WANG YAAI IRISPORTFOLIO 2011.9 - 2014.6

The University of Hong KongThe Department of Architecture, BA(AS)

Address366(A), 4/F, Chung Ah Mansion,

355 - 362# Des Voeux Road West,Hong Kong

Email

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EDUCATION

EXPERIENCE

HONORS AND AWARDS

SKILLS AND LANGUAGE

Wang Ya’ai The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Intern at Another Design, Hong Kong

Travelling Experience

Intern at HSBC

Intern at Sichuan JingYe Engineering Managment Corporation

Year Out (Architectural Graduate) at AEDAS Ltd.

Pennsylvania State University

Bachelor of Art (Architectural Study)

Assisted in researching and designing for Commercial projects in western south of Chengdu, Sichuan, China

The President’s Freshman Award

HKU Foundation Scholoarship for Outstanding International Students

Rhinoceros (3D Modeling, V-Ray), Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign), Autocad, Autodesk 3ds Max

Chinese (First language), English (Fluent), Cantonese (Fluent)

Aisa: Mainland China, Hong Kong Europe: France, Italy, Spain, Russia America: U.S

Assited in conference and documenting

Assited in producing files and diagrams

Assited in mixed-use projects in mainland, China.

Assited in design competition.

Assited in physical model making for local projects in Sichuan, China

Undergraduate in Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

09.2011 - 06.2014

09.2011

05.2011 - 07.2011

06.2010 - 08.2010

09.2009 - 06.2011

09.2012 - 2014

08.2013 - Present

07.2013 - 08.2013

Contents

PROJECTS

01 Interwove Streets’ Community

Vertical Garden

Flowing Space

Elderly Community

Heart of The City

Ladder House

Twisting Shelter

Mixed-use Housing Complex, HONG KONG

Residential Project Revitalization

Combination of Pier and Biking, HONG KONG

Urban Network and Housing, SHANGHAI

Mixed-use Commercial, SHENYANG

Translation from Verb to House, GUANGZHOU

Transformation from Body movement to occupying space, HONG KONG

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01 Housing

In reaction to rapid development, there are some deficit of quality space in Tin Shui Wai. This project is aimed to use the concept of interwove streets to extend space and locate pub-lic programs in order to appear local residents to engage into outdoor activities for their better health and living conditions. The project promotes diverse streetscapes on the ground lev-el and connecting vertical streets in the tower to encourage active interactions among residents.

Site model 1:500

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Interwove Streets CommunityDirectore: Frankie Lui

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Site Plan

Located on Tin Shui Wai New Town. the urban fabric of this site is composed with both traditional and modern elements, including village housing and high-rise public housing. The physical network and social connection of these two living system are analyzed by routes tracing, program locat-ing and alternative means researching. Mapping and analytical draw-ings are carried in different scale: district, neighborhood and community.

Site Condition

Figure Ground Mapping of Site

Green Coverage on Site

Traffice Network on Site

Public and Private Space on Site

Major Pedestrians and Cycling Tracks

Average Monthly Income Distribution

Routes & Stations of Public TransportPopulation Density DistributionStreet Patterns Orientation to Primary Street

Parallel

Parallel

Looped

Half-looped

Flanking

SITE ANALYSIS

PARALEEL TO PRIMARY

PARALEEL TO PRIMARY

FLANKING PRIMARY

LOOPED BY PRIMARY

LOOPED BY PRIMARY

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VISUAL CHANNELlow rise village housing

a. view of public housing

allyes

middle rise facilities

b. view of village housing

street porosity

high rise public housing

c. view of streetscape

main streets

VIEWS

ACCESSIBILITY

Penetration

Various Street Experience in the Community

Hierarchy of Circulation/4 Typologies of Pedstrian Circulation

Ground network Elevated streets Core systemTransitional ascending street

Central gathering Layers of terraces Interfaces

Wind velocity: 0:00 - 6:00 Wind velocity: 6:00 - 12:30 Wind velocity: 12:30 - 19:30 Wind velocity: 19:30 - 24:00

Wind velocity from Dec to Mar Wind velocity from Mar to May Wind velocity from May to Aug Wind velocity from Aug to Nov

URBAN STRATEGIES: Potential street patterns are proposed through the analysis of wind force dur-ing time, which influnces the location of core programs and relatively dynamic area, and the investigation of social factors. Streetscape and hierarchy of circulationn are served as main driven force of further design.

