Portfolio- Hewen Jiang

Credited by Sunnyishere Architecture is not only a profession for me, but also a platform to observe and think about regional issues brought about by urbanization in China. I was born and raised in the countryside, later I went to school in the city, where I witnessed the urbanization waves in China. While China developed into a worldwide construction site, my thinking on architecture and city had never stopped.

CONTENTS

MEMORY a recall of past Museum design - nostalgia of banyan tree [p.01]

OUTLOOK a plan for future Revitalization of river corridor - landscape urbanism about connectivity [p.08]

Hybrid a typology about balance New town design - typological approach [p.14]

arousal a prototypical solution Timescape school - monumentality about time [p.18]

OTHER WORKS [p.23]

resume [p.24]

01 Memory

Museum design - a recall of past

Type: Academic Architecture Design Third Year Design Studio Supervisor: Dr. Ke Xiang

04/2014-07/2014, Guangzhou Team Work, Individual Redraw Partner: Yifan Cai Contribution: Concept and Schematic Design, Location Research, Modeling, Physical Model Making Award: 1.Top 10% in 2014 Chinese Contest of the Rookies' Award 2.The Second Award of A+E Design Schorlarship

“The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities.�----Court and Garden by Professor Michael Dennis Under the rapid urbanization process, a lot of culture and substances carried with memories are diminishing. This project is not only to bring back the memories of traditional social spaces by reproducing the scene of banyan tree and its associated life but also a protest to some selfish modern buildings.

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01 Memory - a recall of past CHALLENGE “The "tyranny of the private realm" is destroying our cities.�

----Court and Garden by Professor Michael Dennis To gain more profit, more land has been used for intensive exploitation. Instead of being friendly to the city and citizens, some developers nowadays only cares about their own benefits while designing architectures. Moreover, some memory and culture such as leisure lifestyle under the old banyan tree also have gone with the land. As a result, there will be no place for southern Chinese to comfort their nostalgia of banyan tree.

Stretch as high as possible.

Unwelcome citizens.

The diminishing banyan trees and culture

Occupy the land as much as possible.

Strange shape was adopted to be special.

SITE ANALYSIS

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1.Ferris Wheel 2.Curve Bridge 3.Little Wharf 4.Lingnan Boutique 5.Landscape Island 6.Lotus Paradise 7.Ecological Floating Bed 8.Central Island 9.Plants Island

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This architecture locates in the southeast of Baiyun Lake Park, a typical Lingnan landscape. There are several important landscape points in the park.

The design, in order to be the real part of the park, is supposed to have connection with these landscape points. Firstly, in the design visitors should be able to have perception of other landscape points in vision. Secondly, in other parts of the park, the design should be harmonious visually with the park to the visitors. Thirdly, there are banyan trees in the design site originally. The design should response to these information.

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01 Memory - a recall of past DESIGN CONCEPT The core design ideas are banyan tree and relationship of architecture, visitors and the park.

According to the banyan tree, the architecture should provide friendly space for visitors to bring back the memories of traditional social spaces by reproducing the scene of banyan tree and its associated life. To make the relationship close and friendly, instead of being distinct, the museum should blend in the park and provide space for visitors to have activities.

Generating Process 1.Origin

2.Windmill

The architecure should make response to the surrounding.

Windmill, a typical toy, will increase the visual possibility to the scenery, decrease the sensation of volume.

3.Core

4.Crown

Adding a banyan tree in the core of the windmill to strenghthen the topic of the museum.

The third floor moves closer to the lake, providing grey space and decreasing the sensation of volume.

5.Aerial Roots

6.Leaf Crevices

Columns stretches from the museum to the ground, which defines the grey space and supports the building.

Using shutter, a typical ecological technique in Lingnan, as roof to make the outside environment a part of the interior design of museum.

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01 Memory - a recall of past landscape showcase Lingnan Landscape in the Baiyun Park is also an important part of Lingnan Culture. To make this culture a part of exhibition in the museum.

"Landscape Showcase", referring to the "enframed scenery" principle in classical Chinese garden, is designed in this museum.

With "Landscape Showcase", which is equally important to other substantial exhibits, visitors can feel the outside environment while visiting the museum.

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01 Memory - a recall of past WINDMILL INSIDE THE MUSEUM Circulation

Exhibition

Orientation

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Windmill shape is suitable for single-line-circulation in museum design. It also provides more exhibition possibility and makes the orientation of interior space obvious.

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01 Memory - a recall of past Under the banyan tree South China Art& Culture Museum as a public architecture has its responsibility to give something back to the public. In this project, the museum is not a arrogant and indifferent building, which usually look distant from the most noteless and homely villager. On the contrary, it acts actively as a community space and nostalgia space to comfort the lose of the old Banyan tree in everyone's memory.

