the fall of 2012, The Now Institute initiated Haiti Now as an intensive, cross-disciplinary research and design project dedicated to contemporary urban issues and design potentials in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The two-year project encompasses a comprehensive critical analysis of Haitian modern history and politics, a data-driven research investigation of planning, infrastructural, and social issues, and a set of collaborative design proposals developed in concert with Haitian governing and community partners to target reconstruction through the lenses of resilience and culture. In 2014, the bilingual 730 page Haiti Now was published. Most impressive observation: 1 Humid and hot climate 2 High density and various height of plants surround the site 3 High amount of artifacts and low variable of artifact material(The display method and Curation) 4 Taino art has its own symbolic pattern 5 The main goal of museum is education( means child might be the main audiance) 6 Sound of ocean Challenges 1 Most artifacts are grey or white which doesn’t have much variable 2 How to combine multple building materials which has high limitation. 3 Mult-type audiances:child, native, foreign visitors. 4 Self-ventilation might reduce maintainance fee. Issues/Problems: 1 How to interact with plant surround the museum 2 Meet the demand of a variety of visitors 3 Multi-function of structure( combine with display & ventilation) 4 Block view for different types of display in such small area. 5 Limitation of building materials

CAP-HAITI NOW

In the past 20 years, Cap-HaĂŻtien, the historical and formal capital of haiti, has experienced a dramatic growth in population and commercial activity which has fueled an uncontrolled growth in informal settlements and strained the capacity of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roads, utilities and the ecology to meet and mitigate the burgeoning demand. As a result, the operations and locations of the city market, the quality of residential neighborhoods and access to cultural centers have diminished. According to studies by the Word Bank, the population of the city has more than doubled between 1995 and 2005 and its area has increased tenfold in forty years, from 1.22 km2 in 1960 to 12.39 km2 in 2002.

02.Taino Museum Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Banboo Structure Haiti | Port-au-Prince

This museum has high amount of artifacts and the owner still collecting. Those artifacts doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a clear background and knowledge about it. So the display space need some flexibility to rearrange. This concept focus on design a grid system with wood shelf. Which allow the museum easily change the space base on the demand.

Mat Foundation

Exterior Ground

Concrete grouted (BambooReinforce)

Interior Grid (Bamboo)

Prefabricate Pipe (Steel or Plastic)

Exterior Grid (Bamboo)

02.Taino Museum Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Section

Haiti | Port-au-Prince

Methodology

Any Cultural planning proposal must begin with understanding the people, the culture and heritage of the city. Therefore, we collaborates with local, from public and private organizations to understand the social and historical forces that have shaped the people, their lives and their role within the physical and natural environment.

Sciarc Vertical Studio Concept Model Photo, 2016

02.Taino Museum Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Section

Haiti | Port-au-Prince

Most impressive observation: 1 Humid and hot climate 2 High density and various height of plants surround the site 3 High amount of artifacts and low variable of artifact material(The display method and Curation) 4 Taino art has its own symbolic pattern 5 The main goal of museum is education( means child might be the main audiance) 6 Sound of ocean

Challenges 1 Most artifacts are grey or white which doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much variable 2 How to combine multple building materials which has high limitation. 3 Mult-type audiances:child, native, foreign visitors. 4 Self-ventilation might reduce maintainance fee. Issues/Problems: 1 How to interact with plant surround the museum 2 Meet the demand of a variety of visitors 3 Multi-function of structure( combine with display & ventilation) 4 Block view for different types of display in such small area. 5 Limitation of building materials

03.Cemucha Music Campus Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Site Plan Haiti | Port-au-Prince

The wish of the Haitian government is for history-rich, formal capital city of Cap-Haitien to become the new global face of Haiti. The recognition of Cap-Haitien as the UNESCO World Heritage City to bolster the tourism industry was the key for this redemption and rebirth. To support this goal, the Now Institute envisions a strategy based on cultural institutions as development catalyst for the future of the city. Two scales and types of cultural institutions will be studies and designed.

