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NEW SCHOOL IN PUOTILA, HELSINKI, 2019
DANCE HOUSE, HELSINKI， 2015
HOUSE OF NARROW BEDROOMS, NANJING, 2017
BOAT HOUSE, HELSINKI, 2016
THREE COURTYARDS HOUSES, NANJING, 2014
NEW SCHOOL IN PUOTILA
time: Jan 2019 - Apr 2015 (12 weeks) location: Puotila, Helsinki, Finland building area: 7355m2 independent work design project of personal Master Thesis supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Pirjo Sanaksenaho, pirjo.sanaksenaho@aalto.fi structure advisor: Prof. Dr. Toni Kotnik, toni.kotnik@aalto.fi
Project Introduction Firstly, the project is part of the author's Master Thesis named as "New School in Puotila Helsinki - under the background of Finnish basic education reform 2014", therefore, the spatial arrangement manily responds to the research conclusion that the new school is a complex of community learning center not only for pupils. Also, the diverse needs of the so-called "phenomenon-based learning" method asks for specific spatial solutions. Secondly, the project is located in Puotila, Helsinki, which is one of the very typical suburban communities built after WWII. And it is a rebuilding task to replace the current building strongly featured by functionalism (picture 1) and designed by Osmo Sipari in the 1960s, which does not fit the new surroundings due to the new metro station built in 1998.
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Thus the design of the new school tries to balance the new educational appeals and the historical context on this specific site. Design Strategy With one compact volume placed in front of the east entrance of Puotila metro station, the two long facades form an urban square on the east and a school garden on the west close to the natural landscape. The ground floor is sunken to create visual connection between the square and the garden, and the programs on the ground level is open to community users, answering the first emphasis of the education reform, forming a versatile and multi-user learning environment in Puotila.
Site Plan
View from the metro station
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Space Solution
Building area: 6580 m2 Basement area: 775 m2 Community learning program: 2000 m2 Primary school program: 2200 m2 Pre-school program: 550 m2 The space model of "transition" went through the whole design process and adpated to the final project with appropriate adujstments in three levels. On the ground floor, the transition from the largest hall spaces activating the public square to the workshop spaces facing the school garden strengthens the site relation. On the first floor, the space for multi-disciplinary leanring acticvities is integrated with circulation area, composing the transition from the noisy hall spaces to the quiet subject learning rooms. On the second floor, smaller division evolves from the space model, providing intimate scale for more private learning behaviours.
Structure Strategy
specify smaller divison for private rooms; provide roof structure for public spaces
dividing the program into pulic, semipublic, and private zones
open the ground floor to the urban space and school garden
The structural strategy strengthens the spatial aims on three levels, while providing spatial flexibility responding to the educational reform requirements. The conrete shear walls constitute the basic space structure while the removable CLT panels complete the other floors and walls, the opening facade and cantilever parts are hung by cables to the roof structure, so as to achieve the open facades on the ground level. The material of pigmented red concrete not only echoes the original old school built in the 1960s when red bricks were widely used in Finnish schools, but also forms a sense of alienation from the structure of modernism and brutalism, presenting the beauty of structure in a contemporary context.
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1 Entrance foyer 2 Auditorium hall 3 Kitchen 4 Cafeteria (Lunch hall) 5 Art worshop 6 Handicraft workshop 7 Science workshop 8 Technical workshop 9 Lobby and home kitchen for pre-school 10 Music/Dance hall 11 Sports hall 12 Technical spaces for equipments
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Group learning space for 1-2 years Group learning space for 3-4 years Group learning space for 5-6 years Office area Library Pre-school office and rest rooms
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The facade towards the school garden is hung by steel cables to every roof beams and cladded by copper of which the texture changes through time, meanwhile the concrete structure gradually stands out.
