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YINFEI GU | WORK SAMPLE M.Arch 2 Student, UC Berkeley

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PROLOGUE

01 FLOATING LOWLINE Easy Construction for Activating Urban Grey Space

As a material market restructed from housing village, the 1.2 square kilometers Jiuxing wholy possesses the right to build by it self as a conglomerate, and reacts in an unbelievably quick speed at meeting need for the bussiness and residents officially or spontaneously.

Can architects spot the situation, and even think earlier, further and deeper?

For me, architectural strategies should be changing pertinently with the social condition and other disciplines in the era in which changes happen every day. No sterotypes about either architecture or congnition should be remained in mind.

This portfolio is my 6-year efforts of solution providers for GREY SPACE OVER OCUUPIED BY VEHICLES, for NEW WAYS OF HERITAGE TYPOLOGY PRESERVATION, f o r S E N E S C E N T D I S T R I C T, f o r S U S TA I N A B L E M A N U F A C T U R E I N

02 VERTICAL HERITAGE Multilevel Application for Shikumen Preservation

03 URBAN TCM PHYSIOTHERAPY New Development Pattern for Senescent District

04 TROMBE CHATEAU Local Construction & Materials for Modern Manufacture

05 PSYCHOLOGICAL LEGO Lichen-like Residence for Springboard City

PRIMITIVE REGIONS, for SPRINGBOARD CITIES, and finally for DISCOVERING POTENTIALS.

06 OTHER WORKS Descovering Potentials

01 FLOATING LOWLINE -- Easy Construction for Activating Urban Grey Space Program: 5,695 m2 Elevated Road Extension (Shanghai) Fourth Year Studio Work (AR403) Solo work Duration: 9/2015-11/2015 Instructor: Prof. Lin Wang

In the city whose privileged class is efficiency, elevated roads and metro lines are growing recklessly, speeding up the city from the large scale, but tearing apart people's living space for normal life from the small scale. In this struggle, people compromise and adapt ceaselessly. At the end, dozens of streets are robbed from the pedestrians by vehicles. However, there can still be rebels, hoping to reclaim freedom again, and even coexist, both for the efficiency and leisure.

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Elevated road

Metro line Tensile membrane

Steel clamping plate Double-pushing tensegric system External steel box girder, stay cables & stable cables

Concrete crane tower

Flea market Snack counter

Performance stage

Connecting to metro station

Public library Connecting to schools

Connecting to the park

Connecting to commercial area

Connecting to residental area

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A

ONE DAY OF THE GRANDPA'S

Through supposed spacial experiences, the sequencial daily routine of a family connect different themes in series, together, D 1

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satisfy the need of different people accordingly. The wall's lightness and curve blur the boundary of basic architectural elements.

Depressive space elaborate in the process of unceasing choosing.

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Mother

Father

C

B

Grandma

Elemantary boy

Grandma: It's cheaper to select necessities from the flea market before going to the commercial street.

Grandson: The bread sold here as breakfast is delicious.

B-A

Grandpa

Grandma: window=wall=floor?

Walls introduce the light, floor introduce fresh air and trees. The lowline is like an open street, only safer.

Grandpa: I go to the park for exercise every morning from home. With the lowline, I will not have to detour.

6:00 A.M.

A - park；B - residence；C - commercial area；D - schools；E - metro

1 - public library；2 - performance stage；3 - snack counter；4 - flea market

7:30 A.M.

B-3-D

8:30 A.M.

D-4-C

G r a n d s o n : S t u d e n t s f ro m d i f fe re n t s c h o o l s and grades gather at the performance stage at lunchbreak for club activities. I fall in love with hippop here by watching the seniors.

Grandpa: It's time for lunch, the huge lope goes up dirrectly from inside the park, I go home gradually and unconsciously.

11:30 A.M.

A-B

Grandma: When picking up the child after school, I bring him to the library to develop good reading habbits for him.

12:00 A.M.

D-3-2-D

5:00 P.M.

The family: After the kid has finished homework at night, w e co m e t o g e t h e r t o e n j o y family time. The road is always dangerous and fast up and down.

