Pobby (Qinying) Tan's Portfolio

STUDIO WORK

NEW BRITAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY

Public Infrastructure, Community Librar y

MOTHERLAND MATERNITY CENTER

Maternal Health Care & Landscape

NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA

Resilient Campus Planing for Street & Waterfront TREE

Natural History Museum & Tree Burial Site

HABITATION 20

Modularized Housing and Retail Complex

MONASTERY OF SANTA CLARA-A-VELHA

Adaptive Reuse, Restoration of Historical Rui n

PALACE OF CARE

Rehabilitation Center for Aging Hearing Loss

OTHER SELECTED WORK

YANG'S HOME IN BEIJING (BUILT)

Residential Interior Design

JIM VLOCK FIRST YEAR BUILDING PROJECT

Addressing Societal Needs Through the Physical Manifestation of Design Conceptualization

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTIC

Advanced Fabrication Equipment, Robotics

GOTHENBURG URBAN ANALYSIS

Urban Blocks History and Transformation

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Incorporating and Coordinating the Systems

Freehand Drawing: Journey to Japan

COMPETITION, IMAGE OBJECT, FORMAL ANALYSIS

December 2017

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NEW BRITAIN PUBLIC LIBRARY

Public Infrastructure, Community library & Contemplation of reading for Individuals (Adaptive Reuse and Extension of the Existing library)

2022 Fall MArch Year 2 Design Studio Core 3

Instructor: Peter de Bretteville

Site: 20 High St, New Britain, CT, U.S. Individual Work

The site, on a corner of the edge of the vibrant historic centre, is that of the existing New Britain Public Library at 20 High Street but includes an adjacent Youth Museum, Children’s Sports Centre and backside parking lot. The original library, one of several robust urban commercial and institutional buildings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is to be preserved but to be expanded the site. Public library building type has radically changed in recent years as it has developed into providing a variety of community services, and digital processes have altogether altered both what is in and how we use a library.

The design of the new library focuses on how the design could embody a simultaneity of opposites as it is both a community event while also being a private, individual engagement. Therefore, the proposal is trying to address the sensitive historical context and build a new narrative between old & new, collective & individuality. The adaptive reuse of the old library structures is conceived as a recharacterized civic infrastructure with a new wing that offers places to work, learn, socialize, and gather for cultural growth for citizens from different age groups.

EXISTING STRUCTURES & THE OLD LIBRARY

Recharacterizing old & new and Forming an Intimate Library Community

The project is considered as a new part which not only connects the two existing structures but uses the composition and forms from the old buildings and transforms the classic elements for recharacterizing and balancing the street façade. The two existing structures are used as public spaces for different public activities and time ranges. A courtyard garden space is formed in the centre of the new library building, and cloister-format reading rooms are organized along the garden space.

OLD & NEW

Alternative Exterior and Interior Strategies for the Different Existing Structures

The external façade of the building is preserved but hidden behind the new walls for recharacterizing the façade. Interior timber furnishings are kept, but the new structure replaces the roof with lighting control for the event and book repairing space.

The façade is also preserved and framed by the outer layer of new walls to emphasize the location of the main entrance from the street. The old timber beams are remained with the additional diffused roof light structure to provide more daylight into the lobby.

1.Main entrance from the stree, 2. Back entrance from the public green space, 3. Side entrance (Car Entry A & B)

Section through main entrance, lobby, back entrance and viewing room

ADAPTIVE REUSE & EXTENSION

Spatial Organization Strategies Based on the Library Programs

Following the ideas from earlier concepts and programs, more accessible public spaces are placed within the two existing structures and serve as gathering and collaborating areas for the local community with more social engagements. The open-plan new library extension with the courtyard garden is a more intimate and quiet reading zone and connects the existing structures. The repeated solid walls are the main structural elements, with individual reading spaces in between. The towers in corners are used to balance the changing heights of the buildings and provide vertical circulation.

