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Yujing SuUniversity of Minnesota873 19th St Se, Minneapolis, MN, 55414612-836-3992suxxx134@umn.edu

From Cards to Cantilever

Spring 2011

P4

This is Knot Architecture

Spring 2011

P18

Home Schooling

Spring 2012

P8

Preserving the Ford Building

Fall 2012

P12

Fall 2012

Drawings

Fall 2010

P24

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From Cards to CantileverSpring 2011, Design Studio, Partner: Jianing Song, 3 weeks

Job description: The model was done as a group; all sketches (diagrams) were by Yujing except the last one at P7.

The purpose of this project is to make a cantilever from 50 cards without any additional material. The goal of it is not only engineer successful but also structurally aesthetic.

Inspired from cantilever bridge that ropes are stretched out from an anchor point to hold the long spanned bridge.

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The first process model derived directly from the cantilever bridge, which two ropes pull the body of the cantilever. The second process model developed on the first one that adds a central strip to support the body part. The final model removes the two sides support to achieve elegancy. The central strip pulls the whole structure at the front while the railing give the structure support at the bottom.

Thinking Process Connection part of final modelFolding process

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Home SchoolingSpring 2012, Design Workshop, Indi-vidual Work; 2 weeks

The purpose of the project is to renovate an existing family house that adds one additional study and fam-ily room. The original plan includes three parts that follow the ABA spatial plan, which the A are a public space and a private space that connected by a gal-lery that is the B part.

The design processes include placing the study and family room around the house that changed the relationship between private and public. Additional, it also includes a comparison between the original and renovated spatial relationship of the house.

The original plan: strong distinc-tion between public and private.

Extend the private and public to each side but still keep the ABA plan.

Public and private part clustered at the center so the distinction is less obvious.

Public space has been brought to the private space; the ABA plan has been broken.

Central part turns from connection to public space.

Family room gathered the surround-ing private area.

The final iteration expands the existing house to the left and front side that place the family room at the center to gather the private spaces together, the strong distinc-tion between the public and private blurred and the cen-tral part that no longer used as connection but as part of the public space.

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The original spatial relationship. The renovated spatial relationship.

Horizontal spatial connector that connects public and private areas.

Vertical spatial connector that con-nects two stories.

Entranceway that connects outside and inside.

Public spaces.

Private spaces.

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Preserving the Ford BuildingFall 2012, Design Workshop, Individual Work; 3 weeks

The goal of the project is to research and preserve the Ford Building that was constructed in 1913 that is in danger of being demolished now. The building is located at downtown St. Paul, MN that was construct-ed as a sale branch for the Ford Company.

The building is significant in historical context because it represents the expansion of the Ford Company to the Midwest; the automobile sale around downtown St Paul in 1910s and the luxurious working place that the Ford Company offered.

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The building is important present because of the location. There is a light rail construction right in front of the building that will be completed in 2014, which it connects the Twin Cities includes the university. Addi-tional, the Ford Building is connected to the MN State Capitol that is a street across by a tunnel. The light rail and tunnel connect the building to the outside that will bring it great business chances.

Ford Building in 1913.

The lightrail station map.

Ford Building in 2013.

The cladding front facade defined the character of the building.

Front porch as the most important element of the front facade.

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The redesign modified the original Ford Building to a community center with coffee shop, grocery store and food market as long as ten stories condo on top of it as addition. The central space of the original building will be taken out that form a courtyard at the first floor. The apartment will occupy the central of the original building as one unit per floor.

The second floor as grocery store as indicated by white color.

First floor has separate entrance of the building and the apartment and a community gathering space at the center indicated by grey color.

Upper ten floors as single unite condo.

Basement as garage and tunnel entrance that con-nects the building to the State Capitol.

The third floor as food court as indicated by white color.

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This is Knot ArchitectureSpring 2011, Design Studio, Individual Work,6 weeks

The goal of the project is to develop a series of design thinking processes, which from a 2D knot (a point) to 3D wireframe (lines) and add volume to the wireframe (surfaces), then take this 3D volumetrically structure out of a box and study the void space inside it. Each step of the project not only is a prototype on its own, but also used as inspiration for the later model.

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Different iterations of the wireframe model.

Add volumes to the wireframe. Wireframe model developed base on the knot

233-D model developed from the wireframe. Void space left by taking out the 3-D model at the left pageout of a box.

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Value Drawings