PORTFOLIO OF DIAN YU B.Urban Planning , SCUT Selected Works 2013-2017
Acknowledgement
I woud like to thank all that have been helping me and ecouraging me all along, including Mr. Miaoxi Zhao, Mr. Jihang Xu, Mr. Xinhong Zheng, my studio advisors Jingheng Lao, Ran Yang, my friends Huang Qiu, Min'an Wu, Xinwei Chen, Yanbai Li, Wenhan Wei, Ximing Zhou, Jianqi Li, Yixuan Qiu‌ and most importantly, my parents. This portfolio cannot be done without their sincere suggestions and support.
Recreation of Suprematic Composition,Kazimir Malevich Malevich abstracts existing realities into consitutive form.Reality is reduced to a few thick black lines and geometric motifs.The recreation attempt to put the motifs into certain context.
Prologue
Malevich pursued Supermatism,he painted a series of paintings Suprematic Composition in early 20 century.His paintings completely abandoned the semantic and descriptive part of painting, and the presentation of threedimensional space as well.He used the most simple geometric space with unrestrained composition to deconstruct space, forming a rotating or centrifugal movement.The flat geometry in his painting is so pure that some would say it does not have any sense of volume and depth. However, in my point of view, Malevich's exploration of relationship among shape, color and space has quite profound meaning. In the left painting, different-size geometrical shapes vary in lines, colors or any other elements. They are staggered, overlapped or avoided by each other. Regard the painting as a plain space.Two thin lines in the center split the space in four parts.The upper part seems more stable than the lower. The big black block is like a deep pit while the red circle is like a giant tower. Oblate parallelograms stand like a wall forest. I found that I naturally regard the thin blue line as a deep gap while the light yellow one is a high boundary to me. So, maybe the color (warm or cold) is represents the concave and convex of the space? Maybe the direction of each line is pointing to some infinite space out of scene? I think the simpleness of geometry is not crudity. on the contrary, as Ventury says, "Good simpleness brings diversity". Geometry itself is an exaggeration of high formality with clear boundaries,all experiences and emotions blend in this enclosure. The utilzation of geometry can be various and rich, as well as further deformations,cuts collisions.This portfolio is a discussion on geometry based on the views above.
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Circle as Enclosure
Strip as Partition
Square as Enclosure
Bar as Corridor
Warm Color as Convex
Rhomboid as Wall Cold Color as Concave
Contents
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Grids on Bulk
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Tri-Angle
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Geometry Agglomeration
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Half of BIRD(Beloved Inactive Residential District)
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Other Works
Renovation Project for Sugar Refinery in Guangzhou,China
Iron Museum Design in Anshan,China
Village Kindergarten Design in Guangzhou,China
Elderly Community Center Design of Beijing Hutong Reventing
Cube4 -Art Exhibit, Art Exhibition of SCUT, 2016 To-Life-Journey -Art Installation, Art Exhibition of SCUT, 2014
01 Grids on Bulk Renovation Project for Sugar Refinery SCUT 2017 Spring Instructor: Miaoxi Zhao(SCUT) Individual Work
Due to the complicated history, Chinese industrial experienced a bumpy development course. The industrial buildings' styles under such circumstance is various as well. Starting from Chinese Westernize Movement, a lot of factories introduced western-style buildings while introducing their advanced technology, most of which is classical and complex at that time, including this project, Huaqiao Sugar Refinery (HSR) in Guangzhou, China.
Buildings in HSR includes traditional Chinese style soviet style and so on. The project studys HSR's history and finally experimentally endows the old, disordered and differentstyles buildings in the site with a unified, systematic form of grids in contrast, reorganizing the site as well as upgrading the functions.The combination modes between the “girds” and the “bulk” is actually a reflection of the old and the new, the complex and the pure.
Huaqiao Sugar Refinery Experienced Vicissitudes Huaqiao Sugar Refinery is located beside a river bank in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province,witnessing historical changes of Chinese industry.HSR was the product of Westernization Movement in China,and reached its pinnacle in the late 1970s. After the Reform and Opening Up, the rapid development of new industries made Chinese sugar mines lose their advantages
of labor force and cropland, gone declined one after another,including HSR.HSR finally moved out and changed its operation mode.Although reconstructed as Tangren Cultural Wharf in recent years,the site is surrounded by people with low education level, this area are lack of development conditions to serve as a cultural place.The cultural wharf shut down in only 2 years.
