GUO QIAN
PORTFOLIO
CONTACT Tel: +86 13051306290 Email: 1653571381@qq.com
EDUCATION 2013.08~ present School of Architecture, Tsinghua University Bachelor of architecture candidate
CONTENT
AWRADS 2013.08 Freshmen Scholarship of Tsinghua University 2017.08 Honorable Mention, International Student Construction Competition (Deyang, China) 2017.11 Acdemic Exellence Scholarship of Tsinghua University
WORK EXPERIENCES 2016.06~2016.10 Intern at Storm Rock Editorial Office 2016.08~2016.09 Intern at in Drawing Architecture Studio 2016.10~2017.10 Designer at Tsinghua SDC Studio
Redhat House Storyboard
( 0, 0, 0 ) Completed project
Generator Architectural Design
EXHIBITIONS 2017.04 Storyboard "Life of Redhat", exhibited at 106th Anniversary of Tsinghua University
Fairytales Architectural Design
2017.09 Design work WHAO box, experimental module for SDC 2018, exhibited at Beijing Design Festival 2017.10 Design proposal "WHAO HOUSE", entry for SDC 2018, exhibited at China International Expositon of Housing Industry
SKILLS
Rabbit in Ruins Storyboard
Other Works
Photoshop Illustrator AutoCAD Rhinoceros Sketch Up
LANGUAGE TOFEL iBT: 112 ( 29, 29, 26, 28) IELTS: 7.5( 8.5, 7.5, 6.5, 6.5) GRE: 327 ( 159, 168)+3.5
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PART ONE: REDHAT HOUSE
Redhat lived a quiet life alone in the city in his very cute apartment. There he met Littile Peanut.
REDHAT HOUSE STORY OF AN ORDINARY BEING
"Little Peanut"
"A Solitary Night"
FROM DRAWING TO ARCHITECTURE (1): RETURN TO THE REAL LIFE MOMENTS
"Home, Sweet Home"
This is my first experimental project exploring the boundary between drawings and architectures. It's a revolt against the conventional up-down design method that makes people nothing more than the dubious figures in architecture renderings. By telling a story of a solitary's life, the project reexamined the role of people in architectures and cities.
"The Goldfish"
The book was made up of mainly 3 parts as illustrated in the picture on the left. The first part focuses on the personal life of Redhat, while in the second part, it extends to a larger scale, telling the adventures of Redhat and his friend Little Peanut in the city. The last part of the story suggests a disillusion, where they saw another side of urban life.
Storyboard Individual work 2016.03~2016.05 six weeks
PART TWO: LET'S GO OUT AND MAKE SOME CHANGES !
Advisor: LIANG Jingyu
To me, the project is an important turning point in my acdemic studies, through which I realized the importance of individuality in design project. That is, to treasure the desires and impulses of myself as a living person, and also, to consider those for whom I design as real individuals, not someone of shadowy faces. Architecture is the art about presence, the presence of itselfďźŒ all the poeple affected by itďźŒand things cannot be put into words. Sometimes, getting too obsessed with theories and disciplines might cut down our sensations of the real world and cut off its connection with real life. Then it'll lost its charm. After all, what matters the most to us is all that we are going through right now, and right here.
They felt bored and wanted to do something in the city, hoping to make people's life better.
"Story of Redhat" https://issuu.com/guoqian/docs/redhat
"Skyscraper"
"In The City"
"Street"
"Plaza"
PART THREE: DISILLUSION
A wierd tramp scorned at their ignorance . And a giant rabbit destroyed everything.
Beijing, 2014 A Man Built A Moutain on The Rooftop
"A Tramp" 02
THIS IS THE STORY OF REDHAT.
"Rabbit in Ruins" 03
"A Solitary Night"
" Home, Sweet Home"
BUILDING TELLS THE STORY OF INDIVIDUALS.
With the limited clues of Redhat's apartment, I set about combining those fragments of space into an intergrated one.
a fictional charactor was created at the beginning of the project. Redhat, a introverted young man, lives alone in the city. A series of his living scenes were then depicted , suggesting the space he lived in. However, it was still not clear how exactly his house looked like. All we could see is those fragmentary life moments, where the house only served as the background, and a figure of flesh and blood was the only protagonist.
