Portfolio_Ranran Zhang

PORTFOLIO

RANRAN ZHANG

Selected Works 2019-2022 Master of Science in Design, University of Pennsylvania

PROLOGUE

I consider architecture to be a container of life. Many stories have taken place in buildings every day. Therefore, when a building is built, it will have an impact on the people around it, the environment, and even people's minds. To be an architect, what we should do is to be adept in finding these possible effects, and make them possible through architectural design.

In this portfolio, I focus on specific groups. They are often discriminated against or ignored by others. I want to find a way to change their terrible position. In my work “From Past to the Future”, I focus on the LGBTQ+ group. This museum which is to memory the victims of a nightclub shooting in Orlando pays tribute to everyone involved and attracts and educates visitors from around the globe. It will let more people know about this group and eliminate discrimination. In the work “Micro-library of Low-Income People”, I pay more attention to the low- income people in remote Indian villages. This project provides space for residents and makes education possible.

In addition, I pay much attention to the reuse of inactive space. The site of my work “Onward Kids, To the River” , is located on the bank of the Ganges which is a deserted reclamation area. Therefore, we introduce kids’ playing space on this site. Through this architecture, we hope to provide suitable outdoor activities for local children and stimulate the vitality of the area. Besides, the work “ Human Reproduction Incubator Experiment” is a building experiment based on a fictional background. It uses fictional stories to tell about the building's positive impact on the surrounding old town.

As time passes, the architectural functions of a place become mentioned increasingly less, but the influence of architecture on people will always be there. This is also what I think the charm of architecture is.

CONTENTS

The Future of the New York Stock Exchange Stock Exchange Mesuem Design

Location: New York City, NY Date: 09/2021-12/2021

Instructor: Hyojin Kwon Academic, Coorperative Work, with Jiahui Shi

Micro-library of Low-Income People Autonomous Learning Space Design

Location: Korakati, India Date: 11/2020-12/2020

Instructor: Lu Fan Academic, Individual Work

Fragments Possibilities

Residential Design

Location: Rosario, Argentina Date: 03/2022-05/2022

Instructor: Florencia Pita, Katarina Marjanovic Academic, Coorperative Work, with Dongjun Wang

Clay Extruding Barrel Valt Robotic Fabrication Design

Location: philadelphia, PA Date: 05/2022-08/2022

Instructor: Na Wei, Sharvari Mhatre Academic, Coorperative Work, with Yefan Zhi

Human Reproduction Incubator Experiment

Experimental Design of Human Living Space

Location: Tianjin, China Date: 09/2020-11/2020

Instructor: Zemin Wang Academic, Individual Work

From the Past to the Future

National Pulse Memorial and Mesuem Design

Location: Orlando, USA Date: 04/2019-07/2019

Instructor: Bo Zhang Academic, Individual Work

Onward Kids, To the River

Local Indian Kids' Playing Space Design

Location: Agra, India Date: 07/2019-09/2019

Instructor: Lingzhe Wang, Wenbo Fu Competition, Coorperative Work, with Jiaqi Xu

01 The Future of the New York Stock Exchange

Stock Exchange Museum Design

Location: New York City, NY

Date: 9/2021-12/2021

Instructor: Hyojin Kwon Academic, Cooperative Work, with Jiahui Shi

The fact that Manhattan has served as the receptor of global capital has maintained its status as a global leader. Now the city is exhausted with an oversupply of new condominiums. With its financial leadership being challenged by other cities including London, Dubai, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the project will explore how New York will respond to this challenge. One of the central questions concerning the project will be what should the 21st century Stock Exchange, moving beyond the free plan of the Beaux Arts era? The Future stock exchange will be expanded to mine Ethereum NFT’s for New York City and serve as a Crypto Currency Exchange for global trades. To educate the public about the value of the purchase of NFT’s an NFT Museum will be incorporated in the building proposal. Given the lack of public space in New York City, the overall logic is to try to create public spaces in the building. We use the big grids as the background and carve voids to create public spaces, making these spaces into floating volumes embedded in the grids. The shape of these volumes is determined by their functions.

Choisy

The Wexner Center of Art is a renovation project by Peter Eisenman. It is famous for its combination of old and new axes and its application to the frame. In the study of this presedent, we extracted the frame as the main element of our design and innovated the form of the frame.

