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“Of all things the measure is man, of the things that are, the existence of things that are and the non-existence of things that are not.”

– Socrates quoting Protagoras in Plato’s Theaetetus, 152a

Five years of undergraduate study in urban and rural planning has not only laid a certain design foundation for architectural design but also provided me with certain experience and cognition for urbanization, economics, sociology and other urban views. I think that people play an important role in social activities, and architecture, as a medium between people and society, influences the development of events.

It is surprising to me that the Urban Design MArch programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture has an emphasis on humanities. This is undoubtedly the missing link between people and architecture in today’s world. I believe the public is entitled to see real and practical works, and architects shall be responsible for telling the real story between light and space, people, and scales.

A Giant Quarantine Camp

A Museum for Bridging Estrangement

A Green Resilience Field Space Model

Parallel heterotopia 01

A Giant Quarantine Camp with Production Capabilities

Academic Project Individual Work

Instructor: Rong Wu

Guangzhou, China Spring 2022

After the COVID-19 was discovered at the end of 2019, it has swept the world. It is not the virus itself that makes people panic, but the impact of the measures taken by the government to prevent the spread of the virus on the economic development, population flow and industrial structure of the society.

People's lives have undergone earth-shaking changes in the past three years. Guangzhou Leather Products Trading Center is no exception. It used to be China's largest leather goods export area, but now it has become very depressed.

In order to revive the economy of Leather Products Trading Center, I tried to prove the existence of Parallel Heterotopia.

Original Image: Women wearing war-surplus gas-capes to shield against smog in Philadelphia, Escaping the smog, 1953.

Population movement under the background of different periods

Guangzhou is one of the most popular cities for migrant labours . However, in the context of the pandemic, the economic environment is depressed, high rents and low wages make many workers choose to resign and return home.

urban development

urban context

Gravity of migration

Guangzhou is the center of the Pearl River Delta region. Because of its special geographical location and political economic status, Guangzhou has become the largest population flow terminal in South China.

Tide of Migrant Laborers

Pandemic outbreak

prevention control

Go out of business

past

Tide of Anti-Migrant Laborers

Rising unemployment

TRAIN STATION

Migrant Restricted FREEDOM

PEARL RIVER

DELTA REGION

LOGISTICS

CENTER

LEATHER WORKSHOP

Logistics Restricted

CONVENIENCE

Labor force

Shrink

Leather production Reduction

OPPORTUNITY

PROSPERITY

Every holiday is crowded with people.

The goods are neatly placed on the shelves.

The workshop is full of migrant workers.

A wide variety of the leather products in the leather products shops.

The risk area cannot be delivered, the goods are idle.

The factory is closed, and the factory building is empty.

Rents rise, shops close.

Nucleic acid testing is required when you are out of station.

Sector A as a new passenger flow transfer center , it has a new line without arrival procedures and a lifting device which can transfer trains.

Sector B has a auto logistics transhipment system , and goods can be transferred from trains to trucks without contact, which improves logistics efficiency.

Sector C parasitics on the original production community. The large-span continuous space allows employers to monitor the status of the assembly line in their own private room.

Sector D is a new retail center for leather , it uses four lifting machines to transfer the store up and down. Salesman in the store are isolated from the consumers outside and will not be affected by each other's condition.

LIFTING DEVICE

TRANSPORT TRACK TRANSHIPMENT SYSTEM TRANSHIPMENT SYSTEM

TRANSFER CENTER

MONITORING ROOM WORKSHOP

SHOP

ORIGINAL LEATHER GOODS CENTER

Heterotopia and sectors are connected by the long linear massing to shorten the commuting distance. The workers dormitories are arranged in a linear sequence which the transportation cores located at nodes, which makes the Heterotopia an efficient operating system.

Except working hours, workers live at Heterotopia can take the atrium elevator to different floors, even though they work in different sectors.

