Design Sample

[RETHINK URBAN RENEWAL IN CHINA] PORTFOLIO OF WANG WEIPING SELECTED WORKS IN XJTLU

WANG WEIPING TEL: 86+18896507993 E-mail: weiping.wang12@student.xjtlu.edu.cn

CONTENT 1.

URBAN LIFE CONTAINER Renovate Suzhou Historical Area

2.

SHIKUMEN AREA COMPLEX Reestablish Residents' Relationships

3.

WAREHOUSE OFFICE

Recall Industrial Memory

1.

URBAN LIFE CONTAINER

Renovate Suzhou Historical Area

Location: Suzhou, China Time: Sep.2014-Dec.2014 Tutor: Austin Rhys Williams

[ACTIVITIES& PLACES ON OLD SUZHOU STREETS]

Old Suzhou

Suzhou downtown

Hanging

Buying

Parking

Daily retail

Souvenirs

Playing

Sitting

Tourism

Trees

Majhong

Eating dringking

Restaurant

Walk dog

Pitch

Plantation

Cooking

Suzhou industry Park

The site is near to the pingjiang road which is preserved to show the history of old Suzhou. The pleasant scale of the old street prevents people from the disruption of cars and preserves the place for informal and formal activities of local residents.

To increase the demand of residential housing and rapid tourism development his project provides homes and buisness space for different groups of people based on the old urban morphology.

[GENERATION PROCESS]

Life service

Daily retail

EATING/TEA

PITCH

PITCH

SHOPPING

EATING/TEA

Coffee

Local craft

Life service

SHOPPING

PITCH

EATING/TEA

Local snack

SHOPPING

HANGING

SITTING/CHATTING

SITTING/CHATTING

HANGING

MAHJONG

SHOPPING

SITTING

Restaurant

Daily retail

PITCH

SITTING/CHATTING

EATING/TEA

PLAYING

SITTING/CHATTING

Street food

MAHJONG

SHOPPING

PLAYING

shop Restaurant Local craft tea SHOP Food

SITTING/CHATTING

MAHJONG

SITTING

[CIRCULATION]

tea

Local craft

Chineses silk

tea Retail

PITCH SHOPPINGEATING/TEA

EATING/TEA

[FUNCTION]

4.Different activity places are created along the paths

Restaurant Daily retail

SHOPPING

[COURTYARD]

3. Two main paths are created in the middle and the waterfront

Daily retail

[ACTIVITY]

2.Paths are created along the old boundary to provide more activity interface

Life service

1. Low interaction with neighbour

[RESIDENTIAL TYPOLOGY]

[COMPOUND MODE]

[ACTIVITIES]

Mahjong

Playing

Tea/eating

Pitch

Tree

Plantation

Retail shop

Hanging

Street food

Parking bike

Sitting/baby-sitting

Housework

2.

SHIKUMEN AREA COMPLEX

Reestablish Residents' Relationships

Location: Shanghai, China Time: Sep.2015-Dec.2015 Tutor: Claudia Westermann

SITE

ACTIVE THE LOCAL BUSINESS

TALK TO FAMILY THROUGH QQ/WECHAT/TELEPHONE

BETTER LIVING CONDITION START UP BUSINESS IMPROVING INCOME TELECOM SERVICE

SKILLED PROFESSIONAL JOB

LONELY TIRED LOST......NEGATIVE EMOTION

KNOWING FRIENDS FELLOW-TOWNSMAN COMMUNICATE WITH LOCAL PEOPLE GET EDUCATED AND TRAINEDLEARN SKILLS

GET MONEY

CARE ABOUT THE STUDY OF CHILDREN

LOW HEAVY DIRTY REPETITIVE WORK

BEING HARMONY WITH THE LOCAL PEOPLE

TAKE SHOWER AND EAT HOMETOWN FOOD

FIND JOB FIND RENTAL HOUSE

COME TO AND LEAVE SHANGHAI

PRODUCTS FOR SHANGHAI

SUPPORT THE CITY OPERATION MIGRANT LABOR

NARROW LIVING CONDITION NO TOILET, NO KITCHEN NOTHING TO DO IN THE LIVING PLACE ALWAYS NEED REPAIR

The site is located in old Shikumen area which is built almost 100 years ago. There are two main aspects addressed in the site analysis. Firstly, many historical Shikumen houses around with few modern buildings. However, the old houses and narrow street can not meet modern life demand because there are no toilets in the house and no necessary facilities in the communities. At the same time, the city is kept expending and developing with the help of migrants. Migrants kept flowing into Shanghai during the last century and many of them gradually became Shanghai local residents after a long time.

The relationship between these two aspects become the intriguing question in the design process.

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3.

WAREHOUSE OFFICE

Recall Industrial Memory

Location: Suzhou, China Time: Mar.2015-Jun.2015 Tutor: Edward Farrell RIBA

Bird View of the Site

Interior of the Warehouse

The site is locate in the cross of Tongjing North Road and Ganjiang West Road and the shape of the site is a 'T' .There is an old warehouse which built in the 1980s and a parking lot on the site.

There are two main thinkings in the design of this office building. The first idea is to make use of the industrious space and create an open and floating working expreience for the staff in the company. Within the enclosure of the outskirt, the service boxes are inserted.

The second idea is to recall the spirit of the place, the old warehouse keeps the memory of the industry in the 1980s, therefore the surface and the sturcture are kept. What is more, the new structure is an creative interpreatation of the patch roof. An new structure of 'Y' column is designed to introduce the sunlight.

[ACTIVITIES& PLACES ON OLD SUZHOU STREETS]