Artists started to move to other districts like Bushiwick and Redhook, which are much cheaper and disconnected from the city. However, gentrification has started in these areas as well. The design is an experiment to build a new kind of community for the artists to survive in such gentrification.

Based on the urban research of haussmann building patterns, exploring the concept of the contemporary housing project in the historic district. To analyze the connection between the traditional haussmann private courtyard and facade language. Developing the extended urban public plaza and new residential facade to enhance the living experience. 

Inspired by the historic urban development in ancient China, the long scroll hand-drawn design illustrates the urban evolution in hundreds of years.

How does a human fit into its environment, whether built or natural? Humans exist in a series of overlapping cycles and in the perpetual state of educating themselves. Man builds up, impacts, breaks down, and destroys the environment and built infrastructure. We investigate man’s relationship with self created infrastructure and the paradox created by having to continually maintain that infrastructure. Most of what we build is not built to last, but rather built to fail.

The design began questioning the impacts of musical diversity and if & how it is differentiation can be harmonized to express an objective unity, as a platform for developing our understanding of community.

Life for illegal immigrants to survive in New York is a challenge and also an opportunity for the architect to reconsider the space that could be trained into a safe zone to stay. The design is to develop the possibilities from the existing infrastructure. Utilizing subway line 7 as the reference resources, researching the potential stops along the route to identify the sanctuary structure that could be easily accessed and also establishing a network of spaces distributed throughout the city. 

Multiple patterns of spatial occupation are generated intangibly through the multi activities during the certain period of times. Architecture then becomes the connecting point to reinforce the habits of daily lives and provides the background support for activities inside.

According to the unique conditions of site, taking full consideration of the green feature, extends the park function to the theater area. Architectural space is no longer simply a closed performance space, but to provide a platform to experience the nature and arts.

Four steps to generate the skin structure and trusses behind the parametric skin. Also, the daylight and solar analysis are applied to the skin unit with gradient color refection.