2003 to 2008 Academic Works Portfolio︱Thesis & Master Design

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architecture and design

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tommy joo

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compilation of design works

hotel for in habitants of ‘2046’ - advanced design studio c dialetic bridge

- advanced design studio c

balaclava community housing - advanced design studio b temptation island - advanced design studio a

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proposition 3047 - architectural design 4b living with density - architectural design 4a faster and bigger - international design competition town and gown - architectural design 4b book centre in beijing

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- architectural design 3a

rhythm

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2046

“Everyone who goes to want to recapture

has the same intention, they

lost memories�

quote by Chow Mo Wan in the film 2046 directed by Wong Kar Wai.

2046

hotel for inhabitants

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO C TUTOR: DENNIS PRIOR

Sometimes we wish that we can travel back the time and revisit the past, to restore our lost memories. 2046 is a future city, where these lost memories can be recaptured. It does not fit into any time zone because it is not important anymore. And this city has a unique and mysterious separation from the rest of the world that has layers of history and architecture.

The design proposal is a hotel for inhabitants; where these people come and stay permanently, in search of their memories. It is located in Hong Kong and the hotel associates with an old existing building ‘Chungking Mansion’ that have feeding urban legend and rumors – both good and bad. Because of its isolation of the city ‘2046’ and its alienation from the outside the world, the hotel itself is disappearing from the context, hiding itself inside the Chungking Mansion.

The hotel ‘2046’ is about corridors and the horizontal motion.

The Corridors are no longer a circulation or a journey, but it is the desired place and a destination. Every action, behaviour and programs take its place in the corridors, and this linear space provokes and stimulates the inhabitants in searching their memories inside the Chungking Mansion in many different aspects. These are placed, in-between and even penetrate through the existing as another series of an urban fabric as well as controlling views and overlooking to the ‘past’.

Past and nostalgia comes from a definition of longing for something unattainable. The more things change, the more we try to stay the same. We desire to recapture our memories in this ever changing world. This is the universal truth of our life that we long to fix what has already become unfixable. There is a great level of intimacy between the 2046 and the Chungking Mansion, however is distinctively separated. Inhabitants of the hotel want to recapture their memories of the past, and will soon realize this is unattainable; that is why no one has ever come back from 2046.

this project is based on a film by

Wong Kar Wai, 2046

preliminary design / concept ideas

Memories, our loved ones, bittersweet emotions, lost opportunities and regrets;

sometimes we wish that we can travel back the time –it istochallenging revisit the past. Psychologically and emotionally, for us to accept our past as something that we could never have again.

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These corridors might seem like a maze to the inhabitants. But the term inhabitant suggests something here.

Hotel is a temporary place for most people yet inhabitant suggests something permanent.

How do we perceive temporary space into something permanent?

It is about how we get used to it and started to explore different types of spaces by only traveling,

then it suggests ‘the new’ into something familiar. And the familiarity reconnects to the permanency.

These corridors do not give you clear direction or circulation. You will be lost at first; however, as you travel through each one on each level, then you will start to explore all the new spaces, and through these traveling, you will start to see something that you thought it is temporary into something permanent, something that is more familiar to you now.

Chungking Mansion everyone has a story to tell.

There are places about which

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Chungking Mansions is definitely one of these, a Hong Kong mega building feeding urban legend and rumors. The place is associated with experiences - both good and bad. Locals, backpackers or tourist groups, they all have experiences of it.

restaurant. eat.

read. write.

Built in 1962, i was designed as a chic estate on one of the east sites in Kowloon, South Nathan Road. Since then, its reputation has never ceased to attract the media - fire, robbery, counterfeit, crime, disappearances, viruses and many more; appearance

Chungking Mansions offer us to voyage into an unfamiliar and unknown universe for the please of being scared.

disappearance

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type b

points of seeing

gather. function.

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possible linear space

relax. spa.

different level of disappearance

bar. drink.

gamble. casino.

points of seeing

appearance

disappearance

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possible linear space

wander. search for your memory.

