The project is located on a street corner in Les Corts, Barcelona. Barcelona has a unique urban look. This project is based on a previous study of Barcelona's urban development, a close observation of the buildings around the site, and a combination of the functional evolution of European balconies.
The project uses Folded Courtyard and Grilles to guide human vision and behavior.
Folded Courtyard:
In addition to being the internal courtyard and public space of the apartment, the tube is also the main vertical traffic of the entire apartment, which separates the street corner of the public on the first floor from other living Spaces. At the same time, by opening the hole, the cylinder integrates the internal visual relationship such as the size of the hole and the counterpoint relationship, linking the different two layers. The perforated aluminum sheet material reflects the sky and the surrounding environment, extending the space.
Different gradient effects are presented at different angles, while protecting the privacy of residents and preventing unnecessary eye contact, the use of color to make negative occlusions interesting.
Facade:
SURROUNDING
On gazebo looking to traffic kernel
Interior view on gazebo
Folded Courtyard Facade
FACADE DESIGN
Trying different typs of density and color patterns superimposition, with 3 layers.
Spacing Analysis
Trying 3 typs of different distence between 3 color patterns superimposition of grill
RENDERING
ISLAND FOR STATELESS
AN PROJECT OF INDUSTRY-ORIENTED LAND ART
Finished time: 2022.4
Individual work
Location: Cambodia
Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake is a home to many stateless people, mostly of Vietnamese origin, Cham people and a minority of Cambodians. Being stateless, they were not allowed to go ashore and lived their entire lives in floating villages on the water, living off fishing and growing rice.
Home of Stateless Westphalian System
Land Art For the first time in history, the Westphalian system divided the political, legal and administrative boundaries with geographical boundaries, but this geographical boundary could not correspond to the human living environment one by one, resulting in the emergence of some non-land. Abstract geographical boundaries forcibly divide human settlements into regimes with different positions, but ignore the fact that humans themselves are living individuals and races. Geographical boundaries define land well, but they do not describe the positions, beliefs, lives, and sufferings of people themselves.
In order to solve their survival dilemma, this plan draws on the form of land art, integrates landscape architecture, and designs an artificial island with virtual currency mining as the main industry. Above the island, there are camouflage formed by mangroves and agricultural landscapes to demonstrate the height of the building and thus conceal the location of the underground machine room for the purpose of secrecy.
HISTORY OF CAMBODIA AND FORMATION OF FLOATING VILLAGES
COMPARISION OF LAWLESS LANDS
The Main Floating Villages In Cambodia
Other Places
Independence. Khmer Republic Khmer Rouge
1953.11.9 1970 1975
Cambodia's floating villages are unique communities built on the water, primarily on the Tonle Sap Lake.
Floating Villages
Rocinha
Makoko
Navy camouflage pattern
Camouflage is a clothing camouflage effect. Help the army hide itself from the enemy.
CONCEPT
Hospitable Floating Villages
Dock for Inhabitants
Dock for Visiters
Cooling Pool
Hospital School and Temple Area
Performance Area
Sing River
Kampong`
Open water
Breeding pond
Cooling pool
Breeding pond
Rainy Season
June-August
POST-ANTHROPOCENCE
Stateless people return to their homeland after border problems and national conflicts are resolved, and after this, vegetation grows along the undulating islands, and after many years, the islands become pure landscapes on the map.
50% 10% 40%
COUNTRYSIDE INTRODUCTION PLANNING
ELIMINATE THE BORDER BETWEEN CITY AND COUNTRY
"If the living environment and job opportunities can be improved, many people would prefer to live in the countryside rather than in the city."
Finished time: 2022.10
Toyo Ito believes that the future trend is not the further expansion of urbanization
Group work
Only individual work is shown
Location: Japan
From Toyo Ito's point of view, we believe that reintroducing the countryside to the city would be a viable solution to the combination of urban and rural areas.
Landscape Type
Production Type
Culture Type
The project seeks to break down urban-rural boundaries and explore the possibility of fully integrating urban functions with rural landscapes. As a highly developed city, Tokyo is inevitably undergoing a process of gentrification, which not only brings about changes in the urban population structure, leading to equity issues, but also affects the cultural structure of the city, making the urban landscape homogeneous.
Carnival of anit-gentrification
The idea of merging the countryside with the city was the inspiration for formal rural urbanism. It is also an ideal answer for us to face the future urban and rural folding.
i. Rural areas are re-injected by capital, improving the possibility of regional economy.
ii. The city’s infrastructure is updated.
