ESALA MArch 2 Design Report - PARASITE IN BEIJING|北京寄生

DESIGN REPORT studio ANIMATE MATTE

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PARASITE IN BEIJING Project for Bohemian Twin Brother

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Peitong Liu s1989999 May 2021

ANIMATE MATTER "The usual approach of the MArch studios in ESALA is to identify a location and leave the programme open for students to develop propositions. In the current situation, for this year without the possibility of field trips, we propose to reverse this by defining a programme but leaving its location unspecified. ...The project will be for a double (or doubled) house for identical twins who animate matter using stopmotion animation techniques on celluloid film. As well as living spaces for them, there will be an animation studio, spaces and machinery for the developing and editing of film, and a public screening theatre where the films are shown..."

Prof. Mark Dorrian+Ana Bonet Miro+Paddi Benson, Guidebook Edinburgh University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture M.Arch Programme 2020/2021

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摘要

Abstract

To experience as the identical animator twins, this project initiated through the making of a film project -a stop motion animation, working with one partner. The film project reversed the traditional shooting-dubbing production process, attempting to use visual language to "dub" existing sounds, which is relating to animating, materiality, light, organization and randomness. Similarly, this parasitic architectural project is parasitic on the existing artificial landscape in Beijing -a piece of the refurbished city wall. With the massive brick surface and frozen, rammed earth inner, animatedly, the city wall is redefined by the project. Together with the big screen, the newly parasitized wall becomes collaborating and touchable instead of separating and defending. Based on the matter of animate, this project seeks to transform and create different spatial qualities with architectural language, as well as respond to cultural and urban issues.

fig.1 Rong Rong, Untitled. 1993-1998, the Beijing East Village

fig.2 Étienne-Jules Marey, from the series ‘Mouvements de l’air’ (1901)

动 Animat "On one hand, ‘animate’ is an adjective describing matter – matter is animate, it has force, it moves, it transforms. But on the other, ‘animate’ is a verb and it becomes an imperative phrase – the challenge is to animate matter, to set it in motion, and to reconceptualise what architecture could be thought in those terms."

(Prof. Mark Dorrian+Ana Bonet Miro+Paddi Benson, Animate Matter Guidebook) This project is based on animate matter, to think about the spatial quality. The excavation and transversal of the earth in the city wall gives new spaces. The animating architectural elements change the function of the space. The animating furniture in different positions changes the circulation in the architecture. The facades, doors and windows of different angles and positions change the light together with the weather and solar angle. Air flows transformed in different seasons of the monsoon.

Rainwater and solar energy are collected by the roof- base system and circulated in the architecture.

fig.4 Rong Rong, Untitled. 1993-1998, the Beijing East Village

fig.3 The Brothers Quay, with the set of Street of Crocodiles (1986)

孪 Twin ‘Who better than identical twins could feel at home with the other?’ (Atkinson, ‘The Night Countries of the Brothers Quay’, 37) Taking stop-motion animators Quay Brothers as the prototype, the twins of this project have been redefined in China. In the past few decades, due to the one-child policy(1978-2015), most people have no brothers or sisters except for twins, which deepens the special situation of twins in this era.

In this context, twins attract more attention, and the personalities in their character are difficult to be stifled by collectivism. They influence and intensify each other. Living together since childhood has allowed them to have a good understanding of each other. They look like the same person, but at the same time the differences will be magnifiedconflicts can sometimes happen, but they will reach consistency. Because of the strong family concept in Chinese culture background, they are even more inseparable.

For the film project, my collaborator (Yifei Huang) and I tried to simulate the twin roles similar to those in the project. We are studio mate, living in the same flat, and come from the same region in China, which gives us similar life experiences and cultural backgrounds.

fig.5 Zhang Huan and Beijing East Village performers, To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, May 22 1995

"Bohemianism is the practice of an unconventional lifestyle, often in the company of like-minded people and with few permanent ties. It involves musical, artistic, literary, or spiritual pursuits."

