Portfolio Zicheng CUI

Portfolio

Zicheng CUI

Ambition

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Ambition

Memorial GPCR ------- 6

Imagination

H2O ------------------- 16

Projects Every project reflects its own personality as well as those of their architect.

Ambition, imagination, co-operation, curiosity and difference, are five main characteristics which can represent my architecture and myself.

Co-operation Difference

Biblio’Home -----------24

Curiosity Dune Open City ----- 40

AlgaĂŠ Catamaran --- 32

Ambition

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Type: Memorial, Museum, Park, Public space, Cultural facilities Size: 10000m2 Brief: As the final year graduation project of Master, as well as a personal gesture to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966 in China, I have decided to choose this sensitive subject to be my last academic project in order to give myself not only an answer but also an opportunity which allows me to learn constantly about an architect’s responsibility. Because architects do not represent simply a builder for me, they are thinkers who should deal with social conflicts and human disasters.

There are two main objectives of this project: one is to commemorate this important event in the history of China and its victims, the other is to redefine the properties of an urban space from once a people’s public space to a politicized space of propaganda - the Tian’an Men Square.

For a Forgotten Revolution

Memorial-Museum of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 4

Date: 07-2016

Concept: The project is not about ‘‘we enter the museum by the main entrance in the south and take the elevator in front of... and the toilet is situated at the rear of the building...’’, it is all about strong ideas which allow to express the complex emotions behind this long time forgotten revolution. Beginning with its urban planning, the whole building is askew in relation to the Beijing’s traditional orthogonal urban planning with the aim of making the visitors confused in the very first contact with the memorial. The question ‘‘ why is it not straight?’’ suggests in another way ‘‘why the Cultural Revolution is not right/normal/fair?’’ by its synonymous meaning in Chinese.

The building is surrounded by public parks which include its two entrances in order to offer a precious resting space in this 30000 ha. square where no bench exists. The downward construction contrasts with all the other monumental buildings around the site which unfold only the supreme authority of its history, whereas the memorial express himself by modesty and silence like its people during the revolution. After getting inside the memorial, part of the ground is made of glass slab aiming to build up an anxious atmosphere and a feeling of fear, which reminds the visitors of the martyrs’ everyday life experience. Water and vegetation are used for evoking the people’s voice and vitality. Moreover, the sequence of interior space is designed especially to imitate the human process of understanding - from ignorance to enlightenment.

‘‘Architecture must have somthing that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.’’

Kenzo Tange

Concepts

Questioning the truth 不 not askew 歪 oblique

straight 正 normal correct

Irrationality in relation to its surrouding, as the allusion of the GPCR.

Peuple’s Square Urban catalyst that will

Revitalize this urban

make the square a living part of the city belonging to the people’s everyday life.

place which has suffered for a long time from its over-politicized and stifling atmosphere.

Force of Silence - Invisible obelisk Monumental supremacy of the absolute power

‘‘Invisible’’ silence of the opposing people

Emptiness constituting

the feeling of those repressed victims as well as the memory ot these 10 years of history.

Invisibility inducing

non-visual contact; an architecture to feel from the bottom of the heart.

5

Ambition

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Site sections

Site plan

Parc de Zhongshan (Temple de l'Agriculture)

Musée de Leifeng (Archives Impériales)

Palais Culturel du Peuple de Pékin (Temple des Ancêtres Impériaux)

Porte de Tian'anmen

Parc de la Rivière Changpu

Lycée municipal 161 de Pékin

Avenue Chang'an

Place Tian'anmen

Musée national de Chine

Palais de l'Assemblé du Peuple

Obélisque des Héros du peuple

Avenue Renda Huitang de l'ouest

Avenue Guangchand de l'est

Avenue Guangchand de l'ouest

Opéra national de Chine

Avenue Renda Huitang de l'ouest

Ministre de la Sécurité publique

Rue Xinda

Cour Populaire Suprême de Chine

Musée de Monnaie de Chine

Allée Xijiaomin

Allée Dongjiaomin

Mausolée de Mao Zedong

Musée de Police de Pékin

Siège social de l'Assemblée Nationale populaire

Porte Zhengyang

Avenue Qianmen

Avenue

de l'ouest

Qianmen

de l'est

Ecole de la Langue étrangère de Pékin

Tour de Jianlou

6

Musée de Transport Ferroviaire de Chine

View form the Forbidden City Memorial-Museum of GPCR Culture, Memory, Spirituality, Public space 10000 m2 07-2016

