portfolio for applying to ucl bartlett

PORTFOLIO For the application to the UCL Bartlett Programe :MArch Architectural Design

LUO TONG tong_lo@outlook.com SELECTED WORK FROM 2016-2020

Boundary Boundary is an invisible wall happens from certain reason. Industry, History, Geography.People....

Architecture Architecture defines what the city look like. People define the architecture .

Vice versa, it affects people 's daily living.

Design Through design. it could be three dimensional bridge between people and environment.Blurring the boudnary is the main strategy of mine to weave the elements together again during the conversations in the portfolio.

CONTENT

I.

Proposal for shifting industrial city - Mawei (part 1)

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Graduate design . 2019.6 / Individual

II.

Proposal for shifting industrial city - Mawei (part 2)

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Graduate design . 2019.6 / Individual

III. Reconstruction of military facility in Kinmen

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Academic studio design . 2017.4 / Individual

IV. Healthcaring community center

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Academic studio design . 2016.12 / Individual

V. Other works Internship . Architecture Studio

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01 Weaving the line

A proposal for Shifting Industural city (part 1)

Graduate Design Individual work Year: 2019.4 (Rework: 2020) Instructor : Xinyan Yuan SITE: Mawei，Fu-Jian

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[ Issue ] 1938.

During World War II. The japanese navy bombers attacked the site , almost every facilities were destoryed

1866.

The Qing government chose Mawei as the Marine Arsenal site and established Mawei shipyard

1866

1906 Zuo was the first leader of building the shipyard. Until 1907, 40 ships were producted from here

1971.

First freight railway which connected Fuchow and Mawei was built and activiated local industry production again.

1946 1941.

Imperial japanese army landed Fuchow and forced workers to dismantle all the machine.

1976

With the train and boat transportation , the harbour could operate we;;.

2016.

For production purpose. Shipyard moved to another place. The original site was closed

2016 Eventually, Mawei has to transform from industrial city to a more livable city.

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Mawei city was built mainly based on the shipyard, then expanded to surround. The local esidence gradually moved near the coast, After 40 years, people have more complaint that the industiral site set a barrier to city development. So renovation of city transportation become the first choice.

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[ Concept ]

Project I : Weaving the transportation

RESIDENCE

CITY CITY

100 m

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SHIPYARD

CULTURE

CITY

LOCATION

FACTORY

SHIPYARD SHIPYARD

In the past , main transportation was built to support the shipyard industry , while main road and railway set a boundary. So weaving the existed traffic and allowing people to build a tie with shipyard (now it is useless land ) is the purpose of the project.

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MAWEI CITY

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SHIPYARD

SITE 1.5km

N FUZHOU SOUTH RAILWAY STATION

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[ Programme ]

Re-using the boundary of the shipyard to build a programme which contain several transportation ways to connect the city. Combine with existed traffic (freight train and road grids ) ,providing more choice for civils to use.

[ Typology of city traffic ]

With street

With road

With building

Sky Train

With street

With road

With building

Subway

With street

With road

With building

Road grid

Three transportation plug into part of regular city

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[ Develop ]

Break the wall which isolated the traffic

Seperate the rail and set it underground

Make the bridge of passenger and cars

Mix them into a public space

Roof as a park to connect the community and landscape

Sky-line (within a cycle) connect different place 6

[ Plan ]

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1. Bus station 2.Ticket office 3.Waiting room/Public Exhibition 4.Cafe 5.Office 6.Commercial 7.Entrance to sky-train 8.Transfer hall

First floor plan （H = 6m）

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1.Platform 2.Information rm.

3.Control rm.

4.Service/Ticket office 5.Commercial 6.Platform (freight train) 7.Warehouse 8.Entrance to parking 9.Office

Ground floor plan （H = 0m） 7

[ Connect ]

New transportation center weaving different roads improve more effciency and provide more choice to citizens

The negative space in the city is re-activiated by traffic.

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[ Layer ]

Cycle: 1.Sky-bus station

RF : 1.Public park 2.Pavement

1F : 1.Transfer hall 2.Commercial 3.Bus terminal

GF: 1.Subway station 2.Freight trains

B1 : 1.Social parking lot 2.Freight trans.

