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Urban Planning and Architecture
2021, Dalian, Jilin Providence, China
Market buildings are holding potentials to become the center of a community, and even more potentials for an elderly community. Chinese old groups generally tend to shop in a market comparing to modern supermarket or malls, which results from their own memories through tens of years. What is even more exciting is the fact that the market sometimes even plays the role of the center of their social activities.
The project is part of a larger proposal, which is to create a community suiting needs of the elderly people. With a linear activity platform wandering in the middle, lots of construction and renovation are planned, including a new nursing home, several elderly apartments, new baths, youth apartments as well as a sport and art center.
Dalian
Modern SITE ANALYSIS Liaoning Province
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TIME BANK MODEL > > > PUBLIC SPACE YOUTHAPART-MENT NURSING MEDICAL BATH DAY CARE CANTEEN GYM RESI - DENCE APART - MENT MIXED APARTENT MARKET CHESSROOM HEALTHY ELDERLY YOUTH DISABLED ELDERLY TIME BANK SERVICE VOLUN-TARY VOLUNTARY EDUCATION
URBAN PLANNING A problem here is the height difference in this district. From southwest to eastwest, there is approximately 10-meter difference in the level, which causes breaks of space and difficulties of traffic inside the district.
In the new plan, a linear lifted platform is introduced to the area, connecting functions as well as the difference of height. More open space are created with the method, giving the elderly chances to breathe fresh air easily and also shortcuts from one building to another without disturbances of motor vehicle. Motor vehicle roads are hidden under the platform, where there locate collective parking lots and entrance to underground parking lots. Pedestrian and cars are mostly separated in this area, as well as tourists and locals.
> URBAN PLANNING
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A new residential block will be constructed as a renovation of the existing residential buildings. Instead of disseminated community service, the public functions are assigned to the ground floor. Slopes happen a lot in this area to break the current boundaries caused by the level difference and encourage elderly people to hang out safely. Two courtyards solve the problem of levels and introduce plants and outdoor life.
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The former old municipal plaza is a tourist spot with grandeur views of classical architecture. The new idea will be composed it into local daily life by making it connected to the main entrance to the central market of the community, as well as an important entrance to the whole living community. Events, festivals, and even performances will be allowed in this new image.
As a new center of community life, the central plaza will be lifted and connected to all important buildings including nursing service, residency, commercial space, and entertainment. The lifted platform reduces the inconvenience for elderly people to cross busy streets with tourists and vehicles and also attempts to create an island in this compressed block where the elderly people could enjoy the sunshine.
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The triangle block with preserved old buildings will be renovated into a new center for entertainment and sports. There will be a walking trail around the building, a gate ball court in the middle, a gym, and even a gallery growing from the original ancient elevation. The block is also next to Beihai Park, which is the current site for outdoor exercise, and will be directly connected to the nursing home so even disabled people could come in a wheelchair.
The idea of mixing young and old comes from a system proposal of a time bank, in which the young people will volunteer their time in the community in order to save their rent. Compared to the elderly groups, their space is more flexible, and limited, but economical. Such volunteer work will also save them future possible service when they might grow older in this community.
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In the middle of the site, a new nursing home will be constructed in the same space where the original nursing home locates. Compared to the old model, new ideas of a small community and nursing standards will apply. Three courtyards give more chances for windows, air flowing, and sunshine. Parking will be served on the ground floor under the platform so relatives could easily get into the space.
The Market is designed to be a future center of activities of the community, for both citizens and visitors. It is designed not only to be a daily destination for residents shopping everyday necessities, but also a new iconic building facing historical plaza. Two main blocks of the building, manipulated with variation of a simple unit of arch, cross each other, creating interesting space form. Block is equipped with functions for visitors, incluing a seafood market and cultural market selling specialties, a cafe on the top floor with the best view. Block II, on the contrary, contains daily activities of residents. They are not completely separate from each other but meet on the platform.
The Market is designed to be a future center of activities of the community, for both citizens and visitors. It is designed not only to be a daily destination for residents shopping everyday necessities, but also a new iconic building facing historical plaza. Two main blocks of the building, manipulated with variation of a simple unit of arch, cross each other, creating interesting space form.
