Graduate of Architecture portfolio 2018 - Yachi Hou

Mud Wall, Wa Shan Guesthouse, China Academy of Art XiangShan Campus HangZhou China. Photo taken by Alex Hou in 2018

YACHI ALEX HOU

Selected works 2016-2018

夯土墙 , 水岸山居 , 王澍 , 中国杭州

ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

Master of Architecture graduate 2018 Deakin University School of Architecture and Built Environment

REFERENCE LETTER FOR YACHI (ALEX) HOU

11th June, 2019

To whom it may concern, As Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Architecture and Built Environment, Deakin University in Victoria, Australia, I am writing to you in support of YACHI (ALEX) HOU and his desire to work in an architectural practice. It is with no hesitation and a genuine pleasure for me to write a reference for Alex.

I was privileged to supervise Alex’s final architectural design thesis (Masterclass) at Deakin University. This is the final design capstone unit that post-graduate students undertake and is assessed by a panel of external and internal reviewers who critically evaluate the work of architecture against the national architectural accreditation standards. Alex’s project titled ‘Hong En Temple: When [I] WAS HERE’ was both a personal enquiry into the possibilities of architecture for his home country of China (Beijing), as well as respective and thoughtful, in understanding the layers of history embedded and existing on the particular ‘found’ site.

The complex project was conducted with high rigour, precision and generosity that positively challenged the external and internal final panel of reviewers. In my ten years of teaching, it is rare to have students such as Alex who can work independently and produce such thought-provoking architectural work. The project was further enriched by the design process of drawing, redrawing, and constructing architecture through 2-dimensional spatial planning. Alex’s capacity to draw and engage in processmodels allowed him to discover the final design. The latter consisted of a series of different architectural structures, some engaging with existing structures (temple) on the site, and with programmes that ranged from an auditorium (performance), gallery, food-market. However, the most essential component of the design were the thresholds in between these seemingly disparate programmes. The success lied in the human senses that were heightened through the architectural experience offered through these thresholds.

As noted already above, Alex is an independent thinker and is able to make wise and rich design decisions. Beyond this however, he is also a colleague to his peers, and has the capacity to offer critical feedback and suggestions to other students. This ability to provide constructive feedback has led me, as Lecturer of Architecture, to invite him as a guest reviewer for my first year design unit.

Without reservation, I recommend Alex to the opportunity to work in an architectural design practice. Please do not hesitate to contact me to provide you with any further information regarding Alex.

Yours Sincerely,

Akari Nakai Kidd, Ph.D

Lecturer in Architecture Master of Architecture Course Director (Acting) School of Architecture and Built Environment Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3220, Australia p. +61 4 9994 3244 e. akari.nakaikidd@deakin.edu.au

School of Architecture and Built Environment Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment DEAKIN UNIVERSITY

Deakin Waterfront Campus 1 Gheringhap Street Geelong, VIC 3220

akari.nakaikidd@deakin.edu.au Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 001138

PROLOGUE Through my study in Deakin University from 2015 to 2018, It is crucial that I could engage a board range of design briefs and issues, and take serious and rigorous consideration and process into my architectural and urban design solution. Under taught by some extraordinary lecturers, tutors, and design colleagues, they make me realize the architecture is a grace to life, compassion to people and these two emotions bonds human and our environment together.

For me, I see each design project is a journey. The process may not be the same but they all through a process of defining, documenting, reflecting and creating with the experience of space while this experience forms the knowledge for architects that we can apply in our life.

The selected projects in this portfolio try to express a diverse reach to the design outcome, from a recreation of a temple in Beijing to the urban intervention in Melbourne CBD, all of these projects are raised by a question or multiple questions. The solutions are always aimed to connect to the people and improve their life experience.

https://issuu.com/houalex

C O N T E N T

Curriculum Vitae

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Academic works 1.0 [When I was here]

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2.0 [The Exquisite Corpse]

20-31

3.0 [Nomad Hutong]

32-41

3.1 [Design Resolution]

42-49

4.0 [Belmont Masterplan & Market]

50-59

Other works 5.0 Archimarathorn Sydney 2018

60-61

6.0 Paperspace &Taut Exhibition

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I want to express my heartfelt and sincerely gratitude to my masterclass tutor Dr. Akari Nakai Kidd, Superstudio tutor Ciro Marquez & Architectural Design in Urban Conetxt tutor Kevin Hui. As well as Professor Des Smith, other design colleagues & all other tutors who helped me and encouraged me along my journey as an architecture student.

