Architecture Design Portfolio: 2014-2019 Undergraduate

[Prologue]

"Passport or ID card please."

Does sense of belonging come from having an Identity or not?

[Chinese Identity Card]

[Come and become a Shenzhen citizen]

5th year Graduation Design Team work with: Kaining Chuang Customs Design Site：Shenzhen River, HongKong & Shenzhen

[Hong Kong New Spirit]

[Part 1 Intervention ] [1.1 Immigrants]

[1.3 Metaphor of Boundary]

-Shenzhen's-

1980

1995

-Hong Kong's-

T

ianmen Avenue divides Chang' an（ 長 安，the capital of Tang Dynasty） into two parts and endows them with different attributes. In Tale of Li Wa, scholar Xingyang journeyed through the East Area and West Area of the city and experienced three times to be at death's doors but recovered at last. Each time the Tianmen Avenue acts as a symbol of changes in different chapters.

1995

2010

2010

-CustomsA limited space should not only be an area for inspection. It is time to transform it before 2047.

-Shenzhen RiverWith a certain width, the Shenzhen river appears as a linear boundary between two regions.

In a boundary area, special rules

are allowed. Exceptional items like banned books can be taken in.

-Lok Ma Chau AreaIt is an open space between Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

Everyone comes here as an outsider. As the population in Lok Ma Chau is made up of migrants, it is defined as an instant space.

[Boundary]

After a thousand years, China still be attracted by to the Ancient City - Chang'an.

To enter Hong Kong by landway, mainland Chinese must pass through Shenzhen Custom while Hong Kongers must pass through the comstoms to enter mainland China as well.

Shenzhen River is a division between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. It is also a zone that distinguishes the two Charter Cities with their unique systems from other cities in mainland China.

[1.2 Matters]

Before 2047, the customs will change due to the deadline of policy「50 years Unchanged」.

See you, Chang 'an.

And Hi, Shenzhen & Hong Kong.

[urban boundary]

[double-directed migration]

[Shenzhen]

[demolition and rebuilding]

[Hong Kong]

[Spring Festival travel rush]

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[ 第 2 章 Reappearance] [2.1 Ancient Chinese City ]

Chang'an is the most prosperous cities in , Tang Dynasty, the ancient China. Unfortunately, the records of Chang'an only appear in literary works and history books. We can only rely on the discription of words for imagining the scene of Chang'an 's prosperity.

As a starting point, we read a famous ancient Chinese novel called Tale of Li Wa to know the commons and officials in the Tang dynasty.

The story is mainly about a scholar, called Xingyang, who broke the Street East rules to pursue a good life with Li Wa. In response, the painting scrolls drawn by ourselves also express our understandings on rights and power and freedom.

[2.2 Power and Carnival ]

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[Street East]

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2 [Street West]

1 [Preface]

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1. Carnivals were usually performed by festivals.

2 Using important landmark architecture as celebration places.

3. Everyone is equal. Carnivals were using as an emphasis on national power.

4. In modern China, carnivals are using for the important national anniversary or important history points. So how about 2047?

Chapter 1~3 Drawn by Xiaolan Yao

[ 2.3 Ancient Chinese Novel - Tale of Li Wa ]

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[Street East]Glorious side of Chang'an.He dreamed of such a life. A procuress urged him to leave for Steet East.

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[Street West]Dark side of Chang'an. This region characterized by slums, poverty but full of energy. Xingyang had no choice.

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[Preface]First time to Chang'an.

Scholar Xingyang aimed to get the first pick of offical examination .

Degree of Mobility Degree of Supervision

7 [Revival]

6 [Revisit]

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5 [Disguised Family]

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4 [Li Wa]←

Chapter 4~7 Drawn by Xiaolan Yao

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[Revisit]Abandoned because of poverty and saved by merchants from the Street West.

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[Disguised Family]He thought he was got love but actually Li Wa was a prostitute.

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[Li Wa]Curiosity made him approaching the Street East and met the most beautiful woman called Li Wa.

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[Carnival]The biggest celebration of the year in Chang'an. Everyone is equal.

