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Part Ⅰ Individual Work
01 SYMBIOSIS COMMUNITY
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Site: Chongqing, China Instructure: Yichen Lu Acdemic Work, 6/2021
02 FOURTH PLACE
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Site: Mankok,Tailand Instructor: Haoming Wang Acdemic Work, 10/2020
03 CIRCLR OF LIFE
Part Ⅱ Group Work
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Site: Palm Loop, Montserrat Instructor: Haoming Wang Acdemic Work, 10/2019
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Site: Yanchen, China Instructor: Qian Li Professional Work, 8/2020
Site: Shanghai, China Instructor: Limin Song Acdemic Work, 2/2020
04 NIRVANA REBIRTH
05 INFINITE KINDERGARDEN
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06 LIVING CORAL
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Site: Beijing, China Instructor: Yichen Lu Acdemic Work, 12/2019
07 MONTAIN RANGES
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Site: Beijing, China Instructor: Shan Tu Acdemic Work, 9/2018
08 OTHER WORKS
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01 Symbiosis Community A renovation project consolidating a variety of new functions into an old community
In the process of urban renewal, the existed urban functional division changes functionally with the passage of time and the change of surrounding environment. For example, the Bai Xiangju Community in Chongqing, China, built in 1990s, was a high density residential community, where appear many commercial and tourist activities. The reason for this phenomenon is that in the 1990s when the elevator was very expensive, the designer designed the 24-story walk-up residential buildings by ingeniously utilizing altitude difference, and changed the high-rise into multistorey buildings by using entrances and exits at three different heights. In today when elevator is so common, Bai Xiangju Community becomes one of characteristic tourist attractions in Chongqing. The arrival of tourists has also boosted business development here. Many residents have transformed their homes into B&Bs (Bedand-breakfast), restaurants, chess and card rooms, coffee shops, etc. However, there are problems of violation of rules and regulations in these transformation activities. Therefore, how to find a balance between spontaneously occurring urban renewal phenomenon and urban planning behaviors? By studying the relationships among planners, tourists and residents in the community, in combination with the existing spatial and functional relationships of the site, this project puts forward a design plan meeting the demands of different groups, which enables them to coexist harmoniously in the Bai Xiangju Community. Besides, the project proposes an urban renewal strategy combining commercial with residential development and a business model of longitudinal development.
Site: Chongqing, China Time: 6/2021 Individual Work
The development process of Baixiangju
Research on types of Urban Renewal Take Baixiangju as an example
Baixiangju community was built China
Chongqing Province
Yuzhong District
Baixiang Street
Baixiang Community Residental Community
1992
Media exposure
Sky Promenade
Factor 1: Time
2016
Factor 2: Environmental change Renewal Circle
Cable car
Retreat Residential Buiding
Commercial area emerges 2019
Pocket Park
2020
Parking lot
Entrance Ramp
The emergence of new functional types
Development of new functional types
Outcome 1: Cultralization
Outcome 2: Commercialize
Symbiosis of all functions
Government renovation plan
Outcome 3: Restoration
? The symbiosis of residential and commercial functions is an inevitable trend for Baixiangju community.
U shaped stairs
Residential Buiding Entrance
Existing conflict
Design moves Platform 3
Platform 2 Platform 1
Issue 1: The driving route is blocked by different heights Issue 2: Tourist activity venues are restricted
Issue 3: Residents are affected by tourists
Step 1: Eliminate height differences in public areas
Step 2: Connect different residential buildings Step 3: Connect residential buildings and public areas
Site Plan
Functional Analysis
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(1) Parking lot & Spiral lane Enable the car to cross the height of 45m from the north to the south of Baixiangju community. (2) Public platform A place for tourists to take a short break.
(3) Structure Partially demolished the structural frame of the original parking building.
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(4) Trail & Stairs Road network connecting parking buildings and residential buildings (5) Outdoor theatre A place where residents and tourists meet.
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(6) Commercial area in the building & Viewpoint Places operated by residents and consumed by tourists.
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(7) Original residential apartment
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20m
1 Baixiang Hotel 2 Residential Buiding 3 Retreat esidential Buiding 4 Baixiang Building1-3
5 Baixiang Building4-6 6 Sky Promenade 7 Parking lot/ Playground 8 Outdoor Theater
Users & Scenes
Car
(1)
(5)
(2)
(4)
Groud Floor Plan
1st Floor Plan
2nd Floor Plan
3rd Floor Plan
(4)
(6)
(6)
(7)
4th Floor Plan
5th Floor Plan
6th Floor Plan
7th Floor Plan
Tourists
Residents
A B C
View A
View B
View C
02 Fourth Place A skyscraper for digital nomads based on the Third Place theory
Our way of work and life has been significantly changed by the development of network information technology, which enables us to contact anyone at anytime and anywhere. The epidemic in 2020 further weakened the physical connections between people. Under this circumstance, the boundary between workplace and residence becomes increasingly vaguer. Offices increasingly resemble a home. While, work has transformed from “a place to go” to “a thing to do”. As a result, an increasing number of people are choosing to become digital nomads. Digital nomads——people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and conduct their life in a nomadic manner. Based on Third place, the theory of an urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg, the project designed a structure for digital nomads in 2030 that blends working and living spaces. Through modular functional space movement and combination, the structure is designed to meet the ever-shifting lifestyle of digital nomads. Besides, different flexible states of modules correspond to different spatial functions, which enable digital nomads to select different interiors, determine the location of modules, switch module states and so on according to their preferences or demands. The structure itself can also be adjusted in proportion to the demands of different functional spaces in specific areas, so as to utilize all spaces efficiently.
