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Ordinary Extraodinary
In the ordinary, I pursue the extraordinary beauty, let the extraordinary become the universal ordinary, and fill the life with beauty.
Dead tree roots on a broken brick © Lu Xiaosheng
Transparent Machine: B1306
High-rise Residential Renovation
Individual Project
Spring 2020
Advisor: Manus Leung
Site: Dongguan, China
Area: 138 ㎡
When we look at objects or buildings which seem to be at peace within themselves, our perception becomes calm and dulled. The objects we perceive have no message for us, they are simply there. Our perceptive faculties grow quiet, unprejudiced and unacquisitive.
---Peter Zumthor
High-rise apartments with poor peripheral vision Dongguan has developed rapidly on the basis of manufacturing in the past 40 years, from a small town to a metropolis with more than 8.2 million people, and more than 6 million migrant workers. In other to cope with the growing population, a large number of high-density high-rise residential buildings have been built since the late 1990s.
1. The view of the elevator hall, narrow patio and another building of the twin towers.
2.Southeast view, factory area
Xinshijixingcheng
Dongguan apartment typology are driven by two things:
1. local building codes
2. the need to maximise profit per square meter
As a result, these buildings can be understood as sheer pragmatic, high-performance architecture.
Hehe building Donghu garden Hendahuafu Tianhe sainahepan Jiangnandiyicheng Jinze garden YinjuBuilding XinghechaungshuoShifting and removing walls
By shifting the wall of the corridor one meter, a private entrance is formed and the children's room and senior room can obtain a comfortable living area.
Remove the balcony and the walls of the room facing the balcony to form a new open dining and living area.
Since then, the corridor disappeared and the bedroom was directly connected to the dining and living area. This layout allows diverse activities to take place simultaneously.
Open dining and living area
Private entrance porch
Structure + Furniture + Window system
Use furniture to connect the protruding beams and pillars with the windows, turning the fragmented space into a whole, creating a peaceful visual effect.
The core of this system is 4.
Trancparent Machine. It is mainly composed of two elements.
1) Interior window x 2 2) Corner access x 3
As well as two sets of cabinets and central air conditioning system. It is a connector and converter for indoor and outdoor sight, sunlight and air.
The interior windows cooperate with the open living and dining aera to make the entire apartment's view coherent and the activities of each area can be perceived by each other. Enhance communication among family members.
In the original layout, each room is isolated.
Section 1-1
The view from the senior room towards the dining room
1) Interior window x 2
2) Corner access x 3
The children's room uses two sliding doors and two folding beds to ensure privacy and expand children's activity space.
A view to all rooms
When sit by the window sill and bask in the sun, you can see the activities of the family through the doors or windows of each room and feel the intimacy of the family. Get a sense of peace in a busy city.
Apocalypse Now
Memorial Of Soviet Victims Under The Red Aquare
Individual Project Winter 2019
Advisor: Zhou Yu, Yujun Mao
Site: Red Square, Moscow
MEMORIAL OF
In these incredibly contradictory days, a new Russia is being born.
---Maxim Gorky
From leader worship to personal memorial
Generations of Soviet leaders have used grand movements or building monuments to demonstrate the advancement of communist society. However, the centralization of power has led to distortions in the system. Many people suffered or even died because of this, "The death penalty is a random sentence," the historian Richard
Pipes wrote. "People were shot for no reason, and they were released for no reason." Leaders still appear in history in different roles, but ordinary people suffered silently are gradually forgotten. Forgetting will bring new suffering. Except for famous people, every life is worth commemorating.
Alexei Victorovich Husev
October 8, 1873-May 24, 1949
A
The history of the Lenin Mausoleum
January 1924
August 1924
Vladimir
April 22, 1870 - January 21, 1924 commonly known as Lenin, Russian communist revolutionary, the first
October 1930
The
Since 1924, the public has been visiting Lenin's Tomb along a single route under the supervision of guards to pay homage to the remains of the leader. After exiting the side door, keep following the instructions of guards, pass Kremlin Wall Cemetery, and visit the tombstones of other leaders and communist friends.
If, the objects of commemoration change from leaders to ordinary people, single route becomes free choice. How will you feel?
Please take an imaginative journey with my family into the future!
The first wooden version of the maosoleum opened in January 1924 near the Kremlin's Senate Tower on Red Square. famous Russian architect, presided over the design of Lenin's Mausoleum. Ilyich Ulyanov generation of Soviet leaders. A new bigger version of the mausoleum in the shape of a flattopped pyramid opened in August 1924. construction of the stone tomb was completed in October 1930.a look!"
"To experience a revolution is more enjoyable and more useful than writing about it."
---Lenin, The State and Revolution. 1917
1.Son:"Wow, what a shining stone with bubble! Dad, mom, I want to have
2.Dad:"What a change! The Lenin's Mausoleum became a Memorial Of Soviet Victims now. Okay, let's go!"
4.Mom:"What a majestic underground palace!"
3.Dad:"Interesting! The original crystal coffin became a staircase leading to the underground part."
5.Son:"There is a bridge leading to another hall, come on!"
7.Daughter:"I'm going there!"
6.Son:"I want to see what's behind this gate."
8.Mom&Dad:"Slow down!"
9.Son:"It turned out that these doors all lead to the same hall. Who are these people, dad?"
10.Dad:"They were the leaders of the Soviet Union."
11.Dad:"Oh, here is divided into two paths, let's split into two groups to explore!"
12.Father and daughter went to the passage with list of unnatural deaths.
13.Mother and son went to the passage with list of natural deaths.
14.Son:"Mom, from this perspective, their images have turned white. Amazing!"
"Dad, it's dark here, I'm afraid! "
worry, dad is with you."
19.Son:"Mom, dad and sister are below, what are they looking at?"
21.Daughter:"Dad, look. Light above!
22.Mom:"Look, my son, the names engraved on the wall are Soviet citizens who have passed away in dignity."
My God, there are so many dead in Gulagre!"
24.Daughter:"Mom, brother, are you okay? Our side is very dark, there are many painful souls, I am so scared, fortunately dad is with me!"
25.Mom:"Our side is very bright, don't worry, we will meet soon."
23.Son:"Mom, it's Red Square outside, we can go out soon!"
1.Saint Basil's Cathedral
2.Kremlin
3.Moscow State Historical Museum
4.Gym Department Store
---Vo Trong Nghia
