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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

xiaofeng MEI: Architecture can exist as a medium on the sensory, perceptual and organism. It should respond to a variety of environmental parameters and focus on dealing with the relationship rather than a physical body.—Kisho Kurokawa

My project is located on a coastal area of Japan which is a site susceptible to environmental influences. My thesis is about the “dynamic morphologies” of a building’s envelope, and how architecture can move away from being fix to one that is in contrast shape. That shape is a response to the immediate environment.

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suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

xiaofeng MEI & xiaotian GAO: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Based on Bionics — The concept of this design based on the deconstruction and restructuring of Bionics as well as the supernatural spirit of the church’s design review.

The idea is based on two starting levels and extraction elements. One is the derivative and evolution of fish’s bone and texture. Specifically, from fish bones, fish gills, fish suko, and other various important parts, I can extract the geometric elements and then sort out the logic of formation of biological body, which would become the primitive of main structure and mode. Second is the religious beliefs of church and spiritual of space.

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