Shurui Wu // Architecture Portfolio 2010-2017

PORTFOLIO 2010 - 2017 Selected Works

SHURUI WU Master of Architecture University of Michigan Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture Tongji University

SHURUI WU 2345 Lancashire Drive, Apt 2B, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 wushurui01@gmail.com shurui@umich.edu

+1 734-709-1783 / +86 13501860802 EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Master of Architecture, Graduate with high distinction Cumulative GPA 3.97/4.0 Ranked 1/149

2015/08 – 2017/04

Tongji University, Shanghai, China College of Architecture and Urban Planning Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture Cumulative GPA 4.64/5.0 (91.45/100) Ranked 2/20

2010/09 – 2014/07

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Summer exchange program Studio: "Glenn Murcutt Studio"

2013/08 – 2013/09

PRACTICE Scenic Architecture Office, Shanghai, China 2014/08 – 2015/06 Full-time Intern Architect (Schematic Design Drawing, Digital Modeling, Rendering, Construction Documents Drawing, Physical Model Making) Project 1: Vanke Culture Center, Shanghai Project 2: Yunjin Road Café and Restaurant, Shanghai Project 3: Jiading Museum Island (Competition Winner), Shanghai Project 4: Zhangjiang Innovation Center (Competition), Shanghai PUBLICATION Project Selected for "A Grand Mosque and Medina for Metro Detroit" Maurice Cox, Director of Planning & Development, City of Detroit Prof. Douglas Kelbaugh, University of Michigan

2016/09

Project Selected for "Arch552 Presidential Library, Politics Aside" Prof. Julia McMorrough Institution Studio, University of Michigan

2016/12

Project Selected for "Home Above Market" 2012 Fall Studio Projects of CAUP Special Program, Tongji University (Original in Chinese) p98-101, ISBN: 9787560853802

2014/03

Project Selected for "On the Ground and under the Sky" Basic Design and Design Basis, Beijing: Intellectual Property Publishing House Co., Ltd. ISBN: 9787513024327

2013/11

ACTIVITY

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Secretary, Dept.Merit Application, Student Union of CAUP

Minister, Dept.Event Management, Student Union of CAUP Organization of recreation activities and performances AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

SKILLS

2010/09– 2011/06

2011/09– 2012/06

AWARDS AIA Henry Adams Medal at University of Michigan Taubman College Thesis Citation Taubman College Student Show Selected Work UDG Architecture Design Competition Top 100 Selected Awards , Architects in Mission Competition Third Prize in "Zhixing Cup" Summer Internship SCHOLARSHIPS Tongji Excellent Student Scholarship Intertek Scholarship of Tongji University Title of Excellent College Student LANGUAGE

2017 2017 2016, 2017 2013 2013 2012 2011, 2012, 2013 2011 2011

Fluent English, Native in Mandarin Chinese SOFTWARE

2D Graphic: AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign 3D Modeling: Rhinoceros (T-spline), Sketchup, Audodesk Maya BIM: Autodesk Revit, Archicad

Rendering: V-ray for Rhino, V-ray for Sketchup, Keyshot, Artlantis Coding: Grasshopper

Analysing: Ansys Mechanical Benchmarks, Autodesk Ecotect

Film Editting: Adobe Premier, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Audition Website Building: Adobe Muse CC

Others: Microsoft Office, Prezi (presentation slides making), Adobe Lightroom

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CONTENTS

SELECTED WORKS

01. Chicago Obama Presidential Library...................02 02. Home Above Market...............................................12 03. Dishui Lake Convention Center.............................24 04. D-Tow(n)er................................................................34 05. Detroit Islamic Center..............................................46 06. Detroit Sports Center...............................................50 07. Yuliang Visitor Center...............................................56 08. Wollemi Wollemi National Park Hostel................64 09. A.R.C + Ark: Animal Refugee Carrier...................74 10. Other Works..............................................................84

01 Barack Obama Presidential Library Site: Jackson Park, Chicago Instructor: Prof. Julia McMorrough In the United States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are repositories for preserving and making available the papers, records, collections and other historical materials of every President of the United States since Herbert Hoover. The Obama presidential library will be located in Jackson park, where multiple cultural buildings and sports parks are nearby.

