Brian Yu-Chang Tseng Architecture Portfolio

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Master of Architecture Ecology Architecture Certificate yutseng.design@gmail.com c. 856 375 4489 University of Pennsylvania l Graduate School of Design

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 MIT INFINITE CORRIDOR

Boston, MA | Critic: Marion Weiss & Michael Manfredi

02 TOWER LINKAGE

New York, NY | Critic: Jonas Coersmeier

03 POST-SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY

New York, NY | Critic: Ferda Kolatan

04 REVIT ARCHITECTURE

Philadelphia, PA | Critic: Franka Turbiano

05 SMART AGRICULTURE LOOP

Kano, Nigeria | Critic: Laura Baird + Reinier de Graaf [OMA / AMO]

06 DEPLOYABLE NET

Philadelphia, PA | Critic: Mohamad Al-Khayer

07 CASE STUDY - SALK INSTITUTE

La Jolla, CA | Critic: Lindsay Falck

08 LOTUSPOLIS

Vancouver, BC | Critic: Shawn He

09 FACE OFF

New York, NY | Critic: Mark Jacob

10 YU-CHANG TSENG INFO

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MIT INFINITE CORRIDOR Boston, MA Graduate Design Studio l UPenn Professor: Marion Weiss

Michael Manfredi The recent territorial merging of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the city of Cambridge has crystalized the potential of an ideal incubator for academic research and entrepreneurial productivity.

MIT, unlike many urban institutions, has embraced the notion of a more porous delineation between campus and city.

This outlook has stimulated the creation of a new special use district at the east edge of campus and south edge of Cambridge, designated as a new high density live/work research district that is simultaneously urban and academic.

This MIT special district occupies a finite footprint but has unparalleled views of the city and river, bounded by the core campus to the west, Main Street to the north, the Sloan School of Management to the east and the Charles River to the south. Currently a collection of surface parking lots, this recently rezoned area has the potential to become a city within the city, a campus within the campus, and an extension of the university itself.

MIT, unlike many urban institutions, has embraced the notion of a more porous delineation between campus and city.

This outlook has stimulated the creation of a new special use district at the east edge of campus and south edge of Cambridge, designated as a new high density live/work research district that is simultaneously urban and academic.

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A new territory of Innovation MIT and the city of Cambridge are often described as synonyms for innovation.

Perhaps the most compelling evidence of the symbiotic relationship between academic research and entrepreneurial enterprise is the presence in Cambridge of nearly every globally recognized technology company as well as countless spin offs and emerging enterprises.

This merged territory also includes an equally impressive density of research laboratories pioneering breakthrough discoveries in medicine and now exceeds Silicon Valley in the creation of patents and companies per regional square foot.

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academic, city and campus, water and land from design, I aim to design a new infinite corridor system not only enhance current campus circulation but also to be resilient for social and cultural shift, and even for catastrophic disasters by nature in future institutional city.

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1 1 - Overall view of sectional detail model.

2 - Side view of the model.

3 - Mock up of indoor space frame.

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3 4 - Physical model of overall complex.

5 - Study model plug-in system.

6 - Overall building complex on site.

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5 Challenging an uneven architecture Challenging new meanings of academic campus design, two different architectural typologies from Ewha WomansUniversity and Archigram Plug-In city are comingled into a new paradigm for MIT’s East Campus.

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Dominique Perrault represents landform building strategy that could bring landscape and ecology design into the campus. The other architectural typology from Archigram Plug-In city by peter cook represents renewable building system to reshape obsolescence in campus.

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Circulation Concept The building circulation design was inspired by Peter Cook’s Archigram Plug-In City architecture. Circulation can be created and enhanced by gathering flows into one corridor, connecting by pathways or traveling between existed terraces.

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New Infinite Plug-In City On behalf of making synergy between city and campus, academic and entrepreneur, the new design creates flexible indoor space with receptible space frames to accommodate diverse programs which are frequently changed every year. Modules inside the buildings can combine and interact with other modules to meet demands from various programs. Offices don’t tie with floor, and lab can integrate with residential space.

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Case Study I Archigram Plug-In City

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TOWER LINKAGE New York, NY Graduate Design Studio l UPenn Professor: Jonas Coersmeier

The site is located in the New York City High Line, which is a main growth area for new housing towers around the Chelsea district. Actualizing a combinatory logic for ultra luxury and low-income housing models, this project proposes advances a new prototype for mixed urban housing towers along the High Line urban park in New York City.

The new condominium tower is designed to be accessible and affordable for both luxury and low income housing units. There are two different levels of street access. One accessing High Line, which is the high level and the other is from 10th Ave, which is the low level.

These two public streets merge within the ‘Sky Park Condominium Tower’ as infrastructure that creates an unexpected moment of space.

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Low-income + ultra-luxury housing Challenging the traditional notion of the condominium, the primary goal of this project is to create unexpected and unforeseen experience within the tower, which is derived from the concepts of bifurcation and of continuity of surface.

