Zijian Xu Urban Design/Arch Portfolio 2023 | Admitted to Cornell AAP and Columbia GSAPP

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ZIJIAN XU Selected Works 2019-2022

Bachelor of Engineering in Urban and Rural Planning Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai

CONTENTS

01-ARTIST HOUSE

Instructor: Stephanie Lloyd + Sai Joshi SITE: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Individual Work 2022

02-WINDOWS APARTMENT

Instructor: Wenbo Zhang

Individual Work 2021

SITE: Tianjing City, CHINA

03-VILLAGE RECONSTRUCTION

Instructor: Finn Lin SITE: LIFTA,Jerusalem, Palestine

Individual Work 2021

04-PLASTIC REVOLUTION

Instructor: Dan Li SITE:Machong Town,DongGuan City,CHINA

Team Work 2021

05-VERTICAL GARDEN SITE:Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City, CHINA

Team Work 2022

OTHER WORKS a: Completed Construction Works -Tea Hill Homestay -Huaping Community Baozhu Garden Center Renovation

b: Drawings

PROJECT 01 ARTIST HOUSE "Shotgun House" Housing Type Renovation Individual Work

Shotguns, which had once housed Americans, black and white, poor and middle

Instructor: Stephanie Lloyd + Sai Joshi

class, became stigmatized as a symbol of urban poverty and blight.

Site: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Shotgun homes are important historical architectural artifacts. As a New World

Design Discovery Virtual of GSD 2022 2022.6-2022.8

Type: Architecture Design

construction, they contribute to a global discourse regarding so-called vernacular architecture. As an American phenomenon, they echo the social, cultural, political and economic changes in the U.S. from the colonial period to the present.

Shotgun House Type Development Route These indisputably historic homes have important stories to tell about the social, economic, political, cultural and demographic histories of their particular local communities; histories that would be lost, perhaps irretrievably, if these last shotgun houses are left to decay and disappear.

Southern United States

State of Alabama State of Texas State of Louisiana

New Orleans

State of Georgia

"Caille" House in Haiti

State of Florida

SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 430 sq. ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 12' x 40' DIMENSIONS (SEC. )

Haiti

1F PLAN (Normal)

1F PLAN

2-BAY SINGLE SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 980 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 70' - 0'' x 14'- 0'' DIMENSIONS (SEC.)

The concentrated distribution area of Shotgun house

SHOT-TROT HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 1,100 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 16' - 6'' x 78'- 0'' DIMENSIONS (SEC. )

ROW HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 505 sq. ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 17' - 5'' x 33'- 5'' DIMENSIONS (SEC. ): -

1F PLAN

3-BAY SINGLE SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 1,260 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 70' - 0'' x 18'- 0'' DIMENSIONS (SEC.)

1F PLAN

4-BAY SINGLE SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 1,440 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 60' - 0'' x 24'- 0'' DIMENSIONS (SEC.)

1F PLAN

1F PLAN

The original of the development of ShotGun house

1809 1936 In Fred Kniffen's 1936 study, the distribution of shotgun house types was concentrated in the New Orleans metropolitan area, the coastal swamps of southern Louisiana, and along the floodplains of the Mississippi, Red, and Washita rivers.

In Louisiana and other southern states (such as Charlotte, Nor th Carolina, and Houston, Texas), cailles evolved into shotgun houses made of wood rather than stucco, but retaining narrow s tru c tu re s a n d h i l l -w al l ed entrances.

1804 Following the Haitian rebellion that began in 1791 and culminated in Haitian independence in 1804, m a n y f re e p e o p l e o f A f r i c a n descent migrated to New Orleans in the southern United States in 1809, either freely or as slaves brought by plantation owners fleeing Haiti.

1791 When West Africans were enslaved in the Haitian region, dwellings were built with traditional West African housing forms-square rooms, no hallways, and a rectangular appearance.

4-BAY DOUBLE SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 1F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 840 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 70'- 0'' x 12'- 0'' DIMENSIONS (SEC.)

CAMELBACK SHOTGUN HOUSE FLOORS: 2F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 1700 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 87'-10'' x 14'- 9'' DIMENSIONS (SEC. )

1F PLAN

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4-BAY CAMELBACK DOUBLE FLOORS: 2F TOTAL FLOOR AREA: 2,850 sq.ft.

