Y2 SEM2 SPRING

GUO GE SERENA NO.3035034934 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARCH 2047 INSTRUCTOR: LIU YUYANG& STEVEN SEMESTER2 YEAR2 SPRING 2013-2014

Project1

Question Quest Analysis of architectural schools

Project2

Reveal Unrevealing Film Collage

Project3

Construct Constructivism Urban Outpost Design

Project1 Individual project This project will be to examine architectural institutions that conceptually offer a different model of education and to formulate a concept for a new HKU Urban + Architecture Lab. Through the process we will question how architecture should be taught, the role of studio culture, and how the design and organisation of spaces can facilitate the definition of a school culture and identity.

Question Quest Analysis of reference projects of architectural schools

-Porto School of Architecture, Alvaro Siza (spatial idea) -41 Cooper Square, Morphosis Architects, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (program arrangement)

Spacial idea

Sketch, Alvaro Siza

-A long public space connecting every public programs such as lobby, lecture hall, auditorium, swimming pool, canteen, as well as sports center.

-The public spaces are arranged at low level -Long public space serves as physical linkage of all the common area as well as social linkage ensure better connection of people from different area.

Long public corridor

Others

Common area

Short section A

Short section B

Long section Porto School of Architecture, Alvaro Siza

Program arrangement

Sketch, Morphosis Architects

-Central atrium-vertical plazza ( for social interaction) -Classrooms, offices, studios, and laboratories surround the vertical atrium -Offices placed at one side of the building for convinence -Public spaces at lower levels while studios placed at higher levels for privacy purpose.

Offices

Public spaces

Studios

Social spaces

41 Cooper Square,Morphosis Architects

Text Responses

1.Program arrangement The organization of the building must be clear and obvious, in other words, people won’t get confused and lost when walking there. So the building should have the programs including: Learning space (Design studio, lecture room, woodshop room, laser cur room, computer lab…), Office (General office, rooms for teachers, official staff rooms), Public space (open to public, such as exhibition room, gallery, pubs, workshop room…)

Multi-purpose space (change its function according to different needs)

2.Spatial idea Same as program arrangement, the space of the building should be clear and easy to follow.

Based on this principle, a continuous corridor is provided to connect different functional zone. The area of studio should take larger proportion of the whole area, thus allowing for better learning environment since the most time is spent in studio for architecture student. The space of studio can be various such as across-storey space.

3.The public interface During the site visit to HKDI, it is found that the public space on 7-9 floors which are high above the ground are not in fully use. The public area should be placed within the lower lever(GF&1F), which on one hand, incorporate flow of people from street as much as possible, on the other hand, prevent disturb to the students learning on upper levels.

4.Forms of collaboration A s a rc h i t e c t u re s t u d e n t , we s h o u l d b o t h collaborate with others and also work alone separately. So for Studio, the idea is to keep it private and quiet for better personal environment.

However, for public spaces and common area, multi-level of collaboration is encouraged. Not only the interaction with students within the same subject, but also students among different subjects, students and teachers, students and citizens.

5.Educational idea George Washington Carver once said, Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

The key concept of the education as well as the architecture is to generate educational freedom.

Project2 Individual project By capturing the spatial configuration of the site through film, the project explores moving images as a mapping and design tool to reveal the specific spatial realm of the site and also implement a future scenario for the proposed research outpost. The final film should include ideas from project 1 regarding the definition of an architectural lab and how they could interact and interface with the constraints and possibilities of the site.

The objective is to experiment with image making to explore an alternative methodology in mapping and designing within the city. Themes will be identified and explored through the movie making.

Reveal Unrevealing Film Collage

“He believed that if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the molecular basis of historical events. And in this way he hoped to see the future.�

---London, Patrick Keiller 1994

Site condition

The movie captures the current working and living condition of Jiangqiao township.

Factories are not just big machines and structures, there are human lives involved.

Jiangqiao township is undergoing huge transformation now, the renewal of the factory is also the renewal of human lives.

Story Board -Children -Factory -Communities

Cement Factory

JiangQiao Township Electrical&Electronics factory

"I don't have money."

JiangQiao Township

"I want to be a superman in the future."

Concrete factory

JiangQiao Township

"I came from Yichang County, Anhui province."

