Portfolio Hancong Ding

H.C.DING

PORTFOLIO/SELECTED WORKS

Phone: +1-3156409625

E-Mail: dihaco@outlook.com

Thanks for fast but plenitude life

2003-2023

生命因忙碌而充实

CO-OP

Landscape Experience Design

Landscape design for the integrated transformation of a slum in New Orleans in symbiosis with nature

EMO CLOTHING

Interactive Fation Design

Meta-Universal clothing and material innovations that change with the mood

LIGHT INCUBATOR

Architecture Design

Art Incubator, which incorporates new material technologies to create a new urban spirit in Syracuse

OTHER COMPETITION & FINE ART WORKS

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS, Light Incabutor with Havard Camlab, Experimental Fine Art Session, Handdrawing and Street Griffiti

Self Portrait：

1. Who am I, Where I belong to?

2. What I experienced?

think that my mission as a designer and artist is to expand the social impact of the "subjective consciousness" of design, to break the boundaries between architecture and art, and to allow every ordinary person to find inspiration in their lives.

CO-OP SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE FALL 2022 [OCT. 15 -DEC. 05]

Location: Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, LA Program: Music CO-OP

At the beginning of the design, I learned from Junya Ishigami’s KIE Workshop that the thin columns symbolizing trees were used to define free space, thus breaking the concept of fixed and rigid space. also learned about Norell & Rodhe’s Nine Room, which uses irregular shapes to represent the shapes of Jewish houses in the past so that people can commemorate the history on a deeper level when they are in the space.

These two points were applied to the subsequent Site research on the Lower Ninth Ward area of New Orleans. explored the reasons for the deep poverty in this area from multiple perspectives, such as history, population, nature and existing planning. learned about the unique local culture and its potential, especially the native nature worship and jazz culture. Therefore, I defined CO-OP as a music space and added the residents’ urgently needed convenience store.

Based on the previous analysis of local houses, defined the main Spaces such as a jazz performance space, live music house, drama box, children’s activity centre and grocery store with irregular shapes. Then I shaped the open free play with the traction line that can make sound along with the wind. The steel structure at the top is defined by different forces according to the layout of the space. The overall building reflects the idea of “originating from nature”. The comprehensive building is supported by the irregular shape of the tree, symbolizing the trees that save people in floods. The traction line pulls the ground platform, and underneath is the purification tank connecting the house and the Mississippi River. To alleviate the poor water quality and improve people’s health.

At the same time, the design across N Claiborne Ave breaks down the wealth inequality and discrimination caused by the segregation of the block. The plan will allow the residents of the whole area to gain their own identity while fundamentally addressing their needs, reflecting the site’s spirit and metabolism.

Plantation and Natural Religous Spirit

EMO CLOTHING

INTERACTIVE FASHION PRODUCT FALL 2022 [AUG.20 - OCT.18]

Link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CnTkIEdBlji/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

As we grow more integrated into numerous technological networks in the information era, our bodies become less important for real social expression. The internet both unites and separates us, allowing us to hide our true colours and develop more flawless identities in virtual socialising, where everyone wears an exaggerated mask and ignores their genuine selves. My acquaintance suffers from social anxiety and is scared to express her emotions for fear of saying the incorrect thing. However, there are no such issues in online. People can express themselves instantaneously there by purchasing’skins’ and other nonverbal ways of communication.

Clothing is the first layer of social safety an individual has in the actual world, but mainstream clothing follows modesty or taste guidelines that inhibit honest emotional expression. As a result, wanted to design clothes that reflects emotion, as many skins do on the internet. was inspired by the puffer fish’s self-protection system, which changes size depending on emotional fluctuations. I designed a transparent garment structure that changes shape and colour in response to blood oxygen levels, expressing the emotions of the wearer. Different colours signify different emotions; highly saturated aggressive colours represent agitation and restlessness, whereas modestly saturated, conservative colours represent calmness and stability. Mood swings are identified by changes in blood oxygen levels (ratios) caused by mood, which control the temperature and colour of the substance (through colour changes). This shift is detected by the blood oxygen sensor, which directs the hot and cold airflow of the hairdryer while blowing in the temperature-changing colour powder.

My design will foster a new sort of social connection that emphasises the ease of passively and reciprocally transmitting emotions, mirroring the type of nonverbal communication that already occurs in virtual environments. I wanted to draw attention to this fashion technology project, which might be realised in a connected primitive universe by changing the colour and size of our garments to match our shifting moods, allowing us to speak more directly and with less falsehoods and misunderstandings when socialising. Breaking down current social barriers and living more directly and openly.

Interactive Logic

1. Bionic shape-shifting design inspired by puffer fish

2. Different colours reflect emotions: yellow - joy, red - anger, bluesadness, green -chill.

With the EMO Clothing, we can directly facing the challenges and change of emotions.

