FOREST IN THE CONCRETE JUNGLE

Instructors:Lifeng Lin

Individual Work

Location: Shenzhen, CHINA

Fall 2022

Focusing on the needs of places for elderly people, teenagers, office workers and young artists in Shenzhen, we try to create a place where people can rest, talk, walk, entertain and display themselves in the big city, and put forward the need for a landmark building that can feel the natural atmosphere in the concrete jungle.

According to the site conditions and the needs of specific materials, the design innovatively uses the tensile properties of wood to develop a structural type that uses reticulated concrete beams to bear the load and suspends the floor through wooden strips, and adjusts the traffic mode and plane layout of the building to form a place suitable for different people.

Students also need a place outside the campus to study and communicate after class.

Lack of featured landmarks

A must-pass place for the crowd

A Place for carrying various activities

Multi-storey Building Pedestrian Bridge Characteristic Park

Forest In The Concrete Jungle

Load Transimission System

Slabs bear load

Station

SHENZHEN CHINA

The metropolis is full of airtight concrete buildings. People are eager to find nature in the concrete jungle. Wooden structure has comparatively characteristics of light weight, environmental protection during construction, convenient installation and disassembly, and strong recyclability. Although it cannot be used in large quantities, it can be seen as a symbol in the city. As a rest place with good air circulation and lighting, it brings people with natural atmosphere, and makes them get out of the busy city for a moment of rest.

Mechanical Properties Of Wooden Materials

Residential

School Commercial Area

The office workers need a place where they can stop and rest to release the pressure of working in big cities.

Opens in the ground floor to accommodate traffic

The conventional wooden structure has a relatively small span, which cannot meet the requirements of opening to traffic on the ground floor.

It has good tensile properties along the longitudinal direction of the wood. Inspired by this, the load of the floor can be transferred to the grid beam system by the wooden strips, that is, the structure can be "hung up" by the beam system.

Top opening for light transmission Increase the beam height to bear the load Increase the diversity of walking routes up”

PRIMITIVE BLOCK

WOODEN FLOOR SLABS AND CONCRETE BEAMS SYSTEM

SUSPENSION STRUCTURE COMPONENTS

VERTICAL TRAFFIC SYSTEM

6 Assist loading Transmitted downward along the column Lift the floor through the frame

Beams System

Floorslabs Diagonal braces Wooden beams frame

LOAD LOAD LOAD LOAD

Wooden strips Reticulated concrete beam system

DIAGONAL BRACES

Trim Concentrate Disperse

WOODEN FRAMES

Gentle Slope

FLOOR SLABS

In order to make it more comfortable for the elderly, the vertical traffic mode has been designed as a gentle slope with a gradient of less than 10%.

DISPLAY SPACE FOR ARTISTS

Variable Layout

FUN PLACE FOR TEENAGERS

ACTIVITY PARK FOR THE ELDERLY

PRESSURE-RELEASE PLACE FOR OFFICE WORKERS

B

Variation Trend

Innovative Joint

The hanging system of the structure plays a role through the tensile performance of the wooden strips. The continuity of the strips determines that as it moves from top to bottom, the strips used for hanging on each floor will gradually decrease, which means an increasingly wide space pattern will be formed from top to bottom. According to the characteristics of this type of structure, the plane layouts are adjusted to form to suit for different people. Unlike ordinary structural types, the top reticulated beam system bears most of the load, so the strength of steel-wood joints is particularly important.

20mm Steel Bars @160mm Stirrups concrete beam

B-B SECTION d=16mm Extended bolts

200mm Rectangular section wooden strip

B t=12mm X-section steel Reinforced connection

STEEL-WOOD CONNECTION JOINT (A-A SECTION)