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XIAO YIMENG -2016.9-2020

Application for thr MArch Urban Design Programme Application number: 21088105

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XIAO YIMENG

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RETHINK SUGARCANE -Light Rail Station

Email:foolxymeng@163.com shawyimenglynn@gmail.com Tel:+86 17725023432 Web:www.behance.net/xiaoyimeng_arch

4/2019-6/2019 individual Work

Application number: 21088105

EDUCATION

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

09/2016-07/2021

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute(SCFAI)

06/2020-07/2020

Major: Architectural Design- School of Architecture and Environmental Art (SAEA) Candidate for Bachelor of Architecture; expected June 2021.

Overall GPA: 3.58 (1/30) Average Scores: 85.1

Team Member: ・Participate in design work with the subject: Complex City ・Responsible for redesigning and assembling urban components ・Work together to brainstorm, explore problems as well as challenges, and do the specific design works ・Assist in organizing the exhibition, seminar, and the final presentation

02/2019-06/2019

Huafan University

Exchange student

Major: Architectural Design Average Scores: 90.6 Project: Public Rental Housing design,Taipei, China Exhibition Hall design,Kaohiung, China Traditional settlement renovations,Taipei,china

INTERSHIP EXPERIENCE 05/2020-08/2020

Beijing Udopartners Architecture Design Firm

Assistant Designer: ・Participated in the design project led by designers ・Got rapid improvement in design thinking and professional software operations

AWARDS & HONORS 10/2020 10/2020 05/2018

National scholarship, MOE of China First Prize Scholarship of SCFAI Bronze Prize of Chongqing College Students Venture Contes, Academic Union of Chongqing

VERTICAL ENERGY OPTIMIZED CITY -Future urban renewal and energy conversion

DigitalFUTURES WORLD Workshop

04/2020-06/2020

Yuanye Awords Compitition

Second Prize

Content: Programme Design Unit modeling Render Drawing 06/2019-07/2019

Tranditional Minority Settlement Research

FLOCKINK STALL -Optimization of street-stall in the urbanpedstrain system space boundaries

Leader

Site: Luguhu Town, Yanyuan County,Sichuan Prov., China Shuhe Town, Lijiang City, Yunnan Prov., China Content: Measuring structure Drawing details of tje project Explore the relationship between social environment and architecture

COMPLEX CITY -Computational and Urban Design

Exhibition Project: CUSTOMIZED COMMUNITY, Architecure Design of Residential Biulding

11/2018

Annual Exhibition of undergraduate Works, SAEA

Outstanding work

Exhibition Project: BAMBOO STRUCTURES, Three-dimensional structure of bamboo

03

3/2018-6/2018

individual Work

04

6/2020-7/2020

Delineation of the functional areas of the site component design (12/15) Rendering of models

11/2019

Outstanding work

individual Work

Collaborative Work

EXHIBITION Annual Exhibition of undergraduate Works, SCFAI

02

4/2020-6/2020

OTHERWORK ·Related works after class ·Works during the internship ·Other works at school

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9/2016-12/2020

01 RETHINK SUGARCANE -Light Rail Station

Academic Individual Project Date:4/2019-6/2019, Y3 2nd semester Location:Kaohsiung, China Hamasen is located at Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan. During World War Two, Hamasen was transformed from a traditional fishing village into where Japanese colonists used for the sugar production and distribution. With freer movement of people, goods and capitals there, Hamasen became a modernized, multi-cultural urban area that welcomed large foreign population.

In recent years, the local government's negative policies on tourism and cultural preservation, triggered off vast ant-policy demonstrations. In my opinion, the core of preserving Hamasen's culture does not lie in the development of tourism, but in how to retain residents’ historical and cultural sense of belonging and how to solve the most common problems of their life in community. In this project, I figured out the possibility of applying surface and internal fibers of sugarcane in architectural surface structures by analyzing the construction of Hamasen city with cultivation of sugarcane, the manufacture and trans-portation of sugar in colonial era.

I will explain how this possibility was proved by a large number of material researches and scientific experiments.

BACKGROUND F

Hamasen in the past

G

1.When Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule, Japanese colonial administration, in order to consolidate the economic status of its home country, developed local sugar industry and built railways across Taiwan island to facilitate its transportation. The administration even built exclusive railways to transport sugar-related goods. Sugarcane plantation, sugar mills for processing sugarcane, and ports for final transportation, would be interconnected by these railways.

Urban planning features Hamasen's urban structure is characterized by a distinctive Japanese urban-planning style. Roads and urban functional divi-sions are clearly delineated. The urban functional layout expands outward in a concentric and ordered manner.

Hamasen was the pioneer of Kaohsiung's modernization. Its inherent geographical advantages and newly built infrastruc-tures such as railways and streets, made a modern port possible.