Curriculum Vitae Yachi Alex Hou

Architectural & Interior Design Graduate Melbourne, Australia Born_1.12.1990 From_Dalian, China

0405 391 666

https://www.instagram.com/alex_hou/

Alexhou1015@gmail.com

https://issuu.com/houalex

Education

Mandarin: Native Speaker English: Advanced level

Jul 2010 - Jan 2011. Swinburne University of Technology_ Diploma of Design

Prahran, Victoria Feb 2011 - Nov 2014. Swinburne University of Technology_Bachelor of Design (Interior Design)

Prahran/Hawthorn, Victoria Feb 2015 - Oct 2016. Deakin University_Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

Geelong, Victoria Feb 2017 - Oct 2018. Deakin University_Master of Architecture

Geelong, Victoria

Experience Architecture Intern, Nov 2013 - Feb 2014. Dalian Institute of Architecture Design and Research Co.Ltd Dalian China Worked in urban planning project, produce working and presentation models, along with other drafting and layout support under direction of senior architect.

TIP Student Intern, July 2017 - Oct 2017. DesignInc Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria Teaching in Practice (TIP) is a special designed program for students at Deakin University to gain practical experience by doing the studio works in the real frim follow directions of an associate.

Graduate Exhibition Student Organizer, June 2018 - Nov 2018. Deakin University PaperSpace 2018 Team Geelong, Victoria As one of the leaders in the PaperSpace team 2018, this role include organize and split works to student staffs, generate design ideas for Deakin A+B committee board , attend the design meetings regularly with school supervisor, Site manager and engineer, as well as produce technical drawing and graphic design for the exhibition.

Academic Achievements Nov. 2016

April. 2017

Deakin University annual Graduate Exhibition PaperSpace 2016

Deakin University School of A+B annual E-Journal 2017

Bachelor's Graduate project [Nomad Hutong]-SuperStuido 2016

Selected Bachelor's Graduate Work [Nomad Hutong]-SuperStuido 2016

June. 2017

April. 2018

'Exquisite Corpse Exhibition' 2017 undertake by

Deakin University School of A+B annual E-Journal 2018

TAUT architects Melbourne [Exhibition organizer]

Selected leading Master Stuido project [Urban Arches]

Selected Leading Master's Studio project [Urban Arches]

Architecture Design in Urban Context 2017

Architecture Design in Urban Context 2017 Nov. 2018

April. 2019

Deakin University annual Graduate Exhibition PaperSpace 2018

Deakin University School of A+B annual E-Journal 2019

Master's Graduate project [When I was here]-Masterclass 2018

Selected Master's Graduate project [When I was here] Masterclass 2018 Selected Master Research Project [Architectural Research Studio P2] 2018

Software Skills Adobe Photoshop

Grasshopper

Adobe Illustrator

Rahino

Adobe Indesign

Lumion

Revit

V-Ray

Sketchup

Maxwell

AutoCAD

Physical Model

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1.0 WHEN I WAS HERE

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Contemporary Chinese built environment is currently facing multiple issues, due to the madeness urbanization process in last 30 years, urban and rural both revealed a fragmental morphology. This morphology is embodied a concentrated reflection in some mega-cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai which modern skyscrapers and traditional/ native architecture are sharing the same cultural and social environments.

Recently, the Beijing local government launched an urban environment governance movement, targeted most of Beijing Hu-tong courtyards within the old town (within the second ring road areas). After the cleaning and remediation, the old city of Beijing became neat and clean as other recently built housing communities. But the discussion in here is, are the people live in the old city require that remediation? Or the remediation process is wiping out Beijing old town's urban life? Just like all the last decades, urbanizations occurred in other cities in China? The question in this brief is how contemporary Chinese architect should response to the homogenization of our urban built environment. What is the role of architecture should play in this process?

As architecture is a tangible build-form which bearing social reponsibilities. Under such social and cultural context in Beijing. This brief will ask to design within the current site boundry of Hong En Temple. No specific function/s must add-in, But the new intervention/s must reactivate the Hone En Temple area, To make it become an energetic public site again. There is one aspect that the deisgn must be followed which is the Temple is a heritage listed site, the structure and appearance of the temple can not be sabotaged from the potential intervention/s.

How contemporary Chinese architecture should corresponds to the transformation of our social, cultural and political developments?

How do we redefine and reactivate the space within Beijing old town? Especially within a sensitive historical heritage?

