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PORTFOLIO LEXIE WEI
FAN
BUILDING , INTERIOR AND GRAPHIC DESIGN 2017-2020 ACADEMIC+PRACTICAL WORKS WAY STUDIO & THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Lexie Wei Fan Ph: 0450934126 | E: weifanss01@gmail.com | DOB: 05/1994 | Applying for Architectural / Interior Designer / 3D Visualiser
EDUCATION BACKGROUND 2019.3 - 2020.12
The University of Melbourne Master in Architecture , 2-year course, WAM 80.67
2013.9 - 2018.6
Qingdao University of Technology Bachelor in Architecture, 5-year course, WAM 86.34
Coursework: Architectural Drawing, Construction Material, Building Architecture; Architectural Equipments, Architectural Structure, Architecture Practice Awards: 2018 Honor Graduate-GPA 3.44/4 Third Prize in 15th Challenge Cup Gold Medal in Design and Art International Awards Outstanding Student Scholarship in 2015
WORK EXPERIENCE WAY Studio in Beijing Architect Assistant , 09/2017-01/2018 • Responsibility: assisted the architect in modeling design and following work including scheme discussion and previous preparation • 2D&3D Visualization: applied some software such as the Adobe Suite, Vray and Lumion to make the single frame of architectural renderings; provided suggestions to optimize functions and introduction for use through analyzing the pros and cons in conceptive scheme • Communication: organized the meeting with clients; communicated with material suppliers; collected and sorted projects materials made reports for clients
TECHNICAL DRAWINGS
SELF-EVALUATION Academic Background: obtain the cross-cultural communication ability and global vision with over-sea study experience; mastered in English language; equipped with professional knowledge structure and practice experience Practical Ability: equipped with the knowledge of BIM and ability of applying it; could delivery 2D&3D imagery and modeling independently Comprehensive Ability: experienced in software such like Revit,Rhino,Vary, Lumion, Sketchup,CAD and Adobe creative suite Personality: good at communicating and team work under great pressure, strong attention to detail, a calm person, ability to problem solve
World Architecture Magazine Volunteer, in 2017
PROJECT EXPERIENCE Project: Meeting Someone II Restaurant - medium size hospitality Involvement • Took charge of effect chart design, rendering and post production • Communicated with clients and revised effect charts • Had an active participation in the construction of parametric brick wall; converted the script by Grasshopper into CAD at 1:1 ratio, then printed out; controlled the construction equality by comparing measuring error and data of modeling • Matched, designed and chose soft outfit and lamps Project: Langfang Center for International Cultural Exchange of Silk Road Involvement • Made the digital modeling at the stage of rendering • Effect pictures rendering and color matching • collected and sorted projects materials made reports for clients Project: Reconstruct and Design Private Courtyard House in Sihai Involvement • Assisted the director in converting hand draft into 3D modeling • Applied Vary to produce 3D conceptive rendering scheme; • created handcrafted 1:500 physical model
MS -2 restaurant Hopitality Practical Drawings
Have practical experience to make complex model, Ability to build curvy parametric model Good workflow of managing the component, layer and materials Can use programs include: Rhino and Sketchup
Have good knowledge about BIM Can produce qualified technical drawings and models
• Served as volunteer in Design Week Exhibition · Beijing • Made external contacts with media report, journalists and publication house • Received visitors from all over the world and provided guide service of exhibition • reported instant feedback of the exhibition
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High-rising Building Technical Drawing | Structure | Document
MSD STUDIO WORKS 2019-2020
Digital 3D Model
BIM and Documents
• 2D plans Diagrams &illustrations • 3D imagery & Architectural Rendering & GIFs and 3D fly-through animation • Graphic and layout design for printing
Urban Crack
Advanced Level
Internet of Things Club Graphic Designer, 04/2019-10/2019
3D Visualiser, 06/2018-Current
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PROGRAM KNOWLEDGE
• Deigned brochures and events pages in Facebook to meet different demands • Independently completed layout design, proofing and printing • Familiar with the processes of printing and related materials Freelance
PRACTICAL WORKS
Intermediate Level
