Portfolio 2019-2021_Rundong

PORTFOLIO

PROGRAMME MArch ARCHITECTURE

RUNDONG YING 2019-2021

CONTENTS

Sharing Space

Extracare housing and community spaces

Bootle, England

Diversified Nursery

Nursery more than classrooms

Liverpool, England

Fluency in Tai Chi

Spaces for elderly learning

Suzhou, China

Privacy of Music

Practice and performance spaces

Birkenhead, England

Other Works

Models and other drawings

CURRICULUM VITAE

RUNDONG YING

EDUCATION

• SEP 2019 - JUL 2021

LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

• SEP 2017 - JUN 2019

DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, XI'AN JIAOTONG-LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY

INTERNSHIP

• JUL 2019

FUJIAN PROVINCAL INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTUAL

DESIGN AND RESEARCH Co., Ltd

DETAILED CONSTRUCTION PLANS AND SECTIONS OF MATERNITY HOSPITAL OF FUJIAN PROVINCE

SOFTWARE

• Rhino, Vray for Rhino, AutoCAD

• Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

LANGUAGE

• CHINESE, ENGLISH

Sharing Sapce

The project is extra care housing and community facilities of local elderly.

The project focuses on the physical health of the elderly and the comprehensive needs of the elderly in privacy.

• By setting up different living environments, the elderly should be encouraged to leave the bedroom and walk around. Without sustained exercise, the health of the elderly will deteriorate faster.

• Social areas are gradually divided according to privacy in order to encourage the elderly with different social abilities to participate in social activities.

• The site is divided by massings, to maintain the existing music festival, and to create a park reducing noise for the housing.

Some people suffer from social phobia, while others just avoid bad weather and epidemics.

Defensible Space Decisions

Old people need to choose communication spaces with different degrees of privacy.

Dedensible space should be to protect and maintain social behavior, rather than excessive personal safety by eliminating social contact.

Railway noise is a major site problem. The housing should be away from there, but social gathering are suitable there.

1.Aging population of Sefton

Sefton has the highest proportion of residents aged 65+ and 75+ of all metropolitan boroughs in England. By 2030, the 65+ population in England is likely to rise by 50%, and the 85+ population by 100%.

5.Contribution of Sefton elderly

The 65+ elderly contributed £40 billion to the UK economy in 2010, rising to £75 billion per annum by 2030. 39% of Sefton carers are aged 65+, volunteering, unpaid caring, and looking after grandchildren.

2.Aging and Illnesses of Sefton elderly

Physical Aging, Hypertension, Diabetes;

Frequent Forgetfulness, Depression and Dementia.

3.Social isolation of Sefton elderly

Half of the 75+ Sefton age group live alone, facing personal care challenges, especially during COVID pandemic.

4.Esteem needs of Sefton elderly

Vulnerable older citizens should be treated with dignity and respect in all care settings. Older people need to feel safe and secure within communities.

6.Voice of Sefton elderly

Old people have the right to express opinions. Voice of older citizens should be reflected in the planning and delivery of their services.

3 Parts

The site was generally divided into 3 parts

To keep dwellings away from railway noise

A tree park in between to reduce noise

To create riverside platforms for the historical Liverpool canal

Density and Outdoor area

High density houses have more floors and accommodate more people. But residents on high floors are kept away from outdoor space.

Three storey ring building, this form has the efficient density.

The square, non strip outdoor space has a longer length and will not be felt narrow.

Proper floor height can balance between adequate population and suitable distance to exterior.

from Site Boundary to Defensible Space

Boundaries create an enclosure, away from railway and road, and thus silent.

The massing was regulated by similar directions and then retracted, providng sharing space.

Defensible Space:

The interior outdoor is shared with a transition for privacy, keeping the society gathering oustde.

Different Space and Gatherings

Waterfront platforms angular shape in different height: protruding, sinking and covered.

Park entrance, Gallery and Pub

Sunk theater and Reading room facing canal

floor

Living Units

Both upper floors have bedrooms, including private accessible bath. Each room can have 1-2 old people, as a total of 36-72.

Private Upper Rooms

Each 4 bedrooms have a living room with kitchen, and there is a reading room in 1F only for the inners.

Private Upper Exterior

Upper corridors are covered by glass curtain wall, and then connected to a loop. Thus, there are different viewing platforms protruding outward, interior or exterior.

Vertical Circulation

Two elevators centered, ensuring more than half of the accessibility, while staircases, as supplements, ensure that all rooms can easily reach the ground.

Two Transitions for Privacy

The GF, opened to the neighborhood, is the most public interior, having functions shared with the elderly society.

The Ground, is most closed exterior to the building, thus the inners are protected and then encouraged to join activities there.

The Ground Floor

Function of GF is shared by old people both inside and outside.

Dining room: near the outdoor space

Guest room: talk with friends and visitors

Yoga room: away from road, silent

Theater

• Building energy saved by facing afternoon sunlight, especially in summer.

• A sinking double-height space, hidden from the street.

• Equipped with special entrance and elevator for external access from the community.

