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  2025 Fall ARCH 655 600 Parametric Design Project 2 Evolving with Machines ——Simulation and Optimization of Char House's Daylighting Performance   My Project 2 examined the daylighting performance simulation and optimization of Char House, an industrial heritage site located in Sugar Land. Char House is an iconic structure within the former Imperial Sugar Company complex in Sugar Land, Texas, often described as “the last classic char house in the United States.” Although the company ceased production in 2002 and surrounding buildings were demolished in 2010, the Char House remains standing today as a symbol of precious and rare industrial heritage. Adaptive reuse of Char House would not only preserve and extend this significant industrial legacy but also safeguard its associated historical and community memories. Char House in 1925 Char House now This project focuses on the daylighting performance of Char House and employs genetic algorithm tools to explore opti...
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PART 1 | Case Study and Parametric Modeling Practice   Case Study: The Water Cube In the context of ARCH 655 - Parametric Modeling in Design, the selected case study is the façade of the National Swimming Center (also called Water Cube) in China, designed by CSCEC + PTW + CCDI and ARUP. https://www.arup.com/en-us/projects/national-aquatics-center-water-cube/ https://www.westchinatour.com/beijing/attraction/water-cube.html The National Aquatics Center, also known as the 'Water Cube', is one of the most dramatic and exciting sporting venues constructed for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Arup’s designers and structural engineers came up with a design for the walls inspired by the natural formation of soap bubbles, a unique geometry that was both highly repetitive and buildable, yet which appears pleasingly random and organic. With Ethyl tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) used for the cladding, Arup designed the building to be sustainable, well-lit and seismically resistant (ARUP...
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