Peiyu (Lucas) Luo Portfolio | 2024 Spring

“Performing the Fringes” Peiyu Luo Selected Works 2019-2023

Syracuse University B.Arch 2024

Re-imagine Potteries Thinkbelt, 2021

“Performing the Fringes” documents my series of design and research studies, which exemplifies the methods of reactivating abandoned while contested urban fringes. My design studies question the dichotomy of urban and rural areas and consider fringes as the new central middle ground in bridging the narrative and development of the rural and urban.

“Performing the Fringes” utilized architecture and urban design at the fringe

areas as a means to protest the current city development that neglects the tradition, restricts the exchange, and divides the ecosystem using three scales of medium to approach: Anchor, System, and Field.

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Performing on the Cliff Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

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Suspended City Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

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Floating Mirage New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges

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Depot [+] Living Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment

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Crash, Crack, Crunch Land Reclamation through Reconfiguring the Territorial Narratives

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Towards New Terra Cotta Sustainable Building System in Addressing Material Production Waste

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Mine Mingling Cultural Complexes Reactivate Abandoned Suburabn Landmark

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Other Works Research and Practice Work

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01 Performing on the Cliff

Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban Integrated Design Studio | ARC 409 Instructor: Fei Wang Location: Wenling, China Collaborator: Adrian Suciu King + King Competition Integrated Design Prize: Overall Design 1st Place Young Visionary Architecture Competition 2023: 1st Place All Listed Drawings are INDIVIDUAL Work

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

Embedded into the challenging exposed cliffside overlooking the East China Sea, this proposal integrates a diverse range of immersive performance spaces within a larger community cultural center for Wenling, China, catering to both visitors and locals. The design takes inspiration from the region’s unique traditions and crafts, which are heavily influenced by its coastal setting. Wenling is renowned for its crab shell paintings and marine paper-cut artwork, reflecting the dominant fishing industry that drives the town’s identity. Festive processions and drumming events also celebrate the tradition while encouraging different interactions between actors and audiences. With younger populations gravitating towards larger cities, our aim is to design an institution that safeguards and preserves these local cultures while offering visitors the opportunity to engage with and familiarize themselves with these traditions. The culmination of our programmatic aspirations for flexible performance spaces and our meticulous contextual considerations, blending the proposal seamlessly into the cliffside, results in a balanced and dynamic cultural center for the community of Wenling and beyond to enjoy.

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

Qianhong Village

Highway

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Primary Theater

Informal Theater/Public Space

Exhibition Space

Studio Space

Studio Space

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

Design Approaches

From our project’s inception, the abrupt terraced topography influenced design decisions at a variety of scales. We intend to break the volumes up vertically, and shift and align them to the given terrain. Programmatically, a horizontal cavity defined by this dominant platform level breaks up space vertically. Galleries, workshops, and studios are introduced within this top volume. To harbor as much interaction and flexibility between these spaces, an atrium carves through these floors spilling onto the primary platform level. Several overlooks adjacent to the atrium cavity allow tourists to gaze into the studios and workshops, each catered towards specific local crafts.

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Platform Level

The platform level located in the middle of the building serves as an important meeting point for villagers and tourists. This provides formal and informal interaction.

Balcony Level

As part of the building facade, the balcony seamlessly provides users with a verticle visual connection through the gap of the floors.

Theater Level

The theater is located at the lower part of the building catering mostly to tourists.

This is the most formal type of performance.

Light Box

To harbor as much interaction and flexibility between these spaces, light box carves through these floors spilling onto the primary platform level.

Backside Balcony

Backside Balcony provides users opportunities to peek inside the village and have a secret one-way interaction.

Entrance Level

Serving as the first impression for visitors to experience the building, the loop circulation intended to consider visitors as another type of actors interacting with each other.

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

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Structural Core

The structure core goes through the entire building and serves as the primary structual member.

Lower Truss System

Continuous Truss system on the lower floor provides support for the grand theater space, while supporting the platform above.