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Thesis: A manual for retrofitting the 'enacted space'
Zero Carbon Data Loop Design with client NEXT DC Engineering |Environmental Sustainable Design
2020 MSD Thesis TOP 10 Heritage renovation
Can use Programs include: Revit , ArchiCAD and AutoCAD
Visualization Advanced Level
HERITAGE BUILDING MEASUREMENT
3D Aerial, perspective and interior realistic imagery Graphic touch ups with Adobe 2D plans, Diagrams and illustrations GIFs and 3D fly-through animation. Can use programs include: Real-time renders Lumion/Twinmotion/Enscape Physical renders Vray/Maxwell
Adobe Suite Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Premiere
Parametric Intermediate Level have knowledge about Grasshopper script have paticipated in a parametric brick wall construction
REFERENCE LIST Toby Reed Director - Nervegna Reed Architecture toby@nervegna-reed.com.au Toby was my MSD studio director
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Abstract Revolution NGV_Contemporary Contemporary Art | Form Iterations
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Index: the partial figures and residual events always already home Housing Home and Contents Philosophy | Sense| Process
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Building Measurement Heritage building
01 Urban Crack Applied Architecture Technology Team wrok: Wei Fan, Xiaohan Qi, Haochuan Guo Software: Rhino / AutoCAD / ArchiCAD
The building site on the corner of the La Trobe St and the Exhibition St. Two main entrances are designed on each side to achieve a easy accessibility. Podium volumn is cut inward at its ground floor level for a welcoming posture. People will in a sun-lit atrium when entering through the either entrance, which is next to the core area and is surounded by floor plates of the podium, enabling people to have a feeling of openness and visual interaction with other floor levels. The site is overwhelmed by high-rise buildings on the south side, but have open perspective on the north side, which help us decide to put the main aesthetic feature, the “crack�, along the La Trobe Street to make it be more easily recognized. To maximize the Net Lettable Area and afficienby, the tower is made to be in a square plan. To obtain some senses of identity, two different kinds of glasses are used, creating a visual effect that corner of the tower is cut to be seperate from the main volumn.
'Rabbit hole' Main entry parametric design Translate parametric script to CAD drawings that can be read by workers. Replace robotic arm construction, significantly save the cost of construction
02 MS - II Restaurant 2018, Pactice Work Hospitality and Interior Design Location: Beijing China Phase: Design Development / Construction Documents Software: Rhino / AutoCAD / Vray Materials: Red Brick / Bronze Panels / Velvet / Jade Linkďźšhttps://www.gooood.cn/ms-ii-restaurant-design-china-by-way-studio.htm
Elevation Circle 1-8 are Concentric circles
Parametric construction without robotic arm assistance and save numerous money and time
'Acrylic corridor' Modeling and rendering test, involved in construction process, communicated with external suppliers and workers
'Bar and Counter'
BAR ground metal inlay method 1:10 @A3
Marble Counter 18 mm Steel 5*30mm Stone 5*30mm Bonding layer 10mm Cement mortar 20mm Screed (radiant floor heating) Building slab
Bar and Counter 1:30 @A2
Translate draft into CAD drawings communicate with external and internal materials selection
'Xihai Beiyan B1 Area' - Concept Design Physical model making
03 Thesis: A manual for retrofitting the 'enacted space' 2020, Semester 2, MSD Master Thesis Project Individual Academic Work Supervisor：Yvonne Meng
J O B W A R E H O U S E
Location: Job warehouse, Bourke street, Austrilia Type: heritage renovation Software: Rhino / Revit /AutoCAD / Photoshop / Illustrator / Indisign
Thesis proposal
MANUAL
Job warehouse, once a successful and iconic immigrant business model, as it stands today is bare and underutilised.Using street life scenarios and immigrant cultural value as an opportunity, my thesis aims to transform the site into a multicultural business platform. Inspired by ‘enacted environment’ (James Rojas, 1991), the project translated enacted space around Job Warehouse into architectural language to examine multicultural migrants as users and creators of space through their behavior patterns. While gaining new job and interaction opportunities, migrants can express their identity at the same time. Cultural boundaries are lost, while migrants will win diverse identities.
