CHEN_YU_SELECTED WORK_2015-2022_UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

PORTFOLIO CHEN YU UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

CONTENT

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA

Master of Architecture 2023

ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Architecture 2020

WORKSHOP

ENERGY FLOW

This project is a workshop providing space for Boyle Heights residents to elaborate on artistic concerns by the mural, textile, and ceramic, which is also open to visitors all around Los Angels. However, facing a subway station is the biggest constraint.

What can a subway station bring? Many people would think it supplies a more efficient and convenient way of public transportation. But what they have not expected is that the subway station is actually the start of gentrification. It takes the neighborhood everywhere they want to go and brings people from all around Los Angeles and even worldwide. That does promote local economic growth but meanwhile boosts consumption level. Visitors only care about the unique culture and relatively low rentals in Boyle Heights; however, when such enthusiasm dies down and crowds leave, all left is an unbearable economic strain for the whole neighborhood.

Responding to such a phenomenon, a huge drum is landed together with a long bar running while friendly stop people from invading these areas without proper respect.

Los Angeles, CA | Spring 2022 | ARCH 7020 | Jonah Coe-Scharff Rhino, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom

West Elevation

East Elevation

Central Gallery

1-1 Section

3-3 Section

RENOVATION

THE REVIVAL OF CAMPUS

Nowadays, the concept of quality-oriented education has been imposed on both teen students and high schools, proposing teen students should master specialities in order to stand out in the future society and it is schools' responsibility to offer such education. However, being used to exam-oriented education, schools even wish to shift educational concept but do not know how. And most of their effort just like putting lipstick on a pig. Under such circumstances, parents compel students to concentrate on speciality learning afterschool, which takes up all their spare time.

Teaism has been prevailing in China for centuries, and even modernization cannot shake its position. So I believe Teaism can be the solution for this challenge, making school education more diverse and rebuilding faith between teens and adults, teachers and parents.

Chongqing, China | Spring 2019 | Ding Wenhao

SketchUp, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

FORM GENERATION

The Only Passage of Campus

Teaism, consisting of tea tree planting, tea manufacturing, tea brewing and tea tasting, can offer practical biography and agriculture courses, and teahouse can be a good place for social intercourse.

the only way is to ignite a fuse and let TEAISM explode in campus.

Teaism, consisting of tea tree planting, tea manufacturing, tea brewing and tea tasting, can offer practical biography and agriculture courses, and teahouse can be a good place for social intercourse.

the only way is to ignite a fuse and let TEAISM explode in campus.

GREENHOUSE OF REVIVAL

Planting tea trees in campus seems impossible, but greenhouse is a plausible solution. Locating downstairs of administration building, the greenhouse is only only a place for biographical practice adult communication. Inside the greenhouse, there are tea trees students and teachers plant together. Above the roof, people can talk about their secrets.

A solid building under two school buildings for teaism use.

Grows a glass sloping roof to satisfy sunshine requirement for tea tree planting.

Rotates the building for sunshine from other sides.

Add intersection parts to connect old and new buildings.

Build some ladders to positively use the sloping roof.

Create a pergola that offers shadow variation during

the day.

1 teahouse for work

2 administrative building

3 greenhouse rooftop

4 school library

5 Atrium of intersection

TEAHOUSE OF NEGOTIATION

Tea house is a place for tea tasting as well as social intercourse, for rest and communication. Nowadays, parents care much about children's pre-school education. The tea house, locating near kindergarten of the campus, offers space for parents interacting with the other parents and children. Also, the sloping roof of the teahouse offers children a fun place to play.

A block besides the kindergarten to provide space for adults. Add horizontal tunnels for interconnection.

Tilting the block's roof to maximize the use of this block.

Opening the block and making it the teahouse of the campus.

Adding two cylinders to create visual conntact of children and adults. Inserting glass cylinders to provide extra daylight from the sky.

1 Kindergarten Teahouse

2 Trampoline of teahouse

3 Spiral Stair

4 Teaism Sunken Plaza

The Teaism Tunnel, Greenhouse and the Kindergarten Teahouse. The teaism tunnel is seperated into three parts: one for teaism gallery, another two for

as a public bar for quick tea, where sometimes hold public exhibition. Besides the entrance, there is the sloping roof of the Teaism Tunnel. Walking over the roof, people can have a great view of the whole campus, especially the kindergarten, and there are the accesses to the school library and administrative building.

A Administrative Building

B School Library

C Teaism Tunnel

D Kindergarten Tea House

E Greenhouse

LIBRARY

THE REVIVAL OF CAMPUS

Korakati, India | Winter 2019 | Lu Fan Partner: Zhang Fan

The current situation of Indian education has aroused the world's attention that there are many elites while penetration of education is very low. However, there are many people trying to challenge this circumstance. School in the Cloud is a project raised by Sugata Mitra to help children in distant areas have a better study environment.

