Yupeng Gao_Selected Core studio works

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Assemblies that Assemble Construction and Empathy

Harvard GSD MArch 1 CORE 4 / 2024 Spring / Boston Instructor: Andrew Holder We regard Construction both as an image and machine, symbolically and functionally: how does it empathize with users to form an image of living under one roof -- a big house and at the same time construct spaces for living indepandantly and together. We distill structures of multi-family housing construction as symbols to be enlarged as part-to-whole social and living machines.

Typical Multi-Family House

Typical Construction

Abstraction of Materials

Materials as a sign of a House

Construction Method As Analogy Simple Machine

Shearing I Beam to match topo changes

Malleable Steel Structure

Wood Joints as multi-level living

Wood to Wood joints

Shearing for views and light

Hugging C section

Construction as living machine

Construction as both Image and Machine

Steel L shape layout

Wood Cross Layout

"Dowel" as a spatial and social connector

Wood lvl 2

Wood lvl 1

Steel lvl 2

C sections shift for Diverse living

Steel lvl 1 & 3

Representation of construction with facade

Inerplay between scales

Buildings show different materiality in various distance

that questions and engages with users subjectivity

Perception

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Reality

Representation

as functional facade Wood CLT

Steel panels

Steel I beam

Charcoal wood

Wood infills

CLT

Construction as an Image - Empathy

Construction as a living machine

An image of a gable house under construction

Visual connection between shared living

C section becomes table/seats

Service hole as light access

Constrution analogy as inhabitable

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A Twisting Mirror

Community Centre Programs Distribution

Harvard GSD MArch 1 CORE 3 / 2023 Fall / Individual / Boston Instructor: Jon Lott / Honor: GSD CORE 3 Exhibition What is the role of a Community Center when situated amidst numerous surrounding community services? Rather than merely introducing redundant isolated programs, our building dynamically adapts to enhance and complement the established axes of the existing community services. It guides attention deeper into the site, fostering a cohesive mega community network with other public facilities.

Internally, all related programs are strategically relocated along the new axes, extending from two structural cores and connecting with their respective neighborhoods. The building's layout mirrors plans and programs, reinforcing existing relationships and fostering new hybrid programs at the intersections of these mirrored actions.

Twisting Response to Existing Axises

Tapering Edges and Cores

Mirrorring Plan as Axis intensifier

Structure Model: Core + Cantilever

Diving pools Diving pool Hot/cold pools Swimming pool Cantilevers Steel Trusses

Olympic standard

Sports Axis B: 8-9 Floor Intersection: Skylights Truss member alignments Sport Courts

Load transfer

Hybrid Core Steel + Concrete

Basketball courts Other courts

Sport Courts Basketball Courts Squash courts

Sports Axis A: 6-7 Floor Intersection: Cafe, bleachers

Workshop Art Gallery + Art workshops 3 x Class rooms

Public Theatre Flexible theater Green rooms SMARGORP DERORRIM

Educational Axis 4-5 Floor

MIRRORED PROGRAMS

Intersection: Performance space 1 STROPS

SPORTS 1

2 STROPS

SPORTS 2

Dormitory B

NOITACUDE

EDUCATION

30 x Small dorm units Wellness center

LAITNEDISER

RESIDENTIAL

AZALP DOOF

FOOD PLAZA

Dormitory A 15 x Family dorm units Shared facilities

Residential Axis 2-3 Floor Intersection: Playground

TAPERING CORES

TWISTING PROGRAMS

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Mirrorred Interiority

Mirrored Dorm

Mirrored Auditorium

Mirrored Courts

Pool Skylights

Mirrored Pool

External vs. Internal

Shrinking Intersection/Circulation vs. Expanding programs

Gradient Facade panels responding to internal programs

Top Swimming pool: Intersections shrinking into one seam

Vertical Cores and Connections

Short Section A

Short Section B

Long Section

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Twisting Existing Axis

Gradient Transluscent Facade

Structures are revealed in dark

Glowing transluscent concrete facade

Transluscent Concete panel details 2

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Wandering Bay Harvard GSD MArch 1 CORE 2/ 2023 Spring / Group work / Boston Instructor: Liang Wang A speculation of transformative perfamance system that features moving bays and a railing system. In order to foster diverse performance programs and interaction between performer and audience, the flexible and everchanging performance space can shuttle, expand, contract and collide into each other to form various configurations and shapes to house different programmatic needs. Scenario changes in different time, user group, schedule and weather changes. Overall it is a wandering system that houses and showcases our wandering spirits.

Circular grid system

Columns as anchor point

Structural

Moving performance Bay

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Mobile and ever-changing performance space

Discrete plusters

Inclusive whole

Individual whole

Linear

Railing systems for moving curtains

Convoluted and Compact

Elevation

Interior - Layers of peformances and displays

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Isometric exterior render

Isometric Interior section

Extra Construction details

Void former seperates reactive soil and concrete slab

column to pad footing grout pipe rigid connection

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Precast column to beam Rigid connection

7 6 5 Soil report: Class M Moderately Reactive Clayey silt

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Silty clay

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Primary structure: Portal frame with rigid connection

Precast Slab to insitu beam Rigid connection by screeding

Secondary structure: for cladding installation

Roofing structure/cladding with water barrier and insulation

Parapet Waterproof: Capping; flashing; sarking

Cladding system: Cor-ten panel and breathable waterproof membrane

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9.1 Construction Case Study Construction Design / Undergrad Third Year / Fall 2020 / Individual work Case study: Six Degrees Architects - Western Bace Tutor: Barbara Bo-Kan Chung

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A sectional study of Western Bace business centre in Melbourne, displays construction methodology, processes and material use. Through building detailed digital models* by studying 2D drawings and site visits, construction knowledge of foundation, primary/secondary/tertiary structure, services and finishing are thoroughly analyzed, as well as the chronology of elements and their joineries, exploring constructional feasibility and failure prevention.

Notably, the significant influence of geographical/geo-technical context (soil condition; wind force, etc.) on the construction method is crucial in this case.

Legends

Basalt bedrock

1. Reactive Soil movement(shrink/expand) 2. Footing (pad~; strip~; bored piers) 3. Concrete slab: void former;membrane;mesing 4. Grout pipe connection(column to pad footing) 5. Blockwork wall(load bearing) 6. Precast&pre-stressed Hollowcore slab flooring 7. Screeding bonds slab and beam together 8. Roofing structure(Purlins, packers, bracing)

9. Compvosite insulated metal roof sheet 10. Flashing/sarking as waterproof 11. Parapet (cappings over cladding) 12. Corten steel cladding (Colour change after exposure to air) 13. Perforated sunscreen 14. Secondary structure(steel girts) 15. Interior finishing/windows

*Switched from physical to digital model making due to pandemic lockdown

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Bending forces

9.2

Moment

Space Truss bridge

Axial Forces

Deflection test

Axial Compression

Structural Members in tension in traditional space frame are replaced into cables to achieve better material efficiency, longer span and stronger capacity.

Point load