The struggle against gentrification is inspired by the parade in Japanese culture, where many rural symbols are inserted into empty buildings in the city like a parade queue, or replaced with urban space. In this state, the functions of both cities and villages have changed. The countryside is not only a producer, but also a favorable competitor of urban commerce. The cultural structure of the city has become more unique due to the addition of rural space.
iii. Balancing urban and rural populations and enhancing mobility.
Toyo Ito, architect
INFINITAS HOTEL
PART OF URBAN DESIGN OF ZHONGHUA GATE
Finished time: 2024.6
Individual work
Location: Nanjing, China
Even as modernism promoted the transparency of glass architecture, but in the years since, countless uniform structural glazing skyscrapers have emerged and bored urban citizens. In response to this, unconventional reinterpretations of facades have gained interest. The façade is made of black reflective glass that reflects different colors depending on the angle of the sun during the day. The façade enhances the continuity of the site in a way that protects the privacy of the hotel's occupants.
Continuous Courtyard:
Bridge-like connections diagonally span the space between the conference center and lobby, linking the public spaces together.
Reflective Facade:
First Floor Plan
SEA+OYSTER+SHORELINE
AGGREGATE INDUSTRY FOR SEAFOOD WASTE IN SHORELINE RESTORATION
GSD Core III Studio
Instructor: Adam Anderson
Finished time: 2024.12
Individual work
Location: Boston
"What begins in the water shall end there and what ends there shall once more begin"——J. J. Abrams
Each year, consumers eat millions of oysters worldwide, which create tons of oyster shells as waste. Boston, a coastal city, generates oysters, but also suffers from floods. This project sees shell wastes as an opportunity to deal with floods.
This project will use oyster shells to make unique concrete, creating wave attenuating systems to protect Boston Harbor Island shoreline. Rumney Marsh Landfill, which will not be influenced by floods, acts as a stage of oyster concrete industry, while oyster farms combined with restaurants to offer discarded shells. Most of the laborers in the production come from seasonal employees of oyster farm, will turn to guarding the shoreline during oyster growing seasons. Thus, the cycle of oyster growth corresponds to the cycle of human labor.
Shortly, the shoreline will become an ideal habitat for aquatic fauna and a climate change response center. Visitors will walk on paved paths and large piles of crushed shells viewed as a land art experience as people approaches the beach. Then people will savor delicious oysters while enjoying beautiful views of the shoreline. Since then, the discarded oyster shells return to the sea, where their life began, to start a new life cycle.
Rendering & Mddel: Industrial Process
Industrial Process
Piles for Exhibition
Oyester Piles Landart
Sisyphus is a character in Greek mythology, whose punishment was to roll a stone up the mountain over and over again. Currently, people working in the factory face the same situation: doing repetitive work every day.[ Camus, A. (2013). The myth of Sisyphus. Penguin UK.] However, their issue is overlooked by society, and people’s attention is attracted by the products made by the factory.
This incident proves how modernized technology is controlling and uprising The working people, just like Winner suggested, the workers is held hostage by the machine and thus become the machine. The installation work
“The Invisible Sisyphus” is a satire on factory oppression and repetitive labor, and calls the public’s attention to workers’ lives. By combining patterns from the human body and symbols from high technology, the project created complex patterns, which were decorated on the installation, showing the mental and physical pressure of the workers. With those human-tech patterns, it is hard to identify whether the installation represents humans or represents machines. Besides, the installation will keep repeating the same movement, which is the symbol of the workers repeating their work every day.
Beauty
of Repeatition
Ribs Technology
Cervical Machines
Pelvis Humerus
Vertical Repetition
The project uses a programmed arduino to control the motor movement to make the device achieve the effect of cyclic reciprocating movement. The installation will keep repeating the same movement, which is the symbol of the workers repeating their work every day.
In conclusion, the development of technology always creates inequalities, and people must not only look at the development of technology itself with a critical eye but also take into account the interaction between technology, and political and economic spheres. Besides, After realizing this inequality, society needs to diminish it by compensating and assisting those who have lost out through political and financial measure.
STRUCTURE & EXHIBITION DESIGN
Concrete Rammer
Ladder Foundation
Non-skid Strip
Detail of Non-Slip Stair Treads
2023 FAIR OF MAKING, Beijing Design Week
Finished time: 2023.08
Group work: Fan Hua, Xiao Yao, Jiaying Zhu, Yuxin Xu, Hanting Lian, Shiyi Wang
Instructor：Hanwen Liao, Feiteng zhao, Peizheng Huang, Minshan Hu