Then I found something really interesting and special about his house. It seemed like a combination of a typical apartment and a small cabin.
*Look into the mail box
*Come back to the apartment alone
Bathroom
Kitchen Bedroom
The first time Redhat came to visit his house.
Canteen & living room
How is that possible? According to the typical floor plans of old apartment buildings in China, I found out a possible way of adaptation. It was narrow and old. Bathroom Bedroom
*Nothing there
*Sad
Sketches of Redhat's House Ceiling in the bedroom cracked.
*News are boring
*Climb up to the loft
SELECTED PLOTS FROM CHAPTER ONE, " A SOLITARY NIGHT" 04
A Typical Style of Apartment Buildings in China
A Possible Way of Adaptation 05
SELECTED PLOTS FROM CHAPTER TWO, " HOME, SWEET HOME"
HOW TO MAKE YOUR APARTMENT SO ADORABLE AS REDHAT'S?
HOUSE, CARRIER OF LIFE.
Step 1: Get rid of walls of the bedrooms, and most ceilings, so you can get the space for a small yard and a loft.
Step 4: Weld the kneels, then install the wooden plates for decoration.
Step 2: Build the steel structures of the loft, you must make sure that the main load-bearing columns should be placed exactly on the old ones.
Step 5: furnish the interior space.
Step 3: Harness prefabricated plates to the main strcture.
Step 6: Decorate your yard with cobblestones, plants, a swing or anything you like.
I want to change!
Looking through the whole book about Redhat's life, it's a bit surprising that so many events which happened right in his little house were recorded. From those vivid daily-life scenes, an emotional connection between the charactors and building is revealed. And this is just a fictional story. It's even harder to imagine how many times we've contacted with a building in real life.
Second Floor Plan
Roof
First Floor Plan
Fireplace
Look Up at The Moon
Read
Bush
Livingroom
Find A Firefly
Come Back Home
Well
Sofa
Play with Goldfish
Wake Up from A Nightmare
Bedroom
ADAPTATION PROCEDURE 06
Chat
Kitchen
SECTION AND LIVING SCENES SELECTED FROM DIFFERENT CHAPTERS 07
Cook
ONE OF A THOUSAND WISHES Looking around at all those strange buildings constructed spontaneously by urban residents, we will find that there's actually nothing so special about Redhat's house. It's just one of the countless illegal constructions in the city, which are usually regarded as the unpleasant dissonance in a unified urban environment.
LITTLE HOUSE SHINES IN THE DARK. IT'S ONE OF THE FEW COMFORTS FOR REDHAT IN A CHANGEABLE WORLD.
However, every single illegal construction reveals a strong individuality of their owner, since they usually reflects people's most urgent needs and wishes to adapt their houses. Those primitive desires give buildings their unique forms, standing out of their environment, and constantly changing over time.
A NIGHT VIEW
A SAD CONVERSATION 08
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(0, 0, 0) FROM WHERE EVERYTHING BEGINS AN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE: TIRGGER THE POSSIBILITIES OF URBAN LIFE We try to construct the technical aesthetics in a new way- by solar energy the spatial installation can inspire events in public space. A box named (0,0,0) is flashing in the urban public space. By four red jacks, it can be laid at any spot in the city.The variable pattern gives the events uncertainty- inside and outside, open or closed. In this way the events are released from the building, and the drift of (0,0,0) will spread them into the city. Prefabricated components make the box easy and fast to assemble, and also save lots of budget. A solar energy systems enables it to run without any external power source. Thanks to the coorperation of several companies, our team finished the project in 3 months, and was later invited to Beijing Design Festival for exhibition.
Completed project Group work 2017.08~2017.10 Twelve weeks Cooperator: ZHANG Haotian, LI Tianyin, GE Sihang, MA Hongtao Role: Designer Participation: Design: 40% construction: 35% Advertise: 30%
The box is also an experimental module for SDC 2018. Advisor: SONG Yehao, ZHU Ning
NIGHT VIEW on EXHIBITION SITE
Wudaokou, Beijing, 2016 Commuters Stuck in The Busy Traffic 10
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CONCEPT
DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
We considered all kinds of functions, and decide that a cinema is the best to satisfy people from different ages. We also want to bring back the memories of watching movies together in the city's open space from the older generation.