Conceptual axonometric drawing of the old & new relationship

3.Café Kitchen

4.Magazine Area

5.Back Entrance (Car Park)

6.Circulation Desk

7.Shared Reading Room

8.Office & Cataloging room

9.Lounge

10.Library Storage Reception

11.Loading Space

12.Utility Parking Space

13.Main Entrance Parking Space

15.Children Space Reception

16.Art Craft room

17.Indoor Children Playroom

18.Afterschool Classroom

19.Viewing Room

20.Children Reading Space

21.Courtyard Space

22. Individual Reading Space Teen 23.Meeting Room

24.Adults Individual Reading Space

25. Public Meeting Room

26.Event (Side) Entrance

14.Bike Parking Space

27.Book Repair Exhibition Space

28.Multifunction Lecture Hall

REUSED PUBLIC SPACE & LIBRARY COMMUNITY

Lecture Hall Entrance Muti-functional Lecture Hall and Event Space (With Preserved Existing Timber Furnishing) Stairs for Viewing Book-repairing Exhibition

Upper level plan for the existing structure 1

Section through the Existing Structure 2 (Main Entrance- Left Part) - Reading Rooms (New Library Extension - Middle Part) - Existing Structure 1 (Event Space and Book Repairing Exhibition Space - Right Part)

SHARED READING ROOMS

the Collection of History and Memory from the Old Library

The decision on the interior of the new library extension is based on the original use of the timber furnishing from the old structures. The intention is to make a degree of analogy between the old and the new uses of the same material in both classical and modern manners. The flooring and furniture for the adults' reading are varied from the children's reading space according to the different body dimensions. The flexible openings on both the main and upper levels provide the natural light for the shared reading room space and offer a view towards the cityscape and street view of New Britain.

1/4'' Sectional Model (through the New library Extension and Courtyard Space

Upper Level & Main Level Shared Reading Space

INDIVIDUALITY

Repeated Structural Walls, Openings and Shelves

PERSONAL EMOTIONS & CONTEMPLATION

Private and Quiet Reading Environment within the New Public Library.

The seat and table from the individual reading spaces face towards the inner garden space. Each space has flexible window openings for the user to adjust lighting and views. The individual reading rooms are the void space in-between the repeated structural walls and shelves.

1/2'' Partial Sectional Model of the Invidual Reading

1/2'' Model of Materials

Moment of Enclosure

CHILDREN DAY CARE & READING SPACE

Safe and Intimate Library for Early Childhood Learning and Development

The children’s reading room and daycare space have been organized on the lower floor with controlled access to ensure safety. Art workshops, after-school hubs and viewing rooms are designed for educational purposes. Whereas the courtyard garden space is only accessed from the lower level and is mainly used for children to gather, play and establish their childhood friends from the library community.

Friendship Garden for Children

Lower Level Plan Children Space with Courtyard Garden Space

Children's Reading & Storytelling Space Interior

Wall Construction:

Petersen Kolumba: 240 × 115

× 52 mm

60 mm cavity

waterproofing membrane

60 mm rigid form insulation

CMU Block wall (Insulation)

397x194x194mm

vapour barrier

gypsumlime plaster

oak wood wall panels

double-glazing window with wood/aluminium frame (2× 4 mm double glazing with 16 mm cavity)

Floor Construction:

30 mm oak flooring

Reinforced concrete floor slab and metal decking

203/203/46 mm UKC steel beam layer on 56 mm impact-sound insulation

vapour barrier & wood ceiling panels

Roof Construction: 60 mm bed of gravel bituminous seal

20–260 mm insulation to falls (2 %)

250 mm insulation

bituminous vapour barrier roof decking acoustical suspended ceiling with bracing & mechanical ventilation

80 mm audio-thermal soffit layer 2 mm lime plaster

MATERIALS

The materiality and form of the new library are derived from its context. The new library extension also uses similar light colour brick cladding to response to materiality from the old library and make the analogy between the old and the new. Large sandstone cladding panels are used for the outer layer of street elevation. In contrast, the inner garden wall uses the smaller dimension Petersen Kolumba (528mm*108mm*37mm) regarding, the closer distance and human body.

Physical Model: Inner Garden Elevation Construction Detail CMU Blocks Roof to Floor Construction Section Inner Garden Elevation

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BREATH: MOTHERLAND MATERNITY CENTER

New Model of Care and Landscape Infrastructure for Transforming Maternal Health

2023 Fall MArch Year 3 Advance Studio

Instructors: Kim Holden & Emily Abruzzo

Site: 1 Long Wharf Drive, New Haven, CT U.S..

Project Partner: Katie Jin

Role in the Group: Conceptual Design (60%)

Rendering, Architecture Plan,Section (100%)

The New Haven Maternity Care Center is dedicated to redefining the standards of maternity care spaces. Crafted as an institution singularly committed to the holistic well-being of birthing individuals, our mission is rooted in empathy community, and education.

