JIAN MING HUANG

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HANGZHOU BAY BIO-VILLAGE

Building area of 100,000 sq. meter, this is a master planning of a medical research facility in Hangzhou Bay. Conceptual Design, 2014.

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ROBOTIC WOOD TECTONIC

The DADA Digital Factory workshop “Robot-Assisted Assembly in Timber Construction” led by ICD research associates Abel Groenewolt and Oliver David Krieg in collaboration with Jian Ming Huang explores a digital fabrication concept that allows the construction of free-form geometry without relying on elaborate measuring techniques or geometric specificity of the building parts. By using an industrial robot as an assembly assistant, simple, regularly shaped objects can be accurately placed at any desired location. In effect, by encoding the geometric specificity in the assembly process instead of in the material, elaborate timber structures can be built out of standard and widely available building materials. Following this new fabrication paradigm, robotic assembly of off-the-shelf building elements is employed to build pre-fabricated segments of the bearing structure of a doubly curved wooden wall. These segments fit within the working space of an industrial robot and are small enough to be transported easily. Once positioned on-site, the segments are combined with a cladding layer that consist of wooden strips, which were produced using a more common production method: precise CNC milling of unique parts. By combining these two fabrication paradigms, the strengths of the various tools and actors in the process are employed strategically: the industrial robot works in a controlled environment assembling segments that fit within its reach, while human labour is mostly employed on site in a safe environment, assembling pieces that have pre-drilled screw holes and can only be placed in a single way, thus avoiding the need to measure. This results in a very fast production method: the robotically assembled elements can be produced at a speed of one square meter per hour and on-site assembly of the complete wall took less than one day. During the workshop, the students were introduced to a computational design tool that was specifically developed for this project. Taking a free-form design surface as input, the tool generates a buildable structure within the material and machine constraints. A simulation of the robotic assembly process and export of robot control files are fully integrated in the computational design process. The closed digital chain from design to fabrication not only allows for innovative pre-fabrication in timber construction, but also for novel and expressive architecture.

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RISING MASS Halfway between today’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture’s ongoing critical return to form. The interest in the topic of form is neither aesthetic nor ideological. Contrary to the notion of shape (with which it is sometimes confused), form is a syntactic, procedural, and increasingly, technical proposition whose disciplinary autonomy parallels the study of language in the age of structuralism and the more recent development of object-oriented programming in the software industry. The studio joins the systematical exploration of the architectural potential of the variable parametric surface, a conceptual vehicle initially chosen for its relentless abstraction and relative resistance to predictable questions of function and architectural figuration; it also expands the scope of design experimentation with the production of formal analytic models, building prototypes - later to be incorporated into pragmatic urban and architectural proposals for the island of Manhattan.

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PERFORMATIVE GRID SHELL This project explores an alternative design approach that aims at understanding wood’s complex material make up and behavior as its major advantage rather than a deficiency. Computational design lends itself to such an approach as it is enables employing complex behavior rather than just modeling a particular shape or form. We design and Develop a performative Timber Grid Shell prototype by local form finding that is performed by changing the diagonal distance of each individual grid unit parametrically. The intrinsic values of wood such as bending behavior, fiber orientation, and moisture reaction, are the generative forces of the overall gestalt form. By controlling the form finding locally, designer reserves the freedom to achieve a more dynamic grid shell system and able to generate a boarder range of spatial experiences.

