Is architecture deemed a language? The development of linguistics in the 21st century has aroused my interest in taking a fresh look at architecture. According to linguistic semiotics theory, even if language is not a visible, audible, or tangible instrument, it is a component of human physical existence and a mark that exists only in our minds. I concur that architectural design is the rearrangement and structuralization of signs, the interpretation of which is governed by their contexts. My own experiences have led me to conclude that architecture is a fluid language with semiotics.
Civic Safe Zone —Urban renewal based on refugees
Individual Academic Work March 2022
Site:Poland,Kraków Supervisor:Lin Li Feng
Email:lin@lin.archi
In 2022, with the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine, a large number of Ukrainian refugees began to seek refuge in Europe. This design is based on the Ukrainian refugee problem, based on the old urban space node in Krakow, Poland.
Urban Content of Krakow City
Three Shelters
Dworzec Kolejowy
Kraków Główny PKP
0 0.9km
Completion time: 2014 Flow of people: 32,200 (per day)
TAURON Arena Krakow
0 0.9km
Completion time: 2014
Capacity: 22,000 (Max)
Barbakan Krakowski
0 0.9km
At least 7.72 million Ukrainian refugees have entered Poland since the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine. Although some have since left for other countries, more than 1 million people remain in Poland. How to help the displaced refugees is a problem facing the whole society.
Established: 1498
Capacity: 3,600 (per day)
In this design, three building nodes are selected as the transformation design, among which the stadium is mainly used as guidance to solve the short-term accommodation and employment problems of refugees. As the first entrance for refugees to enter a city, the railway station mainly plays the role of guiding the crowd evacuation. The choice of Wengcheng is a city node, the focus is to provide a space for people in the city to communicate and understand each other.
Public buildings along the Mogilska"road
Kraków Główny PKP
Kraków Główny, is the largest and the most centrally located railway station in Kraków, Poland. The railway station was situated in a historical building, constructed between 1844 and 1847 by Rosenbaum, which lies parallel to the tracks. The design was chosen to allow for future line expansion.
TAURON Arena
Tauron Arena Krakow (Tauron Arena Krakow ) is an indoor stadium located in Krakow, Poland. It can accommodate 15,030 people for sporting events . The 2014 Men's World Volleyball Championships and the 2015 World Ice Hockey Championships Division I were held here.
Kraków Barbican Original Building
The is a barbican – a fortified outpost once connected to the city walls. It is a historic gateway leading into the Old Town of Kraków, Poland. It currently serves as a tourist attraction and venue for a variety of exhibitions.
Ground Floor Plan
Through the temporary platform to help more refugees safely to the shelter.
The temporary stopover area helps refugees acclimate better to the foreign environment.
The transformation of small public Spaces in cities, small Spaces can also have a big effect.
TAURON Arena Kraków
Kraków Barbican
Dworzec Kolejowy Kraków Główny PKP
Site:Shanghai,China
Supervisor:Chen Shi Yuan
Email:shiyuan_chen@berkeley.edu
Surrounding Site Analysis
Surrounding Site Elements Development Process
The design hopes to complete the connection of the surrounding urban space while updating the site. On the premise of meeting the site function update, the design takes the surrounding architectural materials as the carrier for further discovery and combination, and understands the possibility between different functional blocks through different attempts
The stairs of Sports Hall Mall
The Basketball court Ferris wheel is the landmark symbol of the amusement park around the site. The vertical movement makes the visitors have a good visual experience. The rotation of the Ferris wheel also adds dynamic feeling to the whole space.
The stairs of Sports Hall is a place where young people love activities. All kinds of street activities are held here.
The
better. The membrane structure on the roof of the swimming pool provides excellent shading effect and helps people better adapt to the external environment in summer.
Of The Football Field
Recombination Of Architectural Elements
The vertical garden combines the high space of the shopping mall, the green space of the park, and the shopping and consumption area, hoping to introduce the crowd into the new urban complex by rotating, so that the building space can be better combined with the outdoor environment.
The combination of membrane structure with basketball court and bleachers not only provides more superior sports and fitness environment for urban residents, but also adds a sense of movement and interest to urban space.
The commercial street combines recreational facilities around the venue, small shopping street and large supermarket, hoping to provide excellent experience for people of different consumption levels through a three-dimensional community system.
Combine the basketball court stand with the commercial pedestrian street, make full use of the height difference of the stand and the combination of the commercial area, so that the commercial area can create convenience stores and other businesses. So that shoppers can watch interesting games while shopping.
