Selected works of muso zhe fan issuu

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PORTFOLIO OF FAN ZHE Apply for Master of Architecture in Urban Design Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 22F Ciros Plaza, No388 West Nanjing Rd Huangpu District, Shanghai, China 200003 Tel: 86 185 16293272 Email: muso.fan@gmail.com Website:http://www.mfworkgroup.com

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ONE//REPUBLIC COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, GSAPP A6853 ADVANCED ARCH STUDIO, SUMMER 2015 IN SERVICE OF: CULTURE OF SERVICE AT WORK AND PLAY STUDIO PROFESSOR: PHU HOANG DESIGNER: MUSO ZHE FAN SELECTED IN GSAPP’S [ABSTRACT] PUBLICATION

ONE // REPUBLIC - COWORKING & SCHOOL DESIGN In this project, the designer tries to discuss the essential question: What is the sharing economy’s boundary between the “work” performed by building services and the workers in the architectural program? If the technologically driven sharing economy is questioning the basis of an “ownership society,” how will building services—as well architecture—adapt and transform with it?

The studio will advance arguments and designs for a “culture of service” that transforms and innovates with building services. The roles and boundaries of these radicalized building services will be manifested in new architectural organizations and forms.

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INFORMATION

RELATIONSHIP

OWNERSHIP

Facebook 2004.2.4

LIBERATION

Airbnb 2008.8

EXPERIENCE? Google 1998.9.4

Wework 2010.2.15

Linkedin 2002.12

IDEAS/THOUGHTS? KNOWLEDGE? CAPITAL? MEMORY?

Wikipedia 2001.1.15

Twitter 2006.3.21

Uber 2009.3

Instagram 2010.10.6

Breather 2012.7.1

RESEARCH // SHARING ECONOMY CHRONOLOGY

All the apps in the principles of sharing economy such as Airbnb, Wework and Uber, have changed our life greatly. By temporarily lending out their ownership of the properties, everyone becomes a “capitalist“.However, the benefits are enormous, it reorganizes the resources in the whole society, saves the energy and time, it’s the best example of win-win model. The temporariness and dynamic equilibrium of ownership are two important features of sharing economy. It re-defines people’s understanding of services, and in return, when designing the coworking spaces, how to achieve these two features are the key to a successful working environment in contemporary context. On the other hand, when we look through the history of the internet, we can find that actually it has already gone through 3 stages, the 1st stage is the release of information, the 2nd stage is the release of relationship, and now we are undergoing the 3rd stage of ownership, so we can’t help wondering what’s the next stage?

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History shows us a clear clue of how capital flow lead to the social change and people’s perception of service. There are 3 different stages during the development of capitalism, at the beginning it is accumulated and centralised, and then this trend goes extreme into monopoly, nowadays, it is gradually becoming decentralized and dispersed.

Efficiency is the key word for the capital driven period. So we invent Fordism, workers have only one direction, they all work towards the capital. When the capital is more dispersed and decentralized, workers will have more possibilities of directions, they are more likely to collaborate with the others to create a network.

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HUSKI LOCATION: SHANGHAI KEVIN LOCATION: BEIJING

MUSO LOCATION: NEW YORK

DORIS GUANGZHOU 21 UNITS

DORIS LOCATION: GUANGZHOU

HUSKI SHANGHAI 34 UNITS

MUSO NEW YORK 36 UNITS

RESEARCH // HOW DOES WORK CHANGE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTERNET The internet draws the world flat, the globalization makes the world more unified, correspondingly, the content of our daily work and even the form of our work have changed as well. Robots and machines liberate human being, so now our work are more about immaterial production, such as designing, analysing and making decision, instead of material production. In the meantime, the project is being parcellized, we could divide a job into small parcels and hand them over to different people to finish it. Even 4 people in different places could finish one project, then why do we need a big company to force these people sit together on the typical floor of an office building?

The studio conducted an onsite experiment in “wework“ New York, as a research of the coworking space. We spent 4 weeks working in wework space, aiming to finish one building design with 3 other partners in China. Building design was divided into 4 parts in consideration of each one’s speciality, for example, Doris is the master of building cores. Everyone does their job individually, and each week record the project progress and everyone’s feeling in coworking space.

KEVIN BEIJING 25 UNITS

DECENTRALISED AND PARCELIZED WORKING MODE RESULT IN A NONLINAR REPRESENTATION OF THE WORK

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TRADITIONAL CONGLOMERATE

NOWADAYS TASK BASED FAST COMPANY

THEY ARE BECOMING....

1.TINY AND MORE TARGETED 2.EPHEMERAL 3.FLAT ORGANIZATION 4.MORE ABOUT IMMATERIAL PRODUCTION

THEY WANT TO BE....

1.BIGGER, MORE BRANCHES 2.LONGER LASTING IN THE INDUSTRY 3.STRICT HIEARCHY 4.MORE ABOUT MATERIAL PRODUCTION

FORDISM

DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM COWORKING ENVIRONMENT

DEDICATED OFFICE PROCESS 1

PROCESS 2

Encourage Communication & Discussion

PROCESS 3

Assemble Line // Discussion is forbidden to increase efficiency

METABOLISM // WORKING ORGANIZATION EVOLUTION

BORN

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Free individuals with different talents organized by projects \tasks\ideas

MATURITY

Mentored by different groups of specialists, to help realise their goal.

OPEN COWORKING ENVIRONMENT

A Temporary Company with a group of people sharing the same goal, which is good for keep group privacy and keep away competitiors.

DEDICATED OFFICE

VENTURE CAPITAL

SCHOOL (INCUBATOR)

WORKGROUP (COMPANY)

DECEASE

When this goal is achieved, company will die, talents will redistribute and reorganize into another network of relationship.

OPEN COWORKING ENVIRONMENT

NOLINAR EXPERIENCE OF USING SPACE Under the principles of fordism production, workers will have a specific working desk in a certain floor of a building. Everyday the worker go to that specific location and finish the specific job, and he never get the chance to use all the other parts of the building.

Nowadays since the organization of the work/company has changed, our working environment should be non-linar and not so rigid as well. We encourage the workers form a task-based group/ company as they like and as they move. They could use different parts/function of this building as they need. This will challenge the people’s traditional way of understanding space and using space, which will maximise the potential of communication and creativity.

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SITE ANALYSIS // NEW YORK MIDTOWN FLARITON URBAN CONTEXT//MAKING USE OF LIGHT SHAFT Light Shaft is a very typical existence in New York blocks, which acts as the empty space introducing more light to the back side of the building. There are two empty spaces border the site limit, so we try to connect these two spaces which results in the cut in the volume. To strengthen this logic, we even buy the air rights from the bordering sites and add extra volume on top.

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Cafeteria

PRIVATE Ramp to Upstair

Security Gate

PUBLIC PRIVATE

Community Garden

#PARK LIVE SHOW MEETING CLIENT

Bike Parking Reception

STAY//REST

*People 2 People

*Individual 2 People

Security Gate

MOVEMENT//EXCHANGE

Lobby Mailbox

Bikeway

*Offline 2 Online *Customer 2 Customer

UBER CARD SERVICE

INSTACART DELIVERY *Business 2 Customer

URBAN LOBBY // GROUNDFLOOR PLAN A building is never isolated from the urban life especially under nowaday sharing economy. The urban services such as Uber, Yelp, and all the delivery service such as Amazon or Instacart have already taken some part of the building services.

