Max Jizhe Han 2018 Portfolio

FUSION Architectural Design Portfolios [Jun. 2016 – Dec. 2017] Jizhe Han

CONTENT 【PROFESSIONAL】 【BUILT】 HALL OF MAOGONG RURAL CREATION Maogon China 【PROFESSIONAL】 【CONSTRUCTING】 COMMUNITY READING ROOM OF MAOGONG RURAL CREATION Maogong China 【ACADEMIC】 【INDIVIDUAL】 CENTRE OF HORTICULTURE AT CHARTSWORTH HOUSE Derbyshire UK

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HALL OF MAOGONG RURAL CREATION TIME: JUL. 2017 – OCT 2017 PROFESSIONAL WORK WITH MUME DESIGN LOCATION: LIPING COUNTY, QIANDONGNAN MIAO AND DONG AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, GUIZHOU PROVINC, CHINA MAIN MATERIAL: CHINA FIR, BRICK, CONCERET A VENUE FOR MEETING, BANQUET AND CONFERENCE

GUIZHOU, CHINA

QIANDONGNAN MIAO AND DONG AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE

LIPING COUNTY

COMMUNITY READING ROOM

MAOGONG APARTMENT The Kam a.k.a. Dong (Chinese: 侗族; pinyin: Dòngzú; endonym: Gaeml [kɐ́m]), a Kam–Sui people of southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They are famed for their nativebred Kam Sweet Rice (Chinese: 香禾糯), carpentry skills, and unique architecture, in particular a form of covered bridge known as the "wind and rain bridge" (Chinese: 风雨桥). The Kam people live mostly in eastern Guizhou, western Hunan, and northern Guangxi in China. Small pockets of Kam speakers are found in Tuyên Quang Province in Vietnam.

GRANARY ART CENTRE

N 1:1000 SITE PLAN

Maogong creative town is in Liping, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture. The local government is trying to transfer the traditional village to creative village. To explore the possibility of development of the village, the program has been lunch by a group of young people. The purpose of the program is promoting positive interaction and value link between "city" and "village".

The new building is one part of the Maogong creative village program. The program run a creative part in the village, which have 3 pavilions, an office building, a meeting room and an apartment. The program now need a new building to hold events in large scale such as news conference or banquet. The building hold the room for at least 120 people. Some facility can be set in the ground floor of the apartment. The building must contain 1 storage, 1 tea counter and 1 operating room.

ENTRANCE FOR STAFF AREA

Village office building, Dixi, 1977 MAIN ENTRANCE

ENTRANCE FOR GRANARY ART CENTRE

In case of the site of the building is between the apartment and the mountains. The site will only from east and west. The apartment block most of the day light from North. The building will need some special strategy for lighting.

The site is a 26 meters by 8 meters space. There is a bridge to connected the granary art centre. The wood gallery cincture the apartment. It become a link between two buildings. The gallery will also become the main path to the Hall from main road.

1:500 Site Section

There are several historical buildings such as grain depot built in the era of Mao Gong Town in the collective economy around the building. The base is densely covered with traditional wooden dwelling buildings. The building respects the local territorial environment and the surrounding native landscape.

Building echoes brick and mortar historical buildings, using the demolition of the old brick house as the building materials to create the main building. In order to have enough space to hold large events in the building, we use the simplest shape, cube, to form the basic modelling of the building. We did some sketch to try different form of the building.

SUZHOU CHAPEL Suzhou, china Neri & Hu design and research office

In a deeper design process, we do not want the facades of buildings to be over-exaggerated in rural settings. So we abandoned the application of modern materials such as glass curtain wall. Maintain the connection between the building and traditional brick houses.

The interior space of the building adopts the local fir as an element, and the pure fir grid arranges the enclosed three-dimensional space, which is simple and elegant but local. It interacts with the traditional wooden buildings in the surrounding environment.

The building's faรงade features a large array of openings that provide different openings for doors and windows to ensure a steady natural daylight, while space is lively and entertaining, incorporating the rustic charm of the surrounding area.

The rooftops of the building combine local wood with craftsmanship and wood structure roofs to blend in with the rustic charm of the surrounding villages.