Second Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Basement Floor Plan

Axon

Precedent 1: Peter Eisenman, Wexner Center for the Art,1989

First Floor Plan

Ground Floor PlanAxon

Precedent 2: Shin Takamatsu, Blossom Tower, 1997

The concept for Blossom Tower is to design a glazed enclosure around the water tower. This enclosure features a double-layer façade with a spiraling pathway in between. During the ascent along this trail, tourists can observe the surrounding landscape.

The cryptpcurrency point of the building

Cryptocurrency Mining

The mining facility in the building. arranged in a Offices

Cryptocurrency Exchange Center

cryptpcurrency exchange center is located at the highest building and has the best views.

Mining Facility Center

Museums

The museum area is divided into multiple volumes connected by circulations and cores. These volumes surround the building allowing visitors to view the entire building from all sides.

Circulations

These circulations are mainly used to connect museums and cores. The different directionality from other volumes allows them to reduce the monotony of the building.

Offices

facility center is used to place most of the servers building. To maximize the use of space, this volume is a dense frame. located inside the building. Each of the different areas has its own office. These offices are through two cores.

Cores

There are two cores in the building. One is accessed from the ground floor of the original building and the other is accessed from the roof of the original building.

Physical Model

SITE SITUATION

We used the 3D printer to make the physical model. Our design is characterized by variety of frame forms, so the different densities, directions , and thicknesses of the frame will affect the overall effect. Due to the limited accuracy of the 3D printers, we needed to print and tested the frames many times when making the physical model, so that they can not break and can produce a transparent effect.

Learning online is really interesting.

I think I find a good place to study.

What a lovely day!

I love this book!

I will study here again.

I know the answer to this question!

02 Micro-library of Low-Income People

Autonomous Learning Space Design

Location: Korakati, India Date: 11/2020-12/2020

Instructor: Lu Fan Academic, Individual Work

India's education sector is unique among underdeveloped countries. India is a country of more than a billion people, but its state form is viewed by many as China going back 10-30 years. It is interesting to note that India has a large number of CEOs in many multinational companies, which is a testament to the nation's pre-eminence and the quality of higher education resources that nurture the elite. At the same time, the country is underdeveloped and divided between rich and poor. At the top of the class, people have the best access to education. At the bottom, primary education is far from universal. Everyone going to primary school is just a dream in India. The dropout rate for Indian remains high at 48%. At a time when educational resources in some Indian villages are so scarce that some children have never had access to the Internet and have to travel long distances to get to school. In this context, a micro-library can provide educational resources for the community to some extent.

The number of schools in the Ka area is small and inaccessible to many people. At the same time, residents have poor economic conditions, and their children often drop out of school because they cannot afford the tuition fees. In this case, the school cannot meet the learning requirements of most children. The micro-library used in the project can solve these problems well. Because of the convenience and adaptability of the micro-library, it can be installed in every village and beside the main road. As a result, more people can go to study places and study more conveniently.

River Village School Main Road

Step 1 Step 2

Find the Small Spaces

Years Old Children

Construct the Large Spaces

19-45 Years Old Adult

Extract

Split the rest Spaces

12-18 Years Old Teenagers

Block Function

Online and offline

Advantages

Applicable age: 3-11 years old

Function: Reading books and playing Characteristics of the form: This room is small and interesting, suitable for the age of children "reading in the game" characteristics

Applicable age: 12-18 years old

Function: Reading books and studying Characteristics of the form: This room offers different options for readers of this age group. They can sit in a chair or even lay down to read.

Applicable age: 12-18 years old

Function: Studying computer skills Characteristics of the form: People can learn as a group in this space. They can master computer skills here.

Applicable age: 19-45 years old

Function: Reading and doing handwork Characteristics of the form: Adults can not only read in this room but also make a living by doing hand works together.

Facade

The facade adopts the design method of virtual and real combination, which is realized through the combination of wooden walls and French windows. Most of the facades facing the street use French windows, which enables passers-by to see the learning scene inside.

External Walls

The exterior walls are made of wood. India is rich in timber resources, so the wood price is low, which is suitable for rural buildings.

