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COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM
INTERGENERATIONAL HOUSING
Seattle community college, SAgE CenterSeattle, Washington State, USA
Center intergenerational community, Central areaSeattle, Washington State, USA
Salmon Bay waterfront masterplanning, BallardSeattle, Washington State, USA
New Prosthetic Center University of WashingtonSeattle, Washington State, USA
Hi-per classrooms, Magnuson ParkSeattle, Washington State, USA
City Center alleyway galleryCity of Nottingham, UK
Farmer market CinemaChesterfield,West Yorkshire, UK
Digberth Coach Station Birmingham, UK
Renaissance Hotel Hainan Province, P.R.China
Tanggu water front regenerationCity of Tianjin, P.R.China
Manchester International AirportManchester, UK
University of WashingtonSeattle, Washington State, USA
WATERFRONT RESILIENCE
MODULAR TECTONIC
NEW INSTITUTION CAMPUS
PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT
ALLEYWAY REGENERATION
CITY TRANSPORTATION
INTERIOR DESIGN
DIGITAL PABRICATION
HARBOUR MASTERPLAN
RESORT & HOSPITALITY
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The annual production rate of greenhouse and outdoor agriculture area is:Tomatoes 36,000 poundsCabbages 330 poundsPeas 630 poundsWheat 60 poundsBlueberries 2,010 pounds
01Located on the west boundary of the campus, Seattle Central Community College’s new SAgE Center (Sustainable Agriculture Education) is a new complex to integrate interdisciplinary programs including botany, biology, Sage and culinary arts, and allow them to collaborate with each other based on research based projects. The combination of indoor and outdoor agriculture programs provides a diverse venue to educate local residents with urban food production, and promote a sustainable community in the Capital Hill area.
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The new SAgE Center is built adjacent to the existing 3-level car park garage, the 37,000sqf roof is covered by new green roof with agriculture program. The vertical greenhouse is can-tilevered above the car park garage, integrating the horizontal roof as urban green feature.
According to Seattle building code, the new SAgE Center belong to B-occupancy/ business & university building type, designated for 300 occupants during daytime.
The classrooms/ labs/ offices are fully conditioned with pas-sive ventilation and radiant floor heating, maintains the tem-perature 60F in winter and 74F in summer
The greenhouse can be operated by active and passive venti-lation system with relatively low set points (58F in winter and 80F in summer) with insulated glazing and natural ventilation.
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The integrated building strategies include some feature systems:
Storm water retention system: green roof 17,000sqfStorm water collection system: bioswales 400feetStorm water storage system: 8 cisterns with overall 240,000 gallon capacity to augment dry season indoor and outdoor irrigation needsTwo bio-retention ponds and supporting living machine system (one indoor and one outdoor)Domestic blackwater and grey water up cycling for outdoor landscape irrigation Integrated HVAC system (CO2 exchange from fully conditioned space to greenhouse)Greenhouse HEFL (highly energized fluorescent light)Adjusted solar shading devicesNew green façade on existing car park
PUBLIC INTERFACE
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FAMILY UNITS YOUTH UNITS SENIOR UNITS
The mission of the CENTRAL INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY (CIC) is to foster intergenerational relationships among older adults, aged out foster youth, kinship families, and the community by creating a sustainable living environment that promotes multi-cultural learning and sharing.
Community outreach: Daycare, youth and family center
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Site plan Street level 0
Level -1 floor plan
Level +1 floor plan
Level -2 floor plan
Senior shared space/green house
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Senior unit floor plan
Family unit floor plan
Youth unit floor planCommunity center dinning hall
Family and youth units overview
Site overview
Climate Knowledge Center
Shoreline Expansion
Ballard Agriculture Islands
Daylit Puddle Infrastructure
Burke-Gilman Trail Bio-Swale Network
Mechanical Research Incubation Ponds
Shelter Armature
The site itself is conceptualized as a refugee of the industrial history of Ballard and of currently unsustainable practices of urbanization, defined by exaggerated con-sumption/waste cycles. Through phased interventions, water is returned to the site as a hydrologic force and a valuable resource with the power to help remediate the current brown field conditions of the site. Careful planting cycles gradually amend polluted soils; agricultural capacity returns from beneath the asphalt.
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Swale conveyance system: Shilshole Avenue
Temporary habitation by homeless users in early phases facilitated by Shelter Armature equipped with utility panels
Human beings, plants, animals, and the elements are invited to find sanctuary in the newly expanded resiliency of the site. Human scaled interventions include phasing construction to provide a gathering awning space for homeless users; shelter armature that extends utilities and overhead canopy in flexible spaces designed for encampment in times of displacement; the Climate Knowledge Center, which houses on-site researchers and artists who form the coordinated response to requests for information on a daily basis and also in case of a large-scale disruption such as a violent weather event.The master plan is a snapshot of the site at a moment during its evolution; the level of development depicted is anticipated to occur by phase IV. Meanwhile, the site continues to grow and is infinitely shaped by the individual users who visit, inhabit, recreate, and learn.
