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- Experience Architect -
What would it be like living on a bridge connecting Missouri to Illinois and spanning the running Mississippi river?
People are immersed in the built dwelling as their little worlds, and this deep mental metal involvement is both qualitative and indescribable. Thus, being more sensitive and being more aware of how the specific qualities of Mississippi river will be brought in and enhance human experience is beyond essential.
Dwelling
Physical Model Photo
Project type: Experience Design, Design Research
Location: St.louis, USA
My role: Individual Architecture Studio Project
Skills: Rhino 3D modeling, Lumion & Photoshop rendering
Hi-fi Prototyping, Laser cutting, Hand tools, Storytelling
Story
As bridges overcome the impending geographical separation brought by the mighty rivers, they stand as powerful symbols of connections that are as much cultural and social as they are utilitarian. Spanning the Mississippi river, the 5353 ft long Chain of Rocks Bridge is one of the longest continuous steel truss bridges in the US.
The bridge's most notable features are a 22-degree bend occurring at the middle of the crossing, and a 40-foot wide roadway with five trusses forming 10 spans. Massive concrete piers standing 55 feet above the high-water mark support the structure.
Chain of Rocks Bridge, North St.louis, USA
Photo credit to Wikipedia
Background Story
Torrentially running water brings excessive nutrients down the river. When the water hits the piers of Chain of Rock bridge, the nutrients are trapped and thus form dense nutrient eddies under the bridge.
When there're food, there're lives. From aloes to fishes, all forms of lives meet at the piers. I conducted researches on the amount and the types of fish gatherings around the piers in different times of the year to understand the possibilities of carrying out potential related human activities among seasons.
After days of digging, the research results show that most fish gather at the pier's right supports, which leads to my decision to design my hostel at that exact location. This could possibly bring the best fishing and observing experience to the exclusive guests of my hostel.
Visualization of fish gathering researches of Chain of Rocks piers; click on to see more
Rhino, Adobe Illustrator
Iterations
[Liquid tectonic]
Water is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, but it is vital for all known forms of life and everything comes out of water. I drew technical, ecological, and cultural inspirations from water and develop devices that expose and manipulate tangible effects of water. The effect that intrigued me the most was Siphonage: a magic only water possesses.
Ideation
Threads help construct colored water, imbody its form and inter-weave to create space.
Drawing by Rhino & Adobe Illustrator; Physical model photos
[Dwelling]
Dwelling is nothing more than an extension of existential space and place, becoming the core of human activity. Dwelling support and reflects a person's way of being in the world. The built environment is a manifestation of the world and becomes critical to the body's experience.
Photo & photo renderings; Section drawings by Rhino & Adobe Ai
HOW MIGHT WE
Introduce visitors to a spatial experience that breaks
the boundary between man-made dwelling and the Great Mississippi?
HMW
Design
[An experience of Connectivity]
Inspired from liquid tectonic device, I extended the “wrapping“ nature from the threads to both architectural structure and spatial relationship.
Design Solution
Section drawings & Physical model photos
Rhino modeling & Adobe AI, PS
Walls and windows interact with each other, partitioning the private space from the public ones in a gentle manner. With the gridding structure covered on top, the guests in one way are shielded away from the mightiness of the great Mississippi river, but at the same time enjoying the beautiful river views and the subtle stripping sunlight flowing into their rooms. Numerous wire ropes cocoon the entire architecture, blurring the boundary between humans and nature, and introducing the guests to an unprecedented sensory experience. Indeed, they are living in a bubble floating in the middle of two great lifeless entities that connect millions of organic life forms together.
Rendering by Rhino, Lumion & Adobe PS
Physical model photos; Adobe PS edits
"Dwelling involves the gathering of the fourfold, the coming together of earth, sky, people and the sense of spiritual reverence that signifies higher realities."
Rendering by Lumion & Adobe PS
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