Zhang pu portfolio

Portfolio of ZHANG Pu An approach toward Event-provoking Design

An impromptu concert in a paper constructed shelter, first year studio Architecture provokes events

prologue

The relation of architecture and people lies in events and activities. They are like clues to reveal multiple faces of architecture. Exploring into this theme, I found a building’s potential to provoke events lies in many different architectural aspects, such as the context, in-between part, perception and so on.

Rapid constructions dominated the urbanization of Chinese cities today ,and results in many lifeless spaces.

It’s time to diagnose urban problems and update built environment from the aspect of activities . They are the key point to bring back vitality.

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EVENT

site

in-between part 13 Overlap / Youth Palace forth-year competition

03 Inside out / Community Library third-year studio work

conflict

perception

social problem

37 Perceptual Layers/ Academic building Renovation forth-year studio work 25 Transprogramming / urban design & metro station forth-year studio work

51 Boundary Space/ walls of residential block forth-year competition

program | site

8-week 3rd year studio :Community Library Site: Quyang community, Shanghai Building area: 3000 mm2 Instructor : Chen Juan personal work

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This huge (80ha) dwelling community dates back to 1970s, public life here is confined to linear streets, but still has the potential to expand: In the survey, it’s common to find three or four people meet up and chat, standing on the sideway, and one chair placed in the middle of the road can gather massive people playing and watching chess. A library here could be used to facilitate this contribution to the residents’ daily life.

Thus, in my proposal the library merges with the street to accommodate public events and provide open places for spontaneous activities

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Site Analysis :

Programmatic Reclassification

street events & inside-out facades

lobby reading chess

housework

dinner

street events

reading waiting

pro-shopping

check in/out

kids

an inside-out library: as extension of street events

check in/out information index exhibition

lobby

reading stack

vege market

flower market

check in/out information index exhibition

reading

wander

walk the dog

reading

stack

inside-out facades

playing kids

The typical way of function assembly is a cluster of introvert boxes which has little interaction with streets. By reclassifying functions and rearrange the program, a library can merge with street life in an INSIDE-OUT mode.

store reading

kids

lobby

index,auto

info,exhibition

street accessible non-accessible store

cultural centre

accessible non-accessible store

stack

residence accessible

non-accessible

private

kids journal salon auto

the site is located in a typical Chinese residential block, where slabtype apartment houses aligned to each other formed linear street space. And these monolithic act as the main public space in this area. Daily events happen here such as kids playing, walking the dog, grandparents wandering, and even some small retails.

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A kind of inside-out facades was observed: some dwellers take advantage of their front-door space, moving some personal activities to the semi public space, provoking interactions with streets event, in this way, the community’s vitality is way out of expectation.

kids

auto

journal

store

private kids journal salon auto

salon

reading

private reading

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The INSIDE-OUT library not merely provide an extra open space to public life, but also rearrange the whole program in an inside-out pattern.

In order to facilitate daily life, parts of the program are placed into open space, such as a self-help index and borrow system and the information section. Stepping from the street up to the entrance naturally and then experience a continues orientation, the whole library seems just a part of your daily promenade

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Layout and Orientation

Walls extend functions INSIDE OUT to the open space reading space accessible stack

salon space

check in/out

reading space accessible stack

journal media wall:info,index, auto borrow

book stack offices book store

kids reading room These walls are support for the vitality and event provocation of the open space.

The 600mm thick walls along the grand steps not only envelope the the load-bearing columns, and also undertake functions like information display for pedestrian along the street, exhibition for people get in and nearby the open space under roof, and auto borrow and index checking before they enter the indoor space.

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Roof and envoloped Spaces

salon

reading reading check

salon

journal journal auto

check

auto

the spirally ascend orientation affect the roof’s undulation, the roof is cut and folded to fit the activities below. The height of the ceilings define the private or collective atmosphere of the space, and the inclinations lead the directions.

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Reading Spaces & Accessible Stack under the roof 12

events | in-between part

overlap of different activities In the typology of youth center commonly found in China, the playground and classrooms are normally separated due to their dynamic and quiet characters respectively, these strictly defined spaces are confines to children. By introducing an in-between part of courtyards and terraces to make these two parts interactive, the Youth Center became an amicable place appealing to children.

4-week competition :Youth Center Site: Fuyang, Hangzhou Building area:20000mm2 Instructor : Wang Fang ji Cooperator: Bao Yu, Li Yizhe

Dynamic and Quiet parts of an Youth Palace

OVERLAP of the dynamic and quiet systems

? no in-between part

vertically connected

proposal

current situation

In the research, an youth palace in China is very much the same as a school, where the classrooms and playground are strictly defined and separated.

