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CHEN LI I PORTFOLIO

Architecture School, Zhengzhou University, No.100 Science Road,Zhengzhou 450000 Henan, P. R China Tel: +86 13676931861 Email: lichen@gs.zzu.edu.cn

Character of Urbanization

Contents

In the first decades of the 21st century, China is experiencing the most radical migration from rural to urban sites in the human history. Rapid urbanization is the inevitable trend that will bring lots of problems. Meanwhile, urbanization is the identification of human civilization. We should balance the good and bad aspects of urbanization, instead of losing the so-called identity in it.

Chapter I Stay---Beautiful Village

Chapter II Revisited---Downtown Renaissance

Chapter III Living Together---Urban Mountain

Chapter IV Equal Education---Migrant Children

Supplement Safety---Light Channel

Artwork

Chapter I Urbanization does not mean that countryside disappearing. If rural culture disappears, the urbanization will be monotonic. Chinese village is the manifestation of cultural diversity need protection. The process of urbanization should not at the cost of collapse of rural civilization and sacrificing of cultural heritage. Of course, the urbanization process may cause some problems for farmers. Rural civilization is different from city, which involves the lives, production, and spiritual problems of many farmers. Therefore, the urbanization of village must solve production problems. Bringing science and technology of modern civilization into the village and providing villagers with financial resources, villager will stay in the rural and the countryside culture will be saved. Chapter II Many cities are in the rapid expansion regardless of the update of old downtown in China. The old city has been in decline as a result of planning confusion and poor quality of construction. We have to face the problem of the old city renaissance. City prosperity is based on industrial economy, but its development should not at the cost of ignoring the culture relics, especially for the area of huge cultural value. In the first place, urbanization of current cities is to guarantee the high quality of downtown update, rather than expand blindly in size and population. As the previous center of city, only by retaining identity of culture could this area get its prosperity and activity back. The center of a city should possess characters both ancient and innovative. This is the significance of Xufu Street transformation. Chapter III Plato's thinking of city is still wandering. As a whole, in theory, a mature city should undertake and actually push the advance of people's psychology. In the principle of human development relevant of city , the city's man-made structures generate a critical impact on human thinking .In fact, not only the development of the modern city, but also the people’s spirit, are all imprisoned by the concrete. As social animals, human beings could not survive without interaction with others. This requires architects or planners put the people's well-being in the first place when design buildings or cities. People's feelings are usually intrigued by the installation of site in many cases. That is why I try to create interactive space in residential design to stimulate people's activities. Chapter IV Urbanization is not just of substance, but also of people. People going into the city must learn to appreciate the city's architectural civilized environment, use the city's public transport, communicate with strangers civilized, and even “dance” according to the rhythm of the city. And these all depend on that the "city men" change their stereotype and cognitive structure inherited from their ancestors. In the migration process, most adults come to the city accompanying with their young children. How to prompt migrant children to fit with new civilized environment? The basic education is the key to change migrant children’s ideology and adaptation. However, quite a part of migrant children have no access to school. It is necessary for planner to pay more attention to the basic education facilities. Enough education resource for children is perhaps the most fundamental driving force of urbanization. The more a person feels the city, the more complex of the city he will realize and the more confused he will feel. If urban construction only comes from the history, context, materiality entity, authenticity, we somehow cannot imagine that anything contemporary made by us contributes to our city. But it is indeed those factors make up our beautiful city and village. What I concerned is the rhythm between the surface and hidden, the reality and imagining, the contemporary and the eventually becoming history.

--Urban design of Village in Yanming Lake

--Protective Development of Xufu District

--Residential District Design of Urban Village

--Planning of School Distribution in Dengfeng City

--Nighttime Rescuet

Stay---Urban Design of Village in Yanming Lake Type: Academic Project Site: Zhongmu, Henan, China Date: 4, 2013-7, 2013 (12 Weeks Total) Land Scale: 560000 Sqm Tutor: Pro. Zhang Jiantao (jiantao@zzu.edu.cn) Role: Individual work In the process of village construction, efficient use of land is very important. In order to save resources, water-recycle technology is brought into the new village. Newtype village not only for locals but also attract tourists. 01

Stay in the Countryside

First-level administration

From the Soil -- The Foundations of Chinese Society Xiaotong Fei Chinese society is fundamentally rural. I say that it is fundamentally rural because its foundation is rural. We often say that country people are figuratively as well as literally "soiled" (tuqi). Although this label may seem disrespectful, the character meaning "soil" (tu) is appropriately used here. Country people cannot do without the soil because their very livelihood is based upon it.

