This portfolio includes real project cases selected from my ten years of work. Although each project has its own challenges and unique design practice, this work collection will focus on my elaboration of the interaction between people and space, narrative design, spatial rhythm and arrangement in design.
WaSte to energy plant
July 2019 - now
project context
• Phase1-W.T.E. Area-135,000m2/Phase 2 - 220,000m2
• Phase 1 Total Budget-4.5 - 5.5 Billion CNY
• Location- Baoshan District , Shanghai , China
• Plant Scale - Four incineration production lines,
• Daily Waste Treatment Scale - 3000 tons of dry waste and 800 tons of wet waste
design scope
Planning design/Conceptual design/Schematic design/Design development/Construction drawing review/Construction administration
• Project Positioning
• Landscape Planning of Phase I and Phase II
• Architectural Design - super roof/greenhouse design/exhibition hall 123
• Facade Design - Chimney decorative curtain wall/ Overall facade
• Interior Design - Exhibition hall 123/Greenhouse
• Landscape Design - Super roof landscape / the landscape under the roof / The ground floor landscape/ Phase 2 park design
design Leading and corrdination
• Environmental assessment strategy ( With EIA department)
• Fire Fighting Strategy (With Arup)
• Structural Strategy (With Arup)
• CFD Strategy (With Tongji University)
my work responsibiLity
As the project manager and leading designer of the project. From 2019 to 2021, I acted as a design role and decision-maker in almost every aspect of every stage of the project. This project is technically complex and difficult to be pushed forward.
Sin C e we S tA rted, the de S ign of the whole proje C t followS the following TwO DeSIGN CRITeRIA
Applying larger vision storyline to the project guide the design BReAkTHROuGH
Seeking opportunities from the site constraints of the project itself, and alleviating the conflicts and contradictions between Chinese waste incineration power plants and the public's views by design.
Start-glacier of Snow mountain
yangtze river
end-Shanghai
Snow mountain
Start
SnoW mountain BaCk to Beginning SHangHai
tHiS glaCier HigH in tHe HimalayS iS tHe SourCe of tHe
yangZte river
Shanghai
tHiS Water floWS from tHe moutainS into tHe loW lying areaS , not only nouriSHing tHe lanD, But alSo Creating tHe national BounDary BetWeen nortH anD SoutH.
given plan layout
Plant
Fly Ash room
recycle Center
Tank Area
Sewage Treatment
Anaerobic Tank
Cooling Tower
a park lift a Corner put plant unDer tHe Corner a park BeComeS a mountain
Deposit Ash route
Fly Ash route
Garbage route
Main Entrace
WHere tHe yangtZe meetS tHe oCean, tHere iS a mega-metropoliS-
SHangHai.
plant orientation StuDy ConfirmeD layout
The beam structure system is designed based on column plan provided by engineer. The main beam framework (orange coler) is truss structure. And we also design the secondary beam( green color) which is also truss structure between the main framework.
Above the beam framework is 250mm *3000mm composite slab holding the soil.
As an important basis for realizing the concept of ” park- to - S no W mountain", the large roof needs lots of design back and forth practice and study to make sure this project is on right track:
1. The column grid shall be fully coordinated with the functions of the power plant below
2 The roof structure system combination needs to consider roof load bearing and cost.
3. As the fire defense assessment requires that the roof must have openings of more than 25% of the roof area, the truss crossing the roof opening will have a great impact on the vision of the roof forest.
4. The roof was splited into 6 pieces, soil load of cantiliver will strongly affect the final landscape effect of the roof. at the beginning of the design, Bam and arup cooperated to develop the direction of roof structure to ensure that the design direction is convincing and promising when lDi is on board
1:100 roof opening truSS pHySiCal moDel CHeCk tilteD CroSSing truSS loWer CroSSing truSS
The column’s size is 4m x 4m, Concrete base with steel structure.
