Xianfeng Wu's Portfolio 2011-2015

PORTFOLIO DESIGN BY RESEARCH 2012.10-2015.01 XIANFENG WU

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CONTENT time: 2012.10-2013.01 course project tittle: the sheffield ski village live project

time: 2013.01-2013.05 course project tittle: behind the mask - city history museum in venice

time: 2013.06-2013.08 uia competition tittle: the disappearance of architectures - bubble

time: 2014.07-2015.01 global schindler award competition tittle: mobility being the transition of revolution

THE SHEFFIELD SKI VILLAGE

LIVE PROJECT

Gate

Top Hill

KEY Sculpture (Lead to Main Building) Tower

Local Railway Route

collage to explore variety sports on site Cable Car

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Access Point Improvements

View Point

Activity/Event Point

Industrial Heritage Point

Heritage and Recreation Woodland

Meadow and Wildlife Habitats

Top Hill Middle Hill

Productive Land Butter

Main Buidling Restored, Landscaped Landfill Site

Landfill Site; Limited Access

Transport Links and Parking

Skiing and Extreme Sports

Sports Facilities

Ancient Cemetery

The Live Project is based in the Parkwood Springs Ski Village site, which is currently out of operation due to a recent fire at the site. The clients’ ambition is to find a home for the Sheffield Sharks Ski Club; attract and accommodate additional groups, investors, and sponsors; redevelop and connect the site with neighbouring communities and the wider city area.

The Project envisages three stages of development for the site with small, medium, and large scale interventions. The first stage is the immediate security, restoration of existing facilities and a temporary clubhouse. The second stage sees a permanent ski clubhouse, the expansion of different sports facilities, and accommodation in the form of chalets. The third stage sees the expansion of a second ski slope and sports facilities; improved public transportation links, with sports stores, local restaurants, cafes, and market stalls located across the site.

perspective of main building

overall perspective

phrase 1 (immediate to 1 year)

phrase 2 (1 to 5 years)

phrase 3 (5 to 20 years)

perspective from top hill

sheffield sharks ski village consultation event:

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skating can be seen from cafe

the internal skate park area of the indoor freestyle academy

location in the master plan

THE SHEFFIELD SKI VILLAGE

LIVE PROJECT

The most interesting point is not simply group work in live project, but also a distinct relationship between designers, clients and their customers. Afterth developing the approach of Ski Village, an exciting event organised in the Well, 16 floor of the Arts Tower. Left collages present how we arrange the layout of the exhibition and lovely topics of activities to get customers involved in. Live project provides our a chance to communicate with clients and get more resources from managers and users. the right top pictures demonstrate the research on building materials to recall sustainability. The perspective of internal space and the organisation of square present how the Ski Village developed to meet multiple function uses. the mix-used freestyle academy external perspective

S.GIACOMO DALL`ORIO

S.POLO

S.S.APOSTOLI

ST.LUCIA RAILWAY STATION

RIATO

facade along the river bank

city history museum in venice

behind the mask CHURCH

Introduction

S.MARIA FORMOSA

The amazing Venice city was visited as a field trip in the beginning of 2013. I am really interested in the facade of canal and the the perspective from campanile. The pictures present what I have seen in feild trip. Through the research, I realised that almost all the venetian buildings were around 15 m high except cathedrals and their campaniles, which was precious city culture heritage as one of Venice urban context. The aim of this projet is to create an opportunity in the centre of Venice to see facades of canals and famous landmark like St. Marco Square at height.

The history of this fabulous city told us that the main city function of Venice has transformed into tourism. People all over the world were attracted by its urban context and intangible cultures which were presented into many museums of Venice.

PIZZA SAN MARCO

SAN SEBASTIANO

CHURCH

FENICE THEATRE CHURCH

The site I choose is in the centre of venice city. These buildings which were built in the 17th century will be demolished because of useless function. This site is extremely suitable for my idea - building a tower makes people looking around and getting the whole views of venice. residential wood foundation forest in venice famous campaniles in venice

The pircture right shows famous squares and churches in the venice city. The blue lines show what possible river banks can be seen from the site. The tower i built supports more chance to see these city heritages. site location in venice

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0 Chiesa S. Giacomo dell'Orio34m 34m (1225) (1225) Chiesa di S.diGiacomo dell`Orio

Chiesa San Silvestro37m 37m(1601) (1601) Chiesa di diSan Silvestro

Geb_udeininVenedig Venedig 37m 37m Geb_ude

Church Saint Apollinaire40m 40m (1034) (1034) Church of of Saint Apollinaire

Chiesa di San Moise 48m (9th Century) Chiesa di San Moisè 4 8m (9 Century)