1984

Local residents protection movement 1984

Urban renewal, demolition of old buildings

1975 The fishermen's association 1984 moved out

Qianzhen Fishing Port was established and personnel moved out

1941

1912-1937

Kaohsiung Railway Station moved out

Phase II reclamation project

1924

Kaohsiung City Hall was established in Hamasen

1917

1808-1912

丑

Big Dog Branch Office moved to Hama Star

Evolution Phase I reclamation project

E

1895 A sugar factory was established in Qiaotou 1901

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D

1858

9

C

Forced to open trade ports

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B

The Japanese occupied, developed sugar resources, and focused on transportation constructio

A

4

3 Taipei

2

Taichung

Keelung

Hualien

Changhua

Proportion of local occupations

Stage -

Fishing Industry Shipyard HR Company Banking Industry TMT Shipping Offshore Fertilizer Production Ice Industry Sugar Refinery Power Plant Ethanol Production Fuel Production The Retail Trade Tourism

Tainan

1

Taidong

Kaohsiung

Taiwan Sugar Railway Route Map

Terrain formed

Chiayi

It was an ocean in its original state

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

government of British colonial Early Japanese Qing Dynasty period Colonization A railway across Taiwan was completed at first, running towards the coast.

A modern city began to take shape, surrounded by new ports and railway stations

2008

2008

1999

now

Railway suspension

Qiaotou Sugar Factory ceased production

1970

Stage 4

Post-colonial Japan The “Port Construction Project’ was gradually carried out.

International sugar prices fell, Qiaotou Sugar Factory stopped its expansion

Kaohsiung Fishermen's Association was established in Hamasen 1946

1939-1945

In World War II, many buildings, acto-ries and sugar cane fields were de-stroyed

1939

City hall moved out

1931

Kaohsiung State Office moved out

1920

Changed its name to Kaohsiung

1912

The Birth of Hamasen

5

Start to fill the new-style dock 1904

The British consul moved to the head of the post 1867

6

Tainan-Dagou train opened to traffic 1900

Historic event

7

Various uses of sugar cane Sugarcane and the economy

Three-phase relationship politics

Local farmers Train station

Policy

Hamasen

Port

Machine

Sugar factory

people

economic

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I believe that sugarcane, as a material for space construction, permeated the course of Hamasen’ s history and culture. I can transform and process it into spatial surfaces, fabrics and so on. Through reconstruction of spatial structure, I can resolve the most common problems such as residents' sense of belonging to their native histo-ry and their life in community.

sugar

Economics Sugar cane Sugar

why choose sugar cane?

Sugar, as a condiment, comes from sugarcane.

Sugarcane is a product of Hamasen’ s agricultural and natural history. Therefore, I will take sugarcane as an important medium to start my discus-sion of Hamasen's native culture.

Train station

Simple-3

Simple-2

weave4

weave3

The history of sugar cane Sugarcane grows naturally. The traditional sugar refining method.

The introduction of large machines.

Use of modern sugar refinery.

The prevalence of sugar in other regions.

A decrease in global sugar price.

The future of sugar Industry in Taiwan

+Paper

continuous production of sugar

Soil products

re-creation of other materials

weave1 Daub

Sugarcane related products and technologiesaava Sugarcane lunch boxes

Sugarcane straw

Sugarcane shoes

+Clay

Sugarcane chairs

AB glue

Papermaking

Sugarcane skin (fine) The sugarcane meal replaces the plant fiber in the paper-making raw material with bagasse fiber, which is oil-proof, waterproof and microwaveable. It is currently recognized as a 100% environmentally friendly tableware worldwide.

Taiwan’ s start-up company "100% Zhi" invented a straw made of sugarcane fiber, which can be buried in its own garden and can be decomposed naturally. The flavor of the drink.

Allbirds, a wool sports shoe brand from New Zealand, took 2 years to develop the SweetFoam™ sole, which fits the foot well, brings comfort and makes people feel relaxed.

Products

Products

Products

Jutian Clean Technology's own brand 「100% 植」in 2017 uses standard technology to use bagasse to make sugarcane chairs. Compared with bamboo woven chairs, the leather is thinner, lighter, and more flexible while being portable.

weave2

Glue products

weave

Tile

Sugarcane skin (thick)

Sugarcane peel Sugarcane pulp (thick)

Products Building material

Toughness

Firmness

Products

Technology

Technology

Technology

Sugarcane paper

Rammed earth

Papermaking

weaving

Sugarcane pulp (thin) Sugarcane pulp

weave

Papermaking process Soil steps INDIE PRINTING company uses waste products from the sugar industry to make sugarcane paper. The sugarcane paper does not affect the design, color range and finish, 0% bleaching, natural color and biodegradable.

