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CONTENT
01 Street Theater
02 Wander Around Four Seasons
Street Art Performances And Interactive Installations
Sangzhi County Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum
Independent work lnstructor: Feng Ye Site:Changsha,China Date:Fall 2022
Independent work lnstructor: Lei Zhang Site:Sangzhi,China Date:Summer 2023
03 Future factory
04 Micro city of young people
Urban Factory Design In The Future
Design Of New Youth Neighbourhoods
Independent work lnstructor: Xiaodong Lei Site:Shenzhen,China Date:Winter 2022
Independent work lnstructor: Yang Guo Site:Beijing,China Date:Winter 2023
Time: 2022 Fall Site: Changsha,Hunan,China lnstructor: Feng Ye Solo Work
Street Theater Street Art Performances And Interactive Installations Entertainers, dancers, painters, and street artists perform in open public spaces. Street art provides the audience with a unique form of interaction with the art and artists. They have challenged the old form of presenting art only in the theater through performing. However, the street art is also limited by the lack of performance venues and facilities meanwhile. The project hopes to provide mobile and variable performance venues for the street art performance and reestablish the connection between people and art. The project selects the sites represented by art parks，historical blocks, and commercial squares,extracts inspiration from cultural symbols in Changsha,and combines common building materials such as wooden boards and scaffolding as street performance installations to cope with different art activities, site scales and site attributes. At the same time, the installations are not only the performance venues, but also take on partial urban functions.
TIMELINE OF STREET ART
CATEGORIES OF STREET ART
The emergence of street art can be dated back to the Song Dynasty. Along the River during the Qing ming Festival has depicted it.
CHANGSHA CITY ANALYSIS
The vendors can make the mud into the images I want.
Millennium ancient city molding clay figurines This is an craft passed down for hundreds of years.
In the Qing Dynasty, there was no special performance place, usually drawing a circle on the ground for open-air show.
Strong media city
Chinese s h a d o w puppetry is really nice.
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Xiyuan Ancient Street muscice danw dr a art ha n d i c r a f t els e
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The performance such as puppet show, manipulating of puppet, street movie peep show, monkey show and a variety of acrobatics.
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Chaozong Ancient Street Beizheng Ancient Street WUyi Square Pozi Ancient Street Taiping Ancient Street
Meixi Lake Theater
Duzheng Ancient Street
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Some street shows occupy urban space and hinder the order of life, leading to the exclusion of street art from the mainstream culture.
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dance With the rise of online live, street art supplemented by live broadcasting has gradually revived, mainly represented by bands, paintings and rap.
Sing really good! Is she making a online live?
Lots of entertainment
High public acceptance of street art Lots of street artists sing
SITE ANALYSIS Chaozong Ancient Street
SOURCE OF INSPIRATION Taskin City Square
Houhu Art Academy
Xiang River Bridge The bridge connects the two sides of the Xiangjiang River, the mother river.
It is located in the art area of the university town and the artists and the audience are basically nearby students.
In a bustling open business ci rcl e , th e re wi l l b e man y artists performing on the street and broadcasting live online.
As a historical ancient street, a tourist attraction is narrow wide, and its street art also has a nostalgic atmosphere.
Tianxin Pavilion
Xiang River Bridge bamboo slips
It is the ancient symbol of the city Changsha,witnessing the urban history.
Tianxin pavilion
Jade Seal of “Li Cang”
SITE 1 Xianjia Lake
Chaozong Ancient Street Taiping Ancient Street Tianxin Pavilion
Yuelu Mountain Hunan Normal University SITE 2 Houhu Art Academy
jade seal of “Li Cang”
It is a proof of the identity of the owner of the Han Dynasty tomb in Changsha.
Chinese Rope Weaving
turnover rope
It is a kids’game representing the childhood memory of many people.