The combination of commercial space and urban parks enables shoppers to have a better shopping experience. Break the boundary between building and outdoor space through green plants. The combination of ramps, trusses, urban green plants and small shops makes the takeaway riders in the urban space more convenient to pick up and take away the takeaway. Ramps can also reduce the pressure of some elderly people.
Axonometric Location Map
Improve the integration of the station and surrounding space through the combination of the above elements.
Vertical garden
Commercial street
Basketball business
Basketball stand
Garden commerce
Convenient take-out
Baskeetball Park
platform
Through the new station, people once again see the historical and cultural symbols of Hongkou District in the station.
Street perspective
The dynamic facade beneath the platform brings a longlost vitality to the urban space.
Subway
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Under The Mountains
— Medium-sized gymnasium design on campus
Academic Team Work
February, 2022
Site:Chongqin,China
Supervisor:Wang Xue Song
Email:wangxuesong@cqu.edu.cn
Team Work : Ran Da Lin Huang Yi Qian Yan Pu
Chen Qiu Xu , Wan Li Xin
ROLE IN TEAM:Modeling: 30% Design: 30% Drawing: 30%
This topic is the design of 5000 medium-sized gymnasiums. As a sports competition and training venue, the shape of the gymnasium should convey the flavor of the times and display the new modern style; The structure must be combined with the building, and the technology must be integrated to display the technical beauty; The architectural design should consider the versatility of the sports building combined with the match, so that the sports ground and auxiliary rooms have a certain degree of adaptability and flexibility.
The site is located on the campus of Chongqing University Zone B, adjacent to the residential area in the north and the campus teaching area in the south. It is the area that teachers, students and surrounding residents often pass by. As an urban space, it is an important place to connect the surrounding areas.
Most of the surrounding people are campus students, residents and classrooms, and the peak hours are in the morning (6:009:00) and evening (18:00-21:00) around the site.
In order to adapt to the site, this design has carried out space concession at the primary and secondary entrances to meet the space hint for the main passage of the crowd.
Conforming to the distant landscape, the building retains the sight corridor in the middle of the gymnasium, and establishes an aerial walkway to meet the crowd's experience of viewing the scenery.
Action Palimpsest
SITE
Drainage trench
Simulate roof weight under external force
Material tension and compression utilization rate
Structural displacement diagram Reinforced Parts
In order to reduce the lateral displacement between trusses, a lateral connection is added between trusses
Metal aluminum sheet skin
Inverted trapezoidal door truss
Glass curtain wall
Evacuation Section
Indoor
Detail-diagonal skylight drain
Detail-audience seats
Playground view of the mountain
Aerial view of the stadium
Site:Hamburg,Germany
Supervisor:
Email:meiziannie@gmail.com
Hamburg energy crisis
Germany is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas. Before 2022, about 55% of Germany's natural gas is from Russia. Natural gas accounted for 27% of all energy consumption in Germany in the first half of 2021, most of which was used for heating and industrial use, and a small part (15%) was used for power plants.
Renewable natural gas station (A new energy generation methods) Elements Flow Subjects
Energy Station Discretization
Cost of Natural Gas transportation(source: BGR Energierohstoffe 2009) It can be learned from the survey that natural gas is often accompanied by energy loss in the process of transportation. This design hopes to try to separate the urban energy stations and combine the characteristics of renewable natural gas to generate raw materials from biological waste. Help cities alleviate energy problems.
Before energy dispersion
After energy dispersion
FO1:Min imum Distance for Production
（Residents/offices/Commerce)
FitnessValue1:1418.46647
FitnessRank :182/999
FO2:Minimum Distance for Consumption
FitnessValue2:1275.525748
FitnessRank :458/999
FO3:(Minimum Value)Evenly distribution
FitnessValue3:2215.562866
FitnessRank :945/999
Algorithm Optimization
Natural Gas Station Analysis
1.LARGE SCALE
The main functions include natural gas self-production, waste material recycling and natural gas tank transportation.
2.MEDIUM SCALE
Main functions include natural gas self-production, recycling of waste and used products, and supplementary distribution of surrounding commercial natural gas.
3.SMALL SCALE
Main functions include natural gas self-production and supporting other small natural gas filling stations
Natural Gas Production Plant
Garbage recovery
At the natural gas processing plant, everything is in order, and new ways of producing energy have led to a greener life.
In medium sized natural gas production plants, due to the organic combination of energy and surrounding building space. A new industrial ecology has been formed.
