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URBAN ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH STUDIO
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DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH STUDIO
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GRADUATION STUDIO
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STRUCTURE COMPETITION
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01 URBAN ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH STUDIO -Social Housing Project ,1031Bourke St,Green square,Sydney. -2018 Street Corner urbanism concept design Honourable mention Tutor: Nathan Etherington Group/Individual: Individual
PROJECT OVERVIEW The urban renewal of green square not only brings prosperity but also gentrification. My proposal aims to provide housing for groups that under most housing stress and simultaneously provide facilities and support for surrounding neighbourhood that require similar assistance.
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Sydney Housing value
This process of gentrification can be further explained by looking at housing value. The addition of infrastructure and facilities,job opportunities, and various factors increase the demand of housing in the area and therefore increase the housing/rental price. Residents that originally live in the area can not afford for housing will be forced to live in other places. They will be replaced by residents that can afford the housing, in green square’s case will be young professionals.
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Sydney Rental affordability The process of gentrification is harmful to the community as it lowers the diversity in terms of age group and income group. The area will become bland with a single demographic and residents that lived there for their whole life are forced to leave. It is socially unhealthy and unsustainable.
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Rental Affordability Index
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Moderately Unaffordable
30% OF INCOME MEDIAN RENT PRICE
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Unit Quantity Study
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Massing
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From the quantity study,programs that is public are placed on ground floor and residents on top. While the units are flushed with the boundary to maximize open space
There are two existing building on site that will be kept due to their size suitable for new programs and heritage value. A street is extruded along the profile of the heritage building.
The resident units are elevated, further increase the open space on the podium. The form of the units is shaped to 1) maximize sunlight on the podium. 2) Make the east side that has huge traffic less intimidating and have the heritage building stand out.
The resident block is further divided for three reasons: 1) To soften the mass. 2) To lower building height when possible. 3) The divided mass can house different unit type.
495units 495 units
Private
Public vs privacy
Communal space
Communal space
Community service
Public
Communal space a
Circulation
Communal space b
Circulation Core
Type 1
Corridor
Type 2 Type 3 Type 4aapv Total units: 196 Site area: 8000Sq.M
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Types
Plans
Tech school workshop
Tech school
George st
Elizabe
Tech school classroom
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Tech school Office
Social enterprise Run food street
Community centre Food court Healthcare Centre
Community centre Office Community Centre Community centre Workshop
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Ground floor plan 1:1000
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Playground for Residents
Childcare playground
Childcare
BIKE RACK
Counselling room for Psychological treatment Reading room Basketball court
Communal kitchen Tech school Office Tech school Office Tech school Office
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1St floor plan 1:1000
Activity hall
Exercise room
Running track
Parts
Community centre
Food street
Elderly/ Singles hub
Reading space Theatre Dancing bar
Homeless communal hub Dancing hall
Communal Dining/kitchen Sports facility
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Tech School
Child Care centre
Isometric view
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02 DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH STUDIO -Marine Research Centre Project , Bonna Point ,Kurnell,Sydney. -Individual or group: Group of 2. Role statement: my work: graphic design, making up the narrative, plans and sections shown in portfolio Partner work: physical models, grasshopper script, detail drawings.
PROJECT OVERVIEW The Studio proceed with the theme of sea level rise and asks for an answer towards 2100, groups of students need to develop staged solution under the assumption of their own scenarios for future..... Kurnell is the place where captain cook landed and made the first contact with aboriginal Australians, so we build up our story based on a first contact with a new species called “mermaid�. The story unveiled through 3 stages and the structure responds organically and follows the whole narrative we create.
