2019-2020 Selected WorkS

YU JIE CHEN Selected Works 2019-2020

01 A Tale of the City and the Campus Special Collections Archive Library

02 Slivers Prize Competition Architecture and the Ground

03 Functions in Domes

Industrial Design Pavilion

04 Butterfly as Events

Butterfly Archive Library

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A Tale of the City and the Campus Special Collections Archive Library Fall 2019 | ARC 207 Matthew Finn Studio

Many people can see that Syraucse is a shrinking city with decreasing population. While the University campus and downtown Syracuse is very separated. The project challenges the concepts of rest and movement to create a public archive library to connect the comunity together.

The strategy was using two surfaces coming to each other as a type of convergence. One from the city side and the other from the campus side. This creates the experience of when people enter, they experience the city but exit with the experience of the campus.

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GROUND FLOOR

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CITY

6 SECTION A-A

CAMPUS

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CITY

8 SECTION B-B

CAMPUS

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STRATOSPHERIC OZONE 20m

TROPOSPHERIC OZONE 10m

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Slivers Prize Competition Spring 2020 | ARC 208 Sou Fang Studio

The William J. Slivers Prize is a school tradition competition for ARC 208 students. It asked students to come up with different ways to express the relation of architecture and the ground. Architecture inevitably must interact with the physical ground, gravitational forces imply and require this meeting.

A building can touch the ground as lightly as possible, hovering its mass over the ground.

The competition drawing digs very deep into the ground and up to the sky. It shows the surface of the ground or the landscape is pulled to create architectural structure as an air filter to process air pollution in the atmosphere.

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1/8”

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Functions in Domes

Industrial Design Pavilion Fall 2019 | ARC 207 Matthew Finn Studio The project introduces in analysis of architectural tectonics and concepts expressed in forms. It started with the analysis of the Australian Islamic Centre designed by Glenn Murcutt.

After the analysis, the pavilion was transformed to push further its concept in the tectonic system.

The Industrial Design Pavilion located in Syracuse University campus provides exhibition spaces for industrial design students. The domes are the major tectonic system in this project by providing different functions acting as a field condition.

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Butterfly as Events

Butterfly Archive Library Spring 2019 | ARC 108 Hannibal Newsom Studio

The ambition of the project is to engage with the urban context in ways that rethink the normative relationship between library and context and to develop a special programmatic element or figure that operates as the hierarchical or driving force behind the design.

The concept of the design starts with the investigation of staircases that provide more than just vertical circulations. The design of the butterfly archive library challenges the way archives are normally presented by introducing “follies�. The follies are arranged in a linear manner on the staircase as people walked through experiencing butterfly inside the follies as events.

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Staircase Study Models These models study beyond the normal vertical circulation that staircases provide in our world. Innovative staircases not only provide circulations but enhances social engagement and exciting experiences for people. They are studied throught the design of dead ends, secondary circulation, and its structures.

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Stage Performance

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Syracuse University School of Architecture yujchen10@gmail.com

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