Yu-Wei Chiang_Architecture Portfolio_2019-2022 by Yu-Wei Chiang

Abstract A fusion of obsessions, Architecture, encompasses culture, traditions, styles through its form and gestures. In the past two years studying at SCI-Arc, I developed my interests in soft materials and imagery resolutions. In observing the softness in materials, captures it to be the gestures in architecture, then zoom on a satisfactory resolution to glance and experience the spaces in between. The works in this portfolio demonstrate my interest with a diversity of elaboration under different topics/conversations in architecture. These works show the evolution of obsessions of me in architecture field.

Contents Design Studio 3B : The Los Angeles Ghetto Film School 3A : The Bent Slabs : Housing Project 2B : The Unearthy World 2A : The Irregular Fit : Elementary School 1B : Drape and Motion : Single Family Housing 1A : Party of Noises

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Visual Studies Visual Studies III

The Veiny Ruin : Future Ruin Attended Image

Visual Studies II_Floating Water Hill Beyong Digital_ Being Poetic Visual Studies I_As Softness Lay

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Liberal Arts & History + Theory Essay The Perks of Being Intellectual

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Applied Studies Environmental System : The Green Expansion

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Layers &

Supports

3B Design Studio

Spring 22 Instructor : Mira Henry

Ghetto Film School The ghetto film school looks at the non traditional ways of learning in film industry, the new balance of the learning environment took place in these overlaying spaces, soundstages and controlled classroom that require higher floor clearance are set at the positive spaces through the layers and the negative with its impression of the massing became the supportprogram for this dynamic learning experience. This project with its informal quality created a soc ial landscape for student to interact with the learning of the curriculum through the void and the elevated view of the ground it provides a variety ways of learning in the ghetto film school Instructor : Mira Henry

Design Studio The informalities of the massing model sets laid out on the site, pressing down on the sand and the pebble makes the impressions on the ground for the instructional program. The silhouette of the set and the relief on the ground became the experience of the Los Angeles Ghetto Film School. Over the top of all and attached to the column that rises from the ground, the sun shading mesh and its loose edges took the informalities of the green frame from the quilt. Through bending and rolling, it fits onto the site through the flow of the system.

Fig. 01 South Elevation

Fig. 02 Exterior Render

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Fig. 03 Exterior Render

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Rationalizing

Fig. 04 Quilt Analysis

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and the representations of the film school The segregated sections of the quilts and the linear but not straight green stripes overlays on top, attached through the yellow pom-pom, which attach everything together. This project unifyed the layers through. overriding the materials. the negative and positive surfaces are created for the experience of massing. Fig. 05 Quilt Image

Fig. 06 Site Plan Over the top of all and attached to the column that rises from the ground, the sun shading mesh and its loose edges took the informalities of the green frame from the quilt. Through bending and rolling, it fits onto the site through the flow of the system.

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Fig. 07 Pulled Diagram Anchored on the roof surfaces of the massing, stair circulation continues toward the perimeters of the segregated sections of the quilt which became a bridges that connect through the massing and the higher side of the site . This bridge elevated views of the ghetto film school at a higher level, alongside with the underlaying structures; the beams and columns created a grid for the experiences walking through the school. 9

Fig. 08 Plan A

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Fig. 09 Plan B

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Section

Fig. 10 Circulation + Stack Diagram

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Fig. 10 Roof Diagram

Spring 22

Fig. 11 Concept Model

Fig. 12 Concept Model Moment

Fig. 13 Concept Model Moment

Fig. 14 Model Moment

Fig. 15 Model Moment

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Fig. 16 Model Moment

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Fig. 16 Model Section 1

Fig. 17 Model Section 2

Fig. 18 Model Section 1-1

Fig. 19 Model Section 1-2

Fig. 20 Model Photo

Fig. 21 Model Photo

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Fig. 22 Model Photo

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Fig. 23 Model Photo

Fig. 24 Model Photo

Fig. 25 Model Photo

Fig. 26 Model Photo

Fig. 27 Model Photo

Bent

Corrugated

3A Design Studio

Fall 21 Instructor : Ramiro Diaz-Granados

The Bent Slabs The Housing Project For our housing proposal located in the neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, we adopted the bent slab typology and utilizing the quality of materiality. The pairs of soft and rigid slabs are copied and rotated. The resulting posture creates two buildings with a central courtyard condition that extends the existing park space next to the site. The corrugation emphasizes the slab type and generates unique facade conditions and spatial configurations of the units. The ground is elevated to create parking space, retail space, and residential lobby tacked under the blanket surface. The steps descend from the park side to form an amphitheater, creating a theatrical space utilizing the two buildings as an urban backdrop. On the street side of the housing, the ground is “squeezed” out to generate small urban pockets for the public to gather in. Partner : HaoNan (Rita) Duan Instructor : Ramiro Diaz-Granados

