ACTIVATION PORTFOLIO OF RUI XU Apply for the MLA, University College London
CONTEXT Landscape Project My focus: I considered the landscape as the city's catalyst, which was used to be the basis for activating various human behaviors and economic activities in the city. In this case, I think the most important thing is ACTIVATION, which is and will be always a major focus for landscape architects. Therefore, I have been paying great attention to how to introduce people, activate the site and activate people's lives in my designs. From my past study, not only did I learn design skills, but also the need to ponder what caused the problem. And this portfolio witnesses the process of me activating upon this critical issue. Through my three projects, the term ACTIVATION represent itself in three different ways. In the first project, landscape architecture is used to activate the economic development of the region; In the second project, landscape architecture is a way to activate people’s lives; In the third project, I use landscape architecture to activate the grey spaces of cities.
1. Venations Regeneration
Jiangzhou Dockyard Transformation Design
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Chengdu Sports Park Design
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Planning And Spot Design For The DaxinggongXinjiekou District
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Tourist Service Center
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Little garden
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Entertainment facilities for children
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Activate the economic development
2. Urban Exhilarant Activate people's lives
3. Urban Acupuncture Activate the grey space of the city
Studies 1. Rampway Island Spatial Study
2. Heart Garden Plant and stone_Material Study
3. Horn Tip Wood, hemp rope and cloth_Material Study
Other Works Photography And Art Works Chongqing, Beijing
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VENATIONS REGENERATION Jiangzhou Shipyard Transformation Design Time: Fall 2017,the first semester of junior year Best Creative Award And Winning Prize In 2017 Ruichang L&A Design Star Competition Group Project Role In Group: Research, Concept Design, Data Analysis, Masterplan Design,View Design, Building Design , Wetland Design Instructor: Heqian Jiang Collaborator: Yuan Tao , Shurou Luo The entire design covered many aspects such as industrial transformation, pollution control, landscape optimization, ecological restoration and reconstruction, cultural excavation and reshaping, tourism development, employment placement and residence, and commercial service facilities. Based on the strategy of preserve, re-use, re-create and rebuild, the design is deepened at the level of physics, society, sense and memory. How urbanization can coexist with abandoned old factories elegantly and resolve them to present both aesthetics and functions has been a question that I paid much attention to and try to find an answer. For some time in the future, China will produce plenty of industrial wasteland. And I believe the restoration and planning and design of industrial abandoned landscapes will have broad development prospects.
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SITE ANALYSIS
TRAFFIC ANALYSIS IN RUICHANG Ruichang is a key industrial city in Jiangxi Province of China, which has many large industrial enterprises. After 50 years of industrial development, this area has become an industrial zone with shipbuilding as its main industry. However, since the beginning of the 21st century, the shipbuilding industry has gone downhill. A large number of buildings of good quality were no longer used, followed by environmental pollution, economic recession, and population loss. Centering on implementation of the sustainable development strategy and utilization of economic transformation to boost economic growth, this design is aimed to improve the quality of ecological environment and maintain an ecological balance. And through the development of industrial tourism, the tourism routes are connected in series with various scenic spots, ultimately achieve regional revival.
Land Use
Current Water System
PLANNING OF INDUSTRIAL TOURISM ROUTES IN RUICHANG
Railway National Highway Provincial Highway
DISTANCE BETWEEN SITE AND CITY CENTRE
Landscape Pattern
canteen construction land scenic spot structure residential land culture architecture factory school office land
Lake River Canal
Building Height
Sustainability Evaluation
insensitive low sensitive medium sensitive high sensitive extremely sensitive water
mountain water pit
Circulation
Zoning
Population Density
Shipyard school
Shipyard dormitory
Shipyard The fuction of the area is still shipbuilding in the future.
primiary road secondary road branch road mine car road canal cable-car road
one floor two floors three floors four floors five floors
Legend Admin border Ruichang administrative boundaries Villages&Towns administrative boundaries
Sightseeing Spots Cultural Attractions
Ecological Attractions
workers villagers high low
Shipyard The factory in this area has been completely disabled and its functions can be changed.
