SELECTED WORKS DANNI LUO 2015-2018
QUID PRO QUO Academic Work|RMIT University Group work|Danni Luo & Michael Strack Contribution: Concept Design|3D Modelling|Rendering|Drawings Feb - Jun, 2018 Tutor: Carey Lyon, Adam Pustola, Nick Bourns Site: Melbourne City Award for Design Excellence 2018 for Master of Architecture, RMIT
This design proposes a law school of the global university that adopts an immersive ‘no campus‘ model where student social /education/resource and education spaces are placed alongside and within the existing city fabric and economy. In times past the theatre of the court played out in shifting and open streets, but as time went on the public began to be seen as a threat to the court, and so the court has become closed off from the world. Nowadays our only real connection to the court is through media and third-hand sources. For this law school, we propose an alternative model to this. We propose a return to an open legal tradition of theatre and oratory. We maintain that there is a confluence between the theatre of the street, and the theatre of the courtroom, and this project is, in a sense, a machine for connecting these two things.
SITE PLAN
In order to keep intimacy between institution and city, the project exists in two directions. Along the length of the project one may stay continuously within the institution, along the width, however, one may duck in and out at any point. For most people the law school forms a short and sharp interruption in the process of a normal walk, from North to South.
Rather than massing out a whole block as a university, our project seeks to bind city and university together, and use the difference in between to build the intensity and diversity. The nature of the strip ensure continual contact - the university and the city are different, but intertwined together.
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PERSPECTIVES I: New White Hart Lane II: City Roottop
GROUND FLOOR PLAN Intersection of Laneways Intersection of University and the City
I: New White Hart Lane: the school forms a short and sharp
interruption in the process of a normal walk along the existing laneways, from North to South, to keep intimacy between institution and city. II: City Rooftop: it is where students and the public can find a moment of peace - a moment out of the city, a moment
out of the city, a moment spent in between greater objects. Ground Floor Plan: The school exists as a linear strip inserted through the existing city - not ever taking up a whole block, or even a whole street frontage, but rather existing by surprise in between greater parts of the city.
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PERSPECTIVES I: Intersection: Moot Court II: Library
The CUT PLAN Intersection of Laneways Intersection of University and the City
Moot Court on Street: An additional court to the entry one with informal seating where the actors of the street and the court may begin to coexist. The ceiling of this space is joined to a fly tower used to serve the space above. The Library: A generous open space connected above
and below, with double helix stair providing circulation through. It is here that each scholar can find a temporary room of their own for the noble pursuit of legal study, writing and transcription.
THE EXPOSED Academic Work Jul - Oct, 2017|RMIT University Group work|Danni Luo, Zheyi Xue&Tian Xie Tutor: John Doyle Site: Medini, Malaysia
Looking into city skyscrapers, although they are the unignorable urban component, they are usually segregated from the urban environment. We wanted to transform the city tower into a new typology by extracting industrial elements and inserting those into a typical office building, which might move beyond the traditional formula of a seamless, glossy volume, and instead actively engages the city through openness. The moment space and industrial elements are exposed to add permeability to the building. Thus it can embrace the surrounding urban fabric rather than overpowering it. This project proposed a high-density tower featuring an LCD factory, the electric car process, a power plant as well as google campus office.
Power Station
LCD Factory
Typicall Office
Climbing
Site and programs
Expose the tower
PRODUCTION
Industrial elements
Tesla Parking Tower
OFFICE
RECREATION
Tesla Assembly Line
Landscape
Generation diagram
THE EXPOSING MOMENT: TESLA ASSEMBLY LINE
PODIUM
Car Exhibition
Office Space The electric car production ramp also stretches into office space and creates a special indoor office space.
The Moment and Tesla The outdoor terrace blurs the edge of the office with a stacked surface, and the car production ramp goes around the public space.
Sky Park A sky park is designed in the voids between the power plant and office which features a stunning overview of the city.
The Moment and LCD The scattered box space interacts with the vertical LCD process via sight conversation, providing outdoor public space.
Tesla Factory
Entrnce Plaza
The car ramp goes around the office with staircases inserted in between where people can access the production line.
The entrance plaza connects the city park with the tower, which opens up the bottom space of the building.
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PERSPECTIVES I: Office and LCD Process II: Entrance Square
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PERSPECTIVES III: Tesla Factory IV: The Moment: LCD Process
FLOOR PLAN
SECTION
WAITING Academic Work Feb - Jun, 2017|RMIT University Individual work Tutor: Amy Muir Site: Melbourne City
WAITING is about the health clinic in Melbourne CBD which forms the in-between condition between aliments, sickness and the hospital, investigating its role within society as a community construct. This project proposed to deinstitutionalize the clinic and maximize the potential of being engaged with the public. Instead of an enclosed, segregated waiting area, the waiting space itself can be part of the healing factor. Referring to the precedent Amsterdam Orphanage, the clinic is designed out of two modules, a smaller one for consultation space and a larger one for community space. With the units of programs laid out on an orthogonal grid, the waiting space forms a fluid connection between different programs.
DESIGN INTERATIONS
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ELEVATION I: East Elevation II: South Elevation
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PERSPECTIVES III: From Entrance IV: From Treasury Garden
SCENIC EXHIBITS South China Folk Museum Design Academic work Individual work Sep - Oct 2013|SCUT Tutor: Jun Miu Site: Guangzhou, China
This museum design project considers scenic views and courtyards as part of exhibits, integrating the typical museum circulation with the circulation of traditional Chinese courtyards. This project proposed two specific circulations. The normal one connects all the exhibits, while the other one lets visitors experience all the courtyards and views outside. These two interacted circulations are sometimes separated and sometimes coincident, which gives visitors various choices to have different space experience. Referring to traditional Chinese courtyards, the scenarios, and views changes while visitors wandering in the museum, constituting a sequential spatial experience based on the dimension of time.
