During the industrial revolution of the 18th century, people's desires increased with the development of technology. Humans desired to use technology to achieve satisfactionand power, which leads to the ignorance of the soul and life. With the popularization of technology, machines gradually take precedence over human life. It makes human beings become "non-human" subjected to machines. People lose their dominant position and dignity where emotional and physiological needs are suppressed.
Megastructure, which symbolizes power and desire, appeared in the city at a rapid speed. It is conducive to the efficiency, highdensity and systematic operation of cities. However, urban space encroaches on and destroys the natural environment, leading to a series of urban diseases and threatening the quality of human life.
Therefore, the city and the individual need a balance point. Urban designers should reconsider the demands of human beings, return to the concern of the internal soul and ensure the efficient operation of the city simultaneously. From the perspective of urban design, this work combines megastructure with bionic architecture, aiming to solve the urban contradiction of Tucheng in Chengkou County of Chongqing, recover the local economy and improve the vitality of people.
Site Analysis
The main road is disconnected due to its special topography. To address the problem, we extend the main Road along east and west side, which connects the natural landscape on both sides of the city and the ways to other cities.
In order to activate the riverside, this area is integrated a mix of land uses, including commercial and residential programs, Which enables it to serve as a CITY SPINE
Naturual + Artificial
To “Architecture” “Spine” To “Building”
Structural Translation
The spine is the pivot of human body supporting the tension and compression of human tissues. Messages travel along the spine from the nerve endings to the brain. The city spine is constituted of units which coonnected by joints . At the same time, every unit has its own vertical ventilation.
“Spine”
Form & Function Translation
Skeleton-Building structure
The structural design of spine, structure provides flexibility and
Skin & Muscle-Building Surface
By parametric surface design in Grasshopper,
which is connections between single unit, could be he prototype of architectural design. This kind of and organic potentials for architeccture.
Surface Grasshopper, the city spine has a more organic and flexible surface to protect the building.
Phase Design
Activate the local economy and urban space by three Phase:
Phase 1: Develop and revitalize the special industry of Tucheng: Bacon production.
Phase 2: Solve the contradiction between the government and the real estate by combining respective interests.
Phase 3: Give the spatial rights to residents providing them with opportunities to build the community by themselves.
Transportation
Co-work + office
Residential
Inner Space of Living Spine
Road on the Living Spine
Commercial area aside Living Spine
M A K E R'S P A R T Y
[Textile City Revitalization]
Best Design Award in West Light Urban esign Competition
CATAGORY
INSTRUCTOR LOCATION
TYPE ROLE
Factory Renovation
Jing Xiao Xi'an, China
Group Work
Design(95%), Digital Modeling(80%),
Drawings(60%)
In the past, the cultural form referred to the bahaviors of people and social relationships formed spontaneously from various people's activities. It seems hard to copy those cultures and to make them reappear through human practices. However, nowadays, with advanced technologies and creative ideas from humans, we could symbolize the specific culture and even make commercial productions. It is an effective and effecient way to revive the valuable history and memory.
Transforming the abandoned factory to spaces of different functions is always regarded as a reasonable and effective urban design practice to activate the creative culture industry. Since the spaces of a factory is distinguished from other space types due to its widely spaced columns and tall story height, we need to employ a particular spacial strategy in order to revive the old factory and cultural production.
Therefore, as a international cultural metropolis in China, Xi'an is a city with a long history and rich cultural connotation. At the same time, the Textile City, which located in the eastern side of Xi'an, is an old factory with huge potential to realize abundant cultural production. It is a great chance to promote economic development through culture and to introduce Xi'an to the world.
Spatial Strategies
Four strategies to regenerate the facotry
Rebuild
People from all over the world comes and starts businesses in this “Eastern Market’. The revitalization of the makers' space provides employment s again, creating a society with booming economic and culture where people could communicate ignoring borders and classes.
Transform
The products made by the first group of makers are promoted through the Internet. Also, with the utilization of the technologies, people from all over the world communicate easily and work together.
Preserve
The first group of makers——the laid-off workers and nearby residents——start business with learned skills in original space in the factory, build connections by family-based spaces and workmate-based spaces.
Strategy 1
Cultural Public Space
Continue the western and eastern markets space structure in Tang Dynasty.
Strategy 2
Vibrant Living Environment
Create better and healtheir living places for workers and tourists.
Strategy 3
Pop-up Business
Freely composite modular spaces encouraging public participation.
Strategy 4
International Office
Create a international market through the coexistence of new office and old factory.
