Da Manjie | Architecture Portfolio for Bartlett, UCL | 2022

立

旧

构

新

- new for old -

Portfolio of Da Manjie selected works from 2016-2021 Email: ritarinmi@gmail.com Tel: +86-13667104505 Application number: 21183951

{ Introduction }

Driven by an intense passion for architecture, I am always on my way of exploration into this discipline. In my undergraduate study, I partook in the Summer School to do some renewal designs of old regions in Shanghai. During this time, I gradually found how architecture affected people's lives and how the new buildings blended into the existing urban environment. The field survey triggered my interest in excavating urban histories to create beneficial designs meeting the actual needs of residents. To this end, I am eager to delve into Architecture and further probe into the connection between architecture and environment, so I apply for the MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments program.

My portfolio's theme is " new for old ( 立 旧 构 新 )", which explains how the new design is based on the existing environment (physical environment, history, people's needs, etc). I think architecture is a way to create a better life and provide not only a "space" but also a "place" for people.

The five works in my portfolio explain "new for old" from several different aspects.

The first one " Interactive Response" is mainly focused on the physical environment and people's needs. Its space formed originally from how students use the space in their study life.

The second work "Compete for Chikan" is mainly connected with clan history. The heritage preservation route aims to activate the buildings it includes and help people understand Chikan old town from the points of two families' relationship in nearly a hundred years.

The third work "Release the Gap" is mainly focused on the physical environment which is named "gap space", and different function blocks fit different types of gap spaces.

The fourth work "Home for All" is a project coping with COVID-19, and its main target is disadvantaged people in the city. It's a share house (shelter) for all the people with strict route design based on the principle of safe distance to protect people from being infected.

The final work " Wuhan Revival" is also a project coping with COVID-19, which comes from my personal experience. It's a future city model to solve the problems of the horizontal city (Wuhan) exposed in COVID-19.

DA MANJIE Born Address Email Phone Language Bachelor

Research Project 07/2021-08/2021

Internship

Skills

CONTENTS

25/12/1997 Wuhan, Hubei Province, China ritarinmi@gmail.com +86 13667104505 Chinese native speaker Japanese fluent （JLPT N1 151） English fluent （TOEFL 96） Huazhong University of Science and Technology Architecture GPA:3.88

SJTU Global Engagement Program: Save the Traditional Village International Workshop at Lianghu Village, Shanxi Province

11/2020-06/2021

Graduation Design: Restoration and Activation Design of Kaiping Ancient Villages

07/2019-08/2019

City Metamorphosis Summer School at The University of Hong Kong

03/2019-05/2020

Research on Elderly Housing Design Based on the “SMART +” Platform

03/2018-05/2020

Research on Comfortable Working Environments for Design Practitioners

07/2021-12/2021

Teaching Assistant at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, HUST

08/2020-11/2020

Architecture Intern at Mozhao Architects

08/2018

Architecture Intern at No. 3 Design Institute, Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd

2017-2018

Sketch Teaching Assistant at Red Maple Leaf Art Training School

Autocad

Photoshop

V-ray

Rhinoceros

Illustrator

Lumion

Grasshopper

Indesign

Ecotect

Sketch up

Premiere

Massmotion

01 Interactive Response new bim study space for old faculty

02 Compete for Chikan new heritage preservation route for old town

03 Release the Gap new service facility for old unutilized region

04 Home for All new vagrants' home for old community

05 Wuhan Revival new urban model for old city

01 Interactive Response renovation of Architecture's department based on BIM study mode

Location: Wuhan, China Area: 2900 ㎡ academic project Time: 2019.6-2019.11（year 4) Individual work Surveying, previous research, concept, design and all the drawings individually Instructor: Chen Qiuyu chenqiuyu@hust.edu.cn Li Xuan Nowadays, the architecture department in Hust is facing with the dilemma of not having enough space, so the renovation plan is coming out. The old department is full of the homogeneous spaces without flexible space to meet different demands from all the students. What's more, architecture teaching mode become more and more diverse since advances in computer technology.