(Wikipedia, Bohemianism)

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Bohemianism in Beijing

The term bohemianism is from in France in the early 19th century, when artists and creators began to concentrate in the lower-rent, lower class, Romani neighbourhoods. In the last century, villages on the edge of Beijing was once a great breeding ground, just like Romani, for contemporary Bohemian artists. They were young and struggling. Living in the refuse area on the edge of the city, they expressed themselves enthusiastically and freely. Their works are provocative or playful, but never lacking in inspiration. The artists from East Village in the 1990s (fig.5) are among the most influential representatives. They created many radical and subversive performances and were considered highly disruptive by political authorities. However, with the expansion at an extreme rate of Beijing, in recent decades, area like East Village have disappeared in the process of urbanization. Beijing’s political and economic power is getting much stronger, as well as the power of cultural supervision and censorship system.

The twins in this project are encased as Bohemian artists like the East Village artists. Inspired by the atmosphere in the photos of the former East Village, this project seeks to create a similar free but hidden artistic creation atmosphere.

fig.6 Kitchen-based Film Workshop

The film project -a making of stop motion animation is the starting point of the whole project. We attempted to reverse the traditional film production mode, collecting and arrange sounds firstly, and then use objects in different materials and transparent, with the different light environment, to complete the vision part of this video. In order to experience the creation situation of East Village artists as much as possible, we collected discarded objects to complete the production of the film in our kitchen.

The production process of the film and the film itself not only promoted the following project, but also gave us a basic understanding of the stop motion animation production process, the technical requirements and the stop motion animation workshop environment.

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Film

fig.7 Digital composite photo of the current site of Beijing Yongding Gate with the ancient city gate (Beijing City Record, Jun Wang, 2003)

城墙

City Wall

Beijing’s city wall was huge in scale. The total length of the city wall is 24 kilometres, and it has gone through three dynasties. It was lost its meaning in modern cities as a powerful linear fortification in ancient times. In the early era of New China, the city wall was demolished because it was defined to limit the efficiency of the city.

The removed bricks were used for construction or even erection. Only a small part of pieces was left because it did not obstruct the road, but the bricks were taken, leaving only the internal rammed earth.

After the 1980s, the country realized the value of the city wall as a cultural heritage, and began to use new bricks to seal the rammed earth and restore it to the city wall relics park. However, the city wall itself was not used, and the relics were frozen, more just a symbol, and still splitting the site. This project is parasitic to a piece of the refurbished city wall, aiming to reactivate the city wall to use the space inside and outside as well as both sides of the city wall. At the same time, the inside of the city wall is also an excellent space for a darkroom for the filming workshop.

fig.8 A Corner of Xibianmen city wall relics park

寄生

Parasitic

This project takes parasitic architecture as a design method. Similar to "dubbing" sound with vision in the film project, the project will be adapted and parasitized on a piece of the city wall in a park.

Parasitic architecture needs to coexist with the host while forming its own language and achieve a symbiosis system between materiality and tectonic. In the initial stage of the architectural project, it is assumed that different types of linear infrastructures in Beijing 2nd Ring Road will be abandoned like city walls in the future and the experiment of parasitic architecture. Based on the typology of parasitic architecture on different infrastructure, in which way the design of parasitic architecture on the city wall was promoted.

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影片 波西米亚主义 北京城墙 设计回应 细部 后记

Film Bohemianism the City Wall of Beijing Design Response Detail Final Note

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KITCHEN-WORKSHOP In the same way with most bohemian artists, the workspace was set up in our accomodation, using separated stands frame for multiple function and table/chair in the kitchen, together with a camera, a laptop and a tripod.

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FILM PROJECT: DUBBLING SOUNDS

What if the process of animation making is reversed ...collect sounds first and "dubbing" sounds with vision.

Sound, as an important part of the film, takes a very important proportion in the atmosphere.

