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LI XUAN | PORTFOLIO 2010-2015 Bachelor of Engineering in Urban planning, HNCU Apply for Master of Urban Design 2015, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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PREFACE

Along with an accelerating urbanization in China, city blocks and buildings of the same layout and design flooded here and there, which brought down residents’ sense of place and surface social

CONTENTS

01 The green town on the edge of the River Zi

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Comprehensive planning of Wutan Town Origin: water bodies, mountains, industries etc.

problems, including neighbourhood indifference and threatening of community security. In order to build a sustainable and resilient community for all, working out a unique design that adjusts the measures to local conditions has become my target.

02 Practicing martial arts above the paddy fields

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Urban design of Lotus city Area Origin: historical culture, mountains and water bodies etc.

As for the four main works, collected in my portfolio, are the whole urban planning curriculum designs that I have done independently during undergraduate study in urban-rural planning. In these works with different scales, I help to increase the economic strength of the town by extending the

03 Breathing the fresh air in the central district

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The detailed planning of central district Origin: the reservation of mountain and architecture.

local oil-tea industrial chain, enhance people’s awareness of their historical culture by digging out the cultural characteristics and make it as the theme of tourism, reserve a green space for citizens to breathe fresh air in the central district by retaining and transforming the mountain, and improve residents’ quality of life by finding out what they want to eat, do as well as live in and satisfying their

04 A residential area, designed for Hunan people

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The detailed planning of residential areas Origin: Local people’s basic necessities of life.

needs.

05 Other works

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Modelling, Photography, Pen drawing, Watercolour and Gouache.

In a nutshell, the designs displayed how I took the local elements, such as terrain, water bodies, architecture, culture, customs, as a starting point to design a sustainable area with site features.

06 Curriculum Vitae

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[Ways to travel in the township]

The green town on the edge of the River Zi

Mainly considering the site features, including water bodies, mountains and industries and so on.

Location of the township Topic: Urban Comprehensive Planning Planning year: 2013-2030 Date: Sept. 2013 to Dec. 2013 Location: Wutan Town, Taojiang County, Yiyang, HN, PRC Status: Curriculum design Tutor: Zeng zhiwei, Ning qimeng

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Site area: 208.96 km2 The present situation of the township: Population: 12,000 Calculation of land: Residential: 27.77hm2 Administration and public services: 7.87 hm2 Industrial: 1.09hm2 Street and transportation: 0.32hm2 Municipal utilities: 0.27hm2 Total: 40.39hm2

Planning of the townshipďźˆby 2030: Prediction of population: 40,000 Calculation of land: Residential: 147.9 hm2 Administration and public services: 49.4 hm2 Industrial: 13.4 hm2 Logistics and warehouse: 24.2 hm2 External transport: 46.6 hm2 Roads and squares : 63.1 hm2 Municipal utilities: 6.3 hm2

Green space: 72 hm2 Total: 422.9 hm2

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[Task of design]

[Analysis of planning in the town]

The urban comprehensive planning is the comprehensive deployment and implementation measures of urban nature, developmental goal and scale, land use, spatial layout as well as other constructions in a certain stage. The curriculum design requires students use the basic knowledge, professional theory, skills, investigation and experimental methods of comprehensive planning to coordinate and deal with the problems in urban and rural areas. And through the design, students can be familiar with the formulating works of comprehensive planning and enhance their practical ability.

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[Site analysis] Urban construction land Rural construction land Town government

The Site

Yiyang Wutan Town The River Zi

Hunan

镇域居民点分布现状图 The settlements distribution of status quo in the town

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Wutan town is located in the northwest of Taojiang County, covering an area of 208.96 km2. Its southern part is near River Zi and its north is connected to Dingcheng district of Changde City and Hanshou county, with its west adjacent to Anhua county. Wutan has convenient transportation to the railway station and airport, because the roads such as G207 and S233 run through the whole town. Also, it possesses the whole waterway of River Zi. Thanks to the intercommunication of Erguang highway, which is under 5 km away from its entrance to the township, as well as Yima highway, the town is superior in location, convenient in traffic.

Village boundaries Town government Base village Centre village

Rural construction land

Urban construction land Non-agricultural land Urban green space

The planning area is the administrative range of the town with an overall area of 208.96 km 2. The planning and control area of the town is as follows with an overall construction area of 4.229 km2. The north is to Xinpuzi, the South is to Lotus plain, the West is to Zaizi and the East is to River Zi.

Cultivated land Woodland Waters

The settlements distribution of planning in the town

[Analysis of the status quo] N

1 National Road Provincial Road Prefectural Road Country Road Village Road Village boundaries

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Town government

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The road traffic of status quo in the town

1-Unplanned Industrial Use

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[The nature of the town]

1 6 4-Primary school on the steep slope,

3-The buildings ignore the separation distance.

Wutan town is a riverside ecological town for recreation, which mainly develops sightseeing agriculture, bamboo processing as well as oil-tea industry so as to gain the economic growth in both aspects of tourist agricultural products processing and commercial trade.

