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P O R T F O L I O

CHEN ZHIHANG

Selected Works 2017-2020

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CLASSROOM REDEFINITION

—— OUTDOOR EDUCATION PARK

education theme park children activity landscape structures design

How to provide better education for the next generation? It is a question for each individual and every country. Classroom Redefinition provides a supplementary solution for the current education system, hoping to compensate the neglected outdoor activities by the current education by use of parks while mitigating the uneven distribution of education resources.

At present, there exist many problems in the education system of China: attaching too much importance to in-class lessons but neglecting the physical exercise, differences among schools that lead to differentiated education for students, categorizing students by school and grade which hinders the communication between children with various characteristics and of different age. Therefore, I want to use landscape design to address these problems, break the stereotypes of classrooms and schools, and create a brand new outdoor classroom.

AbilityCircle：

Educational Development History

Educational Data Analysis

million 1965-2018 enrollment

700 500

Modern education in China began with the Westernization Movement. Schools were opened for the student to learn from the advanced Western culture. After that, under the leadership of Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu in the New Culture Movement, education in China was brought to a new height and received increasing attention. Years of war didn’t burn out the nation’s enthusiasm for learning and education was increasingly popularized among the citizens. Although there was a sluggish period during the Cultural Revolution after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the college entrance examination system was soon restored in 1977, which marks a new step forward of China’s education. A comprehensive education system is under construction and it is great to put education development on the agenda.

Educational Data Analysis

Age

primary school middle school high school university

We have focused on investigating the data of school enrollment and made a graphical analysis. Through a comprehensive comparison of the four different teaching places of elementary school, junior high school, senior high school and university, we have found that the education enrollment rate in China has been increasing year by year since 1965 to reach a leap in quality, which indicates that the country attaches great importance to the education development and cultivation, and that education is gradually developing towards a better direction.

Individual work

Duration:[01/2020-03/2020]

Site location:Xi'an,Shannxi

Instructor:TANG TIANQI

E-mail:tangtianqi199402@163.com

defects Ability

1-3years 5-7years 7-9years

9-11years

3-5years 11-13years 13-15years 15-17years

First, it concerns the imbalanced education resources There are huge gaps between different regions and different schools. In addition, due to the policies in some regions, some students have no access to a good school at the beginning.

The second problem is the monotonous education model Should in-class education include more knowledge or the teaching contributing to the integrated development of abilities? The current education model attaches great importance to the scores, resulting in negative influence on the physical and mental health of students and the problems of going overboard on one or some subjects. Students do not have enough time and opportunities to develop their own interest, and the cultivation of individualities is ignored.

The third problem concerns the education classification Students with physical defects or difficulties in studying with other children are usually trained and educated separately in special schools. Although it is convenient for both sides, there lacks the connection with the students from ordinary schools in their subsequent auxiliary learning, such as holding fellowship activities. It is hard for those kids to be part of a society while missing the opportunities to develop interpersonal relationships.

Therefore, based on the three points above, hope to use the knowledge and skills relevant to landscape to make an auxiliary landscape that can improve the education model.

Design Strategy Analysis

The reason of choosing Joan Miró’s paintings as the source of inspiration is that the colors and style of his paintings are rich and child-oriented, because he has been observing the world with a child’s heart. Thus, in our design it is also necessary to understand the children’s needs and thoughts in order to maximize the role and function of the landscape.

The left side of the ability circle represents the knowledge learned in the classrooms, such as science, mathematics, literature, and computer technology. The current education focuses on the left side while ignoring the comprehensive development on the right, such as physical exercise, interpersonal relationship development, and understanding the nature.

Manual ModelBook Read

John Dewey’s Democracy and Education has discussed about the connection between education and life. It is said that education is not limited to the in-class learning from the textbooks while life is also part of the education. Therefore, we have combined this point with the problem of imbalanced education resources from our preliminary research and concluded that since the education resources in the classroom are imbalanced and we cannot change it, it is better to take the idea of life as the core of the outdoor classroom to solve the problems through landscape-related skills.

When creating the collage design, we thought that the flat design elements couldn’t fully reflect or provide a very good source of ideas and inspiration for the overall landscape design, so we dug deeper into the extracted elements and made a manual model. Through observing and making hand-made models we created the landscape installations in a three-dimensional world.

Functional Space Analysis

Library space

Hearing

Sketch

Device Analysis

When designing the sound space, we included the needs of special people by using water as a communication medium to design a sound gallery where the height of the fountains can change according to different voices based on the principle combining fountains and perception of sound. We also put some simple words used in daily life into the database, so that it can help the disabled group to have vocal practice and let them communicate with others.

Bouncing space

Maze space

people:

children

study:

To provide a place for reading and learning. To provide a place for learning and exchanging experiences.

To exercise children’s ability of keeping balancing.

