WENJIA ZHANG Selected Architecture Projects 2011-2019
I think of architecture as a kind of intermedium. It balances relationships among environment, humanity, community and city.
CONTENTS
01 THE SUPER NODE
A Transitional Housing and Community Center in Crown Heights
02 VILLAGERS' LIVING ROOM
A Community Center in a Long-winter Village
03 SUSPENSION FROM SKY
A Sky Burial Tower from Ink Suspension
04 CUBE
An Art Center in Modular
05 COEXISTING COMMUNITY
Rural area design—country people with Chinese clans
06 LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS An Urban Renovation—citizens with city
07 VERTICAL COASTINE A Tower with Memory
WENJIA ZHANG
EDUCATION
+1 401 588 9628 wzhang02@alumni.risd.edu 230 South Main Street Providence, Rhode Island, 02903, USA
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Architecture Department Providence, Rhode Island, USA Master of Architecture '19 Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (XAUAT) College of Architecture Xi'an, China Bachelor of Architecture'16
WORK EXPERIENCE
Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), Rotterdam, the Netherlands Intern Architect February 2018– August 2018 Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP, San Francisco, CA, USA Intern Urban Designer June 2017– August 2017 Rhode Island School of Design Architecture Department, Providence, RI, USA Graduate Teaching Assistant September 2018– December 2017 Rhode Island School of Design Architecture Department, Providence, RI, USA Faculty Research Assistant October 2016– May 2017 October 2018– May 2019 Hong Kong HUAYI Designing Consultant (Shenzhen) Ltd, Shenzhen, China Intern Architect July 2015– November 2015 Zhubo Design Shenzhen Company, Shenzhen, China Intern Architect July 2014– September 2014
AWARDS&DISTINCTIONS
SKILLS
RISD Architecture Department Research Assistantship, 2016– 2017, 2018– 2019 RISD Fellowship, 2016– 2019 Excellent Design Award from the National Architectural College Student Work Exhibition (Urban Design Project), 2015 Excellent Youth League Member of XAUAT, 2012– 2013 Excellent Student Scholarship for 4 consecutive years, 2011– 2015 First-class Excellent Freshman Scholarship, 2011 Software Rhino | Grasshopper Adobe Photoshop | Illustrator | InDesign AutoCAD | Revit | SketchUp Vary for Rhino/SU/Revit Processing | Python
Art Graphic Design | Typography | Bookmaking Jewelry Design | Metalsmithing Printmaking | Lithography Language English | Chinese (Mandarin)
“Let's resist those mason jars and avocado toast in Crown Heights.”
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THE SUPER NODE Studio: Between Content and Container Instructor: Emanuel Admassu Academic: 2018 Fall Collaborator: Harrision White Location: Crown Heights, New York, the United States
This studio examines the notion of architecture as the difference between ‘content’ and ‘container’. ‘Content’ is defined by a selection of architectural concepts that will be carefully sampled, edited and combined, while ‘container’ will be defined by the analysis of a specific site of contestation in Brooklyn, New York. Beginning by developing precise definitions for “failure” as it pertains to the discipline of architecture (content) and Crown Heights, Brooklyn (container). The aim is to develop a critical framework for the ongoing verification of concepts. After testing various combinations of difference between concept and context, and combining the idea of Silodam by MVRDV and Half of a house by Elemental, this project ended up as a renovation of an armory building, which is currently used as a homeless shelter. By providing homeless transitional housing combined with a community center for the neighborhood, this project is trying to resist gentrification in crown heights as a 'super node', to keep the identity of the neighborhood.
C O N T A I N E R
Gentrification is happening in Crown Heights "In prewar apartments, glossy new kitchens are replacing tired old ones. Limestone fixer-uppers are commanding seven-figure prices. Cocktail bars are opening where fried chicken used to be sold from behind bulletproof glass. And the New Yorkers who lived there are drifting away, their former homes renovated to make way for white college graduates and young families."
Zones and Nodes By analyzing zoning and visiting the communities, this overlapped mapping diagram shows the argument that there are several buildings existing on site as individual nodes that define different communities, and they either intensify or resist gentrification by defining the neighborhood around it, such as churches, bodegas, jewsith district, historical district, etc.
–Gentrification in a Brooklyn Neighborhood Forces Residents to Move On, The New York Times, Nov 17th, 2015
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Mosque
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Church
Carribbean
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Museum
Boutique
Hair Braiding
Real Estate
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Half of a House x Silodam vs Transitional Housing x Community Center By analyzing the two samples, Half of a house by Elemental and Silodam by MVRDV, defining the "successes" and "failures" of them, two strategies are generated to contribute to the design: 1. Housing and community center each takes half of the space in a diagonal way with different entrance based on Half of a house. 2. Different size housing units are designed for different homeless demographics combining with public spaces based on Silodam.