Highway National Road Provincial Road Country Road Village Road Village boundaries

[Planning of village and town system]

5-Some roads are difficult to drainage.

Location sketch

The existing condition of land use in the township 6

Residential Administrative management Educational institutions Cultural and technological Health care Commercial & financial Market Roads and squares Third type industrial External transport Municipal utilities Rural construction land Waters

2-Riverside greenbelt without being developed and used.

6-Unplanned land has been farmed.

a. Spatial structure of village and town Basing on the development of the urban economy, planning of traffic transportation as well as existing layout features, the spatial layout of villages and town adopt the pattern of “concentrating the lands of centre as well as developing the area of certain points or along the axis”. The lotus city area is seen as the centre, then original town and Songshanping area as side centres. With G207 and S233 serve as developing axis, Wutan changes into the pattern, which is mentioned above, and drives the balanced development among centre villages and base villages. b. The scale levels and structure of villages According to the social economy development level and speed in urban areas, the requirements for urbanization and modern agriculture and the status quo of villages and operation demand, the village and town system in Wutan town can be divided into three levels, which are town area, centre village, and base villages. c. The function of Villages Town area— the comprehensive centre of administrative, cultural and economic activities in the town.

Centre village—the villages that the residents live together, build houses intensively and serve surrounding base villages.

Base villages—the primary residential places, where the residents work on agriculture or household sideline production, focus on developing the primary industry.

The road traffic of planning in the town

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Hospital

Cultural relics

Cultural station

Market

Gas station

Kindergarten

Middle school

Primary school

Telecommunication facilities

Substation

Biogas

Garbage station

Town government

The public facilities of status quo in the town

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Town government Coach station Kindergarten Shop Library Entertainment Room Square Middle school Township public service facilities Base villages public service facilities

Bank Parking lot Toilet Primary school Theatre Hospital Family planning service station Market Catering Central village public service facilities

The public facilities of planning in the town 7

[Analysis of planning in the township]

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To Changde City

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To Zhab u hui Towns ethnic hip

[The functional division and structure for the township] To Zhab u hui Towns ethnic hip

[The evaluation of land use in the township]

To Changde City

[Analysis of township development direction]

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To Anhua County

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Zhabu hui ethnic Township Anhua County

Constructed land Appropriate construction land Land available for construction Land inappropriate for construction Non-construction land Waters

Building groups for residence

Building groups for industrial & warehouse

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Riverside axis Industrial and economic axis Comprehensive service centre Town government Urban construction land Rural construction land Green space of park Agricultural land Waters

Disadvantage for development in the north: obstacles in topography

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Disadvantages for development in the east: River Zi & town boarders

Comprehensive service center

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Disadvantage for development in the west: the highway

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Advantage for development in the south: smooth topography

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Majitang Town

With comprehensive analysis on land use conditions surrounded the township, I have found that the development of the town has been restricted by topography, highways, boarders on its north, east and west respectively. However, its south part has not only close relations to its construction area but also large area and smooth terrain. Therefore, south part is seen as the crucial development area of the township.

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Assessment result for existing land use a. The road cannot meet current and future traffic needs because of the narrow red line, low levels as well as simple transverse forms. b. The road has been damaged universally. c. The lands have been used in disorder. d. The public service facilities are imperfect and inconvenient for employment.

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Town government Administrative village Existing construction area Restricted conditions for development The direction of development Cultivated land Woodland Waters

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The pattern of “One centre, two axis, three building groups�.

One centre: Wutan comprehensive service centre; Two axis: riverside axis for residential needs and industrial and economic axis for developmental needs; Three building groups: ecological sightseeing group, industrial & warehouse group and group for residence.

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[The design concept of building groups for industrial & warehouse ] N

Economic development of Wutan town has been limited by funds, while Wutan has rich agricultural and forest resources especially the oil-tea and bamboo resources in the surroundings. After the construction of Erguang highway, Wutan is expected to make progress in economic development of related industries(e.g., industries transfer from Guangzhou, oil-tea refining as well as bamboo products processing). In order to provide guidance for afterward development of industries in the town, I have conducted detailed planning for industrial chain of oiltea as an example.

Planting of oil-tea

Rough machining

Primary processing

Primary processing

Green food

Base oil for cosmetic products

Medicinal tea oil

Refined tea oil

Tea saponin

Green food

[The design concept of building groups for residence] N

Urban renewal is a brilliant way to explore the vitality of the old district and make surrounding areas develop in order. During the urban renewal, inappropriate land use also should be altered. For example, primary school with inappropriate topography should be removed and pumping station is expected to be added because of drainage difficulty and so on. In addition, activity fields, such as parks, squares and so forth, can be added appropriately to meet residents’ daily entertainment and recreational needs.

Kindergarden

Industrial land change to Greenbelt

Primary school

Add lands for service such as parks, rubbish transition station and stores.

Adjust road linear and the number of current roads.

(Red for new, and orange for adjusted) .

Adjust partial inappropriate land (e.g., industrial land and land for educational institutions).