This brief will ask architects(architecture students) to re-examine the Hong En Temple phenomenon, should we develop the Beijing as a sophisticated, intensive and meritocratic city? Or in an opposite direction, develop it in what kind of a liberal form and in a what way?

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Isometric Drawing

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Site History

Site Historical Background Hong En Temple. The site loated near one of the most historical site at Beijing old town, Bell Tower and Drum Tower. Both towers were few traditional towers that Beijing kept. The function of these towers gives a correct time to citizens. Both towers were built around 1420, and now they are heritage listed. The Hong En Temple, on the north of Bell and Drum towers was an aged care place for eunuch during Qing dynasty. The temple has been through a dramatic transformation during the last 100 years. A factory was installed into the temple during the 1960s, due to social and political environment changes. A market and some commercial projects were built within this site from the 1980s until 2010s. The most exciting thing on this site is every installation or addition on this site were self-organized and were informally constructed. Before the environment governance occurred in 2016. The Hong En temple is a free, open, unorthodox, diverse and inclusive commercial complex, it represents an actual experience/feeling of old Beijing urban culture. Each social class in the society will find their location on this site. The site illustrates a concretized and materialized Chinese regional social and cultural phenomenon.

If the site includes Bell Tower Plaza is approximately 6200 m2.

The Hong En Temple is approximately 3300 m2.

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1990s After the incident of National-owned enterprises failure during 1990s. The factory and other part of temple has been occupied by Bell Tower market and other samll business and commercial entities. The function of the site has constantly shifting since 1990s un til now.

Pricate club, offices Pricate club Abandoned Factory Small Theater 麻麻乌剧场 Cafe & Bar 麻妙吧

Gf: Market 钟楼菜市场 1F: Pool Room 海潮台球厅

Supermarket 天天超市

Live Music, Movie Lab 麻杂家Lab

Resaurants and other small business

1960s During 1960s, during"the Cultural Revolution". Part of the Hong En temple has been removed and transformed into Beijing second standard component factory. The brick shed building were built on the the empty space of the temple.

Beijing No.2 Standard Parts Factory

1500s-1900s

Hong En Temple Complex.Traditional Chinese Xieshan Type roof for the main temple, the side and rear rooms are typical Beijng four-quadrangle yard typology.

Original Hong En Temple typology approx built during Ming Dynasty, around 1500-1600. Used to called "Qing Jing Buddhism Temple". After 1887, it renamed as Hong En Temple, a aged care temple for retired eunuch from Forbidden City.

Beijing Regional Plan (Old Inner City, Second Ring)

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Site Context

The site map present the current site masterplan and the surronding urban environment, Figure grounds around the site tell us this is a typical Beijing Hu-tong area within old town of Beijing. The Beijing Central axis cross through the Hong En temple site, also is the end point of Beijing Central axis during the Ming Dynasty. The high density within this urban environment caused many problems currently. Also, this situation indirectly causing the Beijing government launched urban environment governing movement recently.

The grid is difiend by central axis of Beijing, fomr the axis, offsite 10m both towards east and west, the grid system is generated and applied on the site map. By apply the 10m by 10m grid, it will help to navigate ourself around this chaotic area. and by place a notation each 20m. a series of interesting points could be identified from the grid system.

Zhao Fu St 赵府街

Guo Wang Alley 国旺胡同张

Zhang Wang Alley 张旺胡同张

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Hypothesis & Research What if architecture is as much about movement and events as about space?

by Bernard Tschumi

Article_Architecture's Desire-Reading the late Avant-Garde_K.Michael Hays

Intepretive Collage of Hong En temple

This part of the article, the author state the point that Tschumi's perception of architectural space. or to say architecture itself. "the architectural real," which Tschumi said is both the hard, impenetrable core that resists discursive appropriation and at the same time the exorbitant emptiness that remains after symbolization. Therefore, the architectural space/architecture is suffering enjoyed. Hence space could never be rendered knowable or translated as a positivity.... so base on this,

What about Hong En temple? What is the architecture 'Real' of the Hong En temple? Is it suffering enjoyed?

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Based on Tschumi's perception of space, the Space have three different relationships. Reciprocity, Indifference, and Conflict.