SHIP MAKING PROCESS The Shipyard is located at the northernmost side of Ruichang, next to the Yangtze River, a 15 minute drive from the downtown with convenient transportation. Some plants in the Shipyard are still building ships. Moreover, thanks to its special terrain, such production does not affect tourists’ activities at all. Therefore, I want to add one cable car route on the east side so that tourists can witness the shipbuilding procedures.
Launching: the ship sinks 11 meters
205 workshop: Preliminary assembly 206 workshop: Subsection production
500 Lake Myvatn: the ship outfitting decoration
Spraying workshop: Subsection spraying Sailing across the gate to the Yangtze River Mount Lu floating dock: Transport ships to the dock 303 workshop: Final assembly 360 meter fitting-out quay: Refuel and add water
207 workshop: Further assembly 201 workshop: Placing of material 203 workshop: Cutting raw materialion
Leisure Attractions Industry Attractions AAA Country Attractions Opening Up Rural Attractions
Tour route Three Days Tour Line
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Two Days Tour Line One Days Tour Line Visitor Heat Map(High To Low)
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EXISTING CONDITIONS Given the status quo, p-r-r-r strategy is mainly applied to tackle problems: purification of water quality, restoration of industrial earth surface traces, re-planning of roads to separate pedestrians and vehicles, renovation of abandoned plants and addition of new functions to attract tourists. In the meantime, more jobs should be offered to laid-off workers, local residents and farmers. The Shipyard will be built into a well-known industrial scenic spot to facilitate local economic growth.
CONCEPT SPECIFICATION
STRATEGY STRATEGY 1 : Preserve
STRATEGY 2 : Re-use
Preserving native pattern, shipyard workers and residents, historical and cultural elements, meanwhile, repairing infrastructures.
The current structure, resources and population should be re-used to form new functions and occupations.
STRATEGY 3 : Re-create
STRATEGY 4 : Re-build
Current forms, materials and local folk customs can be taken in to re-create new forms for new functions.
First, industrial buildings should be rebuilt and be endowed with new functions; second, artificial wetland should be built and natural wetland be expanded.
This plan designs the site at the level of physics, society, sense and memory, and through the strategy of preserve, re-use, re-create and re-build. The main site of design is the discarded plant area in the south. Canals and water surfaces should be expanded, and available waterfront landscape facilities should be added to create more spaces for tourists. Building clusters should fulfill such functions as exhibition, experience, operation and souvenir so that tourists can find their memories, leave memories and take memories with them here.
207 exhibition hall exhibition Physical level
factory
green infrastructure
factory reconstruction education
repair infrastructure gray infrastructure
training trainer processing
worker
local residents
resident explain history
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MASTERPLAN ANALYSIS
natural wetland
rolled steel
crane
workers
factory building
function replacement
constructed wetland
wetland
tourists
educator
entrepreneur
children
Social level
farmer
guide
provide service products provider smell taste
Memorial level
Sensory level shipyard history
VR experience handcraft
hear vision touch
'Big Pot Rice' photograph
Circulation
learning experience
building area natural landscape area
Mine car lane Cruise ships line Primiary road Secondary road Branch road Cable car route
view and admire work out
1 . Wetland observation 2 . Leisure fishing area
relax
3 . Mount Huaguo tea room
Landscape structure and sight line analysis strengthen memory
EXISTING SECTIONS
creat leave a take away memory memory memory
strengthen memory
4 . Launching viewing area 5 . Floating dock exhibition 6 . Lotus pond
Main landscape nodes
7 . Memory garden of industry
Main landscape axis
8 . Intergrated service center
Sight line
9 . Cable car station 10 . Section lights plaza 11 . Education area 12 . Mirror lake 208 . Ship exhibition hall 207 . Ship exhibition hall
Water distribution analysis
206 . Experience hall 205 . Grand theatre
Water resource
204 . Entrepreneurial center 203 . Photography base 202 . 'Big pot rice' restaurant 201 . Shopping center
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PRESERVE
Physical Aspect
WATERFRONT TREATMENT
1. Repair of industrial traces left on the earth surface
Step 1
Current Situation Vegetation and the ecological system have been severely damaged.
