Location: Dali, China Instruclor: Ting Chen Time: 2023.8-2023.10 Area: 21 m²
Location: Casey City, Melbourne, Australia Instruclor: Sophie Sturup, Yiwen Wang Time: 2024.8 Area: 1,550,000 m²
: 2021-2024
01 THE HERITAGE REGENERATION OF ISTANBUL LAND WALLS
Location: Istanbul, Turkey Instruclor: Yiwen Wang
Time: 2024.10- 2025.1 Area: 44,841m²
The Istanbul Land Walls are among the most impressive monuments of Late Antiquity. The heritage site is now prejudiced against the local people as unsaf and less attractive. The heritage regeneration aims to address the current issues facing the site by dividing the site into three functional zones based on the original form of the land walls: moated park, urban agriculture, and monumental space. It will inject a reintegrate functional structure of the site, enhance accessibility and connectivity between the spaces cut off by the walled structure, and reconstruct the social value and spatial vitality of the heritage site.
THE SITE ANALYSIS OF LAND WALLS
The Street View of Sites
The Main Issues of Sites
Confusing site functions
Ambiguity of site functions
Inadequate conservation of walls
Poor accessibility and connectivity to all areas
Unlawful parking
Under construction
Structural Loss
Remnant Structure Walls cut off connections between areas
Yedikule Fortress
THE TYPES & FUNCTIONS OF SPACE
Water-friendly Public Space Leisure Public Space Connecting Bridge
Based on the three issues facing in the site, the functional ambiguity and confusion, the weak protection of the land walls, and the poor accessibility and connectivity. The three functional areas based on the space divided by the land walls: The moat park serves as a public space for leisure and a water landscape; the urban agriculture area preserves the historical vegetable garden of the land wall. The monumental space where visitors can leisurely stroll and immerse themselves in the history and views of the land walls.
THE SECTION OF LAND WALLS
THE RENWAL OF THE LAND WALLS
Based on the three-level structure of the land walls, different functions are put into each level to enrich the use of the site.
Moat park
Urban Agriculture Park Moat park
The Moat Park is situated on the moat site of the land wall, with the water landscape to simulate the original form of the moat, and provides public space for recreation. People can walk along the water landscape, sit on benches, and relax, and the park offers open space for picnics, chat, reading or engage in relaxing outdoor sports.
In the outer walk between the breastwork and the outer wall, the urban agriculture area preserves historic vegetable gardens that are an important part of the heritage of the land walls. In addition to the traditional horizontal farming, a vertical farming system is added to reinforce the walls’ structure while preserving its original function. The connecting bridge pave a way for people to interact with vertical farming and walls.
Monumental Prak
The monumental prak serves to allow visitors to walk among the walls, explore their details, and immerse themselves in the cultural fascination of this impressive heritage monument from the Late Antiquity.Walking on the connecting bridge increases the interaction between the visitors and the wall.
02 THE REGENERATION OF WEDDING DRESS INDUSTRIAL PARKS
Location: Suzhou, China Instruclor: Hyung Rae Cho, Kexin Feng, Wenzhao Jia
Chahua Cun is located north of Huqiu Mountain in Suzhou, plays an important role in wedding dress and flower planting. Once flourished, the wedding industry is now in decline and needs revitalization. The modern bridal industry park aims to focus on urban regeneration, sustainability, and industrial renewal. The park will integrate production, tourism, and leisure, promoting the wedding industry through diversified development. It will inject new vitality into the local economy, creating a large-scale, sustainable industrial space with the integration of themed travel and eco-tourism.
SITE ANALYSIS
Transport Analysis
Hanshan Temple
Huqiushan Wetland Park
Wangshiyuan Graden (Master of the Nets Garden)
Canglangting Garden
Huqiushan Scenic Area
Pingjiang Road
Lingering Garden
Yipu Graden (Garden of Cultivation)
Huanxiu Mountain Villa (Mountain Villa with Embracing Beauty)
Poor accessibility, many cut-offs and failure to form a road network, inadequate road widths and unfriendly. It is dominated by commercial and residential buildings, with fewer public service buildings.
Architectural Quality Analysis Green Space Analysis
Overall, the quality of the building is within a medium range, buildings under low quality is less than 20%
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, Suzhou was one of the most developed textile regions with possessed many unique silk weaving and embroidery techniques. In the 1980s, the Huqiu Bridal Base opened up the wedding dress industry, and the local villagers began to engage in the production of wedding dresses
The green space landscape is fragmented and of poor quality.
The Development of the Wedding Dress Industry in Cha Hua Cun
The Huqiu Bridal Base gradually developed into a wedding dress have thousands of merchants. In 2010, the planning and construction of the Huqiu Bridal City, further promoted the development of industry. By the middle of 2010s, the increasing business entities engaged in producing and selling, and the products had developed to more diversified.
