Portfolio for the University of Edinburgh

portfolio ZHANG

GAN

Southeast University 2# Sipailou, Nanjing, P. R. China

Application for Architectural and Urban Design (MSc) The University of Edinburgh

SELECTED WORKS 2015 - 2017 E-mail: 417760731@qq.com Tel: +86-15150683593

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CITY COMPLEX

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CREATIVE INDUSTRY PARK

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LANDFILL REGENERATION

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TWIN CITY

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OTHER WORKS

CITY COMPLEX

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN NANJING, CHINA

Academic, Individual work, Instructor: A.Prof. WANG Chenghui 101005005@seu.edu.cn Third academic year 09/2015-11/2015 All drawings, renders, photos and models shown have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

City Complex Study 900 900 800 800 700 700 600 600 500 500 400 400 300 300 200 200 100 100 0 0

As a combination of three or more urban functions, a city complex could accommodate commerce, business, residence, catering, entertainment and transportation within a single or a set of connected buildings, which could establish an interdependent and reciprocal relation between those different functions and form a highly efficient urban multi-functional area.

Such a complex is actually resulted from the urban agglomeration. In modern cities, people who are involved, whether they like it or nor, in a fast-paced society tend to compress their working and living environment in a relatively comprehensive space, which could arrange several social functions with a convenient, economical manner. It is this tendency that has cultivated the soil for the city complex to thrive.

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residence residence

apartment apartment

hotel hotel 2011 2011

2012 2012

2013 2013

changes in complex property composition in city center

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apartment apartment 2012 2012

main core

city center

leisure

culture

neighbourhoods center industrial resources

featured resources

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2012 2012

2013 2013

2015 2015

commercial commercial 100 100

nature resources culture resources

office office

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apartment apartment

hotel hotel 2011 2011

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changes in complex property composition in city newly-developed area

NAME

urban rail transit

semi-core

large

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changes in complex property composition in city sub-center

airport

commercial

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hotel hotel 2011 2011

transport hub office

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office office residence residence

port

cluster

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CLASSIFICATION

TYPES

DOMINANT FORMAT

SIZE

transport

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office office residence residence

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46478 46478

31418 31418

commercial commercial

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50 50

floor floor areas areas (10000㎡) (10000㎡)

figures of the total area of city complex in 21 major cities

commercial commercial

According to the size, dominant functions and location, city complexes can be classified into many types.

small

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figures of the number of city complex in 21 major cities

In recent years, China is witnessing a flourishing development of city complex. In 2014 alone, based on the data from twenty-one major cities across this country, more than 570 urban complex projects had been completed, being built or firmly scheduled. Naturally, because of the fast development of city complex and the accelerating urbanization it indicates, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find spaces for more complex like this in the inner city, and therefore, our attention should be paid to our neighborhoods.

medium

quantity quantity

Union Square, Hong Kong Poly Complex, Zhongshan Changi airport, Singapore Roppongi, Tokyo Wujiaochang, Shanghai Bengawan Solo, Singapore Tianan Digital City, Shenzhen Marina Bay Sands, Singapore

Center Pompidou, Paris

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Site Study This project is only 1 kmaway from Xinjiekou, which is the central commercial and business district of Nanjing.

According to its scale and location, I have determined its position: a small commercialoriented city complex as a neighbourhood center.

The site is located in the inner city of Nanjing near a narrow river, with about 0.5 ha. Public transportation around the site is very convenient. The metro line 3 and many bus routes connect the site with other places and a metro station Fuqiao is located on the southeast corner of the site.

However, pedestrians are very likely to be endangered because of the surrounding messy traffic and the cars parking here and there. Those nearby residents would be considerably difficult to find a safe way to reach the metro station.

Hunanlu

site

Xinjiekou surroundings

In addition, the river is hidden by trees and fence. The landscape resources are not fully used.

Fuzimiao

Programme

public transport

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3

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water system and open space

urban texture volume generation

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site area: 0.5ha building foot print: 2370m2 FAR: 4.5 green ratio: 45% building area: 21700m2

storage

up down

down

coffee hause

down up

kitchen

activity room

office lobby

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cafe & bar

0m

10m

office typical plan retail

The city complex project combines shops, offices, hotels and open space. Along the path and the river, I designed open spaces and outdoor cafes. Restaurants and shops are on the first to third floors. Offices are in the north tower and the hotel and student dormitory are in the south tower.

retail

up down

N 0m

10m

hotel typical plan

I hope that the walking-promoting and mixed-use nrighbourhood will improve the quality and environment of this area and make it more attracting and more energetic. convenience store grocery store

hotel lobby

N 0m st

1 oor plan

10m

50m

5

Function Analysis +

architecture

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hotel dormitory cafe restaurant retail

office

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open space

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street

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green riverside

square

city complex +

people

children

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adult

elder

The project is located in the inner city, surrounded by populated community and schools, so the requirement of community residents and school students should be and has been carefully considered.

