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Salvage Light.Water,Air, Sophrosyne GraphicsOne day, a sunny dayBathingForest
Everyday practices are the most memorable, experiential, ritualistic Washhouseactivities.usedto be a social space to both clean clothes and bathe. Washing machine has rinsed off our emotional connections with the body as well as the outer skin - clothes. What if the clothes possessed our memories?
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Washing not only impacts our relationships with our outer skin, but also with the community and the people around us. The spatial practice of ‘washing‘ can be social, meditative, memorable... - late 14th c. “place for washing“ - mid 15th c. “act of washing“
Liverpool Community Launderette
Washhouse of Rural France Kimono washing in Japan Fabric is carefully broken into pieces and are sewn back together after washing
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“A home is not a house.“ Reyner Banham
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Urban Labyrinth
The clash of individual identities - through billboards, signages, fashion - establishes the space. Just like the streetculture, urban spaces are the stage for ‘hacking‘ the environment, and to overwhelm others.
Modern urban identity is created by the ground condition rather than the figure. It is defined by the colors, movements, activities, and people.
What is the new dwelling that enables a bricolage of living?
Ease of access to the resource has replaced the concept of possession. Life is about the method to gain the resource, instead of stoking.
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How do subcultures and street cultures impact the way a home is defined? What is a new type of dwelling that is surrounded by an urban identity?
From the 1970s to 1980s, visual media began to be one of the dominant sources of information and influence, such as movies and graphic design. Graphic designs began to create the corporate identity. Because of the intensive advertisements on the street, they then became the urban identity of the neighborhood. As the identity grew bigger, from a store, to a corporate, to an urban context, we began to find our identities between the ‘gaps’ of the mainstream cultures, constantly inventing subcultures that attempt to hack into the established trends.
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Reyner Banham Home is not a House“ Graphic designs from the 60s to the 80s Consumerism makes our lives like a shopping cart
TRAIN + BUS/TAXI BLDG + BLDG MaglevTwo-axialLift Entrance Lift Lift On Train Platform Train Platform Openable Spare Lots
STREET + RIVER BLDG BLDG Vert + Omni-directionalMaglevHoriLiftSpherewheels StreetUV DwellingSelf-cleaningBox Box Transporter DwellingConfiguredBoxes Exterior Shell LiftSuspensionEntrance
Build Your Own Air
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BYOA
50 years from now... pollution hits upon the civilization. Humans are forced to have air purifiers and masks on the whole time... with Steven Fei
Air
Step 1. Pick a pod Step 3. Install them onto the filter shells in the pod Step 4. Enjoy your own customized air Step 2. Pick 4 air purification filters Regular filter, bamboo charcoal, salt lamp, beeswax candles, essential oils, increased ventilation
How to Build with Fei
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Modernity has imposed a linear progression of development that separates tradition from technology and nature from civilization.
A Fisher Ensemble An Age of Discovery of the Urban Shoreline
Humans have developed numerous ways of interacting with this medium such as fishing, sailing, rowing, exploring, trading, and conquering. Many urban coastlines have been modified to accommodate the modern scale of our relationships with water that is merely seen as a medium, abandoning the traditional view of water as “nature.”
Although many urban contexts are intimate to the sea, rarely do people find places that they are able to sensorially connect with the coast. The city of Tokyo has transformed from a fishing village to a modern port, which still exhibits the remnants of traditional cultures within the modernity. Bringing the two vastly different coastal interventions together – container ports and fishing villages – this project speculates alternative coastal lifestyles that facilitate the coexistence of economical, scalar, and operational differences between modernity and tradition.
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Water is a medium that people have been continuously dealing with, whether it is to overcome the threat or utilize its fluidity.
1920160016441860188019551022 1 Tokyo, JP Farm Sake-aged salmon + Fish farm 3 Grangemouth, SC Waste 2 Bergen, NO Wholesale Salmon processing + Waste processing Smoked salmon + Bath house
Trout Atlantic Coho Carryover Domestic Import Total (Global) Wild (Global) Farmed (Global) King TONS50K FARMED 100 200 300 10K TONS 2,210K160K164K21K
Salmon data: imports from the world and the share of wild vs. farmed fish Sushi is an essential part of Japanese food culture, but its mainstream name value covers up the under stories that contributed to the creation of this tradition. By understanding the ideologies behind eating the meat by its purest form, one begins to see the essence of Japanese culture and practice that is highly based on the Shinto teaching of respect and mutuality.