The inner walls play a role in separating various functional blocks within the micro-library. Due to the large number of materials required for the inner wall, considering the local situation, the inner walls are also made of wood that is easy to get.

Stairs and Roof Flatform

The stairs take on the vertical traffic function of the micro-library. The external staircases make the building look very light. The roof platform provides users with spacious outdoor space, where they can carry out collective outdoor activities.

Roof Structural Framing

The micro-library is a wooden structure.The wood structure is easy to transport, assemble and disassemble because of its lightweight and can be used many times.

Floors

Due to the humid climate in the area, the ground on the first floor of the building rises to a certain height. This is conducive to air circulation and damp-proofing of ground.

Interior Walls

External Staircase View

03 Fragments Possibilities

Residential Design

Location: Rosario, Argentina

Date: 03/2022-05/2022

Instructor: Florencia Pita Academic, Cooperative Work, with Dongjun Wang

The concept of the Fragments Possibilities project is transforming the smallest architectural element -- brick into various functions. For example, this project transformed bricks into structures, apertures, balconies, seats, planters, and landscape patterns. In addition, the project creates different connections between each architectural element, like floors and brick walls, walls and columns, building and landscapes. As a result, the buildings' pieces are "knitted" to each other.

The site is located in the Rosario, Aegentina. The intervention area is located in the South District of the city of Rosario, at the mouth of the Saladillo stream, constituting a riverside scenario that, as part of the ecosystem of the Paraná delta wetland, has the particularity of being the the only point in the city in need of evacuating families due to the flooding of this main watercourse, the Paraná River. These are families that have occupied sites near the banks of the watercourse as a result of lifestyles strongly linked to fishing and the river.

In the first chapter, we focused on the bricks. We collected a large number of precedents of bricks of different shapes, materials and colors, and based on this, we designed bricks with potential for development. These Bricks will be cast in silicon mold, with a range of materials.

Wall Design--Patterns

At the stage of wall design, we used the selected bricks to combine to form different patterns. These textures have different details, and they carry all the conceptual qualities of the project. In our design, we designed 6 different textures that collage each other to form the wall. The point of the collage process is to consider the connections between the different patterns.

Corner Design

SITE SITUATION

This stage is for the corner design of a two-story house, which requires the combination and development of the wall designed in the previous step. At this stage, we have two design priorities. The first is to design the joint of two walls, that is, how different patterns interweave and combine in three dimensions. The second is how to extend the brick into the interior, so that the brick not only acts as an element of the facade but becomes an element of the whole building.

Corner Axon

Corner Facade

Details of Digital Model and Phyiscal Model

Tower Design

The last part of this project is tower design. This tower creates different connections between each architectural element, like floors and brick walls, walls and columns, building and landscapes. As a result, the buildings' pieces are 'knitted' to each other. The building contains three communal spaces. There is a gym, a communal kitchen, an outdoor barbeque space on the second floor; a small vegetable garden on the sixth floor; and a large roof garden. Each room inside this building has its characteristics. Therefore, there are various types of life inside this building.

Process of Physical Model

Production of Bricks

The physical model contains 8500 bricks. These bricks made opacity contrast, for example, transparent, translucent, and opaque. We used two methods to make the bricks: casting and 3D printing.

1) Casting

These bricks were cast with resin and different gradient colors of mica powder. Since the resin needs 24 hours to dry, this method is suitable for mass production of bricks with simple shape.

1) 3D Printing

Compared with casting, 3D printers are more accurate. However, due to material limitations, this method can only print bricks of certain colors. Therefore, we use this method to print more complex white bricks.

Model Production

In the frame production of the physical model, we used 3d printing and laser cutting, which allowed different materials to be distinguished. Laser cutting is used to make most of the floor slabs.

3D-printing is used to make part of the floor, columns and stairs. The 3D-printed floor is designed to simulate the effect of brick extending into the interior floor. The grooves in the columns are used to inlay bricks.