By Phyllis Lin

Second-level administration Third-level administration

Fourth-level administration

Soil in the village is not only the basic for living but also is the carrier of nostalgia for every generation of Chinese. Only those who make a living from the soil can understand the value of soil. City dwellers scorn country people for their closeness to the land; they treat them as if they were truly "soiled." But to country people, the soil is the root of their lives. In rural areas, the god represented in the most shrines is Tudi, the god of the earth. Tudi is the god closest to human nature; Tudi and his wife are an old white-haired couple who take care of all the business of the countryside and who have come to symbolize the earth itself. When I went abroad for the first time, my nanny slipped something wrapped in red paper into the bottom of my suitcase. Later, she told me in private that if I had trouble getting accustomed to my new home and if I were too homesick, I should make some soup from the stuff wrapped in the red paper. In the package was dirt that she had scraped from her stove. I remember seeing a similar custom in a movie called A Song to Remember, which took place in Poland, an Eastern European agricultural country. It made me realize even more what an important role the earth plays and should play in a civilization like ours. No matter what the reasons, the basic unit of Chinese rural society is the village. I hope to find somewhere, people is farming on the land. Their life is in harmonious with farm season. Farmers are self-sufficient. They enjoy the advantage from modern society and avoid city problems.

Extra-large City

Large City

240

Medium City

258

Small City

Non-agricultural population>1,000,000

Non-agricultural population>500,000

Non-agricultural population>200,000

857

Urban District

369 1456

19683

12395

Standard Township

County-level City

1085

Ethnic Township

County

107

Sum

Designated Town

Non-agricultural population>100,000

The Administration Division and Amount of Divisions

Population Flow Direction

690,790,000 Urban Population 51.27%

300,000,000 Estimated New Urban Population During 2012 to 2030 24.73%

Excessive Pressure in the City

656,560,000 Rural Population 24%

Derelict Farm Land

Loss of Agricultural Labour

Urban Population

Rural Population

New Urban Population During 2012 to 2030

Data from Chinese government work report, 2012

Site

Inspiration Yanming Lake Village locates in rural-urban continuum areas, which endows it the double urban and rural resource advantage. Meanwhile, the internal base has numerous farmed fish ponds and wetlands water systems. Through site investigation, we hope to conduct an innovative design in this area with the employment of sustainable development mode achieved by researches on advanced theories, technology and experiences, to bring in the agricultural landscape and to create a low-carbon, green, environmental, energy-saving and ecological village. Our final goal is to encourage farmers to stay in their hometown and earn enough money by farming industry and tourism.

Background More and more rural land is used for city construction. Besides, the number of farmers who go to big cities for living rather than stay in their hometown continues to grow.

Ratio of rural land construction in the urbanization of China

Nature World

Human Society

Multi-functional Weaving

We hope to find a way to connect modern life with agriculture. The design combines the elements of farming and different functional areas of village by taking advantages of water. Tortuous channel morphology can maximize water contact area to carry more water, which is good to improve the work efficiency of water recycle system. At the same time, there are some underground water tanks in the functional groups, they act as the nodes in water recycle system. In addition, the river, as the carrier, links up with each functional area and village nodes.

Riverway Integration 05

Hydrology Strategy

Village Water System

1. Rain water

2. Classify and purify the rain water

4. Collect gray-water

5. Living Machine

Poultry Livestock

6. Planting and irrigating

The landscape system is connected with urban riverway

3. Domestic water

Fish Ponds

Building Water System

7. Landscape and road

Connect Purified water is sent back into fish ponds through physical absorption&biodegradation&plant uptake. Waste water is discharged into wet land.

