Di Wu's portfolio of selected work

RENEW ENVIRONMENT ARCHITECTURE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE & URBAN PLANNING PORTFOLIO

by Di Wu B. Urban Planning in Jincheng College of Sichuan University 4 years Working Experience in China Selected Works 2012-2020

HELLO.

DI WU

Bachelor of Urban Planning in Jincheng College of Sichuan University

About Me

Name: Di Wu Nationality: Chinese

Contact Me

E-Mail: wudi1025@yahoo.com Phone: +8615196633109 Web: issuu.com/wudi1025

Education

2009-2012 Sichuan Normal University Experimental Foreign Language School 2012-2016 Bachelor of Urban Planning, Jincheng College of Sichuan University

Working Experience

2015-2016 Sichuan Institute of Urban Planning & Design (internship) 2016-2020 China Construction Design International

My name is Di Wu. I graduated with bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning from the Department of Architecture and Management, Jincheng College of Sichuan University in June 2016. Then I went to Shenzhen, Guangdong, and joined CCDI Group, the largest architecture design corporation in China as a fresh graduate. This portfolio is the selected works combining my theoretical foundation with my 4-year professional experience.

It contains 4 selected projects.

The first and the last projects were completed during my undergraduate studies. The first one is my graduation project, a renovation design for historical relics protection.

I slightly adjusted the original layout by designing a highline walk to take the advantage of the natural resources. The last one is the work for a competition I participated in. I designed an inclusive space with a brand-new concept in response to the theme set by the contest.

The other two were completed when I worked in CCDI Group. The first is an urban renovation design, and the other an architectural one. In the urban design project, the site is at the bank of a reservoir, which benefits from both great natural and urban resources. The project is aimed at activating the vicinities, creating a regional center and a city landmark. The architecture design focuses on the small-scaled buildings, and how to make them fit in the specific environment is the key.

My career goal is to better shape the environment through rational plans and creation of functional buildings.

To these ends, I will continue to learn and immerse myself in this field.

CONTENT

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THE

THE

THE

MAY, 2016 ACADEMIC

MAY, 2018 PROFESSIONAL

OCT, 2019 PROFESSIONAL

Urban Design Architecture landscape

Urban Design Architecture landscape

Architecture

Roaming through the history

Free as flowing water

HAZE

WATER

BOX Magical cloak of invisibility

04

PAPER CRAFT

MAR, 2016 ACADEMIC Interior

Inspiration of folding paper

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ART WORKS

SEP,2012-JUN,2016

THE HAZE 都江堰西街历史街区保护更新规划设计

PROTECTION & RENOVATION DESIGN OF THE HISTORICAL AREA IN WEST STREET Urban Design / Architecture / Landscape Individual Work in Jincheng College of Sichuan University The Excellent Graduation Project of The School, May 2016 Media: Auto CAD, Sketchup, V-Ray, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

MIN RIVER

RURAL AREAS

LIDUI PARK OUTER RIVER

FULONG TAOIST TEMPLE

Thanks to the world-famous historic and cultural heritage Dujiangyan Irrigation System, the West Street shares great prestige throughout history.

In 2013, an earthquake struck this area and left numerous buildings to be refurbished. As the component of the history and culture heritage, it requires an approach to minimize impacts by the construction to the existing, refine the defects and animate the vicinities.

The project aims at restoring the damaged dwellings after the earthquake, renovating the underdeveloped plots, and that protecting the historic and religious buildings in order to make the West Street vivid again.

DUJIANGYAN IRRAGATION SYSTEM

YULEI TOWER

PRECIOUS BOTTLE NECK

CENTRAL PLAZA

ANCIENT MOSQUE

ANCIENT DWELLINGS

WHARF

ANCIENT CITY WALL

WEST STREET

ANCIENT TEMPLE

ANCIENT DWELLINGS

WATERFRONT WALKWAY

PUYANG RIVER

MOUNT YULEI

RURAL AREAS

ANCIENT DWELLINGS

SOUTH BRIDGE

ANCIENT CITY AREAS

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Dujiangyan Irragation System Yulei Park Square Fulong Guan

BUILDINGS

SITE

3 protected relics, most buildings along the street and the river are storefronts, the rest are residences

South Bridge

Yulei Park Square

V E G E TAT I O N

Fulong Guan

Trees dot in the site spontaneously, no protected plants

South Bridge

Dujiangyan Irragation System

SITE ANALYSIS

IRRIGATION One tributary of the Min River flows by the site

The project locates in Sichuan province, near the famous Dujiangyan Irrigation System and the Yulei mountain. As the start of the old southern Silk Road, the West Street became a multi-ethnic aggregation and won a place in history.

