College portfolio

H U A N G Y I - C H I A O P O R T F O L I O

Huang Yi-Chiao (1978~ )

Address+ No.326, Bade 2nd Rd., Toufen Township, Miaoli County 351, Taiwan (R.O.C.) E-mail+ huangonejoe@gmail.com Tel+ +886972148027 Education+ 1997/09~2006/02 Department of Architecture, Ming Chuang University , Taiwan

This portfolio contains my college works. As you can see, my project often emphasized on the connection between artificial building and enviroment ,which I think was a good quality all man-made building should have. In my opinion ,an ideal artifact (a building or a sculpture) should be a bridge, a connection between two subjects. It could be a message from one to another person(or between two materials), or it could establish a relationship between men and women, citizens and cities, human and nature...

I wish to know more about performing this kind of connection, therefore I pick your department as my first choice, and I sincerely hope you could give me the chance.

Contents

1997-2003

Beanpod Structure 01 Hejduk Project 05 Cubic Museum 12 Lanyu Church 17 1/2 Theatre 22 120° Theatre 28

Beanpod Structure Architectural Design Studio I 1999 Spring & Summer Advisor : Yang Chia-Kai

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Type A uses four skew bolts to fix

two panels, and two pairs of pannels clamp the pebbles in-between.This prototype fail when the pressure grows. Wood panel will bend and the stone inside will fall off.

Concept : Beanpod

The first idea was a peanpod. This natural form seems to contain a capable structure system in it. As this rough model shows, the concept was to use wood panel for its flexibility while the stone inside provide hardness.

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INTRO

This assignment fabricated an island that only consist limited resources.Native residents also refuse to use modern materials like concret.

How to build a structure under such circustances? How to make stone and wood stand ?

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Type B improve the flaw by inserting a bolt in the middle. It uses only three bolts to sustain more pressure than the first one and the stone inside won’t fall off as easy as type A structure.

Type C however, uses another method to complete. I put a cable system on it, without any skew bolt penetrate the wood panels. The cable prevent the structure from deforming, thus make the stone and wood work together.

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Conbination : Tripod

Final combination is to stand all three units. Extending the cable system of type C structure, this combination uses three structure units as legs to create a tripod. Its a testment of possibility to use beanpod structure as a realistic method to support a roof or sustain a man sit on it.

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Hedjuk Project Architectural Design Studio I 1999 Winter & Fall (group work) Advisor : Wang Tse

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This team porject was inspired by an imaginary architecture work “victims” created by John Hejduk.The original work was composed only of a series of tracings and poems. “They are not diagram but ghost” said Hejduk. Our goal was to catch the ghost and represent the blurred nature of the work.

Site overview of “victims”

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MODEL EMERGE

The book contains only sketch and uncertain drawings.We reproduced those illusionary drawings to small-scale models.Because of the vague nature of the context, we had to fabricate the unknown details.Those models were still the shadow of original work .

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MODEL DISAPPEAR I : WALL PRINT

Some of the models were unfolded. We pasted them on the wall like butterfly specimens.Then we painted the wall with black paint and left new imprints on it.The models soon disappeared and those new silhouette outlines became flat and uncertain again.

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MODEL DISAPPEAR II : X-RAY

Some of the models were cast in transparent materials. The inner structure(imaginary) were exposed like x-ray photo. They showed another possible aspect of Hedjuk’s sketch.

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WALL REPRINT

Then we reprinted those wall print to rice paper, a half-transparent, fragile materia.

These figures have become even more unclear than those original sketch of Hedjuk’s.

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MODEL DISAPPEAR III : BURIAL SITE

The remaining models now all went to the burial-ground. We built a huge mold and started to put models into it. At the same time, we casted plaster into the mold, like a reverse archaeological excavation process, we bury them, left them to be unknow again.Few days later, we cut the plaster cube to reclaim them.

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Cubic Museum Architectural Design Studio II 2000 Spring & Summer Advisor : Lu Hsi-Chieh

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INTRO

The site location was chosen for its good Feng-Shui : three sides surrounded by hills and one side open to main road. However, the open side in this case is lack of open view. This enveloped enviroments somehow effect the school spirit (conservative tradition).