Water-cycling A sustainable wetland system build ecological base matrix inside the internal land. This system is just like the sap and matrix of living cells, nourishing the growth and development of innovation function body. The scheme combines local existed wetland and fishpond resources to fully utilize surface water, rain and groundwater to realize the sustainable cyclic energy flow and conversion. 07

Space Strategy

Dynamic Change

District 1

The origin of “100+”: 10m*10m is construction module, which allows free combination, and sustainable change in the development process to guarantee the flexible and high-performance evolution to adapt to the requirement of development. “100+” module is also the material carrier of innovative operation models. This kind of management strategy allows farmers to achieve self-sufficiency. The scheme not only provides farmers enough farmland but also abundant fish ponds. They can develop fishery industry by taking advantages of fishpond-wetland. In addition, they can rent their spare room to tourists to earn more money.

Building Height Control

District 2 09

District 1 10

Intersection

Master Plan

Mall Street

Corridor

Theme Park

Business

Residence

Residence Tourism Housing

Landmark

Theme Park

Waterfront

Overhead Footpath

Sand Road

Waterside Terrace

Fishing

Waterside Footpath

Tiny terrain crops

Revisited---Protective Development of Xufu District Type: Practical Project Site: Kaifeng, China Date: 11, 2012-1, 2013(12 Weeks Total) Land Scale: 78593 Sqm Building Area: 44071 Sqm Tutor: Pro. Wang Xia (wangxiaupzzu@163.com) Role: Team leader Contribution: Concept Design, Space Update, Industry Update, Diagram Drawings, Case Study, SU Modeling, Rendering The design revives decaying downtown by combining traditional urban texture with modern development requirement. Interesting street and space will attract more people and prompt block vitality. High-valued industry also plays a key role in downtown renaissance. 15

Site Condition

Location Kaifeng is a city with stories. The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival of Mr. Zhang Zeduan in Earlier Song Dynasty which recorded the living scene of citizens in Kaifeng City has left people a deep impression. In Earlier Song Dynasty, the government cancelled the curfew policy, which led to the frequent trade business. From then on, Kaifeng City has become a top-notch commercial and trade city at that time and its economy has been prosperous from then on. Thus, we considered how to immerse the history and culture of Kaifeng in this location to reset the original look of the city and revive the memory through updating and stimulating spaces and reshape the flourishing economic business scene.

Early states of the old world

However, the GDP rank of Kaifeng was 13/18 in Henan Province in 2013, it was not a good performance in city economy development. It has been very important to solve the problem of decline in the traditional downtown. The location is in the central axis of the city, which enjoys the significant regional advantage in both transportation and culture. The scheme employs the design process of “status survey - contextual study - architectural conservation - feature inheritance - spatial updating – industry activation - partition development” to realize the aim. Chinese eight ancient capital cities

Commerce Public Traffic Dwellings

Historical Guild Hall

Dwellings

Historical Relics

Commerce

Cradle of Chinese ancient culture

SITE

PROSPERITY

Retail Update

Commercial Renaissance

Vitality

Tourism Protect

Sense of Belonging

Inherit the Culture Context

Downtown area of Kaifeng

Song Dynasty

Urban Fabric Optimization

5m Street

10m Courtyard

Optimizing Strategy

15m Public Building

20m Special Building

According to typology, abstracting texture module from traditional urban layout and then using these modules as prototype of public space of block and form of architecture.

Public Space

Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival

In the Song Dynasty, the city form of Kaifeng had been developed very well, and the city life was full of vitality. Through the measurable analyze, unscrambled the character of the delineative street sighting of Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival, we can extract several kinds of city space scales, such as street scale, yard scale and public building scale. Using the similar space scale not only benefit downtown renaissance but also inherit the traditional culture.

Process

Arouse Block Activity

Step I

Step II

Renewal strategy

Current Situation

S M

Grids network

Building Scale Classification

Entrance

Increase Entrance

Road Net

Systematize Road Net

Chinese Traditional Opera Area

High-end Consumption Area Culture-related Resort Hotel Area Commercial Area Historical Site Leisure Business District

Characteristic Walking Street

Road network

Functional Zone

Protection Plan of Historical Relics

Vitality System

General Key

Public Space

Increase Public Space

It is an effective strategy to change the decline of old downtown by reforming conventional industry and increasing block activity. First, the introduction of high-end industries stimulates investment and tourism development. The project divides development of modern industry into 4 phases in order to make full use of existing resource and reach sustainable develop strategy. Second, the excellent road system and green system attract more people and retain people to arouse the block activity. Attractive commercial shop and interesting public space promote each other during the development process in the downtown.

