XIANG YANG
Applying for M.Arch
PORTFOLIO
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WORK1
P1-3
HALF STREET ，HALF SHOP
2016 Dashilar Pilot Project-Hutong Vision——Micro-public Space Design
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WORK2
P4-7
THE RETURN OF INDUSTRY
High-Rise building design:Design based on industrial building reconstruction
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WORK3
P8-11
THE EDGE OF URBAN MEMORY
Urban design of Deshengmen and its surrounding areas
P12-16
The Experienced Paradise Of Liangzhu Traditional Culture
2016 Dashilar Pilot Project-Hutong Vision——Micro-public Space Design
P17-20
Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation
Urban Vertiport design of Uber
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WORK4
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WORK5
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OTHER WORKS+PHOTOGRAPHY
P21
INTERPRETATION OF HUTONG CULTURE
Dashilan: It is a famous commercial street outside Qianmen Street of Beijing. Dashilan is located in the center of ancient Beijing and is an important part of the South Central axis. It is located in the south of Tiananmen Square, on the west side of Qianmen Street, and is 275 meters long from the east exit to the west exit. Since 1420 (the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty), after more than 500 years of evolution, it has gradually developed into a commercial street with many shops.
Yanshou Street
MEMORY OF THE LIFE OF HUTONG
The courtyard house in Hutong are well-regulated in Beijing. The Hutong and Siheyuan, once important symbols of the city of Beijing, are narrow and crowded. Inconvenient transportation and backward public services have become a major problem in Hutong and Siheyuan. If we widen the streets and demolish the renovation of dangerous buildings, it will also involve the transformation of hutongs and courtyard houses. Hutong and Siheyuan have influenced the lives of Beijing local peopel. Conversely, it can be said that the culture of them has created Hutongs and courtyard houses. Many people have nostalgia for hutongs、that years and the warmth of neighboring friendship and family.
HALF STREET ，HALF SHOP Task: 2016 Dashilar Pilot Project-Hutong Vision——Micro-public Space Design Location: Beijing, China Partner: Tutor: Role:
Beijing Zhongtian Jianzhong Engineering Design Co.,Ltd Lec. Zhao Xiangdong，Lec. Wang Tao Beijing Dashilanr, Cultural Block Planning， Open Space Design Date: July 2016-Aug 2016(4 Weeks Total) Dashilar’s architectural, as well as it’s cultural, history is woven into the sedimental bricolage of the often ad-hoc, and increasingly dilapidated,residential and commercial buildings within its environs. Unlike many of the other historic areas of Beijing, Dashilar was never trapped within a late Qing dynasty die, with successive system’s, government’s and economy’s shaping its built enviroment. Less effective in leaving its mark constructively has perhaps been Beijing’s rapid evolution of its speculative property market. As Dashilar was left relatively untouched during the market reforms of the 90’s and 00’s it has retained its urban fabric and historic authenticity, but lost its stature and standard of living. Though still retaining some of this rich cultural history, Dashilar, despite its poor architectural quality, still houses and hosts a populous community of residents, tourists and passersby. It is not however only the historic architecture and traditional urban fabric that are endangered. Due to a lack of public facilities, no responsive engineering to its aged infrastructure, and the impact from globalized mass tourism on small traditional businesses and craftsmen, an entire community is under threat. Dashilar Pilot is a series of special pilot projects that aim to take on these challenges as an opportunity to make creative thinking truly matter. Beginning in 2013, Dashilar Pilot is an important long term program of Dashilar Project, as well as being a key section in Beijing Design Week Design Hop, Dashilar Design Community. The project is an attempt to tackle difficulties in the Dashilar preservation and revitalisation project through innovative solutions for social and environmental improvement. Through a process beginning with a call for participation, group research, guideline formation, nodal design, and guideline adjustment, Dashwilar Pilot aims to be a setting of experimentation and exempla’s, bringing direct, tangible and positive change to the community of Dashilar.
