MODULAR LIVING AREA IN THE DAM

Facility Module

This module includes facilities for sewage treatment, domestic water purification, power transmission and so on to support the entire living area.

Residence Module

This module can accommodate different living units for singles for families. A gap is reserved between the living units and the dam for thermal ventilation.

Sports & Exercise Module

This module includes courts like badmintion and basketball, swimming pool, gym, dance studio and other exercise spaces which serve the whole area.

Culture & Leisure Module

This module has several modular spaces in different scale that can hold culture or leisure functions like theatre, cinema, exihibition hall, KTV, lecture hall and so on.

Health Module

This module includes clinics, inpatient departments, operation rooms and other basic medical equipment rooms, which can meets the needs of people living in this area.

Education Module

This module contains the function of a school, which include classrooms, labortaries, offices, meeting rooms and gyms, to serve the children in this area.

Perspective View

Perpsective View

This rendering shows the Huanghelou dam living area from human perspective. From this image we can feel the strong contrast between old architectural heritage and the new built mechanical structure. People's life style has changed while the memory of Wuhan remains.

Street Life

Design of Rental Apartments in New Urban Agglomerations in the Age of Population Mobility

Group Work Gourp members: Schueng Zhang, Zhi Shuai, Mingyi Chen

Site: Wuhan, China Time: Sep 2021

Chinese economic development is going through the era of urban agglomeration linkage and metropolitan area radiation. At this important stage, population has become a strategic resource that must be contested. In this project, we designed a living complex in downtown Wuhan, which would provides residents with cost-effective long-term rental housing and activity spaces according to their age in a vertical direction through a modular approach. In the design process, as the group leader, I mainly take charge of concept finding, massing generation, site plan design, digital modeling, structure and envelop design.

Manifestos Of Design

Street life- Suitable scale for pedestrian, maximize the area of streetfacing building, place for entertainment or rest along the street, market inside the block.

Affordable and comfortable - Minimum the space for each room to make them affordable while keep it comfortable, make groups and subgroups to share some public space and facilities.

Multiple public space- There will be public space in different size and quality in this block, like stadium, greenbelt, street, undefined space.

STEP 1

Making two storey basic block for public space follows the shape of the site.

STEP 2

Adding three main street through the site. One of them connect the main street below and the warehouse. we make a hole in the old building to connect the street on the north. Another two are in the same direction, one is the gap between the existing buildings and the new community, another one connect the intersection and footbridge to the river beach.

STEP 3

After breaking the site into four blocks, we make seveal courtyard in different parts with specific spatial characteristics. Some of them are opened to the public, some of them are only serve the people living in this community and we put units for elderly people around thiese courtyard.

STEP 4

After adding the courtyard, we add several small alley connecting the main street with different courtyards. Their scale is the same as that of Lifen.

STEP 5

Making the first platform on the second floor by adding severl bridges connect different blocks. At this level, we want to guide the crowd to gather in the center of this area.

STEP 6

Adding family units and the apartment block

STEP 7

Connecting different blocks on forth floor with a jogging path, which provid people a space to do some exercise. other space on this floor can be used for other types of exercise like table tennis or leisure activities. In the future, more residential units can be added in this floor if needed due to the advantage of prefabircation.

STEP 8

Adding youth blocks on the top. Considering the sunshine conditions of the elderly housing on the ground floor, we design different units into different heights and take good use of the roof as drying and planting space.

Massing Generation

Street Life In 21th Century

We hope to provide a affordable and comfortable place for people in the city who are constantly struggling for their livelihood and dreams, or whose old houses are too shabby to live in. We want them to feel the warmth and happiness in the street life, and use these accommodations as stepping stone to lead a more wonderful life.

SITE PLAN -- NEW TYPE OF STREET LIFE

we would like to build more horizontal connectinonbetween people rather than vertical. we learn from the scale and lifestlye in Lifen and the old street, also the improvement of modern buildings like better sunlight, facilities, structure and thermal environment. Trying to find a new type of street life.

In the general plan, we took into account the location of the bus station and subway station near our site and the important attraction of the river beach green belt. So we set up a leisure square open to the public, and determined the connection position of the pedestrian bridge. This safe and convenient pedestrian bridge replaces the driveway with many underground garage entrances below it.