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Fig. 01 South Elevation

The site is located in the Lincoln Park area, next to the Los Angeles River and the elysian park. The neighborhood is relatively underdeveloped compared to the rest of the city. We took this opportunity to establish urban edges through our housing project.

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Fig. 02 North Elevation

Fig. 03 Site Axon

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Fig. 04 Circulation Diagram

Fig. 05 Exterior Render

Fig. 06 Residential Floor Plan

Fig. 07 Ground Floor Plan

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Fall 21

Fig. 08 Render

Fig. 09 Section

Locating on a different part 1 Bedroom 1 Bathroom at Corner

of the project, units are developed to encounter various building features, including grooves, bent, and urban edges. In these conditions, every unit became its very own unique existence.

1 Bedroom 1 Bathroom

2 Bedroom 2 Bathroom

Loft Unit

Fig. 10 Unit Drawings Design Studio

Fall 21

Fig. 11 Section Diagram

Analyzing SANAA’s Kitagata apartment, along with MVRDV’s Markthal. Learning different strategies in dealing with the internal spacial change through the bent and tilt of the massing. In the meantime studied the spacial changes on shear or tilted slabs and the alternative uses of the space in different situations.

Fig. 12 Precedent Study

Fig. 14 Model Moment

Fig. 15 Model Moment

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Fig. 16 Model Moment

Fall 21

Fig. 20 Model Photo

Fig. 21 Model Photo

Fig. 22 Model Photo

2B Design Studio

Spring 21 Instructor : Karel Klein

The Unearthy World Film Festival & Studio The neural network generated a new site that has never been experienced before, with the collection of existing objects, it helps the site to evolve and elevate. Through dissecting the new site, the layers are being separated and utilized to become spaces for the film studio and an annual film festival. However not in a way to operate the cave but to developed a mixture of architecture and landscape.

Partners : KuBer Wang , TsunHan Lee Instructor : Karel Klein

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Fig 01. Resolution Map of Eagle Mountain

Fig 02. Evolved Eagle Mountain Map

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Fig 03. Preys' Feather Scar

Fig 04. Sunny side up fossil wrapped with olive rock

Fig 05. The shield of the sea creatures dries on the earth

Fig. 06 Chunk Axon Design Studio

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Fig 07. Elevation 1

Fig 08. Elevation 2

Fig 09. Plan

Fig 10. Section

Fig 11. The Swirling creatures on the architecture

Fig 12. Engraved Fossil on the Camping Ground

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Fig 13. Exterior of Agrestal Hill

Fig 14. Turquoise damp on Floral Kernel

Animation of the Project

Irregular

Frames

2A Design Studio

Fall 20 Instructor : Angelica Lorenzi

The Irregular Fit LAUSD Elementary School This board game designs the typology of a elementary school. Using the memory as materials to develop the features as the way of using a elementary school. Children desk, chair, lunch box, and cleaning equipment, these are the memory of elementary school at Taiwan, through the circulation of the board game players, which are the initiate of elementary school student, would be able to gain experience and ability to complete the journey of this board. This board game has 4 players to play the game and each player would occupy one side on the board, not in the way to compete but to learn together. This board features a huge and steep stairs that simulate the wildness and challenging feels of this journey. A elementary school’s typology is designed with this board game. Partner : Belen Mattoli Sanchez Instructor : Angelica Lorenzi

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Part 1Board Game This board game designs the typology of a elementary school. Using the memory as materials to develop the features as the way of using a elementary school. Children desk, chair, lunch box, and cleaning equipment, these are the memory of elementary school at Taiwan, through the circulation of the board game players, which are the initiate of elementary school student, would

Fig 01. The Board Game

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be able to gain experience and ability to complete the journey of this board. This board game has 4 players to play the game and each player would occupy one side on the board, not in the way to compete but to learn together. This board features a huge and steep stairs that simulate the wildness and challenging feels of this journey. A elementary school’s typology is designed with this board game.