The only way to get an open view is to climb on the hill top. Sadly, there is no route in the campus that could connect ground level to the hills for students. The site location itself could provide a chance to make a passage link sealed campus and expansive hill top.

FIRST APPROACH

First rough draft was two large ramp,one of them connects campus to the building, another leads people out into the green hill.

The building serves as a bridge to the hill. It connects campus road to hiking path, thus brings two different terrain levels to a closer relationship. The squire frame reflects the shape of the site.

CAMPUS HILL

SITE

CITY

HILLTOP VIEW TO THE CITY

HIKING ROUTE

HILLTOP VIEW TO THE CAMPUS

SITE

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CONCEPT : MAGIC CUBE

The idea came from sketch model.

Taking out the squire frame, it bacome a solid cube. Dividing the cube into two, it starts to form different function. If we twist it like a magic cube, its circulation brgin to connect different level of the campus.

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FINAL APPROACH

Final models and drawing shows the main function of the project. This corridor building serves as a small museum of the college, but the real purpose is to create a only passage to the nature.

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Lanyu Church Architectural Design Studio II 2000 Winter & Fall Advisor : Yang Chia-Kai

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Langtao Village

Lanyu Isle

Pacific Ocean

INTRODUCTION

Lanyu Isle, Isolated from main island Taiwan, is a tiny islet with harsh natural enviroment.

Dawu people have lived there for centuries, fishing for their livehood with traditonal hand-made canoe. Their religious belief contain local shamanism and christianity. Ancestor ghosts and holy spirit coexist side by side on this very island. This project starts when one of the village in need for a new church and held a design competition...

LANYU ISLE, is Taiwan’s most rugged and perhaps its most beautiful offshore island.

Our site, an even more primitive place, located in a village north-east of the island called Langtao. Aborigines there remain the old-fashion ways of living.

Island ring road SITE

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FIRST APPROACH :

LOCATION

Through the island ring road, people arrive at Langtao village.

The site loactes by the road, with Pacific ocean in front and village behind.

First catch was two walls. One of them shelters villagers from the strong sea wind, another seperates church embersfrom village regular life.Through two ramp entrance(from sea and village), people walkin the middle space.

Inside two walls was the sanctuary.

SECOND APPROACH :

BUILDING LEVEL

There’re three types of traditional buildings in Lanyu: The hightest building type is used in sunny days.Workshop is used in working seasons for dried fish and canoe making. Residential building which aborigines spent most time in. It was built underground to prevent typhoon and strong winter monsoon.

The second approach was to create several levels on the church building.There was open space like gazebo, and underground hall like main house. Those levels were connected to geographical level and made the church more like a artifical cave than a building.

Intermediary Space Village Seashore

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THIRD APPROACH :

INTERMEDIATE CHURCH

Dao people’s life contains two religions, so does this church. There is a canoe workshop for local belief, and a church hall for the Christian ritual. It is a intermediary with actual function.

Third approach was to put a quite landscape on the site. Villagers walk through it to get to the sea. Its a intermediate space between land and sea, artifact and nature, human and spirit.

A PLAN ground level

Priest Room Canoe Workshop

PLAN first basement

Church Hall Canoe Workshop

PLAN second basement

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UNDERGROUND CAVE

Program of this church indicate the living style of natives. Due to the harsh weather here, their sacred places(residential building) are often underground. Church hall also locate underground.

Through canoe workshop and ramps, one can finally stand infront a natural stone wall, which was washed by daylight.

This church/workshop complex emerge gentlely by the sea. People walk through it and in it, just like strolling between costal rocks of coral reef.

Church Hall

CANOE WORKSHOP PRIEST ROOM

SECTION A

CHURCH HALL

FRONT ELEVATION Priest Room Church Hall

SECTION B

Priest Room

Canoe Workshop

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Canoe Workshop

SECTION C

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Intermediate Cinema part 1 1/2 Theatre Architectural Rerpesentation II 1999 Winter Advisor : Chen Tung

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Project started unintentionally as a personal interest in a ruin.This abandoned movie theater inspired another school work. Two different sites integrated as one...

