We work for MAD: intern collection 14

MAD no doubt is one of the most recognized architectural practices in China and worldwide. Every year,
MAD receives countless job and internship applications. To be able to work at MAD will definitely enrich
your career as even though the people working here might have been lucky, but are undeniably
outstanding. What could possibly be on the minds of the MAD interns?

MAD无疑是中国最受瞩目的建筑师事务所，同时在世界范围内也受到极高的关注。
MAD每年都收到来自全世界不计其数的工作申请和实习申请。
能够进入MAD学习和工作一段时间，职业生涯无疑会变得精彩丰富，
在这里的人们，也许是幸运的，但肯定是优秀的。
那些还没迈出学校门槛，在MAD工作的实习生们，
他们脑子里天马星空的想法是什么样的 ？

 
Name: C. Lauren Chapman
Educational Institution:  Yale School of Architecture
Year: 2012
Nationality: American
Email: christylaurenchapman@gmail.com

Who is your favourite architect? Why?
I have a difficult time answering this question as my allegiances to various schools of thought are chronically evolving. What most impresses me is when an architect can effectively integrate design with intellect — a challenge many architects are called to but few can successfully execute. I look up to architect / theorists like Le Corbusier, Eisenman, and Bernard Tschumi. Recently I am also influenced by designers such as Amanda Levete, Peter Cook, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Herzog & de Meuron, and many film directors like Hitchcock and David Lynch. 

What is the major characteristic of your current school’s education?
Amongst academics, the school of architecture at Yale is distinctly known for its embrace of conflicting ideologies. Our faculty is a bit like the cast of a reality show — a conglomerate of unique brains who are thrust together to facilitate debate. Sometimes they also brawl. 

The benefit of this system is that the student is free to pursue his or her own interests within the institution — the outcome is a crop of graduates with diverse design ideals who share a specific rigor of process. 

What have you gained during the MAD internship?
My education and work experience thus far has been solely North American. I have rather enjoyed learning about the Chinese design and construction processes. It has also been enlightening to work with so many curves. 

What are your thoughts and feelings upon Chinese Architecture and the environment? Any suggestions?
Though there are many beautiful and important buildings in China, I am most interested in the cities themselves. Beijing, in particular, fascinates me. Never before have I experienced a city with such immediately contrasting scales; one minute you are navigating the low, narrow maze of the hutongs, then suddenly you emerge in an expansive plaza spilling out from a towering, glass mega mall.  

In the race to modernize, I fear that Beijing is abandoning many of the urban conventions that made the city successful in the first place, however. The ubiquity of multi-lane highways and megastructures has littered Beijing with urban dead zones. I would like to see more attention paid to the pedestrian impact of commercial developments and infrastructure.  I would also like to see a Nolli-style map of the Dongcheng district.

What is your dream?
To learn Mandarin. 

What would you do if you were not an architect?
I would write and direct films. This is what I studied and intended to do before I began architecture, and I still have a strong love for it. 

What is your dream project?
Any sort of architecture / film mash-up. Perhaps to design and build a fantasy city and shoot a film within it like Jaques Tati did with Play Time. Or to design an android retirement community in dystopian Los Angeles a la Blade Runner. 

What is your favourite project in your portfolio? Why?
Most of the projects I have completed at Yale are more like sketches — I’ve done lots of little three or four week projects that I am proud of but never had a chance to develop. I look forward to the intensive (and more personal) design work that will come with my final two studios in third year. That being said, I enjoy my ‘Archive’ project as it is the most rigorously developed project I have worked on yet. 

姓名： C.劳伦.查普曼
学校： 耶鲁大学建筑学院
年级：2012
国籍：美国
电子邮箱： christylaurenchapman@gmail.com

最喜欢的建筑师是谁？为什么？
回答这个问题，我花了蛮多时间，因为我赞成学校那种百花齐放，长期发展的思想。当建筑师卓越富有成效的整合设计会让我感到印象深刻，因为建筑师要面临很多的挑战，但是很少有人能够成功的应对。我崇拜的建筑家（理论家）有柯布西耶，艾森曼，伯纳德屈米。最近我也受到阿曼达.莱维特，彼得库克，亚历杭德罗. Zaera.保罗，赫尔佐格&德梅隆以及一些电影导演诸如希区柯克和大卫林奇的影响。

你所在学校的教育特点？
耶鲁大学的建筑学院有着非常明显的意识冲突现象，这点在学者们身上尤为突出。我们的老师在一个随时随地产生猛烈辩论的智囊集团中上演着宛如真人秀的表演，有的时候他们还吵架。

在这里的好处就是，学生可以自由的追求其中感兴趣的—结果便是在这样一个共享的严谨过程中，毕业生获得了多样化的设计理念。

你在MAD实习最大的收获是什么？
在这之前，我的工作和学习地点仅限于北美。我喜欢学习关于中国的设计还有建造过程。工作时遇到的那么多曲线也带来了启发性。

你对中国建筑以及环境有怎样的感触？建议是什么？
中国有很多美丽和重要的建筑，但是我最感兴趣的还是城市本身。特别是北京，让我非常着迷。我从来没有经历过这样对比性规模的城市。前一分钟你还在低矮狭窄的胡同里，后一分钟，你就到了一个在高大的玻璃商场前蔓延开的大广场上。在快速现代化进程中，我担心北京会放弃让城市变得成功的首要规则。无处不在的多车道公路和巨型建筑散落在城市的各处，我希望看到对行人予以更多关注的商业发展和基础设施。我也希望看到，东城区有着Nolli风格的地图。

