Architecture, portfolio. Zhao Wang

March Architecture (RIBA/ARB Part Ⅱ )

Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture [ESALA] The University of Edinburgh

Email: 9942zhao@gmail.com

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Art College-Processions and ‘Macchinations’

Spaces of Display, Conservation, and Attenuation

Individual work Date: 2024

Postgraduate project. Naples, Italy.

The university of Edinburgh

Art Studios-Processions and ‘Reassembly’

Jewellers, Launders, Lavender, and Guests

Individual work Date: 2023

Postgraduate project. Naples, Italy.

The university of Edinburgh

Jewellery

and Sacred Objects Studio

Production and maintenance of jewelry and religious clothing

Individual work Date: 2022

Postgraduate project. Naples, Italy.

The university of Edinburgh

Here it is

Individual work Date: 2021

Undergraduate project. Shanxi, China

Thoughts on architecture in the post-epidemic era

--Human post epidemic spiritual world, dynamic evolution, experiential Memorial education building

One page of books

Individual work Date: 2021

Undergraduate project. Shanxi, China

Exploration and creation of conceptual library space

Different favorite world: "OPPORTUNITY"/installation design

Individual work Date: 2022

Undergraduate project.

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The Architecture of Neapolitan Festivities

The long history and religious culture make Naples a unique city in the world and make it one of the most famous tourist cities in the world. Tourism has brought two very significant impacts and impacts to Naples：

1. Economic prosperity and growth.

2. The loss of social authenticity, social identity, and the loss of living space for vulnerable cultures.

The three projects explore and respond to the way cities function under the influence of religious culture and thriving tourism. Trying to find the perfect balance between the two influences. Open a downward window from the floor of the Cathedral of Naples and observe the character of this ancient city. And the relationship between religious culture, public groups, architectural space and urban rhythm is discussed and developed.

Programme: Arts and Crafts College (Jewellery, Fashion, Modelmaking), Public Piazza (Theatre/Cinema, Gardens), Exhibition Spaces.

It provides a fertile ground for the development of religious art and a lively and sacred viewing platform for visitors. It is a ‘macchine’ that responds to the rhythm of the city. A temporary structure built for historical festivals and disappearing when the city is quiet.

Processions and ‘Macchinations’ Art college. Spaces of Display, Conservation, and Attenuation abstract

The celebrations of San Gennaro bring a vitality to Naples. In May, a bust is carried from the Cathedral to the Basilica of Santa Chiara. On 19th September, an ampoule of blood is removed from the Cathedral to check if it has liquified (a good omen) and displayed for eight days, alongside stalls dedicated to Naples’ patron saint. On 16th December, a celebration recognises Gennaro’s protection of Naples from eruption in 1631, when lava stopped just outside the city gates.

Recognising both the cultural significance and attendant practices dedicated to these events, Processions and ‘Macchinations’ explores spaces which support public festivities. It proposes a new Arts and Crafts College to develop correspondences between the city, church, and citizens. The College is split into five spaces: Jewellery, supporting design and the conservation of pieces found in churches around the city; Fashion, for the furtherance of local skills in working with linen; Making, to support the crafting of presepe; Exhibition, for the presentation of work; and Performance, a piazza for events. A walkway connecting these spaces acts as a catwalk for fashion shows, and projection house for an outdoor theatre. On feast days, the piazza becomes a dining room for the city. During the summer, temporary architectures allow for localised environmental adjustments. These attenuation devices, akin to the temporary structures (macchine) built for historic festivals, are stored beneath the College as the weather cools. Workshops in the lower levels support students and maintain these devices. When they are dismantled, the city becomes momentarily quiet, awaiting the next influx of guests.

Touristification brings Contradiction:

the growth of urban economic benefits and the squeezing of traditional cultural growth space.

Festival Machine: Balancing contradictions in the city rooted in religious culture, catering to the rhythm of the city to promote economic development and traditional handicrafts.

Contribution of Tourism to Naples’ GDP(%).(2000-2020)

Functions of the Art college

How the climate control device that appears and disappears with the festival works:

During the summer, and during the annual religious processions, these temporary structures are transported from the ground to the surface through holes in the ground and lifts.

