Fan Gao Selected Work 2019-2022

PORTFOLIO Selected Works

2019 - 2022

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EDUCATION The University of Edinburgh MArch ARB Pt 2

University of Liverpool Fan Gao BOE: 14/11/1998 Tel: 07774509734 Mail: fan.gao777@gmail.com

BA Architecture (Class Two Division One)

Xi’an Jiao Tong-Liverpool University BEng Architecture (Class Two Division One)

Edinburgh, UK 09/2021-present Liverpool, UK 09/2019-06/2021 Suzhou, China 09/2017-06/2019

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02

Melancholic Approach

Fade-in

2021.9 - 2022.4

2021.2 - 2021.6

MArch 1 Studio Work

ARCH352 Studio Work

Instructor: Kevin Adams

Instructor: Ben Devereau

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04

Between the Lines

EDEN

2020.7 - 2020.10

2019.12 - 2020.3

Personal Work

Personal Work

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06

Melody Link

Dushu Community Center

2020.2 - 2020.6

2019.2 - 2019.6

EXPERIENCE Zhangjiagang Qing Li Decoration and Design Office Design Assistant

Suzhou, China 01/2019-02/2019

The internship is in the field of architecture and interior design. The main tasks the company assigned are design assistant and procurement assistant. My responsibility was to complete the tasks assigned by the designer and assist the purchasing department.

ARTS Group - Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd Architect Intern

Suzhou, China 06/2020-09/2020

The internship is in the field of large-scale architecture design.

Assistance to complete the architectural design of Suzhou Children’s Health Development Center.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS Language Chinese (Native), English (IELTS 7.0)

ARCH252 Studio Work

ARCH102 Studio Work

Instructor: Michael Baldwin

Instructor: Thomas Wortman

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08

Urban Hive

Other Works

2019.9 - 2019.11

2020.6 - 2020.9

2019 Bee Breeders Competition

Intern Project

Software PS, AI, ID, PR, AE, LR, Rhino, Sketchup, AutoCAD, VRay, Lumion, Enscape, Grasshopper, Manual Model-making

Honors Small Scale Architectural Design Selected to the 2018-19 Yearbook of the Department of Architecture of XJTLU

2018

ARCH202 3X3 Project Best Plan

2019

Nominee of 2019 Beebreeders Architecture Competitions-Paris Affordable House

2019

Personal Work

Melancholic Approach Midsummer Fragrance of Pilsen MArch 1 Studio Work

Fan Gao & Leslie Lin

2021.9 - 2022.4

The project explores themes of place, memory, and narrative as palimpsests, to propose new architectures within the context of Pilsen. To do this it draws upon the alchemical industry of scent making and the melancholic art of the surrealists. The architecture introduces colonnades, canopies, chimneys and walkways as metaphors for the memories of Pilsen’s former industrial life and in doing so it reimagines the art of De Chirico as a set of motifs for new spatial and tectonic imaginings.

Distant Impression - 10 Bendova Pilsen

Reimagination of De Chirico

Scent as the main clue of the design is that it reintegrates our architecture, reconstructing these moments again with the memory of the city, presenting them in a relatively holistic and unified form. If we were asked to describe our project in a series of key words, "poetic", "fragrant", "colourful" and "dreamed" would be our choices. These adjectives can be found in different ways in our projects, as in the strange and tranquil arcades and walls of De Chirico's paintings.

The Apartment of the Kraus Family

Nazi Regime

Materialogy - Living Room Loos used green cipollino marble on pillars with inset glazed cupboards between them, optically dividing the functional zones of the living and dining rooms, and on the opposite walls, on which he also had large multi-pane mirrors mounted.

Materialogy - Bedroom In contrast to the dark-coloured social spaces, the corner bedroom was furnished in bright Finnish birch. The dominant piece of furniture here was the double bed.

Communist Regime

Metaphors of Pilsen Memory

Palimpsests of Memory Fragments

Memory is invisible. But the process by which it had been generated, we understand it as "the reconstruction of order." At the beginning of this process, we do not need an absolute sense of well-organized, ordered space. Instead, we need a reorganization of the fragments, a precise understanding of the overall structure.

