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Cover Page After-rain perspective from street, Bridgeport Glass Workshop, completed in 2018, rendering by BIN Liu. Previous, Page 2 Riverview, Dwelling Design for Refugees, completed in 2018, collage by BIN Liu.
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION BIN Liu / About
ACADEMIC WORKS Bridgeport Glass Workshop Dwelling Study & Design for Refugees Driverless Technology Study in Urban Street & Architecture
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES Qingyang Tourist Town on the Loess Plateau Zhundong Public Gymnasium Design Lilin Civic Center
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Skill Package Modeling • • • •
Rhino. + Grasshopper Revit Sketchup Blender
Rendering • Vray for Rhino./Sketchup • Lumion • Blender • Enscape • Unreal Engine 4 Drawing • AutoCAD • Revit • Adobe Suite Others • ArchGIS • Python • Climate Consultant • Microsoft Words, Excels, Powerpoint
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About Master of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, U.S. Bachelor of Urban Planning & Design, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
I am Bin Liu, an architecture designer. My first touch of architecture came from my dad. He was an architect based in local in the 1995s. In that time, I remembered that my dad used to do draft works at home, sitting at the table, till to midnight, but sometimes I just accompanied him and stood by side because I was interested in his various drafting tools, including drawing pen, plotting scale, etc. These tools, to me, seemed more like a toy than a tool. Indeed, I played with them for a long time in my childhood after he didn’t use them anymore. Architecture is beyond the site. This is what I learned during my undergraduate years from 2010 to 2015 in college. There, I received architectural training in the first two years and urban planning and design training in the last three years. The last three years also inspired me a lot in comprehensive thinking about single building, community, and urban. For me, beyond the site means that architecture is not isolated. Instead, it is a medium, a medium to link people and the environment by its form, materials, and function; this action should contribute more to getting people closer, rather than leave people alone. I am both an observer and participant. My first full-time job was as an assistant architect in Chengdu Architecture Research & Design Institute, in which I met Mr. Wu, a chief architect. He taught me so much on a scale sense, materials awareness, and detail-oriented pursuits under a real-and-complicated environment today. In current China, I was happy that I was ever as a role of architectural participant in public building projects in the civic center, gymnasium, and commercial complex. These practices get me in the door of my career. Also, these practices tell me that, for an architect, to achieve a good participation result, good observation is inevitable. What I need is just to keep working, then I will make it. However, in the project Loess Town Design, in which I participated as a team leader, I realized that only self-righteous practicing is not enough; I need new knowledge about integretion of technology, ecology and so that I can better observe, practice and approach challenges. Bringing these concerns, I studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology. There, more importantly, the experience studying in IIT gave me more critical thinking about why humanities are necessary for a technique-oriented designer besides design methods and technical skills; in fact, I tend to be a humanism designer now because I believe that the more science and technology dominate our culture, the more we need the humanities.
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BRIDGEPORT GLASS WORKSHOP The Examination and Redevelopment of Bridgeport Location: Chicago, IL Member: Dorothy Steinbach, Wanying Wu, Bin Liu Instructor: John DeSalvo 2018 Open House Project at IIT
The Bridgeport Glass Workshop is the proposal for “a place for making” - an institution of manufacturing. The selected region1 of the Bridgeport North master plan is the proposed site for the Bridgeport Glass Workshop.
hybrid manufacturing building focused on the art of glass blowing and the life of resident artist. We will achieve integrating the program spaces into a unified closed system through the following strategies:
• The proceeding pages show precedent research and analysis for this building program followed by a proposal of Bridgeport North’s • Manufacturing program. Emphasis is placed on the artistic community being promoted by the Fine Art’s • Campus 2 as the source for glass production (artisanal and mass pro- • duced) as well as the commerce generated by the Farmer’s Marke3. The design intent behind the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is to create a 8
Bridging - connecting “selling” and “making” program spacesthrough the work-live environment of the resident artist Openness - connecting to the larger public to learn about the art of glass blowing Extension - connecting to the neighborhood/riverwalk beyond Compartmentalization - in terms of the organization of our program spaces including by means of materiality (public vs private = transparent vs opaque)
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A term in glass blowing that best defines our building design concept and encompasses our list of strategies is “incalmo� - the technique of constructing an object, usually a vessel, by fusing two or more blown glass elements. It has become our guiding term for how the Bridgeport Glass Workshop organizes programmatically within itself and with the Bridgeport North masterplan.
