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how building form blends into its surrounding landscape?

here is a great example done by Toyo Ito that exhibits the possibility of integrating the ecology flows into his project form. and it shows how performance space could be utilized with natural ventilation. and the structure is self-sustained. click the… […]

Master Plan Precedents-Transformation of Leiden Central Station/Maxwan

a good example of how to manipulate master plan and how the master plan could trim the buildings click the diagram below for details […]

Kaohsiung Maritime Cultural & Pop Music Center Competition Winner

check this museum that really inspired me about the thesis theme and how the larger scale of master planning integrated with individual parcel of the whole project. click the image below […]

prologue II

The second week is a progressing one – I got site map from undergraduate department and received several research papers regarding the site surroundings. It is interesting to explore the different approaches toward my thesis, and it is a little challenging because people’s minds could form some inertia towards a topic like my proposal that […] […]

architecture bio-synthesis

DNA, Buildings, and Innovation in the Century of Biology Take a look what other schools are doing about Bio-synergies. It is a seminar and workshop that will launch one of the first serious research projects to date based on collaboration between the … […]

prologue I

It is helpful to do the practice that calculating the program and the site compared to a scale I could actual reach out for – a Portland city block – at the first week. And I have some ideas about how to improve the program and the project. And the sketches evokes some ideas about […] […]

storyboard & thesis doc

any comment will be deeply appreciate. […]

What I hope to accomplish? – public art space to solve Urbanism problems

During the thesis seminar process, my idea towards the thesis project and approach becomes more clear. The thesis is a public art space in terms of architecture solution towards the urbanism problems in a urban setting neighborhood. The problem is the uneven transition between new development and old development due to the injudicious planning during […] […]

historic housing typology in Wuhan – “Li Fen”

The housing typology near my site in Wuhan is actually a contemporary building type that usually built from late 19th century until 1930s Japanese invaded China. Since Wuhan was re-opened as one of the international harbors after The Second Opium War, along with the establishment of foreign concessions, the western classic buildings came into Wuhan […] […]

precedents – art spaces

I select two precedent of museums that individually represent two different approaches of art space design in my point of view. One is literally separated from the outside while the other is not, besides they have other features to distinguish themse… […]