2013 - 2018 Selected Works of
Fu Zhihang
As we design architecture, we are also making clear expressions of our position in the world where we dwell.
In my academic design projects, the pursuit of genuine interpretation of people's good intetions comes earlier than beauty of forms.
Architecture of good intensions
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Architecture has the possibility of altering space to interact with surrounding world in all kinds of ways. But genuine, good-willed initial desires and intentions should be preferred.
Contents
I consider architecture as the medium through which we illustrate, fulfill, and get along with our desires. And the mission of architecture is to transform human desires into physical shapes.
1 Spatium & Extension provide a view of history in an objective and progressive way 6 7 Living with the city reconciliate the call of public space and requests of a high-class Inn 12 Totalitarism & beneath 13 growth of free-will between Beijing's traditional/present and new centers 18 Place for a Talk 19 use natural light to create a place for communications 24 25 Lightening Moment bonding teporary dwellers together with a light installation 27
28 Miscellaneous additional architectural works & fine art works 29
spatium & extension Provide a view of history in an objective and progressive way Site: Luding Bridge, Sichuan Province Cultural background: Tibetan, Han, Qiang, Yi and other ethnic groups Studio Work, Tsinghua University Area: 950 ㎥ Tutor: Wang Hui Independent work
As the part of the dividing of Tibetan Plateau and Sichuan Basin, Dadu River is Also the dividing of Tibetan Ethnic group and Han Ethnic group. In Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Emperor ordered to build Luding Bridge in this area, as a demonstration of conquest. This Bridge, with its construction as a trigger point, later witnessed the collision and blending of different culture and people.
Site conditions Luding County is an ancient dwelling place for people from different regions—Han, Yi, Tibetan and some others. Geographically, it is in the deep river valley of Dadu River, in Hengduan Mountains, which is the dividing of Tibetan Plateau and Sichuan Basin.
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Roads & Streets Sichuan-Tibet Road
Luding Bridge had been the only transportation across the river until the construction of a road bridge in 1950.
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Han ethnic group
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Historic Fragment
Historic Fragment
Historic Fragment
Historic Fragment
Gathering of Four-fold As Martin Heidegger talked about, We human beings are mortals, who dwell on this earth for limited time. The other three elements of the fourfold—Earth, Sky, Divinities—need us to pay respects. On the Tibetan Plateau, local dwellers pays so much respect to the Mountains and Rivers on their land that most of their folk and regional myths and legends are relevant to these sacred landscapes. This site, put aside the long history and complicated regional background, is itself a typical example of the gathering of Heidegger's four-fold. Ludind Bridge, crossing Dadu River in a valley, where people have dwelled for thousands of years. Every element, the Sky, the Earth, the moutains, mortals, and of course the river all gathers around the bridge. It is a place that urges us to preseve this purity of nature in dwelling. Museum here, is also a thing that is gathered by the existence of the bridge. And itself is another gathering of the past, present and future. It provides a place to view the historical changes, and as well future possibilities as it gathers the historic evidences, present people and residents who are going into the future right here.
Juxtaposition of historical segments
Tibetan Area militarily and religiously
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people of Yi and Tibetan ethnic groups
history in flames of war
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illustrate 1705-1706 Qing Dynasty
Conquest & Construction
1863 Taiping Revolution
Access Denied
1935.05 Long March
Yihai Alliance & Entry
Establishment
the past
The bridge gathers the
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General Shi Dakai
Mao Zedong
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Long March
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nd; for it gathers the fourfold in such a way that it allows a site for it. But only something that is make space for a site. As such a thing, it allows a space into which earth and heaven, divinities and mortals
e allowed by the bridge contains many places variously near or far from the bridge... nearness and n and things can become mere intervals of intervening space... it is no longer a spatium, but now no more on.
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Museum is a thing, gathered by Luding Bridge, gathering memories of the bridge, and juxtaposing these memories to view the spatium and extension.
1. Exhibition Room 1 2. Exhibition Room 2 3. Exhibition Room 3 4. Restroom 5. Entrance Bridge
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1. Exhibition Room 4 2. Shop & Lounge 3. Storeroom 4. Restroom 5. Exhibits Entrance
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Site Plan
HISTORY SEGMENTS and their relationships become vague, vary with perspectives
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Section 2
The experience visiting this museum is constantly traveling into and out of history slices — abstractions of the past near Luding Bridge. Meanwhile, the existence of a local path is percepted now and then. In this way, histories, as well as "places", are gathered, mixed and extended.
