Bao Xiaoyu 's Portfolio Wuhan University, China (B.Arch, 2014-2018) University of Dundee, United Kingdom (B.Arch2018-2019)
1. Cube House--Co-housing Design
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2. Double-sided Mountain--Design Centre Design
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3. Craft and City--Strategy Design In Vicenza
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4. Land of idyllic beauty--Music and Architecture
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Cube House --Co-housing Design Individual Work Site: Hanyang District, Wuhan, China Tutor: Sun Xiaonuan
Wuhan is the city which has the most college students in China. Thousands of graduates will leave college and enter society. Most of them will choose to rent a house. Low price, comfortable space, even indoor office are their needs. therefore co-housing has a large market in Wuhan. Co-housing allow many people to rent a house at the same time. They will have their own bedroom, but they will share the living room and the kitchen. Some people choose to work at home, therefore the indoor space does not need to be too large, but working space is required.
College Student
Population
We found that the majority of population in Wuhan are the youngsters, in 2016, the number of college students and graduate students in Wuhan has reached 1 milion and 200 thousand, which is more than Beijing, Shanghai, Newyork and London, arrived the top of the world, that means there is a college student among every ten people in Wuhan.
Green Space
Historical Buildings
Subway
New Roads
Green Space on Site
Considering about the housing price which the graduates cannot afford, we determined to design this cohousing for them, we hope that this is a place where they can enjoy their life, work or have their own busness. We think the most important things for the young graduates are the working space, living environment, and conmmunication with the others, which can help them get into the socical more quickly, consequently we made sharing space between every rooms and units, in order to encourage them to go out of the rooms and communicate with their roommates more.
Main Roads
Community Design
Room
Circulation
Module Composition
Unit
The bedroom module is 4x4, which is designed for 1 person. 3-6 rooms form a unit, people will share the living room, kitchen and sharing space in a unit.
Single Block
Community
8 different units will form a single block. Each block can accommodate 40 people. 25 single blocks will form a community, which covers the whole site and can accommodate 1,000 person.
Sharing Space (single unit)
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Bedroom Module Structure 3-ply core plywood, floating Impact sound insulation Lingnatur timber box element Vapour barrir
Indoor Corrider
Loadbearing layer for vapour Wood-cement particleboard
Each building has a indoor coorider, which is located on the third floor. The third floor is designed for public, which has a landscape corrider and two rooms for coworking.
Battens Vapour check
Outdoor Corrider Out door Corrider connects two buildings together. People can go to another building through the outdoor corrider. The outdoor corrider located on the third floor of each building, connecting two indoor corriders.
Thermal insulation Frame Structure
Softboard Battens Weatherboarding
Window
Indoor Corriders
Atrium
Co-working Space
Handrail
House Type
Private Living Space
5 People
5 People
5 People
3 People
5 People
4 People
3 People
6 People South Elevation
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Double-sided Mountain --Design Centre Design Individual Work Site: Qingshan District, Wuhan, China Tutor: Sun Xiaonuan
Green building has been a focus point for a long time in modern architecture, especially in high-rise building.China's air condition has not been very well for a long time. Therefore this design is trying to use skin to achieve the goal of energy saving and emission reduction.
Site Analysis
Massing Processing
Zhongbei Road
Second Ring Road
Sand Lake
Sand Lake Park
Curve
Move
Single Building
Offset
Rotate
Multi Buildings
Swan Pool
Form Generate
Daylighting Analysis
Solar Trajectory
Building Heat Analysis
The length of the site is 220m, which is too long and will have bad impact on traffic. Therefore two new roads are set in the site, which cut the site into three parts. The initial form of the building is created by these two roads and a square. Through the daylighting analysis, we can see that the intensity of solar reception of the north and the south elevations of the building has great different. In order to reduce energy consumption, vertical louvers are used to control the solar reception. According to the intensity of solar reception, the quantity of the louvers at different location of the elevation will be different to control the indoor daylighting. Through the calculation of the intensity of the solar reception, place where has low solar reception will have sparse louvers to let more solar come into indoor space. On the contrary, place where has high solar reception will have dense louvers to prevent sunshine from entering the room.
