SIYU ZHANG Portfolio for UCL MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environment by zsyyy0704

PORTFOLIO

2017-2021 Applying for MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environment

SIYU ZHANG Application number: 22103770

SIYU ZHANG Email: zhangsiyu990704@163.com

Tel: +86 15506496613

EDUCATION Yantai University（First Degree) Major: Urban and Rural Planning GPA: 86.7/100

2017.09-2022.06

Yantai University（Second Degree) Major: English GPA: 83/100

2018.09-2021.06

AWARDS Shandong Environmental Art Innovation and Creativity Competition, Third Prize

2021.11

Cross-strait New Prominent Design Competition (Huacan Award), North China Division Second Prize

2021.11

National College Art Design Competition, Provincial Third Prize

2021.08

College Student Rural Planning Practice, Excellence Award

2020.12

School Build Festival Activities, Second Prize

2019.04

WORK EXPERIENCE Jining Planning Design & Research Institute

2020.06-2020.08

Assistant designer Jining Planning Design & Research Institute

2019.06-2019.08

Assistant designer

SKILLS Rhino Grasshopper ArcGIS Blender

Vray Lumion AutoCAD PS/AI/ID

Drawing Photography Handicraft

The White Pagoda Temple Remade Urban village renewal design

Archaeological Guide Archaeological park design

Women & Nature

Spatial design based on eco-feminism

Collage Utopia

Future urban design of Shenzhen

The White Pagoda

Urban village r

Instituation: Ya Nature: A Form: In Semeste Date: 2019 Tutor: W

Located in an old neighbourhood of residentia area is one of the last remaining residential are rise buildings, and is currently exploring and o community regeneration and development. As so scale demolition and construction is no longer ap micro-circulation and organic regeneration has be The project aims to revitalise the community by different people and attempts to build the smar technological means.

a Temple Remade

renewal design

antai University Academic ndividual er: Junior 9.9-2019.11 Wang Jun

al houses in Beijing, the White Pagoda Temple eas of this ancient capital with a cluster of lowopening up a new path of urban upgrading and ociety progresses, the original approach of largepplicable in the urban core. Instead, the model of een given more attention and application. designing different scales to meet the needs of rt home of the future using the most advanced

SITE ANALYSIS

Beijing

The area was formed in the Yuan Dynasty and continues to the present through the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As an urban village in Beijing, the White Pagoda Templecommunity 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.

THE SKYLINE There are many historical relics in the Second Ring Road in Beijing, especially the royal buildings and gardens such as the Forbidden City, Beihai park, Jingshan, Temple of Heaven, Temple of Earth and numerous royal residences.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. The Lama Temple and Miao Ying temple were Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.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.

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ww is located in Xicheng District, Beijing, within the second ring. The whole historical and cultural protection area,with a total area of about 37 hectares, is full of rich cultural heritage of the community, which is surrounded by a large businessdistrict.

Xicheng District

Site

Xinjiekou Street

SITUATION

wires acting as drying racks

w-quality ldings

unauthorized building

street traders occupy hutong

The White Pagoda Temple

This is the site I planned

dirty environment

HISTORIC TIMELINE

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 remodeled a demolished, and Heritage have be

BUILDING ANALYSIS BUILDING FUNCTION

BUILDING HEIGHT 2

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2000-2021 Miao Ying Temple reopened and began to hold protection and renovation work.

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BUILDING TYPE

White Pagoda 51m is equivalent to 13 layers

Protecting buildings Residential buildings Historic buildings

BUILDING QUALITY 2

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Low-quality buildings Midum-quality buildings High-quality buildings

Miao Ying 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.

POPULATION ANALYSIS

SPACE ANALYSIS

POPULATION

Residents demand mo a n d m o r e e x h i b i t i on tradtional culture ne display, but there ar exhibiton halls and cultu

There are major traffic c between cars and pede community, including the school, attractions and c

AGE DISTRIBUTION

Residential area accou of the community, whi to satisfy the activities the dumping of garbag occupies by illegal co others. cars and

The White Tower 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.

