CHEN MUZHI Portfolio of Selected Works 2014-2018
CONTENTS
Main Works
01 HUTONG RENOVATIN
PRESERVATION AND URBAN REVIVAL Individual Project Feburary 2018, in Beijing, China
02 RUSTIC LUXURY
LIFE IN THE WILD Individual Project August 2018, Yimeng Mountain, Shandong Province, China
03 FUTIAN CAMPUS
HIGH DESITY CAMPUS PLANNING Collaborated Project with reMIX studio May 2018, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China
04 SHENSHANYAN RESORT RURAL PLANNING
Collaborated Project with reMIX studio November 2017, Kelan County, Yizhou City, Shanxi Province, China
05 DISASTER RELIEF CAPSULE AND MATERIAL
Individula Academic Project Year 3, Project 1, 2013, in the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Other Works
06 MAPPING OF CENSUS DATA DATA VISUALIZATION
Extract from Individual Research Project December 2017, Research about Immigration on Manhattan Island
07 BANSHANG RENOVATION HUTONG RENOVATION IN PRACTICE
Project Architect of the Built Project with reMIX studio December 2018, Beijing China
legend existing hutong area renovated hutong area 500m area
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XISI Station
FUCHENGMEN Station
Financial Street
01 HUTONG RENOVATION
LINGJING HUTONG Station
PRESERVATION AND URBAN REVIVAL
Individual Project Feburary, 2018, in Beijing, China
XIDAN Shopping Street FUXINGMEN Station
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CHANGCHUNJIE Station
TIANANMEN WEST Station
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XIDAN Station
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The first project was a respond to this new policy. It looked for minimal but effective architectural intervention to adapt the traditional building form to modern use under the current political constrains. During the research of this project, the current preservation methods in some government-initiated projects are challenged for only borrowing symbols from the old and reinvented a themed park of neither the old nor the present. In contrast, this design aimed to preserve the spatial quality and courtyard experience which are unique in the traditional courtyard.
ZHONGNANHAI (Central Government of China)
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In the beginning of 2017, there was a new policy of “banning openings or windows at the street front” to hutong houses (traditional courtyard residence which usually have openings towards the inner courtyard rather than the street), advocating to preserve the traditional value of the local community. Some existing and even newly refurbished shops were forced to close or redecorate. However, these scattered small businesses are essential to the life of local residence. Some of the shops continue to run by asking the customers to climb windows to enters.
SITE
XUANWUMEN Station
HEPINGMEN Station
location of the traditional hutong houses around the site The project is located in the traditional “hutong” (alleys formed by lines of traditional courtyard residences) area of the central Beijing. Many of the houses were erased or adapted to modern usage throughout the history while the hutong culture was still a distinct feature to this area. In the recent government campaign of preserving traditional value, intervention methods are reassessed.
