Nanxi Zhao-Portfolio 2016-2023

CONTENT

1 RETURNING TO LIFE

Architectural design of courtyard space

Unit design of vacation hotel

Individual work

2 HISTORY GROW IN FUTURE

Cultural Center Design

Lohas space that inspires urban vitality

Group work

3 COOLABU-DHABI

Urban cooling design

Architectural&landscape design

Individual work

4 SOUL STATION

Library design

Building reconstruction

Individual work

5 LET IT FLOW

Urban renewal design

Community transformation

Individual work

6 OTHER WORK

RETURNING TO LIFE

Architectural Design

2019.03-2019.06

Individual Work

Location:Chengde City,Hebei Province,China

The study found that contemporary China's first- and second-tier cities have widespread problems of "defamiliarization" such as residential segregation and lack of neighbor relations. The design is based on two perspectives of space and society, and researches on spatial composition, scale, boundaries, etc. The purpose is to allow people to escape from the metropolis during the holidays to the surrounding third- and fourth-tier cities to relax. This design takes Beijing Siheyuan as the research object to make the holiday space more neighborhood spirit which have open complex, diversifed integration, and spatial sense of domain, etc.It embodies the signifcance of the function of living, and then proposes new possibilities for the urban future residential living space mode.

The Change of Neighbourhood Relations

With the development of industry, urbanization is an inevitable trend of urban development. From courtyards to unit houses. From frequent contacts to social isolation. From spatial isolation to emotional isolation. The loneliness of contemporary young people has gradually increased.

District Analysis

50 Years Ago

50 Years Ago

Repeated Addition

Historical Relationship Between Chengde and Beijing Data Investigation and Analysis of Chengde City

Since ancient times, Chengde has been a place where ethnic minorities live in concentrated communities in the north, and Beijing, which is adjacent to Chengde, is a metropolis where all ethnic groups merge. Beijing and Chengde have been closely related since ancient times.

Chengde is an important node connecting the Beijing-Tianjin-HebeiLiaoning-Mongolia with the unique location advantage of "one city connecting five provinces". The Mountain Resort and its surrounding temples in Chengde are among China’s top ten scenic spots.

At

Western Jin Dynasty Eastern Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Jin Dynasty The people of all ethnic groups in Chengde and the people of Youyan (now Beijing area) resisted the invasion of the Huns, Wuhuan, Xianbei and other foreign races, and jointly promoted Beijing's economic construction.

With the establishment of the Qianyan and Houyan regimes by Murong Xianbei, Beijing and the Chengde region became one again, and both were ruled by the Murong Tribe.

At this time, the ethnic minorities in the north became stronger and continued to enter the Central Plains. The Chengde area became their rear base for their southward advance; Beijing became their outpost for their southward advance. Both regions became places controlled by ethnic minorities, and the relationship became closer.

this time, the ethnic minorities in the north became stronger and continued to enter the Central Plains. The Chengde area became their rear base for their southward advance; Beijing became their outpost for their southward advance. Both regions became places controlled by ethnic minorities, and the relationship became closer. .

The Spatial Function of the Siheyuan

The Enclosed Relations of Beijing Siheyuan

As it is located in the north, the courtyard buildings are basically laid out in accordance with the north-to-south layout, and the buildings are arranged symmetrically along the north-south longitudinal axis, and each courtyard is independently enclosed. Although the scales of courtyards are diferent, they are all combined with courtyards as the basic unit. The houses on all sides are enclosed into a courtyard. The north house (also called the main house), the south house (also called the inverted house) and the east and west wing houses are enclosed by high walls to form an inward-looking courtyard.

Characteristics of Siheyuan

One of the biggest characteristics of Siheyuan is that there is enclose and disperse. Each room is independent of each other, and closed the door is your own private space. Open is a big family, with a common activity center, connected as a whole.The courtyard is the overall activity center. It is located in the center of the entire courtyard, "so that everyone can get in equally easily, so that everyone feels it is the center of the group."

Privacy Analysis

The investigation found that as the number of people in the space increases, the privacy of the building gradually decreases. The design indirectly increases the number of people by increasing the public space and function of the hotel unit, thereby reducing the "indiference" between the neighborhood.

Double

Farthest from the hotel entrance, best privacy, suitable for couples.

