Ziyi Zhang Undergraduate Portfolio 2020

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Ziyi Zhang S e l e c t e d Wo r k s G e o r g i a I n s t i t u t e o f Te c h n o l og y 2017-2020

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ZIYI ZHANG MAILBOX ziyizhang9618@gmail.com

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CONTENTS 01 Shrine/Shed

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02 The Urges

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03 Housing + Transit at Murphy Crossing

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04 Urban Forest Outreach

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05 Droneport as Integrated Paths

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06 Operating with Forest Column System

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07 Landscape Predicting Machine

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08 Bus Stop Prototype: Frame as Architecture

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09 Precedent Study: Fogong Pagoda

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10 Shape Grammar

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11 Reconstructing Tech Green

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Art Collections

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Shrine and Shed

01 SHRINE AND SHED PAVILION AND GARAGE FOR THE RAMBLIN’ RECK Instructor: Sabir Khan Program Type: Pavilion and Garage Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

Federation Square + Nordstrom Store

Box/Social +Bar/Shrine and Shed

The protagonist for this project is the Ramblin’ Reck, a 1930 Ford Model A Sport Coupe now entering its tenth decade. Part shrine to the GT mascot, part shed for its cleaning and maintenance, this program asks for a response that is simultaneously a pavilion to exhibit the mascot and a shop to work on the car. The small size of the program allows us to pay attention to materials and to the building. It also allows us to pay attention to not just the building as standalone object but to its setting and its situation as well: the ground condition, its surrounds, what it aligns with, how it adds to what was once there as well as to the current existing conditions, its relationship to what precedes it and to what future relationships it sets into play.

by James Carpenter Design Associate in Manhattan. The project could be seen as a collage of these two precedents.

The form is simple – a cantilever structure almost looks like a box on the top of a bar. As the bar is divided into two equal parts – one for display, one for maintaining – the box functions as an extra space for social activities.

Undulating curved glasses are applied to the bar. The shrine will be applied with clear low emission glass units, allowing the Ramblin’ Reck to fully display itself, even to the visitors who are not inside the pavilion. Curved glass units with a frosted texture will be applied to the shed, providing some degree of privacy when the car is under maintenance. Using a diagrid facade system made up of tinted insulated glass panels, the box is open and transparent to all sides, including the rooftop. Since Tech Tower is located on a higher level, the pattern on the roof will also provide a nice view for those who are on the slope. The dramatic patterning and bold experiment with materials will transform this project into a new icon on the campus

Choosing glass and steel as primary materials, the project fully explores material qualities, including their softness, hardness, texture, and finishing. It takes inspiration from the patterned façade of Federation Square, designed by Lab Architecture Studio in Melbourne, and the beautiful undulating curved glass of Nordstrom Store, designed

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Shrine and Shed

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The project is driven by the section idea -- with the form of a box plus a bar, the bottom bar will be responding to the entrance of Tech tower, and the top box will be responding to the second slope in front of Tech tower.

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Shrine and Shed

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GROUND LEVEL PLAN

The Bottom Bar

Movement of Ramblin’ Reck

Formation of Paths

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The Top Box Responds to the Ground Condition

Shrine and Shed

SECTION AA

SECTION BB

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TOP LEVEL PLAN

Summer Sun

Winter Sun Ambient Light

The cantilever structure functions as a shading device for the shrine. For the shed, which does not have any shading devices, curved glasses with a frosted texture will help reduce heat.

On the ground level, the doors are facing each other, allowing the Ramblin’ Wreck to drive through as well as providing direct air flow. When the heat rises, they will leave through the special glass panels on the corner which have drilled holes on them.

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Shrine and Shed

SECTION CC

SECTION DD

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Stainless Steel Structural Frame

Glass Panels with Drilled Holes

Steel Structure System

Replacement/Maintenance of Curved Glass Panels

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Shrine and Shed

Stainless Steel StrucLow-E Curved Glass Units

tural Frame Tinted Insulated Glass Panels

Clear Low Emission Glass Units

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with Frosted Texture

Steel Structural

Reflective

System

Corrugated Steel Wall

EAST ELEVATION

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Shrine and Shed

WEST ELEVATION

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Steel I Beam

Stainless Steel Structural Mullions

Tinted Insulated Glass Panels

Polished Concrete Flooring Airspace Between Two Floors Corrugated Steel Ceiling

Clear Low Emission Curved Glass Units

Brushed Stainless Steel Cover Grating

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THE URGE TO DECENTRALIZE

THE URGE TO ASSEMBLE

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The Urges

02 THE URGES: DECENTRALIZING / CENTRALIZING Instructor: Sabir Khan Program Type: Urban Artefacts + Mending the City

Extremely Decentralized

“Utopia”

