05- BIRD, HUMAN AND NATURE

However, architectural practices have remained the same when the course of human, plant, and animal livelihood are significantly altered under climate change.

Project time: Nov. 2022

Site: New York, US

With the accelerated urbanization in recent centuries, the expansion of buildings and cities has become unstoppable, and numerous manmade objects have been dividing the ecological habitats for the animals. Facing these crucial challenges, there is a voice that suggests eradicating the cities, but we try to come up with a more feasible and sustainable solution, which is to reimagine a new type of architecture to balance, reconcile, and integrate human expansion and animal needs. This will not only be a feld station for humans, but also a transit point for animals, especially birds. Potentially, this concept might be also further applied to every new building, which could facilitate the cities to become another kind of forest.

We hope to solve this dilemma and allow architecture to participate in the ecological system.

With the accelerated urbanization in recent centuries, the expansion of buildings and cities has become unstoppable, and numerous man-made objects have been dividing the ecological habitats for the animals. Facing these crucial challenges, there is a voice that suggests eradicating the cities, but we try to come up with a more feasible and sustainable solution, which is to reimagine a new type of architecture to balance, reconcile, and integrate human expansion and animal needs.

Our site locates at the Skytop Quarry in Syracuse, which has been abandoned and turning to a habitat for various species; meanwhile, Syracuse is on one of the most significant migration routes in North America. Similar to the other cities, the urbanization is threatening the natural habitats, and a stopover habitat is necessary for the species.

Structure

It includes three main components: a bird shelter, labs with controlled temperature, and public circulations with passive heating in winter.

The bird shelter is almost set seamlessly with the labs so that the researchers could easily and directly get the first-hand data and records of the birds, and the birds could get appropriate care with the researchers’ consistent monitoring.

The volume of public visiting space is connected to the bird shelter by the mezzanine floors of the labs so that the visitors could experience the scientifc study process without disturbing the researchers. The volume of labs is elevated from the ground to preserve the natural landscape and habitats; multiple types of research areas are organized in it according to different conditions of thermal, sunlight, circulation, and spatial distribution.

This will not only be a field station for humans, but also a transit point for animals, especially birds. Potentially, this concept might be also further applied to every new building, which could facilitate the cities to become another kind of forest.

Project time: Nov. 2020

Site: Iceland

Maze Divergence Shelter Destination

According to the different situations of Iceland's citizens in history, the use of different types of architectural spaces refects the events of the Iceland's history.

Giuseppe Terragni's Danteum used the text of The Divine Comedy to generate a sequence of spaces that brings viewers through Dante's mythical trip. The imaginary depiction of Inferno, Purgatory, and Heaven is concretized with geometry. The project is regarded as exemplary of how a spatial structure can express a sophisticated cultural meaning without an explicit"vocabulary" of architectural symbols.

If architecture is to be viewed as an open system instead of a purely autonomous discipline, its design outcomes would heavily rely on inputs from external references, as well as the "translating mechanism" that brings them into being. Many of such considerations, obtained from the range and depth of human culture, need to be more materialized.

This project is proposed based on the history of Iceland. This monument persists in the Iceland landscape ad\nd history both symbolically and physically. This projectt’s persistence or permanence is a result of its capacity to constitute the Iceland landscape, its history and art, its being and memory.

Each history period is translated into a spatial prototype, and developed into twofold: The lower part is an IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT in which visitors play the role of the focused movie character. In a story full of immediate perceptions, they experience Iceland's History arranged by the NARRATIVE LINE The upper part provides a review of the scenes from a PRIVILEGED VIEW This time they become level-headed observers while the other visitors lingering in the lower part become their subjects. Significant historical events follow the TIMELINE to form a continuous logical experience.

Building Entrance

SETTLEMENT AND COMMONWEALTH REPUBLIC OF ICELAND N Site Entrance 54.30 m 53.30 m 52.30 m 51.30 m

Visitors walk into a maze, its circuitous passage reflects the absurdity placed on early Iceland settlers. After a dark, uneasy passage, which symbolizes the harsh environment. visitors enter a huge spheric space. A bridge leads people to its center, where the niches around come into sight. A narrow light beam from the top renders the space as warm and secure.

The labyrinth symbolizes that early settlers have been wandering, searching and wandering for the first hundred years of their lives. Have to live like a tramp. There was a long confict history between aristocrats and churches, These early settlers come to a crossroad with two options. The tiring but gentle one: returning to normality and keep the title through a staircase. The quick but hard one: abandoned the title will lead a deeply social reform.

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//SITE PLAN SECTION A-A SECTION B-B SECTION C-C SECTION D-D SECTION E-E SECTION F-F SECTION G-G SECTION H-H

After a lot of hard time and enormous work,Iceland people got the opportunity to build their own country. However, when the world war begun, Iceland was forced by UK and US to take part in the World war and paid a lot. Faced with international situation at that time, whether to join the waror quit. Whatever their choice is, a respective consequence awaits in a small room within the next chamber. Each chamber is a closed space, symbolizing that no matter what choice he makes, the final destination is a tragedy.

After the World War 2, Iceland became an independent republic. Passed the cold war period, Iceland had a war about the cod resources and ocean with UK,cod wars were a series of 20thcentury confrontations between the United Kingdom (with aid from West Germany) and Iceland about fshing rights in the North Atlantic. Each of the disputes ended with an Icelandic victory. Iceland expanded its national waters still further, from four nautical miles to 12 miles, and during the second cod war, this boundary expanded to 50 miles.