Develop Sequence

Master Plan

Phase I

Shanshangan Guild Hall District

Distinctive Commercial Pedestrian Street

Phase II

Phase III

Attract Tourists

Phase II

Luxury Consumption District

Phase III

Modern Museum District

Establish New Urban Commercial Center

Phase IV

Invite Investments

Quadrangle Dwellings

Retain Tourists

Street

Alley

Building

Courtyard

Architecture Inherit and Update

Architecture Symbols of Song’s building in Kaifeng

Elevation Styles of Song’s building in Kaifeng

Architecture is the physical carrier of historical context in the city development. In order to inherit the characteristics of Song’s building in Kaifeng, we extract typical symbols from existing building. Second, we organize the building layouts according to courtyard pattern. Historical relics are the important parts in this block so it is essential to protect them. Most of new buildings try to inherit Song’s context by imitating its building style.

Living Together---Residential District Design of Urban Village Type: Academic Project Site: Zhengzhou, China Date: 5, 2012-7, 2012 (8 Weeks Total) Land Scale: 16460 Sqm Building Area: 35150 Sqm Tutor: Cao Yang Role: Individual work Seeking an appropriate way to reconstruct urban village and improving the quality of life of citizens. Enough public space among buildings is the key factor prompting interaction between residents.

Photo by Yongliang Yang, Chian

Site

Concept

Hampering and Promoting

Wall

Distance

Composition of Population

Highway

Building Condition

Building Density

Public Space Height of Plane

Background Urban village is the common result following city development and expansion. Because of cost less to live here, Urban village attract many people to come, which result in high density. The interesting thing is, instead of creating a close neighborhood, resident in Urban Village have little interaction to each other because they are not familiar with each other. And in the absence of public space in this area, the situation becomes even worse. Thte Urban Village turns out to be a large scale of Cage Homes in HongKong.

Bisection and Share

Neighborhood Relationship is limited in the modern high-rise residence and communication is decreased among people who live in the city with great pressures. The design breaks traditional high-rise residence pattern, which is vertical extension. It trys to arrange flats into horizontal development pattern. This new form provides residents with public space and stimulates neighbor behaviors. By providing more resting flatforms in the buildings, people would enjoy a more open living style.

Direction of Enclosure

Form of Space

CFD Analysis

Block Develop

Prototype

Rotation

Torsion

Lift

Bottom 1-5F

Open

Concept Practice

Middle 6-10F

Terrain

Block

Bisection

Enclosure

Detial

High 11-15F

Bringing in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chinese gardenâ&#x20AC;? to express my understanding of life and show desire for nature. In order to prompt interaction, the design combine traditional neighborhood with modern residence, and create a series of building form like mountain to surround the base. Dwelling units grown in the building with enough growing space. The growing space is the public interaction space. Residents could spend their spare time in those public space rather than locked themselves in home.

Form Generate

Taking the big yard and irregular form into account, I analyzed the wind environment by CFD. I find this form not only meet the requirement but also have a better performance than general high-rise residence. To some extend, this residence group could save energy used to ventilation.

Phase I 33

Phase II

Phase III 34

Bisection Space

9F Shared Sapce

6F 5F 7F

Vertical Traffic Core

7F 7F

50m2

80m2

Connect rest platform and multifunctional space

Vertical Core

Connect two recreational Sports platforms

Connect two rest platforms

9F 8F

9F 9F

Load-bearing structure

Open stairwell for leisure 8F

50m2 9F

5F 6F

Load-bearing structure and Piping layout 8F

Vertical Core

Shared Space

Vertical Core Vertical Core

Variablity of House Type Massing

Structure

Unit

Resident

Bachelor

Young couple+One child

Young couple+One child+Pets

Middle-aged couple+Adult children

Joint family

Young lovers

One old people+One child

Middle-aged couple

Middle-aged couple+Pets

Shared accommodation

Equal Education---Planning of School Distribution in Dengfeng City Type: Practical Project Site: Dengfeng, China Date: 3, 2014-6, 2014(16 Weeks Total) Tutor: Pro. Liu Shaojun Role: Team leader Contribution: Investigation, Data collection and analysis, Questionnaire survey, Update school distribution. According to Urban and Rural Planning Law and Managerial Technique Standard, the project comes up with a more reasonable planning for every community in Dengfeng City. Based on large amounts of data statistics, we predict the community population and migrant children ratio. The planning aims at to meet the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s educational requirement in every community. Only solving the education problem can the urbanization achieve the real success. 41

Background The amount of migrant children is increased fast recent years, however, the educational facilities are added slowly. Many migrant children cannot attend a school due to this kind of deficiency. So this special planning is aimed at to solve this problem. According to master planning and population change in every community, we adjust the existing school and add a number of schools in the area to meet the requirement of migrant children.

