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Modular Cottage │ Xishuangbanna, CN

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Commercial Pedestrain │ Kunming, CN

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Elderly Community Centre │ Kunming, CN

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Zhao Minshuku │ Honghe Prefecture, CN

T H E C O N S T R U C T I O N O F L O C A L C O T TA G E Typical Local Cottage:

Yunnan Province, CN

Construction Process:

Xishuangbanna Prefecture

Menghai County

1. Timber collection and processing; 2. Columns are interconnected by a tie beam;

3. Wooden support erected to fix the structures; 4. Columns are erected with assistance from local villagers;

5. The craftsmen finish residual jobs.

6. Pavement of floor slabs;

7. The roof truss is built; 8. Roof tiling.

Satellite Map of the Distribution of the Blang Ethnic Group

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Project Type: Academic Project Time: 2015/ year 4 Location: Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China Weather: Tropical and Subtropical Climate

This project derives from my architectural survey practice (over 20 days) and is located in the Laonandong Village in Menghai County of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, where villagers are the Blang ethnic group. I surveyed 5 buildings with typical local features and got comprehensive knowledge of the building process of local houses.

C H A L L E N G E A N D S T R AT E G Y During the whole construction process, the cottage is built with assistance of amonts of villagers and craftsmens. There are quite a few disadvantages in the local construction process: 1. Long time required for preparation of the construction (usually takes 2-3 years); 2. High costs; 3. Wooden building materials probably be easier damaged by termites and fire accidents; 4. The main wooden columns/ beams has to be bulky timbers, which adds the difficulty in timber collection and transportation; 5. The untrained local labor probably produce unpractical programming.

As such, in this project, the concept of modular design is introduced on basis of local building styles, to standardize the designing and construction process of the local cottages and to improve the structural safety and service life of such cottages, so that the living quality of local residents is improved while the building costs are increasely cut down. It is worthwhile to promote this project in the local area.

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Laonandong Village, the Blang Ethnic Group

Scenarios: " Yan Kanxiang is sad because her new tea Section - a

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gets wet by rain, while the son is repairing furniture besides him, making loud noises. It makes more annoyed and may easily cause a conflict between family members." collected is not properly concealed and

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Current Program and Life: Section - c2

1. Cottages are built along hills and villagers live in groups.

2. Houses are in two-storey stilt structure of wood.

having rest after long time working, when the family is visited by a friend of

3. The first floor is used as storage and farming space. It has no external walls or partition walls. This structure helps to improve the ventilation and also protects the house from humid climate or wild animals.

his mother. They have some talks by the fireplace.

" The son is

4. The second floor is used as living space. It is supported by wood beams and columns.

The slabs are also made of wood and walls are made by bamboo fences or wood boards.

The second floor is divided into two parts: living room and bed rooms. Living conditions: In the central room, there is a fireplace in Chinese style that is used for cooking, heating and lighting purposes. Besides, visitors are also receive by the fireplace. There are no beds in the bed room, but the family sleeps on the floor by gender in the left and right side of the room.

The sleeping are provides

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bad influences to the sleeper."

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" The granddaughter Yan Shaowen comes back from school and is doing

her homework, while

Yan Shaokan is talking with visitors in the central

Heavy smoke comes out from the fireplace. Yan Shaowen has very poor studying environment that can barely protect the privacy of family members." room.

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MODULE Existing Building Conditions:

Potential Relation between the Programming and the Module: 650

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The building materials are simple and are mainly wood except roof tiles. The wall shingle and floor is made by spliced

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150mm wide wood boards. Bamboo split boards are used to cover the joints of floor. All furniture is made

of wood by hand.

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The building materials has poor precision in dimensions and are mainly dependent on the skills of craftsmen. Besides, the use of local materials become an inevitable choice to lower the building costs.

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Local Daily Schedule: 60 Families/ Time 0:00am

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Potential Relation between the Human Dimensions and the Module:

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Redrawing of the Human Dimensions [Reference: Interior Deign Data Set, Q. Zhang, 1991]

Sleep

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Leisure

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Prototype of the Module for the Local Construction: 750

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MODULAR DESIGN Take a typical local cottage - Cottage E as an example. Base on the basic module of 300mm, the programming and plan are produced as follow:

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Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Living Room

Dinning Room

Storage Farm Leisure

Bedroom Toilet

GF Programming:

Bedroom Toilet

1st F Programming: The wall added for divided different functional spaces from each others, especialy the bedrooms and living room. The family privacy can be provided.

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MODULAR CONSTRUCTION Apply:

Basic Materials:

Apply: Wooden Walls Module: 300*2100mm Glass Windows

Tile

Module: 900*1200mm

Tile: Module: 300*150mm Wood

Wooden Floor Slabs Module: 300*2400mm Concrete Belcony Slab: 4200*5400mm

Glass

Rafter: Varies from 300 to 4800mm Wooden Roof Truss Concrete Columns: 150*150*6000mm

Raised-beam Wooden Frame: Varies from 6000 to 15000mm

I-Steel

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O B S E R VAT I O N

Business Area 4

Yunnan, CN Business Area 3

Kunming Proposed Business Area

Business Area 2

400m

Site Observation: The same as the most part of Kunming, the rapid

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urbanization has been producing

ordinary urban scape in the site, which barly shows the local tradition.

