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INDIVIDUAL WORK

LOCATION: HONGKONG, CHINA YEAR: 2020/04

Creating inclusive and vital public space that promotes social activities between skyscrapers in Hong Kong.

URBAN COOLING PLAN IN INTERNET-FAMOUSE CITY, CHANGSHA

INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: CHANGSHA, CHINA YEAR: 2022/09

As the extreme weather days rising in the city, the summer in Changsha becomes more and more unbearable, high temperature has changed people's way of living, while a potentially feasible cooling plan is going to take place at the most visited place in the city.

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MENTAL DISORDER VESSEL

INDIVIDUAL WORK YEAR: 2020/11

In this project, architectures simulates the four common mental diseases, and make people aware of the importance of paying attention to mental illness. At the same time, let people with mental illness know that they are not alone.

FROM EXTRACTION TO SUBLIMATE

INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: KAYAMANDI, SOUTH AFRICA YEAR: 2020/09

Designing a unique modern winery for Kayamandi by telling stories of the hardworking farmers behind the scene and South African cultures.

OTHER WORKS

ARCHITECTURE MODEL—GROUP WORK MIXED MEDIA ART—INDIVIDUAL WORK YEAR: 2018/05-2020/11

PIXELS BLOCKS COMMUNITY SPACE

CREATING INCLUSIVE AND VITAL PUBLIC SPACE THAT PROMOTES SOCIAL ACTIVITIES BETWEEN SKYSCRAPERS IN HONG KONG

The site, Wa-on Lane Sitting-out Area is located in Sheung Wan and is about 852 sq m with three different levels of space. Wa On Lane Sitting-Out Area is a public green space created in the cracks of high rise buildings in Hong Kong. The project is trying to enhance the sociability and individuality of the public space, using “pixel”as the design elements to create meaningful and profound plot experience and increase the possibility of socializing by maximizing the function of the public space.

Hong Kong's culture has been deeply influenced by Western culture since modern times, but the traditional Chinese culture has never stopped influenced HongKong, especially Lingnan culture. So, Hong Kong is the combination of Chinese culture and western culture

Sheung Wan belongs to the Central and Western District of Hong Kong Island. It is the earliest developed area in Hong Kong. Sheung Wan maintains an ancient atmosphere and is also known for its providing a characteristic street for alternative shopping.

The crowdness of physical space leads to a sense of squeezing in psychological space. And the living space of people in Hong Kong is constantly squeezed from surrounding high buildings, making people want to escape and create their own ideal spaces.

Tang Lou is an important residence for the Hong Kong citizen in the late 60th and the beginning of the 70th in 20 century. Nowadays, the disappearing Tang Lou is a symbol of traditional culture, it's crowded but filled with warmth and happiness. Compared to Tang Lou, the mordern and post-modern buildings are the products of contemporary Hong Kong culture.

Hong Kong is a prosperous free port of trade and International metropolis, the third largest financial, trade and shipping center in the world .

Central District is located in the central and west parts of Hong kong, and it's the political and commercial center of the city. Central District is also one of the favorite spot for hundreds of tourists in Hong Kong to hang out.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION AND SURROUNDING CONDITIONS

THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF PHILIPPINE DOMESTIC HELPERS IN HONGKONG

The Philippine economy faces difficulty，to reduce the national unemployment rate , Philippines using overseas Filipino worker remittances to improve national economy.

DESIGN DERIVATION

The common phenomenon in modern cities: fast-paced city life and more homogeneous urban environment.

THE OVER CROWDED CITY

Wa On Lane Sitting-Out Area is located in Sheung Wan, one of the oldest but very high density districts in Hong Kong. This almost hidden public open space has an area of 852 sq m, and is surrounded by residential buildings and is distributed on three levels that are interconnected by stairs and steps.

POPULATION ACTIVITY ANALYSIS

The sitting-out area is not a vibrant space with very high density of use, and at night it becomes extremely quiet with very few visitors. On Sundays, the Filipino community would visit the place and spend most of their day there eating, chatting, dancing and singing.

Kin Sau Lane, which connects the site with many old buildings, is also a place with a unique cantonese food named “dai pai dongs”.

Especially on weekdays, most people who work nearby will come here to eat “dai pai dongs” during lunchtime.

