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[Starts From Our Land ] Xiangyu Li Master of Architecture 2

University of California, Los Angeles

CONTENTS Undergraduate individual works 0.1

The Ship Dock

02

Shapowei Art and Exhibition Center

0.2

Reading Aging

0.3

Grace

The renovation of paper mill in Taipei Cable-stayed bridge design

09 17

0.4.1 Between & After

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0.4.2 Between & After

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The re-construction of a destructive landscape &Thesis design as a social engagement Thesis design as a social participation

Graduate individual works 1.1 Tencent Tech Campus

40

Professional work sample 2.1 Buji River Landscape Design

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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my appreciation to my friends, classmates and TA. Especially to my classmates in The Now Institute and Professor Thom Mayne, Professor Eui-Sung Yi and Philippe. All of them have helped me in this portfolio.

I would also like to express my gratitude to my Professors Hideki Hirahara and Cheng-ping Hsiu, Xin-ying Huang. Without their help in my academic and professional studies, I would not have had any chance to chase my dreams.

The Ship Dock

0.1

Shapowei Art and Exhibition Center 2

Site area: 8700 m Location: Xiamen, Shapowei, Siming Area Duration: 2014/02~2014/04

2

The Context of The Site

Conceptual Development

Axis and site context

Physical distribution and vision line

Cultural Translation

Oriental transformed from fishing culture

The site: Shapowei is located in the Siming District in Xiamen (Amoy), where there once existed a long history of fishing culture. In order to “shy away” from natural disasters, fishermen gathered in this site, shaped like a crescent blade, to avoid the clouds and rain. Gradually, the fish market appeared at the river bank, along with streets, and housing, which were erected by fishermen. There are two different “faces” of the site due to the different tides, bringing ecological diversity to the site.

3

Programs and Master Plan

Oriental structure

Roof System

Administer

Administer Office

Gallery

R&D

Second Floor

Library& Study Center

Theater Museum 3 Museum2 Gallery & Classroom Cafeteria Ocean Plazza

Exhibition Center

Ground Floor

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4.8

9.6

419.2 m

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1. Regular Exbition 2. Art learning Classroom 3. Student’s Exbition Room 4. Small Plaza 5. Storage 6. Multimedia Exhibition Room 7. Community Classroom 8. Cafe Bar 9. Art Process Chamber 10. Special exbition the 11. Antechamber 12. Special Exbition Room 13. Theater 14. Restroom 15. Pubic Art 16. Fishing Cultural Exbition 0

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面

平

室

下

地

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12m

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3

6

12m

1.(Boat-dwelling cultural )Regular Exbition 2.Regular exbition Room 3.Smoking Area 4.Regular Exbition Room 5.Regular Exbition Room 6.Multimedia Exhibition Room 7.Regular Exbition Room 8.Regular Exbition Room 9.Regular Exbition Room 10.Regular Exbition Room 11.Special Exbition Room 12.Multimedia Exhibition Room 13.Theater 14.Library &Study room 15.Harbor Cultural Exbition 16.Art Chamber

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3

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0

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3

6

12m

1. Art learning&Experience room 2. Office of the Dean 3. Research Room 4. Auditorium 5. Research Space 6. Meeting Space 7. Director Room 8. Fitting Room 9. Office

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Exhibition & Cafeteria & Library 0

50

100

Art Exhibition & Research Center

200 cm

0

+6400

50

100

200 cm

+7000

+3200

+3200

+0.000 -

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Section A-A’

0

6

12

24m

66

The Spontaneous Living Section Shapowei is one of the most significant memorial places in Xiamen (Amoy). Apart from the requirement of designing the plaza, library, theater and keeping one old building on the site, for me, the environment is much more important than the architecture itself. Thus, I created a “lens” inside the new architecture, which is a continuous glass wall on the second floor and provides public space for people to observe, to record, and to experience the picturesque surrounding. The art exhibition room will hold some activities for visitors and residents, too. Therefore, the history and the culture will be connected tightly with people from now to the next generation.

