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Stadium on the Margin of Campus

Office Building Open to City

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Rural Planning and Architecture Reconstruction

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Utopia towards Europe: a Complex for Libya Refugees

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A collection of my projects in the 2-year Integrated Pathway Studio [ISLAND TEMPORALITIES]

Chimera Site of the 1st Academic Year Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba, Spain

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G U A D A L Q U IV I R

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The Stewardship of a River The Guadalquivir River, Spain

Chimera Site of the 2nd Academic Year Mont Saint-Michel, France

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LES NUAGES

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F R AY I N G T H E S E A DY K E

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Cloud-Drifts on the Couesnon The Couesnon River, France

Depolderisation through Aquaculture The Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, France

OTHER WORKS

Architectural Design, Film Study, Graphic Design, Sketch

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01 INTERFACE Stadium on the Margin of Campus / Academic Project / Site: Chongqing, China Semester: 8th semester, 4th year Date: May 2019 - July 2019 / Individual Work / Instructor: Xuesong Wang - wangxuesong@cqu.edu.cn

1 Project 1

Standing on the margin of our campus, I regarded the boundary between campus and city as an opportunity for students and citizens to share the sports public spcae. Holding this idea, I further transited the campus boundary with the stadium itself, to an unbounded boundary, or say an Interface.

It is an unbounded complex container, integrating various spots of sports courses which used to disperse around the campus and were hard for students to find.

As a canopy floating and flowing over the fields, the stadium provides a shared space in which different kinds of people can communicate here.

When looking from city to campus, people would clearly appreciate the university's landmarks framed by the organic pillars.

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1. assembling area 2. athletes' lounge 3. referees' office 4. VIP lounge 5. press conference hall

6. media lounge 7. fire control room 8. training base 9. coffee bar 10. kitchen

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First Floor Plan (campus ground)

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athletes

VIP

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Complex Container As a student studying in Chongqing University, I and many other students have difficulty in finding specific areas for sports courses, which disperse around almost all corners of the campus. In our opinion, the stadium is not only a competitive arena, but also a complex center holding a strong voice to integrate these sports functions. It embraces the diversity.

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1. activity lobby 2. public theater 3. kung fu 4. gym 5. ping-pong

6. free combat 7. taekwondo 8. yoga 9. sports-dancing 10. public balcony

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Third Floor Plan (air ground)

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Sky Sports Center The stadium's roof is thick enough to accommodate space for diverse kinds of sports, where rooms set in the free plan interact with the exposed truss. As excercise in this air center, people can also enjoy the scenary of both campus and city through its transparent perimeter.

6 Interface

Maquette: Structure Arrangement

Structure System

Al-Mg-Mn Plate Roof

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Glass Curtain Wall (inner surface)

Floor (air sports center)

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Truss Structure

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Al-Mg-Mn Plate Skin (outer surface)

Secondary Structure Analysis primary truss (roof) secondary truss (roof) h=1m diagonal web member RC floor secondary truss (floor) h=1.2m primary truss (floor)

Truss Relationship

secondary truss (floor) suspender connector suspender Al-Mg-Mn plate skin

Skin Connection 7 Project 1

RC Frame Structure (spectator area)

Structure Analysis (from Karamba, GH) Initial Analysis axial force small

axial force small

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deformation small big

overloading zone

overloading zone

Vertical Load Analysis

overloading zone

Horizontal Load Analysis

Structure Deformation Analysis

Step 2: Set Trussed Hoops

Step 3: Distinguish Primary and Secondary Structures

Optimization Strategy

Step 1: Set Fringe Trusses

Preliminary Optimization Analysis axial force small

axial force small

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Vertical Load Analysis

Horizontal Load Analysis

Structure Deformation Analysis

Step 5: Cable Net to Truss (Flexible to Rigid Connection)

Step 6: Form Optimization

Reoptimization Strategy

Step 4: Extend Column Structures

ReoptimizationAnalysis axial force small big

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Vertical Load Analysis

Horizontal Load Analysis

Structure Deformation Analysis 8 Interface

02 S KY S C R E E P E R Office Building Open to City / Academic Project / Site: Chongqing, China Semester: 7th semester, 4th year Date: Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2019

In the design studio of high rise, which provides an office building for automotive company, I was given a plain site with the weakened physical environment, motivating me to pay attention to other intangible aspects.

