Architecture Portfolio towards Architecture Indeterminacy

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO

Fuwei Shao 2013-2019

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REVERSE CITY NEIGHBORHOOD FICTION

A RE-PROGRAMMED SOCIAL EXPERIENCE OF MI- GRANTS

Tutor: Li-An Tsien Email:Lian.Tsien@xjtlu.edu.cn

Individual Work Shanghai |China Academic Project Y4 Semester 1|2016.09-2016.12

Rethinking of mundane issues by exploration of urban fictions via folding the space and time of urban rationality into creative neighbourhood scenarios and, as such, re-inventing the idea of the city through let out the secret ‘dreams’ of urban dwellers from the Pandora box of surprises, allowing fictional encounters of various groups and nationalities, unplanned, uncontrolled, inclusions and/or overlaps to open a world of endless possibilities while simultaneously exploring the concept of creative neighbourhood.

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Different levels separated by intermediate roof gardens as parallel neighborhoods with distinctive characteristics formed by habitants. Each shares similar programs with residence, commerce, study and work. The space for migrants are the reinterpretation of their life in lilong houses maintaining its flexibility of self-development and possibilities to create lively space.

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A PROPOSAL FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF IN- DETERMINACY

The Fun Palace was not a building in any conventional sense, but was instead a socially interactive machine, highly adaptable to the shifting cultural and social conditions of its time and place.

Cederic Price (1964)

Tutor: Claudia Westermann - Claudia.Westermann@xjtlu.edu.cn Aleksandra Raonic - Aleksandra.Raonic@xjtlu.edu.cn

Individual Work Shanghai|China Academic Project Y4 Final Year Project|2016.10-2017.06

Spaces designed by us as architects always end up with specific forms, programs and materials. Compositional approaches to the design of architecture with a focus on function, form and material tend to determine the meaning of space. They carry the risk of depriving space of its vitality and to limit the possibilities for future development. While we could attempt to reject control in the process of designing to leave space for users to develop their own spaces, the renunciation of control in the design process is a design decision, and the result will be an arbitrariness that is essentially defined. We do not seem to be able to escape notions of control. If the rejection of control does not lead to openness, how could we design it? How could activate and promote social interaction and be able to adapt to the shifting cultural and social context? And how could we design indeterminate architecture?

The proposal suggests a new approach to an architecture of indeterminacy. It creates spaces with multiple layers and hierarchies. Frames mark the possibilities for shifts of views, and at the same time they provide a stage for all the activities typically contained in the city. As we are always also on stage and ‘in play’, activities are never fully defined. The dynamics of these interactions also initiate new activities and new understandings. We might be reading in a library, or having our hair cut in a barber shop, but we might never know whether not in fact we play Romeo and Juliet with the book shelves, and the hairdresser’s chair being props in a performance. We are actors in an urban theatre that always renews itself.

FINAL ARCHITECTURAL MODEL (1:100) STREET VIEW

FINAL MODEL

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-AERIAL VIEW

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URABN THEATRE-GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1-150 CUT HEIGHT-1.4M

URABN THEATRE-1ST FLOOR PLAN 1-150 CUT HEIGHT-4.5M

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AERIAL AXONOM

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ETRIC DRAWING

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CREATIVE HUB. / CO

Suzhou |China

AN EXPLORATION OF LIVE

PRIZE: 'Outstanding Design in the 2016 National Architectural Educa

Academic Project

Y3 STutor: Ganna Andrianova -

The brief for “Co-working space” design was to solve the con condition of isolation, distrust and tediousness and provide a Meanwhile, creating a space that is capable of carrying out rela

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-WORKING SPACE

LY WORKING SCENARIOS

Studio Coursework Award' tion Annual Symposium in Hefei, China

emester 2 |2016.02-2016.05Email:aandrianova@list.ru

Individual Work

tradictions between workers and their current working collective and collaborative space in Suzhou ancient town. ted social activities for clients with specified characteristics.

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-76- Interaction among co-workers on third floor.

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