Embeded Structure

Several continuous large truss systems, cast within the cliff as a means of supporting the cantelivered upper floors.

Retaining Walls

Retaining Walls provides structural support from the embeded mountain

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

Facade Detail 1

Facade Detail 2 Facade Detail 1

Foundation Detail A 1 Concrete Footing 2 Vapor Barrier 3 Rigid Insulation 4 Concrete Floor Slab 5 Local Decorative Stones 6 Gravel 7 Exterior Concrete Slab

D 19 Semi-Transparent FRP Panels 20 Protective Cap 21 Laminated Wood Flooring 22 Concrete Floor Slab 23 Steel Decking Sheet 24 Aluminium Drop Ceiling Sheet 25 Drop Ceiling Panels

B 8 Stage Laminated E Wood 26 Steel Stud 9 Formal Theater 27 Gypsum Board Acoustic Panels 28 Structural Steel I 10 Steel Panel Structure Beam 11 HVAC- Supply 29 Water Pipes 12 HVAC- Return 30 HVAC Supply 31 Structural Steel C Truss System 13 Aluminium Handrail F 14 Natural Stone Exte- 32 Natural Stone rior Tiles Exterior Tile 15 Double-Glazed 33 Gutter Window Panels 34 Double Glazed 16 Aluminium MulWindow Panels lions 35 Aluminium Flapes 17 Vertical Steel Facade 36 Skylight Window Panel Support Panels 18 Horizontal Steel Facade Panel Support

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Reclaiming Performative Interaction

the abrupt terraced topography influenced design decisions at a variety of scales. We intend to break the volumes up vertically, and shift and align them to the given terrain. Programmatically, a horizontal cavity defined by this dominant platform level breaks up space vertically. Galleries, workshops, and studios are introduced within this top volume. To harbor as much interaction and flexibility between these spaces, an atrium carves through these floors spilling onto the primary platform level. Several overlooks adjacent to the atrium cavity allow tourists to gaze into the studios and workshops, each catered towards specific local crafts.

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Performing on the Cliff | Public Performing Center for Bridging the Rural and Urban

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02 Suspended City

Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes Thrid Year Design Studio | ARC 307 Instructor: Britt Eversole Location: Sandusky, Ohio Individual Work The 20th Asian Design Award: Excellence

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Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

This masterplan envisioned the decommissioned NASA base in Sandusky Ohio, as a proxy in bridging the narrative and development of the rural and urban. Instead of considering the fringes as underdeveloped and inert, this design reclaimed the marginal NASA base through continuous upgrading process. In challenging the existing closed infrastructure, this design elevates the gantry crane and track to encourage a diverse interaction on the ground while fostering efficiency in delivery and connection. Also considered as a transitional space at the urban fringe, this urban design incorporates a wide range of industries, including tourism, education, agriculture, living, and working, to encourage the interaction of different individuals. By plugging this active open system of gantry cranes into other urban elements, this design ultimately creates a new system of infrastructure that can encourage quotidian improvisation, enrich life on the ground, and seamlessly connect rural and urban.

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Moffett Field, CA

NASA Ames Research Center 220 acres

Merritt Island, FL

NASA Kennedy Space Center 6,000 acres

Hampton, VA

NASA Langley Research Center 764 acres

Cleveland, OH

NASA Glenn Research Center 6,400 acres

Houston, TX

NASA Johnson Space Center 1,620 acres

Mississippi

NASA Stennis Space Center 138,000 acres

Local, Regional, Global

Huntsville, AL

Marshall Space Flight Center 1,800 acres

Sandusky, Ohio

Neil Armstrong Test Facility 6,700 acres

This design opens up the possibilities of a decommissioned NASA base in the states as a proxy in benefiting and connecting the urban and rural. Choosing it as the prototyped paradigm, Sandusky is a struggling midwestern rust-belt city whose economic base is primarily manufacturing and mining while lacking public education resources. Because of the geography, Sandusky is slowly spreading southward. Still, its urban growth was stopped by the decommissioned Plum Brooks station, which was one of the largest sites in the American aerospace program.

