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Feng Shuo
PORTFOLIO SHUO FENG B.arch Yangzhou University China applicant for M Arch program of Georgia Tech 2014-2018 +86 156-51786-6669 fengshuo2019@hotmail.com
CRITICAL REGIONALISM In my junior year, I read about frampton's critical regionalism and studied it deeply.During the period of my undergraduate study, I have done a lot of regional architecture attempt, and have gradual understanding of regional architecture.From the perspective of regionalism in the initial form to the study of the place spirit of regionalism, the integration of regionalism and modernity, namely the backwardness mentioned by frampton, has been gradually transferred to the application of regionalism in architectural design. Through the step by step advances, I went from 05, 06visible regionalism to 03, 02 invisible and sensible regionalism, and finally to 01, 04 invisible and senseless but rising into the hearts of people regionalism.Such a process, along with every corner of my undergraduate study, enabled me to have a preliminary critical view of architecture and a superficial understanding. I hope to consolidate and deepen it through my postgraduate study.
Skills
Scholastic Background 09.2014-07.2019
Bachelors of Architecture
Yangzhou University
Rhino + Grasshopper SketchUp Lumion InDesign
Internship Experience
Illustrator Photoshop
06-12.2018
Cad
Architect Assistant
KeyShot
Constructed models with Rhino + Grasshopper, SketchUp Rendered models into beautiful images with Lumion, & KeyShot
Revite
Awards
Designed with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Worked on a team to finish 6 projects
2018
Drawn with the Cad Nanjing Changan Architecture & Design
06-09.2017
Temporary and Movable Building Columns Silver Award
Architect Assistant
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Second place out of 10,000 entries
Designed urban buildings in the Yangzhou thin west lake area Yangzhou University
09.2014-09.2015 & 09.2015- 09.2016
2
16th Asian Design Academic Year Award
2016
President & Vice President, Respectively
The Ninth Challenge Cup of Yangzhou University
2
Academic Science & Technology Award
Organized 3 calligraphy exhibitions Led our members to win 21 gold medals and 34 silver medals in various competitions Mohuaxuan Calligraphy Club
2015
Digital Media Works Competition Graphic Design Award Second place out of 245351 entries
INDEX SELECTED WORK 2014-2018
01 Military Museum
Re-creation based on historical renewal
02 Hand In Hand
Historical cultural space's with Undefined Boundary
03 Mountain Fortification Urban Design of HOPSCA
04 Godzilla-High-Rise Development of a top-bottom way
05 Yangzhou Grand Theatre The first attempt to criticize regionalism
06 Converting Of Castle Efficient transformation strategy
[Military Museum] Re-creation based on historical renewal YAC Young Architects Competitions Location : SARDINIA . PALAU . ITALY Year : 2018 Individual Work The military fortress of Capo d’Orso in Palau is one of theseplaces. It is sculpted in the granite of a monumental coast. From its bastions, the luxurious yachts sailing in the Me-diterranean Sea evoke the English galleons, which chased the Napoleonic fleet in the same sea stretch centuries ago. Here wars have ended, soldiers are gone.Because of its specific historical and cultural value, it is crucial to pass this history on to the new generations.
Background and concept The museum is mainly divided into two parts, one is the military museum and the other is the military memorial hall. Although the original architectural space is not easy to be use due to its original building function——military castal, but it still can perfectly reflect the intuitive feeling of people at ancient time. As a result, the original structure was renovated without major changes, making it an exhibit of the military memorial itself. And the new part ——military museum, due to this area suffer from serious wind erose throughout the year. A lot of stones represent to some strange form. To simulate this possess, I researched the wind trends of this area, and used it to form the architect. I used two form of lines—— straight and curve, respetively symbolize the power and tenacity.
Design strategy Power
War
straight
Rational
Military History
Violent
Romance
Unstoppable
curve
Nonrationality
Geomorphic Analysis
Contour Line
Figure-ground relation 1
Figure-ground relation 2
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Original Building
P
New museum
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Oppsite Mountain Entrance Line
Wind Analysis
Valley Wind (DAY)
Land And Sea Breeze (DAY)
Land And Sea Breeze(NIGHT)
Monsoon
Foehn
Cyclone
Gustiness
Valley Wind (NIJHT)
Wind trends
With the resarch going on, I found that the main kinds of wind in local area are valley wind , land and sea breeze, foehn, gustiness, monsoon and cyclone. And I concluded a wind trends map to represent it. Then, I imitates the wind in form and extend it with structures in architect.