Surreal Riverside Garden

Therapeutic Riposte To Industry

Project Plan 1-8000@A4 N

Section AA'

Section BB'

Section CC'

C' C

B'

B

A

Ground Floor Plan

A'

First Floor Plan

Second Floor Plan

Roof Plan

The Melancholic Approach

“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine…”

Fade-in Rejuvenating Ducie St. By Colors ARCH352 Studio Work

2021.2 - 2021.6

Ducie Street, ruined and derelicted, is just one piece showing the ungoing degradation of Toxteth.

People in this district has been suffering from several social problems caused by degradation for a long time. The new art foundation aims to combine the Granby Market with artworks and provide people around Ducie Street with an active space which allows everyone to experience artwork in various ways and exhibit their artworks on the market.

Ducie Street - The Microcosm of Toxteth's Degradation

Before 1980 At the end of World War II Toxteth became o n e o f t h e U K ’s e a r l i e s t m u l t i c u l t u r a l neighbourhoods. The decline of Granby’s commercial activity began, with the neighbourhood’s Victorian terraces declining into disrepair.

Street Market - From Linearity to Permeability

1980-2012

After 2012

The Granby area became increasingly bleak after the riots of 1981 in Liverpool 8 life. Shops went out of business, and the number of empty house began to increase. This became a vicious circle – more empty houses, meaning fewer people wanting to move in and more shops closing, leading to more dereliction.

The neighbourhood being left in demolition limbo, but the residents took the initiative to shape the neighbourhood. The shared spaces were reinvigorated by various resident activities.

Along with this a community market was set up during the summer months, which would later become the monthly Granby Street Market.

The Granby Street Market is a traditional street market which was started by a couple of local residents who were basically living in empty streets. Different kinds of goods will be sold during this event. The residents here thought it is because it brings people together who live in the area and it brings people from outside the area here too. The Granby market brings vitality to the area and creates a lot of opportunities for people to make a living.

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Site Location

Site Access

Surrounding

Greening

The construction site consists of derelict terraced houses and the lawn by Ducie Street.

The one-way access for vehicles is a critical problem for the site.

Surrounded by lagre areas of residences, walkability is essential for this design.

The lack of greening around the site makes it important to make more landscapes.

Following the grid-iron plan, the Toxteth became a highdensity district filled with terraced house residences.

Although the layout increases housings and residents, the public realm for daily socializing and activities is somehow limited due to numerous arrayed houses.

The lack of open public realm within walking distance makes the linear streets a place where daily activities happens. This could make the high-density district even more dense visually as more events happen on streets.

Depression can also be a critical problem for local residents.

Traffic Network

Hydrographic Net

Greening

The main traffic roads follow a radial pattern which centers around the Liverpool downtown and the railway traffic. Tourism can be a chance for Toxteth as it links the downtown and suburb.

Waterfront landscape based public realms can be barely seen as rivers hardly flow through this area. Lack of natural landscape can be a fact that intensifies the regional density.

Although public parks can be seen according to the diagram, they are concentrated in lowdensity residential areas. In the high-density part of the area, parks can be barely seen.

1. Site

2. Morphology

3. Courtyard

4. Break Boundary

5. Natural Light

6. Final Result

Granby Market - A Chance to Rejuvenate Ducie Street

Boundary of Public Realm The front room of the terraced house can be seen as a buffer zone which guarantees the privacy of the owner for some extent. Although the front room is often used as a commercial space, it still formed a solid boundary for street space or public realm visually. The continuous boundary formed the linear street space and made the high-density urban layout even more dense visually.

Extension of Public Realm The yard of the terraced house can be seen as an extension of the public realm. However, this is a "public realm" for the owner of the house. In spite of this, the yard at the back of the house can still extend the visual effect of the public realm. It can also be seen as a good strategy for privacy consideration, especially in a high-density urban layout.

Art Foundation - Colors fade in to Ducie Street

Ventilation Strategy - Stack Driven The light well of the renovated building is used as a vertical riser to ventilate the building. Cold air comes into the building from the bottom part of the light well and stays around the lower level. The stack of the cold air in lobby promotes the buoyancy of heat in the building. Heat will be exhaust from the extract terminal at the upper level of the light well.

This strategy is efficient as the building is in a linear layout. Stack driven ventilation can be effective to depth up to 5 times the room height. The use of natural ventilation greatly reduced the energy consumption of AC system.

