Qining portfolio by Qining

QINING ZHANG University of California, Berkeley Selected works from 2015-2021

Urban Villa in Tokyo

02-13

Architecture Design Spring 2018

Immersive Theatre

14-25

Architecture Design Fall 2021

Refugee Camp in Tripoli

26-39

Urban Design Fall 2019

Gallery In Rome

40-53

Architecture Design Fall 2017

Drone House

54-63

Architecture Design Fall 2020

Mollusc

64-69

Construction Design Fall 2018

Other works

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URBAN VILLA IN TOKYO Ambiguous Sharing House / Ac Acad adem emic ic S Stu tudi dio o/ Site Si te : T Tok okyo yo,, Ja Japa pan n Time Ti me : S Spr prin ing g 20 2018 18 / In Indi divi vidu dual al W Wor orkk / Inst In stru ruct ctor or : X Xin inna nan n Zh Zhan ang, g, D Dii wa wang ng,, Manu Ma nuss Le Leun ung g

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Residential Plus Commercial Kagurazaka is one of the most charming and famous walking streets with a long history in Tokyo. It has been an important commercial area since 1400.

The main road of Kagurazaka was at the outer edge of Edo Castle, opposite the Ushigome bridge over the castle moat, and has always been busy because of this privileged location. Kagurazaka is also widely regarded as an important center of Japanese cuisine within the Kanto region. Several old and famous ryōtei are to be found in the winding back streets, often

accessible only by foot. These provide expensive kaiseki cuisine, generally regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese food.They also allow diners to invite geisha to provide entertainment during the evening. Many shops in the area cater to this culture, especially selling kimono, Japanese sweets, and tea.

Pleasure of Living The traditional town house life style combines pleasure with living and selling. However, the pleasure is lost in the modern type of retailer‘s housing.

Town house is a type of traditional Japanese architecture which has several layers to serve different activities and also contains ambiguous grey spaces like "engawa". Many town houses were replaced by bland apartments because of the land cost and urbanization. People then live in simple and tiny spaces without pleasure of living.

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Commercial ④ Doma ⑤ Yard ⑥

Host Guest

Tatami room Bath room Storage

Return to Classical The whole building has five floors and it is separated into three parts in each floor: a public private garden, a private public commercial space and a transition space. Though from 1f to 5f the living space is reduced while have no commercial space. But the area of the garden is gradually increasing and the privacy level is rising.

Commercial Daily Life Pleasure

Court yard lifestyle

Typical town house

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"Engawa" Space (from Our Little Sister)

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Mordern apartment

Typical modern house

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Apartment lifestyle

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Main Entrance

Similar Lay Out, Different Identity 1

The four households live on four floors that have similar functional configuration but different spatial identities.

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Enlarged Detail of Roof

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Enlarged Detail of Balcony 6 7

Roof construction: Finish Paint layer 40mm Fine stone concrete rigid protective layer Separating layer 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board separating layer 4mm SBS modified asphalt waterproof membrane min.20mm lightweight concrete with 2% falls 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete Exterior wall construction: Exterior wall waterproof coating Anti-cracking mortar alkali-resistant mesh cloth Profiled steel sheet 10mm Water resistant paper plastic board 50mm Expanded perlite insulation 10mm Water resistant paper plastic board 25mm Waterproof composite floor ETFE movable panel

20mm Marble plate 30mm Cement mortar bounding layer 1.5mm Polyurethane waterproofing layer 20mm 1:3 Concrete mortar leveling 20mm Light aggregate concrete CL7.5 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete Water wax finish layer 20mm Wooden floor 20mm Diagonal wooden floor 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board 30X90 Crosser(spacing 400mm) Moisture proof pad 20mm Concrete leveling 110mm Profiled steel sheet cast-in-place concrete 25mm Insulation glass door CB50X20 Type main keel CB50X20 Type secondary keel 10mm Paper plastic board

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The public garden is a carefully constructed artificial natural environment shared by the four households. The gas inside ETFE pillow can be opaque when the light is too strong. So the summer sunlight becomes soft after being refracted by the ETFE film. However, it also becomes a greenhouse in winter because the gas will be transparent then. The gap

at the top allows wind and fresh air to enter the garden, while also allowing rainwater to flow down along the exterior walls and eaves and then water these planets inside . People can see rain fall down from the profiled steel sheet eaves and that phenomenon is similar to the view that Tokyo people had already been watching inside town houses for a long time.

Private Public Garden The interlaced functional arrangement guarantees the privacy of the public garden.

