outside the loop

Modular container Transportation improves the efficiency of transportation, but at the same time, it causes the adverse impact of waste due to frequent decommissioning. So this sinks into a loop . Production-consumption-demolition, and comes again and again. The core concept of our plan is to explore the possibilities outside the loop. Make the old stuff bloom again.

More than one thousand years ago，in southern China, the fierce and aggressive Hakka culture had created a large inward-looking earth building, name Tulou. To defend themselves from not only natural but also human threats, the big family builds up the thick wall. And using the atrium to provide an open space for the farming culture. In this traditional building, the rooms of each individual family are vertically distributed, and each room can lead to a shared corridor and balcony. As times go by, a growing number of the Tulou show up, come along with the family culture growth. It is located in a continuous landscape.

This traditional form of the houses reflecting a state of "Original Urban". Collective space is not only for private use but also for public institutions. However, Tulou rise as the family rising and fall when the family comes down. It seems like stuck in this loop and no way out. Whether the tradition can be continued, and at the same time, it is necessary to break the internal circulation of traditional Tulou confined to one family name, and open the excellent tradition to all citizens, which provides us with ideas for design.

We decide to extract the annular space from the traditional earth building as our main design element. We will connect and reshape the shabby container‘s body through some new constructions to form a student dormitory space that can be reused. By doing this, while avoiding the high cost of dismantling and transporting obsolete containers, also solves the problems of traditional student dormitories wasting too many urban landscapes but still lack change in the living space. We have noticed the traditional student dormitory that put more attention focused on solving the housing problem, but whether they have paid attention to the space that is too similar, whether it has an adverse effect on the emotion of students, and whether the dormitory really meets the living needs of students. We intend to use the vertical spatial sequence to imagine that students can break through the daily time cycle in dormitory life, and provide students with different spatial experiences at different times, so that dormitory life is no longer boring and monotonous, and encourage students to explore and try outside the loop.

Student dormitories are as important to students as gravity is to architectural design. Therefore, we are exploring all the possibilities of architecture outside the gravity cycle. We are trying to introduce a magnetic levitation container frame system in this design, exploring the possibility of convenient replacement in the future. By doing this, with a large single-row ring, not only in the three-dimensional vertical space, but also in the plane expansion, it will break away from the restriction of the topography, sort out the composition of the block, and become a space for sorting out the community. It will become a symbol in the community. Not only accompanied by different needs, outside the original loop, the building also has extended different branches. Students, even the residents close to this community, now have greater freedom and ample space to explore what they want to do in community life. They are no longer restricted to the cycle., which seems like the same to everyone living in the same block. Their lives are full of more variables and more possibilities, by living in these “outside loop” dormitories.