Energy Strategy - Photovoltaic Panel The roof of the new construction is an ideal platform to place the photovoltaic panel as the sunlight will not be blocked by the building in front of the new construction. The flat roof contributes to the deploy of the PV panels and can reduce the construction cost of the PV panels.

The electricity generated by solar energy will be used to reduce the total cost of the building electricity usage.

Between the Lines Wandering Within Calligraphy Space Personal work

2020.7 - 2020.10

With the rapid development of the city, Shaoxing, one of the hometowns of Chinese calligraphy, is falling into a cultural crisis. A high degree of informationization and reliance on mobile phones has led to a widely oblivion of handwriting. A large number of calligraphy masterpieces from Shaoxing were also gradually forgotten. The purpose of this building is to allow people to experience the traditional calligraphy art through its space and arouse people's attention to the calligraphy culture.

Culture Recession of Shaoxing

Rules of Calligraphy Character

Yue Empire

Prosperity of Calligraphy

During the reign of Goujian, the king of Yue, the empire was rich and strong, and various cultures flourished, which laid the solid foundation for the prosperity of Chinese calligraphy.

The Orchid Pavilion, the masterpiece done by Xizhi Wong in Lanting, Shaoxing, marked the golden age of the development of traditional Chinese calligraphy.

The Cultural Revolution The governor was trying to smash the old world and build a new world.

It was a catastrophe for traditional culture. During this period, a large number of masterpieces was destroyed.

Information Era Shaoxing's urbanization and informatization makes people rely h e av i l y o n e l e c t ro n i c d ev i c e s .

Calligraphy has been forgotten. A large number of people even forgot how to write characters.

"Feel before writing and shape characters by rules."

Low Urbanization

Single Industrial Structure

Cultural Lag

Labor Loss

The low urbanization of Lanting Town keeps its traditional rural appearance. Backward planning and architectural form had become one of the obstacles to its development.

One of the main reasons for Lanting's slow urbanization is its single development mode, which is mainly based on agriculture. Mixed mode is urgently required.

After the Great Cultural Revolution, Lanting, once a thriving cultural town, is now under cultural crisis.

Numerous calligraphic works were destroyed and forgotten.

Due to the backwardness of Lanting town, a large number of people streamed into the downtown, leading to the loss of labor in Lanting town.

It caused a vicious circle.

Written Space - Emotion and Rules

Spatial Sequence

Activities by river at The Orchid Pavilion

Spatial Trend and Nodes of Height

Plaint

Sentimentality

Anxiety

Spatial Trend and Nodes of Width

Euphoria

Section DD’

Section CC’

Section BB’

Section AA’

Calligraphy Experience by Spatial Form

The continuous space of the exhibition center connects the indoor and outdoor space, and the blurry boundary allows more people to experience the building. The changing forms of space also creates a different atmosphere and brings visitors different experiences. The circulation design centered on the exhibition hall connects various types of exhibition spaces to provide visitors with a completely immersive experience.

Entrance Foyer

Roof Garden

The design of entrance foyer is inspired by “A Gleam of Sky”.

Visitors can only glimpse the deep parts of the building through the narrow and soaring aisle. This could encourage visitors to enter and explore the building.

The roof garden provides a place for people to do activities and view the scenery. It places people in the landscape of Lanting and enriches functions of the building and the experience of visitors.

Alley

Gallery

The alley between the building skin and the functional space becomes the grey space between the site and the building.

The alley makes it possible for visitors to observe the activity inside the building without entering the building.

As one of parts of the exhibition space, the gallery connects two large exhibition spaces as well. Through the gallery, the space transits naturally, and visitors could also experience the fluidity of Chinese calligraphy as they move along.

Exhibition Hall

Virtual Display Space

In contrast to the entrance foyer, the three-story high exhibition hall provides an open spatial experience for visitors and allows visitors on all levels to see the exhibition.

The exhibition hall is also a node within the building, which connects various exhibition spaces inside the building.

Open to nature, the space makes traditional exhibits difficult to display, so calligraphy is displayed in a virtual way. The combination of modern technology and traditional culture gives visitors a different experience.

