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TIAN

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Studying in UCLA MSAUD (M.arch 2) Program SELECTED

WORKS

2015-2022

Contact: tianluo97@g.ucla.edu(E-mail)

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CONTENTS 01

[SHENZHEN NO.28 MIDDLE] Group Work Construction bidding project: shortlisted

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[BAOSHAN STEEL FACTORY RENOVATION] Individual Work Studio: Fashion Hub for Yangpu Waterfront

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[MINORITY FASHION HUB] Individual Work Studio: Fashion Hub for Yangpu Waterfront

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[A SPIRAL ROUTE] Individual Work Studio: Collective Housing

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[AFTER FIRE: WATER BASINS]

PROLOGUE I believe genuine architecture should be a sensitive envelope that has a corresponding special physical relationship with life, forming a emotional container. There is a scene that always echoes in my mind. It was the rainy season in my hometown, raindrops fell down along the wall, leaving traces on the old mottled red bricks, the water penetration over the years gradually imprinted a dynamic pattern on the facade, which inspires me of how organic and vigorous a building could be. As the notes can be played to convey feelings, architecture should be a whole integrating all the tectonic symbols and elements that can vibrate with the life going around it.

As Peter Zumthor wrote: there are many symbols and information in the world, but the real essence is hidden. Architectural forms act like dull and sluggish containers with a lack of musical beauty, which from my point of view causes the disharmony and fragmentation of the current architecture. Instead of being presented as broken rhythms, discrete parts should be composed together with a concern with emotion and site personalities.

In my projects, I try to define my buildings as emotional containers. They are designed considering publicity, politics, social factors, urban context, cultural factors and technology. Emotions are expressed in the architectural space , making people to resonate, communicate and experience, composing a lyrical and dynamic story.

Group Work Studio: Fire Prevention

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[PRESCRIBED BURN RESEARCH PROJECT] Group Work

What is Emotional Container?

Studio: Fire Prevention

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[IN-BETWEEN]

MINORITY FASHION HUB

Individual Work Studio: Community Center Design

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[SIHE COURTYARD KINDERGARTEN]

A SPIRAL ROUTE

IN-BETWEEN

Resonate Communicate Experience

Individual Work Studio: Playground Design for Children

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SIHE COURTYARD KINDERGARTEN

Memory

Workplace: Atelier GOM 2. Individual Work

Politics Social Factor Urban Cultural Factor

[OTHER WORKS] 1. Professional Practice

Publicity

RECYCLABLE PAVILION

Activities Technology

01 Shenzhen No.28 middle Construction bidding project: shortlisted

2020-2021 Working Project in GOM Architectural Design Consulting Co., Ltd Cooperative Professional Work with Yang Shu, Qicheng Zhang Role in Team: Research (20%), Design Proposal (60%), Technical Drawing (90%) Project Leader: Jiajing Zhang & Wenbin Xu Mailing Address: gom@gom.com.cn District: Shenzhen, China

Shenzhen No. 28 senior middle school is located in Xinqiao street, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, with a total construction area of 130000 square meters. It will be built into a 72 class boarding senior middle school, providing 3600 degrees.

The whole site is close to mountains and rivers. Taking into account the climate conditions in Shenzhen, the conceptual design of the building revolves around water, natural landscape, outdoor activities and teaching. According to the treatment of the terrain, the layers of corridors change, resulting in a unique sense of dislocation, which also makes the classroom students have a unique perspective and viewfinder frame for the surrounding environment

SITE PLAN: ACADEMIC BUILDING/COMPLEX BUILDING/DORMITORY

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION DRAWING

Dormitory Building Dormitory building is in the south of the steep terrain . Adjust the height of the building according to the mountain terrain, and increase the overhead space at the bottom to makeg a group of high-rise dormitories about 51400 m2.

Sports Stadium Raising the playground 12 meters to the roof level allows students to get a better view. The interior of the complex contains an outdoor theater, auditorium, indoor sports arena, library and other functions.

