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ENGAGEMENT
FOUR WAYS TO ENGAGE IN HISTORICAL AREAS PORTFOLIO OF ZIYU CHEN SELECTED WORKS 2017-2020
ZIYU CHEN EMAIL: orangefisherchan@outlook.com ADDRESS: Room 311, Wenchang Dormitory, No.2 Si Pai Lou, Southeast University, Nanjing 210000, China
ENGAGEMENT
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Four ways to engage in historical areas
Selected Works 2017-2020
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In the past thirty years, the rapid process of development of China has brought numerous problems to its own environment, including the destruction of historical buildings in both urban and rural areas, unvaried and toneless buildings, terrible public, etc. After the period of nationwide destruction and construction, a large proportion of old buildings are vacant and dilapidated. Reserved important historical buildings need to be renovated; old commuinty space needs renewal; new functions should be created to improve people's daily life and destructed urban textures are supposed to be mended. The selected works discuss four ways how a building engages in historical areas.
EXPERIENCE 01 ALLEY Youth hostel in historical area
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OF THE OLD AND NEW 02 INTEGRATION Student Union and Sports Center&Restoration
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CO-LIVING COMMUNITY 03 Housing for the elderly and the youth&Community renewal
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WINDOW OF MEMORY 04 Cultural and Arts Center with a Concert Hall
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WORKS 05 OTHER Selected studio works (2016-2020)
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L o cate d b y t h e Q inhuai R i ver in L aomenx i A re a in Nan jin g , C hin a , t h e pro j e c t i s to de s i g n a l o w- co st h o stel fo r t h e yo u t h. T h e o r i g in al delicate Chinese traditional houses are combined with the newly-built ancient style buildings on the riverside in the 21st centur y, which form a complex historical environment. And with the construction of Qinhuai scenic belt along the river, this area takes Qinhuai River as the center to build old Nanjing historical and cultural blocks, gradually becoming a resort to experience the history and culture of Nanjing.
1ALLEY EXPERIENCE Youth hostel in historical area
STUDIO WORK OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2017 Studio Work (modified in 2020)
Individual Work Location: Nanjing, China
Tutor: Associate Prof. Yuan ZHU .
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Organization To ceate a positive public space on the site, I lift the private space on the top and arrange cafes, shops and other similar functions on the ground floor. The ground floor is designed to guide the pedestrians from the street to the waterfront.
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Space Design Such a historical area which is planed for tourism, the design of the youth hostel is supposed to prevent having too much destruction to the urban texture around. Thus, I use the size which is similar to the surrounding traditional buildings on each unit and try to apply the traditional space experiences in the alleys to the hostel.
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2. Adjust the inter vals between each two walls to create squares and alleys.
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1. Activity room 2. Shared kitchen 3. Lobby 4. Mahjong room 5. Bar 6. Cafe 7. Art studio
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The picture in the left is the main scene in the whole series of alley experiences. On the ground, the parallel walls perpendicular to the river serve to guide people to wall through the site and come to the waterfront. Surfaces between the walls are all transparent so that people in the street can see the activities near the bank. Paths on the ground floor are deliberately arranged to be zigzag similar to the alleys in the surroundings, in which people can experience some special spaces inspired by traditional residential alleys. The units above are arranged according to the prototypes of the alleys to create diverse interior spaces. Besides, the interior spaces are also organized to interact with outdoor spaces. Teenagers in different nodes of the interior alley-like spaces can also have interactions with each other.
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Color plate flooring board D.P.C Sheathing Steel structure layer D.P.C Insulating layer Vapour barrier Wooden keel Plaster panel
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Alley on the roof Transform some sloping roofs to create balconies and organize the paths to connect the surrounding units together . Exterior plastering D.P.C Insulating layer Vapour barrier AAC block wall Interior plastering
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Thick maple flooring Wooden keel Vapour barrier Insulating layer D.P.C Leveling course R.C Slab Gravel hard core layer Foundation
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Activity Space A special activity space on ground floor for teenagers to relax and have their own time together. A wall is delliberately arranged to keep a distance from the building's boundary. Vegetations are planted in the interval and the boundary is vague to get the nature closer to teenagers in side. .
