Individual Work | Fall 2024 | Professor: John Hoal
Nomadic Beekeepers' House Design
Individual Work | Summer 2021 | Professor: Lili Zhang
Cultivating Culture through Food and Nature Individual Work | Spring 2025 | Professor: Chandler Ahrens
Community Design for Women in Post-war Iraq
Individual Work | Spring 2022 | Professor: Lingqing Zhang
An Addition to Louis Kahn’s (unbuilt) Salk Meeting House
Individual Work | Spring 2024 | Professor: Robert McCarter
Agricultural Cooperative in the High Density City Individual Work | Fall 2022 | Professor: Jing Li
Housing Design in Barcelona Individual Work | Fall 2023 | Professor: Emiliano Lepez
Continunity
The Great Rivers Resource Center
Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Individual Work
Fall 2024
Professor: John Hoal
In 1806, the Corps of Discovery returned to St. Louis from a two-year journey across the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Coast, bringing back an invaluable collection of objects and observations. While their contributions to science, geography, history, and culture are well-documented, their greatest legacy—recognizing the deep symbiotic relationship between people and the natural world—has taken centuries to resonate. The once-abundant wilderness they charted seemed inexhaustible to early 19th-century Americans. However, within 100 years, we began mourning its loss and grappling with ecological crises. This project explores the Confluence of the Great Rivers near St. Louis as the site for the Great Rivers Resource Center—a national hub for research, education, and public engagement on ecological and cultural symbiosis. Situated near the Chain of Rocks Bridge and Chouteau Island, the project reimagines the interplay of landscape, water, and architecture to redefine sustainable design and planning for river-centered ecosystems.
This project connects Chouteau Island's well-trodden paths, creating a continuous circulation through two strategies. First, the design blends architecture and environment with curved walls and weathering steel exteriors to create the continuous changing landscape. Second, it captures and evokes the sensation of continuing a walk through the forest by integrating ramps, a long strip of skylight, and curved walls to guide movement, invite sunlight and shadows, and frame immersive views, creating a continuous experience.
Continuouse Landscape
Blending architecture and environment with curved walls and weathering steel exteriors to create the continuous changing landscape.
Continuouse Experience
Capturing and evoking the sensation of continuing a walk through the forest by integrating ramps, a long strip of skylight, and curved walls to guide movement, invite sunlight and shadows, and frame immersive views, creating a continuous experience.
Blossom Chasing
Nomadic Beekeepers' House
3 different locations in China
Individual Work
Summer 2021
Professor: Lili Zhang
Beekeeping is a widespread global activity with millions of beekeepers rely on bees for their livelihoods. There are 300,000 beekeepers in China with total output of bee products accounts for more than 1/4 of the world, which ranks world first for many years in spite of the extremely poor living conditions.
This project plans to provide housing prototypes for these beekeepers along the way to improve their living environment. At the same time, using the form of off-grid buildings to protect the ecological environment.
Tangbula
Exploded Drawing
When living in the forest, it is safer to live on the upper floors. The walls on the ground floor can be moved, making the space for the hives larger.
Urban Field
Cultivating Culture through Food and Nature
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Outstanding Degree Project Award
Individual Work Spring 2025
Professor: Chandler Ahrens
The project is an open market combined with a community garden, designed to revitalize Fairground Park in North St. Louis by reconnecting it with both the community and its history.
Once home to the Agricultural Exposition, the park has become underutilized despite its historic features like the abandoned bear pits and a swimming pool that once served as an amphitheater for horse racing. Inspired by local urban farming and the need for greater access to healthy food, this proposal introduces a market along the middle drive in the park, strategically placed for accessibility, natural light, and connections to walking and cycling paths. The design includes a market, shared garden, fishing area, and a bridge that connects the park’s existing roads.
The building uses geometric forms, thin lines, and circles as symbolic representation, contrasting with the landscape’s natural curves. This dynamic interaction revives the park’s lost identity, infusing it with modern energy and renewed purpose, blending architecture and nature in a contemporary, meaningful way.
Walkthrough Animation with more details:
https://youtu.be/RGRz8QGhyio?si=cCD5SPgED9nPL--y
Urban Field
Construction Details
The building features a 15ft-high, 580ft-long, 38ft-wide bar-shaped market suspended above water, supported by two grounded structures. Its frame consists of two sets of four cross-laminated timber (CLT) beams, each 6ft high, spanning up to 80 feet. Steel trusses suspend the space, supported by slender columns, with concrete metal decks forming a rigid load-bearing system. Diagonal and horizontal steel beams, along with steel cables, balance compression and tension. The façade includes movable louvers, a glass curtain wall, and integrated greenery, optimizing natural light and ventilation while enhancing the market’s suspended, elegant appearance.
Ruin Reborn
Community Design for Women in Post-war Iraq
Mosul, Iraq
Individual Work
Spring 2022
Professor: Lingqing Zhang
At present, the government plans to close the last refugee camp in the country, but many people are still living in the refugee camp although five years have passed since the Iraq War. According to the survey, women and chidren who are facing discrimination, fear and trauma make up the vast majority of this refugees, which means that the closure of the refugee camp will make them unable to find a job or even a place to live.
This project plans to build a community on the ruins for refugees which is under the premise of protecting women's guardianship, safety and privacy. Provide these refugees with a place to live, work, study and relax.
We have no where to go
The IDP camp is closed and our original hometown is still in ruins.
We are insecure
This society is too unfriendly to women, there are many restrictions on us.
Women's refuge doesn't solve the problem
We need society to make changes, not isolate us from society to protect us.
We lack labor, material and financial resources
We don't have a way to build a good house,
Built on ruins
Urban restoration work should be undertaken to provide permanent living space.
Women-friendly space
The creation of functions and spaces allows women to feel safe in the environment and encourages them to participate in urban restoration.
Open community
Creating a real community for women, not a closed women's refuge.
Self-growing community
The house is easy to build and all residents can participate in the construction. The use of passive design makes the house save energy.
Handicraft Factory for Women
Interior Space for Women's House
Section Perspective
The gallery is hung by 4 big tube steel beams which are supported by the surrounding concrete walls with the concrete precast panel on the outside layer. Considering the heavy weight of the gallery, only the walls of it are hung on the beams, while the ground of it is actually put on the ground. The floor is cast concrete floor. The inner walls which are used to divide the space consist of the wood frame with insulation in it. On the top of the gallery is the big skylight with the filter glass.
Gardening and Learning Area
Hydroponic Harvesting Area
Light Threshold
Housing Design in Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Individual Work Fall 2023
Professor: Emiliano Lepez
The concept of this project adapts the highdensity community in Barcelona. The spatial arrangement creates the lighting gradient from the dark foyer to a brighter outdoor space, as well as the division of public and private realms. Spaces in different shapes with similar size provide flexible usage of rooms and the rich potential of cross views, which accommodated to dwellers with various income. The use of ventral shafts at the center and the adjustable louvers enveloped the apartment is designed for pleasant lighting condition and climate change. Althese together evolves the living quality and creating modern lifestyle in Barcelona.
Voice of Wind
Pavilion Design and Construction
Yaan, Sichuan, China
Group Work Summer 2021
Professor: Shen Gao
The site is located in the Mingshan District of Ya'an City,The local area is famous for its tea mountains. It is located among the hills and has an excellent view of over 270 degrees.
This project provides an excellent viewing and leisure platform for tea pickers, local residents and travellers.
