[for landscape+urban] Qian Chen work portfolio 2023

Qian Chen

PORT FOLIO.

SELECTED WORKS

Architectural Portfolio

Qian Chen

Selected works

From 2020 to 2023

Name Qian Chen

Intro A Graduate Architect passioned about Architecture design and Urban design

Resume

Hi, I am Qian, a graduate Architect from the University of Melbourne! This is the first part of my portfolio, which is a short introduction about myself.

An graduate Architect and Urban Designer

ABOUT ME

Hi, my name is Qian Chen! An architecture graduate with a master's degree from the University of Melbourne. With study and working experience in architecture design, can take work in architectural design, especially in residential and public buildings. I also have professional experience collaborating with senior architects on apartments, villas, schools and hospital design.

As I also own a bachelor's degree in urban planning, I can do urban and landscape design, which brings your team muti-disciplines thinkings in urban and landscape issues.

I bring to your team a trained eye for detail and a keen sense of modern and sustainable aesthetics, as evidenced by my portfolio. I’m proficient in the use of Autodesk and AutoCAD suites, Photoshop, and Rhino. Besides, I use grasshopper (ladybug etc.) to assist with passive house design and highperformance analysis.

I am a highly ambitious designer with hopes of improving architecture, urban and landscape issues through design.

QIAN CHEN

Graduate Architect

Bach.sci M.Arch

CONTACT INFO

Name:

Phone:

Email:

Location:

Qian Chen

0466 021 138

qianc0725@gmail.com

Melbourne, VIC

SKILLS & ABILITIES

2D

• AutoCAD

• Photoshop

• Illustration

• Indesign

• ArcGIS

3D

• Sketchup

• Revit

• Rhino

• Grasshopper

• Vary, Enscape, Lumion

Video

• Premiere Pro

LANGUAGE

Mandarin

English

Master of Architecture│the University of Melbourne│Dec 2022

• Major: Architecture Design

• Got 100 advanced standing points when received the offer

Bachelor of Engineering│Nanchang Institute of Technology│Jun 2019

• Major: Urban Planning & Urban Design

• Granted by " Top 10 outstanding graduate " Award

• Granted University Second-class scholarship every year at bachelor degree

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

Participant│Venice Studio with MAD Architects │Melbourne│Jun 2022

• Redesigned the Ex-Umberto I site in Venice with MAD architects.

• Developed pre-design research and feasibility analysis drawings.

• Collaborated with architects to decide design concept.

• Collaboration with other group members to complete 3D model, drawings and renderings.

Intern│Shanghai New Construction Architectural Design Co.│ │Jiangxi China│Jun 2020 – Dec 2020

• Collaboration with architects on research, urban design, Architecture design, graphic representation and 3d modelling.

• Pursuing an independent feasibility study in contact with the senior Architect and managing partner.

• Completed Analysis and research drawing.

• Examined and developed floor plans and landscape design concepts with others.

• Photorealistic renderings using Sketchup, V-ray and Photoshop with Junior architects.

PROJECTS

ZhonghangCheng residential community│JiangXi │Jun – Dec 2020

• A 10.6 ha project including several mid-rising apartments and villas

• Collaboration with the master plan and landscape design concept with architects

• Developed feasibility study and drawings at the pre-design stage with architects

• Testing various types of apartment floor plans, including 3B2B and 2B1B, and make final drawings

• Documentation work: portfolio and presentation slides for architects

Lijiangxincheng residential community│GuangXi│Jun – Nov 2020

• Testing various types of apartment floor plans with senior architects and making final drawings

• Make high-performance analyses

• Landscape and public spaces designed for the community

• Discuss different types of facade materials and output elevation drawings

PROJECTS

Shangrao Oriental Hospital │JiangXi│Jun – Dec 2020

• Explored restricts and feasibility research and acts of hospital design with senior architects

• Collaboration with architects to design the master plan and landscape design for the site

• Design floor plan for the underground parking garage

• Discuss and co-design the Ground floor lobby and operating rooms floor

• Photorealistic renderings using Sketchup, V-ray and Photoshop

Shangrao Oriental Hospital │JiangXi│Jun – Dec 2020

• Explored restricts and feasibility research and acts of hospital design with senior architects

• Collaboration with architects to design the master plan and landscape design for the site

• Design floor plan for the underground parking garage

• Discuss and co-design the Ground floor lobby and operating rooms floor

• Photorealistic renderings using Sketchup, V-ray and Photoshop

EXHIBITIONS

MsdX 2022 summer│ Project Repeat or Rebirth

• An urban renewal project sought to figure out architects' role in future urban design by discussing social hierarchy in a Chinese urban village.