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Public Concentration
Integration
Points of attraction
Circulation
4F Plan
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21F Plan
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1F Plan
3F Plan
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Design Centre
Book Shop
Each floor of three or more floors has a design centre. Each design centre has a two-story platform, which is a semi-outdoor platform set between main building and glass curtain wall. It is a place for people to rest and enjoy the scenery. The bookshop is located on the 3rd floor. The 3rd floor is an entire floor. Three buildings are connected by the corridors. 9th, 15th, 21st floors are the same. The bookshop also has a indoor mezzanine, which is designed as a place for reading and meeting. A long window is set in the bookshop, which can make sure the indoor daylighting and improve indoor space quality at the same time.
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Craft and City --Strategy Design In Vicenza City Investigating(Group Work) +Strategy Design(Individual Work) Site: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy Tutor: Cameron Wilson Everything starts from Vicenza, a city full of arts and crafts. Two rivers run through the city, whose names are Fiume Retrone and Bacchiglione. We find several open space in Vicenza along these rivers as our sites. These open spaces are car parks and plazas. We decide to make them lively and bring benefits to the city. I choose site 3 and site 4. Although these two sites are located at the centre of the city, they still have many problems. I decide to design a new strategy to solve these problems.
Service 8.7%
Instruction 8.7%
Manufacturing 27.4%
80+ Years 8912
50-59 Years 17755
0-9 Years 9003
10-19 Years 10371
40-49 Years 17267
Male 52800
Female 58820 20-29 Years 11310
Trade 14%
Main Industry
60-69 Years 13035 70-79 Years 12097
Age Distribution
30-39 Years 11870
Sex Ratio
Crafts
Palladio's Buildings
Vicenza's four pillar industries are textile, gold industry, steel industry and crafts.
Palladio was an Italian architect activing in the Venetian Republic. He has designed many famous buildings in Vicenza. He is one of the representative of the city.
City Walls
Markets
Vicenza has many old city walls. Most of them were destroied, but parts of the walls can be seen in the city.
The city has many markets. People sales everything on the markets, including clothes, food, souvenir, craft, etc. Most of the tourists like these markets.
Historical Reserve UNESCO Buffer Zones Monumental Blocks Fabrics and Historic Villages
Green Land Car Park
Open Space
Bus Routes
Historical Reserve Area (by UNESCO)
List of Italian Regions by GDP
Arrivals
Overnight Stays
Italians
Our Site Bus Route Palladio's Building River Craft and City --Strategy Design In Vicenza
Foreigners
Tourist arrivals and overnight stays in Veneto
Vicenza has many tourists every year. Therefore markets and craft shops can be seen everywhere in the city. Palladio's buildings and crafts are the most attractive things to tourists. Among them, crafts are the mainstay industry in Vicenza. Vicenza also has many historical b uild ing s. UNES CO h as set som e historical reserve area to protect these buildings, which are welcomed among tourists at the same time.
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Typology of Buildings
Buildings Usage
Urban Block
Mixed Buildings Cultural
Residential
Private
Retail
Long Strip Buildings
Individual Buildings
Physical Model Two long rivers run across the city. Along them, we choose 6 openspaces as our sites, which are all near the river. These 6 places can be connected by river, and they become a landscape belt for the city. I choose site 3 and site 4. Site 3 is a public car park, and site 4 is a plaza right now. Through the building usage analysis, we can see that there are many cultural buildings near these two sites. The most famous of them are Palazzo Chiericati and Teatro Olimpico. These cultural buildings will attract great numbers of tourists to come to the site. It can also be seen that the residential area occupies the largest area near the site, but the retail space has less area. Therefore a large market is needed in these sites. We also make a physical site model to show the connection between different sites and the connection between sites and the river.
