Architecture Portfolio for Manchester

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Zekun GAO

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2021-2023

Tel: +86 15550015128 E-mail: gaozekun427@163.com Address: 1802, Unit 2, Building 2, Gaosu Lanyuan, Changqing District, Jinan City, Shandong, China EDUCATION Qingdao University of Technology, China 09.2018-06.2023 Major: Architecture (Sino-Foreign Cooperation) GPA: 79.11/100, 3.29/5.0 Degree: Bachelor of Architecture

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"Multiverse" Energy Factory

这个建筑设计的概念是多元宇宙。 的想象力和 以多元宇宙为背景，对未来人工智能技术日志的想象和推 断，就是对未来人工智能技术日志的推断。 以多元宇宙为背景，对未来人工智能技术的想象和推断是 其核心。 In the rapid development of today and the 它的内核和核心是展示许多可能的宇宙，为人们提供一个 future, we can roughly predict how society 大致的参考样本。 will develop in the future, and as designers 它为人们提供了一个大致可参考的样本。 we can show a variety of possibilities, so 它使人们能够考虑到未来可能发生的情况。 that it is convenient for the community to work together to create and choose a better 它使人们能够思考未来可能发生的情况。 future. The use of collage connects different futures and creates a strong contrast. [year]2023 [location]Qingdao, China [duration]10 weeks [academic]year 5 semester 2 [name]Gao Zekun [e-mail]gaozekun427@163.com [individual work]

Concept The concept of this architectural design is a multiverse. Against the backdrop of the technological explosion around nuclear fusion to produce energy, the imagined and extrapolated future of artificial intelligence technology, and the speculation on the concept of cyberpunk, it (the concept) presents a multitude of possible futures within the same space, so that the building cannot be real, but it provides a roughly referential sample of what is to come. It allows people to think about possible future scenarios..

timeline(multiverse) 1961 The first to whom we can definitively attribute the concept of innumerable worlds are the Ancient Greek Atomists.

1895 William James used the term "multiverse" .

When his equations seem to describe these histories as "not alternative, but truly simultaneous." This duality is called "superposition."

Erwin Schrodinger

William James

Parallel Universe in Photography

2011 2003

In a paper by MIT physicist Max Tegmark titled "Science and Ultimate Reality," Tegmark divides the different types of parallel universes allowed by physics into four distinct levels..

2007

Max Tegmark Steven Weinberg suggests that if there is a multiverse, our hopes of finding a rational explanation for the precise value of the constant in the Standard Model observed in the Big Bang are doomed.

Brian Greene's system of classifications from his 2011 book, "The Hidden Reality," is a more granular approach than Tegmark's.

Brian Greene

multiple universes The concept of a multiverse or multiverse originated in ancient Greek philosophy and has been discussed throughout history. Over time, the concept has evolved and has generated debate in several fields, including cosmology, physics and philosophy. Some physicists argue that the multiverse is a philosophical concept rather than a scientific hypothesis because it cannot be empirically falsified. In recent years, the physics community has had both supporters and sceptics of the multiverse theory..

Chrysippus

Carmine Infantino and GardnerFox first used the term in fiction in the DC Comics Flash of Two Worlds.

DC comic book titled Flash of TwoWorlds

the third century B.C.

Mind Map

1961

Paul Davies

In A Brief History of the Multiverse, author and cosmologist Paul Davies makes various arguments that the multiverse hypothesis is non-scientific.

Data from WMAP, by scientists such as Stephen M. Feeney, claim to have found evidence that this universe has collided with other (parallel) universes in the distant past..

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WMAP George Ellis, writing in August 2011, provided a criticism of the multiverse, and pointed out that it is not a traditional scientific theory. He accepts that the multiverse is thought to exist far beyond the cosmological horizon.

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In Ugur's work, we find that the "parallel universes" around us emerge as a result of different developments. The result of experiencing different developments. He collages two opposites together as a way to reflect on society. In Ugur's artwork, we can understand and feel what needs to be reversed in society and help us imagine what our world would look like if we turned things around.

His collages are a perfect blend of the everyday reality of a post-apocalyptic world and the reality of people struggling to survive elsewhere. By visually contrasting the two painful opposing experiences of normal life, he draws attention to the "parallel universes" that exist around them.

EMOTION BOARD

Max Tegmark's four levels Level I: An extension of our universe Level II: Universes with different physical constants LevelIII:Many-worlds interpre-tation of quantum mechanics Level IV: Ultimate ensemble

The multiverse is a group of multiple universes.

These universes contain: all of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the laws of physics and constants that describe them.

The term 'cyberpunk' itself can be traced back to Bruce Bethke's short story ' C y b e r p u n k ' .

Cyberpunk's central writer, William Gibson, who is recognised as the founder of the cyberpunk movement.

