Productive Exuberance

08.2020 ~ 11.2020

This project was being designed under the proposition of Productive Exuberance, which is the studio proposition when I was an exchange student at Central Saint Martin. I finished the 'first iteration' of the project in 06.2017 with the amazing guidance from my tutor Adam Furman and Julika Gittner. But I always think I can do better than that, cause the topic was extremely fascinating for me.

Two years later, I am graduating from my university, and with a better understanding of architecture I started to redo this project from zero. This time I found that this project is very theoretical, it is also a conversation with the society. For a deeper understanding for Productive Exuberance I read some books like 'Delirious New York' and 'Revisiting Postmodernism' etc., they gave me lots of inspiration. This project is a architecture design as well as a reading note. The name is ' The Depo', it's for Aldgate East, for London and for this era that we live in.

Tools : Rhino + Grasshopper,Twinmotion,Photoshop,Illustrator

Total area: 57700 sqM

Project:Market & Workshop & Storage & Hotel

Sunken plaza

Basement Plan

The main entrance is in in the underground, connecting the ground floor by four big staircases. The structural solution is a double layered-core. There are four sections on this floor, hotel reception, storage, reception and two main entrance for the sellers and makers to the workshop.

Atrium

9.5th. & 10th. Floor Plan

The atrium is created at the cross point of the core, workshops and the storage. By using the height difference of the split-level arrangement of the workshops and storage, uncrossing paths were created. By this design cargo Lift only stops at the storage floor, which avoid the potential heavy traffic.

Climbout 15.5th. & 16th. floor plan

Varieties of functions give the plan great richness and complexity. Markets that are 16 floors higher than it used to be, also crossing with the workshop provides convenient transportation for the sellers and makers.