Energy Autonomy Community
Individual Work, Y6 Thesis Project, the University of Sheffield
Adaptive Reuse of the London Road Fire Station
Individual Work, Y5 Design Project, the University of Sheffield
Revitalization of the Pingyao Ancient City
Individual Work Undergraduate Project, China
Qiyuan - Counrtry Inn Design
Practice-based Project, PARALLECT DESIGN, China
SEAFOREST - Interior Design
Practice-based Project, PARALLECT DESIGN, China
Live ProjectPeak Pathway
Team work, University of Sheffield
Project situated in the Bentbasa area, Sarajevo
Energy Autonomy Community
Individual Work, Y6 Thesis Project, the University of Sheffield
Explore a paradigm for sustainable energy use in sarajevo's residential areas.
PM2.5 is still looming over Sarajevo in 2030, and thick smoke from residential areas has become the main winter landscape in Sarajevo. The energy monopoly of giant corporations and the rising price of fossil energy have trapped residents in a vicious cycle of energy poverty. Air pollution penetrates into every urban element, and urban public spaces, green spaces, rivers, and natural ecology are further isolated and polluted.
Sustainable natural potential in cities can save an unsustainable urban future behind the crisis. Government licensing of communitywide energy autonomy and communitywide distributed clean energy production becomes a top-down and bottom-up energy solution strategy. The communities on either side of the Miljacka river are an exemplar of a resilient future of rational use of river power
Landscape first is the key development principal of this Bentbasa area.
This area gradually moves from the city to nature with three bridges. The terrain has a gentle slope of five meters from west to east, forming a slow transition from the city to the natural landscape. the building on the site is integrated into the whole Bentbasa area and intend to celebrate the city landscape views.
The building partly inserts into the terrain to form a natural transition and whole views to landscape is preserved.
Walkable Green Roof covers most of the building volume and provides a good environment inside the building. the three bridges that built in different historical times and the old deciduous trees are preseved to the greatest extent.
River accessibility design is realized by the bank softening
The walkway is connected with the hydro facilities.
The original terrace for the diving competition was extended
The open river bank platform
The upstream bank is extended to form a new citizen swimming pool
The original motorway in the community has become an open pedestrian street, which is connected with the public outdoor green space around the site
The drainage and water storage system
The main load-bearing structure consists of rammed earth walls and glulam beams
Concrete is used for the equipment room in the underground level
The main hydropower equipment includes waterways, generators and reservoirs are built by in situ concrete. The flow control water tower consists of the concrete water channel at the bottom and the wooden structure for the upper part.
The riverbank softening part consists of underwater concrete wooden piles and wooden walkways and jetties along the water.
Balustrades above the green roof
Green roof mainly built by GLT rib panel.The beams under the green roof are integrated with the beams inside the buildings.
The main outdoor load-bearing girders are constructed of BauBuche material.
Thermal Insulation and sound insulation.
1. 60x600mm Glulam edge beam
2. 450mm Glulam cantilever beam (extended eaves protecting the wall)
3. light fitting
4. Planting Substrate:
filter fleece membrane (prevents fine particles from the substrate layer being washed into the drainage layer underneath.)
drainage and moisture retention layer (carries away excess precipitation, but can also retain water which is then available to the plants during periods of dry weather.)
protective membrane bitumen waterproofing
5. Plywood decking laid to falls to support waterproofing ventilated air space
9. Star-shaped steel bracket welded to steel tube
10. Hollow log column, 350mm diameter
11. Downpipe in the steel column
Tubular steel column wrapped by the log column, 120mm dia
30. Rammed earth wall
400mm
Load-bearing rammed earth leaf
Breathable membrane
100mm XPS rigid insulation
Breathable membrane
30mm service zone
200mm Free standing rammed earth leaf (Internal wall contribute to racking resistance and provide good acoustic separation. provide effective thermal mass and humidity control.)