I combined office, hotel, dormitory, cafe, restaurant and retail functions in one city comlex and created more open spaces such as riverside space, square in front of the station and terrace garden. The city complex is a intersection of the neighbourhood, providing spaces for relaxation, communication and reaction for all ages.

This project is a practice of Transit Oriented Development: — the walk path is created to connect the community and the metro station; — the city complex is mixed with shops, restaurants, hotels and offices; — provide a variety of accessible open spaces and walkable streets； — construct underground parking lot to reduce surface parking；

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CREATIVE INDUSTRY PARK

BLOCK GROUP DESIGN NANJING, CHINA

Academic, Individual work, Instructor: Prof. WU Xiao, 0086-13851780536 Third academic year 11/2015-01/2016 All drawings, renders, photos and models shown have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

Site Study

Programme Generation 34.2m

The site is located in the inner city of Nanjing, with about 3.4 ha. Currently, here is a high density residential area with old multi-story buildings. There are plenty of historical, cultural and educational resources.

The former residence of Yang Tingbao is the most valuable historical building in this site.

The idea is to generate a grid, taking it as the staring point.

This design studio requires students to transfer the populated community to a creative industry park.

surroundings

public transport

31.8m

34m

8m

Yang Tingbao former residence

36m 8m

There are three historical buildings in the site, which need to be protected.

The Southeast University (SEU)campus locates on the west of the site, while the university dormitory area on the east side. Therefore, thousands of students would travel across these sites everyday. In addition, due to the large number of students and teachers, this creative industry park has high potentials in commerce and service business.

31.9m

2

64m

32m

8x8m block as building cubes or public spaces

8m 2m

2m wide strip as walk-path unit

module

Then I developed a grid modular system, with 8 meters wide grid for buildings and open spaces, and 2 meters wide grid for walk.

water system and open space

urban texture

1 step 1 and 2. step 3. step 4.

2 3 4 reserve three historical buildings and cover the site with the grid module. fill the grid with physical volume. use substraction way to creat roads and open spaces。 The volumes have been remaind become buildings.

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Programme Analysis This creative industry park is a pedestrain district only with two motor ways toward underground parking lot on the boundary of the site.

After the substraction, the remaining blocks would serve as buildings while the subtracted blocks as public spaces.

The ground floor would be open to the neighbourhood, with retails, cafe, restaurants and some other service functions, which provide recreation spaces and commercial services for people living around.

This site is between the SEU campus and the dormitory area, so there are thousands of people go through the site every day.

I created a road through the site, connecting the east gate of SEU and Taipingbei Road. And I preserve the original road in the site and it is slightly modified to make it compliant with the module.

There are two forms of office buildings.

The single office near the river allows a company to own a whole building.

While more than two companies share one compound office.

The apartment on the north of the site provide residence for company stuffs and university students. commercial office apartment community activity

The buildings aroung historical buildings create flexible public spaces for variety of activities, such as exhibition, conferences and discussion.

motorway

city-level open space

non-motorized way

cluster-level open space

walking route

building-level open space

surface parking lot

riverside space

underground garage entrance

traffic analysis

Southeast University east gate site plan

By the substract way, public spaces are created. And they are divided into three levels: —City-level open space: entrance square along the main road and the riverside space.

—Cluster-level open space: public space in the center of compound office buildings.

