four stories on wood, reuse, the everyday, the vernacular, and craftsmanship
architectural designs crafted by
ALICIA LU LIN
RECLAIM: Assembling Old and New Wood for Everyday Spaces in Sandviken Master Thesis /Exhibited at the Norwegian Fisheries Museum/ /Tutor: Marco Casagrande, Espen Folgler, Vibeke Jensen/ /January - June 2019/ What is the value of old wood today? And how do we define the value of old material? The transformation of a neglected log house is the starting point for raising a discussion on how we can give new life to old wood in the historical neighbourhood of Sandviken in Bergen. How can we rethink our relationship to this disappearing resource? Should we put back the logs exactly how and where they were? Or perhaps the parts could be reclaimed to form something more than the historical memory? How can we continue to reuse the old, both
the physical and its structural logic? How can we reconnect the lost dynamics between the mountainside and the fjord, between our everyday life, craft and tradition in Sandviken? RECLAIM uses an experimental approach by breaking the log house into different components. In combinations with new wood, they form a series of public spaces that enhance existing situations in Sandviken. The new compositions also act as small acupuncture points to regrow the lost qualities of the area: the tactility of wood, the human interaction and dimensions, and the intimate in-between spaces.
Exhibition at the Fisheries Museum: bring old wood to the everyday, main design concept, and a series of experimentations between old/new wood combination
One becomes Many The concept is to break down this one log house and utilise its component system to let it generate many different everyday public spaces.
3D scans of the interior walls in Ă…sane before we moved the house Middle: discoveries of traces and stories of the house
old/new wood combinations at final exhibition in Norwegian Fisheries Museum Below: plans (wooden sticks) and section (shadows) of process on old/new wood combinations
three main structural logics of old/new combination
Below: Map of Sandviken showing different typologies of buildings in different colours value and effect of the project on a neighbourhood scale
circled areas are potential places to reconnect shaded circles are three chosen sites for developed interventions
Exhibition part 1 1:1 part of the structure of final design intervention 1 and 5 - manifesting a structure logic of new vertical support hosting the horizontal old wood
Exhibition at the Fisheries Museum: model of Sandvikstorget showing the last three design interventions
HOUSE OF SPONTANEITY:
House Vision China by Trace Architecture Office exhibited at Venice Biennale 2016 Internship Project /Group Exhibition Projet curated by Kenya Hara/ /Exhibition at Venice Biennale 2016/ /under direction of Hua Li and Liu Yunhan/ /Feb - April 2016/ “House of Spontaneity” is a proposal by TAO for House Vision China project (initiated and curated by Japanese Designer Kenya Hara). This project is exhibited in the ‘Across Chinese Cities’ Exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2016 in Italy. I took part in the design development stage, model making, exhibition design and 1:1 test installation of this project. The House of Spontaneity is not a mere shelter. We are instead concerned with the meaning of home and how homeliness can be conveyed. The house is a cosmos of the individual. The individual carries with him his own universe of sentiments and memories
Proposed Exhibition Design at Venice Biennale 2016
as he moves from one place to another. It is human nature to mark territory by leaving traces. Like a showroom in an exposition, each object in the interior displays the life of its owner. Even when the dweller is absent, we can still construct his identity from these objects. The house defies rigid confinement. There is simply no established rules and conventions that can be imposed on how we dwell. From the witty, unorthodox and playful relationships between the dweller and his habitat, we extract the essence of dwelling. And based on our careful observations, we attempt to design objects and furniture that embodies this very essence.
Sit-Lay-Stand Bench
Co-Living Bed Home is where people can coexist without intruding on each others’ privacy and solitute. We designed a bed that is shared above but divided below, a bed for two that is a shared space above but individual rooms below.
Layering Door
The chair and table has no definitive form. The same piece of furniture generates different meanings under different circumstances. The bench is designed as a common ground that is simultaneously a chair, a table or even a bed. The changes in floor height blurs the distinction. The act of dissolving the conventional boundaries of objects also liberates the dweller.
