PORTFOLIO OF FU MENGSHI FOR THE APPLICATION TO ARCHITECTURAL & URBAN DESIGN PROGRAM THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
FU MENGSHI Gender: Female Date of Birth: Oct. 26, 1993 Contact Number: +86 18868190657 Email Address: fumengshi71@gmail.com
EDUCATION BACKGROUND Sept. 2012 – Jun. 2017
Zhejiang A & F University Bachelor of Engineering GPA:3.37/5
PROFESSION Major Minor
Architecture International Economy and Trading
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS Sept. 2012– Jun. 2013 Jun. 2014 – Jun. 2015
School Elite League Cadres Excellent President
ACADEMIC COMPETITION 2015 2015 2016 2016
Yoyu Cup Competition in Bamboo Space Design Makerspace in UA City UIA-HYP Cup International Student Competition in Architectural Design Honorable Mention Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for Students
WORKSHOP Jul. 2015 – Jul. 2015 Jul. 2016 – Sept. 2016
Chinese Traditional Architecture Surveying&Mapping Spatial Weaving
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Jul. 2014 – Aug. 2014 Jan. 2016 – Mar. 2016
Zhejiang Lvcheng Oriental Architectural Design Participated in a project of a club design CCTN Took part in the construction drawing of Fuyang Science and Technology Cultural Center Modify brick wall combination of Shangyu Museum
SOFTWARE SKILLS Rhinoceros,Grasshopper,Auto CAD,Sketchup,Vray for sketchup, Adobe Photoshop,Adobe Illustrator,Adobe Indesign
LANGUAGE English,Chinese(Mandarin)
PROLOGUE Every time I see the advertisements, the variety shows, the reality shows, the movies, or even the MV, I found that they were tend to adopt some magnificent and distinctive buildings as the background. It is so interesting that the architecture not just gives play to its original function, but also presents a beautiful landscape to bring people the feeling of cheerful and full of hope, as well as the huge positive effects on the surrounding environment. This is why I choose Architecture Design as my future major that it not only effects on landscape, but also effects on people mentally and physically. Holding the aim in my mind, I grasped valuable opportunities to train myself, such as the academic competitions, internships, and extracurricular activities. The undergraduate career and internships deepened my thoughts in architecture. Architectural space is involved broadly with more elements, such as the epidermis, structure, material, or even, landscape, plants and external sky that they constantly carry out communications and interactions with each other. All the elements integrate, infuse and echo with each other to convey a certain feeling or to give viewers an eye-feast. Thus, the good architecture should be people-oriented that in the perspective of people to create a space to fulfill people and environment’s needs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 CITY CEMETERY Make cemetery a hopeful park 2016 UIA-HYP Cup International Student Competition in Architectural Design Honorable Mention
02 MIXED-FUNCTIONS BLOCK FOR SPORTS Search for a blance of interior living space and exterior sport space
03 PUBLIC GREEN CANOPY Solve the problem of city-flooding with green creation
04 CENTRAL GREEN OFFICE Insert vertical green into general office buildings
05 OTHER WORKS
01 CITY CEMETERY 2016 UIA-HYP Cup International Student Competition in Architectural Design Honorable Mention Site:Sendai, Japan Team Member:Wang Shenjia Role in Team:Conceptual Design,Architectual Representation,Technical Drawing A big earthquake stuck the coast of Japan at 14:46 JST on March 11,2011.The earthquake triggered powerful tsunami waves that reached heights of up to 40.5 metres and in the Sendai area, traveled up to 10 km inland.A Japanese National Police Agency report confirmed 228,863 people living away from their home in either temporary housing or due to permanent relocation. Now survivors are in need of a place to memory their disappeared home.In my mind,Japanese are ethnic group walking between light and shadow.They enjoy panic and get energy from it rather than escape.The emotion is restrained and veiled. But the earthquake was so tragic so I mean to create a memory for vanished city indirectly instead of dead people.
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Cemetery in Japan Cemery in Japan is real common.People build cemery just besides their houses.The relationship between home and cemery is excellently harmonious. According to above phenomenon,we plan to design a "City Cemetery" for homeless people to memory.But homeless people should not be immersed in sadness.So we put the "cemetery" under the ground and design a park on the ground in order to arouse people's hope.
Earthquake Intensity in Japan MORIOKA SENDAI FUKUSHIMA
M9 depth approx,24km (provisional value)
TOKYO Intensity 7
OSAKA NAGOYA HIROSHIMA
Intensity 6 Upper Intensity 6 Lower Intensity 5 Upper Intensity 5 Lower Intensity 4 Intensity 3
This map shows the ground motion and shaking intensity from the earthquake at dozens of locations across Japan. The circle appears to run parallel to the offshore subduction trench, with the intensity decreasing more from east to west, as opposed to north and south. Ground motion also seems to be more intense in coastal and riverine areas,among which Sendai suffered almostly most strong earthquake.
