portfolio 2022

PORTFOLIO DIJIE CHEN

01 APICAL DOMINANCE re-envision of commercial spaces reflection on spatial imbalance in shopping malls

02 URBAN ACUPUNCTURE adaptive reuse and urban renewal reflection on the fashion industry and its effect on urban spaces

03 FIELD COMMUNE rural research and development extensive research and bold planning

04 HEALING THE PAIN a hot spring resort composite material and geographical research

05 OTHER WORKS collages & models reflection on the formation of cities

01

APICAL DOMINANCE

re-envision of commercial spaces

Site: Fuzhou, Fujian, instructor: Walker Huang

Individual Work 2021/03 - 2021/08

In modern shopping mall architecture, there are discrepancies of commercial and social values between different floors. The inflated price of properties on ground floor and the low foot traffic on higher levels resemble the unreasonable division of commercial space. This project aims to soften the discrepancies through programmatic arrangement and spatial intervention, and to create distinct commercial and social values for each floor.

With the change in shopping mall form, the value difference between commercial space and location is more and more significant. The value of shops is determined by openness, traffic, store size, number of floors, and other factors. The phenomenon that space determines value differences evolves in this way.

The moving line revolves around the atrium, introverted, and commerce appears on one side.

Russian capitalists opened Qiulin company in Harbin, China, which is the first department store in China.

Xianshi company, the first self built department store in China, officially opened in Shanghai

Guangzhou Friendship supermarket, China's first supermarket, appeared. The supermarket adopts the self selected shopping mall mode, abandoning the counters in the past, and all the goods are stacked on the open shelves for customers to choose at will. The means of payment were also upgraded due to frequent transactions, leading to the birth of China's first credit card in 1985.

The surrounding environment of the site. @Fuzhou, Fujian, China N

The first generation of urban complex in China, represented by Shanghai all, is a comprehensive building integrating office, theater, hotel and shopping mall jointly organized by Shanghai Exhibition Center and foreign capital.

Shanghai Henglong Plaza is the most representative of China's current commercial building type, integrating retail shopping malls and two office buildings.

The birth of aobao, which created China's -commerce in 2003, is a major node in China's shopping history.

Since then, eople's shopping is no longer limited to offline shopping malls and supermarkets. A year later, Alipay was born, laying the foundation for online payment.

At the beginning of China’s commercial space, most were one-floor stores along the street. Since the first department store was built, centralized commercial space began to appear, and Chinese shopping malls began to start. To meet the needs of daily life, such traditional department stores rely on environmental shortages, monopoly policy, and central location to create a myth that the industry can only earn without losing.

In the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China in 1950, the vast majority of goods were in shortage, and people did not have many choices. The planned supply implemented in 1953, food, fabrics, and other materials need to be purchased with tickets, which limits people’s consumption and has little commercial space development. The market shortage improved in the 1970s. After the reform and opening up, Chinese people’s consumption life has made a qualitative leap. More and more large shopping malls and foreign goods began to appear, and the means of payment were gradually upgraded.

Shopping malls in this period are to meet the needs of high-quality life.

After the 21st century, with the emergence of Taobao, China entered the era of electronic payment. The development of e-commerce enables people to eeeeeee without leaving home, and the commercial spaces are also forced to become experiential spaces. More entertainment and catering functions appear in commercial spaces to attract customers.

Linear moving line, extroversion, considering the introduction of people flow.

The small atrium breaks the single experience, and the primary and secondary distribution of business is obvious.

Open layout, one-stop experience. Fragmented shops form a shopping experience similar to the park.

Tranditional flowing

Horizontal program configuration Stratified according to different consumers, customers with the same needs gather on the same floor, the path is single, and they can't enjoy the space of other floors.

Traditional form

The configuration of each floor is the same, the area of public space is the same, and the flow of people decreases with the rise of the floor.

Virtical program configuration Parallel the horizontally stacked programs vertically.

The path of the same group is vertical. The communication of horizontal floors is opened, and consumers with different needs begin to diffuse the space of all floors.

Compress low floor space and expand it to.

*Distribution map

of pedestrian flow at each time and floor of a large shopping center in Shanghai.

Rounding, Vertical compress bottom layer, Expand top layer

Adding other space Art galleries and landscapes are placed with the expansion of the space. Higher floors enjoy more public space and green plants. The flow of people was carried high.

