WORK VOL

Architecture Act Action

2018

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Work Vol.

ACTION IN ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN

Christina Xuefei Yan Xuefei Yan yyoucai@umich.edu

yyoucai@umich.edu | +1-734-773-5093

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Xuefei Yan Christina yyoucai@umich.edu +1(734)-773- 5093 xuefeiyan.wordpress.com

EDUCATION 2014 - 2018 2011 - 2014 2009 - 2013

University of Michigan Master of Architecture University of Michigan B.S. Architecture Shanghai Jiaotong University B.S.E. Electrical Engineering

EXPERIENCE 2016.02 - 2016.07

Assistant Designer, Neri&Hu Shanghai Office • Edition Hotel Shanghai Interior | SD • Private Villa Zhengzhou | CD

2015.08 - 2016.01

Assistant Designer, Bjarke Ingels Group Copenhagen Office • TEVA Headquarter Campus | Competition - 1st place • Aarhus Water Front Mixed-Use Neighbourhood | SD

2017.02 - 2017.05

Teaching Assistant, Architecture School of Tianjin University, China Co-teaching Third Year Design Studio

2014.05 - 2014.07

Program Assistant, Taubman College MS Spring Program, Beijing Based at CaoChangDi, coordinating local field work in Beijing with Prof. Robert Adams

2014.06

Student Researcher, M-Cubed, University of Michigan Worked with Prof. Mary-Ann Ray and Prof. Robert Mangurian on CLOUD: A Balloon Platform Wireless Internet Provider in rural Beijing.

HONOR 2014

Raoul Wallenberg Travel Award, 1st Place + $18,000 Travel Stipend, Taubman College, University of Michigan Award made possible through the Benard L. Maas Foundation intended to recognise the very best conceived and executed undergraduate thesis studio work

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LANGUAGE SKILL

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Student Show Final List, Taubman College

English, Mandarin Rhino 5.0+Vray, Sketchup, Auto CAD, Revit, Grasshopper, KUKA PRC Adobe Designer Suite, 3d Printing, Laser Cutting, Wood & Metal Shop Certified

01 DOWNTOWN DETROIT FACTORY CLUB

02 PEOPLE‘S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA

03 A TRAVELING FABRICATION LAB FOR CURIOSITY AND DELIRIOUSNESS 04 THE SPLIT 05 TEVA HQ CAMPUS COMPETETION

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DOWNTOWN DETROIT FACTORY CLUB

Instructor : Craig Borum Fall 2014

Detroit now is seen as “beyond industry�, as the city of the future without the massive chunk of industrial space. But still of city as place of manufacturing and production, the new factory form in Detroit could be defined as networked, lighter, integrated with the city and contributed to the public. In future Detroit, the adding of a third shift in factorys calls for the vibrant work/make/ live scenarios to be alive 24/7 with different cycles of activity.

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- role in the neighborhood

- manufacturing

This entire factory system is embedded into the neighborhoods, promoting a healthy life style by proposing a farmer’s market, a jogging/walking trail an urban library and a theater; incubating new business such as restaurant, and providing a training center for workers.

The factory’s manufacturin pier: unloading ->raw mater body parts->painting ->ass ing to ship out. This linear w and dispersed yet still linke integrated with life program shaping the factory as part

ng process starts from the rial preparing->assembling sembling->testing->preparwork flow can be wrapped ed; the fragments can be ms respectively, ultimately t of the urban landscape.

- site strategy To tackle the revitalizing downtown Detroit site, several architectural proposals are designed to respond to specific urban situations. [such as, parasitizing onto existing infrastructure, reforming abandoned building, occupying fragmentary space‌

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Master Axon

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TEVA HQ CAMPUS COMPETITION BIG Collaborators: JoĂŁo Albuquerque, Sarkis Sarkisyan, Viktoria Millentrup, Lukas Kerner, Fratila Teodor, Sergi Sauras *All text and images selected are of my personal authership or heavily involved.

This 2-month competition proposed TEVA HQ at the north end of Tel-Aviv in a satellite city called Ra’anana. As for the program, the overall campus is 68.000 m2 of offices, laboratories and service functions. Regarding our proposal, the overall campus masterplan is developed as a neighborhood rather than a larger structure and meanwhile negotiates the different neighboring surroundings.

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Physical model

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SITE: AREA, CONNECTIVITY AND SURROUNDING CONTEXT

MAIN PLOT ORGANIZATION AND AXIS

PROGRAMS AT GRADE

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COURTYARDS INTEGRATION

MERGE OF TWO LOGICS: RATIONAL ORGANIZATION + CIRCULATION

ENTRANCES CANOPIES AND STREETS WIDENING

LEISURE QUARTER

CULTURE QUARTER

FOOD QUARTER

BUSINESS QUARTER

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THE SPLIT

Fall 2017

This project speculates the fire station in the future when the machine is highly intelligent and automated, the firefighters are replaced by robots and drones. Under the context where the Architecture is no longer primarily inhabited/used by the human, what is the new stand of architecture?

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This project attempts to examine the the dual role of architecture: imagery and function.

Would the separation of the operational and representational roles of the architecture is more efficient than their uncontrolled overlap?

The firestation is phyically splited into two parts, the left part is purely for accommodating the machine operation with the focus on efficiency, while the right side is the media space response for data communication and fire prevention propaganda.

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Left Section

Right Section

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Site Drawing

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PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF AMNESIA: Reframing Tiananmen Square

Instructor : Robert Adams Winter 2014

In the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Incident, this project deploys architectural and theatrical means to reframe a palimpsest of suppressed memories and seeks to provide refuge and provoke discourse on basic human rights.

This project is awarded the Taubman College undergraduate thesis studio 1st place.

