UCL MArch Architecture Peiyao Feng selected work 2020-2022

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MARCH ARCHITECTURE

PEIYAO FENG

SELECTED WORK 2020-2022

EDUCATION

2020Now

University of Edinburgh (UK)

BA Architecture ARP/RIBA I Distinction (predicted)

• Received First Class Honours on studio class (Architectural Design: Element / Architectural Design: Assembly)

• Four projects selected as excellent assignment representatives in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Catalogue 2020-21and 2021-2022

20182020

Heritage Christian School (USA)

• Overall GPA 4.27

• Pass AP Calculus AB/ BC (5), Psychology (5), Physics (3)

AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2022Now

PEIYAO FENG

eurusyao@gmail.com

07824042448

2022

EDINA (Edinburgh, UK)

Intern: Digimap CAD service / ArcGIS Indoor Mapping Assistant

• Being a geography data handling assistant and offering help from an architecture perspective for Digimap feature development.

Scottish Ecological Design Association KJ Awards (Shortlist)

• My second-year Paris housing studio project has been nominated for SEDA KJ Award and I am one of the only four students who have been nominated by ESALA.

Atelier CnS (Guangzhou, China)

Summer Architect Apprenticeship

• Fully participated in the renovation project of a historical relic site, XiaHengDang island.

The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

Summer School Course Career Discovery in Architecture

AMC 10 (American Math Completion 10 ) First Place

'' ARCHITECTURE, A COMMUNAL ART, NOT PRODUCED BY A FEW INTELLECTUALS OR SPECIALISTS BUT BY THE SPONTANEOUS AND CONTINUING ACTIVITY OF WHOLE PEOPLE WITH A COMMON HERITAGE, ACTING UNDER A COMMUNITY OF EXPERIENCE. ''

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PIETRO BELLUSCHI

ART IN MOTION #

1 ARCHITECTURE OF SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY/ COMMUNITY

Scottish Ecological Design Association KJ Awards (Shortlist)

Architectural Design: Any Place Course Work / Second Year

2022 Individual Work Location：Belleville, Paris

Supervisor: Andy Summers and Dr Nikolia-Sotiria Kartalou andy.summers@ed.ac.uk/ n.kartalou@ed.ac.uk

This assignment asks to develop a collective residential building on a typical site located in the artist gather neighbourhood, Belleville. It encourages us to propose novel forms of living, sharing or collectivising domestic life in a changing world and reconsider the duality of public and private.

Today, Belleville is a colourful, multiethnic neighbourhood with a lot of artist studios, restaurants, associations and stores. It is also famous for being a street art centre in Paris. However, the lack of innovative communicating, working and co-living spaces makes many artists feel isolated and hard to build strong relations with other colleagues.

GOAL

An apartment that allows them to live together, to share interests, to understander each other…

RESULT

NEEDED SPACES

Rue Fernand Raynaud, 75020 Paris 48°52'16.1"N 2°23'29.7"E

RESEARCH STUDIES / DESIGN STRATEGY

PRECEDENT STUDY CASES AND THEORY KEY STRATEGIES KEY STRATEGIES ATTEMPT COMPOSITIONS

The Borderless Community of

Zi Ni Twelve Gates

Architect: FEI Architect

Location: Guangzhou, China

Interlocking living blocks, encountering promoting apartment layout

Skylight and various forms of windows create interesting visual connections

Netherlands Embassy

Architect: OMA

Location: Berlin, Germany

Internal zigzag path connected all space

Corridor

Moca House

Architect: ATELIER BOW-WOW

Location: Tokyo, Japan

The combination of internal and external circulation

Talk to each other on your own balcony

After well researching Paris's local context, residential precedents, and clients needs, a vertical village which integrates living, working, and art work presenting is the result.

Ten multiple-use units that served ten different artist and connected by a wander ramp which form a dynamic community. Those 10 Units are similar to a collections of diverse display cabinets that presenting each artist’s life.

Arcades Project (Book)

Author: Walter Benjamin

Huge windows mincing display cabinet to present artist life (understand each other better)

Showcasing artworks from the window

or front garden combined with public circulation

Many Semi -Public spaces or buffer zones are deliberatly create to allow both visual or physical connection maintain while protecting privacy.

Private Semi-Private Public

Penetrate floor slab to create vertical conncetions

Active inking platforms created

The wooden grating facade protects the client's privacy and offers some environmental shading

Boxes connect by the entwining paths creating a dynamic community

Connecting the upper and lower street

Ground Condition ( Height Different )

Upper Floor Plan

The wandering ramp connects unit one to ten which become a vertical street that bond the community together. Many windows, terraces or gardens are suitable to hold different activities and promote encountered to happen. Furthermore, the resident will able to see each others’ art work along with the way home.

