SHUANG LIANG
Selected Works 2019-2022
CONTENT
I. URBAN CANYON
After the Party 2.0 – The Vertical Fairground in Basel, Switzerland
II. WEAVING (OU)R CITY
Transversal Grounds: Engaging Infrastructure, Landscape and Heritage for Lima’s New Urban Commons in Lima, Peru
III. ZOOMING TO THE SUBURBAN METROPOLIS
Urban Design in Westwood, MA, USA
IV. WEST-MOUNTAIN-INN
Hotel Design in Wudaoko, Beijing, China
V. BREAKTHROUGH
Residence for the Soul of Martin Luther in Sanlihe, Beijing, China
VI. OTHER WORK
This portfolio includes part of my previous works from 2019 to 2022, during which I started to gain a new understanding of the rationality of architecture in cities and form my design style.
After graduating from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree, I continued my study in urban design at Harvard GSD. Educated in both architecture and urban design, I consider architectural design should be consonant with the time, culture, and urban context and complement the social backdrops and surroundings.
As a designer, I believe inspirations come from daily life and experiences. For instance, the first project in my portfolio, which is also one of my favorites, was inspired by the Rhine Gorge I visited with my family. The prosperous valley with vegetation, the waterfall that created mist in the air, and the sunlight that pierced through the mountains were all put into my project with architectural language.
Also, I’m a good listener. I have my persistence, but when it comes to teamwork, I’m glad to coordinate other ideas with mine. With an open mind and high efficiency, I’m a pleasant teammate to work with.
URBAN CANYON
After the Party 2.0 – The Vertical Fairground in Basel, Switzerland
Option Module Studio in GSD (STU 1313)
Instructor: HHF
Collaborator: Mabel Choi
FALL 2022
The concept of our design is to create an urban canyon with nature and provide the neighborhoods with fresh air, cool breeze, and a place to work out in the center of the city. It would not only provide a beautiful landscape within the canyon but also crack through the whole city in the future and bring more green space for the citizens. Like a real canyon with mountains on both sides, we arranged the program based on the mountains’ vertical stratification of vegetation and animals. The ground floor was lifted as a ‘cave’ and opened to the public. The first floor plays the role of a lawn that could hold exhibitions and large events, while the second floor was turned into a forest. On higher floors, we have terraced roof gardens and scattered market spaces connected by a green way that you can climb on all the way to the rooftop.
Based on the rhythm of exhibitions and the sizes of space for different activities, the fairgrounds could be turned into common grounds such as parking lots, workshops, seasonal markets, daycare, and even sports fields. The program would also change with the seasons, as the vegetations present different sceneries. With the growth of vegetation, including the green façade, greenhouses, and rooftop gardens, the building would finally become a green oasis that cools the city down and a landmark where people can run away from the busy city and enjoy nature close at hand.
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Sitting at the intersection of three countries (France, Swizerland and Germany), the Medieval and contemporary Basel faced each other across the Rhine.Basel is in transformation, and what we are facing now is the heat island effect brought by the building reflection and lack of ventilation, neighborhoods with a higher density as high rises are built, and a lot of vacant spaces in the exhibition hall.
The Rhine Gorge, also known as Ruinaulta in German, was located in the Alps, where the Rhine started. The sunlight pierced through the canyon and made it glow. The Rhine flows between it, bringing vitality and prosperity to the land. It inspired our project to create an Urban Canyon in Messe, Basel. We wish our Urban Canyon could become the 'Rhine Gorge' of Basel, which serves as the starting point of a green system and flow over the city with vitality and prosperity.
Besides making the city healthier, our project would also benefit human beings by providing healthy food, working out places, and whimsical spaces, and for a chance encounter. The design concept is to create an urban canyon with nature that provides the neighborhoods with fresh air, cool breeze, and a place to work out in the city's center. The building looks plain and regular from its outside but provides a beautiful landscape within the crack so that people would be surprised when they walk through the canyon.