At the same time, the two short cuts passing through our site open up the north and south and east and west, so that people who rent in this community can easily commute and enjoy the museum, parking lot and the green space of the river beach.

PREFABRICATION & MODULAR CONSTRUCTION

1. BUILDING STRUCTURAL FRAME

5. ADDING METAL MESH

2. ADDING UNITS & FLOOR

METAL FRAME

INSULATION LAYER

CEILING BOARD

INTERIOR FACADE BOARD

INSULATION LAYER

STRUCTURE PACKING OUTSIDE BOARD

CEMENT LAYER

INSULATION LAYER

CONCRETE LAYER

WAVE STEEL PLATE

METAL FRAME

3. ADDING INSULATION LAYERS

4. ADDING FACADE BOARDS

Explosion Drawing Of One Block

WOOD FLOOR

The whole building excapt the commercial space in first two floor are pre-fabricated. We plan to build the steel frame in standard module first, and then transporting all living units to our site and hoisting them to the right space after they are produced all living units in the factory in Wuhan. Prefabrication give us great flexibility to change different types of units following the need of different age groups and adding and reducing the number of units at any times without bring bad effect to the whole sturcture system.

Explosion Drawing Of One Unit

SUBGROUP OF YOUTH BLOCKS FLOOR TWO

DESIGN OF UNITS & SUBGROUPS

we make our programming according to our anylasis about how the need of renting houses differs by ages which help us to decide the housing types ratio. 4 classes of units are designed according to the programming for our different age level: Youth, Family, Elderly and Workers. We keep our intention which is to balance cost and quality during the design process. There are 13 types of units severed different people and several units will be organized as a subgroup with sharing spaces like living rooms, kitchens or courtyards.

Floor board

Water proof layer

Wave steel plate

I shape steel beam

Elevation board

Insulation layer

Outside board of unit

Structure packing & insulation layer

Interior facade board

Wood floor or tile

Cement plaster

Insulation layer

Wave steel plate

I shape steel beam with hole

Pipes for water and electric wire

Concrete overlap layer

Steel column

Steel beam

Connection panel

Elevation board

Insulation layer

Separation board

Reinforce concrete beam

One Last Dedication

Sky Burial Center on Yamdrok Lake

Individual Work Site: Tibet, China Time: Sep 2022

Sky burial in Tibet is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to be eaten by vulture. This project focus on exploring a design possbility of sky burial platform with religious and public space around it. The whole complex combines post-modernism and the spiritual core of Buddhism. I hope this project can not only provide a proper space for the rite, but also helping the public to understand sky burial.

The site I chose was on Yamdrok Lake, which is known as the three holy lakes in Tibet along with Namtso and Manasarovar Lake. There is a holy mountain (Noijin Kangsang) to the west and a Buddhist temple (Sandin Temple) on the south, which means this is an appropriate site for sky burial.

Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds. It is a specific type of the general practice of excarnation. It is practiced in the Chinese provinces and autonomous regions of Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia. Sky burial has its roots in Benzoic and animist theory, which reflects the Tibetan people's faith in the sky and the sun, the pursuit of happiness in the afterlife and the world view of equality of all beings.

Some people think this kind of burial is too bloody and cruel, but in fact, I think this is a kind of misunderstanding. Sky burial reflects the Tibetan people's most simple feelings towards nature. Due to the fact that the Tibetan Plateau region has a harsh climate, the Tibetan people are very grateful to nature for giving them food while they are alive, so they return their favor by dedicateing their bodies to the creatures of nature when they die.

Mandala

A mandala is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In Buddhism, it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shinto, paradises, kami or actual shrines. A mandala generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the core, through layers.

The spiritual meaning and typology of mandala give me an inspiration of the organization of the sky burial platform and other minor spaces - a centripetal space surrounded by layers, which can improve the sanctity of the core

First Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

The whole plan has a strong centrality, from the outer layer to inner layer space gradually changing from chaos to order. Ths sky burial platform located at the centre which is the most sacred space. The middle layers carries the functions of a buddhist temple. The functions of outer layer are more secular, mainly serving tourists. Different layers are separated by water and channel for the turning scripture.