Meanwhile, this section of the project, as it is shown below, constitutes a harmonious scene of the fishermen’s houses, and the market on the other side of the sea.

+8900

+3500 Tie GuanyinTea ok~

Yo Cool

Section B-B’ 0

6

12

24m

77

The Ship Dock

0.1

Shapowei Art and Exhibition Center 2

Site area: 8700 m Location: Xiamen, Shapowei, Siming Area Duration: 2014/02~2014/04

0.2

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I love this space ambience,feel so peaceful.

Nice tea,Enjoy it

The South China Sea belong to China!

I want to test the new camera I bought yesterday!

Reading Aging

0.2

A story for a debris 2

Site area: 39140 m Location: Shilin District, Taipei Duration: 2015/9/15~2016/1/10

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The introduction of the site

Conceptual Development

Wildness

Construct ion Old paper mills top view

City 1970 Landscape City A place for producing papers.

20XX

Debris

What will be in the future?

This project started with the research of decayed space, meaning the space and programs will evolve with time. I made a system model to illustrate how a place can be renovated from wildness to small construction. The main argument of this project is to think about how to create a decayed space in the future, or an intermediate space between wildness and landscape, within a city where people live, and to know the story about a place in the past.

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Materials & Spaces & Time New Materials 1 year 10 years 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years 60 years 70 years

Old Materials Truss Glass Roofs (Part) Evergreen Tree Maple

Stainless steel Bean Glass wall

Timber Bookstore Stainless steel Bookstore Brick Wall Tiles Moss Wall

X0 years

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Programs for Now

Programs for The Future

Atriun

As these diagrams shows, I keep transforming the previous space manufacturing paper to the library which is represented by orange color. Outside the library surrounded by landscape.

Exterior Thearter

Atriun

Decadent lanscape

Library

Cafeteria

Decadent lanscape

Library

Warehouse

Decadent Park

Paper Musum

Atriun

Cafeteria

Paper Musum

Exterior Theater

Auditorium

Ruins

Decadent Park

Theater

Ruins

Decadent park

Decadent Lanscape

Warehouse

Decadent Park

Decadent Lanscape

Decadent Lanscape

In the future, the exterior and interior space will be woven together to become a continuous landscape park for the people living in the future. The book will serve as part of the landscape element for people to memory the past, paper, and culture.

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Different phases of Landscape and Architecture(1+2)

1 year

Maby this wall have some stories, how about the space inside?

Landscape Library for The Future

10 years

Listen!!

I like plants ^&**(

WOW Zzzzzz

In this paper mill, I try to introduce two kinds of materials, one is a brand new material which can reflect the light, such as the tile, glass, and curtain wall. Meanwhile, also preserve old materials such as brick, truss, and industrial remains. By organizing people’s movements to ensure that they feel the new and old co-exist together, and through the decay of old materials to feel the time pass, they can know the past of the site and think about the future. The paper mills will become the last landscape park for people in the future surrounded by skyscrapers in the city. The books inside also serve as a landscape material, connecting the past “paper� manufacturing process and saving the knowledge for the future.

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Different phases of Landscape and Architecture(3+4)

50 years

X00 years

Now 04

81

6m

Future 04

81

6m

14

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Ground Level Plan 02

48

m

15

Industrial Park Semi-Outdoor Auditorium

Industrial Park Interior Library/Future Landscape Park

Administera�on Office

Exbi�on Ceter

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Grace

0.3

Cable-stayed bridge design Site length: 500 m Location: Bali District, Taipei Duration: 2015/08/15~2015/05/20

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Requirements and Concept Development

Relationship With The Bali District

500m

15m

My project

0

80 160

320m

This project is a cooperative project between 5 people from 3 different fields: construction, landscape, architecture. The client chose the site in Bali district on the other side of Tamsui (cover photograph) in Taipei. The requirement was to design a connective bridge to link the main road to a commercial port. The concept “ship” derives from the site’s past history with the harbor. I try to create a graceful curve upon the sea and echo the image of the harbor that existed in the past.