/ Group Work / Collaborator: Yuwei Wang Contribution: Concept 60%, drawing 50%, modeling 50% Instructor: Zhen Yang - yangz@cqu.edu.cn

When I was doing research on the office tower, I discovered its monotony: a podium for entrance hall and shopping mall plus a tower for office spaces. This design pattern divides the space into cells in the dense city blocks, invisibly showing an indifferent slogan 'Authorized Personnel Only'.

Feeling emotionally alienated, I tried to break the stereotype and design a horizontal high rise open to our city. The skyscraper undid its hierarchy, and was bent down and extended horizontally as a canopy over the grassland which also became the backdrop reflecting the life of the city and the screen publicizing the enterprise culture. It became the Skyscreeper here.

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Mapping

Status

Strategy

Open green space

Public park in high-density city

Fabric

Large and free Plane

Main Road

Axis 1: Public Circulation

Secondary Road in Site

Axis 2: Industrial Memory

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skateboard space viewing platform rest platform lying space

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slope gallery exhibition hall race track roof of MRT entrance roof of coffee bar

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1. over the museum entrance hall 2. exhibition hall 3. slope gallery 4. shop 5. outdoor exhibition hall 6. secondary lobby of office 7. rock climbing area 8. coffee bar 9. MRT entrance 10. over the sunken plaza

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museum entrance hall gallery exhibition hall theme restaurant kitchen warehouse sunken plaza

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Open Floor in the City The absence of podium façade strengthens ground floor’s utility property and brings a new life to the building entrance: the center arch of the industrial memory, the gallery of vehicle history, the slope for the office people walking on toward the sky lobby and the culture stage for citizens.

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Column-free Floor in the Sandwich The absence of columns on the ground open floor and activity floor maximizes the openness of both public space in the city and sports space in the sandwich between office zones.

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Touch-and-go As an office building for an automotive company and a vehicle culture museum, the Skyscreeper has touch-and-go movement, finding the balance in a floating state.

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B. upper steel structure

C. prestressed stay cable

D. RC system of wide flat beams

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F. prestressed stay cable

G. RC system of wide flat beams

H. profiled sheet-concrete composite slab

Construction Sequence of Cable-stayed Structure After trying several structures universally used in high rise, including mega-trusses and truss transfer layers, which appeared cumbersome above the

grass covered slope, I chose the cable-stayed bridge structure to suspend it, which is cost-saving and appears to be lighter.

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Structure System

PTFE (outer skin)

low-E hollow glass curtain (inner skin)

profiled sheet-concrete composite slab

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rebar concrete column steel sleeve 800x500 steel joint prestressed stay cable steel beam 1000x800

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reinforced concrete structure 50mm steel plate 30mm concrete cover spall drain 80mm insulating polystyrene board mortar waterproof roll drainage blanket protective layer motar isolation<10mm 300mm earth plants

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03 WINDING Rural planning and Existing Architecture Reconstruction / Academic Project / Site: Chongqing, China Semester: 6th semester, 3th year Date: May 2018 - July 2018 / Individual Work / Instructor: Jun Chen - 452753935@qq.com

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The comprehensive studio included two parts, from rural planning to existing architecture reconstruction. The thinking of boundary ran through my vernacular design from planning to constructing.

From the winding circulation on the field, to the zigzag surfaces locating the connection of water, field and rigid pavement, further to minor structures as new elements in the exisiting mill, the strategy concerning boundary always speaks.

Territorial

Site Mapping Rural Library Site Planning Wetland Site Outdoor Theater Site Plantation Site

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Boundary: Planning to Construction The winding circulation was set around the field, activating multifunctional and ambiguious boundary.

