We work for MAD：intern collection 34

MAD no doubt is one of the most recognized architectural practices in China and worldwide. Every year, MAD receives countless job and internship applications. To be able to work at MAD will definitely enrich your career as even though the people working here might have been lucky, but are undeniably outstanding. What could possibly be on the minds of the MAD interns?

MAD无疑是中国最受瞩目的建筑师事务所，同时在世界范围内也受到极高的关注。MAD每年都收到来自全世界不计其数的工作申请和实习申请。能够进入MAD学习和工作一段时间，职业生涯无疑会变得精彩丰富，在这里的人们，也许是幸运的，但肯定是优秀的。在MAD工作的实习生们，他们脑子里天马星空的想法是什么样的?

Name: Pengfei Zhang
Educational Institution: Hunan University
Nationality: P.R.China
Email: pengfeizhang@hotmail.com

Who is your favorite Architect and why?

I really appreciate some recent works of young Japanese architects, such as Sou Fujimoto, Junya Nishigami, Atelier Bow-Wow and their predecessors SANAA, Toyo Ito, etc. I like the oriental artistic conception in their design. Growing up with my grandfather who is a traditional Chinese doctor, I was deeply influenced by traditional oriental philosophy such as Confucianism, Taoism and Zen. Japanese architects not only inherited traditional culture but also developed it into new levels. I hope there could be more Chinese architects focusing on traditional culture which was serious damaged forty years ago, especially in this impetuous age.

What is the major characteristic of your current school’s education?

They pay more attention to aesthetic education and practical skills.

What have you gained during the MAD internship?

Modeling and rendering skills, but the most important would be new friends I met, they broadened my perspective of architecture and the world. The most memorable is young people from different countries always having dinner in the office talking and laughing like a family.

What are your thoughts and feelings upon Chinese Architecture and the environment? Any suggestion?

From the macro perspective of city, most cities are suffering the problems caused by rapid Urban Sprawl, natural suburb landscape are disappearing, long distance commute and unwalkable space encourages car dependency, which would bring more social problems, say, rich-poor divide, more crime, air pollution (think about the serious haze pollution this year which has lasted almost 5 months in China). On the other hand, in the old town development, most old streets and historic buildings are being rudely demolished; slums are being replaced by luxury buildings, while poor people have to move to other slums.

From the micro perspective of architecture, the stream of traditional Chinese wooden building system, which has thousands years of history, is almost drying up at this booming time. All kinds of regional tectonic cultures are suffering irreversible damages. It’s not only a shame of Chinese, but also huge losses of the diversity of human cultural heritage.

Architecture, as one of the most expensive human activities, is a reflection of society. Problems mentioned above are also fails of our impetuous society. We need to wake more people up to notice those problems and change the mind of society. In this exciting information age, I think Internet might be an effective catalyst of Chinese Enlightenment. In the last year, Internet has already played significant role in promoting social justice and expanding supervision of power. Let’s say gooood, isn’t it a good platform of spreading ideas?

What is your dream?

Seclusion in mountain or forest. Immersing myself in nature and living a simple life, Just like what was described in the poems of Tao Qian and the book WALDEN written by Henry Thoreau .

What is your dream project?

A simple wooden house for seclusion, being designed and built all by myself.

Amongst the works in your portfolio, which one is your favorite? Why?

They all seem unsatisfactory now, although I felt pretty good when I was doing them. If I have to choose
one, I would prefer the thesis project, which is relatively mature amongst other works.

