Junfeng mao portfolio

Junfeng Mao

Portfolio

Master of Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology

[ CNT Cultural Center ]

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—Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago

[ New School of Architecture ]

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—New Building for Architecture Department, Beijing

[ Qing Yuan Community Renovation ]

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—Qing Yuan Residential District Reconstruction, Tianjin

[ Dome City ]

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—New City Prototype for Panama Canal, Panama

[ Other Works ]

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CNT Cultural Center

Project is located in the area in between Lincoln Park and Bucktown nearby the north Chicago river. Since replanning the old Finkl factory area as a new high-tech sustainable neighborhood, we treat the new cultural center as a way to promote learning and inspiration pertaining to living in the city by rethinking neighborhood and reinforcing the potential connection between CNT (The Center for Neighborhood Technology is an existing nonprofit research and advocacy organization committed to improving urban economies and environments across the United States. They do this through innovation and by researching and analyzing urban problems, testing and promoting economically efficient and environmentally sound solutions, and demonstrating the value of investing in sustainable solutions) and public, community and neighborhoods.

Serving the whole neighborhood, the CNT cultural center has to find its place in the new planning space; between Chicago's most busiest transportation hubs and a hybrid market hall. This is the context in which the cultural center has proven itself with understanding of the character of the region and especially the historical expression.As the site previously set to be a park as public activity area, we need to carefully think about how the center merges into the city texture without damaging the original intent and views.

Analyzing the project, we finally decide to leave design less modified and place the CNT culture center below the ground. This introduces another problem that we need to deal with, the underground water. Impacting the budget for the neighborhood, we limited the subterranean part our building within one floor.

As a design idea, we divide the building into three parts: Civic Center, Library and CNT Offices.

All of them are arranged in a continuous loop around the main courtyard which makes the use of spaces more efficient and interactivity well. Additionally, due to the demands of people in different daytime, we set different multi-functional spaces such as auditorium in the Civic center, classrooms and conference rooms in the CNT. At the same time, for identifying the cultural center as a visual land mark, we extrude two glass box playing as entrances and a monumental chimney serving as landmark which also generate more nature light and increase the ventilation.

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Existing Condition and Concept

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1 Lobby 2 Gallery 3 CNT Gallery 4 Cafe 5 Kitchen 6 Library 7 Multi-Funtional Auditorium 8 Control Room 9 Storage 10 Administration Offices 11 Confference Room 12 CNT Office 13 Workshop 14 MEP Room 15 Parking Space 16 Tunnel 17 Loading Deck

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Section 5

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Flashing 1/2" Finish Layer 2" Drainage Layer 1/4" Protection Fabric 1" Corrugated Plate Water Proof Layer 1" Insulation

2" Plastic Ceiling

Glass Ribs

5" Concrete Floor Slab with Heating Tubing 2" Rigid Foam Insulation under Entire Slab

Waterproof Membrain

4" Granular Capillary Break and Drainage Pad

Drainage and Natural Ventilation Deck

Soil

Main Entrance Hall Section

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Main Entrance Hall Perspective

Main Lobby Perspective

Interior Perspective of Landscape 08

Landscape Trees

Wetland Grasses

Shurbs

Ornamental Grasses

Crabapple

Gray Birch

Wild Blue Iris

Spartina Pectinata

Panical Hydrangea

Aromatic Aster

Kentucky Coffee Tree

Liitleleaf Linden

Indian Grass

Indian Grass

Redoiser Dogwood

Prairie Dropseed

Trombe Wall and Radiant System

Electric Wire Chilled Water Supply

1/2" Cooling Coil Tube

Chilled Water Return

Glazing 1/4" Clear Glass 1/2" Argon Filled Space 1/4" Clear Glass

Cooling Coil

2'-6" Air Gap For Thermal Storage Trombe Wall 8" * 16" * 8" Concrete Masion Unit # 5 Ve r t i c a l R e b a r Continuous Concrete Solid Filled Cells

Diffuser

Heating Coil

5/8" Heating Coil Tube

Auditorium Glazing and Rooftop 1/8" METAL CAP FLASHING

GRAVEL 1/4" PERFORATED ALUMINUM CURB 1/8" CONTINUOUS METAL GUTTER

pea gravel makes up 2/3 of the filter bed

SCREW WITH STEEL & NEOPRENE WASHERS

rock forms 1/3 of the filter bed water is pumped to the bottom Impermeable liner

9" SOIL 1/2" THICK FILTER MEMBRAN 2" THICK DRAINAGE LAYER 1/4" PROTECTION FABRIC 1/4" ROOT-RESISTANT WATERPROOF BASE SHEET MEMBRANE 1" INSULATION 45 DEGREE STEEL CANT STRIP