The maternity center provides comprehensive support across the entire spectrum of care, encompassing prenatal, labor, postpartum, and neonatology services. By transcending conventional norms and relocating the birthing experience to a purposefully designed space that seamlessly integrates with therapeutic landscapes, the maternity center fosters comfort and ease for birthing mothers and their families, ensuring a serene and empowering atmosphere.

Current Hospital Setting:

Fragmented locations for maternity care services in New Haven

FROM HOSPITAL SETTING TO NEW MODEL OF CARE

Integration of Maternity Care for Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Childbirth

THE HILL NEIGHBORHOOD

BEFORE- LONG WHARF

DRIVE: MEDICAL OFFICE

Remove the existing medical office building, due to the dark warehouse structure,lack of care

I95 HIGHWAY

BEFORE- UNDERUSED VILLAGE SUITES HOTEL

Retrofitting into midwifery housing & temporary residency

BEFORE- ABANDONED GATEWAY COLLEGE BUILDING

Car Arrival Circulation New Maternity Center

New Model for the Continuous Full Spectrum of Care: New Community & Maternity Center + Wellness Center + OBGYN Medical Group

Adaptive reuse the abandoned building into midwifery school

MATERNITY CARE & FORMING NEW COMMUNITY

Gradually change the perception of pregnancy for the public

The large-scale landscape strategy is intended to create a natural green environment for the general public arriving in the Lon g Wharf area and shift the conventional hospital arrival settings for birthing moms and framing their birthing experience. The double circulation system is designed for the maternity center, and the inner ring and branched-out corridors are designed for staff shortcuts; these shortcuts create visual connectivity from the extended walkway, which can help guide the moms and family members to move around. Meanwhile, the outer ring of the maternity center circulation has an extended indoor walkway for helping the birthing moms get the optimal position for birth physically, emotionally, and mentally.

Community Center

Emergency Center (Including ORs & NICU)

OBGYN Medical Group & Nutrition Center

Wellness Center

Maternity Center

PUBLIC ARRIVAL FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER

Community Imformation Community Reading Space

Community Cafe, Daycare Services Space, and the Motherhood Exhibition Leads to the Maternity Center

Community Cafe

Main Entrance from the Hill Neighborhood Pharmacy Maternity Center Reception

Summer Courtyard & Lily Pond

MATERNAL HEALTH CARE FOR INDIVIDUALS

Encompassing Physcial, Emotional and Mental Health of Indviduals

The 18 modular birthing suites are divided into two big pie shapes and oriented toward nursing stations and charting rooms. The birthing suites provide comprehensive, high-quality maternal health services, and they are designed to reduce users' pain experience and stress levels. The newly designed environment also adapts to the family's needs as it supports physical and emotional interaction between the birthing mom and her partner and helps to relieve her concern for the partner's wellbeing.

TYPE

Standard Birthing Suite with Private Courtyard and Extended Family Room for Partner, Doula, Siblings, or Grandparents to stay.

Standard Birthing Suite with Private Courtyard

Type A:

Private Courtyard with Enclosed Therapeutic garden and pond

Type A:

Extended Family Room

Type A:

Waterbirth Room

Type A:

Additional Sofa

Bed for Partner to Stay

Type B: Private Courtyard

Type B:

Waterbirth Room

Type B:

Queen-sized Bed with Additional Sofa Bed for Partner to Stay

TYPE B BIRTHING SUITE

Waterbirth Room with View to Private Courtyard and Skylight for Destressing during Birth

Birthing Suites with Storage for Hiding Emergency Medical Equipment

CREATING RELAXED ENVIRONMENT FOR THE OTHER BIRTHING MOMS

A Calm Atmosphere to Reduce Stress and Enable Relaxation

Spatial, psychological, and sensory features of the birth spaces can influence health outcomes and affect physiological birth. Therefore, the project used a combination of indoor and outdoor walking trails with scenario projections of the newly created landscape for the birthing moms and their family members to reduce stress hormones and support physiological labor and the transition of the newborn. The interior horizon lines along corridors will be using colored tiles, and the three big pie areas will have different colors to h elp people identify different zones. Vinyl tile flooring is used for most of the areas in the maternity center to ensure safety and utility purposes.