Concept Section
Seasonal Program
8F Plan: Lab and Daycare
Constant Program
2F Plan: Fairground
From the timeline of exhibitions, the hall was almost empty around the winter and summer holidays. So, the space could be turned into a Christmas Market in winter and a daycare center in summer vacations, as parents could leave their children here to work out and enjoy nature when schools are closed. During other short and scattered periods when the hall is empty, it could be turned into parking lots, workshops, seasonal markets, and sports fields. The program was rearranged based on whether it is seasonal or constant, and the size of space it needed to carry out activities to increase flexibility and reduce vacancy rate.
Occupancy Timeline and Program Flexibility
With the growth of vegetation, including the green façade, greenhouses, and rooftop gardens, the building would finally become a green oasis that cools the city down and a landmark where people can run away from the busy city and enjoy nature close at hand.
Future Axon
WEAVING (OU)R CITY
Transversal Grounds: Engaging Infrastructure, Landscape and Heritage for Lima’s New Urban Commons, Peru
Option Studio in GSD (STU 1507)
Instructor: Sandra Barclay and Jean-Pierre Crousse
Collaborator: Liuyun Wang and Liang Yang SPRING 2022
Today, Lima is facing problems in food insecurity, water shortage, losing memories and connections, a high anemia rate, rising unemployment, and the lack of affordable energy. Under these fragile living circumstances, a health crisis for any household’s members will push the entire family further into poverty and nutritional insecurity. Our site, the Maranga complex, is one of the most significant pre-Columbian heritage sites in the geometric center of Lima. Huacas and the ancient canal system used to be served as ceremonial centers and water resources, together with the ancient agroforestry, reservoir, roads, and settlements, they become the foundation and lifeline of the city.
With the opportunities of cultural heritage and the vision of Lima 2035 funded by the Rockefeller foundation, we are now proposing our vision to reveal and weave this ancient sacred into the urban fabric and communities while addressing Lima’s green space deficit and mitigating Lima’s food and water insecurity, to become a new sacred for collective life, memories, shared knowledge. The project would be a pilot project and nursery for the whole city. The ancient textile would be revived from our site then sprawl to the whole city. As we intended, everyone would be involved and together weaving our city as a whole.
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The ancient city of Maranga contained impressive huge monuments, numerous huacas, palaces, temples, and administrative centers. Huacas and the ancient canal system used to be served as ceremonial centers and water resources, together with the ancient agroforestry, reservoir, roads and settlements, they become the foundation and lifeline of the city. However, today, enclosed by walls, the Maranga complex is now losing its sacred significance and historical values and has become an urban black hole. Meanwhile, the city zoo inside the Maranga Complex which was designed for preserving the Huacas is now facing the problem of lack of funding.
The site was located at the Parque de las Leyendas, the largest zoo in Lima, with convenient transportation of buses and metros, and was within 5 km to the Jorge Chávez International Airport. It was surrounded by PUCP (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) in the east, informal housing area in the north, and numerous Huacas both inside and outside of the site.
Existing Site Plan and Bird's-eye view
The first opportunity we see is the cultural heritage. The heritage of Huacas and the ancient canal system, the abundance of traditional Peruvian gastronomy culture in Lima, and the traditional Peruvian textile would be great opportunities for both our site and the development of Lima in the future.The second opportunity is funding. Through our design, we aim to deal with the food insecurity and water shortage problems by creating food hubs and restoring ancient canal systems, which exactly aligns with the vision of LIMA 2035, spearheaded by Soroush Parsa, funded by the Rockefeller foundation. Another potential funding will possibly comes from the PUCP. With nearly 30,000 students, PUCP currently does not have any student housing. By developing student housing, our proposal could potentially be supported by PUCP.
Challenges and Opportunities
Our proposal follows two main guidelines. Our first guideline will help to weave our site into the urban fabric and communities. All of the constructions that are part of the extension of the city should follow the grid and pattern of the existing urban context. The formation of the landscape would be weaved as Peruvian textiles.
PHASE
In Peru, landscapes are also textiles, while nature itself is a living being, sustaining all life. It is woven into shared belief systems, where the natural and supernatural worlds are closely interconnected, just like the Peruvian textile. The textile is not just a graphic pattern, but also a symbol of Peruvian culture, deeply interconnected with the indigenous culture and landscape. In Wari culture, like ancient Andean peoples, did not use a writing system. Textile, during that time, has played an important role in expressing, recording, and preserving concepts about the human, natural, and supernatural realms.
