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PROLOGUE

Studio V

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#Voronoi-based Lattice Structure

Generative Design, Danil Nagy

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By using the Voronoi diagram, the model is looking at the relationship between the column locations and the performance of the whole structure. A globally controllable and locally uniform graded lattice structure is designed. Compared to the traditional grid lattice of beam arrangement, the Voronoi pattern is more organic and it allows the columns to have maximum flexibility in terms of the locations.

It is a structural system that has been used in many built shell structure projects but it is still seldom used in traditional floor beam layout. The complicated aspect of this problem is generating the beam location using the Voronoi diagram. Using the generative tool we could find out the ideal column locations for a floor plane with determined loads.

#Voronoi-based Lattice Structure

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Generative Design, Danil Nagy

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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The city Newburgh is full of local artists. In the government’s long-term planning, art is considered as the main focus to attract tourism for the Newburgh city. Right now, the studios and museums are concentrated in the downtown area. However, the airport has the potential to become a new art center for both artists and buyers. With the location next to the airport, it would be convenient for large art pieces to be transported and for the buyers and curators from New York City to visit.

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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The cooking instruments of the building are built upon the study of ingredient flows. The research of ingredient is developed upon the site visit to the Metropolitan restaurant in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Based on the kitchen layout of the Metropolitan restaurant, recipes of different dishes are spatialized through staging and time intervals. The bubbles that content the ingredients and cooking moves represent the space of cooking including storage, preparation kitchen, cold kitchen, hot kitchen, the kitchen of four elements and pantry space. The size of the bubbles are scaled to the area of each cooking space.

#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Tension Instrument

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Advanced Studio VI

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#Tension Instrument

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VISION

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Information Hub

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Mountain Village

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Rooms of Rooms

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Ultimate Cookware

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Tension Instrument

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Information Hub 2018 Spring Professor: Emmett Zeifman Brooklyn, New York City

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It is urgent now, in new era of technology, to re-imagine the library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to books, but a dynamic space for communication. All formats of media are presented openly and flexibly with maximum accessibility for public and academic.

The simplest intentions of focusing on the cylinders and open field in between allows for a poetic and visually intriguing design as well as a complex system of activities.

The concept derives from the study of the program requirements. By visualizing the relationship between functions and their sizes, the idea of using circle as a form for maximum freedom and interaction emerges.

By tapering, stacking and shifting series of cylinders, diverse programs could be housed inside while setting free the open field in between for interaction of information and knowledge. On the ground floor, the tubes could be accessed individually, providing more public space on the street. The public is led into a continuation of the surrounding city.

The faรงade which follows the tapered shape of the cylinder, wraps around to create a solid skin, leaving space for skylight to come in and out. The opaque faรงade contrasts with the transparent tubes inside.

The building might hide from the city, but has maximum openness within.

Continuous columns inside the tubes allow force to be transferred downwards by tension and compression, holding up the whole building at the same time. The tubes free the rest of space from columns so that there is maximum flexibility with furniture arrangement to create different study environments. Auditorium, meeting rooms, working labs and vertical circulation are housed inside the tubes while the open fields are filled with books and other kinds of information.

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#Information Hub

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Studio Core II

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#Information Hub

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Studio Core II

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#Information Hub

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Studio Core II

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#Information Hub

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Studio Core II

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Mountain Village 2018 Fall Professor: Ilias Papageorgiou Project Partner: Chenyan Zhou Bronx, NYC

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The Mountain Village aims to provide a sustainable housing environment by creating maximum efficiency in terms of living area, energy using and urban synthesis. By breaking conventional horizontal layout of units, the shifting movement of the rooms enables vertical connection and spatial continuity.

We minimize the necessary unit area but maintain useful program space at the same time so that we could provide housing for more than seven hundred people in three hundred units. The connected and sloping roof is not only a gesture to merge the extensive building volume into the urban context, but also a sustainable landscape that collects rain water and absorb solar energy to serve the whole complex. The roof also becomes an additional space for community activities such as gardening and outdoor exercising.

Twelve courtyards with different spatial experience serves as common sharing space for the residents. The pixelated landscape uses the rain water collected from the roof and also serves as steps between courtyards with different elevations according to the site topography.

The concept of connection happens in many different scales. On the ground level, the courtyards are accessible through openings on the bars of rooms. Vertical circulation cores are located at the crossing points of the bars so that the residents could commute to their room from the street very quickly.

With the shifting units, each bar is thin enough for residents to experience courtyards on both sides. With different unit types surrounding each courtyard, the design of the landscape inside also differs: intimate and reachable for the studios; dynamic and public for the two-bedrooms; private and appealing for the four-bedrooms.

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Studio Core III

#Mountain Village

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Ground Floor Plan

Fourth Floor Plan

The bars of rooms are designed to be as thin as possible to allow maximum transparency for sunlight and views. In all rooms, residents would be able to experience the courtyards on both sides. On the southern parts where courtyards are designed to be more public, circulation corridors are located facing the courtyards. On the northern parts where courtyards are designed to be more private and only for views, rooms are located facing the courtyards.