Opposite Field trip, Hot shop of the Ignite Glass Studio, 2018, photo by DOROTHY Steinbach Top Mater plan, Bridgeport North urban design studio, 2017, group work
PROGRAM Visitors Center - reception, coat room, lounge. This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to welcome visitors - artists, residents, Chicagoans, etc. It is a large gathering space for groups to collect themselves and to check in before participating in the Gallery and Exhibition spaces. It is
mainly a transitional space to lead into the other major program areas but also provides a leisurely setting for visitors to wait and contemplate until their next step in the Workshop. Public Activities - gallery, exhibition, cafe, shop. This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to entertain and educate visitors with a permanent collection of blown glass artworks and products. There is also opportunity for rentable space for the residents of the Bridgeport North neighborhood and beyond to occupy for events. If the lounge area does not satisfy for those waiting, there is also the cafe to enjoy a coffee and a shop to peruse the many artisinal glass products that the Workshop produces. 9
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Manufacturing Activities - glass blowing-hot shop, demo space, artist space, cold shop This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to cater to the resident artists and glass blowing employees. This area will hold all the equipment and tools needed to make the artisanal glass products as well as any commissioned products such as the Bridgeport Glass Workshop Jars. Aside from the public activities, this area is meant to be the main source of sold products as it produces the inventory sold in the shop and online.
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and Security. It will function as a typical office space and help in running all activities that the Workshop provides. Outdoor Spaces - courtyard This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to act as a transitional space among the program areas for all visitors and employees.
Living - common room, (5) studio, (5) 1 bed 1 bath, office This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to house the resident artists who work in the creative/mass production portion of Back of House - first aid, storage, the program. It will function much loading/shipping, mechanical like an apartment complex providing room, dumpster, sprinkler room ammenities to the resident artists. This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to house all the mechanical equipment and other supplementary functions that the workshop will require. Administration - office, conference room, security This area of the Bridgeport Glass Workshop is made to organize additional staff that the Workshop requires such as the Building Director 11
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The load-bearing concrete wall Steel structure attaching to roof Concrete wall with thermal insulation Ramp with steel structure Steel structure within the load-bearing slab. Steel structure within the load-bearing roof Double glass envelop Frost-glass facade
Concept development The idea of a mix-use of the project can be divided into an exhibition part (left orange) and the manufacturing part (right blue). The next step is to build a bridge ( pink “u� shape) to link two parts so that visitors and crafters can meet and interact with each other in the building. The central landscape is as a parkway that combines riverfront park and neighborhood street, thus providing more opportunities bringing people into our site. 7
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DWELLING STUDY AND DESIGN FOR REFUGEES The Renovation of Existing Structures
Location: Hamburg, Germany Status: Individual Instructor: Martin Klaeschen Selected work presented in Exhibition of DOPPELGANGER Chicago – Hamburg - a part of 2019 Chicago Biennial 2018.9 - 2019.1
The project “ Dwelling study and design for refugees” put forward to a proposal scenario that is about how to provide refugees a high-quality accommodation and living environment in the Hamburg city of Germany. The whole project is around a topic housing is not congruent to home, thus that we hope through designing to help refugees find the sense of belonging and integrate them into the local society, rather than isolate or separate them from society. In that case, the refugee camps are not considered at the beginning of the project because most of them are far away from the city center and is inapt for refugees merging in. WHO IS A REFUGEE? refugees are people who are outside their country of nationality or habit28
ual residence and unable to return there owing to serious and indiscriminate threats to life, physical integrity or freedom resulting from generalized violence or events seriously disturbing public order.(UNHCR Resettlement Handbook, 2011) WHERE ARE THEY FROM? As of March 2018, 1.7 million inhabitants are living in Hamburg, and 1.5 million refugees living in Germany. Among them, there are 33 thousand refugees come to Hamburg and live here, accounting for 2.5 percent of all refugees in Germany. Most of them are from Afghanistan, Syria, and Iran.
