"The communication which was once deeply rooted in an area or in a local community has lost its significance. What is thriving in our cities is based on a network of instantaneous, ephemeral, and unspecific but numerous media which deny a physical distance." -Toyo Ito
CONTENT 2
Riverside Bathhouse
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Cloud Tower
Ripples of Natural Processes
Renovation of Westpark Apartments
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The Lightbringer A Vertical Cemetery along Hudson River
Fortress Besieged
A Hidden Black Market for New Identity
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Instances of the Immaterial
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Oblique Slippage
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Single Occupant Dwelling
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Lego House
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Archive Expansion for Penn Museum
Illusions of dripping pixels
An Autonomous Living Machine
19101 Walnut Street
Work Samples
Interior Perspective: Precast stone panels re-assembling the experience within a water-eroded tunnel.
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Riverside Bath
A public bathhouse reflecting natural processes Health | Philadelphia Spring 2021 Daniel Markiewicz Studio University of Pennsylvania Team: Yiyi Luo, Yuxuan Xiong The project begins with the notion of river, and the formation of civilization along the banks of a river. We first took the abstracted form of Schuylkill river as the morphological driver for our bathhouse, which dictates the spatial organization from both the plan and elevation views. Through making the cloth model series, we developed a holistic approach to the interior of the bathhouse that not only re-creates the textural quality of eroded stones in nature, but also bridges the curvy-linear, exterior form with the interior fluid surfaces at openings that embrace sunlight and panoramic views towards the surrounding natural landscape. The building blends into the landscape at two opposite ends to provide roof access. With the extensive roof surface planted with native species and connected through a series of ramps, the bathhouse attempts to minimize its footprint on the meadow, while providing safe and engaging public space that echoes with the ultimate function of the bathhouse, to utilize and preserve natural resources for the health and wellbeing of people. The vertical, Corten Steel facade panels add a sense of warmth to the scene, both as a prelude to the experience inside the bathhouse and as a focal point within the natural landscape. At points where the building touches the ground, landscape pavement bleeds into the roofscape. Just as water flows in and out of the building and provides an interface for us to escape from our daily travails and to embrace the beauty of nature that is unseen by the city.
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Infrastructure mapping of Schuylkill River
Effects of river and natural degradation
Cloth model studies: representations of decadance and degradation.
Riverside Bathhouse 4
Site plan: massing and landscape induced by the forms of river.
Longitudinal jogged section: showing the connection between the bathhouse with landscape.
Ripples of Natural Processes 5
Ramp access to green roof as an integrated public park
Riverside Bathhouse 6
Aerial view of the bathhouse blende
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Walkways around Corten Steel facade
Ripples of Natural Processes 7
Cloth model studies: representations of decadance and degradation.
Riverside Bathhouse 8
Entrance renderings showing the interface of Corten Steel and running water.
Ripples of Natural Processes 9
Perspective renderings showing the relationship between exterior and interior pools
Riverside Bathhouse 10
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Ripples of Natural Processes 11
Exterior Perspective: Facade panelization integrated with modular cantilevered units.
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Cloud Tower
Renovation of Westpark Apartments Residential | Philadelphia Fall 2020 Scott Erdy Studio University of Pennsylvania Individual Work
Cantilevered from the structural skeleton of the West Park Tower, this proposal aims to subvert the high-rise typology that is commonly seen in public housing projects of the late 20th century. Their failure can be attributed to the lack of autonomy, the absence of public commons, and the scarcity of natural resources. To address these issues, the Tulou Typology, or “earthen building” is used as the morphological and spatial foundation for the proposal. By pushing all the units to the periphery of the structural frame, the building forms a protective, vertical ring of apartments, and an open, public space at the heart of the tower. Between the cantilevered units and the central public commons, is a series of semi-open spaces which reconnect the scattered residential units at a communal, neighborhood scale. Not only are the spaces within the high-rise handed back to the residents, natural resources such as rainwater is also purified and recycled within the building to allow the residents to take more control of their life above the earth, and in the clouds.
