Lu, Kukje Gallery,Stereotomic vs Tectonic, Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Feb 2024
Individual project
Instructor: Yutaka Sho
Site: Kigali, Rwanda
Date: 03/01/2024-04/24/2024
Inspired by the interplay of mesh and structure in the Kukje Gallery and the draped silhouettes of Rick Owens’ garments, this prosthetics workshop explores how architecture, like clothing, shapes and envelops the body—its tectonic layering and materiality forming spaces that echo both the physical and transformative nature of the program.
The idea of how drapes form spaces transforms the sloped site by carving into the ground, creating a sequence that guides patients downward for cleansing and rehabilitation, then upward after receiving a new limb—symbolizing a transformative journey.
The interplay between solid earth-cut spaces and lightweight mesh enclosures reinforces the connection between body, material, and movement, making architecture an active part of the recovery process.
Lu, Physical Study Model, Mar 2024
Program Key:
1. Doctor’s Offices
2. Lobby
3. Milk Bar
4. Semi-Open Cantine
5. Kitchen
6. Classrooms
7. Storage
The sloped site in Kigali is not merely a constraint but an active design element—the circulation strategy is central to the patient experience, setting up a journey of renewal.
The spatial narrative turns movement itself into a healing ritual, reinforcing the transformative nature of the clinic.
Lu, Street Level Plan Drawing, Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Apr 2024
Program Key:
8. Gym / Physical Therapy
9. Doctor’s Office
10. Clinic
11. Meeting Room
Lu, Upper Level Drawing, Apr 2024
Program Key:
12. Shower Room
13. Prosthetic Workshop
14. Lockers
Lu, Basement Level Drawing, Apr 2024
The use of locally sourced materials (Rammed earth block & Fiber and Reeds) grounds the building in its cultural and ecological context.
The interplay between earthcut spaces and floating, porous enclosures enhances sensory perception.
Guided by site impressions—trees piercing through collapsed roof, the windows, the cylinder round wall edge, and the weathered concrete blocks—this project transforms a former cow storage warehouse into a fine dining restaurant and cheese workshop. The design adopts a strategy of wrapping and attaching—carefully patching new interventions to the existing structure to preserve its memories.
A lightweight wooden second floor is added above the original volume, extending views over the Sardinian landscape and inviting guests deeper into the site. Steel columns reinforce the aging walls, while insulation and wood paneling are applied like inner garments—protecting without concealing.
Together, these layers form an architectural patchwork.
Program Key:
1. Garden
2. Greenhouse
3. Dining Area
4. Kitchen
5. Garden as Back Circulation
6. Staff Locker Room
7. Restroom
8. Lift
9. Entrance Interior Garden
10. Display Room
11. Workshop and Lab
12. MEP
13. Pasteurization Room
14. Outdoor Workshop
15. Outdoor Seating
16. Cooking Classroom
The program includes a greenhouse, a kitchen and dining area, a cheese research lab, an open to sky workshop, a second floor cooking classroom, and a garden, with a hybrid closed- and open-roof structure. The roof was replaced with standing seam aluminum panels, and the indoor and slit gardens are integrated into the architecture. The garden weaves through the site as a connective tissue, linking the main kitchen, the cheese research lab for staff needs. This planted corridor doubles as circulation and gathering space.
Existing windows were enlarged to bring in more light and to frame views toward the surrounding Sardinian landscape, while some windows were enlarged to become thresholds, reinforcing the dialogue between inside and out. Where the walls are demolished, there are new wood and concrete material added to support.
Kitchen: Plan & Section A & Render Rhino, Illustrator, Vray, D5, Ps, Apr 2025
Lu,
Lu, Cheng, Guan,
Entrance: Plan & Section B & Render Rhino, Illustrator, Vray, D5, Ps, Apr 2025
Cheese Workshop: Plan & Section C Rhino, Illustrator, Apr 2025
Lu, Cheng, Guan,
PROJECT
3
Individual project
Instructor: Yutaka Sho
Site: Tokyo, Japan
Date: 01/30/2024-02/20/2024
A LIVING FOLDED FASHION SCHOOL
Rooted in the tectonic studies of the Kukje Gallery and the silhouettes garments of Rick Owens, this fashion school in Tokyo’s Shimokitazawa district transforms fabric logic into spatial experience, where seams become structural joints and pleats define space, circulation, and interaction. The three interwoven floors emerge from this pleated framework.
More than a school, this project is an extension of the creative process itself—a living, adaptable framework that transforms with those who inhabit it.
The downward-folded nature of fabric informs the entire building system, generating slanted planes that shape programmatic spaces, movement, and display areas. Slanted floors transform into stair-like platforms, shaping an open and dynamic environment, while partition walls serve as exhibition surfaces—blurring the line between structure and display.