Form Experimental
Axonometric Drawing
Light Air
Breeze
Fresh Breeze
Fresh Gale
Moderate Gale
Wild Wind
Squall
Hurricane
Gale
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The First Floor
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The Second Floor
3 Original Building
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Explode view 1 Studdle
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2 Structure 3 Hanging Panel 4 Floor Support Structure 5 Interior Architect Surface 6 Exterior Architect Surface
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7 Floor 8 Exterior Surface Support Structure
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Split show
Joint Details
Butterfly Section
Floor
[Hand In Hand] Historical cultural space's with Undefined Boundary Won : 16th Asia Design Award Prize, Temporary and movable buildings, Silver Award Location : Casamance Region Of Southern Senegal In Western Africa Year : 2018 Individual Work The site is located in the casamance region of southern Senegal in western Africa.The isolation, the history, the chronic inequality that has led to years of war in the region has left the local people living in very miserable conditions for a long time.The war, which lasted 25 years, caused serious damage to military, civilian, industrial facilities and residential areas in most areas of the south.The air strikes have also killed more than 100,000 innocent civilians in the south and left hundreds of thousands of people as refugees.The lack of infrastructure has led to the lack of medical care, and many, many people have lost their lives simply because of minor illnesses.
Geomorphic Analysis
Problems Drought: due to the harsh local natural conditions, the recycling and utilization of water resources has become an indispensable measure. Infrastructure missing: the building has a variable system to meet needs such as healthcare. Economic shortage: the construction process is full participation of local residents. Meeting place: the building itself meet the local cultural needs, which provides possibilities for the form of local oral history. Education: the building itself can meet the needs of education space, so that local residents can get education.
Space Research
Round Plan
Traditional Form
This area's unique and traditional living habit,inhabitant usually split space in a unique way . In my design I follow this system and use a succession line to connect. Final
In west africa, inhabit usually uses more than three houses to surround a yard. By this way they can get a social activity space . This space always has only one entrance.
Site Traditional Form
Final
Concept Development dy y StuStud
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Three Functions We propose a simple building with three functions: Exhibition ,Study and Performance. The properties of these functions are different. Performance is more active ,study is middle and exhibition part is silent.
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Functions Arrangement This is a big tree in the east of the site. Out of the respect for nature,we built around it. And this circle is the basis of these design.
Connecting And Stretching
Symbolize
By looking for the tangent between different circles, we can find a inner link between different functions. Then exchange this connection to a elegant form.
This form is the symbolize of peace between different minorities and a cultural bond between seniors and junior.
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How to connect ?? How HowHow toHow connect to connect ? ?to to connect How to connect ?
Due to this building's unique functions, it's important to coordinate these functions.
Final I designed a transition room between these several functions to cooperate these three main functions space. It also reflects the beauty of architectural modeling.
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1E The west part of the building include several different functions. such as exhibition, management and classroom, which are comparatively silent space. And the east part are comparatively active space, due to this part is close to the noise street. The middle part link those two part and relief the conflict between two differet space.
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3M
4T
5R
6S
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Exploded View
Thatch Roof Locally thatch is layered on top of the bamboo substructure, providing a low cost and sustainable building solution.
Bamboo Roof Structure
Baobab Wood This kind of wood have a great wood density, which allow a good application in construction.
Bamboo Roof Structure The roof substructure is composed of three layers of bamboo sourced locally.
Exbition Room
Class Room
Management Offical
Teacher Class Room
Rest Room
Show Room
Master Plan
Clay Brick Facade Clay bricks will be formed on-site by local villagers.
Flexibility System
Study Exhibition System
Medical System
Due to the insufficient medical system and a limited amount of operating rooms and employees in the hospital, there is a medical system designed to meet people’s demands.