The concept of the presidential library is the combination of running tracks and library, the new complex becomes a dynamic building with users and shelves constantly moving. The idea comes from the research of President Obama's personal interest in sports, as well as he and his wife's advocacy of fitness (LET'S MOVE program) during his presidency. In addition, the idea to bring running tracks into the building is an important move to keep the exisiting standard running tracks on the site, and change the football court into a multi-program culture center for the community.

These new running tracks are 3-dimensional geometries and their heights and widths vary. Runways work as traffic and wayfinding system which connects different main space. This complex includes archive, museum, community library, replica of the oval office and a outdoor auditorium.

The goal of the building is to build a landmark which can both attract tourists by celebrity and serve local residence with its multiple programs.

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01. Chicago Popular Running Routes

Based on the popular running routes map provided

by Strava Lab, Jackson park running tracks are

quite popular on the southern Chicago community

02. Site: Jackson Park plyground

The exisiting playground needs to be kept

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01 Existing Tracks

02 3-D Tracks

03 Archive Storage

04 Oval Office

05 Museum

06 Community Library

07 Service Space

08 Interior Tracks

09 Massing

10 Connection

11 Overlay

12 Final Form

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of building and tracks

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public.

schools nearby.

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Museum and Community Library Isometric Drawing

Community Library Space Aerial

Running tracks are no longer just for exercise, they are part of the interior space. Their contious form and modular character allow their usage to be changed at will; can be a bench, a table, and even a book shelf. Running tracks work as both connections and boundaries between different space.

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Archive

Sliding Bookshelves

Sliding Bookshelves Form the Non-stop Facades

Dynamic and Colorful Facades Make the Building Recognizable

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Oval Office Replica + Outdoor Auditorium

These two space is open to the public. Oval office works as the symbolic icon of the library and the outdoor theater provides space for outdoor gathering activities such as concert and speech.

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Outdoor Auditorium

The theater is underneath the replica of oval office, and occupies the sunk geography. Parallel Running tracks gradually transform to auditorium seats.

Replica of the Oval Office (1:1 Scale)

The replica of the oval office is a must in almost every presidential library.

In this case, the oval office is a floating icon above the ground level running tracks. Surrounded by spiral staircases, the oval office itself becomes the exhibit.

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02 Home Above Market Site: Anshan Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai Instructor: Bin Zhang The new market and residence complex will be built among hundreds of workers' residential buildings near Anshan Road, Yangpu District. The main strategy for the new residence is to present a low key cuboid shape building which is similar to other existing buildings in this area. As for the market, it needs to be a large open space full of independent shops and different entrances.

The new market and residence complex can be divided into four layers. The sunk market is a large space full of shops; shops subject to structural columns which support the residences above. The first floor is public space designed for street vendors, artists and citizens. The second floor is the public patio which plays the role as green space and public space for residents. Above the 4th floor are apartments, the arrangement rule of the cluster is the idea of Sudoku.

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01 Collectivity

Considering respecting the fabric of urban and the collectivity of other workers' residence, it's very important for the

new building to maintain a low key status among hundreds of workers residential building nearby.

02 Individuality

The feature of traditional Chinese market is the highly development of self-employed shops, which is more like the idea of weekend market in western world. New market needs to strengthen the individuality and diversity of the market and makes it an energetic and autonomous market rather than a highly inflexible supermarket.

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01 Residence

3rd to 6th floor are apartments. White coated buildings are 2B2B apartmentsďźŒsteel buildings in-between them are 3B2B apartments. These two types of apartments share stairs and public patio which can be a place for airing and planting. Pilotis separate the market and the residence to reduce interference of noise and smell.

02 Community Platform

The community patio works as connections and park between buildings, which provides green space for residents. As an important buffer space in-between two contradictory program, such patio also provides entrance for residents to enter different buildings without passing through the market.

