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EDUCATION 2019-2021 Master of Architecture, KU Leuven Sint-Lucas Campus Gent 2020-2021 Erasmus exchange, ISCTE-IUL, Lisbon 2014-2019 Bachelor of Architecture, South China University of Technology

INTERNSHIP Heritage Conservation Institute of South China University of Technology | 2 months HILARCHITECTS | 3 months

AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS Dec. 2015 Construction Competition for College Students | Finlist Award

CHEN X I O NG F EI

Aug. 2017 International Student Construction Competiton | 2nd Prize Sep. 2017 Guyu National College Students Sustainable Architecture Competition | 3rd Prize

INVOLVEMENT Minister | Technology Department, Student Union of School of Architecture, SCUT

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Address

Hofstraat 4 Gent 9000

Team Captain | Table Tennis Team of School of Architecture, SCUT LANGUAGE Mandarin, Cantonese | Native proficiency English | IELTS 7.0 Dutch | Elementary proficiency

01 Living Campus | Sustainable student center Site | Bargiekaai, Gent Team members | Artit Markshom, Maureen Piers, Reza Rezaie, Sophia Anthoni, Tine De Fleurquin, Xiongfei Chen

The project aims to introduce a student center that exemplifies a sustainable approach to a space that bridges between living and learning in the setting of an educational campus. The flexible building serves as a dynamic facilities to integrate space with adaptation for different activities and services. A positive impact can be guaranteed by introducing circular materials and an adaptible grid system. The design intervention has a holistic approach that redefine the use of space for gaining knowledge through broadening social interactions, accessibility of the space, and allowing for the creation of different possibilities for different times.

I. CITY A. SITUATION

CURRENT PROBLEM The Bargiekaai site is completely closed off with hedges, fences or real brick walls. The school campus is completely closed and anti-social. The site does not share with the neighbors. The view of the beautiful water and the surrounding area is disturbed by the school itself with the hedge that is placed.

FENCES AND HEDGES, UNINVITING ATMOSPHERE, ISOLATED

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Climate Design 6

KULeuven . 2020 7

OFFICE & MEETING SPACES

STUDENT APARTMENT OR STUDY UNITS

LEARNING CENTER WITH WORKSHOPS, CAFETERIA/COMMOM KITCHEN

III. BUILDING A. SUSTAINABLE CONCEPT A holistic approach

The building intends to fulfil present and future needs in the city. Its adaptiblity thanks to the grid system makes it possible for different functions to take place, for a diverse audience. The building features architecture utilised as a tool to control indoor climate through shading, isulation, and ventilation, as well as using natural resources such as rain water and sunlight. Moreover, the surroundings are also integrated in the design by ensuring permeable surfaces that contributes to ground water levels and has a positive impact on urban water cycles. Green spaces are also present in previously unused and impermeable areas, increasing biodiversity in a densely built city. By doing this, dependence on limited resources is greatly reduced. The users of the space are also taken into account, by ensuring spaces where various activities for different needs or interests could take place. Overall, the design aims to holistically create a space that has a positive impact on both the physical aspect of the building as well as the experential consequences to an array of species.

SUMMER VENTILATION

NATURAL & SEASONAL SHADING SYSTEM

NATURAL LIGHTING

MULTI-GENERATIONAL

CO2 O2

GRID SYSTEM WINTER

HEAT GAINS

HABITAT FOR SPECIES

90cm

CIRCULAR MATERIALS

SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

PERMEABLE SURFACE RAIN WATER COLLECTION

Climate Design 18

± 89 000 kWh/year LESS net energy requirement for cooling with shading and ventilation

± 30% BIODIVERSITY INCREASE IN URBAN AREAS due to vertical and horizontal greenscapes in buildings

CIRCULARITY AND ADAPTABILITY of the building its materials and of natural resources that the space comes in contact with such as water

INCREASE OF GROUND SURFACE PERMEABILITY

Source: building biodiversity: drivers of bird and butterfly diversity On tropical urban roof gardens J. Wang, H.P. Choon,C. Yi ting tan, V. Lee, A. Jain, E. Webb

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02 House at the corner Site | Alvalade, Lisbon

The concept is based on a issue to build up the connection at the currently vacant street corner. The site links to both the old neighbourhoods and the modern urban fabric. Following this idea, two gestures react in two different strategic urban position. The piling up platform is dealing with the dialogue with the neighborhood scale of inner street and the release of the ground floor is dealing with the civic character in the urban context. A grid and a geometric plan are introduced in a way to respond with the surrounding buidling, while the interior on the contrary deconstructs the meaning of rooms with free- flowing space.