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Layers of overlapped streetscape start connecting main roads on the ground, and extending to more private space on high-er level. Then it leads to residential tower, where residents havemulti-sided spatial experiences, from communal space with open views and public activites to private personal life.

Programming Strategy is based on the dimension and function of different streetscape, from broadest main roads, to second-ary streets, alleys, and vertical streets within residential tower.

Section drawing depicts living situation at different levels. Elevation drawing demonstrates the connection from liv-ing clusters to communal public terrace via vertical streets.

INTERWOVE STREET COMMUNITYFirst Floor

Second Floor

Ground Floor

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Elevation Section

Living

Dinning

Bathroom

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

TYPE A

Core FamilyDuplex

130 sqm

Terrace

Service space

Living

Dinning

Bathroom

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

TYPE B

CoupleDuplex

125 sqm

Living

Dinning

Bathroom

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

BedroomBedroom

TYPE C

CoupleDuplex

100 sqm

Living

Dinning

Bathroom

Bathroom

Kitchen

Bedroom

Bedroom

TYPE D

CoupleDuplex

95 sqm

Living

Living

Dinning

Dinning

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bathroom

Bathroom Bathroom

Kitchen

Kitchen

TYPE E

SingleDuplex

85 sqm TYPE F

SingleDuplex

85 sqm

Typical Floor

Platform View

Communal Deck View

Linkage between units

Transition From Commercial to Residential

Upper Floor

Upper Floor

Lower Floor

Lower Floor

With 0.6-meter height difference, there arE five double-height units with terraces cir-cled around at each floor linked by plat-forms and ramps. Each type of units is tar-geted at specific residentS. The deviation of facades of each unit allows them being visually related to the units above and be-neath it, presenting a consistent twisting form.

There are three-metere height communal decks at the top of one of the five units at each floor. At lower level, communal decks are functioned as public service, such as day-care center, and gym; at higher level, they become more private space shared by adja-cet residents as their social activities places.

UNIT CLUSTER

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Streetscape Perspective I: Transitional Platform

Streetscape Perspective II: Lively Street Corner

View Deck and Site Condition

Communal Deck and Leisure Time

Streetscape Perspective III: Main Road, Secondary Street and Alley Axonometric View: 1:150 Model

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Without any site context, this project is aimed to use its own quality to provide a good living condition for families. By tak-ing the Immeubles Villa as a precedent, the peoject follows the design concepts of introducing individual garden into res-idential apartments and creating double height open space for natural light and ventilation penetration. The spirally twis-ing space through the entire tower is also providing smaller open terraces at various level to obscure the inside-outside boundary of each unit.

Massing models

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TowerVertical GardenDirectore: Carlow, Jason F.

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Massing Unit

Interlocking Volume

Immeubles Villa

Interlocking Volume: ventilation & light penetration

Kanchanjunga Apt.Interlocking Volume: greater transparency

Interior Structures Bathroom

Bedroom

Terrassee-Jardin

Living-dining Room

Void spaceSolid space

Semi- publicPrivate space

Public space

Living spaceCorridorGarden

Openings allowing air and light

Type A

Section A

Section B

Section C

Section D

Type D

Type G

Type B

Type E

Type H

Type C

Type F

Type I

Dynamic spaceStatic space

CASE STUDY I

CASE STUDY II

IMMEUBLES VILLA:

KANCHANJUNGA APTS:

1920s, Le corbusier was propos-ing an effective way to design house due to intensinesly grow-ing population, which is about large blocks of cell-like individ-ual apartments stacked one on top of other, introducing indi-vidual garden terrace into each units. The plan is organized in an L-shape around an enclosed gar-den, creating interlocking space with other functioning area.

