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[1] Architecture

The Infinite Tower
1 Tower, 10 Villages
Archive Tower
Tea House or Tea Rooms in a House?
Twin(s) Laboratory
Slow Urban-scape
Reinvent Chicago Bunglow
Permeable Landscape
Silenmelos : Town of Walls
Algae Rail-scape
Housing-Infrastructure


[2] OBJECTS

Tables
Chairs

Installations


[3] PAINTINGS & DRAWINGS


[4] PHOTOGRAPHY
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Twin(s) Laboratory

---Beauty of Forking and Coupling

Year: 2021
Program: Material engineering labs
Location: 42o 22’ 26” N, 71o 06’ 48” W
Area: 5600 m2

 

Twin(n.) describes something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts. While Twin(v.) describes the act of linking and combining. The Twin(s) Laboratory, as an entity consisting of two converging and coupling parts, identifies itself as a linkage and mediator between science and art, and between public and the institution.

Laboratory, as an educational institution should serve as the bridge between artists and scientists, as well as the mediator between the community and the industry. The twining of artists and scientists, and of the public and the institution are realized programmatically and spatially in the project.



The Twin(s) laboratory, home of the glass and metal material engineering departments, contains material research labs, material testing labs, offices for researchers, glass and metal workshops, co-working spaces, an exhibition space, and a public cafe. Sited at the intersection between Prescott St and Broadway Ave, the project faces the Carpenter Center designed by Le Corbusier and the Harvard Art Museum renovated by Renzo Piano. The context of the design opens up tremendous opportunities: the artists’ workshops and the exhibition spaces offered by these two figures serve as a magnet that pulls artists, students, scholars and the public to the site. The new laboratory for material engineering addresses the rising interest in new materials not only in the scientific and production realms but also in the contemporary art realm.
The project is an integrated whole of twin parts, which follow two axes formed by the Carpenter center and the Art Museum. The two axes guide the project in multiple ways: structure at the peripheral follows the direction of the axis, supporting smaller triangular individual spaces for more intimate research activities. The structure inspires the folding gesture of the building facade as well as the orientation of the pitch roof. The ramp, as a symbolic continuum of the ramp of the Carpenter Center, threads through the junction of the twins, creating an symbolic elevated ground that levels up and forms dialogues with the masterpiece. Landscapes and public plazas on the ground floor follow the direction of the two volumes.

 GROUND FLOOR PLAN

2ND FLOOR PLAN
SECOND FLOOR PLAN THIRD FLOOR PLAN


VIEW OF THE TOP FLOOR TOP FLOOR PLAN


Infrastructure of the architecture in the laboratory is to be celebrated in the project. Each of the twins is anchored by the “Wall of Mechanics” in which egress, restrooms and all mechanical shafts are contained and occasionally exposed. The concrete domino structure frees the service area from load bearing function. Therefore, through the altering use of solid, transparent and translucent materials, the service areas play hide and seek with the occupants while they travel through the building. The wall also serves as the mediator between large open lab spaces with linear shape common and communal spaces.SHORT SECTION

VIEW OF THE RAMP LOOKING INTO THE “WALL OF MECHANICS”


LONG SECTION


ELEVATION DETAIL
SECTION DETAIL

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