Resin

Laser-cutting Slab

Molds

Details of Slab

04 Clay Extruding Barrel Vault

Robotic Fabrication Design

Location: Philadelphia, PA Date: 05/2022-08/2022

Instructor: Na Wei Academic, Cooperative Work, with Yefan Zhi

The shape of these volumes is determined by their functions. After Richmond generating station ceased operation in 1985, it has been abandoned until now. Without working functions, it still demonstrates the unique aesthetic and cultural trends of that era for industrial architecture. Our concept for the design is to create a memorial space inside the giant turbine hall, a tomb for a past era. In today's world where clean energy is widely used, we hope our design triggers thoughts over our energy consumption and industrial architecture.

Fabrication Robots

Lab

Weitsman School

Simple Contour Printing

Screw

Screw

r=600mm A=9°

r=2200mm A=2.5°

r=18000mm A=0.15°

r=2200mm A=2.5°

r=600mm A=9° r=18000mm A=0.15°

Design Features

The design features a series of corridors covering the second floor of the hall and is connected to the surrounding turbine machines and walls. The barrel vaults are inspired by the present cruciform ceiling, forming a double-roofed space. The composition of barrel vaults and the changing type and density of hollow bricks create a meandering effect of light and shadow.

Bricks are made by 3D clay extrusion. The interlocking mechanism is aligned with ruled surfaces. It utilizes the contour printing characteristic of 3D printing while positioning parts in self-locking, offering more tolerance throughout the system. With brick units covering different rotation angles, the system combines multiple arcs to approach catenary lines.

05 Human Reproduction Incubator Experiment

Experimental Design of Human Living Space

Location: Tianjin, China

Date: 09/2020-11/2020

Tutor: Zemin Wang Academic, Individual Work

Human beings never stop exploring themselves, but no alternative experiment can fully simulate the growth and development of the human body. Until, one day, a laboratory announced the establishment of a "Human Reproduction Incubator" to conduct more efficient research and decided to open it to the public. The subject will no longer reproduce through the mother, and the building will serve as an incubator to provide all physiological needs for the internal subjects. The researchers located the incubator in an old part of Tianjin, where people live a nine-to-five life. The familiar street did not tempt them to stop until they saw the brochure for the experiment, which read: "The subject grows three times as fast as the ordinary person. You can observe the process of human growth into old age." People began to watch the internal broadcast through the led screen on the outside of the building and use the mobile app to observe the subject in real-time. The Incubator became a popular punching place, and everything started to change here...

SITE

City: Tianjin,China

Site: An old town in Tianjin

City's hope: Looking for a way to strengthen the daily contact between people and cities and between people.

Test Process

Field Investigation

"Three different kinds of places"

Writing a story for each place

Creating paintings based on places and stories

Scanning paintings and photos at will in the printer

Extracting the curve in print and selecting them to build frame model

Taking photos with paintings

Selecting one of the models for further design

Other test results are used as elements of the new building

Deepening Process

Defining the building type and function based on the story

Defining the role of the new building in the story

Designing the relationship between people and the new building

Establishing a link between the new building and the city's hope

Test 1

Location:Nancui Ping Park

Time:9 p.m

Scene: Relative space Plot:Heterogeneous species are born in one of the Spaces

Step3:Scanning Step4:Extracting

Step1:Painting Step2:Taking

Functional Division

Story Highlights

The subjects were born and died inside the building, and until the age of 20 (60 for a normal person), they were provided with a perfect life in the building's growing zone. Each nest is inhabited by one subject. The walls of the nest room are mostly frosted and breathable, solid but soft to the touch. The exterior wall is embedded with a one-way mirror, through which people can observe the subjects closely, but the experimenter will not be aware of the presence of people.

In order to maintain the dynamic balance of life within the Incubator, the subjects are transported from the growing area to the recessionary zone by the age of 20. When someone in the growing zone has a reactionary idea against the eternal perfection of life the whole incubator gives him, he will be transported to the recessionary zone ahead of time.

Relatively speaking, growing zone is more popular in this building. The ideal growth zone provided without conditions is the utopia of many minds. Sometimes people look at the subject and imagine what they would be like if they were him. As a result, growing areas are full of daydreamers.

Most people observe in growing zone, but few stay in the recessionary zone for long periods of time. Because people generally don't like to experience aging and death in advance. Empty recessionary zone offers space for vendors, who set up weekend markets on undulating surfaces. Every weekend, vendors and customers talk about goods, yet no one notices the aging experimenter inside the building.

