portfolio 2017 BUTTERFLY EFFECT-Yifan Cai

PORTFOLIO 2017 BUTTERFLY EFFECT Yifan Cai Bachelor of Urban Planning,SCUT Master of Landscape Architecture, Upenn

CONTENTS

I believe in the Butterfly Effect. If a butterfly incidentally flaps its wings, it might trigger a distant hurricane in some days. In my view, an object small like an installation, a piece of time short like an hour or a person noteless like a vendor is all likely to be the butterfly, being able to change our city, our life or even the world.

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CONTENTS 01 Landscape Architecture Design

Life Cycle

a whimsical snapshot of the long life of the forest

02 Research& Design

Informal Community

a news stand might trigger a better community life 03 Architecture Design

No Pain No Vain No Gain

a new education system might trigger an education revolution

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Architecture Design

Inside the Tree

a museum might trigger the nostalgia of a lost culture

05 Urban Design

Maker City

a region might trigger a creative metropolis

06 Research

Super Ordinary

a workshop might trigger an academic trend 07 Research

Ideas and Spatial Pattern of Frank Lloyd Wright

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[Individual] Landscape Path Design:

01 LIFE CYCLE Individual work 2016.9-2016.12

Description: 501 studio project in Master of Landscape Architecture program in University of Pennsylvania.

This project explored the design language of landscape architecture. The site for this studio is a wooded stretch of East Fairmount Park wedged between the developing neighborhood and the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

LIFE CYCLE [Landscape Mapping & Path Design]: Site Mapping Triangulation and Overlays Using site-based measurement and observation, I experiences light, space, shade and movement in landscape and alternated views to see and script the site.

Triangulation and Tree Canopy Mapping

Tree Density Mapping

Movement Mapping

Canopy Shadow Mapping

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Glendinning Rock Garden Sequential Sections

LIFE CYCLE [Landscape Mapping & Path Design]: Site Mapping Sequential crosssections

How can color influence the growth of trees?

Because different absorption rate of different wavelength, different color of light have a different inuence on the growth of vegetations. For most of the trees, those trees are exposed to more blue light tend to grow taller; trees are exposed red light tend to grow bigger and have more branches. Pink light, as a combination of blue light and red light, can almost provide the normal light condition that trees need. In this project, I added the certain color of light on the base of normal light condition or filter other lights to manipulate the growth of forests to create a fantastic and dreamy landscape.

A Life Cycle of Tree

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Sequential Cross Sections

Long Sections

LIFE CYCLE [Landscape Mapping & Path Design]: Site Mapping

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Plan Experiencing the Life Cycle of the Forest In this park, the existing path and newly design path connect with each other as a cycle. Along the cycle, people can experience the whole life cycle of forests. From young forest to middle-age forest, to mature forest, and to a death forest, people are able to experience the different lights and shades, different space and atmosphere from different ages forest and in different elevation and landforms.

Does News Stand really sell newspaper?

According to the policy in Guangzhou, News stand can only sell newspapers and magazines, but the reality is : different News Stand which are proximate to different facilities will provide different informal commodities and services. With these informal sells and services, every different News Stand formed a small community which bring vast vitality to the surroundings and show how smallness can also make big difference.

Based on an in-depth study of the impact of News Stands' informal sells and services, a more exible and community-friendly design is born.

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[Academic & Individual] News Stand Research&Design:

02 INFORMAL COMMUNITY Research[Team work]

2015.3-2015.6

Competition:National Steering Committee of Urban and Rural Planning Education Award (2015) Award:Third Place in Social Research Team Member: Yifan Cai, Jianan Zhao, Hao Rong, Xiaoyu Wang Role in Team: Formulation of Research Plan, On-spot Observation & Record, Types Analysis, Graphic Design Design[Solo work]

2015.10-2015.11

INFORMAL COMMUNITY [Research]: What ,when and where to sell?

