JIALU HOU
117 St Pancras Way, London, NW1 0RD
07579949103
linkedin.com/in/jialu-hou-7693a0180
jialuhou613@gmail.com
EDUCATION B.Arch. Architecture(double-degree program) South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China GPA 3.75/4
10/2015 - 07/2020
Architecture(double-degree program) Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy Graduation grade 109/110
10/2016 - 07/2019
M.Arch. Architectural Design Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
10/2020 - 09/2021 expected INTERNSHIPS
Architectural Assistant Jianqing Architectural Design Co.,L,td., Dongguan, China Architecture design, 3D modelling, site survey
09/2019 - 03/2020
Architectural Assistant WAU Architetti, Turin, Italy Architecture design, Architectural illustration, 2D drawing, 3D modelling, site survey
03/2019 - 06/2019
COMPETITIONS Renovation of Changxin Swan Garden Community Guangzhou, China Collaboration with Qiao Li, Zehao Zhang
05/2016
YOUNG ARCHITECTS COMPETITION - Kids’ Factory Laveno Mombello, Italy
01/2019
LANGUAGES Mandarin Chinese
Mother tongue
English C1
Italian A2
SKILLS 2D/3D Modelling AutoCAD Rhinoceros Grasshopper Revit Maya SketchUp
Rendering Vray Enscape
Game Engine Unity
Post-precessing Photoshop Illustrator InDesign Premiere After Effect
Programming C# Python
LONDON
TURIN
GUANGZHOU
SELECTED WORKS
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RAD Reconfigurable Autonomous Demiurge (in progress)
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UNIVERSAL BAUHAUS Timber building system using generative digital tool
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A PLACE OF CONVERGENCE Kindergarten, senior housing and tourism centre complex
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TOGROUND URBAN DESIGN Public space, co-working and social housing
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CO-HOUSING IN COMO Rationalist residential building
R.A.D (in progress)
RECONFIGURABLE A U T O N O M O U S D E M I U R G E
Bartlett, Architectual Design, Research Cluster 3 Tutors| Tyson Hosmer, Octavian Gheorghiu, Philipp Siedler Team with | Aikaterini Kiki, Boning Luo, Sai Sashank Pilla 2020 Autumn -present
We are living in a world that is changing so fast and the conventional building environment cannot cope with, while the request for resilience, autonomy and customization is growing. New techniques such as robotic assembly, algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) are making this realizable. Embracing the revolution, we present Project RAD, a customizable, reversible and reinforcing architecture, using robotic assembly, AI and digital platforms while with no requirement of high budget or human labour. The project consists of three parallel paradigms of researches: architectural language, robotic research and project life cycle design.
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I. ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE
ROBOTIC CONSTRUCTION
ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE
UI PLATFORM & AI SUPPORT
Phonemes
materials User Morphology Alphabets
joints and connections
library of parts
Words
assemblies of parts
RAD Grammar
layout and volume Sentences
composition of assemblies
Robotic Agents
AI Paragraphs
spaces and volumes Syntax
spatial composition Articles
buildings and neighbours
The structure of architecture language in RAD is formulated by six levels, from phonemes to articles. Served by robotic construction and a digital platform with AI support, the language is based on two basic alphabets: A cubic node made of metal and 3d-printed parts, and a linear timber component with two female endings. The variation in the way of nodes and components assembly creates a library of words, which compose spaces (sentences) following the layout and spatial columns(grammar). This grammar, as well as the later syntax, is designed by the collaboration of users and AI, on the open digital platform of RAD. A series of studies on the density, patterns, and spatial aggregations have been conducted to clarify the system of architectural language. Algorithms such as Wave Function Collapse are tested and in process of further application.
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II. ROBOTIC RESEARCH
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DEVELOPMENT OF ROBOTIC AGENT DESIGN.
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To to assemble and reconfigure the architectural elements in RAD, we develop and optimize the robotic agent from one initial prototype, exploring different mechanics, locomotion, as well as variety in modular units. The aim is to simplify the mechatronics in each robot, enhance collaboration between them, but without a loss in the overall capacity. Multi-agents Machine Learning is employed here to automate the movements of robots.
