Mili Du Portfolio by dumili0830

Blurry Boundary Portfolio Mili Du

Seeking a career in sustainable architectural design area With experience of working as an architect in architecture office MSc Sustainbale Architecture Studies, University of Sheffield B. Arch, Jilin Jianzhu University

AWARDS

EDUCATION BACKGROUND 2017 - 2018

MILI DU Architect

4666 Jingyue Ave, Changchun, China

2008 - 2013

PROFILE I am a highly motivated and enthusiastic architect specialized in sustainable architecture design, energy and daylight analysis with 3 years’ experience in an architecture office. I am a quick learner and skilled in architecture design and familiar with engineering knowledge. I am always able to work and thrive in a team environment and meanwhile be self-motivated and self-directed working with organized and detailed methods. My work experience includes projects with a wide range of scales and uses and I am involved in all phases from concept design to real construction. My work includes urban planning, building design, spacial proposal and graphic design. The projects range from commercial, exhibition, education, office building design to urban renewal and building retrofit. I respect the social, historical and environmental contexts in relation to buildings.My academic background focuses on exploring sustainable architecture solution based on BIM technology with a regulatory framework which may include LEED, BREEAM, CIBSE, Passivhaus/ EnerPHit. I have many practices in evaluating building performance by conducting environmental simulations and energy models, integrating energy, functionality, space flexibility and aesthetics in order to provide better energy efficiency, carbon footprint, occupant health and wellbeing. I am enthusiastic to fuse innovative idea to rational evaluation design method to meet the need for public environmental sustainability.

2013 - 2015

Built Environment Simulation Tools

Photoshop

AutoCAD

Insight

Illustrator

Revit

Green Building Studio

Indesign

FormIT

Dynamo

Word

SketchUp

Flow Design

PowerPoint

Lumion

DesignPH PHPP

Excel

V-ray

Licaso

Artlantis

IES VE

2018

Architect

Artelier Mearc | Shanghai, China

http://nceub.org.uk/ocs/index.php/MC2018/MC2018 2016

CIB Fintech Office | INTERIOR DESIGN (Chinese edition) 09.2016 CIB Fintech Office | Gooood design network https://www.gooood.cn/community/306090

2016

Apartment 37 | SMALL + SMART INTERIORS Apartment 37 | Housing Journal Apartment 37 | Archdaily https://www.archdaily.com/791106/apartment-37-atelier-mearc

2016

Long Table | New Architecture Long Table | Landscape Architecture Long Table | Archdaily https://www.archdaily.cn/cn/800316/mo-ke-yu-he-qi-ye-gong-guan-starchang-zhuo-mi-ao-gong-zuo-shi Long Table | Gooood design network https://www.gooood.cn/vanke-yuhe-office-building-long-table-by-ateliermearc.htm

2015

Flair Salon | 2015 China Interior Design Annual Flair Salon | Gooood design network https://www.gooood.cn/flair-salon-designed-mearc.htm

Placement

Scenic Architecture Office | Shanghai, China

OTHER ACTIVITIES 2010

Volunteer 2010 EXPO ( Specifically in EXPO Forum) | Shanghai, China

2016

Gap year Travel

Thesis paper | Digital Book of the UK "2018 Masters Conference People and Buildings"

Evaluating the Simulation Accuracy and the Effectiveness of Light Shelves under the UK Weather Condition Using Climate-Based Daylight Modelling Method

Jilin Jianzhu University | China (Former name: Jilin Institute of Architecture & Civil Engineering)

• Developed design concepts, digital models and finished architectural drawings and portfolio layout of a series of projects, including sales centre, teahouse, office building and old town facade retrofit.

English (Fluent written and spoken)

PUBLICATIONS

B.Arch Architecture

• Worked as project supervisor, managed schedule in all phases of design and construction processes on interior project Apartment 37. • Engaged in wide-ranging scale and use projects from residential to commercial buildings, including graphic design, furniture design, interior design, architecture design, urban design and retrofit design. • Worked closely and collaboratively with clients, team members, suppliers and construction team.

