Real Virtuality

Culture Crossover

A Future NFT (Non-fungible Tokens) Museum Expands the possibility of New York Stock Exchange

Project Type: Expansion of New York Stock Exchange, NFT Museum Site: 11 Wall St, New York, NY 10005 (above the New York Stock Exchange)

This project takes the advantages of our precedents studies: Wexner Center and Long Museum. We select the circles and the girds from Wexner Center and the radians from Long Museum to develop our design. Our main design technique is to use cylinders to change the radians of the grids with two directions and create a sharp contrast between heavy mass and light grid. We think that the New York Stock Exchange in the future will be mainly used to place servers, so we focused on designing machine space with is mainly composed of the grids. First, we designed a machine system, divided into seven layers. The first layer is the grid system. The second layer is the reinforced structure. The third layer is server stacks. The fourth layer is the ventilation system that passes through the entire building from top to bottom. The fifth layer is a cooling system composed of pipes. The sixth layer is dust nets. The seventh layer is used for insulation. Second, we let human space and nonhuman space interact. People can look at servers from a distance such as what happens in the auditorium, or walk closely and stand beside them, or walk in a machine-like space to see the servers on the top through the grids. As for the facade, we use layers to form a rich facade as well as a grid forest on the roof by superimposing different mullions. As for the floor plan, we use walls with similar profiles to connect the two buildings on the left and right with our design.

Deep Skin

An Interactive Facade System Celebrates the Beauty of Fabrication

Project Type: Facade Design

Site: NA(Digital Experiment)

Project Area: It's a Part of a Facade Covering Two Floors and Two Bays

Corian, as an integrated material of plastic and mineral substance, can bend and reform while keeping its stiffness. This project is an exploration of its possibility in architectural discourse. Through the process of different fabrication methods, including laser cutting, CNC milling, thermoforming, and robotic arm flocking, our group tries to design a dynamic façade system that reveals the beauty of material and fabrication. The final design is a double façade system that covers two floors and two bays. Different depth of each layer creates visual richness with engraved surfaces and painting style. Orange camouflagestyle paintings create various perceptions of the façade based on the different observation distances. The aggressive form of the inner side of the façade creates legible space and functions, such as planting space, for users to interact with the façade system. These activities endow this two-dimensional façade with a threedimensional meaning. The final model is a one-to-one scale façade chunk to celebrate the excellent cooperation between the formal language, the material's smoothness, and the fabrication's complexity.

Generating different compositional studies based on the physical collision simulation in Maya and translate them into potential facade system