Instructions and advice for retrofitting the 'enacted space'
Lexie Fan Bo urke street
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Ena cted sa pce i n urba n co ntext
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Manua l B ook for us e r s to us e the 'en a cte d spa ce '
* Definition of 'Enacted space': the space where people are allowed to use the props or retrofit designated area.
A. O r i gi na l bu i l d i ng
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In the newly built area, users can use props, change the color or material of specific architectural elements (doors, windows and balustrade panels) as well as create on the specific areas of walls.
A.1 Original paperback bookshop
B.1 Props Adaptable threshold
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In the newly built area, users can use props, change the color or material of specific architectural elements (doors, windows and balustrade panels) as well as create on the specific areas of walls.
Props are designed for users to display their crafts work and brands of small business
B.1.1 Swing boards
Food pushcart
B.2 Architectural elements B.2.1 Private Door
A.3 Front shops
B.1.2 Display boards
specific architectural elements include doors, windows and balustrade panels can be changed color and pattern
B.2.2 Bay window
B.2.3 Louver
B.2.4 Balustrade panel
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Adaptable threshold
B.3 The specific areas B.3.1 Micro theater
Rotating billboard Posters
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B.1.3 Shop signs
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A.2 Main entry
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* who can use: local artists, small business owners, traditional craftsman, visitors, residents...
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B.3.2 Craft workshop
Replaceable module panels
B.3.3 Graffiti boards
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04 Zero Carbon Data Loop 2020, Semester 1, MSD Studio 21 Individual Academic Work Studio LeaderToby Reed Location: Port Melbourne, Austrilia Site Area: 57000 ㎥ Software: Rhino / Revit /AutoCAD / Photoshop / Illustrator / Indisign / Lumion The site location is inner-city suburb, Port Melbourne. Undoubtedly,completing a giant data center between modern city and nature will be an aggression against the nature. This project explores the possibility of let green invade building reversely and achieve the zerocarbon goal. Green pop up in and between buildings, absorbing the exhaust from mechanical plants. The building is seem as a huge container where architecture and engineering mix happening, letting human, mechanical plants and nature coexist harmoniously. A surreal atmosphere is created for citizens who come for leisure and exercise to have possibility of dialogue with the future.Data center is not a daunting and closed military base any more. It becomes a free civic space, like a land art park. It participates in urban carbon cycle and play a role in building a sustainable future. Here, Some weightless, some symbolic. Some imagination has opened.
Warm swimming pool
Roof public square
Public library
Cafe
Staff administration
Meeting room
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Promenade
VIEW E Community space
Aerial View
Aerial View
VIEW C Street View
VIEW F Client Lobby
05 Abstract Revolution 2019, Semester 2, MSD Studio 36 Individual Academic Work Studio LeaderďźšAnna Nervegna Location: 180 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3006, Austrilia Software: Rhino /AutoCAD / Vray Photoshop / Illustrator / Indisign / Lumion Inspired by Carmen Herrera's abstract art, NGV_ C reinterpretates architecture into the form of fragmented space, resemblancing between abstract art and physical space. The design takes triangle as a clue in creating a piece of artwork for modern melbourne city. The form of building and interior architectural elements can remind people of a famous artwork, or this NGV itself is an artwork, like yellow peril, becoming an urban critical symbolic.
