Urban Design Portfolio by Vivian Gao

WIN THE DIMENSION PORTFOLIO-URBAN DESIGN JIAWEI GAO/ 2009-2016

JIAWEI GAO vivian6012622@gmail.com Washington University in St. Louis

ALL EXPERIENCE BEGIN

content Academic Work

01. Wandering in the Xuan paper Factory 02. Maplewood Energy 03. Tuning the Inner City 04. Network City

Professional Practice 01. Convention Line

Global Practical Work 01. Hijack

Other Work

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Project 01 /Academic Work

WANDERING IN THE XUAN PAPER RED STAR XUAN PAPER FACTORY URBAN DESIGN Type: Urban regeneration & Landscape Site Location: Jingxian, China Duration: 2013 Sept.-Nov. Tutor: Associate Professor. Kangkang Gu Teamwork: With Yuepeng Bao Role: Chief Designer & Group Leader Introduction: The area of the industry of Xuan paper is designed as a industril relic park. With the development of city cultivation, I manage to change the open space of the Xuan Paper industry into an art & cultural park, in order to create a good ecological environment and a nice leisure activities place. I insert the history of the industry into the design.

Attracting new sellers to operate souvenirs in order to increase the commercial value of the land.

Xuancheng City

Exhibition

1.Old workshop 2 . B a c k w a r d function

Functions of workshops n e e d re p l a c e a n d re integrate.

Showing the rice paper culture and experiencing the paper production process.

Park

Planting native plants and re-connecting open space for building a ecological park.

Transforming Offices into tourist reception centers and meeting the needs of scenic spots.

Environment Analysis

Huizhou Dwellings

Demolition Analysis

Reconstruction Strategies

Workshop

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MOUNTAIN RIVER

Workshop Workshop

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Rice Paper Museum

Recombination

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Reconstruction of abandoned factories into creative studios, increasing many possibilities of site.

1.Local features have been suppressed 2.Lack of culture

Rice paper culture and local features.need to show.

TOURIST ROUTE

Commercial

Studio

Jing County

Cultural

Reception Center

1.open space lack systematic 2.oneness of plants

Open spaces need to integrate and reconnected.

RIVER

Boiler Room Bath Room

Chimney

Displacement

Boiler Room

RIVER

Lan d

Dining Room

sca p

Office

RIVER

MOUNTAIN

Scenic Spot Revolutionary Relic

Ecological

MOUNTAIN

Reconstruction

Baishui Lane

Demolition

ECOLOGICAL STRATEGIES Theatrical Stage

Scenic Spot

SITE

Due to pollution and poor quality of land, plant diversity and land suitability has defects. Taking the cross cultivation and intensive farming to improve the ecosystem.

Native Plants

Ecological Evaluation OPTIMUM 100M

Bamboo

Mound

Tea tree

Slope

Kapok

Ground

Osmanthus

100%

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25M H2o

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100%

Underground

N PROBLEMS Parking

The Museum Experience

GENERAL LAYOUT Ecological Spot

Recreation

River

Mountain

The Experience Museum

water

To let people know the process of the production of Xuan Paper.

Manual Operation

Studio

Ecological Area

River

Ecological Spot

Community

To change the environment of the factory.

Plaza

Mountain

Studio

River With the development of city cultivation, I manage to change the open space of the Xuan Paper industry into art & cultural park, in order to create a good ecological environment and a nice leisure activities place. I insert the history of the industry into the design. The city is in the mountainous area, the main axis of the project should comply with the shape of the mountain.

For working

Recreation

River Bridge

Chimney

Central Park

Community Bridge

Entertainment

Plaza

River

Factory

Waterfront

Recreation

Exhibition Hall Exhibit history of Xuan Paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culture.

Entrance

Plaza

Bridge

Mountain

Walking Platform Mostly for people to wander in the park.

Leisure Area

SCHEME GENERATION A distinctive characteristic of Xuan paper, you can never gain a wrinkle even though you rub it. And if I open a dozen of Xuan paper, I would see a beautiful wave through its section. I took the wave as a clue to link the whole area.

Offering resterant and hotel condition for visitors.

Factory

The Visitor Center Offering info. about the park.

Waterfront Area People can contact with the r iver and enjoy some entertainments.