With hourly rent system, the box could be used for private purposes like mini cinema, afternoon parties, hourly room and so on.It can also be placed in public areas and serve as an open-air cinema, activating the neighborhood.
In consideration of cost, construction, and the impact on public space, we decide to use a fabricated box structure that could be transmitted to everywhere.
It can switch to different modes conveniently with flexible furnitures during different periods of time in one day.
Equipment Room
Easy-transported box structure and independent solar energy system makes it possible for our box to drift in the city.
June, 2017 Having A Discussion with The Teacher
Working overtime again! No subway left.
9:00- 18:00
With the intelligent control system, all the devices could be easily managed on a touch screen, including lights, sound equipments, projector, air conditioner, storage equipment, environment detector and so on.
Bedroom Toilet
I wish there were somewhere I could stay. Playtime! Where to throw a party? 1 Office Worers
I want to play video games and chat with friends.
ACCOMADATION
What a hard-won holiday! Now we are heading for the camp.
2 Young People
ZHANG Haotian Designer
Just invested a site spot for a new hotel in the scenic area.
Floor Plan & Section
3 Family
PUBLIC CINEMA
How to make the construction cheaper and faster?
public cinema
GUO Qian
21:00- 9:00
4 Developer
Solar Energy System
Interactive Projection
Easy Transportation
Independent Power Supply
Intelligent Control System
Flexible Possibilities
Well, a black box, I suppose.
Designer Li Tianyin
18:00- 21:00
Wish there were an openair cinema like when I was a child.
MINI-CINEMA
About Team WHAO
mini cinema
MOBILITY
Designer
EXTENDABILITY
MA Hongtao Interactive Projection Designer GE Sihang Project Manager 12
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hourly room
ANALYSIS of MARKET & TARGET GROUPS
Different Modes
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CONSTRUCTION It took us about one month to complete the construction. Most of the work was done in Henan & Beijing. Due to our lack of practice and experience, lots of things hadn't been taken into consideration, leading to several mistakes during construction, which were later smoothed but still differed from the original design.
between the digital model and final result. Most were minor mistakes, while some had quite big influence on the appearance. But we tried our best to make up for them. And despite of the fact that none of us knew much about energy system and the electric devices, not a single problem occured and the whole box ran smoothly.
The picture below shows the discrepancies
Henan, September, 2017 The Box Being Assembled in The Workshop of Tianfon.
CONSTRUCTION DIARY 16
Discrepancies between The Digital Model And The Built Result 17
Beijing, September, 2017 Painting the Interior Wall
EXHIBITION The box was exhibited at Beijing Design Festival in 751 Design Park from Spetember 29th to October 14th. Visitors showed great interest in the box. Children were having fun playing with the interactive projection or rolling on the floor. Designers and businessman asked lots of questions about the construction, energy system and price. A forum was held outside the box, discussing the prospects of prefabricated modules. After that, the box was transported to Tsinghua University.
751Design Park
Site location & its surroundings
PICTURES SHOT during EXHIBITION 18
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GENERATOR NEW OFFICE BUILDING FOR LOCPG ARCHITECTURE & SOCIETY: PROMOTE COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC DOMAIN Divergence between Hong Kong and Mainland China always exists after Hong Kong returned in 1996. Especially in recent years, a small percentage of people started to blame the economy decline of Hong Kong on Mainland and central government. Voice for Hong Kong indepence emerged and conflicts occurred on street and campus. As the supreme representative of PRC central government in Hong Kong, LOCPG (Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) has been playing a communication bridge between Beijing and Hong Kong. It's the embodiment of the central government to Hong Kong people, and without any wonder became the place of conflicts in demonstrations for many times. Believing in the impact of architecture on a government's image, we think of a new office building for LOCPG in replace of the current skyscraper suggesting a centralised power of the office. We hope the new one could promote communication between the official and citizens, creating a more friendly, open-minded and democratic image for the government.
