HENRY DING
fish lover – goodreads fanatic – eating hobbyist – wikipedia explorer – aspiring nation builder –
A student at the Rhode Island School of Design pursuing a dual Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) and Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) with concentrations in Literary Arts & Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies.
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︎︎︎︎ Architecture
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
Fall 2022
Fall 2022
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︎︎︎︎ Play
Winter 2023
Fall 2021
Fall 2021
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Spring 2024
Spring 2022
Spring 2022
Summer 2022
Fall 2022
Watching the Hourglass: Japanese Politics in the Midst of a Disappearing Population
Brown Political Review
Brown Political Review
Fall 2021
︎︎︎︎ News
Winter 2023
Summer 2023
︎ Friends
Some beautiful friends and collaborators that should immediately be checked out:
Ryan Yan, Nicole Nedeff, Tian Pei, Sharon Lee, Jessica Song, Matteo Mastrangelo, Maithili Chaturvedi, Alex Liu, Ram Charan, Jessica Ruan, Clementine Kim, Yucheng Che, Katherine Fu, Jesse Hogan, Ryan Peng, Julia Ambros, Richard Shi, Izzy Choi
Vertical Paper Factory
Spring 2024
Professor Evan Farley
Professor Evan Farley
Skills
Lasercutting · Rhinoceros 7 · Photoshop · Illustrator · Grasshopper
Lasercutting · Rhinoceros 7 · Photoshop · Illustrator · Grasshopper
The project interrogates the ability of program and the paper making process to join hands with ideas of residence, water recyling, and manufacturing as methods of understanding how to arrange program. In what ways can we shift different spatial understandings, material needs, and residential factors against each other? How do they meet in this in-between zone?
The Vertical Paper Factory is situated in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY in proximity to several local artist communities and production facilities.
The internal structure of shifting wood floor plates and steel framing is connected by three vertical channels of movement for materials and inhabitants. The whole structure is then enveloped in a shell of perforated polycarbonate and glass sheets. The profile of this cladding is meant to mimic paper drapping over the massing of the building. This language is also used to devise a rain catchment system used for the rooftop greenhouse. The first level and back garden are sunken into the ground, adhereing to local building codes and exploring a spectrum of lighting conditions.
There are no explicitly defined floors in the paper factory, rather, there are general zones of production that shift against each other and steadily rise in a clockwise motion around a central elevator. As program massings stack, this is what ultimately guides the flow of floor heights and wall systems.
From the top floor to basement we follow the flow of the production of paper crafts: from a top floor greenhouse growing , to raw material processing, to paper pulp processing, to studio space, to dry rooms, to gallery/sales, and finally to archival storage. Apartments and living quarters are embedded strategically throughout.
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