Heterotopia is a giant quarantine camp with production capabilities.Workers can take the inner suspension railway to each heterotopia sector and will not be affected by any other COVID-19 policy and control measures during the pandemic like outside communities. (Such as regular nucleic acid testing, closed transfer, showing nucleic acid negative certificate, etc.)

1. Electric roller doors

2. 1100mm height steel handrail

3. 3mm perforated aluminium sheets in 1.25*1.5m panels

4. Steel frame

5. C steel, C80

6. C steel, C450

7. Curtain box

8. Tinted Glass

9. Steel pedestal

10. Insulation

11. Corrugated steel plate

12. H steel, W18

13. I-beam, 250*400mm

14. Ventilation 15. Lightgage steel joist 16. 25mm, Square steel, Q345 17. Tie rod

Suspension system

Train

Rail

Forest bubble 02

A Green Resilience Field Space Model Based on the "Environment - Behavior" Needs of Complex People Flow Competition Project Group Work Group members: JingPeng Luo, ChaoYang Deng, XingYu Zhou Instructor: Jia Hai Guangzhou, China Winter 2021

With the development and integration of society, the population flow between urban and rural areas has become increasingly frequent. We will start with the familiar environment around us, with the detention problem at Guangzhou Railway Station as the background. Guangzhou belongs to the high-level planning of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and will form a new urban agglomeration with integrated development.

With the development of technology and cities, future transportation will become faster and more convenient, but how will the old railway station in the city center be treated? As a railway station, Guangzhou Railway Station has a small station area. Faced with the problems of supplementary waiting capacity, poor passenger experience and low space quality.

We built a train station in the forest to create a new urban public space that is more daily, open, green and humanistic. Return the originally closed station square as an open city park to citizens and tourists.

The site of the project is Guangzhou Railway Station , which was built in 1973. With the development of urbanization, the surrounding area has also developed into the city center. Many residential areas have developed around the railway station. In addition, as a collection of urban traffic, the railway station is close to the main urban roads such as Huanshi West Road and Airport Expressway.

Research Framework

We envision the beautiful scenario of future population flow as the rising bubbles, and the foundations based on reality sink to the ground, and we imagine the looming waiting hall in the forest, where the urban population and the floating population are doing various activities together.

Based on the complexity of the traffic flow of the railway station, the spatial layout of the dismantled "bubbles" waiting halls will encounter many constraints. In order to calculate the spatial parameters for the layout of the waiting hall, we selected the "Eight Queens" in international chess is used as our basic algorithm principle.

Set the parameters of the constraints in the space, so that the bubbles are randomly arranged and combined according to the constraints of each other.

Passengers waiting on the 2nd floor need to go down to the bottom of the platform through the passage, and then take the stairs to the platform. Passengers on the 1st floor can directly enter the passage on the 1st floor to reach the bottom of the platform, and take the stairs to the platform.

FROM 2F WAITING HALL TO PLATFORM FROM 3F WAITING HALL TO PLATFORM

Passengers in the bubble waiting room above the track can directly reach the platform on the second floor by the escalator. There are 3 exits from the waiting hall on the 3rd floor which correspond to the three-month platform on the second floor.

FROM CITY TO PARK LEAVE THE STATION

The area to the north of Guangzhou Railway Station is connected to residential areas and the wholesale leather goods market. The forest green space is directly connected to the community, and the forest park is open to the public.

For passengers traveling to Guangzhou, Forest Bubble Railway Station is the first stop on their journey. We intentionally designed a streamlined route to guide them to the Forest Park and the waiting parking lot that is more convenient for them to leave by bus.

The principle of space replacement

This principle means that if the qualitative design is carried out according to the needs and standards of consciousness, it will cause the inability to deal with the problem of uncertain population flow, resulting in idle social resources or insufficient space supply. Therefore, at the node of population flow, the station space and urban space are redistributed interchangeably, and finally we get our forest bubble space model - the urban space with a positive forest meaning, and the bubbles are scattered into multiple Guangzhou Railway Stations, interchangeable spaces and functions realize spatial resilience at flow nodes.

