XINYI (AMELIA) LIN SELECTED WORKS University of Virginia SoA, B.S.Arch ‘21 Yale School of Architecture, M.Arch Candidate xl5fp@virginia.edu amelia.lin@yale.edu
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CONTENT A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
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URBAN THEATER
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STAGE-IN, STAGE-OUT
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IN-BETWEEN
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THE UNDERNEATH CONDITION
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FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU
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OTHER WORKS
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY Beijing, China Theater Spring 2021 | Undergraduate Thesis Instructor: P. Waldman The Dashilar (大栅栏) neighborhood sits at the southwest corner where Beijing’s urban axis intersect. It is believed that its intricate patterns, especially the oblique streets weaving through the dense neighborhood were created along with the power shift throughout history with the power center moving northeast. Given the pivotal location adjacent to the royal city, this area had been home to several theaters, at various scales, and has hosted many theater groups before they enter the royal city to perform for the emperor. This project looked for a solution of a theater, 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 milelong play – gantry 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.
A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
Exploded Axon Looking from Southwest
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
(Left) Historical Demarcations of Power Shifts from Jin to Qing Dynasty in Beijing. ht) Location of the Flat Rooftop at the Midpoint of the Yangmeizhu Oblique Street crossing the Neighborhood.
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
Metamorphosis of the Mobile Pieces
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
Construction of the Theter as a Mile-long Play
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A THEATER FROM STREET TO SKY
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URBAN THEATER New York, NY Theater Guild Fall 2019 | Foundation Studio IV Instructor: P. Waldman Between the hustle and bustle of Bowery Street and Elizabeth Street and 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
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A Collage Study of the Manhattan Island: The Intrusion of Culture
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Site Analysis
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The Peony Dream (2004)
Circulation Entering from Elizabeth St.
Theater Analysis Comparing
Unfold Plan Following Two Route
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Chinese and Western Plays
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Romeo and Juliet (2010)
Circulation Entering from Bowery St.
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Layout of Programs
URBAN THEATER
Circulation Threading Through Pro-
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Sections Looking North and East with Ground Floor Plan
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Axonometric View from Southe
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View from the Rooftop
Blackbox Theater with / without Performances
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Iterative Models Studying the Spatial Relationships of the Three
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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.
STAGE-IN, STAGE-OUT
The Parkway, which hosts a number of art institutions, hits the site diagonally, turns an angle, and forms a centrral stage of the public realm.
Staging the Public Realm
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The Benjamin Franklin Parkway cuts into Wiliam Penn’s plan at a diagonal, bringing the Fairmont part into the city while creating a museum district, which now stands as the cultural heart of the city. The many art institutes along the Parkway weaves together a network of “states“ on which a variety of artistic practices fight for attention -- a non-hierarchical artistic realm intended to be continued in this project by creating a side-branch of the parkway that runs parallel to the city grids.
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01 ck bounded by Callowhill St, Wood St, N.19th and N.20th St. und Park hits the east side of the block with the diagnal of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
02 The site being split into two volumes of institutions, creating a path along wich the Parkway turns a corner and continues parallel along the street.
03 ossing the site carries along the many art institutes from the nd forms the ground for a “central stage“ Interior edges react to the central stage as audience platforms.
04 From the ground level opening, the “central stage“ expands into the institutions -- the public realm seaps in.
05 sion of the stage continues, forming a series of “substages“ sizes at different levels. The process originated from the intereaches the exterior edges -- outdoor walkways and gardens
06 Eventually, the public realm merges through the institutions amd all “stages“ within the building got connected through.
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Classrooms F2 - F6
Grand Theater B1- F2
Black Box Theater B1-G
Library B1-F4
Fabrication Zone B2
STAGE-IN, STAGE-OUT
Urban Axon Looking from Southeast
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The “central stage“ expands into the institution and form “substages“. With artistic activities happening throughout the building simultaneously, “performances“ on different stages figh for attentions, interact, and merge all participates.
STAGE-IN, STAGE-OUT
Classroom Area
North Entrance Between the Two Theaters
STAGES as Public Realms
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Iterations of Subtractive Studies
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IN-BETWEEN Charlottesville, VA Housing Compex Spring 2019 | Foundation Studio III Instructor: A. Averbeck Sitting across Charlottesville’s historic downtown mall, this housing complex aims to create a shared ground opening for both its residents and all visitors to the downtown area. With the trapezoid shape in response to the railway not far behind, the tower steps down from the east and west ends as well as from the rooftop and the ground entrances respectively -- creating a sunken market and rooftop gardens that welcome the general public while guaranteeing private access to the residential units. Within the tower, with the corridors going in and out on each floor, common areas for co-living are created in addition to individual units that house three types of units serving the large young community at this university town.
IN-BETWEEN
Iterative Models Studying Forms
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1. Connect
2. Divide
3. Extrude
4. Step
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Urban Axon Looking from Southeast
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Type A
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Type B
600 sq ft
900 sq ft
1200 sq ft
Number of units: 20
Number of units: 28
Number of units: 18
Floor Plan +3 Residential Units and Common Areas
Floor Plan -1 Sunken Plaza and Indoor Market
UVA College
Tourists
Downtown Residents
Charlottesville Local Families Farmer’s Market’s Visitors
Potential Users For the Public Grounds
IN-BETWEEN
Circulation Seperating Residential Units and Underground Markets
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Juxtaposition of Living Scenes
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THE UNDERNEATH CONDITION Minimal House Spring 2019 | 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.
THE UNDERNEATH CONDITION
Existing Public Stairs
Glass Doors
Sleeping Plat-
Bathroom Sitting Platform Storage
Standing Platform
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THE UNDERNEATH CONDITION
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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.
FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU
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)
FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU
Gridded shops selling modular items as the dominant pattern at the Trade City
Mothers running shops as the nodes of circulation for kids running around the shops
Early concepts discussing the dual-identity of the women at Yiwu as shop owners as well as mothers
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Three-Layers Composition
FEMALE FIGURES IN YIWU
Detail Showing “Layers of Identities”
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OTHER WORKS
OTHER WORKS
Concept Model
Studying Paths Crossing Through the Garden at UVA’s International Residential College
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Concept Model Studies Studying The Rothensal Center of Art (top) Studying the The Diana Center at Barnard College (bottom)
Concept Model Studying Light at Campbell Hall Spring 2018
OTHER WORKS
Dynamic Poché Film | Spring 2020 https://youtu.be/dmAqAJO6S6k
Serpentine Model Fall 2018
XINYI (AMELIA) LIN University of Virginia SoA, B.S.Arch’ 21 Yale School of Architecture, M.Arch Candidate xl5fp@virginia.edu amelia.lin@yale.edu +1-434-328-0632 +86-158-1098-2712