SITE MODEL

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION DRAWING

Academic Building Rendering The teaching building is placed on the gentle terrain on the north side, which contains general classrooms, special classrooms, elective classrooms, administrative offices and others, and the façade is designed with ventilation and light.

Sports Stadium Rendering The semi-outdoor basketball court has a good view of the students walking around, the outdoor landscape, and the teaching building. At the same time, the basketball court is well lit and ventilated.

02 Baoshan Steel Factory Renovation Industrial Site Renovation|Urban Planning

2020-2021 Working Project in GOM Architectural Design Consulting Co., Ltd Cooperative Professional Work with Wei Huang Role in Team: Research (40%), Design Proposal (80%), Technical Drawing (90%) Project Leader: Jiajing Zhang & Wenbin Xu Mailing Address: gom@gom.com.cn District: Shanghai, China

Baosteel is the largest and most modernized large-scale steel conglomerate that has been built since the founding of New China. However, with the rapid development of technology, Baoshan Iron and Steel Works has gradually been forgotten and become an abandoned industrial site.

The biggest challenge and opportunity facing this project is how to reconstruct the steel city within the 60,000 square foot steel plant, while logically and self-consistently integrating into the urban context, activating the local community in a renewed form and giving it a new urban vibrancy.The main strategy of this project is to insert different urban neighborhoods into the steel framework along with an integrated transportation system.

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM: FUNCTION

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING: MATERIAL

功能分区示意图

The overall urban planning retains the original steel framework, while inserting new building structures into it.

Buildings with multiple functions, materials and facades bring new vitality to the abandoned steel factories.

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION DRAWING

16m 效果图

Commerical Building Rendering Spiral lanes are placed inside the steel plant, and vehicles and pedestrians can easily reach each floor. At the same time, trees and vines grow inside the steel plant. New business activities take place at this "steel city".

EXPLODED AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM: TRANSPORTATION

ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION DRAWING

24m 效果图

交通分析示意图

Commerical Building Rendering The new Steel City has multiple levels of buildings, while each floor has different architectural activities. Vehicles hover around the steel city and can stop and go as they please, showing the high level of technological development.

0m 效果图

经济技术指标

备注

地块面积

15.3 万平方米

总建筑面积

47 万平方米

其中

建筑

32.8 万平方米

广场

12.1 万平方米

立体道路

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占地面积

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容积率

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Commerical Building Rendering The original first floor has been transformed into a green park, while vehicles move on the upper floors, people can get a wide green space to enjoy, as well as getting enough lights on the lower floors.

the ability of a substance to allow gases or liquids to go through it. In this show space, it means that the views and sounds are interrelated.

t h e fa c t o f m a ny d i ffe re n t types of things or people being included in something; a range of different things or people.

the situation when everyone is treated fairly and equally.

03 [Minority Fashion Hub] FASHION HUB DESIGN 2018-2019 Academic Year Individual Academic Work Individually reworked in 2019 Instructor: José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano & Juan Carlos Dall' asta Mailing Address: Jose.Hidalgo@xjtlu.edu.cn|Juancarlos.Dallasta@xjtlu.edu.cn District: Shanghai, China

Increasing awareness of heritage (particularly architectural heritage), an open debate about production and creativity, and a necessary vital urban regeneration are three of the most important and recurrent topics that frame current architectural and urban reflection in China.

In the perspective of fashion, fashion had been a principal means for identifying oneself. However, the current fashion has a fake diversity and universality. A group of minority people are excluded by fashion due to physical disabilities, losing the right to express oneself.

This project aims to link previous questions, designing a fashion hub for the public at a industrial heritage site, arounsing the attention of the society to the minority people and realizing urban regeneration.

INTRODUCTION: FASHION FOR MINORITY PEOPLE Sociologist Louis Wirth defined a minority group as "a group of people who, becaused of their physical or cultural characteristics, are singled out from the others in the society in which they live for differential and unequal treatment."

Fashion, as a carrier of self-expression, should be diversified and universal. However, the current fashion has a fake diversity and universality.

