ARCHITECTURE IS A COMMODITY FOR EVERYDAYNESS
Architecture is no longer a metaphysical statement in daily life, nor a vocabulary extracted from various local contexts. It is just a commodity for people's activities and survival like gas, water pipes, and heaters. The architecture’s richness and frugality should correspond to the needs of everydayness, just as people use tanker to transport oil and trucks to transport sand and gravel. Only through this commodity's recognization, architecture could regain its autonomy in the complex reality.
CONTENTS
01 BACKYARD HOUSING Redefining Spatial Logic and Sharing Space
02 IN-BETWEEN NATURE FANTASY
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Botanical Garden in Mountain Rainier
03 FOLDING ROADSIDE
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A community center in Beijing old residential area
04 QINGHE EXPRESS A high speed railway station to Winter Olympic 2022
05 CONDOM CLOUND
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An adaptive pavilion of condom
06 PULP FICTION OF BEIJING
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An aggregation of unwanted people and function
07 JINGSHENGLONG HOTPOT RESTAURANT Infinite walls interior space
08 STREAM SHOOT EDUCATION CENTER A community center in water source village
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01 BACKYARD HOUSING
Academic Project | Collaborate with CHEN Chen SITE: Elizabeth Garden, New York Instructor: Christopher Leong Fall 2021,Cornell AAP NYC In this project, we propose to create housings that are physically distancing but socially connected with different layers of privacy in the context of pandemic resilient housing for the 55+ seniors. Each cluster includes three units, which roughly hold 3 to 6 people.Each will have their independent space but will also share a "back-yard" space.Each floor's "back-yard" space connects sectionally through a court-yard area thatprovides light in the middle. In terms of the relationship with the urban context,the residential blocks offer a "back-yard" space on the ground floor that providessharing amenities such as a library and a garden to empower the seniors andconnect to the young community.
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Site Plan This housing project is located at Elizabeth Garden in Nolita area which is a very open and welcoming neighborhood. Given the majority of the demographic there are young people, we are proposing a seniorsonly community but with shared amenities for the whole city. The existing Elizabeth Garden provides rich types of gathering space for the city. The housing will also bring this character into the new public space. Community Sharing Economic Plan
Needs of the 55+ Seniors from Different Ages
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VIEW OF AUDITORIUM Shared spaces on the ground floor will become a place seniors engage with young people in the Nolita area. On the one hand, there is a front yard space like a library which seniors and others will use together. On the other hand, there will be space especially for seniors to study and take memorial classes. The former spatial quality of Elizabeth Garden, the layer of privacy is also preserved in the middle green space.
VIEW OF LIGHTINING COURTYARD At each floor, three units will together sharing a backyard space through the lightning courtyard. The backyard terrace is an extension of inside units.It will provide more customized and personal functions according to the residentis who share this space. In the spitial sequencce, seniors could enter their unit first without walking into public space. The sharing space should not be a compromise.
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In this project, we propose to create housings that are physically distancing but socially connected with different layers of privacy in the context of pandemic resilient housing for the 55+ seniors. In the housing, each cluster includes three units, which roughly hold 3 to 6 people. Each will have their independent space but will also share a "back-yard" space. Each floor's "back-yard" space connects sectionally through a court-yard area that provides light in the middle. In terms of the relationship with the urban context, the residential blocks offer a "back-yard" space on the ground floor that provides sharing amenities such as a library and a garden to empower the seniors and connect to the young community.
SECTION PERSPECTIVE
The shared backyard space will located in different position of each floor, creating a visual connection and richness inside the lightning courtyard. Residents will have a eye of each other while they can decide the openess towards others. They will also benefit from the sunlight and fresh air ciculated inside the courtyard. We want to discover the privateness of the public, where the three-units sharing balcony will be an collective of parts from each unit. For example, Amy's apartment will have a large kitchen in the sharing space. Mario and Rosa's space will have garden in the exterior, while Judy's unit will have a large dinning space in the sharing space.
