Application Portfolio for March Architecture Design by Olivia-yangxi Liu

PORTFOLIO Yangxi Liu

SELECTED WORKS PORTFOLIO FOR APPLICATION OF MARCH ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

BARTLETT OF UCL

Application number: 21156801

CONTENTS CONTENTS

01- PLUG-IN BUILDING

A student house with movable units

01- PLUG-IN BUILDING A student house with movable units

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has been living So symbiosis with human real life. the essential elementsbeings of theinbuilding

the light, the walls, the texture I dream to establish the real relationship human and in architecture has been living symbiosis between with human beings real life. I dream to touch, gaze and miss architecture with love

The connotaion given to the architecture I dream to establishand the emotion real relationship between human and architecture could be sensed by human, animals plants with love I dream to touch, gaze and miss and architecture The connotaion and emotion given to the architecture Thiscould kindbeofsensed “responsive architecture” by human, animals and plants

is what king of building I want to design

This kind of “responsive architecture” is what king of building I want to design

02- ARCHIPELAGO

Use mathematical algorithm to simulate human flow

02- ARCHIPELAGO Use mathematical algorithm to simulate human flow

03- ORCHARD CITY

Timber technology research and practical use

03- ORCHARD CITY Timber technology research and practical use

04- GREGARIOUS TOWN

A story happened in Suzhou nongtang

04- GREGARIOUS TOWN A story happened in Suzhou nongtang

05 OTHERWORK 04-

04- OTHERWORK 2

Shanghai Suzhou

Individual Work N31°18'3.84, E120°34'52.11

Regional Analysis XJTLU Located in Suzhou, a city that has been known in China as ‘paradise on the earth’ since ancient times, XJTLU enjoys a beautiful environment where there is a harmonious coexistence between the city’s rich cultural traditions and its rapid economic development. Suzhou is one of the most developed cities in China. Suzhou Industrial Park, China’s equivalent of Silicon Valley and a hub of global innovation, houses a large cluster of Fortune 500 companies, transnational enterprises and R&D centres, not only providing favourable conditions for XJTLU’s ongoing development but also numerous internship and job opportunities for XJTLU students.

PLUG - IN BUILDING

XJTLU recruits the best students from China and abroad to both its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. The University has almost 18,000 registered students, including those who are completing study at the University of Liverpool. XJTLU is committed to creating an internationalised environment in which education quality is stringently monitored and students are encouraged to manage their own lives, whilst being able to access the range of support services available at the University. At XJTLU, students are treated as young adults, which calls for them to be independent, self-motivated and cooperative. They are expected to develop into world citizens with international perspectives and competitiveness. Foundation Building, students have seminer classes and lectures here.

Centre Building, which is the library of this university, students study here after class.

International Research Centre, Teachers and Professors' office, they have meetings here.

Humanities & Social Science Building, the students in this school have their lecture here.

International Business School, Business student have their lecture and tutorial here, there are some cafes in this buildings

-- A student house with movable units

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Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) established in 2006 by Xi'an Jiaotong University and University of Liverpool. Because it is a young university, some facilities are not perfect. It is an open school and encourages students to be "a young adult" and to be a young person who studies independently. In the first semester of college, it gives students a certain space to understand their interests and hobbies and make some career plans. Students can modify and choose their major at the end of the first semester. It also encourages cross-disciplinary dialogue and interdisciplinary research. Ask students from diff erent majors to do collaborative research. Because XJTLU promotes diverse creations and encourages cross-disciplinary collaboration. This requires a flexible and flexible campus framework. Students can choose diff erent groups of activities according to their interests, which is more flexible than a regular club. For example, some smart rooms, which are light and convenient, enable students to understand the function of the room from the outside of the room and join the room discussion or cooperation with their own interests.

Sciences Buildings & Math Buildings, now it is used for Maths students and Biological students.

North campus done, now the school of Maths, Biological Sciences mainly use this campus.

Design Building, the students of Design School have their studios and lecture here.

International Academic Exchange & Collaboration Centre.

South campus (Undone), the students in School of Design, Business and Humanities & Social Science mainly study here.

