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Selected work:2016-2021

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01 Villager's Living Room Tutor: Rui Fu Individual Work Location：NanTonga, China

Project Date: 2019.10 Size: 4250 ㎡

The building is located on a slope with a height difference of about 11 meters, and functionally the showroom as well as the event room require a higher floor height. How can I combine function and form to create a suitable building using the topography? As for me, architecture is actually a kind oh intermedium linking cur human-beings end the circumstance. But how could the architecture link us to the nature? I suppose it of vital necessity to take r surrounding conditions into consideration, including the local climate, the traditional material and etc. That's also the start of this design.

Form Strategy

The overall topography is low in the south and high in the north, with a height difference of approximately 11m.

The entire building form follows the topography, and south large aera sloping roof enlarge daylighting.

The form was adjusted to the angle of sunlight and an atrium was added in the middle, lifting the east-facing roof at an angle to allow for more light.

The 11m difference in height is divided into four levels to conform to the topography and meet the interior height requirements.

Embedded box in sloping roof hill to meet functional requirements.

Multiple courtyards are embedded in the building to increase daylight and the flow of space.

Function Analysis Based on Life

Services Activity Room

Children

Community Services Exhibition

01

5

10

Education Middle-Aged

Archives Room

Office

Health Consultation

Aged

1500 ㎡

Reading Textile Showroom

Tea Room

Business

Healthcare

1150 ㎡

WC

Viewing platform Shop

Second Floor Plan 1 Reading Area 2 Activity Room 3 Patio 4 Exhibition Room 5 Cafe 6 Archives Room 7 Toilet 8 Storeroom

History Gallery

950 ㎡ Meeting Room

Fabric Exhibition Room

Fabric Dyeing Area

400 ㎡

250 ㎡

N

7 4

4

3

5

10

6

1 2

01

2

3

1

4

5

Ground Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

1 Main Entrance 2 Service Center 3 Staff Lounge 4 Toilet

1 Health Consultation 5 Leisure Platform Service 6 Activity Experience 2 Courtyard Room 3 Leisure Platform 7 Patio 4 Fabric Dyeing Area

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5

2 3

3

3

3

4

1

Third Floor Plan

01

5

1 Viewing platform 2 Village History Gallery 3 Meeting Room 4 Tea Room

10

3

1

2

4

5

Vertical Section scale 1:50 1 50/60/3,2 mm steel RHS 2 aluminium flashing 3 51 mm corrugated fibre cement roofing sheet 50/50mm battens 20/50mm counter battens sealant layer, diffusion-open 2X18 mm plywood panel 100mm thermal insulation vapour barrier 18mm plywood panel 4 aluminium curtain wall facade 5 80mm heating screed, polished separation layer 70mm thermal insulation 250mm reinforced concreteslab blinding layer

Section

Town History Gallery Reception office

B

Courtyard

Textile Showroom

Tea Room

Patio

C

Village Archives

D

Activity Room

A

A.Outer Wall Structure

B.Balcony Structure

Fabric Dyeing Area Leisure Platform

C.Interior Wall Structure

D.Roof Structure

Multiple Life in Villager’s Living Room I expect the building to be a big living toom for villagers to participate in, in which people can not only receive basic community services but also participate in activities to connect with others.ERJIA town is famous for its traditional textile tie-dyeing techniques, which have attracted many young people back to their hometowns in recent years in association with trendy brands.As you can see in the pitcure above.I designed a tie-dye experience room to demonstrate the traditional process of dyeing cloth. In the activity experience room people can organize various activities to enhance neighborhood communication.

5.5mm lauan plywood polyurethane resin enamel paint 12mm structural plywood 30mm rigid insulation foam

100mm glass wool one side: aluminum channel-100x50x20x2.3mm vapor permeable waterproof membrane galvanized color steel sheet spandrel

5.5mm lauan plywood 15mm structural plywood 25mm rigid insulation foam

51 mm corrugated fibre cement roofing sheet 2X18 mm plywood panel 100mm thermal insulation 18mm plywood panel

Growth Over Time

02 Circular Communities In The Post-epidemic Era Green Burgeon

Resdential Unit Cluster

Ecosphere Formation

The original wetland

Basic unit

Germination stage

2020

Tutor: Chang Wang, Xiaoming Pei Project Date: 2020.09 Location：Wuhan,China Key Words: Self-sufficiency / Sustainable / Adapting with Time The COVID-19 crisis has put our way of living under review. Viral outbreaks have occurred in the past, and they will happen again in the future in our high-density, globalised world. If this time we want to be prepared, we need to re-design our way of living. This also brings the inequality between rich and poor to the surface.In addition,traditional community may no longer meet the hygiene requirements of the postCOVID world. I am trying to design a new affordable Self-sufficiency community, where residents can live sustainably, and can feel both protected and connected.

