YUQI KONG ARCHITECTURE
PORTFOLIO
SOWER IN THE DESERT [VISION FOR MUYNAK]
NEW KAPITI PUBLIC LIBRARY [SPECULATIVE ECOLOGIES]
NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL OF MUSIC [STAGE FOR THE UNSEEN]
EARTHQUAKE MUSEUM [STRENGTH FROM THE QUAKES]
THE AGORA OF JOHNSONVILLE
25 UPPER BOURKE STREET
[PHENOMENOLOGICAL ACCESSIBILITY]
KILBIRNIE TRANSPORT HUB
[TESTING MODELS]
[ACTIVATING URBAN MOVEMENT]
JACK ILLOTT BREW-LLARY
[CROSS-PROGRAMME ARCHITECTURE]
North elevation of the agora which creates an architectural narrative of community meeting place. New Zealand is experiencing a demographic transitional period when there is increasing percentage of the elder population out of the total. Researches and scholars overseas have investigated in architecture’s role of improving environments for the elderly, primarily from the perspective of disability. However, these considerations which solely come from the physicality point of view and can be easily treated just as after thoughts, sometimes still leaving the elderly in dilemmas.
As an attempt to response to such an issue, this thesis asks if accessible architecture can enable the elderly to be included in public space as community members rather than an isolated group. It aims to explore possibilities of creating accessible public space for elderly, which is also thoughtful towards other community members’ interactions. These explorations are set on the intersection of environmental gerontology* and phenomenology, focus on making space accessibly to the elderly physically, sensorially and psychologically.
[PHENOMENOLOGICAL] + [ACCESSIBILITY] 500LEVEL THESIS OF MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE
Drawing exploring the spatial relationship between movements and pauses within the space,
To re-introduce the elderly as community members who are as significant as others, the diversity and complexity of their conditions and needs should be considered, which requires the design explorations to be site-specific to avoid over-generalization. To contextualise the question, Johnsonville is chosen as the site for study, thus, the character of local elderly can be considered for appropriate design iterations. To extend current design discourse about the role of architecture in the context of environmental gerontology, the theory of phenomenology and relevant case studies will be investigated. To highlight implications and
limitations for elderly-accessible public space design, reflection will be made regarding the design explorations against the broader discursive arguments. One of the primary implications of this design-led thesis is for the discourse on elderly-friendly environments. The other implication is an advocacy for designing public space for a wider public interaction. It means taking everyone in the community into equal consideration and creating public space that is equal for every user.
View of the north lobby from the entrance.
Using the model as an interactive design tool to test circulation options with considerations of level difference, context and programmes.
[Continued to next page] Sketches of the process of formal explorations . Based on the circulation option tested with the model, geometry is extracted from the model to inform the spaces along the promenade.
Developed floor plane with consideration of programmes. The agora is under one great roof in the sense that all programmes are connected by sheltered path, and yet separated for practicality.
View towards the cafe from the north lobby.
South elevation of the agora showing pocket spaces are created to facilitate interation along the street.
Lower floor plan of the agora.
Upper floor plan of the agora.
[Below] Sketches exploring the architectural form based on the site condition.
[Above] View of the workshop space during a intergenerational programme.
[SPECULATIVE ECOLOGIES] 400LEVEL 2nd TRIMESTER PARAMETRIC DESIGN RESEARCH
N E W KAPITI PUBLIC LIBRARY CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS
A: Identifying charger points
B: Setting up chargers
Surrounding activities are recorded and prepared to act as different charges.
Classifying points into positive or negative chargers. for example, shopping mall would be a positive charger attracting occupancy.
C: Result field pattern
D.Anchor development loops
Due to the presence of major positive chargers around town centre, occupancy shows the peak of density. However, there are obvious disjunction between town centre and residential area.
Abstracted from the field pattern, two loops, specially the larger one, illustrate the possibilities of connecting various discrete areas for people’s daily activities.
After series of site analysis, to developing the proposed kapiti public library as a regional cultural hub, the project investigates the field condition of the site to analyse the occupancy patterns. These analytical outcomes become the driver of form making process.
NEW KAPITI PUBLIC LIBRARY
[INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES]
[Formal study]
[Re-iteration]
morphing responding to context/solar/wind
field + wind
[sun path] attraction factor=0.2
[sun path] attraction factor=0.4
[sun path] attraction factor=0.6
[contextual attracting points] radius= 0.3
[contextual attracting points] radius= 0.6
[contextual attracting points] radius= 1.0
[wind flow] intensity factor=0.18
[wind flow] intensity factor=0.31
[wind flow] intensity factor=0.56
[INCREMENTAL PLAN]
1.New kapiti public library to be the regional cultural hub;
2. Over bridge over SH1 to create connection to town centre;
3. Perdestrian-free loop to create a walkable town centre.
morph base form with attraction field
Charge with selected formal generator-wind
Result form
[STUDY OF FACADE COMPONENTS]
[STUDY OF MICRO WIND TURBINE]
Single layer of fluctuating surface
Wind turbine varied in types, number of blades, sized and so on to accommodate different usage.