Professor Youmin Xi, EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT

Professor David Goodman, VICE PRESIDENT

To make our students through a few years learning and training, form the international perspective and participate in international competition strength, solid and integrated knowledge system, and actively explore and innovative spirit, interaction and cooperation behavior, active attitude and solid execution, so that they become honesty, creative, have strong personality and good team spirit.

With a focus on the ideology of a “happy life and successful career”, XJTLU bases its values upon diversity, discipline, innovation, liberty and trust. We also encourages crossdisciplinary dialogue and interdisciplinary research. We suggest students from different majors to do collaborative research.

Hanning Li, STUDENT in Design School

Xiaomin Chen, STUDENT in Business School

When I start archtecture design, I found some models or aritgmetics in other majors are really helpful to my design. My friends who in Maths School or Business School give me some ideas in finding concepts. It will be great if I could research a subject with them.

We have a lot of team work assessments. However, we do not have studios like students in School of Design and Biological Science, it is kind of hard for us to find a place to do the team work.

Users Demand: building could provide interdisciplinary cooperation environment 1.

Two Units Combination: In X-aris direction

1. Design Studio

2. Maths Studio

Feature: 1. Need large place to make physical models 2. Need more storage place to put models

Feature: 1. Need screen to do the presentation 2. Some quite study area to read lecture PPT

3. Biological Science Studio

4. Business Studio

Feature: 1. Need some experimental tables and wash basin 2. Need a lot storage place to put experimental material

Feature: 1. Need more storage place to put books and documents 2. Some quite study area to read lecture PPT

5. Humanities Studio

6. Meeting Room Studio

Feature: 1. Need interpreting chambers 2. Some quite study area to write essay

Feature: 1. Big screen to play PPT 2. Large tables with several chairs around

Interdisciplinary Cooperation process Tutor-organized subjects

Student-organized subjects

Subjects which already been set up

Students who already set up a team

Recruiting students

Finding research target

Find place to start the subject

Example: Maths & Architecture Studio

Find place to start the subject

Two Units Combination: In Z-aris direction

Meeting room and work place This University mainly divided into 5 schools

Design School

Business School

Department of Mathematics

Humanities and social sciences

Biological Sciences Example: Biology & Architecture Studio

Invite team members doing group work in their studios

Reserve a vacant room

success 1. The space is limited 2. Team work may disturb other design students in this studio

Not Reserve rooms

unsuccess

Invite team members doing group work in their laboratory

public study area

The vacant room is really limited, only few people could reserve successfully

1. Much noise 2. The work place is not stable, student should always carry the document

Example: Humanities & Bedroom Studio

1. The space is limited 2. Team work may disturb other design students in this laboratory

Strategy The interdisciplinary Cooperation process now has quite a lot of problems in finding rooms. If there is a building which could provide enough studios to students and let the interdisciplinary cooperation projects be known by other students in XJTLU, that will make the process much more simple. Like Design School students have their studio in Design building, if it possible to build studio units for different majors in a building? Or the units could move in this buidling and combine a larger studio with other units?

Rubik's cube game

- research

Two Units Combination: In Y-aris direction

Example: Business & Humanities & Bedroom Studio

the idea of studio units movable

Three Units Combination: In X-aris and Y-aris direction

Three Units Combination: In X-aris direction

Example: Business & Architecture & Meeting room Studio

Consider the building is a large cube combined by some smaller cubes facade which stands for studios.

Give definations to these cubes and make them in alignment.

Rotate a list of cubes, the cube facades for m into sever al new combnation ways.

Three Units Combination: In X-aris and Z-aris direction

Ro t at e t h o s e c u b e i n X - a x i s, Y-axis, Z-axis. It could generate all combantion ways. Example: Business & Biology & Architecture Studio

Model consider - how to use the rubik's cube game model in a real building

Three Units Combination: In Y-aris and Z-aris direction

7. Bedroom Studio

Housing Units Example: Business & Biology & Architecture Studio

Make the frame structure outside the building.

Put the unit into the frame structure. The unit could move horizontally on this frame.

Put more units, push those units until they had a facade entirely touched the others. This model have two ways of combination- horizontal way and vertical way.

Add a layer of frame struture behind the original frame. Now this model have three combination ways- in X aris, Y aris, Z aris.