PROBLEMS
RECONSTRUCTION STRATEGY
Peripheral issues: · There is a lack of large public spaces for residents and tourists to use for leisure and entertainment. · Lack of a lot of greening, only a small number of old trees and potted plants in the inner courtyard. · The courtyard is small and crowded, and there is no storage space that causes the items to be disorderly.
Business format issues: · The traditional business model is not flexible,and customers are limited by distance and have fewer audiences.
Maintain the original architectural texture and layout, close to the most simple life, return to the most heart of yourself.
In the face of serious urbanization, the construction of Hutong space facilities is backward, and the messy and coexisting coexistence, how to make an old hutong glow with new brilliance and give new vitality. Adding new elements while retaining the original texture, making the entire Hutong more livable.
Traditional space issues: · The new building does not match the surrounding hutong form. · The internal space of the original building is not fully utilized.
Context mark
Hand workshop
The basic needs of the community, such as express delivery, catering and other infrastructure.
Supporting function
Landscape
Reconstructed strategic plan
commerce Theater Art Hotel Food landscape
Redesign the streetscape to improve the quality of the courtyard environment and optimize the living standards.
Interest
Artistic space
Providing a lot of fun space for the residents' life. Getting rid of the pressure of the city, return to the most mundane life, everything is to return to the original natural mood to create.
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FUNCTIONAL SELECTION
FIRST FLOOR PLAN
Screening sample: List 18 functions as the initial function screening sample based on the most needed and basic service leisure function in Hutong life.
Findding
Featured bookstore
Understandding
Residential area
Serving
Residential area
Internet +
select HIVE BOX
Featured bookstore
Stall Tea
OVERLOOKING VIEW
Memory of Beijing
rapt
Stall Tea
Beijing Comics
Hutong
Teahouse
HIVE BOX
Before the renovation
After the renovation
Due to functional requirements, the two walls shown are removed, and two new spaces are obtained without affecting the structure, giving people different spatial feelings.
Peking Opera
SITE PLAN
Yanshou Street
STREET ELEVATION
NO.76 Yanshou Street NO.78 Yanshou Street Featured bookstore&Stationery shop
NO.82 Yanshou Street NO.84 Yanshou Street NO.86 Yanshou Street Teahouse&Chess Room
HIVE BOX
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SECTION
MODULARIZATION AND FLEXIBILITY ANALYSIS OF FURNITURE
section 1-1
section 2-2
section 3-3
BEHAVIORAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS
inside
The square boxes of 450*450*450 and 320*320*320 on the shelf can be used to form furniture of various sizes by randomly combining the interior, and the outdoor can be used for rest, playing cards, etc. The internal hollow box can also be used for storage or Display function. outside
NO.76、78 of Yanshou Street Featured bookstore&Stationery shop
NO.82、84 of Yanshou Street Teahouse&Chess Room
NO.86 of Yanshou Street HIVE BOX
Activity space Activity Alone
communication
Forum
Quiet space Business reception
Storage/residence/logistics
Party
The first half of the house is used for activities and the venue caters for a wide range of behavioural activities.
The middle part of the house is the main reception and business part, which generates different activities according to the different functions of the building. It can meet the flow of people or consumption.
The rear part of the house is divided into two parts, the upper floor is used for living,and the lower floor is storage and logistics space, which realizes the diversification and complexity of space, and is economical and practical.
BEHAVIORAL FUNCTION ANALYSIS Roof structures such as roof tiles, waterproofing, and roof slabs expose the building structure to the interior, reflecting the structural beauty of the ancient building.
Rafter
Roof boarding
Purlin and truss structure Exposed to the outdoors and highlighted, indicating that “the ancient wall will not collapse”. Rafter Flexible and variable spatial form. Modularization
Brick and concrete The facade of the house is also the building envelope structure, which restores the traditional style of the ancient building, using wood as the main material, and performing art processing such as carving.
Beam and raft
Pillar
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BRIEF HISTORY OF SHOUGANG In Beijing Shijingshan District, driving on Chang'an Avenue's west along the line, thirty or forty meters high Brown blast furnace and a panoramic view of the lake and the chimney, surrounded by trees around, here is the Shijingshan old factory of Shougang.The impression of Shougang in the hearts of Beijing has been changing for several decades:It used to be the largest steel manufacturing plant in the country, but with the development of society and the need of environmental protection, iron and steel industry gradually moved out of the capital, Beijing. Today, the Shougang park is re - planned and repositioned, and the pride and glory of the former is about to come back to the eyes of the people.