DIMENSIONS (PLAN): 72' - 0'' x 24'- 9'' DIMENSIONS (SEC.)

1F PLAN

1F PLAN

SHOTGUN HOUSE Main Features Analysis

INTERIOR

CONNECT

STRUCTURE

Hallway

Porch

Pitched Roof

efficient accessibility

possibility of communication

blurs boundary

sheltered security

maximum expression of the public

public and private

protection from rain and shade

expand their social space

special spatial atmosphere

provides gray space

Promote community communication

communal attributes

FLOOR PLAN 21500 2000

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Toilet

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2 Studio

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Storage & Display Area

8 Planting Pool

3 Workbench

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Kitchen

9 Living Area

SCALE 1:60 003

Structure Detail Analysis Polycarbonate Sheet Polycarbonate Sheet

Steel Structure Steel Plate Main Suport Beam

Fluoride Resin Steel Plate

Window Joist Caulking

Window Steel Structure

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SECTION

LIVING AREA

DINING AREA

STUDIO

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Diagram of disassembling the Multi-functional Prefabricated Module

Axonometric diagram of explosion of the Opaque Ceiling Module

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Roof Structure

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Soundproofing

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Roof Structure 7

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Fenestration

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Window Structure Structure Beams

Module Select APP

Operable Sunshades

Sliding Door

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PROJECT 02 NEW HOUSING SYNCHRONIZATION Sculpting Fragments -Defining a new housing synchronization Individual Work Instructor:Wenbo Zhang Site:Tianjing City, CHINA

2021.10-2021.12 Type: Architecture Design

From the windows, we can gradually present a deeper perception of space and architecture.

With the development of technology, the rise of assembly design and the promotion of standardized construction, architects do not design a building from the inside out, but habitually become an organizer of standardized components, the organic and native nature of design, the connection between architectural space and human perception, is often blurred or homogenized at the level of construction and technology.

How to reflect the texture of space at the level of construction, we start our research from the living space that is closest to our lives.

A-1:Transparent Glass

A-2:Colored Glass

A-3:Jalousie Window

A-4:Frosted Glass

A-5:Glass Brick

A-6:Mirror Glass

Design Strategy

B-1:External Panel

B-2:External Vertical Sun Visor

B-:3:External Irregular Occlusion

B-4:Corner window

B-5:Concave Humanly Scaled

B-6:Outer Convex Humanly Scaled

Typological analysis of Windows

Ⅰ :TRANSPARENCY

Ⅱ :INTEGRITY C-1:Distortion

C-2:Fragments

C-3:Deformation

C-4:Perspective

C-5:Mirror

C-6:Staggered

Ⅲ :VISUAL ILLUSION

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T h e l o c a t i o n o f t h i s re s i d e n t i a l apartment is in the center of Tianjin, China. To the north of the apartment is the famous landscape of Tianjin, the central park.

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T h e a p a r t m e n t i s s u r ro u n d e d b y residential and commercial areas, and these different functional areas provide the apartment with a variety of window views and give the apartment's occupants a distinctly different viewing experience.

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Functional Analysis

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- Bird View of SITE With the development of technology, the rise of assembly design and the promotion of standardized construction, architects do not design a building from the inside out, but habitually become an organizer of standardized components.

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Floor Plans for Layers

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Perspective Drawing

Enter the building from the residential area

View of the building from the street

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The scene seen after walking up the stairs to the fourth floor

The continuous windows of the curve bring interesting visual sensations to the viewing.

The window turns are designed to provide a unique viewing view and purposefully create the illusion of vision.

The combination of the shutters and the material of the glass creates a mutilated exterior scene and offers more viewing possibilities

The tables, chairs and drawers connected to the room provide a versatile feel to the use of the device.

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PROJECT 03 VILLAGE RECONSTRUCTION Village Rescue Plan of LIFTA Individual Work

1948 was a catastrophe (al-nakba) for the Palestinian people, which constituted their

Instructor:Finn Lam

common traumatic memory.

