THE FRAMEWORK

renoVaTIon of The earTh ScIence buIlDIng In yuquan caMpuS

Zhejiang University

College Of Civil Engineering And Architecture

Architectural Design III - Academic Architectural Design Year 3 Winter and Spring 2018.11. - 2019.03

Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

Supervisor: XU Weishun xuweishun@zju.edu.cn

100% Concept & 90% Detailed 70% Final Model Making (Collaboration with Jingyu Tian, Wen Tang, and Zhuoqun, Jiang.)

The project aims to renovate the earth science building in Yuquan Campus, Zhejiang University. The building is representative of the traditional campus-style, which is expected to be preserved and is located at the end of the campus axis. Yet the failure to deliver new programs and to catch up with time has in a way, forced me to go bold. The strategy adopted is both simple but delicate: TO ADD A NEW SET OF FRAMEWORK. And you will see that the rest of the story happens naturally under this giant and special framework.

THE CONTIGUITY - Located at the near end of the Yuquan campus Zhejiang university's axis, the teaching building Six in the site is a mirror to the opposite, a continuation of traditional 1950s mixture of soviet and Chinese styles. The buildings in the axis and the courtyards have presented students with a quaint and serene atmosphere. However, the newly added equipment has done damage to this, but in a way, this is inevitable to catch up with the tide of times. So my strategy to cope with the outdated structure is to add a new dimensional steel structure to accommodate all the possible activities and facilities.

THE FRAMEWORK - The "disruptive" addition of a new double-skin frame on the north elevation is intended to create a space for equipment through the frame, while at the same time, the frame encompasses the old and new buildings and provides a curtain wall structure and grey space on the south elevation. Beyond this, the new stepped mass creates a "façade" viewing place for the connection between the old and the new building, rediscovering the "façade" of the original building.

Dininng Hall Ⅰ

Dormitory Ⅲ

School Library

Teaching Building Ⅵ

Teaching Building Ⅴ

Teaching Building Ⅳ

Teaching Building Ⅲ

Teaching Building Ⅱ

Teaching Building Ⅰ

Entrance gate

ZHEJIANG University

Human Nature

organIc regenaraTIon of a cITy VIllage

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

Architectural Design IV - Academic Architectural Design

Year 3 Spring and Summer 2019.04. - 2019.06.

Hangzhou,Zhejiang, China.

Supervisor: WANG Lei xunwl761021@zju.edu.cn

Group Research 100% Concept & 70% Detailed (Collaboration with Zhenyan Liu. )

One thing is for sure: the village in the city is destined to go. Yet the memory of the land and the land itself stay. This brings about the first challenge of maintaing the history of the site. "The Mountain" here inmates the nature as well as remodles the land boldly. Also, "The Mountain" has the great ambition to not only break the old, boring and systematic city structure, but also set a new approach to intergrate the society with the nature. That is the NATURE part of the design - to preserve and to create. "The Mountain" is set to support something, logically and ideally. Since the urban landscape has been created, the floating geometry is the arrow on the string. The curve shped by those courtyard downside provide the inhabitants great sense of nature, like mostly living in the forest. The inner space coming with the fluid walls are so unique that every house is one of its kind. This is what I call the HUMAN part of the design. As for the program, instead of simply providing a better condition for the original residents or to leave those migrants less choices of low procing housing, the project aims to provide a shelter for anyone in the city, making people feel like at home, peace and chill. Structurally, the project aims to support the “HUMAN” part with the slopes of "The Mountain", i.e. "NATURE". This would create an atmosphere of floating concreteness. In a way, it suggets that NATURE IS THE MOTHER OF HUMANS.