Portfolio_Yu Cao

Poetic Dwelling Yu Cao | RISD M’Arch 2017

Mobile Belonging 2016 Advanced Studio | Instructor: Friedrich St. Florian A global-sharing high-rise residential system: residential towers built in in alpha city centers to provide plugable and transportable condos for the maximum flexibility of living in different cities and the optimum consistency of personalized belonging.

The project started from a site in downtown Providence, a residential skyscraper is designed with a crane built inside to (de-)install modular homes and an envelope infrastructure providing energy-efficient micro-climate.

Provisional Patent filed: “Built-in-Crane Residential Highrise System.�

Winter Passive Heating-Solar Gain

Winter Passive Heating-Solar gain

Summer Passive Ventilation Atrium-Unit-Solar Chimney

Winter Active Heating-Hot Water

Winter Active Heating-Hot Water

Summer Passive Ventilation Atrium-Vent-Solar Chimney

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Summer Passive Ventilation

Winter Active Heating-Hot Water

Summer Passive Ventilation

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East Perspective Living Unit Section 1”=4’

South-west Perspective Unit Second Floor Plan 1”=4’

Unit First Floor Plan 1”=4’

North-west Perspective

Garden Floor Plan 1”=4’

Living Unit Model

North Perspective

Office Floor (34th Story) Plan 1”=16’

Office Floor (34th Story) Plan Office Floor Plan 1”=16’

Crane Floor (21-22 Story) Plan Crane Floor Plan 1”=16’

Living Unit Section 1”=4’

Unit Second Floor Plan 1”=4’

Crane Floor (21-22 Story) Plan 1”=16’ Ground Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan 1”=8’

Unit Second Floor Plan

Residential Floor (3rd Story) Plan 1”=16’

Residential Floor Plan

Unit First Floor Plan 1”=4’

Garden Floor Plan 1”=4’

Site Plan Site Plan

Living Unit Section

Garden Floor Plan

Garden Floor (2nd Story) Plan 1”=16’

Unit First Floor Plan

Garden Floor Plan

Amsterdam

Chicago Los Angeles

London Berlin Paris Zurich Milan Madrid

Toronto New York City

Moscow Beijing Dubai

Mexico City

Seoul Tokyo Shanghai Hongkong

Singapore

SĂŁo Paulo Melbourne

One home to live everywhere in the world

Archrane City-Share High-Rise Archrane is a global city-share residential high-rise system providing excellent mobile homes, home-transportation and reclocation service in alpha city centers and natural resorts around the world.

Sydney

Archrane One Home One World JOIN TODAY

ARCHRANE TOWER 216 W 58th St, New York City

26’

MOBILE CONDOS

26’

PRESALE

15’

8’

INVEST IN THE FUTURE Unit Type A Floor Plan + Loft Plan

ARCHRANE LIFESTYLE

Unit-A Floor Building Plan

Unit Type B Floor Plan + Loft Plan

Unit-B Floor Building Plan

1. Optimum flexibility and personalized consistency: one efficient home to live in any Archrane Towers located in alpha city centers around the world.

2. Perfect balance between work and life: Home and RV in one to enjoy camping your home in natural resorts during recreational seasons.

3. Quality living condition: abundant light and access to nature, vibrant community of global citizens

CONDOS Type A: 8’x26’ | Type B: 15’x26’ Open Living Space Kitchen and Dining Space Loft Bedroom Bath Side Balcony Communal Gardens

CONTACT

Yu Cao 401 440 5316 ycao01@risd.edu

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5’

Building Section

55’ 189’

Building Top Floor Plan

Building Ground Floor Plan

Inhabitable Continuity 2015 Making of Design Principals | Instructor: Carl Lostritto A shuttle-maker’s house featuring continous spacial transitions in scale, proportion, orientation, degree of enclosure, and the shape of the section through cut.

Phase I: design a “shuttle“--a paper structure with a specific falling movement when dropped from 6’ high. Phase II: build the model of the geometric order of the fall and design the shuttle maker’s house from there.