The old district is continuously developed outwardly like fingers.

[The design concept of new district]

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The new district can be primarily divided into residential area and resort area. The inspiration of the Main road linear comes from the water form of River Zi. And according to the urban nature (town for recreation), I intensified the road net and added some supporting facilities, such as custom cultural villages and family vocational villages and so on, so as to lead people to the comfortable living standard. Combining with surrounding tourism resources, wutan will reach the goal of being a riverside ecological town for recreation.

Connect the new district to the River Zi

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Establish movement with the River Zi

Create scaled place for people

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Tea-oil trees

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Sand factory Gas station

Logistics and warehouse

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The Mao bamboo Temple Park

The sand factory built without authorization has serious pollution and a far distance away from the entrance of Erguang highway.

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Tea-oil trees

Sewage Treat- Gas station ment Plant

To Taojiang County

Moving this land to the western area with smooth terrain, It will be easy to form accumulated economy because of the close distance to the entrance. And it ought to be limited to only be used for non pollution industry.

Police Station

Kindergarten

Pumping station

The riverside park

Middle school

The two category of residential land Land for educational institutions Land for health care

Sightseeing agriculture

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Hospital

The one category of residential land Land for administrative management Cultural, sports,science and technology Commercial and financial land First type land for industrial usage Land for external transport Land for roads and squares Land for municipal utilities Land for public green space Cultivated land

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The Xiasitong Memorial Park

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Primary school

Geracomium

The fire station

Tea-oil trees

G207

The fact that the G207 runs through the old township results in the problem that many vehicles sharing roads with residents, which may cause the traffic accident, noise and air pollution.

In order to provide a quiet and safe living environment for residents, the G207 can be changed into another straight and plain road to shunt vehicles in the township.

Land for market Common storage land

The long-distance bus station

Erguang

59.6m Theatre

Highway

The town government Waterworks Primary Post and Telecom- school munications Branch Kindergarten

Rock climbing area

55.7m

The Wetland Park

Tourist reception centre

The primary school has been built on a steep slope, which may cause safety accident as well as result in the fact that students have a tortuous way to school. In addition, the town has no parks or greenbelt, while the location of this slope is actually a cultural heritage without being well protected.

Exhibition Hall

The primary school is removed to the northeast where has plain and quiet environment. Then I decided to reconstruct the previous slope into a memorial park for Xia Sitong so that students and citizens both can enjoy themselves.

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Where can we go for fun??

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The Lake-River view Park

The new district has comfortable environmental conditions but without corresponding public facilities.

Wow!Parks,shops and cinema! We love them!

Pedestrian streets are added in the new district together with the facilities, such as theatre, parks, market and so forth, so as to create a convenient life for citizens.

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Theatre

Martial Arts Museum

The institution of Painting and fist position calligraphy centre

School

Martial arts training hall

Indoor Chinese herbal park

Chinese medicine hospital

Practicing martial arts above the paddy fields

Comprehensively considering historical culture, mountains and water bodies etc.

Topic: Urban Design Date: Feb.2014 to May.2014 Location: Lotus city Area, Wutan Town, Taojiang County, Yiyang, HN, PRC Status: Curriculum design Tutor: Yi chun, Ning qimeng

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Technical and economic indicators: Land area: 235.9 hm2 Total construction area: 18,000,000 m2 Basal area: 471,800 m2 Total building density: 20% Floor area ratio: 0.8 Average floors: 4 floors Parking lot: 6,820 vehicles Ground parking rate: 10% Ground parking spaces: 682 vehicles Green land rate: 34%

Location

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[The official comprehensive planning]

[Analysis of the status quo]

[The mind map about martial arts ]

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The school set up special class for martial art.

The institution of fist position study styles and skills of martial art deeply.

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The one category of residential land

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Chinese medicine hospital helps to build up people’s health and to prevent diseases by Chinese medicine.

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The two category of residential land Mixed use: residence / commerce Land for public facilities

Riding bicycles can improve metabolism and immunity of human bodies.

An excellent teacher is especially important for martial art learner.

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There is one Kungfu in martial art which is called nourishing exercise.

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Strength is significant to people who practice martial arts.

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Indoor Chinese herbal park displays and sales Chinese herbal medicine, which are related to health care.

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[Task of design]

The urban landscape elements should be further refined in Lotus city area under the guidance of comprehensive planning so as to reshape characteristics, deeply improve the landscape system. The land usage, spatial state, architectural types, square greenbelt, road transportation, municipal facilities, environmental embellishment and human activity sites and so forth should be arrange and design. During the whole urban design, the position, line types and cross section of national road 207 in the comprehensive planning should be maintained.

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Martial arts Martial art is the traditional Chinese athletic item, which combines actions like kick, hit, throw, seize, beat, stab and so on.

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Wutan town is located in the northwest of Taojiang county. Lotus city area is located in the South of central Wutan, where is the main development direction of Wutan town. Also, it will be only a five-minute drive from the interchange to the lotus city area after the construction of Erlianhaote-Guangzhou highway.

