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Hua L Lian ian Portfolio | Select works 2018-2023

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Individual Works

01 Walls and Windows

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Home of Designer

02 Tower and Corridor

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Design of Zijingshan Art Gallery

03 The Great Wall

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Collective House in Gothenburg

04 Floating Courtyards

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Transformation of Nanshi Apartment

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05 Resonate with Holiness

Public Bath in Jiulong Village

Other Works 37

07 House of Crafts

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06 Number 9 Art Centre

01 Walls and Windows Home of designer

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his project starts from a series of research of daily spaces in Nanjing. The research is about some interesting interactions among walls and opennings in different spaces. Thus, I selected a space which moved me the most, transforming it into the design of Mr.Gao's house.

This project is launched in an old community in downtown Nanjing. The original building of this site was taken up by a small bunglaw. The site is so narrow that three sides of it are extremely close to the apartments around it and there is only a small lane about 4 metres wide located at south side of this site.

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Acrylic paintings 280mm×420mm and corresponding space photos

Paint Painting 1200mm×1600mm

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inally, I chose a space which I discovered in Nanjing Presidential Palace as the model and transformed it into a large paint painting on a wooden plank. The space is a long and narraw space with a potential to become a interesting residential space.

hrough a city walk in Nanjing, I discovered 12 interesting spaces and transformed them into 12 Acrylic painting respectively, using the orignal color in the city.

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1. The site is about 21.85 metres long and 5.30 metres wide.

I initially erect a volume as the base of this design.

2. Then remove three cubes from the volume so that yards and entrance will be formed. And also, wind and light will be able to enter the house.

3. Afterwards, I divide the interior space into 6 sections in sequence according to extent of publicness and privateness.

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4. In the end, I ascend Atelier, making them become a spatial sequence and creating unique space feeling.

Entance hall

Living room

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hese two pictures come from two opposite directions of views. Through different types of openings,spaces are all integrated together and become rich and transparent. The high side light and courtyard in the first picture work in concert well with those in the second picture.

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his image shows the state of space at the entrance. The whole space is divided into two spaces with different properties by changing the ground material, lowering the ceiling and sinking the ground. The left part is the more private dining room and kitchen, and the right part is the more public entrance hall and courtyard.

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02 Tower and Corridor

Design of Zijingshan Art Gallery

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ommemorative spaces and daily spaces are two important components of human social places, which respectively carry the past and present of human beings. They have two distinct spatial states, seemingly unrelated, but often inadvertently intertwined. From the old houses in the fields and the tombstones of the ancestors besides, to the towering bell towers of the church and the cozy little cafes besides, to the noisy city center and the large cemetery that suddenly appeared in it, the dialogue between daily life and commemoration pervades Nanjing.

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1. Liaozhongkai He Xiangning Tomb

2. Dr.Sun Yat-Sen's Mausoleum

3. Dr.Sun Yat-Sen's Memorial Hall

4. Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum

5. Tanyankai Tomb

6. Dengyanda Tomb

7. Beamless Hall

8. Linggu Temple

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n Nanjing, this dialogue between commemoration and everyday life has become very frequent.

The bustling commercial center is slowly unfolding around the solemn Zhongshan Scenic Area, forming a huge contrast and thus creating a wonderful interaction between these two kinds of spaces. The site of the project is right at the edge of Zhongshan Scenic Area, connected with the surrounding downtown area by a highway. The owner is an art collector, and he hopes it will be built as his private art gallery.

Corridor space

Tower space

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Daily life

Monumentality

Interesting interaction

n this site, I hope this art gallery can fully illustrate the interaction between daily life and past in Nanjing urban space, creating a richer space experience. Therefore, I design the monumental space as a tower, and the daily space as the gallery, integrating the two into the design of the art museum. People wandering in the constantly changing tower and corridor space, a sense of history, nature, and life is evoked in their mind.

