Yi Ren Master of Architecture I Graduate School of Design Harvard University
2011 Fall New York/ Paris Columbia University
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RECYCLING CIRCULATION
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TWISTING SHELTER
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INHABITABLE CIRCULATION
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VIRTUAL DRESSER
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TRANSPARENCY IN MOTION
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PUNCTUATING FACADE
Water Molecule -‐-‐ Fashion Center Sculpture detail-‐-‐ Shelter Tent slope-‐-‐ Landscape
Hand movement-‐-‐ Furniture Body mechanics-‐-‐ Screen Clothing device-‐-‐ Street
2010 Fall Abstraction Studio Columbia College
2010 Summer Career Discovery Harvard University 2010 New Year START
Wished to pursue my dream in Architecture A Science Student -‐-‐ Architecture
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VERSATILE SUITCASE
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MANHATTAN TRANSFORMATION
House -‐-‐ Suitcase
Subway map -‐-‐ City
RECYCLING CIRCULATION Scales:
Water Molecule transform into Fashion Center
Task:
Design a fashion center with runway, archive, store and party space in Lincoln Center.
Approach: Intrigued by water going through itself over time: projection, evaporation, gravitation and re-‐projection in the Fountain in site, design a circulation path that draws visitors in and out like a water pump. New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University Critic: Thomas DeMonchaux
Lincoln Center Fountain (Sec.):(Centi-‐Sec) 00:00 01:30
05:50
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08:40
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Projection Path
Recycling Path
Evaporation Path
Elevational Mapping of Water Molecule Paths -‐-‐ Radius based on Density 01 RECYCLING CIRCULATION
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Study Model -‐-‐recycling surface using Semi -‐transparent material
Concept: Circulation as water pump
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Walk on runway herself + Attract next person Put customers on stage Runway connected with fashion store display Shop at fashion store
Go through party
1. Archive -‐-‐Slice as storage of cloth Spacial Programs
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2.Display-‐-‐visual access to cloth
3.Runway-‐-‐visual access to people 4.party space-‐-‐structure permits people
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Slice Diagram
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Vertical
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Linear Sequence
Spacial Loop Recycling
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Circulation path -‐-‐Attracts visitors in and out like a water pump.
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TWISTING SHELTER Scales:
Sculpture detail transform into Shelter
Task:
Deploy analysis of a Parisian Metro panel to Ƥ shelters subway entrance at 14th st. and 8th ave. in New York City.
Approach: observe twisting when connect 24 section cuts. Construct subway entrance’s twisting surface from 6 progressive transformed section cuts.
SKIN
New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University Critic: Thomas DeMonchaux
SECTIONS
Parisian Metro Panel
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CAT Scan Sections
TWISTING when connecting sections
Axonometric drawing -‐-‐ CAT Scan of Parisian Metro panel
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Axonometric drawing of Subway Entrance
SKIN 3
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Enter Here
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SECTIONS
TWISTING Surface as
2. INFO WALL
1. CANOPY
3. BENCH
Twisting surface constructed with ơ
Entrance view
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Sectional view
Inside view YI REN
INHABITABLE CIRCULATION Scales:
Folding tent transform into Landscape
Task:
Tent needs to be ƪ and removable, touch 3 points each on pompidou and on Bryant Park.
Movement Tracking Diagrams Regulated Free Pause: stand,sit,lay
Tent Mediates
Vertical Pompidou facade ή
On Top of Tent surface
Regulated/Free Epicenters
Approach: Tent as inhabitable circulation, mediates the Regulated movement and the free wondering, the vertical facade and the horizontal plane. New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University
Critics: Philip Nobel+Rodrigo Zamora
Underneath Tent surface SEPARATED Free and Regulated
OBLIQUE mediates the VERTICAL and the Horizontal, the REGULATED the UNREGULATED movements. MIXED
Ground
Site-‐-‐Elevation of pompidou facade+Bryant Park. 06 INHABITABLE CIRCULATION
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Free Movement
Sitting Area
Regulated Movement
HORIZONTAL Orientation
SITTING
VERTICAL Orientation
REGULATED FREE
SITTING
2D drawing -‐-‐ Folding Pattern
Inside view
Plan view
Side view
Perspective drawing -‐-‐SLOPS facilitate various movements 07 INHABITABLE CIRCULATION
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VIRTUAL DRESSER Scales:
Body movement transform into Furniture
Task:
Observing human interaction with a piece of clothing-‐-‐putting on, storing, folding, hanging.