2010 Shougang United Iron&Steel Co.,Ltd was shutdown Disappearing：China's NDRC has agreed to a structural adjustment and environmental governance programme for Shougang group.The No.5 blast furnace at ironworks was officially extinguished at 8 am on June 30.This marks the end of the industry in the Beijing region of Shougang.
Period 5
1984 Shougang Group entered the era of information management
CHINA
Period 4
Rebound：The overall production scale of Shougang ranked the top three in the country.
Period 3
1966 The outbreak of the cultural revolution led to the temporary shutdown of the factory
BEIJING
Recession：The factory was restored under the approval of prime minister Zhou Enlai.
THE RETURN OF INDUSTRY Task: High-Rise building design:Design based on industrial building reconstruction Location: Beijing, China Partner: Tutor: Role: Date:
The overall production of Shougang in years
Zhang Yiran Lec. Bu Deqing, Lec. Hu Yan High-Rise Building Design, Industrial Building Reconstruction Design, Open Space Design Nov 2016-Dec 2016(8 Weeks Total)
This project is located in the Shijingshan District of Beijing Shougang industrial zone, the updated development area of Beijing Shougang industrial zone on Yongding river, east to west Chang 'an Street extension cord, the south to the Yongding River, north to Shougang industrial park area of 3.99 square kilometers between industrial heritage conservation. There is a large number of enterprises and transportation facilities around Shougang industrial zone. At the same time, the government of Shijingshan district defined this area as CRD area (central leisure business district) in 2008, which will provide development land and policy support for many small and medium-sized enterprises to start their own business and grow.
1949-1952 The liberation of Peiping
Period 2
Culmination：After the liberation of Beiping, all the factories were restored to production.In 3 years, Shougang achieved and exceeded the production goals for 30 years since the construction of the factory, and produced 344 thousand tons of iron in the year.
SHIJINGSHAN
1919 Shougang United Iron&Steel Co.,Ltd worked in Shijingshan District, Beijing Period 1
Rising：The Longyan Iron Ore Co. built steel plant in Shijingshan District in western Beijing.This marked the beginning of the modern black metallurgical industry in Beijing.
The design of the high-rise building includes the design of high-rise office complex, the design of the podium and the renovation design of the surrounding old plant. Combining the unique environmental factors and cultural connotation of the site, the industrial elements are integrated into the design. The trend of iron and steel production
The development diagram of Shougang
The development trend of Shougang
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WHAT IS OUR GOAL?
WHY DO WE WANT TO BE?
TO BE A BIRTHMARK OF THIS OLD SPACE TO BE A LANDMARK OF THIS NEW CITY
FOR THE CURIOSITY OF MODERN PEOPLE FOR THE MEMORY OF THE PAST
The new high-rise building in order to stimulate the vitality of the original site, showed the peculiar to Shougang industrial style to the modern people.At the same time, we hope that the employees who have worked in Shougang will return to it and feel it again.
The 2022 Olympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou.The organizers have already built their offices in Shougang. The move is bound to attract more visitors from around the world, and Shougang will bring its glorious history back to the public.With the relocation of industry, many old factories are threatened with demolition, and the industrial heritage will gradually disappear in our memory.Therefore,the protection of industrial heritage and the renovation of the old factory is imminent.
