ARCHITECTURE
Architecture design student works from my bachelor of architecture
These are three selected architectural design work from my undergraduate degere.
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 THEATRE |  MUSEUM |  URBAN COMPLEX |
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THEATRE DESIGN
Overall Design
This is a theatre design project (located in the campus of Tsinghua) finished by myself in a design studio class.
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The most important aspects considered in this design:
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Central shared public space connects the student area to the north and the public area to the south
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Separate entrance for the main auditorium and small black-box theatre allowing ease of management
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Exhibition corridor on 3F connects 2 spaces
Main Auditorium
The 1300 seat main auditorium is designed to obtain the best sightlines and acoustic effects. The streamline balconies are designed to add a sense of surrounding and optimize the arrangement of seats.
Blackbox Theatre
The Blackbox Theatre is made up of 6x6 elevator platforms and 3 fixed aisles. It can be rearranged and used in many different situations.
Detail Design
The outdoor steps and stairs, rooftop terraces, semi-underground corridor, and sky-exhibition corridor form an active center public space, bright with sunlight. It's intended to connect the theatre and the environment, the students and the public.
The lobby gives people easy access to the auditorium from outside and the parking garage.
MUSEUM DESIGN
“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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In the studio class of museum design, I tried to design a unique Music Museum that is different from any other existing museums. I wanted to capture the essence of music in architecture: melody, rhythm, continuity and harmony.
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1. The form of the architecture evolved from a rotating trefoil knot, which is also the shape of the circulation route for museum visitors.
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One continuous route leads museum visitors through all of the exhibition rooms on every floor. The vertical transportation column in the center allows for direct transportation or emergency escape. It also forms a structural system with the exoskeleton.
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The concert hall has its own entrance and sunken garden. It is separated from, but also connected to the main part of the museum.
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2. In contrast with traditional museums, special isolated audition rooms, a concert hall, and public performing spaces are added to provide visitors with rich multi-sensory experiences.
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3. The design of the central stairs is derived from black and white piano keys and strings, and the armrails from staves. When visitors step on the stairs or strum the strings, sounds of different pitches and tones will come out.
URBAN COMPLEX DESIGN
This is an urban complex I designed in a studio class. The requirement was to design an art trading business center with restaurants, bars/cafes, shops and small hotels in the center of Beijing city, where gigantic modern commercial buildings and tiny shabby residential houses exists closely together in a particular way. The site is located in a historic reserved area with strict height restriction, but the function of the complex has to meet the demands of fast contemporary life.
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I found 3 pairs of conflicts within this project:
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1. From fast, busy modernism to slow, leisurely tradition;
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2. From huge, grand, centralized public spaces to small, intimate, scattered personal dwellings;
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3. From money-centered, eye-catching commercial practices to culture-centered, conservative historical protections;
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I tried to transit and conciliate these conflicts with "Dissolution": dissolving the scales from big to small, dissolving the blocks from the whole into parts, and gradually dissolving the grand commercial building to the intimacy of traditional Hutong.
The building blocks are scattered in a seemingly random pattern, creating many interesting indoor and outdoor spaces, but using a systematic structural grid. The transportation network connects all the individual blocks into a whole amusement park where people can either stroll around or go straight to whichever place they want.