PORTFOLIO-ZS-ARCH

ZHOU,SHUANG

PORTFOLIO 2022

University College London MArch Architectural Design Student Number 20138205

PROLOGUE The problem I want to illustrate through these two diagrams is that when you do not use a line to clearly define the relationship between sea and sand, they should have been integrated, just like the most primitive relationship between people.

With the above description, my portfolio will focus on the question of "that line".

My design will look for various "lines" in life from different aspects like urban context, humanities, memory and social relations.

a

b

c d

" Is there a border between sea and sand ? " " If there is ,which one do you chose? {a,b,c,d}"

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b

c d

" But you look," " Which one will you choose this time ? "

"Make the line disappear." , that is the ultimate goal in my works.

CONTENTS ACADAMIC PROJECTS

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02

03

LYING SKYSCRAPER A Mat-building In City Center Area

RECAPTURE AND RESHAPE Neo-collectivism Community

PROPOSALS FOR MCDONALD'S Creating Freedom In The Grid Space

PROFESSIONAL WORK

1

04

15

05

24

06

TWO TREES Light Intervention Strategy

SUJI Rural Brutalism

UNFINISHED PROJECTS Pray Tower Design,XSBN TOD

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30

32

05/2019-11/2019 Urban Design Individial Work Location: Guangzhou

On Site Photo

LYING SKYSCRAPER A Mat-building In City Center Area

OVERVIEW As the starting point of Guangzhou's new central axis, Guangzhou East Railway Station should have played an important role of its gateway node and improved its surrounding environment, but its current use status is inefficient At the same time, its large volume makes it a wall on the central axis, which cuts off urban space and also hinders the penetration and exchange of various flowing energies The goal of the design is to make Guangzhou East Railway Station an infrastructure that condenses urban effects, captures and guides various energy flows, and eventually loses the visual characteristics of traditional buildings and disappears into the landscape and urban continuum

Location Analysis

LAND AREA

POPULATION

DENSITY

TIANHE

CHINA

=5,000

=100,000

96.4km2

17,626/km2

1,697,900

MIGRATION

AGE COMPOSITION

AVERAGE AGE

Above 60 130,774

14,302 OUT

18-60 617,497 Under 18 190,930

GUANGDONG

32.7

53.1%

AVERAGE INCOME

46.9%

39,668 IN

AVERAGE HOUSEPRICE

GDP GROWTH RATE 4608.82

Ten thousand yuan

3011.12

GUANGZHOU

73,400 yuan/m2

Tianhe

59,990 yuan/year

34,200 yuan/m2

Guangzhou

THE PROPORTION OF POPULATION

THE PROPORTION OF LAND AREA

Guangzhou is the political, military, economic, cultural, scientific and educational center of South China, and the Tianhe District where the project is located is the most important areas in Guangzhou.

LAND AREA POPULATION GDP GDP PER CAPITA DENSITY

69,300 yuan/year

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

THE PROPORTION OF GDP

SITE 32.7%

14.8%

70%

Regional Analysis Low

Main road

Hydrological Conditions

Subway lines

Road Connections

Low

High

Building Density

Low

High

High

Road Density

Low

High

Population Density

Low

High

Space Compactness

Comparative Analysis Of Central Axis Cities

SITE

N

SITE

N

N

Shopping

Paris , France

Beijing, China

Guangzhou, China

The characteristics of the Paris City Axis itself conform to the needs of the times and society：

Beijing's central axis is the longest city in the world City axis, full of the etiquette norms and sacred atmosphere :

Guangzhou is moving towards the development goal of an international metropolis :

(1) Meet the needs of politics (2) Meet the public's aesthetic needs (3) Determined the order of urban construction (4) Continue the urban context

(1) Highlight the functional positioning of Beijing as a historical and cultural city.

(1) Reflect the functional axis of the city center ,Improve the status of central cities and economic competitiveness

(2) Its guiding ideology is based on the traditional Chinese nation-building system.