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2INTEGRATION OF THE OLD AND NEW Student Union and Sports Center&Restoration
Current Situation of Campus Spaces for Students Located in the campus of Southeast University, the project is to propose a new way of activity for teachers and students by renovating and expanding the old gym. The campus of Southeast University has some functional deficiencies. Space for daily routines such as self-study, discussion, reading, fitness, sports, recreation and meals are scattered inside the campus, even loaded by some single-function buildings outside the campus. The renewal of more integrated independent teaching method and the need for a higher level of lifestyle make the old campus out of date. Teachers and students shuttle back and forth in the campus every day and it costs a lot. Dotted functional space fails to form a compound living and learning environment, which can’t make students live an energetic and dynamic college life in the new era. Activity Spaces on campus
Architecture heritage on the site
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Gym&Hall for lectures (1930s)
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EXELLENT WORK OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Badminton Gym at present
Beautiful facade of the gym
To design a dynamic activity space with compound functions
2018 Studio Work Collaborative Work (Undertaking concept design, detail design of the part of sports center) Location: Nanjing, China Tutor: Associate Prof. Zhijiang YANG
"Restoration and extension of the gym"
Noting that the old-style learning space has the following features: scattered, independent and unconnected, and a single building with a single function, inefficient and time-consuming for students and faculty to travel from place to place, as well as lacking a campus atmosphere.
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Background Information Located in the old campus of Southeast University, the project is to revitalize the campus. As an old campus standing from the Republic of China period to today, it has many problems under its elegance. The lack of modern learning space for teachers and students and the old fitness facilities make it difficult for them to enjoy a high-quality learning and living environment. The monotonous and scattered learning and activity space are difficult to form a dynamic atmosphere that a modern campus owns. In order to improve this current situation, the project aims to expand the old gymnasium on the west side of the campus, trying to design it into a comprehensive facility integrating learning and sports functions, revitalizing the lifeless campus.
the new-style learning space should have the following characteristics: entralized and complex facilities, with well-organized functions inside, which can meet various needs of teachers and students concurrently presenting extensive atmosphere and high efficiency. .
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1. Integrated into the site with low entity, new buildings keep distance from the old gym and face the long-standing juniperus chinensis.
2. The main large space is embedded in the old gym with transparent volume, connecting the new and old buildings.
3. Inside the large space, the elevation is lowered and raised to form a continuous rising space.
4. The other functions and auxiliary functions are distributed in a semicircle around the central space to enrich the surrounding body. 6
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From the full-height large space we can see beautiful roof wooden trusses, along with wooden grilles that pass through the old wall. They form a rhythmic spatial lighting effect.
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Activity space for students' clubs The air corridor bridge connects the activity space left and right, and the activity room hangs like a small box. 7 .
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1. Equipment room 2. Storeroom 3. Pingpong room 4. Squash room 5. Lounge
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Interier of the gym--the core space The core space stretches from the fitness part to the old wall and then into the activity area of teachers and students, which respectively undertakes the most active functions of the space--ball playground and cafe. The bottom-up space enables the leisure crowds above to enjoy the ball games along the terrain. Meanwhile, the old wall has become the background wall of the playground below, and people can enjoy the scenery of the old wall while they are exercising. Around the atrium are many types of small space, and people doing exercise in the activity room can enjoy activities in the core large space above. When a largescale event is held, the badminton court can be used as an activity venue surrounded by the crowds, which forms an active and lively atmosphere. 9 .
Fitness Room
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The light passing through the curtain wall to the perforated patio creates an affecting spatial effect. .
People entering the stadium are guided to the main sports space by walls and stairs. .
Perspective drawing The drawing shows the arrangement of the core space surrounded by various functions from low to high. .
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3CO-LIVING COMMUNITY
Problem-oriented goals
Housing for the elderly and the youth&community renewal
"To provide comfortable conditions for the elderly and offer low-rent housing for the young"
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Relationships between the Elderly and the Young in Daily Routine It is found from the chart that as for relatively private behaviors, taking sleep as an example, the elderly sleep earlier than the young people, but cost more time to get up, which is quite different from the daily routine of the young people. Over mixed living mode may cause trouble to the elderly. For the daily meals, the time would overlap, and they can form a positive interaction of mutual assistance. For the most public social and exercise behaviors, due to the reason that young people go to work during the day, the elderly are the main users of public space, and the time after dinner is for social interaction and activities for both of them.From the chart, we can find that daily private behaviors are supposed to be separated to avoid mutual interference, and common social and activity space should be created for the two groups to form a positive interaction. 5:00
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STUDIO WORK OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
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2019 Studio Work (modified in 2020) Individual Work Location: Nanjing, China Tutor: Prof. Li BAO
Public EXERCISE SOCIAL ACTIVITY SITE
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Inside the community
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"Aging Process in Beiwei Rd. Community"
"Young Workers Moving into the District"
In the past 40 years, the rate of the aging population in the community has been increasing, and the growth rate has accelerated year by year. By 2020, the elderly population accounts for 24% of the whole community population. With the growth, the problem of less elderlyfriendly status in the community has become quite salient, the living of whom jumps to the priority in community governance.