(ou)R City
PHASE II
Our second guideline is to form a circulated R system to address Lima’s food and water insecurity. This means each part would form its own R circulation, which includes restoring, rehabitate, reactivating, reconnecting, recycling, reusing, remediating, and all of them would function within the whole site as a complete R system.
PHASE III
Clean water is always the most important starting point of urban agriculture. In the first phase, we will start by restoring the canal and remediating the water to provide irrigation for the farmland. In this phase, we will engage with PUCP School of Science and Engineering, and The School of Food Science at the University of San Marcos, the water department in Lima to work on water cleansing and irrigation systems. This will not only for the future agroforest but to provide clean and accessible water resources for nearby residents.
Moreover, the ministry of agriculture and irrigation would also involve in this phase to provide support and instruction on the canal restoration.
In the second phase, food hubs will be activated, as well as recycling the food waste and compost not only to attract more visitors but also generate fetilized soil through the composting process. We will get land from the zoo then start part of the agroforestry based on existing trees, under the instruction of CCP. Residents need to learn how to recyle in the compost field, and moss will generate soil for both the farmland and roof top gardens. Comedor Popular Association would help to build up the communal kitchens that improve community integration and provide jobs, especially for women and other volunerable groups. Since there’s not enough crops from the farmland in this phase, the transportation service in Lima would involved to bring raw material to our site.
Waste from harvesting and animals in the zoo would be composted in the specific field and be turned into fetilizers for the soil. The crop would be sold in markets or cooked in communal kitchens and drive economic growth and provide job opportunities. Water would be cleaned in remediation pond or creek and flow through the restored canal to irrigate the farmland. Students can carry out their research in the fields and labs while people who cannot buy themselves a healthy meal could get their food in the food bank. All of the residents would coexist with animals, plants, even soil and weave together this R system.
Urban Guidelines
PHASE IV
Phasing
After settling the food hubs, we will start to grow the medicinal plants, edible crops and other non-edible crops near each center. With the help from Rural Community, all of the agroforestry field would be completed in this phase. Student housing (PUCP) will also be implemented and the profit we gain from the student housing will finance our future site development and attract more developers. International animals will rehabitate to a larger zoo (Parque Zoológico Huachipa) in the city, while local animals from the zoo will be cohabitating with local residents. In the future, we imagine to retrace the footprint of Huacas and build up canopies for different activities in order to reconnect the people and their heritage and recall their memories. Ministry of Culture would be involved through this process. The canopies are also removable if further excavations are needed, and they would be turned into archeological sites. Learning center and medical gardens would also be built near the hospital for research purpose, which provide a place for people to learn knowledge about gastronomy. Ministry of Production and students from PUCP who studies gastronomy could carry out lectures to any one who wants to attend. Part of the site would be reserved for any use, depending on the how successful each program is.
Surco Canal Water Remediation Pond Lima Gastronomy Culture Lima Gastronomy CultureOur site can be broken down into 6 main layers. The circulation will string all the functions together, the textile pattern will mainly be based on the vegetation layer, the structures layer follows the Huaca foodprint, and the water and Canal will also have the function to lead the people other than irrigation. Our R programs will also follow the functions, most of the remediate and recycle R programs are distributed on the east side, the R programs related to reconnection and reuse are more located in the middle and the west is more focused on rehabilitating.
Site Layers
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Plant List Textile, Path and Plant
Red plants such like oca, pepper, kiwicha and camu camu will form the red pattern, while mango tree, mashua and cassava will form an orange pattern, together with the yellowish plants such like maca and lemongrass, this site will become a productive, working landscape that waving into our city.
Landscape Design Rules
By Liuyun Wang, GSD MLA IIExisting Urban Grid & Module Existing Huacas
Extract Grid Construct the Main Structure-Path & Canal
All the construction and landscape would follow the second rule. I extracted the existing urban grid then expand it to the site. Constructions would all adopt this unified module. While the landscape pattern which is formed by agroforestry and farmland would weave as Peruvian textile.