Cyberpunk is a science fiction culture and art style usually depicting a highly technological but socially problematic future world full of darkness and depravity.

“The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.”

– William Gibson “Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being.”

– Bruce Sterling

AI Auto-generated Art is a work of art formed by AI using algorithms, functions, and so on. The forms can be paintings, p h o t o g r a p h s , decorations, music.

AI has been steadily impacting business processes even automating complex industries like construction and healthcare.

Site Analysis

World view Communities connect countries. People choose communities, AI serves and oversees.

Smart, healthy communities with 15-minute access to essential services. Government regulates companies and communities. AI manages cities for people's benefit.

Government oversight exists.

Government oversees AI, companies, housing, communities, classes. Tackling inequality, service gaps persist. Focus on green, socially conscious development.

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Entertainment industry divides, fragments communities.

Government regulates, AI tailors content to classes

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Government influenced by plutocracy, hierarchical community division.

Varying zoning. Top plutocrats control economy.

Speculative Everything Design,Fiction,and Social Dreaming

In a parallel universe where technology is developing at a rapid pace, electrical resources are the most needed resources, and fusion power is the most resource-efficient resource, and therefore the materials for nuclear fusion are the most needed materials.

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Nuclear power generation uses the thermal energy released from reactors by nuclear fission to generate electricity, contributing to low carbon electricity generation. This project consists of five different parallel universes characterised by a kind of architecture.In another world, mankind has mastered nuclear fusion technology, enabling a revolution in electricity production, weapons applications and the virtual realm.

Fusion utilises the isotopes of deuterium and tritium in seawater, providing a more abundant source of fuel than the scarce deuterium.

Tritium is synthesised, while lithium plays an important role in the fusion reaction. The city of Qingdao in China has rich reserves of lithium chloride and large quantities of lithium carbonate ore, and is located in a coastal area with easy access to seawater. It may therefore be an ideal location for the advancement of fusion technology.

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SPI:Soulkilled Pseudo Intellects SPI: Human minds digitized, trapped in a network. Created by Soul Killer to preserve dying consciousness, used for deadly attacks in war.

Technology Tree

Integration with architectural concepts and cross-disciplinary technologies is essential for shaping the future, rather than imposing our own definitions. Design enables people to imagine and integrate ideas into their lives, facilitating further development. We believe that by expanding our thinking we can encompass all aspects of society and explore a variety of scenarios.

Whilst the future is unpredictable, building on the present enables us to create scenarios that benefit a wider range of people. It is vital to identify and address factors that could lead to an undesirable future as early as possible.

By continually exploring scenarios and considering the many facets of society, we can better navigate the future.

Production principles

Division of functions

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Careful configuration planning prevents cross-transportation.

Group Class A and B storage at plant's edge.

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Universe 1: Communication and cooperation

Position boiler equipment and maintenance workshops upwind of

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Universe 3: Green space, environmental protection

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Universe 5: Brutal Darkness Universe 2: Personalised service with Universe 4: Highly class-divided a wide range of services

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Heating Measurement Power production

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Storage area for raw materials and finished products

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Tank farms Combustible liquids

Should not be located too high Focus: Sources of fire Densely populated Upwind areas Keep away from storage areas

Shortest transport routes

Cautions

Maintenance workshop

Away from the crowd The principle of non-crossover Keep away from flood drains

Auxiliary production areas

Away from other governing bodies Source of fire Downwind area

Research Office High temperature incinerators

Away from other areas

Plan railway spurs at plant edges, avoiding passage through

Magnetic or electric pinches

Raw materials Machinery and equipment Intermediate goods Finished products The principle of Avoid windy areas non-crossover

Wastewater Toxic substances

Flammable materials Wastewater treatment plants Downwind area

Side of the factory Stay out of the danger zone Boiler equipment

Upwind areas

Electrical distribution

Be aware of sources of fire Maintenance workshop

Upwind areas Crowded areas

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Factory edge Stay out of the danger zone Be aware of sources of fire Not in areas upwind of moisture-prone equipment Not in the upwind area of open equipment

Circulating cooling towers Not in the upwind area of the distribution room

Not in the upwind area of the railway Railways Tanker truck Raw material storage

Loading dock Loading dock

External areas of the factory Stay away from danger zones

Finished goods warehouse

Loading dock

Downwind area Factory edge area

Transport loading bay

Facilities for motor vehicle access

Away from residential areas

Residential areas

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Downwind area with minimum wind direction all year round External areas of the factory

External areas of the factory

Located in the upwind area of the landfill

Water source Stay away from danger zones

Utility areas

Downwind area Stay out of the danger zone

Living area Stay away from danger zones Downwind area with minimum wind direction all year round

Hygiene protection requirements apply

Division of the five worlds In a parallel universe where technology is advancing at a rapid pace, five different areas of each of the five parallel

Universe 3

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Universe 2 Universe 4

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1. Multi-functional auxiliary production area, which provides unconditional assistance to other areas of the factory, reflecting the characteristics of the Cosmopolitan community.

