Y3 Sem2 SPRING

THE UINVERSITY OF HONGKONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE 2014-2015 SPRING ARCH 3046 INSTRUCTOR: TAO ZHU SEMESTER2 YEAR3 GUO GE SERENA 3035023934

DAFEN VILLAGE

North side of Shenzhen is Dafen Village (大芬村).

A bustling art-factory of over 8,000 art-workers, it produces 60% of the world's oil paintings - mostly fake paintings.

In recent years, Dafen has gone beyond its physical locale and developed into a national production network. More and more Dafen paintings are being produced in other places, such as Wenzhou, Fuzhou and Xiamen. While Dafen Village itself is transforming into a headquarter showroom and trade center, “Dafen” has become a cultural brand.

But what kind of culture(s) does Dafen have?

DAFEN VILLAGE

SITE ANALYSIS

Gap space between buildings(rent as open studio)

Bridges connects with the adjacent cluster(fail to activate the area)

Layers of space

Sectional relationship

Sectional relationship

For only exhibition

For production and exhibition

For production, exhibition and selling

CONNECTION -Urban strategy

The study moels are trying to explore the massing strategy for the connection of different urban zones. the iconic building form reflect the artistic icon of Dafen village.

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The study moels are trying to explore the massing strategy for the connection of different urban zones. the iconic building form reflect the artistic icon of Dafen village.

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barrier/ retainning wall

long complex

cluster

public plaza

road

museum

Conceptual modelreappearance of site quality cluster (collective of individuls) museum(horizontal plate) landscape(continious line)

Site context (long bar, cluster,topography, road, Dafen museum)

Elongate Dafen museum as exihibition space

Create dialogue with long barshaped complex

Create contrast with cluster

Create urban void and sunken plaza for public use

Dafen Museum

Ground floor plan(1:200)

Sunken ground and zigzag ramp

ONTOLOGY -Building system

Study models(1:200)

Floor slab exploration

Circulation exploration

Structure exploration

Envelope exploration

Circulation as open corridor

Circulation as gallery

TRANSITION

-structure articulation

Vertical structure

loadbearing wall split to colomns and attach to cores for reinforcement

core

columns

loadbearing wall

Structural model(1:100)

Circulation as structure

(as tie beam of pheriphery columns) The circulation of the upper level is at the same time structure mumbers of the whole building. The handrail is made of concrete and acts as tie beam of the columns that ties them to vertical cores.

The tie beam ensure that two buildings binds strongly together.

duplex (units enjoys open corridorr, units structually attached to the pheriphery structure)

shophouse (units has one direction as the loadbearing wall)

Structural model(1:100)

column

core

track

loadbearing wall (split to columns)

track as the extention of the loadbearing wall

inside loadbearing wall turns to pheriphery columns

Vertical structure system

Vertical structure system is composed of coloun, core, loadbearing wall and track. The track is the extention of loadbearing wall which further connects to the cores. The overall structure is tightly connects and joined with each other.

MEDIATION -Relationship between two towers

Space in generic tower is extended to the new tower, new kind of communal space generated.

Structural model(1:100)

Circulation is used to mediate two towers that forms continious flow.

Model(1:100)

two towers with the floorslab shifting half floor.

Study model(1:200)

two towers with the floorslab either connected or circulation as mediation

Study model(1:200)

PERFORMANCE -Space, Appearance, Material,Construction

New tower (residential living with continious corridor as communal space)

Sky gallery

Sky gallery

Generic tower

New tower (residential living with continious corridor as communal space)

Extention of Dafen museum (New type of living stylestudio, living, selling, exihibition space all Dafen museum merged together)

Final model(1:100)

Generic tower

Extention of Dafen museum (New type of living stylestudio, living, selling, exihibition space all merged together)

Section

Typical plans

Unit types

Sectional model(1:50)

Construction Axonometic Drawing

Wall section

Final model(1:100)