Due to the limited conditions, a large group of minority people are excluded by fashion, thus losing the possibilities of self-expression as well as social contact.

CONCEPTUAL MODELS Fashion

Original Definition

Contemporary "Business" Definition

Social/ Emotional values

Business Values

Common Visual Culture/ Comsumer's Identity

Upper Class/ Fashion sensitive groups' activities

The project aims to establish a fashion centre for minorities, to explore the possibilities of their self-expression.

Concept model 1: Arrived and Unarrived

Concept model 1: Arrived and Unarrived

Concept model 2: Tip of the Iceberg

HISTORY TIMELINE: FAKE DIVERSITY & UNIVERSALITY

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DESIGN STRATEGY: THREE THEMES DIVERSITY UNIFORMITY

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Audience Stage View

Audience Stage View

Audience Stage View Circulation

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generate electricity

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release gases

release gases

transport goods

move and deliver goods

storage

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[SECTION DRAWING]

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SITE ANALYSIS: FACTORY HERITAGE

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consumption and publicity

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The site is located in a Power Plant Station. The reason why the project address is chosen here is that firstly, Shanghai is becoming a fashion reference center with a high fashion crowd.

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Secondly, the site is in an abandoned factory, which is in the state of being forgotten and unused. The project hopes to put the heritage into reuse by appealing for the attention of minority groups. The reuse of industrial sites also symbolizes the return of minorities to society.

SITE MAP

[CONCEPT COLLAGE]

Audience Model

Audience Model

Audience Model

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

Description In the first silo, different show rooms have different shapes, materials and openings. Minority groups can find their way of self-expression in these diversified spaces. In the second silo, the audience sits on the circular platform in the center, surrounded by 360 ° circular showing space, so that the audience can pay attention to each model‘s performance.

In the third silo, in order to cancel the space relationship in which the model was centrally focused in the traditional show-way, which led to the emphasis on the standard body figure, the identity of the performer and the audience was deliberately blurred. Windows of different sizes frame people passing by to form a temporary performance space. The continuous penetration of vision in it weakens the social relationship of the pursuit of standardization.

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PROGRAM 1 Reception Area 2 Exhibition Area 3 Workshop/Dining Area 4 Toilet 5 Lecture Room 6 Fashion Show Room (Silo 1) 7 Fashion Show Room (Silo 2) 8 Fashion Show Room (Silo 3) 9 Dressing Room (Silo 3) 10 Make Up Area 11 Waiting Area 12 Lecture Room 2 13 Landscape corridor 14 Waterfront Building 15 Tower Crane Observation Area

SECTION (1:200)

04 [A SPIRAL ROUTE] COLLECTIVE HOUSING 2018-2019 Academic Year Individual Academic Work Instructor: José Ángel Hidalgo Arellano Mailing Address: Jose.Hidalgo@xjtlu.edu.cn

District: Shanghai, China

With the rapid development of Shanghai, more and more high-density modern buildings are constructed, encroaching on the city's public space constantly. At the same time, there is a certain gap between the old traditional architectural forms and new buildings.

The project is located in Jiangning District of Shanghai. The block where the project is located is between the Shikumen Block and the modern architecture. How to coordinate and balance the contrast between the new and old buildings while creating a rich and enlarged public space is the focus of the project.

This project attempts to realize the interaction of different activities, sounds and sight through a spiraling public space path. Meanwhile, in the process of moving, views constantly shift between new and old buildings, which brings a communication between past and present.

SITE CONDITION: OLD AND NEW OLD

DIALOGUE

CONCEPT: SPIRAL CONTINUITY

NEW

The public space is so limited.

Yeah, we want a place to social and communicate.

At this spiral route, we can have outdoor rest, sunbath, outdoor barbecue activities.

RESIDENCE

We want to achieve different kinds of activities

We could play ma-jiong here!

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MODERN BUILDING

The building is composed of two parts: residence and public space. A spiral route of public space runs through the whole building. Lightings, sounds, and activities could be integrated within the route, achieving the communication between old and new.