Second floor garden

ETFE pillow board

PTFE corrugated board

Due to the staggered placement of the garden and bathroom, people can see the entire garden's plants without disturbing their neighbor. Residents can observe the whole picture of their own plants, the canopy of the plants below and the shrubs of the residents above. They are not merely just sharing the space itself, but also the environmental elements

including light/shadow/temperature/sound and planet. The gardens link straight to bedrooms so the view can be part of the daily life. Japanese people take much count of bathing process and the bathing atmosphere as well. The bathing room is also placed straight to the garden in order to accommodate this particular spacial requirement.

Public Private Shop The semi-translucent floors make the private commercial spaces become public and inviting.

Double layered translucent floor

Second floor-shop view

The translucent floors make the commercial space integrated because people can feel the activities and movements above but they can not precisely understand what is happening there. The commercial space as a whole ensures that the shops on the top would not be ignored and also gives the space a kind of ambiguous feeling.

The floor consists of two layers. The top layer is translucent and the downward layer is blurry glass. There is gap between the two layers which ensures that the shadow will not be distinct and clear. Stairs of each floor start from different directions which give people hints about whether it is allowed to go upstairs or not.

The pleasure of living in high density urban context.

IMMERSIVE THEATRE Dynamic stages of multitasking / Ac Acad adem emic mic Stu tudi dio / di Site Si te : Mis issi sion dissttrrai si a ct ct,, Sa San Fran San Fran Fr anci cisc ci sco sc o Time Ti me : Fal alll 20 2021 21 1 / Gr G ou up Wo W rkk / In nst stru ruct ru c or ct o : Eliiza zabe zabe beth th Bis isho h p ho Co olll ab a or orat a orr : Min at in'a 'an 'a n Wu W Role Ro le e : Tea eam m lle ead a er er

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Mission, place of joy The cultural diversity and rich nightlife of the Mission District make it one of San Francisco's entertainment hubs.

Located at the intersection of 18th Street and Valencia Street, the venue welcomes a large number of people with a wide stance. The warm Mexican character has given rise to the surrounding rich food and nightlife culture. At the same time, this place also attracts tourists because of its unique graffiti culture and famous graffiti walls. city Rome. The streets here

are also very narrow and straight so that a lot of shadows are cast while creating a very strong contrast between bright and dark elevations as well as deep one-point perspective views.

Dynamic Theatre Compared with traditional theater buildings, this scheme provides a number of stage options in different directions and positions, as well as variable steps to meet different needs.

Seats/Stage

3rd Stage

2nd Stage

Seats/Stage

1st Stage

Seats/Stage Seats/Stage

Play of multitask Chain Stage lift Spiral Stage elevator

The project is committed to create a multidimensional viewing and performing experience.

Different from the previous binary opposition of the relationship between audience and actors, based on the multicultural and multi-experience of the mission district, this project hopes that the relationship between audience and actors is dynamic. Therefore, the entire auditorium consists of at least three stages, which face the three spatial

dimensions. The movable mechanical structure below ensures that the seats can be converted to and from the stage. Therefore, the audience can also put on the costumes, act as part of the plot in the immersive play, and experience the plot during the continuous tour.

City Accesibility The first floor of the building is connected with the city street as a performance space. When there is a special performance, the first floor can be fully opened and linked to the city.

The building has a stage facing the main hall on the second and third floors. When there is no performance, it can be used as a rehearsal area by raising and lowering the curtain. During the performance, through the constant change of the seat height, the two stages undertake the performance functions from different perspectives, forming a diverse

and dynamic immersive performance experience space. Actors can shuttle between different stages, forming a variety of audience perspectives to promote the development of the plot.

Scenario 1: Urban scenery As the stage rises in sequence, the vertical diversity and the windows on both sides form a theater viewing experience that resembles an urban backdrop. The people in the workshop upstairs can also see what's happening.

Scenario 2 Night Club The Mission District has rich cultural landscapes and various large-scale celebration activities, especially its annual carnival attracts a large number of people to visit, the enthusiasm of Mexicans and diverse food culture have greatly enriched the local nightlife. When all the stairs rise to the ground level, the whole building becomes an entertainment machine connecting the inside and outside, accepting the city.

Scenario 3 Immersive drama The theater can have multiple stages and seats at the same time, and can provide a variety of line-of-sight relationships and stage arrangements. When used as an immersive theater, actors and arrangers can adopt different arrangements and combinations according to different stage settings, thereby greatly improving the performance of the theater. Enrich the effect of the entire performance.

