DUTCH PAVILION FOR SHENZHEN LOW CARBON EXHIBITION
2016
With this contribution to Low Carbon City 2016 Superuse Studios shares the tools it developed for its circular practice in The Netherlands. We developed an online platform: Harvestmaps to identify the resources necessairy to create ecosystems right away. In our hometown we collaborate with the Rotterdam Metabolists a local network of specialists all dedicated to positively contributing to the built environment based on the knowledge of flows like water, energy, food and materials. For China we launched Superuse Studios China and adapt our tools to chinese technology standards and language
The dutch pavilion is the result of our increasing understanding of material flows in the Guangdong province. Because of process optimization logic, vast amounts of high quality products like aluminum windowframes do not find their way to execution projects and turn in dead stock. To create new value with these stranded assets we turn the practise around and let the windowframes inspire our designs like separation walls, coffeebar and greenhouse. The windows represented here are only a tiny fraction of what is available on daily basis in the industry. The only thing we need to do is to connect the flow to back to design and construction works. Thus contributing to less waste, emissions, transport miles and loss of capital and to more jobs and affordable products.
荷兰馆是我们对广东省资源流动深入了解的体现。因为最优化生产的逻辑,大量类似铝合金门窗的高质量产品不能被利用,变成了库存积压。为了给这些标准化产品创造新的价值,我们将传统设计过程颠倒过来,让这些门窗激发我们的灵感,用它们制作出了展览隔墙、咖啡吧和温室。这些门窗只代表了工业日常生产中非常小的一部可用废料。我们唯一需要做的就是将这些资源流动连接回设计和工程项目中去。以此实现更少的废料、碳排放、运输里程和金钱损失,同时创造更多的就业机会和物美价廉的产品。
The dutch pavilion is the result of our increasing understanding of material flows in the Guangdong province. Because of process optimization logic, vast amounts of high quality products like aluminum windowframes do not find their way to execution projects and turn in dead stock. To create new value with these stranded assets we turn the practise around and let the windowframes inspire our designs like separation walls, coffeebar and greenhouse. The windows represented here are only a tiny fraction of what is available on daily basis in the industry. The only thing we need to do is to connect the flow to back to design and construction works. Thus contributing to less waste, emissions, transport miles and loss of capital and to more jobs and affordable products.
荷兰馆是我们对广东省资源流动深入了解的体现。因为最优化生产的逻辑,大量类似铝合金门窗的高质量产品不能被利用,变成了库存积压。为了给这些标准化产品创造新的价值,我们将传统设计过程颠倒过来,让这些门窗激发我们的灵感,用它们制作出了展览隔墙、咖啡吧和温室。这些门窗只代表了工业日常生产中非常小的一部可用废料。我们唯一需要做的就是将这些资源流动连接回设计和工程项目中去。以此实现更少的废料、碳排放、运输里程和金钱损失,同时创造更多的就业机会和物美价廉的产品。
SUPER PAVILION
2015
与柏林时光市集合作我们设计了超集。在北京,每个包子店每天能够用掉70袋面粉。通过百度地图搜索发现北京目前至少有一千一百七十八个包子铺。这就意味着,每天全北京会有八万两千四百六十个面袋变成废料。这些面袋被收集起来运送到回收站,用来装工地的废料,最终变为白色垃圾。 而八万两千四百六十只是北京包子铺用掉的面粉袋子,北京还有成千上万家餐厅,除了面袋还有米袋,淀粉袋,等等等等。我们在1个星期之内收集了2000个袋子,在35位朋友的帮助下,用了20000个铆钉,耗时21天。这就是‘超集”
Together with Zeit Berlin Bazaar we designed The Super Pavilion. In Beijing, every steamed dumpling shop is able to consume 70 bags of flour in one day. There are 1,178 shops like this in the city. Which means every single day 82,460 flour bags are wasted. Superuse studios-Junyuan Chen Studio cooperated with Zeit Berlin Bazaar,we collected 2,000 packages in one week. With the help of 35 friends,spend 21 days and 20,000 rivets. We presented the Super Zeit Berlin Pavilion.
Together with Zeit Berlin Bazaar we designed The Super Pavilion. In Beijing, every steamed dumpling shop is able to consume 70 bags of flour in one day. There are 1,178 shops like this in the city. Which means every single day 82,460 flour bags are wasted. Superuse studios-Junyuan Chen Studio cooperated with Zeit Berlin Bazaar,we collected 2,000 packages in one week. With the help of 35 friends,spend 21 days and 20,000 rivets. We presented the Super Zeit Berlin Pavilion.
THE FUTURE RURALIZATION IN LONGSHANG VILLAGE CHINA
2014-2015
I built up my graduation design through observing and researching. After several interviews with different people, a huge gap between the paper museum and the locals revealed itself to me. The piece of land that the museum was built on, once was the site of the ancestors-temple of Longshang. The old temple was demolished during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Since then, there is no place for villagers to gather, have meetings or hold events. The establishment of the museum does not unfortunately fulfill the emptiness of the village’s heart.
One of my conclusions was the need for a public space in Longshang, where the villagers can feel a sense of belonging. More discoveries followed. First, the village does not have an underground sewage system. Locals use polluted water for daily activities. Second, in the center of the village, a ‘playground’ built by the government is used as a parking lot, since it was always empty.
Based on my conclusions, I intended to give the temple back to the villagers in a different way. My design takes advantage of the government financial support on wastewater purification infrastructure, combining it with a multifunctional public space. The design helps to recreate the missing society's core in the once empty parking lot.
I choose a wetlands wastewater treatment system as the basis of my design. It’s able to collect the polluted water and to purify it for the use of papermaking cleaning processes. To share energy two other procedures requiring heat (boiling and drying) are combined in one structure. This structure also supports the public space above: the waste-heat is collected on the top and used as heating for the interior.
Recreating a familiar social environment for the villagers, and ensuring a high construction quality, I planned to use local materials and craftsmanship. Such as lava stone packs with cement. The facade of the public space is made of three layers of handmade paper curtains. It allows visitors to play with the height and the different shades of lights. In this way, I tried to put what is made by the villagers at the most important position in the village so villagers feel proud of their work.
One of my conclusions was the need for a public space in Longshang, where the villagers can feel a sense of belonging. More discoveries followed. First, the village does not have an underground sewage system. Locals use polluted water for daily activities. Second, in the center of the village, a ‘playground’ built by the government is used as a parking lot, since it was always empty.
Based on my conclusions, I intended to give the temple back to the villagers in a different way. My design takes advantage of the government financial support on wastewater purification infrastructure, combining it with a multifunctional public space. The design helps to recreate the missing society's core in the once empty parking lot.
I choose a wetlands wastewater treatment system as the basis of my design. It’s able to collect the polluted water and to purify it for the use of papermaking cleaning processes. To share energy two other procedures requiring heat (boiling and drying) are combined in one structure. This structure also supports the public space above: the waste-heat is collected on the top and used as heating for the interior.
Recreating a familiar social environment for the villagers, and ensuring a high construction quality, I planned to use local materials and craftsmanship. Such as lava stone packs with cement. The facade of the public space is made of three layers of handmade paper curtains. It allows visitors to play with the height and the different shades of lights. In this way, I tried to put what is made by the villagers at the most important position in the village so villagers feel proud of their work.