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Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

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Suspended Gantry Crane System

To challenge and replace the existing transportation system that limits freedom on the ground, the new system used elevated gantry cranes and tracks to encourage continuous and diverse interaction on the ground plane while stimulating efficiency in delivery and connection in different industries.

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Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

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Straight Tracks

Curved Tracks

Intersected Tracks

Converged Tracks

Intertwined Tracks

NASA Equipment

Shared Bicycles

Emergency Services

Shared Maglev Train

Individual Maglev Train

Maglev Container

Interactive Screens

Advertisement Boards

Green Roof

Seating Platform

Improvised Kiosks

Sculptural Pavilion

Infrastructure as a Spontaneous Open System

In contrast to the closed system, a city that works as an open system is in unstable evolution and is continuously upgrading its form and functions in response to different circumstances. An open system can be collectively shared and managed, which empowers people to take multiple improvised and spontaneous activities in the framed public space.

Linearity & Assemblage

Followed by the linearity of the existing field of bunkers, this masterplan design is an ensemble of infrastructures, buildings, and open spaces that embody the narratives of the rural and urban simultaneously. Considered a transitional space at the urban fringe, this masterplan incorporates a wide range of industries, including tourism, education, agriculture, living, and working to encourage the interaction of different individuals.

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Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

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The Immersive Forest

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NASA Simulation Space

Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

Central Spine

Growth Plaza

The Green Belt GardenPark

Urban Mixed-Use Mall

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Suspended City | Urban Proposal of Negotiating the Contested Urban-Rural Fringes

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03 Floating Mirage

New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges Visiting Critics Design Studio | ARC 408 Instructor: Ju Bin Location: Qingpu, Shanghai, China Collaborator: Xinran Wang, Yaxin Xu Exhibition: Syracuse University School of Architecture 150 Anniversary Special Exhibition

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Floating Mirage | New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges

The design “Floating Mirage” is a cultural park consisting of different programs exploring human interactions with architecture, landscape, or potentially both. The project is a consistent but intentional arrangement of a series of tapered and curved roofs floating on a playful ground plane that serves for the gradual transition from nature to the artificial environment as well as from public to private space. It challenges the traditional binary opposition of the public and private space and tried to propose a more intermingled but robust way of designing architectural forms and their surrounding environments, in which landscape and architecture are interconnected and reflective of each other. For the users, this connection is attempting to dissolve their perception of boundaries as they consistently interact with the site. The project also creates a series of atmospheric effects by using intentional architectural spatial elements in favor of surface effect, lighting/shadow effect, material effect, etc.

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Site Analysis

The site is located in Qingpu, Shanghai, China. As the outskirts of the city center, it has abundant villages, farmlands, factories, and manufacturing businesses. Also situated inside the Qingxi wetland countryside park, our site has a dynamic setting of vegetation, landscapes, and amenities.

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Floating Mirage | New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges

Ambiguous Interaction

The gradient sequence of human activity from private and enclosed gradually shifting into more public and open activities questions the traditional dichotomized division of the private and public space. In current days, people are less conscious but more frequently transition between private and public spaces, and the boundary of each activity should be more ambiguous and less defined. These inspire the project to embody these intersections while providing more spatial possibilities for the users.

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Atmospheric Connection

This series of renderings shows our initial attempts at the lighting conditions applied on a different combination of roofs. Starting from the initial curvature tile concept, the project experiments with the roof with cutting, adjoining, overlapping, intersecting, extruding, etc., and applies multiple lighting to testify to the atmospheric impression of different spatial impressions.

Chinese Garden Planning

The project took inspiration from a Chinese garden of wide openings and enclosure of walls, and this rotated, zig-zag pathway, directs the viewer to see different perspectives. In terms of landscape, the project maintains the original elongated grain of the site, so pathways and vegetation are stretched linearly, and the gradual curving edges of the landscaped walkway are related to the offset of the architecture boundary. The overall landscape transition from a tree-dense, forest walking experience, to a more public, gathering space, and to the wetland along the riverside.