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NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA

Resilient Campus Planning for Reconnecting and Reimaging New Campus Living between the Waterfront and “Street”

2023 Spring MArch Year 2 Design Studio Core 4

Instructor: Alan Plattus

Site: New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida

Project Partner: Katie Jin

Role in the Group: Urban Design (50%)

Architectural Intervention Design (100%) Rendering (100%)

This semester's studio considers broadly the natural and human landscape of the Gulf Coast, with a specific focus on southwestern Florida, the Sarasota region, and the campus of New College. The project aims to propose strategies that support coastal adaptation at the scale of the region, illustrated through specific architectural and landscape interventions on the New College campus and adjacent urban areas. The New College of Florida is situated between the US 41 highway and the waterfront of Sarasota Bay; the campus consists of three parts: bayfront campus, Pei Campus and Caples. The current 41 highway divides the bayfront and PEI campus, and a bridge is the only connection between these two areas. Whereas the Caples campus also sits in the distance and is detached from the other two campuses. Therefore, the idea for the project started from the current issues from the highway and considering how we could transform the highway and waterfront to bring new opportunities for reconnecting the streets and the water and different campuses. The project intends to create a dialogue between the water and street and merge them by using the unique condition of the New College and converting some of the problems from the site into new future potentials for the students' studying and living and the public.

SITE CONDITIONS

From Historical landform and city development to the overall planning strategy

NATURALIZING THE WATERFRONT

naturalize one side and reserve the waterfront views for part with historical buildings but with floating plants and seagrass to soft the hard edge

Mapping Sarasota Bay (water and land conditions) and Infrastructure Along 41 Highway

Responds to Large Concern about the Sea Level Rise

Naturalizing the Waterfront, Transforming the Highway into a Main Street & Reconnecting through Campus Axis a series of intervention for emphasizing the characteristics of the place and regenerating some new activities

DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE STREET AND WATER

RECONNECTING THE CAMPUS AND PUBLIC LIFE

Transforming the Highway into a Vibrant Main Street with Mixed use developments

Location between the US 41 highway and the waterfront of Sarasota Bay

Existing condition through the Highway

Existing campus plan for the New College

Before - After comparison of the transformation

Transformed section through the main street

Orange line buildings are the existing structure, blue line buildings are the new developments

TRANSFORMATION OF THE WATER AND LANDSCAPE

Parking and Backyard Space Issues for the Site Block

Section through the existing library, transformed street and new mixed use developments

Transformed Retention Pond for Public gathering and new social engagements

Transformed Water feature landscape by using the existing site topo

TOWARDS A NEW EVERYDAY LIFE WITHIN THE CAMPUS

Section through the New Axis (Including the new dorm and testing garden for the dynamic campus living

Section through the New Axis (Including the new dorm and testing garden for the dynamic campus living

Overed Walkway for the New Dormitory

Testing Garden for the College Students Water Garden

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TREE OF LIFE: DEATH OR REBIRTH?

Natural History Museum & Seasonal Retreat with Tree Burial Site

2022 Spring MArch Year 1 Design Studio Core2

Instructor: Lexi Tsien

Site: Yale Myers' Forest, New Haven, CT, U.S.

Project Area: 11,000 s.f.

Individual Work

The project situates in both the human cultivated and natural systems of the Yale Myers' Forest. The juxtaposition of man-made and natural systems raises the concern of what maintenance means to humans and nature? Considering maintenance as changing stages of cyclical time and humanity is only one small part of nature's process of growth and decay. The project then questions how human-centric and non-human-centric memory can be preserved and maintained through architecture over time in the forest.

For the natural forest, the project attempts to decentering from humans and call the attention of recognizing that dead materials such as falling trees are giving birth to other new lives such as lichen and fungus. The proposal tries to apply the spatial sensibilities to the forest experience, which offers a closer reading of nature's lifecycle process and uncovers nature's hidden beauty of decay and decomposition. For the cultivated forest, the scheme uses tree burial as an alternative approach to maintaining personal emotions and memory of the forest, which corresponds to sustainability and ecological renewal.

BELOW ABOVE

The project starts with a long vertical section drawing of the Grove St Cemetery, which identifies life cycles and decay as a topic to explore to ecological system and maintenance of the Yale Myers’ Forest. The drawing also questioned what does ‘maintenance’ mean for an object, individual, family, or system? The ‘Above ‘part of the drawing describes the intentionally formed facts of the ‘maintenance’, which reflects on the growth of the man-made system.