These three relationships constantly influence and interact with each other. In this project of Hong En temple, the new interventions should express these relationships, the programs will be reciprocity with each other, indifferent with each other and conflict each other. The function no longer defines the space or architecture, according to Tschumi's theory, this project of Hong En temple, try to illustrate and explore the possibilities of the space within a historical site in Beijing. As well as searching the and exploring the impact of these disjunctions, try to look for an answer for the contemporary Chinese urban built environment through space, events, and movements. Among these uncertainties of relationships of space, is Tschumi's method is a way to solve the problems?

The Architecture's Desire The metonymy of architecture’s desire is: analogy, repetition, encounter, spacing.

Manfredo Tafuri

Jacques Derrida

Peter Eisenman

Repetition

Aldo Rossi Bernard Tschumi

Analogy & typology

Spacing & relationships Tafuri and Derrida talk about the architecture's dsire and modern architecture. Since China now is a semi-capitalist society, we could somehow relate this quote to our project.

Tafuri analysis that to the extent that architecture can function in a capitalist society, it inevitably reproduc-

es the structure of that society in its own immanent logics and forms. When architecture resists, capitalism withdraws it from service-takes it off line-so that demonstrations by architects fo the critical distance of their practice from degraded life become redundant and trivialized in advance.

What architect should react to this social context/environment, to the capital? Maybe Tafuri alrealdy pointed a road for us, but we just inevitably ignore it. Based on this readings. Desire is the constant production, connection, anad reconnection of signifiers, of architectural quanta, of the pulsating flows of pure interpretation. Therefore, the metonymy of architecture's desire is: analogy, repetition, encounter,

spacing. Each component will be developed in the readings of architecture that follow.

Only the concept make the difference, not the form

by Bernard Tschumi

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Concept & Research

The Eastern Philosophical Interpretation of Desire

Sight

Suppressing human’s desire

Eyes

Hear Five senses of desire Better life

Taste

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Buddha

The Western Philosophical Interpretation of Desire

Hegel

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The foundamental striving of the human beings/metaphysical place of human

Schopenhauer

The Will [springs from lack, from deficiency, and thusfrom suffering]

Concept of Desire_Eastern Philosophical Buddhism Interpretation Eastern perspective is quite different from western. In the mainly exposition of desire, Buddhism take a big part of it. On the contrary, the desire in the eastern side is not about will and power but primarily focus on suppressing desire. Basically, Buddhism is asking their believers to control or suppress their desires to have a better life. The only way to go to pure land is to wipe out those negative desires. That comes to the five senses of desire, is a concretized or materialized way to illustrate desire. They are Sight, Hear, Taste, Smell, and Touch, the materialized object is our five organs from the human body. Eye, Ear, Tongue, Nose and our organization.

When these five senses come to this Hong En temple project, these five senses define the programs of the project.

Concept of Desire_Western Philosophical Interpretation In Western perspective, the desire is about WIll and Power. Desire is movement, be it in Freud’s drives, Nietzschean forc-

es, in Reich'’s analysis of the buried hopes that chose fascism or in Deleuze and Guttari’s sense of production.

For Hegel and Butler; the desire is the metaphysical place of the human subject is articulated through the immanent ration-

ality of desire, for desire is at once the fundamental striving of the human subject and the mode through whichthat subject rediscovers or constitutes its necessary metaphysical place.

For Schopenhauer; desire is closely relate to the will. All willing [original italics] springs from lack, from deficiency, and thus-

from suffering.68 Fulfilment brings this to an end; yet for one wish that is fulfilled there remain at least ten that are denied The reason of only have four senses in this project is the fifth sense the Touch_Body is direct relate to architecture, so in this case, the architecture always embraces other senses. The whole project becomes the sense of touch which is the organ of the body. Another critical issue of this planning is, the expression of senses and its relationships in Buddhism also have multiple layers. From the explanation of Buddhism, these senses are always related to possession, comparison, and competition. From the diagram above, we could see they all interact with each other, each program will interact with other two programs which next to it. This planning of the plan is showing this expression of senses as well. The architectural designed should always have this relationship, it creates the interacting zones, we shall call it transition/buffer zones, that in these buffer zones, people will engage both senses from two programs they interacted. These buffer zones architecturally should represent both program's characteristics.

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Design Process & Methodologies How to express the conpcet of desire/five senses through architectural built form?