Facade as an illuminator The entire façade alternates between transparent, translucent and opaque, and the performance lights in the interior reveal the building from time to time.

The façade adopts fritted glass as the main body, and the interlayer in the middle reflects the prevailing local graffiti culture through the density of the lattice. Since the back of the glass is composed of walls or cavities, the facades visually present different transparency, bringing various facade changes to the whole scheme.

1. Dotted Laminated Glass 1/2" Air Gap 1/2" Tempered Glass 1/2" Mullion 10" Aluminum Honeycomb 1" Gypsum Board Insulation 2" Steel Stud 4" Waterproofing Membrane 1/6" Galvanized Flashing 2. Ceramic Tiles 1" Waterproofing Membrane 1/6" Lightweight Concrete Plate 2 1/2" Air Gap 2" Gypsum Board Insulation 4" Pre-cast RC Slab 4" Steel I-Joist 3. Dotted Laminated Glass 1/2" Air Gap 1/2" Tempered Glass 1/2" Mullion 10" Aerated Glass Fixed Window 1" Tempered Glass Guardrail 1" 4. Oak Floor Tiles 1" Epoxy Leveling 1/8" Pre-cast RC Slab 4" Steel I-Joist Sound Absorbing Insulation 4" Ceiling Grid 2" GRG Ceiling Tiles 1" 5. RC Wall 4" Gypsum Board Insulation 2" Steel Stud 4" GRG Interior-wall Panel 1"

Sight penetration/ Space interaction

REFUGEE CAMP IN TRIPOLI Qualified Citizens Generator / Academic Stu t di dio / Siite te : Tripo p lii, L Liiby bya Time e : Fal allll 20 201 19 9 / Group W Wo orkk / Insttru r ctor : Lifen ng L Liin Co C ollaborator : Che he en Yu u, Xi X ng gyyu u Lu Ro R ole le : Tea eam leader ea

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The refugees in Tripoli are going through a rough circle where they will lose almost everything, including their lives.

opened the door to refugees due to lack of labor; however, after a series of conflicts between refugees and Western people, this channel has long been closed. But the number of refugees wishing to Europe is continuously increasing, let alone that there has already been a large population of them waiting for months in the concentration camp of smugglers in Tripoli. They will face crowded and shady

Because of long-term disasters and conflicts people in Central African countries have been flooded into Libya. After the Libyan civil war, these migrants began to use Di Tripoli - the largest port in Libya as a springboard to cross the Mediterranean to Europe via smugglers’ boats in hopes of starting a new life. In the early years, European countries

environments and infectious diseases, as well as abuse and rape. After they are finally caught on a boat that is severely overloaded and inadequate for sanitation to Europe, a considerable number of people will be killed in shipwrecks. Some survivors will be rescued by the European Coast Guard and returned to Libyan officials. They will be held in centralized

Miserable Tour Towards Europe

institutions as smuggling prisoners because the Libyan government has no time to take care of their lives. Conditions here are even worse than before. The local government even secretly sold some young adults and women to smugglers for profit, which also contributed to the appalling slave trade in Libya. A small number of "lucky people" will smuggle

successfully and stay in Europe, but they can only survive by hacking and suffer from discrimination and unfair treatment.

ALIENATION FOR SURVIVING ! human

monitoring

discipline

classification

consumption

‘tool man’

THE ‘JUDGES’ Lybia Government

European Union

Assets

JUDGEMENT merchandise, slaves

financial press

valueless

population

propaganda materials

potential consumer

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TREATMENT

Arrest

Slave trade

Drowning

Poverty

Brainwashing

Propaganda

Consumption leading

Repatriation

Disease

Sources of troops

Workforce

Exploitation

DECEASED

SURVIVED ‘qualified’ citizen

No One Will Pay For Them The only rational way to save refugees from death is to alienate them to make them useful and suitable for the society, which is so similar to the circumstances that we live in.

To improve their standard of living, we first define who the refugees are: for refugee family and friends, they are living people. For the Libyan government and smugglers, they are materialized into commodities, which can be measured by value. People without working capacity are just burdensome. For Western society and international public opinion, they are

digitized and are a series of numerical values. So if we want to establish a refugee utopia or ideal town here, no one will pay for it. To practically improve their living conditions and pull them out, the only possible way is to maximize their usevalue, maximize their output, and turn them into efficient production machines and then they can survive.