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[ Rendering ]

View from the transfer hall (near the shipyard)

View from the transfer hall (near the city)

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02 Immigrating the city

A proposal for Changing Industural city (part 2)

Graduate Design Individual work Year: 2019.4 (Rework: 2020) Instructor : Xinyan Yuan SITE: Mawei，Fu-Jian

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[ Strategy ]

Project II : Immgrating city

Factory (Built in 1970s)

Accommodation (Built in 1980s)

Growing Housing & Factory

Market

Public space

Accommodation

Station

Residence

Industrial area

Demand of different area in city

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Community (Built in 2000s)

[ Project ]

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Connecting city barrier The programe could be left from the ground and can connect people from both side. Also, creating a city scenrio above the railway.

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Using low-used land There are many factories occupied most land of the city, There were no place for public activities.

The programe will be constructured in the lowused land in factory, adding more public space.

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Join the city traffic The new accommodation will settled above the main traffic, so that immigrants could be convient to live the city instead of renting a house in rural area.

The immgrant city programe could integrate into different environment, differs from occupying more lands ,and improving work efficiency.

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[ Programme ]

TRAIN

The top floor features community , where immigrants could rent in a low price . Under floors plug-in different module with the interactive procedure of production.

Constructure

[ Temporary structure ]

Column = Elevator

Facade = space

Group one-type module

Changable module

Transport module

Dynamic Archi

Module

Structure = skeleton

Plug-in city

Peter Cook .1964

The Fun Palace

Cedric Price.1964

The Shed

Diller Scofidio.2019

Urbanization promotes the development of Archigram, until now . combining with advanced public transportation and producting technology it could be a solution to uitilize in certain environment such as the industrial city. Idea of growing architecture could take place high-rise

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[ Module ]

BATHROOM

EXHIBITIION

STUDIO

PARK

TEMPLE

Design the SAMPLE

ACCOMMONDATION

Acquire KNOWLEDGE

3D PRINTER TOWER

Promote products

CONFERENCE HALL

LIBRARY Send SAMPLE to product

Bring new knowledge

SKY-TRAIN STATION Test the model

LABORATORY

GOODS CONVEY Connect the factory

People could have access to attend the productation. Vistors could merely pay for materical fee , then through Learining .Designing their own artworks .Testing , Printing , or Attending promoting competition to define if their products could be Mass-producted.

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[ Transportation module ]

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3

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From inside to outside 1.Concrete 2. Waterproof layer 3. Heat preservation layer

4.Waterproof layer 5.Steel truss 6.Sound-absorbing sheet 7.Concrete panel

1.Reflect panel 2.Machine layer 3.Platform 4.Signal Light

COMMUNITY PUBLIC PRODUCT BRIDGE

Section plan Structure made up by the three parts: four huge elevator core as main bracing structure + steel horizontal frame + vertical frame. Then install the transportation module on the frame to convey different parts and materials to make other modules.

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[ Rendering ]

View from the street ( Combine with project i: transportation center ) The systrem could integrate into different content in the city . it creates a bridge connecting the boundary made by industrial product and citizen. Meanwhile , the sky-train technology could not only trans goods and people ,also becoming a landmark of Mawei city.

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03 Remember the memory

A proposal for protecting militray architecture

Academic Studio Design Individual work Year: 2017.4 (Rework: 2020) Instructor : Xufu Zhang SITE :Shan-wai，Kinmen

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[ Site ]

CHINA

KINMEN

The KMT army controlled the island and built underground military used facilities

SHANWAI

2008 "THREE LINKS"

1979 .12.16 END FIRE

" SECOND TAIWAN STRAIT CRISIS"

1960 MILITARY CONTROL

1958. 8 .23

The civil war continued.

