UoE Architectural Design 1B 2021

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN ASSEMBLY 2021 University of Edinburgh ARCH08004 Final Portfolio Jiayi Liu B177824 Course Title: AD: Assembly 2021 Course Code: ARCH08004 Submission: Final Portfolio Name: Jiayi Liu Student Number: B177824

CONTENT · Does Architecture Care? NO · Stair & Punishment · Final Desgin

· Close In

OCT. 10TH, 2074

Rainy, Today is the 73rd birthday. I was sent to my "new home," the old Crookhey Hall, which my children called "a warm family for the elderly." I love the environment around the house, the seashore next to my window, and the birds singing in the trees. I can't remember very well, but those endless stairs were indelibly printed on my brain……

NO Oct. 11th, 2074 Sunny The axonometric drawing shows my daily routine in the house. I felt like I am trapped in a maze with a horrible monster called "Stair." I am too weak to beat him, so I have to stand this. He is quiet during the day, but I know he will raise his unmoved, spooky face only to me during the night.

Identify Threshhold

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"I have absolutely no choice except being what you call reasonable, you need not worry."

The Hearing Trumpet

"If I lost my memory, at least I will hope that I can stay at where I once acquired them." said Mom

"I hate that I cannot walk as fast as usual. Admittedly, I hate stairs!" said Grandma

"I am never lonely, Galahad.

Or rather I never suffer from loneliness."

The Hearing Trumpet

Visual Diary

Oct. 13th, 2074 Sunny, I get the collection of old photos today, with some words I collected during young ages. The words are so true. I can understand their feeling cause I miss my children and old fellows in my hometown nowadays.

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Secondary Bedroom

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Toilet

Main Bedroom

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Spiral Stairs

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Medical Consultation Suit

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Kitchen

Oct. 14th, 2074 Windy, The building has many functions, which satisfied everything I need, but who cares

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Communal Space

about what I want. A lot of visitors come here to appreciate the body of "Stair" every weekend.

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Reception Storage

They take beautiful pictures of him that I could never imagine how beautiful the monster is.

Those young people always actively express their worries about me, but the only thing I care about is reading.

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Exploded Projection

Reading Room

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Final Model

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Stairs & Punishment

Oct. 16th, 2074 Rainy, My knees hurt badly today, but I still have to battle with the monster "Stair." Yesterday, I complained about the daily activity, like fighting desperately with the unbeatable monster, to a young nurse. But all this was in vain. She is and will continue to be the most enthusiastic person who pushed me to fight. She always said: "Oh dear, it's good for you!"

Oct. 17th, 2074 Sunny, Many people told me that becoming forgettable is a natural gift, and I have to say that it's a lie! When you stay in a cage with a monster and gradually forget about the happiest things that happened, you will go crazy!

The crucial problem is not living with a beast but living in a cage with strangers and unfamiliar objects. Mama is always right: "If I lost my memory, at least I will hope that I can stay at where I once acquired them."

Form Analysis

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Parti of the Design

Escher, Relativity, 1953 "Impossible Construction" series "I can't keep from folling around with irrefutable creatinties" http://www.johncoulthart.com/ feuilleton/2015/10/07/relativity/

Oct. 19th, 2074 Windy,

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri VII, 1760,

It's depressive to see Piranesi's Carceri in the house today cause I think I am currently live in the drawing. I ask why they

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hanged that on the wall. They said the architect of the house appreciated the beauty of those complex forms. All right,

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giovanni-battista-

I enjoyed the beauty of those geometric form either, but why did you realise them to punish me.

Concept & Precedents

piranesi/carceri-vii-1760

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Stair Model & Section

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Oct. 22nd, 2074 Sunny, My children and grandchildren come here to visit me today! Although they sent me here, I never blamed them. They thought I would be well-groomed in a "Care Home," but that's not what I care about. My little children were not able to put themselves in my shoes, I understand them, and I still love them so much. My little granddaughter is cute and funny, who makes me laugh. I think she made a good friend with the monster "Stair," they played hide and seek all day. I see, the beast is a wonderful naughty playmate from a child's perspective, but not for me.

