RUI QI PORTFOLIO M.ARCH, RICE UNIVERSITY
Collective Memory in Space & Construction
"In the city, memory begins where history ends."
——P. Eisenman
CONTENTS
Chapter I
All too often the object has survived, but who or what it commemorated has been forgotten. For whom was the Roman mausoleum at Glanum built? Even if the name is known, it hardly matters, for we know nothing else about him. And what did the arch at Orange commemorate? A battle, a victory, certainly, but more than that nothing is remembered.
"Locomotive only has feature, the Parthenon is the mix of features and style. Not many years, today one of the most beautiful motorcycles are just a bunch of junk, and Parthenon temples remain forever." ——Auguste Perret Redtenbacher sanctioned neither a pure historical past nor contemporary present. He legitimized a historical design continuum by using historical building systems in conjunction with contemporary methods.
Memory in New Building Design
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URBAN KNEE —Mixed-use Complex
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FOLK ART GENERATOR ON CONTINUOUS SLOPE —Folk Art Theatre in Traditional Blocks
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PREFABRICATED COMMINUITY —Mixe-use Housing on a Superfund Site
Chapter II 04
Chapter III 05
Memory in Architectural Component GROSSER ROOF —Food Hall
Memory in Old Building Renovation LINEAR WALLS —Pukou Transportation Museum
01 [URBAN KNEE] -Mixed-use
September—December ,2018(2st year) Course: Core Design Studio VI Individual work Instructor: Ron Witte Location: Berlin
There is no doubt that density is reshaping our cities and creating vast implications for urban life. The project is focus on a particular pressure point: the base of the density crosssection, where density (life goes up) and public space (life that spreads outward) have no choice but to meet. The urban knee we created is a horizontal-to-vertical bending point. The intersection will be assumed to occur across the first two to four levels. After dividing two kinds of zones related to the conditions of city street and Alexanderplaza, I am trying to organize and weave these zones based on the overlapping area which has a strong quality of publicity. The overlapping zones are the most important parts since the urban knee created by these zones was no longer absolute and fixed, but continually changing according to a person’s own changing frame of reference. The boundaries between things are not sharp dividing lines, but interchanges in which each side and its properties mingle. The program of two zones are relevant to the requirements of city and plaza of both sides. In the boundary of the overlapping zone, the quality of program will switch due to the change of zones, although the content of program would remain the same. The zones are operated at different times in a day, while the overlapping zones are public gathering space for citizens and they are 24 hours.
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Typical Berlin Block ○Communal Public space with solid borders ○ limited access through building ○ hardly visible from the street 6
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Alexzanderplatz ○ Urban public space defined by buildings ○ limited access between building ○ visible through the openings
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The site is located in the Alexzanderplatz in Berlin, which is facing the Berlin TV tower and train station on the south. After dividing two kinds of zones related to the conditions of city street and plaza, I organize and weave these zones based on the overlapping area which has a strong quality of publicity. At the same time, I connect the cityfront and plazafront space with the overlapping zone in the middle to create a continuous public space to respond to the context.
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Concept
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○ Urban public space pressed against the city ○ convenient access through the project ○ visible through overlapping zones 9 3
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Define different qualities based on the conditions of both sides.
Leave urban corridors connecting city street and plaza.
Introduce zone related to the plaza.
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Introduce zone related to the city street.
Insert program in between the street and city zone.
Overlap two zones
The flowing public zones are created.
Leave space in front of the zone related plaza.
Roof garden as another mediation zone in between the lower level and towers.
1 Berlin Alexanderplatz train station 2 Berlin TV tower 3 Galeria Kaufhof 4 Dm-market 5 Berliner Sparkasse 6 SATURN 7 ADAC office & travel agency 8 Weekend - Club & Eventlocation 9 Bookstore 10 Exihibition 11 Retail 12 Office 13 Lobby
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The programs facing the plaza are more active and serving for people coming from the plaza, while the programs facing the city street are much quieter and serving for people from the surrounding offices. The plan arrangements of both programs are very flexible and random, which can shift at any units and levels.