Density of Population Mobility in the World

Dengfeng is a famous tourist city for its S h a o l i n Te m p l e i n Henan province. There are large numbers of migrant populations in this city, at the same time, those people bring their children to the modern city for a better education.

Community Population

23303

20475 31957

23397

Current School Distribution

13230 2902512488

33344 11485 14899

7112 15729 13345 35522 21498 23708

9982 1767416547 9667 26193 39583 13745 2892 16558 12011

5748 15632

12052 9093

12696

161632

7902

837

1851861 373 173 2381 2907

185

672 2454 2704 515 852 2253 862

425 731

127

196

Site Service radius Primary School Unit

20255

78614

20126

8242 17343 59019

25760

63465

39583

40587

71095

22366 23959

Primary School

1203

12696

2431 2586 967

1899

2370

7902 Site Service radius Middle School Unit

2802

896 1397

2795 Middle School

Pupil---80/thousand people Middle school student---50/thousand people High school student---30/thousand people

Planning of Primary School

Number of Students 1620

1620

1620 1620

1620

810

1350

1620 1080 1350

1350

810 1620

1080

1350 1350 1080 1080 1350 810 810 1350 1080 1080

1080

1350 540 1350

1350

1350 1350 1350 1080

1350

1080

Retain existing Reconstruction New construction

Planning of Middle and High School

Number of Students 1800 1200

1800 Retain existing-High school New construction-High school Retain existing-Middle school New construction-Middle school

3000

1800

1200 3000 1200

3000

1200 900 600

1800

1500

1800

3000

1800

1200

3000

1200

600

1800

Supplement Nighttime Rescue

2012 UA Creation Award & International Concept Design Competition—“live” Building in UA city Type: Academic Project Date: 12.2012 (2 Weeks) Tutor: Gu yi Team partner: Zhang Wenzhen

Earthquake at night Earthquake happens between 19 pm and 6 am more frequently than daytime----about 70% earthquake occurred during night according to the statistics. Analyzing from astronomy uranology and physics, the power of earthquake outburst influenced by the moon gravity which is acted as the incentive factor.

Concrete wall

Inside chemical luminescence light source Transparent concrete

We hope to provide people with chances to the maximum within 72 hours after earthquake.

Relationship between occur time of earthquake and death caused by damaged building.

More Damage at night Human’s ability of reaction is weak at night for people are in the unconsciousness condition, so it is harder for one to escape and be rescued when earthquake break out at night.

Epicenter distribution between 1900 to 2000 during the daytime

Vision Importance It is hardly to keep the electric light work during the earthquake and about 87% of information from out-side is collected by eyes, which leads about 75%-90% of human reaction, so constructing the light environment would be very important during earthquake.

Light Channel for Escape 51

Epicenter distribution between 1900 to 2000 during the nighttime

Signal activates the system for slight earthquake

Chemical cold light source is emplanted in the channel to create light channel for rescue.

Activating system by signal

Chemical Illumination

Section of Wall

For Excape

When earthquake break out, the system be activated by the shake like the light stick, creating the light channel for escape. Implanting chemical cold light source into the wall, replace the electric light source during emergency based on the mechanism of glow stick.

For Repair

Light emit from the crevice warms it should be repaired.

For Rescue

If the buildings collapse, light emit from the broken walls creating the light environment for rescure. 53

Chemical cold light source, based on the chemical mechanism of glow stick, also called Oxalic acid ester and hydrogen peroxidesystem, could greatly increase the uminance and endurance by using the High Energy High Polymer Material as reactant.

The luminance, endurance and color of the chemical cold light source could be determined by the component of reactant and its quantity. According to the principle of the conservation of energy, Light intensity and time is inversely proportional when the reactant is invariant. Most chemical cold light source could work more than 20hours.

Light Environment for Rescue Broken walls activate the system to give out light after violent earthquake 54

Artwork