But in the middle, we are safe and sound.

Parents: It's a shortcut from the metro station to home. Moreover, having a good chat on the public balconies is a chance to enjoy a slow life after work..

6:30 P.M.

E-B

D-1-B

8:30 P.M.

B-1/2/3/4-B

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02 VERTICAL HERITAGE ---- Multilevel Application for Shikumen ( 石库门 ) Preservation Program: 117.461 m2 Commercial Complex (Shikumen Area, Downtown Shanghai) Fourth Year Studio Work (AR403) Solo Work Time: 11/2015-1/2016 Instructor: Prof. Wenjun Ma

Shikumen ( 石 库 门 ) generates Shanghaineses' character of being open and warmhearted. I credit this to its multilayers between privacy and public-- outer street ( 街 道 ), main Long ( 主 弄 ), SubLong ( 支 弄 ), Atrium ( 天 井 ), and private rooms. The project is a commercial complex in Shanghai which makes use of the Shikumen typology to stratify and interlace public and private program to create new communities and encourage unconcious and spontaneous mutualism. By releasing proper functions to corresponding public layers, the complex can begin to cause gossip culture again that the society chasing for pure efficiency itself avoids. This warmheartedness and intermingling is something a Shikumen can bring back into the culture that discarded it.

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CASE STUDY & TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS OF SHIKUMEN STRATEGY

ACTIVITY DURATION

AXON

APPLIED STRATEGY

CIRCULATION

LAND VALUE

MASTER PLAN / PLAN

12 Hours

MAIN LONG 主弄 PUBLIC

PUBLIC SQUARE

DONG SI WEN LI, JING AN DISTRICT, 1918

12 Hours

SYMBOLIC NODE

JIAN YE LI, XU HUI DISTRICT, 1930

12 Hours

24 Hours

25.000M

SEMI-PUBLIC

10.200M

SUBLONG 支弄

BOUNDARY AND CONNECTION

BU GAO LI, LU WAN DISTRICT, 1930

No.1

atrium

No.6

No.5

No.2

No.5

No.7

PRIVATE

rooftop

kitchen

No.8 No.4

SEMI-

shared views & functions

tenement No.

No.3

ATRIUM 天井

SHARED SIGHT & NECESSITIES

HUAI HAI FANG, LU WAN DISTRICT, 1924

lobby

kitchen

atrium

Alterable Dicided By User HONG QING LI, JING AN DISTRICT, 1946

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FUNCTION& CIRCULATION ANALYSIS Function Analysis

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Commercial & Necessities

Entertainment Corridor Cafe & Bar Bookstore Restaurant Gym & Spa KTV & Party KTV & Party

Reading District

Office Units Hotel Units

Office Auxiliaries Hotel Auxiliaries

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Neighbours Dominant Insiders Dominant

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03 URBAN TCM PHYSIOTHERAPY ---- New Development Pattern for Senescent District Program: 49,073 m2 Riverside Urban Revitalization (SuZhou River, Downtown Shanghai) 2016 Avantgarde Architects Studio (AR413) Colaborator: Zhu Siyu ( My Work: Concept 50%,Analysis 90%, Physical model 40%, Rendering 50% ) Time: 3/2016-/2016 Instructor: Menjia He

City ages inevitably no matter how healthy newly designed. To disentangle numerous problems generated, investigation and rigorous thinking are conducted, keys are figured out, spacial intervention are created circularly. Any intervention should challenge the city's original development pattern regarding to its corresponding key. The renewal operations in downtown are so-called TCM Physiotherapy, or careful minimally invasive surgery.

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VOLUMNE MASSAGE

CONNECTIVE PLATFORMS Remain Refurbish

Community Services Dwelling Remaining Offices

Renovate

Renovate

Preserve

Preserve

New

New

New

+5.000 m +3.400 m +1.700 m Âą0.000 m From the three bridges (5.000m), pedestrians are leaded to the second-floor public corridor, and gradually leaded to 0.000m through gradient plazas with various themes The platform opens sight to the river, as well as guides pedestrians to enter the site from road.