The Refugium strategy considers the social, political, and environmental impact of every design intervention in relation to each successive change.
As a result, the current buildings and asphalt are not removed in a single event that would displace existing users. Instead, a gradual, phased, approach takes cues from natural succession as site materials are metabolized by new processes in support of expanded possibilities.
This insures maximum learning opportunities for both research-ers and visitors.
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Water Incubation Lab explores the interfaces between water treatment technologies, marine habitat, and public spectacle
Lupinus albus: heavy metal (Zn, Cd, Cu, Pb), fractionation, nitrogen fixing. Rainwater is used as irrigation source for planting and agriculture
The seasons will profoundly impact plant growth cycles, animal migrations, human uses, and the ways in which infrastructure manifests both its mechanical and its biological components. Maturity of the site does not indicate the approach of a design conclusion. Maturity is a term used to indicate gradual establishment of plant life, integrated mechanical and natural processes, and a developing sense of community on the Ballard waterfront.
1950s - US Navy Air Station
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NOAA (National occanic& atomospheric administration)
USGS (U.S. Geological survey)Fishery reseach center
1985 - Magnuson Park 2015 - Magnuson Park wetland exension
Military campus building
Shrubs
Trees
Residential, public building / sport facility
Shrubs
Trees
Residential, public building / sport facility
Wetland extention Phase 1 & 2
Wetland extention Phase 3
Located on the east rim of Magnuson park in Seattle, the site offers picturesque rural landscape and panorama of Mt. Rainier across the Lake of Washington. The K12 research campus including five high-performance classroom, facility offices, and one boathouse provides educational diversities for kids to explore the natural science with first hand resource.The minimum of building footprint and maximum of energy efficiency has low impact on the natu-ral wet land also provides additional planting armature for the agriculture program.
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Modular classroom Construction process
Supply air ductHRV
Evaporator coil
Condenser coil
Air handler Light shelf
Air diffuser
PV panel
PV panel
Night insulation
Night period
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Winter period
Climate strategy
Used air output
Fresh air intake
The diagram shows the shadow range on December 21st when sun angle is the lowest during the whole year During winter time such as January and December, the shadow of the trees on the south of the classroom will project into the space in afternoon.
Solar analysis:The analysis shows on June 21st noon time, the internal blind and external shading has been adjusted to keep the average day lighting value as 966 lux
The diagram shows June 21st when sun angle is the highest during the whole year.
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Ivy rootlet grows from prtable container onto the timber lattace mounted on the extenal wall as natural cladding system
Grey / used water
Purified water
Beach strawberry (Ground cover)Blackberry (vine-like)
The economic plant speices selected below are suit-able for the marine (salt water) shoreline soil condi-tion, and can be modified with vertical farming system
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RAs one of the new engineering building cluster in the proposed west campus master plan, the prosthetic center is part of the new URBAN CAMPUS to encourage public activities and to interact the academic programs in the building.
Interdisciplinary use
Public & patient interface
Prosthetic professions
Public & patient interface
Interdisciplinary use
Prosthetic professions Prosthetic
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Public interface Patient rooms Administration
College of arts & science
College of Engineering
College of Medicine
Interdisciplinary use
Public interface
Classrooms Labs Administration
Patient rooms
Interdisciplinary use
Public interface
Patient rooms
Administration
Classrooms
Labs
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West campus engineering center
Image research center
Brain study center
Boat Street new commercial zone
Portage Bay aqua theater
Climate reseach center
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BROOKLYN AVE
SITE PLAN 1/64”=1’0”
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Interdisciplinary use
Public & patient interface
Prosthetic professions
Public & patient interface
Interdisciplinary use
Prosthetic professions Prosthetic
professions
Public interface Patient rooms Administration
College of arts & science
College of Engineering
College of Medicine
Interdisciplinary use
Public interface
Classrooms Labs Administration
Patient rooms
Interdisciplinary use
Public interface
Patient rooms
Administration
Classrooms
Labs
BASEMENT
FIRST FLOOR
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
ROOF TOP
The modern technology has pushed the boundary of prosthetic industry from replacement of human body parts towards advanced level: combination of functional performance and state-of-art craft shipment. This involves wide ranges of interdisciplinary professions including engineering, medical, psychological and computing sciences.
This project provides a center hub to address each specific department in the campus, who will significantly contribute to this projects driven academy. There are several versatile zones including design center, fabrication center and rehabilitation center.
The integrated spatial organization of academic, design, fabrication and patient interface area promotes bespoke solution for each individual patient.