newspaper

newspaper

newspaper

newspaper magazine

newspaper magazine

newspaper magazine

newspaper magazine

magazine

newspaper magazine

newspaper magazine

magazine newspaper

magazine newspaper

softdrink magazine newspaper

softdrink others magazine newspaper

softdrink others magazine newspaper

others magazine newspaper

softdrink

newspaper softdrink magazine

weekend weekday

magazine

newspaper magazine

softdrink

softdrink others

newspaper magazine others

21:00

17:00

12:00

7:00

newspaper

newspaper magazine

magazine newspaper

newspaper

major customer:

Informal 100%

! s!

Whoa y thing n a m so

others

Informal 92.31%

21:00 17:00 12:00 7:00

20:00 17:00 12:00 8:00

newspaper

newspaper

newspaper

newspaper

Informal 33.72%

newspaper

Informal 21.89%

19:00 17:00 12:00 8:30

newspaper newspapernewspaper newspapernewspaper newspapernewspaper

Informal 100%

Informal 0.01%

Toy

s!!

I come here for

12 The news stand near a residential area:

A relaxing place

¥ 53.19 RMB/ days The news stand near a residential area

+3% ¥42.55

+8% ¥158.05

The News Stand which is proximate to the residential area sells almost no informal commodities and occupied least side pavement. Its daily profit is the least in four News Stands.

But residents nearby enjoy resting and chatting here, which forms an informal community center.

The news stand near a school:

Children's paradise

The News Stand which is proximate to the primary school sells toys and teenager magazines to the children, which causes 2 customer peaks at the school dismissal time.

¥ 217.32RMB/ days The news stand near a school

+11% ¥116.25

¥174.38 RMB/ days The news stand near a commercial area

The news stand near a commercial area:

Convenience shop

The customers of the News Stand which is proximate to the commercial area are mostly t h e c u s to m e r s o f t h e s to re s .

Due to its surrounding, it sells mostly softdrink and tissues.

weekday +34% ¥112.7

¥1106.25 RMB /days

The news stand near a traffic node:

Community service

weekend +209% ¥158.05

¥1106.25 RMB /days The news stand near a traffic node

The News Stand which near the metro station sells most informal commodities due to the vast people circulation near the metro station. Its sidewalk occupation also changed as the people circulation of the metro changed.

INFORMAL COMMUNITY [Research]: The News Stand near a traffic node

The site of the News Stand near the traffic node

Formal form

Intensive pedestrian traffic area

Traffic node

Usable space

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The informal space strategy of the News Stand near the traffic node

Informal strategy with inspection

Informal strategy with no inspection

Weekend strategy

Hoilday strategy

INFORMAL COMMUNITY [Research]: Issue & Expectation ISSUE

SELL POLICY

REA

Permit sales : newspaper & magazine

A box SPACE USAGE Obstruction

Newspaper

Different surrounding

SOCIAL CONTEXT

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Multiple needs

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NEWS STAND

Printed publication decay

Magazine Owner’s Profit : advertisement

TOP DOWN SOLUTION

PROFIT

Operators ’ profit: sale

High rent

operator

A day of the News Stand near the traffic node

8:00 am

12:00 am

16:00 pm

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ALITY

BUTTOM-UP SOLUTION

EXPECTATION

profit commodities types numbers

profit area

Multiple commodities Multiple commodities Multiple functions

A lot of boxes

Flexible space

different customers type

More Obstruction

different services needs

More side walk

Multiple services 5 newspaper’s sales for 5 years

Community space Inspection

owner

More advertisement space

operator

profit rent

20:00 pm

00:00 pm

weekend

INFORMAL COMMUNITY [Design]: Monocase TOP VIEW 270mm 217mm

270mm

240mm

184mm

FRONT VIEW 270mm

115mm

119mm

81mm

80mm

115mm

260mm

The monocase's size is set to be 300*300*400, according to the size of various of informal commodities and human's behavior.

