Yifan Shi portfolio for UCL MArch Bio-Integrated Design APPLICATION

“Architecture is generally conceived -- designed -- realized -- built -- in response to an existing set of conditions. These conditions may be purely functional in nature, or they may also reflect in varying degrees the social, political, and economic climate. The act of creating architecture, is a problem-solving or design process.”

My understanding of architecture is a comprehensive subject, which pursues reasonable scheme to realize functions, advanced technology to improve environment, spiritual expression to manifest culture.

The passage of Ching’s words is a good conclusion of the nature of architecture. I grow up with the dream of creating more environment-friendly, localized and humanized architecture which can promote healthy development of society.

I found architectural design is closely related to human and nature. It can create either a private space for rest or public zone to have fun together, either to show industrial power or to commune with nature. An architecture carries infinite possibilities and stories, and brings directly different feelings for visitors, magnificent or exquisite, narrow or empty, bright or depressing, exerting conscious or unconscious influence on human being’s life. I hope the environment I live is comfortable and I want to create such an environment for others, which is like my childhood experience of creating home for small animals.

Contents Back to the paradise

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Middle-aged and elderly activity center

Floating in the air

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Parametric InstallationArt design

Traditional Art Incubator

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Enning Road Artists Center

King of humor

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A new kind of high-rise apartment hotel

Other works Construction works, photography etc.

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Location: Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China Project type: Academic individual work Duration: 2020 Winter

Back to the paradise

----Middle-aged and elderly activity center

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Harbin’s population loss is ranked fourth in the country. The middle-aged and elderly left behind are in desperate need of a place to enrich their lives and reduce their loneliness when they lose the company of children or young people. A middle-aged and elderly activity center can be established under the sponsorship of the local church. Middleaged and elderly people can learn and experience planting here, and they can also find their own interest groups to learn or communicate. It is like a paradise for middle-aged and elderly people.

Location

Heilongjiang

Harbin

China

Site analysis

site

New town

The church is the first building built after planning.

Monument

Many Russianstyle monuments and buildings have been built in the city.

Modern architecture has moved towards a new style.

Nowadays

Urban form process

Religion

site

Countryside

Excellent wetland landscape

Landscape

Rural

Suburb Farm

Center

Suburb

Rural Building

Abundant activities in the countryside

Agriculture is well developed on fertile land

Rural houses adapt to the local climate.