View from Plan the "half&half" design strategy shows well on the plan of this one-block armory building: west and east side are open to the community as a community center on the ground floor, every one in the neighborhood can get access to easily during the day; south and east side are designed as transitional housing, from east to west, the stay term is getting longer and stable, from overnight stay to family size long term housing. A continues communal kitchen as the public space allows various activities to happen. Color code: Blue as private, red as public
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735 sqft
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3 bed For years stay
3 bed For months stay
2 bed For weeks stay
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1 bed For temporary or overnight stay
1 bed For short term stay 7ft
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View from Section The "half&half" idea also shows up in a sectional way: with same depth of each roll, the more temporary the unit is, the less private space it has, and the more public space for the hallway. With the same color codwe which blue as private and red as public in this section axon drawing, the ratio between blue and red changes from east to west, it reflects the relation between private and public according to different temporality of stay.
FACADE OBLIQUE
The facade oblique shows different sizes of units on the facade side, and through collaging from materials and furniture, to shade and shadow, reflect the differences of staying temporality in a graphic way.
INTERIOR SECTION PERSPECTIVE Credit: Harrison White
Zooming into the interior, this section perspective reflects different living conditions under different living temporality at the moment, and the relation between public and private.
“ one should look from inside, not outside.”
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VILLAGER'S LIVING ROOM Studio: Evironmental Architecture Design Instructor: Jun Mu, Wei Zhu Academic: 2014 Winter Collaborator: Yankai Zheng Building Area: 750 ㎡ Location: Haerbin, Heilongjiang, China
The extensive practise of modern architect does change our lifestyle and bring us a more material comfort. However, there are always some architects who over-pursue the expression of a certain space, pays little attention to the surroundings. They take advantage of the light structure , design big window and even use the unadaptable material as the wall, during with, getting rid of the problems that may associated with the nature and expecting to be solved by the auxilary equipment system. As for me, architecture is actually a kind of intermedium linking our human-beings and the circumstance. But how could the architecture link us to the nature? I suppose it of vital neccessity to take the surrounding conditions into consideration, including the local climate, the traditional material and etc. That's also the start of this design.
June 21st sunset 8 p.m.
June 21st sunrise 4 a.m.
12 a.m. December 23rd sunset 5 p.m.
December 23rd sunrise 7 a.m.
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optimum temperature -32
activity radius summer wind winter wind
Form Strategy
Small shape coefficient and earthing make building reduce from heat loss
South large area sloping roof reduce snow load and enlarge daylighting
A B C D
Inner space is divided into four compact parts based on function
Adjustment of different parts based on function requirements and corresponding with site
Function Analysis based on life
A close investigation on the local villager's life gives me a better understanding of what villagers really want and leads to four major functions: education, activity, business and service.
Logistics
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ENTERTAINMENT 225 Activity Room 130 Bathhouse 30 Book Gallery 30 Shop 30 Toilet
BUSINESS 40 Office 20 Sickroom 20 Clinic
ACCOMENDATION 20 Boiler Room 20 Guest Room 20 Guest Room 20 Guest Room 20 Guest Room
Building in Site CHILDEDUCATION
80 Classroom 30 Bedroom 15 Toliet
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Relying on the existed 3m ridge, I adjust the configuration of the building and form both the south field and the north field with different views and functions, providing a more multiple choice in the site.
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Courtyard The insert of courtyard enables the sunlight to come across the roof and shed light on the gusetrom
Roof Field
Corridor as buffer
Initiative H
The north roof can be termed as a field to have kinds of activities, such as skating and film. The roof is covered with thick soil, enable it to keep heat
In consideration of the good quality of the air to keep heat, some small space like corridor can be a good buffer space
The initiative heat supply for the b
Energy
The used heat in b can be conducted to activ
View from Section Although the building choose the centralized configuration because of the cold climate, we try to create different spaces with different scale responding to certain activities. We put our recognition into practice from the several sections as follows. Meanwhile, these sections are associated with proper passive ecological technology, making it much more adaptable to stand in such a severe environment.