• The theater can organize older community forums: Underpinning SPOC are the six Older Persons’Forums which are facilitated by Sefton Advocacy. Bootles is one of the following areas where each Forum meets monthly.

The Ground

• Bootle Music Festival: the space provides enough space to respond to and support the original site activities.

• Epidemic demand: If necessary, the whole building will be isolated from the outside. The outdoor space can keep necessary contact and maintain social distance. Pub

• Not noise phobia, the public house near the road was reconstructed and located properly, reaching scenery of the park, outdoor space and canal.

different viewing platforms protruding outward

Riverside

To commemorate the history of canal transportation, different platforms were built:

• The hydrophilic platform shrinks inward, while the slopes provide a path to the park.

• Viewing platforms protruding to the canal were raised, providing different views and heights.

• Library suspended, facing the canal, with a platform upwards.

Glazing corridor, Sustainability

Upper corridors are covered by glazing walls, becoming an indoor environment.

Glazing corridor saves building energy, and contributes to the sustainability. Its air layer could be easily heated by sunlight, and reduce building heat loss efficiently.

Walkablility

Corridors have been heated and protected by glazings, to encourage elder residents walking and communicating, and each floor has various indoor or outdoor platform for walking and exercise.

Old people staying within bedroom will age rapidly. They should be peotected, encouraged, and kept activated.

Differentiation

Public space becomes differentiated according to different adaptability to privacy, which ensure that everyone can properly choose to socialize there where they fell safety.

• Interior corridor

• Upper private exterior

• Ground public area

• the Ground and Park

Diversified Nursery

The project is a nursery for pre-school infants, with rooms for local community.

The project focus on diversified kindergarten education.

• The project provides protected exterior nature for toddler and unhealthy children, make sure they are healthy enough to resist the outdoors and benefit from nature.

• The project also provides some interiors larger than classrooms, for various kindergarden methods, including music, performance and tramwork gaming.

• The project also serves for local community, providing rain shelter for sports field, and a main hall with community rooms for gathering.

Kindergarten: Playing to Comprehend

• Friedrich Fröbel created concept of Kindergarten. He considered the importance of playing games in childhood, rather than speech and writing

• For example, children learn more from failure than receiving knowledge.

Learning beyond Classroom

• Reggio approach introduced outdoor courtyards, larger activity rooms, and even communities nearby.

• These different spaces can provide more social activities and group communication.

Forest Kindergarten

• Facing natural environment can not only improve physical health,

• but also improve responsiveness, to reduce the risk of accident injury.

• Animals and plants in nature enhance children's imagination and reasoning.

Mapping of Residencial, Nursery and Gathering

Existing nurseries nearby

There are many nurseries and pre-schools near the site.

• However, some of them are close to railway stations or roads, which is difficult to provide a quiet environment.

• Many of them are all single family houses, only have classrooms and lacks corridors and open space.

• The new nursery in Sudley Fields will have a quiet environment away from traffic.

• Also, larger buildings can provide a variety of activity space for infants and pre-school children.

Church and Social Gathering

• The gathering venues around the site is dominated by churches and outdoor sports fields. There are almost few other types of social spaces and places to enjoy music.

Concrete and Vegetation, Site materials

• Continuous, non fragmented vegetation can provide a natural environment for infants and young children, rather than the small yard behind houses.

The Site

The site is a field beneath Sudley House, an old museum and gallery.

Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built in 1824 and much modified in the 1880s, it is now a museum and art gallery which contains the collection of George Holt, a shipping-line owner and former resident, in its original setting. It includes work by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, Edwin Landseer, John Everett Millais and J. M. W. Turner.

Massing

Space Thresholds and New Transitions

• New activities and spaces occurred when one space versus another.

Public Area vs Outdoor Circulation Penetrating

• Entrance area inside

Nursery Inside vs Entrance area inside

• There is only one entrance to nursery Differentiation of nursery and public, for safety

Entrance area inside vs Site Glassland

• New resting area for the site, including stair ramp outside

A rain shelter nearby, for prople playing in Sydney field

Exterior Outdoor Grassland vs Indoor Nursery

• Surrounded Outdoors, Transitional and Protective: Gradually adapt to nature. To learn from failure is to gradually adapt difficulties.

• Outdoor Corridor (UF)

Do not completely protect children. Avoiding overprotection is another side of failure learning.

Indoor Nursery vs Surrounded Outdoors

• Extended Indoors, another sapce for activities. Let children leave traditional classroom, to explore different learnings, such as acting and performance

Aisles create new interior spaces.

Children are encouraged to go out of the classroom and engage in more diverse activities, for example, performing, playing musical instruments, team games. More kinds of children's learning styles mean more effective children's cognitive process.

By setting inner grass, connection between the external nature and the classroom is strengthened.

The grass is very close to the indoor classroom, to ensure that those unhealthy children can gradually adapt to the outdoor environment and continue to adapt to the outdoor nature.

Fluency in Tai Chi

The project focus on learning of aging people.

Learning can alleviate people's aging, and local culture should be maintained by learning.

• The project provides different scales of learning and performance space, from classrooms, galleries to lecture halls. It tries in various ways to protect Suzhou culture from urban development.