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Oct. 24th, 2074 Sunny, I go to the seashore today. It's fantastic to leave the house and take a rest from the endless fighting.

Honestly, when I look at the monster "Stair" far away, I can appreciate his appearance either, but it's just unpleasant to fight fierce battles.

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Oct. 25th, 2074 Cloudy, I enjoy my own time in the top attic, which is a reading room! Nobody wants to climb there to disturb me, although I had to tangle with the monster for an hour.

Formwork Model

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Oct. 27th, 2074 Cloudy, I heard that my old friend died yesterday evening. I locked myself in the room for a whole day. She was always my best friend for the past sixty years, and I couldn't see her for the last time. Maybe the god thinks she is skilful enough to climb the ladder to heaven, and apparently, I am a non-qualified climber, constantly practising in the house. She is always ahead of me.

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Oct. 28th, 2074 Windy, The pronunciation of "74" means "angry to die" in Chinese. I am not angry but hopeless because my life and my body are not under control. Tell you a secrete: I hate the "Stair" because I am jealous of his possession of an immortal body. Still, we have some similarity: we both fear the power of nature.

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Oct. 30th, 2074 Windy, I once joined in diabolo hobby group in the park with my husband. Every time I climbed the tower, the spiral stair always reminds me of the shape of the old diabolo. I missed my mobility during the time. Is it an illusion that I think sometimes I can see my husband when I look out from the skylight? I know he is always waiting for me, primping myself to go downstairs.

Totemic Object

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In the first part of the presentation, I look at Crookhey Hall from a 73-year-old lady's perspective, criticising the information asymmetries between residents and architects. Responding to the question "does architecture care," my answer is "no." However, thinking about the question "does architecture care" in a broader context, most designers have to deal with the question during every design. Some professional architects may design perfect aesthetic buildings, but they may fail to understand customers' real needs. It doesn't mean that designers should always take human needs as a priority, but the perfect equilibrium point between aesthetics and functions is worth finding.

The diary also metaphorically reveal the various meaning of "Stair."

1. An element in architecture, connected space vertically 2. A physical barrier that an elderly can't comeover—— "the monster 'stair'."

3. A path to the death ——"ladder to heaven".

4. Immortal artificial element——"his possession of an immortal body".

5. Part of the memory——"the spiral stair always reminds me of the old diabolo."

6. Assessment of the mobility of a person——"the beast is a wonderful naughty playmate from a child's perspective, but not for me".

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Final Design

The following section will show some design details from plan to section and exploded axonometric drawing. All the intervention to Crookhey Hall is made to emphasise the punishment of climbing stairs in any building for older people. From my perspective, one can never fully stand in other's shoes to design, and thus architecture cannot care.

Site Plan

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Site Collage

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Reading Room

Medical Consultation Suit Reading Room

Toilet Main Bedroom Secondary Bedroom

Kitchen

Communal Space

Receotion Toilet

Storage

Intervention Plan - Basement

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Reading Room

Medical Consultation Suit Reading Room

Toilet Main Bedroom Secondary Bedroom

Kitchen

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Storage

Intervention Plan - Ground Floor

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Reading Room

Medical Consultation Suit Reading Room

Toilet Main Bedroom Secondary Bedroom

Kitchen

Communal Space

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Storage

Intervention Plan - First Floor

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Reading Room

Medical Consultation Suit Reading Room

Toilet Main Bedroom Secondary Bedroom

Kitchen

Communal Space

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Storage

Intervention Plan - Second Floor

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Reading Room

Medical Consultation Suit Reading Room

Toilet Main Bedroom Secondary Bedroom

Kitchen

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Storage

Intervention Plan - Third Floor

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Reading Room

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Reading Room

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Toilet

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Main Bedroom

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Secondary Bedroom

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Communal Space

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Reception

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Resolved Plan - Basement

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Reading Room

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Reading Room

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Main Bedroom

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Resolved Plan - Ground Floor

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Reading Room

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Resolved Plan - Second Floor

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Reading Room

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Reading Room

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Resolved Plan - Third Floor

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Technical Section Drawing

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Illustrative Section

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The little sketches above show the investigation of stairs. The little practice helps me imagining the form of stairs in Crookhey Hall and expressing them in the final axonometric drawing.

