Adam He | S22 Portfolio | Architecture

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The Wash Club

Urban Labyrinth

BYOA Build Your Own Air

A Fisher Ensemble

Istoria

Forest Bathing

One day, a sunny day

Salvage Air, Water, Light.

Sophrosyne

Graphics

The Wash Club

Everyday practices are the most memorable, experiential, ritualistic activities.

Washhouse used to 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?

VI. Bathe / Remember Merge b/w body and clothes

V. Fold / Identify Compressed into bath bombs

IV. Collect / Pack

Dispense water into bucket

Collected water from (IV)

III. Dry / Sort

II. Rinse / Store

subway hot air

Water from the tank

I. Wash / Distill overflown bath water

LAUNDRY

- late 14th c. “place for washing“ - mid 15th c. “act of washing“

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...

Washhouse of Rural France

Liverpool Community Launderette

Kimono washing in Japan

Fabric is carefully broken into pieces and are sewn back together after washing

Stepwells in India, used as water source and washing

VIRTUAL WATER

clothes memories

“A home is not a house.“ - Reyner Banham

Urban Labyrinth

Modern urban identity is created by the ground condition rather than the figure. It is defined by the colors, movements, activities, and people.

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.

Ease of access to the resource has replaced the concept of possession. Life is about the method to gain the resource, instead of stoking.

What is the new dwelling that enables a bricolage of living?

渋谷・原宿

SHIBUYA HARAJUKU

ʻ45 Postwar GHQ occupation.

ʻ64 First Tokyo Olympics soon after the end of GHQ occupation.

ʻ74 Developement of the neighborhood as a place for “high-culture,“ with a fusion of Japanese and American cultures.

Graphic designs from the 60s to the 80s

Consumerism makes our lives like a shopping cart

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.

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?

“A Home is not a House“

Reyner Banham

Train Platform

Entrance Lift Lift On Train Platform

Two-axial Maglev Lift

Openable Spare Lots

TRAIN + BUS/TAXI

BLD + BLD

DG

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Vert + Hori Maglev Lift

Suspension Lift Entrance

Street

UV Self-cleaning Dwelling Box Box Transporter Configured Dwelling Boxes

Exterior Shell

Omni-directional Sphere wheels

STREET + RIVER

50 years from now...

Air pollution hits upon the civilization.

Humans are forced to have air purifiers and masks on the whole time...

BYOA

Collaboration with Steven Fei

Build Your Own Air

Step 1. Pick a pod Step 2. Pick 4 air purification filters

Regular filter, bamboo charcoal, salt lamp, beeswax candles, essential oils, increased ventilation

Step 3. Install them onto the filter shells in the pod Step 4. Enjoy your own customized air

How to Build

Collaboration with Steven Fei

A Fisher Ensemble An Age of Discovery of the Urban Shoreline

Tokyo Bay, JP

What are the effects of modernization to the traditional practices, local cultures, and contrasting worldviews?

In what forms, do the informal cultures under the shadow of modernity remain in practice?

Does modernity reject traditions?

How can architecture promote the coexistence of modern and traditional?

Modernity has imposed a linear progression of development that separates tradition from technology and nature from civilization.

Water is a medium that people have been continuously dealing with, whether it is to overcome the threat or utilize its fluidity.

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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Farm

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1644 Sake-aged salmon + Fish farm

Wholesale

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Salmon processing + Waste processing

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Smoked salmon + Bath house

Grangemouth, SC

Waste

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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Trout 160K

Atlantic

Carryover Domestic Import Total (Global) Wild (Global) Farmed (Global)

Coho King

Salmon data: imports from the world and the share of wild vs. farmed fish

2,210K

164K 21K

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Human activity Fish Activity Mixed fish & people Waste pathway

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Fish Wholesale Market

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Vegetable Wholesale Market

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Fish/Vegetable Farm

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Community Center

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Bath House

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Fish Tower

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Food Vendors #1

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Community Housing

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Waste Tratment

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Food Vendors #3

Catalog

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Globe Route Map

Trade Cold current Warm current Ocean drift

Tuna Sardine Salmon

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.

Forest Bathing

How can I design an architecture with nature as its program?

