LINGNAN CULTURE IN MEMORY

Lingnan Culture Museum

From May to July 2022

Instructor : Guoyu Wang

Instructor Email : gw327@cornell.edu

Location : Gangtou Village, Huadong Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China

Independent Study

Individual Work

The basic law of life is to forget. The continuous process of forgetting is not only a normal aspect of social life, but also a prerequisite for survival, both for individuals and groups. As long as memories are not represented and stabilized by an external medium, they are fragile, and die with the memorizer.

The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman defined culture as "the transformation of the ephemeral into the permanent." In general, every culture creates ways to prevent the relentless and pervasive ongoing forgetting and to ensure the effective transmission and continued preservation of socio-cultural identity. As the material remains of culture, architectural language makes memory transcend its original context and has a chance to get a second life. Meanwhile, culture itself can also be continued.

[Site Analysis]

Gangtou Village is located in Huadong Town, Huadu District, Guangzhou city, Guangdong Province. With a total area of about 2.83 square kilometers, it is a traditional village with a history of more than 600 years. Sitting north to south, it is a typical layout of guangfu residential houses, in the form of a comb, known as the "comb layout". Surrounded by water on three sides, four streams converge in the south of the village, forming a beautiful harbor.

[The Relationship Between Culture, Memory and Architecture]

The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman defined culture as "the transformation of the ephemeral into the permanent." In general, every culture creates ways to prevent the relentless and pervasive ongoing forgetting and to ensure the effective transmission and continued preservation of socio-cultural identity. As the material remains of culture, architectural language makes memory transcend its original context and has a chance to get a second life. Meanwhile, culture itself can also be continued.

[The Ancient Roadway]

This design uses the biological mechanism process of memory input to extraction to interfere with the spatial texture combination of ancient Lingnan settlements, so as to build a memory system framework based on architectural language under the background of Lingnan culture. In this framework, as long as the corresponding memory cue is given to stimulate, the memory retrieval process can be completed. To this end, local cultural elements and behavioral activities of Lingnan are introduced into specific scenes as clues, so that the experiencers can finally recall or associate the life scene of Lingnan, so that Lingnan culture can be continued to a certain extent.

3.Retrieval of Memory 4.Retrieval of Memory Memory Inactivation Locking in Core Memory Connections Between Core Memories

[The Reverse of Spatial Combination Form]

The spatial texture of Lingnan ancient villages is introduced

[Memory System Framework Based on Architectural Language] [Introduction of Cultural Elements]

Reverse the spatial texture of the ancient village Organize the spatial path of ancient villages (Makes the information relate to Lingnan ancient villages) (The whole image of the village began to blur) (Find out the memory focus of the village, namely public space) (Restore the original village scene to the maximum)

The spatial texture of the ancient village is misplaced

Reverse the spatial combination form of traditional Lingnan folk houses to highlight the importance of courtyard space -- an important memory place for public activities. And then give these places different themes to show lingnan culture in all its aspects. The original location of the old building is transformed into an open space, in which the damaged old walls become exhibits. Through direct sunlight, the texture of the old wall surface reveals the passage of time.

[Structure and Rhythm]

Rhythm is an indispensable part of traditional Chinese architectural layout. The Gangtou village where this design is located has a typical "comb layout", which is a common residential configuration in South China. The architectural groups have a consistent orientation and neat alignment, which highlights the sense of rhythm in the layout.In the design, the combination of traditional rhythm aesthetics and architectural structure is adopted to explain the continuation of modern structure to traditional culture: for internal space, to assume the role of the internal structure of shear wall, different from the frame structure, shear wall has brought more purely spatial experience, at the same time, repeated shear wall echo gable combination of the traditional layout of repetition.For external structure, select rows steel skeleton used to simulate the Lingnan villages here in repetitive gables curves, show the rhythm of the blend of traditional and modern beauty; finally, the thin film is used for building envelope, showing the lightness of the building from the texture and light line.

Shuttle Back And Forth

Old Building Courtyard Renovation

Academic Group Work With Jialun Feng From August to September 2019, (Second Semester of Junior Year)

100% Individual Redesigning From September to October 2022

Original Instructor : Jian Suo (From DUT)

Instructor Email : suojian2@yahoo.com.cn

Redesigning Instructor : Meng Li

Instructor Email : li.m.am@m.titech.ac.jp

Location : Zhongshan District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, China

Academic Course Work

100% Individual Redesigning

The maintenance of life requires cells to remain active, Similarly, the continuation of culture also requires a certain degree of activity. If a historic site is not visited, people will lose the opportunity to understand its cultural background, which results in the loss of its cultural value. This design starts from stimulating the activeness of old buildings. By integrating three-dimensional landscape with old buildings, the rest people are attracted to shuttle through them, so as to increase the interaction opportunities between experiencers and old buildings, and give play to the cultural value of old buildings. It is an indisputable fact that the development of most cultures is more or less the integration of foreign cultures. The integration of cultures is also the process of human survival and development. However, the integration of cultures can be divided into two categories, one is natural, the other is imposed. Obviously, there is opposition between the two, in which the imposed culture is in obvious conflict with the local culture and weakens the local culture. As a former colony of Japan and Czarist Russia, Dalian has a strong colonial culture, In this design, I selected a staff dormitory courtyard in the Japanese occupation period as the design site for transformation, through the extraction of the facade elements of the old building, reflecting the original colonial culture, at the same time, introducing the traditional Chinese garden layout with the clue of shuttling, so that the "colonial culture" will be transformed into "natural integration culture", which will make the cultural integration more positive and more suitable for local residents in terms of sensory experience and cultural aesthetics.

[Site Analysis]

The site is located in Dalian, China, between two staff dormitories that were used during the Japanese occupation period and architectural form of the staff dormitories has strong colonial culture. In addition, the staff dormitories are still being used as apartments, with the middle area of the southern E-shaped building badly damaged and unoccupied.

