Name: Xiangning Chen
Age: 25 years old
Nationality: Chinese
Location: Keizer Karelstraat 162, Gent, Belgium 9000
Tel: +32 495318858
E-mail: cxn0122@gmail.com
Ku Leuven (Sint-Lucas) Brussels, Belgium
Major in Architecture , Master of Architecture
<Sept 2016 - Jun 2021>
<Sept 2021 - Jun 2023> <Jul
Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Hangzhou, China
College of Architecture and Engineering
Major in Architecture , Bachelor of Architecture
LYCS Architecture
Architectural Intern Hangzhou, China
· Involved in the design of a tender for a kindergarten design and a tender for a office buildings design including pre-concept discussions, plane refinement, elevation design, modelling, text collation.
· Responsible for a complete office building landscape design, from the design stage to the construction stage.
Zhejiang Natural Architects Ltd
Architectural Intern Wenzhou, China
· Involved in the design of t a tender for a school design and a tender for a residential design .
QingMo Architectural Design
Architectural Intern Hangzhou, China
· Involved in the design of villas for the resort, including elevation design, modelling, text collation.
Wenzhou Design Assembly Company Ltd
Architectural Intern Wenzhou, China
· Involved in the design of the ground floor retail area of a residential property, such as block tweaking, façade design and drawing up the detailed construction of the building and the plan sections of the staircase.
THE EMANATION OF THE COMMONS
FIND IN TOWER AND WOODS
KYOTO ——TOURISM, LANDSCAPE, HERITAGE
FIND IN RIVER
ENHANCING A NODE IN COMMUNITY
FIND IN HILL
SOCIAL HOUSING
FIND IN CROWD
3 DETAILS DESIGN
FIND IN TECHNOLOGY
MARRIAGE COMPLEX
FIND IN SPRING
MAZE KINDERGARTEN
FIND IN THREEDIMENSIONAL LABYRINTHOS
EPIDEMIC MEDICAL CENTER
FIND IN BRIDGE
THE EMANATION OF THE COMMONS
Space Design
Site: Brussels, Belgium
Inductor: Patrick Moyersoen and Jasmien Wouters
Time: 2022 Spring
There is a lot of wasted or low-quality public space in cities. How can they be improved? Search to explore its spatial potential, and then design from large to small, from sketching the space to studying the material properties of the actual construction.
In this session I place more emphasis on manual modelling skills.
In this stage, I mainly observed the site. I chose to observe the site from four dimensions and put forward four questions respectively.
It is a POTENTIAL site. Isn't it like a hole which will push everyone in?
How to create a another powerfu space inside them?
Immediately following the site are two huge buildings, one projecting vertically into the sky and the other lying horizontally parallel to the street.
Maybe we could add another SYMBOL to the field?
Above the site is a relatively deserted garden
Below the site is a hidden parking lot Grass and pillars have their own growing order
How to show the order of architecture in this site ？
In this stage, the main task is to find answers to the four questions raised in the previous stage. After sketching, building a small model and some small tests, I came up with my four answer elements
small model test
sketch test
Conception Section
After a typhoon, a group of villagers discover an apparently bottomless hole where an old shrine had stood. One man calls, “He-y, come on ou-t!” and throws a pebble into the hole.
A businessman turns the hole into a disposal site, and nuclear waste, garbage, and all sorts of unwanted things from the nearby city are thrown in.
One day after a period of time, a workman in the now-pristine city hears a voice from above calling, “He-y, come on ou-t!”
A pebble then falls from the sky. “He-y, come on ou-t!”——by Shinichi Hoshi
1. XL HoleIn this stage, the four ideas proposed before are reduced, adjusted and assembled, and a part of the idea is built with materials.
All the lengths in the plane should be multiples of 3, and try to have a ratio of 1:1 to 1:2 between them.
At the same time, the logic of the plane is improved to make its form consistent.
The concrete base spreads in a cross shape.
The railing of the tower is also made of wood
KYOTO ——TOURISM, LANDSCAPE, HERITAGE GONE WITH THE RIVER
Architecture Design
Site: Gent, Belgium
Inductor: Martine De Maeseneer
Time: 2022 Autumn
During the year, the water level of the Kamo River will change differently, including dry season and wet season. At the same time, the activities and spatial forms of the residents along the Kamo River will change with the change of the water level. Correspondingly, there are some traditional Japanese festivals in Kyoto, and a large number of tourists come to Kyoto with the festivals.