Cemucha Music Campus Site Plan, 2016

Cemucha Music Campus Site Model Photo, 2016

03.Cemucha Music Campus Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Site Plan Haiti | Port-au-Prince

Cemucha Music Campus Chunck Model Photo, 2016

03.Cemucha Music Campus Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2016 Sping Instructor: Thom Mayne | Eui-Sung Yi

Section

Haiti | Port-au-Prince

Cemucha Music Campus Section of Class Room, 2016

Cemucha Music Campus Site Section Slide, 2016

04.Design Development Sciarc | DesignDoc | 2015 Fall Instructor: Baumgartner, Zamora Partner: Yuhui Huang, Mattwew Dlack, Zhengxuanzi Shang

Mega Drawing EL Bulli Hotel | Exhibition Center

PRIMARY STRUCTURE ALUMINUM PANEL WHITE STEEL FRAME PLANETARIUM ACOUSTIC PANEL

PLANETARIUM STAIR STRUCTURE 50MM INSULATING LAYER AND WATER PROOF 5MM STEEL DECK AIR SUPPLY FLOOR STEEL FRAME

FLOOR STEEL FRAME GLASS FRAME

We take a new approach to Design Development as it is conventionally understood in practice. Our approach will be a disciplinary one, where we challenge representation and search for relevancy in an era where documentation of design and manufacturing are in flux and are increasingly based on three-dimensional live date. While BIM is an important development in this regard, our aim is to re-think how we can envision and communicate design in innovative wats which exceed the design object itself. We re-consider drawing in terms of plastic surgery and magnetic resonance imaging, where things can be hacked apart, peeled away, cut away, sliced, and exploded. Cuts will no longer be flat as in conventional plans and sections, but will be warped and active. We will attempt to combine multiple ontologies into the discussion, where things may be represented in terms of their profile, silhouette, internal organization, energy, action on other things, depletion, integration, and disintegration all at the same time.

LECTURE HALL FACADE PANEL

HALF UNDERGROUND GARAGE CORE STAIR

EL Bulli Hotel | Exhibition Center Chunck Image, 2016

PLANETALIUM

RESTAURANT

HOTEL ROOM

CORE1

EL Bulli Hotel | Exhibition Center Mega Drawing, 2016

04.Design Development Sciarc | DesignDoc | 2015 Fall Instructor: Baumgartner, Zamora Partner: Yuhui Huang, Mattwew Dlack, Zhengxuanzi Shang

Detail Structure

EL Bulli Hotel | Exhibition Center

The investigates issues related to the implementation of design: technology, the use of materials, systems integration, and the archetypal analytical strategies of force, order and character. We worked on basic and advanced construction methods, analysis of building codes, the design of structural and mechanical systems, the development of building materials and the integration of building components and systems. The intent of this project is to develop a cohesive understanding of how architects communicate complex building systems for the building environment and to demonstrate the ability to document a comprehensive architectural project.

PRE-FORMED STEAL C-BEAM STEEL L SHAPE JOINT 40CM STEEL SUPPORTING TUBE REFORMED C BEAM CONCRETE SUPPORTING LAYER STEEL CONNECTION I BEAM STEEL FRAME PRE-FORMED STEEL JOINT PANEL SUPPORTING JOINT I BEAM COLUMN 24MM PREFABRICATED PANEL

STEEL HANGING JOINT STEEL WALL FRAME STEEL CURVED I BEAM STEEL TUBE STEEL FLOOR FRAME

PREFABRICATED SLAP PREFABRICATED I BEAM STEEL TUBE

I BEAM FRAME DUCT FLOOR TILE

PREFABRICATED PANEL

8MM ALUMINUM PANEL STEEL TUBE

05.Re-Post-Modernism Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2015 Instructor: Peter Testa Partner: Ruizi Qin, Hongyang Lin

Image & Photo

Los Angeles | Cathedral Residential & Transport hub

Cathedural Exploded Diagram

As a clue of superposition, seam in the super-object suggests the encounter of vectors of two or more beings. Its nature of bearing such different vectors triggers the variety of perception. The notion that one entity exists throughout different point-of-views as sets of instances suggests a possibility of further superposing a super-object: a secondary axis of superposition. Derived from its existing superpose condition, the superposition of the “instances of perception” brings a yet more intriguing mutation to the seam, for it’s not only at the conjugation of geometry, but at the conjugation of perception as well.

05.Re-Post-Modernism Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2015 Instructor: Peter Testa Partner: Ruizi Qin, Hongyang Lin

Model Photo

Los Angeles | Cathedral Residential & Transport hub

Process Diagram

Processing script and robot arm control is primarytechniques I used in my studio which give me ability to carefully control the variable during project development and locate the right route. But techniques cant hold a project. The work flow is kind of guideline for me to develop unique processing script suits each direction. The script is far too easy to ruin the original things which we put in. After notice that I carefully develop my script to keep the quality element of architecture and develop new form of architecture language.