 

 

姓名： 张鹏飞
学校： 湖南大学
年级： 五年级
国籍： 中华人民共和国
电邮： pengfeizhang@hotmail.com

最喜欢的建筑师是谁？为什么？
很喜欢日本的几位年轻建筑师，藤本壮介，石上纯也，塚本由晴和贝岛桃代，以及他们前面的西泽立卫，妹岛和氏，伊东丰雄，隈研吾，安藤忠雄。在他们的建筑中我看到了东方精神的延续传承。我外公是位老中医，从小受他影响很大，对于儒家的仁义道德、道家的道法自然、佛家的慈悲博爱以及黄帝内经的阴阳五行等东方哲学观都有深刻的认同感。在西方文化处于强势地位的全球化背景下，日本建筑师对于传统文化的尊重，对东方空间意蕴的发展，以及严谨的态度都值得我们借鉴，尤其是在各种媚俗的暴发户式的“欧洲风情”楼盘蔓延于中国的今天。

你所在学校的教育特点？
比较注重美术教育和实践技能。

在MAD实习最大的收获是什么？
建模、渲染、参数化、每周的匹萨、同事送的吉他、各种圈内八卦……最重要的是认识了很多朋友，最难忘的是不同肤色的年轻人经常围在办公桌边像一家人一样聊天吃晚饭的画面。

你对中国建筑的感触是什么？建议是什么？
从城市的角度看，中国很多城市正在犯着发达国家过去犯过的错误，盲目的向郊区扩张，吞噬原有自然景观，同时导致通勤距离增加，由于公共交通系统发展滞后，越来越多的人们依赖小汽车，导致交通堵塞，环境污染，想想这次持续了半年的严重雾霾污染吧。为汽车设计的立交桥侵占原有舒适的步行空间，产生城市死角，导致更多的人选择开车，造成难以扭转的恶性循环。西方几十年前就开始反思这些问题，倡导新城市主义(New Urbanism)，中国却似乎毫不吸取教训。另外所谓的城市更新都是大拆大建，拆真文物，建假古董，传统街坊邻里关系被打破，城市公共空间被忽视，城市肌理被破坏，城市记忆被删除，城市面貌千篇一律。

从建筑的角度看，延续几千年的中国传统建筑文化在当代几乎断流。中华民族的建筑文化体系经过历朝历代的传承发展源远流长博大精深，然而到现在中国几乎所有的建筑，不管住宅学校办公楼，都是西方的砖头钢筋混凝土的体系，某些所谓中式建筑不过是贴上一些装饰的标签。几千年的文化在我们这个时候被掐断不仅是中华民族的悲哀，也是世界文化多样性的损失。

我常常幻想如果当初我们借鉴西方先进技术的同时，仍然继承和发展传统的建筑体系，保持街坊邻里的城市格局，保留大江南北各地的城市特色，将会是多么理想的城市空间。城市发展应该是一个有机更新的过程，而不应揠苗助长，杀鸡取卵。

从建筑教育的角度来看，学生普遍缺乏合理的建筑评判标准和社会责任感的教育。大多数中国建筑院校对建筑历史及理论缺乏重视，学生对后现代主义之后的世界建筑理论发展脉络没有清晰的把握，缺少批判性思考的训练，设计方法的教育有时停留在现代主义初期的教条，有时又盲目追逐当下的时髦，面对当代世界多元的建筑风格和思潮，很容易造成学生价值评判标准的混乱。这种混乱曾经困扰了我很久，到现在我仍在恶补建筑思想史方面的书籍，寻求一个合理的建筑观。另外对于建筑师的社会责任感的教育常常停留于口号，缺少具体的可操作的技术理论支撑，学生毕业后依然会变成为权力和资本服务的机器。

建筑作为耗费成本最高的人类活动之一，很大程度反映了整个社会的状态。建筑的问题其实也是整个社会的问题。我们看到，很多建筑项目被少数人当作捞政绩谋暴利的工具，被要求在最短的时间内建成，忽视建筑质量，无视公共利益和社会正义，这些其实都是当下整个中国社会功利主义的大环境所造成的。我想，要解决建筑的问题，就需要扭转整个社会的观念。想想看欧洲文艺复兴和思想启蒙运动对社会、文化、艺术、科技、城市、以及建筑的影响吧。我认为，我们正处在一个激动人心的信息时代，互联网很有可能会成为中华民族“文艺复兴”和“思想启蒙”的催化剂。就在刚刚过去的一年，我们看到互联网已经加速了很多社会问题的解决。而且，gooood网本身不就是设计圈内传播文化思想的良好平台么？

