PORTFOLIO WANG XI 2019
Contents.
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Group work, MArch Urban Design
VISUAL DISLOCATION Big Data City: Machine Thinking Urbanism
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Pair work, Academic
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Single work, Academic
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WUHAN GREENLAND SUPER-RISE TOWER Research and Design POKOU ART GALLERY Historical Trian Station Renovation Single work, Academic
TAICHONG OPERA HOUSE Criticize and Rebuilt
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Group work, Academic
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Summer Internship work
LANDFILL REGENERATION DALIAN GREENLAND SUPER-RISE TOWER
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* All drawings, renders, and models shown have been done by myself unless othrewise stated.
DESIGN TOOL KIT - LONDON IN LAYERS
01. MArch Urban design (2018.9-2019.9) UCL, The Bartlett school of architecture, London
VISUAL DISLOCATION Instructed by Roberto Bottazzi, Tasos Varoudis
Complete Portfolio of this project, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZH0CXjHq-X14j0sIxlS83agsUIs8UafK/view?usp=sharing
Video of this project, see
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1USVLwVecKYCAEOheX_6Yfmww5XhndxfZ/view?usp=sharing
1. SITE UNDERSTANDING Our relevatnt datasets including 20 lbasic city datasets of London including Building height, Land Use, IMD, VGA, Choice Map and GPS traces. Based on these datasets' cover area, we divided them into three categories of Building, Roadnetwork and Open area. Principal Component Analysis is to indicate their correlated possibilities and the main aspect that affects the city conditions most. 2. VISUAL ANALYSIS This section mainly contains visualization of VGA values and view variation while people navigating the site.
DESIGN TOOL KIT - VISUAL ANALYSIS
* Maps drawn by groupmates.
SITE 02: ROUTE A
SITE 02: ROUTE B
SITE 02: ROUTE C
SITE 02: ROUTE D
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DESIGN TOOL KIT - SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS Battersea Power Station “Historical landscape” “Urban regeneration” “Really cool”
The Shard “Landmarks” “Light my way” “Nice view”
Westminster Cathedral “Lovely building” “Historic heritage” “Red brick”
The Oxford Street “Crowded” “Busy” “Many people” Tate Britain
St Paul “Enjoying the view” "Spectacular" "Beautiful"
“Quite place” “Nice place” “Fabulous interior”
3. SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS Data set - 5385 Flickr images - Geo - location - Shooting time - Key words - Discription With internet users having an average of 5.54 social media accounts, user’s interest, behavioural patterns like and dislike matters. To understand it better, we have accumulated the data from Flickr, which is one of the pioneers website of Social Media image collection. These map demonstrates the catchment area of different landmarks in London. Based on mapping of social images for the landmarks, the areas such as the Oxford Street and the Hyde Park have limited social media dominance. On the contrary, The Shard has a much higher dominance due to the height of it. 3
DESIGN TOOL KIT - COLOUR ANALYSIS
London Color ring in Social Media
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London Color ring in Google Street 120
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4. Colour Analysis Google Street View API’s provides the best platform to extract the navigable information in the form of images as observed by the user. Along with images we extract from social meida, these images are then examined using K-means clustering for visual characteristics such as brightness, hue, saturation, dominant colour, lightness, displacement of colour, etc. Pictures when analysed in clusters, presents a comprehensive understanding of the environment and there is such a huge variation between real world and virtual world as well as different countries. 4
DESIGN TOOL KIT - GPS TRACES ANALYSIS
Victoria Station
Victoria Coach Station
Number of Impression and Mean Time Spend visualization
5. DESIGN TOOL KIT - GPS ANALYSIS We divided our site into grid, for each 10m * 10m grid, the counting points of GPS traces is looking like the left image. By using Python to organise this data set, we are trying to get three people related emotions of our city environment. -Number of Impression explains the how one city grid is accessible and busy. Number of impression is the cumulative sum of all the counting points in side one grid.
Open Street Map GPS traces dataset contains: - 221 GPS Traces - Over 100000 counting points - Each counting points contains: - User ID - Time - Speed - User type (walking, driving, cycling...) 5
-Mean Time Spend explains the commute for every city grid, indicates if people like to stay or are passing through the grid. Time Spend is the average time spend that every GPS traces in a city grid. Time spend is the difference between when one enters and leaves the grid. -Dominant Direction explains the city migration movement. It also shows to which direction most people prefer to commute.The feeling of orientation is essential for our wellbeing.