CAPACITY OF THE INSTALLATION Yuquan Temple
Inspiration
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Central South University Bamboo slips
South Park
Yanghu Wetland Park
Tianxin Pavilion
SITE 3 Taskin City Square
Jade Seal of “Li Cang”
Chinese rope weaving
Jade Seal of “Li Cang”
Xiangjiang Bridge
Tianxin Pavilion
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ARTISTICS ACTS AND INSTALLATIONS
Houhu Art Academy
Taskin City Square
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Chaozong Ancient Street
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band live
clay figurines online live
Space Openness
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Emotional Activity
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PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION SPACE REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION LIST
Audience Attributes Citizens loving art Citizens watching the live broadcast
4.2M
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People having no sense of street performance
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Teamwork
Seeing and Being Saw
Actively Interacting
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The Texture Of The Site
Ancient Street
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Art Academy
Space Required For Activities Sing
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Watching Centripetally
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Basic Geometry Of The Installation
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Square
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Round
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Houhu Art Academy
Taskin City Square
Chaozong Ancient Street
Taskin City Square
Band performance
Musical performance
Dance party
Exhibitions and leisure
Sketch from nature
Dance performance
Sale of handicrafts and rest
Selling and painting
Time: 2023 Summer Site: Sangzhi,Hunan,China lnstructor: Zhang Lei Solo Work
Wander Around Four Seasons Sangzhi County Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum With the advancement of urbanization and industrialization, many minority intangible cultural heritage is disappearing at an alarming rate. And Sangzhi county is one of the places facing this situation.This place has a brilliant intangible cultural heritage, but it is little known for many reasons.The main concept of this design is to make full use of God Parade in Sangzhi through all the building to reflect and spreada variety of intangible cultural heritage of Sangzhi.By introducing lots of annual festivals inside the design, the heritage center will attract everyone interested in the culture and offer the very experience to enjoy the intangible cultural heritage of Sangzhi as a participator.
CURRENT ISSUES
Sangzhi is located in a remote area of Hunan, where ethnic minorities live together. However, the scenery is beautiful, but the transportation resources are scarce and it is difficult to get there.The only way to active there is to make full use of the unique culture and people with special skills and then people would be attracted to know and come for this hidden gem.
Sangzhi has many brilliant intangible cultural heritages, but Sangzhi’s intangible cultural heritage has not been properly protected and utilized.
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The God Parade is a unique folk activity in Sangzhi created by the descendants of the Bai nationality to commemorate the settlement.Zhanggu dance,folk songs,are performed in the activities of theparade. Through Sangzhi’s unique festivas,The God Parade performance recurs throughout the year,which attract people to the museum and at the same time,it is also the branding for the intangible cultural heritage in Sangzhi. go e dp rad ara pa de god zhanggu dance
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SANGZHI FOLK SONG DEVELOPMENT During World War II, the folk songs of Sangzhi’s surrounding areas were fused with Sangzhi’s local folk songs through the Red Army.
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In the Qing Dynasty,Confucian culture and Sangzhi indigenous culture were integrated.
ZHANGGU DANCE MOVEMENT DEVELOPMENT In Ming Dynasty, people combined labor movements with Zhanggu dance.Some sacrifice movements were mixed into the dance.
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SANGZHI CULTURE INTEGRATION CONFUCIANISM
SANGZHI FOLK SONG THE EARLIEST RECORD The earliest record of Sangzhi folk songs is in Qu Yuan’s “Nine Songs·Xiang Jun”.
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ZHANGGU DANCE ORIGIN Zhanggu dance originated in the Song,which formed zhanggu dance with hammering tools as props and kneading martial arts movements.
I like folk songs and zhanggu dances , but I still have to support my family. It is impossible to perform and sing every day.
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Sangzhi’s intangible cultural heritage? I don’t know much about it, but it’s interesting. Where can I watch the show and learn it?
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According to the roads,the entrances are decided where it leads the God Parade to go through the site.
Provide parade corridors from village to the site and performance venue for the activities in the God Parade.
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Different volumes are inserted into the performance corridor according to the story line of the God Parade.
Gragon Dance
Performance team
Zhanggu Dance
God flag and statue
Dragon dance leads the God Parade.
The performance team follows the statue.
Arrive at the stage and start the show.
Guard of honor carrying the god flag and statue.
To respond to cliate and traditional building here ,pitched roofs are modified with smooth curve.
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GOD PARADE WANDER THE MUSEUM The God Parade walks through the performance corridor to interact with the audience,then arrive at the performance stage for the Sangzhi folk song and Zhanggu dance.These performances are normally performed during the parade.After the show,the team will go back to the town and continue to march after the show.
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1 Temporary exhibition hall 2 Exhibition hall 3 Experience hall 4 Library 5 Gift shop 6 Rehearsal classroom 7 Warehouse
Exhibition Hall
Between the river and the trees, visitors climb up the stairs to enter the Sangzhi county intangible cultural heritage museum.
Tourists sit on the green stairs to watch the Sangzhi intangible cultural heritage performance and enjoy the river view.
