After image
Group work / Academic
Location: ChinaTown, CA, US
Time: 09/2019-12/2019
Instructor: Jenny wu
By using software Agisoft and Recup to scan the building components of Chinatown to get the elements we want to extract, and then merge, cut, deconstruct and other operations to get the building shape. This design technique breaks the previous conventional architectural design methods, starting from the architectural form, obtains the function of re-planning the form. Because the mesh size of the model is different, there will be a contrast between high resolution and low resolution on the material. The results of this natural selection tend to be more interesting.
High resolution is achieved through discreting special site elements while low resolution develops from cutting and collaging facades.
Instead of assigning textures to each entity, geometries are broken to facets of images discreteness. As an afterimage of Chinatown textures and ontologies, which are separated based on their own purposes, our proposal creates forces among entities to relink different resolutions. Apertures emerges from projected textures, as well as gaps among entities, creating balanced interplay between the certain and uncertain.
While keeping resolution differences, the tension between interior and exterior as well as their merging process create disalignment for circulation and visual connnections of various hierarchies, generating vibrant spatial experiences in both private and grouped working experiences.
The contrast between high resolution and low resolution is identified by visually sparky and normative entities. They are weaved through wrapping and flowing movement. The active carving of the ground blurs the boundary between architecture and landscape.
The plan for the project is a 22,000-square-foot co-working space that combines retail and cultural plans, designed multi-story buildings and a horizontal landscape element, which may include covered outdoor spaces. The co-working space should be able to accommodate multiple adjacencies between the working space, cultural space and retail space in the building. Therefore, the working space should be designed as a combination of private office space and large and flexible "living"
Though making a strong formal statement on site, the building roots from site ontologies and images, recoding information based on facades projections, acting as a holistic piece in Chinatown, playing with the defamiliarization process, but of its own identity and prosper.