(2) Urban landscape axis, dominated by natural and cultural landscapes

Office area

Public Service Green space

Residential

Stadium

Square

Road

GUANGZHOU CITY PROFILE

OFFICE

HOUSING

PARK

SHOP

Need Analysis

SQUARE APARTMENT RETAILS

PARK SQUARE

LIBRARY THEATER OFFICE

HOTEL

URBAN FARMING GYM SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER

CAFE BAR

CULTURAL FACILITIES

The Locals

CHECK-IN PLACE

SPORTING

FARMING

EDUCATION

DINNING

TEMPORARY STAYING

CULTURAL PRESERVE

IMFORMATION RECEIVE

CITY INTENTION

SHARING

RECREATION

GATHERING

ART PLACE

CO-WORKING SPACE

Surrounding Residents

PUBLIC SPACE

PURCHASING

HOUSING

EXHIBITION HALL

Tourists

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The north is blocked by natural mountains, and the cost of mountain construction is relatively large

Gateway node of Guangzhou Excellent location conditions One of China's three national central business districts.The densest place for skyscrapers in China, and also the most densely populated by Fortune 500 companies in Guangzhou.

The urban living room in Guangzhou and the largest square in Guangzhou

The first commercial district in South China that integrates shopping, catering, leisure, entertainment, culture, tourism and business.

The reconstruction of the square in front of the station is relatively difficult

T

O The old axis

An important transportation hub node in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area One of the transportation hubs connecting Nanshan, Guangzhou's new sub-center area

SITE The new axis

Covered by CITIC Tower, the center line of sight cannot be accurately identified

The South Station will shake the status of East Station The transformation needs to be negotiated

New housing Old housing Shop Hotel Office building Site

Functional Division

Flow Analysis

Green Space Analysis

Traffic Status

Case Study | The evolutionary history of the megastructure”

Vertical City,1927

Cluster City,1956

Fun palace,1964

Administrative Centre , 1971

Linked Hybrid , 2009

In the concept of vertical cities, cities are stacked according to their functions, and the design of the complex is to reduce the demand for traffic, thereby reducing the traffic in the city.

In 1956, the concept of "Cluster" was proposed: The structure of the city should be able to continuously replicate and extend freely.

The understanding of movement has become more and more shallow, and it has become a purely mechanical display, losing the social and cultural considerations previously.

The long viaduct mass created an order among the chaos of unrelated things around the foot of Perugia. This order is obviously a barrier to the city, but mobility has a deeper manifestation.

It reflects a gathering behavior behind life, and the architectural intentions are also concentrated, thus forming a fullscale building in a complete sense and becoming a UNI-City.

Design Strategy 04 Functional Organization

01 Central Axis Continuation

Miniature City+Landscape Form Repairs the fragmentation of the urban space by the railway, and achieves a better integration of the two urban spaces.

Mat-building (Horizontal extension) Staggered courtyard

CBD Typology

02 Urban Connectivity Show the mountain The intervention of the new mass will become an important urban expressway gathered in the surrounding blocks.

Reverse the bottom relationship

Transformation 03 Landscape Architecture

Mix-used

The site will closely integrate office and landscape in the form of courtyards.

Aisle

platform

ramp

courtyard

roof

continuous floor

Spatial Typology

Function Typology

The mat-buliding is the overlapping and reproduction of the traditional horizontal block in the vertical direction.

The functional blocks of each layer are infiltrated with the properties of adjacent plots. Relatively independent units can be divided into relatively independent and interconnected parts. The mutual coupling of the two offers the possibility of highaltitude connections in the horizontal dimension.

The organized arrangement of various types of courtyard spaces in the mega- structure dissolves the sense of volume of the megastructure itself, and together forms a rich community space system, providing a lot of opportunities for social communication, leisure and entertainment.

MIX-USED

Volume Generation Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Phase 5

Phase 6

HOTEL

RETAIL

RESEARCH+OFFICE/CO-WORK

RESIDENTIAL

GREEN SPACE AND PUBLIC SPACE

1

A

D

B

1

1

C

View Point A

View Point B

View Point C

1

N 0m 25m

50m

100m

E

Site Plan

View Point D

View Point E

Office Area Axonometric

Rooftop Leve

el Viewpoint

Cut-away Perspective Of Living Area（1-1）

singing

taking photos

dancing

painting

comm

walking

exercising

meditating

Matrix effect

The interstitial space tends to maximize the integration, so that walkways, platforms, ramps, penetrating spaces, roofs and continuous floors become the key elements of the dominant building.

