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CONTENTS: 01| THE SECT COLLECTION

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-an utopanism mosque redefine the relationship of muslims from different background

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01| THE EDGE REVERSED

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-another infrastructure irrigating from water aloft

………………… | 23 01| THE HERITAGE ZONE REGENERATION -a combination of public space and mix-use bond re-energizing the venue

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCES

South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou, China 2014.09– 2020.07 · Bachelor of Engineering, GPA: 3.75/4.0 · Major in Urban and Rural Planning (Transferred from High Polymer Material Major in 2015)

Architectural Design & Research Institute of Huai’an Co., Ltd., Huai’an, China 2019.09 Intern at Architecture Design Department · Reviewed cases about history and architecture in Huai’an, assisted in carrying out preliminary field investigations and comprehensively analyzed current conditions for evaluation · Performed an experimental design plan under the guidance of experienced tutors, produced drawings including location analysis maps, tourism plans, public service facility plans, landscape plans, etc.

HKU Shanghai Summer Workshop, Shanghai, China 2018.08 · Engaged in the Urban/Architecture Micro Renewal Project, designed the plan to transform a demolished residential area to an internetfamous site before reconstruction to promote surrounding development · Investigated the aesthetic value and spatial value of the demolished buildings and studied the life cycle and long-term development of the architecture

LANGUAGE: Proficient in English; Native Speaker of Mandarin Computer Skills: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, AutoCAD, ArcGis SketchUp, Rhinoceros, Vary for Rhino Enscape Lumion

Huai’an Construction Financial Consulting Co., Ltd., Huai’an, China 2019.02-2019.03 Assistant at Engineering Consulting Department · Participated in different construction projects, helped provide optimal consulting services after carrying out area measurement, engineering data analysis, cost calculation, etc. · Collected and concluded government bidding project information, assisted in organizing bidding conferences and actively communicated with enterprises, agencies, guests, etc.

Guangzhou Archcity Urban Planning and Design Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China 2018.07 & 2018.08 Intern at Planning and Design Department · Participated in the bidding project for Jiangdong New Town of Hainan Province, helped conduct preliminary research, collected basic materials and similar cases · Created analysis charts and helped the department prepare slides for reporting EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES 100 Steps Student Innovation Center, SCUT Member at Visual Design Department 2018.03-2018.07 · Helped organize and promote various large-scale student activities on campus, published articles on WeChat Official Account and designed posters, brochures, logos, banners, etc.

“Jiangong Cup” Residential Community Design Competition 2016.11 · Collaboratively designed congregate houses in shared space for the residential community, investigated the locations, residents, traffic, architecture structure, etc. and generated a comprehensive design report

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Utopianism Mosque Academic work

Kind: Individual Work Contribution: conception,design,representation Tutor: Lao Jinheng Studio: 2019.10.1--2019.11.10 Site location: Guang Zhou

Yiwu mosque is reconstructed from silk factory to serve Muslim businessmen attracted

by Yiwu economy. But economic forces have pushed immigrants out of the mosque's area and isolated them. Because they can only be active on Friday temporarily. I designed a multidimensional Utopian mosque as a place to reunite Muslims

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Loss of the Right to the City

To claim the right to the city in the sense I mean

Mosque before and after 2004 in Yiwu, China

it here is to claim some kind of shaping power over the processes of urbanization, over the ways in which our cities are made and remade, and to do so in a fundamental and radical way. 1

This concept originated and developed in the special social context of Paris. Paris in the midst of a crisis of survival in the 1960s. Driven by over-accumulated capital, urban growth has shown an endless spread.

This growth has even ignored the social, environmental and political consequences, while the working class and immigrants in Paris found that they were gradually pulled out to the edge of the city of Paris, and even when they could no longer get access to the city's resources. These citizens ask for the right to return to the heart of the traditonal city, which is like a cry and a demand . 2 Due to the unbalanced geographical development and the deprivation of capital accumulation, the gap between the rich and the poor is expanding, power is also polarized, and there are continually populist-style divisions, closed communities, and privatized public spaces that are under monitoring throughout the day.

Among them, the poor, the disadvantaged and those who are marginalized in political rights are always the first to bear the brunt and suffer the most serious impact.

Muslim’s Segregation-uptopia's failure

S uch segregations of population as these take

place, first, upon the basis of language and of culture, and second, upon the basis of race.

In Yiwu, in order to solve the religious needs of early immigrants, the government allocate the factory of old silk factory for transformation into a mosque.

