Lithic Future
The Museum of Peruvian Stone Architecture and Art
Robotically Fabricated Architecture
Transitive Panels
The future of New York Stock Exchange
Memories of Tianjin
Content
Lodging on a cloud
Buddhist retreat and visitor centre
City Art Museum
Memories of Tianjin
At the intersection of roads
Designing the boundary between city and nature
Project Name: Lithic Future-The Museum of Peruvian Stone
Architecture and Art
Site: Cusco, Peru
Group Project with Jisoo Yim
Grade: Master
Date: 2024/05/01
Course: Architectural Design Training
Instructor: Barry wark
Instructor Contact: info@barrywark.com
This studio investigates innovative ecological aesthetics and explores strategies for integrating them into contemporary architecture. Focusing on circular materials, design for disassembly, and impermanent architecture, the project envisions a new museum and gallery in Cusco, Peru. Drawing inspiration from the region’s ancient lithic architecture, the design reinterprets these historical elements through 21st-century digital design and advanced fabrication technologies.
The project speculates of the potential of 3d printed stone to act as a navigation tool between the rough edges of quarried stone structures and a modular façade system to create enclosure across the museums gallery spaces.
Concept Drawing
Rather than work exclusively with the precision of the Quechua stone construction, our project uses slippages in the blocks and parts to express and celebrate the figuration of their joints.
This celebration of the joint is further explored through the connection edges of our printed stone panels where the depths and tightness of the joints looks to express water run off and weathering on the face. The gaps across these panels will erode and allow seeds and subsequent vegetation to take hold within them.
Project Name: Robotically Fabricated Architecture | Transitive Panels
Site: Princeton, US
Group Project with Runxin Zhou, Serene Wen
Grade: Master
Date: 2024/08/01
Course: Architectural Design Training
Instructor: Dr. Arash Adel
Instructor Contact: arash.adel@gmail.com
Robotically Fabricated Architecture investigates a conceptual approach to digital design, where robotic fabrication is integrated into the architectural workflow. The studio focuses on additive manufacturing of bespoke concrete modules, addressing the full construction process: from digital generation and robotic casting to transportation and on-site assembly.
This project explores the architectural facade as more than an exterior envelope—reimagining it as a spatial transition that blends vertical and horizontal planes. The facade performs structurally and spatially, integrating with the interior rather than remaining a passive skin. Digital tools were used not only for form generation but also for exploring structural logic, environmental modulation, and fabrication strategy. The panel system transitions from self-supporting vertical elements to load-bearing horizontal slabs, while curvature and texturing enhance shading, stiffness, and moldability. The result is a facade system that synthesizes spatial design, structural performance, and robotic fabrication.
Project Name: The future of New York Stock Exchange Site: New York, United State Group Project with Serene Wen
Grade: Master Date: 2023/12/15
Course: Architectural Design Training Instructor: Ali Rahim
Instructor Contact: alir@design.upenn.edu
This advanced architecture design studio explores the intersection of New York City's architectural history and its global financial leadership. The focus is on developing a new typology for a cryptocurrency mining farm and exchange in the Financial District of New York City. The studio speculates on the future of the New York Stock Exchange in the context of the city's evolving economic landscape, combining architectural design with the dynamics of global capital markets.
Set within Manhattan’s Financial District, this project reimagines the future of the New York Stock Exchange through an architectural proposal that responds to shifts in global finance and emerging digital economies. Situated at the intersection of Broad Street and Wall Street, the design explores a new hybrid typology that integrates a cryptocurrency mining facility, an NFT museum, and a digital exchange platform. The proposal investigates architecture as a vehicle for generating capital, speculating on how built form can support New York City’s evolving financial landscape and reinforce its global leadership.
This studio design, "Unreadable Continuity," we propose an alternative approach to continuity. Within a grid system, the repetitiveness of small architectural components generates an overall facade continuity. This continuity doesn't rely on the flow and folding of a single surface but is formed in the cognitive perception of the facade through the scattered repetition of elements. The elegance advocated here thrives on complexity, achieving a visually reduced representation of an underlying complexity that is sublated rather than eliminated. The complexity of the components expresses the architectural elegance.