03 Public Platform

1st floorďźˆground levelisland patios connect to the urban street by bridges, which forms a multi-entrance pedestrian system. The program of this floor is flexible, it's just an open space for street vendors, buskers and skate board lovers. They can present themselves freely and make full use of the space after underground shops are closed.

04 Market

The sunk market is enveloped in limited space, which prevents shops from illegally using street space. (A problem of traditional market is it's unmanageable. ) The basic strategy is to maintain the individuality and autonomous of self-employed market, which provides more options for customers and opportunities for sellers.

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type building is the

that small apartments

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can share public

different levels.

space with large

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apartments.

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07 L-shape Columns

option because it

leads to the flexibility

provides equal ac-

of apartment plans.

cess to green space.

The actual used area

02 LOFT

L-shape columns

and level height increases.

03 Communal Patio

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nects all apartment

causes the lack of

buildings which pro-

sunlight. Windows

vides green space and

between pilotis and

public entrance.

skylight on the patio

Community patio con-

Long span space

slabs bring in the sunlight.

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vide open space for

islands. People can

people to use these

enter the extendedi-

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umns which free up

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Lower Level Plan

The plan seems to be chaotic but it's actually subjected to the rule of apartment columns which free up main passageways. Restricted in limited space reduced the possibilities of inappropriate occupation of

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public space while creating a free and relaxed market.

Ground Level Plan

"Islands" connect to sidewalks

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Semi-public Community Patio

Ground Level Patios

Underground Level Market

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Private apartments, semi-private community patio used by residents, semi-public patios used by different artists and the public market constitute such a complex building. Different

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programs connect to each other loosely while maintaining certain distance.

08 Ground Level “Islands"

Market opens from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. The market should be used during the night as a place for public activities, such as shopping and performing. It becomes a night party space where street vendors, performers and huskers can use inexpensive space.

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03 Dishui Lake Convention Center Site: Dishui Lake, Shanghai Mixed-use, Office, Hotel, Conference Center Teammate: Weijie Wang Shanghai Dishui Lake International Conference Centre is located in the new development area of Lingang, Shanghai. It is an innovative mixed-use development that combines state of the art conference facilities, grade 5A offices, a 5 star hotel and supporting commercial activities. The building's form and architectural expression respond to the developments prominent island location, at the end of the Shengang Avenue, where the city of Shanghai meets the Dishui Lake.

The concept is to challenge the idea of twin towers as landmark and provide a new possibility of hiding the size. Tradition landmark strategy (one hotel tower + one office tower) destroys the skyline with unnecessary building heights; a better solution is to divide the two main programs into a couple of isolated buildings with underground connections. The buildings look like floating lanterns on the lake, and they seem to be transparent and invisible with the help of glass material facades. The idea is to create a group of buildings whose users can be closer to the environments rather than working or living in an isolated tower far away from the ground.

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Location & Data

Dishui Lake West Island Shanghai Area:145635 sqm Parking: 715 Height: 35m

Site Background: Masterplan Design by GMP

Planning Strategy

Dishui Lake is the existing largest artificial freshwater lake in China. The design concept of the Dishui lake derived from the overall planning program provided by GMP Co., Germany: "a drop of water from the sky fall into the sea with ripple floating layer upon layer."

Horizontal Expansion GMP's urban plan strategy for the district is to encourage horizontal expansion and low density humanity environment and space.

No Landmark

The design of Lingang was also inspired by Howard’s garden city philosophy which means a more nature oriented building is need rather than an ego giant building.

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Floating Lanterns

Transparent facades, cubic massing, floating on the water; all these qualities make the convention center look like floating lamps on the water during the night.

It's no longer about building new landmarks with excessive building heights and light pollution but about coexistence with the natural environment.

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5A Offices

Workspaces should flex to provide a variety of spaces and destinations for workers to inhabit that promote movement throughout the day.