Four Units Combination: In X-aris and Y-aris direction

Example: Business & Maths & Architecture & Meeting room Studio

Feature: 1. Single bed 2. Shower room

In those studios, each furniture is based on the feature of different schools, two studios including meeting room studio and bedroom studio added here. Considering different majors have their own study style and some subjects have more than two school students, it could make the whole cooperation efficient and streakiness to have a meeting room studio here. For the bedroom, some students, especially design school students, they usually stay up very late. It will be really nice to have a bedroom and take a nap and a shower room to dress them up.

Structure Analysis

2 3

frame idler wheel space

screen with studio sign wall retractable door

Floor Plan

Ball room

Rest area

Movable studio room

Corridor with exhibition board

Coffee shop

Lavatory

- cut in the sixth floor

studio idler wheel horizontal track frame

Carrier

4:34 PM

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Interdisciplinary Cooperation process

combinant studio elevator

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Floor Plan

Join team

Create team

vertical track frame

Restaurant

Rest area

Movable studio room

Coffee shop

Lavatory

Label

To encourage more students in XJTLU take part into the interdisciplinary cooperation, the units signs could put outside those studios and the people on the ground could see which combination studio needs more team members. They could also get more information of the subjects on the school APP.

Check on App Elevation page

Resarch majors

Check available rooms Fill in reservation information

Fill in group members Fill in using date Write project brief Decide if open

Friend invitation

encourage other students to join

Project introduction Elevation page

Done

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Individual Work

ARCHIPELAGO -- Use mathematical algorithm to simulate human flow

This project taken place in Lishui, Zhejiang. Lishui is a typical Chinese Shan-Shui city. "In and out of the city, the mountains are surrounded, the rivers are connected, the mountains and rivers embrace each other, and the weather is extraordinary." Natural landscapes and urban cultural landscapes have become interdependent, forming a picture of wandering in between mountains and rivers. Recently years, as the reintroduction of Shan-Shui City, Lishui government proposed the expection of planning a new urban style- "seeing the mountains, seeing the water, and remembering nostalgia".

Social Context: Demand for New Central Business District

The transportation effect 10% Bicycle

15% Taxi

25%

Car

15% Bus

35% On foot

Baiyun Forest Park

The human filament line of central business district human filament line in a day (24 hours)

Office Hotel

Old Central Business District

Shopping Center Theatre Exhibition Hall Restaurant

COMMUTE TIME 5 km

6 km

7 km

Bar 1

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Strategy The project goals is to establish a new central business district. The central business district is influenced by the human flow a lot. What about designing a central business district based on the human flow? The human flow is quite complicated and it may influenced by many uncertainly factors. To simplify those information, we can use ant to simulate human filament line. There is a mechanism of indirect coordination called Stigmergy and this algorithm is widely used in some model research.

Stigmergy

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Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an individual action stimulates the performance of a succeeding action by the same or different agent. Agents that respond to traces in the environment receive positive fitness benefits, reinforcing the likelihood of these behaviors becoming fixed within a population over time. Stigmergy was first observed in social insects. For example, ants exchange information by laying down pheromones on their way back to the nest when they have found food. In that way, they collectively develop a complex network of trails, connecting the nest in an efficient way to various food sources. When ants come out of the nest searching for food, they are stimulated by the pheromone to follow the trail towards the food source. The network of trails functions as a shared external memory for the ant colony.

Nest

Food

Central Business District Business & Commercial District Industrial District River

site

Residential District (Population Density) Green Rule 1 The ant must visit each point exactly once.

Suburban Commuter Town Major Destinations of Commuting Commuting Flow in Lishui

5 km

Rule 2 A distance point has less chance of being chosen.

Rule 3 The more intense the pheromone trail laid out on an edge between t w o p o i n t s, t h e g r e at e r t h e probability that that edge will be chosen.

Rule 4 Having completed its journey, the ant deposits more pheromones on all edges it traversed, if the journey is short.

Development

Form Finding

Site

Build bridge over the site to connect the land.

Public buildings taken placed on the river.

Those public buildings could be built with bridge and residents could pass by those building by walking through the bridge.

Food for ants- 5 intersections of the site

Ants-visitors

Ants walk out and try to find the foodvisitors circulation caculation over the river.

Ants find the shortest route to get food-visitors get the best circulation caculation over the river.

