In the book "Violence", Zizek divides violence into "subjective violence" and "objective violence". "Subjective violence” is the result of "objective violence" _the system for maintaining social, political and economic stability. At a time when "subjective violence" is on the rise, people should step back and observe "objective violence" - a kind of pure violence that is silent. Therefore, in my projects, I try to participate in and invite people into the examination of "objective violence through "nomos" and "Asinoperosita". The former uses form to express the complex landscape to regain the political attribute of the urban space, while the latter invites people to re-enter the political life (nios politikos) in daily life to reflect on the current landscape through the interaction between human.
Nomos
An Act of Defining and Parceling a Territory in Order to Give a Form to it
German jurist Carl Schmitt postulated the concept of nomos as the relationship between the concreteness of the ‘ground’ and the construction of a political order. Nomos can be used as a way to reflect the complex landscape in urban space.
to regain the political attribute of the urban space:
1.The projects established an anatomy of the landscape by giving a form to both the built, but also the unbuilt space to help us identify the architecture of territorial conditions.
2.The project clearly indicated how resources obtained to ensure the legitimacy of the project through nomos where the form of the territory and its political order can coincide.
Asinoperosita
A Space which Rejects the Capitalist Production in Oder to Spur Nios Politikos
Asinoperosita means non-productive space, which can be regarded as the space for political life (bio politikos) that rejects capital production in urban space.
to re-enter the political life (nios politikos):
1. The projects make use of existing policies and resources to make space for use rather than speculation.
2. The projects use relationship and circulation of public and private space to create a co-living space.
Academic Study
01 Pigs in the City
-A Thoery Model for Ruian's future Urban Development
Personal Project
02 Quarry
-Re-envisioning Chinese Rural Development
Practice Experience
03Folktale at Carmel Valley
-Winery Design in California
04Bifurcation
-Imagining Bordering Settlements in Montenegro
Technical Studies
-Half Self-build House, Wood+Brick Structure
-One Floor as Two, Concrete+Steel&Brick Structure
-CLT Modular Construction
-Factory Roof Structure Study
-Steel+Carbon FarPipes Structure
“Every night, when the worker pushed his cart out of the factory, he was carefully searched. But the guards could never find anything, because the cart was always empty. In the end, the mystery was solved: what the worker had been stealing was the cart itself.”
Pigs in the City
城市找猪
A Thoery Model for Ruian's future Urban Development Zhejiang, China, 2023 Autum-2024 Spring Thesis Project, Advisor:Bruno Malusa
The socialist ideology of the Chinese government clashe with its embrace of globalization and the corporatization of local government over the past decades. This project takes Ruian City in Zhejiang Province as an example to discuss whether there can be an urban development model that can expose the capitalist operating system and also emphasize the importance of workers in society base on the current local government revenue and national economic system in China.
In urban development strategy, “Pigs in the City" takes " new village in the city" as the core to promote city development. The "village in the city" will serve as the boundary of the city to frame the development area of the city and connect the city with the existing industrial park. The "Village in the city" will also act as an intermediary to connect various institutions: local government, citizens and villagers committee , real estate developers, food enterprises and factories to achieve sustainable land-related income, and the sustainable development of the real estate industry and enterprises. At the same time the project ensure the quality of life and work of workers to make more workers can stay in Rui 'an for a long time. In the use of land resources, the project also strictly adheres to land indicators .
In other side, the project realize that behind the corporatization and the bureaucratization of the government system is the exploitation and isolation of workers. Therefore, on the premise of improving the basic living conditions of workers, the project questions the homogenized urban planning principle based on spatial function at the urban scale, emphasizes the existence of workers, and attempts to design workers' housing as a pure non-productive space at the block scale, while respecting people's need for property. The semi-private public space is introduced to reconnect the atomized inhabitants at the unit scale in the project.
The reform of consciousness consists solely in … the awakening of the world from its dream about itself.
-Karl Marx
By juxtaposing different scales of design strategies, this diagram shows how the project use new “village in the city” as the developement core and let it acts as an intermediary connecting various institutions to achieve economic and political sustainability in the process of development of the new city in Ruian city.
The village has grown scientifically into a city... And the city has grown artistically into a village. -Pigs in the City(WuTiaoRen)
We are looking for pigs in the wild fields, We find three in our imagination. -Pigs in the City(WuTiaoRen)
Bedroom 1.
From Livingroom 2. Front Courtyard 3. From the Reproduction of Space 4.
Figure-Masses
Life-Work
City-Village
Landscape-Present
Regionalization-Globalization
Collective-Individual
Re-envisioning Chinese Rural Development in the Age of Late Land Finance and Environmental Economy Shandong, China, 2023 Summer(Research), 2024 Autumn(Design) Individual Project
"Quarry" is a project in Shandong, China, that attempts to achieve village replanning and collective primitive accumulation through “Village Reconstruction Programme”, an act of exploitation, in order to resist the continuous exploitation of rural areas to achieve national accumulation over the past 70 years since the founding of China.
In 1979-1988, there was a brief rural recovery achieved through self-exploitation. Currently, with agriculture and rural areas facing increasingly serious problems, we must realize that reviving rural areas cannot rely on external forces alone; instead, rural areas must pursue future development through self-exploitation. China is now in the late third phase where local governments need to reduce land acquisition costs due to their large debts, leading to a policy of relocating construction land and resulting in “Village Reconstruction Programme”. This project takes advantage of this cost transfer as an opportunity for villages to achieve original accumulation through self-exploitation.
1. Villages
2. Service Stripes, Half Self-Build Housing, Village Voids
3. New Village, Arable Land, Solar Panel, Forest, Mountain
The ambition of Folktale Carmel has outstripped its hard infrastructure. This includes the requirement for more spaces for more diversified series of activities and programs on site. Current buildings and plot layout is geared towards a focused style of events. Vineyards are the main agriculture/curated greenscape on site, contributing to a narrow manner in which the site can be appropriated.
The project proposes and increase of a variety of programs and also green spaces. This will aid in the diversification of types of events and activities that can be held on site. Spaces for activities will also be extended to the south of the plot, making full use of the beautiful views towards the river. A curated dispersal of buildings on site will ensure that the mountain views will be fully appreciated from all angles across the entire project without blockage of view lines.
Five Villages in the Field- Masterplan Design
Front of House, Inn, Winery, Villa, Members Club form distinct program islands on the landscape. Small moments in the landscape which ask the visitor to pause and enjoy the framed nature surrounding them
Flaten Area
Old&New Programme
Pedestrian
Inn Design
The Inn building takes on the form of an L-shape, creating a corner. Emphasising on the creation of a corner condition, this shape of the building is used to both frame and contain both landscape and program on the masterplan. At the same time, due to its linearity, it creates both inner and outer conditions
Facade
Facade
Front House Design
Two greenhouses are added at either end of the front room, which not only increases the size of the interior, but also shapes the landscape on the general plan, creating a variety of dining Spaces while generating a variety of relationships between the building and the landscape: complete isolation, complete connection and visual connection.
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Bifurcation
Imagining Bordering Settlements Through the Movement of People and Things in Montenegro 2023 Spring
Project manager:Goran Ivo Marinovic Teammates: Zihan Jin, Ziyu Li Exhibition at Venice Biennale(2023) & West Bund Museum(2023)
TECHNICAL STUDIES
01 Half Self-build House, Wood+Brick Structure
02 One Floor as Two, Concrete+Steel&Brick Structure
