ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
SELECTED WORK BY
XIAOYU XU
Xiaoyu Xu Chinese 1992/07/30 Delft, the Netherlands +31 6 4952 4489 tyfyxsxx@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MSc Architecture, TU Delft
2016.9 - 2018.7
Graduation Studio Heritage (8.5/10) Transformed Dutch structuralism icon: Centraal Beheer into a university Studio Interior (8.5/10) Designed an artist community in central Rotterdam Studio Bridge Design (9/10) Designed a butterfly bridge over river De Rotte in Rotterdam Bachelor of Architecture, HIT.
2009.9 - 2014.7
ďźˆHarbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China Graduation Studio landmark (9/10) Designed a sports & culture center in Daqing, China
EXPERIENCE
UA Architecture Shanghai, China
2014.8 - 2015.12
Architect Mall: Greenland Colorful City commercial complex project Contributed in high-rise offices design and entrance design Hongkou Factory Renovation project Transformed an old factory into a creative market Yuelanwan Villas project Designed several luxury villas in Sanya, Hainan Architectural Design Institute of HIT., China
2013.10 - 2014.3
Intern Architect Contributed in an aviation museum design Architectural Design Institute of Fengcheng, China Intern Assistant Designer Supporting in the design of a private housing
2013.09- 2013.10
AWARDS
Facade workshop TU Delft, Second place
2016.12
Designed a movable double facade system with the supervision of Anne lacaton Graduation project HIT, Mention Excellent
2014.7
Design: Icy landmark, Sports & Culture Center Daqing Snow Sculpture Contest, First place in HIT
2013.1
Afterwards Representing HIT, Won Third Place In China Sculpture: Whispering of the forest “Yangguang� Scholarship
2011.3
Awarded for the design competition: Faculty Extension 2010 Three Cubic Meters Design Contest, Bronze Prize
2010.8
Designed an archive for architectural hand sketches in the faculty
EXTRA
Chinese National Geography Magazine
2013.5 - 2013.9
Intern Photo Editor Responsible for preliminary magazine layout and photo edit Involved in designing a new official website for the magazine www.dili360.com Cycling club Architecture HIT
2012.7 - 2014.7
Captain Organized a total 3970km distance team cycling In 2017, cycled across the EU continent and the Alps in 17 Days International Students Volleyball Club Delft Organizer, Outside Hitter, Libero Organized four tournaments among Delft international students
SKILLS
Software Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, Auto CAD, Rhino, Sketchup, Vray, Microsoft office Language English, Mandarin, Basic Dutch Excellent singing skills
2016 - Now
CONTENTS
EXTENDING STRUCTURALISM A campus in Centraal Beheer Heritage Transformation 02-33
PONT DE BUTTERFLY
MONUMENT WATER VALLEY A floating park
Utopia monument 66-81
INTERTWINE
Butterfly bridge: A series of arches
Rotterdam artist community
Bridge Design 34-57
Urban context 82-93
ICY LANDMARK
GAME OF COURTYARD
Sports & Culture center of Daqing
Ancient Chinese courtyard reunite
Landmark project 58-65
Museum project 94-103
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Heritage transformation, 2018 Master graduation work, TU Delft Education, 32312M² Tutor: Lidy Mijers Apeldoorn,the Netherlands
EXTENDING STRUCTURALISM A Campus in Centraal Beheer
Structuralism architecture represents a type of architecture that can interact, grow and adapt. In the 1960s the movement of structuralism is a historical moment in Dutch architectural history. The buildings can be recognized by their vivid open structures, composition of many small units, and a spatial organization like a city. Centraal Beheer is a significant icon of Dutch structuralism. Designed by Herman Hertzberger, the building functioned as an office of an insurance company for 40 years from 1972 to 2012. However, the same with other structuralism icons, its existence is at stake: the building is now vacant and cannot meet contemporary demands. Thus, what is the future value and possibility of Centraal Beheer / Structuralism? Has the building really being experienced as a city and can continue to be a city in the future? Can the repetition unites continue to be valuable and reusable for nowadays? Renovating a building like Centraal Beheer is never just about the building itself, all the structuralism thinking and its unique value need to be considered. Thus, as the graduation project of my master study period, I spend a year to research and redesign, not only about the building, but more importantly, about experimenting and testing the future solutions for the principles lying under the building and Structuralism Architecture, and to inherit their advantages and to avoid their disadvantages.