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Underground floor

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First floor plan 7

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Second floor plan

Ground floor plan

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Third floor plan

1.Reception room 2.Exhibition area 3.Temporary exhibition area 4.Office 5.Ticket house 6.Store room 7.Equipment room

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Entrance space

Exhibition space Ⅰ

Entrance space Ⅱ

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Outdoor exhibition area 12

Double-layer weathering steel iron plate

Black corrugated aluminum panels

Steel structure of aluminum panels

Structure of corridor space

Main structure of the cylindrical space

Floor and walls

Corridor space explosion

Floor and stairs

Cylindrical space explosion

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Hand-making model

Entrance platform

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hen you step into the museum, a huge, strange black cylinder will come into your sight. Although some parts of it are invisible because of the roof and ground, all the elements of the site point to this cylinder so that it still create a strong sense of monumentality. Thus, curiosity will be aroused, so that it will motivate you to explore the architecture.

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长城 The Great wa l l

03 The Great Wall Collective house in Gothenburg

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his Collective house is located on the Gota River in Gothenburg.

Next to our design is Gothenburg's first reinforced concrete building, and Sweden's first Chinese restaurant is also located on the ground floor of this building. Therefore, in this design, in addition to solving the basic functional issues of the site, we also aim to explore how to embed our understanding of the Chinese context into the site, creating a dialogue with the old restaurant while creating a new and interesting place.

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Space potential (Future)

Room and corridor

Stairwell

Chinese restaurant

Skeppsbron 4

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ext to our site, Skeppsbron 4 stands proudly along the river Gota Alv, a historic landmark with a robust presence. Constructed in 1914 with innovative use of concrete, it formerly housed Sweden’s first Chinese restaurant — The Great Wall, symbolizing the city’s memory and heritage in steadfast cement gray.

Although the interior space has a lot of Chinese elements but they are only decorative and superfacial, and has a certain degree of misinterpretation. So that, we hope to integrate not only just superfacial decorations but also Chinese system into the design of the new Collective house, and combine it with the Context in a natural and reasonable way.

Space memory (Past)

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ortraits of Rooms of Skeppsbron 4, tracing sequences, atmosphere and colors for inspiration.

Skeppsbron 4 interior spaces

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e hope that the new Collective house should not be conceptual first, but that the actual function and concept should have the same important status. Architecture should not be just an aesthetic game for architects, but more complexity and diversity that reflect daily use should be taken into consideration.

Xishan Courtyard, Xuzhou

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Luyeyuan Museum, Chengdu

iverse layers are a characteristic of Chinese Architecture system. The picture on the left is a photo of the Luyeyuan Stone Carving Art Museum in Chengdu, China. The materials used in different objects are clearly visible, and traces of construction can be seen in them. The picture on the right is the Xishan courtyard located in Xuzhou, China. Different spaces are superimposed to create a rich spatial perception and the feeling of movement. Therefore, such a characteristic will be a very important point in our design.

The Great Wall Chinese Restaurant

The Great Wall Chinese Restaurant Interior

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1. The site is a rectangular area 11.5m wide and 22.5m long, adjacent to Skeppsbron 4. We plan to design a Collective house in this area.

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3. We open the corner where the building connects to the two streets, so that people can enter the courtyard more easily. The red part is the volume that will be demolished in Skeppsbron 4 in the future. We imagine that a part of the wall will be retained after the demolition of the volume, which will define the exterior of the reopened Great Wall Restaurant.

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5. Then we built another vertical walkway system based on this flat walkway system. This system connects the second and third floors of Skeppsbron 4, the courtyard and the five-story multifunctional open space of our in-filled building. Through this series of spatial operations, the public attributes of the courtyard have been greatly enhanced, and the connection with the surrounding buildings has become closer.

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2. First we inserted two volumes into the site, the lower volume and the connected Skeppsbron 4 is of the same height as Merkurhuset across the street. Then we divided the two volumes into approximate functional intervals.

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4. We will place a walkway system in the middle of the courtyard to respond to the concept of a Chinese courtyard. Not only that, this semi-outdoor space will provide more possibilities for people to stay.

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长城 The Great wa l l

The Great wall Chinese restaurant

Main Entance

Ground floor plan 19

1st floor plan

2nd to 3rd floor plan

4th floor plan

5th to 7th floor plan

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Elevation

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his picture is the perspective of the entrance from the multi -function workshop. The column elevator, cylinder and the stairs are brushed into different colors to emphasize the sense of object. They are like sculptures to guide people from the entrance to the courtyard.

