UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA & ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
CANDIDATE FOR MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE & ARB/RIBA PART 2
Algae Cultivation, Domestication, and Biological Values Nutrition in Ecosystem
Source of Biofuel
Source of Oxygen
1. Algae Cultivation
2. Electrolysis and Fermentation
3. Centrifugal Seperation Common Steps of Algae-Based Biofuel Production
Thames Beach was once a popular public beach in the 70s. However, it was closed down due to water pollution concerns.
A Human-Algae Co-Dependant Biosphere
OXO Tower
Blackfriars Bridge
Blackfriars Station
King’s College London
LSE Campus / Housing
Thames Beach, Southbank
Algae Bioreactor System and Facade Connection Detail
Algae Tubular Photobioreactor, Ø80mm
Steel Frame Support, 600x100x300mm
Biofuel Transport Tubes
Algae Oxygen Masks
Solar Dryer of Algae Biomass
Algae Tubes Inside Floor Slab
Centrifuge to Seperate Biofuel and Biomass
Algae Capsules Connected to Facade
Three-Layer ETFE Cushion w Waterproofing, 3x0.25mm
Primary Geodesic Steel Frame, S32205, Ø400mm
Algae Tubes Inside Air Cavity, Ø80mm
Secondary Tube Support Ring, Steel Cable, Ø10mm
Thermal Insulation, 150mm
Waterproofing Membrane, EPDM 3mm
Algae Tubes Inside Air Cavity, Ø80mm
Three-Layer UV-Treated ETFE, 3x0.25mm
Facade Bracket, 2x100mm steel flats
Steel RHS with traveller, 200mm
Floor Creed Finish, 50mm
Reinforced Concrete Slab, C30 120mm
Steel Form Deck, 1.2mm Galvanized, 50mm
Base Plate Assembly, Steel Plate, 50mm
This project focuses on creating a new methodology that could transition architectural relics to new social interfaces through technological visions. aim to develop a paradigm that can be used to agitate the existing cultural monuments, and give agency to potential speculations. By critiquing Avant Garde projects of the 1960s and recent Parisian renovations, the project seeks to critique architecture's "future of the past", so as to discover a "future of the present". argue that technologies need to be inserted into the transition as both an apparatus and a social mechanism, to find balance between designing the city as a hyperinfrastructural machine and a visionary speculation.
Awards: On Exhibition at Indra Gallery, London, UK, April 2025
How should we expect AI, a disembodied entity, to understand the tangible, the tacit, and the nuances of spatial occupation?
In the age of AI, what scope is left for humans to be "creative", and how might new approaches to architecture be conceived?
Solidifying Spatial Occupation in Extended Time
Mapping Body Distortions and Anomalies Perceived by AI
Exposing the Spatial Tension Between Occupants and Architectural Forms
A Palimpest of Movement Across the Latent Space
In AI research, “latent space” is used to describe “A lower-dimensional, abstract representation of data”; however, redefine it as the immaterialized realm between the human and the non-human, where spatial occupation and bodily interactions are encoded into a virtual archive of infinite spatial arrangements and architectural mutations. propose a collaborative pipeline to visualize the seams in the latent space, encouraging architects to not fear, but embrace the errors and unpredictability of AI. Retracing the steps of engagement and interaction between bodies, and capturing each seam in extended time, I highlight the warps, distortions, and blurred seams that existed only in the digital latent space. With this process, I invite architects to explore collaborative dynamics between human intuition and machine algorithyms.
Visualizing Latent Space Between the Embodied and Disembodied
Highlighting Points of Interaction Between Bodies
Materializing the Latent Space to Reveal the Spatial Elasticity
Challenging the Human-Centric Ergonomics
What remains of architecture and spatial experience when “presence” itself becomes abstracted?
And where, within this terrain, might humans situate ourselves?
Using AI as a new form of perception and design, explored collaborative methodologies between architects and the machine, harnessing AI anomalies and errors as sources of unexpected human creativity. With a series of experiments oscillating between different design practices, scrutinized the duality of the “body” by introducing latency as a third dimension. By destabilizing the presumed neutrality of algorithmic systems, the project redefines architecture as a site of ontological negotiation, where intuition, error, and ambiguity are reclaimed as generative forces. As the environmental, biological, and digital systems converge, the project prompts viewers to reflect on the questions: How can architecture respond when its foundational referent—the body—is no longer legible to its tools? What remains of spatial experience when “presence” becomes abstracted? And where, within this machinic terrain, might we resituate ourselves as humans?
UNDER THE DOME
Date: Spring 2020 (Teamwork of 3)
Site: Clark Park, Philadelphia, USA
Sector: Civic & Community
Software: Rhino, V-Ray, Adobe Suite
From historical to contemporary Philadelphia, modern problems are not limited by modern solutions.
The same vault shelters the same community, but closer than ever.
BIM EXPERIMENT: RITTENHOUSE HIGHRISE PROJECT
Date: Spring 2021
Site: Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, USA
Sector: Office & Workplace
Software: Revit, Rhino, Adobe Suite
DUNHUANG MURAL: CELESTIAL DANCE
Date: 2022-2023 (Internship, Teamwork)
Association: Harvard University Chinese Art Media Lab
Infinite Mirrors: Part of the 'Cave Dance' Immersive Exhibition
Led by Harvard Architects, Artists, and Faculties
Role: Video Edit, Research, Post-Production of Visualizations
Using Dunhuang murals and machine learning, we reconstructed the celestial dance of Tang Buddhists from the holy lands.
The exhibition invites audiences to step into the imagined lands of an ancient Dunhuang, and immerse in this fantastical journey fueled by dance.
Group Work by the Camlab Team: Jam Mo, Anna Yu, Jianjian Min
Rongcheng Binhai
Hall, 1:200
TAO Architects - Rongcheng Binhai Event Hall, Concept Design Drawings
AIM Architecture - Wuxi INGKA Public Square, Public Installation Design