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Spatial Composition of the Bridge

Arch

Lane

300m

Walking Trail

Sea The bridge contains an arch, a lane, and a walking loop, which is for people to enjoy the beautiful landscape of the Bali District in Taipei. Here, people can jog, walk and take photos with their families. On the top of the loop is the lane for cars. Under the loop is the foundation, which supports the arch on top. The arch and the cables will serve as structural components to hold up the whole bridge, creating a graceful curve to connect the commercial area and the Bali District for cars, and pedestrians. The challenge of this project is to simply transform the natural landscape into the consideration of form, not only to satisfy the requirements but also to maintain the beautiful mountain landscape.

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Between & After

Memorial park for the boundary between Taiwan and China

0.4.1

2

Site area: 65000 m Location: Houfeng Port; Quemoy Duration: 2016/10~2017/04

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1945 The People's Republic of China.

Three People's .Principles Unify China.

One country, two systems.

China People’s republic of China Mainland China Chinese

Counterattack to the mainland China.

Special country-to-state relations.

One country, two systems.

Taiwan and China are two countries.

2000

One country, two systems.

1992 consensus.

2008 One country, two systems.

“Republic of China” Taiwan “Chinese” “Taiwanese”

There is no1992 consensus.

2019

President Xi Jinping announced that the Chinese government will never give up using military force to unite Taiwan, creating new tension between China and Taiwan.

Recently, more and more Taiwanese gradually recognize themselves as Taiwanese rather than Chinese which has accelerated the Chinese government’s steps to unite Taiwan with China. The border records the relationship, cultural recognition, and historical differences. Therefore, through the border landscape, I want people to perceive and consider this border (from Taiwan’s perspective) or frontiers (from China’s perspective), and how they exist in terms of differences in history, culture, politics, and economy.

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Yes

?

Life

(施工中)

Economy

Politics No

(施工中)

西

Strategy 段

巷

弄

?

(施工中)

西 海 路 三 段 2

西

海

路

二 一

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段

段

西

海

西

路 路

海

海

一 路

一

段 二 西 段

西

海

Because of historical problems, the boundary or border between China and Taiwan is unclear and varies from time to time. From the map above we can see that the boundary exists in the middle line between China and Taiwan. However, because Taiwan still has an enclave remaining in China’s territory Kinmen(Quemoy). Therefore, the boundary is fuzzy, which influences the life, economy, strategy-making, along with the politics in Kinmen(Quemoy). Furthermore, the site, Houfeng port, which is on the bottom right corner, was influenced by that ambiguous geographical relationship. The port was reclaimed by concrete to create a commercial harbor for cruises from China. Therefore, this site is chosen to reflect the ambiguous boundary and its social, political, psychological and cultural aspects.

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21：12

18：01 06：29

15：31 04：42

20：14

：40

08：34

09：27 22：18 10：30

17：25

16：14

04：00

18：40 07：07

05：54 16：51 23：31

05：19

11：47

14：37 03：12 19：24 15：30 12：10

07：49

02：15

01：09

00：48 13：10

01：08 13：21

23：13 11：41

12：19 23：55

12：53 13：26 00：34 01：11

13：57 01：49

14：28 02：28 02：18 14：32 17：06 06：32

15：00 03：11

15：35 04：02 16：16 05：08

03：23 15：32

04：19 16：22

05：05 17：03

05：44

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17：40 22：11

06：16

初 一

初 二

18：14

06：46

20：22

18：50

初 三

初 四

08：28 20：56 07：17 19：29

初 五

07：51 20：10

初 六

初 七

10：55 23：57

09：08 21：47

初 八

09：56 22：48

初 九

High Tide The border of the island shows up

初 十

18：01

19：15

07：56

09：07

十 一

十 二

10：01

十 三

21：20

11：23

10：45

十 四

十 五

00：22 22：56 11：58

十 六

13：07 23：39 12：33

十 七

十 八

01：06 13：42

十 九

04：50 16：47

02：42 01：52

15：02 03：40

14：20

二 十

二 十 一

15：50

二 十 二

二 十 三

06：10 17：54

07：35 19：11

二 十 四

07：47 19：33

二 十 五

二 十 六

09：02 20：37

二 十 七

10：06 21：36 10：58

二 十 八

22：27

二 十 九

Low Tide The Border of the island disappears

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Process of Constructing The Memorial Park