1. The Westernization Movement in China promotes a series of industries' establishment. 2. HSR gradually began to refine raw sugar and handle export trade. Site Location
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TImeline of the HSR's Development The Refinery have experienced rise and fall in 20 century, peaking at 1970s and waning at 1990s.Its vicissitudes were closely related with Chinese great historic changes.
2015: Wharf Shut Down
Fluctuate&Decline
2015 2013: Reconstruction As Culture Wharf
Slump
2010 2010: Relocation
Uprising
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1999: Halt Production
1978: Policy of Reform&Opennig
Start-Up
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1958: Begin Importing
1955: Establishiment
1949: Founding of New China
Westernization Movement Preparation
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3. HSR imported a lot of western advanced machines.
4. The reconstructed Cultural Wharf became ghost town and shut down as well.
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During the process of learning from the West,HSR borrowed a lot of western-style buildings.The building are messy and complex with both industrial style and Soviet style coexisting.,casually scattering in the site.
Seeing the potential for renovation, the design attemptes to rearrange the complicated features in this site and rebuild the area and to restruct traffic flows on a grid basis.
Mapping in Grid Imagine the buildings and structures are overlaped by a grid which gives the site organization and structure. The original structures can fit in the simple grid despite their complex appearances,with which the new artificial girds added will bring a style collision.
Storage
Engine
Dormitory
Recreation Center
Pressing Factory
Extracting Factory
Pressing Factory
Canteen
Extracting Factory
Exporting Storage
Administration
Storage
Sugaring
Business
Materials
Compress
Recept
Dorm
Recreation
Inspect
Power Visit Refine
Staff
Factory
Office
Catering
Canteen
Pack
Business Sell
Dorm
Buildings In Grid Put buildings diverse on scales and styles into the spatial grid,with each unit cube 6*6*6 meters.According to various purposes and users' identities,different streamlines exist among buidings,which can be organized by grid as well.
Tourists
Logistics
Gathering
Reserved
Catering
Sugar Refining
Power
Catering
Bureaux Stadium Amusement
Delivery
Technology Display
Storage
Service Sugar Refining
Playground
Exhibition
Restaurant
Refinery
Storage
Transhipment
Corridors
Office
Stage
Stadium
Chimney
Refine
Storage Selling Sugar Making
Power
Office Work
Factories Visiting
Tourism Playground
Recreation
Delivery
Gathering
Business
Refine
Catering
Dining
Accommo -dation
Guiding
New Functions & Rearranged Streamlines Add new functions to the buildings and structures,the streamlines are rearranged therewith. Mix up new streamlines and the original ones,a holistic network appears.Establish the final complete grid basing on this.
Materials Weigh
Playground
Storage
Power
Refine
Chimneys
Pack Up
Press & Refine Press Gathering
Wharf
Dorms
Dining
Catering
Drying
Product Storage
Ship Off
Reception
Streamlines
Grid
Overall Grid Distribution In Site Corrisponding the Streamlines Tracing back each of function and streamline to the locations of relavent buildings in site, a fuction &flow mapping is eventually obtained. The grid distribution is exactly corrisponding to the functions & flows, reorganizing the site, despite the buildings' distribution. Therefore some buildings will be bridged, pentrated, or completely enclosed by the grid,creating various experience spaces therefrom.
Ground Floor Plan
The follow four scenarios are typical ones that can well illustrate grid forms in the project, relationship with the buildings and experience spaces produced therefrom.
Scenery In this semi-open converted factory, space is divided into 5 stripes and 2 floors with cubes randomly scattered on it.
Scenery This is an openspace theme playground at the power supporting area where exists lawn and several chemneys.
Activity There exists both ground and sky, strip and block spaces for people to stay and walk through.
Activity People can rest,have fun and enjoy the river-view on the playground. The chimneys also serves as a landscape sketch which can go inside.
Lights Lights are provided by lamps on both wings of factory.
Lights Lights are provided by lamps on top of chimneys and windows of the adjacent factory.
Grid The grid includes corridors and "grid cloud".
Grid The grid includes corridors/clouds wraping the chimenys to connect each planes.
Form Few grids touch the ground,and most grids are in the air.
Form Grids are like cloud clusters and channels in the air. Few grids touch the ground.
Location The case buiding is located at the north end of site.
Location The case is the outdoor space located at the center of the site.
Scenery A gallery to restore the scene of sugar refining.People can visit it by walking on the air corridor.
Activity Workers on the ground refining while tourists in the air visting.
