Work selected from 2018-19
Architectural
POR TF O LIO
Xin Tong
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XIN TONG Architecture
Architectural educated with 4 years different courses including urban, environment, material, acroustic, light, history, structure and design studio. Languageďźš Chinese (native), English (IELTS 6.5) Phone: +4407422529332 Address: Moira Street, L6 1BA Email : 854606829@qq.com Xin Tong Xin Tong
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EDUCATION 2013 - 2016
Middle School Attached to Xinjiang University| Xinjiang, China Cultural course
2016 - 2018
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) | Suzhou, China Architecture GPA: 2.42/4.0
2018 - present University of Liverpool | Liverpool, U.K. BA
INTERNSHIP & VOLUNTEERING 2017
Xinjiang Architectural Design & Research Institute
2018
Xinjiang Architectural Design & Research Institute
2018
Campus Opening Ceremony Volunteer | Suzhou, China
Winter (1 month)
·Understand and experience working conditions in the construction industry ·As a staff cooperating with the other people about the porjects
Summer (2 months)
·Getting deeper of different programs in real working area with constructions ·Participate in the work process of the factories, hospitals, garages, laboratories ·As an assistant to the general manager, assist the department as a leading possition to participate in the project situation meeting and follow up the opening progress. ·On campus open days, students and parents are guided on campus visits and architectural lectures, and introduced and promoted for the architecture department.
Summer (2 months)
WORK EXPERIENCE 2016
Annual Meeting of Majors in Architecture| Suzhou, China Student Career Development Association -Urban Construction Branch ·Inviting business leaders in civil engineering, urban planning and construction to provide career development prospects and professional choices for first-year architectural students.
03 -05/2017 UIA Architecture Competition Winners Exhibition, XJTLU| Suzhou, China Student Career Development Association -Urban Construction Branch
·Collaborated with Suzhou University to print and host an exhibition of the prize-winning works of the Architecture Competition for the two colleges' architecture departments. ·Communicate with leaders of the architecture department and obtain funding and publicity support from the architecture department.
04 -05/2017 Three universities exchange activities | Suzhou, China
Student Career Development Association -Urban Construction Branch ·The architecture departments of the three schools of Suzhou University, Suzhou University of Science and Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University maintain the tradition of activities in the past three years to hold the exchange activities in XJTLU. ·Liaison with the heads of the architecture departments of the two schools and invited the students of the architecture departments to come to XJTLU for visits and academic exchange activities.
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
PERSONAL SKILLS
Photoshop
Communication
Adobe Illustrator
Teamwork
Rhino
Creativity
Indesign
Leadership
Sketch up
Management
|01 Parking Plus 1-12
Multi-functional Parking Space
|02 Invisible Center 13-22
Students Sport Activity Center
|03 Water Cradle 23-34
Cradle to cradle of the water
|04 Making & Activating 35-38
1:1 Construction Design
01-PARKING PLUS Multi-functional parking space Time: May-July, 2019 Tutor: Alex Dunston Email: A.Dusterloh@liverpool.ac.uk Location: Liverpool Lime st station, England Size: 1500m2 Academic individual
Parking is a trivial thing in everyday life. It is important to connect it with the city and become an element of mutual promotion. The functions of the urban enviornment are unitary, too specific limitation lost the fun. The space needs to reshape the understanding of the parking space which is changling.How to make parking a better integration of things that seem difficult in people's daily lives.
A parking space with different functions to improve the whole qualities of parking in this space by adding varies functions in different levels of the parking space.
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Site Condition
View from Russell St
Cars parking on the street
01 - Built Open
02 - Neighbouring Attraction
03 - Traffic Circulation
04 - Movement Parking
05 - Vehicles Pattern
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View from Entrance
Limited car parking area
06 - People Pattern
View from Copperas hill
No facilities for pedestrian
The site is located near the biggest train station in Liverpool. Hundreds of cars pass through it evertday. However, there is only a small amount of space here for parking. Most of the cars just park on the street. There is also no space for pedestrains to walk through or get involved in. A parking space with functions is needed.