Especially in stop motion animation, sound cannot be recorded at the same time. The combination of sound and picture together constitutes the viewer’s understanding of the film, such as The scenes of people and the sounds of machines in Jan Švankmajer's Breakfast (Food 1992), make viewers think that the role of people in the scenes is actually an automatic retail machine. Reversing this idea, if the sound is matched with different pictures, it will give people different feelings. For example, the various sound effects we hear in the movie actually come from the props of the sound designer. Our initial interest was in the animate matter of sound.

Inspired by the soundtrack of a horror film, we conceived a sound machine that covers different

ways of sounding, including different kinds of vibrations: friction, plucking, and beating. But then we thought that, from the aspect of visual, recording different vibration methods would make the picture too monotonous. Rather than making sounds, we decided to collect sounds.

Based on this idea, we collected and arranged sounds from handle scale to scale of landscape, forming different senses of atmosphere. Just as sound effects artists use various props to make sounds, we use various materials, shapes of objects and changing light environment to arrange visual effects for the sound.

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The vedio also in this link: https://youtu.be/TJ8sMSIhGOQ

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背景和道具选择

Prop and Background Selection Sam Burns' Yard fig12. Round props

The art creation of Bohemian artists is lowcost. For example, artists in the East Village can only use their nudity. Similarly, in order to experience as the Bohemian artists, we went to sam burns‘ yard in the suburbs of Edinburgh to collect discarded and recycled items as props for our film. We selected different materials and shapes. Our core idea is to have a circular object in the centre of the picture doing periodic movement-this represents the flow of time. At the same time, in this way, it is easier for us to control the number of frames of the stop-motion animation. It can also bring periodic reflections of light, which interact with different other objects to form a variety of sounds. Regarding the background, we were trying to create a

different atmosphere and look and feel through the background of different textures. In the end, we chose warm wood planks to bring a warm atmosphere, cracked dark wood planks bring a gloomy feeling, glass can be penetrated by light, mirrors can reflect light and appear pure black without diffuse light.

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Vision 视觉 Relating to the sounds collection, various sets of objects animating on various of background flats and luminous environments.

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Scene 1 场景一 Warm atmosphere, bright light on top, soft sound generated by friction between wood, human body/furniture object scale

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Scene 2 场景二 Gloomy atmosphere, dark oblique light, harsh metal hitting sound industry sound, city/building scale

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Scene 3 场景三 An ethereal atmosphere, a transparent background and objects, emits light, sounds in nature, the scale of landscapes

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Scene 4 场景四 An atmosphere that exists in shallow consciousness flows out of imagined space, a mirror background, a rotating light source creates the illusion of a cup rotating

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Loop The essential structural idea of the film is a loop; the film could start at any point and play endlessly, as well as the soundtrack.

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fig. Film Script Drawing

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Script drawing of film project (Scene 2) Printed tracing paper/ Mirror background/Photography at bedroom

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Script drawing detail With tracing of movement, this detail shows the periodicity, organization and randomness of animate

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The term bohemianism is from in France in the early 19th century, when artists and creators began to concentrate in the lower-rent, lower class, Romani neighbourhoods. In the last century, villages like "East Village", on the edge of Beijing, was an neighbourhoods.like Romani. It was once a utopia for contemporary Bohemian artists. Their works are most powerful and important performance works of Chinese contemporary art.

"East Village," (Dong Cun) was a garbage-filled district in the east side of Beijing. Mainly because it provided some of the cheapest housing in the city, it had become home to budding performance artists by 1993. However, these artists lived under constant fear of harassment, raids, and arrests because they are considered highly disruptive by political authorities. After the arrest of artist Ma

Liuming (1998), the collective behaviour of the East Village came to an abrupt end.