Meanwhile, there is an unique and advantaged residential environment, which can be developed into a resort for vacation and recreation combined with the third industry. All in all, not only will the site be the main development focus of the township, but also it may undertake weekend’s ecological and recreational activities in Guangzhou, Changsha, Yiyang and so on in the near future.

Martial morality are the essence of Chinese martial arts culture.

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Martial root is the living soul of martial art, which is the combination of all martial elements.

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[Control range of planning area]

The North is to Longjia village, the South is to Lotus plain, the West is to Dengpo pool and the East is to River Zi, with a total covering area of 235.9 hm2.

[The analysis of the previous comprehensive planning]

The previous comprehensive planning has adjusted measure to regional topography. And with the establishment of new centralized commercial area and the functional guidance of large-scale, it is easy to be developed in the future. However, due to the shortage of funds, the national road of 207 has not been treated with cross-border transportation. Also, it had the shortcomings such as large-scale separated lands, high development cost at one time as well as the negative effect of water smooth due to crossing road and so on.

Existing farmlands The roads are mostly in disorder, and need to be planned again. The existing architectures are of poor quality and universally need to removed, while many existing farmland and waters can be remained to serve as landscape so as to provide a green space to recall residents’ memory.

Dramas and films related to martial morality are played in theatre.

Weapons and books related to martial art will be displayed in martial museum.

Parks with martial art as theme will offer visitors with enlightenment ideologically.

The martial art training hall will offer citizens with a site for professional learning of martial art.

[Historical evolution] Let us be stronger!

You are using the same moves!

According to the ancient books, Wutan town is formed in war period in Song dynasty. A uprising tribe failed in a war.

And then the rest troops escaped and stayed here since they found Wutan had extremely good living conditions.

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Thus, the leader of the tribe called upon heroes all over the world to come to Wutan to practice martial art by learning from each other so as to raise their strength.

They hoped to recuperate and build up energy here so that they could fight again. Therefore, they decided to improve their martial capabilities by mutual practice.

However, they made little progress since they almost had the same martial styles of the same levels.

Since then, Wutan became famous where has been a well-known place for practicing martial art in accordance with its Chinese meaning.

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[Design processes]

[Land planning after optimization] Combination of diversified land use

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● Construct a public space structure, which can help in developing the centre of each building group as well as the riverside belt. ● Sense of centre can be strengthened in each area with the establishment of facilities like commercial, office and culture. ● Residential land will be set surrounded these centres to strengthen the support to these centres. ● Lead group parks with centralization of various social activities into commercial centres as well as residential areas .

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Polarizing the Yin and Yang to South and North with the formation of two group centres, it will be developed with two centre to reduce investment pressure in early stage.

With the retaining of the planned national road 207, I take the Yin Yang,which comes from the dialectical philosophy, as core image.

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Low-rise dwelling Multi-storey residential Land for commerce Land for public facilities Mixed use: commerce / residence Mixed use: Hotel / office

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5 mins walk

Transportation land 5 mins walk

Public green space Agricultural land The public facilities are arranged with the concept of 3 mins walk from residential area to green square and 5 mins to public facilities.

The architectures should be designed as an organic whole.

Firstly, I use the point represents the building to reach the balance.

Then the simplified drawing will be changed into building plane . Besides, the podium building is used, in order to imitate the original architectural texture.

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The height of buildings are determined by location, functions, ventilation, light and so on.

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The story height will be adjusted appropriately to form mountain-type skyline with central high and both sides low so as to be in accordance with the surrounding hilly terrain.

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Planning Area（hm²）Proportion（%） Residential area 77.55 3.04 Land for public 45.02 5.24 facilities Land for road and 35.37 6.67 square Green space 36.05 6.54 193.99 1.22 Lands for waters 41.91 5.63 and other intentions 235.9 1.00

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Architecture

Landscape

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Chinese medicine hospital

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Indoor Chinese herbal park

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Commercial buildings

The institution of fist position

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Martial arts training hall

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Bar Street

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Multi-storey residential

10 Primary school

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Shopping Centre

4 Riverside villas

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SPA

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Martial Arts Museum

5 Exquisite tower

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Folk Culture Village

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Theatre

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Mountain villa

13 Souvenir Centre

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Commercial facilities

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The hotel and office complex

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Painting and calligraphy centre

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Experiential terrace wetland

28 Tianmen square Yacht dock

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Scenic Viewing Pavilion

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Leisure Square

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30 Foshou square

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Experiential terrace planting

Bishui lake

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Ecological and leisure Plaza

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Ecological health square

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Yuan Ding square

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Iron casting theme park

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Exquisite tower park

26 Shutter Island

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Scenic Path

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Leigu theme park

27 Yugu square

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[Planning analysis]

Combined with nature: mountains and waters

Recreational greenbelt

Productional greenbelt

Water bodies

Multi-storey residential

Low-rise dwelling

Public buildings

Roadway

Sidewalk

Parking lot

Existing hilly area

Wetland

Green way

Urban buildings: residence, hotel, office, shopping centre, Chinese medicine hospital, exhibition hall.