The site's volumne is differentiated into h i g h - d e n s i t y a re a a n d t h u s re le a s e d c o m m o d i o u s community service area.

New

Each highrise has community service at the bottom opened to the second-floor and ground-floor.

New

New

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FUNCTIONS

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1. Food transporting wharf

8. Food Stall Plaza

15. Post Office

22. Gym

2. Supermarket

9. River-Scenery Dining Areas

16. China Mobile

23. Dentist's

3. Gerocery Stalls

10. Book shops

17. Pharmacy

4. Fresh Market

11. Public Toilet

18. Parking Lots

24. Resettlement Housing Flea Market

5. Greengrocer Plaza

12. Book Plaza

19. Restaurants

6. Greengrocer Stalls

13. Bank

20. Hotel Restaurant

7. Food Stalls

14. Hotel

21. Hairdressing & Beauty

25. Remained Offices 26. Resettlement Housing

14 Pedestrian Circulation New

Renovated

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Bicycle Circulation Remained, Preserved & Refurbished

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SECTIONS & SCENES Pedestrian Circulation New

Renovated

Inner Circulation

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Remained, Preserved & Refurbished

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F Fujian Rd. Bridge Entrance

D

G Beijing Rd. View

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H Food Stall Plaza

A Resettlement Housing Market B River View

C Henan Rd. Bridge Entrance

D Beijing Rd. View

E Dwelling Entrance

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L River-Scenery Dining Area

M Cycle Track

N Book Plaza

Greengrocer Plaza

K Food Stall Plaza Entrance

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04 TROMBE CHATEAU ---- Local Construction & Materials for Modern Manufacture Program: 6,158 m2 Chateau Design (East Helan Mountain, Ningxia Province, China) 2015 Avantgarde Architects Studio (AR315) Solo Work Time: 3/2015-4/2015 Instructor: Xi Shi

Helan Mountain in Ningxia Province is identified as China's best place to develop wine industry for its primitiveness and its climate, suitable for growing grapes but not economic for wine production.

To prevent high energy consumption, chateaus should be sustainable both in ecology and in the ways and materials that meets the traditions and capacities of local construction. The concept is to bring a breath to the chateau. The breath adjusts the chateau's micro environment periodically versus different seasons, day and night, and also brings to the traditional local rammed earth buildings a new form based on a new technology of aerodynamics in a way without complex maintenance.

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CLIMATE

INSTRUCTION BY SEASONS

Average Temperature

℃

（℃） 30

Diurnal & annual temperature difference is huge.

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Hr 24

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Winter Prevailing Winds Frequency(Hrs)

hrs

Summer prevailing wind direction is southeast.

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SUMMER DAY Direct Solar Radiation

W/ ㎡

W/ ㎡

1000

Year's direct solar radiantion is abundant.

600 400

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200 12

Glazing Ventilation Opening: Opened Rammed Wall Window: Closed

SUMMER NIGHT

Radiation blocked.

Wind to cool down outer surface of rammed wall and lower apperent temp.

Shutter: Uncovered Glazing Ventilation Opening: Opened Rammed Wall Window: Opened

Cool night wind to take away heat both inside and outside the rammed wall.

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Relative Humidity

% %

Humidity is much lower than the requirement of chateau.

hrs

Winter prevailing wind direction is northwest.

800

Hr

Summer Prevailing Winds Frequency(Hrs)

Shutter: Covered

100

SUmmer Prevailing Winds Average Temperature

℃ WINTER DAY Shutter: Uncovered

Summer Wind is cool.

80

Glazing Ventilation Opening: Closed Rammed Wall Window: Opened

WINTER NIGHT

Rammed wall keeps considetable heat from strong radiation, and heats the air, causing air cycle.

Shutter: Covered Glazing Ventilation Opening: Closed Rammed Wall Window: Closed

Rammed wall releases stored daytime heat to the chateau at night to overcome the freezing temp.