Algorithm Research

Building

In the ant colony optimization algorithms, an artificial ant is a simple computational agent that searches for good solutions to a given optimization problem. To apply an ant colony algorithm, the optimization problem needs to be converted into the problem of finding the shortest path on a weighted graph. In the first step of each iteration, each ant stochastically constructs a solution, i.e. the order in which the edges in the graph should be followed. In the second step, the paths found by the different ants are compared. The last step consists of updating the pheromone levels on each edge.

Grasshopper process

Consider different uses of the buildings. Placed some buildings on the intersections of bridge and they used as bar and restaurant. Placed some buildings on the ground rather than the river, they could be some work place or shopping center. Placed some buildings alone- some buildings hate noise.

Construction Skin

Curve

Divided Curve count

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point

value

Jitter

Partition List

O as tree

Geometry

Custom Preview Material

Swatch

Solver

Merge

vertices

Interpolate

curve

{0;0}

{0;1} GoalObject

simplify

count

range

Multiplication

result

Divison

Arithmetic mean

Average

input

Length

vertices

Entwine

Steel frame structure

Boolean Toggle

The basic X-shaped member is deformed to produce a set of member that can satisfy the new structural system. In addition, the frame-connectionwindow-wall four-layer system is deter mined by studying the connection between the wall and the window on the skeleton.

Rebuild Curve

1.2

Magnetsnap

Reset

Point

simplify

strength

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chunks

{0;1}

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vector A

Cull Index

segments

vector B

Cull Index

segments

Length

segments

Explode

The topolog y of the building is broken down into a set of hexahedral volumes, which are then optimized to form a steel frame structure for each road and the window skin above it

Axonometric Analysis

Building Analysis Entertaining

1. Theatre The theatre is a 3-layers annular building. There might be some performance in the middle circle area.

Human traffic

Layer

Noise

Entertaining

2. Office

Public

Bridge-Coverd Layer

Which kind of people

The office has 14 layers, it is the highest building in the this business district. It locates on the land and provides a convenient traffic condition.

Human traffic

Layer

Noise

Public

Which kind of people

Which building

Perspective

This layer covers some places of the first and the second floor.

Entertaining

3. Shopping Center Bridge-Thrid Layer The highest point is 45 meters higher than the ground. Fuction: Build connection over the first layer of bridge and the second layer of bridge.

The shopping center is located on the land, it has several scattered balconies as hanging garden.

Human traffic

Layer

Noise

Entertaining

4. Hotel

Public

Which kind of people

The hotel is located adjacent to the main bridge and there is also a railway station which is 200 meters away from it.

Human traffic

Layer

Noise

Public

Which kind of people

Which building

Perspective

Bridge-Second Layer The highest point is 25 meters higher than the ground. Fuction: Build connection over the river.

Entertaining

5. Exhibition Hall The exhibition hall has two entrances in different layers of the bridge. The annular building provides a clear circulation and encourage more people go inside.

Human traffic

Layer

Noise

Entertaining

6. Bars

Public

Which kind of people

Two bars in this central business district. They are constucted over the river.

Which kind of people Human traffic

Layer

Which building Noise

Public

Which building

Perspective

Bridge-First Layer The highest point is 5 meters higher than the ground. Fuction: Build connection over the river.

Entertaining

7. Restaurants Three restaurants in this central business district. They are constucted over the river and has plenty scattered balconies for some table outside. Those restaurant are placed adjacent to a residential area and closed to the shopping hall and office. The people in these buildings could come here and enjoy meals here.

Which kind of people Human traffic

Layer

Which building Noise

Public

Archipelago- Buildings over the project Fuction: The cultural complex of nature, architecture and art Cultural exhibition, art exhibition, resort hotel, leisure catering.

Perspective

Physical model

Section A Cut through the shopping center and the surrounding bridges. Some parts of the bridges are connected to the shopping center and people could go through the shopping hall in different layers.

Cut through the middle part of the bridge, the bridges here are quite complicated, some bridges are narrowas pedestrain bridge and the others allow cars to go through.

Cut through the ending part of the bridge which is adjacent to the hotel.

Cut through the middle part of the bridges. Some bridge-roads have a cover and some of them are in the open air.

Cut through the edge part of the bridge which is adjacent to the shopping center. The two bridge-roads are both allow cars to go through.

Cut through the part of the bridge which is adjacent to the restaurants and bars.

