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PROJECTS


  1. Unity Preschool / 2023
    # interior architecture
    2. # built # education
  2. Cloud N / 2022
    # product design 
    3. # built # sustainability # pets
  3. Food Family Feminism / 2021
    # architecture
    # housing # covid 
    # feminism 
  4. Clover House / 2022
    # architecture 
    5. # multi-generational housing
    # climate change
  5. Light of Shadows / 2022
    # art
    # robotic arm # clay 3d-print
  6. Uncut Gem / 2021
    # architecture
    # facade # public space 
  7. Pagoda for Sports / 2020
    # architecture
    # geometric # spatial bays
  8. Branding 
    # branding # advertisement
    # reinventing identity
    # digital marketing



STUDIO JIA


Studio Jia [ JEE-yuh ] is a design studio based in Boston, providing creative services and solutions in the fields of
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3. Food Family Feminism


Boston, MA
Project at Harvard GSD
In Collaboration with Wentao Guo
Conceptualized 2021



    “Food, Family, Feminism” takes a materialist feminist approach to address the social issue of unpaid domestic labor and traditional gender role bias. Especially under the influence of COVID-19, increased time spent at homes and unsupported childcare deepens the gender divide in domestic labor.



    Modern kitchens allow one to perform many tasks in one tight setting, but this efficiency keeps Female Labor isolated and unacknowledged by the society and takes away opportunities of organic collaborating, sharing, and learning in kitchens. We conclude that many domestic spaces, especially kitchens, are designed to normalize gender inequality in domestic labor participation.



   Our figural concept of the project starts with squiggles on strips. The squiggle represents the occupation and movement of the residents and the strip is the housing unit. The figural language of the squiggle is finalized as we fit it into the existing site cures of the park.


    The building has a strong two sidedness due to the very open nature of the park and private need of the street facing wall. The roof only covers the unit not the corridors, exposing the truss structure. Metaphorically, the north facade is the smooth and polished comparison to the unfinished, open, and structurally exposed south facade.


    The floor plan of 2, 4, 6 floor connecting units to the corridor shows the design of shuffling layers and its relationship to the corridor. Each floor has around 33 - 35 units with a width of 16.5 feet and depth of 30 - 45 feet.

    We designed a kitchen cart set that decomposes the functionality of kitchen into several mobile segmentwhich both adults and children can utilize. Based on activities, festival and family life styles, thecarts could have difference arrangements. The render above shows a birthday party on the “pouch where different families wheeled out their kitchen carts to make cooking and eating arrangement for the party. The exterior kitchen provides facility for BBQ and large cookout with natural ventilation.



    This critical section below examines the layered-ness and decomposition of lifestyle from the exterior, extrovert facade facing the park to the introvert and urban express on throad side. The duplex sitting on the floor plate maximizes the winter sunlight and the summer shading.


    Each unit has two parts of kitchen: the soft kitchen inside of the unit handling light meals and snacking. There are 6 unit types ranging from 1BR to 3BR. Structurally, each floor plate is supported by the caged network of exposed facade beams, trusses under each floor plate and the ground column vertically aligned with each unit wall.