When the floating population density is high, the urban space will be transformed into a waiting room to meet the space needs of the floating population. When the floating population density is low, the space of the waiting room will be returned to the forest and transformed into a city in the form of landscape open space.

Different from the current Guangzhou Railway Station, Forest Bubble puts more emphasis on the relationship with the city. People can enjoy all the facilities of the park any time. Forest Bubble Railway Station starts from environmental psychology, eliminates the gap between urban people and floating people, and makes the main users of the railway station change from the lonely state in the past to visitors, participants and appreciators of the park's diverse activities during the waiting process .

In the future, our green resilience field space model will meet the different needs of urban and rural migrants and urban people, and the field model will also make the two groups of people from the original isolation to the future integration and connection, and the interactive behavior will stimulate the station at the same time. Vitality, forming the dynamic pacemaker of urban vitality.

GUIDING WALL 03

A House for the Blind and his Family on Qilou Street

Academic Project

Individual Work Instructor: Dizhu Xiong, Yue Cao

Guangzhou, China Summer 2021

For the convenience of users, home for the blind is often designed as a large flat floor, and the building is filled with many symbols and signs for the blind to identify.

Because of its long and deep space structure and the residential pattern of living above and below commercial buildings, qilou often sacrifice the living experience of residents.

Due to the large number of members, the traditional Chinese family has complicated functional requirements. Home becomes a container for daily life.

The combination of circulation and massing enables the blind to feel the fun brought by the architectural space. It also makes full use of the spatial characteristics of the Qilou space to meet the needs of every family member and provide a full spatial experience.

The site is located at Xiguan Qilou Street, Guangzhou, China, adjacent to the Cantonese Opera Art Museum. Xiguan is the birthplace of Chinese Cantonese Opera and one of the earliest areas where Qilou appeared. Perfume is one of the necessities for Cantonese opera, therefore the ancestral Cantonese opera spice shop was born on Qilou Street.

Our client is blind, and his family clan have retained the traditional family structure of three generations under one roof. It is important to fully utilize the other senses of blind to integrate them into diverse activities.

Traditional house plan is like a maze for the blind.

The one-way plane is better for the blind to identify the direction.

Circulation spaces of different scales play a guiding role.

Guangzhou Qilou originated in the early 20th century and is a combination of Western arched buildings and Chinese Lingnan buildings. Residents live upstairs, and the store below are open to the street. Customers can shopping under eaves (similar to SHOPHOUSES in Hong Kong.) Qilou are narrow and deep, and generally have three main elements: VERANDA, FRONT STORE and ATRIUM.

Retain three main elements of the Qilou:veranda, front store, and atrium.

Raumplan proposed by Adolf Loos is used to arrange the remaining messing so that the house can meet the needs of different members.

Use the circulation of the blind to connect various complex messing in series, making it a blind-friendly house that meets the needs of every member.

Qilou prototype analysis concept development

Water the plants Learning Braille

Looking after grandpa Looking after children

Sorting goods

narrative of circulation

circulation analysis diagram analysis of ROOM & behaviour & feeling & timeline

The circulation connects the store floor and the blind floor, and also distinguishes the activity area of the blind from other family members.

unfold section

The circulation connect indoor and outdoor activity spaces for the blind without any hindrance.

The atrium also plays an important role in the house. By introducing sunlight, the atrium makes the sunlight shine on every corner of the blind circulation. Blind can feel the presence of light through the temperature changes of objects due to sunlight.

16. PRIVATE BALCONY

17. ROOF GARDEN

18. GREENHOUSE

19. SHARING ROOFTOP

01. FRONT STORE

02. CASHIER

03. ATRIUM

04. WORKSHOP

06. BATHROOM

07. LIVING ROOM 08. KITCHEN

09. STUDY

10. BEDROOM FOR CHILDREN

11. WALK IN CLOSET

12. FAMILY ROOM

13. BEDROOM FOR CHILDREN

14. LAUNDRY

15. MASTER BEDROOM

ATRIUM & WORKSHOP & SUNLIGHT

ATRIUM & TUBEROSE & SUNLIGHT

ATRIUM & KITCHEN & SUNLIGHT

The different rooms are connected in sequence through the circulation of blind's activities. Partitioning and overlapping the activity areas of the blind and other roles, they can take care of each other rather than interfering with each other.