FINDING STRUCTURES IN FACTORIES
SURROUNDDING
Residence Community
Office Building
Business
I try to do some new structure in the work.This old factory makes me realise the changes from industrial society to modern society.The appearance of Internet changes works in the ways and spaces,it changes human's life a lot.I try to show these turns in my work.People used to work together and did one same thing when industrial society,workers worked in factories and slept in dormitories.But now people can choose their own work style including where they work and who they want to work with etc. Sometimes people can sleep in their offices or choose to rest in home.So modern society makes the integration of work and rest into facts. I-beams are the essential constitutional unit in architectures.We are still using these amazing structures from industrial society to modern society. I find changes and the same by the using of I-beams and how Internet changed our life.So I try to show these points in this new high-rise building together. small space
individual
water and green areas aroud
the distribution of factories aroud
the distribution of parks
mass
i-beam machinery
industrial
machinery
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS + INDUSTRIAL MEMORY = OUR NEW INDUSTRIAL BILDING
the distribution of schools
the distribution of shopping malls
machinery
the distribution of settlements
socialism
democracy
ACTIVITY DEGREE OF 4 KINDS OF PEOPLE IN ONE DAY Old people's activity degree is lower than young people.
FORMATION
The highest children's activity degree is always after sleeping.
The average of adults' activity degree is higher than others.
Tourist people's activity degree is highest when daytime.
2 I-beams in the middle
many individual boxes around the i-beams
change these boxes into small structure and give i-beams covers
let small structures extend freely and networked
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BUILDING FUNTION DISTRIBUTION Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more than a boy of 20. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.
d oa nR 'A Xin rth No The Distribution Of Building Function(Plan)
The Distribution Of Building Function(Hight)
MARGINAL DATA
Traffic Routes Entrance Of Buildings
Entrance Of Cars And Peolpe
Flows Of Stuffs And Consumers
Crowd Area
MODEL MAKING PROCESS 0
An West Chang'
80
160
320m
To show and explain my work better, I always made models and only the structure parts. When doing the models, I tries many way to balance the high-rise building in its structures and also exterior (made the façade looks better). Then I made some “people” and put it into the model to feel this space.
Avenue
MASTER PLAN
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TIME TRAVEL
INSIDE SPACES
The idea of annexes' formation came from the structures of the factories here, by using the same structures to memory the ShouGang's blooming times when industrial society. I image that whatI could see from the annex if the ShouGang is still working. That could be an unbelievable travel: these factories are working, machines' sounds become louder and louder when you walk to the factories,the sky is extremely grey and nobody can recognize which is douds and which is smoke from chimneys. Wandering in the park and feeling the industrial atmosphere here, I cannot imagine the appearance of Internet andit can change US in lots of ways in our daily life.
This section shows the structure and interspace of the high-rise building completely. At the same time, it also shows the division for the function of annexs: mainly for commeicial, induding restaurant shops and so on, secondly for official business, the only annex for working has its own entrance used only by stuffs.
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THE EDGE OF URBAN MEMORY Task: Urban design of Deshengmen and its surrounding areas Location: Beijing, China Partner:
Zhu Tianyuan
Role:
Urban design，Urban renaissance，Beijing， “the City of Four and Nine,” Sept 2017-Otc 2017
Date:
Our design was initiated from the observation of the current situation of Beijing. We look forward to the opportunity of this design to find the existing difficulties in Beijing from a macro perspective and try to propose a way to respond. We have observed the current problems in Beijing : 1. In the tide of urban construction, the buildings and urban fabric of the old city with preserved value are constantly disappearing and replaced by modern buildings that conflict with the surrounding fabric scale. 2. In the reconstruction and construction, the status of the city overrides the "people", and the pleasant urban scale no longer exists, and the people who are the main characters of the city are ignored. We are planning for the future of Beijing is gradually to the function of the development of high strength core cities, the formation of multi-center system, deep around the new center is independent of the service and improve the rail transit system and make the new central district can operate independently, do not need to rely on the old city district development, avoid the necessity of traffic through the old people.
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WHERE IS OUR OLD CITY?
THE GATES OF PEKING
PROBLEMS
Ten Years Ago
We have observed the current problems in Beijing : 1.In the tide of urban construction, the buildings and urban fabric of the old city with preserved value are constantly disappearing and replaced by modern buildings that conflict with the surrounding fabric scale. 2. In the reconstruction and construction, the status of the city overrides the "people", and the pleasant urban scale no longer exists, and the people who are the main characters of the city are ignored.
