Tianjin Riverside 66 / KPF
The shell’s concrete and glass structure curves dramatically upward from the riverside and converges with the opposing south façade, yielding a six-story building (and 366-meter-long megastructure) to meet the context of the Heping District. The super shell is one of the longest single structures in the region, built with 22 seven-story high concrete ribs and over 10,000 panels of glass.
Onur Yüce Gün is a computational design researcher, leader, and instructor. Trained as an architect, he holds a SM in Design and Computation and a PhD in Computation with a minor in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT.Onur led computational design efforts across academia and industry, founding KPF's Computational Geometry Group (2006), co-founding Istanbul Bilgi University's architecture program (2009), building New Balance's computational design team (2016), and consulting for building Samsung's first computational design department (2022). He taught at MIT, RISD, and UAI.Recognized by TEDx, Time Magazine's best inventions lists, Onur's work has been internationally published, exhibited, and awarded. His papers won awards at eCAADe and CAADRIA conferences. His work has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture AIA New York Chapter, SIGGRAPH, Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Tokyo Gallery A4. His computational architecture work got published in Routledge's seminal book, Elements of Parametric Design.Onur is currently the Director of Computational Design at New Balance, where he leads a group of bright minds to develop end-to-end computational design workflows with a value-driven innovational mindset.
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