Circulaton

Jardin Zen

MusĂŠe

plancher vitrĂŠ

Structure Poteau-poutre

N

Master plan

Ambition

Structure

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

7

Difference

Ramp access

Stairs Elevator access

8

Stairs access

= Resting space

Ramp concealed among the bleachers

Entrance park Memorial-Museum of GPCR Culture, Memory, Spirituality, Public space 10000 m2 07-2016

Inclined forecourt

=

Terraces for attending the activities

Footbridge for moving on sloping forecourt

West park

Walls = Work supports Ramps

= Sport field

East park

Ground floor level

Ambition

Imagination

Co-operation

9

Curiosity

Difference

Cocepts Facing the history

Fear - the everyday feeling experienced by the unjustly accused martyrs.

Instability to make the

visitors relive the experience of 10 years of calamity.

Force of Living, People’s Voice

The strength to live suggested by the vegetations of the

garden in the center of the memorial which continue to grow up towards the light despite their isolated and constrained location

The voice of the people resonates through the pouring

of water signifying symbolically that this site represents perpetually the place where the people has been heard

From Innocence to Spiritual Awakening 04 Understanding (Zen Garden) 02 Fear (Glass floor)

01 Constrain (Outdoor space)

03 Learning (Museum)

The change of atmosphere suggests the evolution of feeling

that we perceive when confronted to incomprehensible phenomena. Most people who limit themselves to move forward towards the truth are separated by the fear of incomprehensibility and satisfiied with the present, only those who dare to face fear and anxiety arrive to knowledge after a long journey and eventually reach the deep understanding of things.

10

View glass platform Memorial-Museum of GPCR Culture, Memory, Spirituality, Public space 10000 m2 07-2016

B2 level

View B1 level

View B2 level

B4 level

Ambition

Imagination

Co-operation

11

Curiosity

Difference

Organisation Program Centre de recherche Bibliothèque Musée Jardin Mémorial/Espace urbain

Simplicity of the programmatic organization to reinforce by contrast the spirituality of the project.

Structure Structure of the glass floor Structure of the museum

Complexity of the main structure of the glazed platform asseccible to the public constitutes one of the issue that could flourish the project from the point of view of engineering.

Environment

Environmental consciousness to optimize quality of

space, namely zenithal lighting and natural ventilation through the museum’s central patio, view on the green space and the evaporation of waterfalls that reduces the greenhouse effect.

12

View B2 level Memorial-Museum of GPCR Culture, Memory, Spirituality, Public space 10000 m2 07-2016

Section East-West

B5 level

Section North-South

Ambition

Zen Garden

Imagination

Co-operation

13

Curiosity

Difference

Special Mention of the Jacques Rougerie International Competition

The floating farm ‘‘Humanitarian Harbour of the Ocean’’

H2O

Date: 2016 Type: Floating Farm, Humanitarian Provisional Housing Size: 8000m2 Brief: Responding to the “Architecture & Sea level rise” Award of the Competition Jacques Rougerie 2016, this project, which is based on emerging developments and a prospective vision , addresses some core issues of mankind: greater environment al, industrial and technical responsibilities, while taking sustainable development principles into account: innovative materials, techniques and fundamental advance in design, development, energy saving or natural resources, recycling...The Special Mention was given to this project (among 1412 entries and almost 100 countries).

Concept: Linked to global warming and the climatic changes already observed, the rising water is a phenomenon for centuries to come. Causing floods, increasing coastal erosion, violent natural disasters, these rising waters are expected to reshape deeply our geographic current. Indeed, many littoral zone on the globe, both urban and agricultural, are likely to be flooded, currently threatening millions of inhabitants. It is estimated that there will be 250 million climate refugees by 2050.

Faced with this alarming prospect, H2O (for «Humanitarian Harbour of the Ocean») is a humanitarian floating farm that responds to this urgency. An emergency housing estate that can accommodate some 500 climate refugees in 250 dwellings, that is to say the equivalent of a village or a small neighborhood, this floating platform is above all an intensive farm that aims at food and energy independence. Using all of the most innovative agricultural techniques such as aeroponics, aquaponics, or the entomoculture, the H2O farm offers a self-sustaining eco-system called «high-tech permaculture».