Through: Hole&Lift 2; Hole&Lift 4; Hole&Lift 5

These temporary structures can greatly affect the environmental state of the site.

The pavilion itself provides shade for the entire site, and after the temporary structure is added, the double barrier provides shade for the interior space of the pavilion, and the pavilion with better shading effect allows this effect to be transmitted to the entire site.

The organizing space of the entire site: the long bridge, which has its own shading structure, provides a comfortable environment for the events held here (art shows, San Gennaro religious processions).

It also provides visitors with additional space to enjoy food, scenery, and watch wonderful or sacred performances.

Machine:

The festival is coming

Everyone enters the venue with the procession

The installation rises from the ground

Processions and ‘Reassembly’

Art studios. Jewellers, Launders, Lavender, and Guests

Three times a year, the Via dei Tribunali in the old town of Naples is crowded with people. Chaotic but serious, noisy but harmonious. This is one of the most important festivals in Naples. The project Art Studio-Processions and ‘Reassembly’uses this grand procession to try to establish the relationship between materials and the city.

In Naples, many cities co-exist. Most visible to visitors is the city of saints and convents, Roman streets and Baroque churches, Spanish silver and San Gennaro. This city has a complicated relationship with a second city, a city of makers, maintenance, cleaners, and carers. Public events like the procession of San Gennaro bring the cities together, sustaining customs, beliefs and craft traditions, and satisfying tourist cravings for Neapolitan experiences. But they also recall historic tensions between different citizenries once.

Today, an additional tension is evident. Throughout the day, the Centro Storico is subsumed by tourists from the vast cruise ships which travel by night; at night, these same spaces revert to the Neapolitans. Processions and ‘Macchinations’ explores the potential co-presence of these different cities of jewellery, tourists, and trades.

On the site of a former monastery (now a car park), a series of programmes facilitate participation in the procession of San Gennaro and collective city life. Studios for jewellers sit beside a museum for displaying and restoring the jewellery of the city’s saints. Fashion students work next to a laundry cleaning costumes (religious and secular) for the city’s actors. During the procession, private kitchens become cafes, courtyards transform into dining spaces, gardens of lavender supplying the laundromats and churches become scented spaces of reprieve from the late-summer heat.

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Naples is a city with a chaotic background and a tense historical relationship, as it was ruled by several regimes that supported different religious sects. These ties come together in the annual parade commemorating San Gennaro.

This diagram defines the function of the building (a workshop for traditional religious artworks in Naples) and also the direction of the program development (establishing the relationship between materials and the city, exploring the relationship between a single building and urban space).

Precious metal and jewelry studios in the city: The church brings together crafts from all corners of the city. This phenomenon, which encompasses the entire city, is the basis for developing the relationship between architecture, materials and the city.

Anchors and handles for space construction:

Spatial axis 1: The remains of San Gennaro as the origin point. Treasure Museum of San Gennaro as a passing point .

Spatial axis 2: The remains of San Gennaro as the origin point. Statue of San Gennaro in front of the church(Gugliadi San Gennaro ) as a passing point .

Rotate the prade fram around the angle between axis 1 and the axis to obtain the assumed project space.

Based on the proposed concept, a draft model of the folding city was used to construct a spatial language prototype

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Jewellery and Sacred Objects Studio

Production and maintenance of jewelry and religious clothing

In the 16th century, the chapel of San Gennaro was built. For hundreds of years, Gennaro’s legacy has illuminated the hazy eyes of countless praying people. Behind these sacred religious relics is another more quiet space. Jewelry and Sacred Objects studio is a studio located under the Cathedral of Naples, responsible for making and repairing Gennaro’s jewelry and gold-threaded clothes.

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With half-closed eyes, I prayed devoutly... What flickered in the dim view seemed like candles? No, it was the statue of Gennaro, the golden threads on his clothes, the gem-studded necklaces and hats, and the golden sacred vessels filled with bright red blood in the San Gennaro Jewel Museum.

