WHAT IS CHARACTER?
Sun Yushan Bachelor of Architecture, Hunan University Applicant for Design for Performance and Interaction MArch program, UCL
What is character? It is individualized in a specific place, for a specific period of time. It is vernacular, but also international perspective.
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MOBILE NEST
AN OLD LADY WITH THREE CATS
Assembly Living Boxes Futural living units could be flexible, movable and cheap. The concept of prefabricated building is not new. Rooms can be produced in boxes and installed to the elevation of existing buildings seperately Architects could not only rely on the architectural skills to design, but they also might apply new technology for architecture in order to provide a more convenient way to negotiate people from different generations.
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URBAN
Library and
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The future living space of owners and pets could make human feel like living in animals' world. An architect could eliminate the boundary between owners and pets through interfaces. And this project is a practice in a small scale about how to adjust abstract sense using concrete geometry.
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CURE
SEEDS STORY
Universal buildings could practically provide human a sheltered and private place, but not shared space. In this project, I regenerated the universal prototype through interweaving boundaries, thus creating a well sheltered shared space where people could be initiative to the place.
In post-human society, dwelling is highly initiative to plants and animals, life is in green cities. There could be not any isolated green area segmentised by high-density concrete human habitat.
Housing combined with public functions
An architect could interweave volumes to create the place and intertwine the boundary between interior and exterior place.
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An architect could find ecological elements, such as seeds, that could permeate into concrete cities through natural growth, and the process is sustainable as well as long-lasting.
24-year-old Lan works in He changes his house Beijing without residence. from time to time.
75-year-old Su lives in She is too old to do Beijing, always lonely. the housework.
He finds Su's place on They meet and decide Mobile Nest and applies. to share space.
Boxes are installed in the next day.
Lan does housework for Su after work.
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MOBILE NEST Assembly Living Boxes
Academic Group Project Changsha, China Level: Thirdv Year First Semester Carry Out Date: 27/10/2015 Supervisor: Xu Li Contact: 417362601@qq.com
Assembly Housing Typology
Sleeping Box
The sleeping box is composed by a sleeping space as well as some storage space in terms of the different hobbies of the young generation. The eight type of boxes are shown on the rigth. The shape of this box is as shown down here.
Living Box
The living box is in a cuboid, providing an active space for both users, the young and the old generation, to socialize, spent time or enjoy same activities. Some of the boxes can be flecible and the space can be extented.
Type 1 - Sports Star
Type 2 - Lazy Homeboy
Type 5 - Food Aficionado
Type 6 - Shopaholic
Type 1 - Sports Star
Type 2 - Lazy Homeboy
Type 5 - Food Aficionado
Type 6 - Shopaholic
There are generally two kinds of assembly boxes, sleeping box and living box. The sleeping box is basic in function, including a bed and some storage. The living box is for fulfilling extra demands such as working or playing space. They are designed in eight different themes or types in terms of the hobbies of the young people. The young is able to select one type from the eight boxes and decide whether they need living box.
Type 3 - Art Life
Type 4 - Workaholic
Type 7 - Terrace Lover
Type 8 - Socializing
Type 3 - Art Life
Type 4 - Workaholic
Type 7 - Terrace Lover
Type 8 - Socializing
AN OLD LADY WITH THREE CATS House
Academic Individual Project Milan, Italy Level: Fourth Year First Semester Carry Out Date: 01/12/2016 Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Setti Contact: giulia.setti@hotmail.it
EVENTS What do a lady and her cats do in a day? Starting from clarifying one day events, each category is put into a functional cube, after which all those cubes are located according to the relation between events.
COMPLEX EVENTS
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Locate the containers
Openings
A double-height space connects bedroom to meeting room
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Openings connect living room to tea and green house visually
Add two fences to improve privacy and security
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CONTAINERS How does a cube contain events?
Via Manfredo Fanti, Milan, Italy
12m×12m In a corner of a cross on this street, the site is an empty square land neighboured by apartment buildings.
3m×3m×16 The site can be Separated equally into 16 sub-squares.
Each sub-square is for an events container.
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When the lady and her cats live in a space, the relation between them would show three states: separation, encounter and indifference. All of them are likely to exist in an events container at the same time. Separation Although traditional furniture for the lady or cats put together, it separates activities and thus dismisses their communication. If the separation state is destructed, it would be more possible for them to encounter. Destruction and Abstraction In order to abstracting the main elements, traditional furniture is destructed and then becomes potential element for encountering. Encounter The abstract potential elements are recomposed according to 3 principles: Firstly, it should fulfill the previous function the traditional furniture provides, and the remained furniture, like toilets, should be included in the recomposition. Secondly, each piece of recomposed structures is able to serve both the lady and her cats. Thirdly, the openings are connected to recomposed structures.
Indifference The events containers are the enclosed structures that does not lead to any activity.
