XSHELL
PAPER SHELL MADE OF CELL UNIT
ELECTIVE COURSE, FALL '19, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
IN COLLABORATION WITH YU SUN, MENGYI YAN, AND JUNSIK OH
XSHELL
PAPER SHELL MADE OF CELL UNIT
ELECTIVE COURSE, FALL '19, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
IN COLLABORATION WITH YU SUN, MENGYI YAN, AND JUNSIK OH
This project explores the simplest way of constructing a doubly-curved shell structure - by setting the fabrication method based on planar manufacture, which can be achieved by CNC Routers or laser machines and using sheet materials like chipboard. The cellular unit was mapped and unrolled to planar folding and cutting lines, fabricated through tens of recycling chipboards within 2mm thickness. The whole fabricating process including cutting, folding, and assembling took only 5 days and 3 group members to complete the construction of this human-scale installation on the 3rd floor of Sibley Hall.
This project explores the simplest way of constructing a doubly-curved shell structure - by setting the fabrication method based on planar manufacture, which can be achieved by CNC Routers or laser machines and using sheet materials like chipboard. The cellular unit was mapped and unrolled to planar folding and cutting lines, fabricated through tens of recycling chipboards within 2mm thickness. The whole fabricating process including cutting, folding, and assembling took only 5 days and 3 group members to complete the construction of this human-scale installation on the 3rd floor of Sibley Hall.
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
This page collects some of my architectural and urban design projects during my studio courses throughout my bachelor's and master's years in both Tongji University and Cornell University.
MODULARIZED
HOUSING COMPLEX DESIGN
CORE STUDIO, FALL '17, TONGJI UNIVERSITY
INSTRUCTOR: LAN LUO
This project aims to design a housing complex for the young. The minimum scale for basic dwelling actions as modulus became my starting point of the design, followed by extending the basic modulus to the fundamental dwelling unit and neighboring group. Multi-layered public spaces are designed to meet the different requirements of privacy and encourage residents to go out and meet others as well as a new kind of vertically interlocked neighborhood relationship. The process of the design which was gradually developed from intrinsic architectural knowledge of unit and composition is what I’ve been seeking as a rationalist.
OVERLAPPED
URBAN DESIGN AT HONGKOU PORT
CORE STUDIO, FALL '17, TONGJI UNIVERSITY
INSTRUCTOR: YONG CHEN
This is an urban renewal project where I fixed the current urban context by creating three corridor systems on different height levels that overlapped with each other. These corridor systems connected waterfronts, main streets, and overpasses. They were used as solid volumes to engage or be engaged by adjacent void spaces, to act both as figure and ground as circumstances required. They defined and occupied urban spaces, allowing the city’s past and present to show its independent characteristics. Inherent laws of a figure-ground relationships like urban poché were studied and applied in the new representations of forms as the project successfully explores a new kind of urban typology with the inheritance of traditional patterns.
BRIDGE COMMUNITY
INNOVATED HOUSING GROUNDED ON URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
GRADUATION DESIGN, SPRING '19, TONGJI UNIVERSITY
INSTRUCTOR: YUNG HO CHANG
This studio asked a question about how to create a new typology combining housing and bridge together functionally and structurally? After the site analysis, we decided to design a new attraction serving not only transportation but also cultural and commercial uses.
In this project, we proposed a whole system structurally elegant and integral for various uses and future developments. In addition, we focused on many structure details to make the project more practical in a visionary context. The design explores a new type of space between community and ground infrastructure.
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
BOTANY COLLEGE BUILDING AT VIRGINIA KEY
OPTION STUDIO, FALL '19, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
INSTRUCTOR: CHAD OPPENHEIM
Evapotranspiration, a term not yet familiar to architecture design, is one of the most conventional components that exist in the natural water and energy cycle. By definition, it’s the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from the soil and other surfaces and by transpiration from plants. Plants can cool their surrounding environment through evapotranspiration effectively. Large energy consumption by conventional cooling and heating system in buildings aggravates global warming significantly. Inspired by the evapotranspiration of plants, this Botany College Building proposed utilization of natural cooling effect from indoor plants and the surrounding natural environment during cooling season and offset heat gain from daily operation inside the building
AEROSCAPE
WIND ANALYSIS AND SITE REDEVELOPMENT
STUDIO A+E, SUMMER '19, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
INSTRUCTOR: THOMAS MCKEOGH
This project discusses the relationship between design and airflow, in which aeroscape is seen as an innovative approach to reading the wind. In the design process, airflow plays the role of both the design generator and design result. The site, which locates in Virginia Key, Miami, is analyzed through CFD simulation to extract existing wind patterns. Taking new masterplan organizing new human streamline based on different airflow comfort scenarios. Meanwhile, a modulating system, inspired from the tensegrity structure, sites lightly on the top of existing structures, directing airflow purposefully into the indoor area. Tunnels with different sizes and directions dredge different wind types to appropriate programs, which creates different airflow experience inside. The design itself becomes an Aeroscape, exhibiting air conditions from every perspective.