LATEST PROTOTYPE ROBOT R3
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ROBOT R4
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(a) transfer to another work plane (b) transfer to another component on the same work plane (c) transfer to perpendicular work plane (d) transfer to another component on perpendicular work plane
Cumulative reward
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AGENT MOVING TO DIFFERENT DESTINATION
trained by Machine Learning Agents to overcome obstacles and find the shortest path
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(a) closed and open states of the gripper (b) unlock and lock states of the holder (c) rotation along X and Y axis (d) hold the component and transfer to another place
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III. PROJECT LIFE CYCLE
The project’s life cycle is a loop divided into three stages: Design, Reconfigure and Reuse. There are three parties involved in the cycle: the User, the Platform and the Robot. During the Design and Reconfigure process, all decisions will be made as a result of co-design by the users are the AI behind the digital platform. Here we renominate the users as the main commanders of design, giving input to the RAD platform and make further decision based on the output generated by AI. These outputs are not final decisions, but recommendations as well as sources for AI reinforcing learning.
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Initialization Parent generation
Input layout drawing by user
Mutation
Next generation
connectivity analysis
LAYOUT DESIGN USING GENERATIVE ALGORITHMS
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Crossover
output layout generation
The construction is a constantly on-going process, adapting to environmental and users’ requires anytime. The aim is to optimize users’ preference and extend users’ creativity, creating a living, intelligent architecture .
To allow customizable spaces, we set up an interface in Unity with a library of over 300 parts using BitMask Values, where users can design their own spaces by clicking the mouse.
Libarary of parts with for different BitMask Values CUSTOMIZABLE SPACE USING BITMASK VALUES
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I. BASIC DATA
Site selection
II. LAYOUT DESIGN
Sign up / Sign in
Home page
MAIN INTERFACE
III. SPACE DESIGN
USER INTERFACE
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Reconfigure and reconstruct while in use
Residential
Typology
Self-design layout
number of users
Population density analysis
Layout recommendation
IV.CONSTRUCTION
Self-design space detail
Cost and construction time
Under construction
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UNIVERSAL
BAUHAUS
NEW INTERPRETATION ON GERMAN BAUHAUS & REVERSIBLE, RENEWABLE, REPRESENTATIVE UNIVERSAL PROTOTYPE IN TIMBER Bartlett, B-pro Skills Workshop Tutors| Ramon Elias Weber, Paul Clemens Bart, Marvin Bratke Team with | Haoxing Zhang, Boyuan Yu, Hui Gao 2020 Autumn
Bauhaus Dessau, construction 1925-26
Wood buildings as a global carbon sink Churkina, Galina, et al. “Buildings as a global carbon sink.” Nature Sustainability (2020): 1-8.
In her state of the union address on September 16 th 2020, the president of the EU commission Ursula von der Leyen outlined a large scale plan to create a new European Bauhaus. The school shall be modelled after the model of the German Bauhaus, but will concentrate on Circular Economy and renewable material - timber.
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Inspired by traditional and indigenous mortises and tenons in China and Japan, we want to reconsider our current methods of design. We introduce generative design tools to create digital reassembly and novel building system, based on an aggregation logics built up on the traditional construction methods. The system is using a universal logic from the scale in detail (S) to the scale of neighbours and urban districts (XXL). It shows an architectural and computational vision that works with societies bottom-up processes.
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vertical campus
CAMPUS IN BOTTOM-UP CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES
The modular set ups and generative design logics lay a foundation for reconfigurable and adaptive structures. As a new interpretation of Bauhaus and timber structure, the flexible planning parameters can be applied not only to the Bauhaus campus, but numerous typolgies and scales. The new Bauhaus should be reversible, renewable, and representative, as a new protoype for the future architecture.