Section 3
West Facade
East Facade
Ceiling & Roof windows
Stone Wall The use of stones is an significant traditional tectonic way of Tibetan People, with connections with not only cultural, but religious customs.
Other componets windows, doors, handrails, timber planks, elevator
Floors & Stairs a loop of visiting path, which repeatedly travels through history slices, and is separated from staff area.
Concrete Wall steel structures and equipments are contained inside
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Laying stones
traditional way of Tibetan construction
1. gutter, aluminium 2. stones 3. bricks 4. 18# I-steel 5. 20 mm screed, trowelled 6. 60 mm screed, reinforced 7. 30 mm underfloor heating in insulation polythene membrane
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Pouring concrete
between inner structure and wooden formwork
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gutter, aluminium 18# I-steel electronic cables window lintel: 2 mm tin-coated steel with steel flat anchor steel doorfram of sliding door 20 mm screed, trowelled 60 mm screed, reinforced 30 mm underfloor heating in insulation polythene membrane
Living with the city Reconciliate the call of public space and requests of a high-class Inn Site: Haidian District, Beijing City next to Wudaokou Metro Station Area: 43500 ㎥ Studio Work, Tsinghua University Tutor: Boying Liu Independent work
10 min's Walk
20 min's Walk
25 min's Walk
Universities Technology & Commercial Areas
Metro Lines Site The Hotel Site, connected with other parts of Beijing City by No.13 Metro Line, is surrounded by a group of Universities and Technology Areas Office
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Hotel Commercial
Commercial Metro
School
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Commercial
Resident School
North and South Facades of Chengfu Road
Residential Area
Highway
Tsinghua University Wudaokou College of Finance
Wudaokou Metro Station
SITE
Bufenglianhua Shopping Center
Residential Area
HOTEL FUNCTIONS ANALYSIS 1
HOTEL-PRIVATE H=13~85m
Hotel Rooms
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HOTEL-PUBLIC H=0~13m
Restaurant
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SHARE WITH CITY H=-3~13m
Entertainments
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CITY FUNCTIONS H=-3~3m
Shopping
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BUILDING FACILITY H=-13~-3m
Garage
Service Storage
Kitchen
Bar
Cafe
Exercise Meetings
Food&Drink
Machines
Laundry
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5 Different areas are placed vertically according to need and their relationship with the city. Then by transforming them, they all gain separated acesses from outside.
Continuous, curved curtain wall provide both hotel rooms and public spaces with adequate Sunlight from the east side, while the straight west facade faces more serious areas as schools and office buildings.
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Keep the Spaces of Streets Complete, Both on ground and in the air
Convoluted paths, Red for Pedestrian, Brown for cars, yellow for guests
Vertical Trasportation Skin Curtain Wall
84. 3m 77. 5m 70. 7m 63. 9m 57. 1m 50. 3m 43. 5m 36. 7m 29. 9m 23. 1m
City Access
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Hotel-Public
City Access Building Fcilities
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Ground Floor Plan
+3.3m Plan
+8.7m Plan
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Main Hall Perspective
North Facade
a.1-bed room guests' rooms
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Totalitarism & Beneath Growth of free-will between Beijing's traditional/present and new centers Urban Design Site: Beijing City, on bank of Tonghui River, old rail yard areas Site Area: 54 hectares Studio Work, Tsinghua University Tutor: Zongbo Tan Independent work
Migration of Power Tongzhou District is a district of Beijing. It is located in southeast Beijing and considered the eastern gateway to the nation's capital. Downtown Tongzhou itself lies around 20 km east of central Beijing, at the northern end of the Grand Canal (on the junction between the Tonghui Canal and the Northern Canal) and at the easternmost end of Chang'an Avenue. As is in the new urban plan for Beijing City, Tongzhou District was considered the new technological, economic and social center, while the traditional center in Beijing will become the administrative center of the Central People's Government.
Site / CBD on the other side of the river
Old Center (Tiananmen)
New social and technological Center moving here
Beijing-Tangshan Inter-city Railway A fast (350km/h) railway connecting Beijing, Tongzhou District and Tangshan. Some of its stations will use the existing stations (Beijing Station, Tongzhou Station, Yanjiao Station, Tangshan Station) of old railway lines, others new ones to be bulit.