Vanished City Texture 14:46,March 11,2011
site
Concept
We choose a site between urban and countryside in Sentai.After tsunami,large number of houses were damaged and quite a lot homeless people move to the region around the site. In an unfamiliar environment,people have a damand of memory.So we extract the texture of vanished city,and then put it into the site to reproduce living environment,which people are familiar with.
Geometry Concept house
flooded
destoryed
invert the house
trees on the house
scale
people in the house
Thousands of houses were ruined by the earthquake and tsunami,resulting in large amount of homeless people. When reproducing the scene of ruined city,we invert the house and put it under the ground,meanwhile planting trees on the ground to create a park.
Development of House Texture
site of 30mx60m
devide the site into grids
add small house and remove house to form open space according roads
rotate one road to form flexible house texture
make grids strewn at random
make small change to respond to local texture
Underground Floor Plan 0
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Sections and Perspective
Section with Construction Detail
Underground Rendering These inverted "houses" could arouse the memory of homeless people.We provide several ways to get into the "house" for people to re-experience the scenes in their houses with family.There are various species of plants in the pits,meaning the sadness will be replaced by the new life.
02 MIXED-FUNCTIONS BLOCK FOR SPORTS 2016 Block Planning with a Landscape Student Site:Adelaide, Australia Team Member:Wang Shenjia Role in Team:Site Analysis,Conceptual Design,Architectual Representation In modern cities,high-rise is common and different functions are divided clearly,which make our living environment larger.And I think it is an inefficient way to live to some extent. Maybe we could put forward a new mode to live in a block scale.In this block,buildings are mixed-function so as to people could do most they want to just in distance of the block. Meanwhile,more and more high-rise and high density city keep people away from sports in nature.And after the site survey,we found it is in demand of a block for sports enthusiasts.So we put a sports system into the block and link buildings with continuous roads to provide a new lifestyle for sports enthusiasts.
City Texture and Site Location The site is located in Hindley Street in Adelaide’s North city. This proposal aims to create more outdoor sports space in CBD, and retain the cultural identity of Australian historical buildings. It will benefit the people who love sports, including athletes, sportsmen, gymnasium coach, sports fans, or just the one who loves to watch football games.
Original Evelation and Functions
Geometric Genealogy Retail Outlet:21112.5m²
Residential Apartment:35187.5m²
Entertainment Complex:14075m²
Office Building:14075m²
Education Environment:7037.5m²
Public Recreation Space:14075m²
Exploded Axon Diagram
Perspective of Three Diffrent Views The buildings are divided into small parts in order to create more roof areas. The roofs are used as different sports courts. There are ramps connecting each roofs as the horizontal circulation. The ramps can also be the track for jogging, running or skateboard through the roofs different levers.
Ground Floor
Retained Facade
Original Site
Concept It addresses the lack of outdoor sports area in city center. It provides roof sports courts on different levels and connecting by running track. The cores with elevators and stairs are also the part of building structure as the main columns.
Longitudinal Section and Functions The building fabric and facades retain some historical building facades at the site as well as some other historical buildings in Australia, to create a cultural identity street in Adelaide city.
Public Recreation Place & Residential Apartment Cinema Theater - Gathering Spaces Game Room - Shared Dining Room
Retail Outlet & Entertainment Complex Maket - Event Place Book Store - Cafe Liquid Store - Bar
Residential Apartment & Entertainment C Apartment - Birthday Party
Office Buildings & Residential Apartment Independent Studio - Living Room Internet Business - Bedroom
Complex
Education & Residential Apartment Personal Training Classes - Bedroom Art Classes - Living Room
Office Building & Public Recreation Place Office - Skateboard Ramp
Retail Outlet & Residential Apartment Housewares' Market - Gathering Space Online Store - Bedroom
03 PUBLIC GREEN CANOPY 2016 Urban Design in Studio Architecture Design VI Site:Hangzhou,China Individual Work Hangzhou is a modern as well as traditional city in south China with typhoon and a plenty of water every spring.Because of hilly terrain in Hangzhou,this characteristic always results in flooding in city and villages,seriously making huge trouble to people. In order to solve the problem,I plan to put two canopy above where is lower,absorbing and collecting rainwater through green. According to the load-bearing structure and the roads,I decided two big roofs where to touchdown and where to arch. For lighting I opened the round holes on roofs.At the same time holes create a space for the growth of trees. In order to attract people to reside,I arranged for different types of buildings under the roof and connect the various green points with wooden floor.
Public Green Site Topography Low-lying areas have a lot of water in the annual rainy season,and bring a great deal of distress to people’s traveling. There is a big height difference in this plan venue itself. So,how to solve the surface water in the creation of public green at the same time is a good point to start.
rainwater flow to lo
Site Information
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ow-lying areas
raise low-lying areas
distorte surface by traffic and structure
make holes to lighting and plant trees
public green
office construction area: 178313.7m²
train station construction area: 9467.4m²
commerce construction area: 653293.0m²
residence construction area: 315295.5m²
school construction area: 16145.8m²
Public Green Rendering In the creation of two public green,must be considered is the relationship between large-scale arch and architecture.So I created spaces which features associated with the surrounding architecture.Green and buildings are blend with each other.