Supermarket
Theater Offices Hotel
New parking
Art school
Train station
Commity Center
Hotel
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CONCEPT
MARKETS + PARKING + CAR WASHING + EXHIBITION + PETS
WHAT'S YOUR PARKING LIKE?
One piece slab
Repeating slab
Two ways slab
Staggered up and down
HOW TO CREAT THE THINNEST SLAB?
Normal slab
Normal slab view
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Cut the edge
New slab
New slab view
Different floor heights
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Parking Entrance
6 1. Small Glass arkets boxes 2. Big Shop 3. Moveable markets 4. Core (lift and stairs) 5. Railway track 6. Main road |7
Pet fostering
PARKING
EXHIBITION
CAR WASHING
MARKET
Auto-washing machine facilities in the floor Easily washed while parking and working nearby
Pet fostering on the roof top
Taking care of the workers' pets when they not at home
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Groups of marketing in the grpund floor Each box can be a small bussiness
Exhibition with parking space in between which can be provided by nearby art school
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Groups of people shopping in the glass frame hall The students work or other arts can be the goods
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PERSPECTIVE SECTION
CAR WASHING
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EXHIBITION
PET FOSTERING MARKETS
PARKING SPACE
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02-INVISIBLE CENTER Students sport activity center Time: May-July, 2018 Tutor: Lina Stergiou Email: L. Stergiou@xjtlu.edu.cn Location: Su Zhou City Size: 9000m2 Academic individual
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Nowadays, students in Ch
In response of the pressu and sport courts for diffe The buildings are mostly
hina are facing onerous studies at schools. Physical health and mental health become essential issues to handle.
ure of studies, an invisible center adapts its program to the need of student sport activities, offering the playground erent demands. underground near the school library. The public space becomes a conversation between environment and activities. 14|
Part A Function study Facing the pressure of the coursework and deadlines at school, groups of students are willing to have sports rather than stay at home. The range of activities adapt to students need well design in this area.
Conceptual Framework
01. Forging a connection through the site between the lake and the campus library.
02. The linear mass hidden maximise the openness of the landscape and its connection to the environment.
03. Introducing each piece with "a new space", augmenting the relationship the building aims to maintain with its context
Conceptual Section
01. Hiding the main functional part under the ground to provide a wide view from the eye level.
02. Dividing the functions into different volumn and adjust the height of the different blocks.
Functional Diagram
GYM+SWIMING BASKETBALL BADMINTON PING-PONG INFORMATION POINT
UNDERGROUND SEMI-UNDERGROUND
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USER
Cut-away axonmetric
Badminton
Table Tennis
Sitting Staircase
Runway
Basketball
Swimming Pool
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Perspective section
Runway
Basketball
Swimming Pool
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Runway
Badminton
Gym and table tennis
Basketball
Roof Garden
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1-Swimming pool 2-Runway 3-Basketball 4-Badminton 5-Gym 6-Table tenis
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Part B Visual Effect People
People involved in varies activities at the entrance
Badminton players with audience on the platform
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People involved in varies activities at the entrance
People involved in varies activities at the entrance
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People in different ages getting involved in varies activities (basketball, running, relax
With natural light from the sur
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xing and hanging) at the main court with a clear view looking outside of the building.
rrounding glass frame windows
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03-WATER CRADLE Cradle to cradle of the water Time: Sep-Dec, 2019 Tutor: Paul Bower Email:P.Bower@liverpool.ac.uk Location:Keswick, England Size:250m2 Academic individual
CONTEXT “...the impacts of climate change are occurring faster and to a greater degree than what you would think if you read the IPCC reports...�
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The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) presents a new report on climate change that states that temperatures over 2015-2019 are on track to be the hottest ever on record.
Communities & Contested Spaces FOUCUS: ● Considering people’s everyday experiences of architecture ● Architecture as a political practice - sharing space and global resources
Water plays an important role for human. Water cradle shows different types of water and how people interacted with water.