Software

Jiuting No.4 Kindergarten of Songjiang District in Shanghai | First Place Winner

WORK EXPERIENCE

Language

Ps Ai Id

2013

• GPA 83% (equivalent 2:1) • First Class Awards (2012), Second Class Awards (2009 - 2011, 2013)

2012

SKILLS

Design and Drawing

• Thesis project: Evaluating the simulation accuracy and the effectiveness of light shelves under the UK weather condition using climate-based daylight modelling method

Long Table | Bronze Winner of A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=55459

• Design projects: A house retrofit in Sheffield, UK A sustainable urban design in Zurich, Switzerland • Completed with the 1st Class"Distinction" in January 2019

mili-du@outlook.com

Graphic and Office

2017

University of Sheffield | UK

(Published and represented at '2018 Masters Conference People and Buildings' in London)

+86 18516176640

Chinese (Native speaker)

MSc Sustainable Architecture Studies

Content

Space When I was a child, I often played in the street, garden and park. These places were just like my game room, making me feel secure and free without boundaries. My game room was so big that it was anywhere. As I grew up, the city became bigger and bigger. People gradually took up more space to construct houses, roads, bridges. The urban space is no longer friendly. We tend to stay in a safe interior rather than unfriendly outdoors. The boundaries become more and more clear. However, I often miss my playground in my childhood. I miss the scene that I flited in the streets freely in my childhood. I miss the sense of freedom that all space between heaven and earth belongs to me. I often ask myself how we perceive the world and how the world touches us. How did we change the city? How did the city affect our lives? I have been trying to recreate the space and the freedom that I experienced when I was a child. I do not know what the world and people's life would be like in the future, but I'm trying to find the answer.

Sustainability What is the likely future of the boundary? Perhaps one day it will eventually disappear. The world will be limitless. Space between heaven and earth belongs to you, belongs to me, and belongs to everyone. As ancient Chinese philosophy, "bustling pasts, then dust settles." That is a boundless world, a sustainable world.

XL –––– Urban Size Sanya Riverside Park Landscape Design

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L –––– Architecture Size Jilin Provincial Theatre Shimao Container Courtyard

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M –––– Interior Size CIB FINTECH Office Flair Salon

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S –––– Human Size Apartment 37

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XS –––– Furniture Size Long Table

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+ ∞ –––– Sustainable Vision House within a New Coat Urban Farm

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XL –––– Urban Size: Sanya Riverside Park Landscape Design Location: Sanya, China Professional Group Project September, 2013

This is a research project supported by the local government. The core concept of this project is to soften the boundary between the city and nature and to reduce the scale of the riverfront area to suit human activities. The existing waterfront area is too large, and the transition from city to nature is incongruous and lack of correlation. This causes a dull and lifeless status. We hope the design can stimulate the vitality of this region and link it to urban by design method. We add new activities into the site in order to create three types of space with a thread running through them. The three types are urban contextual space, natural space and an ambiguous space which is the result of mutual penetration of the former two. Meeting points and space for activities are linked by flows. In this way, a correlation of urban context and natural environment was created to revive the park.

PROBLEM DEFINITION

Disorder, boring and unfriendly environment

PROPOSED SOLUTION

Create places for activities and reorganise the use of the land to activate the area

ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION

Soften the edges of urban and nature by planning new traffic system, create new small scale construction for various pruposes, and redesign the landscape

Ecology

Life

City

Sports

Nature

Environmental Study

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办公医院

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Natural Seepage

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Active Point

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椰子树其他行道树

红树林幼苗

Height Function Traffic Main Walking Path

Plants Urban transition

红树林

城市绿地

Urban Contextural Study Two 2.5km-long Jogging Route

L –––– Architecture Size: Jilin Provincial Theatre Location: Changchun, China 5th Year Individual Graduation Project March, 2013

The site is located in a newly-developed district. There is no building in the surrounding area, so the existing urban context has a very weak impact on the site. Therefore, in this design was started from the human behaviour to build the correlation between the space and the city. It extended from interior to outdoor space rather than that spread from urban context to architecture. The most important behaviours within a theatre are acting and watching. The inspiration is from traditional Chinese opera stage. In traditional Chinese opera, the actors perform on a high semi-outdoor platform covered by rooftop, while the audiences sit in the open courtyard to watch them. The stage is like a wooden construction between the interior and the outdoor space connected by mortise and tenon joint. This design explored the potential of space prototype. It is an installation between building and space rather than a simple building. In order to create a sense of landmark, the design swapped the form of roof and ceiling. Therefore the theatre is like a city parlor. It represents the image of the city, meanwhile it opens to the public and welcome people.

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Joint position

Cross-section

The structure of the building is also the facade of it. The components are assembled in mortise and tenon form to make the theatre look like an installation. It is a large size building however the sense of architectural is very weak to the people within it. The form of the construction weakens the presence of walls and rooms, and the activity area is overlaid by arched spaces.

