JUNDA XIANG
ARTCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
City in the Sea, designed in 2012, Junda Xiang
Architecture is construction, context and so much more: for those who chose to be architects, it is a culture, a commitment and a life long path to discovery. ---- Robert A.M. Stern
CONTENTS Residential and Commercial Complex This portfolio contains the design work of Junda Xiang.
Rain 路 Forest
Hop Cup 2013 International Student Competition Architectural Design
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Cultrue Complex Landscape VS. Architecture
Hop Cup 2012 International Student Competition Architectural Design Honorable Mention Award
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Snow Culture Exhibition Hall Based on Mechanics Principle
Open Research-oriented Architecture Design, 2013
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City in the Sea Machine and Architecture
2012 UA International Concept Design Competition
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Harbin Harbor Urban Design Village --- The Fifth Facade of City Curriculum Design, 2013
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Dragon's Blood Trees on Socotra Island
National Geographic Magazine, June 2012
RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPLEX
RAIN 路 FOREST
TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK/COMPETITION WORK/COLLABORATION WORK DATE: Aug.2013. LOCATION: Mogadishu, Somalia TUTOR: Bai Xiaopeng COLLABORATOR: Wan Shaoran, Ding Weishuang, Yang Yuyu CONTRIBUTION: DESIGN: 60% MODEL: 90% EXPRESSION: 50% ROLE: Team Leader
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RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL COMPLEX RAIN · FOREST
LOCATION: MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
FOREST, which is born for conserving water and capturing sunlight, provides our ancestors water, food and shelters. The space enclosed by the branches gave humans a sense of safety in the early age of the history. Undergoing the war,Somalia public water transmission facilities were paralysed. We hope to provide every resident a “TREE” to make their life better.
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Water Crisis in Somalia
Network Water Transmission System
2011 East Africa drought
Pollution Source
Easily get polluted once it paralysed under the war environment.
Self-sufficient Water System
Every “TREE� is capable of absorbing rainfall, and stores them safely underground.
Rainfall
Water Resourece
Solar Energy
Electricity
Electricity Equipement Water Storage
Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East Africa region. Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people. Crowded, unsanitary conditions together with severe malnutrition led to a large number of deaths. Apart from an unusually strong La Nina phenomenon, the lack of vegetation cover also contributes to this severe drought. The land of Somalia has no ability of water conservation. The rainfall evaporates immediately once it touches the hot dry land. This is the initial inspiration of our design. [1] Only 250km away from Somalia, there is an island called Socotra Island, where growing a special kind of tree, named Dragon's Blood Tree. The unique shape of the tree is generated through millions of years in order to adapt the hot, dry climate of this region. It stretches its crown to the most to receive more rainfall, and provide itself a large area of shade so that it can prevent water from evaporating.
Dragon's Blood Tree
We abstract this shape to design our sanctuaries that best adapted to the local climate. 1. 2011 East Africa drought, Wikipedia
Model
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There is little we can do when a serious drought attacked Somalia. But we hope that when rainfall really comes to this country, we can reserve it safely in the land for a long time.
3.700 m 1.800 m Âą0.000 m
Stock Room
-2.300 m -3.500 m
Water Pipe
Bathing Pool
Living Area Water Reserving Area Storage Area
Section Scale 1:400
Aerial View 6
Market Development
Initial Stage
Stall Distribution
Daily Situation 丨 Evenly Distributed
110 m
Developing Stage
Hot Weather 丨 Close to the Water
7.5 m
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Stall
Mature Stage
Important Event 丨 Gather in groups
Residence
The architecture is just like a forest, starting from one TREE, expanding itself one by one. This process is not designed in advance. The figure and scale of the architecture are changed along with the change of surrounding environment with time elapsing.
Just like the uncertainty of the architecture, the distribution of stalls is not designed in advance either. In this “ FOREST”, everything shares freedom. So, architecture is just like a big stage, the figure of it is always changed along with the activities inside it.