Interesting, as the movement of wind turbine, it always require a sphere of free room.
[marrying wind turbine into facade]
Double layer of interwined surfaces
The intricate hollow space in-between the interwined surfaces mentioned above provided a great opportunity to accommodate wind turbines into facade system.
CSUN® SOLAR PANEL, CSUN320-72M-A ALUMINIUM TRACK SUPPORTING SOLAR PANELS SPECIFIED BY SUPPLIER NURATECH TPE ROOF MENBRANE ON 20MM PLY LINER, 400MM SPACING, TIGHTLY BUTTED AND STAGGERED FLASHING, ALUMINIUM, MATT BLACK WEATHERPROOF MENBRANE ON 19MM PLY LINER 11050
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410UB 60 BOLTED TO 254UC 107, M12 BOLTS WITH INTUMESCENT COATING
190*45 CEILING JOIST BOLTED TO BEAM, M12 BOLTS
ALUMINIUM CLADDING NU-WALL® MONO200, MATT BLACK ON 50*50MM TIMBER BATTEN@400CRS.
410UB60 IN TRANSVERSE DIRECTION WITH 135MM PINKBATT® BIB R3.2 50*70MM WHITE OAK CEILING ON 20MM PLYWOOD PAINTED BLACK 250UB31 ROOF JOIST BOLTED TO BEAM, M12 BOLTS 410UB60 IN TRANSVERSE DIRECTION WITH PINKBATT® BIB R3.2
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Detail of Roof to Facade 1:5
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NOTE: SOLAR PANELS AND LOUVRES ARE NEGLECTED IN THESE DRAWING FOR CLARIFICAION.
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Kapiti Public Library
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THERMOSASH® CURTAIN WALL, DOUBLE GLAZED THERMAL BREAK STICK SYSTEM-CW40, LOW-E GLASS
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[AXONOMATRIC ASSEMBLY]
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[VISUS] + [ARCHITECTURE] 400LEVEL 1ST TRIMESTER DESIGN RESEARCH
In this project, responding to the cross-program brief, a position of alliance of brewery and gallery was taken. Based on the study of site, it was discovered that the site is discrete from its history and context. An entry point of theatric theme was taken as a mean to response to the spatial and historical context and innovate the site. Through investigating the potential relation between these two selected programs focusing on visual connection, the idea of choreography of shifting visual focus was drawn out and drives the generation of the built. Along the journey of visiting the building, a series of varied viewing relationship was tested through material, light and spatial volume to create scenes
coherent with particular stage of changing viewing relation. The entry corridor of the designed gallery acts as an extruded window framing the view towards waterfront, drawing people into the gallery. Once visitor enters the gallery through the corridor, a sudden opening to the giant showcase of the brew house stimulates visitors’ sensation through the extreme contrast in scale. While attracting visitors to walk in yet a distance is kept to maintain visitor’s curiosity. Gallery space is completely blended into the brewery. Utilizing the reflectivity of fermentation vessel to create spotlight effect, building a immaterial visual boundary between gallery and brewery.
STAGE is it PUBLIC or can it be INTIMATE ? Stage is no doubt to be public, however, the use of intensive light turns the performers’ feeling from the intensity of being watched to the sense of intimacy by taking part of the visibility away and giving them the power of the authority on the stage. According to Madanipour, to clarify the hierarchy between public and private space, it is set up three categories which are interpersonal space, where communication and information exchange are active; impersonal space, where despite of the various of occupants, there is only limited communication occurs; and intimate space, where is protected to be most private. By using this scale, a comprison between varied scale of spaces are looked into. By diagramming the persentage of the length attached to other categories in total circumference, a objective measure of exposure of each spaces to others is achieved.
ART GALLERY + BREWERY
Diagram comparing the process of brewery and the journey of visiting ACCA
barley entry
malting 6 days
reception
foyer
milling spent grain
lautering
sparging
75C water
clarify agents bar
finishing hops
wort mashing 45min, 65C
hops
boiling 30+25+30+5min
75C water
main gallery public toilets
cooling 20C additives dry hop
yeast
second fermentation
gallery
gallery
gallery
offices
fermentation 10-20C
IT area workshop
conditioning
filtering bathroom
storage
kitchen
store
tapping
Radius------Duration
CHOREOGRAPHY of cross-programming
Color------Temperature/Vitality
Shift visual focus between programs
Perspectives viewing from civic square.
Shifting visual focus between programs
Exploration throught the application of the reflection of refelctive surface.s to generate linkage.
