ARCH008 → Bachelor of Interior Architecture, Selected Works
Interior Architecture Studio, 2022 Summer
The project uses an existing building in Montgomery, Alabama as the site. I am redesigning only the interior. The building is at the corner of High and South Court Streets. Design based on sustainability. Sustainability does not only care about the environment but also about the relationship between people. All housing units receive good quality light from the south, and the shared space receives the northern light. There are also semi-public spaces at the border of private and shared spaces. Residents in that units can decide what they want to display or share, while other neighbors can choose to use or occupy the semi-public areas.
Interior Architecture Studio, 2021 Fall
This project focuses not only on one design process but also on many different experiments. Starting from analyzing one of the favorite things, then interpreting the language to turn it into a visual experience, finally experimenting with digital models, and then apply to a real-world site to create the ideal space. From deconstructing the favorite and reconstructing the necessary, the design challenges the imagination and provides a different perspective on architecture.
Occupying and Constructing Space From The Favorite Things
My favorite thing is the movie interstellar. Interstellar is a 2014 science fiction film. The most exciting things in the movie are the story and the visual effect. Therefore, I created two image sets through a 3d-construct to create my reading on the two things.
The story involves many stages of developing things. My first image set showed the main journal of the story. The spaceship leaves the nearly dying earth to find the next livable planet and meet up with the Endurance(spaceship). Endurance takes a long time to poach the wormhole to travel to the next galaxy. Nearby the wormhole, Endurance becomes so tiny that the crews on the ship can do nothing but wait to cross.
The visual effect in Interstellar describes the universe and emotions. The director talks about emptiness, light & shadow, and expressions of unknown things through different lenses. My second image set uses different perspectives on reading one single object - the 3d construct. When you see one thing from different angles or rotations, each angle or rotation creates its unique scenario or world.
The 3d construct is made from leftover cardboard and tapes to tie different pieces together. The primary space for the construct is a triangle form with objects hanging to reflect the universe. In contrast, the other space was covered with painted cardboard and tracing papers to reflect the journal throughout the movie. Later, I captured the experience and edited them to create the image sets.
By analyzing the images’ characteristics provided and defining the possible activities that could happen in the image set, I built a Rhino Model that talks about the exciting monuments in the 3d construct and the image sets. My constructed space translates my imagination of the image sets into some actual. I started to write down small phrases to help me build the place. Some phrases may sound confusing such as “Places for people to be outside but still feel like inside” and “Exterior spaces for people to stay alone and walk around to enjoy nature.” However, those phrases help me jump out of the box and think beyond the limits of architecture.
After constructing the ideal space in the digital realm, I then applied the triumphant moments in the digital to one actual site in Atlanta. Atlanta is heavy with old building stock and can serve as an example to other cities as a progressive model of adaptive reuse. The site is a ruin that only lefts with the exterior brick facade. The project takes advantage of the existing frame and turns it into an adaptive reuse project. Through analyzing the site and Atlanta, I decided to design my idea into one reading place. In addition, using the reading place to promote the activities for the local community.
Interior Architecture Course, 2020 Fall
Look-With
Extending observations of speculative surfaces to propose, construct and document an interior space including methods of geometric and rule-based order, surface qualities and experiential effect.