Market
Bathing Pool
Plan Scale 1:1000 7
Market Perspective
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Structure Model
Structure Model
Drawing by Junda Xiang
Structure Model 9
Residence Sreucture
Market Sreucture
Construction Aid
Solar Panel
Storage Batteries
200mm Steel Pipe
Accessible Roof Stairs
Residence Plan
Side Window
Solar Panel Storage Batteries
Steel Purline Wall Material
200mm Steel Pipe
Steel Truss Type 1 Scale 1:250 Steel Staircase Steel Structure Skin Layer Thermal Insulating Layer Structural Layer Water Proof Layer
Type 2 Scale 1:250
Warehouse Entrance Market Floor Steel Beam Steel Structure Structural Layer Water Proof Layer
Reservoir Entrance Warehouse Entrance Warehouse Baffle Wall (left: reservoir 丨 right：warehouse）
Steel Pipe Base Underground Warehouse
Warehouse Floor
Steel Pipe Base Reservoir
Type 3 Scale 1:250
All parts of the residence are removable, using light steel structure as framework and light panel as surface materials. The "trunk" below the "Crown" transports water and solar power to the space below, supporting every single building, like a living organism, exists independently.
Like the residential part, the market uses the removable structure as well, in order to adapt to the constantly changing needs.
Large numbers of houses were destroyed every day, only efficient building assembly method like this can help providing enough safe houses for refugees.
There are a warehouse and reservoir below each “TREE”. Warehouse is used to store goods that are not easy to carry, and the reservoir will undertake the rainwater, supporting the public baths in the center.
Buildings are in very small sizes with compact internal space. In order to improve space efficiency, retaining only the most basic needs of living. Public space is transferred to the steps on the roof, being part of the city public space.
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Because of the turbulence in Somalia, the construction industry cannot be developed. Removable characteristics of the building disassemble it into small light components, which can be produced by the donor countries and transported to Somalia by air for rapid assembly. This structure provides support from all over the world for the disaster areas in Somalia.
Model
HOPE Just like a tree blossoming into a forest, it takes time, but there is hope ahead of them.
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Tiles Garden, Wang Shu
Venice Biennale of Architecture (2006), Italy
CULTURAL COMPLEX
LANDSCAPE VS. ARCHITECTURE
TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK/ COMPETITION WORK/COLLABORATION WORK HOP CUP 2012 INTERNATIONAL STUDENT COMPETITION ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN _ HONORABLE MENTION AWARD DATE: Sep.2012. LOCATION: Harbin, China TUTOR: Bu Chong COLLABORATOR: Han Jiangyue CONTRIBUTION: DESIGN: 50% MODEL: 70% EXPRESSION: 50%
CULTURAL COMPLEX
LANDSCAPE VS. ARCHITECTURE LOCATION: HARBIN, CHINA
Aerial View
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Site Memory
The Spiral History
According to the city planning of Russia (when Harbin is occupied by Russia), this site was originally designed for growing elms. So, the two streets beside it are named ”Upper Elm Street”and“Lower Elm Street”. (This planning is obviously affected by the Garden City Model. It is the first time that Western planning theory really realized in China.) After Harbin is liberated from Russia,the government started to construct the city to accommodate the increasing people. Unlike the fate of Centre Park, in this process, those elms are cut down one after one. The existence of Upper and Lower “Elm Street”becomes a history.
According to Karl Marx's theory, history is a continuous spiral development process. Some similar sceneries appeared in different periods of history, but they were never exactly the same. When this theory applied to design, it means that we evoke the past, without making direct references to history. Even though we know that this site as a residential area is no longer suitable, we still cannot just recover it as greenland as it was 104 years ago.
Landscape, building embedded
2013
Now, we hope to recover this site as a landscape region of the city, moreover, a place that breed culture.
1965
Building
Ebenezer Howard‘s Garden City Model
104 years later, there is a famous university existing beside the site, and some historical industrial heritages left in the site. We hope to combine landscape property with cultural property, to design a CULTURE COMPLEX in this region.
