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Wenshan Luo Portfolio

Selected works 2019-2025

Cornell University, Architecture Art and Planing

Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design

New York City, US 08/2024 - 08/2025

Wuhan University, School of Urban Design

Degree of Bacheior of Architecture

Wuhan, CN 09/2019 - 06/2024

University of Dundee, School of Art and Design

Degree of Bachelor of Arts

Dundee, UK 09/2019 - 06/2024

- Reviving the Barrio

Flushing industrial reframe in Queens, New York Team work with Xinqi Xie, 02-06/2025

- A Vertical Park

Historical heritage topic in Wuhan, China

work, 02-06/2022

04 - Remodeled Student Enclave

Research of studentification and Student Enclave in Glasgow, Scoltland Team

Hospital and nursing home complex for the elderly in Wuhan, China

01 - Reviving the Barrio

Date: Summer 2025, Urban Design Studio 3

Topic: Market and retail

Instructor: Shachi Pandey, MUD Workshop; Jieun Yang, Habitat Workshop

Location: East Harlem, Manhattan, New York, US

Team work with Sally Xie

The identity of East Harlem is closely connected to its markets and immigrant communities. Pushcart stalls beneath the elevated train tracks became La Marqueta, an eight-block market famous for goods, music, dance and social gatherings. Today, La Marqueta has largely disappeared. Small businesses have spread along the narrow nine-foot-wide corridor of 116th Street, where African, Puerto Rican, Mexican and Dominican vendors coexist in a rich cultural mosaic. That busy strip must juggle stalls, gatherings, truck deliveries, bike traffic and trash collection, creating ongoing safety and hygiene challenges. Nearby churches, community gardens and storefronts that once anchored neighborhood life now sit vacant or face demolition—recalling Latin America’s plazas and church arcades as sites of market exchange and collective memory.

The proposal activates adjacent vacant lots, underused community facilities and empty storefronts as linked front-and-backyard nodes that reconnect public commerce with private social space. One block transforms into a pedestrian-only promenade for pop-up markets, film screenings and festivals, while nonprofits operate free sharing stores in church arcades and vacant lots. Behind the shops, a three-foot-wide path stitches plots into an internal restoration route, linking backyard farms, community activity rooms, greenhouses and workshops in cooking, floral design, dance and martial arts. Recycled baskets and metal frames form a modular skeleton for stalls, seating clusters, cabinets and greenhouse frames. Store owners customize their spaces with wood planks, tiles or woven panels, and recycled baskets become bespoke furnishings. This open framework invites residents to co-create and continuously adapt the market.

Reconnecting

Fragmented Stores on 116th Street

Our studio is organized into six teams, each exploring a different East Harlem infrastructure—markets, waterfront, affordable housing, community facilities, transit, and mobility. On our combined physical model, each team’s system is highlighted in a unique color.

Our intervention appears in pink: 116th Street—Reviving the Barrio.

Vendors once clustered at La Marqueta now line 116th Street, but narrow sidewalks and fragmented storefronts hinder market life. To reunify these nodes, we’ll widen sidewalks and insert mid-block islands for stalls, seating, and greenery—while managing deliveries and waste. We’ll also pedestrianize one block into an open plaza and link vacant churches, gardens, and lots into a single vibrant market district.

Collaborative Design with Business Owners and Residents

We have transformed one block along 116th Street into an open street that accommodates pop-up events, festivals, and similar activities. The rear yard has been reconfigured as a community-sharing space or a private garden and planting area. These two zones are linked by an underused church, a community garden, a vacant lot, and several storefronts. Our modular furniture system can adapt to a wide variety of events and respond dynamically to different weather conditions and seasonal changes.

Stores have Back Rooms that Connect to the Courtyard and Street

Some shops not only have indoor retail space but also back or side areas that they use as free classrooms for children, community meeting spaces, goods-exchange venues, and more.