Mountain

River

Open my Xuan paper, get a wave

Use the wave to reshape the section

Entrance

Change the outline of the wave into a quantized form

Link the important nodes with the f orm, gain our main axis

Functional Structure Analysis

Green Space Analysis

Landscape Pattern Analysis

Activity Spots Link Analysis

ARCHITECTURAL FORM

Shear

Paroel

Push

Insert

Connect

Through

Mosaic

ROAD LANDSCAPE According to different type and width of the road, there will be various landscape forms and plants designed belong the platform. I choose to show several types to tell some details of the platform.

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A-A: Planting double tall tree in order to provide ample vertical space of the raod landscape.

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MODEL

B C

B-B: Planting multi-layer of the plants is a good way to broaden the diversitiy of the road landscape. C-C: Using several brushes to create a cozy environment, espacially for private space.

The model help me to get a more direct sense of the relationship between the space. I can use several environmental material to achieve this goal, and model is a good way to practice our handson skills. Besides, model can reflect my process of the design, which is convinient for me to revise my design. With the model, I can better understand the main axis of the design and can clearly see the abundence of the space.

D-D: Trying to use different plants to arrange more colors into landscape, to create a colorful environment no matter in which season of the year.

A-A MAIN ROAD

B-B SECONDARY ROAD

C-C PATH ROAD

D-D LANDSCAPE ROAD

Project 02 /studio individual work

Maplewood energy PROTECTION AND RENEWAL OF INDUSTRIAL FIELD Type: Urban Regeneration & Design Site Location: St. Louis, MO Duration: Oct.-Dec. 2015 Tutor: Professor. Patric Heyda individual work Introduction: The design is about the public space and industrial area in Maplewood, which is trying to bring the life and nature back to people. This project connects the indoors with the outdoor space.

THE EXTENT OF MESSED UP

LEGEND

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cultural axis

green space

plaza axis

redesign area

park axis

office

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metrolink

main street

bus stop

minor street

underground parking lot

pedenstrain

metro line

bike line

parking-lot

LEGEND

key spot visibility axis

water space axis

LOCATION The site is located in Maplewood, a district in St. Louis. There are many industrial elements existing around the site. Such as: towers, electronic lines and big boxes.

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Project 03 /Competition Project

TUNING THE INNER CITY CREAT A BETTER DIMENSIONAL ENVIRONMENT FOR WALKING Type: Transportation Innovation Competition College Student Technology Project Innovation Site Location: Hefei, Anhui, China Duration: 2013 Jan.-Dec. Tutor: Associate Professor. Kangkang Gu Teamwork: With Rongrong Gao, Yanhui Ma, Yaping Yu Role: Chief Designer & Group Leader Abstract: The walkability of a city is an important manifestation of the livability of its citizen life. Ameliorating the environment of the pedestrian system would have a profound effect on the improvement of the livability in urban ecology. Based on field research and pedestrians’ experience of sound environment in inner city of Hefei, this article mainly studies the pedestrian system of inner city of Hefei. The article clearly points out the problems of pedestrian system of inner city of Hefei. It comes up with the idea to cut down the noise on the road and add diverse sound environment in order to control the volume in the pedestrian system and shape the landscape of sound. This would furthermore promote the efficiency of the pedestrian system, ameliorate the pedestrian traffic system and finally promote the walkability of the inner city of Hefei. Keywords: walkability; efficiency; acoustic-environment; sound &light control

Background and theories

1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory Human needs: Physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs and self-actualization needs Therefore, the demand for pedestrian environment is not only satisfied with the security, but also need a comfortable and rich visual and auditory walking environment. 2. Slow Traffic Walking+ bicycle+ bus

10%

32%

58%

satisfied

dissatisfied

Research object --the reason why we do the subject： The public basically dissatisfied the pedestrian environment --the reason why we choose the acoustical environment as the subject： The main factor affects pedestrian is the acoustical environment, so it is a important way to improve the walkability of the inner city.

general satisfaction

satisfaction with the environment

Research significance Attracting people and improve the efficiency of the pedestrian space usage in order to become a choice for more pedestrian. 1. improve the walkability of inner city 2. reduce the potential physical damage to pedestrian 3. create more attractive pedestrian environment

satisfaction with the environment

The innovation measures Investigation and analysis 1.Field research 1)the choice of the spots: Urban roads and urban branch road at intervals of about 500 meters of fabric a test point, the Huancheng road every 1000 meters of fabric a test point.

minor road main road Huancheng Road

Distribution survey points in the inner city

1. Add voice (1) Space type classification Accessibility is a decisive factor in dividing the space type. There are three spatial type: A. public space ( square, park, market, pedestrian commercial mall, transportation hubs); B. institutional space ( city temple, special square, school plaza); C. semi-public space ( lively street, living area).