Drainage pad Soil

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Rigid insulation as bond break material

5" Concrete Floor Slab with heating tubing

Concrete foundation wall

4" Granular capillary break and drainage pad

1" Rigid foam insulation under entire slab

Filter fabric surrounding coarse gravel 4"Ø Perforated drain pipe

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Concrete footing

1/4" VAPOR BARRIER 2" TOPPING CONCRETE 4" CONCRETE

New School of Architecture

The project is located in new campus of Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture .Surrounded by the Qingyuan Road, Luqiu Road and Xiyong Road, the university is only two kilometers away from the new city center. As one of the best architectural schools in Beijing, we propose the new architecture department building to be an experiment which makes we rethink about how to define the school and what it should be under contemporary social culture.

By redefining the information and communication ways in the building, we mutiply and mix different fuctions in and outside building. By reforming the traditional space, we create a new way to speculate how creativity happens among space, teaching, students, professors and environment.

Designed for serving the whole campus, the new architecture department building has to meet the requirement of quiet inner learning space and public connection within the university. We need to carefully balance those two conflicting context and aggregate them.Finally, we decided to create a mega-structure which presents a new manifesto that provokes people to rethink about architecture under the contemporary social and culture contest with a public landscape terrace inserting inside.

The building is comprised of four main components: an entrance hall, a three-story architecture studio and classroom chunk, a two-story office and workshop mass and a media center, all linked seamlessly into the Mega-Structure.

The six-story high entrance hall hosts both main circulation core and exhibition space with an atrium. It provides different oportunities to learn how to observe objects from distinct aspects.

Arranged in a terraced form, studio space offers more chances for communication. Seperated form main teaching space, workshops and offices are located on the first and second floor covering with curved public landscape platform surface.The Media Center is another multifunctional geometry whose interior serves with media classroom and auditorium and exterior is paneled with LED screens for hosting public events.

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Site and Surrounding

The Temple of Heaven

CCTV Headquater

Center of Lu City

University Library

Beijing Student Center

DaXing District

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Main Classroom Center

Forest Park Nest Beijing Olympic Stadium

Dormitory

View Effect

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Visual Connection

Parking Space

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Main Circulation Connection

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Program Concept and Arrangement Studio Serving

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Classroom

Classroom

Interior Concept

Serving

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Public Space

Office Serving

Office

Exhibition

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Terrace

Exhibition Serving

Office Serving Classroom Workshop Serving

Autrium

Studio

Inspirated by the nature contour and concave in the mountain, I try to diversify the inner space for different activities. The terraces and autrium can provide more oppotunities to communicate and house for exhibition and public events. In the meanwhile, when these forms are utilized in the building, the identity of the room can be distinguished immediately.

Exhibition

Research Rooms

Studnet Center Studios

Workshops

Media

Exterior Concept

Recreation

Patio Public Space

Library

Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Offices

Contrast

Dissolution

Perspective from Northwest Corner 13

Reinforcement

Public Platform/Offices/Workshops

Studios/Seminars/Library/ Exhibitions/Classroom/ Recreation

Studios/Seminar/Media

First Floor

Third Floor

Fourth Floor

Fifth Floor

Perspective from Northeast Corner 14

Three Main Cores

Main Circulation

Steel Hollow Column Reinforcement Rib

Outside Air 5mm Aluminum Panel Air Exchage

Assembling glazing with membrain and aluminum panel, the facade can weak the strong day light and provide relatively comfortable native lumination. In the meanwhile, by infilling the air between membrane and glazing, the interior thermal comfort can be garenteed with less machanical ventilation.

Double Insulation

Classroom Interior

Facade Detail and Daylight Estimation

Structural System

Reacreation

Studios

Studios

Studios

Classroom

Reacreation

Classroom

Main Core

Entrance Hall

Exhibition

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Offices

Qing Yuan Community Renovation

The project is located in Hongqiao District, Tianjin. Built in the 1970s, the old community setting is facing many problems. Lacking enough facilities and infilled with a popular self-organised street market and violated parking destroyed the inner living condition. Low-rent, dirty and chaotic apartments have attracted workers who are migrants from other provinces. Senior residents don't have enough working out space to exercise. Low greening landscape has made the entire environment lifeless.

In the project, we attempt to find a more sufficient way to deal with the existing problems.

Starting to think about population type, we find it is an opportunities to renovate the old community into social housing project. On one hand, it creates apartment diversity to meet needs of immigrant workers and senior residents. On other hand, we could rearrange spaces to deal with existing market and create more efficient public playgrounds and plazas.

Contrasting to the traditional way, we distribute different functions vertically. We have located public spaces, landscape and market on the first floor. Above is the corridor which is used for the transportation and communication. Residential units are at the top. At the same time, meeting social needs of distinct houses, different parts have flexiblity which corresponds to residential requirements. The community will be revitalized again instead of being discarded by the society.