With the continuous expansion and capitalization of Beijing, along with an efficient and powerful urban village demolished plan, as of 2018, the last artist village in Beijing, Heiqiao Village, has also been demolished. Now there is no artist neighbourhood village in Beijing, the ones that not demolished have been transformed commercially for exhibition, sale of art and arttheme sightseeing.

Thoughts towards the atmosphere of this project are based on the study of Beijing East Village. Atmosphere captured from Rongrong's photographic works is used as the prototype of this project, seeking to give the artist a ideal creative environment under strong pressure.

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BOHEMIANISM Beijing East Village.

"But here in the East Village, we do almost everything. Curse plays rock music and writes poetry. Kongbu curates and writes criticism.

Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, and Zhu Ming do performances … But I am the only photographer.

Everyone left their hometown and seeks dreams here from afar. We are all children who left home, which makes us constantly hungry …"

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Day After Day: RongRong and the Beijing East Village.

The exhibition in The Walther Collection, 2019, features forty of RongRong's seminal photographs from 1993–1998 portraying the Beijing East Village—an artistic community poignantly described by Silvia Fok as "a meteor in the history of contemporary Chinese art.

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In 2018, the last artist village in Beijing, Heiqiao Village, was demolished.

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文化审查制度

Cultural Censorship System Secret Screen

An increasingly powerful cultural censorship system is a common challenge faced by film creators. Before a film is released to the public, it must be censored by the State Administration of Radio and Television before it can be screened.

It is a shame that there are many excellent films that cannot appear in the public eye because they do not meet the cultural censorship standards.

There are also many excellent films that have deleted and changed a large number of clips in order to meet the censorship standards and become ordinary. However, due to the forbidden fruit effect, films that have not been shown or have been cut off will arouse greater public curiosity. Some works will get more attention because of the leakage of the deleted fragments.

In this project, although the twin brothers are stop-motion animators, they do not make a living on it. This context gave a more ideal creative environment. A private screen will be set up in the project to show films created by them as well as some outstanding films that can not be released. At the same time, a public screen will be set up to show ordinary films, especially those that are politically correct.

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Beijing, 2020, GoogleMap

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北京城墙

The 2nd Ring was traced along the edge of otter city wall. For defence, there are three more rings inside, which are the Inner City, Imperial City, and the Forbidden City. The four-layer rings together constituted the defence system of ancient Beijing.

the City Wall of Beojing 2nd Ring Road

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OUTER RINGS - THE RING ROADS ACCELERATE

After the establishment of new China, Beijing City was defined as a city of production. As the first highspeed road without traffic lights in China, 2nd Ring Road speed up the city from the central area.

Together with the other five rings, in the following decades, they form the frame of Beijing's traffic system.

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POST-BEIJING-2nd RING To solve the different kinds of city issues happening in the massive Beijing city, the centre is moving to the far south, Xiongan District. In Beijing City Planning 2035, 2nd Ring is defined as a circled essential cultural and historical greenway.

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fig.13 Liang sicheng‘s plan: Beijing city wall park

fig.14 City wall demolished

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城墙的拆除和修复

Demolition and restore of city walls Site: Xibianmen Relic Park

Demolished At the beginning of the founding of New China, Liang Sicheng called for the greatest ability to protect the magnificent Beijing city, and proposed a plan to transform the city wall into a artificial landscape green ring.

"The appearance of the city today in Beijing is the best example of dialectical development. Beijing’s most outstanding deployment is its north-south central axis, which is more than seven kilometers long from south to north. In its center stands a large monumental building, which runs straight through the Yongding Gate just south of the outer city.

Entering the city, straight ahead, through Forbidden City to the Bell Tower and Drum Tower to its north, you can see the whole axis clearly from the top of Jingshan Mountain. There is no second city in the world that has such a great spacial concept."

But Liang Sicheng was regard as synonymous with conservativeness for most people. They think that only protecting the Forbidden City is enough. The radical government proposes to break the restrictions imposed by the old plan.

Liang Sicheng's plan was rejected. The city wall would be completely demolished.