Site:LIFTA, Jerusalem, Palestine 2021.08-2021.09

Type: Urban Design

This project translates into architectural forms through the extraction of Individual memories and Collective memories of indigenous peoples in the diaspora. And through the technique of architectural narrative, each theme group is organized to recreate the village in the memory of the lifta villagers. The aim is to create an open, free, outdoor museum where there are no more territorial disputes, and at the same time remind everyone of the cruelty of war.

Palestine Israel

Border Checkpoint LIFTA in 1948

LIFTA Indigenous Villager

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LIFTA in 2022

Collective Memories of LIFTA

Oral Memories of LIFTA Indigenous Villager

Source Data: https://www.zochrot.org/

The lifta villages are historically constructed in such a way that people interact with the architecture and environment and form individual memories. As time progresses, individual memories evolve into a unique collective memory.

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ANALYSIS

PROCESS

OPERATING METHOD Type A

TOUR IN LIFTA

Type B

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Tourist route On foot

The broken walls and window openings were preserved, and the stair traffic and display platform were placed.

Traditional vaulted buildings were preserved and internally placed platforms and balustrades.

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Type D

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Unique flower Tree and animal Mountain climbing

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Exhibition

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History story Weave experience Monument Olive tree

Holes are made in the top of the building to introduce outside light,preserving the original arches on all four sides.

Type E

anticipation joy

The exhibition space is separated inside the remaining wall wreckage, and a grid frame is added to the top.

surprise peace sadness

Type F

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Enter Gallery Historical Pond

Plant Experience

Observatory Plant Exhibition

For the building unit with a relatively complete top plane, an Partial demolition of the façade of the relatively well-preserved independent exhibition space is added to form a contrast between vaulted building demonstrates the historical manufacturing process. new and old materials.

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Tour Points Workshop

Media show

Exhibition

Pray

Theatre

Mood Change Flow Renovation Strategies For The Remaining Ruins Of Villages

A Villager Returns to The Village Of Lifta

The villages that have experienced nearly a hundred years of Palestinian-Israeli conflict no longer exist in their entirety, and we can only recall the memories of the villages from the broken buildings on the earth. Eight relatively well-preserved architectural sites were selected from the broken building complex to renovate and construct the building units.

Across the border, villagers board buses and follow the highway to the village of Lifta. The scenery changed from barren gravel to sparse houses on both sides of the highway, and on the right side of the bus appeared a patch of yellow-brown stone houses, and the villagers clutched the keys in their hands, and she knew that she had returned to the lifta in her parents' mouth.

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Agricultural Exhibition Status Quo

Spring Water Prey Space

Weaving Workshop

Memory Museum

Central Theater

Building Workshop

LIFTA Village Renovation

- Bird View of SITE With the development of technology, the rise of assembly design and the promotion of standardized construction, architects do not design a building from the inside out, but habitually become an organizer of standardized components.

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BEFORE AND AFTER

BEFORE AND AFTER

BEFORE RECONSTRUCTION

original village road

reduce buildings for planning new road

reformed village road

original village

preserve the status quo of the village

collective memory: farming demonstration

collective memory: building workshop

collective memory: heritage conservation

collective memory: theatre

reconstruction of old residential areas to memory museum

preservation of local architectural morphological features

enclose public space

AFTER CONSTRUCTION

THE MAIN AXIS OF THE VILLAGE

Agricultural Exhibition

Building Workshop

Heritage Conservation

Village Memory Museum

Central Theater

Pray Area

Spring Water

Status Quo

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Lanscape Axis

Visit Axis

The village is located in a narrow area, designed to maintain the original texture of the village, continuing the topographic contours and preserving the landscape axis in the collective memory of the villagers.

Relying on the newly built village walkway, visiting nodes are set up along both sides of the walking path, and the collective memories of the indigenous people of Lifta village are connected in series through the visiting streamline.

Scene 1 Agricultural

Scene 2 Workshop

Scene 3 Exhibition

PLOT Continuous terraces beside the ramp were filled with different kinds of crops in separate areas, and there were some small squares in the center of the terraces where people were resting and doing yoga.

PLOT People with tools and stones everywhere were building the dwellings they remembered, and some arches around the area that were destroyed because of the war were painted in bright colors.

PLOT The walls were inscribed with photos of the village's history, the 1948 nakba massacre, the truck carrying the villagers fleeing, the lifta villagers running at gunpoint.