Extremely Centralized

The pandemic has made us reflect on whether cities as we know them are obsolete systems that require major surgery. In our history, various diseases, plagues, wars, or catastrophes have made us reorganize cities, create new systems and typologies. In the same way, this pandemic has made us question the places and the way we work, where we study, leisure spaces, how commerce develops and how we inhabit our

homes. It has also made us rethink about the densities, the extension of the cities, and about the elements or pieces that compose it. The pandemic has heightened the conflict between the urge to decentralize the city and the urge to assemble as a society. This proposal explores how both urges could be accommodated simultaneously in one idealized city system.

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EXPLORING THE “UTOPIA”

Neighborhood Park

Stores

Light Rail

Underground

Shopping Center

Urban Park

Theatre\Museum

Grocery Stores

Restaurants

Pedestrian Bridge

Light Rail

Office Building

Urban Farm

Sculpture

Farmland

Bus Stops

Residency

Scooter Rentals

Stadium

Public Square

Hotels

THE URGE TO ASSEMBLE

CONNECTION

THE URGE TO ASSEMBLE

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The Urges THE URGE TO DECENTRALIZE

Jake Lee, “Mesmerizing Collages”

Jake Lee, “Mesmerizing Collages”

Israel lopez balan, “Without god in new york city”

Cristian Chironi, “Saluti affettuosi”

Kevin Lucbert, “Suburban Mystique”

Jesse Treece, “Paradise”

Work Collections: Architecture and Urges

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Zootopia

Harvey Wiley Corbett, “City of the Future”

Kazimierz Podsadecki, “City: The Mill of Life”

Along the River During the Qingming Festival

Eugenia Loli, “Hotel California”

THE URGE TO ASSEMBLE

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Housing + Transit at Murphy Crossing

03 HOUSING + TRANSIT AT MURPHY CROSSING Instructor: Herman H. Howard Program Type: Affordable Housing + Market + Work Force Site: Atlanta, Georgia

Our site for the project is in the City of Atlanta, near the intersection of Murphy & White Street – just off the Lee Street corridor – south of the I – 20. The site is also known as Murphy Crossing aka, the Farmers Market.

The site sits just west of the Adair Park neighborhood and almost the entire east side of the site is bounded by the Beltline.

additional stations – Infill Stations. Where MARTA has stations that are more than a mile apart – they have discovered that they are losing ridership in the middle – as is the case with the Murphy Crossing site, the West End MARTA Station and the Oakland City MARTA Station (both on the North-South line) are more than 1 mile apart from one another. And is currently losing ridership to a vastly changing community / surrounding area.

For several years, this site and the surrounding communities (including Adair Park) has suffered from being in a food desert and still is. Historically the Murphy Crossing site was also known as the Farmers Market site.

And was a place where fresh produce was bought and sold. Currently there is a Request For Proposals – RFP – out to work with the City of Atlanta (Invest Atlanta) and the Atlanta Beltline to develop the overall +/- 20 acre site into a place for housing and jobs.

In the center of these two stations is a part of the Murphy Crossing site that would intersect with the Beltline.

Thus, making this one of the only sites in the City of Atlanta where there could be direct connectivity with both MARTA and the Beltline – all within 15 minutes from the busiest airport in the world. Thus, creating a very strong argument that from this site – one has access to the City of Atlanta and the world and is not dependent on a car.

In the recent past, MARTA completed a study where it located the different opportunities and needs to create

Solid Massing

Carving

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Inserting

Roof Garden

Swimming Pool SITE PLAN The building is located on the corner of the site, without influencing the existed buildings. While the ground floor is open and welcoming, the building gets more solid as moving up.

Connect two buildings Connect site and MARTA Amenity space

Amenity space BIG IDEA DIAGRAM The big idea diagrams shows the function of green space and how they serve as the connectors between the site and the building, the building and the mart, and the building and the other part of the building.

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Shopping Center

GROUND LEVEL PLAN

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The building is constructed based on a 40x40 grid. The columns extrudes all the way through the building.

The top of the building becomes the roof garden, while part of the facade turns into the green wall. In each section/elevation, the building demonstrates a facade with totally different feelings, emphasizing that the building is always changing.