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[Technique of units]
Step1: Create hollow Z shape tube starting from first floor.
Step 3: Plaza invading the building is larger than building programs invading the plaza in the public space facing the plaza.
Step2: Use folding strategy in order to provide the possibility of connection between two zones.
Step 4: City invading the building is smaller than building programs invading the city in the public space facing the city.
Public space confronted the plaza
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[Overlapping Public Zones] There are two kinds of overlapping zones in my project. One is to connect the plaza and city zones, the other is to connect lower levels and towers. Both zones cooperate together to achieve a horizontal and vertical public system which has a strong consistency and active the mixed-use project in the urban context.
Middle Zone
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North Elevation
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02 [FOLK ART GENERATOR ON CONTINUOUS SLOPE ] —Folk Art Centre in Traditional Blocks November—January ,2014-2015(3rd year) Course: Architecture Design IV(Studio Works) Individual work Instructor:Peng Tang Location:Nanjing
The site is located in a historical architectural complex in Nanjing facing the Chaotian Gong Palace and Yangzi River. The biggest problem of the site is lacking cultural facilities and services. Although it is beside a historical tourism, it is quite isolated with the site environment. After analyzing types of people coming around, I figured out three main programs serving for different groups of people. In addition, I designed a huge outdoor space on the continuous sloping roof to restore the circumstance of outdoor theatre located at Qinhuai River in ancient times, and created the opportunity to combine indoor and outdoor theatres with open stage background.
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"A Dream Like A Dream"
CHAOTIANGONG PALACE
The whole building is a theatre. Audience interact with actors in the theatre.They can see different parts of the story by following different people.
Culture
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SURROUNDING COMMUNITY
"Fuerza Bruta" ChaoTiangong palace square on the east.
Put the courtyard in the centre of the building. Attract more people into the main entrance.
Design a waterside theatre to interact with the Qinhuai river. Place a yard open to the western communities as the entrance for actors.
Divide the whole building into three separate functional parts: theatre, recreation and culture. Three parts are connected by the main entrance in the centre.
Create a continuous sloping accessible roof for citizens. The northern side is lower than the southern side, which can give people better view of the river.
Put two glass boxes penetrating the accessible roof, which can make people get down into the folk art centre more easily and efficiently.
Provide more public space for citizens.
"Sleep No More"
My Theatre
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Open the sunken corner square to connect
It is a creative form of drama by LaiShengchuan. Audience sit in the central area surrounded by the stage.
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The site is located in the west of ChaoTiangong Palace— one of the largest and best-preserved ancient buildings in China. And the site is in the South of Qinhuai river. The area is quiet. Only nearby residents come to have a rest. The problems here are old settlements, which lack cultural facilities and services. The whole site isolates from ChaoTian Palace. Dynamism is the first solution to solve the problem in this block.
QINHUAI RIVER
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Traditional Theatre
The stage is on the top of audience. Maximize the use of various materials that combined with actors, beautiful lighting, passionate music.
"The Living Theatre"
It is a kind of street theater, including all performances in the streets.It contains parades and plenty of political dramas.
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Reinvention of the Performance Hall
The performance hall demands a large number of possible configurations each of different character and with different requirements. Keep the fly tower height all over the room, to liberate the position of the stage. Lift floor system all over the room, not just the stage.
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When I walked to the top of the roof and once again I saw the ChaoTian Palace.
Qinhuai River is on the South of the building. The waterside theatre here let me recall the scene of outdoor theater beside Qinhuai River in ancient times.
My performance is open to the whole public. There is no limit at the back of the indoor theatre stage.
The corner square is open to the city. It connects ChaoTiangong Palace square, which gives me a chance to meet other people here.
The courtyard is so beautiful and quiet.I was attracted by it to arrive to the main entrance of the building.
I can share stage with indoor theatre in the sunken corner square.
