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The study in Shanghai No.3 girls’ middle school has a great impact on me. Back to the school life, I went through a huge growth in personality, being both independent and caring for others. My pieces of work directed more at creating spaces for women. Nowadays, the women’s status is shifting with more of them entering the workplace. However, it is still hard to ignore that gender equality still existed with unrecognized discrimination and prejudice to overcome. Thus, I hope I can do something to help them out by creating a more comfortable working environment with more specific functions. So the thought of designing a women targeted shared office came up in my mind, and I really have passion on completing this project.
BACKGROUND
INSPIRASION FROM OLD FACTORY
This project is an office designed to target at female. As its site used to be a textile factory, in which a lot of women worked in the past, I came up with this idea as to create a Female-friendly environment for the office lady in the modern city. Meanwhile, the project was inspired by my study at girls' middle school and internship in the company.
SITE PLAN
There are some interesting elements in textile mill, which may attribute to the form of space in new office. So I get the shape of the strings and turn it into an important element in my design. Also, as a textile mill, the material that it produces is also the footprint of its growth, which is the precious point that I want to keep.
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INSPIRASION COLLAGE I want to build a working environment, which has the warm feeling like being held by soft silk package. And I hope that women can grow independently in this working space, like a potted plant.
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There are many factory sites along the Suzhou River, and textile factories, as a relatively special factory, were the few factories that mainly recruited many women workers at that time, which is a very important chance for early women to start work. The factory is especially close to the river because of the special features like some functional requirements of its textile factory. Such a historic site is of special significance to the location of a new type of female-targeted office.
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Also, with thoughts as I mentioned, the formation of the architecture has been influenced greatly by the concept of "the potted plants wrapped by soft textile�.
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FORMATION OF ARCHITECTURE
ared office space, it needs to meet certain types of users’ needs, such as receiving visitor, potential officers or even their children and so on. Therefore, it owns a lot of different functions, which made up hole shared office space. As a result to the users' trip map above, there will be several spaces that the functions needed. Also, these spaces will have a strong connection with the main concept in this by using the same elements like shape, certain materials and so on.
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The design of interior, logically, is based on the process of plant growth. In the whole space, the form of different partitions is kind of accelerating a plant from its bud to its growth and to its flowering finally. Such growth process is inspired from the logic of designing the form of interior, which is composed of the interior of this building.
AXONOMETRICAL DRAWING
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In the working area, the main attempt is to differentiate the fixed desks from the open shared seats by exploring a various patterns of arranging desks while meeting their demands for work at the same time. On the base of adding partitions, the pattern and materials of the floor also is taken into the consideration to separating the space. As a specially designed working place, the Independent building for working aims at those company with certain amount of people in small groups. Combining working space with lounge room (with reading space inside) together, the users can enjoy a better working environment. Following are four main pattern of working space. space: 40m2 desk: 22 pros: flexibility cons: large occupation
space: 30m2 desk: 6 pros: casual relax cons: no seats
space: 30m2 desk: 20 pros: more independence cons: lack group discussion
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VARIABLE MEETING ROOM single module The shape of module in the variable meeting space is inspired by the material in original textile factory. Through the rotation of every glass panel, the different size of the meeting space which can hold for 1~5 people come to emerge, making this space unique and special. Meanwhile, planting green plants at the top of the each module makes it look more vibrant from the angle of the view. Besides, due to the variable construction of the module, this area also can be turned into a â&#x20AC;&#x153;weekend marketâ&#x20AC;?, making the function more diversified.
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ENTRANCE
The reception area takes the responsibility of receiving visitors as well as offering different services in time. The show window (separating inside and outside street) is full up with long strips of silk, providing visitors in the waiting area a relaxing and warm feeling from the soft fabric. And this is a place where can see coffee bar area in the extrusive platform. For the convenience of women users, special children's storage area is set up next to the reception area, so that the clerks in the reception desk can keep an eye on those children easily and provide timely service. Thanks to that, those mothers can be relieved to work completely, and have an access to check their children's situation quickly.