Museum Plaza
Greenbelt
1899
Landscape
Majiagou River
City Planning Structure – 1899
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Landscape
Detailed Russian Map of Harbin -- 1938
Nowaday Situation
Public Welfare
Building Governmental Interests
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Site Strategy
Past
Now Although this site is located in Harbin downtown, it is relatively a closed section in this region. Seldom people would like to go into this "Fan Section" which is lack of open space. This must be a joke 100 years ago. At that time this section with vegetation cover was once the most vigorous part in this city then. Now, there is a subway station near the site is under construction, there would be more people gathering near the site. It is urgent to renew this site as an open space to accommodate the growing of people. We retain and renew those industrial heritages in the site, which includes some chimneys and historical buildings, as a part of the landcape.
1. The Residential Influence
2. Bus System
3. Greenlands Before Design
4. People Activity Before Design
2. Subway System
3. Greenlands After Design
4. Subway System After Design
3.From the textbook,we know that architecture is something that defines the outer space. But in order to make our architecture disappear, we decided to define the outer spaces first.
4.We always feel uncomfortable to have so many buildings around us, because we have to look up to these giants. How about change a viewpoint towards buildings?
School School
University
1. The Cultural Influence
Renewal Concept 1.Traditional Complex building are some kinds of huge volumes, which are lack of communication with pedestrians. Now we scatter these volumes to make the scale more comfortable.
Architects are megalomanias. They carve their building delicately like a sculptor. They put their masterpiece on a huge pedestal to make it more imposing. It is just like a horrible competition, the battle between buildings leads to the shrink of urban space. The current situation of Chinese public buildings is a typical example: axis, lift up, landmark... These giants keep citizens away from them, together with the outer spaces around them. It seems that the modest tradition of China has vanished from the earth.
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2.Nowaday in China, it is seems a typical process to design a building before designing the landscape around it. But can we consider to change the sequence?
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Plan 1:3000 N
Music Hall&Theatre The theatre aims at attracting more visitors to the base, who with the theater, is the climax part of this street. People can enjoy some of the cultural theme plays here. Also it can be used for large-scale seminars.
Chimney The chimney all around Harbin is a symbol for the industrial history of Harbin.We want to make use of this valuable heritage.We renew it as a Lookout ,with a spiral ramp and a lift.It provides a different viewpoint to see the landscape under it. Creative Shopping Plaza & Culture Workshop
Exhibition Hall
Outdoor Exhibition The outside platform provides the students and the residents a rather open communication place.
Cinema Cinema is the most popular gathering places in the base. People will come here because of the cinema, and then went to visit the whole street including exhibitions. The vitality is precisely the most indispensable of this area.
Coffee&Tea Restaurant Nothing could be more enjoyable than a cup of coffee after the visiting. There are several cafe like this in the site, which provide the visitors and the residents of a place to have a rest. Art Studio Students nearby who don't have enough communication place could do their group project here.
Playing Hall& Interactive Zone A large amount of historical buildings in the site are renewed with steel structure inside it and roof lights, so that it can accommodate different functions, such as a playing hall or an interactive zone.
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Landscape and Architectrue in China
Bridge: Change a Visual Angle
Fusion in Definition, Overlapping in Space
Traditional Chinese Culture
Solar Panel
In the long history of China, there is a culture that has prevailed for over 2000 years, called Taoism. The influence of this culture in architectural design is that, architecture and landscape should be an organic entity. There is no clear boundary between these two, on the contrary, the two parts permeate into each other.“Poetically Man Dwells...� Hegel promoted this vision in 1951. Actually, this is the lifestyle that Chinese people have lived for thousands of years.
Electricity
Light Sunny Region for Outdoor Activity
Shadow Region for Chessing
Bridge. River. Home, Chinese painting by Feng Xinde
Structure of Bridge
An Abstract Expression Wang Shu expressed his cognition of traditional Chinese culture in an abstract way: a bridge over the roof of a traditional Chinese building. This work indicates that the relationship between architecture and landscape in China is rich in meaning. The change of visual angle could endow architecture with landscape property.
Tiles Garden, Wang Shu, Venice Biennale of Architecture (2006), Italy
Transformation between Architecture and Landscape Inspired by the work of Wang Shu, in this design, we want to create a more complicated relationship between landscape and architecture. Our design provides people a considerable wealth of possibilities about visual angles. While people wandering in it, they could feel architecture and landscape repeatedly transform into each other with the change of their viewing angle.