Bath Options

Cold bath + Dry sauna Enclosed

Warm bath + Cave Semi-exposed

Hot bath + Sun Exposed

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PROGRAMS A - MUDROOM & CLOSET B - MEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER ROOM C - WOMEN’S CHANGING ROOM & SHOWER ROOM D - MECHANICAL ROOM E - DRY SAUNA F -STEAM ROOM G - RELAXATION ROOM H - PUBLIC OVERLOOK

POOLS 1 - COLD POOL 2 - WARM POOL 3 - HOT POOL

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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?

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KAWNEER WINDOW 451T SPACED 4’-0” O.C. 3/4” DIA. ASTM 325 BOLTS STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W8X21 @ 12’-0” CENTERS STEEL COLUMN W8X24 @ 24’-0” O.C. 1/2” DIA. ANCHOR BOLTS 18” WIDE CONCRETE PIER STEEL PRIMARY BEAM W16X45

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1.ROOF DECK 2.ALUMINUM GUARD 3.WOOD BLOCKING 4.FLASHING W/CANT 5.TIE 6.W16 7.W16 8.COLD ROLLED METAL 9.RIGID INSULATION 10.AIR GAP 11.PRE-FAB CONCRETE 12.WOOD PANEL 13.PIPE COLUMN 4" 14.KAWNEER 15.CONCRETE W/MESH 16.METAL DECKING 17.ALUMINUM FASCIA 18.RIGID INSULATION 19.COLD ROLLED METAL 20.CONCRETE W/MESH 21.RIGID INSULATION 22.RIGID INSULATION 23.FOOTING 24.AIR BARRIER 25.GRAVEL BACKFILL 26.DRAINAGE PIPE

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ASSEMBLED AXONOMETRIC 1/4” = 1’-0”

48-215 MATERIALS & ASSEMBLY FALL 2018 INSTRUCTOR: DAMIANI HE, XIAOTIAN

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EPDM ROOFING RIGID INSULATION STEEL DECKING TREATED WOOD BLOCKING STAINLESS FLASHING KAWNEER WINDOW 451T SPACED 4’-0” O.C. STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W10X19 3/4” DIA. ASTM 325 BOLTS THERMAL BREAK 3/4” THICK ANODIZED ALUMINUM FASCIA WELDED WIRE MESH STEEL DECKING WELDED WIRE MESH COLD ROLLED METAL FRAMING @ 16” O.C. SPACING STEEL SECONDARY BEAMS W8X21 @ 12’-0” CENTERS 3/4” THICK ANODIZED ALUMINUM FASCIA 1/2” TK. FIBER CEMENT PANEL GRAVEL BACKFILL STAINLESS STEEL FLASHING W/ SILL SEAL POLISHED CONCRETE SLAB CONCRETE SLAB W/ WELDED WIRE MESH STEEL COLUMN W8X24 @ 24’-0” O.C. 5/8” DENSGLASS GYPSUM BOARD SHEATHING COLD ROLLED METAL FRAMING @ 16” O.C. SPACING RIGID INSULATION VAPOR BARRIER CORRUGATED METAL SIDING VAPOR BARRIER 1/2” DIA. ANCHOR BOLTS 18” WIDE CONCRETE PIER STEEL PRIMARY BEAM W16X45 10” TK. CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE FOUNDATION WALL 1 1/2” TK. RIGID INSULATION #4 REINFORCING STEEL (VERTICALLY PLACED AT 6’ CENTERS) REINFORCED CONCRETE FOOTING WATERPROOFING GRAVEL BACKFILL FOUNDATION DRAIN

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HE, XIAOTIAN Climbing pods

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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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 direction.

The only clue 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 outdoors... reiterating the importance of the essential needs for living: air, water, and light.

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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 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?)

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.

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.

“Double consciousness” is conceptualized by W.E.B. Du Bois with regards to the internal 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.

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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vending machine hoodie Japanese Student Assoc.

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flasco windbreaker Street Styles

GRAPHICS

‘melon‘mill t-shirts Street Styles

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cyberpunk long-sleeves Street Styles

‘19

REBRANDING JSA

Typology

Typology to Typography

Pittsburgh

Japan

3 rivers + cmu

Japanese islands

Typology

Typography

SYMBOL TENNIS CLUB LOGO

STREET STYLES ‘22 RETRO GRAPHIC

CMU

Carnegie Mellon University

EST. 2003 PITTSBURGH, PA

JSA EVENT POSTERS