Heating
Open Sunspace
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The main activity room is provided a relative good light situation, and take advantage of the sunlight to gain heat
Enable the child-care classroom stay at a comfortable themal condition
Reduce the wind blowing into the indoor space
Re-use
Thermal Massive
Earthing
bathhouse o the main vity room
Good quality to store the heat gained from the sunlight
Take advantage of the original field as a effective way to reduce from heat loss
Double Roof Reduce the heat loss on the north side of the building
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Open Sunspace
Double-glazed panel exposed ashler 200m m A
plywood 20m m
Activity Room
B Kang Kang
South Wa ll Structure artificial stone 100mm rammed earth 220m m waterproof membrane insulation foam 120mm rammed earth 220m m
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Activity Room
Roof Structure roofing tile 20mm vapor permeable waterproof membrane structural plywood 10mm vent cavity 20mm rigid insulation foam 80mm vapor-proof membrane scale board 20m m
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Floor Slab Structur e stereoplasm floor 20mm screed-coat 60mm sound insulation layer 40mm concrete layer 120m m No rth Outer Wa ll Structure artificial stone 100mm rammed earth 220m m waterproof membrane insulation foam 120mm ashler 220m m cement paste 10mm ceramic tile 10m m
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“'Look at that,' he said. 'How the ink bleeds.'�
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SUSPENSION FROM SKY Studio: Making of Design Principle Instructor: Carl Lostritto Academic: 2016 Fall Individual Work
This studio explores design principles specific to architecture. The "Making of" in "Making of Design Principles" is important. The faculty do not have fixed set of principles to convey or a predetermined path to a known outcome. This reflect a reality of architecture: there are no formulae for success, no project is identical to another, and rarely are the parameters fixed. This studio asks students to draw inspiration from their own work in a way that resists habits, defaults and prior assumptions. Start from observing ink suspension and identify the behavior of the ink, students worked with a series of models and drawings to create the condition of the ink and the water suspension. The second step combined suspension with a ritual that humans participate in as a group, transferring and developing pervious suspension models into a scaled architecture. At last, site, structure, enclosure, inhabitation and constructions are required.
SUSPENSION
FALLING
DISSOVING
ROTATING
CUBE From observation of the suspension and interactive dance of the ink from the moment of its deplyment to its final precipitation and dissolution in the overall water, I noticed that in the water, the ink was rotating, falling and dissoving. This cube I used strings to represent falling and dissoving, and sticks to represent the main trace of the ink. This cube also became the prototype of the whole project.
RITUAL
SKY BURIAL Sky burial is a funeral held by Tibetan Buddhists. When a person died, his/her family and friends would carry the corpse climb to the mountaintop, and there'd be buddhists pray for the soul then let the carrion birds eat the corpse. They do this because the Tibetain Buddhism tells them to be generous. They think it is the last good thing they can do to the living beings and the world, it is a good Karma.
ALTITUDE
M O D E L & N O TAT I O N A L D R AW I N G
PLATFORM
MOUNTAINTOP
TIME
SITE MODEL
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
STORAGE ROOM
UP BATHROOM
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C A K E - C U T T I N G AXO N O M E T R I C D R AW I N G
CAKE-CUTTING AXONOMETRIC DRAWING
THRESHOLD
In the final part of the semester, a threshold model was developed to zoom in to intensify the potentials of the work done so far, then use that understanding to enrich overall frameworks for human experience, architecture, and its relationship to the city.
PRAYING PLATFORM UP
CEREMONY PLATFORM UP
DOWN
THRESHOLD PARTIAL PLAN 1/4
SECT
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“ Space is meaningless
s without people gazing at.”
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CUBE Studio: Arts Center Design Instructor: Yu Zhao, Bingyang Hou Academic: 2013 Winter Individual work Building Area: 6240 ㎡ Location: Xi'an, Shaanx, China
Nowadays, cities became congregations of straight islands; public spaces are designed for transportation. People lives like parcels that mechanically moving in and out giant buildings. I believe architecture is not simply sculpture, but rather a pleasant spatial scale that can utilize enclosed public spaces, in conjunction with the media, to associate buildings with cities and humanity. In this project, I chose a cube as a prototype with a series of categorized analysis combined with human dimension. Jointed by these cubes, I gave this project special attention to exploring different spatial properties such as enclosure modes, textures, virtual and real spaces, and how these properties affect peoples’ moods. My goal was to try and explore the most suitable spatial scale to architecture, people, and cities by using architectural space as a medium.
Typology of Combination Possibilities
Surface
Block
Floor
Form
Texture
Floor
Wall
double-wall
Opposite-wall
Roof
With different methods we can define various function combinations and the space relations. During the design, I tried to think in typological methods to find out how to make the space more attractive, and more reasonable. All of them follow some rules, which lead them to a relative better and harmonious function arrangement. Pushing, cutting, digging and adding and so on, diverse ways give you distinct feeling.
