2020 Spring
2019 Fall
The Post-Familial phenomenon is defined by the shifting paradigm that has challenged the role of the family from being the central unit of the society to a new social model where the family is no longer the central organizing element of the society. As this shift occurs, we investigate a new typologies — live/work housing.
The different cohousing configurations that currently exist are often designed to address various spheres of sharing. These spheres define the transition from the public realm of the street, all the way to the privacy level of the sleeping units. Within the shared living typologies, the spatial organizations and scales should respond to different needs of privacy and social interactions that the users seek. Thus, we focus on the daily events of occupants which consist of several potential social encounters. Encounters happen every day and change occupant’s understanding of “shareness” overtime. Thus, our project aims to create potential encounters under the proposition of living and working, mostly by exploring the insertion of various public programs into the sphere of domesticity and how material and form define the level of publicity.
2019 Spring
Typologically, the Film Center is both a private and public institution. This project is programmed to have hybrid functions as a theater (dedicated to Akira Kurosawa and Stanley Kubrick) and as a production studio.The function massing is firstly extracted and then organized from a series of scenes from Kurisawa’s Hidden Fortress. The form is dedicated to Kubrick’s 2001 A Space Odyssey which one point perspective view and distorted sensation is commonly applied. The atrium and main structure form a curve which can be seen from multiple dimensions and also allows different visual and physical experiences. Along the major curve created by the atrium and material-change, two deviated axis are formed. These two axis are also the projection of the city axis.
2019 Summer
Brownsville is never a broadly existing slum but a degraded area caused by its restriction and exclusion. As plenty of public housings were built for the growth of mixed communities under uprising consumerism in the 20th century, Brownsville still insisted in its original social identity and eventually fell into safety crisis.
Not only are there function and form lie in architecture, but also behavior and consciousness. Therefore, the form of an architecture or a city should not be banal, it should be metabolic to continuously adapt to evolving needs of the community.
Under the belief in Brownsville as a unique organism, we start with transportation hubs and build community centers that overwrite the degraded original station, which will keep expanding and connecting in order to create “happy spaces”. Therefore, the boundary between different architecture typologies would gradually be abandoned. Streets ,as key elements of transportation, still play a significant role in building up community. Progressively, for the people outside, Brownsville will have smoother accessibility; for the people inside, Brownsville will provide more active commercial possibilities. Therefore, under the autonomic city development, Brownsville would have streets that can be easier to “surveilled” by pedestrians themselves, which will provide more safety to the community.
2018 Fall
“New urban typologies have emerged; the strong separation of exterior and interior disappears, and with it, the sense of architecture as a man-made artefact situated with a natural landscape. Its artificiality sometimes makes it hard to tell whether you are inside or outside. The maximum artificiality of urban landscape coincides paradoxically with a new sense of the city as continuous with nature.”
—Allen, Nature in the Plural
Located in Fort Tryon Park where connects Upper New York and New York City, this project is challenged to hybridize several seemingly incompatible conditions — rural and urban, nature and built. While ensuring the accessibility of the museum, the topology is designed to minimize the damage to the local geological and ecological system. The museum focuses on creating artificial conditions that make the boundary of inside and outside spaces ambiguous. The museum also focuses on materials of different level of transparency to create a series of spaces which expressively connect people inside to outside natural conditions.
2019 Fall
The Post-Familial phenomenon is defined by the shifting paradigm that has challenged the role of the family from being the central unit of the society to a new social model where the family is no longer the central organizing element of the society. As this shift occurs, we investigate a new typologies — live/work housing.
The different cohousing configurations that currently exist are often designed to address various spheres of sharing. These spheres define the transition from the public realm of the street, all the way to the privacy level of the sleeping units. Within the shared living typologies, the spatial organizations and scales should respond to different needs of privacy and social interactions that the users seek. Thus, we focus on the daily events of occupants which consist of several potential social encounters. Encounters happen every day and change occupant’s understanding of “shareness” overtime. Thus, our project aims to create potential encounters under the proposition of living and working, mostly by exploring the insertion of various public programs into the sphere of domesticity and how material and form define the level of publicity.
2018 Spring
Architecture is an art of form and material that participates in economic, political and cultural contexts. The language of architecture operates in drawings and models resulting in designs that can have agency in the world - architecture can act as a mode of cultural production. To do so, a design must operate within a specific context and be supported by an argument.
In this project, I started to reconsider the nature of surfaces and its relationship with the occupants under the architectural argument of modulating in/ex-teriorities. The occupants here are not only to be considered as characters, but rather as human bodies that perform specific activities in specific spaces at specific times. Many elements affect occupant’s reaction in an architectural context, such as infrastructure, maps, advertisements... They are not only visual but also commercial, social, and political. Thus, in this operation, on the basis of hybridizing two materials of two design approaches, I also considered the hybridization of occupants’ experiences by simulating their reaction to the perception provided by the structure. What if the thinnest surface provides the most private experience? What if the most massive solid provide the most public sensation?
2017 Fall
