Xin Tong |Architecture Portfolio

Work selected from 2018-19

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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.

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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

GAS

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

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). |35

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

Final view |37

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|