Interior Renderings

Nest in the Growing Zone

Room in the Recessionary Zone

External Observation Area

Experimental Observation Room

06 From the Past to the Future

National Pulse Memorial and Mesuem Design

Location: Orlando,USA Date: 04/2019-07/2019

Tutor: Bo Zhang Academic, Individual Work

This design commemorates those killed in the Orlando shooting in the United States. After this act of terrorism that affected LGBTQ+ people, the Orlando community, and people around the world came together to prove that " we will not let hate win." Influenced by them, I tried to focus on the everyday experiences of victims, survivors, and first responders in this project, rather than the tragic events. This site will be a tribute to all those affected. It will educate visitors from all around the world and catalyze for positive change.

This project is composed of three distinct elements: Museum, Memorial and Survivors Walk, which is integrated into a different recognizable destination. A vital aspect of this project is a design strategy connecting these three elements and the surrounding site context.

It is anticipated that the Survivors Walk will connect the Pulse nightclub site to the Orlando Health Memorial Paver Garden, adjacent to Lake Beauty. Aspects of the Survivors Walk will extend further north to end at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, which will continue to tell the Pulse story and have a positive urban impact.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts must be understood as a continuation of this project, past the firehouse, Lake Beauty, and Orlando Health. This represents a continuation of the journey from hate to remembrance and hope. Besides, the Highway I-4 exit is considered as an outer boundary of the project.

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Orlando Brewing

SoDo Gateway

Orange Avenue Shopping Center

Shopping Mall

Pulse

Orlando Health Heart Institute

Main Road Highway

Secondary Road Subway

Transportation

Place of Experience

Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez

Brenda Lee Marquez McCool

Juan Ramon Guerrero&Christopher Andrew Leinonen

Location: Brick&Fire Pizza

Location:Delaney Elementary School

Location:Lake

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Delaney Elementary School

Le Bouquet Fleurs Health UF Health Cancer Center

Orlando Health Heart Institute

Brick

Location:Lake Beauty Pulse

Smoothie King

Dunkin'

& Fire Pizza Orlando ProCare Pharmacy

Memorial Generation

I choose to accept and embrace every moment, even though I have already known the journey and the destination.

You are there while I am here over the sea. Missing you in my way, that is all I am going to say.

I try to understand you, like reading a difficult book. Sometimes I think you are innocent, even more frequently, I think you are mysterious.

I seek your footprints hidden in the fallen leaves. You tell me about your past by your smile and your song.

I have a thousand shadows, but none of them is real. The real me in the world is illusory, which is made by a thousand shadows.

If you do not leave, you will sit with me. I will neither comfort you nor speak until the seasons are lonely.

There is a constant number of secrets for everyone in the world. If I give you mine, I give myself to you.

The raindrops in my hands have kissed your face. I cross time to participate every time you pass.

I hope there will be heavy rain, because I have an umbrella. If so， I can ask you if you want to come with me.

When you can not see me, look up at the sky. Our hearts are together at that time, because the skies of the world are connected.

The river can wash away dust ，leaves and plankton. However，the river of time can not wash away my missing.

The world used to be a steep mountain with a colorless sea to me.After meeting you,the mountain is no longer steep and the sea is boundless.

Sometimes I can not speak. Just like this moment, I am standing in front of you and looking into your eyes.

I came when I was young and left when I was old. I am not willing to forget you so I can only keep looking for you.

You are just a stranger I met on the streetbut I remembered your appearance suddenly. I am looking forward to seeing you again but it is impossible.

Others define the night by the moon, but you know it is none of our business. You are the source of all my light in every night.

I look at him as if looking at yesterday, today, and tomorrow. I have never heard his name, but I know he is looking at me quietly.

I miss spring very much and I want to kiss spring again. Now change spring to your name and read again.

I write down the words slowly and send them to god. I hope he will tell you how much i love you.

I want to turn everything I encounter into a story about you. On a cloudless day, telling this story to the sun, the stars, and the moon.

The more difficult roads often have the most beautiful scenery. Be grateful for your experiences, no matter how tough.

Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near. The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.

Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to someone, but we are just passing through.