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[Revival]Through a singing competition, he became famous for his nice voice.

Degree of Mobility Degree of Supervision

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[Epilogue]But Scholar Xingyang was just an ordinary person in this busiest city.

Degree of Mobility Degree of Supervision

9 [Epilogue]

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8 [Carnival]

← Chapter 8~9 Drawn by Xiaolan Yao

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4th year academic design Individual Work Primary School Design Site：Guming Village, Guangxi Province, China

[Prologue] A local news shows that the left-behind children in rural areas prefer to study in a big Concrete Box. What are they really looking forward to?

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uming is one of the villages in Guangxi Province, China.

The Zhuang people (Chinese: 壮 族 ) are an ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in southern China. They have their language, clothes, songs, living types, and styles.

Villages have their unique charm with fresh air, the 24 solar terms, and self-sufficient life. Strong vitality will be produced while architecture and people live with nature.

But in Guming Village, nearly 51.9% of Stay-at-home Children are between 7-13 years old. This situation also indicates that the villages are lack of education resource, especially primary schools. Furthermore, Aging is also an issue. Setting up education resources is a crucial way to universalizing compulsory education.

[1-Site Analysis] [1.1 Habbits and Culture Study]

[1.2 Interviews]

On this site, the houses were built along the terraced fields. Many houses use large stones as the structure base and rammed earth bricks as walls to keep cooler in summer. The main structures are made of woods.

Combining primary schools with local traditional arts and skills can help children and visitors understand and protect the beautiful culture.

[2-Tourism Planning]

[1.3 Basic Situation]

[Road Planning]

· Wind Rose

· Recording Note 01

Stay-at-home children, aging, disappearance of traditional skills, and overuse concrete for building instead of rammed earth are urgent issues for Guming Village in recent years. Nearly every family in Guming has migrant workers.

· Characteristic

In their daily lives, elder people usually bring their chairs in the corridor and sit together to sew clothes and wash vegetables.

For them, a corridor that connects each room is their main place to communicate place .

[Renovation Plan]

[Green]

· Recording Note 02

T r a di t i o n a l h o us e s i n Guming are in courtyard patterns. The main house in a courtyard is usually for worshiping ancestors.

As there are frequent rainy weathers in this place

and the walls of houses are made of rammed earth, the eaves are quite deep. When it's raining, rainwater falling from the eaves will converge in the central courtyard.

[Rivers] Vehicles can only park in the outside Guming village.

Two sightseeing routes(one is for walking, the other is for

bicycling) will be designed in advance, ensuring the minimal impact on villagers' everyday life.

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[ 第 3 章 デザイン ]

[3.1 Concept]

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[3.2 Programs]

Steps & Jumping

1. Primary School basic functions and some of studios for artists.

2. Dying House Renovation let production places as parts of the daily .

Corridor Space

[3.3 高度差 ]

Site Contour Map of Guming Village

As I know from the contour map, this site is full of terraced field with a height difference about 30 meters. How to make use of the height difference to create space is one of my design strategies.

Entrance

Gym

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[3.6 Structure]

[3.4 Process]

(1)

Houses in Guming are built along the terraced fields.

(2)

Public areas are located near the entrance of the village.

(3)

Set up courtyards as ventilation areas following the direction of the wind.

(4)

Integrate local materials and elements into design.

[3.5 Diagram]

[4.2 Classrooms]

Students are isolated in different classrooms. Little houses on the roof can bring the light into the classrooms, and children can go through different classrooms to play games and read in the loft houses.

[4.3 Ventilation]

The atrium space serves as the center of the primary school and allowing the valley wind to run its course.

