Field Design

Repeated elements vary, overlap and respond to one another across a continuous field.

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Field Drawing & Model Study

Architecture · 2025

Poiesis III ·with Lawrence Cai

A non-hierarchical system in which local interactions generate overall spatial order.

Rather than composing a single object, the study explores how repeated elements can vary, overlap, and respond to one another, so that openness, compression, and transition emerge gradually rather than abruptly.

The field model: red rods cross white frames and dark, curved volumes. — Field model

From two houses

The study began with two vernacular precedents. The Dai stilted house lifts its mass to create shaded, permeable ground. The rammed earth house shapes climate and hierarchy through solidity, thickness, and enclosure. Their geometric rules became a shared language.

Section of the Dai stilted house on its slope, with air moving through it. — Precedent section: Dai stilted house

Plans of the Dai stilted house and the rammed earth house, with the frame and curved wall extracted from each. — Precedent elements

Field drawing in white on black: frames and quarter-circle elements repeated, overlapping and varying across the sheet. — Field Drawing

The field model from above: red rods crossing white frames and dark, curved volumes. — Field model, from above

Axonometric of the field: frames, curved volumes and red rods. — Field Axonometric

Exploded axonometric: the field's rods, frames, volumes and columns separated in layers. — Exploded Axonometric

Making as thinking

Working between drawing and model made scale, depth, and spatial relationships easier to understand. Minor changes in geometry could significantly affect circulation, enclosure, and visual permeability.