portfolio_Spring 2011-2012

CUI YUJING NICO

2010800185

THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH2002 INSTRUCTOR: H. KOON WEE SPRING 2011-2012

project 1

group project with Felix Chu and Su Chang

TRANSFRAMING EVENTS Analysis of Sheung Wan Municipal Building, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Island

FRAME EVENT FRAMING EVENT TRANSFRAMING EVENT

FRAME

the Space; the Building; the Context

Municipal services building is a mix-used tower which provide necessary civic services to local neighborhoods. It is usually called “ street market” by local people. As a unique building typology in Hong Kong, it is a dense super blocks full of potentially incompatible programs: wet market, government offices, library, sports center and community centers.

site location

345 Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong, China Sheung Wan is an area located in the north-west of Hong Kong Island, between Central and Sai Ying Pun.It was one of the earliest settled places by the British. It is also one of the highestdensity neighborhood in Hong Kong.

site analysis program analysis of Sheung Wan, Hong Kong Island

EVENT

the Program; the People

video: encounter

Through the medium of film, we documented the experiences inside and outside the building and zoomed into the issue of “efficiency and excess”. We tried to discover how smart the inhabitants in the buildings use these different kinds of spaces in their everyday activites.

Each scene in the video captures one kind of unit provided for a specific program. What we realized is that the kind of boundary preset by building designer or administrators actually didn’t limited the users. Different users used their own spaces and went beyond the frame as well, in a really smart way to benefit themselves.

Each scene is half-divided by a veritcal partition implicitly.

The unique rhythms of the activities back and forth reveal the efficiency and excess.

Shop Front

Corridor

Cooked- food center

Sports center

film

frame

event

transframing event

vs

dull frame

vibrant event

how the dull frame and vibrant events interact with each other ?

The building is a generic structure that maximize the number of different programs within a dull framework. We can feel the architects’ struggles in the organization. They wanted to figure out as much as they can, tried to set the framework and infill the activities and inhabitant in a really rational way. But the fact is architects can never control. what’s going to happen in the future. How the increasing events live together within the dull frame, we investigated the issue through a series of models.

sketch model 2

key words: structure; cirtulation; spatial relationship.

sketch model 1

key words: program; flexibility; congestion.

sketch model 4

key words: space-program relationship over time.

sketch model 3

key words: flexibility; adaptive use of space.

sketch model 6

key words: sectional layers; sequence of spatial scales.

sketch model 5

key words: adaptive use of space; key section; grey space.

FRAMING EVENT

the Co-Relationship between Space and Program

structure analysis slab-column frame

FRAME loose

12F

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5F

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1F

8F

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2F

3F

10F

11F

dense

program analysis size, volumn, activities

EVENT large

small

12F

13F

6F

7F

4F

5F

G

1F

8F

9F

2F

3F

10F

11F

diagonal section - frame

the section is deliberately cut in the diagonal direction, from which we can see the dynamic structure variation covered by the envelope and the relatively coherent “sevent space�, the circulation core at the periphery.

volume - events

The dominant space on each floor is emphasized by sculpting the volume which is extruding out from the section plate. The hidden rhythm is revealed.

TRANSFRAMING EVENT

The displacement between the tangible FRAME (space) and intangible EVENT (program); a space-program relationship unique to Hong Kong municipal services building.

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event photo montage

transframing event one-point perspective

The building has been investigated through the structure organization and formal composition. The tangible structure (following the frame) and intangible event (going beyond the frame) have revealed themselves as the major contradiction We defined the new word “transframing� and began to build a threedimensional form combining drawings and models. Through such a completely novel way, the tangible structure are deconstructed and make visible our unique understandings and visions with the reorganized perspective view.

sports center

The sports center is located on the top of the building. But through the interview of people on the other floors, we find there was a lot of daily activities which could involve with the sports center above. For intance, the after-school club for children(10F) just has a desire to expand its space for ball games and daily excercise. vision: open the sports center unward to embrace the activities of the lower floors.

frame section

event photo montage

transframing event one-point perspective

dance group

Through the interviews, we are informed that the spaces for Hong Kong Dance Group are separated in 4F, 7F and 8F. They have to keep rushing upstairs and downstairs to prepare the costume or switch the practice room everyday. In addition, the administration sometimes may lose its control of the groupmember due to the seperation. As a result, the fragmentational organization make it difficult for such a dance group to work efficient. vision: break the seperation of floor slab and the uncontinuous structure form a continous space

frame section

event photo montage

transframing event one-point perspective

project 2 group project with Oscar Cheung and Salman Dhamani and SNU

ABSORPTIVE CONNECTOR Flash Mob in Seoul

a megastructure near Cheongyecheon

EXPLOSION

ABSORPTION

EXPLOSION

the flash mob; the events; the discovery

walking event 1

passing event 4

observing event 6

stalking event 7

chatting event 8

ABSORPTION

the connector; the rotating cube; the storyboard

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the urban connectors:

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1. shopping street - site a

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2. site a - megastructure 3. within the megastructure

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4. site b - megastructure 5. site b - park

