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PORT Yilin Xiang Application number: 24141820 Programme: MArch Design for Manufacture
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The Bedlam Hotel
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Metabolic Architecture
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of marginalized society
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Richard's museum
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Student Residence Complex
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urban renewal
The Bedlam Hotel
This project is a renovation of the site of a special psychiatric hospital, the building has been abandoned for a long time and many urban explorers or bloggers from all over the world have travelled to the building and chose to dive in and explore some of the remaining facilities and undamaged spaces inside. In 1998, Turin launched the urban renewal programme "Programma di Riqualificazione Urbana PRIU". And I think this programme of mine maybe added to the list. For a number of reasons, I chose to turn the building into a themed hotel, but this theming is mainly reflected in the annual commemorative day set up by the hotel, and usually it is a healing hotel that shows humanistic care.
EX MANICOMIO DI RACCONIGI · 1786~1829 ·
Site address and building history
A local tourist attraction - Raconigi Castle, 20 minutes' drive to the north, and a 40-minute drive from the railway station.
The former development of the old building & My idea of transformation
Town train station
Surrounded by public activity buildings such as kindergartens, hospitals, churches, etc.
Via Giovanni Priotti, 36, 12035 CN, Italy
The historical development here gives me an intuitive visual memory point.
Laconigi, is a comune (municipality) in the province of Cuneo, Italy. It has a total area of 48.03 square kilometres and a population of 10,112, with a population density of 210.5 inhabitants per square kilometre. One of the more famous is the castle of Laconigi and the ruins of many psychiatric hospitals
massing generation
the choisy
lay out
scheme 1
scheme 2
scheme 3
According to the structure of the original building, I first derived seven kinds of floor plans, and then pulled the blocks to generate 21 kinds of block plans. I chose one of the three characteristics for fusion and redesign, and generated my final building like this.
I chose these three forms respectively, the combination of reality, structural combination and functional distribution of these three features together to generate my expected architectural form after the renovation.
From the far side of the building, the remodelled building and the local building are still in exactly the same atmosphere.
out-of-body
A 10° offset to the north and south from the original orientation of the building gives an out-of-body feeling to the building. Connecting it to the first floor of the atrium.
the shelter
The columns are partly modelled on David Chipperfield's Xujiahui Academy in Shanghai.
floor plan In terms of floor plan, the upper part of the guest house has not changed much, except that the atrium and the south-facing construction have been converted into a public space, while the lower part of the building has been turned into a courtyard by retaining only the column network structure of the original building.
Detailed views of interior Since the project is in Italy, a place with a strong urban flavour, I didn't want my new building to break up or affect the atmosphere, so I kept the renovated building in the same atmosphere as the original local buildings. The image on the left shows the view of the hotel's front lobby and auditorium on an axis of structural left-right symmetry.
The small image on the right is a view from the bridge over the auditorium looking south-east through the glasshouse doors and the glass tower outside. In the structural block diagram below, the roof is a new addition and the column structure is retained from the original structure.
An atrium like this is great for special holiday parties or special occasions, bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings.
Multi-view detail of the courtyard
Hotel accommodation corridor
The courtyard section retains some of the original building's undamaged column network structure. This courtyard is perfect for special holiday parties or special occasions, open-air gatherings on the patio, such as bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, concerts and so on.
The columns are partly modelled on David Chipperfield's Xujiahui Academy in Shanghai, with pre-cast GRC panels in a beige washed stone finish.
CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE WALL AIR/WATER BARRIER
EXTERIOR WALL COATING
CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE WALL AIR/WATER BARRIER
RIGID INSULATION
EXTERIOR WALL COATING
CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE WALL AIR/WATER BARRIER
RIGID INSULATION
EXTERIOR WALL COATING
"urban patching"
Metabolic Architecture
This is a project that was discussed by a group in the early stage, but after the theme was decided, the other members of the group withdrew from the group due to personal reasons, so I was left alone to work on the project. The current state of society is faced with a series of problems such as an ageing population, high unemployment and employment difficulties, low marriage and fertility rates, and diminishing human bonds. These social problems have created a fragmented status quo, and this project aims to alleviate such fragmentation by stitching it together with the concept of "urban patching".
