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Portfolio Chengcheng Song
How can students truly be involved in the building, not simply using it?
Is it possible for students to build their buildings with their hands, keeping buildings evolving and changing with time, increasing students’ sense of belonging?
The proposal is a new decentralised and systematic approach toward architectural design and fabrication. The community of students are the designers, users and stakeholders, leading towards an emergent structure that evolves and grows over time, as it can be designed, altered and dismantled by the user.
Tracing the origins and promises of current technological practices in design reconsiders the means of achieving complexity through combinatorial strategies. Provide informational rich structure and building. Rather than designing architecture elements ourselves, I proposed building the connection between digital material and Discrete physical components would be something like a pixel or a unit materialised in the form, then has a very limited set of potential connections.
This proposal set forth a new role of the architect — a systems designer who weaves together innovative technologies to empower communities and enable local craftsmanship.
The project is research into physically “digital” architecture rather than digital in the design process only.
A building maintaining relationships between students, Aiming to create a stronger sense of community.
Students can actively and passively be educated about and contribute to a carbon positive future.
We can do more with less
Designing a building with optimal thermal comfort, good air quality, natural lighting, and natural ventilation.
The achievement of learning new skills, mastering a continuous skill. Celebrating the sense of accomplishment with others.
Milling cross-laminated timber blocks
Pre-assembly by students
The elements are post-tensioned together.
2. Liquid Rubber + Geo Textile for Waterproofing (for only exposed to exterior)
1. CNC cut 3-layer CLT Panel
3. Metal Nuts + Bolts
4. Steel Reinforced-bar
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3
The roof is composed of prefabricated modular. The photovoltaic (PV) panels are integrated. The energy generated by the PV panels will cover the electricity use of the building.
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200mm Structural Insulated Panel (SIP) Foam core
Fully adhered impermeable membrane
225mm Width Closed Cavity Facade with vertical automated blind (CCF)
Vertical Timber Louvers
15mm OSB board
SIP Screws
Service Chase
2x Top Plate
30*50 Vertical Timber Batten
2x Bottom Plate
Urethane Sealant Applied to jointElectrical, HVAC and Water distribution services are placed in cavities of the defined block. Internal timber panels used to support services are usually easier to install as they are prefabricated, resulting in shorter construction programs.
The project focuses not on the construction of an iconic volume, but rather on the creation of a sustainable community and public void that effectively connects the site with the surrounding.
More than 60% of area is an open courtyard, which eliminates the boundaries of space. The main courtyard with trees and shady areas defined as common space for social interactions used by workers and visitors during performances but also as a protected area in case of emergencies.
The building draws on traditional construction methods such as detachment, natural airflow, cantilevered roofs and trees. The topic of preventing direct sun from the inner construction layers are integrated in several ways. The detached steel roof with photovoltaic modules preotect direct sun to heat up the concrete roof, and the detached outer wall layer with ventilating air flow keeps away heat of sunlight from the inner concrete walls.
Existing trees are integrated into the holistic and sustainable design as landscape elements and their shading qualities to protect the glass facade from long solar impact. All glass elements have the properties of high light transmission, and low solar energy transportation as well as a high heat insulation value. I cared a lot about the right combination of these three values to prevent artificial light during daytime, protect the inside from getting hot and permit the building to cool down during the night.
Using cotton as the primary material, using the characteristics of cotton itself, such as softness and compression-tension, use these qualities to create a pavilion that seems to need to be able to build with cotton. There is a narrow gap between the layers of cotton for people to pass. The seemingly tight space has cotton, so people propose to push an area as they want. Accordingly, the user inside the pavilion can fully feel the feature of cotton. At this level, it sounds more like a cotton experience pop-up store.
This project is an adaptive reuse of buildings resulting from the massive urban renewal of Parramatta.The original building was a parking lot, and with the development plan of the Parramatta council, it was established to provide more art activities and related facilities. Affordable art space is offered to artists.
The renovation project aims to retain the original parking function while providing artists with working areas and housing facilities, turning the corner into a Parramatta art gathering point.
The design focuses on the particular site condition of the block. According to the development plan, the northern side of the site is bounded by two high-rise buildings that will interfere with natural light exposure during the day. And the south side of the site is two residential buildings, and the ground floor is the retail store. Based on the daylight analysis, the form was updated and iterated several times to maximize the daylight and minimize the impact on the commercial and residential buildings to the south.
“If every city on the planet can complete 10% of the planting indoors, it will allow us to restore 340,000 square miles of agricultural land to forests. “According to the inspiration of this sentence, let us have
inspiration for future cities and universities.
We trying to create a new agricultural revolution from our university design. The concept is to make urban farms self-sufficient in the future development of the
overall concept of three-dimensional planting products and services, including the industrial design of planting components, the interactive design of planting monitoring apps, and sustainable Business model.
In the new agricultural revolution, we will explore how we can use a sustainable, cost-effective, and environmental friendly method in the future to provide enough food for the growing world population. Shared farmland in cities is a solution for self-sufficiency.
Our design eco agricultural universuty is represented by four functional area: , seed library ,lab, energy production(water treatment, eletrcity, and soil treatment), and produce market, Linking the entire school’s agricultural production chain with the society, the plants and vegetables produced in the school will eventually be provided to
the exhibition halls and markets around the campus for sale.
That provides a new generation of educational buildings which facilitate new types of learning styles, promoting community, plurality pularlity and diversity. The eco agricultural university is conceived as a single en-vironment, a space under a single roof where all spaces and activities are interconnected, a space without hi-erarchy where all have a voice and innovative ideas can grow The life of the campus will be concentrated in the central farming public space promoting encounters between students, staff, professors and invited guests.
Chengcheng Song University of New South Wales Architecture M.Arch