This housing project in Syracuse is shaped by the concept of a pedestrian road, designed to enhance the urban fabric by providing a safer and more accessible route from the side street to the parking lot.
As the central organizing element, this path fosters walkability and community engagement while structuring the development of the building itself.
Positioned between two buildings, the project occupies the middle lot, facing challenges in securing natural sunlight for over 70 residential units.
Two walkway gaps that are generated by looking at the sunlight angles of site, and then, the triangle balconies and shared balconies are formed for each units.
The building employs a steppedback design on each floor, maximizing sunlight exposure and creating cascading terraces that enhance outdoor accessibility.
Lu, Plans, Rhino, Illustrator, Apr 2024
Apr 2024
Xuanyi
Harrison St & Almond
Pedestrian
12/6/2024
Concept &
Pedestrian Pedestrian Car Road
Lu, Drawings, Rhino, Illustrator,
PROJECT 5
Individual project
Instructor: Iman Fayyad
Site: Syracuse, United States
Date: 3/15/2023-4/25/2023
I am interested in designing a hostel that can make people feel welcoming. People are comfortable to be everywhere in the building not only for outgoing people to socialize but also for introverted people. The facade of the building looks dynamic with mild folded angle, which attract people as well. The aggregations of the base unit (parallelogram)creates some interesting moment. For example, People enter from a misalignment of the two base unit. Also the courtyards are created by the aggregations of it. The hostel packed tightly in perspective, and the aggregations of parallelogram allow the plan and section having dynamic effect.
DANCING YOUTH HOSTEL
All the common areas are located on the first floor, small lounges for people to socialize are scattered through out the first floor so that people can have other semi-personal space outside of their rooms. It is a deep plan which is hard to get light in the middle, therefore, the gaps generate by the base unit allow light to come in. These gaps also become air ventilation systems. To solve the light problem on the second level, I lift up 6 single persons rooms to another level which also create the sense of neighborhood.
The activity center provides year-round public programs which supplement the state park and surrounding areas.
Through the study of the systems, formations, and processes of the glacier and the study of Bharan Bhavan, the concept of the center is derived from the idea of glacier calving and the idea of glacier consistently moving.
Coutyards are like pieces of ices breaking off, and the pixelated language is derived from the consistently adding and subtracting of the glacier while it is moving.
Lu, Peebles Island State Park Activity Center, Site Plan, Dec 2023
As the glacier continues to move, the terminal ice breaks into the water. It is known as Ice Calving which is a repetitive behavior that occurs approximately every 20 minutes. Bharan Bhavan is a multi-arts center built into a hillside and comprised by many sunken courtyards which slopes down toward a lake. I combine the ideas of ice calving and sunken courtyards, think of the lost ice as sunken coutyards.
The Hybrid System-Ground Construct models represent subtractive (ices breaking off) and additive (ices that was under the water float up) ideas of glaciers.
The models shows one of the main characteristic of the glacier which is the forming and changing of the terrain as the glacier moves.
Lu, Hybrid System-Ground Construct Models, Oct 2023
Lu, Composite Drawing, Main Concept of Peebles Island State Park Activity Center, Oct 2023
Lu, Peebles Island State Park Activity Center, Vignettes, Nov 2023
Program Key:
Lu, Ground Floor Plan, Rhino, Illustrator, Dec 2023
1. Office
2. MEP room 3. Coat roon 4. Bike storage 5. Restroom for public 6. General storage
7. Multipurpose hall
8. Boat hall roof
9. Cafe roof
Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”
Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”
Program Key:
Lu, Lower Floor Plan, Rhino, Illustrator, Dec 2023
1. Multipurpose Hall
2. Boat Hall
3. Cafe
4. Hot Tubs & Sauna
5. Changing & Locker Room
Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”
Lu, Short Section, Rhino, Illustrator Dec 2023
MAIN CONCEPT
SINK IN GROUND COURTYARDS INSPIRATION
Main circulation from entry to the water Horizontal circulations
Vertical circulations
Supplementary docks
- Maintaining the growing (adding) and losing process of the glacier)
- Maintaining the pixelated language
Vertical ramps (paths to the roofs)
- Looking at the composite drawing in a sectional way
- Creating more aggregated experience
Three entries on different level due to the sloping down landscape
Courtyards
Terrace (Open to Sky)
Courtyards
Outdoor Docks
Courtyards from private to public as people move near to the water
Scale: 1/8” = 1’-0”
Lu, Long Section, Rhino, Illustrator Dec 2023
Lu, Peebles Island State Park Activity Center, Physical Model, Nov 2023