These stunning pieces of religious art have witnessed the countless devout faces that pass by, their colorful flashes mirroring the steadfast and brilliant gaze of Gennaro, quietly and warmly watching over everyone. The fresh red blood, visible through the crystal-clear glass, stopped plagues and volcanic eruptions. Behind this radiance is the artistry and hard work of Naples’ jewelers. The project “Jewelry and Sacred Objects studio” tells the stories behind these glittering religious items. It is a jewelry workshop located beneath the church, responsible for crafting religious items and maintaining Gennaro’s jewels and garments, allowing this light to continue gently moving from the eyes of the faithful into their hearts.

is located in the basement of the Cathedral of Naples. This church is the starting point of all religious and cultural activities Gennaro in Naples. Here are his remains, blood and endless jewels. here, follow the procession through the streets, and finally witness blood melting in the church. These religious activities are one of foundations of Naples’ history and culture for hundreds of years, reflecting the people of Naples.

Above the floor, there are gleaming statues of tonal quality, exquisite religious garments and priceless

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Thoughts on post epidemic situation: Here ‘it‘ is

Design conception and concept exploration

1. Explore the first draft 1, think after the epidemic, and determine to focus on “social recovery after the epidemic and the sadness of people who have lost relatives, pets or things is gradually unfolding now”, with the embryonic form of the concept of”concept of life and death”.

Metal building materials in architectural concepts

With the passage of time, death and memorial space, uterus and natural space will slowly wear out and disintegrate, and return to the most primitive state: soil. Blanking, return to nature. This blanking and regression does not only represent the “green and native” of materials. At the same time, it represents a “life state”of the building, echoes the “anthropomorphic building”, and also realizes the realization of the architectural intention and concept of “life and death disappear, invisibility, memory eternity”.

People are different in where they come from and where they go, but such problems may become less important with time. Only the memories and thoughts left to the world are

Rammed earth building materials realize the temporary nature of the building, “dynamic evolution and limited experience”. it makes the architecture complete the concept of life and death disappearing and returning to nature.

Rammed earth is built in a way that can make a house start return to “nature” after a hundred years, leaving no residue or pollution. A row is divided into the

THE PURPOSE OF THIS BUILDING PROJECT:

Abstract Space:

1. Commemorating the people, things and things that died in the epidemic;

2. Educate people on the “concept of life and death” in the epidemic era;

3. Call on human beings to follow the law of natural evolution, respect the natural environment and avoid disasters.

BUILDING MATERIALS ARE MAINLY DIVIDED INTO TWO CATEGORIES

1. Rammed earth, a material that can gradually wear away over time and return to nature itself;

2. Metal is a material that is not easy to disappear in the passage of time. These two materials realize the “dynamic evolution and limited experience” of architecture. Rammed earth building materials are used in the space of death and memorial, destination and nature, while metal material that are not easy to wear are used in the part of life and eternity. With the passage of time, the parts of life and death will gradually disintegrate and disappear, return and hide in nature. In the end, there is only space for the memory of the deceased - where to come and go, people are different, but such problems may become less important with time. Only memories and thoughts are eternal.

From the perspective of personification, architectural design methods form buildings with emotion, emotion and life. That is, ‘it’ in the building name “. The whole building is mainly divided into three parts: crying and memorial space, memory and eternal space, uterus and natural space. In crying and memorial space, it mainly realizes the emotional resonance between the building and the sad people, and commemorates the lost relatives, pets or things. In memory and eternal space, it mainly educates people’s views on the concept of life and death in the epidemic situation. It is realized from two aspects: one is spatial form, Second, through building materials (mentioned later). in the womb and natural space, we also educate people’s views on life and death, and try to pull the sad people out of the pain. Another extremely important point is that this space calls on people to abide by the laws of nature and respect the natural environment. We come from nature and eventually return to the womb of nature, and future generations also start from here

The dynamic space with life, the space where life is conceived with natural life elements.

It can breathe autonomously and work like ordinary leaves, but research shows that its”work” efficiency is increased by 4g% compared with ordinary leaves, but it only needs a little sunshine and water.