Restore In 1987, the remnants of the Ming inner city wall, which was about 100 meters long near Xibianmen, were restored. From 2001 to 2002, the 1540-meter-long city wall, located in the east section of the southern city wall of the inner city of Beijing, south of the Beijing Railway Station, was reorganized and restored. It was opened as the "Ming City Wall Relics Park" and was listed as a key cultural relics protection unit in Beijing.

From 2005 to 2006, the refurbishment of the southern section of the eastern wall of Beijing’s inner city was completed and it was included in the Ming City Wall Relics Park.

Site: Xibianmen Relic Park The site of this project was chosen to be at the 100-meter-long Xibianmen city wall, which restored in 1987. Due to the lack of construction materials during the demolition, almost all the bricks of the city wall were taken away at that time, and only the internal rammed earth was left. New bricks were used in the reconstruction.

The Xibianmen Gate Tower that had been completely demolished was rebuilt at a different site, which is in the park.

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2nd Ring Road from 1992

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Metro Line Two from 1984

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Location In the City: the Survivor

The reason why the Xibianmen city wall can survive is because it is located at the corner of the intersection of the old and new 2nd ring road. The difference between the large turning radius of the express road and the right angle of the city wall allow this city wall to survive.

Similarly, the construction of the subway also requires a large turning radius, and this piece of the wall was not affected as well when the Metro Line 2 was constructed. As result, different kinds of infrastructure shaped the site.

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Although Xibianmen is surrounded by various overpasses, the lush vegetation provides a leisure space of good quality.

In the dense centre of the city, it is the only place for the neighbourhood to take a walk and relax. However, because the reconstructed city wall has no function other than the landscape, it not only splits the site but also does not bring more accessible space. This project not only provides twin houses for twins but also seeks to improve the public space related to the city wall.

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Parasitic Architecture Experiment Scenario: Post Beijing 2nd Ring 2035

This experiment is based on the hypothesis: with the centre of Beijing moving out, different types of linear infrastructures along Beijing 2nd Ring Road will be abandoned like city walls in the future. In this context, like the twin house in this project, housing, workshop and art facilities would parasite on different kinds of liner infrastructure as well. Just like the plan in Beijing City Planning 2035, the 2nd Ring is defined as a circled essential cultural and historical greenway, providing a large amount of green space and arthistory relating programme.

The four selected infrastructures are city walls, moat, high road and metro. In the experiment, I also got inspiration about spacial quality and materiality, which influenced the following entire, such as the section of the moat to the cistern, the section of the metro to the inner space of the city wall, the section of the highroad to the public space under the roof.

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Concept Paper Model Echoing the curve of the city wall and the gatehouse, the new parasitic structure is attached to the city wall

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Design response Starting from the Section

The starting point of this design is from the research of the section of the city wall. The basic information and structure of the ancient city wall, it mainly composed of the base, the internal rammed earth, and the skin of the brick wall.

I proposed the living and public spaces on the top, the workshop and bedroom on the inside of the wall, and the two screens on both sides of the wall. In the first version, the entire structure was attached to the wall, and the roof looked

like it was floating in the air from the outside.

However, after discussing with the structural consultant, for the reason that I have to dig into the wall - this will make the structural properties of the rammed become soil very unstable. So I decided to build a new foundation as an extension of the original foundation of the wall, which bears most of the load.

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fig.16 A mine: cross-sections. Etching by Bénard after De La Rue.

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Structurally, similar to the four scenes of the film project has, the architectural project is also developed in four parts: the base(secret screen), roof and public space on the top, the public screen, and the inside of the wall. These four parts are inspired by the materials, light, and atmosphere of the four scenes in the Film. Like the Loop in the Film, the 4 parts also form a circulation together.

As the extension of the foundation of the city wall, the concrete base bears the main load of the architecture, and the counterweight of the cistern part makes the base more stable. The roof and the top of the city wall are mainly made of wood structure, and are connected to the concrete base.