Churches, Plazas, Markets, Culture, and Community Life are All Interconnected

Many Latin American cities were built around a main plaza with a church. What began as informal market stalls there was later moved indoors by mayors to improve order, hygiene, and control. Immigrants also began to establish churches and markets to gain a sense of belonging and make a living. They shared a collective memory.

Material-filled Skeleton

We upcycle New York’s ubiquitous produce baskets and simple metal frames into a modular “material-filled skeleton” system—foldable stalls, seating clusters, shared cabinets, and greenhouse frames. This open framework allows each cultural shop to attach its own decorations and interior finishes, empowering residents and designers to co-create and customize.

Public Front, Shared Backyards

02 - Flushing Industrial Reframe: Making And Living Together

Date: Spring 2025, Urban Design Studio 2

Topic: Industrial urban renewal

Instructor: Damon Rich, Jae Shin, Hector

Location: Willets Point and Flushing, Queens, New York, US Team work with Xinqi Xie

This project reimagines a 45-acre industrial area in Flushing, Queens, as a cooperative urban district where workers and industrial alliances share land, resources, and decisionmaking. Rather than displacing industry for luxury development, it integrates housing, logistics, manufacturing, and public space into a layered urban fabric led by two grassroots organizations.

The Flushing Workers’ Cooperative (FWC) is a worker-owned initiative that builds housing and shared spaces above retrofitted, clean factories. The Flushing Construction Industrial Association (FCIA) represents local industrial businesses, upgrading aging warehouses into modular, low-emission production hubs. Together, they co-develop a rezoning proposal that enables vertical integration of housing and industry, supported by a green industrial fund, a local carbon market, and DOT’s “blue highway” freight strategy.

Through this collaboration, a new civic model emerges—one where workers live above their workplaces, share common yards, and walk through green corridors that connect living and labor. Industrial functions such as distribution centers are no longer spatially isolated but coexist with public life, plazas, and cultural spaces. Urban farms, galleries, and reused industrial remnants bring community into the heart of production.

Here, the land is no longer owned solely by factory capital—it becomes a shared commons, governed by those who work, live, and produce on it. This is not only a proposal for sustainable industrial redevelopment, but a political vision of shared ownership, cooperative growth, and spatial justice.

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A New Urban Agreement: Housing for Workers, Hubs for Industry, and Commons for All

Function of Public Plaza - Protest

Latent
Playground into a speaker's corner
with bioswale, rain garden
Green Corridor Linking Production and Residential Areas

03 - Inclusive community connecting neighberhood and transitional residents

Date: Fall 2024, Urban Design Studio 1

Topic: Transitional program

Instructor: Vishaan Chakrabarti, PAU

Location: Sunnyside, Queens, New York, US

Individual work

Human migration is a natural part of life and should be seen as a fundamental human right. However, modern borders have transformed this into a complex and contentious issue, with migration often framed as a "challenge" or "illegal," leading to concerns about economic migrants and homelessness.

New York City, a global urban hub, faces a growing influx of economic migrants and homeless individuals. This reflects its diversity but also highlights weaknesses in social support systems. Our project seeks to embrace these groups, help them integrate, and turn their presence into a source of vitality rather than a burden.

The community provides transitional housing and support services, including English lessons, vocational training, and transitional jobs, helping individuals reintegrate into society, secure stable work, and regain dignity.

Beyond support services, this initiative brings cultural and economic vitality to the area. Economic migrants and homeless individuals contribute to cultural diversity and local economies as workers, consumers, and entrepreneurs. Local residents benefit from inclusivity and shared prosperity, showcasing how migration and community building can foster harmonious coexistence in cities.