SHARING BACK-YARD PROTOTYE1: COMMUNAL KITCHEN & FARMING SPACE
SHARING BACK-YARD PROTOTYE2: COMMUNAL BATHROOM & LOUNGE
Mario and Rosa love to plant, sometime they love to share tomato they grow
Judy is going to use the large kitchen to cook while Amy is reading on the balcony
Three old gentlemen decide to share a sauna room and bathtub enjoying the sunset view together
02 IN-BETWEEN NATURE FANTASY Academic Project | Collaborate with CHEN Xiao SITE: Mount Rainier Instructor: Mauricio Pezo, Sofia Von Ellrichshausen Spring 2021,Cornell AAP
Botanic Garden is where people capture and reorganize nature. It reveals people’s altitude towards nature and environment. Located in National Park mountain Rainier, our building is sitting in between two different kinds of nature. What kinds of nature should we respond?
INITIAL MODELS
Villa Foscari
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The architecture, as we understand as a container and interface for the garden, is abstracted from Palladio’s villa. 3 initial fragme scaled and combined with each other to create and explore potential relations in forms. The final proposal is derived from Villa F contrast and classical quality which would be a perfect media for nature.
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ents with strong identity and geometric shape is isolated from Villa Foscari, Villa Godi and Villa Pisani. Then different fragments are Foscari’s triangle pitched roof and half circle window shape. A triangle long side elevation immediately emphasizes the geometric
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SITE: MOUNT RAINIER Do pure nature still exist now? Even around beautiful Mount Rainier, those endless forest is made for logging. Trees would be cut down every 20-25 years and the surrounding environment would be a totally different story after that. We put the Botanical Garden right at the intersection of different logging areas to observe the process of grow and fall.
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The Garden has an extremely mirror layout along with four entrances to each direction, which corresponding to changing nature a in-between.From artificial nature to natural artificiality and then go back to artificial decay.We want people to start to question and
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at different times. There are space sequences for visitors entering the building in different kinds of nature and enjoy changing illusions d observe nature in Mount Rainer after visiting our garden.
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On the second floor, rooms and spaces are also symmetrically placed. There are two botanical research labs and two apartments are one-way mirror to keep the integrity of inner facade.Restrooms and stairs to the second floor are placed inside the arches. In distinguish illusion from reality.
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s occupied by the host and the guest. While all windows' shapes are designed according to views, windows of the research lab nner surfaces of the garden are reflective to expand an infinite tree matrix for visitors. Fantasy colors are used in representation to
Finally, go back to our cavalier, we have just finished our journey. This journey is not a close case. It might change because the na the mirror also might change based on our subjective imagination while we might be part of other's illusions as well. If nature will c people a chance to observe and realize the beauty and uncertainty of nature?
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atural environment is not set up forever. Forest might change because of the logging industry every 20 years. Reality and illusion in change anyhow, does it still matter who defines it? Could artificial kinds of nature, like our garden, also be real nature if we offer
FOLDING ROADSIDE Graduation Project | Individual Work Instrutor: WANG Xin Site: Beijing Summer 2019 The design is located in a typical residential area built in the 1980s in Beijing. With the development of the city, the accessibility of the community road is cut off by the urban expressway. The residents' life needs need to cross an overpass to meet. The design focuses on unifying the existing overpass, subway station and various existing activities in the site.
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Due to limited space in the nearby community, many daily activities occur along the roadside. The scale of the roadside doesn't prevent people from rich spontaneous daily life including temporary market every morning and gathering and planting. It is very common for residents to plant vegetables in the corridor and sell it on the market every morning when they also buy fresh food for the whole day. Focusing on activities and transportation around the site, I reorganize the walking path and leave enough space for the public nearby.
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Path and road connecting community to essential points nearby is folded inside the community center while enough 'roadside' space is created to provide activity space for residents.
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Pavements and landscapes are designed according to existing daily behaviors and activities around the site. Half of the building near the crossing is open to the public while another half has more functional space inside.
