Yiran Ye_Working Sample by Yiran Ye

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Resume Education

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design Entertainment Studio,IDEAS CAMPUS

08/2021-06/2022 Los Angeles, USA

UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL XI'AN JIAOTONG - LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY Bachelor of Arts & Bachelor of Engineering in Architecture Royal Institute of British Architects I (RIBA I)

09/2019-07/2021 Liverpool, UK 09/2017-07/2019 Suzhou, China

Work Experience

UCLA, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN Position: Student Worker (20h/week)

12/2021-Present Los Angeles, USA

- Involved 3 exhibitions and collaborated with different teams and department in all exhibition stages, including measurement, modeling, layout design, and construction using Rhino, AutoCAD and Adobe Suites. - Collaborated with the workshop manager to compile facilities’ technical instructions, including digital camera tracking, realtime interacts and black-magic cameras. - Produced graphic presentations for exihibitions and events using Cinema4D, V-Ray, and Adobe Suites.

HOWHY ARCHITECTURE Position: Intern Architect

06/2019-09/2019 Suzhou, China

URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ZHEJIANG PROVINCE CO. LTD Position: Intern Architect

07/2018-09/2018 Wenzhou, China

- Participated in SIP Modern Service Industry Park schematic design, using Rhino and Grasshopper testing parametric facade, massing models and transportation systems. - Involved in Shanghai ECO Office design development and construction documents, using Revit and AutoCAD to connect structure design to detailing with structural engineers and construction team. - Engaged in 'Suzhou Dayang Mountain' Design Competition for the masterplan, render and concept diagrams. - Made 3 full-presentation of client-oriented reports and document preparation. - Made 10 digital models and handmade models.

- Participated in Shiyan Primary School schematic design using SketchUp. - Laboured in 20 blocks of Shamaohe Street infrastructure analysis using AutoCAD and Microsoft Office. - Developed Digital computer renderings, plans, sections and other professional document drawings.

Project Experience

GAMEJAM, ENSCAPE FROM REFRIGERATOR Position: 3D Artist

02/2022 Los Angeles, USA

THE CITY IS MY ORCHARD Position: Architectural Designer

10/2020-01/2021 Liverpool, UK

- Used realtime interative visualizations to build immersive architectural spaces using Unity. - Involved in video editing and sound design for project presentation using Adobe Premiere and After Effect.

- Designed a 4000 sq.ft timber seasonal building, attached with external work space, outside seating area and hardstanding to access the building from existing footpaths. - Proposed 2 customer-focused presentation to show concept ideas and design development.

01/2020 Liverpool, UK

RIBA MENTORING PROGRAM Position: Peer Mentor - Responsible for LIVERPOOL ONE master plan mapping and two illustrator drawings. - Assisted in Memory of Liverpool photograph set, including photos taken and page layout design.

Skill Set

BIM&3D Modelling, Rendering, Lighting, Collaboration, Teamwork, Presentation, Graphics, Web Development

Software: Rhino, Grasshopper, SketchUp, AutoCAD, Revit, Maya, 3ds Max; V-ray, Enscape; Adobe Creative Suites, Microsoft Office Packages; Unity Hub, Unreal Engine; Cinema4D, Octane.

Contents

Influencer Factory Mixed-use 250,000 sq ft

Rebirth 02

Renovation 11,000 sq ft

Communities and contested spaces Renovation 200,000 sq ft

Triple Remix Mixed-use 50,000 sq ft

The city is my orchard Community Center 2000 sp ft

Internship work Architecture 2000 sp ft

FLag room 01

CG Image Model&Render

Cantonese Style Mooncake CG Video Model&Render

Inland Odyssey CG Video Model&Render

INFLUNCER FACTORY

Down: Axonometric Drawing

Individual Academic Work Mixed-Use/ 250,000 sq ft Lujiazui, Shanghai, China 06/2020- 08/2020

The tiktokSoho is located in the commercial center of Shanghai. Next to the famous landmark, IFC and Shanghai Tower. The three entrances are on the three sides of the building, which provides walkable entrances to visitors. This 250,000 sqft mixed -use building provides entertainment areas to tourists and the local community. The project will also act as a catalyst for further development of online advertisement in Shanghai

Site Analysis

Tourist Density

Traffic

Tourist Attraction

Pedestrain track

The site is in the commercial city center. After analyse a series of city landmarks and the transportation system near the site,a low-rise building with multiple entrance connect the paveroads, vertical transporation systems and roads can quickly gather the visitors.

