BREVE | ROME

Breve is a project that aims to explore how to create flexible public spaces by reconfiguring simple vertical poles for the daily rituals within the public realm. Similar to how a beautiful music piece is created by various notes on musical bars and the five horizontal lines; vertical poles are being reconfigured with simple operations in various scales, sizes, materials, and lighting conditions within a grid to create a variety of activities and spatial experiences

The intervention Breve injects life to piazza by combining the elements of structure, light, and mist into a column that sits on the stone stumps or the ground, the various arrangements of the columns will activate the site with flexible programs such as market, fashion show venue, dance floor, an outdoor bar and musical performances. The charcoal animated drawings and collages become the music that the users perform and allows us to imagine how one can begin to be in dialogue with the different configurations of the intervention throughout the day in Rome.

Structural Analysis Model

Contemplation Pavillion by Simon Velez (Arles, France, 2018)

Collaboration with Eastwood Liu and Samuel Castaneda

Sectional Model | 3/4” : 1’-0” | 4.5’ x 2’ x 2’

Pre-fab compressed bamboo members form inclined column and beam members in sectional profile, and are then fastened to tranverse steel beams using nuts and threaded rods. Additional tension cables span between the steel beams to create overall stiffnes while the entire structure elevates above the ground on steel stumps.