(Janet) Zelin Lu is an architectural designer
based in the Pacific Northwest.
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* The Big Pinch

Cornell, Professor Leslie Lok, 2022
/  This housing project explores the idea of bamboo cantilever. Instead of using traditional cantilever, the project takes advantage of bamboo’s ability to be simultaneously flexible and rigid to form a new means of cantilevering. With this system, one can begin to manipulate the curve to create a variety of spaces, such as a bench to sit on, a roof to linger under, to best fit the programmatic needs.

The prototype was built with the help of my groupmates, Hoon and Milena, from the parallel seminar.

 
aggregation strategies
rotation

sectional perspective


units
plan
entrance hall
studio garden




> material specificity
(group study) bamboo species 
Linge Ping
analysis

> prototype construction

rigid tiles
flexible strip
jigs and testings



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