Board Game Animation

Fig 02. Assembled Board Game

Fig 03. Raw Board Game Design Studio

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Fig 04. Lunch Box

Fig 05. Desk

Fig 06. Watching Eyes + Danger Zone

Fig 07. Danger Zone

2 - 4 Players Each Player will have 4 avatars Play with two dice to get the avatars to the goal Players will each recieve four random cards at the beginning of the game, it is up to the player to use it or not

Neat Desk

Miserable Lunch

Cleaning break

Great Job! your desk is neat and nice. Go to the table step.

Go to the lunch box and enjoy your meal!

Time to clean up ! Move to the cleaning prop and clean the school.

x2 boost for the next round

The avatar stop for one round

Frog Magic

School Patrol

Go to the nearest tadpole to experience the “frog magic tunnel

Walking on the danger zone!!?? You are against the school policy! If players are on the danger zone, the player will stop for the next round

The first player, who has all of their avatar at the goal wins the game !! Fig 8. A corner at the Board Game

Error Bell

Running Power

STOP

OOPS! The bell rings at the wrong time!

You are running so fast!

Sorry the construction ahead, wait more few minute!

All of the avatars back to the classroom

X2 boost for the next round

The player stop for one round

Part 2 92nd Elementary School

Fig 09. Axon

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Fig 10. Exploded Graph

Fig 11. The Bump with the Cube

Fig 12.Subtracion of Cube with bump

Fig 13. Through bump over the cube

Fig 14. Subtraction and growth

Fig 15. The normal Cube with flat grass

Fig 16. Site Plan w/ Chunk Annotation

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Fig 17. Cube Classroom Chunk

Fig 18. Bump Classroom Chunk

Fig 19. Locker/Activity Chunk

Fig 20. Kindergarten Chunk

Fig 21. Library / Cafeteria Chunk

Fig 22. Big Bump Chunk

Part 3 Diorama

Fig 23. Soft clay ground and Foam Wall

Fig 25. Experiencing Diorama

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Fig 24. The edge of the chunk Diorama

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Fig 26. Diorama

Fig 29. Diorama

Fig 27. Diorama

Diorama Animation

Fig 28. Linen + yarn

Fig 29. Exploded Diorama

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Fig 32. Plan Drawing

Fig 33. Section Drawing

Drape

Motion

1B Design Studio

Spring 20 Instructor : David Freeland

The Drape & Motion Single Family Housing Soft fabric drape and shake, Captures the drape from observation and the motion from the photography method. The project evolved from bag to cabinet which noted the drape and motion, then to a house that utilized the spaces in between drape and motion.

Instructor : David Freeland

Fig 1. Bag in Motion

Fig 2. Drape of Bag

Fig 3. Cabinet

Fig 4. Opened Cabinet

Fig 3. Cabinet

Fig 4. Opened Cabinet

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Bag Plan Cut

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Cabinet Plan 0”

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Fig 5. House / Axon view

Fig 6. House

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Noise

Glitch

1A Design Studio

Fall 19 Instructor: Mira Henry / Damjan Jovanovic / Zeina Koreitem / Betty Kassis

Party of the Noises This project embraces the noises that came from the loss of transition, including photography, scanning, and eye perception. These noises became the main character of this set of shows, not just sitting there, the augmented reality and the green screen constructed a mixed reality.

Partner : Maria Kuraeva, Jessica Skitalinsky, Zihao Xu, Ruiqi Ai, Sean Gorton Instructor: Mira Henry / Damjan Jovanovic / Zeina Koreitem / Betty Kassis AT : Leah Wolfman

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2B Visual Studies

Spring 21 Instructor: Jennifer Chen

The Veiny Ruin A created terrain with a broken TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy airport, this is a new and weird land. The vegetation that flows with an unknown liquid, broke the roof and the windows of this ruin.