First part of the project was inspired by a movie theater. It was abandoned two decade ago and became a modern ruin since then.

However, the site has changed dramatically at 1998 and it also created interesting relationship between itself and surrounding area.

<1997

At that time ,the discarded movie theater in the street block stayed intact.

It was abondoned for a long period and surrounded by metal fence.

1998

For some unknown reason, part of the theater was torn down in 1999.

Strangely enough, They left half of the building untouched.

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Original entrance to the theatre

The site this year leaded to a series of sketches. Like comics it shows how a person walkthrough the space. In my magination, it would be a mystic entrance at the steet facade and a long corridor at the begining.on the waste land, a forest park stand between movie screen and audience seats. At this stage, it was all but conceptual architecture.

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The end of this route is the start of the movie. 1/2 theatre redefined its volumn with a large screen and a forest under its toe. Audience should know that its a route back to the city.rather than a sealed dark box. Its wound opened to invited us all in.

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>2000

On the empty wasteland a construction site appeared in 1999. At the end of the year 2000, the new apartment was almost completed. The remained seat and balcony windows seems gazed to each other.

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When the new building emerged, the relationship between two buildings begined to change the design. This time it was a movable screen on rails . When screen move to the south, it is a movie normal theater. When it move to the north, the balcony become private boxes in the theater and the audience of the theater can watch a life show of department residents. These ideas started the next part of the project.

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Intermediate Cinema part 2 120° Theatre Architectural Design Studio III 2002 Advisor : Chen Tung

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Site locate on a flight axis which refers to the scale change in the city.

It is a turning point. A citizen leaving their unit of living to the bigger scale facilitie and eventually arrive the largest space in a city: airport, which leads ones to the ultima space: world police station, radio station and playground

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Sresidential area

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Main concept reflect the hierarchy of this site, its similar to fractal model(from chaos theory): â&#x20AC;&#x153;a shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole.â&#x20AC;?

This program contains a movie theater and dormitories for directors and cinematographers. The cinema reflect the city, and the directorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s houses also reflect the cinema.

Part 1 of the project refers to a simple transform of performer and audience. I wish to extend this idea of space switching to a larger site, to the scale of city. The new site locate between museum/airport and crowded residential area, a perfect place for the intermediate cinema.

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The final drawing and model combine two concept together. The space scale get bigger when resident step forward: from small scale toilet, bedroom, living room to medium scale cafe, public circulation and finally to the movie theater which is also a intermediate spcce due to the rotary screen. It can be a sealed cinema and also could be the stage of the city.

Two concept here. One is a cinema complex arranged in scale. The other is from the former idea: a sliding screen. The first two sketch shows the space scale dimish with airplane flight path: from movies theater, projection room, cafe, to private residences for movie makers.

OPEN SPACE

ROTARY SCREEN

PROJECTOR’S ROOM

CINEMA

CAFE

ENTRANCE

LOBBY CORRIDOR

DOMITORY TICKET WINDOW

The sketches below indicate that the position of the screen change the relationship between the building and the city.When the screen close, it’s a normal movie theater.

But when it open, the screen and seat area become a stage for the city. It’s open to the citizens, cars and even the airplanes about to land.

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The final drawing and model combine two concept together. The space scale get bigger when resident step forward: from small scale toilet, bedroom, living room to medium scale cafe, public circulation and finally to the movie theater which is also a intermediate spcce due to the rotary screen. It can be a sealed cinema and also could be the stage of the city.

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SITE PLAN

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Control room Movie projector

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RESIDENCE PLAN 2F + Premier mode

Round screen

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PLAN + Cinema mode

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PLAN + City stage mode

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RESIDENCE PLAN GF + Home theater mode

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7 4 ELEVATION A

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1.Living room 2.Kitchen 3.Film studio 4.Balcony 5.Corridor 6.Bed room 7.Toilet

RESIDENCE ELEVATION

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