Action

Site Block

Cut

Insert

The connecction between officce and live room. There are numbers of cafe, salon, photo studio and film studio in this area.

To increase natural light in the building, three courtyards are been introduced into the building. This strategy also allows wild flora to grow through it.

Four boxes are plugged into the building. Three of them consist transportation system and connect the indoor and roof garden. The rest of one work as the school for training.

View

Corridor

The ground open floors are introduced into the project create multiple way entering the building.

It is been found that the common gap between buildings to the skyline. The middle part dropped down a little for the best view towards surroundings.

Instead of playing tricks on the roadside, the strategy is adding the external corridors to enhance the connection between live rooms and the school.

Prototype

Commercial Bridge

Sightseeing Lift

Peeping Wall

The connecction between officce and live room. There are numbers of cafe, salon, photo studio and film studio in this area.

The sightseeing lift serves for office and commercial area. Prominent rooms and platforms are the extension for meeting room. The spiral platforms in the commercial lift for visitors.

Peeping wall is a route in building where introducing live broading rooms to visitors. Official partners are aslo invited to check the status of influencers.

Backstage Office

Influencer School

Live Room

Here is the office for this influencer company. The top floor is the editing room. Here is the back to the stage and stars.

School trains future influencer. Free at the begining than fees required. Classes are from the analysis of internet trends. It is the place without creation and heterogeneity.

The live rooms are only provide to the signed influencers. Three types of live rooms meet all demands for work.The largest one rewards to who earns the most every month.

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Typical Plan

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1 Office 2 Salon 3 Commercial Block 4 Photostudio 5 Live Room 6 School 7 Hotel 8 Cafe 9 Toilet

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Renders Showing space between live room and school at roof garden (Up Left), valley between school and viewbridge (Up Right), editing room (Down Right), commercial bridge (Down) Sectional Perspective The hotel, live room, commercial bridge and offices in the building have clear boundary, but also connect together using multiple level heights.

REBIRTH

Individual Academic Work Renovation/11,000 sq ft Toxteth, Liverpool, UK 09/2019- 01/2020

Render

The community center is based on a 200-year reservoir in Toxteth, Liverpool. This project focuses on reinspiring the public open space serving city dwellers. The abandoned football field, neglected traditional church, and isolated school are waiting for reconnecting to the city. A new construction inspired by paper folding in irregular shape grows from the old reservoir in terms of attracting citizens. This new landmark allows fluid eye movement with the physical circulation along winding routes. The contrast between new and old is another significant feature corresponding to the transformation of Liverpool. Left: Stand In Old Reservoir Observe New Atrium Right Up: Section A-A' Right Down: Section B-B'

Setion A-A'

Setion B-B'

Remnant Analysis

Original entrance to tower for roof access

Ball Valve& Inlet Pipe C

Inlet chute (original) D

Drain

Sluice/Outfall K L

Modern WC Facilities Modern (Non original Entrance)

UP: PLAN OF THE RESERVOIR MID: SECTION A-A' DOWN: SOUTH WEST ELEVATION DOWN PHOTOS: TAKEN IN RESERVOIR (YIRAN YE, 10/2019) -- Here are some photos were taken in the Toxteth reservoir. The interior is supported by the arch structure instead of the metal sticks. There is no natural light source in the building. The old red brick walls and roofs create a mysterious, historic atmosphere. Besides, the formal entrance is actually on the rooftop due to the original functional need. The opening now allows us to go into the temporary and new-built reservoir.

Exploded Diagram The project provides the community with a multiplicity of recreational activities.

UP: Ground Floor Plan DOWN: Second Floor Plan 1 Bar 2 Atrium 3 Cafe 4 Reception 5 Office 6 Plant Room 7 Toilet 8 Playground 9 Reading area 10 Outdoor bar 11 Spectatory 12 Toilet

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UP: Exterior View The contrast between the traditional British red bricks box and the sharp modern white new box has been emphasized. DOWN: Original Building Roof Top Two boxes are joined at one plane to create a place where all the activities connect.