Architectural Design Group work 2016.11~2017.01 Eight weeks Cooperator: JIANG Yutong, Huang Changming Role: Leadership Participation: Design: 40% Drawing: 50% Digital Model: 65% Hand-made Model: 20% Advisor: SONG Yehao
EXTERIOR LOOK of THE MODEL
Hong Kong, 2016 A conflict at the parade for Hong Kong independence 20
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Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Skyscraper: centralization of power
Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Hongkong Special Adiministrative Region
Low-profile: equality
HEIGHT People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison
CREATE A MORE FRIENDLY IMAGE FOR GOVERNMENT WITH ARCHITECTURE Opaque facade: political opacity
Transparent facade: more pubilc trust
TRANSPARENCY
There are 3 main buildings in Hongkong which represents Chinese government. All of them highlight the authoritarian political power with their exaggerated volume and height, opaque grid facade. And they mostly focus on the communication between elite class. However,such acts has intensified the contradiction between Hongkong and the mainland people. In Hongkong, such a highly democratic region, we try to explore a the new kind of government building to strengthen the public communication directly. We use friendly volumn, highly transparent facade, and enable the ground floor to accommodate public activities. We also add new function into this building which citizens are able to participate in. We hope that these strategies can contribute to mitigate the contradictions between the mainland and Hongkong, and to achieve truly communication.
Wall & Security: exclusiveness
Previous Mode of Communication Hong Kong
general public
political elite
Public Hall Ministry of Personnel Ministry Propaganda and Sports Coordination Department Research Department Community Liaison Department Ministry of social work Ministry of economic affairs Ministry of science and technology Taiwan Department of affairs Youth Work Department Ministry of law Ministry of organs Information consulting room Security office Police liaison department Administration and Finance Department
New Mode of Communication Mainland
general public
political elite
Ministry of economic affairs Ministry of Personnel ministry Propaganda and sports Coordination Department Research Department Park Library and Cafe Exhibition Hall Information consulting room Puclic Hall Lecture Hall ministry of law Ministry of organs Ministry of science and technology Security office Police liaison department Administration and Finance Department
OPENNESS
Plaza: amity
Hong Kong
Single function: low public participation general public
Mixed funtions: more public participation political elite
COMMUNICATION
Current Office Building of LOCPG 22
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FISH IN A TANK: MAKE THINGS HAPPEN! When a fish drops into the a tank, all the water would be agitated. We imagine the whole transparent building as the glass tank, while the space for public events as the fish that would release energy to the whole building. So we decide to put a giant membrane structure that contains space for civic activities. We hope it'll become the core for the new office building. Space in the 'fish' is totally open to the pubilc. While taking the escalator, visitors also have the chance to see the staff working, thus creating a more equal relationship between the citizens and officials. Authority is no more mysterious to the public, and better interaction is promoted.
A Fish Activates The Whole Tank
For staffs, the open atrium space would also allow them to enjoy sunshine and a wider view, releasing the stress of working in cuibicles. Functions in the "fish" are also open to staff. allowing them to have a chance to realx and interact with the public,
Suspension Structure Realeased The Ground-floor Space
Site Plan
Space for Public Events Mingles with Offices
Citizens Circulate by Escalators
COLLAGE OF EXTERIOR LOOK ON THE SITE 24
Staffs Reach The Offices with Elevators
EXPLODED ISOMETRIC 25
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First Floor Plan
Second Floor Plan
Forth Floor Plan
Fifth Floor Plan
DETIAILS OF MODEL
Seventh Floor Plan
INTERIOR LOOK OF THE MODEL 28
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GHOSTS HAUNT THE CHANGJIANG RIVER... A Buddha
Watcher
FAIRYTALES MEMORIALS FOR CHANGJIANG RIVER
A Corpse Boat
Winter Swimmer Old Men Dressed in Crane Custom
FROM DRAWING TO ARCHITECTURE (2): EMBRACE THE AMBIGUITY
Pig Breeder
The project is the second time that I tried to approach architectural designs with drawings.
Architectural design Individual work
In an analytical and logical design process, everything seems clear and unarguable. One step leads to the other, and uncertainty is never allowed.
