MSc Urban Design and International Planning application portfolio by zsyyy0704

Urban Design portfolio Selected works 2017-2021 Tel: +86 15506496613 Email: zhangsiyu990704@163.com

SIYU ZHANG PORTFOLIO CONTENT

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The White Pagoda Temple Remade Urban village renewal design

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Archaeological Guide Archaeological park design

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Women & Nature

Spatial design based on eco-feminism

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Collage Utopia

Future urban design of Shenzhen

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Other Works

SITE ANALYSIS

THE WHITE PAGODA TEMPLE REMADE

SITE FUNCTION

Xicheng District

Xinjiekou Street

As an urban village in Beijing, the White Pagoda Temple community has a very poor environment due to the lack of management and improvement over the years, resulting in a lack of vitality in the community. The project aims to revitalise the community by designing different scales to meet the needs of different people.

Beijing

THE SKYLINE

HISTORIC TIMELINE

There are many historical relics in the Second Ring Road in Beijing, especially the royal buildings and gardens such as the Forbidden City. After the introduction of Tibetan Buddhism into Bejjing from the Yuan Dynasty, it occupied a place in the religion of Beiing and reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty. Siheyuan, a traditional northern residential area, is also widely distributed within the Second Ring Road, but most of the quarters are not well preserved and facing a decline.

1279-1288 Yuan Dynasty Miao Ying Temple and the white Pagoda had been built by Hubilie.

1626 Qin Dynasty A large number of floating population came into the Miao Ying Temple area, and formed alley besides.

1800s Qin Dynasty Monks rented space of the temple and gradually evacuated as one of the famous temple fair in Beijing.

1958 The temple fair suspended and since then it haven't been resume.

1966 The monastery was remodeled and demolished, and lots of Heritage have been lost.

2000-2021 The White Pagoda Temple reopened and began to hold protection and renovation work.

BUILDING ANALYSIS

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INTERFACE ANALYSIS

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The historic buildings is surrounded by walls and isolated from ordinary residential life, making the level 3 interface in the neighbourhood cold.

Historycial Buildings

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We have no place to have a rest.

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The level 2 interface has problems such as the dilapidated appearance of the house and illegal additions and alterations, resulting in damage to the appearance of the interface.

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I never have a chance to interact with my neighbor on the other side

The level 2 interface occupied by tricycle and car parking, poor condition of facilities and lack of public space.

The neighbours are separated by a wall and have no way of communicating with each other.

The level 1 interface is the most used by residents, but is often occupied by a variety of non-motorised vehicles and stalls.

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White Pagoda 51m is equivalent to 13 layers

WHAT ARE YOU DISSATISFIED WITH

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CURRENT LIFE SATISFACTION

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The White Pagoga Temple community has become an ageing community with fewer young people each year. The number of foreign workers is increasing, while the number of visitors is decreasing year by year.

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AGE DISTRIBUTION

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Lack of Places for Cultural Activities

Terrible Traffic System

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POPULATION

Insufficiency of Public Open Space

White Pagoda Temple Area is a traditional building area surrounded by high-rise buildings, with only a ltle low-rise modem architecture. The tallest building in the district is the White Pagoda, 51 meters high, making him vitually visible among the surrounding residents. There are perfect living facilities, such as cultural relics, schools, hospitals, cultural buildings and commercial buildings.

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SPACE ANALYSIS

BUILDING HEIGHT

POPULATION ANALYSIS

The aerial view corridor with the White Pagoda Temple is underutilised and does not function as a spatial transition.

Level 1 interface (residential buildings - residential buildings) Level 2 interface (protecting buildings - residential buildings) Level 3 interface (historic buildings - residential buildings)

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PROBLEM

MEASURE

LEVEL 1

PERSPECTIVE VIEW

These furniture is small size,multi-functional,will be randomly installed with amenities and special jolly atmospheres. The furniture can also be renovated again in furture to adapt new definitions of the White Pagoda's culture and innovation space.