Moving to the northern area which needed a village center, the winding statement was transfered into a

series of zigzags in order to switch different surfaces.

In terms of the existing mill, I combined the old structures with a new minor structures also winding from lower to higher, from ousides to insides.

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Site Overview & Reconstruction Diagram

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6. shuttle stop 7. roof of leisure platform 8. roof of tea room 9. roof of exhibition hall 10. roof of ecological corridor

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H-shaped steel beam wood filler grey roof tile 25mm cement mortar tile bed(1:3) 15mm cement mortar protective layer 1.5mm self-adhesive waterproof roll 60mm XPS board insulating layer 10mm plank sheathing

B. Old & New Pillars 1 wood filler 2 cross-shaped steel pillar 3 old brick pillar

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Considering the main space in the old paper mill was constructed with vernacular material like bircks and stones, the new structures conbine the steel and wood, by means of filling the crossshaped pillars and the H-shaped beams with wood stripes. The zigzag elements here are translated into the weathering steel bookshelves, winding from the entrance to the new interlayer.

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on-perspective

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30mm oak board 40*40 wood keel 80mm concrete bedding rammed earth weathering steel bookshelf

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04 EUTOPE Utopia towards Europe: a Complex for Libya Refugees / Academic Project / Site: Tripoli, Libya Semester: 7th semester, 4th year Date: Jan. 2019 - Mar. 2019 / Group Work / Collaborator: Qining Zhang, Chen Yu Contribution: Concept 30%, drawing 30% Instructor: Lifeng Lin - lin@lin.archi

29 Project 4

Background North

Coast Guard arrested

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TRIPOLI Smuggler “He promised me. ”

Dentention Center

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/1/ Because of long-term disasters and conflicts, people in Central African countries have been flooded into Libya, which is a relatively developed country in North Africa.

After the Libyan civil war, these migrants began to use Tripoli, the largest port in Libya, as a springboard to cross the Mediterranean to Europe via smugglers’ boats in hopes of starting a new life.

“I would rather die in sea than stay in this hell.”

Slave

“Where’s home?”

REFUGEE

/2/ On the contrary, the reality that they would never expect is the inhumane quid pro quo deal reached between human traffickers and policemen. Some of them suffered shipwrecks. Even if they survived, the Libyan “coast guard” would intercept their boats and drag them back to detention centers, another hell for them where trafficking, rape, torture and other horrors are frequently reported.

Africa

Dentention Center

/3/ Hidden to pass through the custom, small number of lucky ones will smuggle successfully and stay in Europe, but they can only survive by hacking and suffer from discrimination and unfair treatment.

Mediterranean

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Custom

“It’s freezing in the refrigerated truck. ”

Europe

European Society “I thought Europe is pink. It’s black. ”

Site Plan

Our idea is to create a community in the urban area of Tripoli that can actually change their living environment.

Instead of creating a utopia built on regular refugee camps, I would rather fashion a mad heterotopia, in other words, a gigantic factory with standardized arbitration, layered supervision and regulated inspection where refugees can be exported as eligible citizens.

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ALIENATION FOR SURVIVING ! human

monitoring

discipline

classification

‘tool man’

consumption

THE ‘JUDGES’ Lybia Government

European Union

Assets

JUDGEMENT merchandise, slaves

financial press

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propaganda materials

potential consumer

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TREATMENT

Arrest

Drowning

Brainwashing

Propaganda

Consumption leading

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Repatriation

Sources of troops

Workforce

Exploitation

DEAD

SURVIVED ‘qualified’ citizen

Identity Alienation First, We define who the refugees are: for refugees' families and friends, they are living people. For the Libyan government and smuggler, they are materialized into commodities, which can be measured by value. People without working capacity are just burdensome. For western society and

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international public, they are translated into a series of data of death, illegal immigration and cheap workers. They don't care about the living conditions of individual refugees.

All they care about is the group portraits of the refugees they see.