Blocked Area The site is a middle area between Beijing Central District of Business in north and residential areas in south. With rail yards occupying it, the site is isolated, and separates north and south.
A new station to be constructed
Blocked north and south areas are separated by the rail yard
Stitch the new plan should provide with connections between separated areas
Regional Analysis
Anticipated groups to occupy SIte
Railway Rail Lines Rail Yards
Neighborhood Residents Area: in south of the site Estimated polulation: 60000
Metro Lines Metro Routes Metro Stations
Greenland Public & Non-public Greenlands
Slum areas Area: in west and east sides Estimated polulation: 20000
Businessmen Beijing CBD, the secondary core area in Beijing's International Financial Center Development strategic plan, is in north of the site.
Main Roads North-South East-West
As an important transit, the rail will carry workers to or come for works, bringing huge amount of population come and go.
City Functions CBD Area Risidential
Shoppers along the rail Once shopping places are set up as planned here, shoppers along ther rail would come here for shopping.
Time span of different groups
Neighborhood Residents
Existing Slum
Businessmen
Workers by Rail
Shoppers along Rail
Tourists of the city
I always come here for social activities with clients. As a commuter station, access to all public transportations is very important. We enjoy the river view and can do some shoppings, too.
After several decades of city evolvement, the site originally occupied by the rail yard is no longer an outlying area, and would gain new functions as the new inter-city railway's construction begins. People around this busy part of Beijing and travelers along the new railway would come to occupy this space, each group with their own needs and demands.
Part 1 - Inter-city Rail Station
Waiting Hall
Stores & Exhibition
Ticket Hall
Part 2 - Commercial Area
Bars
Restraurnat
Hotel
Retail Pavilion Vegetables Shop
Supermarket
Specialty Shop
The structure of main griders which falls to the ground resembles archs, revealing sunlight.
River-view Tea-house
The sub-buildings below the overlaying roof are freelyorganized and could be constantly re-constructed.
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Workers living along the rail line coming here every morning
People working in the CEB come for food, social life and everyday shoppings
Families living around come for shopping and a walk along river
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Rail Station Entrance Plaza
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The 3rd Ring Road
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Beijing CBD By rail transport, the station has connection between almost everywhere in Beijing.
Shoppers all along the rail
Workers and Busineesman in the CBD go home through the rail at night
The overlaying roof not only provides a space for all kinds of retail commerces, but also controls the affections of burning sun of Beijing Summers and rains.
controlled sunlight
no rains
Upper-classed Residential Areas
CBD Working Buildings
Shopping Inter-city Railway
To Subway Rail Bus Station Station Station
Parking Tonghui River
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Place for a talk Use of natural light to create a place for communications Site: Tsinghua University, in backyard of Tsinghua School Area: 700 ㎥ Studio Work, Tsinghua University Tutor: Pei Zhu Completed in collaboration with: Chen Jiahe, Cong Han
SITE
Gongzi Hall
Tsinghua Auditorium
Tongfang Center
Tsinghua School
Construction:
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Construction:
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1909, 1916
Functions: Summer Palace Teachers' Dorm Office Building
Site Area: 10000 ㎡
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Functions:
Auditorium Meetings
Worship Assembly Alumni Association
Teaching Building Study Hall Office Building
Site Area:
Site Area:
Site Area:
350 ㎡
1900 ㎡
Functions:
1150 ㎡
Kimbell Museum Study: reproduction of the arched celling delicately designed to lead the outside world in.
Classroom
Lecture Hall
Canteen
Dormitory
Stereotypes
As a traditional University, Tsinghua has all the usual places for communications. However, These places are actually restrictions rather than inspirations for students' and teachers' creativities, because they all so stereotyped and predictable, which, in another words, means dull. Therefore, we intended to create a place for more communication types that fits human nature better. Moreover, the new communication place's relationship with the old ones in the surrounding would also be an inspiring feature.
the reproduction of one half of the vaults from Kimbell Musuem.
What a thing will look like will not be the same, but what it is answering will be the same. It is a world within a world; that is what it will always be. ——Louis Khan The umbilical stalk of a fetus, as well as the skylight from the dorm of Pantheon, transmit the infinite outside world to the inside.
