Nesting in Cocoon:
A Conceptual Playground
From Collage to Section Study
Nesting in Cocoon:
A Conceptual Playground
From Collage to Section Study
Nesting in Cocoon:
A Conceptual Playground
From Collage to Section Study
Nesting in Cocoon:
A Conceptual Playground
From Collage to Section Study
Oct 2018, 1 month, YSOA
Critic: Miroslava Brooks
Type : Installation, Playground
Individual Conceptual Academic Project
Oct 2018, 1 month, YSOA
Critic: Miroslava Brooks
Type : Installation, Playground
Individual Conceptual Academic Project
Oct 2018, 1 month, YSOA
Critic: Miroslava Brooks
Type : Installation, Playground
Individual Conceptual Academic Project
Oct 2018, 1 month, YSOA
Critic: Miroslava Brooks
Type : Installation, Playground
Individual Conceptual Academic Project
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
The initial collage allows for an open-ended and spontaneous improvisation of the combination of the object. After several iterations, I decide on one of the collages that I think having potential for develop as a sectional space. The sectional study test how light, shadow, refraction, and reflection affect spatial perception. The final model plays with material and color to express the heavy versus the light, the solid versus the permeable, the smooth versus the bumpy.
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
The initial collage allows for an open-ended and spontaneous improvisation of the combination of the object. After several iterations, I decide on one of the collages that I think having potential for develop as a sectional space. The sectional study test how light, shadow, refraction, and reflection affect spatial perception. The final model plays with material and color to express the heavy versus the light, the solid versus the permeable, the smooth versus the bumpy.
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
The initial collage allows for an open-ended and spontaneous improvisation of the combination of the object. After several iterations, I decide on one of the collages that I think having potential for develop as a sectional space. The sectional study test how light, shadow, refraction, and reflection affect spatial perception. The final model plays with material and color to express the heavy versus the light, the solid versus the permeable, the smooth versus the bumpy.
When love feels like magic, you call it destiny. When destiny has a sense of humor, you call it serendipity.
The initial collage allows for an open-ended and spontaneous improvisation of the combination of the object. After several iterations, I decide on one of the collages that I think having potential for develop as a sectional space. The sectional study test how light, shadow, refraction, and reflection affect spatial perception. The final model plays with material and color to express the heavy versus the light, the solid versus the permeable, the smooth versus the bumpy.
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COOL WATER
Garden Loft
Feb - May 2021, 4 months, YSOA
Critic: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Emily Abruzzo
Site: East New York
Type : Live-Work
Size: 664,125 sqft
Group Academic Project
Teammate: Stella Chuqiao Xu
After investigating the garden apartment type and the loft type, we have discovered that both types can provide relevant solutions to contemporary urban dwelling conditions.
Individual living modules could be combined or separated to accommodate the different household sizes and housing needs. Within each block, the design balances communal spaces for sharing and private units by dedicating the central portion for a range of shared programs, such as daycare, library, recreation, sports, labor, as well as workshop and production space for artists, small manufacturer, and small business owners. Both the living units, the communal area, and the workshop space are designed with a minimal partition which grants autonomy of use to the future dwellers.
The basis living modules are organized in a pinwheel configuration, creating different kinds of outdoor thresholds. Locations and edges of the garden indicate different levels of privacy to accommodate various activities. Overall, a garden means more action than form. A ritual of maintenance facilitates the willingness to cooperate and connect in the neighborhood.
The living units comprise three types that accommodate various tenants. These types can be arranged with flexibility within the pinwheel module. Workspace with diverse sizes also allows activities with different spatial and acoustic needs. The standardized façade panel allows prefabrication, which reduces the budget and creates a sense of community.
In conclusion, Cool Water: Garden Loft is not only about bringing together two distinctive types in one new model. It advocates to cancel the binary separation between public and private, live and work, indoor and outdoor domestic space, as these separations in today’s urban living patterns are unravelling and becoming more fluid. Through the introduction of a new type, we want to encourage more social interactions and meaningful work.
