PORTFOLIO of Fei Hu
Selected work from 2016-2020
B. Arch, Syracuse University fhu100@syr.edu +86 13802237830
Project Name
“W” For Will
Design Studio
Internship Project
Thesis prep
Competetion
Digital Modeling Physical Modeling
Architecture Design
Thousand Degrees of Poems Poet’s shelter in comtempoary era
Politics Culture
“From People, To People” A retrospective illustration to community
Urbanism Design
Society Tectonics
“Great” Green Belt
Research
An analyzation to London Green Belt
Interview
Urbanism Research Nantou, “A New Model”
Materailality Structure
Social Study
Nantou, “Hybird Future”
History
Rebirth of the Hybird Building
Typology Nantou. “URBAN ”We”illage” Past and future of Nantou village
Imagination
Xiong’An, China
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“W� FOR WILL Spring 2020 Comprhensive Studio Syracuse University Instrctor: Fei Wang Parnter: Rui Li This project evaluates the waste to energy industry by inserting a new program to enhance and respond to the industrial process. With a media centre of collective layers of comprehensive propaganda space we are able to convert the industrial power into spiritual power inspired by the traditional waste to energy process. Which means, to provide the artists and designers with ultimate working experience and nearly infinite power to break the limit of their imagination and achieve their goals. To accomplish the goal, we designed a successive of circulative space to mediate the industrial process from more hazardous to experimental. The stacking form has taken the advantage of gravity and horizontal stretch to greatly reduce the by-products generated by the burning process, and turning the building into layers of different industrial happenings. The middle part houses a large experiencing tunnel to collect the waste heat and steam water, as it also benefits to remove the chimney which was traditionally considered to press the incineration substance. The industrial waste (noise, heat, etc.) is utilized for artistic effect and interior conditioning, etc.
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To reflect our waste-to-will-power philosophy into real life, many interior programs such as the performance studios are connected to the great walkable rooftop looking at the scenic sector of the city. Using the grand staking forms, the rooftop is crafted into a continuation of the scenic promenade, and also the stage platform emitting the power of talented wills. The translucent facade on the urban sector showcases the interior in colorized programs. Different languages of industrial process and architectural expression are stacked in grammatical tenses, echoing the history of our attitude towards the Waste-to-Energy industry, in additon to the history of the baiyangdian region and its splendid culture which flourished billions of population in the region.
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The layering of different process, times tense of the waste converting to different types of energy.
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Theatre and Education Center Will to Power/ Waste to Energy
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Circulation Diagram
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Wall Sections The nature of the incineration process requires gravity to press the ashes and steams. Our idea incorporating the industrial process to form articulation is to utilize the waste heat to control the interior conditioning, as well as to slow down the condensing process. As the steam and ash travels through the experience tunnel in the middle of the building, the condensing pipes are able to collect heat and ashes, and send to the scrubbers and baghouse underneath. This will benefit us by removing the chimney from our design, also benefiting the environment. By completing this process, the value of the waste was recognized and evaluated into a higher form. Based on this idea, we decide to power the whole building up with the electricity generated from the incineration to both ensure the enough amount of power inside the building and also reduce the need of electricity in the city.
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GREAT GREY BELT Fall 2019 Architectural Design VII Syracuse University Instrctor: Davide Sacconi The Great London Green Belt, as the most famous green belt around the world and also the origin of the afterwar green belt design system, carries the most compliments and crtics among all green belts. On contary to its inital wishes, the development of London gren belt is not only an irony to its goal but also a long scroll in the history illustrating the history of Greater London Area in the past 70 years. Villages and towns were settled in the middle of the forests while facorties and storages were either secertly or publicly built regardless of the law and existence of green belt. Thus, for the first part of this project, it intends to explore every corner in London green belt area by depicting the strangest and most contridictoary regions inside the greenbelt area. After the research, for the second part of the project, the goal is to construct an ideal public housing residential area in respecting to the brutalism styles in this land while trying to solve the housing problems in Lodon. In addition to that, this project also discuss the current conditions of some most famous brutalism architectures from mid20th century by selecting them as design references to seek for a future for those great architectures.
