MAKINGKING PLACE THROUGH DESIGN ZIYI WANG
MATERIALS, WATER, VEGETATION
Kingran Shopping Mall Garden
Dense shrubs and scrubs soften the landscape
Roof garden - ornanmental srcub and shrubs
Plain concrete paving Structual Speciesman Trees Small Stone House
Roof Garden: ornanmental grass
Speciesman trees provide seasonal interests, while it also provides structrual interests in the winter Section A-A’: (from left to right) shopping mallv, corton steel platform, speciesman trees, wall with roof garden-scrub and shrubs
Permeable Concrete Slabs
Small stone house provide function of stairs and platform, while is also used as sculpture
Shopping Mall Building Section B-B’: (from left to right): roof garden, and washed-finish concrete underneath, small stone house, corten steel wall and platform, car park underneath
Kingran Shopping Mall Garden Naturalistic Stone: unsmooth texture provide sense of roughness, rustic style
Corton Steel Bridge: provides diffferent view height, enrich people’s experience
Corton Steel Wall: visusal and physical boundarygive strong industrial style
Roof planting grass: naturalistic planting contrasts with its surroundings
Washed-finish Concrete Wall: comtemporary hard material contrasing with soft vegeattion
Permeable Paving; prevent water run-off
Harpa Concert Hall Square
Harpa Concert Hall Building
Plain Concrete Paving Concrete Paving
Artificial stones as block to stop vehicle, also used by people as benches Aritificial Stones
Crushed stones
Changing paving tells space belong to building and creates pedestrian
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B
Benches
Fountain
Section A-A’: (from left to right) harpa concert building, concrete paving, artificial stones, car parking space, artificial stones, fountain
Timber bridge
Crushed stone emphase industrial history
Plain concrete paving is for industrial sense and bring out the building
Section B-B’: (from left to right): crushed stones, strip of water feature (water is hot), artificial stones
Harpa Concert Hall Square
Water as animation to give people sign: ‘touch me’
Water as threshold to catch people’s eyes
Water as mirror to reflect surrounding landscape
Hallgrimskirkja
From open lawn to dense hedge, shrubs, trees, enriching people expePlain concrete paving Trees
Lawn
Open lawn as barrier to stop cars, isolate landscape from heavy traffic
Hedge
Church Concrete slab mixed with cobbles paving paving
Shrubs Hedge
Open lawn and short shrubs emphase the magnificance of church
Section A-A’: (from left to right) open lawn, shrubs, concrete slabs mixed with cobbles paving
Hedge is divided space for parking
Hallgrimskirkja
Geometric layout of hedge responds to geometry of church
Naturalistic Rock contrasting with geometry of church, also provides opportunities for seating
Contrasting paving style
Vegetation guides people’s circulation
Hedges also provides seasonal intersts
Catelogue Affordance
Affordance
Affordance
Seating, Decorative
Paving, Decorative
Ornanmental
Seating, Block
Paving, Decorative
Ornanmental
Paving, Decorative
Decorative
Ornanmental, Guide, barrier
Paving, Decorative
Paving, Decorative
Ornanmental; Barrier