Beijing Hutong Renovation Typology Study Organization
Courtyard
Structure
Form
Material
Function
Inward-looking
Layered with multiple courtyards
Wood Structure
Linear Space with Double Pitched Roof
Brick+Tile+Wood
Family Residence
Government Initiated Renovation
Current Renovation Policy
Typical Layout of courtyard residence in hutong
Qian Men Shopping Street discarded
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borrowing material and elements
Private Initiated Renovation
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Admin Office 1 40
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Large Accountants' Meeting Room Office
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Reception
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Open Office 200
Reception
Private Small Meeting Room 25
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Admin Office 1 40
Large Meeting Room
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The hutong area traditionally functions as family residence. As the commercial demand grows, it also attracted some small business for the unique cultural and spatial experience. The existence of those business has become an essential part of life of the local residents. Since those commercial entities are privately funded, most traditional feature of the houses were preserved and only essential Public Private Private interventions are applied due to limited capital. These interventions Requirement of Privacy Small Small Public Program Others Reception Open Office Cafe Open Office Admin Office 1 Adminreinforcing Office 1 usually include structure, refurbishing shopfront and Private Meeting Room Meeting Room Requirement 30 200 50 75 25 renovation 25 of Privacy 40 50 200 50 25 25 40 50 50 facade and interior to sqm interior I suppose attitude is the most Small Large Large Accountants' Accountants' space. Admin Office 2 Admin Office 2the this renovation Meeting Meeting Room Office function Office adapt to the new Program OthersRoom Cafe Reception Open Office Admin Office 1 Meeting Room suitable dealing with the subject. 30 50 75 200 25 25 40 50 50 Private
Reception Open OfficeOpen Office
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Large Accountants' Admin Office 2 Expanding Property at the Cost of Spatial Quality Large Accountants' Admin Office 2
Adapting the Tradition to Modern Needs
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Small Admin Office 1 Meeting Room sqm Meeting Room 30 Admin Office 150 25 25
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Meeting Room belonging to Office properties The traditional courtyard houses are private Public one family. However, because of the cultural revolution and populaRequirement of Privacy tion explosion in the history, the courtyard houses were forced to be shared and redistributed to many unrelated However, the Programfamilies. Others Cafe old houses could not satisfy the modern lifestyle and family expan30 50 sqm sion. The residents built their own extensions in the shared courtyard which was supposed to be the feature and providing essential light and ventilation, making most of the traditional hutong area a chaos state.
negotiated to occupy different parts of the courtyard
Small Meeting Room
Admin Office 2
1900
Reception Reception
1949 Program Small
Reception
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Office
Office Admin OfficeOpen 1
Large Accountants' Meeting Room Office
Cafe Reception Others Reception Cafe
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existing hutong houses
Others Program Cafe
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extentions of different families
Requirement of Privacy
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Renovated Comercial Spaces in the Hutong Area
reinventing the “modern version� of hutong houses
Small Small Small OpenMeeting Office Room Admin Office Admin 1 Room Office 1 Admin Office 1 Meeting Room Meeting
Reception Open OfficeOpen Office
2014
+ busiest commercial area until Qing Qian Men Street was one of the Dynasty. There used to be numerous markets providing goods for the entire city of Beijing. During modern development, it was once wiped out and reconstructed into a tourist attraction with traditional symbols. It is advertised by the government as one of the successful examples of preserving traditional culture, but in fact, the buildings of the shopping streets are all built in recent years, mimicking Public the traditional style. The buildings alsoRequirement lost their original of Privacyresidential function. After all the shops closed at night, the street will turn into a Program Others Cafe ghost street as the photo shows.
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empty lot Public Public Public Requirement Requirement of Privacy of Privacy Requirement of Privacy
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1949
Theme Park of Local Tradition +
imitating the overal form
Residential Extension inside the Courtyard
Business Initiated Renovation
reinvented
Large Accountants' Meeting Room Office
Admin Office 2
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This project site is in the center of traditional hutong area. There are existing volumes which used to be a coal factory on site. Under the recent regulation of preserving traditional hutong houses, only minor interventions respecting the existing envelope were allowed. However, there was no specific guidelines to define the type of interventions. Learning from the existing renovation strategies from the previous page, the design strategy aims to preserve the spatial quality of the traditional courtyard houses by introducing gardens of different features to each important space. It not only provided a rhythmed journey through the space but also introduced opportunities of natural light to the otherwise dark interior space.
Preservation Strategy Organization
Courtyard
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The program asked for an office space with a cafĂŠ serving the staff and running to the public. The total program area exceeds the existing floor plan. Since the regulation restricts the building to grow in all three dimensions, the design utilized the excessive height under the pitched roof to create a mezzanine. The rest of space was arranged according to the needs of privacy in sequence on the ground floor and serves as structural support of the mezzanine.
