RESOURCE RECYCLING LOCAL PROCESSING

DiscardedResource

The selective removal of branches can increase light penetration and air movement in the crown or canopy of a tree.

Usually, the pruned branches are too thin to be used as building materials or furniture and end up being burned

SHOTR-DISTANCE TRANSPORT

Problem

The site is located in Southeast University Sipailou Campus, which is a historic college famous for its fantastic avenues covered by high plane trees.

Every winter, a large number of canopies are pruned to reduce the shade from the sun. The transportation and incineration of discarded branches poses a serious carbon emission problem.

Exploded Drawing Of Building Unit

Structuredesign

The innovative structure is the combination of arch grid structure and wooden arch beam. Each eight sticks processed from branches are combined into a single unit of the arch grid by the steel connectors, so that the structure height are increased while the required section width of each structural member is reduced. With this design, the structure looks lighter and consumes less material

Steel members are utilized as connectors to link up sticks towards various directions. Simple bolted connections can allow for quick and easy assembly

A composite string system is suspended under the arch grid to suspend heavy objects

(such as large displayer)

The structure is made of small size components compared to heavy wood construction, small size components have lower raw material requirements, and can be replaced at any time.The building becomes The Ship of Theseus as components are constantly replaced

The axial force and bending moment of the member are calculated by Midas Gen, and the structural form is optimized according to the results to reduce the bending moment of the wooden member and maximizing the mechanical properties of the material.

Architecturaldesign

The sticks of wooden grid structure protrudes from the arch beam in all directions, intersecting with each other, like jagged branches in mid-air. Sunlight streams in through the skylights, casting rhythmic shadows on the surface of the pool.

Swimmers can experience the delicate light and shadow when they swim beneath the grid structure.

The site is located inside the campus, with the campus playground on the east and the residential area on the west. The flow of people from both directions meets at the north entrance square.

The first two structural units on the north side of the natatorium are set as shared units to promote the communication between different group.

Functional Units

Architecturaldesignforecosystem Landscapedesign

The roof of the swimming pool is made of Al-Mg-Mn alloy roofing board, which has the advantages of light weight, weather resistance, easy processing. It can be recycled and reused, which is conducive to environmental protection.

The roof and ceiling are filled with fiberglass insulation cotton, which reduces the heat exchange between indoor and outdoor and reduces the energy consumption of the building.

Roof rainwater flows down the recessed roof, and downspouts buried in concrete piers channel rainwater into the underground water storage system for garden irrigation

Usually, round sticks are made by precessing logs, which generates a lot of waste. In this project we recycles the thicker branches trimmed from the trees and processes them to make sticks that can be used as building materials.

02 RainGarden

Under the roof is a rain garden combined with seats to collect rainwater that drips from the roof.

02 Pergola

Timber that does not meet building standards can be used to make a pergola.

03 Integration

Seat, flower beds, pavement are designed as a integration.

By analyzing the road network and delineating a 15-minute walking circle, it was determined that the main objects of building services were nearby communities and schools.

URBANDESIGN

Urbanrenewalbasedontheextensiveuseofinnovativewoodstructure

CONNECTING CORRIDOR

PLAYGROUND PLATFORM

HOUSETOP

COMMUNITY THEATER

COMMUNITY THEATER

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE

NATATORIUM

FLOATING COMPLEX

Wuhan Fangdao core area architecture design competition

Instructor: Feng Xiao

Fall 2021

The project is located in Wuhan’s CBD, an area filled with high-rise office buildings where many young workers living in the suburbs commute to work every day. Single function and tedious public spaces make the CBD less vibrant and young workers are eager to escape.

We aim to create a landmark complex integrating commercial activities and civic cultural activities for Wuhan, providing the citizens with open and shared public spaces, landscapes of different scales, and a wide variety of public services to improve the lack of vitality in the CBD.

The bottom of the complex is raised above, leaving the ground for the green park, creating a pleasant walking environment, suspended courtyards and landscape bridges linking the various plots together. The light spreads to the ground through the openings, creating diversified gray spaces and different functional groups. Each functional group has a corresponding sky courtyard, forming an open and aggregated multifunctional volume.