2017.10~2017.12 Ten weeks
However, there's never absolute reason in human's thinking. Apart from those logical reasons that promote a design, we are also affected by dubious emotions with or without knowing it. What's more, the world itself is never certain. It can't be divided into parts, being analysed seperately. When we do that, we are basically simplifying the complexity of real world.
A Drowned Old Lady
Advisor: WANG Hui
Ezhou
THEY WONT' DISAPPEAR...EVEN IN THE MOST MORDEN PLACES. MEN ARE SWALLOWED BY WATER, AND FLOATING CORPSE WOULD EMERGE. THE RIVER IS SOMETHING WE CAN'T UNDERSTAND. The part of Changjiang River that flows though my hometown, Ezhou
And this project would try to probe into the ambiguity of design process, hoping it'll extend the multi-significance of a work. The site locates in my hometown Ezhou, near the Changjiang River. With fictional drawings, an intergrated impression of the site is depicted, blending the objective observation of the surroundings and private feelings about the atomosphere. Message hiding below the unconsciousness was digged out and transformed into architectures.
A map of Chanjiang River The Site
Misunderstanding of my own drawing might exist, but that's also an interesting part of the project, which might lead to an unexpected and exciting result.
BUT URABN PLANING WANTS TO TAME THE RIVER. IT TOOK AWAY ITS MISTIQUE AND STOLE MY MEMORIES. In the past ten years, most of the wanterfront space in the upper reaches has been built as parks.They're beautiful, and entertaining, but too boisterous, too artificial.
The downstream part is still unexploited and left wild. This is exactly how the river looks like in my childhood memories. Decayed, desolate, disordered, a forbidding place of ultimate fantasy.
From My port Series, Credit to YAN Ming 30
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WAKE UP THE SLEEPING GHOSTS OF OUR MIND WITH DRAWINGS. Upset about the fact that beautiful parks have destroyed the enchantment of the city's river bank, I decide to do a group of architectures of my own, thinking if they can represent the mingled atmosphere near the river that can't be illustrated clearly.
Dead Goat: Secret
I use drawing to approach it. As a form of personal creation, it'll encourage me to focus on my own feelings and recall my experiences, thus break away from a unified system of architecture through authorship. Also, the integrity of a drawing would prevent the tendency of breaking things into pieces, so to some extend preserved the complexity of real world. Personal feelings are blended into the objective depiction, with three groups of fictional charactors on the locales I chose from the site.
A dead goat hides in the dense weeds.This might refers to the un spoken secrets of the wild field.
Boy& Puppy: Isolation
OBSERVE THE SITE This step took days. I went to the site at different times, watching the sceneries and people there. Emotions grew sronger everytime I went there. Impressions of the site also got deeper.
A boy stands with his dogďźŒ eyes looking into the distance. It might suggest the strong feeling of solitude when one is faced with the mighty sky.
Maiden: Enticement A naked young girl is playing with water. It might suggest the beauty and danger of the river.
DEPICT A FICTIONAL DRAWING I did a drawing with fictional details that conveyed an intergrated impression of the site, blending the objective environments and my private feelings.
FIND THE HIDDEN MESSAGE I tried to find out what each character stood for and summarized it with a key word.
TRANSLATE IT INTO ARCHITECTURES Each charactor was represented by a specific kind of material and form language that I think would best convey the dubious atmosphere of the drawing.
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SOLITUDE
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CREATURES LONELY AS WE When one is standing on the river bank, faced with the giant sky abovehead and the endless river, it's easy to get a strong feeling of solitude, and think about how tiny an individual compared with nature. And I guess that is the hidden message of the boy.
CONCRETE
The little boy, stands far away from the river and seems lost in thought, puppy dog standing closely by his side. But the two both seem absent-minded.
BOY
What is he looking at? What is he thinking? And what about the dog? No one knows. invisible walls seperate us from them, and also, divide the two.
PUPPY
MODEL Material: Wood, Concrete, Dry Grass, String 34
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In the old days, when parks weren't there, the river was a forbidding place for children, always associated with danger and death. The dead goat was inspired by a real experience of running across a goat's rotten body in the weeds when hanging on the river bank. As a young kid, I was shocked, and sad. And It's just one of the thousands of unspoken secrets on the river bank.
