YueDai-porfolio 2023-MSc Built Environment: Sustainable Heritage

Yue DAI Royal College of Art

CONTENTS

TORRI

St. James dwelling design for birds

St James Cemetery behind Liverpool Anglican Cathedral pp. 3-6

BARRACKS

Heritage related--traditional building skills hub Anglesey Barracks at Dinorwic Quarry pp. 7-13

Bionical space design Suzhou, Jiangsu pp. 14-17

SHELTER LEVIATHAN

Sustainable development related--Laboratory diving tank under the sea pp. 18-20

REINCARNATION

Sustainable strategy related--Futuristic space gallery Hilbre island, Liverpool pp. 21-29

OTHERS

2D Animation paintings, watercolor & solid modelspp. 30-39

01. TORRI

Project Type: Site: Duration:

St. James dwelling design for birds St James Cemetery behind Liverpool Anglican Cathedral 7 Weeks

Is here place to collect souls?

When looked at the St James Cemetery with this question, the wild bird sanctuary building that has already stood on the site for a long time seemed to be the dividing line between the real and the souls' world.

People walk around this 'TORII' on the ground and enter this site, which seems to be a gap between life and death. While remembering the loved ones and dear friends, the lightsome feathers of birds carry people's prayer and goodwill to the space beyond density

plan drawing cutting the bird house to show the potential flying route of birds

RIGHT:

steeple-top units launched into the air: movement 01

detail section of the bird houses

The interior space of all the units is knitted by soft materials and bamboo canes. The bamboo canes on the interior surfaces help to create a structure of a cross network, which makes it more convenient for birds to interest branches and make their nests more stable.

As could be seen from the 3 step drawings on the LEFT:

The ground sunk down according to the shape of the shadow created by the floating objects. Wherever the number and density of the steeple-top objects are larger, the sinking down area becomes deeper.

steeple-top units launched into the air: movement 02

steeple-top units launched into the air: movement 03

02. BARRACKS

Project Type: Site: Duration:

Heritage related--traditional building skills hub Anglesey Barracks at Dinorwic Quarry 14 weeks

This design project aims to build a traditional building skills hub in the Anglesey Barracks at Dinorwic Quarry. The site located on the side of the Electric Mountain, remains two rows of 11 barrack units in each row.

As the lecture provided by the staff goes, the handmade skills of natural stone slabs were known as a part of the local history and culture.

Therefore, the project aims to transform the heritage barracks into a traditional skills hub, which should be convenient to approach and comfortable for both accommodation and study.

The two added block is reduced to a shorter volumn to avoid cutting the mountains.

The height of the three blocks increase in sequence -- for no view be blocked.

It is worth debating that if the social space would be better used if left it open to air.

The midle block in this massing was removed and left open for social activities and circulation.

Continues the step-up nature.

However, instead of making the heritage block as the lowest block, it adds a new block asserted in the mountain slope to create this increasing phenomena.

View

Cafe & semi-open

Sunny:

Rainny:

Festival:

The light weight structures are only installed for special weather/celebration requires.

Additional Structure Strategy for Special Needs:

a)

Pros:

Fabric won’t mess easily with the hidden skeleton.

Cons:

Too much structure beams may lead to the whole system not light-weight enough.

b)

Pros:

The structure appears only on the hanging side, this leads to much less structure beams in the whole system. The overall weight of the retractable roof system is therefore largely reduced.

Kodasema

Studio

studio space. studio rooms. take place. could also residents’ privacy.

The SE method has two main components: one is the SE integrated timber components, the second is SE steel fittings.

The integrated timber components is made by using the modern technology to combine real wood components together, it overcomes the disadvantage of the natural solid wood-- easy to deformation, andthe low defects of the stress intensity.

Rime is a unique scene

northern areas. The project is inspired by this wonder.

layers

SHELTER

The inspiration of the project comes from the willow tree covered with frost in the winter.