2. Transport and storage areas, which provide reasonable transport to each factory area separately, reflecting the characteristics of each community connection.

3. Processing and production areas, where all areas work together to solve problems in the production of products and take care of sewage discharge, reflecting cooperation and green ecology.

4. Factory management areas and residential areas, where the class gap between the government, the rich and the common people is evident.

5. Public areas, which require constant power supply, constant use of sewage purifiers, emergency power supply for other areas, and spi devices with a global flavour. This area is characterised by danger and pollution.

From the theory of architectural violence it is deduced to the elements of architectural violence, and then they are categorised according to the theory of architectural violence and the category of architecture to create splices of architectural violence individually. Compose a building [year]2022 based on the splices and use your own ideas of softening violence to transform the building and form a new building. To practice their own theoretical ideas.

[duration]8 weeks [academic]year 4 semester 2 [individual work] [name]Gao Zekun [e-mail]gaozekun427@163.com

Background： There is no architecture without action, no architecture without events, no architecture without program. By extension, there is no architecture without violence.

THE FIRST OF THESE STATEMENTS runs against the mainstream of contemporary architectural thought, whether “modernist” or “post-modernist,” by refusing to favor space at the expense of action. The second statement argues that although the logic of objects and the logic of man are independent in their relations to the world, they inevitably face one another in an intense confrontation. Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another. This intrusion is inherent in the idea of architecture; any reduction of architecture to its spaces at the expense of its events is as simplistic as the reduction of architecture to its facades.

Bodies violating space

Elements of architectural violence in different space types The types of spaces are categorised into four types of spaces: residential spaces, commercial spaces, administrative spaces and educational spaces. Each type of space is divided into procedural architectural violence and ritual architectural violence.

The elements of architectural violence are extracted from different types of spaces and classified into procedural architectural violence elements and ritual architectural violence elements.

People do violence to space through their presence, through their intrusion into the controlled order of the building. Entering a building may be a subtle act, but it violates the balance of a precisely ordered geometry. For example, the building is populated by figures such as runners, warriors, and lovers.

Space violating bodies

If the body violates the purity of the architectural space, one might wonder about the opposite: the violence inflicted by narrow corridors on large groups of people, the symbolic or physical violence of the building on its users.

Designers can cause discomfort to users through the design of the building.Violence exercised by and through space is spatial torture.

Violence ritualized

Design understanding based on theories of architectural violence Malicious design

The ritualisation of violence he implies that the place should fulfil a function of spiritual influence. Ritual implies a near frozen relationship between action and space. It establishes a new order after the chaos of the original event. When it is necessary to mediate tensions and fix them through custom, no fragment can escape attention.

Nothing strange or unexpected can happen. Control must be absolute.

Based on the theory of architectural violence, I classify architectural violence into two types, one procedural and the other ritualised, procedural architectural violence is subdivided into malicious design, or flaws in design. Ritualised architectural violence is divided into architectural violence that occurs in order to achieve an effect on the mind, where ritualistic acts of architecture occur.

The theory of architectural violence deepens my understanding of the elements of architectural violence. In order to deepen my understanding of architectural violence looking at design, I create an architectural space consisting of multiple elements of architectural violence in order to express my strategy towards architectural violence, with the goal of reducing architectural violence with envisioned design methods, which are strategically divided into two directions: softening architectural violence and violence against violence.

Violence against violence

Understanding of architectural elements

Ritualisation of architectural violence

Design flaws

In order to realise the architectural violence that affects the spirit

architectural violence

Proceduralisation of construction violence

Buildings where ritualistic behaviour occurs

Strategies for dealing with construction violence

Analytical applications of architectural violence

Design through the lens of architectural violence

Softening construction violence

Analysis of elements of architectural violence

Collage based on elements of architectural violence Procedural architectural violence in residential spaces

Ritual architectural violence in patchwork residential spaces

patchwork element

Creating the splicing principle

The stone lions form a contrasting relationship with the steps in front of the door. Stone lions and the steps in front of the door form a back-and-forth relationship Form a patchwork.

Small spaces form large spaces horizontally, and the shape of the building space is still irregular. is still irregular, and the utilisable space is still insufficient. Small spaces are formed into large spaces vertically, and the utilisation of space horizontally is small, the vertical space is higher, but not enough to The vertical space is high, but not high enough to reach the height of two floors.

Creating the prototype of splicing

element

Creating the splicing principle

Creating the prototype of splicing student dormitory

communal quarters

youth duplex duplex apartment student small flat hostel dormitory apartment apartment

Ritual architectural violence in commercial spaces

Procedural architectural violence patchwork in commercial spaces element

Creating the splicing principle

Creating the splicing principle

In an enclosed space, opening some small windows, or even no windows, to create dark spaces. These spaces are horizontally connected by thin long corridors spiral connected together and vertically with staircase repeating rotating staircases.