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The nice smell of milk is a commonly shared memory among many of us in our generation in Shanghai. In every morning, the milkman puts fresh ‘bright’ milk into the milk box on the inner door of the lane. Then, housewife goes to take the milk home and boil it, so that children always get up in the fragrance of milk. This scene just repeated daily in old times in Shanghai. And when I was in the supermarket one day and saw cartons of milk, suddenly, the memory of my childhood about milk came up in my mind. Milk is unlike the one now which just like ordinary drink standing on a commodity shelf. So I'd like to create a series of milk stations that offer milk retail services, in which way to refresh people's memories about past life. So this project began with my personal emotion. What's more, I really want to raise people's awareness to the relationship between the people of neighborhood of old time in Shanghai. The life in old lane Shanghai is always started with a cup of hot milk. And milk always seems to be the beginning of a good day. Those typical scenes of life are the prototypes that I make this milk series, hoping to design milk stations by extracting the elements of these life scenes.
LOCATION
INSPIRASION COLLAGE
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This series of milk station is located in the four areas related to the history of old Shanghai strongly. With four spots together, they can be connected as a story. With different function and shapes, every station has its own characteristic and certain location. One is on the coast of the mother river, Suzhou River, where has a close relationship with the development of Shanghai. And there also has one settled in the neighborhood of residential areas, specially used to arouse the memory of the residents. With display of milkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s characteristics, there will be one in the public area, so that people can participate in interaction of making dairy products as well as creating new memories.
Sometimes, if children get up early and quietly climb up to the dormer, they can see the milkman downstairs riding a bicycle casually with the sloshing milk in the bottles. After the young man in the house went out to work, the old grandfather took out the chair and sat outside the corridor to chat in the sun. The elders are divided. When the young all go out to work, those retired elderly people take out chairs and chat in the sunshine outside the building. As sunset comes, the kids in the neighborhood just play games and have fun together after school.
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ELEMENTS INSPIRED FROM OLD PHOTOS This installation gives me a lot inspiration on designing the form of this series of milk stations, as well as the traditional structure of the Shikumen style architecture. On the first sight that I saw this installation, the repeat of using square boxes left a strong impression on me, which reminds me of the milk boxes that can be shown in the same way, thus I get my shape of architectures.
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During 1920s ~1930s in Shanghai, the dairy factory was developing at its peak, the scale of milkman was extremely huge. A bulk of cows has been imported to produce milk. Through these past factories, and milk-related items in folk, I gained some inspiration. I also try to arouse the memories of the new generation through this kind of transformation of these old things.
ARCHITECTURE A
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OVERVIEW This project is made to create a private space for people in modern city to commemorate the memory related to milk in old times. The shape of this building is extracted from the idea of the dormer in the building. In the process of walking up the stairs, people tend to have a sense of their own memories. When you go to the window, people can sit there and meditate. The point of the bottom part of building is to make a Simulation of kids' playing process when jumping from door to door in the past life in Shikumen.
SITE This project is located in a park near Suzhou River, surrounded by residential area. And the residents in this area get used to the crowded ambience. Suzhou River has a special relationship to the milk industry in Shanghai.
The window on the top of the entrance is like the light that guides you to your house as well as in your life.
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DETAIL 2-WAY of conveying the message The historic photos and information are printed on the acrylic plates with laser. The process of running it is just like the experience of waiting for the delivery of milk. You see the light first, and then find the real one.
DESIGN EFFECT
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ARCHITECTURE B
OVERVIEW
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This building is located in the Caoyang Estate, which is a specific kind of new village in Shanghai. Those living in the "estate" neighborhood are actually the first bunch of workers moving out of the "Shikumen" housing. So the elder generation people have the most affection for such a life scene.
The inspiration on this architecture came from another common scene, that everyone gathered together to watch TV after dinner at home while mothers prepared milk for their children before sleep. To show a warm and lively scene, this milk station has one more special function to serve as a temporary community public room, providing activities as film and so on, and promoting the interaction among the neighbors.
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The indoor setting is mainly made for display of milk, and with steps as a rest seat, and in the audience at the time of the movie. But in the outer triangle, it provides a place for people to take a break when they come back to the neighborhood after a day of work.