L –––– Architecture Size: Shimao Container Courtyard Location: Shanghai, China Professional Group Project June, 2014

We are commissioned to design a sales centre using containers. As the seller is insistent on the advocacy of sustainable architecture and low carbon life, the sales centre should be a modular building that can be easily dismantled, migrated and reassembled without limit of location and time; whilst it also has to meet all the functional requirements of sales centre.

In order to be easily packaged, all the furniture in the building should be movable. But how could it exhibit the high-quality living idea advocated by the seller, if it is removable? The solution is to design a series of continuous, imaginable life scenes.

To study the space, various combinations were explored during the concept phase, such as changing the number of containers, stacking stories, situation and angle. Finally, we found a solution to gain larger space. That is opening the faces of the containers, and placing them end to end to get an ambiguous space, in which architecture and environment contain each other. Such space prototype coincides the essence of Chinese traditional garden. How can the layouts bind the shape of the site? By adjusting and developing the combination, a result was achieved that the area these containers occupied gradually tends to be a 500m2 size, very close to the famous Chinese Qing Dynasty traditional garden "Half Mu (a Chinese area unit) Garden". The containers should express the essence of Chinese traditional garden in a modern way. The core concept in Chinese courtyard is to regard constructions as frames to catch views. So containers can be frames and a series of continuous natural landscapes become the views, in which customers will be able to perceive the scenes of future high-quality life.

M –––– Interior Size: CIB FINTECH Office Location: Shanghai, China Professional Group Project October, 2015

Published in 'INTERIOR DESIGN (Chinese edition) 09.2016' Published on Gooood design network https://www.gooood.cn/community/306090

Probably most people working in buildings likely spend most of the day sitting in a small office unit. It’s hard for them to feel the natural light and breeze since normal artificial light provides uniform illumination. This project shows a different picture. On the 41st floor, “a street block” was built high off. Streets are connected and greens are extended. The office is like an urban landscape. The floor of the whole space is covered with special custom carpet to make it like streets. Technically, the floor, plants, and the above lights are matching well. Customized furniture is placed among plants in order to make the space like a park. Two main work areas and several independent offices are within the

park. People in the space actually feel like roaming in the city. The changes of natural light with time flow can be truly perceived since no walls block the light. Cloud shape patterns on the glass enhance the effect of light and shadow which let those who work here perceive an outdoor atmosphere.

M –––– Interior Size: Flair Salon Location: Hangzhou, China Professional Group Project November, 2014

Published in '2015 China Interior Design Annual' Published on Gooood design network https://www.gooood.cn/flair-salon-designed-mearc.htm

This project is located in a mall in Hangzhou. The original site has an irregular edge in shape. To avoid restricting by its irregular site edge, we aim to create a homogeneous space with better flow and unlimitedly extension possibility. Simple materials are used to show the abstract form and to express the correlation between inside and outside the salon. The ceiling is designed at different heights, different spotlights and light membrane, which make the whole space could provide multiple functions. Haircut area is placed at a location with great visibility, on top of which covered a large piece of light membrane. The lamps with well-designed colour and comfortable illumination perfectly meet the requirement of stylist, further make the haircut area act as a general stage, with stylists presenting as a superstar. The mirror situated in 45-degree angle makes the cutting and styling performance could be easily viewed even from outside the Salon. The design targets to present a great sense of the whole space when considering the haircut cabinet design. The mirror and its frame of the cabinet have a weak sense of presence. Naturally, customers and stylists in the salon become the main focus.

S –––– Human Size: Apartment 37 Location: Shanghai, China Professional Group Project November, 2015

Published in 'SMALL + SMART INTERIORS' Published in 'Housing Journal' Published on Archdaily

https://www.archdaily.com/791106/apartment-37-atelier-mearc

This is the first project I independently accomplish as the project supervisor, from concept phase to final site construction supervision. It is a narrow apartment, only 37 m2 including the public corridor, located in the old downtown of Shanghai. It has a great view with the window facing a stretch of metasequoia and beautiful roofs of old villas. The owner is a single woman who loves reading, writes great calligraphy, and she is a keen gardener also a keen cook. It is a challenge to contain all the living functions and put new high-qualified activities in such a small space. It means that each space must be fully and perfectly utilized. What I am trying to