With the decline in the number of marriages, the wedding industry has shrunk, with supply exceeding the demand in the wedding dress market, due to the old equipment and the deterioration of the production environment. A large number of stores closed down and relocated, the flourishing wedding dress industry is facing a decline in Cha Hua Cun.
RISE FLOURISHING DECLINE
SCENARIO RELATIONSHIP
Shopping malls facilitate our lives, and scenic parks are a great place to unwind.
There is everything we needed to prepare for our wedding, with creative market, accommodations and a flower-planting experience park, providing even more shopping experience.
Parks with beautiful landscapes provide locations for wedding photography, attracting more people to come and spend money on the experience
Better working and production environments provide a better work experience.
DESIGN CONCEPT
FUNCTIONAL ZONE
It mainly consists of three functional zoning: wedding dress industry park, flower planting experience park, and residential area. In addition to the original industrial layout, rich functional areas have been added, including hotel accommodations, wedding photo studios, a creative market, wedding banquet halls, and lakeside ancient building groups.
MASTER PLAN
MODIFIED DESIGN ANALYSIS
Construction Analysis Transport Design Analysis
Industrial Renewals
The Exhibition Space serves as a display space for the wedding expo, increasing product exposure, providing a more comprehensive display of products for consumers, and improving the interaction between designers and consumers.
Convenience Services
The Creative Market supports varied wedding consumer needs, enhances consumer participation and shopping experience, and provides designers with market feedback for product optimization with market interaction.
The fitness space provides residents with a convenient sports place and promotes physical health with forming healthy habits. Community cohesion is enhanced during fitness activities.
Community malls complete the supporting services, with provide daily shopping and convenience services It also drives local commerce and promotes employment.
Greenspace Design Analysis
Eco-tourism
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WEDDING DRESS INDUSTRIAL PARKS
The project combines traditional flower plantations with the modern wedding industry to create an innovative park that integrates industry, ecology, leisure, and convenience.
• Exhibition Space and Industrial Museum: Serving as platforms for wedding expos, these spaces boost product exposure, offer comprehensive displays for consumers, and enhance designer-consumer interaction.
• Creative Market: Fulfills diverse wedding consumer needs, enhances participation, and provides designers with valuable market feedback for product improvement.
• Fitness space: Provides residents with convenient exercise facilities, promotes healthy lifestyles, and strengthens community bonds.
• Community malls: Improve access to daily services, support local commerce, and promote employment.
• Planting Experience Park: Attracts tourists, blends local culture with eco-tourism, and offers unique flower-related experiences.
• Lakeshore Landscape: Provides a picturesque venue for wedding photography, supporting wedding planning and tourism while combining nature with wedding experiences.
• Hotels and Banquet Halls: Enhance wedding tourism, attracting more visitors and boosting the local economy.
Central Plaza
Creative Market
Lakeside Park
DWELLING IN TRANQUILITY
——THE TRANSLATIONS OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Location: Huzhou, China Instruclor: Ting Chen Time: 2025.6- 2024.9 Area 9m²
Based on the translation of Chinese traditional landscape paintings, the aesthetics of “ a place to live, to stay and appreciate ” are integrated into modern design. The project starts with the material properties of bamboo itself and combines them with the unique spatial needs of the tea pavilion, allowing the design to be integrated into the local culture and natural landscape. The tea pavilion uses bamboo structure to simulate the cascading tea mountain, and gauze curtains to simulate the wind sound in bamboo forest. It creates a spiritual space that can be used, listened to, tasted, appreciated and stayed in, conveying the charm of oriental culture.
TRANSLATION OF CHINESE LANDSCAPE PAINTING
The painting features a serene landscape of mountains and water, with a small, tranquil dwelling by the riverside. The structure, surrounded by trees, suggests a secluded and peaceful setting. The hermit within the dwelling is engaged in reading or study, enhancing the theme of intellectual solitude in nature. The calm and meditative atmosphere reflects a harmonious relationship between human life and the natural world.
SPATIAL STRUCTURE IN CHINESE PAINTING
In the painting, the contrast between the distant mountains and the near water creates a farreaching visual space, while the house and the bridge form a spatial axis that guides the eye. The painting not only shows the vastness of nature but also conveys the intimate relationship between human beings and the environment through the hermit's meditations inside the house, forming a spiritual space that can be learned, listened to, tasted, appreciated, and lingered in.
Studying the Book of Changes by a Window in the Mountains By [Yuan Dynasty] Bi Guo
CONCEPT
LOCATION & LANDSCAPE
THE TEA PAVILION
Viewing Bridge
The site is located in Anji County, which has the reputation of Chinese bamboo hometown, situated in the bamboo sea among the mountains and water. The bamboo traditional craft has been inherited for thousands of years, and the Anji white tea is nourished by clouds and mist in the mountains, which attracts a large number of tourists.