你的梦想是什么？
学习普通话。

你如果不当建筑师会选择什么职业？
我会写作或者执导电影，这是我在做建筑之前的研究和打算，到现在，我还是对这些有强烈的爱好。

你梦想中的项目是什么样的？任何混塔建筑，也许设计和修建一个虚幻城市，就像雅克塔蒂的电影play time里那样，或者在洛杉矶设计一个反乌托邦式的，像银翼杀手里那样的机器人退休社区。

在自己的作品集中，你最喜欢的作品是什么？为什么？
我在耶鲁完成的项目大多数像是草图。我做了很多三周到四周时间的项目，我对此自豪，但是却没有时间深化这些项目。我期待三年级两个最终课程里更深入更个人的设计工作。然后呢，这里面我喜欢我的“Archive”项目，这是我曾做过的最严格的项目。

 

ARCHIVE

FALL 2009
ARCH 1021a
CRITIC: MARK FOSTER GAGE
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROGRAM: The Beinecke Rare Books Library is now full. Design an archive to house extremely rare, light and heat sensitive materials. Include gallery space and a large, secure reading room.

SOLUTION: Control light and circulation in the archive through a se-ries of customly louvered funnels. Hold the corner of Hillhouse and Trumble with a strong form to mark the entrance to the Yale Campus.

拜内克古籍图书馆现已告满。需要设计一个与众不同的建筑，对光，热敏感。有一个展览空间，和一个大的，安全的阅览室。解决的办法是通过一系列定制的百叶窗控制光。在建筑的一角面朝耶鲁校园，做出一个很强形式感的入口。

 

 

collaged corners

Spring 2010
ARCH 1022b
CRITIC: ED MITCHELL
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

A careful analysis of Providence revealed a growing ring of density around the downtownriverfront. Our scheme emphasizes the corners of this zone by siting new development in thecurrently empty corner lots. On the southeast corner we developed a laboratory park, and on thesouthwest corner a mixed-use residential neighborhood with a waterfront park. In both cases weused the architecture to exaggerate the grain of the streets towards the river, thus maximizing theviews of the water and historic monuments around downtown Providence. Collaboration withAlexandra Tailer.

在仔细分析了普罗维登斯市中心河岸的密度情况，我们规划着力点放在这个新规划区的角落上。在东南角我们设置了公园，在西南角设置了滨水社区。对这两个片区，我们都尽力让其具有对水域和对着城市历史古迹的最大化视野。

 

CANTILOOP

SPRING 2010
FURNITURE DESIGN & FABRICATION
CRITIC: PETER DE BRETTEVILLE
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

The design of my chair began with the desire to form a frame out of a continuous loop. I had two additional intentions: to design a chair that appeared structurally precarious (but was not) and to design a chair that joined two different materials. The result is a slender frame with a cantilevered back and seat. The cantilever of the back provides a comfortable ‘springiness’ to the chair that allows you to adjust your sitting position. The final materials were wood and steel, however the design is meant to accommodate a range of seat materials. 

最初我想设计一个有着循环框架的椅子，后来我有额外的想法，让椅子看上去结构好像不稳定（实际不是）；给椅子增加两种不同的材料。最后得到这个细长悬臂结构的椅子。背侧具有舒适的弹性，可以调整坐姿。椅子的材料是木材和钢材，但是设计也适用于其他类型的座椅材料。

 

BAM WEST

FALL 2008
ARCH 1011a
CRITIC: MARTIN COX
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROGRAM: Using the shell of an existing building, design a large performance/exhibition space for the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Must include spaces for both dance performances and cinema.

SOLUTION: Encapsulate the brick building with a scrim-like exterior skin and design a theatrical procession through the building. The performance spaces will be informal and movable to inspire creative performance scenarios.

在现有建筑外壳基础上，为布鲁克林音乐学院设计一个大型演展空间，

还要包含舞蹈空间和影院空间。设计利用织物对砖建筑进行外观装饰，对内部进行戏剧化的序列分隔。演出场所将会是非正式，可移动的，激发创意的。

Cohab

SPRING 2009
ARCH 1012b
CRITIC: BIMAL MENDIS
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROGRAM: In one week, design a space to be inhabited by two people independently. The site is located ten feet off the ground between four solid walls.

SOLUTION: Create a self-contained wall unit that could be deployed on multiple scales. Bedrooms cantilever into adjacent unit to create an unusual awareness of their neighbors.

在一周内，为两个人设计单独居住空间，场地是4—10英尺厚的密闭实墙。设计了一个独立的墙单元，并规划复杂的体系。悬臂挑出卧室，让使用者通过不寻常的方式认识他们的邻居。

 

 

REPLICATION 

SPRING 2009
ARCH 1012b
CRITIC: BIMAL MENDIS
YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

PROGRAM: Using the tectonic of the cohab project, design a low income SRO for ten people.

SOLUTION: Using original ‘cohab’ form, transform original design into its inverse through a series of blends. The result is a diverse plan and section that allows for varying degrees of public/private spaces. The prominent ‘stoops’ become the primary zone of interaction amongst the residents.

使用COHAB项目构造，为10个低收入人设计SRO。沿用COHAB的形式，将其转化成混合型，多元化设计，在不同的区位允许不同程度的公共或私人空间。Stoops将成为居民间互动的主要区域。

MORE:  christylaurenchapman@gmail.com