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Shanshui culture
WILL RECREATE WILD
Culture Center/Re-use
Bird protection
Due to the severe local ecological environment and theneed for the protection of endangered birds, thisproject aims to reshape the ecosystem of this area. Byintroducing the surrounding coastline, changing thetopography and geology to form different microenvironments,and planting spartina and phragmites with the power of nature, to create marshy wetlandsystems which suitable for endangered birds. At thesame time, it was rebuilt based on the original trainstation,integrating architecture and nature to create anenvironment where humans, animals and naturecoexist. This is a culture center aims to raise people's awareness of bird protection.
FARMING FRAGMENTED
Urban Design/Re-use
Farming the Fragmented, calls for new agroecological imaginaries that empower distinctive forms of food growing to thrive in heavily fragmented territories. These imaginaries specifically focus on peri-urban landscapes, complementing the dominant rural perspectives within the agroecological farming movement. By transcending singular land fragments, these practices engage with other public and communal priorities to operate effectively at a landscape level. Our vision positions agroecological practices—and the family farmers implementing them—as pivotal actors in managing and transforming fragmented land-use.
HOUSING AS THEATER
Housing co-living
HOUSING AS THEATER, LIFE AS PERFORMANCE. Extract fundamental theatrical experience and implement them into housing as a mean to explore a new co-living experience.
Performance activities are not concerts and actual theater plays. Pedestrians walking along the hallway, the sound and smell of resident’s cooking, the voice from your neighbor’s arguing and laughing, these are all elements that sort of compose a large play with the space of living as a backdrop, and all the diverse daily activities will be perceived as performances, viewed by the community collectively.
Location: Mahatten, New York
PIER 0
Pier 0 is located at the end of Maiden Lane, adjacent to pier 15. It has been conceived as a material construction waste recycling plant with the primary aim of repurposing construction debris and reintegrating them into the construction market. This project also has a dual mission: to raise public awareness about the concerning issue of unused materials after construction and demolition in a time of escalating consumption rates.
FUTURE SHANSHUI CITY
Hotel
Landscape
This project is designed for a scenic city located by Ou River, Lishui County, Zhejiang Province. It aims and features to build a hotel that goes well with their surrounding landscapes and is extended on gardens, with a theme on hills and waters. This hotel is built into an architecture of new Chinese style, whose pitched roofs and bracket system carries forward traditional Chinese building styles, as well as wood-imitation materials blend with natural sceneries surrounded it.
Location: Lishui, Zhejiang
The Butterfly's "V" form, inspired by a swimmer's movement, symbolizes energy and motion across various sports. This dynamic shape contrasts with the typically static nature of buildings. The high points mark key entrances—Athletics to the southwest and Wellness programs to the north—while the valley at the southeast highlights faculty offices with scenic views of the campus and Santa Cruz Mountains.
RECALL OF THE MINE
M useum interior Re-use
This project is designed based on Lavadia. The region once flourished for its mineral resources, but it is gradually decaying due to over-exploitation. To develop and promote the local declining mining culture, the building will be transformed into a comprehensive building with an ore museum as the main body and an entertainment function as the supplement.
Mandara Spa
RECALL OF SEA Urban Design sustainability
The work is a waterfront built on the newly filled ground in Macau. In order to attract more tourists, the left part of the base is mainly designed to be commercial area with a swimming pool deep underwater, the right part is mainly occupied by casinos and amusement parks, and the far right part is the corresponding area, which is mainly used to build monomer of underwater theater.
Location: Macau, China
THE SHELTER ABOVE SEA
Skyscraper sustainability
Due to global warming, the rising sea level has caused a large number of natural disasters and cities been flooded. Based on this trend, it is predicted that in the future we will have to move out of the land and live on the sea. The project was built on the basis of the gradual submersion of land cities and the needs of creation of new cities on the sea.
The main function of the offshore part of the building is housing so as to meet the living needs of a large number of people, and it is placed on the water to meet the lighting needs. The top platform is a sky farm.