If we all face up to our own emotions and those of others, and treat people with equal respect, we can break down the social barriers and the crisis of trust caused by the epidemic

Light Incabutor

SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE

SPRING 2021 [MAR. 15 -MAY. 05]

Location: 103 East Jeserson St. Syracuse, NY

Program: Art Incabutor

My Art Incubator is developed from the design concept of Interlocking; I was doing site research and realized that it was a space nestled within the general block, so decided. I implemented the arch concept in the whole design because found that the surrounding buildings were too rigid, so used the arch to recreate the atmosphere. At the same time, the arch can maximize the use of the initially narrow space. The outer arch facade is interlocked with the small inner arches. The independent Spaces are interlocked with the public Spaces, from Exhibition, Studio, Office, and Archive up. The general path and the internal path are separated. At the same time, in the material design, to make the whole look lighter, I choose environmentally friendly organic materials to make full use of the light set on the metal frame. This makes the space language more Open and conducive to the development of art. At the same time, the material can also be modified according to the temperature changes caused by the flow of people, saving energy. Ultimately, while maintaining the harmony, use art to rejuvenate Syracuse.

Skin & Skeleton Diagram

INFINITE TEMPLE

ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS WINTER 2022 [DEC.23 - DEC.31]

Musuem to contain happiness and sadness emotion

Used the emotional controling material that I designed

Light Incabutor

CO-WORED WITH HAVARD CAM-LAB

FALL 2019 [OCT. 4 - NOV.21]

An installation art in public space (Design phase)

16 foot*16 foot*16 foot

Sketchup, Photoshop November 2019

Under the guidance of the teacher of Harvard Cam Lab, I borrowed Tianjin University to study the “Mirror Palace” of Chinese Buddhist architecture in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. later modeled in Rhino and then used cardboard and mirror paper to make an attempt on the mirror structure from origami.

I like the houses in my hometown of Huizhou, just like ink painting. The black and white composition allows people to enter a dreamlike poetic world. I used Sketchup and Rhino as well as AI and PS to design the brackets and ladder symbols in my hometown’s southern Anhui classic house, and used CG to design of an installation art in the landscape.

The Cradle of Light

SYRACUSE ARCHITECTURE

WINTER 2020 [Nov.4- DEC.11]

Location: War Free area between South & North Korea Culture Musuem

The Cradle of Light in the military-free zone between North and South Korea, designed for leisure, exhibitions, and conferences. Its design emphasises light, allowing light to enter it like a cradle to create a spiritual space experience for visitors. The concept from White U House’s use of light, the weight of interlocking structures, and metabolism infect the design. The main form of the pavilion is divided into semi-closed and unenclosed two parts, reflecting the light reagents and virtual, but also distinguishing between the two spaces. Tectonic design logic, which breaks the edges of spaces. This structure grew from the sphere, symbolises the “harmony” in the Eastern culture of yin and yang, and unity between water and light connotes friendship; no matter how people act, they will eventually meet. People can first communicate and rest after entering the pavilion. Semi-enclosed space is designed for cultural and artistic exchanges. Pavilions, like coronas, gather light together by hollowing out to make the interior of the concrete space lighter. The light changes with time, but the audience always experiences dialysis, the most sacred element. The inner garden is the activity space, and the contrast of the inner garden and the outside wilderness includes the relationship between humans and nature

Complex Space

WINTER 2019 [DEC.4- DEC.11]

12 in*12 in*12 in Acrylic paper

The Whirlpool of the Industrial Age

SUMMER 2020 [JUN.7- JUN.10]

30cm*30cm*50cm

Barbed wire, Nails, Gears, Branches, Hot melt glue, nylon silk, Acrylic

The industrial age is like a whirlpool, allowing human society to progress, and involving human beings in a material age with ample material but lack of spirit and destruction of the environment. Parts such as gears and nails constitute the tree of life for the society, which operates grotesquely and mechanically, turning human society like The plants under the barbed wire are as imprisoned

World Culture Palace

SUMMER 2019 [AUG.3- AUG.21]

Olfactory Illusion of Color Overlapping 16 in×16 in×16 in CGI, Colored plastic paper, acrylic sheet

The Devoured Divergent

SPRING 2020 [MAR.3- MAR.10]

20 in*35 in*0.4 in Plastic Paper, Acrylic, Metal, Toys

Just like the attraction of atoms, people in society meet each other because each other has a trait they need to make up for and help each other. Just like chemical acid-base reactions, different substances have the same characteristics and are complementary at the same time.

I used sandbox soldiers, civilians and tanks, as well as historical pictures using acrylic paint, and used mixed media techniques to make battlefield graffiti. Including those students who were crushed by tanks in the street resistance in 1989 and Dr. Wenliang Li who died after being blocked during Covid-19.

Why Separate by Ourselves

25 in*25 in

Reincarnation Series

SUMMER 2019 [JUN. 6 - JUN.28]

“Reincarnation Series” 1

1. Doomsday Lovers

2. Doomsday Lovers

3. Atonement

4. Golden Age

12 in*20 in Acrylic

I used acrylic to paint several of my dreams into a “reincarnation series”. The story is that a person appointed by a sinful God, after countless hardships and atonement, discovered that everything has become nothingness, and the past is irreversible.

1. Street Graffiti: Angels with Broken Wings Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

2. Hong Kong’s Revolution of the Times

3. Street Graffiti: Love in the era of ‘covid-19 dynamic clearing’ Location: Beijing, China

1.Belgrade street

2.Sabrina

3.Cesky Krumlov

4.Hometown

1. Hui Village

2. Normandy Apartments

3. Table