Add vertical cross bracing for lateral stability. 5 - Soil SyStem
tHree metHoDS of Camoflage uSeD
i n the design, it is necessary to fully consider the constraints brought by the waste incineration process.
i ntroduce activities- t ake waste incineration process as part of exhibition route
r espect the site history and legacy status quo. Use the current architecture and integrate it with the new building functions to form a functional community
w eaken the sense of existence of the power plant to reduce the aversion of the surrounding neighbors. bringing natural forests
uSe tHe eXiSiting Site ConDition of poSt inDuStrial arCHiteCtural elementS to Create a tiny “City” of aCtivitieS anD programS, Set WitHin a park neXt to a “mountain.”
site remained strUctUre g1 steel transfer station(showroom)
site remained strUctUre blast Furnace(extreme sport tower)
botanical glasshouse institute
exhibition center cat-walk cat-walk
site remained strUctUre steel transfer trail
plant unDer tilteD park plant it into real Site environment
mini-City ConStruCtion proCeDure BuilD up
Showroom/Baosteel museum
Showroom/restaurant
aDDing programS to form a real City
site remained strUctUre steel transfer trail
site remained strUctUre g6 steel transfer station(cafe)
PLANGTING GRID - TyPICAL BuFFER
ORCHARD
should be noted that although the program of the site is a great improvement on a steel plant, achieving carbon positive through purely biological means is not possible in a site of this size.
PLANGTING GRID - WINDy BuFFER
The direct emission of fossil CO2 is caused by the combustion of fossil based materials such as many plastics and some textiles. This means that the actual emission depends on the waste incinerated. In recent years measurements of the fossil CO2 content of the flue gas as well as the application of indirect balancing methods suggest that the fossil CO2 emission is in the range of 250-600 kg CO2/tonne of waste processed. The variation may be large between plants depending on the waste they treat.
Cooling Tower
Chimney
Anaerobic Tank
The following introduction will focus on the design thinking of spatial narration, spatial arrangement and visual control
Water recycle
Smoke Filteration
Biogas Tank
Spatial narratiion
Visiting route of Exhibition Center
SpaCe rytHem anD SigHt Control
roof Garden
Anaerobic Tank
Incinerator
Tipping hall Bunker
ConCept apply
Facade Design
Main Plant-Side Building
Sewage Treatment
during billions of years of evolution, the earth has undergone huge disasters-plate crust movement, volcanic eruption, comet impact, and so on. disasters have brought a devastating blow to some species on the earth. Under high temperature and pressure anaerobic condition, it is buried for tens to hundreds of millions of years. the dead bodies of these animals and plants have indeed existed in the earth in another form. they have evolved over hundreds of millions of years-turns into coal, fossil oil,natural gas etc. bring energy to subsequent organisms.
In the 4.5 billion years of earth history, early homo sapiens appeared from 250,000 years ago, and humans (Neanderthals) began to develop 50,000 years ago. For human beings, it took a “long” history until 1760 for the first industrial revolution to make human beings develop fundamentally. It took people 100 years to carry out the second industrial revolution
the emergence of the industrial revolution also has an inseparable relationship with the resources on the earth-rich shallow coal mines and iron ore resources have made north central england the birthplace of the first industrial revolution.
The use of machinery, liberated productivity, and technological innovation have made human science and technology and medical treatment a qualitative leap. At the same time, human dependence on energy has become increasingly apparent.plastic products and plastic-like products refined from petroleum, coal, and other fossil materials have become a symbol of the present era. So the information age is also called the “plastic age”
internet/plaStiC age (inDuStry 4.0)
start/end
The use of machinery, the liberation of productive forces, and technological innovation have made human science, technology, and civilization a qualitative leap in a short period of time. At the same time that human civilization has become unstoppable, the rapid development of population and the side effects of human development have also brought huge burdens on the earthoverexploitation, air pollution, soil desertification, flooding of plastic products, global warming.
In the time that humans can exist, the fossil oil used to make plastic are non-renewable energy sources, and the plastic waste produced is also non-degradable. human beings have to rethink their relationship with energy. WTE-converting waste into energy is also one of the more widely used methods in many solutions. Obviously, humans have begun to restore the original ecological rain forests, study the methods of rapid tree planting, and carry out ecological restoration because humans know very wellplants are a sign of the health of the earth.
from plant to plant, recycling of energy, humans still have a long way to go ...
- drop off sta2 - exhibition entry(booth) sta3 - exhibition Hall 1 (prehistoric nature)
sta4 - exhibition connector passage (Fossil Fuels)
sta5 - exhibition Hall 2 (industrial revolution)
sta6 - crane room & bunker viewing sta7 - exhibition connector passage (plastics installation)
sta8 - exhibition Hall 3 (age of the internet)
sta9 - waste burning process (tipping Hall & bunker)
sta10 - waste burning process (control room)
sta11 - exhibition Hall 4 (Life of trash 4d cinema)
mini-City fuCtion after tHe DeSign
proCeSS of making mini-City
CONFIrMED
eXHiBition faCaDe: painting faCaDe front elevation
painting pattern & eXtent painting pattern of eXHiBiion Center
COATING TEST IN PhYSICAL MODEL
The greenhouse is the last stop to visit the power plant and the end of the cycle of the story of “the life of trash”. The greenhouse is composed of two main parts:
It is a 5-storey building,structrually separated from greenhouse. including exhibition space, lecture hall, coffee shop, environmental research institute and office. The 14.5m floor is connected with the main plant through the corridor. On the side of the wall, decorated with cheese hole-shaped windows
It is the fully open to air space, as a part of the tour route, the landscape bridge leads people from 14.5m to the first floor. There are 3 small greenhouses connected by landscape bridge.