Level 1

Hutongs occupied by vehicles and sundries

PERSPECTIVE VIEW

INHABITANT ACTIVITIES ANALYSIS

Estrangement of neighbours

Degree of demand for hutong space

Degree of demand for courtyard space

Adding new functions to a single space by adding different installations or structures to the existing space, thereby promoting human interaction and restoring the character of public space. Chat and relax

Play chess

Hang out with birds

Laundry and dry

No places for relaxation

Level 2

Community activities

Business transaction

Festival activities

Curtural exhibition

Cultural attractions are not attractive

Make the most of the existing space by dividing the corner space into a new public space, the corner space is given a new function for different people to interact with each other there. No interaction between residents and visitors

Exercise and play

Separation of people and vehicular

Mobile stalls

External visitor communication

FURNITURE TYPLOGY ANALYSIS FURNITURE FUNCTION Level 3 eⅠ ur nit ur rf ula od M

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White Pagoda is not attractive enough

Modular

furniture

Modular furniture Ⅰ 1.Chess

Modular furniture Ⅱ 1.Children's slides 2.Sandy ground 3.Lounge seating

Modular furniture Ⅲ 1.Bicycle parking area 2.Loose Goods Exchange Box

Modular furniture Ⅳ 1.Lounge seating 2.Loose Goods Exchange Box

Modular furniture Ⅴ 1.Chat and Relax 2.Talking and meeting guests

Modular furniture Ⅵ 1.Birds watching 2.Cats

Modular furniture Ⅶ 1.Centralized drying area 2.Bicycle parking area

Modular furniture Ⅷ 1.Lounge seating 2.Plantation

Modular furniture Ⅸ 1.Mobile Library 2.Lounge seating

Modular furniture Ⅹ 1.News & Display Boards 2.Loose Goods Exchange Box

Modular furniture Ⅺ 1.News & Display Boards 2.Cinema

Modular furniture Ⅻ 1.Fitness 2.Lounge seating

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Increase the upper floor area and separate the placement of conflicting routes and functions. It also provides better views and vertical space to enrich the spatial hierarchy.

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GENERATION PROCESS

LEVEL 2

The original first floor functions are moved to the second floor, while additional functions are added for people to generate stories here.

The original building's exterior walls were closed off, blocking the opportunity for residents and visitors to interact with the Lu Xun Museum.

The ground floor interface is first opened up into an open space directly connected to the outside space, thus attracting people to stay here.

The final is the addition of structures and traditional architectural elements to decorate the building.

30m

Luxun Museum

Toilet

FUNCTIONAL ZONES

Exhabition

People can sit down with a cup of coffee and enjoy the relaxing life.

Relaxing

Office

Selling

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FACADE ANALYSIS

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It is a place where mobile vendors can sell and where residents and visitors can open up the space for conversation.

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1 Regular exhibitions of paintings and calligraphy or art exhibitions are held to attract visitors and residents, thus increasing the visibility of the Lu Xun Museum.

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The open space on the first floor breaks up the overly closed state of interface two, allowing the first floor to attract visitors to the Luxun Museum and to redirect the vehicles and stalls that occupy the street, thus solving the problem of street congestion.

The facade combines modern and traditional styles. The first floor incorporates the old corridor design while retaining the original architectural style, while the second floor uses a modern glass curtain wall and decorative facade combined with traditional brick walls to create an open and dynamic facade.

LEVEL 3

DESIGN CONCEPTION

The central circle of the trail is a central activity area for residents and a meeting point for residents and visitors. The trail takes the form of a circle echoing the White Pagoda, with the overall slope facing it and forming an axis between it and the White Pagoda. It is both a place for residents to interact and a major open space for viewing the tower.

Considering the conflict between businesses and visitors and residents within interface one, a fifth interface was added, where visitors and residents have both staggered and intersecting flows to meet the needs of different people's activities.

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White Pagoda

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PLATFORM VISION The chaotic blocks are integrated into the form of a quadrangle while ensuring that the function and size remain largely unchanged. Original relatively intact unit retained

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ANALYSIS OF ABORTIONS There are roof additions for decking

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Visitor Routes

The paths with high pedestrian flow in interface 3 are analysed based on POI data, so that additional corridors can be added to the upper space at suitable locations to alleviate the pedestrian flow at ground level.

