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EDUCATION 2017-Now
London School of Economics and Political Science MSc City Design and Social Science
2013-2016
University of Sheffield BA Architecture (Part 1) Dissertation Supervisor: Peter Blundell Jones
2012-2013
University College London Architecture Foundation: Art, Literature, Geography
EXPERIENCE 2016.10 - 2017.06
OPEN Architecture, Beijing Press and Research Assistant Project involved: Dialogue by the Sea - Seaside Gallery ‘Towards Openess’ English Publication
2015.06 - 2015.09
Gensler, London Architecture Internship Project involved: Haramain Pre-concept and masterplan (Massing Options and Concept Design) Burj Alshaya, Kuwait (Construction Markups)
2014-2016
ASA Magazine (Architecture Student Association), China & UK Executive Editor
HONOURS & AWARDS 2017.09
BAITASI 2017 International Design Competition (Urban Regeneration) Winner
2015
120 Hours Competition 2015 Honorable Mentions
2014
AIA UK 2014 Student Design Charrette 2nd Place Winner
PUBLICATION 2016
Translated : The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture Patrik Schumacher, London 2016 Published: http://www.patrikschumacher.com/
2017.11
Baitasi Remade Project Featured in World Architecture Magazine, Beijing. Issue no. 329
Preface
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This selection of work ranges from different scales with a particular focus on urban regeneration and public space. 01 From Surplus to Cityness Thamesmead, London
02 Hutong Co-operative Baitasi, Beijing Baitasi International Design Competition -Winner
03 Sungang Urban Assembly Sungang, Shenzhen
04 Pyramiden on Fire 2015 120hours Competition - Honourable Mention
05 The Floating Loggia 2018 Antepavilion Competition, London
Southmere Lake Southmere Lane proposed in Peabody’s new masterplan. It conncets the new crossrail service to Southmere Lake, with many catalyst buildings along the way.
Hartslock Drive
Harrow Manorway
Portmeadow Walk
Yarnton Way Eynsham Drive
Harrow Manorway
Peabody’s New Development
Wolvercote Road
Hinksey Path as a principal pedestrian path, connecting the main new hight street, the neighbourhood and the green space.
Lensbury Way
Abbeywood Station
From Surplus to Cityness In many parts of London, new city space is often delivered through a tabula rasa approach, demolishing existing stock and building anew. This scheme aims to present an alternative to this approach by leveraging Thamesmead’s abundance of surplus space. It acknowledges the importance of Thamesmead’s location in driving future development, but also sees significant opportunity in what exists in the area already, specifically its physical, social, and hidden economic infrastructure. It believes that building the diverse connections of cityness, spatial, social and economic can be achieved through incremental adaptation, empowerment of existing residents, and a more participatory city-making.
LONDON & THAMESMEAD The London Plan recognises both the need for new housing and for commercial space, driving to provide THE both in a way that acknowledges and supports the LONDON distinctive diversity of the city, where home and PLAN economic activity intermix. This is exemplified in spatial typologies such as the high street and the mews.
Built largely in the 1960s, Thamesmead has experienced little new development since. It lacks the kind of density and diversity of urban life that other parts of London exhibit. Surplus space abounds, which is partially why it has been identified as an Opportunity Area.
LONDON
25%
7,500,000 m2
working population is currently estimated to work from home.
more comercial space will be needed in London by 2036.
THAMESMEAD
36%
2-3 people
less population in the site have full-time jobs compared to the Greater London.
size co-working space are the most popular for micro-bussiness in the area.
SITE STRATEGY
Southmere path & Proposed High Street
Site
Landscape Links
Focal Point Catalyst Buildings
Neighbourhood link
TIMELINE
1972 ‘A Clock-work Orange‘ in Thamesmead
2010 Construction Started in
2016 Peabody Submits Planning Application
1968 The First Family Moved In
1985 Broadwater Farm Riots
1952 Unité d’habitation Opened
1976 Docklands Strategic Plan 1989 ‘Right to Buy’ Housing Act
1961 Park Hill Estate
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1999 Gallions, Trust Thamesmead and Tilfen Land Manages Thamesmead together.