Add green plants, Add public space

02

URBAN ACUPUNCTURE

adaptive reuse and urban renewal Site: Wufenpu Shopping District, Taipei, Taiwan instructor: Guanhua Lin & Anna Dai Individual Work 2020/09 - 2021/01 The huge production of fast fashion is causing nvironmental pollutions, while the marketplace for clothing is also consuming the liveliness of cities.

This project aims to create a more friendly urban environment and to insert a more sustainable and innovative retail system in the marketplace, by recycling and redesigning clothes.

SPACE ELEMENT living building

shelf display

Fast fashion has led to the soaring output value of clothing, and the growing demand for cotton. Not only has the water consumption increased from planting to weaving, dyeing and finishing, but also the power consumption increased. In addition, the chemicals used in the production process also impose a burden on the environment. In particular, in the past 60 years, the material of clothes has turned to polyester fiber, which not only emits three times as much carbon as cotton, but even washing clothes will have micro plastic discharged into the sea. According to the latest IUCN survey report, 35% of micro plastic pollution comes from synthetic fibers. Based on the data of Europe and Central Asia alone, it is estimated that the micro plastic fiber released from washing clothes is equivalent to 54 plastic bags discarded by each person every week in the ocean.

What is most helpful to the environment is to extend the service life of clothes. Each additional one to two years of service life can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 24 per cent within one year.

pallet display

commercial block

shop network

SPACE EVOLUTION

dynamic networrk

A NEW BRAND about recycle & remade

community activities

PACEFORM OF GROUND FLOOR

Reuse of the site

@Wufenpu, Taipei, China

population cloth repair station hardware repair station

canopy

INSERT FLEXIBLE SPACE The superposition of population density and "urban repair base map" shows us the "sustainable potential" that is taking place around the base. The repair station will be used as an axis to connect the whole city and inject potential into a sustainable city.

JUXTAPOSED of different commodities

The current situation of the base has many problems to face. The scale of the east line of the grid covering the rules is too small.

Independent shops extend the business behavior to the streets, and cut the not spacious streets again. People will get multi space experience on the moving line: it is shuttling among different juxtaposed heterotopia. Overhead are floating residential areas and shelters that separate them.

The community has lost all the functions it should have, and residents cannot get enough sunshine and public space.

3. INSERTING & SPREADING

1. CLOTH RECYCLE

recycle

show

handmade

fabric exhibt

custom made

fashion party

2. SPACE RECYCLE floating house

STUDIO

flexible

WORKSHOP SHOW COLLECTION AUDITORIUM

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2.8 m

EXHIBITION 20.8 m

seperate heterotopia

REGIONAL ACTIVATION

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Reincarnation of clothing The new buildings have brought new blood and possibilities here.

On weekdays, it is a recycling station and exhibition center for clothes. The open ground floor allows people to enter this space when they are shopping in the market to recycle their old clothes.

One of the buildings is a clothing studio where old clothes are being made. Of course, tourists are welcome to participate. The final work will be displayed in the space of another building opposite it. Visitors can visit the exhibition space through the stairs.

The atrium between the two buildings provides an opportunity for communication. On a specific day, the building will act as a "show place". The old clothes completed its rebirth and were reborn in the building, and finally walked back to the ground by the model wearing them. The staircase on the facade of the building is the t platform, which provides the moving line for model display. People sit on the square to enjoy this fashion feast.

TEXTURE AROUND FISHERY

TEXTURE AROUND ANIMAL HUSBANDRY

TEXTURE AROUND DITCHES

03

FIELD COMMUNE

rural development

Site: Changhua, Taiwan instructor: Shiyan Jiang & Anna Dai Group Research & Individual Design Work 2021/0 - 2021/08 TEXTURE AROUND SETTLEMENTS

Changhua County in Taiwan is facing challenges from brain drain and aging population due to passive production. As an important national granary, the land there is lifeless. The agricultural lands are slowly covered by factories.

This project aims to understand the complicated ecological and economical system Changhua, and propose possibilities. The design aims to establish correct understanding of farmland, and to create a more sustainable farm-centered life style, through introducing educational facilities.

