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LIFE IS SHORT, ART IS LONG. ARCHITECTURE ENDLESS.
Architecture without Content return to the center of the city and investigate the potential of these enormous buildings as data center if they would be located on Roosevelt Island; formerly the outskirts of Manhattan, today the very center of New York. Roosevelt Island has a latent potential for symbolic representation, as was recently exemplified by the posthumous execution of Kahn’s Roosevelt memorial and the numerous paper projects that preceded that monument.
ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT CONTENT- NECESSARY ARCHITECTURE INSTURCTOR: KERSTEN GEERS, ANDREA ZANDERIGO INDIVIDUAL WORK SUMMER 2013 NEW YORK, UINTED STATES
Study of Fire Station No.4 by Robert Venturi
Architecture without content reconnects to Venturi’s concept of a difficult whole. The diffcult whole is not a group form, not a mere collection of elements, but a formal strategy that seeks for a cohesive compostion of parts through inflection.
ALPHABET CITY- A STORY OF DESTINATION INSTURCTOR: YEHUDA SAFRAN TEACH ASSISTANTS: SILVIA PEREA JUAN FRANCISCO GARCES ECHEVERRIA INDIVIDUAL WORK FALL 2013 NEW YORK, UINTED STATES
If the attendant in the center is furnished with elongations and a welldefined mauve oval, we find a diminished torso in the Figure on the left, since a whole portion of it is missing, while the torso on the right is in the process being built up, half of it having already been added…It is like a collection of hysterical “sleepings” and “awakenings” affecting the diverse parts of a body.
- Gilles Deleuze, “The Logic of Sensation” What Is a Triptych? Francis Bacon, Triptych August 1972
Started from the theory of Victor Shklovsky “Art as Device”, used paintings and video as heuristic device to discuss the movement and formation in architecture. Billboard architecture had contradiction between inside and outside, the sequences walking into the architecture become a narrative in alphabet city.
Formation of Building
Sequence of Train, Video in 2013, New York
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The 1st floor: ---African antique ---Chinese furniture and objects ---Indian textiles, jewelry, scarves ---Embroidered Kashmiri textiles ---Vintage European decorative objects ---Antique Asian objects and Buddhas ---Nepalese/Tibetan handicrafts
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--Vintage items for women: furs, silver, jewelry, second-hand clothing, small leather goods, hair accessories ---Vintage chandeliers and parts, reupholstered chairs, pennants and posters ---Olives, pickles, condiments ---Dog coats, knits(winter) ---Prescription eyeglasses/readers ---Antique: small, decorative objects, home decor ---Used books, videos, records & CDs, maps, prints ---Collectible coins, currencies, stamps
--- Wood ornamenta pieces made in order ---High-end, gently used designer bags and shores for women ---Vintage porcelain ---Collectibles, Artwork ---vintage bric-a-brac ---Miniature glass animals ---Art magazines, limited edition prints
---Rare jewels and precious stones ---Antique furniture ---High-end vintage accessories
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Structure System of Flea Market
A story about destination- I passed by a billboard architecture, a glow of light attracted me. It was a flea market. Walked into the market along the light, perceptive people’s different activities in each level, of course I wanted to see it clearly. I saw a symmetrical image like an immortal commemorate; saw people whispering under the shadow and light. Then I walked to an exterior, an ambiguous boundary between inside and outside. Along the staircase came to the third floor, a transmigration shaped plan, the invisible power guide me to the center of the building; through the pilothouse of cruise ship like glass I saw people’s activities was segmented by the geometry…Last staircase was narrow, I finally came to a small market like Barkhor Street in Tibet, they were surrounded by the wall but still could see the sky. Finally arrived the destination, the last vendor was selling the forgetful perception and sensation.
TAHRIR AS BREAK- ARCHIPELAGO AS DEVICE CONTESTS PRIVATIZATION INSTURCTOR: SHAHIRA FAHMY TEACH ASSISTANTS: EMANUEL ADMASSU INDIVIDUAL WORK SPRING 2014 ISTANBUL, TURKEY CAIRO, EGYPT
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The City within the City, Berlin as a Grenn Archipelago, 1977. by O.M. Ungers, Hans Kolhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Arthur Ovaska, and Peter Riemann.