DESIGN PROCESS: PLAN & AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS

PUBLIC SQUARE

GROUND FLOOR PUBLIC LIBRARY

LEVEL 1 PUBLIC SPACE

LEVEL2 PUBLIC SPACE

LEVEL3 PUBLIC SPACE

LEVEL4 PUBLIC SPACE

LEVEL5 PUBLIC SPACE

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CONTEMPORARY BUILDINGS GROUP PROJECT 1&2

PUBLILC MARKET

LEGEND Inner public space Outer public space Transportation & facade TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM

Low utilization ground

Public space

Site

Modern buildings

BAMBOO FACADE

Ground floor public library

FLOOR PLANS (1:300)

GROUND FLOOR PLAN (1:250)

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LEGEND 1 Entrance 2 Cafe 3 Toilet 4 Cafe kitchen 5 Reception area 6 Leasing office 7 Open studying area 8 Closed studying area 9 Flexible area

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TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS THIRD FLOOR PLAN

FOURTH FLOOR PLAN

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[1] Unit A

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Target User: Young Families Household member: 3 or 4

[2] Unit B

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Target User: Working People Household member: 6

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2 Auditorium

14 Elevator

3 Outdoor bench

15 Shared kitchen

4 Exhibition area

16 Shared laundry

5 Gymnasium

17 Dining area

6 Entrance garden

18 Outdoor barbecue area

7 Public bicycles parking area

19 Reception area

8 Public washing area

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9 Sunbath area

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Target User: Young Families Household member: 4

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PERSPECTIVE SECTION: STRUCTURAL STRATEGY

Interior unit & Old and new buildings

AXONOMTERIC DRAWING

Interior unit & Public neighborhood space

Ground floor public library & Courtyard

05 After Fire: Water Basins Fire Prevention Strategy Urban Planning

2020-2021 Academic Year in the University of California, Los Angeles Cooperative Academic Work with Deshun Liu Role in Team: Research (50%), Technical Drawing (90%) Instructor: Jeffery Inaba & David Jiménez Iniesta Mailing Address: inaba@ucla.edu & david.jimenez@aud.ucla.edu District: Los Angeles，the United States

By studying the relationship between fire and debris flow, this project developed a new fire prevention system - water basins in San Gabriel Mountain. Through the research, it is found that soil and vegetations are the two factors affecting fire and landslide. Fire can lead to poor soil and plant characteristics, such as low soil moisture, weak ecosystem and less heterogenity, which in turn can lead to fire and debris flow.

The existence of the reservoirs and irrigation systems could increase the soil moisture. Also, through the new vegetation system, it can increase the heterogenity and bio-diversity of plants to reduce the fire and debris flow. This project is going to develop a new water basin system: reservoirs, irrigation systems, and new plant distributions to improve soil and plant characteristic.

RESEARCH TOWARDS FIRE AND LANDSLIDE Relationship between slope and fire spread

SITE ANALYSIS

Radiation

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Low Velocity Fire Spread

Medium Velocity Fire Spread Relationship between precipitation and landslide

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2 Translational Slides

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5 Topple and Rock Falls

6 Rotational Slide

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RESEARCH TOWARDS SOIL MOISTURE AND FIRE High Soil Moisture Small Intensity Fire

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It is found that landscape heterogeneity is related to the spread of fire.

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RESEARCH TOWARDS LANDSCAPE HETEROGENITY

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Los Angeles Landslide Frequency Landslide Liquefaction Zone Debris Basins

Patchy plants distribution and high landscape heterogeneity will lead to high bio diversity and effectively prevent the spread of fire. Continuous plants distribution and low landscape heterogeneity leads to low bio diversity and less fire prevention.

High Landscape Heterogenity

Low Landscape Heterogenity

CONCEPTUAL THINKING

PROPOSED AREA WATER BASINS

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Refine the Terrain

Soil and vegetations are the two factors affecting fire and landslide. Also, slope is another factor affecting the fire and landslide. The strategy is going to develop a new water basin system which contains irrigation system and new vegetation system to improve soil and vegetation as well as refining the terrain slope.

