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SIGN In my portfolio, I aim to challenge the single and monotonous aesthetic standard in urban design and planning, and create a diversified living environment. In my first project entitled Suspended Daily, I try to create a multifunctional community with a sharp futuristic style near the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda, a landmark of Xi’an, China, which can coexist harmoniously with its surrounding Tang-style commercial buildings. The second project, Reciprocation Loop, intends to create an architecture to bring youth and validity to the ancient Ming Dynasty city wall in Xi’an. The third project is named Healing Ring, which creates a healing space for the elderly who live alone in isolated pit courtyard houses by using underground landscapes. The last project, Waving Nature, is designed with a purpose to restore the local ecology and improve the abilities to resist disasters in Mianyang, Sichuan, where there are usually floods in rainy season. Taken together, I hope my projects could arouse people’s deep reflection on what constitute quality urban design, and how could we create tolerant, diverse and harmonious cities by integrating different and even contrasting elements in our design.
SINACHUMU Department of Landscape of Architecture Xi'an University of Architecture & technilogy +86-137-0912-1209 LOMADIDI@163.com
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Community VS Individual
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Homogenization VS Heterogeneity
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The imaginable world VS Own story
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Fragmentation VS Fusion
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In today's society, it seems that everyone is trying his/her best to pursue career success and material gains. People, especially the young, are inclined to hop from one job to another, expecting for a better life portrayed by media and presented by celebrities. They paid so much attention to the possibilities in future that they ignored their current lives. I hope my first project, Suspension Daily, could help them focus on the present. I wish people would conduct constant self-observation to know about their current problems and then gain motivations to strive for the future. I also expect to distract people’s attention from their pursuit of wealth and encourage them to live in the moment happily, which I believe will benefit those who feel unprivileged and deprived in the modernization process of China.
Suspended Daily Area: 42.1 ha Location: Xi'an, China Work form: group academic work Time: October 5th-December 2rd, 2019 Collaborator: Sun Haoxin Instructor: Liu Kaixi
DEAD-CIRCLY DEVELOPMENT MOUDEL The outward expansion of the cities gradually absorbed or surrounded the countryside and part of the land changed from farmland to state land. Most peasants who lost their farmland had to start from scratch and enter new fields such as commerce. The service industry, etc. Income was low but consumption was high. The mindset and behaviour of villagers cannot adapt quickly to the new environment. Unlike urban management urban villages are more likely to breed illegal practices. Villagers make profits by renting out their houses. To maximise profits, many illegal structures have
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been added. In urban villages, various structures are interwoven, the space is functionally chaotic and people's quality of life is low. The continuous development of the surrounding areas has put more burden on the urban villages and increased social inequality. Enter new areas, such as commerce. Service industry etc. Low income, but high consumption. Villagers' mindset and behaviour cannot adapt quickly to the new environment. Illegal acts are more likely to breed in urban villages, unlike urban management. Villagers make profits by renting out their houses. To maximise profits, many illegal structures have been added. In urban villages, various structures are interwoven, the space is functionally chaotic and people's quality of life is low. The continuous development of the surrounding areas has placed an additional burden on the urban villages.
A State of Suspension
Design Framework
TaipingBao is contrary to the Image of the city and the development of the city's GDP
When social inequality is intensifying, great anxiety and fear begin to form, and people are scrambling to get in the car. Every car that passes is the last one. Since the 1980s, the entire society has been striving forward, emphasizing catching up. To this day, this kind of imagination still exists. However, it has been completely individualized, and historical progress has become material improvement. Everyone is busy solving current problems immediately, busy looking forward and rarely inspires structural changes. It seems that a unified order has been formed, which has also had an important impact on our life planning. But Taipingbao seems to be carrying out a kind of reaction to the suspension, challenging the existing order: in the appearance of the system, it has become a new social space with real and unknown names, and has greater freedom. The resulting impact is even smaller.
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be awake.be aware. be alive. enjoy Life without possession - Is the biggest revolution of this era. 5
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Suspension Village
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Š SUSPENSION VILLAGE Suspension Village is multi-party cooperation and collaborative development company. The company would consider the interests of all groups and negotiate with the government, cooperation with the investors, original villagers, local people, implementers, new population, and attract more floating population. The company proposes to cooperate in the production ofsuspension device, which is a discrete architectural assembly system that allows selfconstructed living space and diverse industrial spaces through assembling the pre-fabricated and customized device as you need.