Following this concept, we decided to re-build an already existing school educating adults is also necessary. So we deciede to help not only children but also adults to gain necessary knowledge via the cloud and study through interaction.

The aim of School in the Cloud is to spark creativity, curiosity and wonder in students and inspire them to take control of their own learning. We call spaces that make this happen Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLEs).

SOLEs can be created by anyone, anywhere, be it educators, parents together to answer Big Questions using the Internet. These places are fuelled by self-discovery, sharing and spontaneity.

Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator

SPATIAL FORM

The weekday mode offers more enclosed spaces. According to decibel's level, in the bottom-up order, spaces are smaller and quieter.

THE WEEKDAY MODE

Discussion

Mutual Study

Casual Study

Multi-media Gathering Discussion

The holiday mode has more open spaces. And the zoning of voice is more obscure, providing more possibilities of activities for local people.

ON THE TREE

Sitting on the tree, we can enjoy the outstanding scenery of the Indian countryside, watching people doing farm work and talking to each other.

DISTANT VIEW

On the other side of the river bank, animals are drinking water, people are doing farm work. There we will have a distant view of the whole library.

THE BREATH OF BERLIN

Berlin, Germany |

helps to preserve a seemingly comfortable acoustic environment, such a negative approach could only result features to excavate. And as long as we grasp the way to utilize them, noise pollution can truly be suppressed.

of S-Bahn above James-Simon Park as a string instrument to encourage people to experience the joy of sound we have ignored for so long. With a giant canopy crossing underneath, such an intersection ensures space for musical activities for jamming musicians and pedestrians and isolation from city life with a deep breath of the Spree.

Fall 2022 | ALAR 8010 | Bradley Cantrell and Michael Lee Rhino, Grasshopper, AutoCAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, ArchGIS Storymap, iMovie, Audition

Noise pollution results when man does not listen carefully. Noises are the sounds we have learned to ignore. Noise pollution today is being resisted by noise abatement. This is a negative approach. We must seek a way to make environmental acoustics a positive study program. Which sounds do we want to preserve, encourage, multiply? When we know this, the boring or destructive sounds will be conspicuous enough and we will know why we must eliminate them. Only a total appreciation of the acoustic environment can give us the resources for improving the orchestration of the world soundscape. 1

——R.Murray Schafer

SOUNDSCAPE OF BERLIN

While studying the soundscape of Berlin, I took a different lens to observe the city, citizens, and environment. Unlike images that can mislead people's comprehension by playing with the concept of perspective, sound recordings can always reveal the reality of what was happening. But it can also be so surrealistic and imaginative

In general, the footsteps of people are the most intriguing part of the experience. According to those footsteps, I could differentiate the status of their owners: whether they are Berliners or travelers, they are happy or bored...

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV15841157dQ/?share_source=copy_web

THE BREATH OF BERLIN

With somewhat of an understanding of soundscape in Berlin, I made this video to represent my overall aural experience in the city. Water and train are two symbols of Berlin, which can be heard in nearly every corner of Berlin, and in different venues, they serve as different acoustic identities. And footstep is another interesting factor, which can help to interpret time, space, and weather even with your eyes closed.

SOUND MAP OF BERLIN (PARTIAL)

After having studied five major sites of interest, JamesSimon park has been chosen for its conjunction of the acoustic phenomenon that the Spree River, park, as well as a train track, contribute to a unique city soundscape.

The train provides consistent noise to the city. However, its acoustic potential is not neglectable. So retuning it is the goal.

site selection - James-simon park

spree river park train

RETUNING THE TRAIN

With the chord concept in mind, a whole system to make this happen has emerged. In the light of electronic music, every source is a signal that can be edited in varied ways, which can be done in the same manner in retuning the train's sounds.

A train can be sensed in multiple perspectives: load (wind, snow, and rain load indicating the weather and interior load indicating volume of passengers), speed, intervals of each train... And each of them would contribute to a

the canopy.

Those signals are not utilized by musicians inside the park solely. Everyone inside the park can be the operator of the current texture of the train's sounds, and the signals can be accessed online so everyone can adapt them for their private use.

Sound Canopy

Children Recreation Center

Jamming Booth

MODEL MAKING

BAMBOO PAVILION

Zhengzhou, CN | Spring 2018

Partner: Deng Yinping, Liu Huan

Contribution: Design concept, construction trategy, model making

FANG FANG FANG MUSEUM

Zhengzhou, CN | Winter 2017

Individual Work

WATER COLOR PAINTING

Yungang, CN | Seoul, KOR