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ZHANG RESIDENCE 21,000 SF Single Family House Located in Wisconsin. Design 2014-2015 Construction to begin in 2016 The overall form of the residence is to embrace the landscape, and the roof helps to define the programs underneath. 这是一所坐落在美国密尔沃基市德拉菲尔德区的新建私人住宅别墅。密尔沃基是威斯康星州最大城市和湖港，被原居民印第安人称为“密尔洛—沃基”，意为“美丽的土地”。基地北高南低，北望山林，南眺湖景，环境幽静，风景极美。业主希望能够尽可能的观赏到北面的山林和南面的湖泊，并且要求一系列连续的功能大空间和流畅的流线组织，在连续的流线中尽量不要出现高差，但由于基地地形复杂，且有较大的自然落差，很难流畅的组织连续的大空间，这也让人有机会思考如何巧妙利用自然高差去组织功能空间，让这幢别墅成为一个拥抱自然的绝佳“景观观赏台”。 基于业主对功能流畅性的要求，设计时首先想到可以利用地形对这幢别墅进行合理的功能分区，将主要生活功能区设置在相对幽静的二层，而将辅助空间放置在相对嘈杂的一层。由于南北两侧存在将近一层楼高的自然落差，所以向北延伸的主要生活功能区也是落在自然的土壤上的，围绕着一个半开敞的庭院进行功能的组织，业主一家随时可以从自己的卧室走到庭院里沐浴阳光，也可以到北面的山林里散步。 其次根据功能分区以及流线控制的需要将私密区域放置在北侧，毗邻相对内向的中庭，可以观赏到相对隐逸的树林，营造出一种非常宁静优雅的气氛，非常适合居家生活。而将公共会客区域放置在南侧。让客人既能看到近处严整大气的草坪，又能远眺开阔的湖面，让人们在一种非常松弛的状态下交谈。 再者，由于这幢别墅的体量非常庞大，在场地中会显得非常的突兀，为了在体量上与周围建筑想协调，设计时考虑将建筑分为两个部分，将建筑的沿街面设计成两个与周围建筑体量、风格相近的单体，使如此庞大的一幢别墅显得十分平易近人，而建筑的后部则更像是由这两个小房子向山林深处蔓延而生长出来的，平面形态上与后面的山林相呼应，呈现出拥抱自然的姿态。而在这两个单体中间用一个玻璃连廊连接，这个玻璃连廊同时也承担了竖向交通的功能，而且它还是一个非常巧妙的景观台，是前后方景观的延续纽带。由建筑前面严整大气的草坪步入玻璃连廊，首先感受到的是一种幽静的氛围，在上二楼的过程中，一幅悠然自得的山林景象慢慢浮现在眼前，非常宁静祥和，当你转过身后，波光粼粼的湖面突然映入眼帘，顿时豁然开朗，给客人一个非常震撼的空间感受。不仅如此，作为重要的水平交通节点，玻璃连廊中的天桥也是业主一家每天都要不断经过的地点，可以在一天的不同时间段感受到两边风景的强烈对话，充分的融入到自然之中。 不仅如此，基于业主喜欢阳光和富有个性的天窗，首先在建筑形态上采用了界面丰富的折线形式，让客户能最大限度的欣赏到周围的风景；其次，根据科学的日照计算和对建筑形态的回应，我设计了一系列由两组折线屋顶高差自然形成的天窗来引入阳光，这不仅使室内、外空间更有层次感，还使建筑的造型更加富有流动的韵律感。

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WATERSPONGE This project strives to create a new interface between human and water by exploring the reciprocal relationships of material, form, activities, and environment. Water is used as design inspiration. It's a mediator between human and environment. It serves as an essential building material in the project. In combination with foam, the water/foam hybrid is used to create a new type of kiosk that responds to the changing of time, season, environment, and human activities. It provides an alternative way for people to interact with water; and it allows the public to gain a deeper understanding of water not as a static material but as a dynamic element that transforms constantly responding to the external world. Water Water is a basic element of our world, in addition to air, fire, and earth. It covers 71% of the Earth's surface, and appear in all three common states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The lifecycle of water has a huge impact on the world's ecological system, and it defines the environment we are living in. This project uses water as design inspiration and as a mediator between human and environment. Water is used as an essential part of the building materials. In combination with foam, the water/foam hybrid is used to create a new type of kiosk that responds to the changing of time, season, environment, and human activities. It provides an alternative way for people to interact with water, and it allows the public to gain a deeper understanding of water not as a static material but as a dynamic element that transforms constantly responding to the external environment. The Lake Chicago is a city of water. Water is permeated into the daily life of Chicago, in the form of lake, river, rain, fog, cloud, ice, and snow. It affects Chicago's architecture, infrastructure, art, and the lives of people. The Lakefront is one of the major edges between human and the water. This project acts as a new interface to reinterpret the relation of human and water. Materiality This kiosk is built with PVA foam. It acts as carrier of water and serves as mediator between water and human body. PVA is a flexible, non-toxic, durable, a UV-resistant foam that has a high water absorption and retention ability. It is soft and flexible when it's wet, hard and rigid when it's dry. And depends on the different material conditions, it provides different ways of interaction with the public and external environment. Such material property generates complex and dynamic relationships between the kiosk, people, and the environment. Design process The project begins by researching the intrinsic values of water and foam, and by analyzing the properties of water/foam hybrid. The studies are fed to digital model to simulate the transformation and deformation of the material gestalt. The overall form of the kiosk is generated based on the commercial transaction and human body's interaction with water. It borrows the existing lakefront kiosk typology, and it is distorted to create surfaces for human interventions. The final form of the kiosk is emerged out of the forces generated by human bodies. It also represents the fluidity and amorphousness of water. Urban Stage During the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the kiosk will serve as a community center at Millennium Park. It contains a series of urban furniture that acts as extension of the kiosk which helps to gather people together. And after it is moved to the lakefront, beside the function of a commercial vendor, the kiosk will also act as a water stage for the public to perform various activities such as playing with water, socializing, resting, people watching, sun tanning, etc. It is a magnet that bonds people and water together, transforms the lakefront into a urban playground.