Therefore the concept of URBAN LOBBY is very important for the new generation of coworking space, which works as a buffer zone connecting building service with the urban service.

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DAY8. SEEKING HELP FROM SPECIALISTS Technical problem post on intranet, some specialists on another floor could help solve it.

DAY 30. LAUNCH A COMPANY Whole team migrates to one of the dedicated office, start working for the same goal.

DAY3. BRAINSTORMING Open discussion and Brainstorming for the original idea.

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PRE-IPO MEETING

DAY200. TEAM SPLIT Some member quit the team with stock share bonus, and return to coworking space, looking for the next project.

DAY 60. BIGGER COMPANY Team becomes extreme big as the product/service grows, they need to move again to another floor with bigger office space

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DAY 1. CONCEPT Idea start from discussion with other members in coworking.

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The fluid circulation is not only reflected in section, but also plan.

The shift in section enables the possibility of juxtaposing the coworking space with the dedicated offices in the same floor.

Therefore there could have 4 basic typologies as listed above, whole floor of coworking space, whole floor of dedicated offices and mixed floor of corworking space and dedicated office with one in the front, the other just reversed.

We encourage people in this building move to anywhere in the workplace as they like. In most cases, they follow the team’s needs, which is normally time-based, for example, using the meeting room on 2nd floor from 10am-11am, and then using the open office on 6th floor from 1pm-3pm. But sometimes, it may also move as a result of the team expansion.

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SECTION INNOVATION // SERVICE Traditional floor slab normally work as the structural components, all the services such as pipes and wires are attached to this surface.

By enlarging the floor slab, we could have an extra void space, which is enclosed by all the services. These spaces could have no windows, since they are more private and dedicated space supported by pure service, and these spaces are actually the service space for the open area coworking space. They are like hanging spaces providing service for the open coworking space. Furthermore, by shifting the two parts cut by the light shaft, we could have more types of connection. In addition, the spiral staircases and slopes across the service and coworking space will make the whole space more interesting and fluid.

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DAY 15. PROTOTYPING Team moved to LIBRARY (Data Center) for Project Research & Prototyping DAY 90. INCUBATOR EDUCATION WEEK

DAY 30. LAUNCH A COMPANY Moved to closed dedicated office for the purpose of confidentiality.

DAY 1. CONCEPT

DAY 120. MEETING WITH VENTURE CAPTIAL SEED ROUND, ANGEL ROUND, SERIES A, B.....

Idea starts from discussion with other members in coworking space, then they decide to realize this idea.

DAY 10. BUILD UP TEAM Recruiting people from different backgrounds(Design\IT\Finance).

DAY 365. IPO\BUY IN BUY OUT Product or Service getting mature, team realize their original dream

DAY 380. RETURN TO OPEN COWORKING Team split, some stay at the company, others quit executive team, get shareholding and then return to coworking space looking for the next opportunity

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INTERLOCKING [PROJECT INFORMATION] Scale: Urban Design Status: SC2013 Future Links-Urban Regeneration International Design Competition Site Location: Vigo, Galicia, Spain Site Area: 10,963 m2 In total Period: Oct 20 - Nov 22, 2013 Task: Old Town Regeneration The Bread Factory Complex, linked to the consolidated front of Street Alfonso XII, is a key part of the city, due to both its size and its location on top part of the old town. This extended area is a barrier that prevents the functional connection and permeability between the center and start point of the expansion of city from the City Hall. The opportunity to re-order the site and propose facilities for the citizens, makes possible to imagine that what currently is a spoiled island in the central area of the city, can turn into a rich leisure and services space which can serve as a link between historical elements and of new expansion; a meeting place for central city areas.

China has the similar area with Europe, but double of the population and half of the GDP number. However the social problems are dramatically different from each other. It's not just simply falling behind in terms of developing time. Understanding this difference is the key to this design task.

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GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION

SOCIAL PROBLEMS & STRATEGIES

main port connection port handling capacity

24%

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17% aging people

[POPULATION AGING]

* Statistic data is from AAPA World Port Rankings 2010

Port of Vigo, located in Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain is the biggest fishing port in the world and one of the busiest in transportation. It is also home of the world's largest fishing company, Pescanova.

GENERAL INFORMATION Vigo and its metropolitan area is one of the main economic agents of the region, producing an estimated 24.3% of VAT receipts, it produces 17 percent of all the automobiles manufactured in Spain. The port of Vigo is also important Galician productivity stands at 207.95 m3/k2 of timber for Spain.

Galicia Vigo

DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF VIGO FROM 1842

1.Social housing 2.Provide community service and healthcare

Economy need new development point, learn from Bilbao develop local tourism booming potential

[HEAVY INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION]

The 2008–2013 Spanish financial crisis began as part of the world Late-2000s financial crisis and continued as part of the European sovereign debt crisis, which has affected primarily the southern European states and Ireland. In Spain, the crisis was generated by long-term loans (commonly issued for 40 years), the building market crash, which included the bankruptcy of major companies, and a particularly severe increase in unemployment, which rose to 29.16% by April 2013

FUTURE DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT

Galicia

Spain

Aging Trend will continue in future

The city of Vigo has 297,124 inhabitants, with an extended metropolitan population of 468,654, making it the 14th-largest metropolitan area of Spain.

At the beginning of 20th century Vigo had less than 50,000 inhabitants; in 2012 its metropolitan area had almost half a million, making Vigo one of the fastest-growing towns in Europe.

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The current data for Spain show the share of the population aged 65+ to currently stand at 17%, equal to over 7 million people, of whom approximately 25% are aged over eighty. Furthermore, the projections suggest the over-65s will make up more than 30% of the population by 2050 (almost 13 million people), thus representing more than 30% of the total adult population. International foresight studies have produced even more pessimistic estimates and the United Nations projects that Spain will be the world’s oldest country in 2050, with 40% of its population aged over 60.

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SITE PLAN

European route E01(AP-9) goes through the town.

This highway goes south through Lisbon and north to the A Coruña area.

Vigo is served by VigoPeinador Airport with flights to Paris and several domestic destinations.

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CONNECT TO SPAIN HIGH SPEED RADIL NETWORK

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New Town

Original Residential Area

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTORY

SHOPPING MALL NEW TOWN DIRECT TO PORTO IN PORTUGAL

City Park (Tourist Attraction)

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SITE CHANLLENGES

URBAN CONTEXT

The North Plot 3,633 sqm The Bread Factory Complex 7,330 sqm

When we analyse the surrounding urban context, we found our plot has great view and accessibility, therefore has a big potential to develop to a multifunction center. But contious urban frontage formed by original low-rise buildings are the things we need to keep.

The Bread Factory Complex, linked to the consolidated front of Street Alfonso XII, is a key part of the city, due to both its size and its location on top part of the old town. This extended area is a barrier that prevents the functional connection and permteability between the center and start point of the expansion of city from the City Hall. The opportunity to reorder the site and propose facilities for the citizens, makes possible to imagine that what currently is a spoiled island in the central area of the city, can turn into a rich leisure and services space which can serve as a link between historical elements and of new expansion; a meeting place for central city areas.

The Bread Factory Complex has a plot area of 7,330 sqm with an irregular shape in which 4,300 sqm are occupied by a complex set of old industrial, commercial and housing buildings.

The Upper Plot, is limited by the streets Santiago, Cachamuiña and Estreito alley, with a plot area of 3,633 sqm and a building area of 1,986 sqm.