SILENCE
A Stone
Gypsum Reverse Mould
Fiberglass Model
Model-making Procedure 36
Felted Wool
MODEL Material: Fiber Glass, Wool, Concrete, Dry Grass 37
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BEAUTY
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WATER GRADUALLY SWALLOWED THE GIRL...
Men are enticed by the river, and men are swallowed by the river. Like a captivating young woman, the river is beautiful, but it kills. One step closer to it, one step closer to death. When I was a kid, mother always told me to stay away from the river, because ghosts in water would drag me down, and make me drown,
AN ILLUSION
MODEL Material: Veins, Acrylic, Concrete, Wool 38
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WHAT'S ON MY MIND? It usually takes people a while to realize the relations between the models I made and the drawing when they first see my work. Gennerally, it can be understood in two aspects, material and form language. Yet the correspondence is not exact or exclusive; all is a matter of personal choice. The actual process of translation in my mind is far more complexed than I can explain. I tried to draw a psychological maps of my thoughts but it's still not precise or complete enough, and I guess that's exactly where the ambiguity of human mind lie.
Debord, Psychogeographic Map
A PSYCHOLOGICAL MAP 40
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Site Plan
AERIAL VIEW
A RANDOM COLLAGE
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RABBIT IN RUINS
*A giant rabbit on the other side of the wall
THE HIDDEN PAIN OF CITY FROM DRAWING TO ARCHITECTURE (3): WHEN FANTASY COLLIDES WITH REALITY How far can drawing lead us? For many times I was astonished by the message of a drawing that hides deeply under our unconsciousness. The creation of a drawing and interpretation of it are both associated with our personal experience, which is, on a larger scale, rooted in the era that we're living in. If comprehended in different times or by different people, the meaning of a drawing will vary, making the original reference seem meaningless.
Storyboard, individual work *Chase it
2016.03~2016.05, six weeks Advisor: LIANG Jingyu
"Rabbit in Ruins" was created in 2016's spring as the ending of Redhat's story. It was a game-like creation, based on the childhood experience of hanging in ruins. I wasn't quite serious about its realistic reference, just talking about adventure in ruins and playing with rubbish.
"Rabbit in Ruins" (End of "Story of Redhat")
However, as I looked back on my work in the following year, trying to understand it based on events that happened in reality, I got deeper and more understanding of it. I gradually found some of its possible realistic references. And I think, that the silent rabbit might refers to the unspoken pain concealed in invisible corners of urban life.
*Ruins
*Find it in a broken house
*Play with rubbish and rabbit
*Visit the rabbit the next day, find it eating rubbish
Beijing, 2017 Xinjiancun Village Lying in Ruins 44
*Rabbit ignores the carrot
*Leave and say goodbye
*Hit the rabbit hard
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EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS LIMITED, WHILE THINGS ARE ERRATIC. A year and half later, in the evening of November 18th, 2017, fire swallowed an apartment crowded with migrant labors in Xinjiancun, Beijing. 19 people were killed.
*Rabbit keeps eating rubbish
*Come out to the street
*The rabbit becomes small
*It grows bigger and bigger
*More rabbits come
*It has eaten everything in the ruins
*Suddenly all the rabbits start to poop
*Streets are overwhelmed
*Run back home with small rabbit
Soon, the Beijing government started a 40 days' security check, with the command that all the illegal flats should be cleaned during that time, which meant, almost every "urban village" in Beijing would be removed. Electricity and heat was cut off; notices were put up, telling the deadlines of moving out. The once bustling community with tens of thousands of people became empty in less than a week. Some of them were soon torn down into ruins. In a few weeks, billions of people lost their home in Beijing. Most of them are the socalled "low-end population", coming from small towns and villages, making their life by manual labor, living in narrow rooms of "urban village" and regarded as the bottom of the society.Many people couldn't find a place to go. Some packed up their luggage, and slept on the street in the cold winter wind. Quite a portion of them were forced to leave this city and return to the hometown. 3,300, 000, that's the number of people who were driven out, given by the media. While it's said that the actual figure is even more. 3,330,000 is a big number, too big for us to outline the large group of people behind it. All the fresh faces lost their personalities, and fell into fuzziness. About two weeks after the fire, my friend and I made a trip to Xinjiancun Village. As the direct reason that triggered the safety check, the village was cleaned soon after the incident. By the time we got there, the southern part of the village was still preserved but almost empty, while the
such obsession that we can, or we need to, take control of everything. But the truth is, we cannot, because sometimes the outside forces are so strong, and unexpected things occur.