The roof stage simulates the scene the two lovers sing the folk songs very loudly across the mountains.
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Time: 2022 Winter Site: Shenzhen,Guangdong,China lnstructor: Xiaodong Lei Solo Work
Future factory Urban Factory Design In The Future As the size of cities and factories expand,the contradictions between cities and factories is also gradually emerging.Beside the environmental pollution caused by factories,they also affect the smooth flow of urban traffic. However,with the development of the production mode, the greening of the factory production and the less demand for manual production make it more and more possible for the industry to develop in the city center. In this project,in the form of vertical factories, urban factories are committed to reintegrating the automobile manufacturing industry into the center of Shenzhen, replacing inefficient industrial expansion and completing the shortage of urban industrial land.City factories will be closer to skilled workers,suppliers, and technology and research centers.The factory also provides visitors with the opportunity to experience it,and people can watch the manufacturing process inside the factory.At the same time, the factory design combines the industrial manufacturing processes with the machinery of the amusement facilities,juxtaposing the themes of consumerism,manufacturing and tourism,hoping to explore more possibilities of industrial buildings in the future cities.
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS AND DESIGN STRATEGY URBAN FACTORY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS Early Industrialization
Future Factory
Most factories are built in cities for the reasons like sales performance, workers commuting, and reducing transportation distances etc.
The future factory will study the combination of office and production, connect urban functions, and embed them in urban space.
In The Middle Of Industrialization
Late Industrialization
The negative impact of the urban factories is evident. In addition to pollution, factories also damage the quality of urban culture.
Many industries have been transformed from manufacturing factories into that integrating with industrial tourism.
Future Production In the future, the manufacturing industry requires little manual operation and is cleaner. Therefore, more and more industries can be conducted near urban centers.
PRODUCTION METHODS TIMELINE
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Pre-Industrial Revolution
First Industrial Revolution
Electrical Age
Information Age
Before the first Industrial Revolution, there was a lack of equipment and machines, and manual work was the dominant in production.
In industrial production, machine production gradually replaced manual operation, and the output improved by leaps and bounds.
Human have entered the “Electrical Age”. Based on the production line, mass production is carried out.
Widespread use of computers and communications technology in production processes. Machines begin to eliminate the need for manpower.
CITY ANALYSIS PRODUCTION METHODS TIMELINE Clean Energy
URBAN FACTORY
Less Labor Research Production
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Shenzhen’s industrial development has begun to transform from the electronics industry to high-tech industries, and has set the goal of building a “new generation of world-class automobile city”. The automobile industry will be Shenzhen’s key industry in the future.
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FACTORY AND EQUIPMENT PROTOTYPES
Production Factory
Security Checkpoint
Garage
Science Facility
Waterhouse
Machine Shop
Laboratory
Refinery
Supply Depot
Current Transducer
FUNCTIONS AND CIRCULATIONS The factory consists of the industrial part of the car production, the entertainment part for play and the car exhibition on the ground floor. Visitors can reach each manufacturing part of the industrial process through the fun entertainment pipes of the rides, or reach a small amusement park on the overhead floor between each step. The office staff can control the production situation of each part by virtue of the central office space, and arrive at the office space.
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EXHIBITION Entertainment Traffic Office Traffic Entertainment Space
SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE
The Bottom Entertainment Layer
The Bottom Entertainment Layer
Production Line
Office
Sky Recreational Platform
Overhead Entertainment Layer
Time: 2023 Site: Beijing,China lnstructor: Yang Guo Solo Work
Micro City Of Young People Design Of New Youth Neighbourhoods As land values climb in the core of contemporary metropolises, young people find it difficult to find not only accommodation at the right rent, but also office space for their business ventures. At the same time, they are unable to find a sense of belonging in their communities and are trapped in a mood of isolation due to the indifference of modern neighbourhoods. The project aims to explore a new form of community by utilising the remaining urban space over the city's existing bus stops to create a utopia for young people with different personalities. Using 6 metres as a single module, it will be combined into different nine-grids, inserting shared spaces such as shared living rooms and terraces. Different house types are set up for residents with different personalities. At the same time, residents will choose to be neighbours with people of similar or different personalities according to their personal needs, and they will meet and communicate with each other in the shared space, thus dissolving young people's sense of loneliness and enhancing the residents' sense of belonging to the community. At the same time, a variety of public spaces such as canteens and maker spaces will be inserted into the community to provide a community experience for the residents of this neighbourhood, and at the same time provide convenience for the residents of the nearby old neighbourhoods.