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Minnan Tulou Residential Complex
Hakka Tulou Residential Complex
Minnan Tulou Courtyard
Hakka Tulou Gallery
Minnan Tulou Program Distribution
Hakka Tulou Program Distribution
Cloud Tower 16
Morphological Relations
Programmatic Relations
Renovation of Westpark Apartments 17
Unit Formation
Cluster Formation
Typical Unit Plan
Cloud Tower 18
Site Plan
Existing Condition
East Elevation
Renovation of Westpark Apartments 19
Sequential Modifications
Longitudinal Section
Cloud Tower 20
Exterior Public Commons
Interior Legal Aid Office
Renovation of Westpark Apartments 21
Markethall Entrance
Public Plaza Entrance
Cloud Tower 22
Axonometric Exterior View
Typical Floor Plan at Public Commons
Renovation of Westpark Apartments 23
Typical Apartment Unit
Shared Community Space Public Cafeteria
Entrance Lobby
Micro-climate Enclosure
Rainwater Filtration
Perspective Detail
Cloud Tower 24
Intra-cluster Public Space
Typical Unit Interior
Renovation of Westpark Apartments 25
Aerial Perspective: Oscillating optical fibers that are triggered by cremation
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The Lightbringer
A vertical cemetery along Hudson River Burial | New York Winter 2020 eVolo 2021 Submission Team: Bolai Ren, Yiyi Luo, Yuxuan Xiong, Zhongming Fang
Lightbringer is a vertical cemetery located between Pier 62 & 63 by the shore of Hudson River Park. To address the limited land-use problem, we separated the vertical structure into two major parts. The below-grade part of the structure hosts the circulation, funeral activities, urns storage and cremation, while the above-grade operates in sync with the cremation ceremony. As a healing space where the living commemorates the dead, we selected the site for its accessibility and publicity to the urban life. Respecting the landscape and activities that Hudson River Park offers for the public, the entrance crosses the ground and water level while connecting the circulation between the park and the cemetery. To transform the traditional cremation into a more ceremonial and healing one, the optical fiber shaft is powered by the heat released from the cremation process. The structure oscillates between “tightened” and “loosened” states, corresponding to the start and end of the cremation ceremony. This cycle results in a spiritual comforting space to heal the wound of losing and beloved ones and share this heartening strength with the city and project a light of recovery onto the skyline of Manhattan.
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Sectional Perspective
The Lightbringer 28
Covering Plate Clamping Bolt Steel Clamp Rubber cushion & Sealment Floor Deck
Floor Deck Steel Clamp Power Port Power Cable
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Atrium Perspective
A vertical cemetery along Hudson River 29
The Lightbringer 30
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Cemetery Perspective
A vertical cemetery along Hudson River 31
The Lightbringer 32
A vertical cemetery along Hudson River 33
Visibility Study: a 3D collage of Chinatown North
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Fortress Besieged
A Hidden Black Market for New Identity Market | Philadelphia Spring 2020 Critic: Annette Fierro Individual Work
Under the surface of the food market, there is a hidden story of the fortress besieged. Tea trees are planted along the abandoned railway, but the harvest is taken into a place unknown to the visitors. Between the walls of the daytime market, the hidden market thrives as the town square for illegal immigration. When the first generations of Chinese migrants were driven out of mainland China either by the war or other humanitarian crises, many faced challenges when attempted to acquire a legal status in the United States. Now, the hidden market provides a full spectrum of identifications, to assist these migrants in settling down in the neighborhood. Meanwhile as President Trump continued to fail in the war against the COVID-19 pandemic and posted racially discriminating comments against the Chinese ethnic group, many Asian Americans lost hope in the current presidency and turned to seek medical aid from China. They can renounce their identification documents at the hidden market in exchange for a new Chinese identity that can travel freely into China. Even the best-laid plans often go awry, as immigration check upon travellers tightens in both the US and China, the chances of one sneaking into the country unnoticed are almost negligible. But those outside the fortress will still fight their way in; and those inside, a way out. So the market grows.
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Spatial boundaries in which a storefront is visible
Fortress Besieged 36
Moments of Exchange: Spatial Mapping
Site Location
Forms of the Visible
A Hidden Black Market for New Identity 37
Aerial View
Short Perspective Section
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Ground Floor Colonade View toward Museum
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Instances of the Immaterial Archive Expansion for Penn Museum Museum | Philadelphia Fall 2019 Critic: Maya Alam Individual Work
One of the main breakthroughs in the digital age is the shift from the 2D perspectival representation of spaces to the 3D scanning and modelling of them. Extending from the original building, the archive stands at the intersection of multiple receptor planes from which the facades, the stoner courtyard and the sky are reflected, captured and digitalized into their pixelated forms, just as how an artifact is filmed and analyzed with photogrammetry. The new archive extension serves as means to resist the irreversible corrosion, decay or accidental damage of these artifacts over time by recording the 3D instance of each artifact at a set time interval and storing the instances in an open-source database. The archive takes online requests by the museum visitors to print any altered or unaltered 3D models of the artifacts which upon finish will be circulated around the museum, fostering a collective understanding of the origin as an everchanging, temporal instance that safeguards something of much greater importance.