Activity

Rural scenery

Village Village infrastructure is underdeveloped and population loss is serious

FARM Planting area belonging to the village

rban

Railwa To u

lage to urb

Through vil an

SITE Mid-aged and aged activity center

Master plan

Research architecture plan

Western country stlye View analysis 半

邊

街 冠雲楼 棕榈 夀星竹

岫云

羅漢松

象竹林

白玉蘭

杏李圃 碧桃

梅

又 一 邨

桃林 柏

桃 蠟梅

含笑

柳衫 柏

柏

梧桐

桂

花房

梅 棕榈

梅

銀杏

絲蘭

柏

绣

至樂亭

樺

桂

桂 桂

柳

桃

水幢

小蓬莱

香樟

花

紫薇 山 柏

舒啸亭

栗

夀星竹

桂

蠟梅

白玉蘭

黑松

鹤 所

石林小屋 东园一角

芭蕉

水幢

明瑟樓

活潑潑池

石榴 一梯云

桂

栗

桂

黑松

楓楊

别有洞天

涵碧山泉

弄

山茶 桂垂絲海棠

六月雪

曲 溪 樓

平台

梅

栗

青楓

亦不二亭

夾竹桃 栀子 栀子 羅漢松 山梅

柏

绣球

青楓

西樓

濠濮亭

青楓

銀杏

揖峰軒

桂

丁香

青楓

梅

五峰仙館

絲蘭竹

桂 桂

還我读书处

探春

天竺 石榴 六月雪 玉蘭

桂

青楓

黑松

紫薇

羅漢松

北

青楓 古木交柯

牡丹

梅 柿 蠟梅混植 紫竹 柿

槐

桂

绣球

樱

香樟 楊

楓楊

舊 柿

大廰

桃 桃

View analysis

樺

樺

青楓

Chinese style

柏 柏

柏

門廰

綠溪行 留

留园的总占地面积是23100 平方米 建筑面积为7580平方米 水体面积为3000平方米

園

路

大廰

祠堂

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5

10

20

30 M

羅漢松

栀子

山茶

樺

桂

銀杏

青楓

浣雲沼

林泉嗜碩之館

汲得古綆处

樺

聞木杹香軒 青楓

桂

停雲庵 冠雲台

朴

柏

桂

垂絲海棠

佳 快 晴 雪 喜 之 雨 亭

梧桐 绣球

枇杷

銀杏

榆

蠟梅 桃

桂 黑松

梅 丁香

白榆 棟

棕榈 枇杷

遠翠閣

瑞雲

冠雲

梧桐

玉蘭

柏 棕榈

碧桃

玉

青楓

紫薇 梧桐

青楓

廣玉蘭 柏

梧桐

芭蕉

構杞藤 辛夷

盛

宅

芭蕉

象竹

South facade

Building block formation process

SITE

1.Site

2.Divide into block

3.Spread out them

4.Settle them along the terrain.

5.Connect and form the yard

6.Done ！

View and activity

Tea room

Farm

Traditional opera

Landscape

Swamp

Calligraphy

North facade

View and activity

Farm

Lake

Fishing

Theater

Entertainment

Exercise

Lake

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18

16

3

15 4 9 10 5

First floor plan

1.Reception Center

4.Art Gallery

2.Cafe

5.Traditiona

3.Exhibition Center

6.Music Cen

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1

12

2

11

13

8 10 7 14

6

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al Opera Center

nter

20m

7.Sports Center

10.Offices

13.Infirmary

16.Meditation space

8.Retail Store

11.Lecture Hall

14.Calligraphy Center

17.Farming Learning Room

9.Restaurant

12.Hotel

15.Tea Room

18.Planting Space

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① Entrance view

②

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Aerial view

②North perspective of the music center

③Hotel roof render

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3

1

Aerial view

①The second floor platform connects the various buildings to facilitate walking

②Sky corridor above cultivated land

③Exhibition Center

Location: Interlaken, Switzerland Project type: Academic Individual work Duration: 2019 Summer

Floating in the air

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----Parametric Installation Art design The sightseeing center on the top of the snow mountain in Switzerland can see the sea of clouds surrounding the snow mountain. But such beautiful scenery is fading away as the climate warms. Human's influence on nature is like a force forming a turbulent flow. I used a parametric technique to design an art installation that integrates the turbulent plane form, which complements the sea of clouds outside the window, and guides the tourists to the route of the building.

Site

Form concept Switzerland Ocean

Land

This art installation is placed in a mountain-top visitor center in Interlaken, Switzerland. With a broad field of vision, you can see the rolling mountains and clouds. I hope to use this installation to arouse tourists' love for nature and call on everyone to protect our beautiful scenery

Climate warming has a strong relationship with human pollution behavior. The forces of man and nature form a turbulent flow.

Walking path research Influencing factors

Walking path

exhibition chair outside view column

exhibition chair outside view column

Climate warming

Iceberg melting

Turbulence patterns

Patterns

Walking path research summary Gathering

exhibition chair outside view column

Extracting main line

exhibition chair outside view column

Formation process A

B

C

D

E

F

Perspective view

Parameters

Model view 1

Model view 2

Model view 3

Perspective view

Perspective view

Location: Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China Project type: Academic Individual work Duration: 2020 Autumn

Traditional Art Incubator

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----Enning Road Artists Center As a century-old traditional street in Guangzhou, Enning Road has condensed Guangzhou's traditional culture and century-old handicrafts, and is now facing the danger of decay and disappearance. I want to design a gathering place for artists in an abandoned building on Enning Road, and use financing to support the work of traditional craftsmen in Guangzhou. The artist's studio and public activity space merge into such a dynamic place.

