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Spatial & Urban designer Xing Li
Xing Li
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Contents Urban design The ‘Gateway’ ‘People’ Place
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Interior and spatial design The Chinese Herbal House The Dancing Rooms The Playful space The Garden play house The Next Green Revolution The Green Escape Materials ‘Replay’
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Honours Project Child ‘Parking’
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Furniture Design/Others Moss wall design The Fun Box The Ulmer stool re-design Flack pack side table
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The ‘Gateway’ Site Analysis
The site includes the proposed Crows Nest Metro Station, which is located about 600m away from the St Leonards train station. It is well connected by bus services transiting on the major arterial route of Pacific Hwy. There are a number of educational and health facilities within and adjacent to the site area. A diverse of community destinations, worship places and sport facilities is presented in the site, including:
Regional context
1.The Crows Nest Centre; 2.Northside Baptist Church; 3.Northern Suburbs Basketball Association; 4.Northside Conference Centre; 5.The Lighthouse Christian Church; 6.St Michael Greek Orthodox Church; 7.Crows Nest Uniting Church; 8.Woolworth supermarket.
Site analysis diagram
Neighbourhood context Student, 20
In a broader context, the site in largely surrounded by Atchison St, the neighbourhood area on Nicholson St, Alexander Ln and the intersection of Shirley Rd, Falcon St and Pacific Hwy. Located approximately 1.5-2 kilometres north west of North Sydney CBD and nearly 2.5 kilometres south east of Neutral Bay Centre, the site is connected to Sydney’s public transport network through existing T1 North Shore railway and will benefit from a dedicated stop on the soon to be completed Sydney Metro Rail. The site sits in between the 3 major centres of North Sydney, St Leonards and Neutral Bay and proves a unique character of warm village atmosphere and strong community value.
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Avatar Journey
The high topographical points are located in the both end of the site, one near St Leonard Station Phycologists, and another in the road intersection of Pacific 36 Hwy and Falcon St. The low point at RL80.00 is presented closed to the location of the proposed Metro Station which is also known as the old creek line running East-West across the study area. Teacher, 32
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Section AA Pacific highway (Regional Arterial Road)
Section BB Willoughby Road (Major Local Street ) Opportunity map
Section CC Clarke Street (Minor Local Street)
Section DD Hume street (Neighbourhood street)
Constraint map
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Vision Statement 1. Hume St Recreational Park An urban development plan requires a thorough and rigorous vision that will be overarching and guiding all public domain gestures. The Crows Nest development plan will contribute to the rich fabric and complement the charming character of the area. The plan will strongly respond to the surrounding context, stitching together neighbourhood precincts to the proposed Metro development - physically, culturally and historically. 2. Metro Development
The public domain will be human in scale, attractive and engaging with diverse activities and meaningful programs to inhabit and visit at all times.
Place at center
Connected to context
Promoting sense of community
3. Crows Nest Community Place centre
4. Willoughby Place
Crows Nest Master Plan
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1. Hume St Recreational Park
3. Crows Nest Community Place centre
2. Metro Development
4. Willoughby Place
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‘People’ place Site Analysis
Legend Site Boundary Arterial Road Train Route Town Centre
Fairfield Location
Surrounding context
Education Medical centre Shopping centre Supermarket Study area Adjacent area
Fairfield Background/History
Low density residential Medium density residential High density residential Public recreation Conservation area
Fairfield is a western suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Being in the centre of the Cumberland Plain. Fairfield is located 23 kilometres (14 mi) west of the Sydney CBD and is the administrative centre for the local government area of the City of Fairfield Total of 18,081 people in Fairfield (NSW). 50.4% female, 49.6% male and a median age of 36.Fairfield is one of the most multicultural and cultural diverse cities in Australia, with more than half of the residents born overseas. Large Assyrian and Iraqi community
Opening of Fairfield Railway Station Opening of The Crescent Cinema
Settlement of European Migrants, ex-service men
Large number of Assyrians settled in Fairfield
Ware Street as the main street
Opening of the Neeta City
Large Scale housing commission development Opening of Fairfield Forum
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More cars than People!
Hard to navigate through the site!
Opportunities map Human Experience
Section AA Ware street
Section BB Nelson street
Constraints map
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Vision Statement Fairfield will become a ‘people’ place with diverse and exciting destination to live, work and socialize, reflecting the place historically and culturally. Proposed cycle lane
It will form a key part of the Western region with diverse programs, meaningful activities as well as a network of high-quality open spaces.