DESIGN STRATEGY: CUT

Water Basin Systems

Storage in ice and snow Precipitation

Vegetations

Snow Melt Runoff

Condensation

Unsaturated Zone

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Urban Wetlands Confining Layer

Basins Ocean

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DESIGN STRATEGY: FILL Cut

MASTER PLAN STRATEGY

Piled Mound

Low Density

Water Fill Landscape

Agriculture

Factory Management

Steep High Risk

Material Management

Piled Mound

High Density Water Basins

Performance

Housing

Public Infrustructure

Medium Density Medium Density Water Basins

Gentle Low Risk

High Density Least Density Water Basins

Gentle Flat Low Risk

In order to carry out the fire prevention strategy better, the master plan would consider landscape heterogenity, slope level, landslide risk to determine the distribution density of new water basins system. Areas with low density, steep slope and high landslide risk would have high density water basins distribution.

DESIGN PHASE (i): MASTER PLAN

DESIGN PHASE (ii): SITE PLAN

06 [Prescribed Burn Research Project] Academic Research Project 2020-2021 Academic Year Cooperative Academic Work with Deshun Liu Role in Team: Research (50%), Technical Drawing (90%) Instructor: David Jiménez Iniesta Mailing Address: david.jimenez@aud.ucla.edu District: Los Angeles，the United States

This project uses the method of controversy mapping to study the complexity of fire and propose new fire prevention strategy.

This project has studied prescribed burn as a fire prevention strategy. Using public opinions to evaluate different ways of prescribed burns, and through collecting voices from different medias, we analyzed the controversy in these debates. In addition, studying the advantages and disadvantages of prescribed burn, as well as the plant characteristics of a certain area of Santa Monica mountain, we have developed our new proposal: to enhance forest fire protection ability by regularly burning the boundary of oak and shrub.

SANTA MONICA MOUNTAIN DETECTION

PLANTING SPECIES DISTRIBUTION

Fire Mortality Rate

Valley Oak Ceanothus Chaparral Coast Live Oak California Sycamore Red Shank Rock Outcrop Sage

DESIGN PROPOSAL Traditional Burn Method

DESIGN PROPOSAL - PLANTING SPECIES REPLACEMENT

We need...

Air Pollution

Reduced Buring area

Potential Threat to Residential Livings

Less Fire Threat to Residential Livings

Damage to Habitat due to large areas of fire ...

Fire Reproduction Rate

Healthy Forest

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PRECRIBED CEANOTHUS BURN CHAPARRAL

FUELS EASY TO BURN

PROVIDING SPACE

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Fire Mortality Rate

High Intensity Fire Valley Oak Ceanothus Chaparral

PROVIDING NUTRIENTS

Coast Live Oak California Sycamore Red Shank Rock Outcrop Sage

WILDFIRE REDUCED

HIGH FIRE RESISTANCE FOREST

OAK EXTENDED

OAK

New Prescribed Burn Methods

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Fire Reproduction Rate

Areas to burn Chaparrals to replace with Oaks

We could sit down here to enjoy Shantang River!

07 [IN-BETWEEN] COMMUNITY CENTER 2017-2018 Academic Year Individual Academic Work Instructor: Dong Chen Mailing Address: chendong.sz@hotmail.com District: Suzhou, China

The flexible glass rotation blurs our vision but exciting!

Suzhou is a famous water town in the south of the Yangtze River in China. The project is located in Shantang street, a traditional street in Suzhou. In the middle of two streets is Shantang river. The streets on both sides of the river bank are connected by stone bridges.

This open gap space creates a traditional garden experience !

I could see through several layers of space!

The first site context considered in the project is the pitched roof.

In the original site, the surrounding buildings are mostly pitched roofs, and the plan configuration on the site is fragmented and incomplete. The project attempts to extract the prototype of the sloping roof, and create a continuous and unified public space through the continuous sloping roof. The functions on both sides of the river bank are tourist center and community cultural center of local residents. They are unified by continuous forms of roof on both sides of the river bank.

