2020 ASIAN DESIGN AWARD

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The Tiniest Cottage design-build project by the University of Cincinnati and Beijing Jiaotong University won second place in the “Ecological Healthy and Sustainable Design” section at the 2020 ASIAN DESIGN AWARD UC Students: Lauren Figley, Jordan Micham, Pat McQuillen, Vu Tran, Jeremy Swafford, Tess Ryan. BJTU students: Zhuo Chen, Peida Zhuang, Shurui Li, Zhixuan Li, […]

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Digital Landscape

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Large open world simulation. ARCH 7014 VIZ 3. DAAP, UC. Fall. 2020. Download the interactive game for windows. ( 1.8GB. Password needed) Students: Brooke Adams, Jake Bayer, Kyle Beck, Xu Cao, Roger Chanin, Nick Chism, Shanmukhi Chittanuru, Nick Earman, Sarah Fall, Ashley Franklin, Christian Gilbert, Chris Gilmore, Danielle Hall, Anna Hargan, Mitch Hoffman, Gabrielle Kalouche, […]

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Return to the Third Places.

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Resilient Price Hill. UC Forward C19 co-LAB awards. PI: Conrad kickert. Co-PI: Ming Tang, Yexuan Gu. $17,986. 08.2020-01.2021 ARCH 4001. ​Return to the Third Places: Architectural intervention at the Price Hill, Cincinnati during the COVID-19​ Publication:  “Social distancing and behavior modeling with Agent-based simulation”,  CAAD Future 2021 conference Proceeding. 16 – 18 JULY 2021. ​Student: Sarah […]

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bus stops in Metaverse

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This is a collective project with 35 students from the VIZ-III course to create a metaverse collectively. Bus stops were designed in Rhino, 3dsmax, Revit, or Sketch-up and brought into Unreal. Please download the demo zip file ( 800MB) here.

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Rural Public Restrooms Design + Build, China

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A group of UC DAAP students, led by Whitney Hamaker and Ming Tang, participated in the  “Yuzhang Construction*” workshop to design and build two public restrooms at the Pengyuan village, Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province of China in summer 2020. This workshop is a collaboration with Nanchang University (NCU),  Beijing Jiaotong University (BJTU), and cooperates with […]

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VR for Police Training

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Active Shooter Simulation Develop several fully immersive 3D VR active shooter scenarios that can run on cost-effective commercially available VR hardware. Final Report for OCJS Project Develop and Assess Active Shooter Virtual Reality Training for Ohio Law Enforcement.  PI: J.C Barnes. Co-PI: Tang Office of Criminal Justice Services. $50,000. 09. 2020-09.2021 ( $29,608) Development of […]

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Rural Mobile Living

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Image credit: Student award. 2020 DAAPworks Director’s DAAPcares award. Portable Disaster Relief. Students: Noah Nicolette, Jamie Waugaman, Travis Rebsch. 2020 ARCH 4002. Spring 2020 SAID DAAP, University of Cincinnati Using the 10 miles rural area along I-90 at Lorain County, Ohio as the site, this Rural Mobile Living studio presents a study investigating the rural mobility […]

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Open source shading device design tool

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Developed by Mark Landis as a part of M. Arch thesis work. 2019. The University of Cincinnati. Thesis Chair: Ming Tang, RA, LEED AP Committee Member: Pravin Bhiwapurkar, Amanda Webb. This open-source free tool is to introduce you to building simulations and some of their applications in architecture through plugins for Rhino. It will help […]

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article in IJSW journal

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Ming Tang’s paper. Analysis of Signage using Eye-Tracking Technology is published at the  Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding. 02. 2020. Abstract Signs, in all their forms and manifestations, provide visual communication for wayfinding, commerce, and public dialogue and expression. Yet, how effectively a sign communicates and ultimately elicits a desired reaction begins with how […]

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Project featured by Gooood

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“The Tiniest Cottage” design + build project by UC + Beijing Jiaotong University is featured by Gooood (谷德设计网), the most popular architecture online magazine and community in Asia. Project name: The Tiniest Cottage Design: Beijing Jiaotong University, University of Cincinnati Design year & Completion Year: 2019 & 2019 Leader designer & Team: Yingdong Hu(BJTU), Yunan […]

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Ihsan Community Center Design and Renovation

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Grant. Ihsan Community Center Design. Sponsored studio. $5,000. PI: Tang The “Ihsan Community Center Design and Renovation” is a sponsored studio by Ihsan community. The studio explored design possibilities and engaged the Ihsan community in developing future visions. The redesign and renovation of the current Ihsan community center emphasized logical architectural space, including prayer area, […]

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Paper at Artificial Realities Conference

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  Cyber-Physical Experiences: Architecture as Interface Turan Akman and Ming Tang’s Paper Cyber-Physical Experiences: Architecture as Interface was presented at the Artificial Realities: Virtual as an Aesthetic Medium for Architectural Ideation Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. 2019. Abstract: Conventionally, architects have relied on qualities of elements such as materiality, light, solids and voids, etc. to break out […]

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