Program
Form
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Others
Cafe
Reception
Open Office
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Small Meeting Room 25
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Requirement of Privacy
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Public Cafe
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Large Accountants' Meeting Room Office
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Original condition
Largest possible floor area
program area
Inserting program boxes on the ground floor thus breaking the narrow space into sections
mezzanine area
Shifting the building envelope to adjust to the program spaces
garden pockets
Introduce garden space to different functions
Resultant mezzanine space
corridor
Circulation corridor
water landscape parking lot public platform planting landscape
Define garden space with different characters
Final design
30 sqm
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Reception
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Reception Cafe Public Reception
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Small Reception Meeting Room
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Private Public Private Requirement of Privacy Requirement of Privacy Small Small Reception Program Others Cafe Reception Program Cafe Open Office Open Office Open Office Admin OfficeOthers 1 Admin Office 1 Meeting Room Meeting Room Reception Public Public Public Private Private 75 30 50 200 75 25 20040 sqm 50 30 50 25 50 25 40 75 50 50 200 sqm Requirement Requirement of Privacy of Privacy Requirement of Privacy 25 Small Small Admin Office Small Large Large Accountants' Accountants' Admin Office 2 2 Program Program Others Others Program Cafe Cafe Reception Others Reception Cafe Meeting Reception Open OfficeOpen Office OfficeRoom Admin Office Admin 1 Room Office 1 Admin Office 1 Meeting Room Meeting Room Meeting Room Meeting Office Office Open
Admin Office 2
Concept Development floor area
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Small Meeting Private Room
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Admin Office 2
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Large Accountants' Ad Pu Meeting Room Office Requirement of Privacy
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Others 30
Section Series
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1. -5mm Mn-Al coated steel roof panels -100mm insulation -water proof membrane -50mm concrete board -250mm x 150mm x 8mm steel beam -50mm acoustic insulation -plasterboard ceiling 2. -6+10+6+6 glass -60mm x 120mm x8mm T-section steel mullion 3. -10mm carpet floor -10mm steel floor panel -250mm x 150mm x 8mm steel beam -aluminium ceiling side board -50mm acoustic insulation -plasterboard ceiling
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4. -30mm terrazzo floor -concrete leveling -70mm floor heating components -100mm insulation -concrete slab
Mezzanine Floor Plan
Ground Floor Plan
cafe entrance
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1. Cafe 2. Parking 3. Courtyard 1 4. Accountants’ Room 5. Pond 6. Reception 7. Storage
8. Pantry 9. Courtyard 2 10. Courtyard 3 11. Small Meeting Room 12. Waiting Area 13. Management Office 1 14. Archive Room
15. Toilet (Female) 16. Toilet (Male) 17. Toilet 18. Toilet 19. Management Office 2 20. Courtyard 4 21. Waiting Area
22. Large Meeting Room 23. Courtyard 5
24. Open Office Area 25. Huddle Area 26. Archive Area
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5. Garden 1 6 Large Meeting Room 7. Waiting Area 8. Garden 2 9. Admin Office 1 10. Admin Office 2 11. Archive Room 12. Toilet (F) 14. Toilet (M) 15. Garden 3 16. Small Meeting Room (10 people) 17. Waiting Area 18. Garden 4 19. Storage Room 20. Front Desk 21. Entrance Lobby 22 Water Garden 23. Accountants’ Office 24. Garden 5 25. Temporary Parking 26. Cafe
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02 RUSTIC LUXURY LIFE IN THE WILD
Individual Project August 2018, Yimeng Mountain, Shandong Province, China While the design methodology in urban context pursue for efficiency and negotiation with the social conflict, this design encourages a slow-paced lifestyle and solitude in the rural area. This project is part of a series of holiday villas in a mountainous area which aims to embrace landscape as an important experience to the architecture. The nature of the site provided opportunities of developing different spatial quality to interact with the landscape. The design chose to be led by the curation of existing landscape features.