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FUNCTION PLANNING Green public space Business service Multiple industries Travel services Night business connection Private residence Education and exercise
Construct peripheral blocks, attract citizens to visit, and establish a neighbourhood brand and increase the visibility of the block .
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Future Scenes Suspension Village is multi-party cooperation and collaborative development company. The company would consider the interests of all groups and negotiate with the government, cooperation with the investors, original villagers, local people, implementers, new population, and attract more floating population. The company proposes to cooperate in the production ofďźšsuspension device, which is a discrete architectural assembly system that allows self-constructed living space and diverse industrial spaces through assembling the pre-fabricated and customized device as you need.
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Clustered Spaces
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Reciprocation Loop
By designing Reciprocation Loop, I attempt to create a public recreational destination next to the Ming Dynasty city wall, hoping to conduct a dialogue between the modern and ancient China, and bring vigor and energy to the surrounding community. The Loop would also become a place where people can have fun, make friends and seek for comfort, which would be of great importance for people who suffer from great psychological pressure in modern China.
Area: 0.125 ha Location: Xi'an, China Work form: competition works Time: October 5th-December 2rd, 2019 Collaborator: Lu Chen, Chen Xiaorui Instructor: Song Gongming
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Physical environment analysis
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Heaing Ring Area: 23.1 ha Location: Xi'an, China Work form: academic work Time: September 17th-October 27th, 2018 Instructor: Xin Cheng
I believe that designers have the obligation to respond to social issues through their designs. Aging problem is becoming increasingly severe in China, and many elderly people in rural China are left behind by their children who choose to make a living in big cities. Given this situation, I try to use the landscape to make connections among these lonely old people, who can walk out to communicate with each other, and hence get rid of looniness and embrace a better life. I believe this project will help the elderly citizens in the countryside to maintain mental health.
Ageing Society and Active Ageing
County Township Village Baishe Village
Old women-23% Age 50-90+
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Old man-33% Age 50-80+
Background and Position Current situation of Baishe Village
- A Place of solitude
Pit courtyard houses consists of rooms that are excavated around a sunken courtyard dug in the ground. The inner space maintains the vaulted structure, achieved using bricks or stone to build the arches. The space between the arched structures is filled with earth. This kind of building is very cheap and efficient in term of material, construction, and maintenance. Young people have left cave style dwellings in the Loess Plateau, leaving more and more old people living alone in Baishe Village, Sanyuan County.
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Master Plan 1. county yard 2. yaodong 3. water well 4. water features 5. cave 6. flower path 7. pool
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Life around the Pit Courtyards
Gaining healthy physical and mental through the natural landscape, improve the quality of life through the improvement of infrastructure and the injection of new functions.
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Healing Experience
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Prologue:waterfall The waterfall poured slowly, and the elderly became calm when they heard the gurgling water.
Opening:cave The elderly met acquaintances while resting in the cave and started a pleasant chat.
Growing:pool and field Many elderly people gather here, some looking after children, some chatting in groups, and the atmosphere is pleasant.
Turning point:bridge T he re a re s o me e l d e r ly people who like to be alone, a n d t h e y c a n fo c u s o n fishing here.
Climax:well yard This is the largest collective activity space, and largescale activities in the village are held here.
Epilogue:Water terraces T h e n e a r - h u m a n waterscape can be viewed from a distance and can also interact with it, so that the mood of the elderly can return to calm.
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Weaving Nature Area: 462 ha Location: Xi'an, China Work form: Actual project Time: September 16 to October 8, 2020 Collaborator: Sun HaoxinďźŒQiu Jing Instructor: Liu Kaixi
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It is difficult for Mianyang, a city in west China, to withstand floods because of its unique landscapes. The fourth project aims to help this city restore its ecological balance by making full use of its local natural resources. Based on the spatial characteristics of the site to be repaired and the types of surrounding habitats, I constructed a plant community to fulfil this purpose.
The total area of the design site is 461.5721 hectares.
The area to be repaired is about 24 hectares. The area where vegetation richness needs to be improved is about 80 hectares. Approximately 60 hectares of area requiring ornamental landscape treatment.