MsdX 2022 winter│ Project the Last Resort

• A rethinking of tourism and eco-resort project via the design of 3 vacation houses, using ladybug to analyze and achieve zero carbon footprint.

Production Presentation Practice: Venice Studio Melbourne│May 2022│Project EX UMBERTO I

• Redesigned the pedestrian system, public spaces and buildings in Venice to activate the old community and bring locals and tourists together.

MsdX 2021 summer│ Project Factory v.s. Fresh Paradise

• A complex, combined Shrimp factory and a bath together, to create a unique food production mode, letting everyone can afford seafood.

MsdX 2021 winter│ Project Blue-Green City

• An Urban design project in Fishermans Bend to defect against Urban flooding and shape a new city form.

ACADEMIC

Nanchang Institute of Technology: " Top 10 outstanding graduate " Award│Jun 2019

Nanchang Institute of Technology: Second-class scholarship │2015-2019

Urban& Landscape Projects

Venice Studio

EX UMBERTO I

Architecture Design

Location: Venice, Italy

Duration: 2022.01

Memember: Qian Chen, Ruby Guo etc.

Advisor: MAD Architects

Indonesia is located in the Pacific volcanic seismic belt, where earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters happen sometimes. Frequent natural disasters have left many local children orphaned. They lose their families, lose a lot of social contacts, and often don't fit in as adults. The project aims to set up an SOS children's village to create new families for orphans and increase their opportunities to interact with society.

SITE ANALYSIS

BACKGROUND ANALYSIS

ISLANDS

typeA = recycle waste as materials

plastic bottles floating platform

TypeA is a floating island made of plastic waste accumulated in streets and canals. It uses some technologies mentioned in the reference pics to transform waste into ecological bubbles. Planting water-purify vegetation can improve the environment and defense against flash flooding.

typeB = small campo

TypeB:

These islands design like a small campo above water and take responsibility for the viewing platforms. The locals and visitors can meet each other here to rest or chat about the local cultures. These small places can be a place of cultural exchange.

typeC = urban farming

TypeC.

The urban farming plant here provides vegetables for people living in these communities, and it will also help the city develop other industries and reduce economic dependence on tourism.

TYPE B

TYPE C

ISLANDS & WETLAND

NORMAL SEASON

normal season

WHEN FLOODING COMES

wetland growth

islands growth

RENASCENCE: WASTE LOOP-LINE

Landscape retoration/urban Design

Location: Shenzhen, China

Duration: 2020.10-2021.1

Memember: Qian Chen& Yilin Sun

Advisor: Zhengzheng Xiong& Wenbo Zhang

Baoan district, located in the pearl river delta, has experienced rapid development in recent years, while the city has been plagued by rising sea levels and floods caused by severe and extreme weather. The rising sea level submerges the garbage collection points and seriously pollutes the environment. The project collects the steel garbage and fishery garbage generated by the traditional local industries, updates the abandoned old factories as the medium for the manufacturing of floating island components, and constructs a new urban garbage recycling system through the recycling of garbage.

Location Analysis Site Condition

The site is located in the airport area of baoan district, shenzhen, which has the huge potential to listed the focus of development after the shenzhen municipal government in the future.It is a large industrial area and export port of shenzhen, with relatively strong and intact industrial infrastructure system.The rapid development of industry,especially electronic products assembly and processing industry drives the exponential growth of economy, but also produces a lot of industrial waste... Industrial development brings more and more metal, plastic and other industrial waste, which is beyond the limit of urban waste treatment. Metal Garbage siege in inland city has become an urgent local problem.