Demolish the concrete

Bring back the tide to the site

Placed the Ecological Embankment

The first phase of the islands

High Tide

When the tide retreats, the borders of the islands disappear. It is also a nice moment for people to circle around these beautiful islands landscape. Through circling around the islands and experience the disappearance of borders and looking at the scene from mainland China, people can think about the difference in terms of culture, country, and self-recognition. Also, in this moment, the high tide with the borders of islands, this phenomenon serves as a metaphor that China and Taiwan’s relationship varies from time to time (Separation).

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Process of Constructing The Memorial Park

Planting with evergreen plants

The second phase of the islands

Planting with autumn plants

Change with time

Low Tide

When the tide goes up, the borders of the islands appear. It is the best moment for people to circle around these beautiful islands landscape. On the other side of the sea is Xiamen(Amoy), a placed that belong to mainland China and that city can be observed clearly in this site. Therefore, through circling around the islands and experience the co-exist the border and looking at the scene from mainland China, people can think of the difference in terms of culture, country, and self-recognition. Also, in this moment, the low tide with the borders of islands, this phenomenon serves as a metaphor that China and Taiwan’s relationship varies from time to time (Unification).

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Plan: High Tide 0

75

150

21：12

1

New Houfeng village 16：14

18：40 07：07

20：14

：40

08：34

09：27 22：18 10：30

17：25 05：54

15：31

Oyster field

18：01 06：29

16：51

04：42

23：31

05：19

04：00

11：47

14：37 03：12

R=72m

19：24 15：30 12：10

07：49

02：15

01：09

00：48 13：10

Folk story landscape

Hong causeway

23：13 11：41

12：19 23：55

13：26 00：34 01：11

R=231

R=81m

12：53

13：57 01：49

14：28

01：08 13：21

R=57

02：28 02：18 14：32

R=75m

17：06 06：32

15：00 03：11

R=100m 15：35 04：02 16：16 05：08

R=114m 03：23 15：32

17：03

05：44 17：40

Jiangong island

2

初 一

初 二

18：14

06：46

22：11 20：22

18：50

初 三

初 四

08：28 20：56 07：17 19：29

初 五

07：51 20：10

初 六

初 七

10：55 23：57

09：08 21：47

初 八

09：56 22：48

初 九

初 十

16：22 18

Hong Embankment

06：16

04：19

Bicycle path

05：05

18：01

19：15

07：56

09：07

十 一

十 二

10：01

十 三

21：20

11：23

10：45

十 四

十 五

00：22 22：56 11：58

十 六

13：07 23：39 12：33

十 七

十 八

01：06 13：42

十 九

04：50 16：47

02：42 01：52

15：02 03：40

14：20

二 十

二 十 一

15：50

二 十 二

二 十 三

06：10 17：54

07：35 19：11

二 十 四

07：47 19：33

二 十 五

二 十 六

09：02 20：37

二 十 七

10：06 21：36 10：58

二 十 八

22：27

初 十 九

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Plan: Low Tide 0

75

High tide’s line（Past）

150 1

New Houfeng village

20：14

：40

08：34

09：27 22：18 10：30

17：25

16：14

05：54

15：31

Oyster field

18：01 06：29

21：12

18：40 07：07

16：51

04：42

23：31

05：19

04：00

11：47

14：37 03：12

R=72m

19：24 15：30 12：10

07：49

02：15

01：09

00：48 13：10

Folk story landscape

01：08 13：21

Hong causeway 23：13 11：41

12：19 23：55

13：26 00：34 01：11

R=231

R=81m

12：53

13：57 01：49

14：28

R=57

02：28 02：18 14：32

R=75m

17：06 06：32

15：00 03：11

R=100m 15：35 04：02 16：16 05：08

R=114m 03：23 15：32

17：03

05：44 17：40

Jiangong island

2

初 二

18：14

06：46

22：11 20：22

18：50

初 三

初 四