As an important part of the whole WTE project, the roof garden uses parks and plants to reduce people’s hostility to the WTE power plant. The roof gradually rises from the south to the north. The equipment of power plant covered by roof.
The roof park is also the last stop of the power plant tour route, and is an important part of people’s visit experience.
There are some ticked programs on the roof for Plant later operation . The whole roof is mainly used for sports. The extreme sports such as downhill bicycle are introduced on the the sever slope of the slabs zone.
The design stratergy is to keep the flat slabs as many as possible for putting programs later. The slabs with slope steeper than 5% are treated with 3x3m grid retaining wall to prevent soil erosion.
The requirement of average soil depth indicates that each "STrUCTUrE BAY"can be looked at indivitrually- stack and reduce soil under the requirement of average soil depth.
The main loop connects the roof garden. The majority of road slopes should be controlled under 3% as far as possible to ensure the convenience of circulation, even if this strategy will lead to the need to use steps to solve the some parts elevation difference; At the same time, it is necessary to consider the relationship between the road slope and the slabs slope as well as the soil depth requirements. The more parallel it is to the slabs, the more convenient to be built and cost saving.
The selection and distribution of plant species will be considered according to two major divisions
Mainly evergreen plants, wind-resistant and drought-resistant plants - such as metasequoia
The ground cover, wild grass and flowers are mainly used in combination with the topographic design. Tree species are mainly
The project is located along the Yangtze r iver with strong wind all year round. The edge of the roof park will be provided with windproof forest and landscape windbreak wall to reduce the impact of wind on park activities.A 2.5m-wide pedestrian ring road ,as the main circulation. connect the open spaces, the semi-open spaces ,semi-enclosed spaces and enclosed spaces. With the combination of topography and planting to block the sight, and use visual focus to guide people's sight.
AE r IAL VIEWS ON VISITING SEQUENCES
OrChArD GrEEN hOUSE
DOWNhILL BIKING
BrIDGE ThE FIrST TUrN Th E BUFFE r ON T h E LEFT IS USED TO BLOCK T h E LINE OF SIG h T AND T h E TErrAIN ON ThE rIGhT IS USED TO GUIDE T h E LINE OF SIG h T TO T h E BASKETBALL FIELD
STEPS 5P SOCCEr FEILD TWO SIDED TOPO TO EXTEND ThE SIGhT AS FAr AS POSSIBLE BUFFEr zONE SIG h T IS ENLOSED BY TWO SIDED BUFFE r PLANTING , AT T h E END OF NArrOW PATh ThE SIGhT WILL BE OPEN LED TOWArD TO GrEENhOUSE ThE FUNGAS PrOGrAM LEAD SIGhT ALONG ThE ShAPE OF TOPO LINE VIEW F r OM DOWN h ILL BIKING PATh
WHite
HigH refleCtion
ligHt
refleCtion gray
SanD
Small teXture
partiCleS loW refleCtion
The overall concept of curtain wall is derived from the snow mountain appearance. It is abstracted according to the texture and external performance of the snow mountain at different latitudes
White, highly reflective features to design the top of curtain wall
MIDDLE LEVEL
rougH
Heavy roCk
The color starts to be mixed and grainy,particles
BOTTOM rough,low reflection,heavy
t his project aims to explore the restructuring of traditional waste-toenergy (W te ) plants in order for better integration into urban contexts. During the actual design and operation of waste incineration power plant, found some issues of waste incineration power plant:
1. The appearance design of the waste incineration power plant s are restricted by the waste incineration process. The plane layout of the power plant takes a large space and is fixed relative to other auxiliary buildings. We have compared the current processes of waste incineration power plants in various countries and found that these machines have the opportunity to stack and change their positions. So when students majoring in mechanical engineering at MIT practiced in our company, we gave her the task. Directoring her to try and stact the equipment, which greatly reduced the floor area of the power plant.