Resident Routes

All flat roofed units have large decking and are connected to the main upper level walkway

Interaction Routes

Extracting scenes of life in the hutongs and replacing them with spatial forms

Huaxia Civilization

SITE

Ancient Babylonian Civilization

HENAN Ancient Indian Civilization Ancient Egyptian Civilization

ZHENGZHOU

GONGYI

YANGSHAO CULTURE ARCHITECTURE

SHUANGHUAISHU

The houses of Yangshao culture are mainly round or square, and the settlement buildings are neatly laid out in an orderly manner.

The Shuanghuishu Site is located 2 km south of the southern bank of the Yellow River in Gongyi, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, 5,300 years ago. The Shuanghuishu site is the highest-quality central settlement of a capital nature ever found in the late Yangshao culture of the Yellow River basin.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL GUIDE

BURIAL CUSTOMS

Most of Yangshao culture inhabitants were buried in rectangular barrow tombs with pottery and other burial objects, and children were buried in urns.

AGRICULTURE

Yangshao culture was at a primitive stage of hoe farming, using slashand-burn methods and land rotation, production levels were still relatively low.

The Shuanghuishu Site is a carefully sited metropolitan settlement around 5,300 years ago, filling in key material from a key period and area in the origins of Huaxia civilisation.

POTTERY

Yangshao culture had a more developed pottery industry, and the pottery-making techniques best represent the level of economic development of the craft industry at that time.

Song Shan Yellow River

aishu Site

2 KM

s of Yanhuang

The Two Emperor

The Ancient Road of Bancroft

The Grand Canal

Shuanghu

ARCHAEOLOGICAL

REMAINS Categories/Pottery

Ancient Painted Pottery

The Nine Star Pottery

Spunbond

Urn coffin

Viewing platform It can offer a view of the Yellow River in the distance. 5000 B.C .

Period

Categories/Bone *

Tooth Carved Silkworm

3000 B.C .

Yangshao Culture

Bone Shoe Shaper

Bone Needle

The Cistern Site Six metres deep, now it has been abandoned.

Human Bone

Large central residential site （Excavations have been completed） Several house foundations and the site of an urn wall were discovered here, and a number of pottery and bone tools were found.

Animal Bone

Museum

5000 B.C .

Period

3000 B.C .

Yangshao Culture

* As it is not possible to obtain a specific period of time for the artefacts, only an approximate time frame can be given.

Courtyard Ⅱ （Excavation in progress） T he remains of a large rammed earth altar have been discovered here

Categories/Architecture * One room Two rooms foundation

5000 B.C .

Period

Five rooms

Wengcheng

(small town outside the city gate; enclosure for defence outside a citygate)

Plate wall

Yangshao Culture

* As it is not possible to obtain a specific period of time for the artefacts, only an approximate time frame can be given.

Altar

3000 B.C .

Visitor Centre

Courtyard I （Excavations have been completed） There is a large residential building in compound one and a number of recent graves have been found.

Archaeologists' lounge

PLAY WHAT ？

HOW TO PLAY ？ 1

Pressure sensing points

Main pulling points

Projectable retractable film

A tensioned structure is used at the top to form the general shape of the membrane.

The lower surface of the drafting film is made of white plastic screen material to achieve better projection effects.

You need to select a location you are interested in and step on it in order to trigger the mechanism for further action.

4 You are now standing at point x, do you want the device to start to complete the projection ？

Tourable corridors

YES

The corridor is designed to be oriented at an angle to the direction of the archaeological pit.

5 The movement of the convex lens is achieved by means of a telescopic arm and a circular track.

Convex lens removable structure

The general outline of the coloured membrane is determined by the shape of the archaeological pit, which is then inflated inwards to make it rise naturally. !

Early

5000 B.C .

Archaeological pits

2 min

Platform moves, be careful ！

Colourful transparent inflatable film

Early late

Middle

Yangshao Culture

The colour wheel is divided according to the timeline, so that each historical period corresponds to a different colour interval and visitors can determine the historical period of the artefact by its colour.