EDEN Eschatological Marine Dystopian Vertical Complex Personal work

2019.12 - 2020.3

With the population boom, China's coastal cities are facing housing shortages, ecological degradation and a shortage of fresh water. This series of social and environmental problems intensified social conflicts and reduced the livability of cities greatly. Therefore, the government launched the Eden project. Since then, people have been on their way to the Garden of Eden.

Melody Link A Music School That Brings People Closer ARCH252 Studio Work

2020.2 - 2020.6

Music is a good medicine for mental illness. The project aims to provide Toxteth residents with a place to learn and experience music. At the same time, as a link between the two districts of Toxteth, the music school also greatly eliminates the age-old gap between people from these two districts. And It provides opportunities for local residents to enrich their spiritual life.

Toxteth - From Past To Present

Existing Gap in Toxteth Toxteth is an inner-city area of Liverpool. Toxteth is located to the south of Liverpool city centre, bordered by Aigburth, Canning, Dingle, and Edge Hill.

Toxteth was badly hit by economic stagnation and unemployment in the late 1970s, culminating in riots in July 1981. Although attempts have been made to regenerate the area and improve living standards, significant problems with unemployment and crime remain into the 21st century.

Facing Wealthy District

Facing Poor District

Break Down The Gap With Music

Spatial Relation The original space is abstracted into three colors representing three spaces. Combining with the original circulation of the site, the spatial color blocks are superimposed to form a new color block. The formation of the new space creates a new site circulation and stimulates the vitality and diversity of the site.

1. Extrusion

2. Division

3. Function

4. Level Difference

Extrude the site based on the edge of block and the trend of city roads and edges.

D i v i d e b l o c k i n t o t wo m a i n functional areas based on area requirement and orient two parts based on different city functional areas.

Put various main function areas into the box based on the characteristics.

Public area box with higher level enhance the privacy of teaching space and residential areas behind.

5. Viewing

6. Topography

7. Atrium

8. Circulation

Flatten one end of two boxes to create viewing platform facing local churches.

Add greenery to the roof of the building to maintain the original green landscape. Facades is unobstructed to ensure sufficient sunlight.

The atrium is designed to be a node of the city. Atrium will attract the public and allow different groups of people to converge into the building.

Add two entrances on the terrace roof to link the atrium to the site and surrounding areas.

Communication Through Experiential Space

Solar Shading

Projecting Support

Air Cavity

Self Ventilating

The design of the open atrium connects the interior and exterior to play the role of nodes.Located in the middle of the teaching space, the atrium not only provides a vibrant outdoor activity area for students, but also a space for other citizens in the city to feel the music.The integration of the crowd makes it a bridge for people to communicate with each other.

The atrium functions as a node of the building, which blurs the boundary between interior and exterior. Also, it provides people around the building with a playground. The interior space without columns is neat and tidy, acting as various platforms in the city, and showing the vitality of people.

Dushu Community Center Space For Multi-Group To Learn, Exercise And Communicate ARCH102 Studio Work

2019.2 - 2019.6

Suzhou's population has been ageing rapidly. Most buildings in Suzhou Industrial Park are dominated by one single group. Buildings designed for multi-group have been extremely inadequate in Suzhou.

This design aims to provide a place for the different social groups living around Dushu Lake to integrate and communicate with each other.

Dushu Lake - Heart of Developing SIP

Age Group Segregation of SIP

With the aging of Suzhou's population, the urban space is no longer dominated by a single group. The increasing of emptynest elderly also indicates the segregation between groups.

Since most public buildings target single group, especially young generation, spaces for multi-group are required in Suzhou.

The selected site is located on the east bank of Dushu Lake, which is between Dushu Lake Library and Bailu Park in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), Jiangsu Province, China. It is a popular place for the elderly living in SIP due to its beautiful environment. A large amount of people tend to gather there to do various activities.

A Node For Multi-group Communication

1. Build

2. Division

3. Orientation

Try to discover the potential of the box.

Put three main function areas into the box.

Rotate the block to surrounding views.

4. Open View

5. Entrance

6. Lift

Transform the block to broaden view.

Form the entrance by the main circulation.

Lift blocks based on height of trees.

7. Shading

8. Sunlight

9. Adjustment

Roof the building.