Commercial buildings

Road traffic: roadway, sidewalk, bicycle path, runaway, yacht dock.

Green facilitiesďźšexisting hilly area, green road, wetland, open green space.

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Open green space

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[Sketch map of green way location]

[Accessibility analysis]

Mountain Park

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P Cycle

The yacht dock

[Planting suggestion of central green corridor] Potatoes

[Sketch of green way]

[Analysis on the light and sight of riverside residence]

[Landscape of rice field]

The rice cropping in Hunan province can be back to BC 12,000 to 16,000 year.

Besides, Hunan has unique as well as advantaged weather and geological environment which are suitable for rice cropping.

As for Lotus city area, there have been existing farmlands planted by local residents in planned central green corridor and southern as well as northern bases. Apart from current farmland, I add up some kinds of crops in the corridor and design the wood stack runaway, pavilion and so on to provide space for residents’ practice of martial art and other recreational activities.

Indica glutinous rice

For residents who have been always living in this land, they get used to going out to farm in the morning and come back in the evening all the time. I do not hope to change residents’ living habits, but I do hope to improve their quality of life by planning. Therefore, I have given unified planning for farmlands within the 3 to 5-minute-walk circle so that farmers can continue with their original schedule even after the construction. While for tourists, they can experience the fun of farming by planting on themselves.

Millet

[Riverside residence]

Combining with the “low to high” topography, the riverside residence adopts the architectural pattern of different heights, so as to ensure the sight, ventilation and light of buildings on both sides.

Indica rice and non glutinous rice

Sorghum Office & commercial 50°

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Residential & commercial

Residential Green belt

River Zi

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[Effect drawing]

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Breathing the fresh air in the central district

Specially taking the reservation of mountain and architecture into consideration.

Location Topic: The Detailed planning of central district Date: March.2013 to June.2013 Location: Heshan District,Yiyang,HN,PRC Status: Curriculum design Tutor: Zhang guowu,Cui hongping

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Technical and economic indicators: Land area: 26.3 hm2 Total construction area: 386,400 m2 Basal area: 74,000 m2 Total building density: 28% Floor area ratio: 1.5 Average floors: 5 floors Parking lot: 4,000 vehicles Ground parking rate: 3.1% Ground parking spaces: 124 vehicles Green land rate: 30%

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[Task of design]

[Reservation of mountain]

The district is located in the intersection of two main roads( Yiyang Avenue and Kangfu road), and western part of Heshan in city of Yiyang, Hunan province.

It has been listed in the urban central area by the Comprehensive Planning of Yiyang City (2004-2020). On the east and north of this area are commercial districts, and on the west and south are residential areas. In this design, students should demonstrate the nature as well as strength of construction land on the basis of urban economics and principles as well as the planning mentioned above. Then they can conduct detailed plans and designs by the decided nature of the land so as to train their comprehensive ability of dealing with large public buildings, road traffic organizations, square, greenfield as well as environmental embellishment in urban key sections.

Use the saved fees to improve architectural quality.

Save cost for earthworks.

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Organics

Supply more space for green plants in downtown area.

And plants will return citizens with wonderful air quality.

The mountain is located in the urban central area.

So citizens lived in all directions can enjoy the refreshing green and relieve their visual fatigue.

Site analysis

[Existing problems]

I love it!

Yoga

Help!

Jogging

Since the previous construction has no unified planning, the nature of this land, including residential area, commercial area, municipal facilities area and so on, is chaos. And it results in many problems pressing for solution, such as insufficient parking lots in commercial area, security risks in residential area, the lack of activity space, the waste of land and so on.

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With the appropriate height and slope.

It can supply space for citizens’ outdoor activities.

a. Traffic

Therefore, during my design, firstly, I will give a new layout for this land by adjusting its nature to the surroundings. Then I will retain the things which can evoke citizens’ memories and endow them with new functions.

Furthermore, in order to raise the site recognition and residents’ sense of place, I put the concept of Yiyang Bamboo culture on buildings and landscape. Last but not least, during the whole process of the design, I try to solve existing problems in this area by appropriate building layout and recalculation of matching facilities for the sake of optimizing citizens’ quality of life.

Smooth flow !

Traffic jam!

Since the connection of straight internal A-level road and main road may arouse transit traffic. I adopt to curved road as well as staggered entrance on vertical or lateral directions to reduce transit traffic. Then, I adjust the internal secondary road to regional functions and geological conditions.

According to the current conditions that residential groups on the east and west are relatively quieter than

Where should we go for walk?

Walking

[Design analysis]——Urban planning

b. Function

Demolish it or not?

Cycling

the other three groups, building groups facing the two main roads are of higher commercial values and so forth, functions of each

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Commercial & office land Commercial land Land for park Land for composite Residential & office land

area will be determined comprehensively.

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[Design analysis]——Architecture

[Effect drawing of the central landscape]

a. Architectural styles

Yiyang is known as "the capital of bamboo". And bamboo represents the meanings of constancy, integrity and humility in Chinese culture.