The project is located in an interesting but challenging site in a mountainous area. It has a fantastic view to the alley which is also a famous sunset point to the local community. There is 17-meters height difference between the highest and lowest point of the plot. Contrary to the intuitional strategy of following the contour to design the building, the plot assigned has a elongated shape perpendicular to the contour. In addition, there are two pieces of huge rocks, one in the middle of the lower part of the site, the other next to the highest point of the site, which are neither removable nor suitable to build structure on. Site View scenery from +0.00m
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circulation diagram
private cluster
guest room 3
guest room 4
guest room 1
guest room 2
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public cluster
reception
restaurant
100 sqm
The client is a local resort developer who owns a few pieces of land scattered in close distance to develop a series of holiday houses of different features. This plot is the first plot entering the entire resort. The program asked for two types of spaces with specific area requirements: a reception and a restaurant which served the entire resort, and 4 guest houses. Therefore, as a layout strategy, the programs are divided into two clusters, while the public cluster was placed close to the main road for accessibility while the private cluster was allocated to the highest part of the plot for a complete open scenery and privacy to each room
100 sqm
main access
Design Development Private Cluster
+4.50m +1.50m +3.00m +0.00m +4.50m +1.50m +3.00m
divide the cluster volume into half with main circulation
further divide the volume into four identical shape with 1.5m height difference from each other
part of the platfroms are raised to protect privacy of the guest rooms
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the remaining space forms private courtyards at different levels
refine the space of each guestroom
Public Cluster
reception and restaurant volume rotatedcluster around the rock private
guest room 3 50 sqm
stacking to have one volume above ground and the other buried
guest room 4 50 sqm
one circulation path to divide and connect the volumes
Design the Journey In order to resolve the journey across 17-meters height in a relatively tight distance. The design proposed a detour connecting different program space, providing a rhythmed journey uphill with a variety of spatial experience。
to back alley 1
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Restaurant
The reception is the first volume closest to the main road. The rock in the lower part of the plot is integrated as part of interior landscape to the front desk. The entrance to the space is designed hidden behind the cantilevered wall to allow a neat and mysterious impression to the visitors. As all four walls of the volume are not exposed for direct sunlight, the space is lit up with the skylight, which is also the landscape feature to the level above, and the reflection from the continuous pool underneath the cantilevered entrance wall. The light reflected from the water gives a diffused and interesting lighting environment to the interior.
In contrast to the reception volume, the restaurant has a much open view to 3 sides of the dinning space, each side having unique landscape features. The main terrace in the south utilize the rooftop of the reception volume to form an open landscape friendly to outdoor dinning. The existing rock in the plot also becomes the special feature of the landscape. On the other hands, the back garden has a more protected spatial quality surround by the existing slope. The water fall at the waiting area connects the reflection pool on the roof to the landscape on the ground floor and filters the view to the kitchen area.
Guest Room Section The four guest rooms are gathered in the same cluster uphill for better views to the valley. Each of the room has a similar envelope but unique private balcony/garden. They have a 1.5-meter height difference to each other so that two of them can be stacked to reduce the total footprint while also provide solitude and privacy being the only resident on the height.
Guest Room 2
Guest Room 4
The four guest rooms are oriented to different directions to curate the scenery and protect their privacy. Though gathered in the same cluster, the rest of the rooms are not visible from the interior, to provide an atmosphere of solitude. In guest room 2, the entire west façade and balcony has an open view to the famous sunset point, allowing the residents being able to enjoy the scenery from all parts of the interior.
The guest rooms all have similar interior functions –containing a king-sized bed, jacuzzi, bathrooms and living room. The boundaries of each courtyard are different according to their own conditions. The guest room 4 has the most open view to the south, having a platform for outdoor dining and resting. In addition, it enjoys an extra entrance garden protected by the landscape.