Nature space

function:

By understanding the actual situations of nearby schools, we found that there is a lack of mutual exchange of learning experiences between schools, so we plan to establish an outdoor library space for people of all ages to learn and exchange experiences.

By exploring the physical development of body, it is proposed to establish an activity space that helps to exercise children’s ability of keeping balancing.

all

children

people:

teenagers

students study:

To exercise the jumping ability of the targeted age group.

By exploring the physical development of body, it is proposed to establish a hemisphere trampoline space with the principle of balloon.

children

To exercise, strengthen physical fitness and improve thinking ability.

By exploring children’s way of entertainment and the methods of improve their physical fitness and thinking-oriented ability, it is proposed to establish a children’s maze with low walls. The parents watching around can participate when children are playing to increase their interactivity.

Sound space

all

people:

study: study:

To learn about nature and plants.

people: people: people:

To improve the physical fitness comprehensively.

function:

By establishing a highly naturalized ecological area, it is possible to better enrich people’s visual and sensory experiences by including more natural species. In the meantime, it can allow the visitors to learn and acquire the knowledge and common sense about nature.

hearing impaired

study: study: study:

To improve the ability to discriminate sounds.

After learning the information about the hearing-impaired, we understand that some people can hear the sound but it is difficult to discriminate different sounds. It is proposed to establish an air duct site that changes the sound through airflow to strengthen their ability to discriminate sounds.

Climbing space

Through a comprehensive analysis of the site design, it is found that the site has a certain degree of height difference. Areas of different functions need to be connected with slopes, while these slopes can serve as entertainment venues for skateboarders to improve people’s physical fitness.

people:

function: function: function:

To exercise children’s ability of climbing.

By exploring the physical development of body, it is proposed to establish an activity space that helps to exercise the children’s ability of climbing.

height

bridge space

space

Clouds Paradise Sketch

Children's Height Analysis

Device Analysis

The installation adopts the design of joint modules, which can not only ensure convenient installation and disassembly of the equipment, but also allow children to make adjustments at any time when using them to achieve different entertainment purposes. The combination of single bridge and climbing devices makes it look like a large-scale facility and brings out the potential of other additional functions, such as a seat or a semi-enclosed parking space.

We conducted a detailed data analysis on children’s heights to sum up the average heights of the children of different age and present the data with graphs. According to the data, we got the insights and diverse plans for the design of the equipment for climbing and canoe bridges, which could ensure the training and increase the playability and fun of the equipment.

single activity team work rest

Concept And Elevation Of Device

The balloons are elastic, changeable, etc., which symbolize today’s interpersonal relationships. The white clouds symbolize purity and also convey a sense

We create an outdoor functional space similar to an indoor trampoline room. The design adopts the concept of clouds and balloons. We think that outdoor exercise is beneficial to all student groups, and we also hope that they can find the balance of social relationships in the flexible space so as to better enhance the friendship between each other and the connection with other nearby schools.

pinnatifida

In Democracy and Education, it is mentioned that the experience sharing in education is very important, so we have considered how to diversify the experience sharing when designing the space of the outdoor library. We think that experience sharing shouldn’t be limited to the reading of books, but can be realized through different forms. Therefore, we have different facilities in the venue, such as enclosed seats around the podium, projection screens and galleries on the view wall, etc. Different activities can bring different experience, as well as growth from different aspects.

wasteland renovation new cemetery form

control light by landscape structures

Our living environment is going bad to worse. The available land has been reducing day by day on the earth since 2000. Lots of land loses efficacy permanently due to pollution. We make a reflection and choice for this kind of environment problem.

This is a project for the land restoration and planning of land development. For the above problem, we find a municipal waste landfill as an original site. Through the deep research on the problems around the site, the development history of the site and the land pollution situation, the suggestion of transforming the waste landfill into the combination of the cemetery and country park is made. As the resting place of the dead, the cemetery is their world. In the design, the walls, the corridors and the doors, combined with different colors and heights of plants are used to make a new “world” according to the restoration rules and landforms.

Geographical Loction

Individual

Site

Instructor:TANG

Landfill Operation

The picture describes the operation process of the country waste landfill and the process of the land destruction and brownfield forming process.

The city and the countrysides produce plenty of waste everyday. These waste will be collected by the garbage trucks and transported to the landfills to disposed. The waste should be disposed before landfilling to avoid the damage and the adverse effect on the land. When the comprehensive waste is classifiedly dumped into the waste landfill, the solid waste and liquid waste will be distinguished. The harmless liquid waste will go into the secondary sewage disposal factory. Another fragment of the solid and liquid waste will deeply dumped into the landfill. In that case , the atmosphere and environment will not be destroyed. The solid waste will be sorted more detailedly. The waste which is harmful to the land will be dumped directly, and more harmful waste will be burned. After being burned, they will be dumped deeply by the garbage truck.