Qilou street still retains its function as a commercial street from ancient times, and it is also an ideal place for tourists to go sightseeing or shopping on weekends and holidays.

The architectural feature of the Qilou — residents live upstairs, and the store below are open to the street which enables the blind to further demonstrate their own social value through its spatial form.

between urban & rural 04

A Museum for Bridging Estrangement

Academic Project

Individual Work

Instructor: Dizhu Xiong

Guangzhou, China

Spring 2021

In the process of urbanization in China, the rapid expansion of cities has led to the encroachment of land that originally belonged to rural areas. This unpredictable speed has caused the rural to be surrounded by cities, thus forming today's urban villages.

This trend also makes the difference between China's urban and rural dual systems more and more obvious. The differentiation of two crowd has further deepened the society's negative impression of urban villages.

Shipai Village is the largest existing urban village in Guangzhou and has the longest history. And many cultures have been able to continue in Shipai Village. I also found many spontaneous social activities in Shipai Village. And these are what the city lacks and needs.

I translate the activities in the site into the architectural space, thereby bridging the estrangement.

Photoed by Qingxian Xu, Jingpeng Luo

In the process of urbanization in Guangzhou, the urban fabric is constantly changing along with the optimization of the urban industrial and economic structures. Due to the differences in China's urban-rural dual system, Shipai Village has changed from a traditional village to a city "cancer" today. Moreover, the gap between urban village residents and urban residents is also growing.

Urban residents and urban village residents play different roles in the city. Although they are quite different in their identities and places of residence, they have a lot of similarities in their areas of activities.

With the rapid development of urbanization, traditional culture is rapidly disappearing in the city and at the same time it continues in the urban village. However, many activities between urban villages and cities are inextricably linked.

ANCESTRAL TEMPLE

OLD-STYLE PRIVATE SCHOOL

CANTONESE OPERA

The events on the site are translated into architectural spaces, and placed in this massing, and different nodes are connected in sequence with corridors, so that visitors can feel different architectural languages when walking down the corridors, thus realizing the fusion of people from different regions.

The messing representing activities are connected in sequence through the corridors, and the three sectors represent urban village, boundary, and urban from left to right, simulating the experience of using different spaces.

The corridor connects the exhibition halls and boxes in sequence, and the unlimited circulation brings visitors a variety of tour experiences.

circulation & sectors & massing

EXHIBITION HALL I

EXHIBITION HALL II

The exhibition hall III simulates the real spatial feeling in the urban village, and the corridors that pass through at will guide visitors to experience the most authentic life path of urban village residents. Visitors can walk into the glass messing and overlook the urban village, then find the familiar urban village buildings through the glass.

+7.95M — the second floor plan

typical rooms

The rooms of different scales are divided into two categories: culture and multimedia, and the remaining rooms are rented out to tenants. Tenants can arrange the room spontaneously and carry out various spontaneous activities.

Innate & spontaneous

The corridor connects the rooms and the theme exhibition hall in series. In addition to the traditional exhibition function of the museum, the unique spontaneous activities and culture of the urban village are also excavated in this museum.

I participated in the construction competition for the first time when I was a freshman. We planned to use the traditional Chinese mortise and tenon structure to connect the wood during the design process, but we still used screws to reinforce the unstable places in the build process. From the design to the implementation of the plan, I felt a sense of accomplishment when I finally sat in the pavilion, and it became my lifelong wealth.

2019

THIRD PRIZE AT GDUT WOODEN STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION COMPETITION JUNE.

''Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.''

——François Auguste René Rodin

GUANGZHOU INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CENTER, I.F.C. 2020

ANCIENT BEIJING HUTONG. 2021

If a society does not care about individuals, what is the meaning of those grand narratives?