2. At the beginning of the design, we found that the current waste incineration power plants in China are distributed in the urban edge, and the number of garbage trucks transported from the city to the power plant has reached 15-20 trips /per hour. The long-distance and frequent garbage transportation has caused huge waste of resources and urban pollution. Based on the above design considerations, we began to study the feasibility of placing small power plants in the CBD area of Beijing.
Nature is a big series of unimaginable catastrophes. We profit from them. What’s our main source of energy. Oil. But are we aware, what is oil? Oil reserves beneath the earth are material remainders of an unimaginable catastrophe.
Slavoj Zizek, Examined Life 2008
this project aims to explore the restructuring of traditional waste-to-energy (Wte) plants in order for better integration into urban contexts.
Starting point tHeoretiCal moD
StaCkeD moDel 1 StaCkeD moDel 3 line plant
(A) Model of a traditional, single-line incineration WTE plant featured in the book
(B) Model of “stacked” WTE plant, compacted to fit layout of Manhattan, New York (population density: 27,562/sq.km) constraints
Step 4: Steam from the superheaters is sent to the turbines (red); the remaining flue gases pass through the economizer
Step 5: The electricity produced passes through the power transformers; steam from the turbines goes to the aircooled condensers, which sends the condensed water to the water tank
Step 6: Flue gases pass from the economizer to the baghouse filters to begin the flue gas treatment process
Step 7: Flue gas passes through the baghouse filters into the selective catalytic reduction (SCR) filters
Step 8: Flue gas passes from the SCR filters into the wet scrubbers
Step 9: The condensing unit further cools the flue gases from the scrubbers; the water treatment area receives the produced residue from the scrubbers
Step 10: The cleaned flue gases passes through the induced draft fan before exiting through the chimneys; the emissions control and sampling stations are connected to last part of flue gas cleaning and monitor produced emissions
approXimate
S Ze of StaCkeD
3-line Wte plant
120m 70m
Population: 3,545,000
Approx. trash generation: 4699.674 tons/day
Chaoyang Xunhuan Economy Industrial Park
Stacked 3-line WTE plant prototype
Gao’antun Waste Incineration
Power Plant
Treatment Capacity: 1600 tons/day
Gao’antun Waste Waste Sanitary Landfill Site
Xiaoguan Subdistrict
Population: 61,966
Density: 24017
Trash consumption: 84.35 tons/day
Treatment Capacity: 1000 tons/day
rhino model of the east side of CBD is shown, including relative size of our stacked WTE model and the location of the former plant, which could serve as a potential location for the stacked plant.
panjiayuan Subdistrict
Population: 100,272
Density: 23319
Trash consumption: 136.49 tons/day
Balizhuang
Subdistrict Population: 98,084
Density: 22291
Trash consumption: 133.51 tons/day
tuanjiehu
Subdistrict
Population: 32,091
Density: 26, 090
Trash consumption: 40.68 tons/day
• Central location, and conveniently located between two subdistricts with the highest population density
• Located on the western half of Chaoyang, in an area lacking large-scale trash management facilities
• Contains the site of a former plant
Ōmachi (Ōmachi-shi) is a city located in Nagano prefecture, japan. as of 1 march 2019, the city had an estimated population of 27,559 in 11861 households,[1] and a population density of 49 persons per km2. the total area of the city is 565.15 square kilometres (218.21 sq mi).
nagano prefecture used to be shinano. one of the few agricultural counties in japan, known as the horticultural kingdom. the forestry is developed, and the woods of muzeng mountain are known as one of the three beautiful forests in Japan. With a rich mountain lake and river, rainbow trout farming ranks first in Japan. Rich in sightseeing resources, it is called “switzerland in japan” and is one of the few sightseeing counties in japan. in 1998, nagano
prefecture hosted the winter olympic games and the paralympics.
omachi city is located in the northwest part of nagano prefecture. itbs surrounded by 3,000m high mountaious of the northern japanese alps. it’s blesses with abundant clear steams of melted snow and fresh air. there is a proverb which says “show human treatment to onebs enemy”.(the famous historical story of the battle of kawanakajima).this area, is also blessed with hotsprings and is full of nature. now,it has a serious population problem recently, because of decreasing numbers of children been born and young people moving out to live in other cities.now that the global environment faces a crisis and contemporary capitalism is facing various challenges, in the waves of globalization, innovative creativity to reveal local specific resources of the land and to revive the community .
