This project examines the design of two speculative building typologies with distinct vertical and horizontal conditions at two sites. The goal is to explore urbanization and fluid urban territories through a process-driven methodology. Analytical diagramming informs the design outcomes. The projects question relationships between architecture, landscape, and interior design to create holistic environments and examine architecture as social infrastructure with information flows shaping public space.

1. PROJECT ABSTRACT
The project examines two building typologies. The
goal is divided into multiple phases that lead to
structural and spatial development. The two projects
focus on the design of speculative buildings with
two distinct conditions (vertical and horizontal) at
two distinct sites (open and infill). The project ex-
plores the social and physical construct of urbaniza-
tion from a systems theory point of view. The project
pedagogy stresses a process driven design method-
ology. The goal focuses on the city as fluid urban ter-
ritories which are materialized by dynamic processes
and relationships that exhibit emergent properties.
The project is designed building infrastructures that
tectonically express innovative structures, material,
and spatial qualities. As part of the design process, I
develop building schemes that have interactive zones
of performance, circulation and information net-
works, and hybridized program scenarios. Analytical
diagramming becomes the generator for the design
outcome in all three projects. Spatial and structural
development are in response to multiple levels of
research discovered in the diagrams. The projects
question and are informed by the local context of the
sites, program specificity as well as larger global is-
sues which are discussed from assigned readings. The
project continuously questions, invent and invert the
relationship between landscape architecture, interior
architecture, and architecture design to create a
holistic environment. It is an opportunity to explore
the architecture projects as social infrastructure
implanted with flows of information which determine
new interface and shape public space inside and out.
03_
ARH609_
WESTFIELD MALL,
SAN FRANCISCO
INFORMATION
Location_
865 Market Street,
San Francisco,
CA 94103, USA
Site Area_
1,250,000 sq ft
Project Size_
300,000 gross sq ft
Project Year_
2014
Program_
Temporary
Events & Exhibitions
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2. METHODOLOGY
The project emphasizes a process driven design meth-
odology through individually developed rule-based
techniques. Generative processes are emphasized in
the development of two and three-dimensional
drawing and structure-making procedures. Focus is
placed on inventing strategies to transfer analysis
into tectonic visualizations that utilize structure,
pattern, and organization to create comprehensive
architectural buildings.
Within both project., there are a series of the key
may term assign order ned to clarify and narrow
down modes of analysis and operation. The project is
divided into specific objectives that describe the con-
ceptual framework and rules for model-making and
drawing. This includes clarifying the processes
of investigation, abstraction, and invention through
a range of procedures, materials, and techniques.
Design intent includes a shift from contents to pat-
terns, quantities to qualities, objects to relationships,
parts of the whole, composition to processes, hierar
chies to networks, measuring to mapping. The pro-
jects respond accordingly to the specific sites of the
investigation by introducing an architecture that is
reactive utilizing proposing to either/or/and integrate
into the context field, occupy the context field or
transform the context field.
Left_
Westfield Mall Annual
Events & Programs
PROGRAM—EVERY MONTH
_Berlin and Beyond Film Festival
_Chinese New Year Show
_SF Flower & Garden Show
_International Film Festival
_SFAI-MFA Exhibition
_Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival
_Jewish Film Festival
_Aloha Festival
_Art & Wine Festival
_Sake Festival
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
June
July
Aug
Sep
Oct
PROGRAM—EVERY 3 MONTHS
- Ice Skating
- Cherry Festival
- Flume-Ride
- Cruise Traveling
- Fiction Exhibition
- Google Tech-Home
- Meeting Art in SF
- Ramen Competition
- Japanese Tea House
- American Cup House
Nov - Feb
Apr - June
July - Sep
June - Aug
Sep - Nov
Dec - Feb
Mar - May
Sep - Nov
Jan - Mar
June - Aug
PROGRAM—EVERY 6 MONTHS
- Indoor Skiing & Snowboarding
- SF Jazz Music Show
- SF Intro-Space
- Tea Taste Room
- Japanese Cuisine Live Kitchen
- US Army Show Room
- Hip-Hop Dance Battle eld
- Spanish Cuisine
Interactive Kitchen
- Pixar Exhibition
- Night Market
Nov - Apr
May - Oct
Sep - Feb
Mar - Aug
Sep - Feb
Mar - Aug
July - Dec
Jan - June
Mar - Aug
Sep - Feb
PROGRAM—EVERY 12 MONTHS
- Indoor Basketball Court
- Baseball Pitcher Experience
- NFL Experience
- Stress Release Room
- Indoor Sky-Diving
- Endless Maze
- Free-Fall Ride
-Time Capsule Locker
- Magic Show
- MOMA Gallery
- World Travel Exhibition
- Modern Design Workshop
- Napa WineTaste Room
- Marvel vs DC
- Chinese Cuisine Live Kitchen
- Cup Making DIY
- Lego Interactive Space
- Escape the Secrect Room
- Surng Experience
- Nike Fitness
Jan - June
July - Dec
Apr - Sep
July - Dec
Oct - Mar
June - Nov
Dec - May
Oct - Mar
Apr - Sep
Jan - June
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3. BIOLOGICAL BEHAVIOR
ANALYSIS—SEA ANEMONES
Sea anemones have two ways of reproducing, sexual
and asexual reproduction. The asexual reproduction
is lateral fission, and it also called binary fission. The
asexual reproduction of sea anemones occurs in five
steps in cell mutation, being triggered, budding,
fission, fragmentation, and regeneration.