SECTION A

SECTION B

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Housing + Transit at Murphy Crossing

Private

Public

The most public level diagram shows the floor plan of the 4th floor. On this floor, the connector not only connects the site with the Marta but also connects two separated buildings together. The connector took inspiration from the New York Highline Park, combining the program of the walking path, public park and green space together. From the connector, people can look down to the beltline.

4TH / MARTA LEVEL PLAN

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Housing + Transit at Murphy Crossing

The sections shows the idea of carving the heavy massing.

Since the building takes little ground space, the elevation is rather high compared with the surrounding neighborhood.

To reduce the massing of this heavy, boxing structure, I used different strategies to carve out the volume of the building.

For the taller, square building, about one-quarter of the vol-

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ume got cut out, replacing with the green connector. At the bottom, the cut out volume provide space for people to walk under it. For the narrower building, the volume got carved out by the insertion of connector, providing an amenity space of the building.

Clubhouse

6 TH FLOOR PLAN

9TH FLOOR PLAN

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Housing + Transit at Murphy Crossing

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Urban Forest Outreach

04 URBAN FOREST OUTREACH: THE SCULPTURAL HALL Instructor: Heather Potts Program Type: Community Center Site: Atlanta, Georgia

Big Idea Diagram

The Kirkwood Urban Forest is a unique site in its ability to offer an immersive wilderness setting that disassociates itself from the extreme urban context in which it lies. While the site still sees its share of joggers and dog-walkers, the property has not been actively utilized or cared for by the community for the past several years. The site will be the home to a new Community Environmental Education Center, which will accommodate a visiting scholar residency, event space, classrooms, exhibition space, offices, community gardens, and picnic/play area.

The big idea of the Sculptural Hall is to create a geometric, sculptural one-body building that connects the circulation on the site. Carving into the ground, the Sculptural Hall is located on the top of the slope and provides people access to the bottom. Inspired by VanDusen Botanical Garden

Visitor Centre and Tsuruoka Cultural Hall, the Sculptural Hall resembles features of a sculpture, which can be seen on both the floor plan and the exterior view. The curving floor plan allows the building to create more secure, enclosed public areas on the site; at the same time, the curving roof design helps collect the rainwater and uses it for plants in the garden. Railings or other ‘additional elements’ are not needed since the building will function as a whole piece just like a piece of art.

Three parts of the building: Public, Public/Private, Private, are branching into three directions, intending to let people explore more about the site. As people walking further into the building, the program is getting more private. The step garden becomes a tool that connects the circulation and provides aesthetic values; people can get access to the step garden on each level.

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| Concept Diagrams|

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A. Vegetation Density

Activity Path Starting point of Walking Trials

C. Human Activity Path

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B. Temperature Diagram

Water Flow Diagram

Constructions Micro-Public Area

D. Current Micro-Public Diagram

Sun Path/Light Diagram

Structural Retaining wall + Stairs

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E. Direction of the Parti

F. The Formation of New MircoPublic Areas

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Decorative Elements

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Hardness v. Softness Diagram

Urban Forest Outreach

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Public Public/Private Private

Sculptural

Wood

Public/Private Diagram

Circulation

Geometric

Glass

Circulation Diagram

Direction of Openness

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Circulation

Concrete

Enclosure

Open/Enclosure Diagram

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A B Exhibition Space

Event Space

Education Area

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Exterior Cafe

Cafe Kitchen

Office

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Residency

Lobby

Urban Forest Outreach

Site Plan

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Top Level 1. Reception 2. Event Space 3. Cafe Kitchen 4. Restroom 5. Office Kitchen 6. Storage 7. Mechanical Room 8. Office 9. Cafe

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The curving roof design resembles a texture-less, sculptural feature as well as directing and collecting the rainwater for plants in the garden.

Concrete Roofs

Green Area

Wood Paved Ramp

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Urban Forest Outreach

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Middle Level 10. Green Roof 11. Step Garden 12. Residency 13. Exhibition Space

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Ground Level

14. Private Entrance 15. Education Space 16. Wood Paved Area

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The physical model is made up of different materials. 3D printed roof pieces is used to represent concrete roofs; the acrylic is used to represent skylights and vegetation; and clipboards make up of the main part of the building.

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Urban Forest Outreach

The Sculptural Hall allows people to get access from the top of the slope to the bottom. At the same time, it provides public activity spaces on both levels.