你的梦想是什么？
隐居山林，像陶渊明的诗或者Henry Thoreau在《瓦尔登湖》里描写的那样。

你梦想中的项目是什么样的？
自己设计并亲手搭建一座用来隐居的舒适的小木屋。虽然学了这么久“建筑”，但我觉得“筑巢”其实是所有动物的本能，文明的进步反而让人失去了筑巢的能力，多少人为了城市里一个租期70年的窝，赔上青春，沦为房奴。

在自己的作品集中，你最喜欢的作品是什么？
为什么每个作业在当初做的时候都自我感觉良好，可是过个一年半载再看，又会觉得幼稚的拿不出手，也许就是因为内心价值评判标准的混乱吧。如果非要说最喜欢的，可能是最后的毕业设计吧，相对比较深入，当作是对五年学习的一个交代。

 

毕业设计/城市规划展览馆

当盲目的城市建设导致了交通拥堵、环境污染、贫富分化等一系列问题的时候，一个用来接待上级视察、夸耀政绩的“城市规划展览馆”就充满了讽刺意味。然而中国各地正却正在纷纷建设类似的项目。本案就是在这样的背景下，探索如何将一个用来歌功颂德的建筑设计成真正为市民服务的城市公共空间。

基地位于市郊的政府新区，原来郊外宜人的自然景观被宏伟的硬化广场和大型公建所取代。为了在这样的环境里创造一个供市民休息的公共空间，设计中保留了原有地形和原生植物，建筑架空，入口向外延伸，形成一个曲折的户外长廊，创造尽可能多的公共空间来容纳“人”的活动。

 

Thesis/ Urban Planning Exhibition Hall 

With the attitude of evading problems in the urbanization and boasting credit, authority directed this propaganda project, ironically, to celebrating their achievements. You could find similar projects in most cities in China. Under this background, the main issue of the thesis is how to convert the propaganda tool into comfortable urban public space which could truly serve citizens.

Site located in the new government office district in the suburb where natural landscape was replaced by majestic squares and buildings, lacking vitalities. So this design preserved last piece of natural terrain and plants within the site, lifted building showing a modest gesture to environment. Serpentine narrow pavilion extend between original huge trees, not only as an entrance of the building, but also space for people to coexist with trees, birds, sunshine and each other.

 

 

影剧院设计

该设计利用一个插在建筑中巨型镜面，不但划分了功能空间，而且在建筑内外创造了一系列有趣的虚像与实像的并置。局部楼板的抬升，在拥挤的城市空间里争取了公共空间的可能性。观众厅的设计结合声学模拟以期达到良好的视听效果。

Theater Design 

 

The mirror wall inserted in the theater, splitting the building into two parts with different programs, creates series of virtual images juxtaposing with real images inside and outside the building. Lifting certain parts of the slab give more open space to the crowded urban environment. Digital skills are used in the design process of audience hall, to achieve satisfactory visual and audio effects.

 

 

城市设计

北正街是一条享有千年繁华的历史老街，由于城市发展不平衡，现在变成了城市低收入人群聚集的“棚户区”，于是政府希望利用房地产开发对这一街区进行改造，拥有大量历史建筑的老街正面临拆除的危险。我们的城市设计基于大量访谈，了解居民需求和建筑状况，希望以一种自发的，有机的，广泛参与的方式，让街区自我更新，而非盲目的大拆大建。

 

Urban Design/ Downtown Renovation 

Although enjoying thousands years of history, Beizheng Street area still reduced to a slum area in the rapid urbanizing of Changsha city. Authority wants to eliminate the stain of city by changing it into a retail district; a lot of historic buildings are facing danger of demolition. Based on interviews with residents, we tried to explore a wide range of spontaneous participation in the renovation, instead of arbitrary demolition and construction.

 

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Name: Pengfei Zhang 张鹏飞

Email: pengfeizhang@hotmail.com