2)survey period: 06: 30-08: 30; 14: 30-16: 30; 18: 30-20: 30. Select the peak of the day people Pedestrian hours to conduct research. 3)survey method: A. measuring volume: read the mean (dB) every 3 minutes in the period with a decibel meter. B. distinguish the results between weekdays and The North Scenic

others birdsong business activity

residential space

construction transportation wind music

affection extent

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attention extent

the attention and affection extent of all kinds of sounds

2. Problems and analysis 1)The high volume in the pedestrian space; 2)The low awareness on the damage of sound for the public; 3)The lack of attractive acoustic space;

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(2) the selection of points The aim is to choose the points need to be active, reshaped, and joined. Through the shape of acoustic landscape, we can complete the quality of the acoustic environment and balance the public space network. In this way, it can add the appealing of the pedestrian environment.

Anhui Museum Bao’s Park Heichiba Scenic

City Plaza

Anhui Grand Theatre East Commercial Area West Mountain Scenic

birdsong business activity

4)The large proportion of traffic noise.

the location of the multiple sound environment

construction transportation wind music

proportion of dislike

chat

proportion of sound

the proportions of the current sound type

line A in Figure 4 is for the state motor vehicle lanes and walking trails for the volume control standards, also the largest of the appropriate body functions decibels bear. line B in Figure 4 is for the human body can withstand the maximum sound psychological decibels.

2. Reduce voice (1) Reduce the traffic noise · The establishment of the Audible and Visual Control System

Develop monitoring volume standard data loaded Decibel Meter

· The limit of the noisy activity: 6:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

link control Light Alarm

(2) Reduce other noise · Use green plants more effectively; Choose proper tree species, the tree density, and the plants width, which can help absorb the sonic. · Abandon the PA equipment in the store, appropriately reduce the business noise. · Limit the industrial and constructive activity in a certain time.

Volume of human bodily functions influence diagrams

Intends to comparison chart of survey data

Instant volume is higher than the standard volume

Instant volume is lower than the standard volume

open

Reduce unnecessary whistle and slow down the rate

Audible and Visual Control System Operation Flowchart

Project 04 /Graduation Project

NETWORK CITY RENEWAL AND URBAN DESIGN OF OLD CITY BLOCK Type: Urban Regeneration & Design Site Location: Hefei, Anhui, China Duration: 2014 March.-June. Tutor: Prof. Jinlong Chu & Associate Prof. Lunliang Li Teamwork: With Qin Wang Role: Chief Designer & Group Leader Publication: copyright c 2014 China Building Industry Press Introduction: The design is about the public space and historical block of a modern city, the designer tries to preserve the old city temple block, combine the modern people commercial activities with it by using the network to organize the elements of urban design. With this method, the design can add the diversities to the urban space. With the special perspective of the design, we can offer a more multi-dimensional space than just from spots collections or lines organization.

RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

NETWORK CITY

01 THE BASE OVERVIEW PART

THE OVERVIEW OF THE BASE Hefei is located in Anhui province, China. It is close to several water system, it acrosses Yangtze River and Huai River, it has been the important research and education base, the manufacturing base and the regional transport hub of China. Hefei is one of the most important cities in Yangtze River region and is also one of the delta cities of Yangtze River, which has a strong accessbility of transportation. The most part of the base is the historical district. The characteristic is the Huizhou achitecture in the base. The strategy tries to preserve and renew the texture of these Huizhou architecture. The texture reflects on the elements of the Huizhou Architecture, the space between the yard, and the street appearence. The survey is led from the human activities and based on the street space.

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The inner city is located in the middle of Hefei, the base's development direction follows the inner city and the northern city, for the southwest, the base will link to the business circle of pedestrail street. The trendency of the base development shows a certain potential to creat a network city. It contains several layers, including transpor tation system, landscape system and so on.