Conference Center

The development will house a 3000 capacity convention center, new exhibition gallery and a number of large congregation areas for public gatherings.

Hotel Podium

The hotel annex includes a swimming pool, indoor golf area, meeting rooms and restaurants. This building serves both the hotel and the conference center.

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1F Plan

Conference Rooms

Plenty of small scale conference rooms (20100 people) are located underground which serve the offices and companies above.

Drop Off + Parking

The main drop off space is on the lower level, and there are 715 parking spaces in total.

5A Hotels

The 3 hotel towers will house 480 bedrooms and there are two floors are underneath the water where guests can enjoy underwater landscape.

-1F Plan

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Convention Center -3F

Convention Center -2F

Convention Center 2F

Hotel Podium 2F

Hotel Podium 3F

Hotel Podium 4F

Hotel Podium 5F

Hotel Podium 6F

Hotel Podium 7F

Office 1F

Office 2F

Office 3F

Office 4F

Office 5F

Office 6F

Office 7F

Office 8F

Convention Center East Elevation

Convention Center North Elevation

Convention Center South Elevation

Convention Center West Elevation

Convention Center Section 1

Convention Center Section 2

Office East Elevation

Office North Elevation

Hotel Podium Section 1

Hotel Podium Section 2

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01 Convention Center Lobby 02 Banquet Hall

03 5A Offices Atrium 04 5A Offices

The aim of the design is to provide great landscapes for users who works in the building. People can enjoy the daylight casting from the rotating atrium and communicate with others in those public space.

05 Fishing Floor

Dishui Lake is famous for biodiversity and fishing.

The design strategy is to make full use of the first floor of the hotel as a great platform for fishing. Other entertainment space includes a bar, a restaurant and a Chinese tea house.

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04 D-Tow(n)er Site: Old Redford, Detroit Teammate: Adam Brach, Daimei Wang, Jamilla Afandi This project seeks to question the current density of the City of Detroit and challenges the allowance of public space in a residential project. Situated in the Old Redford Neighborhood the design respects the current fabric of the neighborhood, including the Redford Theater and establishments such as Sweet Potato Sensations, but reconsiders the spaces in which the people of the neighborhood live. Each unit is granted a private balcony with a view towards downtown Detroit and the residents have access to various nodes of serenity and activity within the building- such as a half court 300’in the sky, lofted reading rooms, expansive rooftop green space and various human-scaled places for a relaxing walk. To further perpetuate activity in the project vertical egress cores are articulated and activated by being light and bright and always connected to at least one large public space. No longer are cores pushed to the middle of the building but rather exist on the perimeter, becoming a key design element.

This visual statement of the building allows the space in between to be developed in the future and to be anchored by the connection of our building to the existing downtown area of density. We chose resilient local materials to sheath the entire building, providing the city and its inhabitants with a structure as resilient as themselves and their city. The extraction and use of local bluestone and sandstone provide jobs to neighboring people and provides a gravitas to the building that wouldn't be acquired with cheaper material. To build upon the commercial activity of Lahser retail areas are dedicated on the first two floors of the building. Rooftop terraces that connect to the retail areas look onto Grand River, activating and inviting human interaction. Large park spaces exist on the main site as well as on the small site southwest of Grand River and Lahser to also allot places of interaction and activity.

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Ground Floor Plans

The ground floor plan is divided to 3 parts in order to provide multiple

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access to public space and drop-off road.

Typical Plans of the Tower

Every unit has a inserted balcony which provides access to the outdoor space and fresh air, as well as great view to downtown Detroit.

Second Floor Plan

The second floor includes the L-shape retail space and three public exercise space for both the public and residents.

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Unit Types

There are 8 types units in the tower, such as one bedroom unit, studio unit, as well as 2-bedroom unit. Each unit has a balcony and the total number of units is 152.

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Unit Interior Perspective

The D-Tower tries to provide great living environment for young professionals and young families. The interior design is aimed to fit their taste for modernism and minimalism rather than old school luxury decoration.

