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Dongmen wharf is a millennium old wharf on the mother river of Chengdu. Due to the last round of "old city renewal", the area has been basically demolished and rebuilt. The project is to re present a glorious historical picture through the intervention of art and new technology on a city cultural site that has basically disappeared, and to activate and re invest the long sleeping urban infrastructure into the urban public domain.
Online City Co-life Center is a commercial building that joins property sales with everyday community services. The design replaces the traditional demonstration area with a simple, useful and welcoming place. On the ground floor, light catering, handicraft, a flower shop and children's activities are combined, and only a small model exhibition area is kept. The sales function is placed on the upper floor. Aluminium plate, glass and imitation wood grilles form the facade. Interior and landscape are designed as one, so residents feel a stronger sense of belonging.
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The Design idea was to study architectural relations between different shapes that are being composed together to create like moving units. The Project consists of 6 units each one is 2 shipping containers fixed over each other forming an L Shape Mass. these L shaped units are fixed in overlapping positions creating Voids and Solid to give the feeling of movement and to provide sufficient daylight and a good ventilation environment. The main design goal was to create a small house for those who spend the night in the streets with no home or shelter.
Phoenix Tree Garden is a tea house garden set in a hutong courtyard in Beijing. The design turns a single large space into a series of linked scenic spots. A folding cloud wall and a curved moon door shift the internal axis and divide the outside of the garden from the inside. Small bridges, waterways and a stacked red rock mountain organize the new landscape order. Materials include a steel grille bridge, gray and colored cobblestone paving and small gray tiles. Several tea rooms with different views were created within 214.99 square meters.
Haishang Plaza is a mixed-use building complex located in an old residential district of Zhengzhou city. The project combines Soho and Loft towers, an indoor shopping mall and a large outdoor lifestyle plaza. The terraced massing steps back at the corners, creating clear entrances and bringing the facade down to a human scale. Green boxes are placed between the towers and the pedestrian corridors as shared and display spaces. Materials include glass fiber reinforced gypsum and concrete, aluminum panels and curtain wall glazing. A green roof system is also included.
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Caishi China Railway City is a residential complex built in Jinan, China. The design follows a new Chinese style that joins classical order and proportion with modern function. Local features such as swallow tail ridges, gable heads and lattice walls are reinterpreted in a simple form, and the colours stay calm and quiet. Polycarbonate panels are used for the roof decoration boards, which allows slender supporting members. A four constant air system controls indoor air quality, temperature and humidity. The layout follows the existing terrain to limit earthworks.