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Yinan Luo

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Yi Nan,Luo About me Born in 3.31,1996,Hangzhou.

Good at history and geography. Fascinated in Football, cooking and photographing.

The project explore a range of skills from conceptual and ideas to design,hand drawing and use of computer aided design.

selected work from 2014-2019

phone:+1 3143195221 mail: crispin7luo@gmail.com yinan@wustl.edu facebook: crispin luo

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Tenant’s confession p1-12

Community Center, Hangzhou “Form follows events.”

Mountain footprint Public Library in Beitou, Taipei

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“Will people read from the heart.”

Overcrowded Art Center in Shilin, Taipei

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“Art is from over-crowded. ”

Nature in the nature A passive mechanism in suburban

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“Anarchy is here occuring. ”

Separation Hotel in ZhongShan, Taipei

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“Sepration is irreversible. ”

Wind housing Personal housing in Taitung

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Social housing in Phnom Pehu, Combodia

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Tenant’s confession Community Center, Hangzhou “Form follows events. ”

Site: Hangzhou, China Time: 1-5, 2019 Instructor: Chuan Chang Program: 800m² community center

Form always follows function?

“Form follows function” has become the consensus of architectural education. However, this consensus will not be the optimal solution for architecture in all occasions.

Barber’s

The “village in the city” is a community formed by the modern city gradually surrounding the original village during the development of Chinese cities.

Due to the aging infrastructure, the vacancy rate in “village in the city” is getting higher and higher. Now the tenant becomes his main resident.

In a month of research, I found that the space in the village in the city is often formed by the splicing of some architectural elements. The villages in the city are crowded and the infrastructure is broken. In such an environment, one space corresponds to one function seems difficult to achieve. For villagers, one space corresponds to multiple functions is a more effective method. Villagers will use surrounding materials, such as sheds, furniture, faucets, iron doors, to surround some vague and ambiguous spaces.

The design is based on a confession of a large number of tenants.

1. Perspective from the road

Restaurant

Laundry

Entertainment

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2. Spontaneous spatial reorganization

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Proce

Market

Barber’s Car repair

Sing & Dance

Laundry

Majiang

Work

Bar

Exercise

5. Neutral space as we can see they were rewritten by the times

Restaurant Theater

3. Program and each actions

My base was in an abandoned factory building, in the middle of a densely populated residential area. Residents here will use this space spontaneously to make up for the lack of space needs in life.

Because there are a large number of shared phenomena, the boundaries of each functional space appear chaotic. I define these vague spaces as neutral spaces because they were rewritten by the times.

However, I found that after sorting out these functions, the sharing of these spaces started to have some reasonableness. First, I classified these functions into three categories and distributed them in three sections. Then I deployed two to three functions in a sharing space. These two to three functional spaces are very different, so they will not eventually merge into one space. At last I will disassemble each action of each function, and disperse him with each action of the other one or two functions. This ensures that each function will not occupy a separate space by itself but will be shared with other functions.

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4. Site

6. “Village in the city”

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9. Structural systems

Surroundings Neutral space Neutral space Neutral space

8. Neutral space and surroundings

1. Site

I hope to be able to provide rich events in a limited space.

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7. Process

2. Half

Keep half of the space, the other half of the space can be rewritten.

3. Transform

Half of the reserved space is transformed.

4.Neutral space Implant in neutral space.

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The tenant chose the latter when choosing the quality and quantity of the space.

They don’t need a particularly good space, instead they tend to have many general but adequate space.

1. Playground & Theater 2. Laundry & Tailor’s 3. Barber’s & Car repair 4. Co-work space & Laundry 5. Market & Restaurant 6. Theater & Runway 7. Laundry & Kitchen 8. Library & Restaurant & Kitchen 9. Domitorry

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12. Ground floor plan

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12. Second floor plan

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10. Explosive

First I keep part of the structure, floor and elevator of the original building.

Then I try to transform some movements into some uniquely designed furniture that surrounds my neutral space. The collection of these furniture will become a series of code.

My base serves as a testing ground for my theory. The significance of code is that it can be applied to the entire village in the city. There are also buildings with different structural systems in the village inside the city. One building is far from enough for the tenants. It is therefore necessary to use other vacant buildings. The figure in the lower right corner illustrates the use of this code in other factories.

An example of combining two different functional spaces is as follows: The first plan tells how the kitchen space is combined with the reading space.

The second plan describes how the hall, market and reading space are combined..

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11. Perspective

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14. Section 13. Model

The distance between the three sections is very short, but the function of each section opposite will be completely different.

The characteristics of the function of neutral spaces are that they will be band-shaped, and even some spaces will be connected from the first floor to the third floor.

