Portfolio 2022 by XINYUAN ZHANG

PORTFOLIO

SELECTED WORKS 2018-2021 ZHANG XINYUAN

COMMUNITY OF FREEMAN BuldingReconstruction|Complex Academic|6.2018-7|8weeks (362790@qq.Tang com) Instructor|Hengliang

IndividualWork

What's Your Utopia?

With the memory of the era, the factory built in the 1950s needs to be transformed into a housing and office complex. A group of young entrepreneurs with the yearning for a utopian life hope to work here happily and enjoythefreedomoflife. In the factory where the structures create a sense imprisonment, how to liberate the factory and make it a perfect combination of life and work has become the key point of the design. The working area, living area, buffer area and entertainment areas are interwoven wi three- dimensional dots, lines and planes respectiv expressingtheyoungpeople'sexpectation.

SITE ANALYSIS

LOCATION

The site is located in an industrial zone in Yangcheng lake district, Suzhou city, Jiangsu province, China. The functions of the surrounding buildings to be renovated are mostly factories with the same property, with few functions such as entertainment and residence.

ASSEMBLY UNIT

Modular living units consist of basic living space and private balconies, equipping with furniture that can be assembled

CONTEXT

GENERATION

The bucket on the east side of the site, facing the river, is defined The second as a bucket on the eastside of the site is defined a reading space, with relatively open space on the first floor forspace, electronic the first and the second floors are merged, opened to place a reading, and private space on the second and third floorsstaircase for personal forpreachingandotherfunctions. readingandstudying.

Thesecondbucketonthewestisdefinedasaexhibitionspace.ThefirstThe oor fl fitness is function is placed in the bucket on the west side ofthe field, and the combinedwiththeentrance,andthesecondandthirdfloorsareusedthree forartistic levels are respectively used to adapt to variant types of exercise, being explorationandcommunication,combiningwiththeslope ferzone. ofthebuf modifiedduetoneeds.

1.Entrance 2. Entrance hall

3.Conderence 4.Sharedlivingroom

5.Electronicreadingroom .Night 7 hall 6. Pantry 8 .Small library

9.Exhibitionhall 10.Fitnessroom

BEYOND THE ORCHID ABOVE ALL BEINGS Museum Design |FolkArtPintan Academic|08.219-|8weeks Instructor | Wei Huang

weihuang0301@gmail.com

IndividualWork

The best way to experience local culture is often to receiv

both visual and auditory stimuli simultaneously. An impressiv

cultural experience often requires an emotional resonance th toucheshumannature,givinganimmersiveexperience.Pingtan Museum, as a museum that inherits sound culture, is located

in a district rich in cultural relics. It not only forms a su

harmony with traditional architecture, but also forms a dialogu relationship with Suzhou Museum.The museum's eternal goal is that the art of sound is preserved in a modern and widely disseminatedform,andisperceivedandunderstoodbypeople.

PINGTAN CULTURE Pinghua, storytelling in a local dialect, and Tanci, storytelling to the accompaniment of stringed instruments are two different genres of performing arts. The populace always call them with Pintan for short. The form of stage performance is mainly divided by the number of performers.

GENERATION

After dismantling the abandoned and poorly-preserved residential buildings in the site, the focus is on retaining the former celebrity residences and garden museums.

Establishboundaries

Setdemonstrativebox

Sculpted&Zigzag

Setstage&Occlusion

SITE ANALYSIS

The base is located in Gusu District, Suz h ou City, J i angsu Province, China, which has abundant tourism resources. The site is located at the intersection of three major attractions. The number of daily visitors is high, but the cultural content displayed in each garden is similar and repetitive. There is no stage for a very representative sound culture in Suzhou culture.

The new museum should fully consider the impact of the surrounding environment and respect the existing urban context. At the same time, the appearance presented at important urban streets should not depart from the traditional architectural vocabulary. 9

STAGE FORM The ancient stage is a microcosm of Chinese opera culture, but also a side portrayalofancientsecularlife.AsapopularformofoperainJiangsu,Zhejiangand Shanghai, Pingtan performance has gradually identified 5 main stage forms in the courseofdevelopmentovertheyears.

The spatial language of these five typical traditional stages should be extracted, and the essence of the relationship model between "sound" and "image" should be retained.

From tradition to morden The corresponding five modern stage are abstracted through modern translation and placed in different locations in the These museum. stages gave full play to their own characteristics and demonstrated the history and modern development of Pingtanculture.