With the population growing, the government building cannot provide enough jobs, and that is why they will need the cultural center, because it can provide more job opportunities.
Work System
Religion System
This area have a lot of religious. Due to wars and other factors , this area need a ways to make their people deeping the sense of identity acceptance. I think religious is a great way to make people had this sense of identity acceptance.
Literacy reachs weakly 50% being affected by the lack of transports and accessibility to school structures in general. So I designed a study and exhibition system to spread the traditional culture.
Section B-B
Canal
Exhibition Room
Show Room
Tree
Canal
Rendering
Section A-A
[Mountain Fortification] Urban Design of HOPSCA Location : Yangzhou, China Year : 2018 Team Work team member: Yuxing Ling
This design is based on a real public space in Yangzhou Park. In this design, I adopted the circle as its motif because it has no angle and the park is shady. This creates a certain aesthetic appeal.
Mapping
City Iteration In the beginning, the city was low houses and alleys, arranging randomly
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After the development, the embryonic form of the city began to appear
At a certain stage of urban development, the emergence of highdensity skyscrapers is very common in China
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Central Area
New Town
Site Overview The site is located near in the East Qujiang Area, the new CBD in Yangzhou. However,old community in Qujiang area is inhibited from development. On the other site, this enables it to hold some memory of old Yangzhou, such as the ancient canal.
Rural Area
What is the direction of future urban development and whether the existing urban environment is worth criticizing.
Skyline Analysis
1950
1980
2010
2050
Field Research
Diversity Of Urban Function
We took photos of surrounding buildings and sites
We need a complex to integrate all buildings and infrastructure
Residence Community Private house Apartment
Medical Care Hospital Clinic Massage
Accommodation
Work
Hotel Inn Resort
Office building Factory Workshop
Service
Recreation
Hospital Clinic Massage
As is known to all, Yangzhou is famous for its classical gardens. Also, Yangzhou is a famous city full of monuments and civilization.
Community Private house Massage
Education
Transportation
University Middle School Training course
Private car Bus Bicycle
Base Analysis Landscape View
Building Setback
Traffic
Providing eyesight to the old grand canal
Buildings descend floor by floor to echo the landscape
Forming a circulation line around the site
Gathering Point
Streamline
External Traffic
Using circles in order to alleviate interface and gather crowds
Setting different lines to guide the stream of people
Different levels of roads surrounding the site
Model Display
Architectural Form
The foot of the "mountain" is cut to increase overall connectivity between public s
Step One
Step Two
Step Four
Step Five
Step Seven
Step Eight
Step Ten
Step Eleven
Concept
space and buildings
Step Three
The mountain peaks scattered in the Chinese landscape painting serve as the basis of the architectural design and revolves around the Chinese idea of “mountain fortifications�. The traditional ink painting of the mountain silhouettes serves as the primary inspiration of the building form: tall, straight, soaring mountain peaks. This underlying concept encapsulates the spirit of culture and traditional that can be conveyed to modern users.
Design Concept of Functional Layout Step Six
The vertical distribution of the four levels maximizes the utilization of the land
Residence
Office
Hotel
SOHO
Apartment
Commerce
Courtyard
Integration
3D-Tansport
Step Nine
Step Twelve
General Plan
Different Activities Greeny
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Sunken Plaza
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Accommodation
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Roof Garden
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30F Office
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27F Hotel
27F Residence
24F Residence
21F Residence
15F SOHO
18F Apartment
The site maximizes the use of verticality, providing an array of spaces set up at various level; the Hub Center located underground, the Central Park located on ground level, the Corridor System elevated above ground and multi complex high rise towers soaring into the sky. The vertical distribution of the four levels maximizes the utilization of the land and also sets a requirement for the vertical link between each layer.
A variety of activities can be impleme exhibition spaces, restaurants and o usage of the corridor, developing vibra
Different Activities
Open Space And Public Activities
Transportation
Accommodation
Supermarket
Boutique
Swimming Pool
Cinema
Work
The spaces between the podium buildings serve as functional passageways – a source of connectivity to the Central Park, forming smaller scaled outdoor areas pocketed underneath the buildings, capturing a mix of activity, outdoor and city space. The atmosphere of the Central park flows through the pocket parks and into the surrounding buildings, blurring the boundaries of indoor and outdoor space. The connection spaces between the corridor and the buildings can be utilized as active public spaces. Endless streams of people and the spatial characteristics of these points bring infinite possibilities to this transitional area.