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2 section View of Riatlo Bridge

Venice City Museum Venice City MuseumTower Tower56m 56m (2013) (2013)

St Mark`s Basilica (1673) St Mark's Basilica56m 56m(1673)

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research on height of famous campaniles and churches

SantiApostoli Apostoli 61m 61m (1575) Santi (1575)

Santa Maria della Santa Maria dellaSalute Salute62m 62m(1630) (1630)

Basilica Santi Basilica SantiGiovanni GiovannieePaolo Paolo65m 65m (1430) (1430)

Frari FrariChurch Church68m 68m(1338) (1338)

60 M

Basilica San Giorgio Basilica San GiorgioMaggiore Maggiore80m 80m (1610) (1610)

San Francesco San Francescodella dellaVigna Vigna84m 84m (1554) (1554)

Campanilede deSan SanMarco Marco 107m 107m (1902) Campanile (1902)

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1 section view of the river bank facade How height should this tower be in my site is researched in this design. I draw four sections of the Venice city. In order to see the main facade of river bank and famous squares, the tower is 56m high. When people climb upto the tower, they could enjoy variety of dynamic scenes step by step.

Compared with other campaniles and churches at height, the museum tower is located into the bottom list. views from st. marco campanile

3 section View of st. marco campanile

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4 section view of salute cathedral

city history museum in venice

behind the mask the views on the top presnet selected urban landmarks seen from the tower`s viewing devices

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View from the top of campanile

city history museum in venice

behind the mask

Most of precedents of museum in venice are art exhibition museums.

From the above picture, we can see that traditional museums in Venice are all presenting drawings, sculptures and even the building itself. Venice, as an amazing tourism city, attracts people by its history from all over the world. The history museum of Venice is d e s i g n e d t o p re s e n t background information about the Venice city.

This diagram presents one of the most famous cultural heritages in Venice - How to make Gondola. The whole processes will be presented in the city museum in Venice.

Wood, as a main material of buildings in Venice, was used since their ancestors first arrived at the lagoon. Nowadays, citizens still use timbers as construction of the building (original residential wooden buildings, structure of dome and even the foundation of the stone building).

Venice owns brilliant history, which reflected on its cultural heritage. Analysis graph on right top presents famous churches and public square. From this graph, we can see that most of heritages are located around the centre of Venice. People can distinguish what they see in yellow circle. Beyond that, tourists can still enjoy splendid and time-honored view. Venetians build stone campaniles to prove the position of religion. The tower is designed to look around all the city.

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city history museum in venice

behind the mask

frame

I got these pictures in my field trip. Built quite near the Eiffel Tower and in the traditional city district, this new building well combined new technology and garden art, which makes it emerge into the urban envrionment well. Defiant, mysterious and wildly eccentric, it is not an easy building to love. Yet, Jean Nouvel`s design creates a kaleidoscopic montage of urban impressions.

And once you give yourself over to the experience, you may find it the greatest monument to French popular culture since the Pompidou. The building combines angular glass walls with futuristic cubes of bright color and outside, a green wall of thick vegetation, suggestive of a forest or a jungle. An enormous curved glass wall shields the garden from cars roaring by an urban oasis.

This drawing demonstrates how I develop my building technology. More specifically, spiral buidling, timber tower and reserved building are all involved into sustainable building technology.

2 spiral door exhibition cabinet

1:20 scetion masonry

filling land

plank of wood

1:75 scetion

wood piles

Venice is divided into six districts, three on other side of the Grand Canal, Castello, San Macro, and Cannaregio on the Northern side, and San Polo, Santa Croce, and Dorsoduro, inculding the islands of Giudecca and San Giorgio Maggiore, on the southern side. Most of the gardens are planted on the southern side. The red dot shows my site which is located in the San Polo.

A map of early Venetian settlements in the 8th and 9th centuries, from Venise au fil du temps, atlas hitorique d`urbanisme et d`architecture (1971).

The hatched areas are mudflats, the dark ones consolidated land.

1:300 section

scale induction

mystery

background should not compete in interest

transmitter (cast shadow pattern)

decorative surface

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enclosure may be light to solid receiver (shadow plane)

proper background

wind control

sun control

Perspective

filter and diffuser

enclosure by dispersed plan elements

city history museum in venice

behind the mask

The pictures left show that how the master plan generates. The main drawing in this picture demonstrates what we can see from different windows and explain why the style of the tower looks like that. I abstracted elements in Venice new adn old buildings and the reflects them back to the tower.