We can also read from the context that our site has already had enough housing, but there's a lack of community service, especially medical care for the elder people. Moreover, there's not enough open space for gathering, events or even car parking, which is an irony for a city famous for car manufacture.

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Existing condition shows that most of the Bread Factory buildings are seriously damaged, the structure components were broken and exposed to outside, so we suggest this part demolished, but the iconic tower is kept well and has it's unique architectural value, so we suggest reserve it as the memory of the site.

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Circulation

The form comes from the urban context and landscape logic, and it promised the best view both from the building itself and from the above plaza

There are not enough open space in the urban We followed two axis, one is directly to the most famous tourist attraction, another is to the big plaza context, except for the green spaces, therefore we created 3 spaces along the axis. and new city development area.

Space Sequence

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URBAN REGENERATION STRATEGY

SERVICE

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Booming up Tourism industry Encourage young people to go into service industry

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Strategy Advise for old industry Low Tax on IT related new industry

CITYHISTORY MUSEUM

Support Program for young startups Low Tax on young people starting business

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Residential and SOHO Offices use the same module and dimension, therefore could be easily transform from one function to another. The advantage is that the program is flexible, residential could change from the minimum 45% to 70%, office could change from 0% to 70% if needed, in response to the market.

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UN EMPLOY MENT

Civilian Service is the most important factor for living quality, and it will also cause radiactive influence for the whole old town area.

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Since we also got restaurants and bars on the ground floor, we could also change some part of the social housing into hotel or service apartment, especially in the tourist season.

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NORMAL OFFICES SOHO OFFICES SHARED FACILITIES

Considering the building type, we encourage the youth open small IT-related startups and SOHO offices, which doesn’t requires so much office space, just need some shared facilities. This will cut the expenses in the early stage.

SMALL THEATRE

Cultural facilities would be an attractor for both the civilian and tourist, it will increase the value of the whole region.

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PROGRAM SYNTHESIS

MASSING GENERATING PROCESS

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“Invisible Hand” Government collaborating with Developer and Architect

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The Bread Factory Complex

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4.Move part of the volumn to higher level with an exclusive view and cut a path to the mountain

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5.Adding a base as parking and raise the main volumn one floor upwards to have better view and sunlight

6.Relocate the residential apartment with better view, add a mixuse tower to link the two plot

7.Change one building’s property for flexible use to give economic vatality to the region

8.Adding more connections between buildings and different floors

Our program arrangement was under a synthetical evaluation of the potential social influence, site conflicts, and practical consideration such as circulation and phasing, aiming to provide a core region in the city with greatest inclusiveness and accessibility.

Based on the Urban Regeneration Strategy, we introduced different programs into our site, keeping the independence but giving them possiblity to connect to each other.

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LAYOUTS FLEXIBILITY STUDY

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corridor in middle, one side open desk, the other side with private office closet, bathroom, core, kitchen in the end.

Floor dimension and layout study for the best of the program's flexibility and economy sustainability.

The ideal offices must be easily reconfigured-and the boundaries between office groups easily shifted-using only a single construction trade.The ideal floor plate must be dimensioned to provide for different and evolving work styles, multiple security scenarios and ample natural daylight. Its faรงade should be dimensioned on a 1.5meter grid, facilitating standard private office configurations of 3.0 and 4.5 meters.

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ROOFTOP OUTDOOR PLATFORM

SPECIAL OVERLOOKING PLATFORM

MUSEUM

ENTRANCE

ENTRANCE

VOID

SHARED MEETING ROOM

RESTAURANT

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

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SOHO OFFICE

BARS

KITCHEN

SHARED MEETING ROOM

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

SPECIAL EXHIBITION

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

1

SHARED KITCHEN

MUSEUM

MUSEUM

MUSEUM

CITY HISTORY MUSEUM

+29.00 7 F PLAN

+21.00 5 F PLAN

FLOOR PL AN

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

VOID

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ROOFTOP OUTDOOR PLATFORM

VOID

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

ART-MUSEUM

The floor plans are stretching bars, because we want to keep the site urban context continous frontage, which forms a sense of streets. The other benefit of stretching bars is that it covers more area, so the buildings won't be so high, which also shows the respect for the surrounding low rise buildings. However the site is vertically separated, so we make many floors connecting to each other, so people could catch a short cut avoid complicated circulation.

COMMUNITY LIBRARY

ROOFTOP OUTDOOR PLATFORM

ELDER PEOPLE APARTMENT

ROOFTOP OUTDOOR PLATFORM

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Elder people

Lifts

[Program]

[Space Sequence]

There're mainly 4 big programs, from bottom to top: city history museum, tourist info center, leisure space, community library, which also contains other small programs in each one, such as storage space, lobby, and temporary exhibition.

The 4 main space is big, so we use box in box logic to organise different programs, then drag and move each one to make it more lively. When people gradually going up, they will have a spiral feeling of the space.

[Circulation]

[Territory]

The main circulation is to solve the 17m height difference between the two sites, from lower site to the elder people apartment or just across it to the city plaza on top. Above circulation is mainly for apartment users, to go to the community library.

The space was separated by the different program, at the same time, divide into open & private space. The community library is mainly for the residents so put on top to avoid large circulation noise.

Tourist or People who go to the city plaza

COMMUNITY LIBRARY VIEW TO THE SEA

Community Library was seperated by the overlooking point level, and has direct access from the rooftop of below level from apartment. It also connects to the reserved silo building of modern art museum.

+29.0 7F COMMUNITY LIBRARY +25.0 6F OVERLOOKING POINT

Elder people could directly go from the apartment to this deck.

+22.0 SPECIAL EXHIBITION

For temporary use

+17.0 4F TOURISTS INFO From this tourist center then go to city plaza or new town

+13.0 3F CITYHISTORY MUSEUM

Along the main circulation from bottom to high gound, we arranged a history museum.

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SECTION & CIRCULATION

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The circulation of each part is relatively independent from each other, however still has a connection to others, which is quite clear for its users.

CIRCULATION DIAGRAM

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RESERVED BUILDING AND NEW BUILDING As the program required, we kept the original old building functioning as the landmark of this region, and transformed it into an art museum, which could serve for the whole residential area, holding events and bringing culture to the community. This old silo was also connected to the new building to the community library throught the bridge. Therefore the two cultural buildings was closed tied to each other.

[Enclosed Cultural Plaza]

[Semi-Open Living Plaza]

[Open Natrual Space]

For tourists, local young and elder people.

More living atmosphere, mainly for the people working and living in there

Mountain Park, open for all the people in this city.

SITE SECTION DIAGRAM

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BIRDS EYE VIEW

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SENSATION

Research shows that the view-angle coverage of six years old children is only about 60 percent of adults in horizontal and vertical direction. That means the actual visual area is only 36% of an adult’s if we multiply these two numbers.Furthermore, low objects, what we adults do not conceive as obstacles, will block children’s views. Therefore, knowing space which is based on children's perspective is completely different from adults' senses. Children know this world by using views which are totally different from adults.

B(L)ABYRINTH Kindergarten Design

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10 Revit Cup Nationa Excellence Award, 20

Babyrinth is the combination of the word Labyrinth and Baby. It means the labyrinth for babies. The period in kindergarten is a fundamental period in the formation of sensation for children. It also opens door to the development of perception. In this specially designed labyrinth, children could explore the space, and better touch the world.