Four-person Hotel Unit

Ten-person Hotel Unit

In the center of the hotel, there are more entertainment facilities around, suitable for holding parent-child activities.

Fourteen-person Hotel Unit

The main building has the widest space, suitable for holiday gatherings with more people.

Twenty-person Hotel Unit

It is far away from the entrance and is more private and suitable for a family of four.

Surrounded by plants, the landscape is beautiful, and there are many outdoor venues, suitable for young people to use for parties.

Close to the main entrance of the hotel, there are drinking bars, restaurants, and parking lots nearby. The transportation is the most convenient, suitable for company group building and other activities.

Community and Privacy

The lane blocks are closely connected with the city streets to the outside, constructing an organic connection system of public, semi-public, semi-private and private spaces, forming a centripetal order from the boundary to the inside. The psychological efects of diferent spatial environments will afect the individual The way of activities in the space has an impact.

Equipment

Let tourists stay away from the noise and pressure of the city, in order to build a real utopia to achieve the purpose of relaxation.

HISTORY GROW IN FUTURE

Architectural Design

2019.07-2019.09

Team Work

Location:Chongqing City, China

With the development of history to today, it is necessary to show traditional culture in a new look. The frst thing to do is how to tell the traditional story in a new way, and to attract new participants and inheritors. Diferent from the media and other ways of understanding information as an observer, building a space so that everyone can be immersed and participate in it in an appropriate way. This way of experience and participation can be more real and easy to remember .

The area under the bridge has narrow roads and inconvenient transportation, so it cannot be reached directly.

Design Logic

The History and Culture of Chongqing Culture——Handicraft Art——Drama Economic Trade Form

With the rapid development of the city, urban expressways and bridges began to be built.

Bamboo Artwork

Bamboo Sichuan Opera

Nuo Opera

Opening of trade ports

Unprecedented prosperity in economy and trade

Xiahao area is gradually becoming lonely.

Close to the Yangzi River to open a trading port

Lohas Space that Inherits Culture

In order to allow people to learn and activity in the building with a positive attitude, and to increase the opportunities for people to meet , listen , learn , and activity in the design, they constitute other forms or further communication backgrounds and starting points, so we gather here It is the prerequisite of all will. Only by gathering here frst can we provide opportunities to make people feel happy.

Stairs of History

Here represents the inheritance of culture and the progress of civilization.

Plants can grow only when they have roots, and mature fruits will let the seeds drift away with the wind with their own memories.

It is impossible for a building without culture as its foundation to exist for a long time. Even if a building with culture as its foundation is destroyed by irresistible factors, its charm will not disappear.

People review the local history and culture by listening to Sichuan Opera and Nuo Opera.

People of different ages and beliefs exchange history in the courtyard and inherit civilization.

Inheritance Space

The cultural halls for different activities are distributed in every corner of the building complex, which symbolizes that the inheritance of culture should be spread in all aspects.

As the main entrance of the building, people meet here.

Growth of History

People solidify the foundation of history through exchanges and learning of history and culture, so that culture can be better inherited.

Open-air Theatre

Entrance Square

Courtyard of Growth

of Protophytes

Bamboo shoot-shaped Memorial hall, where the growth of architectural space to continue its regional culture.

Culture sleeps in this land

Meditation and Prayer

Continuous spiral ties symbolize the cintinuous history of the region.

Spiral and circular have growth and enhancement images, while straight lines have a strong sense of direction, thus creating a growing architectural space experience.

Just like the leaves of a plant, it will fall of automatically when it is not suitable to protect itself, and grow again when it is suitable. Therefore, these spaces, like leaves, are the external manifestations of the whole essence. The more the number, the more active the whole building. It will grow more and more with the growth of architecture and culture.