Urban Design Rules
Chanchan was the largest city of the pre-Columbian era in South America. It is now an archeological site, and protected by this kind of canopy. It is a structure supported by bamboo, which is a material they can get from Peru. As you can see in the photo, the structure can not only protect the relics from weathering, but also form a shade that keep people from the burning sun. We also learn from one of the previous lectures to use sand bag to protect the Huacas and hold the structure as base.
The site was harshly separated by this tall wall. The space between the wall and Huacas cut people from the Huacas as they can’t get close to it or even see it. The space between wall and informal housing is also terrible, as walls block people’s sight and squeezed them within this hard boundary. By removing the walls and creating waterscape, the environment is improved significantly.
Inside the site, the mount-like Huacas that are experiencing weathering and are forgot by people, the ancient walls are fenced and the space in front of it was wasted. When we are comparing the existing situation to our project, we can see the wall is removed to let people flow smoothly into the site, and canopies are built to protect the Huacas and provide space for activities.
Section-Site Section-City Edge
ZOOMING TO THE SUBURBAN METROPOLIS
Urban Design in Westwood, MA, USA
Urban Design Core Studio in GSD (STU 1221)
Instructor: Stephen Gray
Collaborator: Isabel Oyela-Bonzani
FALL 2021
Westwood has continually been shaped by layers of changes in transportation infrastructure which historically have been about connecting people from where they lived to spaces of employment. The pandemic, and subsequent widespread use of zoom have caused changes to the relationship between work and home. The project is about reimagining what the widespread use of zoom as a new digital transportation infrastructure means spatially and socially to the suburban context.
As people stay more localized the suburbs will need new adaptable civic spaces to promote and increase the diversity of interactions, jobs, and housing. A few key buildings on the site acted like seeds, providing cues for four new mixed-use neighborhoods. A tram line was also adapted to connect the neighborhoods and gather people around a new downtown hub of tech/ vocational education facilities, public amenities, multi-generation living, and a civic park/nature reserve facility. The various neighborhoods along the civic space infrastructure that we've proposed provides the opportunity for a diversity of interactions and chance encounters, allows for various kinds of jobs to exist, and multiple types of housing so that a broader range of people could choose to live and work in Westwood - while also providing the current residents new experiences.
Along route 128, there are a lot of suburban places that we hypothesize are going to become their own small cities.However, the suburbs haven’t been created to function like cities have. In a lot of these places the communities are very homogenous - people have already separated themselves racially, economically, and in the kinds of family structures that live there.
And this is in part because places like Westwood haven’t been developed to support a diversity of land use and job types, options of housing, and a range of places for chance encounters. The changes caused by zoom to the relationship between work and home, is now about daily life getting a bit more localized but also you are isolated and everyone else becomes isolated too. Our project is about imagining what this new zoom infrastructure means spatially and socially to the suburban context.
We propose that at the regional scale new adaptable civic spaces should be created to serve as a necessary infrastructure for suburban communities, and that they can function as a network of unique civic centers to promote chance encounters and increase diversity of jobs and housing. We keep most of the existing fabric and introduce a civic space infrastructure that connects 3 new neighborhoods which are drawn together by a key public link.
The first node is a higher density and lower price point residential neighborhood connected to the transit hub. This would allow for various people who want to live in a place like Westwood to be able to. In the morning, some of these residents, like a Mass hospital nurse, might still need to commute to work in Boston. They can walk from their home through the pocket parks to the train station.
When they are home there are various kinds of more private courtyards or larger parks that they can have the backyard experience of the suburbs in – so barbeques or frisbee games, while also being able to access more urban type spaces for evening walks and people watching.
In the second node, which is the campus area, we designed an enhanced vocational and community college. This neighborhood is important because it gives people the skills and education to pursue other kinds of employments that won’t be carried out on zoom. The interventions allow for students in the region to come and take classes in the upper levels while having an active college town street scape.
Some of these students may be coming from farther away and can live for a semester or two in the upper-level dormitory with views out over the nature reservoir. Additionally, the influence of the campus life with the existing community athletic center can start to promote additional athletic leisure spaces for students and residents to stay healthy despite all of computer time.
Node 2 Axon Node 2 Perspective
The third node is based on the existing industrial making spaces. After the student graduate from the college, they might move into the artisan district where a different kind of live-work can happen. Much like in the existing window and door companies in the lower right of the drawing, artisans can work in their maker spaces and fabrication labs in the adapted truck shipping warehouse.