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Droneport as Integrated Paths

05 DRONEPORT AS INTEGRATED PATHS

Instructor: Jonathan Dessi-Olive Program Type: Droneport Site: Mwanza, Africa

Thin humus

Water Table

Iron & aluminum oxide

Intrusion interface

Aquatic plant zone

Normal interface

Open water zone

Animal activities in dry season

Droneport as Integrated Paths is a droneport designed for Mwanza and the greater region of Lake Victoria, envisioning as a totally new type of iconic civic space: a beacon of local pride that is empathetic, women centric, and serving as a hub for stable energy, Internet, and digital fabrication. Droneports are therefore not objects, nor buildings, but rather places in and of themselves.

Animal activities in wet season

tivity zone blend into the local ecosystem. Utilizing its advantages of geographic location, the building serves several purposes: the landing and parking area for drones, the drone fabrication lab, the fishing tool fabrication lab and the market that includes a gasoline station for boats.

While the spaces that need security are enclosed by heavy stonewalls, the market area is covered by the light wood structure, opening to all directions. Since the landing and parking extend out to the lake, other than receiving drones that come from the direction of lake, it also provides landing spaces for birds as well as the shelter for smaller animals such as otters.

Located at the edge of the lake, DAIP establishes a nature-friendly system that integrates both human and animal activities. DAIP is constructed largely from natural materials: stones that come from the ones on the edge of islands, wood that comes from trees; and the light, open structure that allows trees to grow through make the ac-

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Wave Fishing Boat Direction Village Area Tarp Roof Architectural Roof Red Roof Farmland

Regional Study: Site

Fishing Boat Population Density Road Construction

Regional Study: Island

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Fishing Tool Transportation

Drone Fab Lab

Fishing Tool Fab Lab

Droneport Fab Lab Docking & Vegetable Market

Droneport Parking

Fishing Market & Fishing Net Making

Drone Parking Fishing Tool Lab

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Droneport as Integrated Paths

Wood

Wood

Stone

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Circulation

Vertical vs. Horizontal

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Enclosure vs. Openness

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Operating with Forest Column System

06 OPERATING WITH FOREST COLUMN SYSTEM Instructor: Lars Spuybroek Team Member: Elisabelle Kaputo, Ziyi Zhang Program Type: Art School Site: Atlanta, Georgia

The short-lived, extravagant architecture of Art Nouveau (1885-1905) was the last attempt to merge BeauxArts with Polytechnique. We find examples of complex structure as well as elaborate ornament based on vegetal life. In contrast to classical architecture, which only made use of leaves and flowers, Art Nouveau uses the whole of the plant as inspiration, including the structural stalks.

It hovers between the straightest line of the stem to the curviest curl of the tendril. A careful study shows that these two poles are intricately related. We worked initially with interacting paper strips in a wooden frame as the study machine.

Our site: 74 Luckie St. Atlanta, GA 30303 is located in the historic Fairlie-Poplar district – at the heart of downtown Atlanta. The buildings in the neighborhood range are in a wide range of styles: from Renaissance revival

to art deco to Georgian Revival. In the late 19th century the area was promoted as “Atlanta’s new modern fireproof business district”. Today the neighborhood is one of the most lively and bustling day-time areas of downtown – offering food, entertainment, shopping, and close proximity to Woodruff Park. Some of the Georgia State University campus buildings are sprinkled around the Fairlie-Poplar district. Notably, the School of Music, which is located in the Standard Building and the Haas-Howell Building. Our South-facing site is currently a surface parking lot on the corner of Luckie St NW and Forsyth St NW. It is adjacent to the Barlclay hotel.

Across the street are the Rialto Center for the Arts at GSU, the Theatrical Outfit, the Equitable Building Atlanta, and the Aderhold Learning Center.

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| ART NOUVEAU FIGURES | Loop Family

Loop Family

Branching Family

Bifurcating Family

Tendril Family

Wave Family

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Interlocking

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Main Curve

Main Curve

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Symmetry

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Operating with Forest Column System | ANALOGUE MODEL I: Two-way Branching Tree |