Migrant Program Service Center, Everyone Can Find Their Own Corner Space
Sound insulation is set under the bridge, and the building part is insulated from the noise of the street by the green plants on both sides. Plants are grown in containers. Sound insulation

04 - Remodeled Student Enclave

Date: Fall 2023, Urban Theory Analysis and Strategy

Topic: Enclave and studentification

Instructor: Sandra Costa Santos

Location: Yorkhill, Glasgow, Scoltland Team work with Pei-Gun Chou, Zhouqi Fu, Xiaoyu Li, Can Xie. In charge of site investigation, theory compilation, design stages, drafting general plans, zoning function planning, street transformation, road network design, and model creation.

The project is located in the Yorkhill area of Glasgow. In our group work, we've identified the boundaries of the student enclave near the University of Glasgow by utilizing Shane's seven key elements. Subsequently, we delved deeper into the larger enclave, conducting smallerscale mapping and site investigations. This led to the identification of three sub-enclaves around the campus, interconnected by armatures.

Concerning studentification, we examined two significant relationships: among different student groups and between students and locals. Segregation is apparent among subenclaves due to factors like faculty distribution, cultural differences, physical obstacles, and economic disparities. The latter relationship is complex, as the area is a high-end district in Glasgow but faces challenges from the growing student population.

Drawing on Kevin Lynch's five elements and David Sim's 'soft city' theory, our objective is to address these issues by reorganizing a network of nodes and paths across the sub-enclaves and extending to the neighborhood. This aims to foster positive engagement between students and residents, creating a unified and soft city. The plan involves adding nodes such as public buildings and open squares for interaction, improving main streets, and establishing green corridors. Long-term strategies include constructing more Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) within enclaves to centralize student housing and free up Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) for locals. The proposed network facilitates various activities, ensuring a vibrant, healthy, safe, unified, and sustainable community.

In the map shown the segregated living status between local residents and the area of 3 sub-enclaves, with the surrounding flats less likely to be HMOs property, they could serve single families or young professions.

It can be found that enlaveA is mostly a residential area, with students living within the HMO. Enclave B is mostly a gathering area for students. Enclave C is a mix of residents and students.

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Daily activities area between international students and traditional students: The map shown the divided areas within and between three sub-enclaves, where traditional students tend to spend their time around local coffee shops, restaurants, and charity shops, while the international students tend to hang around areas with Chinese markets, boba shops and purpose-built student accommodations. Only in occasions where there are “nodes” such as university library, learning hub, banks, stations, and general groceries (Tesco, Sainsbury’s…) that we observed interaction between the

Students and locals frequently use public green spaces, fostering interaction and relationships. The map links common routes from student dorms to public buildings, such as schools, bus stops, churches and so on. The proposal involves improving existing routes and constructing a new path along the River Kelvin at Enclave B for a safer and more comfortable running environment.

05 - University Exhibition Space

Date Fall 2023

Topic: The architecture design under the planning of the above urban strategy

Instructor: Sandra Costa Santos

Individual work

This is a campus exhibition building located in the yorkhill area of Glasgow, which was generated under the guidance of the "point and line" regional urban strategy, aiming to become a new propaganda base through the construction of an exhibition building to showcase student works of the University of Glasgow. And enhance the communication between students and residents, society. It is located between Glasgow's main gate and Kelvingrove Art museum and has a good natural and cultural landscape. Therefore, this project not only hopes to show the beauty of students' works functionally, but also hopes that visitors can enjoy the charm of the natural landscape here.

Typology Research

Site Plan

Library and Office Art Exhibition

Section a-a

Handicrafts

06 - A Vertical Park

Date: Summer 2022, Architecture Design Studio (6)

Topic: Renovation of architectural heritage

Instructor: Yorgos Berdos, Yan Xiong, Jiahong Lin

Location: Hankou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Individual work

In the heart of Wuhan's old district, Hankou, the once bustling Dazhimen railway station now stands faded, a symbol of the city's transformation. The southern side, once a vibrant neighborhood, now tells the history of the land through its quiet streets. On the northern side, a new elevated bridge connects past and present, with skyscrapers testifying to the city's growth.