Location analysis

①Bruce Lee's former home

②Cantonese Museum of Art Lizhiwan Guangzhou

③Barwo Artists Association of Kwangtung

road building water area green land Lizhiwan

④Zhan Tianyou Memorial Hall

History timeilne of Enning Road 19 00

The Ye Tingxun family in the four major families of Guangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, "Pan, Lu, Wu, Ye", built the Lion Mountain Leaf Gong in the old street of Enning Road, often receiving famous yass such as Yi Bingjun, Zeng , Yu Yuan, He Linghan (He Shaoji father), Li Wei, Yu, Wu Rongguang, Xie Lansheng, Zhang Weiping and so on.

19 31

In 1931, Guangzhou built a new-style road. The building type "Arcade Building" was developed by combining the coupon corridors and other forms of Western classical architecture with the climatic characteristics of Lingnan. This imported building type is excellent under the strain of the local system. Adapted to the hot and rainy climate characteristics of Guangzhou.

19 66

During the Cultural Revolution in 1966, the authorities renamed the road Xiuli No. 1 to commemorate Xiang Xiuli. In 1981, it was renamed Enning Road.

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SITE

Enning

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4

Enning Road

Guangzhou，Guangdong，China

Site research Under the government's improper historical building protection policy, many local residents' homes are facing demolition or have been demolished. A large amount of historical heritage of buildings was lost in the demolition.

But at this time, Enning Road is getting farther and farther away from the original appearance that can represent the customs of old Xiguan. In some sections, even several consecutive shops are closed, and there is no sign and name to be found. The title of "An Old Street" is out of place.

On one side are the closelyconstructed Cantonese Opera Museum and Lai Chi Wan Chung, on the other side are the crumbling Dingzihu dilapidated buildings and demolished ruins.

20 20

19 81

Xiuli Road was renamed Enning Road in 1981.

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In March 2007, Enning Road became a pilot project for re-introducing developers to renovate the old city. In September of the same year, the "Enning Road Section Old City Reconstruction Plan" was completed, and the demolition announcement was issued.

The arcades have been used as waste collection stations, the streets have become garbage sorting sites, and the surrounding communities have become “slums” that few people care about.

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Concept As a traditional residence, the arcade is well adapted to the local climate. The gray space and the balcony on the facade connect the building and the street well. On this basis, I combined the history and culture of Cantonese opera on Enning Road, and provided people with self-exhibition space in the pre-architecture, the sinking square, and brought vitality.

Original form

Balcony

Traffic corridor

Balcony

Cantonese opera stage

Extraction conception

Arcaded

Stage

Application

Arcaded grey space

Balcony for performers and visitors

Outdoor performance space

Form process STUDIO

LIVING

RETAIL

Enning Road

ARTISTS' STUDIO

SQUARE

RETAIL CAFE EXHIBITION

SHOW

ARTISTS' STUDIO

CO-WORK STORE Past mode

LIVING LIVING

Function

ARTISTS' STUDIO

ENTERTAINMENT

ARTISTS' STUDIO

CO-WORK

RETAIL CAFE EXHIBITION SQUARE

Privacy

SHOW

FACADE RENDER

Reunion

Art centre

The design of skylights allows better light in the building, and the opening of the roof windows allows better air circulation in the building.

Entrance for livehouse

Ennin

g roa d

Entrance for Artists Entrance for visitors

0m

5m

15m

Master plan

20m

Cafe

Reception

Lecture room Created by Vectors Point from the Noun Project

Created by Oksana Latysheva from the Noun Project

Created by Claire Jones from the Noun Project

Created by pxLens from the Noun Project

Created by Alice Design from the Noun Project

Retail store

Created by pxLens from the Noun Project

Created by Saeful Muslim from the Noun Project

Live house

Public communication space

For artists to have a better creative environment, I provide them with a choice of public space and private office space. The public entertainment room provides entertainment spaces such as music space and fitness space.