Rammed earth has high levels of hardness and compressive strength. Advantages: easily accessi-ble; Disadvantages: Low metal content in local rammed earth, low molding rate

Papermaking is a technique in which the bark is steamed, beaten to form pulp, and water is added to form a suspended pulp, the pulp is taken, and dried to become paper. It is easy to carry, and the materials are widely used, which promotes the cultural development of the entire world.

Knitting refers to the process of repeated overlapping of thread-like or strip-like materials to form a flat or three-dimensional technique. The work produced by weaving is called braid or knitted product.

Mixed soil (step)

weave1

weave2

Material mixing and weaving method Sample - 1

Sample - 1

Sample - 2

Sample - 3

Sample - 4

Sample - 5

Sample - 6

Sample - 7

rammed earth

papermaking

papermaking

papermaking

papermaking

papermaking

papermaking

Sample - 8

Sample - 9

Sample - 10

arrange

weaving

weaving

Sample - 1

Enlarged View Method Size Addition

Bagasse(l=3mm)

clay

Sugarcane pulp(d=1mm) Sugarcane pulp(D=1mm)

paper

Sugarcane pulp(D=1mm) Sugarcane peel(l=10mm) Sugarcane peel(l=10mm) Sugarcane peel(l=10mm) Sugarcane peel(l=50mm) Sugarcane peel(l=50mm) Sugarcane peel(l=50mm)

glue

glue

paper

Tensile Strength (EA) Bending Strength (EI) Torsional Rigidity (GI) ρ： Data Comparison EA： EI: GI:

Summary

Rammed earth has high levels of hardness and compressive strength.

Advantages: easily accessi-ble; Disadvantages: Low metal content in local rammed earth, low molding rate

ρ： EA： EI: GI:

ρ： EA： EI: GI:

ρ： EA： EI: GI:

ρ： EA： EI: GI:

ρ： EA： EI: GI:

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Sugarcane strips are characterized by great bendability, long fiber structure, good toughness, easyily accessibility, little pollution to environment, good air permeability, biodegradability and low production cost.

Disadvantages: the technology of processing sugarcane into fibrous materials needs to be improved. The experiment shows that the fewer Bagasse is characterized by low production cost, fast molding, compact texture, weak structural support, little pollution to environment and the number of fibers are, the higher the processing standard would be. biodegradability However, the compact fibrous structure can greatly improve the durability and lifespan of formed surfaces.

The method of tamping bagasse with only clay is very low in viscosity and poor in all aspects of mechanical properties; when the papermaking process is used to process sugarcane meat, its tensile strength increases slightly; when a certain amount of glue is added, its tensile strength increases very much Large, but the bending performance has not changed significantly. Using sugarcane peel to repeat the previous experiment found that its mechanical properties are better than the former two. When knitting with sugarcane bark, the tighter the knitting texture, the higher the tensile and torsional strength.

Mechanical properties of materials in different shapes

Make the frame 3 control edges

4 control edges

5 control edges

6 control edges

7 control edges

8 control edges

Steel wire made into skeleton Put on gauze Covered with bagasse Dry forming

Material connection

Complex unidirectional

single-track

normal fammily

teenager

worker

single-track

Unordered collection Unordered collection regular combinations Multiple individuals

array

elder

single-track

shops primary school farry pier light rail station

Surrounding facilities

Life schedule single individual

TafďŹ c condition residence

Overview

student

passenger

port

ancestral temple

light rail

hawker

street

school

lawn

rail station

Hamasen’s rail

The people at the site are diverse and complex: local residents, producers, students, ďŹ shermen and visitors. When citizens gather from remote boundaries to the center, they transmit and exchange information in different forms.

students/ worker

residents

Ancestral temple

Main street

Near the harbour

Features of surrounding streets

tourists

others

tourist (single)

Near the port: the building is in disrepair all year round, where the spaces are deserted and rarely used.

tourist (fammily)

On the main road: the city skyline is high, the view is wide, and the shared space is dense

tourist (couple)

Ancestral hall: mainly local residents, space activities are more limited and private

demand present

Hamasen rail Study place transportation shops restaurant green plase gallery meeting place activity place photography go sightseeing exercise study reading rest chat interesting shopping station exhibition place viewing platform seat soil

shop

space

activity

equipment

Site plan

Morphogenesis Based on the needs of local residents, the functional areas that may appear in the specified sites are divided and interconnected to form an "optimal path".

The formed curves are then conducted a three-dimensional reconstruction, fusing with the rails in the site.

Establishment of entrances and exits There are multiple entrances on each side of the station, connecting the outdoor public space and the functional areas in the nearby exhibition hall.