Partner : Rita Duan Instructor: Jennifer Chen

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Section Drawing

Fig 1. Broken TWA with the Vein and Wilderness

Fig 2. Glitch Screen and Interior

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Fig 3. The growth of Vein broke the window and the roof

Fig 4. Light Box and broken sofa

Fig 5. Overall view 1

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Fig 4. Overall View 2

2B Visual Studies

Spring 21 Instructor: Ramiro Diaz-Granados

The Feels Absorbed the spirit of digital artwork from Coy Howard , elaborated the idea through zoomed out graphic, with imagination of the location and the surrounding. Enhancing the atmosphere through creating more. Later, uses neural network to generate simplifly RGB animation to indicate the transformation.

Instructor: Ramiro Diaz-Granados

Fig 1. Digital Artwork by Coy Howard

Fig 2. Altered image

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Fig 3. Video Stills

Fig 4. Video Stills

Fig 5. Video Stills

Fig 6. Video Stills

2B Visual Studies

Fall 20 Instructor: Jackilin Hah Bloom / Angelica Lorenzi

Floating Water Hill @ Sloppy Room Document the Object within Camera, Using Photoshop to replace the texture. Develop a relavant scene for this uncanny object.

Instructor: Jackilin Hah Bloom / Angelica Lorenzi

Floating Water Hill

Fig 1. Object in the Glith Error Box

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Fig 2. The Grass

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Starting with the two input-tools for computer. These tools controls the virtual world within snap of finger festure. Through combining these two tools, the function enlarged, and opens up the altimate imagination of physical form from the virtual world of computer. Adapt the natural material forms, grass and water. Two

which were unable to seperate from each other. However formed in a virtual platform of this super-tool. The grass is wrapping around the bump of the form and the water takes the steady and 3-dimensions of the physical object. Water floatign on the hills of grass, composed the gravity-less experience for the Floating Water Hill.

Glitched Animation

Metal

3.2”

Glass with water

Water

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Untrimmed Grass

Trimmed Grass

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Fig 3. Top View

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Water Untrimmed Grass Metal

Trimmed Grass

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Glass with water

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Fig 4. Elevation View 1 Water Trimmed Grass

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Fig 5. Elevation View 2 2.3”

Sloppy Room

Fig 6. Object in the scene

Fig 7. Flowing Linen Wall

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Fig 8. Collage Reference of Sloppy Room

Fig 9. Object in Scene

Fig 10. The yarn on the Linen that pushes the foam cabinet

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Fig 11. The Scene is Live

2B Visual Studies

Fall 21 Instructor: Coy Howard

Being Poetic Through photography and and designs of poster and film, it develop designer’s sense of being poetic.

Instructor : Coy Howard

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Fall 21

Fig 1. Shallot 2

Fig 2. Shallot 2

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Fig 3. The core of Tenderness poster

Fig 4. The Place it begins

1B Visual Studies

Spring 20 Instructor: Mira Henry / David Freeland

As Softness Lay The softness of foam reacted to the chunk of the J. Stoner house by Frank Lloyd Wright, it simulated the silhouette of the facade and the edges. Through a study of the gravity and softness, the structure replaced the chunk to hold up the foam with its elegant gesture.

Instructor: Mira Henry / David Freeland

Fig 1. The Chunk Model

Fig 2. Foam Simulating Model

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Fig 3. Foam on Structure

Fig 4. Foam on Structure

The Perks of Being Intellectual A comparison of St.Thomas Aquinas “The Real Composition of Essence” with Chinese philosophy and Hegel’s “Substances and Subjects” Philosophy I Instructor: Graham Harman

Fig 1. Hegel's Portrait

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Fig 2. St. Thomas Aquinas's Portrait

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In every culture/religion, some stories suggest how beings were created, for example, Adam and Eve from Christianity; Nüwa, who uses earth to complete human form originated from Chinese Taoism; Mangacyacileb from the Yami people, who assigned bamboo and rocks as the essence of the beings. These religions/cultures created their followers and communities with the stories that explain the birth of humans. Moreover, stories create "essence," which is considered intuitive thought merged with substances of the universe. The influential philosopher who lived in the medieval era, St. Thomas Aquinas, established the theory of the "essence" of which participated in the "existing" participating. With the concept of God as a central belief, St. Thomas suggested that only God, Jesus, is formed in the essence of its own. Therefore, Jesus is infinite. However, the beings in reality, including humans, are all finite due to the limitation of the participated's essence. St. Thomas's theory explores the timeline and causation of essence and existence. Furthermore, just about 2000 years before St. Thomas's essence that participated in his existence, the unpacking of the essences took place at warring states period of China, of which Wuxin; metal, wood, water, fire, earth; was established. Wuxin was the concept developed from the observation of the weather, and later on, developed to be essential, and eventually applied to every existence. Both St. Thomas's theory of essence and the Chinese philosophy dissects the existence into its components. Two has a considerable difference regarding the authorities in these essences in existence, which created legacy in a much