Light up the corridor by adjusting roof.

Fine-tune the blocks to get a final solution.

Surroundings

Circulation

View Points

Landscape

The design of the project connected the community center with the circulation of the site. The layout also takes into account the potential needs of people from different entrance. The foyer between the learning and sports areas acts as a buffer zone, which can accommodate all visitors from various directions and provide a space for communication.

Dushu Lake - Atrium The entrance foyer between the learning and sports areas acts as a buffer zone, which can accommodate all visitors from various directions and provide a space for communication. The corridor towards the city skyline of west lakeshore forms a viewing window and connects the circulation to the fitness trail.

Bailu Park - Terrace The terrace facing Bailu Park not only provides good lighting and scenery for the Dance Studio, but also serves as a window for people outside the building to see the activities inside the building. In this way, the communication between the inside and outside of the building can be realized.

Urban Hive Flexible And Self-Support Community For Low-Income Earners In Mega Cities 2019 Bee Breeders Architecture Competition

2019.9 - 2019.11

The project was inspired by the hexagonal structure of the honeycomb. The modularity of the unit structure allows the volume of the complex to be controlled to suit different sizes of the unconstructed sites in mega cities. The project provides affordable housing for peopel by making use of different kinds of open space in mega cities. It also lowers housing construction costs and living energy costs.

Beehive in Mega City

Social Strata and Unused Lands in Mega City

Type I The old resiential area accommodates most of urban citizens. The aged infrastructure and disordered layout influence the residents' living experience and townscape.

Type II The center of the location is the high-end residential and commercial areas, high consumption and high housing prices lead to the loss of permanent residents.

Metropolitan Population Take one of the mega cities, Paris, as an example, the convenient transportation and rapid development of industry make the population of the area grow rapidly. Rapid urbanization and excellent location have led to rising local housing prices.

Type III The industrial development area in the east of the location is polluted and most of the residents are construction workers, mostly temporary residents.

Type I Green Space

Beehive Concept Bees use the same amount of raw material to maximize the size of the hive, so that it can hold larger amounts of honey. The beehive is a kind of most economical space structure. The hexagon can be perfectly connected in the plan. When it is three-dimensional, hexagon shape can be seen in both the plan and the section. Taking advantage of this property, the module can be extended in multiple directions, which greatly enhances the plasticity and flexibility of the space.

Type II Boundary Space

Type III Derelict Lands

Energy Supply and Circulation Hub

Dwelling Units Development

Form Public Activity Center

Available Public Green Areas

Transportable and Prefabricated Modular Unit

Passive Design of Dwelling Unit

The passive design and recycling system adopted in the project minimize its carbon emissions and reduce energy costs of its residents. The project provides affordable housing for citiznes in Paris by reducing housing construction costs and living energy costs.

Detachable joint

Galvanized metal

Alloy frame

Thermal Buoyancy

Reinforced Panel

Lightweight reinforced panel

Bolts

Hinge Natural Ventilation

Galvanized metal

Openable Panel

Light Well Light Well provides plenty of sunlight for public space and broadens views of residents in the dwelling units. The thermal buoyancy generated by solar thermal radiation promotes indoor air flow and provides thermal comfort for residents.

Vent Detachable joints creates the possibility of multi-directional construction and relatively easier transpor tation of various components.

Bolts between panels are controlled by electronic system, which enhances the connection of panels and allows panels to open.

The horizontal frame is composed of joints and metal beams. Bolts are reinforced by repouring concrete through prefabricated openings.

Ventilation openings are automatically adjusted based on seasonal change. Air vents are maximally opened in the summer, speeding up the flow of air and lowering the temperature of the dwelling unit. Vents are minimally opened in winter, preventing large amounts of cold air from flooding in to maintain a comfortable indoor temperature.

Filling Unused Space The hexagon modular accommodation effectively makes use of unused space in mega cities to provide housing for people who cannot afford the high housing price. The convenience of the modular structure prevents the city's unused lands from being permanently occupied. The spontaneous formation of communities creates more possibilities for the people living in their community and vitalizes the city as well.

Other Works The Origin, Photography, London, 2019.12

Internship Work Suzhou Children’s Health Development Center Suzhou Huazao Architectural Design Co., Ltd.