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Pixel-to-volume Evolution Process
Instances of the Immaterial 44
1/4˝ = 1´-0˝ Cast Concrete Model
Archive Expansion for Penn Museum 45
Ground Floor Plan
Instances of the Immaterial 46
Third Floor Plan
Archive Expansion for Penn Museum 47
Longitudinal Section
Instances of the Immaterial 48
Archive Expansion for Penn Museum 49
Concrete-foam composite assembled on site
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Oblique Slippage Illusions of dripping pixels Sculpture | Philadelphia Fall 2019 Critic: Maya Alam Team: Nicholas Houser, Richard Rodrigues, Siwei Zhu, Yuxuan Xiong
Through aggregations of voxels at a pseudo-oblique angle, the sculpture engages the visitors of the stoner courtyard by generating multiple readings at different angles. A spectrum of colored pixels is applied to the surface of the sculpture and allowed to drip down along its cantilevered arms. Digitally fabricated copies of the Penn Museum's collection were placed deliberately to induce movement, such that one has to travel around the sculpture to develop an understanding of the exhibited artefacts. Fast setting cement was used in the fabrication process to construct the base for the sculpture, whereas handcrafted pieces of styrofoam were assembled exsitu and brought to the site in chunks. A series down-scaled 3D printed mock-ups were made prior to the fabrication to test the structural stability of the sculpture and to determine the ratio of concrete to styrofoam in the final outcome.
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Evolution of Geometries
Oblique Slippage 52
Oblique Section View
Illusions of dripping pixels 53
Axonometric View
Oblique Slippage 54
Illusions of dripping pixels 55
Single occupant dwelling cantilevered on existing frame
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Single Occupant Dwelling An autonomous living machine Residential | Philadelphia Fall 2020 Critic: Scott Erdy Individual Work
J.G.Ballard’s vision for highrise posits a form of dystopian urban living intrinsically linked to social hierarchy which eventually led to self-destruction. Philadelphia has long suffered from housing problems related to the highrise typology. Compressing the physical distances between households while reducing social interactions pertaining to public commons, the mode of living advocated by the highrise housing schemes in the late 20th century does not fit into the aspirations of urban living today. As a counterargument to such housing failures, this single occupant dwelling seeks a new definition for autonomous, domestic space that is capable of not only garnering and capitalizing on natural and recycled resources, but rather empowering the occupant with the freedom to live outside the hierarchical structure of the society. Cantilevered from the existing structural frame of the abandoned highrise, the unit forms a protective shell for the occupant to exclude himself from the outside world. By recycling and repurposing structural components from a fighter plane, the dwelling operates around the fuselage-converted, rainwater system which provides clean water for both domestic use and irrigation. The internal organization of spaces as an interlocking, vertical stack, while ensuring sufficient head room, tests the spatial boundary of a minimal living unit.
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Kit-of-parts collection inspired by MiG-25 combat plane
Single Occupant Dwelling 58
Solar panels
Water tank
Filtration system
Combined drainage
Section view showing environmental strategies for autonomous living
An autonomous living machine 59
Entry Floor Plan
Basement Plan
Single Occupant Dwelling 60
Assembled model views
An autonomous living machine 61
Street Perspective View
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Lego House
19101 Walnut Street Office | Philadelphia Spring 2020 Critic: Franca Trubiano Individual Work
The brief asks for a design to construct a loft building in Center City Philadelphia. The project was an opportunity to maximize modeling possibilities of Building Information Modeling by creatively designing a building that integrates its foundations, steel and/or concrete superstructure, high performance curtian wall, and its building systems. As an integral complement to the studio curriculum, this BIM project is a testing ground to interrogate techniques of construction as well as knowledge of design documentation. Drafting skills and inspirations gained through developing this project have significantly enriched my technique proficiency and determination to practice architecture in a professional way. The following drawings are examples taken from the final design document that intend to show an understanding of Revit as a digital tool to manifest not just conventional designs but also creative interventions.
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Exceptional Suite Plan
Lego House 64
Reflected Ceiling Plan
19101 Walnut Street 65
Work Sample: at HDR Calthorpe
Hangzhou Shuangpu TOD Urban Design Competition
Responsibilities: I was in charge of the architectural concept design of the block types, the metro interchange station, the central landscape architecture and the overall 3D massing scheme using Rhino3D and Illustrator, while working with two urban planners.
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