Developing bamboos into an architecture form by expanding their tubes and making their joints inward.

Visually enhance the relevance between the buildings and bamboo by adding bamboo to the architectural surface.

Giving similar "bamboo treatment" to important buildings in each area so as to extend local culture.

b. Architectural layout

I hate it!

Ventilation and lighting of each office can be guaranteed with the south to north layout of the bar-shaped office building.

Develop the special sense of place and reduce the crime rate by enclosing residential buildings, according to the low to high topography.

No need for umbrella!

Customers can enjoy their shopping without worrying about rainy weather because of the corridor-style commercial buildings.

And the rest buildings will be designed according to their own characteristics and surrounding roads.

[Effect drawing of the entrance landscape]

[Design analysis]——Landscape a. Main Square

Develop visual relations between main traffic nodes and landscape nodes, and penetrate the relations into other groups.

Spread this visual connection by taking the growth pattern of bamboo leaves as inspiration.

Form a flexible and irregular square boarder by fuzzifying the growth direction of bamboo leaves.

A folded linear square will be formed by clarifying the margin and boarder and connecting it with buildings.

Basing on the guarantee of employment and security, the green space and square are enlarged.

Emphasize and penetrate Yiyang history of bamboo culture by adding it to landscape details.

Comprehensively form an all-roundway green landscape by the principles above .

b. Detailed landscape

Add green space among buildings.

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Yiyang Avenue Office

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Analysis of transportation

Urban main road Urban secondary road Internal first roadway Internal secondary roadway Sidewalk Vehicle parking site Main entrance for vehicles Main entrance of sidewalk

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Function division

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Commercial buildings High-rise complex Residential buildings Office buildings Public buildings

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Analysis of architectural height

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Main landscape nodes Secondary landscape nodes Main axis of landscape Secondary axis of landscape

Analysis of green landscape

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Haitang Road Dominant wind direction in summer

Analysis of wind direction

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Analysis of sunshine

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[A citizen’s one day]

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[Renovation plan for deserted water plant]

[Solutions to parking problems]

a. Recycling of machines

a. Roadway classification mechanism

To Swimming pool

Raw water

(1). Add disinfectants into raw water.

(2). Give filtration treatment

to raw water by activated carbon filter and mechanical filter in previous water plant.

(3). Give UV disinfection and sterilization treatment to water with equipment in previous water plant

(4).

Heat the water to a comfortable temperature.

Main corridor Low-speed roadway Parking channel Parking lot

b. Walking evacuation routes

b. Recycling of buildings

(1). Separate one of the pre-

vious water plant buildings from large volume to smaller part.

(2). Form the type of swimming pool by adjusting the shape of filtration tank.

(3).

Add roofs over the swimming pool to protect customers from cold and hot weather.

Public traffic users Private car uses Public stations Parking lot

(4).

In order to guarantee the lighting and temperature, partial roof is sunk and change into transparent materials.

c. Parking sharing mechanism

Our unique swimming pool 12.00 am

Due to the rapid urban expansion, the previous Yiyang third water plant, which needs to be removed, has been surrounded by downtown. However, residents in Yiyang have deep feelings toward this old water plant, which has served them for 20 years since 1994. So I suppose to retain this water plant for citizens especially for old Yiyang people to recall their memories. But the overall area of the water plant accounts for nearly one fourths of the whole district.

6.00 pm

6.00 pm

12.00 pm

Parking lot E

Residents Workers Entertainers

Parking lot C

Parking lot D Parking lot B Parking lot A

How to retain the old water plant without affecting the planning of new downtown?

I adopt to the methods of changing the architectural functions. And new functions should meet the following conditions.

To start with, it should be a activity which can benefit citizens’ health. Moreover, the function ought to be matched with the surrounding. Last but not least, It is possible for the previous building change into the new functional building.

Parking lot

Then I found the fact that swimming is helpful for building our bodies, Yiyang is lack of swimming pools, and filtration pool is similar to swimming pool. So I plan to remain partial buildings of the previous water plant and alter its function.

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[Aerial view]

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A residential area, designed for Hunan people Particularly taking local people’s basic necessities of life into account.

Location Topic: The Detailed planning of residential areas Date: Sep.2012 to Nov.2012 Location: Heshan District,Yiyang,HN,PRC Status: Curriculum design Tutor: Xu yunhui

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Technical and economic indicators: Land area: 15.5 hm2 Total construction area: 177,000 m2 Basal area: 29,000 m2 Total building density: 18.7% Floor area ratio: 1.14 Average floors: 6 floors Parking lot: 1,500 vehicles Ground parking rate: 3.9% Ground parking spaces: 58 vehicles Green land rate: 35%

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[Task of design]

This curriculum design requires us the ability to comprehensively deal with road traffic, square, greenbelt as well as environmental embellishments in urban residence. And the quality of design content and depth as well as drawings ought to be qualified. Meanwhile, basic principle and methods of detailed urban planning should be further mastered.