Existing cycle lane Primary pedestrian link Active frontage Shared street
Existing open space
Proposed open space
Existing mixed-use building Proposed commercial building Proposed residential building
Proposed office building
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Structure Plan
1.Cycle lane
Commercial destinations Community destinations Open space
2.Different Characters
Mixed-use Central core Neeta city Cultural corridor Open space
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3.Built form
Proposed car-park building
4.Open space Private open space
Proposed built form
Public open space Primary pedestrian link Secondary pedestrian link Shared street Existing open space Proposed open space
Proposed cycle lane Existing cycle lane Cycle parking Commercial areas Community Open space
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3D Overview
4 Key areas Fairfield Forum
Central Core Neeta City Cultural Corridor
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Plan view
Long Section
Kenyon Lane
Ware Street
Smart Street
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Court Road
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1. Central Core
Proposal
Analysis/concept diagram
Commercial Retail Pop-up retail/cafĂŠ Community Centre
Existing central core Plan view
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200m
Proposed central green
Different activities
Section AA
Ware Street
Isometric view
Mixed-use
Central Green
Mixed-use
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2. Cultural Corridor Analysis/concept diagram
Existing condition
Proposal
Proposed Plaza Retail Commercial
Plan view
Connection between the plaza and train station
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200m
Cultural wall
Cultural wall
Isometric view
Section AA
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3. Neeta city Proposal
Analysis/concept diagram
Parking Retail Affordable housing
Existing condition
Proposed ground floor function
Podium
Plan view Proposed upper floor function
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Proposed Setback
Section AA
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200m
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4. Fairfield forum Proposal
Analysis/concept diagram
Setback Roof garden
Cycling lane
Existing: Large block, Weak connection
Proposed: Reduce block distance, Create more site through links
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Ground floor Plan view
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Upper floor Plan view
Proposed: Multi-functional area
Proposed residential area Proposed retail area Proposed residential area Proposed retail area Proposed commercial area
Proposed commercial area
Isometric view
Proposed: Enclosed buildings
Section AA
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Drawings & Material board
Legend 1. Translucent paper lamp 2. Timber (furniture) 3. Porcelain tiles 4.Polished concrete 5.Transparent tempered glass 6. Modular carpet tile plus cushion
2nd level perspective
1st storey floorplan
Material and furniture board
7. Natural wooden drawers
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The Dancing Rooms
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Design proposal
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The Playful Space
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The Garden playhouse Scheme 1 This project is targeted at residents living in high-rise apartment with a small, compact living space. To introduce pocket of nature space attached to the building, creating a play space and a relaxing space for the residents and using nature to relieve tension level in people who live in small space. The concept is based on layers in space with different transparency of materials and creating a hierarchy of space with different platforms.
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Plan
Elevation 1
Elevation 2
Elevation 3
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The Garden playhouse Scheme 2
Exploded axonometric
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The Next Green Revolution Living spaces of the future
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The Green Escape Park(ing) Day
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Materials ‘Replay’
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Survey and Experiments
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Form Exploration
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Materials and Furnitures
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Floorplans and perspectives
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Child ‘Parking’ Honours project Research question:
How can parasitic architecture and design help working mothers to achieve work-life balance? Child ‘Parking’ began with addressing the important issues that impact women and families which leads me to investigate the liminal zone (in-between spaces) between childcare and workspace. Exploring how the liminal zone could be designed to ease the life of working mothers and families. With the multiple roles of a woman that one has to face, issues begin to surface for families, especially for the working mothers who feel the tight squeeze created having to juggle the demands of work and family responsibilities. As such, many felt stress and guilty in spending lesser time with their child. My research then leads me to explore the liminal zone between childcare and workspace and investigate at the current and other possible design solutions that will ease the life of working mothers. One of the option is the co-work space with on-site childcare service, it offers a new opportunity for working mothers to work efficiently and feeling secure when their children are nearby. Exploring what are some of the other possibilities in designing the liminal zone to help working mothers to achieve work-life balance.
Readymade as the ‘exoskeleton’ of architecture
Sketches
With a background in spatial and object design, I draw inspiration from architectsarchitecture projects with the influence of deconstructivism. Exploring Duchamp’s revelation of the Readymade which influenced me in understanding how something could become something else? The idea of using ordinary object that is disassociated from its customary context and function by repositioning, reorientation in creating “new” potential. Child ‘parking’ is a project which attempts to introduce parasitic architecture (an adaptable, transient form of architecture) as one of the possible solutions to tackle the work-life balance issue. Instead of inventing new shapes for architecture, my work appropriate objects with spatial qualities from differing function/as a space for the children and use found objects as interior fittings. By way of analogy, having bus attaching to a building and form a childcare centre is a different new way of designing architecture. Using North Sydney as a testing ground, this parasitic structure will be attached to one of the office buildings. Parents could “bring their child to work” and get to visit their child during break time and spend more time with their child daily.
PROTOTYPE-Small pockets of play space
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Methodology This research is divided into three phases: investigating the important issues that impact women, examining the liminal zone between childcare and work, process (precedent studies, model making, sketches and social experiment). My working process involves a lot of model-making, with three-dimensional forms, it helps me to explore, develop and test how different ideas work, testing with different forms, materials along with sketches, photograph the models in different angles. The process works like solving an equation with [A + B =?]. With close reference to the works of Bernard Tschumi and Marcel Duchamp, I made a series of concept models and ready-made using ordinary objects based on the key concepts-deconstruction, movement in space and the ready-made driven from Bernard Tschumi and Marcel Duchamp’s work. I want to explore with readymade in different scales and how these forms could become the ‘exoskeleton’ of architecture or fit into interior space “naturally”. We Don’t always have to build new form, we can always take form what we generally discarded. Instead of creating new forms, by taking existing objects and appropriate them from differing function. I’m interested in exploring objects with spatial qualities such as the bus, train, ships, airplane. Could these become ‘architecture’? I experimented with double decker bus, breaking it into small sections and manipulate with the form, rotating and stacking them in various ways.