The contestation is about public space privatization in Istanbul and Cairo, How to use the prototype as archipelago to injecting different artifacts in both Istanbul and Cairo in order to ask the question of contestation. In Istanbul, by identifying several events took places in Bosphorous, specially focused on the field of Galata port. Because of the force of government and municipality, the field will be closed to public. By studying how ephemeral event as cruise ships off-loading in Galata port, trying to shifting the event to performance center in order to re-open the field both to residents and visitors. In Cairo, we studied how the programs took places on street in order to control the space. Specifically focused on the Al Azhar Park, which was originally an outside place from Cairo now becomes a park which closes to public. By shifting the existing program on both side of park, the Darb al-Ahmar community will have a private hotel; equally the Al Azhar Park side will have a shoe-making workshop for the residents. By exchanging the program in both sides, the park will re-open to the residents in Darb al-Ahmar community.
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Prototype Study: Envelope as A Way to Communicate Context
Prototype Study :Different Artifacts
Istanbul Modern Museum Deport Office Sinan University Terminal
Istanbul Intervention
- Galata Port Performance Center
Istanbul Modern Museum Deport Office Terminal
PRIVATIZATION OF GALATAPORT
This important region, it will become the property of the person hired, and will be closed to the public. 1200 meters of coastline will be closed to the public and will be hotels, shopping malls. The new project is being led by Turkey Maritime Organization and managed by the government. Beneficiaries: - Government - Istanbul Municipality - Firm (which will build the shopping malls)
Istanbul Modern Museum Shops & Hotels
CURRENT BARRICADES
From Level 1 to Level 7 PROPOSAL
Paid and Unpaid Paths of Performace Center
Cairo Intervention
- Al Azhar Park Hotel/Shoemaking Workshop
…..the city was confronted by the array of contemporary development challenges faced by many cities, not least population pressures, a decline in the quality of housing and the attendant problems these conditions create…….. It was clear that Cairo needed more green space. One study found that the amount of green space per inhabitant was roughly equivalent to the size of a footprint. It is one of the lowest proportions in the world. It was on the occasion of the conference that His Highness the Aga Khan announced his decision to finance the creation of a park for the citizens of the Egyptian capital. The only central location which was of suitable scale and which lent itself to rehabilitation was the derelict Darassa site, a 30-hectare (74 acre), 500-year-old mound of rubble in the inner city. - 1984
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Archipelago as Device Reformation of Public Space
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Galata Port, Istanbul
NIYUAN VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INSTURCTOR: ERIC MORRIS INDIVIDUAL WORK JULY 27 2012 JIANGSU, CHINA
A. Jiangsu Province, China B. Site location C. View of the village D. View of the forest close to village
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This project is based on the study of traditional Chinese architecture in Jiangsu Province, used local materials such as grey brick and tile, associated with traditional Jiangsu culture. The site is in Niyuan village, Jiangsu Province of China.After studied the arrangement of local architecture in this village, environment around the site, public and private space of different courtyards; according to the local geography and architectural texture formed a grid. Based on this grid, formed public space of this elementary school, north teaching building and south residential building enclosed the courtyard space associate with local existing architectural texture.
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INSTRUCTOR: DAVID CARNICELLI TEAM: JONAH ROGIN ROLE: DESIGN, ALL DIGITAL WORKS, MODEL 08 DEC 2011 DENVER, US.
The site is on the 17th and Blake Street, Denver. The function of the building is for residential and commercial, after studied of the existing building we decided to follow the traditional buildings in this area. First, developed two masses, then avoided two courtyard in the middle of two masses, on the second floor, add balcony on the top of courtyards, make different height of each masses, thus, have three different vertical space of this building The 3D analysis diagram shows how different masses engaged with each other. The first floor is restaurant, second and third floor for the residents, parking is on the backyard, two accesses for this building, each two units have a balcony between them.
