CONTENTS 01. BRIDGE ON THE HILL New Dyeing Workshop Design Competition Project, Guizhou
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02. THE PROMENADE Art Museum Design Core Studio Work, Guangzhou
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03. STEPPING UP Collective Housing Complex Design Core Studio Work, Guangzhou
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04. THE RED CABIN Ecological Toilet Construction Construction Project, Guangzhou
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OTHER WORKS
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Architecture as a mediator of communication between people and the city. -Kazuyo Sejima
01.BRIDGE ON THE HILL Dyeing Workshop Design Guizhou, China Competition Project Instructor: Juliet Ju Individual Work, 07/2020
The base is located in a natural Miao village in Danzhai County, Guizhou Province Pai Pai Village, which is one of the birthplaces of the art of batik in China. In the past, women were trained in the art of batik, but nowadays they leave their elderly and children behind to work for a higher income, and the art of batik is gradually being lost. In my design, using the dyeing workshop as a starting point, we want to give more space for young and old to do activities and feel nature in this place. It is hoped that this place will awaken people's awareness of nature, build a collective memory of the batik craft and the local people, and shape the cultural identity of the place. The building consists mainly of an activity space for the old and young, and a batik display and experience area. The interaction between the old and the young, the batik and the people, the space and the natural landscape is accommodated under the flowing roof. The space for the old and the young is shaped in a "linear" way, linking the "surfaces" with specific functions, such as the water terraces, through a "linear" flowing space. The batik space acts as a bridge between the whole building, opening up the space and providing more opportunities for communication and dialogue between different groups of people. People can watch the whole process of batik immersively through the batik flow and build up a common emotional memory.
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LOCATION
Guizhou
Qiandongnan Autonomous Region
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PAIDAO VILLAGE
DYEING WORKSHOP
DYEING WORKSHOP MARKETPLACE
DYEING WORKSHOP
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INDIGO PLANTING AREA
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BACKGROUND OF MIAO NATIONALITY
DYEING WORKSHOP
INDIGO PLANTING AREA
Airing
DAILY ACTIVITIES
DYEING PROCESS
Indoor Activities
Picking indigo
Making dyes
Weaving Polish fabrics
Drawing wax
Dewaxing
Dyeing
Indoor Activities Cooking
Music Dance
Farming
Handcarft Chatting
Playing chess Reading
ISOLATION The locals have abundant daily activities and traditional handicraft techniques, but being scattered around the village is not conducive to people gathering and communication, so a community center is needed to organize them. 2
VOLUME STRATEGY POLISH FABRIS
DYEING
Put the painted AIRING wax pieces in the After soaking the indigo dyeing vat. dye, you need to Generally, each a drying rack to DEWAING piece needs to be use dry the dyed cloth. Fabrics were boiled soaked for five or six days. by boiling water and rinsed in cold water.
Step 1: TRANSFER
Step 2: PUSH
Step 3: ROTATE
The architectural image is extracted from the local traditional structures, the wind and rain bridge, used to connect the two banks of the river. In this scheme it is used to connect residential and nature.
Push the volume to obtain more linear flow space in the limited field.
The rotating block makes one of the semi-enclosed courtyards face the natural landscape and the other the cultural landscape of the village.
Traditionally, a grinding stone is used to grind cloth by manpower.
DRAWING PATTERNS
MAKING DYES Lonicera edulis is extracted and processed from bluegrass plants.
Place the white cloth on the wooden board, put the beeswax in the metal pot, heat it to melt the wax, and then use a copper knife to dip the wax to paint.
WEAVING The cloth used in local batik is selfwoven linen and cotton.
PICKING INDIGO Polygonum is suitable for temperate or subtropical regions. The climate in Guizhou is very suitable for the growth of Polygonum.
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Step 4: CONNECT
Step 5: INSERT
Step 6: FLOW
The two ends of the volume are connected by the corridor bridge to strengthen the connection between them.