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Facades Section and Elevation Drawing

Local material sandstone and bluestone are used to be installed on the wall which reveals a kind of endurance and strength. Balconies also become the horizontal shading devices for lower level during the summer.

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Facades Rendering

Balconies become the new layer of the tower facades. Inserted balcony provides a kind of privacy where residents can't see each other when standing on the balcony. Triangle shape expands the angle of view to the city.

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Structure Assembly with Lateral Support System

Typical Plan with Structural Sizes

Structure Integrated Detail

Balcony Structure

Interior Wall & Floor Detail 42

Exterior Wall & Floor Detail

The Old Theater and the New Tower

The new tower attracts more and more young professionals to live in this area and work in this area. The theater used to be a land mark, but the tower is the future landmark for this region.

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attracted to work and live here because of the

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05 Detroit Islamic Center Site: Detroit, USA

Teammates： Alexander Hokkanen， Andrew Stewart Shawn Lettow，Nicholas Warnet，Jamilla Afandi

The project Detroit Islamic Center is a great opportunty to renew this old community in Detroit.

The project is to serve both Muslims and local citizens. The Detoit Islamic Center includes a mosque which can host more than 2000 people for Friday pray events, a souk (Islamic market), a FIFA size soccer stadium and a sports park. The main strategy of the planning is to create a large village in the city and connect the north and the south by designing pedestrian system and biking system.

At the same time, the proposal solves the serious parking problem in this site.

The final planning put the souk on the north side along the Joy Road where most shops and commercial buildings are. The idea of the souk is to create more social space such as several outdoor plaza to distinct itself from traditional suburban mall.

The mosque is in the middle of the site and the minaret is the tallest building in this neighborhood.

The rec center and the sports park are on the south side. The rec center is not about religion or specific culture, it's more about mass culture and efficiency.

The recreation center is actually a stadium and rec center complex; by combining these two, the rec center becomes a smaller and condenser building with multiple functions.

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01. Tradition

02. Program

The new Islamic center is the new landmark

The center comprises a mosque, assembly

of the area. Its design represents the rich

space, minaret, Islamic market, a sports

and varied Muslim traditions in a contempo-

center and a sports park.

rary context.

03. Parking

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04. Traffic

The mosque requires a large amount of sur-

The minaret is close to the highway which can be

face parking lots and structure parking next

seen from a distance. In addition, driving around

to it.

the minaret creates a sense of ceremony.

01. Souk

The village-like commercial part is closed to the north Joy Road.

It includes a parking structure which serves the mosque.

02. Mosque

The roof of the Mosque is a transformed dome which becomes the landmark and spiritual monument for local Muslim people.

The major programs are located on the north side where the

Master Plan

The recreation center is actually a stadium and recreation center

03. Sports Center

main flow of people gather for shopping and praying. The south

complex; by combining these two, the rec center becomes a

part is more about natural environment and leisure activities.

smaller and condenser building with multiple functions.

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06 Detroit Sports Center Site: Dearborn, Detroit Teammate: Andrew Stewart Instructor: Prof. Douglas Kelbaugh Detroit Dearborn sports center is part of the new detroit center, it includes a 2500-seat soccer stadium and an interior recreation center. The client considers it as a healthy building which can serve local residents and and students.

Sports should not be defined by nationality of religion. Therefore, the concept of the building is less about traditional Islamic culture but more about inviting more muslim people to blend into the larger community and enjoy sports in such active and dynamic space. The building can be regarded as the combination of 4 north-south linear parts: seating and soccer field, service rooms, sports courts and family center. The north-south traffic connects to the two parking lot on the two sides, which is convenient when rapid gathering or evacuation of the building is needed. The soccer staium has a elegant space truss canopy to cover all the seats underneath it. Service space, including locker rooms and bathrooms to serve both the left side stadium and right side courts.There are two basketball court, a swimming pool, an arcade and climbing wall inside the building. The second floor running tracks form a loop which goes around the entire building and becomes the conspicuous place.