3.6.1 Making method of Rammed earth

[Section AA'-Detail ]

[Section CC']

3.6.2 the Material specimens

[Section BB'-Food Recycle and Ventilation ]

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· Primary School Gym

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1 2

1 Basketball court 2 Gym

[Basement Floor Plan]

1m

5m 3m

1 2 3

1 Hall 2 Music Classroom 3 Art Studio 4 Warehouse 5 Media Classroon 6 Art corridor

4 6

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[First Floor Plan]

· Dyehouse

1m

5m 3m

1 Main Entrance

3 4 1 Teachers' Office 2 Gate Room 3 Medical Room 4 Reading & Manual Space 5 Canteen 6 Little School Farm

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Entrance for disabled

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6

[Second Floor Plan]

1m

5m 3m

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[ Hidden In the Village] Even we are the outsiders, the design of architecture should follow the local principles and culture. It is necessary to renovate part of buildings and strengthen the culture protection education. I suppose to design three parts for the primary school: the main teaching area (classrooms), the public area (atrium,

reading area), and the secondary teaching area (music room, art room, gym). The craft artist studios are encouraged to join the secondary teaching area and become a part of the student community activities. Memory and craftsmanship are inheritance methods for local elements.

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1 Climbing Slope 2 Classrooms

1m

5m 3m

[Third Floor Plan]

1m

5m 3m

10m

[Roof Plan]

4th year academic design Individual Work Fish Market and Station Design Site：Datang Town, Guangdong Province, China

[Prologue]

Tanka people's business that depends on waterways becomes increasingly difficult.

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efore the 1950s, the Tanka has a much more bigger population along the south Chinese coast, and about 100,000 of them lived in Guangzhou.

Besides fishing, they made a living on trading with people along the waterways around Guangzhou.

However, now only 1/3 of them still choose to live on water.

Tanka people are regard as a marginalized group because of their vagabond lifestyle on rivers.

Moreover, Datang town is famous for its restaurants with freshwater produce.

When customers want to buy fish, they have to go upstairs to the other side of the embankment.

On the embankment, one side is the fish market, and the other side are the restaurants that serve the freshwater produce.

For customers, they have to walk along the embankment to the riverside. The embankment is nearly 7 meters high.

For Tanka people, markets are usually susceptible to the weather.

On this site, a marketplace with a certain flow of people and a courier station for fishermen' s rest is necessary.

[1-Site Analysis]

[1.1 Habbits]

· Sunlight Analysis

They used to take their boats as their home. They have their daily lives in a narrow cabin, including cooking, having three meals, entertaining, doing homework and sleeping.

Supplies are purchased from other boats.

[The beginning of a day]

[Preparing]

[Selling]

[Selling]

[After School]

[2-Design] [2.1-Diagram]

· Recording Note 03

The Tanka have formed residential groups by the sea, with floating bamboo rows supporting their houses' weight. However, locating by a river is different from locating by the sea. · Rainfall

· Recording Note 01

(2)

(4)

· Wind Rose

The Tanka, who known as "aquatic people," have fished at sea for many years and know different fishes best.

[the development of Datang Town]

(3)

[1.3 Climate]

- Groups

- Scale

(1)

[1.2 Elements]

[The beginning of a day]

During the fishing off season, Tanka people will go ashore and stay in houses on land for less than three months.

Every day Tanka people can catch plenty of fresh fish. They often dry the fish in the sun for better preservation.

Datang Town's climate is defined as the humid subtropical climate.

In a humid subtropical climate, summers are typically long, hot and [1.4 Case Study]

(1)

humid. Rainfall often indicates a summer peak.

In a place where fresh foods are sold, the smell of the foods should be dispelled by the wind.

· Recording Note 02

(2)

Normal food markets have fixed locations for merchants, and customers do not have clear purchasing inclinations.

During the severe rising tide periods, the water submerges the lower floors of the market, but the boats can still enter the market to sell fresh foods.

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[2.2-Strategy]

[2.4-Scenes]

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1 2 3

4 There are different activities on the river and the shore.

Create a mediator space.

The activity areas cannot directly block the water and the sight.

PIC.1

[Restroom and canteen for fishermen]

PIC.2

[Exibition space]

PIC.3

[Reading room]

The opening times depend on day and night activities.

[2.3-Water and Activities]

[People, Water, Architecture]

[Restaurant]

[Harbor]

[Market]

[Restroom]

[Culture center] 4.1

4.2

4.3

How to combine with water is the main idea of the design.

Water can keep freshwater food fresh. Also, by the light of nature, fishermen understand when to open or close the market while the rising tide or the falling tide's coming. This is a free market, and not all goods on the boats must be sold ashore.