05.Re-Post-Modernism Sciarc | Vertical Studio | 2015 Instructor: Peter Testa Partner: Ruizi Qin, Hongyang Lin

Instruction

Los Angeles | Cathedral Residential & Transport hub

Machine vision changed almost everything. Decades architecture keeps dealing with things like geometry, space, material. The way we design new form of art keeps using the way we saw this world. It has been a long time there is nothing incredibly new image comes into our life. People were already familiar with abstractly vision and the world of postmodernism was already become a kind of cliches and become nothing interesting in it. However, machine vision brings something new into our life and it really changed the way we treat this world. It makes me think about the world we saw right now isn’t the whole picture in front of us. We only accept light color distance smell texture. But how we gather all those information and how we calculate them and translate them to our understandable thing is way too simple. What would this world looks like if we change the rule or strategy? In my studio, the project focuses on such superpositions under the perception of “machine vision”. Based on careful analysis of the geometry characteristics of the original object, a workflow is carefully designed to seek for a different grammar of the classic architectural vocabulary. We try to use the image to orientate object. We setup the cooperate object both in the digital and physical world. In this way, we discover the influence of machine vision and what new kind of things it can bring to architecture. The original object is decomposed into four classes of elements. Each class has three instances of different seam condition: preserved, separated and averted. A specifically designed machinery point-of-view is applied to each class for the process of superposition and re-composition.

06.Monolithic Sciarc | Vertical Studio Instructor: Marcelo Spina Partner: Hongyang Lin

Hotel

Site Plan

EL BULLI Creativity Campus

Museum

Library

Research center

EL Bulli Creativity Campus Site Plan, 2016

Restaurant

EL Bulli Creativity Campus Process Diagram, 2016

06.Monolithic Sciarc | Vertical Studio Instructor: Marcelo Spina Partner: Hongyang Lin

Facade Detail

EL BULLI Creativity Campus

In this project, I begin to use scripts to assist design. I use Processing which base on JAVA script to generate grid texture and Python script to export the geometry into Maya. The strategy of the code is generated different elements base on the brightness of each pixels in the front view rendering. Unit geometry form the complex texture. The density of the unit will influence the appearance and function of interior space. The spaces which have high density of units will convert to larger voids which allow light come into the building or form some negative space. The spaces which have low density will be more solid and against the light and sight.

EL Bulli Creativity Campus Facade Develop Diagram, 2016

07.Facade & Materials Sciarc | Advance Structure Instructor: Marcelo Spina Partner: Yunke He, Jiajun Tan, Jiashu Zhang

Site Plan

Tokyo Opera house

Tokyo Opera House Model Photo, 2016

120mm Wapan wall 150mm reinforced concrete wall Interior Space

Invisiable suporting beam H Beam

Structure Analysis Diagram This Course aim to design a facade for the unbuilt Tokyo Opera house designed by Jean Nouve. With several analysis, we were asked to apply one famous building facade on it. As be seen on our model, we are interested in Ningbo Museum. Wangshu, 2012 pritzker architects uses thousands of bricks and “wapan”, which are from old buildings which were demolished. Wang recovered them and used them as his mainly building materials. After several comprehensive analysis of this “wapan” wall. We tried to use wood pieces to simulate the wapan and bricks. The pattern on it came from a traditional Chinese painting. He abstract the pattern and built it up.

07.Facade & Materials Sciarc | Advance Structure Instructor: Marcelo Spina Partner: Yunke He, Jiajun Tan, Jiashu Zhang

Tile

Process & Structure

Tokyo Opera house

Acoustic Ceiling We focus on the decoration of it and then use the technic in the new building system. The outer wall decoration of Ningbo Museum is made in two ways. Some walls are decorated by millions of tiles collected in local areas. This sort of decoration itself was a common way of building an economic house in the old days in Ningbo when cements are not introduced. Other walls are decorated with cement-covered bamboos. We build wood, plastic and chip boart to build the physical model. We draw the overall plan on the support plastic. We stick small pieces of wood on it base on the drawing.