COMMUNITIES AND CONTESTED SPACES

Individual Academic Work Building Renovation/ 200,000 sq ft Liverpool, UK 02/2021- 06/2021

Elevation from Brownlow Hill The Living Wall: The special designed south strategy aim for creating a environmental friendly area in the camus. Pre-fabricated blocks of brick consist two different types of texture. Unsmooth texture allow seeds growing. Concave emphasizes the depth of the façade and provide nests for local birds(kestrels, bats, robin redbreasts, redstarts, common swifts, starlings or swallows), overhangs for swallows, porous nooks for insects.

Sectional Perspective show the active and multi-use interior panorama

Ground Floor Plan

1 Entrance 2 Exhibition 3 Canteen 4 Outdoor Canteen 5 Cafe 6 Toilet 7 Market 8 Courtyard

Liverpool University sits in a campus embedded within the city. The project renews the Electrical Engineering Building on Brownlow Hill, aiming at re-interpreting the proposal for a central teaching suite alongside spaces to sustain programmes focussed on sustainable food. According to the research of British culture, chickens and birds are been selected as the theme of the building. The design strategy aims at contains most of the existing structure, the main change will focus on the facade design and entrance renew, which reduce the embodied energy in the building.

Left: Section detail Right: Ellevation detail

1 Aluminium standing-seam roofing; 125 thermal insulation; vapour barrier; profiled sheet metal 440 –1100 mm steel truss; acoustic insulation suspended ceiling: 1.8 mm perforated metal 2 column: Ø 219 mm steel CHS, coated white 3 solar blind 4 glazing: 2≈ 6 mm laminated safety glass 5 120/20 mm steel-sheet facade post clad in 2.5 mm aluminium sheet, polished 6 120/30 mm steel-sheet facade post clad in 2.5 mm aluminium sheet, polished 7 double gl.: 10 mm toughened gl. + 12 mm cavity + 2≈ 8 mm laminated safety glass 8 130 mm screed, reinforced, polished; 90 mm thermal insulation with heating pipes; 210 mm reinforced concrete 9 natural ventilation in facade cavity 10 Brown roof construction:20 mm Geomembrane; Sensor Leak Detection Geotextile; Water Proffing; 250 mm EPS rigid foam thermal insulation; 250 mm reinforced concrete slab, smoothed surface painted finish 11 anodised aluminium coping 12 facade construction: double fired brick; 200 mm mineral wool thermal insulation; 200 mm reinforced concrete wall, smoothed surface,painted finish 13 Upper floor fixed glazing: 2× 5 mm laminated safety glass ; 16 mm cavity ; 6 mm float glass in bronze anodised aluminium frame 14 MDF window sill, brown paint finish 15 Upper floor construction: 3 mm natural rubber flooring; 50 mm screed; 200 mm reinforced concrete slab; smoothed surface; painted finish

TRIPLE MIX

Individual Academic Work Mixed-Use/50,000 sq ft 04/2020- 05/2020

'Duality and dialogism endow art density, meaning and suggestive power of magic.' Triple mix comes from the thinking which investigates the crossing part of different activities comes the dualism for the space. This project focuses specifically on one brand which makes recycled clothes. The building explores a narrative circulation that exemplifies the journey of clothes from raw material to wardrobes. The alternative sharing and partition space and the DIY studio provide a chance for customing garments by hand.

Action 1 Recycle Factory The factory prominent part functioning as the recycle material input, handmade workshop and DIY workshop. The intersection is the representation of the permission of the public participation.

2 Office Through the constant mediation between functional needs, the office part include the normal offices, meeting rooms, test studios and cafe. The create a convenient and pleasant office atmosphere.

3 Creative Shopping Office The shape of the shopping center combined the function needs and 'free-floating' characteristic. Exhibitions, second-hand market and the green- theme restaurant are combined together in shopping center.

UP: Ground Floor Plan DOWN: Second Floor Plan 1 shop 2 flea market 3 recycle workshop 4 Clothes workshop 5 auditorium 6 lobby 7 meeting room 8 entrance hall 9 parking 10 visitors workshop 11 designer office 12 terrance 13 toilet

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UP: Entrance Square DOWN: Hall Through the open entrance, all functions are intertwined and a strong connection is created between clients, workers, users, landscape, building, and neighborhood.