Function Components
Living scale
Sacred scale
Power scale
When spaces are given functions and people get involved, I am curious that how space scales and forms suit function needs. Through my understanding to different scales spaces from daily life, I try to explore how the enclosure modes, textures, virtual and real spaces and properties meet functions and affect peoples’ moods in typological methods.
Cube Com
UNIT 1: Entrance Hall
UNIT 2: Outdoor exhibition
UNIT 3: Exhibition Hall
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UNIT 4: Lecture Hall
UNIT 5: Free Space
UNIT 6: Shop
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First Floor Plan
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Entrance hall Temporary exhibitions Outdoor exhibitions Toilet Cafe Exhibition gallery Office area Storage room
Second Floor Plan
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Exhibition hall Rest area Outdoor patio Elevator Free space Lecture hall Storage room Storevv
Third Floor Plan
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Exhibition hall Toilet Rest area Outdoor patio Elevator
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COEXISTING
Research Project Instructor: Mengyao Yu Academic: 2015 Winte Collaborator: Meng Zh
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New Socialist Countryside under Development Policy In 2005 the Chinese government initiated a set of policies to confront the issue of developing the countryside, constructing new rural towns with the intention of ensuring social stability. However, during the past years we can see a missing of public space system in the New Socialist Countryside program. This system is a reflection of the clan structure in Chinese traditional rural society. Therefore, this missing leads to the unmatched relationship between the space and social structure. Predictably, although brand new houses improve villagers’ living environment, they also separate Chinese traditional community and clan relations.
Chinese Ancient Village under Traditional Philosophy
Xiaoqi Village
Lingquan Village
787 AD Population:2364 Scale:120000m2 location: Jiangxi Provience
206 BC Population:1976 Scale:110000m2 location: Shaanxi Provience
Located in southern and northern China, those two villages are in totally different natural conditions. By analysing the cause of traditional rural space, we focus on the social factors in spite of natural ones. We generalize the common points of the structure of public space and regard it as the foundation of Chinese traditional rural development.Ma que nobitat uribus ratio. Nequo quodiscim laborro ratatius aspelit perum ex essintur mossi id undundi tatur? Gent odita niminim porupta velestio. Ut ratur sinum qui nonsedias eossi nest, od moluptae assum es aligend emporum nonsequi officiis modia cus.
Space Factors Analysis Xiaoqi Village Village and Fields
Public Center
Linear Public Space
Ancestral Hall
Countryards Inside a House
Ordinary Life
Festival Culture
Entertainment
Lingquan Village
Typology of Public and
T-crossing
T-crossing Sedi aut laturSedi
Public space inside a cluster
Public Space
Pravite space inside buildings
Residence
Patriarchal clan Jang
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Patriarchal distribution Wang
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Zhang
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Huang
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T-crossing
T-crossing
Public space nearby crossing
Public Space
Pravite space enclosured by buildings
Residence
Patriarchal clan
Patriarchal distribution Dang
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Wang
Cao
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Yang
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白
Bai
Tang
Xu
Zhao
王
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杨
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Ma
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House Types under Chinese Patriarchal clan
Zhao
Sun
Lee
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Generation 1
Lee Zhao
Lee Sun
Generation 2
Zhao Sun
Zhao Zhang
Generation 3 Sun
Sun
Sun
Zhang
Generation 4 Sun
Zhang
Zhang Zhang
Generation 5
Strategy : Vary the Space Levels
Disadvantage of courtyards
Space Levels
Over-private Space
Level 1
Method
Level 2
Ground
Space Levels
Figure
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Cluster Generation Spatial Function Spatial Intimate Degree
Working Mechanism
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
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Meeting
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Spatial Structure Analysis
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LIFE BETWEEN BUILDINGS Studio: Urban Design Instructor: Hao Li, Xu Lu, Jingjie Ye Academic: 2015 Spring Collaborator: Bingguang Chen, Meng Zhou Building Area: 108 000 ㎡ Location: Beilin, Xi’an, China Excellent Design Award of the National Architectural College Student Work Exhibition 2015 Second Prize of the Annual Excellent Student Work Competition in the College of Architecture
This project is a renovation of an undeveloped area— a historical area alongside the city wall— in the old district of Xi'an in which the site will be planned as authentic places derived from the relationship with and communication of culture. We focus on the site and find the human interaction and communication which that have long been embedded in the district. Local citizens shapes this site as a living place and are characterized by the communication at the same time. But the current undeveloped architectural model of the site severely disrupts the prospect of local culture and severs the closed connection. Therefore, the project tries to explore and intensify the relationship. It highlights the celebratory moments of communal life — buying and selling, chatting and playing. All of these moments are which we regard as the basis of the city.Life within the new urban model is the result of the collective efforts of local peopleand tourists.