Millions of miscles fired b e t w e e n Kinmen and Xiamen

FUJIAN

After last turn of artillery ending .Peace was usherd in both sides of the strait

'Three links' policy signed by both authorities, people could visit free both sides ,the facilities become useless

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COMMAND POST

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THE SHELTER

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n datio Cannon Tower

Old Village 1

Gate

Shanwai locates in the south-east of Kinmen. shielded by a mountian ,so the headquarter and cannon force were settled behind here. After 1980, army fall back to another place. while the river , the boundary will be brokedown, the facilities become negative space in the city.

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[ Sequence ] Environment

Memory

Experience

Atmosphere

Monument

Meditation

Exhibit

Unknown

Door god

Incense & Bell

Torii

Buddha Statue

Landscape

Environment

Gate

Ceremony

Grand Hall

（Incense）

Meditation

Kaiyuan Temple （ B.C.618） Quanzhou.Fujian

Experience

（Bell）

I intend to re-define the place as a monument where people could find this period of memory. through studying the temple , study the knowledge of the memorial place in china , try to add the sequence of enhancing the memory into the site .

[ Boundary ] History

Residence Common Memory

Boundary

Soldier Tourist

Passenge

Tunnel

Shelter

Tunnel

The passage for certain environment

Lake

Forest

Passage

Connecting the main space

Village

Farmland

River

Camp

Bomb shelter

Thicker wall to protect people

The river come from the mountain top, through the old village and farmlands. Since 1950 , the place become a boundary . After 60 years, the boundary and shelter become a common memory of residence and soldier , as a witness of this memory . so i also de-fine the place as a bridge.

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[ Structure ]

STEP1.

STEP 2.

STEP 3.

STEP 4.

STEP 5.

Clean the place out of the ground.

Strength bottom structure. Add falsework.Then. dismantle roof.

Dismantle the roof.Keep the wall. Build the outside-frame.

Extend the height of space. Open the skylight. Let nature light across

Make the arch inside frame.

Keep part of the falsework .

[ Typology ]

Beside protecting the original strccture , i mixed the arch type with the elements of temple , and place into the linear space. Through the change of the space to enhance or make people feel the memory .

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[ Develop ]

Visitors could walk through the boundary , feel the difference of both side

Protecting the original site

Zooming the scale of the memorial

Connecting roads of the camp and village

Adding the sequence

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[ Plan ]

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1.Conserved facilities 2. Office & Service 3. Yrad 4. Exhibition 5. Slience tower 6. Obversation tower

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Gallery Front pool Middle pool Meditation pool Entrance of shelter (conserved)

[ Environment ]

Eventually , people face a huge pool, reflect the outside forest ,wind ,ehjoy meditation. Or climb the tower to see the different view of village and camp.

The shape of the pool is designed as the skylight, when the light coming through,like a scenrio in the tunnel means "Hope". also it could reflect protected wall ,as a monument.

At the beginning of path, visitor will walk through a square pool , also is the last scernio of the path. means " Rebirth "

Setting a flowing water through the whole space . And the narrow-linear spatial environment could enhance the echo of the water and people .

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[ Experience ]

View from the silence tower Limited light into the dark enviornment , fell on the rough wall, people need to go upstair , touch the concrete , to see the outside view. They may have a experience like the past， the sense of anxiety and depression.

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[ Rendering ]

View from the outside , architecture lie on the hill

From outside to inside 1. 10-20cm rock 2. 2cm concrete 3. 150mm Thick heat preservation layer 4.Waterproof layer 5.Concrete or brick wall 6.Waterproof layer

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04 Re-organizing and Re-community

Re-programing of healthcareing community center

Academic Studio Design Individual work Year: 2016.12 (Rework: 2020) Instructor : Kaijie LI SITE：Jin-cheng township，Kinmen

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[ Issue ] Floating population Tourist

Living population

Labour & Salespoeple

13.66

Old people

Social seperation, it has been a regular problem in Kinmen . As a place connect strait, it regularly acts as a transfer spot. Due to that, young genreration are more likely to modern city like Xiamen and Taipei, left the children and elder people.

The project aimed at creating a place where different age group of people could attend activity, meanwhile being taken care of older people.