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1 Basketball Court 2 Locker Room 3 Ticket Room 4 Bathroom 5 Pray Room 6 Office 7 Classroom 8 Arcade 9 Pool Hall10 Yoga Room/ Dancing Room 11Projection Room 12 Wall Climbing 13 Swimming Pool 14 Cafe 15 Gym 16 Spa 17 Grocery 18 Storage 19 Lobby

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Sports Center Isometic Drawing

A-A Section

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01. Level 2 Running Tracks

The second floor running tracks circles around over the entire building, some parts of the tracks are made of strong glass where lights come from the bottom to lit up the running space. Athletes seem to be running on the light.

02. Wall Climbing Space

Multiple triangle panels form the complex cave-like rock climbing wal. The ups and downs of the floor also provide interior space for skateboard lovers.

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03. Sports Center Lobby

The idea of Islamic Gardens not only provides fresh air and green space, but also direct daylight during the daytime.

04. Islamic Patterns

Materials used: Islamic pattern wall, white masonry wall and low poly metal climbing wall.

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07 Yuliang Vistor Center Site: Yuliang Village, Anhui Province Instructor: Prof. Bing Hu, Prof. Kai Wang Yuliang Village is a small village in Anhui Province.

This village is famous because of the ancient dam which is located on the south side of the village.

The dam attracted hundreds of tourists every year while most local residents are farmers and fishers.

The history of the village is quite long, and there are many old buildings in the village. The site locates in the east of the village, which is closed to the east entrance alongside the river.

The new visitor center creates a relaxed space for visitors to see the landscape of the dam and the river as well works as a restaurant or a teahouse to provides food and tea for visitors and residents.

The strategy is to create a visiting path inside the building using the complicated site condition both in terms of geography and surroundings. The volume of the new building is similar to those old buildings that it has replaced so that the new volume won't be a giant one in this small town. As for the selection of materials, the visitor center uses dark wood panels, stone and white finish coat which are widely used in other part of this village. New courtyards are created to provide green space in the building and old stairs are kept to provide space for traditional religious events. The visitor center is not just a center for tourists, the first level can also become a social space for local people especially seniors.

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Landscape  Massing

The history of Yuliang Village can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty.

Most buildings are houses with white coat finish and black clay tiles. In addition, most buildings are made of bricks, concrete and wood. That's the reason why the new visitor center uses similar materials to maintain a uniform style. Also, the new building is to take the place of several old housings, the massing and the boundary of the new building will follow the old houses.

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West Entrance East Entrance

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Yuliang Dam

The history of Yuliang Dam can be traced back to 1400 years ago. It's one of the eldest and biggest dam along the Lian Rive. The function of the dam is to control the speed of downstream water.

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Visitor go through multiple stairs, rooms and courtyards to head to the final deck

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Level 2 Plan

7 Projection Hall 8Rooftop Deck

1:500 Massing Model

The massing of the visitor center follows the volumes of old buildings so that it can be low key and fit into the village appropriately.

1:100 Model

The closer to the dam, the more open the facade is. The change of facade starts from the white wall of the east to louvers than to the glass of the west.

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Teahouse Section From Underground Level to Level 2

Parapet Detail Drawings 62

Wall Section + Patchwork Design

Teahouse

The main function of the first floor visitor center is to provide a semi-outdoor teahouse space for local people as well as visitors to relax.

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08 Wollemi National Park Hostel

Site: Wollemi national park, NSW, Australia Instructor: Prof. Glenn Murcutt, Angelo Candalepas The function of the Wollemi national park hostel is to provides bedrooms and study space for students and scholars who wants to do research on natural environment, geography as well as biology in this park.

The building is located inside the forest which is close to the beach and giant rocks whose nickname are known as "pagodas". The challenge of this building is how to touch the earth lightly without destroying the environment. The material strategy of the building is "Chameleon": for the aluminum and glass public dining part, people can see the reflection of landscapes nearby as well as see through the building to enjoy beautiful landscape; the wood structure bedrooms part is hidden in the jungle.