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DANCE HOUSE HELSINKI
time: Sep 2015 - Dec 2015 (12 weeks) location: Ruohalahti, Helsinki, Finland building area: 7445m2 independent work course work supervisor: Pirjo Sanaksenaho tutors: Fernando Nieto Ville Hara Aalto University pirjo.sanaksenaho@aalto.fi
Project Introduction The site is located in Ruohalahti, Helsinki, where Kaapeli - the old cable factory is now reused well as an art complex with exhibition halls, dance theatre, museum, etc. The aim of the new dance house is to build a connection with this deep inner yard, residential garden and theatre facade in urban view. Design Strategy From the urban level, the big volume addresses city scale while the smaller one adapts to the residents surroundings on the north side. Functionally, the big mass mainly solves the problem of logistic and complex functions of a theatre, while the smaller one serves as the connection to the old dance hall and a summer theatre facing the garden. Thus the restaurant on the brige part works efficiently and naturally form the main entrance space under it. Facing city - strengthen the previous space character of the site
Facing residents - keep the garden quiet and enclose the courtyard
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1 old dance hall (serve as small dance hall) 2 music bar 3 entrance space 4 lobby (tickets and coat check) 5 staff lobby 6 logistic areas 7 trucks load-in spce 8 sidestage 9 storage room 10 backstage 11 main stage 12 equipment room
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old cafe make-up and dressing room big exercise spce (rehearsal room) lobby of the old dance hall
Basement Plan
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summer theatre restaurant lounge rest area big dance hall
1st Floor Plan
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Corten: 2m width * 3m height continuing the old industrial property of the site
Perforated Corten: 2m width * 3m height offering more possibilities of public space
Reflecting Steel Plate: 2m width * 3m height the reflection strengthening pubilicty of the entrance
Reflecting Steel Plate: 1m width * 1m length the use in the entrance continuing publicity from city
Bare Concrete Wall: exploding the main structure character
Dark Grey Steel: connecting different materials in details
HOUSE OF NARROW BEDROOMS time: May 2017 (1 week) location: Nanjing, China (self-selected) competetion work of "House of Dimensions" collaborate work with collaborator: Yinan Zhang zynarch@163.com
Introduction of the Competetion The theme for this competition is not “size of a house,” but “a house of dimensions.” In other words, what is required is not simply to propose a size of house that one has never seen before: to attempt to make a house merely gigantic, or minuscule. The dimensions of a house are in fact a relative matter – the settings and parameters, once they have been decided, would produce any number of extreme cases. In a sense, what is required here is to design a house using only their dimensions. (By Hasegawa)
Design Strategy The relationship between Bedroom and Non-bedroom space defines the basic pattern of a house. Bedroom is the ultimate fortress of private life, a protection of personal area. Non-bedroom space is the mediator between bedrooms, a stage of family public life. There are somehow ‘standard dimensions’ to the different rooms in a house, which are deeply rooted in each place’s culture and life style. And the bedroom is particularly sensitive to this ‘standard’. A single bed is 1 meter by 2 meters, which defines the dimension of the bedroom to some extent. The strategy is to challenge the dimension of bedrooms, defining a house with bedroom spaces and non-bedroom spaces. Characterized by narrowness of bedrooms in different dimensions, new spatial relations and experiences are created, which will be further illustrated.
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By changing the dimensions of bedrooms, the project proposes a new spatial relationship between Bedrooms and Non-bedroom space. 1. Bed and Bedroom On the one hand, the bed no longer locates in the corner of a bedroom as usual, but protects the privacy maximally with a self-contained box. On the other hand, it acts as a family communication platform before sleeping dramatically. 2. The relationship between bedrooms Other than the closed and isolated situation in usual houses, bedrooms here are no longer in the end of the residential space sequence, but can be connected to each other in the daytime, which gives the house a new freedom. 3. Bedrooms and Non-bedroom space The new dimensions of bedrooms here bring more possibilities to the family life. Internal, the bedrooms achieve a new position to the family public life, which results in a new mode of life. External, they have more opportunities to contact with nature.