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possible linear space

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possible linear space

level of disappearance

existing volume

appearance

level of disappearance

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exploded diagram showing different type of corridors of 17 floors

eat. drink.

wander. more.

read. write.

wander the chungking mansion.

special. function. events.

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rest. leisure. swim. massage.

bar. smoke.

arrival. check in. start.

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city as a series of

urban fabric

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travelling on horizontal motion

corridors

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longing for the past

overlooking

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isolation and alienation

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6 different types of corridor modules

shower

swimming pool

spa

remale changing room

male changing room

smoking lounge

rest room

massage area

circulation lounge

And I started to really push forward with the idea of corridor. These are often seen as a space where you can to reach from one another, however, in this hotel, The fundamental function of program and corridors are now reversed. You move vertically from an elevator, then at each level, you stop and that is your hotel room. You open another door and it is now the corridor – where all the programs are put into. And because it is such a narrow space, as you see in the plan, some parts are pushed in and out to provide more spaces. The corridors consist of all sorts of programs such as smoking lounge, reading room, casino, restaurants, bars and swimming pool. Sittings are arranged linearly where you can only face one way.

You could only view the outside to overlook into the Chungking Mansion, or it could sometimes flip over to watch the people who are walking inside the corridors. These arrangements suggest the isolation.

The social and interactions of human are now totally neglected in my design.

the corridors are now the ‘desired place’.

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“You want to create a place in the world where what we think is nice, we can keep it that way. It’s like the Hong Kong that we pictre in our films is something from our impressions, from our memories, a certain wonderful moment of our city.”

Wong Kar-Wai

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Why can’t it be like before?

Please don’t go. Stay with me tonight. Let me borrow you.

When you don’t take “no” for an answer, there is still a chance you’ll get what you want.

And tonight?

In love you can’t bring on a substitute.

Are you borrowing me, or am I borrowing you?

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I have a secret to tell you. Will you leave with me?

Do you know what people did in the old days when they had secrets they didn’t want to share? They’d climb a moutain, find a tree, carve a hole in it, whisper the secret into the hole and cover it up with mud.

That way, nobody else would ever learn the secret...

Love is all a matter of timing.

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existing concrete structure

80/80mm steel tension member steel fixing

air conditioning

service space air conditioning

service space diffused lighting

finned radiator ventilation louvre diffuse lighting

35mm plaster board

18mm glass panel 24mm glass panel

32mm untreated oak boarding

30mm translucent polycarbornate celluar plane

18mm glass panel

19mm arma-ply floor finishing service space

service space

And this comes from my own understanding of the past and the nostalgia, where the definition is longing for something unattainable. I believe that the more things change, the

the same. And

more we stay

this is the universal truth of our life that we long to fix what has become unfixable- and this is our past. In the film it says, everyone who goes to 2046 has same intention to recapture their memories, but we don’t know if they did, because nobody has come back. Like how we will come to this hotel of inhabitants, thinking we could restore our past, but we will soon realize this is unattainable.

2008 RAIA National Architecture Conference

Critical Vision Form, Representation and the Culture of Globalisation Student Competition Project

the dialetic bridge zeitgeist and nostalgia

Finalist for RAIA Student Design Competition and exhibited during 2008 RAIA National Architecture Conference to represent the University of Melbourne

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO C / STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION TUTOR: DENNIS PRIOR

Zeitgeist and nostalgia occur simultaneously. Zeitgeist, a city of independence and privacy based on technology and without human interaction has resulted in a condition of loneliness and alienation.

Nostalgia, the state of mind exists as an idealized antithesis to the dehumanized condition of our future city. Zeitgeist is a developing, constantly in a state of flux while Nostalgia is a ‘frozen’ city, resisting change in a permanent state of stasis.

The bridge is a one-way connection from the frozen city of the present to an evolving future. This bridge will work as a facilitator of decision through a series of conditions on the bridge; travelers will be forced to decide between the present and the future. The bridge is a constant reminder of the loneliness and alienation of Zeitgeist, whilst stimulating a longing for Nostalgia.

