YIWEI.GAO CANDIDATE : B.ARTS (ARCHITECTURE) FROM UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL APPLY FOR M.ARCH THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNYSYLVANIA 32F LIBERTY PROSPECT POINT, LIVERPOOL, UK L6 1BA GAOYIWEI_ANNA@126.com +44 7512239299
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ARCHSTUDY
ARCHSTUDY
Programmed Passage way
Manchester Library
Fall / 2013 Liverpool UK
Spring / 2013 Liverpool UK
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ARCHSTUDY
ARCHSTUDY
Vertical Farming
Ferry Terminal
Summer / 2014 Shanghai China
Fall /2014 Liverpool UK
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Voronoi Study
Text World
OTHER WORK
OTHER WORK
PROFILE Yiwei Gao | Born on: 14th Dec 1992 Email: gaoyiwei_anna@126.com Cell Phone: +44 7512239299 Contact Address: 32F Liberty Prospect Point, Liverpool, UK L6 1BA EDUCATION University Of Liverpool | Liverpool, UK 09 | 2013 - 06 | 2015, Bachelor of Arts in Architecture RIBA Part I Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University | Suzhou, China 09 | 2011 - 06 | 2013, Bachelor of Arts in Architecture
COMPETITION / EXHIBITION Green Roof Garden Design 04 | 2014, Designed the Main Part of the Roof Tongji Design-Build Festival in 2013 06 | 2013, Designed the Foundation of Shelter Enterprise Business Planning Competition 11 | 2011, Learnt Relevant Social Business Planning English Competition in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 11 | 2011, Participant Planning Competition Of Clothing-Making students Association 11 | 2011, Participant, Wrote Relevant Financial Budget
SOFTWARE SKILL Sketch Up, Rhino, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign 06 | 2013, Participated in 4-Week Mars Era Sketch Up Training Camp
TRAVELING France, Italy and the Netherlands 06 | 2014, Visited the Venice Architecture Biennial Spain and Portugal 05 | 2014 Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland 12 | 2013 Dubai 09 | 2013 Indian 07| 2012, Travelled and Volunteered for one month
LEADERSHIP Vice President of AIESEC Talent Management in XJTLU www.aiesec.org 04 | 2012, the Trainer of AIESEC XJTLU in Local Training Prepared Relevant Information and PPT Gave a Vivid Lecture to Trainees as a Trainer 03 | 2012 - 03|2013，Recruiter of AIESEC XJTLU 2011, 2012 Leadership Drew Up Recruitment Plan Led a 8-Member Team, Made Publicity Activity Organized Group Interview Single Interview and the First Member Meeting 2012 Winter AIESEC National Conference (Guangzhou) 2012 Autumn AIESEC Leadership Conference (Hangzhou) 2013 Winter AIESEC National Conference (Beijing) Looked Into the values of AIESEC Managed and Led TM Department Strengthened The Team‘s Cohesion Vice President of Clothing-Making Club 12 | 2011-12 | 2012, Organized One Activity Named “Fashion” Took Charge of the Finance System of the Club
INTERSHIP ECCEI East China Chemical Engineering Institute 07 | 2014 – 08 | 2014, Preliminary Study Schematic Design and Drawing Project: Renovation Design of Astronautics No.1 Kindergarten ACTIVITY AIDS Day in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 12 | 2011, Wrote Event Planning Did the Financial Budget and Settlement Handed Out Leafletof AIDS Danced on Wenxing Square to Attract Passers-by on Event Day Associations Cultural Festival- Han Chinese Clothig Trying On and Diy 12 | 2011, Wrote Event Planning Did the Financial Budget and Settlement Elite Program in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University 10 | 2011 – 11 | 2011, Played a Role in Faci Guided Students to Participate in the Third Phase of Activity INTEREST Hand-Craft, Video-Making, Photography
Passage way A Mixed Used Passage Way Design for Manchester Fall / 2013 Liverpool, UK / Individual Work This project was to design a programmed passage way that connects the main street( Newton Street) and the secondary street ( Port street) in Manchester. A cafe, a store, a dancing studio, a gallery and a office are required to be contained in this programmed passage way. The intervention should fill the gap( infill) with a void instead of a solid. At the beginning of the design, I tried to use different scale of the openings to correspond the distinctive streets and combine different programs to enrich the passing experience. However, as the design going on, I attempted to introduce more elements to express the facade and play with the lighting and shadow.