300mm

260mm

270mm

12mm~20mm

217mm

240mm

279mm

279mm

232mm

320mm

400mm

184mm

239mm

360mm

130mm

cola cola cola cola

PLAYBOY

BAZZAR

A+U ip

ip

details

details

portfolio

ch

portfolio

600mm

BAZZAR

hi!

VOUGE

domus

hi!

VOUGE

land scape

2000mm

BAZZAR

A+U portfolio

portfolio

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details

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ip

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cola cola cola cola

ip

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cola cola cola cola

ip

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ip

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cola cola cola cola

cola cola cola cola

172mm

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The slidable solar power monocase makes sure the news stand can adapt to different surroundings and time flexibly.

200mm 300mm

300mm

Module 2

400mm

Top bezel panel +

Side bezel panel

-

300mm

LED light

300mm

Module 1

Solar panel

Side bezel panel Slidable

+

Slideway Battery

Roof

-+

Solar panel

+ -

Shelf

Buttom bezel panel Adult showcase

News stand

Children showcase

Chairs

INFORMAL COMMUNITY [Design]: Variation

closed

space saving

advertisement space expanded

sunshade/rainshade

adjustable showcases

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adjustable seats

full coverage roof

full coverage roof with showcases

doubled-faced shop

fully expanded

News Stand as a public community space in residential area.

News Stand as a exible and space-saving store in the commercial area.

News Stand as a leisure and entertainment pavilion in the park.

Small changable community Based on the research , the News Stand increases or decreases its selling space in different time and different surroundings and forms a flexible and changable small community. My design follows this rule and makes this small community provide better service to our citizens, no matter sunny or rainy, open or crowded, day or night, without obstruction of the sidewalk space.

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The power of smallness

The News Stand as a little object is not dead and still.

Every little factor changes each other unceasingly in the complicated system behind it. The community might have more vitality and security because of the little change of these small objects.

Just like the Butterfly Effect .

What's wrong wi A Mischievous teenager in the city Having 2-years history of drug abuse Raised in a very wealthy family Showing tendency of violence Droped out of school Hates learning

ith our education?

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A Left-over child in a poor village Parents worked in cities for 10 years Raised by 80-years-old grandma Working in ďŹ elds all day Droped out of school No opportunity

[Personal] School Architecture Design:

03 NO PAIN NO GAIN NO VAIN

Team work 2015.3-2015.6 Competition:HYP CUP International Competition Theme:architecture in transformation Topic:Transformation: Place,Tradition and Modernism in Conceptual Unity and Diversity Award: Finalist award Team Member: Yifan Cai, Hewen Jiang , Qi Wang, Zhuoqi Lin Role in Team: Research of Typology in Longji Terrace, Design Concept Development, Graphic Design, Detail Design

NO PAIN NO GAIN NO VAIN [Architecture]: Site Analysis N

Agriculture Area In Deep Mountain

The school locates in a poor village in Guilin, Guangxi Province. The children in the area are mostly national minority children, whose family lives in the remote mountains far away from cities educational resourse for hundreds years. Some of their parents left for the opportunity in big cities and made them become left-behind children without love, without companion,without education and without hope.

Longsheng village Guilin Liuzhou

School Field

Nanlin GDP

Remote marginal area

Village Impoverished village with left-behind children

Self-supporting system environmnet

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2nd grade

3rd grade

work hours

4th grade

study hours

As the equal currency, the TIME plays a crucial role in the exchange between work, study and other activities. Students farms and earns time currency to trade for basic needs, study and other stuff. They won't have enough time for study and skills improvement when they are not fully engaged. Students will get a TIME bonus when they enrich their knowledge and upgrade their technique. As they accumulate their time of studying, the value of time follows the increase. Finally they can graduate with a certain accumulation of the time for study and the respect for the opportunity of studying.