The bridge consists of various travelling conditions. You start the journey comfortably with space for partner before being directed through a confined space. This narrow oppressive space is surrounded by screens obscuring any visual reference to your position or to your travelling companions. However, when you reach the river, you are deposited into a vast space of chaos. Each of the singular journeys reaches this point in different times and location. You are alone – in a crowd. Therefore this solitude is contemplation on your possible future in Zeitgeist and ever recurring present.

parallel

repetition

we all live somewhere makes dwelling into a habit.

This habit is to a greater or lesser extent personal in nature, however and, it is not a static affair because dwelling is in The fact that

principle a continual redefinition of the city.

Hans Cornelius, ‘Dwelling as a figure of thought’

balaclava

community housing

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO B TUTOR: PAUL WALKER

Community housing is defined as an affordable rental housing that is owned and managed by the local city council. Before any architectural methodology to take its place, it is significant to identify the means of the dweller’s habitation and their adaptation to the context.

The design I have intended from the beginning was to try to regain the fundamental meaning of a house, not a proposition of a new type of residence because the particularity of a house may change depending on the time, location, its occupants and its architect, but its true meaning to an individual remains unchanged. Now days, people live in a mass-produced dwelling with clear differentiation based on the economical state of the dweller. Here, the Balaclava community housing will change the look and the experience of urban space in response to new opportunities. I strongly believe that the behaviour of residents have immediate change towards the dwelling environment and note a critical relation with regard to the immediate surroundings. Accordingly, active social cohesion and sharing facilities have been re-examined in designing the housing.

The series of transition from public to private as travels from the ground to the top floor has been the fundamental concept since the beginning. The linear form of units allow series of intimate streetscape with carefully designed in terms of human scale between the units, yet oriented in a way so that there are enough solar access to the outdoor living area. This streetscape and by opening up the ground floor with programs such as kitchen and dining space allows active habitation of the dwellers into their immediate environment.

At the same time, the units have been arranged vertically so that the dwellers of these small towers of units have opportunities to have views and own private deck. These vertical towers have a transition from public to private space as it moves up. When ground floor becomes open area with public sector, the first floor is a shared space between two units; second and third floor turns completely private area. The in-between levels has been studied, designed and programmed according to the daily routine of a dweller from their arrival to their home.

The means of sharing facilities in community housing has been re-examined in the design. People often find it unwilling to use such largely accommodated sharing facilities and also causes high maintenance problems. Here, the sharing facilities have been minimized and shared kitchen and dining happens only between two units and it can also be seen as housemates but with clear private space definitions of their own. The design will cause a result, the housing process of a dwelling.

Program 01_ community garden 02_ children’s play deck 03_ train waiting area 04_ entrance to train station 05_ community workshop 06_ convenient store 07_ car accessible lane 08_ sports deck 09_ public laundry 10_ extended outdoor living 11_ BBQ area 12_ street parking 13_ new underground access 14_ backyard 15_ public toilet 001_ grass 002_ stone paving 003_ sand 004_ timber deck

Vertical Transition These vertical towers have a

transition from public to private space as it moves up. When ground floor

becomes open area with public sector, the first floor is a shared space between two units; second and third floor turns completely private area. The in-between levels has been studied, designed and

programmed according to the daily routine of a dweller from their arrival to their home.

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Studio bedroom (single storey)

25 units

2.

One bedroom with study (two storeys)

11 units

3.

Two bedrooms 8 units

Dwelling is thus connected in a certain way with ‘thinking’ and ‘image’. In the image, the thinking may be sought, and vice versa. To understand a deeper insight into this, we must make the different perceptions of dwelling a subject of study.

Standardized dwelling creates a distinction between ‘at home’ and ‘a home’, between a house and a place to stay. The moment dwelling becomes mass-produced residential units, the problem of existence and identity re-emerges.