BACKGROUND ANALYSIS
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LOCATION ANALYSIS Difficulty to find office space to start a business
Difficulty in finding suitable accommodation
Facilities do not meet the living needs of residents
Convenient transportation 0KM
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Olympic Park
Young people under a lot of pressure
Public transport stations take up a lot of land
Young foreigners feel lonely in a strange city
There aren't a lot of places for young people
As the value of land in contemporary urban centers rises, young people are increasingly relegated to the fringes of the city. Not only do they have no power to find a suitable place to live at the center of the city, they also find it difficult to find office space for their business. They are wrapped up in loneliness but don’t know how to find like-minded friends and venues for their activities.
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China National Stadium Beijing University of Information Science and Technology
Attracting the young
Place to work and live
Anhui Li Community
Providing vitality to the city Olympic Sports Center
University of International Business and Economics
Polulation ageing
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Intensive land use
Lack of public facilities
Urban space resources
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Looking for likeminded friends
Promoting the vitality of urban communities
Feeding public transport
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Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
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Dissolve the loneliness
Getting a sense of belonging No connection to urban public space
No connection to the community
Occupying a large amount of land
Under exploitation of land resources
Promoting the vitality of urban
Activate the city
The site is the Datun Road Central Station, which is located in the heart of the city, occupies a large area, and is currently the first and last stop for 11 bus lines. Surrounded by a certain number of old and new residential communities, the site not only has the demand for further improvement of the function of the existing community, but also has the desire to further enhance the vitality of the city.
CROWD ANALYTICS
REQUIRED PUBLIC SPACE FUNCTIONS
BEHAVIORIAL TRAITS
DESIGN STRATEGY
HOUSE NEEDS Emphasis on accessibility and proximity to the workplace.
Dependent networks
Various forms of office
Personalised
Emphasis on life support services.
gym
office
cinema
library
rehearsal room
theater
art gallery
cafe
board game
cafeteria
infirmary
retail store
Personalise and customise the flat space. keen on socialising
Desire to belong
Independent
Creating environments for tenants' interactions through fragmented spaces.
SOCIAL ACTIVITY ANALYSIS
Collegiality
Provision of shared space for tenants to socialise.
Purposelessness
Providing space for real-life meetings between Internet users.
Networkability
TENANT PERSONALITY CALSSIFICATION Likes to be alone and has a high regard for quality of life and personal grooming. Typical hobbies: yoga, meditation, reading.
The scale of the grouping is controlled in a nine-box grid of 18m*18m. Different sizes of clusters are paired to create rich street space. Insert the public function blocks into the neighborhood and penetrate into the living area. In each residential group, there are small courtyards, shared spaces and outdoor platforms to provide places for communication between groups.
FUNCTIONS AND CIRCULATIONS Work most of the time, just want the convenience of flat living to save money and be able to work overtime.
Spiritual pursuit Quiet and private
Work first Easy and practical
I want to try to be friends with a variety of personalities.
I just want to be neighbors with people who have the same habits.
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Passionate about life, hedonistic. Love food and cooking, enjoy staying at home watching dramas and growing flowers.
You can live in a mid-unit with a moderate mix of resident personalities!
Smaller units with less mix of personalities suit you.
Outgoing and loves to make friends, with a great spirit of exploration. Always active in various gatherings such as dinners, salons, etc.
Hedonism Leisure&Recreation
Socially adept Play and enjoy
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I want to interact and be friends with a wide variety of personalities.
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There’s a lot of different personalities living in the big unit. PLUS SCALE
SITE PLAN Public buildings are installed along the street facade to take on some of the city’s functions, and three-dimensional corridors connect the various clusters in the community, the public buildings and the surrounding neighborhoods, so that residents can meet and communicate with each other at any place.
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Corridor connecting flats and public buildings
NORTH ELEVATION
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Courtyard Of Unit I've made so many new friends since I moved here. I'm not alone anymore.
Our community service facilities are so comprehensive.
I'd like to move in with you as neighbours.
It's convenient to go to the grocery store and the doctor's office, and I feel younger when I see so many young people.
The space above the bus station was transformed into a composite space that accommodates the entrepreneurial life of young people while integrating with the needs of the city and the surrounding community. In this way, young people can live in a community that meets their needs, while at the same time making like-minded friends in the community, creating a sense of belonging to the micro-city and alleviating their sense of isolation.
Shared Terrace
Shared Roofs