This project draws on the architectural concept of metabolism to explore the adaptability of residential architecture in the face of different social problems and to enhance human connection.
marginalized society
What is a marginalized society? The concept of a marginalized society was introduced in Japan and is now the most serious social phenomenon in Japan. Japan has entered the era of living alone which is home to some of the loneliest people in the
Comparison of Regional Lonely Death Data
world, with 40,000 elderly Japanese dying alone each year, their bodies taking an average of 17 days to be discovered.
The term "Marginalized Society" refers to a social group of people who do not have the triple relationship of blood, social and geographical ties in society.
Relevant data 1
Reasons for address selection
Basic employment status
data analysis The sense of regional belonging
Japanese Humanistic atmosphere
Bachelor
Homeless
Vagrant
Childlessness
Vagrant
Suicide
Workplace suppress
Close to one
Relatives
Japanese education system
Relevant data 2
The table on the left indicates the six larger social problems that make up a marginalized society, and the proportion of people of different ages affected by different social phenomena.
Japan's unique pension system
Relevant data 3
Specific experimental site To the east of the site is a heavily used viaduct and to the west is a park, again exploring the relationship between the buildings under the viaduct and under the bridge. Unemployed people tend to stay in public places like viaducts and parks or spend the night.
section Metabolism, growth in each system. Since the modular units can be adapted to each system, it is possible for the residents to change their address with the furnishings in the whole unit according to their living needs. In the status quo, residents can choose where they want to live and who they want to be neighbours with, as well as choosing the community you want to be part of.
Analysing a category of people
Based on the analysis of the previous four groups of people, I chose the unemployed corresponding to the social phenomenon of high unemployment rate for the modular design of the corresponding public space and general units. Crowd demand
Public space
Some life, work skills training courses
Multifunctional classroom
Timely and competitive psychological counseling
Psychological counseling room
Enhance physical fitness
A shared gym with common classes
Friends want to choose a sociable and gathering space that can be decorated or cleaned together
Public Spaces with facilities that everyone can use
One thing worth mentioning in Japanese society is their special pension system.They will pay a sum of money to the government or insurance institutions every month,and then give the money to themselves when they are old, that is, the young themselves and the elderly themselves, which makes young people feel great pressure. Japan's "single tax" is paid directly into the pension system. If you are single, you need to pay your own pension.
Visualisation of urban patches in society Patches spread, grow, and metabolise in society. At the same time, it is possible to meet the needs of the residents at different stages of their lives in society, changing their living environment —— the patches to which they belong.
Modular design of components and units
Bedrooms
4m brackets, and connectors(Stopping elements for further growth)
Subassemblies
Several different forms of composition
Laundry
Modulus of the unit（4x4x3）
Tailored colour differentiation between living space and public space
Modulus of the casement
Intelligent Unit Design
Kitchen
Balcony
The units are all smart homes which can sync your sleep quality and indoor air status or something else with the app, you can chat with ChatGPT through voice, directly adjust the indoor living mode (sleep/work/party/customised mode) to book a psychologist, book public facilities, etc. The speaker in the unit can infer your current mood by the tone of your conversation with it and advise you whether you need to attend some counselling or related courses.
Living room
Leisure area
Gym
Please tell me the weather and my schedule for tomorrow and suggest my OOTD!
Ok Sam,
tomorrow's weather is ......
Open class
Some public classes (skills training, aerobics etc.), psychological counselling and other activities will be through the App's reminders and linkage between units to inform residents of the status of the activities they can participate in, to improve the connection between people as well as the enthusiasm of all people for life.
This app allows you to chat with other people in any community, to discuss things like the use of public space in the group.
Horizon Air Q400 incident
Richard's museum
On August 10, 2018, a Horizon Air De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 was stolen from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport (Sea–Tac) in Seattle, Washington. The perpetrator, 29-year-old Richard Russell, was a Horizon Air ground service agent with no piloting experience. However,he stole the plane for the sole purpose of going forward to see an orca that had been brought to national attention.