1 Steel tube 4” x 4“square sectionSteel ‘C’ section channel 2”x 3”Metal roof 0.3” deep with waterproof membraneCorrugated metal deck 3” deepTranslucent spandrel panels 1’ x 3’ with insulation layer behindMetal rectangular channel 3“ x 10”with in lled insulation Metal trusses 4” deep‘Spider claw’ glazing supporter with compression barStainless steel tube tension bar 1” diameterStainless steel tube compression bar 1” diameterHorizontal tension ropeAluminum glazing frame channelNeutral low E sunscreen glazing with UV- protective coating:0.25“Toughened glass + 0.5” cavity + 0.4“safety glass Balustrade: 2” diameter steel vertical & horizontal bar with cross tension membersExposed poured in place concrete ramps and platformsConcrete �oor slab 2“with carpet nish on top, 5” hollow service space beneathDiagonal cylinder shape trusses bolted on steel plate, welding on the I beamMetal decking with 10’ concrete topping with urethane water proongComposite reinforce concrete column 18” diameterCantilever I beam with circular holes allow service access 15“ deepSteel I beam 18” deepExpanded metal cladding 0.2” deepPolystyrene thermal insulation with vapor retarder total depth 4”Aluminum square channel 3“ x 6” with thermal insulationSingle glazing swing doorwayAluminum door frameSingle glazing cantilever 1” x 4’ cross section, supported by steel structure on top
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PUBLIC INTERFACE
INTERDISCIPLINARY
PROSTHETIC LABORATORY
PATIENT INTERFACE
EDUCATION
ADMINISTATION
FABRICATION CENTERWOOD SHOPMETAL SHOPCNC LAY UP SHOP
COMPUTER DESIGN CENTER:STUDENT LABDESIGN LABCO-LAB: COMPUTER SCIENCE
THERAPY CENTER:PATIENT ROOM UNITSCOSTEMIC, CASTING & FITTING LABREHABILITATION GYM IN
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PUBLIC INTERFACE 4200 sgf, 8%
INTERDISCIPLINARY LAB5000 sgf, 10%
PROSTHETIC LABORATORY
11000 sgf, 22%
PATIENT INTERFACE8000 sgf, 16%
EDUCATION 6000 sgf, 12%
OTHER SERVICE 3000 sgf, 6%
CIRCULATION13000 sgf, 26%
RECEPTION
REST ROOM & SERVICE
METAL SHOP
CO-OFFICECO-LAB MATERIAL SCIENCE
GALLERY
COFFEE SHOP
CLASSROOM 1CLASSROOM 2
STUDENT SEMINAR ROOM
STUDENT COMPUTER CENTER
LECTURE HALL
DESIGN CAD LAB
CO-LAB: COMPUTER SCIENCE
STAFF OFFICE
CO-LAB: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
LAY UP/ CNC SHOP
MECHANICAL & MATERIAL TESTING LAB
PATIENT ROOM
CASTING & COSMETIC SHOP
CO-LAB: ELECTRICAL
ELECTRICAL LAB
WET LAB
CO-LAB: BIOENGINEERING
NEUROPROSTHETIC CENTER
CLINIC
CONFERENCE CENTER
REHABILITATION CENTER& GYM
PLANT ROOM
WOOD SHOP
PUBLIC PLAZA
RECEPTION
REST ROOM & SERVICE
METAL SHOP
CO-OFFICECO-LAB MATERIAL SCIENCE
GALLERY
COFFEE SHOP
CLASSROOM 1CLASSROOM 2
STUDENT SEMINAR ROOM
STUDENT COMPUTER CENTER
LECTURE HALL
DESIGN CAD LAB
CO-LAB: COMPUTER SCIENCE
STAFF OFFICE
CO-LAB: MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
LAY UP/ CNC SHOP
MECHANICAL & MATERIAL TESTING LAB
PATIENT ROOM
CASTING & COSMETIC SHOP
CO-LAB: ELECTRICAL
ELECTRICAL LAB
WET LAB
CO-LAB: BIOENGINEERING
NEUROPROSTHETIC CENTER
CLINIC
CONFERENCE CENTER
REHABILITATION CENTER& GYM
PLANT ROOM
WOOD SHOP
PUBLIC PLAZA
FABRICATION CENTER
DESIGN CENTER
THERAPY CENTER
Project Concept:
The awareness of the circumstance is a matter of how people recognize the space. It results as different ways of communications between private and public communities.
Those various activities are highlighted by void and solid volumes and frames, representing articulated or hidden spaces.
The contrast also reveals the interrelationship between the reality and the fiction, which is about whether to bring the truth into the narrative scenarios or invite the cinematic scenes into the real world. Thus, it is necessary to establish a contradictory that allow reality and the imagination come across and generate new experience.
The new Market Square cinema in Chesterfield is de-constructed by series exploded fragments stretching to-wards different directions to engage with local activities, a paradoxical composition about solid and void volume
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First Floor plan Second Floor plan
East section with outdoor market as background context
Third Floor plan
The explosion of the indi-vidual volumes suggests the dynamic connection between each space and the adjacent context.
This idea developed further into each space so that all the components are breaking down into small segments to form solid and void contrast and also frame specific views towards external view.
The combination of the solid partitions, the translucent en-velope and the transformed shadows through the gap between different materi-als becomes the spirit of the space.
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View Tower on the second floor
Main entrance and Atrium space
Isometric diagram:
A deconstructive analysis of components, circulation, context and spatial arrangement
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DIGITAL FABRICATION WORK SAMPLESTransitional experience from 2D screen to 3D world
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Renaissance Boao Hotel, Hai nan Province, China12
WORK SAMPLE 3