explore in this project is blurring the functions of the spaces. For example, the corridor can be used as a kitchen, bathroom and living room as well. The apartment was regarded as a complete living space. There is no traditional room or furniture in the space. Furniture in this house is like construction with larger size rather than traditional furniture. They are identified by the materials. Shape and location are not important. At the same time, the empty space between furniture is like a "frame", through which you can see a series of different views. It is just like a traditional Chinese garden. Her living behaviours were classified, according to which space is divided into four

parts, by different heights of the floor and ceiling, rather than walls, doors and rooms. The materials of the interior floor and wall are extended to the corridor. Once step in the corridor you can perceive the interior space. The corridor is both public and private. When you open the window, the flowers can be seen. Flowers, canopies, beautiful roofs and blue sky are framed by the window as a picture. It is the end of the entire space. However, the outdoor space is extended into the room as a picture. The visual space has been infinitely enlarged. Storage, cooking and other messy daily necessities incorporate into the "wall". The whole space is visually simple and transparent but functionally complex and rich.

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XS –––– Furniture Size: Long Table Location: Shanghai, China Professional Group Project November, 2015

Bronze Winner of A' Design Award in Street Furniture Design https://competition.adesignaward.com/design.php?ID=55459

Published in 'New Architecture' Published in 'Landscape Architecture' Published on Archdaily

https://www.archdaily.cn/cn/800316/mo-ke-yu-he-qi-ye-gongguan-star-chang-zhuo-mi-ao-gong-zuo-shi

It is an art installation project in an office park in Shanghai. In this project, an architectural method was used to explore the response to space. However, we hope the installation is not like a building. The site is a public square surrounded by four buildings. I would like to position “furniture" outdoors in order to blend the indoor and outdoor space with each other here. The furniture offers the possibility for a variety of activities, through which people can work, rest, discuss, and meet. Like the traditional Chinese "banquet" custom, people gather at the long table, eating, drinking and chatting. Banquet often lasts a few days or a week. Tables and chairs remain in the same situation, while food, guests and activities move. We hope the simple furniture can provide an unlimited possibility of use to affect the entire space. It makes the indoor activities happened outdoors so that space is ambiguous and infinite without boundary. The long table reorganizes plants, buildings, places and people. It not only meets the need of individual use but also connects all the elements.

Published on Gooood design network

https://www.gooood.cn/vanke-yuhe-office-building-long-tableby-atelier-mearc.htm

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Infiltration and airtightness

+ ∞ –––– Sustainable Vision: House within a New Coat Location: Sheffield, UK

The house which is a typical middle-class Existing condition study semi-detached house built in the 1930s located in the south-west of Sheffield, adjacent to Peak District. The owner SUSAN SUTHERLAND | IDIL SINDIR | MILI DUliving | RUI WEN DENG | DANIEL RESTREPO AGUILAR | JIN ZIE clearly wants a more comfortable BROOKLANDS space with better daylight, and a shade CRESCENT BROAD ASPIRATIONS in the backyard.

Individual Studio Project December, 2017

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Architecture • Unreasonable interior flow • Uncomfortable living experience • Poor construction condition

Energy • Seriously high heating loss • Extremely shortage of natural light

IMPROVEis BUILDING LAYOUTCREATE A CONNECTION BETWEEN What the purpose of a retrofit? I interpret THE HOUSE AND THE ENVIRONMENT OUTSIDEit as that architectural design makes a The client expressed a wish for a greater connection to the environment, rather than the better life in both living experience and current dark and cut oﬀ home they live in now. This will improve the occupants comfort and energy aspect. Can these two combine wellbeing in the home. each other? According to the research, the answer is yes. We naturallyREDUCE feelENERGY CONSUMPTION Although the occupant states their fuel bills are comfortable in the natural environment. average, this home will still be in place in the year 2050 meaning an 80% carbon reduction goal Why not bring nature into the building?

IMPROVE BUILDING FABRIC-

Comfort in a dwelling is not just about thermal comfort. How a person feels in their surroundings is equally important. The current layout of the building is abnormal due to the extensions made to the property. A layout change will improve the ﬂow of the dwelling and the comfort of the occupants,