Physical Model 1:200
03 FUTIAN CAMPUS HIGH DENSITY CAMPUS PLANNING
Collaborated Project with reMIX studio May 2018, Shenzhen City, Guangdong Province, China In order to make more space to accommodate the growing number of students, Futian District of Shenzhen City is ushering in a new round of construction of primary and secondary schools. In February 2018, the Futian Authority of Shenzhen Municipal Planning and Land Resources Committee launched an international competition named “8+1 – Futian New Campus Action Plan”, a call to fundamentally rethink the idea of “campus”. The competition invited architects to explore new school typologies that manage to mediate two factors: high-density urban environments and the subtropical climate of Shenzhen. Proposals should address the changing educational system, rethinking what a school is, its norms, and proposing new hybrid typologies in which the function of mediation and sharing between schools and their adjacent communities must be prioritized. Futian School is one of the largest high-schools in Shenzhen, and will host a rising number of students from 2,600 to 3,000, providing all students with accommodation within its original site boundary (41,461 sqm), expanding its gross floor area from 33,656 to 100,000 sqm (the FAR will reach 3.87 — this extreme density is 2-3 times more than any ordinary school typology in China), making Futian School the most challenging case among all 9 school projects involved in the competition.The school site is located in the center of Futian district, facing on its West side the Central Park. In addition to the ultra-high FAR, the site is tightly surrounded by high-rises on the North, East and South sides, making it a complex urban environment.
SITE
Design Development
dormitory
dormitory classrooms
classrooms
main entrance
public entrance
1 Original location of the field
2 Rotate the sports field by 20 degrees to allow more generous entrance space and city interface
3 Lift the sports field and the audience stands to host other sports facilities underneath
Neighbouring Highrises
+100M
4 Orienting the classroom blocks to allow visual penatration from the neighbouring CBD buildings to the central park
5 Sloped roof to adapt to the skyline and form another layer of landscape
6 Elevated circulation loop becomes the alternate gound level to connect blocks of different function
Integrating with the existing urban fabric to form a descending skyline which directs view to the central park.
Teaching Blocks
+40M Exhibition/Sports Center
Central Park
+9M
+0M Central Park
WEST
Futian Road
Campus
EAST
Admin Office Block A Level 7 - 9
Private
Dormitory
Subject Specific Classrooms Block A,C,E Level 6 - 8
Dormitory
Program Allocation The programs are organized according to set levels of privacy. The most public functions that could benefit nearby communities are located in the lower part of the buildings and towards the West side. The west is a permeable infrastructural interface that folds upward and presents a welcoming gesture to the street, challenging the traditional school fence that renders impossible any communication between the school and its surroundings. The large opening of the massive concrete structure of the elevated sports field provides a canopy to the plaza. 60 general classrooms where students stay for more than 50% of everyday time, are granted best solar access and evacuation efficiency, and they are placed all within the first 5 levels to allow students to easily access the open playground. A number of flexible teaching spaces are placed in-between general classrooms and labs, providing buffering zones utilizable by both. These spaces sitting at elevated floors are designed with variable classrooms sizes, and provide areas for a potential future expansion of the school.
Art Studio Block E Level 7
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Common Classrooms
Admin Office
Labs/Studios
Solar Optimization Allocating the common classrooms on the third to fifth level for better solar condition and circulation
Common Classrooms
Flexible Classrooms
Common Classrooms
Subject Specific Classroooms
Block A,C,E Level 3 - 5
Art/Media/ Science Labs
D Clubs
Art/Media/Science Labs Block D Level 3 - 5 and podium
Library
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Canteen
Block B Level 3 - 5 and podium Canteen
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Public facade with sufficient solar condition hours of sunlight on winter solistice
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Canteen Podium B1 - F1
Theatre
Swimming Pool
Main Entrance
Exhibition Center Podium F1 - F2
Sports Court
Other Sports Space
Sports Facilities Podium B1 - F1
+ 29.0 - 47.4m Green Rooftop Roof Garden Perspective (with assisstace from commercial render)
+ 21.0 - 25.0m Elevated Loop
Loop Perspective (with assisstace from commercial render)
+ 5.0-9.0m Lifted Sports Field and Podium
Podium Perspective (with assisstace from commercial render)
Perspective from the Central Park
(with assisstace from commercial render)
04 SHENSHENYAN RESORT RURAL PLANNING
Collaborated Project with reMIX studio Nov 2017, Kelan County, Yizhou City, Shanxi Province, China Shenshanyan is located in the north of Shanxi Province. The total area of intervention is 24.7 hectares. Nested in the Lvliang Mountain, the site includes an east-west oriented valley and an abandoned small village within. There are lush coniferous forests, vast alpine meadows, gurgling streams and organic husbandry. Within the site 12 public facilities and 28 resort villas including courtyard villa, creek villa and forest villa were designed, integrated in a multilayer- ecological masterplan.