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Interior Renovation Overview(3F): Scale Change From The Center To The Edge
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Structuralism Architecture In Dutch History
Among all the architectural movements in Dutch history, the Structuralism is the only one that does not care about facade. Instead of exterior, these architects care much more about the interior, to be more specifically, the spatial organization. The human being and its relations is the starting point of this form. These buildings can be seen as a configuration that consists of smaller units that are subject to individual Interpretation but still form a coherent whole in which collectivity can enter. Just as the separate fibers of a fabric not only assure cohesion but may also help to determine the natural of the whole. The principle of the reciprocal interdependence of the individual and the communal is at the very heart of Structuralism. And this is why Structuralism architects think that A building is like a city.
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Centraal Beheer Current Situation Due to their unique spatial grids, most Structuralism buildings are different from their surroundings. For Centraal Beheer especially, like a huge alien, landing in the heart of Apeldoorn
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Structuralism Buildings Time Line
Among all the structuralism buildings, Centraal Beheer is neither the first one nor the biggest one, but it is the most representative one. The principles of structuralism are conducted in-depth. That is to say, Centraal Beheer is the purest structuralism building. At that time(1960s), office buildings in the Netherlands were normally a series of combination of corridor and closed rooms. In contrast, Centraal Beheer office divided people into several 9x9 square units, opened all the interior walls and created in-between voids to achieve maximum openness. The open office space plan in Centraal Beheer was really a break through, in which people are constantly connected with each other.
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Overall Strategy A city does not has to be in only one scale. If we keep the existing grid and extend the variety of scales, we can change the experience and sequence to build a real "city". In terms of function, a university of applied science is used to keep the liveliness of the
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Based on the above thinkings, a series of scales and variations from the existing scale was developed. Learning from medieval cities, The citizens pass across hills and bridges to enter a city, then experience the contrast between lightness and shadows from streets to a plaza, and then to a courtyard, finally reaches his neighborhood. The introduction of this project will follow the sequence on the right: A-B-C-D. 6
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Rules VS Freedom Centraal beheer is a world of rules. Some how architecturally the other buildings around it are more free. Thus, Centraal Beheer is considered strict and unique, and has nothing to do with its surroundings. The entrance garden is a test to experiment a gradual transfer from rules to freedom within its own architectural rhythm. The nearer you get, the more rules you experience, the further you go away from this building, the more freedom you have. Functions that larger then the existing units can be adapted. In this way, structuralism buildings can also adapt to the surroundings.
Entrance Overview
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First Floor Classrooms, studios and a plaza. The central staircase connects the "alleys" and the "plaza" downstairs(see drawing below).
Ground Floor Shops administration offices and canteens. Organized by several "alleys" and “streets�
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B. From streets to plaza: city experience with light and shadow
On A "Plaza"
This staircase is the upper part of the staircase below. The contrast of lighting and shadows
"Alleys" Towards A "Plaza"
When entering "alleys" on ground floor, the lighting on staircase will guide you to the plaza upstairs.
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C. Inner plaza: Informal yet monumental The inner plaza is an extension of the former inner street. During the analyzing stage a high culture value was given to the main structure of the building. Therefore, to preserve the main beams give the library space a sense of monumental.
A plaza is also a place for people to hang out and chat, it should express the feeling informal. The combination of informal and monumental give the plaza a vivid atmosphere. The way to achieve the informal yet monumental atmosphere also solved the vertical circulation problem in this building.
Inner Plaza And Its location, Isometric View
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Originally there are four inner streets in the center to create public spaces in the center. However it turns out it never appeared as streets. They are too narrow and too dark.
To solve the problem of lighting, the central parts are lowered (partly demolished), a terrace with four directions were created. This is used as the university library as well as the transportation center. The plaza has the function as a real plaza.
A series of staircases are added to let people experience the beam from the bottom to the top, so the sense of informal yet monumental achieved. From the bottom to the top the sequence is from monumental to informal.
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Inner Plaza Perspective 2 The adding staircases can held different possibilities of activities Viewing spot displayed below
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Inner Plaza Perspective 3 The viewing spot is the same with the left drawing, but directions are different The direct and indirect lighting, together with the existing texture
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Inner Plaza Upper Part From the staircase upwards, the beam gets lower, light gets smoother, texture gets warmer. Atmosphere here is more friendly.
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Study rooms, group housing and community space
Inner Plaza Top Part Follow the staircase to the end of the sequence, on can sit on a part of the beam and observe the plaza from the top. This is the most informal spot.