ISSUES current situation about this area

mixed traffic

damaged buildings

risks of fire

short of public space

no use of natural resources

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2

3

4

VIEW CORRIDOR The plot shares great view. Setting viewing platforms makes great use of natural resources.

CONNECTION 2

Single pedestrian flow now. Making use of the scenery spot to attract more people to the site.

4 3

P U B L I C S PA C E Create public space for the residents and tourists to carry out activities.

MASTERPLAN

1

STRATEGIES

facilitate the sustainability of the area

re-design the road network

refurbish the buildings

reduce the fire risks

create the public space

create the scenery spot

Inspired by a traditional Chinese theory---the three p e r s p e c t i v e - t h e o r y, I

background

Obser vingWandering as the key to use the

background

background

the design.

This theory concluded three perspectives which people view the mountains. They are

u pw a r d v i e w p o i n t , horizontal viewpoint, and the overlook viewpoint.

the

"From the side, a whole range; from the end, a single peak; far, near, high, low, no two parts alike."(composed by poet Su Shi in Song Dynasty, translated

by Burton Watson)

CAVALIER PERSPECTIVE moving viewpoints, three-parts of interspace, i.e., the foreground, the middleground and the background.

middle-ground

middle-ground

middle-ground

frame

WESTERN VIEWING MODEL

taking the focus as the core of the scenography.

foreground middle-ground

viewer position

background

line of sight

The Observing Wandering is often seen in Chinese painting, such as The Kangxi Emperor's S o u t h e r n I n s p e c t i o n To u r (collected in the Metropolitan Museum of Art). The Observing-

makes people walking in the

Wandering landscape.

It differs from the way western people to view the world,

standing on one single location and looking in one perspective statically. viewer's position tour route viewer altitude

foreground

foreground

foreground

DESIGN MORPHOLOGY

CONNECT

BEND

RAISE & PRESS

HAZE ON THE HILLSIDE AND ROOFS

FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION GUIDE 3 historical building mosque city wall retail food & drink guesthouse plaza tourist attraction wharf forest waterfront

INHABITANT

TRAVELER

8:00

MORNING

JOGGING AND EXERCISE

NATURE AND HISTORY WANDERING

FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD GATHERING

HISTORY EUCATION TOUR CAMP

OUTDOOR THEATER AND PLAYGROUND

OPEN AIR CONCERT AND SALON

12:00 NOON

19:00 EVENING

leisure time in the central plaza

bustling street corner

preparing newly woven silk on the city wall One night's east wind adorns a thousand trees with flowers And blows down stars in showers.

Fine steeds and carved cabs spread fragrance en route; Music vibrates from the flute; The moon sheds its full light, While fish and dragon lanterns dance all night.

Extracted from Green Jade Cup Lantern Festival

by Southern Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji, translated

by Xu Yuanzhong

overlooking forward to the Mountain Yulei

aerial view of the West Street at night

THE WATER 深圳布心花园片区更新规划设计

RENOVATION DESIGN OF BUXIN GARDEN VICINITIES IN SHENZHEN Urban Design / Architecture / Landscape Team Work in CCDI as architect Media: Auto CAD, Sketchup, V-Ray, Rhino, 3D Max, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, freehand sketch Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

This project locates near a reservoir aiming at renovating the region to make it vibrant again. It will become the CBD in the future, a 600 meters tall skyscraper included. The special waterfront site is rich in natural resources. How to make the CBD with a such edifice fit in the environment peacefully is an essential point we should take into account.

Water gives birth to all life. In Chinese culture water also brings fortune and hope. Inspired by the texture of the watercourses on the ground, we follow the spontaneous and fluent lines as the design guideline of the masterplan, making it continuous into the architecture and landscape design.