NEW BAUHAUS: HORIZONTAL CAMPUS (XL)
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BAUHAUS AS A PROTOTYPE AND
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Laveno Mombello, Province of Varese, Lombardy Region, Italy
45°54’14.3” N 8°37’24.2” E
A PLACE OF CONVERGENCE RENOVATION FROM AN ABANDONED FACTORY TO A COMPLEX OF KINDERGARTEN, SENIOR HOUSING AND TOURISM CENTRE YOUNG ARCHITECTS COMPETITION, Kids’ Factory Individual work 2019 spring
The former pottery factory of Laveno Mombello slept on the bank of Lake Maggiore, Italy. Established in the spring of 1856, it was once the most important industry in the region and the home of Italian Ceramic Society in the first half of 20 th century. However, the ruthless globalization lashed the industry and the golden age fade to a permanent closure in 1997, leaving a poor state of repair to the massive factory building and a stagnancy to the town.
This project was originally a kindergarten design for the Young Architecture Competition, but has undergone an extension in response to the core puzzle. It aims to tackle the issues left by deindustrialization, to relief the area from decline and to create a place for the convergence between the young and the old, the past and the future.
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ZÜRICH LUZERN
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SWITZERLAND
LUGANO
INTRA LAVENO MOMBELLO
ITALY ABANDONED TRAIN STATION ABANDONED POTTERY FACTORY NEW TRAIN STATION FURRY STATION
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Laveno Mombello is a harbor town in Province of Varese, enjoying the marvellous Alps and Lake Maggiore. It can be easily reached from the main cities in north Italy and Switzerland thanks to ta comprehensive transportation network combined with railway, ferry route and aviation.
The abandoned pottery factory is located next to the old train station, which is also in disuse now. In the last century, the products from the factory used to shipped out by train from the station and cross continents and oceans, reaching other countries in Europe and America. Many local townspeople worked in the factory as well as some trainees from all over the world. With the collapse of the industry in 1990s, the town fell into decline. Furthermore, asbestos, an insulation material frequently-used in 19th century, was found toxic and detected in the building, leading to the prohibition of entry and the following disrepair. Nowadays, most of habitants are the aged former workers, and the younger generation has moved to cities for employment because of the lack of local industry. Some travellers come here for vacation but the undeveloped tourism fell to boom the economy.
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INTERNATIONAL TRAINEES
MAJOR POPULATION: ELDERLY INDUSTRY: TOURISM
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1950s
ESTABLISHMENT
CLOSURE STATOS QUO
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1898
ITALIAN CERAMIC SOCIETY
A DOWNTURN OF THE LOCAL HISTORY
The problem of deindustrialization lies not only in the caring of the retired workers, but also in the lack of younger generation and a new economic stimulus. In the project, the answer is a reuse of the factory building to introduce children and tourists, which can bring vitality and tourism industry. Therefore, the function of the building is not only one but three - kindergarten, tourism centre and nursing house - for three different aimed users: kids, visitors and the local elderly. Instead of being isolated from each other, the three groups of people can perceive the others without being disturbed. The factory will provide a mini community to enhance communication and interaction, in a sentient but unconscious way.
KID KINDERGARTEN
VISITOR TOURISM CENTRE
PERCEPTION MOVEMENT
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GUSTATORY
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The unconscious interaction is achieved through different sensations and the three groups will ‘feel’ the others before their ‘converge’ in fresh. The elderly can hear that the kids and visitors are entering the complex; inside the same block they will take meals or cafe provided by the same kitchen logistics; on the roof garden, the kids and the elderly will smell the floral from the plants grown by each other; and they will take a glance of the others at the sports zone. When they can finally touch each others in the common garden, they will experience the former function of the factory together.
The project attempts to revitalize the site by a narrative from native symbolism and representative modernity. Elements are extracted from some most famous or familiar scenes for north Italians, and are used as the typology for the design. Arch and portico are classic forms for the entrance of the academic building in Italy; A track placed on the roof has appeared since the well-known Fiat Lingotto Factory in Turin; Linear organization and deep perspective view can be found in Uffizi Gallery in Florence; Long stairways and overpasses criss-cross to conceive a dynamic atmosphere in mountainious city like Perugia; An analogy can be drawn between Aldo Rossi’s colonnade in Gallaratese and a typical portico in Italian city, Bologna for instance; The articulate but logical language from Italian Rationalism has spread in North Italy after the WII, like the residential project by Giuseppe Terragni given here.