Knowledge

Skill

Communication

Basic needs

Stack up space according to terrain

Put pyramid

Provided planning

Needs exchange between pyramid and inverted pyramid

Maslow's hierarchy of needs pyramid

Elevation

NO PAIN NO GAIN NO VAIN [Architecture]: School Operating of Time Mechanism Analysis

Time as Currency income by labour

Saving for other resource and graduation .

8Hrs

1Hrs 1Hrs 1Hrs

Freshman

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expenses = 1 Day

8Hrs basic needs

3Hrs 2Hrs communication study skills and knowledge

Senior

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income

3Hrs

expenses 9Hrs basic needs

0.5 0.5

saving

3Hrs

8Hrs communication

study

NO PAIN NO GAIN NO VAIN [Architecture]: Time As Space Division 18:00

17:00

15:00

Mirabilis jalapa

Nicotiana

Marigold

Time,Flowers & Space

12:00

Different time leads to different sunless and enlightened places, suitable for different activities and forms different space.

Based on Carolus Linnaeus's studies, flowers always bloom in a certain time, suggesting different time. With this characteristic, flower plants also help to define space.

Flor impia

11:00

Corn Spurry

10:00

8:00

6:00

Scutellaria barbata

Tulip Solanum nigrum

Activities in different time zones

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Studying

18:00

Agriculture Sport

Studying

15:00

Agriculture Communication Sport

Studying

12:00

Agriculture Communication

10:00

Studying Communication

6:00

Agriculture Communication Sport Shadow

Flower

Activity

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This is a school that time is the only calibration here.

In this school, there is no the richs and the poors.Time is the only calibration here.

Every student earns their chance of education through agricultural working.

Teens from village earn their living and opportunity, Teens from cities learn to cherish their opportunity and resource.

In here, no pain, no gain, let the TIME guides students to understand how education can truly feed back in their life.

Furthermore, we hope that this new self-sufficiency educational system can trigger the introspection and revolution of the present education mode.

Banyan Tree Culture In South China, Banyan tree is a symbol of community life. Adults used to gather under those big Banyan tree in the leisure time to talk with each other about daily life. Children played with neighbor's children and made friends of their whole life.

H o w e v e r, w i t h t h e r a p i d p r o c e s s o f urbanization, millions of Banyan trees before our door have gone. People have no more public space like that anymore. We never know our neighbor's name. Our children are told they should not take candies from strangers.

In this project, I want to reproduce those 'banyan tree space' in this South China Art& Culture Museum, because this kind of scene is the true treasure and maybe now a relic of South China Culture.

I hope this architectural reproduction of cultural memory can finally trigger the recall of our personal relationship before the rapid urbanization.

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[Academic] Museum Architecture Design:

04 INSIDE THE TREE

Team work 2014.5-2014.7 Competition:The Rookies' Award for architecture students in China(2014) A+E Architecture Design Award(2014) Award:Excellent Work , Second Place Team Member: Yifan Cai, Hewen Jiang Role in Team: Concept Development, Design, Graphic Design, Rendering

INSIDE THE TREE[Architecture]: Banyan Tree Space Concept Rebuild the image of the banyan tree

Community life under the banyan tree

Cut trees Community life lost

Exhibition space and comunity space interweave

Inner space spread

Hotel

Ferry H

A normal museum

Multilevel banyan tree space

Lift up

Layer up

otel

36 Park View

Park Villagers from XIAMAO village

View

Ferris wheel

Ferry

n

Hua

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llag

Vi jiao

Villagers from HUANJIAO village

Landscape view and Site analysis

重现记忆中的大榕树 Reproduce the Banyan tree in the memory The museum's site is set at the water bank of Baiyun Lake park, where used to have a lot of big banyan trees which are removed to build a museum. The original community life of three villages around were taken. Reproducing the 'Banyan tree' space and implanting it as a culture exhibition in the museum will not only bring back the memory of the community life under the banyan tree but also make the new museum more open and become a new community and culture centre for villagers nearby and even citizens of Guangzhou.