The Over-Centered Of Beijing
new old old
yard
hall
new
A New Urban Space——The Junction Zone
VERTICAL TRANSPORT
MAIN ROAD
SUBWAY STATION
Xi Zhi Men
Flyover/Ground
The 2nd Ring Road
Xi Zhi Men Station
Dong Zhi Men
Flyover/Ground
The 2nd Ring Road
Dong Zhi Men Station
Fu Cheng Men
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
Fu Cheng Men Station
An Ding Men
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
An Ding Men Station
Chao Yang Men
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
Chao Yang Men Station
Location：City Gate Functional Conception：The Hall of Old City +The Yard of New City
RIVER SYSTEM Single Centering
The Old Hutong And Bus Station
Xuan Wu Men
Xuan Wu Men Station
Chong Wen Men
Chong Wen Men Station
The Old Cinema And The Mall
PLANNING INTENTION MAP
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
Guang Qu Men
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
Moat
You An Men
Ground/Underground
The 2nd Ring Road
Moat
Zuo An Men
Flyover / Ground
Moat
GREENING
MAIN ROAD
SUBWAY STATION
RIVER SYSTEM
Qianmen Street
Chong Wen Men Station
——
Zheng Yang Men
Ground
Road surround
Core
De Sheng Men
Flyover/Ground/ Underground
Road surround
Core
Dong Bian Men
Flyover/Ground
In the middle of the square
Core
The 2nd Ring Road
——
Moat
Xi Bian Men
Flyover/Ground
In the middle of the square
Core
The 2nd Ring Road
Changchun Street Station
——
yong ding men
Ground/ Underground
Road surround
Outset
The 2nd Ring Road
——
Moat
The 2nd Ring Road/ In the middle of Jishuitan Badaling Expressway and Gulou Street Station
Moat
NOW
The Old Transportation Facilitiesa
In order to alleviate the phenomenon of Beijing's excessive urbanization, the government put forward the idea of "two axes, two belts and multiple centers", trying to change the type of Beijing single center development, but the results are not effective. At present, Beijing is still developing in the same scale as the original development form, while the old city at the core is under great pressure to develop, and a batch of traditional courtyard houses and hutongs have been pushed down. The precious texture of the old city is gradually disappear.
Guang Ning Men
VERTICAL RELATIONSHIP TRANSPORT WITH GATES
Expected Result
Reserved Building The Old Residential Area And House
Planning for renovation
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Traffic network
Landscape
Landscape elements
Open space
Available Area in the Future
Available Area in the Future
Planning Analysis
Life service belt
Commercial Office Residential
Centripetal channel
Hotel Cultural Buildings
SITE PLAN
Greenbelt
Transportation Hub
Underground pedestrian passage
Green space
Entrance and exit
Siheyuan Special Hotel Protection of Historical Relics
Commercial belt
Vitality point
Underground Parking Lot
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PLANNING OF THE WESTERN SECTION OF THE MOAT
SKYLINE DESIGN
transportation hub and Riverbank space
open space
Hydrophilic platform
greenbelt
Ramp space
Hydrophilic platform
Hydrophilic square
Blocked
Existing Problems Underground road
Fused Public facility
Solutions
Continuous activity space
SKYLINE DESIGN
THE BANKS OF THE MOAT
The skyline is lowered from the east and west sides to the middle, which is opposite to the Deshengmen Arrow Tower, making the arrow tower more prominent.
The old city is surrounded by high-rise buildings, and the old and new districts are separated by buffer zones.