Ticket 1. office 2.Receptionroom 3.Guideroom 4.Equipmentroom Actor 5. DressingRoom 6.Pingtanstage(5types) 7.Office 8.Printingroom 9.CulturalRelicsProtectionCenter 10.Conferenceroom 1.Receptionroom(Professionalstaff) 12.LibraryandInformation 13.Guardhouse 14.Shop 15.Folkmusicalinstrumentexhibitionhall 16.Historyshowroom 17.FolkMusicalInstrumentExperienceCenter 18.Reporthall 19.DisplayDepartment 20.ResearchDepartment

DETAIL A

Outside Inside

DETAIL B Inside

Outside

DETAIL C A B

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Usingthemethodofcombiningvirtualnessandreality, the museum combines modern abstract space with Suzhou architecture, allowing visitors to obse the space and form of traditional architecture fr differentperspectives.

The layout model of the Pingtan Museum enclosed on three sides is inherited from the courtyard model of traditional Chinese gardens. On the seemingly open side, corridors suspended on traditional houses a usedtoconnectothermasses.Theentiremuseumwill provide visitors with a higher perspective overlook large areas of traditional buildings (not only their form, but also the way in which their communities are combined).

'Healinginthevoid'

This is a story of healing in the city. Through the interpretation of the urban fabric and the surrounding site, we use viod as the design umbrella for the project. By extracting the geometric forms and redefining the thematic functions, it is hoped that the project will generate new vitality for the peripheral high density and desperately demanding to free up the spaces in densely populated zones. In parallel, the site-wide linear park is linked to the overall urban green system, offering a vision of the future growth of the city''s communal fabric. The museum is a structural skeleton that engages in dialogue with the original blocks and echoes the neighbourhood in the form of a floating container. The studio adopts a co-working and co-living development model, all interlinked as a whole through courtyards. In future, we hope that this district would bring a unique warmth and spiritual care to the people in the urban expansion.

HISTORY EVOLUTION - From Cerdá to La Sagrera

- Typical texture and void

In these modest beginnings are already visible two characteristics Cerdà plan, for the that time, with an exceptionally holistic view of ur woulddefineBarcelona†sdevelopmentovertheyears. vembodiedwhatisthenandtodayastrikingegalitarianism. First, it began, and has always remained, a bounded and compressed Ascity, the Romans knew, and city planners have since redis- cov densefromitsfounding.Firstphysicalwallsandthenthelimitshypodamic ofgeography plan(orhippodamian,na-medaftertheancientplannerM have hemmed the city in and ensured that its residents are crammed with its tightly short blocks and orthogonal streets, encourages together. Remarkably, the wall around the city stayed in place - hemming andvibrant in streetlife. agrowingpopulationandalmostcompletelyseparatingthecityAfrom regular thesea grid is comprehensible and easily navigable. There ar nexttoit-fortwomorecenturies. routes to any destination and regularly spaced choices. Becau streetsarethesame,itpromotesthedispersionoffoottraffic Consequently, the typical urban fabric and open spaces become t forthevitalityofthecity.

1000 1859 1300

1400 Block 1714

Street

Green

1859

Such an urban concept has been implemented in almost all parts of Barcelona, but where La Sagrera linear park passes, an area se years of gentrification has not kept pace with the city' s evolution. In reading up on the city of Barcelona, apart from the imprint Cerdá project, the slow-forming urban identity is equally noteworthy. In conjunction with the forthcoming Sagrera linear par newkindofurbanlifewhichiscoherentwiththemajorityofthecitybecomesthemainsubjectoftheproject.

LEGEND

Collector street Railway Subway

Subway station Forest

DESIGN STRATEGY - A Serial of Urban Monuments

- Various architectural components

Park

Railway station

URBAN ANALYSIS -Reading the city

1946-1947

1955-1956

1945-1946

Present

2006

1956

2010

1966

2016

2000

Present

We have retrieved the dominant axis in the city, which crossUsing eachthe other superposition of different geometric forms, we furthe to form a triangle, and this in turn has been the essential rationale for theorientationofthecircumscriptionsandlandscapelogicw introducing a series of monuments to the city: allusions and signifiers in Then zooming in the site only, the important nodes are visuall throughoutthecity. through the serial monument, which gives the subliminal hin After concentrating on the site itself, we further retrieved the the site texture better of the connected with the surrounding context. We pr surroundingareasandinfiltrateditintothesitebody. architecturalcomponentstoadapttheurbanshape.