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Formal Strategies

This series of diagrams and related renderings shows our initial attempts at the lighting conditions applied on a different combination of roofs. Starting from the initial curvature tile concept, the project experiments with the roof with cutting, adjoining, overlapping, intersecting, extruding, etc., and applies multiple lighting to testify to the atmospheric impression of different spatial impressions.

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Floating Mirage | New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges

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Floating Mirage | New Cultural Symbol for Reactivating the Abandoned Urban Edges

Blurred Boundaries

The Interiors continue the atmospheric understanding of architectural space but are connected more closely to the chosen scales and programs. Within the interior, the project demonstrates the functionality and aesthetic of the design of the roof. The roofs are tapered which immediately formed a forced perspective while in the opposite direction, opening up the vision. By elevating the roof slightly higher than the ground plane, the voided perimeter of each floor is opened up for natural lighting.

Since the roof is given this reflective material, the inside of the roof also becomes the backdrop of the surrounding landscape.

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04 Depot [+] Living

Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment Buildner International Architecture Competition | 2023 Fall Los Angeles Affordable Housing Challenge Location: Inglewood, Los Angeles Collaborator: Nicholas Chung, Yifan Shen

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Depot [+] Living | Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment

Affordability does not only refer to a design and construction process that adheres to economies of scale, but also extends into the building’s post-occupancy life cycle through a sustainable standard of living. By isolating elements and services that residents could share, they can be taken out of the individual units and placed in the communal spaces. This generates organic interaction whilst lowering cost of living, allowing for both existing Inglewood locals to remain and young people to enter the housing market (there are numerous universities and colleges nearby in Westchester). Though the introduction of So-Fi stadium and the K-Line signal intensified risk of displacement for Inglewood locals, if leveraged appropriately they also present locals with opportunities for growth. Megaevents like NBA games or concerts have been attributed as stimulus of local businesses, and the Summer Olympic in 2028 will likely bring sustained influxes of people. To accomodate this sudden increase, and then the vaccum/decline immediately after, adaptability - or the mentality of ‘plus’ - as a means of anticipating changes in scale as part of the proposed daily lifestyle accomodates growth as a positive aspiration instead of a threat towards pre-existing ways of life.

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Legend

Olympics 2028 & K Line Inglewood and Westchester, neighborhoods in greater Los Angeles, are experiencing gentrification driven by the completion of the So-Fi Stadium in Inglewood. Rezoning proposals are underway, particularly in the south-eastern part of Inglewood and the north-west corner bordering Westchester. The latter, predominantly occupied by depots and warehouses slated for demolition, is crucial for the new K-Line, which enhances connectivity with downtown Los Angeles. However, concerns arise as these developments may displace at-risk communities. Compounding the situation, the 2028 Olympic stadiums in Inglewood further signify additional development, sparking apprehensions about aggressive changes and displacement.

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One-Family Dwellings, Displacement Two-Family Dwellings, & “Gentrification Building” In 2021, Inglewood proposed rezoning its periphery for a transit-oriented development near Westchester/Veterans Station. The Apartment Houses, plan aimed to transform auto-industry warehouses into mixed-use residential zones, including a Commercial Corridor. This Multiple Dwellings, shift signals the start of gentrification in a historically low-income neighborhood, often seen through ‘Type 1+5 Gentrification Home Occupations Buildings.’ These structures, prevalent in many U.S. cities, feature a concrete base for commercial spaces (Type-1) and engi-

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Reuse (1) + Inserted Module (5) “gentrification building” 1+5 Proposing an affordable housing model as an alternative to the Gentrification Building, our 1+5 design suggests adaptively reusing warehouses for a reinforced commercial base. The housing module, which is a freestanding superstructure of engigeneric 1+5 typology: concrete base neered mass timber, offers a cost-effective and sustainable solution.