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02 Outlook

Revitalization of river corridor - a plan for future

Type: Academic & Personal Urban Design/Lanscape Design "SCUT+UCB" International Urban Design Workshop Supervisor: Prof. Peter Bosselmann 12/2014, Guangzhou Individual Work

"New Orleans is wide-awake, but they are not yet discussing these questions(water issue) in the great Chinese, Vietnamese or Indian deltas. It’s high time that that changed. There are tens of millions of people living there!"

----Prof. Peter Bosselmann This design is to use landscape urbanism as a method to deal with the existing problems of the site: segregation, infrastructure and the relationship between villagers and river. Further, water level rising in 100 years is also considered, according to which the design can coordinate.

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02 Outlook - a plan for future CHALLENGE The village locates in a relatively low lying land, which may suffer from flood of the adjacent river, though it may be not so obvious nowadays.

Moreover, the present situation of the river leads to the isolation of the village to some extent. The polluted water from agriculture and dwelling makes the river dirty and may cause the bloom of algea.

Insider(village)

Wall

River

Wall

Market

Parking Lot

Grove

Grove

Parking Lot

Garbage

Dwelling

Temporary Building

Outsider(city)

SITE ANALYSIS

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02 Outlook - a plan for future GENERATING PROCESS

STEP 1

DESIGN ANALYSIS

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

MASTER PLAN

SECTIONS OF DESIGN

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02 Outlook - a plan for future

SECTION 1-1

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02 Outlook - a plan for future SECTION 2-2

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Water level is rising. The structure is improving.

Trees are growing. People are aging.

1. Soil 2. Little Gravel 3. Big Gravel 4. Geotechnical Cloth 5. Pipe 6. Irrigation Pipe 7. Plants Net 8. Wooden Deck 9. Rock 10.Waterproof Cement 11.Aluminum Structure 12. Reinforced Glass 13.Replaceable Hanging

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

2015-2045

2045-2115

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In 2015, building a 0.9m-height levee can provide places for people to play and run.

Also, it can protect the village from damage of water level rising in 30 years.

In 2045, building a 2.5m-height glass wall and decks can provide places for people to play, rest and run. Also, it can protect the village from damage of water level

In 2115, increasing the height of glass wall can protect the village from damage of water level rising and flood.

rising in 70 years.

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03 Hybrid

New town design - a typology about balance

Type: Academic ThirdDesign Year Design Studio Urban in Architecture Design Fourth Year Design Studio

05/2014-07/2014,Guangzhou Supervisor: Dr. Yimin Sun, Dr. Yigang Zhou Team Work Role in Team: Concept Development, 04/2015-06/2015, Guangzhou Location Research, Diagram Drawing Team Work,in Individual Redesign and Redraw 1.Top100 Competition Shinjinsen Initial Design Partners: Yitong Yao, 2.The Second awardBairong of A+E Wu, Design Schorlarship 3.Excellent Design Award of 2014Wu, National Bilin Chen, Kunting Chen, Zhenxing Yi Hu, Architecture College Exhibition Xinglin Cai, Qiao wang, Students Yueyi Li, Work Yaqing Liang Contribution: Team Leader, Research, Concept Generation, Diagram Drawing, Modeling Follow-up Design: Individual

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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance CONDITION OF URBANIZATION In China, in the first place, conflicts between citizens, architecture and environment are mild. When urbanization got rapid, high rise buildings with podium buildings and wide roads, in order to get profits, occur deliriously, which have occupied public space. Furthermore, connection between citizens, architecture and environment has become weak.

SITE ANALYSIS

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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance BENEFIT ANALYSIS

TYPOLOGY APPROACH Adjacent

Run Through Laterally with One-story Height

Run Through Laterally with Two-story Height

Run Through Inside

Tower

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Type A-4

Type A-5

Type B-1

Type B-2

Type B-3

Type B-4

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Type C-1

Type C-2

Type C-3

Type C-4

Type C-5

Type D-1

Type D-2

Type D-3

Type D-4

Type D-5

Four-story Podium building

Three-story Podium building

Two-story Podium building

Type A-1

TYPE C-4

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03 Hybrid - a typology about balance

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04 Arousal

Timescape school - a prototypical solution

Type: Personal Architecture Design UIA-Hyp Cup 2015 International Competition 07/2015-08/2015, Guangxi Team Work, Individual Redraw Partners: Yifan Cai, Qi Wang, Zhuoqi Lin Contribution: Concept Development, Modeling, Rendering, Diagram Drawing Award:Finalist

"Those kids in the village schools don't know why they should study actually. When finishing education, they still take rural work as usual."

