Portfolio|WEI XIN
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Apply for Master of Architecture (MArch),Cardiff University Selected Work From 2011-2015
CONTENTS
Image & Setting
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Raumplan-Study on Design Method Instructor: Ge Ming(Professor of SEU) Individual work Site: Xi'an, China
Arts Center
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Museum Design Instructor:Li Limin Individual work Site: Gaoling, Shanxi,China
Courtyard &Porch
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Monastery Design Instructor:Mu Jun Individual work Site: Taining, Fujian,China
Friendly Fence &Floor
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Living System Design Instructor:Yoshio Kato Individual work Site: Guandu, Taiwan
Space
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Culture
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Region
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Society
Complementary work
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Resume
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01 Image and Setting Raumplan-Pedagogy on Design Method // Instructor: Ge Ming(Professor of SEU) // Site: Xi'an, China // Individual work
"I do not draw plans, facades or sections… For me, the ground floor, first floor do not exist… There are only interconnected continual spaces, rooms, halls, terraces… Each space needs a different height… These spaces are connected so that ascent and descent are not only unnoticeable, but at the same time functional" -Adolf Loos This work makes a study design on a method of space design - Raumplan, and separately introduces its concept and two important thoughts: room and plan.
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Site Plan
Analysis Joint Classroom
Exhibition Hall
Joint Classroom
Void Room
Joint Classroom
Joint Classroom
Void Room
Joint Classroom
Design Classroom
Void Room
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Void Room
Void Room
Stair
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Room After Room
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Exhibition hall is the main part of the whole building. Both staircase and space give hints of a forward spatial sequence.
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1st Floor 1.Exhibition Hall 2.Cafe 3.Reference Rooom 4.Joint Office 5.Conderence Room 6.Office 7.Photocopy Room 8.Blueprinting Room 9.Equipment Room
Room With Room
2nd Floor Different types of room have different brightness. Light is an important hint in the space.
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1.Model Room 2.Design Classroom 3.Professor Office 4.Assistant Office
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A-A Section
Room In Room
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The boundary of the two joint-design classrooms is opaque. The spatial relationship of the two joint-design classrooms gets each of them to have the spatial independence and also to feel each other.
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3rd Floor 1.Joint Classroom 1 2.Joint Classroom 2
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Section
Void Room
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The staircase at the main entrance directly leads to one of the joint-design classrooms.
B-B Section
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The L-shaped exhibition hall makes all the space has their own personality.
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The staircases efficiently connect each space together.
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D-D Section
The void provides light and sieved or shifted views, in order to evoke a dialectic between interior space and best view.
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02 Arts Center Museum Design // Instructor:Li Limin // Individual work // Site: Gaoling, Shanxi,China
With the development of the times, many intangible cultural heritages are on the verge of disappearing. Especially in some small cities, many places lack of cultural centers. However, culture as people's spiritual needs and foundation of the city requires a suitable carrier to bear and cultivate it. The design of museum focuses on the investigation and consideration of local cultural heritage. At the same time, it gives fully consideration of the spatial relationships and streamline in public buildings.
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Site Analysis
Exhibit
Position
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high-rise
Gaoling County is located in the hinterland of Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi Province. It is at the north part of Xi'an scope. The base is located in the southeast of the city, with a good vision in the direction of north and south. Besides, it is on the city oasis, and the main flow of people comes from the southern square.
View
People
Green Axis
Festival lantern, as intangible cultural heritage, enjoys high reputation in Gaoling. Specifically, Yi Yougong paper-made festival lantern is covered with paper, while the bamboo split forms the inner structure. All materials are not modern stuff but original, environment-friendly and ecological. Moreover, this kind of lantern is totally handcrafted.
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Scheme Generation
Plan
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5 11 A The road system in the base naturally separates the city. This design is emanating from the concept of city. Because the shape of this site is much similar with that of city, in the design, topological approach is adopted to further create the overall shape of buildings.
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1.Foyer
7.Restoration Room
2.Guest Reception Room
8.Laboratory
3.Reading Room
9.Locker Room
4.Office Area
10.Exhibition Hall
5.Storeroom
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6.Historical Relics Exhibition Hall
12.Void
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Circulation
Space Roof Generally, the houses of local residents have sloop roof, of which the space is various and changeable. Historical Exhibition Hall
Video Hall
Model and cafe
Exhibition Hall
Stand
Exhibition Hall
Construction The frame structure of it is economical and practical.