[Site Analysis]

[Case Analysis]

Characteristic

[Location] With planned construction of Zhixi road, Yangfan road, Xinan road and Huilong road in East, West, South and North respectively, the base is located in HuiLongshan area, Heshan district, Yiyang city, alongside Zhixi river. The Northeast of the base is Zhaifan mountain, the Northwest is Yiyang bulb plant and the west is surrounded by Zhixi river.

My proposal

The quadrangle dwellings is parallel to rivers.

[Analysis of the status quo]

There are bulb plan, provincial tool factory and so on in the base without any prosperous enterprises. Most of them have been abandoned or under collapsing.

The road analysis Beijing Houhai

The main existing buildings within the base are industrial buildings mixed with some residential areas and warehouses. With imperfect service system and poor living environment, the supporting facilities within the region lack behind. With mixed and scattered land use, it lacks public space of appropriate scale. The buildings within this area are mainly residential buildings with low construction standard. The buildings have high density but low separation distance among each building.

[Proposal]

This area is planned to be used as residential area in the comprehensive planning of Yiyang city. Besides, Yiyang has relatively less immigrant population, most of whom are local Hunan people. Apart from factory buildings remained in the base, there are still some waters like streams and ponds. I hope to combine the existing conditions such as life, activities and ideology of Hunan people so as to form a residential area which is suitable for most residents.

Terrain analysis Riverside greenbelt is set vertically to the river.

Changsha HsiangRiver

Therefore, I have investigated on Hunan people’s habits, including ideology, diet and activities by questionnaire, interviews and literature reference. And I draw a conclusion of four representative characteristics, which are preference of hot food, square dancing, diaojiao building and patio houses, and culture collision.

The next step is to combine the characteristics with existing conditions, basing on the assurance of basic functions such as parking, light, ventilation and so on.

Riverside greenbelt is set both vertically and parallel to the rivers. Courtyard is formed among residential houses, and the scattered house arrangement make the place more vivid.

Texture analysis

In the end, a water-locked residential area with Hunan characteristics and optimized functions, which has indoor planting as well as appropriate public services, is formed.

Kunshan Zhouzhuang

The houses are scattered and forming a unique courtyard space.

[The local feature analysis]

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1.Hunan people can’t live without hot food

2.Square dance

3.Diaojiao buildings and patio houses

4.Collision and integration of old and new culture

Hunan people are known for eating hot food in China. For Hunan people, apart from taking hot pepper as seasoning for cooking, pepper can be made into chopped pepper, pickled pepper, roasted pepper, white pepper, rice pepper, chilli-sauce, chilli oil and so on.

Square dance is a non-professional performance of dance art performed in public area. Many people use group dance to exercise and entertain themselves. As for Hunan people, there are many original dances created by them, because of their passion for square dance.

The commonly seen buildings in Hunan are diaojiao buildings and patio houses. The diaojiao buildings are built along with rivers and mountains. And patio houses, which is beneficial for ventilation and lighting, are the buildings with internal patio .

With the core concept of Happy China, Hunan Satellite TV has created many legends for ratings, while this modern area is actually a historical area as well, which is full of cultural relics. Take Changsha as an example, it totally discover three tombs in Western Han dynasty.

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[Design processes]

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[Aerial view]

According to the comprehensive planning, the floor area ratio of the land should be no more than 1.2 and the building density should no more than 20%.

Open the entrance of the residential area in the roads with less traffic flow.

Form a inside loop for vehicles to serve the whole areas.

Remain and adjust the original waters, in order to form a green corridor and penetrate the green into other building groups.

The buildings near the water can be used as residential buildings, while the rest of it can be used as supporting public facilities, according to the analysis on site values, sight, environment, etc.

Plan the residential buildings and public buildings along with the river.

Rotating residential buildings can maximize the riverside landscape for each building.

In order to ensure the sunlight and ventilation and create a interesting scattered space, the height of buildings should be adjusted.

[Effect drawing]

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[Function division]

Residence

Green open space of residential cluster

Parking lot

Commerce

Supermarket

Public green area [Analysis of transportation]

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Zhixi River

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Secondary axis of landscape

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[Vertical planting]

Sketch of planting in residences.

Since food security accidents, such as smoked pepper with sulphur, are frequently exposed, Hunan people have begun to plant vegetables by themselves on their balcony.

Therefore, I extract partial building units, which have sound ventilation and abundant sunlight, for the sake of increasing and optimizing planting space for vegetables.

In addition, apart from the assurance of food security, the indoor garden can also add planting experience for family, enhance family relationship as well as provide food materials conveniently.

Sketch of planting in public buildings

[Space for square dance]

Mat formation near residential building

Hunan has bulky teams of square dance and square dance is a good exercise for building up people’s bodies. However, people who dance near the residential building may affect other people’s rest. In the residential building group, I adopt one kind of grass brick which is not convenient for dancing but can create ecological communication space for residents. However, in order to attract dancers to dance on public square, large separated floor, which are smooth and easy for separating teams, is adopted on the public square. And these measures will certainly give residents a quieter living environment.

