UniverCity Open

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Urban Planning and Architecture

2020, Beijing, China

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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.

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.

just want somewhere to relax and escape from all the pressure of my study!

I would be happy if I could share more with the citizens.

I 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...

SEPTEMBER

School recuitment happens in front of the campus.

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.

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.

RESPONSE TO THE ENVIRONMENT

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.

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.