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The City Pacemaker TOD design of Dujiangyan high-speed railway Supervisor：Shi Jingsong,Wang Nan Dujiangweir , Sichuan Province, China Personal work 2022 Fall As a city name card, the traditional Chinese railway station is designed as a tall monument, lacking a living atmosphere. Due to the single traffic function, the station building and its square are left with a large meaningless space, which creates a huge separation from the surrounding city and forms a low-lying area of public vitality, which is regarded as an urban tumor. It destroys people's urban life and space experience, which can be said to be a hypocritical public space.

The project reimagines the possibility of a railway station in the heart of Chengdu's Dujiangyan New City and its surrounding urban area. The pedestrian road system will connect the station with the surrounding city, introduce more humanized public space into the station area, make the station truly integrate into the urban space, refresh the vitality of the area, increase the utilization efficiency of the site, form an eco-tourism center, connect the surrounding urban space and the old city.

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Urban symbiosis Renovation design of Taikoo Li area in Chengdu Supervisor：Qi Li Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China Personal work 2023 Spring With the slowdown of urban development in China, the gentrification movement is becoming more and more common in the old and old urban areas of cities, which also attracts a large number of foreign people to change the original daily life activities of local residents, forming an invisible wall between the renewal area and the nearby old urban area, blocking the communication between people in the two places to a certain extent. The more serious situation is to make the surrounding residents move out of here and change the original social structure and urban context.

This project reimagines the possibility of placing a transition space between the transformed space and the reserved space. Through space design and wall opening Windows, the transition space can meet the activities and space needs of the people on both sides. At the same time, a hole is cut in the invisible wall to allow the people on both sides to communicate, breaking the restrictions of the wall and integrating the fireworks life with the space memory.

After the completion of the temple, a large number of Chengdu residents built residential buildings around the temple for hundreds of years, making the area the most bustling and bustling area in the urban area

Chengdu Daci Temple was founded in the Wei and Jin dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties. It has a long history, profound culture, a grand scale, a large number of eminent monks, and has been passed down as the "First Jungle of Zhendan".

In 2002, the area underwent demolition and plans were made to create a new shopping area around the temple and surrounding commercial areas.

A large number of residents moved out, and gentrification officially began

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Vertical silver community Redifine continuing care retirement community design Supervisor：Qi Li Chongqing, China Personal work 2023 Summer Due to the baby boom in the 1950s and 1960s, as well as urbanization in the past two decades, China's urban population is facing the problem of aging. The lack of urban land has led to a lack of sufficient elderly care facilities in cities to meet people's on-site elderly care services, and elderly people can only be sent to remote suburbs to enjoy loneliness and inconvenience. At the same time, the busy work of young people has made the intergenerational relationship between China's grandparents and grandchildren more valued, and some elderly people have become nannies for their grandchildren after re employment, staying in cities.

Cities urgently need a community model that can serve the entire stage of elderly care, to solve the problem of urban population aging, and to serve the large number of urban elderly people, so that they can provide on-site elderly care and enjoy the convenience of the city.

This design is based on the Western model of continuous care retirement communities. Based on the characteristics and needs of elderly people in Chinese cities, it is redesigned to address the issue of full stage elderly care and intergenerational relationships, in order to solve the elderly care problem in high-density cities

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Park boundary link Design of the Huanhuaxi Museum Supervisor：Wang Kan,Wei Dan Chengdu, China Personal work 2021 Fall In Kevin Lynch's "The Image of the City," traditional museums are seen as symbols of the city. On a smaller scale, museums act as boundaries, isolating exhibits from urban public spaces. At the same time, they act like blind boxes, making it difficult for people in the city to understand the situation inside the museum, and also causing some people to lose the opportunity and desire to see exhibits. And natural museums in cities are built within architectural complexes, forming enclosed exhibition halls that showcase specimens to tourists, making it difficult for them to truly experience the charm of nature. And this situation is increasingly appearing in major cities in China, trapping this kind of artistic or scientific atmosphere full of educational significance in enclosed spaces.

This design aims to break boundaries and allow exhibits to enter urban public spaces, allowing people to have more opportunities to understand the natural environment. Combining the characteristics of urban parks owned by Huanhua Creek and the corridor elements of traditional Chinese gardens, a new park tourism path is formed, breaking the boundaries formed by river flow barriers. The exhibition function, cultivation function of endangered plants, recreational function, bird watching function are combined with traditional corridor elements, Create a museum that breaks the boundaries between indoors and outdoors, while also integrating it into the natural environment and creating new landscapes.

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Home on the Cloud Future residential area design Supervisor：Zhu Ying ,Qi Li Chengdu, China Personal work 2022 Spring

In China, most of the urban space is occupied by residential areas. For privacy and safety, the walls of residential areas cause fragmentation of urban space, reducing the quality of urban public life. In areas where residential areas gather, urban spaces lack vitality and are even more unsafe, making life very inconvenient for residents.

This design aims to change this situation by demolishing the walls and envisioning a new residential cluster model. While ensuring the privacy and safety of community residents, activate inefficient urban living spaces and integrate them together to provide exquisite public spaces suitable for residents

Traditional Chinese urban communities

Future open communities in Chinese cities

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Habitat 0 Prefabricated residential complex in the context of the Internet of Things Supervisor：Zhu Ying Shanghai, China Group work Collaborator:Zhang Yubing,Song Jianing,Jiang Zhiyu,Li Min,Zhu Honglin 2022 Summer Contribution:Green building strategy, scheme design, carbon emission report, building energy consumption report Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19, the home-office lifestyle has gradually integrated into People's daily life, and there are even full-time office "digital nomads", which have high requirements for the combination of residential and office, and higher social attributes than ordinary living mode. However, the existing living mode cannot fully adapt to this living mode. This project hopes to rediscover and define the new living mode adapted to "digital nomads" by exploring the relationship between "living", "office" and "social". Through the reasonable interior layout of the building, the use of organic low-carbon materials, make full use of sunlight, save energy, and create a sense of closeness to nature for the occupants. Aiming at the coordinated development of people, buildings and the natural environment, while using natural conditions and artificial means to create a good and healthy living environment, control and reduce the use and destruction of the natural environment as much as possible, fully reflect the balance between obtaining and returning from nature, and at the same time, the concept of "sharing economy" is introduced into the "office" module. Efficient deployment through artificial intelligence to achieve economic, low-carbon and efficient living space

carbon emission report

building energy consumption report