Incident, Epping SCALE 1:1000
The general public creates an outcry if any attempt is made to invade this green belt and that is something we want to get into planning – the creation of public interest. We want to get them to know something of our work and support us in our activities。 (Abercrombie, 1948, 13)
According to all the researches, it is clear to see that the greenbelt region is not successful in preventing the development of residential areas and to confine the spread of industry around London. In reality, this region is full of faked green areas like agricultural field, sports fields like golf course and soccor field, and industrial palnts and storages covered by trees and bushes. As the first and largest greenbelt all over the world, although its existence did not achieve its original goal, its legacy still continues on as a greenish circle around the metropolitain.
Incident, Wndover SCALE 1:1000
Incident, Hoddessdon SCALE 1:1000
Incident, Farnham Common SCALE 1:1000
Greenbelt Illustrations
In the second phase of this project, the project intends to generate a residential area in a selected area inside the green belt region. The chosen site for this project is SouthEnd, which is one of the most famous coastline towns in greenbet region. The abandon of public housing projects in London has always been a probelm in past decades. Therefore, this project tends to discuss this problem in current days. In addition to the design, the project also picked the alxendar road estate as the design reference in response to the current condition of the brutalism architectures in London. SCALE BAR 1:2000 0
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Site Collages
Plans, Sections, Cottage Plans
A - Residen�al
B - Communal
C - Public
ARC 182: Representation II - Kerner
Sectional Axon
4C: Final Illustration Fei Hu | Section 4
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Imagative Illustration
THOUSAND DEGREES OF POET Spring 2019 Visiting Crit Studio Syracuse University Instrctor: James Leng The three gorges area, as one of the most famous geological areas in China, had always been a famous among every individuals in China since 15th century ago. In Tang Dynasty, great poets visited this region and left countless literature treasures depicting the natural beauty of three gorges. The compliement to the three gorges had never ceased to reach to an end until current days. The rigorous flowing Yangtze river and the knife-sharp mountains on the sides together performs a fabulous Chinese Shanshui painting in the region. However, the peace and harmony of the three gorges area has reached to an end when the great construction of the three gorges dam started in this region. Influenced by the gigantic construction in the region, many of the historcial towns and villages were merged under the water as a result. History and cultures were to be forgoted while modernization progress radically enter the region to reshape the mountains and gorges. Under such a condition, it is questionable if the poetic three gorges can be preserved and celeberated. Thus, this project tends to bring back the very begining atmosphere of three gorges area and to provide a poetic retreat fot modern people.
FROM PEOPLE, TO PEOPLE Fall 2018 Architectural Design V Syracuse University Instrctor: Lawrence Davis This project evaluates the waste to energy industry by inserting a new program to enhance and respond to the industrial process. With a media centre of collective layers of comprehensive propaganda space we are able to convert the industrial power into spiritual power inspired by the traditional waste to energy process. Which means, to provide the artists and designers with ultimate working experience and nearly infinite power to break the limit of their imagination and achieve their goals. To accomplish the goal, we designed a successive of circulative space to mediate the industrial process from more hazardous to experimental. The stacking form has taken the advantage of gravity and horizontal stretch to greatly reduce the by-products generated by the burning process, and turning the building into layers of different industrial happenings. The middle part houses a large experiencing tunnel to collect the waste heat and steam water, as it also benefits to remove the chimney which was traditionally considered to press the incineration substance. The industrial waste (noise, heat, etc.) is utilized for artistic effect and interior conditioning, etc.
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NANTOU MODEL SUMMER 2020 Architectural Internship URBANUS Design Instrctor: Yan Meng, Xiaodu Liu The Nantou Old Town is located to the north of Shennan Avenue and south of Zhongshan Park. Built along a gentle slope, the Old Town used to be guarded by four gates in four directions. The northern gate was abandoned in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and the northern street in the traditional county town’s “Cross Roads” pattern lost its vitality ever since. Zhongshan Park to the north of the Old Town was the earliest public park in Shenzhen. It was built during the Republican era of China and features old, towering trees that attract many visitors. The wall surrounding the factory area constructed in the 1980s separated the park from the Old Town. We decided to reconfigure this critical node by extending South Zhongshan Street northward, restoring the traditional “Cross Roads” pattern and reconnecting Zhongshan Park, the Old Town and the Park outside the south gate. This step of spatial restructuring will be the starting point of future old town regeneration, beginning with a series of exhibition venues for the UABB, which will be rolled out along this main spine.
