Escape from metropolis temporarily
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B. Arch, Tianjin University, China 2015-2020
PROLOGUE
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Gallery For Edvard Munch
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In response to an individual with negative emotion
Micro Campus The speed of urban development in recent decades is incomparable. The process of urbanization has kidnapped most people onto the road to urbanization. There is no doubt that cities are successful. However, the success of cities do not means the success of citizens. By contrast, people usually lost in metropolis. They suffer emptiness, anxiety, isolation, nihility, loneliness along with urban revelry.
In response to Chinese campus system with formidable order
What I want to do is to create some Utopian spaces in city, which serve for evoke or release citizen's emotion. Thus, citizens might escape from fast-growing metropolis temporarily.
In response to people's memories elapsing in a rapid developing urban.
Cemetery For Obsolete Object
Community House In response to isolated individuals in the metropolis
Other works Drawing, Digital humanities research
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Gallery for Edvard Munch Project type： Individual Work Individually Revised Date:
04/2019-07/2019,12 weeks
Location: Tianjin, China Building Area:
13000 ㎡
Instructor: Wang Di, Xinnan Zhang
“ Life—angst has raved inside me ever since I caught the idea— like an illness—since I was born—doubly inherited. It has lain like a curse which has haunted me. Still I often feel that I must have this life—angst—it is essential to me—and that I would not exist without it— Often I feel that just as an illness has been necessary— In periods without this life—angst and illness. I have felt like a ship sailing before a strong wind without a rudder—and asked myself where? where will I run aground?.” —— Edvard Munch
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Advard Munch spent his whole life to explore how to make peace with his own demon.
Advard Munch recorded his inner changes through works from different periods
Ⅰ .Memory of sufferings be repressed emotion
born in Norway
mother died of tuberculosis
mental problems stemmed from his father
Elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis
younger sister suffered from mental illness
himself suffered frequent attacks of disease
excavate preptent emotion Ⅱ .dilemma between love and death, spirit and lust
fell in love
studies drawing
Ⅲ .lost in self-identification self-atonement
reached a peak of creation
lost father
Ⅳ .gingerly attemption that reconnect to external world， Marginalization
He wills his art to the city of Oslo
indulge in alcoholism and ill health
was treated in a sanatorium
return to life
embraced the death
Ⅰ .sufferings In childhood,Munch haunted by death, disease of families and himself.
Ⅱ .love and death In youth, Munch fell in love,He treats love as the symbols of life and death
Ⅲ .self-identification After losing father, Munch entirelraved by negativeemotions. He kept looking in the mirror.
Ⅳ .Marginalization In old age, Munch feltmarginalized but he made peace with inner negative emotions.
keep a diary
face emotion
publishes a booklet entitled Frieze of Life
return to art world
Space Translation
Integrated Edvard Much
Spatial sequence setting
I set Munch's exhibition hall as a linear space with a broken line. The process of entering the building from the city is a process of slowly breaking away from the city and establishing a connection with our inner world to discover the underlying emotions. The process of coming out of the building is a process of soothing emotions and returning to the city.
emotion
be repressed emotion
return to life positive emotions
void zone excavate preptent emotion
face emotion
self-atonement
negative emotions
process in gallery
Diagram Translation
process entrance detach from the city
appreciate Munch’s work in depressed space.
core
process
exit
reach a contemplative core.
rethink Munch's paintings and themselves
came back to the city with released emotions
Four different sides make up a integrated munch
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DiagramďźšPeople are drawn into the gallery and core from four different directions and surroundings in the metropolis
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Spatial Sequence
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Core Ⅲ， a space for contemplation
Core Ⅰ， a space for mourning
'In periods without this life—angst and illness. I have felt like a ship sailing before a strong wind without a rudder—and asked myself where? where will I run aground?.'
'The priest says over the radio that Christ said, “God is in me. I am in God. The Father is in me. I am in the Father.” Isn’t that the same thing anybody can say? “I am in God. God is in everything. I am in the world. The world is in me.”'