Visitor / Journalist

REFUGEE CAMP

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Normalizing Judgment Hierarchical Observation Inspection Discipline and Punishment Therefore, we found the Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment theory. He argues that how society disciplines everyone into production screws and easy-to-manage machines. people are not born to type in the office,

but according to Foucault theory, the power at the top of society has reshaped people in three ways: Normalizing Judgment, Hierarchical Observation, and Inspection.

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Methodology VISITORS/JOURNALISTS

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TECHNICIAN WORK

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PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC

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EXPLOITATIVE LABOR

SMUGGLERS

System Diagram school tourist center

residential

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hospital

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check Point

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factory

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Overall Section

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concentration camp concentration camp concentration camp

The entire complex consists of three sections, cor responding to three distinct discipline systems, and each stage has two to three classes of divisions corresponding to different treatments for management. When refugees arrive at the camp, they will be scored and live in the first zone. Here they receive the general education and basic medical care required for basic labor. Managers will rank the

refugees based on their performance, and the elders and rebels will be sent to the lowest concentration camps under the jurisdiction of smugglers. In the second stage, upper, middle, and lower thirds were separated to perform different jobs and receive different education and medical care. At this time, the movement of the population is completed by the so-called democratic voting, which gives the refugees the

tourist center

illusion of political participation, so that they can watch and attack each others. In the third zone, the lowestlevel people have been eliminated.

The upper-middle-level people need to understand and adapt to the lifestyle of the commodity society. After passing the test, they can leave or go to Europe to work as labors.

tourist centre

residential factory hospital factory

hospital and school

check point

check point

harbor

residential factory

hospital and school factory

concentration camp

furnace

concentration camp

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Zone 1

As soon as they enter the gate, refugees will initially be quarantined in this area. after the final review, they will wear uniform, br ing identif ication equipment, and being assigned into different dormitories and posts according to the test results.

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everyone with basic common skills to adapt to daily life in the future. The dormitory is fully open for supervisors to check and monitor each other. Industries in this area are labor-intensive industries, and are suitable for workers who do not yet have the expertise and skills to adapt to the

working environment faster. In addition, this area is also a hub for tourists and the media. The official much welcomes the supervision and inspection of society and media.

Welcome to the family!

Here, no more hunger.

The man promised…

I would be a qualified citizen.

However…

We are inspected like a commodity.

I’m rated as Class B, though I don’t know the criteria.

Monitored.

Watched by outcomers.

Repetitive, mindless labor.

No more freedom.

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Zone 2

The second district is divided into three main strata. The best-performing refugees c a n l e a r n t e c h n i c a l k n ow l e d g e a n d theories at the top, and the accommodation c o n d i t i o n s a re m o re re l a x e d a n d comfor table. Their work is mainly to operate machine tools and production machiner y, and to ser ve as technical 37 Project 4

personnel in the plastic manufacturing industry. Middle-level personnel live in collective dormitories. They also need to learn theoretical knowledge, and work mainly in the deep processing of the textile industry. The conditions of the people at the bottom are relatively crowded, and labor-intensive industries still prevail.

However, among the three levels of refugee dormitories, there is an atrium that can be seen through each other. Here the refugees can car r y out group activities, elect outstanding people to go to the upper level, or downgrade the scum to the lower level.

Having bee working so hard, I apply for the next stage.

Here, I look up to people of Class A every day.

After step-by-step testing and rating, I am classified as Class B, still.

One day, the one who worked below told me what’s happening underground.

Guess what? An arena where the eliminated grapple for bigwigs to watch.

Loser will be thrown to the cremator, with no trace.

I don’t want to die.

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Zone 3

People who are familiar with social rules and laws and sensible or who have a good working standard will go to the third area through auditing. The conditions here are even better. This is the last step for refugees to get rid of their illegal status and move to a new life. Here they learn systematically about the society in the future and its laws and r ules. T he accommodation 39 Project 4

environment here is more comfortable, and we have imitated the urban landscape and environment to facilitate their better life in the new environment. We also p rov i d e p s y c h o l o g i c a l c o u n s e l l i n g and psychotherapy to those who are confused. Their work is more technical and professional, and here they can pick up vouchers after work every day and go

to the shopping mall to redeem the goods they want. After they have recognized the operation mechanism of the whole society, they can take all their belongings with them by auditing and magnetic resonance machines, and then go to their destination by ferry.