Located in Mumbai, the 32 luxury apart-ments are located south-west of down-town in an upscale suburban. At each level, there are interlock of four different apart-ment typologies varying from 3 to 6 bed-rooms each. This type of arrangement had its precedent in the cross-over units of Le Corbusiers Unite d’Habitation built in Mar-seilles in 1952, although here in Mumbai the sectional provision was achieved with-out resorting to the extreme of differenti-ating between up-and-down going units.

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Foundamental massing

Plans Transforming Process

Twisting Logic

Processing Model: Plan VS. Facade

“Pull in“ “Pull in“

Variation I

Plan in square

Variation II

Two units

Variation III

Four unit upper floor

Variation IV

Four units lower floor

Original base

“Push out“ “Push out“

Controlling factors Spatial function

orientation

garden

balcony

frequency

aplitude

Original baseFloor plan:4 units, lower level

20*20 base and central core

Stack 4*4 cube as solid space Twisting for varied plans Helix circulation 20*20 plates

Inserting plates as void space

Transforming to helixed solid vs. volume Helix hybridization

TRANSFORMED PLANS: The concept started from the idea of growth: settled on a square-shaped base, then grew into different forms by pulling in and pusing out egds in order to develop a series of organic out-line for each “plate”. By altering the aplitude, orientaion and frequency of the outlines, each subtle shift allows its floor plan to have specific open space as terrace or garden; and narrower space as service area, like stroage or restroom.

TWISTING FORMS:The corresponding relation between transforming plans to the central core provides possible means of interlocking system on both two-dimension-al and three-dimensional level. Internally, solid space, also functioned as occupied space, is shift-ing level by level and interlocking with void space, which can be regared as private open. Externally, the visual effect of gradually varied floor plates in-tegrally display a vertical rhythm of a twisting form.

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One duplex, three singlexes

Four duplex, upper floor Four duplex, lower floor

One duplex, three singlexesPlan of 5th Floor

Plan of 24th Floor Plan of 23th Floor

Plan of 4th FloorElevation

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12th Floor

14th Floor

13th Floor

15th Floor

16th Floor

18th Floor

20th Floor

17th Floor

19th Floor

21st Floor

Unit Model Model Details Conceptual Massing Model

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This project is aimed to mix one core program realated to wa-terfront and one public program into a building of total area 2000m2. With emphasis on site strategy, this project is highly connected with existing neighborhood, infrastructure fabric and topography. And the entire project is treated as a flow-ing space that allows people continuously going throught the whole space following the cycling tracks, which also link other small programs inside the building.

Model on site

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PierFlowing SpaceDirectore: Lange, Christiane

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Model on Site

SITE ANALYSIS There are wo extreme conditions of the centre and the periphery that coexisting in Yao Tong. In the espcial aspect of building typologies, the industry blocks dominated this area and the transformation of their in-terior functions can be seen as references of evolution of Hong Kong’s contemporary typologies.

This analysis investigated spatial needs of each program. Specific spa-tial sequence is established in terms of different audiences, including programs, interior and exterior space, private and public space, and site views etc. The spatial sequence of the site indicates various daily life tracks and circulation at different spots. The connection between these places represents a certain type of spatial sequence at site.

Peripheral Condition

Natural Topography

Dominant Lines

Existing Building

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Site Strategies

4. Offices and storages are set in a more seduced space for a privacy purpose in order to obatin a better working environment.5. Public space on the ground is a connecting space between cycling tracks and ferry terminal, which can be used as test tracking for bike sale stores.

As the location of the pier is intersection of ways from industrial and resi-dential area, it associates with cycling tracks and ferry terminal. Therefore, the main circulation of the project wil demonstrate the interrlation be-tween internal programs in the terminal and the external condition of the pier at Lei Yu Mun.

SITE STRATEGY

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1. Biking terminal is placed in a side space closed to land that is easy to be reached. 2. Ferry terminal is adjacent to water and locates two floors. Lower platform floats on the sea level for board ing,while higher for waiting lounge.3. The place is functioned as public space and commercial space, like cafe and restaurants.