The structure mimics the aesthetics and tectonic efficiency wood frame construction above enable flexible modular of stadium spaceframe designs that are popularized in the area.with Open floor plans around an atrium interiors, responding to changing demographic needs. Combining these modules creates a promenade, connecting city blocks. “gentrification building” 1+5 propos This innovative 1+5 strategy counters gentrification while destigmatizing ‘Type 1+5’ buidlings. generic 1+5 typology: concrete base with wood frame construction above

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Depot as Social Condensor A depot is a place for the storage of large quantities of equipment, food, or some other commodity. Through adaptive reuse, the depot expands into an active social condensor at the gateway or outpost between the airport and downtown Los Angeles.

Locally, this intervention connects the proposed commercial corridor on Manchester Avenue and the Veterans/Westchester station. The Inglewood site brings together demographics of various scales: there are the locals who live and work in Inglewood, students from nearby LMU, commuters and tourists who are transiting in and out of LAX, weekend day-trippers from Downtown - and those encounters stimulate socioeconomic growth that is sustainable long term.

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Depot [+] Living | Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment

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Domestic Hearth + Kit of Parts Each unit is organized around a multi-functional wall that operates as the technical hearth of the interior. It extends into various partition configurations through rotation and standardized furniture can be stored in it when not used. Larger pieces of furniture and the exterior envelope are also developed as a kit of parts and a catalogue of doors, windows, benches… that can be customized according to the needs of individual residents.

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SWAP

Sustainablity, Affordability & Hybrid Use Our strategy embraces quotidian creativity as a method of placemaking. Customization opens us possibilities for hybrid-use, where residents can also be small business owners that service the community, fostering a sense of civility and belongingness within the neighborhood. The ‘hearth + kit of parts’ method also allows for sustainable maintenance if specific panels need to be replaced, or if a new tenant moves in and wants a different interior configuration, without incurring a large carbon footprint and renovation cost.

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Depot [+] Living | Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment

Urban Typologies

One of the major challenges of transplanting existing communities into a new site is the loss of their material urban node, as such we propose the addition of architectural elements that residents can orbit around in recreating a sense of belonging. These nuclei include vertical circulation, shared balconies, common amenities, open commons, and recreation programming. As an alternative to ‘+community’ into the ‘1+5’ scheme, the freestanding housing module can also attach onto or be implanted into existing communities.

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Depot [+] Living | Reimagining the “1+5 Building Type” in Urban Redvelopment

+ (and -) Though the introduction of So-Fi stadium and the K-Line signal intensified risk of displacement for Inglewood locals, if leveraged appropriately they also present locals with opportunities for growth. Megaevents like NBA games or concerts have been attributed as stimulus of local businesses, and the Summer Olympic in 2028 will likely bring sustained influxes of people. To accomodate this sudden increase, and then the vaccum/decline immediately after, adaptability - or the mentality of ‘plus’ - as a means of anticipating changes in scale as part of the proposed daily lifestyle accomodates growth as a positive aspiration instead of a threat towards pre-existing ways of life.

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05 Crash, Crack, Crunch

Land Reclamation through Reconfiguring the Territorial Narratives Study Abroad Florence Studio | ARC 407 Instructor: Daniele Profeta Location: Grosseto, Italy Collaborator: Qi Liu, Yaxin Xu Exhibition: The 9th Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/ Architecture

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Crash, Crack, Crunch | Land Reclamation through Reconfiguring the Territorial Narratives

Tracing the development of Maremma’s local industries, countless activities have taken place that transforms the ground’s identity and appearance. Located on the root of land reclamation, Ponte Tura, we propose a park that hosts research, education, and artistic creation. These programs are organized based on the exploration and discussion around the soil. The research program includes laboratories that analyze the contents of soil samples. These will further assist people in improving their land’s soil health, or adjusting these soil types for programmatic needs. The education program welcomes students and tourists to participate in the various learning activities indoor and outdoor. In such ways, the learning process requires participants to constantly engage with our design that sometimes unveils and unfound the ground. Lastly, the art program invites artists to come to the site, work closely with soil, and collaborate on land art installations. Overall, the park is a social hub that connects the past realm with present knowledge, improvements, and creativity.