The H2O project poffers a modular structure capable of adapting itself to the stages of the rising waters. For the time being, the H2O module is intended to be deployed near a town directly threatened by a disaster but can also be used as a urban farm offering local products to towns lacking arable lands. In the not too distant future (2100), the association of several H2O modules would represent a floating urban extension, connecting and protecting cities threatened by erosion. In the longer term still (2500), a larger circular combination of H2O modules would form a real floating city, independent from the mainland. H2O would thus «live at sea» by offering a productive archipelago.

14 ‘‘The world of reality has its limits;

General concept

Food autonomy Reception of rainwater

Renewable energy

Human Activities

High-tech Agriculture Aeroponics + Insect farming

Housing /Refuge

HT

Low-tech Agriculture Ground Farming Mangrove, Coral

LT

Spirulina

HT

HT

LT

Market Compost

Aquaculture

Medical Center

HT

Green space /Park Sport field

HT Agricultural part LT Agricultural part Hybrid part

Eau de mer

15 The world of imagination is borderless. ‘‘ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Aeroponics + System

Concept Virtuous Circle Plant/ Insect/ Fish

Insect Farming Eléments nuitritifs garantis par excrément des poissons

HT

Nourriture des poissons en farine d’insecte

Nourriture des insectes par les plantes

Natural Desalination of Mangrove Water vapour

Approvisionnement en eau par vaporisation (Aéroponie)

Transpiration végétale

Mangrove Eléments nuitritifs garantis par excrément des poissons

Virtuous Circle Algae/ Fish/ Mangrove/ Coral Reef

Excrément comme engrais

Abri naturel

Algaculture

Protection des racine du mangrove contre des flots

Purification d’eau par les racine du mangrove

Aquaculture

Excrément comme engrais

16

High-Tech Permaculture H 2O Floating Farm, Housing, New technologies 8000m2 2016

Sustainable development

Automatic plough

Water resources

Solar energy

Wind power

Biomass power

Tidal power

Low-Tech Agriculture

17

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Provisional housing

Medical Center

Reference model UFU (Urban Farm Units)

Housing unit

Greenhouse +

Studio

+

Floating material

18

Humanitarian Housing H 2O Floating Farm, Housing, New technologies 8000m2 2016

Photovoltaic cells

Urban Farm «Skygreen»

Vertical Kitchen Garden

Algocarburant

Hydroponic Tube

Rolling Façade

19

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

In the short term: a multi-purpose urban farm

Divers amĂŠnagements possibles Participatory workshop

20

Market

Park

Sport field

Exhibition field

Phase 1: 2016-2050 H 2O Floating Farm, Housing, New technologies 8000m2 2016

Phase 2: 2050-2200

In the medium term: a floating urban extension

Floating dam

In the long term: an independent floating city

Unit A Unit C

Unit B

=

Phase 3: 2200-2500

21

Imagination

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

22

First Prize of the idea conpetition of the Library of the 21st Century

The Bililo’Home

The University Library of the 21th Century

Date: 03-2015 Type: Library Size: 400m2 Brief: The purpose of the competition is to design a type of space with a maximum surface of 400m2 integrating the current digital uses and a number of services or equipment available to students. This space will have to take into account the evolution of students’ working practices in relation to information, communication tools and their rhythm of life by bringing out innovative interior design solutions. Program elements may include, for guidance, the following principles: - Accessibility and universality - Proximity - The diversity - The virtuality Concept: The Biblio’Home is a modern library that gives a prominent place to the digital world in order to revolutionize the idea of the classical library. The presence of digital in the library makes it possible to treat this one as a house. Therefore, it can be accessed from home via the electronic application of the Biblio’Home and you can come spend your time like it was at home through meeting spaces, entertainment spaces, catering spaces and resting space.

The library lends digital readers that replace books. This allows first of all to prevent the users from permanent passers-by between their places of life and the library. Thus through the digital application Biblio’Home, a database of digital books is available and searchable anywhere and at any time. Secondly this greatly reduces the periodic space and storage space of paper books which allows a spatial and modular organization of the project. We see again, therefor, the numerical mobility in the mobility of spaces of the Biblio’Home.

In order for the future library to truly become a house in itself, it will have to allow the presence of new activities other than workplaces and consultations of books. Thus the diversity and flexibility of the spaces become very important from where the creation of spaces for meeing, discovery, entertainment, catering and rest.