—Buillding-level open space: courtyard and small green space next to a building.

open space structure

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10

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m

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site area: 3.4ha building foot print: 9543m2 FAR: 1.01 10 green ratio: 30% building area: 34350m2

Single Buliding

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10

50 m

third floor

coffee hause second floor

restaurant

convenient store

first floor

office 2nd floor plan

physical volume office

meeting room

multi-purpose children's room room

multi-purpose room

office

office 3rd floor plan multi-purpose room

children's room

chess room

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1 floor plan

2nd floor plan

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m 50

chess room

office

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Compond Building

N 0

10

50 m

fourth floor

third floor

office second floor

cafe first floor

2nd floor plan physical volume

coffee hause

retail

coffee hause

convenient store meeting room cafe

restaurant

3rd floor plan restaurant

cafe

restaurant

convenient store

printing shop

4th floor plan

10 0

m 50

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Typology

The blocks provide flexible indoor spaces. The function can be changed easily from exhibition, meeting to stall and lounge. stall

exhibition

meeting

shop

cafe

office

communication

pool

passage way

The blocks would satisfy various functions including office, commerce and residence. live

The blocks creat open spaces for people to meet, talk and rest

meet

riverside

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Aerial View

Single buildings are always first considered in many block group designs, and the open spaces are created through the combination of buildings. In this project, I hope to use substraction method to creat public space first.

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LANDFILL REGENERATION

URBAN AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN ZHENJIANG, CHINA

Academic, Group work with YE Peng chief designer, plan maker & technology designer Instructor: A.Prof. JIANG Hong jianghongseu@163.com Fifth academic year 09/2017-11/2017 (most recent project) All drawings, renders, photos and models shown have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

(pictures from the Internet) Zhenjiang is a city on the edge of the Yangtze River, with beautiful natural scenery and rich historical sites. However, the interaction between this city and the Yangtze has been cut off by the industrialization and the urbanization. Because of our keen pursuit for profit, the edge of Zhenjiang was occupied by a large number of plants and factories. The situation was worsened by the east-east landfill in the 1990s, where the original views of the riverside were completely blocked and replaced by rubbish. The interaction and communication between people and the environment have totally disappeared.

Fortunately, the government realized the Yangtze River's outstanding resources for eosystem.

And the landfill has ceased operation in 2016. This opens up new opportunities to explore new possibilities for the interface between city and nature.

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Residential Buildings Industrial Buildings Landfill Area Water The quality of the ecosystem of the site continued to deteriorate with the deepening of industrialization. The construction of the landfill in 1990 made this situation even worse. This program aims to gradually rehabilitate the damaged ecosystem in the coming decades.

Green space Wetland Beach

site status

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Garbage Disposal Strategy

Urban Transformation as a Progressive System

planting soil

stage 1.

new soil rammed earth existing soil

facilities and buildings construction period 25 years

planting soil rubbish new soil rammed earth existing soil stage 2.

transport network construction period 3 years

planting soil rubbish rammed earth existing soil

modified terrain construction period 1 year

stage 3. natural terrain Strategy 1. rubbish that heavily polltutes the environment and or hard to degrade is transferred. Here the original contaminated soil should be replaced with fresh soil.

construction period existing

Strategy 2. garbage of medium pollution can be piled up and covered with a layer of soil to create a hillside for human activity.

Strategy 3. construction waste that has little or no pollution to the environment is buried in the site and a series of technical processes are to be carried out to ensure that there will not be further contamination during degradation of the waste.

program construction period 25 years

site construction period existing

strategy 3 zone strategy 2 zone strategy 1 zone garbage disposal zoning

Just as the degradation of pollutants takes time, the construction of the city also requires a certain period of time. Phased system construction gives the possibility of flexible development.

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Staging Site Plans

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With the reduction of pollution in the coming decades, increasing activities are introduced into the site and eventually make it a complete vitality area.

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Landform Typology

hillside

hillside + river

slope + river +beach

hillside + river

clay buildings

reserved buildings

city complex

commercial district

waterfront facilities

walkways

beach

viewing platform

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Pollution Treatment planting soil anti-seepage layer original contaminated soil refuse anti-seepage membrane anti-seepage clay rammed soil landfill gas collection system

leachate drainage system

section 1

flood protection Ⅲ

flood protection Ⅱ flood protection Ⅰ

sewage treatment

constructed wetland

leachate drainage system

section 2

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1

2

3

4 Staging Views

Different periods of construction have different landscapes, inviting different types of activities.

native plants with high purification capacity

native plants with high landscape value

imported plants with high landscape value

Vacant Space Landfill Space Industrial Space

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 YEAR Woodland Gradual Diversification In early years of construction, native plants with high purification capacity are planted in the site. After several years, as the degree of purification of the land slowly increases, new landscape plant varieties will be planted in overlapping ecotonal bands on existing soil to build the woodland rim.

Revisiting an Old Haunt As time goes by, the once barren land will eventually turn into a beautiful place.