Discipline and Punish The alienation of the refugees are accomplished by the Normalizing Judgment, Hierarchical, Observation, Examination in schools, hospitals, houses, and factories.

The normalized ruling refers to the establishment of normalization of behavior/ standardization of institutions through punishment, making people habitual and submissive to and strict and detailed work processes; Hierarchical surveillance is internalized as part of disciplinary practice. In production and teaching activities, surveillance techniques can induce the

effects of power. Hierarchical surveillance is a network of relationships. The power of supervision and discipline is always present, not only between the "institution" and the person being monitored but also between the people monitoring each other; Inspection combines the technology of hierarchical surveillance with the technology of standardized rulings.

Hierarchical Arrangement The entire building complex consists of three sections, corresponding to three distinct discipline systems, and each stage has two to three classes of divisions corresponding to different treatments for management.

Technician Work Factory

Commen sence education / Discipline Disciplane/ Technique

Class A Residential Area

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Medical Treatment

Quarantine

Class B Residential Area

Tourist Centre

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Class B Residential Area

Final Check Point

Harbor

Class B Residential Area

Labour Concentrated Industry

Class C Residential Area

Concentration Camp

Arena

Class C Residential Area

Exploitative Labor

Obedience / Commen sence Education

Concentration camp

Consumerism Furnace

VIP Reception

Welcome

Here, no more hunger.

to the family!

The man promised… I would be a qualified citizen However… We are inspected like a commodity.

Monitored.

I’m rated as Class B, though I don’t know the criteria.

Repetitive, mindless labor. Visited by outcomers.

Chapter 1：Demarcation Point Refugees will be first scored and then live in the first section. Here they receive the general education and basic medical care required for basic labor. Managers will rank the refugees based on their performance.

The refugees will become part of this family as soon as they enter the gate. They will initially be quarantined and hand in their clothing. These belongings will be returned to the owner after the final review. They will wear uniforms, bring identification equipment, and be assigned to different dormitories and posts according to the test results. The schools will provide

everyone with basic common sense skills to adapt to daily life in the future. The dormitory is fully open for refugees and supervisors to check and monitor each other. Industries in this area are labor-intensive industries which suitable for workers who do not yet have the expertise and skills to adapt to the working environment faster.

No more freedom.

Chapter 2：Heaven and Hill The Second area separates people into three layers. People in different layers have different facilities and work conditions, which encourages them to work and study harder.

After satisfying all the requirements of mental knowledge and professional skills, refugees can apply for the next stage. The review system is a step-by-step device for testing and rating. The second district is divided into three main strata. The best-performing refugees can learn technical knowledge and theories, and the accommodation conditions are more

comfortable. Their work is mainly to operate production machinery. Middlelevel personnel lives in collective dormitories. They also need to learn theoretical knowledge and work mainly in the deep processing of the textile industry. The conditions of the people at the bottom are relatively crowded, and labor-intensive industries still prevail.

Chapter 3：Economic Simulator Here is the economical and conceptual imitation of the outside society that they will be living in. We practice them to be the participant and the contributor of the whole system.

People who are familiar with social rules and laws or have a good working standard will go to the third area through auditing. Here they learn systematically about society in the future and its laws and rules. The accommodation environment here is more comfortable, and we imitate the urban landscape to facilitate their minds in the new environment. We also provide

psychological counseling to those who are confused. Their work is more technical and professional, and here they can pick up vouchers after work every day and go to the shopping mall to redeem the goods they want. After they have recognized the operation mechanism of the whole society, they can leave and go to their destination by ferry.

Having bee working so hard, I apply for the next stage.

Countless Advertisements on the billboards. I am tested again, and become Class A finally.

The rail goes around us, viewing us all the time.

Here, I look up to people of Class A every day.

After step-by-step testing and rating, I am classified as Class B, still.

Every day the time to wake up is settled Get dreesed Get in line In this area you have to fight to go up

Get to work

And also I can see the people in the zone C - suffering. Get "paid"

It seems that class C people lives in a prison like apartment

You have to work to gain "money" "Money" printed

distributed There’s no school, but a supermarket.

burnt

It teaches me how to be a modern consumer. One day, the one who worked below told me what’s happening underground. What a day!

Loser will be thrown to the cremator, with no trace. Guess what? An arena where the eliminated grapple for bigwigs to watch.

I don’t want to die.

I come to the final judgment.