The kitchensreplacing shape AIRTIGHTNESS Beyond the equipment of IMPROVEMENTSis awkward and unThe house is losing large amounts of heat comfortable to navithrough drafts in the construction. A particularbuilding a passive method was gate around. service, Fig.01 Vision ly bad draft can be felt at the top of the stairs and fig.02 show the where there is a noticeable temperature differused. bigger “building” containing both strangeA shape. The ence between the ground level and the landextension added to A Passivhaus community, which is comfortable, natural the rear ofand the prop- the existing house creates ing. nature a and connected by a friendly courtyard erty in the 80s is the cause, and a lack of self-cycle spatial planning. ecosystem in which plants keep VENTILATION IS NOW NECESa stable level of temperature,WHAT moisture SARY Architecture Energy Primary Objecive 2 The changes to the fabiric and improved air • Unreasonable interior • Seriously high heating loss and CO . Two possible options have been tightness will change how the building percan be seen Energy flow • ExtremelyAsshortage of from Context Research forms and may mean that natural ventilation fig.04 to the left, Energy • Uncomfortable living o test • Create PHPP toArchitecture test heat natural light explored and a series of validation of no longer meets the needs of the building and there stairwell is also loss experience building fabric • Improving building layout • Improving mechnical ventilation will need to be specified extremely dark there• Run a solar study and • Poor construction environmental simulation was conducted. in accordance to the buildings needs. fore not only are illuminance analysis in Revit condition • Improving daylighting • Creating connection drafts an iissue here but also daylight. • Improving air-tightness between the house and All reports point to a satisfying result that This needs to be reValidation Vision • Reducing energy the environment outside solved to reduce the RENEWABLE ENERGIESthe retrofit meets all requirements and relieance on artificial A Passivhaus community, which is comfortable, natural Once the fabric efficiency and energy efficiency • Creating a welcome and consumption lighting and instead and connected by a friendly courtyard hasoptions been achieved. It will be beneficial to look use natural daylight provides better daylight. Both • Use of renewable friendly community at which renewable energies will benefit the Workflow to flood the internal dwelling Looking and reduce further its dependancy spaces.` energies save more than 90% energy use. on fossil fuels. Whether this is Solar hot water, Primary Objecive Solution Energy Solar Electricity generation or ground ource this in a long run, if this retrofit can beheatused Energy Architecture Energy • Improve the building pumps. • Improving building layout • Improving building fabric • Increase insulation to the fabric tofoundation meet Passivhaus in the community, the savings will be a • Improving daylighting • Creating connection walls, and roof • Improving air-tightness between the house and l standards to spaces to reduce heat loss • Reducing energy the environment outside huge contribution to the environment. e and demand • Improve the daylight by

The ﬁrst renweable is fabric eﬃciency. By improving the fabric of the building, energy consumption will be reduced therefore reducing the carbon dependency of the dwelling. Also, this will improve the internal comfort of the rooms - warm in winter and cool in summer without excessive heating and cooling costs

Structure Double skin mansonry brick blockwork 100mm empty cavity 100mm empty cavity 30mm external pebbledash 30mm external pebbledash render render Timber Joists at 450mm centres Timber Joists at 450mm centres Concrete strip foundation (depth not known) Concrete strip foundation (depth not know) Double skin masonry brick blockwork

FIG.01. KITCHENS SHAPE

FIG.03. GROUND FLOOR

Design Solution –– Technology

Balancing the cost and climate condition, air-filled triple-glazed units will be used in this project.

Heat exchanger

Triple-glazed window

Besides replacing window and adding airtightness membrane, heat exchanger can be used in the house, and doing this will maximize the space between celling and roof.

FIG.06 POSSIBLE CURRENT CONSTRUCTION

FIG.02. KITCHENS SHAPE

FIG.05. FIRST FLOOR

FIG.04. STAIRWELL

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• Creating a welcome and friendly community

Key Objective

Architecture • Enlarge living area by10% • Create a space in the kitchen to link the garden and the kitchen together by nutural scene • Adjust the retrofit plan to be used in the entire community

5 Concept and Strategies 5 Concept and Strategies

Energy • Improve the building fabric to meet Passivhaus standards • Improve the daylight by 20%

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In the front bedroom, some of the internal wall is exposed. This clearly shows the brick block work with the internal plaster ﬁnish on the internal surfaces, proving that the internal walls are clay bricks.