The building halls are set up with levels, and the interior areas are roughly zoned, Office building but the zoning are cluttered and barrier connected with no special divisions that are not part of this partition in each case. are also included. food market

Creating the prototype of splicing

patchwork element

Creating the prototype of splicing artwork

Procedural architectural violence in administrative space Creating the splicing principle

The boundaries of the borders are clearly defined, the rooms are clearly partitioned, and the borders are bounded by sharp railings or light-impermeable walls. Rooms are connected horizontally with unlit corridors and vertically with steps.

Creating the prototype of splicing

guarded seafood market office building abattoirs entrance market barrier

Windows that Duplicate small

Creating the splicing principle

patchwork element

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Ritual architectural violence in let in less light channels windowRonchamp enclosed space patchwork administrative spaces element

The front of each building contains long and wide steps. The fences and steps for the flag-raising ceremony also show this ritualised of the Colassol ceremonial hoisting of the flag.

Order The horizontal spaces are connected by wide and long corridors, and the vertical spaces are connected by rotating staircases. Vertical spaces are spiral connected by rotating staircases. staircase

Prison stairs

entry steps

Creating the prototype of splicing

Procedural architectural violence in educational spaces Creating the splicing principle

Barbed wire railings

prison

Dense interrogation procuratorate railings room

Ritual architectural violence patchwork in educational spaces

patchwork

Guiding the submissive body along a predictable path ritualises the transgression of the body in Colassol space. The insertion of one form Order into another where different blocks clash with different forms is the real movement of the body in the architectural entity.

Creating the prototype of splicing Playground bleachers

Creating the prototype of splicing

classrooms

Colassol flag raising parterre Order ceremony

Creating the splicing principle element

The conference rooms are connected element by steps, and there are round and square rooms, with the round ones having a centralised view to guide Barbed wire them, and the square ones being railings represented by the height of the steps to represent hierarchy. The splicing serves as a form of dispersion from the centre outwards to express the hierarchy. art galleries

lecture theatre

spiral entry great big large staircase steps door space

Round classroom

Barbed wire management railings office

entry steps

Barbed wire railings

Carpenter Centre

Guggenheim Museum

The process of splicing to form a building block

Building blocks formed by splicing

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Softening violence

Violence against violence

Streamlines moderate architectural violence

Large space split

Replacing straight walls with curved ones softens the violence of the building by using curves to direct the flow.

Large spaces are separated by the use of partition walls and flow lines are used to reduce architectural violence. Smaller spaces use space combinations to rationalise the use of small spaces.

Small space patchwork

Rational use of deformed spaces

Alteration of the original structure of the wall

Ways to make rational use of space: clever use of furniture, custom-made cabinets or bookshelves, rational division of space, clever use of light sources.

Altering spaces in walls such as; windows, setting up partitions, making holes in walls

Connecting the two spaces

Wall lines aligned and levelled

Softening architectural violence by rationally connecting two distant spaces to form a sensible whole.

Minimise architectural violence by replacing untidy wall lines with flat ones, but don't repeat them too much to create a monotonous space.

Functional

architectural plan

zoning map

Streamlines moderate architectural violence Large space split

Small space patchwork

Rational use of deformed spaces Alteration of the original structure of the wall Connecting the two spaces Wall lines aligned and levelled

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Second Floor Plan

Third floor plan

Fourth floor plan

section view

axonometric

Show the operational status of each region.

Demonstrate the operational status of the commercial area.

drawing

Show the operational status of the overlook area.

Show the operational status of the exhibition area.

Aerial view showing the morphology of the areas with the violent shape of the building.

Show the operational status of the office area.

Show the state of operation of the bookshop area.

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Site analysis

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Form study

Shapes formed according to the orbits of the planets.

Formation based on gravity and overall rotation.

Site plan

Plane figure

Structure chart

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Second Floor Plan

Third floor plan

Underground floor plan

Section view

1-1 sectional view

2-2 sectional view

Elevation plan

West elevation

Cutaway perspective view Show the activities of people in each area.

Rendering

North elevation

Handmade model

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Chong Qing “Liang jiangsian” Landscape enhancement(Banan District) Babin Green Bank Section

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: The scheme is located on the north side of the Light Extreme Sports Park (Sports Centre) site. The main function of the building is to provide a beverage shop.

A survey of the existing facilities in the park revealed that the current site lacks a place for the public to relax after or during sports. The building is defined by gentle curves and a wooden roof, wooden roofs, wooden grilles and glass curtain walls to create grey spaces outside and permeable spaces inside to attract people to the site. The building is designed to attract people to the site through its softly curved contours and the grey space outside and permeable space inside created by the wooden roof and glass curtain wall.

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