Strategy 1: Cultural Public Space
Historic Preservation
The first step of spatial renovation is to reclassify the spaces, which provides the basis for retaining the valuable spatial frabic with new fucniton and eliminating unnecessary spatial forms.
Open Space-Metal Square
palace in Tang Dynasty
Circulation Space-Factory Layout
road system in Tang Dynasty
Entertaining Space-Railway
canal in Tang Dynasty
Strategy 2: Vibrant Living Environment
Living gradient creation
With reclassified spaces from Strategy 1, we could provide healthy living community and recreation space for the makers through organization of space according to activities and the specific design of loft.
Loft Design
Type A: 43.35m2
Business Area: 21.2m2
Type B: 50.9 m2
Business Area: 13.3m2
Strategy 3: Pop-up Business
Pre-fabricated modular community
It is significant for makers and sellers to come up with creative ideas and show their production to customers directly, which requires more flexible and self-building spaces where they work in. Therefore, pop-up market is a suitable space form.
Pre-fabricated Modules App Design
Strategy 4: International Office
Pre-fabricated modular community
In terms of new function such as business and office, old factory need to combine with new constructions with effeciency and diversity.
Space Generation
rise up cut off implant divide connect
Scenario of International Market
Flamengo course E-sports in England
Italy tailor store
Japanese animation workshop Malacca Chamber of Commerce
Original forms of space in the factory are remained and transformed to workshops and stores, which provides jobs for local residents and revitalizes the old factory.
03 Pop-up Business
People from all over the world start their business in the central area by assembling modules and using advanced techniques, hence various culture is inherited and produced again.
02 Vibrant Living Environment
The warehouses are transformed to residential building, which provides housing for both workers and tourists. The reorganized train route goes over the factory for commuting and sightseeing.
04 International Office
The makers are communicating with each other ignoring the classes and nations, which makes the 5th facotry of Textile City become prosperous in economy, culture and society.
UNDER THE UMBRELLA
[Primary School Design]
Top 50 in Kaira Looro 2023 - Architecture Competition
CATAGORY
INSTRUCTOR
LOCATION
TYPE ROLE
Primary School Design X Senegal, Africa
Group Work
Site Plan(95%), Enlarged Plan(50%), Digital model (40%)
The right to education is one of the fundamental and inalienable rights of any person, as well as a principle established in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, yet for more than 600 million children worldwide, this right is not guaranteed due to fragile economic, political and health conditions, the presence of conflicts, natural disasters, stereotypes and socio-cultural prejudices. In Sub-Saharan Africa, most schools are not able to offer services that can protect the student, make them feel safe, and foster the development of their potential. So, We are building a new school model that can protect and foster the development of every child’s potential.
The primary school project is to be designed for the rural areas of southern Senegal. Due to its extreme climate and limited resources, the design should be sustainable, buildable and flexible. Also, the primary school is not only a place for students to study but also a community for them to communicate with each other and build their sense of belonging. In other words, by manipulating the space and materials, the school could be a classroom, a park, a community or other potential forms.
Due to its geographical location and climate, Senegal faces persistent challenges of drought, heatwaves, sandstorms, and sporadic heavy rainfull throughtout the year. Consequently, ensuring the safety and comfort of students attendng school in this region poses significant challenges. Our goal is to create a secure and empowering environment for students to learn, play, and interact beneath the umbrella.
Umbrella
Exploded Views
This project incorporates key elements of umbrella. THe metal roof sheet, akin to the umbrella's canopy, provides protection to the indoor spaces, while the truss system supporing the roof emulates the stability and strength of an umbrella's framework. The trees situated inthe central corridor of the building represent the umbrella handle, signifying stability and offering students and engaging and well-lit activity space.
The design also includes a spacious walkway, with adjacent indoor spaces offering access to the walkway. The intent behind this design is to encourage students to move, interact, and play beneath the "umbrella" of the semi-outdoor space.
From a plan and functional perspective, the two axial walkways effectively enhance ventilation, providing students with a high level of comfort.
Metal Roof Sheet
Bamboo Truss System
Bamboo Columns
Earth Wall & Concrete Beams
Moreover, we have intergrated the potential for multiple indoor spaces ot be used in combination within our design. By emplying the flexibility of folding doors and aligning the spaces, we have created possibilities for hosting a variety of events on the campus. On weekends, the adatabiity of the indoor spaces bring additional benefits to the entire community, facilitating gatherings such as markets and fostering a stronger cohesion.
Foldable Openings
by all the plants penetrating the high roof. effeciency and creativity.