T H E

SITE

2K M

WEILING PARK

ROAD NETWORK

1.5KM

1KM KM

2.5 DONGHU PARK CUIZHU PARK

The site locates in a accessible area, EXISTING BUILDINGS

shoreline streching

surrounded by 4 city roads and next to a flyover. Averagely 10-year-old multistory residences dominate the area currently. 4 city parks dot within 2km circumference. 2 primary schools are adjacent to the site.

ABUNDANT NATURE RESOURCES

RESIDENCES

NATURAL RESOURCES

from SOUTHWEST

LUOHU STADIUM

SURROUNDED BY RESIDENCES BUT SHORT OF COMMERCIAL FACILITIES

ABUNDANT NATURE RESOURCES

RESIDENCES

from SOUTH

IDEA SKETCH

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN

MASTERPLAN

FORM EXPLORATION

BEVEL

TWISTING

TUBES

CROWN

TWISTING+TUBES=WATER FLOWS

THE ESTUARINE DELTA

The location of the site, i.e., near the reservoir, gives a clue

Inspired by the fan deltas and the runoff on the ground, the general planning splits the plot in a more free and fluent way. We suppose that

to the design.

the design should be from the nature and root the nature, and happen spontaneously.

Th u s ,

taking the "water" as the key element throughout the design, including the masterplan, the architecture and the landscape design.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

FLOWINGWATER CORE

A s the landmark of the regional center, the 600

meters tall tower is a key component in the composition of the city skyline. The concept of the tower form is from the flowing water, which symbolizes the fortune in traditional Chinese culture. Flowing from the top, the lines twist around the tower making it rise straight from the ground.

CONVERGE DISPERSE

RISE

DISPERSE

2 2 4

3

8

5

1 2 3

2

6

1

600 meters tall tower

2

office building

3

residence

4

canopy

5

fountain plaza

6

school

7

kindergarten

8

waterfront platform

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INFRASTRUCTURE DISTRIBUTION DESIGN

taxi

parking lot

shop

parking lot

food & drink

taxi food & drink

taxi

shop bus stop

shop taxi parking lot

parking lot

PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION

taxi

shop

food & drink shop shop

taxi shop

taxi

food & drink food & drink shop

ROOFTOP CIRCULATION

To be an urban complex, the fundamental and essential thing is

the circulation study. The traditional development model brings the disorder of the pedestrian and vehicles, which causes the traffic congestion. With such a large volume of development, we design a highline pedestrian walk system to separate vehicles and people . Not only does it elaborate the circulation but also offers more greening and public space.

Currently the tallest tower Pingan financial center is 692.5 meters

tall in Shenzhen. As a landmark ranking the second, it requires the designers to care much more about the form from a larger scope than a usual tower design.

What would it be like tomorrow?

VEHICLES & PEDESTIANS CIRCULATION

692.5M

600M

400M

300M 250M 200M 180M

100M

CITY SKYLINE STUDY

THE BOX 深圳海岸城中洲广场咖啡厅设计

COFFEE SHOP DESIGN OF THE SCC PLAZA IN SHENZHEN COASTAL CITY Architecture / Landscape Team Work in CCDI as architect Media: Auto CAD, Sketchup, V-Ray, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China

This project locates in a bustling central commercial district. The original design is feasible elsewhere but in this special area. After knowing the client's needs, we make a plan based on a full-fledged design and construction. The project aims at creating space to divide the solemn business square from the busy commercial pedestrian street at a minimum cost of damage. Plus, how to create a building which fits the current surroundings is also an issue that the designers should take into account.

An overhead pedestrian street stretches across the commercial district, connecting the city and the seaside. The site lies aside the street. The square was designed as a solemn space and a component of the towers, which contain offices and a Marriott Hotel. Because of its special location, some issues come around.

Some people carry out activities in the plaza and behave not correctly in terms of the towers' ambience itself, for example, lying on the bench, walking the dog or playing games with their kids. No doubt does it not match the character of a business square. The client hopes for 2 little coffee shops to change the situation, aiming at separating the business square from the active commercial street. How to make them perfectly fit the surroundings is a issue we should explore, including the shape and the envelope.