Late early

Late

3000 B.C .

Post a review

Three more can be added

Interest level You can write down your views on the object.

Submit

Platform moves, be careful ！

1.Walk up to the platform via the stairs 2.View sensorable points via app 3.Stand in a designated area for induction 4.Platform lift via app 5.Wait for the platform to descend to the specified position 6.The projection process lasts two minutes 7.Platform automatically raises back up 8.Leaving the induction point 9.Give your opinion through the app

TOUR GUIDE

Exhibition Gallery

Toilet

Visitor Centre

Viewing Platform

Leisure Plaza

Interactive area

South Entrance

Archaeological area

Parking

lounge room

(Stopping visitors)

THANKS FOR VISTING!

DESIGN CONCEPT

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

Before

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Position of object distance and focal length

The nature of the image

Position of image distance and focal length

U ＞ 2F

Reduced, inverted, solid image

2F ＞ V ＞ F

U=2F

Equal, inverted, solid image

V=2F

2F ＞ U ＞ F

Magnified, inverted, solid image

V ＞ 2F

PHYSICAL MODEL

Previously, the archaeological park was more of a one-way visual output of the site to the visitor, who as a visitor was hardly really interested in the site environment and what it had to offer, which made it much less interesting.

Now

The project aims to design an interactive and experiential archaeological park where visitors can experience the site and its historical artefacts from a multi-dimensional and multi-sensory perspective. 11

7:00 AM

Paleolithic period Matriarchal societies in which women are respected, dominant and dominant in production and economic life and in society.

10-17st Centuries During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the status of women was the lowest point in the history of women's status in China.

Kexin dresses herself up every morning.

9:00 AM

WOMEN & NATURE

Kexin Li Age: 27 She loves poetry and painting and aspires to have true love rather than being forced into marriage. But she is socially ostracised for not getting married.

She will go out to work during the day.

8:00 PM In the evenings she paints or plays the piano to relax.

" Why can I only marry someone but not have a life of my own? " 7:00 AM She will spend her mornings at home doing housework.

10:00 AM

In China, despite the fact that the status of women has improved significantly compared to the past, gender discrimination, patriarchy and other unequal concepts and practices still exist. Women still have been framed by outdated concpets. This project attempts to create three kinds of spaces for female empowerment and redefine the female sphere from an eco-feminist perspective by combining the pattern of water.

21st Centuries

After the founding of New China, although the status of women began to improve, patriarchy still existed.

Mei Chen Age: 42 While her husband was out at sea fishing, she was responsible for household chores, weaving nets and handling the seafood.

She will go out on the reef with the other women and weave fish nets.

8:00 PM She handles her husband's seafood from his fishing trips.

" Why do I have to do all these boring chores every day? " 6:00 AM She will go to the hills to chop wood or drive sheep in the morning.

9:00 AM

Mugu Aer Age: 60 Her husband died and her children went out to work. She lives alone all the time and has to do some needlework at home to get by.

She does some needlework and farm work at home.

4:00 PM She will sit and chat with other elderly people over a cup of tea.

" Why can't I spend my old age in a more meaningful way? " 12

Pattern of water ripples water

Ecofeminism insists that nature and women are equal to men and believes that there is a biological connection between women and nature. In China, women are always compared to water, believing that many of the characteristics of women are similar to water.

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water water

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water water

The lake has a gentle and soft ripple, thus producing more faceted areas. The soft surface of the water is like the character of a young woman in the south of the river, gentle yet characteristic.

The sea is affected by the sea breeze and air pressure to form regular ripples, just as the middle-aged women are influenced by their families to perform regular daily chores.

" A woman speaks with nature, she can listen to the sounds from the depths of the earth, the breeze whispers in her ears, the trees murmur to her. " —— Susan·Grifin Woman and Nature

The waterfall's irregular stripes, created by the impact of the height of the terrain, are like the wrinkles that age leaves on the faces of women entering their later years, still yearning for a more interesting life.

JANE EYRE

— A romantic space for women

Excessive social pressure and people's perception of women have pushed some women to change themselves. This space, created for freedom and romance, can offer a new way of living. Romance never comes only from marriage, but also from nature and self.

