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Work BIN FU
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BIN FU
BIN FU
College of Architecture, University of Houston2007-2012
E-mail: [email protected]: 281-744-5966
CONTENTSUrban Planning
Rio De JaneiroHousing + Area Development Project
Hotel Design
Seattle Eco-Hotel
Public Gathering Space
Houston Third Ward DistrictExhibition & Community Center
Recycling Center
New York: Gansevoort PenninsulaRecycling Center & Educational Center
Industrial Design
New YorkPublic Seatng/Bench Design
Exhibition Installation
Ryan Middle School & Third Ward DistrictHistory Exhibition
MARACANAMANGUERIA
Rio De Janeiro,Brazil
Housing Development + Area Urban Planing
“To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes.”― Jane Jacobs
Favela is the generally used term for a shanty town in Brazil. This was the place where former slaves with no land own-ership and no options for work lived. Over the years, many freed black slaves moved in.Favelas are associated with extreme poverty. Brazil's favelas can be seen as the result of the unequal distribution of wealth in the country. Police have little or no control in many favelas. Drug use and sale are highly concentrated in these areas run by local gangs in each highly populated favela. The poor population grew at a rapid pace as well as the modern fave-las that house them in the end of last century.
THE FAVELA LIFESTYLE
Even though Favela is not a pleasant and stable environment to live. But as a very unique urban case, Favela still has its successful operating system that is worth learning by us. Within the city, Favelas are isolated from the rest of the city, which forced it to become a very self-sustained community.
The site I chose to work on is located right next to the Favela, I was very interested in bringing this Self-Sustained Community idea to my urban project, which later became the major concept that influenced the overall design strategy of my project.
housingcommercialinfrastructure
inspiration
There are a large railroad system and a subway system taking up a large area of the site, so I decided to do a large elevated platform space over the railroad to minimize the project footprint. And this platform would absorb all the surrounding programs in like retails, metro station. The platform is divided into three levels: housing and parkscape occupies the top level; office, commercial space occu-pies the mid-level; transportation hub occurs on the bottom level. By punching various sizes of openings through the platform, it allows to bring the sunlight in. Housing buildings on the top level are varied from the heights and types of housing, which provides a wide range of options for people to choose from. The elevated self-sustained community space provides people an opportunity to take a great look at the rest of city. People that live inside the community have everything that they need within reach, but the train and subway on the bottom level are always ready to take them to experience the other parts of the city.
1 2PLATFORM SPACE over RAILROAD that brings inINFRASTRUCTURE & HOUSING PROGRAMS.
Varying the Volumes of the Platform by PULLING, PUSHING &LIFTING the sufaces.
retails
housing
3Varying the Volumes of the Platform by PULLING, PUSHING &LIFTING the sufaces.
Filling all the PROGRAMS in.
Housing
Commercials
Transportation Hub
commercial & retail
housingmetro station
car lane
parkscape
subway
Housing programs are all placed on the very top level of the ele-vated field in order to provide the people living there a good view towards the surroundings. The platform has an irregular shape from the top view to respond to different site conditions. The com-munity can be accessed from all sides. All levels of the platform are connected through ramps, stairs and elevators. In order to provide a very pleas-ant living environment, other rec-reational programs are plugged in like outdoor theater and soccer field. People that live on the top level has direct access to the transpor-tation hub without having to go through unnecessary programs. The platform also functions as a bridge that connects the two sides of the railroad, which will activate more movements on that direction.The project is located very close to the 2016 Olympic site in Rio De Janeiro, which allows it has a great potential to become another monumental gathering spot for people from all over the world.