The design aims to create an accessory space to improve the utilization of spaces and resources, and provide more comprehensive, advanced and equal service for all the teachers and students. model maker and photographer：Da Manjie

02 Compete for Chikan historical heritage preservation project based on the history clues of relationship between Guan and Situ family

Location: Guangzhou, China Area: 3310 ㎡ Hust Graduation Thesis project （academic） Time: 2020.11-2021.6 （year 5) Individual work Surveying, previous research, concept, design and all the drawings individually Instructor: Tan Gangyi (HUST) tan_gangyi@163.com

Chikan Town is a very unique historical and commercial town in Guangdong province.There are two big families managing the whole Chikan: Guan and Situ. In the last hundred years, they competed with each other to gain the higher power and status in Chikan. However, their competing actions improved the quality of people's lives, since they built lots of public buildings in the town.

The main concept of the design is from clan's history. I connect the history events with the site they happened, and form a route to reflect the relationship of the two families.The project aims to study rural culture and some basic principles and methods of heritage preservation. model maker and photographer：Da Manjie

03 Release the Gap renewal of waterfront space, landscape and community-site project urban plug-in of the gap space

Location: Suzhou Creek,Shanghai, China Area:64~4943 ㎡ HKU summer school project (academic) Time: 2019.7-2019.8 （year 3) Individual work Surveying, previous research, concept, design and all the drawings individually Instructor: Oscar Ko

Every city has lots of residual spaces because of urban expansion.Among them, some abandoned spaces can be identified as "gap space".Gap space can be alleys between the buildings; unused roof or some deserted waterfront. I make some different types of urban plug-in to activate these gap spaces, and such urban plug-in is a prototype which can be applied to other city's renewal project.

The design mainly focused on the research of residual space, including record and classification of the gap space and each activate strategy to each type of gap space. author: Da Manjie

During the COVID-19, shops can't serve individual.

04 Home for All

market only sell for groups

small share house design (residence) coping with the COVID-19

Location: Wuhan, China Area:220 ㎡

Taste awful!

site

Patients who live in the hospital hope to eat home cooking.

vagrants' activity area

Vagrants choose the undergroud passage as a place to sleep and shelter from cold wind and rain.

hospital hospital cold

Here you are.

academic project (for competition) Time: 2020.7-2020.8 （year 4) Individual work Surveying, previous research, concept, design and all the drawings individually

When Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan in 2020, it's really a big disaster to the city. Because there were lots of people trapped in Wuhan with no house to live and no food to eat. At the same time, the hospital was full of patients who only ate some taste- awful food provided by the hospital. The small share house is a shelter for the vagrants and a public kitchen for patients and their relatives.

The design is mainly reflecting on the epidemic to the city and create a new share house model which fulfill the principle of safety distance and help those disadvantaged people during the epidemic.

They relay on the hospital's 24h free hot water and free meals to maintain daily basic needs.

subway's passage

author: Da Manjie

apply strategy to forming space When face the COVID-19

process

personal space

People have to be seperated to keep safe, however, this kind of situation can make people feel lonely. As a result the main solution is to find a balance of separation and connection.

existing strategy of preventing infection

public space

1.5

1.5 1

6

m

m

1.5

m

ventilation

2

open the windows to let in some fresh air

3

keep the safe distance

5

4 separated by wall

separated by mask

79

house for vagrants

all the drawings by Da Manjie

10:00 am wake up migrant worker

Construction worker

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zizi--

He comes to Wuhan for building the thunder god mountain hospital, but he Wang Hang can't go out of the city.

He has been trapped in Wuhan for nearly 4 months, Zhao and he doesn't have money Kui to rent a house.

the first relay to kitchen

room 6

the second relay to kitchen

9 the route to the kitchen

room 5 1

10

sharing kitchen

curtain rotate to manage the route

patient relative

sharing kitchen

She can't find a cheap room Yu near the hospital, so she lives Ying in the hospital's passage for a long time.

announcement 1. Room 1.4.6: 11:30am-12:30pm 17:00pm-18:00pm

cook meal?

hey!

2. Room 2.3.5: 12:30pm-13:30pm 16:00pm-17:00pm

yeh!