Beijing Old City History Museum Roof Garden Aerial Corridor Hydrophilic platform
The 2nd Ring Road Hydrophilic platform
Old buildings Landscape corridor
Pedestrian lane
Aerial Corridor Underground Parking Lot
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Agronomic Exhibition Hall
Event Square
Tourist activity center
Pottery Exhibition Hall
Pottery Experience Hall
The Experienced Paradise Of Liangzhu Traditional Culture Task: Liangzhu Cultural Center Planning and Architectural Design Location: Hangzhou, China Partner: Role: Date:
Zhu Tianyuan Creative Neighborhood, Cultural Block PlanningďźŒ Open Space Design Nov 2017-Dec 2017(8 Weeks Total)
The proposed site is located in Liangzhu Culture Village, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, and the community is green and sports ground in the south. The land for the project is located in the central open space of the jade bird tassel block. The northwest is the built creative street (designed by Qi Xin and Zhang Lei), the northeast is the urban green space, the east side is the built cultural center (designed by Tadao Ando), and the south side is adjacent to the city. On the west side, there are parking lots, food street food fields and bus stops. In the planning, the relationship between functional division, traffic organization and landscape environment treatment of the project is discussed, and the relationship and processing methods of space, path, boundary, region, node and landmark in the building group are mastered. Inject new vitality into the neighborhood. In architectural design, explore the expression of commercial, cultural and creative architectural character and its design language and techniques. Master the methods of architectural design innovation in special locations, deepen understanding of the relationship between architecture and regional, historical, social, cultural and environmental, and integrate architecture with community life.
Farm implement exhibition hall
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ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS
PLANNING INTENTION Hotel 15% Business street 15% Economic benefit Jade culture
Cultural heritage
Raise 5000 ㎡
Market 4200 ㎡
Hotel 10000 ㎡
Experience park 15000 ㎡
Restaurants 4200 ㎡
Plaza 1200 ㎡
+ + Farming culture
Classroom 15%
Personal experience
+
Learning, increasing knowledge
+ satisfaction
DATA SURVEY
general unsatisfactory
Ceramic experience
+
Exhibition hall 2100 ㎡
Classroom 1800 ㎡
Other region
Entertainment
Accommodation
Restaurant
Relaxation
Others
For knowledge
For Child
▲The purpose of tourist visits in cultural villages is to give children growth in knowledge and relaxation.
Local tourists
Exhibition hall 10%
Planting Techniques
Yangtze River Delta region
Shopping
Business street 3800 ㎡
Lack of popularity Single tourism industry
▲Tourists are less satisfied with the tourism facilities of the cultural village, especially in terms of accommodation and catering.
Experience park 20%
Subsidiary rooms 15%
Accommodation and facilities need to be improved
Potter 3600 ㎡
Traditional culture experience park
Restaurants 20%
Other tourists
URBAN TEXTURE STUDY
▲The cultural villages are mainly from local villagers, Hangzhou citizens and surrounding tourists. There are fewer tourists in the faraway areas.
At the beginning of the design, we have carried out some research on the urban textures with relative characteristics around the world. Because of the different geographical locations of the cities and the different countries, the corresponding cultural characteristics have different characteristics of the city. Putting a 200x200m square grid on top of the urban texture, it can be seen that the scale of each city block is different. In comparison, in terms of crowd comfort, small-scale neighborhoods and buildings give users a more comfortable feel.
Local Others
First time
Second time
More then three times
▲Most of the cultural village visitors are here for the first time, and the return visit rate is low.
Private car
Public transit
Tour group
Others
▲Tourists in the cultural villages are mainly transported by public transport. This is inseparable from the convenient transportation facilities of the cultural village.
18-30
30-45
45-55
Barcelona
Beijing
Beijing
Boston
Helsinki
Chicago
Jerusalem
Hongkong
Hongkong
NewYork
55-
▲Cultural village tourists are mainly 30-45 years old, and most of them are parents who bring children to visit here.
CURRENT PROBLEMS Residents Of Cultural Villages
Children &Teenagers
Tourists Of Other Places
Short-distance travel of surrounding residents
Adults
Lovers of Liangzhu culture
The ages(mainly from local residents)
Tourists outside Hangzhou
Existing Problems
▲Lack
of popularity
▲Single
tourism industry
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SITE PLAN DIMENSION
DIMENSION STEET & SQUARE
CHOICE ▲Large-scale Grid:60x60m ▲Smaller Grid:30X30m
▲Moderate Grid:45X45m
After the texture and scale were determined, various combinations were enumerated in a typological manner with 45 x 45 m as the unit. Each group has different combinations, and its architectural form is different, and the matching building functions are also different. This will also create a different sense of place experience.
