CONCEPTUAL PROJECT:
ONE ROOM
SPRING 2025
UIC, CHICAGO, USA - The project brief was simple, "Choose a pre-existing art exhibition and use it as a reference to create an architectural one room building, of whatever scale and function.
One Room is a project that takes the lessons learned from one piece of
Firstly, two cone-like volumes produce a forced perspective, manipulating the perception of space to appear further. Tighter niches for an office and entry open toward large, open areas for the garage and car lifts.
Secondly, the profile of the garage roof curves upward and reads as a receding surface from the front elevation. This profile produces a soft, indistinguishable edge whose end disappears out of sight.
Thirdly, containers that house the waiting room and restrooms give the illusion of levitation through materiality. Translucent partitions compartmentalize the back of house and double through the reflective interior. As they slide and slip past the exterior shell, the hovering containers allow customers and employees to be viewed through partial glimpses.
REFERENCE - MIKE NELSON - HAYWARD GALLERY - 2025
Mike Nelson's exhibition contains 3 entirely differently designed atmospheres, all inside of one singular room.
Hayward Gallery Room: White, clean, structured, and equally spaced out, few
Photography Red Room:
Desert: Chaotic,
The study concludes, the objects that fill up spaces are critical to the architecture,
3 Case Studies
1. IIT Crowne Hall - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:
The interior of Mies's Crowne Hall teaches us that what happens on the interior is more important than the actual built project, everything that appears on the architectural drawings, the steel beams, the glass facades, is all just a frame for the actual facade, which in reality are the students, the messy tabletops, and the countless of architecture models and projects scattered throughout the building.
Conclusion: the objects that make up our spaces create the architecture itself.
ONE ROOM
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FACTS
Completed Fall 2021 Semester, under the guidance of Abigail Chang
Awarded at UIC Year End Show ¨Outstanding Undergraduate 4th year Project¨ 2022
OTHER PROJECTS
2. Fire Station Number 4 - Robert Venturi:
The station's flat-faced facade is contrasted with a slanted rear wall to exaggerate that the facade is used to convey important information!
3. Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans - Claude-Nicolas Ledoux:
Designed on its own
