AIR YING CHEN

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ABOUT ME

I am Ying CHEN, a third-year architecture major at Univer-sity of Melbourne. I come from the largest and rapidly de-veloping country in the world- China. I grow up in the back-ground that urbanization seems like be completed as if blink. Th e architecture in China has evolved dramatically in these years, which raises my interest.

Th rough the study of virtual environment, earth studio as well as water studio, I gain the technology to use the soft ware, such as rhino, sketch up and Auto CAD, to complete my de-sign in digital way.

Introduction

A.1.1 Precedent Project

TREEYijie Dang, Tom TangNew York City, USA

The past competition entry of Tree defi ne the agenda of Fresh Kill Park program is that restor-ing the nature by manmade interention with the inspiration of three as a symbol of renewal and the interconnectedness of all things. It not sucessfully expand the future possibility towards sustainability but also response to the site, including its current situation, historical elements and demand of inhabitants.

Considering the current soil situation of the site is not deep enough to support large roots of the trees with a wide canopy, they creat an articfi cal tree with recycled industral balloons and PVC pipes, whose canopy can be increased by the sun, to satisfy the need of shadowing that the inhabitants expected and refer to the history of the site as landfi ll cap.

Tree brings a brand new ap-proach to future. Th e electricty energy will be collected while the balloon sway and the PVCs branch bending with kinetic generators, piezoelectric genera-tors and LEDs. At night, the bal-loon reduce its size and glow as a sculptual. In this way, it expands the a new method to achieve energy effi ciency in term of both practical and experienced factors.

A.1.1Precendent Projects

RMIT DESIGN HUB -- PhotovoltaicsSean GodsellRMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2012

It is hard to miss the building that located at the corner of Melbourne city as its impressed façade. This new RMIT design hub is designed to provide accommodation various design research and post-graduate education within the warehouse structure.

This building adopts warehouse structure to allow more flexibility and possibility to the space usage according to different situation need. This means its future function areas division does not tie with the current design plan.

The design hub has lots of environmentally sustain-able design features and has achieved a 5-star Green Star Education Rating in environmentally sustain-able design. It involves in strategies of water, waste and recycling management.

Nevertheless, the focal point is the outer skin of the

building, which adopt the automated shading that includes photovoltaic cell, evaporative cooling and fresh air. Especially, the photovoltaic effect can turn the soloar radiation energy into current electricty. This technology enhances the performance of this hub in designing future. This means in this way, the internal air quality and the energy running cost is reduced, which is meet the requirement of future design – sustainability.

Furthermore, the photovoltaic cells of this hub is designed with the capacity to be upgraded solar energy evolves by replacing photovoltaic panel as research, in order to achieve the aim that generate enough electricity to run the whole building. Al-though, its conversion effieciency is still limited by technology today, but the design has the potential to apply further advanced technologies to improve the efficiency in the future.