Functional area

The station is used by tourists and local residents. After detailed investigations, the station was now equipped with the most appropriate functions.

Model deduction

Location

Shuttling

Point of interest

Connection

Optimization

Recombination

Fluctuation

New rail station

On the ground floor there is a scenic-train station, exhibition rooms and a small theatre.On the second floor, there is a viewing platform where we can overlook the city spreading out from the main street.

The small theater is a public space for local residents. In here, I designed a space for planting sug-arcane, where the historical era is linked to the present moment, a play of old days going on.

Detailed Section

Detailed Model & Project Feasibility

1. Sugar Cane Brick 2. Galvanized Steel Fin Facade structure 3. Aluminium Foil Protection

6 7

4. Rockwool Insylation 5. CP Board 6. Primary Steel Frame 7. Secondary Steel Frame

Construction of indoor floor and pillars

Construction of steel grider

Hoisting and replenishment of flat modular unit of special-shaped grid

Painting of basic protective materials

10 11

8. Polished Stainless Steel Flashing

12 13

1

9. Double Glazed single Curved Panel

15

2

17

3 4 5

10. Self Levelling Poured Concrete Floor

First Plan

Second Plan

11. CNC Playwood Frame 12. Flexiply Decking 13. Corrugated Steel Deck

400

+4.200m

Construction of Steel structure roof frame

150

+4.350m

+3.800m

House roof paving

Sugarcane Brick Composition & Connection

A BC

DE F

G

28

27

14. Emergency Lighting 15. Srtuctural Steelbeam 16. Air Diffuer 17. Suspended Ceiling 18. Hardwood Panel Ceiling 19. Thermal Insulation

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25

25 24

24 23 23

22 21

22

20 19

21

18

3800

17 20

16

19

15

18 17 16 15

The roof is composed of several four sides with metal grooves, where the sugarcane skin located.

14 13 12 11 10

14

9 8 7 6

13 12 11 10

9 8

20. Ceramic Pavement 21. Lightweight Screed 22. Thermal Insulation 23. Lightweight Screed 24. Radon Barrier Membrane 25. Concrete Slab

3

4

Attach

Support

Stabilize

100

Connect

B

2

3 1

600

2 400

1400

26.Concrete Pavement 27. Concrete Foundation 28. Gravel 29. Lean Concrete -2.000m

4

5

±0.000m -0.600m

5

7 6

A

A’

1 A B C

600

Sugarcane

Wirecloth

Frame

Case

DEF G

B’

A-A’ Half sction

B-B’ Half sction

Roof Plan

Handmade Model

Building exterior skin

Building accessory bracket

Model of the showroom part

Main skeleton of building

02 Vertical Energy Optimized City -Future urban renewal and energy conversion Academic Individual Project Date:4/2020-6/2020, Y4 2nd semester Location:Chongqing, China It is precisely because of the Reform and Opening-up policies introduced in the 1970s and Chongqing’ s municipality status since 1997, the great transformation from a sub-provincial city to the economic and political center of the central and western parts of China has begun.Since the 1990s, Chongqing has been rapidly urbanized and has become a metropolis with a population of 30 million. However, the buildings in the city has not kept pace with its accelerated development. The dense and rambling high-rise buildings in the city make people feel chaotic, uncomfortable and depressed.

In the past two decades, urban development in China has meant massive demolition and endless outward expansion. In order to build new houses, shopping centers or ofďŹ ce buildings, the residents who originally lived here have been transferred to the edge of the city, a repeated pattern that makes those buildings unable to maximize their values.This project will upgrade buildings that were previously considered useless, extend their lifespans, and make people realize the importance of sustainable urban development and use of buildings through vertical city construction as well as energy harvesting and utilization.

urban expansion

Meteorological analysis

General urban renewal: demolishing unwanted buildings and opening access of new construction land.

1967

1987

200 0

Type:subtropical humid monsoon climate Annual average temperature： 16~18℃ Average annual precipitation : 1000~1350 mm Average annual relative humidity : 70%~80%

1992

NE

Growth comparison (1980-2020) Area：+1108.5%

ENE

W

E

WSW

ESE

SW

Population: +108.3% (Urban): + 343.4% (Country): - 23.8% Energy: + 782.5%

SE SSW

NNW

2000

N

NNE

NW

2020

Part of the buildings in the city were demolished, part of them were left untouched, and the city expanded outward.

time

1992 2007 2009 2010

S

SSE

Wind Speed(m/s)

5 2 01

1992

NNE

Urban sprawl in ChongqingWNW 20 05

Buildings are sparse and green spaces spread over.

N

NW

10 20

1983

NNW

1990

NE

WNW

ENE

W

E

WSW

ESE

SW

SE SSW

S

SSE

2009 2009

The demolished areas were filled with tower blocks, and most of the residents live in the edge of the city.