INSIDE THE TREE[Architecture]: Under the Banyan Tree

Exhibition space Tree space Section A-A

Section B-B

Section C-C The 'Banyan tree' space is interweaved with the exhibition hall during the journey of the whole exhibition route.

Section D-D

The nature is embeded and keeps tempting tourists to go further and further floor by floor.

Section E-E

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INSIDE THE TREE[Architecture]: Exhibition Spatial Experience Route

center circulation core

tree-shadows corridor

tree-shadows corridor

tree trunk stair

corrido

yard on the tree

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exhibition hall

tree-shadows corridor

tree cafe

museum foyer

exhibition hall

Alternating view The 'Banyan tree' space is embeded regularly in the exhibiton route of the museum. The darker exhibition space and lighter nature viewing space alter and replace each other, which creates an interesting visiting experience.

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INSIDE THE TREE[Architecture]: Windmill Plan

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Roaming inside the tree The windmill plan extends the inside space dynamically toward the surroundings. Visitors insensibly spiral upward and enjoy the shifting view just like roam inside a giant tree.

The louver roof and wall also indicate the darker space and lighter space inside the building.

INSIDE THE TREE[Architecture]: Banyan Tree Nostalgia

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Nostalgia Under the tree On the tree

South China Art& Culture Museum as a public architecture has its responsibility to give something back to the public. In this project, the museum is not a arrogant and indifferent building, which usually look distant from the most common and homely villagers. On the contrary, it acts actively as a community space and nostalgia space to comfort the lose of the old Banyan tree in everyone's memory.

With the rapid development of internet and technology, more and more open-source hardwares and procedures are availble for everyone to use and make their own inventions, which gives birth to a kind of grassroot inventors called MAKER. In order to make Guangzhou a metropolis with more creativity, this design intend to build a paradise for makers' development and cross -disciplinary cooperarion.

In this region, not only makers can be able to get assistance in their development from various aspects, multiple communities, including villagers and artists, can be integrated together as well.

With the integration of multiple creative communities and the design of makers space in different scales, this region will be the radio of makers in Guangzhou to propagate the creativity spirit to every citizens.

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[Academic] Waterfront Region Urban Design:

05 MAKER CITY

Team work 2015.3-2015.6

Competition:National Steering Committee of Urban and Rural Planning Education Award (2015) Topic: Community Integration and Pluralistic Symbiosis Award: Outstanding Work Award Team Member: Yifan Cai, Jianan Zhao Role in Team: Research of Maker Industry, Concept Development, Design,Graphic Design,Rendering

MAKER CITY[Urban Design] :Maker Industry Guangzhou needs Maker

In China ,maker industry is germinating in all the major metropolis and starting to make influence to the city. In 2015, prime minister of China Keqiang Li especially visited a Maker Studio called Chaiho in Shenzhen, which indicated the potential of this industry.

However, as a third metropolis in China, maker activity in Guangzhou is weaker than other major city.

Beijing Maker Cycle Maker Space·Beijing Joy House·Beijing Onion Capsule·Hangzhou

Shanghai Maker Cycle Xinchejian·Shanghai Embedream·Nanjing Maker Space·Nanjing

Pearl River Delta Maker Cycle DIEMENSION+·Guangzhou Chaihuo·Shenzhen HECKJAM·Hongkong

Maker Space Development Internet Firm University Technology Support Investment Corporation Hardware Support

Redtory Tianhe Science Park

Pearl River Delta As a part of creative network, maker industry's appearence will fulfill the creative network in the south and make up for the short board of creativity in Guangzhou.

The surrounding facilities and industry of the site can perfectly provide the fundamental condition for the development of maker industry and the maker city can also give back to the surroundings.