Conversational Table
Working Ring Thinking, Learning & Creating : Hemingway wrote while standing; Matisse draws with a long stick in bed... The agile writer finds lying in bed or standing more stimulating than sitting upright. This design is a ring that encloses the human body, but also allows one to take up different postures while working.
Stepping Door
Conversational Table
Crossing Boundaries : The door allows us to cross boundaries horizontally; the stair allows us to travel diagonally. This is a door that can transform into a staircase. The conventional door opens to the adjacent room; the segmented door transforms into a spiral staircase that leads us up to the space above.
The dining table is a stage for the family. The seating arrangement reveals the relationship between the self and the others. The regular dining table seems a bit too stoic when guests begin to chat and gossip in cliques. A deformed table makes picking seats way more interesting.
Layering Door The door records meticulously the routines and rituals of “coming home” - knocking on the door, turning on the lights... Each step casts off our weariness and welcome us into a world of intimacy and comfort. The layering door becomes a series of receding planes, into each of which a ritual of “coming home” is embedded.
Rotating Window House of Spontaneity The House of Spontaneity is not a mere shelter. We are instead concerned with the meaning of home and how homeliness can be conveyed. The house is a cosmos of the individual. The individual carries with him his own universe of sentiments and memories as he moves from one place to another. Openings & Nature : To make up for the loss of courtyards and gardens in the vertical city, people have their own ways of interacting with nature.
A bed that is shared above but divided belowindividual rooms below.
The chair and table has no definitive form. The same piece of furniture generates different meanings under different circumstances.
Crossing Boundaries : The door records meticulously the routines and rituals of “coming home” knocking on the door, turning on the lights... Each step casts off our weariness and welcome us into a world of intimacy and comfort. Crossing Boundaries : The door records meticulously the routines and rituals of “coming home” knocking on the door, turning on the lights... Each step casts off our
A bed for two that is a shared space above but individual rooms below.
The changes in floor height blurs the distinction between a table and a chair. Dissolving the conventional boundaries of objects liberates the dweller.
Relaxing : Home is where people can coexist without intruding on each others’ privacy and solitute. rooms below.
Thinking, Learning & Creating : Hemingway wrote while standing; Matisse draws with a long stick in bed... The agile writer finds lying in bed or standing more stimulating than sitting upright. Crossing Boundaries : The door records meticulously the routines
Sit-Lay-Stand Bench
Stepping Door
Working Ring
Co-living Bed
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Crossing Boundaries : The door allows us to cross boundaries horizontally; the stair allows us to travel diagonally. The conventional door opens to the adjacent room; the segmented door
Born in 1972 in China, HUA Li received his B. Arch. from Tsinghua University in 1994. He then studied at Yale University and received his M. Arch. in 1999. He practiced in New York and Beijing before founding his own firm TAO (Trace Architecture Office) In 2009. Being critical at contemporary architecture as an obsession to fashionable forms in media driven globalized consumerism, HUA Li visions architecture as an evolving organism, being an inseparable whole with its environment, rather than just a formal object. With most projects positioned in particular cultural and natural settings in China, TAO explore the essence of place; make architecture deeply rooted in its cultural and environmental context with respect of local condition. The sense of place, response to climate, efficient use of local resource, site-responsive construction method, such issues are always explored in every TAO project responding to its specific situation. HUA Li’s key works include: Museum of Handcraft Paper (2010, shortlisted in Aga Kahn Award 2013), XiaoQuan Elementary School(2010), Wuyishan Bamboo Raft Factory(2013), Forest Building(2014), and Split Courtyard House(2015). HUA Li and TAO has won several important architectural awards including ARCASIA Award, shortlisted in Aga Kahn Award 2013, Architectural Record GDGB Award, China Architecture Media Award and WA Award, and TAO was listed in Design Vanguard 2012 by Architectural Record Magazine. TAO’s works have been exhibited internationally in Venice, Vienna and New York. HUA Li also teaches at Tsinghua University as a visiting professor and has been a guest critic for studio reviews at HKU, CAFA and UdK Berlin. He has given lectures in many universities and conferences in both Asia and Europe.