Comprehensive foreign media reports, the United States Center for Whale Research (Centre for Whale Research) observers in July 24, 2018 found a number "J35" orca in labour, did not think that the baby whale was born less than half an hour after the death of the mother whale suspected that they do not want to accept the fact that the mother whale began to use their foreheads to top the carcass of the dead son forward, during the period of time, also had to use their teeth to bite and lead the tail fins. In general, killer whales will carry the body of a dead child for about a week, but J35 broke the record and swam with it for a total of 17 days. Videos and radio transmissions of the event were followed online, immediately sparking a meme dubbing Russell the Sky King. People expressed an emotional connection with him through postings on social media, T-shirts, and tribute songs.
The guy who stole the plane -2018-
The Story development Storyline analysis Through the decomposition of this story into five parts. In fact, the result is no longer important, due to the instant dialogue record and flight record was quickly shared on social media, his talk and behaviour in public opinion to get a greater resonance, many people will he and New York drove away bus driver William Cimillo (William Lawrence Cimillo) compared to discuss behind the causes and lead to the behavior, reddit forums will be The reddit forum dubbed him "Space Cowboy" and shared his film and verbatim transcript of the conversation.
Pastiche
Emotional Analysis
Vertical Space
Hand-painted Spatial Perception
story line The result was that the plane crash ended up crashing at 20:43 local time on Cotero Island in Pierce County, Washington. Look!
The Space Cowboy!
Modelling Space
Significant portions of chapters
The diagramme This is some of the symbolic expressive language of the buildings in the five chapters in the There are radical and subdued versions or there are those that feel extended and those that feel constricted.
When analysing his journey, I think it is when he knows this news about the whale that he is actually at the closest point to the whale. That is, the second of the five chapters is when Richard is soulfully closest to the whale.
The second stage is based on the reflection of the water on the glass so that people see the building indoor space on all the sparkling reflections, so that people feel at the bottom of the sea is very close to the whale J35.
flow line diagrams
Body Splitting Main entrance
Sub-entrance
Exit
Sunlight leakage
Structural column
Topological frame
Framework
Sunlight leakage
Array Walls
plane figure
Symbolic language of expression The first row shows the entrances and exits of the building, and the exits go out from such elevated portions of that. The first in the first row corresponds to the first chapter which is the cyclic phase of the hovering phase, the constant repetition of the circle of the wall breaking through the ground in the horizontal plane seen in the abstraction of the symbols.
The first of the second row is the hole in the wall where the light of the fourth chapter section leaks through to the end of the third, just as Charlie seems to see the sunlight of a future of freedom when, having wrestled with it, he makes up his mind to steal an aeroplane to see the whales. The third in the second row is a sacred symbol, like the two whale tails after the abstraction, with such a totem to leak the light to give a more free and romantic atmosphere to the space of the fourth chapter stage. The third row is some symbolic representation of the exterior elevation of Chapter 5 - The End, a repetition and array and extensibility that keeps the story spreading forward and growing.
Rendering of the snowy atmosphere When the snow falls in Seattle, the building blends in with the environment, and the warm winter sun shines through the concrete window openings, enriching the light and shadow inside the building.
The building's reinforced concrete facade emphasises the ambivalence between the building and the natural site. The windows are designed to be small, bringing in fine natural light and creating a unique light and shadow effect for the interior.
The reason for choosing the site near the international airport where the incident took place is that the airport provides the opportunity for aircraft to fly over from time to time, and the sound produced by the aircraft can arouse the thoughts of those who come to visit the site, creating a more intuitive and profound feeling of helping people to escape.
Exterior wall detail
Haidian District, Beijing
Student Residence Complex
This is a junior architectural design coursework,.
Because high school classmates always get in different universities, but I still want to live with my old friends, but outside the rent house is not safe, and also expensive. But if there is such a multi-functional student flat housing, I think it can promote the exchange between students of different schools, students' physical and mental health development is also beneficial.
But if there is such a multi-functional student flat housing, I think it can promote the exchange between students of different schools, students' physical and mental health development is also beneficial, but also allows college students to have the space! I have analysed the statistical results of the dormitory situation in Beijing colleges and universities on College Road, and analysed the demand for public space and the dormitory situation of different students at this stage.
Multifunctional Apartments
WHERE IS IT ?
why do it?