Site Model

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Bike parking

Ticket counter

Bike rental

Bike repair

Lockers

Bike sale

Kindergarten

Waiting lounge

Storage & office

Cafe & Restaurant

Cycling track

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PROGRAM DISTRIBUTIONAs the intersection space between industrial and residential area, right next to typhoon shelter and the ferry, the pier can take advan-tage of the multi-connnection with land and water. The main circulation will facilitate the relation between internal programs and ex-ternal situation. Infrastructure programs are placed along ramps, as both transitional and functional space. It will spread programs from the two ends of the pier, and also flow people along the ramps with specific location of programs.

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Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor Third FloorFloor Plan

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LIVELY PIER

Public activities happen at both levels of the pier with various perspective of views, while it also acts as transitional space between water and ground.

Public Space + Social Activities

04Heart of The City

Functional DDisposition Model

MIXED-USE

The project is located in theJida District, one of the many core districts in the city.Currently the Jida District comprises financial, commercial, tourist, leisureand high-end residential developments, forming part of the city centre of Zhuhai. It is mainly focused on developing a multi-functional open space on the basis of site analysis on various perspectives.

Directore: Dimi Lee Aedas, Ltd

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Project Overview

300m Range

300m Range

300m Range

300m Range

Pedestrian Analysis

Analysis Diagram

Traffic Analysis

Bus StationTrack Station

Underground Parking

Pestrian Crossing Light Uncontroll Urban Main RoadSecondary RoadUrban Lane

Light ControlPedestrian Road

Lighting RouteMain RouteRight into & out

Pedestrian AcessPedestrian Tunnel

G/F Circulation Analaysis I G/F Circulation Analaysis IIHotel Vehicular Circulation Vehicular Circulation Apartment Drop Off

Parking Access Retail Drop OffMain Entry

Office Vehicular CirculationSA Vehicular CirculationRetail Vehicular Circulation

Pedestrian AccessG/F Pedestrian Ciculation Outdoor Pedestrian CirculationIndoor Pedestrian CirculationHotel Pedestrian Circulation

Apartment Pedestrian CirculationOffic Pedestrian Circulation

Retail Pedestrian Circulation

Emergency Vehicular Access Green AnalysisEVA Green RoofFire Access Surface Green

Water FeatureTrees

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H=188.9m

H=335.6m

H=184.2m

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1. Iconic Tower

9. Retail Street

17. Hotel Drop Off

5. Retail 1

13. Central Plaza

21. Zhuhai Fisher Girl

3. Apartment

11. Hotel Podium

19. Retail Drop Off

7. Retail 3

15. Sunken Plaza

23. Jingshan Hotel

2. SOHO Office

10. Heart of City

18. Office Drop Off

6. Retail 2

14. Entrance Plaza

22. Zhuhai Museum

4. Hotel

12. Lightrail Station

20. Everbright Bank Drop Off

8. Retail 4

16. SA Drop Off

24. International Plaza

25. Waterfront Park

The project is located at the site surrounds a complex trans-port system, including existing lightrail and forthcoming underground tunnel at west and east sides; pedestrian pla-za and sunken plaza connecting to main roads at south and north sides. On the ground level, the project is functioned as a pedestrian plaza reaching out to the entrance of wa-terfront park, while leading to the public transport terminal under the ground. It will create complicated but also con-vinient circulation for tourist to easy access.

SITE ANALYSIS

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To minimize the impact on the business viability of existing retail, the whole project will be developed in two phases : Sub-lot A and Sub-lot B. The first phase Sub-lot A will comprise of aboveground retail, one 164.2-metre tall apartment tower and 10,000square metres of themed retail street together with ancillary plaza and landscaping; Sub-lot B will include aboveground retail, one 337.5-metre tall iconic tower and one 200.6-metre tall SOHO office. Together they present a multifarious, con-temporary and green living, shopping and leisure experience.