Cafe, Studio, Shops, Bedroom, Living room, Kitchen, Study, Terrace, Balcony, Bathroom…

Artists’ daily life are all weaved together yet independent. But there are always chances that you can see your Neighbour painting, playing, cooking or just thinking. Every interaction can be their inspiration.

relationships between the residents and the visitor, the neighbourhood, and nature It corporate many passive design strategies such as flexible light shutters to facilitate ventilation shading in summer and diffuse light shelf for winter.

Facade as Cave (Entrance)

Facade as Skin (Interior)

Facade as Tunnel (Exterior)

Upper Studio

Ramply Passageway

Providing shading and privacy protection to the residents

Passive design, Shading and light shelf

As baluster for residents to enjoy views

A practical seating area creates connections to street

The pubic level where encounters happed in the neighbourhoods

Providing shading and privacy protection to the residents

Terrace Street Cafe

Balcony Countyard Seat

physical model depicts the atmosphere of the wood grating facade and captures the special moments.

Terrace

Criculation Ramp & Balcony

Back Silhouette (Shadow)

The Top Floor Street Sitting Spot Laser Cutting & Handmade Model

The

ARCADE KINDERGARTEN

# 2 ARCHITECTURE OF CULTURAL INHERITANCE

Research work / Summer

2021

Individual Work

Location：Guangzhou, China

Supervisor : Dr Nikolia Kartalou n.kartalou@ed.ac.uk for research

Inspired by my architecture blogging and summer internship with Atelier CNS, a Guangzhou-based architecture firm famous for renovating Yongqing Fang (a traditional arcade street community) I initiate this arcade kindergarten project, aiming to unpack the renovation of unique arcade streets in an educational proposal, which aims to restore the missing link between children and local architecture, through a

that proposed the

and wisdom of traditional housing.

A HISTORY JOURNEY OF GUANGZHOU'S ARCADE STREET

VERNACULAR CANTONESES HOUSING DEVELOPED PROCESS

Cantonese arcades are such an interesting case that in fact summarise the intricate urban renewal process of vernacular Cantonese architecture in the last two hundred years, from Saikuan Mansion to ZhuTong house etc. it is a valuable miniature that represents Guangzhou‘s urban history: to opening as a trading port, industrialization, urbanization… yet all of those are disappearing

SaiKwan Mansion

ZhuTong (bamboo) House Arcade

series of tangible designs

beauty

After WWII, the development of arcade streets become slow, yet a growing number of citizens squeezed into the ready-built arcade. Big hotels and deportment stores also start to merge into arcade street.

Now after more and more modernise shopping malls built, arcade street is not the commercial centre of Guangzhou anymore. A large amount of arcade street has been abandoned and many illegal additions happing on the arcade street.

In 1930 arcade street went into the most prosperous period. Many famous shops and restuarant are located on arcade street and that street also become the grandest area of the city, they are the commercial centre.

Since the urbanisation progression in the late 80s, many arcade streets had been dismantled and the residential program of arcades start to fade away. Most people move to modern apartments. But the commercial program on the ground floor still dominated.

In 1918, the Guangzhou government enact a “ Canton building prohibition regulations and implementation details” arcade street started to become popular in Guangzhou.

ARCADE QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

Most of my family and my friends are living in a high-rise apartment, so we got a few chances to visit the arcade

We see the arcade every day, but we don’t know why it is important ?

The renovation distinct is all about commercial! People just took pretty selfies and post pictures on social media rather than looking at the architecture.

I am interested in Guangzhou’s architecture but there is no place offering a proper introduction.

Many arcade streets are short in maintenance and conservation work

Back Conor

Dense Back Alley

Traditional House

Back Ally: Gable Roofs Alley Entrance

Shabby Facade

Broken Windows

SaiKwan Mansion

• Privacy Gradient • Private Courtyard • Halls

Current Condition

Lack

Traditional Elements Extraction

However, the traditional housing has many valuable vernacular designs, such as spatial relationships and ventilation strategies that should be preserved and populated for the young generation.

Possible Future

Experiencing

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19 11 10

Recreate 6 5 2

Axle Clear 3

13. Kitchen

14. Classroom 1 (4 years old)

18 14 9 7

17

Rejoin Continuous Roof Terrace 1 4

Programming 12

15

Cold Allies 8

Playing on Traditional Street Scale

19. Multipurpose room 2

1. Entrance hall

2. Exhibition and Library

3. Reading space

4. Reception/ Safeguard room

5. Stair hall

6. Nursery room ( 2-3 years old)

7. Outdoor playing space (Eastwing)

8. Water play area

9. Outdoor playing space (Westwing)

10. Nap room

11. Canteen hall

Courtyard Spatial Sequences

12. Storage

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DEVELOP PROCESS

Weekday

The central axis is designed to represent the important spatial sequence in Linnan housing. The kids can freely walk through the building and have close look at the materials and forms.