08：28 20：56 07：17 19：29

初 五

07：51 20：10

初 六

初 七

10：55 23：57

09：08 21：47

初 八

09：56 22：48

初 九

初 十

16：22 18

Hong Embankment

06：16

初 一

04：19

Bicycle path

05：05

18：01

19：15

07：56

09：07

十 一

十 二

10：01

十 三

21：20

11：23

10：45

十 四

十 五

00：22 22：56 11：58

十 六

13：07 23：39 12：33

十 七

十 八

01：06 13：42

十 九

04：50 16：47

02：42 01：52

15：02 03：40

14：20

二 十

二 十 一

15：50

二 十 二

二 十 三

06：10 17：54

07：35 19：11

二 十 四

07：47 19：33

二 十 五

二 十 六

09：02 20：37

二 十 七

10：06 21：36 10：58

二 十 八

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22：27

初 十 九

Mangrove

Metasequoia

Photinia Frase

Sea hibiscus

Reed

Pine

Ginkgo

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Oenothera Drumnondii

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The Section of the Bridge 1:60

1

2

1. PC plastic hollow board 400mm

3

2. “I” beam 60mm*120mm

Interes�ng Nice！

3. Iron-joint 900mm*140mm 4. Gutter 120mm*60mm 5. Cable

4

R=10mm

6. Turnbuckle

R=10mm, t=2mm

picturesque！

Taiwannese or Chinese?

5 6

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Borders and Ways for Experiencing

Circle around the islands

Through circling around the islands, people can experience the borders' existence and disappearance.

Crossing through the linked-islands

Some islands will be connecting together as tide goes up. Crossing through the middle part of multi-islands, people can experience how the islands separate and re-connect.

Contemplation through observation

Standing on the islands and staring at the cities on the other side of the sea to think about the difference between Taiwan and China.

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Between & After

Thesis design as a social participation

0.4.2

Thesis design is the last chance to conceive a project that really belongs to me before I have a chance to design my own first architecture. Therefore, how to connect with the society is what I always think and do throughout this unforgettable journey.

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Design Requirement From Residents Could you please tell me about the previous status of the Houfeng Village?

Folk-story Landscape in Houfeng Village

you need to think about the relationship between the park you design with our village.

十八羅漢礁

小金门

牛鼻齉

外礁

歹糕礁（建功屿） 内礁 西宫鼻

Oyster field

大墓礁

大釘

大塔礁 相疊石礁

Folk story landscape

小塔礁

碼頭腳礁 Houfeng Village

Through the discussion with the native residents, they tell me to create an intermediate area between the village and the park and try to re-construct some folk story landscape that previously existed as the diagram shows.

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Connective Tissue Between Park and The Village

Island-Residential

Houfeng Village

Residential Hotel

Island type residents Intermediate Zone

Sea ďŹ elds Island museum(acquaďż˝c) Evergreen island Autumn island

Islands-Museum Ecological Exhibition Fishing Cultural Exhibition History Exhibition

On the beach, I try to use the islands as architectural design language to the landscape architecture and apply this design strategy to the area between the memorial park and the village, which is a buffer or intermediate zone. The design requirement is from the residents. This intermediate zone can serve as connective tissue between park and village and it would be better than just place a memorial park in front of the village, creating a direct impact on the village.