Cultural Complex, Harbin
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Drawing by Junda Xiang
Bridge is an important element of traditional Chinese landscape. The bridge in the air provides citizens of a special experience. When you walk among the crowns of these trees,you might feel like you are away from a city.
"Along the River during the Qingming Festival", Song Dynasty , Zhang Zeduan “清明河上图” This traditional Chinese painting depicts a riverside street market in the Qing Ming Festival. STREET is an important factor in traditional Chinese society. That's why we design a linear flow to connect these four blocks. Music influences Chinese people for over three thousands years. Even the distribution of ancient buildings was inspired by music rhythm.When you walk through a street like this, you may feel that you are enjoying a symphony.
Climax
First Movemrnt
Tra
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Second Movemrnt
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Coffee ＆ Tea Restaurant
Overture
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Transiti
48.500 m
Cinema
6.300 m
3.200 m -3.600 m
Ending
Third Movemrnt
4.800 m ±0.000 m -6.600 m
-5.100 m
Section Scale 1:1500
Interacting Zone 1
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SNOW CULTRUE EXHIBITION HALL
BASED ON MECHANICS PRINCIPLE
TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK/COLLABORATION WORK
DATE: Feb.2013. LOCATION: Harbin, China TUTOR: Sun Cheng EMAIL: suncheng@hit.edu.cn COLLABORATOR: Zheng Huijin, Luo Zhaoji, Pan Shuo CONTRIBUTION: DESIGN: 30% MODEL: 50% RENDER: 20% STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS : 90%
Inside Gaudí’s hanging model for the Colònia Güell. Via.
SNOW CULTRUE EXHIBITION HALL BASED ON MECHANICS PRINCIPLE LOCATION: HARBIN, CHINA
Concept
Model Simulation
As is shown in the previous page, this design is inspired by Antoni Gaudi's "hanging chain" model of Sagrada Familia church. What is different to Gaudi's work is that, we didn't reverse the model to get those arches with superior mechanical properties. Instead, we designed it with the principle of suspension bridge: the curvature of cable is determined by equilibrium condition. In Gaudi's time, what he can do is to photogragh his model and depict those curves with his hands. But now, with Mechanical Calculator, we can obtain the exact curved surface form under the equilibrum state.
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Mechanical Steady-state System 1. These balls are distributed randomly in the beginning. Each of them is representing a column in the Exhibition Hall. Let us assume that every ball has got repulsion force towards others. Under the repulsion between them, they start to move away from each other. Finally, those friction forces between balls and the ground balance repulsion forces. All these balls stop motion in the end. When I change the initial location of even only one ball in the system, the final outcome would be totally different. But no matter how they stop their motion, the final location would be in a state that the distance between every two balls would not be too long or too short. Because they are in a system that ensures this homogeneity.
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This system provides me with a facility that I can generate large amount of relatively rational outcomes in a small amount of time, and then I can choose what I prefer most in these results. 2. The problem to Step 1 is that, all these results seemed to be similar, there is no way we can judge which one is better. So, in order to be more visual of the final shape, I relate the motion of those balls with the changing of an elastic surface, which could be considered as the roof of this Exhibition Hall. 3. After Step 2, I find that I can do more about this system actually. I add the column system into it to generate the whole roof-supporting system. Up to this step, I successfully transform the motion of several balls into the generation of a Well-behaved Structure System. By moving balls in the system, I can generate several structural system in a minute.
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Structural Analysis Suspension Bridge
Dimension Transformation
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Inspired by the structure of suspension bridge, I set 10 section planes in the directions which connect every two columns. In this way, I creat 10 "Suspension Bridge" stuctural systems in 10 directions.
Force Analysis
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This system decomposes the complicated roof load into 2 Dimensional Structure problem. And the curvature of cable is precisely calculated by computer program through the mechanical equilibrium equation.