Mat formation of public square

[Evolution of buildings] The diaojiao building

The diaojiao building is suspended in the air, in order to gain excellent scenery and dry ventilation. The patio house represents Chinese people’s respect for god,lord, heaven and human. Besides, it is beneficial for ventilation, lighting and physical drain.

Therefore, I use the concept of diaojiao building and patio house combine with partial riverside buildings and public buildings respectively, which results in an ecological residential area.

Patio buildings

Remove slopping roof

Form a roof garden

Ensure ventilation and lighting by adjusting the story height

[Cross-cultural collision and integration] Cafe

Remain buildings

Increase areas

Form wide space by removing walls

Remove walls

Add leisure facilities

Pavilion

Remain buildings

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Suppose you are drinking coffee with your bosom friends, will it be more comfortable and enjoyable to face the stream as well as vintage factory buildings? And on rainy days, you can also enjoy the quietness, listen to the ticking rain and look at the industrial mark left in the past. The cafe and pavilion reconstructed by factory buildings can recall the industrial memory and are the provider of recreational space for residents.

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OTHER WORKS

Modelling Photography Pen drawing Watercolour and Gouache

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[Modelling] Handmade models Date: Jun.28 to Jul.2 2013 Tutor: Cui hongping Collaborators: Liu xiaoyu, Liu jingran, Wang fen, Guo lei Mine role: Terrain making 40%, size measuring 50% and component agglutinating 50%

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Materials

The A1 drawing board is used as pedestal The battens are used for edge covering The board is used for terrain and bridges The brown PVC board is used for floor and grassland The white PVC board is used for construction The kraft paper is used for road The super light clay is used for boarder tree

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[Photography]

I like to observe things around me such as translucent forest, pylon on the memorial archway, and even ants on the wall. And photography is a wonderful tool to record my observations, to keep the images and recall my memory.

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[Pen drawing] Pen drawing is a good way to express designer’s thought in a short time. During the sketch from nature, the depiction of building groups and shadow can improve our understanding and employment ability of light as well as three dimensional minds.

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[Watercolour and Gouache]

Although gouache and watercolour are thick and clean respectively, they both are helpful for us to raise the sense of colour. In urban design, sense of colour is essential for urban colour study, effect drawing as well as site plan drawing.

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[Curriculum Vitae] LI XUAN E-mail: xuan_li1992@126.com Cell Phone: 86 15273727976 DOB: 01/01/1992 Home address: 3-19D, Huangpu Yayuan Leyou Yuan, Fuzhong Rd., Futian Dist., Shenzhen, 518034 China

Education Hunan City University Urban Planning ●GPA 3.46 ●English Test scores: IELTS 6.5

09/2010-07/2015

Internship Experience Xu Yunhui Workshop-Planning & Architectural Design Academy of Hunan City University Assistant Planner Add: No.238, Yiyang Blvd, Yiyang City, Hunan, China ●Being involved in several projects and helped with them, such as Urban-rural Overall Planning in Ziyang District, Yiyang City, Hunan (2012-2030) Villages and Town Layout Planning in Xinqiaohe Town, Ziyang District, Yiyang City (2013-2030) Environmental Health Specialized Planning of Li County in Changde City (2011-2020) Fangshiping Town General Planning, Li County (2012-2030) Chujiang Coastal Landscape Corridor Planning, Chujiang Township, Linwu County, Chenzhou City Lvxikou Township General Planning, Mayang Miao Autonomous Region, Huaihua City (2012-2030) Shuangchong Village Layout Planning, Yanmen Town, Mayang Miao Autonomous Region (2012-2020)

12/2012-up to now

Extracurricular Activities Women’s Basketball Team of Architecture & Urban-rural Planning Department Centre Forward Participating into many sports events and competitions held in my university

09/2010-up to now

City & Architecture Cognition Practice

26/06/2011-26/06/2011

Sketch Practice in Phoenix Ancient Town

27/06/2011-03/07/2011

Colour Sketch in Huangshan City

11/06/2012-24/06/2012

Honour List

Second Prize in comprehensive assessment during 2011/2012 “Three Good” Student (good in study, attitude and health) Prize during 2011/2012 Excellent League Member during 2011/2012 First Prize in comprehensive assessment during 2013/2014 “Three Good” Student (good in study, attitude and health) Student Prize during 2013/2014 National Encouragement Scholarship during 2013/2014 Second Prize in National English Competition of College Students First Prize in National English Competition of College Students

Skills and other Interests

Freehand Sketching (pen drawing, Mark pen, colour pencil), Watercolour, Gouache,Photography CAD, Photoshop, Sketch Up, Artlantis Studio, InDesign, Adobe Illustrator Playing basketball, Badminton and swimming Travelling, Tennis, Yoga, Jogging

LI XUAN | PORTFOLIO

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Current Address: 3-19D, Huangpu Yayuan Leyou Yuan, Fuzhong Rd., Futian Dist., Shenzhen, 518034 China Tel: (086)15273727976 Email: xuan_li1992@126.com

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