Design Solution –– Architecture Bathroom

Children’s bedroom 1

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Passive Heating

Extension

Skylight above kitchen and dining space Children’s bedroom 2

Climate-based Energy Calculation Passive Heating

Natural Ventilation

Self-Cycle

FIG.08: GARAGE ROOF SPACE

Self-Cycle

FIG.07:INTERNAL ENVELOPE CONSTRUCTION

consumption • Use of renewable energies

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Rain Shade and Water Collection

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Blend Interior and Exterior

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Spring/Autumn Skylight - let daylight get into house Angle - create high-quality evenly diffused reflection light Openning - create connection between community environment and individual backyard

Existing Illuminance

Summer

Winter

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Illuminance after Retrofit

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Shadow Tracing

Daylight Simulation Analysis

Option 1 Reduce more than 90%

Continuous transparent surface a better infutration and airtightness

Plants within glass surface a better micro climate

Controled door and skylight let wind blow in and out to achieve natural ventilation

Option 2 Reduce more than 90%

Continuous solid surface a better airtightness and insulation performance

Plants across solid Natural ventilation surface opening on the surface a better view let natural wind blow in within community Stable temperature and a better Plants on the roof help micro climate keep temperature stable

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Skylight is set to supplement the natural daylight in stairs area. The angle

vide some shading. On the top of the roof is open to refresh air and adjust

+ ∞ –––– Sustainable Vision: Urban Farm 4. Design Strategy

Location: Zurich, Switzerland

This design aims at exploring a sustainable solution to extend the life of the abandoned urban industrial land. The vision is to create a sustainable mix use community which is not only energy efficiency but also a supplier of healthy, happy and affordable life. The design defines the site as a ‘farm’ which is not only a traditional farm of food but also an innovative farm of solar energy where residents can gain electricity as well as making a contribution to the city. A series of activities are added to the site to attract more people to live in a sustainable way. The design process is under an iterative and integrated workflow. We use a series of tools to simulate the real climate and test the energy usage of the design, and then fine tune them. The final layout is a result of balancing the critical analysis and aesthetic implication.

Studio Individual Project May, 2018

4.1 Energy Strategy

City cycling path Market Pavilion

Jogging path

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Outdoor rest area

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2.2 Target, Solution, Validation

Vision Context Research

pace layout and the building form of both aesthetic and energy

Primary Objecive Feedback Energy

Architecture • Improving building • Create renderrings to test the space quality • Reducing energy • Calculate the cost in GBS

consumption

fabric

energies

Solution

Architecture • Creating sports space, market pavilion, food planting space Architecture • Creating more rest area ows with nature new activity Energy • Creating • Retrofit of the existing ngs • Increasing buildings of building envelop to meet ndspace retail, restaurant, bar, fast EnerPhit standard food, exhibition, residential • Increasing density by50% • Construction of new with work space building to meet Passivhaus • Creating a terrace • Combination ofto standard g connect the train station to landscape and • Improving the community the site entrance energy performance to • Introduction of the city architecture design meet ZED standard g cycling path into the site

dings

Key Objective

• Creating a better link to public transportation • Open more entrances

Architecture Vision • Creating a healthy, comfortable and friendly community Primary Objecive • Improving Energyurban space layout • Improving building fabric • Reducing energy • Creating connection consumption Use of renewable between•energies the site and surrounding area

Workflow

Validation • Use of renewable

A sustainable mix use community which is not only energy efficiency but also a suppier for heathy, happy and affordable life.

Architecture • Creating a healthy, comfortable and friendly community • Improving urban space layout • Creating connection between the site and surrounding area

Architecture • Creating new activity space • Increasing density by50% • Combination of landscape and architecture design • Creating a better link to public transportation • Open more entrances

Food Farm Urban Farm

+ Solar Farm

5. Masterplan

Details Studies

Wind Simulation Analysis

Retail

Sports

Restaurant & Fastfood bar

RestaurantConnection & Fastfood terrace bar to the train station

Exhibition hall

Exhibition hall Public flow

Residential with work space

ResidentialCycling with work flowspace

5. Masterplan Building use

5.5 Building use & Open space & Flow & Traffic

Building use Flow

Retail

Sports

Restaurant & Fastfood bar

to the train station RestaurantConnection & Fastfood terrace bar

Connection terrace to the train station

Exhibition hall

Public flow Exhibition hall

Public flow

Residential with work space

flowspace ResidentialCycling with work

Function & Use

Parking area

Open Space

Building Flow use Open space

5.5 Building use & Open space & Flow & Traffic

Parking area

Retail

Building use

Material Studies

5. Masterplan

Connection terrace to the train station Public flow

5.5 Building use & Open space & Flow & Traffic

Cycling flow

Flow

Parking area

Cycling flow

Flow

Open space traffic facilities Flow Vertical

Vertical Traffic Vertical traffic facilities

PV Energy Analysis

Open space

OpenVertical space traffic facilities

Vertical traffic facilities 31

Modulus Studies

Phase 1 - Retrofit Phase

Phase 2 - Site Construction

Phase 3 - New Building Construction

Construction Phase Studies 17

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