Dazhimen, though now in ruins, has become a thriving hub for vegetation, creating a unique intersection between nature and the city. The green vines on the train station bridge exemplify this harmonious dialogue. Amidst the chaos of the modern city, nature seems to be reclaiming its space, reminding us of a simpler, quieter time. A quote suggests the need to return to the earth and find our bearings. Yet, amidst this confusion, the imagery of the vines climbing the steel bars brings hope. Sunlight filtering through the bridge's gaps paints a lively picture, injecting vitality into the city.Underneath the elevated bridge, a pedestrian walkway showcases a unique symbiosis between trees and greenery. Despite the abandoned train station, this area thrives, with nature and the city finding a delicate balance. The humid Wuhan climate nourishes the land, transforming it into an urban oasis.

Dazhimen's significance lies not only in its historical ruins but in its revival as a focal point. The interplay between greenery, ancient structures, and urban elements redefines the city's narrative. This evolution reflects a dance between history's legacy and innovative urban development, creating a richer, more intriguing urban landscape. In this redefined space, the intersection between the past and present prompts a reconsideration of the city's relationship with nature.

Root as Trigger

The classification of plants can be broadly categorized into trees, shrubs, herbs, vines, crops, and mosses, each characterized by distinct root system lengths.

Container as Medium

Containers will differ, featuring distinct structures, scale and shape. Ultimately, standardized the dimensions, creating three types of containers: large deciduous trees in concrete cone pillars, moderate-sized shrubs in transparent plastic cone pots suspended from the floor slabs, and flowers and plants directly planted between the cross-shaped beams of the inverted beam-designed structure.

South Elevation Site Plan
On the north side of the Dazhimen Railway Station, plant containers will be installed. The lush vegetation planted on them will create a curtain, concealing tall buildings and emphasizing historical architecture. This allows people on one side of the old alley to visually appreciate the presence of the railway station.

Second Floor

Escape stairs and elevators are set up to span the pedestrian walkway. The structural modules of the pedestrian walkway are standardized with the crossshaped beams. People move through the spaces between cone-shaped pillars and plants.

Sixth Floor

The stairs and ramps form a main sightseeing flow within the building, and the grassy area is covered with furniture, which is like a small park for people to rest, look out over the old street, and meditate on the ancient walls and roofs of the historic building.

Section 1:100

The tips of the columns of two cone-shaped pillars will land on the edge of the circular opening of one cone-shaped pillar and then on the intersection point of two cone-shaped pillars. The two cone-shaped pillars can form angles of 0°, 45°, 90°, and 135° in the plane, creating various configurations.

Plants Serve as The Scale of Time

Taller trees are planted on the higher sides and edges of buildings, and they tend to live longer, ranging from 100 to 300 years. After planting more than 5m shrubs, they tend to live for 30-50 years. The next level mainly plants about 2m small shrubs, they tend to survive for about 10 years. Each floor is also equipped with flowers and plants, they tend to only live 1-5 years. Plants are like gauges of time.

07 - Reversed Perspective

Date: Summer 2023, Architecture Design Studio: Integrated

Topic: Hospital and nursing home complex for the elderly

Instructor: Takayuki Suzuki, Penny Lewis, Xuechen Gui, Yue Geng

Location: Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Individual work

As we age, each of us undergoes a transformation. At seventeen, we faced the intense pressure of preparing for the college entrance exam, enduring long hours of sedentary study that led to neck and back pain. At twenty-seven, we discovered the toll of irregular sleep patterns, late-night overtime, and hormonal imbalances. Knee supports became an essential accessory for those in their thirties and forties, signaling the manifestation of aging through physical wear and decline.We also began to comprehend the bitterness of the aging process and empathize with the challenges faced by the elderly. In their sixties, physical limitations prevent them from keeping up with the energetic pace of their grandchildren. Memory decline leads them to repeatedly ask their granddaughters the same question, causing irritation. Communication becomes challenging due to hearing loss, and gradually, the desire for conversations with their children diminishes.We start to reflect on whether, as we grow old, we also hope for our children to show us more patience, care, and affection.