northern part was already lying in ruins. I wandered on the silent street, passing the empty stores with broken windows and fallen signboards, looking through the rubbish heaps of things left behind by previous tenants and picking up one or two of them. Then I saw endless ruins, and heard the noisy cacophony of excavators. Airplanes flew over our heads every 15 minutes from the nearby airport. Workers were building up new walls around the fallen ones.
So it's time to hold back that selfenhancement and reexamine our positions in the world. We can't let it get us immersed in an ideal illusion and thus cut off our connections with the real world. The real world is a broken, chaotic, and uncertain one. So as an architect, also as a humanbe humble, be curious, and be good.
As I stood on the huge moutain of steel and concrete at the sunset, a deep sorrow overwhelmed me. I recalled the bunny in ruins I created one and a half yeats ago, and felt a strong connection between what was in front of me and things happened in the fictional story. Suddenly, fantasy merged with reality. Looking around, I got a strong feeling that the speechless rabbit might be somewhere, eating and digesting all the pain that the city had left him.
The two boys are soon leaving here.
In the end of the story, the rabbit (maybe not deliberately )committed a revenge and ruined everyone's life, while the same thing might never happen in real life. People just leave here, forget about Beijing, and start a new life, like nothing ever happened. What can I do? I asked myself, feeling upset.
Excavator is working at sunset.
The ending of the whole book was a quite helpless one. But somehow it's true that, the power of individuals is always limited and not everything turns out as we wish. There are times we doubt how much difference indeed we can make. I don't think that kind of self-doubt is a negtive thing. And in fact, I always think that one should stay humble in such an uncertain world. The word "architect", which also means the creator of things, sometimes lead us into
Hundreds of communities and buildings were affected.
*Shocked and frozen
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The lady just packed up all her stuffs.
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Xinjiancun Village, Beijing, December 5th, 2017 Rabbit in Ruins
Xinjiancun Village, Beijing, December 5th, 2017 Walking through The Ruins
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OTHER WORKS
OLD TOWN OF XINCHANG While working at Drawing Archtecture Studio in the summer of 2016, I had the opportunity to participate in Old Town of Xinchang, an urban panoramic scroll for the traditional town of South China.I was in charge of 1/5 of the whole scroll and finished it independently. The scroll aims at representing the contemporary scene of xinchang, using the drawing skills inspired by ancient Chinese maps.The ancient map is more like a psychogeographical one, spurred mainly by the author's psychological sensation of the physical world. The compositon doesn't follow strictly the rules of perspective, and buildings are shown two sides of them in seemingly random directions. However, the subjective perspective enables the observers to go though a spiritial adventure with the author and better percieve the essence of Ye cheng. Using similar drawing skills, the scroll represents the vivid contempory scene of Xinchang. With digital tools such as AutoCAD, affection for the Chinese trational street life is conveyed in a seemlingly rational and quite preserved way through the rigid architectural drawings.
Architectural Drawing Gourp work
2016.08~2017.09 Four weeks Cooperator: LI Han, HU Yan, ZHANG Xintong, HAN Jizhe Role: Designer Participarion: Drawing: 20% Coloring: 15% Advisor: LI Han
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The Part I Was in Charge of 52
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POSTERS
STUPID SHORT COMICS
I worked as leader in the propaganda department of student union for two years and designed some posters.
I draw short comics with ipad and post them on social media in my spare time.
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MUSIC COMMENTS & RECOMMENDATION I've been interested in rock music history and relavant subculture for years. In some way it helped me to get a general idea about the history of the 20th century, also broad my horizon in post-modernism, mass culture, politics, philosophy and so on.
THAT'S ALL! THANKS FOR READIING.
In 2016, I started to write some music comments out of interest, and took a part-time job as writer in Storm Rock Editorial Office for several months.
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