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his picture is a perspective view of the courtyard. Walls, pathways, stairs and other objects divide the courtyard into several small spaces, and these small spaces are connected together through certain openings to create a rich spatial experience.

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his picture is a perspective view of a multi-functional space. We use a staggered structure close to the traditional Oriental to handle the roof to enhance the Chinese feel. The structure here is no longer just a structure, it is also a landscape.

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04 Floating Courtyards Transformation of Nanshi Apartment

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anshi apartment is an old apartment built in 1980s. The whole block where Nanshi apartment is located used to be an inhabitant district. However, according to the planning of Nanjing city, it will be planned to be a commercial area. Therefore, Nanshi apartment also needs to be transformed to integrate with surrounding.

My strategy is to reshape it into a building, fulfilling functions as shopping, accomodation and catering sercices etc, so that I propose the concept Floating Courtyard.

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3. And then a volume will be attached to this building in order to expand the usage of commercial space and to form a courtyard of the building.

4. Deconstruct the volume into several cubes so that it will be floating. Then, put a platform upon the volume and use several stairways to connect the ground floor and the first floor, so that the whole commercial space will be integrated into one single system and also create outdoor space with suitable scale for adapting to surrounding .

2. I divide this 5-storey building into two parts, in which the ground floor and the first floor will be transformed into commercial space and the other three floors will be transforemd into hotels.

1. The original building is an old apartment located in the Pingshi community which will be transformed into commercial complex.

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5. As for the hotel, it is relatively closed and be lack of public space so I insert a irregular volume into this building as each floor's public space. Moreovelr, this volume can also be considered as a landmark which could be seen immediately when people step into the public square.

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1.boardroom 2.office 3.restaurant 4.single-room 5.washroom

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8.double-room 9.storeroom 10.washroom

Second floor plan

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8.double-room 9.storeroom 10.washroom

Third floor plan

Ground floor plan

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4.shop

Fourth floor plan

11.suite 12.washhouse

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3.washroom

2.coffee house

1.Reception

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The entrance square

Structure Explosion

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Section

East Facade

West Facade

South Facade

North Facade

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05 Resonate with Holiness Public Bath in Jiulong village

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his architecture is located in jiulong village, Sichuan province. According to the plan, this village will be a resort for promoting the development of local tourism.

Therefore, the village needs a large public space at the end of the village as a major part of it. I choose to design a public bath for this village.

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Bathhouse interior Handmaking model

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ibetan Buddhism is the main religion of this village, and I wish the inner space of this building could create an atmosphere of steping into Tibetan Buddhist temple.

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Tibetan Buddhist temple

2. For integrating with the surrounding of the village, a huge volume of Bathhouse is put underground .

3. Put Auxilliary spaces around the bathhouse. Therefore, the context of the village will be extended and also a huge square will be formed by these volumes.

1. The site is at the end of this village and will become the major public space of it.

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4. Insert concrete light tubes into these houses, so that light can illuminate inner spaces and a sense of holliness will be produced.

Explosion

Sauna room 33

Main space of Bathhouse 34

Handmaking model

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Underground floor plan

Ground floor plan 3.Washroom 5.Meeting room 7.Bathroom 9.Small pool 4.Sauna room 6.Resting room 8.Resting area

10.Main pool 11. Restroom

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07 Number 9 Art Centre Selected Other Works

Project type: type Practical project Location: Nanjing, China Location Completion year: year 2022.9 Designer group: group Lian Hua Li Zongze Yang Junbo Zhou Ruizhe

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t is a transformation of a traditional Chinese building, in which we utilized the existing columns to be the core of the whole space.

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Isometric drawing

06 House of Crafts Selected Other Works

Project type: type Competition Location: Shanghai, China Location Completion year: year 2022.3 Designer group: group Individual

Structure Explosion

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he pavillion is in an art gallery in Shanghai. To enhance the utility of this Pavilion, I decide various spaces including store, lecture room, gallery and rest area, which provides a range of different uses in a confined space.

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