PROGRAM DESIGNING

Hotel

Overall Perspective

SOHO Lobby

Bank

Office

SA Corridor

Corridor

Serviced Apartment

Retail Corridor

Heart of The City

F&B

Hotel Banquet Hall

Retail

Cinema

Flagship Store

Zhuhai International

Core

BOH

Ground Floor Plan

Forth Floor Plan Fifth Floor Plan Sixth Floor Plan

First Floor Plan

Phase A Perspective Phase B Perspective

Second Floor Plan Third Floor Plan

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This project documents and researches the urban condition of Xu hui in Shanghai targeted in groups of elderlies in five urban scales: room, block, district, neighborhood and metropolis. Due to the difficulties elderly encouter, the narrow inhabita-tion space and limited active space result in their montunous late life. This project is amied to provide them a favourable, convenient life by rearranging housing typologies, specifying use of various space and creating a clear spatical network for their daily activities.

Site model 1:500

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UrbanismElderly CommunityDirectore: Martine Vledder

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Site Strategy

Private spaceSemi-private spacePublic space

Public green spaceSemi-private green spacePrivate green space

Housing communities formed by walls Entrances

Entries Concentration of elderly activities during day

1 - 2 elderlies Concentration of elderly activities during night

3 - 4 elderlies Degree of concentration

CURRENT LIVING SITUATION: Experiencing a rapid population growth, China, has an aging population under the one child policy, moreover, more than 30% of the population in China is expected to be age 60 or older in 2050.

Shanghai, the largest city by population in China, is in a critical situation to solve its demographic issue. The city now has 3.31 million retirees, making up 24% of the population.

As this project documents and researches the urban condition of a site in Shanghai, the research are focused on a one main theme: culture, which means the inhabitation of the city.

Jia Shan road, located in the Xuhui district, is located in the geographical centre of the attractive and green district of Xuhui, with a high level of residential program.

Convinience

Healthy

Mental Healthy

Safety

Density

Public Services

Natural Environment

Community Centers

Neighborhood Condition

Daily Activities & Routine

KEYS TO THE ELDERLY:

SITE ANALYSIS

Private and Public Space within Neighborhood

Culture at Entrance Day and Night Analysis: Concentration of Elderly

Public Green Space V.S. The Concentration of ElderlyInhabitation of Public Space

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Analysis of concentration of elderly within individual housing communities

White: Concentration during the day

Black: Concentration at Night

Inhabiting Contact Inhabiting ContactInhabiting Contact

Walls Division

Long Distance Multi Levels

Back-to-back Orientation

Promoting Contact Promoting ContactPromoting Contact

No Walls Cluster

ShortDistance Multiple Layers FloorsOne Level

Front-to-front Orientation

Inhabitation of the Room: Daytime

Inhabitation of the Room: Night

URBAN STRATEGIES: One of difficulites elderly encouter is about narrow inhabitation space and limited active space, which resulted in their montonous “Two first-line “ late-life. Everyday experiencing is constrained in a range of home, markets and sometimes the public space between in the Lilong for just chatting with friends. In district and neighborhood scale, disorganized layouts and incoherent circulation are two main causes of this current situation.Further study will be aimed to provide elderly with a favourable, convinient life by rearranging housing typology, specificing fuction of space and creating an easier-accessed network for them.

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Residential

Residential Service

Model Responding to Existing Buildings

Non-residential Programmatic Model With FAR 2.65

Commercial

In every special site, spacial effects and critical issuses work together to shape the condition of the site. How do the block private space related to public space and how people enter and circulate within them become the most siginificant considerations due to Xuhui’s high density of population and space.

Connection to and influence from other parts of districts are the key issues that this project will deal with at a massing level.