Jinmai Creativity Park Guangzhou Cartoon Training Centre Guangzhou Creative Industrial Park Huanghuagang Science Park IDC Science Park Design AIEC Guangzhou Design Port Haijiaohonglou 1850 Creativity Park XYfair

Pacific Warehouse Zhujiang Movie Creativity Park TIT Creativity Park Yangcheng Creativity Park

Xiaozhou Art Village

Given Give

Site's Surroundings

Central City of Guangzhou SITE

Bio-Island

Viaduct Art District

Crossover Cooperation

High-Tech Support

Crossover Support

Opportunities for Villagers

Creative Ideas

Better Working Environment

48 seeed studio

Huaqiangbei Market

STEP 1 Open Source Hardware Support

Chaihuo Maker Studio

HAXLR8R Maker Incubation

STEP 2 Crossover Maker Group

Sequoia Capital

Small-scale seeed studio Production

STEP 3 Cofinancing Fund Small-scale Production

The makers TV show

STEP 4 Advertisement

Government Maker model

Entrepreneur

Maker

Artist

How to be a maker?

From an idea germinates to a maker product, makers need various aspects of support and cooperation. The planning and design of this region is aiming at form a complete industry and life system for maker industry.

Eco-Park

Tourists Flow Vitality & Security

Science and Technology Museum

Tourists Flow & Influence Science Activities & Influence Expand

University Town

Potential Maker Working Opportunities & Entrepreneurship Platform

Factory

Productive Facilities Better Environment & Commual Facility

Site

Waterfornt Site Dynamic&Creative Community

MAKER CITY[Urban Design]: Function Needs&Openness Grow

Grow

Role model Consultant 3 stages of Maker Primary Maker

Knowledge Guidance Financial Support

Developing Maker Production Support Financial Support

Developed Maker Publicity Investment

Providing makers with work place, training space, experiment space and communication space.

Low-rent Apartment

Advanced Mixed Work Area

Primary Maker Module Studio

Providing makers with public facilities and low-rent apartments.

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University Student

Cooperation Opportunity

Artist

Working Development

High-Tech Company Officer

Business Opportunity

Villager

Creativity

Citizen Providing makers with space to propagate the spirit of creativity to the citizens.

Providing makers with financial, technology and policy support.

Public Architecture

Low-rent Office Building

High-tech Coporation and government

MAKER CITY[Urban Design]: Planning Structure Current Situation

Design Strategy

People Stream

Openness

Planning Structure

Art Lover Stream Tourist Stream College Student Stream

Function

Maker Axial Artist Axial Radiant Axial

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Landscape Planning Structure

Design River System

Original River System

Ferry

Openess

Ecological Traffic System Tourism Wharf to Add

New Bus Stop to Add

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View Analysis

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Negative View Effect

Period 1

Low

High

3

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Construction and Investment Cycle

Building Height

Positive View

High

The construction and investment cycle mainly considers about how to build the social impact for the maker city step by step and attract investment from various aspects.

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1

Low

Connectivity

3

3

Low

Space Syntax Axial Integration Analysis

Bicycle Lane Footwalk Net

Road Parking Lot

Road

Openess

Space Syntax Visual Integration Analysis

Waterfront Landscape Axis Main Landscape Axis Secondary Intervening Landscape Axis

Traffic System

Original Traffic System

Derivative Symbiosis Support Auxiliary High

HIGH

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Period 2

Period 3

Period 4

Period 5 Professional Support

Viaduct Art District Renovation

Creativity influence

Investee

Advanced Maker District Low Rent Housing

Maker

Professional Support

Vitality

High-tech Corporation Professional Support

Maker District

Public Building

Maker District

Commual Facilities

Construction Amount

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Developing Maker Zone

Maker Support System

Public Architecture Zone

Viaduct Renovation Zone

Maker Support System

Developing Maker Zone

Maker Auxiliary System

Developed Maker Zone

Open & Integrated Community

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The urban design and the planning of the region is aiming at building a open water front community, which will be beneficial for the integration of different communities and propagation of maker spirit.

