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Shenzhen Technology Park

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Shenzhen, China Urban design Shenzhen City Council 2020

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Innovation Cluster

The innovation park located in the east of the site includes 8 innovation clusters with each innovation cluster consisted by 4 tower blocks in different height to provide unobstructed view to Shenzhen Wetland Conservation area. The 8 clusters are connected with each other through the linking platform on the first floor level extended form the shared indoor communal atrium space in each cluster.

Xiongan Train Statation and Surrounding Area Urban Design

TRAIN STATION + COMMERCIAL SPACE

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Regeneration of the Market Area in Belfast

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Belfast , Northern Ireland

Mixed-use, Urban Farm, Residential 2021-2022 (Master research and design project)

In the first year of my master, my studio project was about the sustainability aspect of the built environment. My design project focused on the issue of high food carbon footprint in the current food industry. Trying to reduce the food carbon footprint by shortening the food supply chain. This was achieved by localizing the food production. Therefore, my MArch 1 project was an urban farm located next to the main railway station in Belfast – The Lanyon Station. The urban farm aims to provide residents with easy and efficient access to local produced farm food.

At the same time, my MArch 1 humanity dissertation research focused on the social aspect of the built environment. It discussed the under considered humanistic care in the planning of a rapid developing city, use the Chinese city, Shenzhen as example. It argues that the humanistic care to migrants and marginalized residents was not considered sufficiently in city’s rapid development. And stressed the responsibility of the planning authorities to improve the consideration for marginalized groups in the planning of a city.

In this year, my research and design project are based on the MArch 1 urban farm project. It focused on the sustainability of the built environment both environmentally and socially.

The Farm

‘The Farm’ is a possible solution to deal with the issues of urban food security, affordability and sustainability by localising the food production. The site was chosen at an empty plot next to the Lanyon Place (Belfast Central Station) for easy access by local and surrounding residents. The farm will also utilise the railway system to deliver the food it produced to the surrounding towns and cities.

The project include food market, food collection, local food restaurant, local food research centre & lab, farm stay, farms, warehouse and urban farming experience centre.

The project will work as a local food production and supply system to provide safe, cheap and low carbon embodied food for Belfast and surrounding area, meanwhile to add cultural and educational value to the community.

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Regeneration of the Market Area in Belfast

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‘The Market’ is an urban design project in central Belfast. It particularly focused on the social sustainability of the built environment.

Belfast , Northern Ireland

Mixed-use, Urban Farm, Residential

2021-2022 (Master research and design project)

The Market project aimed to offer the surrounding communities a very vibrant social environment with strong sense of belongs, sense of communities and economical resilience which the place lost due to the gentrification of the area since commercialisation started in 1980s.

The scheme provided spaces for local small business with venue for market activities such as flexible market space in the central of the scheme, the housing units on the top of commercial retail units with communal linkage on the second floor level which response to the previous building typologies before the gentrification of the area.

Housing Units

2 storey 2-bedroom housing unit on the first floor level with direct access to private front ‘garden’ and communal space.

Central Market Space

The semi-open central market space can be used flexibly. It is the space for daily market trading, community event and exhibition.

First Floor Platform

Open-air first floor platform connecting 4 blocks and providing outdoor communal space for residents.

Vapour control barrier

160 mm PU thermal insulation

Vapour control barrier

200 mm reinforced concrete roof 10 mm mineral plaster

3 mm sheet anodized-aluminium

Parapet-wall covering Vapour control barrier

40 mm thermal insulation

215/102/50 mm facing brick skin

Galvanized-steel wall ties

100 mm cavity

Bituminous-felt seal

140 mm mineral-wool thermal insulation

180 mm reinforced concrete wall 10 mm mineral plaster

30 mm oak parquet

50 mm screed separating layer

200 mm reinforced concrete floor

20 mm ipe boarding 50/60 mm squared timbers

PVC layer on stilts two-layer bituminous felt seal

100 mm polyurethane thermal insulation

Vapour barrier

200 mm reinforced concrete floor

10 mm mineral plaster

Suspended timber ceiling

30 mm oak parquet

30 mm thermal insulation

Trowelled smoothed polythene separating layer

200 mm reinforced concrete floor

Two-layer polythene separation

120 mm XPS thermal insulation

Bituminous sealing layer

50 mm blinding layer

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Concept development

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SketchUp model making

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Planning package