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Geothermal Power Plants-Museum

The first one is the geothermal power plants combined with the functions of soil museum and soil science research area.The first floor is mainly occupied by tourists, serves as a museum space and show rooms for the research results. The visitors can enter from the right entrance, walking along the circular wall and learning from the soils by visiting and science and art works.

They can see soil profits that have been sampled up to a depth of 100 meter form the soil monolith, and they can play with extracting soil samples.

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Crash, Crack, Crunch | Land Reclamation through Reconfiguring the Territorial Narratives

Soil Laboratory

The second partial plan is designed for the soil laboratory area. Located at the site of the existing ponte tura, this area is built under the bridge openings and semi embedded into the ground.Following the previous plan, after been extracted from the tube, the soil samples can be transported into the labs. The machines on the ground will also take samples into the lab by rails.

There are three experimental modules that insert into the openings, simulating different environmental conditions for soils by controlling different air humidity, lighting and water content, conect with series of lab facilities.

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Artist Residency

The last one is designed for the artiest residential area. The building set the boundary of the farmland at the back and face the river at the front.Besides living and sharing recourse in the space, the artist can also play with soil. The soil pediments are flowing from the building facade, milting into the ground, dying the color of the surface. Standing on the supporting wood bridge, they can also make sculptures and experiments.

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06 Towards New Terra Cotta

Sustainable Building System in Addressing Material Production Waste Independent Study | 2022 Fall-2023 Summer Instructor: Elizabeth Kamell, John Neary (HOK) Location: Buffalo, NY Collaborator: Maximilian Horkenbach, Matthew Gilligan, Eli Austin, Alexander Estes, Yaxin Xu Boston Valley, Architecture Ceramic Assemblies Workshop 2023: Shortlist

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Towards New Terra Cotta | Sustainable Building System in Addressing Material Production Waste

Our design ambition is to research and design a low embodied carbon, structurally integrated, thermally efficient and moisture resistant wall with openings, and constructed out of terracotta, one of the most ecologically efficient, low embodied carbon building materials on the planet. In addition, one of our main goals has been to reduce the amount of aluminum used in the design as much as possible in an effort to lower the ecological impact of the wall.

It is important to think differently about terracotta due to its versatile material properties and historical lineage as a tool for construction, utility, and art. The terracotta manufacturing process consumes less energy with little CO2 emissions when compared to other commonly used construction materials like concrete, glass, and aluminum. Though not commonly used as a structural material, its compressive strength exceeds that of concrete. Like concrete, steel reinforcing provides tensile strength, and tightly controlled manufacturing processes result in predictable products that open the possibility for unexplored applications. Terracotta can also be glazed in a vast multitude of different varieties.

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Water Tower Eladio Dieste

Spanish Pavilion Foreign Architecture Office

First Unitarian Church Luis Kahn

Folded Geometry

Phillips Exeter Library Luis Kahn

Though It is also incredibly strong in compression – stronger than concrete by a factor of 2 when high-fired – it is rarely used as a structural component in construction today. The folded wall strategy took inspiration from the increased stability of angled geometry found in folding screens. From this we developed a system of perpendicular alternating terracotta blocks bearing at the corners and supported by a steel tension system.

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Towards New Terra Cotta | Sustainable Building System in Addressing Material Production Waste

Modularity

Another key aspect of the design is the potential for modularity. By simply increasing the amount of blocks stacked before alternating the direction of the block different variations can be made. We see this as having the advantage of responding to different climates and contexts. The tension rods are anchored to the foundation. The section on the right shows a 4x12 joist system that supports a roof. At the top of the wall is a ½” steel plate and a Belleville tensioning spring.