Scene 6 Viewing Deck

Scene 5 Prey

Scene 4 Theater

PLOT Circular spring, which was blown by the wind in ripples after ripples, and look back at the whole village, which was radiating life from its olive trees in early spring.

PLOT Scattered monuments seemed to be silently expressing the accusation of war.

PLOT Walked out of the complex and the sunken theater played the past of the lifta villagers, showing the Palestinians' nostalgia for their country and homeland.

STORY BOARD AND NARRATIVE SPACE The descendants of the indigenous people of the village of LIFTA have overcome their hardships and returned to the village to see what their parents said about the good memories.

The following plots and renderings tell the story of a descendant of a village's aborigines who return to the old village site with curiosity and reminisce about the past.

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PROJECT 04 PLASTIC REVOLUTION Based on the plastic recycling system design of Ma Chung Town, Dongguan City Collaborator: LuLu Zhang / Zhiyang Guo Research & Concept Design: 35%, Design Development: 40%, Rendering and Drawings: 30%

Instructor: Dan Li Site: Machong Town,DongGuan City,CHINA

2021.07-2021.08 Type: Urban Design

Every year, millions of tons of plastic enter the oceans, of which the majority spills out from rivers.

A portion of this plastic travels to ocean garbage patches, getting caught in a vortex of circulating currents. If no action is taken, the plastic will increasingly impact our ecosystems, health, and economies.

The extent of oceaning plastic contamination is rapidly approaching a critical level where there will soon be more plastic in the ocean by mass than fish.

Research System Design Plastics Europe also highlighted that since 2016, the post-consumer plastic packaging for recycling has increased by 92%.

23 million tonnes of waste generated in the US in 2013, only 2.7 million tonnes were recycled, a recycling rate of less than 10%, with only around 2% of plastic waste being recycled in the US itself.

The 10 most common single-use plastic products found on Europe's oceans and beaches, which account for about 70% of Europe's marine litter.

In 2016, for example, of the 240 million tons of plastic waste added worldwide that year, more than 42 million tons came from the United States.

In 2014, the UK recycled 38% of its packaging plastic waste, or 842,000 tonnes.

Across Europe, plastic packaging accounts for only around 19% of Europe's total packaging waste.

According to Plastics Europe, in 2018 there were 60,000 companies involved in the plastics industry in Europe, providing 1.6 million jobs and generating annual turnover of over € 360 billion.

As a percentage of the world's population, the United States accounts for only 4% of the world's plastic waste, but produces 17% of the world's plastic waste.

Plastic waste accounts for 85.7% of floating waste on the sea surface

With the rapid development of China's economy and the continuous improvement of people's consumption level, the production of plastic waste is increasing.

Rubber waste 3.5% Paper waste 1.2%

Plastic waste 84.5% Wood products waste 13.2%

Plastic waste is the common enemy of all mankind. We need to build up a sense of community of human destiny, take joint measures.

37% increase in marine dumping by 2020 China's contribution rate to floating waste in the North Pacific is 58% to 65%.

Amount of plastic waste in China accounts for about 80% of the total amount of garbage

7.1% Styrene 6.9% Polyester

4% Urethane 10.4% Ethylene

Polypropylene 18.9% Polyethylene 39.6%

LEGEND

Plastic waste production (ten thousand tons) in DongGuang,CHINA

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Source Data:

1. https://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CMFD&dbname=CMFD202001&filename=1019238483.nh&v=rZRI2%25mmd2FZ9XCU2OOVk5uLj56ZSBlq1SayHy7zpDK070vJTnfZOxFP%25mmd2BvkFM%25mmd2Ft3K4HfD 2.Stephanie B． Borrellea，Chelsea M． Ｒ ochmanb，Max Liboironc，Alexander L． Bond，Amy Lusher，Hillary Bradshaw and Jennifer F． Provencher，“Why We Need an International Agreement on Marine Plas- tic Pollution”，PNAS，Vol．114，No．38，2017，pp．9994 － 9997． 3. China National Light Industry Council,198-2007;China Plastics Processing Industry Association,2001-2018