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Prototype Of Vernacular Architecture in The Village

H:548

Island- Residential Proposal

H:695 H:376

Combination in section

Surface

2F

Combination in plan

1F

create a new type of residential for the village. These residential will collectively constitute a new Houfeng Village and serve as a buffer zone between the old village and the memorial park.

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Ground Floor Plan

1

2 278

1:150

4

3 613

Partial Detail

1:50

35mm insula�on layer Fire Protec�on Stuffing

278

Flashing

A

150mm Screen window

A

32.5mm Concrete slab(Desk)

Finishi wood support mullion

16mm Waterproff layer

客厅

B

225mm Hollow floor 30mm*30mm Door curtain conainer

卧室 Bedroom

餐厅 Parlour

Dinning room

C

54.2mm*32.4mm Aluminium alloy doorframe

D E

浴室 Bathroom

天井 Atrium

厨房 Kitchen 20mm wood plank(With ribs) 16mm insula�on layer 15mm Waterproff layer Founda�on

D 3mm Aluminium alloy stairs slip bar

主入口 Main entrance

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Island-Museum

Ground Floor Plan 1

1:150 2

1391

B

主入口 Main entrance

A B C

D

B’

In the last two decades, before the site was reclaimed by the government of Taiwan, this site used to be a place fulling with ecological lives, fishing boat, and some rare Intertidal creatures. This museum aims at re-constructing a media: museum architecture for people to know the past and think of the land, our earth in the future.

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History Exhibition (Low Tide)

History Exhibition (High Tide)

This scene shows how residents previously stop their boats on the beach and see the comparison between Xiamen (Amoy) and Kinmen (Quemoy).

As the tide goes up, the boats will float, people can have a chance to know how this site and people have such a close relationship with the environment.

Residential and Museum 1:400 +479

+260

+0.00 -70

Through the long section, people can experience the memorial park through cycling and walking on the bridge, along with rowing the fishing boats. Meanwhile, people can live in the new type of residential and see how the new type of house adapt to the change of the environment. In addition, the Island-Museum will give people the most valuable lessons about ecology, life, and history, ensuring people to consider the borders, environments through these series of landscape.

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Exhibition and Social Participation

The Back Hall

後落廳

軒亭

深井

軒亭

大門

壽堂後 後房

前房

巷頭

公媽廳

�墘

前房

Kung-Ma Hall

Discussion with the residents

巷頭 大門

攑頭

攑頭 深井

大門

The Front Hall 前落房

前落廳 （迴向）

前落房

大門

Eternal exhibition for the visitors to the site

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Tencent Campus

1.1

High-Tech- Campus Scheme Site area: 1250000 m 2 Location: Shenzhen, Qianhai, China Duration: 2018/09~2019/01

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Site Information

Company Culture

Songri Dingsheng Building

1k 5k

Tencent Building

Tencent Coastal Building

10k

Knowledge Connection

2018

2017

2009

Health Connection

2.5km

Cultural Connection m

0.5k

Qianhai Sci-Tech Campus

Tencent New Headquarter

Tencent Old Headquarter

The site is located at Shenzhen, one of the Special Economic Zone in China. Tencent company initiates its business in this city. At 2009, Tencent has their own headquarter in Shenzhen and In 2017, The NBBJ finished the new headquarter to convey health, knowledge, and social connection to the society. Now, how to base on the culture of Tencent to create new scheme to adapt to the development of Tencent is the challenge.

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Combinatory Language Study(Morphology)

Draft Model

In this scheme, the left side of this model is too linear and not supposed to be so identical and arrays linearly. Meanwhile, the Z-Axis lacks a variability in terms of form, height, and distance, along with the lack of enough X and Y line on the surface.

Final conceptual Model

Within this scheme, it looks much more controllable and variable. The red X and Y lines consist the possible circulations of the site. The tower represents the possible high-rise buildings in the future. Meanwhile, the surface and volume can transform to landscape architecture.