LEVEL OF SATISFACTION WITH CURRENT LIFE

WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE HERE IN THE FUTURE

10%

21%

WHAT ARE YOU DISSATISFIED WITH

44%

Lack of Places for Cult

36%

36% 44%

2% 18%

29%

30% 30%

Insufficiency of Public

community, Most residents are unhappy with the environment of the but many more still choose to live here for different reasons.

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Lack of Places for Cultural Activities

Theatre Sports Centre Exhibiton Hall Art Gallery

Terrible Traffic System

Library School Temple&Hall Traditional House

tural Activities

Garbage Cars Commercial Settings Bicycles

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Youth

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Elder Impact traffic conflict

Insufficiency of Public Open Space

Sundries

INTERFACE ANALYSIS

Historycial Buildings

Resdiential Buildings

We have no place to have a rest.

A — A (level 1)

① The historic buildings is surrounded by walls and isolated from ordinary residential life, making the level 1 interface in the neighbourhood cold.

② The aerial view corridor with the White Pagoda Temple is underutilised and does not function as a spatial transition.

B B

Historic buildings Protecting buildings Residential buildings

③ 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.

C — C (level 3)

B — B (level 2)

④ The level 2 interface occupied by tricycle and car parking, poor condition of facilities and lack of public space.

⑤ A

The level 3 interface is the most used by residents, but is often occupied by a variety of non-motorised vehicles and stalls.

Level 1 interface (historic buildings - residential buildings) Level 2 interface (protecting buildings - residential buildings) Level 3 interface (residential buildings - residential buildings) I never have a chance to interact with my neighbor on the other side

⑥ C — C (level 3)

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

PROBLEM

CONCLUSION Level 1

White Pagoda is not attractive enough

Hutongs occupied by traders

before

now

Commercial value, tourists, residents gradually declining

Level 2

Cultural attractions are not attractive

No interaction between residents and visitors

Level 3

Hutongs occupied by vehicles and sundries

Estrangement of neighbours

PUBLIC SPACE HAS BEEN PRIVATISED TO VARYING DEGREES. No places for relaxation

RE ITS

MEASURE

ESTORING PUBLIC SPACE TO S PUBLIC ATTRIBUTES.

SOLUTION

Solution 1 The single surface of the original hutong is extexsively expanded, increasing the area of the surface by pushing out the walls, thus delineating a new realm. The delineated new area is distinguished from the public area to avoid conflicts between private and public space.

Suitable for: level 2 level 3

Solution 2 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.

Suitable for: level 1

Solution 3 Make the most of the existing space by dividing the corner space into a new public space. Without changing the area, the corner space is given a new function for different people to interact with each other there.

Suitable for: level 2 level 3

Solution 4 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.

Suitable for: level 3

LEVEL 1

DESIGN CONCEPTION

The central circle of the trail is a central activity area for residents an residents and visitors. The trail takes the form of a circle echoing the overall slope facing it and forming an axis between it and the White P residents to interact and a major open space for viewing the tower.

70m

White Pagoda

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3 2

ANALYSIS OF ABORTIONS

before

after

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.

nd a meeting point for e White Pagoda, with the Pagoda. It is both a place for

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.

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

There are roof additions for decking

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30m

Visitor Routes Resident Routes Interaction Routes

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

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

GENERATION PROCESS

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

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 fin decora

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

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

1 2 3

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.

The open space on the first floor breaks up the overly closed state of interface two, allow Museum and to redirect the vehicles and stalls that occupy the street, thus solving the p

LEVEL 2

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nal is the addition of structures and traditional architectural elements to ate the building.

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Luxun Museum

Exhabition

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FUNCTIONAL ZONES

Relaxing

Office

Selling

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FACADE ANALYSIS

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wing the first floor to attract visitors to the Luxun 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

INHABITANT ACTIVITIES ANALYSIS

Degree of demand for hu

Chat and relax

Play chess

Community activities

Business transaction

30m

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.