Everyone will reach the core from all directions,Meet, meditate and then separate
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sufferings，process Ⅰ
self-identification，process Ⅲ
'The dead—how hopeless to gather that which in life had been torn to bits. It is as if one would try to put together a shattered glass'
'I am like the sleepwalker who walks on the ridge of a roof— sure-footed and calm he walks without seeing without hearing— Oh someone shouts at him—louder and louder—he wakes up and he falls off of the roof—down from his dreams— Don’t do that to me—that —I walk calmly in my dreams which are my life— —only like that can I live.'
love and death，entrance Ⅰ
Marginalization，exit Ⅳ
'One evening we sat together at a café she says suddenly, “You remember you talked about dreaming that you kissed me and that your kiss devoured Death’s cold lips” Yes I say You know you—there was maybe something in that.'
'I am in the act of danger of falling down, but I throw myself toward the meadow, the houses, mountains, people. I whirl about in the vibrant life— but I must return to the path along the precipice. That is my way, which I must walk. I am careful lest I fall. Once again in toward life and people. But I must return to the path along the precipice. Because it is my path, until I plunge into the deep.'
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Micro Campus A New Conceive Of Chinese Micro Campus
Project typeďźš Group Work Individually Revised Collaborator: Date:
Jingrong Xie
04/2019-07/2019,12 weeks Location:
Building Area:
China 90000 ㎥
Instructor: Xu Zhen, Zhang Ye
Chinese universities are in a special governmental condition that they have to provide numerous dormitries to students from the whole country. Taking supervise and economy into considertation, campus are separated into several parts of function group, and dormitries are concentrated and compressed in a specific district.Each function group usually far from each other and lack of transitional space.The special governmental condition redefines the campus,makes the campus as urban city as a chaos melting pot. However, the organization of present campus dones't fix the condition. All the function and students are shadowed in a huge order and regulation.On the one hand, the campus is segregated with urban city,on the other hand,the campus itself vitality and complexity is repressed. Under these situation, almost students choose to circle between three parts of campus to spend their daily life,dormitry, dining hall and teaching building.What a boring daily life how to become a catalyst of creativity.
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Collectivist ideology spread from the former Soviet Union to China. It played a huge role in an era when China's economy was far behind. It allowed the scarce and scattered resources and manpower to quickly gather under the control of the state after numerous war. To some extentďźŒcollectivisim rejuvenated China. China achieved collective victory.
University campuses built in China in the last century almost followed a USSR architecture typology of campus. These campuses with centralized resources serves for formidable order and collective efficiency. With this help, China is able to accommodate a large number of college students and providing countless students with university education opportunities.
However, on the one hand, individual students trapped in the norm created by collectivisim. Their college life, their orientation are often defined by the school, the society. On the other hand, after achieving the overall national rejuvenation, individual interests and freedoms have been increasingly recognized in rencent year.
Nowadays in campus of China, the concentration of resources not only brings efficiency, but also the lack of diversity in university campuses. Similarly, the excessively decentralized campus model cannot accommodate a large number of Chinese college students. Then what will happened if the two opposing ideologies be reflected in the same campus model?
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The eight core functions of the campus were deconstructed and reorganized.the campus can include more chaotic and fuzzy spaces like cities to accommodate the chaotic daily life of students.
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On the one hand, there are the occasional pleasure of unions and long lasting pain of collisions in junction of primary core and secondary core which serve for different functions,events, and space. On the other hand, At the junction of the colored function blocks and the dormitory space, a chaotic gray space like a city street will form.Events and functions in gray space are full of randomnes.
