TIAN LAN
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E-Town Vanke Brand Center
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ADAPTIVE WORKSPACE
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Courtyard by the West Lake
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New Youth Commune In Jilin
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W-ALL Community
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Apartment with Observation Points
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Other Works
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- Exihibition Pavilion, Professional Work
- Incubator Building for Startups, Academic Work
- Office & Residence, Professional Work
- Apartment, Professional Work
- Low-income Apartment, Academic Work
- Apartment, Academic Work
- Academic Work, Professional Work & Personal Photography Work
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Professional Work in Meta-Project, 2013 Architecture + Interior Design Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Chang Qianqian, Liu Xinxin, Li Shuang, Cheng Yin, Wang Han, Ding Rui Role in the team: Conceptual Design, Architectural Presentation, Construction Drawing (Plan & Detail Sections), Resident Architect Photo Courtesy of Su Chen
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Vanke Sales Center, Beijing, China
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Vanke is the largest real estate developers in China. And E-Town Vanke Brand Center is one of Vanke’s sales center located in Yi Zhuang, Beijing. Visitors can get to know the Jinyudongjun community and buy apartments here. The main programs include an exhibition area, a meeting area, a VIP room, and offices for staffs of Vanke. Given the programs, we make a volume distinguished vertically. The upper level which contains offices is covered by Parklex facade panel and can offer a quiet working environment with fewer openings on the facade. The lower level, which provides services for visitors, is designed as a transparent box.
1. Reception 2. Exhibition Area 3. Storage 4. Equipment 5. Office 6. Cafe 7. Consulting Area 8. Lounge Area 9. VIP room 10. Vertical Greening Wall 11. Exterior Lounge Area 12. Toilet 13. Meeting Room 14. Individual Consultant
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DIAGRAM_PERSPECTIVE SECTION VIEW
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Grain Bin
Microsoft
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U.S.
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Academic Work, 2018 Fall Degree Project Architecture Design Instructor: Eric Hoffman Individual Work
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Located in the Cortex community, a vibrant technology corridor of St. Louis, the project is an incubator for high-tech startup companies. The main program includes domestic workspace and temporary housing which allow startups to live and work, aspiring to achieve engagement, development as a whole community. The curvilinear roof of the incubator helps to establish the formal workspace under the roof and the casual events space above the roof.
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Ground Floor Plan 3/32”=1’-0”
MetroLink Station
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In order to cover the large sharing space, ETFE membrane is chosen as the material of the northern part of the roof. With light support frame and transparent membrane layers, ETFE roof allows for the realization of the dripping form of the roof as well as the penetration of the natural sunlight. The north facade of the living tower is also made of ETFE for a reason of cold wind protection in the winter.
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COURTYARD BY THE WEST SEA Office, Renovation, Beijing, China
Professional Work in Meta-Project, 2013 Architecture + Interior Design Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Cheng YIn, Wu Yaping, Chang Qianqian, Wang Han, Zhang Guowei, Li Shuang, Liu Xinxin Role in team: Construction Drawing & Detail Design Photo courtesy of Chen Su
This project is located in a narrow base between Xihai (the West Sea) east bank and Deshengmen Inner Avenue in Beijing. Facing two rows of brick-hybrid structure plant construction on the side of the West Sea, the predecessor of the site was the prestigious Blue Lotus Bar, on the eastern side were a few little shabby temporary housing built in the seventies and eighties, Which had no conservation value, the owner hoped to renovate this land which goes through from the West Sea and Deshengmen Inner Avenue into a space with a kind of Beijing Hutong cultural characteristics, while meeting a series of very contemporary mixed-use features – including the tea house, dinner, party, office, conference, as well as living and entertainment.
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Different – sized and –proportioned catalpa wood outdoor windows created through Casement Top-hang Casement MODE MODE Window Window Window a complex construction are observed within the various viewpoints bringing changes in the façade expressions while maximizing the possible viewing from the inside outward. One of my major works in this project is to design details of these windows and doors with the help of the manufacturer.
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Top-hang Unopenable Window
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Wooden W-TYPE_E Guardrail Wodden Wodden
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灰砖与火山岩砖
灰砖因为自然色差 不同深度无法控制
灰砖因为自然色差 不同深度无法控制
灰砖与火山岩砖
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灰砖因为自然色差 不同深度无法控制
灰砖因 不同深
火山岩砖可以经打 Type 4磨而产生不同深度
火山岩 磨而产
Black Travertine
火山岩砖可以经打 磨而产生不同深度 Type 1 (no polish)
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火山岩砖可以经打 磨而产生不同深度 Type 3
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- EXPERIMENT OF MATERIALS One of the design strategies is trying to reduce the amount of construction: using existing footprint to make small-scale buildings, using wood, brick, tile…all these local materials, using local craftsmanship but through new tectonic method, to respond to the problem in everyday scale and at the local level.
Diagram: Relationship Between Polishing times and Appearance Color of Black Travertine
Traditional Chinese Drawing
Diagram of Black Travertine Wall
Diagram of Vertical Tile Wall
During the process of renovation, the original façade is covered with black travertines. To give the new façade a specific texture which is similar to traditional Chinese drawings, we asked workers to polish travertine pieces different times. In this way, black travertines can present different extents of gray colors. The final façade is kind like a collage composed of black travertine with varies gray colors and sizes.
