1 Public Archives, Venice 1 Critic: Kenneth Frampton, Juhani Pallasmaa, Thomas Phifer

2 Art Museum, St. Louis 9 Critic: Sung Ho Kim

3 Surveilance Agency 19 Critic: Heather Woofter

4 Amphipolis, Tokyo 25

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- A Wonderful World Critic: Wiel Arets, Robet McCarter

5 Architecture School Building, Wuhan Critic: Bing Lan

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1 Corbusier’s hospital2 New Archives

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The project is for a publicly acces-sible copy of the State Archives of Venice, which contains the world’s most comprehensive historical records of 700-1800AD. In addition to the 56 miles of shelving required to house the collection, the project also includes space appropriate to a new cultural center as a meeting place for Venice.

This new Public Archives is to be made as an “addition” to Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital, designed in 1964, on the western waterfront in the San Giobbe neighborhood in northwest Venice. The hospital, largely dedicated to the care of acutely or teminally ill patients, was organized on three levels. Le Corbusier developed lignting bars, the unique pin-wheeling circulation diagram for the hospital, as well as the layered “mat” building, from his studies of the urban fabric of Venice.

1PUBLIC ARCHIVES: An Addition to Corbusier’s (Unbuilt) Hospital, Venice

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Concept for Archives

(1) Corb’s bar language

Let bars directed by the traffic direction of the canal extending from road to water.

Translucent bars are for lighting between shelves. Solid bars are for small quiet reading in-between lighting bars. Some go down more to the water to become bigger public places for reading or discussion.

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Left BottomAn auditorium on land is a beginning. Top of auditorium is entry hall for archives which are upstairs above water.

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(2) Venizia lives play with water

Columns in hospital are dense and thick. The archives is much lighter than hospital with bars in a different language hanging above water.

Imagine when people inside reading in hanging bars above water, people outside boating on lagoon between up-and-down bars and reflection. It’s only through water they see more of architecture.

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2ART MUSEUM, ST.LOUIS

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The new art museum is sited in downtown near the Mississippi River and the Eads bridge - the oldest bridge at St. Louis.

The block surrounded by two bridges and two roads is constantly flowed with cars, metrobuses, trains, as well as visitors from downtown and the other side of the river. Buildings here are all as old as St. Louis, but perform new functions instead of industrial use as hotels, bars, shops, casino, and offices. However, There is nothing except one vacant three- rise parking biulding. People come and stop before they arrive at the riverfront to admire the bridges over the river and the old freight train rail above ground. Waterfront is wasted.

In this project we want to bring people further to the beautiful riverfront. The empty place would be for art exhibition combined with big public space. The site already has some public art installed and a too small art gallery.

One flow of art exhibition is along the bridge to bring people to the river. One flow of public space is in the direction of river flowing.

1 Art exhibition2 Public space3 Old parking building4 Mississippi river5 Bars & offices6 Bars & shops7 Hotel8 Eads Bridge

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CONCEPT MODEL -FLOW

It starts with trying to show “flow” phisically with rubberbands.Then after inserting wood pieces of different shapes, “flow” begins to change.

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INTERVENTION

Looking through the side of the model, in- between screws. - It would be the language of the new project. Exhibition, stairs and places for rest intervene flow of people.

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1 Entrance Hall2 Temporary Exhibition3 Storage4 Office5 Conference6 Kitchen

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It’s raised above ground to let a road go under it. The north part of it has an entrance for exhibits loading in, the south part has an independent entrance too as a public deck.

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Studios for artists on the left are more solid structuralwalls along the the oldest bridge’s direction to show respect to the bridge;more light and transparent space for exhibition and public use are on the right along the river’s direction.

Space between studios and exhibition space is a “gap space” which can provide better privacy to artists and also reminds people of the gap space between studios and the old bridge.

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The studio will explore the concep-tual implications of surveillance systems and develop design strate-gies influenced by these technolo-gies. Then students will investigate representation strategies to explore the spatial implications of dynamic systems in relationship to site issues.

Research on NSA

(1) NSA is usually located in the middle of nowhere hidden from public because of the communica-tions security. An official once said about the "never-existing" puzzle place, "The most profound tech-nologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it."

(2) NSA is good at electronic eavesdropping, but is it good at making proper use of information they get? There are a lot of intelli-gence failures. The aura of respect-ability makes them pay more attention to secrets and less to eloquent arguments and evidences that lie under their noses. After going through many failures they begin to get confused about what is true, the apparent or the secret. NSAer is listening and finally he gets deaf, which means, the better u are at collection, the harder it will be to do good production.