Methodology: iterative anology modeling resolves architectural constraints with unpredetermined forms.

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Phase II

Model from different angles

Intimate Nature RISD farm, RI | 2015 Design Principals | Instructor: Colgate Searle Two places are designed to appreciate the presence of nature.

The first is formed by lowering the land. It natually disrupts the dirctness of movement, incorperates side views, creates an enclosure to stay and introduces tide and phragmite into inner land to mark this threshold.

The second is a sound space carved out of phragmite shrubs where visual communication is controlled by different thicknesses of phragmite shrubs to bring into presence the warmth, smell and sound of phragmite.

Tidal Hide-and-Seek Bold Point Park, RI | 2015 Constructed Ground Instructor: Adam Anderson

By sculpting the ground, the proposal creates a park responsive to the tide.

From low tide at 1’ to high tide at 6’, the park constantly renews itself with changing landforms, space organizations, circulations and vegetations.

Tide and Circulation

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Circulation

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Refreshing Tradition Commercial Distric in Centre of Luxi Old Town, Yunnan, China 2012 Architecture Studio | Instructor: Jianwei Guo How to find the contemporary expression of Luxi’s traditional architecture?

Methodology: based on the “pattern language“ of local architecture, a spatial-garden typology is proposed.

It inherits the tradition of circulation place as social space, and interweaving building and landscape from local life to foster dynamic community encounters.

Local Fun National Park Planning and Design, Jiaozi Mountain, Kunming, China 2012 Studio | Hui Li Learning from the local natives’ rotation in farming, a rotation system of circulation path and spot is proposed.

Inspired by the growing mechanism of vernacular village, one scenery spot is proposed through through a collective building “process” where spontaneous events on site are valued as forces to shape the inhabitable place.

Seasonal Adventure Garden Architecture | 2013 Individual Research Among mountains and lakes, a house was born.

She drew energy from her deepest respect for nature and grew like a tree from trunk to branch. She grew and grew until nature was born in herself like herself in nature.

Methodology: classical Chinese garden is the source for architectural components where building talks with nature–the corridors, patios, pathways, platforms and pavilions. A garden architecture is explored by composing those elements.

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Foldable Cabin Iceland Trekking Cabin | 2016 Summer Intern | Friedrich St. Florian Architects The Iceland Trekking Cabin allows for the transformation from a suitable aerodynamic form to the unfolded cabin on location. It is energy self-sufficient with a rain water collector and a vertical wind turbine that generates 4 tons of HVAC capacity.

Material: structure members–lightweight aluminum, exterior panels– insulated lightweight tensile fabric, pre-fabricated service core–carbon fiber.

My contribution: invent the skin-folding mechanism, assist research, concept design, resolving the programs through plans, sections and models.

Curious Drawing

Ink on paper, 82’’x14’’ , Kunming, China, 2009

Oil on canvas, 87’’x20’’, Cows in my childhood, 2016

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Scholars 5055 square feet

Designer Comparing area

Small Hill and Osmanthus Hall South Rockery Elevation 1”=8’

4864 square feet

Frank Gehry

First built in 1440, Rebuilt in 1770, Fine restored in 1940s

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Santa Monica, California, US 1977-78

Suzhou, China

Place

Gehry Residence

Small Hill and Osmanthus Hall Plan

Small Hill and Osmanthus Hall in Master of Nets Garden

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Small Hill and Osmanthus Hall Section A2-A2

Small Hill and Osmanthus Hall Section A1-A1

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Gehry Residence Second Floor Plan

Gehry Residence Ground Floor Plan 1”=8’

Gehry Residence North Elevation 1”=8’

All drawings are 1”=8’

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Comparison of Master of Nets Garden and Gehry Residence, 2017

Gehry Residence East Elevation 1”=8’

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Gehry Residence Section B1-B1

Gehry Residence Section B2-B2

Drawings in Rome, 2015

Architecture is the art of living