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Site Problems & Strategy
Main Idea & Function The workshop not only attracts LOCALS but also PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD
TOURISTS will be attracted to the craft market
Public Service CRAFT WORKSHOP
SITE 3 WORKSHOP
PLAZA
SITE 4 PARK
CRAFT MARKET
SITE 4 MARKET
Function
Economic JOB OPPORTUNITY GDP
JOB OPPORTUNITY
GDP
TOURISM
CRAFT
Unattractive Site 3 and half of site 4 are car parking right now. People will use these place when they park or take their cars, therefore few people will use these place. Several cultural buildings are located near these two car parking. These buildings will attract tourists and local people, but few of these people would come to enter site 3 because it is just a car parking. Therefore, site 3 is quite but the outside of site 3 is crowded. Although site 4 is lively because of its plaza, the car parking part is still quite and has less people.
Terrain
Culture CRAFT
FOOD CULTURE
Jewelry in Vicenza
Performance Artist in Vicenza
As the diagram on the left shows, site 3 has six meters terrain in total. Right now there is a large ramp on the exit of the double-layer car parking, which is 4 meters high.
Vicenza is famous for its crafts. There are many local crafts shops in the city, but few craft schools in the city. Building a craft school on the site can attract quantities of foreigners to come and learn how to make crafts. At the same time, local people can be teachers in the school, which provide new job opportunities for the local people. What's more, the crafts that made by school can be exhibited and saled on the market. The exhibition will attract new tourists to make them interested in the crafts and enter the craft school, while the market can promote the local economy. Therefore it is very useful to build a craft school and a market on these two sites. Site 4 has already been a plaza, and it is one of the hub of the city at the same time. Therefore site 4 is more suitable to be a exhibition and a martket. It can be exhibition on usually days, and become market on specific days. Site 3 is more suitable to be a craft school because site 3 is small and has less public space. The crafts made in the school on site 3 will be transported to site 4 to be exhibited or saled. Then people who are interest in the crafts exhibited on site 4 will go to site 3 to have a look or learn how to make crafts.
Obstructed View The plaza on site 4 has many trees and green lands on it. It is a good place to rest, but the view that people on the road will have would be blocked by these trees. Therefore they will not see the Palazzo Chiericati. And this people is a low quality public space right now. Most of people perfer to sit on the stairs in front of the building instead of sit in the plaza.
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Massing Study
Progression
1.Occupation
2.Cut
3.Lift Up
4.Plaza
Massing Analysis
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Plazas
Circulation
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Section A-A Many physical models are made to compare and find the best choice for the building type. These models have different focus points. They are connecting the elevation along the road on both site 3&4, creating space using buildings, creating courtyard in the middle, building flexible buildings for people to go through.
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Blocks
Section B-B
Finally the fifth model is chosen. This building type can connect the elevatoin along the road on site 3, and create two courtyard on both sites. A pavilion is set on site 4, which can be used as a exhibition room, and keep the open plaza as well.
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Semi-Open Workshop The semi-open workshop is facing to the museum's exit, therefore people from the museum will see this workshop directly. A sculpture is placed on the roof to attract people's attention and show the function.
Craft Market Under the building, a path connects two entrance of the site, on which there is a craft market. Crafts made in the workshop will be sold in this market.
Main Entrance Through the main entrance, people can arrive at the platform by stairs, visit the market, and enter the craft workshop.
Central Stage The central stage is designed for the performance artists and street artists. People can also walk to the roof fo the exhibition building.
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Land of idyllic beauty --Music and Architecture Individual Work Site: Wuhan, China
China is a impetuous country. Young people and middle-aged people in China live in pressure. Most of them live for life, but they can't enjoy the life. Because they worry that they can't survive without working hard, and Chinese like to compare each other. In order to alleviate this social phenomenon, a music centre is designed. This centre are attempting to isolate a space, and create a peaceful place for people to relieve their pressure. In this centre, people will forget the pressure in their life for a moment, and enjoy the music.
