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Methodology of "Architectural Ecology"

The completion of any construction project is similar to the growth state of plants in nature. Architecture also has its growth mode, which is called "architectural ecology". For example, whether plants have suitable soil, moisture and sufficient sunshine. Whether there is competitive life around, including whether there is anything oppressing it, determines the growth state of plants. When we design a stadium building, we actually feel that we are looking for a deeper inevitability and bring this inevitability to the extreme. What are its inevitability and limitations? There are markets, policies, resources, functions and aesthetics, and most of these restrictions are immutable. How can we infer the inevitability of architectural forms on this site from these unchangeable conditions? This process is to discover the growth ecology of buildings.

So can we get a very good design through mathematical reasoning? I think this is the basis of good design, and it should be said that it is a necessary condition for excellent design. The methodology of architectural ecology-image point theory is the "principle of minimum energy" in nature. In fact, the growth of animals and plants in nature is very clever. Animals always choose places that are not easy to be flooded and the easiest to drink water. Plants always choose places that are easy to share sunlight and nutrients, but have the least competitors around them.

In addition to the principle of minimum energy, there is also a view of nature. The view of nature is to think from the natural ecology, without too much waste and surplus. In addition to satisfying good self-circulation, there is no harm to the surrounding area. We believe that judging a building product should also grasp the law of building growth from the perspective of natural view.

The judgment before the scheme needs to decide: which resources can be used and can generate value? What means can be achieved efficiently?

Judgment before scheme

First of all, we should make a judgment before planning according to the market situation, the location of the city where the plot is located, the resource conditions and the plot control conditions, that is, determine what the plot should do and how to do it.

We have done a project in Nanning, Guangxi-the plot area is ***58 mu, which is located in the eastern new district of Nanning, at the eastern end of the east-west main axis of Nanning. There are many houses around, close to the trade city and embassy district of the South Expo.

First of all, we made a basic judgment on the positioning of the project. After investigation, it is found that there is an oversupply of office buildings in the local market, and it is suggested that new residential areas should be the development direction. If you simply do housing, a strip of commercial space extending from the city to this area will be broken. You know, the growth of every functional texture in the city also has its own growth law. So we further studied the characteristics of business requirements and found that there are many small entrepreneurial companies in Nanning, with about 10 people. They have a strong demand for 100-250 square meters of flexible office space, but it is difficult for traditional office buildings to meet this demand in space division, and there is a considerable pool area (see figure 1).

Therefore, a 5.5-meter-high LOFT space form of about 1 10 square meter is drawn up and provided to this kind of commercial market. LOFT space form can meet the needs of small start-up companies well, and at the same time meet their growth needs for 2-3 years.

According to the economic calculation and market judgment, we modified the functional combination of the project. This reflection on the function and the final solution undoubtedly enhance the value of the project.

After the property form is established, the vertical model of building products is established by translating our judgment into design language (see Figure 2):

Judging the project situation and resources solves the first problem of project development, and then infers the possibility of architectural form.

In the process of spatial form derivation before this scheme, we adopted the method of mathematical reasoning. According to the average living area of 1 10 square meter, we calculate the available actual area of the plot, and then deduce the building area, and then use the hard index of parking space ratio to deduce the total number of residential areas. Then, by using qualitative and quantitative analysis and comparison, this paper makes a mathematical study on the combination mode of residential units and building volume, and chooses the mode of "one ladder, three combinations" and "one ladder, four units" to give up the uneconomical form of slab and tower for this plot and define the economical and efficient "slab tower" architectural form.

Therefore, the basic plane research module of building volume is established through mathematical reasoning. As the basic unit of site plane research, there are many possibilities in space discussion, providing enough elastic space for scheme design (see Figure 3).

If any building project can judge the goal clearly before the scheme, the inevitability of its architectural space form will begin to appear.

