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Arden Interludes
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INSTRUMENT ARCHITECTURE
2019 June-2019 September
Location: Beijing, China Academic work
Instructor: Migfhi Individual
2023 July-2019 Novamber
Location: Melbourne, Academic work
Instructor: Peter Brew Individual
UNDER THE ELEVATED STRESS-RELIEVING FOREST
2019 June-2019 September
Location: Beijing, China
Academic work
Instructor: Migfhi
Individual
MUSEUM OF EMOTIONS
OTHER WORKS
CIVILIZATION
OR HIGH-TECH
2019 June-2019 September
Location: Beijing, China
Academic work
Instructor: Migfhi
Individual
Arden Interludes
REINTERPRETING VACANCY
2025 February-2025 June
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Academic work
Instructor: Lucinda Mason
Individual
In a city rushing to fill its gaps, this project asks: what if vacancy isn’t a flaw to be corrected, but a condition to be re-read? Set in Melbourne’s Arden district— where warehouses await demolition in favour of rigid 49-metre towers—this project resists the tabula rasa impulse of planning. It instead lingers in the inbetween.
Arden Interludes unfolds as a series of quiet, architectural acts—roller doors lifted like curtains, staircases hung like threads, housing stitched into party walls. Each intervention is temporary, theatrical, and light-footed, seeking not to occupy, but to connect, to reveal, to suspend. Density emerges not through erasure, but through careful layering.
Here, the warehouse becomes a stage; its voids are not problems, but invitations. Drawing on dramaturgical theory and trickster tactics, the project performs spatial mischief—playing with ambiguity, appearing and disappearing, inside and out. It treats the city not as an object to be mastered, but as a scene still in rehearsal.
This is not reconstruction.
This is a re-reading. A re-weaving. A refusal to overwrite what still breathes.
A porous strategy for cities that have forgotten how to pause.
1:100 RMIT Swanston Academic Building, Swanston St
1:100 Gravity Energy Building model
1:100 Queen Victoria Market, Shed D 1:100 Hardware Ln
staircase
- discovers and tears open vacancy. Light and suspended, it connects spaces without occupying them—bridging public and private, inside and out.
balcony
- legally private yet visibly public. It sneaks domestic life into the public realm, bridging inside and outside, solitude and street life.
roller door
- a curtain between void and event, silence and action.
gravity energy station
- freeing the space once locked within sealed infrastructure, and charging the city through gravity.
roller door
- a curtain between void and event, silence and action.
staircase
- discovers and tears open vacancy. Light and suspended, it connects spaces without occupying them—bridging public and private, inside and out.
- discovers and tears open vacancy. Light and suspended, it connects spaces without occupying them—bridging public and private, inside and out.
staircase
balcony
- legally private yet visibly public. It sneaks domestic life into the public realm, bridging inside and outside, solitude and street life.
balcony
- legally private yet visibly public. It sneaks domestic life into the public realm, bridging inside and outside, solitude and street life.
Ware"house"
Balcony Slider
gravity energy station
- freeing the space once locked within sealed infrastructure, and charging the city through gravity.
INSTRUMENT ARCHITECTURE 23S2
02 Academic
2023 July-2019 Novamber
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Academic work
Instructor: Peter Brew
Individual
The word property, in the legal sense, refers to the rights of people in or over certain objects or things. People with similar status developed their own covenants as the rule of its own “property managing” game, giving them identity distinct from others. The study of the “found situation” and "instrument" gives us the opportunity and also challenge to create new rules, seeing the potential it creates when property intertwined, incresing the land use as well as providing a home and sence of belonging for the homeless.
The study in first half of the semester creates new rule by mirroring the symbiotic relationship between the existed and the added. Through the value we hold in integrating rather than separating, acknowledging that what we need may already be presented as property. The existing wall is transformed into a party-wall conceptually, connecting the apartment to the Other House, allowing different rule players to exist in the same space yet present them with the ability to manifest their own identities through differing addresses.Whilst the second half of the semester unlocks the found situation to a wider scale of laws and property strata. The use of strata law and property law as a "found condition" adds a deeper meaning and wider use to our rule.