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From the section, you can see how the circulation of different users are interspersed and how different ramps and paths are folded but connected with each other in the buliding. It allows residents to meet all kinds of demands at different locations and enhance possibilities for communicate with each other.
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The market square has the functions of morning market and square dance. The paving area of the square is divided according to the area required by the merchants to set up the stall in the morning market as well as dancers’ need.
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ROOF CONSTRUCTION Soil Isolation Drainage Plate Water Proof Concrete Slab Theramal Insulation Indoor Finish
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COMMUNITY FARMLAND
The design and construction details of the community farmland retain the existing self-organization mode in the community, and reserve the possibility for planting in different scales, types and seasons.
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Academic Project | Collaborate with LU Yiming 2018 Instrutor: SHENG Qiang Site: Beijing Qinghe The project is located in Beijing's High-tech Zone with a complex surrounding environment. The block on the left is the location of the headquarters of many well-known high-tech enterprises, and there are a large number of residential areas on the right. There are expressways, light railways and railways passing through the site at the same time. The high-speed railway station will not only connect the site of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games but also become an express for local's lives
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Qinghe is a rapidly developing area in Beijing since 2000, and it also has very convenient transportation resources. However, these traffic resources in the site have caused the separation of function and texture. At present, the left side of the plot is full of business office, the right side is residential, and the commercial distribution is uneven. The new high-speed railway station tries to solve this problem rather than intensify the trend of division.
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TWIST SPACE IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
Vertical traffic space and horizontal waiting space twist each other to form a single volume across the railway.
LINK UP THE CIRCULATION
The west entrance is mainly used for light rail. The circulation from the east is divided into two to different waiting area.
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ROOF CONSTRUCT Metal Facade Facade Keel Glass Curtain Wall Keel Steel Structure Indoor wood finish
FLOOR CONSTRUC Flooring Screed Concrete Slab Steel Structure Theramal Insulation Metal Facade
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05 CONDOM CLOUD
Academic Project | Collaborate with CUI Junfu, HU Yangli, YANG Hanxi Instructor: Caroline O'Donnell, Dillon Pranger
FALL 2020 Cornell AAP F orty-three thousand five hundred condoms are being recalled during the manufacturing process, and 940,000 condoms expire in the United States stores per year. These condoms cannot be recycled directly in the factory, because they have lubricants and other additions on the surfaces. Thus, we raised the question that, instead of ending up in the landfill, how could these discarded condoms serve a new function to prolong their meanings, and how could they develop their features in a new possibility?
EVERYDAYNESS F orty-three thousand five hundred condoms are being recalled during the manufacturing process, and 940,000 condoms expire in the United States stores per year. These condoms cannot be recycled directly in the factory, because they have lubricants and other additions on the surfaces. Thus, we raised the question that, instead of ending up in the landfill, how could these discarded condoms serve a new function to prolong their meanings, and how could they develop their features in a new possibility?
CONDOM PRODUCING SYSTEM DRAWING
Condoms are filled with hydrogen, connected by shoelaces at different heights. Both of them are recyclable material. By this soft connection, the whole aggregation of condoms can be any shape and arragement corresponding to different site and uses.
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Taking advantage of the flexible characteristic of condoms (it can be stretched to 62.4 inches maximum, be filled with 25 liters of water, and is high resistance to friction and abrasion), we create a flexible pavilion which can be reshaped by interacting with people as well as the wind.
CONDOM SCALE AND JOINT DETAIL
CONDOM AGGREGATION ELEVATION
T he pavilion has three layers of condoms vertically. The top layer is the condoms with hydrogen. It can show different shapes over time responding to the surroundings and wind. The middle layer is at the same height as human genital areas, which has a certain metaphor that refers to gender differentiation. This layer consists of three or four condoms in each unit. As we enter in, walk, or even push the condom units, the middle layer can be formed by our actions.