Industrial Area Waste disposal

Under the greater bay area development plan, more of the ocean will be reclaimed to meet the needs of the growing population. But as time goes on, traditional oyster farming is threatened by pollution from Marine and industrial sources.The industry also produces a large amount of oyster shell and fishnet waste, which has not been taken seriously leading to the death of some Marine fish.

Current When typoon comes In the past

Our site is located in several industrial parks near the sea in songgang street. The garbage types in these industrial parks are mainly metal and plastic garbage, and they are suffering from and will suffer from the crisis caused by the rising sea level.

Regional Waste Disposal System

So

The number of refuse transfer station changes.

Change of garbage transportation routes.

many empty factories in this area.

Fishery waste is hazardous to the environment.

Blue-Green City

Landscape retoration/urban Design

Location: Fishermens Bend, Melbourne

Duration: 2022.02-2022.06

Memember: Qian Chen&Yilin Sun& Jade Hsu

Advisor: David Mah

Baoan district, located in the pearl river delta, has experienced rapid development in recent years, while the city has been plagued by rising sea levels and floods caused by severe and extreme weather. The rising sea level submerges the garbage collection points and seriously pollutes the environment.

coastal flooding defence unit at the coastal walkway_flooding

The project collects the steel garbage and fishery garbage generated by the traditional local industries, updates the abandoned old factories as the medium for the manufacturing of floating island components, and constructs a new urban garbage recycling system through the recycling of garbage.

Design with H2O

design generation

The layered diagram indicating the design progress of our team. We firstly generated the water direction line built by existing landform, finding that the top left part of the site contains relatively low sea level height hence would experience more water flowing during flooding. Therefore this part of site is chosen for further development. Each water running lines would eventually meet together to form a pattern, the intersection point in this pattern becomes what we call the water point. These water point is a location which needs more drainage. Hence we developed into our blue-green corridor design and a new street network. Smart sheds and new building fabric highlighted in red with original fabric in grey could fit this green corridor system in a suitable way.

Road-to-Corridor

Road-to-Corridor Diagram

Concept Diagram

Zoning

Water Strategy Zone Diagram

Wetland Park

Road Green Corridor Designed System

Safety Zone

Filter Zone

Green Buffer Strip

Raised Area for Buildings

Defence

Storage

Secondery Road

Green Corridor

Extended Green Patch (Urban Farm / Public Zones)

Extended Green Corridor (Bio-swales/Bio-filtration)

Filter

Safety

Storage Zone

Defence Zone

Safety Zone

Filter Zone

Storage Zone

Defence Zone

Green Corridor --- Green Patch Framework

The Ecology of Landscape

The idea of the designed system focuses on the pattern of water and ecology system that is inspired from Forman's Ecoological strategy. The system represents a flexible, scenario-based approach for the proliferation of bio-connectivity. The method allows for the assessment of a range of scenarios based on varying land-use and water treatment practices. The blue-green corridors as the core links within the site act as the sponge of the city, connecting the green/blue patches (green areas, water system and urban fabrics) and improving the connectivity of ecosystem.

Patch-Corridor-Matrix Model

Richard Foreman’s Ecological Strategy

Urban Fabric System Framework

Shed Typology Matrix

The Smart Shed system is designed as natural system of urban fabrics for the basis of interventions, which creates the nodes and links to the blue-green corridors. The smart sheds create opportunities to develop a robust green network consisting of urban open spaces, public realms and green roof system integrated into urban green patches. In addition, it is investigated how the shed system can continue to evolve into vital social centre, which are well connected with the surrounding landscape and water system.

Smart Shed System Programs

Integrating land into architecture is a way to improve building performance and facilitate involvement of nature in the representation of architecture. It is a way to explore how to build harmonious relationship between human beings, urban contexts and nature. This concentration towards reconnecting local context, culture, traditions, and modern technologies enables environmental design methods to be integrated into phenomenological presence, stimulating new ideas to be generated during practice.

Emerging sustainable design strategies can shed light on the future development of landform architecture, thus allowing more productive and efficient systems to be integrated.

Scenarios Change with time

coastal flooding defence unit at the coastal walkway_normal days

coastal flooding defence unit at the coastal walkway_flooding

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20-minute Neighborhoods generation