Peiyao YU
2018 - 2023
Part II Assistant Folio RMIT university (BArch) Architecture Association (Dip)
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Peggy (Peiyao) Yu is a RIBA part 2 MArch Graduate from Architectural Association. Practiced in Australia, China and Europe, she is an experienced Architectural Assistant with interest in parametric design, sustainability, timber structure and infrastructure. Recently, she won the Young Architect Competition “Dream Villas - YAC” and RIBA’s “Future City – Metaverse Festival 2022”. She has various experiences in built installations, including digital fabrication and interactive narrative performances, ranging from physical installation and robotics to media art, using physical space and virtual media to tell stories.
Academic Project
Electric Pneumatic Terrace
Individual Work
2022 Studio
Wonderstuff: Elastic
In collaboration with Weiqi Xie
Winter 2019 Studio
Pavilion of Contemplation
Individual Work
Spring 2019 Studio
Competition Winning Project
Between Walls
Group Work
2022 YAC Winning Entry
Dual-exist Dong Village
RIBA China 2022
Metaverse Festival Winner
Professional Work
Year Out Work
2020 - 2022
Cross Continental Architectural Trading - Still Clip From Thesis Project FilmIndividual Project 2022
ELECTRIC PNEUMATIC TERRACE
This project proposes an urban infrastructure for harnessing wave energy to empower coastal communities and provide music venues for the music industry. The site, Los Angeles is famous for the energy-heavy music production and performance industry. This proposal provides an ecological alternative for this event to take place. With its terrace space and chamber, citizens can have an intimate experience of the tidal and music performance acoustically. It becomes a coastal public venue where the social and natural events take place at the same time.
Tutor: Andrew Yau
Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, Vray for Rhino, Blender, 3d scanning, Adobe Suite.
Drawing Of Existing Energy Supply
Tide Wave Research
The tidal waves in the rocky beach area generate sufficient energy to power the neighborhood year-round, despite seasonal variations in wave size. Therefore, it is worth considering the construction of a tidal wave energy architecture.
City Energy Supply Research
Given that the primary energy source for the area is coal from the inner city, establishing a local energy supply based on tidal wave energy in the rocky beach area would provide a more sustainable and resilient alternative, especially during periods of storm activity.
Urban
1.Acoustic Chamber: Sound of ocean, Energy Production
2.Narrow Energy Chamber Energy production - 50 household per well
3.Acoustic Chamber (single layered) Sound of ocean and music Energy Consumption
4.Acoustic Chamber (Shingo attached) Sound of music
5.Acoustic Chamber (Shingo attached) Sound of music Music Studio
Model 04 Model 03
Material: Ballon, Plaster, Acrylic Material: Ballon, Plaster. Metal
Wonderstuff: Elastic
Tutor: Vivian Mitsogianni & Marc Gibson
In collaboration with Weiqi Xie
Software: Rhino, GH. Maya, Autocad, Adobe Illustrator
Wonderstuff represented a vision of Fisherman’s Band area in Melbourne, previously been occupied by industry and airport, been transformed into a campus providing intimacy to citizens.
Human-scale campus with porosity and fully inverse into its context through space and program relations. A new type of campus that educate students as well as act as a media between student and society nearby.
Perspective View Of Rooftop
The campus design prioritized sustainability, using locally sourced materials such as palm timber to minimize environmental impact. A long span roof system created open interior spaces, fostering an accessible campus environment. The workshop areas honored the site's industrial history, resulting in an aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly campus.
Pavilion of Contemplation
Tutor: Francisca RodriguezIndividual Project
Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, Vray for Rhino, Adobe illustrator.
This pavilion redefines the idea of contemplation for citizens to better communicate with nature and self. This meditation pavilion is a humble response to its environment in terms of light, water, and tree shading. Its shape encourages a series of activities to fully engage with context without changing them. Each opening is facing toward an element and it would guide a certain response from visitors’
Blending algorithmic precision and manual craft, form generation creates intricate designs. Self-recognizing structures divide public and private spaces, guiding with thoughtful elements. Modular-sized meditation spaces cater to diverse practices, promoting well-being. Serene and adaptable, they offer peaceful environments in homes, workplaces, and public settings.
In collaboration with Yolande Wang, Jake Qin, Weiqi Xie 2022
BETWEEN WALLS
YAC 2022 [Riyard Villa]
Winning entry
Walls are the fundamental element of architecture, providing shelter and marking boundaries. Two villas in the Arabian desert use parallel concrete walls to cleverly manage the transfer of heat. The design considers climatic protection, courtyards and wind chimneys, and celebrates human presence. The walls shield interiors from the sun and strong winds, while creating interior/exterior spaces with courtyard gardens for cool air circulation. The walls symbolize man’s resilience in nature, enabling life to flourish between them.
Dual-exist Dong Village
RIBA China 2022
Metaverse Festival Winner
In collaboration with Siyue Zhang 2022
This project deals with issues related to ethnic identity and the sense of belonging to the Dong minority in China. A workshop and a working system for the diaspora of this community will be designed for Dong People to work together through virtual craft regardless of distance. A virtual village will co-exist with the physical one. A physical workshop that is built within the village, and a virtual replica that allows people in different place to come together.
This project is trying to seize the core of the ritual of Dong’s gathering, the synchrony, and maintain their ethnic identity, regain the sense of community belonging through virtual crafting. It provides possibility for remote access and multiple ways of experiencing the village, creates new form of business, for the villagers to make a living, and makes it possible to share instead of sell your traditions with dignity.
The project would be best viewed in video format because its music related: https://pbzz.cargo.site/A2_DUAL-EXIST-DONG-TEMPLE-2022
National Immigration As An Unreversable Damage To Minority Culture
Economic
Dual-use domesticity
Tutor, Mark Breeze and Kyriaki Thalia KasabalisIndividual Project
Software: Rhino, Autocad, Adobe Illustrator
The project revisits on the expanded notion of live and work. It offers space for makers to study, work and trade. By bringing back the act of collaboration and crafting to the domestic space, this collective living for artist tries to build a reciprocal relationship between the existing community and makers. Think about the transformation of the site over time, I became interested in the notion of a guild, an organization that can offer education, mentorship and support for a particular work type, especially manufacturing and business. These actions can help to inherit and promote the crafting in the UK.
Different career stages - housing typology
From student, start up, to expansion of studio, or growing of family size.
Aggregation I – Separate (Maker and Maker)
For workers that need garden space for outdoor work.
Aggregation IV – Separate (Trader and Trader)
The inner area between the trader unit could provide space for social or walk through.
Viewing Resting Making
Void between brick naturally formed a translucent screen for visitors to see the studio. Glass brick create a soft boundary between the live and work space at home. The solid wall divide the exterior working and interior living.
Brick wall create clear separation between the private and public. The multiple sinking garden provide an alternative for the inner community to meet, when the previous garden became housing.
Aggregation V – Overlap (Trader and Maker)
For a ceramic artist, who need to be close to the trader unit to transport the ceramic.
Aggregation III – Center (Marker and Maker)
This type of aggregation is the most dominant in site. The process of making happens in the studio and tin the work tower between, the car could drop material
Construction of Work space
The three-story building between residences consists program of working, making, and storing. The primary structure is made with timber for a more transparent look. Many moveable parts are included for the transport of products.
Video Sequence of Design and Construction