But in the later period, due to the prosperity of Yiwu's small commodity economy, most of the later influx of Muslims were rented rooms in urban villages or settlements around the edge of the city. So they lost the important religious resources, the right to get educated, even Losing the opportunity to express their political view in their most important social

organizations and losing the right to build their ideal Yiwu as they wish. According to interviews, Muslims in Yiwu have traditional needs and aspirations to live around the temple.

Yiwu has been on accommodation stage, which is the third stage of "social relation cycle". At first, both orginal chinese residents and muslim immigration want the right to use the surronding land of the mosque. After the failure of competeing with Chinese businessmen and resident company, Muslims compromise and retreat to the edge of the city. In these remote area, they use temporary worship siteto conduct religious activities.

In mosques, Muslims of different denominations and countries can ignore each other's differences, conduct religious activities together and deal with some social affairs. However, due to the effect of capital in space, sub-groups of Muslims are separated Geographical area. They complete the ceremony at the temporary worship, and there is no possibility of expressing voices with other ethnic groups, so their urban power is weakened. The government is also anxious about the many uncontrolled religious points.

The construction of surrounding of the mosque also reflects the government's helplessness about the market power. A large number of land use rights around the mosque were requisitioned by resident company, where built middle and high-level communities to be purchased by Chinese businessmen and wealthier early Muslims. The government’s rights cannot guarantee that new Muslim immigrants will have access to the resources that were originally prepared for them.

Temporary worship site in Yiwu, China

1.David Harvey, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution (First published by Verso 2012 ), chapter the right to the city. Pg 5 2.Henri levebvre, The Right to the city.Published by BlackWell.Chapter 14.Pg158.

3.Robert E. Park. "The Concept of Position in Sociology." published by Papers and Proceedings of the American Sociological Society, 20 (1926): 1-14.

The immigrant groups in Yiwu contains children of the merchants, but their education insurance has not been implemented. What's more, Muslim children often need to receive Arabic and religion education in the mosque, and then the geographical distance and the shortage of Muslim schools also make education a fantasy.

Distibution of muslim communities

The Chinese government often does not provide social insurance for immigrants who have not yet obtained a household registration for free. Even a short term identification for commercial is difficult to obtain. At the same time, unreachable mosques, providing a series of social function, has failed to fulfill its function.

Figure and Passages

I f anything is described by the architectural plan,

it is the nature of human relationships, since the elements whose trace it records walls, doors, windows and stairs-are employed first to divide and then selectively to re-unite inhabited space. But what is generally absent in even the most elaborately illustrated building is the way human figures will 5. Robin evans.2011. “Figures, Doors and Passages.” In Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays. 54-90, London: Architectural Association Publications. Originally published in Architectural Design, vol. 48, no. 4, 1978, 267-78.

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occupy it.

Mecca, Saudi

Take the portrayal of human figures and take house plans for a given time and place: look at them together as evidence of a way of life, and the coupling between everyday conduct and architectural organization may become more lucid. ...plans have been scrutinized for the characteristics that could provide the preconditions for the way people occupy space, on the assumption that buildings accommodate what pictures illustrate and what words describe in the field of human relationships This may not be the only way of reading plans but, even so, such an approach may offer something more than commentary and symbolism by clarifying architecture’s instrumental role in the formation of everyday events.

Evans prefaces his employment of the plan as the disciplinary form of representation that inscribes social patterns. However, despite this preference, he notes that such patterns are explicitly absent and only potentially inferred.

The Grand Mosque

The monarchy is a combination of political power and religious power.

To sum up, the Saudi Arabian political system can be defined as quasi monarchy of the quasi bourgeoisie.

Xian, China

Istanbul, Turkey

Xiaopiyuan Mosque In terms of plane layout and architectural style, in addition to the religious requirements, it generally presents the architectural form of ancient Chinese palaces, and absorbs the combination of foreign culture and local characteristics,

When Mohamed S conquered Constantinople, he ordered the cathedral was converted into a mosque. 4 tall spire were built around it.

Utopia usually chooses an isolated plot, or it is itself separated from the perimeter. The vision that it wants to achieve is often divorced from social relations, economic factors, etc., and thus leads to its own failure.

T he architecture of dialectical utopianism must

During its development, Muslims have formed relatively different subgroups in various places. Due to business reasons, they have gathered in Yiwu. Compared with local people, the differences between them are smaller, so the government often summarizes them in general.

Yiwu's Muslim communities come from different cultural backgrounds, and they cannot meet their diverse needs in a single mosque.