Exercise and play

FURNITURE TYPLOGY ANALYSIS

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PERSPECTIVE VIEW

Separation of people and vehicular

PERSPECTIVE VIEW

utong space

Degree of demand for courtyard space

Hang out with birds

Festival activities

Mobile stalls

Laundry and dry

Curtural exhibition

External visitor communication

FURNITURE FUNCTION

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

Urban Renewal Intelligent Model

I propose Urban Renewal Intelligent Model

GIS WebGIS IoT

Open Platform

ARGIS Blockchain

Storing data

Digital Twins Connecting

Monitoring

Removing

Renovation Data analysis

Self-payment

Retaining

BLM

Self-service

CIMAI

CIM+AI

BIM

Appointment

Based on the available

Supplement

Technology + Application Career Tags

Urban CIMAI ＋ Village

Work-

Households：2 Area：463 ㎡ Quality：Not good Last remodel：2011.02 Next remodel：2022.05 ……

With this service station, my childre longer have to wo about me!

I need to hurry up and make an appointment to convert my room into a painting studio!

High accessibility

Households：12 Area：554 ㎡ Problem： Congestion ……

Smart Service

Resident feedback： inconvenient to buy groceries

Online Service

-life Balance

One-stop service

Road optimisation

Traffic Planning

Potential Analysis

Public Services

Households：28 Area：3384 ㎡ ……

The White Pagoda Temple Situation：Good

The combination of the travel system and URIM provides us with many services.

Go to the URIM system to give feedback and the problem will be solved quickly.

The URIM system can also intelligently monitor traffic problems and update the road network

Go to URIM platform, there is all kinds of information publicized at a glance.

The URIM system prioritises issues that threaten the safety of residents, don't worry!

Go to the URIM platform and you can also book a makeover at any time in the future, appointments are free!

Residents report： Illegal additions

Households：3 Area：205 ㎡ ……

Pavement materials：Asphalt Quality：General Traffic Volume：High Conversion proposals：Dredge

Luxun Museum Yesterday's crowd：2861 Today's crowd：124 ……

Abandoned building Utilization Plan：Restaurant Next renovation：2021.10 ……

The application of CIMAI in the field of urban village renovation can create an intelligent urban platform covering the whole life cycle of renovation, serving to coordinate different interest groups and enhance heritage conservation.

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Thanks to the intelligent travel system I was able to guide my way so I wouldn't get lost!

The intelligen system has contributed well to the restoration of the White Tower

With intelligent traffic systems I can finally know when the traffic is most congested

SHUANGHUAISHU

Archaeolog

Archaeologica

Nature: Academic Form: Individual Semester: Senior Date: 2020.10-2021.01 Tutor: Ren Meiqi

gical Guide

al park design

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 a carefully sited metropolitan settlement, filling in key material from a key period and area in the origins of Huaxia civilisation. This project hopes to design an archaeological park for this site. Unlike a normal archaeological park，this is an interactive and experiential archaeological park where visitors can experience the site and its historical artefacts from a multi-dimensional and multi-sensory perspective.

SITE

YANGSHAO CULT ARCHITECTURE

The houses of Yangshao culture are mainly round or square, and settlement buildings are neatly la 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. 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.

Most of Ya buried i pottery and o AGRICULTURE

Yangshao culture was at a primiti of hoe farming, using slash-and-b methods and land rotation, produ levels were still relatively low.

Yangsha pottery techniques best development

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The Ancient Road of Bancroft

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TURE Huaxia Civilization

Ancient Babylonian Civilization

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Ancient Indian Civilization

Ancient Egyptian Civilization

ZHENGZHOU

BURIAL CUSTOMS

angshao culture inhabitants were in rectangular barrow tombs with other burial objects, and children were buried in urns.

GONGYI

The Yangshao culture, centred on the Shuanghuishu site, is the root of the Yellow River culture, the soul of Chinese civilisation, and is known as the 'embryo of early Chinese civilisation'. This is why a different kind of park is needed to attract more people to the area.

ive stage burn uction POTTERY

This will be a different kind of park from the ordinary. You will have more opportunities to experience， it will be a more interactive archaeological park.

ao culture had a more developed industry, and the pottery-making t represent the level of economic of the craft industry at that time.

Yellow River

Shuanghu

aishu Site

2 KM

ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS Categories/Pottery

Ancient Painted Pottery

5000 B.C .

Period

The Nine Star Pottery

Urn coffin

3000 B.C .

Yangshao Culture

Categories/Bone *

Tooth Carved Silkworm

Spunbond

Bone Shoe Shaper

Bone Needle

The Cistern Site Six metres deep has been aband

Human Bone

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.