Dry Bulb Temperature(C)

Site 106°57'E,29°56'N Baixiangju area

NNW

N

NNE

NW 2019

1992 2007 2009 2010

2009

2009

2020

As more high-rises sprout up in the cities, the remaining old buildings are hidden by them,and the conditions became worse and worse, the city continued to expand outwards.

Distribution Characters 200

altitude 0(m)

Site Analysis Location: Baixiangju area, Yuzhong district, Chongqing city,China Area:10788 m2 completion time:1992 altitude difference: 38m

NE

WNW

ENE

W

E

WSW

The topographic features The elevation difference at the site is 38 meters. The city is built against the hills, with rambling buildings and rugged roads.

ESE

SW

SE SSW

S

SSE

Relative Humidity(%)

Site description Baixiangju is located in the center of Chongqing, where the elevation difference is large and the surrounding tall buildings are dense. The entrance to one side of the building is on the ninth floor. More than half the residents have windows facing the cliff. In addition, because the building was built many years ago, some spaces are no longer suitable for new residents.

Site problems

Solar light analysis

narrow Between two walls

Top floor The site is located on the hillside with a large elevation difference, and the region is hot in summer. Often there is too much light on one side and no light on the other at all.

Regular floors (single windows)

closed

Under the bridge

Regular floors (double windows) The surrounding buildings are high and dense, resulting in too much shelter from sunlight. The building has short daylight hours; some of the spaces inside even have no sunlight in the day.

Under the corridor

Behavioural analysis room

door

wet Mahjong floor room entrance

Beside the road

living room

balcony

bedroom

stairs

shop

bridge

gate guard

trash can

Ground floor

delivery convenience roof store garden activity space

aisle

cliff

roof entrance

facility

Solutions Strategy 1

The daylight hood collects sunlight which in turn provides light for the ground floor residence and green plants. Convert solar energy into electrical energy and then into chemical energy.

absorb solar energy

dark

Convert solar energy into electricity.Convert electrical energy to chemical energy

Provide lighting for the ground floor residence

solar cell

Strategy 2 Empty house with abundant sunshine

Implant into the cell Open buildings closed interface

Provide light for the ground floor residence.

Provide light for green plants.

Improve living conditions

Provide public space or planting space

Improve living conditions

Principle of composition

Principle of morphogenesis

Game of life

Manufacturing method for component The basic components of 3D printing can be combined into spaces suitable for different requirements through spatial arrangement and combination.

About

The game is a no-player game, that is, its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input.

After an initial configuration is created, people do not need to give it any instruction. It is able to interact with the Game of Life. It is Turing-complete and can simulate any other Turing machine.

Marching cubes

The algorithm proceeds through the scalar field. First, take eight neighbors’ locations at a time (thus an imaginary cube is formed), then determine the polygon(s) needed to represent the iso-surface that passes through this cube. Each individual polygon is then fused into the desired surface. Finally, each vertex of the generated polygons is placed on the appropriate position along the cube's edge by linearly interpolating the two scalar values that are connected by that edge.

Basic Cell Patterns Nothing Dead

Stable Stable

...

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2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Test Case

Repeat

Rules:

The game of life operates in two-dimensional squares.

Each square can be regarded as a living entity with two life states: living or dead.The 8 squares around any square become the neighbors of this square, and the states of those squares in the game are changing with each generation, which is directly determined by the number of the living or dead states of its neighbors.

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According to the game of life principle, we can first get the general shape.

1. Births:

Each dead cell is adjacent to exactly three living neighbours (survive)

2. Death by isolation:

Each living cell has one or zero living neighbour(die)

process

3. Death by overcrowding:

Each live cell with four or more live neighbours (die)

4. Survival:

sample 1

Each living cell has four or more living neighbours (die)

sample 2

The whole building can be seen as consisting of countless cubes

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8

7

5

10

sample 3

1

step 1

step 2

step 3

step 4

The final model is then formed according to the principle of marching cubes.

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Leisure space

cy

ivit y

act

ivit y

act

pri va

Entertainment area Natural light room

cy pri va

Indoor farming Energy transformation

ivit y act

ge

Horizontal corridor

cy

ra sto

Public stairway

ivit y

act

Vertical communication

ivit y

act interactivity

Storage space

cy

ivit y

act

act

cy ea n ar

ivit y

e gre

ea n ar

act

cy

pri va

ge

ge

e gre interactivity

First floor entrance

transportation pri va

cy

transportation

ra sto

9.

ra sto

Social space under the bridge

pri va

cy pri va

ivit y

ivit y act

ivit y act

pri va

pri va cy

pri va

Cliff

ge

ea n ar interactivity

ra sto

e gre

interactivity

ge

ge

ea n ar

Solve moisture problems for lower level house – suspend

ra sto

ra sto

e gre

dehumidification

transportation

ea n ar

transportation

interactivity

transportation

e gre

Enter the elevated floor with activity area

ea n ar

Intermediate floor entrance

7.

e gre

ea n ar

Adaptive light sensor windows

ge

ge

e gre

Sunlight

transportation ra sto

ra sto

cy

transportation

interactivity

More spacious living space on elevated floors

interactivity

chat with neighbors at any time.

