Martian Legacy
Public Relations Strategy
Experimental 6, AA School of Architecture, 2022
Instructor: Ana Nicolaescu, Ioana Man
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Experimental 6, AA School of Architecture, 2022
Instructor: Ana Nicolaescu, Ioana Man
After decades of sending multi-billion spacecrafts and rovers to Mars, the American space agency, NASA, is now under presidential orders to land humans on the red planet by 2030s.
The connection between Mars, a planet 34 million miles away, and us, the ordinary majority can be inevitably ambiguous, or critically fictional. The Apollo moon landing, which involved 400,000 workforce and cost 30 billion US dollars, may be just a few photographs for us today. In NASA’s current cultural technology, the rigorous science are melted down to an image of optimistic and romantic space fantasy. In the context of an upcoming new space race, the project suggests a multifaceted spirit for NASA’s journey to boost public interest: The enthusiasm for the unknown, as well as the mundanity, reality and challenges of space exploration.
Experience Research
Proposed to explore a potential more tangible public-facing strategy and situate a more engaging and grounded experience through different channels in the possible architectural projections, the project articulates a threshold between fiction and reality in NASA’s another giant leap of mankind.
Heritage Redesign
University of Melbourne, 2021
Instructor: Danielle Peck, Samuel Hunter
Project
A soup institute that cohesively discusses food production methods between labour and factory, encouraging debates and competitions within students.
“Might we focus less on optimizing carbon miles and more on optimizing the experience of food prodution.”
Labor in the Logistical Drawing, Meredith TenHoor
Tension & Dynamics
Contradictions & Collisions
Democratic Communal
“I prefer elements which are hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than “clean”...accommodating rather than excluding... messy vitality over obvious unity.”
— Complexity and Contradictions in Architecture, Robert Venturi
Partially Partnered with Ruiqi Han RMIT University, 2020
Instructor: Tom Kovac
The future city will grow over time by accumulation, through a collect and distribute system. A frame of filtering filaments are proposed to gather existing discarded environmental waste to re-manufacture into architectural materials for distribution.
Monumental Distorted
Playground
Plaza Redesign
RMIT University, 2020
Instructor: Michael Strack, Dale Schlosser
Time Frames, Existing Collins Place
Movements of visitors in the existing Collins Place are extracted with their corresponding speed and direction, which are adopted as space-time notations to navigate distortion maps that “twist” the existing space.
Movement, Existing Collins Place
Time Frame
Distortion Map
Tensile Structure
Vray
Church Bathhouse
Central Grand Bathing Hall
Lump of Pride
Gathering Bathing Hallway
Mechanical Services Centre (underneath)
Bathroom and Change Room
Hot Spring Tub
Sauna Room
Message Tubs
SPA Services
Points, Forms
Grasshopper