3. outsiders: 13:30pm-15:30pm 18:00pm-20:00pm

room 4 sharing dining hall

remenber to get the kitchen ventilated.

room 1 1

room 3

Zhang Jun

11 view of the kitchen/make a meal for himself

migrant teacher

patient relative

He works as a trainning school teacher, however, the school goes broke because of the pandemic.

She hopes to rent the kitchen to do some home cooking for the patient.

12:00 pm lunch

room 2 vagrant He leaves his home for many years, and then wanders Yao around the city everyday.

Kai

nearby worker

8

His workplace is near the house, so he uses this room Li Hua as siesta place.

entrance

N

ground plan

12

2 0

1

3m

have the meal

14

13 let the outsiders to use the kitchen

route of outsiders to kitchen

all the drawings by Da Manjie

slide rail structure

wood

manual of room unit m

h pus

m

4.5

3m

3m

livingroom

bedroom

1.2

studyroom

bath room

bi----!

2.5m

2.5m

0.3m ull

p

15

13:00 pm back to home

14:00pm relax

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15:00pm sleep

16:00pm study

8:00am-11:00pm 15:30pm-16:00pm 20:00pm-22:00pm open the window

17

open the skylight

11:30am-15:30pm 16:00pm-20:00pm open the window

yeh! He misses home cooking, so I rent the kitchen to do it for him.

I am sleepy!

section 1-1

18

16:30pm shower

today, you have to cook meal for your husband?

uh~ shower is so good~

2m 0

1

18:00 pm outsiders' using kitchen time

all the drawings by Da Manjie

05 Wuhan Revival compact high-rise architecture design coping with the COVID-19

Location: Wuhan, China Area:141144 ㎡ academic project Time: 2020.2-2020.5 （year 4) Individual work Surveying, previous research, concept, design and all the drawings individually Instructor: Guan Kaixiong guankaishung@hust.edu.cn Li Xuan When Covid-19 broke out in Wuhan in 2020, all the existing orders of the city were broken and soon the basic urban function was pause. Why the epidemic had so serious result on the city, is somewhat due to the horizontal city ill, for it's wildspreading and hard to control. In the future, city will have ability to deal with the emergency, if it is the vertical mode.

The design is mainly reflecting on the epidemic to the city and create a complex vertical city mode. The mode has 4 points: education and management are at the essential position; selfsufficient mode; the circulation of clean energy and the quick actions dealing with emergency. author: Da Manjie

when facing COVID-19

Food supply is at risk of shortages, and other types of shops are closed.

group purchase

shop

Students stay at home by using electronic device to continue their class, because too many students in a class are easy to being infected.

online class All the shops have their aimed goods, and they are dispersedly distributed in Wuhan, so sometimes people have to go to lots of shops to buy what they need.

People are isolated in their home. The only thing they can do to fulfill their social network is contacting others by video chat, otherwise they will look at outside.

Traditional Wuhan Residence

Yangtze river

Local characteristics

home-stay

classroom

Yellow Crane Tower Gui mountain

The hospital have to build mobie carbin hospitals to take in a large number of patients.

Nearly 50 students sit in the general classroom to study. Different classes can only use the same classroom.

Nowadays, the only connection between neighbors is a nod in the elevator.

The ills of the horizontal city

apartment carbin hospital Actually, there are 3 hospitals really famouse in Wuhan. They take in all the patients from Hubei province, so it is hard to apply for a bed in these hospitals.

hospital

in daily life routine

all the drawings by Da Manjie

other works model

exhibition

Connection design of architecture department 2019.3-2019.6 individual work academic project

Hidden Faerie Rock ( 隐仙岩） ancient building survey 2019.7-2019.10 group work academic project

Guesthouse in Linzhai

Christian Church

hotel design ( MOZHAO architects) 2020.8-2020.9 group work professional project

architecture heritage preservation design 2020.11-2021.6 individual work academic project

photography

Sea Life

"CITY METAMORPHOSIS" 2019 Site: shanghai learning centre, University of Hong Kong, China Role: as a member of the research team Link：https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yljMJRawX_TKL3jFxHm31g（more details)

drawing

The Country Life

See Through Glass

Private Space