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Final Installation [Staging]

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“Smoking M

“Wrap the Institution”

“Tell the Story”

“Tank Man”

“The Stage”

Known as the most representative and iconic landmark of modern China, Tiananmen Square is spite its peaceful and harmonious appearance, it is an extremely sensitive situation with many u mented atmosphere are introduced onto the situation thearically. The project as a whole illustrat sible environment. The paradox itself and seeking for the silver lin

The video projection can be viewed from h

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Mao”

“Temporary Calligraphy”

“The Seedbank & DNA Museum”

an unceasingly witness to the social-political events and radical urban transformation of China. Deunspeakable voices under surveillance and state control. A series of scenarios, apparatus, and augtes a possible future of both the Tiananmen Square and Chinese society within the seemingly imposning of amnesty in such an intense situation is the parti of the project.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcaltfZv9jY

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THE STAGE Center of Center The Tiananmen Square is located at the geographical and political center of Beijing. This 880m x 500m ‘‘hot space’’ is the symbol of dictatorship, state control and surveillance. The social-political traumas have been suppressed, raising the temperature of this hot space. The June Forth Movement is a representation of such scars on the body of a generation’s memory.

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REF: 1. The centralized and symmetrical plan of Tiananmen Sq.

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SMOKING MAO

Micro-Climate Mediation The fog machine acts as an atmospheric generator which theatrically mediates the micro-climate of the Tiananmen Square.

This act creates slack space and reinvigorates Tiananmen Square as a space of action.

REF: 1. Chairman Mao was an avid smoker.

2. China conducts Cloud-Seeding before the 2008 Beijing Olympic to control the weather and plants.

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BURY THE ‘‘DEVIL’’ Cover That Up bullet train crashed in China, BURYA ALL

2011, the government immediate-

PERSONAL GRAFFITI ly buried all the wreckage after

rough rescue. I made this sarcas-

A bullet train crashed in China, tic and sensational graffiti in a July 2011.

The government university, which was soon covered by the school.

The absolute state irresponsibly buried all the control ‘‘disharmony’’ wreckage after doomed a roughthe rescue. to oblivion.

In response to this social event, I made this REF:sarcastic graffiti 1. Bullet Train Accident in Wenzhou, China. in an university in shanghai, The number of death is still uncertain. which was soon covered by the school. The voice of ‘‘disharmony’’ are doomed to oblivion under the state control. This is also the first act of dissidence that stimulated the development of the whole project.

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REF: 1. Bullet Train Accident in Wenzhou, China.

The number of death is 39 according to official report and 259 according to non-governmental statistic.

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2013 TANK MAN

Massacre Yesterday, Silence Today, Speaking-up Tomorrow.

The performance takes place on the same spot at where the “tank man” stood 25 years ago. The figures are wigged with the killed people’s name and in either aggressive or crawling poses. These constitute bodies of architecture through which the passed pioneers are redressed and memorialized.

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REF: 1. The Tank Man: A student who tried to stop the tank in the June Forth. His information and whereabouts have been unclear ever since.

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‘‘A RED CLOTH’’ Temporal Calligraphy

Inspired by water calligraphy with water and Song Dong’s breathing performance on Tiananmen Square, the temporality of architecture practice holds an acute presence within the space.

A mobile apparatus reproduces temporary inscription of the lyrics of “A Red Cloth” on the ground

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REF: 1. Breathing, Performance Art by Dong Song, 1996.

He breathed 40 minutes on the ground of Tiananmen Sq in winter midnight until a thin layer of ice merged and left no trace the next morning.

2. Lyrics from <A Red Cloth> by the Chinese rock-n-roll star Jian Cui. He performed for the hunger-strike student at Tiananmen and encouraged them in 1989.

TELL THE STORY Story Table and Mega-Phone

As there are many unspeakable voice and prohibitions on the square, this STORY underground urban TELL THE room is designed for people Story Table and Metelling their story to the audiga-Phone ence or himself/herself.

The sound is transmitted As there are many unspeakable through “wigged” mechanical voicefacilities and prohibitions on the to the ground level.

square, this underground urban roomREF: is designed for people The Students onaudiT-Square at telling1. their story study to the midnight, 1980 before the College Enence trance or himself/herself.

Examination.

The sound is transmitted through “wigged” mechanical facilities to the ground level.

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WRAPPING THE INSTITUTION

Revelation through Concealment The Great Hall of the People as a symbol of institutional power is covered with cheap-looking advertisement, which is a common but representative scene in Chinese urbanism. The contrast between institution and mundaneness theatrically renders the playful atmosphere of Tiananmen Square.

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REF: 1. ‘‘Wrapping the Reichstag’’, Berlin, installation art, Christo and JeanneClaude, 1995 2. Competition Photography, Qingsong Wang, 2011

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A TRAVELING FABRICATION LAB FOR CURIOSITY AND DELIRIOUSNESS CHAPTER: CONEY ISLAND Winter 2018 Advisor: Perry Kulper

This work is triggered by the idea of seeding while traveling and presented as a series of speculative design proposals sited on Coney Island. The pieces suppose architecture as device, dwelling and fabricating apparatus.

By creating architectural fiction and fantasy the notions of how and why we build and live is expanded.

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It begins with the inventing of a nomadic travel machine. As it travels, it measures the aspects of place, persona and memory; upon its arrival, it constructs the individual world of every peculiar animal at various scales from nano lab for reinventing species, a medium that operates on the human scale that fabricates body, garments and sensibilities. And a celestial observation theater for meteor shower that is nostalgic yet futuristic.

Each device is situated in a curiosity box that mitigates the larger world. The architect operates on the logic and assemblage of the props, metaphorically., as a way to create architectural poem and expand the notion of how and why we build and dwell.

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The universe is our classroom, how we move through it and what we leave behind us are parts of the conversation.

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