1.Initial 2.New Culture Entry

3.New Building Functions Increased

4.Symbiosis of Architecture and Culture

Courtyard of Growth

Starting Point of Growth History of Growth

Entrance Square

COOL ABU-DHABI

Architectural Design 2020.March-2020.May

Individual Work

Location:Abu Dhabi, UAE

Design Specifcation

Outdoor thermal comfort conditions infuence several choices that inhabitants make every single day — to walk to a local shop, take public transit, cycle, eat outside at a restaurant, talk with colleagues, friends, and neighbors or simply go to a park. One of the critical issues in designing outdoor spaces is considering human thermal comfort.Making people more comfortable allows them to enjoy and spend more time in outdoor spaces and be a part of a thriving city. Improved thermal comfort in public spaces not only results in less time spent indoors and consequently, reduced energy consumption but also valuable outcomes emerge such as wellness, enjoyment,and safety. It helps develop a sense of belonging, an identity for the design and increases peoples’ level of satisfaction.

For an extreme climate such as Abu Dhabi’s, the harsh conditions felt across signifcant months of the year certainly reduce the feasibility of such external activities taking place. It restricts peoples’ choices and impacts subsequent health outcomes.

Abu Dhabi Historical Background

The city of Abu Dhabi is generally located on a T-shaped natural island wedged from the center of the west coast into the Persian Gulf. In 1968, a series of important infrastructure facilities including government public buildings, airports, desalination plants and power plants were put into construction. The rapid development of these cities has also accelerated the heat island efect in Abu Dhabi, leading to a series of problems that threaten the health of residents.

Heat Island Efect Prevention Measures

Urban heat islands can afect the structure and function of the ecosystem by afecting the environmental conditions of vegetation growth, thereby affecting the urban atmospheric environment, hydrology, soil, biological habits and the health of urban residents. As an important part of the underlying surface of the city, the ecosystem based on vegetation and water bodies affects urban temperature and moisture through vegetation growth and the evapotranspiration of soil, vegetation and open water bodies.

Site Analysis

Due to the Urban Heat Island Efect, the city center of Abu Dhabi is estimated to be several degrees Celsius warmer than the surrounding natural environment. Solar absorption and re-radiation from the surrounding context, including swaths of asphalt parking, existing surface materials, the heat released by automobiles as well as the anthropogenic heat released by cooling the buildings, and lack of air movement result in felt temperatures being much higher than the prevalent air temperature.

Duplicable——Modular

The modular design makes the building reproducible. It can be applied to a variety of venues.

Internal Space Analysis

The modules are further processed spatially to make traffic smoother and better connect various areas.

The Benefts of Modularity

1.Removable

2.Easy to make and process

3.Easy to transport

4 Easy to place

5.Convenient for mass production

Module Split

Each group of modules is composed of three functional blocks They are square area, pool area, vegetation coverage area The purpose is to better organically combine architecture and landscape.

Cool——Introduce Sea Water

Utilize the large specific heat capacity of sea water to cool the environment.

Embrace and Pressure

Extaction of Seawater

Water Wall

Pattern/Skin

Water Circulation Device

The introduced seawater is stored in the water tank at the bottom of the building, and the water supply and return pipes are used to form a water circulation system to achieve a better cooling efect inside the building.

Cooling Device

Water supply Return water

Overall Efect Demonstration

The sea water fows into the interior of the building in the direction of the arrow, is pumped to the top by the water pump, and then fows down the outer wall and is discharged.

Reservoir and Fishpond

Ventilate Seawater-cooling

Cooling Perimeter

Cooling and Dehumidifcation

The water wall cools the moisture in the air and turns it into water drops,At the same time, fresh water collected will be used to irrigate plants.

SOUL STATION

Architectural Design

2018.09-2018.10

Individual Work

Location:Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China

A person's life is actually a life of continuous learning. No matter how old you are, the pace of learning will never stop.

According to the preliminary investigation, there are many schools in the surrounding area, which lack public places for students to learn and relax. Therefore, the design set up a comprehensive library here for the elderly, children, and students to communicate and learn.People read and study here to achieve the purpose of purifying the soul.

Problem Solution

NO.1

The old people who always stay in the park need a place for indoor activities.

NO.2

Mapping

The site of this design is the Taiping Cultural Palace in Daowai District, Harbin. The cultural palace on the base has been abandoned for at least seventy years. The building is marked "Dangerous building, please do not approach". The trafc here is well developed. There is a bus station to the north of the base, a park to the southeast and schools all around.

College students lack an of-campus leisure spot.

NO.3

Middle school students lack an of-campus study room.

NO.4

Children lack an indoor activity space.

NO.5

The adjacent public security case handling center is still temporary housing.