With the introduction of high-tech industries in the urban area where the community is located, the floating population of migrant youths has been increasing in recent years, whereas the local high rent makes them flinch, and their housing problem can’t be ignored.
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In this project, the young and elderly groups are arranged in various layers to better organize the living space, so that both sides can live in an environment without interference. Sharing activity space is placed between the two layers to boost daily cooperation and social interaction. The ground floor is designed as a community centre, making up the missing functions of the old community.
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The community center on the ground floor is surrounded by two U-shaped volumes. There is a main entrance in the north and south sections respectively. The entrance foyer serves as the lobby of the residential part. An opening is formed between the two volumes, connecting the inner yard and the urban space, making the inner yard a part of the urban public activity space and traffic corridor while forming a belonging atmosphere and optimizing the experience of the ground urban space. The upper living space overlaps the elderly layer and the youth layer inserting the activity space with the functions of a public kitchen and sharing a living room between every two layers. And it sets single rooms without a kitchen near the sharing space, to facilitate the best use of this space by various people of different ages. Also, greening and leisure tables and chairs are placed on the platform for residents to enjoy sunlight and the outdoors.
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1. Place the volume.
2. The volume is cut to form the inner yard.
3. The upper and lower layers form a residential part and a community activity center on the ground floor.
Entrance Lobby
Located at the corner of the main road, the generation of the volume should consider the impact of its shape on the urban public space. The concession of the building height at the southwest and northeast corners can reduce its pressure on the street corners and internal spaces of the residential blocks, thus the platform formed can provide more sunlight and activity space for the elderly and young people. At the same time, the enclosed inner yard also can offer a peaceful outdoor recreation place for residents in the complex.
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4. Make a concession at the southwest and 5. Platforms are formed for residents, enjoying 6. Overlapping youth residential layer and elderly northeast corners in order to reduce pressure on sunlight and activities. residential layer are put into the shared spaces. the urban corners and residential interior space.
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Facade Design To distinguish the layer of the elderly, the layer of the young as well as their shared space, three different color themes are applied to each of them. As for the layersof elderly, the facade backs inside to create balconies and shadows. A slope ceiling is used in each balcony to address the facade indentation. While warm colors on the wood surface help the elderly to feel relaxed. In regard to the young's layer, the facade clings to the outline of the complex to have a contrary to the layer of elderly, while the color of the layers keep consistant to the cover of the whole upper living space. The shared spaces are the most acitve parts, therefore a bright color is used to address these spaces on the facade.
Shared Tearoom
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A 1. Lobby 2. Cafeteria 3. Activity space 4. Club room 5. Restaurant 6. Parking
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Corridor of the elderly's layer A wide corridor with seats and vegetations, which creates a relaxing and natural atmosphere for the elderly. .
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A-A Section The north and south volumes of the ground floor are enclosed. The east and west openings connect the inner yard and urban space and are used as non-vehicle parking lots. Both the north and south entrance spaces are integrated into the entrance hall of the parking lot. A mezzanine is set at the entrance hall and the community center entrance, which integrates the coffee shop on the ground floor, and the mezzanine becomes the fitness space or reading and meeting space. At the same time, restaurants and community activity areas are set on the long sides of the east and west sides. .
Entrance lobby A lobby for the community center as well as the apartment. The ground floor is placed with cafeteria in the left and the double height space in the middle could be a place for small scale exibitions or community activities. While the interlayer is placed with meeting and activity rooms as well as the community library. .
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Fifth Floor Plan Courtyard Scene The complex encloses a courtyard for the community center, which is connected with public space by two holes in the east and west side of the courtyard. The courtyard is organized with the center square connected by small squares near the curtain walls. People in the community can come to the center square through those small ones and paths with trees around. The corridors of upper apartment open to the courtyard and the elderly as well as the young could see the activities when they open their room doors. Besides, people having fun on platforms could also see the interesting activities in the courtyard.
Shared dining space
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Entrance area
Single room for the elderly
Single room for the young
A balcony is provided for the elderly to enjoy the sunlight outdoor. The interior is succinct to meet their daily needs and the entrance corridor is widened to form a resting area for the family.