Step 2
Top soil coverage of 15cm thick.
Step 3
80t lime and 100t organic fertilizer are applied per hectare. These soil conditioners are used to lower the pH value of soil and promote plants to germinate.
Leguminous plants and non-leguminous plants are combined and planted with multiple layers, thus better restoring the site.
2. Waterfront treatment
Current Situation Hard revetment cannot help retain water and when seasonal flood comes, it will inundated.
Step 1 Hard revetment and hardened riverbed are removed and converted into soft ecological revetment and riverbed.
3. Traffic road treatment
Current Situation Pedestrians and vehicles are mixed, which not only poses safety risks but also pollutes the environment.
Step 2
Step 3
Local animals and plants are increased to make the revetment and riverbed more elastic, and weaken the threat of seasonable flood.
Water-purifying plants are increased to purify contaminated water.
The existing waterfront is mostly linear hard revetment made of reinforced concrete, along with handrails to separate people from the water. The transformation will involve softening of hard waterfront and removal of handrails, and addition of facilities close to water. The hydrophilic space will be created in eight forms: wander path, overwater path, canal overlope, waterfront promenade, wetland, waterfront plaza, waterfront terrace and waterplay. In this way, the purpose of relaxing physically and mentally and promoting communication will be achieved. What’s more, soft and elastic ecological w at e r f ro n t c a n b e tt e r re s p o n d t o t h e seasonable flood of Xiachao Lake. Purifying plants such as reed will clean the water for tourists to use.
Step 2
Step 1 Closing the original mixed roads.
Step 3
Widening the retained original routes are widened.
Wander Path
Overwater Path
Canal Overlook
Waterfront Promenade
Wetland
Waterfront Plaza
Waterfront Terrace
Waterplay
Current Situation
Replanning and establishing a new route.
4. Plant building transformation
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Current Situation Some plants are left idle, which causes waste of resources. Moreover, the building density is high and high-rise and low-rise buildings are mixed.
Step 1 Removing low-rise buildings around the plants .
Step 2 Restoration of the plants to make it more safer and more solid.
Step 3 Multiple functions are designed for buildings, thus activating the entire scenic area.
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RE-USE
Social Aspect Sensory Aspect
Social Aspect Reactivate the existing materials of dockyard and show them to tourists for education.
Sensory Aspect
Reuse dockyard, workshop and other remaining materials.
Add LED light
Different atorage yard will glo w at different time
Add audio device
Broadcast shipyard sound
Show reutilization on five aspects of vision, hearing, smell, taste sense and touching.
Use remaining storage yards
Attract visitors
Show the history and function of this area
Shining at one time
Enhance sound experience
For vision: Set LED light in the storage space and let them turning on automaticlly on different time, to recreat a shining area. For hearing: Set up public radio rebroadcast to broadcast some voice about shipbuilding and strengthen tourists' experience. For smell: The lotus pond reflects aroma. For taste sense: Let tourists taste local agricultural products, like chinese yam.
Local plant
Local food
Remaining materials
For touching: Touching the leaving materials on the area.
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RE-CREATE
Sensory Aspect
Original factory building
VR experience
Mobile phone connection
Setting VR equipment in the factory, visitors can feel the scene of worker's work on the screen. At the same time, the VR device can also be connected to the mobile phone, so visitors can understand the whole history, development and construction process of Jiangzhou dockyard.
