ARCHITECTURAL PORTFOLIO Zhaoyuan Gou MSD-AAD,University of Pennsylvania B.Arch, Sichuan University
ABOUT EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE :
I would define the episteme retrospectively as the strategic apparatus which permits of separating out from among all the statements which are possible those that will be acceptable within, I won’t say a scientific theory, but a field of scientificity, and which it is possible to say are true or false. The episteme is the ‘apparatus’ which makes possible the separation, not of the true from the false, but of what may from what may not be characterized as scientific. Knowledge is not neutral, it is a methodology that can be understood by multiple groups. Universities provide a platform of knowledge,and we have to choose which to believe.
ABOUT ARCHITECTURE:
Compared to abstract spatial experiment and abstract art expression, now I tend to believe that architecture design represent a being of relation , such as nature and artificial, history and present, architecture and society environment and so on.
CONTENTS 01 ALONGSIDE THE RIVER - A Response to the commercial
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02 SERENDIPITY - Reshaping public spaces to
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03 POETIC DWELLING - Tries to find the rules in traditional
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04 LOOKING INTO THE OPEN - Constructing a growing bamboo
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05 THE FUTURE AIRPORT - A new passenger and cargo
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and psychological needs of old town reconstruction.
accommodate different groups at different times.
Chinese gardening and apply it to develop a potential residential pattern.
tent with locals.
ABOUT PROTFOLIO DESIGN:
The intention of each design is not only responding to its context but also the hidden organizational form which is extracted from appearance and creates a new value that influences the existence of architecture and society.
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COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO HOSIPITALITY Tea house, food stalls, restaurants, taverns, hotels or wine shops are abundant in the scroll. Large shops,stalls in the streets, mobile hawkers selling all kind of goods or providing various services to the people are also abundant in the painting.
CUSTOM OF QINGMING FESTIVAL Qingming Fair is a traditional gathering has fostered the unique commercial vovation of the area and preserved a strong rural and cultural heritage, sustained by ruch human exchanges, as portrayed by Song Dynasty painter Zhan Zeduan's "Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival"
Drama
cross talk
lookers
boat drivers
merchants
chess players
handcraftsman
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THE REASONS WHY QINGMING FAIR DISAPPEAR
ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL CUSTOMS
In order to preserve the clean and orderly disposition of the area. Additionally, building a water park for tourist enjoyment has caused water levels to rise drastically, pushing the overall dam area to severely shrinking and the traditional Qingming Dam was completely shut down until 2016.
During the Tomb-sweeping Festival. They congregated over tea, played cards, basked in the sun and watched Baba drama. By analysising traditional cultural practices of Qing Ming Festival of Yuantong, the key factor of this costom is that keeping all these activities reminded alongside the river in an organized version.
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This photo was taken by Jing xin, 2012. Oringin:http://chengduyinxiang.poco.cn
OLD STREET OF YUANTONG SUVEYING AND MAPPING
Front elevation
Side elevation
RECONSTRUCTING THE LOCAL ARCHITECTURAL VOCABULARY In order to show respect to the original local architectural landscape of Yuantong, the new design connects to elements stemming from the local culture, such as traditional wooden structure in Western Sichuan and riverside pile constructions. As an abstract artistic expression form originating from cubism, the traditional houses in the small town are transformed and reorganized, and the contour lines are integrated to the existing skyline, from which a new upside down construction, full of metaphors, will eventually be built.
[ 9:00 PM ] BABA FAIR OF NIGHT
The original facade of the street
CONCEPT GENERATION
STRATEGY OF BUILDING FORM
Step 1: Reverse the front elevation and side elevation of the street.
Step 2: Adjusting the original skyline of the elevation.
Step 3: Abstracting the the skyline with an artistic perspective.
Step 4: Let the skyline and the traditional street skyline converge.
[ 7:00 AM ] RIVERSIDE OF QINGMING PORT FESTIVAL
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QINGMING FAIR The new building skyline is carefully designed to merge with the existing one around town and the roofs’ silhouette makes for a fantastic picture frame from a distance. When holding large fairs, inhabitants use traditional woods to construct shelters, decorate shops and build roadways in open fields along the river banks. Local craftsmen and artists, residents and visitors, gather here to enjoy the spring river and experience the simple life within ancient traditions. 11.0
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ELEVATION
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GROUND PLAN LEVEL: 5.0 M
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CONVERSATION WITH THE PAST With no steel and concrete, the space is flexible and neat, functioning as the town’s platform, a place for displaying the history and cluture of Yuantong. At the same time, this wooden structure is viewed as a landmark, having a conversation with the old town buildings, which are built hundreds years ago.
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ANALYSIS OF ACTIVITIES INTENSITY AND TIME DISTRIBUTION
RESHAPE PUBLIC SPACE
By analysis activities intensity of different grounps within different time distinctive activities happening to people at Jiuyanqiao area. These analysis help me decide wich kind of open public space should be valued systematically.