Third Floor Private apartments, game rooms and terraces
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D. Inside the wings and neighborhood: How they function in plan Centraal Beheer is a building of publicness. To re-balance the privacy situation in this building, I divided the Five levels of privacy in the educational spaces. 5 Public places: inner plaza 4 Semi-Public places: Upper part inner plaza 3 Mix-used place 2 Semi-Private places: center of the wings 1 Private places: edge parts
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Textures and materials Polished concrete Parquet Parallel
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Semi-Public Around plaza
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D. Inside the wings and neighborhood: Orientation and way-finding Centraal Beheer has a serious practical problem: The way-finding system. It is extremely hard to orientate inside the building. All units looks almost the same, like a maze. There seems to be a dilemma, if to keep this classical symmetric configuration, it is hard to guarantee easy way finding inside.
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To solve this problem,materialization is important. Originally there are two situations of in-filled wall among the units: masonry and glass brick. (See drawing below and left) The best way here is to re-organize the apply of glass bricks, using them to indicate the direction of inner plaza. Inside the four wings, every time people see the glass bricks, they know the way to the inner plaza.
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The Existing Material Applying Of Interior Walls The existing material arrangement is also a reason for dis-orientation
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Combining The Glass brick With The Meeting room
View From The Wing To The Inner Plaza By the indication of glass bricks and the lighting contrast,one can easily find the way to the plaza and the way out
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D. Inside the wings and neighborhood: Living room in Centraal Beheer The second floor and the third floor are student apartments. Students, they need shared space. When designing student housing, public spaces are important. However, it seems to be hard to accommodate places like a shared living room inside the building, because they may not have enough sunlight, especially in the northern and western parts. A solution of reusing partly the existing terrace as living room can solve the problem and provide high quality living space.
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Public zone Indicating inner plaza
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Exterior View Of The Extension Parquet Herringbone
Private rooms Sperated on the dge
The extension follows the same scale of the units and facades, while timer is used, to make the intervention reversible. The original facade of the existing building is very classical, and considered the best expression of the interior organization. Thus the appearance is kept and only double glazed. The intervention can be easily distinguished in a closed view, and from a street perspective the old and new forms an ensemble.
Exterior of The Old And New
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The Original Situation And The Intervention The original connection to the terrace is narrowed to a small staircase. After the intervention, the corridor and the living room has merged together
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The roof is covered half with timber and half with glass, the glass part is open-able to avoid overheating in the summer.
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From the corridor to the living room
The corridor and the living space merged together. Dark and long corridors can be avoided.
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The seat-able wooden staircase replaced the original steep concrete staircase, making it comfortable for more activities everywhere.
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Balancing the lighting in section On the top of the wings, several openings as courtyard are created to introduce extra lighting to the building. The courtyard on the top is the smallest unit. It is like the neighborhood around a living area, Around them are living spaces for students. By making use of the layers among the units, different scales and different activities were accommodated into the original grid, the condition of privacy, lighting and acoustic can be balanced in this way.
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The construction of the roof The roof design is based on the need of the inner plaza. To provide a much more balanced and abundant lighting effect, a solution combining direct and indirect sun light is proposed. The indirect sunlight is provided for the library and the sitting ares, using an upper layer of glass with a second layer of polycarbonate hanging at the lower layer. The direct sunlight is provided for the corridors and staircases, using single layer of glass. The structure mainly seats on the existing columns.
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The structure system of the roof
The water finally goes into the existing gutter system
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The ventilation system is divided into two zones. This is because that the existing piping space is not enough for the requirement nowadays. To use the existing piping space, we have to add other air supply units and heat exchanger. They are located around the edge of the building, and formed the zone2.