The Empathic hospital project combines a hospital for the elderly with a nursing home, aiming to foster mutual understanding between the young and the old. We have established a physical examination center to facilitate health checks for the elderly and allow the younger generation to experience age-related physical decline, understand their sadness, and provide companionship. Additionally, we have created spaces for young people including commercial and entertainment facilities such as supermarkets, banks, children's interest classes, and badminton courts. Young people can engage in activities at our venue while the elderly can observe or participate from their rooms or during walks, thus infusing youthful vitality into their lives.

The beauty of the curves is indicative of flexibility and empathy, while the undulating slopes distinguish the residential units. The facade is made of aluminum and glass. Complementing the preserved trees, the blue sky and the surrounding old and new buildings.

Empathy Space - Physical Examination Center

The elderly undergoing surgery will enter the empathy space from the north side, pass by the trees, and then proceed to the preparation room and anesthesia room on the right. They will finally enter the operating room through the atrium. Meanwhile, family members will wait under the tree.

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Nursing Ward

The ground floor and the glazed surface of the building are set as public Spaces, where young people can visit the elderly. There are also some nurse stations for the elderly to check their bodies or give first aid in case of illness. The elderly's room is arranged in the upper floor with good light and can see the vegetation.

The Shift of Empathy Space

The whole building is a linear space, the right side is arranged as a nursing ward, accompanied by more commercial and entertainment public space, the old can feel the vitality of the young; The elderly hospitalized on the left can enter the entertainment space on the right through the recreation center, and the elderly will be transformed into young people; The left side is the hospital inpatient ward and nursing ward. The young people enter the hospital through the physical examination center and feel the difficulty of the old people. The young people transform into the old people and take care of and accompany the old people.The ward is also a linear space, and set the armrest of the elderly, the height of 800mm, is the height of the elderly walking stick. Old people can get anywhere with handrails.

Single Room (For Shelter) Twin Room (For Shelter) Double Room (For Shelter)
Twin Room (For Nursing)
Triple Room (For Shelter)
Triple Room (For Nursing)

08 - Mobile Brickman

Date: Fall 2022, Architectural Design Workshop

Topic: Home for a while

Instructor: Yue Geng

Location: Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, China

Individual work

As the city of Yangzhou undergoes expansion, an increasing number of suburban areas are grappling with the challenges of demolition. Given that Yangzhou's architecture predominantly consists of brick and stone materials, there exists a wealth of recyclable building materials waiting to be repurposed. Enter the Brickmen, a unique profession comprising migrant workers from rural areas who traverse various demolition sites, collecting recyclable building materials, and clearing construction debris. This project seeks to assist them in establishing a swiftly deployable home and creating a business model of their own, ensuring the seamless progression of this environmentally conscious endeavor.

To accommodate mobility, the design abandons the traditional four-element structure, opting instead for helium-filled balloons and lightweight plastic film as the building's covering, using the dilapidated walls of old buildings slated for demolition as the enclosure. The Brickmen move into these structures for work, living, and showcasing their activities. They gradually dismantle the walls within the structure, cleaning and categorizing the bricks. Some unique bricks (such as those with carvings or inscriptions) are sold and collected, while others can be transformed with moss and other small plants into miniature landscapes for sale. Additionally, similar bricks are organized and resold to builders for reuse in construction projects. After the demolition is complete, the structure is moved to the next destination. The balloon-based form proves adaptable and versatile, allowing different combinations to form various functional spaces for work and living. The plastic and balloon elements add a romantic touch to this innovative design.

Construction Phase and Building Adaptability

The combination of balloons and bricks can be easily moved and rearranged into various functional spaces on the site, allowing for different organizational patterns with the demolition of the building. Therefore, visitors and architects will observe varying degrees of demolition and functional organization at different times.