2020.7 - 2020.9

Group Member: Weihua Sun, Hao Lin, Fan Gao My Work: Participation of the design, Architecture visualization, Compilation of proposal layout

Continuity of Suzhou City Texture

Project Detail 古城肌理提取

各层平面图 地下一层平面图

地下二层平面图

23辆

11辆

污物暂存

17辆

非机动车库

非机动车库

设备用房

车流暂停处 17辆

17辆

辅助用房

设备用房 17辆

厨房

17辆

教学科研 17辆

人防区

医疗垃圾 污物暂存

医技检验 生活垃圾 污物暂存

污水处理中心

17辆

污梯

职工餐厅

Roof

17辆

17辆

17辆

17辆

17辆

11辆

信息机房

17辆

全科医生培训

科研室

科研室

科研室 医生专用电梯

电梯厅

医生专用电梯

机房

WC

WC

WC

WC

对外餐厅

Basic elements and dimensions of the 屋面 roof shape were extracted based on the 基于场地周边控保古建屋面肌理，提取出 site peripheral control and preservation 回字形屋面形状的基本元素和尺度。 of ancient building roof texture.

出租车下客区（即走即停）

行政办公用房

全科医生培训

全科医生培训

全科医生培训

模拟手术训练

模拟手术训练

下沉庭院 消防水池

消防水泵房

热水机房

污梯

污梯

读片室

值班室 值班室

医办 负一层地下大厅

变配电间

放射科工作区

检验科 DR

DR

CT

测骨龄 常规检验窗口 候诊区

准备间

镇静室

负二层地下大厅

放射科

检验科

候诊区

镇静室

设备用房

候诊区

下客区

设备间 医办 空调机房

设备间

车行通道

准备间

准备间

镜库

肠镜

胃镜

WC

心电

心电

心电

B超

B超

B超

WC

肠镜

MRI

控制室

镇静室

镇静室

WC

护士台

人行通道

Courtyard 院落 As an impor tant par t of the urban 作为城市肌理的重要组成部分，场地周边 context, the ancient courtyards around 的古建院落与其屋面是相辅相成的关系， the site and roofs complement each 两者共同组成了古城肌理的基本要素。

各层平面图

other, which together constitute the basic elements of the city texture.

一层平面图

二层平面图

厨房货梯

门诊

门诊

中心供氧

病房 配餐

配餐

抢救

急救站

操作间

抢救

操作间

教学科研

治疗

治疗 60床

护士站

57床

护士站

中心供氧(3立方）

医生

医生

病房

值班

值班

污物 暂存 物流管道

物流管道

污物 暂存

污梯

医生

医生

会诊

值班

值班

污梯

操作间

治疗

抢救

科研培训 门厅

配餐

污物 暂存

护士站

物流管道

物流管道

处置

值班

值班

会诊

医护工作区

医护工作区 抢救 污物 暂存

处置

治疗

医生专用电梯

操作间 配餐

护士站 60床

住院部服务台

60床

Gable 山墙

急救站点

值班

下沉庭院上空 走道

坡道

WC

WC

污梯

护士台

污梯 母婴室 专科门诊

WC

药房

上空

消防控制室

备用医疗用房

备用医疗用房

训练室

训练室

训练室

机房 儿童公共游戏区

母婴

取药窗口 儿童康复训练区

facade design of the new building.

设备

儿童健康发展中心 门厅

诊室区

屋顶庭院

专家门诊

汽车库入口

自助挂号收费机区域

苏州民宅标志性的硬山线条简洁，却不简 The minimalist lines, soft and beautiful, 单。极简的线条柔中带美，成为新建筑立 become an important element in the 面设计中的重要元素。

机房

备用诊室区

训练室

训练室

训练室

训练室

儿童健康发展中心 训练室

候诊区

设备

WC

导医台 挂号收费窗口

专科门诊

1v1训练区

儿童保健

护士台

值班警卫

财务办公

古城肌理延续

剖面图

The courtyard is taken as the basic form unit and placed into the site according to the land scope and control line. To the 将院落作为基本形体单元，根据用地范围和控 制线置入场地。最大程度上延续苏州老城区的 greatest extent, it continues the urban 城市肌理。 texture of suzhou's old city.

"Dancing with shackles on."