To hold the unknown in awe and keep the curiosity for life.
CONTENTS
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Renovation of Residences
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project
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The Shared Kitchen
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project
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The Space Journey
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Huarongdao Space
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The transformation of traditional house
A community space centered on the kitchen
Spatial experience device
Multiple changing spaces of moving walls
01/ Renovation of Residences The redesign of old traditional residence
Project type： Residential Design Location：Tanzikou, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China Time：summer 2017
These buildings in this place were mostly built in the 1990s, with no more than six floors. This typical residence distributing in most urban and rural linking areas in China, has the property of masonry structure. In China’s rapid urbanization process, some of those old buildings have been replaced rapidly by new one, but there are many residents still living in old buildings in need of improving their living environment, among which a large part of them is the middle-aged and the elder. Old dwellings need to be reborn, and those who live inside should be more concerned. Interior design could contribute more to enhance their quality of life and make their lives lively.
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Site location
Site photos
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Sketch of the scenes
Location of the home
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washroom
bathroom
dining bedroom
main bedroom
kitchen
storage room
About The Family In this old apartment live a middle-aged couple and their elder mother who have lived here for more than ten years very intimate with their neighbors. The master likes cooking, and often shares food with his neighbors who play mahjong in the mahjong room run by his neighbor. The mistress grows some plants and likes to take care of flowers and plants every day. The old mother likes to make wool basking in the sun in the afternoon.
majong room
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New wall
Demolished wall
Traffic flow
Public
Private
Traffic flow
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Private
The orientation of entrance to the master bedroom was changed to make the two bedrooms more independent. A new door has been added to the bedroom, so people could go into it from different rooms. The area of storeroom is expanded, and it is replaced by a dining room.
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Section B-B In the section, we could see that the private and public spaces are well separated, with improved clearer functions and community of each spaces, in which people could do their own business without interrupting each other.
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Main bedroom & Dining Room The interior is given priority to with bright color which makes the small space brighter and improves the visual effect to a certain extent. With wood-colored furniture, the entire space registers color harmony, and the green plants grew inside the room could give more delights to life.
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Outdoor view Along the outside wall has been built a green area, so there are more spaces for mistress to care for plants, and it also gives a better view from the inside to the outside. And all these designs will bring them better mood and relaxed enjoying life when they are outdoors.
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02/ The Shared Kitchen A community space centered on the kitchen
Project type：Community Design Location：Huangjueping, Jiulongpo District, Chongqing, China Date：Spring 2018
It is a vegetable market in a small community where residents in this neighborhood would buy food and even spending time having a cup of tea and chitchatting. But they have to do it in a scattered way in small groups limited by the chaotic environment and small space of the market. Besides, there is communicative gap between young generation and older generation. To this end, I hope to build a shared space—an open kitchen—that will serve as a platform for all the community residents of all ages to share and communicate by means of cooking. By building a shared kitchen in the community, residents are able to have better communication and life experience.
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Site Analysis Background of the project Located in Huangjueping, Jiulongpo District of Chongqing City in southwestern China, this community is also the place where I live and study. Although a small and an old town, Huangjueping has a heterogeneous population of various ages because there are a wide range of educational institutes here—from preliminary school, middle school to universities. There are permanent dwellers such as elderly people living here as well as students. This community is blessed with a very kind and lively atmosphere, and featured by, in particular, a small vegetable market amid its residential buildings, providing people with not only many conveniences, but also chances for residents around to hang out.
Residential buildings
Food Market Residential Building
The market
Site Photo
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Shop Location
Traffic Flow
investigation Old People
Middle-aged
Young people
I have lived here for more than ten years, and I am very familiar with my neighbors.
When I pick up my child, I can buy fresh vegetables or meat at the market.
It will be perfect if there is a cosy place where I can chat with my neighbors and play chess.
I would like to invite my neighbors to dine with us, but there is not enough space at home.
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I don’t really like cooking myself, so I rarely go to the market. But I enjoy cooking with my friends.
I often see my friends playing here together, but there is not much space.
I don't know how to cook, but if someone would like to teach me...
I want a place big enough where I can play with my friends.
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Status quo:
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old people
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Staying in their own small circles, people in the community are in need of more communication. How to change this situation and create an enabling environment for them to well communicate with each other?
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Centered on the kitchen, this venue integrates various functions with community activities, and provides people with facilities including dining room, children’s bookstore, movie room and toilet.
The shared kitchen works as a venue for people in the community to congregate and share food, thus increasing their communication in an open environment.
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Interior view
Entrance site
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Shared kitchen area 15
Dining area 16
03/ The Space Journey Spatial experience device
Project type：Installation Art Time：Spring 2016
Everyone and everything in the world are being changed all the time by various external factors and by themselves in their own respective world. These changes continue to affect their courses of life, as well as the possibilities and diversity of the space. Looking at someone’s life experience, we can always find some cause and effect from these changes. Although all of these may have never been remembered from the beginning to the end by anyone, they are still real things that have been recorded by the material space. Having been through their own space journey, all the changes have become part of the space.