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SITE PLAN

Auxiliary Entrance Backyard

Main Entrance

SITE CONDITION

Playground

Sandpit Running Track

[PROJECT INFORMATION] Scale: Architectural Design Status: Academic Work Critic: Lu Xiaodong Collabrator: Luna Qi Period: Aug 2009 Location: Southern City in China Land area:7610m2 Built-up area:2230m2 Floor area ratio:0.29 Building density:0.24 Greening rate:0.31

Task: Design a 6-class Kindergarten This is a 6-class kindergarten for children. The site is located on a slope and surrounded by regular residential buildings. Our main inspiration comes from forrest to organize the cubes in order to get the children into a sense of being embraced by the nature. Eventually, we try to build a fantastic world of various exploration of space and a great paradise of playing for the lovely children.

Surrounding buildings are mainly residential blocks.

So this site gives us a strong sense of facing south.

Therefore, we followed the site logic to put different programs in bars and all facing south.

The most important playground should be in the front.

As a result we put the main entrance to the side road of the site. For one thing it does not block the main street, for another thing it will leave the main playground not disturbed by the people and cars.

The site is on a slope, so how to solve this site height difference is also a problem. In this case we divide it into three level with different programs.

When designing the kindergarten, we also make the main volumn facing south, because sunlight is the most important natural factor we should consider for children’s growth, which is also in accordance with the surrounding buildings in the site.

In plan, I divide the funtion into 3 parts: office, classroom and playground, then that we got 3 bars. Then I put all the 3 bars on a ladder along with the slope, therefore the 3 parts will not block the sunlight from each other. In this case, the kindergarten take the best advantage of sunlight and has minimum earthwork.

OFFICE & AUXILIARY CLASSROOM PLAYGROUND

PLAY

CLASS

OFFICE

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[USER]

Treating Courtyard as ‘Solid’ Space

[PROGRAM]

[CUT INTO 6 CLASSES]

[USER] [PROGRAM]

[DISORDER]

[SITE]

+ [ORDER UNDER SHELL]

[PUT ON SITE]

The courtyard for children is very important space in kindergarten, and its function is not just ‘play’ that simple as well. Normally we treat the courtyard space as empty space, as architects we only design the real space.

However in this case, I materialized the void space as a real massing, put it into the massing study and we finally got our final concept.

The layout is based on a normal 9m x 9m grid system. Between every two classroom, there is a open space for play and sunlight. All the open spaces between classrooms link all the teaching area together.

[ADDING THE COVER(ORDER)]

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FLOOR PLAN [6.0m Level Floor Plan] 7.

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1.Class-sleeping 2.Classroom 3.Reading room 4.Dean’s room 5.Archive Room 6.Teacher’s Office 7.Teaching model storage

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1. Main entrance 2. Parents reception 3. Class-changing 4. Class-bathroom 5. Class-activity 6. Music&sports 7. Health-care 8. Isolation room 9. Infirmary 10.Sterilizing room 11.Office-bathroom 12.Office-changing 13.Food storage 14.Kitchen 15.Disinfection room 16.Pantry 17.Plaza 18.Animal-breeding 19.Nature Garden

[0.0m Level Floor Plan] In the Babyrinth, all the classrooms are lifted off the ground and on different levels. We don’t have the concept of a common 1st floor. Therefore, we just cut sections from 0.0m 3.0m 6.0m level, from which we can see that the functions are actually clearly distributed in different height. The upper space is sleeping room, the middle space is classroom, and on the ground it’s free space to play. This is also a transition from quiet space to noisy

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EDUCATION THROUGH GAMES

Teacher, their room is larger than us!

Teacher, I found our classroom has a back door!

GAME 1:

WALKING IN THE CLOUD Passing through all the rooms stairs and doors at one time, only the child with order and courage could win this game!

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CLOSED

NATURE

OPEN

I love this corner!

I can read books!

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NURTURE

FORREST RUN Hide and Seek, find the great treasure, all kinds of games need open space and shelter.

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NURTURE 偶or NATURE

RANDOM 偶or ORDER

Going to kindergarten is a group living experience to children, which prepares them for the future development in school and society. In this period, children should form the concept of order and know the rules that they should follow. In the meanwhile, the educator should also be careful not to be too strict in rules. Children still need space to develop the invididual personalities in this period. The best way to educate children is through games. In the Babyrinth, I designed two games for children to experience the concept of random and order.

Game1: Pass through all the classrooms at one time.

All the 6 classrooms are linked together through bridges, doors or even ground.Children should find the right way by themselvs. And it must be started from Class 1 or 6. After passing through a sequence of spaces, they understand the concept of order.

Game2:Forest Exploration All the 6 classrooms are lifted more than 1.5m above ground, leaving all the ground area for the children to run.The pillars are like the trunks, the pits are the holes, the classrooms are the shelters.Children could run randomly and freely in this area and play many classical games like hide-andseek there.

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[TRANSVERSE SECTION]

SPACE FLOW From this sequence of sections, we could understand the movement of the space and how the children would feel when passing through these spaces even though the world in our eyes is quite different from theirs. We could also found that there are many visual connections in this space which will encourages the children to experience more.

[LONGITUDINAL SECTION] 25

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SECTION DETAIL DESIGN

[DETAIL DESIGN]

PLAYING

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larch plywood t=12mm butt-jointed sandpapered texture， wax finish

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0.0m

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LEARNING

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SLEEPING

deck 105x21mm 6mm slit boarding floor joist 45mm @300mm sleeper 90mm@900mm

850

According to the given southern city's Latitude, we could calculate the sunlight angle, in order to make sure the deepest point in classroom could have sunlight even in the winter solstice day. Besides the sunlight consideration, we also re-configured some dimensions for safety consideration.

920

We could clearly see that because we lifted the boxes to a certain height, the adult could not go into it, only the children could stay and play under that space, which mean is exclusive for the children.

window frame： western hemlock facing-20mm oil paint finish badeboard： western hemlock h=60mm clear lacquer paint finish

oak flooring for floor heating t=12mm floor heating panel t=12mm plasterboard t=12mm structural plywood t=12mm floor joist 40x40mm@300mm bench： chinese linden lumber core plywood t=24mm oil paint finish

700

70 95

20

500

1.5m BELOW CHILDREN EXCLUSIVE SPACE

375

Under the long roof, there's a long and narrow bar-like space, if we filled the space with simply classroom or playground function, both of which will be boring. So we try to break it into 6 pieces. Therefore, we had a order and sequence of space, children would understand this space gradually.

window: ready-made aluminum sash for steel frame +clear glass t=6mm

3200

SPACE SEQUENCE

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360

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frost penetration depth GL -850

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Since the eye level for the adults and children is quite different, the world they see is also different from the other. Therefore, we did a research on the children’s eye level height and set the boxes just above that height. By this way, we delibrately seperate the world by views for adults and children, even in the same place.

The under space is only accessable for children, but it still could be inspected by the adults. As shown in the Look Down view.

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Adult / Look Up Eye Level 1.5m

Children / Normal View Eye Level 0.9m

Adult / Normal View Eye Level 1.5m

22%

48%

75% Children / Look Down Eye Level 0.9m

26%

35%

64%

Adult / Look Down Eye Level 1.5m

Exclusive Space (Can’t be seen by the other group) Natural Space (Ground and Sky) Artificial Space

SPACE COMPREHENSION SIMULATION The 6 diagrams above was at the same spot, but the world in children’s and adults‘ eyes were quite different.