Planting on Wooden Roof

ELEMENTS REPRESENTATION

THE ROOF & SKYLIGHT

Adding back the skylight restore the missed spatial sequence from SaiKwan Mansion to the arcade, the curving floor also mincing the roof shape which gives the kid a close chance to feel the roof and it also negotiates the height difference on different arcade blocks.

THE HALL & BRICK

The hall is the spacial core of SaiKwan Mansion where the most important meeting or events happened and is the symbol of the whole family. By recreating the traditional axis, the hall becomes the centre hall of the kindergarten and the centre of a family. At the weekend, the hall will also be open to the community for holding events. Also, the hall provides touching experiences on blue brick, the vernacular building material in the Lingnan district, which give a delicate texture to the wall.

the Blue Brick

THE WINDOW & PROJECTION

Cantonese stained glass windows are a key feature in Lingnan residential which is a fusion interesting meanings on it. For example, I choose the “eight crossing four”, the most common understanding of the window while providing a chance for kids to create the composition they

The Hall in SaiKwan Mansion

product of western and eastern cultures. The composition of the window pattern also has common composition, pattern to develop a set of tables and chairs to enhance the children's they like. Those tables are highly feasible for various educational proposals.

THE

Located in the Subtropics area, rain and storm are important elements in Cantonese daily life. Also, The sunken rain courtyard, in the traditional SaiKwan Mansion, has significant Fengshui means: protecting family properties. Therefore, this water park area in the courtyard satisfies the inheritance of culture and children’s playing needs. A wind wall is added to the corridor to maintain spacial penetration and enhance children's sensational experiences with rain and wind.

THE ARCADE CORRIDOR & SHADOW

The shadow created by the colonnade is the most famous image of the arcade. I design a series of bookshelves to represent the atmosphere while fulfilling practical use. This created an exhibition/ cultural library for the pubic to get a close look to the arcade and promote local culture.

RAIN & WIND

Sunken rain courtyard

Rain dripping from the eaves Diagram of rain dripping and wind wall

Shadow on arcade street

Contrast of solid and Void of Arcade Repetitive frame and openings Final Form

Concept Model on the shadow effectSketch of the Atmosphere

Wind wall structure Traditional rain courtyard

Climate change has been a hot debate throughout recent years, yet most people did not realise how much emission their house produces. It is urgent to raise public awareness on improving building performance in order to reach the zero-emission goal in 2050 which can also help us to achieve thermal comfort in a sustainable way.

THERMAL ORCHID HOUSE #

3 ARCHITECTURE OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION/ SUSTAINABILITY

Technology and Environment: Principles course work / Second Year

2021

Individual Work Location：Edinburgh

Supervisor: Elaine Pieczonka elaine.pieczonka@ed.ac.uk

Starting by reflecting on the 26th Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow in 2021, this course and project are mainly focused on environmental building science and ask us to take action in reaching the zero-emission goal in 2050 for Scotland. The project aims to arouse people's awareness of building energy performance and reach a good score on the Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP).

TO REFUCE EMISSIONS, WE NEED TO...

WHERE WE ARE ？

Latitude:

In regard to Edinburgh’s situation, heating is one of biggest the emission sources from housing, therefore, the idea of applying passive strategies to achieving heat balancing without electrical heating is critical to populated.

PRECEDENT ITERATIONS

Based on the research on local climate and precedents, I decided to use orchids, which have similar environmental needs to humans, as a medium to visualize and perceptualize the power of passive design to the public. My goal is to design a thermal orchid house where both orchids and humans can flourish without electrical heating.

Solar Decathlon-Orchid House

Architect: Unicode Team

Location: Chateau de Versailles, France

COMPARISON OF PREFERABLE CONDITION DESIGN STRATEGIES

DEISGN

I consider some key aspects of energy loss, such as the form factor and orientation. I also aim to maximise solar gain by employing thermal mass to preserve heat for cool nights. What’s more, the Orchids need to avoid direct sunlight therefore, promising enough diffuse light is crucial. A couple of forms and compositions have also been tested to out to achieve the best heat balances score.

Structure testing model

MAIN STRUCTURE WALLS

LOW-E

The whole housing and the insulated wall is been carefully oriented to protect from prevailing southwest wind. The idea of Trombe Walls applied to maximise the use of solar gain while protecting orchid from direct sunlight. A thermal massing water base is employed to adjust the indoor humidity and have a warmer ground which matches the fact that human beings tend to feel comfortable with warm feet and cool heads.