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Section Structure 1
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Plan Scale 1:2000
Force Analysis Scale 1:1000 2
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Structure Model
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F4 Temporary Exhibition Space F4 Exhibition Space
F3
Cafe F2
F3
Exhibition Space
Information F2 Ice Slide Skating Rink
F1
Exhibition Space Lecture Hall Main Entrance
F1
Gift Shop Office
Secondary Entrance Collection Warehouse Office Equipment Room
B1
B1 Horizontal Flow Vertical Flow Staff Flow
Warehouse
Structure System 26
Transport Analysis
Elevation Scale 1:500
15.000 m
12.000 m 8.000 m 4.000 m Âą0.000 m -3.500 m
Section Scale 1:500
Internal Structure
16.500 m 14.500 m 12.000 m 8.000 m 4.000 m Âą0.000 m -3.500 m
The plan of every floor is developed around these 5 huge columns, leave an artrium in the centre of the building. This layout provide floor plates with the best mechanical stability, at the same time, provide vistitors with comfortable visual permeability. As this is an exhibition building, we hope that we could provide more feasibility. Under this principle, there are only 5 bracing structure in the building, left the internal space with large column free spaces, which could be applied to various functions. No wall in the building is load bearing wall, therefore, this is a building that can be apdated with the times.
Section Scale 1:500 27
By Junda Xiang
Natural Lighting Mechanism
Snow Culture Exhibition Hall in Summer This Exhibition Hall is not designed for a whole-year use. Actually, it is designed for tourists who come to Harbin in summer time and have no chance to view the amazing Ice Sculpture Park not far away from the site. So, it is essential to plan an Ice Sculpture Exhibition Section in this building. We decided to combine this Exhibition Section with the Structural System, making the spaces inside those huge columns a homothermal space for ice sculpture display, at the same time, creating a Natural Lighting System owing to the high reflection of snow and ice. This arrangement makes these ice sculptures visible from every floor, every corner of the building.
Section Model 28
Interior Perspective
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Jellyfish in the Montery Bay
OpEdNews, 2009
CITY IN THE SEA
MACHINE AND ARCHITECTURE
TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK/COMPETITION WORK/SOLO WORK DATE: Aug.2012 TUTOR: Bu Chong EMAIL: wnsj@vip.sina.com
CITY IN THE SEA MACHINE AND ARCHITECTURE
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Journey Back to the Ocean OCEAN, where all organisms came into being. 390 million years ago, the first Four-legged Vertebrate step on the ancient land. 390 million years later, facing the land shortage and energy crisis, human start to think about getting their way back to this BLUE LAND. And obviously, this return will not succeed without the help of MACHINE.
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First Airplane, 1903 Wright brothers
Ford Model T, 1908
Vandal Diesel Ship, 1908
Mobility of Living, 1958
Capsule Tower, 1972
Henry Ford
Karl Hagelin and Johny Johnson
Yona Friedman
Kurokawa Kisyo
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Machine and Architecture
MACHINE AGE There is an underlying relationship between the development of machine and architecture. After the appearance of plane, car and diesel ship, architecture starts to turn its eye to the design of machine. The reduction in cost (including money and time), aesthetics of machine, and most importantly, the design approach of it deeply changed the mind of architect. As the integration between machine and architecture seems more profound than ever in this era, there must be a time that whole architecture is assembled by machine components.
A house is a machine for living in, 1923
Walking City, 1964
Le Corbusier
Ron Herron
WHAT'S NEXT? MACHINE AGE!
Underwater City, 1964 Warren Chalk
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Modular Approach Sectorization
Air Harbor
Public Space
Power System
Chances in the Ocean Modular design is an approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts, that can be independently created, to drive multiple functionalities. Nakagin Capsule Tower perfectly illustrates the implication of it. Regretfully, because of the huge gravity exists, those modules in the tower never moved or replaced until the tower was dismantled.
Residence Residential Module
The flexibility or mobility of module can be achieved easily in the ocean because of the flotage of water, which can confront the huge gravity of each module. Every module is just like a little submarine.