Design steps

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Foyer Entrance hall Bedroom Bathroom Terrace Showroom Art room Dining room Kitchen Reception Flowerland Outdoor platform

7.5m

Master plan

Step 1

Choose the suitable line in the pattern and simplifying the lines.

Step 2

Division and connection of the building plan according to the design concept.

Step 3

Exrude the plan and make window openings to suit the view and sunlight.

Step 4

Finish the final model.

Awakening

The pattern of sea offers a completely new façade structure, which means that one's route of travel no longer rests only horizontally, but in a more coherent diagonal direction. Staircase not only serves as a roof, as a platform or shelter, but also facilitates the transport and transfer of objects.

— A family cooperative community

20.60m 15.79m 13.80m

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5.97m 3.45m ±0.00m

East facade

Entertainment room Kitchen Laundry room Tool-making room

Many families in China still maintain the idea that men should dominate outdoor business while women keep household. So this female-controlled space is created as family cooperative community to take turns taking care of household chores and thus escape the drudgery of everyday life. Whether it's laze or gossip, lives are no longer just about looking after the family but about themselves.

EXPECTATION

15m

— Landscape installations

Detail 1

Women's values should not be judged by society. They have the right to decide their own lives. This landscape in the middle of the mountains has created a new public space for women. They are no longer confined to their own yards and boring chores, they can chat with others, see the landscape and have the right to spend their old age in a more meaningful way.

Detail 2

Detail 3

Master plan

Collage CollageUtopia Utopia

City Centre Change Map Direction of out-migration

Guangzhou Foshan

Jiangmen Zhongshan

Huizhou

SHENZHEN

Zhuhai

2016 NANSHAN DISTRICT

The centre of Shenzhen continues to expand southwards as the city grows. In recent years, Shenzhen has produced major cities of relocation, mainly in Dongguan, Huizhou and Guangzhou.

1982 LUOHU DISTRICT

Dongguan

Shenzhen has developed from a small fishing village in forty years to the metropolis it is today. However, the "speed" of Shenzhen has not given the people living here a sense of identity with the city. They do not see themselves as true Shenzheners and do not know if they will still live here when they grow old. The project aims to make Shenzhen a more liveable city where people, both young and old, can find a pace of life that suits them.

Young City? Shenzhen's resident population and average annual growth rate

Resident population(million)

Average annual growth rate(%)

2000

Household composition Occupational composition of the population of the population

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2010

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Reasons why Shenzhen is unsuitable for elderly people

Shenzhen, as a place where more expatriates come in search of work, does not have a suitable environment for elderly people to retire.

2004 FUTIAN DISTRICT

Luohu District Donghu District Shamnan Avenue Shekou Port

Prince's Bay Cruise Port

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the Middle-aged

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OCBC

Luohu Business District

Children

the Youth

the Middle-aged

the Older

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Dafen Oil Painting Village

Children

the Youth

the Middle-aged

the Older

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large

Futian Business District

Children

the Youth

the Middle-aged

the Older

small

large

Dameisha Seaside Park

Children

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Building height Building density

Road width

Harbour functions

Landscape

I selected five representative areas in Shenzhen for my research, through which I found that wherever I looked, the elderly population was the least active and the least frequent, indicating that Shenzhen is currently not a suitable place for the elderly to live.

Urban Utopia Studies Plato 《The Republic》

Plato's Ideal State states that urban public space is provided in complete harmony with public life. This classical utopia exhibits to a large extent a contemplative goal. It exists in a sedate way, even with some irony.

The concept of "Super Studio" is more about the spiritual aspect of people, ,advocaing that everyone should have equal and free thovghts and that the spirit showld be given priority. I think this idea is suitable for Shenzhen, a city with a rapidly growing population and a shortage of housing, and it is a way to achieve a sense of urban identity in an overly rational city.

Kurokawa Norichika "Symbiosis theory"

The symbiosis of the urban and the natural environment，architecture and the city as open in time and space. This metabolicist doctrine embodies a rational perception of the world.