The ‘Above & Below’ drawing depicts the unseen transformation of the human-centric view of the city and life cycles through a historical timeline. The ‘Below’ part of the drawing illustrates how the physical maintenance actions in everyday life create alternative meaning for different individuals and reflects the unintentional decay of nature. How can architecture be associate d with both ‘above’ and ‘below’ meanings of maintenance?

MAPPING THE YALE MYERS' FOREST

Questioning the Human-centric Life Cycle in the Forest

CONCEPTUAL MODELS OF GROWTH & DECAY

Transforming Concepts into the Architectural Programs

Conceptual Drawing of Viewing the Process of Nature Decay for the Museum Program

Framing Views to the Trees

Conceptual Plan of the Burial Site & Project

Physical Conceptual Models and Material Tests (Decay)

MEMORY IN THE FOREST

The project was initially conceptualised by drawing the sectional relationship between the living programs and the ground. The interior program could be divided according to the topography changes of the site and the locations of different living and dead trees.

At the same time, the plan sketch is conceiving how the path could be carefully placed to respond to the earlier mapping of the different decay stages of the trees. The architectural strategy to reach the forest site is to imagine the little moments that start to describe the narrative for telling the life cycle story and the self-maintenance law of the forest.

Sectional Sketch of Forest Living Concept Plan Conceptual Sketch of the Forest Altar

Conceptual Sketches for Exploring the Architectural Relationship Between the Natural Forest

The tree burial site is located in the cultivated forest, and the workshop is buried underground to reduce acoustic interference to the other activities. Workers' accommodation space is interconnected to a buried workshop with separated access from other visitors. The newly planted burial trees can become a part of the forest regeneration plan and suggest the meaning and remembrance behind the cultivated trees. Whereas the accommodation for the scientists and the research laboratory is on the west part of the site, archive space for forest sampling is buried underground to provide temperature and moisture maintenance for collections.

MEMORY OF THE FOREST & HUMAN

Tree Burial as a Architectural Relationship Between the Natural Forest

Moment of Rememberance Decay Chapel (Tree Burial)

EXPERIENCING THE NATURAL DECAY

the Sectional Relationship of Different Architectural Programs

1.Bathroom in the Commual Living Space

2.Shared Library Space to Retreat

Decay Chapel (Tree Burial) Workshop Tree Burial Site

3.Classroom Interior ( Watching the Nature Decay)

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HABITATION 20

Modularized Housing and Retail Complex

2020 Fall Personal Competition Project

Site: Hankou, Wuhan, China

Project Area: 2000 sqm

Individual Work

There are many old and classic buildings of different countries in Hankou Concession and most part of the area has been regarded as Protected Site for Historical and Cultural Value at the National Value. The primary site is located in the old Belgian Concession and it is used as housing for local residents and young tenants. The project was firstly inspired by the modular housing ‘Habitat 67’in Canada so the starting point of the design concept for this housing project is design modularized housing units which accommodate different users’ needs and integrate modern life with the historical memory of the site.

EXISITING SITE CONDITIONS, NEIGHBORHOOD AND STREETS

LOCAL HISTORY AND ACTIVITY RESEARCH SUGESTS THE MAIN FUNCTIONS

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SPACES ACCORDING TO USERS' NEEDS

After clarifying main users and the study of their needs, the project requires a combination of public spaces, semi-public spaces and private spaces. Thus, the strategic design is based on the main key design concept which is to use a transition floor for connecting the public space on the ground floor and the upper floor prefabricated living units (5 x 5 x 3). By using the privacy hierarchy diagrams, the transition floor is designed for creating communal space as a respond to the existing living condition and local residents’ social life.

Step 1: Locate the two different entrances for residents and general public, recycle concrete from old structure demolition for the new construction.

Step 3: Add children’s playground, communal garden, clinic and other facilities for creating a sense of community for residents.

DESIGN STRATEGY AND PROCESS GROUND FLOOR PLAN

Step 2: Connect the public accessed retails and the street of the city by using green space at two main entrances. Insert a gallery at the centre of the ground floor.

Step 4: Two cores as vertical transportation for living units clusters and circulation for living units on the upper floors..

