Yifan Deng - Selected Works 2016-2018

Wo r k

S a m p l e

of Yifan Deng Columbia University GSAPP MS.AAD 19 354W 110TH ST, APT 3E 10025 yd2461@columbia.edu +1 (929)301-0979

coverpage: modeling and rendering

by Yifan Deng

Yifan Deng Education

yd2461@columbia.edu / (929)301-0979 / 354 W 110TH ST, APT 3E New York, NY 10025 online portfolio: https://issuu.com/yifandeng

Expected May 2019

Columbia University, GSAAP, New York, NY M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

2013 - 2018

South China University of Technology, Guangzhou Bachelor of Architecture, GPA: 3.64/4.0

July. 2016

TU Delft, Summer School Planning and Design with Water

Awards / Honors

Oct. 2017

SCUT Second-class Scholarship

Nov. 2016

Art Exhibition - The Wall, School of Architecture, SCUT Third prize, Team work: Cube4

Mar. 2016

SCUT Third-class Scholarship

May. 2015

UED Young Architects Growth Plans - City Regeneration Competition in Architectural Design Student Finalist Award, Team Work: Oblique House Preliminary study, site survey, modeling, rendering and construction design

Dec. 2014

Work Experience

Wanke-Tianhua Cup Design & Construction Competition Third prize, Team work: Cubic Doors Preliminary study, design, modeling and construction

Mar. 2017 - Jun. 2017

Student Research Program, SCUT Team Work: Research on complex action programming of KUKA robot arm Construction work

Feb. 2017 - Jun. 2017

Pineberry Tech, Guangzhou Intern, full time Building Renovation, Interior Design, Graphic/Product/Digital model design, Interactive design

July. 2016

Ancient Building Survey for Yongan Family School, Guangzhou Site Survey, measuring, computer modeling&technical drawings

Dec. 2015

Faan Nguk Kei branch venue of Bi-City Urbanism/Architeture Biennale, Shenzhen Arrangement of exhibition

Oct. 2015

Wufu Painting Exhibition of Undergraduate School of Architecture, SCUT, Guangzhou Curator

Activity

Mar. 2016 - Jun. 2017 July. 2016 Feb. 2016 Apr. 2015 - Mar. 2016 Aug. 2014

Skills

Software Art / Sport Language

Study Tour in Europe Study Tour in Japan Traditional Archery Team Co-founder, Financial work, managment & graphic design Minister of Propoganda Department in Student Union of Architecture School Volunteer of Tutoring Service in the Countryside of Changjiang Town, Guangdong

Visual Programming - vvvv, Grasshopper Modeling/Rendering - Revit, Rhinoceros, V-ray, AutoCad, SketchUp Adobe Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffects, Premiere, Audition Sketching / Watercolor Painting / Dancing / Archery / Long&High Jump English / Chinese (Mandarin)

Bilateral Spectrum Yifan Deng, Yutong Li

Summer 2018 | AAD "Fuzzy Symmetry" Studio Led by Daisy Ames

The Bilateral Spectrum proposal promotes gathering and interaction between young and elderly populations with a winding pathway throughout the site alongside pocket spaces that support a variety of activities. The concept of bilateral symmetry was applied as a tool to inform their design of the site's main axis, pathways, and water management system.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Bilateral Spectrum Yifan Deng, Yutong Li

Summer 2018 | AAD "Fuzzy Symmetry" Studio Led by Daisy Ames

Following a collective examination of the city’s affordable housing shortage and fatigued water management systems, we proposed this housing project on Roosevelt Island which simultaneously pushed back on existing models of living and outdated water management systems.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Bilateral Spectrum Yifan Deng, Yutong Li

Summer 2018 | AAD "Fuzzy Symmetry" Studio Led by Daisy Ames

Axis View

Couple Unit

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Museum of the ILO Yifan Deng, Jie Hu Bilateral Spectrum Yifan Deng, Yutong Li

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

Summer 2018 | AAD "Fuzzy Symmetry" Studio Led by Daisy Ames

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Fall 2018 | AAD "Concept and Authorship -World Museum Block" Studio Led by Bernard Tschumi The ILO has a tripartite governing structure that brings together governments, employers, and workers. The ratio of representatives of the three-part is not equal (2:1:1) and the reality is that the labor is still undergoing a lot of problems. By revealing the chaos under the seemingly well-organized envelope, we also want to criticize and propose a future of equality between the three parts.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Museum of the ILO Yifan Deng, Jie Hu

Fall 2018 | AAD "Concept and Authorship -World Museum Block" Studio Led by Bernard Tschumi

Paths / Geometries

We tried to translate the notion of labour into architectural language. Different geometries represent stakeholders in the play. By letting the path becoming the protagonist in the negative space in the building, we then developed an External path to critique on the inequity of the 2:1:1 governing structure, and to compensate the unfavourable part.

Two Path which are internal and external path respectively Go through and Oversees the clashed geometries.