A VIRTUAL BIKING EXPERIENCE
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Exhibition 2022, Newport, RI
[DESCRIPTION]
On December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, “Crossing the Pell”, an exhibition was hosted at the historic Old Colony House in Newport, RI. More than 450 participants, ages 3 to 93, were transported inside these inspiring visions, where they virtually walked and pedaled 2.1 miles across the iconic Claiborne Pell Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in New England. People want to get out of cars to enjoy beautiful experiences and to reduce carbon emissions. Bridges have been retrofitted with safe bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure across the country and around the world. Using the magic of virtual and augmented reality, visitors experienced biking and walking across the Pell Bridge through four creative design concepts. The whole space, both virtual and real, is proposed, designed, and implemented all by the team.
PELL BRIDGE AND NEWPORT Poet Carl Sandburg said, “Nothing happens unless we first dream.” The construction of the Claiborne Pell Bridge in 1969 resulted from the dreams of many who wished to connect Aquidneck Island to Jamestown and beyond. More than half a century later and within a different context, many dreams of crossing that bridge not in a car but on foot or on a bicycle. “How can we creatively adapt our infrastructure for a more sustainable and inclusive future?”, “How can we re-think mobility while supporting healthy activities such as cycling and walking?” and “How can we share architectural ideas to allow everyone, even lay-people, to partake in a future-oriented discourse?”. Projecting such questions on a structure as large, iconic, and complex as the Claiborne Pell Bridge is no simple task. The relevance of these questions is enhanced with the passage of the Infrastructure Bill in 2021 and the 2022 award of $82.5 million for the rehabilitation of the Pell Bridge from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Infrastructure for Rebuilding America grant program. Four proposals with different concerns in economy, social equality, sustainability, construction, culture and others are raised. A pedestrian and biking trail is imagined under the original structure.
XR EXPERIENCE An important and essential part to make a dream come true is to engage the people and get the intention. To get more feedback from the users, which is the resident group in the Newport area, and to gain an impact on society, an exhibition is designed to display the ideas. The method of XR technology is introduced, to create an almostreal experience of biking or walking on the Pell, which is in the blueprint and not achieved. People will easily understand and give their opinions on the renovation.
The exhibition includes three parts: the 40 ft long printed architectural drawings attached to a flexible table with a maker-based AR which shows the renovated bridge model; the biking system, with a real bike and pedals and sensors to measure the speed and turning; and a walking VR tour with panorama. Special design for younger and elder groups is considered and also, a bio-language system is rooted because of the large group of Spanish native speakers.
ACRYLIC PRINT
METAL FRAME
SUPPORT SYSTEM
BENCH WITH TIMELINE
COLUMN COVER
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
CARDBOARD
[INFO]
Urban Planning and Architecture
2020, Beijing, China
[DESCRIPTION]
This is a project designed for the 120th anniversary of Tsinghua University when thousands of visitors come to celebrate in a gathering. At present, the campus is welcoming thousands of tourists every day (before covid-19), who admires the university for its reputation in the nation. However, they lack access to a real glimpse of inner life and could only approach to its gate to take photos. Students complain about their life being influenced by outsiders while visitors come and leave with nothing except for their selfies.
What does the university contribute to the city? Should universities take more responsibility for city life? Should the campus be open to the city?
OCTOBER
Challenge Cup is an innovation competition of the university in November and companies and governments will pay a visit to the campus to see the new publishments.
just want somewhere to relax and escape from all the pressure of my study!
would be happy if I could share more with the citizens.
don’t like those tourists crowding outside the gate bacause they make noises and interfere with my life!
Why they won’t let me in! It is so disappointing...
NOVEMBER
It is THU tradition to hold chorus competition in memory of the ancestors sacrificing in the war, and it is great chance to invite guests off campus to the ceremony.
DECEMBER
New year firework explodes in the sky above the main square... People wowed for the coming new year...
JANUARY
Civic assembly opens in the underground space below the tower. Professors, students, as well as the citizens take part.
FEBRARY
THU voluntary work is organized by student clubs to grow grass before the next beginning of the busy year.
MARCH Spring is the season for flying kites, which always remains in the memory of everyone’s childhood.
SEPTEMBER
School recuitment happens in front of the campus.
AUGUST New students come to the school and buy necessities here.
JULY It is romantic to watch the star with someone at a summer night.
JUNE International technology conferences are held in the auditorium.
MAY Time for music! Come underground and rolling in the deep!
APRIL The THU virtual Idol giving performance in front of the city!
