Landscape-oriented
Individual Work
10 Weeks
12/09/2019
Instructor: Neil Denari
Software: Rhino, Maya, Keyshot, Photoshop, Illustrator
The project focuses on designing new collective housing by creating an urban landscape. Under the thinking of the relationship between private and public, the concept takes the fluidity of water as a reference and rethinks what defines the private and public space. Instead of using repeated, individual units in a housing program, this building is a container of flowing habitats, which provides dynamic and continuous space for circulation and diversified courtyards for public use.
An unexpected coincidence is that this kind of dynamic living space has some similarities with Chinese traditional rural dwellings called Fujian Tulou.
水景 - 集合住宅
该项目致力于通过创造城市景观来设计新的集体住宅。在私人与公共关系的思考下，该概念以水的流动性为参照，重新思考私人与公共空间的定义。在住宅项目中，该建筑不是使用重复的、独立的单元，而是一个流动的栖息地，它为交通流线提供了动态和连续的空间，并为居民提供了开阔且多变的内院以举办社区活动。
一个有趣的巧合是，这种充满活力的居住空间与中国传统乡村民居福建土楼有一些相似之处。
“A tulou is usually a large, enclosed, and fortified earth building, most commonly rectangular or circular in configuration, with very thick load-bearing rammed earth walls between three and five stories high and housing up to 800 people. Smaller interior buildings are often enclosed by these huge peripheral walls which can contain halls, storehouses, wells, and living areas, the whole structure resembling a small fortified city.”
The layout of Fujian tulou followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside, open inside" concept: an enclosure wall with living quarters around the peripheral and a common courtyard at the center. A small building at the center with an open front served as an ancestral hall for ancestry worshipping, festivals, meetings, weddings, funerals and other ceremonial functions. The ground floor plan includes shapes such as circles, semicircles, ovals, squares, rectangles, and irregular pentagons.
The foundation of tulou buildings were built with paved stones on top of compacted earth ground, in two to three tiers. There is a circular drain around the top tier foundation to prevent rainwater from damaging the tulou wall.
— Wikipedia