Service factory

JiangQiao Township Vernacular dwelling

"I don't want to go back home."

JiangQiao Township M50 Galleries

"My mom warned me of talking about my hometown."

M50 Art District

"It was originally a flourmill ."

Xianfeng Gallery

"The art market is bad ."

M50 Public Park within M50 District

"I listened to the government ."

M50 Waterfrount green park

M50

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Conceptual Drawing

The conceptual drawing is the speculation of current factories.

The insprition comes from children, and the idea is to make the intervention playful.

The imagination is serreal, but some of the ideas carry through the design process.

Project3 Individual project The project is to design an architectural and urban research lab as an outpost for HKU Faculty of Architecture. It is not merely an extension of the design studio rather it is conceptualized as a place that could initiate innovation in architectural research.

Construct Constructivism Urban Outpost Design

Inspiration In 1915, Kazimir Malevich changed the future of modern art when his experiments in painting led the Russian avant-garde into pure abstraction.

He called his innovation Suprematism--an art of pure geometric form meant to be universally comprehensible regardless of cultural or ethnic origin.

Malevich, Suprematism Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Geometry Exploration

(acrylic painting)

The drawings are the exploration of pure geometry and how they generate relationship with others.

-Geometric Relationship Different geometry bears its own characteristic in themselves.

Circle: detached, no direction, hard to relate to other geometry Rectangle: openess is decided by the porpotion of two side, semi-public Long bar: strong directional(circulation, visual connection, slider) -Solid&Void The objects formed void space which can be interpreted as public common area.

-Spatial depth The color create a sense of depth, from near to far is yellow, red, blue. The color is later translated into the height of the building.

Site condition -Road (Xinhua Road) -River (Suzhou Creek) -Market -Residential Buildings -Park -Warehouse ...

Site Condition

Accessibility (physically)

Network(land&water)

Children

Network(land&water) Site analysis

Accessibility (visually)

Program

Shops Residential blocks Residences (high income) Warehouse Park

Markets (low income)

Markets

Factories (low income)

Shops Kindergarten (high income)

Urban Relationship Exploration (acrylic painting)

The site condition begins to be incorporated into the drawing and the paintings become a method for me to search for a proper urban relationship between the architecture and its surrounding environment.

-Integration The building should function as a whole system.

-Inner program Based on the merit of different geometry, different program was assigned to them. The layout of the geometry should enture proper circulation and program arrangement so that the building can function well within itself.

-Urbanism The building should also function well within the urban context(river, road, market, warehouse...).

Site plan 1:500 (acrylic painting)

Acrylic paintings

Mass testing

Form study1- Pure Geometry

Form study2- Landscape

Form study3- Creating natrual flow

Form study 4- Creating urban void

Form study 5- Generating geometric relationship

Final scheme

Generation

Lobby&Corridor

Library&Exhibition hall

Lecture hall&Office

Studio

Long corridor

Canopy

Park

Platform

Waterfront greenery deck

Program&Form

Floor Plan 1:200

Ground Floor

Leisure space for residential area (evening)

Park for people coming from the road and adjacent area

Lecture hall

Rooftop public area

Playground for kids from the market(daytime)

Public area

Studio

Cafe and greenery deck for people walking along the waterfront

First Floor Plan-First floor

Plan-Second floor

Leisure space for residential area (evening)

Park for people coming from the road and adjacent area

Playground for kids from the market(daytime)

Studio

Cafe and greenery deck for people walking along the waterfront

Second Floor Plan-Second floor

Plan-Third floor

Program strategy

Park for people coming from road

Lobby

Leisure space for residential area (evening)

Lecture hall

Office Meeting room Exhibition hall Library Corridor

Studio

Cafe and greenery deck for people walk along the waterfront

Playground for kids coming from the marcket(daytime)

Circulation

Public circulation

Private circulation

Private circulation

Public circulation

Axonomatric detail

Studio

Inersection of volumn creating--long corridor

Inersection of volumn creating--changing levels

Inersection of volumn creating--structrual difference

Inersection of volumn creating-public space

Section 1:100

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Model, 1:200

Details

Model with urban context, 1:200

Details with urban context

Perspective View

Playground for kids from the market

Cafe and greenery deck for people walking along the waterfront

Park for people from the road and residential area