We tried to find the connection between Kamo-gawa and traditional festivals in the time node, and combined with the important heritage and existing nodes near the river, we Try to rearrange the possibility of Kamogawa to accommodate tourists in order to balance the arrival of tourists in the post-pandemic era.
FESTIVAL AND WATER LEVEL
As can be seen from the picture above, the period between July and September is the high water season in Kamogawa, and it is also the period when Kyoto holds important celebrations. We hope to combine these two events that have an important impact on urban space to create a new event.
NORYODOKO
At the beginning of the early modern period, the style of Noryo-doko was very different from that of today, and it was a portable floor table. They can be set up on sandbanks, at the water's edge, in rivers, and along riverbeds. The distance to the surface of the water is very close, and there is a haiku such as ``On the cool floor with wave pillows.'' The sand bar was a floor stool-style cool breeze. From both sides of the bank, raised floors for enjoying the cool breeze began to appear
Due to the flood control work in the early Taisho period, the floor stool-style Noryo-doko disappeared. The Misosogi River was excavated on the high waterbed on the left bank, only the stilt type that was put out to the Misosogi River was left.
"Seigyu" has a simple construction of putting logs together, placing stones in a net that acts as a weight, placing something called a "snake basket" on top, and then extending the legs of the logs into the riverbed by the force of water , thereby stabilizing part of the log, which is designed not to be swept away by currents in floods.
Unlike concrete, "Seigyu" uses natural materials. The materials themselves are well suited to the surrounding environment, while at the same time, "Seigyu" grows and thrives plants according to each region and environment, adapting its wooden structure to form habitats such as caves, and promote the reproduction of shrimp and eels.
CIRCULATE AND WALKING MAP
The Kyoto festival celebration circulate and tourist walking maps have a high degree of overlap in some areas, which adds to the burden of the city's crowdedness in summer. However, the traditional festival itself is also an important means of attracting tourists, so how to keep the festival circulation and the general tour circulation in a balanced interweaving relationship, Kamogawa can play an important role as a landscape node in it.
The city wanted the visitor route to be longer and more tortuous to combine the different attractions along the route, while the longer route could accommodate more visitors. As can be seen from the above picture, although there are no famous scenic spots in Kamogawa, the government hopes to create different activities in Kamogawa to attract people.
As well as bringing life, rivers can also easily lead to disaster. People also struggle with floods in various ways, both technically and superstitiously. By superimposing the areas of flooding and the route of the festival, it can be seen that the areas prone to flooding and the route of the festival procession have two overlapping points, one near the kyoto train station and one on the bank opposite the visitor centre.
In conjunction with the above analysis, we envisage that the loop spatial nodes should include 'new perspectives on festival celebrations', 'new events on the riverbank' and 'new urban entrance'. The three sites are derived from the various overlaps and analyses of the three diagrams above.
Structrual Contigencies
Enhancing a Node in Community
Space Design
Site: Namur, Belgium
Inductor: Tom Thys and Caroline Voet
Time: 2023 Spring
At this stage, we first observed Porto Siza's well-known works, analyzed and studied his representative works, learned in depth how he dealt with the relationship between man-made and nature in architectural design, and applied these skills in subsequent project designs.
The following personal project is to build a public building in Namur. My site is at the junction of the city and the countryside. The functions are Senior Nursery, Children Nursery and Community Centre. My starting point is to make a space container that can make people of all ages comfortable.
The effect is the Bar next to the atrium, because the material here is mostly glass, so the whole space is very transparent, drinking and chatting here can not only see the use of the entire restaurant, but also see the people coming and going on the street.
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This scene looks from the Reading Garden to the interior. You can see that there are closed library books on one side and open eating space on the other. The reading space is sandwicked in the middle, with good lighting and atmosphere.
1 Reception of Children Nursery
2 Activity Space for Children
3 Sleeping Zoom
4 Activity Zoom
5 Atrium
6 Living Room
7 Single Room for Senior
8 Senior gym
9 Wadi Garden
of the Wadi Garden
Western side Senior Nursery Eastern side Children Nursery
Senior module room view, with very good views of the city window, concrete columns are part of the window frame.
Level 3-Plan 1:500
1 Activity Zoom
2 Sleeping Zoom
3 Activity Space for Children
4 Bridge
5 Single Room for Senior
6 Living Room
7 Hightland Garden
Sketch of the Bridge
The living room of the Senior Nursery is located in the south of the first floor of the Senior Nursery, with good landscape and lighting conditions, which can create a good environment for meeting, chatting and entertainment for the elderly.