TEXTURE ▲Select the 45x45m grid to rotate the angle to the base
▲Add a grid of the second angle to make the two intersect
▲Adjust the angle of the ▲Adjust the grid to two grids cater to the function and flow direction
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CATERING GROUP DESIGN
Axonometric
Elevation
First floor plan
Section
Second floor plan
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First floor plan
Second floor plan
ACTIVITY CENTER DESIGN
SUNKEN SQUARE ANALYSIS
Elevation The square is located on the same level, the center is difficult to gather people, and the usage rate is low.
Raise the plane of the square and use it for performances. It is difficult to attract people on a daily basis.
The sunken square forms a semi-enclosed space with slopes on both sides for good accessibility.
The sunken square forms a semi-enclosed space, and one side is connected by a ramp, forming two different experience spaces on both sides of the square.
The sunken plaza is connected by a ramp on one side and a concave-shaped space on the other side to enhance the sense of encirclement and is more suitable for staying.
Axonometric
Section
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Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation Task: Urban Vertiport design of Uber Location: Los Angeles, USA Partner:
MA Gewenxin
Role:
Uber VTOLs，Vertiports and Vertistops，Landing spots Transportation hub Aug 2018-Sept 2018
Date:
Imagine traveling from San Francisco’s Marina to work in downtown San Jose—a drive that would normally occupy the better part of two hours—in only 15 minutes. What if you could save nearly four hours round-trip between São Paulo’s city center and the suburbs in Campinas? Or imagine reducing your 90-plus minute stop-and-go commute from Gurgaon to your office in central New Delhi to a mere six minutes. On-demand aviation , has the potential to radically improve urban mobility, giving people back time lost in their daily commutes. Uber is close to the commute pain that citizens in cities around the world feel. We view helping to solve this problem as core to our mission and our commitment to our rider base. Just as skyscrapers allowed cities to use limited land more efficiently, urban air transportation will use three-dimensional airspace to alleviate transportation congestion on the ground. A network of small, electric aircraft that take off and land vertically (called VTOL aircraft for Vertical Take-off and Landing , and pronounced vee-tol ), will enable rapid, reliable transportation between suburbs and cities and, ultimately, within cities. I did a research and found that Uber intends to develop VTOL to fundamentally improve urban mobility, giving people back time lost in their daily commutes. But there is not enough space to satisfy the VTOL's take-off and landing. So I decided to choose a transportation hub like Los Angeles's union station and add the VTOL vertispots to the existing rail, subway and bus systems, making VTOL to be a possible and convenient commuting method in the future.
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SITE STUDY Los Angeles is a city full of troubles and challenges.It is the second largest city in the United States and is often referred to as the "City of Angels";It is famous of the industrial, commercial, international, science, education, entertainment and sports.The city is located in an open basin facing the sea on three sides, except for the hilly terrain, which is flat in most areas.The United States' largest port is the Port of New York, but the New York Harbor has more than one or two indicators over the Port of Los Angeles. The remaining indicators are the Port of Los Angeles over New York Harbor. If ranked by GDP, Los Angeles is almost ranked 17th in the world, and the GDP of a city in Los Angeles exceeds the GDP of more than 180 countries around the world.
Union Station is the railway terminal in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California ,and it’s also the most important railway hub in Southern California.
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Los Angeles International Airport is the main airport in the Los Angeles area. Not only the busiest passenger airport in California, but also the third largest airport in the United States.
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DENSITY OF BUILDING Exhibitions
ATM
Restaurants
Cafe
Markets
Charging Stations
Car Rentals
Bar
Dessert Stations
lower middle higher
SITE
SITE Union Station
MI
highest
SITE
0.5 MI
0.5
GOOGLE MAP
ROAD NETWORK
ACTIVE CENTER
OPEN SPACE
Union station is the main railway station in Los Angeles metropolitan area and the most important railway hub in southern California
Developed highway and clear road network, a variety of bus and subway lines.
The diversity of the building types has brought countless people flow and infinite vitality to the site.
The high density of architectural space makes the surrounding area lack of large open space.