Hagia Sophia

Utopia or Dialectical Utopianism

This group needs not only the symbols that can evoke their cognition, but also the mosque that can satisfy the details of their lives in space. This is actually far more important to them than an imagination. A building that can reflect democracy in form must evoke respect and trust among people.

be grounded in contingent matrices of existing and already achieved social relations. These comprise political-economic processes, assemblages of technological capacities, and the superstructural features of law, knowledge, political beliefs, and the like. It must also acknowledge its embeddedness in a physical and ecological world which is always changing. 6

In Yiwu, the existence of many temporary worship points made it possible to implement alternatives under the “dialectical Utopia” system.

Dialectical utopia

Alternative plan

Multiple utopia

Between life

Under the premise of analysing its social organization and its political demands, a new porch reflecting the multicultural equality around the mosque and a temporary worship point in a number of remote locations linked to it in politics and organization Space" is generated We need a new spatial contract. In the context of widening political divides and growing economic inequalities, we call on architects to imagine spaces in which we can generously live together

Dialectical Utopianism Mosque

The factory that was originally used for silk production.

Then, the factory was designated by the government as a place for religious rituals for Muslim groups. Muslim groups donated money to decorate the facade of the mosque.

Muslim mosques go beyond the definition of general religious places. It also has certain educational and social affairs functions. The mosque and the Chinese government jointly form an organization that manages mixed Muslim groups in China. The Chinese government elects members of the committee, and the committee chooses the highness imam.

The government will also send interpreters, and the office staff will help the mosque managers perform their functions. The office staff in the mosque can help Muslim businessmen doing business in China to communicate with customs and foreign Muslims for trade. Only a dielectical mosque combine economic and political can satisfy.

Issue In a context of systematically compromised authenticity, it seemed cruel and unusual to destroy part of its remaining natural qualities.What could be the status of projections in such a conceptual quicksand? Was there a way to escape the apparent necessity for a monument or a climax?

A single mosque may become a monument architecture, while a mosque hold all kinds of people, and consider the actual scenes of their lives and work, so that the mosque can be systematic and sustainable.

5.David Harvey. Spaces of Hopes(Edinburgh University Press, 2000) , chapter Responsibilities towards nature and human nature. Pg 231 6.Hashim Sarkis. introduced the theme of the next year’s event “How will we live together?” on Venice Biennale 2019 7.Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large -5-

Facade Change

First Floor Plan The mosque used to occupy the site in an exotopic way. In the projext, we enlarge the edge of the mosque to let the mosque cover more layer of the muslim life.

Exotopic

Endotopic

Cultural Inclusion

Mass Formation

Sinking the ground and creating multiple courtyards to provide a more private outdoor space for Muslims

Increasing small size box to createspaces for people of different sects with different decorative elements

A continuous link can connect different spaces, and can also define boundaries of the mosque

minoring the mass in the middle to form a concentrated ritual space and insert a small ritual space

Master Plan

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Second Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

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Isometric Drawing

Circulation

Straight forward/Arduous

Female visitors Seek/Perplaxed/Epiphany Children

Hover/Despair/Turn Explore/Possibilities/Swings

Male Imam Male prayers

Ambiguity/Encouonter

Female prayers

Axis/march/holiness

Narrative/Experience/Freshness

Gravity/Circulation/Falling Office staff Flow/circulation

Rally

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Facade Collection

Main Facade and Detail

Hollow brick wall

Long horizontal window

Pointed arch

Arrayed glass window

Grille wall

Circular arch1

Unit Topology

Circular arch2

Arch window

Circular arch3

Pull rod Plaster ceiling

Steel column

Brick arch

Unit1: muslim worship activity

Unit2: meeting

Unit3: preaching

Unit4: cleaning and dressing

Unit5: office

Unit6: nave

Steel liner

Steel beam Hollow brick wall Window

Refracted tile

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Scenes in the passages When traveling through these corridors, Muslims can see the scenes and activities in different ceremonial spaces, which are also more open to outside visitors.

Scenes in the courtyard The courtyard is connected to several small volumes, and different courtyards also have different life scenarios, such as worship, leisure, and lectures.

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FILM MONTAGE MUSEUM

-an museum translating mentation departed of the film character and use montage installation to edit vistor's feelings

Type: Academic Kind: Individual Work Contribution: conception,design,representation Tutor: Xiang Ke Studio: September2017-October 2017, 8 weeks Site location: GuangZhou, China The Manhattan Transcripts revealed that architecture is not simply knowledge about form, but form of knowledge to explore the world. Film directors and artists can also observe the world as architects. The most important ones are event, movement, and space.