2008 Crossrail Act
2014 Peabody arrived and has committed £225m
1946 New Town Act 1965 Formally published Master Plan of Thamesmead. Construction Started.
1977 Thamesmead Resident
1994 Closure of the Royal Arsenal
2007 Demolition in Tavy Bridge 1961 Jane Jacobs
I 1st wave of new towns
Thamesmead
II III 2nd wave of new towns 3rd wave of new towns
Thamesmead - New Stage & Redevelopment
UK HOUSING PRICE SINCE 1952
SITE CHALLENGES & POTENTIALS
Abundance of adaptable space
Confusing + Redundant circulation space
Lack of visible social spaces and activity
Evidence of adaptation
Lack of cityness and commercial activities
INTERVENTION Through the interventions, residents and other actors are empowered to decide how to use space, ultimately creating a more granular landscape that exhibits elements of cityness. There are three different spatial typologies: undercrofts, garages, and backyard pathways. Tenants, owners, or even housing associations can rent out the undercrofts and garages to external tenants. Residents would have access to productive space if they chose to utilise it, but alternatively they could easily generate additional income by subletting their undercrofts or garage units.
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GARAGE Size:3.9m x 4.4mm • • • •
A convivial market street with clear way-finding and graphic suggestion.
Two allocated garages per house with the accommodation on the two floors above. Located along side streets. Some already adapted. Can accommodate workshops, studios, or other service-oriented businesses.
Paving change suggesting private and public seperation.
BACKYARD PATHWAYS • • • •
Creation of common area that demands collective responsibility. Increase in safety and trust amongst neighbours. Lowering of fences. Possibility of shared backyards and food gardens.
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Enhanced public space with street furniture and facilities.
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UNDERCROFT Size:3.9m x3.9m Amount: 60 units (942m2) • • • •
Small undercrofts adjacent to the houses that lead to their front doors. Can be individual units or joined with two or more units. Low-nuisance businesses that depend more on foot traffic. Residents could utilise space for themselves, or rent it out to someone else to use
Reclamation of the corridor space to be public gardens.
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PHASING STRATEGY Stage 1 - Hub + Market
Stage 2 - Year 1-2
Stage 3 - Year 3-5
Stage 4 - Year 6-10
Hub • One of establishment grant • Form the community board Market • Existing home-based businesses / External traders • Residents
Hub
The first phase would include the establishment of a market, as described above. Some of the undercrofts and the garages may be converted during this time as well. At least two of the backyards, possibly one north of Hinksey Path and one south, are suggested to go through pilot stages to experiment how the interventions work. As the intervention is at its introductory stage, it would take time to solidify. During this phase, the market might happen more frequently and would have grown to occupy more spaces along Hinksey Path. There may also be a growth in the number of permanent adaptations of undercrofts and garages. More backyards might undergo interventions, and therefore footfall might become more concentrated along Hinksey Path and the mews.
By this phase, Thamesmead might have become known for its market street along Hinksey Path. The majority of undercrofts and garages may be occupied by businesses. Perhaps all of the backyard pathways have adapted, with some converted into shared green spaces and possibly even food gardens. An improved pedestrain circulation is formed.
Community Association • • •
Increasingly take-on the responsibilities of the hub. Governed by a board equally represented by the residents, homeowners, and businesses. Identify the need for a nominal levy to be paid for the upkeep of the area. Garages
Collage of the undercroft market street and garages
Undercrofts
Hutong Playground
Hutong Exhibitions
Hutong Event Space
Furniture Workshop
Found Ojects
Hutong Co-operative ‘Hutong Co-operative’ is to transform the current underused public sites to some collectively-managed spaces through recycling the street furniture and found objects in Qingta Hutong. The unused public spaces in the Qingta Hutong will be transformed into community furniture workshop, event space and gathering space relatively. Residents are involved in every stage of the process including design, construction and use, through which they may reshape their understanding of urban life in a public space of better quality. * This project was the final winner of 2017 BAITASI 2017 International Design Competition.