Brick

H Beam

Brick

Tokyo Opera House Model Process Photo, 2016

08.Cube&Ribbon&Voxel Sciarc | Vertical Studio Instructor: M.Casey Rehm Partner: Trenton Mays

Section Rendering

Copenhagen Library

We began with a cube that then was interpreted 3 individual ways that could all rely on each other to function but never to function alone. We classify these systems as mass, surface and voxel. The mass is pulled from the cube that was manipulated by the contextual images. The chunks that were chosen are dependent on the surfaces that were used to disrupt the cube. The surface can only create space if it is working with the mass. This insures that the individual systems cannot function alone. The voxel is the third system. As the mass and surface are manipulations of the cube, the voxels replicate the cubeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s form. Its purpose is structure, circulation, and open space that the other two systems cannot generate. The voxels serve different functions as they range in scale. The larger column voxel skewers throughout the entire height of the building, tying it together. A secondary voxel achieves an enclosure that will allow for greater space with smaller voxel columns that support itself within the mass and surface. The 3 systems hold primary objectives alone but only together do they produce a whole building.

09.Coding Form Sciarc | Visual Study | 2015 Fall Instructor: Satoru Sugihara Partner: Yunke He, Jiahe Lu

Grasshopper(Python) Processing(JAVA)

We attack the challenging area of design where no existing design tools can work efficiently, with integration of technological innovation and design process. Technological innovation gives us opportunities to see and think design problems in new perspectives and opens up new possibilities of design. Our concurrent practice of developing tailored software tools and examining design problems enables us to pursue those possibilities. The target area of our research includes not only algorithms and software but also electric and electronic hardware and robotics to seek broader integration of design, fabrication and interaction process.

CONCEPT PROTOTYPES

10.Tensile Membrane Sciarc | Vertical Studio Instructor: M.Casey Rehm Partner: Carol, Yuhui Huang, Zhengxuanzi Shang

Analysis & Model

Membrane Structure model Pulling Forces

RingConstrains

Tension Points

Pulling Forces

METAL STRUCTURE

SUPPORT

STRETCH CLOTH

STRING

MODEL

With an understanding of fundamental structural principals (in particular, the efficiencies of tension and compression limited systems), identify a preferred architectural project and develop an improved structural approach for the design’s structural system. In the selection of a structural approach, determine appropriate materiality. The goal of this project is to “mix and match” structural systems for the desired intent to better support the architectural concept. Too often, structural solutions are imposed on architectural projects resulting in conflicting resolution of the larger architectural concept. The opportunity here is to use knowledge of basic structural fundamentals and the tools that we have learned to explore, develop and integrate holistic and hopefully better integrated structural concepts.

PHYSICAL MODEL

11.The Inhabited Image Kinch Studio | Intern Competition Instructor: M. Casey. Rehm Partner: Kellan

Rendering

Instanbul Community Market

Offices Elevator Core

Bathrooms and Support Space

Loading Dock Auditorium / Outdoor Space Parking Garage Entrance Multi-Level Market Area

The hypostyle hall of the proposal blurs the aesthetic and performative relationships between the utilization of the market hall and its materiality. The ornament and surface of the market proposal derives its color and figure from sampled images of produce, the context, and humanity. As these inputs are given autonomy towards the production of form, a simulated material agency conflates all heirarchies and produces a space which fluctuates in scale and color with the same rythm of the event which occurs within it. As the hall fills with customers, merchants and their wares the visual distinction of building and inhabitant blurs, productively feeding back with each other. The utilization of the column grid to organize the market hall allows

for a mutable threshold to its context. The entire facade of the market opens to the street allowing a fully public space. In the center of the market hall, a terraced public ampitheatre allows for community events within the market and an adjacent double height space allows an area for meeting, events, and consuming produce and good purchased at the market hall. The exiting building is renovated to house bathrooms and both freight and personal evelators. Additionally the existing garage can be utlized for the loading dock with a renovated receiving area built behind hit. Additional spaces for reception exist on the second floor of the existing building. the offices inhabit 2+ bays along the easter facade, allowing the administration of the market deep views into interior of the market, the public ampitheatre, and the public street, ensuring continual connectio between staff and the community. The office volume additionally anchors the facade of the market balancing the only other solid facade of the existing building. Parking is provided in an underground parking area connected by elevators.

15.Shopping Mall Competition Work(2013) Instructor: Ming Shi Partner: Zhaoyun Yuan

Instruction

Urban Project & Public Space

16.Research Center Intern(07/2011-07/2012) Exployee(08/2012-07/2013)

Work Experience

17.Architecture Museum Intern(07/2011-07/2012) Exployee(08/2012-07/2013)

Work Experience

to be continued

Xiangtai Sun