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Floating Main Body
Pre-warning tower
Residential Section Elevator Shaft
Air harbour Wind Power
Boat Pier
Residential Module Water Saving
Vessel Dock Airfield
Residential Module
Fixing Device Pipeline System Core
Power System Public Space
Base Anchor
Gravity Balancing System Adapting Ring
Living Space
Flexible Link Entrance Propeller System
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Base Anchor
Archigram in the Future The development of machine is amazing after the Industrial Revolution. It is no exaggeration to say that this explosive growth of machine is redefining our life.
A Family of Three, 20?? A.D.
In 1960s, those works of Archigram first offered a seductive vision of a glamorous future machine age. Half century later, it seems that their vision could be realized in the foreseeable future. At that time, we have got a chance to step out of the land.
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Wheat Field in Henan Province, China
3 DIMENSIONAL URBANISM IN HARBIN HARBOR
VILLAGE --- THE FIFTH FACADE OF CITY TYPE: ACADEMIC WORK/CURRICULUM WORK/SOLO WORK
DATE: Jul.2013. LOCATION: Harbin, China TUTOR: Xu Suning EMAIL: xsuning_hit@126.com
3 DIMENSIONAL URBANISM IN HARBIN HARBOR VILLAGE --- THE FIFTH FACADE OF CITY LOCATION: HARBIN, CHINA
Site Plan Scale 1:15000
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The site is located in Daowai District, Harbin, China. This is originally a prosperous inland port in the last century. But with the development of the highway system and the airline system, this port is declining. It's time for the government to think about how to rejuvenate this valuable land beside the great river --- Song Hua River. China is a traditional agricultural country. The whole world saw the rapid urbanization of China in the past 30 years. But meanwhile, China's urban residents are now far from land.
Aerial View 40
Chronology of 3 Dimensional Urbanism 1920
The Death of Chinese New City
Emergence
Metropolis, 1928 Henri Sauvage
1925 1930 1935
1945 1950
HIGHLIGHT
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Ville Flottante, 1959 Paul Maymont “Ghost Town” in Erdos, China
1.Wide Road System
1955
Horizontal Layout, Motor Vehicle ＞ Pedestrian
City in the Air, 1962 Arata Isozaki
1960 1965
3 Dimensional Integration
3.Lack of Commerce
1970 1975
2.Single Land Property Single Residential Zone, Lack of Supporting Property
GAP
Babelnoah, 1964 Paolo Soleri
Commerce Lag Behind Fast Expanding of City
4.Away from Working District Cause of low Population Density
1980 1985
Triton City, 1968 Paolo Soleri
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2000 2005 2010
RIVIVAL
1995
Commercial Space Vertical City
Magacity Pyramid, 1991 Shimizu
Vertical City, 2013 Junda Xiang
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Two Dilemma of Harbin The separation between New Town and Old Town, City and Village, is a serious social problem in Harbin. Actually, This is a general urban issue in all Chinese fast-growing cities, but not as serious as Harbin. The huge city size and agricultural property of this city aggravates this dilemma.
Old Town Pattern
Low Density Scale Comfortable Perfect Combination
New Town Pattern
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High Density Scale Uncomfortable
Vertical Solution
Old Town
High Density Deweeling Sky-Village Layer
City: Harbin
Two Dilemma Scale Comfortable Commerce City Major Grain Producing Area
Apart
Abundant Village Resources
But Lagest Provincial Capital
New Town in Harbin
Farmland in Harbin
Connect
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Abundant City Resources
Old Town in Harbin
Connect
Village
Apart
New Town
Structure of the Vertical City Residential Space with Beautiful Scenery
Residential Skyscraper
First Layer of City
Air - Farmland
Second Layer of City
Low - density Commercial Space
Third Layer of City
Pedestrian Commercial Space with Shelter
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Form Generation Plan Form
Logic
Generation Process
1 1 Randomly distributed some points around the site.
2 The pedestrian system renewed by abandoned railway apply attractive forces on all the points . In the parts close to the railway pedestrian system, the scale of the Voronoi diagram is relatively small. Accordingly, those buildings and streets in that part are also small in scale.