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Sun and Shadow
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Hostel SITE
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Site Plan and Function Distribution
Serial Views
This site is located in a gap between two buildings, the south is a office building while the north is a hostel. There are many studios and cafe relevant to art surrounding the site. This programmed passage way should be designed to be gentle and interesting to attracted the surrounding people. The newton street is crowed, noisy and the traffic is fast because it connect a highway in the north while the port street is quiet. The side facing the newton street was designed to cut off the noisy environment and take people into a quiet and comfortable environment. The side facing the port street is more open for the pedestrians and the obvious stairs guide the people to the gallery.
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1，8mm tensioned cable partition 2, 1mm Painted 3, sealing layer 50mm thermal insulation 75mmcorrugated metal deck plate IPE 500mm steel I-beam 4, stiffening ribs: 6mm steel flat, welded galvanted, coated 5, mounting plate: 9mm steel flat 6, 75mm steel channel 7, 100mm steel angle 8, 100mm steel I-beam 9, 8mm calcium-silicate board, suspended, water-resistant coating,painted 10, 220mm concrete column
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The facade is made of tensioned cable partition, which wraps the whole building. The density of this facade is different in order to form the changed shadow.
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Roof garden Dancing studio
Gallery Gallery
Cafe
Store Passageway
Some programs’ space are separate to satisfy the privacy, like the office and toilet. Some could communicate with each other, like dancing studio and the roof garden, cafe, passageway and store. The gallery is not just one level but rotates up and guide the visitors’ footprint.
Passageway
Conict and Merge A Small Public Library of Manchester Spring / 2014 Liverpool, UK / Individual Work This project was to design a small public library located in a tight unbar site in Manchester. As a public building, a library plays a strong role in the city spaces in which it is located, and as such, visually and spatially represents, knowledge, education and culture. I needed to appropriately respond to its context and demonstrate the signiďŹ cance of the building within the city.I attempted to combines the context to emphasis much about the facade in order to express the design idea, the transformation between the light and the heavy material.
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ART STUDIO OFFICE children resding area cafe
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Studio Office Art shop Gallery
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There is a children reading area, cafe, meeting area, reception and toilet on the ground floor. The furniture of the children area have been designed elaborately for children’s size and the cycle bookshelf in the middle promote the communication between the children and make it more interesting and playful. The glass facade surrounds the ground floor provide communication between the exterior and the interior activities.
Ground floor plan
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ART STUDIO OFFICE On the first floor plan, there is the primary reading area, a archive and a toilet. A cloister in the middle of this plan is designed for the circulation. This library is aimed at providing multiple reading methods for the people. The main reading area is made up of the stair-style bookshelves and the triangle bookshelves. The reader can find out the books as they go up. The triangle bookshelves reveal the umbrella structure so as to increase the efficiency of the space usage.
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First floor plan
On the second floor plan, there is a auditorium for more than 80 people, a office and two seminars. In the office, the officers could observe and inspect the main reading area activies through the large windows. It is possible to form a communication between the officers and the readers.
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Second floor plan
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1, 250mm steel column 2, bolted ďŹ xture Reading Area
1, 250mm steel column 2, 200mm steel beam 3, bolted ďŹ xture
1, 10mm steel mesh 2, 100mm doubel glazing windows 3, 250mm steel column 4, 300mm steel beam
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Children Reading Area
Vertical Farming An Innovative System for Farming Planting Summer / 2014 Shanghai China
Group Work Layer-greening Dolly and Perspective: Yiwei.Gao System Building: Weijie.Yang Site Analysis and System Section: Xinyu.Hu
Site analysis Urban population have enjoyed sorts of benefits as well as some unexpected consequences from the rapid process of urbanization, those are well-known as the insufficient greening, multiform pollutions, and a decreasing amount of cultivated land. To deal with these problems, maybe a low-cost and accessible way of urban vertical farming which gives out a considerable production of organic vegetables could be one of propagable solutions.
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Most megacities are faced the reduced cultivated land problem because of the environmental pollution, high-density population. Vertical farming system could alleviate these problems and bring the healthy life for residents.
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Fruit Temperature
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My team put forward a principle of mechanical operation to take advantage of the solar exposure, thus to achieve a collective supplementary lighting, irrigation and fertilization at night, and photosynthesis in the day. Besides, the fresh and organic vegetable can be transported into each family for their daily needs.
The local people could buy the dolly in the shop and mix the vegetables which they want. Every long pot is exible, they can be removed according to the growth situations of the vegetables.
Every resident could eat the fresh organic vegetable at home just like moving a small farming into the home
Home
Retail
Irrigation and Supplementary Lighting and Greenhouse
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Fruit
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Shading Louver Elevator
Shipping to Customers or Self Pick up Retailing Sloping Deck
Storage and Processing Area
Photosynthesis Area
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Cultivation Period The planting dolly will be send outside in the daytime for photosynthesis, boxes will be expanded and there will be enough space for plants enjoying the sunshine and breathing.