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TWIN CITY

URBAN AND RURAL DESIGN VIENNA-BRATISLAVA REGION

Academic, Individual work, Instructor: Prof. Erich Raith, erich.raith@tuwien.ac.at Fourth academic year 03/2017-06/2017 All drawings, renders, photos and models shown have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

VIENNA BRATISLAVA DONAU-AUEN NATIONAL PARK DANUBE RIVER

Twin-City region map

The urban development process of Vienna cannot, and should not be understood without its close connection to that of the Danube and the Danube region. The Vienna Urban Development Plan STEP 2005 has already presented a "regional spatial mission statement", which was characterized by the slogan "Twin City Vienna Bratislava". It aims at transregional and cross-border urbanization processes, in which the Danube region is to gain the significance of an identity-forming "green center".

Today, the two capitals and their surrounding regions are facing difficult challenges, such as globalization, urban expansion, social change and climate change. The Twin-city planning and design creates a sustainable developing way in both large and small scale.

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VIENNA BRATISLAVA

WOLFSTAHL

S7

regional strategy plan green core

green corridor

twin-city current highway

twin-city current railway

nation border

focus city

city development axis

twin-city new highway

twin-city new railway

train station

To stimulate the communication between Vienna and Bratislava, I planned three transport loops (railway, highway and bikepath loop) to improve the transport infrastructrue in Vienna-Bratislava region. Freight and residents on both sides of the Danube can commute between these two cities, without damage of Donau-Auen National Park.

1. Rail: fix the gap between Wolfstahl and Bratislava of S7 line 2. Highway: new highway in north of Danube basin; tunnel under Danube river 3. Bikepath: bike paths through the national park on both sides of the Danube

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Situated between the European capitals Vienna and Bratislava, the Donau-Auen National Park preserves the last remaining major wetlands environment in Central Europe. Here, the Danube is still free flowing and is the lifeline of the National Park. It creates a habitat for numerous animals and plants.

The Vienna S7 line runs south of the park, passing the Vienna international airport and several towns and countries, ending at Bratislava. With convenient transport and abundant tourism resources, areas along the railway have high development potential.The sustainable planning aims to make harmonious relationship among nature, cities and people.

Hainburg

DONAU-AUEN NATIONAL PARK

Bad Deutsche-Altenburg

Vienna International Airport Fischamend

Maria Ellend

Haslau

Regelsbrunn

Wildungsmauer

Wolfstahl

Petronell-Carnuntum

Scharndorf

strategy plan along S7 line green core

current railway

green corridor

bike path

new railway

transport node

nation border wind power generator

FOOD + WATER + TRANSPORT + HUMAN + CITY + NATURE

minery

industry

agriculture

built up area

tourism

live

Typical South-North section

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sustainable farming

multiple water use

diverse crops & smaller plot size

<1m

irrigation

1-5m

recreation

>5m

shipping

greenhouse main crops cash crops

healthy lifestyle

resilient nature

convenient and fast rail transport perfect infrastructure activities: tourism orchard boat excursion adventure tour hiking ......

disaster prevention water cleaning education programme biodiversity science research ......

banlanced ecology biodiversity

The Openboxs creat a system of green areas, farming and people's live, enhancing the interaction with people and nature and creating space to act and propose new ways of living a public space. The flexible Openboxes play different roles in different places.

(pictures from the Internet)

human activities

Maria Ellend strategy plan

Openbox

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waterfront pavillion

The Opoenbox can serve as a pavillion at the water front, providing sunshade and rest space for fishermen and swimmers. It also can serve as a floating platform on the water surface, offering rest space for waterfowls.

planting shelf

viewing platform

public activity trigger

The Openbox located in the farm land can be used as a shelf for growing vegetables and flowers, The vertical planting shelf takes small amount of land while increses diversity of crops, which inceases farming sustainablitty.

The Openbox in the forest provide enough space for tourists to observing the wild animals, take a rest and have a picnic. And it also can be the platform for people to look out and watch birds.

The Openbox located in the town center is a public device attracting people to gather together, to interact with each other and to make more friends. Furthermore, the Openbox increases public activities and makes the town more energetic.

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OTHER WORKS

All drawings, renders, photos and models shown have been done by myself unless otherwise stated.

Competitions

drawn by Wang Xi and me

2017 Commons Competition group work

2017 Shanghai Urban Design Challenge group work

2016 SSS Competition group work

Phtography

Granada Foundation, Granada

Alhambra Palace, Granada

Mรกtyรกs Templom, Budapest

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