On the left, we calculated the percentage of natural space in each view, which shows that children see more land, fewer sky than adults, and adults’ view is mainly dominated by artificial space, which is just created by and for themselves.

1.5m BELOW CHILDREN EXCLUSIVE SPACE

Near Space

DEPTH OF VIEW SIMULATION Far Space

We did another simulation about depth of view comparison to shows the difference between lifting the boxes and making boxes on ground. The diagrams on the left shows that if lifted, for adult’s, it make no big change, but for the children, their depth of view enlarges dramatically.

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[RESEARCH PROGJECT 01]

URBAN WATER HYACINTH CRISIS

[PROJECT INFORMATION] Scale: Urban Planning & Infrastructure Status: Real Situation Research Site Location: Shanghai, China Period: Started in Oct 2014 Collaborator: Selena Du, GreenPeace Asia (Collaborator in future: Guangbin Sun, Biology PhD Candidate from Xiamen University) Task: Investigate and try to provide a solution for water hyacinth crisis on Huangpu River

Background: It’s an irony that there is a strong relevance of GDP and Pollution in terms of Google Trends keyword searching, the two keywords are even getting closer and closer nowadays, which makes us wondering if the boom of GDP is always at the cost of sacrificing the environment.

The recent outbreak of water hyacinth in Huangpu River draws back the public attention to this issue. The annual floral outbreak usually runs from October to December, but in these years, there is a tendency of longer duration and bigger scale, which makes the situation worse than before. Intrigued by this, I started the personal research on Huangpu river water hyacinth crisis issue, and tried to use cross-disciplinary knwoledge to solve the problem.

GDP POLLUTION

AVERAGE

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2007

2009

2011

2013

Why is this issue important?

Water hyacinth has been identified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as one of the 100 most aggressive invasive species and recognized as one of the top 10 worst weeds in the world . It is characterised by rapid growth rates, extensive dispersal capabilities, large and rapid reproductive output and broad environmental tolerance. It is considered one of the key pressures on world’s biodiversity: altering ecosystem services and processes, reducing native species abundance and richness, and decreasing genetic diversity of ecosystems. They cause substantial economic losses estimated by one study to total US$120 billion annually in the USA. In South Africa, estimated economic costs due to invasive alien species are currently above US$ 700 million per annum or 0.3% of South Africa’s GDP, and could rise to over 5% of GDP if invasive plants are allowed to reach their full potential.

What are the possible approaches?

Awareness needs to be raised amongst local communities and all stakeholders on the inherent dangers of water hyacinth infestation.Given the complexity of control options, it is critical to develop comprehensive management strategies and action plans. A multidisciplinary approach should be designed.

In response to this task, we are trying to adopt the [Swarm Intelligence] methodology, create crowds of self-functioning units, which is the so-called [Hexagon Islands] to form a monitoring and functioning network, each one has it’s own function, and on a larger scale, they collarborate with each other, to help control the water hyacinth population. We must understand that eliminating this specie is impossible and not necessary, the goal we are trying to achieve is to keep the population down to a harmless level, or even figure out a way to reuse it, in which case we could reach a dynamic balance benefiting all sides.

Knowledge Support: Most data cited and methodology used in this research were based on long term research from Uninted Nations Environment Programs and Greenpeace.

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EAST SEA

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF WATER HYACINTH

CHRONOLOGY OF HUANGPU RIVER WATER HYACINTH OUTBREAKS

1990s

water Hyacinth cause substantial economic losses estimated by one study to total US$120 billion annually in the USA

YANGPU DISTRICT

In Europe,it is established locally in the France,Italy, and it’s a threat in Spain and Portugal.

Native Water Hyacinth Region Countries Infested Coutries Regionally Infested Countries not Infested

In Asia, water hyacinth is idespread on freshwater wetlands of the Mekong Delta, especially in standing water.

Water Hyacinth was introduced to China in 1930s, between 1960s-1970s, it was promoted as a feed. However, since 1990s, China’s serious environment pollution caused the increase of nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in waterbody, which triggered the massive propagation of water hyacinth. This situation reachs peak in 1990s till early 2000s, and becomes an annual event in Huangpu River.

It has been detected in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh and has caused heavy siltation in the wetlands of India.

estimated economic costs are currently above US$ 700 million per annum or 0.3% of South Africa’s GDP

LUJIAZUI

2007.09

The spread of invasive alien species is neither easy to manage nor easy to reverse, threatening not only biodiversity but also economic development and human wellbeing (UNEP, 2012). Native to the Amazon Basin in South America water hyacinth has emerged as a major weed in more than 50 countries in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world with profuse and permanent impacts. Intensified monitoring, mitigation and management measures are needed to keep water hyacinth at unproblematic levels.

HONGQIAO AIRPORT

The city's environmental protection workers are currently engaged in a race against time, fishing out 2,000 tons of the rapidly growing plant from the city's waterways every day.

Outbreaks of water hyacinth do not normally occur in Shanghai until the end of October, but, this year, it started to appear at the end of July.

THREATS POSED BY WATER HYACINTH & CONTROL MEASURES

2009.10 Water hyacinth has been labelled as the world’s worst water weed and has garnered increasing international attention as an invasive species. Efficient in utilizing aquatic nutrients and solar energy for profuse biomass production, water hyacinth can cause extensive environmental, social and economic problems.

It is found in lakes, estuaries, wetlands, marshes, ponds, dambos, slow flowing rivers, streams, and waterways in the lower latitudes where growth is stimulated by the inflow of nutrient rich water from urban and agricultural runoff, deforestation, products of industrial waste and insufficient wastewater treatment .The success of this invasive alien species is largely due to its reproductive output. Water hyacinth can flower throughout the year and releases more than 3 000 seeds per year.

[THREATS]

According to the water management department of the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Administrative Bureau, more than 28,000 tons of water hyacinth has so far been taken out of the water.

Last year, the city cleaned out 166,600 tons of water hyacinth.

MINHANG DISTRICT

[CONTROL MEASURES]

i. Destruction of biodiversity

i. Manual and Mechanical Control

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ii. Oxygen depletion and reduced water quality

ii. Chemical Control

iii. Breeding ground for pests and vectors

iii. Biological Control

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iv. Reduction by utilization

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iv. Blockage of waterways hampering agriculture, fisheries

Animal feedstock and agricultural use As alternative fuel and energy source Waste water treatment and clean-up of polluted environment

2014.11

The scale of this year’s bloom has been bigger than ever, the officials said.Since mid-October, about 320,000 tons of hyacinths have been cleared from the city’s waterways.The weight of the haul is already far above the total for the whole of last year.The leafy greens were spotted as early as mid-July in some river courses, which is nearly a month earlier than usual, and the warm weather throughout the year and especially this fall has promoted the prolific growth.

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DESIGN CONCEPTS SPECIFICATION +3.20m ROOF

[LIVESTOCK FARM]

[SELF-FUNCTIONING HEXAGON ISLANDS]

+0.20m GROUND LEVEL

Reserved connecting dock to transmit electricity, transport fresh water to neighbour islands.

People and animals living units.

+3.20 m

[GROUND DECK] Agriculture & Livestock Farming, human activity platform.

+0.55m +0.00m SEA LEVEL

+0.55 m +0.00 m -2.55 m Watch Window at the end of the stairs, could see what’s happening underwater clearly.