In the weekday, makers, artists and creative workers can live, work and develop here.

On the weekend, people in the city can come here to experience and learn the maker culture and enjoy the beauiful view of Pearl River.

MAKER CITY[Urban Design]: Developing Makers Zone--Free Combination Module Exhibition Module

Different block

Different Combination

Living Module

Communication Module

Different Combination with Garden

Working Module

Resting Module

Garden

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Make your own career. Make your own studio.

In the maker special region, makers can make their own apartments and studios by different free combination maker modules. By the development of the maker group, the studio can be developed for their need as well. This special region will be a dynamic and constantly changing community, which best describes the spirit of maker.

At the same time, this kind of construction method will also be good for more reasonable arrangement of the construction fund. It can not only attract the investment from the corporation and government but also make cofunding of urban construction available for grassroot fund.

MAKER MAKERCITY[Urban CITY[UrbanDesign]: Design]:Viaduct ViaductRenovation Renovation The viaduct bridge cut the region into two separated pieces, which is negative for the development of the region. However, the original Art Region under the viaduct bridge brought this area some vitality to a certain extent.

Therefore, in this design, the negative space under the viaduct bridge is renovated and try to make the negative division a positive link which can attract visitors and promote the cooperation of makers and artists instead.

Viaduct Renovation Elevation

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[Academic] Urban Village Research, Exhibition& Publication

06 Super Ordinary Team work 2015.1

Team Member: Yifan Cai, Jianan Zhao, Hetao Jiang , Zhihao Liang Role in Team: On-spot Observation & Record, Analysis, Graphic Design, Exhibiton Arrangement, Essay Writing and Publication Edition.

SUPER ORDINARY [Research, Exhibition & Architecture]

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3000mm

The decline of Lion Dance Super Ordinary is the first student-ran urban research workshop in Guangzhou, which is organized by the Student Urban Planning Academic Association cofounded by me.

In the workshop, my team researched the most densely urban village Longdong in Guangzhou. In the first day of the workshop, we found that Longdong used to own the best and biggest Lion Dance team in Guangzhou.

With the further research, we founded the rapid urbanization of the metropolis had gradually eroded the deveopment space of this traditional culture.

We conducted mapping of the original Lion Dance route and designed a new route and corresponding space strategy for the better preserve of Lion Dance culture.

Lion Dance team in the New Year

60 Lion Dance Watching Adaptive Urban-village Design

高处 不 但是 胜寒 可摄 像

SUPER ORDINARY [Research, Exhibition & Architecture]

Ancestral Hall

Ancestral Hall

Ancestral Hall

East street

Community Park

3.0m

The new route of Lion Dance

Ancestral Hall

4.0m

Zhi Street

7.0m

Playground

The old route of the lion dance is the link between all the public space (ancestral halls) in Longdong. In the spring festival, the lion dance team will cruise around all ancestral halls in the village to commemorate their ancestors.

With the construction of the village and the city, the number of outcomers in Longdong is growing rapidly every year, which leads to the construction of new public space besides the ancestral halls, like the culture center and playground.

At the same time, the street space of the old lion dance route is largely invaded by the new buildings in the village, which is against the inheritance of the lion dance culture.

After research and communication, my team designed a new lion dance route, which can retrieve the missing link between the public space for villagers and outcomers and be beneficial for the inheritance of lion dance culture.

Culture Center

Ancestral Hall

West Street

Ancestral Hall

Kindergarten

Temple

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As one of the most important modernism architects, Frank Lloyd Wright showed his modernity not only as architecture’s appearance and material, but also expressed it as the combination of space and the behavior of people live in it. Most of the studies concede that Wright ‘s design style has 4 periods, but existing studies mostly focus on the qualitative analysis of building’s appearance and material. In this study, the evolution of spatial structure and how it influences resident’s behavior in the different periods , including its logic behind, are analysis quantitatively base on the space syntax. We hope the result can give us some inspirations for our further study.