PART A - RESEARCH TIME LINE OF CHANGHUA’S HISTORY *credit to Chen Dijie, Hsu Pingtung, Chu pinyen, Chang Yuhsien

The original Choushui River crosses Changhua and divides it into two. Due to the terrain of the south, it is often flooded, the downstream of the waterway changes indefinitely, and the accumulation of sand dunes is serious. The difference between the north and the south of Changhua County deepened.

With the arrival of the Han people, agricultural technology was popularized. The Babao canal built in 1719 improved the water conservancy system in the north of Changhua. A lot of land has been reclaimed. The growing Han forces made the original Pingpu community transfer land rights and forced to flee to the south. Due to the increased frequency of flooding in the south, the living space of aborigines has been compressed.

The flood situation in the lower reaches of the Zhuoshui river has not been controlled for a long time. Many floods have displaced people in nanchanghua. During the period of Japanese rule, considering the economic benefits of land, the Japanese government began to build revetments and planted windbreaks along the coast in 1921, which finally ended the fate of being controlled by water, making the lower reaches of Choushui River the only route at the southernmost end of Changhua.

After the establishment of Taiwan's first hydropower station in choushuixi, the squeezing of water resources has just begun. After the Kuomintang government took over, it vigorously developed industry. Emerging industrial parks and nuclear power plants compete and squeeze water sources.

CURRENT SITUATIONS OF CHANGHUA *credit to Chen Dijie, Hsu Pingtung, Chu pinyen, Chang Yuhsien road network

agriculture distribution

fishery distribution

industry distribution

economic structure

hydrology

ecological destruction

environmental damage

energy distribution

PART B - PROPOSAL

ORIGINAL VILLLAGE FUNCTION

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cooperation with surrounding areas

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Finally, over time, the village is connected by new buildings growing along its activity track. Roads appear according to the needs of activities to ensure effectiveness. Buildings with various functions grow along the road to form a texture as shown in the left figure. The connections generated by activities have consolidated and further rationalized cooperatives for greater efficiency.

Villages will continue to evolve along this logic.

cooperation with neighboring villages

cooperation with all villages

study area

storage area

processing area

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First, new residential areas and accompanying processing plants appear near the original village. As the number increased, warehouses and enterprises appeared, and finally intersected with the part developed by another village.

PROGRAM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM Scientific research and development

Industrial operation

OBSERVATION CENTER intertidal zone observation riparian ecology observation

The education system consists of observation stations, agricultural schools and scientific research centers. According to the characteristics of the land, agricultural ecological education with different emphasis directions is targeted to train agricultural talents, improve land production, and monitor the ecological conditions of surrounding land. The large scientific research center cooperating with the school provides technical support and employment opportunities.

TECH CENTER

subsidence observation

AGRI SCHOOL Solar roof Open education space

OBSERVATION STATION

OBSERVATION STATION

OBSERVATION STATION

Ground test field

AGRI SCHOOL

OBSERVATION STATION

OBSERVATION STATION OBSERVATION STATION

TECH CENTER AGRI SCHOOL

EXSISTING SCHOOL

OBSERVATION STATION

OBSERVATION STATION

OBSERVATION STATION

AGRI SCHOOL

WATER SYSTEM A new irrigation system is introduced from the streams flowing from the upstream mountains to divide the land, and water valves and ecological reservoirs are added to cope with drought and the changeable waterfront ecosystem.

Coastal Buffer Zone

Water Valve

Waterway Purification System

Eological Pound Dam

River

Intertidal zone

Field

Buffer ecological island

Ecological plants Pound

Purification Channel

landlocked

Filter Dike Water Way

Gentle slope embankment

Ecological reservoir

INTERTIDAL ZONE DAM COMPOUND FARMLAND

ECOLOGICAL POUND

multipurpose land used to increase soil productivity

ECOLOGICAL BUFFER ZONE

EXISTING VILLAGE ECOLOGICAL POUND DAM

FISH FARM AREA

fish ponds near the coastal ecological buffer zone, which used to conserve the land to face the problems of subsidence and land salinization.

DAM

ECOLOGICAL POUND

PADDY FIELD

fields which face the problem of strata subsidence caused by over pumping underground water.

PRODUCTION AND MARKETING SYSTEM Warehouse group Connecting air corridor Goods warehousing Crop market Solar roof

The production and marketing system is configured according to the transportation system and consists of processing belt, processing warehouse and distribution center. Small individual workshops distributed along the road are integrated into processing belts, and integrated processing storage stations are equipped at the nodes to collect, process and sell agricultural products in some areas. More products are transported to large distribution centers and then to metropolises.

