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URBAN HUMANITIES BOOKSHOP

HUMANITIES

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CONSERVATION DESIGN

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This project aims to create an urban humanities bookshop next to the former site of the American-Jewish Federation in Shanghai, creating an environment that combines Jewish culture with contemporary culture. 3 【Catalogue】 01 03-11 20-31 12-19 32-38 02 03 04 URBAN

BOOKSHOP ANCIENT

MODERN - SYMBIOSIS SHIKUMEN

CITY RADIATOR Project Duration——10 Weeks Completed Second Semester of Sophomore Year Independently Done Project Duration——6 Weeks Completed In The First Semester of Junior Year Group Work To Complete Project Duration——16 Weeks Completed In First Semester of Junior Year Independently Done Project Duration——6 Weeks Completed In Second Semester of Junior Year Group Work To Complete

BACKGROUND

CROWD ANALYSIS

TIMELINE

MAPPING

BODY BLOCK ANALYSIS DIAGRAM

Visitors Citizens Shops Jewish Residence

The base is located in the Hongkou District of Shanghai's American-Jewish Federation, preserving the former site of the American-Jewish United Relief Committee within the base and designing an urban humanities bookstore on the vacant site, which will serve to preserve the city's cultural heritage and integrate the cultural characteristics of the city. Before 1840,there was only the temple and it was a wasteland. In the 1880s, it became a residential area. The 1930s saw an increase in Jews. Became a Jewish refuge during WWII 4 5 Main Roads Main Traffic Jewish Space Viewing Space Traditional Space Exhibition Space Route

Analysis

Spatial

Analysis

Streamline

Analysis

Visitors Citizens 1880 1930 18401939

AXONOMETRIC

Ground Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Floor Plan

EXPLODED VIEW

Third

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ELEVATION VIEW

Grand Staircase Cafe

People can sit on the large steps by the windows to read, talk, enjoy the sun and host events - it will be a fun public place.

A small cafe behind the large steps on the ground floor for visitors to relax and work.

A small central courtyard serves as a transport hub linking several buildings and as an open-air public space for the enjoyment of the neighbourhood.

Courtyard

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ANATOMICAL PERSPECTIVE AND CONSTRUCTION

Second Floor Reading Area

The ground floor bookshop façade is made of traditional Western arched windows and doors, emphasising the sense of religious atmosphere within the bookshop.

The first floor of the bookshop creates a sense of Jewish ritual through light and shadow and a large through space, while increasing the interaction of the crowd with the external landscape.

DETAIL OF SECTION CONSTRUCTION

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ANCIENT AND MODERN - SYMBIOSIS

The project is located in the centre of Barcelona, a former derelict urban prison, which in recent years has suffered from a lack of green space and activity in the city centre due to high urbanisation.The design aims to improve the perception of prisons and increase the number of

activities and green spaces in the city centre.

Role In Team:

Yue Jiawen: Aerial view rendering, site analysis, space analysi, Floor plans, sections, rendering.

Wu Xinyu: Modelling, Mapping, Explosion analysis, strategy analysis, Deepening of renderings.

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Functional Exploded View

The building has two floors and has been divided into several main functional areas based on privacy and density of footfall, including offices, visitor accommodation, a historical commemorative area, a community centre and more.

It is hoped that the overall arrangement of the building's functions will dilute the dark memories of the prison's past and increase the area of urban green space and activity centres to attract people.

A basic understanding and analysis of the site led to the decision on the main building, the secondary building and the redundant building blocks to be demolished.

CONSTRUCTION STRATEGY

In accordance with our overall design, we first demolished the redundant building blocks within the base, retaining only the core of the building blocks.

In the layout of the base, we divided the unused plots into grids, then randomised the greenery and walkways, and finally made individual adjustments to rationalise the overall flow.

We have done a privacy analysis based on the relationship between the different locations of the building and the entrances, and have made a general functional division based on the privacy of the different locations

PUBLIC SPACE ANALYSIS

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Scene RenderingsGround Floor Plan

Section View

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AERIAL VIEW RENDERING

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SHIKUMEN CONSERVATION DESIGN

The base is located in the Longmen Estate in Shanghai's Huangpu District, where the people who bought the land in 1935 had a variety of backgrounds, so every building in Longmen Village is different. No. 84 Longmen Estate, selected for this project, was in earlier years the exclusive property of a family of the Zhou surname, and due to the changing times, ownership has gradually been dispersed so that there are now six families living together.