4.

Ground floor entertainment space

ea n ar

10.

6.

transportation

e gre

8.

interactivity

Communication

Sunbathe on the new terrace

3.

ge

5.

ra sto

Leisure space

interactivity

ea n ar

ea n ar

go for a walk after dinner.

transportation

e gre

e gre

Roof garden

chat with neighbors

2.

ge

Identification of energy

transportation ra sto

1.

Social space

Case Analysis pri va

Vertical Partition

interactivity

Sectional view of 14th to 16th oors Glazing Pvc diffuser

SOIL, S.L.D

Shutters whose angle can be adjusted according to sunlight intensity and solar altitude.

Waterproof plywood Thermal insulation material Angle iron Attachment fastener

Roof insulation

36B I-beam Prestressed pipe

Detail drawing

The newly added space not only increases the area, solar glass, energy transmission pipelines and other facilities also provide conditions for the city's vertical forest.

When the paint absorbs sunlight, it transmits light of different wavelengths of light to a solar cell mounted on the edge of the battery.

Energy is transported from top to bottom in pipes.

03

Flockink Floor Stall

-Optimization of street-stall in the urban pedestrian system and space boundaries

Academic Individual Project Date:3/2018-6/2018, Y2 2nd semester Location:Chengdu, China Since the mid-20th century, Chinese urban population has risen rapidly. Today, the most typical urban structure and the growth pattern of boundaries in China are characterized by “clear spatial boundaries” based on Fordism. The communication networks among people are constantly challenged by urban boundaries. In the future, it is important to integrate diversified pedestrian network with street stall culture in a systematic manner, so as to reshape the degree of freedom between people and space in Urban Practice.

This is an Urban Practice project aiming to challenge and transcend the dichotomy between "here" and “there", as well as the "God's Eye" theory of city analysis. Through mapping, we can take a new look at the implicit features in the site and the authentic exhibition our living space. This allows the site designer to express their specific ideological or socio-political position successfully.

Based on the bottom-up design theory proposed in Mahim Crossing Project, I began to deconstruct the daily life in the city from a human perspective. By observing the interactions between city, space and people's life, I could better record the relationships that may emerge in the space at any time. Deconstruction of urban space and people's time schedule allowed me to make the pedestrian network and street stalls a whole developing system, and to start a dialogue with city boundary in the vertical direction. Theory of the Dérive, proposed by Guy-Ernest Debord, expanded the depth of my design. Finally, I created a film montage to reorganize and present a new site of communication in a no-boundary city.

Vendor behavior analysis 6am

10pm

5 6

f

6am

7

take position 6am 10pm

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30.647212, 104.059893

Urban structure and value analysis Location: Qingyang District, Chengdu Area: 67.78 square kilometers Population: 718,970

Function distribution of city

2.Traditional stalls has been gradually replaced by modernized shopping malls. Streets are mainly used for motor vehicles, while the sidewalks become narrower.

Urban functional areas are clearly defined.

Aged under 34: 166962, accounting for 34.33% Aged 35-59：279481, accounting for 38.9% Aged over 60：149334, accounting for 20.8%

horizontal section

Strategy

10pm

movement

6am

exercise

6am

popularity

10pm

6am

10pm

6am

10pm

Breakfast Diner

30.679489, 103.896212

Exercise

10

6am

tide

10pm Gathering

9

transaction

Newspaper Vendors

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Night Market

1.Commodity trading activities began to take place on the streets. People trades and communicates around the stalls

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6am Market

Roadside Stand

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10pm

Farmer

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Floating Vendors

606m

Exercise

Building height

The evolution of street stall

Different types of stalls, the flow of customer changes with time

The connections between key points a

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commercial

status quo

residential transport

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vertical section

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unoccupied

Use voxel to represent the part of urban space, and different colors symbolize different spatial functions.

post-modernization

Primary School 3.Bring back the pedestrian system which people used to stay and gather in, and integrate it with modern transportation system. Make the boundaries less distinct. Enhance the communication among people, between people and city, while not affecting the function of the city.

Student

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Financial street

stallholders’ daily transportation

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Abstract representation of a city street

An abstract representation of an urban building and transportation module. The city is already very crowded in the horizontal direction; in the vertical direction the available space is still very large and space utilization is low.