Communication space

Reception

Co-work space

Exhibition

Corridor space

The interior of the building is organized by corridors and vertical traffic, so that the space has better circulation and openness. People stopping in the corridor can also see the beauty of architectural details with delicate light.

Shared kitchen

Artist's studio Artist's studio

Atrium space

Artist's studio

Aerial stage

Balcony Office Office Balcony

Office

Traffic core

co-work Rest Reception Exhibition

Entrance Cafe

Retail

A A

SectionA-A

Exploded view

Location: Time square, New York, USA Project type: Group work for UIA-HYP CUP 2019 ---“Honorable Mention Award” Team member: Yujia Cao, Yifan Shi, Hiter Wang , Song Jian (Modeling 90%, render 50%, interior design 100%) Duration: 2019 Summer

King of humor

----A new kind of high-rise apartment hotel

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“Fashion is a vulgar word, as are transients and transients. But it is the production of fashionable, temporary or transient things that brings life to the city, which is more important than monumental buildings. The pace of urban life is so fast, why is its material environment not the same? Everything is up and down, coming and going, changing, why not so built? ”--from “Living city” exhibition

Location analysis Our building is located in Times Square in Manhattan, because Manhattan is a typical representative of modern cities and the most concentrated place of skyscrapers in the world. This city can have great tolerance for new things, while Manhattan focuses the eyes of the world, and our new buildings will be better displayed here.

Design concept

Personal promotion

Monitor and reflect the state of the person

Combination of media and architecture

Today, when the 5G era is approaching, we are in an era of tremendous change. Its core lies in rebuilding our cognitive structure. There is a reimagined concept in various Internetrelated industries that humans are engaged in, and we are thinking the redefinition of architecture in the future.

When the Internet and architecture are integrated, when the building becomes a medium for people to interact, and when the building can create a virtual space to carry people's activities, then the building will have a trans-era meaning.

In this context, humor is the way to touch people the most.

When has architecture been humorous?

Our architecture proposes a new possibility. One of its properties is that it can be copied. It can appear in any city in the world. It has meaning where people live. So we chose an extreme and put it. At the crossroads of the world-Times Square, the reason is the same as those of those who place advertisements on the Nasdaq screen, and the spread is wider. The eyes of the whole world are concentrated here, and our new building can only be best displayed in such a prosperous urban environment.

Hey, girls~please see me!

Time square

But they prefer to pay attention to me~

Manhattan, New York City

Formation process of architectural facade Ⅰ

WHO YOU ARE? Tr a d i t i o n a l r e s i d e n t i a l buildings adopt frame structure shear wall system with uniform elevation profile and cold and expressionless.

Ⅱ

Ⅲ

WHERE ARE YOU?

Most of the buildings in modern cities are just like this one. They have no features, they are easy to forget. When you throw this building in the city, it's hard to tell the difference between them.

A NEW APARTMENT! We h ave c re ate d a n n e w apartment building with new concepts that everyone in the building can express themselves through the apartment.

Ⅳ

I AM COMING!

The smiling faces of the residents will appear on the front of the building, so the building will have a high-profile dialogue with other buildings in the city.

Divide

Formation process of architectural plan

Extraction Distribution

Master plan Ⅴ

Ⅵ

I AM HERE!

This new building provides the possibility of communication and interaction between the people in the building and the people in the surrounding city through a humorous way, thus infecting the people living in the dull and expressionless city, bringing them pleasure, and a happy building makes the city happy.

Ⅶ

When there is no one in the building, the building is in the state of a’ Standby’, whether outside or inside.

someone walks in

Ⅷ

The building was awakened, everything in the sphere began to work, and the man's face appeared on the surface of the sphere.

