Abundant space in the city

-Primary school design

Type: Individual school design project

Location: Liverpool, England

Project description: The location of this project is characterised by a relatively large number of functions in the surrounding area, with an abundance of public space or functional space. The traffic situation in the surrounding area is not too complicated and the traffic flow is low. People can access the site on foot. The enclosed building form will be the main design mode for this building, placing the main traffic space in the middle of the building as a 'key space', creating an abundance of staircases to connect the different floors and create a rich communication space, following the formal language of the existing building in the facade design and extracting some elements for recombination, with vertical elements and irregular blocks giving a neat and orderly feel, but at the same time having interspersed with massing.

Site analysis

The project is located in Birkenhead and covers an area of about 380 square meters. The complex urban functional layout is distributed around it, and convenient transportation is a great feature of this address. Across the road is the Birkenhead railway station. In addition, there are large green parks, historical buildings, commercial buildings and so on. Basically, these functional areas can be covered by a five minute walking circle, and the roads from the southwest to the northeast of the project address undertake the function of reaching the project address.

Passing through site

As one walks through the site of the project, one can pass through many different spaces. The red flow lines indicate the different views seen when walking to different addresses

Process of volume generation

Site area

Functional area

Pubilc area

Streetscape 1

Streetscape 2

Streetscape 3

Streetscape 4

Streetscape 5

Streetscape 6

Streetscape 7

Streetscape 8

Fourth floor

The fourth floor is the upper grade classroom (year 5 and 6) and roof garden

Different functional areas

The division of different functional areas within a limited space can enhance the richness of the space, especially if the floor space itself is small.

Separating individual spaces and combining them can be a good way to make the best use of space.

About the Explosion Analysis

The functional arrangement of the floors is based on the needs of different age groups. Students in the lower grades should be placed on the lower floors to allow easier access to the classrooms.

The placement of the multi-purpose rooms on the lower floors allows for easier access to students from different floors. Basic functions such as classroom offices, medical rooms and kitchens are located on Level G to make it easier for students to seek help when they need it.

Third floor

The third floor is a combination of senior classrooms (year3 and 4 student) and a library.

Second floor

The second floor is a combination of classrooms for the second year students and a multi-purpose activity room.

First floor

The ground floor is a combination of classrooms for the first year students and a multi-purpose activity room. Student vertical flow lines

Student horizontal flow lines

The arrangement of the different functions into different spaces allows for a rational layout of the building. Different users can quickly and precisely find the floor they need.

Section 1&2

Explosive functional analysis

Print room

Functional space for classroom or student use

Classrooom

Year 5 and 6 classroom

Roof garden

Roof garden with full sunlight conditions

Classrooom

Year 3 and 4 classroom

Multi-purpose activity room

The large space can be easily transformed into a restaurant, conference room, event room, etc.

Library

The library is set in the middle of several floors

Classrooom

Year 2 classroom

Multi-purpose activity room

The large space can be easily transformed into a restaurant, conference room, event room, etc.

Classrooom

Year 1 classroom

Playground

A place for students to do outdoor activities

Infirmary

Service class space set at G level

Teacher's office

Service class space set at G level

Stairs

Multi-purpose space connecting G to 1st floor

03 Illusory translated into grottoes

-Gaudi La Coma Artists' Residences

Type: Competition group work(Contributed to the full design process, building 3D models, Most of the renderings and some analysis diagram)

Location: Huesca, Spain

Project description: Extract invisible natural contour lines and make them concrete into buildings, establish the concept of irregular layer by layer retreat scheme, select local characteristic rocks as materials, combine natural plants to create wild luxury living space, and enrich the coordination of functional space to achieve concrete grotto space.

Site Analysis

From illusion to concrete of rock

Gaudi Planar Analysis

Casa

Circulation Analysis

The undulating multi-storey buildings formed according to the terrain are distributed in an orderly manner by

1. Contours of the original terrain

After his design style formed, Gaudi used the free traffic space as the center to organise the plan, and differentiated the room to avoid the generation of repeated space.

User demand analysis

2. Generate polylines from contour.

3. Based on contour lines, generate guest rooms behind the contour lines

Environment Analysis

4. Use the same polyline design language to generate meditation and wellness areast

5. Combining two polyline designs

Hostel Room Type

The hostel is divided into four - person suites and eight - person suites

The four-person ensuite has its own ensuite, and the room is further divided into two separate rooms, which are used as a queen bed room and a double room. The two rooms are relatively private and have some space for communication.

Suites for eight people pay more attention to openness and people's communication. Once, although the suite of eight people is also divided into two rooms, but the two rooms have relatively strong connectivity, people in the two rooms can see each other's living conditions, but also have a common activity and work space.

Green Building Facilities

Hostel Plan - Suite for Four

Hostel Plan - Suite for Eight Artists' Residence Conversion

Removable Wall

Artists’Residence - for Artists

Artists’Residence - for Tourists

Grottoes That Appear Gradually In The Twilight

The main concept is to outline the building in layers with linear and point light sources

First, use linear and point lights to express the outer contour of the multi-segment polylines of the building.

Secondly, the light from the internal light source of the building and some vertical lights are used to increase the sense of hierarchy.

Finally, combined with the lighting design concept, the overall adjustment of the light ratio of the light and the light-dark contrast relationship.