Hotel Design at the Crossing of Wudaokou
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Architecture
2020, Beijing, China
[DESCRIPTION]
This is a program located in WUDAOKOU, one of the busiest crossroads in Beijing. There stands one tall building named U-CENTER, for which reason, well, maybe, the crossroad is given the honored nickname of Universe Center.
This project aimed to construct a medium-standard hotel right on the site, offering accommodation for flurish of businessmen and tourists. It seems that there will be another grandiose volume uprising just following the unstopped step of revolution of cosmopolitans. This is a perfect chance rethinking how such huge monster could provide and sacrifice to the cities.
HISTORY: OLD RAILWAY STATION
Beijing-Zhangjiakou
Railway is the first railway built by China and it went across the city of Beijing. Qinghuayuan Station is a passing station in the northwestern suburb of the city. With scale of the city exploding, it is now located between the fifth and fourth ring of Beijing and the traffic brings lots of people and arracts business transcations.
CROSSING ROAD
The site is near one of the most crowded and busy crossroad in Beijing which located next to the Wudaokou Subway Station of line 13. The crossing is among a commercial zone with large shopping mall, restaurant, street food, stores and a large supermarket, which serve for nearby residents, pass-by white collar and university students.
BUSY SUBWAY Line 13 is the oldest subway line in Beijing and still carries the most people every weekday, which brings flushing of people especially on mornings and evenings due to the commuters. Also, Chengfu Road is the main road from west to east in the whole block. Thus, the crossing road never lacks people groups waiting for the green light on.
Opposing the U-center shopping mall and facing the upward subway station, the new volume is rotated towards the intersection and gives a larger face to people crossing the road, which will build a sight gallery which connect the inside and the outside. Anciliary volumes are put backward and low-keyed.
RESPONSE TO THE ENVIRONMENT
How are people feeling walking on such street in urban area? Sights from different direction are carefully analysed and contribute to the final outcome. Walking from west to the east, the volume looks like a flag, a screen and reflects with the tall residence buildings. Low stores, high buildings and distant uplift station make beautiful layers and strong sense of package in a steel city.
Looking Back to the History of Ideal Whiteness : From Ancient Times to Future
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Exhibition, 2021, Glyptothek, Munich, Germany
[DESCRIPTION]
Ancient sculpture is reputated for its purity, moderate, perfectionthe precise proportion, the beautiful composition and of course, the white color with its marble materials. The idea seems neutral for its obvious aesthetic perspective. However, what remains not so popular is that Nazi and Hiltler has also been inspired by the whiteness and proportion of ancient sculpture and use it as to support their rasicm and slaughter, which is far from neutral.
What if the base of all of these trauma, the whiteness of ancient treasure, is 100% trick and misunderstanding? We will never hear reply from the history but it is never late to correct one’s way forward and question oneself. The exhibition aims to arouse visitors’ reflection of their common sense, as well as topics of rasicm and history.
From the time of the rediscovery of Greek sculptures in the Renaissance, Greek art has been acknowledged as the superior genre of art for its simplicity, for its purity, its moderation. With white marble, Greek sculptures are admired as ideal figures. Artists continue imitating the characters of artwork of the ancient times and inheriting spirits and genes from the whiteness of Greek art, which could account for the renewals of ancient art like the renaissance, neoclassical and Greek revival periods. However, this could be not true. Leftover pigments have been found on surfaces of ancient sculptures, revealing the possibility they had been colored vividly instead of intently created with purely white marbles. With advanced technologies today, we could even feel more confident with this conclusion. UV-fluorescence photograph has told us the chemical components of the pigments used to exist on the surfaces so we could even deduce what the pigments were. And equipped with 3D-scanning and 3D printing, it is not so difficult to make a copy with the original colors on the
sculpture. This discovery really challenges our common sense about Greek art, as well as something deeper in our mind and origin.
But the question is, why it is so important to clarify it? In most circumstances, people tend to recognize it as something from an aesthetic perspective and historical facts, however, any point could cause a butterfly effect. There were some historical periods when whiteness came over its literal meaning of the physical color to an extent of racism and Greek sculptures were usurped to closely connect with the origins of a specific group of people. If we looked back at Nazi history, we will be shocked by the fact that how political this neutral aesthetic character could be. It serves as an ideal symbol, a rule, and a standard, to help build a common enemy and carry out inhuman slaughters.
That is the reason we should look back to the origin and try to figure out the truth. The whiteness of ancient sculpture has caused much more effects than we could have ever expected. We are criticizing Nazis for their policies of racism and with
updated knowledge about the colored Greek sculpture, their claims come to be more ridiculous and the intention behind them becomes clearer.