Site: Mankok,Tailand Time: 10/2020 Individual Work
Site function analysis Conception modules
Second fold
Basic state
Folded State
Coliving - Mobile
Coliving - Fixed
Coworking
Comingling
Coliving - Mobile + Fixed
Coliving - Standard + Extented
Coliving + Coworking
Coworking + Comingling
Fourth place skyscraper
First fold
Modular changes
Functional analysis Module-Coliving
In the coliving, digital nomads can work, make some food and sleep when one of the metal plates is unfolded.
Module-Coworking
Coworking module not only provide common office facilities, but also let digital nomads make friends with like minded people.
Module-Comingling
Comingling module carry different functions in different regions. For example, comingling modules may form a night market in Bangkok.
Plane combination
Coliving-Basic
Coliving-Extended
Coworking-Basic
Coworking-Extended
Comingling-Basic
Comingling-Extended
Fourth place skyscraper types
Check-in process of customers: Digital nomads can select a suitable community by mobile phone before checking in. After checking in, they can adjust the location and expansion state of the living unit at any moment, or combine it with other surrounding units.
04 Choose residence place Choose module status
03 Enter the customized mudule
05 Choose mudule location Choose coworking mudule
02 Custom own mudole
06 Enter comingling module Evaluation and feedback
01 Chose fourth place skyscraper
Coliving scene
The view is really good!
What a perfect place to work!
Coworking scene
It's a good place to meet other digital nomads!
A short break during working is necessary.
Comingling scene It's a good choice to drink a cup of coffee on the terrace.
There are so many things in Bangkok night market
03 CIRCLE OF LIFE An urban cemetery based on new burial method : liquid-cremation
“Like the mayfly in the wide world, tiny as a corn in the sea” is a line written by Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty of China. In this poem, living in the water, the mayflies spend their life cycles on the water surface. Human life, like that of mayfly, comes from and is based on water, but is shorter than water. Integrating this philosophy of life and death into the design, this project adopts the concept of “Circle of life” to create an equal communication space for the living and the dead. In the old days, tomb forms were based on religions and beliefs about life and death. Since the industrial revolution, tombs have already become containers for ashes, which are with orderly space. Discussion on future cemetery forms should be based on two existing trends. One is the homogenized culture. The way people worship will no longer varies significantly due to different religions, namely people of different ethnicities and regions will tend to have similar views on death. Another is the shortage of cemeteries. The growth of population, the increase of average life expectancy and the shortage of land resources pose an unsolvable problem to the present sacrificial way. To solve these problems, the disposal of corpses will be more environmentally friendly, with the subsequent changes in the way people worship sacrifice ancestors and their concept of life and death.
Site: Shanghai, China Time: 2/2020 Individual Work
Choose a way of mourning
Mourn in the light
Mourn while flouting Liquid storage
Choose a "Mayfly"
Jewelry made from bone ashes
Tree burial
Waterproof concrete course Thermal insulation Mortar Waterproof layer Concrete slab
Mortar Waterproof layer Concrete slab Concrete beam
Waterproof concrete course Thermal insulation Mortar Waterproof layer Concrete slab
04 Nirvana rebirth A building designed to regain the musical identity of the island after the volcanic eruption
Music is a language transcending different races, classes and skin colors. Almost every culture has its own unique music, however, different music needs a common platform to communicate and spread, which enables more people fascinated with music to find resonance from music. There is such an island, Montserrat, once wellknown for its music, but lost its status symbol as a musical island because of volcanic eruptions. This project is designed to let Montserrat regain its status as a music island, where musicians, music lovers and islanders worldwide can create, communicate and experience music. The project focuses on two aspects in design. One the one hand, based on the concept of turning “ash into cash”, turn volcanic ash into major construction material, exploiting the potential value of volcanic ash to promote the rejuvenation of the island. On the other hand, it reflects the scars of history and the re-establishment of identity symbols through the spatial relationship between architecture and natural environment. On the other hand, through the spatial relationship between architecture and natural environment, reflect its historical scars and reconstruct its identity symbol.