Communicatio
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LATE QING
Trade
Portion of communication space
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Antique trade
Packway besides the citywall
Military channel
telephone
telegram newspaper
carrier pigeon 12th CENTERY
18th CENTERY
1840s
1876
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JIAN GUO CHU
MIN GUO
NOW
Internet Market
television
Factory
radio
Residence
Unit compound
Online Chat
facebook 1920
1925
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1990
2004
Human communication has always been in a process of change. Similarly, this evolution also exists in the site. As a historical district, the communication between local people started to develop during the Jiexiang Revolution in the Song Dynasty (around 960AD). After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the development of varieties of workshops and factories in the site has also contributed to the communication among local people. It is worth noticing that the pattern of communication inside the site differs from the communication patterns of a normal city with a close connection to the modern technology. It focuses on a face-to-face means of communication.
Communicatio
Professional Communication
Personal Communication
Social circle Communicatio
The flowing seller seldom have a stable place. They’re always expelled by police.
Three shopping lanes appears at the same place, making it always in a chaotic situation.
The lane is a little narrow and it can be too crowded to walk when vehicle runs in.
I want to have a place to play with my friends.
I will spend all the time selling food in my shop. But I want to have a place to relax myself in the relative spare time.
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Computer-mediated communication
Social Group Communication
There’s only one narrow way to go out of the market. Quite inconvenient. convenience for community seldom have a stable place.
The sale space is large and comfortable, but you see, there’re two storeys above that remains useless. It can be used.
The price is cheap, yet it always takes me a long way to get the fish market.
I have a field of vegetable here for a long time. If the district were unavoidable to innovate, I hope I can still have such a kind
Expand Social Communication
2020-2025
Rebuild Connection
2017-2020
Break Down Barriers
2015-2017
PHASE 1
PHASE 2
Implant Communication Centers
Making new friends becomes easier.
Reconstruct Compound Enclosure
Ways of communication sometimes bother me.
Reconstruct Shuncheng Lane Market
Communication with old friends in a traditional way.
Build Social Circle
Expand Social Circle
Finding new ways of communication. 2025-2030
PHASE 3
2030-2040
Implant Urban Communication Space Implant New Communication Methods
Building social circle according to interests.
Site Planning
Shuncheng Lane Market
Compound Enclosure
Neighborhood Committee
Pubilic Library
Community Hospital
Pubilic Theatre
New Grocery Market
Leisure Centre
Designer Office
Internet-Architecture Media
Leisure Centre
Green House
Grocery Market
Designer Office Youth Hostel
Pubilic Library
Sports Center
GROCERY MARKET
New functions such as gardening training, pottery workshop and tea house are added into the new market. Those changes meet the demands of different people and make the traditional market a more flexible space.
PUBLIC LIBRARY
The public library solves the problems existing in the current old town of lacking cultural facilities. Through the new internet-architecture media, residents in this area would be able to find point-to-point or point-to-multipoint relationships very quickly based on their own interests.
DESIGNER OFFICE
Office and restaurant have similiar pattern but work in different time. With the emergence of sharing function in different time, the work pattern enables people to work in an alternative way. Such flexible work pattern let users share their ideas, re-oganized the resources of space, labour and serve.
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VERTICAL COASTLINE Competition Project Instructor: Man Su, Dai Ren Academic: 2015 Summer Collaborator: Meng Zhou, Ke Huang Location: Huludao, Liaoning, China
TEAMZERO Architecture Student Design Competition
The idea of this project comes from my childhood memory of my hometown and ocean. Because of industrial development, original coastline in my hometown has been invaded by wharf, which is an important part to local people. Playing at the seaside becomes memory. I was wondering if disappeared boundary could reborn. I use a number of abstract elements which are reflections of my memory to original natural elements of the ocean, restore the original horizontal space atmosphere in a vertical dimension, so that to create a new boundary of ocean.
Site Memory
12th, December,2003 The site is located on Huludao, Liaoning, China, which is a small and peaceful town. Ocean plays an essential role to local people, it foster people in my hometown and coexist with people harmoniously.
1st, February,2015 With the development ot industry, original coastline is also disappearing. Waves washing against the rocks, fish and shrimps swimming in the sea, all of them has gone. people lose the right to touch the ocean.
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SECTION PLAN
Vertical Structure
IMPROPER DRAWING TOOL Computation Drawing Instructor: Carl Lostritto Academic: 2016 Fall