Commercial & Transportation hub
Housing & Parkscape
Eco-Hotel
Seattle, WAUnited States
Hotel Design + Public Communication
The project site is located in Seattle. It's current-ly occupied by a single-story building and the roof functions as a parking lot. I was assigned to design a small-scale hotel on this site. The hotel needs to have two styles of units. And a wild card program also needs to be added into the design as a major attraction of the hotel.
site plan building footprint
block street/circulation green space
Ground Level Floor Plan Top Level Floor Plan
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major street entrance
suitesmall roomfire stairselevatorlobbyofficegallery
Street Level Floor Plan
The regular hotel rooms, including three sizes: suites, large rooms and small rooms, are located inside the "L" shape bar. And the Japanese Capsule style units are located on top of the lobby. As the hotel sits on the ground that is one floor height lower than the street level, I put the lobby at the second floor of the hotel instead of the ground level so that people have direct access to the hotel from the major street. The design started with a cube that was relatively same volume as the surrounding build-ings. By carving out the space from the cube, it creates an interesting space inside the cube. The central space becomes a courtyard that allows peoples to see each other from their rooms. The wildcard program I put into the design is called "Digital Graffiti". The inner skin of the design is mostly made out of either clear glass or frosted glass, which gives a good amount of transparency to each room. In order to encourage the communication between people that stay at the hotel, each room is installed with a LED display screen that imitates "twitter" idea. Through these screens, people in different rooms will be able to communicate with each other by texting and sketching.
3rd WARD EXHIBITION SPACE
Houston, TXUnited States
Third Ward DistrictExhibition&CommunityCenter
PUBLICPRIVATE
This project is to design a space that is going to be used by both people outside and inside the Third Ward. I want to make this space become a major gathering space for the Third Ward. The site faces the Emancipation Park, which is one is the most signifi-cant gathering place inside THIRD WARD. So my idea was to design this exhibition space as a continuity of the park, the culture of the Third Ward, the people of Third Ward.
1The site is relatively small. The required parking is set up first, which restricts the footprint of the building design.
PUBLICPRIVATE
This project is to design a space that is going to be used by both people outside and inside the Third Ward. I want to make this space become a major gathering space for the Third Ward. The site faces the Emancipation Park, which is one is the most signifi-cant gathering place inside THIRD WARD. So my idea was to design this exhibition space as a continuity of the park, the culture of the Third Ward, the people of Third Ward.
2 3The site is relatively small. The required parking is set up first, which restricts the footprint of the building design.
The exhibition hall becomes the connecton piece that links the public space and private space together.
Required programs: PUBLIC (lob-by, exhibiton hall) vs. PRIVATE (faculty offices, archive storages)
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1. 3 1/4” CONCRETE SLAB2. LIFETOP LAWN MEDIA3. WATER TRACK4. PLANTS5. 8”X8” WIDE FLANGE6. W12 WIDE FLANGE7. BATT INSULATION8. ALUMINUM LOUVERS9. STEEL STUD10. CEDAR RAIN SCREEN
11. CONCRETE FOUNDA-TION12. STYROFOAM INSULA-TION13. 1 1/5” X6” STUCTURAL MULLIONS14. 1 1/5” X3” MULLIONS15. CEILING TILE16. W6 C-BEAM17. SHEAR STUD 18. REINFORCING MESH
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Exhibition LevelExhibition SpaceClassroomMajor StaircaseFire StairsElevatorRestroomMechanical RoomStorage
Recycling Center
New York: Gansevoort Penninsula,United States
Recycling Center & Educational Center
Site Perimeter & Maximum Building Footprint
An INTERLOCK piece filled with pro-grams of LOBBY, CLASSROOMS, LEC-TURE HALL & OUTDOOR CAFETERIA becomes the connecting piece of two major massing.
Extruding Site
Gallery Space: Ground is raised as Ter-races for people to gather and relax. It also helps to separate the public space and private space of the design.
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The site is currently occupied by an existing recycling center. The goal of this project is to renovate the existing recycling center and incorporate a edu-cational center and parkscape space into the site.Three out of four sides of the site are surrounded by water. There are both bike lane and car lane on the only side that the site is connected to the rest of the city. I created an artificial terraced landscape as the major parkscape on the site, which helps to separate the educational center and public space from the more private program: recycling center. The educational center and gallery space are sitting on top of the elevated landscape. On the other side, the existing recycling center is merged into the new designed linear-shape building filled with other programs of administration offices and workspace for the faculties. The two parts of the building are connected by lecture hall and major circulations.