Cool Head

Warm Feet

ASSEMBLY & U-VAULE CALCULATION

1. ROOF AND SKYLIGHT

Rain Gutter

AIRTIGHTNESS

Polyethene vapour barrier and breather membrane both continue from wall to roof to prevent any possible damage of condensation and achieve airtightness

2. FOUNDATION AND WALL

AVOIDING COLD BRIDGE

Strip of perimeter insulation around the slab and any screed with thermal resistance to prevent any cold bridge Also, the damp-proof membrane goes above the concrete slab and connects to DPC.

Polyethene vapour barrier

Thermalblock

Breather Membrane

BUILDING PERFORMANCE CALCULATION

The orchid house has great thermal performance with U-value on Wall at 0.13W/m^2K and on the Roof at 0.11W/m^2K and achieves positive heat balance throughout the whole year. With all this help, it scores a great energy efficiency rate of 86 on SAP.

The average daylight factor of the skylight indicates a suitable amount of diffuse light that is preferable for orchids living.

LINES IN THE LANDSCAPE #

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ARCHITECTURE OF SYMBIOSIS

Architectural Design: Explorations Course

Work / Third Year 2022

In progress Group Work (Diagram or Drawing that has * in the caption means I am partially involved)

Location：Culross, Edinburgh

Supervisor: Andrea Faed

a.faed@ed.ac.uk

''With hedgerows as a starting point, design a place that accommodates and includes a ‘Community Food Store’ that addresses the scenic qualities of its landscape, along with ecological, wildlife, and nature issues. Propositions responding to the challenges of the environmental crisis and to the form of the hedgerow should result in exciting pieces of architecture presented in a manner that meets the themes on nature.''

Hedgrow：

''A Man-made living fence, constituting of densely planted hedge plants, creating a border and line in the landscape''

After a site visit, a serious comprehensive analysis of long elevation species layering, human intervention etc. was conducted. With hedgerows as a starting point, design a place that accommodates and includes a ‘Community Food Store’ that addresses the scenic qualities of its landscape, along with ecological, wildlife, and nature issues.

Culross

PRECEDENT STUDY

Hedgrows Site Photos

Coxton Tower Unknown Elgin,Scotland, UK

Factory Tian Tian Xu (DnA Architect) Lishui, China

Linear Programming Layering Enclosure Level

Site Plan

Cutting Hedgrows Imitation Model

*Site Sketch

HEDGROWS STUDY

POROSITY- LAYERINGS

As hedgerows consists of the different appearance in their branches and leaves produce the effect of varying density through layering and interweaving to one another.

Elevational Analysis

Hedgerows as Facade System

HUMAN-MADE LANDSCAPE LINE BIODIVERSITY

Human-cutted

Taking a closer look it came to a conclusion that the straight and flat line of hedgerows derived from the action of ‘man-made’ cuts.

As hedgerows are a linear and continuous plant that consists of various species,a strong sense of promotes symbiosis enables the continuation of life cycle in hedgerows.

Species Analysis

Fruit and Leaves

Element 1: Horizontal Lines in Landscape

Inspired by the linear landscape of Culross (especially the cutting hedgerows), we developed our plan in a linear sequence to depict the rhythm of the scene.

Also, this linear relationship corresponds with the food production lines. Therefore, we arrange our building along with the linear relation in multiple ways.

Element 2: Navigation & Transparency

Having explored qualities in hedgerows such as the similar ‘line’ in hedgerows and buildings in Culross, as well as the ‘gaps’ in hedgerows similar to the openings in building elevation, the elevation variation of density with different control factor was created.

Element 3: Cut & Root/ Above and Below

We also employ this relation in our section to explore the above and below relationship of hedgerows. We put some spaces which dig underground to match the fact that food naturally grows from the ground.

*Site Plan (prepare line drawing)

Sketch and Massing Model

The pickle library is a storage tower which also offers a wonderful view of the surrounding landscape. Various pickles in different sizes of containers will be able to store on the corresponding floor. An elevated platform will be able to carry them. Also, natural ventilation has been carefully designed to work by the temperature differences.

*Pickle Library Bio-Facade

Structure Isometric Drawing

It gets inspired by interdependent productive relationships from hedgerows where the inner layer is the food bank for humans and the exterior skin is the food bank for animals such as birds.

The green facade of the tower has its own small ecosystem. Different plants or crops planted on the different floors create different micro-climate which repondoes to the diverse living needs of species. Also, the planting pot has a rainwater collecting and irrigating system to achieve sustainability.

Biodiversity & Life Cycle

Tower Section

Food Bank for Human

Food Bank for Animal

*Community Allotments

*Inhabited Wall/ Corridor

Pickle Library Model

*Inhabited Wall/ Windor

*For all renderings, I took the job of making the original Rhino model

*Elevation

*Isometric Overview

*Fermentation Room

PEIYAO FENG

SELECTED WORK 2020-2022