different sense. To break it down, even more, the German Idealist Philosopher, Hegel, proposed a theory to consider existence and essence in a broad vision, which gives the quality of infinite toward human thought. Hegel's theory might compose this antithesis of St. Thomas's theory that only God is infinite, in a brutal way. However, it verifies St. Thomas's idea byby explaining God's essence and form regarding its substance and Subject. In St. Thomas's theory of essence and existing, there are these two big categories of essence participating existing, God and human, in which the significant difference is infinite and finite. Since God is just itself, therefore the neverending idea came along with the existence of God, which itself could always subsist the existence. However, the essence that is participated in the existings is lack of authority to itself. Every essence that is put into the existence of beings exists before the composition. In contrast to God, humanity is never an original piece, but like a collage art, the uniqueness is formed through the composition. In this theory, humans are never able to subsist our form. Our existence relies on another being, which lets the beings be finite, therefore to composed this community that one needs others, and more needs God to survive. St. Thomas's theory has a powerful sense of Christian religion from establishing the super-powerful ability of God being infinite. However, this statement is not mainly to describe the importance God, but to compare how weak

beings on the earth are. The essences are posted as the beings start to exist. This theory adds on the causation relationship of beings' existence does not have the authorities to decide itself. Although beings in the world are finite and weak, St.Thomas suggested through the learning of essence, intellectual beings like humans could create the existings that participate. An example of the mythology and scientific facts could be established at the same time using the words of description, adapting the essence of the world. It could both be understood and somehow believe its realness, since the existence of the essence is real disregard if the composition is. Therefore the facts of essence are so powerful as they could be recreated with artificial nature. However, does that suggest the realness of existing beings is not essential and almost not worth time to look at? The theory established the relationship of the essence and existing instead of comparing each. Moreover, St.Thomas wants the intellectual beings to acknowledge the weakness of itself is, therefore to have the desire to understand the essence that is participated and appreciate those before accrediting the existence.

In addition, intellectual beings would intuitively understand the concepts of essence and especially those in God, added to the theory of St.Thomas. In his statement, it is critical to understand that all beings are created through difference and also that God has all of the essences that humans possibly have. Furthermore, under these circumstances, it is possible for humans to find resonance in different beings and relate back to God, who has it all. This process would begin with human started to exist on the world, and has the desire to learn, which happens throughout the entire life of human, and even if the human does not want to learn, there are possibilities that human would have interacted with the essence that resonates with themselves, which indirectly learned the facts the essence in human. Moreover, it seems to be impossible to have absolute zero resonate with one the others since all beings were being born with one the other, which created the concept of community. This resonance idea is not only being used to learn the essence and also for humans to search for others who have a similar frequency. This word frequency is more to describe the emotions and interest of a person

Fig 3. Diagram of Wu-Xin

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Spring 21 given out to one another. However, some of the theories described it as the actual vibrations, for example, the famous book, The Secrets by Rhonda Bryne. The feeling of intuitiveness coexists in Hegel's theory of "Substance In Subject." Hegel developed this theory within a close look into human behavior in knows and feels. To observe the substantiality of the universe, those are the immediate moments to acknowledge the truth of the existing. Within this knowledge, substances are the seed of thought and mind, which drives the consciousness to conceive values. To value the Christianity example from St.Thomas with Hegel's conscience, Hegel would not have got any problems with the forms of this religion since it originated from substances that were absorbed. However, Hegel would have seriously questioned St.Thomas of God's existence as his own essence, which he can subsist himself. Hegel explains the relationship of essence and form as causation and not equality. If one's essence is precisely the form itself, it loses the ability of cognition of alien beings, which is meaningless to discuss the topic of essence and existence. However, this comparison would only be valid if St. Thomas's reference of God is a basic form existing. If the reference of God in St. Thomas's theory were just a relevant ideal to be encouraged to discover the essence, it would just be seen as a slight matter. It would be this question of form that causes St.Thomas and Hegel's conflict. In Hegel's theory, form is the actuality aspect of essences. Essences are expressed in immediate substance or pure self-contemplation. It rationalizes the form through its intuitive connections, just like St. Thomas's theory established humans could learn the essences, therefore creating new beings or objects. In Hegel's theory, Christianity is human's elaboration of the essences that were learned, which later became a form for the community to believe. The substances, therefore, became a noticeable item for humans that is intuitive to absorb its