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Social Context: Apple cider community center -timber technology

Individual Work

ORCHARD CITY -- Timber technology research and practical use

“The city is my orchard” is a quote from Dan Hasler, founder of the The Moss Cider Project. This Social Enterprise was based in the neighbourhood of Moss Side, close to Manchester city centre. Apple trees are commonplace in suburban gardens in the city and when there is an abundant crop fruit is often left to fall and rot on the ground, going to waste. This project allowed residents to donate their crop of apples to the project, receiving in exchange a high quality, hand made, cider or non-alcoholic juice. The apples were pressed by volunteers and a propor tion of the product was sold wholesale to local stockists, providing a desirable artisanal product, supporting the local economy and reducing waste. In spite of being small in scale, projects such as this start to challenge established models of food production, reconnecting food to its locale and with a focus on quality over profit.

100m

Residential area

site

Having learnt about how these projects work and the process of making juice or cider, this project is about designing a community centre to accommodate a cider project, for a site in Sefton Park in Liverpool. This relatively small building presents some exciting architectural opportunities. It will be explored and resolved in some detail with a focus on its materiality at human scale. This project also researches the timber technology and uses the research in the building design.

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There are quite a lot of residential area adjacent to the site park, which means the necessity of the community center here. It is said that many apple trees are in the liverpool parks and it is a pity to waste it. In this site, there are five parks here. Considering apple cider is quite popular, this community center aims to provide apple cider valunteering making. It could not only enhance the relationship in this community but also provide a bar in this park. Shelters

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Ramble in park

Visit

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Filtration

Fermentation

Bar

Promote communitation

aroma compounds optimal temperature consumers highest acceptance the best temperature

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03_Oxygen content(mg/L) (mg/L) 03_Oxygen content

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Prototype One: Activity

Prototype Two: Scent

Prototype Three: Space

The whole space is an activity area, with a small community area on the second layer.

The scent of the apple cider walks through the whole space.

The considering of the public place and the workshop. The skylight could influence more than one space.

Serve

Vision

workshop light fermentation light bar light

Volunteer Introduction

Oxygen content change

fermentation time filtration time squeeze time

From the temperature part, it is necessary to make the fermentation room have a nice thermal insulation system. In the light analysis, I get that the workshop should be provide more light which means the workshop should have more windows and the bar area may have few windows. The fermentation room cannot have too muc light. In the production time analysis, the sizes of the storage area are clear- the fermentation area needs a stable storage area while the storage for apples, apple bottles are more flexible. The flexible storages could have more interactivity with people while it is designed.

Prototype Four: Light

Prototype Five: Window

Prototype Six: View

Some studies have shown that people work comfortable in 210-330 lux, which means the workshop needs enough light.

The window is proptrade and could be used as storage space. Some apple boxes and bottles could be put here.

The people in the bar could view the people working on making apple cider while they drink it.

Timber Technology Columns/Beams

Board stack

Frame construction

Cross-laminated timber

Prototype Seven: Storage Some places next to the public bar could be the storage place-attracting people to take park in making apple cider.

Vertical construction elements

Prototype Eight: Workshop From the apple cider study before, the apple cider needs a fermentation room which is dark and with good insulation.

Prototype Nine: Vision While people go inside the building, they could get a glimpse of the apple cider storage and the workshop.

Yes Large vertical loads Large horizontal loads in the plane of the panel Wall-like supports Exposed timber surface

Points for Attention

Go to the training room from the changing room

Encasement require

Prepare the apple Horizontal construction elements

Large span Exposed timber surface Encasement required

Prepare the tools

Pick apples from apple boxes Workshop training Prepare knives, juicers, bottles

Points for production process Points for fermentation process

Change to the labour suit

Wash apples

Cut & Squeeze apples

Filtration apple cider making finish

Fermentation

Room height

Construction Detail

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Plywood 20mm

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) 20mm Polyurethane Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 160mm Plywood 20mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) columns 150/60mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) columns 160/60mm Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 160mm Steel angles 60/40mm

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) columns 80/40mm Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 80mm Polyurethane Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 150mm Plywood 20mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) columns 150/100mm

Roof Detail

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Steel Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 40mm Polyurethane Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) 60/40mm Plywood 20mm Extruded polystyrene-foam thermal insulation 200mm Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) columns 200/60mm Polyurethane Concrete 100mm

Ground Detail

Elevator: Considering old people and people using wheel chair, They could go inside the workshop by this elevator.