The Ground Floor The entrance can directly stretches to the reading space and stand area and have close connection with courtyard.
Circulation The streamline is annulus that won’t interfere with the streamline of staff, and it has close connection with exhibition room. It is simple and clear.
Underground
Details
aluminum profile cladding in white Corian horizontal structure foil(water resistant and vapor open) insulation wooden frame sunblind
demountable panel
reinforced concrete
The courtyard is connected with exhibition room so that the lighting problem can be solved. On the other hand, the exhibition room seems wellarranged.
wood flooring concrete block waterproof membrane vapor-proof insulation foam water apron poor concrete
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03 Courtyard &Porch Monastery Design // Instructor:Mu Jun // Individual work // Site: Taining, Fujian,China
The modern city is characterized by skyscrapers and busy life.Masses of buildings do not respect regional culture and many villages loss their traditional construction methods and crafts, leading to massive emergence of buildings without regional characteristic and loss of culture. The subject of temple design requires an understanding of the temple and stresses more on the use of base resource as well as the study of vernacular architecture and garden making.
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Site VIew
Site Analysis Present Condition
Accessibility
View & Surroundings
Terrain
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View & Surroundings
The terrain of the temple is complex. The northern land is surrounded by bamboo forest, producing a serene atmosphere and offers a great view, producing a sense of territory. Meanwhile, the southern land offers a broader view, grows some big pine trees and connects with the original temple directly
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Meditation Environmental Requirement 1.Good Place: There is sun shining the meditation place, with a good ventilation, and agreeable temperature. 2.Good Companion: To mediate with others,so we can learn from each other even at break. 3.Secure Residence: Meditation needsquiet space and surrounding environment with no interference.
Concept
Corridor: Given the humid climate in Fujian Province, gray space is common.
Courtyard: The local courtyard has four typical forms, offering different space feelings.
Activities & Surroundings Quiet Meditation
Discussing Meditation People are free to exchange ideas in tea rooms
Walking Meditation Courtyard
The sun will shine directly through the bamboo forest on the mountain then into the rooms.
This yard is filled with rises and falls.
Connecting Courtyard Cleaning Meditation
There are big pine trees, suitable for people to clean the leaves in meditation.
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People will pass through this courtyard for meals.
Water Courtyard
The water in the courtyard reduces the flowing of people in the room.
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PLan
Function 1.Catering Area 2.Teahouse 3.Kitchen 4.Administration Office 5.Multifunctional Room 6.Standard Suite 7.Standard Room 8.Laundry Room 9.Linen Room 10.Equipment Room 11.Staff Room 0 1
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A-A Section
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B-B Section
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Structure & Material
Roof
Varying sceneries with changing view-points
Wall
Filling Layer
Skirting
Entrance
Reception Area
Alley
Porch
Structure
Multifunction Room
Porch
Exhibition Room
Porch
Meeting Room
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courtyard
Porch
Entrance
Porch
Porch
courtyard
Entrance
To penetrate the classical Chinese gardening methods into this design and inter-insert different gray spaces and courtyards produces more structured scenery.
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Standard Room
To use the local materials in the design is convenient to draw materials in an economic and pragmatic way. What’s more, combination of modern structure technologies makes the building more durable.
Catering Area
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04 Friendly Fence &Floor Living System Design // Instructor:Yoshio Kato // Individual work // Site: Guandu, Taiwan
The psychological permanenece of "home", either for single person or multiple-person households, is challenged curelly by the changing nature of the contemporary society. The moving social landscape is observed to be more intense and desired in cities. This work is intended to interrogate the ongoing socio-scape and home moving phenomena and the consequence needs.
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Site Analysis
The Condition of the Local People The population aging in Taiwan is so fast that this district lost the energy long time ago forthe lack of the young. Therefore, how to vitalize a district becomes the challenge which the architects face.
Old Buildings
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Life Main Group
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Lack of commuication
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Target Group
Enjoy Natural Park
Suburb
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Lack of space Active Community
Site Join
Trees
Birds
No Noise Occupation
Work All Day
Factories
Job
When will my grandchild come back?
The heavy traffic cuts off the connection between the two residetial buildings.
Let’s go to the natural park for a walk.
Factory
The two trees are terrific, under which I like to read very much.
The surrounding public facilities are deficient and can’t furnish rich life for those residents.
It’s not very convenient to go green grocery shopping.