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Facts & Figures Function: Usage: Total square meters: Adding meters % Mainly adding places Total floors
Campus for University of applied science Education, dwelling and sports 32312M² 7% Living room, entrance garden 5
Car parking slot: Bicycle parking slot: Lifts Lecture hall 200ppl Classroom 40ppl Discuss room Meeting room Student apartments
79 (Basement) 1180(Basement) 7 3 (Ground floor) 9 13 22 97
Facade surface: 17600M² Cold bridge surface 246.7M² Cold bridge % 1.4% Original cold bridge% 18.3%
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02 PONT DE BUTTERFLY A series of arches
Bridge design Studio 2017 9.0/10 Tutor: Joris Smits Over river de rotte, Bleiswijk, Rotterdam
The starting point of the design is to make the bridge slender to fit into the landscape. A series of arches were designed to enable this. Considering the beautiful and flat landscape, the angles produced by continuous arches create inharmonious feelings. Therefore, in between the arches, under tight structures are used. The reversed parabola cables of them make the outline of the bridge a fluent wave. For dynamic and perceptual reasons, all curves are inclined by 20 degrees outwards, which in a profile perspective the bridge components act like butterfly wings. The upper parabolic girder and cable combined with under parabolic cable and supporting beam create a smooth curve together. And the contradictory and mutual benefit relationship between them can be reflect into philosophy meaning. For reducing the difficulty of construction, we divide the bridge into seven closed and independent segments between 20 to 30 meters. Construction of these segments could be finished by boat hoisting in one time.
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The connection In the analysis we found that there is potential requirements for connection between Bleiswijk and Zevenhuizen. We put it on a larger network and found that Merenweg (red dot line) would be a good choice for the connection. The bridge is right on the narrow connection of two recreation lakes. The surroundings are quite natural and beautiful. Moreover, there is a historical windmill to the east of the site. Thus, the influence of the landscape and the skyline should be minimized. When people are in their free time of these recreational activities, they may look for a rest,a ramble and a beautiful view of the landscape.
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Traffic The two towns are both connected by motor way in the north-south direction, But in the east-west direction, no connections exists.
Greenery Around the site are all beautiful parks. Thus,considering the nearby dock and tributaries, it’s necessary to leave enough clearance for the boats.
Route The main route of the bridge goes along a motor home camp and a huge rowing lake,this may influence the function and appearance the bridge.
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Sailing Traffic-ability A horizontally movable(swing) By calculation, a horizontally movable (swing) bridge that allows large sailing boats can be taken as the suitable choice. By doing this, we can avoid a super high bridge that compete with the windmill or a super long bridge that last more than 1KM.
Curves And Arches Continuous arches create inharmonious feeling. Therefore, how to adjust the elevation elements to make the whole bridge more fluent and flat is the focus of our further design.
A Series Of Arches Between the arches, the reversed parabola cables of under-tight structure make the outline of our bridge a fluent wave. This reflects the starting point of the design: how to make the bridge slender in order to fit into the landscape.
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Master plan 1:1000 From the former analysis, the basic configuration of the design is clear. Seven unequal segments are divided by six pillars, the central part is horiztally movable, to make the bridge flat even when rotating.
Process Model For the sake of reducing the difficulty of construction, The bridge was divide into seven closed and independent segments between 20 to 30 meters.
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Day View In Typical Dutch Weather By controlling the height, the windmill and the bridge gently co-exists. The bridge is in no moving situation. The beautiful landscape forms the best background of the bridge. View taken from the site.
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Segment type A Under-tight segment structure Therefore, in between the arches, under-tight structures are used. The reversed parabola cables of them make the outline of the bridge a fluent wave.
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Segment type B Arch segment structure In the secondary segment, above deck structures also include arches, where the bridge deck is hanged by cables from the arch. The appearance of the arches are designed very similar with the type C segment to continue the fluid elevation.
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Segment type C Vierendeel truss structure This part is moveable. To achieve a slender character, some structures are located above the deck. This includes the rotating part in the middle, which we chose vierendeel truss to strengthen the structure. The upper beam and the under beam combined with I-shaped steel ribs in the middle forms the truss.
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In order to make the structure more dynamic and increase the perceptive space above the deck, both the upper and under curves are inclined by 20 degrees outwards.
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Night View In Typical Dutch Weather View and perspetive taken from the site.
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Construction process All segments are self-closed structure, the tension and compression force are balanced, thus, they can be hoisted separately. 50
Moving illustration The scale and the relation with the windmill. The central part is horizontally movable. 51
Pespective Details
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Detail Railing 1:20
1. Handrail 2. Lighting LED 3. Stainless steel mesh 4. Movable stainless tainless steel grid for rainwater drainage 5. Plywood deck
6. Mounting bracket 7. Connection beam 8. Tensile profile of the folded mesh sheet 9. Countersunk screw 10. Low-profile cross-member stainless steel thermolac
1. Load bearing arch 2. Rubber sleeve 3. Anchor head 4. Protective case 5. Cable 6. Steel support base 7. Overhaul point
Detail Cable System 1:5
1. V-shaped steel holder 2. Welding layer 3. Steel connector 4. Screw bolt 5. Concrete base 6. Rubber base
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I CY L A N D M A R K Sports & Culture Center of Daqing BArch Graduation project, 2014 Tutor: Dake Wei 9.5/10 Daqing, China
Daqing, located at the very north of China, is a city of extreme climate. Ice and snow are the most frequently seen things here. When winter comes, this city is covered all in whiteness. People here need more indoor activity space currently. In the central area of Daqing, a new iconic building------the sports & culture center is scheduled to be built. This building needs to meet the requirements of several large stadiums and theaters. The local government announced that the character of this new icon should be unique and able to reflect Daqing' s city character, that is to say, the building will become a landmark. The design is based on the characters and trying to make the city center more unique and provide interesting entertainment places for the citizens.