Timber Roof Structure

Brick Wall

The architectural form uses three steps of wood structure roof with cascading staircases to introduce sunlight into space. During the daytime, the light and shade of the light from sunrise to sunset reverberates within the architectural space. The sunlight slowly moves with time in the interior of the building, which gives the space vitality.

Steel Structure

Fir Grid

STORAGE CONTROL ROOM

STORAGE 1：100 NORTHEAST ELEVATION

CAFÉROOM

RESOURCES ROOM

RECEPTION

1：100 NORTHWEST ELEVATION

1：100 SECTION

COMMUNITY READING ROOM OF MAOGONG RURAL CREATION TIME: JUL. 2017 – OCT 2017 PROFESSIONAL WORK WITH MUME DESIGN LOCATION: LIPING COUNTY, QIANDONGNAN MIAO AND DONG AUTONOMOUS PREFECTURE, GUIZHOU PROVINC, CHINA MAIN MATERIAL: CHINA FIR, TILE A COMMUNITY READING SPACE FOR LOCAL CHILDREN

TO THE HOTEL SITE OF NEW HOTEL TO THE HALL

MAOGONG APARTMENT

GRANARY ART CENTRE

TO THE MAIN ROAD

THE HALL

N 1:1000 SITE PLAN

Maogong Reception Center | The Bookstore is one of a series of practical spaces for local architecture practiced in Maogong town. It’s a part of Mume Design’s "New Town Practice". As a public community service center in the town of Maogong, this space hosts visiting groups in the town of Maogong and villagers in the surrounding towns. It is also an open book house in Maogong. It attempts to create a good interactive dialogue between urban and rural people gathering and communicating with each other.

The main idea of this design is to explore new wood practices that create craftsmanship in the traditional wooden buildings of Dong Nationality. Pure wooden buildings are created, all using native Chinese fir as building materials. Combining the structure of traditional wood-based buildings with their habit of building and using the adapted modern building language to organically combine the traditional "Paishan" forms they form, it is an attempt to create skills in new wood-based buildings.

The site of the building is next to the Maogong Apartment. There is a new hotel will be set in the northeast of the building. In this case, we need to consider the route from the building to the hotel. The building will be the core of the park. There will be a lot interaction happening here between visitors, stuffs and villagers. Because of the site is surround by 2 retaining wall and the apartment, There only limited nature light in the site.

SPACE MODELLING

SHORT TIE/ SHORT POST MAIN BEAM COLUMN

Define the space of the site Wooden structure of a Dong house.

“PAISHAN”

To prevent a dark indoor space, we put a courtyard in the centre of the space.

TILE

PURLIN WALL FRAME

MAIN TIE BEAM

FLOOR TIE BEAM

Add the traditional structure to the space

FLOOR JOIST

WALL PLATE

FLOOR BEAM The traditional Dong house is formed by a wooden structure. The beam, column, short tie and post constitute one unit called “Pai Shan”. Each unit could join each other with main tie beam and floor tie beam. The space formed by four columns called “Jian”. “Pai Shan” Can be customized according to the size of the space required. Numbers of “Pai Shan” build up a house. So, the Dong wooden houses style is very free to edit. We try to build a modern space with this traditional technic which lasts for more than hundreds of years. Compare to the modern structure, there are many advantages the dong house have. It is cheaper, which use almost only timber as the material. The town covers an area of 172 square kilometres, an area of 19.8 acres of woodland, forest coverage rate of 76.4%, storage of 590,000 cubic meters. That makes timber the best choice for house building in the area. On the other hand, the timber is environmental friendly than brick and concrete. The simple of the structure make it can be assembled in a few days by skilled artisans.

As a book house, we want it has the atmosphere of tranquillity and harmony. Some additional roof been adding to the courtyard. The impluvium has been reduced to a small hole. Limited daylight could make the courtyard becomes the core of the building. With the time pass, the sunlight will shine a small part of the space. The shine part will move as the time change. It could make the space alive.

BEHAVIOR AND FURNITURE Understand the behaviour of the people in the space allow different form of space been designed. In this building, people’s behaviour can be summed up in 3 form depending on their numbers and activity.

Large group Reading and relaxing Large scale

Singal Reading Small scale

COLUMN STRUCTURE The local artisan set the position of the column for us.