Spatial possibility research

Based on the plane and vertical research modules, we tried three comparison schemes in the spatial form of the site, each of which derived a variant scheme, and at the same time established qualitative and quantitative measurement factors, which together constituted the evaluation standard of spatial research:

Spatial relationship of dialogue with cities;

Realization of commercial value;

Possibility of phased development;

Landscape quality and quality of life in residential areas;

Architectural image factors.

Scheme 1: The main building is arranged along the street, enclosing the South Central Garden, with symmetrical architectural image and commercial pavement along the street. This is a relatively conventional scheme, which solves the basic problems of land development. The biggest advantage of this layout is to get a maximum landscape stadium.

Scheme 2: A small number of buildings are arranged along the street, and a large number of buildings are obliquely arranged along the basement of south-east 15 degrees, forming four varied internal courtyards with rich interface relations with the city. The scheme emphasizes the change of space and the dialogue between the divided four courtyard spaces and the urban space, which can well meet the needs of commercial streamline.

Scheme 3: The building is arranged along the street, enclosing several inward courtyards, and the northwest corner forms a public space connected with the city. The scheme combines the advantages of the first two schemes, solves the problem of spatial feeling and spatial relationship, and forms a city square by focusing on dialogue with the city in the northwest corner, which highlights the commercial value of this area, facilitates the organization of functional streamline, keeps more residents away from urban noise, and forms a more optimized venue space.

Through the comparison of various schemes, we have evolved more than a dozen possible spatial forms. After the completion of this stage, because some basic problems of project development have been solved, we can already feel that there are quite a few possibilities for the specific forms of future buildings.

Before making a plan, we usually choose a "research scope" outside the "design scope".

The starting point of judgment

Just like looking at the city whose satellite images are gradually enlarged, the symbol of Beijing is no longer Tiananmen Square, and the symbol of Paris is no longer the Eiffel Tower. This is a pleasant and surprising process, and the appearance of the project is like a link in evolution, which naturally emerges.

Figure 4 shows the reclamation project we did next to the central business district in the center of Weihai, Shandong Province. The requirements of the project include the inference of the urban function of the plot. Before starting urban design, we thought about the problems existing in Weihai urban area and CBD area.

1. Weihai, as a tourist city in northern China, has a long off-season. How to promote tourism projects related to marine themes in the off-season is our concern;

2. How to change the single urban space produced by the traditional reclamation from the sea and upgrade the simple "watching the sea" to a more dynamic coastal life;

3. Weihai CBD is facing transformation. How to deal with the functional conflict between hot spring resources and CBD?

4. What is the relationship between reclamation area and urban texture?

The proposal of these problems is itself a constructive reflection on the construction planning of reclamation area and the transformation of CBD area. At this time, the scheme design process has become a problem-solving process with strong objectives.

In the urban design scheme, we answered these questions one by one:

1. Introduce the hot spring resources in the CBD area into the main filling island to form a seascape hot spring hotel-further enhance the value of the resources, build a distinctive marine aquarium, and match it with a performance stage, with the goal of making the reclamation area a "never-ending" tourist attraction in Weihai and making it a new topic of the city;

2. The traditional shore-based reclamation has been developed into island-based, peninsula-based and shore-based reclamation schemes, and a canal system with tourism characteristics in coastal cities will be built, and commerce will be carried out along the canal, which can also be used as a good supplement to the urban functions in CBD area and rationally sort out the urban functional space;

3. After introducing hot spring resources into the main island of reclamation, the urban interface in CBD area is clearer and the land development efficiency is improved;

4. Considering the traffic connection and texture relationship between the reclamation area and the city, the four road directions in the east-west direction in CBD area become the controlling factors of the spatial organization of the reclamation area.

In the process of answering questions, the design scheme is slowly presented in the form of a gestalt (see Figure 5).

The growth of architecture and the growing architecture have their origins and laws according to the surrounding conditions, historical changes and local customs. If we can grasp this inevitability, the ecology of the building will be clear, and the posture of the building will be harmless.