Construction workers tend to have lunch and take a nap on the bench or the ground, even if here is not a popular place for having a rest.

The elderly are mainly users of the public space, and when the night comes, the place becomes very quiet with few users.

On Sunday, Filipino domestic helpers are the main users of public spaces. They usually eat their own food, chat, dance or sing.

people cower because their space is hollowed out, people need to open the window to breath because their minds are hollowed out.

The proposal of "slow city experience", space reflects sociality and individuality.

THE THRILL OF MATERIALISTIC THE NEED TO TAKD A BREAK SPACE OF SOCIABILITY SPACE OF INDIVIDUALITY FAST-PACED CITY LIFE

the living conditions and spiritual needs of foreign domestic helpers cannot be met.

Domestic workers are an integral part of the Hong Kong society, foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong are mainly divided into: philipino, Indonesia,Thai workers. There are approximately 223,394 foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong in 2005, and more than half of them come from Philippines. Meanwhile, Filipino maids in Hong Kong society is ensured by the unequal treatment which lacks of basic human rights.

There's always been a stereotype about philippine domestic helpers that in Hong Kong movies, most of the Fillipino maids are called Maria. It can also indicates that discrimination and the need for Philippine domestic helpers are at the same time in many people's minds.

Both Hong Kong people and Philippine domestic servants ignore the important position that the other party occupies in the formation of their own subjects.

THE STATISTICS ABOUT FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPER IN HONG KONG

BETWEEN RICH AND POOR

ARE IN THE POOR LIVING CONDITION

Filipino domestic helpers are an integral part of Hong Kong, but it's difficult for them to get a sense of

STRUGGLE TO FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING

Individuality

increase the "sensory" experience

Different areas of the venue are designed for different user groups, but all are conducted in one public space

How does space give minority groups a sense of belonging and enhance their happiness?

Sociability

MAID" IS EASILY OVERLOOKED PAGEANT": ACCESS TO A SENSE OF BELONGING MAID PARTY ON THEIR ONLY FREE TIME

Create meaningful and profound plot experience

Reflect unique Philippine culture

Cultural integration: Philippine and Hong Kong Festival

Use of "Square" and "Mosaic" elements

Feminine space design (Philippine maids are mainly women)

Women are more inclined to group activities than men

SITE SECTION

Wa On Lane Sitting-Out Area is a public green space created in the cracks of high rise buildings in Hong Kong. Compared to the skyscrapers in the city, the sittingout area is too small to be remembered. Unlike the large metropolitan city itself, this area is a piece of pixel block, tiny and gradually losing its vitality. But for some specific groups, it is a happy place carrying joy.

Wa On Lane Sitting-Out Area

Wa-on Lane Sitting-out Area

Center district in Hong Kong island Hong Kong island

Residential/Hotel Medical/Office Shopping Figure/Ground Surrounding buildings

DESIGN ELEMENT

Different sizes of cubes are combined to play different functions here, Spliced combination seating can meet the needs of individual resting or group resting. Beacuse the stair is formed by different height of cube, it can fulfill the olds walking slowly or the young trying to move faster.

Assembled block staircase-elderly people can walk up the stairs through the flat side Plant observation box-visitors can observe different plants from various angles through the big box

Assembled block seats-a mixture of different size blocks

PROJECT SECTION

FUNCTIONAL PARTITION

HOLIDAY EVENTS

The MassKara Festival is held in Bacolod every October. This festival attracts countless Filipino and overseas tourists, and has become a major feature of the city. The sitting area will also hold this festival every October that allows Filipino domestic helpers to feel a sense of belonging. At the same time, it allows people with different cultural backgrounds to experience Filipino culture, and to communicate between different culture.

1. You can color the mask on the event day and design your own mask

2. Put on the mask that you created, forget your occupation and work, and completely live in the moment with the joy brings by 'smile mask'

HOLIDAY TIMETABLE

Sinulog Fiesta

2020.1.19

Chinese Lunar New Year

2020.1.25-2020.1.27

Panagbenga Festival

2020.2.29-2020.3.1

Dragon Boat Festival

2020.6.25

Day after Mid-autumn Festival 2020.10.2

MassKara Festival 2020.10.19 Christmas Day 2020.12.25

3. People from all background can enjoy this activity and get a picture with the art made by themselves.

Jan

When other cities in China are ready to fall asleep, Changsha Wuyi Square is still brightly lit and full of traffic. Night Tour Economy in Changsha occupies a large part of the city's economic resources, not only Wuyi Square but also the other main business districts of the city such as Wanjiali Square and Taskin Center are full of people day and night.