-5.10 m -5.60 m

[METHODOLOGY & STRATEGY] [DESIGN PARAMETER] Radius: 16m Ground Area: 665 sqm Building Area: 51 sqm X3 Number of Floors: 2 Height: 3.2m above, 5.6m underwater

[MECHANICAL RING] Mechanical devices provide life-sustaining stuff.

Given the complexity of control options, it is critical to develop comprehensive management strategies and action plans. A multidisciplinary approach should be designed.

In response to this task, we are trying to adopt the [Swarm Intelligence] methodology, create crowds of self-functioning units, that is the so-called [Hexagon Islands] to form a monitoring and functioning network, each one has it’s own function, and on a larger scale, they collarborate with each other, to help control the water hyacinth population. Instead of traditional simply eliminating, we use the idea of recycling economy, with consideration on sustainability and feasibility.

16.00 m EXHAUST PIPE

PIG PEN

N TA K

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4.50 m

TIC

-2.55m

[VERTICAL TRAFFIC CORE]

N PE PIG

+0.30m

2.80 m 1.20 m

SOIL 1.00 m

B

-0.15m -3.15m

Contains Soil layer and Fresh Water Layer, soil could absorb water from below layer

GE RA O ST AS NK G O I TA

[NATURAL RING]

SOIL B I O GA SS TAN TORA GE K

TRAFFIC CORE

-2.55m

FERMENTATION DEVICES

SEP

4.70 m +2.60m

ENGINE

FERMENTATION DEVICES

TIC TAN K

-2.55m

SEP

-0.15m

SEAWATER PRETREAMENT

CONTROL ROOM LIVING ROOM

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

+0.20 m

DESALINATING TANK

SEAWATER PRETREAMENT

B1 PLAN (UNDERWATER) -2.55 m

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Sailors eat foods, drink water, and use the energy provided by themselvs.

[CONTROL ROOM & LIVING ROOM]

REDUCTION BY UTILISATION KITCHEN DINING & LIVING ROOM

CONTROL ROOM

[LIVESTOCK FARM]

BATHROOM

LIVING ROOM

Research into the utilisation and related technologies for the control of water hyacinth have been tested over the last few decades. It is being speculated that the biomass can be used as substrate for bioethanol and biogas production, electricity generation, industrial uses, medicines, animal feed, agriculture and sustainable development.

BEDROOM

Water hyacinth has been found to be rich in protein, vitamins and minerals and serves as a high quality feedstock for animals, poultry and fishery.

WASTE RECYCLING SYSTEM

PORK

BEEF & MILK

EGG

WOOL

The livestock’s excerments would directly drop down to the septic tank below.

STAPLE FOOD

[BIOGAS STORAGE TANK]

WATER HYACINTH

WATER HYACINTH SAVLVAGER

[FERMENTATIO N DEVICES] [SEPTIC TANK]

ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEM

TURBINE

FRUIT

Desalinating tank directly link to fresh water tank for storage to support the whole system

Driving system use the energy from biogas and enable the movement of this machine.

ENGINE

VEGETABLE

SEA WATER

DESALINATING TANK

FRESH WATER

[SOIL LAYER] 2.4m thickness

SEPTIC TANK [DESALINATING TANK] [SEAWATER PRETREAMENT] [FRESH WATER TANK]

FERMENTATION DEVICES

BIOGAS STORAGE TANK

BIOGAS

ELECTRICITY Use the excerments & humus from livestock and plants as material to transform bioenegy into gas and electricity

SOIL LAYER

2.4m thickness

LIFT

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0.6m thickness

FRESH WATER TANK

WATER RECYCLING SYSTEM

GENERATOR

0.6m thickness

STAIRS Soil could automatically abosorb fresh water

EXCERMENTS &HUMUS

Experiments in China show that mixing biomass of water hyacinth with pig manure leads to a much higher biogas production than by using pig manure alone (Lu et al., 2010).

[SELF-SUFFICIENT ECO SYSTEM]

Lumberyard for lumber storage

The integration in mulberry cultivation, sericulture and fish farming is proved one of the best models of integrated fish farming.

Basketball Court for civilian

Desalination Units X 5

WC & Grocery Stores

Water Hyacinth serves as a high quality feedstock for fishery in Indonesia, China, the Philippines and Thailand

[INTEGRATED FISH FARMING]

[URBAN FORREST]

[FLOATING PARK]

[MECHANICAL RING TYPOLOGY 1]

If we turn the 2.4m thick soil into a pond, then we could use it for fish farming. On ground level, we could plant mulberry together creating a micro eco-system.

2.4m depth of soil enables us to grow more kinds of plants including most low trees, and it could be also served as forrest park in limited urban Water Hyacinth space.

Salvager

As the city get denser and higher, we now have fewer parks in downtown area. So we could also transform it into a park, or even bigger one if linked more islands together.

If we just leave the motion units, remove the energy generating units (septic tank + termentation device), and then replace them with 4 desalination units, we got a tiny fresh water plant.

Wind Power Generator

Standard typology with all 3 functions

Control Room Living Room

Barns for crops Storage

Pigpen

[LIVESTOCK BREEDING]

[URBAN FARMING]

[POWER STATION]

[MECHANICAL RING TYPOLOGY 2]

The most common typology, originally designed to solve water hyacinth crisis, and make use of it to develop livestock farming.

Change the pigpen into barns for crops harvest and storage, which is more concentrating on urban farming.

Keep the other parts, remove only the lifts in vertical traffic core, and replace it with wind power generator, then the island became a energy generating machine.

Standard typology with full function of 1 motion units, 1 sear water desalination units, 2 septic tank + fermentation device, 2 biogass storage tank

TREE

STAPLE FOOD

LANDSCAPE

WOOD

VEGETABLE

FRUIT

CONTAINER SHIPS will carry all the stuff produced on islands and replace the containers with empty ones as everyday goes like this.

FRESH WATER

FOOD

URBAN LIFE SUPPLY FISH

PORK

CRAB & LOBSTER

BEEF & MILK

EGG

SHELL

WOOL

BIOGAS

ELECTRICITY

The outbreak of water hyacinth normally happens in the second half of the year, and it’s dispersed geographically, which indicates that program requirement for this structure might change as the time and space changes.

Modularized design enables each single island could be easily modified partially or entirely in response to various program requirements. On ground deck, there are 3 slots for different program, and on under-sea mechanical level, there are 6, the combination of these could provide the maximum possibility of flexibility and customization.

MODULARIZATION & FLEXIBILITY

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CREATING COLLABORATING AND MONITORING NETWORK

[3 UNITS ]

[4 UNITS ]

[6 UNITS ]

3 Basic Units could form one cluster, the electricity, fresh water could send to each other through the docks on the brink.

4 Units normally have one storage or controlling units in the center, another 3 units stretch out to 3 different directions

If we want to have an inclosed space in the middle, then we need at least 6 units to form one, such as the above one, 6 wind power generator form one energy hub.

Ships carrying away the water hyacinth

In Residential area, there should be more urban farming units to provide food convenient and accessible to civilian, and there should also be more leisure space.

In city center, there should be more floating parks or bridges to alleviate traffic jams.

In the Industrial Plants area, we could have more energy producing units and use the salvaged water hyacinth to clean the heavy metal in the industrial sewage.