Step 5: Prefabricated modular living units with reduced site work and create different typologies according to users’ needs

Step 6: Insert shared lounges for upper floors and shared roof gardens which can bring more conversations between neighbours

1 main entrance for the general public to retails

2 art gallery

3 restaurants

4 supermarket

5 supermarket storage

6 clinic public services

7 Hairdressers

8 café

9 courtyard for local residents

10 back entrance to community floor and living units

11 Foyer for housing (services)

Communal Floor and Ground Floor Cutaway Drawing

Living and Shared Space Cutaway Drawing

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MONASTERY OF SANTA CLARA-A-VELH A

Adaptive Re use, Restoration of Santa Clara-a-Velha Ruin

2020 Fall Competition Project

Site: Coimbra, Portugal

Project Area: 18600 sqm

Individual Work

The monastery project strived to complement the historical building with a level adapting the old programmes and monastic life from convention monastery. Creating experiential space for both visitors and monks or nuns along they journey within the monastery is the starting point for this project. The design concept draws from the honesty and willingness of both monks and tourist, as well as the respect of historical ruin and sacred religious activities and life. The project has adapted the old structure of the monastery and transforms the internal spaces of the “old” into new multi-function spaces. The internal space has been divided into two separated parts for tourists and monks through the glass, and this allows a level of visual connections between them. This also reflects the intention for creating “alone in the crowd’ space is to create a meaningful spiritual practice for monks and nuns to experience when they are acting as outsiders for other people’s linear life. Whereas, tourists can see the monastic life, experience the history of this place, learn from their visit and maybe have further thoughts after their journey.

PRIVATION FROM THE OLD LIFE

The imposed rigors, segregations and privations but offered spiritual purpose and a better hope of salvation.

TWO LINES OF LIFE WITH WILLINGNESS

Adaptions from the old monastery programmes:

The need for books and buildings made religious houses active patrons of the arts, and the monastic obligation to perform manual work allowed many monks and nuns to serve God as creative artists. Together with the tradition of monasticism, the conception for new monastery of Santa Clara-A-Velha is to provide spaces for spiritual purpose and a better hope of salvation but in an acceptable level of segregation and interaction with people’s willingness.

STORY OF THE SANTA CLARA-A-VELHA RUIN

1.was firstly built in the 14th century on the bank of the Mondego River

2. was abandoned in 17th century due to the frequent floods

3. Fell into ruin and become partially covered by the marshes of Mondego River

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

For Tourists

RECONSIDERING MONASTERY LIFE

The new monastery has kept some of the primary programmes of conventional monastery, tourists can see these old programmes and feel a sense of the monastic life. The reason for creating these spaces is because the visit of heritage should not only be edu cational to know the history but to experience and be inspirational for tourists.

HOURGLASS POND (UNDERGROUND)

The position of the ‘Hourglass Pond’ is a transformation of the old fountain for the original monastery, this represents the connection between linear time and cyclical time. No matter how ‘thick’ the monastery walls are, the sun and air are same for both tourist s and monk, which indicates people cannot truly and completely be segregated.

Mirror

Section of Music Room and Tourists Exhibition Room

Section Cutting Through the Music Room and Art Room

Again, the design of the church also provides a space for visitors to see monastic life but more importantly it is a space which gathers in common prayer and worship. In the church, prayer silences the passions of the soul, assuage the rebellion of anger, dismisses envy, dissipates evil desire and brings great peace and serenity to the soul. Every monk or nuns within the monastery has his or her own seat for praying and this may generate a sense of belonging and responsibilities. Besides, these 'hollowed seats' are used timber for reducing the coldness from the ground and providing a slient space to worship and to pray.

ALONE IN THE CROWD

The project has adapted the old structure of the monastery and transforms the internal spaces of the “old” into new multi-function spaces. The interior space has been divided into two separated parts for tourists and monks through the glass; this allows a le vel of visual connections between them. This also reflects the intention for creating “alone in the crowd’ space is to create a meaningful spiritual practice for monks and nuns to experience when they are acting as outsiders for other people’s linear life.

Level Refectory for Monks

Viewing Monastic Living as an Outsider (Parallel Life)

Upper

DAILY LIFE WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN PRAYER, WORK, AND STUDY

The music room activity has been preserved in the new monastery, whereas tourists can see the ruin exhibition and listen to the choir singing a hymn. The curve wall for the underground part is a mirror which allows visitors to see monks and nuns from the back, thus, this avoids tourists to distract them from singing. The cloister is an essential space arrangement for conventional monas tery, in plan cloister connects all the functional parts of the building, thus, it forms a cycled circulation. The project preserves and reuses the buried old cloister walls and generates a gap to let sunlight coming down to the space. Time can be known from light when monks and nuns walk around the cloister through their everydayness of the monastic life.