Corbusier 《The City of Light》

Pedestrians and vehicles never cross each other. The ground level of the mechanised, traffic network is entirely reserved for pedestrians. Every resident can look out of their window and see green trees and blue skies.

What is urban identity? The ideal open city, like the ideal open society, whichever is considered practicable, is a caricature of the opposing ideal, and one should choose to exclude all extreme visions of emancipation and control of both in search of a grey space that exists in between.

Super Studio "Super Surface"

The utopia of the super-studio demands ultimate liberation from materiality, with their focus on oppression-free egalitarianism and preference for an ideal model of unity.

IDEA

Supersurface

Confucius "world of Great Harmony"

There is no uniformity anywhere, no one is not fed and warmed, There will be no need to close the gates of every house. Confucius' "world of Great Harmony" favours the idea of the common good and the relationship between people.

People can do anything with his\ her soul.

Several major branches growing out of the 'fast Shenzhen' to support the supersurface.

A typical city A new Shenzhen from with high 'high-tech' to 'original', technology from 'material' to spiritual'. Slow Shenzhen and low living For people who explore the standards. essence of life. Fast Shenzhen

Master Plan of "Fast Shenzhen" At a time when "Fast Shenzhen"c is in a high-tech, low-life urban state, the emergence of supersurfaces will give the city another possibility to live. It will no longer be a typical megacity and will be able to accommodate people with different life pursuits to find the true meaning of life here. Life in "Slow Shenzhen" will be very different from the pace of life in "Fast Shenzhen", it is suitable for the elderly and even more suitable for the constantly moving working people to find their true selves here.

Super tall buildings with supporting structures Buildings in "Slow Shenzhen"

Master Plan of "Slow Shenzhen"

Detailed Perspective

View from "Slow Shenzhen" to "Fast Shenzhen"

View from "Slow Shenzhen" to Super-surface 0

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A super-surface is an infinitely extendable and lighttransmissive surface on which the grid is absolutely even and everyone can find a place.

People can generate different magnetic fields on the super-surface depending on the mood, as a way of judging the possibility of socialising with other people.

People have the ability to think more on the superficial surface, the mind shows more activity and passes it on to the body, which then reaches the super-surface.

IThe super-surface can produce many stretchable memory fibres at any time and anywhere to respond to the activity demands of the human brain.

Extrude

Wind direction

Expand

A grid of equal areas is created to correspond to the architectural texture of "fast Shenzhen", while avoiding residential areas, green, public open spaces and roads.

First round off the individual squares and expand the original squares to reduce the number of buildings on them.

According to the growth Guide direction

Pleaching Branches applicable

Graft point Join to the point

Bending

Pick up the edges of the squares and generate random points on either side of the curve, then connect the points to form the upper surface .

In order to create a more primitive and rustic living environment, the architectural forms in "Slow Shenzhen" are simpler and closer to nature.

Avoiding the impact of the structure on the building and pruning part of the branches to suit the supertall building according to climatic factors.

Leaves will grow on the branches to create a more organic environment, while the branches can be broken down into organic matter to enter the soil.

Graft edge Join edge

Graft point Join to the point

Extracting the roots of the tree as a prototype for the design, the main support is set as the outer skin of the supertall building in " Fast Shenzhen ".

During development, the branches can form a network structure- a kind of conjugation that will strengthen the structureand continue its growth.

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Life in "Slow Shenzhen" Core transport hubs

Residential areas Lift towers

Aircraft parking Storage room Water storage tank

In order to create a more pristine and natural life, the architecture of " Slow Shenzhen" is simpler, avoiding the use of complex building skins and reducing more ornaments to create a more suitable place for people who seek the essence of life to live.

Detailed Perspective

View from the lift to "Slow Shenzhen"

View from the ground in "Fast Shenzhen"

Shenzhen, as a young city with a complex systemic structure, still needs time to establish its urban identity. And the process of establishng is an exchange between architecture and the city, a metaphysical journey of ideological spatial wandering. We should try in various ways to promote mutual dialogue and transformation between architecture and urban space, traditional and modern space, and to find a dynamic balance of appropriate scales in spatial practice.

OTHER WORKS Drawings

Hand-made models

Photograph