Architecture Portfolio - Deng Haiqi

DENG HAIQI Selected Works | 2014 - 2017

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“Place”

is a where dimension

formed by people’s relationship with physical settings, individual and group activities, and meanings. Norberg Schultz argued that ‘Man dwells when he can orientate himself within and identify himself with an environment’ and following on that ‘the task of the architect is to create meaningful places whereby he helps man to dwell.’

As “practical art” engaged in the act of “placement”, architecture communicates its identity by rubbing on things - topography, climate, history, social context and other disciplines. When contemporary architecture arrived at a dilemma of placelessness, how to express “sense of place” became the focus during my exploration in architecture and urbanism.

In the selected works, critical understanding in response to the site regarding to both nature and culture was transformed into stimuli that finally gives unique character to the design.

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Individual works

Group works

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9 - 14

15 - 18

Articulation & Integration

Context & Place-making

Structure & Passive

Dynamic Cluster

Praya Retrospect

Environmental Design

19 - 21

22 - 25

Heritage Conservation &

Computation & Fabrication

Revitalization

Dragon Spine Pavilion

Village Metaphor

Rain Courtyard

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Articulation & Integration

Dynamic Cluster Campus Sports Centre, CUHK, Hong Kong U6 Studio / Sem 2 / Year 2016/17 Instructor: Brian Anderson

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interactive cluster Sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes

metabolic RATE

against another or others for entertainment. What is the ideal space for sports like? Bounded or boundless? Isolated or interactive?

Against the conventional form as a windowless, internalized “black box”, spatial relationship of programmes and interior-exterior was re-evaluated.

“Black box”

Pilotis

Layering

Interaction

Concept diagram

Tention The sports center situates on the hill facing a bundle of traffic lines including trainway, vehicle road, bicycle lane and pedestrian lane, where tension between contradictive site conditions was noticed. Therefore, on the one hand, the refreshment and administration programmes are placed on upper level in response to the peaceful natural landscapes. On the other hand, most of sports spaces were arranged in correspondence with the dynamic traffic lines.

Volumns of progammes

Entrance indication & terrace

Core

Distortion for the topology

Open space & landscape

Aperture to the road side

Site analysis

Circulation & programmes

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3/F plan

2/F plan

G/F plan

1/F plan

Merge into the hill The sports center merges with the topography in harmony together with the amphitheater landscape, connecting the residences and campus circuit road. With a variety of height differences, the cluster creates terraces and open space where students can gather and communicate.

This project embodies the consideration of site, programme and use, building system integration. It is not only a sports center but an interactive community for university staff and students, where sports playing, viewing, teaching and entertainment activities taking place without rigid boundary.

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Dance Studio The dance studio locates in the elevated twisted block, consisting of two levels for various types of dance. It is a open space with visual connection to gym, squash court, spectator seat of main hall and multi-purpose room as well as sun lit terrace .

entrance plaza Walking through the shaded front veranda that activities in main hall could be glimpsed, people were exposed to a large open plaza where outdoor sports take place. Landscapes designed for skateboarding and the semi-outdoor rock climbing wall reveal the energetic atmosphere.

Sports hall The design of main sports hall tried to blur the solid boundary between human and nature. Players and spectators were delighted by the maximium introduction of diffuse natural light from both glazing facade and ceiling skylight. It also interact with other spaces such as the entrance lobby and the fitness training gym on upper level .

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Lighting Strategies Main Sports Hall

Light through vertical glaze

Diffuse light through vertical fins

Diffuse skylight

Model study

vertical fins to block the sunlight from east and west

horizontal louvers to block the sunlight from north and south

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BUILDING SYSTEMS INTEGRATION Structure, envelop & interior

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Flexible complex Apart from offering a variety of sports spaces, the design proposed other program such as sport library, multi-purpose rooms, outdoor amphitheater in support of the sports hall to update the typology of a modern-day sports center.