The other important part of the design strategy is how to design an economical eco-building. The final scheme include a roof system which can cool down the temperature of interior. Rain water storage system, solar panel heating system as well as a green house (A.K.A living machine) which can recycle and reuse waste to produce gas as well as clean water.

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12 Bedrooms

5 Water Tank

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7 Bathroom

15 Living Machine

8 Laundry

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1 Dining Hall

Ground Level Plan

The plan can be divided into two parts: the public and the private. The public part located in the gum tree forest includes a dining hall and a kitchen; the public part is near the beach and the parking. The private part locates in boskage as well as fronting the river so that people can have great view of the landscape from the window. The location of the building is designed to avoid trees so that reducing the number of trees that might be cut down.

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The form of the roof is decided by the studying of ventilation sy

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Section Perspective

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Bedroom Unit / Plan Perspective

Room for 4 people leads to the lack of privacy. By changing the orientations of beds and preventing direct eye contact by changing the locatons of different furniture, the arrangement of the plan can provides some privacy.

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Patio Near the Beach

Dining Hall Interior Rendering

The materials of the dining hall are glass and aluminum panels. Top panels can reflect landscapes which makes the building hidden in the forest and visually smaller. People in the room can see through glass and enjoy landscape.

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09 A.R.C + ARK: Animal Refugee Carrier Thesis Project + Sci-fi Movie World Making Instructor: Prof. Julia McMorrough In the distant future, global warming leads to another flood story.

The ARC Ark is the animal refugee carrier which saves humans and a remnant of all the world’s animals from the flood. It’s a giant floating building that both humans and animals have to live in. Unfortunately, remnant animals only includes domesticated animals while all other wild animals had been extinction for a long time. Humans and domesticated animals have to rely on each other: humans have to take care of animals in order to gain food from animals, while animals have to rely on human technology to live in closed ecosystem.

In the distant future, with the development of gene technology, domesticated animals are super giant and they can provide a large amount of food. Comparing to their sizes, humans are tiny and their main task is to feed animals and process food. The ark is a farm, a factory as well as a zoo.

Man is no longer the measure of all things and human-centered design strategy is not available in this case. The aim of this thesis is to study how to design a building, or in other words, a new city that can serve both humans as well as the larger ecosystem through a Lilliputian perspective. By changing the scales of the world and the measure of all things, I design a building that can be used by different size users. The overall building enclosure is a flat and infinite plan for grazing, with fluctuant floor for animals to move both vertically and horizontally. Pocket space is designed for domesticated animals to produce food such as milk and eggs. However, the zoom in section is more about studying the dynamic vertical movements of human beings within this bizarre environment. Domesticated animals occupy void space while humans mostly work and live “inside” walls. Living inside the walls not only means to design human space as part of the whole system, but also provide bizarre and interesting space for them before the end of the world.

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A.R.C + ARK Animal Refugee Carrier + Lilliputian Ark Wesley Shurui Wu

Liberty Research Annex, Ann Arbor April 26-27, 2017

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An Ark is built to SAVE ALL ANIMALS.

2500 AD The New Ice Age is Coming!

Island Giantism happened in this Isolated Ark

Future Milking System

Giant Domesticated Animal!!!

The New Measure of the World

The idea starts from questioning Greek philosopher Protagoras’s most famous statement “Man is the measure of all things: of the things that are, that they are, of the things that are not, that they are not." Architects always design space or environments for humans at human scale, but this always leads to ignoring the nature. My project is to challenge the human-center design strategy and try to play with the scale of human, scale of animals and scale of environment, and see if my strategy can really solve some future scale problems.

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Future Habitat: Bent Skyscrapers

Farm Animal Refugee Carrier Isometic Drawing

Infinite Farmland & Giant Factories

The New Relationships

The users of the building will be giant domesticated animals and humans. They actually rely on each other to survive in this catastrophic world. Animals live in void space and humans have to stay in the poche of the building. Animals provide food for humans and humans have to work hard to take care of animals.