When the ultra-luxury and low-income housing units are entwined, Sky Park Condominium Tower progresses vertically to share views of the cityscape, river and light between classes. In this tower, residents can enjoy the views and socialize together in activity spaces with green parks situated between floors.

Design Program Analysis

Site Section Diagram

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Low-income + ultra-luxury housing Concept Let building intelligently create semi public and private place. So residences are able to having more interaction with public even inside the building.

Mission invents a combinatory logic for ultra luxury and low income housing, and proposes a prototype for new residential towers along the High Line urban park inNew York City.

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Plans : 1st + 2rd Floor Plans

Concept Development The site is located in the New York City High Line, which is a main growth area for new housing towers around the Chelsea district. Actualizing a combinatory logic for ultra luxury and low-income housing models, this project proposes advances a new prototype for mixed urban housing towers along the High Line urban park in New York City.

The new condominium tower is designed to be accessible and affordable for both luxury and low income housing units. There are two different levels of street access. One accessing High Line, which is the high level and the other is from 10th Ave, which is the low level.

These two public streets merge within the ‘Sky Park Condominium Tower’ as infrastructure that creates an unexpected moment of space.

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Building Structure System Rig Structure + Bedrock Foundation

POST-SCIENTIFIC MUSEUM OF GEOLOGY New York, NY Graduate Studio l UPenn Professor : Ferda Kolatan A Post-Scientific Museum of Geology will represent nature as how we generally perceive it and will suggest different ways of observing that relationships between nature and the material world.

This museum will present a new way that realism could be formulated by challenging the existing and conventional way of thinking in designing museums.

Mission The museum will provide unforeseen and extraordinary experiences by revising the traditional role of current museums.

To immerse an audience in the natural beauty of ambiguity, speculative realities would be turned into perceivable realities in unique way of geological formulation in design. The otherworldly affects of the museum will drive the formal language within the unforeseen experience of the spectacular sublime. In this museum, the audience will perceive the ambiguity of natural realism, producing obscure moments that blur the boundaries of what is viewed and what is not being viewed.

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Pre-fabricated Building System l

Building Formation Instead of capturing “reality� just through conceptual reductions, the formal language of minerals creates the characteristics of the museum. The characteristic of the museum consist of three different parts: Roof, Structure, and Body. In between roof and body, the structure reveals the speculative realities in a way that alternately veils and reveals the beauty of ambiguity of nature.

Pre-fabricated Building System ll : Components

Section: Bedrock theater + auditorium

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Water collecting system

Roof Plan 238'-4"

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Instead of capturing “reality” just through conceptual reductions, the formal language of minerals creates the characteristics of the museum. The characteristic of the museum consist of three different parts: Roof, Structure, and Body. In between roof and body, the structure reveals the speculative realities in a way that alternately veils and reveals the beauty of ambiguity of nature.

Building Section Detail A

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CLOUD AGRICULTURE SYSTEM Kano, Nigeria Graduate Studio l UPenn Critic: Laura Baird + Reinier de Graaf [OMA / AMO] The country of Nigeria is facing its biggest population boom in history. With it comes economic growth, but also an increasing wealth disparity.

In parallel, due to increasing demand, as well as increasing scarcity, food prices in Nigeria have tripled over the last 20 years; in fact, the prices for organic food in local supermarkets is as high as the price in United States. However, the average income in Nigeria is 80% lower than average income in U.S. This project is a proposal for a mobile farming network, including a model for the operation hub and required field devices, which will allow local farmers to unite together, provide more efficient agricultural production. Access to local (and, for the most part “informal”) technologies can help farmers leapfrog their learning stage then develops better result suitable for local condition. Food supply and trade network can be independent from current business model, saving at least 35% of food losses during distribution and provide reasonable food price for locals.

The prototype will be developed in Kano, a rising megacity in northern Nigeria. Through Kano’s important location as southeast end of Trans Sahara rail and center of Green Wall Sahara project, the mobile farming system can quickly replicate to other sides of Africa. Mobile farming systems run between cities can easily connect to form a broader, more productive network.

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System Loop An informal way to elaborate Kano agriculture production is using mobile network to strengthen coordination between farmers, distributors and consumers. Special deployable device will join the system starting from seedling process. Seeds plant in pre-packaged containers to increase mobility. Once the seeds grow to appropriate level then it will send to farms in settlements. Seeds get mature during transport period. After the device arrives to settlements, it can deploy all seedling containers to cropland.

During the growing stage, farmers can always consult technical support from research lab.

Farmers’ feedback will further help next generation seed better. Crops will continue to grow during it’s transport back to market. Unsold vegetables and waste can also transform to waste fertilizer, then become new soil for seedling farms.

Hub System

Several programs will feature in hub. Bring in seedling farm and market together can create a better demand and supply database to minimize over production to save food loss. Office in hub coordinates trucks on route to settlements.