origin, which is the essence. These essences later developed to be formed, which consists of the entitle, Subject. Hegel did not specify if essences composed humans since his perspective, in theory, is always human-central. However, the community features are being brought up in his theory in referring to substances in religion. The idea of religion weighs heavily on interactions of humans, which is necessary for one to interact and learn the essence through other human forms. St.Thomas and Hegel's theory added up to explain the comprehensive theory of micro items that makes large things. The connection of equality of substances and Subject is composed in this causation of essence toward form in Hegel's theory. In contrast to essence, which is the most originated form of the particle in the universe, form can be dominated by humans more easily. Moreover, through the dominance in form, the extensions of essence alternatively became objects that can be adjusted. Intellectual beings like humans have the desire to control more than itself, the world, culture, and other beings, however the essence that has become controlled by humans normally turns out to be fake and lack of realness, which does not seem to belong to the world. Instead of becoming the author of the composition, in Chinese culture, which unpacked the essence to be 5 specific elements, and has developed to be the methodology that human subsists itself to with modification in essence. Not in the way to change it, but adapting other objects/beings to create the balance. Wu-xin( 五行 ) are the term for the essences of the chinese philosophy, by the word meaning, wu ( 五 ), is the number five in mandarin, which says about the five essences, and xin( 行 ), means form. The self-explanatory term, wu-xin, started with a statement of 5 balanced essences that exists, and was not specified with the subject. Moreover, the now-known, medals, wood, water, fire, and earth are being observed throughout human history. These five essences each deduce one and induce one

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of the other essences, in the way there is not one that’s better than one the other. Through this concept, the Chinese philosophy has developed its agency to determine the essences of each object/beings. For example, Zi-wei-dou-shu uses the data of human history to came up with the method to use the birth of human to calculate the essentials numbers of one’s life, and finds the number to the corresponding wuxin. Therefore to know what is lacking in their life. Furthermore, to use other objects such as crystals and food to adjust the essences. The act of adjusting is developed because the substances are determined to be vulnerable, and need one to complete the balance in existing beings. This concept can also relate to the other theory of philosophy in Chinese culture, yin-yan. The famous concept has a straightforward diagram of black and white in a circle, which has a dot of color in each. The idea of the dot exists in one the other, says about the indefinite definition of binary, and indicates the vulnerability in each which needed another to make it complete. The Chinese Taoism philosophy of essences explains the detailed features of each substance, which left the desire to adjust to humans. Suppose St.Thomas explains what is the relationship of essences and existing, in the parallel world. In that case, Chinese Taoism philosophy interprets the essences as the agency that aims to create the balances. Moreover, for this concept of elaborating essence as substance, Hegel would agree on developing the new method to deal with the forms. However, regarding its realness, Hegel would give a great reason to explain why people would agree and follow the concept.

In Chinese Taoism terms of essence, it strongly relies on the acts of balance and has the idea that other objects could subsist the weak part of the essence. If we are to use St. Thomas's perspective to value this concept, we will see the similarities in an opposite way of interpretations. Taoism starts from the existing then to discover

