Tag: Class of 2020

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: Directed Design Research

Collage of Strangeness

People’s imagination is a process of operating, transforming and reorganizing present objects or past experiences into new scenes. It is like a collage of reality, as it rooted in it but unconstrained by common sense and norms.

From the perspective of architecture practice, breaking through the “order” – not only from the exterior form, but also from the special experience in the spatial environment – has also become an urgent need. Taking school architecture as an example, a space free from scale and regulations can give independency to teaching activities, which plays a positive role in the reform of education and the renewal of teaching mode. Moreover, the architecture and children can form an image-based communication, encouraging the children to inspire more questions and keep exploring.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: The sense of purposefulness in Architecture

Boundless Architecture: Studies of Thresholds and Willfull Shape

Architectural Thresholds can be described as recognizable definers of transition and movement in architecture. Precedent studies indicate that thresholds play to our memory and understanding of architecture. Passages, portals, filter-systems and fields of objects are recognizable forms of traditional thresholds that act as boundaries and serve as transition points in architecture.

Blurring these recognizable elements together, and willfully altering their shape can have a substantial effect on the perception of an architectural environment. When traditional markers of threshold are blurred, architecture becomes more susceptible to a boundless user experience. Within a boundary-less form, the importance of willful shape becomes increasingly imperative as the primary identifier for human understanding of architectural thresholds. The combination of blurred threshold elements and willfully altered shapes creates an architecture reflective of our time: boundless in possibilities, individualized, and innately understood.

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Projected Sky

This thesis aims to create unique architectural conditions by transforming and deploying the geometry that conceptually represent the sky within the building. “Projected Sky” concept refers to the space constructed by the massing that abstracted from sky elements. It changes the orientation of sky that always above us, instead the sky could exist in the elevation and plan, rather than always in the background. Projecting, folding, extending and mirroring are deployed to the abstract elements from sky, blurring the foreground and background relationship among them.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: The sense of purposefulness in Architecture

Plug-Ins for a Future Building Typology

For my thesis, I created a new building typology for a plausible near-future time period, using the plug-in systems theorized in Archigram’s Plug-In City. I did this by highlighting the plug-in connection, instead of obscuring it; highlighting the plug-in connection at three different scales – that of the initial plug-in to the structural core building, the plug-in unit to another plug-in unit, and the plug-in unit to the interior plug-in unit; and by maintaining the original ethos of plug-in architecture — mobility, changeability, and indeterminacy. I did this through developing my own theory of “plug-in-ability” which dictated the design in terms of purposefulness and the derived meaningfulness which is understood from the intrinsic purposefulness of the design.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: The sense of purposefulness in Architecture

sawtoon

This project argues that a sense of purposefulness in architecture can be achieved through decoration and cartooning. As a furniture workshop and showroom, the decoration becomes an integral part of the project at all scales. Other major components include inter-mediating elements, gaskets, and connectors; each acts as a formal que in support of the sense of purposefulness.

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Urban Furniture

Louis Kahn mainly focuses his served and servant relationship on architecture scale. In my opinion, this relationship is happening anywhere, such as city, industry, agriculture, mechanical and so on. My proposal is to further develop the served and servant theory to urban design. In this case, there is a served and servant relationship in the building. And also the building serves the city as a servant object. There is a new served and servant relationship established between the city and the building. Thus, two served and servant relationships are happening at the same time.

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ARCH 793B: Architecture Directed Design Research Gallery: The Drawing, Computation, The Machine, and The Hand

Archimobility

This thesis tries to create a three-dimensional space with a collage of a huge number of small components and thus adapt to the future aero traffic. And, in the process of combining these 3d components, they form a flexible and movable system, which provides a carnival-like experience.

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Montaging and Montaged

The word montaged refers to the building form is montaged by units, from pieces to whole. And montaging refers to the process of perceiving context. Architectural montage lies in-between these two conditions.
The project explores the spatial sequence by repeating, scaling, connecting and overlapping different units. Montaged moment is crafted by blending contrasting environments. Perception of space is obtained by a sequence of montaged views, and each view is composited by both building elements and surrounding context.

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Projected Scale

“Projected Scale” is exploring Architectural scale by using the method of perspectival projection to achieve the ambiguity of architecture in both visual and spatial aspect. It is is an attempt to integrate different scales of elements into a whole to bring possibilities in spatial complexity. The ambiguity moment is obtained by rearranging ordinary cognition of architectural scale, to ambiguate our perception of scaling.

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7TH STREET OFFICE

A Study For Architectural Volume and Space: From 2D to 3D, From Projection to Continuity