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WHERE DO THEY LIVE IN HAMBURG? Refugees distribute over the entire area of the city. The reception centers mainly are located in the north and northeast of the map. The reception center is the first place for immigration coming in. After status
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HOW DO REFUGEES LIVE IN HAMBURG? For presnet, refugees live in spaces only with a share of bathroom and kitchen, leisure spaces are missing, only with reduced temporary ventilation. End of March 2018, refugees, at least 3,638, are in demand for improved living conditions. Therefore, public housing capacities are overload and need to increase.
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WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? Where and how to live will become a cardinal crisis we have to face. Instead of living in camps, refugees need a place that is a home more than a house. The chart above shows a surgent growth in housing supply and demand for new buildings in Hamburg from 2007 to 2017, and the growth will arrive at the peak point in 2019. As Hamburg is a city-state, capacities for developing residences on open land are rare. Land costs are high due to the high demand for residential spaces, not only for refugees but also for inhabitants. Particularly, in the downtown area of Hamburg city, there are not enough areas left for new residential spaces because of the result of a finished urbanization. But, for the land along the Elbe river from past to now, it is used as industrial land, which directly connects to convenient services in traffic, commerce, education, etc. 31
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Top Concept diagram, the decentralized and diverse communities would benefit to refugees’ integration into the local society the local communities the refugees others
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ROADMAP TOWARDS INTEGRATION To integrate refugees in the local society, refugees need to learn the local language so that they can understand the local culture. Besides, they need to get a job so that they can to earn money. Both of them are fundamental requirements to support their living as a non-native speaker. But the challenge is that the present solution of centralizing accommodation is segregating refugees from the local population today. In that result, living too centralized without the locals would cause more difficulties for refugees to learn German, thus impacting them to participate and to involve in local culture. Furthermore, a lack of understanding of the local
culture would create more obstacles in refugees’ job hunting. That would be a negative loop and direct to a ghettoization fact. PROPOSAL The decentralization of land layout is the key strategy throughout the whole project. To avoid segregation and concentration within singular spots, refugees would be encouraged to live with the local together, which would further create more communicational opportunities for them. Decentralizing would also allow them to contribute to their own culture towards a diverse society; that would help them to learn the local language and understand the local culture in a better way.
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FIELD EXPLORATION Considered a diversity of people, urban services, and landscape views, the study area locates in the east of Hamburg. The area consists of multiple types of land use, such as residential, warehouse, manufacturing, railway, heavy industry, and a river. Along both sides of the river are layouts mainly used as a manufacturing and heavy industry. Of which, most of those factories are about car deals and auto parts sell. These buildings distribute in a high density but low intensity. Even though some build-
ings are old, they still function well because of completed urban services nearby. The purpose of the project is to maximumly find potential spaces for new residential buildings. Compared to directly build on the ground, build over the top of the existing structures would save more money on the land cost in the limited urban space, thus reducing the total cost of housing. That’s why the project aim to find as much as potential spaces from existing structures.
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BUILDING STRATEGIES Space saving: due to a lack of enough land layout for residential CREATE OPEN SPACE development in this area, it could be a potential to develop the area compactly based on existing structures. That is to find the proper structure and then to build new residential at HYBRID FUNCTIONS the top of the existing structure. Affordable: generally, as housing price consists of both construction cost and land cost, of which land cost takes a big part, reducing land cost is an effective way to ensure housing at an affordable price for refugees. In this project, a key strategy is to set up a sharing incentive that allows factories to cooperate with the third party to develop hybrid functions above their roof on their property, thus realizing the aims of affordable housing and compact development.