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Human Space
Abstract Space Internet
Dream
Thinking
The Space Physical Space
Cola Can
Cigarrete
Chocolate
Brain
Womb
Stomach
Prison
Fish
Dog
Cat
Cage
Animal Space
Paper
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IMPRISON
Womb is the first living space for human beings where babies are conceived. It is connected with a baby’s life and emotion by umbilical cord. As the start of the journey, womb is a space full of hope.
Prison means imprisonment and being deprived of freedom. One has to obey the rules in a confined space, his behavior and psychology being bound by this space as well.
WORSHIP
Churches are magnificent architecture. The great contrast between church’s grand space and the smallness of human beings make the feeling of worship and awe to the fullest.
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OPEN
The creation and existence of architectural forms are an interpretation of the indoor and outdoor spaces, and space in turn influences people’s psychological feelings.
Balloon
Original
Inflated
Inflated
Exploded
Balloon—slowly inflates and finally explodes.
Cigarette case
Original
Pinched
Pinched
Distorted
Cigarette box—continuously transforming.
Coca-Cola can
Original
Pinched
Pinched
Deformed
Cola cans—being constantly squeezed and deformed during use.
Paper
Original
Folded
Folded
Deformed
Paper—being crumpled with use.
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Action
Change of form
Line trend
Spatial change
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Surface sketch
People walk in one space after another, and they stay the same.
Original
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The changing space makes people feel different dimensions of space.
Squeeze
Distorted
Formed
Form sketch
Different spatial scales take various forms and exert different effects on people’s psychology and behaviour.
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out By creating a changing space with different dimensions, people can experience different spatial perceptions.
Based on the form of squeezed coke can, the shape of its exterior line is extracted and recomposed on a same plane with some short fold lines, as an external image of the spatial experience device. For people to experience a constantly changing space inside, the difference of spatial scale between the entrance and exit on the passage has been made larger, so that the change of the entire device can be felt even from the outside.
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We travel through various spaces every day. This spatial experience device with its changing scale and form makes us think about the relationship between people and space. Being in this device and going through a journey like this, we can feel the presence of ourselves in different spaces.
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04/ Huarongdao Space Multiple changing spaces of moving walls
Project type: Conceptual Design DateďźšSummer 2016
The insprition of huarong road In our daily residence or office space, we are accustomed to the fixed layout, living room, bedroom, bathroom... However, Life is often full of magics because of changes. Therefore, when in a constant space, we may feel that we gradually lose interests of life, and even become lazy to experience the current life, which not only generates the changeless pattern of our life, but also is the imprisonment in disguise of thoughts. Additionally, we all expect to have more control over our own life or the things we own. So the interior space will deserve its value if we can flexibly adjust the layout function of it. From this, I think of Huarongdao, a slider game that I know from an early age.
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The Chinese folk intelligence game Huarongdao, (comes from Klotski of Polish and means a block of wood), is a kind of slider game, which is made up of 10 square pieces placed in a square disk and its goal is to move the largest piece to the bottom exit with only sliding the pieces without taking them away from the chessboard. Popular in China, it was invented by John Harold Fleming from British in 1932, and then localized with the background of the Three Kingdoms.According to the notes of Zi Zhi Tong Jian (History As A Mirror), “From this road to Huarong.” Huarongdao was originally a place name in ancient China and it was said that Cao Cao failed and passed through it. Because it was a swamp at that time, Cao Cao’s troop had to cut grass and fill the land, and due to that, many soldiers were buried alive and the scene was miserable. Fortunately, Cao Cao moved from the initial position to the middle of the bottom of the chessboard and escaped from the exit by moving each chess piece. scientiific american magzine
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Rules based on the Huarong Road According to the flexible and changeable features, this game makes spatial evolution based on its original layout. And considering that the movement of the pieces may cause a lot of inconvenience, I choose to extract its linear track as the moving track of the movable wall according to its movement rules, and then make a fixed wall which is moved in a minimum unit value in per unit based on the unit length, thereby making the space flexible and variable. Block layout
Line track
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Transformation rules
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Four walls moving laterally
Two walls vertically moving
Sketches of plane exploration There are many possibilities of this space in such a rule. Because of that, I draw these variable patterns, and then explore and screen them differently. In the process of screening, I find that many planes are similar or even identical, so I select some representative planes of different types for design and analysis. Besides, different combinations constitute different spatial moving lines, and its applicable spatial functions are also different.
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Office Space
Coffee Space
Bookstore Space
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Sports Space
Exhibition Space
Coffee Shop
Sports Space
Office Space
Exhibition hall
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Bookstore
High degree of freedom of space Huarongdao can vary a variety of combination modes in a limited space. Starting from this slider game, I think of the space we live in, which is as varied as Huarongdao and has a high degree of freedom in a limited space so that we can choose spatial layout freely to achieve different aims.
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