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‘Making a Meal of It’ Group Manifesto As the world is warming, climate change is threatening ecosystems and environments that protect water resources, the sea levels are rising and natural disasters occur more frequently. Now more than ever it is important to conserve water, for people to reduce their water footprint and help keep our sources pure and safe for generations to come. Access to safe and clean water is a basic human right but with growing population rates and such a small
Group member: Xin Tong, John Hussky, Sophie Davis, Plamen Panchev, Abbey Brady-Hoyle
percentage of all the water on Earth fit for consumption, it only makes sense that we must preserve this precious resource. Since everybody relies on water to sustain life, it is our own personal responsibility to educate ourselves on the impact of our water consumption, especially having the privilege of living in a first world country where the problems that arise seem to hardly affect us, or at least not to the same scale as the less privileged.
preserve this precious resource. Since everybody relies on water to sustain life, it is our own personal responsibility to educate ourselves on the impact of our water consumption, especially having the privilege of living in a first world country where the problems that arise seem to hardly affect us, or at least not to the same scale as the less privileged.
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MOMENT MODEL
SITE STRATEGIES
Reservoir
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Reservoir
Reservoir
Repeat the irregular shape
Reservoir
Interior view
Reservoir
Opening view for the nature Reservoir
Moment model
Make it solid
Adding cubes
Extending cubes
Timber truss to access lift 26|
CONCEPT: SAMSARA
SOLID WHEN IT RAINS
LIQUID
WATER
I CAN SEE IT ON THE TREE I CAN TOUCH IT IN MY HAND I CAN HEAR IT BY BIRD'S WINGS I CAN PHOTO IT ON THE GLASS -------------XIN
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The shape developed from a cube
Cube as a unit to form the whole facade
Water as a unit to shape different types of performance
Frozen ice from the corridor
Rainning from the balcony
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Foggy surroundings
EXPLOSION ISOMETRIC Explode
Wooden trusses
Entrance with a long glass frame corridor
Small skylight opennig
Moveable door
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Spring with rainning
Summer with lake
Autumn with natural fog
Winter with ice and snow
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1-Ground floor platform entrance 2-Plants room 3-Lobby 4-Exhibition 5-Balcony Pedestrian Cross-Laminated Timber
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1-Lowest (-2 floor) entrance 2-All gender toilet 3-Storage room 4-Main storytelling space 5-Extentional storytelling space 6-Storyteller office
A-A Section
1-Seating area facing water 2-Food service 3-Kitchen 4-Openning balcony 5-All gender toilet
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Lighting and Opennings
Construction detail drawing
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View from the entrance
Long corridor with glass wall on both sides to have a frozen ice view in the winter or block the strong wind
View from the storytelling space
Open the moveable wall to get more nature light and better view while the story is telling
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04-Making & Activating Liverpool School of Architecture Spring School 1:1 construction Time: January 24th-27th, 2019 Tutor: Carl Turner Location:University of Liverpool, England Size:100m2 Academic Group work
In recent years, Carl Turner Architects have been developing an expertise in temporary or “meanwhile” development, in which land or buildings are repurposed for a relatively short period, with a primary focus on providing low-cost space as a platform for activity. Imagining – Problem solving, self-initiating and developing business plans Designing – Developing designs for a variety of buildings, structures objects Making – Prototyping, using DIY strategies, collective building Curating – Operating, running and using projects after completion
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Conceptrual Mass model
Working with a set palette of low-cost materials, the group of students will co-create a 1:1 temporary intervention that will aim to activate a previously underused area of the campus (internal or external).
Experimenting concept models
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Group discussion
Tutorial on the site Limited materials for the whole project
Different size of neils for connection joints
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To get shade of the rains
Group mass model presentation
Tutorial on the site
Do jobs by steps
Ready to assemble
Assembling truss Testing on the site
Assembling trusses
Drilling the nails
Assembling trusses 38|