Drift City：Strolls and Situations
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Infrastructure System Restructuring
03/2018-06/2018 ‘8+’Eight School Joint
Modern architecture and even entire cities are becoming a product of infrastructure technology. Our daily life space is shaped by underground layers of pipe networks. Switches and buttons link us to this huge global system. We think we are the user and controller of the machine, but in fact our body has long since been alienated, absorbed into the end of the system. Chongqing, the mountain city presents as a more ambiguous and imaginable space. This project aims to reconstruct a more disorderly operating system, instead of extending the machine. In this new nondirectional system, new situations are constructed through incubators, which creates new possible discourses.
“The city has begun to abandon architecture, and there is a third option between top-down planning and bottom-up growth : infrastructure, how things work.”
Collage of Chongqing - Layers of Daily Life
Graduation Design 2018 Graduation Artwork Exhibition of CAFA Huangjiaopin,Chongqing,China. Advisor: Zhou Yufang, Han Tao
Mapping - Psychogeographic Guide of Site Rules
-Random path Randomly ask people the way, choose the next location according to what they mentioned. -Interview ask them about their occupation / daily routine / living environment‌ -Oral history the information about local changes from interviewees. -Route describe the path by psychological symbols, not by the map. -Boundary record the demarcations between common spaces.
Methodology Reasearch & Strategy
Final Script for Video - A Drift City
Contemporary Tectonics Experiment
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Rural Reconstruction
11/2017-/2018 "Ink Yanjing" Six School
Yanjin is a small rural town in southern China which has been classified as a poor area. Due to urbanization and various social changes, rural social organization has been continuously disintegrating, with economic backwardness, population loss, and dying traditions. The architecture, which is constructed with cheap materials in an eclectic mix of different styles from around the world, has become a type of scenery. The local government is trying to develop tourism through the involvement of architects, which is a typical method in China's large-scale top-down rural construction boom in recent years. However, many of these conflicts of interest have led us to think: What does the village really need? Given the cumbersome social constraints, what can architecture really bring to the village? Can we preserve regionality in the contemporary era? How can we avoid the country being once again consumed by the city? Currently ownerless concrete structures have been erected and the government wants to turn these structures into high-end hotels. However we proposed a new tool kit from a construction perspective, like the construction methods in the Yingzao Fashi , in order to provide a usable lifestyle to these inefficient towns which are under immense pressure. While engaging with this issue, we understood our work as a study of local materials and construction techniques, rather than a campaign to “renew� the village.
Historical Studies - Development of Rural China
Design Workshop Yanjin,Yunnan,China. Advisor: Zhou Yufang
Contemporary Tectonic a reconstruction method for vernacular architecture
Combination Test A - ‘Superposed Views’ Material: brick / bamboo / wood Tectonic: masonry / weaving glass
wood structures
interial bamboo walls
Brick walls
Decomposition Diagram
Floor Plan
Combination Test B - ‘Between the weaving’ Material: Wood / Bamboo Tectonic: Wood Structure / Weaving weaving roof
bamboo window structures wood element
Decomposition Diagram
Floor Plan
▲ An activity center built with abandoned door，Huajiadi , 2018
Exhibion for Huajiadi studies, CAFA Architecture school , 2018 ▲ Exhibion of Huajiadi studies, CAFA Architecture school , 2018
HUAJIADI Declaration A Self-Grown Community
# 03/2015-06/2016
Huajiadi Community was built in the early 1980s during the early stage of commercial housing. It is also a particular product of rapid urbanization in Beijing. Because it lacked a mature management system at its inception, Huajiadi developed an ungated system and accommodated a large floating population. it has become a stable and undetectable landmark in the high-end community which now surrounds it. Huajiadi provides a community framework, which has left significant grey areas for residents to use time and folk wisdom to create space and freedom. This change has allowed the users of the space to become producers. The community is not an island of strict management, but a testing base constructed by countless different individuals. In combination with my experience of living here, we launched a study of Huajiadi using urban modernology: Huajiadi – a retrospective declaration. We published the research and held an exhibition. In this issue, the spatial strategies of these residents have been used to design a self-developing community model.
"After 20 years of rapid development, it is not that Huajiadi is chasing us, but we are chasing the Huajiadi."