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Before the dinner party, a series of different actions of Schindler, such as choosing clothes, tying a bow tie and wearing a badge, suggested that he would go to the fascist party next

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When Billy and Queenan avoided the gang separately, the camera was divided into two groups and shot separately. Eventually Queenan was killed and left upstairs, she died in front of Billy who was running away.

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Edit different motions of different event which lead to a common outcome

After Su Lizhen and Zhou Muyun separated, by inserting a set of scenery and text shots, it was suggested that the two were separated from each other.

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Insert irrelevant, but suggestive footage, foreshadowing the event

I n " 2 0 0 1 : A S p a c e Odyssey�,Switching from the shot of the ape-man throwing a bone to the shot of a spaceship, the two lens are similar in shape and dynamic, and the huge difference between them implies the span of time

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Edit different motions of the same event to hint the change of the event

Stitch together two sets of lenses that have common points to emphasize the differences

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THE EDGE REVERSED

-another infrastructure irrigating from water aloft

Type: Academic Kind: Individual Work Contribution: conception,design,representation Tutor: Yan Jing Ouyang Mengying Studio: September2019-October 2019, 4 weeks Site location: Jiangsu, China The project is located on the abandoned Yellow River in Binhai County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. The Yellow River is the motherriver of China, which feeds the lives of people on both sides of the river.

However, due to its unique hydrological characteristics, it has often changed its course many times in history, leaving a distinct demarcation edge on the earth. And the hinterland on both sides of the abandoned Yellow River is usually poor zone such as rural areas. The reason is that although people are grateful, they are also afraid of floods that the Yellow River caused. This boundary has become a negative psychological edge as well as a geography edge. The project is meant to reverse the edge.

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Master plan

Site diagram

Urgency 1.Absense of Attraction for outer tourists 2.Need for advanced irrigation infrustructures 3.Lack of community center serving rural residents 4.Regional identity faded due to the change of Yellow River

Context River Governance Scene Painted by the Qing Dynasty AD1675 Emperor Kangxi chose Jin Fu to manage the flood problem of Yellow River. However, Jin Fu only solved flood for a while.The river bed of the Yellow River continues to uplift Photo taken near Tong Waxiang AD1855 Yellow River burst in Henan province Tong Waxiang, once again returned to the north, went through the current channel, flew north into the Bohai Sea, passing

by Huimin County . Huimin County has had burst its own banks many times in history.

Garden Estuary of Zhengzhou AD1938 To prevent the Japanese invasion of Zhengzhou, Jiang Jieshi ordered his army remove the Yellow River bank at the Garden Estuary of Zhengzhou.It caused floods to block the Japanese army. The whole river return south again.

Jiangsu Binhai AD1947 It was not until 1947 that the Yellow River was restored to the Garden Estuary . Guangdong Return to the North and enter the sea from Kenli County, Shandong Province. Most of abandoned Yellow River is drying up and shrinking, leaving a large area of marsh land.

River section change Phase1.1 Yellow River carried a great deal of sediment,causing the ascending of the river bed. Therefore, the lower of yellow river became a suspended river Phase2.1 Corrupt politicians in Qing dynasty did not repair the bank, causing upper Yellow River broke through its bank and changed its course Phase3.1 Chiang odered that the Kuomintang army blast the new river course, Yellow river return to south and submerged its branch Phase3.2 The village by the Yellow River often suffers from floods, so people have to heighten embankments to prevent possible hazards.

Phase4.1 Leak in the upper reaches was repaired. The old course of Yellow River is drying up and shrinking, leaving a large area of beach land Phase4.2 Government construction projects have linked the Yellow River to the Huaihe River and Yimeng River, making the water clear.

Phase4.3 The edge of the abandoned Yellow River is still very negative,which has become the invisible boundary of villages on both sides.It need to be reversed.

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Third floor plan

Plan 1.Roof garden 2.Coffee room 3.Balcony 4.Curving platform 5.Assembly room 6.Gazebo 7.River 8.Embankment 9.Field

Second floor plan

Ground floor plan

Section 1.channel 2.old bank 3.high shoal 4.new field 5.platform 6.waterwheel 7.Abandoned Yellow River

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Diverse community function

Accessible waterwheel SectionA

gallery

Art museum

music livehouse

studio

section B-B

clothing store

game room

meditation room

childeren center

beauty salon

restaurant

village committee office

Detail of structure Section B 1:75

Glass

Paddy fields are common in this area, and it is extremely inconvenient to draw water from the abandoned Yellow River for irrigation. The design starts with the regional agricultural demand, hoping to establish a set of practical regional infrastructure. And the waterwheels can constitute a brand-new landscape symbol of the region.