Original factory building
‘Big pot rice'
Meaning
Setting "Big pot rice" in the dining roomtransformed by a factory can promote the exchanges between people. Visitors will have the opportunity to recall past history and experience the power of unity. They will feel warm during this process.
Original factory building
Photographic studio
Sitcom experience
Setting up a studio in the barn to provide opportunity to people for the past scene experience shooting. People can make video and take photos in the factory as precious travelling memory.
Original factory building
Copper cutting art
Souvenir
This kind of factory can allow tourists to cut something out of bronze sheet with paper-cuttingskills in memory of the dockyard. It will show the paper-cutting culture and bronze culture in Ruichang.
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RE-BUILD
Sensory Aspect
206 Factory Building Reconstruction Strategy 206 plant is a double span collar roof single-storey workshop with a height of 21m. In order not to add too many bearing columns and retain locality to the greatest extent, the external walls will be just repaired instead of being transformed. The “ox bone” structure will be adopted to help with bearing; horizontal tightwire will be canceled and converted into box-type steel tubes. While the roof cover and cylinder are maintained, a transparent first floor and a floating second floor space will be set for industrial VR experience. While entertaining, tourists can learn about the history of the Dockyard and people’s life in person. Bearing column reinforcement
Insertion of bovine bone
Introduce new functions
Bovine bone
Replace excessive load-bearing columns with bull-bone structure, cancel horizontal cables, and then load-bearing horizontally
Although it rains, I can still play football indoor.
Bearing column reinforcement
This is the coolest game hall I've ever seen!
Setting up showcase between loadbearing pillars
Cutting Parts for Small Ships Installed in Display Cabinet
W h at a n interesting cafe!
207 206 207 Factory Building Reconstruction Strategy
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207 plant is 167m long and 72m wide, a typical immense building with double span collar roof. A showcase is designed between the original bearing columns and cut components of small ships are placed for display. Meanwhile, a U-turn exhibition route is set up. To make tourists fully experience the shipbuilding procedures, studios will set on both sides, including ship design, material cutting and processing, model assembly and model spraying. In this way, tourists will deeply experience shipbuilding using their own hands, and create memories. 207 will be transformed into a science popularization hall that integrates shipbuilding exhibition and hand-made production.
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RE-BUILD Natural wetland ecosystem composition Hemerocallis fulva
Nymphaea tetragona
Juncus effusus
Cambarellus shufeldtii
Mylopharyngodon piceus
Coluber spinalis
Ardea cinerea
The design takes into full account the terrain and current hydrologic regime. In order to optimize the water environment, natural and artificial water-purifying wetlands are designed on both sides of Xiachao Lake and rebuild local ecosystem, thus ensuring that water that comes in and goes out of the site is highly clean for people to use. At the same time, wetlands, as the habitat for wild animals and plants, can upgrade the ecological system and increase diversity. Local typical water birds include ciconiiformes, gruiformes and anseriformes. Diversified bird types can motivate tourists to come here to pursue refreshing experience and the value of ecological education. I hope that Ruichang can regard Jiangzhou Dockyard as the point, one to three-day industrial tourism as the line and holistic tourism industry as the surface to revitalize its economy and culture, and achieve the purpose of “Earth Roots Renascence�.