Farm System

Once the truck carries deployable devices arrive to farms in settlements, it will deploy seeding container on field. In mean time, truck can pick up ready to go crops collected in one place then ship back to hub.

Deployable Storage

The device standardize all the shipping procedure, it help to calculate numbers to run statics.

GPS in truck also help to track location. Deployable device also feature as a movable mini-farm, helps crops grow during transportation. So Distance no longer an issue for agriculture time management.

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DEPLOYABLE ARCHITECTURE Philadelphia, PA Elective Course l UPenn Critic: Mohamad Al-Khayer Table Transformation is an attempt to transform pure deployable structure to an object with skin. Therefore my team connects adjustable fabrics with every joint. Then the fabric can be extend along with all kind of deploy activities in horizontal and vertical directions.

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New Structure for Future Once building and infrastructure are designed, current building system and structure are fixed and not flexible for future demands. Deployable structure enables current architectural system to be resilient for fluctuating environment in future.

Shadow is part of architecture

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REVIT ARCHITECTURE Philadelphia PA Elective Course l UPenn Professor : Franca Trubiano

1 Haworth Work Surface Compose Retangular Desk Haworth Chair Zody-Task

Level 5 44' - 10 3/16"

Level 5 44' - 10 3/16"

Vertical Solar Shade

96" - 120V PENDANT LIGHT - LINEAR

Custom Curtain Wall Panel w/Low-E Glazing

Custom Curtain Wall Panel w/Low-E Glazing

Level 4 34' - 10 3/16"

Level 4 34' - 10 3/16"

W-WIDE FLANGE W 14X43

W-WIDE FLANGE W 14X43

W-WIDE FLANGE-COLUMN W10X49 W-WIDE FLANGE-COLUMN W10X49

HVAC RECTANGULAR DUCT

Level 3 24' - 10 3/16"

Level 3 24' - 10 3/16"

ARCH 532 Philadelphia Office Building Two Partial Detailed Wall Sections

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Partial Detailed Wall Section_3 floors high 2 1/2" = 1'-0"

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532.2013 05/06/2013 Yun Su Kim Checker

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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT

The site is located to the west of Philadelphia’s China Town district, north of the 676 Expressway – at the corner of North Broad and Spring Garden.To improve fabulous Philly district, I have been asked to design and construct a speculative office/loft building north of China Town in Philadelphia. Design Challenge of this office building project was to provide opportunity to CED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT PRODUCT maximize the modeling possibilities of Building Information Modeling as well as to creatively design a building that integrates the architectural elements and practices.

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CASE STUDY SALK INSTITUTE La Jolla, CA Design Elective l UPenn Critic: Lindsay Falck Our goal with respect to the study of the Salk Institute is in concerned with the following important criteria in the structure, materiality, construction and expression of the architecture. After we analyze the building, we are very much interested in pursuing this project in a much deeper fashion. we decided to cast material similar to Salk Institute’s concrete wall. First we lay out our framework for the upcoming cast. Acrylic glass was chosen as the framework to best increase resistance to material. Then we tried different materials for our cast. We attempted to cast pure concrete; however, we ultimately cast concrete combined with plaster. The first result gave us more inspiration, so we worked toward our second and third prototypes. The final result for color was very successful. The materiel almost looked the same as the concrete cast for Salk Institute. We were very satisfy with the entire process we tried.

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Builing Analysis

Fabrication Process

Actual building Image for reference

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LOTUSPOLIS Vancouver, BC Installation Art | BC Creative Center Critic: Shawn He I was born in Tainan, Taiwan: a far-eastern city to the United States. Ponghu is currently facing a serious problem of Sea Level Rise. Many residences of the island are now required to move their homes to other bigger nearby islands, creating impacts on the residences’ daily lives, which directly affects their culture traditions. A specific type of lotus—the Victoria Amazonica is a genus of water lilies, in the plant family Nymphaeaceae, with very large leaves that float on the water’s surface. It has leaves up to 3 m (9.8 ft) in diameter, on a stalk 7–8 m (22.9-26.2 ft) in length. The leaves of the Victoria Amazonica are able to support a considerably large weight due to the plant’s structure, although the leaves themself are quite delicate.

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Step 1: Analyze Facial Expression

Face Off

Step 2: Extend Body

New York, NY Summer Studio l Columbia University Critic: Mark Jacob One of the most special forms of performance in China, Bian-Lian, is a performance that requires a special technique that allows the performer to change his face within a split second. The performer usually carries 5~10 masks under his outfit to replace his ¡®¡°face¡± with. This is an interesting technique of quick transformation that I believe can be applied to architecture.

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Step 3: Link Faces

Step 4: Grid Parts

Attachment Inspired by the Bian-Lian technique, all components are able to transform its shape by using “attachment parts� to connect one to the other. Each component is originally gridded from human face. This allows some edges to share the same shapes, allowing the edges to link seamlessly.

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