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FIRE CURTAIN
STAGE VENTILATION
LINEAR INCANDESCENT STRIP LIGHTING
STAGE FLOOR AND WALL DETAIL
STAGE VENTILATION AND FIRE CURTAIN DETAIL
CAT WALK DETAIL
STEP LIGHTING AND VENTILATION DETAIL
ACOUSTICAL SHELL DETAIL
AIR DUCT
When folk performance started, people in and out of the indoor theatre can share the same stage together. Outdoor landscape becomes the show's background. The new theatre can break traditional ways of watching and let people better interact with actors and other audience.
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03 [PREFABRICATED COMMINUITY ] -Mixed-use Development on a superfund Site September—December ,2019(3st year) Course: Totalization Studio Group work Instructor: Gordon Wittenberg Location: Gowanus Canal
Sustainability is a huge issue in contemporary world, especially when we are working on a land remediated from industrial pollution surrounding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY. Our purpose is to use pre-fabricated housing units to achieve lower carbon footprints through the project itself and the construction process of it. Meanwhile, Aggregation by prefabricated units is helpful to create fulfilling and active outdoor spaces in this residential community. We show two different attitudes towards the street and canal. The long massing on the street side is a natural barrier of all the noise and traffic influence. While we open the community to waterfront spaces and provide diverse landscape on the ground level. The whole block could be seen as three groups surrounding their own central courtyards. The two city openings lead people to the plazas for activities, which could also be the constructing site for assembly. The ground-level outdoor space is the most public hierarchy which could be acted as a city garden for all citizens. The secondary public space are the connecting massing, void spaces and terraces on the towers shared by residents. The third public space are the personal balcony left in each unit type.
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[Semi-public Hierarchy] Boxes with both indoor and outdoor spaces connect to all the residential buildings, so we can call them connecting elements. They are also connected with the outdoor spaces created by the aggregation of units. One kind is in the long massing; another is spiraling up outside the towers. They all together constitute a whole system of public space for community activities.
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04 [New Primitive Hut] -Food hall based on the new role of roof September—November ,2018(2nd year) Course: Totalization Studio Group Work Instructor: Michelle Chang Location: New York
From the developing history of roof, we will find that at the very beginning, the roof had a very strong functional role of providing shelter for human from nature. When It comes to mid-century, the shape of roof was becoming very dramatic which had a symbolic meaning of power. The most important change happened in 19th century when advancement in construction technologies made thin and flat material systems viable. The roof was becoming more and more like floorplates that means mechanical units, ventilations and other complicated architectural components need to relocate themselves in basements. The concept of this project is to rethink about the possibility of modern roof in order to accommodate the contemporary architectural demands and dynamic spatial experience into a single volumetric roof. The roof in our project is an illegible envelope cut by several ellipsoids based on formal strategy. The material of façade is double ETFE membrane system which could better imitate the tendency of curves and blur the view of people inside. The food hall has three main programs, the market in the arch space on the ground and first floor, the food museum starting from the second floor to the fourth floor, the roof garden located from the fifth floor to the seventh floor. The whole building is aim to creating “a new primitive hut” supporting by five mega structural cores, which provides a sharing and communal shelter and recalls street culture for people in New York.
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[Form Re-definition-"Anti-monumental Weak From" ] What I am trying to do is to break the traditional monumental impression of roof through the re-definition of form. Andrew Zago raised the paradigm of weak form, a disciplined relaxation of geometry, which is difficult for people to get overall reading of the developing process of the form. The final form is usually becoming anti-monumental due to a simple operation such as relocating or changing the composition of elements.
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1.Cooking Experience Area 2.Exhibition Events 3. Wine Exhibition 4.Smell Exhibition 5.Taste Exhibition
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MEP Mullion System
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[Interior Spatial Quality] The roof in our project is an illegible envelope cut by several ellipsoids based on formal strategy. The food hall has three main programs, the market in the arch space on the ground and second floor, the food museum starting from the third floor to the fifth floor, the roof garden located from the sixth floor to the eighth floor.