Placing different functions in a linear space. The corridor bridge connects a series of processes of dyeing cloth.
The interior space is connected with various functions by continuous ramp, and people can walk freely among them.
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DYEING & LIVING HAPPEN UNDER THE SAME ROOF
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Based on the research on the daily life of the local residents in Paidao village, and the schedule of dyeing workshop. People's daily activities are arranged on the longer flow line, and the production space of the dyeing workshop connects people's activity space in the middle. So that different people can perceive the traditional dyeing process during activities.
AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
1.Entrance hall 2.Chess room 3.Social space 4.Reading pavilion 5.Dinning hall 6.Shared kitchen 7.Gym 8.Theater 9.Children playground 10.Office A.Picking indigo B.Making dyes C.Processing cloth D.Drawing pattern E.Airing F.Dyeing G.Dewaxing
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SECTION A-A
The sections are cut along the direction of contour change, which represents the building changed with the terrain.The building tries to blend in with the natural landscape. Open verandah with continuous roof like a local shelter bridge. Under the continuous roof, scenes of the daily activities of the inhabitants are played out.
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VIEW OF THE FIRST COURTYARD
VIEW OF THE SECOND COURTYARD 5
02. THE PROMENADE Art Museum Design Guangzhou, China Core Studio Project Instructor: Hanfei Qu Individual Work, 09/2018-10/2018
The site is located on the central axis of the city, where the large buildings and empty hard squares make the public buildings less civic friendly. What should it look like for an urban art museum? In this design, I have tried to abandon the traditional modern urban construction model of large plazas with large signage and replace the large plaza with a landscaped park, with undulating landscapes and dense trees that do not allow one to fully perceive the shape of the building within the site.As one promenades through the park, one inadvertently walks through the shade of the trees into the grey space of the building, creating a continuous experience of inner and outer space, meeting the basic functional needs of the building while linking nature with the material world of human civilisation.The idea is to find a balance between nature, architecture and the city, creating a space where people can be in the CBD but still feel like they are in the middle of a forest.
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Promenade Architecture
Story Board
"Strolling space" can be defined as a participatory space that can provide people to traverse and travel in the building. During the journey, people interact and dialogue with the space itself through visual, auditory, tactile or other behaviors. The development of the building presents different forms of expression in different buildings. In Villa Savoy, Cobb replaced the term "streamline" in the traditional architectural vocabulary with an architectural walk, and the nature of architectural design also changed accordingly, and modernist architecture began a new era. The emergence of walking breaks through the rigid definition of traditional streamlined design.
The life and death of architecture depends on the extent to which the rule of “movement” is ignored or developed extraordinary.
After the evolution, some features of the [Promenade Architecture] of the current era in the West: Communicative Rational concrete
When walking, the power is induced by function, and the randomness of walking is weak.Strength is a purposeful and linear walking.
“I am not interested in the real space created by architecture. This kind of space that appears and disappears gently from timeto time fascinates me” References: 1 Flora Samuel. Le Corbusier and the Architectural Promenade 2 Han Shuang. The Spetial Character of“Promenade Architecture”——From Villa Savoy to Contemporary Architecture 3 Liu Qian&Lin Tao. Architectural Ramp Design with an Urban Perspective: Taking Rem Koolhass as an Example
Over the past two decades, the development of Guangzhou’s city centre has transformed what were once greenfield into high-density high-rise buildings and some large and imposing public buildings. Urban development inevitably leads to a reduction in green space,
what can we do to combat this situation?
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SITE STRATEGY
Roof
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Fourth Floor
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Respond to the Historic Tower
Third Floor
The site and the historic pagoda are located at opposite ends of the city's central axis, and the large volume of the public building separates the central plaza from its surroundings. By elevating the ground floor of the museum, it becomes an extension of the urban space. The first floor is made into a cladding building, creating a landscape that echoes the pagoda Park. At the same time, the de-boundary design weakens the majesty of the public building and allows art to become a part of the citizens' daily life.
