Yi lu (spring) Air week one

2015, SEMESTER 1, PHILLIP BELESKY YI LU (SPRING) 616749

AIR Acumen

Insight

Reflection

Table of Contents 5 Yi Lu (Spring) 6 PAST WORKS 8

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Yi Lu (Spring) M

y name is Yi Lu, people call me Spring here. I like my English name, for it means beauty, vitality and hope. Those three words can conclude my life experiences for the past 21 years.

Beauty I was born in an artist family, relatives on my mom’s side are all doing fine-art-related job. I was rasied up in the cradle of paintings, hand-crafts, cartons, and etc. Colors, patterns and texture became part of childhood memory. For me, before I ever got any idea of what is aesthetics, those wired things were so beautiful and amazing that I couldn’t help myself to look, touch and feel.

Vitality+Beauty=Thinking I started to have special interest with architecture since I entered university in China. During this year of study, I used up my free time to visit all the unique building in Beijing. Due to its rapid development, Beijing is full of some world-class architects’ works. From the unity of Galaxy Soho

by Zaha Hadid, to the conflict of CCTV tower by Rem Koolhaas; from the stillness of Bamboo House by Kengo Kuma, to the chaos of San Litun Village also by Kengo Kuma, with my visit to each surprise, I got chances to look into their “wrappings“, to their essential charms. Later on, I realized that to dig out some kind of beauty it requires thinking.

Hope=All After one-year architecture study in China, I decided to transfer to University of Melbourne, in order to carry on my explorarion of architecture at a different place, on a different level, and with new experiences.

Although it has been three years already, I am not hurry to make an conclusion of my changing understanding of architecture. I am hoping to find out more in my study of Air Studio, and I am sure I will find them, because with hope, my heart can go anywhere.

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Past works of Spring Lu

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DESIGN FUTURING

Parc de la Villette, 1983-1985, Bernard Tschumi

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Parc de la Villette is a park in Paris, designed by Bernard Tschumi. The most iconic elements of the park are the red enameled steel folies. Those thirty-five follies are displayed evenly across the park, creating vaccum in this vast open space.

Each folly comes in different shape, while they are all composed by points, lines and planes. By using those basic elements, Tschumi expressed his spatial concept for “the age of information“ and “post-industrial society“ (1900, 666). He tired to break people’s old idea about a park--relaxing, green and natural, thus he created opportunities for interaction. He made the park into a spacious maze, with hints leading visitors to a certain place.

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All the follies are not designed to be functional. It challenged the conventional idea of function, form and scale. Without any history precedents, this park design is revolutionary in 1980s.

Anyway, it is interesting to find out nowadays some of the follies have been reconstructed to be functional unit, for example snack bar, coffee and etc.

Although the park do not keep its anti-tourism feature as Tschumi originally expected, it maintains its dynamism of interaction. Or we can say that it breaks the peace of a park into pieces of dynamism.

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The Red Diamond, 2008-2009, Chiasmus Partners

Rapid construction of the 20th century brings us convenience, but now in 21st century we are facing the problem of how to deal with old buildings. They had once been the glory of human-beings, now it seems they are just a pile of trash.

The Red Diamond is a good example of transformation of abandoned industrial building. By consolidating its structural elements, by adding a red mesh envelope, and by re-planning the function zoning, it pumps in new dynamism to the surrounding community of the old factory site.

Located in Beijing, it follows the planning principle of courtyard. However in order to break the privacy of a courtyard, Chiasmus manipulated transparency and opacity. Consequently, the closeness of the courtyard is alleviated by the use of glass.

Nowadays, the Red Diamond is not only used as a theatre, but also a place of entertainment. This successfull transformation excavated both the internal value of the existing space, and the external value of the open space, which is new to the site. It becomes a place for anyone. After all, the transformation of the spatial arrangment is not as valuable as the change it brings to people’s daily life.

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