Portfolio by Xuxu

PORTFOLIO OF XU MENGQI

P l a y a b i l i t y

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Portfolio of Xu Mengqi

Applying for Architectural Program at Edinburgh February 4th ,2018

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CONTENT

At Casa Mila,Barcelona,Spain,2016

01.

Sloping and Rotating

02.

Break Down the Fourth Wall

03.

The Home of Migratory Birds

04.

Green Infiltration

Family restaurant design Playablity of walls Suzhou,Jiangsu,China Academic Individual Instructor:Song Jinghua

Performing arts centre in campus Playability of theatre space Wuhan,Hubei,China Academic Individual Instructor:Shu Yang

Building for birdwatching on a small island Playability of observation Panjin,Liaoning,China Academic in Collaboration with Liang Di,Cao Xinhao Instructor:Li Kun

Urban village renovation in Wuhan Playability of greening Wuhan,Hubei,China Academic in Collaboration with Li Baoxian,He Jiaqi Instructor:Shu Yang

01.Sloping and Rotating Family restaurant design Playablity of walls

Suzhou,Jiangsu,China Academic Individual Instructor:Song Jinghua When I was a child,I liked to stay in irregular space with some facilities of playability no matter what the function of the space was.In this kind of space other children and I would get known to each other in short time.In this restaurant,I want to attach importance to the feelings of children and they can enjoy something more than just the food.

space for party

space for dining

The restaurant is situated at the Pingjiang Road, which is a historical and cultural block in Suzhou.People come to this area with their children to visit the scenic spot but actually not every children can enjoy the scenery like their other family members do.In this family restaurant,I want to consider more about the children' spatial experience and make them enjoy the journey like their parents do.

space for playing

Rotating

Rotating Wall

Inspiration

I was inspired by the recreation facilities that children like and found some similarities among them. From them I found that children like play with facilitie with sloping element and rotating element.So I use these two elements as my main method to create space that can be attractive for children.

From Space To Spaces

In this restaurant,I want to turn the fixed size space into a more flexible one.So I try to utilize rotating walls to supply the customers especially the kids with more alternatives in how to use the space.

Sloping

Sloping Wall

Dining Area

Sitting Area

Swinging Area

Greenning Area

Playing Area

Reading Area

GROUND FLOOR PLAN 1 Entrance 1 2 Entrance 2 3 Waiting Area 4 Indoor Dining Area 5 Kitchen

6 Restroom 7 Outdoor Dining Area 8 Chirdren's Playing Area 9 Courtyard 10 Flexible Area

SECOND FLOOR PLAN 1 Flexible Area 2 Indoor Dining Area 3 Learning Area 4 Balcony 5 Chirdren's Playing Area

02.Break Down the Fourth Wall Performing arts centre in campus Playability of theatre space

Wuhan,Hubei,China Academic Individual Instructor:Shu Yang

When a scene is set indoors and three of the walls of its room are presented on stage, in what is known as a box set.The fourth wall is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.What I try to do is to remove the fourth wall and make performer and audience have close contact.

In this performing centre,the users of the buildings are students from different majors and different country,I want them to have more chance to communicate with the students majoring in acting and sense something more than the show itself.The ordinary theatre often have fixed seats for audience and fixed stage for actor and there is a fourth wall between these two groups.Inspired by the immersive theatre,I want to break down the fourth wall and reimage the actor-audience relationship.

I choose four typical categories of theatre plans which have distinct characteristics while they give performers or the audience flexible way to move during the show.And I choose them as my archirecture archetypes to reference in my performing arts centre design.

Flexible Way to Performer

Fixed Seats and Stage in Ordinary Theatre

Type1

Flexible Way to Audience Type3

Type2

Type4

Relative Flexibility

Moving Space in Immersive Theatre As Performer

As Audience

Scene in Sleep No More

Foreign Students' Dormitory

Four Traditional Categories

Performing Arts Centre

Chinese Students' Dormitory

Performer Moving Area

College of Foreign Students

Audience Moving Area

Four New Categories

National Cultural Study Centre

College of Performing Arts

Performer Moving Area

Audience Moving Area

Connection of Stages

Two-story theatre provides different viewpoint

Traditional theatre is inseparable with classical Chinese garden

Audience is seated in sunken space to enjoy the show

Zigzag stage promotes contact between actors and audiences

1 Waterproofing Layer 2 Gutter 3 Truss 4 Load-bearing Wall 5 Floor 6 Secondary Beam 7 Primary Beam

1 2 3 4

The Way to Lakeside

The Door to Different Area

The Main Outdoor Theatre

The Main Indoor Theatre

The Main Outdoor Theatre

5 6 7

The Main Indoor Theatre

Views Along The Central Axis

Landscape Design Along The Central Axis

Along the central axis of the building,the landscape areas are divided into four categories.The first one combines performance space with landscape space.In the second type,the courtyards are combined with traditional space which connects the exterior space with interior performance space.The last one is the simple function courtyard,but in this kind of courtyard,landscape design also has some connection with the landscape design in the indoor space.