The trial of the coexistence relationship leads to further error, the scale difference in terms of time and space. The measure of time will be decided by farm animal’s schedule rather than the traditional 24-hour rhythm. The measure of space is no longer humans but giant animals and giant objects.

Void & Poche

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Human in the Poche and G

In the section, humans live in this poche-like space and animals live in void spac

There are many interesting moments are designed when humans have to deal w

includes cleaning space with giant sprayer, and the water tank becomes the swi

the egg and there will also be human scale space such as byproduct factory sp

to transport people from l

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Giant Animals in the Void

ce created by solid structure. This giant section shows the lives inside the poche.

with not only giant animals but also giant objects. For example, the milking factory

imming pool for humans. Huge pan and huge saw will be used to cook and cut

pace which turn giant food to human scale food. Curve elevator have to be used

lower level to higher level.

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1F - 4F Apartments + Giant Plants +Lightwells

Future Structure: Columns 80

Artifact: Future Screw

The New Landscape / The Last Zoo

When all wild animals are gone, these animals are the last animals that you can see in the world. These animals and their products are part of the future landscape. This night rendering shows the egg theater when a hen is laying eggs and the giant drill is cracking the egg. You can image it as some kind of future events like what we have today, such as board way performance or sports game. People will like to see them and the last error shows up. They are too big to be seen, you can only see part of the cow if it’s right by your window. The future screw is designed to solve the problem. It works like a fish eye lens or a door viewer which can be used to install the window as well as to see the entire animal.

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83F - 86F Holiday Villa Aerial View

31F - 39F Cleaning Zone + Restaurant 82

Milking System + New Time Zone

People who are taking care of the cow will have to live in cow-time zone. The first 16 months are grazing season which means humans are not working but relaxing, enjoying their holidays and then they have to work for several month during pregnancy season and milking season. They have to do jobs all night long and even night shift bedrooms are designed for cow teams.

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OTHER WORKS

4-Meter House

Twisted Boat

The design of the 4-meter house is a 2.5D experiment. Due to

This twisted boat is a wood bending fabrication art work. The

the width limit of the site, the plan of the building space is not

process includes cutting plywood jigs and bending soaked

really flexible. The strategy is to create a stair-step shape section

wood sticks to specific form. The experiment is testing the limita-

that allows sunlight to get into the three main rooms.

tion and potential of curved wood sticks.

Longhua Exhibition Center

Blade Wall

By controlling the thickness of foam and incomplete ruled sur-

botanical garden as well as museum. Small glass buildings are

face cutting, a quarter circle and a shuttle- shape geometry are

exhibition rooms to show different kinds of plants to the public.

cut out. Adjacent geometries can be rotated and joined togeth-

In this case, the forest can be the exhibition of trees, the exhibi-

er. Different units (brick) can be re-organized to form the blade-

tion of nature, the exhibition of Zen.

like wall.

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The strategy is to re-create forest in the city which can be both

Yunjin Road CafĂŠ

Showroom For Stone Tablet

The concept of the cafe is to put a north-south oriented pre-cast

I used comparative montage to make for an interesting contrast

reinforced concrete folded roof on west-east oriented shear

between religion and nature ,and the use of repetitive montage

walls; the structure of the cafe is shear wall structure system and

emphasizes the inner meaning of Buddhism and edit the scenes

the folded plate structure system is applied to the roof.

into a sequence to condense space, time, and information.

"Museum Island"

Transformer

The museum island is to create "a street, a loop and a garden".

Using a system of hinges that slide along vertical channels the

The street is connecting to Jiading City's cultural axis; a water

interlaced panels fold up and produce a range of aesthetic

loop connects different museums and galleries on the site; the

expressions while selectively opening up portions of the vertical

planning of the site is organic and loose which is similar to the

surface. The mechanics of the assembly were designed to try to

feeling of traditional Chinese garden.

maximize the range of ornamental expression.

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SHURUI WU Master of Architecture University of Michigan shurui@umich.edu +1 7347091783 http://shuruiwu.com