Beijing’s Ring Roads
BEIJING
31.69m2
Average living space/ household BAITASI
20%
Aging population
50%
12m2
Average living space / household
Migrant workers Baitasi Area
Baitasi (the White Pagoda Temple) is an area located in the western part of Beijing’s old town, covering about 37 hm2 and now surrounded by business zones and financial hubs which have already experienced redevelopment in the past years. It is an area of substantial historical and cultural significance, with the White Pagoda Temple dates back to Yuan dynasty and a museum built around the former house of Lu Xun, a revolutionary Chinese writer. It is also one of the last traditional low-rise residential areas in Beijing, with the urban fabric of hutongs and courtyard houses remained. Qingta Hutong sits in the west part of Baitasi Area.
Site
Lu Xun Museum
High Density in the Area
Souce: Tsinghua University
Qing Ta Hutong
Activities in Hutongs Chatting Gardening Knitting Gaming Petting Singing Catering
Focal Point Community Space Commercial Activities
Cultural Facilities Public Toilets
From the site visit and fieldwork, we found that the core of the hutong’s traditional lifestyle is the communication between people and their everyday life. The everyday life has profound relationships with all other activities, it is the meeting point and the bonding of them, and the diverse public space was then generated —— the chairs that were left on the street, the plant racks which was shared between a few and the table that was set to a chess battlefield, etc. These objects are either left during house moving, picked up by residents, or contributed from the residents’ own collection; they constitute a unique and engaging hutong-scape, while also causing a certain degree of chaos. In addition, the embodied collective memories in the furniture have made the intervention seems rather difficult.
A short film based on the usage of public space and social interaction
The Process of Hutong Co-operative & Residents’ Participation
1.Survey & investigation
2.Volunteers collect objects
3.Neighbourhood opinions collection
4.Residents meet designers
5.Furniture workshop
6.Construction on site
Axonometric View and Composition of the Installation
The abandoned table and sink will be recycled and transformed into a small seating pavilion. Collage of the Proposed Public Space
The recycled furniture and timber pannels are designed to have a flexible composition.
The collected chairs would be separated into two parts, including a canopy and a seating area.
Initial Collage of Improved Public Space
TheFlexible scheme encourages the co-existence of a wide range of life-styles while suggesting flexible building cost according to the will of residents. After being shortlisted from the first round, a funding of 4000 CNY (roughly 400 Pounds) was offered to build 1:1 models of part of the scheme. Old and abandoned pieces of furniture are turned them into movable devices before putting back on sites and awaits resident’s interaction. The Beijing International Design Week lasted from September 21st to October 7th. Examples of innovative design and potential future life in hutongs were explored and showcased in the area. It has gradually made extensive influence by designing and reforming hutongs. The event that happens once a year has attracted public attention and appears on mass media frequently, during which public will have the chance to involve in the process by participation the design and educational activities.
The 1:1 Model and The Beijing International Design week
Sungang Urban Assembly This regeneration project is located in Sungang, Shenzhen. It is aiming at sustainability in terms of economic, social and ecological development. The research are both from macro urban design strategy to reintegrate distinct functional parts and micro programming to stimulate inner socio-spatial practices by users.
Green system
Industrial areas Industrial Areas
Residential areas of urban villages
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Green Pattern
Small Markets
Green system
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UPD ATED ROADS
By extending the ending nodes to main roads, some circular routes will be constructed in terms of the interior roads. This traffic infrastructure will be built in different levels that aiming to benefit the community, the district and the urban.
The current traffic fails to benefit transpor tation. The main roads have some end nodes in some non-circular roads.