IT area malting
Entry corridor acting as an extruded window draws people in.
offices
bathroom
milling workshop
kitchen storage
cooling
boiling sparging
mashing lautering foyer reception
entry
Foyer-brew house perspectives. Visitors’ focus land on the showcase of active brew house although distance is maintain to create the sense of publicness. second fermentation
reception
entry
second fermentation gallery
main gallery
fermentation gallery conditioning gallery
filtering
Bar and test room perspectives. Visitors and brewery staffs brought together by the product of brewery.
storage bar tapping
public toilets
Gallery/fermentation room perspectives. The spatial distinction between gallery and brewery was destroyed. Nevertheless, visitor visually focus on artworks because of the lighting while brewery workers paying attention on controlling fermentation vessels.
[TESTING MODELS] 400LEVEL 1st TRIMESTER HOUSE & HOME
KILBIRNIE
25 UPPER BOURKE STREET
In this project, through the investigation of three precedents highlighting viewing, a proposal emerges from the essences of previous three case studies expressing their focus on viewing. The investigation started from three key ideas of designing for views carried by the precedents, which are the sequential, the directional and
FINAL 1:100 MODEL the interactive. To create the sequence of various viewing experience, the house are spread along the hilly site, utilizing the nature of level difference of the site. The core idea of sequential viewing experience is the fluctuation and contrast of exposure and intimacy between phases. An internal courtyard is inserted and gently embraced by the house to add extra interest point for internal viewing. As the experiment developed, the sequence of viewing stages became increasingly enriched and diverse. Considering the context of the site, it is clear that the visual contact with neighboring houses is to be reduced and the overlook to the Kilbirnie village and waterfront is desirable. To orientate and mediate views perceived by the occupants, various expressive extruded window forms were tested and became the formal feature of the final proposed house. To encourage visual connection between spaces within private/ public area of the house, walls and floors are subtracted by the cubes slanted in the similar angle as the slope site.
[EARTHQUAKE MUSEUM] 300LEVEL 2nd TRIMESTER DESIGN INTEGRATION
EARTHQUAKE MUSEUM
EARTHQUAKE MUSEUM EXTERIOR and INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES
1. ELEVATION FROM WATERLOO QUAY
2.MAIN HALL
3.MEMORIAL WALKWAY
4.EXHIBITION ONE: EDUCATIONAL EXHIBITION SPACE
5.EXHIBITION TWO: EARTHQUAKE HISTORY EXHIBITION
[NEW ZEALAND SCHOOL of MUSIC] 300LEVEL 2nd TRIMESTER DESIGN INTEGRATION
When a performance is presented, behind the perfect scene on the stage, there is enormous amount of time and energy is devoted. The accumulation and persistence of practice are fundamental to produce a good performance, however they are often hidden from the audience. In this project, the design intent was to bring the public through the campus life. The atrium of the school of music opens to the corner of Leeds Street and Ghuznee Street, revealing the curtain which covers all those unseen hardwork. The cantilevered timber-studscreen are supported by the academic block
and staff block, presenting a dynamic and fluid form symblizing music, which is compsed by simple elements through repitition, imitation and change. On the contrary, the structural elements of the building are relatively rigid visually, responding to the contrast between performance and practice. To bring the process of practicing to be “seen�, practice rooms are located behind the screen around the atrium. The silhouette of students praticing and the inperfect fragment of music shows people the a different way to appreciate music.
Night time perspectives from Ghuznee Street
1. Main Atrium 2. Reception/Meeting Rooms 3. Cafe & Jazz Performance area 3a. Cafe Kitchen 4. Toilets 5. Staff Offices
6. Staff Common Room 7. Large Teaching Room 8. Small Teaching Room 9. Tutorial Room 10. Recording Venue 11. Keyboard Labs 12. Post Grad facilities
13. Practice Room 14. Storage 15. Library 15a. Library Archive 16. Computer Labs 17. Foyer 18. Control Room
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Small Auditorium Large Auditorium VIP Dressing Room Dressing Room Rehearsal Room Workshop Crew Room
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First Floor Plan
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Second Floor Plan
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Third Floor Plan
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Ground Floor Plan
Perspectives of the entrance from Ghuznee Street
[SOWER IN THE DESERT] Muynak, Uzbekistan 300LEVEL 1st TRIMESTER ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
SOWER IN THE DESERT DIAGRAMS STUDYING SELF-SUSTAIN IRRIGATION SYSTEM
SOWER IN THE DESERT DRAWINGS OF ORGANIZATION and an UTOPIAN VISION of the built
[ACTIVATING URBAN MOVEMENT] INNOVATING KILBIRNIE 200LEVEL 2nd TRIMESTER ARCHITECTURE DESIGN
KILBIRNIE LIGHT-RAIL STATION LIGHT-RAIL STATION BECOMES A COMMUNITY MEETING PLACE