The second context considered in this project is the traditional Suzhou Garden. The traditional Suzhou garden has a space relationship of changing scenaries step by step. Viewsights either penetrate or being blocked, forming an ambiguous spatial relationship. The project borrows the concept of traditional Suzhou garden, trying to create a in-between space relationship and vertical partition in the linear space to achieve abundant sight penetration relationship.

SITE ANALYSIS: ROOF & RIVER

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The main functions on two sides of the river are tourist center and local activity center. The community center design is mainly realized through linear plan and continuous large roof.

DESIGN STRATEGY(ii): CHANGING VIEWS

TRADITIONAL COMMUNITY CENTER

PURPOSED COMMUNITY CENTER

Traditional community centers usually have a single The new community center borrows the concept of corridor and linear-orientated rooms. Views and traditioanl Suzhou garden. When the location changes, activities are limited. views are constantly changed and see different activities.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN (1:500)

PERSPECTIVE VIEWS: OPEN AT DAY

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LEGEND 1 Exhibition space 2 Library 3 Computer labortary 4 Exhibition 5 Cafe 6 Outdoor resting area 7 Auditorium 8 Lobby 9 Exhibition room 10 Canteen 11 Canteen 12 Mobile shops 13 Chess and card rooms

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Glass plan diagram

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

AXONOMTERIC DRAWING

LEGEND

RECEPTION

EXHIBITION

BUFFET RESTAURANT

PROJECTION ROOM

RETAIL SHOP

CARD ROOM

READING ROOM

OFFICE

TABLE TENNIS ROOM

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DETAILED DRAWING (1:50)

MODEL PHOTOGRAPHS

Alum. Plate Roof 25-30 Mil Spray Silicon SBS Modified Bitumen Alum. Plate Roof Structural Plywood

Interior view

Rigid Insulation 4x8 Purlin Acoustic Insulation Slotted Wooud Ceiling

Gap space

People could gain diverse experience through waterfront activities, poetic in-between space, views through layers of space. Inner space is continuous and unified through the continuous sloping roof, which is also a respect towards local environment.

Stones Steel Bar

Solid roof

Bonded Gravel Surface 2'' Binder

Double Glazing Anemostat Bar Grille Bar Grille Support Clups Concrete Topping Slab Concrete Slab Waterproofing Mmebrane Thermal Insulation

Concrete Patch Water Proofing Membranes Silicone Seal

Rigid Insulation Drainage Layer Rigid Insulation Concrete Foundation

Gap space

Hollow Roof

Gap space

Shantang River

Waterfront Platforms

08 [Sihe Courtyard Kindergarten] KINDERGARTEN DESIGN 2016-2017 Academic Year Individual Academic Work Instructor: Bert Hugo Raf De Muynck Mailing Address: Bert.deMuynck@xjtlu.edu.cn District: Beijing, China

There used to be an old saying in Beijing that "roof has a magic to attract children to climb up and uncover tiles". With the modern and convenient life, children's activities are more related to high technology, losing many opportunities to grow in a cultural context.

The renovation project is located in a traditional Sihe courtyard in Beijing. The strategy is to add a new organic roof platform to the original Sihe courtyard. The undulating roof platform creates a free space for the children to run and play. At the same time, the rolling hillside, net bed and cave provide children with various activities. Below the large roof, the courtyard is the centeral part, around which children have classes, performances and playing activities.

On the scale of the city, the extended wooden structure of the roof platform encloses a covered resting area for the surrounding residents, adding new vitality into the surrounding living environment.

BEIJING SI'HE COURTYARD

AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

[SITE PLAN]

[TRADITIONAL ROOF ACTIVITIES]

The project is located in an old Sihe Courtyard block in Beijing. As the saying that "roof has a magic to attract children to climb up and and uncover tiles", the concept is to date back to traditional entertaining activities and bring new lives to this old community block.