I am tested again, and become Class A finally.

Countless Advertisements on the billboards.

The rail goes around us, viewing us all the time.

burnt,

Money printed, distributed, There’s no school, but a supermarket.

It teaches me how to be a modern consumer.

I come to the final judgment.

Bye. I’m coming, Europe.

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05 G U A D A L Q U IV I R : THE STEWARDSHIP OF A RIVER / Academic Project / Site: Córdoba, Spain Semester: 2nd semester, 1st year Date: Jan. 2021 - May. 2021 / Group Work / Collaborator: Jiamin Zhong Contribution: Concept 50%, drawing 50% Instructor: Adrian Hawker - adrian.hawker@ed.ac.uk Victoria Clare Bernie - v.bernie@ed.ac.uk

Guadalquivir : The Stewardship of a River is a proposal for a constructed micro-landscape on the southern banks of the great river that, in Roman times, was navigable from Córdoba, through Saville to the Gulf of Cádiz.

The spring meltwaters from the Cazorla mountains carry material that foul today’s passage requiring the river to be continually dredged of gravel and debris. This proposal facilitates this process alongside hydrological research laboratories, yards and gardens that analyse, record, nurture and replenish the plant, bird and aquatic life that inhabit the river’s 657km length. It does so in the form of a canopied public landscape of channels, beds, walls, pools and raised walkways that afford views across the rives to the city’s great chimeric form of the Mosque-Cathedral.

The mosque, itself a landscape construct – a forest of columns supporting a canopy of arches into which the vessel of the 16th Century cathedral is held – gives scale to these new facilities of stewardship to form a sort of double, a shadowscape into which public perambulations are carefully choreographed to frame views back to its referent source.

The complex three-dimensional tectonic field into which these journeys are set is informed by a meticulous cartographic process of drawing and enfolding the grain of the city into which the Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba is set – furthering the sense of reflection and registration.

Like the nearby gardens of the Alcázar, the consequential landscape provides a range of environments tailored by water and shadow, a retreat from the exposure of the southern bank.

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Scribe + Score + Fold The complex urban fabric of Córdoba prompted us to seek a unique principle to provide design support for folding, which was the first difficulty for us to advance the project and the first task we needed to prepare for creating a blueprint of the final design direction. By searching the map for binary architectural elements where similar elements exist as a counterpart end points, this provides a valuable clue for us to connect the two terminal point of the score line, with a reinterpretation of the syntax of the city of Córdoba and a reconnection after deconstruction of the city through the scoring.

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Harvest + Dredge The abstract structures of the selected counterparts are extracted in a articulation method. When we harvest the seeds of the city, we dredge them from the urban grain, ready to be added to the folding process under the sedimentation force.

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Sediment The ecosystem of Guadalquivir River in Córdoba has been deeply researched and abstracted diagrammatically as a driving force and catalyst for the production of architectural language during the two years of our designs. We seek to define the erosion and deposition of water on architectural components through vertical,

lateral and multi-dimensional accumulation and diffusion of water forces. We allow us to formulate organizational tools and interventions for architectural design based on these abstracted natural forces by summarizing the abstraction of the ecosystem in which river water levels fluctuate horizontally and vertically.

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Site Overview

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Section C

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Hydrological Research Laboratory The spring meltwaters from the Cazorla mountains carry material that foul today’s passage requiring the river to be continually dredged of gravel and debris. This proposal facilitates this process alongside hydrological research laboratories in the thick walls, yards and gardens that analyse, record, nurture and replenish the plant, bird and aquatic life that inhabit the river’s 657km length.