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KAUMENGUHN Arylic Structure designed and built by students from Pasadena City College. It uses the gravity and material property to form-find its final shape.

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IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT 3D PROJECTION This project investigates the relationship between projected content, physical form, materials, and space.

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IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENT This project investigates the relationship between projected content, physical form, materials, and space.

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BREATHING WOOD SKIN Performative wooden system that responses to the changing moisture level in the air.

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LOTUS - the welcome sound The installation embraces visitor with the sound made by vibrating its wooden modules. It is enabled with tiny sensor built in the system, controlled by Arduino. It senses the approach of a person, and it triggers a few tiny motors what cause the vibration. The installation becomes an instrument.

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JIASHAN MIX USE COMPLEX The Project is located in Xinheyuan residential area, and Jiashan City, Zhejiang province, China. The site had two old residential buildings which were built in 2004. Two new residential buildings are to be built in the South of old buildings to reach a united style together. Architects were asked to design the façade to reform the old buildings and decorated the new ones. The problems of old façade are the typical case of tolerable buildings which have air-conditioners exposed in landscape. What’s more, the strategy to adjust the sunshine is totally passive. Since the surrounding of the site was Farmers’ Bungalow, there is a need for cohesion to distinct themselves from the environment to some extent. By ways of parametric analysis, various factors like numbers of family, the change of sunlight can be considered together to decide the form of ribbon and ripple. In this case, the air conditioner are reasonably hided and the sunshine are better distributed in every balcony units. For those young working man in third-tier cities, a home of 90 square meters far from city center is all their world to relax their body and mind after a whole day’s busy work. However, for cheap considering, conventional typical residential environment always can’t meet this need. Our design start from the point of changing the activity and solving living problems. New façade try to connect the single living units horizontally and vertically. We look into the deep culture of Chinese and find two representatives which can best express the idea of connect：They are ribbon and ripple. By the form abstracted from ribbon and ripple, the balcony of single room extended to their neighborhood wthout disturbing their private space. Moreover, since the ribbon can twisted in free directions, vertically the terrace on rooftop can be connected with the laws in ground by this ribbon-like façade. People can enjoy free sunshine and broad view inside this façade, as well as better view outside this façade. In traditional residential buildings, space are splited into regular cubes which made people were separated from each other physically and mentally. Our concept aim to redesign the mode of space distribution of balcony and reform the feeling of customers. 本设计位于嘉善市鑫和苑商住小区，场地原有建筑为两幢居民楼，现在居民楼南侧加建两幢新的居民楼，形成风格统一的居住区。本项目要求设计居民楼立面，改造原有建筑并应用在新增建筑上。原有立面为2004年典型的“窗格型”楼面，除外观是传统的模式外，还有着暴露空调，被动受晒等问题。 另外小区的周围环境为农居房，需要在外观上对小区内居住楼房形成内聚力和一定的标志性 通过参数化的控制，将户数，形态，环境等多方面因素综合考虑，合理地解决了空调位遮蔽，并按照南北立面日照需求标准，为每户居民提供视线开阔的阳台，为居住小区带来耳目一新的环境感受。 工作在三线城市的年轻人，90平米，在城市郊区眺望高楼大厦的天际线。而这样的典型经济型住宅环境，在青年人的忙碌日程中往往给不了休憩和归属感。 如何改变陈旧传统的小区外观，营造人性化的邻里关系，成为设计师的切入点。 设计师的改造从生活问题出发，新的立面将在生活模式上带来转变：用绸和波的意向，作为小区南北立面扩展的阳台。绸带和波浪，共同的特色在于连接。一个连字，是邻里之间的隔而不断；是从屋顶花园、立面，到楼底草坪的一气呵成；一个连字，是住宅由内向外的活动延伸和由外向内的视线游览。 模糊传统单元的分隔实质，在阳台空间上，三三两两形成新的视线和空间感受，最终成为本设计的概念

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PROJECTION DECOMPOSITIOIN STUDY 3 Project study take 3. 1 projector.

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PROJECTION DECOMPOSITION STUDY 2 Further Projection Study that uses 2 projects to create a 3-dimenstional immersive environment.

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PROJECTION DECOMPOSITION STUDY 1 Projection with decomposed screen that creates a 3-dimensional immersive environment. 1 projector.

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JUNDING BOUTIQUE HOTEL Xitang, China 680 square meter, 7320 square feet 2014 Design 2015 Under construction. The building is located in an ancient Chinese water town. The design uses the spatial experiences of the old town as ideas in organization the building.

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INTENSION