Architecture Portfolio /HAIYUN BAO /2012-2019
Student ID/ 20149003 Programme/ MArch Architecture
ACADEMIC Lingyan Library, Suzhou, China /1 12 House, Liverpool, UK /11 Baltic Train Station, Liverpool, UK /21 Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK /31
WORK Ancestral Hall, Beijing, China /39 Six Senses Resort, Koh Samui, Thailand /47
Lingyan Library Project Location: Level of Project: Project Type: Supervisor: Project Timeline:
Suzhou,China 1st year project, individual Public Glen.Wash@xjtlu.edu.cn Feb 2013-Jun 2013
The brief asks for a community library on Lingyan Hill, which located in the suburban of Suzhou, China. The building itself needs to resolve the height difference on a slope. Meanwhile, the building should be approachable from the main road thus it also has to respond to the town at the east side.
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Shanqiang
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Lion Forest Garden
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(1) Shanqiang ' 幹 墙 ' is the term 'gable wall' in Chinese vernacular architecture, refering to as a pediment. As well as being designed to be aesthetically pleasing, it is also deisgned to prevent rainwater entering the intersection between wall and roof. In southern china, the raining season may last long. Ancient Chinese architects develop this from and now the layered roof walls have become a iconic image for Jiangnan (southern china). (2) Lion Forest Garden as one of the classical gardens in Suzhou, China, it consists of several courtyards within the garden. Unlike the acclaimed religious and imperial gardens found elsewhere in Asia, Suzhou's gardens were designed by scholars and intellectuals to be domestic spaces that drew upon China's rich visual and literary tradition, embedding cultural references within the landscapes. When people walk inside the garden, they can freely experience the space as the it is constantly open to exterior world with only screen walls directing path.
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1/ A small path coming from the main road is leading to a ramp as the main entrance of the library. The visitors are unable to see the real entrance immediately. The many gardens in Suzhou, the first sight of open space is after a curated journey in space like the essence and spirit of the building are hidden in the architecture waiting for visitors' own exploration.
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Frame/ ' 楆景 '(kuangjing) Suzhou Gardens use the frame to capture the view in the promenade.
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1/ Using bookshelves as partition walls, a free plan is divided. The combination of window and bookshelf creates framed view in space. When people are walking up the stairs between bookshelves, they are also walking towards surroundings of the outside. The nature is brought into the interior space as a key element of the whole spatial experience. 2/ The intercrossing building blocks form the library complex and also create intersecting circulation in the inside. The circuitous journey in the connecting space reflects the zigzag experience in the Suzhou gardens. The route takes the concept of a landscape walk. The form with mild changing height and long streching space communicate a calmness and hevyness rooted in the ground.
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1/ The journey ends in a long path slowly being away from the building with the nature finally fully exposed along the way. Visitors may still have a glimpse of the interior space at some part which will complete a visitor's whole experience of the building. With the nature in the background, the library is sitting quietly as the building is only part of the nature.
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2/ The building is created out of two main materials, concrete and wood which maximize the purity of the space. The intersections of buildings bring interesting intersection of space inside. Natural light floods in from the edge wall providing a sense of outer space which also make the space more calm and peaceful. Again, wood bookshelves are creating different corners and moments in space with the main concrete shell.
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12 Houses Project Location: Level of Project: Project Type: Supervisor: Project Timeline:
Liverpool, UK 2nd year project, individual Residential A.Dustorloh@Liverpool.ac.uk Feb 2014-Jun 2014
This site is surrounded by main roads in Liverpool. One side faces a parking lot. As the site is near the train station in the city center, the daily road traffic is quite heavy. The curved boundary facing the busy main road which becomes an issue for the residential complex. Thus a transitional area has to be added between them. The transitional area not only becomes a path enclosing the 12 houses, also it becomes a layer that public can use by adding in community functions such as gym, commercial and gallery spaces.
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RESIDENTIAL MASSING
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1/ Twelve individual houses are arranged to different levels so the whole complex becomes an artificial hill, overlooking two internal courtyards and Liverpool cathedral in the distance. With a gym and two courtyards on the ground level, people from neigbourhood are welcomed into this community from the side of the curved boundary. 2/ St Oswald Street right next to the site in 1970s. The bold housing projects of the 1930s led by Director of Housing, Sir Lancelot Keay, was one of the most concerted efforts to tackle slum housing. Whole areas of the city were transformed by Keay’s progressive approach. Much of his neoGeorgian styled housing (including very good examples on Queen’s Drive and Muirhead Avenue) remains but his tenement blocks. The high density blocks were considered a great advance at the time and were a vast improvement on the courts and run-down houses they replaced. The street and buidling facade remain unchanged over decades. The waving of the facade forms a line of urban image to define its complex. The 12 houses complex brings a sloping roof line to its urban context.