With the hope to create a region operated like a living creature, I find the form logic in a plant tissue slice. 2
3 All the points start to move under the attractive forces. ( Point matrix at time 1 second)
4 Point matrix at time 8 seconds.
5 Point matrix at time 16 seconds. (Final form)
6 All the points form a Voronoi diagram to be the basic structure of plan.
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I don't want to constraint the site in a defined boundary. It should be a place interacting with surrounding environment. The Plan form I designed is like a living creature, like the membrane structure of an ameba, which exchanges material and energy constantly with the outer space.
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In the past, people design a city in the vertical and horizontal way because of technical limitations. But the future city could share more freedom.
This logic automatically achieve my initial pursue: to form scale-comfortable pedestrian commercial space around the railway pedestrian system.
Plan ( 10m High Section )
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Section Sketch Harbin is located in China's northeast region, where snows nearly six months in a year. It is urgent to construct a comfortable pedestrian commercial space in winter. Moreover, citizens could enjoy cycling in winter without encountering snow.
Verticlal Traffic + Pipeline Core
Air- Pavement
Commercial Building Respectively-designed by every Block
High-rise Housing
Air - Farmland Layer
Cycle Track
Connection Layer
Pedestrian Commercial Layer
Sidewalk
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Drawing by Junda Xiang
Botttomed Public Park
Air - Farmland Every year the government spent tremendous amounts of money on maintaining Public Greenlands. The existence of these Air-Farmlands perfectly solved this problem, together with the benefit of crops and our lost sentiment for village.
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3 Dimensional Urbanism --- Where City and Village Encounter
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OTHER WORKS Twisted Wall
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2012 HIT Twisted Wall Construction Competition_Honorable Award
Chess Club Design
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2012 Architectural Workshop of the University of Sheffield
Urban Renewal Project
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2012 Curriculum Design in NTUST, Taipei
Wind Parametric Study 2011 Parametric Design Workshop, TU Delft
Badminton Stadium Curriculum Design, 2012
Fine Arts Works
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Watercolor Render, Pen-and-Ink Render, Graphic Composition
Photography Works Photo taken in Taiwan University, Junda Xiang, 2012
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OTHER WORKS Twisted Wall 2012 HIT Twisted Wall Construction Competition Honorable Award Type : Collaboration Work Collaborator: Chen Siyu, Wan Shaoran This competition requires that to twist a wall to the most without using any glue or joints.
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JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
OTHER WORKS
JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Chess Club Design 2012 Architectural Workshop of the University of Sheffield Location: Harbin Type : Solo Work Tutor : David Britch This work talks about the relationship between architecture, history and landscape design.
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OTHER WORKS
JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Urban Renewal Project 2012 Curriculum Design in NTUST, Taipei Type: Solo Work Tutor: Ch'en Yongfu In this project, I started to know the complexity and challenge of urban issues, especially in a country like China. Every building in the city is connected with each other, no matter when and how they are built.
Wind Parametric Study 2011 Parametric Design Workshop, TU Delft Type : Collaboration Work Collaborator : Xian Haohui, Bian Zhe, Qu Dagang
The subject of this workshop is to catch the shape of the wind field, and to transform them into architectural language. This is the first time I feel the natural world in a digital way.
Badminton Stadium Curriculum Design, 2012 Type : Collaboration Work Collaborator: Han Jiangyue The building is located beside a City Wetland Park. We lift the Badminton Stadium up to a height that the whole park could be viewed from inside the building. At the same time, provide a untroubled view for citizens from the main street.