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View In Typical Daqing Weather As a extremely cold city, Daqin snows 36 times per year. Its icy weather usually lasts for six months. The architecture should adapt to this weather and reach a sense of harmony.
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04 MONUMENT WATER VALLEY A Floating Museum Utopia monument park, 2013 Yichang, China
Yichang, a city located at an estuary among mountains, famous for its sand excavating industry. The excavating boats has unlimited access to the estuary. Before 1997, the city has the largest population engaged in sand excavating. Prosperous and thriving as it seems, hidden shadow lies under its shining surface. The unlimited sand excavating has an extremely negative influence on the riverbed. In 1997, a serious excavating shipwrecking accident, destroyed the industry. People were out of their jobs and the city was in chaos for years. When the chaos ended, a monument was scheduled to be built, as a memory to the past as well as a admonishment for the future. Considering as well the potential requirement for connecting the two river sides, a proposal of a floating monumental building was came up.
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1900 Once upon a time, the city origins from the simple estuary. The two rivers generated much sand resource for excavating. People begin to use it as a excavating beach from 1900.
1997 Soon with the development of sand industry, by 1997 Yichang was the biggest sand excavation estuary in southern China.
2000 After the accident(the cross in the drawing), A dam was built, the river got wider, the water level difference between upstream and down stream is 7M. The sand industry did not exist any more.
2014 Now as the city recovers and becomes larger and larger, a connection is to built at the accident place as well as to monument the past.
Monument Water Valley The best way of building a monument is to connect it to the nature. In this case, the nature is the water. It is the water that bears the boat and it is the same that swallows it. The lack of respect to the river and the water is the reason for the accident as well as the unlimited excavating industry. In this case, a floating valley-like building becomes the proposal for design of the monument. Using the water level difference created by the dam and theory of communicating vessels, the water floats from the edge to the center, afterwards it goes through the communicating vessels to the downstream of the river.
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Study Of Perspectives Towards Water
Architecture is the intermediary between nature and human. From ancient times, culture and human activities derive from the place where water exists. Thus, monuments, is a link to the nature in special perspectives. Based on this, the research of the possible viewing angels from humans to the water was conducted. The spatial prototype of these human-water activities was extracted. Inspired by the ancient Chinese painting “Xishanyanyutu”, Eight types of interactions with the water is illustrated below: people can be below, covered, nearby, surrounded, submerged, eyes above, on surface and along by/of the water.
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Possibly in a water cave, one will be guided to look outwards.
When going nearby a river or standing nearby a lake, one will look horizontally.
Example: 21st centur y museum Kanazawa: The swimming pool. The whole body will be surrounded by water.
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沉浸 Submerged The natural spatial experience has been deeply rooted in our genes possibility for thousands of years. In this design, the wild and natural path of the nature is abstracted into the eight types. By linking them in a special way, the spatial experience could include a feeling of monumental to some extend. For people who passes through these water sequences, these different angels towards the water would make them rethink about the nature, and the way people exists.
Example: water temple from Tadao Ando. Walking into the water, submerged gradually.
Half merged with only eyes above. Proving a closer connection with water.
A piece of glass on the water to enable one to walk “on“ the water surface.
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From A Ripple To A Building Disappearing into the water
In the estuary, facing the history, the building was considered to be modest. Mountains and rivers as there are, Whatever floating on the estuary would be a extra man-made object. Thus, the best way to monument the surrounding and the accident is to reverse the building and merge it into the water, like a ripple rippling on the estuary.