Scenery The waterfront zone where are plenty of industrial structures with a storage and a commercial comlex in it. Activity Shopping,visiting the storage and leisure activities in the waterfronts. Tourists can interact with the industrial structures.
Lights Lights are provided by spoylights on the ceiling.
Lights Lights are provided by street lamps and spotlights on buidings.
Grid The grid serves as an independent exhibition hall.
Grid The grid is a complex whole attached to the main building.
Form All grids are in the air.
Form Grids gather like a cloud cluster with a corridor extending outside.
Location The case buiding is located at the center of the site.
Location The case buiding is located at the south end of site.
Corridor: Serving as a passage connecting two ends of the factory.
Ancillary Structure: A "grid cloud" gazebo which has planes in different height.
Frame Room: Creating gray space for people to stay or walk through.
Playground: Kids can shuttle and climb up and down in such a box.
Corridors in the air: Continuos Conneting two defferent buildings in a plane.
Veins: Conneting planes of different heights.
Gallery: People walk on which to visit the exhibition of the old sugarrefining process.
Decorative Frame: Creating gray space for people to walk below.
Room&Collums: A semi-enclosed space adjacent to the original building for people to stay.
Connector: A semi-open complex connecting two buildings.
Shell: Wraping the original structure abd offer a new streamline surrounding it.
Gangway: Long terrace outextending above river bank.
Spatial Framework Deconstruction Re-constructing Social Networks A traditional industrial built form is critically conserved by maintaining the outlook yet deconstructing the function. Deconstruction itself can be formalized in a spatial framework, which in turn imply and construct a form. Form, in this deconstructed way, is misled with the flow-made function. Form/function, Historic/Contextalist, once-workflow/newtourflow, and Solid/void are mutually mixed in a way that neither is compromised or completely. I want to call it Deconstructed Conservation.
02 Tri-Angle Iron Museum Design in Anshan, China Studio Alpha 2017 Summer Open Project Instructor: Kun Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Xinyu Cao Individual Work
What would happen to the site after an origin of resource being exploited out? With the rapid pace of industrialization, it seems we have never think about this question. Lots of coal mines in Shanxi became shambles, the worked-out oil field in Jiangxi, China even became a wasteyard. How come old essential resources fall into useless ruins? What should happen to these origins? How deep and long should we think when we build something? Taking future's parking problem and modes of
transportation into consideration, Mantattan already begins building parking lots far away from downtown instead of on the slope. The design is a museum rethinking about mine in the long-term. It abstracted inversion of the mountain’s altitude as two reversed triangle. As time goes by, the museum will change with environment. But it is always bedded here into the mountain like a rock as a symbol of its dramatic history.
+280 To -222: The Inversion of Dagu Mountain Dagushan Pit is located in Dagu Mountain,Anshan,which is knowned as the city of iron in China.The iron ore resource was firstly discovered during the Japnese economic aggresion to the Northeast of China.They began mineral propsecting secretly from 1909,and plundered violently
Chinese material resources. In 1953,China started the Great Leap Forward Movement which is extemly radical.The whole nation is smelting steel. Dagu Mountain kept being mined and cosumed,and the elevation continued reducing
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1906: Japan enhance the economic aggression 1916: Japan begun to mine the mountain at 280 m height.
1949: New China founded Anshan became the city of Iron.
2008: The Mine went extented. 2011: The Mine turns to a -222 m pit.
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2025: The mineral resources in the Dagushan Pit will be deplepted.
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2050: The mineral resources in the Anshan City will be deplepted.
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What should we do with the pit in the future?
Process of Inversion The Dagu Mountain never stoped its height reduction in a century.The high mountain gradually wbecame a deep pit.
City Surrounded by Mountains The Anshan City has lots of iron ores, the yearly output of which reaches 7 millions tons per year.
Types Of Iron Ore Most common ores are magnetite.The resourses export to countries all over the world.
The steel mills had been damaged during the wars. In December 1948, the Anshan Iron and Steel Company— also known as Angang—was founded. Production in the newly repaired steel plant resumed on July 9, 1949. Anshan became a formal administrative region under the Northeastern People's Government in November, 1949.
What would happen after the resources are completely exhausted? And what should happen? This project attempts to and build a memorial to rethink exploitation of natural resources and recount the history of Chinese industry development.
Dagushan Pit at the Scale of Urban Territoty Dagushan Pit lays among a chain of mountains in Anshan.It is near the downtown and Qianshan Mountain Scenic Zone,and has convenient public transportation.