Spiral building provides a main exhibition space. The complex space is open and provide connection with reserved building and a view from top building to the main canal.

Variety of vegetations are included into this garden. Mystery, private and enclosed, all these characters are emerged into public garden.

From the above picture, I want to create an atmosphere, which people can know how Venetian people fight for creating the Venice city on the lagoon. The left explosive analysis presents how to organise internal space.

Perspective

closed doors

open doors

different angles create different inner space

normal brick wall

plane 1:30 stainless frame

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What I want to design is a building which makes a good relations with environment. Green wall is a media to connect interior space and exterior space. When the door is closed, it could protect building from strong storm. Normally, it is open to give people a outside views from seeing through green wall. Meanwhile, the sunlight come into the building through green wall and spiral door, which give individuals interesting feelings. Besides, the function of exhibition is applied to the wall.

Light and shadow could create a mysterious atmosphere in museum.

Normal time, the doors are open to support visitors outside view. When the storm comes, the doors are closed to protect the building and its exhibit from harsh weather.

green box frame spiral door

green wall panel

section 1:30

the explosive view of green wall

the disappearance of architecture bubbles background Venice is about to vanish.

Given the unique natural water environment conditions for Venice’s development,the city is renowned for splendid scenery. Admittedly, Venice has been describe as being one of Europe's most romantic cities, meanwhile, "City of Water", "The Floating City", "City of Masks" are also the honorable titles for it.Albeit glorious, the city is bound to be drowned soon in future on account of global warming resulting in the rising sea levels. No doubt, we sincerely wish the city to be derived forever, not merely because it has picturesque views but because its art, knowledge, history...which, by and large, is praised as Characteristic Culture. We must resolutely reserve and transfer out the soul of the city—its culture. The city is just through its puberty.

concept What we yearn for is a “disappearing” architecture, which renders alink between the “disappearing” city and the “should-not-abandoned” culture. Mask, gondola, mysterious history of Venice…these cultures are so charming to all the people!Hence we decide to design a cultural architecture---a multi-functional exhibition hall, which can precisely display the captivating culture to people and, preserve and inherit better. Furthermore, the “disappearing” building demands that it should blend into the charming city, accommodate the city life and merge into the city special landscape.

The “disappearing” architecture will “softly disappear”, merging with the environment, with the “no-disappearing” load bearing charming culture…..

Imagine that you are in Venice, on a gondola. Boat through the ancient square, lend an ear to the meaningful bell, engrave the delicate mask, and encounter the unexpected surprises on the corner. The couple bubbles embody the dreams of the nature, the art, the human and the soul. They are elves of the city, reminding you of the city’s charming culture……

Couple bubbles: We empower various functions to different bubble. Besides the exhibition art hall, there are other fundamental functional architectures of the city, such as library, school, and department stores. Finally, here renders a city of the couple bubbles! Nevertheless, of all the bubbles, we mainly focus on the exhibition hall this time.

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elevation of venice

master plan As I share in the first page, there are couple bubbles we intend to be. These couple bubbles are multifunctional. Various effects, as well as diverse shapes are provided to different bubbles which are situated in different locations. And that is the reason we render St Mark's Squareis primary. These transparent irregular spheres are blend into Venice’s life, in everywhere. You may see them or not, because they are “disappearing”----the special hyaline materials they apply to. Anyway, the architectures bring more space to the disappearing city and meanwhile, the bubbles themselves are “disappearing”.

3 site plan Venice is deserved the tietle of cultural city. The Middle Ages artistic movements and Renaissance, which are its optimum periods, lay the foundation for its future development. Nowadays, the city is in possession of abundant cultural resources and distinct cultural charm. The ornate glass-work, the typical masks, the Gothic architecture, the Venetian painting...These are dazzling and sure as hell should be reserved.

An iconic and characteristic space is what we intend to locate the functional bubbles. We finally settle on St Mark's Square as our primary location. We consider several aspects. First, it is the principal public building of Venice. Next, it is the centre of Venice, not just in the geography, but also in the social, religious and political. The last point, it provides a good vision and coastal scenery. Napoleon once remarked it as "the drawing room of Europe".

Almost every child is fond of the fancy game---blowing bubbles. It is believed that bubbles host their colourful dreams to the sky to make them come true. The bubbles satisfy children’s fantasies.

Bubbles float flexible in the air. What makes bubbles different than the other things floating in the sky is that they are transparent, like irregular sphere mirrors, reflecting the charming world.

In the past, several architects stumbling onto bubbles to apply ended in failure.

Nowadays however, architects are able to construct the bubble space in the air due to the high-tech modern technology.

