The Origin of Building A Meditation Space in Qianyi Farm

The client of this project is the owner of Qianyi farm. He once was a manager in an internet company, but his health had been seriously damaged by hard work. So he decided to resign and to be a buddist in the Wuzu temple which is one of the biggest temple in China. Then he found that the scenery here is beautiful, so he builded the Qianyi farm beiside the Wuzu temple in order to enjoy the nature and study meditation culture. In spring 2016, he delegated us to design a meditation space in his farm to attract more people to study meditaion.

Building Layout is Based on The Around Terrain & Sceneries

The site is a mountain slop that has many layers, so we decided to build buildings on sevral layers to match the terrain. What's more, there are some beautiful sceneries around the site so we setted up several axises to integrate these seneries into our design.

"I am not in good

Why We Use Rammed Earth & Bamboo as Building Materials

The original site is away from the city, it is a place of pure land, with natural surrounding bamboo forest around. Light farmhouse, forest birds, cicadas around the ear, the remote terraces layer cascade fields become the most beautiful scenery in the site. We want to use natural materials to keep natural atmosphere.

The site is filled with landscape elements, and is surrounded by terraced fields, a lovely brook, and so many trees including portuguese oaks, stone pines, bamboos and so on. The whole site is full of vitality.

Old house with traditional rammed earth structure,

Thick rammed earth wall with tiled roof has become a symbol of the buildings there.

Experimental Studies on Rammed Earth & Bamboo Structure

In this design, all of walls are made by rammed earth. For meeting the needs of different rooms, we have four types of rammed earth that have some additional structure. We also did many preparatory experiments to find the best proportion of rammed earth material and the most convenient way to build the rammed earth wall. And here are the rammed earth analysis.

Structural Explosion Diagram

I use bamboo and rammed earth as suppport structure and use wood as decorate material to make a natural atmosphere. I try to use bamboo in different ways such as column, tile and beam. In order to realize this structure system, I design some bamboo structure nodes. I also use stones of original buildings in the site as material to build load-bearing wall.

Feature Wall Structure House Structure

Feature wall is an important part in our design, because we want to integrate surrounding landscape into our design. So we design a compsite structure to realize long-span feature wall.

We replace steel with bamboo to build houses and add waterproof materials on the rammed earth in order to make sure the house doesn't leak water. Then we use wood as interior support structure.

Each Axis Has Different Spatial Characteristics

Different Types of Houses

Tree Houses Hidden in The Bamboo Forest

Tree houses are one kind of meditation space.They hide in bamboo forest and are made by woods and bamboo, so tree houses can melte into the forest without being disturbed.

The Model of The Design

Each framework is made by thick wood, and we use bamboo as exterial structure to fix the whole framework. At the same time, these structures are also the decorative materials.

Tree houses face to certain beautiful sceneries, so people can enjoy beautiful sceneries during meditating. What's more, they can breathe fresh air in the forest to forget their annoyance.

One of tree houses is a tea house, thus people can drink tea and talk with each other in the tree house. And there are corridors between each tree house, so people can walk through the forest to different tree houses.

The whole design is divided into three parts: meditation space, accommodation space and tree house. People walk into the site from the entrance and go upstairs, then they will feel that each step has a different landscape. Meditating in the central meditation space and seeing the mountains and sky in the distance, people will get inner peace and their mind can be sublimated. The meditation space and accommodation area are separated by a piece of ruin wall from the original site. Two sides of the wall just like two world. People can enjoy the beauty of the time through this ruin wall.

Air Shelter House

The Research of Light Structure

Mentor: Zhen Wang, HUST

Solo Work

Fall 2016, 3-week Project

This design is about the light structure research. My inspiration comes from Chinese traditional mortise and tenon joint structure, and the form of ancient building. I invented a way the bamboo structure is connected on the basis of inheriting traditional timberwork node. This design can be made up of wood or bamboo material, assembling small-size parts into different modular frameworks to produce different size of spaces. More importantly, the overall design is light, stable, beautiful and convenient.

Sectional Perspective

This is the bamboo structure edition. I use bamboo tubes as the main structure, the waterproof fabric as the surface, 2mm bolts as fixed links and three-ply boards as the floor. These materials are light and firm, and their total weight are less than 10kg, in this way, it can be brought to different places easily.

Waterproof Fabric

Main Material: ePTFE

Thickness: 3mm

Weight: 1kg

Three-ply Board

Main Material: Ashtree Wood

Thickness: 27mm

Weight: 2kg

This Tent Can Be Made Up of Wood or Bamboo

At the beginning, I used wood as the main material to make an experimental model. Then I found that this structure is heavy and wasteful. So I simplify this structure and develop it into 2 editions that are made up of wood or bamboo.

Original Model 1:15

Bamboo Structure

Building Process

The building materials are short and light, so people can complete the building process easily and quickly.

Wood Structure

Rural Utopia

The Expectation of Future Village

Mentor: Xiaohu Liu, HUST

Team Members: Yanmu Chen, Mengyao He

Winter 2016, 8-week Project

The design concept of Rural Utopia is to create an ideal villige which has Chinese traditional elements and rural sceneries. Using vertical farming system and some other new technologies to give the village a recycling production characteristic. The whole village can be self-sufficient and can save energy. Another feature of the village is "unity”. I adopt the circle form which shows united spirit in traditional Chinese culture to creat a united and harmonious rural life.