Authentic Conversation: Talking as honest adults.
Blameless Conversation: Talking without blaming.
Romance Conversations: Building affection.
Bonding Conversations: Building social connection.
Status Conversations: Seeking recognition or superiority.
Top: The relationships between human beings during a conversation can be concluded into 5 types Below: Experimental models. Indirect lumination through reflection indicates the outside Universe and the pass of time, and create different atmospheres of emotions.
Light & Emotions There is an undeniable correlation between Light and Human Emotions. Different approaches of light to people would trigger different inner impulsions, thus creating places for varies styles of conversation.
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1. Status Conversations: Seeking recognition or superiority. 2. Romance Conversations: Building affection. 3. Blameless Conversation: Talking without blaming. 4. Bonding Conversations: Building social connection. 5. Authentic Conversation: Talking as honest adults.
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Section B-B
Axometric View
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Lightening Moment Bonding teporary dwellers together with a light installation Site: Beijing City, 5th Ring Road Viaducts installation design Team work Completed in collaboration with: Yi Xu, Siqi Tang
Instruction More and more people are approaching Beijing, the Capital City of China, for reasons such as better self-developments. These so called "Beijing drifters" cannot straightforwardly settle in prosperous parts of the city, so most of them gathers around the 5th Ring Road and nearby areas for temporary habitancy. Therefore, these places are never treated carefully, or even just as "a place for sleeping", as everyone prepare to leave in one or two years. We try to create more sense of blonging for these temperal settlers and bond them together by a simple movement. By creating a "lightened moment" which travels everyday around the 5th Ring Road along vaiducts, we bring to them the sense of sharing something with each other as well as awareness of time flying.
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Sun's orbit
There is an invisible boarder for BeijingDrifters. Anyone who fails to enter that can only be a temporary settler.
Bonding Temporary Settlers
The Moment 07:00
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viaduct bottom at one place
Pieces of cloth, painted with reflective coatings, is attached to the rails of viaducts. They fluctuate and swing in wind along the bridges, bringing waves of light into darkness. When sunlight goes in the same horizontal direction with any part of the viaducts, the "lightened moment" would appear there. Fixed joint Reflective Cloth Wood
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Steel Bar
optical character of Parabola
Rotatable Joint (less than 5°)
Rail of Viaducts
parabola parabola parabola
attachment to viaducts
Joints in detail
Miscellaneous—Architectural
Grade distribution of statistics
Preferred places of studying by oneself
Statistics: Most students prefer libraries, no.6 teaching building. teaching buildings in site are note preferred.
01 Transformation Plan for teaching buildings We were bored with the stereotyped teaching buildings full with traditional classrooms -- always a platform in the front and seats facing it. So we proposed this transformation plan. We added new open zones for discussion and Internet-based educations, meanwhile connecting them together. in collaboration with: Tang Shitong, Liu Tong, Yu Borou, Wangwen
02 Activity Center Communication is sacred, especially in an university. It is through communication that we pass our knowledges on to one generation after another. The activity center is a communication place mostly for students, without the interuption from professors. I tried to provide spaces that are both open enough for communication and differ from each other to contain different activities. Meanwhile, with 9 major light entrances, all students share the same light environment in this center.
03 Lift Pavilion The pavilion is the simulation of a piece of lifted grassland, with the structure that spread out from its center to gradually approach to the surface. The pavilion is also an extra entrance of Tsinghua Auditorium for evacuation when too crowded.
Right: structure selection Top: skin selection
Miscellaneous—Fine
Art
Calligraphy - draw from Lantingji Xu, an ancient piece by Wang Xizhi
Photography - Things, Lights & Places
Photography to me is the means of recording what I care and what I feel. Therefore, everyday resources are as important as thoese o
Collage work
of well-planned travelings.
How would it be like if our famous architectures join together and make a brand-new city? The answer is nothing seems wired. This is a period when “starchitects� travels all around the world to create designs in different regions. They have their own ways of handling different realities, and these handlings do work out. But who do they work for? What do local people think about these architectures? As much as I know, even though they think they should care more about the road under their feet, they are leaving that pure idea of dwelling, and walking into this dazzling world.
Thanks for your reading FU Zhihangď˝œB.Arch, Tsinghua Univ. Contacts mail: fuzhihang6829@gmail.com Tel: +86 18811363905