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Initial Concept Model 2022.9

1:20 Study Model 2022.11

1:1 Mock Up Model 2023.5

Design Development

Our Design develops from initial conceptual massings toward the final models. The mock up model design uses a block structure constructed of terra cotta extrusions. Our mockup will consist of 6 glazing units and 6 terra cotta blocks. These large blocks serve as compressive members, taking advantage of terra cotta’s strength, while the tension forces are transferred to the tension rods and belleville springs that hold the wall assembly together vertically. The axonometric diagrams on the right show the wall broken up into its constituent parts.

Structural Efficiency

HOK ran tests to determine if the scheme was structurally and materially efficient. Our wall does not require any interior finishing, whereas a typical CMU wall requires multiple levels of interior finish. Although it uses slightly more metal and insulation, by requiring only 40% of the masonry of a conventional wall, our wall ends up using less than half of the total materials by volume.

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07 Mine Mingling

Cultural Complexes Reactivate Abandoned Suburabn Landmark YAC -Young Architects Competitions | 2022 Summer Location: Allihies, Ireland Individual Work

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Mine Mingling | Cultural Complexes Reactivate Abandoned Suburabn Landmark

Nestled among countless mountains, the recognizable structure of the Irish industrial heritage naturally stands out from the environment and becomes every visitor’s focal point. What also being witnessed are the long history embedded within this masonry architecture. More than 200 years ago, Allihies used to be the center of Irish mining industry. Within this towering mining manufacture were miners reached hundred meters below sea level to excavate resources. Today, this structure is like a monumental relic, documenting the history created by countless miners as well as the imagination evoked by countless posterity.

My design aims to reimagine and recreate this past glorious mining industry and turns it into a contemporary mediation destination. With the appreciation of the mining history in Allihies, we appropriated the design intelligence within the historical architecture and searched for an interactive conversation between the old and the new.

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Mine Mingling | Cultural Complexes Reactivate Abandoned Suburabn Landmark

Planning Strategy

The planning for the site is oriented based on the towering mining structure. This design follows the changing topography of the site and blends the new architecture into the surrounding environment as well as the mining relic. Inspired by the traditional mining buildings that are consistently linearly oriented, this design tries to make new buildings read seemingly as an integral language. However, each building within has its own isolated and different orientation.

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Celebrating the Mining Tower

For the architectural design, the main idea is to re-understand and re-configure the original mining tower. Within the old structure, the large void on top maximizes the lighting for the underground workers, the extruded-sided wall implies the vertical moves of the structure, the materiality and geometry that shape the structure are rich and various. These spatial and material characteristics within the mining tower are highlighted and appropriated in the rest of our design.

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Baogang Stainless Zone Renewal

Lester Institue Design

Professional Work Internship at Atelier Deshaus Responsibility: Research, Site Analysis, Case Studies, Massing Development, Digital Modeling, Drawing Production (including design diagrams, construction drawings, etc)

Professional Work Internship at Atelier Deshaus Responsibility: Research, Site Analysis, Case St

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Other Works | Professional Practice and Research

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House by the sea -Zolaism Cafe Design Professional Work Internship at Atelier Deshaus Responsibility: Research, Site Analysis, Case Studies, Massing Development, Digital Modeling, Drawing Production (including design diagrams, construction drawings, etc)

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Architecture Urbanism Series A+U

Syracuse Summer Pre-

Professional Work Internship at Architecture Urbanism Series A+U Responsibility: Actively participated in the interviews with selected Chinese architects.

Edited and translated materials from Chinese to English in the publication of the magazine, including “More than Design”, and “More than Technology”.

Selected Teaching Experience Teaching Assistant for School of Architecture S Instructor: Edgar Rodriguez Responsibility: Support instructor in the delive Provide feedback and support to students in th ment of the assignments at hand.

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Other Works | Teaching and Volunteering

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Summer Pre-College Program (ARC100)

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Volunteering at Yanyunxi Community Selected Volunterring Service | 2017-2019 Volunteer at Yanyunxi Community Responsibility: Host free weekly art classes for the local children guide them to decorate their community by their drawings

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