MASTERPLAN

STREET TYPE

left to right: -pedestrians - tree - bicycle lane - car lane - green area - car lane - bicycle lane - tree pedestrians

FUNCTIONALITY

left to right: left to right: -pedestrians-pedestrians - tree - bicycle lane - car lane - green area - tree - bicycle lane -pedestrians-pedestrians

left to right: -pedestrians - tree playground - tree pedestrians

We h a v e m i x e d a l l t h e f u n c t i o n n e e d e d f o r t h e c i t i z e n s w h i c h simultaneously preserve part of the original industrial building to ensure the local memory has been kept. For these priorities, we firsly loalise the principle center of the entire district, enabling the museum and its attached urban square, then we offer a void with total forest attached with an infinite museum in the special triangle area to be the second centerialty. Thus, the strategical design of the function can be intergretedwithintheexistingone. - Industry - Social housing - Museum - Vertical farm

GENERATION FACTORY

COLUMNS

LIFT

EXPLODE

INVERSE

First Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Originallyitwasafactory,withaveryregularrectangleshapeandregularcolumndistances.Theroofoftheoriginalbuildin reusable for new functions. That's why we decided to remove the roof structure but keep the column structures. In order t thegroundfloormorepublicfunction,wedecidedtoliftthevolumeandputmostofexhibitionfunctionsonfirstfloor.Sincemuseu need multiple exhibition spaces, the one big volume is exploded into different medium size volumes. On first floor, the serv spaceislocatedontheperimeteroftheplan,andtheexhibitionspaceloactesinsidefacingthecentralinnercourtyard.

-1 Floor Plan

There was a joinery of lives all worked in joy, be more creative and more innovative.

THEEVOLUTIONOFOFFICESPACE

Thedevelopmentofofficespaceisbasedonthepursuitofamoreunstrainedexperience.Fromtheresult,itisclosertolife.Duringthisperiod,thefunctionallayout direction.Moreimportantly,thecategoriesofofficemodulehasbeenenlargedwithavarietyofnon-traditionalactivitiesexistingintheworkplace.

TYPICALLOGICGENERATION-WORTHKEEPING

CONCLUSION

Inthepursuitofcommunicationspace,boxdividedaccordingtotheo principlereduceitsdensity.Butiteasilyproducesisolutatedo sharedresources(eg:cafeteria,auditorium,etc)andchaotic Thecircula quietzonesareessentialcomponentsoftheofficeenvironment,sca boundingbox.Ashigh-efficiencyspace,theycanbedividedintotwodiffer categories,servingdifferentnumberofpeople.Theremainingspaceis walkandwork. 19

The site is located in a Creative Industry Base in Hexi Tianjin, China.The office building to be designed may s multiple office groups, and the number of each group may be different.

CONCEPTGENERATION

Differed from tipical pattern, this method can accom more types of activities to the greatest exten secondsystemwithindependentpaths.

MODULE

Themainmodulesintheofficearetheabovenineprotot which are either arrayed or scaled to meet different formarelativelycompleteofficebuilding.

FACADE SYSTEM After being surrounded by different levels of vitality units, the thickness of the facade expands or contracts because of the different capacities of these non-static activities. The constricted epidermis is processed into channels or small meeting spaces. The swollen epidermis incorporates functions such as a video room.

FACADE DETAIL

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1. Lasso briquettes 2. ∅36 stainless steel cable 3. Glass holder 4. Diamond-shaped inner gusset 5. TP15+12A+TP15mm Tempered insulating glass 6. Matt diamond-shaped outer plywood 7. 20mm galvanised steel sheet 8. ∅36 stainless steel cable ties

OTHER WORKS - 2020 'Tu lou' Museum

- Translation and Remodeling of Local Architectural language - Individual work

OTHER WORKS - 2020 Dining beside the highway

-Highway Station Design -Two-person group work (In charge of whole design, rendering, and construction design)

OTHER WORKS - 2021

Concept

Art therapy in living cloister

Living Cloister

-Historical building preservation and transformation -Four-person group work (In charge of entire living cloister design, rendering, and construction design) Context 218 B.C

500-1400

1500-1800

Historical evolution

Ground floor plan + Cloister

1900

OTHER WORKS - 2021 Living Cloister

-Historical building preservation and transformation -Four-person group work (In charge of entire living cloister design, rendering, and construction design)

OTHER WORKS - 2021 Social Housing after pandemic -Construction Design -Individual work