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PERSONALIZATION PRODUCT

Other Waste Glass Waste Fabric Waste

Metal Waste Paper Waste

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS CLEAN OIL

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Wood Products Waste

Plastic Recycle Plastic Waste Coal Storage Base

Plastic waste recycled into Fuel products Plastic waste recycled into Construction materials Plastic waste recycled into External sales

Finance Fishery Industry Extractive Industry

Aquaculture

Environmental Protect

Function Analysis

Clean Coal Storage Ecological Environment

Generate Electricity

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Multiple Functions The coefficient of socio-economic impact of marine litter is formulated as 0-10

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Plant Perspective

PROJECT 05 VERTICAL GARDEN Vertical Environment-Community Unit in Nanjing Design Competition Collaborator: Jiajing Gao Research & Concept Design: 50%, Design Development: 50%, Rendering and Drawings: 50% Site: Yuhuatai District, Nanjing City, CHINA

2021.12-2022.2 Type: Architecture Design

The form of the bird observation tower is designed as a purely square composition, with the observation workstations located high up on each level to meet the needs of the different heights, and with a 'cross' form of vertical traffic nuclei within the tower.

"The 'cross' form creates four 'corners' that can be interpreted as sections or peeks into the landscape, providing a distinctly different spatial experience. Based on the 'cross' form, we have extracted and translated elements from classical Chinese gardens to create a spatial context of opening, developing, changing and concluding at different interfaces, so that with the change in height, people can view the landscape and walk in a three-dimensional garden at the same time."

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SECTION-1

The 'cross' form creates four 'corners' that can be interpreted as sections or peeks into the landscape, providing a distinctly different spatial experience.

Based on the 'cross' form, we have extracted and translated elements from classical Chinese gardens to create a spatial context of opening, developing, changing and concluding at different interfaces, so that with the change in height, people can view the landscape and walk in a three-dimensional garden at the same time.

SECTION-2

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Interior Perspective

OTHER WORKS A: Completed Construction Works -Tea Hill Homestay -Huaping Community Baozhu Garden Center Renovation

B: Drawings

A-1 TEA HILL HOMESTAY

As a planning student, my disciplinary background provided me with a macro background, and the project allowed me to gain insight into building construction and the practicalities of building construction, from which I learned a lot.

2021 Winter Instructor & Collaborator: Junhao Xu Research & Concept Design: 50%, Design Development: 60%, Construction Process: 30% Teamwork

The TEA HILL HOMESTAY was a new challenge for me and my first full involvement in an architectural project completion. As a fresh graduate from college, I learned a lot from participating in the design, construction and final acceptance of this residential project.

The main design difficulty of this residence is the location of the residence. The location of this project is in the middle of a valley, surrounded by pristine trees and boulders on both sides of the building. How to deal with the height difference of the architectural design and how to adjust the layout of the interior space was the challenge of this project.My supervisor, junhao xu, and I made several trips to the site to survey the topography and conduct detailed mapping. This ensured the smooth running of the project.

Construction Recorded

Render Perspective

Realistic Imagery

Render Perspective

Realistic Imagery

Construction Recorded

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BEFORE

A-2 HUAPING COMMUNITY BAOZHU GARDEN CENTER RENOVATION 2021 Summer Instructor: Minling Zeng Collaborator: Jintao Guan Research & Concept Design: 50%, Design Development: 50%, Rendering and Drawings: 50% Construction Process: 50% Teamwork Construction Team: Gongbei Street Office, Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai

After this project, we know that the landing of community design is not the end of the project, but the beginning of the project. The main users we are dealing with are the people who live in the community.

We sincerely hope that more residents' ideas and creativity will be reflected in the project site, so that they can truly treat the environment in the community as their own care space.

We believe that "sustainable development" is best achieved when each user develops a sense of belonging to the design. Urban renewal does not only bring about physical changes in buildings, but also renews the relationship between people in the community.

Survey and interview process: Exchange actual needs with the elderly

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AFTER

B: Drawings

I found that the three-dimensional spatial variation of architecture appealed to me so strongly that I was no longer satisfied with planning solutions on a two-dimensional plane.

I had a burning desire to explore the forms and spaces of buildings and cities that belong to our time, to create architectural and urban designs that serve today's society, and to make them carriers of the memory of this time in history.

Like Chinese landscape paintings, in addition to realistic works of art, they are also cultures and memories that exist throughout history.

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