This is a public activity space in the south of the Children nursery. There is a double height in part, and the upper and lower levels are transparent and the space flows. Children can also look out the window at the beauty of Namur city.
In the east-west section of the site, it is perpendicular to the north-south section, which is the logical opposite. The smooth corridor connects the two buildings, and all the stories take place on the same horizontal plane.
The B-B section is the ending and senior nursery of the children's nursery and the entrance of highland greenery, and the two points are connected by a line, which is the bridge.
1 Restaurant(double height) 2 Courtyard(double height) 3 Bar 4 Storage 5 Library 6 Storage
Section B-B
In the north-south section of the site, the original terrain has a height difference, so a strengthening and modification of the original height difference, through the architectural intervention to make the hills and wadi more prominent.
The A-A section can be cut into the community center on the south side of the street, wadi Park, highland Park, and the boundary between wadi Park and highland Park -A bridge connecting the two nursery buildings.
OPEN UP THE CITY —— SOCIAL HOUSING RENOVATION
Architecture Design
Site: Brussels, Belgium
Inductor: Livia de Bethune and Johan Nielsen
Time: 2021 Autumn
Through the study of social housing this semester, we need to renovate in a community house that exists. The concept I choose is the diversity of sharing space.
Social Restaurant
The social restaurant on the ground floor consists of a vegetable plot, a studio for learning how to cook, and a restaurant to connect the community.
The community rooms on each floor are designed for different age groups.
Black and white line drawings are used to depict
Level 1 ---- Elder's balcony
Level 2 ---- Young people's chaotic
Level 1 ---- Elder's Room
groups. Both public and private Spaces have specific user orientation.
space design Family's
room with the view from the doorway.
space design depict traces of people's use of public spaces.
Level 4 ---- Families and Couples' Living Room
Level 5 ---- Single women's Party
INTEGRATION —— DETAIL AND TECHNOLOGY
Site: Brussels, Belgium
Time: 2021 Autumn
The principle of the building is that it is a mass, concrete wrapped in glass. So the three details I designed also tell such a story.
This project is a concert hall located by the Rhine River in Germany, with two floors underground and three floors above ground, with the equipment room at the bottom.
FIND IN SPRING | MARRIAGE COMPLEX
Architecture Design
Site: Hangzhou, China
Inductor: Qiang Wen
Time: 2020 Autumn
Gender marital relationships are now a more talked about topic in East Asia, with late marriages and non-marriages becoming more common, and there are many reasons behind this. The design of a marriage complex takes into account the local cultural and regional context, and the characteristics of the two sexes' relationships.
Looking out of the windows of the residential area opposite, the marriage complex looks like a spring embedded in the hill, overhanging harmoniously from the ground level square. The ground level plaza also provides a public green space for the citizens of the neighbourhood.
Mass Changes
Matchmaking, marriage registration, marriage ceremony and divorce are four of the important milestones in a relationship, juxtaposing the spaces in which they occur vertically.
The space is scaled up and down according to the events that take place at these four stages and the demand for the events.
Flow Chart
Scale the space in the plane direction according to the events held and the number of people involved in these four stages.
Registration
Marriage
Blind Date
Tilt the four blocks up and down and link them together with suitable gestures.
Church Analysis
The inner corridor is the way to the chapel on the first floor and on the way you can see the inner three ribbon chapels, lit by the top ribbon skylight.
Church Analysis
Light: Curved Roof
Function: Three Churches
Streamline: Two Ramps Inside and Outside
Church Analysis
The interior is more open and fluid with continuous rotating galleries and matchmaking spaces.
Divorce
Blind Date
The first floor is the blind date area. A linear flow device is used to separate men and women and the elders, allowing everyone to communicate freely with purpose.
Marriage Registration
The second floor is the marriage registration area which has a preparation hall and a registration room. Light and shadow are used to create a romantic atmosphere, allowing prospective couples to take photos to commemorate this historic moment in life.
Wedding Chapel
The third floor is the wedding chapel, with three units of different sizes to meet the needs of weddings of different sizes. The shape of the church unit is like a entwined ribbon, symbolizing the fate of the husband and wife who will entangle each other in the future.
Divorce Registration
The fourth floor is the divorce registration office, which is more hidden on the top of the building and retreated into the mountain. The light spills from the skylight above the registration, symbolizing the beginning of a new life.