UP: Section A-A' - It is not easy to convince everyone reducing their clothes. However, it still possible to draw public's attention to the recycle production. The journey through the bulding is the journey through the life of clothes, from dead to birth. DOWN: Section B-B' - The intersctions among mall, factory and offices are ambigious and full of surprise. The spiraling design impact the views invesgating the recycle process. Following this, the relationshio of gazing and gazed are is contiviously transform. A human in this building will no longer be fixed as a visitor, a worker or a designer.

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THE CITY IS MY ORCHARD

Individual Academic Work Apple cider workshop 2,000 sq ft Liverpool, UK 02/2021- 06/2021

Site Analysis UP LEFT: CITY SCALE UP RIGHT: PARK SURROUNDINGS DOWN: SITE SECTION

The site locates in Sefton Park, south Liverpool Park, England. It is a historic park serving surrounding residents. As Toxteth rapidly grew, the green fields and woodland of Toxteth Park grew into narrow streets and courts packed by tiny uninhabitable houses where the air was stagnant. The city context is highlighted on the right. Sefton park contributes freshness and greenness to the urban environment. It is a child and pet-friendly area popular to city dwellers as left-down was shown. Different kinds of trees surround the natural slope near the pond.

TOPOGRAPHY

POND

ACCESSIBILITY

The builsing is developed by the topopgraphy which has the return journey in two dimensions. The natural slope leads human view rising and the interests in investigation.

The pond will continuing through the park. The water surface reflects leaves, sunlight and buildings. It gives potential in space depth. Kingfishers group from March to July. A viewing platform is under consideration.

The lighter yellow marks a slope by walk. Because the nearest car park is after one crossing and the barriers sticking the entrance for cars, most residents might come to site from the centre of the park.

The city is my orchard” is a quote from Dan Hasler, founder of the The Moss Cider Project. This Social Enterprise was based in the neighbourhood of Moss Side, close to Manchester city centre. This project allowed residents to donate their crop of apples to the project, receiving in exchange a high quality, hand made, cider or non-alcoholic juice. This design is worked as a small community centre to accommodate a cider/juice project, for a site in Sefton Park. This relatively small building consider and be designed to accommodate different activities and celebrations throughout the year.

UP: Outdoor Passage DOWN: Apple Processing Area

Concept Diagram How machines in the Cider making process can react with human

Lighting Research The builsing is developed by the topopgraphy which has the return journey in two dimensions. The natural slope leads human view rising and the interests in investigation.

Private box module

Public box module

Axonometric

Module

Plan

Shadow

Array

Eaves Detail

Environmental Strategy Sustainability + Eco-friendly + Energy Loop 01

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Window Detail

Flexible Door Joint

Footing

Seasonal Design (left)

Module Structure (right)

UP LEFT: SPRING UP RIGHT: SUMMER DOWN LEFT: FALL DOWN RIGHT: WINTER

Embodied Energy: Structure = 4198.44 kgco2e Building =6459.14 kgco2e SUBTOTAL BUILDING ENVELOPE = 295.5 W/K

The seasonal design is based on different activities in different season. All furniture and machine are moveable. It is designed as an extension of the traditional community center to accommodate events, talks, exhibition, training, workshop and bar. The openning are moveable in three status, open, half-open and close. When opening close on winter, the southern face glass room will heat the building. In summer, doors can fully open which leads natural ventilation. 27

UP: Site Plan DOWN: Ground Floor Plan 1 Entrance 2 Cargo Bike 3 Apple drop off/ Washing/ Hall 4 Workshop ( Cutting, Scratting ...) 5 Workshop ( Juicing, Fermentation...) 6 Liquid produce 7 Shower 8 Office 9 Toilet 10 Equipment 01 5 10ft

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Entrance View - The community centre is located near the park entrance, within the park's radius, and from the outside, it gives the impression of being one more house in the context. In a 350m2 lot, the ground floor is the space for cider making and public gathering, and the first floor is used for private meetings. The ample open and fluid space with cider machines can move to the storage in other seasons.

UP: Section DOWN: Elevation

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Roof Construction Detail 1

0.7 mm standing seam zinc sheet; separating layer; polymer bitumen membrane;80 mm inlaid wood fibre insulation panel; bituminous vapour barrier, aluminium inlay 200/80 glued laminated timber beam

Flexible doors construction: 230/100 glued laminated timber post-beam construction; aluminium cap; triple glazing

Ground floor construction: 70 mm trowel finished concrete foil; 30 mm impact sound proofing; sealant foil; 2× 50 mm wood fibre insulation; 100 mm cross laminated timber board 27 mm lam. softwood sheeting white waxed; 20 mm impact sound insulation; 93 mm laminated timber cross-boarding

INTERNSHIP WORK

Shanghai ECO Office Built, 2019 Interior Design Shanghai, China -Worked for shcemetic design and construction documents for ceiling part.