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SECTION NIGHT VIEW This is a museum, a bridge, a plaza, a playground and a monument. The space is uncertain. Providing all perspectives and all sorts of knowledges on sand excavating, activities with more possibilities can be hold due to the uncertainty of the space. The building weight mainly rely on the pontoon boxes below. The stability rely on the cables anchored to the riverbed. When the water level changes, the controller of the pontoon box would adjust the amount of water to stabilize the building. Like a submarine, floating above the existing shipwreck. Like a unstable monument, telling people to appreciate what you have right now. Like a nights watch, connecting the two sides of the city, with the sound of water roaring, reminding the past glory.
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Plan -1.20M
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2017 Interior: Tools for design & composition Studio TU Delft Artist Community: Grand cafe + Dwelling +Office, 1836M² 8.5/10 Tutor:Tjeerd Wessels Binnenrotte 79C, Rotterdam
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Surroundings Locate in the heart of Rotterdam Locate in the center of Binnenrote, the The building should act as a connection point of the urban fabric. As can be seen from above, the urban fabric around this site is like a corridor, both visually and spatially. The site is surrounded by lots of dwellings, to the south part a large area of public buildings are faced. The site can be seen by most southern public buildings, thus, mainly south facade and the roof appearance are important. Moreover, to the south of the site there are a lot of travel attractions.
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Mass and space Based on the surroundings The people around the site is actually the mix of tourists, local dwellers and market people. Due to the analysis, the project is build for individual workers,artists,free writers,etc. Thus,the function of this project would includes studios, Soho,luxury dwellings and art exhibition places. The key word of the building should be connection and context. The building mass should fit into the nearby buildings while in the north-south direction good view to the park and good connection to the market should be provided. 85
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A-A Section: Interaction The aim of the design is to create a art community that allows interaction in-between. Citizens can go inside the courtyard and make visual connections with the gallery and studios. The section of the studio allows maximum space for gallery at the bottom and maximum space for working artists at the top.
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B-B Section: Terrace In this section direction (North-south), the Luxurious apartments are put in the highest part to ensure privacy, their entrance is a balcony facing the beautiful park. The shape of terrace ensured the maximum sunlight per house.
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A-A Section Perspective The grand cafe is the activate point for the whole complex. People go pass-by will see it, people living here will frequently visit it, artists working here will talk about their ideas here. The working office building is also (diagonally) half accessible, to the open gallery.
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Textures The pavements is following the direction of the urban fabric. Lightings are hided in between them .The timber glass curtain facade also give the building a memorable face to the surroundings.
Texture of the cafe Timber, dark bricks and concrete
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Intertwine The routing of the visters is intertwining with the route of the artists. A subtle balamce is kept between them. The staircase is the connection between them. In this situation, the route firstly goes narrower and then after the middle point it starts to get wider. The sequence: horizontal-vertical-horizontal guide people to different surroundings.
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Studio Rural Environmental Architecture, 2011,HIT., Bachelor Tourist center & Museum of local architecture，2806M² 9.5/10 Tutor: Peng Luo Wuyuan,China
GAME OF COURTYARDS
Ancient Chinese courtyard reunite
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Routing
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Typical local Architecture
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Courtyards combining the local characters
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Projects Completed At UA China
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GREENLAND SHOPPING CENTER Hongkou Factory Transformation+Extension
Shopping Mall + Office, 87190M² Designed in 2015, Constructed 2016, Finished in 2018 Hongwan Street 111, Hongkou, Shanghai, China Project Leader: Jingcheng Li, Jiayue Yang Project scale 22 people Project website: http://www.uachina.com.cn/index.php/default/content/963.html Note: All drawings presented here are made (or partly made)by Xiaoyu Xu.
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After construction, Photoed in 2018/08/24
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Factory Site
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Factory Site
Existing factory Extension Interior Shopping Center
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1962 The factory was constructed as a fabric production factory It is a special memory of the special time: “A Great Leap Forward� It is one of the earliest industry heritage in Shanghai
2014 After 52 years, the frame of the factory was still good While the other parts are damaged The Greenland Company took over the site The site should be turned to a shopping mall for surroundings
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2018 After construction, the buildings from different ages merged together as a complex The contrast of old and new forms a new experience during shopping
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First day after construction, 2018 The old factory is now a bar street, the collums are used to emphasize the Sense of sequence
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Partly of the old building is opened to expose the frame An attachment building from the age of 1984 was reconstructed and combined The time transfer experience from one to another
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Section of the adding buildings 113
Rendered drawing The 1984 building reconstruction vision
2018 Photo after construction 114
2018 Photo after construction
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Thank you for the time!
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