Althaea rosea
Pennisetum alopecuroides
Sedum spectabile
Phragmites communis
Cosmos bipinnata
Scirpus validus
Tagetes patula
Thalia dealbata
Trapa bispinosa
Brachyura
Carassius auratus
Pogona vitticeps
Pandion haliaetus
Polygonum
Unio douglasiae
Siniperca chuatsi
Trionyx sinensis
Anas platyrhynchos
Lythrum salicaria
Cipangopaludina cahayensis
Anguillidae
Aix galericulata
Nelumbo nucifera
Cipangopaludina chinensis
Rana chensinensis
Cygnus cygnus
Natural and constructed wetland section
Constructed wetland purification process
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Constructed wetland plan
Water settling and precipitation
Terraces for aeration and bio-purification
Nutrient removal
Pathogen removal and bio-purification
Heavy metal removal and bio-purification
Water quality stablization and control
Sand filter for final polishing
Aeration and biological purification
Subsurface filtration
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Urban Exhilarant: Chengdu Sports Park Design Chengdu Sports Park Design Time: Spring 2018,the second semester of junior year Group Project Role In Group: Concept Design, Modeling, Analysis, Bridge Design, Masterplan Design, View Design Instructor: Hao Xu Collaborator: Yizhan Zhang, Shurou Luo I always have been paying attention to human health. Nowadays, most people choose to work out in the gym, and I want to make people go outside and have more contact with nature. Hence, I define the site as a sports park so as to provide more spaces and opportunities for Chengdu residents to exercise, live a healthier life and make them happier. It will activate their life like a stimulant.
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CONCEPT
SITE ANALYSIS
In a field survey, I found that the model of traditional sports park shows a oneway relation between users and space. As a result, once facilities in the site are damaged, the number of users will decrease. As it’s less attractive to people, the site will be gradually abandoned, which forms a one-way circulation of negative results. Hence, I intend to introduce a commercial mechanism on this basis, including merchants and their products. Merchants can place their new products in the site for people to use. In the process, they can either buy the product or give it back to the designer. After modification, merchants can re-place their products in the site. Accordingly, facilities in the site are always being refreshed and the latest equipment will appeal to more people. A steady flow of people, continuously updated facilities and products will inject infinite vitality into the site which in turn offers infinite sports experience for people.
The site is located in Qingyang District of Chengdu City, about 20 minutes drive from Tianfu Square in the d o w n t o w n a re a . t h e public transportation is convenient. Moreover, nearby plenty of residential areas are being used or constructed, However, in such high-dens i t y residential area, parts with sports functions are few and there’s only one within a walking radius of 15 minutes.
The traditional operation pattern one-way system
The new operation model multiple system
transform
Slope Bend Material
Sports park Industrial area
Desired effect Simple
Educational area Green Space Residential area Historical heritage area Water system City center
Stamina
Run
Skill
Yoga
Confrontation
Basketball
Calories
Medium Difficult
Intersection
USER ANALYSIS
Urban expressway Subway line4 Fourth ring road Guanghua Avenue
Tree River Flower.........Bird Transformation of sports structure
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Forest Yoga
Front-projected holographic display Play basketball with virtual kobe
Product
STRATEGY To provide more abundant sports experience, I will not adopt original forms of exercise, which means the sports structure should be transformed. 1. sports is divided into three categories: stamina, skill and confrontation for which the most representative items are selected, respectively running, yoga and basketball. 2.1 For running, with calories per hundred meters as the unit, and through control over the track gradient, curvature and materials, I will provide three running modes: simple, medium and difficult so that people can choose whatever they want. 2.2 Regards to yoga, every time when people are doing yoga indoor, they have to imagine that they are surrounded by the nature. Therefore, we want to let them stay in the real nature and experience forest yoga. 2.3 As for basketball, we use VR technology to simulate partners, coach and stars who can not only play basketball with you but also instruct your movements. 3. More importantly, wearing smart glasses, you can interact with the site to choose tracks with consumption of different calories, look for the right yoga place and tell whether it’s foul play or not. By so doing, I hope to bring about infinite sports experience to people.
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FORM GENERATION
1. utilizing the cell pattern to form the outline of spaces.
cell
space
2. plan the loops of different level.
bone
path
3. utilizing the bone pattern to reinforce the connection, build a three dimensional circulation
neuron
4. improve the elevation planning on the nudes, coordinating with the height of different paths.
nude
Graphic and dynamic exercise routes can be inferred based on models. For instance, running usually happens on the bridge and static exercise is usually conducted in patches of the site. People can choose an exercise according to their own needs. Buildings in the site are composed of a large main complex and scattered small buildings. The large complex is the matrix to which feedback of people in small buildings are sent. Besides, it will be directly delivered to product designers, site managers and engineers who will update the site so as to maintain the vitality of the park and build the best experience for users.