DESIGN STRATEGY : ROOF FORMATION

Traditional housing

Roof Platform

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[STEP 2]

sloped roof platform Green slope land Entertainment facilities Hammock area

Resting&eating&toilet area Classroom

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[STEP 4]

PERSPECTIVE VIEWS

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A' LEGEND 1 Playing area 2 Classroom 3 Art Workshop 4 Courtyard 5 Playing area 6 Stage 7 Sleeping area 8 Canteen 9 Toilet 10 Parent Waiting area 11 Entertainment area

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN (1:300)

Interior classroom playing & Courtyard views

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ROOF PLAN (1:300)

1 Playing area 2 Green slope land 3 Game zone 4 Hammock area 5 Gymnastics area 6 Courtyard Roof platform view

PERSPECTIVE SECTION AA' (1:100)

Convex and concave tile 100mm tabia Water barrier Wood sheathing Purline wood

Floor Paint 5mm mortar Electric heating floor Water barrier 30mm fine aggregrate concrete 100mm concrete

Other Works (i): Professional Practice

01 OFFICE BUILDING Proposal Design

2020-2021 Working Project in GOM Architectural Design Consulting Co., Ltd Individual Work Project Leader: Jiajing Zhang & Wenbin Xu Mailing Address: gom@gom.com.cn District: Shanghai, China

The project creates a vertical forest system and shortens the distance between human and nature in high-density cities. Balcony as a nursery for planting trees, so that each floor can have a private garden. It can not only make the office atmosphere more comfortable, effectively improve the office environment, but also reduce the area occupied by green plants in the city.

The program of this project includes indoor cafe, exhibition hall, office space and other functions. It is committed to creating a multifunctional office space integrating leisure, exhibition, office and performing arts. Also, different types of architectural rooms and activities gather here to create rich spaces.

Other Works (i): Professional Practice

02 TIMBER BOAT MUSEUM Under Construction

2020-2021 Working Project in GOM Architectural Design Consulting Co., Ltd Individual Work Project Leader: Jiajing Zhang & Wenbin Xu Mailing Address: gom@gom.com.cn District: Shanghai, China

The project functions as a wooden boat museum. The focus of the project is on the curved walkable roof. The conceptual design of the project transforms the curved form of a wooden boat into a curved roof flow, while creating a light roof form with wooden elements and allowing visitors walking underneath to experience the structural aesthetics of the wooden elements.

The Timber Boat Museum is located near the water, and the main functions of the project include exhibition, rest and other auxiliary spaces. The surrounding environment is dominated by greenery, and the wooden material structure blends in harmoniously with the surrounding trees.

Other Works (ii): Future World Imagination

[Hollywood 2049: Living with Water]

[Hollywood 2049: Living with Water]

Other Works (iii): Zuloark Workshop at XJTLU Group Work: Recyclable Pavilion Construction Project title: Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University Zuloark Workshop Location: Suzhou, Jiangsu Provience, China Duty: Team Leader of Design and Construction (1/8)

1 1 DESIGN T h e f i rs t p a r t o f t h e p a v i l i o n construction is to design chairs of different heights according to the sitting scale of adults and children.

1 2 FOUNDATION After completing the basic seat, in order to strengthen the chair, the design team used the multi empty steel plate and painted it, and added it around the chair as the chair back.

1 3 COLUMN After completing the basic chair design, each group has designed a column support to support the bamboo ceiling on the top. The construction process is made by welding the reinforcement column and painting with black and yellow.

Description: During the workshop, team members designed and constructed a resting area for the students and tutors. Following the goal to reduce footprint, we explored new design approaches by using new and re-used materials.

In this project, the team used different craftsman techniques, materials, and joints to analyze the structure and construct. The pavilion is composed of eight parts, which are combined together to provide teachers and students in the design building with space for rest, class, chat and party.

1 4 BEAM & CONNECTION After the column is installed, wooden beams are built on the top and connected with the column below through 3D printing nodes

1 5 ROOF PANEL The last part of the construction is to weave bamboo strips with wire to form pieces of panel and cover it on the beam.

Construction photos

Detailed photos

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