The atrium space on the first level of the food museum is created by changing depth of the same ellipsoid cutting the faรงade. The whole building is aim to creating a new primitive hut supporting by five mega structural cores, which provides a sharing and communal shelter and recalls street culture for people in New York.
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West Elevation
[Pillow Detail] The depth of pillow is related to the dimension of it, which is limited to three feet to reduce the thickness of envelope and better imitate curve boundary in this case. LED lights could be integrated inside the pillow to create night illumination.
1 60mm mastic asphalt 600mm hollow concrete floor 2 roller sunblind 3 fibe-cement waterproof sheeting 100mm mineral wool 4 steel support structural system 5 galv. steel brackets 6 100mm air supply to facade 7 50mm polythene air tube 8 ETFE pneumatic facade element 9 120/220mm steel rectangle hollow section 10 tubular steel hinged column 11 6mm galvanized sheet-steel rainwater gutter
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The material of faรงade is double ETFE membrane system which could better imitate the tendency of curves and blur the view of people inside. There is a gradient change of the density of dot patten on the ETFE surface and different divisions of pillow sizes, which are relevant to the blurry condition of people's view and the private degree of programs.
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1 600mm steel keel structure 2 return air duct 3 hot and cold pipes 3 fibe-cement waterproof sheeting 4 fan coil 5 top reinforcement 6 bubble deck system 7 Bottom reinforcement 8 conduits embedded before casting 9 spot lighting 10 tubular steel truss system 11 rainwater gutter 12 waterproofing sheeting and insulation 13 duct outlet 14 mesh structure opening to fresh air
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05 [LINEAR WALLS] -Pu Kou Transpotation Museum
September—November ,2014(3rd year) Course: Architecture Design IV(Studio Works) Individual work Instructor:Lin Liu Location:Nanjing
The project is a transportation museum after renovating the old train station abandoned nearly half a century. Red slice walls are key to showing respect to the existing elements appearing on the site. It is matching and strengthening the linear urban context composed by tracks, corridors, canopies and carriages. The space between the slice walls are different layers for exhibition, which provides people with dynamic experience through different indoor and outdoor public space. After changing the dimension of walls and locations of windows, the project could restore the moments of train parking and running and arouses three types of moods for visitors.
Site Background PUKOU PARK AREA: BUILD TIME:
7000㎡ 1951
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Prototype Research
Pukou railway station was built in 34 years Guangxu (1908). It opened to traffic in 1914. It is the beginning of the Jin-Pu railway, which connects Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu and 11 provinces. And it is the terminal of Jin-Pu railway. Pukou railway station, located in Pukou district, Nanjing city, was one of the national cultural relics protection units announced by the State Council in 2010. It is also the first century-old train station with full reservations of history in China. The aim of the design is to revive the old station by renovation. Although the old station building has closed, the new transportation museum would attract large number of visitors.
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Pukou railway station was built in the Qing dynasty in 1908. It opened to traffic in 1914.
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In the winter of 1918, Zhu Ziqing went to Beijing from Pukou railway station and bade farewell to his father. Then he wrote a famous essay 《the figure》.
In May 1929, Sun Yat-Sen's coffin arrived in Pukou railway station by Beijing, and then it crossed the River to the mausoleum.
On April 25, 1949, Chen Yi got to Pukou railway station by Hefei, crossed the River on the night, drove into the P re s i d e nt i a l Pa l a c e , a n d liberated Nanjing.
In October 1968, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has taken into use. Pukou railway station stopped.
Design Procedure
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Existed site elements :old station building, canopies, tracks.
Remove and renovate part of one canopy as the second floor exhibition. Plant trees on the other canopy as accessible roof.
Place linear walls on the site. Some walls penetrate whole old station building to make the main entrance for the museum.
Divide the whole museum into two separated functional parts: exhibition on the north side , leisure and catering on the south side.
Put the yards into the museum to meet the requirements of lighting and ventilation.
Design some platforms in the museum to provide visitors with an opportunity to have a view of the city.