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The historic process of Dagu Mountain can be signified as 3 stages: triangle tokening Stage High Mountain; upslope tokening Stage Radical Movement; inverted triangle tokening Stage Pit.It is a climbing and inversion procedure.
Signifying the Historical Process of Dagushan Pit Triangle can be abstracted as the protype from mountain's shapes in different historic stages.
Point
Line
Combination
Inverted
Variants of Triangle Possible expression forms of triangle are discussed above.Single or combination of triangle can create different volumes and spaces.Choose the propriate ones to compose the 3 stage.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Entrance of Stage 1
Stage 3-1: Sight Window
Stage 2 from Outside
Stage 3-2: Landform
Stage 3-3: Decoration
Climbing in Stage 2
Triangles In the Mountain Stage1: Towering triangle space creates an oppressing sensation. Stage2: Visitors can comprehend the history exhibition while climbing the upslope. Stage3: Inverted triangle is inserted into the mountain and splits each floors of museum,each part of which offers different scales of triangle and different scenarios.
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Reception
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Office
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Washroom
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Lobby
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Exhibition Hall
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Lounge
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Grand Staircase
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Hallway
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Stage 2
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Stage 3
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Recreation Bar
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Verticle Room
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Grandstands
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Air Corridor
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Decoration
States of Museum Overtime As time goes by,the geomorphic and ecological environment condition of Dagu Mountain will change.The museum will always stand here recording all of these historic transitions, while its appearance changes therewith.
Section 1 in 2025 - Under Construction
Section 2 in 2050 - Gallery
Section 3 in 2080 - Mine Park
03 Geometry Agglomeration Village Kindergarten Design in Guangzhou,China 2015 Summer,SCUT Instructor: Jianhua Chen Individual Work
Undoubtedly, kids see the world in a different way from adults, and they process received information more abstractly and purely. The design discusses and summarizes possible processed results of kids, then match them to various geometries with diversiform colors and shapes,and emphasizes its artistic conception by utilizing light and shadow. Their combination brings rich experience space. It is an kindergarten of their agglomeration.
The design adequately considered kids' needs for growth. The waved belt creates elevation different and boundaries of public and private spaces, as well as hosting the series of geometry in the meantime. Plenty of interesting spaces come therewith. For instance, the kindergarten is a heavenly place for kids to climb up and down due to the slopes.The skylights provied kids abundant light. Kids can grow up healthily while playing with light and shadow.
Kids 2-4 that first know the world.
Toys
Painting Sculpture
Kids 4-5 having concept of threedemension.
Kids 5-6 that are most active & naughty. Gathering
Outdoor Activity
Girls are more soft and sensitive.
Toys Animals
Nature
Kids parented by intellectual.
Kids parented by workmen. Architecture
Scenery
Science
Kids with Complex family environment.
World In Kids' Eyes Kids are pure,they see things and deal with information in their own simplified ways which varies according to their different conditions.Lots of factors will influnence the results they abstract from objects,for example,age,gender,family background,etc.
Space Grammar Combine the processed results of kids and match them to certain geometric shapes. The experiencing spaces are created as above.The spaces are basic grammar to compose the kindergarten.
Scenarios in Series An undulant axis winds around to create perimeter walls and connect the independent spaces into one system.The space it enclosed also frames a series of intimate gather/play areas.
Ground Floor Plan 1.Entrance 2.Medical Room 3.Lobby 4. Classroom 5.Grand Stair 6.Light Terrace 7.Playground 8.Activity Room
Ambient Belt Hosting Interior Space The main part of kindergarten is the ambient belt.Lots of space prototypes are loaded on it. Kids can walk, climb the slope or stairs of the rolling ground due to varying elevation. The ceiling is rolling as well, skylight on which creating a rich play of light and shadow. The corresponding protptypes are shown on the right.
Entrance of Cl.7-9
Classrooms
Grand Stairs Ⅰ
Grand Stairs Ⅱ
Around Playground
Grand Stairs Ⅲ
Ends of Belt
Light Terrace
Public Space
远辰 Far-E
日光鼎盛
在无处落脚的人海里
Daylight abundant
Stranded in crowd
如你身载风流光影
你的停靠成为岛屿
You're wearing flow shadows
You become an island
狂热与孤寂
成为陆地
Craze and solitude/
Become a terrene
重叠回映
成为具体
interplays
Become concreteness
Play of Light and Shadow Indoor Light is most essential for kids' growth, kindergarten should be light-filled. In this project, plenty of skylights are set on the ceiling influencing each other. Light shines through space and is blocked out by certain walls,creating a rich artistic conception.