The Business Operation Logic of Brickman
Recycled red bricks now form the flooring, creating drainage gaps along the edges. A large balloon, made up of 16 doughnut-shaped balloons, has multiple inflation valves for simultaneous inflation. Plastic ribs connect the balloons, providing support, and the balloons are tied to the ground's bricks with adjustable heights. The balloons are covered with
plastic film from rural plant cultivation greenhouses, secured using Velcro and balloon fastenings. The plastic film's edges

Professional Work 01 -Guoliang Art SRTP Center

Project Manager: Chujin Xue, Xiaoqin Hu

Design Team: Yan Xiong, Sheng Luo, Yanyi Chen, Wenshan Luo, Lingfeng Pan , Zhouqi Fu, Yixin Li, Gongwen Lu

Date: 2022

Location: Guo Liang Village, Sha Yao Township, Hui Xian City, Henan Province, China

Similar structure, different materials

The roof was removed, and the aging purlin framework was replaced with new steel beams. The old stone brick walls were retained.

Wooden modular furniture was used to make dormitory beds, lecture steps, etc., which were placed directly in the house.

Converting an abandoned elementary school into an art and education resort center.

The original Guo Liang Primary School had become a dilapidated building due to prolonged disuse. This design preserves the existing stone walls and sloped brick facades, supplemented by a steel frame structure; adds basic accommodation and service functions; and incorporates a sunken courtyard and glass pavilion to support outdoor educational activities. The design aims to activate the collective memory of the site with minimal intervention.

The project is located in Guoliang Village, which is famous for its handcarved mountain roads. This design pays homage to the “Sky Road” by connecting the classrooms to the rooftop viewing platform through a dramatic circulation path, continuing its spirit.

Wooden modular furniture update interior
Honoring the Sky Road

Professional Work 02 - Nanshan Residential Complex

Date: Summer 2024

Firm: OPEN Architecture

Location: Shenzhen, China

Project Manager: Mengxing Cao, Bingjie Shi

Collaborator: Yichao Chen, Daijiro NAKAYAMA, Jiayue Xu, Zetian Huang

This was a 1.3-million-square-foot residential complex project, where I was responsible for preparing presentation drawings, building physical models, and producing technical drawings (including stair details and section cuts through various unit floors). I created all of the sectional technical drawings required for client review during the Design Development phase, and also contributed to the design of the ground-floor layout and main entrance.

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Date: Fall 2024, Urban Data Analysis

Instructor: Brian Ho

Date: Spring 2025, News Web Production

Instructor: Juan Francisco Saldarriaga

Queens, New York, US Team work with Sally Che

https://wenshanluo33.github.io/DataWeb/index.html

This scroll-driven web map investigates how warehouse expansion and last-mile delivery impact low-income neighborhoods like Flushing and the Bronx. We used Visual Studio Code to build the site with Mapbox GL JS and Scrollama, integrating GeoJSON layers for warehouses (pre/post-2020), truck traffic (AADT), income, race, and 311 complaints. Field photos and interviews helped ground the data in real experiences, revealing the hidden social and environmental costs behind e-commerce convenience.

Other Work 03 - Generative Urbanism

Instructor: Tom Verebes

Location: Shanghai, China

Team work with Lun Ai, Jagaran Chakma, Chen Chen, Yiwen Fang, Tianyu Ji, Yating Jiang, Anna Pachacz, Peng Tian, Hang Xu, Marcus Kautz, Mehdi Makvandi, Chen Wu, Yiwen Xu, Weisheng Xu, Zihan Xiao, Jianmin Yang, Yu Zhang

Other Work 04 - Seeking Cubes

Individual work

The initial block is created through the insertion, cutting, and extraction of various faces from a cube. The second volume is crafted by intricately embedding two cubes into each other, unveiling different faces and areas within the inner and outer volumes. The third block takes form through precise cuts into the structural cube, while the final block emerges through the meticulous slicing of the combined cubes. This process highlights the dynamic interplay of shapes, volumes, and spatial relationships, resulting in a series of blocks with unique and interconnected geometries.