The cultural center takes "people" as a part of the exhibition. Such as 4.1 takes "singing on the boats" as the form of performance. 4.2 shows audience on the second floor how to observe the process of repairing boats on the first floor. Also, in 4.3, part of the market is extended into the cultural center. These aim to show that although the Tanka culture has not disappeared yet, it will become the static exhibits and photos in the future.

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[2.5-Market Structure]

PIC.5

Primitive markets are usually susceptible to the weather.

[Entrance of fish market]

D1 Goods are delivered to the shore by ship-to-ship transaction in the past.

PIC.6

[In the fish market]

D2

Weaken Signborad

[Roof]

[Floor]

A1: aluminum-plastic board, t=3mm A2: stone wool fiber insulation layer, t=50mm A3: square tubular steel beam, 50mm x 50mm x 3mm A4: cement fiber board, t=5mm A5: flooring purlin, 25mmx45mm A6: plastic wood flooring, 25mm x 140mm x 3000mm

Generally, food markets are divided into fresh food areas and dry food areas. People need to distinguish the purchasing area through the signboard.

But for the Fish Market, the closer to the river, the fresher foods will be. And dry foods are usually sold at a distance from water.

[Wall]

C1: aluminum-plastic board, t=3mm C2: square tubular steel trabecula, 50mm x 50mm x 3mm C3: square tubular steel beam, 100mm x 50mm x 3mm C4: cement fiber board, t=5mm waterproof membrane, t=0.5mm C5: flooring purlin, t=25mm x 45mm C6: plastic wood flooring, 25mm x 140mm x 3000mm C7: L-shape flooring edge banding, 45mm x 150mm x 1mm

Normal Signborad

Buyer

Bank

Upstair

Dry Food

Dry

Fresh Seller

[Structure]

River Downstair

Fresh Food

B1: rubber cove base B2: fiberglass reinforces plastic board, t=5mm B3: oriented strand board, t=20mm B4: square tubular steel column, 50mm x 50mm x 3mm B5: polyurethane foam insulation layer, 60mm B6: corrugated bulkhead

[Detail] D1: 10mm gap between two decking, use clip to fix the decking onto the joist.

D2: rubber edge banding

Late snack culture prevails in Guangdong.

PIC.7

[Restaurant]

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[2.6-Circulation]

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3rd year academic design Individual Work Reconstructure concept Design- Community Center Site：Zhongqu District, Taichung, Taiwan

[Prologue]

How can the reconstructed building be revitalized when it becomes dilapidate again in the future?

T

he site is on the Chenggong Road, Taichung, Taiwan.

A concentration of eight Taiwanese theaters was on Chenggong Road in the past.

These theaters mainly opened for film watching. For the local people, watching movies was their main recreation and became a popular habit after meals.

But now, these traditional theaters are all closed down. Chenggong Road not only had film culture but also used to be a traditional commerce and residential center.

However, with the decline of Zhongqu District (located in the center of the city), surrounding residents have left for the new exploited area. The surrounding buildings are planned as a part of the historical area by the government.

The remaining residents gradually lack cultural facilities. Chenggong Road becomes very deserted and quiet.

This design is going to reconstruct the decayed Zhongying Building as a community center. But, how can the reconstructed building be revitalized when it becomes [1-Site Analysis] [1.1 History] dilapidated again in the future?

The Japanese government planned Taichung city as a chessboard. Until now, Zhongqu district area remains the same pattern.

[1.2 Doughnut Effect] Shopping buildings were built.

Zhongqu district became the business center.

The economic downturn happened. Shopping malls were closed down in succession.

[1.3 Situation]

[2-Strategy] [2.1 Presupposition]

The new urban district gradually developed and the Zhongqu district was gradually declined.

The Community Center will be completed in integrated status. With the intervention of neighboring communities, it will change physically over time.

Stage 0

[2.2 Preservation]

Site

[A concentration of theaters on Chenggong Road]

Block and main Streets

Site

Doughnut Effect are taking place in more and more cities around.