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event 9 take photos of one person in your group walking a 5m circle around you

view

program

people

interaction connector object space

absorptive connectors

The cubes are distributed around Nakwon Dong, each located on the boundary of several defined spaces. After the free wandering around this area, we use the absorptive cubes collect as much information as we can, from people, objects to spatial configuration and urban context. With the same methodology, we create the perspective view to show our understanding of the site.

project 3 individual design project

SYMBIOSIS Designing Urban Complex in Nakwon Dong, Seoul

CONCEPT DOCUMENTATION DEDUCTIVE

CONCEPT

program; interface; duality

inspiration

From the previous analysis, the diagonal section cut reveals a powerful organization system that is hidden by the envelope. So is it possible to create a interface on which the dierent social activities can live together with each other?

PLAN

SECTION

global

learning

SLOPE GRID ATTACHMENT

shopping

ELEMENT

local

The interface is created as a solution to the confliction on two aspects. One is the extremely different nature between library and market. The other one is different intention coming from the local people and visitors.

The volumns for library space are basically covered by the interface. Some units are attached onto the interface so as to be endowed with a kind of duality, half outgoing, half intimate.

option 1

option 2

option 3

SLIDING

The interface function as a urban slope and stages for various activities, combining roof, steppings, terraces and corridors.

The massing for library slide o from the surface to create a in-between spaces, which permit sun light and a confortable distance for visual connection

MARKET

FOR SHOPPING

IN-BETWEEN

PERFORMANCE STAGE

ART STUDIO

BOOK STORE PAPER SHOP

LIBRARY

FOR LEARNING OFFICE ENTRANCE COMPUTER /INTERNET

LOCAL STUDIES ROOM

MUSIC INSTRUMENT STORE RECORD STORE

SOUVENIER

WORKSHOP

BOUTIQUE

ARTCRAFTS

RESTAURANTS

MUSIC STUDIO

SERIAL/MAGAZINE

READING ROOM/STACKS CD/DVD

RARE AND LARGE BOOK

SPECTIAL ACTIVITY ROOMS

OPEN SPACE

IN-BETWEEM SPACE

The in-between space is allocated with intermediate programs (above), which aim to provide a interactive space for people to gain the knowledge beyond the study rooms. They can relate what they read on the books back to their life by feeling, seeing and touching in the workshops and studios.

Through the interview inside the megastructure, we also found out that many shop owners are trained musicians and artists. The intermediate space thus provide them the oppotunity to compose works and sell products as well.

option 1

option 4

option 2

option 5

option 6

option 3

The series of variation on the urban slope is trying to ďŹ nd the best conďŹ guration in term of light condition, the relationship of the programs and the circulation

VARIATION

CONNECTION

All the events happened in the urban complex are view as a spectacle by others.

The physical connection and visual connection motivate people on both sides to gather at the intermediate zone

the vision of urban theater The city is “a theater of social action”. everything else-art, politics, education, commerce-only serve to make “the social drama richly significant, as a stageset, well-designed, intensifies and underlies the gestures of the actors and the action of the play.”

---Lewis Mumford

final scheme

process scheme

DOCUMENTATION

floor plan; section; analytical axonometric

floor plan 1:300

3F 1:300

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2F 1:300

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1F 1:300

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G 1:300

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+ gyeongbokgung

site plan 1:500

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insa-dong

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+ jongmyo

nakwon dong

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jungno 3-ga metro station

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a’

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+ cheonggyecheon

tapgol park

the interface

a large envelope with openings receiving different views, considering the nature of users and program

amphitheater

insa-dong

tapgol park

the seoul tower

performance

pass-by

reading room

special activities

MUSIC STUDIO

LIBRARY SPECIAL ACTIVITY ROOMS

STAGE CULTURE WORKSHOP

LIBRARY

LIBRARY

MARKET

program strategy

the intermediate attractors include cafe, sourvenir shop to welcome visitors and shoppers, art studio and gallery facing to the historic park, record shops and music studio corresponding to the music instrument shops inside the megastructure.

LIBRARY

SOUVENIER SHOPS

GALLERY

ART STUDIO

circulation

For visitors, there’s a continuous route interwinding against the surfaces, linking the intermediate programs.

The south wing and east wing of the megastructure are connected by a bridge hanging out from the second floor, thus forming a loop between the existing megastructure and the new one.

Library has its own circulation and half-floor height staircases to the slope surface

section a-a’ 1:150

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+3.60 +2.40 +1.20 +0.00 -1.20

DEDUCTIVE

spatial experience; physical model; drawdel

sectional model

the subtle light condition, varied levels and dynamic activities under the roof envelope

workshop

buffering zone

cafe shop

the ship’s bow

library G

the urban corridor

library 1F the serenity

view from library 3F the co-relationship

overview from the megastructure

art studio

visual connection with reading room street-like shopping experience duality of private and public shop owner but artist

internet center

atrium serve for the public urban corridor interaction with art gallery above

entrance

receiption sunken space lift lobby

special activity room meeting room light condition loft space physical connection