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Mountain footprint Public library in Beitou, Taipei “Whether people will read from the heart. ”

Site: Beitou, Taipei Time: 2-4, 2017

2. Four footprints around the site

Instructor: HanJu,Chen Program: 2400m² library &2000m² gallery

1. Perspective from the road

I have traced the footprint of several different people, including backpackers, travellers, old men doing exercises, residents, etc. And I come up with a average footprint of each type of people.

backpackers

my library

residents

travellers

trainers

attracting point Because there are 4 types of movements in the site, so I want my library can integrate all the movements and transfer into one continuous and changeable sequence.

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3. Integrated sequence

4. Progrram

Public EXTERNAL SPACE

Leisure

GalleryA

STAYING PLACE

GalleryB GalleryC GalleryD GalleryE

Library

MOVING SPACE

Cafe

NORMAL READING

Library FAST READING

Restaurant Grass Resting Exhibition Show

STAYING PLACE

Library SILENT READING

Reception

Leisure STAYING PLACE

ReadingA Outdoor gallery

ReadingB

MOVING SPACE

ReadingC READING SPACE Public EXTERNAL SPACE

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5. Experience in the space

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In this project, I want to diffentiate two routes, one as a normal entrance to library, the other is a continuous sequence.

In this sequence, people could feel a transition from a public environment to a library. This sequence can help them to adjust their rhythm from a lively pace to a silent condition, until down to a quite peaceful condition to read.

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As for environment , this site has a narrow hinderland, back

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towards a four-storey mountain and is squeezed by a road.

Thus, I put the entrance and the biggest open space at the third floor, as to buffer the flow and link the mountain. Follow the filament line of this site, I put all the library space at the narrow hinderland and place several free gallery at the end of

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1F Floor Plan

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this filament line. Those free gallerys, corresponding to the rhythm of public, is the start of the sequence mentioned.

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1 silent reading place

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2 outdoor gallery

5 reception hall

3 normal reading place

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8. Perspective

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Overcrowded Art center in Shilin, Taipei “Art is from over-crowded. ”

leisure

select

modern gallery

Site: Shilin, Taipei

market

Time: 9-11, 2016 Instructor: Chuanchin, Chang

interact

Program: 4000m² gallery, 2000m² mall & 1000m² classroom

1. Concept

This project is located on an over-crowded market. As we known, art is an open interactive activity

What is art?

in current. So, I want to argue whether public space such as market could have a possiblity to turn an artistic aspect.

Before 19 century, works of art were highly centralized by aristocrats and wealthy merchants in someplace like palace. With the industial revolution,

Market has its own activity sequence for people to select, watch, wait, hang out and interact. I regard

art was decentralized with the distribution of power. Finally, modern

the sequence as similar as the activity in a modern gallery. So I imagine there is a special market

gallery centralized the works of art and brought back to the public. palace

which provides with a free space to enable people seeing the aspect of artistic.

overlapped over-crowded market

gallery

passage couverts

market

art in market

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2. Plan

I divide this project with two spaces; one is market base and another is a platform to create the chance of events. This yellow platform is a space where matketing events like displaying, bargaining will happen. And through this platform, people will have more possibility to see the aspect

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3. Perspective: wait for shopping store to enter

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food market

shifting the merchandise

6F Plan natural space 1 information center 2 commercial space 1 uints of market 3 rest space 2 gallery 3 square 4 rest space 5 corridor 6 experience pavilion

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clothing market

4 toilet 5 multiple classroom 6 air corridor

displaying space

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Intense land overthrows of Taipei during the past 100 years

Nature in the nature -----A passive mechanism in suburban “Anarchy is here occuring. � suburban of Taipei

Site: Taipei basin Time: 3-6, 2018 Instructor: Shiyen, Chiang Program: a urban mechanism

In the past 100 years, Taiwan was more regarded as a place of strategic importance. Thus the spaces was made for some special purpose, especially in the suburban of Taipei.

Every changes derived different types of urbanism, and produced different spaces. However, these harshly changeable urbanism left all the negative effect in the suburban.

mixture of industry, agriculture, residence, incinerator, viaduct, waterway

In the suburban of Taipei, all the spaces is facing a extreme mix-used prolem, as if filling a plate with all kinds of fruits.

The suburban was cut by urbanisms in many ways: 1 farming land was leaved unused after world war.

2 extrenme high density of residense were built in disorder for large amounts of immigrants as a temperory use after 1945.

3 factorys, storages occupy the argriculture land in illegal.

4 infrastructure for center of Taipei, like viaduct, dam, incinerator, garbage plant take up the place and cut the suburban.

road name

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Nature in the nature a new reference related to nature

Nature in the nature

a living habit in suburban

My argument is we need urbanism, but a more important thing we need is a resistance to urbansim.

This resistance is a passive mechanism, when there is no direction of development it provide with a reference and when a new urbanism emerge it protect the territory from transforming totally.