Artificial leaves can produce oxygen and clean fuel. The building mainly uses its dynamic working state: expansion and expansion in light, and the meaning of life contained in “chloroplast”. “Living artificial leaf chandelier”, it can carry out photosynthesis like leaves and produce oxygen, Under the action of light, it produces gas to make the blades expand layer by layer dynamically.

Through the artificial leaf device, it receives sunlight, water and carbon dioxide in the air. To produce oxygen and other gases, the device expands and squeezes the space. Realize the “living and dynamic” spatial state.

of about 1cm thick composed of pure clay mortar. The components are bonded by friction with their own weight, and the upper components will be embedded in the mortar. The clay mortar around the joint surface must gush out, so as to ensure that the mortar covers the whole surface. After the component is correctly placed on the mortar, fix its position with a wooden wedge. After the mortar is dried the weight of the whole part will be transmitted to the lower part. Because rammed earth can not bear tension,this step is much more important for rammed earth parts than reinforced concrete parts. The connectors and nodes between various components will be sealed again during assembly or after completion.

4.Insulation elements

So far, only single storey walls can be prefabricated. However, preliminary experiments for the production of hollow walls have been carried out. This kind of wall has alight insulating layer between two rammed earth walls. in this way, both sides of the wall can maintain the aesthetic appearance and the physical characteristics of the wall. Another advantage is that cold or heating pipes can be assembled in the hollow layer.

People often say that in books you can get the world, and in books you can find yourself. So how do you integrate people into this world, into this world?

So I want to create a comprehensive world that only belongs to people and books. The elements are different, but each is a whole: the whole building is a whole, until one enters the world and becomes one with the world made up of the cables of space.

Design: The library is then broken down into 14 different “paper” units. Each piece of paper is folded to create a space. After 14 pieces of paper form the volume of the building, each piece of paper is connected to each other to form a space. In this process, in order to maintain the purity and integrity of the concept, each unit is always a complete individual, without any missing or added parts. Space flows with each other, from people, each space unit, to the whole space and people, blending and connecting. This project is a concept project.

Space conception design

Find the intentional space by shooting in the handmade architectural model. Screening in the captured space,conceiving and hand drawing. When conceiving the space, it is mainly about the layered,scattered,free space surrounding the “paper”,and the dynamic trajectory left by these processes.

Taking Figure 1as an example,the spatial form of the unfolded paper and its dynamic trajectory in the process create a sense of relaxation and dynamics.

In Figure 5, an ethereal and profound sense of space is created in the form of paper growth and stacking,where people and space are integrated.

Then based on the manual building model,a preliminary electronic building mode was established in sketchup. In this way,the basic building can be sectioned. Look for inspiration and a space that fits the design concept in its interior. So that my exploration of the construction space can go further.

There are no absolute scale standards and orientation standards for these sectioned space nodes. Everything revolves around discovering and creating spaces that fit the design concept, meaningful spaces, using experience,spiritual experience, and so on.

The exploration of space intention mainly provides direction for the shaping of architectural space, which will be adjusted continuously

Design ideas and manuscripts

Preliminary conception of space combination.

Preliminary design of space content

In life people like to keep pets. Some of the strange little animals have also become a kind of pet In them, there are clear contradictions, They are raised in the minority and are very fond of them, They are overwhelmingly disliked, and the emotions of dislike or fear are intense, Seeing the pets raised by friends in dark corners, can’t help but want to interpret the relationship between people and pets, and try to solve this contradiction.

Gently,step by step, try to discover their special features. So that the public can try to understand them and resolve contradictions

Rich spatial form.

Design space materials according to the space requirements of animals

The idea is realized in architecture

Further adjust the spatial distribution,

Adjust and optimize the structural system of space.

Design the interior space, insulation, water system, comfortable paving.

Refine material and structure

DIFFERENT FAVORITE WORLD: "OPPORTUNITY"/INSTALLATION DESIGN

- Explore the relationship between rare pets and humans and create opportunities for mutual acceptance