Redesigned space on Via della Conciliazione
Toward St.Peter's Cathedral: La Spina
Toward St.Peter's Cathedral: La Spina
This large-scale project is located on Via della Conciliazione. Immediately oriented by turning to face west after crossing the Ponte S. Angelo over the Tiber River, one recognizes the axial alignment connecting the facade and dome of St Peters, as well as Bernini’s grand piazza. The project suggests: first, it is to address the idea of infill, restoring/replacing an area of the Nolli plan; second, it must provide for a collection of spatial itineraries that can render its infill porous and allow movement between the primary local destinations of Castel S. Angelo and S. Peters; third, it must satisfy a hybrid program that brings together a collection of services and missions directed at providing for the diverse populations. Four primary programmatic elements address individually as well as collectively the issues of contextual integration through exhibition, performance, orientation/rest and transient housing. The project is intended to act as a mirror to the cumulative nature of the city’s larger context. Yet each must be able to participate in the larger urban dilemma presented by infilling a portion of the city plan subjected to demolition and erasure.
Recreation of Food Culture
Kitchengram
Kitchengram
The isolated urban environment deteriorated the contradictions among food culture, population diversity, fast-paced lifestyle, and neighborhood solitude attitudes. Da Pai Dang, a unique food stall serving local dishes on the streets with customers sitting around it, is disappearing in urban areas, and this project intends to recreate this feature. Meanwhile, mechanical systems' spatial and technical performance is essential but neglected architectural armatures in food culture. This project addresses the concept that an architecture created by the armature of a mechanical system creates the experience of food for users and uses smells of food flowing within the system to reestablish the human-space-food relationship within the fictional site, which combines blocks in Hong Kong Central and Shenzhen Futian Train Station. When designed as part of the architecture, the mechanical system transforms into a kitchen machine that forms all the necessities in the kitchen and extends to form other infrastructure in the buildings. Such a kitchen machine is utilized to direct air flows and to bring back the Da Pai Dang memories, which are traditional food stalls in China. Moreover, the exposed mechanical system creates space "deepness" consisting of small, minor kitchen-machine elements. Furthermore, this project extends and transforms the buildings to influence parts of the city and progressively transform it. A new civic relationship is created by the unique food experience of each individual and sharing these experiences through their smells to establish connections among people further.
Columbia University Boathouse
Arch
The boathouse facility located on the Harlem River adjacent to its Baker Field sports complex is redesigned. The program hosted by continuous arches is influenced by the boat movements. Landscape-like roof sweeps through the site leaving a solid/void relationship influenced by the acts of retrieval, launch and ultimate storage of the boats. Two-dimensional analytic information such as the paths of major users is superimposed and negotiated. The program is imagined as a sequence. This datum is comprised of different forces acting and reacting to the site. This creates a stratified layering of information from which to negotiate. The form was generated through a process of re-interpreting and intersection of continuous flows of users, landscape, and structure which is arches. Based on the surrounding topography, the boathouse is connected to the landscape formally and programmatically. Also using the material of CLT (cross-laminated timber), the boathouse incorporated sustainable design to further respond to the surrounding environment.
Arch
The boathouse facility located on the Harlem River adjacent to its Baker Field sports complex is redesigned. The program hosted by continuous arches is influenced by the boat movements. Landscape-like roof sweeps through the site leaving a solid/void relationship influenced by the acts of retrieval, launch and ultimate storage of the boats. Two-dimensional analytic information such as the paths of major users is superimposed and negotiated. The program is imagined as a sequence. This datum is comprised of different forces acting and reacting to the site. This creates a stratified layering of information from which to negotiate. The form was generated through a process of re-interpreting and intersection of continuous flows of users, landscape, and structure which is arches. Based on the surrounding topography, the boathouse is connected to the landscape formally and programmatically. Also using the material of CLT (cross-laminated timber), the boathouse incorporated sustainable design to further respond to the surrounding environment.