06 PULP FICTION OF BEIJING Competition Project | Individual Work Instrutor: SHENG Qiang Site:Beijing Summer 2017
The project based on the implementation of the policy of expelling migrants workers and reliecing non capital function of Beijing. Daily functions urgently needed in resident's life like parking, market and park are all relocated to urban traffic hub. With complex structure standing on the overpass, the possibility of migrant workers building their own houses has derived from different scales of space. This aggregation of everydayness has revealed pulp fiction of Beijing
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After decades of population expansion, Beijing has more than 21 million permanent residents. Faced with the pressure of industrial transformation and environmental pollution, Beijing began to issue strict policies to control the growth of migrant population after 2015. A large number of wholesale markets and stores were closed in 2017.
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Xizhimen is the most complex traffic node in the urban area of Beijing. It is a complex area where railway, subway and urban expressway converge. Thanks to Xizhimen's traffic advantages, Beijing's major clothing wholesale markets in the past few decades have been near Xizhimen.
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The design is to resettle migrant workers driven away by the policy. They are the lowest level of the labor force in social operation, and also the most direct impact of any policy change. They devote their labor force and youth to the city, but there is no guarantee of jobs or arrangements when they leave the city. The new complex is proposing a settlement for them including the parking tower, the commodity market, and necessary housings.
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Hutong is the place with the most self-organized building behaviors in Beijing. The basic pattern of Hutong was established as early as 600 years ago. In the process of urban modernization, 30% of the Hutongs in the old city have been preserved in Beijing for economic and cultural protection reasons. Because these hutongs can't be reconstructed on a large scale, the government acquiesced to all kinds of spontaneous building behaviors of residents to improve their living conditions. At present, there are fewer and fewer indigenous residents and more and more migrant workers living in Hutong.
Standing in the Xizhimen with complex traffic, the parking tower full of self-organized buildings and disorderly buildings eventually becomes the landmark of the city. This not only marks the victory of migrant workers, but also marks the victory of daily living space. Policies may hide the clutter in the city for a while, but they will never hide the complex everydayness.
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JINGSHENGLONG HOTPOT Professional Work | Studio Nor, 2020 Site: Qinghuangdao,Hebei Province Role:Concept Design, Shematic Design, Site Coordination This project is an interior design located in the Hebei seaside resort. Jingshenglong is a famous traditional Beijing hotpot restaurant with more than 150 years of history. Design for this new restaurant is aiming to minimize the existence of the original shear wall and create a welcoming atmosphere.
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VIEW FROM THE BAR As the first floor of a residential building, many shear walls are occupying and breaking the space. To build up a new sequence, we create more rotated walls with niches around the original walls.They are not aligned in any direction, which implies more spatial possibilities than before.
VIEW OF DINING SPACE
ISOMETRIC DRAWING
The client wants to have a long bar and enough tables. Niches are dug into different walls according to the position of shear walls and dining tables to increase more dynamic and open quality in the space. Walls then obtain some dominancy to serve surrounding space.
VIEW OF DINING SPACE
WALL COMBINATION WITH BAR TABLE
08 STREAM SHOOT EDUCATION CENTER Professional Volunteering Work Site: Xiaowopu Village,Hebei Province
Exterior(2017): Role:Resident Architect, Construction Design, Shematic Design Collaborators:PAN XI, LIU Yayun. Interior(2018): Role:Principal Architect, School Team Leader Collaborators: LU Shun, SHEN Chenhao The project is located in the mountainous area in the north of Beijing, which is the water source of Beijing. The abandoned Primary School of the village and the adjacent stage are renovated in the design, making it a public activity space for villagers and an environmental education center for college students and volunteers. From 2017 to now, the construction of the project has helped villagers to reorganize their everydayness under the impact of urbanization.
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The renovation of the stage makes it the most ceremonial space in the village by emphasizing the axis to the temple. One of the pavements is the wall left by the demolition of the abandoned primary school wall.
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The flower bed matrix in the courtyard is built according to the forest matrix remembered by the villagers. Now it is a display area for villagers to enjoy the cool in summer and plant flowers.
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The indoor space provides mulitfunctional furniture to serve villagers' daily needs in different scenario. The space also will be used for environmental education.
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