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04 | Practice of Construction

Nest House | Farmhouse Renovation Longdong, Deyang Team work | Xiongfei Chen, Jiawei Xue, Wenhao Zhang, Huifeng Zhang, Kexin Liu, Minjun Xuan, Haojia Zhao, Jiancong Chen, Yongting Lu, Jiaxun Xu, Die Hu, Peixuan Wu

Farmhouse Renovation 2017 International Student Construcion Competition, 2nd Prize Team Work Site | Longdong Village, Deyang, China Duration | July 2017- August 2017 Instructor | Lu Xiong, Yimin Sun, Guanqiu Zhong Team member | Xiongfei Chen, Jiawei Xue, Wenhao Zhang, Huifeng Zhang, Kexin Liu, Minjun Xuan, Haojia Zhao, Jiancong Chen, Yongting Lu, Jiaxun Xu, Die Hu, Peixuan Wu Role in team | Concept development, Structure design, Site operation

The construction competition aimed at exploring the appropriate method that makes new buildings intervenes in a natural context. Each team needs to renovate an abandoned farmhouse in 20 days. The design needs to give a dwelling style that responds to the landscape and nature. This project is located in a remote village named Longdong, which is surrounded by mountains with a

poetical scenery. Without disturbance of the outside world, the village is much closer to nature with original ecology. The farmhouse chosen by my team stands by a large pool and backs onto a dense forest. Because it is located on the top of the village, visitors can enjoy a wonderful view of the natural scenery. For this reason, we decide to add a watchtower into the farmhouse, which faces to the best view of the outside scenery.

This project is a commission by the local government to change a poorly-maintained farmhouse Into a exhibition hall for local folklore in a rural village in southwesten China. The time for construction and 24 materals were limited so the project kept the tactile material of the existing buidling as much as possible and also learnt from the vernacular craftmanship. We as a team placed a new structure with the help of the local builders and made the furnitures by ourself.

wonderful view of the whole scenery in the valley. For this reason, we decide to create more opportunities to get the best view of the outside scenery. Panoramic view of the site

Overlook the valley

The farmhouse stands by a large pool and backs onto a dense forest, which makes it much closer to nature with original ecology. Because it is located Dayon1 the top of the village, visitors can enjoy a wonderful view of the whole scenery in the valley. For this reason, we decide to create more opportunities to get the best view of the outside scenery.

Day 7

Panoramic view of the site

Day 10 Day 1

Day 15

The old farmhouse is built with loam walls and wood roof truss, which was in a bad state of 7 sharply and the wood frame rotted. We decided to retain disrepair for a long time. The roofDay pitched and reinforce the beautiful loam walls and replace the rotted wood frame with steel structure.

In order to get a better view, we built a viewing house with bamboo, which was easy to find in the village. The old loam walls and the new bamboo house glisten in the sunlight as if murmuring the story that once happened on the land.

Day 10

Day 15

The old farmhouse is built with loam walls and wood roof truss, which was in a bad state of disrepair for a long time. The roof pitched sharply and the wood frame rotted. We decided to retain and reinforce the beautiful loam walls and replace the rotted wood frame with steel structure.

B. Arch | School of Architecture, South Chin

Independent structural anatomy

Independent structural anatomy 1. Roof detail 2. Floor detail roof tiles tiling battens 1. asphalt Roof felt detail roof boarding roof tiles 14 I-beam tiling 20Abattens I-beam

4. Second floor detail Bamboo-Glassfibei composite floor timber keel cement mortar4.screed-coat Second floor detail 14 I-beam Bamboo-Glassfibei composite 20A I-beam