Design of dorm building for St. Francis College in Dumbo
Time Imprint: St. Francis Dormitory
Time Imprint: St. Francis Dormitory
This project is located at Dumbo, facing Manhattan. It is designed for 150 St. Francis college first-year students, including basic 2-people dorm units, multi-purpose space, ground-floor retail space and public library within the existing building. This project rethinks the traditional social/living environment for student life by expanding the possibility that communities can arise in a broad social network. The student residence seeks to avoid the loneliness and lack of social relationships during the freshman year and these characterize many current housing situations. Analogues of beehive and engine are the base to yield both formal and organizational traits in both 2D and 3D. Beehive analogue provides the idea about “facet” which helps to generate the forms of facade system, interior multi-purpose room and exterior dinning hall providing cares in the details such as gradient perforations to provide degrees of privacy and brightness to help freshmen to interact with the environment and with each other. Pre-fabricated copper triangulated surfaces will change thorugh time. Engine analogue then provides the ideas of compression and decompression of air flows to provide dynamic experience and in social space, “expanded corridor” which happens in every floor.
Chinese Contemporary and Traditional Art Museum
Light to Shadow: Design of a museum in Manhattan Chinatown
Light to Shadow: Design of a museum in Manhattan Chinatown
This conceptual urban project is located at Chinatown in New York. This site requires considerations of urban flows and stored book contents. This project is a design for 18,000-square-foot Chinese Art Library. Using gradient light, it contains precise traditional drawings in the lower part and contemporary art works with digital labs in the upper part. Th first study of perception machine investigates about the colors and thresholds which is about how light comes through different sizes of thresholds and colored filters. Direct light goes through layers of filers and generate different effects on each layers. And the first three concept models of library, archive and learning center study separately about light well, all-underground space and stair-oriented space which are hybridized in the final proposal.
Bending Active Form Research
Pop-Up Steel Pavilion
Pop-Up Steel Pavilion
This pavilion project is a pop-up bending-active steel pavilion intended to be built for a community garden on Putnam Avenue in New York City. The pavilion must provide specific degrees of shade for the growing plants and resistance from natural forces to be free-standing. This project starts from the studies of using 1/4" wide Bristol paper strips to create basic primitive geometry and tectonic; part 1 of the study aims to explore different techniques to form spheres. The process of using other methods would help us to understand the material characteristics and physical behavior as well as the structural potential of the paper strips. Also, studies with Bristol strips would improve our knowledge of the physical aspects of construction in bending-active steel. Part 2 focuses on simulating double-curve surfaces through 3D-printed mesh with different thicknesses and patterns. After experimenting with various techniques, the study uses trap steel to explore its unique property of creating a double-curvature surface and a pavilion by using its property. Along with experimenting with using Bending-Active surfaces to create a pavilion, the team also explores metal shops with usages of various tools and techniques relative to steel strips. We made our own tools to produce the pavilion and constructed its support and linkage detail. This pavilion can be decomposed and reassembled in other locations.
Experience Design at Woods Bagot
Jingdong Shenzhen HQ+ Future City Ridge
Jingdong Shenzhen HQ+ Future City Ridge
Jingdong Shenzhen HQ+ Future City Ridge is a complex project located in Shenzhen Bay Super Headquater site, which interacts with wetland areas. JD HQ is a 200m-tall tower while Future City Ridge intends to create "mangroves in the city”, establishing biophilic buildings, which regulating the urban microclimate, and attract diverse species. Future City Ridge is future-oriented intelligent core allocated smart infrastructure. It owns high-quality open space and interconnection between buildings. Also, it is characterized as a new prototype for Lingnan architecture. And I, in a team of seven, am responsible for developing concepts,
sustainable strategies, professional drawings and diagrams etc. During the work, we are intended to create a near-net-zero complex that requires integrated strategies embedded in most parts of the building.
sustainable strategies, professional drawings and diagrams etc. During the work, we are intended to create a near-net-zero complex that requires integrated strategies embedded in most parts of the building.