• The project is inspired by Tai Chi's body movements, developing flowing walls and circular spaces. The curved walls also consider many views of the site landscape.

China population is aging. Large number of Chinese born in the 1950s and 1960s have retired.

Active aging means actively delaying aging through positive attitude and healthy habits.

Active aging is possible, but not everyone can do it. This is the meaning of active aging.

Learning for Active Aging

To describe or understand a concept benefits physical and mental health of aging people.

Suzhou is a city with a long history and culture, but now the living of residents have changed.

The elderly should be exposed to modern technology and also benefit from the revival of traditional culture and customs.

3 Exhibition and Teaching

The site is near Dushuhu Library, having similar functions, that is, exhibition and teaching related to traditional culture, including:

Traditional Art: Calligraphy, painting...

Musical Instruments: Er'hu, Guzheng...

Commercial Center

Academic area

Business/Industry

Walkable Green Space

Other (Schools...

Residential and Commercial

• Commercial centers are accessories of residential areas. Some are centered, while others are along street.

Green Space and Walking

• Many green spaces are narrow and fragmented, unsuitable for leisure walking.

• All large green areas for walking are located near lake or river. the Site

• Bai'lu Park is suitable for walking, close to both Dushu Lake and residential area.

• However, the park need more indoor space nearby, especially for elderly activity.

Dushuhu Library

• often holds traditional culture communication, including lecture talks, reading clubs and handicrafts.

Imaging Site Activities

1. Everyday Exercise 2. Traditional Performance

Exhibition and Teaching

2 Suzhou performance "Ping Tan" is a traditional musical storytelling.

Its environment is connected to Suzhou Gardening, and should be protected from city development

1 Everyday Exercise

Old people in Suzhou Park were interviewed.

• They like exercising every morning, but can't exercise on rainy days. They need a canopy or an indoor exercise place.

• They also need places for traditional dance performances and necessary rehearsals.

Framing the Landscape, Concept 1

Viewing frames and walls were built prior to massings, rather than digging windows on the massing.

Flow and Squeeze in Tai Chi, Concept 2

Tai Chi moves slowly, but the body and arms move frequently and precisely, creating curves that collide with each other.

GF: Enterior is as important as interior.

• Near entrance is an gallery, for traditional art, as an extension of the library. There are also continuous walls outside for posters.

• There is an outdoor theatre and an interior lecture hall, providing 'Pingtan', and other presentations and talks.

• Yoga room and rain canopy are close to the existing field, so the elderly can exercise even in rainy days.

UF has six similar classrooms, for learning activities.

• The upper circular corridor formed four exterior views, including lake views

• Ground floor is composed of concrete bricks, similar to the local brick wall.

• Glulam timber is used for the upper floor and roof. They are lightweight, low-carbon and plastic.

• The funnel roof is divided into two parts, to create roof lighting and collect rainwater

Privacy of Music

The project is designed for Liverpool Music Club.

The project focus on privacy, where their needs of creation and performance contradict.

• Both practice rooms and performance hall are provided.

• Site noise is considered, to keep the hall away from entrance

• The building also provides a atrium, to use sunlight and reduce darkness.

The site is in the city center with convenient transportation, surrounded by shopping areas and municipal offices. The site is also close to local transportation center, but noise generated by transportation and congestion disturbs the site.

There is no barrier between the front of the site and the nearby traffic center, so the front will be affected by traffic noise.

There is a parking lot behind the site, which is far from the main road and surrounded by buildings.

The site, located between two buildings, has a road ahead, which can create a conspicuous public space to attract more people, while the back of the site can create separation and provide a quiet working environment.

Musicians: Performance and Recording

It is important for musicians to maintain both publicity and privacy.

The clients, Liverpool musicians, were interviewed. They want, both large music space for performing and rehearsal, and small rooms for music lessons and song writing. They also need meeting spaces at the entrance, Café or bar.

Their demands are different, and this contradiction comes from the requirements of privacy.

Different floor colors correspond to different emotions and social distances. The bright first floor represents the passion of performance, while the dark second floor represents quiet and creation alone.

Type：Atrium/Enclosure

Concept：Proportion

1. Atrium is not made deliberately but coincidentally. The central vacancy is a result of proportioned squares of 3:2.

2. The staircase was positioned by the midline and approximate golden section.

3. The height is the middle term of the proportion between whole length and staircase's width. According to similar figure principle, how long the house is, how thin the staircase is.

The intersection between staircase and house was strengthened to highlight their relationship, as the upper sections show. The house has a sloping roof while the staircase does not. Additionally, a skylight was set to make a cross with the staircase.

Spaces were divided by proportion.

Actually, the staircase was imitated by that next the material store, for a better sightseeing experience.

I really appreciate that the tutor overcame his hungry and made constructive advice during lunchtime: symmetricity of the house was not complete initially, but was perceived and strengthened by the tutor.

Sometimes where students develop their ideas might be different from where tutor focus on when evaluating. Even when a work was recommended by tutors, what tutors thought to be further developed further could be different from its main concept.