Afterwards, they might go upstairs to live in small container-based apartments that are combined with personal studio spaces. The large public plazas and other converted buildings can allow visitors to engage with the work in new ways while also being able to support fair grounds a couple of times a year.
Node 3 Axon Node 3 Perspective
By Isabel Oyela-Bonzani , GSD MAUD By Isabel Oyela-Bonzani , GSD MAUDThe neighborhoods are connected by a linear civic space and public transportation armature that would bring people from all of these areas. It also serves to bring people- either by tram or walking - to the central space where the key link is inserted. The link is a linear series of pavilions and facilities to encourage chance encounter and experiences.
If a person misses the working atmosphere of their office, they can go to the community library to work. Between each zoom meetings, they can take a break and buy a cup of coffee or some snacks in the outdoor market. The high-tech library has reservable rooms for meetings but also facilities and equipment to accommodate a range of community needs. After the workday ends, Westwood residents can pick up their kids from the childcare center and visit their elderly parents in the senior housing.
Connection Axon Connection Plan
WEST-MOUNTAIN-INN Hotel Design in Wudaokou, Beijing, China
Large Scale Public Architecture Design Studio in Tsinghua
Instructor: Sijin Yin
Spring 2020
The west mountain after the snow is one of the most famous Eight Sights in Beijing. In Wudaokou, you can often see the scenery of West Mountain. Also, on the light rail station of line 13 with large passenger flow, people will often notice the landscape of West Mountain at the end of Chengfu road. Therefore, in the process of design, I hope to combine the scene of the hotel with the scenery of West Mountain. At the same time, the south side of the lot is the continuous business interface formed by Wudaokou shopping center and bottom business, so the continuity of business interface is also a point to be considered in the design process.
The shape of the building imitates the layer rock in mountains. The south square formed a staircase that can allow people to climb up or sit on and gave them a feeling of climbing a mountain. The skirt building is split in the middle, forming the space atmosphere of the canyon. And light and shadow will change with time. The furniture also took the shape of rock. Inside the hotel, customers can experience different atmosphere and different sceneries that they might come across in mountains, such as cave, landform, valley and so on. As for the facade, it looks like broken rock too. The facade is double skin curtain wall which can provide more sunlight and keep warm at the same time.
Concept
Morphogenesis
As the hotel will take the form of mountains in order to correspond with the scenery of West Mountain, I chose to represent this concept through creating a new mountain through architectural design. The tower in the backdrop should be not so conspicuous and form the vision of sky. The skirt building can be shaped into layer rocks. It would not only imitate the mountains, but also provide open area to the public.
Function Arrangement
Parking and Guestroom Structure
BREAKTHROUGH
Residence for the Soul of Martin Luther in Sanlihe, Beijing, China
'Master' Design Studio in Tsinghua
Instructor: Ji Li
Spring 2019
The topic of the 'Master' Design Studio is to design a ‘dwelling place for souls’. This studio was much different from other coursework, for I needed to choose the dweller before selecting our sites. It was the reverse of the general sequence of designing on a prescribed site. I chose Martin Luther, a fighter against hegemony and corruption. When I was choosing the site, Sanlihe caught my eyes. It’s a beautiful city park now, but behind its stark boundary walls, there is ragged ruin torn apart by abrupt gentrification and sloth administration. I let Luther become the spiritual sustenance of this area, and let his aura lead the charge against the demolition of the city. I created a dwelling place for Luther that looked like a broken brick, illustrating that there is power with the ability to break through the shackles of authority and express people’s resistance against the policies lacked humanistic care.
Since Luther also needed a place to maintain inner peace in this conflict and dilapidated ruin, I used Zumthor’s method of creating light by hollowing out a pure mass of dark shadow to design the interior space and light atmosphere. I created a holy space for Luther by using the bricks to squeeze out space and light. By doing this, a cold light diffused into the tall narrow space, creating a sense of holiness.
Site Analysis and Dweller Selection
The diagrams on the left showed the change of Sanlihe area through ages.