Longmen Estate is located in the heart of Shanghai's busy city centre, adjacent to many educational institutions, medical facilities and shopping malls, with few modern high-rise buildings in the vicinity, mostly old-style Shikumen lane buildings, with the main population being elderly people and people who rent for educational and working purposes.

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BACKGROUND

The base is located in Longmen Estate, Huangpu District, built in the 1930s by the Zhou family, who moved from Yangpu Jiangwan. No. 84 and No. 85 were originally one house but were later divided into two houses due to inheritance distribution, and through changes in the family and the Cultural Revolution, became the multi-family shared lane building it is today.

USAGE OF THE HOUSE

The house is not currently owned by a single family, its ownership is scattered among several families and a more complex system of property rights and spatial living is created in this small house. The main ownership is still in the hands of the Zhou family, but only Grandpa and Grandma Zhou still live in the house, while some of the remaining rooms belonging to the second uncle of the Zhou family have long since been entrusted to the Housing Authority for management and rental. The rented houses are likewise divided into group and individually rented rooms. Most of them are foreigners who have come to Shanghai to earn a living and share the expensive rent, while a few are couples who are renting for a short period because their children are attending school nearby.

We learned that the house was built in 1935 as one with dwelling 85 next door, and that the children later split up and dwelling 84 and 85 became two separate homes as a result. In the course of our field research and mapping, we also took a careful look at the past history of the house, so that we could distinguish it from the original structure of the house when we drew the plans and design it in a way that would be more conducive to restoration.

ELEVATION MATERIALS

Entrance to the open terrace on the false third floor Fake three floors of unused storage space A corner of the master study on the first floor, more heavily damaged A unique patio in a traditional Shikumen building

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Wooden material Veneer tiles Cement mortar Glass Metal Stone Current

Ground Floor Plan

epiphytes

Current

We started by removing the walls that separated the front and back doors to create a larger space that could be used, and we plan to exhibit some of the memorable history and objects of Longmen Estate in this space, and to display the studio's research regularly.

Section Design View

FAÇADE DISEASES Plant

Surface weathering Additions 26 27 Current First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan Ground Floor Design Plan

We have a general idea of the space of the house after the design, and after our conservation design, all the later additions to the house have been removed and restored to the original appearance of the house, and the small and cramped space has been integrated and rebuilt into a large space that can be used efficiently for people's activities, and the roof structure that was wrapped in cement has been completely exposed for more ornamental value.

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DETAIL OF SECTION CONSTRUCTION

CITY RADIATOR

The first floor is the room of Grandpa and Grandma Zhou, which is privately owned and not under the Housing Authority, so it cannot be repossessed, but Grandma Zhou's room on the third floor can be moved to the first floor to make it more convenient for them to travel and the space on the first floor can be used more reasonably and not wasted.

After purchasing and reclaiming the ownership of the house owned by Zhou's grandmother on the third floor, the space on the third floor was integrated and used to open up the room formerly occupied by the third floor and the utility room to form a larger academic discussion workstation, while the roof frame structure of the house, which originally had a high research value, was stripped from the cement to make it bare and more charming.

Project Duration: August-September,2022

Location: Mumbai,India

Instructor: Manrong Liang

Role In Team: Yue Jiawen: Modelling, All renderings, Function Analysis Ye Xuanjia: Modelling, All other analysis charts

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First Floor Design Plan Second Floor Design Plan

CONSTRUCTION ANALYSIS

Due to the high density of high-rise buildings in Mumbai's urban areas in recent years, the urban heat island effect is becoming increasingly serious and the city's temperature is increasing year after year. To mitigate the heat island effect caused by the increase in high-rise buildings, we chose to build high-rise ventilation buildings in the heart of Mumbai, aiming to build ventilation units in the city and proactively provide purposeful air supply to the city to minimise the city's temperature. We used a temperature map to select the areas of the city with the highest temperatures and planned to place our high-rise ventilation building in these areas in the hope of achieving our goal.

Our aim is for our high-rise buildings to become urban air conditioners, with several large mechanical ventilation units on the buildings, which effectively draw hot air from the urban surface and turn it into cool air through a series of operations, which are directed and directed towards the periphery of the city, depending on the location of the building in the city.