With the single loaded arrangement and the vertical circulation cores on the crossing points, the circulation inside this huge complex becomes easy and efficient. The roof top could be accessed on all levels. The other way of reaching the rooms is meandering up the roof slopes and enjoying the view of the city. Around each courtyard, there is at least one public room as communication and learning space.

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Studio Core III

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#Mountain Village

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Studio Core III

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Rooms of Rooms 2019 Spring Professor: Phu Hoang Newburgh, NY

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To challenge the traditional physical boundaries that limit programs and activities, a new type of spatial arrangement that creates a field of rooms within rooms is adopted for the future art school.

The system of folding and curving at the corner that connects four spaces enables the learning spaces to be incremental and adaptable so that over time in the future when vehicles become obsolete, the parking deck could be gradually taken up by learning spaces.

By creating diagonal, horizontal and vertical visual and spatial connections, different learning experience could happen in designated spaces. Thus space becomes the third teacher. It not only encourages encounters, communications, and relationships, but also mirrors the ideas, values, attitudes and cultures of those who use the space.

The simple move of folding the corners of two facing walls gives the rooms with enfilade layout a new diagonal circulation. With the original structural grid created by the parking spot, the enfilade rooms are able to merge into bigger space for classrooms of different sizes.

After the parking lot become demolished, the two ramps for cars are taken out and turn into two courtyards. The visitors and artists are circulated vertically through the stairs on the North and South facade. The art goods are transported through the large elevators and the diagonal corridors.

The diagonal corridor not only connects all the art studios and lecture halls, but also links the vertical circulation cores on the facade. Moving through the corridor, the visitors could peak into the studios to see the works. The diagonal corridors also serve as an exhibition space for the artists to display their recent works.

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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Ultimate Cookware 2019 Fall Professor: Jimenez Lai, Miku Dixit Project Partner: Yan Wang Cheyenne, Wyoming

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By rethinking the social normality of cooking and dining in the contemporary culture, the project aims to establish a new typology for dining both spatially and socially. Through analyzing the culture of dining and the process of cooking, the building turns the traditional “back of house” to “the front of house” to establish a new dynamic between food production and consumption.

Spatially, the architecture is the ultimate cookware. Cookwares for ingredients are translated into space for inhabitants. Key factors for food making processes such as heat, air, and water also perform as distinct spatial qualities. Socially, the building functions as an active social condenser. Customers are no longer passive consumers with detached dining experience but active participants of the whole process from food production to consumption. Community engagements are strengthened through traceability of ingredients and the new dynamic of social interaction. T he building is the threshold for dining and cooking. The active consumers enter the building from the top floor. By going down the arranged spaces, they would experience the different kitchens according to the study of food production process. The furnitures for dining are attached to the kitchen spaces to form an ambient environment that combines the process of making and consuming the food. Thus the actual cooking process become the main drive for spatial design.

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#Ultimate Cookware

Advanced Studio V

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The interior environment of the ambient kitchens have very distinct qualities. The dark cellar for vegetable curing is enclosed and intimate. The area between the oven and the outdoor pocket garden is tropical like. The area between the steamer and the wind tunnel is filled with the steam and furnished with wood material. The area between the oven and the steamer is industrial like with exposed mechanical system. Looking from the other side of the lake, the ultimate cookware emerges from the landscape slope and acts like an active machine.

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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Tension Instrument 2020 Spring Professor: Steven Holl Project Partner: Lihan Jin Prague, Czechia

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Tension is a material property that could be seen in both music and in architecture. The sounds of violin in Dvorak’s New World Symphony inspires us to create a prototype which is a piece of wood bent by a string in tension. The repetition and rhythm in the orchestra was also studied and transformed into architectural language.

In the concert hall in Prague, the language of tension panels become walls, seating balconies and acoustic panels. To balance the concave shape of the concert hall, the convex surfaces inside reflect the sound to create a decent acoustic environment. The similarity in materiality and forms allow them to merge together to form a uniform field of the prototypes. The gradient in scales inside concert hall and throughout the whole architecture echoes with the repetition and juxtaposition of the music components in the orchestra.

One seating area is not wrapped by only one surface but multiple ones. Different layout combination with two or three seating balcony panels allow it to have circulation stairs in between or entrance from behind. The area blew the balconies are efficiently used as circulation for audience and performers as well as supporting services like control rooms or green rooms.

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#Tension Instrument

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Advanced Studio VI

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PROTOTYPE

Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ultimate Cookware

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Advanced Studio V

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#Ripple Pier

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Studio Core I

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Transitional Geometry

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Transitional Geometry

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Transitional Geometry

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#Mountain Village

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Studio Core III

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#Corner Hinge

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Studio Core I

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#Rooms of Rooms

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Advanced Studio IV

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Advanced Studio IV

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Advanced Studio IV

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#Tension Instrument

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Advanced Studio VI

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Advanced Studio VI

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