Museum seen in the Manhattan Context

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Museum of the ILO Yifan Deng, Jie Hu

Fall 2018 | AAD "Concept and Authorship -World Museum Block" Studio Led by Bernard Tschumi

The Promenade

When geometry meets, some may compromise and some may go through the other. In this way, they starts “negotiating� the program. The path is a protagonist in the program who goes through and links up all the circumstances, from the ground level to the top floor.

The three kind of geometries in the building were originally serves as the three part of the governing structure in the organization. But when they are clashing with each other, complicated circumstances and transition moments are created.

Then they serves as a unity to show the complexity of the real status of labour

Entrance / Geometries Clashes

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Cylinder Maze Individual Work

Winter 2017 | Redefining the Concept of Thresholds in Architecture

Co-working Space Axonometric Line Drawing To what extent can the limits of the building be simplified? Can architectural elements be simplified to just "cylinders"? To what extent can "cylinder" be presented in a building?

Can an architecture be previously decided in a certain kind of system that creating the form, without the consideration of function, and then let a certain kind of suited function to be injected into the system?

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Cylinder Maze Individual Work

Winter 2017 | Redefining the Concept of Thresholds in Architecture

Functional Possibilities / Diameter and Composition When a small-scale cylinder is used as a structural component in the usual sense, a medium-sized cylinder is given some furniture function by me, while a larger-sized cylinder becomes the space itself and provides a new layer for the whole system —— A space.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

The New Era Theremin Yifan Deng, Mengyu Wu, Xianfan Yang, Xinyu Yan

Spring 2017 | Installation - Interactive Arranger Projection Mapping Instructor: Gang Song

Installation Instructions

Since we are now entering a Post-digital age, material that makes up space can also be things with no entity property, such as the light.

The installation of an interactive arranger shown in my portfolio is a small attempt to the digitally augmented environment. The installation provides a real-time interactive environment that is responsive to specific human movements, can affect the pattern and music of the environment. With or without the installation, the property of the space is altered from a monotonous room to an interactive one, the light is the medium and the trigger of the space.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

The New Era Theremin Yifan Deng, Mengyu Wu, Xianfan Yang, Xinyu Yan

Spring 2017 | Installation - Interactive Arranger Projection Mapping Instructor: Gang Song

Sensor: Leap Motion

Motion Related to Main Background Music

Opening Process

Motion Related to Drum Sound Effect

Motion Related to Direction of Hand

Real Time Video Snapshots

Team contribution - Visual Programming, Leap Motion Introducing, Construction, Graphic&Animation Design, Gesture Design, Video Editing

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Theatrical Sacredness through Taming the Nature Yifan Deng, Junyi Ding

Fall 2017 | The Sensory Field of the Native Environment Instructor: Wendy Teo The subtle relationship of Nature and human-made nature has always been a topic. The Project is about imitating nature and reproduce the sensory field from the antelope valley. The walls are designed not solid, simulating the soil property on the site, is sensitive to nature and can be eroded by the water flow.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Theatrical Sacredness through Taming the Nature Yifan Deng, Junyi Ding

Fall 2017 | The Sensory Field of the Native Environment Instructor: Wendy Teo The river is designed to be able to flow through the project so the underground space made by human will be filled with sediment, so the human-made space will be given back to nature. The design is not only about the spacial experience for visitors but also a conversation about man-made environment and nature. The material of the wall undertakes the medium of the dialogue. The material becomes narrative, tells the story of the river ebb and flow.

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Theatrical Sacredness through Taming the Nature Yifan Deng, Junyi Ding

Fall 2017 | The Sensory Field of the Native Environment Instructor: Wendy Teo

1 2 3 4 5 6

1 / The Lure 2 / The Entrance 3 / Exploration 4 / The Crack 5 / Redemption - Looking up from the bottom of the Hall 6 / Reborn Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Light and Structure Summer / Roller Park Individual Work

Winter 2016 | Skating Statium Design Instructor: Yimin Sun

Summer / Roller Park

Winter / Skating Stadium Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Light and Structure Individual Work

Winter 2016 | Skating Statium Design Instructor: Yimin Sun

Membrane and Steel Shaped Steel Plate Steel Frame

Membrane

Main Column

Sub-Membrane

Sub Column

Curtain Wall

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

Located on the northern side of the Beijing Olympic Center, the purpose of the design is to make the venue a connector into the logic of the site, the communication of green spaces, residential areas and large-scale buildings. At the same time in the form of intent to reflect the characteristics of the curve of the ice skating movement charm.

Exploded Axon

Grand Seat &VIP Balcony

Platform Level Spectator Area

Ice Level Function Area

Underground Parking &Athlete Area

Yifan Deng / Work Sample

+1 9293010979 yd2461@columbia.edu

yd2461@columbia.edu / 354W 110TH ST, APT 3E 10025 / +1 9293010979 Columbia University GSAPP MS.AAD 19

Selected Works 2016-2018

Yifan Deng

Fall 2018 | Model - Transformable Design Methods Instructor: Matthew Davis Team Mates: Danielle Nir, Yifan Deng, Liu Chewei, Minjung Ku, Yifang Zuo, Chenxian Wu, Mengxi Liang, Xiaoxuan Su, Suheng Li, Yating Yang, Anqi Liang Photo Credit: Danielle Nir