XINYI AMELIA LIN
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CONTENT 01 THE SALT SQUARES
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02 STAGE-IN, STAGE-OUT
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03 A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
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04 URBAN THEATER
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05 THE UNDERNEATH CONDITION
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06 THE EVENT OF SEEING THROUGH
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07 FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU
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08 OTHER WORKS
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THE SALT SQUARES Spiral Jetty, UT Tourists Center Fall 2021 | Core I Studio Instructor: J. Kolb At the shore of Lake Utah, near Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty is this tourists center covered with salt. The scattered squares are derived from Esther Stocker’s pattern of three squared systems, forming a field of intersecting squared volumes, extruding from and into the ground at different levels, and scattering around to frame an open ground that takes the Spiral Jetty as the backdrop.
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01 The Salt Squares
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STAGE-IN STAGE-OUT Philadelphia, PA Art School Fall 2020 | Research Studio Instructor: R. Dripps This project began with the envision of an art school performing as an interactive “theater” – where people coming from all directions meet with the production of arts happening inside the building and interactions happens on the “new stages”. By splitting the site into two blocks, a path along which the Parkway continues is created. From that central ground, the “stage” starts to expand into the volumes of institutions on both sides, bringing inside the public realm. Therefore, within the institution, the vibe brought in by the visitors generates a dynamic environment where all forms of arts are competing for attention and the ground floor opening as the initial access becomes a theatrical territory where all aspects of the school converge, overlap, and co-mingle.
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Staging the Public Realm
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY Beijing, China Theater Spring 2021 | Undergraduate Thesis Instructor: P. Waldman This project looked for a solution of a memory device, that fits in the dense fabric while respecting the rich history and lively scenes of everyday life on the street. The site is chosen at the turning point of the major diagonal across the area, where sits a flat roof of a three-stories apartment building. The theater is structured by mobile pieces assembled on site, and the construction also became a mile-long play – gantr y cranes moving down the hutong alleyways and slides in and out of the gaps on the two sides of the apartment building; the mobile roof panels and soft curtain facades allowing various levels of openness for the “crystalline box” on the rooftop as the major performance space. Like the embroidery stitching onto the dense fabric of Dashilar, this theater threads through the historical remnants of the city, carries along the theater of everyday life in the hutong alleyways, and elevates to the rooftop surface. It is a theater from the street to the sky.
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Exploded Axon Looking from Southwest Background image taken from A Little Bit of Beijing: Dashilar
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Historical Demarcations of Power Shifts from Jin to Qing Dynasty in Beijing
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The Flat Rooftop at the Midpoint of the Yangmeizhu Oblique Street Crossing the Neighborhood
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Construction of the Theter as a Mile-long Play
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The Curtains
The Panels
The Crane
Metamorphosis of the Mobile Pieces
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URBAN THEATER New York, NY Theater Guild Fall 2019 | Undergraduate Foundation Studio IV Instructor: Peter Waldman Between the hustle and bustle of Bowery Street and Elizabeth Street, next to where the Brooklyn Bridge touches Manhattan Island is the site of this theater guild. Three theaters -- the grand theater near the Bowery entry, the black box theater in the middle, and the Chinese theater on Elizabeth Street -- share a backstage system and divide the building into three sections. This project studies the possibilities brought by the juxtaposition of theaters of different cultures -- the collision and merging of distinct theater traditions, the continuation and transition of the storylines as crossing through columns and theaters, as well as the residual of dreams in-between the theatrical spaces.
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The Intrusion of Cultures on the Manhattan Island
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Site Location: 76 Bowery Street At the Landing Point of the Manhattan Bridge
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The Peony Dream (2004)
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Entering from Elizabeth St.
Theater Analysis Comparing
Unfold Plan Following Two Route
Chinese and Western Plays
es Starting from Two Entrancces
Romeo and Juliet (2010)
Entering from Bowery St.
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Layout of Programs
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Circulation Through Programs
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THE UNDERNEATH CONDITIION Minimal House Spring 2020 | Foundation Studio III Instructor: A. Averbeck Located in an urban context, this minimal house provides long-term temporary accomondation for business person or visiting scholars. Sitting underneath a walk bridge, the shape of the roof follows the rise of the walkway while the interior is composed of three platforms with their surfaces as sleeping, studying, and cooking areas while the underneath as bathroom, closet, and storaging spaces. The hosue has minimal opening on the back side, where the hustle and bustle of the city run. Whereas on the front side, view of the urban garden is brought into the house through the glass wall as well as the entry porch.
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05 The Underneath Condition
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THE EVENT OF SEEING-THROUGH Image Volume Fall 2021 | Core I Studio Instructor: J. Kolb While the photo of Cai Guoqiang’s performing art documents the ephemeral event of an explosion at Lake Utah, the image volume aims to turn the image inside-out, positioning at the artist’s perspective, and seeing through the event of the explosion. The hexagon shape of the volume forms a meandering path flanked by perforated tilted walls, representing molecules of the mushroom cloud. While pondering on the path, instead of standing upon the landscape, as the artist did in the photo, the landscape is “poched“ in the thickness of the walls -- a space that can be only seen through but not accessed. Throughout the path, perforations misalign with each other, revealing the inside of the walls, whereas at the turns of the path, larger cuts line up, creating the perfect views throughout the space.
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FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU Acrylics and Vellum 150 cm * 50 cm * 3cm Summer 2019 Instructor: S. Li and E. Lorenz At the International Trae City in Yiwu, over 70 perent of the shops are run by women. At the same time, these women often have their kids around them at the shop as there is no one to take care of them at home. Therefore, at the Trade City, women play the dual-identity as shop owners and mothers. The front layer shows scenes of kids playing in the Trade City, the back layer shows grids of small comodities, and the middle layer shows the female figures. These figures are present in both layers while keeping at a distance, connecting while seperating business life and family life.
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Front Side Female characters as mothers taking care of their children
Back Side Female characters as business women running the shops
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Women at the International Trade City Running shops while looking after children (Photos taken on site, June 2019)
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Layers of Identities
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OTHER WORKS
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Concept Model Studying Paths Crossing Through the Garden at UVA’s International Residential College (Spring 2020)
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Serpentine Physical Model (Fall 2018)
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Seeing Through Image Volume (Fall 2021)
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The Critical Difference between the Inside and Outside of the Ricetto of the Laurentian Library by Michelangelo Formal Analysis, Fall 2021
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Comparing the Dome Designs of St. Peter’s Bascilica by Bramante and Michelangelo Collaboration with Tong Hsu Formal Analysis, Fall 2021
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