Program Generation Process

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During the design process, to utilize Tschumi's methodology to design project, I need a Concept to materialize the method, because all of Tschumi's methods of design is just a method, without an actual concept to concretize the method, we couldn't design anything from that methodology. It will just float in the air, no matter what we do is just copying Tschumi's design. But only if we find a concept, we could materialize that concept, by using Tschumi's methodology to do so. In that case, this project " When I was here" is a materialization of the concept of " Desire," in the contemporary society, no other than the unaware of desire caused this massive urbanization in China, which is destroying our city, our villages and our society. How to reintroduce the concept of desire through this Hong En temple project is the objective of it.

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The Transition zone is another layer of the project and it played a crucial role in the entire design. The purpose of the transition zone is to guide people while they experience the four different programs, and self reflects when they enter the transition zone. The series of devices are created to simulate the curiosities from people. For instance, when you enter one transition zone, you will hear one media from the upcoming program, but in that case, you would not have a sight of it, it will activate the curiosities. Materiality and design order also will apply to the design of the transition zone to help identify the space and program.

The purpose of this transitional design is to add another layer in a different dimension rather than the established four programs which suit the fundamental idea of the project.

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2.0 THE EXQUISITE CORPSE - URBAN ARCHES Deakin University School of A+B Architectural Design in Urban Context ,The Exquisite Coprse T1 2017 Tutor: Kevin Hui [What/Why/How] High Distinction 92 Selected as the Highest Grade [92] achieved in the unit Presented in Exquisite Corpse Exhibition Taut Architects Melbourne 2017 Deakin A+Bout E-Journal 2017

Theories of the project - Invisible citie & Collage city This unit is reflect on the impact of introducing of a large new public transport infrastucture in a dense, complex and consolidated built environment Melbourne CBD. Melbourne is about to initiate the construction of the new underground line that will connect some of the inner suburbs and the CBD. This project in itself is fairly controversial. However, the purpose of the unit is NOT TO discuss the APPROPRIATENESS OF THIS INITIATIVE, but to REFLECT on the IMPACT OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE URBAN FABRIC. Thus, it will be focusing on the two central stations of the proposed underground line, North and South CBD, and work on the potential effects and possibilities that this new scenario might have for the city.

The Exquisite Corpse.

The exquisite corpse. We have borrowed the term from the surrealist avantguard of the 1920s. It describes a creative technique consisting in the collaboration of a number of artists/writers/etc‌ following a specific sequential procedure: Each collaborator completed the design of a specific portion of the final piece of art without knowing exactly the content and characteristics of the work done by the adyacent contributors.

A particular understanding of this concept for architects is described by Michael Sorkin in Exquisite Corpse: Writing on Buildings, 1994. He presents a conceptual/political reading of the city and the multiple agents that are involved in its construction using this idea of the exquisite corpse. The unit will deal with this approach but also with a literal application of this methodology to define the physical materialization of the urban fabric.

In this case, students in this unit will choose their own individual strip and do one section and one plan of that strip in Melbourne CBD area, under a limit of the proposed new Melbourne CBD subway, until the week 8, up to 6 students should form a group and do a masterplan video and models of the project.

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1:1000 Diagram of Nolli Section & Interventions

Nolli section gives a clear way to identify different use of urban environment, Public and Private. It help us, as architect to design our project better.

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Invisible City - Chapter 3 - City and Eyes 1 The ancients built Valdrada on the shores of a lake, with houses all verandas one above the other,

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cities: one erect above the lake, and the other reflected, upside-down. Nothing exists or happens in the one Valdrada that the other Valdrada does not repeat, because the city was so constructed that its every point would be reflected in its mirror, and the Valdrada down in the water contains not only all the flutings and juttings of the facades that rise above the lake, but also the rooms' interiors with ceilings and floors, the perspective of the halls, the mirrors of the wardrobes.

Valdrada's inhabitants know that each of their actions is, at once, that action and its mirror-image, which possesses the special dignity of images, and this awareness prevents them from forgetfulness.

Even when lovers twist their naked bodies, skin against skin, seeking the position that will give one the most pleasure in the other, even when murderers plunge the knife into the black veins of the neck and more clotted blood pours out the more they press the blade that slips between the tendons, it is not so much their copulating or murdering that matters as the copulating or murdering of the images, limpid and cold in the mirror.

At times the mirror increases a thing's value, at times denies it. Not everything that seems valuable above the mirror maintains its force when mirrored. The twin cities are not equal, because nothing that exists or happens in Valdrada is symmetrical: every face and gesture is answered, from the mirror, by a face and gesture inverted, point by point. The two Valdradas live for each other, their eyes interlocked; but there is no love between them.