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GALLERY IN ROME Translation of Chirico's intranquil mystery / Academic Studio / Site : Rome, Italy Time : Fall 2017 / Individual Work / Instructor : Xinnan Zhang, Di Wang

Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti

Giorgio de Chirico House Museum

SITE Basilica di Sant'Andrea delle FratteMonti

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Rome, Preserved Value Rome is a collection of colonnades, arches , narrow streets and shadows.

The project is located near the Spanish Steps (Scalinata di Trinità dei Monti), next to Giorgio de Chirico's former residence in Rome. The facade of the architecture nearby is reserved properly and the colonnades and the arches which used to be the elements of Chirico's paintings are all combined with each other harmoniously to create a typical landscape of the

city Rome. The streets here are also very narrow and straight so that a lot of shadows are cast while creating a very strong contrast between bright and dark elevations as well as deep one-point perspective views.

The red tower The Source of Mysterious Feeling

Scenography

Semiology

Hint

Shadow

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The mysterious feeling of Chirico's works is derived from the departure of the reality, which is achieved by the unreal and unknown elements in the painting.

Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His most well-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows, mannequins, trains and illogical perspective. Also， his imagery reflects his affinity for the philosophy of Nietzsche and for the

mythology of his birthplace. His use of deformation of scenography and semiology in his painting can create illusions to make unreal and mysterious feelings. On the other hand, the unknown elements like hints and dark shadows in his works can arouse people's collective memory of terra incognita horror, which also creates a sense of mystery.

Plazza d' Italia Giorgio de Chirico (18888-1978)

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The anxious journey 1913 1040X750

Hint

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Hint The song of love 1914 600X730

Semiology

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Scenography and ystery eet The M oly of a Str h c Melan

UNREAL ELEMENTS

UNKNOWN ELEMENTS

Scenography :

Hint :

distortion of perspective view to make illusion

the sign of something unknown would happen immediately.

Semiology :

Shadow and light :

usage of collective memories and icon

The bright light can make the shadow even darker to hide something.

The Enigma of a Day 1914 1400X1850

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Responses to Milieu The usage of twisted volumes can be the response to the surroundings, which creates different types of outdoor space.

The East Street is where the main entrance is located, so the wall is parallel to the street in order to force people to look perpendicularly through the entrance and notice the illusion inside. The West Street is more open to the public because the cafe and the public

temporary exhibits are facing it. The volumes form two surrounding spaces for people to come and stay. Also, the angled internal street in directly towards a road to lengthen the scenography illusion.

West elevation view

Staff entrance

Entrance

East elevation view

Main entrance

Responses to Different Streets Two facades also show different attitudes towards the street

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The west facade has two Conspicuous entrances for public activity and the slope of the roof is shown directly and honestly to the public. However, the east facade has only one obvious entrance and two illogical perspective views, which engages people to get inside and go through all the architecture. In this way, the difference between the facade creates two emotions:

one is inviting and one is mysterious. The two emotions have disparate influences on the urban atmosphere but both of them can attract people to get inside of the architecture.

Enframed Sceneries The project is a stage setting-like architecture that guides people to see several particular scenes in the circulation.

Different Dimensions Different dimensions of architecture elements create a surrealism circumstance of unreal space.

Chapter one: Hall and tower

The icons used here can remind people of daily architecture elements such as clock tower/window and gate, but dimension contrast will make them feel unreal. The colonnade on the left-hand side has a regular dimension while the windows are on different scales. The gates on the righthand side, however, are much larger than normal ones that are just standing beside

them. The noticeable contrast between the several elements is artificially designed into a single scenery to create an odd and mysterious circuitry. What's more, the sunlight will cast shadows directly into the gate and also make a contrast between outside walls and interior spaces.

The first scenery people see when they enter the entrance is an angled courtyard enclosed by four different elements: colonnade/gates/tower and water. The dimensions here are all different and the perspective view is illogical, which will suddenly involve people in an uncertain situation.

Trajection The alternant trajection circulation between two volumes gives people an advanced clue of the spaces they would experience afterward.

Shadow and Light The shadow was comparatively deepened because of the contrast of the bright walls lightened up by the sun.

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Chapter two: C olumns and sky light

The matrix of the columns is the abstraction and duplication of the colonnade which also becomes part of the installation of light downstairs that scatters light into debris and shines onto the sculptures of Chirico. The fragments of the light add a mysterious and odd feeling to the sculpture while also creating a special effect on the exhibition hall.