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Istoria
Everything has an expiration date. As long as it exists, it decays. Respecting the old does not mean to revive the old. It is about uniting the two segments of lifecycles.
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Human in nature: it is the most primitive, the purest, the simplest condition. Yet, it creates the most sophisticated space. How can I design an architecture with nature as its program?
BathingForest
Bath Options Cold bath + Dry sauna Enclosed Warm bath + Cave Semi-exposed Hot bath + Sun Exposed
LONGSECTION LEVEL 2 PLAN B A C D E F 1
LEVEL 1 PLAN ROOF PLAN PLAN G 3 2 PROGRAMS A - MUDROOM & CLOSET B - MEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER CROOM-WOMEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER DROOM-MECHANICAL ROOM E - DRY SAUNA F -STEAM ROOM G - RELAXATION ROOM H - PUBLIC OVERLOOK POOLS 1 - COLD POOL 2 - WARM POOL 3 - HOT POOL
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 1884 ft. 1892 ft.
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The spiral goes deeper into the ground. Ironically, you become more exposed to the nature as you go deeper under the terrain. This paradoxical experience offers a thorough exposure of the self. It is an expedition to find your own self through the interaction with the man-made, the wild, and the blend of the two.
Architecture can be monsters that eat the public open spaces, erecting structures that physically and experientially block connections between the community.
One day, a sunny day.
How can the structure remain to serve as an open space?
Third Floor + 31.5 ft + 15.75 ft Ground Floor + 0 ft
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ASSEMBLY HE,INSTRUCTOR:FALLMATERIALS48-215ASSIGNMENTSEQUENCE1PAGE2OF2&ASSEMBLY2018DAMIANIXIAOTIANASSEMBLED AXONOMETRIC 1/4” = 1’-0” DETAIL 3: GROUND ATTACHMENT1/2”=1’-0” DETAIL 1: WINDOW ASSEMBLY1”=1’-0” DETAIL 2: BEAM ASSEMBLY1/2”=1’-0” 2 1 6 15 31 8 22 22 29 30 2 CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL KEY: 06 KAWNEER WINDOW 451T SPACED 4’-0” O.C. 08 3/4” DIA. ASTM 325 BOLTS 15 STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W8X21 @ 12’-0” CENTERS 22 STEEL COLUMN W8X24 @ 24’-0” O.C. 29 1/2” DIA. ANCHOR BOLTS 31 STEEL PRIMARY BEAM W16X45 30 18” WIDE CONCRETE PIER 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL KEY: 01 EPDM ROOFING 02 RIGID INSULATION 03 STEEL 060504HE,INSTRUCTOR:FALLMATERIALS48-215ASSIGNMENTASSEMBLYDECKINGSEQUENCE1&ASSEMBLY2018DAMIANIXIAOTIANTREATEDWOODBLOCKINGSTAINLESSFLASHINGKAWNEERWINDOW451TSPACED4’-0” O.C. 07 STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W10X19 08 3/4” DIA. ASTM 325 BOLTS 09 THERMAL BREAK 10 3/4” THICK ANODIZED ALUMINUM FASCIA 11 WELDED WIRE MESH 14 COLD ROLLED METAL FRAMING @ 16” O.C. SPACING 13 WELDED WIRE MESH 17 1/2” TK. FIBER CEMENT PANEL 15 STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W8X21 @ 12’-0” CENTERS 16 3/4” THICK ANODIZED ALUMINUM FASCIA 18 GRAVEL BACKFILL 19 STAINLESS STEEL FLASHING W/ SILL SEAL 20 POLISHED CONCRETE SLAB 12 STEEL DECKING 21 CONCRETE SLAB W/ WELDED WIRE MESH 22 STEEL COLUMN W8X24 @ 24’-0” O.C. 23 5/8” DENSGLASS GYPSUM BOARD SHEATHING 24 COLD ROLLED METAL FRAMING @ 16” O.C. SPACING 25 RIGID INSULATION 26 VAPOR BARRIER 27 CORRUGATED METAL SIDING 28 VAPOR BARRIER 29 1/2” DIA. ANCHOR BOLTS 32 10” TK. CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE FOUNDATION WALL 31 STEEL PRIMARY BEAM W16X45 35 REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING 33 1 1/2” TK. RIGID INSULATION 34 #4 REINFORCING STEEL (VERTICALLY PLACED AT 6’ CENTERS) 36 WATERPROOFING 37 GRAVEL BACKFILL 38 FOUNDATION DRAIN 30 18” WIDE CONCRETE PIER EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC 1/4” = 1’-0”2 PAGE 2 OF 2 191817 13.PIPE14.KAWNEERCOLUMN 4" 6.W16 4 26.DRAINAGE PIPE 62 25.GRAVEL BACKFILL 12.WOOD PANEL 2526 24.AIR BARRIER 2324 11.PRE-FAB23.FOOTING CONCRETE 2.ALUMINUM5.TIE GUARD 22.RIGID INSULATION 21.RIGID INSULATION 10.AIR GAP 2122 15.CONCRETE W/MESH 3'-611'-8"2 31'-10 20.CONCRETE W/MESH 9.RIGID 4.FLASHINGINSULATIONW/CANT 30'-11" 11'-8" 20101112139874'-0 5 4'-8 3 19.COLD ROLLED METAL 9'-9 5 18.RIGID INSULATION 8.COLD ROLLED METAL 17.ALUMINUM FASCIA 161514 16.METAL DECKING 1.ROOF7.W16 MATERIAL3.WOODDECKBLOCKINGKEY Climbing pods RoofWallsStructure