But programmatic analysis shows that an youth palace is where kids discover and develop their interest, where more flexible layout, more collective atmosphere distinguish it from schools

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introduce an in-between part

An Youth Palace should have different atmosphere from a school, because spaces and activities can be overlapped to make it an amicable place on weekends

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By introducing courtyards and terraces as the IN-BETWEEN part to connect these two parts activities on the playground and in the classrooms can intersect with each other and sometimes share the same space. When pushing the floors to get the terraces, different cantilevers formed at the same time to provide shelter from sun and rain for pedestrians as well as activities in the park downstairs.

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Courtyards and Terraces as the IN-BETWEEN part

Assembly of these in-between spaces

activities on terraces

flowing courtyards and separated terraces 19

activities on the fround

push layers to provide multiple faces of courtyards

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Assembly of Functions

Multiple Scenes along the orientation on the ground

With a multiplicity of views into courtyards and playgrounds along the orientation, children can gather in the park, rollerskate on the track, enter the courtyards, while children on the upper terraces can read, attend to gardening or participate in crafts. They can easily observe each other, meet up for a chat and merge into cheerful groups.

handcraft dance&music sports painting exhibition lobby cafe theatre tutorial class offices

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lecture

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Loops of the indoor space three concentric loops defining every floor, with a courtyard in the center: - classrooms shaping the outline of each level to enable classes to be assigned into relatively isolated compartments; - a big workshop stand in the middle loop accommodating activities in an open-space, where children could step in, wander, observe and immediately participate in whatever interests them; - turn the inner loop into the outdoor terrace where sunshine would greet them during playtime.

tutorial class

exhibition

"in-between" terrace

high spaces as dance

studios as handcraft 23

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conflict | events

Around this traffic node, a football stadium, a shopping mall and a park attract various activities around, especially sports. Conflicts arise between the activity and traffic system: an arterial road under the railway separates the site into two parts.

I connect them by taking advantage of the space left above the arterial road and under the railway , thus a combination of sporting area and rail station.

This unusual combination could provide the possibility of flexible space shared by both station pedestrians and sporting groups; more people will be inspired to participate in different activities under these conditions.

8-week fourth year studio: Metro Station & Urban Design Site: Hongkou, Shanghai Building area: 8000 mm2 District area: 12ha Instructor : Wei Wei Cooperator: Zheng Pan

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Conflict between traffic and activity systems

Site Analysis : traffic node & event-provoking attractions commercial housing

office

college

housing

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college

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college housing

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stadium

park

office

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metro lines

housing

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Landmarks on the site brings vitality and conflicts at the same time 27

A shopping mall, a football stadium, a park make the site an especially active spot of Shanghai, supported a traffic transfer stop bringing flows of people. All kinds of sports club, fashionable snack shop spring up here. However, conflicts arise between the activity network and the traffic system, because the traffic flow cut the site into to parts, making this network not so accessible.

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Rearrange systems & space

rearrange traffic system

arranged activity systems on space

rearrange activity system on time schedule

swimming shopping dining snack drink

basketball

big event

comcert

baseball

football

football match

swimming

skate

dance

basketball

bicycle

jogging

bicycle

jogging

rail way

rearrange daily activities and provide suitable places for them

station activity cars

shopping

drink

bicycle comcert

football

hip-hop dining joggingsnack swimming baseball skidding dining drink shopping football match bicycle basketball dining jogging

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program proposed to activate daily activities

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Metro station: the node connecting two systems two brands interlocking with each other, as extending parts of the Stadium and the shopping mall

lift up the ridge as the form of section, to make good views towards surrounding buildings

move the top point of the two brands, to make a exact alignment with surrounding buildings

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add a platform to flow away large pedestrian from the football stadium

set the main entrance according to investigation about the pedestrian

add an activity brand in the space left under the high-erected railway 31

Metro station: the node connecting two systems master plan 1:2000

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Transprogramming : sports space + rail station

rail way station activity

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cars

pedestrian for traffic sports group big events: flows of people from the station

sports groups daily

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density map at different time

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scenes along the orientation to take the train

sporting and retail spaces connect the activity system up to the station facade, and down to the playground and the park. The stadium and the shopping mall share a big platform above the ground. Both sport groups and pedestrian for train experience exciting scenes along the orientation and possibly join some unexpected activity in the next minute.

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perception | events

This academic building of college of architecture and urban planning undertake studio classes and finals, big lectures, faculty offices and a college library. But few students feel it’s an amicable and appealing place to stay in spare time. Even though there were diverse activities happening in this building, people only headed towards their own areas without noticing them. My proposal was to introduce a series of perceptual layers to rearrange the interaction of activities and orientation, thus revealing the hidden vitality.