Half Enclosure As Playground hosting Gathering Activities The slope,stairs and walls enclose a grey area to compose a playground, hosting kids' recreational activities.This is the centration of geometry agglometration.Activity room is embodied in the enclosure
Sections Sction the belt around the central playground. We can see the ground and ceiling rolls up and down, bringing rich changes of activity experience and light.
Light Terrace: Scenario above the ambient belt. Skylight pouring down,kids can play trumpoline here.
Scenario below the ambient belt. Kids can look up/down to each other.Less light makes it more mysteious.
Playground is the centration of geometric shapes,a place of sports.
Activity room is at the center of playground,enclosed by the belt.Kids have their enetertainment eduction here.
04 Half of House,Half of BIRD Beloved Inactive Residential District Elderly Community Center Design Under Beijing Hutong Reventing 2016 Summer,Competition of Baitasi Reventing Instructor: Jingheng Lao Collaborator: Jing Wang My Work: All pictures and thesis composing in this portfolio
The past life crowded without lights in night,even take a bath which must go two hutong outside the bathhouse, but used to live, everything is very convenient. At that time,Often hear the sound of the whistle, when the wind blows and the BaiTaSi copper bells clattered and memory in bright sunshine and green vines.Now the old neighbor moved a lot, and the house was empty. The activity in the alley has also become an endless chess room of mahjong,many familiar
activities were disapparing. Imperceptibly, a lot of gate shut". In the past can run to play in hutong, now hutong turned into a maze of walls and shops.Looking for neighborhood residents to participate in activities, stimulate the vitality of the neighborhood itself hidden, while continuing the local traditional culture, rich people's lives, our design ideas. "It is designed to serve the people who live in it" is our design concept.
Hutong, a Tragedy in the Trajectory of Socialism As the Chinese capital, Bejing develops, the demolition of historic neighborhoods and displacement of once-secure families is becoming one of the city's most controversial issues. Especially in Zhongnanhai.1 The demolition of Beijing's historical courtyard alleyways, called Hutong, has long Is a typical representative of this situation. At the height of the city's headlong rush to modernity in the 1990s, about 600 Hutong were destroyed each year, displacing an estimated 500,000 residents. Seemingly overnight, the city was transformed from a warren of Ming dynasty-era neighborhoods into an ultramodern urban sprawl, pocked with gleaming office towers and traversed by eight-lane highways.
1. Zhongnanhai, is a formerly imperial garden in Beijing, China adjacent to the Forbidden City; it serves as the central headquarters for the Central government of China.
Remaining Hutong dwellers are worried, and for good reason -- they have a lot to lose. Their courtyard houses have survived centuries of war and revolution, the strain of collective ownership, and the turbulence of early economic reform. Passed down from generation to generation, they are often last-remaining monuments to entire family lines. Patchy compensation schemes have left some displaced families insolvent. Unable to afford a new home in the old city, which is gentrifying almost as quickly as it's disappearing, they are forced to move into shoddy high-rise communities on the city's exurban outskirts.
" 拆 (chai) " , painted marks on walls which are to be dismantled in time.
The truth is, Chinese government do have worked on Hutong preservation. A proposal called Beijing City Master Plan was propounded and negotiated seriously between the officials and Hutong preservationists, which designated a large swath of Hutong in central Beijing as a "historical and cultural protected area” .However, it didn’t do much good as viewed on Google map. As Yao Yuan2, said, "they (the officials) don't have as much space as they need for their work. So they need to keep on expanding into the Old City, constructing new office buildings. And this brings problems."
2. Yao Yuan, an urban planning expert at Peking University.
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3. The yellow part in Master Plan is the older neiborhoods to be preserved. 2005.01.19
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Beijing Master Plan Proposed in 2005 the Reality Through Time The Plan did not really went well. Several Hutong adjacent to Zhongnanhai were flattened right after the Plan being established in 2003.
The current situation of the Old City's people, land and housing, and the residents' living situation is relatively poor. Regarding meld of the style of the
4. These pictures are captured on Google Earth in 2018.1.5
Old City with the development strategy of a world city as of the utmost importance in Beijing's development, the original lifestyle of Hutong dwellers has always been ignored.
Capital, Power and Space 5. Henri Lefebvre(1901 – 1991) was a French Marxist philosopher and sociologist, best known for pioneering the critique of everyday life, and introducing the concepts of the right to the city and the production of social space.