THE HISTORICAL LINE OF THE CITY TEMPLE

北宋皇帝寺庙建造

清咸丰毁于战火

20世纪80年代改造兴起

20世纪90年代商业衰败

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RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

THE PECTINATION OF THE RESOURCES

NETWORK CITY

02 THE DESIGN CONCEPT PART

Green Belt Xing Hua Park

West Silky Bao Ancient Park Land- Park Ferry-place scape

Black lake

Historical Line Ming Former City Bao Ancient Ferry-place Temple residence Temple Park

Famous Site

Mountain Fashion Famous Pedes- City Square Site train Park Street

New developed Place

of celebrities

BUSINESS CIRCLE

Leisure Line

CBD

GREEN SPOTS

THE DESIGN CONCEPT STEPS First, city may extend through the realization of twodimensional network of urban space carrier with threedimensional space-level home diversity.

Second, the two-dimensional plane can extent without limit, the key method to cultivate the function of the city spots and the open space is to strengthen the close link between the inner resource and the information spot. Because of this, it is the best method to distribute the valued spots on the two-dimensional city network.

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Finally, we can get a more diversity of urban space through stacking different levels of two-dimensional networks in vertical.

The resources around the base are abundant and cross several business circles. The famous city park-- Huancheng Park is named as a jewlery necklace. It circles the whole inner city, which offers a good opportunity to open the green spot around.

THE OVERLAPPING OF CONCEPT The overlapping of different planes can help creat a abundant city space, which realize the accessbility between various elements of the urban design. Through regulating the height of the buildings in the area, the appearance of the place can be controled.

open space height of the building green park road system Based on the survey of the resources around the site, I classified the resources into four kinds: 1.openning space; 2.green spots; 3.road system; 4.height of the buildings

RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

NETWORK CITY

03 THE SCHEME GENERATION PART

THE OPEN SPACE NETWORK Through the network of the road system and the open space, it formed a network system. This contributes to combine the historical relics and the business blocks well.

THE GREEN SPOT NETWORK The city green system is the key point to form a green network. Besides, adding the green network above the road system achieves the high quality of the environment of the slow city.

THE ROAD SYSTEM NETWORK The basic plane of the network city is the road system. Combining the water system and the road system can improve the transpotation environmental quality.

THE FLEXIBLE HEIGHT NETWORK The building texture of the old city has played a very imortant role on regulating the appearance of the inner city, which can form a Flexible Height Network.

RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

NETWORK CITY

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NETWORK CITY 05 THE ANALYSIS PART

THE ANALYSIS CHART OF THE DESIGN

DISCRIPTION OF THE MAIN AXIS

This page contains several analysis charts about the design. These charts show how the network works in the base and how the network organize in horizonal and vertical dimensions. All these organizations is creating a multi-dimensional city space.

The analysis on the bottom of the page is showing a tourist a touring line in one of the travel line at different time in the day. It shows that where to start, where to rest and where to end up the journey.

CULTURAL TOURISM EXPERIENCE CHAIN

RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

NETWORK CITY

06 THE HISTORICAL NODE PERSPECTIVE PART

RENOVATION METHODS ABOUT THE ROADS

WALK

CO2

RENOVATION METHODS ABOUT THE SPACE

THE RENEWAL ENTRANCE PERSPECTIVE Add the landscape and culture function into the building, active the space.

Open the monotone space, to conjuct the commercial culture nodes.

THE MAIN RENEWAL PERSAVATION PERSPECTIVE

THE RENEWAL ACADEMY PERSPECTIVE

RENEWAL OF OLD CITY BLOCK

NETWORK CITY

07 THE WHOLE PERSPECTIVE PART

Project 01 /Professional Work

CONVENTION LINE PROTECTION AND RENEWAL OF HISTORICAL BLOCK Type: Urban Regeneration & Design Site Location: Xixi'nan, China Duration: 2012 July.-Oct. Tutor: Professor. Jinlong Chu Teamwork: With Yanhui Ma & Rongguo Gao Role: Chief Designer & Group Leader Introduction: The design is about the public space and historical block of Xixi'nan, a historical village in Huangshan, China. With the special perspective of "line" along the old street, We try to renewal the small village and let it open to outside visitors by inserting interesting corner and valuable courtyard.

BEHAVIOR AMONG LINES

SITE ANALYSIS Lines are everywhere in Huangshan alley district. people walk on the lines; play or stay among the l i n e s . L i n e s a re wh e re behavior happens.