Screed interlayer fine 2. aggregate Floorcocrete detail

Screedenclosure detail 3. Facade 450mm original loam wall interlayer 200mm square steel

asphalt felt roof boarding 14 I-beam 20A I-beam

fine aggregate cocrete 3. Facade enclosure detail 450mm original loam wall 200mm square steel

timber keel cement mortar screed-coat 14 I-beam 20A I-beam

floor

New structure keep the old loam wall at a distamce

Enclosed beam reinforce the old walls

New structure keep the old loam wall at a distamce

Enclosed beam reinforce the old walls

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To keep the old loam wall as it is, the new structural system steps back around 150mm from it. Beside, An enclosed periphery beam connect with the exterior walls to make them firmer. The texture of loam combine contrasts with the steel, which shows an "old-andnew" interaction. 2 3

Framing views

① lifted roof

② Sightseeing stand

Frame

Enclosure

d=80mm main keel with hemp roping node

d=30mm bamboo purlins 15mm reet mat 15mm waterproof trap

① lifted roof

② Sightseeing stand

Frame

Enclosure

d=80mm main keel with hemp roping node

d=30mm bamboo purlins 15mm reet mat 15mm waterproof trap

The roof separates from the wall

To get the best view of the scenery, The new roof separates from the exterior wall. People can enjoy the beautiful scenery on the bridge below the roof, just like watching a picture scroll. While walking into the bamboo house, people can enjoy an uninterrupted view of the village.

Furniture made by local materials

We made some furniture by using local materials, such as bamboo and stump. Mixing with cement, we

We made some furniture by using local materials, as bamboo and stump. Mixingstool, with cement, we table, which create a set of sustainable furniture, like such the bamboo chandelier, bamboo and stump create a set of sustainable furniture, like the bamboo chandelier, bamboo stool, and stump table, which are easy to construct and renewal. are easy to construct and renewal.

04 Tracing | Rural preschool Site | Tidili, Agadir, Morocco Team members | Julie Schumacher, Tanya Mangion, Xiongfei Chen

In need of educational infrastucture, the project aims to renovate an abandont classroom with bioclimatic functioning, as an extension to the existing school building. It is inspired by a new vernacular from local typolpgies, materials and techniques. The design process is always with the thinking of circulation of the building materals and reuse of the pre-existing building elements.

COMPACTED EARTH ASPHALT PAPER LAYER OF REED JOIST OF CUT OUT LONGITUDINALLY PALM WOOD BEAM 8/23

NOUSS-NOUSS PLASTER

EXISTING EXTERIOR WALL EXISTING COLUMN

LIME & CEMENT TOP WOODEN BANCH WITH TENSION WIRES

LIME & CEMENT TOP

SAND FLOOR TILE SAND

EXISTING WALLS FOOT

Installation concept

Technical room The technical room is located on the ground floor to facilitate accessibility to this room. Gas counter, boiler, heating pump, buffer tanks, ventilation machines, electricity and water supply are located in this technical room. To limit noise pollution, this room is walled with 20 cm of concrete blocks and 5 cm of mineral wool.

Shaft The Navatel hotel is equipped with an air shaft that ensures the distribution of the airducts in the rooms. This system limits the size of the ducts to maximize the height of the rooms. In addition to this shaft, there is also a pipe- and cable shaft for every 2 rooms. this shaft makes the work and distribution of the technical installations much easier and more efficient. both the supply and discharge take place via this shaft.

Navatel Hotel | Architecture Integration Site | Oostend Team members | Artit Markshom, Maureen Piers, Reza Rezaie, Sophia Anthoni, Xiongfei Chen

Ventilation system The building has ventilation system D (mechanical put in and mechanical put out) to heat and /or cool the air in different areas. There are 3 heat wheels machines for residential, restaurant and pool with an efficiency of 85% to save as much energy as possible. The parking has a separate ventilation system, Jet fan ventilation, this technology is based on the longitudinal ventilation systems used in tunnels and parking’s, which create a flow of air at sufficient speed to sweep the area to be ventilated. Fans at air entry and exit points create the induction phenomenon, extracting the air and smoke from the area.

NAVATEL

The assignment is a integration of the architecture design and building technology. In this hotel project we need to think about structure design, fire safety, building performance and ventilation system. In the end we learn how to make technic drawings and how to design tectonic details.

5-Storey Hotel DATE : 2019.01.26

F06 GROUP MEMBERS : ANTHONI Sophia CHEN Xiongfei MARKSHOM Ar-tit

PIERS Maureen REZAIE Reza