Site: Palm Loop, Montserrat Time: 10/2019 Individual Work
Macro Scale Context To what extent will the land, rivers, volcanic movements and human activities affect the site?
Built Form Change Buildings Function Change Before the eruption Reconstruction Homestay Settle down
Land-use
Tourism
Run-off
Exploration
Vacation & Music Festival
Music studio
Perfotmance stage
Pyroclastic Flows
Intermedia Scale Context To what extent is the whole site working as a single unit?
Construction materials Utilize local materials
1. Volcanic ash
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1995
Palm Loop
Woodland Area
Air studio 1970s
Tourists Mudicians
2015
Woodland which created during the 1960s, provides one of the Montserrat’s most attractive and well servicedtbeaches.
George Martin (The Fifth Beatle) commissioned studio. It later became the epicenter of the international music scene.
After the volcano erupter,the music studio, once a landmark, lies abandoned as a ruin being swooped by vegetation.
2025
Popolation
Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat erupted on July 18. The southern portion of the island was labelled as an exclusion zone later.
Construction node Stairs & Walls
(5)
Residents
1960s
Soil Analysis
(4)
Soufriere Hills Volcano
(2) (1)
River Analysis
The place is being revived. With the island being inhabited again, the government is planning ways of turning ‘ash into cash’.
Musician numbers Tourist numbers
Traffic Analysis
Exclusion Zone
Land-use Analysis
2. Classification
3. Mix with water
4. Consolidate
Outdoor stand
Lawn roof
Outdoor stage
Traffic space
Roof Plan
Outdoor stand
Lawn roof
Outdoor stage
Traffic space
Restaurant
Studio
Hotel
Auditorium
5th Floor Plan
Different states of the bottom movable board
Library
Hotel
Auditorium
Lounge area
Housing units
Auditorium
Traffic space
Traffic space
Stage
Stage
4th Floor Plan
Stage setting
2th Floor Plan
Different states of stage and auditorium
05 Infinite kindergarden The plan of "College Street"
Campus landscape design & Kindergarden architectural design
During the internship, I collaborated with two other designers in the landscape reconstruction project at a school in Yancheng. I independently comlpeted a set of accurate CAD drawings, including different parts of the "College Street". I provided students with sheltered corridors on rainy days by designing outdoor tensioned membrane structures. Additionally, The floor paving style is designed according to the modulus and drainage point of the membrane structures. The kindergarden is a building to be built in this school. In order to let children have a continuous surface to run and play, We designed it based on the infinite symbol. The challenge of the project is the height difference formed by the ramp. My major task is to conduct deliberation of model and the production of renderings and diagrams.
The plan of the entrance of sports academy
First floor plan
Second floor plan
Roof floor plan
Section A
Site: Yanchen, China Time: 8/2020 Group Work Section B
The plan of the entrance of cafeteria
Forming the Corals
Physical model photo
06 Living coral A form generated according to parameterization
The concept for the project of Living coral is based on Conway's Life game, which takes the initial survival state of cells as basis and evolves continuously according to rules of the game. Every change in the state of life and death of a unit cell is related to that of the surrounding cells. This project aims to create a dynamic coral monument. Different initial cell states are input by us, and each cell state transition accumulates as a new layer, achieving a series of achievements of different forms based on the same generative logic. In the end, an acrylic is adopted by us to build a 1.2 meter high solid model. In the team, my major task is to conduct deliberation of preliminary conceptual models and nodes, collaborative completion of entity model building, and videos shooting and editing.
1.4 metres* 1.4 metres* 1.4 metres
Site: Beijing, China Time: 12/2019 Group Work
Rendering effect
Optimal Choice by changing parameters
Draft models
Physical model photos
07 Montain Ranges A public art installation using Bamboo material
With the theme of support and crossing, this project studies characteristics of bamboo material in construction. The major difficulty encountered is how to break through the scale limitation of the model by optimized nodes with the limited length of bamboo material, and build a model reflecting the flexibility of bamboo material by complete manual way. The model finally shown borrows the intention of mountains in Chinese painting, controlling the length, thermal bending and node position of each bamboo to achieve the undulating effect of mountains. Exhibited during Beijing Design Week, the 7.5-meter-long installation became the main public art installation on the square, where people can have a rest. In the team, my major task is to conduct deliberation of preliminary conceptual models and nodes, collaborative completion of entity model building, and videos shooting and editing.
Site: Beijing, China Time: 9/2018 Group Work
08 Other works Pysical Model
Design Studio (2)
Design Studio (3)
Design Studio (4)
Rendering
Design Studio (5)
The Environment Design (1)
Display Design
Painting
Photography
Color Painting
Social Practice for Rural Revitalization in Gaochun
Visual Language (1)
Special Survey - Italy
Traditional Chinese Garden Design
Social Practice for Rural Revitalization in Yanjin