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STEP 4 ELEMENTS FROM THE IMAGES
STEP 3 INSERT NEW VOLUME
demolished pillar
STEP 2 demolished
DESIGN CIRCULATION
INDUSTRIAL BUILDING
V SHAPE RAILWAY
METAL SHED ROOF
ENTRANCE BUILDING DESIGNED BY PIETRO PORTALUPPI
GENERATION
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STEP 1 EXISTING & DEMOLITION
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stairs
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stairway
portico
tunnel
chamber
slide
platform
track
aisle
corridor
terrace
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walkway
terrace
cubicle
court
chamber
pavilion
corridor
stairs
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upper: visitors’ platform lower: kids’ outdoor classroom
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stair plaza
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kitchen
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2. reception of elderly nursing house
11. sand pool
3. activity rooms for the elderly
12. basketball court
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5. indoor classrooms
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When the factory wakes up from its sleep, the new life here will give expression in the preservation of factory structure, in affinities to the architecture of the past, and in the intimacy people feel and meet each other. f.0
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STATUS QUO : ABANDONDED RAILWAY COVERED BY VEGETATION
RENOVATION: REPAIR THE RAILWAY AND BUILD PLATFORM
PASSENGER TRAINS DEPART & ARRIVE : CONCENTRATE THE TOURISTS
possible sites for tourisim buildings: shopping mall, hotels, resturants, etc.
train platform for tourists
renewed train station car parking business activity after the renovation
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As the last sector of the complex, the “V” shape structure carries the railway which used to connect the factory with the old train station. After renovation, the industrial structure will turn its service from private interest to public goodness. It will contain a public garden, a ceramic workshop with gallery, and a platform of tourists’ arrivals. Here, the kids and the elderly who are local residents, and the visitors who are outsiders, will finally meet each other face to face and take part in activities together.
Beyond the boundary of the complex, the impact of the revival of the former ceramic factory will go further to the surrounding area and to the whole town. The nearby vacant space can be reserved for financial buildings, the parking area in the old train station can serve for travellers by cars. As time goes by, the concentration of tourism circulation and sources can bring agglomeration effects.
Thus, the ‘convergence’ of people can induce ‘convergence’ in finance, urban development and common awareness.
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1 I came to see the historical building designed by Portaluppi. It seems that there is something more behind it...
I chose this nursing because it always reminds of the old days...
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Class off! I can go upstairs and play on the big track now!
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I baked some the biscotti in the kitchen yesterday and they said the children love them!
The biscotti taste good.
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These big steps are our outdoor classroom!
This floral... It is from the flowers grown by the kids.
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RCHITECTURAL SECTIONS
Hey, I find a bridge here and there are people playing under it. Can we go along it to see where it leads to?
Plonk! Thud!
6 I want to try DIY in the Pottery Workshop.
It is a public garden. Let’s take a walk!
When will the train open today?
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Lungo Dora Siena Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont Region, Italy
45°07’19.9” N 7°70’07.0” E
TOGROUND URBAN DESIGN REORGANIZE AND ACTIVATE THE URBAN BLANK SPOT WITH PUBLIC SPACE, CO-WORKING AND SOCIAL HOUSING Politecnico di Torino, Atelier Urban Design Tutors | Chiara Lucchini, Francesca Frassoldati Team with | Yelin Zhang, Franscesca Restauri, Caterina Guglieri 2018 autumn
As a post-industrial metropolitan, Turin has witnessed the economic boom in Italy from 1950s to 1970s as well as the decline so far, so as the Gas Light Company of Italy. Area Gasometri is a zone of 44’000 sqm which used to accommodate the company. It is not far from the city centre, the river Dora and the well-known landmark, Mole Antonelliana. Although the new Campus Einaudi of Università degli studi di Torino , which was designed by Foster + Partners, brings a flow of around 10’000 students per year, the area is still in lack of in easy accesses and connections, as well as urban life and vitality.