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

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

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ourtyard I （Excavations have been completed） There is a large residential building in ompound one and a number of recent raves have been found.

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.

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

Archaeologists' lounge

PLAY WHAT ？

Main pulling points

Projectable retractable film

A tensioned structure is use at the top to form the gener shape of the membrane.

Tourable corridors

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

Colourful transparent inflatable film

The general outline of the c by the shape of the archaeo inwards to make it rise natu

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5000 B.C .

Archaeological pits

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The colour wheel is divided to the timeline, so that each period corresponds to a diff interval and visitors can det historical period of the artef colour.

HOW TO PLAY ？ 1

Pressure sensing points

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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 ？ YES

e movement of the vex lens is achieved means of a telescopic m and a circular track.

Convex lens removable structure

2 min

Platform moves, be careful ！

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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

Exhibition Gallery

Toilet

Visitor Centre

Viewing Platform

Leisure Plaza

Interactive area

South Entrance

Archaeological area

Parking

lounge room

(Stopping visitors)

TOUR GUIDE

THANKS FOR VISTING!

DESIGN CONCEPT

Before

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.

DESIGN PRINCIPLES F 2F

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

Women & Nature

Spatial design based on eco-feminism Nature: Academic Form: Individual Semester: Senior Date: 2021.05-2021.08 Tutor: Delfina Bocca, Ma Ning

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.

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.

WOMEN & NATURE 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.

7:00 AM Kexin dresses herself up every morning.

9:00 AM

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

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? "

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.

water

water water

water

water water

The lake has a ge producing more f surface of the wa young woman in yet characteristic

The sea is affecte pressure to form middle-aged wom families to perform

" 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 irr impact of the heig wrinkles that age entering their late more interesting

entle and soft ripple, thus faceted areas. The soft ater is like the character of a the south of the river, gentle c.

ed by the sea breeze and air regular ripples, just as the men are influenced by their m regular daily chores.

regular stripes, created by the ght of the terrain, are like the e leaves on the faces of women er years, still yearning for a 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.

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. 0

AWAKENING

— A family cooperative community

20.60m 15.79m 13.80m

10.87m

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

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— Landscape installations

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.

Master plan

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Collage Utopia

Future urban design of Shenzhen Nature: Academic Form: Individual Semester: Graduation grade Date: 2021.09-2021.11 Tutor: Wang Jun

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.

City Impressions

City Centre Change Map Direction of out-migration

Guangzhou

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

Foshan

Young City?

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Prince's Bay Cruise Port

Luohu Business District

OCBC

Dafen Oil Painting Village

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Futian Business District

2020 Dameisha Seaside Park

Building height Building density

Road width

Harbour functions

Landscape

I selected five represent was the least active and

Apart from residential land, most of the sites in Shenzhen are dominated by commercial offices. Due to its special geographical location, the number of port terminals is also high.

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Average annual growth rate(%)

Household composition Occupational composition of the population of the population

1756.01

83%

Non-employed persons Employed persons

2020

Household population

Non-household population

5.35

12%

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.

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tative areas in Shenzhen for my research, through which I found that wherever I looked, the elderly population d 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

IDEA

Supersurface

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 mo surface, the mind shows more acti to the body, which then reaches th

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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 a points on either side of the curve, t points to form the upper surface .

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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Avoiding the impact of the structur and pruning part of the branches t building according to climatic facto

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ore on the superficial ivity and passes it on he 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

and generate random then connect the

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

re on the building to suit the supertall ors.

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.

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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

pen drawing

Time: 2017 Details: Pen drawing of campus landscape

mechanical stru

Time: 2019 Details: A simple model for studyi structures

sketch

Time: 2018 Details: Sketch of a gear

Anthurium

watercolour painting

Time: 2018 Details: Huizhou-style architecture painted during a sketching session in Hongcun, Anhui Province.

uctural model

ing support

site design

Time: 2019 Details: Handcrafted model of a small site design

temporary shelter

Time: 2020 Details: Model for the Construction Festival, six people working together.

tunnel

sunset on the beach

twilight on campus