Analysing Chinese classical landscape drawing, we use a new perspective to slice the different layers which helps indentify a new spacial arrangement. In the drawing, the main buildings that seem isolated are integrated by the yards, trees and paths. If arranged in this way, the new community may enhence the relationship with the context. In the meanwhile, the drawing techniques and traditional landscape also show an optical concept - “Glance”, which is contrast to the western “Gaze”. It gives us multiple perspectives to sense and renders the flexible spaces. We hope to use this way to create a new community belonging.

Applying two-direction precast living unit prototypes, we create a different variety of apartment layouts to meet the needs for social housing. Insipired by Chinese classic lattice, We research the possiblity of arranging different types of residential units. Contrast to the traditional vertical and horizontal circulation, we add a new diagonal-like route which makes the proto-unit more flexible to aggregate. By doing so, we increase the efficiency for using the vacant space when residents move in and out.

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Perspective from South Entrance

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Low use public activity spaces with Absensing enough public activityfilled spaces parking result in the residential and filledcars with the parking cars, the residistrict losing its vitality dential district is losing its vitality

Low price and easy access enable the selforganised market earning popularity among local residents. People got used to buy daily vegetables in the morning and after work.

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Underground Parking Entrance

Market Entrance A

Residential Units

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Market Entrance

Landscape/Public Space

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Urban Green Space

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Residential District Entrance

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Space Partition

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In the project, we attempt to find a more sufficient way to deal with the existing problems. Contrasting to the traditional way, we distribute different functions vertically. Public spaces, landscape and market locate on the first floor. Above is the corridor which is used for the transportation and conmunication.

Residential units are at the top. At the same time, meeting social needs of distinct houses, different parts owns their flexiblity which corresponds to residential requirements. The community will be revitalized again instead of being discarded by the society.

Xianyang South Street

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Landscape/Public Space Stragegy

HanYuan Palace, Lee Rong Jin, Yuan Dynasty

Analysing Chinese classical landscape drawing, we use a new perspective to slice the different layers which helps indentify a new spacial arrangement. In the drawing, the main buildings that seem isolated are integrated by the yards, trees and paths. If arranged in this way, the new community may hence the relationship with the context.

In the meanwhile, the drawing techniques and traditional lanscape also show an optical concept - “Glance”, which is contrast to the western “Gaze”.It gives us multiple perspectives to sense and renders the flexible spaces. We hope to use this way to create new public environment .

窥 Different scenaries obtained through jogging encourage residents to keep moving in the landscape system which offers more possiblities for the public activies. Intergrated bottom structure with such senario, the form is given more meanings and dissolve into the context.

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Perspective from Bottom Public Space 19

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Winter

Residential Unit Stragegy 4.5M Applying two-direction procast living unit prototype, we create different variety of apartment to meet the needs for soical housing. Insipired by Chinese classic lattice, We reaserch the possiblity of arranging different types of residential units. Contrast to the traditional vertical and horizontal circulation, we add a new diagnal-like route which makes the proto-unit more fexible to aggregate. By doing so, we increase the efficiency for using the vacant space when residents move in and out.

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Entrance/ Service Room/ Corridor Main Room Stairs Terrace

Double Assembled Unit

Triple Assembled Unit

Facade Layout

Unit Layout

Pipe Tunnel

Perspective from Leveled Up Corridor 20

Floor MEP Pipe

Column

Pipe Tunnel

Procast Panel

Column

Apartment Types

Residential Units

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Structure Conversion Layer

2B2B

Corridor

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2B2B

Concrete Supporter Circulation Core Parking Entrance Market

Tennis Court Public Event 2B2B

2B2B

Underground Parking

Units Fully Loaded Section A - A 21

Dome City

The international shipping industry carries around 90% of the world trade, bringing benefits for consumers across the world. However, the seaborne process remained invisible and imperceptible to most people. In Panama, dozens of ships, more than the amount at the majority of ports, wait from 12 hours to 11 days to enter the Panama Canal in front of its Pacific entrance, which creates an opportunity to establish a megastructure for the spectacle of logistics on water. Our target nomads, tourists coming to see this spectacle, will encounter seafarers traveling on the cargo ships and local fishers passing the area in their temporary settlement at the Dome City.

The technical constraints of a ship’s turning circle and stopping route generate patterns at the water level so that we can populate the ships’ waiting area with our megastructures. The expansion of the lock at Panama Canal makes it possible for the New Panamax cargo ships to pass through, which provides us the maximum size to accommodate for the spectacle.