According to Henri Lefebvre5, "An existing space may outlive its original purpose and the reason which determines its forms, functions, and structures; it may thus in a sense become vacant, and susceptible of being diverted, reappropriated and put to a use quite different from its initial one." A recent and well-known case of this was the reappropriation of the Halles Centrales6, in 1969-71. For a brief period, the urban centre, designed to facilitate the distribution of food, was transformed into a gathering-place and a scene of permanent festival -- in short, into a centre of play rather than of work -- for the youth of Paris.
6. Halles Centrales, Paris's former wholesale produce market.
As Lefebvre writes in the Production of Space, “With the advent of modernity time has vanished from social space. It is recorded solely on measuringinstruments, on clocks, that are isolated and functionally specialized as this time itself. Lived time loses its form and its social interest -- with the exception, that is, of time spent working. Economic space subordinates time to itself; political space expels it as threatening and dangerous (to power). The primacy of the economic and above all of the political implies the supremacy of space over time.” The same modernization that has deprived travel of its temporal aspect has likewise deprived it of the reality of space. The requirement of capitalism that is met by urbanism in the form of a freezing of life might be described, in Hegelian terms, as an absolute predominance of "tranquil side-by-sideness" in space over "restless becoming in the progression of time."
Whose Right to the City 7. Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, published by David Harvey in 2012-4-4.
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution7 is a book that draws on the idea of Henri Lefebvre, about the need for a renewed and transformed urban life. Lefebvre dubbed this need for transformation of the urban landscape and life ‘right to the city’: a right that those producing and sustaining the city lack and must fight to claim. And Harvey’s main attempt in this book is to provide an anti-capitalist and revolutionary meaning to the ‘right to the city’; he sees the ‘right to the city’ as a collective struggle by all those that have a part in producing the city and creating the life in it, to claim the right to decide what kind of urbanism they want. Thus, the process of urbanization has become capitalistic, and a central feature for the reproduction of capitalism. In addition, capitalist urbanization has another, even darker nature according to Harvey: the urban restructuring takes place through a process of ‘displacement and dispossession’. This means usually that poorer and less powerful populations are losing their place and space in the city. The commodification of the city and the ‘urban development along class lines’ is a global phenomenon. And it is a class phenomenon where the
capitalist class uses predatory practices of exploitation and dispossession over vulnerable populations diminishing, in this way, their capacity to sustain the necessary conditions for social reproduction. In fact, the better the common qualities a social group creates, the more likely it is to be raided and appropriated by private profit-maximizing interests. So those who had created interesting and vibrant neighborhoods lose them, through the use of predatory practices, to upper class consumers and capitalists. The privatization of housing and commodification of the city (rent) which is based on the power of monopoly of private owners over assets has become the main predatory practice of capitalists against the low-income classes. For an urban revolution, to be successful in our world of neoliberal globalization, Harvey argues that there are should be a strong and vibrant support from popular forces, the concept of work should entail the labour for the production and reproduction of an increasingly urbanized daily life, and an equal status should be given to struggles of the workers against the recuperation and realization of surplus value in their living spaces.
From Beijing Gentrification to Nostalgia with Memory As says above, Beijing gradually enhances its speed as well as scale of urban renewal.Various sorts of city space has been transformed for commercial purposes,including traditional areas.The city is full of antiquity Chinese-style shops with giant English branches become ubiquitous everywhere. This kind of transformation undoubtedly has brought substantial commercial profits, but the total urban space is constant. The accomanying function removing also inevitblely undermined the normal lives of old residents in the meantime.What happens to the repalced original functions is a question worth pondering and reflecting. With Beijing's culture of bird mapped onto, one essential function is Bird Market where bird-majority pets and pot plants are sold at. The culture of bird can be traced back to Qing Dynasty. According to Yanjing (Old Beijng) Miscellanea8, " 京师人多养雀，街上闲行者有臂鹰者，有笼百舌者 , 游 手无事，出入必携。 " That is, Beijing partisens like to keep birds of all sorts. The holding a birdcage, wearing a robe can be found strolling everywhere in every morning. Nowadys, Bird Culture is more related to the urbanization of Beijing and the Empty Nest Elderly Phenomenon. With younger generation all go outside of families to struggle for enteprise, the elderly are left home alone. Keeping birds provides them an approach of emotional transference and sustenance. In addition, communicating with neighbors, exercising during walking birds are also functions of Bird Culture. Under such background, bird market endures. Normally, bird markets are common and often located in relatively prosperous areas in Hutong neiborhoods. More than 1 markets exists at certain intervals. Having such popularity, bird markets are deemed as a symbol of neighborhood friendship, and an integral part of Beijing partisens life.