History of urbanisation in Wangjing area
Social relationships in Huajiadi
Architectural Design(6): Urban Renewal and Community Design Huajiadi,Beijing,China. Advisor:Han tao, He wei
A Self-Developing Community Model This is a residential area with no definite shape. It is composed of a detachable structure. People can install the modules according to their needs. During the installation process, residents can consult on their own.
Only the bathroom and bedroom are the most private, and different models can be customized according to personal preference. People can customize furniture according to their own preferences, and furniture can also be shared with others in public areas.
Private Level
Public Furniture
Public level
Structure In the transportation space, people can exchange information, get what they need, and transport them through tower cranes.
Crane Tower Elevator Decomposition Diagram
Self-growing floor plan
Interior rendering
Form and Politic : From 1420 to 2015 Architectural Drawings of Forbidden City
# 03/2015-06/2016
The Forbidden city is a typical example of Chinese political space. It is in the heart of Beijing, and served as apparatus for the feudal state, until it became a symbol of democratic reform in the Republican period, and finally became a museum promoting national identity to the public. This study aims to redraw the spatial forms of the Forbidden City and surrounding buildings in the three periods of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1420-1911), the Modern China Period (1919-2008), and the Data Age (2013-). The drawings illustrate different directions of the power gaze during these three periods, and how the power is produced by space. Through an analysis of these changing forms, we can extract three abstract prototypes of political space: the central machine for outward control, the museum for inward propaganda and finally the self-controlled homogeneous space.
“ it does possess a center, but this center is empty. The entire city turns around a site both forbidden and indifferent, here, not in order to irradiate power, but to give to the entire urban movement the support of its central emptiness.�
Forms research: Reconstruction of the Forbidden City the Forbidden City, Beijing,China. Advisor:Li Han, Cui Pengfei
1420 Forbidden City: the central state apparatus for external control
The Forbidden City from 1420 functioned as the central political machine, with an invisible exterior and a strict internal order. Unlike western central cities, concentric layers of walls block the continuity of space in order to achieve a high concentration of ancient domination and strict monitoring of the outside world. Ceremonial spatial features within urban space, such as axis, geometry, and symmetry, constantly shape the legitimacy of the highest power. Inside the machine, the global layout not only strengthens the center, but also constructs largeness with multiplicity. This provided feudal authoritarian rulers with a comprehensive framework for political life..
1950 The Palace Museum and Tiananmen Square: a symbol of ideology and identity organized inward propoganda
Initially, the establishment of the Palace Museum was the specific symbol of the concept of "nation", "people" and "nations" in China. When it goes from a forbidden area to a museum that is presented to the public, its internal power mechanism is transformed from outward control to an inward-looking gaze,in the form of an organized and selective exhibition. The setting up of a series of museums on Chang'an Street is also serves national ideology, society and politics. Power supervision, integration, penetration, and projection are all present at different levels of society.
2015 Forbidden City in the cloud: the cyborg self and the cloud space
Since 2013, 4G networks, social media, and surveillance system have become ubiquitous in China. We can connect with other users on countless servers around the world. Daily small behaviors are recorded, producing a city of big data stored in the cloud. . The power seems to disappear, but infact it expands and penetrates every corner of life. We are no longer restricted by the walls. Any viewing is now no longer one-way. While now we are all the centre of our own network, the “I� also becomes a target for monitoring and advertisements. In today's transparent cyborg public space,Who is watching us? Where do we escape to avoid the gase?
A Metaphor of the Forbidden City Cybernetics
1. Central mechine 2. Homogenized Living Space 3. Hidden Borders
Combined with the previous research on the spatial form and politics of the Forbidden City I use the structure of Forbidden city as a spatial metaphor to describe a cybernetics in this drawing: our control boundary still exists and is still controlled by the cloud in the center; the transmission machine is hidden in the wall, which we do not see. However, inside the high wall is our seemingly infinite and homogeneous living space
Fabrication Activism
100% Organic Design
This is a breakdown of the tools and bio material protocols that will be used to lay the foundations for a new set of responsibilities which contemporary architecture and design practice must live up to, defining a new ethical standard. During this workshop, we were required to use the materials available on site to discover and create, on one condition: environmental protection. I worked with my young teammates and I got a lot of inspiration from them during the process.
# 12-23/08/2019 UCL Summer School Bartlett-Beijing Workshop 2019 Beijing,China. Advisor: Carlos Jimenez Cenamor, Alex Anderson, Florence Bassa, YIYI, Jasonpaul McCarthy.
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