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Rural Flexibility System
Restroom by the River
Schematic Duality Based on the Rural Construction Strategy
Instructor: Chaoyun Wu
Individual Work
Date: Oct.,2018-Dec., 2019
The design adopts typical rural construction strategies to establish the schematic duality. In the experiment, I select the function as restroom by the river, which serves as a gathering space for villagers' activities. The site is located at the intersection of three landscape nodes: the river bank, the old town and the port. Based on this location, I attempt to create a role of flexible landscape. And through the research on the terrain of Yongchuan, I obtain curved rammed earth walls, so as to constantly interweave around the activity space and connect the square, courtyard and toilet elements; while the multi-slope roof is derived from the slope roof elements in the old town. These two elements are independent material systems but can be intermediary to each other. By the curved openings on the roof and the intermediary courtyards, the rural flexibility system successfully responses to the interface relationship, and eventually merge into the sublime nature.
KEYWORDS:
Rural Construction, Schematic Duality, Flexible Landscape, Intermediary, Interface Relationship
Context Understanding
Status Quo: Generic and Heterogeneous
Antidote to the Generic: Flexible Landscape
Schema Generation - Curved Rammed Earth Wall
Schema Generation - Multi-slope Metal Roof
Concept Model
Interface Relationship - by courtyards
Plan & Section
Experiential Landscape
Construction Detail
Learn more about Schema, please refer to:
From Type to Schema
The Path of Regional Studio
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