Category: URBAN
Circular Kyoto – Flows
During the Atelier Huang Fall Semester 2022 students focused on a particular shokunin (artisan) and their craft, which ranged from kaiseki (seasonal, traditional cuisine), wagashi (Japanese confections), sake (Japanese alcohol), paper products (Karakami), kyo-shikki (lacquerware),to tatami and architectural parts. The analysis of the different flows undermining the making of the product, from material sourcing to (…)
Circular Kyoto
Atelier Huang Fall 2022 Since its glory days as the capital of Japan (794 AD), Kyoto has managed to cultivate a flourishing tradition of artisanship (Shokunin) for over 1200 years. Yet with the recent economic downturn and changing habits of a new generation, artisanship in Kyoto is facing a noticeable decline. In this experimental studio, (…)
Circular Gangbuk
Atelier Huang Spring 2022 The projects and architectural interventions of this studio focused on Sewoon Makercity, a strangely suspended, brutalist megastructure in Gangbuk, Seoul. We examined the potential of Sewoon as a catalyst for Gangbuk’s transition to a future, net zero circular economy. Historically, Sewoon has been going through several stages of development. On a (…)
Gangnam Living Blocks
Atelier Huang Fall 2021 Gangnam District, the newest city center of Seoul, South Korea which has drawn attention internationally due to the worldwide K-Pop song “Gangnam Style” is the site and field of experimentation. With a grid network – superblocks with a division of smaller urban blocks of various scaled buildings – the urban organization (…)
Virtual Parliament
Atelier Huang Spring 2021 On December 11, 2020, the Swiss Parliament in Berne urgently accepted an initiative to allow congress members (Nationalrat/Conseil national) to vote remotely due to COVID-19, and a few days later, Sophie Michaud Gigon, the Green Party Representative from the Canton Vaud, became the first parliament member in Swiss history to cast (…)
Zürich Prints
Models digitally printed by students as one of the final steps in the artificial design research process with GAN in Zürich. https://deepcityzurich.wordpress.com/ Keywords: GAN, Artificial Design, Zürichness, Housing, 3D Print Students: Bryan Parvex, Maylis Pillet, Ebrahim Rahmani, Marilyn Brühlmann, Andrea Calzoralo, Lara Giorla, Beatriz Menéndez Ontañón, Antoine Prat, Ricky Lee, Valérie Ovadia, Basile Sordet, Yonah (…)
Sampling Zürich
In this research experiment, the GAN algorithm serves as a new mode of vision, bypassing the preconceptions of the human designer in order to reveal an unbiased pool of ideas. The algorithm zeroes in on details otherwise unnoticed to generate new interpretations. The curation of the input data set and the critical analysis of the (…)
Refuge 2.0 – Artificial Swissness
In Refuge 2.0 – Artificial Swissness we examine the notion of “cultural resilience” in Alpine cities, and question the role of creative artificial intelligence and deep learning in architecture. Confronting the machine as an active design agent, we ask the following questions: Can machines automatically learn and generate meaningful architecture? Can they go beyond quantifiable data and optimization (…)
Mapping Airlumnezia
By using the available maps and data to gain an understanding of Val Lumnezia, “Mapping Airlumnezia” considered some of the following: demographics, economic development, logistics and transportation, geography, geology, infrastructure, natural systems and environment, tourism. This exercise developed methods for site analysis based on computational tools and traditional mapping. https://airlumnezia.wordpress.com/ Keywords: Mapping, Drone, (…)
Haimian House 海綿家
Located in the Changshan Township, near Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, the project is situated on a slope and touches the lake. The proposed architecture is a strong shape that anchors the habitant and the visitor to the shore of the Lake. It is reminiscent of a local, archaic and timeless architecture. Our ecological concept is (…)
Glasgow Prototypology
Whether we like it or not, the near future will be defined by automation, artificial intelligence, smart infrastructure and urban intensification. This rapidly approaching reality begs several questions: How will we co-exist with machines? How will we perceive and relate to destinations with unpopulated architecture? Once again, during the spring semester, Glasgow is our case (…)
Xixinan Dynamic Model
Students have begun overlaying dynamic content onto the Xixinan site model. This technique allows us to focus on urban dimensions of time and motion which have been important throughout the semester. Augmenting the traditional architectural model with animated sound, color and lights expands our narrative range and helps us think of the village as a (…)