DESIGN TOOL KIT - GPS TRACES ANALYSIS
Dominant Direction Map
Number of Impression Map
Mean Time Spend Map 6
DESIGN TOOL KIT - DEEP LEARNING
6. DESIGN TOOL KIT - DEEP LEARNING This section of research highlights on the computational measure to amalgamate different urban layers to examine the change in the perceptual environment. More we dig in to the microenvironment, the complexities and difficulties increases. This mode of computer simulation helps to solve complex problems and can build intricate relationships between data layers that are often unstructured and unlinked to each other. On the lines of Deep learning, Neural Network (NN) toolkit are the set of algorithms recognising patterns whilst mimicking the human brain. The internal structuring of Neural Network are compared to human cognitive systems. Here, we aim to derive a computer simulation to establish relationship for a small area between its Visual preferences, spatial arrangements and social performance. 7
DESIGN TOOL KIT - DEEP LEARNING
Input_Data.shape = [ 3568, 16, 16, 2]
Output_Data = Hue, Lightness,Saturation
Upon having the form amalgamating design methodologies, the next important phase is to test the output. In order to do so, for the design intervention is reverse engineered and analysed with respect to the site. The City grid is divided into small test modules (16m * 16 m), totalling up to 3568 unique matrices of data. We read two input layer which is Visual Integration value and Building Heights from computational perspective which is then compared with color values of social images.
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DESIGN - LONDON
* section drawn by groupmates.
This project is using different data to build a design tool kit and train a evaluate system while people is navigating the city. In the design process, we introduced Genetic algorithm(GA) to be the generator of urban forms and our trained brain as an evaluator. These two work together as a feedback system to guide the urban reformation. 9
DESIGN - PARIS
* Renders drawn by groupmates. * Render drawn by groupmates.
This phase explains the evolution of design from the existing built form, and hence it is the most precise outcome of the qualitative knowledge representing as visuospatial cities. With an executed design output, the intention is to create a simulation tool that unifies various independent datasets, by building them on the uniform platform. This is limited only to the physical and semantic understanding. The design exploits the full potential of the created tool kit, whilst exploring the methodologies used in quantifying and qualifying Visuospatial Intelligence. 10
02. Pair work, Bachelor Year five, 2018,3 - 6, Southeast University, Nanjing
WUHAN GREENLAND SUPER-RISE TOWER research and design
Project Discription: Wuhan greenland tower is a 636-metre (1.699 ft), 83-story tower which is under construction in Wuhan. This project is studying super highrise tower activities and structure system to rebuild this tower in Wuhan. Work Discription: This pair work was divided into two parts, I was mainly working on study and research of structure system and formation. The Research sample is 246 towers above 150 meters tall.
Height
Burj Khalifa Tower
Wuhan Greenland Centre Ping An Finance Centre Tianjin Goldin Finance 117 Seoul Lotte World Tower Changsha International Finance Square Taipei 101
Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre Shanghai World Financial Center
Petronas Twin Towers Nanjing Zifeng Tower Shanghai Jinmao Tower
Wuhan Center
Hong Kong IFC
New York World Trade Centre
Trump Tower
Hong Kong Central Plaza
John Hancock Center Empire State Building
Moscow Federation Building
Hong Kong Bank of China Tower
Burj Al Arab
U.S. Bank Tower
New York Times Building
Park Hyatt Guangzhou
Jiangxi Zifeng Tower
Time
A.Building height and built year. Red curve points out the highest building, and we can see the height has been gradually rising.
Height
B. Symbolic tower and their structure system C. We divided symbolic tower samples into catetogoty based on their structure typology. By doing this research, we are trying to simplify the category. Frame-core tube structure
Central core
Core in core structure
Empire State John Building Hancock Center
Bundled tube structure
Space frame structure system
Petronas Twin Towers U.S. Bank Hong Kong Tower Central Plaza
Shear wall core tube structure
Giant column Giant column frame frame structure structure
Shear wall core tube
New York Times Building
Burj Khalifa Tower Trump Tower
Park Hyatt Guangzhou
Jiangxi Zifeng Tower
Frame-core tube Core in core structure
New York World Trade Centre
Bundled tube Hong Kong Bank of China Tower Shanghai Jinmao Tower
Taipei 101
Shanghai World Financial Center Shinjuku NS Building
Tokyo Century Tower
Nanjing Zifeng Tower
Wuhan Greenland Centre Wuhan Center Changsha International Finance Square
Giant column frame structure
Seoul Lotte World Tower Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre Ping An Finance Centre
Giant column frame structure Multiple cylinder structure
Commerzbank Tower Bunkyo Civic Center
Dispersion core
NT Makuhari Building
Shear wall core tube structure SII Makuhari Building
Burj Al Arab
One-side core
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SITE PLAN
SITE STATUS
Eearthquake Area
River
Dominant Wind
Existing Tower FORM GENERATION
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We found with the height reach 350 to 400 metres, the structure system is becoming simple which is mainly giant column frame structure. This kind of structure formed a spatial system with infrastructure in the middle and using space around. The using space is homogenous and the function is separeted. We aim to challenge this homogenous space in super rise tower and bring variety by moving the center core to one side for a rotating structure, and in the meanwhile mixing the functionality by creating center lobby spaces.