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Z-Vase

X-Lines Partial Section A

Y-Lines

Surface Partial Section B

Lima Beans

Partial Section C Combinatory Language study is a conceptual form operation strategy puts forward by Professor Thom Mayne through manipulating different shapes and using boolean subtraction to create voe and empty space in a different way. In the next steps, we need to discuss the different schemes base on the programs, scale, environment, and dimension of the site to revise this conceptual model. Finally, the project will be much reasonable and meaningful from an urban designer’s perspective.

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Spatial Strategy

Core

Culture: Integration for lives and Internet

Core space connects with other spaces

Connecting with different groups

#1 Bridge #1 Subway

#2 Bridge #2 Subway

#3 Bridge

Public and private space layout

Transformation

Connective tissue between public space

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Spatial Strategy

Form manipulation

Separation between public and private space

Connective tissue

Transformation

Boolean subtraction and offset

Public ground for the citizen in Shenzhen

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Programs

Public plaza 1 Public plaza 2 Public plaza 3 Transportation & Station & Amenities

Research &Development

10%

47%

Public plaza 4 Public plaza 5

Residential 26%

Convention 5%

Commercial & Retail 7%

Landscape

Hotel 5%

A large amount of the programs are Research and Development. There are three bridges connect the Tencent Campus to the Shenzhen. Meanwhile, plazas spread out along the edge of the site to create enough public spaces in the city for employees and citizens.

Subway & Lane &Pedestrian

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Within the Research and Development, there exists a private pocket landscape park for the employee to relax and some small paths for passing through. In the middle, a stadium is placed here for public and private collectively use. On the right side are some amenities for public use and recreation.

The different scale of separations is spreading with the programs to create public and private connections. The towers transform the programs from horizontal to vertical, creating a series of skyscrapers to echo with the skyscrapers on the other side of the Shenzhen Bay.

From the long section, as we can observe that the combinatory language is not only using in plan but also use in section to create cutting between the skyscraper and 5~6 floor building underneath

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Entry and Stadium

This diagram illustrates the entrance of the site, showing how people walking or taking bicycles circle around this area and how the employee gets into the R & D area. Meanwhile, the landscape, water, island are placed in the public plaza for public use.

Plaza 1 and residential

Underneath the R & D center, I make some entrances for people from the public plaza to enter into the building. On the first floor, I placed some commercial program, trying to activate the vitality of the plaza.

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R & D, pocket park and Plaza 3

This diagram showing how to Extend the bridge to the R & D in the site and using the combinatory language to make sure the circumference of the plaza is the extension of the curve of the bridge to create a continuous public space.

Tencent working space and Pocket park

Within the R & D, the atrium not only connects the working space but also connects with the private pocket landscape park. The purple space, as the diagram shows, connect with the left working space. The tower gives the employee a nice view and an ideal working environment.

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The influence of the city-scape

The Combinatory language of the city Within the site, I try to use combinatory language through subtraction and manipulation of different forms to create public spaces. This strategy, should not only limited in the site but also influence the whole Shenzhen city landscape as you can see the combinatory language extending from the site to the surrounding Shenzhen Bay area. When the citizen takes a stroll along the continuous circular landscape park to enter the site, they can experience the picturesque landscape and enjoy the best service given

by Tencent company in the future to create a better, healthy, and convenient life.

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Shenzhen Buji River landscape design

2.1

Participate in Landscape feature design, modeling and 3D renderings 2

Site area: 15965 m Location: Shenzhen, Guangdong, Siming Area Duration: 2018/02~2018/04

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Landscape Design

In the landscape design, what differs from architecture and urban design are the issues of time, plants’ size and the relationship between feature and culture. In this part, I was required to design a water feature, public chairs, light which consider its different moment in day time and night time, 3D model, and renderings. Therefore, based on the idea of cascade with reflective material, I proposed a flying-fish sculpture to create the visual and cultural link to people( Previously this place is a fishing village). The plane in below showing how people interact with the environment and different scene in day time and night time.

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Water Feature Design (Day time)

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Water Feature Design (Night time)

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Landscape architecture design( Rendering)

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