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Readymade objects + Deconstruction
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Social Experiments With our class as a community of practice, students from different background (textile design, spatial design, object design, jewelry design, graphic design) were given a packet of recycled materials to create a play space for children. To test how designers from a different practice would design children’s space differently.
constructivism
Bernard Tschumi
Parc de la villette
Zaha Hadid
Serpentine
This social experiment uses daily household items collected from the community, I am fascinated with the colors and different shapes of these found objects. I want to further explore the potential of these found objects in utilizing them into design and the design vocabulary derived from the finished ‘spaces’.
Gordon MattaClark
Deconstructivism De-
Michael Johansson
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Architects
Marcel Duchamp Ready-made Readymade
Frank Gehry
Robert Hudson
Coop Himmelblau
Assemblage
Parasitism
Parasitism
Artist/ Sculptor
Richard Wilson
A slice of reality
Lebbeus Woods
Social Experiments ’Spaces’ with readymade
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Material & colour for interior space Further experimentation with the concept of readymade objects. From large scale readymade objects as the architectural form, I explored with small scale found objects. Using found objects such as the colorful plastic bottle caps, buttons, beads, how these could be used as part of the interior material so that the kids can touch and visualize how these daily found objects can be used in different ways, hence also educating them on the different colors, expanding the possibilities for learning and making learning more engaging. I experimented with the different ways on how these everyday objects could fit into the interior space. Plastic bottles could be used in different ways to create various patterns on wall, stacked up or cut them into small fragments and cast with resin. Testing with the different colors and also experimenting with opaque, translucent and transparent materials that can be used as interior fittings
Material Typologies
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Interior fit-outs
Flexible Playful
Movable
Models/Diagrams
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Drawings
Level 1 Plan view
Level 2 Plan view
Level 3 Plan view
Level 4 Plan view
Elevation
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3 & 4
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Moss Wall Proposal 18A Thomson Hill/ Residential
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The Fun Box
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The Ulmer Stool Re-design
5HE 6LMER 4CHOOL OF %ESIGN WAS ONE OF THE OFFSPRINGS The Ulmer School of Design was one of the offspring of OF THE FAMOUS #AUHAUS 4CHOOL IN 8EIÆ£MAR (ERMANY 8HEN the famous Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany. THE 6LM 4CHOOL OF %ESIGN WAS FRST FURNISHED IN THE STOOL When the Ulm School of Design was first furnished in 6LMER )OCKER NOT ONLY SERVED AS A TRANSPORTABLE SEATING 1954, the stool "Ulmer Hocker" not only served as a FURNITURE BUT ALSO AS A SIDE TABLE A PORTABLE TRAY FOR transportableAND seating furniture, but alsoOR asPLACED a sideON table, BOOKSAND TOOLS EVEN AS A SHELF ELEMENT A a portable for bookstand as a shelf TABLE AS A traySPEAKER S DESK tools, 8E and ARE even ASKED TO element, or, placedDESIGN CLASSIC on a table, as a speaker's desk. We THOROUGHLY RESEARCH THIS AND DEVELOP THE SKILLS TO MAKE MY PERSONAL INTERPRETATION OF THIS MULTI FUNCTIONAL STOOL are asked to thoroughly research this design classic and
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develop the skills to make my personal interpretation of
.Y DESIGN INTENTION IS TO CREATE A PLAYFUL STOOL USING GEOMETRIC this multi-functional stool. SHAPES AND LINES *NTRODUCING TWO COLOUR TONES IT CREATES A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE SEATING AREA AND THE TWO SLOTTING PIECE My design intention is to create a playful stool using WHICH SERVE AS THE STOOL LEGS *T S MULTIFUNCTION WHICH CAN BE geometric shapes and lines. Introducing two colour USED AS A STOOL SHELF OR A SIDE TABLE 1LAYING WITH THE POSITIVE tones, it creates a contrast between the seating area AND NEGATIVE SPACES WHICH CREATES A VISUAL INTEREST TO THE and the two slotting piece which serve as the stool legs. USER THE FORMALISM OF THE STOOL ALLOWING IT TO BE ENJOYED FROM ALL It's multifunction which can be used as a stool, shelf or ANGLES
a side table. Playing with the positive and negative spaces which creates a visual interest to the user, the formalism of the stool allowing it to be enjoyed from all angles.
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Flat pack side table
To design a flatpack side table that is easy to to build, store and transport. The side table is inspired by de stijl movement with simple geometric shapes and lines, this design also plays with the positive and negative spaces which creates an visual interest to the user. it’s a simple design which fits any interior space.
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