Salvage Air, water, light.
Human beings and objects are a part of the ecosystem. Spaces become multiscalar and multi-sensorial to rediscover the life necessities. How can architecture be an eco-machine, and a human living?
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gallery experience The gallery is submerged underwater with occasional light sources peeking through the transparent algae tanks. It has a number of complex turns to complicate the sense of Thedirection.onlyclue left for the visitors to navigate through the space is the natural light and the sound, guiding through the machinic noises as well as the sound of the waves and the wild reiteratingoutdoors...theimportance of the essential needs for living: air, water, and light.
Whatisthissound...
def: an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to other qualities, such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum, and self-control. (from Wikipedia)
It is the authority of citizens, and that is a lot of power. You can change (destroy) a neighborhood easily, without even meeting the people.
It is the personified rulesets in every scale that objectively regulates human behavior. It is a giant force that makes subjectivity appear trivial in front of it. It is a universal standard for a diverse group of individuals, but is that really? (does that even exist?)
“Double consciousness” is conceptualized by W.E.B. Du Bois with regards to the inter nal conflict that leads to the awareness of oneself from others in (oppressive) societies that impose a universal way of being. The universal consciousness becomes the rules and regulations that impose a standard of living regardless of unique identities. Rules are embedded in our lives, whether that is in an urban setting, in an institution, or in a household. Rules become indicators of the inherent tensions between subjectivity and objectivity that determine the way we interact with other people.
The essential structure of life that wisdom has built for mankind is the ability to think about the ways of interaction. We are capable of designing and manipulating our expressions, behaviors, and actions. And it is often the outcome of the tension between subjectivity and objectivity that arises from the social context. While we have the mind to create our own voice, we also have the mind that inhibits us from expressing, because of the objective image of oneself – in care of the way people look at you.
Rules can be both organic (bottom-up), and synthetic (top-down). Bottom-up rules arise over time, known as traditions and rituals. It is an experiential progress that gets embedded in our minds first, and then in our bodies. These are the informal types of rules that are culturally varied. For example, in Japan, people say “itadakimasu” before a meal to respect and thank the lives and the effort that was put in for the food that you are about to eat. These mindsets are subjective, cultural, and personal that act as one unique ruleset for your bodily behavior. Top-down rules symbolize modernity, in the form of regulations. It is a colonization of our bodies, which then restricts the ways we construct our mindsets. For example, no one was born to understand that green lights signal ‘go’ and red lights signal ‘stop,’ and not only does it instruct how to behave on the street, it also plants a standardized connotation of each color. Although many regulations are designed with a rationale (such as safety in the case of traffic lights), we tend to literally interpret the formal rules as restrictions on our bodily behaviors. These construct the framework for social constructs and stereotypes that impose a certain way of thinking, behavior, and interaction that ignorantly acknowledges biases.
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