Technical Cut Away Projection

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I used Procreate to collage cutaway projection with other parts of the Crookhey Hall. From the projection, the complexity of stairs and the height of them is demonstrated. There is no proper renovation that can make the building a good place for older people to live.

Cut Away Projection

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Exploded Drawing

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Secondary Bedroom

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Main Bedroom

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Spiral Stairs

The exploded drawings depict the functions of the "Care Home." I split all function rooms

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to the end of each staircase to maximise the

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theme of my project —the punishment of stairs.

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Reflection: The building structure and building envelope

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are not adequately expressed in the exploded

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drawing. I think another exploded drawing should be done and layering up with the current one. However, the project's emphasis is not the envelope, but the stairs, so my picture

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is still successfully present the thesis.

Illustrative Exploded Drawing

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Close In

As I already expressed in the diary, Crookhey Hall is beautiful and attractive, both inside and outside. Therefore, when I imagined Crookhey Hall in 2074, I wonder about the merging between modern technology and the environment. Then I drew the intervention drawing on the left to show that the heating system will be renovated and more plantation will be added to build a garden.

Intervention Drawing

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Looking closer into the Main Hall, which is the common area of my group, I drew the plan and section to demonstrate its original form. In my final design, I retain this hall as a communal space for older people.

Plan, Cross Section, and Elevation

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The framework model demonstrates the route from the ground floor to the first floor.

From my perspective, the storey height is not friendly enough for the elderly to live.

Refelction: However, I think I did not correctly demonstrate the vaulted roof, improving my cutting wood board in the rib shape and bonding them together.

Framework Model and Routes

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The plan illustrate the route from Room 0011 to the entrance of the main stair.

The drawing shows the surface drawing of room 0011 in 2021, when Crookhey Hall is a school.

Developed Surface Drawing: Room 0011

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The plan with shadow demonstrate how to climb up to the first floor from the ground floor.

The technical drawing show the geometric shape of the walls and ground in the ratio of 1:25. The Room 0103 in the year 2021 is a science lab.

Developed Surface Drawing: Room 0103

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Sketch Formwork Model

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My original intervention to the main hall ambitiously intended to make the stairs some functional space for the elderly to use.

However, I found my personal understanding of "stairs", and "functional" is not what old people are thinking. Therefore, I shift my concept into something criticising about care home design.

Sketch Formwork Model Collage

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Reading Room Plan

Floor Plan

Roof Plan

Section Drawing

Sketch of Model

I mentioned the reading room in the dairy, where the old lady liked the most in the house. I also designed the skylight where she got her illusion.

The thick wall creates a sense of security, and the interaction between the texture of the wall and the light is beautiful. I hope she will enjoy her peaceful reading time here.

Close In Competition: Reading Room

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Reflection: The whole project is about a question, "Does architecture care." My response to the question is "No." Therefore, I use all the intervention to Crookhey Hall to stress the absurdity of care home design and criticise people's conventional understanding of "taking care." As nobody can stand in others' shoes, architects can achieve no excellent care home design. Otherwise, I believe architecture can satisfy people's physical needs, but the spiritual requirements vary from person to person and can never be satisfied by a single design. It seemed an eternal journey for every designer, but any efforts we made will help us approach perfection.

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2021 Architectural Design Jiayi Liu

Jiayi Liu University of Edinburgh 2021 Architectural Design B177824 s2038689@ed.ac.uk