Multiply
When organism begins to move, cells, neurons and boned start to coordinate together to maintain the movement.
Circulation
Loop Branch
Functional zoning
Court sports Route sports
Entry and Exit
Entry and exit
We assume the entire sport park a unique organism, mapping the three components to the plan. Ground circulation Underground tunnel
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FUNCTION ANALYSIS
RUNWAY PATTERN
Easy Model
Overground Ground Underground
Medium Model
Hard Model
Overground Ground Underground
Information System
PLANT STRATEGY
Easy Model
lawn
Plant strategy with easy model runway
Medium Model
shrub Hard Model
tree
Plant strategy with hard model runway
lawn
lawn
shrub
shrub
tree
Plant strategy with medium model runway Different plants such as arbor, shrub and ground covers will be seen along three different running paths, which leaves people with different feelings, and thus establishes vegetation landscape for the entire park.
Bridges in the site have three widths, respectively 4m, 6m and 10m. On the 4m bridge will be canopy and chairs for people to take a rest; under the bridge, there will be a small grey space for plants. Canopy, chairs, flower bed and trees will be set on the 6m bridge, thus providing more usable landscapes for people. Given the greater width of the 10m bridge, a landscape wall that can be climbed will be designed with the combination of canopy. Under the bridge, small shops and cafĂŠ will be opened for people to purchase and entertain.
Overground Ground
lawn
shrub tree
BRIDGE SPATIAL STUDY
Yoga
Extreme Sports
Basketball
tree
Final plant strategy layout
Main Building
Idea Collection
Information feedback
(matrix)
Smart Device Distribution
Information feedback
Energy Supply Station
Information feedback
Service Block
Service Block
Service Block
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Open Lawn
Aquatic Sports Space Underground Tunnel
Skateboard Park
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ONE DAY IN THE PARK
Equip our interactive devices to explore infinitive sports experience! soccer smart glass
smart microchip
smart sneakers
Service Block 1 1. Wearable device basketball
What is that? Choice A
Run(A) or play ball games(B) ?
Choice B
tennis
choose your favourite
2. Selection of exercise The experience is unique! I wanna buy the smart glasses! Btw, there are still problems need to be solved.
feed
back
colle
ction
3.Interaction with landscape during exercise
5.Information collected to the manager, designer and engineer who will update the site
administrator
designer
engineer
Service Block 2
4.Return to block for feedback after the exercise is over Return smart devices. Buy products as they like. Provide personal feedback.
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Thanks for your creative idea, we will improve our products as well as enhance the infrastructure in the sports park!
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interactive light service block guide light
Administrator Designer
Engineer
The sports park will serve as a permanent exhilarant to drive Chengdu people’s life, motivate community residents to live a healthier lifestyle and offer a leisurely public space. Next, the new model of the sports park can be applied to more cities and regions to play a greater role, enhance people’s health conditions, and stimulate the vitality of communities and cities.
The sports park will serve as a permanent exhilarant to drive Chengdu people’s life, motivate community residents to live a healthier lifestyle and offer a leisurely public space. Next, the new model of the sports park can be used as modeler to more cities and regions to play a greater role, enhance people’s health conditions, and stimulate the vitality of communities and cities.
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87%
lighting system vegetation
74%
canopy
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Urban Acupuncture Planning And Spot Design For The Daxinggong-Xinjiekou District Time: Spring 2017,the second semester of Sophomore year Individual Project Intructor: Rong Fan This design probes into problems existing in a city center block where historical buildings and modern metropolitan buildings coexist, such as lousy quality of public space and lack of city identity. On the other hand, the block is of great historical and cultural value so it’s not about a large-scale and abstract city but about acupuncture intervention on small pieces. It’s like using a seed to trigger changes in the surrounding environment and influence a larger area bit by bit. I divide the entire block into three properties of land use: commercial area, public building area and residential area. A typical plot will be selected for transformation in each area with a view to providing better walking experience for numerous tourists in this area, and quality residential environment for residents in the communities nearby, activating the city, changing the city’s appearance progressively and eventually updating the city.