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DESIGN EFFECT The movable board connects space with outdoors, both to be used independently when closed and to form a confined space providing residents with an active place to contact. By adding this architecture into this community, I wish to make this community more active and vigorous while creating more memories together.
ARCHITECTURE C
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OVERVIEW resifential area It is located in the area outside the residential area, with three sides facing the streets. So this architecture can be accepted by the site, and not only to create more links between indoor and outdoor, but also to makes residents surrounding more contact with it. For this architecture, I try to make it into a condition like it is grown from this land. With all those windows and installations on the walls, the architecture has created as many contacts with streets as possible. I also hope that through this building, people can recall the warm memory that the elders in the neighborhood sitting in front of the corridor and chatting with each other in the leisure time.
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The facade of this architecture has many windows open on all sides of the wall, which increases more and more connection between the internal and external. With these windows, it has more function to offer and more characteristics on itself.
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f connections between inside and outside the room and the shelves on the walls fetch milk without coming into the store, and provide a recreational seat that stay for a while. In the back of the cashier, the window also enlarged the dining e busy morning, more people can directly have breakfast in the street, gaining service.
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ARCHITECTURE D
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This architecture is more like a link between the old time and present. While it keeps some meaningful points, it shows more innovation at the same time. The space is closely connected with the field, and the glass of a stool is made to keep the windows open, and the window is like a screen, which is used to show the activities happening inside. Meanwhile, the whole window is just like a camera recording all the things happen, the contents of the inner space are displayed to a large extent.
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The front part of architecture is about display of milk products and sale of dairy products, and the inner area is mainly a studio of doing hand-made stuff about dairy products.
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It is located at the front of the Shanghai natural museum. The Shanghai natural museum, itself, has witnessed the reconstruction of the new city. Surrounded by the old stone garage lanes, there is a certain demand for the milk station. Meanwhile, the square in the entrance of the museum itself has a lot of public art installations, where those residents and some families with children can come to participate in the interaction.
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At the entrance, visitors need to climb the steps into the front of the display area, as if obtaining a sense of expectation as well. The transparent small box on the wall of the doorway is actually originated from the milk box on the door of the residential building, which makes people get the feeling of coming home.
INSIDE THE
STROLLING PAINTINGS 2017.4-2017.7 This is a design of the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house, which is equipped with several functions including living, work studio and exhibition. Like a process of a drop of ink springing up in the water, the whole space is conducted with the userâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities and needs. When the artist goes out for inspiration, the house can be opened as a private museum. Thus, there is a special installations designed for this.
BACKGROUND
DAILY ROUTINE
The artist used to live in the city, and has a lot of hobbies in his personal life. However, the artist wants to get rid of the fast-paced life in city, and he has high expectations on the living standard in the country. Also, he is willing to have a personal studio combined with home, which can be served as a private museum to show his own creation and some of his precious collections in his spare time.
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The painter is usually in the bustling city of bustling city. In his life experience, the artist’s personal painting style has also changed, from the traditional, landscape realism, to things have their own understanding, an abstract understanding. The form also shows the daily life of the painter’s rich daily life, including many functions. Life itself is colorful and diverse, and the interpersonal network is also extensive, such a daily life of the late housing design, functional positioning has a certain impact.
INSPIRASION COLLAGE
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Taking the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own expectation into consideration, It let me think of a picture of the painting in such a form, the view in your sight is becoming a painting. To make the painter himself can live like in the painting, It reminds me of the twists and turns of those settings and plan in Chinese classical gardens.
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3. Tea house 5. Exhibition 4. Painting room 6. Pool
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AXONOMETRICAL DRAWING Chess House
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Privacy Level The room is a progressive process from the outside to the inside. From the teahouse in outside public area to the studio and exhibition area, and finally to the living place, according to the function of certain room and the activities happened in the regeneration room, the degree of privacy is also added progressively, and the setting of space is changed as well.
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ENTRANCE Looking from the entrance, it shows a progressive relation inside the whole space. The well proportion of different space makes the space deeper and interesting.