Improvement Strategies of Traditional Agriculture and Village

This village is an ideal model for vertical agriculture and Chinese traditional habitation, ensuring supply and sustainability on site. Using vertical farming systems, I can decrease land use by almost 95%. and free up space for biodiversity and energy cycle. I use different new agricultural science technologies such as aquaponics and hydroponics to facilitate more efficient and 100% organic food production.

Strategies Problems

Oderly Agricultural Production Environment in Utopia

Many rural houses are in disrepair.

The houses newly-built are different in form.

Using traditional Chinese elements.

Create rural houses with Chinese characteristics.

There are no toilet, kitchen in the plan of rural houses.

They build huts in the yard and go out to the toilet.

New houses meets the needs of modern life.

The interior of the house is modernized.

Traditional village layout lacks large square space.

Most houses are arranged in a linear layout.

The inner is foractivities; the outer is for residence.

The inner is arranged for villagers to entertain.

Each Family has its' own samll planting box that people can plant some vegetables in their yard, and there are some livestock box for several families to use together. Rural Utopia aims to change the messy and disorderly countryside.

Villagers dry their crops in the open area of the village.

Dry them in the yard, occupying activity space.

Drys crops vertically increase activity space.

Villagers can plant flowers in their garden

New Farming System Mode in Utopia

42% of Earth’s land surface area is used for farmland.

70% of global water is used for farming.

Using aquaponic farming decreases land use by 98%.

At the same time decreasing water consumption by 90%.

Farming accounts for 30% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fertilizers have doubled the nitrogen and phosphorous

Aquaponics facilitates 100% organic food production.

Aquaponics is able to increase yield tenfold.

66% of environmental imapct is related to home activies.

33% of income is spent for household consumption.

A model for local communitybased farming and habitation.

Producing an abundance of clean energy

This village is an ideal model for vertical agriculture and Chinese traditional habitation, ensuring supply and sustainability on the site. Using vertical farming systems, we can decrease land use by almost 95%. and free up space for biodiversity and energy cycle.

The Master Plan : Circle Represents United Spirit in Traditional Chinese Culture

According to the 3 x3 module control, the site is divided into pieces regularly, then monomer elements are put in, according to the arrangement of the existing terrain.It is in accordance with the residential and public activities, surrounded by service facilities outside. Another feature of the villige is gathering that can be expressed from the inside to the outside, which shows a vision of us to creat a gathering, communicative and harmonious rural life.

Grid Layout & Grid Management

The Perfect Service Facility System

The village servicefacility system contains crop planting space, livestock breeding space, entertainment space, gathering square space and equipment houses.

Residential space and service facility space are organized in boxes of the unit for 3 x3, and the service facility space follows the layout of the residential space.

Ground House 1 : each part of the family in the village can adapt mountainous terrain peacefully, volume is small, suitable for single people and family of three.

Modularized Basic Units

Ground House 2 : this model in the first part of the village, the ground position, as the main door. Gate square and circular divide into two kinds, round door for residential side for framing, the rest of the gate of the square.

According to The Terrain and Different People to Create Four Kinds of Houses

PARENTS AND KIDS

2 & (6x6x6)

Livng & Traffic & Planting

TWO GENERATIONS

Investigation for the family to determine the space they can live comfortably, so we can determine the size of houses.

Mountain House 1 : a layer of half part of this family overhead, up the stairs around, mainly located in the slope gradient is steep and location. Family compared to other courtyard is small, suitable for family of three.

1 & (6³+2X3.6³+2x3x6)

Livng & Traffic & Planting

THREE GENERATIONS

Investigation for the family to determine the space they can live comfortably, so we can determine the size of houses.

5 & 6x6x6

Livng & Traffic & Planting

THREE GENERATIONS

Investigation for the family to determine the space they can live comfortably, so we can determine the size of houses.

5 & (6x6x6)

Livng & Traffic & Planting plate girder

Investigation for the family to determine the space they can live comfortably, so we can determine the size of houses.

Mountain House 2 : the family is located in the hillside residential group of entry is relatively flat and slope position.A layer of half to adapt to the gentle slope built on stilts, door model is suitable for large family to live in.

To support the vertical sundrying tower cantilever structure, the overall steel frame structure, the steel beam and steel column.

Color Container

The New Gallery of MoMA

Critic: Mark Rakatansky, Columbia GSAPP

Solo Work

Summer 2018

I chose Piet Mondrian as the main artist of the new gallery. Through the analysis of his paintings in different periods, I found that each period has a different feature. I personally divide them into 4 periods. And I used these 4 features as the basic concept to design the new gallery. In the painting of period 1, we can hardly say what kind of color it is. They are mixed colors, and some frames are not completely closed. And in period 2, more frames are not closed, colors spill out from frames to combine and interact with each other. So, I call it spread color. Period 3 is clear color, each color is clear and most of them are in the frame. But there are several color blocks don’t have containers. The period 3.5, it’s little different with period 3, in this period, the color itself is the container so, color contains color.