Though it has been perfectly placed together, with space and identity entwined. There's still place for the rule to be more conceptual for future property division rule.
How future land becoming?
The space is not just divided into square boxes, selling as properties. The overlaying of the two systems makes void appear. The zoning is both clearer and more ambiguous, with people have a sence of core struture but also not knowing what's really happening on the other side of the wall. It's like an identity card with no name tag, making a difference between the resident and homeless but without exposing the truth.
Subdivision
creation from different system
Layering
Void
Site Plan
Arden Station
The other house sits in one of the cores of the apartment building, sharing the same block with the apartment. It gives other home a safe little space to develop its own character. While the other house shares the core of its own, other cores shares by two apartments with extra spaces, shows the difference between other house and apartment. The “found situation” of property laws hidden inside the apartment and the Other Home embodied in two structure systems. The apartment and the other home carry their own properties with different form of structure system intertwined within one building, ambiguously, also without losing the sense of boundaries.
(1) Other House entrance
(2) Appartment entramce
(3) Retail stores
(4) Cafe/Food shop
(5) Patio
(6) Community Hub
(7) Mixed-use building
(8) Government primary school
(1) Other House
(2) Patio
(3) Bedroom (4) Bathroom (5) Living room (6) Kitchen (7) Dining room (8) Balcony (9) corridor
lift core
Continuing the vibe of industrial context, a frame structure was chosen for the building to provide support as the foundation system, where the rules of the game "Snakes and Ladders" are introduced. The frame structure creates the initial separation of space, creating the system of the property space as defined by strata law, upon which the core system is superimposed to provide better support. The vertical structure breaks up the building stratification and generates voids that exist within the frame structure but have independent support structures, creating a perfect place for the other home, and also avoids the monopoly of property.
The rule for “snakes and ladders” -- the stability of core structure -gives individuals independence and identity. It not only creates the entanglement between the apartment and the "Other Houses", but also the symbiosis and boundaries among the apartments, and to a certain extent circumvent the monopolization of property in this "game".
(1) Other House comunal space
(2) Appartment communal space
Balcony with the view of the Arden Station and the central Greenland, allowing other house find more connections to the context of the city. Also with the design strategy to build more with less, adopting an honest material palette and placing emphasis on reduction, give people even more possibilities of their own space.
Communal Terrace of the Other House
STRESS-RELIEVING FOREST
UNDER
THE ELEVATED
03 Academic
2019 June-2019 September
Location: Beijing, China
Academic work
Instructor: Migfhi
Individual
The project starts from focusing on conversion of the negative under-bridge-space which disrupt urban environmental pattern and community spaces.
We bring the pattern and arrangement of the forest into the under-bridge space and waterfront space, spreading to the school, residential and art district around the site. The Stress-relieving Forest link community spaces together and create a relaxing sapce for fast-paced urban residents.
Bridging the university on the north side and the residential area on the south side, the new elevated system creates a multilevel space under bridge and above water, closing the gap splited by the old bridge. It helps strengthen the interactivity between sepersted city funtion zones.
The diffusion of the new walking system not only under bridge, but also spreading into nearby areas.
-Large Activity Spaces Branch -Walking corridors Leave -small activity spaces
Open spaces planted along the system, by the waterfront, and by the large activity spaces.
Create public spaces for crowd gathering, Festivals and daily activities, injecting energy to the city.
A new walking system planted into the existing overpasses, as the core of the urban growth system.
BRIDGE
-Bigintersectionamongriver
BRANCH
-Walkingcorridors
FRUIT
-LargeActivitySpaces
PlantedForest
Forest
-Ingoodorder
Stream
-Randomconfiguration
-Location:Beijing,China
-Waterfrontrelationship
Conceptual Diagram
Inside the "ROOT"
Most of the spaces in the "forest" remained open and radom, simulate the relaxing atomosphere from the nature, relieving the stress from fast-paced urban live, blurring the boundry between the different city areas.