Guest Rooms
Cave Restaurant
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Village Renovation Strategy Given the steep and diverse topographic conditions, the water runoff and the distribution of water played a major role in forming how and where to punctually widen the existing streams, with the intent to form and enhance, naturally, various landscape features such as wetland, reservoirs, and waterfalls. The three main water runoff trajectories crossing the existing village are implemented into “ecological green corridors”, besides organizing the existing and the new built fabric, coordinating it with series of interconnected public spaces, the “corridors” work as buffer zone between the newly formed 5 clusters in which the hotel areas are divided.
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The original fabric of the village was systematically documented, modified only when strictly necessary to preserve the original “sense of the place”, a valley atypically left intact, untouched by processes of urbanization and unexploited by intensive harvesting techniques. The vernacular typology of ‘yaodong’ cave house will be restored into public facilities. The village houses are remodeled into 20 courtyard villas with large private garden and panoramic view of the surrounding landscape. Each of the newly formed clusters has a small public square connecting the more private surrounding courtyards. This creates a smooth transition between the public and the private which enhances both privacy and sense of communal belonging.
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Cave Restaurant
Temple Restaurant
Bridge Restaurant
Concert Hall
Observatory
Pool
Forest Villa
SPA
Tea House
Farm
Kids’ Center Reception
Water Villa
Medication Spot
05 DISASTER RELIEF CAPSULE AND MATERIAL
Individual Academic Project Year 3 Project 1, 2013, in the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL A capsule is a micro-space for urban environments and explores material characteristics at human scale. Minimal dwelling typologies were explored that balanced material economies with qualities of inhabitation. This initial design project was principally developed through large-scale models and experimental one-to-one scale prototypes that simultaneously addressed material detail and the ergonomics of capsule design. This project is a response to the East Japan earthquake. The proposed capsule functions as a disaster relief. It is a temporary structure that provides minimum comfortable living space for one person, which employs affordable material to create a disaster relief that is also easily deployable.
Final 1 to 5 model
Plywood is chosen as a material of investigation. It is massively available as an economical building material. It has both the ability to bend and the strength against weight. There are a few techniques often applied to the material such as cold-form lamination, steam lamination and laser-cutting. In order to manipulate its form with fexibility, the techniques are tested in the workshop to experiment and cultivate new ideas that relies upon a tactile understanding of materials as a fundamental part of the design process. A variety of laser pattern is tested to investigate the resultant bending behaviour. The technique is then combined with cold-form lamination to explore more possibilities. distance between the ends force applied before breaking
lasercut pattern with grain direction
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The proposed capsule is catered for one person to provide the minimum space for living. It can be flatpacked to be transported to the site and easily assembled. The design strategy makes use of the flexibility of plywood in order to construct 3D space from flat sheets. The 3D shape of the capsule is derived from investigating the minimum space required to perform proposed activities. CONCEPT MODEL CONCEPT MODEL ONCEPT CONCEPT MODEL MODEL
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The making technique of the capsule envelope is inspired by the tailoring technique. The enclosed space
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Sectional space of minimum living space
side section of the minimum space front section of the minimum space allowing sleeping, sitting and standing of allowing sleeping, sitting and standing of one person in the capsule one person in the capsule
using the two profile lines as the guideline to construct 3D model
computer simulation of the virtual space required for the program
Inspired from the tailoring technique, wrap and pin paper on the foam model to obtain templates, with slashes across the template to allow fitting
translate the virtual space into physical foam model to allow further exploration
MATERIAL TECHNIQUE BENDING MATERIAL TECHNIQUE - --BENDING MATERIAL MATERIAL TECHNIQUE TECHNIQUE - BENDING BENDING 1
Detail Development: MATERIAL TECHNIQUE - BENDING Cold-form lamination Cold-form lamination MATERIAL TECHNIQUE - BENDING Cold-form lamination Cold-form Cold-form lamination lamination
Cold-form lamination
Cold-form lamination
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Steam lamination The shape of each laser-cut template is
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tailored to enclose the desired space. The laster pattern is designed to control the flexibility of the plywood. By cutting perpendicular to the grain, it introduces flexibility along the other axis and thus allowing the material to form a more organic shape.