JOY OF BEING ALONE CINEMA

There is a flexible screen (can be rolled up) to divide the tourist’s cinema and the monks’ cinema, the two spaces cannot only be used separately but become an integrated theatre when performance takes place on the underground courtyard. Besides, individual seats are designed for each monk and to create a sense of ownership, as well as belonging.

(Viewing Monastic Living) Section through the Tourist Library & Monastery Library

Monastery Library, Individual Reading Cells

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PALACE OF CARE

Rehabilitation Centre for Aging Hearling Loss

2021 Spring Year 3 Design Studio Core2

Instructor: Rory Corr & Brendan Higgins

Site: St Davids, Southwest Wales, UK

Project Area: 1000 sqm

Individual Work

St Davids, a small picturesque medieval pilgrimage site on the southwest tip of Pembrokeshire, provides the setting for a study into the architecture of care, reflection and healing. The proposal questions the existing social care services for the elderly, specifically for those affected by hearing loss. The project sits parallel to the ruin of the 6th century Bishops Palace and adjacent to the Cathedral, the origin and heart of the city of St Davids, and tries to reaffirm the pastoral tradition of these buildings while reflecting on things lost personal and universal.

‘The Palace of Care’ is the tip of the iceberg of social care challenges; it emphasises the importance of care and support services for neglected ageing problems. Beyond, the project urges architects to contribute their social responsibilities to society to help provide a long-term and sustainable social care architecture for the elderly— especially urgent following the pandemic. By knitting an earlier monastic form into the natural landscape, the project aims to build optimistic gathering moments which address collective memory. Incorporating rooms for community engagement as well as ones that are contemplative and therapeutic, it aspires to be a building imbued with dignity, interdependence, and a sense of belonging.

Contributed part of Mini Group Task

MAPPING THE CITY THROUGH BOUNDARIES OF NATURE AND MAN-MADE

Mapping the boundaries of man-made and nature helps me to understand how the city has kept its unique characters of being an agricultural city and pilgrimage site. The town is composited by the landscape of coastline, rural area for cultivated lands, urban are, and historic area of heritage buildings and natural forests.

Most of the gathering activities take place in the urban and historical area for both locals and tourists.

PRIMARY ELEMENTS

Finding the Primary Elements of the city of St Davids

LIFETIME AS A COLLECTIVE MEMORY

Indicates the Importance of Historial & Culture Tradition

After establishing the broader theme of social care and defining a specific user group from the precedent study, the programme research focuses on the present social issues from the ageing society in St Davids. Further research on the common ageing problem (included in the programme research book) suggests the primary users for the project is the senior hearing loss group.

PRIMARY SITE LOCATION & CONTEXT

Culture Gathering Place & Threshold Between Man-made and Nature

BISHOP PALACE & CATHEDRAL

THERAPEUTIC DESIGN CONCEPT

A Process of Transforming the Users Thoughts, Emotions and Behaviours

ACCESSIBILITY - PUBLIC LEVELS & BREATHING SPACES Lack

the Sequence, Intentions and Functions of the Breathing Spaces

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION

Orientated Towards the Bishop's Palace & the Cathedral

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE: COMMUNITY

Social Engagements and Share in the Space of Life

SPATIAL EXPERIENCE: FAITH HEALING

I a Pilgrim in Search of Peace & Place of Rest and Release

SHADOWS OF MEMORY: GATHERING OF “LEAVES”

Nor like a dead leaf, tossed and whirled. In an eddy of wind, is the anchored soul.

YANG'S HOME IN BEIJING (BUILT)

Residential Interior Design

OTHER SELECTED WORK

JIM VLOCK FIRST YEAR BUILDING PROJECT

Addressing Societal Needs Through the Physical Manifestation of Design Conceptualization

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

Incorporating and Coordinating the systems

COMPETITION & IMAGE OBJECT

An Image-object Reconfigures the Relationships from Identified Elements in the Image

FORMAL ANALYSIS I

From Brunelleschi to Piranesi

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTIC

Advanced Fabrication Equipment, Robotics

GOTHENBURG URBAN ANALYSIS

Urban Blocks History and Transformation

INTERIOR DESIGN: APARTMENT IN BEIJING (BUILT)

Collaborated with Mingxuan Qing

INTERIOR DESIGN: APARTMENT IN BEIJING (BUILT)

Collaborated with Mingxuan Qing

JIM VLOCK FIRST YEAR BUILDING PROJECT

The 2022 Jim Vlock First Year Building Project is sited on 164 Plymouth Street, in a residential neighborhood tangent to an active rail transport.