1 Theatre With Landscape Space

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See From Point 1

2 2 Theatre With Transitional Space 4

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See From Point 2

3 Courtyard

03.The Home of Migratory Birds Building for birdwatching on a small island Playability of observation

Panjin,Liaoning,China Academic in Collaboration with Liang Di,Cao Xinhao Individually Reworked Instructor:Li Kun The Red Beach is such a distinctive and poetic site that we do not want our building to destroy the hamonious aesthetic feeling here.We choose a relatively regular overall form which is accessble for birds.The blocks inside are designed according to the different habits of birds and different ways for visitors to observe.We want to enrich the experience possibility and playability of the building while being friendly to those birds.

Introduction

PEDESTRIAN LINE

The site is a crescent island called moon bay and it is on the Red beach. Red beach is a marshland coverd with saline seepweed,which turns red every autumn.There are many rare birds here which need to be studied and protected.The building needs to provide birdwatching space which can be both friendly for visitors and birds so I designed different observation space according to the living habits of the typical rare birds.

Moon Bay

BOAT ENTRANCE

12 SITE PLAN

4 1 0

Third Floor Plan 1 Observation Room B 2 Observation Room C 3 Observation Room C 4 Connection Platform 1 5 Connection Platform 2

5 3 2

3 5 6 4 1

Look Down

Visitors observe the birds which like staying in the water from the transparent hole on the floor.

Look Up

Visitors observe the birds which like staying on the tree directly through the one-way glass window.

Second Floor Plan 1 Exhibition Room 2 Observation Room A 3 Lounge 4 Connection Platform 1 5 Observation Area for Ship 6 Waterside Terrace

Look Horizontally

Visitors observe the birds which like staying in the grass from the bulge on the roof which is covered by plants.

For Sit

For walk

For Bike

For Walk

For Boat

04.Green Infiltration

Urban village renovation in Wuhan Playability of greening

Wuhan,Hubei,China Academic in Collaboration with Li Baoxian,He Jiaqi Individually Reworked Instructor:Shu Yang People in urban village usually live a leisurely but not that comfortable life and vast majority of them are old original residents or young tenants who have relatively low salary.What we want to do is to create greening areas with more functions to provide them with a fulfilling and healthy life without paying extra money and sometimes they can even save money or earn money from these activities.

Site Conditions

The site is a urban village area with a protective historical building,a high school and a primary school.We divide the site into three parts,the historic block,the mixed block and the residential block.Most people who live here are children and people over 50.We plan to use greenning strategy to help people in this site to improve their living environment.Meanwhile,they can earn some extra money and have more chance to communicate with each others.

Though there is a protective historical building in the site,not many people come to this block since the surrounding area is dirty,noisy and disorder.The alleys in the urban village are quite narrow and it is easy to get lost.

Gridding Strategy Protective Historical Building Indoor Activity Point Outdoor Activity Point

Greening Strategy Vertical Farming

Vegetables and Fruits

Farming Sharing Kitchen Vegetables and Fruits

Farming Teaching Area in School

Landscape Green Square

Greening Corridor

Greening of Empty Space

Vegetables and Flowers

Flowers and Trees

Cultural Square

Green Square

Green Market

The second part is a residence area combined with community activity area.There are many vertical farms on the top floor of the buildings and people can plants vegetables or other plants here.In this part,people from all ages can find some recreational activities and they can have more chance to communicate.

Activities in Vertical Farm

Farming

Exchanging and Selling

Sharing and Learning

Vertical Farming Area

Farming Teaching Area

Pubilc Farming Kitchen and Living Area

Landscape Green Square

Activities in Farming Teaching Area

Teaching and Learning

Playing

Activities in Public kitchen

Cooking and Sharing

Learing

Relaxing

Activities in Green Square

Exercising

Relaxing

Connection With Vertical Farm

Connection With Arterial Road

05.Other Works

Sketch Surveying and Mapping of Antient Architecture Photography Three dimentional paper cut

Sketch

Surveying and Mapping of Antient Architecture The building is located in Lichuan Old Street,Jiangxi.It was a busy district in Ming Dynasty.What we wanted to do was to survey and map the important old buildings in the street and helped the local government to recover it.The one my group worked on is called Hongqi Hall which holds 11 families.

Photography

Three Dimentional Paper