ANALYSIS OF MASSES ENGAGEMENT
RENDERING OF BALCONY ON THE SECOND FLOOR
HAND MODEL
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RESTURAND ON THE FIRST FLOOR
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QINGLONG TEMPLE AREA PLAN AND DESIGN INSTRUCTOR: AN RONG INDIVIDUAL WORK 10 JUN 2010 SICHUAN, CHINA
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QINGLONG TEMPLE
Phase one: Himalayas mountain affect Xichang city. Phase two: West Mountains affect Xichang city and East Mountains affect the area surrounding Qionghai Lake. Phase three: East Mountains affect site in this smaller area. THE TEXTURE OF LOCAL BUILDINGS
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This project is located in Xichang, Sichuang, China. The west of site is a large lake called Qiong Hai, the south of the site is an ancient temple called Qinglong Temple. There are many mountains in the east of this site. The weather of Xichang is pretty warm, no snow in the winter, not too hot in the summer. You can see the moon clearly at night, the pollution is not heavy. Another important character of Xichang is this city is the famous of its spaceflight technology.
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Base on the consideration above, we can create a traditional local organic architecture by minimal cost. This architecture can be part of the environment, at the same time; it can combine the local ethnologic character and contemporary technology.
Besides, this organic architecture will use local materials and the technology of environmental protection.
After all, the connection of architecture and local environment is the most important concept of this project.
According to the texture of local buildings, water system, climate and mountain surroundings, there should be some architecture buildings that not too obvious and can connected with the local environment. A
This architecture can use local materials like soil, bamboo and wood, It can be part of the environment and combine the local ethnologic character and contemporary technology.
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A. Generate five architecture group. B. Clarify the center of those five architecture group. C. Around the center of each large architecture group, each group contains small space.
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A. South of Hotel&Natatorium B. Looking from inside of Sports Center C. Looking from inside of Entertainment Center D. South of Reception Center
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TRANSPROTATION ANALYSIS
ENTERTAINMENT CENTER
HOTEL&SWIMMING POOL
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CONSTRUCITON OF INDIVIDUAL BUILDING
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URBAN WOMEN SHELTER HOME INSTURCTOR: ALEXANDER MALLER INDIVIDUAL WORK 10 DEC 2010 DENVER, CO USA
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The site is located in E 16th Ave & Washington St, Denver. Consider the south of site is 16th Street and the west of site is Washington Street, so the character of north and east of this site is more privacy. Vertical block structure in base
According to the arrangement of the effect of block grid in this area, Separate this site to three parts: privacy space, open space and the space between open and privacy. My idea is the west and south elevation should be high enough to block the view of people on street, but this shelter’s victims can feel peaceful light and space inside. Use the arrangement of space to
Diagonal block structure in base
construct sacred light and peaceful space, people live in this shelter can feel be protected both physical and spiritual. Moreover, this place can inspire them to explore themselves, after this transition, they can live better lives than before.
The combination of two structures
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I studied the block structure before, and I found its vertical grid in this area, and the diagonal structure in the west side. So I drag them out, and combine them together, so I can design space base on this grid. Then I analysis the character of the site, the south side is 16th street, and the west side is Washington Street. So I found the south and west side is more open and north and east side is more privacy. So I separate this site to three part, the south side is more open to the street, the west is between open and privacy, and the north and east side is more privacy. Then I discussed the arrangement of three spaces on the site, so I draw diagonal lines to arrange those three space base on the block grid. And according to the need of victims, I build two high walls on the south side and west side to block the view of people standing on the street. I think this place should hard for people to find, that’s hidden or invisible space in this area. But people live inside this building they can experience interesting space inside, this place can inspire them and they will have better lives after their shortly living here.
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FILLING GAP: STUDENT ACTIVITY CENTER INSTRUCTOR: LIU TONGHAO INDIVIUAL WORK 09 APRIAL 2009 BEIJING, CHINA
This site is between the main campus of Central Academy of Fine Arts and the region of the high school of CAFA. The function of those two areas are corresponding to each other, but there is little connection with them. Moreover, students of two campuses also lack of communication. Consider the texture of the whole region: the overall arrangement of the space of those building is courtyard arrangement, by the enclosing of the space of those architectures and the field around, people built many half-enclose courtyard spaces.