The front structure is a bit different from the structure in the back. In the front, the middle column been replaced by two columns. It create a frame to lead the view to the courtyard from external.

Group Reading and relaxing Medium scale

BOOKSHELF

BOOKSHELF

RECEPTION

READING AND REST SPACE

READING AND REST SPACE

CORRIDOR

CORRIDOR

RECEPTION

SPACE PLANNING The space is quit simple, the left and right section will be the rest and reading area. And three large bookshelf cover the wall in the back, left and right. It give large space for books storage. The reception face the entrance to service the visitors.

The structure of the entrance is diagonally inclined on both sides of the "fan" to break the traditional pattern of courtyard space, forming a transition space between the entrance and the interior space. The open lobby integrates with the grand staircase on the front of the building, just like a city square.

COLUMN

During the design process, different elevation been modelled with several materials and forms. To improve the illumination condition, the core of the elevation is transmittance. Timber and glass are the main elements been considered. In the end, we use the wooden grid, a traditional decorative element for windows in China, and polycarbonate plate to form the front, right and left elevation. The polycarbonate is a very modern material. Compare to the glass, it lighter, safer and cheaper. The transmittance of the polycarbonate is editable, the translucence polycarbonate gives people inside building an interesting experience.

WOODEN GRID

POLYCARBONATE PLATE TIMBER JOIST

We solidify various form behaviours to different blocks. Set free combination of wooden chairs, as an open free recreation area

1：100 SECTION

1:100 FRONT ELEVATION

1：100 PLAN

CENTRE OF HORTICULTURE AT CHARTSWORTH HOUSE TIME: SEP.2016 – JAN.2017 INDIVIDUAL WORK LOCATION: CHARTSWORTH HOUSE, DERBYSHIRE, UK

MAIN MATERIAL: CONCRETE, TIMBER, STEEL PUBLIC CENTRE OF HORTICULTURE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

ENGLAND, UK

DERBYSHIRE

CHATSWORTH HOUSE

In 1846, Thomas Lobb brought the first Phalaenopsis orchid back to Britain from tropical East India. This firmly evidenced the excitement of exotic seed hunting and plant specimens from foreign lands. Man's fascination with rare plants and botany extends way before the Victorian period, being readily featured in art and music with the botanical theme seen in the art and music of early Persian, Chinese and Greek civilizations, planting the seed of learning and further discovery of our natural world.

Distant travel, exploration of new territories and colonisation led to the discovery of new lands, exotic plant and rare animal species. This was an exciting time - in fact, a renaissance of natural discovery but posed an environmental question - how can these plants be kept alive in a foreign climate they are not used to? The need to sustain the newly discovered tropical plant species required environments that replicated their native living conditions. With glass and iron greenhouses, tropical bananas and Amazonian water lilies miraculously thrived and flourished in these man-made environments, marking the birth of the greenhouse, a new building typology that changed the course of architectural history. Man can now control their internal environment with new materials (glass and metal) using a new method of construction (pre-fabrication, modularisation and assemblies with speed and ease) to create palaces of light and transparency determining a different climatic environment within. the greenhouses at Sheffield Botanical Garden and Chatsworth House showcased the works of the English gardener, architect and MP, Joseph Paxton. The tradition of the glasshouse as a tangible typology is conspicuous and looked set to change the way architects designed to temper our internal environments, negotiating thermal comfort.

The site is in the garden of the Chatsworth house. It is next to the house and set on a slope which is high to low from East to West. Two main entrance in the Northwest of the building. There are also many facilities around the entry like café, toilet, and the orangery shop. So, most of the activity will happen in here. The people come to the garden from the house, and the visitors finished their garden tour will get rest in this area. There will be some noise come to site from the café area, but it is not very loud. Meanwhile, all visitors will start their journey of the garden from the area. The prevailing winds blew through the site from the South to the North. There is the large green area around the site and numbers of shrubs, trees, and green planting walls. Because there is a green planting wall next to the site that blocks the view of the East. So the main view of the site will be the felt green land and frost in Southside, the house in Eastside and the peaks far away in North-west.