Matin Luther
1960s - Organically formed alleyways the Sanlihe was still underground river
2000s - Still got the primitive urban texture before the construction of the wide road
As you can see, the creation of Sanlihe River destroyed the original urban context while creating manmade Hutong landscape and scenery. Though its creation aimed to improve the surroundings, the construction actually damaged the historic environment.
His is a seminal figure in the Reformation. He challenged the authority and office of the pope by teaching that the Bible is the only source of divinely revealed knowledge. His translation of the Bible into German vernacular and made it more accessible to the laity and had a tremendous impact on both the church and German culture. It fostered the development of a standard version of the German language. He wrote the Ninety-five Theses to challenge the Catholic church and disputed the view on indulgences. He encouraged people to pursue truthe and freedom, and took his stand with the masses.
'We are removing impediments and difficulties so that other people may read it without hindrance.'
-His reason for translating the Bible
Sanlihe River was not a naturally formed river. It was built artificially in Ming Dynasty in order to prevent rain and flood. The residential courtyard were previously formed along this river befor the river died out.
Therefore, let Luther become the spiritual sustenance of this area, and let his aura lead the charge against the demolition of the city. Martin Luther’s life can be divided into two parts. The first part is his private life, including daily life, studying, spending time with his wife, and meditating. The other part is more public, including discussions with surrounding people and teaching. Thus, according to the relationship between these activities, we can divide his dwelling place into different parts with different functions.
2010s - Started the construction of Qianmen East Road and ruined the primitive texture
2020s - To build the Sanlihe city park, thousands of residents have been removed
To block the ruins of the demolished courtyards, long walls were built. In some areas, the walls are remains of the former courtyards. As you can see in the photo, the wall stood awkwardly near the river, as it can neither serve as a boundary of yards, nor function as a space limitation.
Tourists and residents nearby usually spend their time outside the wall, as the wall didn’t have any negative effect on them, they seldom notice the walls.
Outside the Wall
The photo shows the wall from the perspective of inside the demolished courtyards. As you can see, there were remains of the former residents, such as discarded tricycle, electricity meter, and rubbish. There were still some residents living in the ruins, as they can only use the public toilets and pour their waste water behind the wall.
Also, in some places, except for the residents, as some of the courtyards are being renovated, there were also constructions workers behind the wall.
Behind the Wall
I had a chat with a nearby resident while was doing the research. He told me that Sanlihe River was dug out again because of the water shortage in Beijing. Government tried to build artificial river to improve the surrounding environment, but ignore the residents and the urban context. Moreover, the water in the river is also ‘manmade’, as the water is the cooling water from a power plant.
As you can see in the left diagram, there are two types of walls in Sanlihe area. The first type was built to block the demolished ruins. The second one was remains of the former courtyards.
The first type of wall actually improve the surroundings and scenery as they block the ugly ruins, while the second type of wall cut off the relationship between alleyways and the outside scenery.
They only built the man-made waterside landscape for the tourists that would never go into the alleyways, but overlook the living quality of the residents.
As you can see in the bubble diagram, his private life and public life correlate and have influence on each other. His private part can help him maintain his inner peace in this debauched place, while the public part can help the residents nearby to find their spiritual destination. In this way, Martin Luther can influence and help the surroundings with his daily life and become the spiritual leader of Sanlihe area.
Regular
When choosing the material, decided to use the same material of the historic buildings, the grey bricks.
From the outside, chose the regular surface to show respect to the surroundings and be consistent with the surroundings.
Rough Surface Inside The Wailing Wall in Jerusalem
While inside the dwelling place, I chose to creat rough surface, imitating the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, as the rough wall built by brick allows the residents to put paper notes into the cracks. Thus, they can express their thoughts to Luther.
The Gold Fish Pool
Zhengyang Gate The City Moat Sanlihe River
Masterplan
Sections
Creation of Holiness
Concept
Creation of Holiness and Morphogenesis
As Martin Luther needs a holy space to maitain his inner peace, the creation of holiness is also important. I use four ways to present the holiness, sidelight, toplight, crack in the middle and creation of central force. In order to show Martin Luther’s attainments in Christianity and create the central force, chose to use the shape of a cross to break the brick that represents authority. formed the entity of the dwelling place by imitating the layer rock, which gives it a shape like naturally formed and break from inside.