It looks like a root silver hanging in the trees and is especially spectacular.

explosive view

There are two types of hanging methods applied in this building.

The first is the use of three-layers suspensions on the external fa ç ade, and the second is hanging in the indoor area between function blocks. The second method is arranging the rectangular units into a combination of clusters and extend from the ceiling.

04. LEVIATHAN

Project Type: Site: Duration:

Laboratory diving tank under the sea 11 weeks

In the 21st century, water pollution has become an increasingly severe ecological problem. Such as oil spills, sewage discharges, and garbage dumps. The pollutants produced by them are monsters hidden in the sea that, if left untreated, will one day expose their sharp claws to all man.

This project seeks to build an underwater laboratory that can expand and assemble at will.

The lab aims to purify water resources and improve the water oxygen content through the transformation and research of new plants. Therefore, the whole underwater environment could be optimized without using chemicals whose environmental side effects are still debated.

hamburger-shaped unit skeletonize part of the unit bottom volume reduction.

unevend ellipsoid with openings

The architecture has many arrangement possibilities.

This rendering shows the arrangement in a narrow underwater city space.

An ellipsoid with

upper and lower

while the openings on the

of openings on the bottom are

are enlarged.

new plant research and cultivation (block type 1)

mass production and further study (block type 2)

public café zone with cultivated varieties (block type 3)

view of one largest block (block type 3)

mask & sleeve sketches

modeling material: 1mm card board 5mm timber stick

05. REINCARNATION

Project Type: Site: Duration:

Futuristic space gallery Hilbre island, Liverpool 8 weeks

These elements are simplified into a more geometrical way and used in the mask as special decorations like the earrings and the hollows.

They are added because the composer is an artist, and artists usually has their own dress up style to show strong personality.

story outline

The dart took the film composer to the film world which the composer needed to score, and broke an air-dried insects on the wall. The composer met the old lady who likes to embroider and the beetle collector. The collector requested the bronze sculptor to make sculptors to help the old lady recall things from her memory. However, the sculptor refused. Since the composer is feeling guilty because of the broken of the beetle, she came to the sculptor’s to told the story happened between the old lady and the collector and requested again. The sculptor got moved and helped them. On the birthday of the old lady, the four had a picnic. On the picnic, the old lady felt very happy because of the gift. When she was embroidering, she remembered the song she liked and hummed it. The composer fell into sleep with the music and went back to the real world.

The song is all around in her mind and never goes away

too scattered and unfocused three blocks with connections sensation of spatial depth

This art gallery aims to perform 3-D projection in between the staggered flake. Therefore, many extinct species and fantasy creaturescould be presented to visitors as real as possible.

concept sketch of the 3-D projection in the exhibition area

It's hard to tell the difference between the human-used transportation sphere and the projected abstract ones. Therefore, it creates a sense of participation.

This is a creature that once lived on earth, they were a large family tens of millions of years ago.

But because of the ice Age, they were all frozen in ice and the species died out.

section of the top gallery block

detail section showing people’s movement in the exhibition & bungee jumping zone

moving line analysis of people in the architecture & detail drawings

A wind power system is altered and integrated into the vertical flake. Potentially, the five pieces at the back of one vertical unit could spin to generate electricity for building use.

The vertical block bending up and down during one day in order to maximize solar generation.

sketches showing how the small sphere enter and leave the larger sphere

& physical model

The architecture is much larger than the Hilbre island and use wax as a semi-transparent material. It provide people with a sense of mystery and movement.

Some of the vertical pannels are installed with an air fan system. They could spin and generate electricity through the wind.

06. OTHERS

Project Type: Production Tools:

Physical Models, Photoshop, Sketch, Watercolor& Procreate

physical model photo

physical timber & foam models for structure analysis

pencil sketches - famous architectures worldwide

watercolor architectural drawings

Tunnels Project

site drawing for better analysis --Williamson's Tunnels Project

site historical background -- ipad drawing on procreate --Williamson's Tunnels Project

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