Secondly, unlike the traditional waterwheel, the structure in the middle of the waterwheel is dismissed, make it empty space that people can experience. And we envisage various possible functions as public center for surrounding villages and communities. Finally, on the installation scale, the water container of the waterwheel can leak some water from high places to irrigate plants in roof garden.

Wood

Steel

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THE HERITAGE ZONE REGENERATION

-a combination of public space and mix-use bond

re-energizing the venue

Type: Academic Kind: Team Work Contribution: conception,design,representation Tutor: Yan Jing Wei Zongcai Collabrator: Ceng Hongxuan Studio: May 2019-July 2019, 8 weeks Site location: Guangzhou, China

The project was an recreation project about the heritage zone, which is located near a famous tourism site, huangpu military school.

In the beginning research, I worked with my teammate to conduct an in-depth investigation in Changzhou Island and design a development plan for a shipyard. I identified the energetic and unique culture of the island. Finally we design a new attraction and multifunctional corridor to regenerate the factory zone.

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Camping land:

The camping land is where people who come to the music festival stay for a long time. On the one hand, it is convenient for tourists, so that it can provide a stop for the music festival.

Regeneration Point

Fishing Village

Music festival square

Waterfront house of the village

Changzhou Island once held the Guangzhou Music Festival.

People in the central city often come here for vacations and entertainment. The rent here is cheap and suitable for small and medium-sized music festivals

Tree Array Park:

It can provide habitat for living things; besides, people can take a rest in the shade of trees.

public house of the village

public building historical site

Compound Corridor Tour route

Camping Greenland Artificial Water body Used for aquaculture

Skate Park:

attracts young people to this activity, and also provides a place for local residents and workers to play in their spare time

Huangpu Military Academy:

Ecology Field

Music Festival Square

Low meadows and lawns Brick

the attraction of the original site, most of the tourists from outside come for this purpose

Stone

Fishing village:

The fishing village adds external public space to the original building. Ground floor can be transfered to a shop, it can increase the income of Villager

High meadows and shrubs

Road Roadway

Woods Square

Existing state of Site Field Zhujiang River

Skate board Park

Military School

The site is rich in resources and landscape along the river, extending the road network to the river. Water, green, and green tiles are added to the site to replace the ordinary concrete ground, and public buildings and commercial buildings are added to the building to attract people. Finally, multi-purpose trails are used to connect the points of interest in the venue.

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黄埔军校段滨江路断面 交通运输能力

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游玩滑板路径 specific routes for skateboard

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每天通勤连接住区与工作场所 及渡轮的骑行路线 Cycling networks to connect homes and workplaces with public transport hubs 黄埔军校段滨江路断面

1000人/小时

黄埔军校段滨江路断面 S

交通运输能力

游玩滑板路径 specific routes for skateboard

1000人/小时

每天通勤连接住区与工作场所 MM cycling networks 及渡轮的骑行路线 Cycling networks to connect to connect homes and homes and workplaces with public transport hubspublic workplaces with transport hubs L 健身与休闲的慢行路线

S specific routes S 游玩滑板路径 for specific skateboard routes for

L Lleisure networks for交通运输能力 健身与休闲的慢行路线 networks for sport sportleisure and recreation 1000人/小时 and recreation

skateboard

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leisure networks for sport and recreation

Section of Binjiang Road, Huangpu XL 带有特殊主题的旅游路线 Military Academy Touristic routes, often with

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XL 带有特殊主题的旅游路线 Touristic routes, often with special themes

Section of Binjiang Road, Heritage L XL S L 健身与休闲的慢行路线 1000人/小时 Park leisure networks for sport

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Transportation capacity 1000 people / h

XL 带有特殊主题的旅游路线 Touristic routes, often with special themes

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Section of Binjiang Road, Sinking Music Square Transportation capacity 1000 people / h

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交通运输能力

遗址公园段滨江路断面

Transportation capacity 1000 people / h

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音乐广场段滨江路断面

The combination of multiple routes increases the connectivity of different plots in the site and connects different points of attraction in the site. It allows people to tour the venue at different viewing speeds. In addition, there are rest points for people to stay in and roads to watch the scenic spots, which increases people's stay.

交通运输能力 1000人/小时 L

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Detail C

Fishing village

Detail D

Detail A

Detail B

Waterfront public space

Retrofit plant

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