31. The wall groove
The rammed earth wall is a preset groove for the wooden strip at the height of 1800mm from the floor, which acts as a fixture for the exhibition and prevents damage to the rammed earth wall
32. Trass-lime erosion check.
erosion check embeded help identify the erosion speed
33. Fired mud brick upstand to separate the rammed earth wall for protection
36. Permeable Paving
Brick paver with permeable infill 15mm permeable bedding course
80mm open-graded aggregate base
100mm open-graded aggregate subbase
Geotextile layer
Subbase
Separation membrane
120mm XPS rigid insulation
DPC
Concrete subfloor
The main outdoor load-bearing girderAdaptive Reuse of the London Road Fire Station
Individual Work, Y5 Design Project, the University of Sheffield
Key Proposation
▶ Retrofit and reuse historic stocks to respond to housing demand with a low carbon footprint.
▶Promote the circular economy and sharing economy within the region.
▶Meet the balance of the needs of modern life and the preservation of ancient buildings.
Some of the city centre's iconic buildings will reshape Manchester's skyline in coming years to cope with surging population and investment, while some historic buildings are in crisis and others are being left vacant by policy or low returns. 80% of the Building in 2025 have already been built, in which the historic environment is adaptable and is a continuous source of new homes. Co-houding is the low carbon strategy to response to the mixed user groups.
University Campus
Design Concept
According to the historical significance analysis, the exterior facade facing the city street and the ground floor is are prserved. A new deck is raised to the first floor and seperate the public and the private community. The cohousing take up the first to fourth floors and the shared rooms are placed at the corners of the builing to serve different user groups.
Shared rooms
Community Communal Cente
Community Communal Cente
Raised deck to seperate the community from the public
The gound floor is preserved as the public resource
Light analysis is performed at different stages of the scheme generation process to determine whether each step is working.In the first step, part of the external walls were removed to add more sunlight; in the third step, conventional shading analysis was carried out; in the fourth step, the Angle of the topmost shading panel was adjusted to achieve better shading effect; in the last step,the lighting area was increased to achieve solar gain in winter, and solar shading curtains were added. The existing wall in Fig. 6 can also be used as a good therml mass.
Test the effect of the translucent solar curtain in a physical model. Translucent solar curtain made of translucent printed PV material, have a certain transmittance and reduce the winter glare.
Revitalization of the Pingyao Ancient City
Individual Work, Undergraduate Project, China
Under the severe impact of the tourism economy, the non-tourism area of the ancient city of Pingyao faces the problems of large-scale population loss and overall deterioration of basic living facilities.
The project takes the streets and architectural patterns in the Pingyao Ancient City as the research prototype, and establish the ancient city revitalization model based on the brownfields and abandoned buildings to balance the spatial relationship between tourist areas and residential areas.
Through analysing, the main commercial streets and important nodes around base, tourists and residents (commercial personnel, commuters) gather in the commercial street, at noon and afternoon epecially during the peak period. Tourists rarely go into other secondary streets and small alleies where the indigenous people and authentic culture are neglected.
In 1644, Jijia old house was famous for its highquality horses in the ancient city of Pingyao. The site was the horse farm of the Ji‘s family at that time, and it also housed the servants. With the economic transformation of the ancient city and the impact of the tourism economy. Horse farms are sold to cater to the development of commercial streets. Since then, it has cut off contact with the Jijia old house. until now, the Ji jia old house has been hidden in the corner of the alley. Although it is a historically protected building, due to the lack of repair funds, the Ji family's old house continues to be dilapidated. The project explores how to use the original historical relationship to create a connection between Aboriginal people and tourists in the current abnormal development trend.
The project breaks the continuous main interface of the commercial street to introduce tourists, stay, and interact with the aborigines. The courtyard spaces of different scales provide more opportunities for residents and tourists to stay. The end of the tour sequence is connected to the Jijia old house, which will become the starting point for tourists to explore the depths of the ancient city.
Concept Drawing