In conclusion, the Dynamic Cluster involved speculation on interior-exterior spatial relationships, flexibility associated with seasonal variation and use, passive design strategies for lighting and temperature, and the design of structure as a visual expression of tectonic form.

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Context & Place-making

Praya Retrospect Collective Dwelling, Kennedy Town, Hong Kong U5 Studio / Sem 1 / Year 2016/17 Instructor: Francesco Rossini

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Old tramline along the sea

Reconnection

Tram line

Collective housing site

Praya promenade

Kennedy Town is a vibrant district in the midst of urban renewal and gentrification in Hong Kong. During 1920s, the site was located on the sea side of Kennedy town. The tram line was built on Catchick street. In the old day , people sitting on the tram can enjoy the grand sea view and the cozy breeze. Due to the land reclamation in recent decades, this benefit no longer exists. Passengers on the tram are surrounded by the errecting highrises. The concept started from reconnection of tram line and ocean.

Urban fabric

Ocean

Site plan

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8/F plan

G/F plan

1/F plan

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Massing development Tpye A Studio flat Area: 24 sqm

Tpye B Double dormitay Area: 36-43 sqm

Reconnection of Ocean and Tram

Accessibility and Massing Adjustment

Communal Spaces for Linkage

dwelling units For the dwelling layout, 5 types of housing units are designed for the youth and starting families in Hong Kong. Every unit has a pocket space at the front door, which provides possibility for gardening or gathering space.

Through the perforated metal facade, the green and human activities happening on the corridor could be glimpsed.

Tpye C Two-bedroom family apartment Area: 51 sqm

Tpye D Two-bedroom family duplex Area: 49 sqm

Tpye E Three-bedroom family apartment Area: 77 sqm

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Pubic circulation

Place making

Private circulation

G/F

1/F

8/F

Two north-south- oriented blocks created two major open space. One is outdoor cafe zone along North Street, the other is the central sunken plaza with stair-stepping landscapes.

The shaded courtyard provides a communal space as outdoor theater and performance.

There is a terrace deck with seating and greenery on 1/F connecting the two residential blocks. It is a nice semi-outdoor place where the residents can enjoy the breeze from the sea and have a chat with friends. Looking down the plaza, people can also watch the performance on ground floor.

A linked bridge flies over the two blocks at 8/F. It is a gallery-like communal space for flexible use depending on the needs. It could serves as children library, game room, multi-media room, exhibition and so on.

Circulation diagram

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“Look! Someone is playing music downstairs.”

“What a lovely weather today.“

“Damn I’ve been waiting for my friend here for twenty minutes! ”

Tram view 17

Structure & Passive Environmental Design

Rain Courtyard Primary School, Cardona, Philippines U4 Studio / Sem 2 / Year 2015/16 Instructor: Kelly Chi Wai Chow

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Courtyard

Level difference

Rotation for entrance

NATURAL INSPIRATION

Water landscape

Circulation

Programme

A B

The site is located on Talim Island, an island in the largest lake in Philippines. The climate is hot and humid. During the rain season, the monthly precipitation can reach 400mm and it almost rains every day. Therefore, the concept of the primary school came from local daily natural phenomenon- rain. (mm) 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0

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Monthly precipitation

PLAY WITH RAIN Water is never a enemy for local peolple living on the tropical island. Instead, it could become an interesting media for children to learn from nature. Rain can be watched, listened to, touched and even played with. The design aims to collect the rainwater and make use of it, giving opportunity for kids to learn in a natural and playful space.

Spatial interaction with rain

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Foyer Staff room Headmaster office Support staff office Classroom Protected terrace Activity hall Storage Kitchen Digital lab Library Study zone Chess zone Story telling area Outdoor reading area

B A

Plan

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Umbrella

STRUCTURE

PASSIVE DESIGN

Water is the key element of the design. The study models illustrate the drain of water with respect to gravity along various inclined roof configurations. The gaint transparent gutter between classrooms created a bright corridor space for children after-class activity.