Creation of Various Spatial Experiences
Also, built different spaces with different spatial experiences. As you can see in the first line and third line, the sections shows the space inside the dwelling place. The bricks streched out and formed furniture such as table, seats and bookshelf. The topwindow and sidewindow not only provide indoor space enough sunlight, but also help to create the holiness. Moreover, in some places, spaces for communication were also built, including the space for Luther's wife to see Luther through the window and the concave space that allowed people to sit and have discussions. In addition, the second line of the sections shows the outdoor space variety. I created a Siq-like pathway that squeezes you when you first get in, leads you in halfway and gives you a sudden open up. Except for the spatial changes, I also created light and shadow changes that vary through the time. In different time periouds, light will guide you to different directions and bring you different feelings.
The whole brick represented the imprisonment of Martin Luther received from the authority.
The Cross
Model Photos
1Void: in this space, the bookcase and the load-bearing structure are combined to form high bookshelves and stairs. At the same time, the topwindow provides enough light for the study, and the protruding bricks form the seats. Martin Luther can read here.
2 Meeting Space: the topwindows in the meeting space cast shadows on the floor and cast a back light to Martin Luther's teachin platform. One side of the wall that facing the alleyway is straight and regular, while the other side is oblique and rough, which brough different spacial experiences to the audience in this place.
3 Meditation Space: this place is specially designed for Martin Luther. I used the bricks to squeeze out space and light. By doing this, a cold light diffused into the tall narrow space, creating a sense of holiness.
4 River Bank: this area has the best scenery as it faced the river. The lawns provide enough open space for the public. As the wall blocked people's way to this sunlit lawn, I demolished the wall and let the people approach the lawn through the dwelling place and gave them a feeling of sudden open up.
5 Open Space and Outdoor Seats: to provide a space for people to enjoy the sunshine, lawn and riverside scenery, steps that could be sat on were created. As the siq broadened and the wall tilted, steps were created and can be naturally used as seats.
6 Siq: As you can see in photo 6, it shows the starting point of the siq. The shape changes blocked people's sight to the river bank, and gives them a sense of uncertainty. As you walk further, the scenery can be seen in a sudden. Just like the siq in Petra, the scene was revealed in a sudden.
7 The New Ruin: As the dwelling place shows a strength to fight against the authority, a new ruin is created. Dilapidated and broken though it is, it resists the authority in a sarcastic way, by creating another ill-looking, irregular ruin in the center of the city park of Sanlihe.
2F Plan
OTHER WORK
From 2017 to 2022
Revisiting Mies (STU 1312)
An Extension to Haus Lemke in Berlin, Germany
Instructor: Regine Leibinger and Stefan Sauter
Option Studio [M1] in GSD
Fall 2022
Element of Urban Design EX1 (STU 1221)
City Within A Neighborhood, South Boston, MA, USA
Instructor: Stephen Gray
Core Urban Design Studio in GSD
Fall 2021
Collaborator: Jonathan Cook
Landscape Design
Lintao Great Wall Culture Park, Gansu Province, China
Supervisor: Dongfan Wu
Assistant in Culture and Tourism Research Center of Tsinghua University
Fall 2020
Interior Design and Image Rendering
Teaching Building of Zhuhai Branch of Beijing Normal University, China
Supervisor: Xiaoqian Zhang
Internship in THAD
Summer 2020
New Gateway
Urban Design Studio in Xizhimen, Beijing, China
Instructor: Ge Zhong
Urban Design Studio in Tsinghua University
Fall 2019
Connector Community
Community Design in Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Instructor: Lars Steffensen
Studio in Technische Universität Berlin
Fall 2018
Surveying and Drawing of Ancient Architecture
Wenchang Temple in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Instructor: Xiaoshu Huang, Yu Zhang
Summer Semester in Tsinghua University
Summer 2019
Collaborator: Chuqiao Yang
Model Making
The Leis House by Zumthor, Leis, Switzerland
Instructor: Jinxi Chen, Liaohui Guo
Model Workshop in Tsinghua University
Spring 2017
Collaborator: Yayuan Chi, Weikang Wang, Kai Che, Huiyuan Zheng, Yingying Zhou, Siyao Cui, Zheyan Wang, Danli Lin, Haining Yang