PYRAMID

SHELL

BOX

INVISIBLE

TRANSPARENCY MATERIAL: ULTRA CLEAR GLASS

SU

NL

IGH

T

BOX EYES

SURFACE

WESTERN PART GROUND FLOOR PLAN

EASTERN PART GROUND FLOOR PLAN

ITEM

SURFACE STRETCH

CROSS

REFLECTION MATERIAL: SPECULAR METAL SU

NL

EYE

WESTERN PART GROUND FLOOR PLAN

EASTERN PART GROUND FLOOR PLAN

IGH

T

SURFACE

ITEM

BOX

SPLIT

WESTERN PART UPPER FLOOR PLAN

EASTERN PART LOWER FLOOR PLAN

CUT OFF & MOVE

PAPERCRAFT MEETING AREA

第 55 届日本中央玻璃国际建筑设计大赛

5 5 T H C E N T R A L G L A S S I N T E R NAT I O NA L ARCHITECTURL DESIGN COMPETITION Architecture / Interior Design Individual Work in Jincheng College of Sichuan University Media: Auto CAD, Sketchup, V-Ray, Photoshop, InDesign Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

EQUIPMENT AREA

ENTRANCE LEISURE AREA

ELEVATOR HALL MEETING AREA

ROADSHOW STAGE What is "Body Culture Club"?

MAIN ENTRANCE The corporation pointed out that the sports had become not only competitive to top athletes but closely related to every single individual. "Hence, within these diverse types of sports, not becoming competitive, while facing oneself and enhancing sports as a culture, are coined as 'Body Culture', a place to practice and interact with 'Body Culture.' " It gives me a clue aiming at the office workers to create a diversified sharing environment in high-rise office buildings, explore a comprehensive possibility of high-rise office buildings in addition to the traditional “density” office form, and explore a new office social mode in the future.

RECEPTION MEETING AREA

EXHIBITION AREA

"

H

i, I'm an office worker suffering health problems for the lack of physical exercise. There are multiple gyms to go, but most of them lie potential issues that the operators ignore."

unmotivated to exercise

inaccessible to gym

bored with single function

"Issues we office workers meet when going to the gym."

short of time to exercise

no company

no interaction

But how about a space integrating a series of composite functions such as fitness club, yoga, art exhibition, leisure bar and road show expansion...

Then here comes the

yoga & gymnastics room

STATIC AREA roadshow area

shower area

DYNAMIC AREA STANDARD FLOOR PLAN

leisure bar

Body Culture Club

The club is set into the office building. The typical design plan is feasible to most buildings as long as their standard floor plans are rectangular. No matter if the tower is the edifice or normal building, the design can be easily adjusted to fit it.

"T he club can be built in all most every office tower."

WHITE FOLDING PA P E R CRAFT turn into the table

turn into the bench

hollow into the window

turn into the bench

tear into the wall

fold into the ground The white continuous folding shell installation partially folds into the ground, tears into a wall, turns into furniture and forms into a window.

The club is defined as an interactive space. It forms a series of social behaviors, such as sitting, standing, lying, where people talk, gather, wait and encounter. It can be a space, a place, a furniture.

FUZZY BORDER

People’s life style segments are more like pixel puzzles, with fuzzy boundaries and mutual

penetration.

The design attempts to create a flowing and inclusive space, just like the unclear definition of "body culture club", which can overlap and connect various scenes, meet with various people, events, environments and values, and become a dynamic and inclusive social place.

The standard floor of the tower is redefined as a unique space container, by which fragments of life are connected in series and reorganized. It is a place for meeting, sports, art exhibition, a place of leisure, sharing, social interaction, and various possibilities.

SKY GARDEN Interior lighting design simulates the most comfortable natural state.

A large number of diffuse lighting spread throughout the space, forming a whole uniform sense of space surrounding.

The inner structure is wrapped with mir rors that reflect and extend the space. While incr easing the illumination during the day, it also extends and overlaps the inner and urban landscape, providing a garden like indoor space for various social scenes.

blue glass

"À votre santé!

I made many friends here!"

turquoise glass

pink glass

ivory paint

dark wooden board

STANDARD FLOOR AXONOMETRIC DRAWING

brown wooden board

mirror

THE GALLERY

DRAWINGS 2012-2014

DRAWINGS 2012-2014

PAINTINGS 2014-2015

PAINTINGS 2015-2016

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ARCHITECTURE&URBAN PLANNING PORTFOLIO by DI WU E-MAIL: wudi1025@yahoo.com PHONE: +8615196633109