Plant Species Layout
spring winter
summer
fall
four seasons pool hydrophilic plants
spring----february lan,canola flower,tulip,vcherry blossoms,begonia summer----iris,lotus,magnolia,Huangshan luan tree fall----sapindus,ginkgo winter----camphor,osmanthus,purple cabbage four seasons----Huangshan luan tree,february lan hydrophilic plants---lagerstroemia,lotus,begonia
Sections of Public Green
subway
planting soil non-woven filter layer plastic stereotypes resistant to the root hydrophobic layer asphalt paper isolation layer flexible waterproofing layer fine stone concrete for slope and leveling layer structural panel manhole cover
angle iron foam rod toughened ribbed glass tempered glass structural adhesive weathering plastic U-shaped groove
water outlet
pneumatic machine
water storage tank
subway
planting soil fine - grained reinforced concrete asphalt paper isolation layer flexible waterproofing layer fine stone concrete for slope and leveling layer structural panel
cement mortar paste decorative brick latex cement mortar cement mortar leveling layer self - waterproofing concrete slab
pebble
latex cement slurry construction joint
water outlet
pneumatic machine
transport water water storage tank
subway
04 CENTRAL GREEN OFFICE 2016 High-rise Design in Studio Architecture Design VI Site:Hangzhou,China Individual Work Nowadays busy people spend more time in office,having no time enjoying nature.Under the big working pressure,office workers have a request of touching green. Here I choose a high-rise as a representative office building in my project of urban design to attempt my idea. The building is in the middle of main road and public green. In the center of the building,I design a verticle green in order to create connection sbetween people and nature.Then according to the scale of people and leisure space,I put forward several typology of branches to develop the shape of central green.
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Geometric Genealogy
original geometric
central core
separate core to get more view
extend green into the office
lower the height to increase under-lighting
Core Space Genealogy
centeral green
open the green to make interaction with people
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Site I choose an office building to do my experiment. The building is in the middle of two piece of public green.So how to bring the green into the building is the problem to solve in this project.
create branches to get deep into the office
open branches to make more interaction
Branches Typology Prototype and Genealogy
4.0m 0.5m
3.0m 1.0m
2.0m 1.5m
2.0m
1.0m
Central Green Genealogy
more walking space less outdoor views
from low to high
less walking space more outdoor views
Axon Rendering and Plan
Central Green Rendering According to demand of light and water,I put five species of plants into the core from low-level to high-level. Defferent plants present diverse scenes with changeable core wall.
Section and Plants
more light
campsis
green radish
parthenocissus
fern
moss
less light
Recycled Water Construction Detail irrigation and fertilization routes
planting range
catchment and drainage sump system control box arc beam system control box irrigation and fertilization routes catchment and drainage sump
Planting Construction Detail arc beam
irrigation pipeline
plant growing bags
verticle green wall
system keel antirust fixing nails waterproof board plant growing bags cotton planting
base system layer
selected plants
catchment and drainage sump primary filtration layer deep filtration layer drainage filter layer drainage hole reserved drain pipe interface
05 OTHER WORKS
Chinese Traditional Architecture Surveying&Mapping 2015 Summer Intership in Studio Architecture Surveying&Mapping Site:Zhuji,China Team Member:Yang Liuyi,Yang Jie,Shen Liyuan,Gao Chen,Wu Zeqiang Role in Team:Mapping,Photography,Architectual Representation
Vertical Green Commercial Complex 2016 Complex Design in Studio Architecture Design VI Site:Lin’an,Zhejiang Individual Work section 1
Qingshan Reservoir
a scenic spot of Qingshan Lake
section 2
Zhejiang A&F University site
site section 3
section 4
Yingbin Park
natural river and public greenfield
Mausoleum of Qian Wang
Gongcheng Park
People's Square
section 5
site national highway
texture of roads provincial road
site
contour lines
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downtown of Lin'an
satellite imagery
The Gate of the Moon 2015 Yoyu Cup Competition in Bamboo Space Design Site:Hangzhou,China Team Member:Li Weike,Zhang Xingchunzhi Role in Team:Preliminary Research,Concept Development,Representation
Shape Flexible Space through Modeling Sand 2016 Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for Students Team Member:Wang Shenjia Role in Team:Conceptual Design,Architectual Representation
Borderless Business 2015 Makerspace in UA City Competition Site:Guangzhou,China Team Member:Lai Xiangzhu,Wu Zeqiang Role in Team:Concept Development,Station Design and Rendering
Shadow Art:Time and Material 2016 Summer Work in Workshop Spatial Weaving Team Member:Jin Fan Role in Team:Conceptual Design,Representation
Drawings
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME SPECIAL THANKS TO MY FAMILY