R E B O R N O A S I S
[Car-free Community]
Honorable Mentioned in 2020 WUPENiCITY International Competition
CATAGORY INSTRUCTOR
LOCATION TYPE MAIN WORK
Residential Community Design
Haoyan Wei
Chongqing, China
Group Work(Partner: Feng Tan)
Design(60%)/Drawing(65%)
In the last 60 years, we have gone from people-centric communities to carcentric lifestyles, which is harmful to people's physical and mental health. In order to solve this problem, the car-free community was proposed for the revitalization of a walkable environment and calling people back to the walking lifestyle.
Since the 1960s, car-free has gradually become a crucial urban design guideline for many countries in Europe. Nowadays, the construction of carfree communities is becoming increasingly popular in Germany and is practiced worldwide. However, New Urbanist Communities can be pedestrian-friendly but hardly car-free, and they face obstacles such as "lack of reliable data and practice difficulties". The above contradictions inevitably lead to the reconsideration of the core concept, specific advantages, and design methods of the car-free community.
Therefore, this work is aiming to create a walkable car-free community by the revitalization of Qipaifang Community in Chongqing, China. According to the main three issues in the site: narrow orad, random parking and lack of public space, this work starts with eighteen car-free toolkits trying to solve the three major problems. Through the transformation of the Qipaifang Community, the concept of the car-free community could be popularized in China.
Concept Illustration
Introduction of car-free community
Car-free community-a relatively new theory of urban design which supports ideas of shortdistance city, green transportation, and child-friendly. The advantages in huamn health enhancement, social friendliness and environmental friendliness were widely advocated.
Spatial Issues
Compared with other residential communities in Chongqing, Qipaifang Community is considered to be a suitable site for implementation of car-free community because of its high accessibility and classical traffic issues. This site needs to be revitalized through three main aspects: road system, street facade and public space.
Chaoqianlu
Baixiangjie
Hanweilu
Qipaifang
Fuqiangshequ
Nanhu
Nanping street
Narrow Road
Car-free Toolkits
Strategies
Exploded Diagrams
Enlarged Plan
Enlarged Plan 1
Efficient Road System
Bicycle boulevards are combined with sidewalk and underground passageway, which makes surrounding commercial area and public green space more accessible. The flowing form of pedestrian also orientates the walking people and provides a small park for residents' recreation. The mutual interaction between traffic system and public space revitalizes the whole community.
Enlarged Plan 2
Street Facade
After the traffic system is improved, this design work focuses on the street facade, creating the vibrant street space and adjusting the relationship between motorized traffic and slow traffic. As the automobiles are removed from the community, the whole area releases the public space of street equipped with completed facilities and diverse advertising.
Enlarged Plan 3
Various Public Space
Through a series of business strategies such as "car-free agreement", the "push-pull policy" management is implemented in the community.Using smart city technology, energy credit flow technology is put into the parking device and the car-free user database is built. In this way, carfree community's green vehicle hub management is carried out.
Vibrant
Other Works
The Murmuration - New Infrastructure
AA Visiting School, Shenzhen, China
Embedded in a historic district, the murmuration-liked walking system has been created in the Bishizhou community in Shenzhen. Since most of the buildings are demolished and the area lacks of vigor, we try to build another system recreating the area in this highdensity district, whcih is a walkable system connecting beyond roofs, supplementing the infrastructure and providing leisure spaces for local people and tourists.
Typology
Imitation of Nature
First Prize In The 2th Green Campus Design Competition
GIS Analysis
A. DEM data
D. Catchment cost
B. Flow direction
C. Drainage basin
E. Runoff buffer zone
F. Construction suitability
Building Layout Generation
A. Generate waterpart D. Adjust to landscape B. Zoning C. Sight E. Create open space F. Build connections
Hermit House - The Excellent Design Award
Introduction To Architecture Studio, 200A UC Berkeley
Any great artwork never comes from nosense. Instead, there are strictly followed mathematic rules and great balanced proportion of points, lines and faces. By manipulating geometries of circle, rectangular through certain syntaxes, the spaces are divided into diverse but regular forms.
This project is a housing design for a hermit, which is my first studio design in CED, UC Berkeley.
Final Model Photos
Hanzhen Street Central Service Area Planning Revision Project
Hankou, Wuhan, China
Reveiwed and optimize the last version of urban design from SOM. Participated in urban design strategy generation and basic drawings of Urban Planning Revision Project of Hanzheng Street, Hankou, Wuhan, China.
Urban Design Strategy
Planning Green Space System Create Waterfront Space Tandem Urban Space
Typology
Changsha Olympic Sports Center
PTW Architects, Beijing
This is a signinficant project that I participated involving the design of a versatile sports complex located in the southern region of Changsha, China. My responsibilities centered around the creation of city-scale renderings.