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A. Beijing B. Chaoyang District C. CAFA
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STEP 1: The possibility of students’ activity in this area. STEP 2: Two forces to intertwining between two regions STEP 3: The interweaving between two cubes. STEP 4: Continue to intertweave between masses.
A. Looking inside of the main entrance B. Looking down from the third floor C. The inside of the south of the second floor
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The main point of service of this project is for the students of two campuses. Students in art academy lack the interior space sport. Thus, at the first step, the function of this project would resolve the needs for the interior multifunctional gymnasium. Consider the situation of this site; I want to enforce the communication and connection of the southern campus and the northern campus.
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MULTIFAMILY HOUSING COURTYARD POWER STATION
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DESIGN IN CHIQUIRINES INSTRUCTOR: FRED ANDREAS TEAM: KEVIN XU ROLE: DESIGN, HAND MODEL 04 MAY 2011 CHIQUIRINES, GUATEMALA
WATER TOWER COMMUNITY SPACE
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The population comprised of mostly women and children. Most of the men were killed during the civil war. Most people live under a dollar a day. The banana planta tion, ran by Agro America, is the sole source of the economic growth. The popula
The town of Chiquirines is located in the Southwest of Guatemala. The people in Chiquirines are in ex
tion doubles every 5 years. It is expected to reach 10,000 people in 2020.
treme poverty and the town is in need of revitalization. The town has no infrastructure, no drinking water
With the population and economic growth, proposing a healthy community design
system, no electricity, and no sewage system. The major flood comes in from April to September annu-
and sustainable town development strategy that will improve the living condition of
ally. The whole town gets flooded a meter deep during the flood season.
the people and the infrastructure of Chiquirines. This project includes the overall planning of the town, the housing development, and the school. By the year of 2020, there will be a new town center, with churches, markets, shops, and public plazas.
SKETHCHES OF THE COMMUNITY BLOCK DEISGN ANALYSIS OF HOUSING STRUCTURE IN COMMUNITY
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A. Elementary school in Chiquirines. B. Interior view of family house. C. Courtyard of family house. D. View of kitchen outside.
STRUCTURE HAND MODEL
For the community housing design, there is a “comminidad� housing settlement pattern with close families living adjacent to each other. The house prototype will be constructed with local materials such as bamboo, compressed earth block, and stones. This project intends to develop sustainable strategies that will dramatically alter the living conditions of the local population. Agro America and the CU Medical School remain committed to the implementation of these sustainable strategies in Chiquirines.
VIEW OF THE COMMUNITY
YELLOW LIGHT- SUNSHINE, HAPPINESS, WARMTH
THE PROCESS OF MAKING LIGHTS
WHITE LIGHT- PURITY, FLAMBOYANCE, EMPTINESS
LIGHT DESIGN
PURPLE LIGHT- ROYALTY, NOBILITY, GLOOMY
HAND MODELS
05-06YEAR COURTYARD OF CAFA REDESIGN
06-07YEAR BAR STREET DESIGN- CHINESE TRADITIONAL WOOD BUILDING
06-07YEAR CITY VILLA IN BEIJING
07-08 ARTS AREA 798 REPLANNING
05-06YEAR COURTYARD OF CAFA REDESIGN
07-08 CONSTRUCTION CLASS MODEL
In the winter of 2011-2012, I worked as a volunteer in Long Way Home in Guatemala. For the better education of children in Guatemala, I helped local people to design and built one of the buildings in Maya Technique School, we used low cost material follow the earth bag structure to build architecture related with local culture. I also designed and finished a door of an existing building; consider the situation of Comalapa,
December 2011-January 2012, Help to design and build a security office of Maya Technique School, Design and made a door of an existing building in Maya Technique School in Comalapa, Guatemala
DESIGN BUILD IN GUATEMALA
OIL PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS
STUDY OF VENUS OF URBINO, TITIAN. PENCIL, 2012
KNITTER IN GUATEMALA. PENCIL, 2012
PORTRAIT OF HUA ZHANG OIL ON CANVAS, 2012
LET ME UNDERSTAND THIS FEELING . OIL ON CANVAS, 2011
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