And this passive mechanism is nature in the nature. The latter nature is a nature reference. One hundred years ago, territory has a strong relationship to nature factor like geography. The influence of this relationship is remained as many different settlement related to geography emerged. The former nature is living habit, as spaces in suburban of Taipei are easily to transform. From abandoned industry to parks, from fragmented agriculture land to markets, from the negative space under the viaduct to storage spaces, the nature enables spaces being utilized flexible.

Thus, in this mechanism, there will be a system to maintain the’nature in the nature’. As the spaces in suburban is fragmented, so there are different types of spaced unused . This system enables these unused spaces forming a overall relationship. This is a way to excite the negative spaces and perserve the culture of original settlements.

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Separation

Site: ZhongShan, Taipei

Hotel in ZhongShan, Taipei

Instructor: HanJu,Chen

“Aggregation to sepration is irreversible. ”

space& 290m² public space

Concept

Time: 4-7, 2017 Program: 10*26m² private

old structure

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more demand

new hotel

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2 book store 4 room

Walkups apartment Budeng Apartment, which has a meaning for the apartment with foot (no lift) in Chinese, created back to 1949 to settle a large amount of refugees from mainland China to Taiwan, is the main component of the site.

What surprises me is during the past 60 years, this compact standardized apartment has developed into an unconsolidated multiple commercial street. More and more indigenous people are leaving this temporary low-grade apartment, and a new and lively group reshape the site.

Currently, many interesting shops inset in the apartment and make it a wonderful place for people to date and travel. Under this circumstance, I argue that this tranformation from aggregation to sepretion is irreversible, and I will follow this logic to finish this design.

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Wind housing-

Site: Taitung, Taiwan

personal housing in Taitung

Time: 7-8, 2017 Instructor: Poyen Huang Program: 150m² housing

Competition: Social housing in Phnom Pehu, Combodia

Site: Phnom Pehn, Combodia Time: 7-8, 2018 Instructor: Formless Architects, Shanghai Partner: ShiYen, Huang Program: 3000*36m² living space & 1000m² public space

This project is a personal housing aimed at environment, as the site is

This project is a team work with another partner

fronting water and with hills on the back.

Shiyen, Huang, under the instruction of Formless Architects, Shanghai. I participate all the process

Wind is the key factor in my design, as the local’s daily life has a strong

of this project, from the site analysis to the

relationship with wind. My project follows this logic and creates space

presentation of this project.

incorporation with the flow of wind. I thik about the wind in two aspects: weather and living habits.

This is a very practical work aimed at those working in the factoriesnearby so we started at three

weather, as it is hot,stuffy, humid in Taitung, is the first factor. My

aspects: support facility, anti-disaster ability and

strategy is using wind to solve the problem. So the shape of this project

living condition. Thus we provide a series of

is like a box in the box, using a interval spaces between boxes to guide

functional spaces and an environment system to

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resist flood and drought and three types of living units as well.

As for the living habits, people using wind to do the cloth drying and they use wind to cool down the indoor temperature. Besides, all the spaces like kitchen, living are tend to be a natural condition, like they tend to eat in a outdoor space and chat in the grassland. So, my another strategy is guide the landform into indoor space and reshape the landform to a ladder, people could eat, chat in this ladder. And this ladder could guide the wind from the sea to the mountain.

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Other work

Page 1 is about a photography competition in Bamboo Architecture biennial exhibition in Longquan, China. I was impressed by the structure and many of my photographs were adopt by local media.

Page 2 is nominated an excellent work of photo exhibition of Chung-yuan university. It records a subway system which was reconstructed on the basis of an abri after the World War II. I am pretty interested in recording the change

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of shadow in the architecture.

Page 3 is a work mainly to describe the different shadows in still life, like the camera and shoes. I am leaning to record the soft change like light, humidity and age by drawing or photographing to aid my design.

Page 4 is a pravtice in renovating the old housings to a exhibition place for our

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thesis design. We organizes a five people’s team including me to design the new exhibition place with selecting the recycled materials and constructing the structure. This new exhibiton is till under construction.

Page 5 is a work about units. I need create one simple unit and think about the compoung mode. We use parametrization design to aid us present this shape.

Page 6 is a record of field research and participate design in Yilan. I spent three p2

months to do this research about how to construct a better education space with a team. And we arranged a number of activities to interact with children to gain that data.

Page 7 is a work of participatory design. After the long-term acitivity and discussion between designer and local people, I need design a garden meeting the demands of local citizens by hand-drawn presentation.

Page 8 is a mapping work from the thinking ‘How about a urbanism only related

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to geography’. I use different patterns to simulate the settelements which could emerge only related to geography factors. I want to show an overall ralationship between geography-driven city.

Page 9 is picture of westlake in Hangzhou, China, my hometown.

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