1 Branching Section

2 Bifurcating Section

3 Top view: 15 points

Top view: 18 points

Vertical/Branching/Tendril Section

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3 SIDE A: # of columns: 4

SIDE B: # of columns: 34

SIDE C: # of columns: 4

SIDE D: # of columns: 4 Triangle Group

Triangle group

Triangle group

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Ice Group

Water group

Mergingpoint

Merging point

Diving Group

Merging point

1 Bifurcating point

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Bifurcating point

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Ice group Splitting point

Branching point Branching point

Diving group

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Triangle Group

Branching point

Trapezoid group

Triangle Group

Triangle Group

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Water drop Group

Merging point

Diving Group

Diving Group Diving Group

Branching point

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branching point

Triangle Group

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Merging point

Merging point

Water drop Group Merging point

Trapezoid Group

branching point

Diving Group Pomelo Group

Trapezoid Group

Number of strips: 50 | Rule: 1. All thick lines start with splitting into thinner ones 2. All lines (thin and slitted ones) branch and bifurcate with each other, merging into several main strips, then bifurcating with each other 3.After bifurcating, they make verticals which then split and diverge to different direction.

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| ANALOGUE MODEL II: Semi-Dense Forest |

1 Branching Section

2 Bifurcating Section

3 Top view: 15 points

Top view: 18 points

Vertical/Branching/Tendril Section

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3 SIDE A: # of columns: 3

SIDE B: # of columns: 2

SIDE C: # of columns: 3

SIDE D: # of columns: 2 Triangle Group

Triangle Group

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Diving Group

Merging point

Water drop Group

Space between column

Branching point

Diverging point

Water drop Group

Merging point

Zuccini Group

Merging point

Branching point Triangle Group

Trapezoid Group

Triangle Group

Merging point

Space between column

Hat Group

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Bifurcating point

Merging point

Knife Group

Branching point

Triangle group Triangle group

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Triangle group

Triangle Group

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Triangle Group Triangle Group

Triangle Group

Merging Point

Straight Corner

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Merging Point

Water drop Group

Diamond Corner

Water drop Group

Branching Point Trapezoid Group

Water drop group

Trapezoid Group

Branching Point Trapezoid Group

Merging point

Merging point

Diamond corner

Straight corner

Branching point

Branching point Trapezoid group

Trapezoid Group Triangle group

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Number of strips: 50 | Rule: 1. All thick lines start with splitting into thinner ones 2. All lines (thin and slitted ones) branch and bifurcate with each other, merging into several main strips, then bifurcating with each other 3.After bifurcating, they make verticals which then split and diverge to different direction.

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Operating with Forest Column System | ANALOGUE MODEL III: Hanging Branches |

1 Branching/ Tendril

2 Bifurcating Section

3 Top view: 15 points

Top view: 18 points

Vertical/Branching/Tendril Section

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3 SIDE A: # of columns: 4

SIDE B: # of columns: 3

SIDE C: # of columns: 4 Triangle group

SIDE D: # of columns: 3 Triangle group

Triangle group

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Triangle Group

Snack group Ice group

Bifurcating point

Merging Point

Bifurcating point

Merging point Diving group

Merging Point Space in Columns

Branching Point

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Triangle Group

Branching point

Ice group

Space between column

Merging point Ice group

Branching Point

Branching Point

Branching point Branching Point

Trapezoid group

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Triangle Group

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Diving Group

Merging Point

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Water drop Group

Triangle Group Triangle Group

Triangle Group

Space in Columns

Merging Point

Merging point

Diving Group Water drop Group

Diamond Corner

Straight corner

Straight Corner Trapezoid Group Trapezoid Group

Triangle Group

Triangle Group

Triangle Group

Branching Point Trapezoid Group

Water drop Group

Diving group

Merging point

Diamond corner Space between column Branching point

Branching point Trapezoid group

Trapezoid group

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Number of strips: 50 | Rule: 1. All thick lines start with splitting into thinner ones 2. All lines (thin and slitted ones) branch and bifurcate with each other, merging into several main strips, then bifurcating with each other 3.After bifurcating, they make verticals which then split and diverge to different direction.

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Ground Level Plan

2nd Floor Plan

3rd Floor Plan

5th Floor Plan

6th Floor Plan

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Operating with Forest Column System

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Landscape as Predicting Machine

07 LANDSCAPE AS PREDICTING MACHINE

Instructor: Frederick Pearsall Program Type: UGA Marine Institute Research/Education/Community Facility Site: Sapelo Island, Georgia

Future Landscape Predictor is a distributed scheme for UGAMI’s new research/education facilities: an organized rising module system that can respond to foreseeable and unforeseeable changes in the future of the landscape. The building incorporates the alternating landscape conditions on the island and embraces the interaction between the marine system and the biotic/abiotic system. It strictly follows the grid system and existing flow while reshaping the site. Supported by parallel concrete walls, the main body of the building is divided into four parts, each with wood decks, that slide on tracks carved into the ground and transform into different configurations under specific conditions.