Poetic dwelling seems to be just a memory,

while the modern home, bureaucratized to mere rented property, appears to have failed in freeing society from its classes.

dwelling and architecture have been somersaulting concepts of moral value and sublime beauty.

Dwelling might then be experienced not so much as a mechanistic relationship but more a poetic paradox, thus continuing experiences of existential challenges to uncertainty. In history,

People dwell. It is a primal urge. They dwell in a cave, a tent or a hut. Ultimately their abode on earth was to be called ‘housing’. It has its origins in primitive dwelling. The dwelling is a place of return and departure, the nomad’s endless ritual. When people congregate, they collect dwelling in a housing block, a stronghold, which, together with other dwelling units, makes up the city. The dwelling is a room, where life is lived from birth to death. Man builds architecture of existence. The dwelling depicts architecture as a story: an illustrated story.

Basically,

people are not aware of the fact that they dwell. They withdraw from their conscious and active lives, have a rest, are passive; sometimes they dwell according to the

So we can conclude that the practice of dwelling has become more individual in two respects: firstly as a strategy for standing out in society and secondly as a masquerade of the emotions.

It has moreover,

become an expression of the collective identity.

government’s or the construction market’s idea of dwelling.

Although residents may idealize the green space, particularly after first moving in, they cannot envisage the potential relationship of their home to this exterior space. new occupant of a ground-floor apartment often makes active use of the garden for the first few months, but then gradually abandon it.

This may explain, for example, why a

The partial building of this area with low-rise, multi-functional, multi-interpretable ancillary buildings which relate to the existing buildings and the surrounding space might offer a solution which enhances the relationship between and the dwelling environment and makes it flexible.

We observe a change in the behaviour of residents towards the dwelling environment and note a critical relation with regard to the immediate surroundings.

Because people are no longer bound to a specific place, places are beginning to regain significance as a means of giving shape to lifestyles and identities.

However, that street of identical housing may include different lifestyles.

The question is whether these streets might not indeed has a quality that appeals to a wider range of groups.

The designer can contribute to this by treating the space in a sensitive, poetic way – take into account the fact that residents wish to modify their own dwelling environment or their activities within it.

A dwelling is a result. The result of a housing process.

The last act of this process is that of the occupant who goes to live there.

The act of living there is the only act which makes a dwelling of something.

The house becomes the frame within which the act of dwelling, of living, plays out. The dwelling is the outcome of occupation of the frame; the dwelling is the house (the frame) plus that which the dweller adds by dwelling in the house.

The dwelling is the place where the individual has to manifest his relationship to reality;

it is the place to which he gives a specific elaboration as an expression of his personality. The practice of dwelling is not so much a matter of staying somewhere as of the individual’s constant endeavor to bind himself to the world.

motion

interweave

Voyeurism and narcissism are conflated in a commercial space that thrives on both. The mirror, like the mall, carves out a space floating between inside and outside, reality and unreality. quote from Xianggang shi yan shi er / Laurent Gutierrez, Valérie Portefaix, Laura Ruggeri eds, ‘HK lab 2 : an exploration of Hong Kong interior spaces’, Hong Kong Map Book Publishers

temptation island system crash

Featured in EYES 2007, p028 The University of Melbourne

ADVANCED DESIGN STUDIO A TUTOR: DR. PETER RAISBECK, DR. KAREN BURNS

The title of this design proposal is ‘Temptation Island’, which is located in Seoul, Korea, in the middle of Han River, which is flowing across the entire city. The design proposal for this island is to accommodate programs that are adults themed, or provocative, which seems to be highly conservative in the culture of Korea, at the same time to capture the urban night life of Seoul.

Programs such as love hotel, night clubs, pubs, club X, adult’s gallery spaces and more, are contained in this island. In designing this island, I have thought of terms such as, landmark, because it is located in the middle of the river, I found it significant for the building to become a landmark of the city, and there has been a competition for Seoul Opera House previously. Another was to capture and accommodate the nightlife, and so-called the playscape for young generation in Korea. Activities such as karaoke, internet café, clubs and widely spread around the city, where you find everywhere is full of pubs and places to play around.