As the capital of Hunan Province, Changsha is known for its food culture, Hunan cuisine along with local snacks at the night market turn the city to a paradise for food lovers cross the country.

The gourmet night market in Changsha is also one of the symbols of the city. In general, there are often night markets around the commercial center of the city.

TASKIN CENTER

WANJIALI SQUARE

Wanjiali Square is situated in Furong District, one of the core areas of the main urban area of Changsha. The central building Wanjiali mall is the largest single high-rise building in the world with the main building covers an area of 426,000 square meters. The top floor of the centre mall is designed as a helipad that can accommodate 100 helicopters. Wanjiali Square has many urban functions such as leisure, entertainment, business, hotel, tourism, shopping, and culture.

TASKIN CENTER

Taskin Center also known as Taskin City Plaza is a mixture of shopping center, office block, pedestrian area, restaurants and recreation center that has been completed and opened in recent years This is one of the most visted place in the city and a place where young people love to come and hang out.

MAIN DRIVEWAY

Delivery guys for these gourmet restaurants often cross the street Aborigines are usually some older people Young people come to here to have local food

TAIPING STREET

Taiping Street is located in one of the most prosperous area in the city, Wuyi Square and has always attracted hundreds of local people and tourists to come. Taiping Street is also the most complete street in the ancient city of Changsha that retains the original street pattern. Being a historical site, the street faces some problems such as compressed public space and low grenning rate, road aging and mixed traffic of people and vehicles.

SURROUNDING GREEN SPACE SYSTEM: LACK OF GREEN SPACE

Young tourists are also the main user groups here

SURROUNDING GREEN SPACE SYSTEM: LACK OF GREEN SPACE

Tourists usually take photos of the city on the top floors of buildings Shoppers like to park close to the mall

SURROUNDING GREEN SPACE SYSTEM: GREEN SPACE FRAGMENTATION

Many office workers work nearby

Nearby residents like to walk their dogs here

People like to enjoy the different restaurants here Delivery riders often found in nearby restaurants

FEATURES SITES

TAIPING STREET

WANJIALI SQUARE

TASKIN CENTER

COMMON

MENTAL DISORDER VESSEL

—a place that observe pain and share love

Patients with mental illness: stigma stigmatizes the patient himself, patients always feel guilt and don't want others know what happen with their mental health.

PREVALENCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS MAJOR MENTAL DISORDER AND ITS SYMPTOMS

MENTAL DISORDER TYPICAL SYMPTOMS DISCRIPTIONS BEHAVIOURS HEALING

Anxiety Disorders

restlessness, feeling onedge, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, and muscle tension.

Anxiety disorder and depressive disorder are the most common mental illness across the world, and bipolar disorder is the most misdiagnosed as depression. OCD is often mentioned in our daily life, but few people knows what living with OCD really is. One side is the increasing prevalence rate of mental illness, the other side is others in the society discriminate and sterotype patient with mental illness, the idea of making a place where people can exchange feelings and experience mental illness then come out.

SEVERITY OF MENTAL ILLNESS

Bipolar Disorders

dipression or high mood; manic period and depressive period

Depressive Disorders:

Low mood, loss of interest; lack of energy; often accompanied by inattention, insomnia, and fatigue

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Obsessions, compulsions, overvalued ideas

While others in society: discriminate mental illness, and put tags like vulnerable, sensitive, lazy, unstable on the phrase along with 'mental illness'.

FOUR MAJOR MENTAL DISORDERS MODEL DERIVATION

Through visualization the main characteristics of four common mental disorders, and sketch the possibilities of 3D model of these disorders, in this case, the models (architectures) themselves represent the disorders' symptoms. By visiting the models, people will have feelings after experience different 'disorder symptoms'

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a kind of anxiety disorder. Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder usually have recurring thoughts or behaviors, even knowing them are unreasonable or excessive, patients still feel difficult to control and get rid of the thoughts or behaviors, instead, they need to be repeatedly confirmed to alleviate the pain. Red symbolizes danger and also represents warning and anxiety. Changing the direction of the door of every cube, and people who visit the site will lose direction of where they should go, which is similar to people with OCD feeling lost in their out of control mind maze.