View From The Road Casual Dining
ented to these spaces such as creative business, cafes, other leisure activities to further liven and promote the ant and interesting public spaces around the areas
View From The Atrium
[Godzilla-High-rise] Development of a top-bottom way Evolo competition Year : 2018 Individual Work
Traditional high-rise buildings are built from bottom to top. Inspired by raindrops, we use a disorderly top-bottom approach and sample and analyze the trajectories of raindrops, Then stacking countless trajectories and finding available space. Considering the spontaneity of the Kowloon Walled City, it is a bottom-top building that forms a lot of efficient and interesting spaces. In the process of design, it is the process of pursuing the unity of space and form of architecture.
Site Contexts Analysis
The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was built gradually—building on top of building—over time. Without a single architect, the ungoverned and most densely populated district became a haven for drugs, crime and prostitution until it was demolished in 1993.
Space Evolution
Randomness
Orderliness
Antenna
Vertical
Horizontal
Add
"Kowloon Walled City"——Hiroaki Kani, Japan
Raindrop Increase
Decrease
Filamentous division
Strip division
Block division
A i a o t T s s d
R d t
After investigation and research, it is learned that the raindrops are affected by gravity during the process division ofBlock falling, and will gradually gather together to become large raindrops. These large raindrops then divide, some of which filamentous division, some strip division,the others block division.
Raindrops are affected by gravity, dust and wind, forming different trajectories during the fall.
Rain Line
Concept Diagram
Raindrops fall from the sky
Raindrops form different trajectories
Fusion of different trajectories
Find faces from the fused line
Section
Living Department
Public Space
Park Space
Farming
Research Space
Section
Natural Space
Living Space
Natural Space
Research Space
Cultural Center
[Yangzhou Grand Theatre]
A grand theater which employs the traditional ice crack element to building elevation. It is also an exploration of the regionality of form.
The first attempt to criticize regionalism
The development of yangzhou city is a process of continuous westward movement. Walking from east to west in yangzhou city, one can feel the evolution of history as well as the constant changes of architectural forms.
Location : Yangzhou China Year : 2017 Individual Work
1950
1985 1950
Yangzhou Old Neighborhood
1995
WenChang Tower
2000
1985
Entrance of Normal University
1995
The Main Building of Yangzhou University
2018
Yangzhou TV tower
Yangzhou Shuangbo Museum
2018 1900
1900
Site Analysis
Plan
Motorway
Local Streets 32%
The area's existing motorway carry 32 percent of the traffic.
Population Distribution
Pedestrian Route 26%
The area's existing local streets carry 67 percent of the traffic.
67%
The area's existing sidewalks carry 67 percent of the traffic.
Existing Public Building
Student Theater Worker Viewer
YZ Industry Polytecgnic
Aged
Living Part
House Wife Else
Shuang Bo Guan Guozhan Center YZ Art museum Jinghua Entertainment Hotel Jinghua Center
underground parking
Second Floor
Ground Floor
Third Floor
[Converting Of Castle]
This castle bears the vicissitudes of history. Due to the rich tourism resources, this area is gradually being developed into a tourist attraction.
Efficient transformation strategy
Due to the transformation of multiple buildings, each building receives different degrees of external damage.Therefore, several transformation strategies have been formulated.
Location : ARDINIA . PALAU . ITALY Year : 2018
Finally, this historic building will regain its due luster in the new era.
Individual Work
Strategies
The building which have complete structure , divided according to the function
Part of the house has a rooftop infinity pool
Some buildings add higher roofs to solve the problem of storey height
Rearrange internal space and set some relex object
Section
Reception center
This design follow its regionalistic form, running counter to locally accepted design practices. By Efficient transformation strategy
Rearrange internal traffic
Section
Flow conversion point
Some part retain the original texture, other partrenovate
Section
Standard room of hotel