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Hr 24

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52 26

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Glazing Ventilation Opening (OUT)

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1. Rammed Earth Wall against Winter Wind

3. Buffer Room for Ventilation & Activity

5. Offices & Hotel as Quilt to Further Stablize the Factory

7. Face Nonbearing Walls to Courtyard

Glazing Ventilation Opening (IN)

+ 2. Glass Roof towards Sunlight

4. Hoop Caves as Functional Spaces

6. Face Functional & Activity Spaces to our Vinery View

8. Plenty of Plants in Conservatory

Rammed Earth

= Microcirculation

Trombe Chateau

SECTION A-A 11

Guest Circulation Office Circulation Grape Circulation

Glazing & Movable Shading

Buffer Room Structure

Green Roof

Hoop Cave Structure

Third Floor Hotel

Second Floor Dining Platform & Dorms

Ground Floor Winery & Office

Basement Winery

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On Site

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05 PSYCHOLOGICAL LEGO ---- Lichen-like Residence for Springboard City Program: 109,610 m2 Residential Planning and Individual Design (FengCheng Town, Shanghai) Fourth Year Studio Work (AR413) Solo work Time: 5/2016-6/2016 Instructor: Prof. Jian Wu

Botanists tell us that before forest, pioneer flora like lichen and vine occupy and exploit fields. After forest flourish, these pioneers won't disappear but overlap in a more complex form. Likewise, a healthy city is composed of various stratums and types of living. Besides permanent residence, there should also exist changeable ones allowing self-rebuild in a certain frame, which consist the soul of the poor but laborious migratory labor families. These residential lichen will bring diversity, stability, and biomass growth, especially in a city of springboard city in China.

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Set1

COTTAGE

Original mode of single room-entering process

Possible units

Layer 1 -- Public Service Corridors Section A-A

Set2 initial social network

Original mode of given units

New mode of self-creativity

--families & work teams private room

& SMALL HIGH-RISE

social output

New mode of multiple room-entering process

-- nursing houses & youth

Layer 2 -- Public Atriums Elevation

COTTAGE ·

FLEXIBILITY

initial social network

public renting houses

layer1 layer2 (corridor) (atrium)

private room

social output

SMALL HIGH-RISE ·

INTEGRATION

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rent out

parents come bring up

MULTISTORY DWELLINGS

grandchild

· FLEXIBILITY & INTEGRATION

-- old natives & outcomers

grow old rent out

FLEXIBILITY Original mode of monWey bond money bond

bring up grandchild

rent 1

rent 2

rent 3

empty

money bond

New mode of psychological bond

1.baby sitting 2.old accompanied 3.teaching experiences of springboarding rent 1

rent 2

rent 3

making a family

family

psychological bond

empty

parents

Basic Modules 2

2

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36m , 72m and 108m is the suitable

come parents

area for people in FengCheng regarding

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to their habit and economic condition.

36m²

making a

36m²

36m²

36m²

36m²

36m²

36m²

The basic module of 36m2 is using a 6*6 column grid.

get rich

Demographic Composition Analysis in a Unit original mode

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INTEGRATION Distribution of Residental Units

Distribution of Residential Area and Public Services

Outcomers Senior Natives Rental Relationship Social Mixing Events between Residental Units

Entrance of Residental Units Movement of Residents Movement of Public Services Social Mixing Events Between Residents and Non-Residents

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06 OTHER WORKS PROFESSIONAL WORK

2013

Luzern, Paris, Seoul

2014

Shaoxing, Beijing,Hakodate, Kyoto, Cambridge

JIN GUANG RD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SHEN DI GROUP CO., LTD.

PLAYZE ARCHITECTS

ACADEMIC WORK

2015

Jingshan, Sinkiang, London,

TRAVELING WORK

MASTER PLAN SHANGHAI DISNEYLAND

Tibet, Fuan

2016

URBAN DEVELOPEMENT THEORETICAL WORKSHOP

ILLUMINATION DESIGN

Hangzhou, Chongming, San Jose, San Francisco

PERSONAL WORK

TEAM WORK

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