Group Work Office/ Renovation/ Landscape/ Urban Design Shanghai/Suzhou/ Changzhou, China 06/2019- 09/2019

Jintan Xiangyang Homestay Built, 2019 Residential Changzhou, China -Worked for physical model and renderings

Suzhou Dayang Mountain Slow Traffic System Design Competition, 2019 Landscape, Residential Suzhou, China -Involved Grasshopper testing transportation system and schematic design -Worked for physical model and renderings

SIP Modern Service Industry Park Unbuilt, 2019 Mixed-use Suzhou, China -Participated in schematic design, using Rhino and Grasshopper testing parametric facade, massing models and transportation systems. -Worked for physical model and renderings

FLAG ROOM

Individual Render Work 1920*816 Alternative Reality 09/2021

"Flag Room" is the first scene from project, "Remote connection". It is a non-narrative docu-fiction treated as an exercise on visual world-building. This world traces the industry chain of shipbreaking from contract signing to tourist attraction. Instead of showing the direct stories of the ship breaking intimately, trying to dig the world through different windows, from a tour bus to the local market, harbor, and the classroom. Audience experiences or observes shipbreaking in a gradually increasing distance. This distance works as a metaphor. Shipowners and breaking companies always see shipbreakers through windows in far distance and barely get involved in this process. Other people, selfproclaimed as investors or philanthropists, they even don't know about this. Everything through windows. This high-density image is a fully CG work, modeled in Cinema4D and rendered in Octane. All the light and material use is to create the misterious and massy room which hidden under the water, serving for the shipbreaking industry.

Up: Flag Sample Mid: Flag Rules Document Down: Flag Shelf The details of the room were recorded through the camera. Dirty flags, exposed wires, and the angel statue are hidden in the corner, murmuring that this room has its own story.

CANTONESE STYLE MOONCAKE

How might we see, hear, and experience the spaces that matter passes through on its way to us? Tracer, hyperlink and long-take are three key-concept of this film. In Cantonese Style Mooncake, 3D, spatial sequences navigate to backwards from domestic spaces to the sources that supply it, using Unreal Engine 5 and modeling softwares.

Group Academic Work Group Mate: Jerry Jiang, Niki Xu Video Alternative Reality 09/2021

The entire two-minute animation tells the production process of moon cakes. The video starts from the raw materials of Cantonese moon cakes. It is a duck farm that produces filling, goes through salted egg yolk, and enters the workshop where flour and raw materials are mixed. Finally, we arrived at the last link of the production process: moon cake pressing and baking. Subsequently, mooncakes produced from the duck farm sell worldwide. Duck farmers buy them from the local Asian supermarket.

During this period, we researched the import and export of moon cakes and used statistics to show the seasonal characteristics of mooncakes sales. In the next scene, we choose a bustling supermarket to show the popularity of this traditional food, and finally, drop to consumers' homes.

INLAND ODYSSEY

Group Academic Work Group Mate: Jerry Jiang, Mike Jiang Video Alternative Reality 1/2022-NOW

Inland Odyssey, embarked on a journey through a landscape, once a wilderness inhabited by mountain lions and hawks, now a strange new world of machines lording over the endless expansion of logistics. Inland here, refers to the Inland Empire, which is known for its landscape dominated by numerous logistics warehouses and has formed its unique landscape in the past 20 years. It has been a great logistics city space built by the train system. The logistics is developing rapidly and wildly, that in 2050, the Inland Empire is no longer a region of the ‘human city’. Once being a center for logistics innovation, the region is now roamed by mechanical monsters. This image is a screenshot from the 6-min short film. This stylized film is made by cinema4D, contains numbers of original designed monster and assets fantasying the story in this land. Noteworthy, sound tracks are fully composed by myself.

Up: Aiaia Mid: Part of Siren Down: Part of Siren This short film establishes a kind of quirkiness as the tone for this narrative. The composition is also designed for the quirkiness.