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time: Jan 2016 - Apr 2016 (12 weeks) location: Liuskasaari, Helsinki, Finland building area: 816m2 independent work course work supervisor: Pekka Heikkinen tutors: Philip Tidwell Willem van Bolderen Kimmo Friman Aalto University pekka.heikkinen@aalto.fi
Project Introduction The site is located in Liuskasaari, Helsinki, where the fire happened in 2013 burnt down the previous boat house built in 1900. Thus, the design task is to build a wooden boat house for storage, maintenance and assembly, which is carefully detailed in terms of constructive technique, functionality and aesthetics. Also, it is important to produce a project that respects and interprets the existing built environment and draws inspiration from the history of wooden architecture in Finland. Design Strategy
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Old boat house
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The continuation of the volume and location of the old boat house is firstly a reminicent of building history and memory of the collective, secondly a conctrast to the completely new structure and ineterior space which is called alteration. When such contradictory issues make sense in terms of integrating structure, space, time, function, environment, facade all together, the strength and liberty is possible to be released from what we call space.
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storage hall boat studio kitchen of cafe sauna public toilets
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A l l C LT s t r u c t u r a l c o m p o n e n t s a n d t h e metal connectors are prefabricated, while basement is cast-concrete. Through the way the structure is formed with both vertical and oblique elements, the hierachy of primary and secondary structure is cancelled, responding to the open space to surroundings structurally.
T h e s c h e m a t i c d i a g r a m l e t f s h o ws t h e division of each structural components in CLT boards of 4m width. More economic ways of division could be developed in further depths.
Detail
THREE COURTYARD HOUSES time: Jun 2014 (4 weeks) location: Beiting Lane, Nanjing, China site area: 1129m2 building area: 837m2 independent work design practice supervisor: Prof. Ge Ming Southeast University gemingstudio@sina.com
Technical Specifications Site Area: 1129m2 Buiding Area: 878m2 Coverage: 43% FAR: 0.78 Parking Capacity: 3
Project Introduction The site is located in Beiting Lane, where there are historical and cultural buildings as well as good scenery in the neighbours. In the first place, the contradition comes from the striving of three houses for the old platan inside the site and the view on the west. Furthermore, the privacy and centrality as housing itself compose inside, while the publicity and environmental force compose outside, thus the contradiction is strengthened.
Design Strategy Respongding to the tree views inside and outside the site, two platforms are designed in a house-one facing the public courtyard shared by three households while another enjoys more privacy.Two stairs is put centrosymmetrically in the lobby space in every house, and they point to these two platforms, therefore complete the space structure with the gathering space on the first floor and the opening space on the second floor.
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PERSONAL INFORMATION Full name: Gender: Date of Birth: Language: Degree: Interests:
Yang Liuxin Female 13/04/1992 Chinese (native), English (fluent) Master of Science (Architecture) movie, painting
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2019/08-now:
Work at TM Studio, Shanghai
2019/06:
Graduated from Aalto University, Helsinki, Master of Science (Architecture)
2018/03-2018/07: Work at OOPEAA, Helsinki 2017/09-2018/02: Internship at Schneider Studer Primas Architekten, Zurich 2016/09-2017/01: Exchange study at ETSAB, UPC, Barcelona 2015/09:
Started study at Aalto University, Helsinki, Master Programme of Architecture
2015/06:
Graduated from Southeast University, Nanjing, Bachelor of Architecture
2015/03-2013/06: Internship at TM Studio, Shanghai 2014/07-2014/09: Internship at Atelier Deshaus, Shanghai 2013/09: Arrangement Work for "Architectural Exhibition of Kazuo Shinohara" 2013/07-2013/08: 1/5 Scale Model Making of "HOUSE IN TATESHINA", Kazuo Shinohara's Last Unbuilt Project 2012/02-2012/06: Exchange study at Thunghai University, Taiwan 2010/09:
Started study architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing
PROFESSIONAL SKILL SOFTWARE: AutoCAD, Sketchup, V-ray, Lumion, Enscape, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign HAND MODEL MAKING IN VARIOUS SCALES
E-mail: Tel:
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