Approach: hand movement. Modular dressers Deform in reaction to various body gestures.
Storing
Hanging
New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University Critic: Babak Bryan
Putting on
Still from Video Hanging Putting on
Hanging
Folding
Storing Folding
Folding Storing
Putting away
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Mapping Hand movement Magnitude of X-‐axis base on Duration of Occupancy
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A modular dresser , a physical model of in-‐static volume formed by hand motion, aggregates to accommodate gestures such as,fold cloth, tie shoes, sit, climb and lay. DEFORMATION STAGES Modular dresser
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Light storage
2 Light
storage
Heavy storage
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Heavy storage
Light storage
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Heavy Heavy storage storage
Light-‐weight Storage
Heavy-‐weight Storage
SECTION 6 dressers
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TRANSPARENCY IN MOTION Scales:
Screen-‐-‐body mechanics
Task:
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Shift
Approach: Mobile and stable visual experience generated by ơ , by shifting and rotating double screens. New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University Critic: Jane Kim
+ Shift + Rotate Studies
Rotate
Transparency change of Double Screen -‐-‐ Rotational movement with Chaise
Elevation view
SECTION
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PUNCTUATING FACADE Clothing Device-‐-‐Street
Task:
Transform shirt into a perceptual device for seeing and moving along Orchard street.
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Approach: Sleeves on legs. Tension from behind pulls vision upwards -‐-‐ from storefront to residential as one walking. New York/ Paris Studio, GSAPP 2011 Fall, Columbia University Critic: Patrick O’Connor
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Rotational movement mechanism
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Hindrance device-‐-‐make one look up
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VERSATILE SUITCASE Scale : House transform into Suitcase Task: Design a suitcase manifest the design intent of a chosen architect’s work. Approach : Versatile nature of SANAA’s work -‐-‐House in the plum groove, unfold and re-‐ fold the surfaces in the house to create a Ƥ Ǥ
Architecture Representation: Abstraction studio 2010 Fall, Columbia College ǣ
Axonometric Overall house
Split
Subtract
Unfold
House in the plum groove, SANAA
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Versatility From Countless Ways of Folding Ǥ This suitcase is incomplete until people start to interact with it.
Refold
Unfold
4 Panel Enclosure
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3 Panel enclusure 1 Panel interior
2 Panel enclusure 2 Panel interior
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Connections happens in ...
MANHATTAN TRANSFORMATION
1D
Scales:
Map of Subway -‐-‐ City
Task:
Transform Manhattan based on map analysis.
Approach:
connections with in the island by folding and twisting the subway system.
Passengers
3D
x3
Current connections
Architecture Representation: Abstraction studio 2010 Fall, Columbia College ǣ
Analysis of manhattan subway Distortion based on Density of Pas-‐
2D
Repair shops
connections
Parks
senger, Repair shops and Parks respec-‐ tively.
X 3
Solution-‐-‐optimizing Connections, to solve unequally distributed resources FOLD
Connect uptown and down town 14 MANHATTAN TRANSFORMATION
LIFT
Connect uptown and midtown
TWIST
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REFLECTIONS FROM ARTISTS Scales:
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Task:
Remix an artist’s cooperative and integrate Ǥ
Approach: ƪ surfaces can connect inside and outside; visually extend the building to site and site into building. Critic: Sophia Lau Summer 2010, Career Discovery Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
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PERFORMING SPACEOBSERVING SPACE
BEDROOM
Transparent glass PERFORMING SPACEOBSERVING SPACE
Performing-‐Observing Intensity: ELEVATION CITY VIEW
BEDROOM ROOF GARDEN
FIGURE DRAWINGX STUDIO BEDROOM ROOF GARDEN
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Performing-‐Observing Relations
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Yi Ren E-‐mail: yr2229@columbia.edu Tel: 920-‐217-‐2035 Address: Jia 3 Building, Cuiwei Rd, Haidian District, Beijing, 100036 CN
Thank you.