Transpotation Period The planting dolly will be transported to the inside room to be spraied insecticide or check the health information. The boxes will be compressed by parts of special railway during this process for saving the space inside room.
Harvest Period The planting dolly will be transported to the inside room after being compressed to the minimum size and then they will be vertically transported to the ground oor to be deliveried to dierent place like supermarket, market or individual home.
Soil Culture Dolly
This dolly is specialised for soil culture plants. Each container is exible and hung over the bracing of the dolly. Every layer has the individual water pipe for the eďŹƒcient irrigation work. The dolly could be folded during the transportation process by the steel rail, the minimum width is only half of the original width to take advantage of saving space.
Vine Dolly
This dolly is specialised for vine plants. Both sides of the dolly provide the thin steel bracing for the growth of vines. There are two containers at the bottom of the dolly oering the soil, water and nutritions.
Cultivation period plan
Cultivation period section
Cultivation period perspective
Cultivation period plan
Transportation period plan
Pespective
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Transportation period plan
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Transportation peroid perspective
Harvest peroid plan
Harvest period section
Harvest period pespective
Harvest peroid plan
Harvest period section
Harvest period pespective
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Cultivation period perspective
Flotage and Movement A Ferry Terminal of Liverpool Fall / 2014 Liverpool, UK / Individual Work This project was to design a free-standing ferry terminal located along the Mersey River, providing multiple programs including a ticket office, a store, a gallery, a restaurant, a cafe and the waiting area. This studio firstly investigate the relationship between material, structure and geometry and then apply the results from the precedented study to the ferry terminal design. I chose a campus restaurant designed by architect Barkow Leibinger as the precedented study. Focusing on Voronoi timber structure and examining how timber may influence and determine architectural results.
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Ventilation shaft
Supermarket
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Parking Area
Gallery
Ferry Destinations
Original Ferry Terminal Site
Function Distribution
New Ferry Terminal
Precedented Case Study Architect : Barkow Leibinger This site is located in an open space along Mersey River opposed to Liverpool. The original ferry terminal is required to remove and designed a new ferry terminal along the original footprint. In addition, the historical tower is required to protected and kept and combined with the ferry terminal. This ferry is an important traffic tool for the residents and the visitors between Birkenhead and Liverpool. As the third-year student, we are required to use Rhino and Grasshopper to assist our design. The ferry terminal is a system which combines the fixed and flexible parts for the continuous changing tide. To satisfy this feature, I tried to design a floating system, the landing space could be floated above the river like a floating house and the heavy roof could create a “floating” atmosphere.
Structure Study
Concept: Flotage and Movement
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Massing Model Devemopment First of all, massing the program according to the voronoi pattern
moved with the change of the tide
Then, I tried to design the ticket office on the land while other program floating above the water
In fact, it is not feasible to float most program above the water according to the fast river. I moved most progarm back to land and left landing space above the water
I attempted to use voronoi pattern to wrap the ferry terminal and the facade is changed with the required lighting interior. A bridge connect the fixed part and the flexible part.
set the regular grid and the column position
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adjusting the voronoi scale
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Honeycomb Units
Facade
Horizontal Section of Node 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
100mm glue-lam softwood honeycomb beam 8mm steel plate 15mm steel-plate node, welded 2mm nailing plate connector 25mm central node 2-6mm seam 30mm seam 24mm bolt
Bridge
Node of Timber Honeycomb
Waiting Area
Monolithic Skin
Matreshkas Boxvoronoi
Folding Structure
Arch
Curved Surface
Dome
Dendriform Column
Mushroom Column
Floating Surface
3D Half-ellipsoid
3D Box
3D Sphere
Voronoi Study Fall / 2014 Liverpool , UK
Group Work
Group member: Yiwei.Gao Man Jia Xiao Lu Yihan.zhang Voronoi Pattern1
Voronoi Pattern2
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After analysing an existing voronoi precedence, we were asked to explore the structure coherent form and later developed innovative geometric solutions.
Construction Process
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LITHUANIA
UKRAINE
WEST SAHARA
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CHAD
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CAMEROON CONGO
TOGO BENIN
COTE D’VOIRE
BOTSWANA
BRAZIL
BRAZIL
CHILE
ARGENTINA
PARAGUAY
BOLIVIA
URUGUAY
SRI LANKA
MALAYSIA
SINGAPORE
INDONESIA
AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA
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My Dream is Always On the Road
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