[The Purpose of the Design]

The maintenance of life requires cells to remain active, Similarly, the continuation of culture also requires a certain degree of activity. If a historic site is not visited, people will lose the opportunity to understand its cultural background, which results in the loss of its cultural value. This design starts from stimulating the activeness of the old building, increasing the interaction opportunities between the experiencers and the old building, so as to give play to the cultural value of the old building.

[The Design Strategy]

Demolish the severely damaged building area and keep the old walls on both sides, so that the courtyard space is no longer crowded and passive, and the area around the old wall becomes the interaction space between people and the old building.

The landscape is used to attract people, and grass slope and greenhouse are added as the landscape core. Which emphasizes the axis of the landscape. In addition, green house can be used as the vertical traffic core of the three-dimensional landscape.

The three-dimensional landscape path is established. Thus, the interaction opportunities between people and the old wall are increased and viewing experience is enriched through various paths.

[Introduction of Cultural Elements]

Form an enclosed courtyard, the combination of plants at different locations in the courtyard, water features and the zigzagging paths between them reflects the aesthetics of traditional Chinese garden.

The arch element is one of the main forms of the facade, and the curve is the main form of the architectural details. The overall shape of the building reflects the characteristics of colonial culture.

[History Line of Development]

During the Japanese occupation, the single dormitory for the workers of the "Manchu Railway" proposed by a Japanese architect was described as the earliest "white-collar apartment" in northeast China.

After Japan surrendered in World War II, Soviet troops moved into Dalian and used two buildings as dormitories for soldiers.

After liberation, the building was taken over by the Dalian Port Company, and the surrounding people called it the "Harbor yard".

After China's reform and opening up, with the rapid economic development, people's material needs increased, the old residential buildings in the neighborhood had been replaced by a series of new high-rise residential buildings.

After the 21st century, the old residents moved out of the two old buildings in pursuit of better living conditions, but the old buildings attracted a large number of migrant workers because of the low rent.

[The Integration of Colonial Culture and Traditional Chinese Culture]

Colonial culture, as one of the cultures formed in modern China, had a great impact on Chinese native culture because of its external force. In this design, I extracted elements from the facade of the old building in the period of Japanese Colonial rule in the design site and presented it in the form of a frame, so as to show its original foreign cultural characteristics in a gentle posture and avoid the strong cultural interference brought by the heavy wall to the local people.

In addition, I used shuttling as a clue to introduce the layout of traditional Chinese gardens, and combined the frame units to form a semi-closed space courtyard, thus emphasizing the sense of twists and turns and the sense of hierarchy in space in the path of ancient Chinese gardens. In the design, the frame becomes the corridor in the courtyard and contains colonial cultural elements, realizing the integration of colonial culture and traditional Chinese culture in the level of architecture and planning, so that the colonial culture does not interfere with the local culture, but enables the local culture to develop to a certain extent.

Side Countyard

[Building Construction]

This design uses the steel structure as the main structural form, in form, the I-beam is more light, so it can be better integrated with the landscape, and highlight the main position of the old wall. In the construction, this design adopts the standardized structure module and connection mode, to ensure the construction speed and quality, and the connection mode is mainly bolt connection, which is easy to split the structure, providing the possibility of material recovery and reuse in the future.

[Rest and Recreation Node]

Heat-proof stained Toughened

Laminated Glass

Bounding Box

Boundary Keel

Glass Mat

Bearing Framework

The Welding Area

End Plate (weld)

Trapezoidal Steel Plate

Screw

The Welding Area

End Plate (weld)

Concrete Pile Foundation

Nut Screw

Angle Iron

T-style Steel (weld)

T-style Steel (weld)

Hollow Steel Tube

Screw

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The Welding Area

End Plate (weld)

The form of rest and recreation node imitates the natural plant form, and it is one of the main landscape installations in this design. The main support of the structure is a combination of four curved T-shaped steels, which are connected to the basic structural units to form a joint force system, thus making the structure itself lighter and less requiring redundant structural support.

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Screw

T-style Steel

Screw

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Metal Embedded Parts

Screw

Hollow Steel Tube (with threaded)

[Basic Unit]

Screw

The basic units constitute the main three-dimensional landscape path of the design, and they are the skeleton of the whole design. In terms of overall layout, they enclose each courtyard space and provide the basic elements for the layout of traditional Chinese gardens. In unit form, it is derived from the facades of old buildings with colonial cultural characteristics. Through reversing the old building facade symbol, different types of unit forms are formed, which enrich the space experience and path choice. The structure adopts the standardized structure modulus and connection mode, which ensures the construction speed and quality. Moreover, the connection mode is mainly bolt connection, which is convenient for the separation of the structure and provides the possibility for the recovery and reuse of materials in the future.

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With the rise of digital entertainment, video games have become one of the main ways of entertainment for people, At the same time, video games have also developed together with other related industries, which makes game culture become a new culture with rapid development in recent decades. There is no doubt that VR games have become the frontier of the entire game industry due to their best immersive experience and high technology support, and it is also the development direction of the future game culture. This design is the VR and e-sports game center of mudanjiang city, in the design, in order to increase the opportunity to interact with the game center, I dilute the boundary between indoor and outdoor space of the overall building, and use green landscape and open space as VR game venues, aiming to attract people's attention, increase their participation in the game, and immerse them in the game culture atmosphere, which is conducive to the development of game culture and related industries.

Immersion

VR Gaming and E-sports Center

From March to June 2021 (The Second Semester of My fifth Year in University)

Instructor : Jingming Qu (From DUT)

Instructor Email : 84307041@163.com

Location : Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, China

Academic Course Work

Individual Work

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