New profit point: factories can also develop and operate the project individually to fulfill diverse profit growth. For example, factories can lease rooms out to make a profit or to their employees as welfare. All peers: co-living would be a shared value in the project, which encourages a multi-cultural mixture. New housing would be entirely open to everyone with different cultural backgrounds to access, work, and live. Hybrid: Not only housing but also living represents in the mix-used program including multiple services in stores, events, restaurants, gym, bookstores, post office, grocery, city farm, etc.
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BUILDING STRATEGIES The site is on the north side of the Bille river. And there are some factories around it. So, a close relationship with riverside and factories is a feature of the site. Skylight is placed in the central building so that it could provide enough airflow for natural ventilation as well. Also, around the light well, more spaces become available for units organization, thus improving the capacity of residence.
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Top Structural strategies 1. combination-structure system 2. main supporting, concrete -string-truss system, the left part 3. extra system, steel frame, the left part 4. overview of the left supporting part 5. main supporting, steel column array, the right part 6. extra system, steel frame, the right part 7. overview of the right part 8. envelop strategy The envelop strategy is using vertical shading panels towards the west and south to reduce glare caused by sunlight. Besides, light well also benefits to improve air circulation.
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DRIVERLESS CITY Designing for People in Autonomous Future
Location: State street, Chicago, IL Member: Individual Instructor: Nilay Mistray 2019.1 - 2019.5
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This design studio will explore the calibration of urban design conventions to promote safe, equitable, and valued public spaces during increased presence of autonomous vehicles in the urban realm. Concerns over increasing vehicles speeds on city streets or privately funded transportation infrastructure threaten sustainable modes of mobility and the development of welcoming civic spaces.
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TECHNOLOGY SET IN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING Technology sensor set including GPS, LiDAR, IMU, etc. is a tool to localize and map car’s position in a global coordinate. The accuracy of scanning is impacted by the surrounding objects. Usually, the narrow the distribution it is, the better the estimate it will. Especially in a narrow street with high and intense buildings and street objects or other landmarks. The tree trunk and street light are particularly easy to be detected.
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SOLUTIONS Bending the street, separating the traffic flow, re-localizing programs would not only satisfy safety requirements but also would create diverse experiences for users.
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SITE How does architecture adapt to a driverless future? GPS signal is important for driverless cars’ navigation. But the GPS signal is weak in the downtown streets with corroded skyscrapers surrounding. The site, the current is a parking area, is near a busy street crossing. Also, the site, used by huge people every day, but feels plain because it is without open spaces nearby. PROPOSAL This design started with looking at the GPS signal first and applied the concept of sustainable building in the whole design. The aim is to create a new building style fitting to the future requirements of urban public spaces in an ecological-friendly, walkable, mixed-use environments.
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PROGRAMS The design is a complex building and purposed to create a mixed-use program including gallery and exhibition spaces, commercial spaces, office spaces, as well as an underground parking area. All programs are not fixed at a specific area but could be added, dropped off, or alternated to others at different times. The design provides a building that could complete mass peopl transfer, a communicational place, driverless car's inand-out, and program alternating. This design is new testing based on a complex and diverse urban context future.
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Opposite Programming diagram, mixeduse, flexible Top Proposal, current use, garage space, for driverless parking Bottom Proposal, future use, mixed-use space, for shopping and learning
HOW TO ALTERNATE SPACES Currently, preserving the present function of the site( parking) is a safe way of satisfying current demands, but the design needs to introduce a courtyard. On the one hand, eco-friendly parking would bring more lights and green views and enhance the parking experience. On the other hand, in the future, a courtyard would benefit space alternation.