Courtyard
Different levels for different views of the scenery outside.
Exhibition Vertical
Courtyard, landscape platform, corridor and tea house beside the exhibits.
Multi-storey courtyard for sightseeing and rest, bringing inside greens and lights.
Central courtyard surrounded by exhibition rooms with framed views.
CIRCULATION
COURTTARD AND EXHIBITION
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Ground Floor Plan 1. Exhibition room 2. Souvenir shop 3. Tea house 4. Lecture hall 5. Office
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BEYOND RENEWAL Academic work Jul - Oct, 2018|RMIT University Individual Work Tutor: Brent Allpress Site: Footscray, Melbourne
Having welcomed wave after wave of immigrants, Footscray is made up of a collection of vibrant multicultural communities, which enables the city to become a hybrid complex of diverse practices. This narrative is being eroded by the urban renewal projects that discount the fine grain nature and produce exclusionary, homogenous urban places. This proposal is against the typical gentrification, negotiating between suburban intensification and local multicultural nature. The result is a mixed-typology block that is experienced and understood as a multi-layered combination of elements, not as a singular entity. Diverse programs are mixed up and interact with each other in terms of scales, types, void connections and material conditions, thus writing new narratives that talk to the context.
Taking the market laneway as the catalyst of integrating different programs, a ray of passages running across the site are suggested, which breaks up the scales of buildings to respond to the local fine grain nature, creating an accessible block where intensity is built upon difference.
A canopy condition along the middle walkway is proposed, to create kinda transition space of the in and out, that blurs the distinction between different programs.
A HYBRID BLOCK WITH MULTI-LAYERED ELEMENTS
ENTRANCE OF LOCAL MARKET
COMBINATION OF VARIED ELEMENTS
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
THE LANEWAY
THE CANOPY CONDITION
GROUND FLOOR PLAN
UNIT A
UNIT B
SECTION
UNIT C
ECO-INTERPENETRATION Academic Work|SCUT Group work of 4 Contribution: Concept Design|3D Modelling|Rendering|Diagrams|Competition presentation in NUS Feb - Jun, 2015 Tutor: Yiqiang Xiao Site: Xinxing Harbor Village, Hainan, China "Aoyi" Architectural Scholarship 2nd Prize, 2015 Finalist and Recognition of Participation of DRIA international competition, 2015
The wetland ecosystem in China has been severely damaged in the past several decades, especially the coastal wetlands, which caused severe environmental and economic problems to coastal fishing villages including Xinxing Harbor Village. Our design is based on the resilience of ecosystem and recover the coastal wetland ecosystem to its original natural state and let it interpenetrated with the community, which would endow the community natural resilience in light of natural disasters. We establish a complete community system based on the two borders between the village and nature—the “Sea Border” and the “Farmland Border”—to let nature interpenetrated with the community. We grow mangroves along the “Sea Border” which becomes a natural barrier resistant to disaster, and also helps improve the coastal environment and increase biodiversity.
Aegiceras corniculatum
2015 Seawall
Barren Tidal Flat
Garbage
Fish died
Avicennia marina
2017 Eco levee with rock
Ponds
Planting Mangrove seedling
2024 Wetland ecosystem
Microbes and plankton
Aquaculture
Fish come back
2028 Boardwalks in mangroves
Mangrove wetland
Aquaculture
Fishing
Ostrea and crabs
COASTAL STRATEGY
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Mangroves
Knitting net and drink tea
Experience fishing
Aquaculture
Sightseeing
Birds
Fishing pier
Bird Offshore fishing Experience fishing
Experience fishing Sightseeing
Knitting nets nets and and chat chat Knitting Mangroves
Aquaculture
Shrim
Mangrove litter
Oyster
phytoplankton phytoplankton
Fish Plankton Organic detritus Nereis
Microbes Microbes
Ecological Embankment Embankment Ecological
URBAN SYSTEM
URBAN SYSTEM
Based on the mangrove strategy, we proposed a new system based on the two bor-
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build constructed wetland with new drainage system along the farmland in light of disaster and pollution.
River flow delta
Mangrove Mangrove Belt
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Constructed Wetland
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Drainage System
Drainage System
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Road System
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New Buildings New Residence Plan New residences are planned New residences are planned based on the special “comb-like” urban based on the special “comb-like” fabric for shadow and ventilation site plan for shadow and ventilation
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SITE PLAN
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On Mangroves
This section of the village shows the how community and nature are interacted, as well as various people's activities.
Sightseeing Aquaculture Maintaining mangroves Fishing Pier
Boardwalks on mangroves provide places for visitor's sightseeing as well as aquaculture, both of which would give villagers new income.
Coastline Drying fish and nets Drinking tea Mending nets Chatting Tourists sightseeing
Inside Village
New Road
Rebuilding houses Drinking tea Chatting Taking a walk Children playing
Heaping crops Watering plants Sightseeing
Raised Road Wetland
Bridge
Canal
Spetic Grille well tank Vegetation Clay Sand Rubble Pebble Cinder
Wetland Construction
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LOW-TECH CONSTRUCTION
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A child care community building is proposed for the village, which not only provides shelter for unattended children but also the shelter for the homeless during flooding. The building is designed based on low-tech construction method which and allows villagers to construct it by
themselves. Environmentally friendly materials including bamboo and construction waste are used for a lower cost. The elevated platform provides activity space during peacetime and ensures safety during a disaster.
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MULTI-FUNCTION
Multi-functional transition space is designed for various activities: I Daytime Kindergarten II Recreation III Shelter for Homeless