The project studies the strategies of urban and public space design, and responses to the metropolitan goal of transformation into a tourism and cultural city. It aims to increase accessibility and create a wide range of public space and activities which evoke social and cultural identity, and its different phases will take place according to the development of the neighbourhood and the metropolitan.
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NEXT TO CAMPUS
STUDENTS
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PATTERNED PAVEMENT
HEAVY TRAFFIC
URBAN VOID
RESIDENTS
PUBLLIC SPACE
PUBLIC FACILITIES
ECONOMIC TRANSITION
ABANDONED STRUCTURE
OFFICE WORKERS
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CO-WORKING & SOCIAL HOUSING
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The area used to host the headquarters of the Italian gas society Itagas and its two gas holders, but after the dismantling in 1950s, only a few offices in the building keep running today and are isolated with its enclosure wall. Furthermore, its connection to the city centre is cut by the busy traffic on Corso R. Margherita, which also makes troubles to the student commuters between the two campuses. Therefore, the first step to activate the area is to improve its accessibility, with refers to not only the demolition of boundary but also the possibility of multi-activities on the ground. The design of axes aims to indicate the safe and suggested street for pedestrian, as well as to unite this urban blind spot with the other part of the metropolitan area.
connect the two campuses and two students residences
forecast access from the metro station of next line
continuity of the urban texture of residential blocks
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demolish the enclosure
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cyclists, on discontinuous cycling path
metro line 2 (to be constructed in 2025)
Landmarks
pedestrians, arrive by passing the cross
Mole Antonelliana Santa Giulia Night Life Area LANDMARKS Università degli Studi di Torino Einaudi Campus Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences
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ACCESSIBILITY
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HISTORICAL & RESIDENTIAL ZONE
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festival
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protest
waiting for bus
neighbourhood market
neighbourhood street
kids playing
walking dogs
chatting
greeting
sitting on the bench
encountering
street corner
Robert Taylor Houses, Chicago (demolished)
centre square
EXTRA ORDINARY/ CEREMONIAL
‘Public space include everything from the ceremonial to the mundane... Both the extraordinary ceremonial spaces and infra-ordinary spaces can be found everywhere. But what every European city consists of - and what isn’t common in other parts of the world is a very rich middle ground of public spaces. ’ --Hans Ibelings, Middle Ground
TWO FAR ENDS OF PUBLIC SPACE
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De Weteringschans, Amsterdam
Exhibition Road, London
Spanish Steps, Rome
Piazza del Campo, Siena
neighbourhood square
road
ceremony festival
parade
protest
exhibition
public art work
public art work
cycling
waiting for bus
neighbourhood market
neighbourhood street
kids playing
walking dogs
chatting
greeting
sitting on the bench
encountering
street corner
Super Block, Barcelona
centre square
MIDDLE RANGE
Accessibility alone does not make a space public. When social interaction is taken as a defining criterion, public spaces have a wide spectrum. The two far ends of it are the ceremonial ones and the quotidian ones, but in these spaces there is a lack of a truly public life. Meanwhile, the spectrum has a wide middle range, which rely on many inconspicuous facilities and infrastructure, such as a consistent street profile, a safe square, street lighting and benches, or even just a pattern on asphalt ground to mark the public area. These public spaces accommodate and generate a diversity of social interactions, expressions and gestures. A MIDDLE RANGE OF PUBLIC SPACE
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Because of the industrial crisis since 1980s, the metropolitan government of Turin has stated its new strategy for urban development: the renovation of the historic centre, the redevelopment of old industrial and infrastructural reorganization. As a response, the project in area gasometer tries to give further potential in long-term development. Under the decline in economy and accelerating unemployment rate, the project will not rely on the government sector but the public one. Therefore, beside the public facilities and infrastructural improvement, the project also suggests a system in which the land for co-working office, social housing and urban forest can transform between each other. It begins with a few official and residential buildings as well as the planting of urban forest. With the forecast completion of metro line 2, the city’s rediscovery in tourism and cultural sector, and the redevelopment of local economy, the project will be phased to allow expansion of co-working and more immigrants into the area.