The driving concept of this design is exhibitionism and voyeurism. It could be interpreted in a sexual disposition of human. The intention for this concept exhibitionism and voyeurism is in the network of human and circulation within the island.

And this concept results in the design and form where the building ribbons are interweaving and congested. People, audience and the activities are exposed and can be seen from any perspectives. And everywhere you walk or wander around the island, you will immediately have the feeling of ‘being watched’ by others.

The podium design also links and connects the two parts of island across the bridge. The podium design is consisted of flood zone, with consideration in seasonal flooding of Han River. The design is also time based, and to have a dramatic change during the day and night. During the daytime, such façade or building itself is highly closed and reflective, whereas, during the night, these are illuminated and totally transparent for the idea of overlooking.

The design proposal reconnects to the research that has been conducted in the earlier studio. The mappings and diagrams show the urban crime and social misbehavior, in particular, rape, drug use and violence. The common area where such crime was undertaken was between dark alleys, the void area of the city, where you can not be seen from others.

In order to overcome this problem, the concept of exhibitionism and voyeurism were enhanced for the transparency between places, where nothing can be a left over place. The more rules you are forced the more you want to break free. The island now becomes a centre point for such “forbidden” activities in Korea, with more openness and understanding for the conservative Korean culture, which might help to reduce such underground and back door crime which happens deep inside the city.

Program 01_ softscape 02_ hardscape 03_ playscape 04_ karaoke 05_ adults cinema 06_ outdoor amphitheatre 07_ night club 08_ adults bookshop

09_ love hotel lobby 10_ restaurant 11_ bar 12_ adults gallery 13_ lounge 14_ flood area 15_ lagoon 16_ pier 17_ deck

island program Love Hotel + rooms

+ services + lobby/lounge + bar

Traffic + parking

+ pedestrian bridge + services

Leisure + Outdoor cruising + Pool + Hot Spring

Performance + adults cinema

+ porn film studio

Clubs + Pole dancing + Host bar + Rave club

Bang + Karaoke

+ Computer + DVD

composition

lines

What could describe the existing urban condition of Broadmeadow is, the sense of isolation and placelessness which obviously leads to an inactive use of urban space.

proposition 3047 broadmeadows

Featured in EYES 2005, p042 The University of Melbourne

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 4B TUTOR: ADAM PUSTOLA, FANG CHEAU

Ribbon as an architectural element.

This concept allows following strategy overcoming with the problems of existing urban life.

1. Linkage, dynamic movement is to be encouraged by connecting most of the necessary content within the site such as train station, shopping centre and all other sorts of commercial and institutional uses.

Ribbons allow interconnecting these activities in an urban scale as well as in architectural scale.

2. Mix of program, cities are often interpreted as cumulative city, in other words, the mix of program allows convenient lifestyle. We enjoy ‘seeing’ as well as ‘being seen’. These mixes of activities allow interaction between people in different spaces. This concept is our future desire of urban life.

3. Intensity, future development is a vital consideration in the urban planning of Broadmeadow.

Hence, as a design concept, intensity is created where ribbons are intersecting.In other words, it means of high density. This allows high rise development for such residential uses.

Medium density plan

Residential: 300 units Office/commercial: +4,500~8,640 sqm Retail: +33,105 sqm Entertainment: little Business service: little Community service: little Transport: little

High density plan

Residential: 1300 units Office/commercial: +22,500~43,200 sqm Retail: +12,000 sqm Entertainment: dependent Business service: dependent Community service: dependent Transport: dependent

residential tower connection/bridge to train station continuation of ribbon into the existing shopping centre multi-storey carpark landscape/surface extrusion

texture

pattern

City is experience by streets, parks, retails, cafes, galleries, and many others which are known as public spaces. All these urban spaces connect the individuals into the community.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 4A TUTOR: MARTIN MUSIATOWICZ

In this project, I concentrated on the flexibility of the diverse range of spaces according to the time.