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Twelve individual houses are arranged to different levels so the whole complex becomes an artificial hill, overlooking two internal courtyards and Liverpool cathedral in the distance. With a gym and two courtyards on the ground level, people from neigbourhood are welcomed into this community from the side of the curved boundary.
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1/ Looking from inside the concrete part to the white housing part, the courtyard space is enclosed by buildings but open to the sky. The contrast lies between the bright living area and rather dark public area. The conrete part includes solid volumn and column structure which repond to different spatial needs of the public.
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Two concrete parts are added to the west and east side of the complex serving as a barrier from the road system and as a transitional area for the housing complex. The colonnade in the west side overlooking two courtyards can become a pleasant path for travellers coming from the train station on the west. Since the two courtyards can also be accessed from outside, on the east side, visitors will need to pass a colonnade area. The building provides commmuniy service for the housing complex and includes an art gallery for the public. This approach ensure that the complex is not entirely closed to the surroundings but still has much privacy.
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1/ West side view (facing parking lot) 2/ East side view (facing the main road)
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Baltic Triangle Train Stationn
Project Location: Level of Project: Role in the Process: Supervisor: Project Timeline:
Edinburgh,UK 3rd year project architectural & interior design, Sandy.Brown@Liverpool.ac.uk Feb 2015-June 2016
The site is originally a train tunnel. As a future train station, it is also a hub for the Baltic Triangle developing area nearby. Baltic Triangle is an area that provides developing opportunities for creative industries in Liverpool. The train station will connect Baltic Triangle areva to the rest of Liverpool city and places near Liverpool area, which will enhance the development of Baltic Triangle area.
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1/ Street painting in Baltic Triangle area
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louvres
glass plane
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1/ Second floor waiting lounge 2/ First floor depature hall
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baltic creative industry area
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busy road intersection
situated in the background of sea
Pointing at the Baltic Triangle ( A creative industry area in Liverpool where creative workshops and offices locate.), the train station will become a hub for Baltic Triangle area attracting people working in creative industry from cities nearby with its event space and exhibitions kiosks. The main facade is facing the road junction so when people coming from the city, they will have a open visual of the sation as they are approaching the trainstation.
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1/ Conceptual section. 2/ Conceptual cross section. The building is a structure that encounters with circilation of the train station rather than a enclosed space. 3/ View inside departure hall. 4/ Looking down to the tunnel.
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The use of louvre highlights the shadow of moving circulation in the train station space. The landscape around the train station is designed for people from different directions to approach the station more easily. Movement of the train can be viewed from the platform on the ground floor.
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Summerhall Market Edinburgh,UK Project Location: MA Interior Architecture project Level of Project: Interior renovation Project type: Ed.hollis@ed.ac.uk Supervisor: Sep 2015-Aug 2016 Project Timeline: Summerhall used to be a veterinary school of Edinburgh University. Before this, it was a brewery factory. Now, it is an art venue that hosts various kinds of exhibitions and shows. Lots of creative companies and artists choose Summerhall as their base. Summerhall also serves as an important venue for The Fringe Festival every year. However, as it went through many years of renovation, now the interior organzation is no longer suitable for its current function and circulation. The brief allows designers to choose any interior part of Summerhall to renovate so that the overall use of space can be enhanced.
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Fragments/ Buildings in Summerhall were all constructed in different times in the compound, so there are many entrances to Summerhall Hall approached from different directions and different roads. The building segments naturally become a divider in urban context. Instead of focusing in the interior space, the attention is draw to the exterior space that was close by all the interior buidlings. For example, an in-between alley way space can be seen as a space rather than a passage way.
The biggest issue in Summerhall is that each small part of the buildings is all occupied with different groups of users. By renovating the exterior, the space connecting all the interior space of Summerhall will be regenerated. In this case, all the interior space that are left behind for years will be active again due to the circulation inside the complex is activated. The approach is to make a open insertion in the middle of the complex to allow people more easily finding their way in Summer Hall.
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The central building was inserted with steel structures so that the space is quite clear to see through. In this case, the original space that was occupied with many small functions has been freed up. The space feels much bigger as a busy event venue. Also, the circulation inside the market respond to the opening on the facade. The openings are originally windows on the facade. Now, the circulation from the central courtyard is continued to the interior. The interior market becomes part of exterior space and the exterior space becomes the extension of interior space.