All programmes, split on two levels, were arranged to form a central courtyard. Six classrooms with shaded hallway orientated perpendicular to prevailing wind for maximizing ventilation performance. Rain water falling from the pitch roof adds up to channel that trickles along the classrooms and floating central green island.

Sketch - Philippines vernacular house

The school was built on stilts in wood and brick structure, which took the Southeast Asian vernacular house for reference.

Openings designed at high level boost interior ventilation so as to achieve better thermal comfort. In addition, foldable louver provided flexibilty of extending the classroom to semi-outdoor terrace.

Noon sun angle

Drainage

Daylight

Diversion Ventilation

Section A

Section B

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metal flashing timber louvre corrugated metal sheet sheathing wood battern engineered timber beam engineered timber column wooden handrail wood decking waterproofing layer concrete footing glass mosaics screed layer gunniting Rcc slab glass window

Detail of terrace in front of classroom

View of shaded veranda

1 corrugated metal sheet 2 wood battern 3 sheathing 4 engineered timber truss 5 metal water drip 6 corrugated polycarconate sheet (transparent)

Detail of corridor between classrooms

View of classroom

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Module plan size 6m*8m 8m*8m

roof height 1.2m 2.4m

PROTOYTPE The module of spatial arrangment is extracted from the vernacular house in Tongguan village. There are two types of modules differentiated in plan size and height. They work spontaneously for human scale as well as embodies local cultural memory.

After studying the pattern and circulation experience of village, we tried to overturn, transform and group the modules to simulate the spatial quality appearing in the old village such as plaza, courtyard, street and cluster. As shown in the model exploration, each type gave different spatial expressions and meets the need of different functions.

Step 1 Transform

Step 2 Group

Figure-ground sketches of circulation experience

ion yr en ov at tor

In the 1950s to 1990s, most workers in the ceramic factory lived in the nearby village. Until the factory went bankrupt , many young villagers left the hometown to earn their living in city.

Vernacular brick houses were built up freely along the hill, which shape the prototype of the village. The scale and circulation experience in old village that contrast with those in monolithic mill were extended to the factory renovation.

site

VILLAGE FORMATION

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Village Metaphor

Culture Heritage Conservation & Revitalization

Pottery Factory Renovation, Hunan, China Joint Workshop with Hunan University / Summer / Year 2015 Instructor: Tat Lam, Filipe Afonso Teammates: Chenda Guo, Shiyu Ma, Jin Yan, Xun Yao, Yifu Zhu Cintribution: site analysis/ diagraming/ presentation

Village fabric overlay

pottery factory village lookout tower

Village photo

tourist street

Programmes mapping

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LIVING MODE Currently, government is planning a new zone next to the old village for boosting tourism. However, the built-up fencing cuts off the road so that local villagers hardly participate in the development.

The Elderly

Our principle is to develop a sustainable living mode that benefit the local people. By giving new identity to the former factory, the renovation proposed a new relationship among local residents, craftsmen, and tourists.

- offspring working downtown - lack of care - few public space for entertainment

Children - parents working downtown - lack of playing space - little knowlege of Tongguan ceramic

1/F plan - by Jin Yan

Artist/ Craftsman - mostly non-local - attract by ceramic culture in Tongguan - working-living life mode

Tourist

Local Youth

- leisure and recreation - ceramic fans - desire for further understanding about ceramic production

- seek for living in city’ - seldom back - unsatisfied with current village condition

G/F plan - by Jin Yan

Relavant group analysis

MATERIALITY REVITALIZATION

pottery fragment

earth kiln

brick facade

wood structure

roof tile

Four brick plants built in post-beam structure with wood and steel roof trusses situate in parrallel with each other.

They used to be state-run pottery factories supporting the living of whole village.

Due to industrialization and migartion movement, the tradition of pottery production in Tongguan faded away.

The revitalization aims to turn the abandoned factory into a community center serving both local villagers and tourists.