F4 Art Coffee&Sky Restaurant Rotated walls / Outdoor sculpture exhibition
F3 Art Coffee&Sky Restaurant
F2 Art Coffee&Sky Restaurant
Mezzanine Art Coffee&Sky Restaurant
F1 Art Coffee&Sky Restaurant
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06 Index: the partial figures and residual events always already home 2019, Semester 1, MSD Studio 26 Individual Academic Work Studio Leader：Colby and Pricilla
Inspired by Derrida, the HOUSE can be seen as a machine that works uninterruptedly, always already an ‘INDEX’ system. Information including human and materials are input in from all direction. Content enters the home along with the human. Human distribute and use objects by their consciousness but disposed in a natural but unconscious way. After that, these information can be identified and redefined because of human efforts. The home, is totally human-oriented, flowing and plastic, wrapped by serve routes. While Objects in home are just the agent of human. Water coming in home but waste coming out, the changing situation and form of materials happened in domesticity daily life. Instead of just composed by basic architecture elements to provide a shelter for human, users actions make effects on home all the time.in this house,these effects be enlarged in architecture scale, the result of index become building elements such as floor,wall and table. Home is a human oriented home and layout is natural result of events, which make it difference from other building forms.The basic steps of ‘INDEX’ is Collect - Display - Disposal, and the only thing this home claims to do is to retrace and display this indexing process.
Entry Moment - Entrance door and Shower
The entry of home is considered a prominade between front door, plaster boardwalls and staircase to the back left. The plasterboard wall at the rear conceals a bathroom with shower, which is too considered part of the entry. These programs and elements reflect Human oriented needs or pragmatics. Elements used by the conscious body that constructs the notion of domesticity, the desire for an ideal home and the a particular lifestyle. However, the conscious body becomes an object too. While the human’s consciousness control home in the form of desire, acts and ritual conducted in parts of the home designated as specific programs - like having a shower in the bathroom. During this conscious act, an unconscious detachment occurs where a part of the human’s body , such as hair and skin are stripped from the conscious body and flow away through the drain channel embedded into underfloor. In the entry guests or other residents walk above or see the residual trace and flow of such detachment via the glazing exposing the drain channel, through the entry and out the front door. At this moment, the unconscious fragments of the human body leave from the point where the conscious whole entered.
Edge Moment - Kitchen
For a home, edges can be blurred, like windows and doors; can be fixed, like walls and floors ; be invisible ,like water pipes.Different types of edges identity the home edge together but human often overlook these invisible edge. Kitchen water come into home daily controlled by human’s consciousness when they turn on the tap. Instead of simply flowing away, the water can be indexed into objects still staying in home, like soil in bent pipes or withered leaves stuck in the sink drain. On the roof level, the glass rooftop drain shows how rain is collected clearly and display rain in a long glass square pipe embedded in the wall. Above the sink, a glass rain gauge with large scale numbers deeply engraved is embedded in another wall. How water in and out this home is how information exchanged on the edge of home. Users in kitchen can see this process clearly with these enlarged containers and feel about the edge of home strongly.
pull chairs to have dinner
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[collect] [brush - food residue]
push chairs to collect
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CENTER MOMENT _ PLAN 1:30
Center Moment - Dining area
In contemporary culture, the frequency of mass gatherings are less frequently conducted in the home, and the use of a formal dining room decreased. The preparation of food is also reduced, due to convience culture like premade meals and delivery services. Here the kitchen is folded into the wall and excess chairs used for the dining table be stored underneath. In the rare occasional of a dinner part or formal event, the chairs are pulled out, the connecting rod drives the brush to the edge of the table, and then top surface of the brush becomes edge to prevent food falling. When people have finished eating, they take the dishes into the sink push the chair to put away. Brush is moved to the center of table and collect small food residue into several bacteria degradation tank below table. People can obverse the process of degradation which can be completed within 24 hours. The index process here is: the traces of eating are indexed as pieces of food and then food waste are collected and be displayed and then a new round indexing start again to convert waste into food ingredient again.
[brush - food residue] [collect]
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Building Measurement Villa Anna Modern Chinese Architecture Heritage research / Building measurement Assistant for Senior Lecturer Shuai Cheng
Research and measured drawing process
Results - AutoCAD document
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME !
LEXIE E: weifanss01@gmail.com Ph: 0450934126