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Relationship Between Slice Walls and Moods
Mood 1—sadness of farewell
Wall Tectonics
—Paste type decorated panels 25mm —Cement-lime mortar 10mm —Base course of cement mortar 15mm —Plastic foam insulation layer 40mm —Concrete 300mm —Cement mortar rendering 15mm
The height of walls equals to the height of carriage. The linear walls are placed under the canopy. The height and size of windows are similar to the windows on the train. All these elements can restore the sense of place where train stops and symbolize the farewell scene.
Roof Tectonics
—Cement mortar protective layer 10mm —Waterproofing membrane 10mm —Plastic extrusion Panel insulation 10mm —Reinforced concrete 150mm —Roof ceiling
Mood 2—confusion during travelling The walls are higher than the canopy. The linear walls enclose whole canopy without windows. Visitors cannot see anything, which is like the circumstance when the train is running, blocking whole sights of people outside. Travelers look at the passing train and confuse about the destination of the train.
Floor Tectonics
Mood 3—joy of homecoming The walls are higher than the canopy. The linear walls are placed beside the canopy. People on the second floor can see trees which are planted on top of canopy through windows. The view through windows is the same as that of travelling on the train.The beauty of view can inspire joy of homecoming.
Base Tectonics
—Porous plate 60mm —Concrete with a waterproof admixture 350mm —Concrete ground slabs —Lean concrete
—Mortar layer 15mm —Screed-coat 40mm —Separating layer —Impact sound insulating layer 40mm —Concrete slab 200mm —bottom floor slab plastering 10mm
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Exhibition Hall 3
Cafeteria
Main Entrance 28
CONSTRUCTION SEQUENCE
[Rice Building Workshop]
Team work: Schematic Design and Construction Instructor: Danny Samuels The project is a collaboration between Rice Building Workshop and Agape Development, and will provide a mentor residence for the Agape Gateway Residential Program. This initiative assists youths 18-25 years old transition from difficult living situations to healthy, independent, adulthood. This endeavor will also explore important potentials of Houston’s urban fabric, and rely on cross campus collaboration between the Rice Schools of Architecture and Engineering.
INTERIOR ELEVATION
AC/VENTILATION OPTION: MINI SPLIT SYSTEM
AC/VENTILATION OPTION: HIGH VELOCITY MINI DUCT SYSTEM
PLUMBING
ELECTRICAL
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[INCREDIBLE BUNDLES]
[OVERLAP FOLDED SPACE] Public Library
Individual work Instructor:Dawn Finley Location:Houston
Timber Pavillion September-December, 2018, 4 months Timber Design Seminar Instructor: Jesus Vassallo
The project divides two different kind of space , one is the cavity in the small volumes, the other one is the rest open space outside the small volumes. Finally, I create six horizontal or vertical overlap volumes, both penetrating with each other in a whole cube, to represent special programs of a contemporary library.
[TWO FISH] Rest-stop Pavilion July-August, 2015, 1 month Intensive Wood Focused Design Studio With paddy as design subject and wood as major construction materials, participated in shape design, construction drawing details refining, connection design, wood selection and material properties test, etc. 30
[CallisonRTKL Intern Work] Mall of Saudi June-Augest 2019, 10 weeks Role: Schematic Design focuing on plan development Instructor: Eric Bell
[Shandong Linyi Hospital]
Shanghai Xian Dai Architectural Design Intern Work March-May 2017, 12 weeks Role: Schematic Design focuing on plan development Instructor:Guoliang Chen, Jiawei Yan
It is a graduation design based on the union of school and Enterprise. I was ingaged in the schematic design of the 2000000 SF Shandong Linyi Hospital including OPD and IPD with 1500 beds. During this process, I participated in revising plans, sections, elevations and developing nursing units.
[EYP Intern Work] Renovation of Science Building in Clemson University June-Augest 2018, 10 weeks Role: Schematic Design focuing on massing development Instructor: Kip Ellis
SITE CIRCULATION
PROGRAM DIVISION
PUBLIC AREA INSERTION
Ground PLAN
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