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Selected by the school journal as possible publication Program: Superblock Development Critic: Jeffrey Johnson 7
Super Block in Beijing The aim of the studio is study the formation and function of the residential super block which is the cell of city during the rapid urbanization in China, especially in Beijing. China is experiencing a rapid economic growth as well as real estate development. The super block with its tremdous size and complicated functionality, is a major form of real estate develpment. However, problems rise as the protection of arable land stands in the way. As the servere lost of the arable land is greatly threatening the food supply, government has issued several documents to ensure the ratio of the arable land to urban development. In this project, such confliction will be discussed as the main focus.
Protection of Arable Land
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Urbanization
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Given Land The traditional agrarian model starts with a plane rice paddy.
Partition The land is divided into several parts in order based on the labor worked in the paddy.
Redidence Redidential houses are located on the perimeter.
Public Space A shared public space is located in the middle.
High rise residence Instead of doing several low sprawling residence,high rise are preferred in order to save land.
Shared Public Spaces The original Shared public communication spaces are located at the ground level.
Elevated Public Spaces The Shared publci spaces are elevated to free the ground level as well as to suit the highrise.
Elevated Public Spaces The Shared publci spaces are elevated to free the ground level as well as to suit the highrise.
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Infrastructure Supporting Agriculture To solve the confliction between urbanization and the prection of the Arable land, the proposal is aiming at transforming the architecture elements into infractures supporting agrarian plantation. While designing a farm in the city, a lot of problems rises such as the heavy air pollution, the water shortage and the position of the rice paddy. The diagram shows that how the city could be connected through different ecological systmes and how the conventional architecture component could serve a ecological funciton.
Sand Storm Front
Rain Collector
Rain Collector
Sand Storm Front
Residential Towers with Trees
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Rain Collector
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Water Collecting Pond
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Air Filteration Living Rooms
Living Rooms
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The trees growing in the building help to fillter the air. With vegetation s all filled within the building, a new way of living shared with plants is provided
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Water Treatment
Living Rooms
Living Rooms
Living Rooms
Living Rooms
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In the summer, water recycling is a priority. Intead of using pipes and plants to fillter the water. Using plants can recycle the water while providing a landscape.
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Interaction Within such system, different interaction bewteen people and environment can be found. The proposal is home for both the city develpment as well as the agrarian growth.
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Urban + Farm On the ground level, the rice paddy can serve as a plantation ground as well as play ground.The public facilities are located in the peeled-up spaces. People are living in the redidentail towers.
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In the third stage, the left-over is going to be the memorial. What I want to create is the museum within the archieve. By traceing the the use-to-be public spaces, the walking experience is going to recall the dewellers the life after the disater.
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Kitchen Exhibition Ctitic: Nicola Twilley Imagined Kitchen Design
Traditional Chinese cooking requires 8 steps: picking up the food, classifying the food, storing the food, cleaning the food, chopping the food, temperary storage for adding salt and pepper, cooking the food, cleaning the utensils. Traditionally, food are stored in a closed fridge. By reversing it, problems mentioned in the previous page could be solved. Based on the storage conditions, different fruits and vegetables are classified into different cubes. Also, the cube could also serve as other functions for the kitchens. The impoved circulation include a harvest table in. Also, the storage cabnets are classified into different catalogues including washing and choping, the flow of the cook-
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Parametric Building Facade Design 1 Selected by the School Journal as Possible publication
The proposal is aiming at designing a bay terrace system which applied only to office buildings with ocean view. Such system skirts around the perimeter of the target building, proving spaces for creation activities. The scale of each cell or unit is determined by various conditions such as sunlight, wind velocity and the view of the ocean. Ideally, the bay terraces will serve as a self-adaptive system which responds to each unique conditions.
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Parametric Building Facade Design 2 Selected by the School Journal as Possible publication
The Proposal is aiming at design a parametric self-controllable shading facade. The parameter is controlled by the angle and movement of the sun. The adaption of the basic trianglar form is to meet the need of constructional stability.
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Maya Animation: Traditional Chinese Village Selected by the School Journal as Possible publication
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