Bird Culture can be traced back to Qing Dynasty.
8. Yanjing Miscellanea, 《燕京杂记》，a book recording notes and stories in Old Beijing.
Site Location
Traditional Market
Cultural Relics
Traffic Stations
Commercial District
Traffic Impact
Commercial Building
Direction of Renewal
Scope of Influence
Monument of Sanqing Temple
Lu Xun Musuem
Baitasi
0-3m 35.05% 3-5m 22.58% 5-6m 14.75% 6-7m 9.21% 7-10m 9.68% More Than 10m 8.72%
Keeping Birds As A Culture in Hutong The tradition of keeping a bird steeps a long history,and have been endowed with a new meaning under the rapid deve
Bird for BIRD (Beloved Inactive Residential District) T h e c u l t u r e o f b i r d i s g r e a t l y s h o w n i n C h i n e s e m o v i e M r . S i x 8. Happened in some Hutong, the male lead, Mr. Six' s rebellious son Xiaobo seldom comes home, and Mr. Six keeps a bird Little Eight instead in order to sooth his lonely heart. Holding little eight, he seizes the last string that connects him with other dwellers in Hutong.
8. Mr.Six is a 2015 Chinese crime drama film directed by Guan Hu and written by Dong Runnian.
The reason that Hutong is so substantial to the dwellers' emotion bond is that, the scale of buildings and streets in Hutong is much smaller than ordinary urban area. Thus the psychological distance among neighbors is much smaller as well. The Hutong dwellers share a large proportion of daily life with each other.
Typical Examples of Renewal VS Removing Nanluo Guxiang is the most famous renovated old space.It is traditional Beijing Hutong space at first,reconstructed to business street space.Sanlitun is a completely commercialized area. 400x400 Grid Analysis/1750 450M
Building Types Height > 5m
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Block Parcelization
Building Types Height > 15m
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Different Scales in Beijing Urban Area Different physical scales will undoubtedly bring different mental feelings of people.
Bird markets are often located in relatively prosperous areas in Hutong neibouhoods.
Road Noad
Some bird markets open everyday, some only on the weekends. Attracting lots of visitors from all over the city, most customers are the elderly in the nearby neibourhoods.
The forms of bird markets are multiple but undisciplined. Some sellers choose to hang the birdcages on border trees, some even simply display their birdcages on the back seat of bicycle.
Curbside
Keeping birds becomes a new emotional sustenance of the elderly in the new age.
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Bird Market Forms
Thinking of this kind of emotion bond, I choose a courtyard in a remewal area beside Zhongnanhai. There used to be a city-known bird market but removed due to the renewal. I want to create an elderly community center which can undertake Bird Culture. Here comes the Beloved Inactive Residential District.
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A Solution of Half Geometry Inspired by the special emotion fragmentation and connection, I abstract the concept " half ", and ultilize it as the technique of form transformation. Various activities happen with bird keeping. Undertaking these activies and adding more types encouraging gathering, culture displaying and communicating events. The program generation is illustrated as follows.
Bird Market-Commerce
Display of Bird Culture
Home-Feeding
Bird Market On Weekends
The chosen courtyard before reconstruction consists of two flat-roofed buildings and a sandwiched stripy yard.
Hutong-Communication
Gathering Square
Transformation of " Bird Events "
Half of Entrance
Half of Main Building
Bird Gallery Panel
Private Rooms
Half of Roof
Winter
Summer
Water Bar
Reconstruction Process Reconstruct the chosen courtyard basing on the designated functions in the project. The three parts of courtyard are cut in half respectively three times, and he " Half Solution" applys well.
Ground Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Half as Fabric Opening to Community The beveled entrance presents an open gesture, welcoming the neighborhoods. The fence extracts the elements of birdcage, whose blanks can also serve as showcases.
Half as Light gone with Bird The translucent sloping roof brings a rich light and shadow to the courtyard. Vines shade in summer, and sunlight shines in winter.