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Isolated & dreary
More commuters after the completment of new campus in front of Palazzo Nuovo
The completement of Metro linea 2 and the grouwth in local business
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A wide range of public space which activates a European city exists in its neighbourhood parks, playgrounds, green pockets, skateparks, bike lanes, bike parking and even under a shadow projected by the canopy of a tree. It requires the design to avoid disordered alleys and downscale from the regional planning, and to provide a series of finite and defined urban areas.
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FROM URBAN FOREST TO CO-WORKING OFFICE
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Project 03
Como, Province of Como Lombardy Region, Italy
45°48’45.1” N 9°5’11.3” E
CO-HOUSING IN COMO RESIDENTIAL BUILDING DESIGN FOLLOWING THE DISCIPLINE OF ITALIAN RATIONALISM Politecnico di Torino, Architectural Construction Studio Tutors | Pierre Alain Croset, Andrea Bocco Individual work 2018 spring
As the birthplace of Italian Rationalism, Como owns some of the most famous rationlist architectures: Casa Del Fascio, Asilo Sant’Elia, Novocomum, the Headquarters of the Unione Fascista Lavoratori dell’Industria, Casa Cattaneo, and so on. Important rationalist architects like Giuseppe Terragni, Cesare Cattaneo and Pietro Lingeri all have their works here. The city also enjoys the view of the mountain and the lake of Como, which make it a favourable vacation spot for Lombardesi. The design of co-housing is located at a L shape site next to Casa Del Fascio, and is divided into four different volumes — each varies in shape and height — according to the geometry of the urban composition, after which the shape of each dwelling unit reveals itself. The rhythm of the facade is composed of lines and planes in various levels, which articulates the structure behind it. Rather than representing a fragmentary chapter, the design tries to maintain the patterns and traditions of the place, to respect its surroundings and to follow the principle of the rationalism.
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ANALYSIS OF SOUTH-WEST ELEVATION
a
b FIRST LAYER -- bipartite schemes
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b
a
SECOND LAYER -- tripartite schemes
GENERATION OF THE GROUND FLOOR PLAN
R = shape rules p = plan f = facade Rf = structure exposed -first layer 1
Rf2 = division
Rf3 = wall and window -second layer
Rp1 = square plan
Rp2 = division: private - public - private
Rp3 = connection to outdoor public space
Rp4 = corridors (horizontal circulation)
Rp5 = further division for offices, bathrooms and staircases
Rp6 = adjust the units and break the symmetry
Rp7 = triple-story atrium
Commissioned by the National Fascist Party, Casa del Fascio is the representative work of Giuseppe Terragni. Each of its four facades contains multi-layers and expresses its exterior. The study of Casa del Fascio reveals Terragni’s notion of modern classicism, which developed the Italian Rationalism.