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Question Raised: There are multiple

Distribution diagram of neighboring business districts around the site

C O M M E R C I A L

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cultures and variety of ethnic groups in Kunming, Yunman vernacular architectures, Kunming used to be original and characteristic. What should the commercial area of Kunming be like, if it is the aim to recover the feature of the city in the era of the present urbanization?

Province. With the extraordinary local

S T R AT E G Y

Project Type: Academic Project Time: 2014/ year 3

On basis of characteristics of the

Location: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China

land lot and local environment, the

Weather: Tropical and Subtropical Climate

project adopted “grid layout” that is peculiar to local traditional houses,

This project is a construction plan of the White Tower CBD in Kunming, Yunnan Province.

The project is located in White Tower business district in the centre of Kunming, with total land coverage of 21,600 square meters, and is proposed to satisfy needs of local residents for commerce, catering, entertainment, exhibitions and education.

in order to build a business district that has simple style but strong local features and can meet the functional requirements.

Image: Diagram of the ‘Grid Layout’ unit. Applying it to the Site

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S T U D Y O F T H E ' G R I D L AY O U T '

“Grid layout” is a typical architectural layout of traditional residences in Yunnan and is composed of individual building structures of various styles in a “3*3”

pattern.

This project adopts elements in the “grid layout” architectural layout.

Reference: Lijiang Shuhe Old Town

P R O T O T Y P E S S T U D I E D F R O M T H E ' G R I D L AY O U T '

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The commercial area is comprised of four groups, and each of the four groups includes 6 stand-alone building structures. Together with road pavement and landscape design, they form a “3*3 grid layout”.

The stand-alone structures are built by steel structures, wood boards and full-height glass windows, with horizontal windows on the external walls for purposes of ventilation and lighting functions etc. Buildings of different styles are selected on basis of their locations and functions, for each building group, in order to provide users with diversified experiences.

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VA R I AT I O N A N D A P P L I C AT I O N On basis of local traditional building forms and in combination of functional requirements of the business district, the project strives to build a group of building structures that can both carry forward traditional cultures and meet structural and functional requirements of modern buildings.

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ZOOM IN Street landscape design also follows the styles of individual buildings and is composed of water, tree matrix, grassland and pavement. Squares are designed at main entrances to the district area, guiding customers and visitors into the business district.

Water Feature 1

Landscape Architecture 1: from inside to outside

Catering

Landscape Architecture 2

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PHYSICAL MODEL

F U N C T I O N A L L AY O U T

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Entertaining

Gallery

Education

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Living Situation: Live with children

16% 24%

38% 22%

Live with mate Live with household Live along

One Day Life: Other

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House work

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Work

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Entertaining

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Expecting Program: 92%

Activity

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Elderly College

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Reading room

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Open space

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Nursering

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Catering

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Fishing

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Mini-farm

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Hostle

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Markect

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House service

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Leisure Time: Community

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Reading

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I propose to create a multi-functional community activity center to satisfy the increasing needs of the service for the local elderly residence, by transforming a local abandonment.

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STRTEGY This project chooses an abandoned workshop as a design site and with occupying no more land. Maintain the main structure of the old construction and install the “Hanging Block�. Through the application of steel truss and vertical traffic, the indoor space is suspended and organically combines the building form and outdoor landscape.

Project Type: Academic Project Time: 2014/ year 3 Location: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China Weather: Tropical and Subtropical Climate

Xinying District is an old district, which developed from the 1980s. Buildings in this district are mainly low-storey, managed by a number of companies and organizations. There is high density of population and limited outdoor space. The data show that 84% households have elderly family members and 92% of the elderly people choose medical and health organization as a necessary facility while 70% of that expect activity place in the community.

It is found that a community activity place is an urgent need for the local aged residence.

Diagram: the Original Concept of the Project

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T R A N S F O R M AT I O N

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Remove

The Existing Closed yard

Remove the Roof

More Open

Maintain the Walls

The Installed Structure

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The Hanging Block:

Double Layers

Upper Floor

Vertical Flow

Service

With full utilization of its main structure, the project introduced the “hanging block� by combining actual situations in neighboring buildings and open ground. By the application of steel truss structure, the workshop is modified and rebuilt into a multi-functional community activity center.

The major functional zones include: Outdoor leisure area, medical service station, small theatres, gymnasium, library, art room and chess room, etc.

This project provides an alternative to the shortage of lands and makes reasonable application of architectural design concepts and modern construction methods in a cunning way. It strives to create a comfortable and practical building works.

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STRUCTURE Details and Structure:

The Hanging Block:

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PROGRAMMING

Landscape Architecture

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Upper Second Floor

Lower Second Floor

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O B S E R VAT I O N Traditional Architecture Feature and the Existing Condition:

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Project Type: Rrofessional Project Time: 2014/ Intern Location: Honghe, Yunnan Province, China

This messuage, which used to belong to the Zhao, derive from the Qin dynasty. Currently, the local authority of where the Zhao messuage located is on the way to develop the local tourist industry. Some previous cases of tourism development in Yunnan province have the increasment of local economy but the negative effect upon the local architecture. The local ethnic architectures gradually lost its soul during the unthoughtful developement. So there is the question: how do the local architecture better meet the tourism requirement but also keep the local features and help to maintain the original life style?

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