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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1F
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3F
10F
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dense
program analysis size, volumn, activities
EVENT large
small
12F
13F
6F
7F
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5F
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1F
8F
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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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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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+ 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