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Future scenarios
The Narrative Our site is located in a highly ecological rich area with mangrove forest and different marine lives. The first stage of our structure is the landscape pathways that get avoid of the mangrove root system and can expand on our site. So this is mainly the stage for a co-existance between Human-raise and nature aspects. However, after the first contact with a new species , lets say mermaid is found and under the threat of sea level rise, in 2040, our structure will become a research centre to study this new species ,its habitat, social behaviour but mainly its material to help 3d printing the whole structure. So the inner space can mainly be decided into two kinds , the space for mermaid and the space for human and several kinds of surface pattern to serve different purpose . and finally under the assumption that the sea level are out of control in 2100, our structure would become the Noah’s Ark rehabilitating the last hope of human race. 15
Narrative
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I also made two videos to test the engagement of water to our structure: https://youtu.be/6wD9vl7RzC8 https://youtu.be/vO26zNlfIIw
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Site Research
The stage 1 landscape grid system is defined by different specie typology and their activities. Less organic enclosed gird with high density for human occupation organic gird with medium density for mangrove root system,large gird with low density for sea grass and reef for their easy expansion. Space in between for marine animals because of their free circulation
GRID TYPOLOGY Man - high density Mangrove - medium density Reef - low density Fish - free space STEP4 Adjust grid size according to root size
STEP3 Define path way
STEP2 Define the surface
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STEP1 Define the edge
Plan
STAGE 1 Landscape
STAGE 2
Research centre
STAGE 3 Tower
MERMAID NEST The mermaid also have enclosed space for their nest which fit very well with human space for convenient interaction. It has 4 stages of growth
STAGE 4 Birth
STAGE 3 Breaking
STAGE 2 Growth
STAGE 1 Fish egg
Based on the time line and the actual sea level the structure is supposed to grow from the stage1 grid system and form a marine research centre to analysis mermaid technique after the first contact. The research centre is free-form 3d printing geometry witch mixes human and mermaid technology so the inner space is composed of both human space and mermaid space. The central circulation core serve both as the main hall for research centre and the accommodation space for the tower in stage 3.
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GRADUATION STUDIO -Buskers performing centre,9A Elizabeth Bay Rd,Kings cross,Sydney. -Indidual or group: Individual
PORJECT OVERVIEW Kings Cross used to be a Buskers hub. The reggae dude in Sydney’s Kings Cross who blasted Bob Marley from his green and yellow boom box, as boozed up crowds bopped and swayed beneath the coke sign, is gone. The guitar legend that jammed in his cowboy hat at Taylor Square’s bus shelter as bar hopping friends sung along out of tune – also gone..... Sydney lockout laws are turning king cross, one of the most vivid party hubs into a ghost town. Why not try to bring them back just by renovating an existing public car park?
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Theme The chora, a grey space formed by people viewing the street performance is neither sensible or intelligible. In Olafur Eliasson’s book, your engagement has consequences, he mentioned this kind of space as a result of co-production. Fig 1 Old Town Square, - Czechia Plaza de la Ciudad Vieja, Old Town, Prague, Czechia .AUGUST 19 2017: Top view to Hollywood Boulevard with street performers surrounded by a crowd of people. http://www.stephstravels.com/2017/01/prague-day-3.html
When someone walks down the road he co-produce the spatial feature and is simultaneously co-produced by it. An important thing is that it is happening without architects building anything, People is doing post-production, they are changing the plaza and redefining the space.
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Architectural Devices
This transform into architectural language would be an adaptable system with minimal visibility of construction to strengthen the formal expression purely proceed by people.
A tested prototype is developed by me as a crowds controlled curtain system. People at the edge of the crowds can pull the curtain down to define a closed space for a single street performance while another performance can stay unaffected the size of the enclosed space is highly adjustable and purely defined by the size of the crowds. 25
Architectural Devices
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Pillows
Blanket
Moveable walls
For crowds spectator
For buskers socializing
For musical rehearsal
Curtains
Flat surface of adaptable size
Round pitch
For quiet rehearsal
For street painters
For group rehearsals
Renders
I decide to chose the only open green area as the street painter pitch because it involve bad smells of spray material, instead of building an interior studio with ventilating facilities, it is a good alternative, just making it semi-open. A large painting wall could also block the smell from affecting the interior environment. Part of the ceiling is removed to enable large scale street painting, and new columns and handrails are added which also renovate and update the old facade
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Renders
The original concrete ramp is transformed by simply adding terraces and pillows.The pillows just serve as plug-ins to the original concrete material and the buskers define the final shape of them. The original rock surface serve as the new facade of this lecture room, and I enlarged the gap between the rock surface and the building to introduce more natural daylight.