2 miles
2 miles
Park or Urban Open Space Commerce Government agency Education River Residential Area Hospital Others Site
San Bernardino Fwy
Bus
Aroyo Seco Pkwy Golden State Fwy
2 miles
Sunset Blvd East Cesar E Chavez Avenue N Alameda St
2 miles
N Los Angeles St Santa Ana Fwy
Hospital
2 miles
Education
2 miles
Supermarkt
2 miles
Bank
2 miles
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PUBLIC ACTIVITIES ANALYSIS Due to the development of the entertainment industry, industry and commerce, and tourism, there is tremendous pressure on traffic in the Los Angeles area.The travel time and behavioral activities of people in different industries have their own characteristics. Although Los Angeles has developed traffic, it still causes serious traffic congestion during peak hours.I conducted a survey of human activities for various industries, with the aim of better understanding the current situation of people's travel, so that VTOLs can be used to solve existing traffic problems.
BUS TIMETABLE OF THE UNION STATION
ABOUT UBER FUNCTION
COMMERCIAL
RECREATION
EDUCATION
Characteristics purposiveness familiar high flow of people high flow of people of User with
CHURCH
OFFICE
GOVERNMENT APPARATUS
RESIDENCE
occasionality
purposiveness familiar with
regular
purposiveness familiar with
Average Cost of Driving
Use of Helipad in USA PRIVATE:66
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0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
0:00
Estimated Vertistop Trip Coverage
0:00
UNUSED:5598 18:00
6:00 18:00
6:00
12:00
Hours of Use
18:00
6:00
12:00
18:00
6:00
12:00
18:00
6:00
12:00
18:00
6:00
12:00
18:00
6:00
12:00
12:00
VTOL INFRUSTRACTURE ANALTSIS M
T
W
T
F
S
S
night/weekday and weekend
M
T
W
T
F
S
night weekend
S
M
T
W
T
F
day weekday
S
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
day/weekday and weekend
M
T
W
T
F
S
day weekday
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
day weekday
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
night weekend
S
Vertispot
Vertistop
Maximum Capacity :12 VTOLs
Vertiports would be large multi-landing locations Vertistops would be single vehicle landing locations that have support facilities (i.e., rechargers, support where no support facilities are provided, but where personnel, etc.) for multiple VTOLs and passengers. VTOLs can quickly drop off and pick up passengers without parking for an extended time.
Mode of Use aimless
indirect
point to point
indirect
point to point
point to point
point to point
Infrastructure Simulation
All riders are to take no more than one VTOL leg (i.e., VTOL layovers are not considered).
Mode of Active Hour
Max VTOL distance is 120 miles.
continuous
continuous
instantaneous
continuous
continuous
continuous
continuous
highest
higher
lowest
higher
lower
middle
lowest
The average SPEED is 170mile/h.
Degree of Public A rider is eligible for a VTOL route if and only if the estimated duration of the route is at least 40% faster relative to the estimated duration of the ground trip.
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4F PLAN Up and down landing platform Fixed charging position
01
01 01
01
REGIONAL DISTRICT FRAMEWORK
01.VTOL REPAIR PREPARATION ROOM
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS
Club&Hotel Temporary Terminal Parking Area
TERMINAL 2 PLAN Takeoff position
Landing position
Takeoff position
Landing position
Terminal 2
Escalator
Escalator
Transfer Story
Elevator Terminal 1 Transfer Story
Escalator
Takeoff position
Landing position
Viewing Deck Waiting Hall
Elevator
Landing position
Routes for passengers.
Takeoff position 1M
6F PLAN
30M
SECTORIZATION
ENERGY SYSTEM FRAMEWORK
Up and down landing platform Fixed charging position
02 03
01
02 01 02 03 01.VTOL REPAIR PREPARATION ROOM 02.VTOL REPAIR PLACE 03.EQUIPMENT ROOM
01
1M
30M
solar panel office elevator escalator take-off platform slots transfer channel
cafe&bar hour room restaurant convenience stores medical station toilet waiting area
The light from the sun. The solar power for the building.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
HANDPAINTING
Cinqueterre,Italy April 2016
Pairs,Franch June 2016
Arezzo,Italy May 2016
Pen sketches
Watercolour sketches
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