In small sized natural gas production plants, By providing natural gas for basic transportation, people can use energy more cheaply
SITE 2 City street and natural gas business
SITE 1 Natural gas loading plant
SITE 3 Clean energy for the people
EDGE
—The Building Darning the space
Team Work
July 2024
Site: Amazon rainforest, Brazil
The project is located in a natural reserve of the Amazon forest next to the BR-163 highway in Brazil, where extensive deforestation has caused destructive boundary conditions, also known as the “edge effect.”
The project aims to develop reforestation strategies by decoding the rainforest and using a video game to test these strategies. The goal is to reforest the area by expanding the forest boundary against the wasteland. The game alternates between human, nonhuman, and omniscient perspectives over four phases.
Supervisor: DÉBORAH LÓPEZ, HADIN CHARBEL
Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon
ATLANTIC
BR-163, a 3,579-kilometer highway in Brazil, has boosted trade and development along its route. By increasing forest accessibility, it has accelerated Amazon deforestation through logging, ranching, farming, and mining, worsening ecosystem damage.
Indigenous Migrants
The Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in regulating the global climate by absorbing large amounts of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change. The trees and plants of the Amazon convert CO2 into oxygen, thus earning its nickname. However, the Amazon is facing significant threats due to deforestation, largely driven by
South America, Brazil
Para
MatoGrosso BOLIVIA
GUYANA
Distrito Federal
Cuiaba
Santarem
Trairao Sawre Muyb
Novo Progresso Gold mine
Cattle ranch
Soybean farm VENEZUELA
“Edge effect” in ecology refers to the phenomenon of increasing biodiversity and ecological activities at the junction of two different ecosystems, that is, the edge area. This effect is due to the fact that marginal areas are affected by two different environments at the same time and generally have more light, plant species and habitat types, thus attracting and supporting a greater variety of plant and animal life.
Macow
Uakari
Tapir Macaws
Munduruku People
The Munduruku, historically a warrior people, once dominated the Tapajós Valley, known as Mundurukânia in the past. Today, the wars they wage are to guarantee the integrity of their territory, threatened by pressures from the illegal activities of gold-panning, hydroelectric projects, and the construction of a great waterway on the Tapajós.
Vernacular architecture study
Yanomami shabano
Munduruku people house Kuikuro houses
structures with conical thatched roofs made from palm leaves.
Munduruku houses are builted by using natural materials, reflecting their connection to the Amazon rainforest.
The Yanomami shabano is a large, circular communal dwelling with an open central courtyard.
Architectural Case Study-Land diving tower
Land diving, also known as Naghol, is a traditional ritual performed by the men of the Vanuatu island of Pentecost in the South Pacific. The centerpiece of this ritual is the land diving tower, a tall wooden structure built from local materials such as tree trunks, vines, and wooden poles.Land diving, also known as Naghol, is a traditional ritual performed by the men of the Vanuatu island of Pentecost in the South Pacific. The centerpiece of this ritual is the land diving tower, a tall wooden structure built from local materials such as tree trunks, vines, and wooden poles.
The Physics Board Game has helped us to think about and further optimise our video game advancement. The Physics Board Game advancement provides an intuitive way to test and explore the rules and mechanics of the game.
Game process
Step 01
Step 02
Step 03 Step 04 Shake out the dice to select the appropriate site layout.
Lay out the field according to the dice. Place the pieces and generate plants according to the type of pieces.
Try different arrangements to get the best results.
The model, called ‘Macaw Tower’, is a 1:100 scale physical model designed to test the feasibility of the actual building and the rationality of the structural design. Inspired by the parrot’s habitat, the model attempts to mimic its natural ecology while incorporating innovative elements of modern architecture. The overall structure of the model is complex but aesthetically pleasing, with each part connected using the traditional indigenous rattan binding technique, an ancient and effective construction method that reflects the wisdom of the Aboriginal people and their skilful use of natural materials.
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Model - 1:100
OtherWorks A
HuanGui Graden
Location:Hangzhou
Team Work with partner: Minqi Long
November 2021
Contribution: Design, Drawing, Modeling
OtherWorks
Urban design of Science Oasis Location:Chongqing
B May 2022
Team Work with partner: Xinxin Zeng, Chengyi Wu
Contribution: Concept Design Modeling
Ground floor plan of garden
The project is located in Hangzhou, combined with traditional Chinese stories, to create the open garden of Jiangnan in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Aerial view