Collect all the separation and encounter elements and insert them to indifferent containers. Finally, the transformation is accomplished and encountering possibility between the lady and her cats is increased.
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Lady's Garden
Tea House
Secondary Entrance
Green House
Meeting Room
Kitchen Dining
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Balcony
Living Room
Meeting Room
Green House
Tea House
Kitchen & Dining Room
Living Room
Bedroom
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Roof Insulation Detail 50mm gravel 1.5mm polyolefin roof sheeting waterproofing course 230mm reinforced concrete structure insulation, glued vapor barrier, glued 20mm interior finish
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A New Day Montage The house is designed for both the cats and the lady. When the cats' dominant position is improved, the lady would feel that she may live in a cats' world. She could be closer to cats, cats could find every corner interesting at home.
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URBANSCAPE Library and exhibition hall
Academic Individual Project Changsha, China Level: Third Year First Semester Carry Out Date: 07/01/2016 Supervisor: Prof. Wei Chunyu Contact: wcy1963@126.com
The depressed, close, dark urban space is enclosed by three surfaces in section, the elevations of buildings and the ground.
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The black marks the city space, while the white stands for solid buildings.
The buildings here are composed by repeated units, a box closed by vertical walls and horizontal floors.
The continuity between the units and the city is cut by the vertical transport space.
Universal buildings, what I refer to, could be built over ten floors, thus show the urban density.
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This line marks the surfaces of the city, before and after I introduce an inclined plane.
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In order to enlighten and activate urban space, the surfaces could be broken.
By broken boundaries, the urban space and the solid buildings could be connected more initiatively, then allow an intertwined relationship.
The inclined planes are the kind of surface that could demolish vertical and horizontal limitations.
Continuous inclined planes could achieve the continuity between buildings and city. The transport space and functional space are combined.
The inclined planes could also continuously grow as high as the existing buildings and reflect the urban density.
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Existing people's flow is limited and segmentised.
The existing flow could be regenerated to a flexible and accessible system.
A triangle and a square are introduced to regenerate the system. The triangle area is dropped, while the square area is suspended.
People could ramble continuously in the two shapes and explore the urbanscape.
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RAMBLING Growing from the ground surface of urban space, the rambling ramps are also continuous on the upper floors, thus people experiencing continuously from the basement until the top. The red dote lines indicate the route, and the image on the next page presents the sense as well as the surfaces of the space during rambling.
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RAMBLING The project provides an urbanscape experience, when creating the change of views during rambling.
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Housing combined with public functions
Academic Group Project Team Leader Responsible for conceptual design, modeling, structure and detail design and drawings. Milan, Italy Level: Fourth Year Second Semester Carry Out Date: 06/07/2017 Supervisor: Prof. Giulia Setti Contact: giulia.setti@hotmail.it
CONFLICT
Between industrial and residential typology in Loreto, Milan
Industrial Typology The main character of industrial typology is rectangle plan and buildings are low in height. The building could be composed by a single volume, or double volumes, or even more complex composite.
Residential Typology The main character of residential typology is linear plan. The buildings are high and composed by single volumes or double volumes.
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The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
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Slab Commercial Building quadrilateral "L" shape shape plan plan
Factory Bungalow Factory Composite Courtyard School Courtyard Office rectangle plan with point roofs 2 rectangle plans Building Building and continuous big space connected by a patio 2 patios 2 patios in a rectangle
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Courtyard Apartment Building a "U" shape volume next to a linear volume (different height)
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OPPORTUNITY
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The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
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INTEGRATION The three different axes are integrated through composing the basement of the four volumes (affordable housing, hostel, the ring and creative market). The height and perimeter of each volume is carefully connected to surrounding buildings and ruled by one of the axes in geometry. In the unique basement, the observers' flow is continuous not only among volumes, but also from inside to outside. However, the volumes are distinguished on the upper part. The role of the ring is highlighted by using U-glass, because it locates in the core of the geometrical chaos.
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Affordable Housing Third to FIfth Floor Plan 1:500
Affordable Housing Sixth and Seventh Floor Plan 1:500
Hostel Typical Floor Plan 1:500
The plans and the drawing are drawn by Sun Yushan.
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DISTINGUISHED ATMOSPHERE The housing and the public space are distinguished not only in the geometry of space, but also in the atmosphere they present. The housing provides shelter and privacy to dwellers, while the public space in the integrated basement play a key role to connecting people. The place serves as a platform for its inhabitants and at the same time they are sheltered by the interweaved boundary.
The drawing is drawn by Lin Kexin.
