ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIOFROM 2005-2012

RAN CAO

contact: 6149064661email: cao.175@osu.edu

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WEINLANDPARK BIKE GARDEN

HELSINKI CITY LIBRARY

HIGHWAY OVERLAY

COMPREHENSIVE STUDIO

CINCINNATI CULTURAL INSTITUTE

ART EXPERIENCE CENTER

RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT DESIGN

WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE MEMORIAL

COMPETITION WORK

ART GALLERY

Design Academic WorkColumbus, OHDate: Fall Quarter 2012Group Work: Eugene Calara, Ran Cao,

In order to invigorate the local of W , we propose a infrastructure for the 3M site. Networks of movement, access, storage and a ordable equipment and movement, access, storage and a ordable equipment and maintenance revolve around bike culture from to

As an to both vehicular and pedestrian creates local jobs, facilitates access to residents, and reduces the of fossil fuels. and their provide an armature that allows

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First Floor Plan

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Helsinki City Library

Design Academic WorkHelsinki, FinlandDate: 2011 Winter QuarterIndependent Work

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library collection area

library collection

storage

library material

handling

oases

quite arearestroom

restroom

Second Floor PlanSecond Floor Axon

treaching

group work

meeting

mezzanine level

(interactive space)

music

recording

video studiovideo studio

treaching

group work

meeting

children’s world

personal

office areaworkrooms

listening

reviewing

game room

fab lab

Third Floor PlanThird Floor Axon

Main Entrance

Entrance to Events Space

AtriumMulti-purpose

Room

view toward children’s world

sound baffer

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Highway Overlay

Design Academic WorkColumbus, OHDate: 2011 Spring QuarterIndependent Work

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In order to shape a “home from home” living environment for the expatriates in the site of Franklinton, Columbus, we created a community living development by build community in both

cape create di erent scales of enclosure for the From Market Courtyard to Private Courtyard, the irregular routes in the ground level allow people to meander throught

pockets created form semi-private gardens shared by the

Markets, Cultural Center and Community Center are providing spaces for cultural and

As for by employing and horizontal controllable louvers and colorful plaster, the variable facades

Design Academic Work Franklinton, Columbus, OHDate: Winter Quarter 2011Group Work: Norman Ai, Eugene Calara, Ran Cao

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Basement Level-parking & circulation

Courtyard Level-“macro” neighborhoods

Residents Level-“micro” neighborhoods

Glass Shutters-visible vs. invisible

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The site is located near the city’s main cultural buildings group, between Washington Park and downtown area. The concept starts from the entrance of the city of Water and Bridge.

place for studying and preserving city culture. The bridge connects

together.

Design Academic WorkDate: Fall Quarter 2011

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mountain view

neighborhoodOver the Rhine

downtown area

cultural buildinggroup

facing the waterscholars workshop and

the green space facing the mountain

facing the neighborhood

water

bridge and water

mountain viewOver the Rhine and mountain

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Bookstore

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Hotel

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Design Academic Work Public Building DesignDate: 11/2007----02/2008Independent Work

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four program blocks

The site is in the city center. There is a big city park on the southeastern part of the site and a small one on the southwestern part. The two parks’ axis intersect at the Northwestern corner of the site.

In this way, the site plays a central role in the surrounding area. So this proposal intends to complete the southeastern park axis, providing access from the northwestern corner of the site through the art experience center, to the city park.

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adding public stairs

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Design Academic WorkHefei, ChinaDate: 09/2008-----01/2010Independent Work

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my proposal

my proposal

In traditional residential designs, we consider kitchen, washroom and storeroom as subsidiary and unimportant places and try to put them apart from main residential spaces (such as living room and bedroom). But actually they are most frequently used and important places in a family. So this design aims to unify these spaces together to act as a center in the house.

In this design, every residential building has three cores which act both as structural cores and residential service cores. The skin is the structural component too.

The dynamic form of the building would serve as an iconic symbol in the new city town.

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Date: 2nd Semester 2008

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Adding Details

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Stopping TimeMemorial Poles Plaza

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MOVE OUT OF WARD Wild Respite World for Patients

Daytime Greenhouses Material

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fuzzy glass:

for prividing privacy

projection screen:

for night time activities

reflective metal sheet:

for meditation.

Site Plan

The eastern part of the plaza offers more extior public spaces and single greenhouses for

privacy.

The western part of the plaza offters interior social activities spaces and reflective area at

the perimeter of the building.

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View from inside of the hospital towards greenhouses

time View

“ I felt anxious and depressed from daily routine medical programs. I am eager to walk out

of the hospital ward and take a breathe. ” - By a cancer patient.

Hospital usually gives negative impressions on patients because no one would like to

suffer diseases. Therefore, the area able to offer a place that em brasses physical and mental

relax and remedy is needed.

This project combines landscape and architecture features together within one respite

system. By providing greenhouses sited in dense-planted landscape, the system offers

more access for patients and family to touch nature world. Also multi-scale greenhouses

give more flexibility to both private and social activities.

The interweaving landscape patterns blend both natural and human activities together,

allowing the flexibility of programming, and bring a wild world to the artificial medical

environment to perform landscape therapy.

landscape both inside and out-

side blurs the boundary of the

green house.

reflective material of green-

houses privide connected

views between hospital and

landscape

single module greenhouse and greenhouses complex

private activities social activities

Concept

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Water ColorT Village,

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Banvard Gallery, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University

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Hefei University of Technology, Anhui Province, China

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