Original Phase

FinaL Phase Roof Plan

Introducing Public Programs as Social Service

Inserting Low-rise Residential Buildings Inserting High-rise Residential Buildings

Introducing Commercial Programs as Transition

ELDERLY INHABITATION OF SPACE

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Residential

Commercial

ServiceOffice

Program-specified Model

Residential

Non-residential Model Responding to Site Network

Floor Plan at 12m

Final Model on Site I Perspective View I

Perspective View IIFinal Model on Site II

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Wood mold for concrete 1:40

This project is started from material exploration, then com-bining with human movement to tranlslate object into oc-cupying space. The concept of ladder house is coming from the transfoming process between service space to circulation space. So it creates multiple layers of space with multi-func-tion that people can utilize, and maximize the efficency of the house.

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Ladder HouseDirectore: McKee, Daniel Chad

Conceptual Housing

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Views of Model

Concrete Model

Concrete Mold I Inside Detail I Inside Detail II Inside Detail III Positive Model Front View Right View Left View

Concrete Mold II Inside Detail I Inside Detail II Inside Detail III Negative Model Front View Right View Left View

Top View Left View

Front View Right View

MATERIAL EXPLORATION: The translation process from a selected verb, splash, to an action is carried by manipulating and casting concrete models. By making both positive and negative models, it clarifies the spatial relationship between solid and void space: concrete and its mold.

SPLASH:a. a cause a liquid to spatter about, especiall with forces;b. strike and dash about ina liquid.

ACTION:a. a reaction between original space with extrinsic stimulant;b. an interaction between solid and void space.

VERB TO OBJECT

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OBJECT TO SPACE OCCUPATION

With adaption of human scale into space, and adjust-ment space with body movement, casted concrete block is translated into a scaled inhabitation. Continuous void space is regarded as circulation, which detached solid and void space are taken as structures and occupupation.

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OVERVIEWThe main feature of buildings in these three sub-villages isclose connection to their context, both natural and cultural.

INSIDE-OUT Hierarchical Differ-ence Between Roof and Ground.

SITE CONTEXT Natural Frames constructed by ele-ments of houses.

HOUSING Function relative-ly narrow spaces within and between houses.

Analysis was focused on the relationship between local build-ings and context, functions, and be-tween private and public spaces.

Xianniangxi, Yangwei and Changying sub-villag-es are located at traditional Chinese countryside. Through a field trip, analysis are concentrated on the relationship between local buildings and their context, and their functions, the relationship be-tween private and public spaces, human circula-tion and space arrangement, as well as the exterior and interior.

Site Map

SITE INVESTIGATION

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STRUCTURAL MODEL: Process mod-el 1&2 are transitional processes from object to house in accordance with its site context, con-struction materials and human living patterns.

Combination of mass and skeleton structures demonstrates the action and reaction relationship between spaces under and above ground, which is modified by human movement. Wood pieces in-dicates human circulations accesses from under-ground towards spaces above the house.

Right View Left View

Detail I Detail II Axonometric View

Front View

Process Model I Process Model II

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The project demenstrates the transitional design process from body movement towards occupying shelter. As a tree growing on a tall slope of the site of Ladder street, it forms a interesting dent that shapes the shelter. As body attempts to enter and to interact with the site and the tree, it twists and rotates in or-der to accomodate the dynamic and narrow width. Studies of body movement reveal the body’s position in respect to the tangible boudaries of the site. The final resulting structure is a pronounced memory, the culmination of the twists indicative of the body’s dangerous encounter with the site.

Body movement sketch

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OBJECTTwisting ShelterDirectore: Hirabayashi, Miho *

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Model on Site

Process of Entry and Departure

SITE EXPERIENCE: This series of photographs display the process of climbing up the slope, passing by the narrow wall and entering to the site, which leads to continous spatial flows.

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Movement Collage Movement Study

TWISTING SHELTER: Photo-graphs of key movement from out-line to compliation relate to hori-zontal and vertical section cuts. The section cuts display detailed spatial changing outline at different direc-tion in order to capture the three-di-mensional movement in the site. The series of conceptual model lead to the final wood structural model with twisting skeletons in response to human occupation at different lo-cations.

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Conceptual Models

Perspective View of Wood Model

Section Study I Top View of Wood Model

Section Study II Right View of Wood Model Front View of Wood Model