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Collage The idea of this collage is from BERNARD TSCHUMI's design theory, some of the images from Tschumi's early drawing " Manhattan hand drawing". The background is black&white streetscapes of little Lonsdale st, which is my strip No.58. The big Cone and people jump out from the bridge are supposed to have an abstract metaphor of "invisible cities" that I read before. Columns present as sky city legs, it may move on the ground somehow.

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Reference: Invisible City: City & Eyes

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[What/Why/How] Design Approach

What is the existing problem?

The existing site which is state library plaza, have countless people stay or pass by, through the junction of Swanston St and Little Lonsdale St. Especially during the peak time of day.

People stay and spend time at the plaza. it makes people feel the junction of two street very crowd. but on the other hand, the Russel St and Elizabeth St side were not so busy compared to Swanston St Junction. So the problem will be how to solve this circulation problem. in this very iconic, significant and busy CBD area.

Why is this problem?

In the case of this circulation problem, why this problem happens in this particular area?

I think it has itself contingency, because of the increase of population in Melbourne CBD, there is not enough public space above ground, so it increases the density of people on the ground. another aspect will be the State library has it own irreplaceability which is this plaza is only large urban plaza in Melbourne CBD, many RMIT University students, as well as working people, will spend time around plaza, also it is the main tram station on Swanston St and it will be the new metro transformation station that already proposed.

How we going to solve the problem?

Movement(Direction) Interaction Reverse Correspondeent

-People -People and urban space -Ground plaza and underground plaza -Above and below

The concept will try to solve a problem between space and circulation, the urban living issue for homeless people. Attempt to exchange space from above to below, as the same time, make sure the public space won't lose its continuity and its inherent characteristic, above and below should have some kind of similarity, in case of architectural language, as well as extract architectural elements from existing context to archive that.

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Linking [The central arch public space present as the transition space to link Melourne central and Russell St.] Reflection [The architectural language of central arch space is reflecting the State Library of Victoria and other historic buildings around site.]

Continuity [The residential living units are designed for homeless people at city, the architectural form followd the existing historical buildings, but interpret it to a comtemporary architectural language.]

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1. Crossculture church of christ 2. Swanston st west metro entrance 3. Swanston st east entrance downwards plaza 4. State library of victoria plaza 5. Day lighting opening 6. Emergency exit staircase and lift of metro station 7. New intervention of residential units for homeless people 8. Mel central bridge 9. Mel central 10. Mel central tower 11. State library of victoria

12. Existing underground cafe 13. Little lonsdale st east metro entrance 14. Steak house 15. Underground 'arch' plaza 16. Underground walkway to mel central 17. Underground walkway to state library of victoria 18. Metro station platforms 19. Interlayer of 'archi' plaza

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3.0 NOMAD HUTONG - URBAN VILLAGES

ĺ&#x;Ž ć?‘ Deakin University School of A+B Superstudio, Nomad Hutong T2 2016 Tutor: Ciro Marquez Distinction 78 Selected and presented in Deakin school of A+B Paperpace exhibition 2016 Deakin A+Bout E-Journal 2016

A temporary settlement for rural Chinese construction workers The assignment is to design a temporary settlement for construction workers at a generic site. The solution shall include the whole process from transportation to in site assembling, use and dismantlement to restart the sequence. The project is expected to attend to the detachable technical challenge as well as the social and economic one.

The assignment is to design a temporary settlement for construction workers at a generic site. The solution shall include the whole process from transportation to in site assembling, use and dismantlement to restart the sequence. The project is expected to attend to the detachable technical challenge as well as the social and economic one.

3 major challenges that design for Chinese construction workers 1. SOICAL CHALLENGES 2. ECONOMICAL CHALLENGES 3. TECHNICAL CHALLENGES The architectural design should consider the following issues: [Dignified living within limit budget] [Common facilities and personal privacy] [Limited site condition with density of living] [Detachable and affordable systems] [Relation to community and keep their living habit] [Economic reality and social utopia]

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...inner-city slums are a major receptor of new migrants known as bridgeheaderswho consider proximity to employment their highest priority, even at the expense of quality of housing‌Currently, an estimated two-thirds of migrants live on the construction sites they work on...

