Hongbang Chen

I am Hongbang Chen, an M.Arch I Student at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of Melbourne in Australia. I believe that architecture communicates large ideas through matter. My interest lies in finding the contemporary expression of architecture that challenges stiff rules of separation and assertion. Exploring alternative ways of practicing architecture with respect to environmental issues and ecological impacts.

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Hongbang Chen, Dario Sabidussi

The highway folly is bold and grand in a contemporary way that almost touches but still stands a distance from its neighbor.

ICONOCLASH // Infrastructure & Monument Hongbang Chen, Tuo Chen

The Arch and Colonnade Folly is intimate, lush, intricate, and tranquil. The aquaponic system is embedded in this folly in order

ICONOCLASH // Infrastructure & Monument Hongbang Chen, Tuo Chen

Solar Facility / Brine Evaporation Pond Close-Up

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Dario Sabidussi, Hongbang Chen

The project is about providing a new type of 21st-century garden with follies on Manhattan Bridge.

ICONOCLASH // Infrastructure & Monument Tuo Chen, Hongbang Chen

Two follies evoke a sense of questioning to its visitors, questioning the relationships between the infrastructure and ornament.

ICONOCLASH // Infrastructure & Monument Hongbang Chen, Tuo Chen

Machinic Desert: Architecture in the Age of the Anthropocene Dario Sabidussi, Hongbang Chen

Hongbang Chen

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