(3) Privacy on the line is a very sensitive topic. Some say security is bigger than privacy most of the time. We have nothing to hide, so why should we worry about privacy? "Think of insects, and you will start to itch; research signits, you'll become a little paranoid. The discomfort is more instinctive than intellectual." (4) Schizophrenia is usual for some NSAers. The cause is that, on the institutional level, secrecy can corrupt bureaucracies and mask mismanagement and incompetence, and on the individual level it can corrupt identities, creating a profu-sion of secret lives and leaving nothing free of its taint. Once an official said that "The more I read about classification and security at the NSA, the more it seemed that the life of an individual working in signals intelligence is of necessity, a fractured one, a life split into discrete parts."I really like the "Frost Wedging" theory: Most rocks have tiny wracks and fissures running through them, and when it rains, water seeps into these joints. As the temperature cools, the water freezes and expands and ruptures the rock from within. Similarly, secrecy can filter into a life and harden into routine, eroding a coherent identity and resulting in a profusion of different and discrete personae.

We collected so much about NSA from books, but NSA is still like a

3SURVEILLANCE AGENCY

LeftRumor has it that at least 1,500,000SF part of NSA is underground in St. Louis near the river.

AboveWe drove to the site and couldn’t get close.

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central void. It’s too difficult to get close enough to see clearly, although we know that it’s definitely connected to our daily life.

My NSA

I begin to think about creating my NSA from discrete parts. The fractured whole would be a mem-brane structure enclosing a huge void.

Firstly basic modular unit is hollowed then mirrored to have multi- directional development potential.

adaptive surveilance infrastructure in which building units respond to the huge amount of mystic ever-changing information they collect. Architectures’ role in this scenario is to provide a transitive ground upon which exchanges and understanding of NSAers can play themselves out, producing a dynamic system of the background. This system is the performance of a highly intelligent tectonic one without a definition of its own. Linkages and voids conserve and sustain the balance of the system, which would otherwise disappear into the existing fabric of our daily life.

Then a single wire is used to study the performative logic of possiblities, which include scalar transformation, extention, bifurcation, twist, squeez-ing, and looping. As this technic unfolds, open and enclosed spaces are created and modified from unit to unit, producing an adaptive and morphologically flexible structural membrane field.

This field begins to suggest a reading of my NSA as an equally

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4AMPHIPOLIS, TOKYO

To understand the World we are living in currently, we must redefine the "Map of the World," a mental construct that has undergone many reinterpretations since 1492. We could read the World anno 2020 as a collective living space in which all the continents are in reach within 288 minutes, and the maximum travel distance at each continent is 72 minutes. The basic question we should put forward is: How will the city develop within our extremely exciting, complex, but "shrinking" world? We have to radically change our perception of what a city is, finding new definitions for what we call "the city" or "the Metropolis."

New infrastructural devices must be devised that have a great influence on the development of the "Un-Conscious City"—the city we experience in a dreamlike condition, the seemingly un-complex percep-tion of a new reality. The Un-Conscious City should be seen as a model of a new or recon-structed existing Metropolis that works within the "New Map of the World." __Wiel Arets, 2010

The rebuilding of Tokyo after the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 incorporated modern planning concepts. The separation of areas, the belt lines, as well as the green belts, the establishment of parks, all date from this time. Unfortunately, most of these were swallowed up in the rapid urban growth. Views of urban green spots and waterfronts were lost.The horizontality which rooted in Japanese people’s prefer-ence of land to sky made the city superflat and extremely dense. Nowedays people from other places in Japan still go to Tokyo for a life where land is already so defficient.

High density arises problems of lacking open space, traffic conges-tion, pollution etc. which affect living quality. Some other metropolises are experiencing same problems as Tokyo, and still growing fast. How-ever, most metropolises are located near water as showing in the world map, and Waters have sufficient

LeftBirdview of superflat Tokyo neighborhood

Top rightA cemetery above a tunnel

RightA temple on top of small shops

space and energy and good view. so we think it’s possible cities go to the water in the future. Centers of old metropolises are shifted to water. Plenty of small cities start surround-ing them. The new metropolis calls itself AMPHIPOLIS.

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Above1km- radius circle along the river

Endless residential houses occupy everywhere on land. Very much less open green space and sports field are provided to neighborhoods. Water is completely disconnected with neighborhoods.

Multi- functional large scale urban projects on wide rivers would be able to provide more open space for people and connect them more with water and even with people on the other side of the river. This won’t consume land to cause higher density.

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Left BottomA shrinking world of amphipolises filling old Oceanic gaps

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THIRD FLOOR PLAN

1 Studio2 Office3 Classroom4 Resting room5 Storage6 Discussing room7 Research room

Painting room and modle production room are large space for students from different majors in order to promote communica-tion and cooperation.

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1F Lecture hall 1F Architecture bookstore 1-4F Resting rooms for teachers

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Space for more public use is defined by a tangent and a circle expressing its presence, tension and instability.

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Make good use of the atrium and the red space on every floor to display students’ work.

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Exhibition hall for deign work has its direct access for the outside attracking people from the big square.

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