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CASE STUDY: CASA DEL FASCIO AND RATIONALISM
Unione Fascista Lavoratori dell’Industria (ULI), C. Cattaneo, P. Lingeri, L. Origoni, A. Magnaghi Casa del Fascio, G. Terragni
Casa Canttenoe, G. Terragni
Project Location
500 m
250
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Novocomum, G. Terragni Monumento ai Caduti, G. Terragni Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, G. Greppi
Fontana di Camerlata, C. Cattaneo
Casa Pedraglio, G. Terragni Asilo Sant’Elia, G. Terragni
Rationalism Architecture
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I MA NZ ON ES SA ND
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SECOND FLOOR
duplex 1
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duplex 2
VIA
duplex 3 duplex 4
FIRST FLOOR
VIA REZZONICO public entrance
private entrance ROOF
VIA
ENR
ICO
PES
SIN
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1. study room 2. game room
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3. bar 4. kitchen
GROUND FLOOR
CAS
5. dining area
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SCIO
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4
PIA
ZZA
DEL P
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7 6
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5
10 m
VIA D TIGI EI PAR ANN I
BASEMENT
UNI O TOR NE FAS I DE C LL’I ISTA L NDU A STR VORAIA (U LI)
6. auditorium 7. bathroom 8. storage space
GENERATION OF THE GROUND FLOOR PLAN R = shape rules p = plan *= extra rule comparing to the rules in case del fascio
Rp1 = site limit
Rp2 = division: private - public - private
Rp3 = connection to outdoor public space
Rp4 = corridors (horizontal circulation)
Rp5 = further division for garage entrance rooms of various activities, cafe and staircases
R*p8 = incline the left part according to the outline
R*p9 = adjust the inclination
R*p9 =adjust the semi-public space
R*p10 = create outdoor semi-public space
Rp11 = double-story atrium
The project provides eight duplexes which are comfortable for small families, couples or students. In the living area, space is double- height with a big French window, allowing the introduction of light as well as framing the urban and natural landscapes from the view inside the building. To serve the citizens with public services, the ground floor and the basement host a cafeteria, cultural activity rooms, as well as space for office or study.
PLAN: PROPORTION, FUNCTION AND URBANE REFERENCE
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10
20 m
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B
B
B
A=B*2=10m
ELEVATION - VIA REZZONICO
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10 m ELEVATION - COURTYARD
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SECTION AA
ANALYSIS OF FACAED R = shape rules f = facade
Rf1 = structure exposed -first layer
Rf2 = division
circulation inside duplex
Rf3 = wall and window -second layer
entering duplex
structure wall
vertical circulation
window frame window glazing
duplexes identified by colours
glass railing detail application
public space
FACADE: ARTICULATED STRUCTURE AND LINEAR GEOMETRY
SECTION BB
SECTION CC
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EXTERNAL ELEVATION
HORIZONTAL SECTION (GROUND FLOOR)
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0.5
1m
INTERNAL E
VERTICAL SECTION
DETAIL TECHNICAL DRAWING
HORIZONTAL SECTION
load bearing timber wall
stiffening wall
timber slab
double height window (with its timber surround serving as a bracing element)
stiffening wall
AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM OF THE WHOLE BUILDING STRUCTURE
LOAD-BEARING STRUCTURAL SYSTEM
a
ELEVATION
act-sound insulation ulation
board N (DUPLEX)
AXONOMETRIC DIAGRAM OF ONE UNIT STRUCTURE
b
200 mm intensive green roof
c
80mm oak surround, painted
d
100*25 mm horizontal birch cladding 160 mm wool thermal insulation 30 mm air cavity 10 mm gypsum plaster board
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double glazing with 10 mm cavity adhesive fixed to wood/aluminum frame
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10 mm paving slabs drainage mat to 2 % root barrier 10 mm bituminous seal 30 mm wood-fibre impact-sound insulation 200 mm polystyrene insulation vapor barrier 150 mm CLT slabs 15 mm gypsum plaster board
sliding French window ( double glazing with 10 mm cavity ) 25 mm parquet boarding 30 mm wood-fibre impact-sound insulation moisture-resisting membrane 30 mm building service layer 150 mm CLT slabs 160 mm wool thermal insulation 10 mm gypsum plaster board
b
200 mm intensive green roof
c
80mm oak surround, painted
d
100*25 mm horizontal birch cladding 160 mm wool thermal insulation 30 mm air cavity 10 mm gypsum plaster board
e
double glazing with 10 mm cavity adhesive fixed to wood/aluminum frame
h
laminated safety glazing balustrade
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vapor barrier 160 mm wool thermal insulation concrete footing
f
sliding ( doub
g
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In addition, on each top floor of the four volumes, there is a space shared by all the dwellers in the co-housing. There are two common rooms and four terraces altogether, creating the opportunity for social life and community connection.
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COLLAGE
PORTFOLIO OF JIALU HOU selected works 2021
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1m
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