Dining hall —primary core
Art centre —primary core
classroom —primary core
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Cemetery For Obsolete Objects A monument placed under the CCTV Headquarters. Project typeďźš Installation, Individually Work Date: Location:
12/2019,2 weeks
the CBD in Beijing, China
Building Area:
100 ㎥
Instructor: Yutong Jiang
People's memories of their own past, relatives, friends, and loved ones. All are sealed in individual objects. However, in a contemporary metropolis, Beijing, objects are being updated too quickly. On the one hand, some people in the society have not kept up with the update of objects. On the other hand, frequent changes and gradual virtualization cut off the emotional connection between people and objects. The monument commemorates the obsolete objects destroyed by the rapid urbanization of Beijing, as well as the lifestyle and memories carried by the objects. The objects are destroyed, but the belief and fairy tale sealed in those objects will be left.
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Story 1ďźšContemporary Beijing
Mr.Ming is a white-collar worker in CBD. He lives in the suburbs of Beijing with cheap housing prices, and commutes with overcrowded subway every day. Wearing headphones on the subway and staring at the computer for work are ordinary things in his life. Walking on the overpass overlooking the city, He feels a huge sense of emptiness."What is my busy life for?"
As for those who living and working in a fast-paced metropolis, Persistence and memories of old objects and old lifestyles will construct a utopia in citizen's mind.
For those who still adhere to the traditional way of life, the utopia they originally created by themselves has begun to be recognized and accepted by society.
Story 2ďźšTraditional Beijing
Times change, some things remained seemingly. Mr. six true identity is just the owner of a run-down shop, but he still feels that he is a troubleshooter. He lifts the cage bird every day. He still lives in the courtyard left by his ancestors, sticks to outdated communication methods and lifestyle. But in fact, this is just a small utopian created by himself. He went out of the Hutong and everything was fresh. Those neon and exaggerated bars are the genuine logos of this consumerist era.
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Tomb of old popcorn machine who "endowed us ritual feeling waiting for popcorn to burst"
Tomb of Chinese enamel cup who "Witnessed the years of passion in the Chinese turbulent era"
Tomb of radio who "Documents our expectations for information"
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Community House probe into a shared way between individual, reconstructed family, community and urban Project typeďźš Individual Work Individually Revised Date:
09/2018-10/2018,8 weeks
Location:
Shinjuku Tenjin, Japan Area:
800 ㎥
Instructor: Xinnan Zhang, Wang Di
In the development of urbanization in Japan, individuals are gradually struggling to get rid of family, clan and even social control. Individuals and living spaces that symbolize personal power and privacy gradually become autistic and private. However, the individuals who obtained complete freedom and their living space begin to become isolated islands in the city and become a cause of a series of social emotional problems. The main focus of this program is how to re-establish emotional links with individuals and society, living space and urban.
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hallway
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My products are designed by myself.
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There are new apartment notifications today.
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Going home from work late at night, I usually eat a bowl of noodles in zakaya. I like the Vltava they played today
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Today's small theater screening Spirited Away. It is my favorite Hayao
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You are so lucky today. I have just developed a new dessert.
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It’s time for cherry blossoms.
It's lucky for me to see green plants every day.
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Today we are on the oil painting class.
I just introduced a batch of Calvino books.
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Working at the computer desk for too long, I am sure to exercise for tonight
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I like the sushi you made too much.
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Come on, sweet hearts. we have a show tonight.
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There are plenty of small-scale outdoor gray space suitable for developing intimate relationship.
Inside and outside the building are two different narrative lines. It is a state of opposition between public and private. The small stores run by 12 households becomes a link between public and private narrative lines
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Other Works
Digital humanities research collecting, visualizing, mapping and analyzing morden business information in British Concession, Shanghai
Ball-point Pen Drawing
Project typeďźš from july 2018-july 2019 Date:
05/2018-05/2019,one year Instructor: Jie He
Teaching assistant: Zhaoyi Ma
Date 1: 9/24/2013 Date 2: 9/24/2015 I like to record my emotions by drawing cat's eyes
Collaborator: Shuming Zhang, Wenyuan Zhu, Jie Hu, Minghui Zhao My responsibility:
visualizing one fifth business information with GIS, Collecting financial industry information related archives and text research.
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