By means of creating bubble architecture,we can save the land resource.The innovative thoughts we bring are to create a “hidden" city in Venice. The hidden city is “disappearing”.

“I blew bubbles in the air They weren’t robust Pretty soon they burst And were no more there.”

“The bubbles never really flew, Could never reach the blue Of them so unfair, To be soon not there Fast disappear Without showing my dreams the slightest care.

I wish the curling silver ghosts of smoke, freeing themselves from my cigarette, could take me with them and I would softly disappear.”

floor plan

3 For humans,walking in the bubbles and watching outside alwanys appear in fairy tales, when the architecture will lead us to frame view that the imagine will be interpretented into reality, to arouse some new sensations.

Extension of the bubble itself gives the spatial characteristics of natural and coherent.

Meanwhile the visual focal point integrate into the surrounding environment.

Follow the principle of "xxx" embodies our respect for the old Venetian and understanding.

According to this approach, processing the relationship between it and the surrounding buildings is concise and effective.

As technology advances, the completion of float, liquidity and other forms of buildings is no longer an impossible task. The characteristics that the architecture is lithesome and out of gravity consistent with the intention bubble itself, clever and the expression of attachment off the ground is an effective way to reduce its visibility.

explosive view

mobility being the transition of revolution

The concept of project is based on the ideas of sustainability in terms of economic, social and ecological development. The design will include two steps. From the macro urban design strategy of reintegrating distinct functional parts, to the micro programming of stimulating inner socio-spatial practices by local users.

In macro urban design scale, the project try to find a way for both connections with urban areas, and interior ecologically and socially sustainable development. Beginning with the ideas of connections in the contexts of urban scale. there will be diverse infrastructures that linking different forms of economy. In order to make the site more accessible, existing transportations system will be the improved and re-organised.

Changes in the transportation will result in the transformation of trading spattern.

Moreover, for sake of more dynamic social activities, diverse infrastructural layers will be included in the design such as spatial organisation. Thus, dynamic social programs will be stimulated such as meetings. These overlapped infrastructural layers will promote the flexibility in the site as to achieve its socially sustainable.

The high-ways and the train lines have created various boarder between raw landscape and some residential areas. Here, the inter-cross infrastructures will be utilised as to eliminate the existing boundaries. Thus more accessibility will be engendered in terms of different functional parts. This approach can offer the equal rights to inhabitants who live in urban villages. They will have the access to landscape and public plazas.

In the final stage of design, the research will focus on an existing urban villages. By exploring a new walkable streets, the integrating landscape can be designed between working and residential areas. Consequently, the project will achieve the goals in two aspects: the living environment will be socially ecologically sustainable; economic pattern will be healthy and people will feel a new sense of identity of Shenzhen.

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In micro scale of social activities of everyday life, the project will not interrupt interior social activities by inhabitants in urban villages and we will regard urban villages as positive elements as generator for dynamic social activities. As we hold strongly a position that interior social structures is extremely essential that are embedded in representational spaces. Thus, the whole strategy will include interior land users, spatial morphology and infrastructure to protect interior socio-spatial practices.

After all, a concept of APP software will be designed. People can use it as an information platform for exchange of updating news. The APP will enable people to acknowledge the surrounding information and generate new socio-spatial practices. This information platform can provide news, such as market products, locations of place, surrounding people, on coming performances and activities. Additionally, it will enhance perceptions and experiences of spaces for strangers and for new freshers, this software can help them involve community life easily.

The other strategy for micro-scale, we are producing a temporary and informal activities by vehicles that contain different installations for different activities. The functions can be listed as exhibition, instant foods, informal markets and social platform as performances and lectures. This invention will benefit inhabitant. People will enjoy convenient lifestyle based on exising social structures. More importantly, it will be regarded as Agency that consolidateds or even reintegrates different neighbourhoods via different social activities.

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mobility being the transition of revolution

This APP is the personal terminal of the Grand Market. It can be installed in all the smart phones, having the access to all the information of the Grand Market.

Initially, the information can be concluded by three different categories: 1. Vehicles Live location/availability/theme can be shown in your personal screen, by touching the icon of each vehicle, you will have the knowledge of the specific information of each car, thus you can find the vehicle you need, or you interest.

2. Acitivites Different activities will be allocated by the Grand Market, it can be held in the vehicle or any possible space within the urban area. By touching the screen, there will be showing the location/availability/theme in which people can participate.

3. Storage Storages can be found and let to those who lack the store space for their private online business. The App has the function of searching for all kinds of the storage within the Grand Market or any possible storage. People can book them by using smart phones.

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