Portfolio UCL-Yunchao Tang

Portfolio Yunchao Tang M.Arch Urban Design, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London B.Enginnering Landscape Architecture, CAUP, Tongji University, Shanghai

LOOP Academic | M.Arch Urban Design | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | Team Work Location: Manaus, Brazil Year: 2014 The response to the Urban as process is to explore a mechanism or a machine.

The machine extracts the input data from the contextualized site to generate urban intervention as extrusion at the beginning state of the LOOP. The new urban intervention will stimulate the urban changes, fluctuate the urban flux and feed back to the urban context again. The secondary urban context as the new input data then initiates the secondary state of urban intervention generation.

The process iterates itself and evolves in the motion of LOOP. The machine is also physically acting as an Extruder which collects, mixes and extrudes the materials on site. However, the parameters of the machine are defined by designers including which materials to collect, which side to extrude, how the materials distribute, how long, how thick, what shape, what material the extrusion is.

Analog Application

Analog Application

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Analog Application

Academic | M.Arch Urban Design | Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL | Team Work Location: Manaus, Brazil Year: 2014 Research Methodology: Both analogue experiments and digital simulations are employed to develop on the material system and the machine. The two counterparts inform, support and approve each other iteratively. The analogue physical experiments as base inform the basic setup of the initial digital simulation. The digital simulation breaks through the limits of the physical materials and conditions which allows us to expand the behaviours and possibilities of the urban intervention as extrusion. Recursively, the digital simulation will conduct the analogue experiment in a highly predictability. The process iterates itself and promote counterpart to a more precise level.

Digital Simulation

Digital Simulation

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Digital Simulation

Other Works Sketches | Photograph | Renders | DataMaps | Creation Year: 2008-2014 The aggregation of the other works reflects the other interests and skills of myself which are not included into the four projects above.

New Urban Morphology Rendering

Slum Aggregation in Manaus Terrain Map

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Datamap