We chose the circle as our base geometry because of its autonomous and non-directional quality in consistent with the nature of oceans. The minimum urban unit is one dome with one New Panamax of 366m or one tanker of 200m in the interior and several parking spaces for smaller cruise and fishing vessels at its feet. The three feet of the dome act as the entering points for the nomads and supplies. The city is rooted in the infrastructure for ships and grows on the surface of the dome structure, gradually changing from infrastructure of the logistics to the infrastructure for water management, and finally to the infrastructure of urban living.

As opposed to traditional zoning, the locations of each urban program in the Dome City are decided by form generated by a series of operations. Circular plates are distributed from the foot across the dome surface by a random walk model customized to the type of nomads, their population and time of stay respectively. In such way, on the upper levels, circles will intersect with each other so that programs and spaces will be all tied together. The intersections give us the possibility to create interior circulation for logistic supply and high-ceiling spaces for public program (e.g. threatre). On the interior, we use holes to reduce the depth of large plates allowing access to air and light and also creating views to the lower levels. While on the exterior, we use terraces of different height to soften the autonomy of independent circles on various levels. Then the programs are put in according to the dimension, form and edge conditions with a hierarchy from water management infrastructure and logistic circulation to urban living components. Terraces of 0.2m to 8m function as stairs, wading pool, water collection pool, water purifying landscape, theatre, market restaurant, living units and storage for supplies.

Various living conditions give characteristics to the units. There are units with individual balcony, units with shared garden, units with double storeys, and units consisting of cluster of rooms and surrounding by balcony. Those units of standard room, double room, suite and apartment forms different types of communities, which in return shapes the form of the Dome City.

By doing so, rich hybrid conditions of urban living will be created for this fantasy of infrastructural spectacle.

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Existing Condition and Ship Size Reaserch

Distance: 12.65km

250m x 32m x 12.5m

Panamax

270m x 32m x 12.5m

Panamax Max

270m x 35m x 13.5m

Post Panamax

Diameter: 6.3km

385m x 48.7m x 15.2m

Usual Stopping Ships: 35 Maximum : 105

Post Panamax Plus

379m x 56m x 15.5m

New Panamax

427m x 55m x 18.3m

Post New Panamax

Stopping and Staying Map

Stop Route Type A

Stop Route Type B

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Settlement Probability Staying Durantion

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 12H + Location : 36

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location : 44

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 3 Days + Location: 46

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 5 Days + Location: 49

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 7 Days + Location : 56

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 9 Days +Location : 60

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 10 Days + Location: 65

+ Population : 500 + Durantion : 11 Days + Location: 71

+ Population : 100 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location : 30

+ Population : 200 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location : 36

+ Population : 400 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location: 40

+ Population : 600 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location: 44

+ Population : 800 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location : 59

+ Population : 1000 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location : 70

+ Population : 1200 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location: 90

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 2 Days + Location: 103

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 10M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 12M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 15M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 18M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 21M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 24M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 27M

+ Population : 1500 + Durantion : 12H-11Days + Location : 80 + Group Radius : 30M

Settlement Probability Population Variation

Settlement Field Radius Variation

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Water Infrasturcture Formation

Extruding the settlement field circle from three freet, we transform dome surface into aggregation of dise-like unsubdivided forms. Starting looking into how water flowing and concentrate on the surface, we generate the basic infrastructure for the minimum urban unit.

Water Flowing Direction

Water Collector Height: 0.6m

Water Treatment Height: 1m

Infrastructure Assembling Water collection,Water Treament and Irrigation System While Providing Continuity and Scale Veriation

Irrigation Height: 4m

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Settlement Field Subdivision

Living Unit Type

Unit with Prvite Balcony Enclosed Courtyard

Open Courtyard

Shared Private Courtyard

Double-height unit with private balcony

Semi-open Courtyard 1

Open Courtyard 1

Shared Private Courtyard 1

Deluxe Unit with Prvite Balcony

Semi-open Courtyard 2

Open Courtyard 2

Shared Private Courtyard 2

Looking into different ways of subdividing settlement field circle, we try to privide variety for the units, such as shareness and privacy, enclosure and openess, distinct scale(Single, Deluxe.....). In the meanwhile, each unit is created by the different tangent circles which make all the geometries associated with each other.

Two Units with Shared Balcony

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Circulation System On One foot within Dome City Unit

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Unfold Whole Section Model of One Foot Doom City Unit

Top Scattering Different Types of Living Units with Water Collector

Top Scattering Different Types of Living Units with Terraced Public Space 29

Section of One Foot within Dome City Unit

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Plan of One foot within Dome City Unit

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Other Works

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Headquarters Building for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Baoan Shenzhen

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New Tianjin First Central Hospital Competition, Tianjin

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Conceptual Planning and Design of Technological and Innovation Port in Xi'an

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