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Opposite Proposal, future use, mixed-use space, for shopping and learning Top Proposal, relationship of building and site, efficient tranfit system Bottom Proposal, relationship of solid building and open space, walkable building
SHAPE OF THE BUILDING Design is remarkable due to its touch to land. Blending roof and plaza makes building walkable from up to down. The green roof and sinking strategies benefit thermal preservation especially in the winter of Chicago. The building has multiple ways of access to an urban context, including subway aisle, cycling path, vehicle path, pedestrian way, as well as a path of landscape view. The building is with simple decoration, but remarkable on geometry. It would be a new urban sculpture representing high performance and sustainability.
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bus stop subway station bike station corner park seating area waiting area flexible studio boxes ground walking retail and shops gallary transfer corridor roof garden roof standing area tracking path for A.V.
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Top Perspective section, relationship of building and site, transit system, activities Left Proposal, master plan Right Construction details, courtyard, sustainable strategies
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Envolop with low-e glass Lift core Pedestrian ramp to roof top Pedestrian walk connecting to urban contexts
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QINGYANG TOURIST TOWN ON THE LOESS PLATEAU Location: Qiangyang, Gansu, China Team Leader: Bin Liu Team Member: Yitong Du, Haoda Qi, Client: Taiyi Development
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The project site locates in Qingyang city, which is the easternmost prefecturelevel division of Gansu and is thus sometimes referred to as "Longdong." The site has typical futures of loess plateau that is ravine-and-gully in topography. The site is away from city town but is only within half-hour circle by driving. That close distance can attract visitors from the city area to take a holiday in their free time. Although the whole city area is in the zone of temperate continental climate, nature here is good because the site was a forest farm property before. The nice ecological condition is the biggest deal of the project because the city didn't provide enough open spaces. Our client found this deal and hope to develop the site as a new resort, which not only as a tourism destination, but also a project that could introduce a lifestyle - back to nature. That philosopher conduces to a conservation-priority design methodology.
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CHALLANGE The biggest challenge of this project is to find the balance of the client's cash flow back and the protection of the natural landscape. Simply put, clients want to develop a series of resort condo that purposes to sell, but not too many, considering market risks. Similarly, only resort commerce doesn't create enough profit to support the whole project's operation.
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BIG IDEA The big idea of the project is to protect first and develop compactly. In other words, natural conservation and restoration are also necessary even though the ecological condition looks good today. Due to different microclimates within the site, we intend to study creatures habitats here first and then evaluate them. That could help us to figure out how to protect and repair them. This period is important because it provides the base line to classify land use, thus helping us decide how to reorganize programs properly. STRATEGIES Build less is okay but build with high quality. That is our first emphasis. In other words, we hope to increase each unit of the project to create more profit. For example, building style is to cater to present hot products and services. Building design follows the energy-reserve strategy, such as passive sunshade, ventilation design and local materials used. Build a site as a natural reserve. We propose the client to apply incentives of government and find funding from the natural preservation program. Also, cooperate with a local university is another good strategy, to set up a research base in our site, which is a long-term deal to get professional support. 85
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Entrance Landscape street Tourist farm Affordable farmhouse Visitor center City farm Resort building cluster Temple Village town area Hotel Education institute Entrepreneurs’ club Administration area Hotel Waterfront recreation Outdoor activities & training Exhibition area Parking lots Pastoral complex
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Opposite Mater plan Top Water valley Right Water source and flow direction, existing and proposal Bottom Wildlife habitat
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MASTER PLAN OF RESORT CONDO AREA
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Zhundong Public Gymnasium Design Location: Zhundong District, Xinjiang, China Project Type: Public Building Design Project Status: Professional, Group Work My Part: Concept Development, Technical Drawings, Visualization
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BACKGROUND This project is located in the Zhundong Development District, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. The site has an important position because it is mainly on the axis of urban development. Surroundings buildings are city center, urban central park, and city stadium. Those have formed the core-public-function area in the new district.