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acrobat pitch4*6.5m oval clown pitch 2m radius circle magic pitch 3m radius circle comedy pitch 2m radius circle dancing pitch costume clown/ magic/ solo performance reheaersal group rehearsal cafe lecture theatre vip lounge kitchen washroom
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Metallic ceiling grid 0mm drop
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PASSWAY FROM REHEARSAL TO PERFORMING PITCH Metallic ceiling grid 0mm drop
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Metallic framing ceiling grid 400mm drop
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Transporting lift
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busker entrance
busker entrance busker lobby
locker,mail box
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locker,mail box
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Yellowblock edging 500*50*random length block paviors laid on edge in a herringbone pattern with stretcher course and 300mm Sydney Basin Hawkesbury Sandstone edging.
edge planting 350-400mm height
1:50 fall
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planting medium mixed with 100-200mm granular fill with terram surround height secondary internal gabion cell with geotextile lining to house planting medium
gabion 700 system 1400*1000*700mm filled with chalk &flint from site excavations
CONCRETE BEAM PRECAST CONCRETE WALL
L-BRACKET BOLTED TO BOTH PRECAST PANEL AND SLAB
continuous white polyurethane pavement 9mm leveling layer with self-leveling mortar e = 2cm
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black aluminum mullions
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rainforced concrete slab 100mm
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white steel frame
black aluminum mullions
metal deck hanging curtain rolls
glass panel 200
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pull chain
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continuous white polyurethane pavement 9mm leveling layer with self-leveling mortar e = 2cm
fabric curtain surface
rainforced concrete slab 100mm
hembar 5.17
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steel frame for exhibition lighting
CONCRETE BEAM
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PRECAST CONCRETE WALL - 13mm standard plasterboard - 13mm furring channel - 78mm Speedpanel, 600 kg/mÂł density - 13mm furring channel - 13mm standard plasterboard
L-BRACKET BOLTED TO BOTH PRECAST PANEL AND SLAB
continuous white polyurethane pavement 9mm leveling layer with self-leveling mortar e = 2cm rainforced concrete slab 100mm
dense mineral wool based fire-stopping, tightly fitting into profile of steel deck on both sides of wall
shallow decking
additional minal wool in floor and beam zone
CONCRETE BEAM
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PRECAST CONCRETE WALL
l-braket bolted to both precast panel and slab
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light steel separating floor
joints sealed with tape or caulked with acoustical sealant
ssp clip w/drywall furring channel
cavity 80mm 100mm thickness leaves with lightweight plast er, concrete block density of 2200 kg/m3
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movable wall moving direction ssp clip w/drywall furring channel
continuous white polyurethane pavement 9mm leveling layer with self-leveling mortar e = 2cm
pyramid soud absorbing tile 35mm thickness
rainforced concrete slab 100mm ssp clip w/drywall furring channel 5mm foamed polyethylene resilent flanking strip
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25mm cavity 140mm thickness concrete block core density 2200kg/m3 25mm cavity 25mm thickness plasterboard finish
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CONCRETE BEAM PRECAST CONCRETE WALL
110mm thickness concrete block
L-BRACKET BOLTED TO BOTH PRECAST PANEL AND SLAB
13mm lightweight plaster
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black aluminum handrail frame Ă˜ 60mm
timber handrail
white harlequin dance vinyl harlequin woodspring sprung dance floor rainforced concrete slab 100mm
dancing mirror 2*2m panel
10mm cavity
13mm thickness plasterboard finish 140mm thickness concrete block core density 2200kg/m3 13mm thickness plasterboard finish
50mm extended and compacted gravel
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OTHER WORKS -Structure competition -2015 The 3rd prize for National structure competition for university students
PROJECT OVERVIEW Shell is the product of the sea, our concept is to design a building that integrate into the beach, into the marine environment Bionic architecture is not only the shape of the imitation. It needs more coordination and symbiosis with the surrounding environment. To minimize the impact of their own projects.
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When we were children, we used to look for shells on the beach. Now such a chance Is gradually far away. With the destruction of the waterfront ecosystem, the Shell will only remain in the memory.
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The making process is challenging as well as interesting. In order to get the right spatial position, we made modes, and rotate each element to plan in rhino,laser cut them and assemble piece by piece. The acrylic glass is chosen for the “ball” bar’s facade in order to make it float on water. A tiny rail device is installed to eliminate motion difference for ball and for the shell, so the ball can move smoothly up and down as the shell open and close. We put it into a self made water tank to test if this motion is working or not. The floating force is a little bit over our Estimation, so we left over some vacant area at the bottom of the “ball bar” to store some metals or stones to add up to its gravity.
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Publication website: https://issuu.com/feng66 Email: lfen3939@uni.sydney.edu.au