Layout of the apartment

Residential units are spherical with a diameter of six meters.

We separate the interior space into two layers, dynamic and static, which is rich and interesting. The upper floor is communication space for residents to receive friends, while the lower floor is bedroom and toilet.

Architectural details

Architectural structure seems simple,in fact it is sophisticated and complex. The exterior of residential unit is composed of three-layer spherical structure. The exterior layer is a spherical environmental screen with high resolution. The middle layer is a steel framework, while the interior layer is a wall.

Standard floor axial section The standard floor is composed of traffic tube and residential unit. We divide the traffic tube into two parts through the plane layout of elevators, fire staircases and other vertical transportation facilities: the middle enclosure is a shared space, and the surrounding is a corridor.

Private space

Public space Traffic core

First floor axial section The first floor of the building is designed as a public space with four entrances and exits. Its spatial functions are laundry, vending machine, kitchen, gym, cinema, bank, church and trampoline. It provides abundant communication space for the residents in the apartment.

Entrance Cafe

Theatre

Shop Entrance

Meditation space

Entrance

Bar Trampoline gym

Lottery Reading room

Entrance

Internal equipment pipeline diagram

The minimalist shape requires extremely fine and complex internal support. They are like the blood vessels of a building, providing this internal use.

Section

This is a section view of the standard floor. You can see the structural connection between the vertical space of the traffic core organization and the residential units. There are corridors at the transition between private space and public space.

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1 2

6 4 7 5 1.Traffic core

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2.Public space 3.Entrance 4.Living room 5.Bath room 6.Bedroom 7.Study room 8.Screen

Interior exlploded

Unit exlploded

Wardrobe Bedroom

Axis of rotation

Bookshelf Entrance Desk Living room Door

Living unit Switchable Glass

Sofa

External structure

Bathroom

Smart glass screen

Sideboard

Daytime street scene During the day, the building reflects the surrounding environment to achieve a state of vanishing and better integrate the surrounding environment.

Scene 1 A man was passing Times Square while playing with his mobile phone. Suddenly a huge face appeared upstairs beside him. He was frightened. His mobile phone even dropped out. It seemed that the building was playing a joke on him.

APPEARING

SHOCKING Created by Path Lord from the Noun Project

Scene 2 When a person passes Times Square and wants to know someone in the building, he just needs to take out his cell phone, open a specific app, scan it, and interact with the people in the building through social media.Architecture is also part of the media.

PHOTOGRAPH

Created by mikicon from the Noun Project

SOCIAL MEDIA

Created by monkik from the Noun Project

Scene 3 When a billionaire wants to pass his personal message through the building at a certain time, he rents all the balls, and the facade of the balls forms a huge image of him. His purpose can also be achieved.He used the building to further expand his influence.

RICH

Created by Flatart from the Noun Project

STATUS

Scene 4 Times Square attracts worldwide attention, so many companies will want to use the influence of Times Square to promote their brand. Therefore, when the new building comes into being in Times Square, it will become the advertising space that advertisers grab. When no one lives in the sphere for a long time, advertisers can be allowed to stay in it. Advertising on the facade to recover high investment funds.

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PROFIT

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Other works

Construction work

Couds in the city Location: Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China Project t ype: Group work for Harbin Institute of Technology Construction Festival Duration: 2017 Summer

Photography Through photography, we can explore the close relationship between architecture and people, nature, and light and shadow. Through the viewfinder, I can capture the beauty of architecture as a source of inspiration for me, and discover some things that my daily life would overlook, and explore more possibilities.These are my favorite architectural photography that I have taken. They are the Harbin Grand Theater and the records of my architecture study tour in Japan.

They are a good representation of the relationship between architecture and nature and people. Nature and people give life to architecture.

Photograph by Yifan Shi at Harbin Grant Theater in 2017

Photograph by Yifan Shi in Japan