Chongming Islands

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS WATER SOURCE WEISHAN LAKE

CITY CENTER The Shanghai City

The Fire Fighting Truck for Emergency

BLOCK TREATMENT In case there is a very serious situation, we could use the floating hexagon islands queue up in a line, and block the whole huangpu river, preventing the water hyacinth from invading into the city center. Then all the salvager could move to one side, it’s like a dam cleaning all the things come to it. And then ships could carry all the waste to other places.

Police Car for Emergency

UNINFESTED AREA INFESTED AREA

Pudong New District

FARM FIELD RESIDENTIAL AREA

Along the whole Huangpu River, the regional function should be different. In the water source area, there should be more monitoring units.

Farm Field area, there should be the integrated farming units, which will be a supplement to the original eco system, decrease the use of chemical fertilizer.

East Sea

This could would also help when emergency or disaster happens. For example, Airplanes crash into the sea, then this long line could take the responsibility of rescue platform.

The police cars, fire fighting trucks and ambulance could run on this platform which will help a lot if real disaster happens.

i. Temporary Bridge Enclosed space could be used for fish farming or concentrated treatment

ii. Emergency Rescue Platform

EXIT

GROUP TREATMENT Above cases only happens when the situation is really urgent. Because there are also a lot of other ships on the Huangpu river, which means we cannot block the whole river all the time. Therefore, in most cases, the hexagon islands act in groups, normally 3 clusters a group, to move all the water hyacinth into one closed area, concentrating on cleaning them.

EXIT CONCENTRATED SALVAGING AREA

In other times, when water hyacinth was not a threat to Huangpu River, these platforms could serve as the free land for temporary exhibition, big events, and recreation.

ENTRANCE

ii. Emergency Rescue Platform

Nets The Hexagon Monitoring Network

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Lujiazui

SCALE COMPARISON The width of Huangpu River ranges from 300m - 400m, the radius of the hexagon is 16m, so normally around 20 islands could connect from one side of the river to the other side.

Lujiazui The Oriental Pearl Tower

GROUP ACTION The hexagon islands don’t need to cover the whole river area, they could accumulate in clusters and link nets to each other to make the water hyacinth inside the circle.

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MEDIA FLOW [PROJECT INFORMATION] Scale:Architectural Design Status: International Design Ideas Competition for Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point Collabrator:Huski Location:Shenzhen HongKong Time:March 2010 Task: Passenger Terminal Building Design

TANG PAJ SHAN

MASTER PLAN LUO SHA ROAD

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MASTERPLAN

Facade of the terminal

Masterplan of the terminal

SHAN

Flow of Mountain - Tang Paj Shan

SHENZHEN TERMINAL PAK FU SHAN

水 SHUI

Flow of River - Shenzhen River SHENZHEN RIVER

HONG KONG

人 REN

Flow of People - Terminal Building

This site lies just in between two mountains, Tang Paj Shan and Pak Fu Shan , and runs across the ShenZhen river, with nice natural environment. Actually,the flow of the passengers is also like the flow of the river. Therefore, I borrow the elements from the environment to build our form, which perfectly combines the function and the form.

The design concept comes from the study of traditional Chinese characters “water” and transformed it into the masterplan.

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SOUTH FACADE ELEVATION

WEST FACADE ELEVATION

ROOF SYSTEM

4th Floor : ShenZhen Office & Garden

3rd Floor : ShenZhen Office 4th Floor : HongKong Office & Garden 3rd Floor : HongKong Office

PASSING BY

MEET IN ARCHITECTURE

2nd Floor : ShenZhen Check In

2nd Floor : HongKong Check In 1st Floor : ShenZhen Check Out

BRIDGE

COOPERATION This Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point is controled by two governments of ShenZhen and HongKong.It is a bridge to enhance the communication and the cooperation of both sides. In order to achieve this political metaphor, I didn’t set the two Passenger Terminal Buildings apart. Instead, I connected the two buildings together through a bridge, so that it looks like just one building, which implies the high efficiency and good cooperation between the two government of ShenZhen and HongKong.

I borrowed the elements from the nature to merge them into each other, just like two hands closely held with each other.

BRIDGE

1st Floor : HongKong Check Out PUBLIC TRANSPORT Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Flag Bauhinia

CAR PARK

PLATFORM

CAR PARK PUBLIC TRANSPORT

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President Hu Jintao shaking hands with Chief Executive of HKSAR Zeng Yinquan

CIRCULATION PASSENGER

GOODS VEHICLES

Shenzhen to HongKong HongKong to Shenzhen

Shenzhen to HongKong HongKong to Shenzhen

PRIVATE CAR

BUSES

Shenzhen to HongKong HongKong to Shenzhen

HongKong and Shenzhen

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SUNNY MODE

RAINNY MODE

The Facade system and the Roof system are also a part of the environmental systems, which is the composition of the circulation system of the building.

On sunny days, the roof blinds can adjust it’s angle to let the sunshine come in according to the sunlight demands, which could save much energy for lightenning.What’s more, the membrane structure would prevent the ultraviolet radiation.

On rainny days, the roof blinds could also adjust it’s angle to direct the rain into the specific rain collector, recollect and reuse them, which also saves a lot of water resources.

O2 O2

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O2

On the roof level, there’s a large garden, for fresh air exchange.

The trees planted inside the building, is good for the exchange of air and carbon dioxide absorption, and also the ventilation.

O2

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EXPRESS COMMUNITY

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ha total land area R01. land for housing R02. and public building R03. land for road R04. public greenland

Muso Fan

[PROJECT INFORMATION]

8.69ha 55% 2.35ha 14% 5.10ha 31%

Scale:Architectural Design Status: Academic Work Location:Dalian Liaoning Time:Nov 2010 Task: Residential Community Design

"Bright City"theory advocated by the new city planning thought reform,I imagined building high-rise buildings in the city, the modern transportation network and a large green space and creating a sun-drenched modern living environment.

Wow, sounds great! Cobb! What does it look like?

Check this model, Muso.

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sqm enclosed lake

5.10

ha green space

I have another theory called “Broad Acre”. Each single-family home is surrounded by an acre of land, producing food for own consumption beween the super-highway,public facilities along the road layout, gas stations located in the commercial services for the entire region center.

This is also great! What about combine these two, to make a “Bright Acre”? Therefore, it has the advantages from both sides?

All the road for the car is under the ground, there is no specific gate for the pedestrian, we could walk into this big park as we like.

It could be better in this way, I think.

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sqm total building area residential housing 247953sqm 94.1% public utilities 15467sqm 5.9%

Me too. Good job! Muso!

Thanks! Masters!

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zhai

宅 Community Express The fastest way to connect the whole community. Every building has one station to carry passengers to different areas.

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Nowadays more and more people prefer staying at home logging on the internet instead of going out, which leads to the arise of a new group called “Zhai”group. Owing to this, in our design we intend to provide much more convinience to the public communication.

In our design the people are closely connected together, so it prevents the arise of the “Zhai” group to some extend, and let the social activities more convinient and interesting.

PUBLIC FACILITIES PUBLIC FACILITIES

FAMILY A

Health Platform FAMILY B

The platform in the middle is a low speed park for the public.

People could walk or ride bicycles, and enjoy the happy time there.

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FAMILY A FAMILY B

THE GROUND

In the past, we can not get rid of the limits of the ground. If Family A wants to meet Family B or go to some public facilities, we should get downstairs and upstairs again and again, which will reduce the interest of the people to join into public activies.