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Watercolor Render 2009 Curriculum Assignment
OTHER WORKS
JUNDA XIANG
Pen-and-Ink Render 2010 Curriculum Assignment
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Graphic Composition 2009 Curriculum Assignment
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OTHER WORKS
JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Photography Work Time: 2012 Summer Location: Yangshuo, Guilin
Photography Work Time: 2012 Autumn Location: Baekdu Mountain, Jilin Province
Photography Work Time: 2012 Summer Location: Taitung County, Taiwan
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OTHER WORKS
JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Photography Work Time: 2011 Summer Location: The Humble Administrator's Garden, Suzhou
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OTHER WORKS
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JUNDA XIANG
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Photography Work Time: 2012 Autumn Location: Baekdu Mountain, Jilin Province
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RESUME
JUNDA XIANG
Personal Information
HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Other Experience Exchange Student to National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Kijo Rokkaku Design Workshop Volunteer for the 9th International Symposium on Environment-Behavior Research Volunteer for the 2011 China UK Korea Conference on Architectural Design Education Delft University of Technology Parametric Design workshop
Name: Junda Xiang Gender: Male Citizen: China Address: Room 260, NO.66, Xidazhi Street, Harbin, China
2012.2 – 2012.7 2011.12 2011.12 2011. 9 2011.7
Cell Phone: +86-18045010048
Leadership
E-mail: xiangjunda@hotmail.com
Education 2009 - Prensent
Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P.R. China Bachelor of Architecture, GPA: 3.44/4.0 RANK: 8/70 Expected Graduate Date: 2014.7
Track Team Leader of Department of Architecture Team Leader of National University Student Innovative Experiment Project Team Leader of National University Student Innovative Experiment Project Team Leader of Hop Cup 2012 International Student Competition Architectural Design
2011-2012 2010 2011 2012
Collegiate ＆ Community Activities
Awards ＆ Scholarships Honorable Mention Award, Hop Cup 2012 International Student Competition Architectural Design [published in <UED / Architecture Magazine>] 2012
2012
HIT School of Architecture Track Team (school representatives) as: team leader [Awards]: HIT Student Relay Race Competition, 3rd Place, 2011
2010 - Present
2012
HIT School of Architecture Men’ Volleyball Team (school representatives) [Awards]: HIT Student Volleyball Games Competition - Men’s group, 3rd Place, 2010 / 2012 HIT Student Volleyball Games Competition - Men’s group, The CHAMPIONSHIP, 2011
2010 - Present
Honorable Mention Award, HIT Twisty Wall Construction Competition [EXHIBITED in <HIT Twisty Wall Construction Competition Exhibition>] 2011.7 HIT, Harbin, China 2nd Prize, National University Student Innovative Experiment Project [EXHIBITED in <HIT Innovation Experiment Excellent Project Exhibition>] 2011.7 HIT, Harbin, China
2011
HIT School of Architecture Table Tennis Team (school representatives) as: one of the main players [Awards]: HIT Student Table Tennis Competition - Men's Doubles, 3rd Place, 2012
2012 - Present
1st Prize , National University Student Innovative Experiment Project, [EXHIBITED in <HIT Innovation Experiment Excellent Project Exhibition>] 2010.7 HIT, Harbin, China
2010
2010 - Present
1st Prize , People's Scholarship Feb. 2010 – Jul. 2010 2010 HIT, Harbin, China
2010
HIT School of Architecture Photography Club as: one of the main members [Awards]: HIT Student “ Autumn of Harbin” Photography Competition - 2nd Place, 2011
Computer Skills Professional Experience Intern Position: Space-Seed Design Studio, SHC Architects, Taipei, China Project: Northeast Fulong Visitor Center, New Taipei City, China Parts: Construction Documents Drawing Intern Position: 5+1 Werkhart International, Beijing, China Project: Hailar Museum of Natural History, Hulun Buir, China Parts: Elevation Design, Structure Design
2012.7 - 2012.8
2013.9 - 2013.11
3D Modeling 2D Graphics Rendering
SketchUp, Revit, Rhinoceros, Grasshopper, Kangoroo, Weavebird Adobe Creative Suite(PS / AI / ID), AutoCAD V-ray for Rhino / SketchUp, Neon for Rhino V5, Keyshot
Avocations Jog / Table Tennis / Volleyball / Photography
I dedicate this portfolio to my loving grandfather. A great "Rural Architect" who passed away one year ago. I miss him everyday.
Address: Room 425, Department A05 NO.15, Lianfa Street, Nangang District Harbin, P.R. China Post Code:150001 Email: xiangjunda@hotmail.com Tel: +86 18045010048