Transition Space

Lavatory

Service Counter

It can collapse or be silent. But it will never go out and it will always be bright. It is the light in my heart forever

You go out of my sight but never get out of my thoughts of you. That torn voice is your silent call.

Don’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live the present moment, make it beautiful.

Exhibition Hall

Entertainment Space

Exhibition Hall 2

07 Onward Kids, To the River

Local Indian Kids' Playing Space Design

Location: Agra, India Date: 07/2019-09/2019

Instructors: Lingzhe Wang, Wenbo Fu Competition,Cooperative Work, with Jiaqi Xu

The artificial landfill along the Yamuna river was abandoned for historical reasons, leaving a wasteland between the Taj Mahal and Agra castle. We tried to recognize the character of the site and create its "sense of place" and complete the transition from negative space to positive space--this is defined as "happy spaces", by designing a "happy building" in an "unhappy environment". Therefore, we introduce kids’ playing space on this site. Through this architecture, we hope to provide suitable outdoor activities for local children and stimulate the vitality of the area.

The site is located on the bank of the Ganges. It is a reclamation area which locates between

Mahal and Agra Fort. The reclamation project aimed to upgrade the tourism infrastructure of Agra and propose a commercial zone including a shopping mall in the vicinity of India’s largest tourism attractions. The project was defunct due to the accused corruption of the government official, leaving behind a brutal intervention upon the visual connection between historic monuments.

Traffic Situation

Present Situation

Main Road Subway Waterway

Taj Mahal

Agra Fort

Yamuna River Mahtab BaghSITE

Taj

The main climate type in India is the tropical monsoon climate. Characterized by high temperatures throughout the year, there is obvious rain, drought in two seasons. India is hot all year round, the annual average temperature is above 22℃ , the coldest month is generally above 16℃ ; Usually, June to September is affected by the southwest monsoon from the Indian Ocean, the rainy season; October to May of the following year by the impact of the northeast monsoon from Eurasia, for the dry season.

Program and Solution

Background Program

Solution and Target

With people's pursuit of quality of life, travel has become an important way for people to have leisure and entertainment. This has also led countries to strengthen the protection and development of local attractions to meet the growing demand.

Local government's attention to the scenic spots made the developments of spots’ surrounding areas be ignored. This caused surrounding areas lost vitality and brought serious environmental pollution. This condition is in sharp contrast to the scenic area.

To activate and utilize the inactivated areas around the scenic area, we put kids' play space as a medium. On the one hand, the attraction serves tourists, and there is a lack of activity areas for residents. The design provides them with a place for daily activities. On the other hand, the design hopes to attract more kids and their parents into the site and gradually stimulate the vitality of the site through the intervention of kids' playing space.

Playfulness Mapping

Mounting and balancing stones above each other and then violating them with a ball was both entertaining and strenuous. It sure makes your hand eye coordination better.

Marbles was a famous game among all kids. It helped in increasing concentration, aiming at the right marble needed lots of practice.

This game involves drawing a pattern on boxes of the floor after which you throw a small objective into one of the numbered boxes.

The close number attempts

Lattoo is a wooden top that has grooves in its lower half and a nail at the bottom, on which it spins. Do not you remember having lattoo competitions as a child? The child who’s lattoo spun the longest won!

Making a fortune teller of our own with a square piece of paper, talking of things we made out of paper.

This game consists of a ‘denner’ who has to catch all the other players. Once he catches another player, the said player also becomes the denner and holds hands with the original denner in an attempt to catch the rest of the players.

Dodgeball is a team sport in which players on two teams try to throw balls and hit opponents while avoiding being hit themselves.

Swing is to rely on one or more people behind the players, push the players, or their use of rope swing before and after, so that the players' bodies with the swing up and down a game.

The slide is an example of the simple machine known as the inclined plane[circular reference], which makes moving objects up and down easier, or in this case more fun.

Maze

Outdoor plantations help strengthen children's understanding and love of nature.

Secret play spaces help children's selfawareness mature and develop more effectively.

Children's play activities are sometimes not limited by space, some abandoned pipe space can also become a place for children to get happiness.