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Background Research

Existing construction worker's life

Construction workers and their familes celebrate Chinese Lunar new year

Construction workers having a break

Construction workers having a lunch on construction site

A group of construction workers drinking with friends

A construction worker playing gultar with his friends

A construction worker help his friend take a shower after work

Want to know more about design process of this project? please go to https://issuu.com/houalex

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Selected Settlements & Drawings of Initial Design Approach

From the concept model making. Use timber to create this basic conceptual model. strips present as linear street or laneway, Timber decks above the ground level and surrounded by the buildings. people can travel from one building to another, it makes circulation complicate but more interesting. Large-scale building with the sloped roof is family living units which its concept from Chinese hutong dwelling, smaller-scale buildings are single or couple living units. The central plaza act as a public space, the idea is to encourage construction workers to have more common activities at their rest time.

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Site & Isometric Site and its idea of nomad The Selected site is located at Suzhou, China.

At a corner of wenjing rd & xingtang st. the unique of this site is it is not sitting next to the building construction site, workers have to go cross a river to reach the construction site. it makes the site have a more quiet and safe environment compared to another one. also, it is better to increase workers living conditions as well.

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The concept of an urban village is based on traditional Chinese village type. Depend on where is the site and construction workers come from, this project aims to design a better living environment for Chinese construction workers and by utilizing contemporary design method & construction technology, this project aims to improve their living condition while they work and live in any urbanized metropolis.

Based on the brief requirements, the site should be generic as the design should fit in any site conditoin near the construction area. This conditoin is offering a unique flexibility and diversity for us to design. As the second site map shows, the urban village could transform into a veriety of forms, in order to adapt different site conditions. By add or delate housing units, it also could satisfy various populations needs on site.

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3.1 NOMAD HUTONG - URBAN VILLAGES DESIGN RESOLUTION Deakin University School of A+B Architectural Design & Resolution, 'Nomad Hutong' T3 2017 Tutor: Scott Eldridge Distinction - 72 Selected as Unit Chair's example work

Design is that activity of substance, study, refinement, development and integration that we undertake to go “from the unmeasurable to the measurable�. It is that thoughtful and intellectual undertaking where the personalities of ideas meet with the public place of their realisation. This is the architectural project.

Existing reference plan of Nomad Hutong project Development Drawing Area This unit is placed as part of the culmination level of the academic architectural design studies, and as such the commitment and production should express this. The work in this unit should illustrate, through discussion and presentations, the capacity to select and integrate into your current project, the wide body of knowledge and methods of which you have become aware of through your studies.

This unit is about architectural design development, which is essentially the development of depth in architectural thinking and representation. These are not to be simply drawings of details, but rather, they are drawings of the developed design. They should demonstrate the understanding of the construction necessary to realize the intended architectural qualities of the project.

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4.0 BELMONT URBAN PARK MASTERPLAN & BELMONT MARKET PROPOSAL Deakin University School of A+B Urban Design Studio [Teaching in Practice program], T2 2017 Tutor: Cameron Smith [DesignInc Melbourne] Credit 69 Selected & Presented in Deakin A+B Waterfront Gallery 2018

Project Brief The ‘Urban Heart Surgery’ is a design based research forum that attempts to facilitate a landscape of decision-making stimulating an integrated approach to design within the urban context.

It is often very difficult to expand the horizons of ones experience and insight of a place if we are constantly part of it, hence, a big advantage of studying at the Deakin School is our regional location. Our physical detachment from Melbourne provides us with an excellent vantage point from which to examine Victoria’s metropolitan and regional cities with clarity and objectivity, and affords us the freedom to develop independent and innovative lines of thought. Course Aims to achieve: 1.Analyse the existing fabric of specific precincts, which comprise the designated project area.

2.Identify the artificial and natural boundaries, which shape or limit their genius loci.

3.Develop a range of generic strategies, which resolve areas of discontinuity and open up options for stimulating urban regeneration.

Project 1 Seeing the Wood through the trees [collaborate with Mark Mong] Students will form into collaborative design teams of three students per team, and will be expected to sign up to either Waurn Ponds or High Street Belmont .

Project 2: Locating oneself in the fabric [individual work] Establish an urban design/architectural program/brief and develop a well-resolved design response that focuses on an aspect of your Master Plan from Project 1. Selecting this option may imply that students need to firstly revise and refine the master plan by the end of week 7, so that students can clearly identify and define the project/site area.

The TIP [Teaching in Practice] Program TIP is a specifically designed student internship program for Deakin A+B students to engage in the architectural industry. it forms a pair of students to a specific Design firm, such as Grimshaw, Cox Architects, DesignInc in Melbourne. Students will need to attend one day a week in the studio to get real feedback and guidance from architects. In order to be involved in TIP, students need to pass a hurdle which is achieved at least 75% WAM in past design units.