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Tribute of Frank Lloyd Wright's Art Glass This drawing is a series of geometrical shapes and lines transformed form Frank Lloyd Wright's classic residential space and inspired by Wright's famous Art Glass.

[Academic] Research

07 IDEAS AND SPATIAL PATTERNS

A syntactic analysis of Wright’s residential building basis on Space Syntax Solo work 2013.3-2015.3 Honor: Invited as an exhibit on 10th International Space Syntax Symposium.

Before Prairie House PLAN

SPATIAL TYPOLOGY Kitchen

Dining Room

Kitchen

VISUAL TYPOLOGY

Dining room

Study

Living Room

Corridor

Parlor

Fireplace

Kitchen&Service Area Fireplace Dining Area

living room

Living room is on the central axis,the core of the house is not obvious.

Public space in Winslow is connected and circulatory.

1894

WINSLOW HOUSE Prairie House

Relaxing & receving Garden

Different functional spaces are isolated visually,but connected and turned by FIREPLACE.

Dining room

Fireplace

Kitchen

Kitchen

Living room

Maid’s room

Dining Room Living Room

Parlor

The core of the house is not obvious.There are 2 axis,and FIREPLACE is on one of them.Differentf untional area is organised around FIREPLACE.

1901

WILLITS HOUSE

turned space

Doorway

Different funtional areas are still isolated visually.Fireplace’s turning effect is more obvious.

Maid’s room

Kitchen Living Room

Kitchen Recreation room

Dining Room

Snooker room Dining room Support space

Guest’s bedroom Balcony

Doorway Living room

The spatial structure is simplified .All the important room is on the main axis . Different functional areas is also radiated from the FIREPLACE.

1906

ROBIE HOUSE

Fireplace’s turning effect.

Usonian House

The visual stru

Study Room

Garden Study Room

Garden Kitchen

Corridor

Dining Room Living Room

Balcony

Living Room

Dining Room Kitchen

1936

JACOBS HOUSE

Spatial structure is simplified again. Garden is on the main axis.

The visual connection between different functional area is more directly.

Viewing spaces turns from a outsider as a important member in the house.

Support Space

Kitchen

Living Room

Dining Room Garden

Dining Room

Fireplace

Kitchen

Living Room Garden

JACOBSII HOUSE

1944 Spatial structure is simplified again as a linear structure.

Garden

Kitchen

Balcony Dining Room

Living Room

Garden

Dining Room

LYKES HOUSE

1959

Fireplace Living room Support Space

Kitchen

Shed Corridor Doorway Corridor

All the important functional spaces is set on the main axis and all the supportive spaces is set with its main functional spaces.

All the main room is not isolated visually anymore.All the room is visually connected directly for better view.

VISUAL INTEGRATION ANALYSIS

Low

High

Visual integretion

The color of the fireplace is colder than its surrounding.

People’s sight line is turned here dramatically.

The visual integretion is higher near the garden or sightseeing spaces.

FUNCTIONAL SPACE STRUCTURE

Fireplace Kitchen&Service Area Relaxing & receving

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TRANSITION OF SPATIAL STRUCTURE

Dining Area

All the function is blocked in a box.

House stretched itself to build connection sptially and visually with the garden.

Different functional areas are organised more compactly around the FIREPLACE.

Circulatory structure.

Circulatory and Radial structure.

Radial structure.

ucture is becoming more and more complicaited as spatial structure becoming more and more simple.

The visual integretion of both sides of kitchen and dining hall is red ,kitchen starts to replace the fireplace as the turning point of public spaces.

Garden is considered as a room in the house and organised togther with other room as a whole.

Turned Linear structure.

Although the visual connection is more direct .The turning effect of the fireplace is still remained,but not as strong as before.

View in the house.

Linear structure.

The visual integretion is higher near the viewing space.

View in the house.

Linear structure.

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