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1/ Indoor market on the first floor 2/ Facade from courtyard 3/ Restaurant on the third floor
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1/ Exterior courtyard market 2/ Isometric of the indoor market
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Ancestral Hall
Project Location: Level of Project: Project Type: Role in the Process: Supervisor: Project Timeline:
Chengde, Hebei Province, China Construction Drawing Public Lead the project, Architectural & interior design, drawing, client coordination, Construction drawing coordination nellieyang@neriandhu.com April 2017-Ongoing
The site locates at the bottom of Wudaoliang mountain where the ruins of the Great Wall can be found in a rural village of Chengde. As one of ten spiritual architectures in the new village, it will serve the community as a modern museum with an archive of all families living there. Nowadays in China, many architects are invited to build design-oriented buildings with functions serving the community. It has become a new model for real estate developers to value architecture design and attract people with demanding standards for their living enviroment.
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The museum applied the typology of traditional ancestral hall by having an continuous wall on the outside. The whole building consist of three parts: the courtyard on the entry, the middle main exhibtion space and the final hall. In the courtyard, a steel roof structure supports the roof with traditional chinese tiles on top. In the main exhibition space, apart from the main double height space with north facing skylight, a gallery enclosing and looking down to the main hall is on the second floor. As the journey continues, one may find the spiritual space in the end with hidden moments on the two sides. As the curve open to the sky, the final space seems not to be the end of the journey. The space we create is returning to the nature which reflects the core spirit in vernacular Chinese architecture.
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For thousands years, ancestors and memories they left behind have always been the root that people can trace back for each Chinese family. The place that people put the shrine naturally become the sacred place for the continuous culture and spirit inheritage. The clear structure and order in one family was also reflected in the clear sequence of vernacular ancestral hall.
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Ancestral hall ' çĽ ĺ ‚ 'as an Chinese temple delicated to deified ancestors, is a typology in vernacular chinese architecture. In ancient times, it plays a significant role in the inheritage of traditional chinese culture as it was used for collective rituals and festivals in hornor of ancestors. It was also used for family- and community-related functions such as wedding and funerals. With its development later on, some of the ancestral halls become academies for children in the village.
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In plan, the typology of ancestral hall shows a clear diagram. Ancestral hall has a strong hierachy in space. As people enter, the function of the space stay more public and as people go in deepeer in ancestral hall, the space is more for private use. Separate with two courtyards, it forms three entries in the sequence. The last entry leads people to the most significant space in ancestral hall where the ancestors' shrine locate. The entirety was enclosed with an outskirt wall which implies a conservative and self-sustain system in Chinese culture. 42
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1/ Entrance 2/ Second floor cloister under roof 3/ Courtyard cloister 4/ Second floor exhibition gallery 5/ Courtyard
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1/ Special exhibition area with staircase going up to the roof. The second floor gallery encloses and overlooks the main exhibition hall. In the north end of second floor, the relatively bigger exhibition area with seating area for resting is designed for display lagger objects. 2/ Main exhibition hall for big events in the community. Main feature of this space is the colonnade on the two sides which creates a symetrical and form space. The sense of order in the space was extracted from the vernacular ancestral hall. 45
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3/ Small moments on one side of the final space for comtemplation. The main gesture of the final hall is the roof going up to the sky and the light shine through the opening in the architecture. However, on the two sides, small spaces are created to allow experience of the final hall from other part of the building. 4/ Final hall for the memorial of ancestors. The final hall is rather dark compared to the courtyard and the main exhibition hall. It shows a clear three stage of emotions of the entire experience.
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Six Senses Resort Project Location: Level of Project: Project Type: Role in the Process: Supervisor: Project Timeline:
Koh Samui, Thailand Tendering Hopitality Masterplaning design, Architectural & interior design, drawing, nellieyang@neriandhu.com Feb 2017-Ongoing
The project is located in Koh Samui island in Thailand. The resort requires different types of hotel rooms and a main building spreading out the whole island. The journey between each building form the journey of the scenery site. The design incorperates the features of south-east asia architecture and creates space that respects the local environment. Dealing with the complicated site topography, the design allows more sectional quality in the building which creates interesting and sensitive relationship between buidling construction and the nature environment.
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Prefabrication All cluster villa parts and components are manufactured in factories off-site and assembled on site to minimize existing site intervention during construction.
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OTHERWORKS
Wood Workshop In this workshop, different features and challenges of timber materials have been explored. This model is a canopy that imitating the growth of urban city horizontally and vertically. The light enter the space vertically as the light path of the architecture has been shaped that way. Different height of partitions with sharp edges form the curve space and arches underneath. The canopy could flexibly changed into different forms as the unit changes the height. The space underneath could have different atmospheres.
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Glass Workshop In this workshop, we used the computer to capture a static status of a moving object and use glass to captivate it. The first object is a process when a cup falling down from table. In normal sense, people would only be able to see the begining and the end. A new status of a object is created with the combination of intangible digital crafting and solid material. The second object captured a twisting bowl which could not be possible when it is a still object in physical world.
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Thank you.