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Workshop: This room mainly for squeezing apple and apple cider filtration. The skylight provide a nice work atmosphere.

Fermentation Room: The research before shows that the fermentation room should have a nice thermal insulation system. So there is a thermal- protective coating for this room.

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200 300

Workshop Training room: Volunteers get training here, for making the explaination more clear, the training room is a open area and people could see the equipment in the workshop.

View from the bar area on the Ground flloor

6000 open kitchen

LAYERED SPACE IN A NESTED ORDER

The house is organized in a nested order with three main layers of space. One open spaces – “the public bar” – are at the center with a common working space on top, while the storage area are at the outer layer. A gap is in between that serves as the circulation. There is also an elevator outside this building, which opens the private space to the “home page” or invite the external context to the interior space. The spatial sequence is not from the exterior layer to the inner layer, but from the central voids to the outer layers.

Bar: While people drinking in the bar, they could get a glimpse of the apple cider storage and workshop.

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elevator

fermentation room

training room

parking area

unisex lavatory

changing room

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bar

meeting room

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5 900

2ooomm 2m

View from the open trainning room-people in the trainning room could take a glimpse of the facility in the workshop

3 6

5 4 900

2ooomm 2m

open kitchen

bar

elevator

parking area

3 4 2 900

2ooomm 2m

View from the road outside

CHINA

JIANGSU

Suzhou

SUZHOU OLD CITY

NANSHIPI

318 THOUSAND pop. 14.2 Km²

3 THOUSAND pop. 2 Km²

20 thousand pop./Km²

1.5 thousand pop./Km²

Old city

NANSHIPI NONG

N31°18'3.84

Individual Work 扫描全能王创建

BEIJING

Lake

Shanghai

E120°34'52.11

Hongkong 500m

OLD CITY IN SUZHOU Suzhou is located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is low and flat, with an average altitude of about 4m. Plain accounts for 54.8% of its total area, and hills account for 2.7%. The territory of rivers and lakes, the city's water accounted for 42.5% of the total area. Suzhou has a long history, the earliest can be traced back to 514 BC, but the city went through wars and was destroyed many times. In 1986, when the State Council approved the master plan of Suzhou, it made clear the policy of "comprehensively protecting the ancient city's features and actively building new areas". Suzhou Municipal Government also issued a series of mandatory regulations to protect the ancient city, so that the old buildings in the old city could be preserved. Nowadays, the ancient buildings in the old city of Suzhou are mostly relics of the Qing Dynasty, with a history of about 100-200 years.

Nongtang Building Research REINFORCED CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION (2.8%)

BRICK AND WOOD CONSTRUCTION (82%)

HYBRID STRUCTURE (15%)

OTHERS (0.2%)

Area ratio of houses with different structure in the old town of Suzhou 1955

1949

Before the founding of the prc

GREGARIOUS TOWN

After decades of industrialization, our cities, in their physical and legislative dimensions, are places geared towards productivity.In them it is possible, materially and in a relatively simple and daily way, to distribute merchandise, arrange advertising for a commercial activity or go driving to work.There are rules that regulate these activities, that allow and even support their completion and that tell us how, when and where we should execute them.These norms seek the balance between the individual right and the collective interest.

Replan the city

Postwar economic recovery

1949

1955

1965

0.3%

75%

1986

1975

1985

The brick and wood construction was weak while natural hazard happen to Suzhou or nearby cities.

2005 Mandatory regulations to protect the ancient city

Natural hazard

In the 1950s, lots of ancient buildings in Suzhou are destroyed.

There were a lot of ancient buildings in Suzhou before 1949, but because of the war, some of them were damaged．

-- A story happened in Suzhou nongtang

1979

1995

In 1986, the State Council made clear the policy of "comprehensively protecting the ancient city's features"

The Suzhou government has introduced a series of mandatory regulations to protect the ancient city.