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04 NEW YOUTH COMMUNE IN JILIN
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Apartment, Jilin, China
Professional Work in Meta-Project, 2015 Architecture + Interior Design Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Cao Shibiao, Lan Tian, Wu Yaping, Zhao Yu Role in team: Conceptual Design, Architectural Presentation, Technical Drawing, Coordinator of Construction Photo courtesy of Chen Su, Fang Chun
New Youth Commune, a mixed youth community on the edge of Vanke Songhua Lake Resort bordering natural villages, contains 800 people with the upper space for Vanke staff, the middle rented to self-employed townspeople and the ground facilitating camping students and open to surrounding villagers. The project responds to the hybrid contemporaneity and proposes a new paradigm for community symbiosis: mutual cooperation and positive environmental interaction through inter-spatial sharing based on equality and self-sufficiency – a prototype community for contemporary ‘new youths’.
Strategy 1_Create a Secondary Public Space
Contrast to tradition dormitory rooms, auxiliary functions (wc and storage) were separated from living function in this center. In this way, a small public space is created when we combined two living units. People can eat, talk and work in this place
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Strategy 2_Form the Holes
Subordinate public spaces of each two units are connected with the atrium directly. Through arrangement of the functions in the secondary public space, openings of different sizes are presented on the inside facades surrounding the atrium. Sunlight from roof windows cast shadows on these holes. We expect that residents here can have imagines of living in the natural caves
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05 W-ALL COMMUNITY Low Income Apartment, Tianjin, China
Academic Work, 2011 Fall Studio (Undergraduate) Architecture Design Instructor: Lin Geng, Zhang Tianyu Individual Work W-All Community is a project aiming to accommodate low-income people with high quality designed space which can satisfy their everyday needs and bring more positive possibilities to their life. The building is kind like a continuous wall part of which are folded into the center of the site. The wall-like building forms a large courtyard serving the residents while the folded edges of the wall form other four courtyards facing the street which act as the sharing space between the community and the city. This kind of sharing space is also designed with the expectation that they can help the public understand the life of low-income people.
Rendering of Main Entrance
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- FUNCTIONAL BOX -
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Rock Climbing
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Play Ground
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Pet Maze
Functional Boxes are places for temporary installation. Residents can change functions in these boxes to what they like. These boxes are vertical public spaces where people live at different levels can get together. It will also the place where the old could enjoy the sunlight.
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- TYPE OF UNIT There are seven different kinds of house types in this Community. And the demands for low-income people can be satisfied since the house type is designed according to the survey of these people. The houses in the W-All Community are products of taking advantage of the potential of construction. And seven house-types are blended with each other when composing of the building. In this way, the variety of space can be ensured.
Rendering of Inner Courtyard
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344 sq ft 1LDK
603 sq ft 1LDK
549 sq ft 2LDK
775 sq ft 2LDK
775 sq ft 2LDK
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635 sq ft 2LDK
581 sq ft 2LDK
TYPE-A TYPE-B TYPE-C TYPE-D TYPE-E TYPE-F Rendering of Street View
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Type-1_Facing Street
Type-2_Facing Street
Type-4_Facing Courtyard
Type-5_Facing Courtyard
Type-7_Facing Courtyard
Type-3_Facing Street
Type-6_Facing Courtyard
Type-8_Facing Courtyard
06 Apartment with Observation Points Low Income Apartment, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Academic Work, 2016 Fall Core Studio (Graduate) Architecture Design Instructor: Monica Rivera Individual Work
Located in San Juan, this residential project is a result of the considerations of privacy, hot weather, and communication between neighbors. Windows and threshold have become the key design element in this project since they are related to all three factors listed above. Basically, all the windows extruded from the wall and placed with an angle. This kind of strategy is inspired by the experience of living in the house with one or two levels where people can observe the situation of the entrance and the courtyard by standing behind the surrounding windows. The angled windows provided the owners the observation points seeing what is going on outside while protecting their privacy by controlling the view seen from exterior.
Section View of the Courtyard
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07 Other Works
Academic Work, Professional Work & Personal Photography Work
Interaction between the visitor and the installation
SUSTAINABILITY RE-THINKING: FUTURE SCENARIOS OF TYSON RESEARCH CENTER
META-SPACE FOR AMI EXHIBITION
Academic Work, 2017 Fall Optional Studio, Individual Work Instructor: Hongxi Yin
Interactions between the installation and visitors
Interaction between the visitor and the installation
Professional Work in META-Project, 2013 Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Li Shuang, Zhou Di, Lan Tian, Liu Xinxin
Work in progress
ZERO IN TEXAS MUSEUM OF ZERO GROUP IN HOUSTON Academic Work, 2018 Spring Optional Studio, Individual Work Instructor: Steven Leet
Interactions between the installation and visitors Work in progress
SUZHOU EXPO ADMIN CENTER Professional Work in META-Project, 2014 Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Wu Yaping, Lan Tian, Wu Hongjie
TINY STUDIO RESEARCH AND DESIGN OF MINIMUM RESIDENCE Professional Work in META-Project, 2014 Supervisor: Wang Shuo, Zhang Jing Team Member: Lan Tian, Wu Yaping, Wu Hongjie, Pang Zhuo
PERSONAL PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
Tian Lan Email: lant@wustl.edu Mobile Phone: 314-285-1097