City to be dissected

Tianfu Square

Teenager

08:00

5

Renmin Park Funan River

Aged Worker

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Distribution 4

The old residential areas

walk+rest

Exercise+rest

rest+chat

Stopping point Line of travel Assembly point

trade+paty

Site characterization

Marginal analysis of stallholders Fixed storefronta

Fixed store locations are immovable, goods are fixed, space utilization is low, and there is no communication between shops.

Fixed street vendors

Fixed street vendors are clustered, they often gather on fork roads with a lot of people, occupy public space on the street, and the vendors are relatively single.

Mobile street vendors

Mobile street vendors are random, highly mobile, rich in sources of goods, and do not occupy public space.

Compared with other vendors, mobile vendors are more flexible in terms of time, space utilization is higher, and merchandise sales locations are more diverse. This form of vendors is more friendly to the circulation performance of streets and city planning.

Position Analysis

Deconstruction and Reorganization

Vertical Distribution

shop wall

footbridge

corner pedstrain road

temporary access road

subway entrance

Small vendors usually appear in areas with a lot of people chatting. The exibility of their stalls determines whether the location they stay in is hidden.

Flexible booths often stay in areas with heavy trafďŹ c such as subway entrances. When supervisors come, it is easy to evacuate.

Observation of the site where the vendors stop

By the Station

Roadside

Entrance Corner

Temporary Pathway

Stairway

Z-Wall Corner

Under the Road Marker

Under the Bridge

Collect all kinds of parts and goods of the street stalls, deconstruct and reorganize them, and present the street stalls in a new form.

100%

Other Site Analyze 06:00

Behavior

The earliest workers are already working.Near the train station, which is always in operation, people take a nap and eat on top of the overpass.

Freight station Viaduct

09:00

Employees who came to work on time in the office building finally got a cheap breakfast!

12:00

The moving cars on the viaduct and the leisure pedestrians under the bridge will not interfere with each other.

16:00 Afternoons spent cozying up in the sun by the river, drinking tea and chatting with friends.

19:00

Aerial view of the old residential area The vertical street-stall structure can be reorganized and deconstructed in the vertical direction. The deconstructed space demonstrates the self-regulation of street stalls and urban spaces, increasing the possibility of interpersonal communication.

The separation of people from vehicles can be achieved with tools. For example, in order to fit Chengdu’s specific urban structure, steel frames are used to make each floor a stage in space. The major functions of street stalls are no longer unilateral exhibitions or gathering people. Instead, taking advantages of multi-dimensional space and diversified spatial methods, they play an important role in the newly-developed urban pedestrian system.

In the afternoons, students return home from school, street stalls fill their bellies, and live shows are often held to enrich their lives.

23:00 The old residential buildings are home to some of the city's most authentic and delicious food, and the night market is bustling with customers in the evenings, even into the middle of the night.

Riverside

Children's Center Old residential area

04

COMPLEX CITY

-Computational and Urban Design Teamwork Project

Teamwork Project DigitalFURTURES WORLD Date:6/2020-7/2020 Location: Mars Workshop Leaders: Alisa Andrasek + Joshua Lye + Xinyu Wu + Mary Spyropoulos / RMIT University

In a world rapidly converted into information, future cities and buildings will be characterized by enhanced resilience, plasticity, and malleability of complex interrelated systems; increased designing ability in complicated ecosystem will allow for designs of unprecedented nature, complexity and scale.

So far, many scientists have studied Mars to various degrees. On the basis of previous studies, this project further simulates the expansion mode of cities on Mars, so as to explore new urban growth mode. This project focuses on designs for high-density cities based on complexity principle.

Top view

Energy harvesting area

Residential area

Terrain Analysis

Boids Algorithm Alignment

a boid will adjust its trajectory to match congruent flockmates.

Separation

all boids maintain a minimum distance from one another alignment, and separation are the core forces in Reynolds’ original flocking algorithm.

Research related to Mars

Elon Musk (the chief operating officer of SpaceX) Musk has long dreamed of colonizing Mars, and has completed numerous development programs and experiments before. On January 19, 2020, SpaceX successfully tested the safety of an unmanned version of its Dragon spacecraft.

NASA NASA has launched a number of orbiting probes, landers and robotic rovers to Mars for missions. The Curiosity rover, for example, has collected a lot of data about the planet's environment and radiation, helping with the studies on how to protect astronauts on Mars in the future.

Foster + Partners Foster + Partners' Mars plan is to place inflatable modules in a 1.5-meter-deep crater, print 3D models of their protective shells, and build a settlement by a series of pre-programmed semi-autonomous robots.