2025 Vegetation cover

Plant growth and spread

Form stereo blocks

Change with season

Species symbiosis

Expand functional space

Increase plant diversity

Ecological integration

Self-sufficiency Community

2030

Mix function

Microclimate formation 2035

Mixed Function Analysis Elders Unable to solve problems such as pension and medical care,the groups which are easy to be infected

Children Lack of playgrounds and community childcare facilities.

Youths 2040-

The epidemic has led to income instability and a lack of recreational activities

Mixed Function Children

Amusement park

Sandpit

Elders

Youths

Cafeteria

Market

Shared office

Church

Clinic

Park

Green ecological community

Self-regulating Microclimate

O2

O2

O2

O2

CO2

CO2

CO2

Wetland Absorbs 240kg CO₂/d

Evaporation

CO2 Rain

Bioretention

O2

CO2

O2

CO2

O2 O2 Groundwater runoff

Inflitration Rainwater harvesting system

Wetland park

Highline Street

Solar Farms

Construction of Digital Fabrication Design System

Ⅰ Grid architecture

Avoidance point

Large space point

Ⅱ Single layer unit arrangement Densest unit layout

Release space

Ⅲ Solid unit arrangement Vertical space calculation

Ⅳ

Ventilation distance control

Space similarity control

Gradient poin

Private and public spaces

Atrium Spaces connect

Public transit system arrangement Hallway layout

Ⅴ

Vertical space calculation

Random point

Shortest path

Communicative staircase

Ⅵ Block diversity Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: N

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:30% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: N

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:40% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:60% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: N

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Aim: Densest layout Shortest path

Restrictions: Porosity:0% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:30% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: Y

Restrictions: Porosity:20% Ventilation surface:1 Adjacent Shared Space: N

Traffic staircase

Prefabricated member Assembled door and window

Fabricated staircase

How people move in Reflect the Demand

Different people

Reflect the Demand

Provide Samples and Options

Internet

Factory

Install

Ⅰ Online shopping

Ⅱ Customize building products

Ⅲ Home Delivery and Install

Translate personalities into constructionsselect the type and amount of furniture required

Construction factory produce different building parts according to these demands

Use computer simulations to select materials and decoration styles

These building parts are combinations of building enclosure and furniture

When the building parts is customized, the logistics company will deliver the building parts to your door

Finish shopping, pay and wait for customization

The designers in the factory create more options for prople to choose from on the website

People use connectors to assemble these building parts into their own homes

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Unit Combination Artist Studios

Internet Sales

Entrepreneurial Team

Meeting Room

Office Room

Working Units

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Sleeping Units

Single Room

Double Room1

Double Room2

Triple Room1

Triple Room2

03 Other Work---- Installation design Collaborator：Jiahang Li，YuXin Shi Project Type: Spatial experiment Tutor: HaoWu / Yue Wu Project Date: 09.2021 Project Period: 2 months Key Words: Nature /Healthy / Weave

Traffic & View analysis

This installation was designed for the cocomat hotel. The concept of Cocomat hotel is to sleep with nature.The growth of all things in nature will be affected by gravity. With this characteristic, we take the ceiling as the growth surface. Through the traffic analysis, the existing neglected space is found, and a point is determined through the connection of the entrance to optimize the streamline and space. Through range of sight analysis, the remaining three points can be determined without affecting the range of sight and under the condition of being in the centre of the range of sight. Ultimately, these four points form the gravity points of the installation, imitating the state of natural growth.Through making the skin and the hole, we construct the crowd streamline and range of sight centre in the installation.

Loading

Low

High

Density of people

High

Low Neglected space

Increase point

Increase streamline

Density of people

Combining The model is reversed and combined.

（-66.46,-16.01） （-63.93,-16.53） （-64.09,-17.97）

Gravity is applied to all four points.

（-68.65,-17.15） （-66.04,-17.22） （-66.76,-18.43）

60° ° 30

High Range of vision

Low

Degree of vision coincidence

Vision analysis

H=1.0m Calculate the centroid

Four centroids

Refining

Weave process 1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Prototype 1

4

2

5

3

6

Installation Section

7

8

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Bamboo weave

Latex mattress

Determine device internal streamline and range of view.