Transform the sunny windowsill into a personal multifunctional resting space, integrating reading, work and rest together.
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Double room for the young
Strict room division is set for the elderly to meet their privacy needs, and a kitchen and living room is provided to meet their daily needs.
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4WINDOW OF MEMORY
Site Information&Spatial organization strategy
Cultural and Arts Center with a Concert Hall
Located in Gunan Street of Yixing City, which is backed by Shushan Mountain, the site is presented in an arc shape. The North Street, as the main street of tourist attractions, is full of purple clay workshops. In history, purple clay pots were made here and shipped to various places by water alongside the west river from the square on the south side of the North Street. The South Street is in chaotic after several demolitions and constructions last century, messed with self built houses, old houses, workshops and warehouses. The site is located at the end of the south street, facing the extension of the ancient street on the north side. The north and east sides of the site are close to the interior of the street, and the south side is connected with the main urban road. For the residents who have lived in Gunan Street, the cradle of Chinese purple clay culture for generations, their inner cultural identity and group cohesion are extensive. Therefore, when structuring the culture and art center, I want to structure the space with a core space symbolizing such features as the center surrounded by other activity spaces. The concert hall could undertake the role of a spiritual space.
SITE Overlook of the whole street The Site
EXELLENT WORK OF SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 2019 Studio Work Individual Work Location: Yixing, China Tutor: Associate Prof. Peng TANG . 1700
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The ancient street gradually developed from the north to the south, and the purple clay industry was flourishing.
The South Street was demolished and built on a large scale. The newly built peasant houses , factories and warehouses made a hybrid street.
The preservation work of the ancient street was launched to repair the North Street building complex and streetscape, while preserving the historical atmosphere along the ancient street.
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For the central core volume, the location of the site faces the extension of the ancient north street. From a high point of view, the winding extension of the ancient street and the landscape on both sides form a stunning view. If the concert hall, as the spiritual core, is opened to the ancient street, with the ancient streetscape as the background of the auditorium, it will surely forth a shocking spiritual experience.
As the site is adjacent to the ancient street, in order to maintain the continuity of the ancient street, the surrounding activity spaces are in a small volume to cater to the pattern of the ancient street. At the same time, an inner courtyard enclosed by the core main body and the surrounding small volumes is formed in the site.
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Ground Floor Plan For the central core volume, the location of the site faces the extension of the ancient north street. From a high point of view, the winding extension of the ancient street and the landscape on both sides form a stunning view. If the concert hall, as the spiritual core, is opened to the ancient street, with the ancient streetscape as the background of the auditorium, it will surely forth a shocking spiritual experience.
1. Rehearsal room 2. Art studio 3. Lobby 4. History research room 5. Office 6. VIP room 7. Tea room 8. Equipment room
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Inside the dark concert hall, every audience looks through the window in front of them onto the ancient street, the land where they have lived for generations and it is a symbol of their cultural spirit. .
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A-A Section The lower part of the concert hall is composed of the entrance hall and logistics office area. The audience arrives at the front waiting hall, at the back of the concert hall, through the escalator from the west entrance, and then enter the auditorium from the vestibule. The logistics personnel and performers leave the logistics area and go directly to the dressing room on the mezzanine under the auditorium of the concert hall for preparation, and then go through the corridors on both sides of the concert hall to enter the stage side. .
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Roof The south courtyard
Beam The north courtyard
Concert hall
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Activity Space
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Axonometric drawing The small building group scattering in the site creates an active open space for tourists and native residents. Alongside the pond, pavilions, cafeterias and corridors connecting them diversifies the public space on the ground floor. .
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5 OTHER WORKS
Selected studio works (2016-2020)
CALL FROM THE PAST 01 Restoration of a plant where centralized numerous Chinese labors in the 20th Century
2019 Studio Work (Exellent work) Collaborative Work/Undertaking concept design and 2/3 architectural design Location: Prato, Italy Tutor: Associate Prof. Peng TANG
PARASOL 02 SHINING Creative work of structure-oriented design 2019 Studio Work (Exellent work) Individual Work Location: Nanjing, China Tutor: Associate Prof. Bing XIA
POST HOUSE 03 WATERFRONT A waterfront post located in a historical and natural site
2018 Studio Work Individual Work Location: Nanjing, China Tutor: Zheng WANG
DRAWING 04 SURVEY Survey and draw the ancient traditional dwellings in Fujian Province
2020 Studio Work Individual Work Location: Qinshui, China Tutor: Associate Prof. Li XUE
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