So many cars at this place! It’s unsafe for children to play here.
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Classes are over. What do you like to do for fun?
It’s easy for residents to go out because there are plenty of bus stops and tax stops around here.
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Concept
Typical Floor
The traditional residence only keeps the basic life functional blocks and lacks the creation of the comfortable living environment and at the same time ignores people’s spiritual need.
Regroup the functional blocks, adding shared space and green plant space.Each one can carry out the regrouping as per his or her requirements.
The communication space of every floor centers on the dining room. Each family possesses several personal gardens, of which some are connected by the staircase.
Operation Rules
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Select 24cm*24cm uniform grids and 3*3 as a unit to act as the boundary between each storey for the limit of green landscape.
Some center parts of each storeyare hollowed out to solve the lighting and ventilation issues.
The kitchens of each center on the shared space. There are 4 or 5 families, and the kitchens and restrooms are evenly distributed.
According to the plan layout, several flexible rooms are set up in each floor , of which the number is over five.
Some parts are connected by the staircase.The terrace of each house accounts for 35% of the whole space.
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Flexible Room
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Typology
Circulation Of Life sleeping together
learning space
communication space
take care problem
own room
accompany
children safety
outer space
old safety
Baby can live with the parents in this house, and only basic life functions are needed.
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As the children grow up, they need different spaces, and the rental houses increase.
After they become adults, private space is needed, and the parents need to be looked after.
Bathroom
Kitchen
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South
The Second Floor
The Third Floor
The fourth Floor
The Fifth Floor
The Sixth Floor
The Second Floor
South
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South
South
South
South
The fourth Floor
The Fifth Floor
The Sixth Floor
The Seventh Floor
The eighth Floor
The ninth Floor
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Ground Floor
Office
Market
Theater
Planting
The mobility and openness of the ground floor space are able to promote the interactions with the surrounding environment and enhance the vigor of the whole building . The reading space makes use of the two old trees in the construction site; fishing and cinema spaces stem from the local life, and the planting and market spaces are designed to satisfy the local people’s requirements
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Fishing
Reading Room
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Final Model
1.Elevation
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2.Whole view
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3.Circumstance
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4.Detailed view
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Complementary Work The Community Center of Kashi
Ancient Architecture Measurement
1965
Spring
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1995
2011
Summer
Sketch
Sunpath
Monthly Diurnal Averages -Kashi,CHN
1981
Autumn
Winter
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Complementary Work Small House Design Academic/2012 Individual Work Instructor: Duan Degang
Mountain Lodge Design
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9th University Entity Space Building Competition/2012 Instructor:Li Limin Partner:Han Yang,He Xiao My Role:Concept,Model
2013 UACA&ICDC
Academic/2012 Individual Work Instructor: Duan Degang
Competition/2013 Instructor:Chen Jing Partner:Niu Jing, Chen Xianyi My role:Concept, Drawing
Kindergarten
2014 UACA&ICDC
Academic/2012 Individual Work Instructor: Duan Degang
Competition/2014 Instructor:Chen Jing Partner:Liu Yang, Zhang Xi My Role:Concept,Photoshop
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Resume Education Xi’ an University of Architecture and Technology (Xi’ an, China)
09/2011-06/2016
Bachelor of Architecture (expected)
Intern Experiences China Southwest Architectural Design and Research Institute Co. Ltd.
07/2015-08/2015
The Eighth Design Institute (Chengdu, China) Wang & Zhou Architects. Engineers (Chengdu, China)
07/2014-08/2014
Activities 2015 TKU/JWU Taipei Tokyo Housing Workshop (Taiwan, China)
08/2015-09/2015
One of 72 members from six universities
Urbanism and Architecture Competition (nation-wide)
12/2013
One of three team members
The 9th University Entity Space Building Competition in Shaanxi Province
04/2012-05/2012
One of six team members Building Waldorf Kindergarten (Xi’ an, China)
03/2012
Honors Wei Xin
E-mail:weixin930212@163.com Tel.: 86-18702971456
2nd Class Scholarship and Excellent Student at College of Architecture
2014
3rd Class Scholarship at College of Architecture
2013
2nd Class Scholarship and Excellent Student at College of Architecture 2nd Prize in the 9th University Entity Space Building Competition in Shaanxi Province for the best shape design (Group, 69 groups in total)
2012
Skills Sketch Up |Auto CAD|Adobe Illustrator| Photoshop|Indesign|V-ray
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