Another important point of the Biblio’Home is the ability to buy paper books through the Expresso Book Machine printer. This new printer allows the printing of a book in less than 5 minutes for a very affordable price thanks to the use of recyclable papers. The advantage of this technology is to find a tactile relationship with books. The book becomes the property of the buyer who can thus write on it and once finished keep it, throw it away or leave it to the availability of other users. The Biblio’Home application allows you to order the book of your choice that will be printed and that can be removed in the numbered lockers of the entrance hall.

Concept Accessibility, Virtuality, Mobility

Transposition from the design of a house to a library

‘‘Day space’’ ‘‘Night space’’

Space Organisation

‘‘Living room’’ ‘‘Kitchen’’ ‘‘Dining room’’ ‘‘Entrance’’

Multipurpose room Bar Cafeteria Office, reception

‘‘Office’’ ‘‘Bathroom’’ ‘‘Bedroom’’ ‘‘Storeroom’’

Printing room Toilets Private study room Archive, withdrawal space

23 ‘‘None of us is smarter than all of us.’’

«Romance of the Three Kindoms»

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Principle of mechanism Convertible into shared or private workspace

Opening faรงade during the summer, semi-independent cafeteria

24

View reading room University Library/Idea Competition Multi-function, Mobility, Flexibility, Technology 400m2 03-2015

Space metamorphosis

Open space Intermediate space Private space

View meeting room

25

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

New technology

26

View private workplace University Library/Idea Competition Multi-function, Mobility, Flexibility, Technology 400m2 03-2015

Extension of study room

Collective workplace

Private workplace

Extension of the classroom

View collective workplace

27

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Library

12:45 05/12/2018

Salle d’impression libre service 24h/24 Open and continuous reading space

University cafeteria

Private classroom

Meeting room

28

View closing time University Library/Idea Competition Multi-function, Mobility, Flexibility, Technology 400m2 03-2015

Closing time

16:39 10/05/2018

Exposition temporaire “Bibliothèque de demain” Closed library with continous printing and document retrieving service

Exhibition

Open and continuous exhibition space

Independent cafeteria

Projection room

View exhibition

29

Co-operation

Curiosity

Difference

Date: 11-2017 Type: Catamaran, Transportation, Housing on water Size: 80m2

Algaé

Prototype of a Future Catamaran

Brief: As a response to the appeal of the 8th Compeitition of Beneteau for a power catamaran, the project «Algaé», the new ecological catamaran, is inspired directly by the human body to achieve its goal of food and energy self-sufficiency. Indeed, as a living organism, the different components of Algae form a self-sustaining ecosystem: Apart from sailing, tidal turbines, solar photovoltaic panels, and algo-fuel reduce the carbon footprint of the boat and make energy self-sufficiency possible.

30

Concept: Algaé uses a high-tech permaculture system, combining 3 above-ground farming techniques: seaweed farming, aquaponics, and hydroponics. Aquariums are home to an ecosystem that is conducive to the breeding of fish whose droppings make it possible to fertilize vegetable crops.

Hydroponic plants bathed in a closed water circuit and in a neutral environment, allow to filter the water of the fish. The stagnant water evacuated by the plants creates a favourable environment for the cultivation of micro-algae that serve both as natural filters to clean the water, thanks to bacteria, and also provide the necessary nutrients for fish (phytoplankton).

As a result, the combination of these 3 innovative farming techniques creates a true high-tech virtuous circle that minimizes the need for water and energy.

Concept

Photovoltaics

Energy

Sun

Hydroelectric

Ocean AlgoFuel

Kitchen Garden

Aquaponic System

Fishes

Food

31 Always being curious about trying an innovative way of thinking the architectural design, why not attempting simply another domain beyond architecture?