Section
Project Name: Lodging on a cloud - Buddhist retreat and visitor centre
Site: Chengde, China
Individual Project
Grade: Third Year
Date: 2021/05/11
Course: Architectural Design Training
Instructor: WANG Di
Instructor Contact: 13002261321
Refined in 2022
This project is a proposal for a cultural and tourism center located adjacent to the Chengde Summer Palace, a royal garden from the Qing Dynasty. Drawing inspiration from traditional literature and poetry that describe the site’s unique character, the design reestablishes a spatial connection between the two banks of the surrounding mountains, addressing imbalanced pedestrian flow.
The architectural form, derived from the spherical shapes of nearby Buddhist temples, reflects the Buddhist architectural prototype and the ideology of ‘roundness.’ The project exemplifies a dynamic interaction between site and form: the architecture is shaped by environmental factors, while the surrounding landscape integrates the design into its cultural and natural context.
Project Name: City Art Museum - Memories of Tianjin
Site: Tianjin, China
Individual Project
Grade: Third Year
Date: 2021/01/08
Course: Architectural Design Training
Instructor: XIN Shanchao
Instructor Contact: 166088@tju.edu.cn
Refined in 2022
The design of the Museum in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin draws inspiration from the city’s rich historical context, shaped by various foreign concessions that influenced its urban fabric. The museum captures this intricate texture, using the lines of the former concessions as guiding elements.
These elements also integrate functional public spaces, such as plazas and pedestrian pathways, creating a seamless connection between history and contemporary urban flow. The main body of the museum is positioned beneath the plaza to optimize natural light, while the sloping diagonal walls reflect materials that echo the façades of the surrounding historical tenements.
Project Name: At the intersection of roads - Designing the boundary between city and nature
Site: Blanquefort, Bordeaux, France
Group Project with ZHANG Yawen, ZHANG Ruige, LIU Yalu in 2022, Individually refined in 2022, all drawings in the portfolio have been completed individually.
Grade: Fourth Year Date: 2022/04/11
Course: Project-based module
Instructor: Laurent GOUYOU BEAUCHAMPS
Instructor Contact: l.gouyou-beauchamps@bordeaux. archi.fr
Refined in 2022
This project adopts a dual-focused approach, revitalizing historical buildings situated at the boundary between nature and the countryside. Designed nodes are integrated throughout the landscape, such as a stepped landscape adjacent to the abandoned Moulin, which functions as a resilient flood barrier while breathing new life into the forgotten heritage. The development fosters a deeper connection between the environment and the community, with features like a children’s playground and hiking routes that bring residents closer to nature.
Project Name: Floating on water, living with trees - Countryside Dilemmas, New Rural Planning
Site: Xinzhou fishing village, Guangzhou, China
Group Project with WU Kunyu, WANG Liguo, WANG Yuhan in 2021, As the team leader, responsible for concept generation, model building and analytical mapping
Grade: Fourth Year Date: 2021/10/30
Competition: UIA-HYP CUP, International student competiton in architectural design
Instructor: ZOU Ying, Tianjin Universirt Instructor Contact: zouying@tju.edu.cn
This project addresses the challenges faced by rural areas in China, where depopulation has become increasingly common in recent years. In some villages in Shandong, for example, annual income barely exceeds ¥10,000, making it difficult for families to sustain themselves amid rising living costs. Recognizing that this issue is not isolated, the project focuses on how rural communities can survive and thrive under such conditions, considering both economic sustainability and the role of villages in today’s world.
The project centers on the Dan people, a fishing community, and envisions their villages as contributors to coastal ecological preservation. With improved ecological management, the Dan people can continue traditional fishing and aquaculture while also offering services like tourism and ecological education to generate additional income. Based on the community’s needs, the design also proposes improvements in infrastructure such as transportation, education, and housing to create a selfsustaining village that fosters a positive cycle of growth and development.