Gallery Space: Ground is raised as Ter-races for people to gather and relax. It also helps to separate the public space and private space of the design.
Spliting to 2 Major sets of Programs: Re-cycling Transfer Station VS. Community Education Center
Offices(Recycling Transfer Station & Community Education Centercombined) (YELLOW)Transfer Station (Pink)
Merging the existing transfer station by EXTENDING.
Interlock Connecting Piece (LOBBY, CLASSROOMS, LECTURE HALL & OUTDOOR CAFETERIA)
Diagnal circulation cuts through to open up the view of water to the street.
Sloping the roof to reduce excessive volumes.Inserting the car circulation in.
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The site is currently occupied by an existing recycling center. The goal of this project is to renovate the existing recycling center and incorporate a edu-cational center and parkscape space into the site.Three out of four sides of the site are surrounded by water. There are both bike lane and car lane on the only side that the site is connected to the rest of the city. I created an artificial terraced landscape as the major parkscape on the site, which helps to separate the educational center and public space from the more private program: recycling center. The educational center and gallery space are sitting on top of the elevated landscape. On the other side, the existing recycling center is merged into the new designed linear-shape building filled with other programs of administration offices and workspace for the faculties. The two parts of the building are connected by lecture hall and major circulations.
frosted glass
copper panel
concrete slab
concrete slab
2" metal deck
bar joists
12"x12" H beam
30" depth concrete beam
double T system
12"x12" concrete column
Longitudinal Section
LEVEL II
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DETAIL WALL ASSEMBLY
LEVEL III
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Office SpaceRecycling CenterLecture HallLobbyGalleryParkscapeADA RampElevatorFire stairs
Bench Design
New York: Gansevoort Penninsula,United States
Public Seating/Bench Design
PROBLEMS that we see from traditional seating1. Seating is an individual object.2. People that sit down get their views blocked by people standing or walking in front of them.3. When people sit down, as they are positioned on the same line, it is more difficult to communicate with each other when there are more than 2 people.
QUESTION: How to create a PUBLIC SURFACE that serves a more efficient seating and a great gathering/hang out place for people?
Creating MULTI-LEVEL seat-ing helps solving problems.
MULTILEVEL seating breaks the orthogonal relationship between ground line and vertical building facade.
view from outside
This project makes me think about the relation-ship between the vertical wall and horizontal ground line. In most of the cases in our life, wall is perpendicular to the ground line. In this project, by designing the public bench as part of the building wall system, this fixed relation-ship changed, and the space underneath the bench becomes partially occupiable, which has potential to provide more useful and rental space like a sitting area. Large clerestory win-dow punching through the wall allows people inside to see outside.
view from inside
Exhibition Installation
Third Ward, Houton, TX, United States
Ryan Middle School & Third Ward District History Exhibition
As a very unique area in Houston, Third Ward District has a very rich cultural history. It is mainly occu-pied by African Americans. The Ryan Middle School within the Third Ward asked us to design a exhibition that shows the history of the school, the architecture and the district. Our team was very honored to get to work on such a meaningful exhibition. The exhibition was set up in an old woodshop at the middle school. During the process of design and installing, I was amazed by the richness of the history of the dis-trict. Knowing different cultures is always important for people who study and work in any design field. As a collaboration project be-tween architecture students and graphic communication students, I got to learn a lot about graphic design, presentations and type-faces and understand better on how to work in a team.The exhibition got lots of positive feedbacks. The school and peo-ple coming to the exhibition were very happy with what we had done for the exhibition. We did a good job on accomplishing the goal of the exhibition: bringing the people inside the Third Ward back to these precious history and let people outside the Third War get to know the history.
Display Wall for Students' Art Works