CONCEPT From a view of the integration of urban landscape, we hope to extend the landscape and sightseeing of nearby civic central park into the site in terms of spatial perception. Since the gymnasium, like a park, as well offers visitors a place to do exercise, so their function should have continuity to some extent. Building a fine playground with good scenery not only strengthens continuity but also ensures a vivid street view from Karamali street while visitors do some activities here. Also, to highlights the representativeness of the building, we choose around the basic plan— around site primarily are square ones, thus cooperating with other remarkable public buildings in this area together to reflect an iconic image. STRATEGY As an iconic building in the new district, the elements of modern and advanced technology are indispensable. In this project, we have discussed how to apply a special-shaped surface or form into the building design, to emphasize its symbolic mark.
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SHAPE AND STORY
The local government hopes the building could represent the local culture as a remarkable icon. An ancient creature in local—Nautilus, whose section plan shows a graceful and refined curve, namely, Golden Sprial Curve. Noticeably, the magical creature's fossil had ever been found in this district and had become well-know by local people at present. So, we abstract the golden spiral curve as the basic element used in our shaping of the gym. PLAN GENERATION
VOLUMEGENERATION
Through deeply studying the local physical environment, we have noticed that local Yardang landform with different colors caused by different ingredients of metals is quite interesting. For introducing relevant sense, we abstract local Yardang landform into six colored paths extending into the main building.
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The climate in the Zhundong development district is cold and snowy in winter because of its high latitude. So, choosing an alumnus plate as this building’s external wall materials are appropriate, because its smooth surface can avoid snow being holden on the surface. Besides, the texture and gloss of aluminum plate also give visitors a sense of advancement and future when the gym is under sunlight. Thus is good for addressing its iconic characteristic. The same issues caused by some extreme climates, such as over cold from December to January of next year and concentrative precipitation from July to August. That's why the building requires better and thicker thermal insulation and a waterproof layer.
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Lilin Civic Center
Location: Lilin, Hunan, China Project Type: Public Building Design Project Status: Professional, Group Work My Part: Concept Development, Technical Drawings, Visualization
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BACKGROUND This project is on the main urban axis of the new district of Lilin, Hunan province, China. The remarkable culture here is “guan ware”, which is a kind of chinaware famous for its perfect gloss and artistic value. The local government wants to represent local culture by architecture design. In other words. the building is not only a place for civic services but also a remarkable icon showing the guan ware culture.
CONCEPT Guan ware, showing crystal clear and sophisticated texture, is the basic concept in the design. Besides, since splendid fireworks are other local elements as well, it is used in the design to create a kind of radial sense. STRATEGY Starting from site analysis, we propose to build a major platform linking the building to the park, which is across the road, for strengthening accessibility between them. For building form, a round shape is selected as the basic shape to represent “round sky and square earth,” a philosophy fr Chinese people. In this project, it includes buildings with a round shape but a square outdoor space in the southeast of the site. As for the building facade, I use a parametric tool to generate and control its form, to offer a kind of wishful rhythmic feeling of gradation.
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PROGRAMMING The project has three parts, civic services, administration office, and a city gallery. Among them, civic service and administration offices shared one volume but with different transit core. The aim of that is to avoid rush hours to a large extent. Besides, the layout of programming relates to the frequency people use. For example, garage space is on the ground floor; civic services are on second and third floors; shops and gallery space are on the fourth floor; on the top floor are restaurants, tea rooms to catch a greater view.
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STRUCTURE AND MATERIALS The main structure uses technologies of cast-in-place concrete and frame structure. The material on the surface mainly has two types. The inner layer is toughened glass, and the outer layer is a brownish red aluminum member bar galvanized with zinc. That can strengthen visual impact force when people seeing it from a place far away, and make people feel good when they touching or seeing it closely enough.
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Mondrian Chair In grasshopper, by using sliders to control the width, length, angle, and thickness of each member, the client can customize the chair in a quick time according to his or her like. All members could be prefabricated components manufacturing and clients would enjoy the process of assembling their personalized chairs at home
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BRIDGEPORT URBAN DESIGN | 2017FALL STUDIO| TEAM WORK | MY PARTS: GREENWALK STREET DESIGN
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