4.5%

2005

Area ratio of ancient houses at different age in Suzhou old town

Residents Interview

70%

living environment choice

This project takes place in a nongtang in Suzhou. Nongtang is a vernacular architecture in southeast of China. It was properous 40 years ago while currently the population here continues to decrease because of the industrialization. I study from a movie and get to know more information about the nongtang lifestyle 40 years ago. From the movie study, I try to design a device to restore those lifestyle. What's more, this project will be shown as a story -from the perspective of a kid who lives here called Huang.

60% 52%

60%

9% 57%

Choice of environment from different house type residents 63%

ancient building low-level building

50%

high-rise building

40%

30%

20%

58%

26% 17% 17% 11%

17% 11%

10% urban development options

34%

19%

modern high-rise

traditional low-level

ancient buildings

modern low-level

under 3-layers

3-6 layers

high-rise with lifts

do not care about levels

4% ANCIENT NONGTANG BUILDINGS

14%

100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10%

12% 11%

CHINESE STYLE LOW-LEVEL

MODERN LOW-LEVEL

Choice of environment from different age stage resident 88%

98%

MODERN HIGH-RISE

94% low-level high-rise

76%

24% 12%

＜25

25~44

45~60

＞60

Social Context: Restore the old prosperous lifestyle of Nongtang This project is focus on restoring the old Nongtang residents lifestyle and considering about the new lifestyles. So here I took an “old” thing and a “new” thing, then combine them into a new design as an entertainment area.

STREET-STAGE

People in the old town gather together to watch TV or have partys. The function of this narrow street became a stage.

BULLETIN BOARD

LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT

The residents care about the community and they usually take part into thr community services.

There are many activties in the old town. The people with same interest gather together and enjoy themselves.

The ancient houses in this nonglong mainly used brick and wood construction. So here I took the wood for the first part construction. This regular frame also gives a feeling of “old”, “traditional”, “prim and proper”. It stands for the regular life of the nongtang residents. What’s more, the brick and wood structure are not stable , those columns would be built nearby building to support the structure.

This web gives a feeling of “connect”, “blend”, “ mordern”. It stands for the residents life in this nongtang tightly connected. This web shows the key lifestyle in nongtang-tight community, gregarious town. In addition, The web provides more possibilities. To make the community social life more flexible. Chairs, tables, billboard could be hung on the web while they are available. That could provide more space for circulation.

WINDOWS AND WINDOWS

People could communite with each other while they open the window.

YARD

WINDOWS AND STREET

Some parents help to take care of other kids and they enjoy their childhood.

People inside could enjoy the view of the steet and take part into the activities outside.

Site Divided SITE

PLAYGROUND

BULLETIN BOARD

LOCAL ENVIRONMENT

WINDOWS AND STREETS

STREET-STAGE

This site located in the old city of Suzhou.

This yard will be a children playground. Except for the clear circulation, it also be away from the roadway.

This yards is surrounded by local buildings so that the people inside the building could easy communicate with people outside. Moreover, this space is adjacent to the roadway so that it encourages people passed by take part in the activity.

This place is in the center of the street and it's next to the mean road. So the Bulletin board and community activities here could be noticed.

This space is a narrow path and it is not an important circulation path. It ends until the third house. The buildings nearby this path is close enough to communicate.

These are some small spaces. People with same interest could gather here.

Nongtang in Huang's sight

The axonometric view to show the interaction between the yard and the building

The axonometric view to show the interaction between the street and the building

The axonometric view to show the interaction between the street and the yard

The construction process

It happens in a Chinese tradition festival - Lantern Festival

The diagram illustrares the construction process in three simple steps: setting up wood structure,assmbling string web, hanging up tables an chairs. 24

MASK AND SLEEVE DESIGN 2018 The theme here I choose is " an old lady who like to embroid". When I design the mask, I took the element of the embroidery thread and the emboriding hand. We used the mask and sleeve models to explore the space design.

OTHER WORK 2017-2019

SHELTER FOR KIDS 2018

DESIGN WORKS 2020 This project is a group work, we made a shelter for kids. The shelter concept comes from a traditional Chinese games in countryside. The children in the countryside use a cage with a tree branch to support a side and they put some food inside to attract birds. While the birds get into the cage, they let the cage down to caught the birds. This project idea comes from this game, we hope this shelter coould "catch children's interest" and attract those kids have fun inside. What's more, different with traditional shelters, this shelter is movable. We hope the construction would have some interaction with users.

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