Cafe Exit of The House

Entrance of the Garden

The Orangery Shop

The Site

1st Duke’s Greenhouse

Display Greenhouse In the large scale, there is a car park which is also the main entrance of the Chatsworth house. The site in the east of the Chatsworth house. It is close to the main entrance of the site and located in the North-west part of the garden. So most landscape and viewpoint in the East and South of the building. Which means the visitors need to pass the site when they want to explore the main part of the garden.

AXIS The Chatsworth House is a very typical English landscape. One of a critical feature of English landscape is that all things in the garden have been designed very artificial. There are several false axes in the garden; these axes concocted different factor. These axes can guide the visitor tour the garden from one factor to another. It can also create a unique view of specified direction.

The site, Chatsworth house is a typical English landscape which has a lot of standard feature of the English landscape. In the Chatsworth house, the plants and plots have been designed very carefully. The garden is a vast scale view. It has a large area of green land and forest.

Most of the garden been designed very artificial style.

GREENHOUSE

LABORATORY

SEED BANK

LIBARAY

Horticulture is the branch of agriculture that deals with the art, science, technology, and business of growing plants. It includes the cultivation of medicinal plants, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs, sprouts, mushrooms, algae, flowers, seaweeds and non-food crops such as grass and ornamental trees and plants. It also includes plant conservation, landscape restoration, landscape and garden design, construction, and maintenance, and arboriculture. Inside agriculture, horticulture contrasts with extensive field farming as well as animal husbandry.

There are much different between these three methods. Unlike English landscape required a kind of order of nature, Chinese Garden prefers natural imitate the nature environment without the artificial trace. By moving from structure to structure, visitors can view a series of carefully composed scenes, unrolling like a scroll of landscape paintings.

When I did the research for the English landscape, I found out during the 19th Centre; there are many different elements from all over the world been to assimilate into English landscape. Chinese style architecture was one of many elements. I was the surprise of this kind of experiment that mixes two completely different styles into one garden. I want to keep that test in the project which not only Chinese style but Japanese style as well.

The Horticulture centre should offer research facility and planting space. In the case of the building is a public building, the area of private and public should be considered. The main services of the centre should include a greenhouse and the test field, which can growing plants; a laboratory to do the examination; a library to provide necessary knowledge resources; a seed bank that could save the seed for further application.

Moon gate Moon gate is a very classical element in Chinese garden. It like a frame to break the space and guide people's view.

The display greenhouse at Chatsworth garden is a great example for growing plants. There are three climate zones in the greenhouse: tropical Mediterranean and temperate. Each zone keep their temperature with natural ventilation, sunshine and heater.

The breeds of plants grow in here are vast. Benefit from three climate zones, different plants could grow well in the greenhouse. From the flowers in the temperate zone to the banana in the Mediterranean zone, all plants need an environment with stable temperature to grow.

As one important part of the horticulture centre, the greenhouse provides a planting environment for the plant from all over the world. I plan to set a few independent greenhouse in the building to create the different climates. I also did some research about the plant growing in the display greenhouse.

The Underground Gallery of the Yorkshire sculpture park The constriction is half-underground. The roof been connected to the top of the slope which can let people get to the roof easily.

In the view of the roof or the top of the slope, the building like 'disappear' from the site. The idea give a very good exempla of a slope building.

In my point of view, The Japanese style garden is like a neutralization style of English landscape and Chinese-style garden.

Japanese gardens have more artificial composition than Chinese gardens but not as much as the English landscape. Compare to the other tow; it gets a smaller scale of the garden which makes the planning of the garden very important. Every Japanese garden is like a little world that been isolated from the rest of the world. It will be absorbing to have a small world inside a large landscape.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is a secure seed bank on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen near Longyearbyen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago, about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) from the North Pole.

Conservationist Cary Fowler, in association with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR),started the vault to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds that are duplicate samples, or "spare" copies, of seeds held in gene banks worldwide. The seed vault is an attempt to insure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises. The seed vault is managed under terms spelled out in a tripartite agreement between the Norwegian government, the Global Crop Diversity Trust (GCDT) and the Nordic Genetic Resource Center (NordGen).

View of peaks far away

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B Education room

View of Chatsworth house

Resource room

View of South side green land

The building digs into the slope to create an accessible roof space and some underground space for some space required low temperature

Seed bank

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Cafe

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Library

Creating a hole in the center of the building which gives more surface to the building. It can benefit the construction by better nature ventilation and more daylight in the building.