Curiosity

Difference

Concept Diagram

=

32

Algomembrane/ Algo-fuel

+

+ Aquariums

+ Kitchen Gardens

Solar Roof

Harbour View ALGAÉ, Prototype of Future Catamaran Catamaran, Transportation, Housing on water 80 m2 11-2017

Solarium

Aquaponic Kitchen Garden

Aquaponic Kitchen Garden

Bedroom for 2 persons

Bedroom for 2 persons

Wardroom Bathroom/ WC Aquarium

Bathroom/ WC

Aquarium Wheelhouse Single Bedroom

Single Bedroom

Terrace

Wardroom Plan

Hull Plan

33

Curiosity

Difference

Process of Green Fuel Transformation Sun

O2 Oxygen

Catalyst Alcohol (+10%)

34

Treatment of Waste Water

Micro-algae

Biofuel/ Algo-fuel

Micro-algae

Shower Natural hygiene Products WC

Fishes

Waste Water

Night View ALGAÉ, Prototype of Future Catamaran Catamaran, Transportation, Housing on water 80 m2 11-2017

Roof Plan

Aquarium

Aquarium

Kitchen Garden Bathroom/ WC

Transverse Section

Wardroom

Kitchen Garden Bathroom/ WC

Wardroom/Bedroom

35

Curiosity

Difference

Axonometric Diagram

Removable Mast of 19.24m high Solar roof: Thermal solar panels supplying the bathrooms.

Photovoltaic panels contributing to the energy independence of the boat.

Total solar surface = 18 m² (between 5 and 8 KWh of daily production)

Modular Algomembrane of 21.2m²

Tinted Glazing

Wardroom(Cabin): 2 Aquariums of 5 m3 2 Kitchen Gardens Terrace of 4.4 m²

Modular Hull: 4 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms Tidal Turbine

36

Back View ALGAÉ, Prototype of Future Catamaran Catamaran, Transportation, Housing on water 80 m2 11-2017

Aquariums Aquaponic Kitchen Garden

Longitudinal Section: Hull

Solar Panels Algo-membrane

Tidal Turbine

Longitudinal Section: Wardroom

37

Curiosity

Difference

Date: 2015 Type: Housing, Public facilities, Urban planning Size: 10000 m2

Dune Open City

Experiment for an open city planning

Brief: The program of this project is characterized by an artistic approach which consists of carrying out an urban and architectural project from a reference image.

The image I chose in this case is the ripple-marks on the beach.

38

Concept: Like my reference image, this project is characterized by its regularity, its irregularity, its flexibility and its changing feature as well as the natural phenomenon of ripple-marks. A game of ambiguity between regularity and irregularity has been thought through different level of the urban organization and the architectural form of buildings, namely each building is different as each of the ripple-marks by following a certain order of organization such as the regular rhythm of the dunes. The flexibility of the architectural compositions allows each building to appropriate and adapt to the programmatic and environmental need in the image of the flexibility of the sand grains moving according to the waves. The change of the way of thinking architecture will therefore be the objective and the challenge of this project which aim to change little by little the identity of this commune and improve the life of its inhabitants.

Concepts

Reference image

Conception from image to architecture

39 During the first years of my studies, looking for difference in each of my projects was my goal, the difference is the only criterion that differs me from the others.

Difference

Concepts Regular frame

Irregular frame

Frame inserted into site

Urban connexion

PiĂŠton

Road tunnel

Parcel regularization

Pedestrian tunnel

Parcel irregularization

Green space

Programming

School Library

40

Museum Sport

Plot flexibility

Housing Office Mixed

View south-west Dune Multifunctional Estate Urban planning, Public facilities, Re/irregularity, Nature inspiration 10000m2 2015

B

N

La Courneuve

a

Site

A

Paris Master plan

Situation

b

Saint-Denis

La Courneuve

Aubervilliers

Site sections

Site Centre-ville

Situation

41

Difference

Concepts Structural regularity

Spatial irregularity

Programmatic change and flexibility

42

Public facilities Dune Multifunctional Estate Urban planning, Public facilities, Re/irregularity, Nature inspiration 10000m2 2015

T

T

Plancher Floor

Structure principale Main structure

RER

T

M

Accessibility

Structure secondaire Secondary structure

Première peau en verre First glazed skin

Site Activité Cité close Cité ouverte

Second metallic perforate skin

Deuxième peau métallique perforée

Schematic diagram

Enclosures

43

Difference

44

Interior view Dune Multifunctional Estate Urban planning, Public facilities, Re/irregularity, Nature inspiration 10000m2 2015

Site

Bâtiment singulier Zone pavllonnaire

Plans

Irregularity

Site Enclos Bar et Tour Shed

Sections

Regularity

45

Difference

Thank you for your attention, let’s do some architecture and have fun.

CONTACTS

Zicheng CUI

: +33 6 17 18 72 16

: zicheng.cui@hotmail.com

: 4, Rue Montholon, 75009, Paris, France