SITE ELEMENTS BIO-BEHAVIOR TECHNIQUES ACTIONS SPACE TYPES
Loop SpaceTrigger
Escalator
Budding
Intersection
Fission
Advertising
Billboard
Store Target
Smell
Dinning
Fragmentation
Regeneration
Undulating
Agitating
Rotating
Agitating
Elongating
Pushing
Multiplying
Squeezing
Agitating
Increasing
Agitating
Re-forming
Constricting
Splitting
Spreading
Radiant Space
Enclosed Space
Circuitous Space
Spread Space
PROGRAMS
_Berlin and Beyond Film Festival / 0.5hr
_Jewish Film Festival / 0.5hr
_Free-Fall Ride / 0.5hr
_Chinese New Year Show / 0.5hr
_SF Flower & Garden Show / 0.5hr
_Aloha Festival / 0.5hr
_SF Jazz Music Show / 0.5hr
_Dance Battle eld / 0.5hr
_Ice Skating / 1hr
_Japanese Tea House / 1hr
_Indoor Skiing & Snowboarding / 1hr
_Indoor Basketball Court / 2hr
_Indoor Sky-Diving / 0.5hr
_Cherry Festival / 0.5hr
_Ramen Competition / 1hr
_Night Market / 1hr
_Endless Maze / 0.5hr
_Fiction Exhibition (0.5hr)
_Japanese Cuisine Live Kitchen (1.5hr)
_Spanish Cuisine Live Kitchen (1.5hr)
_Chinese Cuisine Live Kitchen (1.5hr)
_Cup Making DIY (1.5hr)
_Lego Interactive Space (1hr)
_Nike Fitness (1hr)
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4. The first stage of a prokaryotic cell involves the movement
of the protein distributed in the interior of the cell. As
the proteins begin to move closer by waving and shaking
to the center of the cell.
Trigger
_Undulating
_Agitating
_Rotating
The plasma membrane (shell of the cell) begins to
elongate into an oval shape, and the protein and DNA
replicate at the same time. This oval shape is the
second phase of mutation.
Budding
_Agitating
_Elongating
_Multiplying
The third phase is when the plasma membrane begins
to split and leaves the protein in the center of the cell.
The DNA of the cell splits and pushes towards the outer
walls of the membrane creating a force.
Fission
-Pushing
-Increasing
-Constricting
The fourth phase creates a “septum” or a wall around the
two daughter cells. While the DNA is still pushing out-
wards, the protein is dividing and beginning to re-enter
the two cells.
Fragmentation
_Squeezing
_Agitating
_Splitting
The final stage is when the two daughter cells have split
with a DNA strand in each cell and the same amount of
Regeneration protein in each cell.