The city's pubulic spaces are often reshaped to accommodate the growing needs of their users. How should the public areas be altered to meet those demands? The graph above shows the possibilities of combining public spaces' fuctions.
demand intensity
activities intensity
exhibition
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sports
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danc
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chat
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walk
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cluding
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passing
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begging
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busking
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business
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sleeping
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eating
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privacy
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SPACIAL TOPOLOGY
1ST STEP: CATEGORIZE
Analysis of spatial topological models that may lead to encountering, includs 3 prototypes: horizontal connection, vertical connection and indirect connection.
2ND STEP: COMBINE
Combining different single spatial models, the complex spatial form is obtained. To achieve a different encounter.
3RD STEP: ENCOUNTER
Combined with the real situation of the site, the reorganized space model is further integrated to obtain a preliminary suitable encountering .
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SOUTHWEST ELEVATION The sidewalks are always filled with people: parents waiting for their children from school, residents from nearby neighborhoods and young couples attending movies, coming here for a rest and watching the ginkgo in the fall.There is always music being heard from the overpass
SECTION Dynamical elevations of night, When a car passes through the building.
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CREATE NEW INTERFACE OF THE CITY STREET The building is supported by the steel frame core-tube structure, appearing to float above the site. The first floor includes a small performance square and two auditoriums, while the second floor is for communal activity. One can access the ‘garden’ on the rooftop from the ‘bridge’ on the third floor and experience a rich relationship between the interior and exterior. The generous spacing in between the structure allows for the pass of cars, while also allowing passers-by to cross the street through the space above it. And thus, the use of the building can also be seen as a bridge of going uphill and downhill.
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30mm screend 10mm protectted layer(mortar) bituminous seal roof constrcution 100mm steel topping 350mm round steel beam
Translucent ETFE Membrane beam 15mm Steel Cable Rod
handrail steel rod 20mm steel sheet
Floor construction gallery: 15mm oak parquet 30mm fir boarding 50mm concrete suspend celling: 15mm plasterboard
Prinary beam: 200mm steel channel galvanised,as beam
Material of Elevation: AISI 316# Stainless steel ring diameter 10mm Thick diameter 2mm 11.25 kg/m²
secondary beam: steal beam, deapth:160mm
SPOT DETAILS 1:5
Material of Frame System: L-type stainless steel Powder coating RAL 9002 Off-white
Prinary beam frame system:
DETAIL DRAWING 1:20
Round Light Well
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03 POETIC DWELLING Academic, 16-week Group Work Collaborator: Xue Zhao, Zhicen Liu Location: Wenjiang district, Chengdu, China Duration: 5 September - 17 January, 2016 autumn Building area:101560m² Tutor: Ye Lin Poetic dwelling comes from an article by Friedrich Hölderlin, and it is well known by interpretation of Heidegger. It has been discussed from a variety of angles for a long time. It is an ideal state for human life. This idea pursues purity and briefness, people’s harmony with nature. However, the exsitence of high-rise residential communities make this idea become distant to some extent. How to realize the poetic dwelling in this age is worth considering. Wenjiang is located in the west of Chengdu, 20 km away from the downtown. With a good ecological environment and hydrological conditions, Wenjiang has become an important area on the west side of Chengdu in resort real estate development. This project tries to find the rules in traditional Chinese gardening and apply it to develop a potential residential pattern that could meet people’s practical and spiritual needs for housing.
SITE ANALYSIS The vegetation coverage in the surrounding area is up to 70%. These plants are of great biodiversity that forms an established ecosystem.
CHINESE LOCAL-STYLE DWELLING
MODERN DWELLING
CHINESE MODERN DWELLING
Conceptual Model
THINKING OF CONCEPTUAL DESIGN
Ensuring that each high-rise resident is able to possess air garden with internal spiral stairs and to bring the outdoors in.
Thinking about how to apply traditional Chinese classical botanical garden design and llifestyle to modern residence design to achieve a goal that setting a good example to live in poetry.
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ANALYSIS OF TEADITIONAL CHINESE CLASSICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
THINKING OF TEADITIONAL CHINESE CLASSICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
Analysising Lion Grove Garden, which is famous as a representative garden of the Yuan dynasty (1297-1368), it enable me to understand how to build a Chinese classicalgarden to live in a poetic life.
Rather than just designing functional commercial apartments, I wanted to design a space where residents could escape from their busy urban lives.
Based on the research on Lion Grove Garden, I realize that traditional Chinese gardens were meant to evoke a feeling of being in the larger natural world, so that the occupant could capture the sensations of wandering through the landscape. The garden presented the larger world of nature in microcosm. Masses of colorful cultivated blossoms, flowerbeds of regular geometric shape.