City is experience by streets, parks, retails, cafes, galleries, and many others which are known as public spaces. All these urban spaces connect the individuals into the community.

By creating series of public spaces, it result the vague in dichotomy (public and private, exterior and interior, building and site). Different sizes of courtyards are designed in accordance to the diverse range of clients. It is the control of privacy and intimacy.

movement

solid

The possibilities are endless.

Nothing is concrete.

And all that Solid will melts into Air. all that isfaster solid melts into air and bigger

Shortlisted, ‘faster and bigger’ international student design competition

by Space magazine, Korea

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION

The world is a changing place, so are our lives. It is rapidly transforming in every aspect. However, our built environment is incapable of supporting the ‘faster’ boom, but rather staying remained. Collective housing has become almost inevitable but essential to accommodate striking rise of a ‘bigger’ population.

Asian cities clearly represent the current situation. In particular, the only solution to the soaring demand of housing problem was to build apartments as mass structures. The statistics have proved us 60% of the population in Korea lives in apartments. However, this form of collective housing has resulted in standardization and loss of identity.

Most residents are somehow forced to fit in their lives into the generic and identical plans of apartments. As a side effect, we have become individualistic, often excessively private and isolated from the public without any provision of communal spaces. Distrust and fear are often generated.

Every city, apartment, floor, and even our identity have become undistinguishable only except the different unit number and addresses. It is a non-place where nothing can be remembered nor recognized. The future living, however, must be in the expression of identities.

As a consequence, our proposal will respond to adopt these ‘faster and bigger’ changing of needs while providing a better human environment with enriched lifestyle.

rotation

threshold

new form of urbanism that is dynamic and flexible, capable of anticipating and accommodating the broad range of activities, of an urban threshold

town and gown

the university of melbourne

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3B TUTOR: MARJAN CEHOVIN

Urban threshold- an invitation to the University of Melbourne The initial concept was conceived to capture the attraction from the very first arrival at the campus. Then the focus was to establish a new form of urbanism which is dynamic and flexible, capable of anticipating and accommodating the broad range of activities within students and professors. The social cohesion between the town and gown, students and professors is to be enhanced by accommodating diversity of activities. This network was the key source to develop programs and volumes of this design.

enclosure

symmetry

The urbanism of Beijing is undergoing rapid modernization and transformation which

destroys the traditional urban texture. bookbeijing centre in beijing and urbanism

Featured in EYES 2005, p028 The University of Melbourne

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN 3A TUTOR: JIANFEI ZHU

The urbanism of Beijing is undergoing rapid modernization and transformation which destroys the traditional urban texture. Beijing urbanism of today can be described as bold and brazen, which increasingly become unrecognizable. The new Beijing has set out systematically to destroy the old hutongs. It is funny and chaotic with least environmental friendly materials in China.

However, earlier research of Beijing urbanism has brainstormed the design concept of new book centre. Beijing should encourage an urbanism of maximized flexibility, openness, spontaneity and interaction between people and environment. Within the ‘centre’ itself has to encourage dynamic movement between people and community. Social and cultural life of citizens of Beijing was an inspiration of the earlier concept. Thus, it was in order to create the environment friendly space for local users which respects human scale and distribution of height. It promotes the movement of users by conveying internal passage and courtyard to select several experiences as well as creating the ‘in-between’ spaces of urban fabric.

Planning of the centre is in respecting the idea of enclosed city and typical representation of girded streets based on square courtyard. It reconstructs the courtyard structure backed up against semi-blind wall and opening onto a garden-like court, the traditional sanctuary of Chinese family life. This element was used to initiate new conception. And it also respect to the earlier proposal masterplan.

Differing from European approach, where facades onto street or city square corresponded with citizen’s aspirations and social standing, the Chinese type of building was marked by privacy and introspection. This characteristic was reinforced in the design. At the same time, the design also approaches semi-openness to the outside of the bookshop. It encourages people to freely select and explore their own experience in the town connecting between hutongs, public space and courtyard.

reflection

limitless

and this is only a beginning

to be continued...