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Entrance of Laboratory

Laboratory Pool

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Walkway and Platform It provides the public with platforms for leisure, science popularization and viewing, in the form of a canopied public landscape of channels, beds, walls, pools and raised walkways that afford views across the rives to the city’s great chimeric form of the Mosque-Cathedral.

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Roof of Laboratory

Meditation Room

Observatory 52 Guadalquivir : The Stewardship of a River

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06 LES NUAGES: CLOUD-DRIFTS ON THE COUESNON / Academic Project / Site: Couesnon River, France Semester: 1nd semester, 2st year Date: Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021 / Group Work / Collaborator: Jiamin Zhong Contribution: Concept 50%, drawing 50%, , model 50% Instructor: Adrian Hawker - adrian.hawker@ed.ac.uk Victoria Clare Bernie - v.bernie@ed.ac.uk

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Mont SaintMichel Couesnon River Barrage

Shipwrecking

Scoring

Compressing

Compressing the Landscape Similar to the urban folding operation in Córdoba, these principles are used in the river of Couesnon in Mont Saint Michel, and we were initially racking our brains on how to deconstruct the texture and contextual syntax of the river, and how to use scoring to deconstruct these abstract images.

By introducing shadowscapes into the river and making it produce motion trajectories in the action of water flow, we try to examine and dissect the friction, collision and wrinkling that these motion trajectories have generated on the water texture in an abstract macro sense, and from each section of motion between the deconstructed intermediate states of the two time frames, the scoring positions that generate folding or compression contained between the two trajectories before and after are determined. Compared to Cordova's approach, our effect on score has progressively advanced to a higher understanding of motion and spatiotemporal slices.

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Formation

Laboratory

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Site Overview

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Construction Sequence

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5. Steel Column

6. Roof Frame

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Dormitory Exploded

Exploded Isometric

zinc roof panels

steel roof frames

wood walls double glazing

timber floors & furnitures

timber floors & furnitures

wood battens

steel h beams & truss

wood ceiling panels

wood stairs

concrete planting containers

mesh skin steel space truss steel truss columns concrete foundation base concrete piles

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Observatory

Roof Garden 68 Les Nuages : Cloud-drifts on the Couesnon

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07 F R AY I N G T H E S E A DY K E : DEPOLDERISATION THROUGH AQUACULTURE / Academic Project / Site: The Bay of Mont Saint-Michel, France Semester: 2nd semester, 2st year Date: Jan. 2022 - May. 2022 / Group Work / Collaborator: Jiamin Zhong Contribution: Concept 50%, drawing 50%, model 50% Instructor: Adrian Hawker - adrian.hawker@ed.ac.uk Victoria Clare Bernie - v.bernie@ed.ac.uk

Fraying the Sea Dyke develops in relation to current thinking towards the depolderisation of certain areas of the north French coastline as a possible response to rising sea levels. The proposal explores a possible new form of aquaculture that intervenes into the expansive fabric of the nineteenth century polder landscape of the Bay of MontSaint-Michel in the form of a series of constructed landscape seams.

Each of these seams act as transitional gates and breach the outer sea dyke to choreograph the ingress of the tides. In so doing, they flood certain areas to form an extension to the salt marsh habitats held by a secondary inner dyke and feed a series of pools that expand the local rich economy of aquaculture – specifically the cultivation of oysters for which the region is renowned. The pools and their associated laboratories and storehouses, the architectural forms of which reinforce the seam, provide the sequence of nursery beds and desalination pools required prior to and following the four year exposure of the oysters to the deeper tidal zones through elevated baskets arrayed out beyond the marsh.

This frayed landscape forms a disturbance sea dyke’s path – a slowing of the pilgrimage route from the Chapelle Saint-Anne-de-laGrève in the west to Mont-Saint-Michel along the ridge of the dyke.

At this level, the new landscape provides an elevated public realm of repose, refreshment and bathing pools at once witnessing the extraordinary cultivation of the sea and exposing views towards the abbey island beyond.