05 Cube4 Artwork on Theme ' Wall ' 2016 Winter, SCUT Art Exhibition Collaborator: Yifan Deng My work: Conceptual and Project Design, Cooperation on Models, All pictures in this portfolio
我跨越千万堵冰冷的水泥 Millions of cold cement I crossed
拨开伪装的繁丽藻饰 Disguise of garish orgaments I poked
我穿过虚拟信息世界 Virtual information world I traversed
却仍有 But still
仍有险恶人性拦我去路 Still sinister humanitied block my way
遮我双眼
Living in such a crowded, fast-paced world, people are increasingly inclined to only focus on themselves and arm themselves with a series of boundaries. Boundary becomes enstangement. I select 4 types of boundary, and symbolize their meanings to 4 elements.Correspongding to the exhibition theme ' Wall ' , I use transparent acrylic plate to represent walls that stop people touching the softness in heart of each other. They can not be seen, but they are always, unbreakable. Then the 4 boundaries are attached respectively on 4 layers of wall. I call it Cube4.
Cover my eyes
而我触碰你心依然 But still I want to touch your soul
The size of the entire artwork is 850mm* 835mm* 784mm. This artwork was made in 2017.11, and was displayed in School of Architecture, SCUT for 3 months.
The four layers from outside to the inside are Cement Layer, Orgament Layer, Electric Network Layer, Word Layer. The Cement layer represents physical barriers in reality. The Orgament Layer represents hypocriy between people. The Electric Network means to point out the phonomenon that people nowadays rely much on the online world, which makes us less care for each other in real world. The Word Layer is pasted on a lot of words that dipicting sinister humanity. Such as GREED, LIES, JEALOUSY, and so on. These 4 layers have progressive relashionship in meaning.
Attaching 4 Elements on Acrylic Plate In the picture above, I am painting quick-drying cement on the plate.The process must be accomplished quickly and accurately, otherwise the cement will be stereotyped in a not aesthetics state.
I make these elements attach to the acrylic plates in a way of growing upwards like cirrus does. A heart model is painted by gouache and put in the centural box. It is like our heart are passionate at first. But the barriers are gradually wraping over our heart. In the end, we all become alone.
1 Me painting the heart model 2 Tools 3 Layers spreaded on table 4 Colorized heart
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06 To Life Journey Artwork on Theme ' Once in Lifetime ' 2014 Winter, SCUT Art Exhibition Collaborator: Huijie Lai My work: Conceptual and Project Design, Cooperation on Models, All pictures in this portfolio
The Porject Under ' THE ' Light Only when the two trains arrive at the designated spot can the light from top of trains cast the faces of the woman and the man.That is, can the two lovers 'meet' each other.
Life is made up of accidental moments. And a specific moment may change an entire life.
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IThis is an interactive artwork.Numbers pasted on the board seemed to be placed randomly, but there hides secret in the shadow.There are two tiny spotlight on the top of two trains on the circle track. Visitors can operate the trains. If two trains arrive at the designated spot, visitors will find shadows of numbers are like a man and a woman. The two lovers can only meet each other then.
1 Instructing Poem on the Board 2 Organzing Shadow 3 "Not THE Right Time"
EDUCATION South China University of Technology 2013.09-2018.07 Major: Urban and Rural Planning Bachelor of Engineering GPA: 3.59/4
COMPETITION Young Bird Plan (Public Cultural Architecture Design Competition) Project: In-Between 2015. 08-2015. 09 Role: Cooperating on project designing and drawing
International Design Competition BAITASI 2016 -Reinventing the Beijing Courtyards
Project: Keep the Bird-Thinking about Hutong Culture & Residential Renovation 2016.07-2016.08 Role: Cooperating on project designing and drawing
SCUT Art Exhibition 2014
Project: To Life Journey - 3rd Prize Role: Drawing/Design/Modeling
SCUT Art Exhibition 2016
Project: Cube4 - 3rd Prize Role: Lead Designer/Modeling
INTERNSHIP Hebei Institute of Architectural Design & Research Co.,Ltd Role: Preliminary 40h/week 2017.08-2017.11
ACTIVITY Voluntary Teaching to Rural Areas 2016.08 Role: Organizer/Recorder
Echo Graduation Ceremony 2015.06 Role: Organizer/Planner/Executant
Build the Dream Welcome Party 2015.10 Role: Organizer/Planner/Executant
Tracing the Light New Year’s Ceremony 2015.12 Role: Organizer/Planner/Executant
Student Union of School of Architecture 2015.03-2016.03 Role: Minister of Entertainment Department
Voluntary Teaching in Guangzhou Library 2014.11 Role: Planner/Executant/Modeling
SKILL Proficient: SketchUp, AutoCAD, PS, AI, ID, Rhinoceros, Microsoft Moderate: Adobe Premiere Beginning: Adobe After Effects
PORTFOLIO OF DIAN YU B.Urban Planning , SCUT Selected Works 2013-2017