I N T R O T O A R C H I T E C T U R E

These are the works I did throughout my first year in college.

We used plaster, metal, and wood to learn about differences in materials.

We had a project called “Design Village”, which me and five other girls formed a group to design and built a life size resting place where we spent a night. Our concept was to create a operable space which allows us to have access to the nature when we want to and is capable of providing private space during the night. We also considered the materials that allow us to carry everything up to a hill without vehicles. After experimenting, we used iron rods, aluminum pole and shower curtain to build the structure.

We were asked to design a popsicle stand on campus with “Sweets” as the theme. I decided to follow the grids of the existing floor on the site to establish the grid of my project with consideration of circulation.

The biggest problem when we were trying to build the structure was to bend the metal rods and make the structure stable. We used the bending machine to bend the metal rods first and used manual force to unbend the rods according to the diagram we drew on the ground by chalk so that they can be close to what we planned. In order to make them stable, we welded two supports minimum on each piece to stable the shape and connect a

These are the details of our structure from inside. Each piece of our structure is moveable so that people can decide the size of the gap to see different kinds of views. For example, if we decide to stargazing at night, we can open a piece to create an open space; if it gets too cold at night, we can just close the piece to make the structure warmer.