Walking the dog

Pi

ha

Organization of Topological Relations The accidental connection replaces the general primary, secondary, and axis levels, weakens specific dominance, emphasizes the contingency of physical perception and behavior, and forms a compound formula.

playing

municating

icking up

Family walking

performing

reading

Dating

scooting

Running

Rich sight connection The richness of the spatial level will plan the penetration and exchange of various flowing energies, which can stimulate events

feeding animals

aving meeting

Boundary processing The overpass extended will directly connect the living area of the ​​ giant structure with the public green space of the neighboring community

On Site Photo

There used to be a group of people who gave everything to create a world and they eventually failed...

RECAPTURE AND RESHAPE

Results

Neo-collectivism Community

Overview The project is located in Liwan District, Guangzhou, China, and serves as an iconic urban space to witness the glorious development of the Chinese industrial era. It is now facing a large influx of residents from The New "Guanggang", and the site is gradually becoming a forgotten negative space While the newly built residential districts have broken the historical texture relationship of Guangsteel City, which reflects the problems of homogenization of contemporary Chinese living environment, weakening of community neighborhood relations, and the integration of old and new residents The gradual marginalized living space and peeping past memories in the gap are not the Neo-collectivism that The Old Guanggang residents hope

03/2019-07/2019 Urban Design Individial Work Location: Guangzhou

In 2015, the new plan called “Guangzhou Steel New Town”was proposed,the site is planned as a central park.

Historical Evolution

In 1958, Guangzhou steelworks was established

In 1995, 22 units and more than 2500 employees were separated from Guangzhou Iron and Steel Company In 2013, the company was shut down, which has operated for 55 years and 90 days, has gone into history.

Urban Texture 1958

2013

2017

2030 Industrial building of Guanggang

The Old Guanggang Residential Building

The New Guanggang Residential Building

Guanggang residents and production areas were closely linked in space. Residents'spatial perception ranged from the areas of production areas and residential areas.

The company closed down. Due to the intervention of new high-rise buildings, the spatial relationship between residential areas and production areas was severed

A new high-rise building was built in the south of the site,which became two "walls" of the steel plant space and the external living space

The Guanggang Community will move into high-rise rebuilt houses, and the site will be transformed into a large park

Other industrial buildings

Community relations maintained by co-living

The Old Wall

Land Replacement Open community

COORDINATION The Old Resident

Shared community

The New Resident

Community sharing mechanism

The New Wall The Government

Culture Industry

Urban scale wall

Industrial Memory WHAT 'we' used to be

Industrial culture Identity

Reflected in

Industrial Building Reuse

Different Social Status Spatial Memory

Spirit Level

Collective memory

transform

Mixed-used Land use

The New Real Estate becomes a Wall of Unit Courtyard and the site

Artist+Residents

Affective Memory

WHAT 'they' do

Art Center

WHAT 'we' want

Artist resides

Ecological restoration

Cultural Creation

Balance the different needs

Residential privacy

Need anaylsis

Compound scale , River ,Home security Football Team , work experience

Public resources are shared by time

Reshaping Culture Facilitiess

Job Opportunities

Community operation Technical Support

Football Field

SITE PLAN

Capsule system

The Boundary

Neo-collectivism community

Physical Space Level

Symbiotic sharing

There are different forms of block walls in the old and new Guanggang residential areas.

Diverse event planning

Closed block

Attractive Residential area

Design Process

Volunme Generation The temporary shared space function blocks are evenly distributed on the site, thereby limiting three main effects.

Overhead operation is carried out, and the elevation difference between blocks is handled through ramp blocks to form ash.

The links between buildings are further strengthened through the corridor system to meet the walking continuity of the two-storey corridor.

On the basis of the shared space block, the residential buildings are arranged on it, and the number of stories is 6.