Step - 1 The first step is to produce a tower crane for construction. Connected to the launch pad, it can continuously receive materials from the earth and other spaces and then start the construction.

Step - 2 All building components are built up in advance in the production area and transported to particular spots by the tower crane.

Step - 3

The city expands outwards centered on tower cranes, and residential, agricultural and other functional areas are distributed according to conditions.

a given boid moves toward the center of mass of all congruent flockmates within its field of vision.

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Repulsion

repulsion operates between an agent’s field of vision and the smaller, concentric circle describing its radius of separation.

Sample- 1

Test Viewing Angle SearchingRadius Align Seperation

Sample - 2

Cohesion Viewing Angle SearchingRadius Align Seperation

Sample - 3

Process

Cohesion Viewing Angle

Common gullies on the Martian surface make most of the cities arranged in linear distrbution, paving the way for future urban growth.

SearchingRadius Align Seperation Cohesion

Attractive point The cities grow almost along the lines created by the gullies, and radiate outward along the terrain.

Attraction

Mars, like earth, has a diverse terrain. It's basically a desert planet with sand dunes and gravel on the surface.Many canyons are also distributed throughout the region, and aeolian dunes are also widespread throughout the planet.Various types of terrain on Mars are sorted out and the most typical terrain is selected for study.

Exclusive point

Analysis of People's Social Patterns In a normal social-analysis model, people’s relationship is weaker. It is composed of small groups with few connections, and due to the imbalance of resources, part of the population is relatively isolated.

Under the republican model, the society is considered as a whole and people are closely connected with each other. With limited resources on Mars, this social patterns not only allow energy and matter to transfer to each other, but also make interpersonal relationships stronger.

There are many attractors during the growth process, which will affect the growth trajectory.

Other Simulation

NEXT: Let cities grow Based on current researches and the urban structure that grows spontaneously in response to topographic characteristics, in the early stage, tower cranes were transported from the earth.The 3D models were printed on site and transported to the destination by tower cranes.

Cohesion

Agent Behavior

The information on the formation trajectory is presented in the form of Voxel, where each Voxel is the future place of component.

Voxel Generation

The topographic point grid extends to 3D voxel

Component

component A Standing platform

component B transportation

component C wide open space

component D accessible canal

component E energy absorption

component F spaceship parking lot

component G view

component H privacy

component I Open public Spaces

component J elevated space

component K atrium

component M work

component N energy conversion

component L communication

component O energy saving

the information stored in each Voxel is滚滚长江东逝水 randomly distributed

Each piece of information Other voxels that store stored in voxel corresponds information will be placed with other types of components to a type of the components

Pattern

A/B/C/D/E

A/B/L/K/M

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communal

industrial and energy storing

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M/O/D/J

agriculturaland & enenrgy harvesting

communal and energy harvesting

commercial and agriculturealand

commercial and energy storing

Urban Structure

AGRICULTURALAND ENERGY HARVESTING

RESIDENCIAL

COMMUNAL

COMMERCIAL

INDUSTRIAL ENERGY STORING

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Temperature Gradient Density

Temperature Gradient Density

Temperature Gradient Density

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Temperature Gradient Density

Temperature Gradient Density

05 OTHERWORK During the internship

Other works at school

-Leisger bicycle factory design,Suzhou Teamwork Project Date:4/2020

-Youth entrepreneurship office building design Teamwork Project Date:10/2019-01/2020

Major Work 1)Architectural facade design 2)Rendering

Major Work 1)conformational design 2)landscape design 3)rendering

Related works after class -Jewelry design (Brass) Date:1/2018 The elevation charts learned in professional course are now used in wearable accessories, which contain the emotional significance.

-Jewelry design ( Enamel) Date:4/2019 Traditional crafts made of enamel have always been characterized by complexity and delicacy.This collection of works attempts to redefine enamel as a set of enamel jewelry in a simple way.

-Public restroom design Date:12/2018-01/2019 A customized residential community designed according to the preferences and living habits of 30 groups of different families

-Rural Residential Renovation Date:4/2017-6/2017 Study and model the architecture of the Mosuo, a minority group in southwest China, and optimize it according to their customs and habits.

Date:2017-2020 Location: Xi’an,China

-Bamboo Structures On-site construction work Date:06/2017

I like to walk around and take some pictures with iphone or film cameras. The picture shows an old man sitting in the middle of the road begging. I observed from a distance for 10 minutes and found that many people actually gave her money.

Inspired by a traditional Chinese percussion instrument that students can tap at will after class, it is highly interactive.

-Photograghy

-Public restroom design Hand-drawn assignments Date:09/2017-10/2017 According to the data, people are more comfortable when they hear the sound of water, so the theme is "clear water".Try to use interaction design to provide a comfortable space for users