Nantou Noli Map
Design Diagrams of the Baode Square
URBAN “WE”ILLAGE FALL 2020 Thesis Prep Instrctor: Britt Eversole, Juile Larsen
This project is aimed to record, analyze, and imagine the life circle of the Nantou urban village in Shenzhen, China. As one of the most remarkable urban villages in the city, Nantou village carries some of the most important legacies and history in this young city, in despite of all the historical make ups and decorations. Thus, in this area, the boundary between real and fake is so blur in current days both architecturally and culturally. Instead of letting scientific experiments and ancient documentations to define the ages and origins of these architectures, in need of political propaganda and to culturally shorten the distance between Shenzhen and Hongkong, a set of renovations were taken place in the village in addition to rapid gentrification tends to increase the whole quality of this region. As a result of all these actions and policies, the original culture from the village were either abandoned or decorated, with exotic culture been violently inserted to the history of the village. the demolition of ancient government bureau building and reconstruction in the same place following a fancier style with brighter color and more exaggerate decorations which were never existed in the history. In addition to that, for most of the vernacular residential buildings in the village, the facades of the buildings were renovated following the traditional Cantonese verandas. However, like the decorations added to the building such architectural style never existed in the village. Relating to the name of the renovation project “Shenzhen, Hongkong, same origins same hometown”. and the pandemic of veranda style housing in Hongkong, it is clear to see how this action was guided by political needs to shorten the distance between Shenzhen and Hongkong culture to culturally connect those two cities together.
The research part of this project will be majorly about observation the daily life of residents and to interview the residents. It is both an attempt to collect the attitudes from the resident’s perspective toward the future of Nantou village and also their attitudes toward all the on-going things in the village. Although this kind of questionnaires and interviews were been done for many times by other firms and companies. Almost all the results are connected with their own profits and positions. Therefore, since this research project is not connected with any kind of companies and groups and has no intend to commercially gain and profit, it is then important to do such a research and collection to the residents and to honestly express the result as graphics and articles represent the true situation in the village. However, just like many of the projects done before, the question of how to collect the attitudes from the residents without prejudice is also important. The question is how to jump out of the comfort zone and the social class to notice and observe every corner in the village. For instance, how to understand certain behaviors from the residents based on their situation and what are some social and cultural reasons behind those behaviors.
It is also to research the tide of gentrification after WWII world widely and to analyze how does this wave influence the development of cities and areas like urban villages. It is true and reasonable that gentrification indeed brought more chances of development and shifted the city façade by improving the quality of architectures, but the impact to local residents is also advent and blunt. It forced the retreat of residents from lower classes by improving the living and housing prices while shifting the face of local origin culture for the development of commercial business. Thus, it is hard to define the impact of gentrification in certain region, to fully understand how gentrification has and will continue to influence Nantou village, research is needed for this topic.
Nantou Timeline(Selected Parts)
Urban Memory: Village Landmarks
PHYSICAL MODEL&DRAWING
Economic Inversion
MegaCoproration
Economical Globalization
SuperCycle Society
Humanism
SocialEquality
Global Population Aging
Global Citizen
InterContimental Authority
Ideal Republic
Andriod Human
Culture
Divergent Culture
Homogeneous Competition
Cultural Revolution
Minority vs. Majority
Deep Space Exploration
Future Soiety
Future
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Technology
Advance in Physics
Escape from the Earth
Future Social Class
Star Settlement
Cyberpunk Society
Extraterrestrial Architecture
Enviroment
Global Warming
Alternative Enviroment
AIIntelligence
Reshape the Earth
Climate Control
Multi-Degree Dimensions
Globalization
Color Revolution
SpaceTechnology
Collectiveism
Anti-Gravity Architecture