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Tidal Force

Territory Mapping

Fold + Drift + Sediment From the Barrage to Mont Saint-Michel, the shadowscape, derived from Córdoba, as the Vessel, drives the outline of the whole landscape along the Couesnon river. After several stages such as scoring and compressing, shadowscape is compressed into a delicate, complex, organic and mysterious landscape construct. This large landscape has been dismantled by the impact of the tidal force and sedimentation, and has drifted to dykes on the edge of saltmarsh.

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Fraying

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Depolderisation The dyke fragments would evolved into a series of narrow stone fjords and ditches, as transitional gates, guiding the mud and sand to corrode towards the field in the future, creating a unique silt landscape prior to secondary dykes. By fraying the sea dyke, it develops in relation to current thinking towards the depolderisation of certain areas of the north French coastline as a possible response to rising sea levels.

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Dykes as Seams The fraying process explores new form of aquaculture that intervenes into the expansive fabric of the nineteenth century polder landscape of the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel in the form of a series of constructed landscape seams. Each of these seams act as transitional gates and breach the outer sea dyke to choreograph the ingress of the tides.

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Workflow of Oysters Cultivation MOVE 1 The Hatchery

MOVE 4 The Grow-out Farms MOVE 2 MOVE 3 The Micro-nursery The Nursery

MOVE 5 The Screening

LIVE FOOD Natural Phytoplankton

Sectorization

CHAMBER 1 Laboratory CHAMBER 2 Equipment

POOL 1 Research POOL 2.1 Hachery

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POOL 2.2 Hachery POOL A Phytoplankton

CHAMBER 3 Micro Nursery CHAMBER 4 Clean & Screen

POOL 3.1 Nursery POOL B POOL 3.2 Phytoplankton Nursery

CHAMBER 5 Decant, Sort & Calibrate

POOL C Phytoplankton POOL 4 Finishing Pool

Exploded Isometric

cultivation pools & phytoplankton pools

wooden shadowscape

steel supports

timber walkways

timber platforms

gabion sea dykes

grow-out farms

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Site Plan 79 Project 7

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Plan - Level 0

Cultivation Laboratory

Plan - Level 0 Nursery

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Table Field Drawing

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Laboratory The pools and their associated laboratories and storehouses, the architectural forms of which reinforce the seam, provide the sequence of nursery beds and desalination pools. The wooden registral devices, which describes the tidal dynamics of the river and sea tide, eventually breaks, deforms, and compresses to form a canopy of shadowscape that provides shelter for the pool.

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Timber G

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Garden

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Pool and Canopy The landscape seams act as transitional gates to choreograph the ingress of the tides. In so doing, they flood certain areas to form an extension to the salt marsh habitats and feed a series of pools. The huge wooden shadowscape above these pools, in the form of the canopy, provides a safe and hidden breeding space for oyster seafood.

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Installation

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OVER THE FIELDS: Residential Design / Academic Project / Site: Chongqing, China Date: Oct. 2017 - Dec. 2017

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BELTS: Urban Design / Academic Project / Site: Chongqing, China Date: May 2019 - July 2019

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Eden: Flower Culture Center of Luzu Temple / Academic Project, Thesis / Site: Chongqing, China Date: Feb. 2020 - Jun. 2020

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Q MATES: Rural Structures / UIA-CBC International Competitive Construction Workshop: Third Prize / Site: Wanan, China Date: Aug. 2018

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BONFIRE OF HARVEST: Light Installation / National Competition of Semiconductor Light Source System: First Prize / Site: Chengzi, China Date: Sept. 2018 - Oct. 2018

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PARASITE: Study on Film Narrative / Narrative Vessel Workshop / Date: Oct. 2019

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Mom

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Daughter

UNBOUNDED: Academic Journal Cover Design / Journal of College: Archipoint No. 16 / Date: Oct. 2018 Position: Editorial board member (graphic design, layout, editting articles)

Graphic Design / Poster, logo, etc. /

Soil Palm House Impression / Sketch Practice / Site: Chengzi, China Date: Aug. 2016

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