Project Type : Team Work, Academic

Collaborator : Kevin Guo, Jiakang Lee

Project Content : Architecture Design, Urban Design

Location : Wuhan

My Work : Conceptual Design 50%

Urban Design: 50%

Drawings in the portfolio 80%

Boxes

The bottom of the building is raised overhead, and the ground is a commercial and cultural space that is closer to life. The square box is suspended in the sky as an office space, creating a middle courtyard and reducing the occupation of public green space. There are a number of small activity squares in the middle of the green space, providing the surrounding citizens with rich activity venues such as yoga, children’s playground, sculpture park, meditation and meditation.

Nature

In the middle of the square box is a large green space. People can reach the roof area through the escalator, or stroll through the forest through the continuous steps at the bottom, passing through the public box space in the middle to get a unique spatial experience.

The plan follows the overall axis network spatial scale of Fangdao, divides the plot, and combines the site landscape axis and water space to divide the plot into commercial street on the left and cultural pavilions on the right. And a lot of urban development space.

Matrix Lobby

The floating box is suspended in the upper part of the commercial and cultural space, hollowed out in the middle to form a large urban living room, and the raised bottom area forms an open and interconnected urban space, saving a lot of green space. People who work at the same time can use the roof space of the commercial and cultural parts.

Courtyard Connection

The commercial part connects the various commercial spaces through a two-story corridor, and the four venues of the cultural plot are independent of each other to facilitate zoning management

As the central area of the zone, the floating box is not isolated, but communicates with the surrounding plots. The curved ramp in the middle allows people to stroll to each floor while admiring the waterscape forest space in the middle.

Landscape

The circular ramp to create a unique internal environment. People follow the circular ramp to the outdoor platforms and roofs on each floor, creating a special node intention.

OPENSPACE

Different from the traditional single-function enclosed cultural center, the open space experience provides citizens with a variety of natural space forms, including green groups in the form of courtyards and open interfaces of roof garden, so that people are easily accesible to natural space, and can be freely converted between work mode and living mode, improving the flexibility and openness of the overall environment.

OFFICE&APARTMENT

Circulation Path

BRIDGE CONNECTION

ROOF OUTDOOR SPACE

LANDSCAPE SPACE FOR 2F

LANDSCAPE SPACE FOR 1F

LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION

Instructor::White Wang

Spring 2022

Chengdu, the central city of southwest China, has been expanding in size over the decades as population and industry have agglomerated. To ease the pressure on the old town, the government planned new urban centers in the suburbs. As a result, a large amount of farmland and green space were developed, and the native landscape of the suburbs was destroyed. The new building is like a wall, isolating citizens from nature.

This project is a science and technology museum located at the junction area between city and suburbs, and we use architectural techniques to reconstruct the landscape, so as to connect the divided city and nature The building is designed as a spiral ramp, connecting nature and the city, and people walking along the ramp will see the cityscape and natural landscape at different heights with the change of view. This ramp will extend into the interior of the building, becoming a visiting route for science and technology exhibitions, metaphorically connecting science fiction and reality.

The indoor and the outdoor ramp meet on the roof deck of the building, which is designed as a cave looking up towards the snow mountain in the distance. We hoping that the magnificent snow mountain scenery will awaken people’s respect for nature.

Project Type : Team Work, Professional Collaborator : Jian Zhang, Haoyuan Li, Hong Liu, Ke Xie, Wang Li, Shaun Shi

Project Content : Architecture Design, Urban Design Location : Chengdu

My Work : Conceptual Design 50%

Structural Design 60%

Plane Design 80%

Urban Design 20%

Modeling 50%

Siteproblem

The government planned a new urban centers in the suburbs. With the rapid development of wild lands, new urban center and native landscape were seperated clearly.

We designed a science fiction museum at the junction of the city and the suburbs, using architectural techniques to reshape the landscape so as to connect the divided city and nature

LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION TWO EDGES: CITY AND NATURE ROTATING LOOP : ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE BLEND WITH EACH OTHER

MESSING WITH REALITY AND DIGITAL IN AN ENDLESS LOOP

The building is designed as a spiral ramp, connecting nature and the city, and people walking along the ramp will see the cityscape and natural landscape at different heights with the change of view. This ramp will extend into the interior of the building, becoming a visiting route for science and technology exhibitions, metaphorically connecting science fiction and reality.

Parametricdesign Rooftopterracedfacade

In order to meet the request of the shape and the usability of the public space, a terraced space with lighting, rest and communication is built on the roof, and the problem of high building height is also solved accordingly.

In the modeling process, considering the change of the roof terrace form during the deepening design process, we parametrically consider the height and depth of the roof terrace to facilitate discussion and adjustment.