Roof construction: 15mm Coating pellet protective layer 5mm SBS modified asphalt waterproof membrane 15mm Asphalt mortar screed 40mm Extruded polystyrene insulation board Separating layer min.20mm Lightweight concrete with 2% falls 800mm Concrete roof panel with squarecrossing beams Column construction: 500X600 Mirror stainless steel 600X600 Bar shaped steel 70X6000X7 U type glass(relatively stacked) Pool Construction Black ceramic tile 10mm 1:3 Cement mortar Multy-layer plastering waterptoof 20mm 1:3 Cement mortar 150mm Reinforced concrete pool floor 150mm C10 concrete panel 125mm Lime soil Plain soil sompactio

Separation

Scenography

The plaza separates the architecture into two parts: a tranquil gallery and a public contemporary exhibition hall.

The slope and diagonal roof create an illogical perspective view-illusion of scenography.

Chapter three: Plaza and facade

Here people come out and take a break, they will soon recognize that the dimension of the two facades on both sides of the plaza are still not equal, and the vanishing point of them point to different directions. The colonnade will lead people to the final part of the project which is relatively lively and public.

The plaza is directed towards a narrow street. People leaving the gallery will suddenly see the whole picture of the onepoint perspective view of the street with the plaza. However, because of the ascent of the ground as well as the diagonal roof and the angled placement of the volume, the vanishing point is not only one, which causes the illusion of scenography and

makes the whole environment unreal and unfamiliar. In that case, the surrounding is out of the daily experience of people so the intranquil mystery of Chirico's painting is revitalized. After people's going up they will see the entrance of the contemporary exhibition, here they can look back and finally realize the visual trick.

Inside and Outside Two stage setting-like outdoor spaces separate the gallery into three exhibition halls with unique identities. Section ①

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DRONE HOUSE Local Economical Engine /A Acca ad demic em miicc Sttu ud diio / Siite S te : Elm mhurs hu urs rst, rst, t, Oak akla land and nd Time Ti ime e : Fal allll 20 020 20 / In ndivi divi di vidu d al al Wor ork / Inst In Inst stru ucctto orr : Ren ne Da Davi avviis

Elmhurst splash Through the green belt linking the open space around the site, a human-computer interaction slow-moving system.

The site is located in Elmhurst, which is located in the Eastern Bay Area, a suburban area linking South Auckland and San Leandro. The local population is mainly composed of Latinos and blacks; during the White Fleet, a large number of public facilities withered, leading to the exodus of people, and the deterioration of juvenile delinquency and the level of law

and order here led to general poverty in the local area. At the city level, I designed an urban slow-moving system that combined with the economic opportunities provided by drones to improve the living standards of local residents.

OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO SITE

SAN JOSE

City of Transition Elmhurst is between Silicon Valley and Oakland & San Francisco, which means that lots of cargo, information, and people are transitioning through the place.

There are local BARTs and BRTs running through the city, as well as more rail lines and ports. The huge logistics transportation and traffic flow did not bring more wealth and safety to the local area, so this plan tries to cooperate with Amazon and other logistics companies, and through the use of drones, so that the residents' own production can be delivered and spread, and then Increase the living standard of residents.

Drone Economy Through the use of drones, the entire logistics process can be quickly optimized to drive the economic engine.

Central Atrium Space

Second Floor Maker Space

The operation of the entire building is made up of drones and related machinery in tandem. External goods, such as those purchased by Amazon, will be delivered by drones, and a large amount of goods will still take the traditional truck storage route. There are various small places related to economic production transactions in the building, such as

food hall, maker space and flea market. Through the delivery of drones, these places can not only serve the surrounding communities through the use of local residents, but also radiate farther. places such as San Francisco, thereby driving local economic development. Here, drones are not only simply transporting goods, but also linking with other surrounding

sites to form a mesh system, which enhances communication between people while delivering goods and information more efficiently. It has created a more harmonious community relationship, which is conducive to the reduction of crime rate and the improvement of residents' income and equality.

The internal atriums of the residential area are connected to each other, and the overall quality of life is enhanced by the placement of green plants. The receiving and launching devices of UAVs are placed in the atrium, which becomes a concentrated area for residents to live, send and receive goods, and communicate with each other. The maker space on the

second floor provides a variety of lecture opportunities and discussion opportunities to ensure residents' entrepreneurial enthusiasm and entrepreneurial ability. Through the learning and exchange of various skills, the entire building will become a complex of local education and local economy, helping residents to solve the economic problems。

Economy Engine Storage space and shared kitchens on the ground floor help local residents create jobs and win economic opportunities, thereby improving their living standards.