Is this trend going to march again? Even though we are not in the same state as at that time, problems of racism and discrimination of discrepancy still exist. Now, it is time to think about this question, which could be hard to answer. But for sure, reflection on history is always good for seeking answers to the future.
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NARRATIVE AND STRUCTURE The Exhibition has a clear structure following timeline and is composed of 3 sections, 7 interior rooms and expands to the center courtyard. The first section focus on the origin of this whiteness admiration with Intro, The School of Athens and Noble Simplicity and Calm Grandeur. The second section tells stories of Nazi and the final part is the time to reveal another truth - with scientific explanations and advanced technologies. The end of the exhibition connects history to our present days, calling for reflection on racism problems.
EXHIBITION CATALOG An exhibition catalog is designed to be aligned with the physical exhibition itself as a supplement to the experience. At the start of each section, the viewers will be able to receive a part of the brochure with a section title on the cover and a question at the end. Each part has a cover and an attached question at the bottom to be answered by visitors. They are free to write, stick to the wall, and communicate with each other in the final room. Since there is a reverse in the exhibition, the time to look back to self answers’ changes will be inspiring.
INTRO NOBLE SIMPLICITY AND CALM GRANDEUR FROM STONE TO FLESH
GODS IN COLOR BE YOUR CREATOR
Outside Courtyard Room 1 - 2 Room 3 - 5 Room 6 Room 7
White Sculpture History, Texts, Interaction Movie, Nazi Art, PhotosProjection, Sculpture Participation
Introduce the topic and immerse visitors in a regular white sculpture environment
Give a brief introduction to the development of the whiteness theory in ancient sculpture
Explain how Nazi uses the theory of whiteness for their slaughters
A performance to show the truth behind that the ancient sculptures are once colored
Extend the topic to modern times with magazines and comment boards to encourage discussions
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EXHIBITION PLAN The visiting circulation starts from the courtyard and travels around half of the building. Each room has its own spatial language of narrative and the space is integrated.
In ROOM6, three projectors gradually give color to the original white sculpture, which is from the pediment of an ancient temple, revealing the final secret and the plot reverse.
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Exhibition, 2022, Mystic Seaport Museum, Boston, MA, US
[DESCRIPTION]
Like the sea, Black and Indigenous communities precede the story of empire and will long outlast it. For these communities, living both parallel and entwined, the sea has meant nourishment, movement, community, resistance, and freedom.
The Atlantic Ocean is a space of connection, bringing people, cultures, and futures together from distant shores. The forces of colonialism and white supremacy do not have a monopoly on the story of the Atlantic. Black and Indigenous communities live and thrive around, through and despite the horrors of these twin evils, but are not defined by them.
SUSTENANCE
MOVEMENTS
RESISTANCE SCENE3
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PERSONAL STORIES The Atlantic shapes lives across the Dawnlands. The people in these profiles have a deep connection to the Atlantic that shapes their lives. Follow their stories to learn how the Atlantic influences their work, art, and activism.
FREEDOM
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LIVING MEMORY This exhibit stands less than a mile from the site of the 1637 Mystic Massacre, where white colonists murdered over 500 Pequot men, women, and children.
A Collection of Works
Some more works of different categories are collected in this chapter, including models, illustrations, installations, concepts, interfaces, practices, etc. With a collection of photos or drawings through the past years, there appears a chance to look at the inner thoughts and the relative skills, as well as some continuous interests and themes.
POASISBILITIES STORE
Completed interior design project, 2021
Interactive installation, 2022 With technique of p5 JavaScript and MadMapper, a playful game is developed where the audience could control the avatar and look for hints of her love.
This is a long-term inspiring conceptual design project. The original topic comes from the thinking and pursuit of modern cities and young people’s life in the architectural design course. Unlimited inspiration burst out from it, resulting in a romantic encounter script, illustrations and character settings. In 2022, an interactive installation was made for the same theme. By sensing the movement of the audience’s body, the protagonist of the story is controlled to float in the universe, sending out notices of missing persons everywhere, chasing the missing nowhere.
Illustration, 2019
Illustration, 2019
STARS
Illustration, 2019
CITIZENS
Illustration, 2019
P71 Illustration, 2022
P72 UPLEFT Illustration, 2021
P72 UPRIGHT Illustration, 2022
P72 BOTTOM Illustration, 2020
