Portfolio: worked by Xiangning Chen

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.

S I T E A N A L Y S I S

In this stage, I mainly observed the site. I chose to observe the site from four dimensions and put forward four questions respectively.

Project Site Main road

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?

Above the site is a relatively deserted garden

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?

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 ？

Brussels City

Belfius Bank & Insurance

EISMEA

Botanic Building

Silver Tower

Thon Hotel

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

After a typhoon, 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 Hole

2. L Arch 3. M Tower 4. S Wood

Conception Section

In 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.

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 postpandemic 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.

TYPCAL ELEMENTS IN JAPAN'S SUMMER

COMPARE CELEBRATION CIRCULATE AND WALKING MAP

COMPARE FLOODED AND CELEBRATION CIRCULATE COMPARE NAVIGATION AND WALKING MAP

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.

SITE 2

SITE 3

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.

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.

Senior module room view, with very good views of the city window, concrete columns are part of the window frame.

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.

Western side Senior Nursery Eastern side Children Nursery

1 Activity Zoom

2 Sleeping Zoom

3 Activity Space for Children

4 Bridge

5 Single Room for Senior

6 Living Room

7 Hightland Garden

1 Activity Zoom

2 Sleeping Zoom

3 Activity Space for Children

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.

Sketch of the classroom corridor

In the north-south section of the site, strengthening and modification of the original height difference, through the architectural intervention to make the hills and wadi more prominent.

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.

Section A-A

1 Restaurant(double height) 2 Courtyard(double height) 3 Bar 4 Storage 5 Library 6 Storage

Section B-B

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

Level 2 ---- Temporary Room A glimpse of the space inside the 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.

Section A With light windows

Section B With heavy concrete wall

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.

"Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" is one of the four ancient Chinese folk love stories. It is China's most charming oral art and national intangible cultural heritage. It is known as the eternal swan song of love. According to legend, the place where Liang Zhu’s classmates read together was Wansong College on the West Lake which is the location of the design.

Yuelao is the god of red happiness in Han folklore who is in charge of marriage, that is, the god of match, and is a god of heaven. The elders of Yuexia used red ropes to tie men and women to determine their marriage, which embodies the people's perception of love and marriage in the Tang Dynasty. Yuelao's concept of marriage has obviously improved a lot from the previous notion that marriage must be right.

Relationship Analysis

Blind Date Custom Analysis

Local Historical Myths Marriage

Social meetings between peers increase the possibility of free love. Modern Times

Love is an upward spiral process, midst of quarrels and confrontations, other, penetrating into each each other better. So I combined mountain into a spiral form, like mountains, the hidden part is mind in love that cannot be explicitly

Parents learn about new possible love partners for children in the park.

Cultivation

Chinese Style Matchmaking

Topographical Analysis

process, where two people are in the confrontations, rubbing shoulders with each other's hearts and understanding combined the design with the terrain of the like half a spiral buried between the a lot of hidden stories and states of explicitly told.

The Wan Song Academy is on the Phoenix Mountain in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, a place with beautiful scenery and a rich historical heritage. The ancient Chinese love story of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai took place here and is now used for matchmaking events at weekends.

Wansongling Road

Nanshan Road

Yuhuangshan Road

Fenghuangshanjiao Road

Traffic Road-Secret and Convenient

Wushan Park

Three Pools Reflected in the Moon

Jade Emperor Feiyun

Leifeng Tower

Prince Bay Park

Greenland Landscape Resources-May Undertake Similar Blind Dates

China Art College

China National Silk Museum

Zhejiang Normal University

Zhejiang Art Museum

Cultural BuildingHumanistic Atmosphere

Radiation

Located in Phoenix Mountain Forest Park

Myriad Pines Academy

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.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MAZE KINDERGARTEN

Architecture Design

Site: Hangzhou, China

Inductor: Zhang Lei

Time: 2019 Autumn

This is a more conceptual project that combines a kindergarten with a labyrinths. Why did you choose the maze concept?

Because labyrinths explain the dual nature of the human spirit manifested in the complex and the simple, the mysterious and the knowable, the sensual and the rational, they represent the meaning of religion and witchcraft and symbolise the eternal philosophical contradiction between free will and the reality of destiny.

The external labyrinth is mainly made up of quarter circles, and then there are also large steps or ladders to enrich it.

It is mainly used for children to explore movement, where they can try out different positions, experience different spatial sensations and exercise their muscles in different states.

The internal maze consists mainly of internal walls and floorboards that separate or interrupt the space.

It is mainly used for lessons or communication for children, where they can do different indoor activities, learn new things and make different friends.

EPIDEMIC MEDICAL CENTER

Architecture Design

Site: Shanghai, China

Inductor: Qiang Wen

Time: 2020 Spring

At the end of 2019, the emergence of a new coronavirus caught everyone off guard. It spread rapidly, leading to a shortage of medical resources everywhere and the need to urgently build more spaces that can accommodate patients. Where else are there gaps in Chinese cities? Underneath viaducts. The space underneath viaducts, the city's vehicular traffic hubs, is mostly vacant and occasionally used as car parks.

This is a space with potential, isn't it?

Psychological Stress Response

Emotion Analysis

Family communication

Group communication

No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as ... friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

From 《For Whom the Bell Tolls》

The reasons for the patient's stress response are:

1. Worries about their own illness. The onset of new coronary pneumonia develops rapidly and spreads widely. Due to the lack of specific treatment methods and other factors, patients are worried that their condition will suddenly deteriorate or even die. 2. Worries about family members and four years. I am worried that my family members will be infected by myself and that my family members will not be taken care of. Young children and the elderly are especially eager for family relationships. If they are not relieved, they will often induce severe anxiety and depression, and seriously affect the compliance of treatment. 3. The stimulation of environmental changes. The isolation environment will bring loneliness and fear to patients. 4. Negative media information.

1. Ward

2. Patient elevator

3. Paramedic elevator

4. Nurse station

5. Head Nurse's Office

6. Doctor's office

7. Director's Office

8. Public activity area

9. Corridor

10. Check room

11. Family visit lane