The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
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DETAIL
50mm gravel 1.5mm polyolefin roof sheeting 100-80mm stonewool insulation to falls vapour barrier, glued 250mm reinforced concrete deck 10mm gypsum plaster 3mm sheet steel bent to shape maritime pine planks 20mm plaster 60 mineral wool core insulation, glued 350mm reinforced concrete folding plate, aluminum, 2700mm x 270mm 2600mm x 500mm thermal double glazing in aluminum frame 5mm linoleum 45mm calcium sulphate panel 250mm watertight concrete 100mm cavity suspended ceiling complete, with 12.5mm painted gyproc wallboard 190 mineral wool core 300mm watertight concrete 30mm cable 25mm glass t=25mm limestone panel 60mm air space 10mm rigid foil (cover the rigid insulation) 100mm rigid insulation waterproofing course 230mm reinforced concrete structure 20mm interior finish 3mm external stone floor plaster base (toweling course) bituminous sand (substructure layer) iron perforated strainer draining ditch waterproofing course 250mm Blinding layer gravel earth 3mm interior stone floor screed 40mm rigid insulation (styrofoam extruded) 250mm reinforced concrete slab on site concrete and welded mesh Igloo recycled plastic formworks build-in fitting silicate weathering glue
Limestone panel
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Thermal double-glazing glass in aluminum frame
Aluminum plate
Materials The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
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GREEN AREA
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SEEDS STORY Urban design
2017 Seoul International Idea Competition, awarded by UIA WORLD CONGRESS, Honorable Mention Academic Group Project Team Member Responsible for conceptual design, modeling and drawings Seoul, Korea Level: Fourth Year Second Semester Carry Out Date: 31/05/2017 Self-instructed
Human has complex requirements. Because of their naturality they extend territories and care about other lives. On the other hand, sociality lead them to persue higher aims, such as education, entertament and commerce.
Extending interior space
Extending interior space
Education acceptance
Requirements Human
Problems Isolated green areas have formed from the significant development of urban area.
High-density human habitat has occupied all of the urban space.
All the public services have concentrated.
Requirements Animals
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Recreation
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The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
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SEEDS PLAN
Keeping pets
Directed by problems, solutions and natural requirements
Thirst for green area
Commerce and employment
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The Seeds Plan is a strategy for all the city residents, human, animals as well as plants. Attaching their natural requirements to the existing site factors, this seeds system is proposed to fulfill those needs and improve the site quality.
Solutions
Meshing the isolated green area.
Combining habitat for all lives.
Dispersing public service by 6 cores.
Requirements Plants
Natural irrigation
Underground soil and fertilizer
Spreading naturally
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PROCESS OF SEED SYSTEM Corresponding with story events and local requirements, this process of seeds system indicates how seeds work and integrate all the operations in the ecology.
SEEDS’ HABITAT
SEEDS’ SPREAD Seeds Bridge
Mountain Namsan
Seeds Habitat on Scaffolds
Seeds Tower Seeds Habitat on Roof and Habitat in Balcony
Seeds Square on Top of Parking
SEEDS’ CULTIVATOR Animals Habitat
Water and Waste Processing
Seeds Habitat with Viewing Platform
Hotel
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Seeds Habitat in Handcart
The drawing is drawn by Sun Yushan.
SEEDS’ EXPLOITATION
SEEDS TO CITY
Logistics Center
Theme Market
Seoul City
Seeds Research Centre in School
SEEDS TO YONGSAN
Restaurant Seeds Museum
Seeds Bridge
Seeds Education Centre in Church
Mountain Yongsan
Legend
Seeds
Human gardener
Fertilizer
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Logistics Center Originally used as a parking building, Logistics Center is the core for transporting seeds as well as agricultural products.
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Theme Market Seeds Theme Market is a renewed commercial place introduced plants towards interior space, and extended towards urban street space.
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Seeds Square Seeds Square is built on top of a parking lot. Here, animals live together with plants, and they could be intimate to human.
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The three drawings on this page are drawn by Nie Kemou.
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Seeds Museum Transformed from a church, Seeds Museum includes both interior exhibitions as well as exterior ones. Meanwhile, the exterior exhibition space is also animals and plants habitat. Location
Education Center The church is used as Seeds Education Center, when there are lectures about nature protection.
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Research Center The school building is used as both school and Seeds Research Center. Students could learn during researching process.
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The three drawings on this page are drawn by Sun Yushan.
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DEVELOPMENT OF SEEDS SYSTEM IN THREE STEPS Step 1 Starting the process, local dwellers should build seeds bridge, seeds habitat, animals habitat, water and waste processing system, thus preparing seeds settlement. Also, shops, restaurants and tourists center construction could promote the tourism development.
seed bridge seed habitat shops & restaurants animal habitat tourists center water-processing waste-processing
Step 2 When the seeds sprawling to other streets, seeds system will be completing through constructing initiative market, square, museum and new habitat. After, the logistics center and storages are the preparation for extending trade.
logistics center initiative market seed storage seed square theme hostel animal hostel seeds museum
Step 3 Finally, the green area could be extended to the whole city Seoul through improving related cultural activities, such as workshops, research and protection program.
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The drawings are drawn by Sun Yushan.
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