The rest is mainly made of steel structure, and the rammed earth is wrapped together with the metal mesh to make it observable and touchable.

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局部设计 Partial design Relating back to the Film Project

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Movable Facade Archaeological Garden Secret Theater Twin's Tea shop Twin's Living Space/Workshop Public Screen

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Roofacard 屋顶立面 The large but lightweight roof can be moved according to different weather and timing to achieve the ideal light environment on the top of the city wall

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Circulation System 循环系统 The interior of the wall is connected to double sides and top of the wall in the form of a ramp, lift, and stairs, forming a circulation system

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Public Screen 公共屏幕 The large screen is structurally connected to the lift, and there is a staircase leading directly to the top of the city wall. It hides the corridor at the bottom of the wall, which is the entrance to the secret theatre.

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Base 基础 The base is also the rainwater circulation system and the secret theatre. There is a screen that can be opened or hidden. The concrete corridor at the bottom of the city wall linked to the other side.

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Since the project is developed from the section, the main lines are parallel at first, and the angle is gradually picked in the development.

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Exhibition / Ticket Office Public Seat Archaeological Garden Twin's Tea shop Bedroom Workshop Darkroom

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Detail Material Combination

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1. metal pulley connected with roof structure 2. metal slide rails 3. foldable metal mesh floor 4. metal mesh wraps rammed earth and plants 5. Concrete with embedded wood structure 6. Concrete with embedded stell components 7. screen rotation axis 8. rainwater recycled ditch 9. rammed earth foundation of city wall with embedded wood structure 10.wrapped rammed earth metal mesh 11.storage cistern

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1. Movable wooden sliding door 2. Metal sliding rail 3. Metal node linked with brick and wooden structure 4. Controllable light shield board 5. Metal mesh structure wrapped with rammed earth 6. Liftable light source 7. Sliding Animation table

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High Road

Into the Park

Around the Wall

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Circulation

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动 手册 Animation Manaul

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后记

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Final Note

The project started with the sensitivity to the atmosphere and materials in the film project, which inspired me to continue to pay attention to materials and atmosphere after entering the architectural part. Another point worth thinking about is the social and urban issues related to the East Village and culture. In this project, I made some assumptions and built up some ideal situations which would my project be convincing. But in reality, it is difficult for the government to agree to such a project. A difficult point is that this project developed from the section. I was stuck in it for a while. It was not until I perfected some details that the whole project became clear. At the final stage, I found this project does have the intention of privatizing public places.

Relating to this, at the end of the design, I transformed living room space into a public space, and strive to create more vitality for the park. At the same time, make it a sustainable architecture in the park.

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Bibliography and picture references Sources conducted: Beijing City Record, Jun Wang, 2003 John Lane the Bodley Head Limited,The Walls and Gates of Peking,1924-05,https://archive.org/details/ 1924wallsgatespekingosvaldsiren/mode/2up Figures: 1,4,9,11,12: RongRong,Day after day, Beijing East Village, https://www.walthercollection.com/en/newyork/exhibitions/day-after-day-rongrongs-and-the-beijing-east-village 2,3: studio brief 5: Zhang Huan and Beijing East Village performers, To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, May 22 1995 https://static.artmuseum.princeton.edu/mirador/?manifest=https://data.artmuseum. princeton.edu/iiif/objects/59771&canvas=https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/objects/59771/ canvas/59771-canvas-44244 7,13,14:Digital composite photo of the current site of Beijing Yongding Gate with the ancient city gate (Beijing City Record, Jun Wang, 2003) 15: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited,The Walls and Gates of Peking,1924-05,https://archive.org/det ails/1924wallsgatespekingosvaldsiren/mode/2up 16: A mine: cross-sections. Etching by Bénard after De La Rue. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ b4nj3jv7/items?langCode=fre&canvas=1 Others: Author’s own

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