Mainland China Xiamen Kinmen

Rate of senior people in popluation in Kinmen * 7% is the standard of aging society

Children

To Taiwan island

[ Concept ] Caring of old people Emotional need

Material need Producer

Place

Government

Nursing home

Doctor

Hospital

Nurse

“street eyes”

Social service center

Company from...

Healthcare Public activity

Place

Potential Producer

Community center

User

Being protected,Safety (old town)

Out of vision, dangerous (new distinct)

Height

Distance

D/H >= 1

D/H > 4

"Citizen as protector" Learn from Jane Jacobs , the concept of 'eyes on the street' .The street should be designed as accessible, attractive and safe in an available distance. The pedestrian could be a invisible protector.

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[ Site ] Resident Young

Resident Old

Building Disordered

Organized

Plant Cluster

Disturbution

One-way

Connection

Public activity

Commercial Residential (high-density) <= 18F

Park

SITE

Office

Residential (low-density) < 4F

Residential (low-density) < 10F

Commercial

Social Service Center

Nursing home

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Government

[ Typology of street ] TYPE A

Ancestral hall (Ancestor)

TYPE B

Government (Ming dynasty)

TYPE C

Temple (Sea god)

Temple (City god)

Temple (Hill god)

TYPE D

Temple (Confucious)

Square

Bar / Small shop Temple

Type A

Adding: adapt to the shape of street

Type B

D/H < 2

Temple

Opening: creating certain public activities

D/H > 4

Gallery

Meeting Performance

Type C

Dividing : extend to street directly

Type D

D/H = 2

Shrinking: changing the speed of walking

D/H < 1

Selecting the street type from public space in the old town in Kinmen,(Religion activity is essential in here).

Studying the relationship of the public space and street: Normally activities are intergated with street, so that different ceremonies determine different social distance and architecture plan.

[ Extending ]

1. Choose the border between new planning block and old-built community.

2. Place close street into planning block in different distance.

3. Different activities took places in the built-street and the blocks.

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[ Plan ]

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First floor plan 1. Brunch canteen 2. Markert 3. Bookstore

4. Clinic room 5. Gallery 6. Tea house

7.Care center (treat) 8.Pocket park 9.Meeting room

10.Snack bar 11.Restroom

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[ Distance ] Social distance

People may make contact in a group scale

Private distance

In a face-to-face scale people could enjoy the individual space.

Public distance

People have access to attend different activities with others

Self-define distance Open space define by interactivities 34

[ Integrate ] Main functional space which provides basic needs to olders places along a sky-street directly to the community for convenient and emergency .

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1.Community office and Restaruant 2.Care center (Physical & Emergency) 3.Social Class & Lecture room (music & handwork) 4.Bridge and Gallery (directly connect to the community)

PARK & CORRIDOR

MOVIE & PAVILION

SQUARE & STREET

People could attend talking and listening others'stories

Pedestrain could enjoy the movie and have rest

When people have sport, other people could watch

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[ Rendering ]

View from the middle street In that in-between space , where different activities take place, aging people could casually attend , meanwhile they will be taken care by surround people when meet emerggency situation

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05 Other works

Development of the shape [cycle to triangle]

Development of the structure [In to out]

[ DOOR OF YANGTZE RIVER , WUHAN ]

Development of the plan [ flexible to stable]

Extending the podium ,connect the riverside park

Hotel plan [ 86F-102F ]

'DOOR OF YANGTZE RIVER' Interenship project / UD design institute Year: 2018. 8 Collaborator:Wang yaxi, Gao le Main work in group: Site analysis.Diagraming.Modeling.Concept design SITE:Wuhan China CONCEPT:Try to build a high-rise landmark which connects both side of Yangtze river in Wuhan 37

Metropol parasol model / Architecure constructure studio Year: 2017. 6 Collaborator: Lois Zhou qinyi . Jia qunyu Main work in group: Laser cutting, Structure study, Grasshopper Modeling (30%)

'Mi nai' Graduation design exhibition of 2019 fall Year: 2019. 6 Main work in group: Scheme design and build.

SITE：Old community school， Kinmen CONCEPT:Re-use a traditional building as the site, we intend to find a similar material involve to blur the disparity.

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