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essences. St. Thomas's theory started with God's powerful being with the essences then to create form. However, both theories explained a causation relationship of both and certified a strong relationship that both. However, in St. Thomas's perspective, the Chinese philosophy of essence is possibly a sin, which humans are trying to be comprehensive as God. He never defines the specific features of the essence but keeps on explaining the causation of the essence of existing, which Chinese philosophy finds the twoway path in these two terms. St.Thomas never established the essences could be if he tried to define them, it would have ruined human's ability in knowing and resonating the essences. Therefore in St. Thomas's perspective, the idea of wuxin will not help humans acknowledge how small we are and the facts that we are finite. Nevertheless, these two's conflict is not as important as to explain essence and existence, since it came from the much different backgrounds of two. Christianity only has one God, and all the others are following the world that he creates. Taoism says that everyone can be infinite if they practice enough and later on become the state similar to the God of Christianity. One set the world to be finite and obey one, and the other set the world to become infinite. The difference exists from the essence of each. Hegel explains this as the self-consciousness isn't on the right to believe, or the form that developed from essences does not resonate with the community. The background is the key. The self-consciousness of humans needs to be relatable to the form created. And if the essence that's elaborated as the form it would be critical to value its simplicity, since the universe in contrast to human is pure and unmoved, a mess interpretation would cause difficulties in believing form. Also could be explained by St.Thomas theory that all these essences participated in the existences are participating in this world, the essences are critical and irresistible that the difference must exist; therefore, the approach in

Spring 21 each would be supporting the form, even if it all using the similar concepts and tries to explain the statement of the human world. Although St.Thomas might not agree with wuxin, his theory explains why the differences exist and how critical it is for us humans to acknowledge the essence and become intelligent. Intellectual beings came to this world with the senses and essences from a long history of the evolution of the world. The philosopher always tried to understand how the world, humans, and beings are born like St.Thomas, using essence and existing to explain beings’ actions and existence. Hegel dissects the relationship of subject and substances with never-ending proposed reasons. And Chinese Philosophy in which to be adopted in human life. All of the philosophies are to make a strong sense of self-consciousness of our own. Nevertheless, it is for us to be sensitive to the essences that resonate with us therefore, to have a better understanding of ourselves, almost like writing our own user manual through a series of experiences of life. Bibliography: Ryan, James A. "Leibniz' Binary System and Shao Yong's "Yijing"." Philosophy East and West 46, no. 1 (1996): 59-90. Accessed March 10, 2021. doi:10.2307/1399337. Levenson, C., & Westphal, J. (Eds.). (1994). Reality. Cambridge, MA: Hackett Publishing. Walton, William M. "Being, Essence and Existence for St. Thomas Aquinas: Being and Its Intelligibility." The Review of Metaphysics 3, no. 3 (1950): 339-65. Accessed March 10, 2021. Davis, Andrew. "HEGEL'S IDEALISM: THE INFINITE AS SELF-RELATION." History of Philosophy Quarterly 29, no. 2 (2012): 177-94. Accessed April 17, 2021. http://www.jstor.org. sciarc.idm.oclc.org/stable/23212827.

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3B Applied Study

Fall 21 Instructor: Coy Howard

Green Expansion The SCI-Arc campus extension Green-Arc Institute (GAI) and Sustain-A-Life (SAL) designed by GAIA Innovations proposes the renovation of two warehouse buildings in the middle of the arts district in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. The site is flat, and currently has a street crossing in between the two buildings. The project proposes closing the street to enlarge the spatial connectivity of the campus and allowing the incorporation of natural elements into the site. The city’s nature doesn’t tend to incorporate many parks and vegetation woven throughout. We hope that this proposal will not only indicate the benefits of these types of changes but also promote others to consider natural elements in their construction, and sustainability of materials in the construction process. We strive to advance the well-being of humanity and the environment by promoting sustainability in our actions and research. The building’s sustainability breakdown is filtered through six facets: Energy, Water, Wind/Air, Materials, Site and Land, and LEED & Title 24. Each one independently manages a portion of the site’s sustainable process yet works together in a myriad of ways. Group Members: Lila Sarraf, Jacy Jun, Dogukan Altun,Onurcan Kusken, Rita Duan, Olivia Billingsly, Solbok Yi Instructor : Jamey Lyzun

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Water Recycling

West Elevation

Applied Study

Spring 22

Rationalizing the quilt from Rosie Lee Tompkins, grains developed from the quilts are attached on the surfaces and the representations of the film school The segregated sections of the quilts and the linear but not straight green stripes overlays on top, attached through the yellow pom-pom, which attach everything together. This project unifyed the layers through. overriding the materials. the negative and positive surfaces are created for the experience of massing. Energy Set

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