Main Problem

There are many schools around the site, but there is a lack of bookstores. There is only a small bookstore in a remote area nearby, and the community can only ofer people to buy books, and there is no space for people to read books.

If you don't want to waste your life, you must study for a lifetime. People of all ages, occupations, and identities need to study.

not been used for more than 70 years, and it is marked "Dangerous Buildings, Please Do Not Approach".

Deciding the main function of the "interactive space" is a bookstore where people can read books.

Set up a rest area for the elderly

Set up drink bar

Set up study room

Set up children's activity center

Set up a public security ofce

The Harbin Taiping Cultural Palace has

West of Cultural Palace

People often pass by the bus station next to them, but they don't stop here. It caused a waste of land.

Existing illegal buildings occupy sidewalks, which hinder people from walking.

Determine the "L" shape of the building according to the surrounding city texture, and determine the main volume in the middle

Detailed division of each functional block.

Create a stepped form that gradually increases from the park direction.

Place a stepped activity space. Set as glass material to meet viewing needs.

Each space determines the relationship between virtual and reality according to needs, enlarges the viewing area, and satisfies the line of sight communication.

Open skylights on the top to diffuse light to meet indoor lighting needs.

According to actual needs, adjust the ladder activity space to extend outside.

Keep the original European style of architecture. The finish adopts Doric cylinder groove.

Human Interaction Through Space Human Interaction Through Book Book Exchange

By registering the old books that have been read at home, people can exchange reading with other people's books.

Public activity area

Volume Generation Streamline

The steps for people to rest are also book storage places. In addition to entertainment, people staying in the public area can read by themselves.

Go through the entrance under the public activity area to the south. People can walk directly through the building to the side of the bus station instead of detouring to the park gate.

Transparent

All areas can lead to outdoor venues and get close contact with ancient trees.

Human Interaction Through Sight

Separate office staff from outsiders.

The sight of people at the entrance.

The sight of people in the restaurant.

Analysis of the line of sight of people in the study room.

Sight connection between the inside and outside of the building.

Analysis of the sight line of children's activity room and its surroundings.

1. Toilet

2. Public Security Ofce

3. Ofce

4. Foyer

5. Front desk and ofce

6. Stairwell

7. Beverage making room

8. Bar

9. Study room

10. Book shelf placement area

11. Book replacement point

12. Reading area

13. Children's toy sales ofce

14. Children's playroom

15. Public activity area

Concept

According to the economic situation of the surrounding people, we want to build a public building-it can provide the necessary service functions for the people here. It can make people living around live more comfortable and energetic, connect diferent people around, and generate communication and interaction.

South Elevation West Elevation

LET IT FLOW

STUDIO C URBAN LAB

MA ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM 2022-23

Name: Nanxi ZHAO

Year: 2023

Location: Shanghai, China, along the suzhou creek

Instructor: Dhruv Sookhoo, Chris Wong

Category: Individual Project

This urban laboratory raises the attempt of increasing access to water in some of central Shanghai’s most marginalised communities. We will look at one of these partially ‘informal’ areas locating in central Shanghai, along the renown Suzhou Creek. In the focused communities, the residing ageing population and migrants are long challenged by limited access to critical infrastructures (water and sanitation in particular) and high population density

INTRODUCTION

The project site is located along Suzhou Creek, one of the mother rivers of Shanghai. Urban waterfront areas are often the gathering zone for multiple functions of the city. On the one hand, the earlier riverfront waterfront space is not open enough and is occupied by enterprises, municipal road facilities, etc., and there is a split between landscape, space and function. On the other hand, the urban fabric is cluttered with centuries-old preserved buildings, and the planning scale has long since become inappropriate for today's modern city with its huge population. As a result, there are problems such as congested roads, parking difficulties, enclosed residential spaces, lack of public spaces and green spaces. However, whether to preserve or to utilise historic buildings, or to find a balance between the two, has been the focus of debate.

With the development of the times, more attention has been paid to the preservation of historic buildings, and there is a clear lack of development and utilisation. The purpose of the existence of buildings is to use and revitalise them, and they should not be shelved like antiques and jewellery. For example, the conservation and utilisation of Shikumen Lilong buildings should optimise and adjust their spatial and functional layout to improve their adaptability and sense of experience, rather than just "repairing the old as the old", otherwise it will be difficult to genuinely improve the living environment of the residents.