PROMENADE ARCHITECTURE TYPOLOGY STUDY
1.Roof Garden 2.Permanent Exhibition 3.Sculpture Exhibition
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CHIGANG TOWER
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GUANGZHOU TOWER
URBAN AXIS
1.Temporary Exhibition 2.Leisure Courtyard 3.Permanent Exhibition 4.Permanent Exhibition 5.Temporary Exhibition 6.Temporary Exhibition 7.Storage
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Hill Floor
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1.Office 2.Art Salon 3.Park Cafeteria 4.Open Workshop 5.Reference Room 6.Sculpture Hill
Park Floor
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1.Lounge 2.Hall Entrance 3.Restaurant 4.Lobby 5.Office 6.Lecture Hall
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I hope the gallery to be integrated into the park, where art is more accessible to the public. The separation of the glass skin from the solid interior walls adds a layer to the façade, allowing the building to fade into the trees. Lounge
Restaurant
Hall Entrance
Open Square Lecture hall Shop Info
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Storage
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HILL FLOOR PLAN(+6.000)
Void
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THIRD FLOOR PLAN(+12.000)
Void
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FOURTH FLOOR PLAN(+18.000) MODEL PICTURE 9
Wander i ng in Museum Park When we walk in the shadow of the ground floor overhead, we are first drawn by the sight of the light court and move towards the important narrative starting space of the building. The weak directionality at the bottom of the building makes the human body lose the sense of direction, but the upward steps bring new hope. When they walk to the second floor space, they begin the narrative experience of the exhibition. Using continuous ramp to guide people to move forward, to eliminate the limitation between layers, so as to bring a kind of "fuzzy" walking experience.
SECTION A-A
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The museum's main exhibition space was arranged around a spiralling ramp. People will be guided forward unobtrusively, gaining a different visual focus at any location. Brightness and darkness imply the transformation of different functional spaces.
View A
7. CONCRETE ON METAL DECK 8. ALUMINUM CURB 9. VEGETATION-FREE STRIP RAV1. LOW PLANTS EL, PAVERS 2. MEDIUM GROWTH 10. DRAINAGE DITCH 3. DRAINAGE LAYER 11. STEEL ANGLE 4. PROTECTION LAYER 12. STEEL BEAM 5. ROOT BARRIER 6. WATERPROOFING MEMBRANE 13. ALUMINIUM FRAME
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03. Stepping up Collective Housing Complex Design Guangzhou, China Academic Project Instructor: Yunjiang Wu Individual Work, 04/2019-06/2019
Many of today's university graduates face the problem of renting accommodation, and with the diversity of working styles, they have very different needs for living and working space. The site is located at the junction of the university campus and the city. The design is intended to provide students, graduates and teachers with a variety of options for living and working during the transition period, which caters for new forms of cohabitation1. In the design I have organised the shared work and living spaces together, weakening the boundaries between the two is dangerous, which possibly makes it difficult to separate work and life for people. However, the combination of the two can greatly increase productivity and save time and resources. To make use of the sharing of built space to minimise the burden of domestic labour, including work activities based on cooperation and assistance, such as joint cleaning, cooking, etc. To resist the fragmentation of domestic space and the tendency to divide it into 'family homes'.
1 Pier Vittorio Aureli, Martino Tattara. “Production/Reproduction: Housing beyond the Family”, No. 41 / Family Planning, Harvard Design Magazine.
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The school has not allocated me a dormitory and I need to find a house near the school in order to work.
It ’s difficult to find a job now so I’ m going to become a freelancer working at home
After graduation I would like to live near the school, s o t h a t I c o u l d s t a r t my business with my schoolmate conveniently.
With the difficulties of finding a job upon graduation, and the expensive and inaccessible nature of renting an apartment, we needed a place where we could transition to.