But in Taichung, it's been happening for a while. Some buildings are deserted and shabby.

The decayed Zhongying building is one of them.

[2.3 Component] The core of the first floor and basement floor are retained for bringing circulation and air up.

And the dilapidated facades are retained as part of the new facade.

In the old building, the banyan trees grew on the balconies of most floors.

With this as a growth pattern for reference, a part of the new building will be constituted by flexible components. main body

subsidiary body

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[2-Design]

[2.1 Square Grid]

[2.2 Process]

Set it in the form of Square Grid.

Learn the sunlight distribution from Autodesk Ecotect then adjust the split-level design.

Set main functions in every vertical box with the central box as the core.

Connect different floors with the same function.

Replace some functions.

[2.3 Adjustment]

[2.5-3 Interior] [Sunlight] [2.4 Future Development]

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[Sight]

[Connect with Surrounding]

[Semi-Open and Indoor Space]

After a long period of floor demolition and component erosion, the building will eventually transform into a public park still managed by the government and residents, then regenerate.

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③

④

[2.5 Scenes]

[2.5-1 Exhibition]

[2.5-2 Exhibition]

[2.5-4 Interior]

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[3-Structure]

[3.1 Flexible Components]

[3.2 Fixed Structure]

The structure is carried by the core and a regular columngrid. As a result, the walls of the rooms will be not structural and their arrangement is open to future flexibility.

[3.3 Flexible Arrangement]

Functions in architectures depend on the users. When the space needs to match to the updated functions, the modular elements need to be deconstructed and reconstructed.

[Expand vertically]

[3.1-1 Components]

[Expand horizontally]

[Add additional components]

[Reorganize spaces ]

Flexibility and publicity are important characteristics for architecture to stay alive. The space requirements are gradually changed with time. At the same time, the components are increasingly eroding the building.

After such ceaseless changes, perhaps only the basic structure and some components will remain(like 3.2) in the end and signifies that the building has done its job at this stage when it transformed into a public park.

[3.1-2 Components]

[3.1-3 Components]

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[Perspetive Section - The Core and Light ]

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Campus Landscape Design Site：Fengchia University, Taiwan Team Work with: Weiling Huang, Chunhung Liu

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his is a teamwork design and completed in a short time. We completed this simple design concept in three days, which provided a constructive suggestion for the usage of the Long Lawn in front of the Engineering Building.

As the students in this university, we well knew that many students and professionals from other expertise go in and out of the Engineering Building every day.

Through our observation, we find that the entrance is a place full of communication. Many people would choose to greet and chat with acquaintances before entering the building. That is why we propose this Long Lawn as a communication corridor.

Simultaneously, tall trees are on both sides of the sidewalk.

Students are accustomed to the squirrels that climb up and down and cross sidewalks every day.

Also, the rare birds often have habitats here. While considering the use of students, we also need to consider the activities of animals carefully.

Drawn by: Xiaolan Yao

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[About the Cover] I took the cover photo when I participated in a volunteer workshop which aimed to renovate and rebuild the ancient watermill in Guizhou Province, China.

Even the mill built by soild granite stone and woods in the late Qing dynasty, it was still collapsed after countless wars and abandoned.

After all, Daily and Impermanent are the essential attributes of architecture.

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1. About the Group Project There are two designs I worked on with others in the portfolio. Belowed I will explain the part that I was responsible for.

The first design "Chang'an Is Gone," and the last design "Stay with Nature."

1-"Chang'an Is Gone": It was my graduation design, and I worked with one of my classmates.

But we just cooperated in site analysis and the study about Tang Dynasty. We shared the site analysis. And about the Tang Dynasty's study, my partner was responsible for rewriting stories and extracting the characteristics. I was mainly responsible for the painting scrolls.

Other parts were finished by myself, including the translation part, reconstruction part, and model making.

(The cooperated part- Site Analysis)

(The cooperated part- Rewrote Stories)

2-"Stay with Nature": This was a time-limited competition.

We finished different drawings, but the pictures shown in my portfolio were all drawn by myself.

I was mainly responsible for the concepts, development, and renders. My two partners were good at the structure part and model making part.