CULTURE & INDUSTRY
TEA CULTURE
The residents make their living by planting bamboo and tea, giving birth to a unique tea and bamboo culture. The bamboo weaving crafts passed down for long history provide the basis for bamboo construction, industrial products, processing, and other industries. The long history of white tea cultivation and the unique white tea Tea making process have been passed down in this area for more than a hundred years.
The design is based on the translation of traditional landscape paintings, with bamboo joints to simulate the Cascading tea mountain and gauze curtains to simulate the sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest. Pedestrians can enjoy the bamboo landscape and lotus in the water while resting in the pavilion. It creates a space where you can walk, listen, taste, enjoy and stay, conveying the charm of oriental culture.
process
Bamboo handicrafts
Bamboo processing
Shangsu Township SITE
Huzhou City
Anji County
Zhejiang Province
BAMBOO CULTURE
The Structure of Pavilion Lake view in Pavilin Fixation of Structures Rest in the Pavilion
Night View of Tea Pavilion
Shadows on the Gauze Curtains Interaction with People
The Panoramic view of pavilion
THE SECTION OF TEA PAVILION
THE MODE DETAIL OF TEA PAVILION
THE EXHIBITION OF THE PROJECT
THE MOUNTAINS AND MIGRATORY BIRDS OF WATCHTOWER
Dali, China
BACKGROUND & CONCEPT
Botou Village is local in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and facing mountains to the west and Dali West Lake to the south. Relying on the unique charm of the lake and mountains and the Bai culture, the watchtower constructs an anchor point for the senses between the lake and the mountains. The design is inspired by the framed aesthetics of the round windows of the Bai dwellings, and the of the wooden frame and polycarbonate panel echoes tradition and modern simplicity and lightness. Through the multi-directional observation decks, people are guided to move with the scenery - either stopping to look at the silhouette of the lake and mountains or the migratory birds. Harmonizing “outward exploration” and “inward perception” with spatial rhythms. The design abandons the grandiose conquest of the landscape, and instead uses the scale of the body to measure the subtle traces of wind, light, and seasons, allowing each ordinary landscape to become a medium for dialog between the self and nature.
Dali Westlake
SITE
Eryuan County, Dali, Yunnan Province
Huangqi Mountain
Heye Mountain
Botou Village
The Dwelling of Bai Group The Tie-Dye Art of Bai Group The Lake of Botou Village
The watchtower takes “body, sight and activity” as the clue to build a sensory anchor point in the lake and mountains. Through the cascading layout of multi-directional observation decks, people are guided to move with the scenery. Regaining their foucs on the details of daily life through the dynamic shift of sight.
THE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF WATCHTOWER
THE PLANS OF WATCHTOWER
THE STRUCTURES OF WATCHTOWER
THE PHOTOS OF WATCHTOWER
Vertical beam, consisting of 4 timbers
Intermediate assembly, consisting of 4 timbers
Bottom assembly, consisting of 4 timbers
The Overall Structure
Fixation of Structures The Round Window The Viewing Platform
Horizontal beam
Concrete foundations
SECTION OF WATCHTOWER
INDOOR VIEWS IN WATCHTOWER
The design of the watchtower with viewing platforms in each direction to enjoy different views. Creating a visual experience of changing the scenery step by step. The main materials used for the tower are wood and transparent polycarbonate panels, giving the overall structure a light and transparent effect. The different viewing styles from different perspectives guide people to focus on the “present moment”, appreciate the beauty of everyday life, and have a deep conversation with themselves and their surroundings. people can sense the wind, light and the subtle changes of the seasons, and the most familiar and square landscapes around them become the medium of dialog between the self and nature.
THE NEEDS OF PHYSICAL CONNECTION
BACKGROUND
DESIGN STRATEGY
The Physical Connections
The Social Connections
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN OF LINEAR PARK
The Master Plan
ENCOUNTER WITH CIVILIZATION: A DIALOGUE
BETWEEN
THE CAMERA AND HISTORY
Meeting civilization in every trip, every time you press the shutter, it is a dialogue with history. Architecture is never just an object to be viewed. When my viewfinder frame is aligned with the traces of light and shadow on the pink walls of th Suzhou garden and the Anhui-style architecture, it is just like the same ray of morning sunlight that the owner of the garden was gazing at a hundred years ago; when the remnant columns of the ancient temples are turned into silhouettes in the backlight, the broken heads of the Corinthian columns are still telling the complete civilization with the mutilated geometry. These photos are not a romanticization of ruins, but an attempt to use visual language to ask: how do we salvage unwritten history from material decay when wood cracks, stone flakes, and metal oxidizes?
TECTONIC NARRATIVES:
TRACES OF CIVILIZATION
MODERNITY MEETS CLASSICS: CULTURAL HERITAGE IN THE MODERN CITY
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