SITE LOCATION

Shanghai

SITE GNAUH P U RIVER SUZHOU CREEK

Before: Yanqingli Warehouse

The selected site area is located in Huangpu District, Shanghai. It is bordered by Suzhou Creek and South Suzhou Road in the north, Middle Xizang Road in the west and Xiamen Road in the south. The nature of the site is mainly commercial, cultural and development land, with a large residential population and great potential for commercial and cultural development. The site also has a large historical and cultural value, with a large number of historically protected buildings.

Built: 1929

Type: British Warehouse

Honour: The 5th batch of Shanghai's outstanding historical buildings in 2015.

Rebuilt: 2017

Type: Fashion Shopping Centre

Honour: Yanqingli will become a new landmark gathering elements of Shanghai's fashion industry.

1

Now: Bailian Group Fashion Centre Yanqingli

Before: British Tap Fire Gas Storage Tanks

Expansion: 1900

Type: Gas company

Functionality: The supply point of gas for more than 2 million households in the central area of Shanghai.

Now: Meixin Mansion in the shape of a gas tank south of the Xizang Road bridge. 2

Rebuild: 1980

Type: Gas company (National enterprise)

Organisation: Shanghai Gas Meter and Apparatus Company Limited and Shanghai Gas Company

Built: 1868

Before: British High Court in China

Yanqingli Community 4

Built: 1930 Building Structure: Reinforced Concrete, Brick and Mixed Structure Total number of households: 61

Property type: Commercial, Right of use, Public rental housing Property Age: 70 years

1:500

The original blue brick facade is covered with paint (which is partially peeling off) and is infested with vegetation.

A large number of brackets are attached to the facade and a large number of electrical wires are attached.

The doors and windows on the first floor are all closed, and some of the original red wooden windows on the second floor have been replaced with white aluminum windows.

The water-brushed stone footings, door and window casings show partial wear and tear.

3

Type: Prison

Purpose: Detention of foreign prisoners

Functionality:

The structure is made of brick and timber, the outer walls of which are made of clear water, and there are 72 prison cells, as well as two punitive dark rooms, namely, the dungeon and the water cell.

Now: Shanghai Urban Drainage Management Office

Reuse: 1935

Type: Government

Reason: With the increase in the number of prisoners, the Bureau of Public Works built a more spacious and advanced "Tilanqiao Prison" near Changyang Road in Hongkou, which gradually lost its "function" and became the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Public Works' Road Works Department (now the Shanghai Urban Drainage Management Department).

Blue Brick Red Wood White AluminumBrushstone Yellowish Paint Asphalt

Planning and Development Context

A large amount of industrial wastewater

Shipping sewage

A large amount of sanitary sewage

A small amount of sanitary sewage

Sediment pollution

Sediment pollution

A small amount of sewage

A small amount of agricultural wastewater

Agricultural wastewater

Floating garbage

Floating garbage

Rain sewage overflow

Floating garbage

Rain sewage overflow

Sediment pollution

Rain sewage overflow

Eco-sustainability

-1903

Suzhou Creek is the main spilway of Taihu Lake as well as the channel of Suzhou region

Good water quality

It has clean water and groups of fish and shrimp

1920-1978

The birth of national industry From began to appear malodorous black to all contamination

To bad V class water quality gradually

The river releases hydrogen sulfide with bad smell

1988-1999

Factory relocation and transform to economic center city

Began the first phase of Suzhou Creek sewage remediation construction

V class water quality upstream, bad V class water quality of downstream

Each pollutant index change is obvious

2000-2008

Began the second ad the third phase of the remediation Control pollution and implement dredging sediem

To V class water quality gradually

Each pollutant index change is very small and decreases gradually

2009-2016

Continue to control pollution and the construction of Suzhou Creek's ecosystem Five reservoirs have veen constructed Plan to construct deep engineering

Mainly V class water quality

In 2011, the water quality achieves IV class

2017-2035

In 2035, Shanghai will be a global city of excellence, a city of innovation, a city of humanity and a city of ecology.

All are class V water

Water quality issues are fully addressed. The Suzhou River is reopened to boats.