17.Blast furnace square

01.Front square

18.Workers' football field

02.Landscape observation platform 03.Gantry crane

19.Blast furnace Art Center 20.BF Artist studio

04.Guanggang Museum

21.Waste yard park

05.Neutralisation material garden 06.Scrap yard park

22.Gas tank Hotel Apartment

07.Tourist Service Center

23.Gas tank square 24.Parking lot

08.Passenger rest area

25.Capsule R & D Center

09. Senior citizens living area

26.Basement Parking

10. Youth residential area 11. Industrial Corridor

Park land Sports ground Square land

12.Central commercial street

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13.Commercial street

Cultural venues Commercial land

14.Overhead parking lot

Public services

15.Coking plant square 16.Coking plant park

Elder housing Youth Apartment

Artistic creation 0

25

50

100m

Residential land

Capsule Type

01

02

03

04

Details

Through the online APP system and offline community residents' decision-making, the entire process is divided into four parts: participation role, scheduled capsules, capsule transportation, and data statistics. This system will become a community space and resource sharing Complete management mechanism.

Art Center Explosion

Update Strategy Step 1 — Ecological restoration

Cultural shop Atrium Auxiliary space Shared office Exhibition/Show Cafe

Step 2 — Building restoration

Step 3 — Residence construction

The first Mcdonald's,1940

PROPOSALS FOR MCDONALD'S Creating Freedom In The Grid Space

06/2020-07/2020 Furniture Renovation Individial Work

The art exhibition was a great success and caught the interest of McDonald's owners.

The artist A came to McDonald’s as usual at the midnight.

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I should do something for them...

“I am doing a program to help Mcrefugees.

But I am not that good at design, so I think of you. I hope we can do it together. ”

“Hello, I have seen your exhibition. You did a great job. I am wondering if I could invite you to solve their problems through design.”

Sure!! I happen to be very concerned about them.

Artist A turned to his good friend C,an architect.

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He must be so tired...

Mcrefugees attracted his notice.

He noticed that almost everyone had a receipt on their desk,they all buy the cheapest food items.

It took him a month to collect Mcrefugees’ receipts and held an art exhibition to show that What do they buy when they want to sleep at McDonald's.

I have stayed here for two years, and I report here at 12 o'clock every night on time,haha!!

The staff here are very kind to me, and I will also help them clean up the garbage.

This is the safest place in the world.

I lost my family...

Their story is poignant....

A and C began to observe Mcrefugees carefully and record their ideas.

Rural Architectural Practice (Two Projects Under Construction) Location: Xiayi County ,China Design Period:6/2021-12/2021 Professional Offices:Voice Design Role:Principal Architect Collaborators:Lu Xuelei,Gan Jinyang,Li Weizhi

114°48'W/34°52'N

Responsible part:Conception,Modeling,Rendering,Interior Design

PLOT 02

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PLOT 01

On Site Photo

With the increasing improvement of urban infrastructure construction in China, rural construction has become an important practical direction for Chinese architects How to intervene and respond to the corresponding problems in the form of architecture under the background of rural environment will be preliminarily discussed in my two projects under construction.

One is a coffee shop with public attributes, and the other is a B & B cluster with private attributes

PLOT 01

“TWO TREES” Light Intervention Strategy "Two Trees" are planted on the flat and open natural base in the way of light intervention. The two groups of inverted umbrella steel member systems are not only the main structure of the cafe, but also the roof structure.

Their spatial intention directly echoes the contour characteristics of the vegetable greenhouse cluster on the back. The roof grid curtain wall forms a rich indoor light and shadow effect, which is the interpretation of the intention of the shape of tree.

The independence of the main structure and the maintenance structure dispels the sense of volume of the building. The component treatment method is convenient for future disassembly, reflecting the respect for the site.

Ground Floor Plan

SHADEING LOUVER ROOF

STEEL COLUMN

Roof Plan

CAFE SPACE

1-1 Section 0

5

20m

PLOT 02

“SUJI”

Rural Brutalism

“SUJI" is a typical form of tourist accommodation products with Chinese characteristics, As a capital product, how to realize the regionality of rural architecture is the focus of this project Located in the east longitude 114.48, in the north latitude of 34.5, the lowest temperature in winter reaches minus 10°. Therefore, except the large-scale floor-to-ceiling windows to the landscape, the other facades have limited openings

Inheriting from local houses, the hotel is designed with terraces, courtyards and reed-topped eaves galleries to encourage more outdoor activities. We used a special treatment of cement mortar on the exterior walls to restore the texture of rammed earth wall from local buildings

UNFINISHED PROJECTS

Pray Tower Desgin

Xishuang Banna TOD

THANK YOU

ZHOU SHUANG University College London MArch Architectural Design Student Number 20138205