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CONCEPT
1. Original Apartment Prototype
2. Expand Traffic Space
4. Bring Function to " Boundary "
3. Place "Boundary"
Baiyun Mountain
CITY VIEW
City skyline
Teaching building
Administrative building
Dwelling district
Park
Sea of flower Sport ground
Lake CAMPUS VIEW
WuShan Road
THE TRANSFORMATION OF TWO SIDES The shared living space is oriented towards the lively city, with the blocks projecting outwards in a "OBVERSE" positive response to the city. The massing changes in response to the change in view of the landscape.
The shared office area is located on the quieter side of the building, with the block retracted inwards to "REVERSE" reduce urban distractions.
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LIFE
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THE TRANSITIONS According to the texture of the site, the volume of the building gradually increases from west to east. The transition from an informal living and entertainment space to a formal working and meeting space. And the privacy of this building gradually increases from bottom to top, showing three different clusters.
5th FLOOR
10th FLOOR
15th FLOOR
20th FLOOR
6th FLOOR
11th FLOOR
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22th FLOOR
8th FLOOR
13th FLOOR
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GRADUATION SEASON JOB FAIR
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1.PLAZA 2.RESTAURANT 3.ART GALLERY 4.BOOKSHOP 5.SUPERMARKET 6.FOOD COURT 7.CAFE 8.ENTRANCE HALL 9.FLEXIBLE SPACE(FOR BUSINESS)
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TYPOLOGICAL AGGREGATION
The floor plan shows a variation of public spaces on different levels. And the function of the "yellow area" change with it. Some of the space of individual units such as workspace, kitchen, leisure space, etc. Which are extracted into shared spaces that can minimise the labour and financial burden on families, while gaining more space for activities. 15
TYPOLOGY STUDY SPATIAL COMBINATIONS TYPOLOGY
Original Plan
CELL
Corrected Plan
CLUSTER
SELECTED FLOOR PLAN FROM THREE CLUSTERS
8th FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 1)
14th FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 2)
22nd FLOOR PLAN (Cluster 3)
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The yellow pedestrian walkway becomes an extension of the urban interface. The privacy of the public space changes from the lower to the higher floors. The ground floor the more open commercial space and the upper floors are more private space such as, tea rooms and reading spaces. A sense of the street is created from ground level all the way up to the tower.
DETAILS CONSTRUCTION
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04. THE RED CABIN Ecological Toilet Construction Guangzhou, China Construction Project Instructor: Xiaojin Chen Group Work, 12/2019-06/2020 A large number of people in less developed areas still lack the most basic sanitation facilities. The construction of flush toilets not only requires connection to the municipal network, but subsequent use can lead to a waste of water and the huge costs associated with sewage disposal.
Why do we build it? Theoretically, village life can form an ideal energy cycle system, so we hope to build an entity model to test the scientificity and feasibility of the system with practice.
To find a solution to this problem, we built this restroom within the school to explore a new form of restroom through practice. The project takes into account the complete cycle of excreta collection, treatment and use, and selects the appropriate ecological toilet technology: water-free biological treatment and fertiliser type technology. We hoped to promote the result of our project to broader rural areas as a fully functioning toilet system, as a newly updated urban technology. The designing process from construction to usage and production is a valuable early-stage experience of exploration and practical construction, which led me to realize that the study of architecture alone can be limited for solving urgent social issues; rather, it is more productive to branch out to other disciplines that may improve and enhance the research within our own field.
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Construction process
Erection of steel structures.
Laying of roofs.
Installation of toilet.
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Polished recycled brick from old Study the arrangement of the bricks. buildings.
Installation of bamboo. 19
The bathroom materials are mainly recycled materials, including recycled brick, wood and bamboo, and we pursue the concept of everything is useful. Through the use of different materials, the shadows and light change from moment to moment.
DETAIL DRAWING
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UNI-ELEVATE COMPETITION Installation Design Group Work, with Jinpeng Chi 10/2019
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