Huangshan is an old city of AnHui province. This site is located in Xixinan village which is important historical village in ancient Huizhou district.However,with the urbanization of morden society, troditional texture of this village is destroying as well as the living environmen of local residents. In order to change this kind of situation,the local government decided to reconstruct the historical block to revival the local culture so as to attract more tourists.It's not only improve the living environment of local residents, but also improve the local economic income.At the same time ,through the historical block people will have better understand of Huizhou

WALK

METHODS

PRESERVATION BY SPOTS

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Huangshan is an old city,It can be discerned that the history of Huangshan's layout is somehow the history of lines' change.Lines carry the city's memory

structure

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culture.

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Qing's Huangshan

structure

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Line 3 Previous seperate lines

desiroyed house Line 3

M o r d e n Huangshan

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LOCAL

Line 1 historical joint will remain

historical block will impactly remain

structure will miss

unnecessar y houses will remain

PROS

valueable houses along the lines can be preserved meanwhile,unvalueable ones will be tare down to give place to activities

Mixed multifunctional lines

+ Alley

Courtyarde

Ma Tau Wall

Lines and element

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The target of urban design in traditional district is to hand down its context.In this programme, lines are plcked up as a tool to demostrate the area's characteristic and history. Lines here mean circulation of dailylife behavior in courtyard, circulation of tourism,commercial linear, also flow of time.The strategy of it is to identify lines ,then to adujust lines ,finally to add and mix lines,so as to improve the living standard and to prmote its development,making the district vigorious and paradise for living.

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Architectural Construction

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Lines In Lines Countryard In Countryard Fold Line NO.1 Fold Line NO.1

Fold Line NO.2 Fold Line NO.2

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Lines In Lines Cute Spot In Cute andSpot Charming and Charming Corner Corner

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THE SPECIFIC METHODS Strategies of Lines Through the design, i add new lines to complete the pedestrians system to improve the connection among

cute spots,courtyards,history architectures and finally all these space elements can have Mixing all the chaming lines corners, to improve the continuous experience strong connection with the main street.In this way ,tourists can experice every corner of this block and have of better understand of its history and culture.At the same time it also reinforce the relationship betweet local residents to establish a harmonious social environment .

Every corner have it's special activity, people can enjoy the continuous experience of this block. Local House

Courtyard

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Historical Spot

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RECONSTRUCTION Courtyard,Sacred space,Sunken Plaza,are all the traditional space types of Huizhou district, I use these elements into my design to provide multifuntional spaces for both local residents and tourists. Design strategies must adapt to traditional texture of village.

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Multifunctional

In order to attract tourists and provide multifunctional spaces .I renovate old buildings and add new functions.

Sacred space is another special space type of Huizhou. I use a local ancestral hallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure as the entrance of local sacred space to reinforce the linear space and display the structure of local architecture. In this way tourists can have a better understand of local culture and spaces.

Sunken Plaza is one of the space characteristic in Hui Zhou. I use this kind of traditional language to organize spaces which are lack of energy now. Both local residents and tourists can enjoy their outdoor activities here.

A TEAHOUSE DESIGN

Courtyard is another space type of HuiZhou, I use open space which is near the main street to design a tearoom for tourists to experience the traditional lifestyle of local residents in achitecture. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also public stage for people to communicate and play.

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Project 01 /studio individual work

Hijack Hijacked buildings and living Type: Urban Design Site Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Duration: June.-July. 2016 Tutor: Professor. John Hoal individual work Introduction: The site is located in South Africa,

FIRE The trace of flame has been left since the fire which made hundreds of people homeless.

VACANT BUILDING people were forced to move out of the building by the fire.

Hijack Building As given the first glance at this term, you may think it is an usual event that some people occupy an â&#x20AC;&#x153;abandonedâ&#x20AC;&#x153; building. However, the hijack building in Jo.Burg city is not so simple. The buildings were originally clearly owned and managed by investors. They were mainly underused light industrial buildings and then were hijacked by people who did not own the property.

UNMAINTAINED WINDOW No one ever maintain the appearance of the building.

almost

60%

buildings have been hijacked in Jeppestown.

GOLD MINE RIDGE FACTORY

GOVERNMENT

WAREHOUSE

HUSTEL

ROOF LIFE

WOOD SELF-BUILT The trace of flame has been left since the fire which made hundreds of people homeless.

