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METROPOLITAN INSERTIONS: HYBRID COMPLEX AS MINI-CITY Individual Project | Professor: Werner Goehner ARCH 3102 Spring 2018
This studio proposed a hybrid complex as a mini-city with a degree of enclave-like self sufficiency. It aims to strategically interbreed various programs in order to create quasi urban conditions inside the building. Institutional, educational, recreational and commercial programs intertwine here and respond to each other. Columbia University, the Harlem Community Organizations, and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine all have their own share and joint spaces. The hybrid complex locates in the Morningside Park, NYC, and bridges Columbia University’s East Campus with the East-Harlem.
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BUFFALO AR IMAGE-SCAPES: NATURE AS NEW MONUMENT Individual Project | Professor: John Zissovici ARCH 4101 Fall 2018
This landscape design project reconstructs an interactive virtual park in Buffalo with Photogrammetry, and thereby questions the definition of monument and proposes a vision of new picturesque. In this virtual space, man-made spectacle and nature has no difference; everything is flattened into one continuous membrane. Projected as AR back to its original place, this constructed new reality coexists with the reality, and interacts with the visitors’ movement through the space. Furthermore, the Autodesk Recap models can capture the traces of the original documentation path. Unlike the deliberate sidewalks that network the man-made attractions, this digital path introduces an unconventional way to experience the nature and meander in it.
“Trees are reinterpreted in the manner of monuments. This s[t]imulates a new forms of mediated recreational ex periences for the visitors.”
The pursuit of a balance between natural preserve and urban development has long been one of the themes of urban planning. With a belief that natural view has a healing power and a good design can let citizens understand what scenic privilege they have, Frederick Law Olmsted, an American landscape architect, designed the blueprint for the Buffalo park system in the 1860s. However, as time goes on the way that the visitors exploit the parks has been deviated from Olmsted’s original vision. In the signature views of the Delaware Park, Buffalo, architecture, exquisite boats and elegantly erected statues are always the main subjects, whereas nature is more likely to serve as the background. Visitors take photos around the statue of David, but never attentively appreciate the beauty of trees. It’s time to turn back our eyes to the authentic virtue of nature. In this AR project, through the mediation of Photoscan, park view is documented and reinterpreted around these “New Monuments.”
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“FOREST” ITHACA AVIATION MUSEUM Individual Project | Professor: Rychiee Espinosa ARCH 2102 Spring 2017
This studio propose an exhibition venue after intensive feasibility study through physical models and construction drawings. The museum’s tree-morphic structural canopy stands out as its dominant concept. Those branching columns function as structural supports as well as light wells, and a catwalk is hanging from the beams at the mezzanine level. Sitting at the waterfront and facing the Ithaca farmers’ market across the river, Curtiss Aviation Museum is closely attached to the local community. The waterfront edge actively responds to the geometric footprint of the building as well.
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Models and drawings are carefully made to help examine the canopy configuration, structure system, and detail joints in different scales. Taking cues from the master plan, the museum appears highly transparent from north, with an open view to the river. Boundaries between exterior and interior, artificial and natural environments, are weakened by this openness.
Interior 1’ = 1/4” Model Exterior
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“AQUACITY� THERMAL BATHS Individual Project | Professor: Davide Marchetti ARCH 3101 Fall 2017
From late antiquity to the beginning of the contemporary, Roman Bath has been considered an amazing example of composition and articulation of space. Beside its therapeutic qualities, Roman Baths also held an important cultural identity. This studio investigates the relationship and significance of water architecture and infrastructures to the city of Rome. A thermal bath, as a new contemporary community space and an urban generator, is proposed next to the Caracalla Thermal Baths archaeological site. It is designed to fit in its contemporary urban context and embody its historical inheritance as well.
Urban Generator This thermal bath is a self-sustainable micro urban systems, as known as, urban generators. Miscellaneous programs, like hotel / gallery / shops / gym / gardens, are integrated into the complex.
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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM RESEARCH: TREEHUGGER PAVILION Yuheng Zhu, Jiaying Wei | Professor: Mark R. Cruvellier ARCH 2613 Fall 2016
This is a group project aiming to explore the structural system of the Treehugger Pavilion by Holger Hoffmann + One Fine Day + Trier University of Applied Sciences in Germany. It’s a large-span umbrella-type pavilion without solid shear wall in its lateral load resisting system, only supported by five tilted columns. The porous honeycomb framing system effectively reduces the self-weight of the roof. To built the 1:20 physical model, we lacer-cutted all the modular wood beams, soldered 350 brass sheet connection pieces and casted 5 tin pentagon rings with fishing sinkers.
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TUBULAR KNITTING: FIBERGLASS COMPOSITES CHALLENGE Yuheng Zhu, Xiaohang Yan, William Qian, Jingxin Yang, Jingjing Liu | Independent Study Spring 2018 Professor: Sasa Zivkovic | Teaching Associates: Christopher Battaglian, Brian Havener
This project is done by five B.Arch students and architecture faculty of the Cornell Robotic Construction Lab (RCL). It won first place in the 2018 AIA/ACMA Composites in Architecture Design Challenge. In contrast to traditional fiberglass application, we knit the glass rovings into webs. Balloons are inserted temporarily to inflate the tubular knit, thereby leaving a durable structure with organic porosity after resin is cured. A sample provided the support of wood at 1/10 the self-weight in test. These lightweight, spatial and structural tube can be an alternative to traditional columns. Besides, the system can be customized, flat packed and easily assembled on site.
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UTTER PRIVATE SPACE: KINETIC CURTAIN SYSTEM Yuheng Zhu, Jiaying Wei | Professor: Martin Miller ARCH 4605 Fall 2018
This modular architectural skin utilizes Arduino motion sensors to interact with the environment. Through physical and digital prototyping, it examines how computational design and robotic integration can create more intelligent architectural form to protect users’ privacy with motion-sensitive automated curtain.
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“ S P A C E J A M ! ”: GRANULAR JAMMING FURNITURE DESIGN Yuheng Zhu, Xiaohang Yan, Zachary Capel, Zoe De Simone, Kevin Huberty, Theresa Bracht, Catherine Breen | Independent Study Fall 2018 Professor: Mason Peck (Mechanical Engineering), Sasa Zivkovic (Architecture)
SPACEJAM! is a multi-configurable furniture piece that uses granular jamming to achieve its various forms. The prototype is comprised of an inner (“jammable”) plastic membrane full of poly-fill pellets and a durable slipcover, color coded for ease of operation. The user rolls the prototype into the desired configuration. The pressure created during the rolling is enough for the model to stay in the desired position initially. The use of granular jamming also allows SPACEJAM! to mold to the user’s body for added comfort and adaptable uses. Due to its special construction method, it implies possibilities to be used by astronauts in space as well. This interdisciplinary independent study project is achieved under the joint efforts of five architecture students and two mechanical engineering students, faculty of Cornell AAP and Cornell College of Engineering.
*A volume of dry particles under pressure can experience granular jamming: the transformation from fluid-like behavior to solid-like behavior.
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RISD SUMMER: BRANDING + IDENTITY DESIGN Individual Project | Instructor: Donald Tarallo SIGDS, Rhode Island School of Design | Summer 2017
This visual identity design is created during a two-week intensive course, Branding + Identity Design, at the Rhode Island School of Design, Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies 2017. This course focuses on designing an identity system for a brand of our choice, and let the vision, mission and core value of the brand be collectively embodied in the identity system. In this case, I fabricate a design firm of myself, title it “YZ Design�, and build a distinctive visual identity system for it.