Now we connect all the single buildings to form a large one, which enables the horizontal movement to get rid of the limits of the ground. It’s closer and much more convinient, which will benefit the residents and enhance the communication.

Underground Parking

“make to ends meet”

Cars are not allowed above ground.There are huge parking spaces underground. Only if people go out of community they use car.

ONE LONG THIN BUILDING FROM SIX SINGLE ONE

MEET TWO ENDS TO FORM A CONTINOUS ONE

SECTION SPACE ANALYSIS

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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘Happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

-John Lennon

REFLECTION

The world is a reflection of yourself

SUPPLEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHY DRAWINGS MUSIC RESUME

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IMPRESSION

Xi’an Gulou Xi’an,Shanxi Province, P.R.Chnia

SYMPHONY

Four Seasons Hotel Macau Macau, P.R.China

IMPROVISATION

2009 MIDI Music Festival Beijing, P.R.China

PHOTOGRAPHY

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DRAWINGS

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[RESUME]

FAN ZHE muso f a n BIRTH DATE EMAIL ADDRESS

December 12,1988 muso.fan@gmail.com 22/F Ciro’s Plaza Tower No.388 West Nanjing Rd Shanghai 200003

[EDUCATION] Sep 2007- July 2012

Jun 2009 - Mar 2010 Sep 2009 - Oct 2010 Aug 2011 - Dec 2011 May 2013 - Jul 2013 Jul 2014 Aug 2012 - Now Jul 2014 - Now

Dalian University of Technology

Bachelor of Architecture, School of Architcture and Fine Art GPA 3.64/4, 85.1/100 Overall Ranking 3/61

Aug Aug Oct Jun

[PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE]

2007-2008 2008-2009

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, Dalian,China - Architectural Assistant YS GROUNDWORK, Dalian/HongKong,China - Architectural Assistant NBBJ, Shanghai,China - Architectural Intern ARCHIPLEIN, Shanghai,China - Architect Part-time HPP ARCHITECTS, Shanghai,China - Parametric Design Consultant ATKINS, Shanghai,China - Architect PROHJECT LLC, Philadelphia,PA,USA - Asia Representative

[QUALIFICATION & AFFILIATIONS] May 2014 - Now Oct 2012 - Now Sep 2009 - Now

LEED AP BD+C / USGBC,GBCI Digital Architecture Design Association/Architectural Society of China - Committee Member NCF Parametric Design Association - Partner / Chief Communication Director

[ORGANIZATIONS] Oct 2007 - Jun 2012 Since 2009 Since Oct 2013 Since Nov 2013 Since Mar 2014

[FELLOWSHIP/AWARD]

0dB Music Studio - Music Producer United Nation Volunteer - Registered UN Volunteer iNexus.co - Co-Editor GeekPark.net - Product Reviewer

McKinsey & Company. Inc - Executive Panel Member

2009 2010 2010 2013

2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 Nov Dec Jan Jun July Oct Jun Jun Oct

2008 2008 2010 2010 2010 2010 2011 2012 2014

Aug 2009 Aug 2010 Feb 2010

Other Awards\ British Lloyd's Register of Shipping - Dalian Three School Union Ship Model Competition 2nd Prize The "Fenglan Cup" Art Festival 3rd Team Prize DUT Youth Literary Arts Award 2nd Prize The Third "Youth of China" Dalian Original Music Songwriter Awards, Top Ten Best Original Songs The "Boke Cup" Webpage Design Competition 2nd Prize, Inventor Design Competition 2nd Prize The Fifth Dalian City University Union Original Music Awards, 2nd Prize The Fourth "Youth of China" Dalian Original Music Songwriter Awards, Top Ten Best Original Songs 21 Century China Campus Music Awards, Best Original Music - China Conservatory of Music Perrier bottled water theme Song Music Contest, 1st Prize Publication\ Selected work of the 2009 Revit Cup National Design Competition of Architecture Students Selected work of the 2010 Revit Cup National Design Competition of Architecture Students Algorithmic Modelling with Grasshopper by Mohamad Khabazi - Official Chinese Version Translation

VIDEO AUDIO

Modelling: Rhino, Sketchup, AutoCAD, Maya, Sculptris, Blender, Autodesk Tsplines, City Engine BIM: Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD, VisualARQ for Rhino Graphic Design: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Flash Rendering: Artlantis Stuido, Keyshot, Vray Web: Wordpress, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Muse Script: Grasshopper, VB, Python, VisualFoxPro(National Computer Rank Examination Certificate Grade 2) Interactive:Arduino,Processing, PureData, OpenFramework Simulation: Autodesk Vasari, Ecotect, Rhino Diva Physical Model Skill: Hotwire Foam Cutter, Lazer Cut Video & Animation: Adobe Premier, Aftereffects, Final Cut, Sony Vegas, Lumion Aduio: Logic Pro, Nuendo, FL Studio, Garage Band, Adobe Audition

LANGUAGE INSTRUMENTS

Mandarin - Native | French - Beginner | English - Proficient (GRE 315 TOFEL 99, IELTS 7) Guitar, Ukulele, Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Drum Kits, Harmonica

MODELLING GRAPHIC

NCF Shanghai Members Conference - Organizer, Lecturer 0dB Music Stuido Original Music Concert - Organizer, Performer MaD(Make a Difference) 2011 Annual Conference - Representative of PRC(PRC Subsidy Scheme) The 7th Shanghai Architects Forum/Archina - Lecturer MaD(Make a Difference) 2012 Annual Conference - Representative of PRC(PRC Subsidy Scheme) NCF Parametric Design Training - Teaching Assistant NCF Shanghai Digital Design Public Salon - Organizer, Lecturer DADA 2013 "Digital Infiltration" International Conference on Digital Architecture- Committee Member "TechCrunch" International City Event - Media Journalist, on behalf of Geekpark.net

Academic Excellence Scholarship\ Academic Excellence Scholarship Merit Student of the year, Qubochuan Education Funds Scholarship, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Spiritual Advanced Scholarship,Technology Innovation Scholarship Merit Student of the year, Sumitomo Chemicals Scholarship, Academic Excellence Scholarship, Spiritual Advanced Scholarship,Cultural and Sports Activities Advanced Scholarship Academic Excellence Scholarship Outstanding Graduate of Dalian University of Technology

[SKILLS]

[ACTIVITIES] Jun 17, 2010 May 22, 2010 Jan 2011 Aug 28, 2011 Jan 2012 April 28 - May 3,2012 Aug 4, 2012 Sep 28, 2013 Nov 19, 2013

Competition Awards\ 2009 Revit Cup National Design Competition of Architecture Students, excellence award 2010 Revit Cup National Design Competition of Architecture Students, excellence award “Autodesk REVIT” Call for Outstanding REVIT project, excellence award "Smart Harbour" International Young Architects Design Competition, Finalists

SCRIPT&CODING INTERACTIVE

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Acknowledgements

I would love to express my gratitude to my father, mother, my recommender Jonas Hauptman, Lea Xu, Prof. Lu Wei, for their kind instruction and supervision in different peirod of my life, and life long devotion to the construction of human being’s soul and physical built enviroment, which inspires and motivates me to do the same.

Special thanks to Shaoliang Hua, Quyet, Ye Liu, Jiayuan Liu and Huski, as my best friend in Architecture, for your long time cooperation and valuable criticism.

Sincerely yours, Muso Fan Zhe December 31, 2014

HongKong Boundary Crossing Facilities International Design Ideas Competition Entry Study Model

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