Group E: Schematic Design Site Plan -combined kitchen and living space. A short hallway leads to a bedroom with floor to ceiling built-in cabinets

Final Built ADU Interior Photo : A short hallway leads to a bedroom, the window for the bedroom is triple glazed to block noise.

Final Built ADU Exterior Photo: mitigate the sound of the train, respond to climate conditions, maximize the limited lot size, and ensure a comfortable environment.

The project is inspired by this process of light painting to experiment with adjusting variables of speed, reflectivity, perspective, and on/off adjustment of the light source. We used two different end effectors: one was our custom made LED diode with faceted glass sphere, and the other was a LED laser pointer with reflective lens which could be rotated to create multiple light points. Both end effectors were used to create a multiplicity of light reflected from a single source. The speed of the robot also influenced line weight / size and glow of the light lines made - slower made thicker lines, faster made thinner lines. Turning the LED diode on and off, as well as photographing the light from mulitple sources, was done to create an effect of depth and dimension.

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTICS: LIGHT PAINTING

A quick entry into the process of laser cutting, stacking and gluing, with a simple eliptical floor plates, yielded productive results. The constraints of single brick cores and flat floor plates informed an initial impulse to investigate rotation of the tower. The flat and stacked character of the model, especially at the base, inspired a desire to design the ground plane in a more dynamic way. This resulted in the concept of blurring the lines between building and landscape. We explored the idea of the tower emerging organically from the ground below as if the land were sculpted and lifted into the sky. The robot as a design and fabrication tool inherently relates to a futuristic architecture, where built and natural environments could synthesize as one. A parametric grasshopper script used base curves, with loft operations, to generate multiple iterations of desired forms.

INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL ROBOTIC S

Instructor: Hakim Hasan

GOTHENBURG URBAN ANALYSIS: EVOLUTION OF THE URBAN BLOCK

Within a short span of 2km along Aschbergsgatan, Gothenburg's rich history is manifested in the different block typologies that developed due to the changes in energy, transportation infrastructure and needs of the residents. From compact residential units of the 18th century, to the perimeter super-block, to high density functionalism and suburban single family housing in the late 20th century, the city offers a wide range of housing all within 5 min walking distance to public transport and supported by its extensive biking network.

The development of Gothenburg within this region seems to reflect efforts to maintain a close connection to the metropolitan fabric to accommodate different types and phases of life within the city. From our observation and analysis as visitors, we think the compactness of this mini-metropolis model of Gothenburg gives greater opportunities to manage daily life on foot, by bike, and by public transport. The livability, flexibility, and adaptability of the historical development in Gothenburg's center offer a more attractive and cohesive urban living experience.

Instructor: Alan Plattus & Andrei Harwell

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN DESIGN

Instructor: Celia Toche, John Jacobson,Robert Hedman

Drawing sets and Revit model were developed for a preliminary design proposal for a children’s library and gradually transformed into the advancement of structural form and detail, environmental systems, egress, accessibility, and envelope design, as well as stimulation of constructive processes for the original design work. The close collaboration with the MEP and structural consultant is particularly helpful for our team to understand how the integration of building systems can articulate the design intention more rigorously that responds to the actual design scenario in practice.

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN DESIGN

Team Members: Yiming W, Kevin Yang

IMAGE OBJECTS (CORE I STUDIO)

Combined ideas of using reflectivity, fragments and compression as the spatial narrative

ICELAND CAVE TOWER COMPETITION

visitor center on the farmland’s site overlooking Vogagjá – a spectacular ground fissure resulting from seismic activity

Exterior Visualization - Visitor centre of Grjotagja Cave for Iceland tower competition

FORMAL ANALYSIS I

Instructor: Peter Eisenman, TF: Hannah Mayer

Close Reading and Analysis from the Theocentric Late-Medieval to the Humanism & Anthropocentricity of the Early Renaissance, and the Begining of the Enlightenment of the Late Eighteenth Century

Sant'Ivo all Sapienza & San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane, Rome Italy

Campo Mazio Map & Nolli Map, Rome, Italy

S. Maria di Monte Santo & S.Maria de' Miracoli

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