Near Liudaokou Metro Station, Haidian District, Beijing, China.
I want to continue to be roommates with my high school classmates who are admitted to different universities to live in a safe flat with independent space, and also to facilitate exchanges between colleges and universities.
Beijing College Road Liudaokou which is the place where Beijing colleges and universities are concentrated.
Atrium Interior Axonometric
typical floor plan
The internal function of the building is generally a stack of multi-level socia features. On special holidays, students can decorate public spaces together with a variety of ornaments to enrich their homes.
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1. Residents' atrium 2.Lounge area with balcony 3. Multi-level lounge area 4. Outdoor stairs 5.Sunshine Glass Room
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first floor plan
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1. Underground 2. 711 shop 3. Multi-functional classroom 4. Auditorium 5. Cafeteria 6. Courtyard from the ground floor 7. Courtyard from the first floor 8. The underground bar 9. Gym
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section drawing The setting-back of the volume on the inner section of the atrium means the transition of function from public to private.in different life and reading units,activity changes with the specific time of day.We introduce variations based on the identity or each interior space as the wooden structure matches the private areas, while the concrete and arched ceilings match the public areas, such as cafeteria and the underground bar. I tend to create a representational difference between the two, not only the structure, but also the pattern, which makes their perception of the audience closer to the individual and objects.
Interior Scenario Details Possible elevational effects in the interior of a household.
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other works This was the third assignment in the first semester of my sophomore year called Spatial Concepts, and I did it with two group members. The topic of the assignment was: how to put the maximum amount of space that can be interacted with in 1 square metre of space. We wanted to break the one square metre limit, and we came up with the idea of mirrors. We were inspired by the curved mirrors of Anisch Kapoor. When people look down, the reflection of the mirror makes them notice the neglected clouds in the sky, and makes them reflect on the beauty of life that they have neglected. The mirror can also reflect the viewer himself, but in that perspective, the background behind the viewer is the sky or a big tree, and the view of being one with nature makes people rethink the relationship with nature.
Because it is difficult to use mirrors to achieve the fixed shape we want which is regular, repetitive, consistent and not easy to control, we use mirror reflective paper, overlaid on the same size pvc board. The bases are chair legs from four broken tables and chairs we found in the studio and nailed them to each other. Finally, we fixed the finished mirror and base together with wire and a relatively thick spring.
2/ In the second half of my sophomore year, when I was studying at Epidemic Home Study, I chose a professional elective course on model making and various model materials. In this course, I learnt how different materials stick together, etc., as well as choosing a building I liked very much, processing its floor plan and elevation in accordance with the printout required by the cutting machine in CAD, and then using cutting techniques to cut the wood blocks out, and then assembling them into this model.
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In the second semester of the 2022-2023 academic year, the course work in Furnishing Design was "Poetic Dwelling". Our group discussed the fact that time is relative for everyone, like the same time we are doing this and that, but there are also many other times that we don't notice that time is flowing in some form or another.
The first step in the process was to make a mould, we used plaster bandages and diatomaceous earth, and concluded that wax should not be poured into the exported plaster bandages when they are freshly burnt. We tried two types of candles, soya wax and paraffin wax, and found that the paraffin wax showed up better than we expected. Moreover, the solidification of the candles was more random and not always in the shape we wanted, so we also used a heat gun and a carving knife to shape the candles.
Just as long ago we used candles to keep time, people judged how much time had passed by the length of time the candle melted, but in the same state of time the candle that melts and runs down also continues to solidify, and the time used in this solidification process often goes unnoticed, let alone realised that it is also time. So we define the period of time during which the candle melts and then solidifies as time outside of time. We want to live poetically in the time outside of time.
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For the September 2022 Art Practice course, a field trip was made to the 798 Art Park in Beijing. During the fieldwork, I was required to create an interactive webpage about the combination of maps, history and architecture of the 798 Art Park. During the mapping, I drew six different avatars representing the different atmospheres and architectural appearances of the six park areas. For example, in the Art A park area, which is full of artist galleries, I drew a young artist wearing a beret. And in the sophisticated B area, filled with Netflix shops and post-modern architecture museums, I drew a sophisticated y2k girl to represent it.