Outdoor Food Hall

View From The Street

First Floor Plan

The food hall on the ground floor forms a good landscaping through the shared kitchen and stalls in the central garden space, becoming a good point of interest for attracting people on the street. Both the tree pool and waterfall in the courtyard add to the accessibility and appeal of the entrance to the entire scheme. At the same time, the food made by residents

themselves can not only be shared by the local community, but also delivered to the city as far as San Francisco through the drone system. The increased economy opportunity will definately help the local people and create a better life for them.

Make and Sale The maker space in the second layer and the free market in the third layer combined to create a circle of production and consumption.

Second Floor Plan

Typical Unit Diagram

Overlapping Lives Adjacent house types are nested with each other to form a new living pattern.

Forth Floor Plan

The three-storey rooms on top share an external corridor surrounded by ETFE membrane structures, sharing sunlight and wind with each other. At the same time, the veranda can also be used as an emergency exit in the event of a fire. The two adjacent units are in a state of mutual occlusion, in order to reduce the interference of the noise of the drone in

Fifth Floor Plan

The large-area public spaces on the second and third floors of the overall scheme exist as community service spaces. The purpose is to make the building itself a dynamic location that attracts people and capital, thereby bringing more opportunities to residents.

the atrium space to the room. All living rooms are therefore arranged on the lower two floors, while the living spaces are arranged on the upper two floors away from the mechanical devices, avoiding noise disturbance to the greatest extent and ensuring a good quality of life. Third Floor Plan

Sixth Floor Plan

CONSTRUCTION - MOLLUSC Self - supporting soft construction / Academic Studio / Site : Tianjin, China Time : Fal alll 20 2018 18 / Gr G ou oup p Wo Work rk / Inst In stru ruct ctor orr : Zhe hen n Xu Xu,, Xu Xueh ehai ai Bai ai,, Ye Zha hang ng Collllab Co abor orat ator or : Don ongy gyyu Li Li,, Xi Wu, Jin ingr grou ou Zha ao Role Ro le : Tea eam m le lead ader er

scrunched paper arch

Concept : Why toilet paper stand We studied how toilet paper can support itself when Scrunched. The wrinkle structure pattern was one of the answers.

scrunched paper collection

flattened-out pieces of paper

wrinkle making

results of diﬀerent bar-layout

Test : wrinkle formation We used hollow sticks and fix them into a paper. After we pulled the string that runs through all the sticks, different wrinkles showed up.

rhombus structure

Discovery : new structure form When the sticks were placed alternately, the paper itself became an arch that can create a space with a long span.

arch-like paper construction

Self-Supportive Soft Structure Our proposal was to create a new kind of structure that could make soft material self - supportive, which is imitating the scrunched paper.

The pattern of scratched toilet paper is tanglesome. As we wanted to find a realistic way to force controllable wrinkles, we had to simplify the messy pattern into a geometrical regular one. At that moment we had already thought about the way of constructing and making wrinkles in real life. We stuck some hollow bars onto the paper and placed them in

different ways. Then we let the lines go through all the hollow bars and then pulled the lines. The bars were shrinkled and began continuous, which held the paper together to force wrinkles. In the end, we found a way of placing the bars and it could form an arch-like structure that could stand still by itself.

Experiment : new material

Construction : trial and error

The paper was fragile so we tried another material PVC and used wood sticks to replace the PVC bar .

irregularity of the wrinkle could damage the integrity and stress flow of the PVC membrane. Also, the wood structure was not able to sustain the high tension of the wrinkle.

interior view

Woodern bar machine engraving

Woodern bar collection

The structure can be simplified into an arch, but actually it is more like a structure of stick systems wich the membrane wrinkles acting as the bars, not the wood.

The structure seemd fine after we finished it. But we found it collapsed the next day morning because the little mistakes and deformation accumulated and the canopy could not sustain its own gravity.

outside view

" Wrinkles "

Wrinkles Provide Strength Unlike folded paper, the wrinkle of the PVC membrane has strong tenacity which could provide enough strength for itself to stand.

imaginary auto-architecture We noticed that the difference between PVC membrane and paper is that paper is irreversible after the folding line was made. However, the PVC membrane can get back into its original shape, which means that when we forced it into a wrinkled structure, the curve of the structure began the new original form of it and the material volunteered to become an "arch".

interior view of the arch

flattened plane

imaginary auto-architecture At that time we thought that there would be a chance to create an automatically built architecture form that the only thing for builders to do is pull the strings.