The five innovation points of the project include: 1. Different configurations + spatial relationships/ driven by the concept of a folding ruler 2.Creation of interior + exterior circulation/ connection between research, education, and social/ sub-circulation system in each section 3. Respond to local landscape/ marine system+ abiotic system/ population expansion & marine system+ biotic system/ flooding, marine development 4. Strict module system/ the differentiation of space + form created from single unit/ larger spaces v. smaller spaces 5. Reshaping local landscape/ reinforcing existed grid system/ creating a new flow.

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Research Education Social

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08 BUS STOP PROTOTYPE: FRAME AS ARCHITECTURE Instructor: Charles F. Rudolph Program Type: Bus Stop Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

The bus stop shelter is divided into two parts: standing zone and sitting zone, joint by the middle structure.

Three materials are applied to this project -- heavy timber, which makes up the main part of the shelter, glass, and steel. Glass panels adds transparency to both zones, allowing the structure to breathe; standing zone on the left will be more exposed to the air. Steel helps reduce the weight of the heavy timber structure in the middle; at the same time, it also forms a parallel pattern above the glass panel in the standing zone, creating some shadows.

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Bus Stop Prototype

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Isometric View A

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Isometric View B

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09 PRECEDENT STUDY FOGONG PAGODA Instructor: James Park Program Type: Bus Stop Site: Georgia Institute of Technology Team Member: Abigail Bauman, Ziyi Zhang

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Fogong Pagoda

Constructed in 1056 during the Liao Dynasty, the Pagoda of Fogong Temple is the oldest and tallest wooden structure in the world. Standing at 220 feet tall, the temple appears from the outside to have only five levels. However, there are four hidden gallery levels inside. The pagoda is constructed entirely of

wood, utilizing 54 different variations of the dougong bracketing system. When analyzing this project, the dougong brackets stand out as its most interesting feature as they are present across virtually every foot of the facade. We also chose to detail the 33-foot-tall steeple which caps the structure.

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10 SHAPE GR AMMAR

Instructor: Heather Ligler Program Type: Refugee Camp Site: AI-Mafraq, Jordan

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Shape Grammar

Mafraq is the capital city of Mafraq Governorate in Jordan, located 80 km to the north from the capital Amman in crossroad to Syria to the north and Iraq to the east. It had 56,340 inhabitants in 2004. The second probe explores architecture’s ability to support essential physical and psychological needs of refugee dwellers and settlement through the design and the prefabrication of different systems.

long term residence. The camp has been running for five years now and refugees have had to recreate their lives.

Neighbors must be able to share communal activity space while also retaining a sense of privacy and safety. Any sort of cluster of housing units would preferably house extended family, so clusters should remain small. Secondary separations between units should be narrow as to allow easy closing off and restriction of passage for privacy. With units being potentially close, there should be no loss of privacy so viewing angles must be considered when designing units.

The refugee camp is growing into a full-fledged community with schools, markets, and hospitals. Tents are being replaced with shipping containers and the camp is becoming a place for

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11 RECONSTRUCTING TECH GREEN

Instructor: Harris Dimitropoulos Program Type: Landscape Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

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Reconstructing Tech Green

Tech Green is in an asymmetric state. Most of the trees are planted on the left side. Those trees, which are the taller ones, create a large shading area. The resting area that allows people to interact with each other and the environment is also placed on the left side, and this makes Tech Green become a space opening to the right. However, the right path fails to serve a good function such as leading the pedestrians into Tech Green.

There is also nothing over there to provide a resting area.

ate some shading and resting areas on the right side. At the same time, the earthwork should lead a way into Tech Green.

The solution develops a space with earth work concaving into the Tech green. This transforms the landscape by increasing the spatial radiance, thus increasing the line of sight, and spaciousness of the area. Alternatively, space can be transformed with earthwork above the ground, creating added dimension using space limiting elements.

A possible solution that makes Tech Green symmetric is to cre-

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ART COLLECTIONS This set of watercolor drawings experimented with historical architectural imagery. The pictures were broken into fragments based on cubist structural concepts. Making real buildings surreal, the realistic color of the architecture was altered. Throughout these drawings, I explored various structural concepts and how they intertwined with the architecture in different ways to increase the degree of complexity.

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