——Unerbridge forest system
——activity space
Center
"Fruit"
"Branch"
Corridors
"Leave"
"Root"
"FRUIT" - Large Activity Space
Sited in the green space among the residential area, undertaking art exhibitons, university club activities, cultural and sports activities for people in the area. The Plaza and the Sustainable Garden at the centric of the FRUIT provide a positive space for people to gather and communicate, injecting vitality to the urban green space.
Community Center
Cultural Exhibition Gallery Section
Central Plaza Sustainable Garden
3 Open Space Movie
2 Sustainable Garden
1 Balcony view
Let's preparing for the upcoming competition!
I like school golfing club.
Yoga is so relaxing! And the environment makes me so calm.
The band is so cool!
They are great players.
I'd like to sit here all-day.
Dunk! I like the court. It's cool down here even in the summer.
I love this movie!
The ramp is so cool. I can do lots of new tricks here!
Nice shot!
I like school fishing club.
University community Forest system under bridge "Branches" in residential
community center Pedestrians system on the water
CIVILIZATION OR HIGH-TECH MUSEUM
OF EMOTIONS
2019 June-2019 September
Location: Beijing, China
Academic work
Instructor: Migfhi
Individual
The project starts from focusing on conversion of the negative under-bridge-space which disrupt urban environmental pattern and community spaces.
We bring the pattern and arrangement of the forest into the underbridge space and waterfront space, spreading to the school, residential and art district around the site. The Stress-relieving Forest link community spaces together and create a relaxing sapce for fastpaced urban residents.
We bring the pattern and arrangement of the forest into the underbridge space and waterfront space, spreading to the school, residential and art district around the site. The Stress-relieving Forest link community spaces together and create a relaxing sapce for fastpaced urban residents.
CitySite
Miami is a coastal metropolis in United States. One of Miami’s major emergencies comes from the growing realization that its housing is greatly threatened by rising sea levels caused by climate change.
Due to rising sea levels caused by climate change, more skyscrappers have to be built in miami to provide more houses for people who live by the coast.
TraditionalSite
Little Haiti is a thriving tight-knit community filled with rich cultural influence from the many Haitian and Caribbean immigrants who formed it over time.
There is still a strong French-Creole presence and the streets are filled with restaurants, arts, family-owned businesses and other cultural activities.
However, due to parts of the neighborhood having higher elevations, recently they have become hotspots for new developments and climate gentrification.
I will go to another land, I will go to another sea.
Another city will be found, much better than this. Every effort of mine is condemned by fate. and my heart is like a corpse buried.
1 Hillside Building
A place for carnival and celebrations based on the Haitian architectural form.
Archway
A double-story corrider imitates the scene when parade happen.
OTHER WORKS
2023 March-2023 July
Location: Beijing, China
Practical work
Team: Qipeng Zhu, Tianai Zhang, Tailin Jin, Shuxin Wang, Runting Fan
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Main project: Dongliang Pavilion & Woodland Cabin Cluster at Yangtze Forest Farm
• Supported architectural and interior design development, emphasizing the project’s structural expression of glulam beams and columns as spatial rhythm.
• Produced AutoCAD documentation and joinery details to coordinate the relationship between structure, light, and movement.
• Woodland Cabin Cluster won Best Wellness Design at the Wallpaper Design Awards 2025; Dongliang Pavilion was shortlisted for the Dezeen Awards China 2025.
Dongliang Pavilion & Woodland Cabin Cluster at Yangtze Forest Farm
Dongliang Pavilion & Woodland Cabin Cluster at Yangtze Forest Farm CAD Drawing
Main project: Chestnut Terrace
• Conducted furniture system analysis and factory coordination, aligning craftsmanship and material expression with surroundings.