This area, is also blessed with three beautiful lakes Kizaki, Nakatsuna and Aoki lake, hotsprings and is full of nature. Itbs famous for a lot of tourists as a gateway from Naganobs side to Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route that connects to Tateyamabs town and Omachi city.
It is well known as the GATE to the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine route on the side of the Nagano. This place is rich in natural environment, with natural hot springs, with an average elevation of 700 MM. Because it is surrounded by mountains, it is basically isolated from the world in winter.
The idea of this proposal is very simple. It is based on the relationship between the historical development of Nagano Prefecture and its unique natural environment, that is-destruction and restoration as the starting point to trigger thinking.
War -to- DeStruCtion
The earliest documented sites in Nagano Prefecture can be traced back to 5000-300 BC. During the whole historical period, Nagano Prefecture was regarded as the Shinano Province in AD 600-1868, and it was a place that must be contested by military strategists in history. In the Warring States period, there were five wars with heavy casualties, the OMAChI-BATTLE OF KAWANAKAjIMA, which spanned 11 years. The fourth war, the Nakagawa War, was the most deadly war in japanese history. In ten years, tens of thousands of people were killed and their homes were los, mountains and forests were destroyed t. however, on the time axis of history, this dark decade only has been condensed into a single line, a paragraph of text.
pain -to- reCovery
While experiencing destruction, this place has also become a place for soldiers to recuperate because of its rich hot spring resources. The soldiers were treated here. The destruction caused by human ambition is comforted by nature here; But the pain caused to nature is almost irrecoverable if time measured by human life span. This proposal is intended to express a thought that part of the mountain was recorded in detail before being "destroyed". Every tree, every stone, its slope and terrain are also completely recorded and carefully "restored" to the environment of concrete cities or towns What remains in original place is the self-created hardened concrete edge of the "destroyed" people. Of course, this "recovery" is abrupt and taken for granted. Once "damage" is caused, it is difficult to make up. This misplaced and taken for granted understanding is the product of human self-righteous.
Wappara iSeki -Two groups of stone row relics and pits have been found locally, and a large number of pottery and stone tools have been collected. As a result, it can be clearly seen that the site is an early relic of the Jōmon period (14000 – 300 BCE) about 5000 years ago.
The Battle of KAWANAKAjIMA refers to the general name of the five major wars between the JIAFEI country and the EChIGO country in the Warring States Period of japan. The battle took place in Shinano Prefecture, now is Nagano Prefecture. Although this final tied battle took place in Nagano City, the city of omachi became the main place for the soldiers to recover from the injury because of its abundant hot spring resources.
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B a HeaDWaterS area B niSHina tHree lakeS area C DoWntoWn area D eaStern mountainS area e Dam area
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Find a pick a land of mountain This land should be close to Scenic spot High voltage line 3500m
SQM Water front road Mountain Path Mountain Path Mountain Path
land: This land should be a place with beautiful view. railway a D
X pieCe: 5X5m X-D X-i X-n X-S X-X X-e X-J X-o X-t X-y 0 1m Continue zooming
Zoom X-r-r pieCe 200X200mm
“restoration”. Catalog the location of every stone, loose twig, tuft of grass across the entire site. 1 2 3 4 5 6 a B C D e f 50MM X-r-r:S 01 X-r-r:St02 X-r-r:St03 X-r-r:St05 X-r-r:St05 X-r-r:St06 X-r-r:St07 X-r-r:St08 X-r-r:St04 X-r-r:St10 X-r-r pC01 X-r-r lf01 X-r-r:Bush edge Catalog of lanD 5m
each piece is
0.04sqm,
The rough feeling of green non-woven fabric and glass fiber in the forest creates the feeling of construction site. Visitors can see the “destroyed” appearance of this place through the Qr code, and there will be a deep pit at the place where the mountain is dug 25X25. The trunk wrapped by nonwoven fabric will be invisible in the screen.
Contour :1m
Five-meter column grid - light steel structure. Spiral staircase/3.3M high corridor Frame
vieW from omaCHi Station front SQuare
HigH refleCtive poliSHeD StainleSS Steel
tree proDuCtS plaCeD aCCorDing to Catalog
in tHe virtual WorlD, tHiS part of tHe mountain Will Be 100% reStoreD.
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tHe “DeStroyeD” mountain Will Be plaCeD aCCorDing to griDing Catalog in plan piCture WitH numBer markS.
Water Color SketCH in HangZHou,2009 lanDSCape SketCHeS renDering
interior SketCHeS renDering
my nepHeW
BaSiC training in painting