RENDERINGS As the most important meeting place after entry, teahouse is the place where people would spend the most time having conversation and so on. In this room, the use of frame scenery is a main point in design. Between the tea room and corridor adjacent to, the facade of that uses glass frame window, to maintain connectivity between the space. When passing through the corridor, the teahouse appears as a painting because of the frame of window. And in the face of the courtyard side also have windows, the scenery outside seems to be like a painting spread in front of the owner and guests.
The facade of chess room is made of wooden shelf, display some masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection. And the chessboard is composed of a gradually tapered acrylic board, which symbolizes the master's mental world.
The washing pool is used to clean masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brushes, which is connected with exhibition room. The wooden grid behind is made to create an atmosphere that water in the pool came from the sky.
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original mode Here are five modes of the wooden display boards that can turn into to meet the different functions.
wooden display board Wooden screen are made of wood and paper. While these wooden screen can separate the space for different usage, it can be used as display shelf itself.
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SCROLL DRAWING OF BATHROOM As an important place to live and take rest, the design of functional areas such as bathroom is inspired from the traditional roll of painting picture with its axisymmetric view. When it comes to the master bedroom area, the scenes seem to be recorded through the window. Thus, it makes master look like living in the painting effect. In the design of bathroom, through the elevation and declines in space rises in elevation of steps, and the symmetrical design, make whole space sprung up like the traditional roll painting. Also, the living space is more poetic and dramatic at the same time.
DETAILS Wooden Grid In the partition of master bedroom and bathroom, the wooden grid is used to combine with turnover board to meet the function of storage and segmentation. The inspiration of reversal wooden board comes from the way of how the roll painting is opened.
Wooden Light The shape is kind of like the traditional paper light used in the ancient times, which represents a special meaning as a light guiding people in their life.
Narrow Window A beam of light shines in through this slim window, representing the beginning of a new day in usersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; life.
By adding the wooden bars, the master bedroom spa a more poetic atmosphere. Meanwhile, painter's life into a simple and natural regression by using wood material.
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RENDERINGS
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Ending equals begining. 2017.8-2017.10
â&#x20AC;&#x153;bodhi of a flower and one world ,a leaf one â&#x20AC;? This is a very classic sentence from the Buddhist sutra, and the sentence itself has a deep meaning. In a word, we can understand the universe through every little piece like a flower, a man and so on. Everything whether which is small or grand, in the micro world or in the macro world can be seen as a world. When you can reach the true meaning, you will not be entangled in the image of food, nor simply to judge things by the appearance. All things have their own natural Buddha nature, but the ordinary people do not have the ability to see it. When you have a micro - and macro - change eye, you'll find yourself an ant on a big macrocosm flower. When you have all kinds of things, they are all equal and have the idea of Buddha nature. When you realize everything and their joy and pain, you will be tolerant and satisfied, and will not care about any small gains or losses. For many historical reasons, Chinese people seem to tend to hide their religious beliefs at many times. But it can't be said that the Chinese have no faith inside. On the contrary to this fact, the religious buildings in China are generally very solemn and significant. Religious belief actually is also a very private and serious matter for Chinese people. In a recent lecture, a graduate student from the first-pier University in China, Tsinghua University, introduced a temple named "grandmother Temple" in the village. The facilities and shapes of the "grandmother Temple" brought people a special change in religious architecture. The topic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grandmother Temple" also leaded to a heated debate. Usually, for this kind of folk "copycat" religious buildings, people may just laugh it off. But the analysis from this graduate student shows that it contains the value and significance of religion in the life of the Chinese, which also alerts me the possibilities in the new way of constructing religious buildings.
BACKGROUND
SITE PLAN
The background is based on a heated topic, "grandmother Temple" , which inspired me to explore the new form of religious architecture. At this time, a new and interesting phenomenon of “grandma’s temple” has come into people’s view. In some rural areas, local people builds their own temples to meet their spiritual needs.