FACADE
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03. Single Work, Bachelor Year three, 2015.11 - 2016.1, Southeast University, Nanjing
POKOU ART GALLERY MEMORIAL TRAIN STATION RENOVATION
Project Description: The original building is an historical train station. This renovation design aim to continue site rhythm and give the station a new role as an art gallery. I decided to using the original station building as office and storage and add a new gallery space over station rainshed. The rain-shed also act as a exhibition in art space and it also reflects the direct sun light to produced a gentle light-environment for modern arts.
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This render shows the connect space between new construction and the existing building
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Platform rainshed
Shed of station hall
Plane tree
Station square corridor
This render shows the modern art gallery and how the rain shed working as light filting structure.
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sculpture park entrance
office
office lobby
cafe
preface hall
souvenir
sculpture exhibition
exhibition hall
gallary entrance
04. Single Work, Bachelor Year four, 2016.11 - 2017.1, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo
TAICHONG OPERA HOUSE CRITICIZE AND REBUILT
Project Description: The original building is an historical train station. This renovation design aim to continue site rhythm and give the station a new role as an art gallery. I decided to using the original station building as office and storage and add a new gallery space over station rainshed. The rain-shed also act as a exhibition in art space and it also reflects the direct sun light to produced a gentle light-environment for modern arts.
HOMOGENOUS
CHAOS SEQUENCE
SUPER FLAT
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05. Group Work, Bachelor Year four, 2017.3 - 2017.4, Southeast University, Nanjing
LANDFILL REGENERATION
With the reduction of pollution in the coming decades, increasing activities are introduced into the site and eventually make it a complete vitality area. Just as the degradation of pollutants takes time, the construction of the city also requires a certain period of time. Phased system construction gives the possibility of flexible development.
STAGING SITE PLAN
URBAN TRANSFORMAITON AS A PROGRESSIVE SYSTEM
FACILITIES Construction period 25 years
Strategy 1. Rubbish that heavily polltutes the environment and hard to degrade is transferred. Here the original contaminated soil should be replaced with fresh soil. NETWORK
planting soil
Construction period 3 years
rubbish new soil rammed earth existing soil
TERRAIN Construction period 1 year
NATURAL TERRAIN existing
Strategy 2. Garbage of medium pollution can be piled up and covered with a layer of soil to create a hillside for human activity.
planting soil rubbish rammed earth existing soil
PROGRAM Construction period 25 years
SITE Construction period existing
planting soil new soil rammed earth existing soil
Strategy 3. Construction waste that has little or no pollution to the environment is buried in the site and a series of technical processes are to be carried out to ensure that there will not be further contamination during degradation of the waste.
Landform Typology
planting soil anti-seepage layer original contaminated soil refuse anti-seepage membrane anti-seepage clay rammed soil landfill gas collection system
leachate drainage system
section 1
Drawing by team member*
flood protection
sewage treatment
section 2
flood protection flood protection constructed wetland
leachate drainage system
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rendering, by CG company*
06. Summer Internship (2018.7-9) ECADI, Shanghai
DALIAN GREENLAND SUPER-RISE TOWER Mainly participate in storey height, fire window, railing, aciation obstruction beacon, and other details*
Project Discription: Dalian greenland tower is a 518-metre (1.699 ft), 83-story megatall skyscraper in Dalian, Liaoning province. It has the record of being the highest building in north-east China. Job Discription: Mainly participate in late stage construction drawing of section and details. Cordinate story heights and construction detail like fire window with structure engineer, HVAC engineer and electrical engineer. Particulaly help designed the structure and details of pool floor.
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