Since it is impossible to make seams with plywood, the seam area is removed to alow bending along its edges. The seam area is designed to allow a certain amount of movements while installation.
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The teardrop-shape distributes tension evenly along the edge so as to allow smooth bending. (fig.1) The finger-shaped joints give flexibility while installation.(fig. 2)
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The plywood sheets form the basic structure of the disaster relief. It can be provided with another layer of waterproof or windproof fabric envelope to suit different weather. With the laser-cutting digital file, the capsule can be mass-produced nearly entirely by machines therefore keep the manufacturing cost as low as possible. Laser-cutting template
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CHINATOWN’s ranking among the 20 census tracts of manhattan in the selected categories:
5,655 2,000 dollars 2.5% 9,913 24.0 min 5,142
more preferable condition towards immigrants number of foreign born population 1st
GRAMERCY
14,881 2,000 dollars 3.2% 25,413 24.2 min 12,305
5,829 1,858 dollars 2.1% 10,414 29.3 min 4,200
WEST VILLAGE
24,240 mean travel time to work (minutes) 16th
9,947 1,704 dollars 4.5% 19,520 27.9 min 10,038
29.8 min
STUYVESANT TOWN -COOPER VILLAGE
EAST VILLAGE
8,098 1,973 dollars 2.6% 14,046 25.1 min 11,077
number of renter-occupied housing
20th
SOHO -TRIBECA -CIVIC CENTER- LITTLE ITALY 7,333 962 dollars 3.8% 16,693 29.8 min 24,240
16,693 rental vacancy rate
SITE
13,085 703 dollars 2.5% 26,027 33.0 min 23,631
LOWER EAST SIDE
CHINATOWN
15th
3.8% affordability (median rent)
9,597 2000 dollars 7.2% 16,848 25.5 min 12,466
15th
BATTERY PARK CITY- LOWER MANHATTAN
962 dollars affordability (percentage of tenants spending less than 30% of income on rent) 25th
06 MAPPING OF CENSUS DATA DATA VISUALIZATION
Extract from Individual Research Project December 2017, Research about Immigration on Mahattan Island 7,333
07 BANSHANG RENOVATION HUTONG RENOVATION IN PRACTICE
Project Architect of the Built Project with reMIX studio December 2018, Beijing, China Banshang is another hutong renovation project I worked as the project architect built closed to the site of the first project. Our client is a local real-estate company who rented the worn-down courtyard to redecorate and aimed to rent out at a much higher price. Due to the client pursuit and the restriction working in this sensitive context, the design also employed a mild renovation strategy of inserting light volumes of connection spaces between the existing houses to improve the interior circulation and spatial quality.The renovated space functions as a gathering space for VIP guests proving basic facilities of meeting, dinning and working. The project plays with corrugated glass to provide privacy to each sectors of activity without sacrificing the visual openness from the interior. This is the same project featured in the cover.
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