Population Analysis
Problems in China
Crowded Traffic
Excessive Population
Noisy Constructions
Stressful Life
The site is located in Wuhan, China, which is surrounded by many high buildings. The surrounding builidngs are mainly commercial area, residential area and administrative area. The street on the north of the site is the main road in the city, which is called Jianghan road. There are three subeway stations near the site, therefore the transportation is very convenient. The diagram in the upper left corner shows the people who will come to the site in a day. The chart shows that young people is the main population. Middle-aged person is busy on working days, but they will come to the site when they are free. They choose to enter the site mainly because they want to relax themselves or they are interest in the site's theme. The impetuous mood is mainly caused by crowded traffic, excessive population, noise and stressful life. Chinese people are too stressed, therefore they need a place to help them forget the pressure and make them enjoy the life again.
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'Fate Symphony'
‘Eternal Hope’
The upper diagram shows different kinds of people's mood in their daily life. Chinese people live in pressure and anxiety. The social problems and social atmosphere in China make Chinese people feel stressful. Some of them can't enjoy their life, therefore I want to design a building that can reduce these negative emotion, and help them forget the pressure and anxiety. When people feel stressful and anxious, their mood will change like an intense music in their daily life. The first staves are from the 'Fate Symphony' by Ludwig van Beethoven. People's mood swings are very large, just like the climax and trough in the intense music. On the contrary, when people feel relaxing and happy, their mood will change like a light music in their daily life. The second staves are from the ‘Eternal Hope’ by Clinton Ngan. Different from the first staves, when people enjoy their life, their mood will swing slightly and gentlely, just like the light music.
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Watching Area
Drinking Area Reading Area
Rest Area
1.Isolate
2.Set Entrance
3.Set Polyline
4.Change Profile
Rest Area
Restaurant Area
Massing Processing
Performance Area
This design try to create a centre that is totally different from external world. Therefore the first step is "isolate“. Using blocks, a courtyard is created and is isolated from the ecternal world. In order to attract people to enter the site, four entrances are set on four different directions. These entraces change from large to small, therefore people outside can only see part of the internal space, but it is easy for people inside to look out. When people enter the site, they can also experience a journey through two different worlds.
Parking Area Shopping Area Outdoor Performance Area
Reading Area
The third and fourth steps are change the buildings profile using polylines to make them more flexible and vivid. The changes are similar with the sense of rhythm in music.
Administrative Area Teaching Area The Peach Blossom Visionary Land
--Tao Yuanming
It was narrow atfirst, just enough to pass through. After several tens of steps, the way led tovast spaciousness. The land was level and expanded, houses were spread out ingood order; goodly farms, fair ponds and mulberry and bamboo thickets were tobe seen everywhere.
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Ground Floor Plan
First Floor Plan
01 Hall 02 Music Shop 03 Central Stage 04 Female Drassing Room 05 Male Drassing Room 06 Backstage 07 Concert Hall 08 Toilet 09 Small Meeting Room 10 Glass Hall 11 Underground Parking 12 Library 13 Music Classroom 14 Music Theory Classroom 15 Hall 16 Storage Room 17 Meeting Room 18 Large Meeting Room 19 Administrative Office 20 Security Room
01 Food Sale 02 Outdoor Platfrom 03 Library 2F 04 Vip Audience Area 05 Music Restaurant 06 Outdoor Platform 07 Music Bar
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Library Library has a large floor to ceiling window, facing to the central stage. The stairs in the library have large steps, allowing people to sit on and read books.
Music Classroom Among three buildings, two large ourdoor platforms are set for people to rest and have meal outdoor. People on the platform can also have a good view of the central stage. These two platforms connect music bar, music restaurant and the second floor of the library.
Music classroom is designed for teaching and performing. Many musical instruments and a small stage are provided for the class.
Glass Hall The glass hall in the concert is very transparent and open which is hold by steel. Some tables and small meeting room are set in it.
Central Stage The central stage is the whole centre of the site, which can be seen everywhere in the site. On the ground floor, a long corridor with floor-to-ceiling window is designed. Many exhibits will be set on the tables in the corridor. People can see the exhibits when they pass by, or they can see the people performing on the central stage.
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Bands or individuals can perform on the central stage as they well. People on the second floor can also see the performance on the outdoor platform.
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