Responding to Global Climate Change

· Promoting green and low-carbon development

· Coping with sea level rise

· Mitigating extreme climate impacts and urban heat island effect

Enhancing ecological quality across the board

· Building four ecological regions

· Improving the city's ecological corridor

· Building a system of urban and rural parks

· Improving ecological protection mechanisms

Significantly improve the quality of the environment

· Strengthening marine environmental protection

· Improving the atmospheric environment

· Improving the quality of the water environment

· Strengthen soil environmental protection and pollution control

· Promoting comprehensive solid waste management

Improve urban safety and security

· Ensuring urban energy supply

· Ensuring the safety of water supply

· Building an urban disaster prevention and mitigation system

· Safeguarding the safe operation of the city

RELEVANT POLICIES

Strengthen ecological environmental protection

Enhance the awareness that green water and green mountains are golden mountains and adhere to the basic state policy of conserving resources and protecting the environment. Strengthen the comprehensive management of the urban environment, intensify the treatment of air, water and soil pollution, and meet the various environmental protection targets proposed in the Master Plan by the deadline. Delineate the scope of protection of the city's blue line, protect and improve the natural form of water areas, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of water resources use, and build a water-saving city. Implement low-impact development models, promote the construction of sponge cities and actively develop green buildings . Strengthen greening and beautification, and delineate the scope of green line protection for the city's green space system.

Create an excellent living environment

Steadily promote organic urban renewal, carry out urban repair and ecological restoration, and improve the city's carrying capacity, inclusiveness and livability

Shape the characteristic style of the city

The city will be well designed to protect the natural landscape pattern and urban fabric, and to strengthen the planning guidance and control of building height, volume and style in important locations, so as to highlight the organic blend of nature, tradition and modernity , and the complementary characteristics of eastern and western cultures.

Environmental Status

City's green space system

Construction of urban and rural park systems

Improve the urban and rural park system consisting of national parks, country parks (regional parks), city parks, regional parks and community parks. The system of urban and rural parks has been improved.

Historical Layout of City 21st Century Polycentric City

Historical Layout of Landscaping and Public Spaces

21st Century Layout of Landscaping and Public Spaces

Traffic in the City People = City

CULTURE CONTEXT

Shanghai Traditional Houses Culture

Lilong, a neighbourhood of alleyways filled with dwellings that existed from its founding in 1842 until roughly 1949, corresponding with the presence of the West in this port city, is known by the vernacular name "longtang."

Five varieties have developed from them:

1) the old shikumen longtangs

2) the new shikumen longtangs

3) the new-type longtangs

4) the garden longtangs

5) the apartment longtangs

Multi-generational Living Lane-house Communal Living

Just as fascinating is learning about the historical demographic makeup of lilongs. These residential buildings were frequently owned by a single landowner in the early 20th century, who would rent out smaller rooms to immigrants sometimes and house a multigenerational family. All private property was confiscated by the central government and distributed to families in accordance with their "political labels" after the Communist Party won control in 1949 . Four or five of them with personal capitalist backgrounds were placed in a small space. Tens of people were compelled to live next to one another, sharing services and utilities while keeping a relentless eye on who was responsible for what. This resulted in overcrowding.

A cross-section view of an unmodified individual unit in No. 111 Alliance Lane in the 1940s.

A cross-section view of No. 111 Alliance lane around the 1960s. In contrast to the unmodified unit in 1940s, five families lived in different rooms of the house from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s.

SOCIAL ANALYSIS CROWD DEMAND

Wide age range and more serious hollowing out.

The study community is ageing and hollowing out, with young adults reluctant to return to the community and a lack of vitality in the community in general.

I feel that there is not much to do on weekdays, and it is so crowded on market days that I can't get in every time.

I don't want to work in a restaurant anymore, but I want to contribute to my home. I hope there are jobs that young people like.

Higher number of retirees. Simple group composition.

The study community is predominantly made up of retirees and working people, with a high number of students and some unemployed people remaining.

I would like to have a place to play with my friends, and I would like to know what the old town is like, which my parents have been talking about.

I hope that there will be more activities for the elderly, especially when the market is not in session, it is so boring.

The resident population is predominant and the foreign population is small.

