Study on Relationship between points and lines
About this project
The future children's community center, located in Beihai, Guangxi, China offers the residents of rural left-behind and an extensive educational project with innovative design and planning in 2030.
Keywords:
Architecture
Children
Public space
Individual project
04/2020 - 12/2020
BEIHAI Utopia
The architecture took about 300 m³. The initial design focus on the relationship between points and line. Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s abstract painting, I create architecture with curly lines and geometric outlooks. The design helps to create a place for local children to have happy childhood full of memory. The integration of a bright universal language with local motives that emerge organically from the place and its recent history is not only formalist but also narrative, promoting playful activities. The space design took into account both the pedagogical needs and the desire to promote a friendly playful setting, which offers hands-on activity and a lasting experience.
Cafeteria
Painting room
Dance Room
Amusement room
Introduction
Watching raindrops fall on the ground on rainy days and form millions of ripples always calms me down. The drops of rain bounced into the surface of the water form an extraordinary picture naturally and randomly. The process of points changing from three-dimension to plane form is rather interesting.
ARTIST STUDY
As the pioneer of abstract art, Wassily Kandinsky considered the basic plane a living being. Kandinsky analyzed the geometrical elements which make up every painting—the point and the line. It gives so much inspiration that I could see grand constructional groups pulled up from his drawing.
Dessin, 1918
by Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VIII, 1923
by Wassily Kandinsky
Location
BEIHAI, a small coastal city, faces the severe problem of left-behind children. The project tends to create a space for these children, for them to have a place to have better education and more concern.
Area 3337 km²
Population 1.7 million
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Age
0- 14 0.34 million
15-64 1.20 million
65- 0.15 million
Parents go out of their homeplace and work in big cities like Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen.
Limited times go back home a year.
Children left-behind are more easily to have psychological issues due to lack of accompany.
There is no place for children to get better humanity education or spend time with their families in most of the small cities.
Data
According to the seventh national census data, in 2020, China have a permanent urban population of 902 million, an urbanization rate of 63.89%, and a mobile population of 376 million. There are about 130 million left-behind children, more than 40% of the total number of children in China. The data is on an upward trend which means there will be more and more left-behind children in the future.
Mobile working class
376 million
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Children of the mobile working class
(Left-behind children)
130 million
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Over 40%
of total children in China
Persona
Kailong Huang
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Age 8
Location Beihai, Guangxi, China
Kailong’s parents left her with an aunt when she was just 2 years old. Her parents would spend four months each year cutting sugar cane in Guangdong province, leaving her with different relatives, an arrangement she resented.
Do housework after school
Make food for family
Feed chicken and pigs
Walk to school 3 miles away
Insights
1. Limited education.
2. Need of company with families and friends.
3. Single food resources and nutrition.
4. No time and place to play as a child.
Study from the Artist(Construction)
To study from Wassily Kandinsky, I drew more than 500 points and at least 150 circles on a paper in legal size. The dots are drawn separately by the order of 1 inch, 3 inch, 5 inch, and then repeat. Each circle takes one or more points as the centre or using the distance between two points as the radius. The line segment is also determined by the position of the dots. The painting mimics the ripples of raindrops within simple regulations.
Materialize From The Plane...
I selected three 10’*10’ sections which lead me to look for geometric shapes within them. I transferred the drawing patterns into three-dimensional drafts first. Millions of interesting arrangements of basic solids could be pulled up from the plane.
Three-dimensional Construction Study
I started to build them with bristol paper. These small blocks gives me the touch of the model. It seems a little bit irrational and confused me at the very beginning. I made different combinations to look for the best composition.
Draft Model
I used three of my most satisfied bristol paper blocks to construct a complete architecture. I use paperboard and transparent plastic for the final model. The entrance consists of three circles. The circular shape acts both functions of the door and the windows. The strips on the roof allow light to go inside. The spatial relationship in the architecture includes space within a space and spaces linked by a common space.
First Stage
Left Side View
Top View
Right Side View
Plan Views
The space tends to integrate the relationship between children and families. In different parts of the architecture, my design creates open and comfortable activity places for children and families with various spatial forms. It allows children to have the entire ground floor to paint. There is also a cafe for adults in the upper corner. The second floor is all for amusement. The platform can be taken as a dance room for both children and adults.
Isometric View