----Xiao Yang, Village Teacher However, situation in cities isn't better: lots of students even quit study. Urbanization brings more education issues. This design, referring to Deep Spring College, is to arouse the students. Through working, exchanging and feeling the nature, students will be aware of the benefits of education and even understand the way to success. Time is a central topic in this design.

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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution CHALLENGE

Teenagers in cities barely treasure their chance of education and barely understand the meaning of it. We've witnessed that so many students became totally confused and went astray after attending college.

In villages of China, on the contrary, numerous children have been left behind by their parents who work in the city. They have no ability to make their living, no chance to study at school, and no one to accompany them. Their life are full of desperation.

SITE ANALYSIS

Guangxi Province in China Front Facade of Stilted Building

Guilin City Side Facade of Stilted Building

School

Longji Terrace

Village

The design site locates in Longji Terrace, where contains poor villages. The special local building and landform contribute to the design.

Terrace

The local building, stilted building, emphasizes horizontal division, which is also an obvious characteristic of terrace. This character guide the design of architecture.

OPERATION MECHANISM

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City

TARGET STUDENT

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Left-behind in village

PROBLEM

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unawareness of the benefit of knowledge

unawareness of the benefit of knowledge

daily heavy rural work

unawareness of preciousness of education

resourceless

passiveness to future

NET addiction

smoking

bullying

current solutions 1 Complusive teenager camp

austin

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CONCEPTUAL SOLUTIONS

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knowledege

self-actualization esteem

skills learning

love

communication

safety

basic physiological needs

physiological

Work time = Currency

work

Maslow’s hierarchy of need as prototype

Function in the school

reshape

1 Availability of resources by work

MEANING

current solutions

RESULT Low participation

Little effect RESULT

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Mix students from city and village

A few hope schools 1

2 Nothing is free

Shape the architecture

3 TIME is fair to everyone

Availability of resoures by work 1 MEANING

Students can realize thier flaws 1 and learn from each other

Direct function of knowledge to life 2

MEANING

Pre-experience of society 3

1 Realize the preciousness of education

GOAL

2 Realize the benefit of knowledge 3 Self-actualize with own effort

We need a balance. Children from cities should be educated to be grateful and gain their resource on their own; children from villages also deserve a chance to gain education with all the effort they have made.

This is what we propose, a utopia of study, where students will gain all their resources, including food, shelters and, most importantly, education, with their labor.

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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution

NAMASTE

STUDY just costs a few work hours.

I will graduate soon with enough study time.

Enjoy the marvelous scenery of terrace.

Learning some skills can promote my working efficiency.

Talking to my friend makes me feel better.

I would rather to take care of flowers.

I am relaxing myself and thinking of the meaning of knowledge.

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Sport is healthier than surfing the internet.

ollow the rhythm, ance with me, rothers.

I have to work to gain work hours.

I still have enough HOURS to sleep.

With the knowledge I learned from the book recently, I can work faster and easier.

I come to watch movies with my friends.

HEY, focus on class.

I can feel the nature.

PLEASE tell me your study tricks!

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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution CHANNEL

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Ratio of view

4.8m

7.8m

3.3m

100°

Scale

Commucation Room

80%

41°

Meditation Room

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3m

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17m

109°

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60%

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4m

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The Channel is a place for students to feel the nature, consider about themselves and communicate with others deeply. Terrace, a marvelous native landscape, provides a chance for students to forget the flashy things brought by the hustle and bustle of city and calm down to contemplate.

Rooms with different scales provide different feelings to meet different needs.

In addition, the shadow of channel is an essential part of courtyard space.

Cafetaria

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04 Arousal - a prototypical solution MASTER PLAN

SHADOW AS SPACE DIVISION

In different time in a day, the situations of shadow place and sunshine place are different. It makes possible for the same place suitable for different activities in different times in one day, which will recommend a reasonable schedule to students. The school is also a teacher.

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05 Other works

1.Department of Architecture Architecture Design 02/2014-04/2014, Guangzhou Team Work Partners: Yifan Cai, Yulei Han

2.UIA-HYP Competition in 2013

Architecture Design 06/2013-07/2013, Shenzhen Team Work Partners: Hanyang yu, Zhanhong Li, Shiqi Huang

3.Bus Passenger Terminal

Architecture Design 09/2013-011/2013, Guangzhou Individual Work

4.Kindergarten

Architecture Design 04/2012-06/2012, Guangzhou Individual Work

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06 Resume

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