Main path

Set 4 entrance in various detraction to make a new axis on the site. It connected two primary paths to the building and guide the visitors go through the building to the rest part of the garden.

During the development of the project, I began to design the internal space by drawing some simple sketches. First, I try to divide the space by the private degree. I partition all the space into three different private level: Red for private space like library and seed bank.

Yellow for public space like the cafe, education room, and resources room.

Half-red-half-yellow for half private space that can be visited by the traveller.

As the site analysis on page 2, most visitors may come to the site from north and west. So most of the public space been set in the north-west. The gate in the north separates two rooms in the north wing. The cafe has been a composition by cafe area and a reception till which can lead visitors into the center yard by the cafe. I put the library and seed bank in the eastside. It can avoid too much interference from tourist.

I start to develop the plan by Solar light area.

In this project, different space required different recommended temperatures. The sunlight impacts the heating in the room very obvious. In the early stage of my development, I did a rough research about the recommended temperatures of each room. In this sketch area required a warm environment for daily activity. These space offer rest and working space during daytime. So keep them warm in daytime is important. The education room and resource room will be heated by the sunlight through the yard. The Cafe and library can only take limited heating from sunlight. area in the greenhouse needs warmer temperatures for plant to grow inside. The large scale of the glass wall can gain and keep the heat easily. The north side of both greenhouses can set a thermal wall to remain the heat and using it to heat the greenhouse, cafe and library. The seed bank on the east side required a very cold environment to save the seed. So it set under the slope to keep the cool environment

Green house

Green house

B GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1:400

B ROOF PLAN 1:400

CROSS SECTION AA 1:400

CROSS SECTION BB 1:200 Creating a Japanese style half-open corridor. It gives some shading space in the yard. It can offer a place for visitors to rest and connected different wings.

Due to the changing of the site, the tree blocked the entrance to the cafe. I make the door fall back to crate a half-circle square between the enter and the tree.

Because of the height of the greenhouse was low for some plants, So I draw some sketches to discover different program of the building. The first program is digging two meters into the ground. But it is quite difficult to make an enter for it. The second plan is made the roof to a slope which copied from the ground degree. Space can be benefit by the roof at a different level that can allow different plant grow in the greenhouse by order of the height. The third program is rising the whole roof of the greenhouse to create a double high space. The external space can allow me to set a Sky Bridge linked two greenhouses.

Rising the greenhouse higher to 7 meters which increasing more space in the greenhouse to accommodate added plant. The external surface can gain more sunlight for the greenhouse.

After the first plan, I found out that the four entrances of the building can form a new axis. The new axis can be linked the primary axis by moving the building north several meters. After that, I discover that the trees around the site also are related to the axis.

The new axis can lead the building connected the site closer. New north to south axis link the main path, the building, green land, and the forest. The west to east axis lead people pass the site, and the oak then reaches the first duke's greenhouse from the main path.

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1. Education room 2 .Resources room 3. Library 4. Cafe 5. Seed bank 6. Laboratory 7. Green house 8. Opened corridor

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1:200 GROUND FLOOR PLAN

9.Greenhouse rest area

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1:200 FIRST FLOOR PLAN

1：100 SECTION

1：100 SECTION

COURTYARD

VIEW FROM THE SOUTHWEST

CAFE AND MAIN ENTRENEE

VIEW FROM THE SOUTHEAST

NORTH ELEVATION

SUPPLEMENT

Dixi Hostel, Mume Design Dixi village, Guizhou , China

Old Town of Xinchang, DAS Xinchang, Shanghai, China

Aug. 2017- Dec. 2017 Under construction In charge of concept design.

Aug. 2016- Sep. 2016 Internship/Drawing assistant In charge of early painting, model making

Artiest Apartment, Brick Lane, London, UK

A Pre-school Kindergarten/ A Day Center for the Elderly Berlin, Germany

Jan. 2017- Jun. 2017 Academic/Individual

Jan. 2016- Jun. 2016 Academic/Individual

A Pre-school Kindergarten/A Day Center for The Elderly at Berlin 2016

SUPPLEMENT

Project model, Shenzhen Dec. 2017 Chinese fir with glue.

Project model, Shenzhen Dec. 2017 Chinese fir with glue.