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Site SITEAnalysis ANALYSIS Site Analysis
EXISTING CONDITION Commercial Site Xuanwu district
JiangSu NanJing
Visual barrier
Lack of available landscapes
Lack of connection between indoor and outdoor
Little concession of Presidential Palace
Sight of pedestrians blocked by the green belt and mixed pedestrians and vehicles
Public building Site
Too many tourists
Legend Residential buildings
Residential Site
Commercial office buildings Historical and cultural public buildings Site
HISTORICAL BUILDING ANALYSIS Pilu Temple
Memorial Hall at The Oriental Plum Blossom Metropolitan Villa Museum
Jiangsu Province Art Museum
Centre Hotel
NanJing Presidential Palace
NanJing Library
DaXinggong CBD
JiangNing Imperial Silk Manufacyuring Museum
NanJing 1912 Pub Street
The National Gallery
NanJing Great Hall of the People
520 Student Movement Commemorative Square
NanJing Cultural& Art Center
DeJi Plaza
Historical buildings blocked by abandoned residential buildings 1368
1644 The Ming Dynasty
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The Qing Dynasty
1912 1949 2018 The Republic The People's of China Republic of China
Lack of public space
Lack of connection with the street
Through analysis of commercial, public buildings and residential area, it can be found that their links with the traffic trunk are not close. Moreover, public space is not practical and not pedestrianfriendly. Therefore, it’s transformed and extended to be more suitable for people to use. However, due to different scales and natures, different methods of treatment are adopted. On the whole, two strategies are mainly adopted:1. activate place; 2. increase connection between street and place.
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DESIGN STRATEGY
Increase green belt Reduce vehicle speed Add more usable infrastructure Increase accessibility Create more open spaces Provide more halfopen spaces Offer more private spaces Strengthen visual transparency Reinforce interior and exterior connection Demolish old discarded buildings Establish more interactive landscapes
AFTER 10 YEARS
Large Metro Interchange Station
Based on the transformation strategy of three different land use attributes of the problem site, and then gradually increasing more land that needs improvement, and eventually updating the whole area, and build this district into a pedestrian-friendly and easy-to-use public network system, promote active participation of local residents and tourists, and boost the development of the district. It’s hoped that it can stimulate a huge chain reaction in the city.
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The historical and cultural heritage of Nanjing has exerted significant influences over the city’s rapid development and modernization progress. Yet, in terms of theory, the past planning philosophies and design methods can no longer function concerning today’s social issues. Landscapes should play the role of infrastructure in a planned and appropriate manner. Local parts should be removed; its context should be retained and community relations should be continued. Eventually, the city should be returned to its citizens.