Later stage of the model: more theree-dimensional maze

1. backwards balcony

2. single hotel room

perfect cube people with ocd maze

added more cube

repeated thoughts

obsessive thoughts controversee color house architecture with certain rule

idea that disobey one's norm follow strict routine

ANXIETY DISORDER

BIPOLAR

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

'box' space blue color box

thin wall thick wall

vulnerable people diagnosed with depression

happiness

two sides of wall being fragile while pretending to be good hide true pain lack of activity lack of interest avoid movement searching for help box connection pipe observer

accomplishment

Later stage of the model: model roots deeper underground, more pipe come out of the room accompany

The core symptoms of depression are depressive thoughts, and loss of interest. On the one hand, the architecture uses a thin wall to symbolize the vulnerability of patients with depression, who need to be protected; on the other hand, a thick wall shows that they usually build high barriers that isolate themselves from others. The whole part of architecture has no windows, the only way that connects people in the room and the rest of the world is the pipe that come out from the room that turn left or right, staring at "outside world", which express patients with depressive disorder are calling out for help and care, while at the same time, they afraid to reach out. individual

portal belt

SITE CONDITION

The site is located amidst the vineyards of Stellenbosch near Kayamandi. It is located near the primary road providing ease of accessibility for the tourists as well as for locals.

The final stage of the wine making process involves the aging and bottling of wine.

A winery is an exploration of boundaries between a man-made structure and natural landscape. Designing a unique modern winery for Kayamandi by telling stories of the hardworking farmers behind the scene and South African cultures will promote the development of local agriculture and boost the economy of South Africa.

20 CENTURY—SEARCH

1910: The Union of South Africa

21 CENTURY—SUBLIME

the same time by a crusher-stemmer.

once fermentation begins, it normally continues until all of the sugar is converted to alcohol and a dry wine is produced. Fermentation can require anywhere from ten days to a month or more.

Once fermentation is completed, the clarification process begins. Filtering and fining may also be done at this stage. Fining occurs when substances are added to a wine to clarify them.

DESIGN DERIVATION CONCEPTION

The way grapes being pressed and fermented is a process of extraction, refers to the South Africa’s colonial history.

FUNCTION ANALYSIS

Wine industry is often referred to as a “beautiful factory”. It is one of the least polluting industries and is a major economic engine in various countries like America, Australia, Italy, France and South Africa. A winery is an exploration of boundaries between a man-made structure and natural landscape.

NATURE LANDSCAPE OF VINEYARD VINEYARD PICKING GRAPES

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORY TRADTIONAL WAY OF MAKING WINE

MAIN BUILDING AREA

DESIGN CONCEPT

PLANTATION AREA

PLANTATION AREA

OUTDOOR WINE TASTING/ WEDDING

INDUSTRY ARCHITECTURE

VINEYARD VIEWING AREA WINERY

ACTIVITY AREA VINEYARD GREEN SPACE GREEN SPACE

PRESENTATION ROOM

WINE TASTING ROOM AND WINE SHOP RESTAURANT CAFE DINNING HALL

BOTTELING AREA

EQUIPMENT ROOM HOTEL ROOM KITCHEN STAFF ROOM DORMITORY

PROJECT PERSPECTIVES

SPATHODEA CAMPANULATA

LEONOTIS LEONURUS

MAGNOLIA GRANDIFLORA

CELTIS AFRICANA

CHIRONIA BACCIFERA

ZANTEDESCHIA AETHIOPICA

CELTIS AFRICANA JACARANDA ACUTIFOLIA ACACIA XANTHOPHLOEA

In the morning, vineyard farmers are busy harvesting fruits in the field. In the late afternoon, tourists are taking pictures of the vineyard.

At night, there are young couples hold weddings in the field.

MODEL OF FALLINGWATER (GROUP WORK) MIXED MEDIA ART MIXED MEDIA ART