By providing various spaces for entertainment, education, exhibition and I-mart, we hope to enrich the life of villagers as well as conserve and promote the local ceramic culture.

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MULTI-FUNCTION The factory is transformed to a multi-functinal community center serving both local residents non-local artist and visitors.

The first plant with most public accessibility was converted into an exhibition gallery for art work display. The second plant is for education purpose to promote the local ceramic culture. People can experience the pottery production by attending the workshop.

In the third plant, independent small units could be leased as artist studio or shop. On particular date, creative I-Mart take place in the street-like circulation space. For the last plant, which near the residential area, was planned as villager activity center that provides a variety of entertainment facilities.

Plant 1 Exhibition

Plant 2 Education

Plant 3 I-Mart

Plant 4 Entertainment

reception lobby gallery show room

theater lecture room conference room workshop

shop art studio creative booth

game room music room sports facility

Outdoor Theater

Garden

Link Bridge

Section - by Xun Yao

Gallery in plant 1

Lecture theater in plant 2

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Dragon Spine Pavilion

Computation & Fabrication

CONCEPT Dragon Spine Pavilion is a highly expressive corrugated cardboard installation. The concept of formation consists of three logic commands: scale, rotate and move. Each command is controlled by certain deciding factors: scale dimension, rotating degree, as well as move of rotating centers.

scale

rotate

move

Cardboard Pavilion, London, UK FabFest Entry/ Summer / Year 2016 Instructor: Adam Fingrut Teammates: Alex Kelvin Li, Heng Jiang, Shiyu Ma, Hsuan Liang, Yitao Zhu Contribution: modeling/ fabrication The generation of the form is an iterative process. Each basic geometry is scaled and rotated according to the previous one with identical factors. With the help of grasshopper, we managed to conveniently test how different basic geometries and rotation centers could

change the expression of the outcomes.

The focus is to find suitable geometries that provide enough height and width for human scale as well as form a balanced aesthetics of figure and ground.

Besides, the potential structural challege was also taken into consideration.

Geometries generated by line segments rotated at a center - by Alex Kelvin Li

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COMPONENTS The highest spline of the pavilion, consisting of all the 50 degree angle junctions, is highlighted by triangular connectors and coincides with the imagination of a dragon’s spine.

The basic compositional unit is a strip consisting of three line segments. Due to material length limitation, slots are introduced into the system to help different pieces interlock with each other. Each segment of the polyline units comprises connectors interlocking into each other, not only strengthening the structure but adding expressive character to the pavilion as well.

Formed with similar logic, a bench is added along one side of the landing component, further stabilizing the structure and inviting interface between pavilion and visitors.

Model 1: 200

Assembly of strip - by Alex Kelvin Li

ASSEMBLY The aim of the structure is mainly maintaining the stiffness of each strip (piece of components) owing to the long spann ing of the strip. In order to fix the part of two strips meeting, the utilization of angle connectors is introduced.

Moreover, avoiding each component falling apart, we zip tie up the slot meeting point.

- by Yitao Zhu

Assembly of bench

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Acute angle connector - inside

Acute angle connector - outside

Obtuse angle connector - outside

TRAIL AND ERROR Jumping from concept model to full scale pavilion is a huge challenge. During the first 1: 1 fabrication trail, the structure failed. We summerized the factors that led to failure. First of all, we didn’t handle the connection between the bench and strips thoroughly. Secondly, although we doubled up the cross members, the strips are still too flimsy.

We realized that the angle connector and strip strengthener are vital components that determine the performance of the structure.

Therefore, we modified two weak junction points: one is the way the strip fixes into the foundation; the other one is the way the bench connects with the strip. Moreover, we used trianglular reinforcement to replace the plane one, which at the end is proved effective in the second 1:1 fabrication in FabFest London 2016.

Scan the QR code for the time-lapse video of fabrication in FABFEST 2016.

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All drawings are by Haiqi Deng unless otherwise specified.