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What the main point inside this event is that the form of the religious building adapted to people’s demands received a huge success (according to its economic ‘income’ and the population it has attracted). It raises a question that is it time to change now? Whatever the answer is, the existence of the "grandmother Temple" reminds me of that the form of folk culture can make religious buildings have more development possibilities. it provided a possible direction in design in the spiritual buildings like this. Apart from the original form, such spiritual buildings may exist in different forms in different places.
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TRADITIONAL LAYOUT OF THE TEMPLE
The traditional layout of the temple is highly enormous and magnificent, which still remained a huge building complex until now, of which arrangement has strong sense of sequence and hierarchy. As a result, the amount and the location of temple have been restricted due to its large scale of buildings to some extent.
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As a discussion on the new form of religious architecture, it is based on some subversion of the old form. Therefore, it is different from the traditional temple, which covers a large area and be in a large scale. Because of the small size of the building, it can be placed in every spot of the city. It gives accesses to meet the needs of religious beliefs, to a certain extent, especially for those people who can’t go to the suburbs or relatively remote areas of the religious buildings. Not only in the city, it can also be served as a rest spot in the mountains.
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INSPIRASION FROM CUSTOMES
hist world, Buddhism mainly emphasizes that human beings should dom and improve understanding of things through their own practice. e travel over land and rivers for soul. Everyone should clear the state in e. Then, aspire, express your desire, improve yourself and free yourself. way to find yourself, it's a travel to discover and understand the world subtle relationship between you and outsides.
ight and light bricks are largely reflected in the concept of Buddhism. of approaching the truth is the process of understanding the world.
Prayer wheels are always common to find in Buddhist temples, which give the chance to those who can’t read to “read” the Buddhist script. Through which way, people can show their royalty to Buddha and get rid of the pain of samsara. The structure of such prayer wheels inspired me of the new structure of the brick in the model.
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ELEVATION DRAWING
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The whole space is composed by 2 floors with two "invisible" special space. Looking from the outside, the building is designed like an small resting pavilion. However, with specialized brick on the wall, the space has a special meaning in itself.
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The first floor is mainly for users to take a rest and the inside space under the stairs is actually an invisible â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;chapel roomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. The 2nd floor provides a more secret and silent space for people discover, where they can find the place to take a migration. Also it has the function of reading with the installation on the wall.
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SECTION DRAWING All the tricks are set inside, only waiting for people to discover them. And this is another way to interpret the process of knowing the world in the spirit of Buddhism. While walking on the shadow of the translucent bricks, prayers can better connect with the scripts carved on the bricks, covered with sunlight.
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Every single part in this architecture has its certain reason to support the action that user will take and to create the specific atmosphere.
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EXPERIMENT IN LIGHT & SPACE
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With the different permutation and combination, a series of various patterns, which has the strong connections to certain human emotions, come out. 6 patterns are referring to 6 stages of emotion in human respectively. Combing all these stages together shows a complete process of how a person feel when he/she try to figure out the real world and everything, even his/her true-self.
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A number of photos showing the process of the variation of the architectureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shadow vary from light every day, displaying the change of shadow that the brick throws on the ground.
DETAILS OF STRUCTURE The translucent brick is made of plexiglass. By adding grooves to its top and bottom and inserting the movable glass plate, it enables the bricks can be fixed with each other and form different patterns eventually. What's more, the short scripts in Buddha can be carve on the surface of the bricks, which can be read in the shadow on the ground.
AXONOMETRICAL DRAWING The drawing on the left shows the structure of connection between the ceiling and walls. The bended iron helped support this structure.
The light in the dark entry is a symbol as people's guidance to truth, which has the meaning of lighting for people in their mental world.
The book shelf is hiding behind the cover of sliding doors, where can display some classical Buddhist scriptures for those who have the interest to discover it. With the glazed door sliding open or closed, the Buddhist scripts stay on the shelf inside or looks like floating in the air from outside. 1700 800
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This is a secret place designed for Buddhists who really has the demand for praying to the god. For the most of time, the doors were closed and it just seems as a normal column supporting the structure. But when people pass by, they can see the beam of light. When the both sides doors open, the inside space become a rather private space with strong sense of safety.
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