Singular vistas (such as the formal gardens at Versailles) were all avoided, in keeping with the goal of re-creating actual landscapes. Instead, the many aspects of a Chinese garden are revealed one at a time. A garden’s scenery is constantly altered by the shifting effects of light and the seasons, which form an important part of one’s experience of a garden and help engage all the senses, not just sight.
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PLAN PRODUCING DIAGRAM MASTER PLAN Communities were encouraged to get more involved in the shaping of their ultimate environment and architecture they inhabit.
STEP1: site
STEP1: main axis
STEP3: original trace
STEP4: new trace
While providing the conveniences of modern living, Composed in deference to the local topography, each of the buildings are diverse in height and appearance, Organized in a linked configuration across the surrounding environment, the dynamic relationship that is created among the ten buildings establishes a new type of landscape: one where architecture becomes nature, and nature dissolves into architecture.
ANALYSIS OF SUNLIGHT Hours
STEP5: site entrance & oubulic promenade
STEP6: small yards & visual corridors
STEP7: buildings
STEP8: master plan
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HIGHRISE SECTION
SECTION A
SECTION B
HIGHRISE TYPICAL PLAN
ANALYSIS OF STAIR A
ANALYSIS OF STAIR B
To achieve poetic dwelling , Ensuring that each high-rise resident is able to possess air garden with internal spiral stairs and to bring the outdoors in.
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN A-1
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN A-2
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN B-1
TYPICAL FLOOR PLAN B-2
Each high-rise resident is able to possess air garden, providing a chance to not only gain a traditional Chinese lifestyle as we used be but also can have a buffer area to hace social life with neighbors.
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OPEN SPACE & HOME My aim is to transform communal spaces and to initiate a positive change in the use of the public spaces by introducing small-scale architectural interventions and large-scale Chinese style landscape.
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04 LOOKING INTO THE OPEN THE GROWING TENT
volunteer, three weeks team Work Location: Dachong, Guizhou province, China Duration: 1 August - 20 August , 2016 Summer Tutor: Zhugui Yang Team member:Zhaoyuan Gou,Yao Gu, Xiao Chu, Zhiran Wang, Yun Huang
Dachong is a small village in the mountainous area of Guizhou Province, China. It has been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. A 300-meter tunnel is the only connection to the outside world. It is a utopia with original ecological settlement which is independent of the world. Instead of deconstructing such a beautiful pastoral landscape, I guided the design team into preserving and enjoying the beautiful scenery as much as possible —“The mountain air is good, day or night, and the birds flock homewards in harmony”. We plan on building a recreational facility erected straight into the landscape with a spectacular viewpoint, using local materials, techniques and craftsmanship. And Half of the design was made by local inhabitants. Using the environment as background and the citizens’ activities and emotions as medium, we hope to recreate countryside living in its purest form.
"The old man and children appeared and very happy and contented." —The peach colony
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AXONOMETRICAL DRAWING
PLAN
COMBINATION
CONCEPT A recreational facility erected straight into the landscape with a spectacular viewpoint, using local materials, techniques and craftsmanship to create three pivoted triangles divided its body into six sides. And Half of the design was made by local inhabitants.
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CONSTRUCTION PEOCESS Due to the limited materials available to us, it was a challenge to make our pavilions structurally sound. However, thanks to the cooperation with local workman and by creatively adopting triangular structures, we were able to create a strong frame mainly with bamboo and rope.
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05 THE FUTURE AIRPORT
A NEW PASSENGER AND CARGO TERMINAL Location: JKF Airport New York, NY, USA Duration: 1 August - 25 December , 2018 Fall Critics: Ali Rahim, Nate Hume, Brian Deluna, Ezio Blasetti Team member:Zhaoyuan Gou,Dongyun Kim, Qianni Shi
As the importance of logistics becomes more and more important, the future JFK Airport in New York will be transformed and will be more invested in cargo transportation. Therefore, the importance of goods has increased greatly. In this context, we try to treat portraits like goods. People walk through the logistics system of the entire airport. So we redefined the basic scale. The smallest basic scale becomes the goods; the scale of a single house becomes a single shelf; the entire JFK airport is a city; and the conveyor system is the street. After the human space is added, it is adjusted to meet the human scale. A single basic shelf we re-examine the direction of shelf logistics. Each shelf maintains its own uniqueness and is linked through a logistics system. Another 110 shelves form the space and facade of the entire airport. Meet the needs of people and goods in a new space. Explore new logistics systems functionally and explore new spaces and facades in architecture.
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SECTION 1-1 Combining the pedestrian traffic system with the logistics system.Experience different spatial feelings, people are part of the logistics systems
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SECOND FLOOR PLAN ISOMETRIC The basic unit of the plane is the shelf. The entire shipping system is like a city. The conveyor belt is the street that divides the airport into different areas. At the same time, each shelf unit maintains its own unique orientation. When people walk through it, every place sees a changing steel forest.
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SECTION 2-2
ELEVATION
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