The country waste landfill in Xianyang City is in Mati Town, Qindu District. It is about 8.5km from the city center. The average depth is 15m, it covers an area of 204.24 acres. The total reservoir capacity is 2 million cubic meters. The landfill went into operation in September 2009 and came into use in June 25th, 2010

are two transportation arterial roads around the landfill which is located at the junction. the most noticeable is that there is a cemetery in the west. There

cemetery in the west, a medical waste disposal station in the east and there’re many concentrated villages.With the coming of 2020, the landfill is going

beyond its limit. The decade-long landfilling bring the irretrievable damage to the land. When the limit age comes, the area should stay in the brownfield

period for a long time. The applicative plan will be carried out after the restorations.

Design Strategy

Manual Model

When designing the whole site, hand drawing and machine drawing are used. Due to the level difference, the plaster handwork model was made to make a field simulation. Then we can accurately know the fluctuation of the site.

the bushes after being covered by plants

land restoration, the garden will be covered by trees

is better, so the ground cover and brushes will be planted first

After the land restoration, the small trees will be planted

After the restoration of the soil texture, the mat formation will be built. There will be a grassy garden, themed by entertainment and leisure

years 5 years

Chemical medicine pollution to the land Household waste pollution Heavy industry materials pollution

Loction

The Analysis Of The Height Of The Shadow Of The Wall

In terms of the shadow, the entity scene brings different feelings and atmosphere feeling for the different heights of footpaths. Through the change of the height of the footpaths, the height of the wall is changing relatively. When you are walking in it, the sense is changing too.

the straight footpaths, the height of the scene walls has different changes. The shadow changes brought by the undulating scene walls are different. The height of the plants is changing too. The shadowatmosphere goes around everyone from beginning to end.

The experience feeling of the entity scene walls is too single. The height is changing, while the hollow parts will bring different shadow experience. There are different atmospheres in different areas and periods.

The meditation space is not a closed place. The atmosphere feeling is built by light in the modern inner space. But as the light, the sunshine is a kind of natural and changing lighting effect. You will have different atmosphere feeling when you enter into the different areas in the building with different views in different periods of the day.

In the world of the dead, too many scene walls will make people feel too single or too strict. We combine the real block brought by the scene walls and the virtual block brought by the plants together to build a yard feeling through the collection of the roads, walls, waters and plants.

A warm and harmonious atmosphere will be built in a relatively strict environment.

Due to the level difference of the sites, there will be the connection problems when building them. To try another way, we can transform the areas with great level difference into the cantilevered view platforms. Higher field of vision can look down the whole garden. The experience feeling will be promoted.

In the family cemetery areas, there are some fences. So one should enter into the closed and silent space through the door. We design the height and the width of the door with different kinds of designs. A geometrical relationship is built between the height and the height of the scene walls.

Some areas are fenced by highest scene walls such as the gate and channel. In that case, a kind of strict atmosphere will be built.

And Effect

family cemeteries were fenced by the lower scene walls. There are many cabinets in it. Beyond the areas,

Of

The

Aerial View

Because of the level difference is great, lots of level difference ways are used in the design. There are lots of slopes and stairs in the site. There is a distinction in height in the design of the scene walls, so the best way to describe the site is aerial view. One can know directly the design idea and atmosphere through the full view. The red and white trees represent the

planting areas in the picture, which mainly reflects in the colors and height. And the whole cemetery garden is a sunken

This kind of space has a better atmosphere feeling which is fenced by the scene walls, and also reflects another “world” better. We can see clearly the only way to the site is a channel. It learns from the entrance design of the art《Miho Museum》by Leon Ming Pei. It makes people feel like living in the paradise.

The door is between the two spaces. It is also the only way from one space to another. To build a “two worlds” idea, some abstract thresholds are designed in the entrance of the door. The solemnity and repression brought by high thresholds are suitable for the special scene areas. A long simi-transparent glass curtain is interluded in the special design of the gate, which makes people examine themselves before entering into the“world”. They can see the difference with others through the glass and know clearly the aim and mood they come here.

choosing principle of plants 1:

The plants we have in our space are almost green. But it’s a new space, so we can choose the different colors to plant around the site.

choosing principle of plants 2:

Due to the high walls to fence people’s views in the site. So a new “world space” is formed. So we made a choice and design on the planting height. We choose the higher trees in the cemetery areas, and the small trees in the grassy areas.

choosing principle of plants 3:

It’s difficult to plant in a polluted area. So we need some plants which can build up the planting ecology. The plants should have strong ability to restore the soil.

Light And Shadow Display Diagram

Planting

Entrance

JOY TURBO

——Collective emotion care system urban park community service system interactive installation

JOY TURBO is a collective care system, which integrates education, leisure, and entertainment. By setting up the functions and enriching the scape forms for different groups of people, it can alleviate the psychological and phychological state of the group to a certain extent, thereby improving the sense of joy and happiness of the group in the community and making up an important part of the community missing.