Regeneration
_Spreading
_Re-Forming
_Agitating
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5. BINARY FISSION
PROCESS
OF SEA ANEMONES
Trigger Budding
Fission
Fragmentation
Regeneration
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6. PROGRAM—EVERY 12 MONTH
- Indoor Basketball Court
- Stress Release Room
- Indoor Sky-Diving
- Endless Maze
- Free-Fall Ride
PROGRAM—EVERY MONTH
_Berlin and Beyond Film Festival
_Chinese New Year Show
_SF Flower & Garden Show
_Jewish Film Festival
_Aloha Festival
Jan
Feb
Mar
July
Aug
PROGRAM—EVERY 3 MONTH
_Ice Skating
_Cherry Festival
_Flume-Ride
_Ramen Competition
_Japanese Tea House
Nov - Feb
Apr - June
July - Sep
Mar - May
Sep - Nov
PROGRAM—EVERY 6 MONTH
_Indoor Skiing & Snowboarding
_SF Jazz Music Show
_Japanese Cuisine Live Kitchen
_Dance Battle eld
_Spanish Cuisine Interactive
Kitchen
_Night Market
_Chinese Cuisine Live Kitchen
_Cup Making DIY
_Lego Interactive Space
_Nike Fitness
Nov - Apr
May - Oct
Sep - Feb
July - Dec
Jan - June
Sep - Feb
Oct - Mar
June - Nov
Dec - May
Jan - June
PROGRAMS WITH
BINARY
FISSION PROCESS
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7. MALL INTERIOR
PERSPECTIVE
Trigger
Budding
Fission
Fragmentation
Regeneration
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8. 10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
15:00
16:00
Mon
Tues
Wed
Thurs
The Weekend
17:00
18:00
19:00
20:00
Male Female
Low Density
High Density
STORES BASED ON
GENDER FOCUS
IMPORTANT INTERSECTION
IN CIRCULATION
EATING ACTIVITY
TIMELINE
WINDOW SHOPPING
ROUTE TIMELINE
AREA MOST INFLUENCED
BY ADVERTISING
Trigger
Trigger
Trigger
Budding
Budding
Budding
There are a lot of women’s boutiques
but fewer men’s boutiques in this area.
This situation divides the targets into
two main groups (male and female).
The process shows the transition from
a large group (budding) to
two sub-groups (fission).
This area has a lot of advertising
billboard which triggers the shoppers
to notice the benefits of buying a
specific product. Then, they start
moving toward their targets (budding)
and separating from the main group
temporarily.
This is the entrance area and the main
intersection of the flow of people from
outside the mall and coming down
from the other floors. This intersection
is also the main circulation, which
leads the different group to their
targets (budding and fission), and
there are some advertisements which
influence customers(trigger).
The basement area is the dining area. The smells
trigger the customers’ sense of taste (trigger). Then,
they break into smaller groups in line in front of the
restaurant (fission). After eating, they join the
main group upstairs for shopping (regeneration).
Fission
Fission
Fission
Fragmentation
Regeneration
Shopping
Behavior
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9. LOOP SPACE + ENCLOSED SPACE
LOOP SPACE + RADIANT SPACE LOOP SPACE + RADIANT SPACE
ENCLOSED SPACE RADIANT SPACE
CIRUITOUS SPACE SPREAD SPACE
Free Fall Ride &Indoor
Sky-Diving & Basketball Court
Indoor Skiing &
Snowboarding & Ice Skating
Japanese & Spanish & Chinese
Cuisine Live Kitchen
Chinese New Year Show & Aloha
Festival & Jewish Film Festival
Night Market & Fiction Exhibition &
Ramen Competition & Endless Maze
& Cherry Festival
Nike Fitness &
Lego Interactive Space
Dance Battle Field &
SF Jazz Music Show
Japanese Tea House
SF Flower & Garden Show &
Berlin and Beyond Film Festival
Section &
Program
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10. Connection
Details
1
2
4
Floor
Floor
Floor
Anchor
Connection
Anchor
Connection
Column
Connection
Bio-Process &
Plan
Trigger
Trigger
TECHNOLOGY
Budding
SHOPPING
FLOW
Budding
Fission
Fission
Fragmentation
Fragmen-
tation
Regeneration
Regenera-
tion
The sub-flows continue to spread
out into the corridor. When the
sub-flows get to the stores, which
cater to a specific gender, some
of sub-flows change color to
either blue or red.
The main flow breaks into
more and more sub-flows in
the Westfield Mall. Then
they spread out to the first
dome of the Westfield Mall.
When the shopping flows interact
with the bio-elements (advertising
billboard, intersection, escalator,
and smell), it starts dividing into
several smaller sub-flows.
The shopping flow
merges from street
to the entrance of
the Westfield Mall.
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