Date: Summer 2020, Fundamental Architectural Design
Instructor: Xiaonuan Sun, Kun Li, Takayuki Suzuki
Date: Summer 2023, Architectural Digitalfuture
Location: Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
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Other Work 05 - Play in the Dormitory

Date: Winter 2020, Architectural Design (2)

Instructor: Kuang-Chein Bee, Dian Zhang, Xiaoqing Hu

Location: Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Individual work

This dormitory is a reflection on the internal situation on campus. The education of Chinese parents from an early age is to compare their children with various people, who studies better than you, who plays the piano better than you. When we got to college, we seemed to start comparing ourselves constantly, and when we found that others had written more words than ourselves, we began to pick up a pen and continue to write.

The new residence hall aims to create a place where students can think quietly about life by splitting up the living space, while creating more activities in the common areas for students to interact with each other.

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Other Work 06 - Reinterpreted Perspective in David Hockney

Date: Spring 2024, Design and Research Unit

Instructor: Yorgos Berdos

Location: Dundee, Scotland, UK

Individual work

This dormitory is a reflection on the internal situation on campus.

The education of Chinese parents from an early age is to compare their children with various people, who studies better than you, who plays the piano better than you. When we got to college, we seemed to start comparing ourselves constantly, and when we found that others had written more words than ourselves, we began to pick up a pen and continue to write. The new residence hall aims to create a place where students can think quietly about life by splitting up the living space, while creating more activities in the common areas for students to interact with each other.

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Other Work 07 -Nomadic City, Wuhan New Babylon

Date: Fall 2022, Special Topics on Architectural Design (collection house)

Location: Hankou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Team work with Le Tang, Yixing Li, Xiaoqian Ma, Yue Wu

Constant envisions a modern Babylon inspired by Gypsy nomadic life. Portable homes, like Gypsy trailers, could connect to buildings, forming instant cities. A main circulation would link public spaces, creating a nomadic atmosphere with flow, light, and nature. This concept reflects a mobile city that can assemble anywhere, anytime.Nowadays, modern people's lives are becoming increasingly nomadic, with their places of residence constantly changing in line with the demands of work and life. We are conceiving a new Babylon in Wuhan using a similar approach.

Instructor: Takayuki Suzuki, Yorgos Berdos, Penny Lewis

Modular units .The basic structure remains unchanged, with the walls, roofs and other elements acting as 'pieces of furniture' that the occupants can move and replace on the basic structure. The living space is "inserted" into the basic structure by means of a car, maintaining variability and mobility.

Each caravan is equipped with customized furniture, which we have designed according to the size of the space inside, to meet the basic requirements of people cooking, sleeping and working.In order to increase the efficiency of the use of space, we consider the variability of the furniture, which can be contracted and expanded by folding according to one's needs.

Different RVS can be connected and combined together to form a new space, becoming their own study room, mahjong room, or becoming a self-operated business space, such as a small restaurant.

Other Work 08 - Fabric-Fashion Museum

Date: Fall 2021, Architecture Design Studio (5): Integrated [ Year 3 ]

Instructor: Takayuki Suzuki, Jing Zheng, Kun Li

Location: Hankou District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China

Individual work

This design explores the idea of “fabric” in fashion to define beauty within a diverse community. Surrounded by historic and modest buildings, the site presents both simply dressed locals and colorful visitors. Fabric becomes a unifying element—revealing beauty, hiding flaws, and inviting personal expression. The relationship between cloth and people parallels that of architecture and users. I abstracted this into bone, skin, and cloth: the bone is the building’s core with thick walls holding pipes and displays; the skin is the thermal outer layer; and the cloth is the outermost surface, blocking unwanted views and framing better ones.

Parametric Design Process

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