Site Location

The project lies in Changle Park in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, with convenient traffic nearby and complete infrastructure. A series of infrastructures such as residential areas, education zones, office areas and medical regions are involved around. There is a high density of population—complicated groups of crowd and visitors of different ages in the area.

Team work Team member: Ma Le (Architectural Design), Wang Keying (Interaction Design), Chen Zhihang (Landscape Design)

Duration:[11/2019-12/2019]

Site location:Xi'an,Shannxi

Instructor:TANG TIANQI

E-mail:tangtianqi199402@163.com

Historical Development

The historical trajectory of the site: The site had long been used as a nursery garden in history. After the founding of the New China, Xi’an Zoo was built here, making it an urban activity center of entertainment and leisure. However, in response to the demands of era development, the original zoo could not bear the saturated quantity of tourists anymore. After the removal of the zoo, this size was rebuilt into a general park named Changle Park, which enjoys a nice landscape and vivid jungles with the greening rate up to 89%.

Design Purposal

The project is located on the lake central island in Changle Park. At present, besides vegetation, the lake central island lacks facilities for leisure and entertainment, promising creative design. However, the island is located at the center of this park and serves as the linkage for different areas in the park, bringing a lot of development potential in space. building

park use line

projiect area building street

train station ancient building house school office subway station

User Analysis

We collected nearby users’ feedbacks about the park through questionnaire.

Problem And Solution

shown

the following icons, the majority prefer to relax when they’re down in mood, but

cannot be satisfied with existing hardware facilities in the park.

you go to the park

you’re down in

you spend any money in the park?

satisfied with the

in the

you often use

Social problems

Problems about children

Problems about provision for the aged

Provision for the aged and infant care cannot be satisfied at the same time.

2. Unwilling to give birth due to high stress in infant care.

The solution to emotional problems

1. Accompanying can relieve the loneliness of children and old people, which is the best way to relieve negative emotions. The problem can be solved by the provision of more interactive communication places.

Function Demand And Space Analysis

Get together for talking

Personal performance

devices in

3. There is no place for children to spend time

4. Communications between the old, children and

are

5. It is common in China that two generations

Emotion problems

2.

of ancestor inheritance.

1. Children lack the accompanying:

study stress for teenagers:

3. Work stress for middle-aged persons:

4. Narrow communication circle for

Definition:

More than a residence living room or a

2. By solving the problem of “two generations under one roof”, communication between different ages can be promoted, while better entertainment experience can be brought. More entertainment facilities can enhance exchanges and interactions between different ages.

3. With more quiet environments, middleaged people can relieve anxiety and stress and relax their emotions.

For the future

1. Solve emotional problems—with full confidence in life.

2. People of different ages realize cooperative development based on mutual dependence

3. Create a better society.

Manual Model

show themselves

Users of different ages have proposed different demands for functions.

demands will influence the

layout of the landscape.

It is a multi-functional,

and joint-participant collective care system integrating education, parent-child gathering and certain mental adjustment.

addition, users of different ages suffer from different social and physiological problems in social life, which can be be emotionally detrimental.

is expected that our design can not only satisfy users’ expectations for existing facilities in the park, but also relieve their negative emotions through functions and space. We hope the design can form a collective emotion care system.

The landscape design aims to form the collective emotion care system through the configuration of paths and functional zones. At first, we hope to form an emotional loop by setting the closed path, implying a cycle from calmness to pleasure and finally to the calmness again. We design this as the emotional loop can help people realize longtime emotional stability, rather than temporary emotional peak or valley. Specifically, different functional zones are configured on the path. With the close association with emotions, these functional zones can bring high spirits or calm people down.

With JOY TURBO we expect all the visitors can get certain emotional satisfaction and relieve negative emotions with some activities or facilities. All our experimental models are designed from the sense organ level, aiming to explore pleasing colors, shapes and architectural forms.

We’ve designed a series of landscape nodes along with major emotion loops. The playground for children in the architecture brings an emotional peak on site; the open sightseeing platform helps people relieve emotions and take delight; some users can stay alone and calm down in the enclosed space created by tree pools; people walking on the water footpaths, namely a transition zone, can relieve their emotional fluctuation. Users’ different emotional demands are satisfied by different nodes on site.

Activities on water

Entertainment for children

Fitness exercise

Personal performance

Shoreside platform

Sightseeing from a far distance

nature deck

increased plate Walkway under the water planting pool and bench

walkway on the water

storm event storm eventordinary times ordinary times

Sightseeing Platform Sketch

User Analysis

3D PRINTED MODEL

HAND DRAWING OTHERWORKS

PHOTOGRAPHY

PHYSICAL MODEL