Weak Point The irregular shape of the construction always contains vulnerable spots that can slowly destroy the whole structure.

irregular shape of the sonstruction After we found the pattern and the structure we started to figure out how to build the construction in real life. We used bars and adhered them to the 2D PVC membrane and use ropes to run through them. After that, we tensioned the ropes and let the structure build automatically.

collapsed the huge tension inside the wrinkle and the uncertainty of the soft material and also the cold weather outside that can freeze the PVC membrane into a solid plastic plane.

The problems that we needed to tackle are

"Uneconomical " Structure

Result : translucent canopy

We finally settled the structure into regular shape and also tried to figure out the force principle of the structure.

The main point of the structure is how to force wrinkles and how to deal with the tension of the PVC membrane so the component can be simple Screw and aluminum bars.

"kangaroo" digital model

regular plan

node close-up view

surface close-up view

outside view

Membrane Can Support Itself The most interesting point of the structure is that the soft material is undertaking pressure while the hard sticks are undertaking pull and tension.

The wrinkle of a soft material becomes a solid bar that can buttress the whole system and also because the wrinkle is placed alternatively, the interval part of different layers of wrinkle can be twisted into a solid upholder that transfer the gravity down. In this way when the whole soft material is placed like a curve, it becomes a canopy. force analysis

lightend view Though the structure and the elements seems simple, it still cost us lots of time because the shape of the construction was not normal core. Every element had unique length and position, which means that the digital model and the real model needed to be corresponding or the wrinkle would have flaws and the whole system could be ruined.

SPIRAL SHARED HOUSE Local Economical Engine / Acad cad adem e ic Stu em tudi dio / di Siite : Tok okyo yyo o Time Ti m : Fall 20 me 018 / In Indi divi viduall Worrk / Inst stru st ructor : Xin ru inna an Zhan ang g / Di Wan ng

The twist of private and public The whole scheme consists of two intertwined streamlines: living streamline and sharing streamline.

This proposal proposes a new housing model that earns itself better outdoor views and economic opportunities by sharing half of the entire building with the community. People on each floor can create their own shared space in all of its shared areas, it can be a café, a book corner or even a small restaurant where cooking is showcased. When we share with the

community, we gain more. This spiraling public space welcomes the attitude of community participation, showing the new thinking of shared housing: that is, the sharing of private space to public space, but also gain more from the public.

Half of the private housing is shared to the public. However, it provides tenants better livelihood and community.

WEAVING CAMPUS Topological digital design / Acad Acca A ad dem emic ic Stu tud diio / Site Si t : Nanji anjjiing an ng, Chin Ch C hiin na T me : Spr Ti prin ing 20 ing 201 2019 19 9 / Gr Grou oup p Wo W rkk / Inst In stru r ct ctor or : Zhe hen Xu, Xu X eh ehai ai Bai ai, Ye Ye Zh ha ang ng Collllllab Co abor ab orat or ator at o : Zhe or heng ng Li R le Ro l : Tea eam m le lead ader ad er

The servace space reached a loose structure which enclosing the dormitary synthesis.

We used processing to creat a better group disruibution system of campus to alleviate the traffic and functional issues of mordern campus.

When the functional areas are distributed in a centralized manner, users will bring about a large amount of instantaneous traffic and overall commuting time when they switch between various functions. If different functional areas are subdivided into groups, the commuting distance and time of each person can be shortened without causing traffic congestion and congestion. And as users, the function of

centralized distribution cannot meet the diverse and flexible living demands in space. For large buildings with centralized functions, due to the consideration of convenient management and security, opening hours and uniform cleaning and tidiness hours will be set, which cannot meet the diversified needs of individuals in terms of time distribution.

Blue-Before

According to the simulation results, we draw the following conclusions: in our service - life binary system, the service space will form many non-optimal solutions, that is, the location of the cavity, due to the attraction of people flow and the commercial agglomeration in the pursuit of profit maximization.

Particlr system timeline analysis (black particle - student lines - functional space) Red-After

POETIC DWELLING

GUANDE PALACE

inspiration and exploration

Surveying and mapping practice

/ Installation Design/ Time ： Spring 2017 Instructor : Yike Hu, Delong Sun

/ Internship program/ Site : Jingshan Park, Beijing Time : Fall 2017 Instructor : Fengwu Zhang

Guande Palace is located in Jingshan Park, Beijing, which is a temporary accommodation for the emperor during the sacrifice ceremony. Most of the wooden structures in this lift-beam building are leftover from the Ming and qing dynasties, so they have high protection value and research value

East elevation of Guandedian