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PART C - MANIFESTO Roads connect the path of urban sprawl. New residential areas grow along roads, accompanied by processing places. Enterprises and schools appear in the connected central stores, act as a "hub" and become a new community center. The original land is redistributed according to the soil conditions, and mixed farming is tried out from the school campus. Over time, the land output per unit area increases, and more space is released to become buildings. Urbanization will be carried out according to such rules.

PROGRAM GROWTH TIMELINE

COMMUNITY GROWTH DIAGRAM

FINAL MASTERPLAN

LOCATION APPLICATION

04

HEALING THE PAIN

a hot spring resort

Site: Yangjia Hospital, Wuyi County, Zhejiang, China Istructor: Lydia Xynogala Individual Work 2021/07 - 2021/11 This project starts with a series of composite material experiments. The composite components then have different conversations with water and in different scales. These components with descriptive meanings then are put to the site, and interact with the specific memories of Yangjia Hospital.

PART 1. COMPOSITE COMPONENTS

▲ attempt in composite material

▼ testing with water

static

activities

details

comfort

the cotton began to shrink and more voids appeared as the water spread along the cotton.

use the balloon as a mold to make an arc space, and then pierce the balloon.

water has different flow directions according to different injection positions.

concrete and metal mesh shows different relationships with the rise of water surface.

the rough texture of concrete becomes blurred and softened with the rise of water surface.

the mesh texture starts to bubble when contacting with water, as if it were breathing.

dynamic

time

pain

PART 2. COMPOSITE EXPERIENCE d’

A DETOUR OF DISCOMFORT a

a’

b

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photos of models

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COLLAGE WITHOUT SITE

section a - a’

fast

section c - c’

section b - b’

slow

pain

section d - d’

comfort

imagined experience without site

PART 3. SITE : YANGJIA HOSPITAL for patients with pneumoconiosis @Wuyi, Zhejiang, China

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

research institute

service room farm field

service room residential home

hospital

residential home

mine cave

courtyard

farm field

operation room office painful memories of convalescence

mine cave ruin

experience of mine tunnel

texture of fluorites

PART 4. YANGJIA HOT SPRING RESORT B

SITE PLAN

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SECTION B - B’

05

OTHER WORKS

collages & models

COLLAGE: The Divided City

MODEL: Deconstruction of Taipei City

Once upon a time, cities were made up of walls. The outer wall surrounds the inner wall. There is a world in every wall. People inside the wall copy the scene that can be seen outside the wall, in an attempt to create a miniature world of their own, and reproduce the contained desire outside the wall here. So the "courtyard" appeared.

The second wave of buildings did not spread like a virus. New forms are born randomly in cities. Their walls are just for decoration, or they don't have walls. Foreign buildings welcome all passers-by. Their personality has become a capital to show off and show off. People use architecture to swear their personality. They are capital.

they are gradually defined by the surface.

Shops are gradually planarized.

Various signboards show decoration.

Later, two kinds of buildings entered the wall.

The first visitors immediately began the terrible breeding. Machines aimed at production break down the wall in people's hearts, gather people together and breed the next generation of machines in order tocontinue to reproduce. A higher wall was born, blocking all eyes to the outside world.

It is in this world that we live.

The process of architectural development is recorded by the city, and several dividing lines are formed in the city. Each layer represents a collective memory:

Consumption behavior presents different forms in space. Shops try their best to show themselves in windows because of the homogenized space behind them, so

Skyscrapers cover their internal crazy behavior with intimate glass. While showing off themselves, they also refuse to respond to the context.

kindness - show off - arrogance

The development of Taipei has gone through many different stages, and each stage retains the current urban mechanism. I mapped the new blocks around the city wall in various periods and found many boundaries. They are respectively the ancient activity section, the political section of the Japanese government planning, the life section of the Japanese government period, and the business section connecting inside and outside.

After that, I made this handmade model.

In the model, different blocks intersect and buckle with each other to form a complete Taipei City model.

This is just like the history that really happened there.

By splitting cities belonging to different periods, we have the opportunity to read the history of being covered and observe how cities are superimposed and covered.