The community is dominated by a resident population, with a tidal wave of foreigners, and strong intra-community ties.

On non-market days, only my neighbours visit me, but I wish there were as many shoppers on market days as there are on weekdays.

It would be nice to work in a less crowded environment, and it would be nice to take a walk after work.

DEVELOPMENT MODEL

According to Ruan Yisan, director of the National Historic Cities Research Centre at Tongji University, there were 9,000 shikumen-style structures in Shanghai at the height of their vogue in the 1930s, making up 60% of the whole housing stock of the city. Sadly, more than three-quarters of the shikumen homes in the city have subsequently been destroyed. Many Shanghainese families had been eager to relocate to newer and more spacious residential dwellings, especially during the housing reform period in the 1990s, as they felt burdened by overpopulation and deteriorating infrastructure. Older citizens have a harder time leaving lilong life behind because they are used to the intimacy and amenities of their neighbourhoods.

STATUS ANALYSIS

Rich material and spatial elements inside the base

With the development of history, the base has left a large number of elements that can be utilised, including the Xilao Prison, traditional Shanghai houses, etc., which are both reusable and cultural in nature.

Old City Cultural Heritage and Innovation for Value Enhancement

The Old City Centre has a mature urban land and social base, as well as rich cultural resources, which have the potential for innovative development.

CULTURE

Integration of Shanghai-style culture and residents' life

As traditional residential buildings in Shanghai, Longtang have a long history and carry many stories and childhood memories of old Shanghai, which is also the most attractive feature for tourists.

Long-established social relations and human emotions

The residents are mainly middle-aged and old people, who have lived here for a long time and formed mature and stable social relations and human emotions.

CORE DEVELOPMENT ORIENTATION

Strengthening residents' sense of belonging

Two Keys

Strengthening residents' sense of responsibility

Make use of the characteristics of local residents' selfconstruction, plan and guide them, and maintain the original "social network" and "social community" relationship to enhance the "vitality" of the cultural society and industry in the area. To demonstrate the charm and vitality of the historic districts.

DEVELOPING

Road Analysis

Primary Road

Secondary Road

Bridge Analysis

Primary Road

Secondary Road

Original Bridge

Original Bridge

Additional Bridge

Landscape Analysis

Primary Landscape Line

Secondary Landscape Line

Landscape Node

Building Analysis

Community Square Pocket Park

Abandoned Factory Buildings

Outstanding Historic Buildings

Preservation of Historic Buildings

Heritage Conservation Site

Commercial Area

Community Centre

Remove Building House

MATERIALITY

Materials of the House

Existing Walls Substrate Metal Cage Felt partitions

Air gap between existing wall and plant wall

Plant Cover

Ceramic Lattice

Solar Energy System Green Wall

Green Wall Detail

Skylight

Low-cost Landscape Materials

Designed and built using a low-cost, low-maintenance strategy.The smashed old concrete blocks are used as landscape materials and stacked to form a micro-topographic crack garden; small fragments are used as materials for filling stone cages; smaller fragments are used as underground gravel layers for sponge city technical measures to drain Seepage rainwater. In terms of plant design, local tree species with smaller specifications are selected for natural growth. Low-maintenance ornamental grasses and wildflowers are selected for natural planting of bottom plants.

Rainwater Harvesting System

Smaller fragments

Small fragments

Smashed old concrete blocks

COMMUNITY PARK

Market Day

GROUND

Stall Operation Trading Experience

Stall Operation Trading Experience

Non-market Day

Stall Operation Exhibition Area

Take Part in a Photo Shoot

Play Chess

Stop and Rest Exercise Exhibition Area

Walking Communication

Stop and Rest

Exhibition Area

Take Part in a Photo Shoot

MASTER PLAN

Underground Space

Parks and other green spaces should make advantage of underground space in addition to supporting service operations. In their creation, urban parks and regional parks should incorporate underground parking, facilities for culture and sports, commercial space, and other auxiliary services. Improve the effectiveness of the use of space in park green spaces while simultaneously encouraging the growth and use of underground space in the city through stratified concessions, etc.

STREET FACADE

Visuals

Park Landscape

Pocket Park

Community Art and Cultural Centre

Landscaped walkways

Runway along the Suzhou Creek

Birdview

Birdview

OTHER WORK