TENTS INFILL Tents and living infrastructures can be seen through a series of square windows.

SELF-BUILT WINDOW Windows are made by soft plastic board.

WASTE INFILL The rubbish could raise up to two floors in the courtyard due to no management.

conclusion the housing issue need to be solved the ownership of the buildings need to be clarified the job opportunities need to be completed

material service

facade church Arts on Main

fox commercial street

TOD AREA Jeppe Station

material dispatch

infrastructure

church

parcels

Jeppe Park

Bjala square

Maimai market

hijack block

self-built

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Abandoned building before Collecting building materials and sort Energy Center

floor and structure

Housing Type 1

Housing Type 2

Bathroom Typology

Housing Type 3

Housing Type 4

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multi-beds room

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LOCATION//PLAN//STRUCTURE

SPECIAL BLOCK SHAPE 39m*36m

CORNER 21M*18M

39m

5F m

m 36

ATTACHED BUILDING 42m*18m

A QUARTER BLOCK 36m*36m

36 m

18m

ONE-side Facade Building 36m*15m

TWO-sides Facade Building 42m*15m

m 36

15m

Air Flow

people Flow

Water supply

Waste go

Light

Extrance

public space

Corridors

Parcels

Height

Electricity

Education program

6F 5F

100 feet

JeppesArt

Self-built Building

furniture manufacturing

local art and music stage

9 self-built buildingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sites are located here

15%

28%

EDUCATION CENTER

Jeppe PARK

retails free market gathering informal vendors

self-built and job training

biggest open space in Jeppe

one side to the park

Substitude typology

1,000,000 sf

6. QUARTER BLOCK

AFTER-WORK MARKET

3. ONE-SIDE TO STREET

attached to a existing building

small size and more flexible structure

1,000,000 sf

21%

12%

2. ATTACHED

1. CORNER

MANUFACTURING

4. TWO-SIDES TO STREET

1/4 block big size inside residential neighborhood

5. TRIANGEL BLOCK

two facades need to be fit into the urban context

special block typology

Bad quality building

Abandoned building

choosing building

health before and after Drinking water spot sports plaza trail Drinking water spot

Health Care Clinic bike lane

Vacant building

50 0

fee t

Hijacked buildings

education system

openess in and out

Self-built Education

2. ATTACHED

1. CORNER

pavement open spacesmall size and more flexible structure

Primary Education warehouse office

3. ONE-SIDE TO STREET

attached to a existing building

one side to the park

Manufacturing Industry Kindergarten

soft open space

canal

park Job Training Center Manufacturing Industry

1,000,000 sf

material logistic system

street type MAIN STREET

Furnitures Recycling Spot

Park St.

6. QUARTER BLOCK

4. TWO-SIDES TO STREET

1/4 block big size inside residential neighborhood

5. TRIANGEL BLOCK

two facades need to be fit into the urban context

Jo special hn Pa ge Dr .

Auret St.

Hans St.

Janie St.

Gus St.

Betty St.

Madison St.

Fawcus St.

Macintyre St.

Maritzburg St.

RESIDENTIAL STREET

block typology Material Dispatch Center Church Donation Spot

Building Material Recycling Spot

Energy /Recycling Center

Durban St.

NEIGHBORHOOD STREET

Julie St.

multi-use space

roof life

multi-use space

outdoor

park-

backyard

B’’ B

A’

Fawcus street

144

bedroom

restaurant

roof life

bus station

Jeppe park

bike lane A

trail

B’

A A’

Janie street

birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eye view

Jeppe Station

church

free market

Maimai market

Other Works pen sketch, painting, calligraphy, photography

Publications of Design Work national union graduation design work

This is one form of Chinese calligraphy, which was finished by pen. Calligraphy is one of my most favorite hobbies since I was a little girl. I use this to practice my patience and form the aesthetic appreciation.

This piece of pen drawing was sketching from life. This is one scene in a Chinese classical garden and I sketched it in the Garden in Suzhou during my sketch internship.

The piece of work was finished in Jul. 2013 as a gift for my best friend, she is an artist. And it was also the result of learning how to depict people from her. The water color then becomes one of my most favorable technique to express my design work.

This piece of work called "Fallingwater Pennsylvania at dawn", when I was a freshman in college, it was the first time I try to use watercolor to describe architecture and the surroundings.

Publications of Design Work â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x201D;national union graduation design work

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