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Existing Vehicle Traffic Analysis Existing Pedestrian Analysis
Existing Plants Analysis
Commercial Site Design Strategy
Existing Problems: Visual barrier Lack of available landscapes Lack of connection between indoor and outdoor 1. Remove structures that block vision 2. Expand the underground entrance as the tableland according to the side boundary of surrounding buildings 3. Increase trees and benches on the tableland 4. Build waterscape on the tableland
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Circulation
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Planting
Terrace
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Existing Vehicle Traffic Analysis Existing Pedestrian Analysis
Existing Plants Analysis
Public building Site Design Strategy
Existing Problems: Too many tourists Little concession of Presidential Palace Sight of pedestrians blocked by the green belt and mixed pedestrians and vehicles 1. Push Changjiang Road underground to separate pedestrians and vehicles 2. Change the direction of plant cultivation and move some shrubs 3. Form a time line along the main direction of traffic 4. Add waterscape at the main visual nodes of the time line 1
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Circulation
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Planting
Time Line
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Existing Pedestrian Analysis
Residential Site
Historical building Analysis
Existing Plants Analysis
Existing Problems
Design Strategy
Existing Problems: Historical buildings blocked by abandoned residential buildings Lack of public space Lack of connection with the street 1 . D i s m a n t l e d i s c a rd e d re s i d e n t i a l buildings and increase public space 2. Add the flow line of pedestrians 3. Increase vegetation 4. Get through the first floor buildings
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Circulation
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Planting
Green land
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Studies 1. Rampway Island Time: Spring 2018,the second semester of Junior year Individual Project Tutor: Zhi Yue 2. Heart garden Time: Spring 2017,the second semester of Sophomore year The first prize in The Little Garden Design And Construction Competition Group Project Collaborator: Wen Lu, Ziyan Pan 3. Horn Tip Time: Autumn 2017,the first semester of Junior year Group Project These three projects are case studies that I am really interested in and which reflect my research and reflection upon space, plants and materials.
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Rampway Island
Form Generation
What triggers homelessness? 35% 15% 13% 11% 10% 9%
loss of job disabled Expulsion by family Family Violence can not pay the bill drugs
Why do homeless refuse to go to shelters? 40% No money 25% do not want to be sent home 15% only 10days can stay 12% boring 8% violence
I noted that a special group lives in the site, that is, homeless. In China, the reason why they choose to wander around is because most of them are disabled and old aged. Therefore, I want to build a architecture that can provide job opportunities for them. Given the special group, the internal and external passages of the building should be smoothly connected and relatively open, and with sense of fairness. Accordingly, the element I extracted is circle: an element that represents fairness most and ramp.
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A-A' Section
B-B' Section
South elevation
West elevation
1F
2F
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Mapping
Master Plan
Neighbourhood mutual-aids Strategy
Logical form Line
Lobby view
Ramp view
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Heart Garden I am quite interested in plant and stone materials. This is my freehand sketching design for a 2.5x2m plot when I was a sophomore in the university. The final small park completed adopted plants such as bamboo, azalea, camellia sasanqua and moss, and stone materials such as Mount Tai stone, Taihu Lake stone and dinas, along with stone lamps and bamboo water carriers. In the process of collocation, I mainly focus on the handling of details.
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Horn Tip
Joint Details
Wood, hemp rope and cloth are materials that we have the easiest access to in daily life. Therefore, I want to use these commonest materials to build an interesting and simple playground for children.And we carefully considered the human dimensions of children. In this way, I make it modular and easy to reuse and reconstruct later.it’s more convenient for parents to study and they can apply the same method and materials at home to create more intriguing toys for their children.
Triangular Structure
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Modul Study
Material Dimention
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Photography And Art Works
The City of Fog Chongqing 10.1.2016
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Male Bearded Tit
Female Bearded Tit
12.15.2017
12.15.2017
Mourning for Christ Drawing and Study
Girl With A Pearl Earring Drawing and Study
8.16.2012
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Acknowledgement The completion of this portfolio owes to my instructor Miss Rong Fan, without her help and incorrigible optimism, it couldn't be done. I sincerely appreciate to my professors, they are Prof. Zhe Zhang and Prof. Hao Xu. Besides, I want to express my sincere thanks to my friends, with whom I shared not only joy and insight but also depression and nonsence, especially Shurou Luo, Zhaohui Liu, Zijing Zhang and Yizhan Zhang. Most importantly, my family, especially my mother, who give me constant support and faith, as well as patience and understanding. They are like the light at the end of tunnel, showing me the direction.
RUI XU BLA, Nanjing Forestry University, China Email: laxurui@163.com Tel: 18610265959 Mailing Address: Nanjing Forestry University No. 159 Longpan Rd, Nanjing, China
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