The functions of some areas will be transformed into living and working with entertainment and landscape combined. The infrastructure of landscape will play the key role in the establishement ofa walkable system. This will benefit the inhabitants’ living environment and build up a sustainable lifestyle.
Building landscape routes as to bridge two areas. 1. The connection are based on existed bridges. 2. Build new landscape bridge as connection.
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The train lines and high ways have formed some strong boundaries between the landscape and living areas
Some places are currently occupied by factories. The space apear to be inefficiently utilized in the perspec tive of economic benefit. The commercial pattern is somehow heterogeneous due to their types.
Interactions between the blocks and areas are poor in th site.Due to the location of the urban vilages, it is not easy to access to the train line from far place in the eastern part of site.
The design strategy is based on the theme of mobility. By establishing some informal markets with the help of mobile vehicles, it is try to formalize the commercial pattern in a flexible way. Simultaneously, it will satisfy people’s daily social needs by holding some informal events.
1. Using landsacpe to design a green pattern, 2. Inserting blocks with different programs as restaurants, shops and makerts. 3. To design a exibilition gallary street to satisfy different products ’ exibition.
By re-orgnizing the morphology of settlement, it aims to make every block of buildings to benefit from the existing infrastructures.
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The new regional pattern will contribute to the physical distributions. Along with the green system, it will benefit the people’s living environment, meanwhile, stimulate the local economy.
To Guangzhou Honggang RD Guangjiu Line
Commercial pattern and cultural events appear to be simple and dull for the local people.
Industrial Areas Residential Areas
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URBAN
Meiyuan RD
VILLAGE
Nigang RD
Sungang Rd Honglin RD
segregated
To Hongkong
CIRCULAR INFRASTRUCTURE OF TRANSPORTATION
BOUNDARIES BETWEEN DIFFERENT AREAS
TERRITORY WEATHER
INDUSTORY CREATIVE CAPITAL
DISTRIBUTTION IN FUNCTIONAL AREAS THE LINKAGE OF GREEN SYSTEM
TRANSITIONAL PLACE
RE-ORGANISATION OF SCATTERED AREAS
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM GREEN SPACES
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY WITH DYNAMIC PROGRAMS
CULTURAL INDUSTROY DESIGN CAPITAL
INSERTING MORE CULTURAL PROGRAMS
MIGRANTS & URBAN VILLAGES
平面最好反映出区域内绿化， 浅绿色 做底色 Green distribution in Shenzhen
白石洲城中村
波特菲勒, 纯水岸
She Kou architectural exibition Different types of industrial planning
Different population density in two residentail areas.
Hua Qiao City Inovative industry
Modernised planning central Shenzhen
Lo Wu Checkpoint
HuangGang Checkpoint Futian Checkpoint
The mobility of migrants
Importing and Exporting
Everyday Life of urban mobility Different identity
Everyday Life of urban mobility Different identity
Everyday Life of urban villages Green sustainbale system
Interior Activities
Pyramiden On Fire Radical Preservation - Honourable Mention of 120hrs Competition, 2015
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The Floating Loggia Competition Entry for 2018 Antepavilion This pavilion addresses simplicity in its structural and constructional form in response to the Ouse. Providing three platforms at different height enables visitors to enjoy the canal while not losing the opportunity to appreciate the original structure of the Ouse. The ‘thingness’ of the Ouse is emphasized by deliberately exposing the hull of the narrowboat. The timber structure and the inclined panels form an engaging dialogue with the structure of the Ouse. The central beam, together with a bar and a fireplace constitute the ‘infrastructure’ of this pavilion, from which the space gets electricity and heat. It also softly divides the space with further potential usages. The Floating Loggia explores the ambiguous boundary between domestic and public realm on a narrow boat. It is easily accessed while visual connections are encouraged by the timber frame structure. Contrary to a prevalent ‘scenographic’ pavilion, this project is to invite visitors to evoke their ‘being’ in the layers of time through the creation of an affordable and easily constructed space on the water.