8-week fourth year studio: Academic building Renovation Site: Tongji Campus, Shanghai Building area: 8000 mm2 Instructor : Li Bin Cooperator: Bao Yu

Building Diagnosis

offices administrative affairs

halls & lectureroom exhibition open finals

library reading

officer

guest

grade 5,gradute

atelier classes for junior

professor

classrooms

studio work of juniors

grade 1,2

A diagnosis of why people do not like this building :

current paths are contained in staircases , they confine passengers’ perception, thus various activities in this building can not be noticed. You come to see the same face every and feel boring because you do not expect events to happen.

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classrooms studio work of seniors

grade 3,4

everyone has his/her routine in this building, directly and exclusively. They do not expect events to happen or even feel boring, because each group of users get no idea of diversity in this building, even though there are various events happening nearby.

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Layers of PERCEPTION

Rearrange spaces to evoke potential events offices

private work space halls & lectureroom

changeable classrooms ex

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model studio open for passers-by

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layer of transparent paths stu

layer of transparent paths

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atelier

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classrooms

facade penetrated by square outside

To change users’ routine in this building, is to evoke potential relations between spots and groups of users, thus unexpected events.

After survey and interviews about different groups’ preference and desire about the orientate and functional spaces, I introduced a series of perceptual layers to rearrange the interaction of activities and orientation, reveal the hidden vitality, making it accessible visually and physically.

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Transparent layer: open stairs flanking the atrium:

the adjacency of orientation and activities provide possibilities for events out of routine.

lecture

library

The original atrium and the exhibition hall are combine to a main central space, where big events happen and appeals to all students through the transparent surrounding facade. The first layer of these facades is a pair of stairs, visually deviate and converge at times.

library central

study hall 43

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Make a transparent and interactive face towards the square

Reduce half number of classrooms

classrooms attributed to each class is of low usage: except studio hours, few students stay here. different class schedules make it possible to share a single classroom unit every two classes: a big compartment for studio time, with two small ones for personal use after class

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Perceptual layers of Classroom

different perceptual desires

I want to see the studio works

positive

passers-by negtive

I do not want to be disturbed students students’ preference to classrooms

not care

private communitive

not all activities in the classrooms refuse to be observed

not care

classify activities according to their privacy requirement corridor

model making

class

personal work

three perpetual layers of classrooms, provide suitable space for every kind of activities inside and provide opportunity for passers-by to see certain part of the class personal work

class

model making

Two classes of different schedules share an unit.

Each unit consist of a large room for class time, and two small and private room distributed to two class are for personal working time 47

combine units according to different patterns, and the gap space between is for model making and displaying,where more classes will emerge together

corridor 48

Variability of units

final days

studio days

working days

Variability in the assembly of units: With changeable partitions, it can provide undisturbed environment for classes, and also combine units into large space for studio finals. Students and professors can adjust these partitions according to their needs.

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social problem | events

An unpleasant truth in our current situation- walls are confining typical Chinese residential blocks. These walls not only result in monolithic street faces and less convenient daily life, but also isolation between social classes. However they are inevitable because of the community’s self-responsible security style.

We proposed to redefine them by activity, convert the walls from a symbol of isolation into spaces where events happen. People inside and outside can exchange objects and do small business in the ’wall space‘. They are no longer a method of separating people, but a place where everyone feels conformable and social classes merge together.

4-week fourth year competition: Old Community Renovation Site: Yangpu District, Shanghai Instructor : Wang Fangji Cooperator: Wang Weiqiao, Wang Ruofan, Zheng Pan 51

Urban problems brought by walls

isolation of social classes

negative street spaces

Wall space: Exchange life

inconvenient daily life

security system in China: different from other countries Shanghai self-responsible security system in China result in big closed block, and less attention is paid to streets

current situation

Infeasible in China

convert linear walls to spacial walls to accommodate activities currently not allowed inside the communities

Rome police-responsible system in other countries lead to complete street system 53

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Potential functions in the Wall Space

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bus

B

bus stop | dwellers: news paper

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pedlars | dwellers goods

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B

C

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scavengers | dwellers recyclables

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college students | dwellers graffiti

kids | kids toys

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D

E

E proposal

current walls

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GRAPHIC DESIGN

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ZHANG Pu Bachelor of Architecture, Tongji University Address: RM1403, BD7, NO28, Tieling RD, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China Email: poohz083051@gmail.com Mobile: 86-13585957216

assay: Interpretation of the universal planof traditional Chinese architecture publication date: NOV. 2014 ISSN 1008-0422 Chinses & Overseas 2014(11) P61-P63 57

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