The house defies rigid confinement. There is simply no established rules and conventions that can be imposed on how we dwell. From the witty, unorthodox and playful relationships between the dweller and his habitat, we extract the essence of dwelling. And based on our careful observations, we attempt to design objects and furniture that embodies this very essence. It is human nature to mark territory by leaving traces. Like a showroom in an exposition, each object in the interior displays the life of its owner. Even when the dweller is absent, we can still construct his identity from these objects. The house defies rigid confinement. There is simply no established rules and conventions that can be imposed on how we dwell. From the witty, unorthodox and playful relationships between the dweller and his habitat, we extract the essence of dwelling. And based on our careful observations, we attempt to design objects and furniture that embodies this very essence. It is human nature to mark territory by leaving traces. Like a showroom in an exposition, each object in the interior displays the life of its owner. Even when the dweller is absent, we can still construct his identity from these objects.
The House of Spontaneity is not a mere shelter. We are instead concerned with the meaning of home and how homeliness can be conveyed. The house is a cosmos of the individual. The individual carries with him his own universe of sentiments and memories as he moves from one place to another. The House of Spontaneity is not a mere shelter. We are instead concerned with the meaning of home and how homeliness can be conveyed. The house is a cosmos of the individual. The individual carries with him his own universe of sentiments and memories as he moves from one place to another. The House of Spontaneity is not a mere shelter. We are instead concerned with the meaning of home and how homeliness can be conveyed. The house is a cosmos of the individual. The individual carries with him his own universe of
FROM THE MOUNTAIN TO THE OCEAN:
Rethinking The Boundry Of Lyttelton Waterfront Bachelor Thesis /Master planning Project, Urban Acupuncture/ /Tutor: Michael O’Sullivan/ /July - October 2015/ The design for Lyttelton’s Public Harbour, Dampier Bay envisions the possible future of our coastline. The proposal is a criticism towards reclaimation of land and the inaccessibility of the waterfront for public. It emphasised the potential to use water as public spaces. In between the ridgeline and the coastline, Dampier Bay with its reclaimed land exposed a sense of segregation and isolation within the two elements of nature. The proposal is to blur this boundary, to make Lyttelton’s landscape become one entity for the community. A waterway is proposed through the bay by joining the mountain valleys. The declamation of the landfill shows
respect and return back to the ocean. Public buildings in different scales are designed as acupuncture points to run along the old coastline so that people would have the same view as their ancestors. Tectonically, all buildings are constructed in a Pacific tradition. Each structure embodies aspects including the centralised system, flexible joinery, impermanent material, open interior spaces and the traditional gable form. Each public building looks different from the outside, but follows the same priciple structurally.
Proposed Materplan of Lyttelton Harbour with new coastline and new public buildings and spaces as acupuncture points
THE FISH MARKET
THE OPEN AIR THETREA
THE COMMUNITY CENTRE
Public Facilities along Lyttelton Coastline THE BOATSHEDS
Site Model showing Larger context @ 1:10000
THE TRANSPORT TERMINAL
1:500 Model showing Community Centre and Open Air Theatre
A Maze Thing
Wind Shelter on the high coast of Sweden Design & Build Workshop Arknat is an architectural festival where students from different Scandinavian schools of architecture create architecture that allows a new experience with nature. In my team of five people, we built a wind shelter on top of the mountain.
design drawing - plan, sections and elevations
The site Nola Jola along Gula Leden offers a magnificent and almost overwhelming panorama. There are high and low vegetations as well as different levels of stone surfaces around this area. Our intention is to frame these situations by enhancing specific qualities that allow visitors to stop by and experience.
drawing for construction
joint testing prototypes
wind shelter captured Instagram #amazething
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windshelter “A Maze Thing“ within the landscape along the hiking trail Gula Leden
close-ups of “A maze thing“
building process with team