Seesaw

Flying

Kho invented nominated enter team), avoid team. Seesaw, two person one Kite requires

Lagori

Lattoo

Dodgeball

Plantation

Marbles

Tipi Tipi Top

Swing

Log Cabin

Hopscotch

Lock&Key

Sliding Board

Hide&Seek

Kho-Kho

game is played by one player chosen to close their eyes and to count to a predetermined number while the other players hide. and then attempts to locate all concealed players.

Kho kho is a popular tag and ancient sport invented in India. It is played by teams of 12 nominated players out of fifteen, of which nine enter the field who sit on their knees (chasing team), and 3 extra (defending team) who try to avoid being touched by members of the opposing team.

Seesaw, a kind of children's toy with more than participants sitting on the seesaw, one person sitting at end, one person up, one person down.

Flying a Kite

flying is a traditional outdoor game that requires a wide and open space.

Exploration Walking Extra

Secrete

Playground

In the world of kids, there are many kinds of games. Kids adopt different behaviors in different games, thus generating different site requirements.

Hide&Seek

Kho-Kho

Seesaw

The three activity themes include six different play Spaces -- "Maze", "Forest Trail", "Plantation", "Treehouses", "Cave Space" and "Activity Space". Children are free to choose their own devices for activities. Besides, the main materials used in this design are native Indian wood and bamboo. They are widely used in the construction of houses in India because of their low price and convenient transportation.

Kids can enjoy the joy of exploration in maze space.

Kids can experience the fun of exploring the forest in this space.

Plantation

Outdoor plantations help strengthen children's understanding and love of nature.

Plot 1 Plot 2 Plot 3 Plot 4

Treehouses help kids' selfawareness mature and develop more effectively.

Plot 5

The cave space is like a secret base for kids. They can be free here because this is their world.

Plot 6

The outdoor activity space contains different sizes of activity space, which can provide a place for many games and activities.

"She

Maze

begins her adventure Into the midnight garden and watches the mysterious carnival as soon as the light dimmed. Is every different corner, showing countless gorgeous feast at the same time in the night?"

The Journey

Plantation Treehouses Cave space Activity space

Treehouses

There are six different tree houses on the site. The treehouse bears kids' fairy tale fantasy and becomes a platform for kids to live in harmony with nature. Kids will communicate with nature through the treehouses. At the same time, each treehouse is like a castle. In this castle, kids can play freely without restriction. This will be their secret place.

"Whenever she feels out of place in the world, she hides in a corner. Here she breathed softly and walked slowly. The space between the notes forms music. In the silence, there is a beautiful new world......"

Composition of Treehouses

Block 1

Block 2

Block 3

Plantation

The activity of kids in the plantation is a way to get close to nature. Through hands-on planting, children can learn about the growth process of plants. They will understand the difficulty of growing up, experience the hardship of labor and the joy of harvest. Eventually, the garden will become a playground for kids to develop themselves.

"She wonders further in the wood, and then stop and stand under its canopy as much as she can. She is caught up in all its beauty. The light, a shaft between the trees guides her on with quiet ease."

Composition of Plantation

External Stairs

The stairs are one of the vertical traffic spaces in this area. People can access the second floor of the plantation through the stairs.

External Ramp

The ramp is the second vertical traffic space in this area. This is the preferred route for children because they can not only walk on it but also slide down from it

Courtyard

The courtyard is surrounded by other structures. Because it is located in the center of each block, its main function is to provide people with a place to relax.

Forest trail

The forest trail is an activity device built in the forest. The device is designed to allow kids to get close to nature through climbing, walking,and other activities. Children can explore the jungle here on their own. Parents can learn how to take their children to play in nature. The forest trail will become a place for parents and children to grow up together.

"Calm and strange is this evening hour in the forest. Carven domes of green are the trees by the pathwayInfinite shadowy isles lie silent before her. Summer is heavy with age and leans upon Autumn. Down these fantastic avenues pass like shadows."

Composition of Forest Trail

Observation Deck

The observation deck is formed by the gradual upward lifting of tangential circles. Each observation deck of different heights is connected by stairs.

Sandy Land

The sand has always been one of the most popular play spaces for children, where they can pile up whatever they like with sand.

The pavilion provides a waiting space for parents who bring their children to

Portfolio of Ranran Zhang

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