Landscape safety terrain analysis TYPE
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Dry land
187.32
236
1.9798
0.7937
1688.2999
1.4179
1.136
0.9986
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Other woodland
41.44
116
0.3239
0.3572
1573.0967
1.4015
0.7046
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Rural road
16.15
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0.1538
0.0226
3634.7497
1.6904
0.6962
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Pond water surface
48.38
212
0.1968
0.2282
1547.1741
1.2022
0.6304
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Facility agricultural land
4.34
48
0.1051
0.0904
2456.0967
1.2349
1.5957
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Special land
1.37
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0.022
0.0979
1852.4401
1.475
1.0989
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Rural homestead
89.47
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0.3621
0.2215
1785.1051
1.3968
0.7014
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Orchard
168.4
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2.3458
1.0395
1447.5791
1.4543
1.2729
0.9984
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Other fields
5.19
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0.1949
0.6488
1618.2863
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Arbor
171.66
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3.3606
0.9923
1872.2311
1.463
1.4921
0.9976
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Paddy field
117.9
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0.7176
1.0817
1352.9653
1.4091
1.7159
0.9996
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Road land
87.76
271
6.6992
0.3238
3602.8129
1.6477
1.7111
0.9955
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Ditch
7.27
212
0.0698
0.0343
3554.6595
1.7203
1.9539
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Bamboo grove
5.49
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0.0334
0.1248
1897.5491
1.465
1.9027
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Other grass
9.72
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0.3297
0.2492
2142.8438
1.3545
2.5641
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Breeding pond
6.66
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0.0583
0.2081
1328.8982
1.1443
3.8306
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Commercial service facility land
4.13
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0.0554
0.2753
1461.719
1.2233
8.5714
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Town and village road
0.82
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0.0086
0.0248
3583.5017
1.6228
7.7652
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Industrial land
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0.2503
0.8333
838.3332
1.172
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Land for transportation service station 0.19
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0.0124
0.095
2102.5641
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Administrative land
0.52
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0.0239
0.1733
1257.7289
N/A
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Educational land
0.97
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0.0487
0.194
1683.2055
N/A
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Mining land
10.75
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0.3287
1.075
793.0849
1.2773
2.2222
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Shrubland
16.05
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0.1596
0.214
1944.6358
1.4182
1.2973
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Hydraulic construction land
1.02
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0.0803
0.204
2976.1905
N/A
30
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River water surface
11.22
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0.9125
2.244
1542.2785
N/A
30
0.9999
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Logistics warehousing land
0.29
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0.0201
0.0483
3103.1746
N/A
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and vegetation richness needs to be improved is about 80
60 hectares of area requiring ornamental landscape treatment.Approximately 12 hectares of construction land. hectaresApproximately
The site has abundant existing landscape units, high habitat f r a g m e n t a t i o n , a n d l o w c o r r i d21 or connectivity.
CONCEPT Apply the corresponding planting pattern technology on different substrates, bring together the fusion plants, establish a selfsufficient "plant community", and through a series of maintenance methods, make the "plant community" woven together to achieve a balance : All plant communities can survive and multiply without manual intervention.
Habitat fragmentation
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Ecological boundary
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Habitat Creation
Weaving nature
Implant function
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Ecological repair is carried out through the construction of plant communities, and trees, shrubs, and herbs are fully combined for stable planting. Mainly native hightolerant shrubs, enrich the vertical spatial hierarchy and increase the biodiversity of the site.
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DESIGN DIGRAM
Ecological Design
Landscape plant replanting
Habitat community creation Ecological remediation of green space Ecological conservation forest land
Ecological security channel
Plant community mode
Paddy field area
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Valley area
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Design methodology Ecologically suitable area
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Similar to the sequence of mathematical degrees, in the sequence, each added number generates a graphical combination based on the previous number.
Suitable area
The habitat design in the suitable construction zone corresponds to its habitat type. Orchards can be used as a carrier space for eco-agricultural experience activities. Country activities can be carried out in woodlandtype habitat patches. Dry land carries the necessary infrastructure construction, and eco-agricultural experience parks can be built next to paddy fields.
Paddy field area
Land scope Existing patches of paddy field Paddy patch repair Construction land
Valley area
Land scope Existing patches of bamboo Patches in bamboo woodland Construction land
Forest area
Land scope Woodland closed boundary Woodland semi-open border Existing patches of woodland Patches of woodland Construction land
Ecologically suitable area
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