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Site Context Project 1 Seeing the Wood through the trees - Masterplan for Belmont [collaborate with Mark Mong]

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Rather than a park based on nature, relaxation, or self-indulgence; the intention was to create a park based on activities and interactions as this is what Belmont lacks the most.

The main street is narrowed down to encourage maximum pedestrian movement and minimum traffic movement. The sidewalks are extended to allow restaurants and cafes to extend onto the streets.

The housing density of the area is increased by creating mixedused buildings along the street and apartment complexes to allow more people to inhabit the streets. Increased usage of the street would allow businesses to boom. The increased pedestrian activity would also minimize street crimes of the area.

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Project 2 - Locating oneself in the fabric Belmont Urban Market [individual work] Design Concept The residential unit's building form follows the typical pitched roof design in Belmont residential area. By creating solid and void on the roof and facade of each unit, this design tries to create diversity, in contrast, the existing residential units. residential placed on the east and south side, in order to get the maximum solar access, also the sightline will correspond to the existing residential area. A little urban garden will sit in between the residential and commercial market, act as a transitional space, also bring a range of vegetations to the site which the green is a mostly absent element on existing site.

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The market is using timber frame as its structure, with a 5-degree butterfly roof, truss support. each individual retail units also use timber frame, in order to the corresponding overall design scheme. North side of the market used fixed timber facade, act as a building enclosure to the north street.

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Bendigo Bank

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Architectural Plans & Section

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For the circulation of space, I proposed a semi-public concept, where the garden space in between the commercial and residential, can perform as both circulation and informal areas to the apartment residents. The semi-public garden creates a transition for private residents, and voids on the roof and facade will allow more daylight filter through. Overall, the design performs as a mixed-use type of urban solution, offer a unique social experience to local people, this urban market with semi-public garden and housing would encourage regional social communities within this commercial & housing complex.

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First Floor Plan

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ARCHIMARATHON SYDNEY 2018 SPRING

Archimarathon Sydney is 3 full days of intensive educational architecture walking tour with the help of trains, buses and ferries. Experiencing and learning to see the city and its architecture from the city to surf, leafy suburbs to migrant rich Western suburbs. From public to residential, commercial to religious. The tour offers a narrative in understanding Sydney as a place and its architectural culture.

Kevin Hui HTTPS://WWW.INSTAGRAM.COM/ARCHIMARATHON/ All photo taken by Alex Hou, include Sydney Opera House by John Utzon Deutche Bank Place by Norman Forster Bligh Tower by Ingenhoven architects Punchbowl mosque by Angelo Candalepas Rose Seidler House by Harry Seidler 8 Chifley by Richard Rogers

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Sydney Opera House by John Utzon

Punchbowl mosque by Angelo Candalepas

Bligh Tower by Ingenhoven architects

Punchbowl mosque by Angelo Candalepas

Deutche Bank Place by Norman Forster

8 Chifley by Richard Rogers

Rose Seidler House by Harry Seidler

Rose Seidler House by Harry Seidler

Rose Seidler House by Harry Seidler

Rose Seidler House by Harry Seidler

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TAUT ARCHITECTS - EXQUISITE CORPSE EXHIBITION 2017

We are pleased to announce the upcoming TAUT Space exhibition -The Exquisite Corpse featuring the work of the Students of Deakin University Students ‘Architectural Design In Urban Contexts’ unit (SRD 763). Join us for the opening night 14.07.17 from 6.30pm.“Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau” (Surrealist Group, 1925)The exhibition The exquisite corpse presents the work of Deakin fourth year architecture students, using the sequential creative procedure first utilized by the avantguard surrealist poets in the first decades of the 20th century, to understand and architecturally operate within the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. The new underground line below Swanston St becomes the pre-text for the re-examination of the ever changing and conflictive relationship between public and private spaces in contemporary urban contexts.TAUT Space is a platform to facilitate exploration and discussion across disciplines.

TAUT invites artists and creative practitioners whose practices somehow, whether obviously or more tangentially, connect with TAUT ideals to develop and show an original exhibition.RSVP 13.07.2017 Davin Smith SPACE@TAUT.NET.AU

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DEAKIN A+B PAPERSPACE EXHIBITION 2016-2018

Deakin University A+B PaperSpace Exhibition 2016 & 2018

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